Saving Fish Abandoned in DRIED UP CREEK!

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In today's video, I find a dried up creek FILLED with fish that needed to be saved! There were gar, snakehead, clown knife fish, and MASSIVE snapping turtles that were living in the mud. We rescued as many as we could and transported them to my backyard pond where they can live the rest of their lives!
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He does not look oh, he looks like a zombie bro. This canal is completely dried up
I mean look at this ground like this one. Oh, man. Come on. Show us you're alive. Oh
Something literally took a chunk out of his tail. Oh my god
What's up BFB Nation welcome back to another awesome video guys today
We're starting out the video in the car meanwhile
We're just driving down the street, and we noticed this canal right there completely dried up
So then we immediately went home and got prepared got the supplies that we need to save fish if there are fish that need saving
We haven't had rain in a long time here in Florida
So there's absolutely no water in this canal from what we saw. There's probably fish that need to be saving
So we got a cooler in the backfield with fresh water
We've never been here before so we don't know what's in here, but there's any fish that needs saving that are dried up
I don't know. We're gonna check it out and see if we can save anything
All right here. We go. We gotta go through this fence. Ah
Let's see if you can squeeze through. Oh, that's a close call
Oh
Rob right away. Oh my god. He might be alive. We don't know for sure. Let's go check it out guys
There's no water whatsoever, and there's already a fish dude. Look at that thing. That's a big snakehead
No, that thing is decomposing yeah, there's no saving him guys
That car might be alive look at this guys. There's a little pocket right there. There's also a sewer there
Rob no, we're not going in the zoo today. I think you have to
Guys there's this car here. I don't know if he's alive. He doesn't look it. Oh, you just breathe
You just took a breath. Okay. We got to save him. Oh
He does not look oh he looks like a zombie, bro. Yeah, he does not look good. He is alive though
Look he looks like he's been burnt
Yeah, right his skin looks
Usually they're darker. He's really light. He's still got some fight in them
There was something else in here like a little fish. I kind of want to save him too. Where were you bro?
There's a little burrow back that way. Yeah, if you don't make yourself known we can't save you
All right, maybe we'll come back for him guys. We already have a car. Oh, I'll get his eye. That's bad
He looks he looks dead hopefully we can save him we're gonna get him in the cooler. Oh my
Here we go
Hopefully that kicks in and it saves him he can survive we're gonna release him somewhere else later in the video
But we're gonna keep going and look for his friends. So we're here at the creek now
It's amazes me how this happens this canal this Creek whatever it was
I don't know how high it was but it's completely dried up. I mean look at this ground like boom
It's so dry and it just is it pretty much killed everything
There's no survivors really except for you know, the gar and all that but think of all the little fish and all the you know
Fish that were in here that died from it, you know, no, no rain. That's what happens. But check that out
There's a really big snakehead week. We're not quick enough to save them
That's actually probably illegal for us to save a snake anyways, but this is kind of crazy. I see raccoon footprints everywhere
Scruffy's been around. Yeah bird footprints. So all the little fish I doubt there's gonna be any little fish alive or left
That's nasty let's just go all around them another big snakehead here look at that thing. Oh
That's a big that's literally probably what happened to the other ones
Like they probably just like came in through the sewer and then they were like, oh shoot snakeheads guys
That's how they get around through the sewers that they probably got off on this exit and they're like dang
There's no water. Those might be raccoon footprints right here or birds. They're munching on all the look at all these
Oh, yeah, lots of footprints here. That's crazy. Hey, look, that's like a little paw right there
We're just looking for pools, you know little pockets of water that are still there. That's where the fish are gonna be
Oh my god another one. Oh
Wow, look at this thing. Some of these raccoon prints are huge. Look at this Rob. That's a big scruffy, dude
That's a mass. It's a whole family of scruffies. Look at the babies
Baby scruffy. Look at this one. Oh, man
Yeah, that's right. Oh
My god down there. Oh
God how are we gonna run through the mud?
