Hey Luke longliner up on the Canadian west coast here. Your deckhand is snapping the hooks on with the wrong hand. He’s snapping with his left hand which put his hand in front of the snap and will pull the leader trough his hand which will then hook to his hand and pull him over. If he snaps with his right hand then his hand is behind the snap and when he opens his hand to let go nothing is at risk of pulling though and hooking up. Also to set the safest you need to get tension on the mainline so all the deckhands have to do is push down on the snap and let go instead of pulling the line tight with his other hand. The way we do it up here is we mount a spool to the deck which has a hydraulic motor and a break. The hydraulic motor is so you can hual it back without using yourself as the hauler. The break is so you can set the tension on the mainline. Also seen guys haul off the side with the crab block.
Its an absolute joy to see a McFadden having the desire and aptitude to try anything. Keep it up son, I am from Idaho, a McFadden and damn proud of you.
Retired fisherman here....put your work knife on your belt and tape an emergency knife upside down on your suspenders. I also would tape knives on the hauler and anywhere else in reach. Good luck.
Over the rail and in the pale back to the dock to make the sale. Tales up 🤙🏼. From one fisherman to another honestly man since day one of tiktok I’ve followed you and have been privileged to see you grow. Hell yeah brother.
Nothing like a plan, properly conceptualized, questionably implemented, butchered during deployment, but harvested like a true professional! 😂😂😂 Nice Job! I’ll be on the lookout for Bay Salmon. Maybe make some Jerky? Can’t get enough of that stuff. ❤ Love the content, 110%, all day, every day, that is how to do it!
You are so patient and stay so positive. It’s one of the reasons I really enjoy watching your videos. You constantly motivate me to be a better person❤
Brings back memories. You know a lot about fishing. I have to go back and read a few times I just grew up on the west coast. You answered the negative comments ❤ With such grace and positive attitude. Sending you good energy. Fishermen, SOOo much fun. Share some more of your stories.
I have no idea how you bait your crab pots but I would explore using the entrails of those fish as bait. They are going to make scent trails back to the pots like CRAZY!
literally stumbled by your channel, and i’m so glad i did. nothing like an original video of just some hard work and good talk. idk how to describe how your videos,but it makes me happy to watch lol. you’re an inspiration to young kids, looking to make a name of themselves! by every view you earn, you’re teaching us about notoriety, and to be proud of yourself. thank you brother 🫶🏽
Pretty interesting. I live just south of Houston along the Brazos River where we have mainly predominately Yellow and channel cat. Some of the other rivers in the state have blues though. If you are thinking about trying sell it to local businesses just let them know that the commercial catfish that they would be buying from companies like Sysco are just farm raised blues. The wild caught blues have a better tastes, not bland. Most of the restaurants that I know of that serve wild caught catfish usually do phenomenal business when they serve it, even when selling at a higher price than farm raised. Keep at it. It's people like you that run their own small businesses that are the true backbone of our country. This veteran's hat off to you sir.
Think this is the most rewatched videi by me lol. Im a catfisherman at heart, but ill target whatever species i can. Glad i stumbled on your channel a year or so ago, keeo the cintent coming, tight lines!
In the UK it's mainly Cod and Haddock.. Rock eel is a southern thing and is normally dog shark.. Quite meaty and has a strong flavour not dissimilar to eel..
Here in Texas we have multiple breeds of Cat Fish. Blues, Yellows and Channel are the three most liked to eat...Most restaurants have a Friday Night all you can eat Cat Fish filets....Best of luck on this endeavor !!! God bless...
in the spring you can catch alot fishing cans. Take an old soap drum (15 gal) drill a good bit of holes in it so water drains to lift it. Cut a 6 or 8 in hole towards the bottom and rig them just like you did your long line but make some type of snood to keep em spaced out. In the spring they will go in there to lay eggs theyll fill the drum up. Hoop nets work well here in Louisiana also. On long lines here the better baits are cut bluegill, mullet and eel is probably the best . If you duck hunt the gizzard, liver, heart works great too.
