We air fried catfish for the first time this year. I used a bread crumb, masa flour, and Old Bay dredge. Spritzed olive oil on both sides after dredging. They turned out really good. Thinking of putting the deep fryer away.
Agreed, I spray on olive oil and flip them half way into the cooking time. You might want to add a few minutes of cooking time to make sure they are both golden and crispy!
Okay I am leaving you this comment as what I would call myself an air fryer expert. First I want to say that I don't know what was done off camera but it looked like you did not properly preheat the machine. It can be very important to do that, maybe not so much for those really thin bluegill but for most other things it is very important. It is also important for frying, yes you can fry and get the crispy deliciousness. You appeared to do most of the precook correctly although I would put in a couple of egg whites beaten well, then add your franks, then add and S,P,&G stir that very well dip your fish in the egg wash then into the flour then back to the egg wash then back to the flour, OIL, then into the PREHEATED airfryer. I have been cooking with an air fryer for years and have perfected several dishes, my favorite being french fries. I mean french fries that are so good you would never want McDonald fry again. Crispy, with about 70% less fat than deep fried fries. My fries are so good I put them on salads as croutons, they become easily converted to hash browns. I always have a couple pounds of precooked fries in the freezer ready to be taken out and put in the air fryer for a few minutes so they are a crispy bit of deliciousness. Okay the thing with air frying is if you want to fry you do need to use oil. Granted it will be just a couple of tablespoons worth. It is usually best achieved with the use of one of those squirt bottles. You put you oil in (I most often use regular olive oil not extra virgin) after you have breaded your fish lay them out and spray them with you bottle on both sides. A very thin coat so the flour is barely moist. Then fry in the PREHEATED air fryer If you have any other questions just ask.
If you batter the fish and then spray them with some canned oil they come out super crispy but I know that kind of defeats the purpose of an "air" fryer but a lot of the oil drips off the fish while cooking
You have to spray the flour on the outside of the fillets with olive oil to get it gold crispy. I have and air fryer and do chicken all the time. Taste like Popeyes! Good Luck LFG!
Long time pan fish eater here - part of the art of Bluegill filleting is the mastery of going over the rib cage and maintaining that thick web of meat on the ribs! Blue Gill are good eating! Better than Bass IMO! Perch / Crappie / Bluegill are all awesome.
Love the video,great content! My little nephew is addicted to your channel as well as lunkers. He is 5 and he can already catch em like a pro. Loves fishing with soft plastic worms and squarebills. I've got him a sub to MTB and he lights up when that box comes every month!! Thank you for being a great inspiration to the fishing community and the younger fishing freaks out there!!
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 !
My air frier has me fill the bottom of it with some type of vegetable/olive oil. That makes really flakey golden fish. Also use a batter for a real crust. Mix egg and milk soak the fillets, roll em in a mix of gsp and flour, double dip in egg, then back to flour. You wont be disappointed with the result. 100% grandmother approved
Man you have me weak with the whole air fryer. LOL. It's like man creating fire for the first time. Seriously though I love you channel. Subscriber for life.
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.
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....👌👍🐟
That's how I do it too. Flour, salt and pepper and fry. I like the skin and if you're good with chopsticks, you can pull the meat off the bones easily. You get all the meat that way
Wrapped in foil with a large pat of butter in the cavity, S&P... drop in the campfire coals and cook until tender. I used to come in with a bunch before breakfast and do this in the coals from the previous days fire(when we didn't have fire danger and it was wet enough we let it burn down on its own over night). Comes out buttery and steamed flaky tasty goodness!
LFG I want you to know that you've inspired me and brought back the passion I have for fishing. The best way that I've fished for bluegill is to use a slip bobber and go deep for the toads. All the little ones stay shallow. Also, next time try slipping the hook under the collar of the crickets, it lets them act more natural.
Thanks for showing yourself being spinned. I love bass fishing, but when it comes to bluegill, I struggle because I am scared of being spinned. Also, thanks for continuing to show how you handle to fish.
