 Welcome back to the treehouse everyone. We're gonna give it a dangle today where we got a kitchen cook planned and we're going after Summer crappies. I've got a technique that I want to deploy You guys have seen the fish cakes on this channel And if you haven't kept up with all the kitchen cooks here You can watch the series of them and we'll see if it's the fish that makes the difference or the technique that makes the difference Let's go check up on the chickens. It's been a while since you guys have seen the chicks Got some treats little veggies You guys get after it So this was mama mama hen right here. She is no longer mama hen Literally yesterday. She said nope. I've had enough. They are on their own. They're their own little group now and everybody is Sleeping on the roost so they were sleeping in the house Now they're sleeping on the roost and they have integrated into the flock successfully We've had some pecking had a couple of You know a couple of little injuries, but nothing major pretty much fully feathered I'm just waiting to see some of those little rooster characteristics a lot of times the hens the hen pullets they'll have Nice uniform tails their feathers will be a little straighter their combs are not as pronounced But this guy back here rooster Sort little squatty tail feathers little disheveled That one right there I think is a hen That one I'm not sure of this one. I'm not sure of got a pretty Pretty tall little comb working right there Colonel Sanders. He's being very patient been a good rooster to the the young flock so far So soon as he's a little rooster start developing they start fighting I'm sure he will throw down Okay Enjoy boys and girls Have fun be good. I will be back with the crappies Today is one of those days where you kind of want to get your fishing in before two or three o'clock Where the pleasure boaters really come out? It's 11 right now See if we can get it done Unwraps polls from canadia See if everything's still connected here We got a grub on right now Probably gonna change that. All right, we may have to make an emergency trip back to the truck Since that is my only dangle dart Absolute dead sticking that bump and bug He'll measure He will measure Pretty sure Oh, yeah, you got to make this bump bug last y'all cropping on my nose Barely hooked Don't know if he's gonna qualify Don't know if he's cake qualified He's ten inches he qualifies. Oh, yeah, definitely. It's 11 Croppy cake qualified sir. You were going in and I just saw a white bass school Coming to view as well. All right a few more come on eat that goodness. It's a good one It's almost like you just have to let it sit there It'll let the waves just kind of Lightly bounce it. There's a white bass school coming up Right in those crappie though. They're sitting in the very deepest spot of the pile Godly they're just putting their little lips on it Not really eating it Number three boys. Let's go Barely in the nose barely fell to meet it Just fell out crappie mouth Let's put them in here. Go pro just died. That is a good one We're scratching it out with one bait now if you're gonna dead stick crappie baits There's two that I recommend that we make and that is the dangle dart and this one the bumping bug I would really prefer the dangle dart in this situation when they are just glued You got to get right over top of them. They're not doing the swing You know when I first started out today I was like 15 feet away and I was swinging it through and I had a couple chase it then they go back to the pile They're just in that summer doldrum. So Having something like this with no moving appendages or barely moving You know this bandito bug just the tails kind of split and go up and down, but it's not a it's not like a curly tail It's not a paddle tail. It's not moving a lot of water That's what they want this time of year. So the dangle dart does nothing and that's really the best I would say for deep summer hot summer crappies, but eight ounce head and And that little bump and bug just in the electric chicken That's the only one I have and I picked it up off the floor of the boat So if you're just catching crappie you shouldn't get you should get a lot of mileage out of all the baits that you use You can catch a lot on just one individual bait when you get into like the bluegill and white bass and large mouth That have teeth. That's when you'll start tearing up baits, but crappie you can go a long ways tried the hair jig and Tried dead sticking it a little bit. They'd come up to it, but they really need it. They really just want that plastic That's the deal Unfortunately when I was packing for canadia, I just left I took a bunch of crappie baits and then I just I left him left him in the garage Not good. So All right, let's try the dead stick a few more And see if we can pull them up. There's really nothing to this technique though. Oh gosh Give him a little pop a little pop and you took it Summertime Stagnant crappies not as fun as the direct post spawn crappies, but They taste just as good Think we got enough for a catching cook, but that last thump It's addicting. That was the first one that really thumped it hard. I like that Try to get a couple more bumps More drop and I think it's just time to move. These are mega stagnants Still catchable Man, they are tough There's a good one just nosed on it. God popped it They are barely getting it. That was kind of weird. You hit it on the weight way up kind of a reaction That should get us where we want to be for catching good tonight All right, a little white bass wrangle to finish this thing off get a couple of extras extras for the pot. There we go Super dealing with We'll measure but we will try to get a bigger one. Oh my gosh, they're down there They're down there these fish are just right on the edge of a hump coming into my my strike zone As we speak Big wide coming in Incoming Hooked up feels a little better Oh, yeah, there's your keeper and holding the bacon now We delivered We delivered on crappie went above and beyond with some extra white bass I still cannot find My crappie baits. I'm gonna feel really dumb. They're in the boat right now. By the way, so