IrnBear? I cannot tell you how happy I am to recieve a question of interest. Logic! Sir the original post far back in time beyond the haggling of everything but....was about a shore dive to get the chance to take 1 maybe 2 lobsters. It has since been inflamed as such rhetoric the topic has been lost. Point taken and extremely focused on a killed post.
I have in the past 4 yrs enjoyed a traditional lobster dive in Palos Verdes, it's fun, exciting and forever changing!! For example, couple years ago, we did survey dives the week before opener...bugs were everywhere. On opening night...they were not. Awesome!! HardcoreDiveTeam on facebook or hardcorediveteam.com revels in the fact that we aren't the all knowing, policing agencies of scuba. Like a baby beginning to walk, you can help all you want, it's going to learn how to do it on its own and develop it's own style. Like diving. You are not going to believe this. I'd love to make a new post from it, it'd give the couch potato ghestapo months of something to do in life.
I went today to get a lobster card. They said I failed to report last years take. I did report the last years take before January 31, 2014. JUST LIKE THE REGS SAID TO DO! Which was maybe 7 to 10 bugs!! Then I wanted to get a 2014 report card. Sport Chalet said it isn't available on 2/27/14, but the manager came out and wiggled the machine and said "here you are!" I got the long card and was off. Only my son said, "hey dad, your card expires in just over a month, and it was a 2013 LOB card??? what? So I'd already reported and was sold a 2013 license in well past 2014...Jerry Brown is in violation of running an agency that cannot function. So today they say I not only owe a 2nd 9 dollars for 2014....but another 20.00 for not reporting. I have a confirmation # proving I did. After calling Jessica and mr Buck, then his supervisor, they re-considered thier stake in the claim. I wonder how many people just paid the $20.00 fine because it's too much pain in the but to deal with? California Department of Fish and Wildlife managing is in desparate trouble. These very visitors to this post to bend it far away from reality, have been known to not only harm, but with intentions to crush someone they do not know, based on the same type of mis-management from DFW. I can only hope they get a big belly full of what I just said. Because they may be way out of line.
IrnBear, I did never state I was going to take more than a days limit, in a day. I also stated I'm lucky and happy to get that many all year!!! But laws are laws and those speaking from conservation hopes to change habbits are not. To get plain Declaration for multi-trip are available. Unless it's been changed. I'm made out to be a bandit, a ruthless renegade, that's so far from the truth. When I see someone or groups relentlessly "beating" someone else up, when it's relating to Bullying, and on a subject that may not be completely accurate, like my DFW Lobster card.. I don't care who it is, I feel it's my duty as a human to even the sides. It's just what I do. I do respect and weigh the details, very carefully.
When someone goes on a facebook page that I'm part of, and maliciously slanders in hopes to destroy a friend of mine, I'll be very honest with them and let them know, it's in very poor taste, we like to dive, and have fun. We do not worry about who did what, when and where, hardcorediveteam.com in southern california is who I'm only a part of. They are researchers, product developers, new dive site finders, both fresh and brine. I notice they are not plagued by politics nor religious leanings. They are for exploring our underwater world. We have a blast. Like that page, you could be the receipient of awesomeness!! In many ways.
Have a fun on your opening night lobstering!!~ After the DFW today I did have a vendeta against all lobsters, If my cost was going to be 9 dollars twice and another 20. I was going to kill all legal lobsters I could and feed the neighborhood, just because. I've changed my mind. Thank you for treading on my thread, you are maybe the only one, that made any sense!!!