Love seeing the long liners give help in the comments. Luke said it, “That’s why the fisherman wear a knife up here.” It’s a smart crabber who knows he has to reach into someone else’s bucket of professional knowledge. It might be a good vid to take a ride with a fisherman one day to see and show us what you discover. Good job. I’m sure you can sell that Blue Cat up and down the waterfront. That’s good eats. Good luck.
Where did you learn that they use dodfish in the UK? EVERYONE knows that the traditional & most comonly used fish are cod, haddock and pollock... Sure, a few may use skate or "rock salmon," but atlantic whitefish is the most preferred and commonly used.
when me and my brother-in-law went channel cat fishing we did as you are doing we set a big weight and a float to hold the main line up and find where ya put it we caught over 450lbs of them and our line had 300 hooks and main line was I don't know how long it was we was in a rowboat .it was easy going down setting the lines but Rowling back to beginning took a while against the current and for bait we used snails not the shell but the meat so whenwe got to where we started and pulled the float .about every 2 or 3 lines was a catfish about 4 to 5 lbs roughly but ya ..you doing this just reminded me of that day .but id love to jump on your boat and do some fishing and crabbing also would like to do some crayfish. crayfish or crawedadds sometimes but great vid bud godbless .
Oh nooooo, not Blue cats.... really? Theyre better than salmon to eat as far as im concerned. As far as which one is more fun to catch, Its debatable. Best to just fish for them both as much as possible.
Congratulations and I wish you much success for a bright future on catching them catfish . You're smart young man and your parents are very proud of you .
Well that was AWESOME. GREAT JOB CAPTAIN. THANKS for trying to help keep the bay healthy. And this might catch on to Alot of crabbers who are feeling the squeeze of inflation. Just awesome great job 👏👏👏👏
Nice job buddy, what your making is called a tub trawl, not long line, usually don’t use salted bait, and they make a line shooter to run your line through and keep your hooks from flying around, not expensive, you can make one yourself with some aluminum pipe
I used to go with my ex father in law out on his boat to set, check and bait trot lines, down in Southern Louisiana. He was a commercial fisherman and when it wasn't shrimping season that's what he'd do. One of my favorite experiences ever. I absolutely loved it and we always caught so much on em. He would sell everything though, so we didn't have to worry about catching a particular fish, which I imagine would make it harder and not as fun. An hour is hardly any time for a trot line, too. Usually we'd leave it overnight reset in morning and repeat so every morning and every evening you're fishing. Not to mention catfish are on like every menu in Southern Louisiana so if they are invasive up there? Mmm mmmmm yummy catch all you can fish!!!
Couple of tips from the way our Kiwi longliners do it. On your tub you have the leaders/traces in...cut strips of rubber around 1 1/4 wide and fasten to the top of the tub, cut V shaped slits in the rubber to sit the hooks in. If tub gets knocked around the hooks cant move leading to tangles. Mainline/backbone gets fed out from a pulley mounted high up around the height of your crap pot pullers pulley. Mustad Tainawa 18R or 16R are the most productive reliable strongest longline hook for the job. Only needs a small piece of bait hooked only once with the hook. We use a certain clip here that has a swivel on it like your Shark Clips but doesnt require you to squeeze it to put it on or take it off. If you mount a winch system to retrieve the backbone/mainline consider mounting a paddle type switch to activate it by pressing it with you knee or hip, leaves both hands free. And look at making a landing fool out of a wooden hatchet-axe handle that has a 4-5 inch stainless spike protruding thru the top in place of the axe head, lean over and smack the spike in the head and lift fish on board, saves hooks busting, leaders snapping and your hands.
Luke, at the crab shack, set up a fryer and cook small chunks of these fish as samples. Let folks taste what you have for sale. I would say a couple weekends will spread the word and move your product. I did this at the pier we owned with potatoe chips and small shrimp. I worked 8-10 hours per day catching shrimp and would sell out in 2-3 hours. Was selling 100 pounds of chips daily, had to buy a commercial meat slicer to keep up, using a knife was tooooo slow. Best of luck.
