Trapping Aquarium Fish in ALLIGATOR INFESTED SPILLWAY!

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In today's video, we go DEEP in the Florida everglades and find an abandoned spillway FILLED with aquarium fish AND alligators! We placed fish traps and went netting while dodging big alligators and snakes, but it was all worth it when we pulled up our fish traps that were LOADED with fish like jack Dempseys, convict cichlids, places, native fish, AND MORE! We then brought back our cool finds to put into our backyard pond! Leave a LIKE if we should do a part 2!
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This is a spillway I'm talking about. Completely abandoned.
We've seen snakes in here. We just saw a big fish. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. There it is.
Oh, what is that? Any fish? Dude, yeah, there's fish. Oh my God.
Here we go. Oh, one of my favorite fish.
This place is just alligator infested.
What is up BFB Nation. Welcome back to another awesome video guys.
Today we're back in the Florida Everglades and we got a lot of fish traps and
we're here at one of my favorite spots. It's an abandoned spillway.
We were here kind of recently in the Florida Everglades and we caught some
really cool stuff. I believe we caught like a freshwater pike, Texas cichlid,
lots of catfish, Oscars.
There's so many cool aquarium fish here and it's loaded with gators,
pythons, so it's a little sketchy. Today, like I said,
we're at this abandoned spillway spot. Come over here, Rob. Check it out.
This place is so cool.
Right over here is a spillway and this whole place has been shut down.
Just completely abandoned. Check it out.
We've placed fish traps here before and we always catch good stuff.
But if you look over there, Rob,
there's bees everywhere because there's a beehive in the abandoned spillway.
I don't know where it is, but there's just bees everywhere.
I'm surprised they haven't been stinging us.
But one of the sewer gates has been open and now we have access into the
spillway and I think we're going to place some fish traps in there.
Let's take a look in it.
There's the opening to the spillway and right here is like the very center of it.
We've never done anything inside the actual spillway cause we've never had
access, but now we do. There's bees everywhere. Oh my God, this is so sketchy.
I can't really see, but maybe you guys can see something.
Let me know if you see anything.
I think we're going to play some fish traps in here and pull it up and see what
we can get. All right. So we have that big fish trap.
We debuted in the last video.
I don't think we're going to place that here because that might be really hard
to get back. So instead we're going to use the mini trap here.
And then that big trap we're going to place somewhere else.
We've got some fish food here.
We're just going to get a handful and dump it in this fish trap.
That is good enough. Boom, zipper on up. Got some line tied to it.
What does that sound bro? A dinosaur, I think. All right.
Where do you think I should place it, Rob? Just anywhere I go?
Just throw it down there, bro. I don't know if it really matters. Okay.
That knot is so bad. Shut up. And it's gone. Hopefully it's not too deep.
We could just place our line around here. I'd say tied to the grate. Oh,
oh, it's pretty deep. Oh, it's still going. Wow. It's still going. Oh my God.
It's still going. Do we even have enough line? No, we don't.
Maybe I could tie it. If it's suspended, I think it's fine.
Look, I could tie it around that. See that? Yeah. Don't drop that.
That's very important. What if I dropped my keys in there? Here we go.
That's so sketchy, bro. This is so scary, dude. All right.
We're placing our line right around.
What was that? Now guys, we're going to place our big one.
We're going to explore more of the Everglades,
find a cool spot to place this bad boy. I'm excited for this one, dude.
We might catch some crazy stuff in here. We're going to keep exploring.
Maybe we'll see some alligators. Rob said if he sees one, he's going to tackle it.
Now we have a cast net. We're just going to test the waters. Okay.
Rob's going to throw it in here right in front of the spillway and see if he can
actually catch something. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. There it is. Here we go.
Oh, that was so good, dude. Right next to the spillway.
That's where we're seeing all the fish. Oh, what is that? Is that an Oscar?
Rob, please be an Oscar. I've never caught an Oscar. What is it?
