My brothers and I are staying at El Capitan and we seem to be having trouble locating fish. Out of 6 dives we have caught one halibut. We haven’t seen really anything except for short halibut. We Have dove at Mesa road Refugio and leadbetter. We want to find some calicos or more bottom fish. Any recommendations?

Punta mita it’s my first time out of the country

Thanks for all the responses still planning out the trip! Ill lyk what I do! Its a bummer though I havent been diving recently because of school 

The swell looked small at pleasure point so me and my brothers went out to go look in some holes where we have shot eels and rock cod. The holes are in about 6-7 feet of water so we were pretty close to the surf because of this I dont keep my gun loaded until I see a fish that I want to shoot. At pleasure point when I have been surfing there has been a lot of bait in the water and you could also see it while we were diving. It was getting kind of dark and we decided to head in, on my way in I decided to check the bottom in about 6 feet of water. When I dropped there it was probably a 24 inch striper staring back at me I tried to line up a shot but of course my gun wasnt loaded  . I came up and screamed to my brothers we got all excited and then I loaded my gun and started snorkeling in and there it was again... lined up a shot and missed!!! . Oh well hopefully I can get out there soon to get that fish or maybe go with my surf rod!

This sounds great! hoping to get some tips just on kayak diving in general down in monterey!!

I have just been thinking about the whole losing inches if your pics are not focused or mouth is open, and frankly sometimes it is hard to get perfect pictures... at least for me, maybe instead you could just submit a video of the fish on a ruler that clearly shows that the mouth is closed and shows the whole fish, and this would allow for the person submitting the fish to get many different angles and ways to hold the fish. Just an idea


Best wishes,
GTN

Is it okay to shoredive for rockcod and lingcod if the season is closed?