 Welcome back fish and freaks. We've got a crumb bumbler of a day and we've got about a two hour window until some bad storms come in. Our goal for today is to take out the crispy, put out some catfish jugs and some lines and see if we can come up with a handful of catfish for dinner tonight. Can we make it happen before the storms are within? Stay tuned. Whoa, we just did it a little too hard there. Got the motor down. Short window, but I think we can get some catfish and I've got bait. I've kept bait, frozen, gizzard shad for months now that are just fantastic, oily, greasy. Ah, delicious catfish bait. And of course we got our trusty jugs that I've made up. If you guys don't know how to make jugs, unfamiliar with them, I'll show you how to make them. Videos linked here. It's cheap, they're effective. I like my jugs. They tend to work. Also today's video brought to you by our latest drop at Guget Squad. We've got the brand new pender worm. We've got brand new swim heads. We've got the dub grub. We've got brand new fish batter. All right, let's get started. Greasy gizzards. Ooh, look at all, oh no. Oh God, all the bait's gone. Oh my gosh, no. What just happened? Why? Why did this happen? What happened? Oh, he just chummed the water severely. Oh goodness, we got tons of bait. Bad news is we might be feeding these catfish for three right here. Oh my gosh. Guging moments. So I'm just gonna chop these in little chunks. I never like to use huge pieces. I don't like tails, heads are good. I don't like tails. I think the key to doing this is putting your bait in a spot where that hook point is exposed and it's gonna get the fish. I don't like to just stick that thing far in there because you're afraid that catfish is gonna take your bait. You wanna make sure your hook is clear. Let's see if that's gonna reach the bottom. You can still see all the bark and stuff. That's literally perfect. Perfect depth right there. Go ahead and set our head on here. Get this, look at that big boy. Big boy. I think it's something big on that one. I'm using four and five-ought hooks. Let's see how that goes. 20-foot jugs. All right, so we got two here. I'll probably idle to another spot and we'll take a look at putting the jug somewhere else. Well, we almost lost all our bait in the first five minutes, but they're nice and chummed up over there. Let's try another spot. Fish do be down there. So I'm on a big point. Oh, I'm gonna try a few different depths with jugs. I'm gonna try up on the shallows part, about 17, 18-foot. Then we'll take it out and take it out again. All right, let's get out another gizzy, man. These things go a long ways. Just one of them, one of these big ones. I'll show you guys something that I do really like. These floats right here, though, they will pick your bait up off the bottom. It's kind of a nice little addition. All right, we got one set up on top of the point, about 17. Now we're just gonna come out here to about 20. Drop another one. All right, 19-foot. Looks pretty good, we'll send it away. Okay, now we're gonna try a couple of cove floaters. These are shallow ones. These only go down about eight to 10-foot and they're just gonna be floating. And for these, I'm using a lighter weight. So this is a two and a half right here. I'm not using the full three. You could go even lighter, actually, than that, if you wanted to. There we go. All right, she is set. That's in 15-foot. She's just gonna drift through here with the wind, basically. There it goes. We're gonna run around to our first ones. Check those. And then come back. Some people may think the jug fishing is really slow. You know, you set them out overnight. I'd never do that. And the way I like to do it is sort of fast, fast and furious. It can be fast and furious action. It's where I like to set out some spots that are, what I think, high opportunity spots. Put a group there, go set another group. And by the time you're done setting that second group, it's time to go check the first one. And then you can just keep flopping back and forth. And if you have one really good spot, you can just sit there and watch a jug go down. And while you're baiting one, throw it out, and just keep going and going and going. It's really a, it can be a fast, really fast way to finish. That's what I'm hoping for today. And these two hours that we got, it's taken us about 45 minutes to set these out. Hopefully we've already got one on, on our first spot, and then we can just come back and keep the, keep the catch and go up. Oh, I think we got one. I was just driving by our second spot and it looked like the jug turned slightly. So it doesn't, it didn't bop under. It just looked like it turned. So I think we do have one on here. Oh yeah, I feel it, I feel it already. Feels like a good one too. Oh yeah, great catfish right there guys. Look at that. That's not even at our