Gabe, when I lived in Bradenton on the canal we had two great blue herons living in a punk tree in the front yard. My landlord asked us to move down to the other house further down the canal and the heron used to walk into the house when we had the door open from the patio and walk into the kitchen wanting hot dogs. Even my pit/ pointer mix and the Shepherd /pit mix would not mess with it. I used to get up from the couch and walked to the kitchen to get hot dogs out of the refrigerator to feed the damn thing in my kitchen. Then I used to put my hand gently around her neck and walk it back out to the backyard. Same house that we had a manatee come up 3 times a week wanting freshwater and I started buying iceberg lettuce for it. I used to lay down on the dock and hand the manatee heads of iceberg lettuce to eat. She always let me scratch her especially when I would give her fresh water from the hose.
Some of my favorite fishing memories as a teen was catching big horse mullet in the fall while trying to catch a king on a Carolina pier. Had some king fishing buddies who were Lumbee Indians who loved them. When the mullet started running I’d call them, and I’d net a few hundred pounds for them and put them on ice. A couple hours later they’d come down and pick them up. They would smoke them on the reservation and the next weekend would bring a ton down to the pier with a few loafs of white bread. We’d set up our king rigs on the T and be eating smoked mullet sandwiches all day in between decking kings! I definitely need to try boiling some in a couple weeks.
My hubby resided in Florida during his childhood. He sold small mullets to the bait shops which were considered a trash fish. He was blown away watching your video and seeing the size of the mullets. Love watching all your adventures.
Awesome video thanks for sharing, I’m from Maui Hawaii and we steam the mullet, try just clean and scale it cut slices in em and put it in a baking dish in a separate bowl cut lopchong (Chinese sausage) or Portuguese sausage would work, couple stocks celery zucchini green onions and mushrooms mix in oyster sauce and sesame oil and coat fish put most in belly put 1/2 of a 1/4 cup of water cover with tinfoil bake at 375 for 1-1hr20min depending on size of fish in a separate pot heat peanut oil hot when fish is done pour hott oil over entire fish and enjoy
Hey Gabriel, Robert took Lauren & I Tarpon fishing there years ago. If I wasn’t still trying to shake off Vertigo, you could have invited me. Sure was a nice day trip, I’ve met Tom but not Chelsea nor his honey munchkins. If a big white heron shows up at my koi pond I’ll know where he came from. Those beautiful mallards 🦆 are beautiful and when I was small little girl they were plentiful 🦆, sure was another great video
HEEEEEY momma Arrington, I just want to tell you that ALL 3 OF YOUR BOYS ARE SOOOOO FREAKING AWESOME...... VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE, ENTERTAINING, FREAKING AMAZING PARENTS....... NOT TO MENTION EXTREMELY HANDSOME!!! HA HA!!! But again, THANK YOU for raising these awesome men and sharing them with us in this RUclips world.....!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm thrilled to see a new mullet recipe / cooking method. I get a ton of these in Port St. Lucie off the dock in my back yard pretty much any time of year by using my cast net. I'm going to try this the first chance I get. Thank you, as always, for a another great video.
The variety you provide is always awesome. Always supporting others too and bringing them up. Keep up the good work. Now I need to try some boiled fish this week ha
Who'd thought mullet (boiled mullet!) would be the best fish you have ever had. Love you uploads Bluegabe, hoping you have posted something everytime I turn on my computer. Cheers!
surprised it came out good ill have to try it that way. i was already shocked when i seen you get the black eyed mullet, which definetly are the stanky ones, the golden eye ones are the ones that are good. in Sardinia italy, they love mullet and have a resturant that only serves mullet in every way possible, they poach it, grill it in steaks cutlets, they cure the row and grate it on their pasta. im in texas and every winter the pompano migrate from florida all the way down to mexico, it gets cooler here and we make pompano sinigang soup its amazing. we just cut up the pomano into 4 steak cuts. its a soup with a tamarind soup base and you add other stuff in it mostly greens like mustard greens, onions garlic, tomato, chili peppers, eggplant, long green beans, okra. the mustard greens is what makes it though u have to add alot of it cause it will shrink down when u cook it, it absorbs all the flavor of the soup. add it in last so it doesn't wilt down to mush and stil has crunch
Both names are correct. You launched out of the pineland section of pine island. That rock jettybtall drove next to on the way out has some monster sheepshead on it. This is the place I grew up fishing and still fish today
Mullet was the number one export of Florida at one time. The roe was considered a top shelf all over the USA. Cubans would come to our west coast to catch mullet.
I've never poached mullet but I do know freshly caught you can't eat any better fried fish. But you've gotta catch it and eat it the same day. If not it's going to be very fishy because it's a very oily fish.
