How To Catch, Clean, Cook and Properly Freeze *CRAPPIE*

What's up everyone, Blue Gabe? We're at Lake Okeechobee. I have my new boat, my new pro drive. If you saw my frog concert video in Louisiana, you already saw it, but guess what, I modified it to where now. I think this is the best boat I have ever owned and I know for a fact that if you follow me for a long time you will see that this is the most versatile boat I have ever owned with 8 foot power poles and C deck. I have rod lockers and my Millennium seats with stabilizer lights and today we're going to show you how to

catch

crappie

with a fishing rod.

It's not like what you would do anywhere else in the country. This for me is the best place in the world. do it and it's the most fun you can have my dad put Kelly Young behind the camera and we're going

crappie

fishing looks like I'm having beginner's luck second crappie in the boat he's a good size too a nice little pig , we I'm here I know next time I'm going fishing guys so we stopped here at what we call the maiden rod and this is where we're going to start fishing. We have these little jig heads like that and you take these little bass killer rubber jig bodies that I bite just a little bit, they come right on their belly, they have a flat side if you see there how it's flat, but here's the trick, esp. if you have kids or the fish really bite a lot do this you will go through a lot less bodies just take some super glue and put it on there and just put a small bead on the edge now the rubber jig body will last a lot longer .

I'm going to do my best to show you how we fish, although it's very difficult, so let's get started, there really aren't a ton of places to fish at this exact moment. Hear Timmy laugh. He has the most fun life. Oh, fold, oh, we. I'm listening to Timmy, guys, if you watch my noodle video, Timmy was in it, the tall guy, really tall, skinny, has the best laugh ever. Timmy, we love you, you're not far behind us with Brad, let me show the audience what you want to see. what we're fishing this is the best way for me to show you this is how we're fishing you stick these long rods strip the hook let me see these are the hooks we're using suck it all the way down the rod and you literally just do this here you put it in there and then you release it, is it working?

Let's see, show them that refrigerator, let's see, we have a lot of sakura is what they called them in Louisiana, oh kp, have you been too? happy with the pro drive or what, oh yeah, sure, I mean, look, look what we're up to now, look at the trees I ran over, we literally ran over the trees to get here, that's your second, right, that's my fourth and medium because one escaped how many did you

catch

dad what happened I don't know you took my rod so with these fish many people in the north many of you, boys and girls, that type of fish type of fish you have to be very, very quiet, obviously, the camera was You're not pointing at me when I caught this one, but I'm about to show you where it was when I caught it.

We're parked in a big tree right here. We just passed by here and I caught that fish right there. What happened? At the bottom I'll say Kelly is, I think this sport is what we're doing now because you have to be very patient. Kelly might actually be better to me than this, I'm sure she's over me already, but here on Lake Okeechobee you don't. You don't have to be quiet, you can make as much noise as you want, why do you have so many rods and for those who don't know, that's Brad with g3 suppliers and a 90,000 boat driving in these trees.

He may need to have his head checked. You're bothering all my fish. Oh my God, don't move. You're catching a big one. I just caught Kelly. If that happens. You have six foot poles there or grappling hooks. It doesn't even make sense now, yeah, this is the hardest place I've ever been in, but everyone sees it landed on the boat, okay, we gotta move, yeah, we can't do anything in this hole, wait for this. , I want to show my fans upside down in this pro drive everyone thinks their boat has a crazy upside down look at this on dad, what are you doing?

Stay here and let me see, that's a beautiful old black man, look at him, how about that? There you have it, oh there you have it guys, we turned off the cameras for about an hour because the sun was shining so bright, now we can show you exactly what we're doing, check out this look at that big old crappie folded over, so the rods we are using are these acc crappie sticks. I have these little reels, I don't know what they're called exactly, I have 20 pounds of pro power for the little jig, the jig doesn't really matter, so this is the trick, this is the trick look what I'm doing show you the end of the rod now show them my hand I pull that jig all the way to the end of the rod and stick it in this hole right here or wherever I feel like there might be a really slow fish and I drop that jig down there's so many weeds in there you're gonna stay hung up quickly.