first spot. This is on a stop-off point. This was the shallower one. That is going to be a good dinner right there. I mean, just a couple of those and you're set. That's fantastic. These jugs that I have, have built, they're adjustable for the depth and I like to get them pretty close. Pretty close to the, to the exact depth and maybe just a hair shallower than the depth. So when they touch the bottom and they don't drift, you have a little bit of wind, you can find them easier. But also, you can tell when the fish has got it. So if you make it where it's too deep, you're not going to be able to tell. There goes the jug right there. So you guys see the weight, the hooks. So it's perfectly placed. So when you set it just right and the fish gets it, it's going to go under. If it's, if you've got too much slack line, you're not going to be able to tell if one's on there. Plus, it gives them room, slack to twist up the line, which is bad, you don't want that. Can't tell if I see movement or not. The jug's kind of bobbing up and down, but it could be just the waves. We're going to take this one in. I'm going to move it to our other spot, since we've got confirmed fish over there. We'll toss them where we got our other catfish right here. We'll have all our lines in that area. Guys, the wind is picking up. We probably got 45 minutes to an hour of, if you see behind me, it's looking pretty nasty till it's not crispy certified. Can't be out here in this little boat. I also don't have a bilge pump. If it starts raining, there's that. We'd be scooping. All right, this one is interesting. Looks like a 15 footer here. I don't really like it. Not in love with it. Oh, I'm starting to feel that rain, folks. This one just says six foot. That one's really going to be shallow. I think we're going to have to put some rain gear on. The rain is coming in. Come on, fish. Coming to check our pocket drifties. I see one is drifted way far, way, way far. I'm looking for the other one, but I don't see it. This is going to be a mess right here. Oh my gosh, these clouds are getting so dark. Oh my gosh, we got one. Oh my gosh, look at this. Holy cow. Oh gosh, and the shallows. Baby. I thought we were just, we were hung. We were drifting hung. Woo, that's bigger. That's bigger than the last one. It's just that time of year you get some little shallower than normal. Big ones up in the shallows, man. Might be another one on here. This other jug got away from me. All right, that one did not have one. I'm going to reset it, though. That was obviously a good spot. All right, we got to go hide. It's not looking good, guys. Not looking good at all. Y'all, this is bad. This is a bad situation. This rain, it was kind of drizzling. I was thinking, oh yeah, I got two hours because the rain's going to be coming in. Bad storm, heavy winds, y'all. I'm probably going to lose my jugs. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get back. I definitely can't get back right now on this stuff. I mean, let me just step out here on this dock. Oh, spider web, bad spider web. So I had to come in here in this dock area because look out here. Look what's going down. That is not good, y'all. That is not good. Very dark, ominous clouds. They just engulfed the area. I'm looking at one of my jugs right now. It's like being taken out to the main lake. My floating jugs I put out on the main lake flat, they're going to be gone. They're just going to be, see you later. Hopefully the ones that have weights on them, they stay, but I can't get across the lake right now with these winds, y'all. My boat will get destroyed. I'll sink the boat. I don't have a bilge pump. We do not have a bilge pump in here. So we're going to have to just kind of ride it out. The good news is we got two awesome catfish. Really big sized catfish on the line right here. Look at these bad boys. That is the good news right there. Those are two very nice blue catfish. Perfect feeder size. So we're going to let them chill out down there. And hopefully we get some storm relief. I'm going to check the weather on my phone and just see if we can get a window. The boat is due to thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the moored area between two and a half inches. Additional rainfall amounts of a half an inch to an inch and a half are possible. Flash flooding is already occurring. Guys, just look at how much my boat is rocking inside of this protected cove. This is bad news, bears. So I just looked at the weather and it looks like it's going to get worse. And it's not going to stop for another four or five hours. The wind is supposed to get worse. So now I'm trying to think, do I just strap the lifejacket on and try to get back to the other side? I'm hoping that the front of the storm is just a big burst of air right now and it'll calm down a little bit and be just kind of sustained. But