@@ethanschenck9714 I agree about the taste, probably wouldn't be too much of an issue if you can find good sized fallfish too, something in the 15 + inch range. It would more worth it to deal with that many bones from a larger fish
I have some audio issues that I've now corrected. I kept them on a stringer which was fine, but next time I would bring a small soft sided cooler like the ones you can carry a six pack in to keep them in better condition. It was hot out that day and they would've kept better in that with an ice pack!
I know a lot of people who eat chub, myself included. I like to eat ones that are big enugh to make good fillets. Then either dip them in Cajun mix, or dip them in batter and deep fry them. They taste most like Tilapia. If you like fish, but don't like a strong fishy flavor, then you'll love chub. I think they have a bad reputation as an eating fish because they have a double layer of bones. Filleting large ones solves this problem. With small ones, a great way to prepare them is to run them through a grinders, then fix them like you would any fish cakes. Put the cakes on a bun, add some tartar sauce, and they make a great meal. As for the sucker, I've never tried one, and I've never talked to anyone who has. Why not do a catch and cook on a sucker?
Hello James. I eat them too. The ones under 5 inches I just gut and eat the rest. Head to tail, scales and all. Over 5 inches the spine gets too pokey. I fillet those. I'm in SE Iowa so no chub fishing for a little while.
Awesome video buddy please continues to do more catch and cook and look delicious too. On the Next video may be doing some bass fishing catch and cook.
I went out today for 6 hours with my friends just riding around fishing different spots. What is the name? The audio is a bit bad. It was something fish?
Creek chub can be soft once cooked and so I find it’s best to whole fry the fish. Dipped in flour or any other fry mix and deep fried whole….it’s a treat. You can eat the bones and all, just remove the spine and the rest is fine.
ecologygarden Great vid. I'm from UK but was blessed to catch fall fish from Cacapon river , west Virginia 28 years ago !! PS sounds like uv got the heat too high under your pan . something my friend James taught me is better to simmer them slowly and longer for a more even Cook and better flavour :) however might just be your microphone picking up the frying sound and amplifyng it very loud.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! I did have the heat on a little too high, I realized that afterwards. It was one of my first times using butane gas which burns hotter than propane, should've turn it down a little more!
I caught two today about six inches long, and I'll be frying them up soon. The ones I've caught in the past have been 3 inches, and best breaded and fried (friture), like smelt. Delicious.
@@NEFishing it was great! My first fish of the morning when we had ran out of food! The fish didn't look enormous but after we prepared it we were surprised how much we had. Last night I watched a video where a guy landed lots of chub using small prunes as bait? Anyone ever tried this?
They're actually really good friend until they're crispy, you can almost eat them with bones and all if you fry them up enough! Very mild tasting but the meat is a little soft!
I was bass fishing with a heddon propeller and a creek chub (fallfish) tried to swallow it whole. It didn't fight at all tbh I thought i killed it reeling it in. I wanted to try eating it but I've been told they're garbage fish. Now I want to try them
Creek chubs and fall fish are very different. Fall fish can grow to much greater sizes than creek chubs. Fall fish are a little less aggressive and will hit bigger baits in your case they hit a mini jerk bait, a creek chub will not do that. Nice video though
You are correct. Thank you for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video, it was a lot of fun making it! Love that Fallfish will hit a large lure, caught some big ones from the Delaware River on 4 in jerkbaits, fun to catch!
How about a video on the best ways to fire roast fish. how do you go about "survival cooking" a fish? Just gut it and shove a stick through like on the TV shows? I can't find a video on this, how do you control the fire best? I found videos on how to fire roast eggs, but good luck finding safe eggs in nature.
I would love to do a video on fire roasting fish out in the field! It's something that I've been thinking of doing for some time and I might work on this winter, if possible, or next summer! In the meantime check out out Andy's Fishing TH-cam channel, you might find what you're looking for there even if he's based out of Australia!
Now I could kick myself. For years we fished trout streams and we threw the creek chubs back. We always figured they were junk fish. I wonder if they're similar to great lakes smelt? A really great video, thanks.
Not sure what the smells taste like but the creek chubs ( Fallfish) have delicate mild white meat. Some trout stream will hold good sized ones (10"+ ) that would make a nice little meal.
Nice video and the fish look delicious! However, a couple of things here to keep in mind. Cook them thoroughly to kill any parasites, and be sure of the water source you harvest them from that homes don't have septic tanks and leach beds draining into the river. A river like this 20 miles N of us, in the 80s we used to catch a ton of small mouth bass and red eye rock bass, and by the late 1990s so many homes were built along that river that had septic tanks that it has ruined eating anything from the river.
