Love to know where you were fresh water fishing

Super cool video!!

What’s the fishing spots !!! I won’t steal em just curious 😊

I hit the follow button cause I gotta support another long islander

Cool Vid..Freshwater micro catches on L.I. for the year ?

So beautiful!

I started up freshwater last week

Boots on the ground as always man. Do trout on li hit the jerkbaits? I thought it was either bugs or nightcrawlers for any bites

Kool got My scuba certification in 74

That is a new appreciation for the n Atlantic

you are a true fisherman and very much a marine biologist -- its cold out there - Happy Holidays

At 0:56, I love using traps as well, but I suggest using a 100lb line or a thin rope because if the line breaks, the trap could remain there for months or a year potentially killing hundreds of fish.

I had no luck this week

What do you do with them? The grouper will be fine they’ll head to deep water but the butterflies will die sadly.

Thank you for sharing the list, I have saltwater tank, and we used to go as group to oak beach with net and scoop the fishes and see what we catch and then take the exotic one home, It has been a while since I have done that activity, can you share where we can catch these juvis on shore with net?

Thank you! That is a very cool, well presented video. I guess those tropical species are at the mercy of the Gulf Stream? Thanks Again.

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wow I would definitely try to set up a reef tank for these guys!

very cool, I used to know people who would go scuba diving for reef fish in New England

Was that you today at rattlesnake oakdale at 11:30am

as a fish collector, I found your preso very interesting - thank you

I seem to catch more and more spot every year.

Amazing video! This year lots of Pigfish.

Between this and your loon you're blowing my Minnesota mind with Northern iconic critters doing the saline dance

Is that the dude or the lady doing the ice breaking, love it, fun Channel, especially impressed with the micro fishing video

Listening to you say the name of the canal Relistening Re-listening again and then checking the spelling 👀👀 Isn't that a hawks bill?

I’m going to the Hyatt ziva over Christmas and wanted to fish from shore within walking distance from the hotel I was planning on bringing some sabikis and a light tackle setup any suggestions?

I grew up fishing in king island w my grandfather back in the 1970s,80s. Good times. I don’t live there anymore I surely miss it. Q.. w these tropical fish are they considered invansive, or anything that could hurt that ecosystem in Long Island, or are these typical migrating type fish. I’m not a “fisherman” but surely love the vids

did you catch them on the sound side of the island or the bay/ocean side?

Short big eye is my favorite

Wow so many cool fish, the short big eye is crazy looking😂

Great vid, keep ‘em coming. All I seem to catch these days (LI Sound by Eatons Neck) are Sea Robins, so frustrating. Legal fluke are few and far between.

Wow. I never knew that butterfly fish migrated as far as NY.

Top-tier content as always

Great video thank you very amazing.

Short big eye looks spicy

Dang, are all of these on account of people letting fish go from aquariums?

Man +1 on the pics.

I see lots of banded rudderfish swimming in the tenticles of jellyfish

Truly exsquidsite

Is it odd that you are catching these fish as far up north as you are ? And there are reports of Tarpon being caught off the coast of RI and cape cod . Big ones !

So amazed at those tropical butterfly fishes found along the shore of New England. No need to go South to collect fishes for your tropical aquarium at home. Keep drilling baby and you will have coral reefs and scorpion fishes off your shores.

Definitely set up a salt water tank, biggest you can. There are plenty of tutorials on YT. As you won't be keeping coral, all you'll need is a filtration system and maybe a heater so the water doesn't get too cold. Are you close enough to the ocean to collect your own water? It's a cool way to cut down on costs. Remember to check the various classifieds for a used or second hand tank - sometimes you can get a whole system for free when people are moving house. Of the fish you caught, the big eye, the butterfly fishes and the cowfish would do well ( plus you're saving them from certain death by hypothermia) You could always release them when the water heats back up next year. By the way, short bigeye are listed as $125.00 retail. Soooo thats a thing

Some years back some guys found juvenile lionfish in New Jersey. I found it really disturbing that any could survive there long enough to spawn. You've got some other species in this list that are surprising.

Projections (like antlers) on the head of those little fish are calle cirri. Pronounced sear-eye. Most sculpins and Blenny spp. have them along with others like toadfish, anglers and goosefish.

Amazing! I grew up on Long Island in the 60s and now I live in Florida. We see these fish down here, but I never knew they existed on Long Island. Maybe they are new arrivals?

I’ve been to a place called biomes in RI. Idk if it’s still there. They had warm water fish that they had scooped up while scuba diving. Only a few people can get a license.

Great video!! I had no idea all of these fish were in our local waters

Nice report on species appearance in unexpected waters. Would be nice to know more about how their appearance is a change from the normal fish population. Many of these appear to be young specimens and that implies that adults are spawning in non-traditional waters. Any ideas on how these appearances occur from biologists?

Awesome 👌