FISH Tried to MURDER ME! Spear Fishing Gone Wrong - Cobia, Amber Jack, Spade Fish Catch & Cook

It's 6 a.m. oh I only get up early for really awesome things. Good morning it is early early early on a Monday morning and I'm driving five hours to North Carolina's Outer Banks to do some spearfishing. I found a charter that's gonna take me out spearfishing and I am super new at spearfishing but I am wild about it. I got into it this year we went down to Florida and spearfished lionfish and then we went out in June to Hawaii and I did four spearfishing trips out there and I just love it. I literally don't know if I'm gonna be diving on wrecks or reefs or blue water or what. All right we made it. Awesome how's it going? I'm excited to go poke a fish. Sweet we are too. All right I'm here in the Outer Banks and I'm here with Quinton and Dave with Vicarious Fishing Charters and uh we're gonna go poke a fish. What a beautiful day we've had nasty weather with all sorts of offshore hurricanes and stuff like that and got this little window of beauty here and uh I'm excited to see what happens. Oh what gorgeous weather this is perfect. So we're starting to say goodbye to the shore and I've never swam out in the open ocean before this is gonna be interesting. Well here we go guys we're out in the middle of nowhere look around nothing but blue and a boat. Drove over a little bit of structure with some fish on it we're gonna throw a marker buoy on the top and uh we're gonna give this a go. Honestly I don't know what's more unnerving the fact that I can't see the shore or that I can't see the bottom. All right guys let me show you my first dive it's in 75 feet of water and I dove down about 12-15 feet and found this school of enormous spadefish just swimming right there and I made my first mistake of the dive. I kept the safety on. I fixed that problem and got a spadefish right there. Oh yeah that's a perfect shot that's right where you want to shoot them. This next dive was one of the creepiest and most disorienting things I've done a long time. You dive down into this murky water and there's nothing to look at nothing to gauge your direction or your orientation and I had my dive watch and I had to use that to tell I was even going down and so I go down about 29 feet and I start to come up and I see this crazy school of fish swims right in front of me. Without a dive watch I would have had no idea how deep I was. This was so disorienting. This is also the first time I've ever used a reel on a spear gun and so it's really nice to be able to shoot this little fish here and to kind of get it figured out and try it out for the first time. Yeah pretty little guy. So is that a blue runner? Oh yeah. Well we shot a couple nice little fish there but uh the visibility wasn't great so we're gonna go try another spot real quick see if we can get some better visibility and maybe some bigger fish. Get in there, catch a run, and then get back. When we landed in the second spot we were immediately greeted by this big ball of bait fish came right around us and then this 40 pound barracuda swam right in front of me and there was three more underneath me and this makes me a little nervous because I know a guy that got his kneecap bitten off by a barracuda so that was all I was thinking about as I saw these barracuda. But once you dove down under the first 10-15 feet the visibility got a lot better and I could see these pilings I was diving next to and you could kind of start seeing all these fish and you can get yourself oriented and it was just awesome. Suddenly two cobia right there just swam right past me and I'm like what the heck and I look and there's a couple good size jacks and I totally scared him away by pointing my gun at him and then a school of cobia swims right up to me. Oh I just barely nicked the skin on the top of his head and then the spear almost immediately tore out but not before that cobia nearly ripped that spear out of my hand so I learned real quick to calm down and focus on my shots and loosen the drag on my reel. Yeah he pulled out though I dicked him. Well I'll tell you what nothing gets your mind off of psychotic man-eating barracudas like seeing enormous cobia so I was a lot more calm on my second dive and it was just awesome to go down 40 feet and see so many fish down here it was better than I had even dreamed. The water was just so much clearer down here and there was so many fish around me I was just kind of taking it all in and I look behind me and suddenly there's all these massive fish swimming up behind me and on this shot I was just more focused and decisive. This is my first time shooting a large fish and it was intimidating you really got to have your drag set loose on your reel because you don't want to get in a tug-of-war match 40 feet under the surface. Once you get to the surface that's when the fight starts you get up there and you're hand lining this thing and just lines going everywhere and everyone's telling you don't get tangled in your line don't get tangled in your line but it's easier said than done because these fish go bonkers. That's nice that's what 18 20 look at that my very first cobia ever I've never caught a cobia before it's a fun fish see I couldn't resist I was just gonna drop to like 40 feet to look around and he swam right up I could have touched him with my spear you know oh that's a monster look at that oh that is a monster look at those beautiful fish that is a beast of a cobia look at that that is a beast in North Carolina you're only allowed one cobia so