Hey Ryan a true story about the Aweoweo, during King Kalākaua’s reign and while he was away in San Francisco he got sick and died in the Palace Hotel. A large aweoweo school bunched up in the bay which is weird because they are nocturnal. The old people said that sea of red fish like blood was an omen that King was dead. The ocean and the Hawaiian are one and so one needs to respect it. My tutu wahine ( grandma) always drilled it in to me as we picked limu( edible seaweed) or made our own rock salt on the seashore of Waianae respect the ocean don’t turn your back to it, don’t over hunt take only what you need.
Hey Braddah Ryan! Love your channel. Out of respect for the locals who grew up in this area, please refrain from showing background/coastline footage. I watched the first few minutes and figured out your exact location. Your channel not only shares your passion but it also reveals hidden fishing spots to the masses. Just think... the fish don’t spook for a reason. Let’s keep it that way. Aloha! 🤙🏾
yup dats my icebox he was raiding. Born and raised there. I catch or shoot enough for Kau kau then these buggahs clean out our Aina. Ryan neva shoot dat much but now 1 thousand other guys going go rape da spot. I love the videos but he catching mean hate from us Ka'u guys. Sometimes common sense gotta kick in and This Ryan guy gotta respect da Ohana o Ka Aina. I see he gotta make money off of likes and hits but its destroying our livelihood for us down South!!!!
To be honestly with today’s technology if a person really want to find a location that is filmed and shown thru social media. It’s called the dark web and you can find and do just about anything there. How do you think the authorities find a crime?! That is the reason why when people don’t want to show their fishing/hunting spots location it is pointless. In fact unfortunately one youtuber’s spouse’s place of work was discovered and vandalized because they did not like some of the comments he make about television shows. I am not trying to be a wise ass, but just wanted people to be informed.
dont you think that if a viewer recognizes the coastline/background that he is a local and probably already fishes that place? Ryan, keep doing what you are doing. love the vids.
Ryan, I've been enjoying watching your videos and how-to's, and appreciate your consideration for taking what you need. As a fellow BI spearfisherman to another, I do request, however, that you be mindful of the coastal footage you show on your videos. While I realize that you don't say where you're going or where you're diving at, you show people enough and people will figure it out and mention it in the comments. There's a reason why places like that still have fish there.
Keep up the good work Ryan. These videos are killing it, super relevant and constantly entertaining. Some of the best Spearo content going. Super authentic.
You can totally scale the Aweoweo and fry them up extra crispy. I season all my fish pretty basic with either garlic salt and pepper or Hawaiian salt and pepper. Use the garlic butter as a dip or option so you can still taste the fish👍🏽
Cool! Your enjoying what Big isle fishing is all about! So many different styles of fishing, and the island is so massive that there's tons of shoreline areas to explore and places that probably have rarely if ever been fished or dove! So, like I mentioned in my comment the other day, can you begin to imagine what it was like for me with my Force 30 going on 4-5 day and night fishing trips??!!!!!! Like I had said, I used to love going on my "around the island" fishing trips!!! I'd basically troll the 40 fathom ledge for Ono the whole time, which is so close to shore on the Big isle you could throw a rock and hit the lava on the shoreline! I did hundreds of these fishing trips over the years and so I got intimate knowledge of all the opelu koa's and the bottom structure. In the late 70's and early 80's, before the ciguatera toxin became a problem with ulua, I could always depend on ulua fishing from my boat if my preferred fish species were not around, primarily pelagic, and of course on the Big isle ahi was how you could put some gross tonnage in the fish boxes! Bottom fish like paka and onaga was really dependant on currents and other things, but it was incredible in certain places on the island with huge paka schools and onaga, though they are so deep! Before the stino porpoise showed up and learned that they could steal most of our bottom fish right from our hooks and basically ruined it, it was meca for bottom fishing in some spots!!!! So when all else failed or the fishing was just really slow, I used to anchor in some secret spots and basically palu or chum 5, 5 gallon buckets of palu with the bag down just above the bottom. After several hours you would have so much ulua under the boat it was just insane!!!!! I had a huge Ike ma or live bait well on my custom built boat, and I would catch live bait like opelu and akule and flill it up!!! For ulua fishing, I found live halalu, the small juvenile akule to be best! An older local fisherman taught me this whole fishing method, which he had been doing from boats in a certain area from back in the 50's!!! Since we were catching ulua in the 60-90 plus pound range, it only took so many fish to have 3000 lbs! There were massive schools of ulua, and I'm sure still are, especially because once the ciguatera toxin became known to be in large ulua, the commercial fishing viability for them stopped! Understand I only fished for ulua occasionally like this because it was not a target species for me as a commercial fisherman. I know places where there are so much ulua it's ridiculous! Places where I could troll by inside of the 40 fathom ledge a little where there's pinnacles that come straight up to 20 or 30 ft of water and it's a cliff drop off straight down to 100 fathoms