INSANE Bahamas Spear Fishing!!! Hogfish, Grouper, and Snapper CATCH CLEAN COOK

🎵 All right, boys and girls, we just made it to beautiful old Bahama Bay and West End. And we got the crew. We got Rydog, Tom Sweeney, we got Lenny, Quentin, John Boy, where's frickin' Joe Bags? Nick and Joey, but they're in the bathroom canoosing around. And Mr. Lendol's checking us in right now, and we're about to go do some diving. I don't know, what are you thinking, Quentin? I'm thinking about it all, just digging. I think I'm about to shoot 40-pound black. There's Joe Bags. Sneaky boy. We're going to check in and then hop in the water, do a little bit of diving out front. Stay tuned, doing a little catch and cook for you guys. Welcome back to another diving spearfishing video in the Bahamas. If you guys have appreciated and liked these videos, go ahead real quick and drop a like on this video right now. There's a nice strawberry grouper I'm starting off the day with. But if you do enjoy these videos, like I said, please go ahead right now and drop a like on the video. Make sure you are subscribed. It really helps the channel. Let's dive right into this diving session. Nice strawberry grouper I did shoot there. And those are delicious tasting fish. You always got to shoot those. They're not the smartest. I'll tell you that right now. One of the boys making a drop here. I think this is Lenny. Yes, it is. And he is going for a hogfish. He's shooting Hawaiian sling. And he missed. Or no, he shot it and it came off and see the hogfish right there. And he missed on that shot because he had a low breath. We're diving like 30, 35 feet of water here. And this is three days worth of dive footage combined in a one long video. So that's why I said drop a like on the video. We got a lot of dive footage for you boys and girls. It was such an awesome time and I'm so glad that I can share the entire trip with you. We're diving straight out front here of West End. This is a nice mutton snapper that had come in right after Lenny shot that fish. And I made a super slow drop on this fish. This was a really nice mutton. Probably like a four or five pounder. And I'm shooting with my Predator Roller. My Headhunter Predator Roller. And it gives me a good shot right here. And we're going to go ahead and slow that down right now. He absolutely slipped my pulse beer. He turned just at a weird angle and it just grazed him right over his head. If you slow it down you can see it. And that one hurt. That one really hurt. Again Lenny making another drop here on a nice hogfish. Wanted to go down and film him. Boom stone shot. That hogfish just was looking at him a little too silly. Not the biggest hogfish in the world but a perfect eating size fish. You can't go wrong with hogfish. Now we're hopping in. Mr. Lindahl had told me and Lenny to hop in and do some conch diving. And I said, it's kind of funny, I was like Lenny do you ever shoot any fish while you're doing this or see any fish? He's like nah never. Well that's not true. Here's Lenny going down on a bunch of conch. This place was loaded with conchs. Big ones too. First one I picked up was dead. You can see how the other ones were all alive, had conch in them. There's all over the place. I ended up going up with four conch and then here comes Ryan looking for some conch. He picked up that dead one that I had dropped. Me and Ryan saw a couple hogfish when we were looking for more conch. So they threw Ryan a pole spear and I wanted to try the Hawaiian sling. I've never shot one before, I actually shot one for the first time on this trip. They were so much fun but you can see I have no idea what I'm doing with this thing. I just saw a couple little hogfish and thought it would be cool to try and you're going to see what happens next. Making a drop, Ryan told me he saw the hogfish sitting on this ledge. I get loaded up and I don't know if you can see it. Load my Hawaiian sling up and there's a black grouper, I can see his tail. I freak out, I have no idea what I'm doing with the sling and I just take a stupid shot and I missed. I should have just reassessed, went back up and got a pole spear, but I didn't and I shoot to the surface and immediately tell Ryan. Big ass black in there, I swear on my life, I didn't have my... How far does it go in there? What? How far does it go in there? Not that far, his tail is sticking out. First shot with a sling and a giant black and it was a big black sitting under the ledge. Hell no, I suck with this thing. Ryan's going to shoot it. Ryan goes down and shoots this black grouper in the tail. He put a nice shot in it, that's the only shot I was giving him and he goes to pull it out and his crimp breaks as he's pulling it out and you see the black grouper come out of this hole. I go down with the sling. You can see the shot in his tail. I should have taken the shot, I should have taken it right here, I should have just shot him right there and I hesitated and he went back in the same hole he came out. This was funny too because there was absolutely no other place for this black grouper to go. He could have swam off and been far gone, but he went to the only ledge there was. He went back in the ledge, can I get a pole spear? For some reason my GoPro dies after this, but we end up working this black grouper out of a hole and landing him. Ryan ended up putting another shot in that black grouper and then it just ripped out right there at the end when he was trying to pull it