 this week on the Sportsman Experience. We're about 40 miles offshore at Charleston in a secret spot of gyms. He's joined by his brother and two buddies from Sportsman Boats, and they're in search of some fish to fill the boxes. All right, I got him too, I got him! Two, double up, double it up. Nice grip, where? Oh, hey! Dude, he had to bend, man. He's fighting like a... That's the question of the day. What the heck is it? It's gotta be a group of... All right, I'm not going to get you first. Man, I couldn't do anything with that fish. I thought I was in the wrong spot. Here's the grouper, man. We want to see some grouper. That's right. I got color. I think it's a red snapper. Big red snapper. Day one? Oh, big grouper. Really? Bad guy grouper. Pet? Keeper. Keeper? Yeah. Oh, no! There he goes! That was a stud, man. Oh, my God! Start number two. Good one. How about that? Look at that, dude! Fishing is a lifelong passion. The pursuit of new species and lifelong memories is why we are up before dawn and coming home salty in the evening. My name's Jim Isaac, lifelong fisherman, boat builder, and student of the water. Join us as we bring along family and friends to pursue new waters, learn new methods, and enjoy our time together outdoors. Welcome to the Sportsman Experience. Last time on the Sportsman Experience, Jim and the guys were headed offshore to a secret spot, but before hitting these deep reefs, they decided to make a quick stop at a near-short wreck to see if some cobia were still hanging out. Oh, I see a little sucker. That's awesome. There'll be a big one down there somewhere. These things are slippery and they get their spines. Look at that big shark out there. There's a big shark out there. There's three or four of them right there. That's why we might catch the big cobia. Look at them. They're coming out from there. With no fish big enough for the box, they're going to continue heading out and give the deeper water a go in hopes of finding some big groupers, b-liners, snappers, and maybe even a very rare species that's known to hold on this spot. I get that 100 feet's a lot different than 60. Yeah. He's fighting the whole way up. He could be a snapper. I got color. I think it's a red snapper. Big red snapper. They won. Oh, big grouper. Really? Yeah, a red grouper. Pet. Keeper. Keeper? Yeah. Where's your little one? Yeah, there you go. There you go. Get that, Jeff. No, go for it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. I just told Ricky I saw somebody catch the gag off of it one time. Yeah, look, he rocked me up and broke the rest of the rig off. That's what he did. Oh, yeah. I got him too. Got him on. Two. Double that. Double it up. Triple. You got him off. Let me get her out there. There he is. Got him. Jeff, I got one too. Watch him, y'all. Come in towards each other, Jim. Watch you out. Go over. You're over, yeah. I think I got somebody going right. Yeah, I got your itchy horn. Right here. Somebody get your itchy off of me. There's the lake. I got one on the ground. There you go. Right here. Oh, it's in a snap flip. Yeah, you're good. You're good. You're good. All right, ready? Yeah. Coming back under. All right. All right, Jim. Nice grouper. Oh, boy. Dude, he had to bend me. He's fighting like a free train. I saw him see how people catch those monsters. We can jig some. All right, guys. We officially have a meat to bed. Right behind you. Hot hatches open. So be careful. Hold on. Hold on. They might need a Pompey. It looks like it. Get it. Yeah, it looks like an African. Oh, that'd be great. Where is that gap? Here, I got it right here. There he is. An African. That's what it looks like. Yep. Yeah, that's a Pompey. Good job, Jim. Is it an African? On the dead bait, too. Oh, yes. Bring him over here, Jim. Look at that one. On the dead bait chicken rig. Oh, he's hardly hooked. Another gap. No. He got it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry, not for two good ones. How about that? Look at that, dude. Look at that. You all got them? Watch the gap. That's what Michael said the other day. We got to come out when it's rough. I know. I don't care. Good job, Jim. You're a real fish. Where was this? First one, that's a stud. Remember they caught one last time? Michael caught one. We got one at this spot. No, Michael caught one. Yeah, I remember. What is that? A Pompinello grouper and a Venita. And we got a Pompinello stud. That's a stud. Cut these things up. You can't tell if it's golfing meat or Pompinello meat. Yeah, certainly. So up until last year, I'd never actually caught one of these fish. This spot seems to hold them. Last year, I hooked one, handed it off to our producer, Michael, and he caught a beautiful fish. Now, this is our African Pompinello spot. And we sure do love catching them because they're beautiful fish, hard fighting, and they really do taste good. Hey, guys. We're out here fishing on the open, 352 Sportsman today. And real quick, just wanted to go over some of the really awesome features that help us when we're offshore fishing. First and foremost, you've got to keep your bait in great shape. So our port and starboard, 30-gallon pressurized aquarium live whales do an awesome job of keeping that bait