2 Fish NOBODY Eats! Catch Clean Cook- TRASH Fish Taste test- (Bermuda Chub+ Spot tail Pinfish)

[@RV_Chef_Life]

There’s no such thing as bad fish, just bad cooks

[@rogerdiogo6893]

There`s no such thing as tought meat, only old people without teeth, LOL!

[@rsimpkins1601]

Try cooking Tarpon...Bone city...

[@vkhiev]

You are too funny but I totally agreed

[@Dee81333]

R simpkins or ladyfish

[@tonysanmangelo5928]

I’ve heard that particular quote, about 1,000,000 X on these catch and cook videos. “Very original” bud. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

[@lukasbiedermann707]

spot tail pinfish is called in italie sargo and is one of the most popular fish to eat,as well in croatia and arround the hole adriatic sea,nice filet job!

[@ktroeyeng]

Same in Greece....we also call it «sargó» and it s a very popular fish to eat. We get extra happy if we hook one of those. Not so easy to find.

[@pescaEnChubutKayakCosta]

Same in Argentina, also called Sargo. Very common in rocky areas

[@MrXavixavier]

Lukas Biedermann same in Portugal - sargo - and a very desired fish! Great fun to fish them on the cliffs

[@aleramone23]

We have them in south america. we do them in the oven with potatoes and onions. We call them sargo too.

[@darkoleskovsek2558]

yeah Diplodus holbrookii are delicious I wouldn't filet them tho

[@mikereddy18]

As some have already said, they mixed up the yellowtail and chub, so actually the yellowtail was best.

[@axiomloves21]

Exactly.

[@tarpontim1715]

you are completely right! omg that changes the whole video.lol.

[@ballyhoos31]

The Chub was once a treasured and sought after fish amongst the older generation in my home island of St David's Bermuda. The flesh is great fried or curried, we also use salt on them as you would with codfish. Then after soaking them in water overnight to remove the excessive salt boil them with potatos (sweet or white) & onions, This was popular and necessary before refrigeration to preserve the meat. Chubs are also a favoured fish for making traditional fishcakes here. It's pretty good fried as well but preferably the smaller ones like in this video. The old timers loved the smaller ones as pan fish and fried them whole, delicious. My dad would tell us stories of the special fishing trips when they would sail several miles to the beast areas to the North East of the island to fish for them. This would've been back in the 40's and earlier. They would catch them mostly using lobster meat and of course bread or dough as chubs were picky eaters. Today Chubs tend to eat any and everything. The black spotted ones we call Breams, I can't post they're common name here lol. But in fairness the yield a nice filet\ and are excellent eating as well. Love the videos. keep them coming. If you ever come to Bermuda, look me up, I'll take you out fishing here. My apologies on the long post.

[@philipclift7205]

Bibblers.lol. I'll take a squirrel fish and yellow grunt,probably not a cowpoly , before a bermuda chub. Ahh,bermi.

[@rumbarrel3518]

Well as with most fish there are some that love to eat them and others who don't. Amongst the older generation of St David's Islanders yellow grunts are a delicacy in their own right. Easily caught in the bays or from the rocks (that's the shoreline for non Bermudians lol) and always pan-fried whole. Of course you would eat them head and all.

[@jaken9438]

Vik, Your videos have been great lately! Keep up the grind!

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Thanks Jake!

[@cigarsparrow]

When the spots run up here in Brooklyn we catch them on a high/low & enjoy. They fry up real good.

[@reynardwilliams281]

I really enjoyed this video bro. You're doing a great job bringing justice to all the fish that are usually written off as "trash fish" and I can appreciate the time and effort you put into debunking the all the "trash fish" myths. As highly prized as yellowtail snapper are, I'm not surprised that the Bermuda chub turned out to be better than the snapper. Imo, most fish that people turn their noses up to end up being far better than the more popular and prized fish that they're accustomed to. As you always say bro, there's no such thing as trash fish, only trash cooks! Great video, and the fish looked fantastic!👍👍👍👍

[@joshhigdon4951]

Hahaha! I love it. I often cook trash and have been surprised a few times. Spots taste pretty good fried whole in my opinion.