out and he was getting pretty dang frustrated at this point. I go to make a drop to see if I can work this grouper out for Ryan. Nope, nope, I'm wrong, I just go to make a drop to grab my shaft on my Hawaiian sling and this little hogfish comes right through the cut, boom, got a nice shot in him. Again you can see him leaking like crazy but I just didn't have enough power on the sling. This was my actually very first fish with the sling and he was struggling. That shot definitely did put him to sleep and a beautiful hogfish. First ever hogfish on Hawaiian or gorilla sling for me, I was pretty stoked about it. Those things are cool, I'm going to have to get one, have to do a video of just shooting one of those. Can you take this and give me a potion, I'm going to help him out. You can see all the blood, I really could not see anything, I couldn't see the grouper. Trying to work him out of this hole and it was just, oh my god, you can actually see the shark's head right there. Was that a shark? What was that? I don't know but Ryan said I have a, Ryan said I had a giant shark on me, you're going to see in the next clip or two. You can't see the shark but you can see him freak out and you can hear him grunt. So right here, this is where the shark comes on me, I am trying to work this grouper out of this hole. I have my hand in there, this grouper is grunting, we got sand kicking everywhere, blood in the water and I am just wiggling this thing trying to work him out of this hole and I have his head at this point but I just can't seem to get it out of the hole and I start to hear Ryan grunting and I turn around and he's right there and he says there was a giant shark on me. And it's laying on the ground. Oh yeah, that was mine from before. Where was the bull shark? It's wedged in there, we have to work it out. Oh, I don't have the freaking shark band thing. Give me it real quick. What? I don't have the shark thing. The band, the shark band. He said there's a bull shark on my head. Bro, I wasn't even wearing mine. Are you serious? Ryan goes down and ends up putting a third shot on the grouper. And sure enough that was the shot that we needed and once again we were trying to work this thing out of there but he just, it was such a weird angle he would not budge whatsoever. I got him out finally and I couldn't do anything because there was a pole spear attached on the other side and I couldn't just pull him out all the way so I had to just go back up and he went back into the hole of course. Let's just cut. Ryan, Ryan. Let's just cut one of the things. What? Let's just cut. He's out of the hole. We just have to cut it. Yeah, I know. I want to lift his head out of that one hole. His head's out. I just took him out. He's on the floor. Do you guys have like cutters or something? To cut the wire? I think this will work. Is he saying to ask for another diver? Yeah, we need someone else in the water for sure. Ryan, I don't know if you saw, I brought him out of the hole. Back in I guess. I didn't know what to do because I couldn't pull the pole spear through. I was literally holding him. Did he come off? No. Finally, Ryan gets down there and works that grouper out of the hole. And he was not as big as I first thought, but black grouper secured and we finally got him. That was like a 25, 30 minute extraction on that little black. Hold him up. I might have exaggerated, but I was just surprised. I was surprised to see him. All right, so here's what just happened. Suspect series of events. We were conch diving, looking for some conch. Just shallow water and I saw this hogfish. I never shot with a sling, so I asked Lenny to hand me a sling. I dove down and then you guys see I saw that grouper under the ledge with the shot on him. I told Ryan, went down, put a tail shot in it, and then we had to do a little bit of extraction there, but hold him up. You got him? We got him. You? Extract. I'm getting some conch. You can't complain with that. Still a nice black. See a couple little hogfish here, but just saw a really nice strawberry grouper. I knew that wasn't the one I originally saw and then here's the big one. Went back down for the extraction on this little strawberry grouper and he had like flared his gills or something and he was wedged in there, man. I really had to work him out. Just struggling so hard to get him out of there. Finally ended up getting him out in a beautiful size strawberry grouper. There's really nothing better to eat in the Bahamas than a strawberry grouper. I was going down on a couple of cereal mackerel here and I could hear someone behind me, so I turned around and Ryan just went down and plucked a nice hogfish. Hold him up for the GoPro. I didn't even see. I was chasing a little cereal scoop. You know what I mean. I didn't even Ryan ask. Nice tiger grouper I was making a dive on and then we were diving 60 here and I just thought, you know what, I'm not going to shoot this fish. There's no point. Tiger grouper are really known for having a sick of terror, especially a bigger one like that, so there's just no point in me shooting them. Tiger. You want more? We're going to do it. This is funny. There was a couple little jacks. I don't even know what type of fish these were, but they were like hugging Lenny and we were trying to catch them. Nice Nassau grouper I made a drop in. We were still diving 60. I don't know why I lagged right here. I should have just shot him. He was looking at me head on, so I wanted