desertgal145
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I agree, the only good lionfish is a dead one .... D E A D. www.blueorbdiving.com
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my latest 2 pesos...for what it's worth...
Just got back from 18 days on Coz last week. I only saw 3 lionfish the entire trip (diving in the Marine Park and Villablaca Wall), no trips up north.
All 3 were juvies and I saw all 3 of them the last day diving of 11 days of 2 tank dives. This day it was cloudy and just after a slight Norte blew in the previous day, and on all other days the sun was bright and a lot of light on the reef. Not sure if the cloudy day brought the lions to a more shallow area, or if I was just lucky on that day and not so much on the others, but I didn't see one adult the entire trip.
and only once on the boat did anyone say they saw on during all of our dives, it was an adult on top of the reef at Gardens, I think.
I didn't go below 90' on this trip either, but did dive almost all the dive sites south of Santa Rosa (other than Chun Chacab and Meracibo (sp?)) at least once.
dove Maraicabo today and they took about 12 lion fish, the nurse sharks on the net dive enjoyed them immensely!
tom