Final time Spearfishing with my brother & best mate in Brisbane - Fish skin catch & cook.

Myself, my brother Jesse & Tim McDonald are heading offshore from Brisbane for one last jaunt before Hannah and I head back to the UK after our spearfishing sabbatical. We encounter a myriad of species and cook up an often thrown away part of the fish, the skin.
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[@maikolalterio6809]

This channel, this video, this guy is really at the top of the quality as a content creator can get! Cheers daniel for always raising the bar so high!

[@DanielMann]

Very kind of you 🙌

[@donnecheli2721]

Your video are great not only because you showcase a variety of different species across the globe, but you also do it with an Aussie accent and beautifully cook and honour the fish you catch!!! Big up from Tassie

[@hughharrison4042]

Tim's take on wind turbines and renewable energy is the best part of this vid hands down!

[@funsizephil]

Daniel you look so happy to be home. Thanks for the always amazing content.

[@CarterSirota]

Always awesome videos. One of the biggest reasons I've gotten more serious about spearfishing.

[@DanielMann]

Glad to hear it 🙌

[@spearfishinglifegreece]

Top quality stuff!!! Nice trout there Daniel! I have seen the Japanese cook the skin to become crispy....now i really got to try it with a 2-3kg grouper!!!

[@DanielMann]

Thanks Dimos! I think the skin from a small stera might work or mostella. Something with small fine scales. Or dotto of course!

[@beizamslayer4418]

I used to live in far north queensland, watching this video gives me nostalga of catching and eating these delicous fish and I wish i could go there again some day

[@DanielMann]

Thanks for watching, I imagine there are even more fish in FNQLD. This is all the way south in Brisbane.

[@akseli654]

Yesterday was my first time spearfishing. You are one of the reason I decided to do it. I have been watching your videos for couple years now. I got quote incredible start to this. I shot 860gram perch here in Finland which is quite huge!

[@DanielMann]

Well done! 860g is a really nice perch 💪

[@robertmathurin739]

Wish to See You And Jesse Dive Again Soon,,One Love 🇱🇨👊🏼👍🏼♥️

[@leksandrK]

Daniel and Hanna, watching your video I enjoy every time, thank you very much. I wish you have every thing to do this movie ( difficult to tell job). Have a nice day, and as usually you simple the best, because you show not only for me simple thing ( of course necessary understand we have to work to get such result) but the best thing too (not killing fish, but to be with family, friends, cook food for them and enjoy life ). By mind every time with you!!!

[@LearningToHuman]

Great vid!! Loved the first shot on the Emperor, stopping it right in it's tracks 😎

[@lifeofryleyfishing]

No one does it better then Daniel Mann!

[@DanielMann]

Cheers Ryley!

[@jacksonwright]

Yes! This time I don't have to imagine what all the goodies taste like! Was great seeing you two x

[@DanielMann]

So good to get the real experience! Looking forward to next time 😎

[@ian70mac]

Gotta agree with you...grassy's are one of the best eating fish out there!👍

[@DanielMann]

Fun to shoot and better to eat.

[@maxsmurfit1557]

Fantastic Video once again!

[@hazza2232]

Love your videos mate! I'm from Sydney and got into spear fishing a few years back, I'm living in the UK at the moment as well. I miss it so much but your videos help loads. Would love to give it a go in Europe one day.

[@DanielMann]

U.K. has some great diving and a huge community. Worth getting some dive gear there for sure.

[@ArbyCreations]

I love the Australia vids, especially the ones to Brissy. Its a place Im going to be calling home in the next few months so its really good to see there are fish around too!

[@SpearingBow-Man]

great stuff. beautiful coral trout and tusky. Nice bit on the belly flap and wings. ill refer back to this to do that myself in august as the wife and i are back to the big island 🥳 thanks as always for the great content!

[@ralphfreeman255]

Dan, love the footage and got a sense you had a really nice time out. Great stuff!

[@DanielMann]

Sure did, thanks Ralph!

[@yosu7334]

As amazing as always! Great video.

[@DanielMann]

Thank you very much 🙌

[@mattw5684]

Great instructions on the collar and cracklings. Also noticed an interesting bit of code switching in your speech.

[@JamesSmith-pw7hq]

I really appreciate and enjoy your videos

[@ascend9327]

Awesome Dan, love you brother :)

[@robertmathurin739]

He Surely Has Some Good Energy and Humor,,😅,,🇱🇨👊🏼👍🏼♥️😊

[@gerald_307]

Always the best ones.

