When you use a wet batter, you have to leave the basket down when dropping in the fish. Only lift the basket once the fish is cooked.

For the bugs, just hang Thermacell on all 4 corners of the boat, the insects will keep distance. Those things come as gas lamps too and you even have a sort of ranger version which you can hang on your belt while being in the jungle. You can also place one inside, but I recommend to vent the room before closing it up, because people have said it is not good to be in the same room with it due to the substance used. But contrary to zappers, it reppels insects.

One way to fight the bugs is maybe putting one way film on the windows so they cant see the light inside or just add the darkest tint you can find.

Don't know if it has been suggested, but a battery powered vacuum with a wide head attachment would be good for getting rid of the bugs inside the boat before bed.

Brandon, you got to get a bug zapper for the front and back of your houseboat. That way the bugs are attracted to something besides your windows and the lights inside. 😉 The deck at the lake house what's 12 ft wide and 40 ft long. The bug zapper was in the middle hanging from the outside rail. I guess it's because the color of the light the bugs were more attracted to that and the lighting on the deck. They're not that expensive, so it's worth a try. Plus, it's entertaining to watch the bugs fly into it and snap crackle and pop !

For the bugs you should get a couple of those fans that go above the doors and point down and only turn on when the door opens. You see them at gas stations and grocery stores. Also, poor your oil back in the bottle through a funnel lined with some coffee filters. Keeps it safe from spills and saves money.

You need a Thermacell patio shield. Works awesome for mosquitoes, and most other bugs.

A shop vac to suck up the bugs before bed works amazing!! 😎👌🏼🤣🤣

Anyone else think Guga should join them on the Catch and Cook?

You guys made me laugh so hard with the top bunk bed situation that my wife had to come check on me 😂. Really good video and congratulations on the TV show!

Hey buddy when frying fish. Don’t lay them into the basket and lower it into the oil. Put the basket down and carefully lay the fish into the oil one at a time. That way it won’t stick to the basket and you’ll get an even cook all the way around.

Don’t leave the inside lights on when you leave the boat. That’s what attracts the insects to the doors. Yellow lights on the porch near the door may also help.

You need to put screens/mosquito nets around that porch area so that you have a buffer between the bugs and the indoor area. All that light and concentrated C02 is going to attract bugs regardless. The door to the mosquito netting can simply be the kind where the opening closes up with magnets. Something you can can roll up or put away when you're moving fast or fishing. I would probably put overlapping netting in front of the door to the houseboat as well so that you go through one piece of netting going onto the porch and another curtain of netting when opening the door, just to have that extra buffer to prevent any that slip into the porch area from also getting into the indoor area.

I have that same Camp Chef oven, and it’s awesome! Cookies, rolls, pineapple upside down cake, pizza. Best Father’s Day gift ever!

good to see Hudson again glad to see he is doing well

Mosquito nets outside the doors. Yes inconvenient cause you got to slide them over but they will work. Also turning the porch light to something other than fluorescent would keep the bugs away. Maybe a yellow tone light.

when frying things with a wet batter you want to put the basket down first, then add the battered fish or whatever else you're cooking to the oil. this should help keep it from sticking to the basket like that. also it's not a bad idea to kinda half dunk the fish in the oil and hold it there for about 2 or 3 seconds before you let it go. this will cook the bottom and help keep it from sticking to the basket. and if you're frying in a pot without a basket, doing this will help keep the food from sticking to the bottom and burning.

Give the whole house and boat blue skys white fluffy coulds and blue crashing waves. Especially the poontons with blue and white water waves so it looks like is gliding through the water all the time.

You can buy rolls of fly paper. Just hang a few rolls on each side. They will catch 1000s of bugs, just tear the paper and pull down more. You could knock down the amount of bugs pretty quickly. Or leave them hanging while you go fish. Side note - You should drop battered foods directly into a fryer by hand (or with tongs) instead of setting them in the basket and lowering the basket. The oil couldnt get between the fish and the basket which is why they were glued to it.

