Welcome to my fishing lifelist channel! Here we'll exploring Puerto Rico and the globe in an attempt to catch as many species of fish as possible. Videos are only a snapshots of certain sections of the list and convey new species in a way that is both interesting and educationally valuable.
Current Hook-and-line in-the-mouth fish life list count: 710 -- Hunter J. Greenway • Bachelors degree in Freshwater Fish Conservation from Virginia Tech, 2019. • Work experience as a Fisheries Technician for Virginia Tech, the University of Georgia, and the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, prior Virginia Tech Teaching Associate, and current U.S. Coast Guardsman. In most of these occupations I focused on studying life history patterns of rare riverine species such as Candy Darters, Roanoke Logperch, Orangefin Madtoms, and Suwannee Bass. I've accumulated a wealth of knowledge about aquatic ecosystems and strive to share it with y'all!
I'm assuming you have California golden trout, Little Kern Golden trout, Kern River Rainbow, and Lahontan Cutthroat. If not, and you want to come to California - i'll put you on em
Canary rockfish LOL I'd call that a Donald Trump fish too much orange makeup LOL tee. hehehe. Awesome video dude totally enjoyed it. I live in Port Angeles and now I want to fish near Bay. Good job on documenting your adventure bro
Why do return invasive species to the water? Is that the law/rule in PR or should you kill invasives? I know iguana hunting year round is a thing in PR because they are invasive.
I’m not aware of any law about having to kill the non-desirable invasive fish species while fishing. I don’t like rules like that anyways, it just promotes want-and-waste which is way more egregious than releasing an already well established fish species that ain’t harming any species of concern. There is a law on what fish species can be imported to PR for aquaria and in a perfect world that’s supposed to stop new invasives from arriving.
@@IHUNTA Nice I used to have a kayak but I had to sell it a while ago. I do plan on getting another one. I was always afraid to go in the ocean by myself
They're not weird plants. You're all a bunch of colonizers. Get off of Voriken and turtle Island and give it back to the indigenous people and go back to Europe.
Hard to remember. During moderate-high water level motoring downstream I think it cumulatively took a little over 2 hours. That’s not including trying to go over or around the big state line rapids where the river loops down into FL for a bit which we never tried.
The end of a 4 piece rod I believe. I like using the 2.5’ end of a fly rod or broken off end of any rod. Just make sure the rod isn’t too bendy or flimsy since water puts a lot of resistance on underwater hooksets. It’s good to have some power behind the hook set.
Did you move to PR? Im there now on vacation. Caught a ton of species from shore in Vieques. Ill be in Ceiba next week. Ive got some good spots near there for Snook / Tarpon. Nice videos documenting your catches, SUBSCRIBED 👍
Love the info you give us on the fish you catch and the adventures from spot to spot. Those roads in PR are a different game lmao, the mosquitoes don’t play around either lmao
Just got back from a 2 week vacation in Puerto Rico. Did a bit of what you’re doing just only salt water, couldn’t find a fresh a decent looking freshwater spot for bigger fish than what you’re shooting for. Hooked up on a fat tarpon on a beach in Aguadilla tho !
Why didn’t you fish near the outer side of the snorkeling trail i read about there regulations and it say nothing about fishing being prohibited but what was prohibited was taking aquarium or tropical fish as well as no spear fishing
@@IHUNTA just watched it pretty cool video. Is that as far you could go? Or were you just trying to stay away from the little boat wrecks that they made into a small reef?
If you want to catch a ton of fish you should go to the Carraizo dam in trujillo alto. I’ve caught guapotes, cat fish, peacock bass, large mouth bass, tarpon, guabinas, snook and diablillos. And with all the rain the pools that form under the dam should be packed with fish. If you have any questions about the place I’ll be glad to answer them
I’ve been below that dam a few times and managed to stumble into a Guapote infinity glitch. Need to fish the lake upstream of there for Rio Grande, Wolf, and Firemouth Cichlids once my kayak gets released from hacienda… Cool you’ve found Peacock Bass and Tarpon there!
That's awesome! I just recently caught a big Barred Grunt at Playa los Machos! I was looking everywhere to find out what species are around PR but not much luck for non game fish. Where do u go to learn the different species that are around? I live in PR if you ever wanna fishing friend. Your content is awesome! Keep it up!
Nice, they fight like tanks for grunts! I was actually at Playa los Machos last week interesting place. For all saltwater fishes in PR the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute runs a free website and app(Fishes: Greater Caribbean) that you can use to query all fish species in the Caribbean as well as the Tropical E. Pacific. The book "A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes of Bermuda, Bahamas, and the Caribbean Sea" also covers most Caribbean fishes. Both sources provide methods to ID each species, range, and habitat details. For freshwater, USGS has an invasive species query you can use and there's a useful 2020 publication on Google Scholar called "An island invaded by exotics: a review of freshwater fish in Puerto Rico". The INaturalist website can be helpful for both as well.
There are, just generally too warm. Rock Castle Creek at Raven Den lane had a ridiculous high density of stocked trout when we shocked there in the summer and if you go way up in the Rock Castle gorge there are a decent number of small wild Brown Trout. The Smith around Iron Bridge used to be loaded with the endemic Roanoke Bass but a fish kill must’ve wiped most of them out in ~2019, hopefully there’s enough left to bounce back.
@@IHUNTA I was asking because I have fished the lower smith for wild trout. Brown trout. And I have also fished rock castle and runnet bag creek for wild trout. But I have been wondering about the upper smith and if any wild trout live there. Any way I could message you privately some how?
I don’t remember ever shocking up or seeing a wild trout in the Upper Smith proper, I’m sure some get washed down down from the tribs every now and then but they wouldn’t be full time residents. You can dm me at IHUNTA_Fishes_2 on Instagram
Hey, im puerto rican and I’ve lived here for most of my life, I make videos and stuff going to different rivers and lakes with my kayak fishing bass and peacock bass, I moved to Florida about mid pandemic a couple years ago and that’s when I started fishing, I moved back recently and now I can’t stop fishing everywhere I go, I wanted to ask if you would like to go check out some good spots for big largies
Thank you! Been fishing around Toa Alta recently and that’s fun for Redhead Cichlids, Oscars, Peacock Bass, etc. Fishing around Campo Rico has become a favorite as well.
