 And it has different areas of the pond. Right here. Oh my god. This is a monster guys. What's going on guys? Welcome to another video and today we're going to be talking about rattle traps. This is a video you guys all requested and it's something that you know people have been requesting for a while and it's actually a video that I haven't made like a tip video about. So it's going to be interesting today. This tackle Tuesday I'm going to do quite different. All right. It's going to be a little bit different than the normal tackle Tuesdays that I usually do. And for that being said the reason is I'm going to teach you how to throw a rattle trap today. If you want another segment on all my rattle traps talking about the colors more and stuff like that then I can make a video over that talking about like all the rattle traps I have shown you guys all the rattle traps I have. If you want to see that be sure to smash the like button. Leave a comment below if you want to see that and I'll make it happen for you guys for tackle Tuesday coming up. But as of today we're going to be talking about this bad boy right here the rattle trap. So haven't made any videos on this and I'm very excited. But to start everything off before we get out there by the water I'm going to talk about the rod and reel setup. So the reel I have is just a standard 7-1-1 gear ratio reel and this is just an Akuma Helios. This is a TCS series and the rod is actually a 7 foot medium heavy and this is the Akuma TCS series as well. And 7 foot medium heavy I have like a fast action tip on it. But I do like that backbone as well. You know some people like throw those rods where they're medium extra fast or medium moderates. Me personally like I said in most of my videos I really prefer a 7 foot medium heavy for a lot of the baits I throw and you know 75 percent of my rods are 7 foot medium heavy. So it's just a rod that feels really comfortable to me has a lot of backbone and it's going to have a lot of tip as well if you have that fast action. So that's really good. But we're going to go out there and I'm going to show you some tips on how to throw this bad boy. And moving on to line this is actually 15 pound Seaguar fluorocarbon. You can use 12 pound as well. I want to really go below that. Me personal preference I like 12 to 15 pound fluorocarbon when it comes to a rattle trap. Before telling you guys how to work this bait and showing you some more tips on how to make this bait more versatile. I do want to talk about the time of year that I would be throwing this thing. You know I can't throw this year round. Most of the time I won't be throwing it during the summer when it's super hot outside. That's just me. I usually won't but you know early spring when that water temps rising you know around 50 degrees that's really good. Full time always giving this fish a chase in bait. And also one thing about this bait that's really great. Like I said I want to make another video going more in depth about this stuff is this bait is so versatile. You know I can go out here and throw this thing in very shallow water. I can also go throw it out deep as well which not many people do. But it is a great way to catch more fish and not many people do it. So with that being said the fish you know don't usually expect that. But you know I will go out and throw a rattle trap deep but there's ways to work it. Like say I was going to go out and throw this thing in deep water. I'm not just going to go throw it over you know 25 foot and just start reeling in. That's just not how I'm going to do it. There's going to be certain ways to work this bait so to be more productive in that deep water. But shallow water you know I could throw it along this bank and just throw it out there and just start reeling it. Start hopping it. That's perfectly fine. But today I'm going to show you how to throw this in deep and shallow water and some more tips so you can get more bites. Alright guys like I said there's so many ways you can work this bait right here. It's so versatile and it's really great in deep and shallow water. Most of the time when you think of a rattle trap there's a fish right there. First cast. That's insane. You came off. I can't believe that guys. That is absolutely amazing. That is absolutely amazing. I haven't even started talking about the tips about this bait and literally already caught a fish on this bad boy. Not a better way to start the video. Alright guys I'm going to get a release on this bad boy and we're going to continue the fish. That was so cut off guard I wasn't going to make a cast and literally just caught one first cast on this thing. That is amazing. There he goes. I am not going to complain right there with catching that fish first cast today. That is absolutely amazing. I was just going to show you some more trees on how to work it and literally caught one first cast. That is just insane. I hate being interrupted when making a video but when it's with a fish catch I'm not going to complain at all. That is awesome. That's actually the first fish I've caught out here on a rattle trap and just because I haven't really had time to come out here and throw a rattle trap nor have I even put in the effort to throw a rattle trap out here. Let's go ahead and start off this video. I'm going to talk to you guys about the ways that I work this bait to catch more fish, to get more bites, to trigger those fish to bite this bait. When fishing a rattle trap most of the people they result in thinking shallow water bait. You know I can agree yes and no. I think this bait is very versatile in a way where it's great for shallow and deep water. I wouldn't just throw this bait in shallow water. I would expand what you can do with this bait and actually throw it in some deep water as well and try it out. Most of these ponds, how they're staged up and most lakes in general of course all lakes or 99% of the lakes are going to have deep water. Most of these ponds today I'm