Luke here with the outdoor boys youtube channel i'm here with my whole family and my sister here and we are in isla murada in the florida keys and we are going fishing for invasive lying fish we're gonna go spear fishing in fact and we're going to catch clean and cook up what we catch good morning morning good morning.

Welcome to the key yeah luke jeff good morning jeff good to meet you yeah you got it excellent all right here we are with forever young spear fishing i've got captain jeff and i've got tony young here and they are going to take us out snorkeling and looking for lionfish hey thomas you excited.

I haven't been spearfishing underwater since i was a teenager and i absolutely love it so i'm excited to get a chance to do this again and i've always wanted to spear lionfish so this is this is gonna be cool  oh my goodness look how clear that is oh look i can see fish right there see.

We thought this would be the perfect spot for you guys to hop in get your gills wet i'm about to jack up the light exposure on my list time to get the lady views and this is how you lose 1.5 million subscribers right now because we're in a special protected area only certain permit holders can spare invasive.

Lionfish and that includes mr young so if we see any lionfish here he's gonna spear him but after we go and snorkel around here let the kids have some fun we're gonna go try some other places where i can get a chance to spear some lionfish yeah this is how we this is how we catch the fish we stick your diaper down in.

The reef and all the fish float to the top all right guys you ready  so   so.

So     you want to see a cleaner fish cleaning a barracuda like six of them whoa watch out for you have fun yeah i swam with them i literally got close to.

Them and they didn't attack me they were like hello hey jacob did you have fun yeah nathan do you need a pee yeah you know how you pee in a wetsuit hell you just pee your pants you ain't cool unless you pee your pants maybe you guys need to go pee come on.

Everyone just beat their pants raise your hand yay i think it's time to go look for some lionfish i want to go poke a fish tell me you like the beanbag so we had fun doing a little bit of snorkeling now it's time to knuckle down and do some serious lionfish hunting now lionfish are an invasive species from.

The indian pacific ocean area so they're all over from southern japan to australia to the philippines they've been let loose here and they're just all over they're an invasive species here in the caribbean gulf of mexico area and over in the mediterranean so we're going to hunt the lionfish using these three prong hawaiian spears and they're really.

Simple easy to use so even i might be able to spear one   huh.

   awesome  are you sad to be leaving this spot yeah she will go to a new spot  that's okay.

That's so cool  so oh i miss well i missed my first lionfish all right we're just gonna go try another spot go try to poke another fish oh.

 oh so  oh my goodness okay i dubbed down there and i nicked him and he took off to a separate coral head and we're gonna see if we can't find him over there luckily these things don't.

Run very far i shot him again so we're gonna try to get him  foreign okay i shot him a third time we got him on the prongs but you need to really work him out of that hole and it's just too hard so mr young is going to go down.

There try to get him out of that hole  woohoo  there he is got about six bullet holes in him and his spine's right there oh yeah yeah.

So um whoa nice shot oh what a great trip even though we only got two fish i'm super jazzed because normally they do this with scuba gear it's a real challenge to to get this snorkeling but we did it oh i appreciate that thank you so much.

That was such a great time what was your favorite thing you saw fish  i got to tell you the bottom looks really far away when you're up there at 30 feet of water you're like dad you're like oh wow doing everything you can decide we.

Caught the lionfish now we're going to show you how to clean them these are a venomous fish if you get stung by their venomous spines it hurts like a bee on steroids from what i hear it doesn't feel good so not in there yeah so there's no spines here no spines there do have one you can see right there they've got oh i see they got right like.

A catfish right there and then a couple on the anal fin okay and then everything up on their door so all the dorsal fins when you get stuck and that flush gets pulled back the grooves are exposed and the venom is able to leave the spine gotcha so the longer the spine and the farther it goes in the more venom can get into your system you ever been.

Spined i have been stuck a couple how bad was it uh for me it's usually not too bad i might have built up a tolerance over time but for most people you know if you get in your finger the whole hand will swell up about twice the size oh hey manatee that's our buddy steve hi steve he uh he now eats lionfish.

Carcasses it's a flesh-eating manatee oh that's so hardcore steve oh and there's a nurse shark right there so they all know our boat they're ready for their dinner to fillet these what i do is i just pull their pectoral fin back make a cut there and then i'll hold the entire body of.

The fish using just the tip of the knife going very slow and careful so you can see that whole time i'm just basically keeping my hand in the same position yeah trying not to move very much and that's oh that looks gorgeous that's the prized meat that's why lionfish is so delicious and his skin's not too bad looks like.

You can probably just fry it up and eat the skin you can yeah one piece hold on look at that oh there he goes there he goes oh he just ate he just ate it that manatee just ate fish flesh so he'll eat his spines at all like um you know they kind of it.

Just seems like they kind of chew on i don't know if they're getting like the moisture out of the fish or what they are but they seem to play with it for quite a while nice and tight okay all right now drop it right right in front of steve bless leaving manatee.

Oh he's just totally sucking that down  steve you're my favorite manatee ever man thank you very much you're welcome you're right thank you thank you it ate a ton of meat but there you go some little teeny tiny lionfish fillets and we're going to take these home and cook.

Them up is this a shirt yeah yeah you like that it says forever young spear fishing we had such a blast this is one of the best trips i've had in a long time i really appreciate it yeah it was an amazing trip thank you so much for coming out with us listen if you guys are in the florida keys and you want to.

Do spear fishing snorkeling scuba diving rod and reel fishing whatever check out forever young charters with tony and jeff here and they will hook you up guys i'm going to put links down in the video description below their website and social media accounts so check that out thank you thank you great having you guys oh we had such a great time after.

Swimming in the salt water and all the hot sun ice cream sounded like the perfect thing becca got key lime sorbet and then melanie got a slice of key lime pie dipped in chocolate frozen on a stick that hit the spot way down hey good morning guys.

Oh i am walking gently i am walking gingerly but i am walking oh oh i'm gonna get some stuff to cook up that lionfish and i'm gonna get a little extra seafood to go with it and we are gonna have a wonderful seafood lunch.

Today all right we got island seafood market near pine island here and it really backs up right to the marina oh good fresh seafood hey becca i've got something for you who's got two thumbs and loves key lime pie this lady all right while the kids are doing online school i'm gonna cook up.

Some lionfish and some jumbo shrimp and some lane snapper and conch fritters it's we're gonna have a great lunch here i'm gonna show you some cool recipes we got some naked mango juice this stuff's nice and thick and we're gonna reduce it in a pot until it becomes a wicked awesome mango sauce.

Okay that's why tonight  all right that's it all right we'll just cool that sauce down it'll be ready in just a few minutes  yes.

There's the lane snapper coconut crusted lionfish and some prawns looking nice good it's a lionfish here mango sauce here and we're just gonna go and drizzle that on the coconut crusted fish and shrimp with the lane snapper i fried it on the.

Bottom then finished it off in the oven and it gives it that nice crunchy texture on the bottom without making it too heavy and greasy if you fry the whole thing good really good oh the conch footage with mango chutney is good would you rather try some of the lionfish.

Melanie what do you think of the lionfish oh it's really good it's all good thanks for watching guys we hope you enjoyed this video as much as we enjoyed filming it if you want to see more videos from the outdoor voice youtube channel don't forget to click subscribe we put out new videos every saturday morning and don't forget to.

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