Rapala filet knife, first year 1967. Mine must be close to that year. It was my dads and I don't remember when he didn't have it. Leather sheath with the fish tail at the end. That one looked as sharp as a razor, as is mine.
@zaynemcneill24323 ай бұрын
Catman… Please keep doing catch and cook catfish videos!! Love these!
@christopherbrinks40543 ай бұрын
I've been following your Chanel for years. Your content is phenomenal. My children are able to watch your videos without risk of foul language. You are a class act. Please keep it up.
@TheBrushcutter3 ай бұрын
I was told by one of my uncles that fished with them that if you know where there is a catalpa tree that doesn't have the caterpillars to take a dozen or so from another tree that does and seed the tree that's without. He would collect them during their active season and freeze them in cornmeal for the rest of the year. The cornmeal kept them from sticking together and becoming a frozen block of worms. RIP Uncle Henry.
@ronaldcourville64723 ай бұрын
We used to do the same thing , here in Louisiana
@TheBrushcutter3 ай бұрын
@@ronaldcourville6472 I'm about 15 minutes from Toledo Bend in Louisiana, what area are you in?
@ronaldcourville64723 ай бұрын
I'm between Eunice and Opelousas
@TheBrushcutter3 ай бұрын
@@ronaldcourville6472 howdy neighbor. Lol
@kirkbandy66893 ай бұрын
Had one at my Pawpaw‘s house Shreveport, Louisiana in the 80s
@rod6753 ай бұрын
For some reason I keep hearing "Country Boy Can Survive" in my head..😁
@SteveB-hy2ci3 ай бұрын
I'm a hearing it too!
@calebcarty85522 ай бұрын
I’ve been watching your videos recently with my three and five-year-old daughters, and they love it! Especially the fishing videos!
@cutnrun952 ай бұрын
Turkeys absolutely love Catalpa tree seed, they visit my trees every winter/ late spring until they eat all the seeds.
@mikecham723 ай бұрын
Love it! Catman getting back to his roots.
@derekboshers53833 ай бұрын
Just missed the part where he packs his antler hole.pipe and fires it up lol
@Kurtdog633 ай бұрын
Important to get your deep fry oil hot enough to sizzle when you drop batter fish in, or the filet will turn into an oil sponge. You can test it with a tiny piece of fish. Looks delicious. I score the filet skin on the fish, peel it off with pliers, then cut the filet off. Fresh fish hard to beat. Good to have the bowfishing rig at the ready, if the environment becomes target rich for carp or gar.
@wayway93663 ай бұрын
What was in the jar before you added the oil?
@randygibbon85473 ай бұрын
Nothing better than hearing the grease popping with fresh fried catfish. enjoy all your videos.
@paulwylie9893 ай бұрын
Louisiana Fish Fry mix is the best. That looked like mighty fine eating CM.
@CJSoutdoors18 күн бұрын
Im loving the catch and cooks!
@hensleyshobbies-doug77613 ай бұрын
I knowed some old fellars, including my old man, used to call them "Patalka" worms, or Patalca worms, haha. And they also call a mimosa tree, a firmosa, but that's them old briar hoppers or billhillys for you. Don't matter what anybody says, most folks knows what their talking about, for the most part. We've got Catalpa trees all around here and i used to check them all every year and never saw the first worm on any of them. I don't know, maybe it was something to do with the tree or something..
@gregfine3 ай бұрын
Catawba
@jchristopher20313 ай бұрын
I’ve done 2 river island overnight trips where we catfish and they were both an awesome experience, although we never ate the fish on site (we did take the home). This brings me back to those trips. Catfishing is so much fun and even better if you can share with a few friends and family. They usually battle well too! Those sandwiches looked amazing
@robmetcalfe890229 күн бұрын
Great bait love when I can find them
@eddiec40583 ай бұрын
Years ago when my brother ran trot lines he and a buddy would lay an old bed sheet under the tree. Then they beat the branches with 10-12 ft bamboo poles to knock the worms out onto the sheet. Easy pickup. I knew about 2 trees, one would bloom, the other didn't. Every year the one that bloomed had worms, the one that didn't never had a worm.
@DLRinc3 ай бұрын
I’ve come across one hanging out over the water. Bluegill and small catfish hanging out under it. You’d hook a bluegill and the catfish would be trying to steal the lure out of their mouths. It’d be funny seeing them hang out of a bluegills mouth and they’d still be trying to eat everything that fell in.
@grisseldog3 ай бұрын
Knocked out a many tawba worms with a cane pole Always put some in a small butter bowel to freeze for fall fishing. We fish the deep side of the creeks in the shade to mop up on those cats. Great video Hammer Down Catman
@charlessessions72933 ай бұрын
Nice fishing 🎣 😊 and good looking catfish fillet sandwiches 🥪 😊
@jamesswick75343 ай бұрын
Billy Strings! Awesome!
@OutDoorsModerator3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing the Hotpepper oil. Gonna try it tonight.
@clinthelms81843 ай бұрын
Catman, I want a garden video. I know you have a magnificent garden.
@skeemask49333 ай бұрын
One of the best baits here in Southeast Missouri back in the day.. I say back in the day because the farmers have killed everything around here. Haven't seen one since mid 1980's
@joeyroush75373 ай бұрын
Great video buddy. You keep up the good work and you will make a living at this someday and God bless
@anthonyweigand23003 ай бұрын
Love these fishing videos!
