Thanks mate, I dropped down 20m and landed over sand a couple of times so the best I could do was go hug a rock and hope the fish come near me! Unfortunately you lose the light and quality for filming but there were some good fish down there, maybe next time I’ll catch some good ones?
Thanks for the comment! There was a lot more life about than I showed in the film but kelp beds can be very rich. Probably nothing compared to what you’re used to seeing though!
@@ryane8881 Ha yeah, I am originally from Glasgow and dived there for over 10 years before moving to Bermuda. Surprisingly there is more marine life in Scotland than Bermuda, but least you can easily see the marine life here 😂
Thanks! The minimum sizes aren’t specific to angling, they apply to whoever is taking fish/shellfish, so that covers spearfishing as well. All these fish and dolphin are bigger than they look on camera and well over the min sizes 👍
Awesome video. Did you keep the spiny lobster? I'm sure I remember you returning one before. Quick question - where dyou get the clips that attach your gun to the float line? Cheers.
Thanks! I’ve found over 20 of these spiny lobsters but I decided to keep one this year as spearfishing may be banned from this area in the near future. I’ve been really impressed with those Rob Allen tuna clips from the spearfishing UK website. Better than the plastic clips that came with the line 👍
Cheers Corki! I think it’s called the Benyon report, published on gov? Basically a lot of areas that are marine protected areas (MPA) allow recreational fishing but ban many types of commercial fishing. These MPAs may become highly protected marine areas (HPMA) and this would ban all fishing activity in these zones.
Thanks mate, yeah you know what it’s like making vids, you only show a small percent of what you actually saw. Water was teaming with bass that day all over the place!
It’s quite funny a few times I’ve done dives and caught stuff, talked to camera and done the whole showing off catch thing just to realise camera wasn’t even recording 😂
Yep too many to count mate. I’m doing voice overs now so have the time to explain what’s happening. It seems to work better for me as well as I’m not the most talkative person lol
@@ryane8881 ah nice thanks for the reply .. why i asked was im just starting out and up here in the north i seen afew lobsters about 3m/5m down and i was fighting the buoyancy of my suit so after 4/5 hrs i was knackered lol
Buoyancy is a nightmare for foraging lobsters. You can always take more weight on your belt and if it’s too much then dump it on the shore and pick it up after your dive
@@ryane8881 ahhh good idea :) iv popped on 15.5 lbs so should be better next time out lol i dont mind blanking but it was crazy as the lobster was HUGE and when i grabbed the rock it was under i lifted the rock was still going up LOL so fighting to stay down my breath hold was crap
For me spearfishing is a way of sourcing my seafood that doesn't; require bait, add to ghost fishing gear, smash up sea bed, have bycatch, overfish, waste catches, blah blah blah you get the idea. Either I eat the catches or friends/family eat what I catch
Can you plz tell me ryan when to spearfish chesil and church ope cove as I want to dive and not get taken away by the current just a time as I dont know take care, stay safe!😊😖
Super video mate, great to see you getting out! Impressive skills, knowledge, depth and diving as always 👌🏼🔥👏🏼 Amazing dolphin footage, I’m not sure I’d fancy coming across one of them 😅 I had a good session a few weeks ago, I’d promised a bass to a good friend so picked off a smaller bass than I normally would, right at the end of the day. Legal but not much more. It was a great table sized fish, perfect dinner for two. It got me thinking, why am I holding out for the big ones? I’d taken one around 6lbs earlier in the day, which is pretty big for where I dive; why would I purposely deplete our stock of larger breeding fish instead of taking schoolie sized bass, which are great eating? I’ve had a few comments on my videos of people saying, “that bass is a bit small” etc, on perfectly legal sized fish, it always seem that fishermen / spearos look down on others if they’re not taking big fish, which are surely the ones we should be trying to protect? 🤷🏼♀️ Not a lot of point this comment but I thought the bass you took looked fine 👍🏼
Thanks mate, good to hear you like the video! The dolphin was probably nine foot long, imposing but very exciting! The bass I took was a fair bit over the minimum size (goes without saying) and I ate it, which is all I really care about, rather than bragging rights or trophy pictures. I'd rather catch one big fish and get loads of food than catch multiple small bass to get the same amount of food. With minimum sizes and a bag allowance I think if we take big or small bass it's sustainable. If you take any bass regardless of size it will deplete breeding pool, present or future. I know the debate you're alluding to but I don't give it much weight of importance or necessarily agree with it. Having said that, I'll give you my opinion anyway hahaha! I disagree with you slightly - the bass we need to protect are the small bass which is why we have minimum sizes. These sizes have gone from 26cm up to 42cm now in a series of small increases over the years. When you take from the base of the population you have more of a long term impact. Bass in the Atlantic reach maturity at 4-7 years (30-40cm) in males and 5-8 years (36-46cm) in females. Almost all fish over minimum size are breeding stock. Bass release 3 or 4 clutches of eggs per breeding cycle and as they grow they can put more energy into producing more eggs than the year before. A female bass could have taken 8 years to get to 46cm long and potentially have nearly 20 years of breeding ahead. Not letting them breed many times seems a bit wasteful. If you take small bass you're taking the big fish of the future, which is partly why commercial fishing reduces big bass numbers as it increases mortality of small bass. A very big bass could be nearly 25 years old and have very few breeding cycles ahead of it, although per breeding cycle it can release many more eggs than a small bass. In the short term the bigger bass can release more eggs but in the long term, eg 10-20 years, the smaller bass has a greater breeding potential. If you're going to value fish based on future breeding potential then surely the survival of small fish would be important. Bigger bass have done their job, bred many times over and that's what should happen. Either way spearos taking big or small fish doesn't really bother me as long as it's legal but where given a choice I'd like to let animals complete as much of their lifecycle (breed) as possible.
