I don't think Emmy could get any cuter. Absolutely precious.

@shadeshiest22

5 жыл бұрын

Emery, Emmery, Emmary,or Emmy? Thought it was Emery or something like that?? Emmy sounds a lot much better

@samuelallen5789

Ай бұрын

I.peeped that. She with Hillbilly Bob. How he pull that off

You need to spray the fillets with some olive oil and cook till golden crispy dampen the flour on both sides with the oil.

@ACJHAWKER

5 жыл бұрын

We air fried catfish for the first time this year. I used a bread crumb, masa flour, and Old Bay dredge. Spritzed olive oil on both sides after dredging. They turned out really good. Thinking of putting the deep fryer away.

@ohoutdoors5563

5 жыл бұрын

I cooked catfish and added some oil and cooked it a little longer and they were nice and crispy with flour and panko.

@seanrybakadventures6400

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I spray on olive oil and flip them half way into the cooking time. You might want to add a few minutes of cooking time to make sure they are both golden and crispy!

@kylevincent880

5 жыл бұрын

Came to say just what you all have just said

@Kal_RP

4 жыл бұрын

i use panko breadcrumbs for my fried chicken, works pretty well in the airfryer. dip in flour > egg > panko > then fry em off.

Okay I am leaving you this comment as what I would call myself an air fryer expert. First I want to say that I don't know what was done off camera but it looked like you did not properly preheat the machine. It can be very important to do that, maybe not so much for those really thin bluegill but for most other things it is very important. It is also important for frying, yes you can fry and get the crispy deliciousness. You appeared to do most of the precook correctly although I would put in a couple of egg whites beaten well, then add your franks, then add and S,P,&G stir that very well dip your fish in the egg wash then into the flour then back to the egg wash then back to the flour, OIL, then into the PREHEATED airfryer. I have been cooking with an air fryer for years and have perfected several dishes, my favorite being french fries. I mean french fries that are so good you would never want McDonald fry again. Crispy, with about 70% less fat than deep fried fries. My fries are so good I put them on salads as croutons, they become easily converted to hash browns. I always have a couple pounds of precooked fries in the freezer ready to be taken out and put in the air fryer for a few minutes so they are a crispy bit of deliciousness. Okay the thing with air frying is if you want to fry you do need to use oil. Granted it will be just a couple of tablespoons worth. It is usually best achieved with the use of one of those squirt bottles. You put you oil in (I most often use regular olive oil not extra virgin) after you have breaded your fish lay them out and spray them with you bottle on both sides. A very thin coat so the flour is barely moist. Then fry in the PREHEATED air fryer If you have any other questions just ask.

@lucyloose89

3 жыл бұрын

Thanx.

I've never seen anybody keep bluegills that small in my entire life

@maxwell.989

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@joe1071

3 жыл бұрын

Those are called potato chip bluegills round these parts

@BenLillegard

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto. I call those my "practice" catch. I don't keep any that are smaller than my hand, which is ~8".

@BenLillegard

2 жыл бұрын

@@joe1071 I suppose if you want some bite sized pieces they would work well, but I've never thought they were worth the effort of cleaning.

@wkewj2613

2 жыл бұрын

Those were fish bait. I can tell he is not a bluegill fisherman. that is ok, he is learning. However, he is quite correct about the deliciousness of bluegill. We just catch em a lot bigger here in the South.

If you batter the fish and then spray them with some canned oil they come out super crispy but I know that kind of defeats the purpose of an "air" fryer but a lot of the oil drips off the fish while cooking

You gave those bluegill the cricket dangle. Proper technique.

Holding pumpkinseed and says “it’s so beautiful” next clip it was him slamming it in the cooler😂😂😂

Long time pan fish eater here - part of the art of Bluegill filleting is the mastery of going over the rib cage and maintaining that thick web of meat on the ribs! Blue Gill are good eating! Better than Bass IMO! Perch / Crappie / Bluegill are all awesome.

@rogercollins3

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly I think crappie, bluegill and yellow perch all fall into the same category. They are all good, and I wouldn't rate one above the other.

Bluegill are by far my favorite eatin fish and the real big ones you can fish for life bass using small spinners and rooster tails.

