 What's going on guys? It's your boy Noah from kicking their bass TV here with another video and This video is gonna be over the recap of the fat sack tournament on Lake Hartwell this past Saturday So I'm pretty much going to explain what went down and everything. I ended up taking first place I fished alone and just had a great time in general guys So how it started I was sick the whole week and I wasn't gonna fish the tournament and then Thursday, I started to feel a little bit better and So I ended up pre-fishing Friday So I went out pre-fish found some fish on some spots that we actually fished like Probably a year and a half ago. I have some YouTube videos from Hartwell a while back ago So went to some of those spots found some good fish and I already knew what was gonna happen Friday that morning bite was on, you know, you're throwing the top water You're throwing your big swim baits you're getting those good bites and then once they hit about nine ten o'clock There's fish just shut off is like a switch and I'm there just stop biting Then you have to go to like a drop shot and or like a swarm of horny lures, dude Stuff stuff like that. Um, but for the most part during the tournament drop shot was key Top water. I caught one fish on so this is how it went down Went out there and in the morning you I didn't see any action There wasn't much action on top which kind of worried me I thought it was gonna be like morning bite, you know that you're even get so I would go to every spot But they're top water or throw my top water and I threw my swim bait Then we move go to the next spot did that for about three spots and then one spot I saw some fish on the grass. I was like, all right, I might as well drop shot See if I can get fish in the boats to drop down Caught one just a small one. So it's like whatever it's just like a 14-inch or so just threw him in the box Went to the next spot and I was actually about to cast I caught this on video. It's pretty sick I was about to I threw down a trolling motor was about to cast and then a fish just like barely to my right I just saw out of the corner of my eye just barely came up. They weren't school or anything I saw like something hit the top of the water So I literally just tossed my top water over there Worked it was a little it was a chrome speak or two a couple times and the fishes came up Poof ate it got that fish in the boat That was about a three pound large mouth I'm those only large mouth of the tournament that I got that was a keeper And then pretty much the rest of the day I just went out drop shot and when I mean the wind was bad especially by the dam the wind was bad We went all the way to the dam the wind was bad guys. It was around 20 miles an hour And when you're trying to drop shot in 20 mile when I 20 mile per hour winds I can tell you that is hard It was pretty tough, but I drop shot a lot guys and I've learned really well I've learned from some of the best people at the drop shot. So I Could get down there and catch those fish It was really tough though to be completely honest with you especially when you're having their drop shot for this fish I mean this fishers aren't buying, you know It's even hard for them to buy to drop shot sometimes, but I did have getting a solid limit I would save about 13 maybe 14 pounds by 830 so by 830 I had that and Four out of five of this fish for on a drop shot. So I went to that drop shot fairly early Once I got a couple good bites on it got caught about a four pound spot on the drop shot If you guys haven't seen the video, I'll put the link at the end of this video. I'm sure you guys will enjoy that video But overall when you're trying to finesse for this fish man like that that finesses fish just shut off, you know Especially at the wind But yeah, I ended up coming in first place with 15 point 42 I had one dead fish and it's just because it's so hot guys Especially when I'm pulling those fish out around 30 foot of water. I'm on that brush on those humps. It's just not good for the fish So here's my drop shot regular I was using Got that little tiny hook right there It's kind of like one of those little octopus hooks. I can't think of the name of it Um, I was pretty much have like a morning down where I'm on or a hologram down But this is Martin's magic. It's pretty much a pink worm in general. They're just eating that pink up that day and just a regular Circle drop shot weight not the straight straight ones. I'm just about a foot from the weight right there I mean what I have going on is I have braid right here and this is 20 pound braid 20 pound to 10 pound fluorocarbon and that's a uni to uni knot I don't know if you guys can see right there So I got a uni to uni not connecting braid the fluorocarbon and it's very important that you match up the line, right? For my drop shots, I like 20 pound with 10 pounds of 20 pound braid with 10 pound fluorocarbon And why is that important if you um say I get Like 60 pound braid to 8 pound fluorocarbon. They would actually cut through each other. Um, it's really weird So you got a period upright So for a drop shot if you're looking to do like braid the fluorocarbon Go with like 20 pound braid and 10 pound fluorocarbon do a uni to uni knot make sure you do it properly I'm sure there's some good YouTube videos on it. I might end up making a YouTube video on that soon And also another thing when you're tying your drop shot Make sure your hook is pointing straight up. Make sure you run your line back through the Eyelid of the hook so your hook's pointing straight up. That's really important on a drop shot But that's pretty much my combo. I just got on a mojo bass. I'm drop shot rod It works for me guys. This is really an inexpensive rod. It's around a hundred dollars I'm just a mojo bass series by same crew rods, but it's really great rod works for me Here's is just one of the aura or a s Abu Ghra sea of spinning reels and it works great guys I mean, I have two of these I have two of these combos and they're pretty inexpensive combos I miss around 150 bucks for this combo right here and it works phenomenal I've had it for a couple years. So can't go wrong with it guys So going on to like the top order I was using I do I just like a regular chrome spook on I'm a love chrome spook especially in that sun a sunlight in that chrome Spook just flashes as fish love it. I'm this weren't active that day And they're not gonna be active every day. So but the fact that I got one fish on it was pretty cool So I have it on a legend tournament top order rod and this is a 6-8 medium power extra fast action So that's this is meant for a top order to be And it works good for that spook and this is on a Revo rocky, which is a nine to one gear ratio real And it has some braid on it. This is just around I believe 30 pound braid Works for me. I don't use monofilament monofilament guys, which is line that floats if you guys didn't know fluorocarbon sinks monofilament floats braid actually flows as well I don't even use mono at all. I use braid for my top water top water baits and everything The Revo rocky is pretty much just to get the fish in the boat a little bit faster And you're pretty much gonna help that fish anyways with the braid and so when you combine it that Revo rock it I can get that fish in the boat fairly quick. Um, so that's the combo that I was using guys for both the baits So I hope you guys enjoyed that. Um, hope you got a few tips out of it If you guys want like a drop shot video if you want some tips on drop shot Not just dropping down on the fish, but like casting out. I'm just some random tips on the drop shot I can probably go out in the lake sometime and make a cool video on that So please give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and if you haven't already seen the tournament video Definitely click the link at the end of this video and go watch that I'll actually put the link in the description as well and so you guys can go see it So thank you guys for watching also big. Thanks the fat sack outdoors. I'll put their Instagram link below So you can go check them out. So until next time guys Keep drinking your white monsters. Keep shmilly in yourself boys and girls. See you guys next time