I HOOKED THE BIGGEST FISH OF MY LIFE!!! Florida Keys Fishing - 7 Mile Bridge
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“Diagnolating” is 2023 word of the year. You didn’t waste no time. Added to my dictionary. Thank you Justin.
First fish Mangrove snapper, second fish was a Jack Crevalle, third was a Grunt, fourth Yellow Grunt, fifth Tarpon, and last was a shark or even a giant Manta Ray. You don't want to anchor while you fish on a Kayak, if you hook a large shark and takes you to board side, he will push you and the kayak into the water quicker than you can think. yours truly, a Big Pine Key resident and avid fisherman.
I was gonna come tell him what the fish were and then i seen u beat me to it!! Lol good job!!
What about drag control... Seems like catfish kayak would know a thing or two about really tightening or loosening drag from ⚓... But I don't know... Maybe he would have been sunk or maybe he has patience and intuition on what to do. Me on the other hand being an inexperienced angler wouldn't be on anchor, but seems like he had a ton of line to let fish run.
Fish stories lol
Had to pause this to say, Justin I swear I FELT that snap @16:26 in!!😫😫😫
Thanks Justin for sharing your time and the love for fishing with us loved to have seen it but we can just dream how big he was thanks!! Glad you're safe
you got nothing to b ashamed of, you got what might be the biggest fish story of your life, a story you will fight fish for years to beat...great video.
And just when I thought your videos couldn’t get better!!! Love it😊
Man that looks like it would have been one heck of a good time. Awesome video. Its unreal the power those ocean fish have. The first one dragging you two miles up stream, then the second dragging you that far out and for that long. Just Awesome
One thing I’ve learned the hard way, when you’re going after the saltwater predators. You have to make sure that braid is tight as humanly possible when you spool it. Other wise you lock down the drag and it does what it did to you.
YEP! Tighten down the drag when spooling your line.
Fun times!!! Story to talk about for years to come.
It’s likely you wouldn’t have wanted to see that fish. That could have been a 10’ shark! Could have knocked you off the kayak. Awesome fishing brother.
I'd been waiting on this follow up.... caught the live a few weeks back ..what an awesome experience that must have been. Love it
Thanks Marvin!
What a ride!!! I love catching big cats & stripes, but if I lived near the coast, you couldn't pull me off of the salt water! So much variety - and size!
Lol i love that u just make up new words as u go!!
Your a hellacious fighter never giving up ! Thanks for sharing
This man is an absolute legend!! 🤙
Awesome Elias was looking out for you and your safety really enjoy his channel to. Have a good day and stay safe Jimmy from North Attleboro Massachusetts
Yup....you'd have a blast caching some giant columbia river sturgeon!
I think the one that you never saw was great granddad channel cat seeking revenge! LOL Just playin'! Great video, see ya in February!
My goodness brother.. keep the videos coming!! Glad I subscribed to your channel.
Keep on with the amazing content!
9:19 That was absolutely a tarpon. That last jump after the breakoff confirmed it for me.
Seriously doubt it was a Tarpon, no jump no tarpon. I fish in a tarpon club and have seen many many landed, 99% will jump. Having fished the keys quit a bit I would bet maybe a big hammerhead, they fight like no other and tend to run straight . My second or 3rd guess is a goliath or a giant brown turd/ nurse shark. Good job fighting.
@@matthewmercer2477 Oh, I see. I'm not talking about the big fish. I agree that that fish was a large shark, ray, or goliath. I'm talking about the one at 9:19 in the video.
Awesome, iam actually planning my first trip down there with the kayak this year, super excited to try my hands on the 7 mile bride
Man! That’s a beautiful spot!
Looks like your having fun. That's mostly important.
this is awesome. great spot for fishing
Wow amazing...big fish broew
It was fun to watch.
You had me on edge man , so exited you hooked into a big one, sad you didn't catch those two but what an awesome video! 👏
I fish the Gulf about an hour south of Tampa in a Tarpon fishing club. Early in the season we use mullet, later when it warms up it's hard head cats or we be fighting sharks every cast. Mackerel are 100% the best bait for sharks. If I use chunk bait I will not use wire, I don't want to handle big sharks. 40-60lb mono works. If it's smal you can get them, much bigger they cut you off. Win win. When It comes to sharks, NOTHING compares to a hammerhead fight, it's just different. When it comes to cats Justin your the man, when it's everything else, my man Elias may be the best all around kayak fisherman on you tube.