Love them Bluegills! As for the air fryer - you just traded in some precious countertop real estate for a tiny convection oven instead of using the much larger convection oven already in your stove! Besides, these little fishies want to SWIM ... in grease ... in cast iron ... over a campfire.
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.
I live the shows you do with your pops.i miss my dad he's the one that thought me everything I know about crappie fishing if ever near bullshoalls lake look me up I'll show you some awesome spots on both lakes northfork have an amazing day by friend
We live in Missouri and around here a lot of the skunks are rabid. Tell Rob to watch his dogs and don't let them get too close to the skunks. We sure enjoyed your video today !! That little Emmy is so cute!!
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
Those were fish bait. I can tell he is not a bluegill fisherman. that is ok, he is learning. However, he is quite correct about the deliciousness of bluegill. We just catch em a lot bigger here in the South.
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!
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!
Great video. You are the second You Tuber that has air fried food. The other one turned out really good too. I enjoy your videos and you do a great job. Keep up the great job and keep living the dreams
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🤠
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.
My grandpa used to fish sunnies here in MN and he would gut them and then just scale them and my grandma would flour with S&P them and fry them up. Yum!
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!
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.
hey I am only 13 but I am from Louisiana and catch tons of bluegill but I see at 9:54 that you have a small pumpkin seed I would strongly suggest not keeping bluegill/panfish that are not the same or If not bigger than your hand I usually keep the small ones for cut bait for catfish thx for the great content and good luck on your next panfish catch and cook
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.
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!
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.
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.
You have to come to Lake Verret and fish for the big bull bream and chinquapin (redear sunfish for people not from Louisiana). You cant wrap you hands around these fish and they are easy to clean. Fun easy fishing in the cypress knees
Watching this as a type...bream are my favorite food! Fried mullet is also up there, but I’ve been doing it on the ole fish fryer my whole life. I keep hearing that these air fryers are legit. I guess I’m about to see up close before I try it.
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.
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.
First off, I love your videos.... they are down to earth and include other aspects of your life. As far as bluegill are concerned, my family loved them and concentrated on the spawn in the spring. My brothers and I started fishing for them with Johnson Century reels and progressed to fly rods as we grew older. I can recall my father catching fish on his back cast while fly fishing. I prefer only one fish above blue gill as far as table fair goes and the is walleye. To clean blue gill I would suggest getting a Townsend fish skinner (ebay) To clean, you cut their heads off and gut them. Then slice on each side dorsal and ventral and remove fins.... Using the Townsend tool you can then remove scales and skin. Bones are in but can be avoided with a fork........ I prefer a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of night crawler to crickets, it stays on the hook much better and doesn't wiggle lol
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 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.
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 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!
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.
Make yourself a beer batter and give it a go once. Beer,flower,salt, pepper and a little Cayenne if you like. Mix to like a thin pan cake batter. Oh yeah almost for got you need a egg or two as well. Happy frying.
Love Bluegill. Grew up eating them. I'd say it's the most popular panfish to fish for in Wisconsin or at least in my opinion anyways. Scale them and leave the skin on makes them a little extra crispy and gives a little more flavor. Pan fry. Mouth is water just thinking about it
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.
You need to spray the fillets with some olive oil and cook till golden crispy dampen the flour on both sides with the oil.
We air fried catfish for the first time this year. I used a bread crumb, masa flour, and Old Bay dredge. Spritzed olive oil on both sides after dredging. They turned out really good. Thinking of putting the deep fryer away.
I cooked catfish and added some oil and cooked it a little longer and they were nice and crispy with flour and panko.
Agreed, I spray on olive oil and flip them half way into the cooking time. You might want to add a few minutes of cooking time to make sure they are both golden and crispy!
Came to say just what you all have just said
i use panko breadcrumbs for my fried chicken, works pretty well in the airfryer. dip in flour > egg > panko > then fry em off.
Okay I am leaving you this comment as what I would call myself an air fryer expert.
First I want to say that I don't know what was done off camera but it looked like you did not properly preheat the machine. It can be very important to do that, maybe not so much for those really thin bluegill but for most other things it is very important. It is also important for frying, yes you can fry and get the crispy deliciousness.
