early morning am dive before work !

matt mattison's picture

Well Talked the boss at work into letting me change my start time from 930 to 130pm so that I could get out and enjoy these stellar conditions we are having before there gone. Well met up with my buddy Jerry and his pal steve at 630 am. We headed out to one of our new area's we have ben working. Once to our spot we could tell the water had a little chop to it and surge due to the low tide and man was the water way out. Well we got suited up and entered the water to be treated with vis ranging from 1ft up to maybe 5 but that is decent for this spot. We dove the shallows for awhile till we got tired of getting the crap beat out of us. We then headed out a little deeper which was still real shallow at 10 to 12ft. Found lots of 9 to 9 1/2 fat hub caps, Did find one ten ! marked it with my iron and went back up to relax and breathe up and while I waas doing that the next set came in and picked up my tube and threw it into the beach which my float line was attached which you know caused my iron to move and lose the spot.. I looked for about 30 min trying to find it again before I gave up. so no tens well let resay that no live tens found one empty dead shell that clicked on the gauge. As for Jerry and steve they were looking for trophy's as well so they did not take any ab's but jerry managed to shoot a nice 13 inch kelp greenling.