Cold dive. Sws

After scrapping a quarter inch of ice off my wind shield in the early morn I set off towards a secret location!! It was blown out !! Headed towards PB. Had a great day with a cool ass dude! yup!Monkey face Jim!!!!....had a great time testing my might! Dove down to the depts with very little issues, vid was great and shot some cool specimens for the pit! We Are gonna do it again real soon!!

way to go locos.  Pictures?? who is up for diving tomorrow.  I am plus one first timer.  we are gonna scope some spots but probably hit sws.  "Monkey face Jim".  haha classic

You guys are cold weather Studs.  I thought about going out today, but looked at the temps, and decided to sleep in.  

Wtg guys on getting out there! Thanks for the report.

While I am loading the BigYak onto my ice covered rig, I get a text from the FishMaster1: "Are we crazy or Stupid?".

My answer: "Both. On my way once I scrape all the ice off of my windows!"
 

We had a plan to launch the yaks and go explore some new (for us) spots. But swell was too big for the areas we wanted to hit up, so went to Plan B and a much more protected area.

Paddled out to a spot that we haven't been to before and were excited to find great viz, big structure, and plenty of suspended fish!! 

Got 9 nice RockFish on my new hi-tech homemade stringer, and then went looking for a cabbie. 

No cabbie today, but found a THICK 27 inch MonkeyFace!! Took me two shots to get him out of his hole, and let out a big yell of joy when I brought him up to the surface!! 

Had a GREAT time diving with Andy (for a change we actually dove together for awhile) and it was really cool to point out fish to each other and watch each other dive, hunt and shoot!! 

Andy showed me a new way to clean the eel, and he used the pliers to skin it...thanks bro!!

Had some families over for 5 RockFish and the fried MFPB head and to watch the Oscars.

Tomorrow will have another family over to eat the last 4 RF and the MFPB steaks and to watch the premiere of the new novela La Reina Del Sur!!   

http://msnlatino.telemundo.com/novelas/La_Reina_Del_Sur/

Cooking and eating pics to come later....too tired to upload right now. 

Good times with a good friend....doesn't get much better!!
 
Sincerely,

Jim

Jim that Grin never gets old

More pics!!
 
 
Sincerely,
Jim

u guys got into some schools huh? tight! im going next weekend for sure!

super savages.  i cant wait for tomorrow. im at a 9.6 right now.  andy i cant wait for you to show me your MFPB cleaning secrets.  nice job on the fish today fellas. cant wait for the next group dive
hotplate

Congrat on the successful hunt.  Thanks for the reports and pictures guys.

You guys are having to much fun.  WTG on the harvest.

Rey

Awesome!

Count me along with one of the wusses... that looked at the temperature & went back to bed. 


The skinned MFE looks good.   

Andy and Jim, wtg on braving the cold waters. I'm glad to hear that Jim finally stuck around to dive together with Andy lol! Awesome job on the catch my brothers

Andy, I heard you've made a contribution to AOTY; hopefully, I can drag you out and do some fishing together. Miss ya brother!!

Another cool detail from the morning...once we finally shiver our way into the wetsuits and get the gear down to the beach, Andy hands me a flask...

At first I say no, cuz I have been trying hard not to drink before diving, but after second thought (and some choice words from my buddy) I take a little taste...

Lovely warm whiskey warms my throat and lifts my cold spirits...I turn to Andy and say "Jameson right?"...He looks at me with a mixture of awe and disgust and says "Dude you got a problem if you can tell what kinda whiskey it is from such a little taste!!"

Well he is right...I have all KINDS of problems, but what I didn't tell him was that the last time I was at his house it was obvious people had been up late partying and on the kitchen counter I spotted an empty bottle of Jameson, so I figured it was a good bet that if he had it on his counter, it would be in his flask!!

 
 
 
Sincerely,

Jim

I still say your fricken sick!