The TRUTH About Eating Stocked Catfish...
The urban pond catfish stock is on here in AZ! There is catfish being stocked just about every week here in the community ponds. These fish can be super tasty if cooked properly, and man are they fun to catch!
Today we fish with worms and some stryker punch bait at one of my local ponds! We had some success catching and cooking one of these catfish!
Catch and cooks are something I have to do every once in a while! These stocked catfish have a very good taste, and man are they misunderstood. Wild catfish taste rather muddy but these fish taste more like ocean white meat fish!
Let me know what you all wanna see next!
GET SPACEBUGS & SWIRLS HERE : rippinjibbs.bigcartel.com/
BE SURE AND HIT THAT BELL TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN I GO LIVE!
My Social Media: IG: mark_pickett46, Fishbrain: thefishinmagician2.0
Rods
Ugly Stick GX2 UL : amzn.to/3CInuTx
Fenwick Eagle : amzn.to/3GBhgWK
Reels :
Shimano Sienna : amzn.to/3X5LM25
Pflueger Presidential : amzn.to/3vZVzdU
Okuma Ceymar : amzn.to/3H1h6th
My Editing System - Premiere Pro : amzn.to/3bFURtu
Cold Weather Gear (SKI SUIT) : amzn.to/2XIt4Az
MAXIMA LINE : amzn.to/39if4ob
GOPRO : amzn.to/2WJilob
My Camera : amzn.to/3mJuvtZ
The links above are Amazon affiliate links, meaning when you click and or buy from these links, I will receive a small commission
This helps support the channel and future videos.
THANK YOU ALL FOR CLICKING! HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
Join this channel to get access to perks:
kzread.info/dron/zlm.html...
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @thefishinmagician20
Пікірлер: 172
Thanks for another great time at the pond. Be blessed. My friend.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Not a problem! Thanks for the support as always 🔥🔥
Great video. Thanks for the tips
I have been watching this guy for two years and I can’t stop watching his videos
@TheFishinMagician20
7 күн бұрын
@@Kagej9 my man I appreciate the support!
Amazing, i've learned so much watching your videos🔥
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I am happy to hear it that’s always my goal 👏🏼👏🏼
I'm never disappointed with your videos I'm always satisfied with the fishing you do
@TheFishinMagician20
2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
What a fire video bro 🔥
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Thanks man 🙌🏼
Wow dude I cant believe the albino catch! What a treat!!
You are very right, about fish being left over after stocking. I remember one time, I fished the day a trout derby was over, and caught over 12 nice size trouts. That day was insane since I thought everybody fished them out.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Oh heck yea! There will always be some left 🔥🔥
At our lakes they stock with Mt Lassen Trout & Imperial catfish. They are Farm raised so they are very good to eat. We just went Trout fishing & caught 32 Trout. We kept 6 to eat. The meat in those trout were pink almost like salmon. Talk about delicious fish tacos. Any farm raised fish are quality clean & edible. Great catch & cook video! And congratulations on your son & looking forward to him fishing with you. 😉👍
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Agreed man! All those farms raised fish are awesome. I miss me some lassen trout
Great video.... Have you ever did a video showing all the ponds in the Phoenix area, like a map and what fish are in each pond?? Again thanks for your videos.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
thanks! I have not done that and i don't think i would. It would drive some massive pressure
Heck yeah Mark. You know I love me some catfish 😎
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Oh yea Mike! When I come back to the east coast we gotta see what you can do in the kitchen with some channel cats 🔥
What up Bro. Yup, I gotta get out there!!! Going tomorrow. Good luck man. Bless!
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Heck yea good luck!
Hey, you inspire me to never give up on catfishing
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Love to hear it! Awesome 👏🏼
Arizona should use you, and this video as a PSA😅😅😅😅😅😅! You did FANTASTIC 😊😊
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
lol 😂 thank you 🙏🏼
Stocked catfishing is my my second favorite type of fishing, only second to trout fishing. I equally love to eat both though! Congratulations on that albino Brotha! Very nice catch and cook. 💪🏽🤙🏽
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I feel you on that trout fishing is awesome. Thanks man! They are both tasty forsure 🔥
That albino was sick! Can't go wrong with the Louisiana mix!
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
You know it man 🔥
Wowww the albini at the end
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Right?! Hyyyyype
First and congrats on ur son!🎉
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I’m so excited
I caught an albino catfish once in a local lake a long time ago. Really pretty-was white with a pinkish/orange hue and same for the eyes. Really trippy lookin’. Keep catching and keep quelling people’s fears of eating them. They’re fine!
