 Welcome back to the almighty outdoors everyone here at the tailgate Just hearing my first the bass boat run across the water today. We're going after Mando's I'm gonna eat my my eggs right here. We got some eggs in the skillet with our three cheese wieners sleep last night Wasn't great wasn't the best temperatures were good Trees got a little saggy on me bum started touching the ground middle of the night and these birds These birds have been going crazy all night guys. Even the birds are spawning out here So kept waking up and thinking it was morning already because the birds were going No, they were just chirping all night songbirds bup-up-up-up-up having a rave This sets up quite differently than how I have fished in the previous month fishing a lot of grass your legs timber Stuff like that. This is completely different. So hope you guys learned something today Let's fuel up. Let's get out there All right, if y'all miss last video This water is ultra clear here. I can see my entire boat trailer in the water when I launch and I ended Well, I was only out on the water for about an hour, but I Caught a couple of bass on beds and they were really moving up the full moon was just in clear picture or almost a full moon And this morning it looks like there's a tournament going on or something. There's so many boats. I think just fishing is good But I've seen a lot of guys that I'm here on the main lake. So I'm wondering Aren't you up there in them pockets? So hopefully we get a bass in the hand in just a few minutes to get a good sniff continue the momentum into the ass awesomeness All about them large hands today I'm gonna keep my eye out for some dropping tomorrow morning. It's rock and roll folks We're gonna kind of start on the outside of the pocket where I was seeing a lot of fish and I don't think The pocket that I saw the fish in is special. I don't think it's localized or anything. I Think there's a bass on a bed It's chasing away a bluegill This is something I would never do I Don't know how to fish this thing. This is a um This is a buca bait. This is like a bullshad. It's custom painted a lady custom painted this for me And the lady that does the paint jobs there Signed it pretty awesome. It's almost just like a showpiece, but I Don't know it looks like a bluegill. I guess it's a wakebait So I'm asking us one of this thing. I don't know this feels feels weird for me. Oh my god. Oh my god There's a 10 pounder There's a 10 pounder an absolute freaking it's bigger than all the carp That's a 10 pounder. My god. It eats that Fish that needs It needs something huge was a certified yacht Glare's bad that way There's so many fish swimming through the frame. I can't focus on one fish This is ridiculous Pretty decent bass I'm gonna catch this one and then probably gonna go pick up my buddy. Oh, it's going right in there And she's got to have it Pick it up Just took my claws Throw one of these junior crackings on here just for Shizzie's gigs It's a little three-eighths answer and this is it's one of the first Decent ones I've seen kind of off the bank a little bit that is It's pretty locked All the big ones I've seen I've seen two fish over eight pounds and they are Not really set up yet. They're pretty spooky Where's our spot? Oh my gosh. Oh ate it on the way down That was insane. I got aggressive with it. Oh There we go. Oh What a toad to start the day Throwing my favorite thing in the world the Yig baby Something about when I switch trailers to that cracking craw it was an immediate anger problem No ice no ice no ice love to see it Wow, that was cool. You know, it's not rare to see three fish on a bed, but Doesn't happen every day When you see three fish three fish or more on a bed, it is going down. It's time to go pick up my buddy Grant I can't say that I'm surprised at seeing this many big fish so far Getting them on the line is going to be a different deal. I'll tell you that right now I'm seeing three fish over eight pounds and that one little cove. That's ridiculous y'all This happens a lot in spring where you get these big fish you're looking at them And it's hard to figure out How to catch them when they get in that phase where they're not eating anymore. They're just looking You're trying to settle in It's very tough to catch them. So in this situation you could go fish more pre-spawn fish to try a different part of the lake or You could try some other techniques that might get them to bite so I'm gonna go pick up a guy that's really good at fishing swim baits and is used to looking at big fish getting a Lot of follows. I am not so maybe he's got some tips that will help us in these type situations So let's go get him Coming in with the big sticks not playing kiddie games Grant Langmore Welcome bump it. I see you got some serious equipment here today. I do I brought only a couple rods But I'd say they're all pretty serious Yeah, I just take a gander at this water clarity my friend I Was taking a gander when I was driving up and holy cow. It looks like the Great Lakes To wait no car a lot of carp unbelievable amount of carp. They're spawning gizzard shad right there Yeah, big gizzards at literally everything is up in the shallows. Well, let's fire it up. Yeah, welcome aboard the silver bullet Yeah, thank you. Get her done I'll show you like a good a lot of times. I'll catch them when I do like the slowest just And then I'm like super fast. Yeah, I'm just a dead pause Is that good actually crank it down. Yeah, and then if they're following it and you give it that hard You know crank and then just that pause it seems like a lot of times though. That's when they'll Strike it like crazy stuff like where it gets that splash