Posts by ddonnell
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Read the comment on the page about the wetlands being gone. I wonder if it's a valid observation. Also, where the hell do they get all those numbers of fish in lbs anyways? I've never been there so don't know but it's interesting for sure.
Very very valid point about the wetlands. They are instrumental to local species, especially halibut. It'll be interesting to see how the Huntington Beach wetlands being opened up.
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I don't know what people are smoking when they say pigtails are hard to do. I have used pigtails my whole life down in Baja shooting grouper. Toss the shaft and fish into the boat, undo shooting line at the pigtail and the shooting line comes right out of the fish, no isssues and fast once the ponguero learns...
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Congratulations! ...well almost!
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With a great (;)) start to the weekend, a mediocre (hungover) Saturday, I was determined to dive today. I made it out to CC and just went for a nice relaxing dive. Water was chilly, guessing around 57* or so. Instant ice cream headache. Somehow managed to last just shy of two hours in my 5mil, now turned 2.5 - 3 mil. Vis was fairly decent,around 15-25'. I was impressed with my diving, as I haven't gone in almost a month, and have been 'bad' in working out my lungs and body.
Did a few deep dives to 55' or so, with minute and a half dives. Was a bit too buoyant as well, but I won't blame anything on that, as it was a bonus on my deeper dives not slamming the bottom..
Anyways, I didn't take anything, although I very well could have. Grabbed a handful of bugs, but seeing as how they and mother ocean are being raped up the butt by some divers, I don't want to partake in them at this time. No hard feelings towards those divers, but they are channeling their anger toward the MLPA's in the wrong ways.
Any day with mother ocean is a good one. It is great to be able to go someplace and clear your mind, and get a better picture on this game called life.
-Davis Donnell
GoPro 960 with Pursuit and stock lenses. Edited with NeroVision 10
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Don is a true living legend. Glad you all had the opportunity to hear some of his wisdom and stories. He is a great guy to dive with.
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There is a little drain plug on every plane. You are supposed to check them to see if the drain avgas
And stop avgas from coming out. I'll post a vid from yesterday.Yup, the spring activated check valve, do it on every pre-flight a few times. One in each wing and one on the belly. Didn't know what they were called, so I just said filling up to make it easier on everyone..
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When I get home I have a photo of me and my sister at the last dragon swim we went to, the second to last one. Good times. Would insurance for dinghys be more affordable? I think we could do four dinghys all in a line with parts of the dragon aboard. I'm sure that the Neptunes have four dinghys, and at four to a dink, thats 16 guys, plus I'm sure there would be more dinks along, minus dragon parts, holding LB Neptune banners, throwing candy, etc..
ill bring the matches and Av gas. It is much more flammable.
Not to mention smells great. Love filling up my buddy's plane, just not paying for it...
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Geeze, that sucks. Never gotten it eating a mango before?
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Definitely check the shaft. I had one that was barely bent and missed a stone shot on a 50# grouper and ended up tearing off. It was very bent afterwards...
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That was brutal!
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Is that a closed system hatch? If it isn't, when you flip it could flood the kayak and sink..
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Happy Birthday Joe!!
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Nice vid and great fish? Looked like crochet there at the end!LOL!
What was that structure there?
It was a loading dock for super tankers. There is a conveyor belt that feeds out to the ships and drops salt onto the decks. Incidentally, there was some piles of salt on the ocean bottom that was pretty cool looking. We got kicked out twice that day. They kept changing their minds as to we could dive it or not. It wasn't too clean though, on breath ups I would occasionally huff some fuel that was floating on the surface and that is not fun at all. (well maybe to some.)
I'll get some stills up a bit later, school work is killing me right now...
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My dad is picking up a kayak from a mega yacht captain we know this week. If it doesn't suit our needs for baja, I'll give you a ring.
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BTW how did you bust up your hand Davis?
Pulling my knife, bungee caught it and snapped it back at me. Cut the first knuckle of my index finger to the bone, nicked the tendon on top and is about an inch long.
Davis awesome vid. Jealous a ton. You had some awesome colors in the video. Was that with the new go pro?
Thanks. It was shot using a GoPro 960 with the Pursuit flat lens. I learn a little more each time. I should have gone handheld in the dock, but there was a possibility of big broomtails, so I made the sacrifice.
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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.
I've done that before, but all the rigging stretched close to 4". I used some new 3mm dyneema from Spearitco and that stuff really stretched.
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Nice Vid Davis, Congrats on the fish! How's the hand healing?
Doing well, almost closed up now. Still have a big lump of something under the cut, possibly balled up muscle. Still hurts a little bit, but not nearly as bad as it was almost two weeks ago.
