Justin , 1st off ANOTHER excellent video. You brought back some of my favorite memories of fishing when I was a lil feller LOL. Just an fyi, To get the most from your bluegill, scale them, remove head and fins leaving the tail, roll in flour cornmeal mix and deep fry til golden brown.
How funny your sitting right where the Saturday night tournament takes off from. ( 1:53 looking at the bank) where we talk shit and wait on take off lol 😂! Can't believe you was in my backyard and didn't get to say howdy, hopefully you revisit sometime.
You can get true golden crispys with canola oil in a spray bottle when you lay them in there at first spray. Then the real trick is turn your temp up slightly depending on the unit and flip mid cook. When you do that spray that side lightly finish you cook depending thickness for total time. Got to be light with the franks or just use a little milk with SPG though that makes it something I’ve noticed though. Just a flour with little bit of cornmeal if you like for the breading.
I have the same air fryer, got it for Christmas. You need to get you some spray on olive and canola oil. Make sure to preheat the fryer. prepare the fish like normal. Then just before loading in the fryer Spray both sides of the fish with either spray on olive or canola oil then fry 3 to 5 minutes then turn the fish and go another 3 minutes. This will get you crispy fish. Depending on the size of fillets you may need to adjust cooking time.
One tip when you’re frying pan fish if you do it in an actual fryer instead of the air fryer do the franks red hot with some Louisiana fish fry seasoning normally In a yellow or blue package. Some of the best tasting fish I’ve ever had! Hope this helps! Hope to see some more gill fishing and crappie 😁 also try like a #6 eagle claw hook with the leaders on them
When I was a kid back in the 70s, I'd walk to a near by pond with my ultra light spinning gear and I'd find summer time grasshoppers around the pond. I could put together a stringer of bluegill in an hour or so and cook and eat them right there by pond. So much fun, we would spend a whole day fishing, swimming, and eating. Never knew who's pond it was but I don't guess anyone minded, no one ever said nothing to us.
Bluegill is great! Try just scaling them, gutting them, cut the head off, cut a few small lines in the skin and fry them up. You get more flavor, more meat, and super easy. It's worth trying 👍
I think if you spray the floured fish with a cooking spray it gives more of a deep fried taste and texture... but yes it is a compact convection oven. Grear for baking biscuits!
Not trying to act like I know everything but a good rule of thumb that I use while pan fishing is if the fish is wider than the palm of my hand it’s a keeper. You get the bigger/better filets like that plus it’s good for the population to take the bigger guys out and let the smaller guys grow
I gotta get one of those things. I just watched a video of a guy catching bluegills with butter worms. Works great. Emmie needs her own channel now. So adorable !
I have the same air fryer. If you read the instructions, you will see that you should preheat the fryer first. Then after you flour the fish, us an oil spray such as Pam to coat the flour. I’ve done wings, fish, pork chops, chicken thighs/legs and breasts which comes out crispy and moist. Don’t forget, if you want crispy fried, always spray with oil and half way through, flip and continue. Cosori has tons of recipes online. Practice makes perfect. Good luck, keep us posted.
If you get those properly coated you will achieve the crispies! Dry them in plain flour and shake off, then into egg, then into seasoned coating! Fry them a bit longer! BTW your one of the coolest people I've seen, love the girls and your precious daughter. The tree house, all of it, your a lucky man. Keep on being you!
Lightly spray your fish with pam or other vegetable based spray right before you put them in the air fryer....also just had Frank's on fish for the first time today on catch and cook blue gill. Fantastic.
Man I'm sorry I'm late to the comment party... Them grits looks so good makes me want to try them... if you make it mixture 50/50 olive oil and canola oil your fish taste a lot better... thank God our prayers are being answered that baby girls looking like her mom every day🤠
We love our air fryer but it doesn't cook enough for a family of 6. And we just figured out the convection setting on our oven. Both are pretty much the same, the oven takes longer but does more food. Air fryers and Convection are healthy choices to dropping a 100% organic succulent fillet into a vat of GMO and pesticide filled grease. That was for OSG, nothing but love LFG.
