Steve O'Brien starting up his fishwheel, Aug 2019

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  • @Badmicakaneo
    @Badmicakaneo 3 роки тому +829

    This guy is on my zombie apocalypse team

    • @shakeandbaked1
      @shakeandbaked1 3 роки тому +30

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

    • @youngnutsack17
      @youngnutsack17 3 роки тому +28

      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.

    • @lule_munkey
      @lule_munkey 3 роки тому +27

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

    • @dstyer6128
      @dstyer6128 2 роки тому

      @@shakeandbaked1 Accurate lmao

    • @YesYourRight
      @YesYourRight 2 роки тому

      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
    @daltoncollins7612 3 роки тому +919

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

  • @MrSaemichlaus
    @MrSaemichlaus 3 роки тому +366

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

    • @charliepearson1678
      @charliepearson1678 3 роки тому +12

      ether way works pretty dam good dont it ..lol

    • @WTHhappened
      @WTHhappened 3 роки тому +14

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

    • @Lone_Star_Outdoors
      @Lone_Star_Outdoors 3 роки тому +3

      @@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
      @WTHhappened 3 роки тому +2

      @@Lone_Star_Outdoors 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
      @YesYourRight 2 роки тому +2

      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
    @chuckrobinson599 3 роки тому +189

    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
      @dtm2741 2 роки тому +6

      @Check my about page link
      Read these nuts.

    • @pragmaticpuppy2715
      @pragmaticpuppy2715 2 роки тому

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

    • @kingterry6045
      @kingterry6045 2 роки тому

      @@pragmaticpuppy2715 what did it say?

    • @pragmaticpuppy2715
      @pragmaticpuppy2715 2 роки тому

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

    • @kingterry6045
      @kingterry6045 2 роки тому

      @@pragmaticpuppy2715 mind BLOWN

  • @egomaniac247
    @egomaniac247 3 роки тому +134

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

    • @nemo227
      @nemo227 3 роки тому +9

      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
      @jhtsurvival 3 роки тому +9

      You'd need like 1000

    • @MrBubbahunt9
      @MrBubbahunt9 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @dave3207
      @dave3207 3 роки тому

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

    • @fakiirification
      @fakiirification 3 роки тому

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

  • @nathandavidson9738
    @nathandavidson9738 3 роки тому +187

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

    • @65stang98
      @65stang98 3 роки тому +11

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

    • @scheisstag
      @scheisstag 3 роки тому +15

      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
      @nathandavidson9738 3 роки тому +5

      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
      @mwnciboo 3 роки тому +19

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

    • @rippedkangerooarmwrestling9971
      @rippedkangerooarmwrestling9971 3 роки тому

      @@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

  • @jcscott3117
    @jcscott3117 3 роки тому +118

    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.

    • @michaeltipton5500
      @michaeltipton5500 2 роки тому +2

      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
      @ozzbud9049 2 роки тому +10

      @Repent or you will likewise perish. 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
      @cuddy9215 2 роки тому +1

      Thats a true community

    • @brettthomas676
      @brettthomas676 2 роки тому

      Saw them in chitina with the Indians running them during the salmons runs

    • @zometthecomet
      @zometthecomet 2 роки тому

      @@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 ! ❤️

  • @gallossingingfish4824
    @gallossingingfish4824 3 роки тому +29

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

  • @ricecreampuff
    @ricecreampuff 2 роки тому +4

    This is genuinely the coolest thing I have ever seen

  • @bennywhite7062
    @bennywhite7062 3 роки тому +107

    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
      @garypage9515 3 роки тому +5

      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
      @B23Shiky 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @clanman8278
      @clanman8278 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @arctodussimus6198
      @arctodussimus6198 2 роки тому

      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
      @billcraig1540 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @lichtheimer
    @lichtheimer 2 роки тому +9

    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.

  • @CorvusDelicti
    @CorvusDelicti 3 роки тому +181

    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
      @a.j.towers4788 3 роки тому +73

      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
      @ShaggyRogers1 3 роки тому +59

      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
      @outdoorloser4340 3 роки тому +22

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

    • @mjay4700
      @mjay4700 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @anonamust8697
      @anonamust8697 2 роки тому +3

      They are anything but archived.
      There are still a lot of these wheels in action in Alaska.

