Yah the ones around here are transient pods, they are helpful to us because they kill sea lions. Unfortunately they also kill big baleen whales. The non migrating residents up north eat salmon. I hear from the whalewatchers that they see them like once a year or so around vicente, they also sometimes see a sperm whale and man I'd love to see one of those.
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That's the real deal, I totally forgot about it but a coworkers husband was on the shore and saw them there as well. It was last week, maybe thurs/fri? I've only seen them once in the wild and it was close to san pedro on my way to cat, beautiful animals.
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I'm wondering what effect that will have on anything? The mpa's have to occur, it was voters passed the law a while ago and I'm betting the funds have already been set aside for the staffing, at least for the first year. I've seen and have been checked by more DFG this past year than any of my other years combined, what I've heard is that they have already hired a bunch of new wardens.
I'm all for not buying a license until march if it would have any effect.
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i found this pretty interesting...
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The parasite in the gills is fairly common, they won't hurt you. Most fish have worms in the gut, pelagics get it as it works its way up the food chain from the bait. Usually on fish that are wormy I'll only eat the upper muscle portion above the lateral line for sashimi, and even then I'll try to freeze it first (you have to use a commercial freezer if you really want to be safe). I never, ever eat the stomach portion raw.
I also usually immediately gut the fish before I put it on the boat with ice, that keeps the worms in the gut from crawling into the meat. You also never want to eat a freshwater fish as sashimi, your body chemistry is too similar and the parasite has a greater chance of surviving.
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pv vis is deteriorating, hit it friday, no hali's or wsb seen. Vis 20-30 in the outer beds and hard reef, 5-10 in the coves. Took my last limit of scallops from my favorite pv spot :(. There are lobster around but many of them are shorts, the big ones are hiding in the deep caves/crevices.
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the summary:
Fish and Game Commission Marine Protected Areas Title(s): 14
Adopt:
12/08/2011
APPROVALEffective Date: 01/01/2012
Hit those spots while you still can, unfortunately a storm is coming next week.
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Try a mask mount, it's great.
You're not using the best setting because there's vignetting in the corners. The best setting is the 1080 @ 127 FOV, there will be no vignetting, and objects will not look so far away.
I had a feeling the settings were not optimal, I'll switch it over, many thanks Dan
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Water tested and took the gopro hero 2 hd camera set up with the Pursuit flat lens and tried it out yesterday. Video is pretty boring because there weren't any wsb or halis around so I didn't spear anything but I took some vid of reef fish. Visibility was exceptional at 20-30' in the deeper spots.
The one thing I didn't like was the head strap lets a thin stream of cold water under my hood and I could feel it trickling down my back! I think I'm going to get a gun mount next time.
GoPro HD Hero 2 camera with Flat Lens underwater test - YouTube
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7lb black rockfish? Huge bag of fish and inverts??? WTG Kirby, great eats ahead!!
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Happy bday old man, hope you can make it down here this season to stick some big seabass!
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Good or bad one of the things I notice more here is that there are less noobs. A lot of the drama starts with younger guys who are just getting into spearing and asking what fish they just shot is etc or not showing respect to the guys who really put in the time to find the answers. Another huge problem with the other board was the long feud between a couple of the mods and a few members of clubs, as ladvr put it the feuds were good for traffic and revenue.
Everyone has their own opinion and should feel free to disagree, however there should be tack and respect given and when this is out of hand it is up to the mods/owners to fix it.
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RIP bro, another victim if shallow water blackout I bet. That sounds exactly how Steve Redding passed away cutting a yt out at Clemente :(. If you've got a hot big fish down deep you should always have a spotter because you are so amped from the fight, there's times when even hitting 30' when I'm hyped up is hard.
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50, thats cool!! How big were they, like six foot across big? They weren't nesting because they are broadcast spawners, but maybe they were in some kind of breeding aggregation or just hanging out? I notice the smaller ones (up to two feet or so) seem to hang out together while the big ones are more likely to be solitary.
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I'm not sure Dan, I'll run that by Milton Love the next time he comes down. I know they spend a lot of time on the surface and I'm betting the large surface area vs width gives them maximum thermoregulation when they are laying sideways on the surface. Having a skinny body like a lookdown jack makes them harder to see when they are swimming towards or away from you as well.
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I'm really fortunate in a lot of ways, but one of the biggest is because I have a pretty kick ass job. I get to wear shorts whenever I want to, I work with a great group of dedicated people, and if conditions are good I can dive during my lunchtime. The bonus is that I also get paid to both freedive and tank dive.
Last week before the winds hit I reminded my boss that we should try to collect some baby fish before the swell/wind changes. I picked the day and got the work boat ready, we called in our permits, gathered our nets and headed out. Since me and my buddy are the best freedivers on the team we almost always get to head out for specific fish and lead the collection attempts if it's based on freediving.
A week or so ago we were successful in collecting a ton of baby rockfish for our kelp paddy tank, it's a gigantic circular tank where kids can crawl underneath and see what its like to be in a kelp paddy. We try to collect a bunch of different fish, halfmoons, spanish mackerel, baby rockfish, etc. When we were out there I had a group of 30 baby molas come right up to me, of course I didn't have a camera.
This time I was a bit smarter, I had just ordered a GoPro2 HD from pursuit but it would arrive in a few days so I took my canon sd1000 with the housing. The first paddy we pulled up to had a single large mola so I didn't even shoot any video. However we came across several other paddies that had a lot of baby molas around them. They are one of the coolest fish you can ever watch, they stare at you with sad unblinking eyes and waggle their modified fins, they are absolutely wild to watch. I'm pretty sure they stick by the paddies because of the large amount of plankton that drift along with them, molas eat all kinds of plankton. I feel bad for them because sea lions area always messing with them, sea lions will grab them and tear off their fins and fling them around, sometimes they don't even eat them. I've seen that happen to a lot of them at catalina on the east end.
At any rate, I shot a lot of video and edited it down. The visibility mid channel varied from 100' vis to 40' or so, the blue water was absolutely amazing. Hardly any regular fin bait (no mackerel, no sardines etc) present and that water was cold from the wind turning it over a week ago.
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Rockin mate...I'm powering the vitamins, and drowning the cold/flu with the Netti Pot.:thumbsup2:
Cheers, Don
Sorry to derail Mark.
I used to get sick all the time, mainly because I'm around a lot of kids at work. One of my friends told me to take vitamin d (I was already taking vit B, C and fish oil). I laughed at the vitamin D because usually that's sunlight related but I started taking all of them after reading up on immunity boosters. No shit, I haven't really gotten sick since then and that was probably two years ago. If I start feeling sick I take about 1k mg vitamin c and a lot of vitamin b and it goes away in the am if I get a good nights sleep.
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Way to put in the time Mark,that's a nice haul of scallops
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Out of curiosity, who were the two wardens that were present?
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Just keep in mind guys the ''fish cops'' did not bring this MPLA process upon us, they enforce the Fish and Game laws of the state. I have had a very good relationship with many in DFG over a 25 year long span.
DonI highly agree. Most of the DFG guys I've run into were really professional, a few of them are freedivers/spearos and share our pain. There are some who are going to be harder on us than others of course, as long as you are within the law you are safe in court I plan on having maps on my boat and in my car.
If you don't agree with them you may argue your point, but be polite about it the last thing we need is dfg to lump us all together as unreasonable assholes because you flew off the handle.
