Spearfishing Northland (NZ) Amazing Winter diving + Catch 'n' Cook (PART- 1)
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2020
- Spearfishing in New Zealand (North Island) + Catch n Cook only a few hours from Auckland. I go on a solo overnight camping trip to scout some new coastline in the middle of Winter. Searching new terrain on the hunt for dinner I get lucky on some nice Snapper, pig fish, and a Scorpian Fish. Launching the Kayak at sunrise I encounter amazing visibility and fish life and catch some food for dinner!
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Thanks for another great video. Enjoyed the timeline format from dawn to dusk, it made the video feel like a complete episode of a show. Looking forward to part 2
Thanks mate part 2 out this week 👍
Great video bro, loving your journey through the day. The paddle, the quiet patch, then the action, then the headache. That's the truth behind the scenes. Thanks for the share man. Thumbs up 👍
Thanks bro! cheers for the feedback. Always some tough stuff to get the results!
Awesome mate. Dived that area yesterday......can’t wait to go again!
How did you go?
Those school of snapper look crazy! I'm liking these longer episodes btw.
Yeah man was cool to see. Thanks ✌️
As soon as I seen the gravel I knew exactly where you were. My fave place
Beautiful mate 👌 Hard to beat. Living the life!
Cheers bro, trying my best!
Great vids as always. That school of snapper was mental !
Cheers mate. Yeah I haven't seen anything like it again, not of that size anyway!
Geat vids and music... enjoy the fact that you do it all solo. Regards from Cape Town
Thanks! I need to come back to Cape Town! One of my favourite places in the world!
good stuff mate - a great adventure and gather
Cheers dude
Oh phew super glad you swam past my epic cray spots hehehe but yeah let us know next time you come up north my man can take you to some wicked spots
Deal! Flick me a message on instagram, once the weather clears up I plan to head far north.
Love your videos brother👌 keep up the great work. Will be waiting for next upload 😁
Thanks bro!
Yeeoow been waiting for another vid mate! Awesome mahi keep it up, don’t stop doing what your doing !! 🔥
Cheers!
Awesome been waiting for a new video!
Cheers, hope you enjoy it!
Nice Ollie. Was wondering when your next vlog would pop up :D. Water looks awesome and abundance of fish in the area. I'm ready to see what day 2 brings lol. Letzgo ;).
Yep. Been a bit slow with the editing, part 2 up this week!
I know where you at love it, home sweet home! Many good spots love the footage :D
Thanks mate. SOme awesome country up there
Such a good video bro. Keep them coming 🤙🤙
Thanks bro! Will do
You Really have me wanting to try this. And, also making me hungry for fish.
Definitely do! Great sport!
Cheers Ollie, cold, wet miserable day in Melbourne.
Same here! Dreaming of a tropical escape!
Even instant coffee is good sometimes.
I can almost smell that butter and garlic .
Yep I think I'll have to have a emergency packet in the car from now on!
Butter garlic haha Iv only heard people say garlic butter . Awesome vid mate, that vis is insane
Haha still tastes the same I'm pretty sure! Yeah mate winter vis is great
your such a gd host ollie i really enjoy your clips and how you explain everything keep it up bro
Cheers Nathan!! Glad you like them mate
Another great vide mate well done
Cheers Greg!
epic, truly
Cheers
Brilliant video mate!
Cheers Rick!
Excellent vid mate
Cheers mate
boy i miss the bay of islands but im getting used to crays and paua being in wellington now haha. nice video though subbed!
Yep pretty amazing up North, but I definitely need to get down to Welly! Paua is a rarity for me!
Great show
Thanks for your feedback Steve!
That’s it...... I’m buying some dive gear. Mean bro, thanks for the vids 👌🏽
Haha do it! You won't regret it!
That scorpion fish is called nohu in Hawaii, and they're phenomenal eating, if you can find one... Taste like lobster!
Poor man's Crayfish we call them! Amazing eating!
That's not a bad scorpion fish... Known as Grandaddy Hapuka in New Zealand very tasty.
Very tasty fish
Nice Vid Bud...Love watching your stuff reminds me so much of what i did in the 70's/80's..north was my stomping ground. Did lots of solos up there but slept on the beach (Mostly on Taupiri bay) are u allow to do that these days?..sand is rather comfortable in a good bag and some dry grass under neath :)
It's awesome aye. I think if the spot I isolated enough it wouldn't be a worry.. Or just tuck around a few corners! I'm only just starting to get into the North, I've got A LOT to explore!
New sub here! Liked your style of vid, keen to see more :)
Thnaks! Plenty more to come!
Another great clip. The water is so calm & clean over here. Loved that footage around the 17-18 minute mark with all those Blue Maomao....and what a finish. Talk about serenity...how to end the day. Well done....cheers. 👍🏻🤗
Thanks a lot!
