I think Victor and James should collaborate on a channel doing just Catch Clean and Cooks. I like to cook alot so I kinda know good food when I see it and they both can throw down in the kitchen.
this is literally a restaurant idea in the making, you get a special of the day and you could watch how it was caught, and how it's made all while tasting it. You get dinner and a show.
In Delaware we call them blow fish. In the market they are called chicken legs of the sea and are selling for $7.00 a pound. When we catch them we clean them just as you showed in the video. We have been eating these for the past 60 years (my age) I was 7 years old when I was taught how to properly clean them with no sickness or problems. Our children and grandchild love them. Thanks for the video and seeing Brian again.
Yames is awesome! more videos with him please. you guys are an awesome combo to watch. I love how detailed you are with the fishing and describing and cleaning it and all of it. you are a great cook but I love how yames is so detailed. you both mixed something you both love into one video and I can appreciate that.
One of my favorite Simpsons episodes was where the family all go to a sushi restaurant. Homer orders fugu (pufferfish) and notices that the directions to the nearest hospital on written on the back of the menu. Great episode.
More Yames2 videos please! He seems so kind and you can tell he’s got a lot of love to give but with a new friendship you wait until you give it all. He’s a keeper!
I think my favorite part of your channel is that you are always learning. No matter how many subscribers and how much success you get, you are constantly pushing into new territory and bringing new ideas. Love it, man. Keep it up.
This has been said a million times before but I have to say it again, I love all of yours and Brooks Vids, the family & friends gatherings and also how humbling the brothers are... I love those guys! And aww man, I don't remember the Chef's name and I didn't comment in the other video that he first cooked in but he seems like an Awesome guy who is blessed with the talent as a chef who cooks some DELICIOUS looking dishes! Thank you guys for letting us experience this part of your life, family, friends and fun! 🤙
Brought back so many memories of childhood fishing in NY. my grandpa called them the chicken of the sea! We all ate them regularly with no ill effects. That plate looked so good it made my mouth water. Congrats to the chef!
YES, More visitors on the channel. Fishing with other people is fun to watch. Cooking with others is also very cool. James is an absolute natural on camera. Could see you guys collaborating on being partners in restaurants too. The sky is the limit.
Wow you guys are truly knocking it out of the park not just with the fishing videos but also with the sharing of ideas with the community and with family I can feel the love from here
Y’all need to be a team! Cooking was my hobby everyone showed up at my house for dinner until now. I work 10 hours a day 6 days a week it’s hard to cook, so it’s a pleasure watching y’all enjoy catching and cooking what you catch. This is a skill we all need to know
Thanks for having James on. He make what I would consider exotic meats reasonable to fix. Also I liked seeing the large “family” meal. Lastly, meeting your sources and accrediting them was a treat.
Thanks for the vid. Awesome as usual...I grew up on the Eastern Shore of VA and worked on the Chesapeake Bay. After crabbing/oystering we’d catch a few Puffers and cook them up. The Chesapeake puffers are different than the Florida ones/no toxins. I’ve thought about cleaning and cooking a few of these but read the Florida Regulations- “The State of Florida currently has a ban on both commercial and recreational harvesting of puffer fish from the waters of Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin counties on the east coast of Florida due to persistent toxicity. Puffer fish harvested from these Florida counties have been found to contain significant amounts of toxin in the flesh regardless of the preparation technique. The Northern Puffer fish from the mid-Atlantic coastal waters of the United States, typically between Virginia and New York, has not been found to contain toxin, but without routine toxin screening there still is a potential risk.” With this ban how did you do this vid? Just curious. Thanks 🤙🏻
Tuckamore Custom Knives the ban is because the puffers in the Indian river are full of toxins from the Cyanobacteria outbreaks we’ve had in recent years. They have accumulated saxitotoxin from the Cyanobacteria in their flesh from eating shellfish in the Indian river.
Honestly, James and Tyler added a dimension I've not seen before and you might have noticed my comments before Victor, you are really good...you and Brooke can cook really well...!!!
Once again you guys killed it. I love pufferfish! People are scared of it because they have no knowledge how to clean it. Love the way Chef Yames prepared it. Please don't let him go Victor, he is the perfect mentor for you both. Love how chilled and humble Yames is. Love your family , job well done guys. Here from the West coast (Bradenton), hope one day I can meet you personally. Have a 19 1/2 Mako 150hp Johnson Ocean Pro at your service! Mi casa es su casa!!
