Name: Catching a Mid-Air Fish
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T09:10:55.000Z
Duration: 6 min 5 s
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Gav: Today we are  on the Illinois River.

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Nobody's ever been killed. Just a few broken jaws.

This is one of the most mental things I've ever filmed.

Gav: Dan, we got, like,  15 fish in the air.

That is one of my favorite things we've ever filmed.

Well, wasn't that a lovely day on the river?

Well, I mean, for you. You just sat on a boat having a nice day.

I was holding on for dear life getting hit in the face with fish.

- Getting pelted. My ideal day. - Oh, fine, yeah.

- No, it was quite fun. - My favorite clip, I think--

I think the one of you getting hit in the face.

We honestly couldn't have asked for a more perfect shot

- That's true. - than that one that just   beaned you right in the head.

- Yeah. - And that is one   of my favorites.

I wondered why I was getting  covered in stuff.

Well, it's all well and good being hit in the face

- with flying fish and pooed on. - Well, it looks cool.

- Yeah. - But why are they jumping   out of the water?

To find out, we spoke to a bloke called Jason.

So we might as well start with the basics. What makes these fish jump?

of different things that can make fish jump.

to try and avoid what they perceive as a predation threat,

that are coming off  the hull of the boat

- Interesting. - So the fish weren't   always here.

They're called Asian carp. How did they actually get here then?

They were intentionally introduced into southern United States fish farms.

As those ponds were drained, some of the carp escaped.

Anything that's connected to the lower Mississippi River,

which is one  of the largest rivers  in the western hemisphere,

- What kind of damage   do they do? - From a social standpoint,

People have been injured, when a 6 to 16-pound fish

They eat plankton and other microscopic plants and animals

that most of the fish in the river depend on.

they're nipping other fish in the bud before--

The worst case scenario is that they keep spreading unchecked.

So what can we do as humans to maybe start fixing this problem?

The easiest thing to do and the best thing to do is actually to eat them.

and you don't even have to be a good angler to catch them.

- It's really the perfect fish. - Wait, so they taste good,

Just give it a more glamorous name, like a yum fish.

All right, thanks very much, Jason. Very informative.

- My pleasure. Thank you. - Thank you very much.

Thanks, us. Well, you heard what he said.

More people have got to start eating these fish.

Obviously, I thought we'd do it our own way,

- I like what   you've done there. - Thank you.

So while Dan is preparing this delicious Asian carp,

why don't we take a lovely slo-mo look at how we caught it?

- All right, rolling again. - All right, here we go.

Dan: You see, I was losing  my balance slightly

Gav: And it just shot  straight from the middle.

I zoomed in for the reaction.  It just...

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