I look forward to every clip mate. Keep it up.... 👌🏻😉👍🏻
Epic as bro 🤙
Nice footage and video. Subbed!
Cheers!
Cool vid mate 👍 Need to get yourself a nice camper van
Yeah that would be mint!
Great vid Ollie, makes me want to dust off my Yak and do some mods to get it spearing ready :)
Do it man, I'm absolutely living spearing off the yak. You can cover some mean stretches of coastline
Beautiful scenery! what are the 4 seasons and temperature there in New Zealand? Here in the NW Washington is Fall now and the the temperature is about 65 degrees.
It's quite a moderate climate here in the Auckland North Island. Maximum around 30/35 degrees temp in summer down to most days around 8 degrees in winter. Can get to zero. Water ranges from 22 degrees in summer to 24 degrees in winter
Bro...did a whole flock of albatross poo on your back window?! Lol Super good content as usual.
Haha dunno mate. CHeers!
Hey Ollie, was great to meet you last weekend at the shop. Gt barrier was epic! Another cool video, awesome mission again! Was wondering how you mount your go pro for filming?
Hey Gary, nice to meet you too. Glad you had a good trip! I usually use my Cressi go pro mask, have been trying the use of a head strap etc the last few dives and I can't seem to get the video footage right, always missing part of the picture as the go pro sits quite high on the head.
Ollie Craig - Reef Hunter Thankyou
Solid bruv.... 💯💯💯💯💯
Thanks bro 🤙
subscribed excellent video !
Thank you!
my favourite fish to swim amongst aside from kingi are blue mao mao lol idk why i just like them
I agree they are so cool! Beautiful colours
Hey Ollie, I love the way you make it look so easy, And relaxing,Your videos are my kind of therapy, A reminder of when I was younger. Be safe on the water Boy and God Bless !
Thanks for the comment Sam! Definitely my Therapy!
Hey mate, how do you go about looking for new spots. What features do you look for on a map. Is it best to fish round reefs?
Hey mate, first decide on a spot that is far enough away from a major city not to have too much fishing pressure. Next I will look for points, pinnacles, anything that is going to gather current as current means fish. I also do most of my research digging up old forums on the Internet etc for spots etc. You will be amazed by how much info you can dig up! But yes I usually stick close to reefs as hunting snapper etc they won't be far away.
What mask is the one you wear with the go pro mount brother?~
Hey bro, it's the Cressi Gopro mask
Man that footage is clean. Once work.
Thanks Danny
Videos a hisser mate well done
Thanks bro
Keren...
Pretty cool video man. Two questions though. What was the temperature in the water? Your suit seems pretty thick. And don’t you fear a shark encounter by diving all alone?
Cheers! Temp around 15 degrees Celsius. I normally wear a 5mm as with most people but have been wearing a 7mm jacket this winter. 5mm is generally fine!
Never scared of sharks, luckily we don't have the more dangerous species like bulls and tigers here in NZ!
Mean vid,notice the kina is slowly killing the reef and taking over.
@Joe English spot on man
Yep, there's Kina barrens popping up all over the country. There are a few factors which could be the problem as its a fairly recent thing no one can say 100% but yes, overfishing would seem to be the obvious answer
Nice vid. You ever want to dive New England chop, HMU.
How come so calm water!I meant when you dive just flat mate
Gotta pick your days right!
Ollie Craig - Reef Hunter cool
Shame you got tired. There are often a few crays in those rocks. Surprised you didn't see any packhorse crays as they should be starting to come into the shallows to moult - although the timing varies from season-to-season. Some monsters have been taken not far from where you were diving. Hopefully demand from China doesn't pick up too much after the Covid-19 shutdown there, but I suspect it already has.
Yeah I was suprised I didn't see any. I had a fairly descent look but didn't even see 1 cray. I think the packies do congregate this time of year so maybe that's why? Who knows, maybe if I had gone 10 more meters I may have stumble upon a few good ones..Going back up this week to a spot not far from there where I did well last year on the packies at this exact time of year. I guess I will find out if my theory is true..
Hey mate ya probably won’t see this but just wondering where ya get your music from. Cheers
Hey mate a bit from the Web, mostly RUclips studio.
Ollie Craig - Reef Hunter thanks!!
Ive always thrown scorpion fish back assuming they were rubbish to eat
Nah mate they are awesome. They call them poor man's Crayfish for a reason. Tasty as
@@olliecraig-primalpursuit how do you cook them, just been googling, and yeah, meant to be like crayfish
@@kevinrichards7980 I just fry mine up in relatively thin steaks. Nice on vogels, avo mash then thin stripes of Scorpian on top with drizzle of truffle oil. About as flash as I've ever cooked haha. But is summary just any way you could imagine! Q
Very firm flesh
Will definitely be holding on to these scorpions from now on lol ive probably thrown back quite a few, awesome channel by the way bro
@@kevinrichards7980 Good plan haha. Cheers mate
Why aren’t you using the rollers anymore?