to have him go a little bit more broadside and I didn't get that opportunity. You can see him sticking his head right here and I'm hunting with a 9, 10 foot pole spear. I could not turn my pole spear. So, trying to look for him again. Didn't see him. He was down there for quite some time, so I decided to come up and let that Nassau swim another day. I don't know why I didn't take it. He was just looking at me. Were you lagging or something? This is our second day of diving. Ryan is making a drop on a huge yellowfin grouper. I know my GoPro is a little foggy right now. I'm sorry about that. It was the case. He goes deep in this cave and this is what good teamwork looks like. Ryan put a shot in that grouper right here. Second he shot that grouper, I saw it. Immediately went down. We were diving shallow, so I didn't have to make sure he was okay. And we wanted to land this grouper as soon as possible because we had a lot of sharks around. Went ahead and pulled this grouper out of the rock that he was in and put a second shot in him. And we surfaced him. And this was a big, big yellowfin grouper. Definitely the biggest I've ever seen. Huge shout out to Ryan for plucking that fish. Probably a 25 pound yellowfin. Cheers. Can I go for one? That was sick dude. Love that. I was right there for you. Yo! I thought it was a different one. Really? That's a big yellowfin. Hold him up for the GoPro Ryan. That's a giant yellowfin. Holy smokes. We were super stoked to land this fish. This was the first nice fish of the day in the boat. And I'm kind of upset I put a second shot for Ryan because you're going to see why in a second what happens when I get out of the water. Dude, that's the biggest one I've ever seen for sure. Ryan. I saw Ryan go down loaded on a grouper. And so I literally just stayed above him. He went in that coral head, shot that fish. As soon as he shot it. We're shallow diving trying to wait for him to come up. So I went right down, put a second shot in it. Giant yellowfin. That's definitely 20 pounds dude. That's a nice one. Hold him sideways. Go that way in the sun. There you go. That's sick. We're going to snap a couple pictures and hop back in the water. There you go, Nick. What is it, another one? Nice. That's a good one, Nick. There's a shark over there. Joey shot one too? Oh yeah, it's a good one. There you go, Joe-er. Damn, that's a stud. Way to go, bud. Hold him up for a second, Joe, or the shark's in the water. Hold it up, Brian. Hold it up. Yeah, boy. There's more? Wait, why are we getting out of the water, shark? Dude, Brian just shot a 20 pound yellowfin. Oh, that was a yellowfin? Dude, that's a giant. That's a 10 pound hog. That's a big one. That was a series of events. Hold it up, Brian. Joey, on a giant. We're going to hop back in the water here in a second and see if we can't shoot something. The boys are feeling them. Lenny shot a big one. Take them out real quick. Alright, serious series of events. I'm going to pull the camera out. Alright, a serious series of events just happened. Brian shot that grouper. Joey shot that giant hogfish. Lenny shot a big hogfish. Nick shot a big hogfish. Hold them up, boys. Take a couple pictures and we'll hop back in the water. I went down here and just saw a couple little hogfish. And didn't want to shoot any of them. They were too small. I didn't even try to shoot the thing. I just tried to poke at them. See if I could get them on the spear while I poked at them. Me and Ryan were laughing. Ryan went down and shot a little one on the Hawaiian sling. Once again, these weren't the biggest hogfish that we were shooting on the sling. But it was Ryan and I's first time, so it was still fun. And all these fish were legal. This is another little hogfish that I saw going down. I thought, might as well pluck him with the sling. Shot him right there in the face and he came off. That's the thing with the sling. A lot of times those fish will come off. But Ryan saw where he holed up. And we went down and put a second shot in him. By the way, I don't know if I mentioned so far. This is the next day we were diving off of strangers. Boom. Kill shot on that. Another nice sized hogfish. Not big by any means, but he will do. A little suss ball by me and Ryan there. Alright, season shoots a nice sized hogfish here. Then I had this one come right up to me. It was just a weird shot. And I shot right when he spooked. I should have just waited. And he came right back around. My tip was falling off. These hogfish are not the brightest. So I had to just reassess my pulse and fix everything. Went back down. Plucked that hogfish. I think that one was a little small. I don't know why. Quit and shot that one little suspect. But, it's alright. Went down and there are so many hogfish here. Got this hogfish up. It was a nice sized female hogfish. Ryan had shot the nice male. Ryan shot another giant schoolmaster. And we don't really eat these things because they tend to have ciguatera. But the Bahamians love them. So we like to feed the locals. This thing is so fat. Hold on a minute. Lenny went down and plucked this nice hogfish on the sling once again. And I just wanted to get another angle. This was day 3 of our trip and we were on the way home. Wanted to shoot a couple hogfish for dinner. Another nice mutton snapper. That I shot there. And I thought I had him. And if we play the clip in slow-mo, you can see that the tip just doesn't deploy through the other side. I don't know what