Posts by Stephan

  • Protecting your spots.

    It seems most apparent in California dive reports but protecting dive locations by altering photos is common and smart in my opinion. In California there are often readily identifiable landmarks. Florida photos seem to be taken so far out at see that there is no concern of that.


    Yesterday while at home sick I saw a report on GMA I think that said a lot of the new cameras and cell phones that have GPS capabilities are including the gps co-ordinates of the photo in the file information. I just received a phone from my wife the same day (Blackberry Torch) and it has this feature. Just thought I'd mention it so that you can be aware. It would be pointless to go through all the effort of visually editing a photo just to have the gps co-ordinates in the image properties. The good news is that the feature can usually be turned off.

  • WSB Question but probably pertains to most fish

    Quote from Joe Acevedo

    Stephan , Im No WSB expert ,, but IMO hunting them from below is the best way,,, just make sure to suck the air in your mask and dont make any big movments ,,, then you can really get close and even poke them with your gun before you shoot ..I have even been able to touch WSB with my bare hands by aproaching from below ..



    Joe


    Funny you say that. After the dive I told another dive buddy that I felt I had a better chance of tickling the belly than shooting it because of all the movement necessary to swing the gun. I was about 2 seconds away from pulling the trigger but I guess that's a long time in C-bass time.

  • who do you hate?

    I hate Chinese restaurants that drop dogs in boiling water. But so that I don't sound like a racist, let me be clear that I hate any restaurant that will drop a dog in boiling water. But I like restaurants that to drop lobsters in boiling water whether they have protected their eyes from UV rays or not.


    I also hate crack heads. I haven't met a good one yet.

  • WSB Question but probably pertains to most fish

    I was having a discussion with a dive partner about how I saw a small group of wsb in a particular kelp one day. I was coming up from the bottom directly beneath them unprepared (I had been hunting halibut on the bottom in about 30'). They were just suspended not doing much and by the time I saw them my buoyancy was bringing me up and the necessary movement to get my gun aligned spooked them.


    I assumed that if those fish were in the top four feet of the water column that any others would also be in the same depth so I began to make drops to just below 15 feet and start swimming upside down underneath the canopies to look for more silhouettes.


    My dive partner contends that the fish hunt looking for bait below them so that the approach I was taking was more likely to get me noticed then swimming on the surface looking down.


    I contend that the fish are most likely looking for bait on the same level or sky-lined above them so that the surface swimmer is more likely to get noticed.


    Any thoughts?

  • Best hali dive yet!

    Really nice fish there Daniel. And while there is more skill and pride in whacking halibut when it comes to eating I'd rather be eating a limit of scallops raw on the beach.


    Way to go guys.


    Daniel: Do you mind saying how deep the water was where you found the fish?

  • Lost and found

    Interesting about the gaff tears. I hadn't thought of that and the more I think of it it seems more probable to me. But well never know.

  • Keeping your eye on the sand


    Darren's fish was 27.5" He got good video of the shot. Hopefully he will post it up next week.


    Good luck tonight to both you and Alex.


    Dive hard and take chances.

  • Keeping your eye on the sand

    Nice work Daniel. I was hoping to go out again tonight but priorities needed to be set. Plus with my halibut luck I'd probably get skunked and ruin my perfectly good high from getting my first last night.
    Good luck if you go back out tonight.


    Stephan

  • Lost and found

    Somebody lose a halibut in the last 48 hours?


    Well I finally did it. I found this fish about an hour before sundown in a sand pocket in the eel grass. He was so well buried that I did not realize that he had a pretty big tear in him from a previous spear encounter, until I shot him and he went ape. You can see the big gash on the left (his right).


    I dove with Darren and took out a neighbor who is comfortable in the water but hasn't snorkeled in about 13 years. Darren saw the first fish, swam around to approach him head on and popped him while I watched. I later swam back in with my neighbor friend who was feeling the motion sickness and needed to chill. I found this guy in about 8 feet of water and was pretty much nose to nose with him. It is my first halibut and so it was a real big deal for me. it went 29" and about 8 lbs. The tear didn't seem to affect him too much and I believe he may have survived it. I found two more border line fish after that. I also noticed that all the fish including Darren's were oriented int the current. Is this usual? I would guess so.