It's a Mayan. Jesus Christ. It's a Mayan cichlid. What's in this sewer? Oh my God.
There's a lot of bees right here. Oh dude. I guarantee there's a Python in here.
Oh, sorry guys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Please don't attack me guys.
You've never really seen me throw the cast net just because I don't want to show
off. Cause I'm a lot better than Rob and it would really discourage them.
I'm just going to show you guys how it's done real quick.
That was like the perfect pancake. Yeah, I know.
I caught three bees in the cast net. Look at this. One, two. Dude, we got to leave.
Guys. I caught three bees. Leave a like right now.
One landed on my face and look at them swarm over there.
We do have to go now cause we pissed them off. So guys,
we're going to keep driving around and find a really cool spot to throw the cast
net maybe place the other fish trap. And uh, yeah, we need to leave. Guys,
the Everglades is like my favorite spot to film cause it's just so beautiful out
here. Right Rob? It's not more handsome than I am. Okay. All right guys,
we're at the second spot now.
We have two dip nets and that's because there's a lot of small colorful fish
right in this pocket over here. They're called flag fish.
We're going to see if we can net some.
We do have a treacherous little dangerous walk over to the Creek.
We're doing that. Yeah. Okay.
Oh look, you can see all the fish down there. Hold on Bobby.
They might be able to see the fish. There's a lot of fish down there.
Really? Uh huh. I just broke my net bro.
Dude, you are probably the best at doing that. There's someone's fish trap. Oh,
sick. There might be a fish in there. Hold on. I hope so. Dude,
that would be sick. Well, I don't hope so. Cause like,
that'd be bad for the fish book for us. That'd be pretty cool. Oh my,
watch your six brother. You're right on the Gator canal. Sorry.
Let's see if there's fish in it. Ew, that's disgusting.
That's been here for a while. Yeah. Well we're going to throw it away. Oh,
I could have fish in there.
We're catching fish in trash baby. Oh my God.
That is so sick. I swear to God, there's a fish. I don't know what it is.
There was a fish. I swear to God. There literally was.
What? Oh, there it is. Oh, it's a worm out.
Oh my God. He was living in the trash. That's insane.
That is crazy. That's so cool. You guys. Is there any more?
I don't know. I thought I might've saw more, but might've been the only one.
I thought there was more too. It's just that guy.
We're going to throw that away so more fish don't get trapped in it.
But that's insane. You guys were pulling fish out of trash, baby.
They're actually native. We're going to throw them back,
but let's definitely go to that little Creek now with our nets now.
Cause we know there's fish here. All right, look at this, Rob.
I was netting and all this, you know,
the weeds and all that and I pulled out, you can see right, right there.
There's a baby worm out right there. A little baby,
just what we caught and there's tons of little shrimp jumping everywhere,
but there's also a baby jewel cichlid. I think there's a mosquito.
That's a killy fish. Oh, that's a golden wonder.
Yo, that is so sick. Oh, he's gone. I mean,
if we see a gator, we'll just run. Where?
No, there's so many fish though.
All right guys. So we have our giant fish trap here.
Now we walked out a little Creek over there. We saw so many fish, Rob.
I don't know if they were flag fish, catfish, cichlids, whatever.
I don't know what they were, but they are thousands and they're schooling.
They're all along the bank, but they're way too quick for the dip net.
So we got our fish trap here.
We're going to place it shallow and I think that's how we're going to catch
them. I'm just going to like send it off into the abyss. It goes. Okay.
That's perfect guys. We're going to leave the fish trap just like this.
I'm going to tie the line to this right here.
Now we're going to do some exploring until the sun goes down.
I think we're going to pick the traps up once the sun goes down.
Once it's nighttime and yeah,
we'll see you guys later when we pick these fish traps up. All right guys.
So now we're driving down this one canal and we just passed an old guy that said
there's so many alligators sitting on the bank and to be careful,
right as we started driving, we see one. It's just a little baby.
Sitting on that rock. There he is.