@matthewb3270

5 жыл бұрын

Joes files work good and really small crankbaits also

BlueGills and those tasty crappies. Now that is a tasty meal. Fun to catch. Way to go LFG.

Lol Emmy is so cute. I see her Chompers are coming in nicely.

My air frier has me fill the bottom of it with some type of vegetable/olive oil. That makes really flakey golden fish. Also use a batter for a real crust. Mix egg and milk soak the fillets, roll em in a mix of gsp and flour, double dip in egg, then back to flour. You wont be disappointed with the result. 100% grandmother approved

You have to spray the flour on the outside of the fillets with olive oil to get it gold crispy. I have and air fryer and do chicken all the time. Taste like Popeyes! Good Luck LFG!

@terryducote

5 жыл бұрын

And he didn't give it enough time to crisp up. Should have went the 8mins

I gotta get one of those things. I just watched a video of a guy catching bluegills with butter worms. Works great. Emmie needs her own channel now. So adorable !

@shpuply

5 жыл бұрын

EPF kills it in the panfish department!

Gotta find a spot with slab bluegill bro get some 1lbers and they have some fat fillets.

I actually fly fish for pan fish with grasshopper patterns or atoms parachutes it’s fun and they put up a decent fight on a 3-4 weight rod

@crawfordfite1148

5 жыл бұрын

Gavin Whiten i do the same thing!

@clifjohansen4304

5 жыл бұрын

I like using spiders and small poppers.

I enjoy your videos LFG! You've been an inspiration! I'm glad to hear your saved! Hope to meet you someday 👍😁

I just love y'all!! You guys have the best relationship that makes me want more with my wife every day! Keep on fishing and living my friend!!

Cut the heads off, scale and gut them and cook them up! Delish!!!

@waynesingleton5322

4 жыл бұрын

Kent Kelly only way to eat em

Love the video,great content! My little nephew is addicted to your channel as well as lunkers. He is 5 and he can already catch em like a pro. Loves fishing with soft plastic worms and squarebills. I've got him a sub to MTB and he lights up when that box comes every month!! Thank you for being a great inspiration to the fishing community and the younger fishing freaks out there!!

We live in Missouri and around here a lot of the skunks are rabid. Tell Rob to watch his dogs and don't let them get too close to the skunks. We sure enjoyed your video today !! That little Emmy is so cute!!

Always love a great LFG video. It’s a great change of pace from the normal bassfishing videos. Plus, who could hate a good catch and cook video! 🤙🏻

Let's get Lake Life Family Channel to 100k!

Justin , 1st off ANOTHER excellent video. You brought back some of my favorite memories of fishing when I was a lil feller LOL. Just an fyi, To get the most from your bluegill, scale them, remove head and fins leaving the tail, roll in flour cornmeal mix and deep fry til golden brown.

40 years ago, I'd take my grandfather a cooler of large bluegills and stand in awe, as he would grab a razor sharp hatchet and clean them. With a few scrapes on each side, he'd remove all the scales. Then he'd chop off the head and split open the belly, to remove the guts. He was in his late 80's and he'd pick up one of those bluegill and have it skillet ready in under a minute.

Awesome video!! I’m glad to see you enjoy every type of fishing 🎣 pan fish are so good to eat

If you get those properly coated you will achieve the crispies! Dry them in plain flour and shake off, then into egg, then into seasoned coating! Fry them a bit longer! BTW your one of the coolest people I've seen, love the girls and your precious daughter. The tree house, all of it, your a lucky man. Keep on being you!

Very simple. Scale, gut, cook. Awesome fish.

I love the channel LFG you inspired me to start my own KZread channel.. I'm thinking about doing my first catch and cook

One tip when you’re frying pan fish if you do it in an actual fryer instead of the air fryer do the franks red hot with some Louisiana fish fry seasoning normally In a yellow or blue package. Some of the best tasting fish I’ve ever had! Hope this helps! Hope to see some more gill fishing and crappie 😁 also try like a #6 eagle claw hook with the leaders on them

