Nice pics indeed, it's great to see healthy shoals of bass around.
Sea was nice and calm yesterday, in contrast to how it's been the last two weeks. A bit of chop from the southwest but nothing too serious.
I chose to paddle out to the eastern tip of a headland, to anchor in shelter, on a mark I call "the crane" as the land bearing lines up a building, with the field wall rising behind to look like a crane. This is a pollack only mark, but good pollack.
First 2 dives only 40sec but the water was fairly clear, and by the bottom structure I knew I had the mark bang on.
Next dive I drifted down through a shoal of 2lb coalies and under them I spotted a 4lb pollack in the gloom. It swam off and I surfaced at 50secs. Next couple of dives went over a minute. In the zone now!
On the sixth dive I came down almost on top of two 4 to 5lb fish, but chose to swim towards a bigger one I could see. As it turned to swim off it looked double figures but it kept just on the spear limit. I surfaced to breathe, without scaring it, hoping for a second chance but didn't see it again.
In this gloomy green light (low tide, 35-40ft) I love the way pollack remain invisible while they're below you, and only appear when they move or you drop to their level. The next fish appeared from under me as I swam just above the bottom. As it turned to go round a rock mound I shot it right behind the eye, killing it immediatly.
I got one more fish this session, after seeing its shape at the limit of visibility and remaining still till it came up to investigate.
The fish weighed 5.5lbs and 6.4lbs.
Made 25 dives, from 14.48 to 16.02. Deepest 39ft, longest 1min06sec.
I've gone back to using an old Picasso Apnea as I've split a trouser seam on my Ghost Termic. The Apnea uses way less lead, which is good, but this short one hour session had me shivering, in spite of 59 degree water.
Photos of fish to follow.
