How to CATCH and Cook Whole Fish on an Open Flame

Good morning everyone, this is where I slept last night. The trunk of my car. Are they comfortable? If I do say so myself, I have a 4 inch insulated sleeping bag. I can lie down there. This is where they could go to sleep. I go on a trip and I go

fish

ing in the north, I go

fish

ing in the south, so I don't have to rent a hotel for 100 dollars or pay 50 dollars to stay in a campground, sometimes I stop on the side of the road and sleep in my car, so I can edit a lot here too, all I do is raise the passenger seat.

I have a little table that I could put my laptop on, but the main thing is to sleep, so with my sleeping bag on Slater and my pillow. I prepare all this before leaving my house and sometimes, if I'm not on these dirt roads, these secondary roads where I can go out and sleep peacefully, many times I'm in the city like sometimes. I'll be in Monterey or sometimes in San Francisco and if I want to sleep you have to find my little Cuddy's place that isn't suspicious, so what I do is go to a residential area where it doesn't have a lot of streetlights, like the trees are good. and I like to sneak in when it's a little late like 11:00 11:30 all the lights are off in the houses and then I stop at a place I turn off the lights I make sure no one sees me I make sure everything inside the lights are off, I go up in the back, I put a little blanket right here and come on man, I'm in the damn Toyota Highlander, no one will suspect I'm sleeping in here, so it looks like a regular old passenger car, but I'm having the best night's sleep of my life on this little thing, so those are my tips.

If you want to sleep in your car, save some money at hotel campgrounds. You have a small SUV. Do it like this. In residential areas, that is the ideal option when you are. Here trying to do it like this, forget about Walmart parking lots, too many lights, security guards in those residential areas. I've never had a problem and I've slept in my car 2030 times, never had any encounters, so yeah, enough talking. I'm sleeping I have this place you remember the place with the stairs was a video from the past the place with the stairs baby I'm back here going down I'm going to hit the fish at the place with the stairs that's how it starts a little poison oak and a rope and Eve actually called the place the ropes and ladders.

Did I mention poison oak? Yeah, it's a little overgrown since the last time I was here. There are two more stairs down and we have four more to go to the person who built it. I'm sorry about this, I found your place, your secret place and only a fisherman would make a path like this with four aluminum ladders up a steep cliff. I'm with you, man, and I know your secret is safe with me. I would never let anyone. I know where this place is now that we get to the place, we'll move on to a little more technical aspect of fishing.

I know I've answered this many times, but I'm still constantly asked how to fish for beginners, so today. I'm going to show you exactly what you need to rock fish bait fishing the easiest way for anyone to get started as long as you know how to tie some knots you can

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some rock fish this is what I use after looking . the swell, current and wind, today I decided on a three ounce weight and I will also need two swivel carabiners to attach the weight, then you will need two hooks. I recommend anything between two OTT and five, it could be bait. support, it could be octopus when you're rock fishing there are tons of obstacles hence the name rock fishing so on my reel I have sixty five pound braid.

I recommend anything £50 and up, anything less than that will get you hooked. and when you try to free it it will just break, but with 65 pounds you can move a rock, you can cut seaweed, so 65 pounds is good for the leader. I would like this to break first before my main line, so this is a 50 pound fluorocarbon. Now whether it was a boat or fishing from rocks, they tied my blades the same way. Palomar knot from braid to swivel. I folded that line. Twist it, pull it through like a normal old knot. Make sure those lines are the same and then pull. through it, give it a little wet spit and then you can just pull one line or both, pull that down, your Palomar knot, this is a super strong knot for attaching anything to the braid.

Now the reason I put a swivel on my braid is because I do want to change the leaders. I can easily do this with the perfect loop, so I take the end of the label in my right hand, fold it once and fold it in front, take the end of the label, place it in the middle and then pull one of the loops. through the back loop I don't even need to spit, there's my perfect loop I can tie. I can attach it directly to the swivel clasp now about a foot down from the perfect loop.