You appeared to do most of the precook correctly although I would put in a couple of egg whites beaten well, then add your franks, then add and S,P,&G stir that very well dip your fish in the egg wash then into the flour then back to the egg wash then back to the flour, OIL, then into the PREHEATED airfryer.
I have been cooking with an air fryer for years and have perfected several dishes, my favorite being french fries. I mean french fries that are so good you would never want McDonald fry again. Crispy, with about 70% less fat than deep fried fries. My fries are so good I put them on salads as croutons, they become easily converted to hash browns. I always have a couple pounds of precooked fries in the freezer ready to be taken out and put in the air fryer for a few minutes so they are a crispy bit of deliciousness.
Okay the thing with air frying is if you want to fry you do need to use oil. Granted it will be just a couple of tablespoons worth. It is usually best achieved with the use of one of those squirt bottles. You put you oil in (I most often use regular olive oil not extra virgin) after you have breaded your fish lay them out and spray them with you bottle on both sides. A very thin coat so the flour is barely moist. Then fry in the PREHEATED air fryer
If you have any other questions just ask.
Thanx.
If you batter the fish and then spray them with some canned oil they come out super crispy but I know that kind of defeats the purpose of an "air" fryer but a lot of the oil drips off the fish while cooking
You gave those bluegill the cricket dangle. Proper technique.
You have to spray the flour on the outside of the fillets with olive oil to get it gold crispy. I have and air fryer and do chicken all the time. Taste like Popeyes! Good Luck LFG!
And he didn't give it enough time to crisp up. Should have went the 8mins
Holding pumpkinseed and says “it’s so beautiful” next clip it was him slamming it in the cooler😂😂😂
I enjoy your videos LFG! You've been an inspiration! I'm glad to hear your saved! Hope to meet you someday 👍😁
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
Long time pan fish eater here - part of the art of Bluegill filleting is the mastery of going over the rib cage and maintaining that thick web of meat on the ribs! Blue Gill are good eating! Better than Bass IMO! Perch / Crappie / Bluegill are all awesome.
Honestly I think crappie, bluegill and yellow perch all fall into the same category. They are all good, and I wouldn't rate one above the other.
Bluegill are by far my favorite eatin fish and the real big ones you can fish for life bass using small spinners and rooster tails.
Joes files work good and really small crankbaits also
Love the video,great content!
My little nephew is addicted to your channel as well as lunkers.
He is 5 and he can already catch em like a pro. Loves fishing with soft plastic worms and squarebills. I've got him a sub to MTB and he lights up when that box comes every month!!
Thank you for being a great inspiration to the fishing community and the younger fishing freaks out there!!
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!
I actually fly fish for pan fish with grasshopper patterns or atoms parachutes it’s fun and they put up a decent fight on a 3-4 weight rod
Gavin Whiten i do the same thing!
I like using spiders and small poppers.
I just love y'all!! You guys have the best relationship that makes me want more with my wife every day! Keep on fishing and living my friend!!
Cut the heads off, scale and gut them and cook them up! Delish!!!
Kent Kelly only way to eat em
Gotta find a spot with slab bluegill bro get some 1lbers and they have some fat fillets.
Beautiful place to fish Congratulations, it reminds me here in *Brazil* where I do my Fisheries.
Hugs and good fishing.👍🎣
Always love a great LFG video. It’s a great change of pace from the normal bassfishing videos. Plus, who could hate a good catch and cook video! 🤙🏻
I love watching Lake Life Family.. U have a wonderful family.. Emy is getting bigger 😄😄
BlueGills and those tasty crappies. Now that is a tasty meal. Fun to catch. Way to go LFG.
Bream and sunfish is underrated big time like if u agree
What is bream
@@egannolf1144 its bluegill, but down south we call it bream
@@robertreid1590 We call'em perch down here too & they aren't perch either. LOL
Even better it can be spelled bream AND brim. Perch. Sunnies. Copper nose. Pan fish. Changes area to area down here !
