Steve, I love what you do man. I envy the joy you must feel going to all these beautiful locations on the hunt for memories, to discover mother nature to her core. Keep on keeping on man, Lifes a garden, DIG IT!
Been watching Meat Eaters since it’s inception. Actually, Also Steve’s other show he had before Meat Eaters. It’s been fun to watch him and his content grow over the years. Love this show!!
Yeah, one of them coonasses showed me how to make Jack Crevelle into a fricasse, it's friggin amazing. No lie. And I'm an old commercial fisherman, spoiled on yellowedge grouper and scamp.
Steve I would l love to see Chef Jean Paul Bourgeois face to face with a shark......talk about making a WAKE....Great video I don't know if I would dive in that murky stuff.......all 3 dishes looked amazing
Thank you for this video. Can you please tell us what ear plugs you use while spear fishing? I find it hard to find ear plugs that work while free diving. I look forward to your answer.
What you Americans call snapper fish are actually lujutnid genus fish ,aka mangrove jack,Papuan black bass,moses perch,cubera jack,finger mark bream Not snapper ha ha
So glad too see someone using the real Louisiana hot sauce. Also I am glad too see Steven R. back in the MeatEater vids. Thanks for the great content Steven!!!!
From South Africa here, loving the Rob Allen gear you guys are rocking, Uncle Rob is a national treasure to us SA Spearos, his guns are widely known as the AK 47s of the sea.
Steve is a never-ending wealth of knowledge. I can listen to him all day. He makes you an all-around better outdoorsman . Thanks, Steve and crew, for all the adventures.
As a commercial spearfisherman I can tell you that Steve knows extremely little about spearfishing of almost any kind. He goes spearfishing with the worlds best spearfishermen and they put him on layups. If he had to figure out how to do this kind of stuff on his own, he’d never ever get it. Ever. Not in the Bahamas, in the gulf, east coast Florida, North Carolina. I love this show, but being an expert in this sport, watching his skill level at this, it’s so glaringly obvious that he is a complete novice spearfisherman. I don’t mean this in a bad way. There are not that many people who can become really good at it and most of them have to start young.
@@JR-kc8jxoh shut up, who was this paragraph even for? Obviously just for you as nobody cares man st fu keep your opinion to yourself…. Guarantee Steve’s never met a hater doing better than him at life
@JR-kc8jx i mean that is the whole point of the show. Steve isnt an expert at it. The show is to meet people who are and show how they hunt. Steve is just the host we all love. Lifes barely long enough to become an expert at one thing let alone all kinds of hunting
i'm from south Louisiana 30 miles from the gulf and I don't know if I've ever seen someone sell red snapper that wasn't the genuine article...we have a reputation to maintain...
My Grandfather used to take us off the coast to the rigs for fishing and swimming. Best experiences of my life. Its oddly magical, and I miss it all the time. Glad we can share this experience.
@@joepelosi7058It depends on quite a few things. You don't really pay per person but for the boat unless you can get others to join in your trip. Fuel is expensive so a 50 mile trip is very different than a 500 mile trip. Also don't forget they won't take someone inexperienced out to dive as it is far too dangerous. With all that you are looking at 500-1000 per day per person. You can get on a group line and reel boat for half that
One of my fav episodes yet! Absolutely enjoy and respect the story telling of the species and the insights to diving these waters! This was a perfect episode!
Growing up some of my best memories are from fishing Venice with my dad. Pre-katrina Venice was this tiny, quiet fishing paradise. There were only a handful of charter boats, reel peace, paradise outfitters, super strike, osprey, strike zone...I'm sure I'm missing someone the boats were 26' long and you weren't going to see 26 mph but that didn't matter. What makes Venice unique to the continental US is how fast you get to deep water. 10 miles out of south pass 1000' of water. Mississippi canyon curves in where the river dumps out. So the small fleet of charter boats only had to run on the shelf and the fishing was epic. Open water tuna feeding everywhere, giants on the midnight lump... Now Venice is still the same size but the number and size of the charter boats has grown exponentially since the oil spill. The boats are faster, the technology is better the gear is better but it's the same fishery with unsustainable pressure. The map updates can't keep up with how fast the Marsh is sinking, I can't remember the last time I saw open water fish midnight lump died 10 years ago and the east lump appears to be the same... Every time I think of Venice when I was growing up to Venice now I think about Buffalo hunters...there is a correlation
Glad to see Rob Allen equipment well made and great group of guys. Wealth of Spearfishing knowledge between him and Jeremy all things tested in house by Jeremy who is a master at deep diving for big fish.
