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06-12-2013, 09:12 PM | #46 |
Errin
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
A trophy bug may not fit in a trap but strip mining the entire coast can ensure that no new trophy bugs are produced. Once all the per-existing bugs are gone, there is no replenishment. Now we're left scrounging for anything that measures out. It's incredibly frustrating as many of you have experienced...
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06-12-2013, 09:29 PM | #47 | |
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06-12-2013, 09:42 PM | #48 |
Kyle Porker
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
In for dave driving up to SB and swimming right back out to the same holes he dove back in college and pulling huge ****ing bugs
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06-12-2013, 09:43 PM | #49 | |
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Biggest I've seen pulled there was only a few pounds. I second the motion, Ralph, take him up on it and find some trophies. In a completely non agressive challenge, I'd like to see you do it. I feel like it really is a structure problem. The coast in SB is generally flat and not too eventful. It's mainly the ledging that has fallen down to create small crevices and nooks, but we really lack areas that would give what I would consider a "cave" to get back into. Of course there are some, it's the ocean, but they're extremely rare. Even at that rate, I'm not saying I'd go back into those gnarly carverns. I've seen one of your vids, RTH, of getting back into one of those caves, and all I can say is..... "shit......" |
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06-12-2013, 09:44 PM | #50 | |
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absolutely loaded with lobsters, lings, goats, and reds
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06-12-2013, 09:46 PM | #51 |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
If you're hitting the 70-80 ft range for bugs in SB county, I completely retract what I just posted. That's a league in its own. I don't know how damn far off shore you'd have to go in SB for 70-80 ft, but I know it's not shore diving, that's for damn sure.
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06-12-2013, 09:48 PM | #52 | |
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lots of volume out there though, need small boats and fish finders/marker bouys to freedive that crap effectively
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06-12-2013, 09:57 PM | #53 |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
I think ab diving statistics in terms of fatalities might prove that it could at least vie for that title. Same principle there: The big ones get big cuz no one wants to go in after em where they are.
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06-12-2013, 10:04 PM | #54 | |
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A wise man once said, "Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. If you went by that logic, you wouldn't even think boobies existed." Let me know if you do end up coming up RTH, I would love to be a safety diver (FII trained). ...and... HA HA Lompoc... got told by CARRASCO... I can't wait for bug season. I don't even like them that much, but super fun to chase around. Maybe one day I'll feel this way about WSB season... |
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06-12-2013, 11:35 PM | #55 |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
20' arms or brass balls. Some people have both. It's kind of sad that when people think the only way to get a big bug is with a hose. It just goes to show how little understanding people have of the talent that is out there.
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06-12-2013, 11:36 PM | #56 | |
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06-12-2013, 11:53 PM | #57 |
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06-12-2013, 11:59 PM | #58 |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
Dave, if you're referring to me you're misinterpreting what I said. There are people (you included) who pull trophy bugs freediving. Fact is fact. I'm concentrating on doing that exact thing and am getting more and bigger bugs every season. I'm saying that if someone's consistently pulling trophy bugs or multiple trophy bugs per dive there's a good chance they're using a hose. I'm not naming names though.
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06-13-2013, 12:04 AM | #59 |
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Re: Dominate bug season. Rad Hookaset up on SB C List
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06-13-2013, 12:47 AM | #60 | |
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I agree. Well, I think commerical take is "sustainable", however I think fisheries should be managed first and foremost for the benefit of individuals pursuing sustenance, not commersh guys selling bugs to china for $$$. It should be easy to go out and grab a limit of bugs recreationally. I seem to only be able to do it around the opener, or at Catalina though. |
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