[@GazzaJollyRoger8152]

Wow, awesome video as always mate, I really enjoy your dives , catch and how you prepare the catch of the day! God speed! 🔱

[@DanielMann]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@IslandKraff]

Lay a cloth down beneath the fish to keep it from sliding around. Works like a charm

[@Chinesepoksu]

Awesome video as always, very informative🔥 You are so far the best video editor and a big inspiration to me..🙏

[@collinmerideth8274]

Binge watching your stuff. Great content man and inspirational. Can’t wait to get out on the reef this weekend and nail me a snapper

[@tylergrunert]

I thought I was the only person that fried fish skin. Fish skin chips are a family favorite here.

[@markmclaughlin4801]

Daniel, another great video.....cooked fish looked delicious. Looked great fun too. I would struggle to part with the boat with those spearfishing areas. Thanks for posting. Looking forward to the next one.

[@DanielMann]

The problem is I don’t live there anymore but still hard to part with the boat… still have it 😂

[@markmclaughlin4801]

@@DanielMann Understandable. The more stuff we own ....the more it owns us. Love the vids though. Keep an eye out all the time for new ones. Stay safe and have fun.

[@olijordan1224]

Man like tim, great video Dan

[@chanbulgin]

Great content as always Dan -- Cheers

[@setarekivuidreketi3771]

Good visibility. Good fish

[@Aquatic_Obsession]

Bro been dying to get off bris diving! Love the vid yew 🤙🏾

[@AymanAbdin]

Really nice video Daniel! Thank you!!

[@DanielMann]

Glad you enjoyed it Ayman 👌

[@Itzmfalex]

Another sick vid 🔥🔥

[@DanielMann]

Thank you!

[@mrcrankyank]

Such amazing fish so close to city, just gotta know where to look hey!

[@DanielMann]

Brisbane is fantastic for spearfishing but a boat is required for most of it.

[@KeyaanMZ]

I watched that ship carrying the wind turbine blades unload in port off my own boat. what a coincidence.

[@sondrelima9982]

Nice catch, i need to try to deepfy the fish skin because it looks amazing!

[@DanielMann]

It’s really tasty, you need to find a fish with very small scales though like coral trout or Mahi Mahi.

[@sondrelima9982]

@@DanielMann Does salmon work? I caught one just now😊

[@DanielMann]

Never tried salmon but only one way to find out! The scales are quite small on salmon so might work great.

[@sondrelima9982]

@@DanielMann I’ll try it out and let you know:)

[@nate3741]

Good show mate!

[@DanielMann]

Cheers Nate!

[@bensmith9984]

My dad and I love Moses Pearch. Bit surprised Grassy Sweetlip is your favourite eating fish, most people I know are more into the Spangled or Reds of the Emperors. Great vid mate.

[@DanielMann]

Grassy and red throats taste the best, spangled emperor can get chewy after about 4kg and red emperors aren’t actually an emperor species but rather a tropical snapper 😎

[@ILikeItDeep98]

Watching these dives is damn impressive! I love watching your content as well as appreciate the educational stuff you do include. I'd love some insight on how long you've been diving for & what depths you've accomplished as well as what depths you're comfortable spearing at? I'm new to the diving world but I have been working closely with the breath in the breathwork space for 5 years now which has enabled me to achieve some supposed unbelievably quick progression in the diving world according to the experienced freedivers & spearos I have been around, which I have to give the credit to my breath training on land. To put into context, if you are familiar with the Molchanovs training requirments, I have only done my molchanovs wave 1 training, had 2 line sessions outside of that, and about 5 pool training sessions. 2 days ago I had my first opportunity to attempt a Dynamic in the pool beyond 50 metres as all other sessions were limited to 50m. So with the safety of a competent dive buddy, on my first attempt I got 65m, second attempt was 80m, then my third attempt was 90m. And frankly my training buddies were shocked because many have been diving for years and training for a long time to reach Wave 3 requirements. I have not yet had the opportunity to dive beyond 20 metres yet due to available depth, but I was able to reach that comfortably quickly. Because of this, it's inspired me to put together a breath training program for divers to help them achieve deeper, longer, more comfortable & most importantly safer dives by training their breathing on land, and your input would be invaluable for me to create this program. And as an experienced diver yourself, would you be interested in trialling the program when I finish it to see if it improves your diving ability before I put it out to others? 🙏 I absolutely froff your content legend! Keep it up, and hope to see heaps more from you 🤟 -Tommy Z, NSW, AUS 🇦🇺

[@DanielMann]

Hi Tommy. I appreciate your enthusiasm but there are a lot of red flags for me in this so I will politely decline.

