 Yeah. Oh God. Oh God. That's a big one dude. Oh my God. Oh my God. That's a giant. Hot coffee in the sunrise, fish and freaks you already know. We are starting the day off right. We are just wrapping up a Guggen week down here on Choke Canyon Lake. Lake that me and Trey, my buddy Trey came down to last year and we did really well in March. It was a lot of fun. We thought we'd come down in February but you know we still caught fish this week but it has been super windy, really rough out on the lake and it was actually warm but we just got hit with a cold front. So I'm going to hang back an extra day and do a little dangling. We'll take you guys along for the ride. So we got the Guggen guys down here right now but we also got a few of our partners with Ketchco down here and I'm going to take out one of them today. His name is Matt. So hopefully there's still going to be some bass where we found them yesterday later in the day, bass moving up on beds. Yes, there could be bass on beds even during literally freezing conditions this morning, 30 degrees but we'll see. I don't know, it's really going to be a mystery. This is part of spring. It's like breaking down. What is the weather going to do by the hour and how these fish are affected around the full moon, the spawn and all that. So let's go see what we can gather up and give a few fish a sniff. She's a little dicey out here this morning. Yeah, it's just kind of that annoying 15 mile an hour. I like my one pounders with a little eight pounder on the side. He's probably two pounds. Yeah, look at that. About ready to pop. I'm just giving them the old crawl. So I love this green reaction rod, dude. I mean, I could just fling the bait so well with it and then yeah, you get one that eats it. Usually don't come off. Fun. Well just yesterday they were, that one looks spawned out. There'll be a few more on this little gut. Geez, this is an old phoenix. Oh, really? Yeah. Got a big one in the grass right on the edge. One of these times it's going to load up. You see those head shakes hooked up. Decent. Just a beautiful fish. Yeah, see, it's good to stay when everyone goes sometimes. Yeah, there are just some large blobs, large blobs moving around. They want that spinnerbait smoke. It's been a big double Colorado's. The Thumper. No. First time in like 70 years someone's been attacked in Australia. There he is. Oh, that might be a good one. That's a little better. Yeah, man. That's my first catch ever on the old Thumper blades. Hell yeah. That ladies and gentlemen, they knew Zinger double Colorado's thumping doing that slow rolling and that's a taste of cake right there. Beautiful. Yeah, you feel that head shake after you hook them, you know? Hell yeah. I thought that spinnerbait might be a good deal because they're biting it so slow just kind of keep touching the top of that grass. Yeah, my God. Oh God, that's a big one, dude. Oh my God, that's a giant. Oh, what is this? Oh, it's a catfish. Oh my God. Dude, holy look at this thing. Dude, this thing knocked me snot off the spinnerbait. Holy s***. Dude, look at this freaking catfish, bro. I was like, that's a 10 pound bass. I don't want to lose this spinnerbait. He's probably mangled. I think you can get him. He might get goo on you. I've got a net, but you know what he'll do to a net? Just don't lose that spinnerbait. Don't let him get your fingers either. Got him? Don't hurt yourself. Holy cow. Look at that, baby. Spinnerbait retrieved. Look at the belly of that sucker. Holy cow. Dude, that's nuts. How much do you think that weighs? It's probably close to 10. I mean, goodness gracious. Big blue cat. He's broken at us. Not the 10 pounder we thought we were gonna catch, but still one. All right, that's a good sign up here eating shad. Absolutely. Insane. That's nuts. That's hilarious. Yeah, we're doing all right out here. Catching some fish. Holy cow, y'all. So I think that's fish number like eight or nine. Woke up this morning. Everybody's packing up leaving and me and Matt were like, you know what? We'll go out and give it a shot. Might be terrible with this cold front, but we're actually getting some bites, but we're having to slow down and we're fishing bladebaits and I just picked up that spinnerbait and the key is just going slow, keeping the bait right above the grass, which, you know, in the pre-spawn, this works everywhere. It's not just where we're at. Anytime you have that grass or if you're on a rocky lake that's you're throwing crankbaits or something, slow down your retrieve and just keep it just touching that cover. There's some bait up in this grass, seeing the shad, we've seen individual