Grouper Fishing Season Open! - Catch + Clean + Cook

[@jean-yveslefebvre6446]

Good job Joey and capt. Ryan , keep up the good work!

[@PSSKDerby]

Great video Joey! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@samrivers1815]

That cats cross eyed as all hell😂😂😂 good catch y'all keep it up 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍

[@danno5805]

Cool display of jaws 👍🏿

[@MangroveSnooker]

What size hook and leader are you using? I never fish for Goliath but I do have a torium 30 on a medium heavy 8’- do you think that could handle some under the bridges? I’m in Brevard.

[@alejandro3485]

That would work for the size he’s catching but you may have trouble stopping them from getting you in the structure. You want a meat stick with locked down drag with around 80-100lb braid. That’s probably a 8/0-10/0 hook and 100-120lb leader. They’re not leader shy at all. Use 4x strong circles.

[@howardedwards5908]

I've kept jewfish for yrs my pb is 738lbs he was released but under a hundred pounds are great table fare

[@L0st-n0found]

Interesting Have you paid the fine And should be if you do this you permanently loose license and have mandatory jailtime

[@howardedwards5908]

@@L0st-n0found never got a fine n I've kept hundreds of them they are way overpopulated here but I have a buddy that did get a citation n was 75 bucks which is still cheaper then what the lotto is. But on a second note the ones they want you to keep is not the problem ones cuz they are juvenile jewfish the problem ones are the hundred pound + fish those need to be the ones we should take. I will still keep them as long as they are big enough to fillet

[@L0st-n0found]

​@@howardedwards5908 and you and friend should permanently loose your liscences, be fined enough to make it an extreme financial drain and serve at least a year or 20 in jail. You are what's wrong with America. Just imagine 10 million people did the same as you there would be no goliaths at all or anything else you decide to have a right to decimate. And yes as I said in a different comment a max size is ridiculous and harvest of one is ridiculous as is paying 10 just for a chance at paying 150. 30 for 5 or so tags per person or say 15 for 3 with a limited total per year could easily keep current population levels and the issue is we need less than current.

[@L0st-n0found]

@@howardedwards5908 should loose license permanently, be in jail and fined prohibitively. People thinking they have a right to steal from everyone is what's wrong with USA. Nobody has a right to infringe on you but you can infringe on everyone and everything

[@L0st-n0found]

​@@howardedwards5908evidently I can't reply I'll let fwc officers in Collier and Lee to bolo for your poaching

[@texassaltwaterlife4374]

Is there a slit or at least a minimum size

[@JoeyAntonelli]

24-36

[@MangroveSnooker]

Is this Titusville area?

[@SkyGamingProductions]

12:01 Im dead LMAOOOO

[@comfortablynumb9342]

I'm pretty sure those black lines in the fish meat are worms. I've seen them in red grouper too. They are harmless cooked but I wouldn't eat that fish raw.

[@fishydubsfishing6516]

That reminded me of my eighth grade science experiment

[@jessebailey687]

Yeww

[@Mizzle83]

I ate one last year and I didn’t think it was worth the $400 what so ever. The meat seemed to be very fatty. I felt like you had to over cook it and get some of the slimy/mushy texture out of it. On a positive note I learned I’d never put in for a tag.

[@bedtimestorey3162]

What knot are you using on that super heavy line?

[@JoeyAntonelli]

Uni knot.

[@howardedwards5908]

The fine is actually cheaper than it costs to enter the lottery no fish is worth 500 bucks

[@JoeyAntonelli]

The tag cost us $150

[@travislane9187]

Put me on that sail cat charter plz😂

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Only if you'll eat a whole one on camera 😂

[@wholegrain1844]

It better be good for $400! There are SO many goliaths out there it makes no sense why they're protected. But if people are willing to pay $400 just for a chance to keep one it'll never open up.

[@fishingflawda]

$400 NO WAY...lmao

[@comfortablynumb9342]

If it was $100 a lot more people would buy tags, but not enough to hurt the population

[@rslack78]

Not $400. Not sure where you got that info. It's a $10 application fee and if you get drawn for the lottery it is $150 for Florida residents and $500 for non residents.

[@JoeyAntonelli]

$150 for the tag. Not $400.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

@@JoeyAntonelli that sounds way more realistic.

[@rickharris5485]

I got the impression it wasn't worth keeping, especially for $160. I hope it didn't taste like it looks. Yuck! haha

[@jackchn23]

First time “legally “ harvesting Goliath grouper….hahaha

[@L0st-n0found]

At $10 just to maybe be picked it's too much. At $150 for one 24-36 it's hysterically stupidly priced. $30 total for 5 fish 24-unlimted for say same number of potential harvesters would make it remotely OK. The Bruce cat in the upper cabinets is hysterical

[@mattmatthew2440]

It shouldn't be $400,they should put a yearly limit per person like deer and turkey, back in the early 80s you could legally keep them and it was a good thing to get out of the fishing hole,they eat a lot of snapper.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

$100 would be a lot more fair

[@Freedomishere-im6ug]

If remember when tags about to come out lotto ticket was $10 u win its another $500 for tag and u had to summit credit card info as part of the lottery

[@craigspools1]

Dude cmon 🤦🏼‍♂️ LOL you need some culinary skills. 🧄🍋