[@ILikeItDeep98]

@@DanielMann I admire you standing in your integrity with this! 🙏 And i understand from that pitch how it could come across as a concern, but it is also because of the inherent danger of this sport that I am reaching out to well experienced divers like yourself. Not many people are fortunate enough to be able to hit the water often to improve or even maintain their diving, and I have heard some dangerous stories of blackouts due to deocnditioning. The aim is to ultimately create safer divers by changing improving their breathing markers & changing their unconscious 24/7 breathing, and increasing their co2 tolerance by training out of the water. This will improve their overall condition which will not only maintain, but also improve their ability in the water, making safer divers. 3 days ago was the first opportunity I had to explore depths beyond 20 metres (in a paid freediving line session). It's only my 5th time practicing depth, and in just 4 safe comfy dives with my instructor, I was able to safely progress my PB depth from 20m to 27 metres with complete ease, safety & comfort, and frankly plenty more left in the tank. I believe this is a huge testament of how effective my dry breath training has been on getting me quick progression in the water, by improving co2 tolerance outside of the dangerous atmosphere. I do understand and respect your concern though. I really love your channel and do hope that you continue to put out more rippa content. Also your educational content like the flopper tuning video has been priceless as well for newbies like myself 🤟

[@FamousGrous321]

Great video enjoyed it

[@DanielMann]

Thank you!

[@iqtreqd1953]

nice one bro🤪🤝

[@sondrelima9982]

16 meter visebillety is very nice. I dived yesterday and i couldent see my feet:)

[@DanielMann]

I know the feeling, we have that often in the U.K.!

[@cade8986]

14:04 I’d pick up a pair of blades with that pattern on them. Someone let DiveR know. I’ll even test a pair out if they’ll send me a set 🤣

[@DanielMann]

They already exist, Back 2 Basics adventures have coral trout pattern diveR’s on their website. I actually saw the pattern too when I was visiting the factory last year 👌

[@georgesimmonds3093]

Awesome stuff as usual Daniel!! Can you please refer me to your brother for some mechanical engineering, where does he work?

[@DanielMann]

Thanks George, I’m sure you could find him on linked in, hard to keep track of all the places he works!

[@ilyaivanov2283]

Очередное замечательное видео, где Даниель показывает мастерство охоты и приготовление пойманных морских деликатесов в кругу близких людей 👋

[@DanielMann]

Спасибо за просмотр!

[@tweedkrillcatchers]

Epic stuff!

[@DanielMann]

Thanks guys!

[@-Hysteria-]

So when the noob spearo cook book volume 2 gets released will they adding your trout skins in there? Man that looks so good.

[@DanielMann]

It’s about as simple as it gets so I’m sure they’d put it in.

[@-Hysteria-]

@@DanielMann Here's hoping 😂

[@asianseaanimals]

Awesome hurting and get the gain fish

[@FishinWithNozza]

Good stuff and cracker tusky. good too see when your filleting that you go flesh too flesh once filleted too keep them out of the slime and water 👌🏽

[@DanielMann]

Isn’t that just standard procedure?? Flesh go flesh and then skin to skin if you must stack them up 🙂

[@FishinWithNozza]

@@DanielMann It should be but I see if too often where fillets with skin on are thrown in one big pile. Any way hope you enjoyed coming back too aus for a dive 🍻

[@davewestfoils]

"Only burned a thousand megalitres to get it here' HAHAHAHA

[@newd34]

You seem to have that orca very well dialed in! What stretch percentage are those bands? Looks like a nice smooth release

[@DanielMann]

This is my home made speargun in this video. Very similar to the orca. I think the bands are about 2.8 stretch factor, nothing crazy.

[@tapeworm6093]

Just had to say it was a little deep for your brother 😂

[@DanielMann]

His words not mine!

[@taziospano349]

🎉Another one

[@needtosurvive2774]

👍👍👍

[@klinno8719]

You sound like a presenter off antique road show 😂 but like a mad spearo one

[@DanielMann]

I’ll take it

[@klinno8719]

@@DanielMann legend, definitely going to try the skin crackle. Keep up the good work man 👍

[@calighis]

When you said it was the last time I was thinking this story was gonna be a tragedy.

[@DanielMann]

No, just left the country!

[@imp9790]

hi daniel mann i love your videos i wanted to ask why didnt you shoot the orange spotted grouper

[@DanielMann]

They are very common and I prefer to eat other fish. Not so easy to clean!

[@GoodLivingTT868]

Nice video. Did you leave the scales on the skin?

[@DanielMann]

Sure did, they are tiny little things.

[@Goldennnnne]

Good video

[@DanielMann]

Thank you

[@BRZZ-xw4hd]

great vid thanks....peace out

[@shark88au]

What would make those lines in the sand @2:44 ?

[@GR-en3sc]

Hi Daniel! what knife to clean fish do you recomend? regards from Argentina.

[@DanielMann]

msbutcherequipment.co.uk/victorinox-6-boning-knife-narrow-curved-blade.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnMWkBhDLARIsAHBOfto_g5Uq4Jzjd2TtZDOTElccZmrP_K1PcibzUXKoEFcmjn81E3AE1A8aAuLpEALw_wcB This is the one I use, cheap, super sharp and most importantly, a good shape.

