Cal in the Field: Invasive Carp and Catfish Noodling | S1E02 | MeatEater
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In this episode of Cal’s Week in Review: In the Field, MeatEater’s Director of Conservation, Ryan Callaghan heads to Tennessee to see how the recent addition of invasive Asian carp to the ecosystem is affecting fishing, recreation, and the environment. With the help of the TWRA, he meets with biologists, commercial processors, outfitters, and even tries his hand at noodling for flathead catfish. When it’s all said and done, they put this invasive newcomer up against two southern favorites-crappie and flathead-tune in to find out which fish wins the taste test.
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How they didn’t call his segments “Cal of the Wild” I’ll never know...
"Cal in the water"
So sad no one is mass producing these fish into fillets/nuggets for schools, colleges, military institutions and correctional facilities. It would surely help with the carp problem and the agencies would have better food
theyre starting to do that
New meateater series is just what I needed today, thanks ya'll😀👍
I remember my dad was on strike,we spent the summer fishing an we never turned these down. When you don't have a paycheck you'll eat anything. The Chinese love these, all you have to do is try it,the bones are the worst. Hungry people don't complain.
Bellyflop Callaghan!
Lol. What an elegant dive
I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that...lol.
10/10
The dive started well, but, as soon as his feet left, they didn't gain ANY altitude LOL
We've been catching and cooking these cheeky invaders for years. Good to see that people are finally coming around to these big, abundant beauties. We have a couple of catching and cooking tutorials on our channel too :D
I like that bracelet you picked up noodling there, Cal👍
They're not just 'decent eating'. They are excellent table fare. They put catfish, tilapia, and any other common farmed fish to absolute shame. The pin bones are a hassle, but it's worth the hassle if you need some fish for the freezer.
Its a matter of taste, i think id like them
11:05, that was a hell of a dive Cal! 😄
"That's a propaganda carp right there."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good episode, and I have been waiting for this one since I saw the Instagram posts last year about it. Love it when Cal comes to TN! What I have always found interesting when I have tried to introduce people to new types of fish, they always talk about how it has a fishy taste or weird texture. Although, these same people love catfish which has a very unique texture and quite often a distinct fishy flavor. I think so often it just boils down to a mental state where some are hesitant to try something new and go into it with a negative outlook from the start. Keep the Cal content rolling!
10/10 Dive Cal
You mean that belly flop? lol
Cracked me up too. haha
That catfish hit hard, you can tell by the bruise...great job holding on!
It's not so much a bruise as it is an abrasion...their lips have bony pads lined with hundreds of tiny sharp recurved teeth....when they shake their head with your hand in their mouth, it's like slapping your arm on a running belt sander with 100grit paper on it.
@@mthompson ...so people do this for fun, huh...
turn those carp into fertilizer and plant some trees somewhere
Great video, I enjoy the different locations Meat Eater goes to. Gives a good perspective on what everyone who enjoys the outdoors is doing.
Callahan is getting me through this Quarantine keep them coming💪🏽🤟🏽👍🏽
I absolutely Love this channel . So much knowledge and you know you're in for a good laugh as well .
So Steve took a back seat on the new series of meat eater eh 😂😂 just what I needed though.. great content as always
Stop 'em from getting into Lake Michigan. They're real close!! (If not already in)
Its gonna ruin a billion dollar industry
2 fish? Well done Cal!
I died laughing when Call dove in 🤣😂
Floating up the Illinois River to see flying carp would be best. There have been deaths colliding with boaters.
This might place me into the pile that is part of the problem, but I will not go out of my way to eat this fish. Sure I'll try it if it's available, but I don't see myself ordering this at a restaurant. But power to the people for finding some use out of it.
We need more cal!
I remember fishing the Cumberland River near Carthage and the amount of carp out there was unholy.
Around where I live, if someone catches a carp they often throw it onto the bank and leave it because people think that they aren't good eatin'. it's a real shame
They do that up here in Michigan with bowfin. If drives me mad, as bowfin are amazing eaters if you just take the time to prepare them correctly.
