Trash Fish Catch and Cook. Are Creek Chubs good?
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- My first successful catch and cook on this channel! Fried Creek chub are delicious. Next time you catch some bring them home and fry them up with some salt and flour! You won't regret it!
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I really like that your content incorporates both outdoors and indoors. Usually it's either one or the other. Nothing's better than bringing fresh game home and prepping it.
Thank you!
Its the best feeling feeding yourself
This brings back memories of when I was a kid. We caught all kind of fish and ate them all. Great fun.
Low key you could be my best friend. I live in So-cal and seeing someone genuine and kind like you is a breath of fresh air
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I like your channel here. I am older and used to catch a ton of creek chub. To catch more of them, don’t use so much worm. I watched you react to the take often when they had just grabbed the tail, and were making their initial run to get away from the other fish. Instead, don’t react to the first run, react to the second. The first is the escape, the second is the stop and eat. Good job.
I live right next to a river that has huge creek chub and I always fry them, just had them yesterday
Wow! Thats awesome. I know not many people eat them
We always turned our noses up at creek chub, but I often thought what would they taste like? Now I have to try them!
I like them! Let me know how it is!
Yeah around here people use them as bait for big river catfish and musky
I catch these in the creeks near me in northern Ohio. I use a small hook and bait it with a small bread ball and fish it under a bobber. I use them for Bass and Muskie bait. The males look pretty awesome when they are in their spawning colors and have the knobs on their head. I honestly never thought to try and eat them though. It's now on my bucket list.
That's my favorite bass and gar bait too. You should try gar, they are really good
I don’t even fish but I’ve been binge watching your channel. Keep it up!
Growing up as kids on the farm we cane poled creek chub, sunfish , carp, suckers 👈🏼 didn’t care much for them , yellow perch, bull heads , everything got scaled or skinned , gutted , tossed in flour , and deep fried , when the smelt would run in the fall would would go a couple five gallon pails on Lake Michigan, I now live 15 minutes away from the ocean anything that’s legal goes in the cooler and becomes dinner, if it’s big enough it becomes sushi or sashimi , dammit now I’m hungry 😄👍🏼
If you liked those, you'll _love_ smelt!
Smelt are basically sardine-sized trout, and absolutely delicious. The bones cook with the flesh when you fry them, there's never any need to eat around them or pick them out. Just like canned sardines -- the bones cook and can be eaten without problem.
Grandparents were from Calabria. We would have breaded smelts with marinara sauce on a regular basis. Calamari was often on the table as well. Very good. I still refuse to eat baccala though.
@@Ralph-ny1ey -- Italian lutefisk? It's been a half-century since I lived in Minnesota, but my then-roommate's "Lutefisk and Lefse" song was sufficient to provide a lifetime immunity to any interest in trying it.
PS: I can (and have) consume mass quantities of sqid. In fact yesterday I reminded my wife it's been too long since we had any.. Alas, I'm the only one here who likes it.
Oh, the humanity! While I did indeed have a roommate of Scandinavian extraction, it was a _Canadian_ friend -- born in Sweden, IIRC -- who sang that ditty for me a year or two before I moved to Minneapolis.
@@This_is_my_real_name Sort of. Baccala is a cold fish salad made from salted cod. I remember black olives, artichoke, and other veggies in a vinergarette. It stinks so bad, I would never go near it. Who knows, I might actually like now if I tried it.
I had them as a young kid my.mother cooked them Delicious. I'm 72 now
Suckers are very good and yes they have Y bones just like carp do. They must be caught in the winter because in the warmer months they get mushy. Proper way is to scale them with a spoon, then fillet the sides off leaving the skin on bones included. Then make 1/4" inch scores down to the skin without cutting through the skin *important* then salt them and bread them in yellow corn meal making sure to get the meal in between each score line. Fry in Hot oil preferably peanut oil, but any oil will do and deep fry, when they start to float they are done. Just a sprinkle of salt and you can eat the whole fillet without getting choked on a bone. Throw some sliced taters in the grease which helps soak up some of the corn meal floating around or even frozen onion rings. We have even thrown frozen cheese sticks in the pot as well as canned whop top biscuits. They make a nice little appetizer with a dab of homemade grape jelly. Yummy!!
This is one of my favorite channels EVER, it’s almost therapeutic to me…Nvm it actually is therapeutic to me. Keep it going bro
This channel is like a better version of the food network 😄, great video.