happened, but I thought I had a good shot on him. The mutton just got the best of me this trip. It's usually how it goes. Why is this happening to me? And I smoked him. Once again, Lenny's going down with the sling on another nice hog. Lines up on him and gets another nice shot. There's so many hogfish down there. He points out another one that's worth shooting. Comes in right in at me. And these are not the smartest fish by any means. These things are pretty stupid. They just look at you like they want to die every single time. And we got a double. Lenny, once again, on a nice mutton snapper. And that was a long shot for sure. I thought that was pretty impressive. Didn't get a great shot on him, but that mutton was on the move. And I was down there just to help him out if he needed a hand. Pretty sweet fish. And I kind of dropped his mutton. I see a big cereal mackerel right now. And I was just at a distance on the cereal. Should have swam a little bit more. Thought I had the shot right here, and I just, I didn't. A nice hogfish landed in the sand here, and I asked Lenny for his Hawaiian sling. And I lined up a shot. This hogfish turned a perfectly broad side on me. I don't know why I couldn't say that. And I had a nice shot on him, but I guess I just didn't pull back far enough and didn't have enough strength. Tried to get another shot while I was down there. I was kind of out of breath at this point. And I kind of just had a half-assed shot and barely nicked him in the tail. Ryan ended up going and finding my hogfish and putting a second shot in it for me and securing him. Because we'd hate to shoot a fish and then just have it swim away. But it does happen every now and again. I go to pick up the sling, and you can see all the hogfish that are just around me. And then the diving was pretty much over for the day, and all these porpoise came in and started aggregating on me. Literally just hanging out with me, doing flips around me and Ryan. And I was the only one in the water at the time, but Ryan jumped in. He was just one with the porpoise. I don't know what the deal was. I don't know what was going on with Ryan when he was one with the porpoise. But we made a dive, and these things were chilling. All right, boys and girls. We are slowly putzing back to Sandy. And while we're doing that, I'm cleaning some of the fish. Lenny and Tom are back there on some of the con, dealing them. And Ryan's just man-tucking around. So Joey's going to hold the camera real quick, and we're going to show you a little fillet. Knowledge. So this is a really nice strawberry grouper, and it doesn't look like you'll get much off of it, but you do. And they are delicious. If you haven't tried them, you got to. Filleting my 6-inch Dexter blade. If you guys would like to go purchase a knife or anything off of Dexter's website, I'll have a link down below. DexterOutdoors.com You can use code ADAM20 to save 20% off. I'll have a link down below. Let's get into filleting real quick. So you know we're not in the most ideal conditions to fillet, but if you have a Dexter, you can make it work. Right, Joey? They got beautiful white meat. Plain grouper. And it's super slippery and we're moving, so try and bear with me here on the fillet edge. Rib bones out right there. And then you got your pin bones right in the middle. Just like that. And then Quintin's got me on the little spray edge. You want to spray it off with salt water. Definitely not fresh. Get her nice and wet. And that's it. We're ready to eat it. We'll see you guys back at the dock. That's it. That's all we got to say. That's all we got. We're in the cut. But we're going to go ahead and show you what Mama Luce just cooked up. I didn't film it, but she made an amazing dinner and we're about to go ahead and eat. Let me tell you real quick. What do we got, Mom? First I made a cheese, black pepper, parsley, and oregano mixture. I put the fish on the grill with a couple of slabs of butter and old bay seasoning. Cooked it for five minutes. Then came and put my panko mix on top of the fish. Grilled that for another five minutes. Then I popped it in the broiler for about five minutes to get it crispy. And then we had rice with avocado and zucchini with Parmesan cheese. Looks amazing. We're about to go ahead and eat. Chance, I think that plate's for you. Can't even lie. That plate's for me. It is. That was a yellow from grouper there. I think I like the grouper better. You can't not like the grouper better. You can see the little bloodline. Looks like it's where he got shot. Here's where it is. Is it good? It's really good. Really good. Johnson approves. That's all that matters as long as Johnson likes it. I want to thank you guys so much for watching this video. We combined all three days of diving for this video. I want to make one giant video of spearfishing. And there it was. If you can, please go ahead and drop a like on this video. Put a lot of effort into this one. And Dan did a great job editing this video. If you guys are not already subscribed to the channel, go ahead and do that right now. Also, if you would like to support our channel and buy some clothing. Buy a shirt. I'll have a link down below, movingweightfishing.com. Check our website out. You can browse it. We got a whole bunch of different stuff. Johnson's not repping right now, but you know. Bon Jovi. I thought you didn't want to be on camera. Thank you guys so much. Stay tuned until next time. Moving Weights out.