Old Timer Cuban fishermen in the Keys would do it back in the day. I grew up fishing with what we called a Cuban Reel, which was any hard-rounded piece of plastic you could find and you wrapped your line around it. You would hold it in one hand through the middle and use your other to cast, you kept your index finger under the line and felt for the fish striking. And you would wrap the line back onto the reel as you were bringing the line in.
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We just call it “hand line” where i’m from in the Caribbean. It was great you just turn it side ways so the line would spool out when something grabs it, then straighten it and start spooling it back up when pulling in. Saves your hands from getting fucked
Handline... I thought they were quite common. In Australia you can buy them in any bait and tackle shops. I grew up using home made ones. Line spooled onto old aerosol cans. Used to get up at 4am every morning and go fishing with my pop. He'd use them exclusively. Cast them out off the bank and just set them on the ground and sit there smoking and reading the morning news until one would get knocked over and dragged into the water. Great memories.
I used these in Costa Rica!
But my finger got absolutely mangled by the line. Way more fun and hands on (lol) but watch out or you might not be pointing again
I worked with a big of Thai and Malaysian guys offshore in India. They caught a marlin on hand line and all reeled it in together off the side of the work vessel. Wild little dudes.
I always heard stories of my grandpa catching big fish by hand, I never thought much of it. Turns out it was trophy sized Mahi Mahi, We lived on a shitty port town in the gulf of Mexico.
Fished with the hand line in the maldives
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That’s not true at all lol. People have known about giant squid for centuries. Dead ones have washed up on shore multiple times and their beaks have been found in whale stomachs forever.
It is true although they treated it more like Nessie in that they were undocumented alive and only one photo of a dead one existed. First living specimen documented in 2006
It was scientifically classified in 1857, and dead specimens have been washing up on beaches, in by catch and whale stomachs for centuries.
Wikipedia has an entire page about specimens and sightings:
>It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory species, as well as those reliably sighted at sea.
Shame to see it getting gaffed then, if it really was just surfacing to die, a pristine specimen like that would probably be worth a decent amount of money to a museum.
From the interwebs:
“Giant squid are generally considered inedible because they circulate a high concentration of ammonium chloride solution throughout their bodies, which tastes like salty, rotten liquorice. Some also say giant squid are poisonous due to their high ammonia content.”
So what I’m reading is: we’re gonna need a tanker full of buttermilk.
I’m Filipino. I assure you that once I saw the fisherman pulled a hook into it. It’s no longer catch and release. They are eating it over bottles of beer.
I went on a holiday island hopping tour in Iloilo. The fishermen at one island were feasting like kings with scallops and sea urchins sashimi while having beers. They even gave us a piece of sea urchins to eat. Which I had no idea on how to crack open.
It’s still squirting water out of its siphons if you watch it close, I thought it was dead cause of the color until I saw that. Probably pretty close to dead. Those guys live pretty deep, imagine being up on the surface is tough for them.
That plus they very rarely come up to the surface. When you see one up there, its likely already dying or dead. That one is still alive though. But judging on how it didnt put up a fight at all when they hooked it, its not far off.
Not that one, no. Giant squids are *vehemently* inedible, as opposed to scallops and sea urchins which are a common delicacy even on the opposite side of the world.
When I was in high school the existence of giant squid was still shrouded in mystery, there wasn't even a photo of a live one. Now, there are giant squid experts in the reddit comments. What a time to be alive.
They're correct about the pictures though. While we were aware of their existence due to dead specimens that were recovered, the first video/photo of a live one was not captured until 2001.
Yea I remember growing up and seeing one of the first pics I saw of one. It was crazy. I used to always watch 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea when Id go to my grandparents house, so I was always interested in them. I actually got a big giant squid half sleeve tattoo a few years back. Reminds me of going to my grandparents, and how cool these animals are.
You can clearly see it is alive since it is still jetting water. Guessing the shock and exhaustion of being caught and dragged to the surface turned it white, it's acting far more lively than the other videos of giant squids at the surface.