Made me hungry watching the video! James is the real deal. Thanks for the tips on catching and cooking Vik, your comment about the community is right on!! Really enjoyable to watch.
I love that you are properly teaching your brothers and sisters the correct way to prepare n save a trip to the hospital with eating this fish ur appreciated my brother n pray that more blessings n connections comes ur way💪🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🌎💖😇
Looks really awesome! I love the way he highlighted the fish in that dish, very well composed! I love a lot of acid in my dishes as well. Great job guys I’m hungry!!!
reminds me of how we ate sunfish as a kid. scale them, gut them, cut the dorsal off cuz on a sun fish theyre hard spines, leave the tail, score the sides so the butter/oil and breading can get down in the fish and fry probably the best tasting freshwater fish along with crappie. i see a lot of people pumping up james which is well deserved i absolutely love watching him cook. i was a chef for a while myself. but i can truly say that victor is actually an amazing cook. i see the stuff he comes up with and i love the ideas, especially the black tip steaks and stir fry that was a very good recipe from just my experience in cooking. when i watch catch and cooks its always very simple. salt, pepper, butter, lime. or cornstarch and panko, flour and panko. boring shit. i got a fish breading recipe thats out of this world. id dm it to victor but i dont think they sell the main ingredient in Florida. and even so its just one of those things i dont want to let 400,000 people know about. its a family thing ive only ever showed to people who cant cook and would never try to cook it anyways lol
Pufferfish are delicious!!! We used to catch them when I was a kid living on Long Island. We were told that the poison was in the green bile sack, and if you broke the sack you had to throw the fish away.
Awesome video Vic, that was sweet that your buddy the chef prepared it. I wasn't hungry until I saw the video, great content, fellowship and always a pleasure to view. God bless you and Brook and her family and yours as well. Keep the video's coming my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last time i went fishing I only caught 2 puffers. Didn't know what to do with them wasn't enough to make a meal. I had idea to make an omlet out of them and it was absolutely delicious. Puffer omelet
I've been riding this wave with you and Brook from the beginning, they just keep getting better and more polished. Love the whole family involvement + I've literally taken yours and Brooks recipes from my boat to my kitchen and I thank you for that ( so does the wife) keep up the outstanding work and maybe I'll see y'all out on the water.
That's no lie as a chef all you want to do is see people enjoy your meal that you prepare, good job James.. keep going bro victor and brook love you all family...
Yay! You all survived eating puffer fish! I've loved every video on yours and Brook's channels, Vic, but this is the one and only catch and cook that I would not participate in. I always knew that they were potentially deadly, and I used to catch them as a kid in Jupiter. Reading the info though just makes me say no even more emphatically to trying them. Glad you all liked it.
You guys are an amazing family. Nice to see. I do most of the cooking for family get togethers and people are always calling me to the table. i get it we like to watch people enjoy our work
This was really interesting to me. I live in Victoria, Australia and was taught our toadies are highly toxic. The taking of any toad or puffer fish is prohibited. Of the Tetraodontidae family they have deadly toxins in certain body tissues (eaten in Japan as Fugu) but in Australia should be avoided as food. 🍺🍺🇦🇺🇦🇺
They are fine eating if you how to clean it. Avoid all the red meat where the blood is. Clean out all the blood and the guts and then the fish is extremely tasty.
@@samthorley3396 when I was a kid in the 70s we were retrieving our boat at the Queenscliff ramps when my mum saw a family of four with a bucket full of toadies. They were taking them home to eat and didn’t know they were toxic until my mum told them. I still to this day think my mum saved an entire family from possible death. I love Geelong, lived in Lara many years and my kids have houses there now. We spend heaps of time on the bay around the Bellarine Peninsula, Queenscliff, Sorrento etc.
That was so cool how you cleaned those puffers. I bet that chef is a good dude! He seems to really enjoy cooking. Y’all need to make more videos together.
It's really something how when you clean a 🐡 it kind of resembles a🍗 and it's one of the best tasting fish I've ever had I may just broil it next time with some parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs on top
This is why I became a devoted fan. Something new is always there. I don't know if you have done this, but I think a trip to Alaska would be great. I would like to see some halibut and salmon cooking.
