PipeFish

Check out this cool little PipeFish I got to play with the other day!

Great camoflauge!!



 

Sincerely,

Jim

I'd show the video of my pipefish but I'm afraid snapchat would leak it 

way cool Jim!
As a little kid I had a couple that i found washed up dead after big storms. I dried them in the sun like seahorses and had them in a glass case for years. To see them alive is really special.

never knew of such a thing!....cute lil' pipefish

To see them alive is really special.

I know right?!?

I was laying on the surface breathing up and looking down through the kelp and relaxing...and my eyes picked out his body and tail...

I was like WTF is that? Seahorse?  Dove down and there he was...couldn't find him again after that brief encounter though...looks just like a little kelp frond!

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Big schools of them off lovers point.. Cool looking things....

wow

yeah thats cool,,,very cool

Ive been scuba diving for 25 years and free diving about 5 years and never saw one of those until this past August at Shelter Cove. It was only about 2 inches long with a seahorse face. Tried describing it to people back on land but no one knew what I was talking about.

Thanks for the ID and the vid.

Cool little fish 

That was a  cool dive Bigjim! I wish i could hold my breath that long I can't believe you didn't  eat that pipefish

Man, good eye spotting that little guy. Your videos give off the feeling that you are just completely relaxed out there, movements are smooth and graceful. Not like if I were to film my dives where it is as fast to the bottom as I can, quick pop of an ab and racing back to the surface.LOL

Cabbie with a migraine, LOL.

What a trip! Soft hands on the pipefish. Cool footage Jim!

You sure make a minute seem like along time.
Oh wait. Underwater it is!

Pipefish are in the same family as  seahorses

So, with those pipefish...do you recommend a treble-hook stinger or just straight nose hooked?