or more! These are in really rough water where it's super windy on trade winds and really gnarly for shipwreck and going onto the rocks!!!! I mean there's huge uluas everywhere and 50 to 100 feet off of them there's Ono and Mahi Mahi and big ahi and huge marlin!! If I got too shallow when I'd troll by, I'd have my five big game rods and 2 handlines go off with 80-90 lb. plus uluas!!!!! If I wanted, I could have kept making passes by the spot and get 5-7 huge uluas on over and over!!! I was Ono trolling this spot once with my friend and we hooked up and caught a huge blue marlin in the 800- 900 lb. Size!!!! It became a famous fishing story told from the Big isle to Kauai, as we couldn't get it in the boat and it was eaten by a school of tiger sharks including huge tigers bigger than the marine biologists believe they get!!! I got the courage to dive this spot once, when there was no wind and very little swell and not too strong of a current. It was the heaviest place I ever dove in my life!!! The mix of huge schools of ulua with 100 plus lb. Ones swimming around, and then just outside of them ono and mahi's and shibi and big 200 plus lb ahi swimming around with big schools of opelu, and several marlin including big 500 plus lb. "donkeys"!!! It was a biomass of so much fish in such a small area it was incredible!!! There were reef sharks of different species, and then I saw a few really big tiger sharks too! I had massive uluas swimming right up to me but it was just too dangerous to spear fish!!! I've done it before in situations where there are huge schools of ulua and unless you get a stone shot, it just gets ripped up by sharks and the potential for a feeding frenzy is just too great where you could get bit by accident or maybe not?!! I used to look at this spot from way up on the island at 3000-4000 ft. elevation and see it miles below off the coast, and I just knew it was an epic fishing koa and would be loaded with ulua and more!!! It's so remotely located that it's only accessible by a boat with range and one that's extremely sea worthy in really windy and rough water!!! For years I'd look at it far far below through my binoculars and tell myself one day I'm going to have my own custom built fishing boat and go there and fish that spot!!!! I had heard of people hiking down to this area and camping, but then you would have to hike all the way back up and it's really a long hike and extremely difficult! Years later this area became one of my favorite fishing area's!! It's so rough there,that very few boats would go there, and your totally on your own in this place! No coast guard and no radio coms with anyone and this was long before GPS and cell phones and no cell service would reach there but maybe now??! When I looked in upon the landscape from my boat years later when I finally got to this place, it was so raw and so wild, I could just imagine seeing a huge T-Rex walking on the land!!! So I gave this place a name, ... "land of the dinosaurs"!!!! Or,"Jurassic Park"!! Not only for what looked like an ancient pre-historic, volcanic landscape, but because the fish I was catching there were huge, giants of every species!!!!! I know of an ulua close to or just over 200 lbs. that was caught here, and several 1000 lb. Blue Marlin!!!!! Schools of pelagic fish migrate through this area and it's just mind blowing when it really happens!!! Giant gorilla ahi and po' o nui or big eye tuna schools off shore and huge marlin!!!! 100 plus lb. Ono have been caught there and 80- 90 lb. Mahi ! Every species of fish just get huge!!! A place of dreams!! On the most isolated land mass on earth!! Aloha D.L.
@RoyceGetit roga Dat bruddah. Spent 40 + years commercial fishing from big isle al the way up to midway island in the northwestern Hawaiian islands. Up there is all a sanctuary now. In the old days I was fishing up in the leewards, and it was just incredible!!! Ulua schools like nothing I've seen anywhere else. The big 100 plus ones beat up and chased the sharks away!!! Crazy, ancient Hawaii kine!!! In the early 80's I had the 9th Force 30 out of the mold custom built for me in Hilo and it was a dream boat that I loved fishing mostly on the big island where I lived for a long time!North shore molokai is epic too!! Been diving and fishing there since the early 70's. Dennis Okada turned me on to a lot of freedive spearfishing places and stuff. A legend for sure!!!! Taught me and another great freedive spearfiherman friend of mine, Wendell Ko, the secret stone shot on giant ulua!!! So many legendary Hawaiian waterman and families from all the islands I've been so blessed to be friends with over the years, too many to mention them all! RIP Henry Ayau, Gene Higa... we love the ocean so much in Hawaii nei!!! Aloha, D.L
But it should be the one that has two stripes and white Dots with yellow dorsal fins, there another one that is similar looking which was the one you shot double with the one kole, that’s not the one , it had to be white dots and two white stripes on the face and behind the gills that’s the good one
Where I live we love mullet but they are sometimes considered trash fish. They are very hard to catch on a fishing rod so we mainly get them by net and sometimes spear.
Here in north carolina, the only small fish species that I go out and just 'collect' like the kole are spottail pinfish. Most people pass these fish by because the ribs take up a lot of the fillet, but if you take off the head and fry them, you can pick a lot more meat off, and it's comparable to hogfish and mangrove snapper. Usually you catch them fishing, but it's just as easy to find a jetty or pier and 3 prong a few off of it. They get much bigger than kole, so you only need 3-5 for a good meal. Anyways, good luck hunting, and maybe you could take another try at shooting some wahoo, since you have such a good record with them, lol.