So we're going to keep driving down and see if we can see any like 12,
14 footers, dude. This place is just alligator infested, bro.
You do not want to like fall in this water. Look at that gator.
That's probably a six footer. All right. That's it. What'd you say to me?
What'd you say to me? He was talking. Look at him. He's not scared, bro.
Yeah, he is. That's why he's running. Guys. Look at that.
That's the biggest one we've seen. That's probably a 10 footer. Oh my God.
That's huge. Oh, look at that big one, dude. Dude. It's like fat. It's so fat.
That's the biggest one we've seen so far. Oh my God. Look at it going in.
That thing is so big. Yeah. You see that guy all the way back down. Yeah.
Get a nice shot of it. Yeah, dude.
It would suck to get stranded here. Like all these alligators.
All right. Later, dude.
I could go on for hours showing you all these alligators.
That just shows how many there are here.
This is the same water we placed our fish traps.
So honestly it wouldn't be that crazy if we pulled it up and there was like a
little baby in there. I'm going to stop filming.
We're going to cut the later tonight when we pull up the fish traps and I'm
just praying there's not a giant gator like that right next to it. All right,
guys, it is much later in the day,
as you can tell by the gorgeous sunset in the Florida Everglades behind us.
We're here at trap number two, the really big one. Let's go check it. All right.
We're going to fill up some water preemptively just cause I,
I just know we're going to catch something.
We're going to place a bucket there. Here we go, Rob.
What do you think we caught? What's your guess?
Last time we literally just caught like a blanket of catfish. Yeah.
So probably catfish. Definitely a bunch of catfish.
Maybe something cool mixed in. We did catch a pike here, Texas cichlid.
All right, let me grab our little nifty handle.
Don't mind me.
We're probably attracting gators. Yeah, for sure, dude. Oh my God.
How's it still holding? What? Oh my God.
Dude. Yeah, there's fish. Oh my God. Yo,
look at it. There's so many fish. Yeah, there's fish, bro. Oh my God.
That was a good spot. Really? They're all. Yeah. What kind of fish are those?
They look just like cichlids bro. Here. All right.
So we have a lot of fish in there. I mean, and look at,
those are warm outs right there. For sure. They're actually native fish.
Believe it or not. They're really pretty. Oh, there's a baby. Oh no. Rob.
What? A convict bro. No joke. Oh wow.
Dude. Another. We're catching convicts all the time. That is. Oh,
there's another one. There's actually a lot in there.
Look at these convicts. They're from South America. They're not native.
No, they're not native. Very not native. What is that? Warm out.
It looks different. No, I don't even know guys. There's a lot of fish in here.
Oh, another convict. Yo, that's sick. I've never caught a convict out here.
That is awesome.
We're going to get the rest of the fish out into this bucket and see what we got
guys. There's so many fish. There we go. The last of the fish going in.
That's everything. I'm very surprised. We didn't catch a single catfish.
You know, look at all these more mouths. Those are, Oh my God.
That's so crazy. Look how pretty some of them are. They really are. Dude,
they get pretty. They're native too, which is even cooler. Look at that.
So look at that one. Like the red and green.
They're actually really pretty fish. And then mixed in the convicts. Sick lids.
Guys. I don't know what, I think we should keep the convicts for sure.
Definitely. I mean the warm house just throw it back.
So now we're going to head to our other trap.
It's probably about 30 minute drive.
So it's going to be dark when we get there and that's going to make it even
scarier. There's probably Gator snakes lurking around.
We're going to have to be careful and we're going to try and get our fish trap
out and see what we got. But yeah, guys, first chat was definitely a success.
We caught a lot of fish. We'll see you at fish trap number two.
Here at the second trap location. It is nighttime.
It's going to be a little creepy.
Let's go check it out and see what we caught in this one. All right, here we go.
We have made it to the abandoned spillway. There's no bees surprisingly.
Oh, there's one bee. Yeah, he's just born. Oh, he's on the camera. Oh God.
