Posts by chris oak

  • MLPA discussion

    I agree, but it will be hard taking that to court. More than likely I see a lot of places like laguna and malibu with volunteers acting like the childrens pool in sd. It's obvious what they are doing borders the line of legality but it's a pain in the ass to get enough evidence.

  • MLPA discussion

    They can have volunteers but mainly those people would just be able to tell you where you should not be. I'm betting that they will probably be just around the shore telling you that you shouldn't be in certain areas. They won't be able to arrest or detain you, however they will be able to call in fish and game.

  • Halibut Hammer

    In California you cannot possess a hooked device when you are lobster diving. Mainly it is to prevent you from making a big hook to reach back in caves and pull lobsters out (I really doubt it would work because the bug would simply keep flipping backwards).


    Every warden I've talked to here said they wouldn't cite me if I was diving with a flopper on a gun but they also were quick to point out that it is up to the officer. I only know one officer down here who would probably cite you.

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Best wishes to you and your families, let's not forgot how thankful we should be for pretty much everything including for those who fight for us.


    See you guys on the water!

  • Halibut Hammer

    Dayam you have some nice toys Don!! I love the slip tip design, I was thinking of using a mori tip with spectra and have dean thread the shaft but it would have been really expensive. I really like your sheath too, very covert. I'll have to start working on a better version of my sheath now that the bar has been raised so high!!

  • Halibut Hammer

    Many times I'll be hunting and I'll come across a fat halibut and wished I had something besides a knife to take them down, especially when I've got expensive mori slip tips on the gun. I talked to Dean down at Vector Marine and he said he could make me whatever I wanted. My idea was to have him make a small shaft with a handle and two floppers on it. I wanted an 8" shaft with 2 of deans retro floppers on it because my hopes are that the DFG will be less likely to cite me for a hooked device if I'm bugging (My argument against it being a usefull hooked device would be 2 floppers are more likely to hang up under a reef, plus why would anyone use a 8" as a hooked device?). Longer would be better but I've touched a lot of halibut so it will work out well in most cases.


    The twin floppers will also give me a better chance of hanging a hali and not having them pull off. I wanted one of the floppers as close to the point as possible in case the hali was sitting on rocks. The sheath sucks ass, I made it tonight as a quickie because I was going to try to dive. It's just a piece of pvc with a dynema as a belt loop. A bungee holds it upside in place and is used as a leash in case the fish is wild and to make sure I don't drop it.


    I'm going to make a T clip to hold the spike in like one of the other ones I've seen but I need my saws at work to make clean cuts on the pvc.


    Dean can make you any size hammer you want, he also machines stainless shafts etc and is in Hawaiian Gardens, I use one of his shafts on my 59" gil gun. Dean/vector marine 949-295-3590


    Videos will be coming soon, I'm getting a getting a new camera set up for xmas :)

  • Whites Point Land Slide San Pedro, CA

    Chit mang, we took a look at it today. that whole road is toast, looks exactly like sunken city. It fell all the way to the nature center boundary pretty much, I'm wondering if they are going to annex some land from them or just scrap the whole road all together? One things for sure, those folks with the houses there are going to be mighty sketchy when the rains come thursday!

  • not a lobster story

    It's a well known fact that lobster are assholes. They hide during the day and somehow change from gigantic ones to ones that are two millimeters short when you are measuring them. If you aren't quick they scurry away from you and laugh while they are safe in their caves. I've gotten a few this year but I figured it might be a good idea to start looking for some things that can't run away from me and might be easier to catch.


    My boat has been in storage for a while and I made the excuse that I needed to run it, I anxiously watched the swell and wind models and figured I'd give it a shot friday. Since my buddies couldn't make it and I had a party to go to that night I figured I'd make a short run for a half day to one of the spots that's going to be closed by the MPA's. A glutton for punishment, I had gone bug diving the night before, so that morning when my alarm went off at 4.30 am I immediately groaned before rolling out of bed.


    In short time I had my gear packed, the boat loaded and I was bouncing down the freeway. I launched my boat and headed out to one of my favorite soon to be closed kelp beds. The visibility had gone down but I searched in vain for some late season halibut, none showed so it was off to another spot. My wife's family loves fresh reef fish so I was looking for some sargo or halibut or maybe perch, white seabass would be a long shot during this time of the year. Most of the coast was pretty dead, only a little bait showed in the chilly water and even the opaleye were hard to find on most of the reefs. I finally sighted a school of sargo and gave a false croak, some of them turned slightly and I clicked off a shot with the wong hybrid and had my first fish on the stringer. In a short while a few other fish joined the stringer and then I started making drops into the sand beds.


