Love Mangroves. My Grandparents, once we all moved down from Maryland, lived in Punta Gorda, FL forever. They lived on a canal that would bring us out to the harbor, but we always fished the mangroves around their dock and before we reached the harbor. Best times ever. My grandfather and I (well mainly him lol) would filet the fish on the dock when we got back and then hand them over to my grandma. Quick ice bath while she cut up potatoes to make fries. Just a little salt and light breading was all they needed, homemade fries and fresh cut tomatoes with salt. Some of the best times of my life. Love these videos Aaron, appreciate you.

Awesome Video. Only did one night dive. Standing on the bottom 30’ made a slow circle and saw a lot of barracuda watching me. Waiting for me to spear a fish for their dinner. No more night dives for me. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. You Rock.

Watching the water when night fishing is so fun! I fished a lot bridges between Naples and Tampa (the keys as well) and could stare down in the lights into the water all night long!!

For cast iron skillet try flipping upside down in oven and bake on 500* for a hr so. Sometimes it’s sticky bc excess oil built up. Older cast iron skillets are 100% better then new cast. Congrats by the way to you and Madeline. 🤙🏼

23:26 -- "You have a salad with all the same ingredients!" LOL

The smelt following your light around are adorable 😂

I love seeing Tipsy! Thank you for starting off showing her ❤. I have a soft spot for the silver faced pups ❤️😊🥰

Two weeks from now there will be torches swimming all over the mangroves at night . You know that there's going to be guys that see that and have to go give it a try . I know I want to. Another great Monday !

"we are like so health..." best comment hahahahahaha... that looked excellent! the night dive seemed spooky and fun. I loved all the little fry swimming all around the camera and light. also at the end of the dive what looked like a needle fish was cool to see.

Unique video, night dives are wild. Great job. I love Madeline lol ast line, " go on and git". Classic!!

In the 70s, I put a flashlight in a Ziploc bag and swim in freshwater in south Florida. You could swim right up to largemouth bass and put your hands on them. Also, in the 70s we would go to steamboat Creek and get all kinds of snappers creepers and lobsters underneath the mangrove roots. Have you ever dived steamboat Creek.?

fun family and nice catch and cook. Glad Will was with you I have no doubts in the skills you have but having him there is a good safety practice. Much respect for the minimal harvest just want you all needed.

used to night scuba a lot when I was younger up here in RI, surreal for sure, so much life ....a little weird only knowing what is in your light but definitely stimulates all the senses.....loved this

Aloha, and I agree with you. 90% of my diving has been at night (Lanai). Different critters, different behavior of the daytime critters. You see things that you will never see during the day.

Love how you guys harvest so conservatively.

DUUUUDE!!! Most of my harvesting was done at night. Like you said, the critters are COMPLETELY different. Congrats on the wedding.

The tiny little fishes: "STAY CLOSE TO THE LIGHTBEARER!!"

I apologize....I have never Congratulated both of you on your Marriage...SO CONGRATULATIONS! Wish you both a Lifetime of Peace and Harmony together.

Awesome! Congratulations again to you two.

Nice change , love the night diving should do more.

Loved it. Mad is a gem make sure you take care of her

23:49 😂😂😂 Madeleine cracks me up!

I so hope you do more night dives like this Aaron amazing

Man, I wish I could dive like this. The water around crystal rivers shoreline is just too dirty. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you, dib

Love the mangrove snapper videos. This definitely gives a different perspective to it.

You can use some sandpaper/paddle wheel to finish out the surface on the cast iron to smooth it out faster for use. You will need to reseason the surface afterward. Generally what I do to enjoy a new pan faster. Remember that cast iron is not normally finished to smooth in production. Grandma's smooth pan is due to her scrapping it over and over during use.

The water comes alive at night. When I was young, I did a lot of bow fishing, Bow fishing from a boat at night with a spotlight became my favorite way to see the lake for a long time. I cook with cast iron all the time now. Each pan seems to like a little different level of heat to cook with no stick. Best Florida video content available as always, hope to see a little more underwater at night footage.

if your hard pressed with the light issue, in my line of work we need to record underwater and use 1200 lumen torches on average, the focused beam will defeat most cameras but you can just slip a latex glove (like the 1st aid gloves) over the lens and hold it down with tape or a cable tie or rubber band - the light will be spread out and will be a lot more camera friendly! obviously you could get either lights or lenses for lights that do the same thing, but we usually have a 1st aid kit somewhere that needs the gloves replaced anyway.