Very true! They have a sort of “groove” on the top and bottom that makes them appear to have teeth, but you’re absolutely correct, it’s a beak…and it’ll carve a divot out of your flesh easier than a squid or parrot can. After all, they eat snails, oysters, and other hard-shelled bivalves that *we* need two hands and a knife to get open - they get through those oyster and clam shells with only that beak! Barnacles, too.
You guys make me smile !, I’m gonna make a vid showing the Canadian fresh water version. It’s called barbut locally or brown bullhead. Same size as your puffer, caught in the spring, so really cold water, super clean, and no measurable contaminants cause of diet and age of fish. I believe that we have a limit in the populated areas of Ontario and Quebec, however it’s a similar Recreational fishery As your puffer fish. Thanks for making vids that show a lot of options for angling accessible to everyone. Angling, recreation, combined with fine dining,, who would have imagined !
Good stuff nice to see the process from start to finish. James is fantastic, you can tell the food is good because everyone’s so passionate about how it taste. 🤤
It's really cool to see how a real chef just instinctively knows how to blend flavors. This does this, this reacts with this, and this and this will do that. Amazing. Many kudos! I wish I had a spot at that table! Well, the whole process! If you ever need a guest star taste tester, (I'm not a star) lol. But I'd gladly be an honest review!!!
Man...I never thought that I ever would crave eating a puffer fish but after this video i am. That whole meal looked off the chain and i bet it tasted that way too. Thanks again vik for the education on cleaning puffers safely for consumption.
its pretty awesome that you and James both have the same cooking style. love your vids they have made me think twice before throwing a fish back and iv gotten so many grate ideas for the kitchen from you. you have influenced my cooking a lot.
More than 55 years ago my Aunt and Uncle took my family and I to Barnegat Bay in New Jersey to go crabbing and fish for "Blowfish." I do not remember my Uncle saying anything about them being toxic, but he did clean them pretty much like Victor did, except he used a pair of pliers. As he cooked them for us, he called them "Chicken of the Sea", and I remember them tasting delicious!
Love ❤️ Vic your videos special when you have James cooking 🍳 with recipes like this one,I never would think that we could eat pufferfish God bless you and Brooks for this videos
Used to catch those a lot when I was a kid and my father brought the family to fish - the hooks had this metal string attached to then so the pufferfish couldn't break the line. We didn't eat it - me and my sister loved to catch one to play with for a time then release it far from where my father was fishing or when we were about to go home
They are awesome to eat, I grew up in Pompano catching and eating them, taste just like shrimp, my opinion, Thanks for sharing. That's my next target fish this weekend.
DUDE! Brookie, Yames, and you have, yet again, knocked another video out of the park. I live inland to far to get to do the things you guys do. I REALLY enjoy you guys videos. Keep up the good work and another GR8 Vid!
Back in 1970 I would go fishing with my mom & dad and we would catch 1+ lb Eastern Blowfish (Northern Puffer) off of the docks on the Great South Bay on the south side of Long Island New York. On a good day, we would fill a 30 gallon trash can with these little puffers, wear out 2 pair of rubber gloves and dull our best filet knife cleaning them. So long as you cook them good, there is no risk of being poisoned. We ate enough of these growing up that I couldn't look at, let alone eat, fish for almost 20 years. In the 80's the outflow of agricultural chemicals from Long Island farming decimated the shellfish in and around the bays, and that almost drove the Blowfish to extinction. If you run out of bait, Blowfish are not very bright and will attack strips of their own skin, the white puffy bottom. About a dozen years ago, a hundred thousand seedlings were released in the Great South Bay and they are coming back. I miss those weekends when we would drive out to Robert Moses State Park and see thousands of flat bottomed clabming boats on the bay. BTW, Blowfish do not have teeth, they have a beak, much like that of an Octopus or Squid. Given the opportunity they will certainly take your finger off or a chunk out of your hand if it gets too close. When cleaning them, we would cut all the way thru to the bottom skin, which is very tough (like sharkskin) and then use the filet knife to coax the tail out of it's skin. It took a few dozen to perfect the method, but you had to be efficient when cleaning 30 gallons of Blowfish. When we had that kind of fishing day, everyone in the neighborhood ate Blowfish. Glad you enjoyed the catch/cook and thanks for the video !
