A lot of people are wondering about what happens next. I walked the fish down about 200 yards to the rocks, handed off the rod, went down and unhooked the fish. She swam off safely to live hopefully many more years to come :)
Could you please give a clear, honest explanation on why the big fish deserves living while the smaller one has to die as living bait with a hook in his back?
Yeah grouper maybe? Are they good table fare? Je probably just cut the line..qho qould bother horsing that thing up the pier, if you're not gonna use him
@@Christian-ml9sxthat's wat i was thinking also wtf would u do that if can't get em in knowing u got cut the line. But hey thats the new generation of ppl today. aka IDIOTS
I'm sitting here wondering how he is going to land it and how is he going to remove the hook if he plans to release it. I fish and these are things I consider when fishing.
Oh they definitely do 🤣 he’s using it very well. If he had tried to put the tip of the rod in the air whilst the “handle” is being punched onto the bar for leverage it might’ve broken. If you were joking about the rod breaking then my apologies 😂
@@caleb3912 Very rare though. You'd be surprised how much a 3-4ft rod can bend and still not break. Your fishing line would usually be the one snapping
@@MarkHall-cf6ji it is. Thats why you dont see anyone else tryna catch it. At jettys sometimes groupers just swim around feeding and people like this dude want to get views so they catch it.
It should be illegal to catch a fish knowing you can't land it and unhook it. Same with shark fishing, if you ain't got the balls to unhook it don't catch it and leave it with a death sentence
@@landscapingbuildingits not a death sentence. Those hooks are made to deteriorate after a few months plus its salt water so they dissolve faster than if it was in fresh water. You would be stupid to use anything that has a rust proof coating and more than likely illegal if you are trying to catch large fish that always have a possibility of snapping that line.
What is everyone talking about can’t land it 😂 there’s a beach right behind him he can either walk it there or on the inside of the jetty like 50 ft away there’s shallows with a little beach you can land this. I’ve had to do it with big reds and snook there you can land that easily
I didn't get this joke at first, until I noticed the stiffness of someone staying beside me but can't see the video. 😂😂. He was probably wondering what was happening
He prob has more skill. That rod and rig he was using rated for fish so much bigger than the one he caught. Basically just dragged it back. Catch it on smaller equipment and it actually becomes an achievement with a skill requirement.
It’s a Goliath grouper that lives under the pier at Sebastian inlet. It’s illegal to take these fish out of the water. It must’ve been caught hundreds of times, no exaggeration. Edited to add: they can “land” these fish by dragging them all the way to the shore along the pier while still in the water. I’ve seen it done in another video, not sure if it was the same people.
@@Desttoaster well I am well aware that you use a net to bring in a fish BUT do they really make 20’+ long nets and who is gonna be strong enough to bring up a grouper in a net … idk I am skeptical
Pretty sure they cut the line. There is NO way they’re pulling that massive grouper. Only options are A, cut the line. Or B, have a boat come by and try to release em.
What happened next? You didn't land it, you never removed the hook, I'm guessing there's now another grouper swimming along with a hook and line hanging from it's mouth. I hate the mess sport fishermen leave.
it is called walking the fish down the pier to the beach or someone has a big net that can be lowered down and then 3 or 4 people lift it up and remove the hook and release the fish since you are not allowed to keep goliaths
fishermen who go for these kinds of fish typically have someone else to lower down a basket type net while they keep the fish on the line until they can lift it up and remove what's needed or to take them home, its pretty common practice
@@Mopar_gm key word is ocean pole, people are use to seeing way smaller poles and lines than that. Also I have fished plenty of times but never seen one like that.
I was at a pier some 50 years ago on a little island on the coast of Texas, and a guy had a sign that said shark bait one dollar written on a cardboard box. I went over to check it out and he was selling kittens for shark bait. Man how times have changed.
@Andrew-ve9ls when you are at this inlet, you can absolutely target these fish. That's why he is using such a big real and large bait. It is common knowledge here that if you do this here the Goliath grouper will eat your bait. This is sebastian inlet, florida. Releasing this fish will be difficult at the end of the pier
As fisherman, its wrong for me on so many ways. In my country living bait is forbidden aswell as fishing from a bridge. Not to mention that i catch to eat the fish
That's illegal to target Goliath groupers. And, how the he'll are you going to get it up to release it. This makes me sad as a fishermen that you don't respect our wildlife. Not only is it your ocean, but everyone else's to. The poor grouper is now going to have a hook in his mouth for at least another month 😔do better Edit: thanks for the much needed info keep it up I was just saying you shouldn't target them if you dont have a good way to get them up so thx 😊
@@carll.freemanjr.9867 but he can’t land it from that high bridge, he’s just pulling it up and cutting line and leaving the fish with the hook unless he lands it on shore and properly released it
It's just like catching sharks. Just for fun. And I'm sure since that's a tall bridge they cut the line, or took the time and brought him up so they could unhook him.
Guys it doesn’t matter that he heartlessly targeted a fish he can’t even access to free. He got it all on film and he gets to put it on RU-vid. Yay!! What an eejit.
There are special pier-fishing devices made to unhook fish in situations like these. Let's hope they had one. And if they didn't have one, well, it's sea water, so that hook will be rusted out of its mouth in a week or two and the wound cannot get infected. The fish will be fine. (Still a dick move to fish for it, though, seeing as it's a protected species)
and stuck a living fish through the spine, when you have bait that big it doesnt need to be alive since majority of fish that eat medium fish are, in some way, scavengers, even if its supplemental to being a live predator
@@iven4843 kkkkkkkkkk não sei se vc sabe esse peixe caça outros peixe e que mal tem em pescar um peixe depois devolve-lo NÃO ESQUEÇA E UM PEIXE NÃO UM SER HUMANO...
