GIANT SHELLCRACKER Catch Clean & Cook (WADE FISHING)

[@joshkemp4410]

Here’s my coolest memory. I would always fish with my papa and my great uncle buck. If we ever went a couple cast without a catch, Uncle Buck would spit on his beetle spin. It always worked. Well one time it didn’t and papa says, “You don’t know how to do it”. He’s pours a little Natural Light on his beetle spin and catches a fish the moment it hit the water. I’ll never forget papa slapping his knee and laughing when he caught that fish.

[@mattmendrala4948]

Shellcracker memory.....Summer 1969....4th of July weekend fishing at Lake Panasoffkee Florida. Ate fried shellcrackers and huspuppies every evening...A great memory even though I was in bootcamp 6 weeks later and missed the Woodstock festival. (Same weekend). I'm 72 now and I'm going to buy some beetle spins.. ..that what worked back in Panasoffkee!! The smaller fish in life can be the most memorable. Cheers, Sawgrass

[@finstigatorfishing7334]

Filling a bucket full of White Perch with dad then cleaning them and frying them with french fries. The love for fishing was born. I'd fish 24/7 if I didn't have to ever work or sleep. Thanks for the awesome amazing videos.

[@pammccrary7915]

In Minnesota my grandmother loved to fish. Her favorite was Sunny's we spent hours fishing along side the lakes fishing! We had better fish but no hers was Sunny's. She also taught us how to play spoons, do the Charleston and loved to unravel firecrackers light with a candle and just toss them you had to watch her every second! We were from Indiana and fished all the time in the Lakes. Now she's gone but what a life we lived and we passed it down my kids were raised with family and fun and are passing all the stories down while making great memories to give their children. You pass down your love of life to each generation to come your children have your legacy to inspire them too. It's not going to be like this forever but be safe and Happy Easter. Hearts are for all our brave healthcare workers fighting to save lives and keep our families feed and safe❤💚💙💜🕊✝️💞

[@matthewmock7458]

Quick memory of fishing shell cracker. My uncle passed away unexpectedly at age 31, but he loved to hunt and fish. He called me one afternoon to go fishing. Wanna go? Meet me at the barn. I was in middle school and had a babysitter at the time. I invited her to go. She was like I’m supposed to be watching you. I told her to get on the airboat with us and fish or stay home. Lol! She stayed home and I spent the afternoon fishing with my uncle. Loved him a lot. I don’t remember how many we caught but I have the memory. Great videos. Stay safe, Jen Mock

[@BluegabeArrington]

That’s such a amazing memory 🙏 for sharing

[@chellaaragon]

I would like to tell you thank you for advertising the knives from dancopliers.com I bought my husband the 9” series flex knife and also got it engraved. He loved his birthday gift.. so thank you.

[@papachoo6318]

Awesome idea with the taste test! My Uncle was the one who got me into fishing when I was younger, and one of the first times we ever went fishing we caught about 50 blue gills off the dock and that was one of the best days of fishing I have ever had. Didn't keep a single one, but the best memories I have ever made on the water were made that day. I remember my hands were raw the next week from the spines digging into them. Best feeling ever!

[@michaelfairchild1417]

Nothing more fun than pan fish in shallow water! They are legitimate gateway fish! Love your channel brother!

[@airforceblue7695]

My most memorable panfish was when i was stationed Whiteman AFB. I was crappie fishing with a white cork and a bobber about 3ft up, i saw the swerl and casted beyond it. It was awesome, a 2lbs bluegill went airborn and came down on it! Love your show and wish i could live your live! Stay safe, Myron

[@DavidSmith-gd5to]

My 5 and 6yr old kids love your videos. Now they love fishing and eating fish. Thanks BG

[@troyholley6231]

My best memory with Panfish is catching them in a pond way behind our farm and cleaning them up for an old fellow that was way past his fishing days that lived beside us. His smile will never leave my memories!

[@haigansmith4081]

When I was kid, I remember my Grandma and my father sitting on a creek edge in NY... we sat there and caught slab Crappie for about an hour... it was probably my best fishing experience as a child. At that time, we were fishing for a family Fish Fry... we had so much fun!

[@BluegabeArrington]

Sounds like a blast

[@haigansmith4081]

Bluegabe ... that it was Brother! Keep up the good work! You are quickly becoming a favorite around these parts!

[@joecorrero6763]

An ultra lite with 4lb or 6lb line and a beetle spin...doesn’t get any better. The old beetle spin can catch em all. There’s not a freshwater fish out there that won’t hit it. Brings back good ol childhood memories! Thanks. Y’all stay safe and God Bless

[@countryboyscooter3402]

My Grandad used to take me blue gill fishing with a cane pole. Great memories!!

