 Oh, yeah. Oh, I wouldn't pull drag Put them back to the channel fishing freaks I've already got me a cooler with some bluegill in it and today's video We're gonna be doing a catching cook on those. I have never done a catching cook with bluegill They're small. They're they're a lot trickier. I mean crappie is my favorite. Who doesn't love crappie White bass probably my number two just because they're so easily accessible But bluegill, I've heard a really good and I haven't messed around with them and this lake right now is Absolutely shocked with them. They're spawning. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna Go catch some more of these fill the cooler up a little bit more because they're so small Like I don't know how many it takes to fill you up Get as many as we can and then we're gonna head back to the treehouse Flay them up and then come up with some special recipe Actually, I got a really good idea So I briefly explained this in the last video, but what I've been looking for on the electronics is it looks like craters on the side imaging you turn your side imaging on we go make these distinct distinct potholes that are more distinct than bass beds even and on this lake the water's clear It's got rocks in it and they pretty much dig down to those rocks So there's some in this Cove right here. They're in the backs of the Cove's and they're also Just in like little marina areas anywhere. That's got a good bottom to it. So I'm gonna go ahead Shut down right here Okay, I can see those light spotted areas in front of me So there's definitely beds in here what I've been using is This rig right here. This is a Favorite fishing jackhammer. This is one of my favorite little light finesse rods. I even use it for crappie sometimes It's a 6 6 medium light very sensitive 4 to 10 pound test Rated and I've got six pound goog and mono on here which I also use for crappie fishing I've got a A bobber that has the attachments on top and bottom. I can't remember the exact name It's got a weight down there a keel on it. I've got about a foot A Foot of leader. It's actually not leader. It's the same line I what I like about these bobbers you can just clip them right on you don't have to tie a separate knot and Then this is a number six Cricket hook so it's got a long shank to it and it makes it easy for getting the crickets on there And it also makes it easy for the fish to get it in their mouth. So the bluegills mouths are pretty small So you want to make sure you got got the right hook on there So that's a number six and then I've got a cricket tube that I purchased from the marina here a Shake about I got like 50 crickets for eight bucks or something Little cricket tube. I had one of those as a kid. I don't know where it is now But when I saw that in the marina, I was like that's cool I need to I need to get me one of those again I don't want a big gap between the hook point and the cricket basically I'm trying to get it in there because they will they will steal these suckers in a heartbeat. Oh God Nope. Nope. Ah, thank you Okay, little Jiminy Let's do this. Oh, man, there's a bunch up there Got him There Boudreaux You're gonna keep you're gonna keep Boudreaux. Oh Gosh, it's behind me. Oh, they're good at doing that. Okay And I can't wait to see how y'all taste. All right add to our cooler Few more up there. I want to give a shot They're gonna hit it off the top. Oh Those are small Try something real quick Little grub or two on here See what they do on this I'm running low on the crickets. Oh It's getting attacked and I got oh, it came off. Okay. Here's what I'm gonna do for funsies I can always go back to my cricket. I want to try Small fly using this method Just a plain old black fly This works right here and we're gonna be In slay town. Oh got him. Yes, sir The fly does work Got me a few decent ones Add it to the cooler. I think I'm about like 15 or so right now You can keep 50 Coming up on a little rocky area. Ooh, I see some Swirls in here. Holy hell in the world. Gotcha. Oh My I think that's why That's a little pooter pie right there You're no bigger than Amy. Oh good one just smashed it. Oh, that's a that's a green sunfish It's a green sunny Going in the box. We go pull a little drag nice bluegill Nice little pumpkin seed Yes, sir God, those are so beautiful. It's insane Got him. Got him up there in the shallows There now son caper Using the crickets is I mean, it's the juice They cannot resist the crickets, but For time's sake like speed sake This could be the better deal One more spot before we got to go in. I think I can get a few more right here. Willow tree nice little pocket We're spawn central. Ooh good one. Good one. Watch him Get away from me fly. Well, here we go Look at that big old dog there I mean that's got a mouth like a large mouth Big old green sunfish Been spawning look how nasty his tail is It's been up there just making them beds Not anymore like this fish looks like It belongs back in the water These little puppies are small, but I won't tell you what it's pretty fun and I like this little contraption that I've Come up with that just it's it's really efficient Like when you miss one you can just get back out there with the fly It was just I mean it's lure fishing, but now we're going to take it back to the tree house We're going to prepare these and we're going to put them in a special cooking device that I've never tried before Hopefully it's going to be good. We're doing some tailgate flaying today Now these have been chilling on ice overnight Fish have turned a nice Beautiful brown color. Definitely not as pretty as when we caught them, but hopefully they're going to be good Again, I've never had bluegill and I've never cleaned