Sewer FISH TRAP Catches EXOTIC FISH For My AQUARIUM!

Bass fishing Productions
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Sep 29, 2025
In today's video, I place a fish trap in a sewer that is connected to a tiny creek FILLED with aquarium fish like African cichlids. I ended up catching a few colorful African cichlids, dojo loaches, and crawfish to put into my new planted tank and cichlid pond!
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We're going to place the fish trap in here.
You can just bunch it up and then we drop it down.
Please have something in it. Oh, you hear that? That's a shiny.
Oh my God. That's a fricking shiny. They look like fricking eels.
What's up DFT Nation. Welcome back to another awesome video guys.
Today we're going to be catching fish for my new pond and my new tank.
We've got a fish trap here. We're at one of my favorite spots,
but today we're not going to be catching them in the actual Creek.
We're going to be trying to catch them out of the sewer,
which connects to the Creek. Now I had this idea for a while now,
and usually the sewer doesn't have a lot of water in it. And I'm like, all right,
there's definitely not any fish in there. But ever since that flood,
this sewer has been filled up a lot. So you can see it down there.
You can see the pipe free. I don't know if you can see that,
but it's probably like, it's really deep down there. Check it out.
It's probably like this deep, but like, check it out.
It connects to here where we catch all of our cool African cichlids and other
aquarium fish. So I was like, you know what, if they're in the Creek,
they're going to be in the sewer. You guys love it.
When I catch fish in the sewer, I love it too.
So what we're going to do today, we're going to put a fish trap down here.
I'm not sure how we're going to do that yet.
I think I'm going to have to lift this up a little bit, maybe like this,
this, you know, crack it open a little bit so I can put the fish trap down.
I think that's the only way I actually catch fish in,
in sewer grates like this all the time. Do it. Try to open that up. All right,
guys. Come on. Drop a like, please. Oh, I can definitely lift that. All right.
Ready? All right. Taking the shoes off. We're going in four wheel drive.
Here we go.
Yeah. That's all we need. See,
why did you take off your shoes? I needed to, I needed the extra momentum.
All right. So check it out. This is my plan. So we have a fish trap, right?
I chose this fish trap because it collapses like this. Isn't that cool?
So what we're going to do is we're going to fill it up with cat food and then
we're going to bunch it up and drop it down there. Like I said, guys,
today we're trying to catch fish for either the new cichlid pond or my new tank.
So there you have it. There's the cat food as bait.
It's like the best bait you can get. Everything smells the cat food.
It puts out this oil. They all smell, they all come to it. Now check it out.
Great. Can you see that?
There is actually like a tunnel and it leads out that way.
And there's also one on the inside, which leads to the creek.
So I don't know where that one leads to,
but the fish could be all the way up in there.
And once they smell this cat food, they're probably going to come out into the
sewer drain. We're going to place the fish trap in here.
See, this is why I got this one. Look at that.
You can just bunch it up and then we drop it down.
There it goes. It's sinking. Oh my gosh, this is so muddy.
Look at that. It's actually really deep. All right, dude, that is perfect.
You guys, the fish trap is set. Um, we're going to leave the thing cracked again,
just for no reason. I mean, I could, I mean,
I think it'll be easier if I just leave it open, you know,
so I don't have to do that again. But yeah, guys, we have this Creek,
which it connects to and we've got tons of really cool African cichlids in here.
So check it out. This is, this is the money Creek right here.
This is where we always catch these cool aquarium fish and it connects to that
sewer. It's scorching hot in South Florida. I'm talking like a hundred degrees.
So you guys, these fish are probably taking shelter from the heat.
They're probably in the tunnel. This could work really good.
So we're going to give it a few hours.
We're going to come back and hopefully we catch something cool for our new tank
or our new pond. I'll see you guys then.
P.O.V. We're going to catch super fish. Don't,
don't show it cause there's a sign. I don't want to give the spot away,
but we're at the spot right now. Yeah. You guys, you guys can't get this spot.
This is my secret spot. We're at, we're pulling up now. And uh,
what has been two and a half hours probably. It is hot.
Like we're about to pass out. Yeah. Should they leave a like for that?
Yeah. Two likes. Two likes for that. Make it secret account. Let's do it.
