COMMERCIAL SPEARFISHING | INSANE DAY CHASING GROUPER ON THE REEF!!! | Key West Waterman Ep. 031
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2020
- After a crazy opening day of grouper season, Aaron and crew are back at it! The grouper are thick and willing to play! Key West Waterman Ep. 031
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hell yes another commercial fishing vid. You are the only youtuber who does it in your format including the payouts which is so interesting to us casuals. Keep up the fire content man your vids are raw.
Thanks for the feedback! glad you like the vids and plenty more to come!
I want to see an iguana hunting video on paddle boards using blow darts
coming right up!!!
In the future it'd be awesome awesome if you talked about things like chum tactic while diving, what type of structure to look for/ see on sonar (for grouper), and maybe about how to become a charter captain.
Awesome! thanks for the feedback! that is all stuff I can do!
Aron* just another incredible video. I can not believe this is the first time I’ve been able to watch this. Today is 3/17/23 so a HAPPY SAINT PATRICS DAY to you and yours. Everyone is Irish today!! :-)
haha getting into some old ones! thanks for tuning in!
I smiled when I saw the knife come out for the clean kill on the first fish. Nice work! It's the best way to respect the fish, in my opinion.
I dispatch every single fish as quickly as I can, often before I even surface. Hate to see any animal suffer and am always extremely grateful for their sacrifice to feed countless others!
Really like the diving videos but my favorite are your deep drop days
Trying to keep a happy mixture of both! thanks for sharing have some more deep drop on the way!
I really liked the double camera job filming on the one dive, very nice perspective to see both at once 👍👍😎, really loving your videos, from the deep drops, backyard, backwoods diving, from one Florida boy to another 👍👍😎 great steward of the ocean 🌊
Love to hear it! 🙏🏻
Like your content I have been fishing So. California for over 50 plus years wish you much success
love to hear you enjoy it!
Hands down best spearfishing/fishing on UA-cam. Keep it up!
Really really appreciate that! keeps me going!
Another great video, glad to hear Keys are opening back up and you can start charters again. And good music on the video
Thank you! for sure excited to get back to charters! Enjoy commercial but hate how many fish I have to take to be profitable. prefer to run charters!
Commercial is my favorite i would definitely like to see stuff other than grouper that your shooting out there as well
glad you like it! we typically target grouper because its the highest price at the market! but we often shoot lots of other fish! ill get some of the content out to ya for sure though, thanks for sharing feedback!
Key West Waterman for sure!! I’m sure there’s always by catch. Hogfish!!
Awesome vid as always.
Maybe a vid with your go to reef bottom fishing set ups. Gear and terminal tackle.
Yes sir! once I get back on track with charters im gonna be able to do a lot more how-to informational episodes! as always thanks for watching!
Another awesome video. A video on your deep dropping setups, rigs, and what the deep drop bottom looks like on your sounder would be great.
That video is literally in line to be released! thanks for sharing!
Thanks brother glad to hear it. Keep up the great work.
The side by side shot was awesome!
haha right! love when Gavin brings his cam and gets the third person angle!
Keep em coming!
you got it! more on the way!
Wow love the look of the water it’s so clear.
One word awesome loved it
haha was super clear that day!
haha was super clear that day!
This was great. Offshore gets my vote.
thank you! def more to come!
Great video Capt. Aaron. Your Channel is blowing up...can't wait for the next one. 👍🏻🤘🏻
haha definitely starting to take off! glad you enjoyed this one! plenty more to come!
$140 for gas food and chum!! Reminding me of the good ol' days! Amazing video.
Haha right!
When you dropped that chum ball, reminded me of the tourist throwing up in the water off Phuket , my wife was like look at all the fish and i'm going ..no no no don't swim in that :-)
HAHAHA that is too funny! we see it down here as well with the snorkel boats!
great episode Aaron, amazing footage, thx for sharing your world
As always thanks for watching and sharing feedback! really appreciate it!
Bro you recover those fish fast as f&$@! Good stuff bro UA-cam machine is on fire.
haha gotta beat the sharks! Dont pay taxes around here!
Amazing as always. Big bull shark that met ya midway in the water column was def flexing on you, haha. Stay safe!
haha he sure was! wanted to know what I was up to in his house! thanks for watching!
Another great one!! Some awesome stone shots. And I've gotta say I love the music. Definitely had a "spearheads" vibe to this one.
haha glad you like it! gonna try to narrate the next one, talk about hunting techniques and such!
