Commercial Mackerel Fishing | Mate For A Day | What Does It Pay? 

You continue to find different things to film for us and it's really impressive. Thanks man. Well done.

Great video as always! Thank you for sharing that a small commercial operation is not always profitable… your channel is one of the few where we see consistently how commercial fisherman operate. Appreciate the hard work.!

That was awesome. Great look into the day to day life of commercial fishing.

Thank you for shedding light on this industry! Great video, as always!

Great video Aaron! Thanks for keeping it real! Being from Atlantic Canada, I’m super happy that the charter captains my friends & I used off Naples didn’t short change us on the merits of kingfish mackerel. It was amazing steaked & filleted on the bbq. Thanks for sharing!!!

Wow, even blurred the lures. That is some Top Secret filming!

Great Video. Really gives more appreciation for who, how, & where the fish come from. Love this type of video. Keep filming we'll keep watching.

Awesome video 📹. Thanks for showing how difficult commercial fishing can be.

Aaron thank you. I fished for kingfish at night out of Palm Beach in 1970 using ballyhoo. Very exciting, very fast fishing, lots of fun. Smoked our catch over oak wood. It's been a year or two but unforgettable. I was working in Stuart, Fla. at the time, fishing on the weekends. Vermont boy just out of the service. Picking oysters on the Indian River. I worked as a surveyor in the Okeechobee Basin, lots of citrus and palmetto, a magic place. Thanks for bringing it back.

So cool, love what youre doing man the mixture of content is awesome. Its always nice to see how other fisheries are executed in other parts of the country/world.

Great insights into what commercial fishing is like.

My uncles and cousins all did the commercial fishing out of Marathon for years, thanks for the video Aaron.

That's why it's called fishing. Thank you for sharing this video

I have fished for Kingfish during the mid-seventies in the lower keys. We filled the boat when we got on the school. The blurred fish in the video look a lot smaller than the 3 to 4 foot catch we enjoyed back then. The fishery must be a lot smaller now. I will say that the schools are usually pretty deep so the lure you use has to be pretty heavy and stand out in the dark of the deep depths. Kings really attack flashes they see when they are biting. Steel leader is a must. I don’t think I have shared too much but I wanted to express a little bit about how we fished for Kings back then.

I commercially kingfished out of Port Canaveral for 25 years along with running charters and working for fire rescue for over 30 years so I definitely understand!

That was a fun change up. Thanks Aaron!

Great video as always …. Very informative and way to keep it REELZ !!

89'-99',nc hook & line grouper/ snapper,,kings/tuna... Love those 12-16 box days,,bigger avg Then & drones/clark/cedar plug behind a bird... downriggers & electramates,, occasionally live bait & spinning spoons, rare tho.. Then a bluefin would crash the party & eat it all...lol Luved it!

Brought back memories. Used to charter and commercial fish off Miami. We used to move the boat up to Jupiter for the kingfish run. Had commercial kingfish permit as well as a restricted species permit. Tough way to make a living. Many viewers probably don't know that king mackerel don't bring near the price per pound as most other fish.

I saw that RU-vid award in the background of your office, congratulations

I can hear Robin Thicke in the background singing “Blurred Lures” 😂

I totally get it Aaron. Thank you for sharing.

Back in the day... 1970's - 80's, I knew of a bunch of Cuban commercial fishermen out of Miami that fished live baits with hand lines only and usually drifting or slow trolling while throwing live chum. Much bigger kings, wooden inboard slow boats.

Hopefully they get on them next time,I’m thankful for those guys every time I go to the fish market

Love the way you tell it like it is. Fished commercially for 6 years! Very tough but I loved it as well as the comrodery! Support your local commercial fisherman. Government pushing us to eat seafood from overseas where there are no oversight. Beware! Tight lines!

Man, that looked like a LOT of work for a small profit. No wonder why charters are necessary to keep so many of these guys afloat. Puts the price tag in perspective. Nice work.

