Who here collect's there own fish

[Paul B]

One more thing, about a lisense, you do not need a lisense in NY to collect unless you are collecting game fish. I inquired at the Dept of Conservation when I had an urchin collecting business if I needed a permit and they had no Idea what an urchin was.
I asked them because that is where you get lobster and shellfish permits.

 

[The Fish Finder]

thank you Paul if you wish to come along with me when i go collecting on the beach reef's you can come along. On a good day you can catch about 30 lookdowns in about a hour. where i go is a known place but i go farther down where no one go's and i have ok from ppl that live there. Of corse i can't give out the location or else everyone on here from long island will go there. Where on LI are you?

This pic is from a midnight trip i went on we got them all in slack tide 40 min window. (note to all these fish are in qt in this pic they were all moved to a big 700G display tank once the qt was over in a week)

 

[The Fish Finder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7044676#post7044676 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JHemdal
Hi Fishfinder - I had two questions.

You wrote, "One of my last catches of the season last year orange spotted filefish."

I've been collecting data on exotic fish releases (which this obviously would be). Can you tell me what time of year you caught this? Also, I just finished an article on filefish for AFM and was curious if this one that you caught lived any better for you in terms of eating than the typical ones imported from the Pacific (It looks pretty fat in the photo, and I don't imagine there was much Acropora coral for it to feed on off LI).

My other question was about the boarfish you collected - size, how deep, etc.

Thanks,

Jay Hemdal

sure thats not a prob the orange spotted file fish was caught 9/4/05 at aprox 11:20pm off of the RM inlet. He did eat BS for a few week's but unfortionaly slowly started to get thiner i returned him to where i collected about 3-4 week's after i collected him.

As for the boarfish he was caught back when i was first geting into collecting so i didn't have great records but what i do know is that he was caught in 6/01 buy acident i tryed droping a net down into a 40 foot drop hole and left it there for 2 hours just wondering what i would catch and when we pulled it up he was in there he was aprox 4". Sorry i don't have such good records on him i only ever caught one and it was 5 year's ago. I cant wait my 6th season is starting soon and all new goodies will be around lol.

Anything else you wish to know feel free to ask

 

[The Fish Finder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7044295#post7044295 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sunfishh
Fish Finder you are living the life. You have 60 fish tanks and you're catching your own fish. I am beyond impressed

Some ppl say i am but it's very tought to find real collectors on the island to talk with and get togeather with to collect. I got to fix my tank sig it's been some time and ive cut my tank's in half (had to save money on the dame eletric bill here on the island)

 

[Paul B]

Fish finder. I know about the electric on LI.
I have my boat on the Sound in Port Washington but I live in New Hyde Park. I would love to go collecting. I did most of my collecting in Reynolds Channel. My wife has a cousin who lives by the Old Oak Beach Inn where seahorses are easy pickins.
Let me know.
Paul

 

[The Fish Finder]

I am in amityville. We may have met at old oak beach inn i spend a lot of time there during the summer fishing and going for easy picking's of tropical fish. When do you plain to start collecting again. If it stays worm i may start off in june but if it's going to be norm temp then in july il start.

 

[SerranidTerror]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7043087#post7043087 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ManEatingGuppy
hmm, pretty interesting. were do u go to collect fish at hawaii? can u take the fish back home or it just stays in hawaii?

You can collect fish anywhere so long as the area you are collecting in doesn't have any restriction i.e. Hanauma Bay. If you get the free permit the animals are for personal use only. If you get the commercial permit you may sell and export fish and inverts. I lived on the windward side of Oahu so I normally found myself anywhere between Kaneohe Bay to Cockroach Bay collecting things from intertidal areas down to about 20-30 feet since I was free diving (i've been deeper but only while spearfishing). Fringes of fish ponds are excellent places to catch juveniles specimens btw. I used to also have a great spot to catch squirrelfish (which I used for my senior year research project.) saron shrimp, lionfish, and coral banded shrimp using no more than a light and dip net at night. Its a lot of fun catching your own livestock but a big responsibility to limit yourself. It was also nice to catch some of these things literally in your backyard as releasing them back into the wild could be an option for those stubborn fish that wouldn't eat and would have wasted away in my tank.

