I taught my nephew to give the fish a good smack over the head with a thumb sized stick, hes always killed them with the one shot. Now to the processing. Cut the tongue out under the jaw, leave it attached. Slit the belly, pinch the tongue and give it a jerk. Everything comes right out. The benefit other than it being stupid easy is now the lower jaw still intact, you can use it as a carry handle. That whackin stick before? Thread through the jaws and just tie them off with a bit of bank line. Two knots at each end of your stick and you've got a carry handle. He snuck off one day and caught a mess of trout and cleaned them like that. He told me some older fellas asked him where he learned that. Proud as he could says "my uncle taught me." Cant argue with results, he caught them, I cooked them. He liked when I bake meat, be it fish, chicken, rabbit, what have you. Tip to keep the meat moist if you bake, cook it half way then flip the meat and finish cooking. Half way cooked the juices are liberated and are seeping out, flip it and they seep back into the meat.
Lol, honestly, I am accustomed to expecting the "Oh, man" after the first bite. Its like a staple phrase for Dave tasting anything he cooks... Bite... "Oh, man"... talk about it... bite... "Oh, man"... thank the viewer... bite.. "Oh, man"... end video!! YOU MAKE ME CRAVE WILD MEAT EVERY TIME I WATCH A VIDEO OF YOURS!! *NOT FAIR*
A good "cutting board" I have used is just a wooden clipboard. I especially love it for fishing trips because the clip can be used to hold the fish tail down when scaling it.
I am a disabled veteran and spent time with SF at Bragg. There seems to be plenty of sympathetic people concerned with the animals well being. Well these are not pets. They are food. The truth is that, if all of mankind treated food like humans, we never would have lasted this long! I have Never heard a fish say OUCH!!!
Guy from PA checking in here. My largest was 9', and the state record is around 2 lbs. Green sunfish tend to overpopulate, and therefore are usually smaller because they get stunted. In a fishery with a healthy and large predatory fish population, I can easily see these fish getting larger than that. It all depends on the water. Also, I prefer my sunfish filleted. It removes most to all of the bones.
Call me crazy buy my grandad and I always fillet our fish even if there small panfish like the ones in the video. You just have to be really good with your fillet knife.
We used to catch a bucket full of these kinds of fish once a year for my neighbor and he would rototill them into the garden before he planted his seeds and his vegtables would just grow unbelievably well. My favorite is the freshwater perch.
Fish size is also related to the amount of food available, For a typical gamefish to grow to one pound requires that it consume close to 5 pounds food. So in a pond where there is abundant food fish will grow larger and faster than in a pond with less food.
Hey Dave thanks for the videos. Just to let you know you have some women watching as well. I just caught some bluegill with my 12 yr old son yesterday and cleaned them right at the creek. Thanks again for teaching this country girl some new tricks.
a good tip if you accidentally swallow a bone and it gets stuck. keep a heel or slice of dry bread, no butter or nothing, chew a bite and swallow. it will wash the bone down. my grandfather taught me this. he was an east coast fishermen from Prince Edward Island for years and years.
Sir, with a comment like that you do not deserve to give Dave your opinion on his tactics. As a fisherman for the last 18 years of my life, I saw nothing wrong with what Dave did, actually found it more useful than the traditional method of cleaning and prepping a sunfish.
I thot I knew most everything about catching, cooking and eating fish. But my Filipina wife showed me a new way to prep and cook small fish. After cleaning, (she leaves the heads on) she splits them open butterfly style and salts them down. Then she lets the fish sit in the sun for an hour or so to "dry down." After that she frys them in hot oil really well and when they are done they are like little fish chips and can be eaten HEAD, BONES AND ALL.
In a survival situation, the use of that much oil in the pan is a waste unless you ate it too. You have more calories in that skillet in the form of oil than there was in the fish. I've always preferred to hit my fish on the head with a small stick, 1/2inch by 1foot is plenty, in order to dispatch the fish. That way I can scale it with the head on while holding it in my hand. A spoon is excellent for descaling a fish. Then, I eviscerate it. But there is more than one way to clean a fish.
One of my favorite things about visiting my aunts lake in Massachusetts is catching those off her dock. They're all good size and tons. Caught my first large mouth bass and pickerel fish there. Starting to get into sea fishing. In my area of California theres quite a bit of Mercury in our reservoirs unfortunately.
