Eating a GHOST SHARK?! Prehistoric Catch & Cook!

In this episode I show you how to catch Spotted Ratfish, also called Rabbit Fish or Ghost Shark, which is part of the 420 million year old Chimaera family! After a nice session of Puget Sound pier shark fishing, we finally catch a Ratfish and I take it home to do a Chimaera catch & cook for you. While this is an ancient deep sea creature, these little guys are quite common in the Puget Sound, can be caught without deep sea fishing, and have a 15 fish per day limit. I don't believe in filling a limit, but I was too curious not to try one and do a venomous shark catch & cook!

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[liannislam]

Extinct creature: I'm back from millions of years ago to reproduce
Humans: eat it

[craigmorton]

When I seen all that butter you were using I just thought, now that's a man that's not worried about cholesterol. 🤣

[BallinRiceBowl]

I’ve been bottom fishing the Puget sound for over 20 years since I was 5 and never have seen someone so happy to hook a rat fish 🤣 You are a brave man for eating it! Major respect! Thanks for putting WA on the cyber fishing map!

[andreypostolnikov]

Judging by the amount of times hes mentioned his favorite salt I'm starting to think hes getting sponsored by them 😂

[jackc]

That is the craziest catch and cook I’ve ever seen

[yengthao]

That's a Male ratfish. The "nose" looking thing is called a tubercle which is meant to grasp onto the pectoral fin of a female ratfish during mating.

[andrewmccrobie]

I just want to thank you for your videos, man. Watching them inspired me to go out for the first time in over a decade and catch a decent largemouth yesterday after work. As soon as I reeled it in I was instantly filled with joy and excitement. So thank you, Leif and fish on!

[RobertHampton]

I would definitely try that fish! It looks great! The thing I like about your video's is that you cook and eat your catch, that's something that not all fishing programs do. Keep up the good work. I subscribed and hit the bell on two of your videos. The only two I've seen so far.

[grant]

That’s a crazy looking fish, been waiting all week for this upload!

[Lawrencelovesfish]

I would of realeased that it’s way to beautiful to eat.

[bensonkeadle]

I love how everybody things that ratfish are kinda considered trash fish and your like, “I’m gonna do a catch and cook.”

[hunternelson]

I’ve never seen the Edmonds dock so empty. People must hate fishing in the cold 🥶

[agumm]

We caught a ton of these in nets in Norway they call them Havmus! They used to be caught for their liver oil, but we would eat them all the time, the meat is not bad at all! I live in Kingston, gotta take the ferry over sometime 😅

[xevint]

This channel is like a little treehouse where we go to escape from this chaos once in a while.

[jonahv]

I love videos like this! Keep up the good work man! 👍

[TheCriminalViolin]

When I saw Chimera, I immediately looked it up, because I knew that I had known it as a Ratfish before, and low and behold, it is haha. I suppose there is some kind of a equal trade off that counter-reacts itself with calling them each by different names, or making it a rule to only refer to them all by a single name. I am split on that haha, I wish having it both ways would solve the confusion issue! That said, I would 100% try that myself. It seems most of the time people automatically think garbage fish always taste bad/bland, but then when you try it for yourself, at least half of those fish are actually delicious as all hell. The raw fillet looked a lot like sole to me, except of course the shape was very different for obvious reason lol. Great video as always man!

[serafinflorendo]

I caught one many years ago at Point Defiance pier and they’re very pretty looking odd fish. I returned it back to the water though. I didn’t know that you could eat those.

[Mr.Mysterious..]

the rat fish when you where breading it looked like a chicken tender of a nice piece of cooked catfish =)

[kadewilliams]

I'm so happy my favorite youtuber has gained 1000 subs over night

[mxmbalol]

Everyone's reactions when he said "Oh look it's a little foot"

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