 Welcome back Fish and Freaks. We are gonna be doing a good old-fashioned bank dangle today. It's time for some catfish man. Catfish are moving up around the banks. They usually spawn in May. It's a great time to just get out there with a couple of poles, get that rod bent, and get some good dinner. The interesting way that we are going to be the mode of transportation today is we're gonna take a bike. I'm not just any bike though. We're gonna be taking my my Paku e-bike. This thing is actually rigged up to go hunting right now. The way I've built it, I've got a mount in the front for a bow or a pew pew. I've also got it rigged in the back with a small platform so I can mount things. I can strap a deer to it, whatever. So I could actually take the cart. I could take the meat wagon, but the spot that I'm wanting to go to, I can get all the way down there with the bike, with the gear, and then also I can move down the bank. I'm not sure how low the lake is, but I can move down the bank a little bit if the water is low enough where I can just ride around instead of having to hike around all the gear. Just strap it on the bike and go. Before we get on the road, we have got to put the chickens away. We have reduced our numbers. You guys watched the last video. Rooster's tasted horrible. It was my bad to cook him up, I think, but anyway, we are down to seven chickens now. Can't be losing any. So we're going to put them up. These stormy days, these overcast days like this, for some reason we get predators, more predators that just come into the yard. It's like, I don't know, it triggers them to feed. So we've got to call them in. Look, Colonel Ardenos. Ardenos. And a little update for you guys on the incubation. We've got one laying egg right now. That's my Oster Lord. But the Frizzle right there, she is still sitting on the eggs. So she's sitting on a dozen eggs. She only comes out for about 30 minutes to an hour today to feed and get some water and then she goes right back in there. She's incubating just like a good mother sure. Right there. Right there. I just saw a carp. There's a carp right there. Two of them. Oh my gosh. I could literally go get my boat. Oh my gosh. There's more carp right here. Oh my gosh. Guys, I could go get my bow right now and start swinging arrows. All right. So just got down here on the bike. Awesome ride. We got our pack. This is a beautiful setup to do some bank fishing. Conditions are good. There is not a whole lot of wind. But man, just seeing these carp right here, I'm like, God, I should get some dough balls. Just try to catch these things or just boom, poke them. They're right here in front of me. I literally could have just netted one. They're still here. Got snake right here. So much life. So much life happening. Look at the snake. Sneaky snake. It's just an element that you get when you're bank fishing that you just don't get it in the boat. Smells the little things. You know what I mean? So the spot I'm in, it's not far from my home. I've caught some catfish here before. I've never carp fish here, but I think it's a good idea. But there is some deep water that is out here. There's a channel that's probably, I don't know, 60, 70 yards out from the bank. So there's the opportunity to catch literally anything. Anything can swim up right here. Here's the gear that we're going to be using today for cat fishing. It's basic. I'm looking for medium power rods, not catching giant blue cats or anything. Just channel cats, regular size catfish, 12 to 20 inches long. I'm going to be using those little sponge bob dudes. Things that hold stink bait. This is a good time here to throw that stink bait. So I've got the sponges and little, you know what I'm saying? I'm throwing these finesse series in the two piece, the travel rods. So they're easy to break down. This is catfish blood bee right here. Stanky. Stanky stuff in the game. Let's get some goop on there and fling them out. This is the key to this kind of bait right here. You want to stick it in, submerge it all the way in there. Spread some on top and then just pull it out slowly. Goop it up. Nice and sticky. That's it right there. We've got a three eight ounce little egg weight on there. Swivel and 25 pound flora. Look at this. I mean, Harper literally, I could scoop them up with my hand right now. Ridiculous. This is ridiculous. I could spear them. I could hit them with a rock. I'll get bit. That rod's going. I think there's a fish on it. The rod was definitely, it's getting snookered. There she blows. That one's getting bit already. It's getting bit. Look at it. It's getting tapped. Here we go. I mean, it was like right away. As soon as it hit bottom. Soft shell turtle came off. Not really seeing the carp anymore on the shore. I guess they moved, moved off to the bank. Add me some dope. It would be a good call too. So we're going to switch up to one of these babies. There we go. All right. I think we're getting just turtles. Turtles. Turtle alert. Rock and roll. Get it out there. I'm going to have to put a heavier weight on too. This hefty chop. Oh my gosh. My sponge got eaten off this one too. These turtles are eating my sponge. Turtles got it. Get them off the bottom. You got a