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Awesome! Yea I’m sure they’re great to eat
@kimbrigreen950
3 ай бұрын
@@TheFishinMagician20 i just meant eating catfish from the local ponds, in general. Not eating the albinos. But you could be right. What if albinos are especially delicious?🧐
I have never caught a albino catfish or any kind of albino fish but I have been with one of my cousins and he called an albino catfish and it was awesome just seeing it and I want to catch one so bad and maybe one day I will good job on the bonus fish the albino catfish
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
One day you will! Thank you
Can you use a circle hook with maybe a sponge on it. That would help you with the hookup rate and less damage to the fish plus a better hookup rate.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
People do the spawn sac with the Stryker in there with a circle, but tbh the bite wasn’t aggressive enough for circle hooks to work properly this day
literally down the street from my house
I love your canle fishing
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
It’s fun! Thank you
@Arizona_Fishing
3 ай бұрын
What's your email?
Dann̈y KING PUNCH BAIT IS rthe best
I’m not a big fish eater but those nuggies look fire 🔥
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
🙌🏼🙌🏼
Do you or anyone know of the canals near sunnyslope hand fish in them? You posted a video a while back showing them taking the fish out . Also what the heck is with roadrunner park? Any news when they will reopen it?
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
No clue about either of those
Sick video! I live in the area but haven't come across this lake. Wheres it at?
@kannibiz
3 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure it's kawanas park
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
What he said ☝🏼
@chaserichardson305
3 ай бұрын
@@kannibiz thank you! 🙏
nice
Nice Video do you mostly fish the east valley?
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Yessir
Finally they restocked bass in there
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I know right!
lol I held my first catfish ever today you can see it on my channel and one was 8-9 pounds!
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Awesome!
Bro where can I get the catfish fever rod?
A month ago my cousin caught an albino big mouth bass
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Nice!
Yes right before you put up the 15 minutes I know where you said it was been setting for 15 minutes right before that it bounced
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I saw that after editing haha
Just a tip when fileting and skinning the fish. Leave the filet attached at the tail flip the filet over and skin the filet while it is still attached. It gives you a anchor point cheers
I have fished that Urban lake for almost 20 years.
@TheFishinMagician20
Ай бұрын
Awesome! Its a good one and close to my house
@pesthunteroutdoors
Ай бұрын
@TheFishinMagician20 I know the secrets to Kawanis lake. I was one of the ones that put the structure in 6 years ago.
I’ve caught a five pound albino blue cat and a pound albino channel in nm
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
So dope
I'm from ohio and we got all kinds of channel and flathead catfish in our creeks and resevoirs my pb channel is 23lbs and my pb flathead is 45lbs
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
That’s awesome
Where are the ponds located?
Puro comando exclusivo alv❤
I went there last week and didn’t get any bites must’ve stocked after
What size treble do you use for punch bait?
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Size 4
Make a video on how to clean the catfish
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Nah it’s been done too many times. Plenty out there
Hey! Love you content but i have a question. Is there any advantage or reason to keep the fish alive while fileting it? Seems like unnecessary suffering to me.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
The fish was dead just nerves. It was dispatched with my mallet a minute before
Do the canal fish have a better taste than pond fish?
@TheFishinMagician20
2 ай бұрын
I do t really eat an anal fish in Phoenix. But the pond ones are super clean as long as you eat them fresh stocked
Oooooh I hope its not bad. I have eaten Az stocked catfish.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
They’re awesome I love eating them
What pond is this?
Where are you fishing at. That little lake looks familiar
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Tempe
@br3fl3
3 ай бұрын
@@TheFishinMagician20 Kiwanis?
The truth is that catfish taste goood
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Facts
What type of AERATOR do you use with minnow bucket? From Houston TX
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I think it’s just the bubbles model, the little bubbles were not enough
@jerryscray1789
2 ай бұрын
I bought a rechargeable one off Amazon it has a pulse setting it lasted well over 24 hours on pulse and minnows were lively
@paulmetheny2126
2 ай бұрын
@@jerryscray1789 I'm going to look at different models. I don't know which one you got, but I will try to find the one with pulse like your's. I need one to use when I get in my vehicle to go from one place to the next. 275 miles is the trip.
