Tales from Down Under! (Lake Michigan Spearfishing) (SHIP WRECK!) (HUGE SCHOOLS OF WALLEYE)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มี.ค. 2020
- In this video I take a trip to Muskegon, Michigan to Spearfish the North break wall and stumble across an old ship wreck known as the Henry Cort, which sank in late November of 1934 trying to enter the Muskegon channel! You can see some of the large interior mechanical parts such as the coal burners and some kind of a gear for the propellers?? Either way, it was really cool and lots of walleye and small mouth bass seemed to like hanging around it. I shot some nice drum and gave some fish to some fellow anglers on the break wall. One of the coolest dives I've been on so far no doubt! More videos coming soon! Make sure to like, subscribe and share if you like what you see!! Thanks for watching!!
That was great. Really enjoyed your vid. Cheers.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!!
This gets better every time I watch it.
Thanks for posting! Love the channel. Can’t wait to see some catch and cook videos!
I’ll do one this summer 🍻😊
Thank you for sharing your fish with them god bless you
Thanks for sharing your experience with the cold water with great viz! You would've had an easy time putting some walleye filets in the freezer if the state allowed.
I live in a part of the Pacific Northwest where smallmouth bass were decimating our sturgeon, steelhead, plus chinook and coho salmon populations returning from the sea. In order to assist salmon, the size and limit restrictions were eliminated. Imagine what good things could be done to help other folks or families in need! Not sure how long it'll be in effect, but my knee replacement will hopefully let me get back to the outdoors activities I love and dearly miss. 🥴
Crystal clear but cold🤣
Can be warm.
That was super fun!
Wow those smallies and eyes are not finicky at all, more curious. It's like swimming in your own personal fish tank, so mesmerizing. Lol, you could probably catch them with a short line hook and bait.
Just stumbled on your channel with this video. This is so cool! From time to time I get a little curious about scuba diving, never ever pondered the Great Lakes until now. Thanks for sharing bro, keep exploring!
Amazing visibility! Never seen so many walleye in one place!
Nice school of Walleye!
Cool shots
These walleyes look freaking huge !
Super interesting to see a largemouth in lake michigan
You shall be known as the Walleye Whisperer of sign language....... Nice Video!
I’m on board with that Lol
You really blessed that family. Some people don’t realize how much some people depend of fishing to eat
blessed them with forever chemicals and heavy metals...there's a reason the state has lake michigan carp listed as "do not eat."
Amazing I’m started to get back into fishing
awesome vid
I used to snorkle years ago on my favorite fresh water lake here in Northern Mi. I used to find a big old bass sitting in top a 55 gallon drum off the diving platform in a brush pile made from locals who dump branches on the ice just before spring thaw. I would pet that big ole bass's tummy. No one could ever catch him. He was lazy and preferred going into shore at night to feed. I always enjoyed swimming among the fishes.
It’s pretty fantastic, like swimming in the aquarium at the zoo or at Cabelas but the fish are wild and lively 👌🏻
he wasnt lazy he was smart. He didnt live long enough to grow that big for no reason. As bass get older n bigger they become smarter and learn to be more selective about there food. Only eating prey deemed worthy for the amount of energy expended to catch them. What you described is typical big bass behavior and without using those tactics these huge bass likely wouldnt be able to grow that big. Its the reason i stopped trying to target trophy bass actually. I'm not necessarily against the trend of big swimbaits n stuff like that to each his own but after learning how much riskier being caught is for the big ones i just felt like i should stop targeting them like that. I'm no Roland Martin im just a regular guy fishing by myself most of the time i dont need to catch giants anymore im perfectly content with whatever i can catch. Although i still do get excited when i hook a big one i cant lie i just dont target them exclusively.
I would be too scared of a freighter passing over to dive in the Great Lakes. Wonderful footage, and I’m jealous of those walleye!
Just look up before you come up 😅
Huge walleyes :)
Nice Drum!
I thought you'd see more lures stuck to wreckage. Awesome footage, the fish weren't as skittish as I thought they'd be.
It’s out to far to cast to from the jetty. Probably why there wasn’t any down there
I’ve seen other divers use fishin rods under water! I know I would for them eyes! Anyway awesome footage! Love seeing my favorite fish on camera!
Makes me hungry for walleye!!
after meeting you on The Outdoors Conquest ..vid is exactly what i expected ...spectacular!!. thanks bud
Thank you bro 💪🏻🍻🤙🏻
It looks cold and glad you took out a carp
Just hit that Sub button. I love Lake Michigan, grew up in Northwest Indiana. I'd love to do what you are doing on my channel in the future. Be safe. Good luck
Amazing beautiful footage! We are SO blessed with such clear clean waters in Michigan. Tried to find a place to swim in Eastern Indiana and the few rivers & reservoirs we found were too polluted or murky & muddy. And wow how do you hold your breath SO long!
