 I can't tell how big she is, brother. Oh, that's a pretty good one. Gotta love it right there, that bass. Yo, what's up, people? Welcome back to another episode of Kicking Their Bass TV. Thank you guys so much for the love and support. If you're new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell. Also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. We're gonna be fishing some really clear water today for some big bass. Actually got my boy Fletcher here with me. What's going on, guys? It's been a minute. The first video that we filmed together in 2022. Yeah, this is. That's pretty dope. So you know what that means? We gotta go catch some big ones, right? Big ones are imminent. We got to make it happen. So we need, nah, we need 11. 11 pounder? 12 pounder, yeah. He did catch a big one a few weeks ago and then about two months ago, I caught a really big one as well. So hopefully we're gonna get on them today. I hope you guys enjoy this one. We're gonna hop right into the action. Let's get it. It is time to do some fishing. We gotta say, remember, how do you have one of these culture? I have none. A cliff builder's boy, I don't know. Yeah, it's a cliff boy, but it's like a protein one. And then it's chocolate peanut butter. Smells pretty good. I got this bougie water because they only sell bougie water in that place. Got my hat, got my fishing pole, and we are ready to go. Alright, Fletcher. The trick is, do not fall in when you're getting on the boat. Maybe. That's the best. The last time we actually fished, some crazy stuff almost happened. There we go, we're off. We're good, we're good. Look how crystal clear the water is, dude. Dude, the water is super clear. That underspin bite is gonna be nice. Look at how clear it is. So that's the one thing I've noticed, Fletcher. I don't know if you've noticed the same thing, but over the last three months, everywhere you've probably been to, it's super clear, isn't it? Super, super clear. Like, it's clear as that water in this water bottle. But yeah, guys, we're gonna get it started today. See what we can catch. I'm gonna show you guys exactly what, you know, I'm gonna be rigging up. You guys wanna check out, like, Fletcher's perspective of today. You can check it out on his channel, but I wanna show you guys what I'm gonna be rigging up, what I'm gonna be doing, and hopefully we're gonna catch some really big ones today. We are rockin' with the Kick in the Vast TV combos. If you guys want to check them out, they're only available on KickinTheVast.com. We got the right hand bait caster, left hand bait caster, and also spinning combos. I have this rigged up with a 20 pound line. I usually use 17, but this is all I have in the moment. So yeah, this is what we're gonna be rockin' with. I am gonna cut this bait off. I'm gonna tie somethin' on real quick. I'm not just stealing your lures, dude. I'm actually cutting it off your own rods, so. Yeah, dude. I've never met someone with so much tackle that just has to steal my lures every time they get on my lures. Dude, it's a tradition with you, man. With nobody else, I never steal anyone else's lures, but when I'm with you, it's a tradition, you know? No, me and Fletcher were talkin' about it. I don't have any other underspins, and he said he had a few, but I don't think he brought them out, so he's using a swim bait, but he had this underspin on, so I'm just gonna cut it right off his rod for him. Yeah. I thought I'd help you out a little bit. I appreciate it. Yeah. I'm probably just gonna leave my line all unraveled. I'm gonna do a loop. Or you want me to do this? Yeah, that's cool. So it's taut. Yeah, so it's like on there, and then you won't ever get it off for like 12 years, you know? Just get it right up there in the gears. Just get in there deep. Yeah, dude. You know, I'm gonna make it twirl at least 74 times. I will say that my brain is not working. We were like, what did I do earlier? I did something. I did walk into gas station today, and it just happened to like throw my glasses, and the person on it kind of looked at me and I kind of smiled. I was like, yeah, that's how my morning's going. All right, y'all. We're gonna cut off the Strike Keen Red I shed. I actually cut a lot on that recently, but we are not gonna throw that today. I don't know what we might tie it on, but right now we are gonna put on this other underspin, and this one is by Strike Keen and also the swim bait. So if you guys wanna get a discount on any of the baits or lures that we use, and by the way, the discount codes were not working. This last, like, I really don't know how long I think has been messed up too, so. Were they messed up? You didn't even know? I didn't even know. Oh my gosh, yes they were messed up, dude. So the discount codes work now. I had a phone call the other day, and my discount code does work. Link can be down below for the Strike Keen website and