Very nice video you and Yames put a nice variety together the first time I watched was the iguana and snake . Really enjoyed it, thanks for sharing.🙏🇺🇸🥊🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🥊🇺🇸👍✌️
It's crazy seeing that lake on youtube- practically my backyard as a kid! I have no advice about targeting them, they're really just an occasional bycatch for me, but would you ever consider doing a toadfish catch & cook? I love this channel's message of "no fish a trash fish!" but toadfish are something else. I think it would be an interesting challenge, and if you can do puffers and sea robins I think you can do toadfish! Thanks for always making great content.
@@Green4Phantom It's in the southeast part of Broward County in the city of Hollywood, FL; if that's too far from wherever you are I'm sorry. I'm no good with street names or addresses but if you go on google maps and follow the ICW you can't miss it. In the video they got an aerial view of the two lakes so you know what shape to look for. Cheers and good luck! Be careful if you're trying to eat them, I would probably never chance it personally.
I lived in Japan around the turn of the millennium and I was always under the impression it took a lot of training and licensing to be authorised to prepare pufferfish for human consumption (with the added bonus that supposedly one or two diners died every year or so from incorrectly prepared fish). I'd be wary like those catfish unless you're absolutely sure you know what you're doing. It was extremely expensive in Japan - mostly because of the danger-hype, i guess, but that looks like the perfect place to catch your own!
when i was a kid i Caught Cleaned & Cooked Pufferfish without knowing there is a poisonous part in them, Pufferfish is a delicacy.much thanks to the chef yames
I remember growing up going fishing with my dad in South Texas and using that Walmart shrimp as bait, always had us catch nice drums and catfish, my uncles always wondered how a lil middle school girl was catching so many fish, thanks dad! 🤣💖💯
No disrespect to you at all, but James looks like a phenomenal chef. Love it.
None taken he's amazing, he's got years of experience on me and he's just extremely creative. Big inspiration for sure!
There’s nothing disrespectful about that statement at all I totally agree he can cook it up!
yeah he killed that
Landshark Outdoors hi love you and your videos
Petition for Yames to get a UA-cam Channel...
U mean james
I’d watch that
@@dwightwilliams6671 u must be new
i caught that pronunciation as well. pops got fancy with the names 😎😎😎
James needs a channel forsure these guys need to keep making videos together
Brook's dad is the ultimate hype man
Unreal right? That’s the jackpot of father in laws
Facts
And the Royal Taster 🤴🏼
I love Brook's daddy ❤️❤️
everyone needs a guy like that
If he doesn't post a video tomorrow let's just assume this went wrong
Lol
Hahahaha lmao
Loool
Lol
Was thinking the same thing lol
I think Victor and James should collaborate on a channel doing just Catch Clean and Cooks. I like to cook alot so I kinda know good food when I see it and they both can throw down in the kitchen.
I think so too. They each can make their own dish each episode. I'm always cooking and have learned alot of recipes watching Victor.
this is literally a restaurant idea in the making, you get a special of the day and you could watch how it was caught, and how it's made all while tasting it. You get dinner and a show.
@@calebchristensen900 would be awfully difficult to do that all in a day.
In Delaware we call them blow fish. In the market they are called chicken legs of the sea and are selling for $7.00 a pound. When we catch them we clean them just as you showed in the video. We have been eating these for the past 60 years (my age) I was 7 years old when I was taught how to properly clean them with no sickness or problems. Our children and grandchild love them. Thanks for the video and seeing Brian again.
“I’m a big ACID guy too..” 😂😂😂
"Come sit down man"
Yames: "Force of habit man"
You're lucky he didint eat the whole plate in .3 seconds over a trash can in true chef form xD
100%
Definitely bring this guy backs he knows what he’s doing
Yames is awesome! more videos with him please. you guys are an awesome combo to watch. I love how detailed you are with the fishing and describing and cleaning it and all of it. you are a great cook but I love how yames is so detailed. you both mixed something you both love into one video and I can appreciate that.
its james bro
One of my favorite Simpsons episodes was where the family all go to a sushi restaurant. Homer orders fugu (pufferfish) and notices that the directions to the nearest hospital on written on the back of the menu. Great episode.
More Yames2 videos please! He seems so kind and you can tell he’s got a lot of love to give but with a new friendship you wait until you give it all. He’s a keeper!
I think my favorite part of your channel is that you are always learning. No matter how many subscribers and how much success you get, you are constantly pushing into new territory and bringing new ideas. Love it, man. Keep it up.
