Solo Overnight Fishing Adventure – A Festival of Errors

Solo overnight catch and cook fishing challenge! Fish or Die!!
If this video was a drinking game and every time I make a blunder you had to take a drink you’d probably get alcohol poisoning. Mistakes were made (Facepalm)

Here are some mistakes or what I’ve learned:
(1) My drag was to lose and I wasn’t setting the hook nearly hard enough
(2) Using a Stringer – While I’ve seen plenty of people online using live fish on stringers the way I do in the video Lots of people find this method to be harmful and stressful to the animal – I believed that this method would be best to preserve the fish before eating but what I’ve learned that it’s not only inhumane for the fish, it will try to fight itself off the stringer and release lactic acid into its muscles which ultimately will make the meat fishy and bad tasting –
(3) Dispatching the fish – In the video, I bonked it in the head with a stick which is a method I was taught on youtube many people suggest stabbing it in the head. I’ve learned that if you’re planning to keep a fish to eat it’s better to stab it in the brain immediately than bleed it by cutting its gills.
It’s my goal to do things the correct and most humane way possible – I’m fairly new to fishing and everyone’s got to start somewhere
(4) turn off my light before entering the tent so mosquitoes and insects don’t follow me in

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solo overnight campout – fishing for food – Catch and cook challenge – bass fishing – bass lures