Did this for sure sell already?

Dammit!! I want to fish this tourney! Anyone cancelling and want to sell me their spot...?

Geoff

Awesome video Jim-

Thanks guys for your help and for posting it up on other boards. Antonio - that's good to know. I'll email Dan to see if maybe they happened to grab them or turn them in.  You guys are awesome  - thanks again.

Geoff

Hittin butterfly house - spearfishin - tommorrow mornin around 9ish- company welcome.

Geoff

I'm not sure where you dove and how far out/deep you were able to get, but I have to say that the the population of abs in the 25' plus range is still very healthy. Now I will agree that the remains of dead abs in the shallows are present, and it's obvious it's from the die off, but to say that the species is in danger, is a little far fetched.

You see, when the die off occurred it suffocated every bivalve along the affected shoreline, unless they were able to smell what was to come and high tale it to deeper water. The ammonia from the death was too much for the natural shore breaks to skim, thus causing a huge spike in bacteria to finish off the already depleted oxygen along the affect shoreline. If you were a fish, you could book it to deeper water and wait for dinner to drift your way and be served. The abs, scallops, urchin, lipids, etc, on the other hand choked and died.

Okay-so your saying to yourself now, duh, I already knew this. But....did you know that the macro algae that normally thrived along the affected area died as well and the wrong kind of micro algae smothered everything and moved in. Even the hard coralline algae, pink colored stuff on rocks, bleached out and died. So now your wondering what that has to do with this years season.

Well if you were an Ab and nothing smelled good enough to cruise shallow to eat, would you leave your sweet deep pocket and risk the Sahara for a crumb? So all I'm saying is that your not seeing anything in the shallower region, yet, because there isn't enough of the right macro algae around to support a healthy ecosystem and to entice the abs to come marching in. I'd say give it a few warm summer months after the fresh water from the rain stops and you'll see plenty of residents taking up their usual nooks and crannies. But in the meantime I suggest diving deeper and researching a little before joining random sites for the first time only to shout "Bomb".

Happy Diving!

Geoff

Awesome Vid Jim!!  You really have that Riffe dialed in - nice shootin. Keep them coming for us landlocked high and dry.

Geoff