I'll make a big twist around your fingers and make four twists, make sure that loop is big enough for a hook to fit through one, two, three, four, put your fingers through it, pull that line from the bottom to the top, close it down, make sure everything stays tight, spit out a little, pull it tight, there is a loop with dropper. I'm going to make two of these for another foot. Do the same thing now with my carabiner right at the bottom of my leader. I'm going to tie a lock knot, so put it through the eye and wrap it four times one, two, three, and four. and it's not the improved closing knot, you don't need to do it, put it directly through the hook at the bottom with the tag inside, pull it up with your teeth and then close it down, that's not going anywhere, that's it what you are putting 2/3 ounce weight so far with the weight on the bottom you under the hook point up go through the eye with that dropper loop through the eyes of the hook take it out and put it over the hook now your hook is ready to fish we have two looks 50 Floral Top Hook 1 pound three ounce weight.

I'm going to thread a piece of squid. I like it big and thick, so today I'm trying to

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a big fish, so that goes on my octopus hook. Just screw it on the back and the squid back and forth is very hard, so it's not very likely to come off the hook before you cast it. Make sure the line is not wrapped around the tip of the rod reel, up to about half a foot to the swivel. Place the reel line right up there. close it, make sure your drag is tight,

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the Bale and cast to the deepest spot, it seems like wherever it's dark and the waves aren't breaking, I'm not even going to cast far, but right in between that channel seems very deep to me , hold the line.

Until you feel it hit the bottom like that, you'll have an idea of ​​how deep it is. Now reel it in so that the rod bends a little and that way you will feel the fish. You are in the right place. and then tighten the drag. I suggest holding the rod if you are rock fishing because if you get a fish you need to set the hook and pull it towards you, you don't want it to have any chance of swimming back up. to a rock, well my lines have been there for about eight minutes and they haven't gotten any bite, so when I'm ready to reel in, I need to make sure my drag is locked and then I want to do a quick retrieve, like I like that. crab steering, you want to pick that thing up and reel it in quickly so you don't get snagged, oh if you get snagged, that's fine, be patient, give it a few taps and the truth of the matter is a lot of times you'll just get snagged.

It snags and you have to break even with this heavy line, so bring a lot of tackle because you could lose some things. Let's try it again and cast a little further out to a little deeper area to see how it works. I'm changing it. up just a little bit now I only have one hook a piece of bait I'm just going to put it in each little pocket here we go man I can get one I believe in myself make sure I don't fall on my back in this water, come on, fishy, ​​fishy, ​​fishy Fish, man, it's slow here so I'm trying something different.

Get one of these limpets off the rocks, we'll see, come on, man, you know, I'm hooked again. I tried limpets. I tried squid. I have tried swim baits now I am trying mussels throwing everything I can at these fish. Yes, I almost think these fish can feel the desperation in my hand through the line, so I'm going to lower my rod. Although it works like this. I promise most of the time, oh my gosh, dude, seriously, okay, look how frustrating it is for you that I didn't catch any fish in this video. Imagine how frustrating it is for me to be here for six hours and not a bite. "Everyone, I think I have a fish or something heavy.

What is this? A crab or something. There's definitely some weight in there. Oh my God. Are you serious? I have a damn slug. Damn rubber boot. Whatever you call this thing. Are you seriously kidding? What are the chances that I can't catch a damn fish, but I don't even know what this is. What is this? Damn, come on, oh really, really, oh man, it's 3:40 right now I've been here since 9 o'clock 12 to 6 almost 7 hours I've been catching not a bite, man. this place is as good as dead I did my best, I really did, I threw everything I had at it I even faked a bait sometimes it just doesn't work in your favor that was fishing yesterday I had to retreat with my tail between my legs throw the white flag back to the butter mobile and lick my wounds but today is a new day i have a new spot the same platform we are 50 feet up that's why you need to make sure your line is strong enough to pull these fish right up the cliff.

Let's go fish them. The fish today realize that it is windy here, so today we will go out and wait for a slightly smaller squid. Throw to the deepest place It's always a good idea to stay at least 3 or 4 feet away from the edge of the cliff, that's where you can follow the cliff, it can crumble, you're going to fall straight up and die, so always be careful, take security measures. count first there's no fish right here I'm going to cast again look how much spool is coming off the line that's why they call it a date and wait look at that spot over there that's where I was this morning I traveled all the way here to this Point and look how deep it goes It's, look how calm it is, there's no surf, there's no Whitecaps.

I have a lot more area to fish, look at all this and on the south side there is a

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other cove and it's all protected and it's deep so when you come here with rockfish and sometimes you have to try different places. I mean, I haven't caught any fish yet, but my hopes have never been higher for this trip. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I got a fish, baby, oh, it's good, it's good. one, oh come on, they all get stuck on a rock right there I see him, I see him, come on honey, get out of there, he's there right now.