I'm sliding
Scared me. Oh, there's one right here. Look at the size of that fish. That's a snake head rod. Oh
This mud is thick. I don't think it's a lot. I don't think it's alive. No, there's no way
Yeah, this mud is so thick make sure though
I'm sinking. I'm dude. I'm sick. There's no shot. He's alive
Maybe oh, hold on get close. Oh, I think it's just he's got control. That might be nerves. That might just be nerves though
Come on, big guy. We're gonna save you. Oh
Please be alive
Come on, show us you're alive. Show us you're alive. Should we just dump them in the water? Yeah, there's a pool of water
We can rinse them off. Oh, let's do that
Yeah
Yeah, it's like it's my patent I'm like, please be alive this one's definitely alive you saw him jumping around
Yeah, I saw it before
Whoa, wait, wait, dude. Look it looks like it's been moving. Oh
Look at this guy that are sliding gar. I mean snake heads. They could walk on land snake heads are known for walking on land
They're known for that. You can see his path right here
He probably came all the way from that sewer where the other one was there is fly bombs
Look at the size of these raccoons, bro. They were not big enough to get big old snake head here. I
Think this one is he alive? Oh, I see his mouth. He was jumping. There's yeah, he is
Look at that. Oh
My god, he was jumping you saw that right? I'm not going crazy. I heard it and then I looked over
That's a big snake head bro. He is really dry. No, we might do here. Let's grab this bar
You should get a net and we'll bring him both up to the cooler. Oh
He's alive. He's freaking alive Rob
Rob the gorgeous kick. I swear to God it really yes. He's alive. Oh, yeah. Look he's alive. Okay screw this thing
We're gonna save him
He was probably just like in a coma
So sick guys, we're saving him. Oh
I kind of left him to die for a second
Did you just got to get a little bit more athletic on him, let's see if we can he's definitely alive
Rob
Yes, sir. I'm a little winded. I don't know how these things just happen
We always find ourselves in just the greatest scenarios ever there's fish everywhere we're saving them my shoes are like mud bricks
I don't know what to do with the snake head guys. Come here
They're legal to release in a body of water
You didn't catch them in though
The law is if you catch a snake head you can release them in the same body of water
So there is a little pocket of water right down there. You might be able to zoom in on that little pocket of water
I think our best bet to save this fish because I don't like seeing fish die
I don't care if it's invasive or not
They can survive freaking days out of water with no water, so this guy's definitely still alive
He's just a little little slow. Oh
It's sober
There's a dead peacock bass. Oh, no, dude. I hate that
Wow
Look at that thing zoom in. It's a clown. Yes
My god, and it's still alive. We got to make that our mission. We have to say dude. We have to save it
What is look at its tail, dude
This water is pretty deep the snake head would be good. Oh
My god, it does not it does not look good. Oh
backwards
Oh my god, oh
Wait, okay. Get back. Wait, wait, get back. Get back. Get back. That might be a gator in there
Oh, look at its tail, bro, that might be something munched it for sure could be the raccoons
True, it could be any but its tail looks mangled guys. He looks like something bit on bro. Yeah, that's what I like here
We'll show you guys look at this tail ready. This is why we're so scared
Look ready
Dude chunk taken out of it something literally took a chunk out of his tail. It's still alive though
We can save him here grab the clown and we'll come back run. Okay. Yeah
Dude that thing is a unit
He's alive he's actually alive. All right, let's just run get it got to get him in the cooler
We can put him in pond. I do we gotta save him. Ew. Oh
my god
Water we brought two cars. I'll put him in this one
Come on big guy. Oh, he's upright. Yes, so sick. He's upright. He's kicking his tail is so messed up though
We're gonna save you big guy something got him bro. Wow. Yeah
Look at that Oh bite right there bite right there. Oh my god. Holy crap. That doesn't look like a raccoon
We're gonna bring all these fish to pond X Polly later. Check it out. That was the first or no the second guard
We saw so this guy we thought was dead
But after seeing the other one that actually came back to life pretty much after I held it
Maybe we'll give him another chance to show us. He's a lot. Oh
Okay, okay get him in the cooler dude, he's a little oh my god, he's really kicking out
