Originally Posted by earlybird
I caught one in my cast net that was big but not that big. They always puff up on the deck of my boat when I'm trying to pick them up to return them. The look funny when they'r puffed up with air and swim across the top of the water until they deflate and return below.
My wife caught one when fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Sanibel Island. The charter guy got it off of the line, it puffed up, and he hit it back into the water like a volleyball (not a porcupine)