BIG Snapper! Let It Live Or.. Feed The Family?

[@luischavez2595]

Mad respect! Putting aside the ego to let the king of the sea swim off and continue his purpose! Great job!

[@muddyh2o2init44]

It’s very nice to see someone who’s so efficient at what you do also have the kindness and sportsmanship that you do. You set a good example of how the Stuart’s of the seas should be!

[@samthemanfish6903]

Nice catch and release mate. Loved that you put some time into the turtle. People who watch and can't get out will love that. Beautiful creature. Another quality vid.

[@patrickpeterson11]

No matter how many times I've watched this video, it is as entertaining as it was when I watched it the first time

[@Andysfishing]

Been up for 50 seconds and you got 5 comments, cool. Now to enjoy the video. Loved the turtle and that was a monster snapper! Go Rod.

[@stevencox75]

hugs

[@truthbetold2012]

@@stevencox75 sceney!!

[@stevencox75]

@@truthbetold2012 no idea what that means

[@Al-qv1sg]

Colab already two fishing gods on yt

[@rokkitkit]

Thanks Andy, did you notice that it's the same place we went. We will ill have to go back and fish it when the fish are one 👍

[@ArtisticallyEligible]

that's what I like about you, you respect the seas in an ethical and professional manner. way cool videos ya got!

[@arcoeco]

Well done on letting that beast go Rod. Love that turtle.

[@scottlane3428]

I could taste that snapper.........and then, you let it go! I had lemon wedges ready and everything.

[@fishmanfishman6511]

Catch and Release! 👍 Love your conservation attitude. You will be rewarded for this act.

[@ceekay9095]

Not long started watching your vids. Now can't get enough of them. Keep doing what your doing brother. Stay safe.

[@me__and__luna]

Big snapper catch and release amazing 😉 Nice 👍

[@ryanhill6745]

What a beautiful big snapper....well done on sending it back home mate👌

[@turbostyler]

Great vid Rod! Good on ya for letting the big fella go. I got an enormous sense of satisfaction letting my first longtail tuna go when i caught it from my yak.

[@jon_vazquez]

Beautiful Fish mate, well done with the release, respect.

[@rosscooper3131]

Good on you for catch and release a fish like that, i couldn't, what a catch

[@guidojt]

Excellent fish! Respect your choice.

[@sarbaazchabahar]

Family comes first mate👍🎣🐟🇦🇺🍺

[@niallcameron6433]

Looks like you got a good buzz off watching him swim away. Sometimes that's better than a few mouthfuls of fish. Nice one, Rod.

[@lawrencephea916]

Thank good and bless ya mate, letting him live in the sea again. Never seen such big beautiful snapper before.

[@scyaker9145]

Great looking snapper, love the trolling cam.

[@matthewchapman896]

Nice one lad, pleased to see you let him go. Excellent moral compass !

[@lukejtav7452]

Congrats rod. Epic vid. Thanks for sharing. What a beautiful beast snapper; and that turtle.....well worth the early morning rise.

[@bobclark4994]

Excellent Rod! Such an inner conflict, to keep or release. Well done!

[@KerryFlowers]

Why do 5 people dislike this?? It was a great vid, awesome capture and the fish swam away with the chance to continue its life - Awesome!!!!

[@rokkitkit]

Haha cheers Kerry, cant please everyone 😅

[@chasfleming]

I love the way you release if you don’t think you need the fish for the table.

[@rodneybrook6366]

Good to see you back on the kayak, nice fish

[@benjaminwilson9706]

I cracked up laughing when the turtle 🐢 was having a go at the yakka

[@nofx_mas00n78]

Watching from Florida man great job with your channel and everything

[@vaughanp8420]

Awesome fish mate, even better to see it released. Very considerate.See you out there soon.

[@rokkitkit]

Cheers Vaughan!

[@magicmike6463]

Cracking fish mate - credit to you for letting her go (especially the big nobbies). But nothing wrong with keeping the odd trophy fish either, especially if you're going to share it with your family.

[@jayhargreaves7883]

stoked to see you release such a critical animal, one of my favourite vids of yours so far mate. bloody goods !

[@HelloNewFreinds]

Love the vids, Rod - keep up the nice work mate!

[@brunomuller9670]

Nice release !

[@abelresendez5111]

Took me a few seconds to realize you’re in the Southern Hemisphere lol love your content and attitude, keep them both coming bro!

[@BurninatorTheTrogdor]

Penn needs to make you a signature pole. The ROD! Nice fish man!

[@Rtechmobile]

Good on you for sending him home , probably not real flash to eat at that size anyways . Well Done Rod!

[@greatwhitesfishingadventur2273]

Brilliant Snapper Rod !!!! I see "Timmy" visited you as well ... hahaha ..... Nice to see a Big Snapper swim off happy !!!

[@slow_diver]

What a gorgeous looking fish 😍

[@Jake-ky9ed]

Nice! Good karma Gods got to be smiling on you for that release, great stuff Rod

[@truthbetold2012]

Quality red mate happy accidents are always welcome on a tough day good to see him go back.

[@timmyparrott3551]

Pleasure to meet you that morning rokkit! Love the vid!