Welcome to florida keys my friend 17:18
It's perfectly legal to use mangrove snappers for bait in Florida, however the minimum size of 10" applies.
This is awesome man you're living my dream and I'm about positive pictures too good luck to you be safe
24:38 Those are buoy markers for crab and lobster pots for commercial fisherman
Great video!!!
DUDE!! What a wild ride!!
Old Man and the Sea!!
That was an awesome video! Cool!
Justin that was epic.
Justin you’re the man
Aww man. Unlucky you lost the biggun Justin. Great video....
I watched the live stream and still today I hate that it got off but that had to be an awesome 2 hours. It’s all about the pursuit.
thats why u wanna use mono anywhere in the ocean almost. yeah u can get more line on the reel with braid but in a yak you can chase the fish down
Big fish not only break your line they break your heart😂
Those markers are probably crab traps. The sharks will head strait for them. They are super smart.
Shark homie...shark.
Another great video thank you sir!!!!!!!!
Thanks Chris!
Keep it up doing good
very nice vid, I met Ellis bout 10 yrs ago in NY
Throwing all those nice grunts back hurt... Lol At least you learned about the species on this trip! Nice fish, sir. 😁
The man and the sea.
there is nothing more entertaining on the web, buddy!
This makes me want to try this
wow tht was cool,.
Gotta love them crab pots…..😂😅😢
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Thanks for checking out my channel!
For myself, all I can say is that I'm extremely glad that it was the Coast Guard who turned up to check on you and not the monster who was towing you who turned around to see how vulnerable its haul was to being capsized and consumed. A creature capable of towing you around for two hours surely must have been capable of turning the tables on you. Please be careful when fishing in the ocean. Your enthusiasm for blue gills cannot protect you there.
Omg I know how this feels, and the fact you don’t even saw it… hope you land the next big one
Great video. It's neat to see someone saltwater fishing Fl that doesn't know what they are catching. I think your viral title would have been "I Hooked The Biggest Fish Of My Life (Coastguard Called)" that is if you had the coastguard footage. I'll be tuning in for this series!
Those bouys are crab or lobster traps. Depending on the time of year.
When I lived down there I had a 50 wide Penn and a heavy duty rod with 200lb braid and hung some of those sharks I couldn't slow down and I caught some longer than my 12ft Wilderness Systems ATAK 120 but there are some absolute monsters out there. My favorite fishing I've ever done and I've caught 50+lb flathead in the Ohio River.
Had this happen to me at Fort Morgan last year. I was pretty burnt from shark fishing and decided to downsize my bait and hook by a lot, no action all morning until my rod went. Ten minutes of the fish just ripping full drag later it broke me off and it'll haunt me for the rest of my life what it could have been.
Let's go !
Badass..even tho you didnt land him im still happy for u .i know that was funnnnnn...
that first one that got away was for positive a small tarpon, and the buoys are floats for crab traps.
Great video, that was a Cero Mackerel they are the best eating of the Mackerel, great sashimi. Dang with you would have eaten that bad boy!
It could have been a Goliath grouper i wouldn't doubt that at all because they like to hang around bridges and docks for the baitfish
That second fish was a jack crevalle, super hard fighting fish, I remember getting my ass kicked on a shark rod with 100 pound test by 30 pound jacks, couldn’t believe how hard those damn things pull
I bet you had a shark Man that looed fun And Man that would suck Thanks for sharing man
At 21:59 I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that buoy and rope probably is attatched to a lobster trap on the bottom. There is a pretty good size industry in south florida/keys for commercial lobstering and those spiny lobsters are delicious I definitely recommend trying some spiny lobster and some conch fritters while youre in the Keys!
You launched at my favorite kayak launch area. I use the ramp on the other side of Overseas HWY when I launch my boat. There are a lot of great fish in that area. I would bet that the two big fish that you hooked up were big nurse sharks or goliath groupers. Those are the usual ones that drag a kayak around and like to break lines.
