$1 vs $100,000,000 Fishing Challenge

BlacktipH compares fishing experiences from $1 setups to a $100 million fishing fleet, showcasing gear, boats, and epic catches.

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Key Takeaways

Fishing can be successful and enjoyable at any budget level, from $1 to $100 million.
Higher budget operations offer advanced technology, comfort, and access to bigger and more diverse fish.
Resourcefulness and creativity can overcome budget constraints in fishing.
The experience and excitement of fishing come from the challenge and connection with nature, not just equipment.
Collaboration with experts (like Olympic gold medalists) enhances the fishing success on high-end boats.

What the video covers

The video contrasts fishing operations ranging from a $1 fishing challenge to a $100 million fishing fleet with super yachts and support vessels.
Starts with a $1 fishing setup using minimal gear sourced from a marina and bait shop, successfully catching a catfish.
Demonstrates a $100 budget fishing experience with a Walmart rod and tackle box, catching a strong jack crevalle from a dock.
Features fishing on a $26,000 jet ski capable of 70 mph, catching sailfish in an exciting and challenging environment.
Shows fishing on a $60,000 bay boat targeting various species including hammerhead sharks and permit fish on shallow flats.
Highlights a $600,000 Tideline 365 boat with advanced fishing technology and Olympic gold medalist Caleb Drestle joining to catch large fish.
Includes catching bait fish quickly and then targeting monster fish, dealing with sharks and heavy drag situations.
The $100 million operation includes multiple super yachts, private jets, helicopters, and a large fishing armada.
The video emphasizes the differences in scale, technology, and fishing experience across the various budget levels.
Overall, it showcases the thrill and challenges of fishing at all levels, from the simplest to the most luxurious.

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What is the $1 fishing challenge in the video?

The $1 fishing challenge involves buying minimal fishing gear like hooks and bait for 50 cents, finding fishing line from a marina trash can, and successfully catching a catfish using this very low-budget setup.

What types of boats and equipment are featured in the video?

The video features a range of fishing vessels including a $26,000 jet ski, a $60,000 bay boat, a $600,000 Tideline 365 fishing yacht with advanced technology, and a $100 million fishing fleet with super yachts and support vessels.

Who is Caleb Drestle and what role does he play?

Caleb Drestle is an Olympic gold medalist recruited to help catch large fish on the $600,000 Tideline 365 boat, adding expertise and excitement to the fishing challenge.

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This is a $100 million fishing operation. It includes three super yachts, private jets, helicopters, and enough support vessels to create a fishing armada. I'm going to show you the difference between this mega operation and a $2 million fishing boat.

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Then a $600,000 fishing boat all the way down to the $1 fishing experience. I have $1 to spend.

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Nice. I need some hooks and some bait. Lucky for you, we sell our hooks individually here. All right. 25 cents.

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25 cents each. All right. These two will do right here. You got 50 cents left.

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How much bait can you give me? I can get you [music] four dead shrimp.

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Got two hooks. Four dead shrimp. Let's make it happen. We got hooks. We got bait. We need [music] some line. We're at a marina.

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Trash cans at a marina. Always have line. Let's go find some. All right, we got one. Trash located. Perfect. Here we go. Hey, we got enough line here. Here we go. We're good. We can catch a fish with this. Let's go. Tie on a hook. Only

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got two of them. Got to be careful. We're not looking for a monster. We just want [music] to catch a fish. Here we go. Hook's on. Cer bait now. Here we go.

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First shrimp. Man, we got better use them quick. They're starting to get look look gross. Like that. There we go. Bait on the hook. [music] Here we go.

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Waiting for that nibble. I got a bite. Got a bite. Oh, there we go. We got one. Oh my gosh. He's taking me around the piling. No, no, no, no.

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Here we go. Yes. There we go. That right there is the $1 fishing challenge complete. We caught a catfish. Later in this video, we have a $600,000 fishing boat, a $2 million fishing yacht, and the $100 million fishing fleet. But before you see that,

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I'm headed to Walmart. Now I have $100. We're here at Walmart. Let's see what I can buy. I walked to the fishing aisle and found the Black Tip H Penra RAZ combo in stock for less than $100. It

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comes with a tackle box that has everything you need to catch a fish. Got a Balloo for bait. Here we go. Let's catch a fish. Here we go.