There is no size limit on blue gill and other pan fish here so I use a kitchen scissor to clean them. I like them to freeze a little, rinse them, scale them while they are whole because the skin is tasty, then I cut just behind the head all the way through, being careful not to leave behind any of that great thick shoulder meat--forehead meat?whatever, just like you said. Then I flip it over and cut from the bottom of the gill up to the initial cut, and pull the head off. Some of the entrails will come along, making the gutting easier, and I save the heads for bait. I pull the top fin off, the bottom fins off, because that gets all those little fin bones out at once. then I open top and bottom of the fish with the scissors, spoon out the entrails as needed, and pull the spine out starting with the largest part near the head. Then there are the rib bones that lay all side by side with little spurs at the top, once you find one, gently fold the flesh away from them and pull them all off the fish at once, one side at a time. leave the tail on if you like to eat it--I don't. Then you have two boneless sides of a fish ready to bread and fry as usual. I have eaten these as little as two to three inches long and the flavor is worth it. Others just scale it, cut off the head, gut it, rinse it, and cook it with the bones and fins, because they are easily removed from the cooked meat just before eating, without making any wasted meat like there is with filet method. People say blue gill are second only to walleye and crappie for flavor. I have to agree. I also love to catch blue gill because when they know they are hooked they swim in a crazy circle trying to get free. They are a fun fish on, any size and easy to sight fish from a dock.

I watch the entire advertisement because I think the lake fork family deserve the funds

On small Gills we scale them and then fillet them off, leaving the skin attached. Olive oil, Ritz crackers and then pan fry em in butter! Nothing better!

7:26"Been up there making them beds..not anymore!"haha and then you you hear the fish hit the ice..lol good stuff

The way you fillet those is how we always did it growing up. They eat good

I have the same air fryer. If you read the instructions, you will see that you should preheat the fryer first. Then after you flour the fish, us an oil spray such as Pam to coat the flour. I’ve done wings, fish, pork chops, chicken thighs/legs and breasts which comes out crispy and moist. Don’t forget, if you want crispy fried, always spray with oil and half way through, flip and continue. Cosori has tons of recipes online. Practice makes perfect. Good luck, keep us posted.

Looks like you and the family had a great trip. Stoked to see some of the catfishing videos!!

Love the catch and cook and bluegill is one of my best fish to eat besides crappie, and I always have a pot of cheese grits with my fish and your wife's pan of grits looked delicious....👌👍🐟

Bluegill is great! Try just scaling them, gutting them, cut the head off, cut a few small lines in the skin and fry them up. You get more flavor, more meat, and super easy. It's worth trying 👍

Bream and sunfish is underrated big time like if u agree

@egannolf1144

5 жыл бұрын

What is bream

@robertreid1590

5 жыл бұрын

@@egannolf1144 its bluegill, but down south we call it bream

@fireturtle7530

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertreid1590 We call'em perch down here too & they aren't perch either. LOL

@bridgelaurie9490

4 жыл бұрын

Even better it can be spelled bream AND brim. Perch. Sunnies. Copper nose. Pan fish. Changes area to area down here !

@LaserTech001

4 жыл бұрын

Perch bluegill bream all the same thing in Texas second best fish to eat behind crappie

Beautiful place to fish Congratulations, it reminds me here in *Brazil* where I do my Fisheries. Hugs and good fishing.👍🎣

I love watching Lake Life Family.. U have a wonderful family.. Emy is getting bigger 😄😄

When I was a kid back in the 70s, I'd walk to a near by pond with my ultra light spinning gear and I'd find summer time grasshoppers around the pond. I could put together a stringer of bluegill in an hour or so and cook and eat them right there by pond. So much fun, we would spend a whole day fishing, swimming, and eating. Never knew who's pond it was but I don't guess anyone minded, no one ever said nothing to us.

panfish are easily the best tasting fish in existence. way better than walleye in my opinion

Best eating fish hands down! I use an electric filet knife to clean mine. Bread with shore lunch and deep fry the filets. Yum!

Bluegills are amazing to eat! 🐟

My wife and I love our air fryer, we have a spray bottle with peanut oil, light spray when you start and after you flip.

My mom is a air fryer fanatic. I showed her this and she told me to catch some bluegill from our pond. I think she likes it😂

I love your description of how the airfryer works!!

Our family really likes the Franks hot sauce on chicken strips, flour and fry in oil. We took your idea from the fish. It is wonderful. Thanks so much. We have also tried it on cubed steak. Just can not go wrong with hot sauce as a marinade.

As a kid I would go out and catch me some bluegill, fillet them and then fry em up in a pan with salt and butter! DELICIOUS!

