Devildiver
06-25-2009, 12:45 AM
Went out today to work on my freediving skills and to test out my new, hold me over until my gun build is done, fish killer - my home made Hawian sling. This baby cost me about $6 + some old stuff I had laying around the house, not a bad price to pay to hold off the urge to rush that gun build.
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Here in Oregon the taking of freshwater gamefish is illegal. For some reason that includes damn near everything but whitefish, suckers, and other bottom feeders:mad:. As such, I was limited to trying my new spear out on those elusive species...as I drifted by two dozen 18"+ Rainbow and Brown trout:eek:. I did not see any whitefish/bottom feeders to shoot, but I did find a new use for an unused spearshaft. It works great as an Oregon lobster (commonly reffered to as "crayfish" or "crawdad") tickle-stick and "pinner." I would find the crawdad, tickle him out of his protective cover, and pin him to the ground with it so I could get a hold of him.
I spent about 3 hours floating the river, repeating the same stretch 3 times. Depths ranged from 2' to 20', with vis hovering around the 6-8' range, depending on if I was swimming directly down stream of where I had just kicked up silt, or if I was tacking. Because of the game laws, I didn't even bring my sling on the first pass because everyone and their mother was "floating" the river on rafts, blow up mattresses, and truck inner tubes. I ended up practicing my breath hold while collecting trash. I found a bunch of good trash, including a rusted block of a red ryder BB gun, an unopened 40 oz PBR, and a parking meter!
I ended up spending a good amount of time diving to a rock pile in about 10-12' looking for crawfish. I left with 10 decent sized crawfish, which I took home and cooked. Unfortunately no dive pics as I was not accompanied by a buddy, and I forgot to take pics of the crawfish...next time.
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Here in Oregon the taking of freshwater gamefish is illegal. For some reason that includes damn near everything but whitefish, suckers, and other bottom feeders:mad:. As such, I was limited to trying my new spear out on those elusive species...as I drifted by two dozen 18"+ Rainbow and Brown trout:eek:. I did not see any whitefish/bottom feeders to shoot, but I did find a new use for an unused spearshaft. It works great as an Oregon lobster (commonly reffered to as "crayfish" or "crawdad") tickle-stick and "pinner." I would find the crawdad, tickle him out of his protective cover, and pin him to the ground with it so I could get a hold of him.
I spent about 3 hours floating the river, repeating the same stretch 3 times. Depths ranged from 2' to 20', with vis hovering around the 6-8' range, depending on if I was swimming directly down stream of where I had just kicked up silt, or if I was tacking. Because of the game laws, I didn't even bring my sling on the first pass because everyone and their mother was "floating" the river on rafts, blow up mattresses, and truck inner tubes. I ended up practicing my breath hold while collecting trash. I found a bunch of good trash, including a rusted block of a red ryder BB gun, an unopened 40 oz PBR, and a parking meter!
I ended up spending a good amount of time diving to a rock pile in about 10-12' looking for crawfish. I left with 10 decent sized crawfish, which I took home and cooked. Unfortunately no dive pics as I was not accompanied by a buddy, and I forgot to take pics of the crawfish...next time.