Love the video + the comments; learned how to spearfish in Bahamas w/a sling (spearguns r illegal there) so the 3 prong tips r much appreciated... would love to see how the tiger got unhooked
20:19 shoot the fish with the orange spot on the tail. That is called a Paku’iku’i and it is basically like kole but they taste better. Try shoot some if you would like to try! That and Kole are the favorites!
I'm new to this channel and I really enjoy it. I subscribed last week. It has really good content. Spear gun action and sling action! Keep up the great work brotha! 👏🏾🤙🏾 🇬🇺
Beautiful video makes me want to and try my own hand at it. The vibes, wakes my instinct I wanna go, setup a playlist with *Metallica* One and *Delta Parole* Wasted and go off into my own world right this moment.
🙌🏻🙌🏻 heck yah! I would say the same, kole seems to be the small fish that we start to spearfish when your beginner, because there are lots of them and so easy to spear. Once again love the video and the cooking🙌🏻🙌🏻
Wow. Another awesome adventure you went on. Looks like a great one for us rookies. I like that it was a long video too. Now I don’t want to have to wait for the next one. Keep it up and I’m sorry that this coronavirus is effecting life so bad out there too. Stay safe.
In Puerto Rico i spearfished alot of angel fish. People don't hunt them i accidentally fished one ate it and it became a favorite. Id hunt the big ones about the size of a steering wheel or bigger. Great tasting meat very high in fat it leaves your hands oily when finished preparing the fish.
Great vid bud, it was cool to see a lil fishing even tho nothing was biting, nice to see the fry at the end too, so many rewards when it comes to spearing the fish... watching from Barbados...
Ryan Myers you’d love the Atlantic side, east coast has a lot of fish, many avoid the area but the fish are bigger there and less fished, whenever your ready hit me up...
How to get those red fish scales off is to put them over a fire for the fire to soften the scales. And use a fork or a spoon to scoop the scales off. Just few seconds over the fire. And now it'll be easy to fry and eat the skin with the meat. Yummy.
Nice secluded spot. Early on in the video I have two questions regarding the shore fishing tackle. First, that looked like a well used hook, probably caught a few on it. Has he sharpened it? Second it is a circle hook with a large offset. Why? A circle hook is designed so it will greatly lessen the chance of hooking in a fishes gut. An offset circle hook defeats this purpose. The second guy is using a regular circle hook. Aweoweo have tiny scales but they are so worth it to scale them. My family’s favorite fish to eat in Hawaii. Just scale them and put them on a hot grill, I like them way more than menpachi. Mahalo for the great video
When you said you should have been fishing for the aquarium... That was a po'opa'a. Super easy to poke, and they taste like lobster! Those aweo'weo are the best!!!
Hey Ryan! New to your channel but great vids and awesome fish you shoot! i have an RA tuna roller 110 and need new rubbers. was wondering what formula you use to measure up your rubbers. mine tend to be too hard for me to load without and assist...
To catch aquarium fish in Hawaii is super easy if you just go look in the calm flat shallows (2-5 feet with rock structure) at night with lamp and nets. You'll get plenty. Make sure you bring a five gallon bucket with a bubbler to keep them alive. When they get too big for the aquarium you just take them back and get new smaller ones. You can catch any species including eels and slipper lobster.
My fish of choice is Moi. Moi steamed or sashimi! Its endemic to Hawaii and was reserved for Ali’i (royalty) only. Try ask Justin about Moi. Kapu is June through August so last month for a few months if you gonna land em. Awesome content as always. Mahalo for all the mana’o (knowledge).
This channel stands out for me mate, you mix it up and show some fishing and spearing and a bit of cooking at the end, I really enjoy it. Those are some pretty solid hooks, I have some that big but use them for shark fishing, we don't get GT that big where I live, they are 6 hours drive north from me, basically the top half of Australia.
Beach Camping is the best! Keep up having fun, especially with that three-prong. Btw that small species I love shooting here in south Florida is usually the yellow jack! I know they grow large but on local small reefs you get them ranging in size and they're always great.
Ryan Myers haha I figured with all that south Florida knowledge you got! I’m a beach diver mainly over here, always down for good spots. I’ve thought about driving up that way to scout out the reefs, as of now I’m mainly ft lauderdale/sunnyisles range
Man I’m loving watching you with a three prong, I would love to get a chance to dive out there😂 I’ve grown up shooting aholehole and aweoweo so it’s awesome to see you shooting um🤙🏼
Hey Ryan next time try cutting fish 🐠 into small chunks, cut through bones 🦴 add garlic 🧄 salt to taste & deep fry in deep wok pan till golden brown & crispy. Some fish 🐠, you can eat bones 🦴 & all if crunchy. Use high pressure propane burner..dip into Soy sauce w/t Hawaiian chilly peppers/ vinegar & round onions..excellent with 🍺 & rice 🍚. Enjoy 😁🤙🏼👍🇺🇸🙏🏻🍀Aloha..
