Bushcraft & Fishing - Catch and Cook Pan Fried Fish on the Fire at The Bushcraft Camp

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I took my Dad to the Bushcraft Camp where we did a catch and cook on the fire. This time we pan fried the fish in butter, which was a Bass. We tell you the whole recipe as well as show you how to catch Bass from the shore and a boat. Graeme also shows you how to de-scale the fish and clean it ready for cooking. It was great to chill at camp with Dad, and we spent some time to make a Primitive Bushcraft Chair with sticks. Hope you enjoy it - Mike

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well fish fish and cook this time we catch our own fish we knocked over the supermarket and you could go we couldn't ask for anything finer than that beautiful fresh and fast Phillips here big fish I wouldn't want to buy that in the restaurant angle of man and life I love you nailed to the ground with the price big bucks now they say the best way to cook fish is a simple way no fancy sauces so a spoonful or two of cooking oil that's all they say a couple of spoons all pan will be hot that's to just dip previously have some hair shampoo for my hotel you would not want to shampoo your hair in that there like glue and Noble butter we're getting monetize the same butter the butter obviously melts a lot quicker than the oil but by mixing the two together I think it's just you know I don't know what do you guys but he does don't do that okay that's the way to do it if you put couple of teaspoon full of oil I'm just holding that above the flame they're just trying to get that fish ginrei I fill it it's gonna cook a lot quicker these thinner in this laterally thinner these are beautiful Phillips hand-cut by MasterChef [Laughter]

I guess depending on the heat now the problem is with the tempo I can't always get constant heat it's not gasses you can't go up and down with it it's not like an electric cooker you get a constant heat with those that's why we use them otherwise everybody would have a campfire in their kitchen there's several different ways you can actually catch bass could be from the shore if your survivalist you're gonna be able to need to catch them from the shore or you can catch them from the boat here's a few ways that we catch them here they're totally awesome fishing show

sorry about the wind but chocolate bar halfway down my mouth this is we have waited three well I think like the other line I got a net it we're gonna have to mess around with this guys there's nobody watch that small hook right you're probably not gonna see the net and XO I worry about this guy's but we need to get this fish in the boat oh absolutely no way water change colors not too much not too much Mac was just hanging there I know their major hooks hanging in my head I mean two hooks hang in there that's a four totally awesome this could be a jumbo bash well there we go folks that is a totally awesome bass look at the size of the bait that it's taken that's ridiculous that is that's a chunky bait it you know on its own but this is it's got to go seven eight pounds I said nearly eight pounds this fish what an absolute clunking fast there's the dorsal fin there they got the spikes on the end of it it got spikes all over bass good eating fish spikes on the dorsal their spikes on the edge of the gills down down here's someone there and underneath as well just down there there's a spike as well just to be wary of it cracking fish awesome

well now you can see how some of the different ways you can catch bass but once you cut them you've got to cook them clean them and this is a way we do it

now let's say a catch had european seabass one of the ways that's from a boat you can also catch them if your survival patient cook from the shoreline now there here's one that we say we prepared earlier actually call on another trip so we've been gutted it's been in the fridge overnight nice big burst there but first to get it ready for the campfire I've got a D scale it before I fill it in I wasn't gonna block north now I'm not using my best friends in life here because I don't want that drunk by the scales I'm using a thicker kitchen type life to come under and flick these scales off I'll show you how I do I put a slight bend in the fish first I'm gonna start from the tail hope you can see this guys and just flick a few off like this they pain everywhere there's no easy way around it scraping tools to do it but you can see there you wouldn't want to be eating these it will be like crunching on a 10 cent piece so entree comes scraping and scraping it's not rocket science it's just the way it is with scaled fish like snappers as well anything with scales on you've got a D scale you can if you wanted to put it first and try B skinning it I think the traditional way will be trying it these armor-plated scales off the fish you can see they're pretty big just gradually work my way back where my hand is so it's very very carefully to what I'm using a slightly I say fede stand a blunter type of kitchen knife that's pretty when Ethan here it's nice and smooth if I come up here where the scales are you actually hear them flick they won't relative ways of cooking baths they are highly regarded as a fine restaurant table fish and for some strange obscure reason here in the UK the restaurant people have started calling it sea bass no no listen it's always been called a best for millennia but they think it obviously must celebrate of it's called sea bass where else do they think it comes from it's a bass a European breast almost fill it in aficionados don't bother commenting on all you've got some meat on the bone look if I'm surviving I'm eating the whole thing I'll probably make the head soup and I probably the liver guts and eyeballs but I'm not starving at the moment so don't bother writing me and say oh you've fileted it all wrong I'm finishing this my way and I can because it's our show in the rubbish right you guys get back I've got the bulk of the scales off there and I'm gonna fill it by making an insertion with this one Phyllis annoyed just in there so I'm gonna cut just round the back of the head here just behind it'll slide it gently behind that pectoral friend just easing it slowly yeah and then I'm just gonna insert the knife and hopefully run it just here you should be able to feel with the phillotson knife along the backbone just work my way along with that cut once you get a bit of a cut there you can you can actually just sort of stroke it along let's start with just do a very very slow cover no rush what's in it fast fast more equal and accident with finishing with sharp nice and this is a sharp knife there we go just bump it along the edge of the bones there it should be able to see this meat here just coming away from the skeleton there hey guys that say once you get off this this top half here the second half comes away a lot easier it's not always a lot of meat on them on the belly of the fish the majority of thick meat or nearly all fish is in there the top half that's whether this the strength comes from I'm just doing this or slowly did I get right through to the other side I would say is enough meat on here for four people