[@Rodentfisherman]

Not trash

[@level2boxing749]

Smoked Jack Cravalle is delicious

[@miamiwax5504]

Yeah they are too soft for the grill. I feel like their skin is kinda rubbery too. Chubs are really good, have u tried em? I Made chub and lane snapper last night and the chub was better. Cooked both blackened.

[@e-o-1085]

Thank you for sharing! Here in Hawaii, we eat those raw (Poke or Sashimi). We also fry, steam, bake them and make soups, stews. Keep the videos coming, really enjoy them!

[@NewinTexas56]

We are currently in the Florida Keys and because of this video, we caught, cleaned and cooked Bermuda chub. You are all right. It was delicious! Thank you for showing us all fish have a place at the dinner table.

[@kalaiolele8796]

In Hawai'i we have a "chub" or "rudderfish" called the Enenue (Kyphosus spp) and like the Chup in Florida they are omnivores but the they eat mostly Limu or algae that grows on the rocks and coral. Us local Hawaiians love the Enenue for making poke, but most people form the mainland don't like it. They say that the fish has to much of an "algae" o "iodine" flavor to it; which is what we like about it! That way, you don't have to add limu to the poke, just the salt, peppers, green onions and inamona (kukui nut/candle nut). My favorite poke!!

[@quocducnguyen]

Great video. Please consider this suggestion on your next taste test: Get three small bite-size pieces from three different fish and put each piece on a fork and have the tester with their eyes closed to pick up and taste test each fork. Just call it Fork A, B and C. Don't let the tester see the meat and don't tell them anything other than sample A, B and C.

[@thomascomeau2961]

For a note if you don't have salt water you can dump some sea salt into water to rinse off the fish. If you're going to freeze the fish toss a bunch of ice into the bowl and give the filet a rinse. Learned this from a fisherman who loved speckled trout and it works great.

[@BlazingTiger91]

"Yellow tail on the LEFT, chub on the RIGHT". Oops. Seems like everyone actually liked the yellow tail best.

[@brandonbreaux9799]

Saw that as well

[@nicklausb]

Straight tried to trick us?!🤣

[@jswarpaint6215]

Good Job your right the one they thought was chub was the cut up into 4 pieces yellow tail !!!

[@rushmuzik]

Rook is the only one who got the order right. The house guest mixed up the fish.

[@tarpontim1715]

yup lol

[@geoeconomics3067]

"trash fish" is only USA thing

[@diamond_kix7794]

Fr

[@Mangobrain82]

facts

[@weipoon7962]

Agree

[@KurimeYT]

In russia we eat everything we catch

[@marcopugliese7284]

Y’all eat Bonita? Lol

[@thelegend-vb7ep]

Vik you chillin man the best fishing channel on youtube, and you know I'm busy so can't fish, but your videos really empty my mind and help fight the stress! Thanks for the work dudee

[@pete5137]

After reading all these comments, chubs are about to be on the endangered list. Your videos are real quality, i enjoy them all, well done.

[@geo4256]

I'm from Bermuda. Chubs were the first fish I brought home for the table. We never ate Spots, we call them Breams. Though I'm sure both ended up in the bags of filets we purchased out of the back of the pickup our local guy drove. Awesome vid.

[@mouse879]

I wish there was more fisherman like you Vic. You are right every fish have a space on a plate

[@miket2812]

We have been eating spots for as long as I can remember... They taste great.. 👍🏾👍🏾

[@thebigredchef8004]

omg...i finaly met a copple doing exacly what i did 15 years ago..i met people on a forum in Holland about seefishing. non of them like fisg like flounder and pout, they always gave them to me..it took me about 2 years..when i showed them how to handle them they foundout how acualy good they were and i hardly got any of there catch ever again witch i was realy happy about..it made me later on my own small channel, how to cook whatever . good job you 2, realy good job :) i just got another awsome channel to follow ;)

[@davidschnall4788]

I’ve been asking for a chub catch clean and cook for a while and didn’t believe it would ever happen! Nice job!