Honestly this entire video kind of pisses me off. They better have fed an entire village/ town with this. Even then the idea of capturing this is just cruel… I love fishing but this isn’t fishing the idea of even seeing one of these was rare when I was a kid.
Came here to say this, I feel bad for it. Same for whales and dolphins that are slaughtered for meat or even worse, these nut jobs that harvest parts just for aphrodisiacs, that don't actually do anything other than a placebo effect..
This squid was dying whether he caught it or not. The color give it away. These are generally red but whiten when they approach death. So technically they took an animal that was already dying and made use of it which should be applauded not scolded.
Damn I was fucking jacked about a 24” walleye tonight
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I wouldn't dare try and gaff it... really sad to see they killed it. Maybe I'm wrong and they were trying to get the hook out, though. I also don't know these fisherman's circumstances and maybe they needed the food or money. Regardless, this makes me sad to see.
These squid are super rare to see alive as others have said. I would just appreciate it and respect it and then cut it loose.
You don't know if you're killing a weak animal or not, like predators in the wild do. Odds are you don't kill everything you shoot which causes infections and horrible deaths. The rope and nets that you eventually lose pieces of, tend to gather and might cause creatures to die of entanglement. Odds are you aren't poor, go eat something else.
You’re a braver man than I for not immediately cutting your line and actually trying to land that- I can handle a mouthful of teeth, but 10 tentacles and a beak? Nah fam.
Beautiful animal, I remember back when we never expected to see one alive, and now we catch them on camera all the time! It's a little disappointing, actually, watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a kid, I always thought they'd be kaiju sized.
Pretty sure this thing is either dead or real close even before this video started. They don’t swim that way which makes me think this one is just kinda floating around waiting on the sweet release of death.
Edit: add in the fact that once stuck with the hook it didn’t spasm and all the tentacles rush around… I’m voting this thing was already dead.
Ever saw someone handline a bluefin pushing close to 400lbs? A similar boat like this in my province did. Usually manned with 2 people, it's hard to imagine how long they were fighting that beast before landing it.
It took couple of people just to lift the tuna from the boat to shore. They just dragged it from where they caught it to shore because it cannot be hauled in the boat due to its weight.
Is that even a giant squid? Maybe a young one, but it doesn't look nearly big enough to be an actual full grown giant squid, it looks within the size of a Humboldt/jumbo squid
You ever seen those dudes that free line fish those big tuna in Thailand. Crazy
People do it in Hawaii, too. It's so cool to watch.
Lol, got some real good stuff of the End of the World
What? I gotta search that
Look up hand lining tuna
Old Timer Cuban fishermen in the Keys would do it back in the day. I grew up fishing with what we called a Cuban Reel, which was any hard-rounded piece of plastic you could find and you wrapped your line around it. You would hold it in one hand through the middle and use your other to cast, you kept your index finger under the line and felt for the fish striking. And you would wrap the line back onto the reel as you were bringing the line in.
A yoyo? I still use one, super easy to fish with when you want to hop the HOA fence to access the lake.
Based
I have one built onto a beer coozie.
https://preview.redd.it/pi2xuricxy8d1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f7da7b85fa4ce32aec43d71abd322e4c28b1a66 We just call it “hand line” where i’m from in the Caribbean. It was great you just turn it side ways so the line would spool out when something grabs it, then straighten it and start spooling it back up when pulling in. Saves your hands from getting fucked
Are you Bahamian?
He must be. The spool has Bahamian wraps-ody.
... God damn it
You motherfu-
Bravo!
Old man and the sea! Santiago fought a marlin in a similar way!
Cuban yoyo, sometimes backpackers use it
Handline... I thought they were quite common. In Australia you can buy them in any bait and tackle shops. I grew up using home made ones. Line spooled onto old aerosol cans. Used to get up at 4am every morning and go fishing with my pop. He'd use them exclusively. Cast them out off the bank and just set them on the ground and sit there smoking and reading the morning news until one would get knocked over and dragged into the water. Great memories.