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Oh, he just ate me. He just ate me. Oh, we're on. Yes. Yes. Oh, this is a big fish.

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Let's try not to lose it. No, no, no, no, no. Don't go. Don't go back. This is a real one. Stop. Stop. Stop.

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Turn. Turn. Turn. Turn. Okay, we turn him. Turn him. Turn him. Oh my god.

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Taking me almost. He's almost at the dock. He's almost at the dock. Oh my gosh, dude. He almost broke me off. There we go. We got one. There he is. Oh, it's a big jack.

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Whoa. These things are so strong for their size. Yes. Holy moly. Jack creval from a dock. What an amazing fish. Fishing challenge complete.

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Now I'm on a jet ski and this thing costs $26,000. Here we go. This watercraft can go 70 m an hour, seats three people, has a 7in touchscreen, a cooler, and a fishing rod rack mounted to the back.

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There's a baseball here. Sailfish. Sailfish. Sailfish on. All right, we got a sailfish on on a jet ski. This is awesome, dude. [music] There's so many sailfish. Oh my gosh, they're everywhere. Oh my good. There's another sailfish behind

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it. Get away from the bait. Get away from the bait. No. No. Go. Gosh, I'm nervous he might break my line cuz another sailfish, you can see this piece of bait hanging off. Another sailfish came and grabbed that one. So, he might

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have frayed my braid up. I only got 20 lb braid on here. So, you know, this is going to be a tough one.

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No gloves. All right. Look at that. Sailfish on a jet ski. Fishing challenge complete.

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Now I'm on a bay boat and this thing cost $60,000. This boat is 21 ft long.

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It comes with a Mercury engine, a trolling motor. You got a sim at the [music] helm and it's designed to go both offshore and fish skinny water. Oh, right there little hammerhead. Oh, cool.

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Let's eat crab. Got it like 5t in front of him and just drop it. Good. Good.

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Perfect. He just picked it up. You're on. No, you're on. Real. Oh, yeah. We're on. Good job, dude. Look at that. Oh my gosh.

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Go a little bit lighter on the drag cuz he uh Holy moly. Look at that, dude. We got a hammerhead on on a crab. He's peeling drag.

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Oh dude. There he goes. There he goes. Here we go. Here we go. It's coming in. Coming in. Here we go. Oh, yeah. Here he comes.

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Here he comes. Here he comes. Okay, he's over here. Right there. Right there. Yep. Yep. Yep. Nice, Dan. Way to go, buddy. Look at that guy. That is so cool. Check that out. That's a baby hammerhead or a banana head. The

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smallest species of hammerhead there is in the world. Look at that head right there. What a cool fish. This is the first one I've caught in years. Look at that big old dorsal fin. You ready to go, buddy? Let you go. Let you go. Oh,

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he wants to bite me. Okay. And there he goes. That was so cool. That's the first Bona head I've caught in years. We got a huge school permit right over here. So, we're going to head right there right now and try to catch a

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permit on the flats to be super quiet right now. We just found a hula permit.

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You can see them up there. These fish are in very shallow water. So, if we talk too loud or make too much noise, we'll spook. That's going to be our bait. We're going to use a live crab right now. We're going to throw it to

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these permit and hopefully they eat it. There we go. Right there. Ready? Okay. He's got it. He's got it. He's got it. He's got Yeah, he's got it. He's got it. He's got it.

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There we go. We're on. We got one. We're on Dan's $60,000 boat and we are hooked up. We have to be very quiet because there's a lot of permit around. Look at him go. Look at him go. Look at him go.

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Pen slammer 2500. We're actually testing out a new black rod right now. There we go. They are so strong. Look at them go. Look at them go. You look at that drag feeling. Wow. Wow. Wow. Nice and easy. You got him. Look at that.

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What do you think he is? 15 pound. 10 15 pounds. N he's like about I would say close like 10, [music] you know.

