Chris Finch
Well-known member
This is spear fishing!!!
This is from a few weeks ago, it has been hit or miss with storms hitting the coast when we are there. But the weather that day was nice so we hit the end of the incoming ( for both the better vis from the ocean water entering the bay and not getting swept out to sea). Newport has a series of finger jetties that extend from the main southjetty that fish stack up on and makes diving easier. I was able to scratch out a limit of rock fish and Nikki who is still a little apprehensive managed to get her first west coast kill, a solid surf perch. She also found a nice male dungeness but of course he was just a bit shy of legal size. Overall a great dive! I also met a local who is a friend of a member here and went out crabbing with him and his young son. We have met a lot of awesome people out here and have been enjoying the slightly warmer winter than CT provides. (It?s been very cold for the west coast even seen snow, my god the people here lose there minds when behind the wheel and it?s snowing)
Nikki also signed up for a 15k race and smoked all the local competition. She got some rogue swag, a delicious beer, and a few victory shots of rogue?s own whiskey! She has been training hard to break a 3 hr marathon and has even gotten my old butt out there with her (in my defense it keeps me in shape for spearing and increases my breath hold)
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This is from a few weeks ago, it has been hit or miss with storms hitting the coast when we are there. But the weather that day was nice so we hit the end of the incoming ( for both the better vis from the ocean water entering the bay and not getting swept out to sea). Newport has a series of finger jetties that extend from the main southjetty that fish stack up on and makes diving easier. I was able to scratch out a limit of rock fish and Nikki who is still a little apprehensive managed to get her first west coast kill, a solid surf perch. She also found a nice male dungeness but of course he was just a bit shy of legal size. Overall a great dive! I also met a local who is a friend of a member here and went out crabbing with him and his young son. We have met a lot of awesome people out here and have been enjoying the slightly warmer winter than CT provides. (It?s been very cold for the west coast even seen snow, my god the people here lose there minds when behind the wheel and it?s snowing)
Nikki also signed up for a 15k race and smoked all the local competition. She got some rogue swag, a delicious beer, and a few victory shots of rogue?s own whiskey! She has been training hard to break a 3 hr marathon and has even gotten my old butt out there with her (in my defense it keeps me in shape for spearing and increases my breath hold)
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