Sand fleas live on the beach, under the sand, near where the surf breaks you can find them by digging them, or you can have--you can buy one of these sand flea rakes. Which, basically, I'll show you in a second how I catch sand fleas. Actually, I'll show you right now. So, you've gotta look at the waves, at the sand near the waves, you'll see them scattering under the sand.
Look! Look at that! It's full of fleas! [Brendon's Dad:] Wash it off, the sand, in the water there! Look at all those fleas! Now, this is one of the best baits for the beach. Because they live right next to all the fish, the fish love feeding on these. So, it's really simple to use sand fleas. There's no--nothing really important you need to know, you just hook on a sand flea.
You can do one, you can do two. A lot of times, I do two... And a lot of different kinds of fish will bite a sand flea! Now, I'm using this sand flea on a Pomp Boss Rig. I got them from nativesaltclam.Com, the rig works really well for the beach, I mean it's got these little beads, and it's got a floatie on it, (but you can take it off of you don't like it.) The idea behind these beads, and the color, the chartreuse and the orange, is, it's supposed to mimic the underbellies of the sand fleas, a lot of times they're orange under here with eggs, and this flashy color will attract the fish.
Woah! Anything on? On? Big hit? On?? Seaweed! Ooooh! Look what I got! What do you have? Oh yeah.
What is that? What the--? Sand perch? No... Look at that--look at that nose! What the--?! Wait, what is that? Look at that, look at the nose... That is a really strange looking fish. Do we have any guesses as to what kind of fish this is? I've never seen a fish like this before, comment below, let us know.
Now, every one of these baits have their own pros and cons list. The sand flea works really well, however, um, one: they're not always at the beach, two: they seem to be picked off pretty easily, and three: they die pretty easily. The second bait that I want to recommend is Fish Bites! They come in a variety of different scents and flavors, um, and the thing with Fish Bites is they're very tough, and they stay on the hook real well... Let me show you.
It looks like a stick of gum! But inside is like, is some kind of mesh. You can see, there's mesh in it. You see? And you put a strip on and, believe it or not, it works pretty well. It's actually--
There are reports of Fish Bites catching fish all over the world, and um, I really think that if you want convienience and you don't want to have to buy um, blood worms or like, stuff that'll perish, stuff that you have to refrigerate, this is a good bet, which leads me to one of my favorite baits at the beach, now, this product, Native Salt Clam Bait, I use it all the time, and for those of you who've seen it, you guys know that it catches a lot of fish.
The greatest thing about this bait is that it smells great, it's--it's tough, not as tough as the Fish Bites, but it's tough, um, so it'll stay on the hook well, and it catches a lot of fish! --And the combination of these two on the same hook works really well. These two work really well if you're trying to catch dinner fish, if you're trying to catch some fish to eat um, these two work really well in combination or individually. So, let's see how these baits work, I'll show you guys how I hook it up. Come on.
So today we're with the maker of Salt Clams, and he's giving us a lot of good tips, and uh, he's a pretty fun guy to fish with. Right now, I think he's using his own Pomp Boss Rigs and um, Salt Clams, um, he's got three rods out, take a look. Look at those rods. They're so long! They're huge! Wait, look.
Look how tall it is! Look at this bird! It's only got one foot! I've got a pretty long rod myself, I mean, it's not that long, nine foot, um, but if you notice, we all have long rods out here, we-you need a long rod to be able to cast it out! If you have a short, little inshore rod, it's not going to work really well-- you can catch fish still, but look at this, come here. Look at how long this is right here. An inshore rod gets cut off here. You need this extra bit for more leverage, and if you have a fish on, you stick this between your legs and you start crankin'.
See? Woah, Killian's got one! Nice! That's a good eatin' fish. Nice whiting. We can definitely eat this one. Yeah, let's eat that.
You were casting right beyond the break?
Just beyond the- uh, the drop off. Okay. 'Cause they cruise around here and eat those coquina clams that live in here, sand fleas and stuff, even during the day, 'cause the big one's'll-- I'll catch them in my cast net sometimes up in the wash.
Wow. There's a lot of sand fleas.
You're just putting big chunks of clam on, huh? Yeah, not too big, too much is really a waste, I kind of waste it 'cause I make it, you know, if I was buying it I'd be using half these size chunks and catching more fish, I'd imagine, 'cause they can't really get this in their mouth so good, a half of this sized piece on here they just put it all in their mouth and get hooked right away, but this a lot of times they'll pull it off, so by doing this, I'm actually lowering my chances of catching fish. Well you just caught one, so something's working, ha ha.