I love this show so much. I wish steven Rinella started a how to hunt show explaining and showing hunts but in a much more educational and technical way. Like explaining the guns and going into details etc..
As a Gulf Coast resident I tend to also be torn on the derelict rig situation - it ebbs and flows on what to do about them. The key Steve did leave out is it’s not typically the rig itself - it’s the wells underneath them that are typically a problem - most are capped (but not plugged properly) and some are even still plumbed in and could be brought into production - all on the ocean floor rusting away waiting on a blow out.
Eric thanks that was fun to watch I'll be watching for me rematch. Well how I get ready for bow season is kind of how cam Hanes does I shoot down my driveway where vehicles are parked, I have about 120ft. Of driveway I have to shoot past 2cars 1pickup and 25ft.camp trailer. Thanks Marty
Steve, you can just get your Benchmade knives laser engraved with your last name...you don't have to write it in sharpie.. lol 🤣 Great episode. Can't believe you were spearfishing in that murky water! 😁
I've been living on the Gulf for the past 20 years and been fishing it for over 40. Cobia are ok, but not my most wanted fish to catch and eat. I'm not knocking them, but there are tastier fish in the Gulf in my opinion. Give me a ling instead every day and twice on Sunday! Yum!!!😜 Seriously, I love to catch and eat mahi mahi and flounder.
Never done any spearfishing/freediving before but would like to learn someday. Are those just earplugs Steve has around his neck at 11:52 and other times througout the video? I imagine they're just to keep out water and maybe help with equalizing during his dives. If you know fill me in.
Only way i would ever enter that water would be if my family was starving.... I temember my sisters boyfriend who was an oil rig worker telling me horror stories about the divers and sharks and the crazy stuff you would see rocketing out of the murkey debths to eat 3 ft long fish in a single bite..... No thank you even if i was starving i wouldent, but if my kids or wife needed food, ide hope in get it then get out😅 altho i think i would figure something out befor then because i REALLY have a strob self preservation instinct and the ocean is too filled with unknown
You can make cevice from freshwater fish, but it has to be just right. I did make perch and mango cevice from perch that I caught ice fishing toward the end of the season. Clear, moving, super cold water, under the ice. The meat was translucent, and I could see no summer parasites. I put it I cucumber cups and served it to family, and it was a big hit. There are few situations (other than an emergency) in which I would serve this to someone else. Everything has to be just right, with no long drives.
My dad used to work on the barges that built these oil rigs. He has (extremely grainy) videos of like 9 Filipino dudes hand hauling like a 10 foot fish (i forget what it was forgive me this happened in like 2006) they cut it up and cooked it for the guys on deck like right then and there dad still talks about how good that fish was.
Love the show watched since season 2 i stay big island hawaii. Idk if you know josh Jorgensen from blacktiph but man love to see you try to grab some Goliath grouper with him
Did you see any cubera snappers? Also I think it might be kind of cool if they were to sell some of those on used rigs to people to use them to make Fish Camps or just fancy getaways for the Rich and Famous because I know you can land helicopters on some and you know they might be able to make them until like a resort type of thing. Maybe affordable to some people not just the Rich and Famous but just a thought
Very cool! My buddies in South Louisiana spearfish the rigs, but they all use scuba gear. There’s a club of guys that go really deep and shoot absolute sea monsters. Too extreme for me, lol.
I like Steve - but uh… how do we know there are 32,000 ish species of fish on earth when we also generally agree we have only explored under 10% of the ocean? 😂
About freshwater fish and sashimi. Plenty are suitable, taste wise, like mackinaw, but the risk for parasites is far higher for freshwater. It just isn't worth the risk.
I know he isn't ever gonna see this lol but Steven Renella is my hero. He's a hel of an inspiration. He is also 100 percent correct about the rig sirens. I've only ever even seen one and we were directly under and tied off to the rig😂 deafening!!
my friend you need to go down to Panama to spearfish and fish, you will never ever see such amount of different fish in one spot, and they are huge huge its not even funny how big this fish are down in panama
WHAT ARE THE SAUCES??? We get monster Cobia here in Virginia Beach, and so most of the summer I'm eating it, and I cook it lots of ways, always trying to find new sauces and tastes for it. Recently made Tataki, with Everything Bagel Seasoning on the outside of it, and Speedy's Hot Sauce for dipping. Was fantastic.
