In the Das Boat Northeast finale, Joe Cermele takes the helm again, this time on Lake Erie with hot shot walleye captain Ross Robertson. After outfitting their craft for the precision trolling that scores giant summer walleyes, these old friends get a lesson in what makes this famous walleye fishery...

Bowfin are a native species that rarely get the love they deserve. In this episode, bass phenom Oliver Ngy teams up with fly legend Blane Chocklett on Lake Champlain to get deep in the weeds on the importance of bowfin in the ecosystem. They'll also test their mettle against what can be a...

Washington DC is known for fishy business, but not like this. Chef Kevin Gillespie joins accomplished kayak angler Kristine Fischer to hunt down invasive blue catfish and the hated snakehead in the Potomac River and its surrounding swamps. They'll find out how detrimental these fish really are to...

While cobia are prolific in the South, their annual fleeting visit to Chesapeake Bay is a much anticipated event. In this episode, YouTube stars Jay Siemans and Bri Andrassy outfit Das Boat for sightcasting to these brutal fighters while getting a crash course in the conservation efforts keeping the...

In this episode, Captain Frank Crescitelli and MeatEater's own Chef Jean-Paul Bourgeois get down and dirty in New Jersey's iconic Barnegat Bay. While their focus is exploring what happened to the once flourishing weakfish population, they also spend time digging for clams, seining grass shrimp, and...

To kick off Das Boat Northeast, Ryan Callaghan joins Joe Cermele in his home state of New Jersey to chase down striped bass—one of the most economically important fish in the region. But before they get after them, they've got to put the finishing touches on our 1973 Mako, which took months to turn...

For the finale of Das Boat Season 2, MeatEater Wild Foods Contributor Danielle Prewett and longtime fishing guide Frank Smethurst, head to Red Lake, Minnesota. Red Lake is one of the most celebrated walleye fisheries in the country. But we're not after walleye. We're after the one fish out here that...

In this episode, MeatEater's Ryan Callaghan and Miles Nolte travel to Minnesota to learn more about, and even try to catch, big mouth buffalo. The guys build a raised casting platform on Das Boat, using supplies scavenged from the trash heap behind a local hardware store. After that, they meet Alec...

Dos Boat heads west to meet up with Oliver Ngy and Kevin Harlander in North Central Wisconsin. Oliver and Kevin are here for two things: big musky and delicious panfish. These targets represent opposite poles of the fishing spectrum: Musky (also known as muskellunge) are one of the largest, most...

Dos Boat crosses the Straits of Mackinaw and heads west to the Wisconsin, U.P. border. There, MeatEater's Senior Fishing Editor, Joe Cermele, teams up with local guide Tim Landwehr. First, they have to resolve some of the busted-ass, janky modifications made by the last crew. Once that's done, they...

After picking up, tricking out, and catching some lake trout in his childhood fishing mentor's old boat (the new Das Boat), Steve takes it from Lake Michigan up four hours north to Boyne City, where Steve's good friend Janis Putelis will assume the helm. The trip is a bit of a homecoming for Janis...

In the first episode of Season 2, Steve introduces you to the new Das Boat—Dos Boat. After a bumpy start, Steve gets to South Haven, MI, where he recruits the help of local charter captain Grant Gulley. Steve, Grant, and a local fabricator put in 10 hours of work getting the boat ready to fish for...