[@stevenrldenault7451]

Hello Victor, good for you for doing these videos to dispel the misconceptions around certain fishes. Its the same kind of thing in the foraging of wild plant foods or small game vs big game. I think the reality is that mostly small abundant species of fish, game and plants were the standards for 1000s of years. Now every thing is about the BIGGEST of whatever it is the marketers are trying to sell folks on. Again, well done, please do more such videos. Only recently found your and Brooke's video, truly enjoying them, thank you. Steve (64yr), Manitoba, Canada.

[@ferraripista1273]

Spot are considered a very valuable fish in the mediteranean

[@AthinaHuntingTours]

FerrariPista 12 they look very like a sargus bream. I thought the same.

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

The thing is, people in the US actually do eat these fish. Its not usually in markets but people do catch them and eat them. But when it comes to game fishing in the US, usually people who are *targeting* a specific species only consider this "trash fish". Ive eaten my fare share of grunts and other "trash fish". Except I never considered them trash. I don't really consider any fish a "trash fish" personally.

[@indarican1575]

When the Spot get to running here in NC its game on. Everyone and there mother hits the beaches to catch’em. It’s fish fry galore everywhere.Very good fish.Scale,Gut,Cut the heads,batter then fry.. yummy!,

[@johnvanegmond1812]

@@indarican1575 Have you ever tried, scale, cut the heads, gut, and boil 4 minutes? I do that with sunfish. Looks like a cartoon fish skeleton when I'm done because all the meat comes off. I make a Thai clili lime sauce and eat it with rice.

[@tonysa2337]

The Meditertanean fish you are referring to is Diplodus sargus, which occurs from the Bay of Biscay, around the Iberrean Penninsula, throughout the Mediterranean and all along the west coast of Africa to South Africa. In the Mediterranean its often referred to as Sargo and in South Africa it is a very popular light tackle species known as Blacktail. The Blacktail has fairly soft, white flesh that makes excellent eating fried whole (gutted and scaled) or as fillets, or barbecued whole on a grid. The Spot Tail fish in this video is the closely related Diplodus holbrookii which occurs on the west coast of the US all the way down to Florida.

[@BasicFishingNZ]

so cool how u and brook break so many grounds with the taste of different species of fish

[@Kkmkaikea]

Out in Hawaii where I live all we do is grind that chubs, out in Hawaii we call it Nenue 🤙🏾🤙🏾 yessah

[@captaintulikiva1258]

I'm from Niue and we call it a Nue..😂😂..

[@moraleschannel9730]

We alway carry a bucket full of sea water just for the Chubs, so every time we catch one, we submerge the fish and let his poop in the water. Nice an clean, no poopy smell 😎😎😎🙌🏾🎣

[@apg0014]

Now the word "chubs" will be stuck in my head all day. Thanks Vic!

[@ronniejohnson317]

Thanks for your teaching. I have always been an advocate for taking kids fishing and hunting. I have been at odds with my son and suggested that we go fishing. We don’t have to talk about the issue but can if we want to. Now as an adult, he still wants to go out and at least give them a sore lip, and talk a bit.

[@Jaceriding2025]

Your channel is probably one of the best you vids are always different and interesting they always keep me occupied so up what your doing your doing great

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Thanks Joey

[@hynstyle71]

In Hawaii we fry the small ones and the medium to large ones we make poke out of them mixed with certain limu/seaweed. The bigger ones are also good on the grill or baked. Ive filleted them,cut them into strips and dried them,which was also good. ALOHA!!!

[@NEIL812]

If you do a little research, you will find that most countries in the world consume Bermuda chubs in great numbers. In fact, Spain has made it a staple of its seafood industry for many years, they go as far as traveling around the world looking for temperate waters to look for them specifically. Very good tasting fish fillet!

[@Mikey4808]

Your spot is VERY similar to a fish we call blacktail here in South Africa. They taste great and are a commonly targeted fish when nothing else is biting

[@georgeprice9882]

She said she was a huge yellowtail fan and she loved the first one BECAUSE SHE STARTED WITH THE YELLOWTAIL

[@fishmarket22]

The trail is called aragote pinaphisake spot in Italy and it is the most popular fishes to eat in, as well as Croatia and ayadriyetika holes around the ocean, phailta great job!