@hensleyshobbies-doug77613 ай бұрын
Looks like the KY river, parts of it. Now some places there looks like the Licking river.
@Pigpen12023 ай бұрын
Looks really good. Nice job🎉
@gregfine3 ай бұрын
Catawba worms are so juicy… tempted to eat them myself 😂
@darrelllogan12743 ай бұрын
I used to catch big bluegills with these when I was very young.
@bch55133 ай бұрын
Wish our hatches were this early. For whatever reason ours is always late. My grandfather had ~100 plants
@johnstone98173 ай бұрын
Made me hungry just watching .
@brianlocal33 ай бұрын
Can we get a tour of this boat? I love tiller steer old school boats. Just don’t know what they are called, or info We had a 14’ flat bottom Jon growing up
@uglyfrog72633 ай бұрын
A Tip! Put your rod in the back of the boat and sit in the front to make easier to hook the fish?????
@BigfootHimself3 ай бұрын
What all was in the hot pepper oil?
@rtpickett3 ай бұрын
You about starved me watching you put the pepper oil on that fish lol.
@goober6983 ай бұрын
Years ago that’s all we fished with and caught everything in the river
@SteveB-hy2ci3 ай бұрын
I like you ! Catch and release in the cooler! Heck yea. I just subscribed
@corinnestewart89253 ай бұрын
I miss fishing with them we had a tree but they all left years ago
@SteveB-hy2ci3 ай бұрын
Missing that sliced mater man!
@SteveB-hy2ci3 ай бұрын
Catfish 🍬 candy!
@jefferystovall96173 ай бұрын
Us a long cane pole to get the ones we used
@ShawnEiker3 ай бұрын
You should try chicken liver best catfish bait
@timothyhowell70473 ай бұрын
This is 2 years in a row that neither one of my trees have had worms on them
@ForgetU3 ай бұрын
I had a Bettle spin that color and caught tons of Large mouth.
@ALNTV15413 ай бұрын
The dirty 🦆!
@apostolicoutdoors3 ай бұрын
Shoowee!!
@jimmymcclendon62103 ай бұрын
Catawba or Tamba worms.
@larrystephens74373 ай бұрын
There is a Catalpa tree just south of Burkesville KY on the bank Cumberland River where you can catch a limit of big trout with a green and black rooster tail during the Catalpa hatch. The trout hang out under the tree just waiting for the them to drop into the water. I have done it several times.
@williamgaines97843 ай бұрын
It is amazing how fast they grow...you caught one on video pooping. If you stand close to the tree that has a good infestation, it will literally sound like it is raining - caterpillar poop that is. Great bait, but a very short window to harvest them. Many freeze them, but they will live quite some time in the refrigerator.🐛 That bluff you camped across from was beautiful...gotta love nature. 👍👍
@gavobrown3 ай бұрын
We pulled the end off and used a skewer to turn them inside out. Best bait.
@outdoorluvin17213 ай бұрын
Love the catch an cooks
@kurtroberts23103 ай бұрын
As a kid in early 70’s would help my dad fill up half gallon paper milk jugs with them. He froze them for later use. Used cane poles to knock them down
@HuntandFish5733 ай бұрын
Good stuff Catman! Nothing like frying up some fresh catfish on the river bank with a campfire and a whipporwhill singing in the background. That's the best part of summer.
@TheKajunkat19 күн бұрын
We used to save those up all summer and then do a week end trot lining with them. I think we would roll them in cornmeal before freezing to keep them from sticking. They were better fresh but always worked well regardless. We used to trim the trees down to make all the limbs accessible with a short step ladder. They would get bushier every year. Brings back a lot of memories from my "yout"
@lethenhitch94393 ай бұрын
Here in eastern KY everyone calls em Toppy worms.
@tonyshort16233 ай бұрын
Have some potato salad with cat fish oh so good!!!!
@corymattson63503 ай бұрын
5 star good job
@markcalloway73203 ай бұрын
They are the best live bait I’ve ever used. Fish go crazy for these!
@BrianGregory-jy2ze3 ай бұрын
Remember getting those with my Grandpa and catfishing. In right now, in Missouri, the mulberries are are at their peak. And if they're dropping in the water, the catfish will be there and the carp. Also, we just had a double dose of cicadas, and the fishing has been good.
@williamwilliams77063 ай бұрын
Nice fishing and shorelunch. I'm a little jealous, West Nile got all of our whip-poor-wills in Southern Illinois. Hopefully they make a comeback.
@nativesunfla58583 ай бұрын
A ole timer told me that you could take extra "Catawba" worms, put them in a freezable container, cover the worms in cornmeal, and freeze them for later in the year...?
@jaybeliever14793 ай бұрын
Easiest way to get the worms on branches you can't reach is to throw a stick up to hit the branch. They will come raining down. Used to do it every summer at my cousin's house. All kinds of fish like them. Thanks for the video.
@labtrainer093 ай бұрын
It's great to see you rod-and-reeling catfish again on the river! Hope you do another trip soon. Best, Chris
@jchristopher20313 ай бұрын
I saw someone say they love the catch and cooks - I do too. My favorite of yours was the smallmouth bass and potato hash shoreside along a beautiful creek.
@WillTroyer3 ай бұрын
I have three big catalpa trees by my house. North eastern Ohio. I need to check to see if these worms are on them. The flowers just popped out the last couple weeks.