Awesome video. My last fire cooked fish was a nice bass. It fed my son, my cousin and myself. Lately we've been on a crappie fishing kick. Tons of pan fried crappie.
FWIW, when I used to catch croakers and such on the coast of NC, I'd tak'em back to the truck and fry'em up gutted but with the scales still on. The scales popped up like popcorn and made for a decently crunchy "batter". Fine eating. Outta the water, into the gullet in ~30mins. Livin large. Thanks for the vid, Mr David. d;^)
Great video! Thanks for showing the full range from fishing to cleaning and cooking and mentioning the cook time. These details are usually left out of other fishing or cooking type videos. Great job and thank you for sharing! God bless brother!
Dave, just a thought, but an old man in Florida taught me to just use a fork to scale fish. It works great and if done in the water, or under running water it is so quick. Works great if you have a lot of smaller fish.
hey Dave, your videos are great and you've taught us all a lot. but i have one small suggestion. when you catch and release fish, always wet your hands before touching them. when your hands are dry they remove the outer "slime" on the fish, and that leaves them prone to disease and sickness.
The tells on the fish are good to i really like your shows they take me back to when i was homeless i had to live off the land for 6 months until i got me a job i learned alot of to take care of my slef !
caught em on a meps?...bought some based on you videos...they work for multiple species...crappie, bream,bass, and even catfish on the same bait....I find that they like it with a little red in it....thanks for the info dave. God bless you and yours brother....God bless America
If you live near a Cracker Barrel restaurant, ask a waiter to nip a little of their "cat fish seasoning" for you to bring home! You will die and go to fishing heaven when you use it! Dave had me drooling when he devoured those fish!
great video Dave! i live in the buckeye lake region and have been a big fan since dual survival . I used to love watchin u and Cody bump heads was mad when u left the show because its just not the same but glad i found your channel on here my 9 yr old son and 6 yr old daughter are fans also we watch your vidoes before we go do our thing in the woods or when we go fishing....great basic skills to get the kids started !
My grandaddy always called the small bream, biscuit fish, because you can gut and scale them. Then all you do is add salt and pepper and put it inside a biscuit. Best eating I ever had on the river. Small bream have soft bones so don't worry. My papa swears by it.
You can fold one end of the cutting board up and put the tail under it as it closes, that would help hold it while you scale it. I like that board, I will be getting one for sure!
i have been fishing for 40 years and always put the stringer throuh the mouth and gills the only fish that die are the ones you crush or tear up the gills trying to get the hook out after the swallowed it .
Then it's awesome that there is no limit on sunfish (at least not in any of the states I've fished in). My cousins and I used to sit on a small dock and catch Sunfish all day and it was enough to feed 10-20 people at night.
Seeing this brings back good memories from my childhood. On Saturdays, my Dad would take us to a local fishing hole. we would catch a mess of bluegills, bring them home, and have them and some hushpuppies for supper. we were poor, but we ate like kings that night. good stuff.
cordage, combustion, cover, cutting device, container. He added a secondary 5 C's at some point. I think he actually invented the pneumonic. At least I heard it first from Dave. If you search his channel for 5 piece kit and 10 piece kit, you will probably find it.
I hope PETA never sees me filleting crappies with my electric knife while they're still floppin around haha. What has happened to this world since I was a kid? They're just freaking fish. so many people need to not let petty things bother them.
I caught and scaled my share of sunfish when i was young...they are good eating...ours got twice as big as those in upstate new york. I liked perch meat better, and trout even better than perch. The sunfish is a mainstay...there's tons of them in all ponds and lakes and provide a very good and quick meal.
I used the Pathfinder/Canteen shop canteen that I PM'd you about. Took it to my friends family homestead(non working now 1920's) and it worked bomber! well made and I didn't find any faults, just good. I will make a review video next outing.
We have a lot of sunfish here on Vancouver Island, it's good to know how to quickly prepare such an easily caught and sustainable food source. Thanks Dave, I might need to go for a sunfish lunch'en of my own this summer.
