Down south sometimes we have us some catfish with a sinful amount of butter and hushpuppies. Best I’ve had was in NoLa though; they get the holy trinity going and make it slap yo’ momma good.
I love that we can share our catfish appreciation across the oceans - I’m from Auss and barely understand what you’re saying but I feel the catfish love 😂
I love it too! Hushpuppies are savory little fried dough things. NoLa is New Orleans, Louisiana. And then as for the holy trinity, that’s onions, celery, and I think what I think y’all call capsicum (we say green peppers). Naturally, garlic is the pope. Slap yo’ momma good means the food is good and a little spicy lol.
Ok this has stuck in my mind, celery makes the holy trinity?? I’ve only seen celery used in some soups or filled up with cream cheese or peanut butter for snacks - is it really that flavorful??
It’s nothing to write home about on its own, but it does something when its in there with other flavors. I think it’s got to do with how the celulose in the celery behaves in the presense of the onions during the maillard reaction. Usually you lay down the holy trinity like this: Chop up everything good - like do a brunioise type cut. Now saute the celery with butter and the pepper. When it’s getting clear or starting to brown, add your onions. Keep going until the onions are clear, and it can now go in your rice or whatever you’re using it in.
Now, if you swap out the green peppers and do carrots instead, you have mirepoix instead of the holy trinity, and mirepoix is the backbone of French cooking just like the holy trinity is in cajun cooking. Make some mirepoix, chuck in some beef stock and red wine, put a roast in there, and wack it in the oven low and slow to braise with a bouquet garni and same bay leaf, and you have a nice little Sunday roast.
Now you know how I felt traveling Oz as an American. I know you are speaking English but I can barely understand what you’re saying.
PS. Best month to of life. Lovely country.
I thought only Americans were crazy enough to do that shit.... hell yeah, 'Straya sounding pretty cool to me.
My old as hell southern grandma taught me noodling when I was a little boy and we went on a trip down south (im from north). We went to a river, she kicks off her sandals and pulls up her sundress and goes right in like "hold my beer and watch this shit", and to my amazement, pulls out a fat ass channel cat. My grandparents had me out fishing from a toddler until they passed, like 3 decades lol.
Man, I miss her but that was a great memory. She was a certified bad ass and wasnt afraid of a damn thing.
Oh, everywhere, it’s a problem. Some fishing spots you’ll see em lying around in the sun because it’s illegal to put them back.
I’ve only read about noodling!! But I know of a story about an American traveler who noodled a catfish and is regarded as quite the legend. I think all Aussies hear that story
Stone crabs king crab snow crab lobsters shrimp tilapia are even fed poop in fish farms there all bottom feeders but taste good. Bluefish are a predator and they taste absolutely horrible no matter how it's cooked. Most jack species to. Curious if it's really because it's diet or it's just the fish that doesn't taste good
I was once on holiday on the south coast of Wales. I was teaching my brother and uncle to fish. Nothing heavy, just a couple of coarse rods, floats, and a bit of bait. We sat on some rocks below a pier near an inlet (of sorts). On said pier were 8-10 anglers casting out as far as their beach casting rods would allow. They had 5 or 6 spinners, spaced a foot apart, on their lines. They would cast out and reel in as fast as they could. They all seemed to be going like the clappers. It didn't take long to realise why. A couple of sea lions would follow the line and pull the fish hooked on each spinner. They'd leave the fish head on the hook and eat the rest. These guys were reeling in like lighting and if they were lucky they had one or two whole fish and just fish heads on the other spinners. Two (maybe three) sea lions were stripping every cast before it made shore. This went on for hours.
And if you let it really get away from you, suddenly people from town will start being lured to the riverside by ham sandwiches and pizza on very thin wires.
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well two things here. anyone who's ever fished for carp knows how joyous it is to catch them bc they're pure bastards and put up a fight. but secondly. you need to learn how to properly bait a hook bud, that's unacceptable
Carp fishing is one thing but I love pike fishing. You get to be a lot more mobile when pike fishing, they aren’t as much a bunch of bastards because their predator instincts mean they don’t mess around with bait and I’d say pound for pound they put up a better fight.