This has been said a million times before but I have to say it again, I love all of yours and Brooks Vids, the family & friends gatherings and also how humbling the brothers are... I love those guys! And aww man, I don't remember the Chef's name and I didn't comment in the other video that he first cooked in but he seems like an Awesome guy who is blessed with the talent as a chef who cooks some DELICIOUS looking dishes! Thank you guys for letting us experience this part of your life, family, friends and fun! 🤙
Where is that spot at?
When the trumpet starts playing in the background you know the food is going to be good 😂
😆😆😆
I appreciate this kind of effort put in to cooking. This dude needs his own channel. Way to spread the love Viktor.
Brought back so many memories of childhood fishing in NY. my grandpa called them the chicken of the sea! We all ate them regularly with no ill effects. That plate looked so good it made my mouth water. Congrats to the chef!
YES, More visitors on the channel. Fishing with other people is fun to watch. Cooking with others is also very cool. James is an absolute natural on camera. Could see you guys collaborating on being partners in restaurants too. The sky is the limit.
This guy James can DEFINITELY cook. He’s speaking a different language here and I like it 👍🏽💯%
Wow you guys are truly knocking it out of the park not just with the fishing videos but also with the sharing of ideas with the community and with family I can feel the love from here
Y’all need to be a team! Cooking was my hobby everyone showed up at my house for dinner until now. I work 10 hours a day 6 days a week it’s hard to cook, so it’s a pleasure watching y’all enjoy catching and cooking what you catch. This is a skill we all need to know
You guys are good together. James seems like a top guy. Brooks lovely, and her dad is a classic.
Thanks for having James on. He make what I would consider exotic meats reasonable to fix. Also I liked seeing the large “family” meal. Lastly, meeting your sources and accrediting them was a treat.
Thanks for the vid. Awesome as usual...I grew up on the Eastern Shore of VA and worked on the Chesapeake Bay. After crabbing/oystering we’d catch a few Puffers and cook them up. The Chesapeake puffers are different than the Florida ones/no toxins. I’ve thought about cleaning and cooking a few of these but read the Florida Regulations- “The State of Florida currently has a ban on both commercial and recreational harvesting of puffer fish from the waters of Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin counties on the east coast of Florida due to persistent toxicity. Puffer fish harvested from these Florida counties have been found to contain significant amounts of toxin in the flesh regardless of the preparation technique. The Northern Puffer fish from the mid-Atlantic coastal waters of the United States, typically between Virginia and New York, has not been found to contain toxin, but without routine toxin screening there still is a potential risk.” With this ban how did you do this vid? Just curious. Thanks 🤙🏻
Tuckamore Custom Knives the ban is because the puffers in the Indian river are full of toxins from the Cyanobacteria outbreaks we’ve had in recent years. They have accumulated saxitotoxin from the Cyanobacteria in their flesh from eating shellfish in the Indian river.
Honestly, James and Tyler added a dimension I've not seen before and you might have noticed my comments before Victor, you are really good...you and Brooke can cook really well...!!!
Once more James nailed it. This guy is on fire. What a guy. Well done James. 👏
Once again you guys killed it. I love pufferfish! People are scared of it because they have no knowledge how to clean it. Love the way Chef Yames prepared it. Please don't let him go Victor, he is the perfect mentor for you both. Love how chilled and humble Yames is. Love your family , job well done guys. Here from the West coast (Bradenton), hope one day I can meet you personally. Have a 19 1/2 Mako 150hp Johnson Ocean Pro at your service! Mi casa es su casa!!
Made me hungry watching the video! James is the real deal. Thanks for the tips on catching and cooking Vik, your comment about the community is right on!! Really enjoyable to watch.
I love that you are properly teaching your brothers and sisters the correct way to prepare n save a trip to the hospital with eating this fish ur appreciated my brother n pray that more blessings n connections comes ur way💪🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🌎💖😇
Need to start ‘The Chef Yames Show’ now... Just sayin 🤔
James is the best addition to the show, this guy is legit.
Looks really awesome! I love the way he highlighted the fish in that dish, very well composed! I love a lot of acid in my dishes as well. Great job guys I’m hungry!!!
Big acid guy!
