FISH TRAP Catches MASSIVE EEL in SWAMP SEWER!

Bass fishing Productions
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Sep 29, 2025
I’m todays video, I explore a new spot in the Florida everglades in search for rare aquarium fish for my new planted tank! I ended up placing a fish trap in a swamp sewer and caught a MASSIVE fire eel! We brought him back and put him into our koi pond!
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What is that oh my god
That is an eel a straight-up eel guys like an actual frickin freshwater eel
What's going on BFB nation welcome back to another awesome video guys today
We're starting off the video at the predator pond check it out my last video
We got a big new addition to it. There he is. He's right there. Oh my gosh
We got ourselves a big old red-tailed catfish literally my dream fish. He is so sick
We also transferred the tiger shovelnose catfish now
I failed to do it in the video because he was very elusive
But later that night I came back out with the net and I got him out
We got the shovelnose in here. We got the red tail. Of course. We got our giant bass
We got our peacock and our big Oscar the predatory pond is coming along very nicely
Yeah, guys today's video is not about that. Today's video is about smaller fish rarer fish
I think today we're gonna hit up one of our spots and we're gonna try and catch fish for my new planted tank
125 gallons lots of plants in it just set it up so far
We only have like three or four species of fish in there and pretty much all of them Brandon caught if you guys don't know
Brandon has his own channel. It's called judo Brandon. I'll link it down in the description. He is caught gold gouramis
He's caught little tiny puffer fish. He's been killing it. The tank looks great and it's all fish that he's caught
I've only caught the fire eel and I've only got the loaches for it
So I'm slacking I gotta get out there and I want to like one up him
I want to catch something cool myself for it. That's what we're doing guys
Let's hit up one of our spots play some fish traps and see if we can get something cool to put it into our tank
We'll see you guys there
Real quick guys. I forgot I was gonna name the red tail over there when I was showing you it
We're going to name him boys blaze the red tail catfish Brandon has been obsessed with that
Fine we'll name it blaze Brandon. So shout out to all you guys. I know a bunch of you guys commented that so blaze is
The name let's go catch us some cool fish guys. We're here at a new spot. It's a little bit windy over here
Hopefully you can hear me good. This is a completely new spot. We've never done a video here, but I have inside information
If there's some really cool fish in here, we know there's croaking gouramis
It's around the same area where I catch a lot of the cool aquarium fish. So this is a new spot
We're just exploring. We're seeing where you get some croaking gouramis today a fed gator
There's there's a
Little drained and it goes back deep into the Everglades over there, but it's really low right now water level drop
As you can see it usually is up here and I don't really see many fish
We might have to go deep into there to find like a deep pocket. We might have to go around
We're gonna find some cool fish today. Hopefully like I said some croaking gouramis never caught croaking gouramis before
Okay, guys, we walked a little further down
See over here. It's really deep
This is all water. It's just covered with lily pads. I think I found the spot
This is where we're putting the trap, yeah, it's hot. Hi guys. You know what? It's really hot here
I'm not gonna keep walking and trying to find a spot. I think this will do this looks really cool
And you know me guys, I love my tunnels. I love my pipes. That's always where the fish are at
They're always in the structure. So if you take a look right here, like this is all the marsh
It's all like a wetlands type stuff. There's gators pythons all that sort of wildlife in here
Let's bait up our fish trap. Like I said, my friend has come here. This is like his best spot
He said for croaking gouramis. I don't know how they got established here, but you guys can look it up
It's actually like they're pretty big around here. There's a lot of them. So let's get our cat food
Cat food guys, like I always say it's the best fish trap bait everything just loves cat food
It's got such a strong scent and oil in it three left to right left to right
Whatever that one yeah, I said that one
Oh
Okay, I think I should just put it down in the middle oh my gosh, wait, wait, how deep is this?
I might not have enough rope. Oh, please don't like you
Please you can tie it. Oh
Wait, it's all right. It's already at the bottom. It's not even that deep. Where does this go to?
I think this goes across over there. Oh, yeah
That's the same thing is over here so this is like a little tunnel thing
That's where the fish are gonna be out there under this road. That is so crazy to think that okay guys
So this pipe right here when this overflows like it goes in here, but at the very bottom
There's a pipe and that pipe runs all the way under the road under the ground Wow over to that side
So this is like a little highway a little tunnel for these fish and I think I think when it's hot like this they go
In there that I just yeah, I did the rope is down there
You know, you can't just go around and step on that thing
We just saw like a 10-foot gator, I will see you guys in probably like two to three hours
We're gonna let this one marinate. We'll be back here and
Cross your fingers. We get something cool for our new fish tank. We'll see you then. Okay, you guys we're almost at the spot
It's around three hours later. It's actually been a while. So I'm hoping we have a lot of fish in the trap
It's right up here actually coming in. I've been looking like look at all this water over here
There's so many spots to do our trap probably gonna have to make a part two if we catch something cool in this
But yeah, I am excited. The trap is right here. We're gonna pull straight up to it
Just like to pull up to it
We're here
Right, let's go get some fish. I got a rod. We don't have the line. It's down there. Whoa
Sorry, I'm trying to get it dude, I'm gonna pass out it's I know. Oh, yeah, I
Can't get it. Oh
my god, oh
I got it. I got it. I got it once they come
Okay, guys moment of truth screw the fishing rod
We got our trap. We're pulling it up. It's like stuck in the seaweed, dude
Come on croaking grummies. Yeah
What is that? Oh my god breathe. Oh
No, frickin way. You're kidding me. Are you kidding me breathe? Oh my gosh. No way. Look at this thing. What?