right now it's gusting up to 30, 40 miles an hour. It's stupid. I don't even know how I'm going to get my gear back. This is way worse than what I thought it was going to be. So we just have to put our cowboy hat on and get out here in this rodeo, but I do not see that going well. All right guys, I'm going to exit this dock and just see how bad it really is. I'm concerned about the waves, but I'm even more concerned with... I'm concerned with water coming in the boat and then that capsizing. That's what I'm really worried about. I've put my lifejacket on, so I'm actually a little fearful here. I'm not going to lie. We're going to try to just recover some gear in this cove briefly and see if we can counter-survive. This is very difficult already. Here we go, baby. I see a jug that's drifted on the shore. I'm just going to try to go get it. See what happens. Oh, Lordy, we're going to get wet. A jug. There's a jug. Screw the fishing at this point. Fishing's over. We're trying to survive. Oh, my gosh. Holy... All right, jug number two. Covered. I'm not taking any over the nose, which is good. I got a lot of weight in the butt of the boat and it's keeping the nose of the boat up. It's on the water for me. Dangerous. I'm wearing my life jacket nearly enough. I'll put this sucker on. I'm just trying to get out of this cove right now. I'm at a really bad spot on the lake where the waves have had a lot of time to build up. The problem is this next quarter mile is where all the jugs are. I'm taking on quite a bit of water. Just taking a little bit of water over the bow, over the sides of the wind. I see... I did see one of my jugs. I feel like I can make it across the lake if I just go slow. The worst part is going into the waves right here. In the store. Shalecat. That's amazing. Whoo. Y'all smash the like button for my survival right now. Got two back. We got two more back. I think my equipment's gone. I just lost half my equipment. I got to get out of here. Fish, we made it. I'm glad we made it, guys. That was scary. That was actually scary. We got our catfish. And we got our lives. The Crispic Collector. She came through. There was so much water in here, I wasn't able to really get up. Ah, golly. That is a lot of water when you're talking about a tin can. Look at that. Look at it all draining out. Gas tanks underwater. Batteries. The battery was like a quarter of the way under the water. Whoo. We lost half our jugs. But you know what? They're like a dollar apiece to make. Hooks are the most expensive thing, quite honestly. So we did all right. Life jacket came in handy. There were a few moments where I thought if this wave comes into this boat, I am screwed. Let's get these in the cooler. Let's head back to the treehouse where it's safe. The old trees out here looking like they're going to snap, y'all. I'm so glad that we decided to make the move and go across the lake when we did because it has gotten worse. And I would have been stuck over there. So now that we have risked our boats, risked our life to get these catfish, it's time to clean them and cook them. So I'm trying something brand new on these catfish. And when I got home, I had them out on the stringer. I hung them in a tree, sliced the tails. I'm draining them. I want to see if that makes the meat taste any cleaner. I don't really have a problem with not doing that. I eat catfish all the time. Some people say they're gamey. I don't really ever get that. But I want to try this because I've heard it makes the meat taste sweeter. So we're going to take it to the fillet board and see if the meat looks cleaner, if it looks whiter or clearer, less bloody basically. And we're going to be taking these to our lakeside camp, y'all, for camping out tomorrow. And we're going to be putting that golden crispy on them. And it's going to be that much better because we risked a lot to get these catfish out here today. You know, some of these, I can't really tell a difference, guys. I mean, you still see it right there, which is that they say that's what gives it gamey taste. Now, as far as like cleaning them, it was a cleaner experience. I'm going to vacuum seal these. These will be ready for camp. And we will take them to the skillet here just a little bit. Alrighty, y'all. It is time to cook these cats that I pretty much risked my life for. I've got a person that likes to eat fish, I think. That is Rob. What fish have you eaten in your lifetime, do you think? Well, a lot, actually. A lot? A big catfish. Well, yeah. So this is kind of a good one. When I came back from Iraq, the first place I went to was on Lake Fork. Catfish hut? The catfish, yeah. You know the catfish place? Yeah, one of those catfish houses. I've been there, yeah. Yeah, the catfish. So I ate so much catfish that I was driving back to my grandma's from there. And I threw it all up on the side of the