This new series is great! Cal is the perfect meateater crew guy for these.
Nothing wrong with carp, its considered a special meal in some easter european countries for christmas.
However to improve the taste the wild carp will be released in a fresh water pond for a few days after fishing.
Cal, that dive made me rewind the video several times. You are wearing a belt number one. You gotta extend a little bit buddy. I think I found something you're not very good at. Everything else you seem to have nailed. Not so much on the diving. Great new series. Keep them coming.
THANK THE OUTDOOR GODS for a new series!! Nice work Cal!
I would’ve never guessed that carp were a good fish table fare wise.
best episode ever. love seeing more of the ol cal
Whatever i know that 1st Carp he works for Meat Eater lol
Dude he left a mark on you !
“Cal’s Week in Review” is the “Ten Minute Podcast” of the hunting podcasts. I mean that as an extreme compliment.
I'm sorry, but crappie from clear water, cooked properly is the king of all the fishes to eat. I've got no problem with the carp being surprisingly good , along with gar for that matter, but there's no way it's better than crappie.
In the description there is a typo calling this Cal's Wee In Review... I'd watch I guess.
They've gotten pretty bad in Indiana as well the last couple of years.
10:59 That form though 🤣 Half dive Half belly flop
Cal is easily one of the best things about meateater. Love the episodes he is in.
Stud of a belly flopper Cal
@10:59 that dive was about as graceful as I expected
Dadgum wholesome content.
Love this!😍😍
Release ... in the grease!
“Propaganda Carp” is the funniest thing ive heard all year.
We have the same problem in Australia with the Asian carp. The river in my home town would flude in winter and would leave pockets of water everywhere. Lot's of carp would get stuck in them my dad and I would take a drag net and net alot of them but we never ate any because of the stigma they had. Now I wish we had😭
Cal’s fucking dive hahaha
First Asia infest our waters with Carp and now it's COVID-19?
I guess bringing Sika deer to Delmarva wasn't too bad though.
In 5 years we will be lucky if we aren't saying this in the great lakes where i live. Its super unfortunate
Jeremy Wade did a nice series were he discussed problems with big rivers in the world (can't remember the name). He went in the US to look at the Mississippi and the carp problem. Really interesting!
I saw that and was fascinated.
Mighty rivers?
Great video!
12:17 This is Kevin James
tom sellecks stache follows cals around holding his pocket and calling him daddy.
The only way carp are going to be controlled is if you bring in their Eurasian predator which is the Weels Catfish that hit over 400 pounds. Its been found they don't affect game fish numbers where they have been brought in.
Wow! That cat fish savaged Cal’s wrist!
U know it ...... Can hit like even b4 watch
Love me some meat eater videos
Thanks guys ...
Stay safe out there
#peacelovehealthnhappines
Take the red, fatty tissue off just about any fish and they taste pretty good. I've had walleye that hasn't tasted good because whoever fixed it left that fatty tissue on it. I've had people tell me white bass is gross, but I grew up eating white bass and I love it, long as the red fatty tissue is removed from the meat. I'm sure the carp is no different.
Ouch! Look at the mark on Cals arm from 12:13 until the end even when cooking and eating. lol
Hooking big carp on fly rod is like hooking into a tank.. they'll also readily take rice puffs and other floating baits.. as well as micro lures and the good ol' white tail grub
Ryan is a noodler? I’m shocked and having to look again at why I admire him so much. Really?????
I really wish this show would have documented the cleaning of the big head in order to help people understand how to utilize this fish.
I personally leave the bones in , and eat around them
this is,
Enlightenment through nature!!! Not through hallucinogens.
#INeversaidShroomsAreBad
I wouldnt want my hand in that things mouth but I'd probly put the cooked version of it in ma mouth. Lol
Bring back das boat!!
Hoping to see more fishing this summer on meat eater!
