I made some modifications to my skiff so I could camp on my 10' skiff and explore new places. For its maiden voyage I went camping on my boat and did a catfishing catch and cook.
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00:00Hey Luke here at the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and I'm gonna do a camping catch-and-cook video on my little skiff
00:11Well if I'm gonna do a camping catch-and-cook video on this boat I need some place to lay down and sleep
00:17We're gonna do something about that
01:30We should go explore a river we've never been on before that sound fun
02:00Well, this is my first time ever setting eyes on this river, mmm, that's shallow let's do a plan B
02:14Look at the size of that snake. Hey, buddy you alive
02:19Oh
02:28You are a big snake oh
02:35That is a big snake well this looks doable
02:38But I just got my boat repaired from hitting a log like two weeks ago
02:42So I'm not sure if I want to go out and smash another hole in it
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02:55Is sunny and warm what a fall day this has turned out to be yeah, let's go check out the water, bud
03:01Well, the river is definitely flooded, but this is a lot more doable. I feel like putting the boat in here wouldn't be a suicide mission
03:11Here sit down on your pad
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03:21Like this Jacob
03:23It's pretty cool, huh? Look there's water in the forest. Look at this. This is absolutely gorgeous
03:28Look at all this flooded timber, but we're gonna go back up in here and explore a little bit. Try not to bust our prop and
03:35If all goes well, we're gonna hopefully find a place to fish
03:38Well, I've never fished this river before so I really don't know what we're gonna catch I assume there's channel catfish in here
03:43Echo!
03:45Back up!
03:47Thank you, I love you
03:49I love you too, bud. Well, we've been here about 15 minutes and no bites. So we're gonna pull up move and try another spot
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04:33Well, here we are second week of December and it's a little chilly out here, but we're not gonna let that stop us
04:38I'm gonna get this boat packed up and we're gonna give the camping catch and cook video another try
04:47All right, we're all packed up let's go camping
05:04Well
05:06It took a little bit longer to get here than I planned and we've only got about an hour and a half of sun
05:11Left so we're gonna try to go find ourselves a fishing spot before it gets dark and see what we can do
05:26It's really nice today, it's like 60 and sunny
05:29So my guess is the fish might be a bit shallow soaking up the Sun we'll see
05:38I've got about 15 miles now still not seeing much of anything and it's getting a little cold
05:44I might need to start thinking about finding a place for the night
05:55So I'm gonna camp for tonight a little bit of bank here so I can build a fire if I get too cold
05:59Or if I need to stretch my legs, but I'm gonna cut up some bait and check the rods out and see what happens
06:05You know, there was a few signals down here and we got a little bit of snags up close
06:10But I don't know looks as good as any place I've seen today. All right. Here's my bait
06:15I lost my cast net earlier this week. So
06:19When I went to the grocery store, I picked up a bunch of fish for bait got these white perch here
06:26I'm gonna cut up also has some shrimp in a bag their currents ripping pretty good here. So I'm gonna use my big rods
06:33Hook that through the nose. So it kind of sits in the current aerodynamically
06:46Well, I got three rods out
06:47I can only use the rods that have more than five ounces of lead on them because the currents ripping pretty good here
06:53So I've checked them out one two three and I've got the bait clickers on so if anything comes along and hits this
06:58I'm gonna hear it. But these are all really big hooks and really big baits
07:03So it's gonna be a sizable catfish if I get hooked up
07:11Put my coat on in this rod just got a massive hit
07:14I knew I was gonna get here late tonight, so I didn't want to fuss with cooking
07:18So I got a nice big bowl of Mavado food here who ground beef tofu and this weird red sauce
07:26You used to eat this in Japan all the time for dessert. I've got some of the boys Halloween candy
07:36It's still good still good just tastes like perch now
07:40Well, it's getting properly dark and really cold. So I think I better start pulling out my camping gear
07:45I brought the Therm-a-Rest Mundo King 3d XXL
07:49I own a lot of camping mats and this is hands-down
07:53The most comfortable though warmest the largest one. I got only seven o'clock and I am freezing my butt off. I'm so cold
08:01I've got to get in my sleeping bag
08:02so I've got my my bag busted out here and you can see how I've got it set up and
08:08I'm gonna sit and watch my fishing rods from the comfort of my zero-degree bag. Oh, I can't feel my toes
08:15But it feels so good to be in this sleeping bag. Oh my goodness
08:19I can see my fishing rods pretty easily from here too. So this ain't too bad. So check it out
08:25this river is apparently tidal when we pulled up to the spot the water level was up here and
08:32The water's been dropping down pretty aggressively. It's only 730. So I don't think I can go to bed yet if I wanted to
08:39But
08:40I'm gonna sit here and watch movies on my phone keep an eye on my rod tips and eat rice pudding and cookies
08:47I'm just just gonna relax a little bit. I gotta tell you though
08:50I really miss not having my boys with me here tonight, but they had school and frankly