If you call that clear water, you should come to Norway 😅
100% agree. Happy to be here. But a lot of the breath hold is just being comfortable in the water.
@@SpaceflightSimulator who asked
@@aaronreel3823 Well, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
He doesn't hold his breath, male free divers breath through there anus.
There is a organ in there left over from when we were submerged in the womb
Haha just spent a long night on Muskegon lake trolling for walleye. Stupid drum are everywhere. That wreck holding a lot of smallies.
Brian Schindlbeck the wreck always seems to have good numbers and size out there. Particularly where the thermocline is. Something about the temp change they like to hangout around.
Awesome video dude!
Thanks bro! 😁
Great video as always, thanks for sharing. I also want to try spearfishing in Lake Michigan this summer but am not quite sure what wetsuit to get. Would you mind sharing how thick yours is and whether it's made of open cell neoprene?
transsib A 5mm open cell wetsuit is your all-around choice for freediving/spearfishing the Great Lakes. He’s wearing a Cressi apnea. Good suits. Great Lakes Divers carry the full Cressi line and are the only dive shop in Michigan that specializes in freediving and spearfishing equipment and training: Cressi, JBL, C4 and we are the only authorized Riffe dealer in the US Great Lakes. Look us up and give us a call!
transsib what they said lol
I went diving off some of the piers and there is so many huge fish down there, one day I’ll try spear fishing and get something good to eat
Pretty impressive how you can hold your breath
Now I can see the difference between the ocean, the waves are really small, but other than that everything looks the same, the beach it's even better than the coast where I live.
Some days are better than others with the waves but for sure not having anything much bigger than 10ft. The biggest difference is the biodiversity in fish and reefs. Great Lakes haven’t been around as long as the oceans soo not as much time to get sharks and stuff like that. But the beaches are pretty nice in this part!
The waves can get really big, I live in Chicago and a few years ago there were 26' waves off Chicago per the marine report. Washed over and flooded Lake Shore Drive.
Fantastico questo lago, sembra di stare su una spiaggia del Salento.
I watched the entire video---- good stuff. Interesting that the wallleye are so curious. Also, nice of you to share the fish. You know those guys told everyone they caught them!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it! I told them they could tell everyone they caught them if they wanted to 😂
lol the bass were so friendly!
Fellow (West) Michigander here and word on the street is that our DNR just recently opened up Lake Trout, Walleye, and Pike to spear fisherman. I’ll still likely end up calling about it before I go for ‘em though. Great video and perhaps I’ll see ya out there this year. Haha
Yes sir. I was the man who moved it through the the DNR and got it approved by the NRC last year 🤙🏻 check out my Instagram for the details 🍻
Awwww man I wish I could swim I've always wanted to go spearfishing.
Excellent content. Joined the channel Ttys God bless
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Damn. Shallow, clear and calm. I’m coming out there in a couple weeks from Cali, for sure bringing my gear now. Won’t have to worry about these pesky great whites up there haha.
Yah, us Michiganders don't take kindly to fish like that LOL 😂 I enjoy swimming and camping and fishing without fear of anything, even bugs.
At the top of the food chain in a body of water with your speargun- That has to be a strange feeling😂
NAH JUST BULL SHARKS .......
Don't believe the bull shark crap I came to see if someone comment on bull shark sure enough I found one Michigan has no DOCUMENTED PROOF OF BULL SHARK just people trying to get attention by false reporting a sighting.
@@insertnamehere313 IDK ........NEVER SAY NEVER DOCUMENTED BULLS WAAAAAAAY UP THE MISSISSIPPI.....?
I’ve been searching for a Lake Michigan spear fishing channel for SSOOO long! I’m so happy I found you! I live in Indiana 15 minutes from Lake Michigan and I have my dive gear and I’m about to get my speargun. Which one do you have I couldn’t make out what brand....I’ve been looking into the $100 cressi.
Well I’m glad to be the one you found 🤙🏻 the gun I’m using here is a Mako 80cm. There’s plenty of options out there, but i would make sure you get a gun that has at least 2 bands and nothing made of metal for wishbones (the part that loads onto the spear). And make sure it has a safety as well. Lol
Very cool. I have been wanting to get into this since I was out on the west coast Santa Cruz area. Have my cressi 5mm with fins etc just need the gun and the float and the lungs
Live in Chicago maybe and to jump in and explore off montrose
This was amazing. I've got to visit these lakes.
Just seeing the algae on the jetty rocks, takes me back to living near the Atlantic ocean. Never thought the lakes had algae like that on it's rocks. Only thing missing is mussels and barnacles.