Good stuff and good video. I know how hard it can be to stop saying "uh" in between each word, as I have that problem myself a lot of the time. That is the only thing I would say you need to do differently in future videos. Perhaps you rectified this habit already. This is the first and only video I have seen of yours but you gained a sub, so I'll be watching more. :) If you are down for a cooking prep recommendation, add the lime after you cook the fish. That way the lime juice doesn't evaporate away or burn.
I don’t know about creek chub, but I heard best way to cook Carp is to nail it to a board and cook it in the oven for 30 minutes. Then you pull it out of the oven, throw the Carp in the garbage and eat the board.
Really beautiful handling of the fish in this video. It's so easy to handle fish properly but even easier to handle poorly. Just about any fish cared for in this fashion will be DELICIOUS!
When I was a kid I used to catch and cook Creek Chubs aka Fallfish all the time. I would cook them in butter, lemon juice, salt and pepper on clean rock or a frying pan. They are good to eat believe it or not cooked that way.
They are feisty fish when caught. Easy to take the hook out of their mouths. I wouldn’t eat them. Around here, they are considered “trash fish”. Good to use for bait.
@@NEFishing catfish love them. Use them whole, or cut them up like bluegill. Catfish come running to them. I caught channels, blues, and a few flatties.
Creek chubs of this size make great walleye bait... one hook through the mouth and a stinger upright behind the dorsal fin. Once I learned that walleye prefer prey that is @40 percent of their body length, my catch size has increased dramatically. I have a 10.5 lb and a 13.5 lb on my wall...... The only way that I would fish for them up north is for shore lunch.
They do taste good, thats the drawback to them, their size and and bone structure. It would prob be best if you can get some that are more in the 12-14 in range, they would be easier to eat and would make a nice little meal.
Creek chub and fallfish are not the same thing. Fallfish are generally much bigger than creek chub, and have larger, more silver colored scales. Creek chub will also have a dark lateral line running across their side, whereas fallfish will not. The fish you made in this video are fallfish.
Exactly ,this fish is a predator , not taste like carp or other bottom species, more delicious than rest of any fish in a river . Tell me about barbell, do you have the chance to taste one ?
If they had little horns then it was probably during their spawn. They develope bumps and horns on their head, they also develope a darker color on their heads.
That's a great idea, I have that in mind for a saltwater species! It would've been good to smoke the chubs gur i was going for an on the field catch and cook video, so filming that along the river would've been too long and difficult! Thanks for the comment and I will be smoking fish in some future videos!
Chubs, unless they are smoked, are total mush and taste like mud. They are also full of about 1000 tiny bones. You should have left them in the creek. If you are poor or have nothing to eat, then you eat chubs.
Seems a little cruel, taking small fish, aren't they young and adolescents? I don't usually take fish unless they're two or three times the size of that first chub. Unless they only get that big, of course. I'm not very knowledgeable on that fish so I might be totally wrong, but I've seen chub four times that size.
Thank you for commenting! The larger creek chubs are adults, they don't get much bigger than that from this creek. I kept all the creek chubs because they make great cutbait and can also be used whole. I mention in the video that larger ones exist especially in larger rivers like the Delaware River. If I keep any others it'll be from a big river where I'll get bigger ones and yes they really are tasty!
Ahh, I see! I also take fish for bait, so I can understand that totally! I just hate to see things die for nothing! I should have paid attention to the video, but I was quite busy at the time! Great video! I apologize for criticizing you before learning the facts!
Would you eat a Creek Chub ( Fallfish)!??
I tried fallfish for the first time recently, and I didn't really like it. The meat was fine, but there were so many little bones.
Yeah they look delicious in my opinion
@@ethanschenck9714 I agree about the taste, probably wouldn't be too much of an issue if you can find good sized fallfish too, something in the 15 + inch range. It would more worth it to deal with that many bones from a larger fish
@@Rodentfisherman they're pretty good, very mild in flavor, it would just be more worthwhile if you catch some that are bigger, preferably 12+ inches.
I'm about to try one today
Looks pretty good to me, although I may have been influenced by the facts that I will will eat almost anything and I am drunk.
Lol, they are pretty good and I hope you're drinking some good!
Nothing is a trash food if you know how to cook.
@@Josh46731 what about human asshole
@@Magazine2S I'll bet some fancy restaurant in Paris could serve it up at 100 euros a plate...