A goliath would have run right back in its hole and not come out. They don't make long runs like that.
Is that launch on the Marathon end or the South end?
@@SSHitMan I have never hooked into one, so I wasn't sure about those, but I have my share of nurse hookups. They are some of the best fights.
@@rogerilgrande3653 That is Veterans Beach. It is on the south west end of the 7mile.
Go get em hoss... Bet it warmer in fla.
Mackerel is good bait. Jack's are good too.
Tarpon are fun to fight, but grouper is yummy.
Probably crab pots on the floats
Dude no way I'm down here too! Doing a fishing charter tomorrow in key west!!!
Jason I can't top this, actually I can't come even close. Thanks for the exercise you got plus the action around those commercial traps. Getting to old at 79 to ever fight a fish for that long from a kayak. THANKS!!
Thanks Dave!
lmao,, you did the "old man and the sea" fish
Man that was heartbreaking for you. Heck of a long fight though.
Have to put out the chum bag, that is the key to bridge fishing
Flashbacks to Santiago (played by Spencer Tracy) in the 1958 film "The Old Man and the Sea". It was based on the Earnest Hemingway novel by the same name. He hooked into a giant marlin longer than his fishing skiff. It pulled him away from Cuba toward the Florida Keys. Of course, the old man actually landed the giant fish and he was using nothing but a hand line, not a tricked out Daiwa reel on a Golly Whopper rod (smile). Almost all the movie was about him fighting that fish day and night. My personal theory is that your giant fish was doing everything he could to get away from the UT hat : )
Thought the fish got ate by shark's so it was all for naught.
#Boom!
I was thinking exactly of that epic...
Now you have an epic #FishTale of your own to (almost...) rival the classics!
The absolute BEST novel ever written!
Think the word is cattywampus
Damn bro crazy
Awesome video Mister Justin
Thanks Levi!
@@KayakCatfish your welcome man
Marine Radios Justin! Not expensive and you don't have to worry about your cell phone.
That was a lady fish. They call it the poor man's tarpon. A blast to catch and great bait. Super bloody.
At least you got a good fight what it’s all about
I'm pretty sure those are crab pot markers you were tangled up in. I've fished the outer banks in NC and those are all over. Fish or not, that was one hell of a video Justin. Maybe next time. Good luck brother!!!
Thanks Mike!
the yellow and grey grunts are great bait
NEVER caught anything using a grunt and I threw out a ton. Pin fish hell yes but inshore no luck w grunts, don't know why.
I'm guessing stone crab trap markers. Great video.
Peralatan pancing yang sangat bagus sobat
Mancing di bawah jembatan memang bagus ada banyak ikan di bawahnya
Salam kenal dari Indonesia sobat
Here we go again
Thanks for watching again!
Keep going you be in Cuba soon lol good luck
The Spanish mackerel that you caught taste really good. Having watched fishaholic's Rich get a fish taken from him by a shark right next to his kayak, you probably really didn't want to get whatever you hooked near you😧
Yeah florida fish don't mess around
Please remember to hose down your tackle after you are done. Salt water can destroy your stuff.
Been watching the videos, keep catching um. What has happened with the livescope? You haven't been using it
The grunts make great bait. The mangrove is legal to use as long as it is the legal length to keep, but why use the snapper for bait when you could eat it yourself.
Can't imagine a better time than that
I thought those last two were going to drag you back home!
Gotta keep that slack tight and always keep reeling! I had anxiety watching you fish this video
Eagle ray. I was actually fishing the 7 that day on the marathon end, we saw several big rays free jumping which is common. I’ve caught and landed hundreds of big sharks and they don’t have that stamina, although I’m putting more heat on them from a boat. Definitely not a Goliath they are strong but have no stamina.
he did keep letting pressure off it, and if you aren't putting the stick to em at all times they get stamina back real quick. Could've been either, big ray or shark, but like you said definitely not a grouper. They don't run like that.
Awesome video, Justin! What cameras are you using now? Footage looks very good.
GoPro 10 in this video
Salty Fish 3 = Freshwater Kayack Fisherman 0 :) There is always a next year.