That's one heck of a bite alarm! Lol

Not sure what went wrong here but buffalo is honestly some of the best fish you can eat. Maybe the ones in Texas are different lol. Sucks that you had a bad experience.

My grandmother would pressure cook carp and buffalo with an olive oil and spice mixture that would make them taste just like canned salmon, it was good eating with crackers when out on the boat. Didn't have to worry about bones because they were soft and edible She would always put the fish in a freshwater spring to "clean them out" before processing.

I have had Buffalo ribs and they are awesome! Remove ribs and season and fry. Rib will stick out on both ends and it reminds me of buttery popcorn. Ideal size is 5 to 8 lbs.

As a European where it is more or less common to eat carp, here are a few tips for the preparation of carp: First you want to let the carp bleed out (either by cutting the gills and or a stab to the heart). This helps with the strong taste and also makes for a quick death of the fish. Second there are different ways on how to filet them so you get rid of the majority of the bones. Besides that there are different ways of preparation. You can prepare it whole and pick the meat off of the bones, make burgers out of them (running them through a meat grinder helps get rid of all of the small hidden bones) and seasoning helps with the taste. Third, try to go for a smaller younger one. It's similar to deer meat - the old ones just don't taste as good as the small ones. I would say up to 20 Inches should be good to eat - better yet 15 Inches. I would like to see you try one of these ways of preparation as they can actually make the carp taste really good.

Here in Central Missouri we go gigging when the water gets cold and buffalo along wit other sucker fish are the target. If you’ve ever had buffalo out of cold water you would change your mind. As for the little bones the fish needs to be scored, a process of making shallow cuts across the filets every quarter inch or less and cutting the bones into small pieces. You need to use a corn meal based breading and get it into the score marks. Then deep fry the fish for one of the best fish you could ask for.

I almost hit the deck when that siren went off!

Love your videos keep up the great work

Love all your content LFG.

I appreciate what you do man out there fishing in 98° weather to make a video for us. I couldn’t do it I don’t believe being from Maine that type of temperature would kill me. Thanks for the Contant always look forward to your videos.

Lovin the vids! Keep up the grind!

You should do a bluegill catch and cook with the kiddos and wife! Be awesome to see y’all hook up on a few gillers!

I’m sure you didn’t mean for this video to be funny but once you started cooking it, I couldn’t stop laughing at your reactions 😂

Lol...love your videos. You should incorporate that big fish alarm. Me and my fiance were laughing this morning.

It's great to see buffalo getting more respect (even if you didn't enjoy eating it lol). That fish could have easily been older than you so it's always a shame when people just shoot them for fun or 'fertilizer'. Love the videos

Here in Louisiana we call that a blue buffalo and is a real delicacy-Especially the ribs in a sauce called a courtbouilon -served with rice 😊

Buffalo was my grandmother from arkansas favorite fish to eat! She would fry the ribs takes along time to cook at a low heat but they are delicious!!

I get flooded with so many suggestions on vids.. most are poo.. but I can always go back to lfg and just chill for a bit, get inspired, and realize what's important. Lfg... you complete me😁

Bite alert😂😂😂😂 Your the best Googan hands down

Making them into fish meatballs is decent in our culture . Grind up the meat mixed with Thai peppers, chopped green onion, garlic, ginger, salt and black pepper. Then use your choice in egg yolk or batter to keep it in shape the deep fried. Only really good in the Midwest when it’s end of winter/beginning of spring when water is still cold it’s good.

In Mississippi and Louisiana we eat the buffalo ribs mostly.. we call it Big Bone Buffalo… amazing tasting fish

Another amazing video lfg !!!

Gotta love the weekly siren tests!

Your shore fishing videos are so good

I grew up on drum or buffalo, my daddy was only interested in like 2-3 pound range. Lots of families needed to catch to eat, so no fish no eat!

Love the adventurous spirit!!

Damn i have been subscribed forever with notifications turned on and this is the first video i have seen since hunting season. Wtf

Wow Ben is getting so big! Good looking boy you've got there Justin!