[@Calibull]

Love you and your brother. You all bring sunshine when it is needed. Be safe and healthy.

[@bigdrecycling]

Watching Blue Gabes videos is like watching a long commercial with a bit of fishing or hunting.

[@jerrywise2927]

Took a vacation with my great grandparents visiting my Dad's cousin in Green Cove Springs Florida. Spent one day fishing on the st. Johns River. Eight of us caught a number 2 Wash Tub full of bluegills with a few shell crackers and redfish mixed in. That was about 65 years ago.

[@chicomarlin1246]

Best Pan Fish memories I have are spending the whole summer fishing in the pond at my Grandparents farm. Happy Easter to you and yours Bluegabe 🤗

[@toddthebod22]

My grandparents always took us to the “fishing hole” on the creek of their farm. There was a rock we could swim to and fish off of. We’d tear them up. When we needed bait we’d cast to the bank and grandma would rebait with a fresh grasshopper. Fun times. I miss my grandparents dearly!

[@BluegabeArrington]

That sounds amazingly fun

[@austingrathwol2961]

Up in Georgia, we caught 30 bass, and close to 50 brim and had a big fish fry with my family, and another great video, can’t wait to see more, have a great Easter and God bless!!!

[@franktomlinson7090]

I think I was 21 before I knew you could catch a speck during the day. Fished with my Dad at night for them back in the 60s, had loads of fun.

[@sk22ng]

Here in Michigan these would be the equivalent of our Bluegills. Simply delicious and Bon Appetite! Yes, make sure you don't overcook them and dry them out too much and remember to add a squeeze of fresh lemon. Thank you for catching, cleaning, and cooking.. Don't forget the tarter sauce while enjoying a fine dinner friendly beer like Bell's White Dragon Stout that is mellow, sweet, and delightful.

[@gregkerr725]

Fav trip...1967..canyon lake tx., shortly after it's impoundment. Tied up to the limb of a huge live oak (whole bunch of flooded oaks) Drop a worm, catch a bluegill...but only if you dropped the worm in about a 5 sq. ft. area right next to the boat and tree. 3 of us....probably 200 nice gills....kept about 60.

[@BluegabeArrington]

Sounds so fun 👊

[@thesouthernblend1356]

My PawPaw and Memaw moved from Ft Walton Beach FL up to the NW end of Walton County FL around 1978, when he became the Postmaster of DeFuniak Springs. He bought 250 acres with a creek and a natural spring. He built a beautiful pond that we still own. When I was 8 years old, he and I sat down with cane poles and crickets and yanked gills and crackers outta that water until my little arms were shaky! He taught me how to clean them, how to cook them, and how to properly freeze the rest to cook later. Might sound like I’m being a bit dramatic, but that man shaped me into the man I am, the fisherman I am, and the lover of nature I am today. He’s been gone for 21 years now, and I’m 48 years old, but when I visit home and sit on the dock down there, I look across the pond at the spot we sat throwing fish in a shallow washtub and I thank God for my grandparents and all of the things things they taught me and my 2 younger brothers. I have a 7 year old daughter that loves to fish. We live on a private pond in Auburn AL. Her eyes light up every time she hauls in a big shell cracker and I remember my childhood. I know you said leave a short comment about catching shell crackers but I couldn’t help but tell you this. It’s why I love watching you and Robert with your kids. Thanks a bunch. Tony Lawson

[@dolphintoes4526]

A beatle spin is one of my all time favorites

[@reubenbrock9703]

Just ordered 2 Danko knifes. Thanks brother.

[@hardingconcreteandmonument1881]

Fishing Lake Talquin with my grandma. Cane pole, red wiglers and Sardines to eat! Weird but great memories.

[@BluegabeArrington]

Sounds great to me 👊

[@TECHNICIANGROWER97]

my favorite memory perch fishing was with my uncle and grandpa at a local dock catching big sun perch and bluegill(longear sunfish for yall that dont live in OK) hardly catch them anymore big ones anyway. love the channel

[@jeffreylocke8808]

I used Beetle Spin all the time. Virgil Ward endorsed them in all sizes but the one you are using is one I used for bluegill and smaller bass.

[@sandrathomson1084]

I love to use beetle spins. Grew up fishing all around southeast. Most fish are yummy. Glad to see y'all smiling. In our thoughts and prayers. God Bless y'all and the fur babies. Thanks for another awesome video BlueGabe 👍👍

[@BluegabeArrington]

Tank you 🙏

[@steveporter6151]

Best trip was on the TN river by Wheeler Dam around islands and my uncles and papaw taught me how to fly fish with Willow Flies In season. We caught over 350 fish for fish fry at church. Best trip ever, I was 6, 50 years ago

[@luismontalvo222]

Great channel a beetle spin is my go to lure I live in Central Florida and everything from bluegills to largemouth!