I like the double duty of the Chi-Com Oiler. Except in cold weather, I use cooking oil on guns that like to run wet like the AR family of actions. I do not purport that it is as good as a proper gun lube, but when you are carrying light mult-iuse materials help. I truly enjoy your vids and show them to my grandkids so they get a visual in their heads before I try to teach them something. We are less than 100 mile to your east so the trees, plants and critters are the same. God Bless, 28Bull
Brother here is a recipe for you that works with Yellow Perch, Goldeye, and White Fish. You need onion, mild cheddar, seasoning salt, pepper, aluminum foil... and the fish. Scale and gut the fish, cut the fins off and head and tail if you wish. Season the cavity with the salt and pepper and stuff with some of the cheese and onion, wrap in foil and place in coals, BBQ or oven. Cook for about to min and rest for min... oops forgot about the butter put just a bit of that in the fish to.
If the two fishes were caught within a short window back to back, then that'd make sense but procuring food in the wild usually means you may catch one fish quickly and the other an hour or two later. Live food stores better, and only building a fire once and cook once is far more efficient, especially in a survival situation. If he caught a really large fish, he might even consider letting those two go, an option he has as well when stringing them..
If made up artificial baits , back in the mountains, caught lots of those sized perch , roasted them on a stick , just salt and pepper on them . Ate lots of roasted over a open fire ,wild meats and fish . Even caught little catfish way back from real creeks
Hey dave great video, i have fished the differnt types of sunfish, tho only ate bass a couple times, tho perch can be very good eating. Thanks alot for sharing man, ill have to take the young fellow out fishing them again and bring em home to have a munch. take care bro another great vid.
love your videos Dave . that cutting board has what they call a living hinge and will not last very long ,In the long run you will end up with three small cutting boards.
they only thing that gets better than that is getting some fresh perch off of lake erie and cooking them up the same way! love catching some panfish and frying em up with a little butter tho, great stuff!
I saw someone who used the tops of beer bottles nailed to a sick to scale the fish. Cheaper than these scaling devices and might dull the blade less. Make up your own mind about it, I never tried it but it seamed to work good. Awesome video.
Dave keep doing what you do! i think i speak for everybody when i say that you are awesome and very knowledgeable. Please keep uploading and teaching us the good life in the outdoors!
When I go to my favorite frontier style campsite 3 miles in the woods right next to an 80 acre pond that's all I eat is panfish. It's such an underrated fish to eat.
this video describes exactly what i did yesterday LOL. BTW its much easier to scale the fish if you hold the fish in your hand like it was still alive- just be careful with your knife and it works great. also, if you do it underwater it keeps the scales from flying all over.
With a pole, most any type of line, and some kind of hook, it's possible to feed yourself. Bluegill, Crappie, and Perch must be hungry all the time cuz they're fairly easy to catch. If you're real hungry and not very good at building a fire, you're having sushi for lunch.
we call them brim where i come from. but they are my favorite fish all fried up. how i always eat them is after cooking, pull the top fin off and the bottom fin. this will pull out most all the small bones, then you "filet" them as you showed on the video. fry that tail crispy and eat the tail too..........good stuff.
a cool trick when you a preparing pan fish if you make a cut down the back done on both sides of the fish then cook it. it will make it easyer to get the meat from the bones. good video
I ate a whole pickerel one time,a 24"er.Boy was he tasty.Biggest fish I ever caught along with the 5 lb largemouth I caught.I ate that in one sitting to.Biggest freshwater fish I ever saw caught,was a 10 lb trout my buddy caught off the shore on Jackson Lake in Wyoming below the Grand Teton mountains.Fed the three of us.
sometimes people really forget where and how there supermarket meat and fish are processed for the shelves I see nothing wrong in your preparation good vid...
Sunfish size has mostly to do with population and food availability. Generally lakes with undersized sunfish have over population and under predation. Typically in ponds with big sunfish also have large predators in them, and intermediate sunfish are sparse, only mature fish that can fend for themselves, and young fish that havnt been eaten yet. Atleast thats what Ive noticed freediving freshwater.
Hey, Dave! Nice video, makes me hungry. When I process fish, I try to make the animal suffer less, by striking hard on their head, so they don't have to feel the blade going through their neck. Just a lil bit more "civil".
Call me crazy but I have never heard of fresh water sunfish. I live on Brier Island in Nova Scotia and all we have around here are saltwater sunfish which are 6-8 feet long. Even in the lakes on Digby Neck I have never seen any. Very interesting video Dave keep it up!
Bluegills and such get quite a bit bigger down here in south mississippi! And we use Tony Chachere seasoning. They are tasty no matter what you put on them though. Cool vid.
blue gill can be larger than 10" but most other are small, now crappie not a sun fish but a pan fish can be larger 14+ and some live in same areas as sunfish/bluegill.
