Sorry can't help but I am looking to buy a dead D3 so that I can try and use one of the buttons to replace the broken one on mine
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South Devon Report 2011
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Sorry can't help but I am looking to buy a dead D3 so that I can try and use one of the buttons to replace the broken one on mine
Got in early this morning for a dive off the Kayak. The weather was calm with a slight chop in the sea, viz wasnt too bad but the may bloom is starting to show so the top layer was a bit bloomy and the viz dropped in deeper water.
Cruized the sand to start off towing the yak behind me, passed over a boulder and saw the unmistakeable shape of a nice plump cuttle fish buried in the sand :friday popped him in the catch bag on the yak and carried on to the reef. spent 2 hours diving for pollack in the kelp but found nothing not even a bass or a lonely mullet. By now the wind had picked up so had one more dive before calling it a day. Dived to the bottom and found a nice spider crab hiding in the kelp :friday jumped on the yak and paddled back to the beach a happy man.
Cuttle went 3lb 4oz havent weighed the crab but he's got some meaty claws on him
Cruized the sand to start off towing the yak behind me, passed over a boulder and saw the unmistakeable shape of a nice plump cuttle fish buried in the sand :friday popped him in the catch bag on the yak and carried on to the reef. spent 2 hours diving for pollack in the kelp but found nothing not even a bass or a lonely mullet. By now the wind had picked up so had one more dive before calling it a day. Dived to the bottom and found a nice spider crab hiding in the kelp :friday jumped on the yak and paddled back to the beach a happy man.
Cuttle went 3lb 4oz havent weighed the crab but he's got some meaty claws on him
Because we live in Torbaydos home of the Chavs Matt. Every year the scum becomes thicker down here. sorry to hear of your misfortune.
I leave nothing valuble in my van not even at night everything comes out. The only thing left in the back is a bottle of piss which they more than welcome to.
I leave nothing valuble in my van not even at night everything comes out. The only thing left in the back is a bottle of piss which they more than welcome to.
They'll probably nick that so that they have a legal sample when they get stopped for drink driving (Withnail and I)
Anyone know where i can buy just Wetsuit bottoms/trousers.....
My smooth skin elios ones are now 90% black witch glue....Im looking for Black smooth skin bottoms....Thanks
My smooth skin elios ones are now 90% black witch glue....Im looking for Black smooth skin bottoms....Thanks
Family day at Meadfoot yesterday kayaking around various interesting bits of rock such as the London Arch, Thatcher Rock and the Ore Stone. Had an hour to myself so decided to try and find the Morris Rogue reef. Took a little while but well worth it - a beautiful site. I didn't take the gun; just took a camera and explored. There were quite a few male spider crabs around but none that were really big so I left them as I find spiders under about 3lbs to be a bit too fiddly.
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I've never used this site myself but you can buy the bottoms separately. Havn't heard anything bad about them.
Trajes de Camuflaje
Subprof is the site
Time for a quick report of the last three days diving.
We had a night dive on Friday night, and Scottwilson came down to join us. Flat calm and not too bad viz. It was pretty grim getting in, but out over the rocks it was 5-6m or so. I took two bass, one about 5lb and one 2lb. Scott and Rowan got two flatties each. A few nights before, Rowan shot a decent Spotted Ray from the same location. The muzzle on my trusty Mares Cyrano split after the second shot of the night, so it has been retired. Not bad for 11 years of service and abuse.
Saturday saw me up at Rock (Padstow), doing my training for my PADI Dive Master qualification. Not too bad up on the North coast. The water was warm, 4-5m viz and we were on a 3-4 knot drift dive. I tried to grab a lobster, but I was looking after a novice diver and I didn't want to lose him, so the lobby got away.
