They don’t come easy! First Corvina Spearfishing in Türkiye 🇹🇷
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2024
- I've messed up so many corvina over the years while spearfishing in the Mediterranean and never managed to catch one, until now. They have a knack of seemingly disappearing into thin air, inhabit complex labyrinths and have one of the fastest reaction times of any fish. Diving in the crystal waters of Bodrum, Türkiye, Hannah and I find an area that these fish inhabit while freediving. I knew I had to go back for dinner.
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Daniel, I’m glad you got your brown meagre / corvina. They look so much better than mine through your camera 😀. Also Bodrum has much more visibility than Marmara sea.
Once those fish get spooked they’ll go into hiding in their caves for 25-30 minutes. What you can do is instead of hunting, follow them to their cave and find the motherload. To those reading, don’t hunt more than you will eat even if you do find the motherload.
Thanks Kazi, they are a beautiful fish and taste fantastic. Great tips about their behaviour!
@@DanielMann you are an expert compared to me. Let me know when you come over to Tekirdağ for the competition. I’d like to get some tips from you 😀👍
I remember spearing corvinas as a kid diving with bow and arrow without the diving suit. These were a different times. Now you go to 30m deep to find them boxed in a cave, rarely do I see them in the open and I never shoot them anymore....
Was waiting for another video. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad to see your gradual improvement in the Mediterranean! You seem to be getting more consistent. I've followed you for years and it seems to be the toughest place to spearfish. Love ur videos. Keep 'em coming!
Thank you very much. It certainly is a tough school but happy to finding some success along the way.
Daniel 'Dentex Man' Mann surprises us all by going after another species. He's mad I tell you...absolutely off his rocker!
Still got distracted by them at the start 😂
So happy for you with the Corvina, wish you the best for the rest of your trip. Great video, love the content, and always have. Keep it up!
Thank you very much, I’m sure you’ll love the trip to Bulgaria too.
Looking forward to it!
I’ve never speardived, or dived in general but love the water and going surfing. Watching your videos have inspired me to try it out here in Vancouver Canada! Thank you for the amazing content as always and congratulations on this historic dive!
I’m sure you’ll love it!
Fire vid as always, you never disappoint !
Thank you very much!
Majestic scenery!! Smooth voice over and crystal clear waters! Well done Daniel!👏👏
Thank you Giannis!
That water .... Absolutely fantastic 😍😍😍😍
I knew it!!! Well done Dan!
So much respect to you Daniel. You are a Champion! Cheers
Thank you very much 🙌
Epic video as usual Daniel. Congratulations on your corvina. I usually look for them outside the caves l, closing the gap with a super slow motion aguatto. Hope this helps you next time.
And the Oscar for the best spearfishing content goes to
Daniel Mann! Congratulations! ;-)
Too kind! Plenty of others at a way higher level than me but I’m glad you enjoy my videos still 😃
Congrats mate.With patience comes rewards.well done
Looking forward to the next video in the Corvina-packed waters of the Black Sea!
Not going to lie, it’s pretty insane stuff.
Love your videos Daniel
Cheers David!
hi Daniel, always a very beautiful moment
Glad you liked it 💪
Good day to you Mr. Daniel and your wife! As usually upper level! The Best! Unbelivable how water is clear! I`ll wait for new video!
Thank you very much!
I really enjoyed tagging along in your adventure.
Cheers!
Great video man, can’t wait for next one. I hope you come to Montenegro again but with a license this time😂so I can meet you and maybe show you a few good diving spots. You are the reason why I love spearfishing so much. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Montenegro!🇲🇪
Thanks Luka, maybe one day I’ll be back in Montenegro 🇲🇪
Cool shirt! Great job with the video, as always
Actually from a brand called B Cool 😎
Excellent!!
Wooow good job🎉
It's funny to me thinking about the amount of overall effort put in to get wild meat...especially fish. My buddy and I just went out to the coast Saturday for the bottom fish opener and got skunked with 15-20ft swells, super wind and rainy conditions and 2ft viz if that. Needless to say we came home with no fish for our families but we had an enjoyable time. Great video as always Sir Dan!
Got to have bad days to make the good ones special!
Video shooting, voice-over and editing are really great!
Cheers Hasan, appreciate it 🙌
It is nice to see Bodrum from your eyes Daniel! Good catch. We call that fish Eşkina in Türkiye. There is a peace of stone inside the head of that fish. Thats why peaople also call it stone fish. You might see that fish in the black sea coast of Bulgaria, as well.
Yes I extracted the otoliths from the corvina and kept them. All the croakers have them. Plenty in the Black Sea also!
