Exploring and Scouring

Made a plan with some buddies and Eugene (visiting from Canada and posted on NCUH looking for a dive buddy) to get a dive in before the game.

I wanted to put some time in a less famillar area rather than hitting up the usual reefs and cracks...

Well, my plan didn't really pay off in terms of finding the big sexy fish that I was hoping for, BUT it was a beautiful day, great viz, and we could have all easily taken limits of RF and small Lings if we wanted.

Met Eugene and my good buddy Mike (mikemcg) at my house at 530 am and headed down to the chosen beach. Little bumpy, but not too bad really.

Put Eugene in my old BigYak and gave him the RA70 and I hunted with the Pathos 75.

Really enjoyed getting to paddle and dive with Eugene...super nice guy!!

The first spot was pretty dead but I blasted a big Monkey and ended up getting my shaft stuck cuz I'm a big dummy  so had to bust out the old Riffe 00 peashooter. 

Moved spots and found a lot more fish (lot of schooling blues, a TON of halfmoons, small cabs hiding out on the rocks, and male Lings all over) and really cool pinnacles and structure that came up to 20 feet and dropped off to 50+ on the sides.

Mike also spotted a female sheep but missed the shot. DOH!   

My first time using some new Bleutec Blades carbon fins that I got from damanij and Red Triangle Spearfishing.

Once I got in deeper water I could really tell the difference with these fins compared to my old plastic Mares Razors. Much more efficient and had no problem cruising easily down to 50+ feet.

Best dive of the day for me was 58 feet for 58 seconds, and if you've ever dove with me you know that is a good dive for my cruddy depths/bottom times. 

Anyway, glad I got to spend the day with Eugene and Mike and I always enjoy checking out new territory even when it doesn't really pay off.

Here's a mini vid of the two little 25 inch lings I took.



 

Sincerely,

Jim

Awesome Jim!

Lings all day yay yay!

nice

Good as always Jim.  Finally got a freedive watch to check my times, depths and surface intervals. 

Thanks for the report and video Jim.

Always fun diving with you Jim!

Looks like you've been loading up that Kraken !! Nice job

Love the video and the music goes along with it really well. Great job

Stoning 'em!! Vis looks pretty nice!

Dude that was some sweet ass structure!  Definitely a ling crib 
Thanks for sharing buddy.