I’m the wife. And as usual, not that helpful when it comes to aiding my husband. I feed him well though and make him smile so he seems to forgive some of my other, shortcomings..
When I was diving at Salt anchorage last week there were many on “my” coral head…I asked Bazza to come down and shoot them, yesterday.
Spotted Eel waiting hungrily for us to feed him a Lion Fish!
I don’t how fast these move in, but a couple weeks ago we thought we had shot all but one or two here. Today “we” shot 13. Someone else shot 8 around there and DiveBVI shot 3 the day before. Obviously a little hot spot…
Spotted eel enjoying his dinner
The whole reef dynamics changed once blood went in the water. The fish were swimming very erratically, the barracuda was darting in and out..The eels were aggresively coming out of their hiding holes in anticipation..
Yellow tail snapper waiting for any left overs he may acquire
The barracuda kept on circling us, leery to get close enough to take a Lion Fish, but you knew he wanted it..
Offering the Lion Fish to the Barracuda
Now onto the helpful part. I asked Bazza where a bag was so I could help him and then I went and found the dry bag. He asked me how I was going to help when I had my camera as well as the bag with me 
Silly man! I was confident I could do both…Won’t be the first time I was wrong.
He would spear them, put them in the bag, fold over the top and give it to me to hold while he went onto the next one..
Collecting Lion Fish
That worked for awhile, and then I don’t know quite what happened, but this is the next thing you saw!
Always helpful, I "accidently" let the bag go
I was trying to scream at Baz under water to get his attention cuz we both knew I would just get stung…and shaking his head he had to come back and retrieve all the Lion Fish that were wandering away..
Bazza retrieving all his fish
I made sure I held onto it quite tightly after that
Back to the boat
Then we had to line them up, show the kids, take off the spines, all those things..
Annie looking bored of the whole Lion Fish dissection procedure
Felix was quite amused though!
Felix not bored of the whole Lion Fish dissecting procedure
There were little fish in the mouthes!
Small fish the Lion Fish still had in his mouth
Small fish the Lion Fish still had in his mouth
interesting rows of teeth on the Lion Fish I would say! We lined them all up, counted them..
Lion Fish all in a row
I cannot believe how many there are around. I know people are eating them, but it seems like a lot of work to get a small morsel out of a fish! I think I am going to have to wait until they get a bit bigger..
Moral of the story, is if you want someone to take pictures of the Lion Fish, bring me. If you are looking for someone to actually be helpful. Don’t.
