Posts by Miguel

  • 9/25

    Some amazing pictures Darren, what camera do you have going there? Great conditions too, must have been a great dive!

  • Dive report

    Great report!


    On a side note I have to ask, how the heck do you tell the difference between a sargo and a barred surf perch? I saw both today, but can't tell them apart and am itching to try this awesome sargo meat people talk about...

  • WTB Light-mounted Gauge, Old Scuba

    For the opener you're probably better off freediving if you're heading from shore, bugs are in shallow right now :)


    I'm pretty sure I've got an extra gauge somewhere but it's pretty beaten up, will keep you posted if I find it though.

  • New PB

    Quote from Dan

    Good story miguel, congratz :thumbsup5:


    What diameter is the shaft on the Picasso?


    Not sure, 7.5mm I think?


    Quote from john hughes

    Sweet Miguel! Before I read the story, I was thinking I was going to ask you who spotted the fish out for you.:laughing3:


    I used to think I couldn't see them either, but all it is is putting in your time like anything else. Pretty soon you'll be slaying them. That's a great fish, congrats!


    lol, actually the joke's still on me, the only reason I saw this one was because it was sitting mostly on some rocks. I spooked about a dozen others after swimming over sand patches I thought I'd checked already, still can't spot these for anything!

  • New PB

    Thanks much guys, felt great to be hauling that one onto shore :)


    And yeah, the steaks are some fatty's, definitely gave my vacuum sealer a run for its money!

  • New PB

    Went out at slack tide today, swell was low but the vis was crap where I was diving, along the lines of 2 feet or less. So I'm sitting in the shallows nose diving into spooked 'buts and angel sharks when my buddy starts yelling that he's got one, only thing is he's about 100 yards away in the middle of a kelp bed. I'm like wtf how'd he even see that thing...


    I swim over figuring if I'm going to bump into things it may as well be kelp and right at the edge of the bed the vis opens up to about 12 ft. Buddy was hogging all the good vis! Started breathing up to dive under the kelp and get over to him when I looked down and wow, that is a big flat grey rock. With a tail... Even after I figured out what it was it took me a bit for me to realize that I'd figured out what it was, and poof went the shaft.


    For a second it just sat there and I'm thinking wow, did I really just shoot a rock? Then she gets up, moseys about 5 ft and lies down again. Swam down, picked her up by the gills and as I'm unsuccessfully trying to brain her she finally wakes up and decides to tow me around, got really lucky I had a good hold on those gills or I'd have been minus a gun! After a bit we decided to head in, she was a little over 19lbs, not bad for my second but :)

  • pv 9/13

    Dove northen pv at sunset with a few buddies yesterday, water's warmed up a bit to a cozy 62ish, but aside from that it was a ghost town. Angel sharks all over the place, rays of all colors, one lonely confused barrie and that's about it. No bait, it didn't even have that fishy "feel" to it. Vis was great for low tide though, was about 10-12ft with 1-2ft swell.


    Spent some time bug scouting and wow, there's going to be some sad divers on opening night wishing they'd dove anywhere else.

  • PV 9/8 small guy

    Quote from coreyf

    were there a lot of legals? ive been seein plenty of short fish ... or borderliners.


    They were all in that really annoying 21-23" range, didn't shoot any since I didn't trust my judgment but my buddy got 2 that were a hair over legal. Probably a lot more legals than it looked like, gonna do a night dive at some point this week so I can lay the gun next to them and measure without spooking :)