Trigger Fish Catch & Cook - Off Shore Fishing: Tuna, Mahi, Trigger fish, Snapper, Shark and More

Hopefully we'll have some fresh mahi-mahi for you when we get back. You excited to catch some big fish? Yeah! Well I'm looking forward to a little you and me time man, this is going to be awesome. Your destination is on the right. Good morning. Okay cool. Me and Tom are here in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina and I'm here with Captain Jared with Tombstone Charters and it's early in the morning and we are headed out for some big game fishing. The world's our oyster and we're excited to fish it man. All right guys we went about an hour and a half offshore to the Gulf Stream and you can just watch the water temperature popping up. We're gonna start trolling for mahi, wahoo, sailfish, man. We can hit all sorts of fun things. Gotta tell you something I really admire about my son Tommy here. He gets seasick on these open water charters sometimes but he still loves coming out on them. So what we're doing is we're trolling with a little bait fish called a bollyhoo. It looks like a little teeny tiny swordfish. Each one of these bollyhoo is rigged up beforehand. Got the eyes out, a little lead under the gills, got it tied in there. It's a little bit fidgety so you get them all tied up ready to go before you start the day out. This one will just be popping across the surface right? This will be just subsurface, stay about 12 inches below. He's hooking this rod up to the outrigger and then using that little pulley system to get the line out further away from the boat so you can fish more rods without them getting tangled while you troll. Also allows you to fish a bigger swath of water. Oh yeah you got your little popper. Yeah it's designed to catch air in this little concave head. Okay right now he's rigging up some teasers, a whole bunch of these rubber squids and they don't even have hooks on them. The point is just to look like a school of bait fish and tease the fish and get them in to our actual hooks and bait. When Tommy was little I used to buy big old teasers as a reward for potty training. So I had a big bucket of little rubber squid that was my bribe. You feeling better Tom? Good. All right guys we're here at the end of May in North Carolina and that's a great time to catch big mahi-mahi or dolphin fish. And dolphin fish are notorious for hanging out near any sort of floating structure around weed beds or buoys or debris. Anything that holds bait fish. So we've jogged out here to the Gulf Stream and we're looking for weed beds or groups of weed that's floating in the water and we're trolling up and down those weed beds looking for some big mahi. But we could also hit sailfish or wahoo, barracuda, maybe a tuna. Anything could happen. You can see little schools of bait fish right there by the weed. Now the one downside to fishing near the weed is you get a lot of weeds snagged up on your line. So you have to constantly jerk the line try to clear out the weeds. We got flying fish right there. Seeing lots of flying fish going off that's a good sign. Big patch of grass right there. Let's see if there's anything underneath it. We got a good smack from a mahi-mahi right by that weed bed. So we're going to rebait, turn around, try again. Where there's one mahi-mahi there's often more. Oh that's all that's left of our bait. I saw him jump clean out of the water buddy. You're about to land your first mahi-mahi man. Come on Tom, keep going. He's going. Oh hey give me some right there. Whoa there we go. It's a beautiful fish. What do you think Tom? That's your first mahi-mahi. Beautiful. All right there you go guys that's the mahi-mahi right there. Look at the beautiful colors on that thing. I know. We got a good look at him. He was big and beautiful. But hey you know when they get away that makes them even bigger. Well you're out fishing your dad. Look at you man. But I believe you can do it too dad. You feel a little better? A lot better. Tommy's perking up eating some breakfast. He's got the color back in his face. That's a nice grass patty right there. This guy's just stripping drag like there's no tomorrow. Oh yes. Nice. Oh I love yellowfin. Got another one? Yeah right there. Right there. I see some silver. Look at that pretty shark you got buddy. Oh look at that. That is so awesome Tom. What kind of shark is it? Bar shark. Oh nice. Sand bar? Yeah yeah. Yeah you like that? Are you happy? Yeah. That's awesome. All right let's get him back in. Slap my gopro on the way out. Cheeky guy. Yellowfin tuna. My absolute favorite fish to eat. Glad to see you. Sharks on the other side. Oh what a wonderful fish. All right. All right yeah put him in there and we'll bleed him. So what he's doing is bleeding the tuna. When you get the blood out of the fish while it's still fresh it makes the meat taste a little better. It makes the meat preserve better. Yeah your shark nibbled that up good. Tom are you having a good trip? Yeah I caught a shark. All right guys I got the whisker seeker catfish and carp series carbon fiber rod here and we're gonna see if we can't catch some little mahi on it. It's gonna be fun. We'll start chunking if I can get them feeding on our squid. We got little pieces of squid. We're gonna chum them out. We can get little mahi to rise to it then we'll give them one with a hook see if we can't catch a few. All right all these good guides work together as teams and Jared's buddy over here has been catching little mahi's right by the boat. So we're going to join them. This is like my fourth one already. Yeah there's just fish everywhere. Oh this is crazy. You can just see them swarming down here. They're actually sight casting for mahi. This is awesome. Oh he came right at it. We're sitting here catching these mahi mahi. We just saw a signal on the fish