I just found it extremely nostalgic when I saw you eating with your hands. I remembered trying to teach my cousin who was born in the US how to eat with his hands like the Filipino he is. Have a great day Dave.
I'm in Texas aw we get some BIG sunfish here. 10 to 12"ers are quite common. And yes I have seen and caught these with my own eyes. From the greens to the pumpkinseeds. A 4-6" sunfish I would put back to maybe try and get bigger.....just sayin
A simple clipboard makes a good cutting board with a built in clip to hold the fish
I taught my nephew to give the fish a good smack over the head with a thumb sized stick, hes always killed them with the one shot. Now to the processing. Cut the tongue out under the jaw, leave it attached. Slit the belly, pinch the tongue and give it a jerk. Everything comes right out. The benefit other than it being stupid easy is now the lower jaw still intact, you can use it as a carry handle. That whackin stick before? Thread through the jaws and just tie them off with a bit of bank line. Two knots at each end of your stick and you've got a carry handle. He snuck off one day and caught a mess of trout and cleaned them like that. He told me some older fellas asked him where he learned that. Proud as he could says "my uncle taught me." Cant argue with results, he caught them, I cooked them. He liked when I bake meat, be it fish, chicken, rabbit, what have you. Tip to keep the meat moist if you bake, cook it half way then flip the meat and finish cooking. Half way cooked the juices are liberated and are seeping out, flip it and they seep back into the meat.
Lol, honestly, I am accustomed to expecting the "Oh, man" after the first bite. Its like a staple phrase for Dave tasting anything he cooks... Bite... "Oh, man"... talk about it... bite... "Oh, man"... thank the viewer... bite.. "Oh, man"... end video!! YOU MAKE ME CRAVE WILD MEAT EVERY TIME I WATCH A VIDEO OF YOURS!! *NOT FAIR*
I love rock bass. Where I fish their 8-10" and man are they good with cornmeal, some pepper and olive oil.
Damn now I'm hungry, where's my pole!
A good "cutting board" I have used is just a wooden clipboard. I especially love it for fishing trips because the clip can be used to hold the fish tail down when scaling it.
I am a disabled veteran and spent time with SF at Bragg. There seems to be plenty of sympathetic people concerned with the animals well being. Well these are not pets. They are food. The truth is that, if all of mankind treated food like humans, we never would have lasted this long! I have Never heard a fish say OUCH!!!
Guy from PA checking in here. My largest was 9', and the state record is around 2 lbs. Green sunfish tend to overpopulate, and therefore are usually smaller because they get stunted. In a fishery with a healthy and large predatory fish population, I can easily see these fish getting larger than that. It all depends on the water. Also, I prefer my sunfish filleted. It removes most to all of the bones.
I caught 8 of these today and can't wait to fry them up tomorrow
Call me crazy buy my grandad and I always fillet our fish even if there small panfish like the ones in the video. You just have to be really good with your fillet knife.
Dual Survival sucks without you.
We used to catch a bucket full of these kinds of fish once a year for my neighbor and he would rototill them into the garden before he planted his seeds and his vegtables would just grow unbelievably well. My favorite is the freshwater perch.
Fish size is also related to the amount of food available, For a typical gamefish to grow to one pound requires that it consume close to 5 pounds food. So in a pond where there is abundant food fish will grow larger and faster than in a pond with less food.
Hey Dave thanks for the videos. Just to let you know you have some women watching as well. I just caught some bluegill with my 12 yr old son yesterday and cleaned them right at the creek. Thanks again for teaching this country girl some new tricks.
a good tip if you accidentally swallow a bone and it gets stuck. keep a heel or slice of dry bread, no butter or nothing, chew a bite and swallow. it will wash the bone down. my grandfather taught me this. he was an east coast fishermen from Prince Edward Island for years and years.
Sir, with a comment like that you do not deserve to give Dave your opinion on his tactics. As a fisherman for the last 18 years of my life, I saw nothing wrong with what Dave did, actually found it more useful than the traditional method of cleaning and prepping a sunfish.
Didn't know SKS cleaning kits could be used for cooking oil!!!
I thot I knew most everything about catching, cooking and eating fish. But my Filipina wife showed me a new way to prep and cook small fish. After cleaning, (she leaves the heads on) she splits them open butterfly style and salts them down. Then she lets the fish sit in the sun for an hour or so to "dry down." After that she frys them in hot oil really well and when they are done they are like little fish chips and can be eaten HEAD, BONES AND ALL.
