 He smashed it, smashed the little lucky craft. Oh my gosh, he's a water jumper. Fish and freaks, welcome home back to the channel. Still up here in beautiful Colorado, a different mountain range right now, but up here doing some family camping and we're gonna do some trout fishing today. And today's episode is sponsored by our friends at Mystery Tackle Box. You guys have probably heard about MTV if you've been around this channel long enough, but they are a subscription tackle service that puts a bunch of great tackle in a box, save you money, ships right to your door and they go ahead and pick out the best techniques and the best lures or just new techniques that are coming along in the market. They put them in the box and they help you learn those new techniques or help you learn classic techniques that go along with the month. So everything coincides together and this is not just bass boxes too. 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Okay, so, MTB thank you again for sponsoring today's video. Hopefully there's something in here that is gonna help us catch fish and the lake and the streams out here because I've struggled over the last few days trying to get on some trout. I haven't dangled too hard, I've been doing family camping but today I'm really gonna try to dial in some trout and maybe some Cokini. And LFD is actually down on that point right now. I'm hoping that he's got a good reporter for me coming here in a minute but yesterday he caught his first cutthroat trout on a fly. It was so cool, it was the exact same spot I caught one last year and he got to catch his first one. So very cool, special father-son moment right there. We've yet to have a fish meal up here because the fishing has been so tough. So the goal is today between me and LFD to go out there and catch a few Cokini, a few trout. The hope is we're gonna get some of these on the grill. There's nothing like a delicious fresh trout in the mountain air, 10,500 feet up here baby. Let's go get some. We're gonna take a couple of fishing rods today and we're gonna take a backpack and I've got a bunch of tackle in the backpack. I got a net and then I'm taking the stuff from the box and something I'm really happy to see in here. It's a technique that I haven't tried yet is using some little egg-type stuff. This is biobate, it's infused with fish oil, looks like little eggs, and it even comes with some snelled leader hooks, some small little bait hooks. Another really cool looking lure is this Lucky Craft. Oh, getting fancy here with Lucky Craft. I've got quite a bit of spoons, I've got some rooster tails, like some of that traditional stuff, but I think this right here, we might have to soak to get these lake fish to bite. And if I'm out of breath, it's gonna be about 10,500 feet, okay? It's been a struggle. LFD. I see you working down there. I should say they just left me alone in the peaceful nature. Well, give me a heads up, give me a report, what do I need to do or not do? Well, they just started coming to the surface. Yeah, it's about 10 o'clock. You can see there's some of them out in the deep. I might just walk down here, fling it for a while. Yeah, that might be good right there for the deeper. They seem to be coming up there as well. The good gosh. Pretty right? Yeah, you know, even though I didn't catch a fish, just sitting on this and casting is just phenomenal. They got your first cutthroat yesterday. I know, I know, I know. And we're gonna cook that coconut up. I'm gonna catch a few more. Yeah, time for more coffee. There's a cinnamon roll up there. Oh, it's chief special. How does it turn out? A little crusty. I've noticed a lot of dead birds, little, you know, sparrow type birds. And I think they got caught in the storm and just died. And I think that might be an indicator of what the other animals are doing as well. So we'll see before we soak some bait, I'm gonna try one of those, that little lucky craft lure. I'm gonna try this little guy right here. This thing looks juicy. Let's say this is a six pound, four pound line kind of deal right here. And this looks like some sort of spinning. It's not a jerk bait, because it doesn't have a bill. It's like a countdown bait. Let's see what this looks like in the water. Oh yeah, she's a sinker. Oh yeah. If I can get this thing out here, it's not terrible. I think a coconut salmon would destroy this. Typically the spoons and rooster tails work pretty good. They like that flash, but they do see a ton of them. I know there's fish here, because we see them come up in surface. We see those trout come up and they're eating bugs or they're just kind of coming up to the top, but they're just not firing away. Oh, got one. Got one. He smashed it. Smashed the little lucky craft. Oh my gosh, what a jumper. We'll take it easy, baby. I think you might be a trout. Bring him over here. Y'all, this is the first fish I've caught out of this lake in days. This is a good sign. Different lure. Working. This might be a rainbow. It's got