fish and they're right where the grass is starting to taper off and kind of gets sparse and goes to like the silt and the mud and everything like that. And this cold front I think is probably going to push a lot of these fish out towards these outer grass lines where yesterday in the afternoons 80 degrees down here, the water's in the 60s and they were all going up towards the bank. Now we've got 55 degree water and a lot of these fish are starting to kind of move to the outside, it seems. So there's a fish right there, see it sitting on the outside of where this grass starts to taper down. You've got some bait, some different things that are kind of messing around up here on this grass, but I'm just trying to keep the bait right along the top of that grass, just keep it moving. Like in the spinnerbait dude, literally just got these, just broke them out of the package the other day and this is kind of something we were missing, a Colorado blade, big thumper which I like for wintertime fishing and early spring or muddy water. So keep giving her an angle, get hooked up on that green 10 pounder. Oh man, I just saw three move off this isolated grass patch. Giant, yep, it's a giant. Yep, yep, this is a giant, just slowly load it up. This is a tank, this might be over eight. This little travel rod's getting worked right now. Yep, yep, yep, this was the move. Look at that fish. Perfectly hooked in the nose baby, look at that, holy cow. Oh my god. That's a pig boy. He's a giant. Damn. Look at that, there we go. Oh my gosh, hook just fell out, good land job dude. Dude. Holy cow. That is a, look at the tail. I'm very curious what this is going to look like. I know, I don't even know, I don't have my scale with me. You don't have a scale? No way, you don't have a scale? I don't know if it's over 10, but it's, it's up there dude. Oh my gosh. Oh crap, that's a magnum. Oh my gosh. Let's put that one in the well for a minute. That's a freaking tank. That's crazy. I wonder how much that one is. I know, I got, I left my scale in John's boat. Where? I left my scale in John's boat. Hey bud, are you still here? You're what, you're on the road? Okay, just gonna see if you got a scale because I got a big one. Yeah, I think it's, it's between eight and 10, maybe over 10, I don't know. It's big. Hey Kendra's calling me, let me, let me pick it up and see if he's got one. Hey man, yeah, are you out of town already? Oh okay, um, I was going to see if you had a scale and you were coming. I got a big one, like maybe over 10. Yeah, yeah, sure did. It's very, very large. It's got a big ass. This fish might be over 10 pounds. I don't have a scale. I just called Matt, I called my buddy Trey. They're already out of town. They're gone. I'm going to say conservative, it's a nine. Conservatively, it's a nine pound bass. It's so thick in the tail. I mean, I can't even measure it because my measurement stick only goes to 18 inches. I was not expecting that. I just, I cut my camera on as the fish loaded up and I can't tell you how many fish have lost doing that. I saw you do that, yeah. I cut the camera on as it loaded up and now I got the fish. So I got lucky that I landed it. But I just realized literally the rod I caught it on. One of the things we have on the green series is we have a measuring stick right here. It goes to 23. If it's over 23, it's a really large fish. In my experience, a 23 is like around eight pounds usually. Seven, eight pounds. 24 can be anywhere from eight to 12 or more. You know what I mean? So it's, from that point, it's really just girth. But we'll pull the fish out. We'll put it on, put it on the rod and see if we can get a kind of an estimated measurement. Big fish. So we want to make sure we're handling it good and we've got water in the live well. Oh my gosh, dude. Look at this fish. Look how fat that fish is that is a giant, giant bass. Yeah, it's going over. It's going over. So I'm going to say it's 24. Oh yeah. It's a 24. And then around this fish is just super, super fat. So guys, I'm going to say it's a nine. I don't want to be that guy that just calls it a 10, but that fish is super fat. So it just might be. But we're going to put it back in the well for a second, get a few picks. We're going to let it go right here so this fish can make more babies this spring. Oh yeah. It's a crazy thing about fishing this time of year is when these fish are full of eggs, like this big female, you just don't know how big they could be. You know, they get that extra weight, but absolutely beautiful fish. Let it go right here. All right, sweetheart. Go make some big babies. Oh yeah. Whoo, baby. So