Perch bluegill bream all the same thing in Texas second best fish to eat behind crappie
My air frier has me fill the bottom of it with some type of vegetable/olive oil. That makes really flakey golden fish. Also use a batter for a real crust. Mix egg and milk soak the fillets, roll em in a mix of gsp and flour, double dip in egg, then back to flour. You wont be disappointed with the result. 100% grandmother approved
Awesome video!! I’m glad to see you enjoy every type of fishing 🎣 pan fish are so good to eat
Man you have me weak with the whole air fryer. LOL. It's like man creating fire for the first time. Seriously though I love you channel. Subscriber for life.
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.
I love the channel LFG you inspired me to start my own TH-cam channel.. I'm thinking about doing my first catch and cook
7:26"Been up there making them beds..not anymore!"haha and then you you hear the fish hit the ice..lol good stuff
Looks like you and the family had a great trip. Stoked to see some of the catfishing videos!!
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....👌👍🐟
Lol Emmy is so cute. I see her Chompers are coming in nicely.
We always just scaled gutted and took head off and cooked them like that
That's how I do it too. Flour, salt and pepper and fry. I like the skin and if you're good with chopsticks, you can pull the meat off the bones easily. You get all the meat that way
I do the same too! The tail fin becomes crispy like a potato chip. Really tasty!
Wrapped in foil with a large pat of butter in the cavity, S&P... drop in the campfire coals and cook until tender. I used to come in with a bunch before breakfast and do this in the coals from the previous days fire(when we didn't have fire danger and it was wet enough we let it burn down on its own over night). Comes out buttery and steamed flaky tasty goodness!
Same but i like lemon pepper with sliced lemon on top n cooked in the foil.
I fillet everything. If I was going to eat minnows they'd be filleted lol.
LFG I want you to know that you've inspired me and brought back the passion I have for fishing. The best way that I've fished for bluegill is to use a slip bobber and go deep for the toads. All the little ones stay shallow. Also, next time try slipping the hook under the collar of the crickets, it lets them act more natural.
Thanks for showing yourself being spinned. I love bass fishing, but when it comes to bluegill, I struggle because I am scared of being spinned. Also, thanks for continuing to show how you handle to fish.
Another great video. I got excited when I saw the word Panfish!
Love them Bluegills! As for the air fryer - you just traded in some precious countertop real estate for a tiny convection oven instead of using the much larger convection oven already in your stove! Besides, these little fishies want to SWIM ... in grease ... in cast iron ... over a campfire.
The way you fillet those is how we always did it growing up. They eat good
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.
Gotta spray it with some olive oil man and then it’ll get crispy 👌 I love my Air fryer use it about on the daily
I live the shows you do with your pops.i miss my dad he's the one that thought me everything I know about crappie fishing if ever near bullshoalls lake look me up I'll show you some awesome spots on both lakes northfork have an amazing day by friend
We live in Missouri and around here a lot of the skunks are rabid. Tell Rob to watch his dogs and don't let them get too close to the skunks. We sure enjoyed your video today !! That little Emmy is so cute!!
Very simple. Scale, gut, cook. Awesome fish.
Making them beds.... Not anymore. That made me chuckle. Great vid 👍
I love your description of how the airfryer works!!
Let's get Lake Life Family Channel to 100k!
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
I've never seen anybody keep bluegills that small in my entire life
Same
Those are called potato chip bluegills round these parts
Ditto. I call those my "practice" catch. I don't keep any that are smaller than my hand, which is ~8".
@@joe1071 I suppose if you want some bite sized pieces they would work well, but I've never thought they were worth the effort of cleaning.
Those were fish bait. I can tell he is not a bluegill fisherman. that is ok, he is learning. However, he is quite correct about the deliciousness of bluegill. We just catch em a lot bigger here in the South.
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!
First, I love your videos, second they make franks in powder form its at walmart next to the seasonings.
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!