[@rokkitkit]

Cheers Tim, yea cool to meet you too 👍

[@jqc5]

your catching some beautiful fish, awsome

[@snappakingie]

Nice fish mate, congrats on the release. Not many big ones go back.

[@stevedittman5474]

Feed the family mate. No question. You fish ethically and responsibly so you're more than deserving of an offering from the depths.

I agree-unless the area has serious issues with snapper population ...we kayak fishermen earn our fish!!...but I also enjoy letting fish go too...

[@matthewberry1738]

Heck yeah mate! Awesome catch! And a great video as usual. Congratulations!

[@e.g.sanchez688]

Let it live , a fish that big deserves to live ,,,he made it this far. Let em live

[@drewrosa5403]

What a big red Good to c him swim Ya luck has deffently took a turn good on ya m8

[@drewrosa5403]

Was that cook I can c ?

[@thor_6886]

@@drewrosa5403 yes, he mentions it at the start when launching off the beach

[@rokkitkit]

yep cook island👍

[@FishingwithMarkiMark]

Awesome snapper rod, keep up the great work! Your always considerate with your catches, so no harm in taking a feed for the fambam!

[@MrTatts64]

Really, really pleased to see you return a fish that is so obviously prime breeding stock there mate. Well done!! Those big fish will be producing way more new fish than a smaller one, that's nearer your typical eating size. If Karma really exists, you deserve to be rewarded with a good feed later on in your summer :)

[@bennuballbags2]

Nice fish! Glad you put it back, they are terrible table fair that big. Good man

[@craigbrown1249]

Awesome catch Rod! Goods times out at sea even if you didn't rustle up a feed. I can't believe how inquisitive that turtle was. I see loads when I'm out in the bay, but they never stick around long enough for a pic. My wife loved seeing that.

[@rokkitkit]

Cheers mate, yea the turtle was crazy for the soft plastic!

[@AdamTait-hy2qh]

Gorgeous. About 2/3rds the size of the biggest I have seen down here in South-East Australia

[@sf2372]

Cracking fish mate, excellent videoing too. I would have let it go too.

[@SimonVanliew26]

Thanks for spoiling the entire video for me, because comments are at the top now I had no way of not seeing this before even getting 3 minutes into the video.

[@Rimpreza]

Great vid! Perfect morning for a fisherman 😀

[@marialynnx9913]

Turtle and a big snapper for my birthday! Thanks mate! Lol

[@robchase123able]

Real entertainment! Get some funding and do your own show Rod...great work and a respecter of the sea.

[@PacoRamosKURRICANltd]

👏👏👏👏 Good fishing trip! Another amazing video!

[@gabrielfrutos]

Good job! Big fan from Costa Rica

[@alberttresslevic914]

Nice one. Keep or release doesn't really matter, no shortage of snapper out there but a big one like that has passed its best eating days for my taste.

[@YakinwithJack]

Props on letting that big momma go tight lines

[@intercept9991]

that turtle was awesome!

[@CrazzzzySky]

I watch on Xbox and I cannot comment on that forum! That said, Canada here! I just found your channel, as I watch Thresher fishing, out of Florida USA! I wanted to say: I ❤️ your channel! I 💜 your fishing! I ♥️ your little family! I 💙 your cooking! I 💗 your kayak! I 💖 Australia! I 💕💕 you! I totally wish you luck & wealth from your super amazing fishing channel! I live on North America's #1 Ice Fishing lake, Lake Simcoe! There are many KZbin channels with Fishing in our lake! Nothing like your Fishing! Thank you again you are rocking the Fishing world for me! Love & Light to you, your wife & children! ♥️✌️💜

[@rokkitkit]

Thanks for watching Skyla! and thanks for all the kind words 👍

[@CrazzzzySky]

RoKKiT KiT nope thank you! Haha your adventures are my latest addiction! Please becareful! Great Whites are in those waters too, right? Geezus! Haha G'Day Mate! :)

[@LTFAidan]

Nice fish, and good on ya for releasing him.

[@TheRealMrCods]

Awesome turtle, looked very old. Good sized Snapper thats for sure.

[@rokkitkit]

Yea the turtles fins all looked uneven like he had a few run-ins 👍

[@williamatta3279]

Nice RodKITKIT I haven’t even seen this video for one second and I already love the video Keep up the amazing work RodKITKIT !! Congrats on the massive snapper that’s why you such a legend Fisherman RodKITKIT and that’s why everyone loves your KZbin Channel and that’s because you catch massive Snapper well done mate !!

[@ChoiceKayakFishing]

Beautiful fish mate. Awesome to see it swim away to fight another day.

[@user-tg5ck5hh2n]

well done with the release. respect!

[@zaigar111]

Aww man! I definitely would have fed the fam with that snapper!! Would have been great eating Bro!!!

[@bradys.7967]

Mad respect for letting him go. Smashed that Sub button after this one.

[@rokkitkit]

Cheers Brady, yea he deserved to live 👍

[@TheCoolhead27]

Tough luck for the family.