going to be talking about a pond real quick just because I'm out of pond right now. It actually drops off right here with this little channel that's coming in right I mean this pond's big and it has different areas of the pond but right here oh my god this is a monster guys. This is a monster. I mean an absolute pig. I mean a pig. I can't even move them. I can't even move them. There's no way this is a bass. There's no way this is a bass. There is no way. There is no way. Oh my god. Oh my god. He came off. Oh my god. I cannot believe that. That was a four pounder. That was a four pounder. That was a four pounder. I was not planning on making a fishing video today. I was planning on making a tip video and these fish I mean I can't help but to give bites right now. I cannot believe I just lost that fish. I had a bad feeling he was going to come off. I had a bad feeling he was going to come off right there and that is a perfect I'm not even mad guys to be honest with you I caught that first fish and was resulting in me just fishing here for a few minutes and already hooking into two fish. That is just insane. I knew when I hooked that fish right there that I was no joke. That was a big boy and I go on and start this video by saying I usually don't throw this bait in the summer and of course the summer is ending right now you know it's approaching fall but it's sure enough it's still summertime. That was the perfect example of how I'm going to show you guys to retrieve this bait. That couldn't have been better presented to you guys unless I landed that fish to show you guys how to work this bait and how I'm going to be working it. So exactly how I was working that bait you throw this rattle trap out there you let it hit the bottom this pond is fairly shallow and I'm just going to kind of yo-yo it up just like that so you yo-yo it let it hit the bottom yo-yo it let it hit the bottom and me personally I'm just going to it's just like a stroke stroke so boom boom boom let it hit the bottom that fish literally hit it when that bait was seen so when that bait was falling that's usually the time that you're going to get those bites and that was actually a key thing that I was going to talk about today and it ended up happening right there on camera that is insane so when that bait falls it usually just flutters down and most of the time I would say around 75 percent of the time that's when you're going to get your bites so when that fish was floated when that bait was fluttering down is when that fish ate it so I sat there I was reeling my bait I sat there popped it the bait fluttered down and when I was reeling up my slack you had it in his mouth and sadly that fish had to come off but that is just such a productive way to get a lot of bites on a rattle trap and personally my favorite way to work a rattle trap when you come out here on these ponds even on lakes you know you have the bank right here just right on the edge of the bank very shallow you can always throw that rattle trap you know parallel along with that bank right here as you can see that's a very shallow there's a very shallow bank right here it doesn't drop off once you get out there that's where it's going to start dropping off but it's very shallow right here like my rattle trap's hidden the bottom and I'm just going to be reeling it reeling it I'd pop it some give that bait a little bit of action so right here in the shallow water like I said just reel it give it a little pop keep reeling it give it a little pop most of the time when you're throwing on the bank you know you're most likely going to have some structure there and my favorite structure of the fish with a rattle trap is grass grass is my number one and this is one of my number one baits to fish in grass if I want to be throwing a moving bait you know chatter baits really great but a rattle trap is a really great bait over the edge on the edge of some grass and also over the top of some grass what's really great about this rattle trap that's not like any other crank bait is you know I can throw this thing right in that grass so say I have some submerged grass under the water and I'm going to be throwing this rattle trap I'll throw it up in that grass and I'll just stroke this bad boy out of it and let it sink stroke it again let it sink and what it's going to cause is that rattle trap is sinking in that grass and even if you do get a little bit of grass on this rattle trap when you rip it up like that it's going to be throwing that grass off but not only is it throwing that grass off it's going to be popping this rattle trap out of the grass and this fish are just going to annihilate it I couldn't tell you how many big fish I've caught doing that one lake that I have caught a ton of fish my first college tournament ever was on Lake Seminole this last year and in practice uh two days in a row I caught around 20 pounds um on a rattle trap and I was doing this same exact technique where I'm throwing that bait out there over some submerged grass and ripping this bad boy and obviously there's no submerged grass right here but that technique of me ripping this bait I use just an open water like in ponds and on lakes as well you know most of the time this fish are going to stage up you might go fish a point or you go fish a rocky bank or whatever you're going to be fishing and it doesn't have to have grass on there for you guys to use this technique you know it just in general like this pond out here does not have much cover at all throwing this bait out there in that deep water as you can see this channel comes right through is deep in the middle it's shallow on the banks I'm going to throw it out there in the middle or throwing it on the other side yo yoing this bad boy most of the time this fish are just going to be sitting right out down in the middle of that channel that's when this fish are going to come out and destroy this bait if you guys are wondering what type of rattle trap I'm throwing