Posts by The freediver

  • Bluewater!

    Quote from Dan

    Nice vid. I don't know how you stayed in the frame so well with the gun and camera just floating there.


    Everyone keeps asking me about that. If you look througout the video you will see me look back and the continue fighting to keep the fish in front of the camera. I haven't fought a fish like this with the camera and with the rough ocean conditons figured it wouldn't be a good clip after the fight. I was pleasantly suprised to find that it worked out rather well. Of course a lot may have been luck, but I did make an effort to keep the fish in front of the camera.

  • Bluewater!

    Beatiful bluewater hunt here recently. We hunted hard and dropped in on all the tuna marks we could and actually spotted some 3 times, but didn't work out for the tuna. We ended up with some nice yellowtail however. I speared 2 and managed to get one on video! This is something I have wanted to do for well over a year now and finally managed to. Thanks to all the guys I was with and for the invite. It was really cool to see the tuna and there are some other experiences that I have a feeling will soon emerge on SB from some of the others on the trip. Good times, but daaaaaaamn were the seas rough! Big swells that made it really difficult to locate paddies and constand 20 knot winds I'm sure I wasn't the only one who was sore from the trip. At one point when I speared a nice yellow on a paddy a large school of bluefin came right up to the fighting fish and Dave almost managed a shot, but made a good decision as they were just out of range and held off. We spotted some toad yellows on a paddy and the captain hooked on H&L. As he quickly drifted off fighted the yellow I guess the others went with it and followed him away from the paddy. We hopped in the water was dirty here. Another guy shot what we originally thought was a yellow, but turned out to be a Scad Mack. I shot the other and managed to film it. I hope you enjoy as this has been a challenging and at times way less than pleasant offshore season.

  • N PV beach vis??

    I havent been up there in a while, but I would imagine that the currents should be picking up with the moon phase coming up. I would also expect COLD water and the swell doesn't seem too bad either. I know you probably already know this, but my 2 cents. Maybe send LADVR a PM

  • Looking for some advise


    I live in Costa Mesa which is Orange County about 30 minutes south of LB. If you want to borrow the suit then you can pick it up and head right out of Newport Beach on the Catalina Flyer which is a badass Catamaran that gets you there quick.

  • Looking for some advise

    Well, don't get your hopes up too much, but there are some bigger fish around in places, but at least a 5mm is definatly in order. Like Daniel said, the temps are not nearly 70. We all wish they were though.

  • Lil Hali fun!

    Quote from Don Paul

    Hey....stay out of back bay.;)


    Just kidding nice meat haul:thumbup: I see a pole spear in your future.^^


    Cheers, Don


    Every time I go out with just a pole spear I don't seen any legal butts.?( I speared on a while back with my old gold JBL polespear, but that was it. I am waiting for the day I come across a BIG one with my pole spear in hand. Im kind of nervous and anxious at the same time. I will be in pursuit for the biguns tomorrow from my boat. Hopefully will get some seabass too:thumbup:

  • Lil Hali fun!

    Went night diving and found some good butts. Mikey P and I went for a shore dive and in the first five minuted Mike's gun goes off and I cruise over and he says, "wow, that was easy". This was his first butt. I was stoked for him and turned around and kicked twice to see my first of the night. I pulled the trigger and instantly had a twitching hali stoned on the sand. One on the stringer for me and Mike continued to kill some nice fish. He ended up with 3 fish and 2 were 15lbs I'd guess. Mine was just 28 inches and the hali nube showed me how it's done. Way to pop his cherry! Another little confidence booster for the skeptics.

  • PV Report

    Dove PV today and took the camera out mounted to the gun. Beatiful dive and 64 degree surface temp with plenty of short seabass and a few 10 to 15 lbrs mixed in. I didn't get any footage worth while of the seabass, but enjoyed the dive thoroughly. I glided through the kelp forest while the sun glistened through the rooms and made for a near perfect dive(other than not getting a fish). My buddy shot a smallish but good eater and we looked as best we could for halibut. You know how tough it is going out for butts and seeing a seabass in the first 5 minutes? We gave it a good shot, but I felt like I sort of half assed it for both species since I was torn by which to hunt. The thermocline in 30 ft+ dropped to a chilly 55 at 15ft!! 9 degree difference! Really enjoyable dive overall and definitely glad I went.

  • cat conditions 7/27

    Quote from Don Paul

    In 30 years I have not seen conditions like this. We don't have to worry about 70 degree water pissing off the fish and heading far to the north though.:rolleyes:


    I hope were still shooting game fish in Nov.^^ But I usually cut the bands off my gun when the Halloween stuff
    comes out of the attic. The second week in Oct is when the big gray things come down for vacation at three of my best spots.:(
    Cheers Don


    Well, f the grey things! I dive year round no matter what:S It seems like in the winter is when I find 50ft viz at places like Creek where I normally wouldn't find it. These are my favorite times to explore new reefs and bring out a pole spear or small gun in hopes of running across a not so lucky GIANT halibut:thumbup:

  • cat conditions 7/27

    I'd rather have dove Cat for some beatiful conditions then what we got yesterday in LJ. Thanks Chris. I'm wondering if this summer is ever gonna get where we need it to be. We were driving home from LJ yesterday and thinking about how we are looking forward to lobster season. Something is seriously WRONG if you are thinking about lobster in August!!!! Yikes!