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A picture from today's zode dive. We got 3 Sheephead... a 24 inch (about 10 lbs), a 27 inch (12 lbs) and a 15 inch...  The 15 inch sheephead must have been a member of the Sheephead Secret Service... He moved in front of the first spear meant for the 27 inch sheephead... Not in the picture were several good sized sandbass. A Dept. of Fish and Game Fish Survey member was on the dock when we arrived and weighed and measured all our fish. So we ended up with some pretty accurate measurements... Vis on the first dive (where we got the sheephead) was around 6 to 10 feet. Vis on the second dive was pushing 30 feet. We found more and bigger sheephead on the second dive. But we had agreed on just 1 hour per dive. And there wasn't enough time left in the dive, after we found them, to wait for one to get close enough...
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nice dive guys how big was the biggest sandbass?
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here are some of my personal best's  
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timw wrote:how big was the biggest sandbass? I'm not sure... I was wrestling the sheephead out of the zode when she measured the sandbass. On any other dive we probably would have been much more impressed with the sandbass. But they weren't nearly as large as the big sheephead. I believe the smallest sandbass seemed to be an inch or two larger than the Secret Service Sheephead. I would guess they were in the 16 to 20 inch range. On the second dive, I saw what might have been the largest sandbass I've ever seen. But I only saw it once, on the other end of an almost big enough to swim through, tunnel. It was very skitish. And the tunnel was far to long for the range of my speargun. I believe Noc saw it also, but I didn't see it again. The second dive had some very impressive rock structure, 30' vis, lots of double ended caves, long chasms, monster fish, and small healthy kelp stands. At one point, I found myself in the center of a decent sized school of meduim sized barracuda (and they didn't take off as soon as I saw them). If it wasn't for our 1 hour dive time limit... I would have stayed under for couple of hours or more.
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Now i know where you were at on the second dive.. That tunnel has a really good strong surge, it almost suck me right through. I should of gone with the flow. Glad you guys had fun, what time did you guys get back ?
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Got back to harbor around 2:30. All done with cleanup and home by around 4:00. Though we did take our time.
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Matt wrote:Got back to harbor around 2:30. All done with cleanup and home by around 4:00. Though we did take our time. 2:30 ain't bad at all....
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Tim, Them are some good size animals.. Let me ask you this, do you kill anything in sight. How about the eating of a free meal. Do you eat any of it. Or you kill for the glory of it ? (just curious) timw wrote:here are some of my personal best's
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the mako i did eat it attacked me when i was on a patty but it did get eaten and the dorado of course i ate that there really good in the grill our in some salsa
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timw wrote:the mako i did eat it attacked me when i was on a patty but it did get eaten and the dorado of course i ate that there really good in the grill our in some salsa Mako is so good! Congrats on the kill. I think I would have just crapped my pants if that Mako came at me, large or small...
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TheCatcher wrote:A picture from today's zode dive. We got 3 Sheephead... a 24 inch (about 10 lbs), a 27 inch (12 lbs) and a 15 inch... Is that a Zeller Electric truck or Sunwest or something like that? Nice goats...
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ahhvtec wrote:Is that a Zeller Electric truck or Sunwest or something like that? Nice goats... I don't recall what type of truck it is... The Zode is off to our left, in the shade. We originally attempted to take the pictures in front of the Zode, but it was a bit to shady. So we moved across the aisle, in front of the truck.
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