I do it for about 15 seconds, grab that line, pull my jig up, get the rod out and go straight to a different hole and I repeat, we haven't been catching many fish in big groups, we stop at two o'clock, we catch one or two and then moved on to the next, so now we only fished the spot for about two minutes and didn't get any bites. We start the engine. Moving forward When I decided to build this Pro Drive I was looking for a boat that was very versatile, something I could do anything I wanted with and for the most part, unless it involves sailing offshore in big waves, I can do it.

You see how loud the hit was, yes the noise you hear is a stick on the front of the boat, oh show them the power poles, those are nice, this is one type of fishing deal I wouldn't recommend to your Children, look at that, look though. Plus, it's very, very difficult and can be very frustrating. This is not something you want to do with kids here in a couple of weeks. I will make a video on fishing for crappie with live bait minnows and you can do it with your kids whenever we get there. For these groups we are looking for holes that are a little larger and a little more open than the rest.

I see one here, although I don't know if I can land a fish, look how I hit it. rod there, nice and slow, drop that jig down, I liked it like that, I'm not sitting there up and down and up and down and I'm just ticking, brad with g3 outfitters, who just did the bass video with the The other day with the children he goes on excursions for these things, you come fishing with him, I promise you that you will learn a lot and you will go home with a lot of meat, he and I are going to see if you just saw what I drugged.

If that doesn't tell you about these rods and how strong they are, nothing will notice that, use this braid because obviously you can see that you couldn't land that fish with anything else, yeah, a small fish, a big crappie , these. Rods don't play, I promise I will have the link below where you can find them. We have to keep fishing here on Lake Okeechobee. You are allowed 25 crappie each, but to be honest with you, 10 each is more than you need. you're going to eat that's a 25 crappie that's a lot let's see if there's another one here oh he almost ripped a rod out of my hand you'll almost always find that when you fish like this they'll all be in the same type of area when you go down the line line yeah, there you go, if they're in bull racing, they'll all be in bull racing, if they're in Maiden Cane, they'll all be in Maiden King, I mean.

Look at that, even though it's a pretty fish, it doesn't get much better and the good thing about crappie is that they are literally everywhere in the country and they are also good to eat everywhere, Dad, are you going to catch one? I'm working with him, so I started very slow. I was really worried about Kelly because she had never done it, so I explained to her on the way here how to do it right. She came out the door swinging and I think I know what it is. she's doing right now she stops while she's ahead because now if I say I won she'll say well I stopped fishing oh I got it.

I love it when a plan is made. Leave a comment below if you want to come do this with me. dad and kelly we need to eat venison for dinner here and eat a pesquito from me aubry and robert winter take everything oh so now that I was I don't know if you saw me at that moment but I was trying to do this and that you, that one It's not the right way, it's funny, I said that as my dad slowly walks back here in the direction where I'm catching these fish, so last night Jake and my friend Michael Fugue took this boat to play with fish.

The first time I only filmed a little bit because I was more or less doing a test on the boat, look at the drone footage and some of these fish that Jake touched, hold it again son, you just destroyed it, pick it up, you got it. He knows how to hold that thing stay back here, jake, one step back here, keep the carriage on the ground, one step back here, keep walking back here, come back here, now switch hands and put it up, ready, boy , keep staying, you heard them. I've heard myself say in about 100 videos that power poles are the best invention ever created, that's no joke, look how quickly the engine dies, you drop the poles and start fishing, how can you top it?

These are the athlete series. The ones on my baby and my airboat are paddles. They are probably 200 each cheaper than paddles and work just as well, but paddles for a large boat are a little better. What do you believe? We have enough fish. I think we have. They are good for frying fish, what did you say you wanted? Fish, fried rice, fish, fried rice, yeah, fish, fried rice, fish, fried rice, fish, sounds good guys, I hope you enjoyed this part of fishing, acc, crappie, stick, g3 outfitters, my dad, kelly young. I'm heading to the house, see you in the kitchen okay guys we're back we're about to throw ourselves into this kitchen like never before we're going to make a dish that you guys I definitely won't wait for it and I'm also going to show you how to preserve fish so last night we caught 75, that was our limit before dark.