Gotta let it swim free, oh come on, let's try it from here damn dude, I thought I had it. It's real so slowly Bravo I should have gone faster no oh come on man ah guys I think I'm going to have to break it but I'm going to let it loosen up a little bit how's the first bite I've had on this trip? That was a good sign though, that was in five minutes so I know this is a good spot, yeah man I think I'm gonna have to break it buddy my first fish I gotta break it and throw it back, throw it back , it sucks for me and it sucks for the fish, let's try it. that again I'm going to avoid that big old rock this time it's deep there we're going to fish this time baby guaranteed I'll give it five minutes tops probably a minute poor thing there's a bite this bite I think I've got it there I think it's there right now a little one tug more there it is yeah, I'm about to set the hook I think he's sitting down there with it in his mouth yeah, I've got it, I've got it, this one doesn't come up come up here, reach the surface of the water, yes honey, come in here, the other one looked red, this one is red now too, let's make sure we don't fall off the cliff.

The squid part looks like a small size Cabazon from Here We Go, look at that beautiful beautiful color. Wow, it's bright red hooked right in the mouth. It's almost worth a measure. Right there, look at that beautiful, bright color. I'll show you guys up close. Look at that color. Man, bright red and These are super camouflaged predators, they sit on top of rocks and they will be the same color as their surroundings, so you know almost for sure that down there is the same color as this one. Wow, they have meat too, they don't have scales, look at that. lateral line on it, just a beautiful fish right there on the lip also on the squid, so how I like to hold these guys, I put my two fingers on those fins there and then I can take the hook out and just hold it like a little bit.

Ball like a small soccer ball. I'm pretty sure it's small but let's measure it anyway just for fun, it should be 15 inches, yes it's 13 inches so I'll let it go. That's two fish in about 10 minutes. See you later, friend, fly. Yes, the straight nose in the water swims away easily. The applause is so nice. No flakes, no slime, really nice. Waitcatch another one of those, but a keeper, yeah, the baby goes off the board for two days. Now we will continue to see what it is, find a place that is Well, that is deep and calm.

You can fish since the squid bit. It has a

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squid at the bottom. Kai Tech and the squid on top. I'm going to launch it into waters a little further away. I have to make sure I don't do it. I don't get too excited and fall off the cliff, confidence is high now, who just fell? Do I feel a bite yet? it goes out when you cast further there's probably more fish but they're more likely to hook their way out of there you know what set it free but I lost the fish damn I lost the fish though eh the bite is on in this one moment, receiving bites in every cast. sometimes it's just like that sometimes you won't get bites all day literally all day I was there seven hours yesterday with no bites and today five bites in 15 minutes another tip I like to do when it swells and the surge passes let your line go with her that way your your weight doesn't drag you just follow the waves and then when she comes back go with her too sometimes she has to go up sometimes she has to go down sometimes she even has to

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your Bale a little and let it out a little of line just to keep that weight in a good place, there's a bite there's a bite oh yeah oh that's good mole seals trying to come get my fish Oh Dan, that seal right there, such a little bait thief right there looking for my fish there's the fish there's a bite it's a bite man he's not engaging with it he's just nibbling on it I don't want to set the hook when it's like a bite, if you watch my video from a long time ago you don't want to set the hook when it's so you want to set the hook when it's like blah, blah, blah, you don't want to set it when it's like bite, bite, you have to wait a long time for that so you know it's on the hook swimming and you know these pieces of squid are very tough, so a bite like that is not going to take the bait off the hook and almost guarantees that there is bait still on both hooks, as if both baits were still on.

He just nibbles no matter how you hook him, whether it's once, twice, three times four times, always make sure the tip of the hook is exposed here, yeah baby, oh he's a fighter, oh yeah, oh yeah I take it out of this rock. There's a nice fish right here oh come on come on baby he's got a big draw on him come on man this is the keeper I was looking for oh come on look at that look at that oh come on there's a big fish here, not again. Look he's trying to swim away Look at that Oh God, oh I got a free gun, hell yeah, where are you baby?

