Great day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsSErCr88M
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Looks like quite a haul.
That's amazingly clear water. Looks like a nice day.
It's about time too, I was beginning to have withdrawals! The last handful of trips have been a couple hundred mile drive to find a murky raging mad ocean.
Best video editing yet I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsSErCr88M
I got to wrestle my first Giant Pacific Octopus at 35' with nothing but a knife and my bare hands. I got my *** handed to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7DhwE4-AI
No spearing here but a fun different dive. Freediving an alpine lake with some bass and carp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgvZqQ18oBI
No way! I would have been so far back under that rock ledge u wouldn't get me out with a crowbar!
Spent sat on the Chesapeake with some friends, water was rough but everyone got one ray n got a few fillets to bring home,
Don't know why attachments are too big all the sudden? Never had problems before?
Never had a ray before. Are you using a file host or trying to upload directly to here?
Enjoying the video's. Did I miss the Giant Octopus in the second video?Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
I was wondering the same thing.Quote:
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Upload direct. Never had problems before .
The octopus- Sadly I burnt out my GoPro battery kayak fishing in between. We dove, went yak fishing, then on the way in decided to check it out one more time. My buddy got a crumby angle of me fighting it from his GoPro starting at the dive at 1:33. I kind of blocked it with my body buy you can see a few suckers/tentacles near my arms.
I plunged my knife in between what I thought were his eyes. It felt like stabbing a bowl of whipped cream. Had I got him in between the eyes he probably would have been weak enough to get, rather than pissed off.
It may seem like a bit of a hassle but i'd start a photobucket or something. Has no size limit, and when you post them here they show up as a full picture instead of a smaller thumbnail.Quote:
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Pretty sure there is a set number of pics that you can upload directly. I think it's 100. You are not limited if you use a photo hosting site like Photobucket or Flicker. Another possibility is that the pic is too big. You may have to resize it.Quote:
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This a video of the protected Goliath Grouper aka the Jewfish. They exist in such small numbers (as the video clearly shows) that it is against the law to harvest one.
http://youtu.be/z5KKaiRzw9U
They don't congregrate around you as much if you take off all you your gold before diving.
This seems to happen with a lot of animals. They protect them and then they overpopulate, thereby throwing everything else out of whack.
On top of that the look stupid like they're starting to ignore people as a threat
To be honest the numbers are that large because they did protect them. But you have to look at numbers world wide too. There may be a lot of them in that location but few elsewhere. I don't know anything about the fish but I'm a strong supporter of protected fisheries and animal populations. I was reading an article yesterday that talked about the billions of Passenger Pigeons the lived in the U.S. So many existed that flights of 1 mile wide lasting hours were documented. Rookeries in the millions. 100 years later they are extinct. Scientists are beginning to state the we are in the sixth great extinction. That mankind has destroyed so much habitat and with it so many life forms that we are in the midst of a mass extinction.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/...-try-to-bring/
http://www.theguardian.com/environme...species-evolve
In theory they are great until you look deeper and see much like everything else it's often all about politics. Things get protected for ulterior motives. It's frequently more about who passing a law will make a buck for then protect a certain species. Scientific reports skewed or ignored.
Rick, habitat loss is not a thing I will argue. I am for securing every bit of habitat we have left.
I think what you missed is that those jewfish had eaten all of the normal local legal catch except the invasive lionfish. LOL
The lionfish is a huge problem and the protected jewfish is eating like a huge grouper that's numbers are over abundant locally.
I didn't miss it. As i said, I know nothing about the fish. Nothing about scuba diving or what you would expect to see....except that jaws thing Randy posted a couple of weeks ago (shiver). I know quite a few DNR guys and a couple of state biologists. They took those jobs because they believe in what they are doing and in the case of the biologists it has nothing to do with politics for them. They really do care about the fisheries and the animals. I guess youse pays your money and youse takes your chances.
Like I said reports get skewed or ignored. The people that put in the footwork and actually care aren't listened to. Mostly. Not a hard fast rule. Just happens. Greediness. If someone sees a windfall off some sort of gains morals can go out the window quickly.
2 weeks ago me and a buddy snuck out and caught a couple hour calm in between a 2 week storm. Only a couple hours, but the ocean laid flat and visibility was amazing. By the time noon rolled around the conditions were ripping and we were forced to exit, which was a bit more difficult than when we entered.