also the Lose website. So I just thought I would say that because, yeah. But yeah, that's what we got tied on, guys. We're gonna get it started, and let's see if we can get us a good, what? What would you say? Three to four pounder fletcher to start off with? Yeah, there's a lot of those in here. Let's do it, brother. It grows them by the thousands in here. So what are you throwing? I'm throwing this little four-round paddle tail. Just basically what you're throwing is a smaller, I don't know, about half the size, no flash. I hope they, I don't know, they have to eat on it. Dude, that's the one thing, like, I don't care how tough they are, like an underspinner or a little swim bait, if you just reel it so slow, they gotta eat it. You know what I mean? It's bound to happen. That wind is a little gnarly today, not gonna lie. It wasn't windy earlier, that's why I'm like, huh. Yeah, it should, it should. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. It's not not yet. Once we find them, I think it's gonna be like that. Oh yeah. Just we gotta find them first. And they could be a little finicky, you know. Like I said, this weather's been so inconsistent. It is like 55 degrees right now, but it's actually chilly cause the sun's not out and it's windy. But, you know, it was 28 a couple of days ago. I can literally see that stuff on the bottom from here, which is just crazy. I can see it too. I'm going through it. I should get bit right here. I will literally. Yeah, I know that. What if they're in the mouth of that back pocket? I feel like we don't have to fish them. Try all of these first. Like, what just happened? I don't know. They're not so weird. I think I was so zoned out. It's both of our rides right, dude. How do you even do that? Like I haven't slept in 30 hours. That was impressive. This man just hooks it because his bait hit the end of his rod. I don't think I had a next order of this or that. Oh, out in the middle? Yeah, out in the middle. Oh, that's a good one, dude. Oh, that's a take. Great start. Yeah, that's a four pounder. Great start. Absolutely. Crush that little swim jig. Come on in here. Swim jig. Swim jig. Swim bait. Can't tell. Dude, yeah, that's a four pounder, bro. Oh, yeah. That's four all day. That is four all day, baby. You thinking four? I'd say three, eight, eight. Yeah, she's going to be close. High three, low four is my prediction. Here, put a number on it. I'm going to say three, three, seven, five. Three, seven, five. Three, nine, five. Three, nine, five. Three, nine, five pounds. Three, nine, five pounds. Basically a four pounder. About as close as you get right there. Good job, man. Appreciate it. Look at the start, right? Yeah. Just thawing the girl. Just paint me. Good job. You ready? Yeah, dude. I'm going to wait for my whole life for this moment. I haven't caught a bass this year. I don't care. Definitely not. I've caught a few. Never seriously. I've only caught a few. I haven't gone bass this in a lot this year. Oh my gosh, was that a hit? She spanked me, dude. Oh God. Oh, that might be bigger than. That might be a five, bro. That's a big one. That's a five pounder. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God, dude. She cleaned it. Oh yeah, dude. Yeah, but come on this side, buddy. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, baby. That's a five pounder. Oh my gosh. She ain't five. She's close. Oh, that's a tank, buddy. Dude, spank me. I told you, hey, just spank me, girl. She spanked me. Oh man. Those are the fish we want to catch, bro. Yes, sir. Let's see what our best five weight today. So you have a four or you have a three, nine, five. Three, nine, five. You can throw her on the. What do you think? I don't know if she's going to catch it. Four and a half, maybe. I'd say like four and a half, four and three quarters. Yeah. This is a brute, man. That's a tank. Zero it out. We can wait on that fat girl. She spanked me good. Definitely got away. Five point zero three, baby. Oh yes. Let's start off the video with a freaking five pounder. I think that's my first five pounder in this lake float. What is it? Or no, I might have caught one or two. But dude, that's a freaking bro, baby. Five point zero three, he caught a three, nine, five. So four and a five pounder to start off the day, man. That's, yeah. We get nine pounds even, basically. Five point zero three, bro. We're going to get her back in the water so she can swim another day. Look at that. That's what you call a meatball flesh. Like slap a meat. Let's go, dude. I got a four on this first fish. I got a five on my first fish. That's a good freaking sign right there. We were just talking about it, too. We were like, I hope we get some four, or I said three and four pounds. Not four and five. So, hey. Don't sell yourself short. It did take a minute for us to get in those bites, guys. And those were the only two bites that we had, but I mean, heck, if they're going to be that big, I will wait a little bit. I'm going to go get a five pounder. Heck, if they're going to be that big, I will wait a little bit. See if we can catch another one. All right. She wants a big Mack Daddy. Big old worm. Yeah. Slow and steady. You got one? Yeah. Bigging. Oh! Dang! Man. I know. And it gets you frustrated when you don't have a bite for like a day and an hour. I get it. I know. That seemed like a good one, too. He has a bite. He hit it good? Yeah. That sucks, man. It's for sure acting really weird, but I still have high hopes. What if they were biting when the sun was out earlier and then when the clouds came up, it could have turned them off? That's weird like that. The Bear and Mundy were like that when we went. Yeah. It's not something to throw up shallow, but I think we can get them to eat it. Yeah, it has a great flood, but the tail got hung up. Do you want to see like a little boil or like a little like? Can you guys just let us know that you're still alive? There could be 20 of them just randomly. Oh, yeah. He's not big. He's not really tall. Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, tiny one. He did eat it good, though. That might have been a bite before. Okay, I'll take it, dude. I've had a bite in over an hour. Well, over an hour. Well, guys, here's my second fish today. So we have four total. We both caught two. Fletcher did lose one. That's a pretty fish, though. He's not big, but it is a pretty one. How do you go from catching a solid five to this little squeak? We'll catch her again when she's 10 plus. Definitely. All right, we might be honest on that. We did come up shallow. You know, this whole time we were fishing offshore and in my head since we got out here, you know, I was talking about it and Fletcher kind of felt it too with this mouth over here. And then when we pulled up, you know, I saw like a boil next to my bait. And then all of a sudden we heard something splash at the mouth of this little creek. And so we were like, you know, maybe there's some fish roaming back here. So we just came back and sure enough had that fish bite. So there's something back here. I just hope they're bigger than that. Honestly, I won't complain, though. I mean, if they're going to bite, dude, they're going to bite like, oh, oh, I don't know if that was a bottom or a slap. It wasn't a spanking, but definitely was a slap. All right, dude, I'm feeling this little pocket. I think we're going to get a couple in here. So, y'all, it has been really tough on us. We've only had four fish today. Um, it's been a little struggle and I'm actually putting on a shaky head because I mean, we got to slow down. Fletcher has a drop shot on. I just put some leader line on my spinner combo. And, uh, yeah, I'm just going to tie the shaky head on, put a little worm really slow down. I mean, it is tough today. It's pretty crazy. Which, I mean, I didn't expect it to be insanely good, but I really didn't think it would be as slow as it is today. Yeah, I didn't think it would be this tough. I am glad that, you know, he caught one that was about a four and I caught one that was about a five, but it's just... Since that, it's just nothing. Yeah, since that. And those fish were really random, dude. You know what I mean? They weren't in a group. Mine was super random. Yours was at least near something. Yeah, yeah, mine was at least near that rock, but I don't know, man. It's been an interesting morning so far, but that doesn't mean that we can't salvage up the day and try to get some more, you know, finesse in the mount and adjusting to what we're doing right now. All right, y'all, we're going to be putting on just a little finesse worm. This is a KVD Perfect Classics finesse worm right here. And this is actually a watermelon red flake. So when it comes to, you know, fishing in very clear water, especially like the water we're fishing today, you know, I love using natural colors. I had a Junebug Texas rig on. You guys saw me probably throw it a few times, but that's not really the color I would use and water this clear. You know, this color right here, watermelon red, is a great color in ultra clear water. Also green pumpkin. Green pumpkin can be good and dirty and clear water. But any of your clear colors in natural worm colors like that were great in clear water. So, yeah, that's the one we're using today if you'd like to get a discount on those baits, like I said, codes down below. But one thing I'm going to do, so we have this little shaky head here, and you know, the worms are always tapered at the end. So what I'm going to do is actually bite this little end piece off. Okay. So now it's flat. So now it's going to go up on that head a lot easy. So I put it right there on the end of the hook, break it through, just like I would rig up my Texas rig. I'm going to bury this hook, make it weed this so we can just lift