This is where we placed our fish trap. I don't see it.
That means the water's really deep. We're going to pull up the trap right now.
Go down there. Leave a like for some good luck. If you leave like,
that means we'll catch something cool. I just realized we have no water in the
bucket. Let's just take the trap,
see if any fish flop around and if they do, we'll go get water.
I got the line. Oh, we're pulling up the track guys.
Dude, it's really deep. It's still going. I still don't even see it, bro.
It's really deep. There it is. Oh, wait,
wait, that's a play go right there on the end.
Can you see him? Yeah, I could see him. Okay.
That definitely means we have a fish. So we probably should go get water.
There's one fish. Oh,
Rob. Oh,
there's so many.
You keep her like in the video. Cause it works.
Let me just get a little bit of water really quick. I got water.
Mission success guys. Now take two.
We're going to lift up the fish trap and see what we caught. What if I dropped it?
We were never getting this trap. Hope this line is strong. Here we go.
We definitely caught so many fish.
Look, it's got a little bulge on it. It's so heavy, bro.
Oh my God. We caught so many. I can smell them.
I actually smell the fish. It's disgusting. Oh my God. Rob,
this is going to be a lot of fish. We get close.
Oh, I almost fell in the sewer. Oh my God.
Dude. Oh my God. Wow. Oh my God.
Rob, I've never, I haven't caught a big one in so long.
That thing's gorgeous. That is so sick. Look at all the fish we got.
Oh, there's another one. There's another one. Rob. Look at that.
There's two Jack Dempsey's. They're beautiful.
That's a good size one right there. Oh my gosh. Oh, I'm so happy.
That is the coolest thing we possibly could have caught.
There's actually way too many fish in here to go through. Oh my God.
So many warm outs. Dude, we caught more in this trout than we did the big one.
That's crazy. Look at this. Look at this. I knew I saw a Placo.
It's a little baby. It's a little juvenile. He's so cute. Wow. Hey,
it's a little Placo. Sick. Goodbye, my friend. Oh, oh, oh.
There's some mollies, which are different.
I think we might just have to dump these guys back. They're all warm outs.
They go back into the abandoned spillway. Oh my God.
There's still more. There's a lot more.
Oh my gosh, dude.
The Everglades is so cool jam packed with so many cool aquarium fish.
We catch Jack Dempsey's pretty often. They've made their way around Florida.
I know they're up in Orlando, down to where I am. They're everywhere.
They are a pretty rare fish to catch still,
but these guys are a lot bigger than the ones we normally catch.
And when they get bigger, they get a lot more colorful. Gorgeous.
That's so sick, dude. One of my favorite fish. Just it's insane.
They're so colorful. We've caught many of these,
but only a couple of them have been of significant size.
I don't know why that is, but the bigger ones are just harder to find.
I mean, they got so much color. As soon as they get to a noticeable size,
they just get collapsed. That is a very good point. Cause the babies,
they don't look too crazy, but when they get bigger, it's just all color.
So that probably makes them an easy target for bass and all that.
That's probably why you don't catch the big ones. That was a good point,
but we just caught two right there and uh, we're taking them home. We're,
we got to, we're taking them home. Let's go.
Today guys, if you want to do a part two at the abandoned spillway,
go down there and leave a like and comment that you did enjoy.
We're going to put these guys somewhere special. We see you guys there.
Two Jack Dempsey's. They are beautiful.
What we've been doing with the Jack Dempsey's we've caught,
we're putting them in the mystery pond here.
I mean, we're really not going to see them until we drain it again,
but this one's really pale. Really stressed. Yeah.
We're going to get them in here though and they're going to relax and Oh,
there's a little convict down there. Cool little mystery pond.
We just pulled out some really crazy fish that Rob dumped in here.
That was the last video. Yeah, guys, Everglades adventure.
If you did enjoy go down there, leave a like subscribe.
If you haven't already, I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace out.
