GARFISH - Catch Clean Cook , Mini Marlin Of the UK 

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Great video. We've loads of these in Ireland too. We call them Corr Uaine (means twisted green creature) pronounced Kurr-win-a. A traditional way of catching them here is a biteen of sheep wool dyed orange, red or black sheep wool and put that onto string and throw it out. The fishes teeth get tangled in the fibres of the wool and you pull them in gently. This method is still done with handline and on a rod and reel

The garfish you guys get over there are just a bit bigger than what we get here in South Australia! Lol cracking session!

Love to sit and watch your videos me and my little girl (she’s two) can’t wait to go fishing in summer next year just to cold 🥶 for little one now but mummy (me) got her a kids magnet fishing rod and magnet fish to keep her going till then enjoy your fishing trips

In Australia we call these “long toms.” I’ve never seen them in big numbers. I saw a video clip where they were caught with a length of red wool attached to a hook, slowly retrieved like a lure and these fish would bite and then roll repeatedly entangling their beaks on the wool. You had a great session, well done.

Used to love catching long toms green bones garfish I would use a perch lure with a nice bit of smelly mackerel great t bait for Tope smooth hound bull huss and thornback ray I used a chum bag mashed bread liquid mackerel and pilchard oil in a onion bag with a rock on a rope on the life boat jetty love it when they tail walk tight lines lads🙂👍🏼 from Marcus

When I was growing up in mevagissey I used to catch a heep of garfish, was told by the old fisherman that you couldn't eat, them, so we chucked them back.

You should try smoking the gar and making a smoked gar fish dip. Mitchell & Glenn made it a couple times on Swamp People.

Hey mate, excellent video catching and cooking long northern garfish. I wish we had your long northern garfish in australia. Send some our way oneday. Great cracking fun.

''And you can see it ends up a really brown consistency''

These little buggers are fun to catch with light perch gear and spoons preferably single hook spoons

Bought back a lot of memories fishing for Garfish in Cornwall, I didn't catch any but my wife did, it was great fun on light coarse fishing tackle. Nice video and cook up thanks for posting.

That was a proper Smash Fishing episode. Those longnose are excellent grilled over the fire with simple salt and pepper.

Really enjoy your videos and all the banter, and all the foraging! Well done.

In Oct 1972 a needle nose gar threw a hook and it went into my left eye. About nine hours later an eye surgeon removed the hook. It permanently damaged my left eye, so I have not had any depth perception since then. That happened on the Amador Causeway near Panama City, Panama.

nice video again smash loved that one mate i enjoyed every minute of this upload .. the last time i caught gar when i got to car sat down ready to pull off looked at face in mirror and could see why.... i was getting funny looks off people where i had been smoking i had silver glitter all over my lips from gar .looked a right tart lmao you should try dipping squid jig in that fish oil maybe a bit of sponge tied and dipped in jam jar full of oil stay safe dude take care ....be HAPPY..

Just goes to show, a simple rod set up, decent bait, you don’t need big fish to have a great days fishing. Plus the end result looks delicious.

Another awesome Smash Fishing production, what a session. Keep them coming Jay TNX

Smash: You can see how much these fish love to fight... Me: Watching a fish skip across the waters surface and crash into the rock wall.

Great video! Love your mug collection above your cupboards in the kitchen!

Cracking fun to catch Garfish(aka little Marlin....lol) and using Mackeral(aka little Tuna....lol) as bait. Love it when you hook into one as they always generally leap out of the water, great to use very light gear to. Not a bad choice of sauce to use either. Trying to remember if I have eaten Garfish before, I've caught them but don't think I kept them. Great video and good catch cheers Jay aka SMASH!. Tight lines and stay safe.

I fucking love that at 0:04 when you snatch that huge Larry and Sam is all "OHHH HELL".

Loads of fun mate, I caught one in the summer and they dont alf stink. Awesome bro 👊

Excellent sesh , and some very good tips tnx, will be trying to out fish the other half when allowed to travel thanks stay safe 👍👍👍👍👍

Awesome..try to cook it with coconut milk..just simmer it with small amount of vinegar onion garlic n black pepper salt let it turns almost dry then add coco milk till turns thick n smoot..then eat n enjoy it with steam rice

absolutely wonderful mate! :) keep it up!

thats a lot of tea mugs you got there jay great vid :)

Thanks for another great video Jay! I thought the Garr fish was going to be like an Eel and you would have to peel the skin from the flash. Very interesting video Learn't something new today. Best wishes

Great video and cook up good idea to use chum to attract the gar will definitely try that well done Smash 😀👍💚

Just enjoy the great day with a relaxing fishing on a nice size fish 👍

Another excellent video Jay.. Use to love catching Garfish great sport. Nice lot of bait there mate perfect for congers.

Good to see you fishing,🎣🎣

Love your videos! You and Inglorious are awesome dudes, love from NY!

Smash fishing Baby!!!!!!

Here on the Baltic sea we call them poor man's marlin. 😄

Nice video again jay informative 👍

Great session and a great video. Iv caught a few of them in landing nets but never on a rod. Have to try it at some point. Keep up the great work.

Another awesome video jay. Mouth watering cook up too. Had me salivating at the end 👍

Great video Jay SMASH FISHING HELL YEAH 🦐🦀🐟

That was a really fun video! I want to go fishing for them.