I love your honesty!

very interesting video 👍 wish you have a lot of health to make more videos ♥️

“This is a prime piece” as he snarls his nose looking disgusted😂

I used to drink bug juice growing up as a kid. Good stuff!😂

You should try it smoked I was told they are good, but for me I haven't fish for them in Michigan. But awesome video and very funny after you cook it lol and tryed it.

Great video man

You have to zap it with electricity LFG. When you have the fillets ready for the pan, before the batter, zap it. Look it up if you have doubts. Love the vids

Classic lfg. Great vid

That's one of my favorite carp/buff spots. I put bait in there all the time so they are always there.

It’s crazy cuz flair just did a video and absolutely loved it

fried both fillets in a cast iron skillet. It was not rubbery but very flaky similar to crappie fillets. Truth be told it was very tasty. I also made a good tasting soup using drum fish too. Anyway I was very impressed with your bow shooting skills! All told a very good video! I'll be coming back for more of your fishing adventures. All the best.

Heck of a fish you've got there. Thought it was a drum at first, especially with those scales. New subscriber here

SMOKE IT IN A HICKORY SMOKER!! As a child I didn't much like fish. But the first time I tried smoked carp I was hooked!

nice shot with the bow dude!!! :)

I used to love bug juice when I was a kid. anytime we went into the gas station my dad would buy it lol

Just try the fish. You remind me of my kids when they try something new. Lol 😂

When I was a kid we fished for carp on the dock at night and we always used peanut butter balls. We'd mix a binder like flour with the PB and it was stay on the hook pretty good. We slayed the carp every night. We didn't eat them, just fun to catch and throw back in.

Best buffalo bait I’ve ever used is chicken livers. Absolutely no joke. And buffalo ribs taste awesome!

First! Love you vids man

That fish is still twitching till this day 👀🤣

Awesome 😂

I have discovered that the catfish and carp are not eating deep. They are usually eating close to the bank because that is where the majority of food is. Nice video

When I was growing up and I was visiting my grandparents in northern Louisiana, my grandfather loved to eat fish every day if he could, and we always eat buffalo. My uncles would catch them in nets and they would also buy them off of the fish man that came around with his pick up. He would clean the fish on the tailgate of his truck and sell it to you by the pound

LOL, the alarm sound with your fish..

When I was a kid, in the early 70's my mom would buy smoked carp at the grocery store. Smoked carp was real good. Never had it any other way. Lots of bones.

I have a friend who’s from Cambodia and he showed me a great Carp Marsala recipe that is on point!! I let him handle the filets and the entire cooking process though.. if I were you I’d reach out to the south East Asian community to show you how to cook a buffalo(not related to a carp at all btw) but like European and Asian carps, I’ve heard buffalo have huge y bones

As a kid in Illinois and Wisconsin, we ground the carp and made carp patties (breaded and fried). No worries about bones because it's ground.

I haven’t seen big juice since I was a kid! I used to love that stuff

I have been eating carp , suckered, Buffalo and drum my entire life . My folks were raised up during the depression and we learned that everything could be cooked properly and was delicious . You just have to try . Gar can be eaten as well but it's just hard to get out that Armour skin .

they are great we always got them in a gill net the ribs are the best part

I recently started a journey on catching and trying all of the "trash" fish. I tried drum and was actually impressed. its not catfish or crappie, but it can definitely eat. waiting to try buffalo as well.

Legend has it that buffalo used to be much more popular than catfish in the early 1900's. I tried a buffalo sammich a handful of years ago in mid Missouri, near Bowling Green. When it was fresh out of the fryer, it was good. As it cooled down, I nearly lost my "appetite". So much moss and algae flavor. I could not finish it, unfortunately.

In Tennessee, they were the main fare at a lot of community fish frys. I bow fished a lot of them, in my 20s - 30s.