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Yeah. 10 pounds. Eight to 10 pounds. They are so strong for their size. Here we go. Here we go. We're going to land him. Okay. He's mine. He's mine.

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Okay. Yes. Look at that, guys. Permit on the flats fishing on a baybo. Fishing challenge complete.

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Now I'm on a Tideline [music] 365. And this thing cost $600,000. This boat has two Mercury [music] 425 horsepower V10 engines, a folding tower with second station controls, two huge Simrad screens, a sunbed, over 50 rod holders, two huge live wells, rear

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seats, and four [music] tuna tubes. To help us complete the $600,000 challenge, we have recruited Caleb Drestle. [music] He has won nine gold medals in the Olympics, and he's going to help us catch a giant fish today. You ready?

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I'm ready. Let's do it. Let's do it. The first step [music] of this challenge is catching bait. We're going to use this sardine right here to catch a bigger fish. Here we go.

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Now, [music] I should get bit in less than 10 seconds. Let's go. Let's count.

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Ready? 10 9 8 [music] 7 6 There we go. He He's He's bit. He's bit. Ready? There we go. Fish on. Oh my god. Oh my gosh.

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It's huge. Get away from sharks. Get away from sharks. Come on. No. No. No.

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No. No. No. Woo! Oh! Yep, there we go. That was maybe two seconds. There you go. Come on, Kale. Get him up.

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Get him up. Get him up. Got to get him in. Uhoh, that guy. Oh, he's going down for him. I'm watching that shark.

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Oh, no. Shark on him. Come on, baby. Come on, Kale. Come on, Kale. Get him up. Get him up. Get him up. Get him up.

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Caleb, get up. Come on, Caleb. Pull. Pull. Yes. NO. You got him in the boat. I thought he was going to break a rod. He came in so fast. [laughter] That's probably the ride of his life.

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These things are so strong. First step of the challenge is complete. We got bait for a bigger fish. We've caught our bait. Now it's time to catch a true monster. Most people get pretty proud of catching a fish that big. Or most people

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are proud of catching a fish that big. That's the bait. Here we go. Here we go.

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I'm already giggling. Stand by. Let's throw up high. Let the rub high. Let the rub high. Right there.

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Yeah. Right there. Yep. He's got it. Go

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Ready? Three, two, and reel. Reel reel reel reel reel reel reel reel reel reel reel reel. Come on, Caleb.

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A oh. He just woke up. [music] He just woke up. Come on, Caleb. Come on. Oh, he's taking line. He's taking line. He's bigger than I thought he was.

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Yep. Come on. He's going to go again. He's going to go again. He's going to go again. Oh, there's another one. Follow him. Oh my gosh. There's another one following him, dude. Wait.

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Come on, baby. There's a bigger one underneath there. He's going to get Come forward. Come forward. Forward.

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Forward. Lines for the boat. Lines for the boat. Oh my gosh. There he is. There he is. There he is. There he is.

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Whoa. There he is. Pull him up. Pull him up. Oh yeah. Whoa. That is cool, dude.

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Brother, look at the size of that fish. That's a good That's a good time. That's a good time. Oh, big dog. Oh, that one got me.

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He got you. That one got me good. Yeah. Yeah, that one got me. That one got me really good.

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You gassed? Yeah, we're fine. In the beginning, I was like, "No, this is small." And he made that run. I said, "This is 500." That's the fish we were looking for. A giant Goliath grouper over 400 lb.

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Fishing challenge complete. Now I'm on a Valhalla center console and this thing costs $2 million.

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This is a 46 Valhalla. It's a [music] massive center console boat. It has a 13 plus foot beam. Comes with four Mercury engines. Each of those engines being 425 horsepower. It's an absolute monster. We got two huge live wells, a rocket

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launcher to hold your rods, two rows of seating, three in the front row, four seats in the back row. It's got teaser reels for the outriggers, bow thrusters.

