Living The Dream on Vancouver Island (King Crab Catch & Cook)  

Thanks Jacob! I have a few in the works. Trying to find the time is the hard part aha.

Yeah, depends on where you dive. Super beautiful but yeah, collect wisely I suppose!

Me too, so amazing!

@@PNWSamson hey man love your channel, I was wondering what town is the best home base on the island for accessing good spearfishing spots? So far, I've concluded campbell river might be the best. Is that true?

I appreciate that man! Yeah, it's sad to see places getting treated with little to no respect. I'll be honest, I've come a long way over the years. Jumping into the ocean and seeing the environments first hand has really helped drive my passion for sustainability.

Amazing, thanks so much man! It's comments like this that keep me going. Really means a lot, cheers!

Yeah dude for sure! Exciting for the next one. In fact, I can't wait!! 😬😬

Happy you think so man! My topic is pretty niche. It's all a labor of love though so all good!

We missed you man! And thanks, I appreciate that bro!

Haha thanks brother. Will do!

Likewise man, and cheers! Appreciate that.

Thanks Shane! I really appreciate the comments. You're the man!

Thanks man! If you're in Vancouver, come say whatsup! Be nice to meet you one day. And totally, the little things go unnoticed until they're right in front of my mask. It's crazy what's out there and what I've yet to encounter.

Nice dude good luck! And no worries!

Hell yeah man, I'll let you know! Sorry, I should have sent the invite for day one.

My pleasure! Cheers

I feel the same way haha. Damn cold and obligations!!

Thanks Robert! Welcome. Our coast is amazing, hard to beat it!

Yeah man, that one Clayton found was huge. They get so big, it seems like such a waste to take a Dungeness size one home. Let them grow, produce some offspring, and then take them home after a few life cycles. It's absolutely absurd that the DFO doesn't implement a size restriction. Such complete nonsense. It's spelt Salp, they are such weird creatures. Same with the sea angles! Super beautiful though. And thanks, come say hi if you're free! The talk should be fun but the booth day is what I'm really looking forward too! Both will be exciting.

Thanks man! I did that dive up the arm last winter during the snow storm, that was magical. The same guy keeps inviting me back up, I need to find some time!

Hey man! Being a diver is somewhat challenging in Vancouver. The expensive part is taking the ferry over to Vancouver Island all the time. It's a good time though, I used to load a vehicle up and we'd do day trips all the time. To get geared up, you're looking at $1000-$2000 depending on the equipment. If you respect the gear you can get years of solid use from it though. I'd recommend checking out my educational playlist which covers pretty much everything you need to know to dive locally. Also swing by divingsports in Vancouver on main street, they'll have everything you need and are great people.

Good question! Probably within the week or so. Feel free to join! spearosamson@gmail.com hit me up!

Vancouver Island! Out of respect to the environment and fellow harvesters, I try and be discreet around the places I visit. I fear my footage is already too revealing. It's an internal struggle I deal with every time I post a video. Sorry! 😬

@@PNWSamsonIt is appreciated! Same as camping spots and fishing spots. If you want to know where they are, you have to put in the work to find them yourself. Once you achieve such an accomplishment you will immediately understand why you shouldn’t just give them up to be overrun. To divulge is to destroy. My pet peeve is RU-vidrs who give up the spots for Patreon money…

@@HalcyonGuitars Yeah man, the most exciting and rewarding days I've had are the ones where I discover a new spot. It doesn't hit the same when someone leads you right to it. People selling locations on Patreon? Never knew that was a thing... Crazy.

@@PNWSamson Yeah, for only 30$ a month you can buy my GPS history…

@@dumpbear0 Sorry, you lost me at "I'm a commercial fisherman." No offense, but you are the last person who should be preaching about sustainability. One of the main reasons the ocean is so f$@cked is because of over fishing. Not to mention the millions of tons of lost plastic fishing gear that enters our marine environment on a yearly basis. Hell, just the other day another humpback whale was entangled in a fish net off our coast. Puget sound king crabs are open for harvesting. Daily limit of one with a possession limit of two. There is no commercial opening (thank god as they would be gone in no time), they rarely come up to dive able depths and they don't enter recreational fishing traps. If you want to get angry about something, email the DFO and ask them to implement a minimum size restriction, an annual limit and show sex identification on their website like I've been doing every year for the last 5. Currently they have none of the above... I'm pretty discreet about the locations I visit. I don't share locations with strangers and I delete comments when people spot drop. Our marine environment is beautiful, as you are well aware, and the more people who explore it will understand why it's so important to protect it. I know this first hand. Ocean lovers are not the ones going around leaving garbage... We go around and clean up garbage. Virtually every dive I go on in cleaning up fishing line and lures. I had a guy comment that he caught a Puget sound king crab while jigging, it was entangled in fishing line... I bet you won't stop angling will you? Like it or not, Vancouver Island is a beautiful world class destination. I hope you don't travel abroad, I'm sure some people in Mexico feel the same way you do.