Thank you!
You have gained my respect. I randomly come across you and your just so pure and joyful. Don’t care what other people people are using you just want to live your life. Keep it up I love your editing
My wife come from Vietnam and we eat small fish every day and i,
Love it.
nice to see a young man keeping it real n doing cool stuff. keep up the good work bro. hopefully others catch on. there's a huge beautiful world out there. we need to coexist and stop all the construction and destruction.
Great vidya both in concept and execution!
I’ve loved the idea of eating trash fish ever since I found out that sunfish and crappie were good to eat. As a kid, it was so ingrained that you didn’t eat panfish that I remember speculating with friends about the origin of the name since it was unthinkable that you’d put them in a pen and they’d come out toothsome.
🔥 definitely do more catch and cooks. Keep them coming. Also try using wax worms it’ll be harder for the fish to steal.
This was great! Would love to see more of these videos.
Agreed
do more of catch clean n cook videos . really love this kind of videos
Thats my plan! Thank you!
Good on you for posting this Mark. Too many American fisherman just go for size but small can be extremely tasty. The anchovy accounts for more tonnage taken from the sea than any other species of fish.
Vendace being the best tasting fish to me I totally agree that the size does not matter.
People use to go crazy for the smelt season on Lake Michigan.
@@drjekelmrhyde yes!!! I remember just eating them right out of the net when I was a kid. Miss those days.
Mark you seem hella chill man good looks
Your channel is great. Love your content and editing, even the simple music. I subbed and will keep watching bro. 😎
After you clean suckers score them to the backbone about every quarter inch and when you coat them with flour make sure it gets in the slits, deep fry till done the wye bones will cook up. Good eating. Thanks for the video.
The algorithm just hit me with this, my man out here slaying some chubs and teaching people Japanese! That's different to say the least, great video!! but now I have a feeling I'll be eating all my catfish bait
Haha, Thanks! Yeah try them out!
I recently found your channel by specifically searching for creek chub catch and cook to get a second opinion. After watching I immediately followed suit and went a caught 6, and cooked them the same way. I agree they taste very similar to sardines especially in texture.
So I got to the cooking part, and it’s unique for me to see someone fry and eat the entire fish, bones and all. Okay, so a cooking tip - salt immediately after removal from the oil - it’ll stick to the fish and not be soluble in the oil. When flouring the fish, just put them all in a bag of flour and shake them until fully coated. It’ll be quicker and they’ll fry better. Sometimes bread crumbs added to the flour makes for a thicker crust, if you’re into that.
So you aren’t Japanese, yet are very knowledgeable about it. Did you grow up there? Maybe talk about that in your next video. I subscribed, so good job!!
He literally watches videos with subtitles. He cant really speak it. Im sure he cant tell you the specific dialect either.
@@helium5912 bruh
@@helium5912 But hes fluent in it? Look on his instagram
Ok, true story from fifty years ago. As kids, a friend and I caught a mess of chubs and took them home to clean them up. We were going to grill them when my friend's father caught us and told us that chubs are no good to eat. Missed out, they looked good to me!
darn. What did he care if you ate chub or not? Why listen to him?
@@gigigooglas4242 We listened because he was an adult, and we were kids. He probably cared because he thought we could get worms or something from eating bad fish. Wrong or right, I don't think it was malice.
@@danielbruns1675 same thing my dad told me about snook, some people just don't know
@@bigboy6704 it's bs that's been passed down each time. My parents don't eat certain things yet I've tried coot, rattlesnake, fried shiner, and coyote in order to form an actual opinion on taste
That red breast sunfish would be great in an aquarium. I keep wild fish in my tank as well as native crays and that sunnie would be a beautiful addition!
It’s the crunch that does it for me
Maaaan this is like playing real life pokemon! I love it very entertaining channel my dude!
Greetings from Germany
My uncle used to fry them, amazing with beer!
Dude you're the realist and very inspirational,plus you making me very hungry for some fish 🐟 😋 😊
Bro this video makes me nostalgic for an experience I’ve never even had anything close to having
That bat was eating the bugs for you. Gotta love em
I really hope this channel blows up because I'm really enjoying the content
Just subbed to you about a week ago but your one of a kind buddy and I’m all here for it keep it up
Yo just finished the turtle episode! Your channel is wholesome quality entertainment. The edits are always the best. Keep up the amazing work.