I got out my new vacuum sealer, outdoor stabilizer, the same guys that make my lights. for my new boat that we were fishing on yesterday just came out with an amazing vacuum sealer so I'm going to

clean

a couple of these fish, show you how to

cook

this amazing food and how to

properly

store the fish to put in the

freeze

r. so it will be fresh forever for those of you who follow me, know that danko knives have been out of stock for a while, they just received a large shipment of their kits, this is the 10 inch, 7 inch and 5 inch and Te I assure you that with these three knives for less than 50 dollars you can do anything you need, period, and if you can't, you may have to reevaluate your situation.

My favorite to play with is the seven inch all day, every day. right along their spine, tilt it forward, come in like here, tilt it back now, if I were frying them I would definitely save the tails and the spine because that's my favorite part now with a crappie there's a big piece of meat just below the ribs. so take that knife and tilt it down like this this fillet knife cuts them like butter look at her she was ready to burst with roe now one of the reasons lake okeechobee has such a large number of big crappie is because we harvest a lot of the crappie in that lake aren't fighting to eat there's plenty of room for everyone and that lake has one of the best populations of crappie on the planet and the big ones are pretty big but they're not as big as them Cut it out a little the ribs, don't worry, right now I'm going to show you how to fix it, so when you make a mistake and cut the ribs a little, put that knife right under them and rip them off.

Now, when it comes time to skin them, set the knife like this and look at that. For those of you who eat panfish or freshwater fish, you know that there is no better fish to eat in the world. planet that a sock crappie lie white perch whatever you want to call them there is nothing better okay let's get this party started not so much butter I have a cup of onion a cup of mushrooms two cups of zucchini none of this has to be exact in any way about a cup of broccoli, wondering what we're doing?

I haven't even told you yet. I have my cast iron skillet quite hot. I don't want this to get mushy, I prefer to

cook

it. hot and fast than low and slow now I want to add some, look at this, Kelly has some olive oil, like if you're grilling, this is amazing because you can put them in there and drizzle, you're just going to get olive. oil right on the food you want to drizzle not all over everything stir it up again turn up the heat from that initial explosion put a little pepper and a little salt I'm not going to use too much seasoning because we're going to put a special seasoning right at the end, this it's one of those things that you need to stop and make sure it doesn't burn and that it doesn't cool too much while it's cooking because it will get very mushy while it's cooking. cook some fish, I'm going to be very light with the seasonings, typeof fish, white perch, it's such a white, flaky, pure, good-to-eat fish that you don't need to season it too much, you're not trying to hide anything that you're not trying to cover up something, it's just an excellent fish, excellent to eat, I don't know what this is, Kelly came home with some garlic seasoning and nalt got some butter, some olive oil, my big pans busy right now. rice, but we'll be done soon and you're going to be very surprised, okay, they've been there for about a minute, we need to turn them over, look at that little golden crunch, oh, you got this, you know what I have to do, I don't even know .

Why am I playing with you? I have the best fans in the world. My last video broke. Guess what they emailed me? They asked me for my address and sent me not one but two pairs. Here comes the magic. Now you're scratching your head wondering what Gabe is doing here comes the magic, I know, you all are thinking thinking thinking thinking but what are you thinking? We put out the fire because they're almost done, look at these. tongs right here look I'm sure this chef wizard has been wondering why such a spike in sales lately I don't have any affiliation with them but I wish I did because I guarantee you I've sold a couple thousand pairs now that Kelly is the the reasoning behind this dish she loves to eat this style of food what you know we're just going to stir everything up I'm sure some of you were thinking I knew I knew how about this though what you all know we need a little more , but does Kelly look good?

