Today we are ditching our rods and reels
and using hand lines for fishing!
Not everyone remembers to bring a fishing rod for vacation,
not everyone really thinks about it
but,
if you bring a spool
a hook and a sinker,
you might be able to do some damage.
So I've got 20lb. line right here
a little split shot,
and a 2/o hook,
and I've got some bait that I caught this morning,
which I'm cutting up right now...
and, uh...
there's a whole art to handlining.
It's not as simple as it looks, and I know that.
[grunting] Ugh! Ahh...
but I'm ready to try and I'm ready to learn!
Look at these big, beautiful crabs!
[introductory music recorded live in Mexico]
Alright, this will hold my bait.
On!!
Nice!!
I got one!
By hand!
There we go!
That was a quick one!
I knew it would be holding some fish there.
[Erin] Nice catch!
See ya.
Took all the bait...
and he didn't even call me!
So basically, I'm dropping my line
on drop offs like this, right here,
where there's a shelf.
Here, I'll show you, right here.
See this rock right here?
I would drop it right here because look under here,
there's-there's
there's a lot of space under there.
Look, I'm going to put it under the water.
When it's high tide, something like this
is going to work really well,
'cause the water is going to be up to here
and there's a lot of fish hiding under these rocks.
So I'm looking for structure like
like deep pockets,
big boulders with, with
with coverage that fish can hide in.
[Erin] Woah! You'd better be careful!
Big wave!
The tide's coming in.
[Senko Dad] Yeah...
[Erin] It might be even getting a little too close for him
to stay there.
[Brendon] Let me know when it's getting time
to move. [Erin] Alright.
[Brendon] Aargh!!
Ohh! It was on!
[Erin] Is it gone? [Brendon] It-it's a lot more difficult.
It's just completely different,
hard to compare.
'Kay, ready? [Erin] Yup, I think so.
[Brendon] Let line out.
Hold this.
Ohh!
Haa!
Yeahhh!
it worked!
it actually worked!
[Erin] Yes.
[Brendon] This is a hawk fish!
It's a small one,
but we're kind of just messing around on low tide
nothing else to do today.
[Erin] I'm winding it all in so it doesn't get wrapped around our feet
and then I'm just going to let it go.
There.
That works out pretty well.
[Brendon] There was the big blue--! There was the big green fish again!
The big green fish was here!!
That huge, green fish--! It was like, this big!
Yeah!
I have no idea what it is.
...and I'm out of crab....
Okay, I'm going to go and get some crab--
I'm going to run and get some crab.
[Erin] I can get--I can get some crab.
[Brendon] Okay, you can?
[Erin talking indistinctly]
[Brendon] Just bring out- just bring me some big crab.
A coup--like a big crab.
[Brendon] Hiii!
Thank you for the crabs!
[Erin] Crab delivery.
[Brendon] Huh?
[Erin] Crab delivery.
[Brendon] Thank you.
[Erin] Okay, just wait one second...
[Brendon] Okay, take your time, take your time.
You need to make sure you're--
you've gotta keep a lookout--when we've got to leave here, okay?
[Erin] Yeah, it's soon.
[Brendon] Like, 20 mins?
[Erin] It's already 5:40 here.
[Brendon] I--come on, bring the crabs.
We don't have much time.
[Erin] The tide is coming in so we've got to really move.
Oh my god,
this is a--huu---aaAAAARGH!!!!
No!!!
That was a massive one!
I burned my fingers!
Ow!!!
[Erin] Are you okay?
[Brendon] Yeah.
[Brendon] Oh my god, that was something huge,
I have no idea what that was.
[Erin] You have one more chance and then we have to leave.
[Brendon] Alright, last try.
Is that it?
[Erin] What happened?
[Brendon] It just got eaten right now!
It got eaten so quickly, there's no more bait?
[Erin] Just put the whole leg on.
[Brendon] No, they're not going to eat the leg.
[Erin] Their bodies are full of legs!
[Brendon] They're not going to eat it, I'm telling you.
That's it, huh?
[Erin] That's it.
[Brendon] I'm going to try this last little thing.
