These puns keep coming with surprising regularity. 
abalone diving in month of june
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They seem to gush out... Kinda like the bp oil spill, but inverted... I wonder if we'll cap out of support for bp.These puns keep coming with surprising regularity.
I have a tendency to go with the flow.
I think your all breathin fumes! :biggrin:
Jack
Jack
I've contacted a vendor and arranged a group buy for rubber/plastic seat covers for our Hoverounds. If we have two or more buyers we can score a set of covers for $4.95. Let me know if you're in.
1. Doug
1. Doug
Can we use your AAROP (Association for the Advancement of Really Old People) membership discount?
Sorry Ken. My Miracle Ear is eating through batteries again. What was that?
josh,
did you guys go and if so, how was it, results, etc?
did you guys go and if so, how was it, results, etc?
Yep, we made it up yesterday and had a great time! There were a ton of abs to choose from, it was really remarkable. I got a personal best with an ab somewhere between 8 3/4" - 9" (hard to say exactly until I get it out of the shell). I weighed it at 4lbs 8 ounces, while a legal smaller ab came in at 2 lbs 14 ounces (unshucked).
Conditions were decent, but the kelp was quite thick and there was more growth than I remember from before (perhaps because I haven't been in August before?). There were also a lot of jellies closer to the shore but they disappeared once we got out to the ab zone.. Visibility near the shore was really bad but it cleared up a bit once you got out.
I shot some videos, here's Rob getting his first ab:
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and his 3rd abalone, in a cluster:
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Here is our catch:
And the big guy
Sorry you guys couldn't make it - I hope we can all go together sometime soon!
-Josh
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congrats to rob and great job on the video, josh! glad to hear you guys did so well and enjoyed yourself. kelp is always much heavier in the cove this time of year due to long sunshine days, resulting in high levels of growth. jellies typically come in on warmer water, too, so no surprise there.Yep, we made it up yesterday and had a great time! There were a ton of abs to choose from, it was really remarkable. I got a personal best with an ab somewhere between 8 3/4" - 9" (hard to say exactly until I get it out of the shell). I weighed it at 4lbs 8 ounces, while a legal smaller ab came in at 2 lbs 14 ounces (unshucked).
Conditions were decent, but the kelp was quite thick and there was more growth than I remember from before (perhaps because I haven't been in August before?). There were also a lot of jellies closer to the shore but they disappeared once we got out to the ab zone.. Visibility near the shore was really bad but it cleared up a bit once you got out.
I shot some videos, here's Rob getting his first ab:
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Here is our catch:
And the big guy
Sorry you guys couldn't make it - I hope we can all go together sometime soon!
-Josh
i was really disappointed to have missed the fun, but am cautiously optimistic that my recovery will have me ready to take a swing at it soon.
hal
btw, what video camera / housing did you use - i gotta get me one of those "just because".
I added a 2nd video while you were entering your response, be sure to check that out too..
As for the camera, it's a pretty standard point and shoot in a relatively inexpensive underwater housing:
Panasonic Lumix:
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This housing gives you access to every button on the camera for 100% control:
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-Josh
LOVE the videos, josh... watching it, i automagically began breathing as if i was in the water with the diver / camera.
thx for the info on the camera, i'll check it out.
it looked like a typical aug day in the cove - bit of overcast / fog laying down and reasonably flat conditions; wind usually begins picking up in late sept, so enjoy the flat / good viz while you can.
very cool, i'm really pleased you and rob had a great time. is that a 1/8 suit he's wearing? if so, the water must have been fairly warm.
We were both in 7mm, which is more like 1/4". It was quite comfy, I didn't really notice the water being warmer than our other trips..
-Josh
gotcha, thx.
Any of you guys use a deli slicer to cut the abalone into steaks? Saw someone doing it in a video and figured that might be the way to go! Theirs was a hand crank since it was being done in the field..
Here's the vid, jump to 4:00 if you want to skip the part about the dangerous aspects of ab diving:
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-Josh
Here's the vid, jump to 4:00 if you want to skip the part about the dangerous aspects of ab diving:
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-Josh
i bought such a slicer back in the early 80's and though it was a good unit, hated using in and returned to hand slicing fairly quickly. i prefer to adjust the thickness of the cut based on the tenderness of each next layer of the meat i'm about to slice.
perhaps you know someone who has a good slicer that you can try / borrow and see how it works for you - a good deli / store meat dept that will slice for you?
Hrm, not exactly the glowing recommendation I was hoping for. Maybe one of these days we can get together for an ab cook - so far I've only learned how to shuck/slice based off youtube videos, and I'm not very impressed with my carving skills thus far.
BTW, I just ordered some SCUBA gear to complete my kit (harness, wing, regs, dive computer, etc) so I'm looking to do some diving at some point. The dive computer has a freedive mode too which will be cool to use during the next ab diving session! It'll be neat to plot out the dives on a computer and see how deep we're really going!