[@TheDadFaxs]

What a great video you put together.

[@DanielMann]

Cheers James!

[@TheDadFaxs]

@@DanielMann Cheers Daniel

[@bevanbeukes1730]

what are the bag limits for you guys daily if you were to be out ther basically every other day?

[@DanielMann]

Bag limits and possession limits are the same I believe. You could easily shoot 30 various fish each and be well within bay limits. Quite crazy actually.

[@ananthucs167]

Hii brother you will take any speafishing video in dji action 3. Your All under water visuals are in gopro

[@DanielMann]

The shots where I filmed Tim and he filmed me in this video are with the action 3. My recent videos including the ones from Italy I am using the action 3. I don’t own a GoPro anymore.

[@apexbrothers1815]

Whats the difference between a grassy emperor and a tricky snapper?

[@DanielMann]

From my quick google tricky snapper seems to refer to red throat, grass or spangled emperors. They are all different and I have a video on them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ-1qISAq9adoKc

[@diveloco5231]

great to see some wettie gloves from nz

[@DanielMann]

Have since thrashed them beyond use 🤣

[@arifarafat999]

do you guys don’t have painted sweetlip?

[@DanielMann]

Yes we have them.

[@TylerLaFaveSpearfishing]

Hey brother what resolution you use on your gopro when spearfishing underwater?

[@DanielMann]

Always 4K in 4:3.

[@TylerLaFaveSpearfishing]

@DanielMann thank you was on 16:9 5.3k 30fps and my vids were blurry ect. Let alone trying to get the angle of my gopro correct haha. Yesterday got 1 bowfin and 4 suckers. Had 2 stare downs from like a 3-4ft northern pike might have been 2 different ones and my gopro was tilted to low and was to blurry lol. Now gotta be diciplined to turn on my camera before shooting a fish haha. Still new. Yesterday was my first catch. The training paid off though. First day shooting a fish brought back 5 fish. Thankyou for all your help. I enjoy this sport alot haha got off videogames replaced with this!. Im a really active person so this really helped me gave me goals to work towards. Depth and breath hold training, identifying fish speed without hesitation ect. Maybe if you dont already have a breath hold training vid? A go pro angle short vid?

[@joachimklawe8639]

Thumbs up? For sure!

[@DanielMann]

Thank you!

[@Diego_Xander]

dan the man

[@MilloOGC]

peak content

[@DanielMann]

Glad you think so 😁

[@lumberjaxe8910]

How long do you hold your breath for?

[@DanielMann]

I don’t think any of the dives were over 1:30 on this day.

[@lumberjaxe8910]

@@DanielMann Ok, still very impressive. Just timed myself now &, made 40 seconds. Looks like i would go hungry. Or perhaps i should invest in a scuba tank and some lessons..

[@DanielMann]

Scuba spearfishing is illegal in a lot of the world. In the water it’s easier to hold your breath. Then again you don’t need to hold your breath that long to shoot a fish. In NZ you don’t even have to leave the surface!

[@lumberjaxe8910]

@@DanielMann Thanks for spending the time to reply Daniel. Cheers Mate.

[@morfeuss85]

Are snappers same as dorada/Orata?

[@DanielMann]

Similar family of sea breams or sparidae yes. Most similar to the urta or red banded sea bream in Europe.

[@mariocinque8588]

Complimenti bellissima pescata. Un saluto.

[@Kabir9861]

Ever gonna pay Brodie Moss a visit?

[@DanielMann]

I’ve not been invited 😅

[@Kabir9861]

@@DanielMann I'll put in a good word

[@4amwaj]

Hello all good people! I'm from Italy and trying to study Australian Slang language so and can anyone tell me what this "Jinning Around" means?? Thanks in advance great people! Thank sir!

[@DanielMann]

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ginning%20around

[@Spearfishing-Downunder]

Ginning around refers to Daniel Mann taking 10000000 years to get ready 😂🤣

[@DanielMann]

@@Spearfishing-Downunder There is a saying about the English, only happy when they're moaning - your English blood runs thick!

[@Spearfishing-Downunder]

@@DanielMann actually very little English blood, Scottish/Irish , Eastern European and Italian blood….. you just gin around a lot mate 😂

[@DanielMann]

Imagine how much worse it would be if you had more English blood then!

[@WandereringFamily123]

Did you change your voice for some reason? Just sounds like you're over-enunciating for some reason as you narrate this video. Bit odd.

[@DanielMann]

Not everyone that watches my videos is a native English speaker so I try and make it as easy as possible for them to understand 🙂 I’m going for elocution.

[@gubreldubrel2482]

My name is TickleTipson