this is actually an x caliber one knocker this one's got like a goldish chrome finish onto it so when that sun hits especially when the sun setting like right now it's just absolutely amazing the color on it it's just flashing looks really great in the water and as you can tell if I hold the hooks right here and shake it you hear that you're not hearing a lot of rattles in there so that that's that's one thing this x caliber rattle trap is called a one knocker and one knocker rattle trap pretty much has one big weight in it so as you can tell when I shake it you hear one clack and you know most of the time especially in the winter when this fish are very lethargic that was very bad but especially in the winter when this fish are really lethargic that can be a great bait because most of the rattle traps out there they're going to have a lot of rattling going on inside of that bait and sometimes this fish are very slow very lethargic and they don't want that so that's when I pick up a one knocker and start throwing it most of the time I would say around 75 percent of the time I'm throwing a one knocker rattle trap me that's my personal preference I don't believe they make these x caliber ones anymore but if they do and if you can get your hand on some of them they're a phenomenal bait I mean I've caught so many fish on the x caliber ones overall I mean you can also throw a red eye shad the thing I like about the red eye shad is you know the cost of them you know it's very very affordable you know they're not too expensive these x calibers will be slightly expensive but you're getting your money's worth out of them and these one knockers are just absolutely amazing one other company that makes a great one knocker is Buya Buya makes another great one knocker rattle trap and I've caught a lot of fish on that one as well actually faded towards that one a little bit more because they're a little bit more inexpensive and they're actually easier to find all right that's enough with the yoyoing technique say you're wanting to go down the bank and you're wanting to fish the bank this fish are up very shallow say you just threw that bait in that shallow water it's also just a great way just to reel that bait pop it every once in a while and this is one of those things where you guys just can't take the tips that I'm giving you right now and apply those to wherever lake that you're at and go be as productive as you know I possibly could have today if I was fishing all day or it's all on how those fish are going to act that day like not every day those fish are going to be super active where you're over here popping this thing and reeling it really fast and reeling it all crazy and they're going to bite it because they're not going to bite it like that every day and that's your decision to figure out when you're out there on the lake is figure out how those fish want that bait so as you could tell the bites that I got was just kind of popping the thing but I wasn't really doing it too slow you know I was popping it and I'd reel my slack up real quick reel it a little bit pop it again and that's how I got you know all three of those bites pretty much it wasn't one of those really finessed times where I'm throwing that rattle trap out there let it hit the bottom and you know I'm literally stroking it letting it sink down waiting a few seconds and then doing that again I mean it was pretty pretty instant when those fish were eating it it was no joke one of my overall favorite things about a rattle trap is for me I'm a very aggressive fisherman I'm very fast I love to fish fast it's just how I am every once in a while you know I'd love to pick up a worm or a jig if they're eating a real good throw it out through a drop shot as you guys know me personally I'd much rather be throwing a bait reeling in really fast and trying to target those aggressive fish the good thing about the rattle trap that not many other crankbaits you can do with is you can pretty much burn this thing you can slow it down you know you can work in moderately you can jerk this thing up and down let it fall you can stroke it you can yo-yo it there's so many different ways you can work this bait but it's all on how those fish are biting that day that's why when you guys are watching this video I expect you guys to go out on your lake try these techniques that I showed you to try to catch more fish on a rattle trap and apply those towards your day but if that's not working maybe little small transitions or small little switches to change with that bait like how I was talking about throwing it out there and yo-yoing it and then reeling in yo-yoing it real real yo-yo maybe you do it even slower because this fish are more lethargic maybe throw that bait out there yo-yo it let it hit the bottom let it sit there for a second rip it back up really your slack let it sink rip it back up it's just depending on how those fish are acting that day how those fish are acting if they're going to be aggressive or they're going to be really lethargic but overall guys I hope you got some tips out of this video over the rattle trap if you did please smash the thumbs up button and please leave a comment below and also subscribe if you haven't already I can't thank you guys so much for the support I can't think you guys enough you guys are awesome I love you guys so much and I really wish I would have got that big fish in the on the bank on the boat I wish I would have got that big fish on the bank because I think it was about four pounds and that hurts and he just choked it right on that drop just boom well I want you guys I challenge you guys to go tie you a rattle trap on the next time you're out in the water go through that bad boy and see if you can catch some fish on it if you do be sure to tag me on Instagram so I know I taught you guys something from this video but thank you guys so much for watching share this video with your friends and I'll catch you guys in the next video