Bray. Okay. Let's go get them. We need bucket.
I think that's all we need right now. I'm nervous. Come on.
I need to get water. I don't see anything.
No, I'm about to faint. Pull this out.
Okay. I need to get water. I don't even see anything.
Why do they make it so difficult? See, this is why,
this is why the good fish are here. Cause no one, no one can fish here.
There's so many African ticklers right here.
It's so hot.
Hurry up and pull this out. I can't breathe. It's so hot. Okay.
We'll pull it out. You guys, here we go. Sewer fish trap.
Please have something in it. Come on. Oh, you hear that?
I heard a fricking fish. Well, how are you going to get it out?
I need to close it like this. I can't, I don't.
Oh my God. Breathe. Breathe. Oh my gosh.
Look at this. What is that? Oh my God. Yo, we did.
Breathe, breathe, breathe. That's a shiny. That's a shiny. Oh my God.
That's a fricking shiny. My boner baby. My boner. All right. You know what?
We're dumping everything in. Cause I'm freaking out right now. I need a,
I need to have time to freak out. There's a crawfish in there too. Look,
he's stuck in the trap. Where'd he go? That's a big crawfish.
Oh, look at that thing. Oh my God. Breathe. Yes, yes,
yes, yes. We caught a Mabuna. Mabuna baby. Oh my God.
Sounds like a song name. Mabuna baby. Look how pretty that is.
I've never seen one with orange fins like that. Never in my life. Oh my God.
Also, what are these? They look like fricking eels. Those are big loaches.
I think they're called dojo loaches. What is this? Hey buddy. What is that?
Oh, that's a, uh, I don't even know what that is. This is the biggest.
These are the biggest ones I've ever seen. I didn't think they got that big.
Look how big that dojo loaches. That is so sick. Okay.
Those loaches are for the planted tank for sure.
I think they're a good cleanup crew. That African cichlid. Wait, there's two.
No, there's another one. Is this a Mabuna? Oh my God. I think that's a Mabuna.
It's the same thing. That's the same thing, but smaller. I think. Breathe.
We did it. It was all worth it. The heat strokes, everything.
It was all worth it. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. I am freaking out dude.
Aerator. Aerator's going. Look at that.
Aerator's on. Fish are good. We're going to have to make a part two guys.
If you want to see it, go down there, drop a like, comment, comment Mabuna baby.
The first time we ever caught a Mabuna, I told you guys to go down there,
drop some Mabuna baby comments. So do that again. Let's, uh,
let's close this thing.
Get out of here. I need water. I'm not.
I'm about to pass out you guys. All right. Our water's turned off. That's true.
We don't, we don't have any water. We don't even have water at the house.
All right, let's go. All right.
We're going to go back to my house now and we're going to put the dojo loaches
in the 125 gallon, uh,
planted tank and we're putting those Mabunas into the cichlid pond.
We'll see you back at my house. Okay guys, we're back in my room.
This Florida heat is no joke.
We were literally outside for probably 20 minutes today.
Like we're out there for 20 minutes and I'm, I'm done for the day.
Like I had a mini heat stroke. I can't breathe,
but we have the planted tank. By the way, we have some gold Gouramis in here,
which Brandon caught for his video.
I'll link that in the description and check them out right there.
Shout out Brandon. He caught three gold Gouramis. Look how cool they are.
Wild gold Gouramis. There's three of them in here. So yeah, we're gonna,
we're gonna put these loaches in here. There's the other one.
Need to get them in there quick. That water is so hot. This one's this, this,
that one down there is having a heat stroke just like me.
He's actually having a heat stroke.
He's alive, but he's having a heat stroke. It's just him. Look, he's,
see he's good now cause I'm putting cold water on him. I'm not even kidding.
That water is so hot.
It was in the back of the truck and I put a cover on it too and it's still,
it was still scorching hot. This is insane, dude. The Florida heat,
literally the fish are getting heat strokes. Look at this guys. Okay,
so this is the crawfish we got. We can show, Oh my God, he's got orange on him.
He has orange on him. That might be, that might be a rare one.
That might be a rare specimen right there. Oh my God, this sucker.
What is that? That's a, is that a warm mouth?
