Pork rind has been used as a bait for centuries. Bacon is just one form. Glad it worked for you.

Have to say you are the only fishing video I watch all the way through rather than fast-forwarding to the good parts. You and Erin make it enjoyable to watch no matter what you are doing. 👍

that brings back the day,,,when i first started fishing like 57 years ago...my friend and i used it for pan fish and catfish in freshwater..thx good vids

I would loved to fish every day! I live vicariously through your videos. ❤️❤️

@jmjm1920

10 ай бұрын

I miss fishing in my Tonga Island 🏝 from Auckland winter gearing up for next summer 😊

This is one of my favorite fishing videos I've watched! The cleaning, butterflying and cooking the flounder was awesome 👌

You and Erin are the best . I live and fish in the Keys and using bacon as bait is a first for me and you can bet I will be trying bacon bait tomorrow morning . My wife is going to hate me , but thats OK. Keep the videos coming , they are great .

Those are really small throw backs up here in NJ Coastal Waters... We're 2x 17" to17.99" and 1x 18" or greater. I'm surprised they let you keep 14" flounder. That does look like a nice place to be fishing. Fun Fun!

I caught a massive flounder on Lunchable meat when I ran out of shrimp with my dad when I was a little girl, and first started the passion of fishing 😂

Greetings from North Padre Island, Texas (Corpus Christi). I really enjoy your videos and always find them interesting and entertaining. You and Erin seem to have a lot of fun and it comes through in your videos. I catch Southern Flounder in the local bays and channels, but I've never tried using bacon for bait. Will try it next time I go out. Please keep the great videos coming.

Hey Erin and Brandon. You guys are really innovative when dealing with baits. Amazing content... From South Africa

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Haha this wasn’t our idea, I think people have been doing it for a long time already. Very fun experiment:)

As a child growing up in the Southern 🇺🇸, my grandmother taught me to fish with fat back pork, it's thick chunks of white meat, very easy to bait your hook with small pieces, we caught some bluegills, that happened more than 50 years ago, I'm 60 years of age.

You won’t be taking home the bacon but what a insane catch. Great job. Thanks Richard from Menifee, California

I'm just so happy to see a video from you it's been quite a while since I've gotten a notification from your Channel

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! So happy you are back.

Pro tip: when hooking live bait through the lips don't hook both top and bottom lips shut. Your bait will not be live bait very long since you essentially prevent them from getting water through their gills

@joey8567

Ай бұрын

Behind dorsal for more lively look.

Love flounder fishing, so much fun! Gonna have to take some Bacon now lol 🥓

@thomasgentry6201

10 ай бұрын

Waste of Bacon!

I fish with bacon for catfish, freshwater drum, carp, and anything else that might bite, works great, and stays on the hook well.😊

I'm new to yours videos, but I really enjoy them. I'll be watching many more of them. Thanks for making them so enjoyable.

Great video, we fish for flounders here in the NE of UK. Will give bacon a try, be interesting to see if it is as effective here.

I've never seen flounder prepared that way. I will have to try that!

Awesome Video! Amazing Looking Recipe Too. Great Content and I Can't-Wait to Use Your Flounder fishing Methods and the Recipe.

Great job on this video. My family and I always watch you. Also my little boy and I met you at Strike Zone your were so kind. Stay that way. Your the best.

Oldd school stuff there! Back in the day it was called a pig n jig! Good fishin there!

I have to admit that this is one of the most enticing cooking portions you've ever done. It's soooo simple yet so well done. The colors and presentation are phenomenal. It looks so delicious!! Are those sweet or regular potato? AND the bacon bait Yassssss! You had me at BACON!!!!!

@carlosmartinezreborned6403

10 ай бұрын

Where are you fishing? I'm in the Bay Area

What a good motivating video to show us possibilities! Thank you for this video Will be looking forward for others. Also thank you for showing us how to clean the fish at the end and cooking!

I'm a long-time fan and subscriber from wayyyyy back in the Suitcase Erin days (iykyk), and all i can say is..... I'm genuinely happy for you and proud of how far you guys have come.

@Do0msday

10 ай бұрын

Suitcase Erin! 🎵🎶

@ernestinedugaqua6152

10 ай бұрын

Suit case Erin 😂 I still have a Gx2 ugly stik. That video was entertaining

@momoividz2861

5 ай бұрын

Ive been binge watching their videos from the beginning for months now 😂i know suitcase erin very well hahah

Texas commandments: Love thy neighbor. Love thy fishing. Love all BBQ equally. Love thy bacon, and DO NOT WASTE BACON as bait. 🤣😁 😂

From EGYPT we like your videos. Keep going❤

I use to keep the white skin of the flounder belly when I fillet them out and cut it into strips and freeze it then use it later on other fishing trips. Cheaper than bacon for sure.

Fantastic job. Thanks for the info 😊

Looking forward to your video every Thursday night here in Toronto. Hello Erin , Brandon . Hope you do cath and cook with the flounder. Goodluck with the bacon 🥓.

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Did you enjoy the video?