Thank you! Means alot!
@@cheffingupwithmark5732 the French styled accordion 🪗 music during cooking scenes is a perfect choice.
Ayo your genuine positive reaction to their flavor is inspiring
Oh yeah man we could be friends. Those look great. I love catching creek chubs too; so much fun.
Super underrated channel, watched like 10 of your videos and didn’t look at the sub count until this one. I am shocked you’re only at 15k! Keep grinding
Never had chub, looked great!
Great video my friend.
Thank you!
Bat action! High excitement! Love this channel.
“Boss music playing” what’s going on” what is that”
Like the videos! little tip for suckers. Drop down on the line and hook size. they are most line shy and hook shy fish I've fished for in freshwater. I use a size 8 or 10 gamakutsu octopus hook and a small worm and like 1" of worm just enough to cover the hook. Good luck and hope you can catch a couple because fried sucker are some of my favorite fish to eat!
The Japanese lessons are awesome!👍🏽Great videos!
Thanks! Arigato!
Bats are great. VERY important to the environment. I once was catfish fishing late at night and a bat grabbed my bait as I casted. Luckily he quickly got of the hook and all was well.
Btw, that's how you catch bats, you "fish" for them with a line and hook.
I see you watch a lot of きまぐれクックKimagure Cook. The music, the style, everything seems very on point lol, all the way down to the Beer segment. Good work.
Thanks!
Bro is definitely balling off a budget creek fish and reused oil 😂 mood
I'd love to have 2 of those pumpkin seed fish in my aquarium. Beautiful fish.
Outstanding! Those fried chubs would make most excellent street fish tacos. One crispy fried whole chub, street size corn or flour tortilla, a little shaved cabbage, squeeze of lime, and a little hot sauce of choice. Awesome grindz! A most excellent video flick!
This is great. I like to fly fish for chubs in small creeks. I tie the flies and everything and fish as though they were trout.
I don’t eat them or the trout.
Awesome video man I love fishing and cooking
As usual your video was relaxing and you made me hungry! Great video!
Haha!
@@cheffingupwithmark5732I never in my life craved fish as much as I do while watching your video’s! I can’t wait to see the next video!
Suckers are very good to eat. Run filet thru meat grinder make patties out of them. I also have take smaller sucker filets cooked in foil over camp coals.
Salt brined over two days, then smoked over a 'cold' smoke. Gut, head and tail off , scrub with steel wool to remove scales (optional, I prefer) smoke 6to8hrs 1or2 hrs with low heat smoke. Whoof, good!! Lime juice in brine softens bones.
Catch and cook is definitely a good direction, loved it!
Been trying to find a way to enjoy the huge creek chubs in my local streams and creeks and you inspired me to try it out maybe ill try making them like they do sardines since you said there similar. Love the vids man keep it up
Just went fishing for chubs. They are great when fried:)
Catching chub is always fun , great bait
For sucker fish we use a small hook size12 and we put a ball of red worms three on the hook with a good size split shot and just throw it out there like you fish for catfish and wait
And a little bit of advice on suckers having bones like carp. Suckers bones will mostly dissolve when put to extreme heat. I also grew up eating sucker though we steaked and canned them first then made paddies out off the canned meat just like making salmon paddies but far better. And like i said after pressure canning the steaks the bones just dissolve. Great eating
Ever since I ran into your channel I've always avoided this video due to feeling like I'm too good for chubs. Thanks for humbling me and creating awesome content
When you catch biger fish with tiny bones, after guting, you cut verticaly every 1-2 mm from tail to head, and then fry it. It melts tiny bones inside meat. In Europe, that is how we fry crucian carp (around 1 kg fish).
When I was a kid we'd go catfishing all night and I'd cook a chub on the lantern.
Just subbed. Your voice is so soothing. And I love your editing style. Excited to binge all your videos!
Thank you!
Fishing and cooking? Aww yeeah!
Thank you
I been putting them back in the creek
Gonna try one
My mom used to love eating chubb from the stream near her place, I've yet to try them.
Wow! Yeah you should try them sometime!
To deal with the Y bones in suckers, just scale them, then filet them with the skin on.
Slice off the ribs if your filets still have them.
Next, lay them skin side down on a cutting board, and with a very sharp knife, slice down into the flesh, making your cuts top to bottom, _almost_ all the way to the skin.