Coming from Texas for the most part everyone considers them a sport fish and say they aren't good eating. Except for smoked fish dips. But I've been living in Qatar for the past 2 yrs and I actually catch meter long kingfish from shore here. The shelf drops off to 20-30 meters deep within 5m from shore. I think they taste amazing. I only caught 2 back when I lived in texas and I remember the meat was really gray like barracuda. These over here have more pink/white flesh.

Great video Aaron,was very interesting.

Thank you for sharing this with us

Love what y’all doing!!😊

Cant be much different than our Diamond Jigs (single hook) for commercial bluefishing. Nice Haul !

You definitely have to have your sea legs, since you are constantly moving on deck. That and the sun beating down on you is stress on the body. Thanks for educating us folks on the business.

Aloha. Love the teamwork between the captains. A community working together. Everyone wins.

I totally get the secrecy Aaron. I have a friend who now lives on the Texas Gulf Coast that does commercial rod/reel fishing and the information regarding the process, gear, and location are largely secret. Showing that online would be akin to tell the whole of your secret fishing lake in the middle of the woods.

Here in Central Florida the limits are different we either have 50 or 75 head depending on the quota in small fish make it really hard wish everyday was 75 head of 20 pound fish but not every day is like that lot of work for little money a lot of times hats off to the men who do

Awesome fishing with captain Jack Sparrow, Loved it🤩! Keep them awesome videos coming👍! Got here new subscriber fisherman from Kazakhstan 😉🖐

Stumbled upon the fleet out there, crazy how far you guys travel, and such a common lure everybody has but nobody can guess it

Thanks for sharing the reality of commercial fishermen. I totally embrace your honesty. Did not know the current end use of Kings till you mentioned it at the end. I have eaten it in my younger days and to say it was terrible is being kind. I am sure it was the way it was cooked. Guessing smoked kingfish might be ok given the oil in the flesh lessening the chance of a dry outcome.

Very insightful, thanks for sharing.

Comerchal fishing is the best job in the world. Love to see all the difrent types

Aaron hi, you’re not rambling… Your just giving us the facts, showing us the realities of this type of fishing.. And you’re really good at explaining things… Stay blessed fam… 🤩🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Just like the walleye bite up here on the Detroit river the last few weeks…..but warmer….

Brutal Honesty. Needs to be heard! Lots of people don’t understand the amount of work that goes into their restaurant plate.

I have never had smoked fish dip, other than salmon dip from AK. Our daughter will be on Islamorada all summer working at as a dive master at the boy scout camp. If we get down to visit for a quick trip I'll have to try some fish dip! If we are there long enough, I wanna reschedule that spearfishing trip or heck, any fish fishing trip,with you!! Oh, I noticed the GVF vinyl next to the banana gun. That's good tunes there!

Great job guys enjoyed it

Thank you for the great video.

Best way to get into commercial fishing: Show up at the docks before sunrise with your gear and a lunch and your journey begins

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

great video, first one with no brain and bleed😀. I cant imagine how much time it took to edit this with the blurring to protect the secrets. We get them here in Tampa bay but not like that. Thanks once again for these videos.

Great nitty-gritty video.

I understand the blurring. I made some lures last year that absolutely killed the Mahi!! Definitely can’t buy something like that in the store, but super easy to make.

Always amazed at how hard the commercial guys beat up the fish. Slamming into the gunnells and deck like they’re trying to knock them out. Maybe it doesn’t make a difference, but I always try to handle them like a dozen eggs when i’m harvesting them for myself.

Yes Sir looks like y’all are on the Mackies!

O'Shaughnessy Open Eye Hooks, 3 hook train with some pogies/ bunker gets them fired up

Great video!

That episode was a serious change in pace. For sure a different look to wetting some lines.

Thanks for the video👍

Thanks for posting

Went 5 years ago witha captain of the Miami Beach in 25 ft of water 500 lb of mackerel in 4 hours just the two of us and it was a blast

#Movinweightfishing Adams the best for commercial kings great dudes over there always tearing the fish up. Would be cool if you jumped in and filmed the school I bet you would see alot of everything thanks for sharing.

