The World of XPILAR - B&W PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CONTEST WEEK #073 ~ Octopus

This is my entry for the B&W photography and art contest hosted by @axeman.

The hunting technique is not overly complicated because the octopus is a predator that is very curious and is a master of camouflage.
The octopus is most active in the early dawn and early evening and during the day it stays in its hole in the rock or it is made of stone at the bottom of the sea, or it stays in various waste items that people unfortunately threw into the sea such as various pots or similar hollow things that an octopus can crawl into and use as its home.
It does not have a single bone in its body, the hardest part is the teeth or the beak, wherever the teeth can be pulled, the whole octopus is pulled through.
In addition to being able to crawl into very small holes and crevices in the seabed, they are also masters of escape she has another specific trick that is used by squid and cuttlefish, and that is a cloud of black smoke that she drops when it is in danger.

It is usually caught by pulling a live or artificial crab and the carcass of a fish, but in principle it is crazy about fresh crabs.
At the end behind the bait a smaller piece of chain is tied which also attracts the octopus with flashing, glittering and rattling.

When the octopus attacks and embraces the bait you gently pull it towards the surface and at the top you pick it up with a fish pad.
This fishing technique used in drift at depths of approximately 2 to 20 meters.

When I use the jiging technique I catch her on a metal jig at 60-70 meters.

The octopus lives in all the seas of the world and in the deepest places in the oceans and is one of the oldest cephalopods on earth.

Once upon a time our ancestors gave octopus for nothing because they did not appreciate or consume it and today it is one of the main specialties in our restaurants.

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