MASSIVE Mutton Snappers! Catch, Clean & Cook! South Florida Fishing

[Music] foreign well good morning we just pushed off the dock it's just Victor and I heading out this morning and we have not been out on the family boat in three months and you know whenever you haven't used a boat in a while the second you turn the motor over and it actually turns on it's just like this immediate feeling of relief it's like I haven't used the boat in a while is it gonna start and every single time you best believe this Suzuki turns over so she's all reliable not gonna lie the boat was very dirty this morning we had to literally wash it before we even left the dock there's nothing like washing the boat before you even go fishing so hopefully we have a beautiful day of fishing it is glass calm there is not a breath of wind out here so it's a little spicy out here but wishlist luck hopefully we get some fish in the boat so we can bring some fish home for dinner for the family it's Gladys glass it's like a mirror it's a beautiful day we're testing Vicks gaffing capabilities on this balloon foreign we are going to try to catch some bait so we're attaching to this buoy here so we don't have to throw the anchor look at this oh my God we're finding secret Lobster rocks out here lion rocks just like that we're already changing plans we are letting the buoy go because there is zero current here and you do not want to even bother wasting your time trying to catch bait if there's no current so on to the next spot let's try to find some current okay so plan B is we are anchoring now in a little bit deeper water because we saw the valley who actually flipping on the surface out here got our chum bag brand new chum bag because the last time we fished Brooke decided to throw ours in but it happens I threw in him in a time or two and she did it at night so we didn't go in for it but during the day we usually jump in for it let's see what happens well ain't that a pretty sight all we know is Brooke's dad would have been throwing the net at least 10 times by now and I would be saying Brian be patient so when it's super glassy like this you can literally see the Ballyhoo popping on the surface you guys see him back there that's what you want to see and they're getting closer and closer and closer we're ready for you we're literally right next to the belt we could have gotten some with that throw come on you love to see them shining in the net I don't see any shining yet he got one one man they are smart suckers that's rookie numbers got some distance we got a decent amount that bro sounds good you can't squeeze them if you squeeze these guys remember they're feeding on Chums so they're full of poop if you squeeze them they're gonna poop all over you foreign [Music] at least probably three dozen Valley hosts so we made our way out here so we are currently anchored in about 100 and like 30 feet of water and the current is smoking out here it's crazy how when we run shallow zero current and when I say the current is smoking I'm talking we're fishing a pound of weight and the paddle weight isn't even holding on the bottom come on you're on hey guys good fish good fish I told Brooke maybe it's best we hold our rods because with so much weight you don't want the Snapper to ever feel it I was letting him eat it and I don't think they eat it all at once they kind of munch on that Valley who over and over again until they fit in their mouth because it's a big bait this feels like the right kind it feels like our mutton snapper and I know how much we and the brook Chris family love mutton snapper if it is a mutton I think it's going to be a keeper bring this on some dinner there's color what is it it's a mountain yep oh no you got to be joking me you gotta be joking that was a keeper huh it's freaking Pompano Beach look the shark's right there you're kidding no what is that a Cuda gosh darn it unfortunately that's what our Mountain looks like that would have been a legal mine he probably would have been right around 18 19 inches and we thought it was a shark but it looked like a barracuda actually followed it up and you kind of see that really Jagged like Teeth most likely a barracuda hate to see it unfortunately you can't keep a fish like this half of it you gotta throw it back you got to be able to prove that it was a legal sized fish well that sure is disappointing huh yeah oh yeah baby come on Brooke all right finally hooked one you took a little bit of line gave him the sauce and we are on uh oh that doesn't look good shoot did you see that no oh my gosh that was such a good bite such a good bike got cut off could have been a Cuda could have been a shark whoa whoa he's right back away come on Vicky give me something good I am gonna try my best to give you something great sky looks very ominous behind you get me something great oh now he's swimming a little fast and and it's a Cuda no that was just digging like a mutton man we can't get away from the cutest today well we are very close to a wreck yeah I was about to say should we eat it oh my gosh look at that Cuda oh man he wanted to eat him huge one look at that Cuda right there little update to be continued you cannot see the lighthouse down there anymore you can barely see any of the buildings that direction you can't see the buildings behind us that direction so before we get into a really windy bad storm we're gonna pull anchor and head home but this video will be continued another day the next three days this