a weird nose. I think it's a rainbow. Oh yeah. It's like a male rainbow. He's got a real prominent thing going on in his face. Come here, baby. Yes, sir. No, that's a Kokini. It's a Kokini. All right. Awesome, guys. Look at this fish. Let me clean him up just a little bit so you guys can see him. Look at his nose. Like just look at how he's starting to get that. That, I don't even know what you call that. I should know that since I studied fisheries ecology, but it's been a minute. That's awesome. I don't think I actually hooked him in the mouth. I think he just swiped at it, but these little hooks are sharp. All right. Mystery tackle box. Thank you. Hooking me up with a new lure. Literally first couple casts. I've, I'm telling you guys, I've come behind camp. I fished a ton. We've only caught one of these and it's been on a spoon, but that is a very good sign. So let's get our stringer. Still no trout. I haven't seen a single trout swimming at the surface, but we've got ourselves a Kokini. Awesome. Those are tasty. That's awesome. If I can get just a couple more of these, we're going to be in good shape. I am working this like a jerkbait though. Just little small twitches and I'm letting it sink. It has a pretty good sink rate on it. Just trying to get it down there. These little Kokini I think are a little deeper. We're going to migrate just a little bit. Keep seeing some activity on this point right here. So I'm going to try it. There's another boil right on the other side of this point. Just got to be a fish in here. Another one just ate at the surface right there. Oh God. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Freaking destroyed it on that point. Oh, come here baby. Nice sandy beach. I need you. I think it's another Kokini. It's going crazy. It is another Kokini. Yes, sir. Right on that point. Good move. Good move coming over here. Very sandy one, but a fish don't want to mess up these hooks on here. They're really delicate little hooks. This guy's got some teeth and some bone. There, okay. Hooks out, hooks out. Got another one. These are two Kokini salmon we got here guys, and you caught one yesterday, right dad? Right. So that's in the cooler. If we get one more, we're going to have one for everybody, which would be awesome. Two bites, two hookups and land. That is good news y'all. Just kind of worried with that little jerk bait. That's how it would do, but I think the treble hooks are holding up really good. I seem to lose a lot more on spoons and rooster tails when they first come up. It's like, they're just having gyrations, mega gyrations, but one more, one more. We got one for everybody except for Emmy, but she's probably not going to eat it anyway. I'm counting to five to 10 seconds when I first throw it out. And then I'll just give it a couple of pops, just like a jerk bait, and then count a few seconds and then keep going. Just trying to keep it a few feet below the surface, two to three feet below the surface. I'm just going to walk down this bank a little ways, I'm a long ways from my stringer. Oh, hey, another dead bird. That's a little falcon, so strange. There's broken trees everywhere. It's dead birds. I found like dead little, about a dead weasels and dead little chipmunks. It's like either the lake is poisoned or that bad windstorm, snowstorm just killed everything. Oh, I definitely just saw it. Oh, there's a trout right here. He looks like he probably wants a fly. Don't think it's happening on this little shallow side. I'm going to go back to the deeper water. And my dad has been fishing over there. Hopefully he has caught one and we have four down. Give me some good news. You got one. Heck yeah, we have four now. Nice job, another cocanee. Yeah, he came out of the water three times. Just boom. Yeah, they shoot out. Yeah, I didn't think I was going to catch him because I wasn't sure I got him. Heck yeah, those are good size too. Yeah, these are nice. Oh yeah, ladies and gentlemen, we are in good shape. Maybe just give it a little more dangle and that way everybody has a fish. I don't know, they're so beautiful. Yeah, beautiful things get eaten when you're in the wilderness. I can promise you that. That's so true. They're really upcoming up on the water. Yeah, I got a spoon bite and a fly bite, but they didn't connect. Oh, shoot, that's a bottom. No, that's my special lure. My money maker. My little mystery lure is caught lunch. I think we're gonna have to say goodbye folks, sadly. Yep, there she goes. Well, it served its purpose. We already have one in the cooler and we have three more to add. I don't know what is going on with the trout out here, but they're like non-existent. We have not been able to catch them in the lake. We've been able to catch them out of some streams and that's pretty fun, but just came by the lake going for food. I figured we'd catch a lot more trout, but these are actually my favorite, so it's not a bad thing. We got enough. The girls are actually cooking up some stew and some cornbread