steamy Got to have some boat shorts this time of year guys So if you haven't seen our boat shorts gootensquad.com check them out It's like wearing it's like wearing undies out there super comfy in the heat You can use my promo code and get 10% They're right in front of me the whole time I'm an idiot I'm an idiot. This kind of got this confused me. They fell off Sort of hiding it. They were literally right Okay Also, just want to give a big thank you to everyone that has gotten the crappie baits I really feel like we have some amazing crappie baits and uh working on more stuff right now But bump and bug two-inch bump and bug. That's that was the big player today It's all I had if I would have had dangle darts. I think that would have been even better But bump and bug dangle dart this time of year. Gotta have it Gotta have it. So appreciate you guys support on on the crappie stuff. We've we've actually sold through a ton Uh more more than I thought we would so I know crappie fishing is getting popular And it's it's so fun. I enjoy it. They're tasty obviously But if you want some really high quality crappie baits, you know where to go You know what's how it is ah Y'all love catching them But hanging around the house cleaning them I love doing that too eating them of course is going to be even better We're going to head up to the kitchen with osg here in a minute We're going to get started on the process of chunking these up Instead of doing kind of the blend been doing a blend Like using a food processor. So we're going to use a different strategy today. So If you guys don't have a full-blown cleaning station, which I strive to have one day in the future Uh, this is what I use. It's a food grade cutting board. I got it off amazon I got it really for processing deer because it takes up a lot of space But it works great for fish too and I got these little These little buckets right here. I live close to the lake. So I always dump my My disregards back into the lake let the catfish eat them and stuff And just continue the life process and I want to try that That little zipper trick that I learned Up the north of walleye Get that bloodline out Let's just try that real quick Just going to go from the tail end Just try this We're chunking these up anyways, so We'll take that little piece to chunk it in Zips that little red spot right out of there. Ooh, I like that trick Okay, that's a good one Well, bam Here you go So the next step in this process is to cube these up So what I'm doing right now is I'm just slicing these kind of in thirds Just depending on the fish and then I'm cubing it. This is different than the other method I use with the food processor Literally making it dice size So just depending on the fish cutting into thirds or seconds And then slicing from there and making those dice size little bits And that is what is going to go into our fish cakes in the kitchen OSG There we go and Ben My little cameraman right here Trying to get daddy's cold beer I see. Uh-uh not yet Say hi Say hi Yeah Not yet All right, so osg has has crushed up. Is that ritz crackers? No, this is a different cracker. So y'all I can't have gluten So we're gonna do it my way gluten free and then we'll do it your way But I don't know if you want to use it like the bag method. It's really easy. You don't have to bring it I like it. I like a machine. It works really good I just get a bag roll it crush it So this is like a rosemary salt sea salt cracker We've got ritz over here. We'll do the same thing Going to two different batches. So we've done like basically the puree method. We've gone overboard We've done paste So I've hand chopped these Dice size basically there's a couple that are you know, maybe bigger than dice, but Well, that's bigger than grab me, but I'll try it. I'll give it a go. Okay. Okay. Well, you know, we can perfect it There's a couple that probably need to be cut like one more time possibly But look at that delicious crappie meat right there And I also zippered out the uh, most of the red stuff in there which Usually has like Little bit of rib bones as well like just remnants of rib bones using the electric filet knife So most of this is going to be just delectable pure pure meat We haven't used the air fryer in a while. I thought Maybe just try it with some avocado oil You know, it uses a lot less oil I'm starting to like I'm starting to think that some of these vegetable oils and condensed seed oils may not be the best They're not good for you. They're not good for you. Okay. Yeah. So, you know as much as I hate that because the gold crispies are so amazing We're trying to find ways to uh, you know, not not get the old cancer. All right Here's how we do this osg. She is going to shallow pan fry hers in the gluten-free Uh, crumblings I'm going to use that classic grizz And I might do like a butter avocado oil mixture on mine and I'm going to pop it in the air fryer So we're going to see which method is better. This is good experimentation. You guys can Come along and be the judge figure this out. So there goes the ritz Smashing them up rolling them. Yeah, we'll say the ritz crushes a whole lot easier And in here we're going to put mayonnaise green onion Uh, some old bay a little bit of pepper spice or whatever and then we got poppers in the little Little toaster. They're rolling in the mayonnaise right now because she says a little goes a long way I wish I could remember the exact recipe when we did the walleye, but I was uh Let's just say a few beers eating Salt pepper oregano and I'm going to do old bay No occasion. All right. All right. All right But instead of mayonnaise. I'm going to use this garlic everything sauce Haven't done it before pretty good call All right. This is going to require some messy hands, but I just clean my hands go nowhere with your hands just found a scale Pretty pretty good move getting that out there pop me some panko in there You want that cheese, buddy? Here you go. All right That's yes. Nope. Get off of that. Are you starting something? No, no Well, I know it's good. I need it. I need it going anyway All right. You guys see the the texture chunky. This is chunky The idea with this method