softy face. Got them upside down here. You do feel pretty tasty. We'll try to let you go, filler. It does have my mind churning. Probably be better than Mr. Penny. Yeah, you're strong too. Wow. Don't break the rod. Oh, he's shot off like a rolling candle. Go be a little cat. There she blows. That's my kitty cat right there now. Beautiful to keep her. That's my kitty cat. There she is. Beautifully hooked. Get another bite. Probably a turtle. Here we go. Got this one out. I'm going to strain her up. Get three of these puppies and we got a dinner. This right there. The dinner just caught a giant softy. This little dilly wapt. Oh, she's staying away so much, guys. Man, what do I do here? I just had another catfish on that one, but I was messing around with this thing and distracted me. These things are just ruining my my hooks and my baits. I've heard they're good, but I have no idea how to clean them. It sounds like a process that I don't really feel like doing today, but that's a like a trophy. Look at these claws right here. Oh my gosh. Those claws would maul you. I'm just not getting that back. That's crazy. I'm not sure if caught one is ever that big. There he goes. Hey now. Normally when I see one when I'm bass fishing, I'm like, hey, there's softshell turtle. It's like a cool animal to see, but right now I'm just really not in love with them. I'm not liking what they're doing to my baits. I'm just annoying. So I just had another catfish on. I lost it. I'm going to reel this in, rebate it, and then I've got to redo a whole another rig here, but it seems like casting out a little farther. I'm getting the catfish bites. Another softshell. Look out here. Got knocked down by a catfish holder. Here's the deal with the turtles, man. I'm sure they taste pretty good, cook them properly, but it's a reptile. I'm not bringing home reptiles to my wife. This is kind of taken away from the fun of catfishing. You throw it out there, you sit, maybe crack a cold one, just hang out, wait for that rod to just start gyrating. Now I've got to be like on it looking. Am I getting a turtle tap or am I getting a catfish tap? Turtle tap, turtle tap, better pick it up, better reel it in for a turtle gets it. Guys, you just missed it. Please be on here. This fish just took my rod into the lake, or this turtle. Oh, it's catfish. Thank God. I mean, it took my rod into the water. I had to run out. I think it's a blue cat. Oh my God. That was crazy. That's too bad. I did not get down camera, but holy smokes. One of the coolest catfish bites I've ever had in my life right there. Absolutely tagged it and went running. Oh my God. Like that rod would have been gone. Toast. Yes, sir. Nice, nice blue cat. Can't let you go, bud. Can't let you. That's gonna be a tasty one. That was worth all the turtle nonsense. My shoes are just completely wet. My GoPro probably got water inside the housing. My shorts are wet. There we go. There we go, guys. I saw like one little nipple like this and then it just went boom. It shot over this bamboo right here, but it set up and just went straight into the water. That one blue cat right there pretty much makes up for catching two other little channels, but keep going here. I'd like to get more in free so if I can. That looks like catfish might be taking this one right now. Catfish or a turtle. I got them. Whatever it is. Come on, baby. Feels like a cat. I didn't feel that big. Oh my gosh. It's another freaking turtle. It's a little turtle. Oh, he came off. Thank goodness. What I need to do with this bike, trying to save up a little money to buy like a regular exercise mountain bike and just turn this one into full hunting, full fishing mode. Get some PVC's. Put them right here. Rig those up so it's just constantly ready to carry a load. Maybe, I don't know, attach a basket or something right here. I've got some holes I can do that with. There's a lot of options. Hopefully we'll just get one more. One more channel will be great and we'll have plenty. I just called OSG and she's gonna be a sweet angel and bring a little lunch delivery. Maybe a couple cold pops and a cooler to put these fish in and we should be good to go for tonight. I know she wanted fish tonight. She had salmon as a backup. She didn't have much confidence in me. Caught me mid-cleaning action. You said you want to come to the lake? I said yeah. I'll put down the vacuum anytime to come down to the lake. Good day. Got my little buddy here. Oh, he's gonna be there too. Oh, he sees those fish. Don't rocks at the fish. I think he's a mini-meat. Oh, he just looks like you. I mean, he acts like me, but he's a mini-you in disguise. Got his Lucanbok Texas shirt on. He needs to be close to mom. Well, if you're lucky, if you stick around long enough, you're gonna see a giant turtle caught. Biggest key in life. Finds you a great wife. That'll make you food. Just a great wife. She'll make your life a lot easier, a lot better. Alright, buddy's getting sleepy. Time to go home. Thank you so much for the meal. You're welcome. Appreciate it. You might not end up with any more catfish too. I think it's good though. Yeah, we got one big and one small. So, you want to do that tonight? Yeah, sure. Let's do it. All my uh, Lake Gloss. Oh, and then. Look at the OSG found. Yeah. Some treasures. Hey, it's fun when you have so much of it, because every time we come down. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that rod's going. Babe, get it. Get it. That's right here. Something on it. Pull up on it. Pull up. Nothing there. It was just going. Maybe. Really didn't fast. Okay, maybe there is something. Did it pop off? Keep reeling. I don't think anything's on there. No big deal. Appreciate the effort. Load them up. Head home. Hanging out in the backyard. Oh, no. You're spraying me, buddy. Do you think that's funny? Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, get him. What do you got there, sweetie? Two methods that I know to clean catfish. You've got the skinning method, which I have mostly done. It's more work. You get more out of the meat, or you can do the floating filet knife method, which is what I'm going to do on this channel catfish first. So to start off, all right, so real sharp knife. We'll make that kind of outline towards the belly there. I'm not cutting very deep, so. Push into there. Push into there. We're going to. Just hang on, sweetheart. Give me a little room. Stand, stand right over here. All right, now we're going to cut into there. Push into there, as Amy says. I'm going to go down the spine. Push down, that means push lower. So pass the rib cage. We're going to fall that spine. Okay. All right, so now we have the catfish filet flopped over. Skin still on right here. Okay. Then we're going to take the filet knife, just like we would, you know, white bass or crappie. Then we're going to stick it down there close to the skin, but not quite on the skin. Just real sharp, flexible knife and float it just above the skin. Okay, so that skin is just flopping off right there. We did that one really well because it's almost just bear scan. It's just a hair bit of meat on there. We have a beautiful filet and that took a lot less time than the other method that I'm gonna gonna do next. I'm gonna just feel with my finger until I feel where that muscle start stops and that bone starts taking a real sharp little knife. I mean you could use like a very thin pocket knife if you wanted to. Just something extremely sharp. Filet knife's a little flimsy and I like to save my sharpness on the filet knife anyway. So I just use a separate one and I'm just gonna go in here just a little bit. You got to go around the spine, around that dorsal fin, I mean. Come back to the spine and I'm going in just a little bit tracing out the filet. Don't want to open up the skin too much. So now what we're going to do is take our little grabbers, our skin grabbers. If we trace this out right then we shouldn't pull off much meat and the skin should just come right off where we traced. It's pretty good. Did a pretty decent job there. There's no meat on that right there. No meat and in fact there's just a little bit of skin still on the flesh right here. I've never had a problem eating this. Can't really tell but there's just that little white sheen right there. Trace that spine down. Try to get as close to it as you can so you don't miss the meat and then you can pop through to the other side and that is a big old filet right there. That's gonna be nice. It's some beautiful beautiful blue cat meat right there guys. How's the round dinner time? A cracker that was tomato and some sun roast tomato and basil. Got a job looking about having another one. I'd say go for it but let's get a no SG approval. Which one did you get one of the big filets? I just kind of took the two small ones. Okay you got the channel cat. Is that better or worse? Like how much fat does it have? I mean they're both really good. Taste definitely there. I think I messed up by like drizzling some olive oil on top. Shouldn't have done that. Didn't need it. Didn't need it because it makes it extra mushy. Dad's gonna have a try that blue cat. Little bit of corn for some starch. Mixed veggies. OSG hooked it up with some wild rice on top of it. I love it. And just a nice little crusty little cracker crusty on it. Absolutely love the way a catfish just breaks apart. How you can just fork it. It breaks apart. It's just a great meat texture. That was worth all the turtles. This is amazing. Boys catfish are good. Could eat those suckers every week. You know took some of y'all's advice on some of the tips for growing things. I do have the tomatoes strung up right now. So they're strung up on the trellis. So that's gonna help. I've trimmed them up quite a bit. Trimmed them up a lot actually. So we are getting some air down there. We're breathing and hopefully mid-summer we're going to have some juicy tomatoes. Here's what bugged me about today. The turtles, yes. Also the amount of carp. The amount of carp in these lakes around here is just ridiculous. And I asked you guys if you would tune into a carp stabbing video. And a lot of you said you would. So I'm going to try to do that. Crispy collector needs a little TLC. But while I have the opportunity here, I'm gonna get away from some of that rocky bank and go searching tomorrow on the Baku with the bow. Thank you guys for watching today. I'll be back with another vid soon.