Still have one on my 75cm. Just got a bit sick of the slower reloading. I'll probably go back once I get a shorter carbon to replace the sparid I have.
We go camping there at the second spot
great spot up there!
@@olliecraig-primalpursuit we dont usually get much but last time we got a 27kg kingfish
what tips could you give to me I am just starting
Hi, what beach is it?
What settings are you using on your camera bro
Shit, not too sure currently. I'm always fiddling around tweaking. I film in 2.7k that's what I do know.
@@olliecraig-primalpursuit cheers bro
where is that
Northland NZ
Pinned post once again. Please don't commment the name of spot if you know it. If you know you know. If you don't know and you are keen enough to figure it out by landscape and drive a few hours to get there good shit, go for it. Please don't ruin the spot for everyone. Comments will just get deleted as usual. Feel free to message me privately if you need to talk about a place 👍
love it i grew up on the gravel road to your 2nd spot and it'd be a shame for either of these spots to get plundered love the vids mate look forward to watching pt2
@@leithmain2284 agreed mate, lucky the majority of the population are so lazy! Unless commercial sector smashes it I think it will stay awesome. Will get part 2 up this week 👍
Off the yak! Such a good feeling slaying without burning any fuel.Awesome vid! Love the content. I also do a spearfishing adventure channel, check it out!!
mean videos bro. Hit us up if you ever need a dive buddy/filmer
Thanks bro!
Obviously you care a lot about looking after the maximum quality of the fish, in NZ we are missing one of the vital steps in the "Iki" procedure that is key to preserving the meat. And that's running a wire down the spine to sever the nerves. If you do this, the fish won't even go into rigor mortis at all - the flesh will immediately relax, and none of the stress chemicals will taint the meat. I have no idea why this information isn't spread more widely. Everyone shows each other the spiking/bleeding, no one seems to know about the wire. Trust me, if you get a chance try it out on two identical fish, with/without. The regular one will be like a brick when you pull it out of the chillybin, the treated one will be soft and supple. The bigger the fish, the more important this is - especially on something like kingfish where it's best as sashimi. If you don't do this to a Bluefin Tuna it's actually totally worthless when it gets to Japan.
Video explaining it all... (note, he cuts the tail, after you get good at it you don't need to, but I actually found it easier to practice going from the tail end, and you know if it's working because the fish wriggles as you push in the wire)
ruclips.net/video/TS4AM9mPX-8/видео.html
After a bit of practice it's actually quite easy - you can do it with a very thin metal kebab skewer, it doesn't need to be wire, but the fat metal A string from a guitar is also about the right size.
www.q.turi.ne.jp/shinkei_jime/index.html Is the best pictorial I could find - the Vox video doesn't actually show you in detail about the spine part.
Awesome, agree it isn't widely practiced here or understood! I just saw someone posting up the other day about it. I'll make sure for my next mission to give it a go. Definitely sounds worthwhile!
@@olliecraig-primalpursuit I've never tried aging - but that would definitely make an interesting experiment video followup - 10 days to 2 weeks aging fish in the fridge. I'd be really interested to see what smoking it after that period of time would be like. Some tips that I found - initially it's confusing about where you are aiming the wire, say you have the fish upright in swimming position, and you have removed the head and you are looking at it front on(staring down the spine barrel), the spine layout is basically an "A" at the top where the nerve is, an O for the bone in the middle, and a V for the blood vessel below. Trying to draw it in text is difficult, but below is the "diagram."
A = The nerve triangle passage you are aiming for
0 = The spine bone.
V = A blood vessel.
You will be able to tell if you're doing it properly because the muscles of the fish contort exactly following the wire as it goes along. It's easiest to practice from the tail end so you can actually see what's happening(just snap the tail sideways), but eventually you'll be able to do it going through your initial "iki" spike. Something that I find hilarious about how people process Kingfish, is that everyone says you have to wait a day until you eat it, which is actually just waiting for the meat to soften back down from rigor mortis. With this method it will be perfect the entire time.
Anyway - I def enjoy your videos, it will be interesting to see you trying it from scratch. This stuff is so much easier if someone's actually there demonstrating it. When I first tried, I kept trying to put the wire down the blood vessel, which was quite difficult haha.
@@TheAlastairBrown awesome mate thnaks so much for the info I will def give this a go! If you don't know, you don't know! Hopefully it works out for me and I can share it with many!
Too much talking no spearfishing.
очень долго жаришь рыбу! рыба становится не сочной!