Now that is next level! Good for catfish fresh water too.

love the cooking part at the end. dont stop that :)

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Always!

Flounders in my area prefer the thick cut apple smoke bacon .. lol great stuff Skipper 😂

I love your catch & cook video's.just cool.

Omg the meals u guys had were just amazing

Saudações amigos ! Pescaria sensacional o Bacon deu ótimos resultados parabéns pelas capturas 🎣🎣🎣🙏🙏

Great video, thanks for sharing 🙏🏼

Nice video. The first video I’ve ever watch on U tube with bacon.

Heyy I've been watching you for a really long time I finally moved to Florida and ordered your bait with the thread 😃

Wow! What a great catch! Flounder is the best!

I am 68. Started fishing around 9 years old on the docks around Port Hueneme California. We fished for what ever would bite. None of us had enough money for a fishing pole so we used a drop line. We would use muscle for bait. But I would steal some of my mom's bacon for bait. It worked great but was hard to keep on the hook.

@christrella3134

10 ай бұрын

Pork Rinds/ tails for people are great for fish! I heard Uncle Josh isn't making it anymore. Might as well use bacon! Everyone loves bacon!

@outwestmetaldetecting6186

10 ай бұрын

Who doesn't love bacon, right, Lol.

I must say, just wonderful ❤️

Hey brother that was good fishing video who would of thought that bacon would be so successful

Hi I am Wisconsin, I enjoyed your video, keep them coming

Ngl you guys have my favorite content creator intro it’s the best ❤

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

nice easy cooking good knife skills and bacon as bait and then cook with some fish very nice film.

It’s awesome to be out there with your lady fishing

BACON RULES !! THAT LOOKS ABSOLUTELY DELISH !! Y'ALL DID REAL GOOD....ABSOLUTELY EPIC.. TIGHT LINES, Y'ALL !!

Great video, you never know what else will when it comes to bait , marshmallows is great for catfish anywhere.

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Yea, I’m surprised by fish everytime I go fishing

New meaning to Jig and Pork!!!

Thank you, Brandon, thank you Erin. (Forgive me if I've misspelled your names) You give fun, clean living, teamwork and creativity a place in today's run-amok world. I like to watch your stuff with my autistic grandsons because they thrill at your catches and because I never have to worry about you doing or saying something inappropriate. Just thanks. We need more of what you so diligently produce.

Gonna have to try bacon when I'm fishing the sound side. Salted clams worked in the past.

I always watching your blog from San Diego CA.

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

I’m answering comments from maryland

Going to Naples in September, I might have to try some bacon. Great that you and your wife both enjoy fishing. Where are you fishing

Reminds me of Uncle Josh's pork baits from the 80's. Great video!

Thanks for new bait ..... Good luck ........

Just went paddle fishing in Grand Lake. Keep fishing!

Gotta try that Bacon Bait down here in Kingston Jamaica... Fish on skipper....

Guess before I see it...Live Minnow. I am not surprised, as I predicted. Bacon worked on the 2nd one...wow. Great job u2! We used to use Squid catching King Fish, (have to cut out the Iodine Sack), on the Santa Cruz Pier. One gets bites on Shrimp, yet it just doesn't stay on the hook like Squid does!

I don't comment a lot but thumbs up for the choice in music here.

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Floundering about in the water again, huh? 🤣🤣 The deadly bacon of Shaolin is tremendous bait, I see! 👍👏👏👏

Enjoyed your experiment a lot, I do not need to burnt my skin to have so much fun from Philippine ❤

How the rich fish is amazin. 😊 Love catching Flounder. Its usually a by catch for me. Flounder do not get very big in Australia. Couldnt afford to fish with bacon though..lol

This a great video, Ty 😊

There was a store that did trout, and there were two sections of this small pond that have on the side for inviting people .the 2nd section was water circulation and trout some stay there and when getting out the store I trow beef or chicken jerkey .when they closed, there were big trout there

That meal looked delicious 😋

My first fish I ever caught was when I was 4 in Lake Havasu on a piece of bacon and eggs from a McDonalds breakfast sandwich my dad rigged up for me…of course it was a 🐱 🐠 😂

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@jlmckenna10

10 ай бұрын

Very generous father

@addicted2fishing119

10 ай бұрын

@@jlmckenna10 the good ole days when gas was .75 cents a gallon in California, people smoked cigarettes on airplanes, and McDonalds had .25 cent breakfast sandwiches that were cheaper than the night crawlers at the bait shop 😂

@jlmckenna10

10 ай бұрын

@@addicted2fishing119 what a time to be alive

@addicted2fishing119

10 ай бұрын

@@jlmckenna10 yes indeed, we rolled from Oceanside to Lake Havasu (my 2 year old brother and I) in the back of my Dad’s VW van that had no seat belts ‼️😂😂😂🍻

HEY SKIPPER much love n positive vibes from NEW YORK CITY 🏙️🌆❤

I always wondered aboutork 4 bait. Ow I shall try it

Hi. I'm from all the way down in the Caribbean on a little called Barbados. Enjoy watching your videos. Pity I can't use any of your rigs or bait but I try to make my own.