them, but how I'm going to do it is do the filet method I bluegill are so small. I guess you could do it another way. I really haven't researched it or asked anybody But I'm planning on using the heads And scraps as bait anyway for cat fishing this week. So I'm just going to take the filets. I doubt Stephanie is going to eat a fish that looks it's whole in its form straight filets It's something that I purchased on amazon this week that is here is an air fryer I've never used one before Very interested. I heard of someone cooking some wings a buddy of mine was cooking wings said it was real They were really good and I thought I have never fried fish in one of these I think it might be interesting to do so we're going to do it here today Go with the standard flay knife no electric since they're small and delicate Go in right there See how much meat we can get off this guy Get past that rib cage Yep, I screwed it up what I'm finding so far is there is a A big broad extended rib cage with these bluegills. They're just a really broad fish That is what we're winding up with right there Look how tiny that is. That's just a little a little morsel bite Okay, there's one Let's just try the big bluegill first That was definitely on a bed. You see that bloody tail there Get under its little ear fin Always try to cut up as close to the top of the head as I can Because that seems to be the thickest part of their uh of their filet Okay, so on the first filet I kind of figured out that That rib cage is so big right there. So I just need to cut around that and flip it over This game came off. That's okay Wow Okay, first time cleaning bluegills Butchering it came in imagine using an electric filet knife on this you'd have to be Really good at it Did that one a little better It's pretty efficient on that one. There's a decent filet. There we go You always want to try to get it to where you can almost see through The fish so that one's pretty good. It's translucent on the top feel good about that one Okay, I need to get down to some ninja work here and I'll see you at the unboxing of the air fryer I know as much about air frying as I do about going to the moon This one I got is a kasori I basically just went on amazon Got one of the highest rated ones that I saw these look like a toaster Got some cautionary tails on the top as usual Read caution on the back Before you get started there's plastic inside make sure to pull out and separate the baskets That's an important move don't want plastic and golden crispies Obviously, I had to figure this out before We cook anything it has settings chicken steak shrimp seafood bacon pre heat If that's not a picture of a bluegill, I don't know what is Look at that Bluegill setting right there I'm still a little bit confused to be honest with you how This mechanism works like when you open this it does say this is how air frying happens They do have a youtube channel though YouTube's where you learn everything right Okay, I understand now what is going on it is basically Like a couple of air dryers in there that just pump in the hot air and That is what's giving it the the crispiness it'd be like being in the middle of summer in texas on a bass boat with 30 mile an hour winds and that's how your skin feels like golden crispy. Okay. I understand how this works now In the kitchen with osg, I think I need a bigger pan What are you doing in here because you kind of explained To me, but I wasn't sure I say cheese I see Corn grits. Yes, we're making cheesy corn grits, but I'm going to add serrano pepper and And the cheese that I went with is a creamy havarti cheese I'm sorry. Are you wanting to steal the show? Yeah, are you trying to steal the show here? Yeah, you always feel like you have to talk louder Oh So with our fish, we're going to have some corn grits. I love grits. So this should be delicious This is my first time making grits. Believe it or not. I've never made grits. You ain't no southern girl You ain't no southern girl. You ain't no grits Daga, we are going with one of the usual suspects for uh, this special air frying I'm going to try flour with frank's red hot. That's going to be one of the things I'm actually not going to fry them here. I'm going to fry them downstairs Doing the prep up here And then we're going to do a little bit of cosmo q driver up spg salt pepper garlic Just with some butter because I don't know how the flour is going to I don't know how I'm still a little confused if the the crispies are going to happen Like if the golden crispies will appear, I don't I just looked up this air frying situation and it's I don't know. I mean if it comes out better than the actual frying method I will I will be impressed and this fishing freaks is how His gills turned out now this last one. I know for sure it was a green sunfish It was a real big one That was one of the biggest ones I caught the whole time. I mean that looks like a crappie filet right there This half over here. You're getting the butter Cosmo spg Sprinkled a little bit on there That was quite a bit actually, but maybe that freaks right out if you're not too busy stirring your grits Your drip pile over there whatever's going on It's starting to boil. This is a critical moment Come on now hit me with that franks. Thank you franks red hot wing buffalo stop just regular Go ahead and want a little bit of that Stir that in there make sure you don't touch your privates afterwards Or you will get a little You'd get a zinger first batch with the butter and the spg. I'm gonna add a little bit more so we've got Gloved up in there laid them down in the fryer And we are ready to get them popping Let's power the unit on Let's see. Let's go to this bluegill setting and see what happens 