Probably just shut down their whole body. Yeah, something's gonna do that in the wild when there's a drought, you know in Texas
or wherever they're from
They just bury themselves in the mud and they actually live for months until water comes back in. That's right
in the cooler
And and he goes. Yep
We're kind of good at same fish guys. Well, you know, I don't work out but I imagine this is what it's like
I'm winded right now. Dude. This is a lot of work, but it's worth it. We're saving fish
so right now we have pretty much the only pocket of water except for by the sewer and there's one dead peacock and
The snakehead we put in there to try and save them. So we think there's something in there
So we brought a net and we're just gonna put ground. Maybe there's not but we gotta see
They're theoretically a gator could just be like in the mud right there. Rob
I think you should go in because if if it is a gator
He'll bite you and then I can film it but I got Crocs on so and they're in sports mode. Exactly. So you'll be fine
Yeah, show yourself
Make your presence known
All right, there's definitely a lot shallower than I thought
It's just something there
Rob can you get close? I'm scared. Yeah, I'll hold you son
Okay, that's a gator dude. I'm not even a gator. No, I swear to God in the mud, bro
I'm running my net over it scoop it out
I'm scared
See, oh see what I'm talking about. It's like stops
Where that stops and then it picks up. Yeah
Yeah, right it might be snappy bro, cuz snappy is right down the street and they probably connect through that sewer
Rob, there's no way you're putting your foot in there, bro. No, I feel stop. Yeah, it's right here. I'm stepping on
Oh my god, dude, that's the biggest turtle I've ever seen. Oh my god
That's what took the chunks out, oh my god, dude putting your foot in there. Why were you doing that?
Let's bring them over there. Okay. Yeah, you're right. We just found the antagonist of this dried-up Creek. Oh my god
I thought it was a snapper, but that's actually a soft shell. I didn't know they got that don't get that close
It's got range he's actually really cool bro, it's massive that thing is huge
Look at it. I
Knew it cuz you know how the mound was there. Yeah, you saw where it dug in the dirt
That's the biggest for all their look at my shoe next to the lake. Yeah, I'm surprised you pulled him out, bro
Oh my god, he's so always pissed. Oh my god
Yeah, I say we pull him back in his little mud pond you can go back to eating clown night fish, oh my
This thing is sick, oh
All right, big guy go back in your little mud pond. Oh
My oh, we just snipped the snake head. He was like, ooh, that looks good. Oh, there he goes. He's digging dude, dude
Look at that. Oh my god. He's whoa
That's crazy, that's actually crazy the rest of it's very very dry
So I doubt there's really anything alive for us to save I'm exhausted what we're gonna do me and Rob see
We don't want them to die in the cooler. So what we're gonna do
We're gonna head to Pontiac's right now and we're gonna try and save all these gar and the clown
I fish and hopefully they live we're gonna head to Pontiac's now and release these fish
All right, guys, we've made it to Pontiac's and somehow some way this clown knife fish is still alive here. I'll get close look at him
He's completely upright. We're gonna examine him. That was definitely the snapping turtle or the softshell that was taking bites out of him
Oh my god, he's actually in really good condition somehow
Jesus
Look at that bite right there Rob
Look at that one right here
That's a big chunk. That was definitely the snapping turtle or the softshell and there's another bite right there. Oh my god through
He might make it though. He could heal those wounds. And yeah guys, we're gonna put him in Pontiac's right now and hopefully he survives
Hopefully we can rehabilitate this guy in Pontiac's and he can thrive
Wow, he's actually kicking off. He's swimming. Look at that. He's staying on top, but he might live look at that
There he goes. You can see how much mud that was on his guards because the coolers like all mud now
Got all of them. They were drying up in that mud
Now they're gonna be in Pontiac's. Let go look look at them. They're biting the net. Let go. We're not the enemy
We're trying to save you. All right there they all go
last one
Sweet they're all look at this one. Other way buddy. Other way. He's a little discombobulated
But yeah, we saved a lot of fish today dried up canal. That was insane
Clown knifefish, gars, snakeheads, huge softshell turtle. Comment a name for him down below. That thing was crazy
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I'll see you in the next one. Peace out