@bluegabe, love the content. Would love to see you do a taste test 3 ways maybe with jake, Luke and some of ur hunting/fishing buddies back home. Fried, smoked and boiled.... I'd be curious to see his grams recipe. Stay safe bro. Love whatcha do.
I love that ur A.D.D like me.. let’s catch some mullet. Oh look a snake, let’s jump in scaring all the fish away. There goes the snake, oh wow, a mallard duck! 😂😂😉
Mine just turned 11 last Saturday I can remember sleeping with her on my chest when we first brought her home cause I didn’t want to sleep through her crying for a bottle cause I was working 12-14 hours a day. And taking care of her at night. Seems like yesterday and I sure do miss her being an infant to toddler and wish she would go back. She just started middle school yesterday! Where has time gone?!
I use to work on cabbage back in the day. Probably in my early 20's. It is nothing like it was back then it has come a long way. I grew up i n Labelle and pretty much call Fort Myers my home town. Was back in Fort Myers this year in June was sadden to see how the Hurricane just devastated that place. I found myself missing it!!!!
I just watched more of the video and you went to Cabbage Key!! I have a staffing company and I have 12 people between there and Tarpon Lodge working for me. Small world! Some day we will fish together. I grew up in SFla on the water in Broward and now live in St.Pete.
I can tell you I've seen mullet long as your leg knee to the ground maybe bigger.. We called em old hens. We ran normally 2-3/4 net and 3-1/2 in winter. Roe season, money season. My dad was all about preserving the industry but the greedy killed it.
Gabe I like to eat it on the grill. Scales down with a pad of butter and a sprinkle of lemon pepper and eat em right off the grill. We call it a fish pickin instead of a pig pickin. Give it a try u won't regret it
Boiled mullet who knew. I know I arrived the night of the mullet tossing contest at the Florida bama bar. That was the first I ever heard of that fish and didn't think it was edible if they're throwing them for fun.😅
Hello Gabriel, Since you in New Jersey fishing with Luke with your friends, You should take your both sons to Fishing Capital of New York State The Village of Montauk and they have Montauk Point Lighthouse, so you and Luke can climb the stairs lol.. Black fish is happening and then Fluke at 22” across, bluefish and Striped Bass Blitz. It just suggests since you were in New Jersey. I lived Long Island and North Georgia and now West Coast of Florida and love it all. Be Safe out on the water.
Gabe, the reason why those ducks are down there in the Fort Myers area is because they’re on vacation. They deserve a little time off also and Fort Myers is a perfect place to relax!😅
@BluegabeArrington there are 2 in the state, 1 near Ft. Meyers which I think that's the one you were at. I mistakingly thought you were at the one in Hernando county near Bayport. Both on the west coast.
When you said best eating fish ever I figured you meant a hog fish. You should look up chassahowitzka river fishing tournament next year and participate. Its for charity and all the money goes back to the community, like two years ago they bought a new playground for the kids. They also have awards for most spots on a redfish, and then they have a fish fry with all the fish caught. Plenty of good fishing charters there as well.
Next time motor around to the north end of Pine Island, there's usually dozens of big schools of mature mullet along the north shoreline. Get a big mesh mullet net cause those suckers are fast.
And to think , Sarasota to palmasola and green river. I was lucky to be a gill netter. My favorite eats were sheep head , mangrove snapper redfin croaker flounder and I'd hook n line the snook. Has take nets off the boat for that.. Only mullet I ever liked. Was smoked by two brothers , shrimpers Tha luge in Cortez , long ago passed away, but they made a smoker out out of an old refrigerator.. Man That was good eats. But I remember thousand pound hauls of mullet. 300-600 a night was good nuff for my dad and I back then though. My elbows are trash now from gill netting back in those days. And It was only for 3 years. My dad did it for about 15 years. They didn't like us Yankees at first bu eventually hey respected us.
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Gabe, you need to tell you viewers, the the Cabbage Key restaurant that you ate, was where Jimmy Buffett wrote the song "cheese burger in paradise
Idk when the Last time u been to cabbage key.... its not what it was
This is a myth...several restaurants make this claim
Congratulations 🎊 👏 another great video, Ty for sharing 😊
Not true if you look into it. And it's just a Tourist trap, way over priced bar food.