  • @sethc4758
    @sethc4758 2 роки тому +25

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

  • @ronaldacarter8079
    @ronaldacarter8079 2 роки тому +5

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

  • @deyanzaprianov1582
    @deyanzaprianov1582 3 роки тому +36

    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
      @dylanhardy4194 3 роки тому

      Lol cool story

    • @Zoltan1251
      @Zoltan1251 3 роки тому +3

      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
      @d.d.h6749 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @SooSmokie 2 роки тому +1

      @@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
      @Zoltan1251 2 роки тому

      @@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

  • @wakichunu
    @wakichunu 2 роки тому +19

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

    • @therealcow541
      @therealcow541 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @HaNsWiDjAjA
    @HaNsWiDjAjA Рік тому +3

    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!

    • @roblockhart8410
      @roblockhart8410 8 днів тому

      The chum salmon he is catching is dog food. Only value is in their roe.

  • @PP-ez9hd
    @PP-ez9hd 2 роки тому +2

    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
      @cranegantry868 2 роки тому

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

  • @Killianwsh
    @Killianwsh 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @Jayeff30
    @Jayeff30 3 роки тому +98

    How did you get Sylvester Stallone to film this Steve?

  • @MrHarmonizr
    @MrHarmonizr 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @TiMOThy931GBO
    @TiMOThy931GBO 3 роки тому +12

    Is that Rocky Balboa holding the camera?

  • @juliuscaesar3346
    @juliuscaesar3346 3 роки тому +21

    I could watch those salmon traps picking them fish up all day long, be good to get a live webcam set up. 👍

  • @davidR9410
    @davidR9410 3 роки тому +9

    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.

  • @MyBinaryLife
    @MyBinaryLife 14 днів тому

    The fact its all made of wood poles and logs is epic af. you could build this whole thing in a forest with an axe, few box of nails and a net.

  • @jasonstarr6419
    @jasonstarr6419 3 роки тому +3

    man, i could watch that all day long..

  • @AMadrigal72
    @AMadrigal72 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @petrokemikal
    @petrokemikal 3 роки тому +13

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

  • @jimmybritt9537
    @jimmybritt9537 3 роки тому +19

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

  • @nickbaloo2167
    @nickbaloo2167 3 роки тому +2

    I could sit and watch this thing catch fish all day

  • @thefohnz
    @thefohnz 2 роки тому +3

    Absolutely brilliant. I could watch it all day. 😀

  • @rocksfromHiscornerstone
    @rocksfromHiscornerstone 4 дні тому

    No wonder why I never catch fish, this guys got them all! Nice fish net! Wow. 😊

  • @hubertcumberdale6404
    @hubertcumberdale6404 2 роки тому +9

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

  • @PaulK365
    @PaulK365 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @mervjb809
    @mervjb809 2 роки тому +2

    I could watch this all day!!

  • @jovanramos9486
    @jovanramos9486 2 роки тому +11

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

  • @mornejoubert8416
    @mornejoubert8416 2 роки тому +4

    Such a simple idea yet so effective!

  • @bp2335
    @bp2335 3 роки тому +4

    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!

  • @onisgagan2481
    @onisgagan2481 3 роки тому +23

    Couple more years sweeping the river and the only thing that wheel will catch is memories…

    • @andyrivers9423
      @andyrivers9423 3 роки тому +6

      maybe down south where all u lemmings live yea, but up north its plentiful. stay away

    • @matthewmarkle1839
      @matthewmarkle1839 3 роки тому +1

      they have been doing it for about 150 years.

  • @AmericaOutdoors1
    @AmericaOutdoors1 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @joeyjamison5772
    @joeyjamison5772 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @mohdfauziabdullahdesigner4614
    @mohdfauziabdullahdesigner4614 2 роки тому

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

  • @damon2772nomad
    @damon2772nomad 2 роки тому

    I could watch that all day

  • @vafishing8296
    @vafishing8296 3 роки тому +20

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

    • @azw412
      @azw412 3 роки тому

      Swimming?

    • @sevrrd9833
      @sevrrd9833 2 роки тому

      No shit smh.

