And she’s drinking a beer so enjoy. The woman is Heather LaCroix, who along with her husband Jeff run a very popular YouTube channel dedicated to outdoor sports. This instructional video shows her preparing and cooking panfish which are a common and easily caught protein source in a TEOTWAWKI scenario (until the rivers and lakes are fished out by the hungry masses) and pre-SHTF a nice way to stretch out the larder in the lean times if they’re biting. My Grandparents had a deep freezer full of “Sunny” as we called the local panfish we caught near Port Jervis, N.Y. which helped feed a poor family with lots of kids.

In an emergency situation I recommend trapping fish with weirs, setting trot-lines and even using casting nets to fish. None of these techniques are legal (trot-lines may be legal in some states) so until TEOTWAWKI get a pole and some bait. I learned to clean a fish as a kid but some fishless years later I bought a trout at a super market, got it home and turned it into a Picasso painting. It never hurts to watch other people do thing you may not be practicing yourself, and this isn’t half as boring as most fish cleaning vids so settle in and enjoy: