Giant SNOWY GROUPER And THE SEA CAT (Catch Clean Cuisine)

my name is Adam Maro and I've been a fisherman for over 25 years in that time I've seen some pretty incredible things happen on the water oh my God I got it oh my god dad look Dad look did you see that for me fishing is not just a sport it's my purpose so now I've decided that it's time I share my life passion with all of you follow me around the island of Barbados as we catch clean and cook the amazing fish found in these Waters this is the opening Series of on the line so today we're out on a bar called Trinidad and I think we just hooked up to our grouper I've been trying all week to get this for you guys 520 to go o bend over it's either a grouper or a shark grer oh I hope it's now this is when something happened that is just unacceptable I didn't realize that taking my airpods out of my ears and putting them back in their case without disconnecting them would cut the mic on my iPhone recording this but it happened and we have no sound for this part the biggest snowy grouper I've ever caught in Barbados and I have to tell you about it like this snowy grouper are dark brown with an almost purple tinge near the top and they have beautiful white spots that run down their sides we hook this grouper on a piece of squid and 800 ft of water and when fish are brought up quickly from the deep the change in pressure causes parts of them to expand this phenomenon is known as barot trauma and that's why their eyes pop out Snow's have huge spines on their Dorsal fins and a giant mouth that protrudes and extends to engulf their prey but my favorite part about this fish it's one of the best eating bottom fish on the planet so we drop straight back down to see if any more were lurking in the area all right so we're hooked up again on Trinidad got some that's stalling us out I think it might be another grouper not as big as the one we pulled up earlier but still might be a little girthy what do you think Larry Paul I think probably it might be a another grouper or flame tail a flame tail that would be the Onaga 180 ft to go Larry the Paul says Flame tail or grouper it's we got we got head I don't know if it's floating or that's just because we're drifting 140 hopefully whatever it is it's air bladder's burst and it's not going back down is it I don't think so here he comes I got color little more buddy little more what do we have here Auto Stop done manual engaged rail whoa nice Queen see the all the bank gone too Larry Paul's going to hit it with the [Music] Gaff I'm going to slack the drag for you a good size better right tell you something hit him with the green up Larry there we go all right here bring her in got him nice fish W all right I got him I hope so yeah I got him see that circle hook wow did not k catching the corner of the jaw it got in the jaw oh that's a nice that's 12 nice 12 lb fish yeah wow what a beautiful fish what it is what a nice looking fish this is a beautiful queen Snapper the Onaga have long sickles on their tails that come out to about here that's why they're called Flame tails on the island and they're beautiful just like these are not much difference between the two oh wow Larry Paul says we should go back down again I think he might be right what a day finally after a week of horrible bottom fishing we're getting a few these fish have extremely sharp spines on their Dorsal fins that can poke you very easy as well as spine on its anal Fin and teeth pretty much like any other Snapper sharp not too long but deadly they will get you beautiful meat on these fish too they live in deep water slow growing no toxins very cold down there best quality you're going to find how's that shot look Larry Paul good all right let's get them on Ice woo yeah let's see can you see in here we've got our big grouper oh man that is a nice size grouper this snowy is a little big to filet in rough water and I didn't want to risk it going overboard so we brought it to the dock at Port St Charles and gave the rock crabs a little [Music] treat so here it is a snowy grouper we finally chase down think it's about 20 25 lbs beautiful fish huge mouth on them they just engulf their prey wait till you see the meat on this guy so we've got the 9 in Bubba electric playet so much easier than any manual blade I've ever used so Cuts right into the head these grouper have really thick hides too so got to get through that before anything else I'm going right down to the backbone to make sure I don't miss any grouper meat cuz this is not a fish you want to miss all right straight down I literally had to manually put this blade down look at that absolutely beautiful same thing on this side I do wish I had a bit of a longer knife don't want to go through the backbone but I do want to stay this close found the edge this this play is so thick I literally have to do it one angle by one angle wow now that is the prime meat of the ocean right there it's a long week of work but well worth it all right I'm going to see you guys in the kitchen for a local recipe of how to cook this beautiful fillet look at that again oh my God look at the marbling on it can't even that's got to be one of the prettiest Meats I've ever [Music] seen tonight we're taking the catch to the seat the sister restaurant to the horny Ram seat is what the locals here call octopus and they specialize in cooking local Style seafood dishes with a continental flare the way do these are rinsed off yeah this is a black and seasoning yeah I got little B season [Music] there so the queen is done now the grouper ready grou grou grou so we'll do the uh mixed chips mixed chips and the vegetable medley saute V I'll do and the fries and Greek salad wow on the grill heavy on the seasoning I like [Music] it feels good [Music] C wow all right we got seared local spice secret blacken recipe and snowy look at this we got our beer battered grer and queen grilled Queen and grouper more beer battered Queen and grouper Luca and Logan you remember Logan all right let's get into it yeah Bo taste it tell me how it is it's not grab that one oh yeah of course you grab the cheek I got these grouper cheek Meats go hit it try this one how's that yeah too good M oh wow look at that beer battered grer yeah leg apart actually really nice cuz it's very similar to cod in fact it's is C Cod grer is sea right look at that I'm trying to get this onto my plate before it falls off oh my God English look at that that is better than any English fish and chip I've ever seen that's right this is so amazing this array of groupers so this is the seat restaurant beside the horny Ram yeah so tell us about this spot right so so this originally was started as like a fish and chips concept of battered fish English style because you know the amount of British tourists we get here we thought this would be a hit but that soon developed into a full-on seafood restaurant so we moved away from the batted fish because that would be the only thing we get complaints about we should bring it back really well we have it people request it but we were bringing we were yeah we were using imported cloth and anyway so the cat basically specializes in the freshest local seafood on the island local seafood on the island you heard it here the freshest and just how you brought it like to the table like from the boat today straight to the table and have it cook like this this is basically how our fish comes in Daily and it's cooked nightly I love it and if people on the island bring you their catch you cook it like this only only um Jeffrey Tran organized that with his spare time Charters where if people bring the fish here we charge them like a just a and plus whatever size they have so yes easy and I'll tell you something else when I was in Florida there was a place in pompo Beach called piranha paths and they were famous for allowing the fisherman CU it's a fishing town to bring their fish in and they would cook it and just charge them for their drinks and their sides so we kind of thought we would replicate that here as well love it love it well did not disappoint tonight amazing oh my God okay I got to stop taping