now there's two pretty hefty chunks of meat there well you can do this just watch that no I thought is you can go into the meat like this right just make a slightly angled cut hole in one end and just work the skin or the base of the main body back and forwards okay so now if at the same time I look you can take it off the skin itself so you don't have to worry about cooking with skin as you can see you've got two nice chunks of meat big slabs of meat there on both sides look clean on both sides and hopefully no bones in there gives you a guide let's get that fire going I can taste these fish already Mike made this little container out to tops of bottle caps put a little bit of salt on that side cuz I've got to turn this shortly and perhaps a little bit peppers what I think the other side and who is it also please you have to get sore throat the right hand over the left shoulder into the face of the devil who anybody else that has been doing that with me for years as a kid he always in a kitchen he's throwing it over the shoulder it's going everywhere mom gets annoyed with it but he's been doing it for absolutely years it kitchens actually covered in through yeah there's some peppers rolled up a little bit of bass with pepper you can put lemon on me different juices and I'm gonna turn this very shortly oh my word I could almost taste it

joy's it is smelling good we are pretty much ready outcome what looks like the blue the blue plates of back bushcraft here we are now ready to enjoy and you might seen earlier my Scott this if you know you're on dem wet ground a kneeling pad I just realize it could SS a sitting pad for dead on the log that's a good idea now I'm gonna have a wet bomb and you're not well experienced and general life experiences do tell you a little bit more than younger people what's the verdict I'm gonna film you eating it and very late in the park smells nice oh you're good well to be honest guys I had some with my wife we cook some back in the kitchen and this is better war don't tell her that no she didn't cook I did this is definitely better

I wonder if you see open fire that does it yeah I reckon what test yourself oh wait they don't trust me nice a real coffee lover but I've forgotten to bring the tea bag in the dark I have coffee coffee with milk and lots of sugar it was coffee does good hopefully coffee

it could be with the fish I mean man alive what can I just have a tea bag an English cup of tea to sit here in the lovely woods listening to Joe trying to find us in the air yeah yeah we've got so much activity going on he badges rest he's in their own families wood so we're lucky there but about a forester to over-mighty the beeping they got forestry vehicles working over there so I guess yeah cutting it down the forest there but this is all natural woodland here all deciduous all natural supposed natural as this cup of coffee it was natural three minutes to the latrine this is everyone's cup of tea or as he likes to call it is coffee which he's made so milky that it's basically a sugary a te heart attack in a carp is so caffeine's coming here it comes there's a gaffe a rush yeah I'll never sleep tonight

