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06-12-2013, 01:26 PM | #31 |
discord and rhyme
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
Don't they use it for urchin and sea cucumber?
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06-12-2013, 01:59 PM | #32 |
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06-12-2013, 04:13 PM | #33 |
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06-12-2013, 04:42 PM | #34 |
discord and rhyme
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06-12-2013, 05:52 PM | #35 | |
avvie chute>calico curls
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
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Regarding using a hose or not. Have you ever gotten stuck in a cave under water on breath hold? Have you ever gotten lost in a cave under water? If you had, a hose system might not look too bad. Assuming you like being alive that is. A hookah system won't make a s***** bug diver magically into a good one. It is a tool, just like any other one. Good bug divers get trophy size bugs with them or without them. If certain friends of mine weren't banned, they could tell you how they have sat there and held me above the surface after I semi blacked out pulling large lobster from caves on breath hold. Think long and hard about that. I'm not bragging when I say that I am one of the better divers out there. That is a simple fact. I've been doing it for a very long time, and there still have been more times than i care to think about where I would have died if I had not had a great spotter. Compare that to going into a cave with an air supply? It doesn't sound like such a bad option. |
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06-12-2013, 06:20 PM | #36 | |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
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So RTH, plenty of trophy bugs in SB, eh? If you're talking about the islands, that's not what I meant. I was referring to coastal SB as Jeremy and I are both landlocked to a certain degree. If you did mean coastal SB, you have an open invitation to come and dive with me any time. I'll host, pay for beer, provide transport and anything else that's needed to ensure you have a nice visit to our little paradise up here. All you have to do is take me to the land of trophy bugs cause I'm not aware of any spots that hold bugs over 2-3 pounds. The commercial guys up here do an incredible job of mining everything over legal up and down the entire coast (aside from the MPA's of course) and most divers are lucky to get a couple of barely-legal bugs when they go out. It's sad but true.
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06-12-2013, 07:38 PM | #37 | |
avvie chute>calico curls
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Commercial guys cant mine inside the surfline, and once a bug gets over about 5 pounds it doesn't fit into the traps anyways |
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06-12-2013, 07:41 PM | #38 |
Beau
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
Can a true "trophy" bug even fit into a commercial trap? But I can attest to significantly more zeros in SB than other spots down south.
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06-12-2013, 07:41 PM | #39 |
Ando26
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
I'm not an experienced diver or veteran, but I do dive SB coast frequently. The majority of bugs I see are barley legals. I usually see 2-4 per dive, while looking for other game.
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06-12-2013, 07:42 PM | #40 |
avvie chute>calico curls
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
Just to add to that thought, remember when failsurfer kept saying I was only getting big bugs because I was going places nobody else was? And it turned out I was diving exact same spots he. Snd as bout a million scoobers were? The big bugs are there. Even if you d ont See them, they are there
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06-12-2013, 07:43 PM | #41 |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
Typically traps don't catch them over 5 lbs, but I have seen 6-7 pound bugs get into traps before. If they really want in they can blow out those wire funnels.
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06-12-2013, 07:47 PM | #42 | |
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Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. All it means is that you don't see them |
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06-12-2013, 07:51 PM | #43 | |
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06-12-2013, 09:03 PM | #44 | |
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Diving big bugs is probably the most dangerous activity to pursue CA diving wise.
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06-12-2013, 09:08 PM | #45 | |
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