Pretty sure you gotta drop the basket empty into the fryer and then drop the pieces in one by one with tongs. Beer batter is annoying lol You can try screen curtains over the doors for the bugs but you really need bug zappers and some of those thermocells as well to really wage war on FL bugs!

All you need to do to help with the bugs is install a net infront of each door. Some even come with magnets to hold it shut and you can make sure its closed. Got a few for my house to leave the doors open when its nice and cool in the summer.

Hey, Brandon. Nice to see the Nautical Bros again. Hudson went the extra mile to get spares for you. Lol'd when your girl wouldn't make the houseboat deal. Looks like you had quite the successful fishing/bow fishing day. And the bugs.. just grab a couple of those annoying lizards. Thanks for sharing. Stay healthy and safe, all of you 👍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

For the bugs you could get something that blows high pressure air down when you open the door. Those bugs couldn't fly through that

The house boat videos are definitely great.

When you have a wet badder, you have to drop the fish in the oil. You can't put it in the basket and then drop it in.

Lake Hatchniha has the most alligators, I’ve ever seen. Used to go out there and run the edges in airboat and seen more than I’ve ever seen in one lake as a life long Floridian who grew up on airboats.

For the bugs consider spraying your boat deck down with a fogger can of bug repellent. I live in southeast Texas and it works great. It can be found at almost any hardware store. It’s made to be sprayed on your yard for temporary bug relief but I’d imagine it would work great out there and it smells good too!

For the bugs inside you could use a vacuum cleaner to clear them out. Works well with fruit flies as well.

I like the houseboat in the catch and cook and the bowfishing good video❤ great seeing your girlfriend take her on a trip with y'all

in australia, we use yellow/amber lights with a lens filter. they dont attract insects period. its particularly good on minesites to avoid insects on nightshift and great camping in the outback

For the bugs you should bring a mini cordless vacuum and then you can suck up the bugs off the ceiling and wall.

love your shows and never miss, want to say i hope your health is doing better so you can get back to driving.

For the bugs you should add a bug zapper or some essential oils, peppermint lemongrass, those help will with the bugs problems. Love the house boat it’s amazing

Still love that the folding chair capt's chair is still around lol.

Those bugs are attracted to the white lights, you might want to try Amber lights or yellow. Bugs are not very attracted to the yellow spectrum. 🤔

Screen the front and back with those as you see on tv garage door screens and get real good blackout curtains so less light to attract the bugs. Citronella candles are good too.

Try break-cleaner and a scotchbrite pad maybe for the pontoons, also maybe some candles for the bugs or spray. It may be overboard to go syfy and put a chamber inbetween for debugging

House boat is lookin awesome! Good to see Hudson saving the day too! Need to screen in that back area or something

Now ya see why houseboats are lit up on 4 corners with bug zapper lights lol.😅

For the bug zapper, what you could try is adding some kind of boom arm to swing out when you're out on the water to get it further away from the doors, but you can still swing it in to secure it for transportation

Get some bug zapper lights for the deck outside and tint your windows.. In the middle of the lake at night, your lights are attracting pretty much all of them lol..

need buy one of those over the doorway air curtains. Makes a curtain of air to keep bugs out!!!!

Alright, Brandon, I thought you might enjoy another recipe for the catch and cook cabin. Here’s a recipe for your next tilapia catch and cook. 😊 Ingredients: Tilapia fillets 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese (not the powder stuff) 1/4 cup softened butter 3 tablespoons mayo 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 pinches of dried basil 2 pinches Black pepper 1 pinch Celery salt 1 pinch Onion powder Parchment paper Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and broil the tilapia fillets about 3 minutes on each side. Mix all other ingredients in a bowl. Remove the fillets and slap the mixture on top. Stick back in the oven for about 2 more minutes until golden and bubbly. You can KISS and enjoy it by itself but I like mine over herb n butter rice. You could serve with a little roasted asparagus with garlic and butter.

I live on Table Rock Lake and what I found their best solution for night insects was a one gallon shop vac. Once in for the night, suck up all you can. Helps a lot. Also on the generator exhaust, I took the muffler off, got steel threaded pipe and lengthened the exhaust to the edge off the boat and curved it downward with a 90 degree elbow then put a muffler on it.