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so while we've Arthur we just had that bus we decided to have a go at making a little bushcraft chair there's loads of different ways of making these chairs this is just all quickly knocked up when we literally did this in about half an hour 20 minutes the great thing about this chair is obviously it doesn't get us wet like these logs because I can just take these off and get some more sticks put them on it's also pretty portable as you can see when I was moving it because it's basically - sort of a frame type logs tied together with some paracord are probably in hindsight wouldn't use paracord again I'd do something like bank line which is a bit tougher I think paracord is great for certain knots but it definitely slips when you're kind of doing lashes and whips and things like that over time it does slip so it has its place what we've done is obviously we've got a support pole here at the top to stop the bat pinging up and we've dug the back into the ground and put a log over the top of it to stop it flipping up so support pole at the top and then also underneath you can't really see it here support pole there to stop it flipping down to you it's the it prevents that seesaw motion basically so then for the backrest all I've got is it's a bit crude as a matter but there's just two support poles here about lower back and a mid to upper back here you can change obviously the angle of it as well you can lean it forward or lean it back what we've done here is we've actually tied this back support pole to the a-frame at the bottom and if I actually tied it to this a-frame here and not the bottom support pole I could basically move there this it's hard to explain but I can move this in and out and we could move the chair to wherever we want but we're quite happy here because it's here I've got the heat of the fire for the winter when it's cold and you know you're not too far you're not too close to the the fire itself so guys we're just building little things here got to try put it in the background the cooking tripod got a fire pit got one of the walls there's so much more me and I've want to do here this badges rest camp and hopefully over the winter months will come well we've got autumn first but the fall as you guys call it the fall

it's quite comfy unit right yes legs nice 90-degree angle on the legs no deep vein thrombosis for me yes any splinters no no that's not too bad at all actually

I'm quite impressed yeah I'm quite impressed I feel were to make another one of those yeah I think so I think so still have the logs for like ambient looks per guess yeah for guests and dollar fee around over there that's nice I'm quite but that's pretty springy yeah that's comfy enough you you definitely need those back supports possibly a few more back supports cuz I can feel my spine might be going through the back of it I don't know what it looks like through there but I would like a few more back supports here can you see it sort of sagging through that would be better to just to push me up a bit bit better posture I hope you've enjoyed that little bit guys where we had some bass the bass was amazing after MIT really really tasty and the bushcraft chair hopefully it lasts it's not gonna beat you last forever like all things in the woods that we build it's not gonna last forever but hopefully it'll last us through the winter anyway so yeah absolutely we haven't got any theory time for you guys at the moment but dad's got a little feather here which I reckon I know what it is we like to turn these feathers sometimes pick that one up I think it's different than last one we showed you so any of you guys know what it is I don't know it is my mom gonna say but have a guess I reckon you think it's a red kite could be oh it's got the orange team I think is off a buzzard so any of you guys this Rob is in England think they know what it is just have interest let us know what you think guys thanks very much for watching the video we do have one more thing that we want to show you but we're gonna pack our gear up first head on out towards the exit of the woodland and then we'll show you there well what we've got here is I've been given a trail cam which is pretty awesome this has got night vision as well films in the day films in the night by the trigger system obviously put some batteries in it first time I've used it hopefully we're gonna put it on this tree here we've that seen deer haven't either behind sure behind me here dad see dig that corner coming through there yeah and I've seen there's plenty of squirrel here because there's acorns everywhere from the oak tree but we've got the Badger set over to my right so I might put it there as well but I'm probably gonna leave it for maybe two nights and see what happens so going a bit lower

we're actually by the Badger we're gonna try it by the Badger set guys but obviously being a badger that we want to try and film there are only small mammals so I'm just going a bit lower I would go higher for deer but about there for the moment I'm just gonna secure it so here's here's the unit itself I'm not doing a full review on this guy's because I haven't used it properly yet you'll see that in a different video all I'm gonna do there's got an LCD screen here cameras here infrared well they're sort of black LEDs up there and the PIR sensor the per sensor is just there so I'm gonna put it on test first and you'll probably see dad with a camera there yeah that's dad with a camera come to the side a bit dad well guys just there on the top of screen is that is the dirt rough patch the Badgers hole it's just the other side of it so I know my camera's low enough to be able to film the Badger hopefully but now got a tension to strap up completely guys once I switch this to ohm we've got eight seconds hopefully and a turn seconds there we go clip weatherproof sleep tonight what with the coffee worried there's gonna be a badger or a bear or a Wolverine there badger holes everywhere used ones guys where whether the knees are in it so they don't use anymore but the one where we've we've put the trail cam there's all scratch marks there there's paw prints here's some more vertically for that one that's a huge one big ol perch pretty cool I'm going to break it off but you can use these to all sorts of things medicinal plasters even a knife strop I'll show you one day but this is a big old form versus it's been here quite a while you