Back when I was little, we went to Florida as a vacation and after that, I thought I wanted to live in Florida. This channel is reigniting that in me
I just love how you do the cooking part it’s a great idea ,you got my attention bros am here in Trinidad and liking every moment.
Ok but I absolutely LOVE the noise puffer fish make, they are adorable
Glad your are bring other people in the mix. Your channel is one my favorites! James is the man...
reminds me of how we ate sunfish as a kid. scale them, gut them, cut the dorsal off cuz on a sun fish theyre hard spines, leave the tail, score the sides so the butter/oil and breading can get down in the fish and fry probably the best tasting freshwater fish along with crappie. i see a lot of people pumping up james which is well deserved i absolutely love watching him cook. i was a chef for a while myself. but i can truly say that victor is actually an amazing cook. i see the stuff he comes up with and i love the ideas, especially the black tip steaks and stir fry that was a very good recipe from just my experience in cooking. when i watch catch and cooks its always very simple. salt, pepper, butter, lime. or cornstarch and panko, flour and panko. boring shit. i got a fish breading recipe thats out of this world. id dm it to victor but i dont think they sell the main ingredient in Florida. and even so its just one of those things i dont want to let 400,000 people know about. its a family thing ive only ever showed to people who cant cook and would never try to cook it anyways lol
I love fishing and cooking waow you just killed it that’s great
Pufferfish are delicious!!! We used to catch them when I was a kid living on Long Island. We were told that the poison was in the green bile sack, and if you broke the sack you had to throw the fish away.
Yames cooking is on another level, the man can cook!
Awesome video Vic, that was sweet that your buddy the chef prepared it. I wasn't hungry until I saw the video, great content, fellowship and always a pleasure to view. God bless you and Brook and her family and yours as well. Keep the video's coming my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last time i went fishing I only caught 2 puffers. Didn't know what to do with them wasn't enough to make a meal. I had idea to make an omlet out of them and it was absolutely delicious. Puffer omelet
Awesome video and recipe!!! Ur videos are great, thanks so much for sharing w us!!
I could watch James cook all day.
As soon as I hear the trumpets start playing, I know it’s about to go DOWN in the kitchen!
You’ve lived it brother!
Love your videos, always making me hungry. God bless!
Thank you my friend!!
I've been riding this wave with you and Brook from the beginning, they just keep getting better and more polished. Love the whole family involvement + I've literally taken yours and Brooks recipes from my boat to my kitchen and I thank you for that ( so does the wife) keep up the outstanding work and maybe I'll see y'all out on the water.
Victor you all killed it it was delicious and I wasn't even there you fed my eyes like I feed my belly God bless you looking forward to more videos
That's no lie as a chef all you want to do is see people enjoy your meal that you prepare, good job James.. keep going bro victor and brook love you all family...
Kudos to James - Pufferfish chef extra-ordinaire !!!
James is a awesome chief!Python catch clean cook!?
Yay! You all survived eating puffer fish! I've loved every video on yours and Brook's channels, Vic, but this is the one and only catch and cook that I would not participate in. I always knew that they were potentially deadly, and I used to catch them as a kid in Jupiter. Reading the info though just makes me say no even more emphatically to trying them. Glad you all liked it.
You guys are an amazing family. Nice to see. I do most of the cooking for family get togethers and people are always calling me to the table. i get it we like to watch people enjoy our work
Great video. Another fantastic meal served up by James!! Yummy!!
This was really interesting to me. I live in Victoria, Australia and was taught our toadies are highly toxic. The taking of any toad or puffer fish is prohibited. Of the Tetraodontidae family they have deadly toxins in certain body tissues (eaten in Japan as Fugu) but in Australia should be avoided as food. 🍺🍺🇦🇺🇦🇺
They are fine eating if you how to clean it. Avoid all the red meat where the blood is. Clean out all the blood and the guts and then the fish is extremely tasty.
Same I’m from geelong in vic
@@samthorley3396 when I was a kid in the 70s we were retrieving our boat at the Queenscliff ramps when my mum saw a family of four with a bucket full of toadies. They were taking them home to eat and didn’t know they were toxic until my mum told them. I still to this day think my mum saved an entire family from possible death. I love Geelong, lived in Lara many years and my kids have houses there now. We spend heaps of time on the bay around the Bellarine Peninsula, Queenscliff, Sorrento etc.