[@247Gottahunt]

My grandfather would check me out of school and take me on the lake and we would catch stringers full of white perch . Some of the best memories fishing

[@spurbronc9449]

I caught 40 crappie off of a white and red dot beetle spin when I was 12. Best couple of hours fishing I've ever had

[@gregorytomlinson8733]

Just amazing gabe hanging with good friends and having a great time god bless to you and the family

[@sailingddcircumnavigation5931]

Gabe I'm an avid fisherman I fish fresh and saltwater. But I've never had bass and I've never had a pan fish. I've had musky Pike walleye but never any of those. Can't wait to head to Lake Okeechobee and give it a try. Thanks for the video.👏👏👏

[@akarooster3399]

I was kid, two farm ponds on family cattle farm. Great bream and cat fish catch, clean & cooks.

[@ozarklife9468]

caught a few bass on a bettel spin and pan fishing is one of my favorite ways to catch dinner.

[@creepysleepyunclejoey5743]

Great video Gabe thanks for getting us through the kungfĺu

[@mawmawvee]

My husband and I have used flip-tail beetle-spins for as long as I can remember and they work well for us catching pan-fish. Usually, we use white ones. We also use Berkley power wigglers attached on hooks. The power wigglers have fish powder and scent impregnated plastic. The fish are crazy for them.

[@joeyfitzpatrick6325]

Went crappie fishing in Blue Pond @ Camp Blanding with the wind blowing about 25 and it was 50 degrees outside. Found them stacked in one spot at 17 ft of water. Every time we went over, all 6 rods went down for about an hour and a half. Ended with exactly 50 slabs and one bass. Epic day!

[@timothydavey7569]

My mom, dad, 3 nieces, sister, and I went pan fishing for whatever bit (mostly bluegill) and caught tons. My mom caught the higgest one. That sucker looked like a hubcap lol. We fried them up and they were delicious. That was the only time my whole family ever fished together. Definitely a memory I will never forget 😊👍

[@ronhart8857]

Great fishing, caught some nice fish. The deep fry was great, never see corn deep fried before! Love your channel, hope you had a Happy Easter.

[@greatwhitenorthlife2327]

Beetle spins and rooster tails are some of my favorite baits for pan fish! Now that I live up north I still use rooster tails "inline spinners" for trout all the time.

[@adamaiello9840]

Who needs supermarkets anyway?? Fresh fish, deer, turkey, wild hog, vegetables. Cheers, Gabe!! Stay safe!

[@seanheyer9515]

Here at home we cut the corn off the cobb and pan fry it with onions.. So GOOD. Great video Y’all

[@metalfly88]

Love the hydraulic lift on your motor, and that sea deck looks awesome!

[@bennyb9918]

My papa in crescent lake using crickets flipping the banks!! Best memories!

[@curtisstewart2829]

One of the best fish along with specks I have ever eaten. I live in Texas now but wish I was back in home in Marion county. Like your videos, keep up the good work. 👍

[@major3249]

I’ve never had fried corn but I’ve had it popped. Amazing!

[@WolfMan4269]

First bass I remember catching... Small blarck and orange beetlespin. 2.5lbs???? Was 4-6yrs old. 50 now!!!! Remember reeling it in with moss covering. it...the good ol' days!!!

[@nanvolentine9110]

Dad took us kids fishing for bluefish here in NY when we were kids. All we ever caught were bergals, which he threw back. People do eat them now. Fun times!

[@bigoh5797]

Beetle Spins and Roadrunners and Rooster tails... Man we had a Blast Growing up.. We stocked our Pond at Home on Bicycles with Playmate Coolers Lol..

[@nicolebranstetter5065]

Thank you so much for cooking up some bass!!! I don't know how many times people have given us a hard time for keeping bass.

[@BluegabeArrington]

Tell’em it ain’t your fault their momma raised a dummy 😂

[@nicolebranstetter5065]

@@BluegabeArrington love it!

[@scottshannon4880]

Every summer I would spend with my grandpa and granny fishing from Lake Woodruff to Lake George for shellcrackers and our best day we ran out of crickets and I actually hand lined one in with a pinch of cricket and a broken line about 6 foot long just to see if I could, caught the last 3 of the day with the same cricket piece, btw we caught 137 that day between the 3 of us. Loved those summers with them in Astor Fl fishing the St Johns or one of the lakes.

