Captain Jim Wilson
Saturday I had Underwater World and Dosil’s on board for a trip to the 120 wreck. We were greeted with nearly flat seas and sunny skies. The forecast had the weather getting better as the day went on and proved right this time.
Bart got in and had us tied on pretty quick as the wreck doesn’t have a much structure to tie into. Since only Tog is in season, we did not see any fish come up and the only lobsters that were spotted were shorts or had eggs. Bart reported the visibility to be around 25 feet. Since we had a great day, I had a new crew member with me, my daughter Caitlin (10) and she wanted to help out, so we gave her the roster and she checked the divers in and out of the water. She did a great job and didn’t miss a beat.
After the second dive all of the lobsters that were either caught or seen were small or had eggs. So we headed in. What a great day for the middle of October.
Sunday, we had Blue Water Divers and Elite Divers on board for a trip down to the Great Isaac. This is one of my favorite dives in the Northeast as it only lies in 90 feet of water and you can easily spend an hour on the bottom with racking up too much deco time. Well as it turns out, it is also a favorite dive of a lot of other people as well. There were nineteen divers on board which really starts to get crowded, so I left my gear in the truck today. There is always another day.
Well we could not have had a better day for going to Isaac. We left the inlet with just a ripple on the ocean before sunrise as this is a long trip for us. Everyone settled in for a nap while we made the hour and 45 minute ride. I was greeted with one a best sunrises in a long time. When we got there I was pleased to see that we had the wreck to ourselves and Shawn headed in for the tie in and within 4 ½ minutes of arriving, the pool was open. It took quite a while to get all 19 divers off the boat, but we did and we only had about 10 minutes before the first diver returned with the largest bug I have seen all year. It was so bug that I actually had to check it in the oversize scale on my lobster gage. It was just under so in the box it went. Nice catch Scott. Kevin in got in the mix with a nice bug. All the other were the normal 1 ½ to 2 pound variety. The visibility on the bottom was reported to be between 20 and 30 feet depending on who you asked.
We had a nice relaxing lunch and off everyone went for the second dive. On the second dive there wasn’t any lobsters that came up as the rest were either small or had eggs. Again no fish were boarded although there were many spotted deep inside the wreck and of course there were plenty of Sea Bass all over this wreck. They must know they are out of season.
We headed back and the seas had laid down even more which made for a great ride home.
This week we are heading to the Arundo for Saturday and the Algol on Sunday. You can check our WEB site for information on these dives.
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