James is very talented. Enjoy his cooking
That was so cool how you cleaned those puffers. I bet that chef is a good dude! He seems to really enjoy cooking. Y’all need to make more videos together.
It's really something how when you clean a 🐡 it kind of resembles a🍗 and it's one of the best tasting fish I've ever had I may just broil it next time with some parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs on top
This is why I became a devoted fan. Something new is always there. I don't know if you have done this, but I think a trip to Alaska would be great. I would like to see some halibut and salmon cooking.
They bite hard, it hurts like heck and they draw blood. That parrot beak is no joke, one got me and it was not pretty. lol
Very true! They have a sort of “groove” on the top and bottom that makes them appear to have teeth, but you’re absolutely correct, it’s a beak…and it’ll carve a divot out of your flesh easier than a squid or parrot can. After all, they eat snails, oysters, and other hard-shelled bivalves that *we* need two hands and a knife to get open - they get through those oyster and clam shells with only that beak! Barnacles, too.
I live in California, and I wish we had a fishery like this to get my young son into fishing, something easy with high success that tastes good.
Mackerel are abundant and are not bad grilled.
Seth Heller move out of that comie filled California to like Texas
You guys make me smile !, I’m gonna make a vid showing the Canadian fresh water version. It’s called barbut locally or brown bullhead. Same size as your puffer, caught in the spring, so really cold water, super clean, and no measurable contaminants cause of diet and age of fish. I believe that we have a limit in the populated areas of Ontario and Quebec, however it’s a similar Recreational fishery As your puffer fish. Thanks for making vids that show a lot of options for angling accessible to everyone. Angling, recreation, combined with fine dining,, who would have imagined !
Good stuff nice to see the process from start to finish. James is fantastic, you can tell the food is good because everyone’s so passionate about how it taste. 🤤
Robert Arrington "You've never had toadied?"
It's really cool to see how a real chef just instinctively knows how to blend flavors. This does this, this reacts with this, and this and this will do that. Amazing. Many kudos! I wish I had a spot at that table! Well, the whole process! If you ever need a guest star taste tester, (I'm not a star) lol. But I'd gladly be an honest review!!!
You guys had me drooling at the end. Good stuff.
I don’t think I would eat a puffer fish but hey, to each his own. Love your channel and Brook’s channel as well. Awesome fishing and locations❤.
Man...I never thought that I ever would crave eating a puffer fish but after this video i am. That whole meal looked off the chain and i bet it tasted that way too. Thanks again vik for the education on cleaning puffers safely for consumption.
its pretty awesome that you and James both have the same cooking style. love your vids they have made me think twice before throwing a fish back and iv gotten so many grate ideas for the kitchen from you. you have influenced my cooking a lot.
Vic your cooking always has me craving, James’ cooking looks amazing! As a gardener myself Brooke’s home grown herbs adds that special touch. Love it!
More than 55 years ago my Aunt and Uncle took my family and I to Barnegat Bay in New Jersey to go crabbing and fish for "Blowfish." I do not remember my Uncle saying anything about them being toxic, but he did clean them pretty much like Victor did, except he used a pair of pliers. As he cooked them for us, he called them "Chicken of the Sea", and I remember them tasting delicious!
James is awesome! Have him on more of your videos.
“There’s no method to this madness” no dude, your plate is beautiful.
Love ❤️ Vic your videos special when you have James cooking 🍳 with recipes like this one,I never would think that we could eat pufferfish
God bless you and Brooks for this videos
Absolutely BANGER of a video. Been loving the content lately
Do a off shore cach clean and cook with him and these vids are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'm also digging James. THE visionary fresh south Florida chef! Good stuff Victor 👍👍
Used to catch those a lot when I was a kid and my father brought the family to fish - the hooks had this metal string attached to then so the pufferfish couldn't break the line.
We didn't eat it - me and my sister loved to catch one to play with for a time then release it far from where my father was fishing or when we were about to go home
Way to go pops - you're the man :-))) hmmm crunchy Pufferfish tails - Love it !!!
I agree. You are the real deal. New to the channel and I'm loving it. Been binge watching the last two days. Really like the way you do your videos.
I’m so impressed brook had enough parsley for all these plates!!! You go girl! The native swallowtail catters always get all of mine!
They are awesome to eat, I grew up in Pompano catching and eating them, taste just like shrimp, my opinion, Thanks for sharing. That's my next target fish this weekend.