guys, there's a little something in the works here. Working on a little something here for for our trailers and just as a other general use bait, but just trying these out. That was well, that's my biggest fish on it so far. But it's a nice, nice little trailer for the bladed jigs bait just all over this point area. Oh yeah. But it doesn't appear to have that good just as I say, it doesn't appear to have the better grass line hooked up. Come here. There we go. Solid one. Dude, that was perfect on the rod. You like the rod? Yes. That is perfect because it's like, I almost didn't know I had a fish, you know, like I felt it load up. Time to load up. Yes, that little delay. That was perfect. That's what you want. Fishing a little hybrid glass composite rod right here. Been working on with old Matt and catch go. And this is yet to be officially named and all that, but I'm just going to say these blanks are better than us. Components are nice. These handles are sick. So you got two bites right in there. Another solid little fatty. All right guys, not sure what happened. I just caught a fish on time lapse mode. It's always fun. But I just picked up a swim jig. This is a, this is actually a good little combo we're talking about. Caught say five or six fish on this this week. Like when the grass is just so thick that I can't get that that blade bait or spinner bait really going through it good. And if it's just, you know, warm, I feel like they're going to get on top of the grass. I've just been picking up this little three eighths ounce grass hero. This is our swim jig and putting, I'd like to put a black and blue color swim jig with a white trailer. So this is just a white junior size cracking craw. And I know that seems weird, but it's something about that black and blue kind of blends in and subtle pops pretty good with that white trailer on the back. So you got the white back there doing all the action and like you can't even see that black and blue through the through the shadows right now. So it's a good little combo, man. I like that color combo. It seems weird, but give it a shot. If you got some swim jig cover, if you're lake or pond, whatever you're fishing is stained water. Try that early spring. It's a nice little combo. Thought he was loaded up nice with this rod. Yeah, man. God, that was felt amazing on this rod. Yeah. That's a nice one. See there partner. Yep. Just when that grass started kind of tapering, getting shallow again. There he was. There he is. Low retrieve. Just getting them solids. The solids here today. Yes. We're just on that consistent, just steady as she goes bite. See bud. Top tier boat snack right here. We've got Eddie Ray's Summer Sausage. This is actually from Stephanie's Deer. Pair that up with some Osnap Hottie bites. Nice compliments to the meal. A little cheddar in there too. Oh yeah. Wow. Thank you. Helping you know cheddar. I ate it when you popped it. I've been waiting on that. The number that is, we're going to get up in the 20s here pretty soon. Absolutely crush it. It seems like there's still a ton of males out on this outer. There might be some that are starting to move up right now with the air temperatures starting to get up a little bit. Maybe the sun might get excited. But I think the bigger ones are just going to be on that outer rim or any kind of deep spot. Like there's a gut. A little deep gut. Pretty fun times. A little blue baby with a hot butt on that trailer. Ready to rock giants. Set ups for throwing blade baits and spinner baits. I like something at least seven foot for casting but out here fishing these long grass lines. It's really nice to have a longer rod. You just get a little more on your distance so you're covering more water. And then just to get them up out of the grass, it's pretty nice. This one in my hand is a 7'3 medium heavy moderate. And it's that glass composite. It's perfect. But yeah, 7'2 to 7'4, even 7'6 sometimes I like for just making those real long casts. Got 15 pound line on here. So it gives the bait a lot of action. Comes through the grass a little better. The more you increase your line size, the more you're having to deal with just taking action off your bait and just kind of gets bulky. You know, lighter the line, more action. But 15 is a good mix and that's just straight up fluorocarbon. There's a lot of bait just hanging out here. Just hanging. Need a shift. Where's one? Swim jig again. Good one's big. Just pick up the swim jig and catch a big one. Look at how it's large. It's a real big one. It's like eight pounder. Oh my god. Good grab, dude. Nice. That's awesome, dude. That one looks similar. Wait, dude. I