Exactly. Well, we're in the stage right now. Like they're probably gonna get locked on at some point today Yeah But there's a lot of them that are literally just crazy roaming. They're roaming and they're there's a carp up there And they're not You know, they're not feeding. Oh, I just said something So a swim bait has an immense amount of drawing power that is that is the magic of Swimbates and even if you don't get a fish to eat it, you can at least they're at least interested in it It's like a cat with a laser pointer. They got to see it little pepper so I'm going I'm going to try to leave a big rod and a swim bait in my hand and learn from Grant today and Hopefully we all learn something. We may not catch anything But we'll learn and I will I will bet at some point today We will have a fish eight pounds or over follow us close to the boat Oh God, yeah, oh my god, dude. Oh already. I said I'm look it. Oh wait But there was a striper dude. There was a big Either a striper or largemouth was like right on it and it was not that small Wow First well your first and second cast out of dock and something literally almost came up and ate it right at the boat. I Don't know what I don't know if it was a big striper. I did have a striper follow. Oh, oh, that's a big bass That's a big bass. Yeah. Oh my gosh five pounder. Oh My gosh, what are we doing here? It's happening it is happening out here So first cast you got a follow second cast You gotta follow came up right here was either a 10 pound bass or a 10 pound striper I'm telling it like literally went like this and just like came up like it was gonna eat it and suck back down Whoa, man, it's going down boy. I've been up since four And nothing has woke me up quite like A great sign My god, you just had a giant What's the follow-up move here Tell me you got blasted on the two by four dude 100 watch them come out pop it literally leave the tail Oh Okay The tail boil It was no carpet came out thumped it and went straight back under the top To The one in the world grants got two bass following this thing right now What's the deal what do you do what do you do here? They're just in trance. They are in trance. They're 10 feet away from the boat He's not following like he's not head-turning. Okay Curious We had a lot of followers and they were most of them seem pretty damn smart But it was like this one eight and a half nine pounder that Is oh Long y'all There's Webiter. Yeah, buddy. I'll take it. I have Sat here and throw this one back for an hour. I Usually like this is big for me. Yeah, I mean that's a good size little meal for most any fish This is the biggest bed I've ever thrown in my life hundred percent a two-pounder Wow, I need to adjust the real Man we hit some water it's like All right. Oh god, that's got a lot of pull. Yeah, you can feel a hole That's why when they hit it, you know, wow I mean, yeah, it feels like a little less with it like almost like quarter turns or half turns Quarter turns. Okay. Oh, yeah, that's a real specific thing. Look at those stripers around it. See those stripers Wow 20-pound striper Eat it Ladies and gentlemen at this juncture midday report Feels like we're hunting sasquatch Is that what it's like sometimes? Oh, yeah But it's like when you get when you get a hairy leg on camera just that hairy leg passing through the trail cam frame Pretty much the rarity of it. It's yeah, it's it's huge So Grant had another one good-sized one follow it by the boat wouldn't eat Part of the game like how many follows would you say? Turn into bites And the lakes around me you don't get that many followers the ones you get usually bite it weird I've noticed even the first time I came out here. It was You know the vast majority of fish you saw Would just follow it and not eat it but there were you know the handful of fish, I guess Maybe out here one out of every 20 One one out of 10 will take a you know a swipe at it Well, I'll tell you guys That the cool thing about You can kind of force feed them You're just kind of weaving through the ones you don't want to catch and then the right fish is gonna eat And I pretty much throw in five a year round Get round So you it's one of those things in my opinion you can speed up you just gotta be dedicated trophy on It's trophy on Sasquatch hunt with a 50 cal It's come to this it has come to this That's usually what happens this time of year or just in general to be honest guys when we've been Grinding on the swim by game for hours and hours and hours is how it goes It's been so tough, but there's a there's a bedding fish here I saw it this morning. It's anywhere from six to eight pounds and She was not even close to getting locked on this morning and as the day has progressed She's she's getting locked on now. So Let me see if grant can get this fish on a jig I'm afraid that male is just gonna swallow it and I'm gonna ruin it off What would happen if you threw the bluegill swim bait in there? This thing I think would We'll see what that does The old dangerous. Yep Things are about to get The male's gonna have a little bit harder of a time female would have no problem Gulping that thing down. She's turning She's turning She's not gonna be too happy with this Don't think oh, yeah. Oh gosh. She got it. She got it My gosh. Yes. There you go, bud. Oh my gosh I'm swinging her. I'm swinging it swing it. Let's go That's cool Still long fish Look at that Came right up. We'll take it. That was awesome Hey, that also shows the power of a big Swimbate over a bedfish. That's true. The males can't get it obviously as easy but anything this sizing up I mean, that's just an easy snack Beautiful fish we're gonna get her back and Let her go right back to