Fair enough
He starts fishing at 1:56 and that costs 1 like
Lol!
He's been overpaid. You ready for uncle Sam? Get lube
Fall fish and creek chubs are different but similar today you caught fallfish
Camera sounds underwater lol but not wholetime, whatd you keep the fish in after u caught them
I have some audio issues that I've now corrected. I kept them on a stringer which was fine, but next time I would bring a small soft sided cooler like the ones you can carry a six pack in to keep them in better condition. It was hot out that day and they would've kept better in that with an ice pack!
@@NEFishing bett i was thinking about cleaning some creek fish and tasting them lol
@@HomnixHD you should, just make sure they are decent size for a meal and give them a good fry to get that crispy fried fish!
I know a lot of people who eat chub, myself included. I like to eat ones that are big enugh to make good fillets. Then either dip them in Cajun mix, or dip them in batter and deep fry them. They taste most like Tilapia. If you like fish, but don't like a strong fishy flavor, then you'll love chub.
I think they have a bad reputation as an eating fish because they have a double layer of bones. Filleting large ones solves this problem. With small ones, a great way to prepare them is to run them through a grinders, then fix them like you would any fish cakes. Put the cakes on a bun, add some tartar sauce, and they make a great meal.
As for the sucker, I've never tried one, and I've never talked to anyone who has. Why not do a catch and cook on a sucker?
Love the you think, great idea on cooking the chub, sounds delicious! I have an idea for sucker, try to do it this year!
Thanks for commenting!
Hello James. I eat them too. The ones under 5 inches I just gut and eat the rest. Head to tail, scales and all. Over 5 inches the spine gets too pokey. I fillet those. I'm in SE Iowa so no chub fishing for a little while.
bones are not a problem if you have practice ;) I have been eating fish since I was a small child: roach, carp, bream :) no problem
Nice summer day for some fallfish on the river. Love the catch and cook vids 👍 how about a Pike C&C 😀
Reinaldo Miguel working on it, Ben wanting to do a Pike C& C since last year
Awesome video buddy please continues to do more catch and cook and look delicious too. On the Next video may be doing some bass fishing catch and cook.
Thank you, I'm working on it! Thanks for commenting!
Nice clear rocky water there found the one I tryed was abit muddy will try again soon want to let it swim in clear water before eating
Hopefully you can find bigger ones than I did! Good luck!
Creek Chub and Fallfish arent the same. its two different species of the same category.
Semotilus atromaculatus
and
Semotilus corporalis
You are correct, the title attracts more attention!
I went out today for 6 hours with my friends just riding around fishing different spots. What is the name? The audio is a bit bad. It was something fish?
Creek chub can be soft once cooked and so I find it’s best to whole fry the fish. Dipped in flour or any other fry mix and deep fried whole….it’s a treat. You can eat the bones and all, just remove the spine and the rest is fine.
ecologygarden
Great vid. I'm from UK but was blessed to catch fall fish from Cacapon river , west Virginia 28 years ago !! PS sounds like uv got the heat too high under your pan . something my friend James taught me is better to simmer them slowly and longer for a more even Cook and better flavour :) however might just be your microphone picking up the frying sound and amplifyng it very loud.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! I did have the heat on a little too high, I realized that afterwards. It was one of my first times using butane gas which burns hotter than propane, should've turn it down a little more!
I caught two today about six inches long, and I'll be frying them up soon. The ones I've caught in the past have been 3 inches, and best breaded and fried (friture), like smelt. Delicious.
That's awesome! I'm sure they came out great!
@@NEFishing I enjoyed the smaller ones more, to be honest. The bones were small enough that you could eat them whole.
@@hellosheila I completely understand. When that small it's like eating a crispy fishy french fry!
I caught a big one once in France. Fed 3 of us. Tasted nice. White meat after cooked.
That must've been a really good size fish to feed 3 people!! Very cool that you caught it in France too, I'm sure it was very tasty!!
@@NEFishing it was great! My first fish of the morning when we had ran out of food! The fish didn't look enormous but after we prepared it we were surprised how much we had. Last night I watched a video where a guy landed lots of chub using small prunes as bait? Anyone ever tried this?
@@rosbifle413 very cool! Never heard of using prunes as bait but I've seen my share of strange baits!
Great video. Always wondered if these were any good. Likely a bit bony, I suspect. But looks like they’ll do in a pinch.
They're actually really good friend until they're crispy, you can almost eat them with bones and all if you fry them up enough! Very mild tasting but the meat is a little soft!