Also, I can go pike fishing with a single rod and the contents of a backpack. Some of these carp setups I see, I start wondering where they’ve set the shitter up. It’s less fishing and more glamping.
speaking my language, haven't done any pike fishing myself but that's a good point about them being predatory fish. my set up when i sport fished carp was also a single rod, tackle box. unless you're fishing for sustenance once year or something; hauling your kitchen plus the sink is nonsense
It might be a different culture thing. It’s definitely the case over here in the UK that carp fishing is seen as a more so called “professional” kind of thing. All the “proper” carp fishermen over here take a big trolly’s worth of tackle with them and have at least two rods on the go, bite alarms, maybe a third rod set up just as a feeder and they’ll be sat in a bivvy with a bacon and sausage sandwich cooking away on their portable stove, flask full of tea, sat on a chair that converts into a bed and every little creature comfort is within arms reach, meticulously sorted away into draws.
It’s alright doing it like that, don’t get me wrong but it was never my preference. I used to have to walk to the river/canal so all my tackle had to be what I could carry the 2 miles. I’d do a bit of course fishing but pike fishing meant I could grab the absolute minimum. I’ve set up to do pike fishing using live bait but people get a bit iffy about that so I switched to lures.
I think it’s two very different vibes. Sometimes I just want to stick my fishing rod into the riverbank and hang out, sometimes I want to be actively searching drop offs and structures. Depends on the day
They’re bastards because they fight when you try to kill them? And the desperate struggle for their life makes it more joyful when you finally kill them?
Out of animal that reproduces but the 150000, with an estimated IQ of 2, that fuels an industry large enough to create pastoral parks full of these fish? Yes and it’s one of the big reasons I’m part of many volunteer conservation efforts, life’s not a Disney movie Jackass.
I don’t. Please explain to me exactly how a fish works. Closed notes test: What is a lateral line? How does a swim bladder work? Are carp warm or cold blooded?
If I put food on a fish line without a hook, would they be cautious? If I did it long enough and constantly would they loose their fear? Would they get caught more? I have many questions
Hush puppies are deep fried, by the tablespoonful, into the hot grease. It is cornbread mixture; minced onions or diced jalepenos may be added. I love hush puppies!
If the video was longer, the fish would take the massive chunk eventually and get hooked.
It’s eating the chum remnants as an appetizer. Once the brain realizes it’s too much effort for so little gain, it will chomp down on the larger chunk.
So cruel to think using hooks to stab in the fish’s mouth to drag them out to suffocate is okay to do to these poor animals. Normalised animal cruelty.
Recreation, we fish for them a lot in the UK/Europe. On light lines they are pound for pound one of the best fighting fish. Special mention to Tench, Trout, Barbel.
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The fate of your post is in the hands of the most savage animals of all now, the mods.
Honestly, yeah. G.
It at the very least knows that theres a hook there and hooks are bad so it has adapted its natural behavior and is being super cautious.
This is also why you don't eat carp. Goddamn bottom feeders.
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I did some carp fishing in the past and I couldn't really get tasty ones from natural lakes.
Their diet is mostly algae where I fished, which kind of ruins their meat, it gets a very unpleasant taste because of that.
Carps don’t taste good in general and most carps you pull from water ways should be killed
That's only the invasive Asain Carp and if you know the diet and how to prepare, even carp can taste decent.
Love this mentality. Also catfish are delicious, in a soup with Thai flavors it’s delectable
Down south sometimes we have us some catfish with a sinful amount of butter and hushpuppies. Best I’ve had was in NoLa though; they get the holy trinity going and make it slap yo’ momma good.
I love that we can share our catfish appreciation across the oceans - I’m from Auss and barely understand what you’re saying but I feel the catfish love 😂
I love it too! Hushpuppies are savory little fried dough things. NoLa is New Orleans, Louisiana. And then as for the holy trinity, that’s onions, celery, and I think what I think y’all call capsicum (we say green peppers). Naturally, garlic is the pope. Slap yo’ momma good means the food is good and a little spicy lol.
Im triggered. Im hungry now haha
Hush puppies are fried cornbread balls. Delicious
Ok this has stuck in my mind, celery makes the holy trinity?? I’ve only seen celery used in some soups or filled up with cream cheese or peanut butter for snacks - is it really that flavorful??
It’s nothing to write home about on its own, but it does something when its in there with other flavors. I think it’s got to do with how the celulose in the celery behaves in the presense of the onions during the maillard reaction. Usually you lay down the holy trinity like this: Chop up everything good - like do a brunioise type cut. Now saute the celery with butter and the pepper. When it’s getting clear or starting to brown, add your onions. Keep going until the onions are clear, and it can now go in your rice or whatever you’re using it in.
