Steve O'Brien starting up his fishwheel, Aug 2019

Fall chums hitting Steve O'Briens fishwheel at the Yukon Rapids

[@Badmicakaneo]

This guy is on my zombie apocalypse team

[@shakeandbaked1]

He definitely won’t tell you he got bit tho.

[@youngnutsack17]

In a zombie apocalypse you won’t find this guy, this is the old man that pops out of nowhere and saves you randomly in horror movies.

[@silver34211]

@@youngnutsack17 and dies the same week of being with the group though he survived the last 20 years alone

[@dstyer6128]

@@shakeandbaked1 Accurate lmao

[@YesYourRight]

Nets and things like this should be Illegal the only way you should be able to catch fish with your hands a fishing pole or a speargun

[@daltoncollins7612]

The real question is what is Rambo doing filming a fish wheel

[@TheOpinionSeries]

right

[@KrummyProductions]

No kidding!

[@benkrauz725]

Its Tony Soprano what you mean 😂😂😂

[@bdubsfishing6941]

😂😂😂 my thoughts exactly

[@UrMomGoes2College]

I totally thought rocky was in the rockies

[@MrSaemichlaus]

I can't decide whether the idea itself or the build is more amazing!

[@charliepearson1678]

ether way works pretty dam good dont it ..lol

[@WTHhappened]

Fish wheels have literally been around for more than 10,000 years just so ya know.

[@LoneStarAnglingOutdoors]

@@WTHhappened I was thinking the same thing but couldn't find any sources saying that they were used before the 1800's, do you know of any ancient examples I could look at? I'd like to see how they've evolved, or if they've even changed much since their invention

[@WTHhappened]

@@LoneStarAnglingOutdoors there's a link for ya. But they have literally been used all around the world mostly used to this day still by natives in the northwest and Alaska.

[@YesYourRight]

Nets and things like this should be Illegal the only way you should be able to catch fish with your hands a fishing pole or a speargun

[@chuckrobinson599]

My great grandmother used to buy fish from the fish wheel back in the early 1900's. I'd heard the story, but I'd never seen a fish wheel until now. Thanks

[@dtm2741]

@Check my about page link Read these nuts.

[@pragmaticpuppy2715]

@@dtm2741 I'm an expert nut reader. I'll read those

[@kingterry6045]

@@pragmaticpuppy2715 what did it say?

[@pragmaticpuppy2715]

@@kingterry6045 kinda jibberish but the last sentence was deez nutz

[@kingterry6045]

@@pragmaticpuppy2715 mind BLOWN

[@ricecreampuff]

This is genuinely the coolest thing I have ever seen

[@gallossingingfish4824]

First time I ever heard or seen such an awesome yet odd machine, thank you for the upload!

[@sethc4758]

Got to admire the build, that's one hell of a contraption. Certainly does the job for commercial fishing

[@ronaldacarter8079]

You know that you’re in trouble when the fishing boat captain starts calling you old chum!

[@nathandavidson9738]

It's only been on a couple minutes and he has enough to eat for a week. Awesome

[@65stang98]

no matter what happens on earth this man will always survive as long as theres salmon lol

[@scheisstag]

Probably for more than a month. I caught two of this Keta salmon with a fishing rod once. They were of a similar size and each had over 5 kg, after taking the guts out. One of them was enough to prepare dinner for three persons twice: so six meals each. He caught 10 during this clip. That equals close to 50 kg of good meat. That would be more than 1,5 kg a day for a single person for a month.

[@nathandavidson9738]

Yeah but salmon is almost like steak. So many different ways to prepare it. But I dont think I could only eat that for a whole winter.

[@mwnciboo]

If the choice is starving to death or not....You'll eat it.

[@rippedkangerooarmwrestling9971]

@@mwnciboo exactly. if it has calories and youre hungry enough it will get eaten. a non salted cracker will be the best thing youve ever eaten if you hadnt eaten in a week

[@egomaniac247]

Seems like something they'd employ on the mid-west rivers that are plagued by the asian carp.