Great day fishing chicken of the sea
haha thanks for watching!
welcome back! Nice shooting.
haha thank you sir!
O yeaaaaa! Keep up the good work!
will do! thanks for tuning in!
Great Video Keep em Coming
more on the way!
Yew another great vid! Keep em commin
thank you sir!
Nice i have to say i like your newer videos you narrating no music. Your explaining makes your channel better. Btw how heck you guys dive so deep on just breath
I like them better too! Thank you sir!
Good fishing and good tunes.🤘
haha thats what its all about!
Keep it up, this will be one of the bigger UA-cam channels for fishing/spearfishing. Good content good editing good video skills.
Let see some gps coordinates on the next video lmao
Yeah good luck I’ve tried he needs that spot for money. Good try tho🤣🤣
lmao! really appreciate that! having a good time making the videos and have a good friend helping with the editing! glad you enjoy the content!
What an amazing vid I love them mate keep up the good work
Thanks for watching! glad you like the vid!
Awesome shooting ....
thank you sir!
It would be cool to see a few more drops from start to finish, maybe with a timer running on screen, so us newbies can test our breath hold at home.
thats a great idea! gonna have to give that a try! thanks for sharing!
@@KeyWestWaterman what's your static breath hold? Gotta be something crazy. I haven't dove in years and can hit 3:30 no problem.
Epicness!
haha thanks guys!
Top vid, can always tell a good buddie, when they can Shout . After 60ft down🤣🤣👍😁
lol!
Another awesome video! It doesn't matter if you're shooting or deep dropping you make all your videos fun to watch. My question this time is, i know you've been free diving for a while and have gotten accustomed to it, how do you condition yourself to make those 50, 75, 90 ft dives?
really appreciate that! having a lot of fun making them! And honestly I don't do any kind of training, I really should but I have been diving for so long my body is used to it, wish I had a better answer! I will tell you meditation and being able to calm yourself is just as valuable and being physically fit in the Freedive world!
Great Video Aaron, I'll be checking out your charter website! Tight Lines Brotha!
Really appreciate that! thanks for watching!
I really love these episodes keep them coming ! For your information we bends shaft all the time and while travelling for spearfishing i met a ton of people alot of them throw the shaft immediately when its bent.. they dont know that if you took it to an iron lathe they will get it as good as new with only 5$ haha i dont know if you know that hope it will help !
Yes! I actually just send about 50 shafts up to the mainland to be staightened! They charge about $15 per shaft but it saves a lot of money in the long run!
Bro let’s see more voiceovers. Love it man. Epic vid. I’ll be in the keys 9th-13th
We are going to do that soon! going through some good grouper clips I can breakdown on hunting techniques and such! thanks for the feedback brother!
First like! Amazing videos man. Love the vibe - and the music!
haha thanks so much! glad you enjoyed this one!
Yes man 💥💥💥
haha hope ya liked it!
Sickkkk!
thanks dawg!!!
Straight killin it
haha were trying!
Buddy that was freaking awesome I watched this one video and was hooked. Subscribed before the video finished. Great day I am planning to build a spear gun and get started learning how to do this.
haha happy to hear it! glad you like the content and have a ton more stuff on the way!
wold like to see the boat setup and what you take on the boat when spearing,,,, also, do how far away you go off the coast and if you go always to the same spots... here in Miami 1-2 miles off the coast in enough to find a good amount of grouper at 25-30ft
gonna do a video for the boat setup soon! it all depends, hardly ever hit the same spots. distance ranges anywhere from 5 miles to 60 miles. we have a lot of different areas to hunt!
3:10 trippy
lol!
5:42 also trippy. awesome synchronized split screen.
haha!
Man that was awesome 👍. Wished I could hunt like that.!
Years and years of practice! anyone can do it!
@@KeyWestWaterman some day....some day. Lol
Nice dude....
thanks for watching!
Dude this channel is bad ass keep it up
haha thanks brotha appreciate that! more to come!
I see why you want to retire the banana gun now. That rig has poked holes in a lot of fish and scored you plenty of cash and food. It deserves it's own plaque and spot on your "wall of shame". Very cool. Maybe mount a few fish jaws too hang around it too. Joey Antonelli has a video about how to preserve fish jaws and bones.
haha yea its seen many a fish! taken down some fish I will truly never forget as long I live!
