Spearfishing in the San Marcos River

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2 жыл бұрын

Sharpen your spears and help us remove harmful non-native fish from a local and precious spring fed ecosystem. In this video we are spearfishing for fish that have somehow found their way to Texas all of the way from the amazon river. These armor plated suckerfish are known as "plecos".
If you wish to volunteer and participate in the removal of these invasive animals, links to the spear pole tournament by Atlas Environmental are below. If you have missed the dates of the spear pole tournament you can still participate in the "bounty" that is also put on by Atlas environmental. Information on this is below as well.
Atlas Environmental Spear Pole Tournament:
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Atlas Environmental Bounty:
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Пікірлер: 36

@macattackbowfishingmerch8672 11 ай бұрын

As a fellow pleco fisherman, I’d like to say thank you for cleaning up the waters. It does my soul good to see others participating in the clean up. God bless

@scottbauerbelow 11 ай бұрын

Thanks man! Hope to run into you out on the river one day!

@nwdixieboy Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Miss. where all the streams are muddy. This is another world for me. You sure are a handsome guide!

@GatewoodBrown 2 жыл бұрын

This was so good Scott! Thank you for helping to clean up the river my man

@scottbauerbelow 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@welsh_dragon 2 жыл бұрын

This was a 😎 📼, Scott. Funny how some fish are "bad" for our waters.

@ZCOOKZ 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always! Man that is some clear water.

@scottbauerbelow 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Zach!

@ronniebrown2517 Жыл бұрын

so pepper falls is now called spring lake?....in 84 and 85 i spent MANY hours from rio vista dam to pepper falls..... snorkeling, canoeing, swimming.....very good memories....i had an option to buy the house i was renting....now wish i had bought it.....i left central texas when the computer guys took over...

@garstrum4401 Жыл бұрын

Spring Lake is the new-ish name for Aquarena Springs, the big lake above the waterfall with the glass bottom boat tours etc. I went to school there around 2011-ish so I'm not familiar with "pepper falls" but if you're referring to the waterfall where Spring lake spills into/becomes the San Marcos river, we just called it "the saltgrass" cause it has a big "saltgrass steakhouse" on top of the dam.

@ronniebrown2517 Жыл бұрын

@@garstrum4401 we are talking about the same things with different names....pepper falls as the restaurant then was peppers.....watch the movie "the getaway" with steve mcqueen and ali mcgraw....in the movie they swim just below the falls.....we used to snorkel aquarena springs and moon the glass bottom boats...used to be some really aggressive swans there....i lived in a nice house on riviera street one block off the river for 2 years....lots of fun and good times....

@garstrum4401 Жыл бұрын

@@ronniebrown2517 sounds like we are talking about the same thing! Funny that those falls are still referred to by the restaurant next to them a generation later.

@ernie1189 4 ай бұрын

great video! it's not illegal though. you just need a permit from the town of San Marcos to carry a spear. Texas Game and Wildlife allows you to spear non-game species.

@scottbauerbelow 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! You are correct but when this video was made over two years ago it was illegal at that time and the permit was not yet available…

@littlehills739 4 ай бұрын

good edit keep this up

@scottbauerbelow 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@paintballlip_poppin1201 2 жыл бұрын

I live in San Marcos and I’m just getting in to spear fishing would love to go out some time man lmk

@d.l.b.6313 2 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of these fish a few miles downriver from where you were spear fishing. They seem to like to hang out on the clay bottom. Not uncommon to see 4 or 5 of them in one small area when canoeing through there.

@scottbauerbelow 2 жыл бұрын

I have seen that too it seems like the sailfin plecos hang out down stream

@mark3249 Жыл бұрын

I see some poison ivy at 0:44. Hope you aren't allergic. I damn near break out just looking at it.

@surfit. 2 жыл бұрын

Yeh, we had or maybe still have those sucker fishes invading our streams. I know the state made the public aware how they were killing off the local ecosystem. Don't know if it's an on going fight. If it's illegal to spear in that river, then I guess you can't go at night. I miss night diving. That was a pretty river. So clean.

@chrismackay8314 8 ай бұрын

curious how you recommend dispatching them - are you able to stab them in the brain? your knife doesn't look very pointy - perhaps you are cutting their gills? thanks for sharing the video of the clean water.

@erik-hi2sv 2 жыл бұрын

No snakes?

@robdubois3844 9 ай бұрын

Great music!

@scottbauerbelow 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@justinmontgomery2358 Жыл бұрын

Does this hurt the fish? Are thy good to eat?

@garstrum4401 Жыл бұрын

The idea is to kill the pleco fish cause they're invasive/harmful to the native fish/ecosystem

@scottbauerbelow 9 ай бұрын

They do cook them up at the end of the tournaments and make sucker fish tacos lol…they are not particularly good to eat however

@gagejones6495 Жыл бұрын

Where can I get a permit to spearfish there

@scottbauerbelow Жыл бұрын

Atlas environmental can hook you up!

@erik-hi2sv 2 жыл бұрын

No Snakes?

@scottbauerbelow 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah there are snakes lol

@joelmaske2493 2 жыл бұрын

If only yall did a check up at least once a weekend with 5-10 people spearfishing, thats could do some good for the area just underneath the aquarena springs, you will never get them all though. sadly theyre here to stay

@scottbauerbelow 2 жыл бұрын

Atlas environmental offers a bounty…they have spearing going on regularly!

@lolstrongmen 8 ай бұрын

@@scottbauerbelowThe bounty still a thing in hays?