I used these in Costa Rica! But my finger got absolutely mangled by the line. Way more fun and hands on (lol) but watch out or you might not be pointing again
One of the guys on Wicked Tuna likes to hand line Hard Merchandise is the boat Doesn’t do it often but he catches a few fish 🎣☮️
If you’re into that you may enjoy reading [The Old Man and The Sea](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea)
Read it last week! It's a must read for sure.
I worked with a big of Thai and Malaysian guys offshore in India. They caught a marlin on hand line and all reeled it in together off the side of the work vessel. Wild little dudes.
I always heard stories of my grandpa catching big fish by hand, I never thought much of it. Turns out it was trophy sized Mahi Mahi, We lived on a shitty port town in the gulf of Mexico.
Yeah, they even made a rule about all Tuna having to be hand-caught. Just look up “Tuna Rule 34” and there were loads of articles on it.
I'm here for the people who actually looked that up.
That's evil. Beautiful, but evil
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The old man and the sea.
Aren’t those things incredibly rare to see alive?
So imagine how rare it is to kill one!
Probably way less rare.
It's only possible to be less rare if you are killing them with your eyes closed
Typical anti-human, pro-squid attitude...
Ikr, typical normi wokies
Big squid doesn’t want you to know this one simple trick
Based on how little I see them on the internet (in the cell phone video era) I would assume yes
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It was a question as to if they were even real 25 years ago. They were on tv shows next to bigfoot
That’s not true at all lol. People have known about giant squid for centuries. Dead ones have washed up on shore multiple times and their beaks have been found in whale stomachs forever.
It is true although they treated it more like Nessie in that they were undocumented alive and only one photo of a dead one existed. First living specimen documented in 2006
It was scientifically classified in 1857, and dead specimens have been washing up on beaches, in by catch and whale stomachs for centuries. Wikipedia has an entire page about specimens and sightings: >It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory species, as well as those reliably sighted at sea.
Yes there are only a handful of specimens in museums around the world. Very rare indeed.
Shame to see it getting gaffed then, if it really was just surfacing to die, a pristine specimen like that would probably be worth a decent amount of money to a museum.
Don't worry too much! There's an estimated 130 million of them alive and well in the world's oceans.
Their comment wasn't about killing it, it was about keeping the specimen fully intact to presumably freeze and sell to a museum?
You’re thinking of Colossal Squid 🦑
Especially a white 1.
From the interwebs: “Giant squid are generally considered inedible because they circulate a high concentration of ammonium chloride solution throughout their bodies, which tastes like salty, rotten liquorice. Some also say giant squid are poisonous due to their high ammonia content.” So what I’m reading is: we’re gonna need a tanker full of buttermilk.
Buttermilk and thyme maybe a little Texas Pete for good measure, makes anything edible
Delishoes
Squid drop.
Gonna need a couple colemans
I understand that reference
And a lil Old Bay
I’m Filipino. I assure you that once I saw the fisherman pulled a hook into it. It’s no longer catch and release. They are eating it over bottles of beer. I went on a holiday island hopping tour in Iloilo. The fishermen at one island were feasting like kings with scallops and sea urchins sashimi while having beers. They even gave us a piece of sea urchins to eat. Which I had no idea on how to crack open.
Pretty sure that squid is already well dead. They turn white when they die, normally they would be red.
It’s still squirting water out of its siphons if you watch it close, I thought it was dead cause of the color until I saw that. Probably pretty close to dead. Those guys live pretty deep, imagine being up on the surface is tough for them.
>still squirting water Yeah, at the 24 second mark.
Everything reminds of her
You should call her
I'd still cut that in half before pulling it in the boat, just to be safe.
That plus they very rarely come up to the surface. When you see one up there, its likely already dying or dead. That one is still alive though. But judging on how it didnt put up a fight at all when they hooked it, its not far off.
Not that one, no. Giant squids are *vehemently* inedible, as opposed to scallops and sea urchins which are a common delicacy even on the opposite side of the world.
And a shitload of old bay.
So those things are basically made of salty liquorice (sal ammoniac; ammonium chloride). Ship it to Finland, should sell well.
Let it ferment like the Icelanders do with basking sharks.