[@mtrout138]

5:34 Idk why, but I started laughing like crazy seeing this fish start pooping EVERYWHERE

[@bradb5850]

The whole time he's trying to give these fish a "Good" name and the fish is just shitting everywhere I was laughing just as hard. The irony is always funny. Good on him for doing something different though. Either way, the video was entertaining!!

[@alexanderbemar2637]

Every fish poops. Clean the intestines out first before fillet the fish

[@jonathanconnor7920]

A laughed more at 5:50 when it slung poop all across his shirt trying to escape.

[@shawns4468]

Nice, great video. I enjoy your videos and the work you two put in them, keep up the awesome work. In Bermuda we call the Spot fish Bream.

[@JETTIEROCKSFISHINGwithMIKED]

Hey Vic...i watch most of your videos..but hardly ever comment..this video was awesome...ive been eating the spot tail for a long time and love them.. I have never eaten a chub as we really dont have a lot of them here in my area..but it looked really good..great video bro.

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Thanks brother!

[@TheFishingDream]

Still waiting on that mangrove catch and cook! 😁 great video victor! Have you ever done fishing in New Jersey? Here in jersey, flounder (fluke) fishing is great and that would be so cool if you did a video here! Stripers and bluefish as long with many other species can be caught here too! Thanks!

[@waucheesione2828]

Hard to beat the taste of striper to me. Best tasting freshwater fish here in TN to me. So big and tastes amazing! I love flounder too BTW.

[@Nativewarrior1433]

I am from Bermuda 🇧🇲 and we call the CHUB a trash fish to. But the CHUB taste pretty good. The fish that you called a spot, here in Bermuda 🇧🇲 we call it a BREAM

[@wesleywardable6083]

Here in South Africa we call the spot a black tail. They are actually very nice to eat. Salt and peper with garlic butter in the pan.

[@jsvexplorer]

Hi everybody, congratulations, I really liked the video and learned details that I had never considered. Every comment they made was very accurate and makes sense. Thank you very much and continue illustrating us with each of your comments. Excelente leccion muy saludable muchachos.

[@jimcole5387]

Cool video. People say Blue Fish are trash as well, but i love to catch n cook fresh blue fish. They are delicious.

[@marklarue7743]

Viktor, I can't thank you enough for your videos. I have about 15 that I subscribe to and always happy when you or Brooke posts.

[@MrTkway]

You both can come to Guam and you would fit right in. Your love of fish and cooking is on point!

[@MV_Checkmate]

OK, here is what I found about Chubs. I also caught some nice chubs in the Keys. Cooked them up just like you did (except without all the garlic) and they tasted great! I was amazed. So, over the next week we cleaned and vacuumed sealed a bunch of Chub meat along with snapper and grouper meat. Over the next few weeks we would pull a frozen pack of fish out of the freezer and found that the Chubs did not handle being frozen near as well as the snappers or groupers did. After one months being frozen the Chubs tasted like crap. We keep snapper and grouper frozen for sometimes 8 months and it still tastes amazing. The Chub turns foul tasting after one month and had to feed it to the dog. So, moral to the story. Definitely catch and eat Chubs they are fantastic tasting when they are fresh. Don’t freeze them and bring them home. That’s my humble opinion.

[@MONGOLOID808]

After all that, you serve it on paper plates 😁 love it. Can't be getting chub on the nice china 😂. They are also a fun fight on light tackle 🤙🏽

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Lol you caught me

[@jonywalabi2647]

Spot is called sargo in Portugal, its my favourite fish :)

[@HackedFishing]

Awesome. I cannot wait to fish in florida in july. Your videos are how i target my species

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

July is a great month, generally calm seas and lots of specie around

[@rogermeyer4843]

Having fried and eaten all three (mostly yellow tail) I greatly prefer the yellow tail on the left, next the sailors choice on the top, and lastly the chub on the right.

[@UrbanFisherman]

This was the video I was waiting for. Thanks

[@craigsmith2577]

Great video...love the taste test.

