Southeast Alaska

  • Ok, no write up on how you got to the point of taking my picture with fish?:rolleyes1:


    We went out Saturday 9-6 afternoon to try a spot that is close to my favorite lingcod rocks. I had slapped together a depth finder for my skiff so that we could find the rock pinnacle that had scared me a few times in the Proline when going over it. When we found the spot it was about 9' deep on the top where we set anchor sloping off to about 70'. The surface water was a little hazy viz being about 12' then once below 25' it opened up to about 30'. We dove this spot for two hours taking a half dozen rock fish and only seeing a few small lings. We then moved over to the other spot and the current really picked up. The surface water (top 15') was moving by the rock so fast that I had to swim 10 yards in front of where I wanted to dive hang on to the rocks to breath up then swim out at an angle to the current to dive. I picked up the tiger rock fish amongst some boulders at 45'. I made a few more dives in the area finding nothing worth taking till one dive I happen to come down on the same bolder patch that I took the tiger on. I had just came to rest on the bottom looking around at the rock fish when that lingcod came out from behind a bolder doing the slow pass by to check out what I was doing. I made a quick shot hitting him in the pectoral fin which from my point of view looked like the shaft was not going to hold. I made the slowest accent I could trying to lightly play him out on my float line. Once I got him to the surface I seen that the shot was good and above the thick collar of the fish. It was a good day and I learned a lesson about dive buddy's taking pictures with there phones:laughing3:

  • So it looks like I post the pics and treebilly dose the write ups lol. So one that here is another great pic of treebilly and a lingcod and tiger rockfish enjoy.

  • Me and fatty did a beach dive yesterday after work in a new spot. At first this spot seemed promising with its rocky shore and kelp bed out front, but as we soon found this was the all this spot had. The rocky shore quickly dropped off to 20' then tuned to a gentle sandy slope with no fish to be found. To fattys frustration It seemed I found the only life along that stretch of beach witch turned out to be these two nice wolf eels and two octopus. Best part of the dive was fatty swimming next to me saying " there isn't $h!t here" I make a dive a few seconds later and return with a wolf eel!:laughing3: He said he hated me and included few other choice words then we called it a day.


  • Nice catch. For no particular reason I didn't think there are octopus so far north. Are they common? Yours are much bigger than the ones we find in the Caribbean. Anything special you do with them?


    Yes they are very common. They're refered to as gaint pacific octopus and I'd say these are average/medium size. A guy I work with ask me to get him some so that's why I grabed them. I don't bother with octopus much any more. They tast good but involve a lot of work to make chewable. The easiest way is to grind them up and make fritters. Pound the piss out of them and quick fry in butter and tiger sauce is another way I like but it's a lot of work.


    How do you prepare them down there?

  • Clean the octopus off with a cup or 2 of salt then boil in light beer till the kin starts to peel off. Rub your knife on the octopus to remove the dark skin. Chop it up and make poke with it.You can also skewer it into bight size chunks and sear it with butter. YUM!:thumbsup2:

  • February-28th
    After a few months me and fatty finally made it back in the water today. We decided to keep it simple and go crabbing.
    We've been having an unusually warm winter with almost no snow! Still the water was 43F and very clear except for the slightly colder fresh water on the surface running in to the cove that made the surface very cloudy. We spent two hours in the water and ended up doing well, getting over a dozen dungeness and one red rock crab. I also found my first red king crab while Freediving, but he was way to small and I had to release him.
    I took some video and will post it later once I get a chance to go threw it.

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