Quote from: JoeDubC on July 12, 2023, 05:20:41 PM

I often fish close to Mavericks when I go to HMB.
At our neighborhood lake in the Sierras a girl was attacked by otters last week with multiple wounds and had to be rushed to the hospital. Now they have warning signs.

Otters can dicks, river or sea.

If they aren't biting Scott Thornley's boots at Elk, they are clawing kids in the Sierras or biting surfer's boards in Santa Cruz...

X 100

Fuck otters.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/24/5640890/otters-rape-baby-seals-monsters-bad

"But there comes a point at which rational people have to put adorable hijinks aside and recognize otters for what they are: disease-ridden, murderous, necrophilic aqua-weasels whose treachery knows few bounds. They are not "wonderful animals,"...They're merciless hellspawn who use their intellects for great evil."

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Funny that you ask. A diver just popped up when approaching the landing. He said visibility wasn’t good. He was at 23 FOW in front of MBK

Thank you!

I went anyway. It was good enough in patches here and there. 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Welcome!!

Most of my family is still in Louisiana and I get back there once or twice a year.

Here's a few pics of some fish I've taken there in the last few years.

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Here’s some more pics of it that were posted to the FishMoss FB group.

Lot easier to tell in these pics…

 

Sincerely,

Jim

2021 CoosaHD, only used once.

Really cool kayak, but it’s just not the kind of kayak I need for what I do these days.

Here’s a link with specs, price, description, walkthrough video etc…no warranty from JK anymore since it is being resold.

https://cfoutdoors.com/jackson-kayak-coosa-hd/

MSRP is $1,949. Asking $1,200 OBO, pick up in Watsonville.

Some pics attached from the one time I used it in the summer of 2021…it had good fish mojo and I got a butt on it while messing around with my girls.   

 

Sincerely,

Jim

I had a cryoablation for the afib/tachycardia at Stanford on 11/28.

No complications, they put in 5 catheters (2 in each femoral artery and 1 in the jugular) and fed those all the way inside the heart where they found the areas of concerns and ablated them...doc said he was able to trigger the arrythmia easily and that I had AVNRT and didn't even have to go across to left atrium to get the areas where most afib starts....said he is hopeful this will fix the issue and gives me about an 80% chance that won't come back. Also off the blood thinners and don't gotta take any meds at all, which makes me very happy.

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/blood-heart-circulation/supraventricular-tachycardia/types/atrioventricular-node-reentrant-tachycardia-avnrt.html

Felt like death for first 2 weeks after (feverish, weak, short of breath, chest pain, pulse spikes up to 190 just walking around the house etc) but since then have been feeling stronger.

Got back in water for the first time in 84 days on Saturday and did a yak dive session with my buddy Matt.

Didn't push depths or bottom times...got a nice 21.5 inch cab, found 2 reds and took one and pointed out the other to Matt to take, and at the end of the day Matt finally found the fish we were looking for all day...a big old Ling holed up in only 30 FOW.

When he came up and told me there was a big ling in the hole right next to his gun I had to restrain myself from dropping down and shooting it myself 

After he breathed up he went down and shot it right in the face...I dropped after to see if needed a second shot but could see the shooting line going right through head and knew it wasn't going anywhere...monster of a fish that was scary big looking inside the hole...back at truck taped out to 39.5 inches and 28 pounds. 

I was pretty beat the next day, but by Monday was feeling better.

Felt amazing to finally get back in the water and paddle and dive and am looking forward to getting salty with fuzz in Oahu in 2 weeks. 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Just an update on this.

Stanford docs decided that the bradycardia and pauses were most likely from the med they had me on for the A-Fib.

No pauses or blackouts since stopping the med.

Going the ablation route instead of the pacemaker, and got cleared to drive again.   

In the past month have done a stress test, multiple echo cardiograms, a cardiac MRI, and have a cardiac CT scan next Wednesday as well.

No signs of any structural issues...heart rate got up to 185 during stress test but I didn't go into Afib.

Have had a few random tachycardia episodes in past few weeks, but have all gone away by themselves.

Ablation scheduled up at Stanford on 11/28.

Haven't dove since the original Afib/Cardioversion episode and am climbing the frikkin walls...saw how much the hospital charged for the cardioversion (over $15k) and decided better to be safe and  take it easy until the ablation.

Hoping I can be back in the water by first week of January when I am meant to be out with the family in Hawaii. 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

ps..attached a pic of the ECG from the hospital from when I was in Afib...