Greg Hoberg and I dived on Monolobo and off Point Joe this week. November is known as the time of year that lingcod congregate to reproduce and we saw lots of good sized lingcod and cabezon. Our visibility was around 20ft, a little disappointing for this time of year, but still a good dive.
Greg spotted this small cabezon as soon as we went down the anchor line to be sure our anchor was both well positioned to keep our boat around and also well positioned for when we wanted to pull it up. Sometimes bad things happen when we fail to do this...
Greg spotted this second nice sized lingcod but then he swam to its tail so I could get a face shot.
This is a 25 -30 lb lingcod.
To see more pictures from this dive please go to:
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Our second dive was off Point Joe on our way back from Carmel Bay to the Monterey harbor. We were both chilled from our first dive so we made this dive a swim hard and scout a new area dive vs focusing on pictures (so to speak...).
Beautiful red sea anemone. It's about 7 inches across.
Another dying spiny (aka knobby) sea star done in by sea star wasting disease. So far it seems to be mainly hitting this one species in Monterey/Carmel and there are still lots of healthy spiny/knobby sea stars around. Scientists don't yet know the cause of the disease. Hope it isn't caused by acid water upwelling which is already screwing up oyster harvests in Washington.
Safety stop in the kelp.
I only took a couple more pictures on this swimming to keep warm and see what we could see dive:
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