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Thanks to AG1 for sponsoring today's video and speaking of high quality nutrients, now that we're in the water, let's go get some catfish. LSD coming out of the bullpen, 20 years throwing a cast net, throws it out there, gets our gills for the morning. Toss them on in, nothing but bucket. Yes sir. All right dad, why don't you motor us up? All right dude. The old electric start is back there on the motor itself. Yep, that's it. Here we go. All right guys, so making our baits. Actually just gonna cut the tail off, feed that to the minners. And we're gonna try to get three little sections out of these guys. Maybe four, I'll actually cut that dorsal spine off too. Give the hook a little more clearance. It's nice. Now we'll see if it porpoises or not. Didn't happen to see a pair of sunglasses back there, did you? The good news is the boat is running really good. I think my problem was weight distribution. So me and dad yesterday actually raised the motor back up and I'm sitting up front, of course, dad's sitting in the back. Having the weight up front is definitely helpful. Full throttle, no porpoising. Right our first spot, we're gonna start setting out the line, so let's go. I'm rigging these so that I've got plenty of gap in the hook. I'm not going through the middle, I'm just going through one side. Big media side. I always want to make sure the, if I get a scale on the hook point, take that off. Don't want anything peating on the hook set. We'll go with it. We'll put a big fat head on this one right here. Here we go. All right, so we'll go ahead and drop this one. Yep, fine. Yeah, just have to go by the gut. The old ways. Not perfect. Yeah, I don't know if he's on there, but he's definitely a good fish. We've already got a fish on. It's been two minutes. Oh, big old guard just swirled by that one. All right, this one right here looks like it's, it's not moving anymore. Oh, yeah, it is. Yep, got a fish on. Got something on. Here we go, dad. Blue cat, look at the size of that thing. That didn't take long, huh? Man, what a nice fish. Oh man, one of the other hooks broke off. I think we had something else on here. I think something else was on and pulling against it. Yeah. There we go. Two minutes in, we're jugged up. It's gonna be a good eater. Our weight's gone, the bottom hook's gone. So we'll throw this one to the side. We'll have to get another one rigged. I'll do it. Bombs away. Perfect. All right guys, we've got all the deep lines set. So we've got five over here. We're gonna go check the two that I left at this other point up here. And then we'll just kind of run back. And we might actually drop a rod reel too in this spot if it's hot. Already got one in the cooler though, that's awesome. Give it a rip. I'll run out of their spot. We gotta chase them down, Dad. What do you think about this? Hey, that's cool. Let's see what we got here. Oh man, this feels big. Oh my gosh, it's a huge gar. It's a huge gar. Oh my God. Oh my gosh. Whoa. Whoa, shoot. Maybe that's what cut our first line. Oh my God. Wait, wait. You gotta be careful not to. Nuchit, Nuchit, because it's under the boat. It's under the boat. Don't wanna get it, is it neutral? Yeah. Okay. I don't know where the jug is. It's underneath us somewhere. And that thing. Ah, well, this is a first time encounter. It's gone. See, hide under the boat, you think? It's gone. Yeah. Like he took it. Oh my gosh, that was a big gar. I had what stole my jug last time. I mean, eventually he's gotta come up. I think we gotta get a bigger boat. Wow. Yeah, that thing was like half the size of the boat. For real. Well, that's what I was thinking. I was banging around. There he is. No, that's a different one. Wow, big garhole. I am extremely impressed right now. Fish is strong. Oh, we got one on here. We got one on here, Dad. This one's going. This one's going. Started up. Let's grab this one. This one's going right here. Apparently we gotta get on these things quick. Hopefully it's not another gar. Oh gosh, this feels big too. Oh, it just popped off, whatever it was. I think it was another gar. I think it was a gar. I'll tell you what, this seems to be a garhole. Let's, gosh, I hate to lose a jug. Like, where the heck? The fish is back. This is like jaws. Hopefully he's tired. I gotta get the pliers ready. This thing's huge. Do not get your hands. All right, newchit. Gonna break the lines either. Whatcha gonna do, big boy? Oh, he's double hooked. He's double hooked. I don't want him to jump in the boat either. Woo, he got some teeth. He's double hooked. Okay, I'm not. He slightly cut me there, but we got both hooks. We're good to go. He hit you with his mouth? Yeah, that was his mouth. Needle sharp teeth. That's why I chose the long nose pliers for the long nose gar. Oh, they're everywhere out here. They're everywhere, man. Let's go back to the other hole. This is like, this is extreme garhole right now. All right, this looks good here. Got a nice array of jugs in our site. Nice and calm. Definitely see a bobbin. Pretty good start. So, do you have breakfast this morning? I did not. Did not? No, I got up too early. It's called AG1. It's all your essential vitamins and minerals and macro nutrients, micro nutrients that you need to feel you through the day. Just put it in the water? You just put it in the water, shake it up. It tastes good. You know, some of these drinks, they just taste like kale. Waiting on these jugs just start going, y'all. Nettle injury, gar injury. Note to self, probably carry some gloves next time. Oh, oh, oh, oh, we're getting