Our family really likes the Franks hot sauce on chicken strips, flour and fry in oil. We took your idea from the fish. It is wonderful. Thanks so much. We have also tried it on cubed steak. Just can not go wrong with hot sauce as a marinade.
Agree with some of the other comments, those are some small gills LFG. For panfish, i usually go the size of my palm (~6 inches) from tip of the nose to where the tail necks down before i keep them. More gills get let go, but the ones you keep are worth the effort.
My wife and I said the same thing. I experimented with the old Gaspergo. It was purdy good, certainly not fried. More of a convection oven type of thing. I feel like I need to add fat somehow. It's a work in progress. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Hey LFG u should try crushing up pork rinds and using it instead of flour all u have to do is put it in a egg wash and then batter it pork rinds and the air fryer does a great job like that
I always used a spoon to take the scales off. Cut in behind the pec fin and gut it. Cut the heads off and that's it. Cornmeal and flour with salt and pepper. Deep fry till golden brown. Eat till gone.
On small Gills we scale them and then fillet them off, leaving the skin attached. Olive oil, Ritz crackers and then pan fry em in butter! Nothing better!
We have one and you have to flour the meat and then sprinkle or spray lightly with oil then cook til it start crisping up.. May have to turn up the heat!!
We air fry catfish filets all the time. After soaking them in milk (because... catfish), I brush mustard all over them & dip them in cornmeal fish fry and then air fry them. Soooooo good. And no you can't taste a distinct mustard flavor.
Think it’s just meant to be a little healthier without all the oil . But have been very interested to how they cook . Thank you so much. Love some Blue gill fishing 🎣
Minute mark 6:18 that fish peepeed all o ver yer foot man!!!!!!!!LOL!!!That was funnyer than Rob Teklas ole Lady after she been dinkn Tequila...LOL!!!!ole Sarah n me we go wayyyy back....upair in a Pawpaw patch upair!!!Yea boy!
The key to catching spawning bream is to stay as far back from the beds as you can and still throw into them. That way you dint spook them because they arnt like bass and they wont lock espically the bigger ones. And fish your bobber about 2 feet deep. Crickets are the best and redworms
I’ve made fried chicken in the air fryer multiple times. Just like some other people have said, get some cooking spray or something and just spray the fish after u flour it and it’ll be nice and golden crispy.
I live in MN where ever can grow some monster blue gill, it's my absolutely favorite fish to eat frying fillets to grilling them whole! My only fish I regret not getting mounted is my P.B. blue gill I caught it when I was ice fishing and it was 13.4 inches! I have a picture of it by 2 stacked pop cans and it made the cans look like mini toys.
One method that works really good for bluegill is scaling them first. You get a lot more meat this way and the skin really seems to crisp up nicely when you fry it. I skinned them for many years and once I started scaling I will never go back
you do have to coat the flour in oil, also try panko bread crumbs coat them in oil then put on the filets, also preheat the fryer before putting the fish in. i did salmon nuggets in panko bread crumbs and froze them before frying them so the breading gets crispier and fish dont get over cooked
Fish battered with bread crumbs in the air fryer comes out with a real crisp! I usually flip them after a few minutes just to ensure both sides get the same time on top.
I always do my bluegills dipping in a egg wash than roll the in crushed up saltine crackers seasoned with whatever seasonings u like than pan fry them in butter.