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It's got a beautiful console, three huge screens. In the front of the boat, we got a sun lounge, two extra seats in the front to sit. This boat has a custom tower with sun shade and the radar on

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top so you can run radar while [music] fishing in the tower. And it's got seating in the front of the tower so your guests can sit in the front of the boat. You got beautiful teak up and down

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the boat. Teak on the seats. This boat has AC built into the cabin. You got a bed with a TV. You have a kitchen with a microwave, [music] a stove, and a refrigerator. And then you have a bathroom with a shower and a sink. You

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could literally live on this boat. I'm fishing today with Bill Zitto from the Florida Panthers, his son Biggie, their friend Evan Dell, and Dave Jones from Monsters Fishing.

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We just marked a huge shark under the boat. We got our black tip monster shark rig. Let's put it on. Catch a giant.

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Just need to get behind you. We need [music] to grab grab those weights again.

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All right, here we [music] go. Bait going on. Boom. How deep is it? The big sharks near the bottom, Dave, more near the surface.

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They're everywhere. What the heck kind of shark is this? Look, he's biting me. He's biting me.

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He's biting. He's biting me. That's not a shark. What is that? There it is again. There it is. It's there. There's something there.

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Are there a lot of cudas here? Yeah. There we go. Now we got a real one.

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There we go. We are hooked up. Here we go. Nice. Nice. We got a real one on now. We got the monster [music] of the humps.

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Got a monster. Can I get some of my lures back? Yeah, we're going to get some lures [music] back. All right, come on.

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It's coming up. This feels like it's floating. Probably an amber. I see it. I see color.

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Amberjack. It's an amberjack. It looks like it. Is it amberjack? Is it? Yeah. No way.

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Yep. Oh, yeah. Is it? OH, YEAH. OH, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT GUY. Oh yes. Grab the gills. Oh, that's Look at that.

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That's a big fish. Look at this. Monster amberjack [laughter] fishing challenge complete. Now I'm going fishing on the largest private sport fishing fleet in the world. Owned by my good friend Anthony Sheay. Whenever he wants to go fishing,

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Anthony and his crew hop in his $60 million private jet to one of his three super yachts, which can be stationed anywhere in the world. His yachts include the 175, the 150, and the 144.

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The 175 is a support yacht with its own 50 ft game fishing boat, a helicopter, a submarine, 11 crew members, a private chef, five guest rooms, and a massive 20tonon crane built to launch the game boat and weigh record-breaking fish. The

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150 is also a support yacht with its own 33 ft game fishing boat, a helicopter pad. It sleeps six guests and seven crew members, including a private chef, two jet skis, and holds 24,000 [music] gallons of fuel. At the time of its

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construction, the 144 was the largest sport fishing yacht in the world with a top speed of 26 knots. It sleeps 11 guests and seven crew members, making it one of the finest fishing yachts ever constructed. To complete this fishing

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armada, Anthony has nine other vessels that he transports around the world with his fleet. Building a fleet like this, including the supporting vessels and private jet, would cost well over $100 million. On our first trip with Anthony, we took his private jet to Mexico and

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went fishing for striped marlin. There we fished on his super yacht 144 ft sport fisher, the 92 Jones and his 60 ft Viking. Anthony has a superstar crew here. Every time we pop the leader, his mates are right there tying hooks on

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getting ready for the next fish. That's how he managed to catch over 300 fish in one day. They were tying hook. They had two guys, I think you said, tying hooks full time and they were just casting fish, popping off within 30 ft and going

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again and again and again. Pretty pretty wild operation they got here. Seriously, how many fish have we already hooked so far?

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Over a hundred hooks already. Oh, way over 100. Oh my gosh. We've already hooked over a 100 marl and we've been fishing for less than probably four hours.

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Yeah, Josh. People start dividing 330 to the number of uh seconds [music] that it takes for us to catch a fish. Once you get on the boat and see our technique and see how this boat [music] performs and see how Lazley maneuvers this boat

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to constantly have us has a chance [music] to hook something and catch something, it's all day long. The biggest problem is bait capacity.

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[music] The fishing is so good here. You literally cast the line out, put it in free spool, count to 10, and you have a marlin on. It's unbelievable.

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These are the magical baits Anthony and I are going to cast. You're going to watch us real time how long it takes to catch a strike marlin at Mag Bay. Watch this.

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Let me get in. Yep. Fish on. I'm already hooked up. Let's go. Oh my gosh, [laughter] dude. You can't get better fishing than that. No way.

