Thursday, October 7, 2010

Rare encounter

Once again today at 1300h, Suzanne, Laurie, Matt and I hit Portsmouth harbor. I have to admit, this easy site haven't deceived me yet this season. The wave breaker always provide either massive schools of perches/basses or a dozen of big healthy basses.

Today was different. There was a little something better than the big basses. Laying on the bottom for a little nap was a rarely encountered Long nose gar. In a 143 dives yet, it was my second. I have the pleasure to share this short video of this funny looking fish.

You can also enjoy a nice video of the big basses often present at the end of the wave breaker.

Finally to give an idea of the site for those that haven't been under the wave breaker yet, here is a video of what it looks like.

See you next dive!

3 comments:

Kingstondivepro said...

Cool Marc-Etienne.. Any pics available of the eels from the Wolfe Islander ?

Kingstondivepro said...

Do you think that the Long-Nosed Gar thought that you guys were 'funny-looking' too..?

Todd.V said...

Nice...