You should shoot the Manini They are really good fried And they’re super easy with 3 prong Also if you do not know they are the striped black and white silver ones that were swimming around you all day
You gada fry that aweoweo more, then add black bean, garlic, and butter sauce. But personally my 2 fave fishes to catch and fry is aholehole and kole 🤙🏽 ps. Shoot all the ta’ape, to’au, and rois you see!
Next time deep fry the Aweoweo till crispy golden brown, you wont be disappointed! Im an ulua fisherman as well and fished with Ulua Matt once down south point suicide rock. Super cool braddah!
All the videos are great, we can’t really spearfish here all Winter because it’s way to rough, so videos are second best. The small common fish here we spear in Southwest Victoria, Australia that taste nice fresh in the pan are Sea Sweep.
Well where I live in Louisiana, just in this city, there really aren't many spots besides Lake Ponchartrain to fish for good fish. But around here in parks and ponds and smaller lakes and canals we catch a lot of perch and bluegill. We also love to catch a good redfish and/or catfish in the lake or other areas.
Hey Ryan a true story about the Aweoweo, during King Kalākaua’s reign and while he was away in San Francisco he got sick and died in the Palace Hotel. A large aweoweo school bunched up in the bay which is weird because they are nocturnal. The old people said that sea of red fish like blood was an omen that King was dead.
The ocean and the Hawaiian are one and so one needs to respect it. My tutu wahine ( grandma) always drilled it in to me as we picked limu( edible seaweed) or made our own rock salt on the seashore of Waianae respect the ocean don’t turn your back to it, don’t over hunt take only what you need.
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Hey Braddah Ryan! Love your channel. Out of respect for the locals who grew up in this area, please refrain from showing background/coastline footage. I watched the first few minutes and figured out your exact location. Your channel not only shares your passion but it also reveals hidden fishing spots to the masses. Just think... the fish don’t spook for a reason. Let’s keep it that way. Aloha! 🤙🏾
I knew where that was too lol
exactly, you no show the world somebody else ice box. Mahalo for bringing this up
yup dats my icebox he was raiding. Born and raised there. I catch or shoot enough for Kau kau then these buggahs clean out our Aina. Ryan neva shoot dat much but now 1 thousand other guys going go rape da spot. I love the videos but he catching mean hate from us Ka'u guys. Sometimes common sense gotta kick in and This Ryan guy gotta respect da Ohana o Ka Aina. I see he gotta make money off of likes and hits but its destroying our livelihood for us down South!!!!
To be honestly with today’s technology if a person really want to find a location that is filmed and shown thru social media. It’s called the dark web and you can find and do just about anything there. How do you think the authorities find a crime?! That is the reason why when people don’t want to show their fishing/hunting spots location it is pointless. In fact unfortunately one youtuber’s spouse’s place of work was discovered and vandalized because they did not like some of the comments he make about television shows. I am not trying to be a wise ass, but just wanted people to be informed.
dont you think that if a viewer recognizes the coastline/background that he is a local and probably already fishes that place? Ryan, keep doing what you are doing. love the vids.
best show lately
Ryan, I've been enjoying watching your videos and how-to's, and appreciate your consideration for taking what you need. As a fellow BI spearfisherman to another, I do request, however, that you be mindful of the coastal footage you show on your videos. While I realize that you don't say where you're going or where you're diving at, you show people enough and people will figure it out and mention it in the comments. There's a reason why places like that still have fish there.
Cory K. I agree
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Totally Agree my braddah #keepdacountrycountry
Idk every time he comes kohala he loves to mention it, kinda irks me
Agreed. Keep the Big Island secret spots a secret
Keep up the good work Ryan. These videos are killing it, super relevant and constantly entertaining. Some of the best Spearo content going. Super authentic.
You can totally scale the Aweoweo and fry them up extra crispy. I season all my fish pretty basic with either garlic salt and pepper or Hawaiian salt and pepper. Use the garlic butter as a dip or option so you can still taste the fish👍🏽
Thanks man ya I failed on the aweoweo definitely getting scaled and fried crispy next time!
this with some steak, winnaz
All of them on a 3 prong pole spear! Now I'm pumped and inspired!
Thanks for watching man!
EAT THE AWEO'WEO SKIN!!! Gotta fry it up crispy.
All those little fish are beautifully colored.
Ya they are. Thanks for watching!!!
When I go diving I always bring home some manini. That's one of my childhood favorites.
Ah ok sweet I’ve actually never eaten them but really need to give them a try!
you are the only dude with info a haole like me can actually use on Kauai. Thanks for all the detail in your voice overs, they mean the world to me:)
Hey Ryan any encounters with big tigers sharks on your shore dives
All your vids should be long, best diving channel on TH-cam.
If you have good water pressure outside use the spray nozzle to spray the scales off.
Actually have great pressure I’m going to try this!
Ryan Myers hold the tail and spray away works mostly on smaller fish scales. Good luck!
Great video Ryan and crew! Thanks for all the great content during quarantine!!