[@nemo227]

Pretty good idea. But when someone pitches to their elected representatives there will probably be dozens of people against it. Even so, it would see pretty easy to separate the carp from the native species.

[@jhtsurvival]

You'd need like 1000

[@MrBubbahunt9]

@@skinnyslims5327 he was referring to how many wheels would be needed because of all the Asian carp...get a grip..

[@dave3207]

I was thinking he was trying catch asian cards with those numbers. Is he commercial or is he poaching?

[@fakiirification]

was just thinking that. there will be that one hippy that raises a fuss and shuts it all down though.

[@bennywhite7062]

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever... Give this man a wheel and he'll feed the entire village.

[@garypage9515]

The problem with that is mostly that they use the Pre-spawn-salmon that they harvest, to feed their dogs. Fish wheels need to go the way of market hunters for buffalo.

[@B23Shiky]

Until there are no fish left because he caught the fish before they could reproduce and then the village starved...

[@clanman8278]

He'll feed the entire village, wipe out the population of local salmon, and have everyone starve to death in the end😀

[@arctodussimus6198]

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

[@billcraig1540]

Give this man and all the rest of them along the river a wheel and they'll kill the run. The Yukon runs are in trouble, just like the Kuskokwim and Copper Rivers.

[@jasonstarr6419]

man, i could watch that all day long..

[@Killianwsh]

I have never seen one of these! Thank you for posting this!

[@jcscott3117]

My great uncle had a fish wheel on the copper river in Alaska. I got to see it in action once, really neat. He loaned it to all his neighbors too. They all had days marked on a calendar so all the fish caught on those days belonged to them.

[@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741]

Repent to Jesus Christ “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭37:4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ O

[@michaeltipton5500]

My Aunt and Uncle lived in Chitina for a while. They also had their turn on the fish wheel. I saw them but not working.

[@ozzbud9049]

@@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 If you were born in India would you be talking about jesus or buddha? Or in Syria maybe allah!? It just depends on your location and you are assigned a god! I don't know why nobody understands that. They are all just folklore...like greek mythology!

[@cuddy9215]

Thats a true community

[@zometthecomet]

@@ozzbud9049 yup all just a made up story to help people who don’t know any better ! Like our ancient way of taking care of the retarded ! ❤️

[@AMadrigal72]

Really glad I seen this. Awesome machine and awesome man.

[@mornejoubert8416]

Such a simple idea yet so effective!

[@thefohnz]

Absolutely brilliant. I could watch it all day. 😀

[@petrokemikal]

No denying it.. I'm impressed...

[@lichtheimer]

So I have no idea why this ended up in my recommended. I don't fish, I don't really watch fishing videos, I don't even watch cooking video about fish. But this was just fascinating to watch and it's such a simple idea. Also I had turned the Close Captions on (auto-generated English) and anything there was a stop in conversation the water noise would just be {applause} and yeah, I think it would be applauding the engineering.

[@chrissutton2285]

Absolutely amazing

[@jimmybritt9537]

Great invention , never seen anything like it 👍👍🇺🇸

[@Jayeff30]

How did you get Sylvester Stallone to film this Steve?

[@anthonymyers303]

I thought the same thing

[@janporinchak5867]

Absolutely amazing.

[@robbrobb659]

This is excellent....great job

[@nickbaloo2167]

I could sit and watch this thing catch fish all day

[@MrHarmonizr]

in ace ventura's voice, this is a lovely wheel of death!

[@grahamjordan1040]

Awesome respect from England

[@cameronsteward7226]

This is so effective and genius it’s amazing

[@mervjb809]

I could watch this all day!!

[@damon2772nomad]

I could watch that all day

[@PP-ez9hd]

Fantastic contraption, well made and sturdy ,, these people who live up there are seriously rugged folk and I believe they have the best life , hard though it is , but Dam rewarding

[@cranegantry868]

Go there. Make videos for us. Do it, you want to.

[@wakichunu]

Amazing how many fish you can get just from that small area of the river.

[@therealcow541]

When the river is moving that fast they all go close to the bank out of the main current

[@HaNsWiDjAjA]

Those fishwheels were heavily used in Alaska in the early 20th century, primarily to catch salmon to be dried and later fed to SLED DOGS. Thats right, those northern pooches were eating on a daily basis fishes that today is considered the creme de la creme of cuisine!