week um the weather's supposed to be really nice and then we're actually heading to Belize now let's get this anchor in before we get pulverized by some lightning good morning it is day two it is the following day after yesterday and I'm not gonna lie we waited a little bit too long yesterday to head home we ended up getting stuck in a pretty bad storm it was pouring rain the winds picked up and there was lightning all over the place so wasn't really smart on our part to wait as long as we did we thought that we were going to just miss both storms but we ended up getting caught in one on the way home so all good we made it home safe we're back out here again we started the day the same way as we did yesterday netted some Ballyhoo and now we are Anchored In 60 feet of water Victor and I are both fishing a bait on bottom as well as we have a flat line Ballyhoo out just drifting in the current up top so hopefully we have better luck than yesterday wish us luck let's see what we can catch all right so while we are waiting on our first bite of the day pictures behind the camera making sure he's watching the rods while I talk to you guys but I want to give a big thank you to element for sponsoring this video if you guys have been watching the videos for a while then you know that Victor and I have implemented this into our life for the last I think a year and a half and we absolutely love it it is an electrolyte drink mix with everything you need and nothing that you don't it's really delicious 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you have to do is go to drinkelement.com brookcrest or I will have a link in the video description now let's get back to fission oh [Music] go Vicky go and he did it for us you see what good luck element is you see what a good luck element is you know I'm not gonna call it after yesterday saying every single oh you're getting a hit you're getting a hit no you're wrapped in my life oh shoot well here let me come around here what is it an Omega oh a Yellow Jack is it yep Oh nice yellow jacket Jack I think so is it a Yellow Jack oh my gosh oh I thought it was a Yellow Jack it's a good size one it's not a normal time it's a lesser yeah right lesser amberjack to be honest I don't even know the size limit but I'm pretty sure he'd be undersized anyway um this is the smallest of the amberjack species almaco is getting much bigger greater amberjacks and as his name suggests lesser amberjack because he's the smallest of the bunch they also got this really pretty like purple tint to them compared to all the other amberjack species not what we're looking for but you got to start somewhere see ya come on come on I can't catch anything at least somebody can fish is not in the boat yet but I will try my hardest for you babe people always say why do you wear these masks on the boat tell them back it's not a sanitary thing it's the sun if you do this for a living and you're out here on the sun all the time you don't want to destroy your skin and get sunburned so we um I like to wear a face buff instead of sunscreen I hate the way sunscreen feels on my face this is not a mutton I though don't like to wear face Puffs and unless I'm like traveling in the Sun for like five straight days um I just like to wear sunscreen you want me to reel mine in so we don't get tangled oh I think I'm underneath you right now it's feeling very Sharky I'm not talking there's no way you're hand lining a shark in that easily it's a big cobia that would be great huh just in case I got I think it's like another Jack of some sorts just in case I got the Gap ready it's not a shark it's silver it's a mutton no yep it's a big snapper I think it is a big snapper should I get the Gaff or the net um oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God it's right here it's not going anywhere [Music] good job rookie good job are you joking me are you joking me you deserve this fish right here did you guys hear what he said Do You See furthest thing away from a shark this man thinks every single freaking thing that he hooks is a shark that is the first thing away from a shark that's our biggest Hometown mutton huh you thought this was a shark you are crazy man I don't know I just I haven't caught a fish in a while so I just wasn't used to it huh look at he's hooked freaking perfectly wow do I know how to Anchor in good spots or do I know how to dank her I'm just gonna say I've put us on five spots today no good fish Brooke says you know what we should drop right here she got a good hunch and look at this biggest ever mine we got out here good job back here you hold him up yay we did it two days and then we finally caught something good I'm not gonna lie it's a very funny looking shark sometimes you gotta listen to Brooke she put us on the good spot this is a solid I'd say 10 pound Mountain Snapper it's bigger than 10 pounds you think so I give it at least 13 all day gorgeous you guys see the different colors on them see how his uh back is super green this is a delicious eating fish if we don't catch anything for the rest of the day we already got a video we got a nice family dinner right here but I'm eager to get get baits back down but you guys look at that see that circle hook right in the corner and Brooke hasn't shown you guys the rig we got to show them the rig right after this I'm just so happy two days we got beat out by thunderstorms we almost lost our anchor so we wouldn't even be able to do this and then now look at this we