Today saw me and Rowan diving off a deep inshore reef. We got in at high tide. The F10 was showing 11deg, but we had 10-15m viz! I dived off the end of the reef and saw a couple of small pollock, then about ten minutes later a bigger one swam up through a gully, around reef, and away from me. I dived around the other side of the reef to head him off and was confronted by six large pollock. I took the closest one, as I could get no-where near the largest.
It was a long shot, and it didn't fully penetrete. I could see it was tearing off, so I dropped the gun and followed him down into the kelp and pushed the spear through. I finished him off with the knife. I didn't see any more after that. We were in for two hours, in which time the water temp had risen to 13deg. The pollock weighed in at 5lb exactly. Not a monster, but gave two decent fillets.
On the way back up, sunning itself on the path, we saw the first Adder of the year.
We had a night dive on Friday night, and Scottwilson came down to join us. Flat calm and not too bad viz. It was pretty grim getting in, but out over the rocks it was 5-6m or so. I took two bass, one about 5lb and one 2lb. Scott and Rowan got two flatties each. A few nights before, Rowan shot a decent Spotted Ray from the same location. The muzzle on my trusty Mares Cyrano split after the second shot of the night, so it has been retired. Not bad for 11 years of service and abuse.
Saturday saw me up at Rock (Padstow), doing my training for my PADI Dive Master qualification. Not too bad up on the North coast. The water was warm, 4-5m viz and we were on a 3-4 knot drift dive. I tried to grab a lobster, but I was looking after a novice diver and I didn't want to lose him, so the lobby got away.
Today saw me and Rowan diving off a deep inshore reef. We got in at high tide. The F10 was showing 11deg, but we had 10-15m viz! I dived off the end of the reef and saw a couple of small pollock, then about ten minutes later a bigger one swam up through a gully, around reef, and away from me. I dived around the other side of the reef to head him off and was confronted by six large pollock. I took the closest one, as I could get no-where near the largest.
It was a long shot, and it didn't fully penetrete. I could see it was tearing off, so I dropped the gun and followed him down into the kelp and pushed the spear through. I finished him off with the knife. I didn't see any more after that. We were in for two hours, in which time the water temp had risen to 13deg. The pollock weighed in at 5lb exactly. Not a monster, but gave two decent fillets.
On the way back up, sunning itself on the path, we saw the first Adder of the year.
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Hi all got out of bed very early today so i could beat the traffic and slipway users and it payed off i think i can say the fish are here .My third dive on the reef saw me catch my first bass ot the year 3.8 oz next dive had a 2.4oz mullet after about a hour it was time to move on .Back aboard billys boat onward next spot .Wooooooooooo loads of good size pollock but lets wait and see mybe bass here .Swam about 50mtrs from the boat dived could see a bass big shoot but over my should came the big one 7.8oz number two next dive got another mullet same size .It was them i saw a big shoal of bass from the surfaceit was then i dived into one of the biggest shoals of fish i have seen for a long time and its still april (sorry about the pic not that good)
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Got out a couple days a go after the flounder, with light winds and good viz I took the kayak out. Silly season is in full swing down here so had to dodge the jet skis and endless feather chuckers to get to the spot. Spent a few hours in the water and ended up with 5 flounder and a bass :friday:friday
Got up early this morning and tried a new spot, worked the ground for a few hours, saw very little so settled on a flounder for lunch
Got up early this morning and tried a new spot, worked the ground for a few hours, saw very little so settled on a flounder for lunch
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As most you are aware, I am not a spearo. However for a while now I have been telling myself that I need to expand my culinary skills to include fish in the kitchen by doing some spearfishing.
After a few Easter Sunday beers in the glorious sun, I decided that there was no time like now to put this great plan into practice.
A quick text to DaveL, followed by a quick trolley dash at the shop (it resembled something out of supermarket sweep!) and I was fully kitted and ready for action for the morning.
7am sharp and Dave was outside and we were on our way to the South Hams. We arrived to flat conditions and viz that looked great.
