Moostang
Guest
Not sure if any of you dive Tyler State Park. My father goes to alot of state parks and has a season pass. He got me one for 15 dollars. I dive TSP alot since I have a season pass and I live in tyler. So it costs nothing but a tank refill to dive there for us.
Current Conditions: 76 on the surface, 60 at about 18 ft.
Point of this thread is I wanted to share a lil Fish Story, hehe, so to speak. My cousin tends to have less spending cash than a homeless man stranded on a deserted island. So we decided to go diving at TSP a yesterday. There is a well known brush pile about 40 feet from a common dive entrance. There is a HUGE bass and 2-3 nice sized catfish that hang around there among alot of other smaller fish.
Yesterday, we spent an entire dive at the brush pile due to a smaller bass that caught our attention, or caught us hehe. This bass was more like a puppy than a fish. My cousin and I strattled a log on the bottom. This bass stayed inbetween us. It would come up to our masks like it wanted a kiss and would eat our bubbles. It would even let us scratch it's chin like someone would do to a cat. It LIKED us to pet it. I say it liked it cause it would rub itself against our hands and would only run from us to chase brim and other bass away.... like it was jealous. The huge bass was just hovering about 4 feet away and it was the only fish the Pet Bass didnt try to chase off.
I've never seen a bass or any fish so friendly before.... especially to let us pet it at will and not even act scared at all.
Moostang
Current Conditions: 76 on the surface, 60 at about 18 ft.
Point of this thread is I wanted to share a lil Fish Story, hehe, so to speak. My cousin tends to have less spending cash than a homeless man stranded on a deserted island. So we decided to go diving at TSP a yesterday. There is a well known brush pile about 40 feet from a common dive entrance. There is a HUGE bass and 2-3 nice sized catfish that hang around there among alot of other smaller fish.
Yesterday, we spent an entire dive at the brush pile due to a smaller bass that caught our attention, or caught us hehe. This bass was more like a puppy than a fish. My cousin and I strattled a log on the bottom. This bass stayed inbetween us. It would come up to our masks like it wanted a kiss and would eat our bubbles. It would even let us scratch it's chin like someone would do to a cat. It LIKED us to pet it. I say it liked it cause it would rub itself against our hands and would only run from us to chase brim and other bass away.... like it was jealous. The huge bass was just hovering about 4 feet away and it was the only fish the Pet Bass didnt try to chase off.
I've never seen a bass or any fish so friendly before.... especially to let us pet it at will and not even act scared at all.
Moostang