Love them Bluegills! As for the air fryer - you just traded in some precious countertop real estate for a tiny convection oven instead of using the much larger convection oven already in your stove! Besides, these little fishies want to SWIM ... in grease ... in cast iron ... over a campfire.

Catch and cooks are my favorite

I just love watching you and the family

Lightly spray your fish with pam or other vegetable based spray right before you put them in the air fryer....also just had Frank's on fish for the first time today on catch and cook blue gill. Fantastic.

LFG I want you to know that you've inspired me and brought back the passion I have for fishing. The best way that I've fished for bluegill is to use a slip bobber and go deep for the toads. All the little ones stay shallow. Also, next time try slipping the hook under the collar of the crickets, it lets them act more natural.

Thanks for showing yourself being spinned. I love bass fishing, but when it comes to bluegill, I struggle because I am scared of being spinned. Also, thanks for continuing to show how you handle to fish.

I live the shows you do with your pops.i miss my dad he's the one that thought me everything I know about crappie fishing if ever near bullshoalls lake look me up I'll show you some awesome spots on both lakes northfork have an amazing day by friend

Crank the temp on that thing, but keep your time low. I can confirm the delivery of golden crispies out of one of those!

Another great video. I got excited when I saw the word Panfish!

Man I'm sorry I'm late to the comment party... Them grits looks so good makes me want to try them... if you make it mixture 50/50 olive oil and canola oil your fish taste a lot better... thank God our prayers are being answered that baby girls looking like her mom every day🤠

Nothing beats golden crispy 🤪

Making them beds.... Not anymore. That made me chuckle. Great vid 👍

My wife and I said the same thing. I experimented with the old Gaspergo. It was purdy good, certainly not fried. More of a convection oven type of thing. I feel like I need to add fat somehow. It's a work in progress. Great video, thanks for sharing!

Make yourself a beer batter and give it a go once. Beer,flower,salt, pepper and a little Cayenne if you like. Mix to like a thin pan cake batter. Oh yeah almost for got you need a egg or two as well. Happy frying.

Good times catching bluegill growing up

Gotta spray it with some olive oil man and then it’ll get crispy 👌 I love my Air fryer use it about on the daily

Good job LFG. Man that looked delicious..

Keep the ones the size of your hand and you'll have some awesome eating!! Throw the babies back!

Chicken wings in the air fryer are awesome. I haven't tried fish or your Frank's Wing sauce, but I will soon.

Love air fryers! Done all sorts of breading in chicken and it works very well. I will be trying some fish for sure in it now.

Love using a 12' rod, light line and 1/64 oz. jig head with a 1.25" Bobbie Garland Slab Slayr to jig for perch. Excellent eating for sure.

Bluegill setting earned a like

I think if you spray the floured fish with a cooking spray it gives more of a deep fried taste and texture... but yes it is a compact convection oven. Grear for baking biscuits!

Man you have me weak with the whole air fryer. LOL. It's like man creating fire for the first time. Seriously though I love you channel. Subscriber for life.

The trick with that fryer and giving you the "crispy" that deep frying would give you is the egg wash. I pat dry the fillets and toss in Bisquick. Beat eggs with a tbsp of milk and put floured fillets in the egg wash. For a coating I use plain bread crumbs with what ever spices you like and small amount of Bisquick. Take fillets out of egg and put in a bag with the bread crumb mixture. You can not use the bread crumbs and use just Bisquick and it will have a lighter coating on it. Turns out awesome. Change up the mixture of spices to your taste. I'm not a fan of using Franks as the wet ingredient. It pretty much masks the flavors of the meat your cooking. I see everyone in that circle do it and if that hat you like great but everything seems like it would taste the same. I use it for a dip or I coat chicken like the Buffalo Wing stuff. Pretty strong stuff to use as a breading, plus it doesn't give you the results you want with a coated meat with breading such as bread crumbs or crushed chips etc. Just my opinion after many years of frying/cooking fish. 🍤🦆🐟 Great videos by the way. Keep up the awesome job.

Air fryers are like small convection ovens. I cook just about everything in mine. Lemon pepper cornish hen is amazing.