her back and almost looks like she's already I know laid eggs But I'm telling you that fish this morning We'll just sit under this dot nothing would not even get close. She she got paired up this afternoon Let her go let her grow. Yep. She's gonna go right back up to her boyfriend Say, what the heck man? Why didn't you protect me? She was actually the more aggressive of the two which is Sometimes not the case but luckily in this one it was let her warm up Yeah, I mean first cast in there through the jig She was getting close and probably would have eaten it But I was like, huh, I wonder what the big big Swimbate would do and also keeps it away from that male and she came up there and Instantaneously crushed it. What about it on the ropes? Oh Come here, buddy Just dragging a log Had to do it guys had to switch it up Just come in here where these fish were Setting up starting to set up this morning and they're getting paired and getting more active. So There's a traditional caught log fish right there Texas, Texas Little buddies right there in the schnauz with the JVC jig Big wide tail good fight. Where's your mom? Where's your mom jigaroni and cheese? All right, we got a we got a male up here shallow his girlfriends Over there about a five ski Female usually has a protection spot that she goes and she hangs out if she feels a little weirded out And that's what's happening right now and sometimes a swim bait will actually get her to Go back into the bed. So I've done this with bluegill swim baits before That's like my extent of swim bait fishing big big swim baits He's coming loose with a juice Got him. You think I'm delicate. Oh, we got it. Oh my god. What a hook said. Oh my Beautiful little fish We don't want to leave that behind That's a crappie Dude colored up crappies, that's awesome I know what I'm doing tomorrow. Holy cow. That's beautiful guys I Will I will say that is my first site fishing crappie like on a bed really? Yeah Like actually looking at the fish and yeah watching it go down. That was really cool That a boy that a boy There we go. Yeah, they're they're kind of getting warmed up a little bit. Oh, no How's it gonna pistol grip here got him on that John B. Singertra series expert up to laugh Get a little sight casting with the log. I think that's our first like Right away comes up to it gonna eat the log knows it's still site fishing though. It's not a blind cast pretty fun stuff Fun stuff. Yeah, did not hesitate whatsoever to suck down the old law That's my favorite color too. That's a good looking color. They like it dude It's proven crappie and bass just spawn it right next to each other. Yeah Oh, now what we need is the carp and we'll have the grand slam traffic get out the bread Get out the chocolate chip cookies Good call. Good. I Grant get a snack right grant is getting into the goodies right now homemade. Those are Almond butter cookies. Oh So those are the plain version of what we had last time that had the jelly on it. Oh, really? Jane that's a familiar taste that's just the almond butters, baby 10 out of 10. Thank you OSG specials And we're just looking we're looking in and out of these rocks right here last part of the day try to see if we can find any Big heads It is go time y'all eight pounder on a bed locked has eaten my jig twice just taking the claws off the crack and crawl And try to get this fish to eat. It's it's angry. It's sticking. I don't even see a male. It's just a big female. It's chilling Mouthed it. It's gonna happen. It is going down That's the cast though that cable come here baby, baby Got to love it, baby. She's got it down No waste coming off of that juicy gig That is a bucket Yeah, baby There's a toad. Oh my gosh Dude, that was awesome fired up female That's my biggest bed fish of the year Not quite a but it's it's hefty dude getting there is getting there To see how much ways I bet that's a solid six Yeah, she got it. She got to be bigger than that Is this high six maybe very low seven? I'm shaking that was so fun 680 something 680 something And tasty one there boy Back to your bed darling Celebratory barouski What's your biggest site fish for the year? Ten pounds. Ten pounds That man the gym Dude that fish was crazy. I know I've never seen anything She don't have just put you literally put it in the box and it ate it out of the box Another site fish dude that one was nuts like that last one where it just came up and ate it out of the sludge I don't know where it I've never seen that before It literally got a mouthful of balls. Yeah, easy does it So we've totally been This is not happening today. I mean why would we throw some days when we've caught you know 10 in the last hour and a half three four six five Working on a little something here Working on a little satchel of them Just had to revert back guys had to revert back to the old-school stuff. There's another one up here Do you want to see another one? Let's see if it eats it out of the sludge spot in stock And we're just at that time of day too. I think the more fish are moving up and getting more locked on and aggressive Whereas this morning it was it was just not happening. They were kind of they were up there We could see them, but they were not willing to bite So I always have to keep track this time of year hour by hour What is going on got a cold front coming in or it's gonna warm up this afternoon it warmed up and It has turned the fish on so The best way to describe it that's exactly right. Oh I was on dude Was on with a blind cast hot dog They're actually eating it now pistol grip Pistol whipping them with a pistol grip John B. Special. Oh, yeah. Oh, I finally lost my log after about 20 fish They are actually eating