Same here
I was bass fishing with a heddon propeller and a creek chub (fallfish) tried to swallow it whole. It didn't fight at all tbh I thought i killed it reeling it in. I wanted to try eating it but I've been told they're garbage fish. Now I want to try them
Creek chubs and fall fish are very different. Fall fish can grow to much greater sizes than creek chubs. Fall fish are a little less aggressive and will hit bigger baits in your case they hit a mini jerk bait, a creek chub will not do that. Nice video though
You are correct. Thank you for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video, it was a lot of fun making it! Love that Fallfish will hit a large lure, caught some big ones from the Delaware River on 4 in jerkbaits, fun to catch!
How about a video on the best ways to fire roast fish. how do you go about "survival cooking" a fish? Just gut it and shove a stick through like on the TV shows? I can't find a video on this, how do you control the fire best? I found videos on how to fire roast eggs, but good luck finding safe eggs in nature.
I would love to do a video on fire roasting fish out in the field! It's something that I've been thinking of doing for some time and I might work on this winter, if possible, or next summer! In the meantime check out out Andy's Fishing TH-cam channel, you might find what you're looking for there even if he's based out of Australia!
Good video well made.
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
@@NEFishing I use these for bait all the time never thought to eat them!
@@joenesiadicola3006 if you get them of a good size they make a nice meal! I think I fry them them up next time until they're crispy!
Now I could kick myself. For years we fished trout streams and we threw the creek chubs back. We always figured they were junk fish. I wonder if they're similar to great lakes smelt? A really great video, thanks.
Not sure what the smells taste like but the creek chubs ( Fallfish) have delicate mild white meat. Some trout stream will hold good sized ones (10"+ ) that would make a nice little meal.
I caught a 18” creek chub today!
Nice, that's a good sized chub!!
Nice video and the fish look delicious! However, a couple of things here to keep in mind. Cook them thoroughly to kill any parasites, and be sure of the water source you harvest them from that homes don't have septic tanks and leach beds draining into the river. A river like this 20 miles N of us, in the 80s we used to catch a ton of small mouth bass and red eye rock bass, and by the late 1990s so many homes were built along that river that had septic tanks that it has ruined eating anything from the river.
If its that light u could lowkey eat it with your hands no need for a fork could just suck it off the bone like some good ribs
Good stuff and good video.
I know how hard it can be to stop saying "uh" in between each word, as I have that problem myself a lot of the time. That is the only thing I would say you need to do differently in future videos.
Perhaps you rectified this habit already. This is the first and only video I have seen of yours but you gained a sub, so I'll be watching more. :)
If you are down for a cooking prep recommendation, add the lime after you cook the fish. That way the lime juice doesn't evaporate away or burn.
Nice white meat lime onions you could have made a nice ceviche also
I think one could do a lot of things with this fish! Very mild flavor and versatile!
Shiner chubs are good eating..I deep fry those only..
Yea they are!
Came here for a creekside catch and cook and I got a creekside gourmet meal
Primarily thought of as bait or a nuisance/trash fish, would you eat a creek chub?
N E Fishing I wouldn’t in my river Suamico river it is field run off
I don’t know about creek chub, but I heard best way to cook Carp is
to nail it to a board and cook it in the oven for 30 minutes.
Then you pull it out of the oven, throw the Carp in the garbage and eat the board.
Nice 👍
I like them smoked
Really beautiful handling of the fish in this video. It's so easy to handle fish properly but even easier to handle poorly. Just about any fish cared for in this fashion will be DELICIOUS!
Thank you, they did come out pretty good. Need to make another video like this one!
When I was a kid I used to catch and cook Creek Chubs aka Fallfish all the time. I would cook them in butter, lemon juice, salt and pepper on clean rock or a frying pan. They are good to eat believe it or not cooked that way.
That sounds pretty good too, I know I def won't pass up any of the larger fallfish next time i catch some. They are good eating!
nice man
Pop a chub, or “catch a chub” as you would say.
They are feisty fish when caught. Easy to take the hook out of their mouths. I wouldn’t eat them. Around here, they are considered “trash fish”. Good to use for bait.
I've been meaning to go back and get some for bait to use for bass or pike, I'm sure they would make a great bait!
@@NEFishing catfish love them. Use them whole, or cut them up like bluegill. Catfish come running to them. I caught channels, blues, and a few flatties.
@@MarkMeadows90 I agree, I think they would make excellent catfish bait. Plus they are easy to catch and abundant as a bonus!
Puts me in mind of sardines. Idk why. Definitely couldn’t do this I don’t think.