my next dive was all about getting one of those big amberjacks I saw swimming around down there you know I was starting to feel real comfortable I was getting my gun figured out I was getting my reel figured out I'd actually tackled a big fish so I dove down here I was only about 20 feet under saw a big old amberjack everything about this dive went so smoothly I was like this is easy I got this little did I know that this amberjack was going to try to murder me you know how I told you you're not supposed to get tangled up in your spear line well it's really hard when an amberjack is swimming circles around you with a spear sticking out of its head this amberjack has completely wrapped the cable around my throat and is trying to strangle me to death I'm being garrotted by an amberjack fun fact this is actually the second time somebody has tried to strangle me while I was swimming yeah he was pretty mellow I bet he wasn't okay he's acting a little more chill just like I said he's super chill I mean that that was only 21 feet so you know I've only had to dive like 29 feet 34 feet 41 feet 21 feet I mean this is this is great all my dives have been under a minute well now I'd limited out on amberjack as well as cobia so I got my pole spear out I decided I was gonna go try poking some of those spade fish and some of those amico jacks with my pole spear I was so jazzed to get a chance to pull out my pole spear I love using this thing oh hey look there's a big old spooky barracuda I wasn't even afraid look at me on this dive it went down about 45 feet and it was just awesome I was targeting those little amico jacks or maybe even a spade fish I really wasn't looking to start any fights I couldn't finish with that pole spear man I just can't get over how chill these fish are they just didn't mind me coming right up to them shooting these little amico jacks with a pole spear is so much fun they're not going to strangle you to death with your pole spear the tip of that pole spear is kind of shiny it's kind of twitching a little bit he comes over and just about ate it by this time I had already shot six fish and we had about 50 something pounds of fish in the cooler it just been an amazing day and Quinton dived down alongside me and got a little bit of footage of me diving which was really cool guys what an awesome day I mean this cooler is full of fish look at this tons of fish loads of fun and it wasn't as hard and technical of diving as I thought it was going to be which was a real relief for a beginner like myself listen if you guys want to do this too make sure to check out Vicarious Charters I'm going to put their information in the video description down below if you guys want to come down to the Outer Banks to try this out but we got a load of fish to clean and a load of fish to cook up I think we have to invite some friends over throw a little party oh that's not too bad 24 all right that amberjack was about 20 pounds that's not bad when you get two fish over 20 that's a good day no matter what you're doing yeah I didn't get footage of this but uh while I was putzing around with my little pokey pokey stick here this guy was catching Spanish mackerel and little albacore tuna on light tackle tons of fun that looked awesome caught that on that little dinky rod over there that's a good time even if you can't spearfish come out I fillet like a catch and release fisherman so I I am nobody wants to watch me do it you like the Dexter Russell knives yeah man easy to clean up too I've never eaten a cobia either so this is a lot of my first cobia ever uh yeah basic white meat huh little jacks look pretty good that should work all right oh guys that was so much fun and I was a little worried that this was going to be a little bit too challenging for my skill level and it was perfect I had such a good time so glad I did this but now we got to pay the piper and drive five hours back home oh we're gonna cook up so much fish tomorrow it's gonna be a good time we're inviting everyone over we made it back to the house and now it's time to cook some fish we're gonna have a big old fish dinner party here at the house tonight I'm gonna be cooking up all the fish all right guys we're making three different recipes first recipe we're gonna do Indian style fish curry it's gonna be good there we go fish curry looking and smelling good all right for our second recipe we're doing cobia fish and chips oh yeah all right guys we're gonna cook up the amberjack with just some panko and lemon zest it's gonna be good all right there we go it was a bit hectic but we got everything cooked not too bad for a school night but uh let's taste it see what it's like oh yeah sure which fish did you like I didn't even actually I didn't even eat any fish how about you do you like your fish and chips yeah what do you think what was your favorite so far I've had the spanish fish curry and it was hitting I really like it turned out really well I tried the fish and chips and I've never had them before they're great that sweet chili sauce is amazing isn't it it's really really good goes on everything I had such a great time with the spear fishing the food it was all wonderful we hope you guys enjoyed this video just as much as we enjoyed eating this fish if you guys want to see more catch and cook videos check out our catch and cook playlist and uh I've got a kitchen to clean up see you next Saturday if you like this video don't forget to check out the outdoor boys youtube channel where we 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