bobbed. I'm pretty sure, I don't think that's the wake. Move, oh yeah. Start her up, dad. Start her up, we got one. She's getting tug. Tug is the drug. We have movement. Oh, that one's getting, oh, far one, far one's getting bobbed. Nutri, neutral. I don't feel anything on here. I might need to rebate it. Definitely got hit. We're cleaned. Get toyed with out here. I want all of them to eat like that first one did. Oh yeah, she bobbin'. This one looks, oh yeah, we got, oh, oh, no, I've still got it. I felt like it came off. Still got it. Still on. Let's go, catfish. Channel, her hand, he was nice enough to keep our bait on here. Nice channel, cat. Twisted us up a little bit, but it's gonna eat good. All right, good eye pop. All right, we got another one on. Line's in. We gotta chase down Moby Dick. I don't think that one's Moby Dick, but it might be Nancy Dick. Take me to the Bowie Skipper. Here we go. I got it, captain. That definitely looks like a fish tug. It doesn't look like a turtle tug. Sometimes we'll start moving away from the boat. I'm thinking catfish. Nice boating skills. Oh my gosh, just jerked it out of my hand. This is something big, whatever it is. It ain't little. First time I've had one jerked out of my hand like that. Oh yeah, good catfish. Oh yeah, nice. There we go. Settle down. That is a fresh one. That's a big channel, I think. I don't know, I just barely had him hooked. Open up that cooler for me. He's gurgling. Barely got him, dad. I can't. I mean, after seeing the gar, just tug this thing down. I'm wondering, might need a giant milk jug to hold these things, even then. Pretty successful morning so far. Guys, we got three catfish in the box. One giant gar that took a snap at me. Dad, I think we got another one on. That guy just wiped out, and our jug's getting tugged. Literally just dropped this one back down. Oh my gosh, it's a giant wake. Giant wake right here. Put it in neutral, we'll see if, sometimes they'll come back for that second hook. Oh, no, no, he's on there. He's on there. Yeah, he's moving. All right, that's good. Feel something on here. Literally 20 seconds after. Doesn't feel like it's fighting too good. Here's another catfish. It's a blue cat. There we go. That's what we want right there. That was a tasty one. That one. Oh yes, sir. Fliers, just a second, I got them right here. Sir. All right, drop it back down. Neutral, neutral, neutral, we got a fish on. Think so? Yeah. He was just hanging there. Let's go. How many is that? Four or five? Four? I think there's one on here too, Dad. There's one on here too. Little guy, they'll eat. It looks like you got both the hooks. Not so little. Sir. Just gonna throw two giant heads on here. We'll go toss it out on that deep side. Okay, try to go for Bertha. Here we go, guys. Two big heads on here. Whatever gets this one is gonna be a slobber knocker. Oh, that's testing the crispy right there. It's close. Oh, purple big wake, it just loves us so much. Can't get away. Oh yeah. Jugga moving. Oh my gosh, the head is like way up the line. I think this is, was this the one with the heads? There we go. Yes, sir. Looks like he broke, he broke my weight off. I think I'm gonna have to bump up to 40 pound mono because I'm definitely losing some gear on these bigger ones. Yeah, tails are sticking out of the cooler. That's what we wanna see. Break her up, Captain, we got another one. Oh yeah. Can't even drop a fishing pole in the water for more than five seconds. Woof. This is. I know, we need some wind. They're just kind of giving up, it's so hot. They tug for a minute and then they just stop. There he's going, he's going a little bit. See what we got here. Doesn't feel like much. They can fool you though. Oh, it's a decent one. I mean, we might as well just reel this one in. Yeah, kinda start winding it down, I think. Oh yeah, that one's going, oh, oh my gosh. That, it's go time. Man, that was a huge hit. It took the jug all the way under. I'm not seeing any movement right now, but it was a huge hit. Oh yeah, the fish is on there. Oh baby. Oh yeah. Gonna give us a show right by the boat. Oh my gosh. Oh, I think it just came off. Oh no, no, it's on there. Newt killed the motor. Either it's coming up or I lost it. Oh my gosh, I think I lost it. Oh, it was on the, oh my gosh. Look at the goo on that line. Oh my gosh, yeah, it felt huge. It felt huge, I felt it come off the line. Dad, come on, man. So we're out of bait at this point, so whatever we bring up, you know, we'll just reel it in and secure it. Just put those down there. Yeah, we got two drifters. We're gonna go check these. This one's just getting tapped. I think there's something on here, dad. No? I think there's something on here. Oh yeah. Oh, we have two. Oh, damn, we lost the bigger one. I thought it was gonna catch him in the face. God, we lost the bigger one. We had two on there. I thought this had gotten further out here. Got it, Lee. Had two on there, just not moving. We might have more on. Oh gosh, that one's getting tugged again. The one that we about bit it out of my hand? Yeah. That one just got bopped. Neutral. Feels like something's on there. Yes, sir! Hoi! Old blue. Old blue got it. Now the blue cats are over here. We're just chasing them around. This is the one that came back and hit it like a few times. Give me those pliers, Lee. Heck yeah. I am inspired by your cat fishing capabilities. Makes you wanna go do it, huh? Yeah, I'm gonna be at the kayak. I think the kayak would be really fun. Yeah. Oh shoot, there's something big on here. Oh, you think so? Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah. Neutral. Something big on here. Oh wait, oh! It's a big one. Oh yeah, he broke the line. He got the head. That was the one that got the head, big boy. Yeah, nice one. Woo-hoo! Little bonus one on the way in. Oh gosh, tails are hanging out. You wanted some fish. You got some fish, buddy. That's pretty good. Oh yeah. We'll take it back in now. I wanna show you guys, show my dad a technique that I tried the other day for cleaning catfish on some bigger ones. That's really cool. I think you guys need to see it. So let's head to the house, get the filet knife out. Fish and Breaks, it's cleaning time here at LFD's Tailgate. Now these are all for dad. Dad said he wanted catfish. We went out and jugged and we got them kitty cats. So I've already got some in the freezer at home. It's gonna be for him. And I just wanted to show you guys a way that you can clean some of these bigger blue cats and your smaller channel cats too. That is pretty simple and you just gotta be careful. Standard filet knife. And you can get a catfish done pretty quick using this method. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and just filet the meat off of the fish with the skin on. So I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna go around this little dorsal fin. Okay, then come back up to the spine. You wanna make sure you're getting low to that spine. So once I get about past that anal fin, I'll just stick the knife through. Just press it down, go along the spine. And the ribs are right here. And what you wanna do is just take the angle of your blade and go out like that. Just go out, just follow those ribs. Just kinda flick it. Go in there and just flick it out. Helps if you can just sort of pull on it as well. This last little section will just pull out. There you go. So there's your filet. We got the skin still on. So what you can do is take you a pair of pliers. I have catfish pliers that I use. That doesn't have some. I'm gonna have to get you some for your birthday dad. There's a link down below. I have them in my Amazon store, you guys can get them. These are like a must have. I use them on crappie and everything too. You wanna have a good flat surface. Okay, we're gonna pinch that skin right there as far back as we can. And we'll take our knife, we'll press down. We don't wanna try to go all the way down through the skin. This is where you wanna have a good flat filet knife, a good thin blade. And I wanna just pull it kind of along this edge here and I'm gonna rock my blade back and forth and the key is just keeping it level. And all that skin, we just pulled off. It's like snake skin. And I think that that's faster than trying to take the skin off first. And it seems to work on these bigger ones. Another thing that you can do on these bigger blue cats and flatheads, any kind of bigger catfish, this filet will just probably fit in the pan to fry whole. But if you had a bigger one, you're gonna have to cut it in two anyways. So you can start that cut in the middle of the fish or right behind this anal fin right here. You can just go ahead and cut through, slide that off and make it two pieces. Do one here and then do the other one. Because you're gonna have to cut the fish anyways. But beautiful piece of meat right there, dad. That's gonna big date night with that catfish, couple cold pops, you know what I'm saying? Can't get that at a pop of steakhouse, you know what I mean? On the bigger ones, you have the belly meat as well. This one isn't huge, but right where you just cut the ribs, you just went on that side of the ribs and flayed that off. If you go on the underside of the ribs, I'm just gonna go right under those ribs and then I'll come up here and go through the chest basically and go around those fins. Okay, so now on the belly, you have this nice little section of meat. You know, it's got the skin on there. But again, take your pliers, lay it flat and then you've got some beautiful belly meat right there. And you can also filet this little silver skin, I guess you could call it, that pearly skin. You can filet that off too and then you've got some nice belly chokes. They've got a little more meatier flavor, I would say. Not as pure as the other parts, but they're still very good, very edible. And I like to eat them. Sometimes I'll just leave them on there, quite honestly, that little silver skin doesn't really taste that bad. It's kind of pretty. You know, you're eating fish when you're eating it. So anyways, that's a good way to just increase your harvest, make sure you're getting the most out of your catch, get you a good sharp knife, pair of pliers, get to work. Talking to you, did it. This is actually not a catfish. This is crappie that I caught the other day. The Rackleys, we eat a lot of fish and usually on the weekends, we get together for family dinner. We got all the catfish clean. We're gonna vacuum seal them tonight and then we're gonna have them for weeks to come. Got delicious crappie I caught the other day, just fresh. It's just lovely to catch these fish, bring them home, have the family gather around, enjoy the harvest and talk about the memories from the boat, which were awesome today, crazy. I mean, I got bit by a fish. It was nuts. We had lots of catfish. My dad, I think he's turned on the juggling fish and he's gonna be doing this out of Skyhack. I guarantee you, he had a great time. So it was just, it was good stuff. Guys, smash the like button and thank you guys for tuning in. And you know what to do. Subscribe to the channel to see more outdoor action and I'll see you out there on another adventure.