Diving @ Haigh Quarry

Saturday the 19th of Aug. I meet my usual dive buddy Joe and did 3 dives.

Dive 1 was out to the Lark depth of 45 feet for 24 minutes it was a pretty nice dive but we didn't see any fish and the water was a bit on the chilly side at 65 degrees

Pictures from the Lark

Dive 2 Surface swim out to the Orange Bouye droped down to 29 feet and headed North to The Christmas Tree to see  the BIG CRAPPIE. From The Christmas Tree we continued North to the wall and worked our way to The Rock Crusher. Depth of 29 feet for 22 minutes. Someone ran low on air.... LOL

Pictures from The Christmas Tree

Dive 3 was Tim's dive with most time spent back at The Rock Crusher depth of 23 feet for 48 minutes.

Pictures from The Rock Crusher

Joe w/ a school of Gills

Life time dive #s 66 and 67 Haigh Quarry

Well I did 2 dives at Haigh Quarry today. I went out to Haigh without a dive buddy as Joe had to work, but I was only there about 10 minutes when Tina Haigh came down to my usual set up location with another diver without a buddy so we teamed up.

Dive 1 site name Tim’s Dive ( ya have to name it something) Joe knows this dive well as it is my favorite.  Depth of 24 feet for 48 minutes. Vis was 20 feet at best and closer to 15 most of the way do to an algae bloom taking place.

Dive 2 was along the West Wall at a depth of 31 feet for 41 minutes. The highlight of this dive was a close encounter with a very big Paddle Fish.  I mean this thing was a good 4.5 feet long and  swam right at us at a depth about 25 feet and swam past us about 3 feet away. It was truly awesome.

Don't ask if I got a picture   (  my batteries in the camera died early in the dive.) I am so pi$$ed cause I doubt if such a great photo op will ever present itself again. I mean this thing was 3 feet away as he swam past us at our exact depth. Well I guess I can only help.

Even missing the photo op of the Paddle Fish it was a great day at Haigh and I met and made another great Dive Buddy.

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I did 2 dives at Haigh Quarry today with Karen and Cheryl

Dive 1 The Rock Crusher 23 feet for 23 minutes vis was about 20 feet seen some nice fish

And a couple of Mermaids

Karen & Cheryl

Dive 2 The Christmas Tree 24 feet for 19 Minutes

First time I dove this site and found it a great spot for taking pictures.

Also did a little snorkeling

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Did 2 dives at Haigh Quarry with Joe today

Dive 1 SS Flamingo and The Lark 43 feet for 22 minutes

I have dove the Flamingo a few times in the past and it is not one of my favorite dives but being Joe had not seen it yet and wanted to I was more than happy to dive it again.

The water was very cold at depth some place in the mid 50s I would guess. I hate diving with hood and gloves so I didn't and was I sorry it was COOOOOOOOOLDDDDDD. Still a pretty good dive and Joe really enjoyed it so it was well worth diving it again.

couple pictures diving the LARK

That's Joe taking a look at the LARK

Dive 2 The Shallow wall and The Rock Crusher 24 feet for 25 minutes water temp 65

The Shallow Wall and especially The Rock Crusher are my favorite dives at Haigh as you always see a lot of fish. Bluegill, big Catfish, and some big Largemouth Bass

Pictures taken at The Rock Crusher

 about 4 pound LM Bass

3 pounder

 Nice Bluegill

Bluegills eating a bannana I brought down with me.

 Bluegills @ The Rock Crusher

 4 pound Catfish

 another BIG Bass @ The Rock Crusher

Top off 2 good dives, nice big fish and Jerked Chicken grilled for lunch. It don't get much better than that.