Cool! Your enjoying what Big isle fishing is all about! So many different styles of fishing, and the island is so massive that there's tons of shoreline areas to explore and places that probably have rarely if ever been fished or dove! So, like I mentioned in my comment the other day, can you begin to imagine what it was like for me with my Force 30 going on 4-5 day and night fishing trips??!!!!!! Like I had said, I used to love going on my "around the island" fishing trips!!! I'd basically troll the 40 fathom ledge for Ono the whole time, which is so close to shore on the Big isle you could throw a rock and hit the lava on the shoreline! I did hundreds of these fishing trips over the years and so I got intimate knowledge of all the opelu koa's and the bottom structure. In the late 70's and early 80's, before the ciguatera toxin became a problem with ulua, I could always depend on ulua fishing from my boat if my preferred fish species were not around, primarily pelagic, and of course on the Big isle ahi was how you could put some gross tonnage in the fish boxes! Bottom fish like paka and onaga was really dependant on currents and other things, but it was incredible in certain places on the island with huge paka schools and onaga, though they are so deep! Before the stino porpoise showed up and learned that they could steal most of our bottom fish right from our hooks and basically ruined it, it was meca for bottom fishing in some spots!!!! So when all else failed or the fishing was just really slow, I used to anchor in some secret spots and basically palu or chum 5, 5 gallon buckets of palu with the bag down just above the bottom. After several hours you would have so much ulua under the boat it was just insane!!!!! I had a huge Ike ma or live bait well on my custom built boat, and I would catch live bait like opelu and akule and flill it up!!! For ulua fishing, I found live halalu, the small juvenile akule to be best! An older local fisherman taught me this whole fishing method, which he had been doing from boats in a certain area from back in the 50's!!! Since we were catching ulua in the 60-90 plus pound range, it only took so many fish to have 3000 lbs! There were massive schools of ulua, and I'm sure still are, especially because once the ciguatera toxin became known to be in large ulua, the commercial fishing viability for them stopped! Understand I only fished for ulua occasionally like this because it was not a target species for me as a commercial fisherman. I know places where there are so much ulua it's ridiculous! Places where I could troll by inside of the 40 fathom ledge a little where there's pinnacles that come straight up to 20 or 30 ft of water and it's a cliff drop off straight down to 100 fathoms or more! These are in really rough water where it's super windy on trade winds and really gnarly for shipwreck and going onto the rocks!!!! I mean there's huge uluas everywhere and 50 to 100 feet off of them there's Ono and Mahi Mahi and big ahi and huge marlin!! If I got too shallow when I'd troll by, I'd have my five big game rods and 2 handlines go off with 80-90 lb. plus uluas!!!!! If I wanted, I could have kept making passes by the spot and get 5-7 huge uluas on over and over!!! I was Ono trolling this spot once with my friend and we hooked up and caught a huge blue marlin in the 800- 900 lb. Size!!!! It became a famous fishing story told from the Big isle to Kauai, as we couldn't get it in the boat and it was eaten by a school of tiger sharks including huge tigers bigger than the marine biologists believe they get!!! I got the courage to dive this spot once, when there was no wind and very little swell and not too strong of a current. It was the heaviest place I ever dove in my life!!! The mix of huge schools of ulua with 100 plus lb. Ones swimming around, and then just outside of them ono and mahi's and shibi and big 200 plus lb ahi swimming around with big schools of opelu, and several marlin including big 500 plus lb. "donkeys"!!! It was a biomass of so much fish in such a small area it was incredible!!! There were reef sharks of different species, and then I saw a few really big tiger sharks too! I had massive uluas swimming right up to me but it was just too dangerous to spear fish!!! I've done it before in situations where there are huge schools of ulua and unless you get a stone shot, it just gets ripped up by sharks and the potential for a feeding frenzy is just too great where you could get bit by accident or maybe not?!! I used to look at this spot from way up on the island at 3000-4000 ft. elevation and see it miles below off the coast, and I just knew it was an epic fishing koa and would be loaded with ulua and more!!! It's so remotely located that it's only accessible by a boat with range and one that's extremely sea worthy in really windy and rough water!!! For years I'd look at it far far below through my binoculars and tell myself one day I'm going to have my own custom built fishing boat and go there and fish that spot!!!! I had heard of people hiking down to this area and camping, but then you would have to hike all the way back up and it's really a long hike and extremely difficult! Years later this area became one of my favorite fishing area's!! It's so rough there,that very few boats would go there, and your totally on your own in this place! No coast guard and no radio coms with anyone and this was long before GPS and cell phones and no cell service would reach there but maybe now??! When I looked in upon the landscape from my boat years later when I finally got to this place, it was so raw and so wild, I could just imagine seeing a huge T-Rex walking on the land!!! So I gave this place a name, ... "land of the dinosaurs"!!!! Or,"Jurassic Park"!! Not only for what looked like an ancient pre-historic, volcanic landscape, but because the fish I was catching there were huge, giants of every species!!!!! I know of an ulua close to or just over 200 lbs. that was caught here, and several 1000 lb. Blue Marlin!!!!! Schools of pelagic fish migrate through this area and it's just mind blowing when it really happens!!! Giant gorilla ahi and po' o nui or big eye tuna schools off shore and huge marlin!!!! 100 plus lb. Ono have been caught there and 80- 90 lb. Mahi ! Every species of fish just get huge!!! A place of dreams!! On the most isolated land mass on earth!!