Love the catch and cook and bluegill is one of my best fish to eat besides crappie, and I always have a pot of cheese grits with my fish and your wife's pan of grits looked delicious....👌👍🐟
There is no size limit on blue gill and other pan fish here so I use a kitchen scissor to clean them. I like them to freeze a little, rinse them, scale them while they are whole because the skin is tasty, then I cut just behind the head all the way through, being careful not to leave behind any of that great thick shoulder meat--forehead meat?whatever, just like you said. Then I flip it over and cut from the bottom of the gill up to the initial cut, and pull the head off. Some of the entrails will come along, making the gutting easier, and I save the heads for bait. I pull the top fin off, the bottom fins off, because that gets all those little fin bones out at once. then I open top and bottom of the fish with the scissors, spoon out the entrails as needed, and pull the spine out starting with the largest part near the head. Then there are the rib bones that lay all side by side with little spurs at the top, once you find one, gently fold the flesh away from them and pull them all off the fish at once, one side at a time. leave the tail on if you like to eat it--I don't. Then you have two boneless sides of a fish ready to bread and fry as usual. I have eaten these as little as two to three inches long and the flavor is worth it. Others just scale it, cut off the head, gut it, rinse it, and cook it with the bones and fins, because they are easily removed from the cooked meat just before eating, without making any wasted meat like there is with filet method. People say blue gill are second only to walleye and crappie for flavor. I have to agree. I also love to catch blue gill because when they know they are hooked they swim in a crazy circle trying to get free. They are a fun fish on, any size and easy to sight fish from a dock.
Good stuff LFG, got your Kill Negativity T-Shirt... Honestly the best T-Shirt that I've ever gotten. Appreciate you creating it. Used it in one of my music videos... Rock it all the time!
That face at 12:46.....I almost died.
It’s 2:00 and I can’t sleep so I am watching your vids and now I am hungry because of your vids lol
I catch 1.5, 2 pounders
Those last two at 6:00 and 7:20 are what we call Warmouth's.
Justin , 1st off ANOTHER excellent video. You brought back some of my favorite memories of fishing when I was a lil feller LOL. Just an fyi, To get the most from your bluegill, scale them, remove head and fins leaving the tail, roll in flour cornmeal mix and deep fry til golden brown.
Very simple. Scale, gut, cook. Awesome fish.
How funny your sitting right where the Saturday night tournament takes off from. ( 1:53 looking at the bank) where we talk shit and wait on take off lol 😂!
Can't believe you was in my backyard and didn't get to say howdy, hopefully you revisit sometime.
Was he still at Ouchita for this video?
You can get true golden crispys with canola oil in a spray bottle when you lay them in there at first spray. Then the real trick is turn your temp up slightly depending on the unit and flip mid cook. When you do that spray that side lightly finish you cook depending thickness for total time. Got to be light with the franks or just use a little milk with SPG though that makes it something I’ve noticed though. Just a flour with little bit of cornmeal if you like for the breading.
I don't think Emmy could get any cuter. Absolutely precious.
Emery, Emmery, Emmary,or Emmy? Thought it was Emery or something like that?? Emmy sounds a lot much better
I.peeped that. She with Hillbilly Bob. How he pull that off
I have the same air fryer, got it for Christmas. You need to get you some spray on olive and canola oil. Make sure to preheat the fryer. prepare the fish like normal. Then just before loading in the fryer Spray both sides of the fish with either spray on olive or canola oil then fry 3 to 5 minutes then turn the fish and go another 3 minutes. This will get you crispy fish. Depending on the size of fillets you may need to adjust cooking time.
Nothing beats golden crispy 🤪
One tip when you’re frying pan fish if you do it in an actual fryer instead of the air fryer do the franks red hot with some Louisiana fish fry seasoning normally In a yellow or blue package. Some of the best tasting fish I’ve ever had! Hope this helps! Hope to see some more gill fishing and crappie 😁 also try like a #6 eagle claw hook with the leaders on them
When I was a kid back in the 70s, I'd walk to a near by pond with my ultra light spinning gear and I'd find summer time grasshoppers around the pond. I could put together a stringer of bluegill in an hour or so and cook and eat them right there by pond. So much fun, we would spend a whole day fishing, swimming, and eating. Never knew who's pond it was but I don't guess anyone minded, no one ever said nothing to us.
