They Should Make This Fish Legal To Keep!! (Sebastian Inlet Fishing) 90000 view challenge

Me and my buddy Patrick went out to fish for goliath grouper at Sebastian Inlet. This was our first time targeting this species and it was incredible. These fish are protected so if you ever catch one return it to the water quickly. When we come back next time we will be better equipped to take on this fish. Thanks for watching and please LIKE, COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE!!!
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Camera used: Cannon EOS M3 And GoPro Hero 5
Reel: Penn Conflict 4000, Van Staal VR150, Penn Senator 113h
Rod: MHX custom rod (Built by Carlos Powery), Ugly Stick Extra Heavy 8ft Conventional Rod
Line :100lb mono, 20lb braid
Leader: 250 & 30lb mono
Hook: 18/0 circle hook, #4 mustad hook
Bait: Shrimp, Jack Creavalle, Blue Runner,Spanish Mackerel

[@chipper442]

Gotta love how the other guys just leave their lines in..........

[@Fish10000]

100%

[@IBenFishin]

that’s sebastian inlet for ya

[@andrews5236]

@@IBenFishinstg that place sucks to fish. But the fish that you can catch there…

[@IBenFishin]

@@andrews5236 just gotta know how to avoid the googans

Very good Video, this place is incredible. Have a great week and lots of fish on the line! *HUG!* 👍😊

[@PoweryFishing]

Suellen Gonçalves - Pesca Esportiva thanks for watching and yea I love fishing here!👍

[@combatmako]

Bravo young man, excellent!! ✌️❤️😁🐡

[@PoweryFishing]

Chris Dutton thanks man!🤙

[@colin645]

I came from your other Sebastian video where I was asking about the cart great content you earned my sub

[@PoweryFishing]

Axel41599 thank you I really appreciate that!🤙

[@slabbertooth]

Thank you for the tips. I'll be there in two weeks!

[@PoweryFishing]

Slabber Tooth no prob man and good luck!🤙

[@HUSTONFARMSest]

Holy crap!!! Your bait is same size as majority of fish I'm happy to catch in Ohio. Thanks for posting!!!

[@PoweryFishing]

HUSTON FARMS est 1842 hahaha yea you need big bait to catch big fish here!🤙

[@josephc7581]

Glad to see someone releasing fish the proper way...keep up the great fishing.

[@PoweryFishing]

Joseph Chidichimo appreciate it!👍

[@louielouie4187]

Nice work.... !

[@PoweryFishing]

Louie Louie thanks!👍

[@floydbeard5073]

Excellent video.

[@PoweryFishing]

Floyd Beard appreciate it!🤙

[@fishingpalopoofficial1333]

Waowww.. big fish 🇮🇩

[@PoweryFishing]

Thanks man and that’s just a baby compared to the other ones that’s there!👍

[@mikedunkle6709]

wow wonderfully done!

[@PoweryFishing]

Mike Dunkle appreciate it!🤙

[@mikedunkle6709]

@@PoweryFishing cheers, i will be headn to the inlet in a month or so,cant wait..

[@PoweryFishing]

Mike Dunkle that’s awesome man good luck and let me know how you do!🤙

[@58unclesam]

I agree with you brother, it’s like the highly endangered red snapper! It looks to me like they’re getting thick as flies around there!

[@PoweryFishing]

scott mckernan they really are!👍

[@jaddy540]

The Commercial Fishing killed the red snapper fishing.

[@johnharris-pn5vy]

Awesome fish there

[@PoweryFishing]

john harris appreciate it!🤙

[@kaneparker6594]

WHOOO WHEEE CONGRATULATIONS MY BROTHER KEEP DOING YOUR THANG

[@PoweryFishing]

Kane Parker thanks man!👍

[@sedali5882]

So annoying those ppl try to fish right over your hand when they know you already hooked up to a giant smh

[@PoweryFishing]

Ali Mousavi yea man you will encounter that a lot at Sebastian but you just gotta know how to walk with your fish and know when to go over and under your line to avoid tangles lol

[@sedali5882]

Anyway great vid keep it coming!

[@PoweryFishing]

Ali Mousavi thank you!🤙

[@Thwarptide]

Exactly why I'll never fish the Pier of the inlet. Too many incompetents perfectly willing to cross lines, hook you on the cast etc. I get just as many big hook ups (and more elbow room) on the beach. There's a huge reason why Goliaths are protected. Because way to many Anglers are woefully ignorant of moderate conservation and would just assume wipe em all out.