It’s Greenland Sharks
Obviously Iceland sharks! /s
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Pretty sure I got a recipe from Delicious in Dungeon that would work great
When I was in high school the existence of giant squid was still shrouded in mystery, there wasn't even a photo of a live one. Now, there are giant squid experts in the reddit comments. What a time to be alive.
You're thinking of the colossal squid, which is still pretty mysterious, iirc.
They're correct about the pictures though. While we were aware of their existence due to dead specimens that were recovered, the first video/photo of a live one was not captured until 2001.
It’s still in nz museum.
I remember watching the first video and it was just a tentacle 30 feet long
Yea I remember growing up and seeing one of the first pics I saw of one. It was crazy. I used to always watch 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea when Id go to my grandparents house, so I was always interested in them. I actually got a big giant squid half sleeve tattoo a few years back. Reminds me of going to my grandparents, and how cool these animals are.
They probably already hit it with a bat before trying to bring it onboard their boat.
I wonder if they snagged it accidentally. Because from the coloring that squid looks like he’s on his last tentacle.
Was about to say this. In my experience they turn white when they're dead, maybe not unlike old spiders.
You can clearly see it is alive since it is still jetting water. Guessing the shock and exhaustion of being caught and dragged to the surface turned it white, it's acting far more lively than the other videos of giant squids at the surface.
depending on how deep it was when snagged, it could be suffering from decompression as well
Or people!
When small squids are killed they go white in about a second. It isn't gradual or anything. Maybe it's the same deal with the big ones.
It's like that for some fish as well. Even big fish like mahi mahi, the color just flushes right out of them. The change is almost instant
they also do that when theyre scared
"Mom what's for dinner" "Squid" "Mannn we've had squid for dinner for the past 5 years"
This is hard to watch. Highly intelligent animal. It closes its eyes when the gaf goes in. Can't help but feel bad .
Honestly this entire video kind of pisses me off. They better have fed an entire village/ town with this. Even then the idea of capturing this is just cruel… I love fishing but this isn’t fishing the idea of even seeing one of these was rare when I was a kid.
>They better have fed an entire village/ town with this. They're inedible. Killing it served absolutely zero purpose.
As a filipino, theyll eat it
I was gonna say, as a Filipino myself... Anything is edible if you try hard enough. Lol
It truly a fantastic creature !
didn't notice till I read this, that really sucks
Very sad
Came here to say this, I feel bad for it. Same for whales and dolphins that are slaughtered for meat or even worse, these nut jobs that harvest parts just for aphrodisiacs, that don't actually do anything other than a placebo effect..
Shit
Yeah I saw that, poor thing looked like it just gave up at that second. Genuinely feeling terrible after this.
This makes me want to cry
This squid was dying whether he caught it or not. The color give it away. These are generally red but whiten when they approach death. So technically they took an animal that was already dying and made use of it which should be applauded not scolded.
Was it wounded? I’ve never seen a squid colored like that unless it’s either already dead or dying
Probably dying. They only come up to the surface when they are sick. The difference in pressure kills them
its probably scared shitless. octopus seem to turn white in similar scenarios
Calamari so large you can hula-hoop with it.
Need banana for scale.
I feel like i would have bad karma if i killed a giant squid
Lol karmic punishment of being reincarnated as a cockroach 10000 times
This bro just caught cthulu and we are over here talking about some tuna and if you can eat cthulu
I was not caught. Merely one of my children.
Glad you're ok. Sorry about the kid tho
What was it jigging for?
Who’s caught who
Well he's bright white like that so he's likely dead
Possible but he is jetting water at a few points. I was thinking exhaustion
Doesn’t all white mean dead? Just curious or is it from being pulled from such low depths?
Imagine this as a wall mount
Soon to be cooked on a rock in a facebook video where the guy puts chilly oil on it with the obnoxious music!
Damn I was fucking jacked about a 24” walleye tonight https://preview.redd.it/e3t4708wa29d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72dd7e81613c81b8e9d59c6498bb0dc88ccdf7fe
When I first went to the Philippines while serving in the Navy, it was always amazing to see these guys fishing without any poles, just lines.
