[azapa]

nice idea on the fishy backpack type thing. I always keep fish and stringer/spike on my float just in case some of the bad boys come around.

What is the best way to bleed the fish? cut out the gills? It would seem to take a while.

Typically here we have fish in a 10 to 20M bottom, in between kelp covered boulders. The kelp forest grows up from these, and the nice fish are bellow the kelp and boulder "canopy". That means to hunt you often have to penetrate this canopy and swim bellow it. I soon found than anything at all hanging of my body, even a double stacked weight, would snag on the way through. I now don't use a snorkel, and use kidney shaped weights to hug closer to the body. This makes slipping through much easier.

Safe dives.