I quote this is the most organized thing you have ever owned 😂 love the content keep up the good work. Much love from Indiana 💥

I’m so happy and proud of you! I love the Nautical Bros. as well! Y’all are so much fun together!!

If you want to get rid of the bugs like that, an oscillating fan works pretty good, especially if you get one that does misting. Another option is diatomaceous earth. They make a bug vacuum too. It has a separate chamber to trap the bugs, otherwise it will just spit the bugs back out. If you put soapy water on the walls outside the house, that willw also get rid of them. Drop in a tiny amount of cornstarch in tne mix to thicken the solution.

Bugs or no bugs id love to be on that house boat. Fishing and catch and cook is life🥰

Love the Channel ! I know it's not great for filming, but yellow and red light don't attract bugs like white and blue lights do. You should get some waterproof RGB strip lighting, then you can change it up as needed. If you hang an outdoor bug zapper out over the water, the falling insects should attract fish and keep the insects that are nearby busy.

The part of the stab by pegs was killing me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

U guys need a little shop vac to vac the bugs up before bed and also a ton of fly sticky strips

Peppermint oil and dish soap in a spray bottle can help keep the bugs away. I use it around my house. It keeps most insects away.

You need a heavy duty quality blanket to go and end of the patio hangs down for when you leave at night and on clips in the morning covering the whole patio window like a big sheet blanket

Do a intercoastal water catch n cook so you don't get the lake bugs

With beer batter u need to put it straight in the grease and that will stop it sticking to the bottom

Different color lights outside at night. And a bug vacuum for inside. 👍🏻

Tint or put pull down blinds on the windows and paint the porch a dark color.

You could put an air curtain above the doors so every time you open the door it turns on and blows air down to the floor so bugs can’t come in

Citronella oil tiki torches attached to the railings on both ends of the boat should help take care of most of the bug problems along with shades pulled down on the windows to block the light from attracting the bugs.

You need to get those electric tennis rackets, I have one and it works great for bugs.

The water will be crazy down in swfl. Boca grande has a waterfest with country singer doing a concert on a barge on the same day. Also 1st day of summer vacation for the kids. We also had a guy this morning get his arm bit off from a gator at a bar (1:45 am). Also deep water salvage. Was down in Venice the other day helping to recover a house boat from hurricane ian

You should hang the googan bait wall on French cleats. So they are sturdy when hanging but can easily be taken down at night. Love the boat!

Still need to get that big 4 stroke upgrade on the house boat so you have plenty of power to move the house in windy conditions and so y’all won’t get hurt with the 2 stroke exhaust. You could add a remote control system to it as well so you can drive it from the front deck if you want to.

I think you guys need to get some floor mats or something to make the inside of the cabin a little safer

Brother Get a Lint Roller for the bugs! Lint Roll the cabin Before bed hahaha, Goodluck! Love the Boat!

For bugs inside to get rid on the cheap get a decent size fan and some mesh bug screen and attach an led light strip to the inside of the bug mesh on the fan. If you keep the fan on bugs will get sucked in and trapped inside the mesh not being able to get out and dehydrate.

When I go camping, we use lights that you can toggle between White and Orange. Orange helps a lot against bugs compared to white UAV

Mount the zappers on the roof for overnight trips and get LED lighting for the color spectrum that do not attract the bugs. Yellow, orange and or pink as you never know, brotherly love and all. :)

The problem is the white light, that's what's attracting all the bugs. Rookies!! Come on boys step your game up!! You need to be rolling with blue light 💙

Have you considered getting some solar panels for the roof? You can get a battery box generator that can store a couple days’ worth of power and it can recharge during the day for free or by hooking up to an RV outlet when you’re on land, that will save fuel costs & runtime on the gas generator.

The house boat videos are awesome! I would have brought my 18v Milwaukee vacuum to clean up the bugs once I came in for the night. Or try all the different ideas in the comments. If those ideas doesn't work it will probably only be a winter time boat.