went from Zero to Hero with a gorgeous mutton snapper oh yeah baby let's get more baits out oh yeah you are there's no lines in your way just don't take me in a rock baby just don't take me in a rock baby well just like yesterday we got those afternoon thunderstorms coming it's starting to drizzle on us already you can see in the background you're almost not being able to see the buildings already man this thing is taking drag tighten it maybe a little it's gonna be okay gonna get them in the boat our big money we got someone wanting to put their anchor right on top of us seriously what's up with this man like right there that's literally where our anchor is because you got to put out your anchor and then do scope if he's gonna anchor right there he's gonna end up on top of us oh yeah good fish Brookie come on hopefully those guys don't see this or they're really going to want to hang around oh wait come on come to Mama I want a bagel mutton we put our time in yesterday and today came out here two days in a row got nothing in the cooler Victor finally got that beautiful big mutton and I think this is gonna be another one Victor would say it's a shark if you want to help me handline this one here's the wait I'm gonna grab the net feels good I hear thunder I hear thunder it's looking yellow yellow well you know like I got the net ready this time it's the right one Brooke oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh first head first always babe I can't see what I'm doing grab the camera grab the camera I'm gonna miss it it's not getting in the net it's too big it's too big for the net look at this current raging wow we got another one don't break your neck with that giant fish look at this look at it it's the twin back yep it's your fish's twin no yours is bigger don't worry you ready for this no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no it's done I don't know what you're doing there he's not a basketball I can't believe it two Vic our two biggest mountains that we've ever caught you know we've caught big mountains in the keys with like Captain Ryan and our friend Captain Cody but to be out front in our home water catching stud fish like this it's just absolutely amazing especially we put our time in yesterday got chased out by a storm not gonna lie it got really scary yesterday came back out here bam two twin fish we got Thunder going on in the background I don't know how much longer we'll be able to fish today ah this is amazing he is 29 inches almost 30 inches good job absolute stud number two going in the cooler bam yeah thought I got a bite and I went to reel in to see if I was stuck and I think I have something on you didn't even know you had a fish because he was so much smaller in the rest wow Beauty look at the size difference of what we're getting the color yep wow incredible the color difference between those big boys and this little colorful one let's get them unhooked and release them another big fish on the bottom we need an umbrella I don't mind it it's hot Mountain bite hot out here rain's cooling us off feels good you're joking wow he's hooked perfect sometimes we just catch cudas I mean we can't complain with the two good fish we caught today so let's see it's a good size one look at that you got real lucky with that hook Mr barracuda oh my gosh maguma's just got finger bit I was zoomed in I don't know if we'll get that that was close this is what was destroying us yesterday we actually had one so big big enough to eat our mutton snapper yesterday you guys see those razor sharp teeth ready yeah see ya torpedo Victor and I have both been fishing the same two bottom rods today we started out with like 15 20 foot leaders and then we moved up to 40 foot a 40 pound leader so we have 40 feet of liter 60 must add hook so we got a three-way swivel here one side is going to our main line one side is going to our leader and then the bottom part is just like a piece of random mono for the weight pound of weight and we actually ran out of all of our live Ballyhoo today but I'll show you how we were hooking them this is all the ballet who the when you have a bunch of them they end up dying they don't survive that well it's not like you could ever go home and put these in a bait well at home and have them survive they kind of a little bit of a fragile band so the way we have been hooking them is back here in the tail you want to make sure you get decent amount of meat in there but just something like this and then they're down there in the current just swimming along but now since we only have dead baits I'm going to show you what I'm going to do so I'm going to take my trusty Dexter knife here and I'm going to chop right behind the head and what I'm doing is I'm making a Ballyhoo plug here so chop off the head and chop off the tail Dad if you're watching this part I promise I'm not cutting into the fiberglass of the bow I'm gonna just hook it towards the tail end just like that so again it's just going to be flowing in the current toss out your long 40 feet 40 foot leader make sure you're not standing on it drop your weight down slowly just drop it to the bottom and since we're anchored once you hit bottom you don't really have to let any more line out um the current has been really strong so every once in a while I gotta let out a little line because your weight will start bouncing on the bottom and you don't want your weight bouncing on the bottom because you're gonna scare those fish You Are The