350 at eight minutes. Let's pop that down Five minutes because these are tiny Let's just hit go. What are you doing here? What are you doing here air fryer air coming out the back? Circulation I wasn't sure if the bottom was going to get super hot and didn't want to screw up my table So I put a little cutting board underneath I can smell the spice that's coming out the back So things are happening in here At this point it actually does smell like things are cooking in there Nosh was back there and we get a nice with fish and it's warm coming out the back But it's not I mean it doesn't feel like super hot two things going on here that are new though Never or at least I don't remember having bluegill or sunfish Do yours sizzle. Those are done y'all. I think I made a good decision on lowering The time and that's just butter garlic salt and pepper See how it tastes Okay, you Simple enough. This sucker is hot. I mean it is steamy Oh, wow Oh, wow, we might have ourselves something here. That's very good. That's very good What with the butter on there? Now honestly, this is like this is like a baked situation. This is not Like the fry. I do not think the flour but the Frank's right. I was gonna turn out the best, but Wow, this way is great and bluegill Sunfish delicious. Oh my god Oh, it's amazing. I gotta I gotta go. Let's do something. This is great Hey, don't don't touch this because it's hot. Okay, but I want you to try one of these little guys Oh, it is hot. Oh, ah hot potato Hot fish It doesn't really taste like it's fried, but it's it's not fried, right? It's just like baked very good It's good, right? There's no oil on this. No, it's just butter garlic salt and pepper. What? Yeah, that's pretty good. And the bluegill is good, right? I mean, there's such a like you could almost see through it. It's so fresh Flaky Very flaky. Oh I think our daughter is getting into something over there. No washer. She can't yes You know what that would that would go great with the grits. I was gonna say like if you put that in the grits On top of the grits. I mean, yes, okay. There's something southern happening there. I'm not a grit person So I have no idea what is happening in here Is that normal? Yeah, no, no, no, that's it has a very rich cheesy flavor. That's good I mean, that's like when you would do a shrimp and grit situation that'll put Some some bulk on your booty. You know what I would do though I don't have this but if I had some time to whip up some bacon Yeah, little bacon bits. Oh, yeah, well instead you got you got these I don't think that the franks with the flour is gonna turn out good Yeah, because I don't think it's actually it's not frying. It's just like baking. Well, that's because there's no Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm totally I'm again. This is the first time I've ever doing this. So Well, I literally took air fried fryer like literally like it's frying it But I don't know. Maybe it is gonna work out good Welcome to having kids Amy's gonna try a piece mom just washed off a little She can't have all the salt and deliciousness because it'll probably give her diary diapers And you don't want that you even touched one and there you go No Oh No Okay, she's doing the block method. I'm just gonna plop these in some flour All right now I am the most curious about this part because Some of these I put flour on and I want to see How the flour turns out on top of the franks normally that would go in the grease again But some just have straight franks on some have franks and then flour So let's turn the unit on Let's go to our Bluegill setting it's kind of funny. You can really smell whatever's coming out of there from the back It's like you put your eyes back there with that franks red hot It'll get your eyeballs Come on What's going on in there? Give me something crispy As I suspected the flour is still on there. They're not golden crispies. Actually, they're not really crispy. This is a this is a form of fast Baking in my opinion. It gets them a little crispier because of the air that's going over them So I could see while why chicken wings would be excellent It does have its place in the fish cooking world. Now, let's give it a shot here Straight up franks nothing else Still good very impressed with bluegill I will definitely go back and catch those again, but eating him his delicious bonus I will be looking at bluegill fishing a little differently now see why big bass Love to indulge on them I just like a bluegill buffalo wing Really good. So my verdict on this thing is it's not getting the golden crispy, but it does make it not crispy but Kind of like a drier effect instead of if it was in the oven and even more like a soggy-ness Especially sitting in a pan. That's probably part of it. You have air flowing all around So it just cooks faster and if you all want to pick one of these up I will leave an affiliate link an amazon affiliate link down below if you want to experiment with your fish or Whatever you like to cook if you want to try one out if you've never done it before And if you have experience with these and you've cooked fish in them Leave your comments down below for uh for things you would like to see or recipes or or whatever But i'm definitely going to be using this again and experimenting around with it So I want to hear your thoughts I'm going to get up here to these cheese grits and spend some time with my gals y'all But make sure to hit the like button for another good catch and cook if you've never tried bluegill I'm telling you they are good and if you want to check out the new eat sleep dangle teas They are available at the merch store link is down below. Thanks again for tuning in today and I'll see y'all on the next