Looks like a nice feast. Those boards must make things very nice when grabbing urchins and abs. Plus the gear holding capability.
How do you cook those mushrooms? I have never seen them before.
The boards are awesome when you do multipurpose dives like I usually do.
I usually just brush them off, slice them, and sauté them in a hot pan with onions and garlic. I have seen recipes for different chowders and sauces they can be used in as well.
I've been waiting to post this for awhile now, just to make lunkerbuster a little more envious!! Got off work at 4:30 and was in the water around 5. Vis was a green 8-10ft but the ocean was full of life!! Shot a few blacks, a kelp greenling, a nice 5lb grass rockfish, and my first monkey face prickle back!! I also pulled two 9"+ abs and a sea urchin.
The little colorful things next to the sea urchin are lobster mushrooms, I figured I better keep everything ocean oriented!! I harvested the mushrooms while I was at work today.
So there ya go lunkerbuster, a NorCal bounty!!
I think its largely environmental advocates that sink stuff here on the east coast.. even though it prob serves tourism more than it does the environment.
I wish the enviros here on the west coast would look at the successful artificial reef projects on the east coast and in the gulf and implement more of those projects here in the Pacific. They obviously feel the need to protect many of the reefs here in the form of MPA's, so why not create more habitat?!?
Not humboldt, Northern California......Crescent City
And the state doesn't sink stuff to make artificial reefs?
Hahaha, you are a funny guy!! While it would make total sense to place artificial reefs off of the California coast, I don't see it happening on a regular basis due to the environmental concerns of those who would rather us not spear in the first place.
Nice job, is that Max? :thumbsup2:
Yep, it's max. He wanted to come see how northern, nor cal was and try to get his 10" ab. He didn't get his ten but he pulled his PB at 9 5/8".
Nice haul :thumbsup2: what are those boards?
They are Banks Boards, awesome for shore diving. They have dry storage and two spear gun mounts.
Nice pics dude. I want one of those boards very badly. Whats the water temp this time of year?
It's 52-54, keeps you from sweating!!
Been diving the last couple days. Had a friend come down from Oregon for abs. Viz went from 4ft yesterday to 15ft today.
The grass rockfish is my personal best at just under 5lbs and 21", and of course the abs were just shy of 10".
Finally got motivated enough to drive 30 min north to brookings this afternoon. I have been wanting to dive up there but wasn't sure about where to go or how good it was. So I just picked a good looking rocky area and went for it, Im going back in the morning!!
The ling went 32" and my first Oregon ab went 9 7/8"......dammit!!
The water temp isn't that bad, as long as you're wearing a two piece 7mil with gloves and booties!! Anything less than 7-10ft vis and it seems like the fish(even the lings) are a little more skittish. When the vis is that low and you suddenly come into the fishes field of view they don't have time to decide if you're a seal or just another two legged creature trying swim around in their world so they bolt or disappear back into the murk.
Conditions were good up here in northern, northern cal today. No surge with 8-10ft viz. had a hell of a time tracking down decent lings, abs all over.......hopefully they will still be there in a couple weeks.
Nice haul Kirby, it is a fairly productive picnic table.............did I mention the bait is in??
I've been diving the last few evenings after work up here on California's far north coast. The ocean has been a lake with little wind and the vis has been steadily improving to about 10ft now(10ft vis is awesome up here).
I haven't really been killing it but I can't complain for 2 hour after work dives. The red cab was pretty bad ass looking.
We haven't met, I moved down from Eugene two years ago for work. I dive with a guy named Kurt Anderson up here and I think he knows you.
Crescent city is an amazing place to dive, I'm itchin to get out off south beach and dive for razors and halis!! Sweet videos by the way, all of the miodios are amazing!!
My name is Mike and I've been free dive spearfishing in the Crescent City murk for the past four months. I'm looking forward to sharing anything I can to help anyone in the community or maybe even get a few pointers myself. Maybe even meet a few people and set up some dives.........not too many people are willing to dive in 4 ft vis with me up here!!