-Josh
consistent slicing is a learned technique that takes time (and usually a few nicks to the hands / fingers) and i'm betting we all have different techniques. happy to show you how i do it, though.
free diving IS diving, though a very different experience than tank diving. some day (let's do it in the spring when kelp is lighter and viz may be better), let's plan on a full day and take a tank or two and do a lap of the cove; i've taken some nice lings and cabezone out of the cove on tanks and free diving.
congrats on the gear, josh.
Yeah, freediving is indeed diving - I didn't mean to imply it wasn't!
A trip with some tanks sounds great - does that mean I need to buy a speargun now too? I read about some ab divers bringing them in case they run into Whitey.. Ever taken any scallops??
-Josh
Check out this vid i found - an ab diver, using remote breathing.. off the FARRALONES! Guess what he runs into... Crazy, I would never dive out there!
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you only need a speargun if you intend to take game that swims
and, yes, i have taken hundreds of scallops over the years... from the north coast down to the channel islands, shore diving and in my / charter boats. great stuff, rock scallops! (and they don't run / swim from you, either, although bay scallops CAN swim away from you 
no farallon diving for me, not ever, not no-how.
edit: i was re-reading the past couple of posts and couldn't help but notice your excitement in diving - it's a great sport and we've got some of the best diving in <1 day's driving. good for you, josh!
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you only need a speargun if you intend to take game that swims
no farallon diving for me, not ever, not no-how.
edit: i was re-reading the past couple of posts and couldn't help but notice your excitement in diving - it's a great sport and we've got some of the best diving in <1 day's driving. good for you, josh!
Well I've been spending the last week or so checking out the world of spearfishing. Man, if you thought there was drama on this forum, you should see the drama that goes on on spearboard... Still, it looks like a great sport that I'm exited about getting into. Some of the fish these guys are getting are really impressive!
Looks like there was an AB contest based out of Ocean Cove last weekend:
http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=99827
I'm planning another trip to Ocean Cove with a few co-workers on Sept 11th, a Saturday. It'll be interesting to see what that place is like on a weekend. Anyone who wants to join is welcome!
Best wishes to all!
-Josh
spearfishing is a lot of fun and great exercise, josh! (don't forget that bug season opens the 1st wed of oct!) i'll see if i can scrounge up and post a few scanned pics of some halibut i took off monterey back in the late 80's / early 90's.
i'll check on the 11th, but i think my bride has us booked that weekend.
btw, josh, what shop are you diving out of these days?
I would definitely go for some bugs! Right now I don't really have anyone to go with, but I'm pretty sure I can find some people to hook up with on spearboard or http://norcalunderwaterhunters.com . I've also been working on convincing my friends to go.
We just picked up a 4wd Highlander so I'm considering getting a small inflatable or something that I can trail and use it for some tank dives off the coast. Probably not this season though..
I've been buying most of my gear online (Leisure Pro and Divers Supply), but for some stuff (weights, ab irons, wetsuit) I've been hitting up Any Water Sports (on Saratoga Ave). I haven't gone on any trips with them yet... I haven't done any scuba since my trip in april to the great barrier reef - just the one ab trip since then. My new rig is as of yet unused, but hopefully I'll get it wet soon!
My brother is coming through on his way to Hawaii next month, so I might take him out on a dive.. He dives for the FBI, so he's pretty experienced and I think he can handle the cold
If it happens it'll likely be Monday, Sept 20th.. Not sure if we'd do tanks or just freediving, or both. I'll let you know if it happens and you're welcome to join us of course!If you ever get the itch to do some buggin or spearin, I'll volunteer to drive next time!
-Josh
this pic was taken on one of our best (quantity and quality of fish) days back in the late 80's. i had a custom boston whaler dive boat and we parked in ~65-70' of water off lover's cove in monterey. the water was beautiful that day, so ~5-10' under the surface, we could see the bottom. since the squid spawn had been on the previous two nights, we could see huge clumps of squid egg sacks on the floor... and laying among them were good sized halibut who had eaten their fill of squid (or were about to). my friend and i took our time cruising the (large) area @ ~30' to pick our fish, then swam down to take them. given the spooky nature of halibut, the dive/fish ratio wasn't 1:1, but it was good. over the course of a couple of hours, these are the fish we took.
we brought home a total of 9 that day (5 was the individual limit), the largest was ~58lbs, smallest was ~35, iirc. (edit: btw, on one of those dives, i came very close to what i believe was a pacific - vs california - halibut - that appeared to have wandered in to our area; that fish appeared to be in the 80-100 lb category. i never got w/in range of it, but did follow it for ~1tank of air @ 40-80'. a very long and tiring day of diving)
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