Gabe, when I lived in Bradenton on the canal we had two great blue herons living in a punk tree in the front yard. My landlord asked us to move down to the other house further down the canal and the heron used to walk into the house when we had the door open from the patio and walk into the kitchen wanting hot dogs. Even my pit/ pointer mix and the Shepherd /pit mix would not mess with it. I used to get up from the couch and walked to the kitchen to get hot dogs out of the refrigerator to feed the damn thing in my kitchen. Then I used to put my hand gently around her neck and walk it back out to the backyard. Same house that we had a manatee come up 3 times a week wanting freshwater and I started buying iceberg lettuce for it. I used to lay down on the dock and hand the manatee heads of iceberg lettuce to eat. She always let me scratch her especially when I would give her fresh water from the hose.
Some of my favorite fishing memories as a teen was catching big horse mullet in the fall while trying to catch a king on a Carolina pier. Had some king fishing buddies who were Lumbee Indians who loved them. When the mullet started running I’d call them, and I’d net a few hundred pounds for them and put them on ice. A couple hours later they’d come down and pick them up. They would smoke them on the reservation and the next weekend would bring a ton down to the pier with a few loafs of white bread. We’d set up our king rigs on the T and be eating smoked mullet sandwiches all day in between decking kings! I definitely need to try boiling some in a couple weeks.
Those two little ladies are so adorable!!
My hubby resided in Florida during his childhood. He sold small mullets to the bait shops which were considered a trash fish. He was blown away watching your video and seeing the size of the mullets. Love watching all your adventures.
We boil sheepshead like that in a crab boil seasoning with potatoes - serve with some lemon butter and it's way better than lobster to me.
Bluegabe, loving the consistent uploads, keep it going
Awesome video thanks for sharing, I’m from Maui Hawaii and we steam the mullet, try just clean and scale it cut slices in em and put it in a baking dish in a separate bowl cut lopchong (Chinese sausage) or Portuguese sausage would work, couple stocks celery zucchini green onions and mushrooms mix in oyster sauce and sesame oil and coat fish put most in belly put 1/2 of a 1/4 cup of water cover with tinfoil bake at 375 for 1-1hr20min depending on size of fish in a separate pot heat peanut oil hot when fish is done pour hott oil over entire fish and enjoy
Enjoyed the latest video BlueGabe. You are an inspiration, livin’ and breathing the good life of constant fishing, hunting and outdoors lifestyle!
I love the videos. I’ve been watching them since they came out.
Hey Gabriel, Robert took Lauren & I Tarpon fishing there years ago. If I wasn’t still trying to shake off Vertigo, you could have invited me. Sure was a nice day trip, I’ve met Tom but not Chelsea nor his honey munchkins. If a big white heron shows up at my koi pond I’ll know where he came from. Those beautiful mallards 🦆 are beautiful and when I was small little girl they were plentiful 🦆, sure was another great video
@@bettyarrington7301 miss betty, thank you for raising such fine men. You are an inspiration.
HEEEEEY momma Arrington, I just want to tell you that ALL 3 OF YOUR BOYS ARE SOOOOO FREAKING AWESOME...... VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE, ENTERTAINING, FREAKING AMAZING PARENTS....... NOT TO MENTION EXTREMELY HANDSOME!!! HA HA!!! But again, THANK YOU for raising these awesome men and sharing them with us in this RUclips world.....!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@alvishunter263 Ditto on that, she sure is a great Mom, and inspiration.
I'm thrilled to see a new mullet recipe / cooking method. I get a ton of these in Port St. Lucie off the dock in my back yard pretty much any time of year by using my cast net. I'm going to try this the first chance I get. Thank you, as always, for a another great video.
Great video! Capt Tom and Chelsey doing what they do best!
The variety you provide is always awesome. Always supporting others too and bringing them up. Keep up the good work. Now I need to try some boiled fish this week ha
Love all your videos. 80 years old but live thru your adventures.
Who'd thought mullet (boiled mullet!) would be the best fish you have ever had. Love you uploads Bluegabe, hoping you have posted something everytime I turn on my computer. Cheers!
Bluegabe is here again , a very nice great short video , welcome back bro .
Much respect 🙏
Good to see you back in my waters again. SWFL loves Bluegabe.
Get it Gabe 💪 thanks for always keeping it 💯 ❤❤❤
That rainbow was a ten out of ten.
The little mullet taste the best and those mullet gizards are delicious
Thanks for the show my friend!
Great people in Louisiana love this video thanks for sharing
surprised it came out good ill have to try it that way. i was already shocked when i seen you get the black eyed mullet, which definetly are the stanky ones, the golden eye ones are the ones that are good. in Sardinia italy, they love mullet and have a resturant that only serves mullet in every way possible, they poach it, grill it in steaks cutlets, they cure the row and grate it on their pasta. im in texas and every winter the pompano migrate from florida all the way down to mexico, it gets cooler here and we make pompano sinigang soup its amazing. we just cut up the pomano into 4 steak cuts. its a soup with a tamarind soup base and you add other stuff in it mostly greens like mustard greens, onions garlic, tomato, chili peppers, eggplant, long green beans, okra. the mustard greens is what makes it though u have to add alot of it cause it will shrink down when u cook it, it absorbs all the flavor of the soup. add it in last so it doesn't wilt down to mush and stil has crunch
My hats off the the Yellow Child that was patiently waiting.
