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South Devon 2014

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Dived today, fish for tea!!!................................ I will elaborate ...........................Went to a well known spot ( which I will not mention ) I have had catches here before of bass , mullet and flat fish , today the conditions were great , calm seas , good vis , nice weather, lovely reef ,weedy , rocky area, with sandy patches ... perfect I thought ... and after 4-5 hours of diving covering a wide area with kayak I saw absolutely no fish at all !! not a single silver fish , no small pollack which normally surround you after diving , I searched sandy areas for flatfish as well but nothing at all !! No sand eels or small fish either very disappointing to say the least, where the f*%k are they all ? ...................the fish for tea ..........sardines on toast !! ha ha .......... Terry.. ( depressed )..
 
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Spearolee hasn't crossed the border again has he ? b******s
I'm off in a bit staying local, going to try 3 different spots, report back tomorrow.
 
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Two nights running hit a local spot. Missed a bass of 10-12lb last night in gin clear conditions but had two jumbo mullet and a mammoth crab. Tonight took North1 but no bass just mullet of the wind had stirred it up slightly. Where are the masses???
Tribs
Out
 


lol....well scrumpy, I did crosd the boder to Devon...but the biggest bass was only 6lb tonight

so I decided to pick on the local population of massive!!! lobsters
 
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You done better than me mate 2 bass 2 mullet approx 3lb 2 nice flounder but not a lot else. low tide didn't help and winds as tribs said stirred up a bit. Should have gone further south
 
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Had a Torquay dive yesterday late afternoon, pretty poor vis mostly apart from closer to shore. Missed a ridiculously easy shot on the only mullet seen which was another decent size. The frustration of such misses tends to stay with me for a while - in fact thinking about it again I need to go and find a quiet corner to swear loads.
Will try and fit South Hams in over the weekend. After more bloody house painting.
 
..........and finally, got anchor and leash at last to get out in the kayak. Not sure when maiden voyage will be but glad to be more mobile around the coast.
 
Trelawney said:
Lady lobster, tut tut!
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lol...
It was infact a large male....oversized carapice and one very large claw...pics do not show this well.

it was caprured by my brother; lucky bugger.
still not the best pic...but a better angle on claws.

Foxfish..feel free to like this post


 
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Sorry, but it's a female he has there. I dive with two marine biology graduates, and we catch enough bugs to tell the difference.
The female tail flares in the middle to accommodate the eggs. Check the pic below of a male lobbo. The tail tapers from thick to thin from the back of the carapace, and the claws are proportionally much bigger.
Its no big deal, but with everything being overfished, I just like to see female lobsters and crabs (no matter how big and tasty they may be) returned to breed for another year. Taking a big male is better as it encourages more smaller lobsters to move into the territory.
 
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cool..cheers for the positive ID .
I'll prob pop back in a couple of months to grab some large males to help smaller ones take over the territory.
 
It really works too . We have a favorite reef for lobsters, and we took at least four 8lb males from it over one summer with not much else around. Later on in the autumn, all the holes were filled with smaller lobsters, and the surrounding reef had at least 50% more juveniles occupying the smaller holes.
We dived on a shipwreck last week, and the lobster I caught didn't have an ounce of blue at all, it was 100% mottled rust coloured, (almost) the perfect camouflage.
 
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The lady-lobsters are curvy and have child-bearing hips!
 
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Just had an interesting swim with a seal at Meadfoot. Been snorkelling and spearing there since I was a boy as it's right on my doorstep and never seen one there. I have seen them at hopes nose and Oddicombe but not off Meadfoot ever. The bloody thing wouldn't leave me alone ! It was only a pup but nevertheless it was enjoying fishing my local spot on this beautiful evening. Dive time 20 minutes, surprisingly no fish
 
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I saw one there last year in late June. I had just got out when it swam along about 20m from the shore.
 
No way ! I appreciate nature and totally understand that they are supposed to be there hunting the bass and we are not. They are a massive nuisance but a good sign our fish stocks are healthy I suppose. So that's one at Oddicombe, two at Babbacombe (mother and pup) possible 3 at hopes nose and I've heard that in Brixham the bull seals outnumber us spearo's 3-1.

I'm taking up golf
 
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There is a big bull seal in a cove near Rame, but he is a grumpy, unfriendly character. The pup we dived with near Looe was good fun. We were after scallops, so we didn't mind having him around, playing hide n seek amongst the rocks. He fell in love with my mates grey fins and wouldn't leave him alone.
 
A few weeks back while diving Plymouth Breakwater after a mullet for the LIC pairs comp I came upon a seal asleep or resting. I happend to look up to see where I was and seen the seals head just ahead of me. It was looking up to the sky like the way you normally see them while they are resting. Payback time I thought. I finned close to it under water then when almost under it I gave out a big shout under water. The poor thing done what we all do when they creep up on us. It launched out of the water like a rocket. It kept its distance after that and let me get the mullet I needed.
 
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