Make your cuts about every 1/4th inch, starting at one end of the filet and continuing to the other end.
Then roll them in flour, and deep fry (or pan fry with enough oil to reach nearly to the top of each filet).
When they are done frying, you can eat them without having to worry about the Y bones.
This technique also works with smaller pike (and pickerel if they're in your area -- we don't seem to have them in Michigan).
just thought i would give you a small tip. at 3:00 you are grabbing the line and tossing it with you left hand, heres an easier way for small stuff like this. with your off hand pull the line at the base of the pole (before the reel) until the weight/hook is up close to the tip of the pole then use the pole to guide where you want to put it. Then you just let the line slide out of your hand or let go of it. For really small stuff like this you can just keep a hold of the line and set the hook when you feel a bite since its much easier to feel when you are holding it.
yo this guy chill. I dig the vid, goodjob!
Loving this channel 🙌🏼
Subscribed! Your a true outdoors man. Frying fish whole!!! Love it. Nothing wasted.
By the way, my largest creek chub I caught in Italy on a spoon, and it weighed about six pounds. (I was in the Army.)
I really like the fact that you put the pictures of different fishes that you mention, great content 👍🔥🔥
Using the trout magnet neon colors for catching Creek Chub is excellent with a size 8 jig head
That looks delicious. Jamaicans pickle onions and green peppers and and carrots and scotch bonnet peppers in a jar to eat with fried fish and it's hype.
Here 2 weeks ago i caught 81 3 to 4 inch chubs with a cast net. We used most for trot lines and limb lines and rod and reel. We give a dozen or so to a friend we ran into on the river. We didn't eat any but i save this so next time we are going to fry a bunch whole. We eat suckers when we catch enough of them and use them for cut bait for gar and cat fish blues, channels, or flattys. We get some large grass carp i got one on worm last Saturday and we pressure cooked and canned it we will use it like canned tuna. But i like to fry carp using a cajun style recipe i got in Louisiana 25 years ago.
Relaxing and fun video! ...except for the bat, but that was hilarious
LOL yeah that was spooky
This channel is awesome! Thanks for posting.
Thank you!
Bruh the intense music for the bat 😂
Looks delicious!
Yosha!! Thanks bub! Not sure how I got here but great channel!
The St Pauli non is awesome.
reminds me when my mom used to fry smelts when I was a youngin’
I was kinda iffy because of the music at first but glad I kept watch you definitely gained a new subscriber.
thanks for the lesson
That colourful fish you caught looks like something that would belong on a reef, or an African rift lake cichlid, it's colours are so impressive for it to be some freshwater fish in America. I live in Australia, it's interesting to see you catch the Creek Chub and eat it. Over here in Australia we primarily have Yellowbelly, Murray Cod, Redfin, Carp, Silver Perch and Catfish. As you can see there isn't a huge variety of fish in Australia's freshwater, however the few that we do have are at least pretty damn good, particularly the Yellowbelly is amazing to eat.
Yea, Sunfish are pretty, have you ever seen a cousa bass?
i feel like i wouldnt like the taste way too salty for me,, same as sardines i dont like them. BUT i love catch n cooks and i just came across your channel and this the first video i seen and i gotta say i subcribed after watching this video. make more like these. good stuff bro
Creek chubs are great eating caught in early spring 10 inches . Gut, dehead , score , bread and deep fry
Many sensations! Great movie 👍
my man drinking german beer! Greetings from Germany!
Great videos man. But I think that oil has reached the end of it life 🤣
Your channel is cool homie. Great video 😏🎣👍. Next time you should make a creek chub fish sandwich with some fresh potatoes on the side 🍽.
Thanks! good idea!
I’ve used these for bait many times. Never thought to eat one. I’d love try it. Good vid. Keep them coming
I’m surprised i never heard of this fish .. look delicious n crispy
Nice! We eat fried smelts in the NE, look similar, just as good!
White suckers are pretty tasty, but can be difficult to catch during their spawn. We used to gig them.
ahh that makes sense!
The key to catching creek chub is to fish for anything but creek chub.
If you have a live bait aerator you'd be most satisfied at the vicious attacks from largemouth in nearby lakes. Even the most educated bass will go crazy for those baits
Large creek chubs (Sometimes as large as 10'') are delicious. I've cooked them up many, many times for myself and for friends that couldn't believe how good they were.