So curious to know what these lakes smell like.
they're like freshwater oceans since they're so massive
@@TheWerttyFiles They're fascinating and very intriguing.
Ice Fishing rods under water works great to catch bass. I wonder if you could with walleye!
Only one way to find out 😈
Beautiful video. Great Lakes can be dangerous. Get a dive buddy.
Everytime I dive like that, all I can think of is lake placid😂
what’s that
@@jacksouthey6694 lol.... Alligator movie
That's crazy how fearless those walleye are. In Utah they are super skiddish, probably because we are allowed to spear them there. It's a shame you can't take them in Michigan
Shane Andersen soon my friend! 😎
Also, they’re not typically this curious. Most of the time they’re tailing it lol
Mainly because we love our walleye here in Michigan. And spearing them would diminish our fisheries. We already have too many charter's swamping our waters and overfishing to the point where we don't even catch smelt anymore.
@@hellosweetheart3350 fishery Management is important. However, even if spearfishing were allowed it would account for a microscopic amount of the total take. The catch rate for spearfishing walleye is probably a little less than fishing for them. I do both
@@hellosweetheart3350 that couldn’t be anymore of an inaccurate statement. It’s simply Bc there’s such a small community of (speargunner’s) that exist in this state and none of them actually took the proper steps to get the fisheries division to make more table worthy game fish available. Dr. Herbst is the aquatic species affairs unit manager and he made it very clear that the resource could absolutely, unequivocally support our method of harvest at the same rate as hook and line anglers. We’ve put together a proposal Which will be voted on by the NRC this summer when they finish reviewing it with the warm and cold water resource steering committees. The warm water committee already voted majority in favor (11-4) of the proposal adding walleye, pike and lake trout to the species list. So expect to see that change in the 2022 regulations 👌🏻
It's amazing how many people think freshwater drum are "trash fish". More for us!
They get a bad rap because they don't freeze well, they get mushy then. But they're fine when fresh.
I bet carp from that water isn't too bad. Freaking walleye are like barn yard chickens!
Take and ice fishing rod with a soft plastic for those walleye they are better table fair than them carp nice vid!!
Great idea
Catch fish under water with a lure
You might need a net
I'd take carp over walleye any day
My buddy and I ate the tail meat from a carp. Tasted great. We didn't figure out how to fillet the rest due to all the bones.
I have yet to cook one up that tasted any good honestly lol I’ll have to keep trying
jetty??! lol in Michigan they call them peirs. Cool video 👍
It’s a rock jetty lol and thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Take a rod with you and some bait and catch them underwater it's so fun.....
LOVE TO SEE THAT CONTENT......CAN U SPEAR WALLEYE?
@@craigbielsky115 no
Should take a fishin rod down there, a fiberglass clear rod, maybe a fly reel or straight line reel for less maintenance, and catch those walleye
Cool like
What you do with the sheepshead?
Is it just me, or did those noises make me feel like a jumpscare was about to happen?
Ong
Yeh
Awesome video! where can I get info about what type of fish you can shoot in Lake Michigan?
Michigan fishing regs sir 🤙🏻
Moved here from cali. Free dove there shot amazing fish and grabbed hundreds of lobsters. Gonna start driving lake m. Got any good info on do's and don'ts
Many dont know but carp (or carplike) fish are the most consumed on Earth for freshwater fish.
Our fav
How deep is the cort?
Ivliked this, but I would enjoy this more with a bit more explanation. I know nothing about fishing, but i love Lake Michigan and want to know more about both fishing and LM.
What was the first fish you caught? What was the second one and did you give it away?
What fish are you hoping for?
What are those stone and metal structures under the water?
Hi. I'm new to spearfishing in Michigan. How can you hold your breath that long? I can barely search fish in the bottom. Also, please tell me if you have suggestions on gears to support breath.
Breath holds are more about being comfortable in the water for me. But maybe look into taking a freedive lvl 1 class might be helpful as well.
@@purelymispearfishingdiving6278 Thank you very much!
How long has that been legal in Muskegon? It was fairly recent they legalized that in grand haven near the south pier
You’re misinterpreting the regs. The gamefish are legal south of grand haven and south of the thunderbay river in Lake Huron. Its legal on all bodies of water in year round for the “rough fish”
Just curious, are you holding your breathe the entire time? How do you hold it for so damn long?
I am lol a lot of it just has to do with being comfortable in the water. Watching TH-cam videos on Freediving help along with running and swimming fairly regular.
Where exactly is this spot atttt I’m trying to find some fun fresh water spots in Wisconsin/Michigan
how do you hold your breath for so long?
whats that noise around 10:17 ?