[@bobcatsbargainschann2050]

He was there fishing before you put the blue runner on

[@Curiousbeats1]

👍👍👍

[@PoweryFishing]

Curiousbeats1 thanks!🤙

[@john.johnb_online1438]

Wow wow Wow !!!

[@thisguy1397]

Monster Hole not breaking that day. I miss Surfing there.

[@offshoreandoutdoors]

Love the content! Im just starting a new channel myself and fish alot of the same area.

[@PoweryFishing]

Offshore and Outdoors thank you! and right on have fun with it!👍

[@scottmichael3745]

New sub! Solid bro! P.S. I'm in Melbourne, just a few minutes away. Nice!:-)

[@PoweryFishing]

Scott Michael thanks man! And have you been out there lately?

[@scottmichael3745]

@@PoweryFishing Not in the last 3 weeks, but 3 weeks ago I was chasing down pilchards in the Indian river off the 192 causeway and I was getting circled by a 5 foot black tip. Keep in touch, I'm hitting it next Wednesday. Local info is Much appreciated bro!

[@scottmichael3745]

@@PoweryFishing btw, I have a 17 foot side council with a 40 HP and a modest tower. This is "OUR" stomping grounds anyways.... JS. my pic is of a 44" snook. Live mullet. Hope to bump into ya! Tight lines brother!

[@PoweryFishing]

Scott Michael nice!🤙 and yea man if you see me out there say what’s up!👍

[@bobh1208]

I agree there's a healthy population of them, and they can be fish stealers, but I'd like to see them do what they can to maintain the current population, because it seems like about ten years ago the Goliaths learned that they could snack out on invasive Lionfish. I think how they suck them in without biting keeps them from getting stuck by the poisonous fins. At any rate, I used to kill about three Lionfish per lobster diving day with my tickle stick after netting them... but since the Goliaths' population exploded back to healthy levels, I have not seen even one Lionfish while diving off of Stuart. In fact, the single Lionfish that we have seen in the last five years was one we caught on a lure in 135 feet... which is a bit deep for Goliaths.

[@PoweryFishing]

Bob H yea my father told me how he was reading an article about a diver seeing multiple dead gag groupers on the bottom of the sea floor one time. He than realized that it was the Goliath groupers killing them!👎What a waste hahaha at least eat the fish!😂 So yea it doesn’t surprise me they were killing them! Lol

[@bobh1208]

That would surprise me if they were what actually killed the Gags, because Goliaths aren't typically biters, they're "inhalers". Sounds like it MIGHT have even been propaganda, by a diver who wanted to be allowed to shoot Goliaths. My grandmother, in the early days of Scuba, actually interviewed a diver she considered credible in the Keys who had been inhaled as far as the start of his tank by a big one, and he had to jab it in the gills with his dive knife to get it to spit his head out of its mouth... and, well, it didn't kill HIM (for what THAT is worth). Interestingly enough, in videos of our artificial reefs, you can see a cloud of baitfish tightly surrounding a lot of the Goliaths. My theory on why this happens is that the adult Goliaths know that if they try to flare their gills to "inhale" the baitfish, the baitfish are small enough that they will just get sucked out between the gillrakers as the gills flare out, instead of going down the Goliaths' throats. And the baitfish "know" that the same is not true for gamefish that could feed on them, which therefore have to keep their distance from the Goliaths (and the cloud of bait around them). (Lionfish, on the other hand, though often as small as baitfish, have big cumbersome fins that probably prevent them from shooting out between the Goliaths' gillrakers, thus allowing the Goliaths to successfully inhale 'em.)

[@rapidtransit8373]

By the way. I live in Pompano Beach. I've lived here for 52 years. Moved here when I was 10 year's old. I could jump on my bike . Go to the intercoastal with a big mullet I'd snagged cut it into chunks and catch 4 or 5 snappers enuff for a family meal. Now there's nothing there.......so sad

[@rapidtransit8373]

It doesn't matter WHO's where first or second. If someone's got a large fish on get out of the way. Try to help them land it. Don't just stand in the way. Its already hard enuff with all the rocks.

