Back To The Basics + Catfish Catch & Cook

hey everyone and welcome back so today we're going old school i've got my little john boat with me we're going to put in here on the kentucky river it's just a smaller river a few miles from my house we're going to try to catch some eater-sized fish today and take them home and fry them up i've kind of been wanting some fish so we're going to get the boat in the water and we're going to get accurate guys hopefully we'll have a good time today so i haven't had this boat out in a long time probably close to a year but i did start it last night made sure it was gonna run i drained the gas out of it put some fresh gas in it i went got a new battery for it so we should be good as soon as i hit the button so i'm gonna run up the river about eight miles here to a spot that i used to fish all the time and we're just gonna work our way back and hopefully find some fish somewhere in between [Music] there's just a big hump right here and all the current gets shifted over to that side of the river so it's uh even when the river's flooded and really high this is normally some pretty nice water right here pretty slow water all right so let me show you guys the equipment that i'm going to be using today i just got some uh ugly sticks they make a two or three pound channel cap pretty fun to catch just got a three-way swivel with a clip for my weight and i got two little bitty circle hooks those are one or two all circle hooks just gonna put two small pieces of bait on there it's got us a bag of skipjack here we're gonna cut up into some small chunks and this is not the freshest bait in the world it's been frozen and thawed out a couple times but if we can get stay on the hook it all do the trick here's another rod that i really like using for channel cats guys these berkley cherry wood rods from walmart you get the seven foot medium heavy they're like 25 or something i've had a lot of these over the years these are great little rods for catching smaller catfish so there we go guys we got four rods out two little chunks of skipjack on each rod if this doesn't work we'll move on down to the next the next little current break all right we got our first bite let's see if we can got him that didn't take long if we can get him to stay on he feels like he's gonna be just the right size to fry it up too that's what we're looking for right there guys believe it or not that's what i'm after little bitty blue cat need about five or six of those we'll be good shape all right so i'm pulling anchor we caught that one little blue cat here never had another bite and the wind is uh blowing me all over the place in this spot so i'm gonna move on down i'm gonna get in one of these river bends and try to get out of the wind some all right so we got this little waterfall right here and there's a rock bar that comes out in the water water's a little high normally there's a whole lot more rock showing right here but it just creates an eddy right here it drops from you know it's like five foot deep right here in front of me and it drops down to like 35 got a good seam going down through here with an eddie so those of you all who follow the channel know that my son's normally with me when i'm out here fishing he's my cameraman and he's the one that catches all the big fish normally and it's pretty rare that i go fishing and he doesn't go but he had some things to do tonight wasn't able to come with me but we're planning a trip here in the next couple days and i'm sure he'll go along with me on that trip i only had about three and a half hours to fish this afternoon and we've done used up about an hour and a half of that time so hopefully we'll catch a few more fish we'll have enough to go home and fry them up i think we got one on guys i just turned the camera off i'm actually getting ready to move this fish has been biting for a while but looks like he finally got hooked up same rod that we caught the last one on i can't get this dang clicker turned off yeah i had already shut my other camera off i was reeling in the move and i looked back and this one was folded over it feels like a perfect eating size fish yep another one of those little bitty blue cats a little bit bigger than the other one i think he got the top up man that's a pretty little fish i almost hate to kill him if i catch a if i catch some bigger channel cats or something i'm gonna let these little guys go because man isn't that just an awesome looking fish he pooped in my boat but that's all right i don't blame him i probably would too all right let's see if we can pull this anchor without falling out of the boat all right off to the next spot cause we got one on here and he's on he's got me in something i can feel him swimming but he's under some wood or something i'm hoping we can get him out oh he came out got him he's still on too man i'm bringing him through all kinds of stuff it'll be a miracle if we get him because i got 20 pound braid another one them little bitty ones i think yeah that's old channel cat there perfect eater heck yeah we about got enough now there we go guys we just need one or two more like that and we'll be good all right so i broke one off i'm gonna have to tie up another rig there's what we're using just tiny little circle hooks and they look bigger on camera than they are in real life the reason i use two hooks instead of one for these smaller fish i'm using such small baits it doesn't put a lot of scent in the water oh there's a fish got him that feels like a pretty good one oh yeah that's another perfect size channel cat heck yeah little hooks do a good job walmart specials it's like a twin to that one we just caught i was trying to tie a rig explain to you guys why i tie it like that and one of them nailed it i don't even know what i did with my there it is so the reason i use two hooks instead of one hook i'm using such small pieces of bait that one little piece of bait really doesn't put off much scent but i can run two pieces of bait put off double the amount of scent and it also allows you to put two different kinds of bait on one rig like you can put a gut up here and a filet down here a chunk and a head it seems to catch more fish for me i think i'm gonna sit here for another couple minutes and start heading on back down the river because i gotta i'm not i'm gonna try to catch one more fish but i've got a pretty long ride back and i want to make sure i get back before it cools off too much i want to get that boat right over with while it's still warm all right so we got a little creek that comes in right here uh there's just all the currents coming by the creek creating an eddy right here and there's also a mud line and i know there's probably some bait fish and stuff up in this creek so i think this is where we're gonna finish the night out i didn't even have to throw my anchor there's a tree right there i just tied up to that tree so we're going to give it 30 minutes or so here we got about 30 minutes till dark oh there he is yeah we got him another one of them little blue cats that's a little guy right there i'm gonna keep him just in case we don't catch another channel cat all right so i'm gonna go ahead and reel up the sun just went down i didn't bring any lights i didn't plan on being out here after dark i was wanting to get one more but i've got five little eaters in there that should be plenty to feed me and maybe my son if he wants some so i'm gonna go ahead and reel these up and get the boat on the trailer i've only got like a five minute ride home so i'm gonna go home and fillet these things and pry them up i cannot wait i've been wanting some fish here lately and i'm starving all right i got my cameraman back so we're gonna fly these fish real quick so [Music] we're gonna go in here and rinse these things off and get us some hot grease going and fry them up all right so we're going to use our gas grill tonight and keep them stinking the house up so i got all the red meat cut off the fillets got them cleaned up dried them off season them with some salt and pepper and while we're waiting on our grease to warm up i'm gonna put a little bit of texas peat in here just to season them a little more but that vinegar and spices and stuff in that hot sauce is really good with fish this is probably my favorite store-bought breading mix that crispy southern we're just going to dump the whole thing in there oh it smells good check it out perfectly coated not too thick [Music] all right guys so there's the finished product man it doesn't get any better now let's see what it tastes like that's as good as it gets right there so i hope you guys enjoyed the video hopefully my camera work wasn't too bad i'm used to having my son there doing all the video work for me so hopefully i've done a decent job we just got done eating our fish and that stuff was absolutely fantastic so next time you're out on the river and you catch some of those small channel cats or blue cats bring them home and fry them up i want to thank you guys for watching god bless you all we'll see you in the next one all right you

Channel: Hagen Grubbs Fishing

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Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 08 2021