Like Brown Trout….introduced in the early 1880’s and spread across the country by the end of that decade. They have and will continue to wipe out native species of fish in places they are introduced in.
Only question i have is who processes the fish before its ready to cook its gotta be cleaned lol i guess the Restaurant would be the processor lol😅😅😅 good thinking tho and also catcish are alot harder to clean than a fish with scales you have to physically pull the skin off so dont know if the restaurant would be able to do that ,you need permits and cant have cross catamanation
Man down here in Texas we do a lot of cat fishing with jug lines and bank lines and trotlines and freshwater man three runs. We catch 300 pounds of fish. Always been a great fish to eat.
try the catfish "bucket" method... Would love to see it work commercially.... making me hungry AF!!!! better then the tilipia they try and trick us with in the south...
I have never used a trot line for catfish but i have used one for crabbing and they are productive. I do it recreational but its an easy way to fill a cooler fast.
Love this channel. I'll be heading up to Stonington on Deer isle ME in a few months. Can't wait to just sit and watch the lobster boats go by. No place on earth I'd rather be
Here in the St.Louis area some " commercial fishermen " use traps kinda like your pots for taking Catfish out of the Mississippi , then put them in a horse troth with water in it to keep them going until they cut them up
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Hey Luke longliner up on the Canadian west coast here. Your deckhand is snapping the hooks on with the wrong hand. He’s snapping with his left hand which put his hand in front of the snap and will pull the leader trough his hand which will then hook to his hand and pull him over. If he snaps with his right hand then his hand is behind the snap and when he opens his hand to let go nothing is at risk of pulling though and hooking up. Also to set the safest you need to get tension on the mainline so all the deckhands have to do is push down on the snap and let go instead of pulling the line tight with his other hand. The way we do it up here is we mount a spool to the deck which has a hydraulic motor and a break. The hydraulic motor is so you can hual it back without using yourself as the hauler. The break is so you can set the tension on the mainline. Also seen guys haul off the side with the crab block.
Its an absolute joy to see a McFadden having the desire and aptitude to try anything. Keep it up son, I am from Idaho, a McFadden and damn proud of you.
Retired fisherman here....put your work knife on your belt and tape an emergency knife upside down on your suspenders. I also would tape knives on the hauler and anywhere else in reach. Good luck.
I really admire your tenacity. You never quit. You always apply knowledge taken from mistakes. You're an inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
Over the rail and in the pale back to the dock to make the sale. Tales up 🤙🏼. From one fisherman to another honestly man since day one of tiktok I’ve followed you and have been privileged to see you grow. Hell yeah brother.
Nothing like a plan, properly conceptualized, questionably implemented, butchered during deployment, but harvested like a true professional! 😂😂😂 Nice Job! I’ll be on the lookout for Bay Salmon. Maybe make some Jerky? Can’t get enough of that stuff. ❤ Love the content, 110%, all day, every day, that is how to do it!
Much respect to you for admitting your mistakes.
First
Attempt
In
Learning.
The only people that fail, are the ones that try.
Now I want to go catfishing!
@chrisfix made it to this channel, tickle me freakin IMPRESSED
Wow Luke. What a result. Well done Man.
I love that you are so honest showing the f**k ups as well as the successes what a star Bro
Don’t ever stop posting videos bro this channel fire , so glad I found it.
Congratulations Luke and crew! Good job boys. I hope it all works out for you.
Congratulations on catching some fish. Looks like the System works.
Just found your channel the other day, ABSOLUTE GOLD! All content 🤣 your wit has me dead, keep up the good work 🤙🏼 cheers from Canada 🇨🇦✌🏼
Well done! I think you're right, folks will eat that up. Literally 😂
I love your “I’ve never done this, but heeeeere we go…” attitude.
OH man! Commercial fishing is the most dangerous profession😵 Be careful out there!🙏 That catfish is bad for the bay
You are so patient and stay so positive. It’s one of the reasons I really enjoy watching your videos. You constantly motivate me to be a better person❤
Brings back memories. You know a lot about fishing. I have to go back and read a few times I just grew up on the west coast. You answered the negative comments ❤ With such grace and positive attitude. Sending you good energy. Fishermen, SOOo much fun. Share some more of your stories.