up and hook that fish. And boom, that's the shakier that we're going to be rocking with. Watermelon red on a little green pumpkin quarter ounce head. And we should be able to get some fish. And I'm rocking this on the kick in the bass TV spinning combo. If you guys want to check it out, link to be down below. Only available on your boys website kickinthebass.com Let's catch a fish, baby. Fletcher, I never thought we'd just go to drop shops and shaky heads, but we're there. We're there. Oop. There you go. Yep. That's a pretty good one. That's a hefty fish. Yeah. He ate it on the fall, dude. Right here, this timber right here that we're fishing and not even brush piles of standing trees. Yeah, that's a good fish, dude. It's three pounder. Oh my goodness. Okay, there's all right, dude. It's all good. It's all good. That does suck though. Not going to lie, that does hurt the core. I'm not going to lie. Hey, I lost my last one too. Yeah. Golly, man. Three bites of fish, two fish apiece. So I threw it out there like that and I went like this and I just felt weight. Yeah. I was either going to lift up and have one or I was going to lift up and hook a good tree, but golly, maybe they're in this stuff. It makes sense. One thing we haven't hunkered down on and the one that you caught in your second bass was in this. So that's two fish. We haven't had a spot yet where we've caught two fish at. Oh. You got one? Oh, he sucked me straight off, dude. Wait, he broke me right off. What? You broke me? Bang. Wait a minute. I think it snapped high up in the leader and snapped at the bait, I don't think. What? Look how clean that is. You might have a nick or something. Nice, dude. That's a big one. Come here. Oh, that's a meatball. Swin bait? Swin bait. What's the go? That's a good fish. He's pretty shallow, isn't he? Yeah, he was up there. That thing dropped off quick, but she was right there up on that point, slowing down, throwing finesse for a little bit. Now we've got two bites snapped off. I didn't have any luck on the drop shot. I picked that little paddle tail back up. That's a stubby dude. We got ourselves a nice one. How about that? There's one. Yeah. Oh, hold on. I got my rod all weird jacked up. Oh, dude. You got a little size. She got a little size. She's slaying that sucker. She ain't even that big. That rod is so weird. I'll try to like a full one. That's like correcting myself from hitting you. It might be that sun coming out, dude. Yeah, finally getting some bites here. See if I can double up real quick. That's a freaking just fat, man. That's fat. That's about a three pounder and a two pounders body. Oh, uh-oh. You got one? Yes, sir, baby. Uh-oh. Yeah, we found the spot. The sun's coming out. Oh, yeah. This might be a good one, dude. I can't tell this. Okay. I can't tell how big she is, brother. Oh, that's a pretty good one. Not a five pounder, but it's definitely she put in some work. She's a solid three. First fish on the shaky head today. You know, I had that one come off. Now I ended up breaking one off. I don't even know if I'm going to end up rolling that clip, but we got us a nice little one right here. Fletcher just caught one on a swim bait. And now I got this baby on a shaky. Look at that. Ah, she a hide, too. I don't know. This fish is just broods, bro. Straight broods. Gotta love it right there. Beautiful, fat bass. Out here with my boy, Fletcher. We had a tough day, but we made it work, man. Yeah. We made it work. We had to adjust. I mean, that's just, that's a good fish. I think the sun coming out definitely helped the bass. You know, it's a big difference. Oh, for sure. We had more bites in the last five minutes. Three hours. Wow. That's a brute, man. These fish are good. Pretty one. Thank you, baby. There she goes. Give me something, brother. Let's get it. Well, guys, that was my first fish. I landed on the shaky head and it's funny because me and Fletcher were just talking about it because we're about to get tidied up here soon. The sun is going down, too, and it is pretty dang chilly. But I was telling them, I was like, dude, I'm going to catch another fish today. I'm not going to be mad. And then all of a sudden I feel tick, tick, tick. It was the slightest bite. It wasn't a hard bite at all. It was just the slight little ticks. And that's how they are on that shaky head sometimes. You know, she ended up eating it. Let's even catch another one. Fletcher just caught one on a swim bait. Heen up. I caught two on a swim bait. I really think it might be that sun coming out because those clouds were out for a while and we just weren't getting it. Maybe. Yeah, that sun or that sun coming down right now. You know, we're getting later in the afternoon right here. This fish might be firing up. Honestly, I'm happy with today. You got a four pounder. I got me a five. Got some other good fish. Can't really complain. It was a grime, but we did it.