Posts by Treebilly3

Quote from Don Paul

Billy, do you ever see king crab where you dive? and is a free diver allowed to take in season?
Thanks, Don

I have never seen adult kings while diving just juveniles. They're not a common catch this far south but we do have them, they are usually deep 200-400' for reds 600-1200'for browns. In January the reds migrate threw the shallows and divers get a few but it only last a week or two and I seam to miss them every year. Residents are aloud six a day in my area(diving or pots) and it's closed to nonresidents.

Quote from sdeisen

Also I am cold just looking at this photo

Waters nice right now been around 60. I dive year-round and have to say theirs just some thing calming (lack of a better word) about coming up for a breath with snow falling on the water. It's all about the gear that time of year!

You fillet them like any other fish just with a tail section that is 4' long. That one weighed 12lbs and only about the fist 10" of the fillets have the horizontal bones running threw it.

After taking a nice one the other day I thought id share a little of what I think is an often overlooked very tasty fish! Quite often while looking for lingcod in the rocky outcroppings I will come a crossed a wolf eel. They are not shy of divers and will usually allow you to touch them which is why it always leaves me with a twinge of guilt harvesting one :weeping:. The big ones I typically shoot because they will go after you once you piss them off and the smaller ones I grab behind the head like you would a snake. After I manage to get one home with out getting bit I find them to be one of this areas better eating fish. its a firm flaky whitish meat and takes well to any recipe people use on other bottom fish like halibut or rockfish.

Awesome fish!! Seeing halibut from the surface is just campfire stores around hear.

Quote from tufual

may i ask why you chose the stiffer blades ?

I asked Dans thoughts and told him that "I'm 5,10" 220lbs wear 21lbs of lead and we have very heavy current" we average 15' tides with 20'+ happening a few times a month. After using them I think Dan was right and I'm glad I got the stiffer blades.

Got my C100 yesterday and was able to put four hours on them after work. All I can say is wow! These are my first carbons and compared to my cressi gara 3000 fins it reminds me of my first dive with long blade fins. Per Dans advice I got the med-hard blades that I have to say I was worried would be too stiff for me, but after yesterday I think having a blade too weak was worse. No fatigue fighting current on the surface and after shooting a fish at depth I was able to swim the fish to the surface with out feeling like it was going to drowned me. I should have switched years ago! Thanks again Dan I couldn't be happier!!

Haha nice a 2x4 with bands! That is a cool idea but i wonder on long shots if the flat sides of the shaft would cause it to drift off target.

Same here. I say I'm going and if she has a problem with me leavening her behind which normally she doesn't I have her drop me off then take the boat nearby so she can fish.

I like it! The large and small pattern mix is more like hunting camo.

No the popular snagging beach south of town;) I was in ward cove Saturday picking crab and only seen pinks running. Their fun to shoot and helped to stock up my bait freezer!

Welcome neighbor! Umm well if 600miles still counts us as neighbors. there's a few cold water guys on here. Looking forward to reading about your experiences on same fish I love to hunt:)

Thanks guys that's all I needed to know! I just ordered what will be my first set of carbons.:)

Iv always thought of carbon fins as gear for the blue water guys but after seeing all the battle scarred C90 I'm wondering would these work (or do they already) for the guys diving rock shelfs? Realizing I couldn't treat them anything like my plastic fins I'm just wondering if the up grade would last long enough to be worth it. Thanks.

Thanks for posting that Dan!
The video was shot a high tide and its usually a little better viability(no fresh water/silt from creek). I prefer the viz to be bad for hunting salmon so that by the time the fish notice me they are well with in shooting range. Even more so when chasing them in deep water where you can't hug the bottom like on Sunday.

We have five species of salmon and they all have two commonly used names
Chinook/ king
Chum/ dog
Coho/ silver
Humpy/ pink
Sockeye/ red
kings are the largest of them. The ones in the photo are average size guessing around 20lbs. Trophy is considered over 50lbs and and the state record on rod and reel it over 90lbs. It's late in the year for kings with and most all are in full spawning colors. June and early July is best.
There are a hand full of people here that do this and one of them made a video of it, search " king salmon spearfishing" on you tube. I'm not sure how to post a link:( I don't personally know the guy but the video gives you an idea of conditions.

Back to the fish..

His first 3 fish with a speargun:thumbsup2::thumbsup2:

Dan I agree with you almost entirely. I wasn't condoning it I was just saying it would kill one. If you drive a shaft with the force a speargun has especially out of water in to any animals organs be it lungs,hart, liver even guts that animal will die. If it takes 30 seconds or 30minutes i wont argue about and that's where the ruin your day comes in:) I only brought up my bow kills to kinda poke at my experience with bears not to compare bows and fish spears.
I believe people today think it takes a lot to kill an animal like a bear, but I'd say people have killed much larger with much less.

Quote from Dan

Looks like one of the salmon has eggs. Are the eggs good to eat?

Yes the one had eggs. I don't care for them, to big as fish eggs go for me but a few people do eat them.

Iv shot a few bears with my bow and would say that a spear gun would kill a bear but the time it'd take from shooting it to dead that bear could ruin your day.

Took a buddy out yesterday for his first time spear fishing, using my old gear and he got 3 pink salmon. I think he's hooked. Ill post a pic later this evening.

Thanks. I'm not big on eating salmon so I don't go after them much but they are a lot of fun to shoot!

Quote from Stick em

Arrow Tooth Flounder?

No it's a starry flounder. We do have arrow Tooth locally called turbot that are considered trash fish and are usually a deep water fish.
It's funny you should mention bears I had a young black bear that day come down the beach cleaning up after people that had cleaned their fish on the rocks. Bears are very common here and the only real problems they cause is tipping trash cans.