Enjoying hearing about your job and some of what happens at Chesapeake. Thanks for your videos and hello from Scotland 🙂
I have no idea how you bait your crab pots but I would explore using the entrails of those fish as bait. They are going to make scent trails back to the pots like CRAZY!
literally stumbled by your channel, and i’m so glad i did. nothing like an original video of just some hard work and good talk. idk how to describe how your videos,but it makes me happy to watch lol. you’re an inspiration to young kids, looking to make a name of themselves! by every view you earn, you’re teaching us about notoriety, and to be proud of yourself. thank you brother 🫶🏽
Pretty interesting. I live just south of Houston along the Brazos River where we have mainly predominately Yellow and channel cat. Some of the other rivers in the state have blues though. If you are thinking about trying sell it to local businesses just let them know that the commercial catfish that they would be buying from companies like Sysco are just farm raised blues. The wild caught blues have a better tastes, not bland. Most of the restaurants that I know of that serve wild caught catfish usually do phenomenal business when they serve it, even when selling at a higher price than farm raised. Keep at it. It's people like you that run their own small businesses that are the true backbone of our country. This veteran's hat off to you sir.
This dude is a whole vibe, im definitely following just for educational purposes :)
Think this is the most rewatched videi by me lol. Im a catfisherman at heart, but ill target whatever species i can. Glad i stumbled on your channel a year or so ago, keeo the cintent coming, tight lines!
The road to catfish hell is paved with good intentions.
In the UK it's mainly Cod and Haddock.. Rock eel is a southern thing and is normally dog shark.. Quite meaty and has a strong flavour not dissimilar to eel..
rock salmon here in Ireland is dog fish when we are out bass fishing and hit dogs we sell them to the local curry house
I love the hard work ethic and creativity. It will pay off. Keep it up Luke!
Here in Texas we have multiple breeds of Cat Fish. Blues, Yellows and Channel are the three most liked to eat...Most restaurants have a Friday Night all you can eat Cat Fish filets....Best of luck on this endeavor !!! God bless...
Great video, I enjoyed the talk while you were rigging up, super interesting. Also just finding out you had a RUclips lol earned another subscriber!
We fight over Blues in Missouri. Strong work brother. 💪
I salute you!! I enjoy watching your content and I know you are going to be very successful. Keep up the hard work and keep having fun
in the spring you can catch alot fishing cans. Take an old soap drum (15 gal) drill a good bit of holes in it so water drains to lift it. Cut a 6 or 8 in hole towards the bottom and rig them just like you did your long line but make some type of snood to keep em spaced out. In the spring they will go in there to lay eggs theyll fill the drum up. Hoop nets work well here in Louisiana also. On long lines here the better baits are cut bluegill, mullet and eel is probably the best . If you duck hunt the gizzard, liver, heart works great too.
Dang you even keep cool in highly charged situations! Annnnnd turn it into a lesson to be learned and shared!
Its great you take safety seriously and have a good internal instinct to know… that was definitely a warning sign.
Luke I literally laughed and said what a dumb ass... Lmfao.. Keep up the good work sir
Put a float on the leader to keep the bait off the bottom away from the crabs
Love seeing the long liners give help in the comments. Luke said it, “That’s why the fisherman wear a knife up here.” It’s a smart crabber who knows he has to reach into someone else’s bucket of professional knowledge. It might be a good vid to take a ride with a fisherman one day to see and show us what you discover. Good job. I’m sure you can sell that Blue Cat up and down the waterfront. That’s good eats. Good luck.
Good luck on your test it's awesome to see you catch something that you can make some money with ❤
Awesome job on reinventing the wheel man I’m a charter captain down in Key West are always looking to try new things man. Keep digging love your show.
I enjoy watching these videos more than any other channel out there.
so fun to watch you do something different....and succeed. as you said, hopefully it will help fill up the off season with some extra cash.