Now, if you swap out the green peppers and do carrots instead, you have mirepoix instead of the holy trinity, and mirepoix is the backbone of French cooking just like the holy trinity is in cajun cooking. Make some mirepoix, chuck in some beef stock and red wine, put a roast in there, and wack it in the oven low and slow to braise with a bouquet garni and same bay leaf, and you have a nice little Sunday roast.
Mmm I’m salivating while reading theses - experiments with celery will happen soon!! I’m so curious thanks for the hot tips
Now you know how I felt traveling Oz as an American. I know you are speaking English but I can barely understand what you’re saying. PS. Best month to of life. Lovely country.
Theres catfish in Australia??? I didnt know that.
Have yall discovered noodling yet?
Discovered it? The land of drop bears and being waken up as a giant snake swallows your house?
hmm
I thought only Americans were crazy enough to do that shit.... hell yeah, 'Straya sounding pretty cool to me.
My old as hell southern grandma taught me noodling when I was a little boy and we went on a trip down south (im from north). We went to a river, she kicks off her sandals and pulls up her sundress and goes right in like "hold my beer and watch this shit", and to my amazement, pulls out a fat ass channel cat. My grandparents had me out fishing from a toddler until they passed, like 3 decades lol.
Man, I miss her but that was a great memory. She was a certified bad ass and wasnt afraid of a damn thing.
Austrialian noodling
In Australia, fish noodles you!
Or eldritch abomination, whatever.
Theres catfish EVERYWHEREEEEEE honestly if you look up how many different species there are, I’m fairly confident they’re in most freshwater habitats
Its good to know, cuz everybody should get to eat some good catfish
Oh, everywhere, it’s a problem. Some fishing spots you’ll see em lying around in the sun because it’s illegal to put them back.
I’ve only read about noodling!! But I know of a story about an American traveler who noodled a catfish and is regarded as quite the legend. I think all Aussies hear that story
Fried cat is a staple in south Texas
Shrimps is bugs
Yeah, but with garlic, it's delicious.
Tasty bugs
I as a bottom feeder thank you
Lobsters, shrimp, all the stuff you think is rich people food were originally poor people food because people thought Bottom feeders were bad.
Why are bottom feeders bad? Some of us feed on bottom for fun
You never go ass to mouth!
Bass to mouth?
They also do eat at the top but , yeah, when they do it’s delicious algae slop
Stone crabs king crab snow crab lobsters shrimp tilapia are even fed poop in fish farms there all bottom feeders but taste good. Bluefish are a predator and they taste absolutely horrible no matter how it's cooked. Most jack species to. Curious if it's really because it's diet or it's just the fish that doesn't taste good
Don't talk like that around Maryland, DC, and Virginia. You'll catch a crab mallet to the head and a handful of pocket Old Bay to the eyes.
And don't get me started on how lethal oystermen can be with their shucking knives.
In several european countries carps were bred for eating, it was a whole huge industry, and the wealthy peeps kept carp farms.
For some reason my brain made sound affects hawchomp- hawchomp- hawchomp , oh no thats the metal bit… whoopwossh chomp.
I was once on holiday on the south coast of Wales. I was teaching my brother and uncle to fish. Nothing heavy, just a couple of coarse rods, floats, and a bit of bait. We sat on some rocks below a pier near an inlet (of sorts). On said pier were 8-10 anglers casting out as far as their beach casting rods would allow. They had 5 or 6 spinners, spaced a foot apart, on their lines. They would cast out and reel in as fast as they could. They all seemed to be going like the clappers. It didn't take long to realise why. A couple of sea lions would follow the line and pull the fish hooked on each spinner. They'd leave the fish head on the hook and eat the rest. These guys were reeling in like lighting and if they were lucky they had one or two whole fish and just fish heads on the other spinners. Two (maybe three) sea lions were stripping every cast before it made shore. This went on for hours.
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought it was supposed to be some kind of alien entity consuming psychic energy from a brain or something.
"Mmyumyumyumyumyum... essssssence..."
Brain essence is the best carp bait, but it keeps making them smarter.
And if you let it really get away from you, suddenly people from town will start being lured to the riverside by ham sandwiches and pizza on very thin wires.
This carp sucks.
It’s in hell like a deep breathe
That carp’s basically running a buffet scam free snacks, No cover charge, and the hook never makes the guest list.