right now and this is gonna be a beautiful addition. Dad, you've never had a Kokini. No, I haven't. And then a mom's never had a Kokini, so this is gonna be the first time. First time taste testers. So just to quickly go over how you do these, you're gonna take your knife and you go up right here, the anal fin, anal area, if I can say that, YouTube. This is a biological culinary situation, so just deal with that, computers. You go up right here and then you just make a little cut on the back of the head right in that back meat right there and then you can just take the head and the guts and pull everything off. So I'll show you guys how to do that really quick. So we'll take our knife. We'll just run that straight up here. You're gonna get to the neck area and then stop. Yeah, this is definitely male because I can see his white sacs. And then you take your knife, you go right behind the head, right here. And once you reach about that spine area, you wanna just take your thumb, go in right here and then pull down at the same time from the top and then the head and the guts come out. Really one of the easiest fish to clean. And these little white little sacs right here, that's what you can tell it's a male for sure, but with that nose, it definitely gives it away as well. So deal with the male trout. Last thing you do, just take your thumb, your thumbnail, push in right here and go forward down the spine and you'll see that bloodline just come out. Then you give it a wash, just a little rinse and you've got yourself a beautiful salmon. Dad's hooked up again. All right. And it looks like another coconut. Hey, there we go. Drag him up on the sand, don't lose him. Critical moment. Yep, another salmon. Yeah, it looks different. That is a female, that's a first female that we have caught, not as crazy on the jumps. Got him on that spoon. So, this is where I'm more accustomed to catching. Look at that. Just silver down the back. The other ones have spots. Just a quick look at the males. They have that little spotted back, isn't that pretty? And then we've got that little jaw and the teeth are way more prominent. And then the females, they have a little bit of spots. Little different in color, more silvery, white on the bottom. And then their mouth is just that plain looking mouth. They have a little bit of teeth, but nothing like the males do. So, all right. We now have five salmon for the grill. Show them how you catch them on camera. Yep, show the fishing freaks. You got them. Good job of me. High five, good job. Good job. Well, y'all, lunch trout has turned into afternoon early dinner trout because someone needed a little fishing lesson. Give her her first fishing rod and she is obsessed. I actually filmed all that on the Lake Clyde Family channel and other stuff around here. If you wanna check it out, linked down below. And we're switching gears. We're going grits. Biscuits. You said grits. No, but your mama wants biscuits. Okay, well mama months, I guess she gets. We're going biscuits and salmon. So, let's cook these babies up. Pretty simple. We're just gonna do tin foil. We have some lemons and some butter. And because we don't have a natural fire using coals, we're gonna use propane. 10,500. So this is our camp kitchen. This is what we've been cooking on this week. It's worked out pretty good. So between the two of us, we have like eight burners. And we're probably gonna do grits or whatever on that. Pretty standard issue. Coleman propane stove here. And then I've got a lodge griddle on the top. We cooked steaks on this last night. Instead of doing just great, like something like that. The heat is really concentrated on these. It's not a very good widespread grill. So I'm gonna use the grate, let it heat up and then cook the salmon in tin foil on top of that. We should be able to get all of them on here and just kind of flip around. Let them juices simmer inside and I think it's gonna be delicious with some biscuits right there. Pre-made, ready to go OSG specials. Rosemary and chive and something else. Cheese. Num. Yeah. Cheese. We're gonna eat that fish. Okay, all very simple. Just take a little butter like this. You're gonna put that on the inside of your fish. And I'm gonna put that with some lemon pepper and some fresh lemon. And we should be good. No, no. That's daddy's knife. Mommy. Don't cry daddy's knife. Mommy. So I'm stuffing a couple of lemons in there. I have the lemon pepper inside. Then we take a stick of butter. I like to get a one on the inside and then maybe one or two on the outside. Just go one for this guy. We wrap it up, head to tail. Fold like that. Fold it up like a burrito. And then wah-bam. That's three I got one more to do. And we're gonna get this thing fired up and get them cooking. It doesn't take very long. Fish going on. Not a big sizzle. I just know this one on the right while I hear it sizzle now. Perfect. It was meant to be five fish on the stove. It's been about 15 minutes. And I'm going to, I've kind of rearranged them