    I'm getting better at spotting halibut and as I wound my way through the waving kelp I noticed a mouth in the sand. Halibut! I couldn't make out the tail but I studied the distance between the eyes and knew it was legal, backed off and again the wong twitched. The halibut exploded from the sand and made a short run, in no time I was on it and dispatched it. I smiled because I knew it would make a fine dinner and I had already planned on having some stir fry with fried halibut mixed in!


    I dropped my fish into the fish bag and added some ice, then I moved to a series of reef at yet another spot. Small sheephead followed me around curiously pecking at the hard substrate while opaleye darted through the openings. They were safe, I was looking for something very specific and my guns were on the boat. It took a while but eventually I saw the orange smile I was looking for. Scallops! One of my favorite seafood dishes, I absolutely love scallops, even more than lobster. I love scallops raw, grilled, fried, pretty much any way you prepare them they are delicious.


    It took me a while but eventually I had my limit, I looked at my stufffed game bag with satisfaction and then fired up my whaler and made my way back to the dock.


    Dinner tonight was fantastic, I did a simple recipe of halibut (fish and chip style), had some raw scallop, grilled scallop in olive oil/garlic, and even fried up the scallop lips (the outer part of the scallop, you don't want to eat any of the gonads/stomach because they contain toxins) into fried clams!


    The batter fish recipe is simple:
    3/4 cup white flour
    1 tsp baking soda
    1 tsp garlic salt
    1 TB white vinegar
    3/4 cup water
    1/4 cup mixed italian herbs (if you have it)
    cut your fish into small chunks and dip it into the mix, then fry until crisp. I also fried the scallop lips in this mix.


    Grilled Scallops:
    simply heat up olive oil and add chopped garlic. Once the garlic has fried a bit add your scallop buttons and sprinkle with garlic salt/parsley flakes. When the scallops turn from clearish to opaque they are done.


    Stir Fry:
    heat up olive oil in a wok/pan. Add chopped garlic and about 1tsp grated ginger and fry. Add brocolli or whatever vegetables you want. Add 1TB fish sauce (from asian markets), 1/2 cup oyster sauce, 1/2 chopped jalipeno, 1/2 julianne cut onion and 1/2 head of cabbage and stir fry until vegetables are done. Add your fried halibut to the mix and let it soak in the juices.

  • Whites Point Land Slide San Pedro, CA

    "[quote='Tailsurfer','http://spearfishing.world/forums/index.php?thread/&postID=58940#post58940']Through the eyes of a PV outsider;


    I assume this is because it is off the beaten path per say. I dive PV and I know from our boat trips that that spot is fish galor, but I'd rather have easy access by parking next to the cliff in North PV when shore diving."


    Come on top tuna, you know la jolla is off the hook ;).


    Out of curiosity Josh, how many legal wsb have you shot from that slide spot? I'd have to say it can be fishy, and certainly holds fish when the season time is right but no way is it fish galore unless you are counting opies and garabaldis. I know a lot of other spots around pv that hold more and bigger fish.

  • Baja Dreaming

    Quote from ddonnell

    Yea, I like floatlines too, but I had all my gear stretched out from the first fish, and the breakaway wouldn't work,


    That happens to me sometimes too, sometimes you can take a piece of thread or string and do a constrictor knot about midway of the breakaway bungee and use the now shorter portion to hold the line (my buddy showed me a great trick of doing that to all of our breakaways, you use the farther loop as your holding loop when you store the guns, and a shorter loop below that is stretched tighter for when you are getting your gun ready to shoot.


    I'm trying to find some less stretch problematic bungee, Mori gave me a piece of some chemical resistant oring stuff and I've had good luck with that so far.

  • Baja Dreaming

    Really cool vid and way to go on your first of many tails! Be really careful when you are fighting them on a reel with line like that though, if that fish was hot and a bit bigger he could've drowned you! Usually if I start to get wrapped up I'll try to untangle as I fight the fish, if you have a current you can throw the line towards it and keep it off of you. I also like floatlines for bigger fish since I'm less likely to get in death tangles, but that's just my opinion.


    Congrats :)