These are far superior tasting to trout as far as I'm concerned...
In a survival situation, the use of that much oil in the pan is a waste unless you ate it too. You have more calories in that skillet in the form of oil than there was in the fish. I've always preferred to hit my fish on the head with a small stick, 1/2inch by 1foot is plenty, in order to dispatch the fish. That way I can scale it with the head on while holding it in my hand. A spoon is excellent for descaling a fish. Then, I eviscerate it. But there is more than one way to clean a fish.
One of my favorite things about visiting my aunts lake in Massachusetts is catching those off her dock. They're all good size and tons. Caught my first large mouth bass and pickerel fish there. Starting to get into sea fishing. In my area of California theres quite a bit of Mercury in our reservoirs unfortunately.
Awesome video. My last fire cooked fish was a nice bass. It fed my son, my cousin and myself. Lately we've been on a crappie fishing kick. Tons of pan fried crappie.
FWIW, when I used to catch croakers and such on the coast of NC, I'd tak'em back to the truck and fry'em up gutted but with the scales still on. The scales popped up like popcorn and made for a decently crunchy "batter". Fine eating. Outta the water, into the gullet in ~30mins. Livin large.
Thanks for the vid, Mr David. d;^)
Great video! Thanks for showing the full range from fishing to cleaning and cooking and mentioning the cook time. These details are usually left out of other fishing or cooking type videos. Great job and thank you for sharing! God bless brother!
Dave, just a thought, but an old man in Florida taught me to just use a fork to scale fish. It works great and if done in the water, or under running water it is so quick. Works great if you have a lot of smaller fish.
hey Dave, your videos are great and you've taught us all a lot. but i have one small suggestion. when you catch and release fish, always wet your hands before touching them. when your hands are dry they remove the outer "slime" on the fish, and that leaves them prone to disease and sickness.
The tells on the fish are good to i really like your shows they take me back to when i was homeless i had to live off the land for 6 months until i got me a job i learned alot of to take care of my slef !
caught em on a meps?...bought some based on you videos...they work for multiple species...crappie, bream,bass, and even catfish on the same bait....I find that they like it with a little red in it....thanks for the info dave. God bless you and yours brother....God bless America
And the fins are like nature's potato chips!
If you live near a Cracker Barrel restaurant, ask a waiter to nip a little of their "cat fish seasoning" for you to bring home! You will die and go to fishing heaven when you use it! Dave had me drooling when he devoured those fish!
great video Dave! i live in the buckeye lake region and have been a big fan since dual survival . I used to love watchin u and Cody bump heads was mad when u left the show because its just not the same but glad i found your channel on here my 9 yr old son and 6 yr old daughter are fans also we watch your vidoes before we go do our thing in the woods or when we go fishing....great basic skills to get the kids started !
I think you are right Dave. A good sized binder clip would make scaling a headless fish a lot easier.
My grandaddy always called the small bream, biscuit fish, because you can gut and scale them. Then all you do is add salt and pepper and put it inside a biscuit. Best eating I ever had on the river. Small bream have soft bones so don't worry. My papa swears by it.
gotta love that old bay seasoning.
You can fold one end of the cutting board up and put the tail under it as it closes, that would help hold it while you scale it. I like that board, I will be getting one for sure!
Depends on the lakes my friend. Up here in MN there are lakes where they can get up to 8-10" just huge.
Thnx for the flashback of my younger years,I think I will take my sons fishing this weekend.Thnx Dave.
i have been fishing for 40 years and always put the stringer throuh the mouth and gills the only fish that die are the ones you crush or tear up the gills trying to get the hook out after the swallowed it .
the fins are perfectly palatable. they require a little extra chomping, but on a panfish, still perfectly edible.
Enjoy your videos, but looks like you put the 'folding cutting board' on top of a perfectly good cutting board.Just MHO.
Then it's awesome that there is no limit on sunfish (at least not in any of the states I've fished in). My cousins and I used to sit on a small dock and catch Sunfish all day and it was enough to feed 10-20 people at night.
Seeing this brings back good memories from my childhood. On Saturdays, my Dad would take us to a local fishing hole. we would catch a mess of bluegills, bring them home, and have them and some hushpuppies for supper. we were poor, but we ate like kings that night. good stuff.