Creek chubs and fall fish are two different species btw
Yes they are! You are right, there are many who still refer to fallfish Creek chubs and for the sake of the video I called themCreek chubs.
Creek chubs of this size make great walleye bait... one hook through the mouth and a stinger upright behind the dorsal fin. Once I learned that walleye prefer prey that is @40 percent of their body length, my catch size has increased dramatically. I have a 10.5 lb and a 13.5 lb on my wall...... The only way that I would fish for them up north is for shore lunch.
That's awesome, I've wanted to catch some for bait. I might try that this year for bass or Pike! Thanks!
I just tried this. Tasted great, but a lot of bones.
They do taste good, thats the drawback to them, their size and and bone structure. It would prob be best if you can get some that are more in the 12-14 in range, they would be easier to eat and would make a nice little meal.
I'm trying to fish the rainbows out of my stocked pond, and keep catching these things. >:-(
They can be very aggressive and always get to your bait first. Sometimes you have to fish through them to get to the fish you really want!
Creek chub and fallfish are not the same thing. Fallfish are generally much bigger than creek chub, and have larger, more silver colored scales. Creek chub will also have a dark lateral line running across their side, whereas fallfish will not. The fish you made in this video are fallfish.
They claim in Tennessee they eat the hell out of chubs and suckers when they run in the spring we used to eat chubs as kids
Most of the ones I catch are out of the Potomac so no, I wouldn’t eat them lol
Lol, i prob wouldn't eat them from there either but they would still make great bait for all the predators you got in there though!
Exactly ,this fish is a predator , not taste like carp or other bottom species, more delicious than rest of any fish in a river . Tell me about barbell, do you have the chance to taste one ?
I love to eat creek chub
Underrated and underappreciated, they are delicious!
fallfish are not the same fish as creek chub
fallfish are Semotilus corporalis, creek chub are Semotilus atromaculatis
different species!
You are correct, they are different species, but many people think they are and the title of the video sounds better with creek chubs than fallfish.
I think these are what i used to catch in the creek behind my house growing up.
Mine had little horny spines on their head though.
If they had little horns then it was probably during their spawn. They develope bumps and horns on their head, they also develope a darker color on their heads.
@@NEFishing never knew that.
I just assumed it was a different species of chub cause they were darker and had horns.
Try smoking them. Lot of people do that.
That's a great idea, I have that in mind for a saltwater species! It would've been good to smoke the chubs gur i was going for an on the field catch and cook video, so filming that along the river would've been too long and difficult! Thanks for the comment and I will be smoking fish in some future videos!
Looks like good flakey fish. I bet it was tastey.
A little bony but def tasty! I would fry them up more next time!
nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice= 17mins 45sec
These are small in Greece we catch two pounders and release them
Why would U kill such a small fish ??
Because YUM.
@@DaniLong poor boy
I would have eaten the trout and tossed the chub back into the river.
The trout was kept and eaten, it just didn't make it into the vid!
Chubs and gold suckers are better tasting than stocked trout.
Chubs, unless they are smoked, are total mush and taste like mud. They are also full of about 1000 tiny bones. You should have left them in the creek.
If you are poor or have nothing to eat, then you eat chubs.
Freshwater river blennies. Dont eat that undercooked.
every cooking thing looks brand new . Just saying.
Poison ivy
Its very hard for me to watch people move their knife towards their hands. 🤪
it add some suspense and action. i like it.
Cooking the lettuce was gross ngl
Exactly how Izaak Walton dresses chub in his compleat angler book, 300 years ago.
Seems a little cruel, taking small fish, aren't they young and adolescents? I don't usually take fish unless they're two or three times the size of that first chub. Unless they only get that big, of course. I'm not very knowledgeable on that fish so I might be totally wrong, but I've seen chub four times that size.
Thank you for commenting! The larger creek chubs are adults, they don't get much bigger than that from this creek. I kept all the creek chubs because they make great cutbait and can also be used whole. I mention in the video that larger ones exist especially in larger rivers like the Delaware River. If I keep any others it'll be from a big river where I'll get bigger ones and yes they really are tasty!
Ahh, I see! I also take fish for bait, so I can understand that totally! I just hate to see things die for nothing! I should have paid attention to the video, but I was quite busy at the time! Great video!
I apologize for criticizing you before learning the facts!
@@licht339 no worries, thank you again for watching the video and commenting!
Would you prefer it swam on my hook then got eaten, it's bait you snowflake
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vasily stalin yes
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