Swimming around with you and clams in the mangroves at night would be a dream come true!

Borat lol! That was perfect. With the following you have, you can leave these "out takes" in whenever you want bc we all love you and they're gold. Just my 2.

Once again, thank you for another rad little shallow water adventure. It was cool to see the night life.

Great video as per and awesome to see the eco system at night! As for the temp dude it’s peaking 48• here in wales at the moment in the day 🥶 thanks for the video just makes me wanna go fishing

You're doing a great job of mixing up the content and doing interesting stuff. This was a great idea.

Congratulations to the both of you 💍🥂 This was a very cool video doing the night spearing!

So cool to see the activity in there at night. 3:48 I think was a Sennet. Love to see more of this. Guess I should have waited until the end, Congrats you two ! Many happy years !!

what you're doing takes some real balls. My head would be on a swivel out there.

my dad loved fishing & my mom would cook the fish he caught. Fresh fish is the best! Y’all have a great life & congrats on the nuptials

This is a really nice sport specially when you go at night time diving , your video remember me when i started almost 10 years ago fishing at night time , i did use because i didn’t have the condition a regular lantern and a condom then it avoid to the water get into the lantern , after 2 years doing fishing struggling , trying to find something for go deeper my cousin send me a good lantern then we went 5 to 30 feet deepest and we catch a lot of fish can tell you around 40 pounds every night , i just did that for survival in my country Cuba 🇨🇺,now i respect more and put the fish back into the water ! You won a subscriber!!!!

Aaron & Maddie, congrats to you both! Keep the content coming.

Been watching a long time, cheers too you and the Mrs

I love all your videos. Thank you. I will always watch every one.

Thats the best way to cook any fish for the flavour of the fish.! The cast iron pan needs seasoning (very easy) before you use it , you can still do that with yours, lots of KZfaq vids on how to !!!! Another great video .

Orcatorch D530v would be a good light for these night videos. Same form factor as your normal light with a much wider beam and no hot spot.

Great episodes as usual KWW. Tipsy is lovely 🥰

Frigid 77 😂.. couldn’t help but laugh when you jumped in and said it’s dark 😂. Great video looking forward to night diving when I find someone dumb enough to come with me

It's good to watch night catching... If you received a cast iron skillet already seasoned,,, sand blast,,, then reseason skillet... TNX 4 VID LOL

Congratulations on getting married. That is a huge victory in life. I hope you and the wife have a big happy family.

Earth: 4.5 billion year old Horseshoe crabs: 10 billion years old Thats freakin amazing mate, space crabs :) Awesome night dive!

Living the life! So very jealous. Such a gem of spot it looks like y'all have. Have u put out any vids of you just giving a tour of your grounds and how you ended up in such a unique spot? Enjoyed. Take care

I do fish on salads too. Olive oil and vinegar. Salt pepper. Seared fish on top. Delicious.

Very cool episode! Thanks so much!

😂😂😂 a frigid 77 made me laugh. It’s a nippy 35 here tonight. Love your videos bro.

A frigid 77…😂 come to Idaho, I’ll auger you a hole in the top of the lake and you can pull fish through the hole. Congrats and love your videos.

Maybe some lights on your boat (rack) shining down on the water? Loved it!! Season the cast iton with flaxseed oil & bake at 500• for 1 hr (might smoke a lil). Do it as often as you think about it. I kept my castiron in the oven during the 1st yr even wen i baked cookies etc. It will end up being shiny & nothing will really stick & you can even use a scruby & the finish doesnt come off.

Loved the video. Think about taping a dive light under the end of spear gun. Frees up a hand, extends light reach, and if it is in your light, it's in your sights.

First off congrats on the wedding, and thank you for your vids! Please keep it up!!!

Anyone else catch the 4 letter word, 10:34 after spearing that fish straight into the sand? Classic. Love the content btw!

Great video,you should have done this one on Halloween,definitely super spooky down there

Another great video y'all! Loved the night dive. Y'all need to do another shrimp and blue crab video also. Thanks again for taking us along.

Thanks for another great video!

What a great video. Thanks!

The ending was delightful!