[@Michael-ps7ji]

I love that you caught everything but a chub to start. When I have the opposite problem...

[@Michael-ps7ji]

Also I always eat big chubs. They taste awesome.

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Thanks for watching my friend

[@toniawilkins1635]

Thank you Victor for this video. I caught two good size Chub in the Keys and I am looking forward to cooking and eating it. I will let you know what the outcome is.

[@johncollierjr21]

The spot tail is my favorite and they grow huge here in NC off the reef near Wrightsville

[@anthonythomas7755]

Good I hope more people in my country see this

[@ballzybaits4414]

Good stuff. I love how youre doing this. I need to do this series with freshwater fish.

[@scottleclair1512]

Another great video and with the silver lining to the spotlight chub! The tides have been turned 👍🏼

[@zorakhan4751]

Here in south Africa we refer to the spot tail pinfish as blacktail...extremely tasty and great live bait aswell

[@Doyou808]

In Hawaii we call em Nenue, and spearfishing we usually catch some and make poke. Makes good poke, sea salt, shoyu, sugar, sesame oil, green onion, onion.

[@dheepchandmanilal9110]

Hi good people I'm from South Africa ,the spots we call black tail,love your vids ,keep going and God bless you both

[@rod5330]

Viktor up here in the north east the porgy fish aka(SCUP) use to be considered a trash fish now it's sought out on all the charter boats. It's delicious and i've been eating if since a child.

[@EricFortuneJr.]

2:08 we call those spot tail pinfish, I think it’s in the Porgy family. There’s also the other Spot that I think is in the Drum and Croaker family. What we refer to as “Spot” fish actually has a single small spot just behind the gills.

[@rolandfero9742]

The chubs are one of my favorite fish to eat in the keys....the pooping is it's defense mechanism....I don't know why yellowtail gets all the hype...they are just ok....I'd never buy in a resturant...I haven't caught a spot, but would love to try. I'm glad to hear you point out the limit on unregulated species...alot of folks don't know, or understand that...I've also been trying to get a nice size pork fish to fillet (havnt had one yet)...margeets are ok, I don't think you did a ccc on them. I've caught some poisonous fish also, you could do a series maybe. Like you or brook did on lionfish. One is brownish blueish, with a stinger near its tail surrounded on a neon blue oval around the stinger. And spanish fish...although another youtuber might beat you to that one....Tight lines 😎

[@amazin2point0]

Once I saw Bermuda chub I knew I had to watch the video. I’m from Bermuda and there’s a debate among islanders on whether or not the Bermuda chub is good and worth keeping and eating. Whenever I’m back I catch a few off the docks and give them to family and friends that do like them as my immediate family doesn’t eat them.

[@michaelfairchild1417]

Another great video Viktor! I love your catch and cooks!

[@macmen007]

Appreciate all the lessons in the video

[@ytpython73]

Newest bag limit: chubs. Thanks Vic. :) I've eaten the spottails before. They get huge and they are quite good.

[@jackcollins405]

I can’t agree more with the trash fish just being trash cooks. All fish are delicious. Up north people think that bluefish are not good at all but a small fresh bluefish is so freakin delicious

[@onyxsolo1]

I'd try cooking the chub it like bangus. Butterfly it then marinate it in vinegar, crushed garlic, salt and pepper in the fridge for a couple hours. Afterwards pan fry till it's crunchy no batter/flour

[@danieljarstfer7966]

I need to get offshore and fish. Y’all got my mouth watering for fresh fish.

[@Big.Cliff.Outdoors.And.Cuisine]

Very interesting video Viktor! I've never thought to keep Chubs before but perhaps I'll give them a try! Thank you for the fresh perspective 😎

[@philipsnyman1407]

In my country we have a similar fish to a spot, we cook them whole over some hot coals 👌🏻

[@francoisackerman9650]

Its the same fish , i just searched it. I caught a bunch on saturday , really nice stuff on the braai

[@josearreola8650]

Nice video! Who knew "trash" fish tasted so good!