Fishing is my favorite thing to do for outdoor sport ❤
In typical Florida man mullet fashion, the video started out all business and finished with the party
😂Petty sure boiled mullet is against the law in the south! Good video, keep them coming.
That's crazy 🤪 I've had boiled peanuts but haven't tried boiled mullet yet 🙃
Both names are correct. You launched out of the pineland section of pine island. That rock jettybtall drove next to on the way out has some monster sheepshead on it. This is the place I grew up fishing and still fish today
Never would’ve thought that would be the best tastin fish. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Team Arkansas here! 🐗
Nice video thanks for sharing ❤❤❤luv support and blessings to you and your family ❤❤❤
Bluegabe, Yay! I liked this video so much, it made me smile!
We want duck hunting video with pellets guns with your boys (catch clean and cook) ❤❤❤ can't wait for that video❤❤❤🎉
Mullet was the number one export of Florida at one time. The roe was considered a top shelf all over the USA. Cubans would come to our west coast to catch mullet.
I love pine island you need to do a meet and greet at fuzzies boat shak it’s so good especially
We see Green Head/ Mallards in South Louisiana all the time! Nothing new here! Love watching your channel!
I've never poached mullet but I do know freshly caught you can't eat any better fried fish. But you've gotta catch it and eat it the same day. If not it's going to be very fishy because it's a very oily fish.
Blue Gabe is on🎉
Nice gabe this is the marina i use here good luck
@bluegabe, love the content. Would love to see you do a taste test 3 ways maybe with jake, Luke and some of ur hunting/fishing buddies back home. Fried, smoked and boiled.... I'd be curious to see his grams recipe. Stay safe bro. Love whatcha do.
I love that ur A.D.D like me.. let’s catch some mullet. Oh look a snake, let’s jump in scaring all the fish away. There goes the snake, oh wow, a mallard duck! 😂😂😉
Love your videos 🤝🏼
I'm lucky to live here in Cape Coral. Love cabbage key
Love to see you guys at my regular boat ramp and area!
love the videos gabe keep doing you sir
Great video Gabe!
Thanks for sharing!!!
I’ve spearfished that Rocky channel coming out of pineland Marina many times a couple decades back.
A cleaned sheep head wrap it in cheese cloth. And boil it in crab boil. Delicious
Love to see you come to my home town ! If you’re still in town let’s get on some peacocks tomorrow !!?
Gabe, the mallard ducks are great eating
Wish we had a blue Gabe video twice a day every day.
Blue Gabe needs to try “Blue Dog Bar & Grill” try the “Mullet Dip” 😋
I agree!
That last moment with the little girl made me miss my daughter being that age. She went from 7 to 15 in a flash!
Mine just turned 11 last Saturday I can remember sleeping with her on my chest when we first brought her home cause I didn’t want to sleep through her crying for a bottle cause I was working 12-14 hours a day. And taking care of her at night. Seems like yesterday and I sure do miss her being an infant to toddler and wish she would go back. She just started middle school yesterday! Where has time gone?!
@@ryansmeltz6011sounds like she has a good dad. Cherish every moment as cliche as that sounds.
another way to cook your fish 👍 yummy
Hard to go wrong with fish and eggs we always loved catfish and eggs 😊😊😊
I use to work on cabbage back in the day. Probably in my early 20's. It is nothing like it was back then it has come a long way. I grew up i n Labelle and pretty much call Fort Myers my home town. Was back in Fort Myers this year in June was sadden to see how the Hurricane just devastated that place. I found myself missing it!!!!
Yep Boiled fish is good water 3 sliced habenaro With shrimp boil or not good stuff. Larger fish work best...
I just watched more of the video and you went to Cabbage Key!! I have a staffing company and I have 12 people between there and Tarpon Lodge working for me. Small world! Some day we will fish together. I grew up in SFla on the water in Broward and now live in St.Pete.
awesome family, beautiful kids and beautiful couple..
Hi blue Gabe good afternoon to and your loving family
I can tell you I've seen mullet long as your leg knee to the ground maybe bigger.. We called em old hens.
We ran normally 2-3/4 net and 3-1/2 in winter. Roe season, money season.
My dad was all about preserving the industry but the greedy killed it.