Venice was so fun today thank you for stopping by

19:00 you need curtains over the windows and doors so it doesn't attract so many at once and then also a bug zapper or two! The screen enclosure idea is also a genius idea for when you are fileting your fish and cooking with the lights on! 😏 😅😅😂

The music in this was a vibe, also your laugh is very contagious!!!!

FOR THE BUGS: how about those fan that turns on when you open the door to keep the cool ac air from escaping. It probably will keep the bugs out as well.

You need to get one way mirror tint so the bugs shouldn't be as attracted to the lights inside. Then get a bug zapper for inside and out for any remaining bugs.

You need to put a bug zapper on the front and back of the boat for some bug control. Or a small vacuum with a hose, so you can just suck them all up, lol.

You need one of those centranella candles for your boat. That or just get a industrial strength bug zapper

I made the same mistake welding the stuff to the basket. When you're using a wet batter, get everything battered then have the basket already dropped laying them directly into the oil.

Need to invest in those bug zappers at end of boat and could they have an extendable / telescopic pole to move it further away . Bright lights are attracting them inside , switch them off and have external ones on to lure them on outside. Dam your loving the food. Great video

Love the house boat. You mentioned swaying issues when hauling on the road. That is usually an issue when your tongue weight is to light. Try scooting boat forward 6 to 12 inches. Also with the bug issue we always strung multi colored Christmas lights outside when camping. Bugs aren't as attracted to them as much. Also set up softer lighting inside and just use fluorescent lights when absolutely needed. Hope you get all the bugs worked out. Lol. Again really enjoy the videos.

Small vacuum is all you need for bugs bro. Just put one light on to attract them and go wild. 😉

you should probably service all of your hub bearings :) save you from potential future issues

For the beer batter fish you should have had the basket in the oil already and dropped it fit in the basket to prevent it from the cooking to the basket.

For the bugs you gotta get a door fan that blows air straight down, so the bugs don’t settle. They make them for restaurant doors to keep bugs out.

You guys should get a vacuum vacuum all those bugs up

For the wet batter you need to have the basket in the oil and lightly drop the fish in the oil

You definitely need different lighting for the night. Red or even black lights. Keeping the interior lights off when gone or like I said dimmer colored lights. I know that’s harder to film with, but its still possible for the night shots. I personally wouldn’t mind.You could also screen in the back porch at least so you can use the bathroom and fill the generator without letting bugs in. Maybe also build some extension poles with big bug zappers to get them up over the roofline when anchored. Love the content man can’t wait to see more.

Get a few zappers or looking into stuff that repels bugs to keep them off

For the bugs, my suggestion is to turn off all the lights inside the boat and hang some bug zappers outside. Open the doors, and the bugs will fly out, lured by the light. Use a broom or a cloth to flail around and encourage the bugs to move. Close the door before turning the lights on again. It won’t get ALL the bugs, but it will get most of them.

24:22 Reef drooling! LOL

Hey Jordan good idea for the bug solution. Try putting a retractable arm that sticks out on over the water so when the bugs get zapped they fall into the water and make good bluegill,brim chum then that attracts the bigger fish.

Change the lights to yellow globes if possible or cover light lenses with yellow tint, bugs aren't attracted to it light white light. Then, have the white light shining out the front and back away from the entry points. Also but some magnetic fly screen doors to put over doorways 😊❤

Everything looks so amazing and fun I hope yall have an amazing week😊

Absolutely get a couple thermacell lamps. You could also get a portable fogger to clear it.

You could hang a bug zapper off a 10 foot boom on the quarter of the deck. Run it off a solar/battery/inverter set. It may draw bugs but it will also kill them and it'll be away from the door. Currently your lights just draw them in. The tralier looks more like a yard/ramp trailer than something meant for the main road.

Bug zapper near the brightest light on the outside. Possibly hang of the side. When they fall, might be a natural fish feeder.

CATCH AND COOK CABIN!!!!!!!!!...........ON WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!

Get a couple of ThermaCELL to put on the back of the house boat. I do a lot of saltwater fishing at night and they work amazingly well and take up very little space.

What y’all need is either a Red, Blue or green light through our the house boat, works like a champ. In my opinion Green is the best.