Aloha
D.L.
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@RoyceGetit roga Dat bruddah. Spent 40 + years commercial fishing from big isle al the way up to midway island in the northwestern Hawaiian islands. Up there is all a sanctuary now. In the old days I was fishing up in the leewards, and it was just incredible!!! Ulua schools like nothing I've seen anywhere else. The big 100 plus ones beat up and chased the sharks away!!! Crazy, ancient Hawaii kine!!! In the early 80's I had the 9th Force 30 out of the mold custom built for me in Hilo and it was a dream boat that I loved fishing mostly on the big island where I lived for a long time!North shore molokai is epic too!! Been diving and fishing there since the early 70's. Dennis Okada turned me on to a lot of freedive spearfishing places and stuff. A legend for sure!!!! Taught me and another great freedive spearfiherman friend of mine, Wendell Ko, the secret stone shot on giant ulua!!! So many legendary Hawaiian waterman and families from all the islands I've been so blessed to be friends with over the years, too many to mention them all! RIP Henry Ayau, Gene Higa... we love the ocean so much in Hawaii nei!!!
Aloha, D.L
casually shooting 2 koles in one shot. This guy is super underrated!
I go for bunches of perch here in pnw Washington, fillet, skin and panko... Awesome fish sticks
I love getting kala,kole, and manini
Quickly becoming my favorite fish to eat!!!
Just saw this video in my notification and I already knowwww it's ganna be lit😍
Hope you liked it!
@@RyanMyersExpeditions loved it!!
Those brown white spotted ones with two stripes on the side are really good as well very similar to kole should try em next time
But it should be the one that has two stripes and white Dots with yellow dorsal fins, there another one that is similar looking which was the one you shot double with the one kole, that’s not the one , it had to be white dots and two white stripes on the face and behind the gills that’s the good one
I thinks it’s called a white spotted surgeon fish
Sweet thanks I’ll keep an eye out. Gotta do a catch and cook taste test with all the different surgeonfish
Sweet thanks I’ll keep an eye out. Gotta do a catch and cook taste test with all the different surgeonfish
Sweet thanks I’ll keep an eye out. Gotta do a catch and cook taste test with all the different surgeonfish
Over here on long island as a kid we would always fish snappers off the dock little ones same size as those kole
Where I live we love mullet but they are sometimes considered trash fish. They are very hard to catch on a fishing rod so we mainly get them by net and sometimes spear.
Great videos bro KEEP THEM COMIN!
In Madeira me and the boys used to go spearfishing for bodião in the shalows, good old times.
Nothing like small fry fish!
Excellent episode! Keep em coming!
Thanks man will do!
Here in north carolina, the only small fish species that I go out and just 'collect' like the kole are spottail pinfish. Most people pass these fish by because the ribs take up a lot of the fillet, but if you take off the head and fry them, you can pick a lot more meat off, and it's comparable to hogfish and mangrove snapper. Usually you catch them fishing, but it's just as easy to find a jetty or pier and 3 prong a few off of it. They get much bigger than kole, so you only need 3-5 for a good meal. Anyways, good luck hunting, and maybe you could take another try at shooting some wahoo, since you have such a good record with them, lol.
Love the video + the comments; learned how to spearfish in Bahamas w/a sling (spearguns r illegal there) so the 3 prong tips r much appreciated... would love to see how the tiger got unhooked
Joe Noonan Where in the Bahamas you was spearfishing?
So awesome...keep the videos coming!
Thanks James will do!
Great video brother im loving the aveo veo so beautiful nice joe on the three prong too
20:19 shoot the fish with the orange spot on the tail. That is called a Paku’iku’i and it is basically like kole but they taste better. Try shoot some if you would like to try! That and Kole are the favorites!
I'm new to this channel and I really enjoy it. I subscribed last week. It has really good content. Spear gun action and sling action! Keep up the great work brotha! 👏🏾🤙🏾 🇬🇺
Grunts were always fun and no limit in the gulf
Cheee killing it brotha 3 prong on fleak!! 🔨
Thanks bro!
Yesssss another catch and cook love these, your vids are awesome man
Beautiful video makes me want to and try my own hand at it. The vibes, wakes my instinct I wanna go, setup a playlist with *Metallica* One and *Delta Parole* Wasted and go off into my own world right this moment.
Thanks man gotta get out there and give it a try!
🙌🏻🙌🏻 heck yah! I would say the same, kole seems to be the small fish that we start to spearfish when your beginner, because there are lots of them and so easy to spear. Once again love the video and the cooking🙌🏻🙌🏻
I miss hawaii was in kaneohe bay on oahu for about 3 1/2 years im ready to go back
To make them crispy try to put corn flour and deep fry them, that's how we do it in Greece.
Will do thanks!