Obvious chatgpt comment
literally fu king not a single and let me repeat myself not a single chatgpt tell in that comment but still 10 people upvoted you ok loll
It was the "basically" for me. Even though there were some grammatical errors the sentence itself did sound like a joke chatGPT would make. 100%
It might not have been, but I can see why that person thought so
“Never makes the guest list” is generated as hell
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right, very objective
Lmaoo
I don't trust someone who defends AI "art"
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well two things here. anyone who's ever fished for carp knows how joyous it is to catch them bc they're pure bastards and put up a fight. but secondly. you need to learn how to properly bait a hook bud, that's unacceptable
Carp fishing is one thing but I love pike fishing. You get to be a lot more mobile when pike fishing, they aren’t as much a bunch of bastards because their predator instincts mean they don’t mess around with bait and I’d say pound for pound they put up a better fight.
Also, I can go pike fishing with a single rod and the contents of a backpack. Some of these carp setups I see, I start wondering where they’ve set the shitter up. It’s less fishing and more glamping.
speaking my language, haven't done any pike fishing myself but that's a good point about them being predatory fish. my set up when i sport fished carp was also a single rod, tackle box. unless you're fishing for sustenance once year or something; hauling your kitchen plus the sink is nonsense
It might be a different culture thing. It’s definitely the case over here in the UK that carp fishing is seen as a more so called “professional” kind of thing. All the “proper” carp fishermen over here take a big trolly’s worth of tackle with them and have at least two rods on the go, bite alarms, maybe a third rod set up just as a feeder and they’ll be sat in a bivvy with a bacon and sausage sandwich cooking away on their portable stove, flask full of tea, sat on a chair that converts into a bed and every little creature comfort is within arms reach, meticulously sorted away into draws.
It’s alright doing it like that, don’t get me wrong but it was never my preference. I used to have to walk to the river/canal so all my tackle had to be what I could carry the 2 miles. I’d do a bit of course fishing but pike fishing meant I could grab the absolute minimum. I’ve set up to do pike fishing using live bait but people get a bit iffy about that so I switched to lures.
I think it’s two very different vibes. Sometimes I just want to stick my fishing rod into the riverbank and hang out, sometimes I want to be actively searching drop offs and structures. Depends on the day
The priority was the video, not actually cathcin a fish. And it's a nice video.
Also…is that ground feed suspended in water without actual bait on the hook? Yeah, no way in hell that has a float holding it up.
Oh, and one more thing. Those aren‘t carp, I’m pretty sure.
Many types of carp my friend so they could be. But I agree with you
They’re bastards because they fight when you try to kill them? And the desperate struggle for their life makes it more joyful when you finally kill them?
You get joy out of an animal struggling for its life? You should get therapy dude.
Out of animal that reproduces but the 150000, with an estimated IQ of 2, that fuels an industry large enough to create pastoral parks full of these fish? Yes and it’s one of the big reasons I’m part of many volunteer conservation efforts, life’s not a Disney movie Jackass.
This guy has definitely been caught at least once
Fish: im not getting raptured again !!
Carp eating using bluetooth
Bait used to be believable...
How he’s stomach not become overloaded by water?
because it is a fish
So it have infinite stomach?
They filter what they swallow and the water goes out the gills, solids go to stomach.
Thank you
Toastii was lying. Fish DO have infinite stomach
I knew it!
Water is like air to them, why you thought it would fill their stomach
How did you think they eat
Do you know how fish work?
Fish don't work, they just swim around and eat all day.
How did Michael Phelps turn into a human?
He gathered all 7 Dragonballs
I don’t. Please explain to me exactly how a fish works. Closed notes test: What is a lateral line? How does a swim bladder work? Are carp warm or cold blooded?
Define fish
Why do you have to be rude for no reason
As U/00Glitch said, yep, it’s a fish, so the water it inhales leaves its body via gills.
Same way we don't fill our stomachs with air. They exhale the water after filtering out the good bits.
How your stomach not become overloaded by air?
I guess I've never thought of it before now that you mention it
Nature, uh, finds a way
So this is what happens when I go fishing..
Clever guys
I respect this fish. He knows he’ll get stabbed in the mouth and cooked, so he unlocked a new form of IQ.
Bout time they figured it out lol
I, for one, welcome our new carp overlords.
Make that two!
... I should call her
Carpe see em
they're evolving...!
Evolution!!!
Ngl I started body popping as the music came on 🔥
I would hook only lips all the time. Now I know why.
Blud just wanted to eat
Galactus, The Devourer of Bait.
Clever girl.
That's called gaming the system
They’re learning…
I miss her...
Well the angler seems to have baited his line instead of his hook
Clever Girl
Clever Girl
I didn't know fish could be smart!!!