Great breath hold! You snuck on him very well...and a great shot. My 2nd cousin from Italy loved hunting with me on the Long Beach break wall in California. On those magical days, you might see a school of corvina swimming along the end point. They are one of the best to eat...
Thank you very much. Fantastic eating!
Love these fish 😍
Loads of fun to hunt. Makes me appreciate the Croatian tales even more now.
Love your videos 👌👌
Thank you!
Very nice video Sir. Good luck with your trip.
Thank you!
Awesome vid! Great to see you get that first corvina, the curse is over! 😅 Hope you enjoyed Bulgaria too 🇧🇬
Indeed the curse has been lifted! Much like the dentex curse, it was a long one. Funny thing about Bulgaria… hundreds of corvina everywhere!
Funny, I’m Bulgarian but I’ve always spearfished in the Mediterranean. Never in our Black Sea! And I was so surprised to hear you have had such a difficult time catching corvina. They’re probably the easiest and most consistent catch for me. Unlike grouper, which always immediately disappear into their hole the moment you make a movement, I find corvina have the tendency to stick around for a bit. Even if you move towards them, they tend to take their time, retreating very slowly and stopping to take a look at you. So unlike grouper, whenever I see a corvina while scouring the bottom, it only takes a few more seconds of apnea to swim up to it and take the shot. Very easy catch. Grouper are much smarter, and you couldn’t ever hope to just swim up to them like that. They disappear the moment your eyes meet.
Awesome video once again. As a Bulgarian who has never spearfished in Bulgaria, I can’t wait to see the video about Bulgaria.
Short but sweet. 👍
Hey, Daniel, wonderful video!
I live in bulgaria and i frequently hunt corvina (vrana in Bulgarian), in the last 2 years they are everywhere, you can easily see them at 3-5m of water, also in the evening they are coming closer to the bank and you can see 10-20 of them in one spot. You should definetely try hunting in the black sea 🤗
Next video coming out is with Valentin Lyutskanov in Bulgaria, epic amount of corvina like you say!
@@DanielMann thats amazing, cant wait to watch it
Nice video bro🔥🤙🤙
Cheers!
Il bangerrrrrrrrrr is out! 🔥
Grazie molto amico!
Nice work Daniel! We call this sykios or pantelis in Greece. They are extremely tasty and as you said they get spooked very easily and get in the cracks and hide.
"hanging around that rock in the distance" ALWAYS the rock in the distance
haha- HALLLLL IIIIII BBOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTT
OMG, mate Cesme is one of my regular haunts, my mum lives in cesmealti-Urla, some cracking Islands a short zodiac ride away from her pad. ive done em all.... Ended up with covid 2 years ago and its massively reduced my breath hold. im lucky if i get 1 Minute .All the best
You can see the corvina mostly in de Marmara sea. It glides like a bride and then suddenly disappears between the rocks. Nice catch and video.
I’ll be diving in Marmara in May/June for the Euro African championships. Looking forward to it.
Complimenti Daniel, bellissima cattura.
Grazie molto amico
Amazing video
Thank you very much!
Cracking shot
Nice catch idol
First of all, I am very glad that you came to Turkey. I like your videos very much. They are like a documentary. If you add the surahs and bottoms to the meters, it would be better. I wish you good luck and good luck. 🙏👍🐠❤️
Thank you very much, glad you like the videos. Do you mean adding the depth and dive time? I tend to say the depth in a voice over when it’s relevant. Also difficult for times with slow motion and cuts in the clips. I find the timers distracting myself but try to speak about it, if relevant.
@@DanielMann Yes,I Mean this ,would very happy if you reflect this on the screen.🙏
Another great video. Shame you didn’t have longer in Türkiye. About 10NM east of Bodrum in the Gulf of Gekova are some great walks full of fish especially grouper (not sure if you are allowed to catch them these days though)
Dusky grouper are forbidden at the moment but you can still take white, mottled & gold blotched groupers.
@@DanielMann I mostly saw goldblotch in the Gulf, lots of them
Fantastic life... i miss spearfishing 😢
Thank you!
Nice bream!
Huge shoals of them hey!
Mediterranean hole hunting is not an easy skill to master, but seems you got quite the hang for it now. Good news for the UK team in the beginning of June I guess;) great vid as always, keep ‘‘em coming!
I think I’ve only just passed the induction to hole hunting in the med 🤣 So much to learn but enjoying the process. See you in May?
Gave up my spot, it’s a veeery busy month as a student😅 But Norway send some great guys and gals, including Pål the codminator;)
Mate, corvina are the way forward! those things taste absolutely amazing, just a shame we couldnt get on to them in Albania! Theres always next time!
Next time for sure! Still remembering how those ones just disappeared into the ledge in only 6m on that afternoon shore dive 😡
well done! And so much nicer than our 10C murk in Washington state.