You can use the vice grips to hold onto the tail while scaling the fish. I use a pair of needle nose I keep in my fanny pack fishing kit.
Gotta love the panfish and the OLD BAY!!!! Thank you for all you do Dave.
There's nothing like going fishing and then frying up your fish. Great video Dave You got me hungry
cordage, combustion, cover, cutting device, container. He added a secondary 5 C's at some point. I think he actually invented the pneumonic. At least I heard it first from Dave. If you search his channel for 5 piece kit and 10 piece kit, you will probably find it.
they are really handy. slow retrieve and set the hook. good stuff sir !!
These fish are little, but they are tasty! It made me hungry watching!
holding the sunfish were its guts and end trails were is a way to get a good grip to get those scales of that critter
I hope PETA never sees me filleting crappies with my electric knife while they're still floppin around haha. What has happened to this world since I was a kid? They're just freaking fish. so many people need to not let petty things bother them.
I caught and scaled my share of sunfish when i was young...they are good eating...ours got twice as big as those in upstate new york. I liked perch meat better, and trout even better than perch. The sunfish is a mainstay...there's tons of them in all ponds and lakes and provide a very good and quick meal.
I used the Pathfinder/Canteen shop canteen that I PM'd you about. Took it to my friends family homestead(non working now 1920's) and it worked bomber! well made and I didn't find any faults, just good. I will make a review video next outing.
We have a lot of sunfish here on Vancouver Island, it's good to know how to quickly prepare such an easily caught and sustainable food source.
Thanks Dave, I might need to go for a sunfish lunch'en of my own this summer.
Hey... We thank you for All you do for us !!!
I like the double duty of the Chi-Com Oiler. Except in cold weather, I use cooking oil on guns that like to run wet like the AR family of actions. I do not purport that it is as good as a proper gun lube, but when you are carrying light mult-iuse materials help.
I truly enjoy your vids and show them to my grandkids so they get a visual in their heads before I try to teach them something. We are less than 100 mile to your east so the trees, plants and critters are the same.
God Bless,
28Bull
Brother here is a recipe for you that works with Yellow Perch, Goldeye, and White Fish. You need onion, mild cheddar, seasoning salt, pepper, aluminum foil... and the fish. Scale and gut the fish, cut the fins off and head and tail if you wish. Season the cavity with the salt and pepper and stuff with some of the cheese and onion, wrap in foil and place in coals, BBQ or oven. Cook for about to min and rest for min... oops forgot about the butter put just a bit of that in the fish to.
If the two fishes were caught within a short window back to back, then that'd make sense but procuring food in the wild usually means you may catch one fish quickly and the other an hour or two later. Live food stores better, and only building a fire once and cook once is far more efficient, especially in a survival situation. If he caught a really large fish, he might even consider letting those two go, an option he has as well when stringing them..
If made up artificial baits , back in the mountains, caught lots of those sized perch , roasted them on a stick , just salt and pepper on them . Ate lots of roasted over a open fire ,wild meats and fish . Even caught little catfish way back from real creeks
Sunfish and Perch really are tasty if prepared with some simple seasonings. Thanks for the video.
Hey dave great video, i have fished the differnt types of sunfish, tho only ate bass a couple times, tho perch can be very good eating. Thanks alot for sharing man, ill have to take the young fellow out fishing them again and bring em home to have a munch. take care bro another great vid.
love your videos Dave . that cutting board has what they call a living hinge and will not last very long ,In the long run you will end up with three small cutting boards.
You learn something new everyday, I did not know that largemouth and smallmouth bass were sunfish
Thank you Dave for teaching me so much about fish, but I think I will still call them all lunch or dinner.
they only thing that gets better than that is getting some fresh perch off of lake erie and cooking them up the same way! love catching some panfish and frying em up with a little butter tho, great stuff!
I saw someone who used the tops of beer bottles nailed to a sick to scale the fish. Cheaper than these scaling devices and might dull the blade less. Make up your own mind about it, I never tried it but it seamed to work good. Awesome video.
Dave keep doing what you do! i think i speak for everybody when i say that you are awesome and very knowledgeable. Please keep uploading and teaching us the good life in the outdoors!
Great video Dave..
So hungry for some fish now.
Thanks for the video
Taking the fly rod out this weekend, we've got some good panfish fishing up here in MI if you ever get up this way!