DUDE! Brookie, Yames, and you have, yet again, knocked another video out of the park. I live inland to far to get to do the things you guys do. I REALLY enjoy you guys videos. Keep up the good work and another GR8 Vid!
Back in 1970 I would go fishing with my mom & dad and we would catch 1+ lb Eastern Blowfish (Northern Puffer) off of the docks on the Great South Bay on the south side of Long Island New York. On a good day, we would fill a 30 gallon trash can with these little puffers, wear out 2 pair of rubber gloves and dull our best filet knife cleaning them. So long as you cook them good, there is no risk of being poisoned. We ate enough of these growing up that I couldn't look at, let alone eat, fish for almost 20 years. In the 80's the outflow of agricultural chemicals from Long Island farming decimated the shellfish in and around the bays, and that almost drove the Blowfish to extinction. If you run out of bait, Blowfish are not very bright and will attack strips of their own skin, the white puffy bottom. About a dozen years ago, a hundred thousand seedlings were released in the Great South Bay and they are coming back. I miss those weekends when we would drive out to Robert Moses State Park and see thousands of flat bottomed clabming boats on the bay. BTW, Blowfish do not have teeth, they have a beak, much like that of an Octopus or Squid. Given the opportunity they will certainly take your finger off or a chunk out of your hand if it gets too close. When cleaning them, we would cut all the way thru to the bottom skin, which is very tough (like sharkskin) and then use the filet knife to coax the tail out of it's skin. It took a few dozen to perfect the method, but you had to be efficient when cleaning 30 gallons of Blowfish. When we had that kind of fishing day, everyone in the neighborhood ate Blowfish. Glad you enjoyed the catch/cook and thanks for the video !
Very nice video you and Yames put a nice variety together the first time I watched was the iguana and snake . Really enjoyed it, thanks for sharing.🙏🇺🇸🥊🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🥊🇺🇸👍✌️
Damn, I wish i had a neighbor like Yames.
Loving the collabs! Keep em coming
Guy is a great . Would love to see him cook more. Great show
It's crazy seeing that lake on youtube- practically my backyard as a kid!
I have no advice about targeting them, they're really just an occasional bycatch for me, but would you ever consider doing a toadfish catch & cook? I love this channel's message of "no fish a trash fish!" but toadfish are something else. I think it would be an interesting challenge, and if you can do puffers and sea robins I think you can do toadfish! Thanks for always making great content.
Where is this place? Having a hard time finding them. I’m only catching 3 at a time.
@@Green4Phantom It's in the southeast part of Broward County in the city of Hollywood, FL; if that's too far from wherever you are I'm sorry. I'm no good with street names or addresses but if you go on google maps and follow the ICW you can't miss it. In the video they got an aerial view of the two lakes so you know what shape to look for. Cheers and good luck! Be careful if you're trying to eat them, I would probably never chance it personally.
It's called Hollywood lakes, Broward county
Very nice. As a kid we caught what we called blowtoads out of the Chesapeake Bay and stores sold them as sugar fish. Delicious!
I lived in Japan around the turn of the millennium and I was always under the impression it took a lot of training and licensing to be authorised to prepare pufferfish for human consumption (with the added bonus that supposedly one or two diners died every year or so from incorrectly prepared fish). I'd be wary like those catfish unless you're absolutely sure you know what you're doing. It was extremely expensive in Japan - mostly because of the danger-hype, i guess, but that looks like the perfect place to catch your own!
Always looking forward to your videos great pointers and the catch and cook wooo
Love your videos! Would love to see you come to North Dakota during paddle fishing season!!
when i was a kid i Caught Cleaned & Cooked Pufferfish without knowing there is a poisonous part in them, Pufferfish is a delicacy.much thanks to the chef yames
Hey from London here hope you guys are ok that chef is the man can't wait for the next cooking show
James is a true artist!
Hey Vick my name is Vick as well and I love cooking too. Love a good Fish Fry. Love the togetherness..
Subscribed because you're a great explainer of things Succinct and not superfluous Great job and I'm glad this ended up in my algorithm
Yalls food always looks so good!! Love the big kitchen and family style table!
I remember growing up going fishing with my dad in South Texas and using that Walmart shrimp as bait, always had us catch nice drums and catfish, my uncles always wondered how a lil middle school girl was catching so many fish, thanks dad! 🤣💖💯