Day late and a Sand Dollar short

Last night I posted that I was going diving Tuesday at Linda Mar. Make that Wednesday - doh! (no wonder throngs of people didn't show up to join me).
     Jumped in at 7:30 from shore; water was not the 2' swell predicted.  Got a slight bit smoother at the high slack tide. Checked out the bay for errant butts; no dice. Dove the wreck for a few small rock fish (in black bean sauce tonight). Saw a few lings including one nice 10# or so; let them have the day off. Water was generally yucky with some plankton to boot in the bay, a little better at the point. A good shake-down for next week's lobster trip anyway.  

Lobster??????........
Tell us more.

Pat

Lobster season opens Saturday at midnight. I usually do 2 three day trips a year, in Oct. and March, on the Peace dive boat out of Ventura, to Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz islands. Beginning of the season can be WIDE open with bugs everywhere, so I'm excited. If the water's calm we go to Talcott Shoals at SR island and if it's rough we go to the backside of SC island, which means maybe yellowtail freediving too.   It's a win-win proposition for me! (I'm dreaming, I haven't speared my first YT yet).
     I'd like to try bug diving from a kayak at La Jolla or Gaviota maybe; time doesn't permit it at this point in my life.

Good luck Rich   and please take some pics of your trip!

....wish we had lobsters instead of dungenous crabs here in Norcal  

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, now I see.  Good luck.....
Pat

What was the vis like out there?

Good luck Rich   and please take some pics of your trip!

....wish we had lobsters instead of dungenous crabs here in Norcal  

Don't talk smack about the dungies they are yummy.

I'm with you Travis I love Fresh Dungeness. Nothing Better.   If frozen I would have to go with the Lobster.

The difference between dungies and bugs is the hunt! I will try to take some underwater pics with my new housing. Promethe, the viz was yucky; maybe 4' at the point (enough though), worse in the bay.
    Here's a picture from my June freedive trip on the Peace with my first WSB. I never posted it 'cause I was bummed about the hearing loss I suffered from diving repeatedly to 50' to retrieve these fish. I have clearing problems and now hearing problems. I won't say it was worth it, but here it is...



44# plus I got 3 in the 20# range. One diver got a 56#. It was (to use a tired phrase) an "epic" trip!

DUNGIES SUCK DUNGIES SUCK DUNGIES SUCK  

....they only suck cause I could never seem to catch 'em when I go crabbing with Chuck and Stu at HMB   ...all I seem to find on my traps are the rock crabs....which suck even more  

Yeah, we would prefer a way to get lobsters as Randy is alergic to dungeness crabs......
Reality can be such a bother at times.

I like this discussion of dungies and dragons  Diving is the way to go for the dungies ... You can just grab them while you're halibut hunting. Of course it breaks that intense concentration and can cost you a fish when you grab one that's next to a buried halibut!
     There were lobster at Linda Mar 2 or 3 years ago; about 6 or so right at the wash rock off the debris pile on the south side of the bay. Don't know where they came from or where they went to, but a few of us kept an eye on them for several weeks. A poke-poler pointed them out to me. Maybe there could be bugs at the wreck; I've always wanted to night-dive it, partly for that reason.

Guest was yours truly.

That's amazing, I'll have to look into a trip like that once my skills are honed.