room because I hadn't eaten fried food in like six months. You were just like giving it away. I just gorged myself. I had like the peach cobbler. I had beer. I had everything. I was like all over just throwing up everywhere. He got a splurge on a good catfish hut every once in a while. But what they give you in the catfish huts, rear end there, what you're getting in the catfish huts is most likely channel catfish that has been harvested out of a pond in Mississippi. I didn't just make that state up. They are the world's largest producer of catfish, the state of Mississippi, biggest catfish ponds. That's where most of your catfish comes from that you get in the store and a lot of these places. I don't know if I had a blue cat. I don't know. I can tell you from cleaning catfish, channels versus blues. The blues, channels smell sometimes and they eat a lot of, you get a lot of catfish, channel cats that eat like stink bait and stuff like that. You know what I mean? Blue cats, they'll eat more of like shad. They're kind of cleaner eater, I think. Not really flaky. It's like, it's not like a pork chop chewy. It's not chewy. It's just like, how do I describe it? A good catfish. It's not pork chop chewy. It's not really flaky. It's more like a saltwater fish. We order saltwater fish. Like redfish? Yeah, like redfish. Not as flaky as redfish. It's got more fat in it. Not a sponsor, but Seth McGinn's Game Maker. This thing is just the best for fish. I put my filets in it when I'm cleaning them. I use it to coat my fish. It's awesome. By the way guys, this stuff is now back in stock. This is our fish fry right here. It's awesome. It's got a nice zestiness to it. And I like the original. Original's good. We have a spicy as well if you want to kick it up. We're going to take our lid here. Look at this. Even when it collapses down. So it's good for camping. Take our fry and we'll just probably put about a quarter or half a bag into our little deal here. We're going to get our pan nice and hot. So we'll put that in our pan. It's already nice and hot. If it's smoking like this, that means the pores are opening up and it's going to accept the oil. And what happens there is it's going to create a non-stick effect. When you shallow pan fry, you don't want to flip your fish too early. Because when you flip it too early, it's going to stick the fry or the batter to the pan and then you're going to flip it over and you're going to lose a lot of your flavor and your taste. We don't want that. When you throw your catfish in here, guys, throw it in. Swirl technique. It's getting that top coat a little pat. Just a love tap or two. Flip it over, get it again. Comes out and it's just ready to go. Butter adds a nice buttery flavor, if you can imagine that. How many days a week do you guys eat fish? Do a lot. I probably have mercury all up in my system. All right, it's been a few minutes, guys. I just got to get you in close here to just show you the golden color that you want to look for. Try to flip this guy. Ginger is heavy. There we go. Look at that. I'm getting this rob. You're in for a treat, my guy. One of these is ready. All right, guys, I am excited to see Rob's reaction to this blue catfish. Remember the ones that came out first? Yeah. One bottom. Remember that plate got some weight, doesn't it? Yeah. Those are some heavy cats. That one's fresh. That one just came out. Yeah. I could tell it was a little fresh. That one's giving me hot, hot. Yep. You about it? That's good. Look how it just flakes. It's got, like, you almost need a fork, you know, to get in there with it. Dude, that rushes. Oh, yeah. Don't sleep on the catfish, y'all. If y'all have never caught a blue cat, if you catch a blue cat on a spinnerbait this time of year when you're bass fishing, don't throw it back. Dude, that is so good. Put it in the boat. That's like, I think blue cat over crappie. That's what I'm saying. I think blue cat over crappie. Are you having flashbacks at the catfish shack? I think this is better, right? So the thinner ones, the smaller ones, are going to be channel. It's still going to be good. It's just not as, it's not as meaty. Okay. Big difference. Big difference. Mega difference. Okay. This is the one you just had? This is the channel? Um, wow. That's like night and day difference. Yeah, this one's good. Wow. But it doesn't have that. No, that's, like, not even close. Meaty. That's hard to describe, right? Yeah. No, that's like, that's it. It's like fatty in a good way. All right, guys. I am stoked that Rob has enjoyed my catfish. This is awesome. This is why your wife stays with you right here, just because of the fish. Hey, I bring these fish home, baby. All good, ladies. Love the fish. And I'm going to flip my boat for these fish. You guys got to smash that like button. Stay tuned. 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