Crappie Catch and Cook!

Yeah, Katie's got one too. We are down at the dock fishing and if we get enough of big huge crappie we're gonna do a catch and cook. That's right today it's not just me and Houston we got Emily, Katie, and guess what we've even got DJ down here my wife. We're all gonna be fishing at the dock. We're at a local youth camp but we're about just a couple miles from our house but this is Arbuckle Lake and it's kind of a private dock that they use for the youth camp and we have access to come down and go fishing so we're gonna do a little crappie fishing under the docks today and hopefully slam some crappie and cook some this evening. So we're fishing with live bait today. Houston's rigging him up a minnow actually he's rigging it up for his mama hang on buddy hang on hang on don't hook him right through the belly okay spin it around and hook it right back there by his tail there you go all the way through so we're just using live bait we went got some minnows Houston you get to eat the first minnow. You don't want to eat one? No. I always heard hey listen I always heard you had fishermen had good luck if they ate the first minnow. No that ain't true. So this is my second fish of the day of the crappie. I bet. Pick it up pick it up pick it up. Oh looky there. You got a big crappie. Let's see it flip it around here. Good job Houston. That's going to be our second What are you gonna do with these crappie? We're gonna do a catch and cook tonight baby. Mom finally got one. Oh she got a dinky crappie. I don't care I got one. I'll get it off. Katie got one too. Hey get it in get it off over the water you're gonna lose it. That's a giant crappie. Let's see holy moly that is a giant crappie. Get back get back Gemma. Oh my goodness. Let's measure him. Holy cow Katie that is a slab crappie. Holy moly Katie now that's a crappie. Good job. Hey I caught one a while ago but nobody cared because Katie caught a giant. I don't know. Well let's see how I do Katie then. All right come get me a minnow. You've only got to catch one bigger than 14 and a half. Yeah. Look look DJ's trying to get service to send Katie's picture. Look at that giant crappie. So this was our last fish. Last fish of the day huh? Yeah. He's too small to keep. You gonna let him go? I want to get him in the picture. Let me rephrase that. He's too small to keep. You need to let him go. We're just gonna get him in the picture. Well we're definitely going to have crappie for supper this evening. So we caught we probably caught 30 crappie but the problem was was most of them were you know and that they've got to be a 10 inch a minimum of 10 inches to keep before they're legal and I bet we caught 15 or 20 that were between 9 and 10 inches. There's just a ton of those little small crappie but we have got more than enough to have us a good supper tonight. So we're gonna be cooking some crappie at the house later. Well we got all the fish cleaned up. I'm gonna take them home and wash them. All I got here is lake water and I didn't really feel like washing them off in lake water but I'm telling you what it's hard to beat a day off at the lake with a bucket full of minnows catching a bucket full of crappie with your wife and kids. I mean it doesn't get any better than that. So let's go home and relax and then this evening we're gonna be cooking some crappie and I don't know what all else but it's gonna be a good evening on the patio. I can already see it. So guys if y'all didn't see our corn hole. So dad you posted it on something. Instagram. If you put if you seen it on camera if you're on it if you're on Instagram you probably have saw that on our channel if you follow us and if y'all didn't see it we got like a corn hole that says YouTube Arms Family Homestead and we have one that says um DJ Arms Photography. Yeah. So let's go home play some corn hole. Got the wok warming up. Look at this crappie. Crappie is my favorite fresh water fish by by far. I love it. So we're gonna batter it and fry it. Cooking it in peanut oil over here. This is just cornmeal and I used Everglades and Tony Chachere seasoning. Just spice it up a little bit but that crappie doesn't doesn't need a lot of help to taste good. It's shaking bake and I helped. All right well that was an epic fail. Let's try this again. So it's very important if you're going to use a Ziploc bag zip the Ziploc bag. I was trying to be real careful out here not make a mess. I put paper towel or a newspaper down and all that. What I was fixing to say before I did all that was eventually I'd like to build something out here. Not not a big like $20,000 outdoor kitchen but something with a grill. I've got a water uh hook up and a drain and then maybe some burners like this that are like a side burner you know. Eventually. Maybe something out of steel has some counter space so we're not doing this on the ground. Epic fail. No we'll take none if y'all are 12. Y'all are ahead of us but we were higher than six. Somebody just throw a dang bean bag. Get that on video because it went in the hole. No it didn't. Almost did. So while we wait on our oil to heat up for the second time because some of us aren't smart enough to zip a Ziploc bag. The other day or the other night I showed you guys my father's day present and it was this cornhole set. Custom built cornhole set and a lot of people play cornhole. It's really popular. It's a pretty self-explanatory game. If you want to know the rules look it up. Anyways these were custom built by a guy I went to high school with. So a while back I talked to you guys about side hustles and making side income and earning money on the side like we do with our YouTube channel or mowing lawns or whatever it is. And a guy I went to high school with started a custom woodworking business and this is his side job. He does in his garage at night after work and it's called Phelps Custom Woodworks. So he does these really cool cornhole boards but he also does American flags. What? Phelps Custom Crafts. What did I say? Phelps Custom Woodworks. So I said it wrong it's Phelps Custom Crafts not Custom Woodworks even though it's woodwork. Anyways he makes these really cool American flags that they use a torch and burn. A lot of cool designs but the cornhole games I'm telling you are awesome. This is what he does as a side hustle. Extra income for his family. So really cool deal. I mean these are top-notch quality. His name is Brad Phelps. You can check him out on Facebook at Phelps Custom Crafts and I'll leave a link in the description box down below. I asked him before I did this if he was willing to ship this stuff and he said he does ship them. So if you're looking for a custom cornhole set or a really cool wooden American flag go check him out on Facebook. Money back. Oh did you hear that? I need a money back guarantee on that non-zipping Ziploc bag. Alright get them mixed up good in the Ziploc bag. Try to throw them in the grease without throwing the grease all over the place. You there. I have a feeling this isn't going to last very long once it hits the table. I'm looking forward to getting taught. Get back. I'm looking forward to getting taught. Give me that fish. Crappie, Hush Puppies, Tater Tots, Point Blank and some leftover elk steak from Emily's Elk. Alright DJ. Yeah. Since you're the taste tester. No I am. Here's some butter. Mmm that's my fave. It's so good. Well how's that for catch clean and cook and an awesome Monday evening right there. We're just going to sit out here on the patio wait till it gets dark playing cornhole. It's just an awesome evening. Awesome way to spend time with my family. I love my days off from my real job and getting to share my days off on YouTube with you guys. So guys if you have any ideas for building something here on the patio so we can have you know like a grill, the sink and some side burners. Let me know if you got some ideas. Shoot me an email. Shoot me a message. Leave a link in the description box down below. Whatever you can figure out and if you know somebody that can build something custom hook me up. We might hook something up. Might get together and work something out. But anyways guys that's all I've got for today. I'm gonna sit out here and chill with the family. So guys thanks for watching. Hope y'all enjoyed it. Y'all have a great day and as always we'll see you on the next video.