This 22 pound sheephead fish produced 8 pounds of fillets. The fish was eaten, but not all in one sitting! ;-)  I created portion sized servings. I gave away some and ate fresh fish for the first few days after the dive. The rest is frozen, to be consumed over the next month or two. I will not kill any seafood I do not plan to eat. The fish head is fertilizing my backyard soil. I may later retrieve the skull, as the teeth are impressive. This fish was the largest that anyone on the boat caught during the trip.

This fish was caught on a two day Scuba Diving trip on the boat Peace, out of Ventura, California. The boat was chartered by my dive club, The Sea Divers. I did 10 Scuba dives north and west of San Miguel Island on September 24-25, 1999. The weather was so calm we were able to dive San Miguel's three major pinnacles (Richardson's Rock, Boomerang Bank and Wilson's Rock) on the same dive trip.

One of the delightful features of the Peace is that it offers an on-board hot tub. Waters in the Northern Channel Islands are cold, so it is really nice to have a source of hot water before and after each dive as well as at the end of each diving day.

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