Extreme Philly Fishing

07/15/2025

Here is a GENTLE REMINDER that I will be doing DAILY STORIES for the OPEN PUBLIC covering the entire ICAST 2025 event on INSTAGRAM.

You can follow my account via the link below:
https://www.instagram.com/extremephillyfishing_lifelists/?hl=en

I will be with the CAPERLAN and Eurotackle TEAMS at booth 4863. If you want to see what the event is all about, NEW PRODUCTS FROM DIFFERENT BRANDS for 2025-2026, and behind the scenes contents, make sure to give it a follow!!!

Meanwhile, I hope you all have been out there ESLAYING different species of fish.

Tight lines and FISH ON!!!

07/13/2025

Ladies & Gentlemen —

Starting tomorrow, I will be away from Philadelphia.
I will be back only on August 1st, 2025.

From the 13th to the 19th, I will be down in Orlando with the Eurotackle and the Caperlan Team for ICAST 2025.

From the 19th to the 31st, I will be Lifelisting in NICARAGUA. I will be shooting a FULL LIFELISTING SERIES for the YouTube Channel that will drop beginning in AUGUST/2025.

Because of the heavy preparation for this upcoming Lifelisting trip, I haven't had ANY TIME whatsoever to edit YouTube videos. Therefore, sadly, there won't be ANY VIDEOS DROPPING ON THE CHANNEL until my return to the USA.

Hey... think positive: this is an INVESTMENT into the future!!! These trips are NOT VACATIONS — I will be working really hard in terms of content creation.

I have spent EXTRA TIME studying the fish species of Nicaragua, so that the future YouTube videos can be even more entertaining and more educational for you folks!!!

That being said, I will STILL KEEP ON POSTING on FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM until then. So, you may want to give my IG a follow if you haven't yet:
https://www.instagram.com/extremephillyfishing_lifelists/

Wish me luck on the LIFELISTING hunt, folks!!!
And meanwhile, TIGHT LINES & FISH ON!!!

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07/12/2025

Have you watched my parents and I catch our FIRST KEEPER Summer Flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) of the 2025 Season...?! If not, what are you waiting for??? LOL. I will leave the video link below:
https://youtu.be/jgUNTIuPJXs

🐟 21 Minutes Long Video.
🐟 My first NJ Saltwater video of 2025.
🐟 Family Fishing ft. my PARENTS.
🐟 Includes a RANT on FISHING ETIQUETTE...!!!

Have you ever had something like that happen to you, by the way...? The stuff that I spoke about in the RANT? That's precisely why it is so important nowadays to EDUCATE people when it comes to our sport!!! There are rules and regulations that you can read about online, and there are UNWRITTEN ETIQUETTE rules that every angler should know about...!!!

07/11/2025

NEW PHOTO GALLERIES from TENNESSEE dropped on the Smugmug Fish Photo Database (https://extremephillyfishing.smugmug.com/) for the Inner Circle.

Below are photos of SOME of the species that were added:

🐟 Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii)
🐟 Stone Darter (Etheostoma derivativum)
🐟 Fantail Darter (Etheostoma flabellare)
🐟 Cumberland Snubnose Darter (Etheostoma atripinne)

The password for all Smugmug Watershed and Species folders for the month of July of 2025 was shared earlier this month with the FB Inner Circle Members.

NOT A MEMBER YET...?! Join today for $4.99 a month, support your boiiii EPF in his content creation quest, and get EXTRA PERKS:
https://www.facebook.com/ExtremePhillyFishing/subscribe/

Every monthly subscription here on Facebook supports me as a content creator, which helps me bring you folks MORE VIDEOS AND MORE POSTS on all my social media platforms. So, THANK YOU as always for all thy love!

07/10/2025

For those who missed it, here is the link to the Caperlan KEA MCO FISHING SPOON Review that I did a few weeks ago on the YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/L028R0Z7fLM

🐟 33 Minutes Long Video
🐟 Fishing Lure Challenge ft. the Caperlan Spoon
🐟 Lifelisting, ft. NBBfishing (https://bit.ly/4kAKPJX)
🐟 More than 8 species of fish in it!!!

I know that the KEA MCO is out of stock at the moment (folks were excited to try it), but I will leave its hyperlink below for those who are interested in getting some once they are restocked:
https://bit.ly/44afB6i

I will keep you all updated as well!!!

07/09/2025

It is THAT TIME OF THE MONTH, FOLKS: Here is another FB Inner Circle Give Away. Since there are only THREE Inner Circle Members here on FB 😅, I ran the Random Number Generator for 3.