Cat-fish heads are great crab bait.
Went long line fishing for Tuna here on the west coast this week. Caught our fill. Keeping doing it. Invasives are a serious problem.
I love the determination that you have in life the positive outlook just enjoy yourself
You are awesome! Love your attitude and enthusiasm.
Where did you learn that they use dodfish in the UK? EVERYONE knows that the traditional & most comonly used fish are cod, haddock and pollock...
Sure, a few may use skate or "rock salmon," but atlantic whitefish is the most preferred and commonly used.
when me and my brother-in-law went channel cat fishing we did as you are doing we set a big weight and a float to hold the main line up and find where ya put it we caught over 450lbs of them and our line had 300 hooks and main line was I don't know how long it was we was in a rowboat .it was easy going down setting the lines but Rowling back to beginning took a while against the current and for bait we used snails not the shell but the meat so whenwe got to where we started and pulled the float .about every 2 or 3 lines was a catfish about 4 to 5 lbs roughly but ya ..you doing this just reminded me of that day .but id love to jump on your boat and do some fishing and crabbing also would like to do some crayfish. crayfish or crawedadds sometimes but great vid bud godbless .
If your long lining with hooks you should always wear a knife just in case!!!
Good for you Bubba heck of a 1st time 🤠👍
Hahaha Bay Salmon! …them tourists will love it !
We catch a ton of blue cats in the south they are good eating
People pay good money to fish for big blues with rod and reel. Just saying
9:20 man never lose that excitement.
Oh nooooo, not Blue cats.... really? Theyre better than salmon to eat as far as im concerned. As far as which one is more fun to catch, Its debatable. Best to just fish for them both as much as possible.
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Congratulations and I wish you much success for a bright future on catching them catfish . You're smart young man and your parents are very proud of you .
Congrats! Love the content and your attitude! Send it!!
We eat catfish fillets down here in Brunswick County you can sell catfish fillet
Well that was AWESOME. GREAT JOB CAPTAIN. THANKS for trying to help keep the bay healthy. And this might catch on to Alot of crabbers who are feeling the squeeze of inflation. Just awesome great job 👏👏👏👏
In the south we have 100s of ways to eat catfish, if you get the right chefs it'll be huge for the area.
Nice job buddy, what your making is called a tub trawl, not long line, usually don’t use salted bait, and they make a line shooter to run your line through and keep your hooks from flying around, not expensive, you can make one yourself with some aluminum pipe
Love the content man! Any word on jimmys? If not where in glen burnie are you located I'd like to buy some of them blue cat fish fillets.
Son I've never made mistakes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They fry up as good as any fish out there! Best to bleed them soon as you catch them!
Really enjoy your channel!
I'm in Oklahoma and truth be told, I'd rather have fried catfish than crabs... but, it's what I grew up on.
Backyard scientists have ruined many fisheries
You should set up tanks dude and keep them alive until you can sell fresh to local restaurants
Bay Salmon - LOVE IT!
I used to go with my ex father in law out on his boat to set, check and bait trot lines, down in Southern Louisiana. He was a commercial fisherman and when it wasn't shrimping season that's what he'd do. One of my favorite experiences ever. I absolutely loved it and we always caught so much on em. He would sell everything though, so we didn't have to worry about catching a particular fish, which I imagine would make it harder and not as fun.
An hour is hardly any time for a trot line, too. Usually we'd leave it overnight reset in morning and repeat so every morning and every evening you're fishing. Not to mention catfish are on like every menu in Southern Louisiana so if they are invasive up there? Mmm mmmmm yummy catch all you can fish!!!
Down south people eat blue cat all the time!! It’s great
New drinking game, take a shot every time Luke says “this fish”
Winter is the best time for Big Blue Cats you'll have a boatload!!!
I love catching these Blue Catfish, in the upper Chesapeake and Susquehanna River. They are great tasting fish, and there should be a market for them.
Couple of tips from the way our Kiwi longliners do it.