Carlo Comfortability in the water and practice. The noise is boat motors coming out into the lake from the channel
@@purelymispearfishingdiving6278 I was wondering the same thing. I thought that sound may have been air tanks as well. Didnt sound like the typical boat sound from underwater. That is a long time to be holding your breath.
@@gregpopp4847 Scuba gear is to bulky and expensive for what i do. lol but the more i dive the better i get at breath holds
How long can you hold your breath under water?? 😮
Please tell me you’re actually eating the drum. They’re very good eating especially in fish tacos
Indeed
What temperature range do you switch to 7mm wetsuit
I don’t have one but the coldest I’ve dove in with my 5mm was 42 degrees for about an hour or so. Wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t like super fun lol but I might invest in a 7mm for the early spring to try for burbot and white fish in Lake Huron
What gun are you using?
I'm surprised your channel hasn't blown up with subscribers! This is some amazing video showing some nice sized walleye! This just got me excited to get out and start jigging.
I also have a great idea for you, have a friend cast some crank baits from shore as your chilling with the walleyes and see how enticed they are with lures. Maybe switch it up with some jigs and spoons. I would love to see that!
I love your idea. Problem is they aren’t within casting distance. lol but i have jigged for smallmouth under water like this with some success
Maybe I’ll go find those videos and post it for you to enjoy 😊
@@purelymispearfishingdiving6278 yes please!
Omg how I want to catch those bass
Where on Lake MI is this? State park?
Where the hell are you at that the water is that calm? I'm from Kenosha and man the water here is treacherous. And a murky green.
You need to go further out
What spear gun is that looking to get into spear fishing on Michigan
That’s from a company called Mako.
Under water serial killer vibes lol
Your the first person I've ever seen that eats freshwater drum...how do you cook it?
I just cook it like any other fish honestly lol
The only thing is that the meat is denser than most fish, especially the bigger the drum. Soo small drum are better. Big ones are best inedible lol
I was dying laughing at those asian guys excited about a huge carp😂
they were stoked
They didn’t go back home empty handed lol
Sounds like you never ate carp before it’s actually good
@@mortwally3510 they’re terrible. 🤢
@@mortwally3510 not the carp here in Michigan
huge smallmouth and black's
Do you know anyone who teaches spearfishing around Chicago?
I looked at the video timer one time you surfaced it was at 15:50 ! When you call it free diving I noticed you weren't in SCUBA gear.
Are you not breathing for the length of times you're under water??? !!! Holy cow.
Awesome Video! We should get together and do some awesome spear filming this coming summer!
I’m sure we can make that happen 👌🏻
Can I crash this party? Would really love to find some people to dive with in the Midwest
@@andriandmit We are always down! Hit us up! We will have updates on fishing conditions so you will know when the perfect time is!
@@andriandmit I’m sure we can make something happen 👌🏻
When was this?
Chicago Lake Michigan water looks no way near how blue and clear that water you are swimming in. LOL
Away from the shore it does
Do you know what shipwreck that is?
drum sheeps head same same
Nice video! What month was that?
Bill Schriver this was June i believe, but i was just out there this weekend and seen them again
Here's a great tip for staying warm! Boil water with sand (same volume). Carefull fill a 1 gallon zip lock. Insert in wetsuit in front but depending on time of boil to trip time it will likely still be too hot so you may have to mix in cold water a bit so you don't get burned. I have done this with just water but still had to use a weight belt. With sand not as much weight belt needed.
Water and silica can hold heat for an extremely long time.
Instead of shivering you can actually be very comfortable as the waters swishes around in your wet suit. It can make an otherwise miserable dive very pleasurable and it costs next to nothing. You could even make it hotter and wrap it in a second layer of something but it could risk getting you burned.
Interesting. I’ll have to look into it
Do you happen to know what type of fish those were swimming in a school in the beginning?
Probably shad
They were shad I’m pretty sure. Surprisingly no predator fish to speak of really in the area.
Could be Alewives. Large schools of them this year. Like anchovies. Invasive fish from the ocean.
@@driftless1870 you say invasive, I say feeder fish, that's when the walleye and pike come to feed.
Bro how do you practice to last so long underwater?
Just being comfortable in the water mostly. lol couple TH-cam videos lol
What kind of fish was that you gave away?
Jason 000 it was an assortment of suckers and drum
Carp
How tick is wetsuit ? 👍
5mm
What mm suit is that?
I’m using a 5mm 2 piece open well wetsuit. And I’m about 25ft down at this spot
I’m from gr. This is dope
Erickson carpenter glad you like it 🤙🏻
Where is this at?
It’s all in the description 🤙🏻
A drum mouth? They have such creepy pharyngeal teeth 😂 I found a tooth on the Huron Bay... 🤢 I thought it was a fossil... Took a picture and ran a scan through Google and found out it was their teeth 😂...