@9:44 😂😂😂😂😂
The way you fillet those is how we always did it growing up. They eat good
My wife and I love our air fryer, we have a spray bottle with peanut oil, light spray when you start and after you flip.
Catch and cooks are my favorite
Awesome video, I prefer the fight of a big bluegill on an ultralight over a crappie.
Bluegill is great! Try just scaling them, gutting them, cut the head off, cut a few small lines in the skin and fry them up. You get more flavor, more meat, and super easy. It's worth trying 👍
2:25 that's a peg float dude
Has anyone else tried to catch them with flies like he did at 5:06? I'm really curious
fly fish on beds all the time
She looked so concerned when he said it's not fried it taste like it's baked at 18:45 😂😂😂
I think if you spray the floured fish with a cooking spray it gives more of a deep fried taste and texture... but yes it is a compact convection oven. Grear for baking biscuits!
Perch 100% my favorite
Not trying to act like I know everything but a good rule of thumb that I use while pan fishing is if the fish is wider than the palm of my hand it’s a keeper. You get the bigger/better filets like that plus it’s good for the population to take the bigger guys out and let the smaller guys grow
If you do a wet batter instead of a dry breading they get a lot more golden crispy
I gotta get one of those things. I just watched a video of a guy catching bluegills with butter worms. Works great. Emmie needs her own channel now. So adorable !
EPF kills it in the panfish department!
7:26 isn't a green sunfish its a hybrid bluegill
you need to spray them with canola oil halfway through and they get nice and crispy
Lol Emmy is so cute. I see her Chompers are coming in nicely.
I have the same air fryer. If you read the instructions, you will see that you should preheat the fryer first. Then after you flour the fish, us an oil spray such as Pam to coat the flour. I’ve done wings, fish, pork chops, chicken thighs/legs and breasts which comes out crispy and moist. Don’t forget, if you want crispy fried, always spray with oil and half way through, flip and continue. Cosori has tons of recipes online. Practice makes perfect. Good luck, keep us posted.
If you get those properly coated you will achieve the crispies! Dry them in plain flour and shake off, then into egg, then into seasoned coating! Fry them a bit longer! BTW your one of the coolest people I've seen, love the girls and your precious daughter. The tree house, all of it, your a lucky man. Keep on being you!
Love using a 12' rod, light line and 1/64 oz. jig head with a 1.25" Bobbie Garland Slab Slayr to jig for perch. Excellent eating for sure.
Lightly spray your fish with pam or other vegetable based spray right before you put them in the air fryer....also just had Frank's on fish for the first time today on catch and cook blue gill. Fantastic.
You should experiment by trying to catch gills without that line curling strike indicator, I'm sure you'll harvest some larger filets.
Something that works really well for bluegil are those tiny pink power bait
Add about two caps of oil to the bottom of the fryer and it will make it a lot more crispy
A light dusting of baking powder is an awsome sub for flower... doesnt turn into goo
The best way i found with my air fryer is to dip it in butter again after you have the flour on and add saltine cracker crumbs.. Nice and crispy
Catfish is the best 💯
Add a teaspoon of oil to the bottom of the basket and cook a little bit longer. Gets it nice and crispy!
My mom is a air fryer fanatic. I showed her this and she told me to catch some bluegill from our pond. I think she likes it😂
Man I'm sorry I'm late to the comment party... Them grits looks so good makes me want to try them... if you make it mixture 50/50 olive oil and canola oil your fish taste a lot better... thank God our prayers are being answered that baby girls looking like her mom every day🤠
You should look up some bluegill videos, they get a lot bigger if you fish the right spots and it can be really fun.
Spray with olive oil and turn them over half way the cook time. They will get crispy. Enjoy😀👍👍
We love our air fryer but it doesn't cook enough for a family of 6. And we just figured out the convection setting on our oven. Both are pretty much the same, the oven takes longer but does more food. Air fryers and Convection are healthy choices to dropping a 100% organic succulent fillet into a vat of GMO and pesticide filled grease. That was for OSG, nothing but love LFG.
