scubafisch
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Anyone interested in a shore dive thursday or friday of this week?
scubafisch
scubafisch
anyone interested in cape ann thurs/fri?
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Are you talking about morning or evening? Chebby and I are diving tomorrow (Thursday) morning.scubafisch:
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scubafisch
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Actually, I was looking for a morning dive... pretty much anytime before 3:30 is OK... I will shoot you a PM.
Fischman
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lord1234
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sorry I can't this week...
DHGPJ
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I'll be diving Folly Cove Thursday morning starting around 9. Meet me there, otherwise I'll have to go solo and stick to >40 ft. High tide is at noon. Let's go! Watch out, bugs!
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scubafisch
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I was looking to exercise my lobster license as well, but I assumed Folly was too picked over.
Does it produce, in addition to being a good dive?
Scubafisch
Does it produce, in addition to being a good dive?
Scubafisch
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scubafisch:
Oh, it's not the best shore-diving lobstering site, but then, I'm not the most gung-ho lobster diver. It also depends on how far out you are willing to go - if you start 200 yards out, I think there are more bugs there. On the other hand, Thurs. and Friday may be the best days for lobster in Folly, because the bugs have had a chance to repopulate following the previous weekend's diving.
I also plan to dive there Friday early afternoon and on the weekend, weather permitting.
Rick L
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Hi!!
A hint for you try the right side not the wall for lobsters!!
99.9% of the divers go to the left.
Rick L
A hint for you try the right side not the wall for lobsters!!
99.9% of the divers go to the left.
Rick L
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Folly Cove Report - Thurs, August 4th
2 tanks (OK, I got two dives out of 1 E7-120)
Went bug hunting this morning in a rising tide. Had hoped that the bugs would be back in Folly after the last weekend's clean-out - no such luck. Of two divers, we got 1 baggable lobster. Lots of juveniles to the right of the cove, a few on the left. One BIG mama lobster on the wall, who doubtless gets picked up three times a day - only to discover the notch...
The lobstermen are doing well, though. We saw 5 BIG lobsters in their traps - good place to hide from a diver. Needless to say, we left them be and moved on.
Viz was 15 or so. 65 on the surface, down to 50 degrees at 40 ft. The steep thermocline is at 25 feet.
No stripers seen on two dives! Sniff We did see two sea-robins, and a bunch of the usual flat-fish.
Any divers doing the Friday high tide? What's the best beach for bugs on this rock?!?
2 tanks (OK, I got two dives out of 1 E7-120)
Went bug hunting this morning in a rising tide. Had hoped that the bugs would be back in Folly after the last weekend's clean-out - no such luck. Of two divers, we got 1 baggable lobster. Lots of juveniles to the right of the cove, a few on the left. One BIG mama lobster on the wall, who doubtless gets picked up three times a day - only to discover the notch...
The lobstermen are doing well, though. We saw 5 BIG lobsters in their traps - good place to hide from a diver. Needless to say, we left them be and moved on.
Viz was 15 or so. 65 on the surface, down to 50 degrees at 40 ft. The steep thermocline is at 25 feet.
No stripers seen on two dives! Sniff We did see two sea-robins, and a bunch of the usual flat-fish.
Any divers doing the Friday high tide? What's the best beach for bugs on this rock?!?
Chebby
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Yep, I know BIG mama well. Seen it twice there on that left side wall in the beginning of the year, very surprised it hasn't been poached.
Me and Mellow finally did the dive I was thinking of since last year - start at Halibut Point and go around to Folly. Man, that was a long swim! But it was worth it, the wall (yes there is something very wall like looking between folly and halibut point) is beautiful and the scenery was so different along the shore. Seaweed - big boulders - wall - nice drop offs - sand boulders again and then folly. And folly is always a treat: skates/flounder/anemones/etc. Too bad I was too busy trying not to get lost, so I wasnt really paying enough attention to lobsters. Got 3 nevertheless and a big flounder (over 2 dives.) Mellow got one, but a really great one - just under the max limit.
Oh and Mellow, stop playing around with toy tanks and get some REAL air! :2tongue:
Me and Mellow finally did the dive I was thinking of since last year - start at Halibut Point and go around to Folly. Man, that was a long swim! But it was worth it, the wall (yes there is something very wall like looking between folly and halibut point) is beautiful and the scenery was so different along the shore. Seaweed - big boulders - wall - nice drop offs - sand boulders again and then folly. And folly is always a treat: skates/flounder/anemones/etc. Too bad I was too busy trying not to get lost, so I wasnt really paying enough attention to lobsters. Got 3 nevertheless and a big flounder (over 2 dives.) Mellow got one, but a really great one - just under the max limit.
Oh and Mellow, stop playing around with toy tanks and get some REAL air! :2tongue:
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