On!
AAargh! Off!
It's so hard to land! Aaargh!
It's so hard!
Aaargh, cut myself.
I cut myself bad on this little, tiny one.
[Erin] Oh my god.
[Brendon] Okay.
Bad idea.
That big one--
definitely got--oh my god,
that this was a ma--
it like, pulled me and burned a cut into my finger, look at that!
[Erin] Watch out!
[Brendon] Alright, let's get out of here.
[Erin] Get this off and let's go.
[Brendon] Holy crap.
That burned me.
That cut me pretty bad. [Erin] Are you okay?
[Brendon] Yeah, bad idea to use this.
[Erin] Okay.
[Erin] That's not... going to fit...
[Erin] There's a massive wave coming.
[Brendon] Okay.
Let's go, let's go.
That fish
hit it so hard!
and it just went zooming!
and i could not stop it!
This is why you need gloves!
Noob mistake...
[Erin] Huh?
[Brendon] What's in here?
Ahhh, this will be good when the tide is up!
Alright, handlining was tough.
Because setting the hook
is a whole--there's a whole nother thing to--
to handlining, it's not--
it's not as easy as it seems, some people make it look easy.
But I already cut myself pretty deep in here
from that huge fish!
There was a HUGE FISH on my line!!
It went--it just started coming out of my fingers--
my line just started sliding out of my finger and it slid so fast.
[Erin] Oh, Brendon.
Brendon. [Brendon]-- and it cut it straight open.
[Erin] Oh, poor thing. [Brendon]I should have known.
I really should have known
to uh, to wear gloves
when you're doing this.
because
when a big fish-if a big fish hits it
and start--I didn't-I wasn't expecting a big fish to hit it
I thought I was just going to be playing with little fish on low tide
but that was a huge, colorful fish that hit it
and it just took off!
and I couldn't stop it
and by the time-by the time I had a
a hold of the line
I had already been burned
and the fish was off.
So
my conclusion is
I've got a lot to learn with handlining.
I know a lot of people in other countries
they handline and they're really good at it,
I've seen some footage of little kids doing it really well.
Give me some advice.
What would you say?
What kind of line should I use? How heavy of a line? I was using 20 lb.
Was that too heavy?
----I mean, was that too light?
Is that why I got cut?
Do I need to wear gloves?
Give me some tips below!
[Erin] I'm glad we got out of there when we did,
we really had to leave.
[Brendon] Yeah, that rock gets scary
because the tide is coming in
and
eventually we won't be--if we stayed there long enough,
we wouldn't be able to get off of that rock
for like 6 hours
or, actually, I don't know,
it would be very difficult for us to get off of that rock.
Um,
but yeah, that was--that was fun
until I burned my finger and lost that--
[whispering to himself] huge fish...
I know what fish that was!
That was--there was a BIG, beautiful--!
blue colored fish-- I don't know what it was,
it was like this big!
So I'd been throwing it in that area
and this guy picked it up and just--
friggin' ran with it,
ran into a rock...
Oh my gosh...
That's going to keep me up at night, guys.
[Erin] I can tell you're a little upset about it.
[Brendon] I think I prefer rod and reel for now,
but that was-that was a good experience.
Alright guys, thank you for watching,
I hope you had a good time hanging out with us for 15 minutes, 10 minutes,
we publish an episode every Thursday at 7:30 pm
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Check it out, see ya next week!
[Brendon] What'chu been doing today while I was fishing?
[Erin] Filming.
[Brendon] Filming...
what else?
Running a bunch of bait back and forth!
[Erin laughing] Yeah...
[Brendon] Y'all don't know how much Erin does!
[Erin] Aw...
[Brendon] She keeps me alive!
[Erin] Aw. [Brendon] She keeps me hydrated!
She keeps me from burning by putting sunscreen on me!
She tells me when the waves are too crazy,
and "you need to get out of there!"
This show is not possible without this girl right here.
[Erin] Aw....
[Brendon] So we need to give a thumbs up
just for Erin,
just for Suitcase Erin.
You're the real superstar here!




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