BlueGills and those tasty crappies. Now that is a tasty meal. Fun to catch. Way to go LFG.
Our family really likes the Franks hot sauce on chicken strips, flour and fry in oil.
We took your idea from the fish. It is wonderful. Thanks so much. We have also tried it on cubed steak. Just can not go wrong with hot sauce as a marinade.
Agree with some of the other comments, those are some small gills LFG. For panfish, i usually go the size of my palm (~6 inches) from tip of the nose to where the tail necks down before i keep them. More gills get let go, but the ones you keep are worth the effort.
Bluegills are amazing to eat! 🐟
My wife and I said the same thing. I experimented with the old Gaspergo. It was purdy good, certainly not fried. More of a convection oven type of thing. I feel like I need to add fat somehow. It's a work in progress. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Try slip bobbers... much easier to cast and you can fish them at any depth for those big deep spawners.
Hey LFG u should try crushing up pork rinds and using it instead of flour all u have to do is put it in a egg wash and then batter it pork rinds and the air fryer does a great job like that
I always used a spoon to take the scales off. Cut in behind the pec fin and gut it. Cut the heads off and that's it. Cornmeal and flour with salt and pepper. Deep fry till golden brown. Eat till gone.
On small Gills we scale them and then fillet them off, leaving the skin attached. Olive oil, Ritz crackers and then pan fry em in butter! Nothing better!
I love videos like this
Best eating fish hands down! I use an electric filet knife to clean mine. Bread with shore lunch and deep fry the filets. Yum!
Try fly fishing for bluegill! Super fun and exciting
We have one and you have to flour the meat and then sprinkle or spray lightly with oil then cook til it start crisping up.. May have to turn up the heat!!
The best way to cook bream is to scale them and pan fry them with the skin on, it gives them a much better flavor.
I like to use some avocado oil spray and it helps to crisp up the fish and get rid of the flour taste .
Good times catching bluegill growing up
We air fry catfish filets all the time. After soaking them in milk (because... catfish), I brush mustard all over them & dip them in cornmeal fish fry and then air fry them. Soooooo good. And no you can't taste a distinct mustard flavor.
Try using the flour, egg, breadcrumbs technique with panko breadcrumbs or any other type of breadcrumbs. Should be able to get the golden crispies💪🏽💪🏽
6:18 that was a longear sunfish
Think it’s just meant to be a little healthier without all the oil . But have been very interested to how they cook . Thank you so much. Love some Blue gill fishing 🎣
Try using pork rinds crushed up instead of flower makes fish unreal crispy and really good
Minute mark 6:18 that fish peepeed all o ver yer foot man!!!!!!!!LOL!!!That was funnyer than Rob Teklas ole Lady after she been dinkn Tequila...LOL!!!!ole Sarah n me we go wayyyy back....upair in a Pawpaw patch upair!!!Yea boy!
You have to cook the fish from the settings also you turn it over then finish cooking
The key to catching spawning bream is to stay as far back from the beds as you can and still throw into them. That way you dint spook them because they arnt like bass and they wont lock espically the bigger ones. And fish your bobber about 2 feet deep. Crickets are the best and redworms
I’ve made fried chicken in the air fryer multiple times. Just like some other people have said, get some cooking spray or something and just spray the fish after u flour it and it’ll be nice and golden crispy.
I live in MN where ever can grow some monster blue gill, it's my absolutely favorite fish to eat frying fillets to grilling them whole! My only fish I regret not getting mounted is my P.B. blue gill I caught it when I was ice fishing and it was 13.4 inches! I have a picture of it by 2 stacked pop cans and it made the cans look like mini toys.