because the heat source is kind of tricky on these. One side's hotter than the other. So I've been playing musical fishes. But now what I'm gonna do is flip them over. And this is gonna be the final maneuver. They'll pretty much cook all the way with the tinfoil just from the steam on both sides. But this is just gonna give it that little extra heat on the other side that hadn't been getting as much. Some of the butter's gonna come out of the cracks. Be expected. But we'll leave these on here for about five minutes this way and then they should be done. You wanna see so far? I wanna see. I think they're almost done. Whoa. Oh my, oh my. I would say they're just about, I would say they're done. For big biscuits. But you smell it, it's a little burning on the bottom. Biggings. I think they're done because they feel good. It's time for you to be the taste tester. Well, all I need is a plate. Plates are right there. Fish are right here. Forks are over here. The classic camp plate with a salmon. All right. A tasty biscuit, possibly. We have biscuits. We have biscuits. All right. Let's get this man a biscuit. Lake Fork Mom with the Make Every Cast Count sweatshirt. Bringing it back. What a nice looking biscuit. Tasty biscuit. Let's get a good shot of that. What a monster size biscuit. Oh, it's cheating good. Thank you. Okay. Tell us what you got on this. Okay, give me a second. Your first coconut salmon ever. Give the man a minute. I know you wanna enjoy it. There's no better view. This is what it's all about right here. This view right here. So picturesque, man. Just a few hours ago, you were down there giving it a dangle, catching these things in the mountains. And now it's sitting right here in front of you. There you go. Got a few bones on it. Coconut salmon. That's outstanding. Is that good? Yeah. I think it's better than the trout, fresh. There was no, I didn't taste any bones. Thumbs up, it's good. It's different, right? It's very good. What would you compare it to? You know, it's, you can taste some salmon. It's kind of like a cross between a salmon and a trout. I think so. Yeah, it's not like a full salmon, what you would expect. Your husband was down there working hard to provide you these fish. That's half the taste. This is good, you cooked it. You did a really good job. Thank you. So you like rainbow trout. It's one of your favorite fish. How would you compare it to that? Similar. Very similar? OSG. You've never had a fresh one. I have never had a fresh one. So I want to get your opinion too. Okay. Fold it back. Yeah, you just kind of want to peel the skin back and then the rest is kind of just easy. Oh, oh, I see. Yeah, when they're really fresh, the skin. You can eat the skin if you want, but that's perfect. Good job. Then you just take your fork and kind of flake it off of there, off the bone. Let's see. Kind of push it away from the spine. Like this? Yep. And on the top side, you go the opposite direction. There you go. Let's go bite. We got on that. You did that perfect. Is that perfect or what? Amy wants her thing. You want to come sit down? She wants her dinner. Amy, do you want to try a bite? Let's see. She's never really eaten fish. She kind of comes and goes. Really her thing. Okay, Amy, girl, take a bite. Lemon butter sauce. Look, take a bite. Mmm. You get some lemon on that. You'll grow into it. You'll grow into it, girl. Oh, she's eating it. She is. You like it? You good? Yeah. It was like a yes, no, I don't know. Well, how would you compare it to rainbow trout and fish you've had in the past? Let's go compare it to crappie. I would still say crappie is number one up there. But even back at home, I love the salmon more than the trout. And I will still say, I still love the salmon. You still love the salmon? You like the salmon better. Yes, I do. Then the trout. Okay, the Lake Fork family approves of the trout. Mom has always loved trout, but this is salmon, coconut salmon, which is a little different, but everyone's digging in. Now we feast. Go ahead and smash it, y'all, because you know that's what it's all about, just hanging out with the family, friends here at the lake, catching some fish, short line within hours, putting them on the heat and putting them in your face. Absolutely delicious. And it's time for me to go eat. And I wanna thank you guys for tuning in for all the adventures. You know, I've spent a couple of weeks up here in Colorado, I absolutely love it. Big shout out to Colorado. One of the greatest outdoor states, it's kind of like the colder version of Texas, you know? I've run into a lot of Texans up here, and there's a reason why. It is amazing weather. Colorado, good place to be if you're from Texas, come on up here, September, October. It gets really cold, but good place to give it a dangle and just enjoy the great outdoors. You don't have to fish. I mean, catching a fish is a bonus when you're looking at this. So it's time to get back home. I will see you guys soon back in Texas, signing off from Colorado later.