I can't believe you haven't eaten bluegill before this video. They are my personal favorite to catch and cook!

hey LFG, put ur franks but instead of using flour use panko bread crumbs and it comes out golden crispies...do it all the time, happy fishing!!

My grandpa used to fish sunnies here in MN and he would gut them and then just scale them and my grandma would flour with S&P them and fry them up. Yum!

Try removing scales,then fillet leaving skin on ,only with one as a trial, then fry till crispy, oh also fly rod using blue gill poppers, colors white,lime are good starters. Roger W

Fish battered with bread crumbs in the air fryer comes out with a real crisp! I usually flip them after a few minutes just to ensure both sides get the same time on top.

If you sprayed the floured fish with Pam, the oil in Pam will let the air fry the fish.

Good stuff LFG, got your Kill Negativity T-Shirt... Honestly the best T-Shirt that I've ever gotten. Appreciate you creating it. Used it in one of my music videos... Rock it all the time!

Good job I wanna try it out thanks an Emmy is getting big.

Oh yeah....bluegill is some good eatin'!

We love our air fryer but it doesn't cook enough for a family of 6. And we just figured out the convection setting on our oven. Both are pretty much the same, the oven takes longer but does more food. Air fryers and Convection are healthy choices to dropping a 100% organic succulent fillet into a vat of GMO and pesticide filled grease. That was for OSG, nothing but love LFG.

Add a teaspoon of oil to the bottom of the basket and cook a little bit longer. Gets it nice and crispy!

You have to come to Lake Verret and fish for the big bull bream and chinquapin (redear sunfish for people not from Louisiana). You cant wrap you hands around these fish and they are easy to clean. Fun easy fishing in the cypress knees

I have the same air fryer, got it for Christmas. You need to get you some spray on olive and canola oil. Make sure to preheat the fryer. prepare the fish like normal. Then just before loading in the fryer Spray both sides of the fish with either spray on olive or canola oil then fry 3 to 5 minutes then turn the fish and go another 3 minutes. This will get you crispy fish. Depending on the size of fillets you may need to adjust cooking time.

You can get true golden crispys with canola oil in a spray bottle when you lay them in there at first spray. Then the real trick is turn your temp up slightly depending on the unit and flip mid cook. When you do that spray that side lightly finish you cook depending thickness for total time. Got to be light with the franks or just use a little milk with SPG though that makes it something I’ve noticed though. Just a flour with little bit of cornmeal if you like for the breading.

OMG! You've never eaten BG before?! LoL. They're awesome! On the Air Frye, you have to spray oil on anything with flour.

To get it to fry give the fillets a spray with some oil. They only need a light spray not a soaking. Good luck from Terry in Melbourne Australia.

"Those are so beautiful. It's insane." Boom cooler hahah

Agree with some of the other comments, those are some small gills LFG. For panfish, i usually go the size of my palm (~6 inches) from tip of the nose to where the tail necks down before i keep them. More gills get let go, but the ones you keep are worth the effort.

Season fish with Flavor God seasoning of your choice, dip in egg, then into Panko Breadcrumbs. Preheat Air Fryer and then cook for 7-9 minutes on the Crappy setting. You don't even need any oil but you can lightly spray with oil. Comes out delicious

Never cooked fish, but have some experience with the air fryer. I still recommend having a dredge (eggs or buttermilk). So dust, normally with flour, and you can put your seasonings on before, dredge, and then I typically add a panko or some other type of breadcrumb. You can also go back to flour, but no matter how you cost the outside of them, you should pause your air fryer halfway through cooking them and flip, that will help finish and get rid of just the flour you saw on them. Though if you add too much you won’t totally be able to get rid of the flour.

hey I am only 13 but I am from Louisiana and catch tons of bluegill but I see at 9:54 that you have a small pumpkin seed I would strongly suggest not keeping bluegill/panfish that are not the same or If not bigger than your hand I usually keep the small ones for cut bait for catfish thx for the great content and good luck on your next panfish catch and cook

It’s 2:00 and I can’t sleep so I am watching your vids and now I am hungry because of your vids lol

LFG! Scale them, Cut the heads off, gut them and leave the fins on. Batter them puppies up and fry them! Bite the fins off first and tail. They taste like potato chips. Mmmmmmm... Good. Really enjoying the videos my friend. Fan from Kentucky.👍😀👍