I just want to say congratulations! Congratulations on building an amazing life for yourself! You've got an amazing wife, a great roommate, and an amazing career! Love, love, love, your videos! Keep up the great work! P. S. I think Madeline should sign off with, "C-YA!" ❤

Love your Mangrove Snapper in the Mangroves episodes. Makes me feel good about my school I've been growing for the last 5 years. Most are around 14"-16" with a lot in the 18"-20". A few are even bigger and total number around 3-4 hundred 🙂👍✝️🙏😇🏝🧜‍♂️

Sooooo good brother. I would do that dive and spear only if someone as relaxed and confident as you is leading. Great footage! Congratulations to you both on getting married. Best wishes Micky C

love night spearing. So much better than during the day

loved this episode!

Did a night patch reef once. Starting with plankton, the food chain started stacking up at my light. I retreated and found a Shark-Ray under my boat. Lol.

Wait…what? You missed one? Let me get out my calendar to mark down this date! Love the video!! Keep em coming!!!

Just love love the content man , thank you … be safe

Very few new cast iron pans come "non-stick" and it takes years to become smooth and seasoned enough to get that way. When I buy or give new ones as gifts I use a round wheel drill pad and successively fine hard grit sandpaper wheels to smooth out the bottom of the pans. It will take a few uses to get the black patina back, but you can speed this up a bit with some cheap bacon to re-season it on a hot outdoor burner. Or you can spend 300-bucks for a high-end polished pan. I gave my daughter two new Lodge pans a couple of years ago and she was cooking fried eggs "non-stick" the first weekend and they are smooth and black as coal now.

I loved how you put the flashlight right against that grouper. For a he was transparent!

Holy cow that's some of the spookiest diving I've seen in a while..lol

I spearfish in the keys in the winter and it's my new fav. You rule buddy

I found night spearing very tough, it's like the brain does not want to compute aiming a flashlight and a spear gun at the same time. Also plays with your imagination when you have fish on your belt and something big swims by just out of the light range.

This was a really cool video. I miss night diving the reefs. Can you do another with the big camera, a steady light source, and just slowly swim through? Spearing is really fun to watch but I feel like the light was tricky with the speargun in the other hand.

Mannnnnn now this is a video ide love sweing more of. I just know it takes balls of steel! But hey i vote for more if your willing to do it lol

Man I’d love to drive down from P’Cola and do some day time mangrove spearing with y’all. That’d be an absolute bucket list check mark!

Guy obviously you have the greatest experiences in free diving and spear fishing. But I gota say the night time types would definitely creep Me out! The fear of some lemon shark creeping up on me at biting me I would have a heart attack!!! 🤣😂🤣😂

What an adventure!

With respect, congratulations.

We do the same olive oil with the salt and pepper but,stick them in the oven for a few minutes and fwaula. Love mangrove snappers.

Did a fair amount of snorkeling and SCUBA diving at night. Often it felt like everything is watching you and you can only see as far as your light beam. In deep water diving in Belize, monster Tarpon would follow around waiting for the light beam to “stun” fish. They would eventually get comfortable enough to bump you. Crazy diving for sure.

love to go on these dives with you. thanks so much for sharing/

A sticky pan can be turned into a great sauce accompaniment; just deglaze it quickly with a splash of lemon or lime juice and pour over the dish!

I've dived at night in the South Pacific and the people there used a pressure lamp held out from the canoe over the water. Gives a nice dome of light.

your an all time savage my brother!

Definitely need more night diving videos

First Octopus I saw was at night amazing!

braining the fish at night looked pretty spooky

Highly recommend ditching the gun in favor of a three prong for night dives. Reload is faster while holding a light and the fish are asleep anyways so getting close is no trouble.

Night mang dives... new stuff for all of us. Yup Yup.

With all that bait swimming around you could hang the light and wait for the fish to come to you lol .now you have a new lobster spot. Try putting a red lens in your light , it works for reflection.

‘Frigid 77’ (Will laughs) hahahaha

I like go on get y'all. Best see ya I've heard since I was a kid.

Yes, I’ve been waiting for this 🤙🏽

Don't worry Aaron, my husband and I have been married for almost 27 years and after about the 10th year you won't be hearing what's yours is mine!!😂 love you guys.

I like those UK lights that clip to your mask, plus your main light. for bugs I use the UK led to see under ledges during daytime. at night, I just want to see where I'm looking, -should have picked up bugs.

Those small swimming parts of the crayfish u caught are called swimerettes. They use them to hold onto the eggs once they push them out and down until they hatch and she pushes them away.

It's 38 degree in New Brighton, Pennsylvania and I'll take 77 degree anytime of the year, jealous!!