6lines..

[Delphinus]

Well .. I learned a couple things tonight:

1) It's really hard to feed a piece of mysis onto an itty bitty (1/8") hook.

2) The battery's going in my watch apparently, because while I thought I had 15 minutes before lights-out on the tank, just as I got the mysis onto the hook the lights went out.

3) I have a bad feeling I'm going to catch my hawkfish first. In fact, I did kinda catch him once already. He ate the mysis off the hook before I could "shoo!" him away from it. (It was the second piece of mysis I put on the hook before the lights went out.)

Attempt #2 goes tomorrow..

I tried a pop bottle fish trap. Gonna guess that holds not a lot of promise, as soon as the feed mode was off it was just bouncing all over the place in the current despite that I tried to anchor it down. And the second problem with the trap idea is that all the mysis sits on the bottom of it, where the fish won't see it.