nice and safe throughout a long route offshore. You don't have to worry about your bait beat up because these live whales are pressurized. One of the things that we also have on this boat is a sea keeper 3, which is an amazing piece of equipment here that keeps the boat nice and stable while we're offshore. We've also got port and starboard, 234 quart fish boxes. These are macerated, so you can load these boxes with fish and they will hold ice all day long, and that way we can get our fish back and get them flayed up and they're nice and fresh and ready to go to the table. And it's just a great layout for offshore fishing, for bottom fishing, for trolling, for whatever type of fishing that you're looking to do. So that kind of wraps up the Open 352. As you can see, this boat's got it all. It's a hardcore fishing boat when you're wanting to go offshore, so 352 does it all. Now we're going to get back to the action. Things are really starting to heat up for Jim and the guys. Within minutes of getting on Jim's secret spot, they've already caught a nice grouper, a huge African popano, and things are far from slowing down. All right, I'm just going to free line now. You got a groupie? What's that? Maybe. No, he's not as big. There he is. Jeff's on. Jeff's on? Yeah. All right, my brother's on. He has two on. This might be a little... Yeah, Jeffrey. I don't know. He hit my little jig again. Yeah, another jig. There are colors. Maybe another Benita. I'm not sure. Almeco. Almeco Jack. Let's see what he is. Oh, Almeco Jack. Yeah, he just caught one, too. No, that fish. I thought I was in there. There's color. I see color. If that's a grouper, he's a stud. He's flat. He is. He's shining whatever the name. He's so much. He's a stud. That's an African, isn't it? Yeah, that's African. It's been a crazy start to the morning so far. The guys haven't had a single chance to rest. It's what we all hope for when we head out for a day fishing. With any luck, they'll keep this winning streak going. Pull up out here deep. We're putting a wax on them right now. We're sitting there. Every time they hit the water, we're getting the fish on. Nice big African on. We've got two nice grouper in the boat. Catching a bunch of Almeco Jacks. Yeah, there's a fish here. They're hungry. Whoa. Yeah, this is a good fish here. Watch you do your thing. Let him wear you out now. Rich, you'll be telling stories about you. I know. I got color. Could be a snapper or a jack. It looks like a snapper. Red snapper. Nice red snapper. Nice red snapper. It's a big one. Nice work. All right. There we go. Look at that. That's a pretty one there. Yeah, that's a hammer. My favorite fish. So we just put our first red snapper on the boat today. These fish are always welcome. But unfortunately, we just missed the snapper season by a few weeks. So we've got to put this guy back in the water. Our season here on the east coast is extremely short. We only get a few days every year. And it always seems to be rough. But the populations are huge. This spot holds a ton of fish, a ton of big ones, little ones. So we're always happy to catch them, but unfortunately, they've got to go back. You got him? Yep. Look where you go. Get that muscle. Get that muscle. I may have to get the gaff on this one. Got me a drooper. Come on, get him up. There he is. Red snapper. Red? Looks like it. Oh, yeah. Pretty red. Look at that. You can catch the last one too. Little Richie Red. That's a hammer. Yep. There we go. Man, I was hoping this was a big old grouper. Unfortunately, we got to turn those some back in. We'll go back down there and make some more babies. Yeah. So you want to try to run into that in-shore spot? Yeah, let's do that. Change it up. I mean, obviously, we're catching a ton of fish here, but we got some good fish. That's what I really like. And then we'll try something different. Maybe get your big king or something like that. Oh, yeah. That'd be awesome. I got a re-rig anyway. I got stuff everywhere. The boys are headed in with one last stop on the way. They're still looking to catch some good-sized bee liners, and Jim has the perfect spot right on the way in. All right, guys. Looks like we got some, we got some marks at like 60 feet, and then some all the way on the bottom at 70 feet. Decent little live bottom here, though. Something. We'll see what it is. Little greener water in-shore in here. Yeah. I'll put a piece of mint-hade in the whole thing, and it might stay a little better than this wood. Oh, yeah. Nice. Doubled up. Double bee liner. That's how you catch up quick. There he is. Yeah, a nice one. Just came back in shore. It's pretty rough out here right now. And yeah, we're covered up. A bunch of bee liners right here on the bottom with main snappers. So we're, yeah, we're just picking away at them. There's some big sharks and cooters here, so we're going to try to keep the fish away from them and get some in the box. Yeah, it's one of the good things that we've got on this boat that's helped us out a ton today is this Yamaha Hellmaster system. You know, we can use our fish point function, which right now we're just, it's holding us just stern into the current. So I mean, without that, I mean, it's blowing 15 miles an