If heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie I don’t wanna go!

Hahahaha

@BeizamSlayer I love watching them, gets me motivated to go out fishing.

Meateater did talk about eating some guy's foot on the podcast

I had to pause to go get a snack

Im biting in my hand right now that looks sooo good!

Just wondering what tropes are??

@@jackiekinner3826 a trope is a convention or device that establishes a predictable or stereotypical representation of a character, setting, or scenario.... dictionary.Com is your friend. Basically he's glad Steve didn't play on the old stereotypes generally assigned to southern people.

Right on

@@jackiekinner3826 Jug fishing and trot lines - up north those are banned in most states.

@@SlavicCelery that's not a "trope", he was more referring to the stereotypes and generalizations of southern people. Such as acting they all eat "bottom feeders" and are rednecks or what have you. He already knew about the fishing methods before hand, and at most he could have acted stuck up about them, but he also does a lot of things that other "respectable hunters" don't do such as shooting tree'd mountain lions with a rifle. Any true sportsman knows that almost all the hunting/fishing regulations concerning methods etc are just there to intentionally make getting animals more inefficient. You can't try to spray 30 rounds at a group of deer to poach them if you can't be caught using a machine gun and with more than 10 rounds on your person, for example. The laws aren't in place because of any concept of "fairness" or ethic status, as anyone who actually does outdoor sports can tell you.

100% Agreed

@@joshuawannenberg281 has always had fun with thistle it all I love I wish was to share the day I love it

When there’s surplus population of fish Fisherman play an important role for keeping fish stocks from overpopulating. If there was a decline then regulations would be put in place. Some fish are pests or invasive and never have a limit or regulations Like lionfish where I live Take as many as you can to try and control the population

No Edgar. Those people are called poachers. This is harvesting done right.

i’m born and raised in eastern Georgia and to hear people say catfish is a trash fish blows my mind down here it’s a staple

I love catfish and this is my favorite episode too.

From eastern Canada, no one would eat bass except a select few. I've fileted them and made beer battered fisshnchips and they had no idea. Most fish can taste good if handled by the right hands.

exactly!, Bluefish are great eating, Great on the grill

I agree. I've only caught one wild blue in Oklahoma. I bled it and baked it. It tasted way better than channels in my opinion, and I love me some wild channels. Taking care of the catch is important.

Amen, I'm glad he got to spend a little time in the South in different parts of KY and got a firsthand of good they are. It's hard to beat Southern fried catfish

That was one ugly fish lol

Agreed

@@Evergreen1400 they're so ugly, they're pretty. Like an English bulldog.

Best tasting freshwater fish I've ever had.

I'm a Texan. Eat catfish ever week, dam near. Never seen or eat a paddle fish. Must not be all that good

Same here

Very true, my girlfriends father told her her entire life they ain’t good eating. I basically had to beg her to eat it. She now loves it. I hate how people tell people stuff ain’t good

@@dauntewimbush1939 with these blue catfish not being bottom feeders, and instead for example, coming to the surface for the bait, is there less of an issue with heavy metal accumulation in their flesh?

Don't like these comments like these video I guess in order to get more like for the video we should like the comment in turn lol ommmg

And no mention of Tartar sauce and Hush puppies.

Too long for me, too. Remember Dad cleaning out the freezer and firing up the dutch oven over the fire ring. It got dark. We had a trouble light. Every bug in the county was falling into the oil and sizzling. We neglected to mention this to Mom when we brought the fish and hushpuppies in.

Same here. lol. I could almost smell it.

@@DBAllen from nova scotia, what in the heck are hush puppies?

@@jordanbridges These; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9ZgqaSIv7OVqqc.html

Visit Kentucky one day

yeah this seems like a way to destroy a fishery. That being said blue cats are abundant and fast growing.

Probably industrial pollution as well. That's what I was wondering too. I wouldn't be lining up to eat anything out of those rivers either.

@@ragnarragnarsson3128 Thank you for being curious about that as well. There is also a lake about an hour from here that has a coal power plant built on it called Baldwin lake. The lake is the cooling water intake and discharge for the plant. My grandfather and I used to go fish there and even ate a few stripers before I was old enough to know better. People have caught a few piranha because it doesn't freeze so people let them go in the lake. In 2015 a lot of untreated water was discharged into the lake. Wonderful. 😑

@@j-rocd9507 yep it's sad to see place after place contaminated by careless human activity. I am all for America making things etc, but sometimes I wonder if buying imported goods is better for our environment since our country doesn't have to pay the 'pollution price' somewhere overseas does.

Without a doubt. I do every thing these guys do but i separate the fillets at the vein that runs the length.

I think blues are the best catfish in my opinion nice and white flesh instead of yellow like a channel cat lol

@@FBP3392 I agree that blues are better than channels. However I think flathead are the best because the meat is firmer. I like to grill it over charcoal and dip it in garlic butter like lobster. You can even rub a little BBQ sauce for an extra kick.

@@charliethompson6601 I’ve never had flathead before that sounds awesome though

I've eaten 15-25 pound blues and everyone says that's too big they won't taste good but that's just not true. They are very mild if you only keep the white meat.

Are you still able to eat wild catfish