[@PoweryFishing]

Rapid Transit yea man I hear you!👍

[@jaddy540]

I have had azzoles cast over my line when I had fish on!

[@PoweryFishing]

jaddy540 yea man I don’t like when pple do that but it happens often so I just maneuver around them to land the fish lol

[@IBenFishin]

i’m going out there this thursday and if some dumb googan makes me lose my slot snook i’m going to jail not home

[@williammata6019]

if you don't mind me asking why do you grab your line after casting it?

[@PoweryFishing]

So I don’t create a birds nest.👍

[@aidanobuck5779]

I cant ever find bait at the inlet. Where do you catch yours?

[@mhdmdh8452]

Belle prise ❤❤❤

[@msanchez5233]

200th subscriber

[@PoweryFishing]

FL fishing Tv thank you!🙏

[@bobscruggs8886]

All I can say is WOW !

[@PoweryFishing]

Bob Scruggs yea that was my first thought when I landed it!😂

[@DRTMaverick]

congrats on 80,000 views

[@PoweryFishing]

Appreciate it!👍

[@mykemyers6488]

Getting worked by the babies lmfao. But they should start a lottery system on them. Put out a couple hundred tags a year for fish between 100-300 lbs or close within reason.

[@PoweryFishing]

Myke Myers I have to up the gear before I go after the big boys lol and yes I completely agree! I’m sure they will have that in the future once they realize these fish go after everything in sight lol

[@tommyhunter1817]

Those things are eating all the good game fish.

[@PoweryFishing]

Tommy Hunter yea man I agree! I hope they open up a season on them in the future!👍

[@Fish10000]

79k views ALMOST there

[@PoweryFishing]

🤞

[@Fish10000]

@@PoweryFishing 79 more views to go

[@lymedevries2346]

Damn! It is too bad they're protected cuz they sure do taste good!

[@PoweryFishing]

Kenneth de Vries really!? You tried them before they became protected?

[@saltwaterangling472]

Uhhh you just told fwc you ate a protected fish what a fucking idiot

[@chandlerfl9188]

@@saltwaterangling472 they used to be legal

[@bottling.hobo.]

Beautiful fish

[@PoweryFishing]

Frederick W thanks!🤙

[@mikejones1890]

So close to 60000

[@lakesideinc]

I see this a million times...fight a big fish for hours,,,doing everything right ,,then the fish gets a second breath ,,,and always if your not thinking you instantly either grab the spool, or the line ,,, NEVER TOUCH THEM ,,, that fish ran and he grabbed the line with his thumb to try and stop it ,,,, bad bad bad move ,,,, but your not alone ... watch the videos on here of the big ones that get away , and 90% of the time the guy grabbed the spool or the line ... even if you think you didn't touch it much,,,, you touched it to much .... the guy that set him up knows what hes doing and im sure he has that drag set right close to the limit,,, that little bit extra was what lost that fish

[@PoweryFishing]

lakesideinc yea man fighting those Goliath groupers a tricky but every time I fight one I learn what to do and what not to do for future fights!👍

[@Hisslave1]

They're just as thick in the Gulf too. It's WAY past time for the FWC to open it up. These giant vacuum cleaners make it impossible to fish a lot of wrecks and reefs.

[@PoweryFishing]

Hisslave1 exactly these fish are ruthless! I almost lost a slot snook to one before! 😂

[@juliansemenuk2727]

i couldn't agree more the Goliaths are getting ridiculous.

[@PoweryFishing]

Julian Semenuk yea man no doubt! I know the FWC has talked about opening a season up for them but we’ll see.

[@logan7724]

Do more videos like this and your blow up

[@PoweryFishing]

Logan 772 thanks man and sorry for the super late response lol

[@jasonwoodbury3717]

perfect eatin size too ! filet and. release!

[@PoweryFishing]

jason woodbury hahaha right on!🤙

[@frankb331]

those ugly stiks can handle anything they`re tough asf.

[@PoweryFishing]

frank b yea man they are awesome rods for the price range!🤙

[@frankb331]

Tell me about it I have a bunch of them.. but i mainly use my elite 6'6 for canal and river fishing and i have caught massive snooks and it has hold up to passcmy expectation.

