ajracrew Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 (edited) Had two extremely productive dives on the Aristakat this weekend. Got out on Friday and Saturday in the boneyard. Conditions were about the same both days:Flat SeasGreenish/black looking waterVery clear at the bottom 15-20 feet viz. Could see the boat from the bottom. Still kind of dark and eerie though.Water temp 84First day finds: Nice (slightly worn) 3 5/8 inch meg - found before I was even done getting settled at the bottom. Plenty of frags and smaller stuff. Second day: Area was very spotty and had a quite a bit of silt. The silt wasn't a problem because the visibility was so good. You could swim ten feet off the bottom and find spots to hunt. Found a small patch way out in the silt and saw the outline of a 5 1/8 inch meg (biggest meg to date).. couldn't believe it! Kept swimming over silt and eventually found a spot and picked up a nice piece of mammoth tooth. Kept swimming on the compass bearing and only found silt for a long time. I decided to head a different direction and eventually came upon a large reef with tons of life. Didn't find much around the reef.. not even small teeth. I ended up finding a broken 4 1/8 inch tooth before I left the reef to head back to the boat. I swam towards the sound of the boat until my flag line suddenly got snagged on something and tugged me back. I looked up and saw that I had swam right under the boat and goat my flag stuck on the other side. I looked down at my gauges and saw I had 700 psi.. but also noticed a root sticking out of the sand. I pulled up an extremely nice 4 5/8 inch lower tooth.. directly under the boat! Surfaced right up at the ladder. Perfect dive. When I got up on the boat I noticed a tiny ding in the side of the 4 5/8 inch meg. Bummer. After cleaning it I discovered it was actually a pathology. It looks like the shark slightly damaged the tooth and repaired the small nick. There are serrations inside the indent.Sorry for the novel.. it was an eventful weekend of diving! Edited August 5, 2013 by ajracrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hamilton Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Could you post more pictures of the tooth located at the bottom right of the first photo please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 very cool... thx for posting Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDOTB Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Good dive! DO, or do not. There is no try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajracrew Posted August 5, 2013 Author Share Posted August 5, 2013 Could you post more pictures of the tooth located at the bottom right of the first photo please? Yes I can post a pic later. That meg is missing the right upper corner.. hard to tell from the first pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibuprofen200mg Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Nice work, jealousy consumes me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwbh Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 (edited) Looks like last week was a good one for the Aristakat. We went out tue, wed and thurs, just missed you. I see you had better luck than me (or anyone on the boat those 3 days for that matter), actually those are the best results I have seen from the kat! My biggest meg was 4.8 and a heartbreaker. That's awesome you found some good big whole ones. Still megs to be found in the boneyard! Edited August 5, 2013 by gwbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajracrew Posted August 5, 2013 Author Share Posted August 5, 2013 Looks like last week was a good one for the Aristakat. We went out tue, wed and thurs, just missed you. I see you had better luck than me (or anyone on the boat those 3 days for that matter), actually those are the best results I have seen from the kat! My biggest meg was 4.8 and a heartbreaker. That's awesome you found some good big whole ones. Still megs to be found in the boneyard! photo.JPG You still did very well! Even though it's always tough finding those heartbreakers, it's still cool to find big megs. The whole trick to the boneyard is finding a place that hasn't been hit hard. There are definitely still a lot of teeth to be found out there. This was definitely my best trip out to Venice ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakoMeCrazy Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Wow! thanks for the story actually. Nice finds. I hope to get certified and my first charter in FL will be the Aristakat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajracrew Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Wow! thanks for the story actually. Nice finds. I hope to get certified and my first charter in FL will be the Aristakat. Good choice. Jaime knows where to go. You'll find some megs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwbh Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 (edited) Even though I didnt find as much as you ajracrew, I went out to Venice and found zero megs two times before this trip. So finding 8 megs, I was very pleased, also from what Jamie has told me you matched about the best results ever on the Ariskakat, way to go! MakoMeCrazy, I agree Capt. Jamie knows where to go, he'll put u on the megs. Although I didnt have luck the first two times, at least someone on the boat has found a meg every time I have gone. Edited August 6, 2013 by gwbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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