[@alteredexistence4115]

I grew up using and still use to this day, a marabou crappy jig. I live in upstate NY and have been fishing lake ontario all my life. great video as always!!! Btw...my rig is an ultralite uglystik rod and a pfleugar president reel and I love them...they work amazing.

[@stevemeek1994]

When i fished for these on a beetlespin I like to use a chartreuse or catalpa colored. My dad loved to use a bright yellow one also for years. We have a lake at one time he had some hybrid sunfish in it that were called georgia jumbos and were a blast to catch on fly rod. Also it's hard to beat a cricket and bobber.

[@thekevorlando]

That is a grate video brother. When I was a kid we used to take a coffee can with charcoal in it to the lake with us we light it up and throw the cast iron on top of it. We would eat bream as we caught them. A loaf of bread mayonnaise a little sick of butter. I miss going to Lake Weldona and doing that keep up the good work can't wait for the next adventure. Later brother.

[@jeffcummings5688]

Happy Easter Gabe,Jake and Luke hope you all had a safe Easter

[@mandrrtt9535]

Yes sir! Beetle spins and rooster Tails get em every time. Get er did blue Gabe! Your doing a great job on the vids keep up the good work. Daniel from North AL.

[@pruittwilder2462]

I grew up fishing a yellow with black beetle spin. My dad loved them.

[@jaydpeckham3636]

Favourite pan fry fish memory. My son at I alone at the lake when he was 4 caught his first fat Ontario perch. Catch clean and cook. Enough said. Great vid Gabe! Keep it up man! 👊👍🔥

[@joecorrero6763]

I left that first comment 4 min into the vid. The very first fishing memory I have, I had just turned 5. We were bream fishing and I got sick as a dog. I was with dad and 2 others. I fell asleep in the bottom of the boat and woke up about an hour later and I was good to go. We caught 25-30 that day. I still have the picture

[@dbassir87]

God bless! Much love for you and you family! Great videos! Me and my family always watch you and your brother!

[@zackrepo97]

You and your brother have the best videos I have ever seen keep them coming!!!! Btw nice shellcrackers!!!

[@keithfawbush517]

Beetle Spins have rocked for years!

[@plantcitychuck2551]

Y'all having way too much fun.awesome

[@amywahl5644]

LOL , yes I deep fry corn at work every weekend @ Scooter Haven Country Club , and my favorite is all of them lol

[@nickthekid6516]

My Dad and I went up to central Michigan at our family cabin and went fishing and caught about 30 keepers Bluegill and Shellcrackers and some bass!! Though I was only like 10 and my dad didn't trust me yet with the fillet knife just yet. One our best fishing days together!!

[@markroper9269]

Great video! I grew up using beetle spins and rooster tails....and some plastics with salt in them.

[@ericguinn6356]

Love a beetle spin !!! Use them in the river every weekend. Great bait!

[@phishingphil5965]

Awesome as always brother. Beetle spins are still in my arsenal. Use them often

[@hookedonprjonrojas2314]

The beetle spin is my preferred lure. I even caught a 22" snook with it. You name it, peacock bass, managuense, mayan, red devils... the list goes on and on

[@josepina4235]

Reminds me of fishing some old abandoned rock quarry's and catching big blue gills and big bass and I would have a a stringer of blue gills on my back riding my bike back home.☺️

[@keithreiffenstein9909]

Used to spend the summers at a marina where we kept out houseboat..catch pan fish all day long..that was back in the mid 70's..

You fish a lot, good luck. This place to fish, it seems like a lot here in Brazil to fish.👍😉

[@boetab9221]

thanks for all the posts. down in south africa we on a full lock down... no fishing permitted at all

[@amywahl5644]

It has been years sense I've had blue gill, and shell crackers or I just call them all brim, but I would love to fry up me a big mess of them, they are my favorites, Great job you guys

[@RobJob5317]

If the turkey runs away, catch a fish & fry that sucker! Great video Gabe, looking forward to the next one bro.

[@anthonyd507]

I live in New England. And if we’re looking for a guaranteed fun fish fry, it’s bluegill and crappie. There’s a local hole that is literally like going to the grocery store it’s so easy 😂. So far I’ve had more fun getting and eating food during this pandemic than I did before it lol. Currently every Sunday has been trout day. 7:30-Noon we all catch our limits. Then at 3pm we feast on cornmeal battered boneless skinless trout filets and grilled garlic butter and Parmesan corn. The main thing we’re missing that I miss from Florida is FANTASTIC sweet tea. For some reason you go north of the Carolinas and sweet tea turns into any tea that has sugar in it.

