late pictures

[fish til udrown]

Hey everyone,

Just thought I'd post some of the fish ive shot in the last few weeks. Ive been slacking on posting lately and theres still more to post but ill gat to that when I get the pics.

I was told the halibut were in when I got back from school this summer by a friend and was lucky enough to shoot two of them. I shot them with my Picasso Carbon Kevlar 110 while looking for sea bass, probably my two biggest halibut.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h307/rtmsk8er/12-5-06cma009.jpg
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h307/rtmsk8er/12-5-06cma001.jpg

more stories and pics coming

[jdeirmend]

Solid! Those are some nice sized halis. :thumps:

[68beast]

Nice fish, they're like a mirror image of each other with the opposite facing mouths.

[Eytan]

Nice buts.

[Travis Jones]

That's weird that halibut aren't all same side up. I've never thought of that before, but it just strikes me as odd.

[fish til udrown]

Last weekend I was out at one of the channel islands looking for sea bass with some friends, I spent all morning looking for sea bass with my game gun only to have no luck and see nothing, except a 26lb white taken by one of my friends. After swimming back in to the boat for lunch and a nap I decided to take my Picasso carbon 110 out and shoot some of the large calicos I had seen hanging out in the stringers on the outside of the bed. No sooner had I reached the stringers when I had my first sea bass sighting and saw a small 15lb sea bass pass 15 feet underneath me. I decided to put off shooting calicos and focus on sea bass again. Two dives later I was hanging at 20 feet in a thicker stringer when a little sea bas materialized from nowhere in front of me. The fish approached me head on and turned about 5 feet in front of me giving me a nice going away shot right behind the gill plate and toggling on the gill plate on the other side. After a short fight the fish wrapped up and was on my belt.

About two dives after that I was hanging in the kelp again and found myself face to face with another white. Thins one was a little bigger and farther out and turned out to be at the head of a school of around 10 fish. as the school started to pass me I realized the first fish was noticeably larger than the others in the school. I turned back towards the passing lead fish took a light kick in its direction and took around a 12 foot shot hitting the lead fish in the same spot as the previous fish. It fought quite a bit harder and made a real good mess of my reel line but after a few minutes of following line through thick kelp I brought the fish up.

It was nice to finally get some sea bass, they weighed in at 22 and 37lbs.
Cant wait to get out again and get some more!!
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h307/rtmsk8er/07summer004.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h307/rtmsk8er/07summer005.jpg
Good luck everyone and dive safe!!:thumps:

-Ryan Moore

[mikelb]

Ryan, nice fish! Haven't seen any locally that size in awhile. Best.

[theraminman8]

nice...very nice

[mike_w]

yea nice fish what were the 20lbers?

[xahxxx]

That's weird that halibut aren't all same side up. I've never thought of that before, but it just strikes me as odd.

Left and right finned fish!:yay: