Miocene scallops

I went to an exposure of the Rincon Shale formation in my locality to find this:

BTW it was raining fat

And now my collection display looks like this:

The Rincon formation was deposited in a deep marine environment and is roughly 20 million years old

Hunting full on

This is what slaughter looks like. Killed this bloak with my slingshot.

Geology

Geothermal Power Plant - Coso volcanic range

Abandoned Tungstun Mine

My epic collection

Organisms displayed on Triassic moenkopi ripple formation siltstone. Some older, some younger. The triassic period lasted between the "Great dying" Permian-Triassic extinction event roughly 251.4 million years ago to the Triassic_Jurassic extinction event 199.6mya (wikipedia).

The moenkopi formation is aged at about 240my.

Fossilized snail shell next to the broken calm shell was found at carpenteria beach and is of unknown age.

On the beach

Me n gib snuck down to the beach. Shot some seals...with a camera!



What be dis?

The gun was unloaded, the berrel pointing down into the rocks and saftey engaged
It would take a cruel individual to shoot a seal with a pellet rifle.


Smaller pray on the otherhand...not so much.

Landed a batray

 

 

I saw a 40lb or so white seabass this weekend but I didn't have the right tip to land it. Instead I went after this leviathan.
I spotted two batrays laying in the sand on top of each-other. On the bottom was an absolute monster, 4ft diameter and resting on him was a tiny little fella not more than two feet. I observed bolth for sometime before this third fella comes swimming up. Not too big, not too small, juuust right!

Color changing opaleye

I went diving today and caught this opaleye. When I first caught it it was a sandy patern of gray, then it turned dark green/black then after removing its guts it formed a white stripe.
I suspect these guys change colors according to their mood or to match their environment.

Silvio's first catch

Wen't fishing today with my buddy Silvio. Silvio has been out once before but never speared a fish. The gods rewarded us quite extravagantly for showing up before high tide. Within 20 minuets we speared four fish between the two of us. 

Unfortunately i lost my flopper tip recently to gravity while riding my bike. I started off using my 8ft polespear with paralizer tip. Right off the bat I nail a black perch to show Silvio whats up. I string the fish to my belt and continue the hunt. Crawling through the kelp my excitement gets the better of me. I jet into an opening where a school of a dozen or so opaleye appear to be holding a convention. Silvio, having stalked the same fish thusfar unseen watches as I hurl into the group jabbing my polespear uselessly, causing the fish to dart everywhich way and flee the scene. 

I apologize for my blunder. 

Slipping into the thick kelp beds I come upon my pray again, this time a large individual. He bolts but my banded spear is quicker and he is gnarled by a shaft in the gut. I pin the fish to the bottom and tangle myself in kelp trying to get air and hold the pole in place. I dive and shove my finger into his gill plate. Its a monster!

Having succeded in securing food I trade poles with silvio for the 3ft fiberglass. 
At about the same time silvio catches his first fish with a shot from below I come up on a group of opaleye, keeping the slowest. 




Quite a catch


Its time to eat!




Although I despise the use of paralizer tips every single fish me and silvio hit we kept. Very awesome day of hunting.

Rod n Reel, tomorrow its time to force feed em the steal

 Silvio's first catch

 Zack and Joey happened to be fishing the same waters. They had a wormless tactic of spinner baits. Seemed to work pretty well!

Why am I so epic?

Kick-flip Status

Birds of the downtown district

More Epicness enrout

I have a dedicated follower

An anonymous viewer by the name of abe....apparently abe is an animal lover who hates me and my blog. This anonymous turd commented on my posts accusing me of cruelty and the likes. Threatens to report me to the authorities bla bla bla

Have you ever eaten a hamburger abe? Probably munchen on chicken fingers while decrying me ending a free wild creature of the earth.
Everything I hunt is killed swiftly and humanly very unlike the food you eat every day, hypocrite. You contribute to the suffering of those lower than you in such a dramatic and disgustingly profound way that you have no right to descend on others.

Have you ever even made your own food once in your life? I suspect you let others do the dirty work for you. You my dear reader are a very cowardly individual.

Just because you aren't pulling the trigger doesn't mean your not doing the exact same thing
Go rescue a dog from the pound and feed it ground tortured animal or something sheeeeyt

I succeeded in the hunt without harming anything

I set out this morning with every intent to murder one of gods creatures. As fate would have it, I was able to succeed in my hunt without sacrificing a single being.