If I put food on a fish line without a hook, would they be cautious? If I did it long enough and constantly would they loose their fear? Would they get caught more? I have many questions
Older bigger fish are likely to ignore it, but younger ones will grab it. They'll eat anything.
I hope this happen all the time 😃
G
lol looks like cloudy with the chance of meatballs huge food cloud!
Bro bit the hook and started coughing like me after a dab 🤣
Why the music tho?
https://i.redd.it/hl50etjse68g1.gif
This reminds me of that video of that whale eating fish out of a net
I sure do enjoy the light & warmth provided by my star
the ever-consuming black hole:
https://preview.redd.it/407klwafz68g1.jpeg?width=618&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed54f5b6fb95f89d3b3e94adfdfe816ec24624f6
Is it just breathing in meat-juice?
🤣🤣🤣
Skill issue.
Dementor carp
they've evolved.
This explains why sometimes I don’t feel the fish pulling yet I lose my bait.
I think next time put a worm on that hook 😂
Why id have the hook right in it
Its a magic carp some would say. Magicarp.
Oddly satisfying to watch
Fisherman hate this one trick
Hush puppies are deep fried, by the tablespoonful, into the hot grease. It is cornbread mixture; minced onions or diced jalepenos may be added. I love hush puppies!
Smart fuck
Fuck yeah.... That amazing
Haha this is a perfect description of day trading
This is why you periodically yanked the line or yank the line if you see movement on the water.
Yeah fish aren't as dumb as we think. I have had pike hide under my bait while coarse fishing, waiting for a smaller fish to get hooked.
Was going to say fish don’t generally learn from getting caught but I guess this is what comes of throwing them back.
This have a lot of meanings
I love this for them 🤣
Oh crap! What a smart carp
Based carp
Y'all here in comments giving too much credit to the fish.
That's a Bighead Carp. They are filter feeders. It is not "avoiding" the hook, the rig working as intended. Give it time.
https://preview.redd.it/5o42cm99ue8g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=58d1a62f9ceeabd5b855f7e639c4c06a00880f13
Also, Common Carp couldn't eat like that, the food dust would just pass through. I am not a fisherman, by the way.
https://preview.redd.it/q6ohtudjlf8g1.jpeg?width=416&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f9d94409a1a85f900ba203c242538ee4821041d
Adaptation Fk Yeaaah
He listened to Mr. Crabs “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, to the Hooks I’ll never Go”
Carp game
Why would anyone use dissolving bait? And why would the bait be mounted above the actual hook?
I call this video BS.
https://preview.redd.it/jazllrzpuo8g1.jpeg?width=168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a30c528ce7248516e29ff34a3b76cdb2b019a39
This fish’s face in a nutshell.
carpe carp
This fish baits.
This is AI, they covered the watermark with the in-video top left.
he knows the matrix
Put that dough ball on the bottom and you'll get him.
That carps smarter than most players in World of Warcraft, trust me.
Fish are bastards
If the video was longer, the fish would take the massive chunk eventually and get hooked.
It’s eating the chum remnants as an appetizer. Once the brain realizes it’s too much effort for so little gain, it will chomp down on the larger chunk.
Human equivalent is eating potato crisps.
Twas caught and released and learned.
That doesn't look like any carp I've caught.
Damn... Fish know now not to engage with bait. When do we think redditors will evolve to that level?
/s
On cod? No carp?
So cruel to think using hooks to stab in the fish’s mouth to drag them out to suffocate is okay to do to these poor animals. Normalised animal cruelty.
Why is someone trying to catch a carp?
You know fishing, right?
I know carp tastes like garbage can juice
But the grocery store is right there???
Thank god grocery stores exist... Without them I don't know if I could survive. I don't even know where to hunt Dorito's and Mountain Dew...
I mean otherwise we may have to hike to the top of some mountain to get that Dew!
you have pencil and paper
why buy an expensive computer and go to reddit to make stupid comments when you could just use the pencil and paper?
Extremely popular sport fish in Europe, think like Bass fishing in the US.
Recreation, we fish for them a lot in the UK/Europe. On light lines they are pound for pound one of the best fighting fish. Special mention to Tench, Trout, Barbel.
Plus you basically get to deep sea fish in freshwater, all the weird rigs and crazy baits.
Gotcha, in the US we don’t purposely catch carp
You should. They are a great sport fish, set your reels up with drag and go after them. Bass you can drag in, Carp, you can't....
Think very hard