Corn starch here in the Hawaii. That’s how you get anything crunchy. Even potato starch. That’s how the korean fried chicken get so crunchy
Wow. Another awesome adventure you went on. Looks like a great one for us rookies. I like that it was a long video too. Now I don’t want to have to wait for the next one. Keep it up and I’m sorry that this coronavirus is effecting life so bad out there too. Stay safe.
In Puerto Rico i spearfished alot of angel fish. People don't hunt them i accidentally fished one ate it and it became a favorite. Id hunt the big ones about the size of a steering wheel or bigger. Great tasting meat very high in fat it leaves your hands oily when finished preparing the fish.
Huh that’s interesting man but could totally see that. Might have to try that someday.
Love the vids keep em up 🤙🏼
Lol..right on..I usually scale my fish or fillet them..enjoy
Definitely scaling these next time
Eyestripe and elongate surgeonfish are a little bigger, but I still prepare them the same way that you and Justin did for kole.
Really hoping to expand my surgeon eating maybe a comparison surgeon video would be cool. Thanks Jake!
I’m a beginner but I love fishing for butter lip and surf perch
Gotta start somewhere man just keep practicing!!!
Great videos 👍🤙🏼🍀😎
Great vid bud, it was cool to see a lil fishing even tho nothing was biting, nice to see the fry at the end too, so many rewards when it comes to spearing the fish... watching from Barbados...
Thanks Tyrone!!! Going to have some more fishing ones and hunting ones soon hopefully. Definitely need to visit Barbados.
Ryan Myers you’d love the Atlantic side, east coast has a lot of fish, many avoid the area but the fish are bigger there and less fished, whenever your ready hit me up...
th-cam.com/video/dnzJssZ-PXI/w-d-xo.html
Hers some fish I’ve shot ...
Amazing Man Thank You So Much For Your Efforts To Make Those Videos , Our Mini Fish In Lebanon Is Siganus Rivulatus 🙋🏽♂️
Scale em!! Skin is delicious!! Never Meade butter garlic but I’ll try it next time I get em.
Epic Ryan. Keep grinding, why you don't have 100K subs already is crazy.
What width and length band are you using on your pole spear? It shoots really well!
Best youtuber
Deep Fry them crispy like kole and eat the skin not gonna even notice the scales
How to get those red fish scales off is to put them over a fire for the fire to soften the scales. And use a fork or a spoon to scoop the scales off. Just few seconds over the fire. And now it'll be easy to fry and eat the skin with the meat. Yummy.
Nice secluded spot. Early on in the video I have two questions regarding the shore fishing tackle. First, that looked like a well used hook, probably caught a few on it. Has he sharpened it? Second it is a circle hook with a large offset. Why? A circle hook is designed so it will greatly lessen the chance of hooking in a fishes gut. An offset circle hook defeats this purpose. The second guy is using a regular circle hook.
Aweoweo have tiny scales but they are so worth it to scale them. My family’s favorite fish to eat in Hawaii. Just scale them and put them on a hot grill, I like them way more than menpachi. Mahalo for the great video
Definitely White Sea brim is my favorite to cook up whole. They are everywhere and don't really grow that big.
When you said you should have been fishing for the aquarium... That was a po'opa'a. Super easy to poke, and they taste like lobster! Those aweo'weo are the best!!!
Another great vid again bro🤙🏿 reef fish are so tasty.
Thanks man totally agree with you!
fish zip line...sick!
Well, here in the midwest we dont have any oceans, but we do have a prolific, small fish that's great fried, sunfish!
aweoaweo is easy to scale.. and gotta fry em a littler longer. nice catch
Hey Ryan! New to your channel but great vids and awesome fish you shoot! i have an RA tuna roller 110 and need new rubbers. was wondering what formula you use to measure up your rubbers. mine tend to be too hard for me to load without and assist...
If you can load em without an assist they too weak! Not sure measurements for 110 but can look em up online somewhere.
@@RyanMyersExpeditions so you are always using assists then I guess!
that little fish you’ve been catching are a good eat, fry um up crispy. There called opapalu btw🤙🏽🐟
How do you get the fishing line tight before sliding the fish down the line? 4:40
We just kinda snag it in the reef with these cool sinkers that bend and unsnag later.
To catch aquarium fish in Hawaii is super easy if you just go look in the calm flat shallows (2-5 feet with rock structure) at night with lamp and nets. You'll get plenty. Make sure you bring a five gallon bucket with a bubbler to keep them alive. When they get too big for the aquarium you just take them back and get new smaller ones. You can catch any species including eels and slipper lobster.
You are best you are best guy love videos be strong ❤❤👍👏💪💪👍👍👋
Went out on the beaches and catch some nice corbina in the surf
My fish of choice is Moi. Moi steamed or sashimi! Its endemic to Hawaii and was reserved for Ali’i (royalty) only. Try ask Justin about Moi. Kapu is June through August so last month for a few months if you gonna land em. Awesome content as always. Mahalo for all the mana’o (knowledge).
That peacock grouper we can them coral trout and they are just delicious
This channel stands out for me mate, you mix it up and show some fishing and spearing and a bit of cooking at the end, I really enjoy it.