I think it's great you're sustainability minded and don't worry if people try and bash you for taking small or bigger bass, you'll never please everyone, it's important you enjoy what you're doing!
Nope I had one mullet. The second mullet was old footage to illustrate my point about fish being in the reef - clearly seen by the fact I was using different gear. I don't need to justify anything, one fish doesn't go very far in feeding a family. The mullet was for family and bass for me, all legal. To feed a family for a year you need quite a bit of food, if you only go "shopping" once a month then you need to get more than one dinners worth of food.
Awesome video couple of nice plaice, and a visit from Danny excellent 👌🐟👌
It was such a fun day, keeps stoked until you can next dive!
Loving the stealthy,rock hugging approach.
Those big bass know where to hunt for those crabs...
Unfortunately for them,so do you!
Nice upload chap
;-)
Thanks mate, I dropped down 20m and landed over sand a couple of times so the best I could do was go hug a rock and hope the fish come near me! Unfortunately you lose the light and quality for filming but there were some good fish down there, maybe next time I’ll catch some good ones?
@@ryane8881 I'll look forward to the upload then mate.
Dive safe buddy
;-)
So much marine life kicking about around the kelp. Great video Ryan.
Thanks for the comment! There was a lot more life about than I showed in the film but kelp beds can be very rich. Probably nothing compared to what you’re used to seeing though!
@@ryane8881 Ha yeah, I am originally from Glasgow and dived there for over 10 years before moving to Bermuda. Surprisingly there is more marine life in Scotland than Bermuda, but least you can easily see the marine life here 😂
Great video mate
Cheers buddy, I’m hoping for some good weather and vis to improve 🤞
Great video, do you have to obey the minimum size limit for fish as anglers do?
Thanks! The minimum sizes aren’t specific to angling, they apply to whoever is taking fish/shellfish, so that covers spearfishing as well. All these fish and dolphin are bigger than they look on camera and well over the min sizes 👍
Awesome video. Did you keep the spiny lobster? I'm sure I remember you returning one before.
Quick question - where dyou get the clips that attach your gun to the float line?
Cheers.
Thanks! I’ve found over 20 of these spiny lobsters but I decided to keep one this year as spearfishing may be banned from this area in the near future.
I’ve been really impressed with those Rob Allen tuna clips from the spearfishing UK website. Better than the plastic clips that came with the line 👍
Nice video as always mate. Where did you hear about the possible ban?
Cheers Corki! I think it’s called the Benyon report, published on gov? Basically a lot of areas that are marine protected areas (MPA) allow recreational fishing but ban many types of commercial fishing. These MPAs may become highly protected marine areas (HPMA) and this would ban all fishing activity in these zones.
Lovely video Ry, very well done.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Love it Ryan! Teach me how to shoot please. When's our next collab?
Bream at the Bill round 2? I think Haze is going to be back down Dorset soon?
great video dude, nice string of fish too, well done!
Cheers buddy, it was a very fishy day, I could have bagged a load of fish but I was looking for quality over quantity
@@ryane8881 always hope to bad a fish of a lifetime haha
The bass that I’m looking for is over 13lbs but you never know, might be bigger ones down there!
Is this church ope cove?
It could have been
@@ryane8881 😂😂😂
Good to see you back out mate, plenty of life out there.
Thanks mate, yeah you know what it’s like making vids, you only show a small percent of what you actually saw. Water was teaming with bass that day all over the place!
More battery life would be better haha.
I just seem to miss the stuff on the surface as I only turn it on for a dive.
It’s quite funny a few times I’ve done dives and caught stuff, talked to camera and done the whole showing off catch thing just to realise camera wasn’t even recording 😂
Yep too many to count mate.
I’m doing voice overs now so have the time to explain what’s happening.
It seems to work better for me as well as I’m not the most talkative person lol
I think voice overs are really useful for explaining things and people engage more with vid. We just need to fit in more diving now 🤞
how much weight do you use when diving ?
