Micronesia Day two: Idiocracy and Dogtown

Started the day early and were on the spot by the time the sun came up.

I was first in the water and lo an behold the promiseland and you can see the bottom in 160 ft of water. Unbelivable.

We mucked around for a bit and within an hour found the high spot and Healey and I got in with only the camera.  At 90 feet we had 6 dogtooth circling us and Heals got some good video of them as a big Napolean Wrasse came in as well.  Incredible spot.

Of course the boys in the boat were frothing when we told them and we started a drift and immediately GR smashes a small one about 30 lbs that immediately heads for the bottom and rocks up.

Had to learn the hard way didn’t you.  Damn Dogtooth tuna are the toughest fighting fish and one of the hardest to land.  Even a small fish will head for the bottom and this one went to 120 ft and then into a hole.  They are such a pain to land.

So we snapped that whole shaft off on the high spot and GR went to get another one..

Worked the hightspot and did some good drifts and started getting some Uku and Red Bass and bouncing some sharks off the end of the camera and guns. Cheeky little 4-6 footers have never seen anything to be afraid of and had no qualms about coming in on us time after time.

All Right so the idiocy,

I’m having Healey write it since he started it and finished it and screwed us all into the deal.  Ok turns out he isn’t computer friendly and doesn’t read much unless there is lots of pictures so no he’s screwed.

So this one high spot had lots of fish we could use of burley so Mark makes the call to use only his 120 Riffe with a reel…. (sounds familiar doesn’t it) to shoot some before we start our big drift.

Mark’s down on the front part of the pinnacle and about a minute in at 70 ft a little puppy (small Dogtooth Tuna) comes in and once again you can see the wheels turn and inevitably he says “F It, small enough i can horse him in before he gets to the deep water..” and pulls the trigger.

By this time he’s at about 90 ft and we’re watching and the doggie goes batty and…. the line wraps around the bands of the gun and proceeds to drag him down as he fumbles with it to get it untangled so as not to lose two guns in two days..

One pull, two pulls, third time it comes loose and line starts playing off the reel and I’m already on my way down to meet him at about 40 feet.   Unclipping my gun I grab his from him and clip it off and as he heads for the surface and at the same time Craig is there and grabs one of the guns and we turn and go to the surface with the doggie slowed down enough to deal with him and I  look and my gun is heading for the bottom, fast, free of any float line and out of sight before we reach the surface.

WTF!!!!!!!!

We were all so caught up in making sure we didn’t lose Healeys gun and everyone thoughy everyone else had the others gun and… damn we’re idiots.

He lands the fish which is a whopping 12 lbs and we start looking for my gun.

GR goes down to grab my gun on the bottom at 101 ft and as his mask is filling with water he kicks for the surface only to have the line get wrapped in the bottom and have to let the whole thing go.

On the surface Mark hands GR his gun and the Fish and heads for the bottom to grab my gun.

HEading for the surface he happens to look over and there is his gun, on the bottom, not attached to anything, on the top of the pinnacle.  WTF!!!!!!!

Apparently GR only grabbed the fish when Heals thought he had the gun too and the rig went straight to the bottom.

Luckily that one only went to about 95 ft and Craig had it on the next dive.

We’re idiots. Lucky for me I dive with Freaks of nature and we can recover stuff that we drop when we’re stupid and we back each other up so we can dive deep safely when my make moronic mistakes like shooting dogtooth tuna with a reel.

End of day, 6 Dogtooth landed, a nice Uku (Jobfish) and plenty of other fodder for the chum slick.  We are starting to figure out the spot and in the coming days I’m sure we’ll have some incredible pictures and fish if we can manage to not loose any more gear.

Also saw some Mahi Mahi and small Wahoo and huge napolean wrasse so its been interesting….