One method that works really good for bluegill is scaling them first. You get a lot more meat this way and the skin really seems to crisp up nicely when you fry it. I skinned them for many years and once I started scaling I will never go back
you do have to coat the flour in oil, also try panko bread crumbs coat them in oil then put on the filets, also preheat the fryer before putting the fish in. i did salmon nuggets in panko bread crumbs and froze them before frying them so the breading gets crispier and fish dont get over cooked
It actually works breaded too I didn’t think it would but it does and it’s very very good I used Louisiana fish fry already seasoned
Try spraying the filets w/spray oil (Pam) before putting into the fryer
To get it to fry give the fillets a spray with some oil. They only need a light spray not a soaking. Good luck from Terry in Melbourne Australia.
Fish battered with bread crumbs in the air fryer comes out with a real crisp! I usually flip them after a few minutes just to ensure both sides get the same time on top.
I think the oil from the fish is what makes it crisp w the flour
Love cooking in air fryer!
The way I cook bluegill is I scale them cut off fillets skin on standard frying method
I have a air fryer and I love it
I always do my bluegills dipping in a egg wash than roll the in crushed up saltine crackers seasoned with whatever seasonings u like than pan fry them in butter.
Love the catch and cook and bluegill is one of my best fish to eat besides crappie, and I always have a pot of cheese grits with my fish and your wife's pan of grits looked delicious....👌👍🐟
I watch the entire advertisement because I think the lake fork family deserve the funds
You lather the filet in butter then cover them in breadcrumbs and bake them
For blue gill a great bait to use is a little piece of a slim Jim, it is very cheap and you can get a lot of it
My 2 cents. Here in Wisconsin we bread them (not batter), skin ON, and deep fry. It's a little more work. But so worth it.
You can spray or brush a little bit of oil on things you want to be actually fried and it does a decent job.
I bought an oven with an air fryer built in. It's pretty awesome.
Love air fryers! Done all sorts of breading in chicken and it works very well. I will be trying some fish for sure in it now.
hey LFG, put ur franks but instead of using flour use panko bread crumbs and it comes out golden crispies...do it all the time, happy fishing!!
When I pond hop for blue gills I normally use a little beetle spin
Air Fryer is just a small convection oven. Spray the food with a little bit of oil and then put it in the air fryer
Bluegill is my favorite fish to eat alongside crappie
I like using a small small hook like the fly. You guys should have a bluegill tournament. And then have a nice fish fry
There is no size limit on blue gill and other pan fish here so I use a kitchen scissor to clean them. I like them to freeze a little, rinse them, scale them while they are whole because the skin is tasty, then I cut just behind the head all the way through, being careful not to leave behind any of that great thick shoulder meat--forehead meat?whatever, just like you said. Then I flip it over and cut from the bottom of the gill up to the initial cut, and pull the head off. Some of the entrails will come along, making the gutting easier, and I save the heads for bait. I pull the top fin off, the bottom fins off, because that gets all those little fin bones out at once. then I open top and bottom of the fish with the scissors, spoon out the entrails as needed, and pull the spine out starting with the largest part near the head. Then there are the rib bones that lay all side by side with little spurs at the top, once you find one, gently fold the flesh away from them and pull them all off the fish at once, one side at a time. leave the tail on if you like to eat it--I don't. Then you have two boneless sides of a fish ready to bread and fry as usual. I have eaten these as little as two to three inches long and the flavor is worth it. Others just scale it, cut off the head, gut it, rinse it, and cook it with the bones and fins, because they are easily removed from the cooked meat just before eating, without making any wasted meat like there is with filet method. People say blue gill are second only to walleye and crappie for flavor. I have to agree. I also love to catch blue gill because when they know they are hooked they swim in a crazy circle trying to get free. They are a fun fish on, any size and easy to sight fish from a dock.
Good stuff LFG, got your Kill Negativity T-Shirt... Honestly the best T-Shirt that I've ever gotten. Appreciate you creating it. Used it in one of my music videos... Rock it all the time!
13:48 no body said peric was gonna be In this episode
Try it with bread crumbs to get them golden crispys