This month's winner is: Jeff Sipler . Congratulations.
All I need from you is a full shipping address via e-mail: [email protected]

As a gentle reminder, anyone who is a part of the Inner Circle here on FB is AUTOMATICALLY IN for the monthly give aways!!! Want to join...? It is $4.99 a month. I will leave the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/ExtremePhillyFishing/subscribe/

Perks include the following:
🐟 Automatic entry to all Inner Circle lure give aways (usually 1 per month).
🐟 Access to the EPF Smugmug Fish Photo Database
(https://extremephillyfishing.smugmug.com/).
🐟 Access to the FB Inner Circle Community Group.

As always, many thanks to all your love and support!!! Being a small content creator is no easy gig, so every cent towards my fishing adventures helps at the end of the day. THANK YOU!

06/30/2025

IT IS OFFICIAL, FOLKS...!!! EPF will be attending the 2025 ICAST in Orlando, Florida. The event will run from the 15th to the 18th of July/2025, and I will be there with the CAPERLAN CREW at the CAPERLAN BOOTH.

Note that there will be a FREE OPEN PUBLIC Instagram event related to ICAST. I will be making "DAY IN THE LIFE" stories on my IG account EVERY DAY, covering NEW PRODUCT RELEASES from different brands and giving you folks a little "behind the scenes" with the Caperlan crew. You may want to follow my IG page for this event:
https://www.instagram.com/extremephillyfishing_lifelists/

Remember, folks: 15th-18th of July!!!

And, of course, if you make it to ICAST this year, feel free to stop by the Caperlan booth to talk some fishing. I will bring you folks more details on the number of the booth, etc., in a FB post in July. Stay tuned!

If you have any other questions pertaining this post, feel free to leave them below.
Tight lines & FISH ON!

06/29/2025

Ladies & Gentlemen —

This is a gentle reminder that there is a LIFELISTING fishing trip already scheduled for the month of JULY/2025. I will be going to a Country in CENTRAL AMERICA that I have NEVER BEEN TO BEFORE in hopes of catching AS MANY LIFERS as possible.

I am currently at 609 Lifers on my Lifelist. You can access the updated Lifelist via this link: http://bit.ly/44EclRS. The goal is to catch 50 LIFERS there over the course of 10 days in July.

I will be shooting a FULL FISHING TRIP VIDEO for YouTube, divided in 7-10 episodes. Those episodes are going to drop on the Channel beginning AUGUST of this year.

That being said, if you want to see EXTRA CONTENTS from this trip VIA INSTAGRAM: more intimate, complete, LIVE, and "behind the scenes" footage, you may want to SUBSCRIBE to my $20.00 Inner Circle Monthly Membership. I will be posting DAILY CONTENTS from Central America during the entire length of my stay there for the INNER CIRCLE members, which will include all foods that I eat there, all places that I visit, all spots that I fish, and all SPECIES/LIFERS that I catch. There will be a SECRET GUEST in my YouTube videos as well (you will have to wait to find out).

Here is the Instagram account, so that you can give it a follow [if you haven't yet]:
https://www.instagram.com/extremephillyfishing_lifelists/

To subscribe to the Instagram Inner Circle Contents, you can do it via YouTube:

Select GOLD MEMBERSHIP ($20.00/month) after you click on Join:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN87Pgwb2j03o6VoywPSJQg/join

Or you can simply send $20.00 via Venmo or PayPal and get added on my IG Inner Circle account:

Venmo:
PayPal: [email protected]
Note: when making a donation for the monthly membership, please include your IG username, so that I can add you there.
Note 2: I will be accepting new membership subscriptions for July only until JULY 1st, 2025. All donations made after that will be reimbursed.

If you are a part of the following and you plan on becoming an Inner Circle member, I welcome you with all my heart.

If you are already an Inner Circle member and you already renewed your membership for July, STAY TUNED...!!! It is going to be a WILD MONTH filled with DIFFERENT SPECIES OF FISH — many of them NEVER EVER portrayed on my social media.

If you don't plan on being a part of the Inner Circle, DON'T WORRY...!!! There will be plenty of FISHING CONTENTS dropping on the Channel in August related to this trip! I will drop Central America fishing videos EVERY MONDAY on the Channel, and this series will run from beginning of August to end of September/beginning of October.

06/28/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: There will be no video upload on the YouTube Channel tonight. The next video will drop on MONDAY, 7 p.m. EST, June 30th. However, on a side note, GOOD NEWS. Read more about it below...!!!

The reason for the lack of upload tonight...? I had to do a New York trip earlier this week to help my parents finalize their CANADIAN VISAS. 🤩🤩🤩 The extra "day off" plus bad weather made it tough for me to bring you all a video! That being said, WE WILL BE GOING TO CANADA IN AUGUST...!!!

