![\"Jim\u2019s](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0078ibidybibidy.jpg\")
<\/p>\nLogged SCUBA Dive #308<\/p>\n
SECRET LOCATION: 41 74 20 74 68 65 20 67 61 74 65 73 20 6f 66 20 6d 61 72 2c 20 4e 6f 72 74 68 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 6c 6f 6c 69 70 6f 70 20 74 72 65 65 2e, Palos Verdes, CA<\/p>\n
Solo Diving, SoCal Buddy Diving<\/p>\n
In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 500 psi
\nMax depth: 35 feet
\nWaves: Pretty Flat
\nVisibility: 15 to 20 feet
\nWater Temperature: 65 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 45 minutes<\/p>\n
This is the same spot that I went to Sunday for my second dive, where one of the divers caught six huge lobsters in 30 feet of water under the low lying kelp.<\/p>\n
Tonight was a one tank dive off of Instructor John’s zodiac with “Jim” and me; we arrived at this location around 8:30 PM.<\/p>\n
I submerged, determined to find some big bugs at 30 feet.<\/p>\n
There must be more left?<\/p>\n
I pinned, measured and bagged one within 10 minutes and continued on, not going shallower than 25 feet, nor deeper than 35 feet.<\/p>\n
I missed a few, maybe legal ones, but I am rusty in my technique with six months off.<\/p>\n
45 minutes later I surfaced and did a fairly short surface swim back to the zodiac where Jim was already aboard; I had bagged one lobster.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Jim had four way-legal bugs.<\/p>\n
I boarded and took a picture with my bug, holding it as close to the camera as possible to make it look huge…<\/p>\n
![\"Me](\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/pict0080ibidybibidy.jpg\")
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I set it down to remeasure… it was close.<\/p>\n
The gauge fit “snugly” over the carapace, which is a legal size bug.<\/p>\n
When Instructor John got aboard, we measured it with his gauge – hmmm.. is it worth a $1400 fine?<\/p>\n
I threw it back.<\/p>\n
John caught one, Jim four, I got skunked.<\/p>\n
It’s sort of like going to Las Vegas and watching your friends win fortunes while you lose your ass; what am I doing wrong?<\/p>\n
The bugs in this location have been spooked for the last few days and are well adapt at fleeing at the slightest detection of light.<\/p>\n
John and I agreed, we need to find another spot, but Jim gloated, “When you’re down there, just think to yourself, ‘Where would Jim go?'”<\/p>\n
Last season at this time, John had caught 21 bugs – this season, so far, only five.<\/p>\n
I’m getting the feeling that my problem is either old age, or I’m really unlucky, or really unskilled.<\/p>\n
Jim found his bugs in 15 to 20 feet of water, not under the kelp, but between the rocks.<\/p>\n
Next dive, I’m bringing garlic as a good luck charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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