 

[RGBMatt]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7043059#post7043059 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SerranidTerror
I call BS on catching a flame angel off Oahu unless you work for coral fish hawaii. I dove out there for 5 years and never saw a single one. Coral Fish Hawaii has a honey hole or two for those but they also dive nitrox so I know they are pulling those flames from real deep around there. Just my two cents.

I thought you were just bad at finding fish, until you posted that you only collected in the intertidal. Just because you haven't seen something in your limited experience doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Flame angels are rare on Oahu, but there are spots where you can find them pretty reliably.

It also appears you don't know much about nitrox...

 

[RGBMatt]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7043087#post7043087 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ManEatingGuppy
hmm, pretty interesting. were do u go to collect fish at hawaii? can u take the fish back home or it just stays in hawaii?

Since I live here, I've never had to take fish off the island. I know people who have carried fish on the plane with them, though - apparently it's not difficult.

I catch most of my fish scuba diving at various spots around Oahu. Usually between 40 and 150 feet deep, but sometimes deeper. Catching fish on scuba can be very difficult and requires a lot of practice! If you're a beginner the easiest way is to look in tidepools or shallow reef areas at night. You can find some really cool stuff in tidepools - even dragon morays if you're lucky (true story, but not mine sadly).

 

[stykthyn]

I catch some of my own out of the Gulf of Mexico

pompano, blue tang, french angel, different types of damsels, butterfly's, red and gag groupers, seahorses.....lots of different fish

 

[Paul B]

Fish finder. It depends on when they put my boat in the water.
I haven't been to the Oak Beach Inn in a few years because I am usually in the Sound. Of course in the Sound collecting is limited to inverts and just a few fish. Do you do any SCUBA diving out there? Or is all your collecting near the beach?
Paul

 

[The Fish Finder]

Paul B. I do both free style diveing and on shore net collecting. I was sick for some time and had to get a hip replacement about 2 year's ago so ive been recovering ever since. Ive been cleared to do scuba about a month ago so im very happy. Ive been pestering my doc about it for some time now since i realy want to learn what i consider the next stage. Do you know any places that i should go to learn?

 

[Paul B]

Fish Finder, since I was certified many years ago, all the places that I went to are out of business. The only place I know left is near Fortunoffs on Old Country Road. I think it's SCUBA Depot or something like that. I also think Danny's Dive Shop is still in business in Baldwin.
I have a scene net ans enough dive equipment for three divers which I am sure we won't need.
Paul

 

[reefgeek84]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7046287#post7046287 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by The Fish Finder
thank you Paul if you wish to come along with me when i go collecting on the beach reef's you can come along. On a good day you can catch about 30 lookdowns in about a hour. where i go is a known place but i go farther down where no one go's and i have ok from ppl that live there. Of corse i can't give out the location or else everyone on here from long island will go there. Where on LI are you?

This pic is from a midnight trip i went on we got them all in slack tide 40 min window. (note to all these fish are in qt in this pic they were all moved to a big 700G display tank once the qt was over in a week)

Lets see the display tank! :eek1:

 

[sunfishh]

Lets see the display tank! :eek1:

I second that

 

[The Fish Finder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7053069#post7053069 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paul B
Fish Finder, since I was certified many years ago, all the places that I went to are out of business. The only place I know left is near Fortunoffs on Old Country Road. I think it's SCUBA Depot or something like that. I also think Danny's Dive Shop is still in business in Baldwin.
I have a scene net ans enough dive equipment for three divers which I am sure we won't need.
Paul

Sweet il be looking around with in the next few weeks. Do you know how long ball park it take's to get certified?

 

[The Fish Finder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7055148#post7055148 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sunfishh
I second that

I wish i could but the guy live's out of state and ive since lost contact with him but don't you werry by the end of the summer i will deff have pic's of a whole bunch of them in a 500G tank that ive been requested to fill with lookdown's

 

[Paul B]

Fish finder, it is totally different now from when I got certified. It is a lot shorter now because they want you to keep going for different courses. When I went I had to learn everything. I would imagine it is about 4 weeks now a couple of nights a week but I am not sure. Of course you can get certified in a few days in the Caribbean.
Paul

 

[The Fish Finder]

yea i know that down there it's super fast. Once i compleat this i will be officaly a all around collector and i am also going to be starting my mac certification once i start collecting this summer

 

[sunfishh]

Stykthyn do you have any pictures of the fish you have collected?