As a matter of fact, depending on how many years of VISA the Canadian government give my parents, we may go to Canada MULTIPLE TIMES for FAMILY TRIPS and VACATION, which OBVIOUSLY is going to result in multiple fishing adventures and YouTube videos!!!

If you folks have SUGGESTIONS on where in CANADA I should go for a full YouTube series, I am ALL EARS. Leave your opinions below and I shall read them all.

06/27/2025

Have you folks checked some of my AUSTIN, TEXAS fishing videos on the Channel recently?! If not, I am going to link EP 1 & 2 below:
EP1: https://youtu.be/2DDXaOPe_XU (Shoal Creek)
EP2: https://youtu.be/Vb5RSMrb_X0 (Colorado River & Waller Creek)

EP3 of this fishing adventure will drop on the Channel on MONDAY, June 30th. I have been dropping ONE AUSTIN, TEXAS LIFELISTING EPISODE on YouTube per week. This series will have a total of FOUR episodes with plenty of Lifers in it. 😊

A little background story on this series — fun fact of the day:

I originally shot these videos in May of 2024, about a year ago. I got some GREAT footage and BEAUTIFUL fish in different urban areas of Austin. The adventure itself was AMAZING. I loved everything about Austin, Texas: the fishing, the women, the food, etc!!!

The videos never got published on the YouTube Channel because I was truly burned out from the social media job then. I needed a little bit of TIME OFF from all the negativity on YouTube, FB, and IG. I took that time to CONTEMPLATE on what it means to be a content creator, what type of fishing content creator I want to be, what type of fishing contents I want to bring in the future, and what type of fishing community I want to build when it comes to my social media platforms.

Little by little, I implemented the changes with new goals in mind. And, here we are. Heh. 😎 I have been back on the YouTube platform almost full time since the beginning of June, and we are still going strong with all the UPLOADS there.

I hope you folks get to enjoy watching this series as much as I enjoyed documenting it.

Moral of the story: never be afraid of taking a STEP BACK when it comes to your career, so that you can REEVALUATE your values and IMPROVE as an individual. I would also like to use this moment to give a BIG THANK YOU to all who followed me back then and still follow me nowadays. Remember: without you folks, there would be no EPF on social media. Your love and support are truly appreciated, and it motivates me to work harder each and every day.

06/24/2025

I apologize for the lack of uploads here on Facebook for the past few days, Ladies & Gentlemen...!!!

You may have heard about it, but we had some STRONG WINDS in Bucks County, PA last week. In a matter of 15 minutes or so, A LOT of trees and wires were down EVERYWHERE. It is estimated that 300,000 people were without power beginning Thursday of last week (19th).

Well... the good news is that I got my power back LAST NIGHT (23rd), so I am back on all my social media platforms.

As a matter of fact, stay tuned...!!! Episode 2 of my AUSTIN, TX Lifelisting trip will drop on the YouTube Channel (http://bit.ly/4lmll3G) at 5:00 p.m. EST. Also, there will be a SALTWATER fishing video dropping this Thursday, ft. my parents!!!

06/17/2025

NEW PHOTO GALLERIES from PETROLINA, PERNAMBUCO, and JUAZEIRO, BAHIA, BRAZIL, dropped on the Smugmug Fish Photo Database (https://extremephillyfishing.smugmug.com/) for the Inner Circle earlier this week. They included the following Lifers (and a bunch of other species of fish):

🐟 White Piranha (Serrasalmus brandtii)
🐟 [???] (Myleus cf. altipinnis)
🐟 [???] (Bryconops cf. affinis)
🐟 [???] (Leporinus amblyrhynchus)
🐟 [???] (Cichlasoma sanctifranciscense)
🐟 [???] (Crenicichla cf. lepidota)
🐟 Spotted Metynnis (Metynnis maculatus)
🐟 [???] (Hoplias intermedius)
🐟 [???] (Megaleporinus reinhardti)

Note that the "[???]" terminology is due to the fact that a lot of these species don't really have a "common name" outside of the Brazilian ichthyological community. Also, the "cf." taxonomy terminology for some of these catches stands for the Latin word "confer," and it is used when ichthyologists collect samples without a definitive ID. I will talk a little bit more about this topic LATER THIS WEEK in the INNER CIRCLE FACEBOOK GROUP, so folks can learn a tad more about what it means to catch a "cf." species from Brazil.

The password for all Smugmug Watershed and Species folders was shared earlier this month with the FB Inner Circle Members. P.s. if you are not a member yet, and you want to support your boiiii EPF and get EXTRA PERKS, feel free to join anytime:
https://www.facebook.com/ExtremePhillyFishing/subscribe/
For $4.99 a month, you will be supporting me as a content creator, which helps me bring you folks MORE VIDEOS AND MORE POSTS on all my social media platforms.