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Anony's hooked up too. Doubled up on Marlin. LET'S GO. IT'S ON. [screaming] LET'S GO.

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Look at that beautiful jump. That was pretty. You want it? You want it? You want it?

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It's right here. It's right here. It's right here. It's right here. Come here. Come eat it. There you go. You got it.

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Good boy. Good boy. Now I'm going to hook you. I got you. Now, I want you to do one jump for us and then we're good. Ready?

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Come here. One jump. One jump. Come on. Come on. One jump. YES. That's as good as it gets right there.

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One jump. Eat beside the boat. Pop them off. Catch a fish. We caught over 300 marlin before running out of bait. On our next trip with Anthony, we flew his private jet to Cape Verde, documenting his search for a world record blue

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marlin. We stayed on his 150 ft super [snorts] yacht and went fishing on the 57 Spencer.

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I've never seen a thresher shark slashing at a 8 and 12 knot lure like that. He was trying to kill the fish with his tail.

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Yeah. Little swat the you have you ever seen a thr chart before? Oh yeah. Funny. Maybe not this big.

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We'll see how big it is. That tail was insane. Judging by the tail, but these things have big tails. So, bigger than a rainbow trout, that's for sure.

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Looks like it's coming up backwards, huh? That's a good shot. Good job, boys. It's on it. Here it comes. Anthony, it's on it.

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That's it. That's what we live for right there. ALL THIS TIME RIGHT THERE. YEAH.

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[screaming] HOT FISH. CAREFUL. THAT'S why we do this right there. All this time, planning headaches, days, hours on water right there. That's it. Right there. That was it.

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That's the addiction right there. On the following day, Anthony hooked into an absolute monster.

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We got to do it. We need more drag. We're 60 lb right now. 60 lb don't do it. Not on a fish like this.

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Come on. Ready. Woo. Got both my hands buried here. 60 lbs and whatever my two hands are doing.

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It's like a 5 or 600 lb fish that's still really hot. We're just kind of hoping that it didn't go down to die right now.

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popping up like a rock cod. When you keep constant tension on them, they get a little confused. They they really don't know they're really hooked yet. So, they don't panic. So, soon as Kevin grabbed the leader, it felt something [clears throat]

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different instead of the rod tip. Then, it just came up and bolted. That's when it figured out, hey, something's wrong. I got to get away. We'll bring it on board now.

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You know, at least there's food value for the village on the island instead of just, you know, sinking out. All right, for all the 150 crew, I got $1,000 for the winner for guessing the weight.

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Yeah, we'll call it an 820. 820. Who won? [laughter] people. I have to give a huge thanks to my buddy Anthony and his entire crew for their incredible hospitality and for giving us the opportunity to stay on his boats.

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Another huge thanks to Evan Dell, Bill Zto, his son Biggie, and Captain Dave Jones for their help. If you want to book a fishing trip in Alam Marada, Dave Jones from Monster Fishing is the man.

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If you want to book an inshore fishing trip, make sure you hit up Dan Diaz from Headquake Fishing Adventures. It was a lot of fun fishing with Caleb Drestell.

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He is such a cool guy. Make sure you go and give him a follow. I have to give a huge thanks to Jet Ski of Miami and Fisherman's Boat Group. Without their help, we could not have filmed the jet

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ski segment in this video. If you live in Miami or the Florida Keys, this is the best company to call for buying a boat, getting maintenance, or anything else you might need. And one last thank you to Fishing Headquarters in Jupiter.

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All of our new Under Armour apparel and gear is now available at Bass Pro Shops [music] and all of your favorite outdoor retailers. Our Black Tip H Pen Wrath and Pen Pursuit combos are now available at Walmart and Sportsman's Warehouse. These

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are the first ever Blacktip H rod andreel combos built by Pen that are now available to buy. If you want to get one of these rod and reel combos, go to your local Walmart or sportsman's warehouse and ask for the black tip age combo.

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Thank you so much for watching this video. I really hope you enjoyed it. If you haven't already, click that subscribe button, like this video, write a comment below, and we'll see you next time.

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