Champions singing that in the last video all right guys well we are calling it a day we're probably gonna end up getting rained on more on the way home as well as when we wash the boat because it's just that time of year summer summer afternoon thunderstorms are absolutely here we're lucky today wasn't very bad and the way home should be pretty nice it is glass calm just another beautiful day out here and we got two great fish we got two amazing fish she thinks it's gonna be 15 pounds oh yeah we got a long scale 12 pounds I have been sick so I haven't been to the gym in over a week but I'm telling you when I was holding that fish up he felt like I was curling like a 15 pound dumbbell so when we get home we're gonna weigh them I want you guys to comment down below how much you think they weigh I think Victor and ice fish are almost identical well also 12. no you can't tell them I think it's more than that but you guys comment down below I want to know your thoughts of how big you think it is we sent a picture to my dad and my dad said are those 20 pound fish so for now but hopefully our scale works good when we get home but we're gonna pull up the anchor send it home on this wonderful day and then we're gonna clean up the boat Flay the fish so we'll see you back at the dock wow haven't seen anything that pretty in our cooler in a long time I mean what that's my favorite fish and just to see two of those in there I wish I was on that trip I wish one of those was mine look at that man they're identical they're literally the exact same length yeah twins that crazy it is time to find out how much these things weigh wow it's 12 pounds it's 11. what is 11 . I don't think the scale is very accurate it is Brook we've we've countered it with mine oh wait no it's 11. it's about four pounds off your 15 huh okay give us the other one I think this one's gonna be 11.5 you can't see 0.5 on the scale too hard to tell 11 and 12. I think it's gonna be 50 . now this one's 12. so you caught the 12 pounder you caught a little bigger I caught a 12 pounder you caught an 11 pounds you usually catch the bigger one it's all right yeah because mine had this weird little thingy on his mouth yep all right it is time to clean up our big old beautiful mutton snapper the knife of choice is this deck stream seven inch flexible fillet knife as you can see half of the blade has serrated edge on it it's the perfect thing for this big scaly fish because I'm gonna use that serrated side so that I can keep my regular fillet blade from getting dull [Music] go down with the serrated side still just making my first initial cut through the scales all the way down to the tail now that that's done we can flip our knife around and use the regular side of the blade it usually would use this part to get through those pin bones the serrated side beautiful here we go great job I've decided that I'm going to cook both of these mutton Snappers on the half shell which is my favorite way to cook fish and basically that just means that you're cooking it with the scales still on so what I'm doing now is I'm cutting through where the pin bones are but I'm not going through the skin I just kind of wanna play this part out they don't want these bones in there I don't have to worry about them when it's on people's plates so just about that much that's where the bones are and the worst part of the bloodline and this baby is ready for the kitchen when I get in I'll use a couple paper towels to get off some of that blood because it was a little bit of a bloody fish but I'm gonna flip the other side and then I will see you guys in the kitchen hey guys welcome back to the kitchen so check out our beautiful mutton snapper fillets they are literally the size of a sheet pan that is incredible this is definitely going to be the biggest fish I ever cook on the half shell so first thing we're going to do is season these up with some salt now we're gonna do pepper next garlic powder this is the only garlic powder we got left in the house so we gotta use it sparingly now you could definitely throw these on the grill on the half shell maybe just add a little bit of olive oil or something on top and they would taste absolutely delicious however Victor made this recipe for some of our friends about a month ago and it was one of the best on the half shell dishes I've ever had and it was with mutton snapper and so I really want to share that recipe with my family so I'm going to be doing the same thing um in this cup so far we have lemon juice and lime juice so we're gonna now add this is cilantro so nice bunch of cilantro parsley a bunch of parsley then this is a shallot chopped up and about four cloves of garlic so we're basically making a marinade that we're gonna put on top of our mind snapper this is the zest of two limes and two lemons going in with some honey some more Worcestershire sauce Worcestershire Worcestershire sauce next olive oil water olive oil salt and pepper to finish it up I'm gonna add a little bit of purified water have a peek oh gosh what the put it on now I can't get it off okay there we go [Music] baby look at that color let's give it a little taste [Music] oh yeah maybe time to put our marinade on our beautiful mutton snapper you're rationing it like we're in the Great Depression lather it on there girl we are we're in the money because after this we're gonna be depressed after we eat it because we aren't gonna have any babies on the grill we're hot oh I know for sure when we take