That's the biggest one I've ever seen
You you oh, it's spiny. Oh my god. We actually just caught a fire. Oh, Bri, do you understand?
How insane that is that is it and it's a big one too. This is like not a baby. Look at that thing
Oh, I want to grab him. Come here
It's like walking
Get in that break this one
Don't go back in no, I got it. Oh my gosh
This is insane, it's like the coolest thing I've ever seen wait, give me a second
Dude look at this you guys
Brie try to get a good shot of that. Wait, the Sun's coming up. This thing is really pretty
Can you see those colors bring it over towards me? I can't I cannot handle this thing. I don't know how
He's like he's he's a snake
Here you go in the cooler
Oh my god, that is the sickest thing that I have ever caught like no joke
That is not what I was expecting but I would take that any day over a stupid little grommy
There's still minnows from yesterday, this is not this is not clean water
I don't know if I should change it. But look there's like little minnows in it. This is from yesterday that day
Comparison that's like
That's like a full grip. Maybe not full grip. I think they get like up to three foot. That is probably
Foot and a half maybe right? I don't know. I failed math. Okay
Actually that that might be a an adult. That's like close to two feet. I'd say I just need a second
I just need a second because I had no idea that there was fire reels in here
I also had no idea there was fire reels in the other spot. We've caught him at
So maybe I'm starting to think fire reels are actually a lot more common than we might think here in Florida
It's not too far for it. It's like the same sort of water system where we caught the other one, but
That's still insane
Here you are. Oh my god. She's so freaking cool. We have three fire reels now all wild-caught
It's not a dog. Yes, he is. Look how pretty that thing is
It's impossible to hold just letting you guys know this thing is actually impossible
That is an eel a straight-up eel guys like an actual freaking freshwater eel
Wait, do they breathe air I
Don't know guys. Let me know if they breathe air or not
I don't even know if I need this aerator, but I'm just playing it safe because this thing is really cool
And we're definitely bringing him back to one of my ponds off the top of my head
I'm thinking maybe we put him in the koi pond. That would be freaking sick
So let's get one more look at him. Every time I catch something like this. It's very hard to show you guys
And you're always like, oh we want to see the fish better, but it's really hard cuz it's like
I just want to get let you guys see I'm really good
Look at those colors here. I'm gonna try and bring it Wow. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh
Yes, look at the dots on them
I am so happy. We're closing you off buddy. We're gonna bring you home. Don't you worry? These guys are not native, right?
There's there's actually no way I think they're from like Asia. That's
Terrible gas. No, they're definitely from like Asia
Okay
Hardcore parkour screw the other fish. Let's go. No, there's other fish. They're dead for sure
I just realized I didn't check for other fish. Thank God. There was no other fish or else
They would be smoke you guys seriously. This is insane
This is why I love doing what I do like placing a fish trap here not knowing what you're gonna get
I thought I was coming here to catch croaking gobramis and I catch a giant fire eel
The biggest one we caught before that was probably this big that thing is legit like that big that is absolutely insane
So I'm gonna head back to my house
Swamp let me know we definitely have to do a 24-hour challenge and one of these, you know
Yeah, it's 24-hour fish trap like where you hide in the water. No, I just put
We'll see you guys back in my house. All right guys, we're back at my house
We got Ely Dan Ely Dan, where you at? Oh, there he is. He's up here guys
We named the fire eel in my tank Ely Dan for all you, you know steely Dan fans out there
That's like a perfect name so from now on we're gonna name every eel Ely Dan get him out
We're gonna get him into the quick
Like perfect the temperature is literally the exact same it's a shame
It's later in the day you guys so you can't really see the light on them
But let me get one more look at him. Look at those red dots. Oh, he's going crazy. All right, dude. I'll put you in
There we go. Oh my god. That's the sickest fish. There's the sickest fish
Where did he go? I think he's down here under the under the filter. Where is he? Where is he? Oh, there he is
Look how cool that is. Oh my gosh
Guys he's gonna be loving life in here
There's tons of natural food like little shrimp little mosquito fish that you know
The fish like the Oscars eat and it's it's perfect. They sustain themselves. There's a ton of mosquito fish in there
You can see some swimming around down there by the albino play-doh
But yeah, like look at all the little mosquito fish. He's gonna be eating all that
I'm gonna try and train them on you know dead stuff like tilapia and frozen stuff like that
There's his little head poking out. Oh my gosh, he is so cool. That might be my favorite fish in here
Like look how cool he is. That is so sick, dude. We also have an arowana. There's the arowana
Oh back there
It's funny you guys the koi pond is slowly
Transitioning into just like an oddball pond just a little bit of everything and I am loving it
So yeah guys right now
Every single one of you watching go down to the comments and comment a name that you want me to name
Wait, no, I I named it you Lee Dan. Yeah. Okay. I named it you Lee Dan if you don't like it comment another name
We'll see. I don't know. But yeah guys, that is so freaking sick. It's always the videos
It's always the videos when we go to a new spot. We don't know what to expect
We always catch something really cool. So you guys if you didn't enjoy please go down there leave a like subscribe
You've been already. I'll see you in the next one. Peace out