I've found that some types of fish get a bad rap for reasons other than flavor. Some of it depends on handling after the catch and others on prevailing culinary traditions where the fish is caught. When I first moved to Houston I heard that buffalo was a trash fish, but a Vietnamese friend of mine loved it and his wife would make a number of different dishes with them. In the SoCal sportfishing fleet, bonito was mostly considered a trash fish. That was primarily because when they were caught on the sport boats, the crew would throw them in burlap sacks that sat on a hot deck for hours until you got home. Many of the local rockfish and bass could handle that treatment, but bonito is an oily tuna species and would go bad very rapidly in the heat. When I switched to kayak fishing I did a lot of research into the fishing practices of kayakers around the country, in Australia and Asia. I was surprised to find that bonito was considered a prized catch in many other fisheries. It turns out that if you bleed bonito immediately and then put them on ice they are excellent eating; similar to albacore. In SoCal we used Pacific Chub Mackerel for bait. They could be anywhere from 6" - 14" and are very oily with red meat. Normally I would feed them to the seagulls at the end of the trip because I had no idea how to cook them. Fortunately I found some people who did. A Greek kayak fisherman told me about the various ways they prepare mackerel in the Mediterranean and a sushi aficionado showed me how the Japanese use them. I also saw mackerel used a lot when I would go to Korea. I had always heard that marlin was too oily and fishy tasting to eat. Then I had smoked Marlin tacos at the best damn Mexican taco truck in San Diego; Incredibly good. The key is to find the cultures that regularly eat the fish that we might call trash fish and figure out how they make them taste good. If you limit yourself to having fish breaded and fried you will limit the types of fish you'll find palatable. If you are open to new flavors and preparations, there are many more fish you can utilize.

Definitely need Mike's recipe on how to do it. At least you had the critter glitter!

Just for anyone who tries this u have a couple options u can soak it in lemon gets rid of the bones also helps to take the smaller ones if u soak the meat in saltwater it gets rid of a lot of the redness he also could of boiled da meat first then cooked it

That fish is interesting. It seems bony like a northern pike. It also has that red meat like a white bass. You can improve the taste of white bass if you can fillet the red meat off and only eat the white part.

I bowfish for buffs all the time here... they make for a DYNAMITE bluecat bait.... and I have some trapper buddies ( along with a sneaky bald eagle out here ) that happily take them off my hands for me lol

Omg i haven't fished like this for years. I gotta take my son and get our "carp on" soon.

I asked my mother who grew up in the south about Fixing and eating Buffalo Carp. She said yes they are boney but if soaked in either Apple Cider vinegar or buttermilk overnight the acid dissolves the pin bones making them soft. Also remove the brown meat it has all the earthy taste in it that will ruin the meat.

Back in the 80's at White Rock Lake we would take Wheaties and kneed it with lake water. Makes great balls. Nothing but a treble hook. A lot of the creeks in SE Dallas loaded with them. Never eaten one though we just did it for fun out of boredom because they were so easy to catch.

I have the same shoes absolutely love them

Buffalo!? Delicious!!

I’m a new angler to keeping what I catch. I was really curious about these and am really glad I watched this first. Is carp the same?

Magnacut steel is amazing !! I have a couple and it holds edge forever

In Tn. River we fished for Red-horse a man told me to only eat the meat from midrib down to belly . When he baked them the ribs( about size of round tooth picks) were easy to remove. Probably the best fish in the river

The fish alarm in our town goes off at 1pm on Saturdays.

The two biggest buffalos I have caught (both were 12-15 lbs) in Texas were on...rattletraps!😮

Whoo Hoo LFG🎉. Good Job! They say down in Louisiana to prepare the Ribs like Pork Ribs They sell a Ton🤔! Enjoy 😊. JO JO IN VT 💞

There is a trick to cooking bottom feeders that I learned that makes them incredible. You leave the skin on and cut the meat to the skin into thin slices leaving it on the skin. You corn mean batter it heavily and deep fry it it makes little fish chips on the skin it also cuts through all those thousands of pin bones and makes them edible.