[@sheldonmurphy8159]

Another great video man❤️❤️

[@stephenbennett2221]

Well done Rod that snapper would have been nice on my bbq good job tight lines

[@christopherhawkins2359]

Wow beautiful fish 🐠

[@Жанна1-б2г]

Австралия ? Вот это рыбалка и спорт в одном лице. Красота. Если можно показывайте почаще что вы готовите и какие блюда из выловленной рыбы. Ни хвоста ни чешуи вам и семь футов под килем.

[@andrewp1308]

Beautiful fish! Man your videos make me miss SE QLD (yes I'm aware this is about 2km south of QLD haha :D).... Still, I can't complain the fishing's pretty good over here in WA

[@brucedelagarza9641]

Whuts it gunna beeeeeee? Lol makes me giggle every time. Need some shirts with that on it.

[@reilleyporter7415]

Nice Rod Can't wait to watch it

[@harrisonreed175]

awesome stuff rod. Great to see the big girl swim off healthy🤙

[@holgergoehr4668]

Nice work. 20-30 pound is all you ever need from a yak. The kayak will move and act as drag. Landed a small marlin, large tuna, golden trevally on 20 max 30 pound.

[@rokkitkit]

yea you can go pretty light for a lot of clean fighting species but if you dealing with things like Kingys, Cobia and Snapper its nice to have a bit more lbs to put the pressure on.

[@TheBigwadey]

Good job mate!! He'll make lots of pan-size babies for years to come!!

[@nathanhutchison9651]

What a monster snapper mate 👍

[@kaneskennar9410]

Love the water footage....good ethics to mate

[@josarebelo8583]

forget the hater's feed your family 1st, you catch and release more than your fair share, cheer's.

[@marcelaustin9759]

Always enjoy your vids Rod. Interesting to see you having the same problem with the water temp as we are it South Africa.

[@rokkitkit]

yea these Northerly winds just keep blowing!

[@MichaelBrown-ny3et]

That turtle has survived some battles.

[@rodneylangton2271]

Well done Rod , nice fish

[@twistednrg6293]

Looks like you had a blast bud! Good size red too! Til next one 🤙

[@willkitching]

Awesome Rod, good to see some big snaps still around off the gold coast/tweed this time of year. Mackerel will come around soon enough, just takes a little warm water and then the drags will be screaming!! Nice stuff on the release, big beautiful fish. Cheers mate and tight lines, well done on the channel success 👍

[@ccmusic2249]

Amazing snapper Rod! Hard choice for me on whether or not to keep it. I tend to prefer younger fish just above slot for taste but man that was one heck of a catch!

[@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157]

Awesome mate, now to find a platey

[@Catch202]

Great catch Rod

[@stevencox75]

i think only you can answer that question mate, everyone is in different circumstances and has different needs

[@FarmerBoBonYoutube]

Ooooohhhh straight up the shorts!! Hehehe

[@FarmerBoBonYoutube]

1:46 hehe just had to laugh again

[@DunBeBuilds]

So sick to see you let it go. Great video.

[@tingoorensis]

Well done. Remember when I was a kid and all the fishing magazines were full of photos with people having caught and kept dozens or hundreds of one species in a session. Oh well that was a different time but then the fish stocks became low and people changed their attitudes.

[@rokkitkit]

Cheers mate, Yea Im all for taking a fish home for dinner... but Ill admit when I see some of those fish driveway shots with crazy amounts of fish laid out it does make me cringe a bit.

[@tingoorensis]

@@rokkitkit I love my seafood too, it's awesome. I enjoy watching the catch and cook videos and seeing the sense of adventure people have. But people these days are really getting a thrill from sea-life and they seam so eager to help presverve what we have. I'm not down on anyone but decades ago the attitude seemed different. We didn't quite understand how quickly the fish stocks could be affected. People seem to be educating themselves more too...unless I am just perceiving it wrong. I work commercially very close with native plants over a fair range of eastern Australia. I wish there were as many younger people learning about the plant life and seeing the value of preservation. The weeds are beating us, its very unfortunate. Anyhow I'll take the wins where they are to be had and hope that modernity affords us more resources to presverve/rejuvenate what we still have as time goes on.

[@louisfishingodyssey]

Wicked vid Rod, great to see the big red swimming off, nothing wrong with getting a feed every now and then, somtimes much more satisfying letting them swim off tho 👍👍👍👍keep up the great work 👌

[@rokkitkit]

Cheers mate, yep was good to see him swim off👍

[@ezjigs5814]

Excelente , muchas felicidades 👏😎

[@exotitan516]

Just subscribed. Cheers from the States. It's odd to hear someone say summer just started when it is winter up here. Killers vids

[@rokkitkit]

Thanks for the sub 👌 yep just getting to the peak of summer here👍

[@exotitan516]

@@rokkitkit I'm even more jealous that your catching pelagic fish right off the beach. We've gotta go 50 to 60 miles offshore to catch mahi and tuna

[@-MikeyK-]

Mate you making good videos, well done. I know it's a hard slog but keep going, you will get there. You have a new subscriber.

[@rokkitkit]

Thanks mate, will keep at it👍

[@R1p3rGaming]

Woot!!! That a big snapper bro. Next video please. Hehehehe