[@MrDillon45]

We smash panfish with beetle spins in Oklahoma also! Great video.

[@got1769]

Ahh Yeah , I was Patiently Waiting for these bream vids, And I knew BlueGabe would come through!!! Another Quality Upload with Great fishing tips🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒 Thx Gabe

[@BluegabeArrington]

Thanks for following along

[@jasonpowers1608]

100 perch at lake george upstate NY. Lectric knife with a beer cap on a stick holding the tail. Boiled the filets and ate w coctail sauce on the ice. Upstate treat.

[@BluegabeArrington]

That actually sounds good

[@petekleinschmidt4251]

Beatle spins where the go to growing up!

[@BluegabeArrington]

They still are 👊

[@vandemanferretstasmania.ni9576]

Favourite rod for me is the Shakespeare Ugly Stick, V12 Barra Pro for everyday fishing, 12ft Gold Edition for Surf Fishing

[@jamiegonderman3821]

I grew up on spinners when we fished for bass. For the most part though I used salmon eggs or worms to get trout and blue Gil! Hello from California!

[@deesuydam8838]

Best memory of fishing for Redear Bream was around this time I was out of school for the week and my mom let me go to one of my Dad's really good friend's house at Alligator Bayou on Caddo Lake on the Texas part of the lake he took me fishing fishing with brown crickets and small Minnows i about 2 foot of water up in the woods. The week pryor he had caught and froze 1000 himself and that would almost be enough to last the year for our family. He was using a fly rod and I had a rod and reel but there was no need for the reel as soon as the bait hit the water the fight was on. I had so much fun that week. We released hundreds of fish that day. I will for sure never forget he caught a bass about 8 pounds and just threw him back saying that they aren't fit to eat when I know they are good but not at good as the bream we were catching. He was a very large man. prolly 6 ft 8 or so and his hands were like notebook paper lol but we only kept the ones that were the size of his hands he fileted them as I watched. I am 46 now and I was probably 10 to 14 years old? Only bad thing is he is no longer with us and hasn't know who he was or anyone else in 10 plus years.

[@kylenewkirk3985]

Yeah I grew up using beetlespins and roostertails.I think anything will eat them and I still love using them today.

[@petermakoi3021]

My Dad always took me fishing when I was a kid. Grown up, I pulled together a 4 day weekend, and took my Dad to 4 places we had fished together years before. My Dad always fished simple, worm on a hook, and a split shot. I did the same but had a realistic plastic worm on my hook. We were both catching fish, but I was catching more. Dad finally said to me, “Dang it, Peter, don’t that worm of yours ever die off?” He thought I was using a real worm like he was. I showed him it was plastic, and he laughed and said, “Well, I’ll be!”!

[@mawmawvee]

We use flip-tail beetle spins all the time and they work great. We usually use white because the water here is usually brown. (Louisiana)

[@skewbiedew6705]

Happy Easter to you and yours!

[@zachtm4]

Favorite panfishing memory is fishing a long dock for bluegill and yellow perch on worm with a hook and sinker. How I got into fishing

[@topdsm0138]

Hard to choose a best panfish story because they will always be fun to catch on UL tackle, no matter how old you get.

[@43pasadena]

Almost anytime fishin is awesome. 👍🏻👍🏻Love them beetlespins. 👊🏻

[@richerdhurts7690]

I live in Louisiana .I love taking my six-year-old son bluegill fishing at Gulf Outlet Marina in Chalmette Louisiana. Toney thats runs Fisherman's friend live bait loves us coming over there. He will run anybody else off lol.My little guy bust the hell out some big bluegills. We I've been butterflying them and leaving the tail on. Talk about rocking good

[@corygibson1219]

Man I grew up on those beetle spins! Caught thousands of fish!

[@cyaw11]

Yes on fried corn with and without a batter. On your new deck do they only do the deck covering down there? Got a 20' Ranger bass boat wanting to get rid of marine carpet and replace with something better and hook friendly. I didn't see a link for the covering.

[@wonderchild53]

I was wondering what kind of Fishing Video this would be...and again it is a very enjoyable Fishing video watching you all catch Fish this easy and plentiful is amazing...!!! Wow, I have been waiting to see someone cook a Bass for so long...I know I've seen at least 1 Thousand caught and not near as many put in a pan... hahaha

[@davidbingham2401]

Happy Easter Gabe God Bless I love Florida one of these days I'm moving there. Take care.

[@carlos.8569]

Anyone else not getting notifications from you tube when gabe posts a video ? Keep on missing them and no notifications, checked and the notifications are on.

[@anneliesefindley8408]

I complained about this a month or so ago...my notification is on n still nothing