I’ve been catching buffalo my entire life! Here’s my recipe for dough ball. White cornmeal and flour equal parts, a lot of salt and here’s the key ingredient, lots and lots of red chili powder. I know chili powder?! Yes chili powder. Add all ingredients to a bowl and add water, just enough water to bind all of the ingredients. Put mixture in a plastic bag, take a bowl of hot water and submerge bag into it make sure no water gets in it. Put in microwave and cook from 1:00 min-1:30 min. Texture should be perfect, make a ball of it and pinch enough to cover a treble hook and cast. To catch them even easier place two hooks on line, one with dough ball and a j hook with a red worm on it and 70% of the time he will hit the red worm. If you just throw a red worm out there you want catch a Buffalo but if you do as I suggest, with one hook dough ball and the other hook red worm, the dough ball brings him in and like I said he will most often choose the worm. The best way to cook him is to bleed him first thru the gills and eat the back strap and the rib cage and I guarantee you’ll enjoy it! Give it a try and let me know how it turns out. You destroyed that buffalo, did it all WRONG! Also the bigger the buffalo the better. You just did it all incorrectly bro, trust me!

Hey, the ultimate beat is Karo syrup in Kellogg’s cornflakes doughballs get some every time they can’t resist

In Louisiana we eat Buffalo all of the time. Fried buffalo ribs are delicious! I’m pretty sure you can find some in any seafood restaurant in Louisiana because of how popular they are here.

magnacut is a sick steel. basically rustproof. would love to see your knife collection and how you use them.

I've only heard of grinding them and making patties/sticks with it. That'll fix the texture problem.

( 26:23 ) this is a prime piece..... puts it down.. hahaha brooooo

He definitely went inside and ordered a pizza to be delivered and ate the catfish the next day😂

Try using panko bread crumbs, can sweet corn, strawberry jello, mix with the corn juice, put like 2 corn on the hook. I have real good luck catching carp

Buffalo is good it just has a lot of bones. We grew up eating it but than again my relatives have been cooking it several decades so maybe they mastered the sweet science of it. I’m going to catch one and see what I can do 😆 thanks for the video 😮

Also I can’t believe OSG lets you fry fish in her kitchen. Bet that reeked in there after that 😂

Couple of things, one never eat the belly meat. Second get that bloodline out, thats what made your fish taste so strong. Third, during your prep make slices along the side where those bones are and get your corn meal or flower all in there. The hot grease will do the work for you. Love your video man all the horns and alarms😂😂

Yes it is , very EDIBLE, you have to know how to fry it right. It's all about who's cooking it!

I've eaten them and common carp fried in lard with a cornmeal coating, and it was tolerable. But, my favorite thing to do with them is to smoke them or pickle them. Pickling them makes the bones soft, like herring. Smoking them makes them taste like ham. Both are good for drinking beer.

Lol lol lol. Lol lol lol lol lol.... I have tears in my eyes. LFG O my gosh..

Buffalo here in KY are like Catfish Steaks, may be a different kind of buffalo though. They snag them below the Dam at KY lake and it is my favorite eating fish, taste just like catfish, but there is a technique to cleaning them and like one of the other comments it may be a water temperature thing as well. Thanks for doing a video on a different fish species!

I've heard people smoked the ribs but never fried.....Twitching filet thats a new one lol

Nice shot

One of the most impresive freshwater strikes i ever had (i fish salt, pelagic primarily now) Was a 30 pound carp that ate a live crawdad i was hanging under a float for smallmouth... on an ultralight. Damn near lost my rod. Your lucky you still had your pole... leaving it unattended to get your bow. when a carp (and assume a buffalo?) Goes on a suicide run... they have an impressive amount of pulling power.

Get an Asian friend with a wok. Had stir fry buffalo at my buddies house and loved it.

so I'm at the end of the video. The fish I had was really tasty, but its pretty tough. I had to cut mine with a knife. lol

Mulletman ate them and said they were amazing. The way he did them was like ribs and they looked fantastic

I’ve caught some MONSTER Buffalo on the trinity and eagle mountain on finesse crankbaits. In the 25-30 lb range on 6lb test and ultralight rod is wild 🥴. Good on ya for trying these… I want you to try drum or gaspergu next, I’ve heard folks say they aren’t bad and I catch a lot of those too.