Mendo dive April 18th

Last Tuesday made it up to Mendo to go diving with DG and Gio. We launched out of Russian Gulch headed south with no real place to dive on are minds but to scout around and explore the area. Found a nice location with good structure to take the first drop. Slapped on my new fiberglass fins (used only once before to chase down my kayak in strong winds) and hopped in. It was a nice warm 54 degrees a little surgy with 20+ vis. Things started to happen fast. On my 3rd dive in about 20' of water dropped down and spotted a really nice ling. Unfortunately he saw me to and took off. So I swam in its general direction on the surface and spotted some great crevice. Dropped down looked around and paused, looked around a minute and there's my first fish of the day! Speared straight through the side of the head.
Picked up shop and relocated to find another area. Was trying to find some rock fish to shoot that I promised my wife I'd get. On my 10th dive of the day I spotted a nice ling from the surface cruising by. I didn't quite have my breath back so I figured I'd distract it with a bobbing gun while I breathed up. Got to love good vis! The technique worked and was able to land another nice ling.
Wasn't seeing much of any other type of fish in the area so decided to relocate ones again. We paddled out to some nice structure to do some deeper drops in the 40' to 50' range. I was really excited about this so I could really check out my new fancy fins. I don't know why I waited so long but did you know fiberglass fins are way better than plastic ones? Lol. This area I could see lots of blues while I was floating around so felt really good about this area. Dive number 16 for the day I descend through a big school of blues then the fish die off on the way down. There is a layer of nothingness  then I could start to see the bottom.  I start scanning the bottom and actually see a little school of vermilion. The biggest one takes off from the school and heads for a rock. Was able to follow and make the shot. I can tell 2 things right away. It was the biggest Verm that I've came across so far. 2, it was a terribley placed shot and it was about to get away. I quickly gripped the fish as it was thrashing around and was able to tuck it in my arms like a football to the sureface. I quickly caught my breath and started yelling for Duane and Gio to come over hoping they could grab some Verm off the school below me. Unfortunately I think I just sounded like a crazy excited person who just shot a nice fish. 
After that the rest of the day was just gravy, spotting more lings and pulling scallops.
Here's some video of the day.

Awesome vid and report!  Thanks for making my workday suck less.