is You're really focusing on the fish on the other stall I think you can get a like when you're basically semi-puree the fish You could probably make gar and it would taste good. Not buffalo carp, but you could do gar So out of this I'm getting three balls The idea is like one of these balls can can feed someone Good job, bud So this is what I came up with osg rolling with the oil with the skillets I'm going to do a very like light pan fry. Oh, what do you got here? You got butter and one This is for the spinach. I'm doing just a light spinach But I'm doing an olive oil like cooking high heat olive oil. Okay. I'm going to dunk mine I'm going to douse mine in some you want me to avocado oil. Okay, 100% Spray me up spray me up. Yeah There we go Okay, okay, you want to flip flip them. Okay, but how long is this going to take to cook because yours are pretty thick I don't know. This is experiment. Okay. Here's mine. I made mine a little smaller I'm honestly the texture kind of reminds me of like cereal, but they're smaller It doesn't smaller than yours Osg pulling off for final product. I did, you know, it almost looks like I put like corn flakes in there because the texture is Pretty crunchy looking. All right, mom. We're big. So I'm still I'm still going I kind of want to check Oh, man, those look amazing Actually look really good. Those look like you know what those look like huge cauliflower. Yeah I might have okay. That looks awesome two more minutes We're going to roll with that looks good Osg's look pretty good too. She goes not got a nice browning on them sever Let them rest just in the hot little hot pocket there Like we did something Like we did something today. It's hot. Yeah, it's hot I saw a lot of you guys really like the cakes that we made previously tried the recipe. You liked it So This one's good Definitely want to give this one a shot what I'm telling you when I was up in Canada. We tried this with walleye. It was Fantastic can't be a walleye, but they were deep fried so Airfryer totally different, but let's see what osg is all about very flaky. Oh, you did good. I mean, it's cooked well Is it it's cooked well for sure Inside yeah, um It looks still a little. Oh, no feels it feels cooked. It feels cooked. Yeah, it doesn't feel like rubbery or anything like that Oh great taste great taste Because I usually roast Mary How do you feel about the texture? Texture is a big deal. I can't really complain because this is all I can eat I think you did good Those are really good the crackers are not the best but The fish is fantastic I think you're seizing it perfectly. I think I would use the food processor for a gluten-free cracker I like the big chunks Look who's ready Coming out of the warmer Coming out of the bullpen Wow, bam Wow, come on now Come on now. I mean just on aesthetics You know, it looks like it looks like a toasted coconut like macaroni. It looks like a giant, uh, coconut shrimp Giant coconut shrimp Okay, I think that was that was actually 13 minutes in the air fryer at 400 How we doing on the inside? Oh gosh, it looks good It does look like coconut shrimp It looks cooked perfectly quite honestly. So this is the mix of ritz crackers and panko White bass and Croppy in there. Oh, hang on a minute. This might be the jam These green onions in here Oh mixed in I'm digging the whole the whole shebang here. Wow yours. I will say I'm very impressed I really want to try some of yours. Try mine. I'm not going to Just a nibble. All right, this is osg's Now with the gluten-free you're gonna get a little sandier crustier She cooked them perfectly. I would just I would take off points for that gluten-free I don't know how to help that though. It just doesn't cook up as well It just doesn't I mean yours puffed up. I love. I love how yours puffed. Mine was just flat And I will say I love your gluten-free desserts. Like I prefer it actually brownies cookies Muffins, they're fantastic and incredible Put on this right here. No gluten allowed Wow, I think I put a little too much panko in here Probably should have stopped at the After the first dunk some people like a lot of bread I want to focus on the fish mostly that chunky size is good Um, you're actually you're seeing the fish when it breaks apart you get that nice classic Break into a you know a pure white flaky fish look to it and texture This is the deal I would I prefer the cubed Over the blended for sure and I do taste the riches of that rich cracker in mine too So good. Oh man Well fish and freaks That was one of the best cakes I've ever had now compared to the walleye It's not going to be as as as good as the walleye. The walleye is the best. It's the best All right, it's the best thing in north america as far as fresh water goes, but The crop is a close second and mixing a couple white bass in there certainly didn't hurt things. So The the diced method I think is way better than doing the blended method So you guys play around with this, you know makes messing around with different spices Different mixtures of panko crackers whatever you prefer. I'll continue to dial this in I will say that the uh, either the panko or the breadcrumbs kind of expanded in the air fryer so what I thought was Not enough breading at first it ended up being a lot After it cooked up So just keep that in mind and I'll say this as well. I love fishing for crappie It's fun when they they get a little tough and then you figure them out exactly what they want and catch them But just eating them is incredible and as far as sustenance fishing goes It's rewarding. It's really rewarding when you put those delicious fish On a plate and you're eating them with your family. It just it just feels really good. It's very fulfilling So I recommend trying it if you don't already fish for crappie or white bass or whatever You guys can pick up some of the baits googesquad.com use my promo code save 10 on all the baits as well and the new gear We got some new gear for the july type stuff Summer type stuff that'll keep you cool out there. So keep that in mind when you're shopping at googesquad use my code Lfg and thank you guys for tuning into another outdoor adventure and I'll see you