A few for the dinner table

I decided that Sunday was going to be a great day to dive. I went out with less then 1 foot swells and about 15 feet of viz on the bottom. I tail grabbed a shovelnose for a little excitement and then let him swim off. I'm pretty sure I caught the tail of a WSB going into the kelp but as soon as I saw it it was gone. I also saw a short barracuda and a school of baby leopard sharks. I was also harassed by the local fur bags. Not to many fish out but I did find a few that wanted to hitch a ride to Pasadena for some AC and eventually a hot oil bath. Its been too long since I hit the water. Sorry for the non scenic cellphone pic but its all I have for the time being.

Yeah the bottom one is a female sheephead. The seals are a pain and scare the crap out of me when they sneek up on me. I have a hard time relaxing around them kills my bottom time. But they are interesting to see and for fat sausages are amazingly graceful underwater.

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I have heard some species can get aggressive, whats the method for dealing with them if they get to be a nuisance or aggressive? Nice haul

Harbor seals usually follow me around for a while before leaving me alone. I usually just charge them and scream underwater at them. Doesn't always work since they are so curious. I had one swim on my back while abalone diving and another in Laguna swim in between my legs right on my decent. I have noticed that they like to nibble on my fins. They are sneaky curious creatures. I have only had one experience with a sea lion and it was while diving in Catalina on a deep ledge. It came around a rock and swam at my face and blew bubbles while doing a loop like a roller coaster then disappeared then came back and did it again but to my right side. It made my heart race since I never saw it coming. I didn't have much of a chance to swim at it and yell but it left me alone after it startled me twice.

I love to eat sheephead I dont know why people don't like them they are a mild sweet fish. I think they are better then halibut personally. They basically eat uni from what I understand and I love uni so maybe thats why I like sheephead?

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tasty looking catch!
what is uni?

Uni is the sea urchin roe.

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I see, those sheepheads know better! we peruvians like uni a lot, ceviche de erizo!

something like this:
http://www.gastroeconomy.com/w…05/GastonyDacosta0031.jpg

Gastón Acurio y Quique Dacosta, cebiches a dúo Cena de Ceviches realizada por Gastón Acurio y Quique Dacosta en el restaurante Astrid&Gaston. Fotografía Carlos Alba para Mediamao.

Si po! El erizo con cebollita, cilantro y limon con un vaso de vino. Tengo habre pensando en eso.