Where are you? Come here I have to keep them on this side because there are so many rocks around here oh it's no, it's nothing too crazy this one looks a little bigger it broke free that's pretty close that's pretty close I have to measure this one look at that right at zero fifteen and a half almost 16 well I'm going to keep this fish like this I'm going to hit it on the head and then I can take the hook out of beautiful beautiful fish right between the eyes so that's the problem with bait fishing a lot of times they swallow the hook and I am very happy that it is so. a keeper because if he wasn't and he was bleeding and with a hook in his gut like this we'd still have to pull him back, he's hardly a keeper but for me it's enough meat for a meal, in fact if we cut right here it would probably We can get to his heart, let's see this right where his throat would be, you cut right there, you'll probably cut right in front of his heart, you can still see it beating, man, this fish saved my trip and from that alone you know what he's going to do. pass. it happens, happy grass, beating heart, thanks buddy, you'll be my next meal.

I'll eat this fish hole, so I'll gut it right now so I can prepare it for the fire, so I'll separate the gills from its mouth now. everything should be able to come out, all the guts should come out like this, I'm sure there are some crabs that would like to, so I'm going to remove this part of the collar and

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this nice bunch of meat separately so that it does.

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well on the fire just to remove any blood taste when we heat it up you can remove this line of blood and that's it the fish is ready to eat without scales so I'm just going to mark the skin so it doesn't curl up and I'll cook it whole , so in almost all types of fish there is also this thin layer of translucent skin on the belly lining, I think probably to protect the meat from the stomach acid of the fish and if you could remove it.

It will also help prevent the meat from curling, so I lit a bag of charcoal here, I'm just going to let it heat up in the meantime, I'm going to score the fish about three times on each side, the skin won't curl and it will be able to cook a little bit more evenly, set it aside for now temporarily all I have is a little bit of salt and a little bit of olive oil. I'm going to let the fat in this skin add a little extra flavor and that's all I'm going to do. Use it for seasoning and I'm going to throw the whole fish on the grill.

Rub a little salt all over the skin on the outside so when this charcoal is ready to cook, this salt will absorb a little into the flesh and form the whole fish. It has a salty taste not only on the outside since I am going to cook the fish directly on the fire. I don't want to put it directly on the ash directly on the charcoal and have the ash cover all the meat of the fish, so I picked up a pile of stones. I'm going to throw them on top of the coals and this will keep the heat source directly away from the meat and skin, prevent it from burning, and also help keep it clean.

Now is the best. I could do is get a flat rock, but I don't have any around here, so the best I can do is find a pile of small stones, something to remember, although if you're going to do something like this, we'll be right next to the ocean, so sometimes rocks like this that have a little pocket inside that may have moisture trapped in it, if you put a

flame

on it, it will start to smoke, it will start to boil and it might cause a small explosion, so you have to be careful with the little rock explosives, so I'm going to put all this here, put the fish there, put a little bit of butter on both sides and then walk away so I don't get bombed and cover my face too just in case.

Crazy happens, okay, I'm going to say it's ready to cook with a little bit of butter, honey, a little more here, what does it look like? Oh yeah, okay, straight with ice, like this, like this, I'm going to do the same thing with the necklace just a little bit of butter right there in the middle and put it right next to it hmm this looks good smells good now look at these pieces these they're right from the sides right next to the belly and these are ready for the fish probably has another five five minutes or so five or six minutes oh my gosh, the skin sure gives it some extra flavor.

The meat is so delicate that it definitely has a barbecue flavor, but there is no ash because of the stones I put there. Can? See, the fat from the skin definitely adds enough depth to it, the secret is to really salt it and let it sit for about 10 to 20 minutes, then the whole fish tastes delicious. Holy Moly. I think the caller is almost done. Check it out. Doesn't it look good? Oh, yes, yes, that's done, ooh, it's like eating a crab. You know, the inside of a crab you can break it open and there are these joints, look at that meat right there, man, I'm going to eat all of this. so, you see what I mean, it has these kind of indentations like a crab, you just take out all that meat.

Wow, and I bet they taste like potato chips, yeah, super crispy, delicious, man. I don't think I can wait, yeah. Don't wait, I only took the tail off because I know that spinner and I'm sure it's done, even though this is already done, you can eat it, oh yeah, cool, yeah, oh you know, it's really good when I can't help but tear it off while it's still going cooking. look at the meat and the skin, all in one, perfectly cooked. How do you think something could be added to this to make it better? It's amazing how it is now.

I can't help it. It will be ready soon. I couldn't wait for the moment to come. whole fish to finish cooking