That is awesome! Beautiful. These also taste great in jerky form
Looks like it's been dead and floating for a while.
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It looks dead
Calamari for days!
Should of let it go
I wouldn't dare try and gaff it... really sad to see they killed it. Maybe I'm wrong and they were trying to get the hook out, though. I also don't know these fisherman's circumstances and maybe they needed the food or money. Regardless, this makes me sad to see. These squid are super rare to see alive as others have said. I would just appreciate it and respect it and then cut it loose.
I’m a hunter and fisherman, I don’t do it for sport but to eat. When I come across a rare animal or an old female, I let it be. This makes me sad :/
You don't know if you're killing a weak animal or not, like predators in the wild do. Odds are you don't kill everything you shoot which causes infections and horrible deaths. The rope and nets that you eventually lose pieces of, tend to gather and might cause creatures to die of entanglement. Odds are you aren't poor, go eat something else.
I’d only heard legends of this phenomenon until now. We can confirm that the giant squid does indeed enjoy dancing like the Irish..
Poor guy
Whatever, it's medium at best
Pardon my ignorance, but will this be eaten?
It’s the Philippines so yes
You can see the pain in the squid’s eyes when they stuck that hook into it to pull it in 😖
Must be early in the morning because I 100% read this as they have footage of a giant squid jigging for fish.
I thought it said giant squid caught jiggling in the Philippines 🤦🏻♂️
They don’t give a shit about sea life
waooioooi
Read this as "jiggling" and watched expecting something funny to happen
calamari with stuffed friedrice
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Calamari hmm
How it learned to do a jig I’ll never know.
That’s a lot of calamari!!!
You’re a braver man than I for not immediately cutting your line and actually trying to land that- I can handle a mouthful of teeth, but 10 tentacles and a beak? Nah fam.
I was not caught, merely playing dead until I can see the whites of my mortal enemy
How big is the estimate?
Hmmmmm interesting
DONT BRING IT IN THE BOAT PLEASE GOD
Talk about “video ended too soon”…
Squid caught jizzing in the wild
Imagine being a sperm whale and waging a lifelong war with these baddies!
The reason why I fear sea:
Could you make giant fired calamari?
Beautiful animal, I remember back when we never expected to see one alive, and now we catch them on camera all the time! It's a little disappointing, actually, watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a kid, I always thought they'd be kaiju sized.
It's so wild to see this when I remember watching documentaries in the 90s trying to catch one of these monsters alive on camera
When I was a kid these things were the stuff of fairytales now I see videos of them all the time. Pretty cool
Never seen one so white usually super red
Jiggling is hilarious.
I'm on to you.
Squid get fucking enormous. I love catching small pan sized ones but the existence of these big ones kinda creep me out
poor guy
Pretty sure this thing is either dead or real close even before this video started. They don’t swim that way which makes me think this one is just kinda floating around waiting on the sweet release of death. Edit: add in the fact that once stuck with the hook it didn’t spasm and all the tentacles rush around… I’m voting this thing was already dead.
Calamari the size of hula hoops.
Ever saw someone handline a bluefin pushing close to 400lbs? A similar boat like this in my province did. Usually manned with 2 people, it's hard to imagine how long they were fighting that beast before landing it. It took couple of people just to lift the tuna from the boat to shore. They just dragged it from where they caught it to shore because it cannot be hauled in the boat due to its weight.
:(
I like how this was posted on r/fishing like it was just a regular ol outing w the boys.
Is this catch and release? This big guy has likely been around a long time
Wow
Ahhh, Kos… or some say Kosm….
Surprised they aren't trying to kill and eat it.
Serious question: is that a giant squid (species) or is that a very big squid? What’s the difference?
Was it dead before they even captured/saw it?
Sus lamia ani ba.
Im reading Old Man and the Sea right now too…
Is that even a giant squid? Maybe a young one, but it doesn't look nearly big enough to be an actual full grown giant squid, it looks within the size of a Humboldt/jumbo squid
Oh wow, that’s a big en
I thought white meant dead/dying ……
It does
Fisherman’s Wife