Great video. You are the second You Tuber that has air fried food. The other one turned out really good too. I enjoy your videos and you do a great job. Keep up the great job and keep living the dreams
I love Frank's soo much. Buffalonian here and that hot sauce is our blood
I just love watching you and the family
Crank the temp on that thing, but keep your time low. I can confirm the delivery of golden crispies out of one of those!
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🤠
Great video 😎👍 I'm gonna have to do a Bluegill Catch n cook lol 😂
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😂
Chicken wings in the air fryer are awesome. I haven't tried fish or your Frank's Wing sauce, but I will soon.
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.
Best eating fish hands down! I use an electric filet knife to clean mine. Bread with shore lunch and deep fry the filets. Yum!
My grandpa used to fish sunnies here in MN and he would gut them and then just scale them and my grandma would flour with S&P them and fry them up. Yum!
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!
panfish are easily the best tasting fish in existence.
way better than walleye in my opinion
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.
hey I am only 13 but I am from Louisiana and catch tons of bluegill but I see at 9:54 that you have a small pumpkin seed I would strongly suggest not keeping bluegill/panfish that are not the same or If not bigger than your hand I usually keep the small ones for cut bait for catfish thx for the great content and good luck on your next panfish catch and cook
Wings in the air fryer are so good especially heating them up
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.
OMG! You've never eaten BG before?! LoL. They're awesome!
On the Air Frye, you have to spray oil on anything with flour.
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.
"Those are so beautiful. It's insane."
Boom cooler hahah
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.
Air fryers are like small convection ovens. I cook just about everything in mine. Lemon pepper cornish hen is amazing.
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.
Watching and as you open the fryer the emerald air fryer ad pops up n plays lol
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!
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
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?
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.
The fact you go for all species really is great. Come to New England and go for Perch.
You have to come to Lake Verret and fish for the big bull bream and chinquapin (redear sunfish for people not from Louisiana). You cant wrap you hands around these fish and they are easy to clean. Fun easy fishing in the cypress knees
Great family vids love them , can t wait till you trap the skunk. Hope to see you and outlaw do another collab
Good job I wanna try it out thanks an Emmy is getting big.
Watching this as a type...bream are my favorite food! Fried mullet is also up there, but I’ve been doing it on the ole fish fryer my whole life. I keep hearing that these air fryers are legit. I guess I’m about to see up close before I try it.
If you sprayed the floured fish with Pam, the oil in Pam will let the air fry the fish.
As a kid I would go out and catch me some bluegill, fillet them and then fry em up in a pan with salt and butter! DELICIOUS!
Crazy that you haven't had bluegill! Great clean little fishes!
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.
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.
First off, I love your videos.... they are down to earth and include other aspects of your life. As far as bluegill are concerned, my family loved them and concentrated on the spawn in the spring. My brothers and I started fishing for them with Johnson Century reels and progressed to fly rods as we grew older. I can recall my father catching fish on his back cast while fly fishing. I prefer only one fish above blue gill as far as table fair goes and the is walleye. To clean blue gill I would suggest getting a Townsend fish skinner (ebay) To clean, you cut their heads off and gut them. Then slice on each side dorsal and ventral and remove fins.... Using the Townsend tool you can then remove scales and skin. Bones are in but can be avoided with a fork........ I prefer a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of night crawler to crickets, it stays on the hook much better and doesn't wiggle lol
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 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.
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.
LFG the fly and bobber method works great on rivers when fishing for trout. Keep that in mind when you go on another trout adventure
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!
Awesome video, I prefer the fight of a big bluegill on an ultralight over a crappie.
Yeah man, bluegill and pumpkinseed are great eating! Taste like perch almost!
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.
Make yourself a beer batter and give it a go once. Beer,flower,salt, pepper and a little Cayenne if you like. Mix to like a thin pan cake batter. Oh yeah almost for got you need a egg or two as well. Happy frying.
Love Bluegill. Grew up eating them. I'd say it's the most popular panfish to fish for in Wisconsin or at least in my opinion anyways. Scale them and leave the skin on makes them a little extra crispy and gives a little more flavor. Pan fry. Mouth is water just thinking about it
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.