    • @EdRock
      @EdRock 2 роки тому +2

      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
      @vafishing8296 2 роки тому

      @@EdRock yeah. No

    • @cgreeneblue
      @cgreeneblue 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @travismccarty515
    @travismccarty515 3 роки тому

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

  • @LeadFoot500
    @LeadFoot500 2 роки тому +1

    You really could watch that thing for hours.

  • @normansilver905
    @normansilver905 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @rogerkilburn4732
    @rogerkilburn4732 3 роки тому +7

    Wow, can't believe they let you do this cool fish trap though.

  • @nemo227
    @nemo227 3 роки тому +13

    I'm impressed. I have see fish traps but never saw something like this. Now, I have to look it up so see where fish wheels are legal and not legal.
    ------Just looked it up. Not legal in most places in the U.S. -- except (apparently) a couple of spots in Alaska. And, of course, on the Yukon River in this video.

    • @pascaltuaira6517
      @pascaltuaira6517 3 роки тому

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    • @cranegantry868
      @cranegantry868 2 роки тому

      @The Richest Man In Babylon England isn't free, hasn't been since the socialists invaded both major parties.

    • @ryancrow2876
      @ryancrow2876 2 роки тому +1

      And for good reason, salmon populations are way down in most areas and this thing does not discriminate between size, species, etc.

    • @cranegantry868
      @cranegantry868 2 роки тому +3

      @@ryancrow2876 Salmon is in huge abundance, it's the COST of catch/freeze/transport to where the population (market) lives is the BIG problem. You've been told a like that salmon pops. are "way down", get a look at the REAL world.

    • @ryancrow2876
      @ryancrow2876 2 роки тому +2

      @@cranegantry868 Actually I live in Massachusetts where the Connecticut river used to have a huge run of millions of salmon and now has 0. All efforts to reintroduce them have failed. They're gone and not coming back. And that's just one example of thousands.

  • @thetruth9775
    @thetruth9775 2 роки тому +5

    this would be good for catching jumping carp in the Mississippi

  • @kith00000
    @kith00000 3 роки тому +7

    It's like that Simpson episode where he was dragging the ocean clean of life. It's a bit horrifying.

  • @Solisium-Channel
    @Solisium-Channel 2 роки тому +1

    You can't find whole fish to cook yourself where I'm at but you can get some really expensive one at some few restaurants.

  • @cameronsteward7226
    @cameronsteward7226 2 роки тому

    This is so effective and genius it’s amazing

  • @Imnotyourdoormat
    @Imnotyourdoormat 3 роки тому +6

    interviewer sounds like sylvester stallone.....

  • @orlandogustar1717
    @orlandogustar1717 2 роки тому +2

    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
      @wallykimball8829 2 роки тому

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

  • @MYLOXR6
    @MYLOXR6 3 роки тому +12

    This man's a genius

  • @JamesJones-cx5pk
    @JamesJones-cx5pk 2 роки тому +1

    The natives did that before Europeans arrived. They also had saine nets and cast nets.

  • @MrWayneJohn1
    @MrWayneJohn1 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @holliegould3463
    @holliegould3463 2 роки тому +1

    wow this is giving me visions of sustainable fishing practices in our future! what an incredible device that can feed at least a whole family each day!

    • @Gazmus
      @Gazmus 2 роки тому +1

      I'd like to see a family that can eat 150 fish an hour :)

  • @kebunkami2595
    @kebunkami2595 3 роки тому

    Im saving this video for future reference, just in case of zombie apocalypse or something.

  • @susanfarley1332
    @susanfarley1332 3 роки тому +4

    I could have watched a lot longer. Was surprised when it ended.

  • @fishboat6244
    @fishboat6244 2 роки тому

    There is one in Haines Alaska on the Chilkat River , right by the highway, Fish&Game biologists use it to see how many fish are getting upstream to spawn, they are returned right to the river unharmed , all they are doing is counting them.

  • @grahamjordan1040
    @grahamjordan1040 2 роки тому

    Awesome respect from England

  • @markmcarthy596
    @markmcarthy596 2 роки тому +1

    Yes but, can it make Julienne Fries 🍟?

