TOBAGO, BBC- Flying Fish Video

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2008 the BBC camera team from the blue planet series came to tobago to get some footage of flying fish, since tobago is known as the home of flying fish (probably the most caught fish in trinbago).
to get some goot shots on their take off and flight, they ask a spearofriend(and marine biologist) of mine to go with them, going in the water and shooting a spear in the fishs direction with a tennisball stuck to the speartip. was working that way. but they didnt got enuff footage, so they came back to the island this spring and went out with a local fisherman, barry, and his boat "hog snapper".
barry use to spearfish, and love the hogsnapper so bad, that he even named his boat so. he will trade any mahi or wahoo for a hoggie, since he dont get to divemuch again. anyway, they got some good footage again.
found this vid on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR7c8ql7R0M

seaweed,
thats no joke man. when the flying fish season gets hot, and you find them on a special moon they go crazy.
i ve been fishing for them drifting with the boat and 2-3 gillnets in the water and some line and hook in the water for mahi etc. while drifting in the blue i just jump in and drift with the boat in little distance, trying to get some mahis and wahoo. there have been days where the flyers get so thick in the water you cant even see your speartip again,and next they start laying eggs on me and my gun, that i have to get back in the boat. we had lost nets already because while cleaning one net the next one will get so heavy so fast that we had to cut it.