Posts by Treebilly3

  • Southeast Alaska

    Quote from Dan

    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?

  • Southeast Alaska

    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.


  • Number of strokes to reach 10 meter depth

    Ok, I counted on my dives the other day and it was 5 cycles most of the time and some were 6. I think it depended on what my target depth was. When I'm going deeper I noticed I tend to put more power in to my kicks.


    I'm using a 7mm suit with 20lbs and my fins are speardiver C100


    I think hookinfish is right about all the things that affect each diver that would make this kind of a personal number.

  • Big game hunting Alaska



    Bears in the spring time are leaner from the long winter and the feed mostly on grass and roots so the meat isn't as gamy tasting. In fall they are really fat from salmon which adds a greasy almost rancid/fish taste to the meat. It really comes down to preparation and care of the meat like cutting out all the fat and keeping the meat from touching the hide.


    If I don't keep the meat I give it away, the hides I tan and keep or now selling them is an option. I do taxidermy in my spare time so I do mount some. I have a full skeleton of my biggest bow kill one that I plan to assemble and maybe donate to the high school or some thing. I'll post a few pics later of that stuff.