  • @robbrobb659
    @robbrobb659 3 роки тому +1

    This is excellent....great job

  • @seanwidecrantz3847
    @seanwidecrantz3847 3 роки тому

    The video needs to be longer, very addicting to watch

  • @thvtsydneylyf3th077
    @thvtsydneylyf3th077 2 роки тому

    wow amazing device sir i love it!

  • @slidersgliders5516
    @slidersgliders5516 2 роки тому

    Awesome video 👍

  • @landi76
    @landi76 2 роки тому

    Legends say the wheel is still chatching fish unstopable

  • @diegoserpa1403
    @diegoserpa1403 3 роки тому +3

    This is pretty ingenious! Great stuff!

  • @Nathan1Johnson
    @Nathan1Johnson 2 роки тому

    Haha this guys voice is somewhere between George Clooney and Stallone..
    Love this contraption too.

  • @jonasmarkuslarsson
    @jonasmarkuslarsson 3 роки тому +3

    There are a lot of smart men out there.

  • @dominickcapito4420
    @dominickcapito4420 2 роки тому

    That thing is some good engineering. That’s awesome. Love the vid.

  • @janporinchak5867
    @janporinchak5867 3 роки тому +10

    Absolutely amazing.

  • @simonc4077
    @simonc4077 20 днів тому

    I'd love to see this again with a wider angle lens,
    Excellent nonetheless :-)

  • @Thecarboardking
    @Thecarboardking 2 роки тому

    Finally a decent afk fish farm for my Minecraft realm 👍🏽

  • @DavesOSTs
    @DavesOSTs 2 роки тому

    Wow! What a cool way to fish :D

  • @tomhermens7698
    @tomhermens7698 2 роки тому +1

    This is clever stuff. Bravo !!!!

  • @yogurtpimp
    @yogurtpimp 3 роки тому +1

    I'm just waiting for him to yell "ADRIENNE".

  • @28memco45
    @28memco45 3 роки тому

    I gave him a thumbs up before the video started

  • @Thinladia
    @Thinladia 2 роки тому +1

    Still the fish is choking slowly and painfully to death... Saying this as a fisherman. It's a shame.

  • @jamesshamley6577
    @jamesshamley6577 3 роки тому +4

    How is it secured to the river bottom?

  • @jtwin1000
    @jtwin1000 2 роки тому +6

    as effective as this is and im very impressed, i cant help but think its a cruel way to catch fish. Essentially they are suffocating to death. In my view they deserve the respect to be dispatched quickly

    • @jtwin1000
      @jtwin1000 2 роки тому +4

      @My Dixie Wrecked🔧 that's cool you have your own view, but like I said me personally I'd prefer to show something that lives the respect it deserves if you are gonna kill it to eat it

    • @jtwin1000
      @jtwin1000 2 роки тому

      @My Dixie Wrecked🔧 who on earth needs 3600 fish in a day? i cant see how even a large family would need so much, that seems like serious over fishing to me. Probably why these things are hardly used anymore

    • @a_burk4501
      @a_burk4501 2 роки тому

      Fish are food. The end.

    • @richiehoyt8487
      @richiehoyt8487 2 роки тому

      @@a_burk4501 Look - I like a steak as much as the next man, be it a salmon steak or the usual beef. And slaughterhouses are not for the faint hearted. But I think if they were despatching the cattle by putting a plastic bag over their head, I think it might spoil the taste a little for me. And No, not just because of the taint of the adrenaline and the cortisone (?), and the bruises it sustains thrashing around. That too, though! I realise that cows, while not bright, are probably _waaay_ smarter than fish; but I've no doubt the fish can still feel like "OhMyGod! It hurts it hurts it hurts, Please God make it Stop!!!” even if it can't quite articulate it as such. Obviously a trawler skipper can't have a man going knocking every fish on the head, such a thing would be ridiculous, not to say, impossible! But I think an angler who just let's his catch flap around on the bank till it expires is a bit greasy...
      You feel differently, I'm sure.

    • @a_burk4501
      @a_burk4501 2 роки тому

      @@richiehoyt8487 I let my fish suffocate on a bed of ice. It keeps them fresh while on the kayak.