We kitted up and headed off to the sea. We thought we may have some weighting issues to be ironed out as we had best guessed the weight I needed based on the amount that Dave used. Fortunately we seemed to have guessed correct and after a quick dive or 2 I was happy and we were on our way out to the first spot.
At the first spot on perhaps my 5th or so dive I had not seen many fish and was starting to consider shooting weed to get some target practice in (seeing as I had never fired a gun before!) However on this dive a group of Pollock presented themselves to me, I lined one up and bang, it was on the spear :friday
At this point I broke the surface of the water rather ecstatically pleased with myself like some small child on acid. Dave came over and gave a quick demonstration of how to deal with the fish and get it onto the stringer. The fish was not the largest ever caught, but of a fair and legal size so i was happy with that.
At this point I did have the thought of retiring from spearfishing with my 100% shot to catch ratio intact, however I decided to carry on! rofl
We moved out further for a bit onto another area of the reef, then worked our way back in. Dave had himself a bass and 3 Pollock so all in all a good day.
The rest of the session for me was not as fruitful, I fired at one other Pollock although I missed that one. All the other fish I saw were a tad small.
I would say i am fairly hooked with this. It was lovely to be able to get in the water with so lille gear/equipment (compared to scuba) and still have a great time and see so much at the same time.
As far as the equipment I choose goes, I opted to try out some of the new gear we have imported in the country ourselves as well as some of the more tried and tested items we do.
The Apnea rebel gun, and the Apnea Legend suit both did well. The suit was a good fit and really supple and comfortable. For the fins I went for a set of Cressi Gara Pro’s, and weight wise a rubber belt and Seac weight vest.
I would like to thank Dave for the mornings banter/company and more importantly for taking me down and showing me the ropes. Some beer is owed to you sir.
So who is up for a dive some point later in the week then?!
After a few Easter Sunday beers in the glorious sun, I decided that there was no time like now to put this great plan into practice.
A quick text to DaveL, followed by a quick trolley dash at the shop (it resembled something out of supermarket sweep!) and I was fully kitted and ready for action for the morning.
7am sharp and Dave was outside and we were on our way to the South Hams. We arrived to flat conditions and viz that looked great.
We kitted up and headed off to the sea. We thought we may have some weighting issues to be ironed out as we had best guessed the weight I needed based on the amount that Dave used. Fortunately we seemed to have guessed correct and after a quick dive or 2 I was happy and we were on our way out to the first spot.
At the first spot on perhaps my 5th or so dive I had not seen many fish and was starting to consider shooting weed to get some target practice in (seeing as I had never fired a gun before!) However on this dive a group of Pollock presented themselves to me, I lined one up and bang, it was on the spear :friday
At this point I broke the surface of the water rather ecstatically pleased with myself like some small child on acid. Dave came over and gave a quick demonstration of how to deal with the fish and get it onto the stringer. The fish was not the largest ever caught, but of a fair and legal size so i was happy with that.
At this point I did have the thought of retiring from spearfishing with my 100% shot to catch ratio intact, however I decided to carry on! rofl
We moved out further for a bit onto another area of the reef, then worked our way back in. Dave had himself a bass and 3 Pollock so all in all a good day.
The rest of the session for me was not as fruitful, I fired at one other Pollock although I missed that one. All the other fish I saw were a tad small.
I would say i am fairly hooked with this. It was lovely to be able to get in the water with so lille gear/equipment (compared to scuba) and still have a great time and see so much at the same time.
As far as the equipment I choose goes, I opted to try out some of the new gear we have imported in the country ourselves as well as some of the more tried and tested items we do.
The Apnea rebel gun, and the Apnea Legend suit both did well. The suit was a good fit and really supple and comfortable. For the fins I went for a set of Cressi Gara Pro’s, and weight wise a rubber belt and Seac weight vest.
I would like to thank Dave for the mornings banter/company and more importantly for taking me down and showing me the ropes. Some beer is owed to you sir.
So who is up for a dive some point later in the week then?!
