Lionfish Masacre In Pensacola!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- What an awesome way to dive and hunt Lionfish. My buddy hit me up and asked if I wanted to go hunt Lionfish just outside of Pensacola Florida, of course I said YES. This is not normal diving, this is drop and pop diving. It was pretty intense and really tested my scuba diving ability to be deep, manage my gas and NDL AND spear Lionfish. There was a lot to ensure the dive was done safely. We managed to clean out a solid 200 Lionfish combined. You dont want to miss this one!
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Thank you for helping with the Lionfish. Apparently one female can lay 1 million in a year.
Oh yeah! They are prolific breeders.
One female can lay 1 million (males--gee, she'd be one very busy gal!!!) in a year? I'm sure you mean, a female can lay 1 million EGGS in a year, right?
Oh wow. I knew they were a problem but, that's a heartbreaking number!
Keep up the good work! No season, no license, no limit
The best way!
AND they’re TASTY!
Doing the coral reefs in Florida a big service removing these invasive fish.
I hope to keep going out as often as possible to get rid of them.
Hey man! I also saw them in the waters around Karpathos (Greece). If you want to combine lionfish hunting with a nice vacation on a beautiful island!
I heard they are starting to populate in the water off of Greece. I would love to make it out there one day!
Is there something that naturally hunts/eats Lionfish? Are sharks affected by its poison if it eats them?
@@JamesMichael333 in their natural water a lot of other fish eat them, eels, grouper, sharks, ect. Here where they are invasive the natural predators haven’t acquired a taste for them yet.
Great score. Keep up the fantastic effort. Very proud of you folks with the work your doing, getting rid of these Lionfish. Heard they taste good also.
Thank you!! Yes, they are amazing to eat, probably my favorite.
Love seeing the diving videos...truly remarkable what you can see all around you.
That’s a fact! The underwater would is insane.
We usually hang a spare tank, with a few regulators, at the decompression depth below the boat. That way if anyone runs out there is a spare tank there. Then you have an area to group up as well for decom
That’s not a bad idea!
And a bottle of oxygen on the boat.
these videos would be even cooler with a KILL counter, a depth meter display, an oxygen level display , mission time elapsed display and so forth ^^
That’s a good idea! I have another dive like this scheduled for next week. I’m going to add that!
Got 160 so far this year in Belize and now in Dominica. My wife and I had some filets for dinner last night. Nurse sharks will spot them and take them off a spear in Belize. I am told grouper will spot them in Dominica, but I have not seen that yet.
That’s awesome! I am supposed to head out again in a couple days. I might try and see if some of the local sharks will eat them.
That first lion fish was a beast! Nice!!
He was! And he was just sitting on the sand waiting to be speared, lol. I was surprised by how many there were after the ECO!
We need to breed a fish that thrives on lionfish eggs.
No kidding
That is a lot of fish. Hope the dive today was fun.
Ton of them. The dive today was awesome! Lots of sharks and super cool seeing an aircraft carrier under the water.
nice spearwork. maybe for the next video you can show them getting filleted and cooked toward the end. I know alot of locals will avoid these kind of fish for the extra trouble they are to prepare but maybe with some extra knowledge out there we can get more of them getting normalized into local cuisine.
That’s a good idea. I’ll be out hunting them again on the 1st.
Nailed a bunch in the Bahamas. They're freaking delicious! Heading to the Keys tomorrow actually. Kill some Lionfish and eat those bastards.
That’s awesome! I need to make it down to the keys someday! My old dive shop goes down all the time, I need to jump on one of the trips.
Lionfish are awesome to eat! Probably my favorite right now.
great video. i might have to give this a try, it looks like a fun day
It’s a blast hunting these things down!
i would really like to try some, i love seafood and i heard it tastes good
Get them all love it great job
Thank you! Going out again this weekend!
You are doing great work!