  • @raychmielowski3038
    @raychmielowski3038 17 днів тому

    The fish wheel was invented and used by the french in Canada. It is used alot in alaska on the Copper River.

  • @BlockchainToTheFace
    @BlockchainToTheFace 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @1111atreides
    @1111atreides 2 роки тому

    Now I want a fish wheel. But I live in the desert!

  • @romain3135
    @romain3135 2 роки тому

    i wanted to watch like, an hour of this, or 2

  • @erikwilson7622
    @erikwilson7622 3 роки тому +8

    I know I'm not the smartest guy, but, whenever, I see these salmon wheels, Why has no one ever hooked one of them up to an electric generator? Seems like a person could power their "home" easily during times the river is not froze.

    • @fedck2009
      @fedck2009 3 роки тому

      not enough speed

    • @patfarra627
      @patfarra627 3 роки тому +1

      Like a Dam.

    • @brendongathings5306
      @brendongathings5306 3 роки тому +1

      The idea of "free energy" is a bust. Go find another conspiracy to follow

    • @rogercarpenter418
      @rogercarpenter418 3 роки тому

      Governmental control. You feel free now?

    • @subvertedworld
      @subvertedworld 3 роки тому +2

      @@brendongathings5306 It's actually not a bust. They just killed everyone who ever gave us anything useful and hid the information.

  • @chevychase3103
    @chevychase3103 2 роки тому +1

    I wish I had a fertilizer Factory there right now. Heads and guts and skin and bone. You load 16 Tons what do you get?

  • @mikejordan6036
    @mikejordan6036 2 роки тому

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

  • @jimboslice9472
    @jimboslice9472 2 роки тому +1

    Nothing like modern technology

  • @not-pc6937
    @not-pc6937 3 роки тому +4

    In 2 years time it’ll be like - there used to be so many fish here I wonder where they’ve all gone 🤷‍♂️

  • @18echo
    @18echo 2 роки тому

    The real work starts when the box is full , de gut , de bone , de pin and smoke , 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

  • @TroyaE117
    @TroyaE117 3 роки тому +26

    And then, one day, there were so few fish left that they all went home and blamed someone else.

    • @sawboneiomc8809
      @sawboneiomc8809 3 роки тому +4

      Alaska has the largest natural salmon runs left on the earth....

    • @link6397
      @link6397 3 роки тому +1

      @Old greg whatever Tonto

    • @Nik-gh6gz
      @Nik-gh6gz 3 роки тому

      Exactly

    • @user-hd7qm1sl9y
      @user-hd7qm1sl9y 3 роки тому +3

      All the years that the native Americans did this and we still have fish in the river. Take your animal social justice bullshit somewhere else

    • @NotTheMedicH60
      @NotTheMedicH60 3 роки тому +7

      @@user-hd7qm1sl9y If you really don't understand the current state of the salmon fishery you should really look into it. Since 1984, when we started tracking numbers, the population of chinook has already dropped 60%. Tuna and Cod, both are down 90%. Its not bullshit , its fact, a quick google search (and some cross checking) will do you some good. The fact you are comparing the effect Natives had on the population, to the current situation makes it obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. I mean seriously guy, technology/pollution/human population are all so drastically different from back then you can't possibly try and compared the two. I've spent 4 years studying this stuff, so maybe I just understand it better, but its not rocket science. If you actually give a shit, look up the history of Cod fishing in Newfoundland, if you don't change your views even a little after that, your the reason we won't have a fishery in 50 years.

  • @TheAcousticshade
    @TheAcousticshade 3 роки тому +2

    Good to see Sylvester Stallone out there catching some fish

  • @danny88dh
    @danny88dh 3 роки тому

    Thats actually pretty cool

  • @Esserem
    @Esserem 2 роки тому

    This is amazing..

  • @lindseychandler
    @lindseychandler 3 роки тому +6

    This is gold. Good on you Steve, and Good on you Mike.

  • @ekim000
    @ekim000 3 роки тому +2

    That's genius level.

  • @clarenceoveur778
    @clarenceoveur778 2 роки тому

    Lol... now that's a fairly complex design for something that essentially does the same thing as a stationary Japanese fish trap made out of simple bamboo.