I loaded up my spearfishing gear, bow n arrow, and pellet rifle onto my bike and set off.

I tried a new spot, which required a very sketchy scramble down to the beach. Having made it and gone around the point past people I armed my bow. For my first attempt I would use my obsidian arrowhead as opposed to the lead hunting tips. Nostalgia I guess.
I snuck up on the colony of fish with relative ease. Lined up the daddy and let fly. I scored a hit but only a glancing blow. The arrow tip is slightly curved to one side due to manufacturing defects that occur with hand made things. I heard the arrow skip off the wing and the fish had to recover itself before flying past the point.

Damn!
Every other shot was a miss. after scaring all the fish into the "saftey" of the ocean I geared up for battle

Saw a group of seals out spearfishing! I didn't think they were this far south.



Although I didn't nab anything for the grill, I did manage to haul this spiny dogfish ashore for a quick picture before letting him go free unscathed.

I learned later from my fish identification book that the two spines on the dorsals are mildly toxic. Probably wouldn't have grabbed him if I knew that


Epic day of hunting

Skunked at sea, good thing I had a plan B

Went fishing at the Santa Barbara peir but the real action wasn't until Goleta

 

Nice First fish Omar!

Fishing after school...again

Went Fishing off the Santa Barbara Pier again today after school. Caught quite a few...

Some type of Smelt

Another fool baby rockfish snagging my bait at the bottom

Taco Fare

The Mackerel is buried in this:

Spearfishing off the Mesa

I brought my bike to school, aint she purty? Notice the new panel on the back. 






This is a shiner perch I speared during my lunch break.






The Silvio and myself. Even though conditions where crap we still had a good time.

Fishing SB

View of Santa Barbara shore. My destination is the end of the pier.
Mass of suffering on a treble hook.
I could feel the fish yanking worms off and I had to continuously replace stolen worms.


A Game Fish!

Baby Bocaccio

 Sick catch but no snags on smelt, my desired pray. I was therefore unable to secure a legal catch to dice up and replace my earthworms as bait.
Oh well, Ill go hunting in the Pacific tomorrow for this lil fellas mom.

Check in tomorrow to see Kevin's Adventures!

Nothing epic to report...cept possible DEATH!!!

So I cruise at 7:15 on carcinogenic public transportation to school at sbcc. I bust a text to my mom to drop off my epic bicycle and it is dropped. I park it in bicycle parking and continue my day.

Somebody Was WATCHING ME

This wasn't..AHEM!!!This wasn't the first time I had received this ominous message...I just thought I had out maneuvered the sniper.

Im on your trail bub. Obviously I only touched the edges and got it into a plastic bag as soon as its picture was taken.

As soon as I come up on some black talcum powder that fools ass is grass.

Ran into Danny and Mario
If there was some grass nearby I woulda challenged em to a beatdown.

You fools comming fishing off the peir with me and connor tomorrow?

Kings of the Urban Skys

Stay tuned for monster fishing tales and tails(Tail Fins)

Day of Hunting

I started the day being awaken by my internal alarm at 7:59. I therefore had a full half hour of pleasant rest before my actual alarm was scheduled to go off at 8:32. I had a nice breakfast of Raisin bran crunch and I was out the door, flying on Goleta's paved streets at 25mph. My first stop of the day was at our local dump where I was informed of a sweet fossiliferous geologic formation.

Sure enough, a beautiful scallop ready for the picking.

I was limited on time today, Ill have to come back next Sunday to try to collect some bigger nicer specimens.




I then trekked it to Bicicle Bobs to get a back basket panel thing for my bike. No luck.
Hit up Connors house to get some CO2 capsules for my airsoft gun and its off to airsoft.




As I'm waiting for my buddy to show I do a little hunting creek-side.

A frog! I thought it was really cool how he was balancing on the grass to keep his eyes and nose just above the water. 

Following the bird calls brings this into my sights.

I notice some California quail congregating in the bush but I hold my fire.

The quail is in the lower half of the sight picture. Its head is obstructed by branches.

All and all great day. Plus I added a few items to my collection display.

 

Kinda looks like a raptor claw doesn't it? There is a reason for that