I like the fish twist ending!!! Hehehe...

great video mate love the garfish great fun

Great video, thanks. I prefer to leave the rubby-dubby out of it; the garfish slime is enough to play with. I like to leave the flesh on the bones then lightly steam them with some added salt. Provided they are steamed right, the fish pulls off the bones easily, leaving the skeleton in place. However, too little steam means the flesh does not come away easily, leading to breaking the skeleton; too much and the skeleton falls apart. The green bones add a bit of colour to the whole thing. All the best.

Ooohhhh I love garfish. So tasty!! Will enjoy this vid!!! Take care!!

Smash’s Fish Bites! Yummm!

Another great video mate nice one

I never keep garfish but next time i will ascually try this out! nice video

Float fishing is so fun!

Keep up the amazing vids bro, love the consistency

Great video again Smash & Sam you make a good team together 👍🏻

Love this video mate, keep at it wooo

Great vid chief😁

I like your videos.....thanks ....thumbs up for your efforts you put into.

I cant wait til yall start throwing the wheels out again for spiders. And armour foraging. Anyway on to watch the video. Thanks smash 👌

great video mate

I caught 3 of these yesterday, delicious

As usual the best fishing videos on u tube you must eat like kings

Nice one Jay. I’ve. Never eaten garfish, but after seeing this I might give them a try

camera-on-the-chest-style is the way to go! it really brings the sizes and scenery into perspective, IMMERSIVE!!! lol b well, man!

23 in one session think Iv only ever caught 5 in my life time lol 😂 another great video pal

try a carp spomb to get the bread mix rite in the zone, great video as always smash.

those garfish look like what we call long tom here in oz our garfish only have a top bill like a marlin still great eating little fish stuffed with spicy salsa and bread crumb yummo

100k subs well done !!!

Another great informative vid jay👍 was nice to see u post on Craig Evans last vid comments,, be great to see u both do a foraging cook up session,,, hell yeah 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The simple pleasures in life. Smash in his element. Freaky beaks on those fish and really weird that they have blue/ green bones. Surely they are the only creature on the planet with different coloured bones??

Same thing in Hawaii, more of a pest and a bait stealer to me but people target the bigger ones. We call this fish Aha out in the islands

Excellent

Tempurai gar is really tasty with a sweet chilli sauce dip

Its the green bones that puts me off, a bit like eating snot. Definitely an acquired taste. Anyway, the thing to remember here is what that chum brings in behind the garfish. Be prepared for a big pollack or bass, or even a larger visitor. Nice one, Jay.

The gar fish are a beautiful color!

Nice catches of the gar fish we call em up in Suffolk. Have u seen videos of people catching them with no hook just cotton skimming across the surface with a kite. There bill and teeth get caught up in the cotton and they then just pull them in. Tight lines.

Great vid bro! The colour of that chilli sauce is horrendous!

I love fishing, i seriously need to get back out and start doing it again

In the land downunder we call them Long Toms our garfish are much smaller but nicer to eat

Epic! Love it!! Where do you find your fish oil Smash?! Also what’s all that green shite on some of them? Also I suppose you could remove the bones like a mackeral fillet by cutting them out in a strip. Is the meat on the other side of the bones alright?

Great video. That fish deserved something more elaborate than fish fingers.

It's nice when your bait is also good to eat. we've fried up left over chicken livers after a day of catfishing here in the Southern US. Gar here are a lot larger than that and typically not eaten but they can be if you can get into them.. might need a chainsaw..

Hell yea Cracking day there smash one of your best videos for me yeaaaa boyyyyy

great video

Awesome mate ! Love that hot pepper sauce, does the fish stand up to it ?

Ace video mate never caught one myself may give it a go :)

Like the good old sea anglers club comps catching tones of them 👍

Garfish in November, wow you're lucky.

Hi smash my mum saw you today when you had come up from the beach and the dog she was walking came over to you and looked in your bucket. anyway im a big fan thanks for the vids

Great video. A species I've never seen.

Good content!!!

Hiya. What kind of oil do you use for ground bait

Love the new intro!!

Good Video🥇🎣👑🗺🌏. Im from a Bermuda Island🇧🇲, and your the first person i seen Eat a Garfish🏆 Now i know it possible n not poisonous🤗💎 Thanks... New Subscriber 2022

Try crushing up salt & vinegar crisps finely and use that instead of flour.....awesome.

Hi Jay, great video mate I'm trying too salt my left over ragworm down do you freeze them once salted mate or just an airtight container in a cool place cheers

Atta boy!

In the US Midwest we've got alligator gar. Get over 100 pounds and 8 feet long. Ruin every topwater plug you got.

Great session 👍What fish oil do you use in your chum Jay🤔

You Guernsey guys have some really cool sea creatures and a beautiful island.

I was singing love of my life and I what to Break free as u said and one bites the dust ba ba ba

Wussing out on that hot sauce big boy! 😂😂

I really enjoyed this video all the way up to when you start throwing them into the rockpool leaving them to suffocate.

Garfish goujons, top technique, will definitely copy

Looks fun too bad they stink glad you decided to cook up a fish that some people might not like!😄🐟🐟 When are you going to be on a Clifton Chili Club vid? 🤔😄😜🤣👍