finder means there's some trigger fish down deep. So we're gonna really quick try to catch some of those too. That looks kind of like a heavy duty sabiki rig. Yeah kind of like a chicken rig. All right got an eight ounce lead. A little high low rig here. We're gonna see if we can't catch some trigger fish. Yeah you got him. Keep that rod up. Yeah. Whoa they fight aggressively. Yes they do buddy. Oh yeah. Hold on tight. Keep that rod up. There you go. Keep that rod up. Don't let go of my rod. Can you do the rest for me please? Okay sure sure. I thought it was definitely one. See what I'm saying. Is that egg? Look at those teeth man. Those are wicked wicked chompers. Man look at that. Yep. No right in there. I think I got a trigger fish. Look at that. Got it? Nice. There you go. Oh yeah. Whoa there we go. Beautiful fish and they fight so hard. I never would have expected it. Well I don't know about me. Here Tom. You want to do it? How are you? Ready? I can do this. That way? Yeah. Oh yeah that's kind of good. Look at that. Okay. Hey don't worry he can't get you like that. Just go right under the bottom. We are doing the smorgasbord trip here. We are trying to catch as many different species and experience as many different things as we can. And Tommy here really really wants to catch a sailfish. So we're going to troll our way back into shore a little bit and if we have a little bit of time then we'll try for some snapper too. Keep reeling real fast. Keep going. All right guys we've done a bit of trolling but we're going to switch gears and try fishing for Vermilion snapper and some other bottom fish. Pull it in Tom. Pull it over. Oh watch the reel. Watch the reel buddy. Oh you got a little double going on. Something tried to eat him. That looks fresh. Yeah it is. Yeah he's got a grunt. Oh red mouth grunt. They call them red mouth grunts. See? See the red mouth? They're beautiful. Yeah. They look like a little trigger. I annoyed you. Oh you got one one snapper. Tommy hold on your rod. There we go. Oh a little something different here. Yeah so this is a bank bass. Pretty. I like my bank bass. Oh Tommy we're out of time man. We gotta head back. So we gotta get back home and cook these things up. We got a ton of fish to cook. Look at all them fish in that box. Throw it right next to mine. All right that's actually pretty comfy. Hey I saw you leading. Come on. 26. 26. I know you left. Like I was still at four then you got five. I'll tell you what I had a great time catching those mahi and trigger fish on this little rod. If you guys want to know more about this or you want to buy one I'll put a link down in the video description where you can get the Whisker Seeker Catfish and Carp series rods. I'll tell you what guys there's a lot of fillet knives on the market but every time I come and see one of these guys fillet fish they only use two brands of fillet knives. Either a Dexter Russell or a Bubba Knife. Grab it. There you go. There you go. You got it. Look at that. It's a piece of meat. That's for them. Sorry this table is so slippery. They're trying to steal some meat. There you go. Nice lovely piece of yellow fin right there. Needs beef. All right let's get this in the car. Darren we had an absolute blast. Thanks for taking Listen if you guys are in North Carolina and you want to do a trip like this I'll put Captain Jared's information with Tombstone Charter down in the video description below. Make sure to check that out. I'm gonna go do some do some cooking. Yes sir. Thank you buddy. Hey you have a great day. All right well now we got to drive six hours to get home. Take the next left onto Atlantic Beach Causeway. All right me and Tommy made it back to the house and now we have got a load of fish to cook up. You excited? Yes. So I've got a lot of recipes planned. I'm going to do coconut crusted mahi-mahi with a mango reduction. I'm going to do seared tuna steak and then I'm going to do tuna tacos with a tropical fruit pico de gallo and avocado. Seared vermilion snapper and I'm going to put them on a toasted baguette with fresh mozzarella basil tomato. But I've never eaten trigger fish before so I'm going to try cooking it in butter garlic and rosemary and then kind of see what happens. Just let this sit and all the flavors kind of mix. There we go. Okay take a little baguette, a salted tomato. There you go a little vermilion snapper on a baguette. Okay so this is trigger fish and it's supposed to taste like fresh scallops. I love scallops. One of my favorite steaks. It's crumbly. No I definitely got the scallop texture. I haven't recorded that mom. It's tuna steak time. We got to sear some tuna steak now. All right who's got a plate and an appetite? That is good to hear. All right Amy what do you think? It was amazing. I loved it. All of it. I couldn't pick a favorite. Well I could. This. I like this coconut thing. You like the coconut mango mahi-mahi? It's amazing. That's good. What was your favorite? Coconut mahi-mahi. Yes. Snapper's good? Yeah. Oh I mean it's all good. Trigger fish? How do you like trigger fish okay? Oh that was a lovely meal wasn't that Becca? That's great. It was all good and I don't really like fish. I liked all of it. Oh I like you. Thanks for watching guys. We hope you enjoyed that video as much as we enjoyed eating that fish but if you guys want to see more great videos from the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel don't forget to click subscribe. We put out new videos every Saturday morning. Nailed it. Nailed it. If you like this video don't forget to check out the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel where we have hundreds of videos just like this and don't forget to click subscribe so you can see other great videos every Saturday morning. Hit that bell button you'll get notifications. Thanks for watching.