these off I'm gonna have to use both of these but hopefully to get them on we can do it with just one one [Music] all right last one once these are nice and tender and cooked they're gonna be hard to get off of there they're gonna be wanting to fall off that instead [Music] all right guys so these have been on for probably close to 25 minutes they have completely changed colors we can do here with some spatula Magic one Two Perfect they're heavy aren't they nice yeah thanks especially when you get two of them on there oh yeah baby well that's two fish that's gonna feed um how many people we got here tonight eight people eight two fish gonna feed eight people rare avocado mine [Music] I also have some rice pilaf but I didn't even think about this my dad just brought into my attention that there's eight of us who are literally eating half of these fillets each so that's a lot of fish Gabby's fish just went you can do it girl you got this it's just crazy you know rarely can you get feed the whole family you know with two Snappers don't give everyone half them because I don't think some people are gonna eat it well some people will wow do you see that that kind of came off any more perfect than that wow that was beautiful we got some rice pilaf to go with our fish look at how it came off the skin so perfectly has anyone got a scale yet no no one's even gotten a scale amazing I love to catch this fish I love to eat this fish it's not that easy to catch um Fisher and I were so jealous of their fishing trip Victor's gonna set us up with gear and Tackle give us a little clinic after dinner and Fisher and I are going to go after them tomorrow so hopefully we get some more mutton snapper you're becoming one with them on snapper right now as you eat this so hopefully we can catch one of these but I know for a fact even if we try We're not gonna be able to prepare it this way like like he said mine's a real good Snapper and he loves mine but there's something about like how today's mun was cooked that I've never really noticed a fish taste this good before it really turned out spectacular I don't know if it was the size of the flag cooked the way it was or or what but it was it it is spectacular it's delicious uh White giant flaky fish with uh excuse me is this green so fresh and delicious I'm not sure what it is exactly or she already had it mixed when we came in it was so good speechless absolutely amazing um it has like a lemony twist and it's really refreshing light it's perfect recipe has given me life um like my mom said huge flakes it melts in your mouth crushed it I honestly think it would it would win on some cooking shows so 10 out of 10 well done brick some Mackenzie um so I'm very very particular when it comes fish and not be really dry but this is so juicy so flaky it's like fresh it's zesty I love it Chef's gift that comment was zesty I like it well another successful family dinner the mutton snapper was absolutely delicious tomorrow my parents and both my brothers are gonna go fishing tomorrow so they do catch anything I'll put their photos in right here and if they don't catch anything then I guess you won't ever see this all right guys well it is the next day and my family went out mutton fishing today and like I had said Victor and I are getting ready for a trip so I was editing this video for you as well as just getting ready for the trip so I came over to meet them at the dock to see their catch and boy did they have an amazing day I'm going to show you guys a little bit of their footage are you on campus Factory vacation Jen you know what what do you got got me a nice Yellow Tail look at that all right put it in the cooler third big fish that's a slum look at that yeah baby you don't have to measure that one hey Victor's fishing Clinic does it again here I can I can show YouTube I don't know if they'll see it but that's Brooke and Victor on on FaceTime Victor's fishing Clinic cook they cooked me fish last night hooked me up and told me how to catch them look at that laughs canvas Factory vacation yeah baby an 18 and a half and I don't know what Deb's got she's uh look at this slob holy mackerel oh my God oh my God I almost missed it I almost freaking missed it I almost missed it look at it hook right in the lip mom look at you Deb tell the story about this fish huh tell how it was bouncing around she goes I'm a CH I'm gonna check my bait Deb's got the big ones that's it wow good job Mom how big Ours by um probably three inches you look like a little mom behind that fish the Victor and Brook fishing Clinic it works up up fish another slide this thing went under a rock and I waited him out I waited him out check them out look at that bro cooler full of meat look at that well how was it everybody it was spectacular yeah it was we went out there to do that and we did it last night Brooke was cooking us some of these size muttons and we were jonesing saying oh we got to do that tomorrow and they sat us down got us the rods ready taught us how to tie all of our leaders and everything just the right size for our current and we did exactly what we exactly what we set out to do which was put some big muttons in the boat good job look at these monsters absolute Beauties good job guys nice so as always thank you guys so much for watching I hope you enjoyed and I will see you in the next video

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Length: 37min 39sec (2259 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023