Great video. I would Lov for you to talk more about how the commercial business works. More details if posible. It’s fun to hear. The million dollar question is all fish fresh in the fish market? Stuff like that I feel would be fun to know about.
awesome! thanks for the feedback, can work in more of that stuff. haha if you buy from keys fresh seafood in Keywest its fresh! thats where all my fish goes!
more sword fishing videos! love the channel
Once my LP reel gets back from service I will for sure!
Nice that fish are not all caved up. Shooting Anegada reefs for most of the 80's it was rare not to have to spend most of your time looking into caves. Spring steel shafts would snap as soon as a fish turned in a cave so I had to use SS and get good at using wavy shafts. Nice video. Mostly we shot dog snapper, YF and Nassau grouper. My PB was 29 lb Nassau and 31 lb YF. I had chances ar huge cubera but would not shoot with shooting line attached to gun. I discovered reels and float lines after returning to Texas in 1991 after Hurricane Hugo blew us home. Oh and finally in 2001 Rob Allen guns. All the Euro designs are accurate.
haha wow! those are some solid fish! thanks for taking the time to share! oh how times and gear have changed!
@@KeyWestWaterman I used 2 Dacor aluminum guns in the VI I won in a scuba rodeo in 73 and 74 in Freeport Tx rig diving big cobes and jewfish. I still have the record 321 lbs since no one has shot them since 1978. In the 90's in Tex local paper interviewed me about that fish and printed a long full page that was widely circulated all over the gulf coast. I had given out a lot of info about rigging and how to take jewfish in the rigs. This attracted 2 game wardens who visited me at home. I had stated how good they are to eat and the paper stated he enjoys them today ha ha I proved I hadn't shot one since the 70's. My wifes ex is Billy Causey who was in charge of the NOAA reef protection at the time. Very funny.
You should make ya a shorty gun so you can cut down the bent shafts and still use them. Great vid!
Actually just sent them all to Tampa, a buddy of mine up there straightens them if he can for a small fee! hopefully will get a few back good as new!
I'd like to see videos of you chartering me to catch some wahoo!! lol
haha thats definitely possible !
You should take about sharks. How long it took you to be comfortable around them while spearing? When, if ever, do they make you nervous? Any info would be awesome. Great Channel!
I can definitely do that!
Keep putting in work. Still want to see a hog catch clean cook when you get more up and running 😁
definitely will when I see a legal one! lol since they've upped the regs we don't see a ton of legal hogs, will hopefully be making a trip down west soon and get on some big ones!
Good fishing
thank you!
Omar Aqsha This ISN’T Fishing...this is slaughter for bucks.
How about a swordfish tutorial, how you’re making and sewing your bait to the way you drop. I’ve seen a lot of catching videos but nothing to really explain the process. Maybe there’s a reason for that... But as always another very cool video.
absolutely can do a vid like that! actually waiting for my sword fishing rod to get back from service!
Sounds good, currently living in tavernier and moving to Cudjoe if all goes to plan. We’ve put together a rig for sword but haven’t give it a go yet. Trying to learn a few more things before spending a day dropping and doing it wrong.
Do you ever spear for Hogfish? I would like to see one of those if you can, love your channel & all the info on commercial fishing. Keep killing it! Also, I would like to know your charter, my 3 brothers & I come down there every year & fish, so let me know hopefully we can hook up! Also, LOVE your soundtracks!
We do! we don't see a ton of big ones around key west, they recently changed the regulations for them so they have to be 16" now, once we run a ways away from KW we start to see bigger ones! and my charter website is in the description!
Film some lobstering days!
when lobstering opens up I will!
Subbed, you're a beast bro 💪 keep up the great content! Oss
Welcome! thanks for the sub! lots more good stuff to come!
Can we see how you find good fishing bottom and what you look for? How to tell ledges and find Swiss cheese bottom.
yea I can talk a little more about that as well!
Key West Waterman Thanks looking forward to seeing a more in depth video of the bottom machine. First time fisherman here in the Gulf and I need help on how to find good bottom.
Sooooo 4:40
I'm a little confused as to how you ended up with 2 fish lol. I guess you'd already shot the second and lost him? Anyway great content bro you're killing it!
probably shot near the end of the "air", fish got tangled, go up, get air, kill another fish. Just a guess.