it now guys She's off to the right Okay Literally this morning throughout the day could not get bit on a lunker log Fancasting it around where you should where we're seeing cruisers Later in the day they are now eating it Byte has gotten better and better and better As the day goes on I've only done it in the spring like a couple of times You want There you go. Oh god. Just a good one around the tree She still got you in there No, do you that look like a five pounder? I think I still got her. Yeah, I hear it. I hear it. You got her Seer pinned pinned on the jig Get out of there. Scooby you're on go get that fish Right in the brush dude. This is probably the bigger fish we saw here earlier Do you know it? No, don't break off. What are we gonna do here? How are we gonna get in there? Oh God don't work that jig out. Don't work that jig out Come here Dude, it's jigs still in there Didn't break off. I think it did it did break off Dude just in the nick of time. Yeah, your line is stuck in the in the tree still Oh Shoot Grab those snips real quick. I'll snip this off. All right, dude. I think you got that fish. We saw it earlier there Snip this line guys that was crazy. I literally grabbed the jig the blind broke Grant comes up with a fish down the choked good one to choke baby Nice job. Oh, yeah Now they're actually eating We can try it At this point, it's like why would we I know? Yeah, that's I mean four pounder four pounder on the the key Yeah, buddy Don't let you see That's my favorite color right there. That's a good looking Choby-crawl no line left on there just a jig you tie it. We got the fish Fish and freaks Listen, we have we have grinded today Grinded with the swim baits, you know, I got so pumped yesterday evening because of what I was seeing up shallow I was seeing these big fish cruising around and We have been able today to catch some of those big ones that have moved up And I think they'll get more locked on tonight as the full moon comes in The swim bait bite is just off. We had to abandon it because we just were not getting bit We had a four-hour dry spell But as we sit right now, we actually have a pretty good sack of fish Grant just landed a nice four pounder and That jig that jig is doing work that juicy three-eighth sounds with a little crack and crawl in the back both sight fishing and Just casting around the docks the fish are actually coming out. They hate blue-goal this time of year So that's why I was hoping that like the blue-goal swim baits it would be attacking But they're just not coming out for the swim baits right now I would bet in another month like when the fry are really out and they're Super hot on blue-goal. They'll attack that swim bait, but the jig Is a great way to go when you're seeing blue-goal around beds and when fish are like this when they're They just they really don't they really don't and you threw it a dark spot right there that had some some brush in it And that's what that fish was sitting in which I think We saw a bigger fish there earlier today and it was just hovering in a safety spot and was not moved up So that was hard great remembered it cast in there Getting them long fish Can't really put that rod butt into my midsection is all risk Now we're getting them cruisers yanking on them little buds Coming in them Like damn clear water logger. Hi, y'all Colored up do business. Well, sir have a strong finish slow start hooked up Hooked up on that log buddy logging Sun-down logger buzzer beater. I was just about to do an outro. He just came in hot. Oh, yeah I knew there was something back here a little buck or Little buckaroo He's been through it He has not learned his lesson yet What are we at like 30 fish? Oh, so so 30 30 30. Yeah Creeping up on 30 pounds 30 fish I think we would have had over 20 pounds Over 20 pounds today We did a little bit of damage a little bit of work, but man guys it took it we went through went through the grinder and Just had to stick on those site fish and finally at the end of the day. We're getting some just fancasting Weightless baitfish, which is what they should have been doing this morning and they just were not it's crazy Grants getting out of jerk bait. See he's I was gonna end it on that He's he's got to make one more cast. I gotta respect it Well guys, we're gonna get together again and do a proper swim bait No other rods on the deck literally none none other than then swim bait rods Go to some of his familiar waters and try it. It was just it was just not popping today But we gave it a good hard try. We learned some things. Hope you guys learned some things about Some swim bait fishing and then also the spawn and it is going down right now. We got a full moon popping up and Males females are pairing up on beds and they can be tough to catch But if I use some of the methods that we use today You can definitely get those fish definitely get yourselves polarized sunglasses for this time of year So you can see down into the water and see those little things even if it's a dark spot a lot of times You see these bigger fish that bet just in those little deeper areas that are hard to see and That's usually where the big ones like like to hang out. So thank you for tuning in to today's bass episode Saw some crappie and something I've never done before is sight fish them I got the opportunity to pluck a couple today, but I'm gonna target that next So if you're down with a crappie game, you want to see some of that subscribe to the channel Go check out Grant if you want to learn how to swim bait fish as well You can watch some of his videos. I'll link him down below And we'll get together on another adventure and thank you guys for being here. We'll see you