Varies depending on what I’m planning on doing. Normally I’ve got a 5mm XL cressi suit so carry 6kgs max. If going shallow then 8kgs max
@@ryane8881 ah nice thanks for the reply .. why i asked was im just starting out and up here in the north i seen afew lobsters about 3m/5m down and i was fighting the buoyancy of my suit so after 4/5 hrs i was knackered lol
Buoyancy is a nightmare for foraging lobsters. You can always take more weight on your belt and if it’s too much then dump it on the shore and pick it up after your dive
@@ryane8881 ahhh good idea :) iv popped on 15.5 lbs so should be better next time out lol i dont mind blanking but it was crazy as the lobster was HUGE and when i grabbed the rock it was under i lifted the rock was still going up LOL so fighting to stay down my breath hold was crap
Haha sounds like you need closer to 20lbs of lead. Bit of practice and building up dive fitness and it’s much easier, good luck 👍
Good shooting gunny 🧜♂️👍🏻
If it’s not a head shot it doesn’t count!
Amazing
Thanks!
Do you eat everything you catch
For me spearfishing is a way of sourcing my seafood that doesn't; require bait, add to ghost fishing gear, smash up sea bed, have bycatch, overfish, waste catches, blah blah blah you get the idea. Either I eat the catches or friends/family eat what I catch
Can you plz tell me ryan when to spearfish chesil and church ope cove as I want to dive and not get taken away by the current just a time as I dont know take care, stay safe!😊😖
Dude try and get your hands on an admiralty tidal stream atlas np 257. So much better than me trying to explain timings etc
@@ryane8881 thanks bro!🥰☺😊
Hey mate great video I subbed
Cheers mate 👍
Your welcome you need more
Sub
Super video mate, great to see you getting out! Impressive skills, knowledge, depth and diving as always 👌🏼🔥👏🏼
Amazing dolphin footage, I’m not sure I’d fancy coming across one of them 😅
I had a good session a few weeks ago, I’d promised a bass to a good friend so picked off a smaller bass than I normally would, right at the end of the day. Legal but not much more. It was a great table sized fish, perfect dinner for two.
It got me thinking, why am I holding out for the big ones? I’d taken one around 6lbs earlier in the day, which is pretty big for where I dive; why would I purposely deplete our stock of larger breeding fish instead of taking schoolie sized bass, which are great eating?
I’ve had a few comments on my videos of people saying, “that bass is a bit small” etc, on perfectly legal sized fish, it always seem that fishermen / spearos look down on others if they’re not taking big fish, which are surely the ones we should be trying to protect? 🤷🏼♀️
Not a lot of point this comment but I thought the bass you took looked fine 👍🏼
Thanks mate, good to hear you like the video! The dolphin was probably nine foot long, imposing but very exciting!
The bass I took was a fair bit over the minimum size (goes without saying) and I ate it, which is all I really care about, rather than bragging rights or trophy pictures. I'd rather catch one big fish and get loads of food than catch multiple small bass to get the same amount of food.
With minimum sizes and a bag allowance I think if we take big or small bass it's sustainable. If you take any bass regardless of size it will deplete breeding pool, present or future. I know the debate you're alluding to but I don't give it much weight of importance or necessarily agree with it. Having said that, I'll give you my opinion anyway hahaha!
I disagree with you slightly - the bass we need to protect are the small bass which is why we have minimum sizes. These sizes have gone from 26cm up to 42cm now in a series of small increases over the years. When you take from the base of the population you have more of a long term impact.
Bass in the Atlantic reach maturity at 4-7 years (30-40cm) in males and 5-8 years (36-46cm) in females. Almost all fish over minimum size are breeding stock. Bass release 3 or 4 clutches of eggs per breeding cycle and as they grow they can put more energy into producing more eggs than the year before.
A female bass could have taken 8 years to get to 46cm long and potentially have nearly 20 years of breeding ahead. Not letting them breed many times seems a bit wasteful. If you take small bass you're taking the big fish of the future, which is partly why commercial fishing reduces big bass numbers as it increases mortality of small bass.
A very big bass could be nearly 25 years old and have very few breeding cycles ahead of it, although per breeding cycle it can release many more eggs than a small bass. In the short term the bigger bass can release more eggs but in the long term, eg 10-20 years, the smaller bass has a greater breeding potential. If you're going to value fish based on future breeding potential then surely the survival of small fish would be important. Bigger bass have done their job, bred many times over and that's what should happen.
Either way spearos taking big or small fish doesn't really bother me as long as it's legal but where given a choice I'd like to let animals complete as much of their lifecycle (breed) as possible.
I think it's great you're sustainability minded and don't worry if people try and bash you for taking small or bigger bass, you'll never please everyone, it's important you enjoy what you're doing!
Mega :D
Cheers buddy. You been out much recently?
@@ryane8881 been out a couple times, winds ruined my area :/, going out the next 2 days for sure though
I think the areas I dive have dirty water atm probably won’t be getting out for a while 😭
Tut tut. You try and justify shooting a small bass by saying you wanted to secure a dinner but you already had 2 mullet?
Nope I had one mullet. The second mullet was old footage to illustrate my point about fish being in the reef - clearly seen by the fact I was using different gear.
I don't need to justify anything, one fish doesn't go very far in feeding a family. The mullet was for family and bass for me, all legal.
To feed a family for a year you need quite a bit of food, if you only go "shopping" once a month then you need to get more than one dinners worth of food.
@@ryane8881 I stand corrected.
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