08:56It's really cold that I'm a little worried about them sleeping on this boat and falling off. So so it's just me for right now
09:03Well
09:06Guys it's cold out here, but it is absolutely beautiful
09:10I'm sitting here on this perfectly still cloudless night staring at so many stars and
09:17There isn't a single bit of man-made light anywhere to be seen. It's just gorgeous
09:22My hung-up rods been getting some big old hits
09:29The lead is stuck and the fish has grabbed the bait
09:33Maybe he'll pop it loose
09:36my best bet
09:41Broke off. Oh dang it. We had a pretty nice catfish on there
09:48Hit that harder than I expected. All right, I got three rods baited up and back out and we'll see what happens
09:54There's an angry beaver over there. He keeps splashing at me. I don't like beavers
10:00I had to fight our 30-pound rabid beaver once on a date with my wife
10:05Beat it unconscious in front of a troop of Boy Scouts. Oh
10:09Good morning. Oh, I slept really well last night and it was so fun
10:14Sitting here looking up at the stars and I saw so many shooting stars probably 20 or 30 of them
10:20But the tide has gone out with a vengeance and our boat is sitting on mud right now
10:27So I am sitting here just building up the energy to actually get out of my sleeping bag and do something oh
10:39It's actually a lot warmer this morning than it was last night
10:57Nice little blue catfish, but he is so wrapped up
11:03When catfish get hooked and they can't pull anymore they like to spin and this one has just spun and spun and spun
11:12Well, I really want to eat a catfish today
11:15But this is enough to feed my entire family for like two days. So I am gonna send him back
11:21Plenty of little tiny ones, which I'm sure we'll get into
11:25I'll eat one of those
11:27Well because the tide has calmed down the currents calmed down a lot too
11:30So I can bomb it out there away from the snags a lot better
11:43Hi, babe, things are going okay so far
11:51Okay
11:57This is lovely
12:15We packed up we ate up now, let's reel up and get out of here. Let's go try another spot
12:20How beautiful is this? It's just gonna be an awesome day
12:26All right, guys
12:27We got a long straight stretch of river with almost no wind and very little current and the bottom is very consistent
12:34So we're gonna try drifting which is a great technique when you're not quite sure what to do
12:39Just go and drop your rigs down to the bottom. Just kind of let them bounce along the bottom. Oh
12:44Oh
12:47We got our first customer
13:05Nice healthy blue catfish. I bet we're gonna get a lot of these today
13:09I'll check it out. I've got the Garmin live scope here
13:12This is a live image of what's going on underneath that rod. You see that's my lead and bait right there
13:18It just drifted along right off the bottom
13:21If anything comes up and investigates I'll know about it. So you look right there
13:25See see that fish? That's a fish right there. Oh, yeah
13:29That was just a little fish came up and grabbed it
13:31You can see it going all over the place and my rod tip was bouncing. Let's see if he comes back
13:36Well, I landed that one fish and I had a couple other good bites, but you know, I'm gonna try another drift
13:44Here another spot, let's give it a go
13:47Holy mackerel, look at this
13:54Oh that guy was trying to flip the boat
14:01I'm sitting there looking on my phone and all I can think of is fish
14:04I'm sitting there looking on my phone and all of a sudden the boat just starts leaning over like what the
14:11I think that's the biggest one of the day. Yeah, it feels like 10-12 pounds
14:18Let's go try another spot
14:24Well, you know, I'm really having a ball catching these big catfish
14:27But I'd really like to catch a little one to cook up and so I'm gonna try these shrimp
14:32Sometimes I tend to do better with little catfish when i'm using shrimp
14:41Yo, nice nice chunk of shrimp right there
14:48Oh the feisty one
14:55There we go nice little blue
14:57Blue
15:01On the shrimp
15:04There we go, that's what we're looking for switching over to the shrimp did the trick look at that
15:10Nice pretty blue catfish. Well, I think I just got my lunch sorted out
15:17Oh, look at this we got round two
15:23Oh, he liked that shrimp man, these blues are just healthy and chunky
15:28Well, that was a pretty good drift, but I am getting hungry. So I think it's time to make some lunch
15:40All right anchored up in a nice little spot to make lunch and of course we'll do some fishing while we're at it
15:49Whenever I catch fish I like to see what's in its stomach. And uh, so let me show you see that right there
15:58It's a clam blue catfish love to eat clams so do carp
16:06Two pretty white catfish fillets
16:10I'm getting ready to cook up my catfish and look what's coming up the river
16:14Holy mackerel that makes my floating fishing cabin look a little bit teeny doesn't it?
16:20Got a couple army surplus tents and rv
16:23Got a boat on the back
16:26Look at that thing
16:30Blackened redfish magic here
16:35And get this pan hot
16:38Once the butter turns brown lay those fillets in there
16:52Could have been used all right
16:56I
16:59Take this leftover rice from last night and let that soak up all the butter and seasonings and grease
17:11Blackened catfish and rice. There you go. Crispy blackened catfish with fried rice
17:21Oh
17:23Oh another chunky blue catfish
17:29You know, this has been a really fun project and i've really enjoyed this camping trip
17:32But it is getting late and I better get going home because i've got a long drive
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