@@bretthumphries7911 It was his buddies fish. Like you said, his buddy went up for air after taking the shot. Aaron just brought it to the surface for him.
haha yea there's a crazy little sequence there, Brandon shot a fish right before I was about to shoot one in the previous clip, then it spooked mine, I shot and stoned mine, came back to the surface and Brandons was stuck on the bottom. I went back down to retrieve his fish because I had a fresh breath and another swam up to investigate! lol all happened in about 4 minutes!
Eu 999 muito bom!!!👍
thanks for watching!
Thanks for the ride along great trip! What speargun do you like the most and who sells them?
Of course thanks for coming along! If im not shooting my own guns im shooting a Koah, they make incredible guns that I trust and are most similar to mine!
@@KeyWestWaterman Thank you for the reply!I don't dive anymore but i have friend that does in Michigan and would love to do a charter trip i think.He is talking about moving to Florida soon to retire.Do you have a contact number for a trip?He is a very good hunter.He's been coming down twice a year to dive and loves it.
Can you do a episode on a beginner spear fishing setup on a budget like everything you need to get started
kind of a tough video to make because everyone around the world has such different spearing conditions, water clarity, and species they are hunting! if you have any specific questions, you can shoot me an email id be happy to share my opinion!
love the content brotha.. One thing, with all the shafts you have bent couldn’t you bring them to a smelter and smelt them down to make new ones? just a thought :)
There a place on the mainland that straightens them for me for about $15 a piece! just wait until I have a bunch to bring them up there!
More deep dropping vids
Def have some more on the way!
Nice work all around. I noticed the fingers wave, does this stop fish from swimming away? Keep video’s coming!
Thank you! and honestly idk! lol sometimes I feel like it helps but I have no idea truthfully, in my head im thinking "do something that will cause curiosity or some type distraction!"
Love the video. I guess 43.72.#s
glad you enjoyed it!
Dude shoulda tagged a few of those palometta. Sell em as pompano and you’ll make bank.
lol thats the first time I've ever even seen them down here, not sure if there's even a market for it. not to mention they are about 1/2 a lb a piece, went for the highest dollar items! lol thanks for watching!
Super content once again. Thanks for sharing. I'm curious what happens to the fish once you sell it to the market? Does it go straight to markets or more towards restaurants? Or does it get exported? Just curious.
thanks for tuning in again! and all three honestly, some is sold locally to people in the community, some is picked up by restaurants and some is shipped to the mainland!
Great job on the videos brother🤙 iv been watching alot of your content and started my own UA-cam channel. ReelGoodTimez . I can't dive 60 feet lol but I'm doing what I can 🤣🤣🤣
really appreciate that! thats awesome! that hardest part is starting, and no-one is born an expert! it'll come with time!
@@KeyWestWaterman Any tips or exercises you use to help with holding your breath?
Freedive dance:
Pin a fish, do the shark spin!
Just a reminder that we might not be the top of the food chain ‘ON THE BOTTOM’.
lol! true story!
Nice catch I am glad you making money good day the keys are opening june 1 your business will get better. Maybe you can do a video on how to free dive and the physiological aspects of it. Thank you for sharing agai.n
for sure! I am definitely looking forward to it! going to do some more in depth free diving vids as well! thanks again for watching!
Have you done a video of your boating/fishing background? I’d love to see how you got your start because I’m super interested in getting into commercial fishing and crewing on a charter fishing boat to build up my sea time. Working as a commercial truck driver is fun but my home is on the water and I need a career there instead of the highways.
I have no but its something I could definitely talk about in a vid! commercial fishing is extremely difficult and expensive to get into. Probably the most risky ways to earn a living on the water, its a very small percentage of my yearly income, maybe 15%.
@@KeyWestWaterman What's the rest of your income, if you don't mind? I guess the
charter part of your biz? Who knows, maybe you are an Audi Mechanic (god knows we need a ton of them) when its raining..
@@maddierosemusic a charter captain is my main job 4-5 days a week sometimes more if weather cooperates. Commercial fishing is a very small portion of my income!
I assume you do fishing charters I told a couple of guys from work to watch you videos I know one’s son is looking for charter end of June and a boss is looking in July told them to give you call.
Awesome! really really appreciate that! goes a long way!
What’s the secret chum recipe?!
Theres no secret! I explain it in beginning of one of my other commercial spearfishing videos!
Man love your channel and all that you put into it! Just curious.. do you have to have reef permits and grouper allocation there like we do here in the central Florida gulf of Mexico?
Thanks for that! and no I don't have any of the gulf federal permits, neither for charters or and IFQ quota. My permits are leased South Atlantic grouper snapper and mahi wahoo!