@paulmetheny2126
2 ай бұрын
@@jerryscray1789 I'm going to look at different models. I don't know which one you got, but I will try to find the one with pulse like your's. I need one to use when I get in my vehicle to go from one place to the next. 275 miles is the trip.
@jerryscray1789
2 ай бұрын
@@paulmetheny2126 fishernomics ultra
Im fishing rn
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Heck yea!
Farm raised fish are higher in mercury.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
They’re regulated in the U.S. to have low toxin levels. Very low in mercury.
You need some bells for the rods
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Nah I can’t stand bells
@monstroso3879
3 ай бұрын
I feel you but when you busy setting up or away they help
Where you fish would like my kids to catch. I have not fished fresh water in a long time
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
All the urban ponds are stocked with catfish any do good for kids
kiwanis park?
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Yessir
Quit giving away the secret of how good they taste. Keep it between you and me 😊
@TheFishinMagician20
29 күн бұрын
lol 😂
I’m a fan of whole simmered catfish, gives a lot more meat 🐟
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Heck yea!
At 3:48 it looked like there was two hits
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I saw that, insane it never moved after that lol
Nice food catching. I think a few ducks went missing around the same time. Do you like eating duck with your catfish? Before everyone gets mad, it’s a joke. All the ducks went missing. 😂😂
@wildturkey8752
3 ай бұрын
I love the PETA content, keep it up. Yum.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Hahahaha hey man duck is tasty😂
Do you throw that grease in the trash too?
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Nah lol poured in the dirt
@arizonaarcher9323
3 ай бұрын
@@TheFishinMagician20 Savage
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
@@arizonaarcher9323 lol 😂
They're gonna be stocking 300 lbs per lake now
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Say whatttt that’s awesome
@lurkingarachnid7475
3 ай бұрын
@@TheFishinMagician20 no that's horrible, they usually stock 1000 lbs
Use a fork to hold the skin down
Too bad you don’t have a tik tok account and go live when you go fishing
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I used to go live a few years ago on KZread before tiktok lives were a thing. Now everyone does it haha. Lives are fun but man they get exhausting
Secret-7 is better than Stryker. Stryker's got weird fur and pieces of animal parts but Secret-7 is nice and pasty like well chewed digested taco bell.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I have never tried it but I may have to give it a try
All I could see was the third degree burns on your legs when the skillet falls off the camp stove! Be careful, dude!
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Hahaha nah we were nice and solid
I feel like the fish in those ponds don’t really taste that good because of all the trash that gets thrown in there
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
You’d think but as long as you catch those fish within 1-2 weeks, they really don’t have time to soak up and chemicals or trash in the water. They’re still tasting like they were in the hatchery
@randy7003
3 ай бұрын
Not only that but the water is not cold enough year round to keep the meat firm, It's to soft and mushy.
@IEchuckie
Ай бұрын
Yeah you're right. Don't eat them. Leave them for me 😅
I hope you understand it isn’t very smart to have hot oil in a pan while sitting down cooking! What if the pan fell. Hot oil all over your cahoonas and legs! Great way to give your skin a golden brown..
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I don't live my life on what ifs 😅
Dude you are brave to sit that close to a pan full of oil right over your….lap….on a stove that small.
@TheFishinMagician20
2 ай бұрын
I like to live on the edge
No such thing as stocking bass is illegal
Primero 😎
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Typically Porter Dub
See man why did you filet the fish while he was still breathing thats so messed up :(
@TheFishinMagician20
Ай бұрын
He wasn’t dead lol just couldn’t show the killing on KZread
Repent of your sins and believe in Jesus
@highthai7
3 ай бұрын
Some consider catfish a trash fish but I wouldn't go that far pal. Take it easy 😂.
@Jesussaves33_
3 ай бұрын
@highthai7 That is my bad I just type this on videos I remember to but I wasn't calling catfish that bad lol it had nothing to do with the video.
@funkehouse
3 ай бұрын
Sin isn't real.
@williamball8490
3 ай бұрын
What does this have to do with fishing??
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Lol
Dude, cleaning fish on picnic tables that people use to eat off? C'mon bro, thats the kinda stuff that gives fisherman a bad name.
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
I think people know better than to eat off these table that are dirty and covered in bird poop. That’s why I used the cutting board, then rinsed the fish afterwards.
Fishing stocked ponds is ignorant Takes no skill. Just go to the grocery store…..
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching 🔥
#yum
@TheFishinMagician20
3 ай бұрын
You know it 🙏🏼