I know the secret! It's the blur that makes them work. LOL!

Thanks for the insight, good to know. I’ve also seen people use a giant net for commercial king fishing. Is this something you’ve ever done? I assume you need a much larger boat for that. Cheers 🍻

Thanks for the video! People need to see the other side of the coin.

Interesting twist on an episode, I like it. Just an idea for future ones like this, when you can’t talk so much about how to exactly catch them then maybe something about the fish itself. What is it, how big do they have to be and how big do they get, where do they live etc?

Great video! Sorry about all the ignorant comments.

Got to go fishing down to Rockbottom again.

I'm going to catch a few of those this spring. Tell the big ones to make a run up to Tampa, if you would?

Great video

Awesome video

Always pay the people who provide you service and tip them well, and you will do better in life.

That was wild!! Thanks for sharing that. Yall snatching those mackerel like nothing. Sorry you didn’t make any money . That’s kind of a bummer

Some people have no clue how tough commercial fishing is. Had a few people I knew who did it over the years, it's brutal, IMO. You look much better with your hair cut. lol Now it's much more expensive.

Thanks Aaron! Never mind the haters, love your channel, bro!

Man, if the electric motors/ batteries ever become efficient it could really change the game for commercial fisherman. Thanks for the video !

Whats the usual price per lb? Sounds like a rough go if you gotta catch half a tonne to make a pay.

Hard work out there to make a living. What size BG’s were y’all using, the 5000 or 6500? Love those reels, workhorses

This is some awesome content. Would love to see more of this but I understand why commercial fishermen would be against you filming. It’s very interesting to see

That kinda looks like what i do with a diamond jig😁

Aaron, subscriber here enjoying your videos. I'm curious if the guts have any value or use as crab, shrimp, or lobster bait? Or is it just waste? Keep up the good work. Thanks.

It’s a shame that gas is probably 80% of expenses. I had a crawfish boat back in the 80s and early 90s. Diesel fuel was 67 cents a gallon. Long days fishing on 35 gallons of fuel. Those were the days!

You look like a fellow countryman of me with those Grundéns suspenders 😄✌️

Aaron, your thoughts on a Koah 52" roller gun for wahoo and tuna??

Commercial fishing is a lifestyle, not a job. It is difficult and has highs and lows. My whole family, dad, brother, sister,me, my wife, etc have commercial fished for salmon in Alaska since the 1950’s. My son now fishes the boat his grandpa built, in Cook In.et. Still a tough go, but he loves it and is still doing it. Power on.

I love this vidio, I love fishing

Hey bud this might be a stupid question but I was wondering if brain and bleed is something you could do on a commercial trip? Awesome video!

As a 40 year old fishing the gulf for macks since I could walk its hard to believe there is a secret mackerel rig I haven't seen but then again I've never gone commercial. Good on ya for keeping it hidden. Love some Ted Peter's smoked King dip!

Cool vid

They used to line up like that at the grouper bar when the kings were thick.The fish were a lot bigger when I was there 25 years ago…

Aaron, I want to be a commercial fisherman. How do i go about doing that, being that they dont give out commercial fishing licenses anymore?

Now I want some smoked fish dip

My dad was a pro fisher in the Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia) during the 60-70's. He targeted barramundi specifically. Growing up he would tell us wild stories of what it was like in those days, with how cut off from civilisation it was, it sounded like the wild west.

What did u guys use for bait?

I just don't get how there's a market for them. They're worse then bluefish to eat. Outstanding Blueclaw Crab bait though

Was wondering if you've been seeing any of the "spinning fish" that have been infected by something down there?

Would forward facing sonar increase your ability to catch fish and stay on the schools?

What are they used for?

Diamond jigs with holographic film blurred? Take the wire off you'll get more bites.

TNX 4 VID LOL

Thanks

I can smell it just watching you gut all those fish hahah you got any tips for getting fish stank off the hands?