24°C this day 😃
Oooo....rub it in🤣 Hope you find good water in Bulgaria; safe travels!
Once again finest quality of content! One question about license: I thougth it would only be allowed to spearfish in turkey if you are with a club together or commercial charter or simmiliar? I will visit turkey in october and thought it would be impossible to get myself in the water for a shoredive hunt.
No answer is also an answer.. 😅😅
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Wow! Your dootage is amazing. The fish looked delicious. What temp and how long did you cook it? Cheers
About 180°C on the oven and just kept checking it until done around the thickest part. Maybe only 15 minutes
kool content
Thank you!
Daniel, I am no professional but I have caught a number of these guys here in Greece, good sized. If you promise not to name my location (small island) I can take you to a rock formation only around eight meters down with a two kilo fella living with his four lady friends. If I don't catch him this week ;)
That is the most ridiculously blue water I have ever seen.
Shot a few Corva in Spain last summer. Schools of big ones at 35m. Not too spooked or maybe they just didn’t have anywhere to hide because the pinnacles were so small and surrounded by sand bottom. Delicious fish. Question, what lens did you use on your camera rig? Seemed to focus pretty well.
A few were speared at the world championships in Spain last year. The video footage I saw of them was mostly out in the open on pinnacles like you have said. Fish behave very differently in different environments that’s for sure. I use my Song A7S3 and 16-35mm F2.8 GM lens. Amazing combo and the focusing is fantastic.
Thank you for the info. Yeah this was in the med near Alicante. Variable weight. Lots of big scorpionfish which is really what we were targeting.
Hello,w hat is the best size speargun for corvina what do you think? Im thinking 75 or 90
For hole fishing I prefer the 75cm. I have shot the most corvina with a 60cm however.
Nice video i love it but 10 min is too short haha
i want to watch more
The next video from Bulgaria will be a bit longer.
In 5years of spearfishing in the med in the best locations of Croatia I have seen a total of 2 brown meagers...
That’s crazy! I don’t think I saw any in the half a dozen dive days I had there last there. At least not large enough to spear, maybe some juveniles. I know Kevin Daly gets them quite regularly around Vis.
@@DanielMann yeah lol they are quite rare... I was diving in Rovinj when I saw them... Was a pair and they were around 40g 😂
what dive torch do you use?
Omer eyelight 2. Fantastic piece of equipment, really rate it.
More frustrating is that when they leave their nets for a day or 2 is that you have tons of fit thats just rotten or half eaten laying in the nets just wasted for no purpose at all.
Same goes for long lines with hooks.
What i hate even more is dynamite. they dive down and start picking up all he fishes but always miss plenty around the edges which just rot on the bottom unless crabs are nearby to eat them.
Even tho i hate trawler nets it is actually rater humane and less wasteful than any other type of commercial fishing
Hello..do you need licence for turkey??
You could have got one of those two dentex... ;)
If I dropped in a different area first I’m sure I would have had a better chance. It was quite a way to the rock in the distance.
@@DanielMann You could try to pull yourself lower behind the rock like you are hiding from them to signal them you "fear" them. And if they show interrest, you just wait for tem to get closer. If there would be no interrest from them, you could rise up your speargun or better do a finger waveing just a little over the rock or line of sight. I've got some that way. Fish act on cuoriosity...
Fun fact, Corvina can grow up to 2m long, they get proper huge!
Not this species in particular (Sciaena umbra) max is around 4-5kg. The corvina you get in Spain, Spain and France, Argyrosomus regius are the giant ones you’re talking about. This is why common names for fish are so confusing 🤣 I love to nerd out with Latin names.
@@DanielMannAhaha i'm from portugal! And they look very similar, anyway, great video Daniel!
Did you end up spearfishing in Chios Island?!
Last episode I was in Çeşme which is as close as you’ll get. Was fun diving.
Beware of vampires.
I didn’t find any in Bulgaria 🤣
do u get talasniphobia?
Nope!
Hello Dan, I know this was no very recent but I'm here to tell you I'm in turkey and I'm not seeing an "s" of spearfishing at this time 😂
I'm not sure what the 's' is sorry!
@DanielMann just saying the weather is bad and no spearfishing for me,and I'm not in the best part of turkey for spearfishing. I wasn't sure if you would get it, it's a phrase in my language so it's alright.
Did you know, in Türkiye:
1. Foreigners are not allowed to spearfish.
2. Forbidden to use torch.
Bests
Did you know, Türkiye is hosting the 2024 Euro African Spearfishing championships and torches are permitted. I'm sure the Turkish Spearfishing Federation knows best.
one of the best to eat in the med plus hard to catch
They move so fast!