Gabe I like to eat it on the grill. Scales down with a pad of butter and a sprinkle of lemon pepper and eat em right off the grill. We call it a fish pickin instead of a pig pickin. Give it a try u won't regret it
Broiled mullet is awesome
Boiled mullet who knew. I know I arrived the night of the mullet tossing contest at the Florida bama bar. That was the first I ever heard of that fish and didn't think it was edible if they're throwing them for fun.😅
Fried mullet gizzards!!!!!! Man you gotta try them.
My former step grandpa (passed away) took my mom, me, & my brother down to Pine Island with him and my grandma once. Cool little place.
There’s a place in Monroe Wisconsin called Baumgartner's Cheese Store & Tavern that also does the dollar bills on the ceiling
10:01 they must have followed you back from NJ
My mother liked smoked mullet dip! 😀
Hello Gabriel, Since you in New Jersey fishing with Luke with your friends, You should take your both sons to Fishing Capital of New York State The Village of Montauk and they have Montauk Point Lighthouse, so you and Luke can climb the stairs lol.. Black fish is happening and then Fluke at 22” across, bluefish and Striped Bass Blitz. It just suggests since you were in New Jersey. I lived Long Island and North Georgia and now West Coast of Florida and love it all. Be Safe out on the water.
Gabe, the reason why those ducks are down there in the Fort Myers area is because they’re on vacation. They deserve a little time off also and Fort Myers is a perfect place to relax!😅
That's not the keys. Pine Island is 60 miles north of Tampa. That's just the highway rest area. 😂
Pine island is not north of Tampa
@BluegabeArrington there are 2 in the state, 1 near Ft. Meyers which I think that's the one you were at. I mistakingly thought you were at the one in Hernando county near Bayport. Both on the west coast.
@BluegabeArrington growing up in Hernando county, I always think that's the everyone is talking about. 🤷♂️
When you said best eating fish ever I figured you meant a hog fish. You should look up chassahowitzka river fishing tournament next year and participate. Its for charity and all the money goes back to the community, like two years ago they bought a new playground for the kids. They also have awards for most spots on a redfish, and then they have a fish fry with all the fish caught. Plenty of good fishing charters there as well.
Love the vids greets from holland
Awsome video as always. Im supposed to go get some mullet sunday. Hopefully they are schooling up here in the panhandle
Good stuff as always! I was just at Tarpon Lodge and Cabbage Key(Same owners) a couple weeks ago!
We here in Fort Myers are having bad storms too!!😊
Yes you can legal harvest red fish with cast nest in Florida
never heard of boiling fish, definitely will try that once
Gotta try it now. Looked good
I live about 10 miles from where you are! Have fun!😃😀
Never eatin' no mullets . In Louisiana we use them for bait . But cool video !
Lol we also have a few green heads here on oahu Hawaii
Pretty sure it's legal to cast net redfish just has to be regulation size and also 2 I think per boat or person can't remember, pretty sure it's boat.
Idk if it’s just me but I fall asleep to yours and your brothers video every night 😂
Great video I’m going to try boiled mullet will see how it goes. Great work Bkugab
Cool episode Gabe I really enjoyed the show And them mallards if you can feed them they will stay
We have those exact ducks in the UK x
McGuire’s in Pensacola has over 1million dollars hanging everywhere. Love the places that do that!
Try Tarpon fishing down there!! Fun!😀😊
Next time motor around to the north end of Pine Island, there's usually dozens of big schools of mature mullet along the north shoreline. Get a big mesh mullet net cause those suckers are fast.
You can keep redfish if caught in castnet here in Tampa, as long as they are between 18 and 27 inches
They have a mullet tossing contest on Pine Island!😀
❤ best fish I ever ate was a mullet that I put on the grill after steaks were cooked whole 30 minutes later is fish I ever had.
And to think , Sarasota to palmasola and green river. I was lucky to be a gill netter.
My favorite eats were sheep head , mangrove snapper redfin croaker flounder and I'd hook n line the snook. Has take nets off the boat for that..
Only mullet I ever liked. Was smoked by two brothers , shrimpers Tha luge in Cortez , long ago passed away, but they made a smoker out out of an old refrigerator.. Man That was good eats.
But I remember thousand pound hauls of mullet. 300-600 a night was good nuff for my dad and I back then though. My elbows are trash now from gill netting back in those days. And It was only for 3 years. My dad did it for about 15 years. They didn't like us Yankees at first bu eventually hey respected us.
Whe have a lot of mallard ducks where i live in the netherlands
You always say, that is the best fish I've ever had 😂
Great video
Guarantee that if you smoke mullet.....you will only eat smoked mullet after trying it... absolutely wonderful