Love the podcast and can already tell this is going to be good too. Keep it up Cal
Am I the only one who saw the huge bruise around his arm when he was eating, I'm guessing from the catfish
I'm in the camp of being told that carp are crap / Trash fish. I've never tried one, but we have a ton of them out here in Lake Powell and people bow fish for them to get rid of them. Is it just asain carp that are going to be as good as described in this video or should I try taking one of the carp out of Lake Powell and filleting it up and eating it. Powell has all sorts of other delicious fish in it already (Striper, Small Mouth, Crappie, Channel Cats, Walleye).
Your carp are nasty. This one is different.
If you love those catfish stop noodling them, when you pull them off nests it opens the eggs up to predators
What about golden carp?
I've eaten carp on multiple occasions and its not a good fish to eat. Hard to prepare as well considering the tough skin and impossible amount of bones you also have to get rid of.
Will we ever get videos of the podcasts?
Don't get mad at this, Steve, but when I haven't been on TH-cam for a few days and I see that Cal's Week in Review has a new episode and that there's a new Meateater, I watch both but I watch Cal first. This man is a national treasure and the perfect sidekick to Steve. Great episode. Thank you, Cal.
Whats sad is us yanks stuck on not bony fish while most places in the world love um. Remember folks some of our ancestors bought non native carps to America caused they loved eating them.
MEAT EATER: (from Troy Arthur) I agree, “Cal of the Wild”
His arm looked like he used it to block a baseball bat attack...😳...good golly!
I'm confused, he excuses himself at the end of the video to eat carp, but the voice-over was clearly added in post... so did he sit on those filet's until he was editing and then took the time to add the voice-over before eating the fish? This all just seems so unrealistic to me, I'm quitting fishing because of this.
Excellent video. Way to prove a stigma wrong. I have always been told carp were a huge problem and no good to eat. You've changed my mind! Love the series!
Wabash river Lafayette indiana we got and we choot em, choot em with the bow
The only thing wrong with this episode is that it’s just 14 minutes long.
People are starving in America, Cal just showed us one possible way to feed those in need. Time to spend some stimulus Trump bucks on some tackle and get ya some Carp. Not just another oudoor program, I actually learned a lot. Fugg'n ayyye Cal good job Meateater crew!
Yes. No reason for people to go hungry. Used to be though, if you couldn't take care of yourself, you died. Whatever happened to that? Society has gotten so weird. People expect to live to 80 now. If they don't, it's a violation of their civil rights.
in my neck of the woods there. I live on the KY side. Guess I'm going to have to try eating the carp. I know more than a couple people who kill thousands of pounds of them every weekend and sell them but none of them eat it.
Carp even despise themselves and offer themselves into the boat😂
I don't know about that carp but down here in the great state of Texas, common carp and grass carp are excellent in ceviche.
So glad i found you guys, I've missed you on Netflix not realising you had youtube as well...so happy
wtf you doing a podcast standing up for? that's weird man.
That's gotta be a little unnerving sticking your hand in some murky water hole/box.
You can shoot em with a bow and they taste great? sign me up!
I know this is old but welcome to the best state in the lower 48
I hope this gets more views such an awesome show
Cal, well done grabbing that giant fish! I bet that was a unique feeling!
That’s a hell of a mark on your arm from that cat you grabbed Cal.
Johnny needs to pull that bow string up to his nose lol great work Cal
Alaska's Gov Dunleavy just cancelled bear season, everyone please join me in writing to the Gov's office about how absurd this is. Now, anyone who depends on bear meat like me must fill their freezer at the grocery store instead of in the woods
I hear Carp tastes nasty. Mad fishy.
It's a shit fish, I get why they lie though.
I personally think it's pretty shit the weatherby meateater rifle doesn't come in a left handed variation. Just sayin'
Edit: In the pictures at weatherby website it's left handed but I can't seem to find a way to order it that way
Boo hoo. Get a Savage.
12:00 That is very much what I expect of Tennessee
Love Cal!!
P.s. no trash fish just trash cooks