It looks like a little warm mouth. The water's cooling down.
I'm not even kidding guys. I'm not like making a joke. He had a heat stroke.
So yeah, guys, I'm just going to cut to win.
They're acclimated ready to go into the tank. Like look,
he's running from me now. Look, look at that. That's the heat stroke one.
Come on dude. You got this. There's some cold water for you. All right.
He's looking good. He's looking good. Just sit down there. Catch your breath.
There he goes. That is a good. Okay. Okay. Let's get the other one.
This one's lively. These are literally, this is, this is,
this is way bigger than that one.
That's the biggest dojo loach I've ever seen. Massive. Oh,
there he goes slithering away. That is so sick.
That is the sickest thing I have ever seen. All right guys,
before we get the cichlids in their pond, we have a few feeder, feeder,
uh, fish and all that to feed the predators. First, we got this crawfish.
Who's going to eat it? Come on. Who is ready? Andy likes the crawfish.
Andy's right there. Let's see if he can get it. Brandy got it. Brandy got it.
We also have this warm out here.
It's going to be a nice little snack for going on the bass. Here we go.
Feeding time. That was Andy. Andy got it. Whatever that is.
I think kind of looks like a little pike,
but I'm pretty sure they're called killie fish or kill fish or something like
that. You want it, Wayne? Wayne wants it. Oh my gosh. Look at him.
Come on. Ah, what? What are you doing? Oh my God.
That thing just jumped out of the water. Bruiser got it.
We got these two Mabunas. At least I think they're Mabunas.
Let's go put them in the pond. Looking good guys.
Also we have our first babies in the pond. It was very quick.
It was the convict cichlids. I know. Big shocker. Convict cichlids,
if you don't know, they breed a lot.
They breed like crazy and I was netting debris down from the bottom.
I was netting all the leaves and all that and I scooped up a bunch of baby
convict cichlids. So I'll roll the clip now. All right guys,
I don't know what video I'm going to put this in,
but I was just scooping debris off the bottom here in the cichlid pond and I
caught a female convict cichlid and I also caught a bunch of babies.
Look at all those baby convict cichlids. Yeah, that's cool.
We got the first ever babies.
It'll be cool once we start getting the colorful babies, you know,
I mean look at this. The pond is looking amazing.
There's the pair of convict cichlids down there actually by those rocks.
You can see them. There's the pair. But yeah, everyone's doing green here.
You can see the big Jack Fancy down there lurking around the two big Mabunas,
which we actually caught in the same spot just in the Creek. Um, everyone,
literally everyone's doing so good.
There's the green terror down there where we caught in the Walmart ditches.
He's getting fricking big. There's the Jaguar. Everyone's getting big.
They're putting on size. They're putting on some color.
We got two new additions.
I'm going to acclimate them and then we'll cut to putting them in.
Check it out. He's ready to go. Guys, correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think these guys are Mabunas. Ah, stop it. Stop it.
You don't know. You don't know you're going into a really nice home right now.
You should just splash me. Stop it. My God, he's feisty, dude.
All right, we got the little one. We got the little baby.
We got the little baby. Okay. Check that out. You guys, please identify that.
The species, whatever it is.
It doesn't look like the Mabunas we've caught before.
I mean, you could see the Mabunas, the big blue ones. They're just all blue,
but this guy looks like he's a Mabuna as well, but just different coloration.
There he is off into the pond. He looks so sick. So sick.
He's going to get his colors back too. I mean,
he was way prettier when we caught him.
He's just a little stressed out right now. Let's get the bigger one.
This one's really pretty. This one's got his colors. My God, he's feisty too.
Look at that. What the heck?
That looks like some sort of color mutation. That doesn't look like,
just like a pure pure bred Mabuna or whatever.
Just a really beautiful fish. So sick. We caught that one. There he goes.
There he goes right at home. Oh my gosh. Look down there. Look,
look in the shell. Ready? Oh my gosh. You see that?
She's got a little home down there in the shell. Oh, that is so sick.
That's why I put the shell in there. I knew a fish would make it their home.
You guys, I mean, just look at the pond. It is amazing.
If you guys are liking these videos,
catching all these cool aquarium fish from my ponds, my tanks, go down there,
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I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace out.