hour out here today. We'd never be able to hold on bottom. A couple times a day, we've had to use the stay point, which kind of reds the inches a little more. It gives you a little more juice to hold you to that perfect spot. But yeah, this thing's really, really coming handy today. So Jim and the guys have had a great day, and they are about ready to head in. They've worn themselves out between all the Kobea earlier in the morning and the big groupers, Pompano and Reds this afternoon. But before they go home, Jeff wants to test out something Richie just dropped on the floor. Oh, I got a bite. On a grape. I bet it came off. Oh, I got a fish on a grape. Look at that. Did you get one on the grape? I got one on a grape. What in the world? Hungry today, the vegetarian. Look at that. I was looking to see if it was in his mouth. I didn't catch one on a grape. That's crazy. All right, what do y'all think? Y'all ready to go? Good, buddy. It's a good day. Hit the road, and hopefully make time to get back early, clean the fish, and make a quick day of it. Jeff, clean the boat. Jeff, clean the boat. I'll clean the fish. The boxes are full, and the guys are ready to take it to the house. But before they do that, they have one last stop. They're going to swing in their favorite local marina, Tolar's Cove, to get the boat fueled up for the next trip and grab a little ice to put on the fresh catch back at the dock. That one's going to go the other side? Yeah, that's the other side. We're going to need three bags of ice. Yeah, bigger bags. Awesome. Thank you. Good to go? All right. Thanks, y'all. Take it easy. All right, y'all. We just got back from offshore. Had a beautiful day out there today. We caught a bunch of fish. It was a little bit sporty, but the boat handled it well. Everybody had a great time. We're going to get the boat cleaned up. I brought some ingredients to make some ceviche. So I'm going to fillet up some of this fish, make some ceviche, sit around, have a drink, and reminisce about our day. So today we got a couple of pretty nice gags. And to cut a gripper up to everybody, you see it just cut right behind the head right down the backbone here. Work your way toward over the rib cage and then just slide it right out. But it's just an absolutely awesome fillet to eat. All right. So we just have some for me and Snapper over here. We're just going to make a little ceviche with it. We're going to cut a little bit of this up, put it in here, put some lime and lemon juice in there. That lime juice will essentially cook the fish in the acid like that. So you could eat it right now right off the table, but it's good to let it sit for a little while and then ready to roll. Yes, everybody's nice and worn out for catching much fish today. Yeah. Awesome day. Arms are tight. It can't be this, sitting on the water, a little ceviche afterwards. Not too tired to do this. Yeah. I can't believe how many Coby we got. That was crazy. I told you the other day. I told you it was crazy how many there are. When they're here, they're here. They're just like crazy. We literally had 20 Coby. Yeah, thank you. I was surprised. We kept pulling them off that deep number. Yeah, they killed them all. We caught five there. Certainly a ton of them. Your first little best African pompano, right? Yeah. Lost one. And I definitely lost my personal best two feet away from the old African pompano. Pompano, groupers, Coby up. I mean, there's Big Red Snapper. Yeah, sure. Yeah, 14 pound, 12, 14 pound. Reds turn all day. And then endless supply of B-liners or a million snapper. Yeah. How many do you think we end up catching? Are we keeping? 15? We probably kept 15 all the time. Certainly. I think everybody's really pleased with the way the day turned out. We definitely paid for it on the way out just trying to push through the seas. But yeah, it was well worth it. Yeah, Seackeeper helps out a lot. Yeah. Seackeeper's safer but anybody who says a Seackeeper isn't worth it has never been on a boat with a Seackeeper. Yeah. It definitely makes a difference. I mean, there were a lot of times while we were fishing that I forgot that it was even rough out. Oh, yeah. It disengaged it and all eyes turned around at one time. Yeah. What happened? Why'd you do that? You were back level again. All right, everybody, I'm glad everybody got to come today. I'm glad we got to catch a lot of fish. I mean, obviously we have plenty more of these in our future. You know what I mean? So we can keep on doing it and keep testing product and just getting out there in the water and enjoying each other's company on a beautiful boat. Look at us we're sitting out here on the water on a weekday. There's a lot of stuff we're about to get out of here. We're going to eat a little bit more of this. We're going to leave for the day. Thank you all for watching and we'll catch you on the next one. Next week on the Sportsman Experience. There's another one with a little tiny one. All school. Yeah, Ralph, you got a little one. Look at this. Smaller one. Smaller one for me. Big school Coby. Big school Coby. Look at them all. We got them all. Bring up a line. Bring up one right here. Awesome. There's some big ones right here. Oh, there we go.