Mmm yummy little fish love bluegill thank for great vid alleays learning .peace brother be safe and
Thanks Dave love your fishing and cocking vids.
When I go to my favorite frontier style campsite 3 miles in the woods right next to an 80 acre pond that's all I eat is panfish. It's such an underrated fish to eat.
now that was a good informative video I usually throw them back
A regular clipboard works well as a portable fish cleaning board with built in tail clip!
this video describes exactly what i did yesterday LOL. BTW its much easier to scale the fish if you hold the fish in your hand like it was still alive- just be careful with your knife and it works great. also, if you do it underwater it keeps the scales from flying all over.
howdy Dave to help hold the fish by the tail would folding one end of that folding board and using it to grip the tail as you scale the fish work
With a pole, most any type of line, and some kind of hook, it's possible to feed yourself. Bluegill, Crappie, and Perch must be hungry all the time cuz they're fairly easy to catch. If you're real hungry and not very good at building a fire, you're having sushi for lunch.
we call them brim where i come from. but they are my favorite fish all fried up. how i always eat them is after cooking, pull the top fin off and the bottom fin. this will pull out most all the small bones, then you "filet" them as you showed on the video. fry that tail crispy and eat the tail too..........good stuff.
a cool trick when you a preparing pan fish if you make a cut down the back done on both sides of the fish then cook it. it will make it easyer to get the meat from the bones. good video
LOL It'd take ten of them to fill me up.Maybe I should start keeping the sunnies I throw back.It's all that seems to go after my worm where I fish.
I ate a whole pickerel one time,a 24"er.Boy was he tasty.Biggest fish I ever caught along with the 5 lb largemouth I caught.I ate that in one sitting to.Biggest freshwater fish I ever saw caught,was a 10 lb trout my buddy caught off the shore on Jackson Lake in Wyoming below the Grand Teton mountains.Fed the three of us.
get a flask like what you would carry whiskey in they seem to work well and hold 3-20oz of oil depending on what size flask you get
sometimes people really forget where and how there supermarket meat and fish are processed for the shelves I see nothing wrong in your preparation good vid...
Now I gotta head to the fishin hole.....looked good boss
Sunfish size has mostly to do with population and food availability. Generally lakes with undersized sunfish have over population and under predation. Typically in ponds with big sunfish also have large predators in them, and intermediate sunfish are sparse, only mature fish that can fend for themselves, and young fish that havnt been eaten yet.
Atleast thats what Ive noticed freediving freshwater.
best color is white with a little red- unbelievable in morning till noontime
Hey, Dave! Nice video, makes me hungry.
When I process fish, I try to make the animal suffer less, by striking hard on their head, so they don't have to feel the blade going through their neck. Just a lil bit more "civil".
We have a mess of pumpkin seeds here in U.P. of Michigan, Great video Dave !
Call me crazy but I have never heard of fresh water sunfish. I live on Brier Island in Nova Scotia and all we have around here are saltwater sunfish which are 6-8 feet long. Even in the lakes on Digby Neck I have never seen any.
Very interesting video Dave keep it up!
This is a type of common argument, bushcraft vs survival. But, valid point
When i cook sunfish or just cut them up for catfish, bowfin ect. I usually fin red worms in the meat or where ever
correct here in wv/oh it is very rare to see a sun fish larger than 8"
Bluegills and such get quite a bit bigger down here in south mississippi! And we use Tony Chachere seasoning. They are tasty no matter what you put on them though. Cool vid.
Need more of these kind of videos.
looks like a fine lunch to me.
Ill definitely be fishing tomorrow
blue gill can be larger than 10" but most other are small, now crappie not a sun fish but a pan fish can be larger 14+ and some live in same areas as sunfish/bluegill.
I just found it extremely nostalgic when I saw you eating with your hands. I remembered trying to teach my cousin who was born in the US how to eat with his hands like the Filipino he is. Have a great day Dave.
I've cached so many of tho fish and didn't know you could that great job
I'm in Texas aw we get some BIG sunfish here. 10 to 12"ers are quite common. And yes I have seen and caught these with my own eyes. From the greens to the pumpkinseeds. A 4-6" sunfish I would put back to maybe try and get bigger.....just sayin
Nice video, I always scale my fish before gutting so as not to get scales in the meat and you have the head to hold onto.
Loved it Dave!
Nice visual, thanks. Now I'm hungry. Olive Oil and Old Bay Seasoning is the best.