[@PaulK365]

Life below zero iss a great show. Many episodes with fish wheels and other cool bushcraft stuff

[@Esserem]

This is amazing..

[@deyanzaprianov1582]

3:52... You getting good at this? Man!!! this is the best fish trap I have ever seen a man can engineer using simple materials

[@dylanhardy4194]

Lol cool story

[@Zoltan1251]

i dont find this impressive at all.... there is reason why stuff like this was banned around the world.... or you can literally put a little electric current into to the water and pick fish up.... this is hardly sustainable way of fishing

[@d.d.h6749]

@@Zoltan1251 producing everything in china and putting it on a large boat that burns very high sulfur fuel at 200 gallons per mile isnt sustainable too but here we are. If large companies can destroy the environment for their own benefit dont be suprised that people will also break all those god damn hippy laws.

[@SooSmokie]

@@Zoltan1251 actually it's been very sustainable in Alaska for hundreds of years. Couldn't be more wrong. And still widely used in alaska today. Sure they were banned, but for small villages this is a awesome and very sustainable food supply for them.

[@Zoltan1251]

@@SooSmokie i dont think you use word "sustainable" correctly.... just because there is enough salmon for now doesnt mean its sustainable.... its like saying "throwing garbage into ocean is sustainable because i dont see any problem yet".... im looking forward to a day where those villagers go to the fish wheel with no fish in it and cry they have nothing to eat, then it will be too late... i live in Slovakia, climate change, fish predators and human activity hammered fish population to a degree that rivers are almost empty... when i was little, you had a problem to get a bucket of water without sucking in bunch of fish... you will get there, no worries, some parts of US are already there

[@tonyt8807]

Love it!

[@TiMOThy38478]

Is that Rocky Balboa holding the camera?

[@LeadFoot500]

You really could watch that thing for hours.

[@travismccarty515]

Wow! Lemme tell ya, those first two that came up got my mouth watering. Tasty looking swimmers.

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

interviewer sounds like sylvester stallone.....

[@knighttuttruptuttrup8518]

An engineering marvel!

[@BlockchainToTheFace]

Does it really have a motor or is it current driven?

[@hubertcumberdale6404]

"You're gettin good at this!" His immediate response: " I don't know what's goin on here" 😂

[@AmericaOutdoors1]

This is so cool. Thank you for sharing. I use to watch these on the China River all the time.

[@jonas2431]

This is awesome

[@normansilver905]

There is another ladder operating on the Copper River too. Has been a great producer too.

[@tomhermens7698]

This is clever stuff. Bravo !!!!

[@mikejordan6036]

LOVE It .What River is this and what kind of Salmon are they?

[@timothykatch1855]

incredible

[@thetruth9775]

this would be good for catching jumping carp in the Mississippi

[@davidR9410]

Seaworld is gonna introduce this ride next summer, at the end of a lazy River float ride, and the people slide down the center chute into a water tank with a lid.

[@ekim000]

That's genius level.

[@tanks4nuthin964]

That thing is super cool

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

wow amazing device sir i love it!

[@orlandogustar1717]

This is really a clever way of fishing,using the power of the water lets you fish without much effort,you just watch & wait ..very nice

[@wallykimball8829]

I think it was actually powered by something. The one guy commented that you could barely hear the motor.

[@MYLOXR6]

This man's a genius

[@ratherbeonthemoon]

Amazing

[@joeyjamison5772]

I'm Red Green and I approved of this video.

[@slidersgliders5516]

Awesome video 👍

[@nicstr28]

Living the life 👍

[@jovanramos9486]

He caught more fish than I have in my life time in 2 mins

[@bluewave2536]

So satisfying!

[@davidphillips2259]

amazing well done 👍🏻

[@stephenadams9767]

love it

[@seansimpkins668]

This is so cool

[@DavesOSTs]

Wow! What a cool way to fish :D

[@lknanml]

Well that's all kinds of awesome.