Ive wanted to taste lionfish ever since i heard about the derbys, i cant get any of my friends interested enough to make the trip with me
Great job! Thanks for explaining some of the scuba terminology too. What/where are 'the Pyramids', please? Be great if a few more people could be convinced to eat them. Have seen three different creatures eating them now too - a Grouper hunting and eating one, a nurse (l think) shark trying to eat them from a divers sack and a snapper being fed one. Fingers crossed a few more creatures learn how to hunt and eat them.
Thank you!! We have pyramids all over the panhandle now. I usually hunt them in Destin and Pensacola.
I want to eat them but everywhere online is sold out. Don't live in the right region so can't go catch them either
Nice man! I just got my open water certification in Destin last week. Any tips for a new lion fish hunter?
Awesome! Congrats on your certification!! It is an awesome accomplishment. Get some puncture resistant gloves and keep an eye on your gas, it’s easy to get task saturated when trying to manage everything dealing with just scuba diving and then adding hunting on top of it. If you have a dive computer with alarms, set a gas reminder.
Spent Christmas and New Year’s at Caye Caulker in Belize. My daughter and I both got our open water certs.
Saw a few lion fish down there. Fortunately not in the numbers you are seeing. I had lion fish for dinner one night. Great meal, be aware of the small bones.
Looking forward to a lion fish hunt! ❤
Be safe my brother
Thanks, I will.
Man I wish we had this kind of fishing here in Coastal Virginia
They may make it up there. You’re water is pretty cold though, isn’t it?
Love watching you take out those lion fish . I would love to join u. It looks like so much fun.
Thank you!! Come on with me, it’s a blast.
gogo dont stop
The lionfish have migrated all along the coasts.
They are unstoppable. Our biggest problem with them is that they can be very deep, we are good at getting the shallow ones but the deeper ones continue to breed and their offspring come up to the shallows.
Question. Outside of catching for selling for consuming. Is it possible to just kill and leave it there?
Absolutely. If I am just diving without a zookeeper I just leave them for other fish to eat…maybe make other predators hunt them
Thanks for doing this, cool video they’re really good eating too btw if you didn’t know! But I’m sure you do
Thank you! Yes, they are very good to eat. I love making fish tacos with them on my blackstone!
Cool video!! I’ll be in Navarre week after next. If you wind up with a couple extras I’d love to try them!!
I subscribed to your channel if that helps. 😂
Lol! It sure does! Hopefully I’ll make it out again here soon. I’ll be out diving this weekend in Panama City Beach and then doing another dive like this on the 22d.
@@ActiveDutyOutdoors Gotcha. I get into town on the 14th and leave the 20th. #1 priority for me is hitting the reefs as many days as possible while I’m in town. Try to stock up on snapper and whatever else I can catch trolling.
Awesome. The reefs are loaded with snapper. You should be able to pick up a few Mahi too. I catch them trolling out and back from the reefs.
@@ActiveDutyOutdoors Yeah, saw your last video. You were on them good. I went for the first time 2 years ago and got my limit both days I was out. I’ve been dying to go again. Came down last year but couldn’t catch a day with good conditions. They were out of season anyway but would’ve still been fun to catch. I’m bringing my Motorguide w/ Spotlock with me this time. Can’t wait to get out there!!
Spotlock is awesome out there! We have had pretty good conditions for the last week or so, hopefully it keeps up. It’s awesome when the Gulf is flat.
Thank you!
You’re welcome.
Butterfly Cod. Call it by its real name for food marketing.
What king of spear are you using? Are what would you recommend?
I am using a JBL pole spear with a paralyzer tip. It’s my favorite spear.
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This is there really expensive one, I couldn’t find the exact one.
Need to work on the camera game big time, my man. I'll subscribe so I can check up on ya from time to time. 😉
I fixed it now. My camera was in wide on this dive instead of Super view. Check out this latest video and tell me if it looks better.
Lionfish massacre in Pensacola and Gulf Shores
ruclips.net/video/FqAhGkzO7lw/видео.html
Great video, need to raise that camera up a bit buddy.
Thank you. I noticed I had the recording in wide mode instead of super view. Check out my newer video and see if it looks better.
How much the license cost in a year ?
No license is required in Florida unless you use a hook and line to target them.