mean, it's not much smaller. Oh my god, what a toad. Holy cow. Look at the belly on that thing. Holy crap. Let's get it in the well for a minute. Not much different. Wow. My buddy landed that one perfect. I know it doesn't feel as heavy. It's not as heavy, but it's a big one. Big head. Gustavsky with another knuckle grab. Thank you for sacrificing your nightly. Can we see what you got here? We got some battle stars today from grabbing some big old Ratley bass. That's a man that's not afraid. And catfish, I guess, too. Yeah, that catfish chomped you too. So I appreciate it. I know that hurts, but happy to. Okay. Happy to. Absolute giant fish. This is not as big, but let's just see how long it is. The other one was like curled up in the live well. So we'll see how long this one is. I'm going to measure it on the on the stick. We're working on quite the bad here today. Huge fat belly, you know, female. It's just not not doesn't have as much girth going on, but still a huge fit. Well, that goes to 21 right there. That other rod. Yeah, it's probably let's see. I'm going to say it's maybe 23. Yeah, anything 23 inches. That's 21. Wow. So not quite as long, but definitely as fat. And I'm going to call out an eight pounder. Fair. Fair. I think that's pretty accurate. All right. Let's put it back in. Go make some more babies. Love you. Nice little slow swim off. It's adoptive. No, wouldn't be a catfish. Jumped. Oh gosh, it's digging. Oh, that baby's digging. It looks like it's twerking like a catfish, but watch that motor. Oh yeah, it's a big old cat. Come here. Don't do that old rolling thing. I got to return the favor for a buddy here. I'm just going to scoop him. Ah, I got you. Oh my gosh. I bet that thing crushed it. It crushed it. There he is. You want a picture? Okay. Want a filet? Yeah. See ya. Dinner. Yeah, Lee. We're toad. I just saw the boil in a jump. I heard a jump and I was like, that's going to be one of those on the point here. Heck of a morning dangle, y'all. We're making our first little idle of the day. Posts like dropping the troll motor. We're kind of looking at the map to see if we can find anything similar. It looks like we're running out of similar type areas called a shack. Oh gosh. So we're going to cruise through here and I think we're going to make a run across the lake and see if we can catch any more big ones like up in these little pockets. Seems to be the key, like secondary points up in these pockets and then those big fish are at the deepest part up in the pocket. Boil right there. Big boil. Could have been one just knocking a shad off the nest or something. There's another gator going up in there. I'm slinging. Okay, they do exist. Good chunk. Still here. Nice tasty one. Shatter bait in the wood. Ah, I was like, what is going on here? It's got to be a bite to have you had somewhere. Hey, Piggy, you're within bow range. Do you just not care? I could flip a jig on this pig right now. Sounds weird. Hey, Piggy, hey, Piggy, you've what in the world? This pig does not care. Pig pig. Pig pig. Get out of here, pig. And that's what the big gators like to eat out here. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take it back to the ramp, maybe get a celebratory margarita or two and enjoy fishing with them. It's a lot of fun. We had some new stuff to test. Some nice little goodies that are going to be, what do you think we're going to be delivering some of these? We got so many new things on here. It kind of depends. A lot, a lot starting basically June for a lot of this stuff through the next 18 months. Yeah. So we got some exciting stuff coming on that front and I had fished with you for a long time. It's been a long time. It was good. And all the Gugans left and all the other buddies we had here, they left. And we were like, Hey, man, you just want to go give it a dangle? And this was the best day. We turned out to have the best day. I don't know if it was the cold front or if we just found a good steady little grass like where they were or anything. We're going to fish tomorrow morning and see if it was a cold front thing or what. But man, it was good. It was awesome too, because I mean, the stuff that we really wanted to test specifically those rods, it was the perfect bite to test. Yeah, it was. Perfect bite to test. Thick grass trying to get them up and just throwing those lures in specific. So it was a good day at the office, you know, mark this one off as a product testing, fish catching and just having a good old time. So hope you guys enjoyed it. Learn something along the way. Smash the like button for big fish. And we'll catch you on the next one.