Always watching from Lima, Peru

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

Hey! Thanks for watching:)

great vid guys!

Never would have guessed that the flounder would hot bacon like that 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

50-55 years ago, I used bacon for bait quite a bit. Caught bass and catfish in farm ponds.

@velvety2528

10 ай бұрын

Damn bro ur old sweet

@bengarrott1579

10 ай бұрын

Not old, just oldER! lol (I'm 67) @@velvety2528

Nice catch ❤

The Baconator strikes again 👍🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

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Great fishing 😊

Nice video. That looked like a blast. Where are you fishing?

What did you stuff the flounder with? It looks so good!

Ref: bacon flounder. I’m a Floridian and flounder is my main fish. First time watcher and wondering where this video was from. And the Canadian commenter; I have to assume he was joking. I’ve used all food groups with the exception of beef, but, I’m thinking I may have used beef bologna once but we always have used Pork “bacon” chicken and yes even “fish”.. lol. Enjoyed the show.

Bacon also works great for catfish.. I'm heading out this weekend to the mouth of the Merrimack river (the north east New England Atlantic Ocean) were where you catching them Flonders? I'm going to try the same with bacon. Thumbs upped and subbed. Great video. Thank you for your time.

Love your videos long time subscriber here. Where do you purchase your bait boxes you put your stuff in??

We used to catch Blue Crabs with bacon on a string and a net.

Were you in the Napa River, near Vallejo, in this vid? Fantastic video.

I can’t believe FL allows 14” flounder to be kept. Those fish are so small! It reminds me of how we ran the flounder to nothing here in MD back in the 80s w 12,13,14” keepers and have yet to fully recover. Hopefully they’ll raise it up soon. Good job on the limit though. I usually buy a hunk of pork fat and strip it thick as I want. Cheaper and stays on better than bacon.

@jasonmachula1472

10 ай бұрын

Right? Those look tiny.

@HeySkipper

10 ай бұрын

I totally getcha. We are from Maryland as well and fished there for many years without being able to collect this much fish. We definitely advocate for following the local regulations, those regulations will continue to preserve the populations so that they are sustainable. Thanks for watching and comenting 👍 using bacon was a fun experiment on what turned out to be an epic day of fishing for us

@zworm2

10 ай бұрын

Your logic is flawed. You have a lower size limit and fill your limit with the smaller fish. The bigger fish are the best fish for reproduction. They are left in the population. It is like sea bass. They change sex from female to male as the area needs it. The males are the biggest. Large size limits mean you take all the big males, how are the females left going to breed? A female has to change sex. It takes time. So keeping the size limit here also makes for better reproduction levels. Back in the 80's careless commercial harvest affected the stocks not recreational.

@jaes8173

10 ай бұрын

in California our halibuts have to be 22 inches!

@zworm2

10 ай бұрын

@@jaes8173 that's a small halibut. They do get up to 30lbs.

That meal looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing. Will Black Sea bass go for the bacon bait?

great fishing spot

I am down in ocean city on the bay side. Have the bay right outside my door. I am gonna try this bacon and see what it does. So far we have not been able to surf fish on Ass Island because of the storm that went through the other day. We fished the bridge and only caught sea bass. I saw you were wearing waders and are in the bay so I am going to give it a try.

Great video...thanks for showing how bacon can work! Question: Wht dont you fish out of Flats Boat or a Jon Boat to get in skinny water?

Bacon and bacon grease in a jar for lures actually works great for many species pike especially

dang this fish looks perfect with the Cantonese-style steamed fish recipe.

Hey skipper I'm all the way from Trinidad and Tobago

I am blown away!!!! I am now a FAN!!!!!

@HeySkipper

2 ай бұрын

Thanks man! If you found this helpful you gotta check out my website, I custom make a ton of gear to help you with your next fishing trip! www.heyskipperfishing.com

Did this the other day 50 miles offshore! The fish loved it! I only do this with bacon that has spoiled though! Otherwise it's a sin to waste such a golden food!

Thanks for the tip of using bacon.

Been learning from you quite sometime now. Great videos, just wanted to ask for your opinion on how to filter out wind movement on the tip from bites while pier fishing? Cuz i have hard time knowing when to set the hook by looking at my rod tip on windy days. Is a more heavy power rod would do the trick? Thanks!

@TheSecondInitiate

10 ай бұрын

I dont see Skipper focusing much on "setting the hook". I dont either tbh, i play with them when theyre biting to get a frenzy going. When you bait a hook properly, fish tend to swallow them whole and hook themselves. Youll know when a fish is on because they will shake your rod aggressively and pull suddenly as opposed to the gradual pull of the tide. Only the tiniest bait fish nibbles will resemble the wind shaking your line.

Excellent video Team

It kind of reminds me of a Bonita Strip or Mahi Strips that's used for Trolling for Swordfish, Fishing, 😅

I like this video it’s intriguing

Love ur video an ur home girl is so cute an happy love to watch u guys