On your tub you have the leaders/traces in...cut strips of rubber around 1 1/4 wide and fasten to the top of the tub, cut V shaped slits in the rubber to sit the hooks in. If tub gets knocked around the hooks cant move leading to tangles. Mainline/backbone gets fed out from a pulley mounted high up around the height of your crap pot pullers pulley. Mustad Tainawa 18R or 16R are the most productive reliable strongest longline hook for the job. Only needs a small piece of bait hooked only once with the hook. We use a certain clip here that has a swivel on it like your Shark Clips but doesnt require you to squeeze it to put it on or take it off. If you mount a winch system to retrieve the backbone/mainline consider mounting a paddle type switch to activate it by pressing it with you knee or hip, leaves both hands free. And look at making a landing fool out of a wooden hatchet-axe handle that has a 4-5 inch stainless spike protruding thru the top in place of the axe head, lean over and smack the spike in the head and lift fish on board, saves hooks busting, leaders snapping and your hands.
Most common fish served in the Uk fish and chips is cod and haddock.
Hardly any catfish here in western Oregon, ship them here.
Trot lines are my favorite
Huge catfish market here in Texas…blackened and fried cat is on a ton a lot menus if you can ice them and ship them
I did that alone ....an dont ever rap your hand on the line always keep away an stay safe
Luke, at the crab shack, set up a fryer and cook small chunks of these fish as samples. Let folks taste what you have for sale. I would say a couple weekends will spread the word and move your product. I did this at the pier we owned with potatoe chips and small shrimp. I worked 8-10 hours per day catching shrimp and would sell out in 2-3 hours. Was selling 100 pounds of chips daily, had to buy a commercial meat slicer to keep up, using a knife was tooooo slow. Best of luck.
Like Brown Trout….introduced in the early 1880’s and spread across the country by the end of that decade. They have and will continue to wipe out native species of fish in places they are introduced in.
Only question i have is who processes the fish before its ready to cook its gotta be cleaned lol i guess the Restaurant would be the processor lol😅😅😅 good thinking tho and also catcish are alot harder to clean than a fish with scales you have to physically pull the skin off so dont know if the restaurant would be able to do that ,you need permits and cant have cross catamanation
Man down here in Texas we do a lot of cat fishing with jug lines and bank lines and trotlines and freshwater man three runs. We catch 300 pounds of fish. Always been a great fish to eat.
Well down here in Texas people love them cats. So if you can’t sell them there find a way to ship them south
try the catfish "bucket" method... Would love to see it work commercially....
making me hungry AF!!!! better then the tilipia they try and trick us with in the south...
Hey Luke i was wondering if you had any souther girl or any merch available
Hi instead of backing up on your longline you drive ford and let it loop behind the boat
I have never used a trot line for catfish but i have used one for crabbing and they are productive. I do it recreational but its an easy way to fill a cooler fast.
Bay Salmon 😂
Here in NC OUR RESTAURANT SURVE CATFISH ALL THE TIME AND THEY ARE DEFINITELY A GREAT EATING FISH . Cook them in corn mill yummmmmm yummmmmm
It works here in Houston Texas you can fine catfish it all the restaurants here
Man catfish has a huge market in the Midwest and south. Huge catfish farms and restaurants that specialize in fried catfish.
I'm going to start asking for Bay Salmon in restaurants.
Blue cat is very tasty especially catfish nuggets
Buddys lucky You reacted so fast and didnt panic jumped in and knew exactly what to do
Love this channel. I'll be heading up to Stonington on Deer isle ME in a few months. Can't wait to just sit and watch the lobster boats go by. No place on earth I'd rather be
I can assure you that fish and chips in the UK is cod, haddock and on occasion plaice.
Here in the St.Louis area some " commercial fishermen " use traps kinda like your pots for taking Catfish out of the Mississippi , then put them in a horse troth with water in it to keep them going until they cut them up
It's extremely rare that a fish n chip shop in England will have dogfish it's cod or haddock mainly
The fishing is super interesting for me, dig the videos
Now I want some fried catfish!