Yeah! That's true. Can catch fish. Um, did you say you didn't even cast it very far? No, not at all, she saw where I put it, but I put it--there's a drop off here, where it finally drops off, where the last break is, it goes like 4 or 5 feet, Uh huh.
Right behind that drop off, so You can see--right-- right there! And back.
Okay. It's a real good drop off, and you want to be on the other side of it. So it's like a trough. It's a trough, exactly.
It's a drop off
It's a trough, and fish-- with a trough and it starts right where the break is. --And bigger fish will swim and hunt for food in that trough. Correct, definitely, and they also eat the coquina clams and other types of clams which live here naturally, you'll find them in whiting stomachs all the time,
Ahh. Uh, they eat the sand fleas, they eat shrimp--
So whitings love clam? They love clam, it's their natural forage.
That's what they eat every day is clams. Alright.
You open them up, they're full of clams sometimes. Alright, I'mma--
The little ones that live on the beach. I'm going to put a triple threat on.
Clam, sand fleas, and shrimp, all on one hook, let's see what happens.
Alright. You'll probably get a catfish. A catfish? Well, we'll see, ha ha ha, What do I know? So I've got Salt Clams on, I'm going to put a sand flea on at the same time, oh yeah. Salt Clam // Sand Flea combination! Let's see what happens.
Dad, he said that dont cast it very far. This first trough right here. Whoo!! The first trough! It was right on the first trough, you were right, Killian! Catfish! You were right about that, too!
Oh my gosh! Ha ha! Oh my gosh... No...
Spanish Pompano. Maybe the Senko viewers can do a, uh, I.D. On this one.
Ok. So, if you know what kind of fish this is, please comment below, it looks kind of like a pompano...
Yeah, yeah, I believe it's a Spanish Pompano or a Palmetto, something like that,
Alright, please comment below if you can identify this fish. No size limit. Awesome. So what are we going to do? I usually throw them back, 'cause they're so small.
Yeah, yeah.
And this was on the Clam again! Still got my bait. Still have the bait on. Got a white floatie on the top and an orange one on the bottom, --White.
It ate it on white. They're hitting white, they're hitting orange, It's not seeming to matter.
Putting more bait on. Freshen it up. Alright, here's lunch! Killian caught this earlier on the Salt Clam, what we're going to do is, um, we're going to cook up the whole fish! What's the secret recipe today? This is just flour. Alright.
Dry it out.
Yeah. Give it something to brown up a little. This doesn't need much seasoning. You can put some more on if you want.
Watch you fingers. That looks ready, that's ready. Woah. We should have cut his tail off.
Ohh. Ohh ho ho.
What's that? Fried sand fleas. Ooh, sand fleas.
Yeah, I want to see how they taste. Yeah, I think they're just about done.
You think they're done already? That's pretty delicious. Woah! Woah!
Ha ha ha! They're excellent! It was like a popcorn chicken, it was like-- Really nice. Yeah it was, nice and crispy.
Yeah. Super crispy, like popcorn shrimp.
Ohhh ho ho ho! Look at that! Yeaaa! That looks great. Whoo! Alright. We don't have forks. We'll just use our fingers.
Yup.
What do you think, Dad? Approve?
It looks good, yeah. I'm gonna just pick it up. Wow, it looks good. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Fried whiting on the beach. Wow.
Mmmm. Alright, there you go. The texture of the fish is really nice. Mhmm.
Even the fins, huh? Alright, sand flea coming up!
We will, we will. You can even eat the head meat. For an aperitif.
And when you fry it up, you can actually, look-- it's like a chip. Ah! Alright.
That was delicious.
That was awesome. Thank you guys for watching. We're going to enjoy our fish now. We're going to be fishing and eating all day.
If you want a pack of Native Salt Clams or you want the rigs, to help you out with your beach fishing, check out-- hold on, let me finish my mouth first. Ha ha ha. Did I just swallow a bone? You looked very scared for a second, are you ok?
Check out Native -- If you want some-- *coughs* If you want a rig or some Salt Clams or some Fish Bites for yourself, check out native salt clam . Com, Killlian's got all that to help you guys out on the beach.
So check that out, get some clams, and have the same kind of adventure that we did today. Thank you guys for watching, have a nice day. Good luck out there, see you next Thursday..
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