I'm sorry, she looks so good. Some homemade crappie fried rice. Now, this is the funny thing. They were probably thinking that I was going to prepare this beautiful dish. We do not do it. as you should, especially if you're at Deer Camp Fishing Camp and have a group of people who are hungry right now. This is how you do it, cut the fish and start stirring it. Now you have your protein, your vegetables, your rice. Now you're going to lose weight and feel good maybe not lose weight I don't know where I was going with that crappie fried rice not with crappie fries to finish we have this really healthy soy sauce that Kelly found on her own a bit. a little bit, oh a little bit of delicious sauce, that's all you need look at that, although the smells are amazing, but everyone was wondering about the seasonings at the end, look at this, yeah, it says seaweed on there.

I don't know why Kelly likes to eat seaweed, but we do. so she sprinkles a little of this on top. I know some of you right now are wishing you could walk past this chamber and lick this frying pan. It may be a little hot. Look at this, look at that, but can you smell that? If that. it smells good the taste test of my favorite food is very good i can live on it like you do very well i can live on fried rice like healthy fried rice like this oh my god so it's good it's so good redneck did you want a bit?

I never want a little, but we have a piece of fish here that's just simple, I think it's just a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper. I've never had a shitty puppy so this is the first time I've had him alone with nothing. I'm going to go fishing some more this is really good very flaky and white good flavor no fishy taste at all I love it what do you say before you finish eating? We'll show you how to put in some fish. Yes, and we should show them the Christmas tree. you picked it right, it's a little chubby for the ceiling, but that's okay, so if you notice me getting closer to her, what you don't know is her little fingers, that camera she's holding zooms in and out, she's not sticking the camera like that and when I'm filming I try to do it with my chubby, rough hands, that's right, that's why we were doing that.

The first step to making the fish last as long as possible is to leave it completely dry, wrap it in some paper. towels If you're a kid, your mom will probably be mad because you use all her paper towels, but tell her mom, it's for the good of everyone. Here's what's really cool about this scale and I'm going to show it to you because Kelly believes it. or not, maybe I need to put up one of your photos of her. She used to be at work as a bodybuilder. She was a bodybuilder built like a brick house, so she was always weighing her fish or her chicken or whatever. was eating on this new scale hear that 72.6 grams 159 245 333 407 47 47 29 472.9 grams of healthy fish you can weigh carrots or anything else you want to do, in my opinion, one of the best things with a sealer at vacuum is that you can also make marinades if you are going to make something like venison loin or a meat that doesn't have the best flavor and you want to inject some flavor into it put it in a vacuum sealer put in a little marinade do it right and it will just absorb those juices up there now when I'm stocking fish there are five of us in our little family so I like to put out five plates because I know we're going to at least eat that much and sometimes I'll even put out six in case someone is hungry .

If you place it there nice and neat, this vacuum sealer will be able to do its real job. Look, made that fish right there will last much longer than you can imagine and you can. make chicken, venison, anything you would put in a ziploc, you can do it here. The best of this. Some of you right now may say, oh, you're trying to make a sales pitch, now I'm trying to help you. guys, because you guys asked me a ton of questions about what we use outriggers for outdoors. I will have the link in the description below.

If you use my promo code you will even save more money. This amazing Christmas gift is just an amazing gift for your mom your grandma yourself whoever you are buy it I use it I love it now let me try this real quick without good chopsticks I'll feel like um I think I like it better so with chicken I still have a a couple more fillets, I'll vacuum seal them tomorrow we'll be back in Crystal River, g3 outfitters and me and casey, the guy I did the snipe hunting video with last year, timmy and richard, who we did the noodle video with and we're I'm going to come back with so much fish, it's crazy, you can bet I'm going to fill the

freeze

r with vacuum sealed fish, but right now, like Jake always says, it's time to get out of here, show them the painting of the peasant southern.

I just saw that. Check this out, my next door neighbor who painted the catfish video I made in South Carolina. I took this photo and she loves the redneck and says: Do you have a good photo of them? And she painted it by hand. That is incredible. Back to the exit. Jake always says it's time to get out of here and get in shape.