[@hardcorefishingsa4783]

Here in south Africa we call those spot tailed pinfish "blacktails" ...lovely to catch on ultra light setups , they get to about 1kg - 1.75kgs ... excellent eating even better live or cut bait 🤞

[@zosimoybay2909]

This are special fish on the islands(Batanes Islands)mostly we catch them by net or spear them,dried chubs are tasty sun dried.

[@darrylgoosen1878]

spot tail pinfish is called an a blacktail, blacktail seabream, Cape white seabreak, dassie or white seabream in South Africa and is a popular fish to eat

[@jacobwilson6780]

In Louisiana when you go fish the oil rigs offshore they have chubs that are probably 5lbs or so. Same size as a big mangrove

[@bigwilderness3006]

Really enjoy your videos! Thank you and keep up the great work.

[@clintonhesson1918]

Is it just me or was the yellowtail on the left!!! I was just thinking earlier today that Vic/Brook set the standard for catch and cook and everyone else is trying to catch up. Nobody is even close. You Brook and your families are my favorite on the Tube!!!!

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Thank you!

[@kitterllsingleton9936]

What you thought was bad turns out to be good really like this video 🤔🤔👍🏽👍🏽

[@namibchicks7530]

Fish with black stomach linings is eating alge the black lining prevents bloating when the sugars in the algea starts to ferment The contents is smelly due to fermentation and that is why they also got large stomaches.

[@francoisackerman9650]

We have those spot tail pinfish in south africa too , we call them blacktails in english . I caught a bunch of them from the beach on saterday. Taking the fillets of is alot of effort and alot of meat goes to waste so I like to keep them whole.

[@Cheehoo808]

In Hawaii we call it ennenui we usually eat it raw with salt and pepper some soy sauce and sesame oil green onions and white onions and a cold one🤙🏾

[@cabeirwin1565]

Glad I found your channel. Big sub from this guy.

[@gvilner]

I am very happy with this video because it is necessary to break with these stigmas. There is no trash fish. It is something that I have only heard here in the US and I find it very strange. Bravo

[@Youdontneedtoknowboy]

In the Mariåna islands we call that fish guile in Chamorro, we use that fish for soup with coconut milk

[@blackthornknives]

Your videos are a lot of fun my friend

[@jujuchiriqui]

we have pinfish in france, and its one of the best fish to eat. we dont filet it, we just clean it and direction to the BBQ.

[@richardmckinney4963]

You're right about those filletes looking like crappie. Now on another note the next time you go fishing for garfish try taking a piece of rope tie it to your fishing line fray it out and add a split shot sinker near where you attached the rope then sight fish.

[@thelinecook]

Just because it’s not the most popular fish.... tuna , salmon etc ... does not mean it can’t be good . We all gotta learn how to eat fish that people throw back because of the idea of it’s a trash fish . Nice video !

[@geckomabster1625]

im an Islander but we dont label any particular fish as trash " Fish Matters", but anyways, Victor has a new series "The Trash Fish"...Go go go!

[@goodkarmasportfishing5053]

Ok I am believer now. I always wondered about the chub. Thank you for the video. I have proof now :)

[@chriskron2512]

Thanks Victor.. NOW we KNOW!!

[@lucas3252]

Hahaha, here in Italy that’s the most common fish there is, and it is eaten a lot! Great video 👍👍👍

[@rosejarman6920]

Up north we have fresh water chubs and we smoke them, they are so good.

[@julialee7752]

Victor, you should come to Maryland and go rockfishing/ striped bass fishing. If you do go use baitfish

[@LandsharkOutdoors]

Late summer early fall!

[@paulwilliams5467]

Awesome video victor keep doing what you do sir

[@yukalibalevell8128]

Been eating chubb for years. Good eating fish.

[@jif.6821]

Aloha Viktor, Those Bermuda Chub we call Nenue (neh-noo-eh) and for Hawaiians this is one of the favorites for making poke (poh-keh). Just make sure you DO NOT gut the fish first but filet it without gutting. Any kukae (koo-kah-eh aka poop) will ruin the eating quality of this fish. Try and make a poke bowl with the Bermuda Chub. Keep up the great work. Aloha a hui hou.