[@PoweryFishing]

frank b right on man! This is the only one I have but I definitely plan on getting more!🤙

[@terryogletree2128]

Just hook up to your truck bumper and fight it for a while , just as much fun and you don't get in anybody's way and you don't have more fish trailing line with mouths full of hooks

[@TheBaja2323]

Nice fish an video. Try putting a long top shot of 400 lb. Will help with bigger fish an helps with not breaking them off. Also they are debating on opening a season for Goliath groupers.

[@PoweryFishing]

big bruce thanks and yea I actually just changed my line to 250lb main and I’m putting 500lb leader on. I’m trying to catch moby dick!😂 and I really hope they have a season for them🙏

[@TheBaja2323]

Also make sure not to bring the 90lb plus fish out of the water fwc can fine you for that.

[@PoweryFishing]

big bruce I did not know that! Thanks for the heads up!👍 I might have to beach them next time and remove the hook while the fish is still in the water if I can manage to get him that far!

[@PoweryFishing]

big bruce do know what the best method of popping the line if you manage to land a beast and have no way to get him close to shore to remove the hook?

[@TheBaja2323]

For popping 500 pound test line maybe a tugboat LOL. We usually use a hook without a barb. If we use one with a barb we walk it to the beach. It's a little bit harder with no Barb but once you get it to the top you just bounce the line up and down and it should pop out.

[@elmoz122]

Isn’t it illegal to take these fish out of water?

[@PoweryFishing]

elmo z to my knowledge no! Unless they just recently changed it.

[@elmoz122]

@@PoweryFishing Gotcha. I was just reading the FWC About prohibited Species and that was the first fish on the list about being unlawful to harvest, possess,land, yadda yadda yadda.

[@PoweryFishing]

elmo z yea honestly I just think it depends on the FWC officer because I’ve seen pple catch them when they are around and as long as you release them correctly they didn’t say much! Lol

[@HS-hr5wp]

It's illegal unless they're juveniles

[@_mzgames4468]

I thought you weren’t supposed to land those fish?? Something about taking them out the water will cause their lungs to collapse????

[@PoweryFishing]

The smaller ones you can take out of the water to get the hook out. This is small compared to the big ones that get 500lbs and bigger.

[@IBenFishin]

fish have gills not lungs

[@rickeystiles9098]

I'm a life long fisherman and I just can't see the point of catching the fish, stressing it out just to put it back. Why not leave it alone until it's legal to keep one?????

[@sandraward116]

..get the net..get the net..why is it not legal to keep..what is it...🐇🐇🐇

[@PoweryFishing]

Sandra Ward they were low in numbers back in the early 90’s I believe due to alot pple killing them and they have been protected ever since!

[@ralphcrandon2034]

Your sticking your hand into that fishes lungs. The chance of it's survival is in direct relation to how much it's handled while out of the water as well as how it's handled. Should be immediately released.

[@Jfc1224]

“They should” No, “they” shouldn’t. The conservationists know what they’re doing and it’s for all of our benefits.

[@IBenFishin]

most “conservationists” are preservationists. when there’s wolves or bears eating all the elk or deer we go out and thin em out

[@funguy7979]

I can't wait till they legalize Jewfish

[@PoweryFishing]

D. Hernandez I hope they do that one day man!🤙 Those fish are everywhere lol

[@nasiasteel9105]

No it should not be made legal to keep because as soon as they do there will be none left too many poachers in this world some species will have to be protected forever look at how many species have gone extinct pull up information it will Astound you

[@PoweryFishing]

kameron steel I value your opinion but we can agree to disagree !👍

[@timothyberlinski2299]

Poachers? Isn't the definition of poachers to illegally take game so how would making them legal for us affect poachers and poachers take them regardless

[@mikelliteras397]

What was wrong with those 2 guys, especially that 2nd guy that came in while you were hooked up. Jackasses.

[@huckfin8666]

Who ever named the title, makes you feel like licking some boots, please king may i keep a fish, just f...... Sad !

[@lordchumm321]

youre not supposed to target them bud

[@alexandersarcevic1729]

lol what

[@nasiasteel9105]

This great fish has been around for millions of years humans can only look back 10,000 years and in that span of time many of them have met their end at the hands of man. One day we will be on that list because of the heinous acts we have committed against nature

[@fullwood13]

Goliath Grouper need to stay protected, too easy to wipe them out (it almost happened in the past, it will happen again) and anyone targeting them on purpose should fined $500 for harrasing an endangered species.