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Old October 27th, 2007
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Moon Dive (Also in Italian! for spaghetti)

Night before last was clear,cold and calm. Brilliant moonlight. The plan was to dive along the large limestone boulders of the marina breakwall and see what the lake trout are up to at night. We put a light on the float and brought a couple dive lights. Water temp was right around 12C and amazingly clear. We did the 200 meter swim over to the breakwall without turning on our lights. Soon the big rocks loomed up out of the gloom. Vis was dark but probably 50 feet with the moonlight shimmering in ripples across the dramatic contours of the rocks. At the end of the breakwall I started to see trout - they were cruising the breakwall and milling around as usual but much less wary than during the day. I swam with several and had to be careful not to spook them with sudden surges of current from my monofin as I rolled and turned around them.
A big carp made its way over to me but bumped into a rock when I shined my HID light on it.
At one point I sat on the bottom, admiring the awesome play of moonlight and looking up at the rocks. A pair of big Lake Trout came by, their bright ventral fins seeming to glow as ripples of blue-white light played across their backs. It was eerie and restful in the bottom gloom. The lights were best used indirectly - either aimed out at right or greater angles or reflected off the surface; otherwise they really limited visibility and messed with our eyes adjustment to the dark (which takes about 15 minutes).

And now, for Spaghetti:

Moon is having not wind for hold our breath to the water! The light is wrinkled!
From the torches there is too much for seeing. Trouts are not nervous! A carp!
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