Not massacre. utilisation. Words have meanings.
Words do have meanings!
I would like to see the kill shot angle. You're doing good work, thanks for sharing!🍻
That would cool. I might hook my other GoPro up to the spear.
how much u get per killed fish?
Nothing unless it’s during a competition or if you have a commercial license. Depending on how many you bring in during the competitions you can get a lot for them.
Hell yeah
Man, it was awesome!
Ok, now what restaurant has these on the menu? Since there are so many to catch, how about catching and eating?
There are quite few in Destin that have them on the menu. I know they are trying to open a market for them. They can’t be caught on hook and line gear (at least none that we have ever heard of) so spearing is the only way, that and lobster traps. They are really good to eat. I love making fish tacos out of them.
I wonder how they got here.
The rumor is that they were initially released by pet owners. The other theory is ballast water from ships.
They should pay ppl who catch lionfish and give them something to encourage them
Do they??
I wish! There are a lot of competitions to hunt them and those pay pretty good money for the top teams.
any vendors that you know of that’ll sell & ship filets out to me in Hawaii? I hear they taste good.
Buy me a plane ticket and I will hand deliver them! 😂. For real though, I am looking into getting a commercial license and looking for wholesalers.
How many did you get?
Shoot, I think on this dive we brought over 200 on the boat.
You should use a better camera angle so we can actually see what your doing
I fixed it now. My camera was in wide on this dive instead of Super view. Check out this latest video and tell me if it looks better.
Lionfish massacre in Pensacola and Gulf Shores
ruclips.net/video/FqAhGkzO7lw/видео.html
Nice 3prong… custom made?
No, I got it from the dive shop. It’s called a paralyzer tip.
Great video of your hands
All this hunting is making me hungry. Its nice that you can make a living taking out an invasive species
It’s a blast taking these things out!
Bad camera angle and you should lay out your catch at the end.
Thanks for the feedback. I stayed filming with a wider angle that captures more now.
@@ActiveDutyOutdoors Awesome. Love the vids though.
@@KeoluBoy100thank you!!
You really need to adjust your camera so we can actually see what you're doing at least most of the time, the angles were really bad. :)
I fixed it now. My camera was in wide on this dive instead of Super view. Check out this latest video and tell me if it looks better.
Lionfish massacre in Pensacola and Gulf Shores
ruclips.net/video/FqAhGkzO7lw/видео.html
I really miss Pensacola! Lionfish is my favorite aquarium fish. Can you keep them if you catch them?
Also, I didn't know they were edible .
I think so. I know a few guys that catch the little ones for their tanks. They are very good to eat too, really no fish taste at all.
Please adjust your camera angle...show the fish, not your arm or the zookeeper
Good feedback. I’m pretty sure I had my camera on wide instead of superview. Hopefully it’s fixed now.
yea we didn't see it either cuz your camera work is horrible all I see is your hands.
Yeah, as others have noted on this video my camera angle was jacked up. Back rolling in tends to mess up the camera. After learning this little life lesson I fix my camera after rolling in. My newer Lionfish videos are way better.
Come to Crete in Greece, we started having a boom of lionfish here in the aegean sea and they are eating the whole freakin fish population. Very nice for spearfishing though and beutiful place for vacay
I would love to go to Greece! I spent a little time in Europe while in the Air Force but never made it to Greece.
Great view of your hands... try actually capturing the spearing next time... Thumbs down.
Thanks for the feedback. Rolling backwards into the water pushed my camera down. It was fixed on the next video.
Thanks! I will take a look. I bet it's a lot of fun and many people say they are tasty. Good luck and happy hunting!@@ActiveDutyOutdoors
@Giolongino1963 they are really fun to hunt and one of the best fish I have eaten. It’s cool because it gives diving a purpose. Thanks for watching!
and of course at the end it needs a nice shot of ALL dead lionfish on display ...like a real hunt . 8)
Fact!!
Why does it sem like all lionfish videos are spear fishing. Do you guys not fish lion fish with rod and reel?
Not very often will you see them be caught on rod and reel.
Will it help?🥹🥺