 How do y'all, LFG here back in the Fish Cave Studio and today we're going on a river adventure for catfish and gar. Before we get to firing up that fan boat and get to going down the river, let me tell you about today's awesome sponsor of this video and that is Worksharp. As y'all may know, I never step into the outdoors without a very sharp knife. I've collected knives since I was a young buck, but now that I'm an outdoorsman and do this a lot, I like to make sure my fishing and hunting knives are super sharp and the best way to do that is to keep them sharp after every time you go out and use what I've gone through. Wet stones, honing steel, straps, all those things can be used in a combination but they take time to learn. So when I found out about Worksharp and they sent me one of their products, I found out that you can cut that time down tremendously. 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Oh man, I haven't been on an airboat many times. We've got some frozen little carp. Drum and carp. Freshly harvested, I think Brad caught these. Y'all kept up with the videos in the summer, you know, jug lining. Got into that. A lot of fun. Really cool. I think we're gonna do some of that right here and then maybe get a pole line out as well. There's some big gar that lives in these rivers in Texas. You've probably seen it on River Monsters and other YouTube videos. These are jugs by Brad. Anything special about these? You got the T-pattern on the end where you can just kind of wrap it up. Supposed to go a little smoother than that. Mine are all experimental. Everyone's different. It's like a half ounce or a one ounce weight. A little circle hook or an octopus hook. Foam noodle. Mike's cutting up a little bit of drum. Got to let him eat it. Swallow it basically. He's running good. Is he going up current? Oh, this one's getting bite too Brad. Dang it. I had him for a second. That was a big one. Oh that's the juice. Multiple lines out. Let's have a couple of takers. But no hangers. We need ones that are hungry. We just put out a big old honker piece on my rod because I got a bunch of line so we can let them run. But they've bit the other lines pretty good. Mike just saw an eight footer. That's a big one. That's a world record dude. What? What do you want me to say? Middle one's on Abu Garcia. 20 feet of line. They just know. They know which one to get. It's going. It's going hard. Oh, dang. Got him. You on Brad? I think he's on. Think it might be a little one. Dude, I think he's on bro. Fish on man. Fish on. Oh, there you go. They know that that one's got 44 pounds of drag and that Abu Garcia's got about 10. Oh, it's like they're coming in waves. Let them eat. Let them eat. Let them eat. Talk to me, Mike. Give me some tips. Well, it's about the fifth hookup we've had. Not hookup. Fifth bite we've had. We're not very prepared. Justin's the only one that brought enough line to actually probably land one. We're just out here getting bites. Getting bit up. That thing's taking the line like crazy now. Oh, yeah. That one's committed. In it to win it. Oh, she's running still. Yeah, still going up river. So I say when it stops would be a good time or you might run out of line again. You going to do it? A lot of stretch in that line. Ah, come off the gar game. It's tricky, y'all. It's tricky. I've done it a few times and it seems like you hook up on one out of every five or six if you got everything set up. I really want this rod to go off right here because I've got a ton of 100 pound line on here braid. So I know I can get a good hook set and I can let them runaways. I've got a 14,000 size reel. Just let them swagger it. Get real happy with that bait and then just we're getting bit. Got him. Stay on. Stay on. Oh, here we go now. What are you feeling? I don't know. We're about to know real quick what it is. Oh yeah, softy. Ready for dinner? Softy. Yes, dude. Soft shell catching cook. That's what I'm talking about. Soft shell turtle, man. How soft are they? Will they bite pretty good? Oh, this looks like a stingray underneath. All right, we're going to let this guy go. It's his lucky day. See Mr. Softy so quick. If we had ice on the strip, we would definitely keep that. I've always wanted to try one of those. I've heard they're pretty tasty. Oh, god. Still got it. You want a reel up? Oh, wow. Or you want to give him some time? Yeah, let's let him chew. Dude, with that, the way he just took that, yeah, that's a big gong. It's so big, dude. He's hooked. He might be caught on that one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've had one bigger net on rock reel. That is the biggest one I've seen on a jug so far. That is awesome. Mr. Whiskers, you're going to the grease, man. Going to the grease. Yes, we didn't get skugged, boys. We thought it was going to happen. The last one. Here we go. Oh, winner, winner. Catfish dinner. That worked. This used to be my rod sleeve until the motor, the blades. A little note, a little airboat safety. Don't do that. Don't do this right here. This is bad. Made it in safely. Thank goodness. Scared the crap out of us when my rod sleeve vibrated up from the bottom and just got caught in the motor. And we didn't get skunked. This is a big old catfish. So we're going to go clean this up. And that is going to be either some place tonight or later. Garfishing, man, I just don't have it down. You got to let them take it, then they drop it, and it's a process. So I definitely need to work on my garfishing skills, but this is the way to do it. Taking the airboat out. We didn't see anybody out there. They were rolling, you know, the water was coming in. It was a really cool experience on the water today. And it's always good when you can bring home the meat, especially some tasty blue cat. Mike, I want to see how you clean cats. Smaller fish. I don't skin them, but I need a big one. Just want to make an outline. Wow, that's not that sharp. Yeah, it's very sharp. Just go with the outline. Go ahead and get the skin off. That'll do, though. There we go. And there we go. Yeah, that's a juicy looking steak. Go. And the belly meat, this one's so big, it's probably even just cheek meat out of them. Just make sure you peel that off or you can rub it off with a like a scrub brush and sink. That's the only bad part. Good day all over. I can't believe how far that catfish actually took that juggling down river. Just riding in that airboat today was awesome. Going through the Brazos Valley. That's an area that is a huge historic landmark in Texas. Saw bald eagles, all sorts of birds. We saw big alligator gar rolling, tons of turtles, just a really cool ride. Big thanks to my buddy Mike for firing up the airboat and doing a great job steering that thing around, going around those trees and rocks and everything. It was a little sketchy at times. I'm sure we're going to be going down there again to try and get on some of those big gar. They are huge. I'd love to get a cool gar replica mount on this wall, man. Got to fill this thing up with some mounts. Hit the thumbs up and let me know in the comments if you're digging the river fishing. I don't do enough of it, I feel like. I do tons of lake fishing going out in the bass boat, but river fishing is awesome, man. Go ahead and subscribe right here for more outdoor action and hit the ding dongs so you don't miss a single bite, y'all. I appreciate you being here. I'll see you on the next one.