Love the footage just not a big fan of the music. Think hearing the sounds of the ocean are way cooler. Imo
yea we have been trying different style episodes to see what everyone likes! appreciate the feedback!
Key West Waterman np glad I could help and didn’t come across like an A Hole.
I m with u.
Key West Waterman no problem, I watch UA-cam fishing channels to hear the screaming of the reel. Not sure it that’s why most people watch but that y I do. Cheers
Yhhh bro
What’s your sand ball recipe? That is solid consistency!!!
I had same question! Looks like melted chum block mixed with flour
A while back he said 25lbs chum to a bag of sand
its thawed chum and sand, there's no exact recipe its hard to get right honest, depends how dry or wet the sand and chum is, I just add and mix until its where I want it!
@@KeyWestWaterman thank you! How can I contact you about a charter?
newly subbed
Welcome! hope you enjoy the content!
Love the content ... all of it! btw, who is the instrumental rock band playing on so many of your videos! Love that too. Thanks
Lol i have no idea, used to have an editor who did all the music!
@@KeyWestWaterman Lol, thanks for the reply man. Yours are the only videos that I "like" before I watch them. I am an old veteran who rides a bicycle in retirement, 100+ miles a week normally, and would like to have that music for my rides. Keep up the great content.
Awesome video! What depth reef do you usually spear on? The wide angle camera makes it difficult to judge.
most of my videos are in 60-80 ft!
11:25 does that cooler under the seat have a built in tackle storage up top?
it does! its a fridgid rigid!
Love your deep drop rods a lot of flex to see fish well but still a lot of backbone to get them up, who makes them? I may have to order a set
they are from two different people! the Black yellow and blue one is from "esky rods" down here in key west, the other was made by a friend in South Carolina that makes them for fun!
Key West Waterman
That’s where I am from, SC, I have two of nick Stanzyck’s Rods that we swordfish with but the smaller 50w one that I use is a little heavy for blue lines and you can’t tell if they are still there or not on the way up based on the rod loading. Ill give the place down your way a look, i was going to order a Barrett but I like how yours fish a lot
I love nicks rods for swords tho they are a beast, we have a lot of current up here in sc and regularly have to fish with 16lbs of lead
Can you make a thurow deep dropping video how to drop on your spot how to stay on your spot
yea im gonna make some more in-depth ones in the future for sure!
Fire video as usual, what gun were you using?
both the guns I shoot are guns that I made myself, both 52' teak enclosed track, 2 bands 5/16th shaft
more blue water videos
our big Bluewater season is the winter but we will be doing some mahi spearing soon!
Do you have a list of fish that you go for do you ever take octopus in Florida stuff like that I love it when you pull a double
mainly grouper snapper and jacks, we often target grouper because they get the best price at the market! and I don't hardly ever see any octopus down here!
Love the videos! Have a question about sharks while you are working. I notice that when you hit your fish you immediately start looking in all directions like your head is on a swivel. Can you comment on your interactions with sharks.
glad you enjoy them! Me looking around is honestly more for looking for other fish that came to investigate, or if a spooked anything I should be looking for on the next dive! we deal with sharks on a daily basis and aren't a huge concern. They often come in to see what's going on but if you secure your fish quickly thats the end of it. With that being said there are plenty of times we have to leave spots because sharks get too blood hungry and give us some buzzes that are too close for comfort!
Seth Justice ...not fatal enough yet unfortunately☹️
You ,sir, need to understand that people have been hunting for literally THOUSANDS of years. If you don't want the kill or eat meat.... Your choice, and I respect that. But understand, that is your choice.... yours. You don't get to decide what others do to secure they're food, or make they're living.
@@reelman243 we see Jerry is an idiot. Not a very smart person,
although he MIGHT be a Professor at Harvard -the dumbest bunch of people ever.
I've got the same boat as you. What size & brand cooler is the one you have mounted above the front fish box in some of your videos?
Love my 27! its a yeti 250!
Grouper Slayer…. Dids
haha thanks for watching!
I like your videos but can you show who you use to sell the fish too..some market shots with customers would be nice. Thanks
I don't actually deal with customers, I just drop the fish off!
🐠 For non-commercial: pole spear versus Hawaiian sling? 🐠
ill be honest ive never shot a Hawaiian sling! only done pole spear!
Key West Waterman thx 👍
Are those schooling fish in the pompano family?
yea im pretty sure called a palometa!