[@FormerlyKnownAsAndrew]

Very cool!

[@MrWayneJohn1]

This is needed to rid invasive species from rivers, such as Asian Carp on the Mississippi, etc.

[@hymanocohann2698]

Would that device work on invasive carp?

[@CorvusDelicti]

Good historical representation of a fish wheel, these were responsible for the decimation of the Columbia river populations. Cool to see one in action, but definitely deserves to be archived.

[@a.j.towers4788]

Actually, because of the mixed stocks in the Columbia River, fish wheels would be a far better tool for commercial harvest than the gil nets used today. Fish can be dropped into a holding pen and sorted without doing much harm, rather than dragging them from the water by their gils after they’ve been struggling in a net for the better part of an hour.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

This is much better for the environment compared to basically any other modern commercial fishing methods. You can sort a living and mostly undamaged fish with this method and actually choose what you are harvesting vs "byproduct" killing. The nets used by modern commercial fisherman serrate the tails and fins of fish every time they get removed from the water. Don't blame the method for the results of idiots overfishing. You can overfish using a thousand methods, at least this one does little damage to the fish if you actually chose to sort + release.

[@outdoorloser4340]

@@a.j.towers4788 Thanks for educating the original poster. Fish wheels are SO much better for the river salmon runs than Gill nets.

[@mjay4700]

Came to the comments to see a mention of the Columbia River. Thanks.

[@alexalexander4406]

I thought it was only Indian tribes allowed to commercial fish ther

[@landi76]

Legends say the wheel is still chatching fish unstopable

[@Maxximoto1]

What do you do with so many fish?

[@charliepearson1678]

Ok sooooo where do i order the plans ?

[@cabbartoynakbas200]

brilliant idea

[@novanut1964]

good video, nice machine, thanks

[@jhansen2649]

Use this on Asian carp?

[@CertifyThis]

Love the idea

[@seanwidecrantz3847]

The video needs to be longer, very addicting to watch

[@eddieadams4770]

Are those carp?

[@sagan666]

Sounds like Rocky talking. I like !!

[@davidmoss2576]

Speechless, that is simply amazing.

[@dj-dub6862]

What kind of fish are they?

[@mattaleapp3107]

Father of genius

[@dennispfeifer7788]

What is the limit up there?

[@mohdfauziabdullahdesigner4614]

Oh man... i thought Sylvester Stallone is talking🤣🤣🤣🤣... Nice works my dear friend!!! Love country side

[@DrewWithington]

That is one powerful river.

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

"Snozola" is officially my new favorite word lmao

[@vafishing8296]

2 years later…what happened to all the fish in this river 🧐

[@azw412]

Swimming?

[@sevrrd9833]

No shit smh.

[@EdRock]

Two years later does not make any sense. Those are Alaska red salmon and they returned every 4 years. Over the last two years we've had a shortage in the river and it's not from overfishing . It could be huge nets from Russia ,Japan or China. Our could be the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown dumping waste into the ocean. But those are only theories. They stopped counting the fish on July 28th. Over a million fish run up that River a year

[@vafishing8296]

@@EdRock yeah. No

[@cgreeneblue]

@@vafishing8296 What part of his comments is the " no" directed at? As far as I know, what he mentioned are legit theories for possible reasons for decline in population. It's not like there are 30 fish wheels like this on that river removing thousands of fish.

[@bp2335]

This is beautiful primitive technology! This item just became a bucket list build! Think it could for sure be made out of wood, and also pretty sure I heard him say the motor is quiet... I think this is an easy river spun trap especially with 15mph current! So cool!

[@duncanvincent6078]

There is no motor

[@brendansierra6451]

Brilliant

[@mikemccann5978]

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[@country1116]

This dude sounds like Sylvester Stallone.

[@thebobloblawshow8832]

Cool machine. Never seen that before.

[@stephenholmes4432]

What kind of fish are they

[@jonasmarkuslarsson]

There are a lot of smart men out there.

[@delunamarco]

Impresive

[@michaelpagett8291]

Would this be any good for Asian carp?

[@diegoserpa1403]

This is pretty ingenious! Great stuff!