This is the place where my adventures, ideas, and experiences all come together from doing what I love the most. Bank and kayak fishing for bass, trout, and many other species using a variety of (interesting) techniques and baits.
Catching fish mainly in the North East of the United States, but one day hope to travel and fish the world.
Okay, for the cast iron, answer a few questions you had; Yes, originally the soap had lye and that ate thru the cast iron faster, hence initial instructions to not use soap to ensure longevity. And that’s where current instructions evolved from, still not using soap. For your rust, use steel wool, NOT THE KIND WITH SOAP IN IT, just scrub it out and rinse with hot water until the rust is gone. This will get rid of your layer of seasoning, but seasoning is quite easy. Seasoning cast iron: the reason we don’t use soap, even though there isn’t any lye anymore, is because it can get in the seasoning of the cast iron and ruin flavor. The easiest way, at least I have found, is to do your initial clean, hot water and steel wool, and then heat up the cast iron until it stops smoking. Once it stops smoking, turn off heat and take off burner, then add in a high smoke point oil (we usually use canola or beef tallow/lard). We use paper towels folded up to spread the oil and avoid getting burnt, and then it’s best to throw it in an oven at about 200, an hour will work but the longer the better the seasoning will be, just don’t forget about it overnight. Anyways, if you/anyone even decided to read all this, I hope it helps and keep up with the good work, hope to see the continuous improvements
Myboyfriend who is a great fisherman said when you go back to florida use a bucktail and pin fish strip or mud minnow works great you will catch you a limit of flounder hint/teaser rig for flonder with a strip of bluefish pin fish or mud minnow mullet cut bait =big redfish.
They stock Lightning Trout here at my local lake in California from November-February. They are awesome fighters and have a salmon like meat. Very good.
I've seen gigantic carp in that creek too. They actually stock trout in there in October as well. That creek has such a healthy biodiversity and a wide variety of fish species. I love fishing there, never know what you'll pull out!
I’m just getting into fishing for the first time since I was super young and have been loving your channel, love your energy dude. Super entertaining and super chill