Those are some pretty solid hooks, I have some that big but use them for shark fishing, we don't get GT that big where I live, they are 6 hours drive north from me, basically the top half of Australia.
Big hooks, big bait, big fish! Super ready to come to Australia and make some videos
@@RyanMyersExpeditions when you are ready I'll get you in contact with some people. Have you got an email?
@@RyanMyersExpeditions I sent you a Pm on Facebook, looks like you know the guy I was talking about.
Cheers John
Thx for making more 3prong videos. Ur way better than me dude. U improved alot wit the 3 prong
Beach Camping is the best! Keep up having fun, especially with that three-prong. Btw that small species I love shooting here in south Florida is usually the yellow jack! I know they grow large but on local small reefs you get them ranging in size and they're always great.
Nice love eating yellow jacks. I’m actually from palm beach. Plan on doing a lot more beach camping in the future! Thanks for the support 🤙
Ryan Myers haha I figured with all that south Florida knowledge you got! I’m a beach diver mainly over here, always down for good spots. I’ve thought about driving up that way to scout out the reefs, as of now I’m mainly ft lauderdale/sunnyisles range
We got them as far as at the Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean...we call them Catalufas! Keep it up mate...awesome vid
Man I’m loving watching you with a three prong, I would love to get a chance to dive out there😂 I’ve grown up shooting aholehole and aweoweo so it’s awesome to see you shooting um🤙🏼
Prefer the longer videos. Thanks for sharing...Mahalo
My favorite small fish is sparos and you can find it in Greece
is that a roy at 19:54? i always try shoot roys when i go out but the bigger ones are sneaky buggahs
Ya I see so many it’s tough to kill em all it’s all I would end up doing all day. I try to kill the ones I can though.
Hey Ryan next time try cutting fish 🐠 into small chunks, cut through bones 🦴 add garlic 🧄 salt to taste & deep fry in deep wok pan till golden brown & crispy. Some fish 🐠, you can eat bones 🦴 & all if crunchy. Use high pressure propane burner..dip into Soy sauce w/t Hawaiian chilly peppers/ vinegar & round onions..excellent with 🍺 & rice 🍚. Enjoy 😁🤙🏼👍🇺🇸🙏🏻🍀Aloha..
Agreed gotta give them another shot now that my frying game is a bit better!
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You have to smash the barb on the hook so it has a chance to unhook from the fish if you need to cut line.
Nabetas are the best bottom fish there is in Hawaii like when you fry them wih the scales😋
You should shoot the Manini They are really good fried And they’re super easy with 3 prong Also if you do not know they are the striped black and white silver ones that were swimming around you all day
You gada fry that aweoweo more, then add black bean, garlic, and butter sauce. But personally my 2 fave fishes to catch and fry is aholehole and kole 🤙🏽 ps. Shoot all the ta’ape, to’au, and rois you see!
Trout and blue gill for fresh water and Black Sea bass for saltwater
Next time deep fry the Aweoweo till crispy golden brown, you wont be disappointed! Im an ulua fisherman as well and fished with Ulua Matt once down south point suicide rock. Super cool braddah!
Sweet thanks man ya I screwed up on these but still learning. Matt is the man! Got a couple more videos coming out with him soon.
Loving it......cool vids
Thanks 🤙
My all time favorite fish to spear and catch is ‘aholehole!
Lionfish,marbled spinefoot,sargos in lebabon
Awesome angles from the underwater setup! So unique bro!
All the videos are great, we can’t really spearfish here all Winter because it’s way to rough, so videos are second best. The small common fish here we spear in Southwest Victoria, Australia that taste nice fresh in the pan are Sea Sweep.
Nice thanks Timothy gotta try those sometime. Hopefully visiting Australia stayed this covid thing.
Ryan Myers here’s a vid shooting sea sweep nearby here: th-cam.com/video/-k8G-4QDfZc/w-d-xo.html
You should try manini. Very good tasting fish and not too hard with the three prong or the gun
Great vid
Thanks Miguel!!!
I just started spearfishing with my dad... My 2 spears were 2 17 inch hogfish.
Nice! Love hogfish they are one of the best eating fish in the ocean!!!
Hey do you know if you can travel with a speargun
Ya absolutely get a sport tube!
Life saver thanks
And by any chance do you know if u can travel with it on bus?
I learn so much from your videos bro thanks for not keeping everything to yourself its nice to learn from experience divers 🤙🏼
Love your videos man. How do you keep that GoPro strapped securely to your hood?? Mine always flips back when I duck dive
Put it underneath the hood
Put the head strap on under the hood. Thanks for watching!
Well where I live in Louisiana, just in this city, there really aren't many spots besides Lake Ponchartrain to fish for good fish. But around here in parks and ponds and smaller lakes and canals we catch a lot of perch and bluegill. We also love to catch a good redfish and/or catfish in the lake or other areas.
Great video bro!! Glad I came across your channel looking forward to more videos🤙🏽 Aloha
Our small whole fried fish are mojarras, so good just like cookies delicious for breakfast.
who else liked before watching? 😅