 How big is this fish? Double ditch, double ditch. That was a ditch, that was a double ditch. Welcome back. So if you missed the last video, me and John, we are winter camping out here on Ivy Lake and this lake is known for having giants. It is a severe cold front. We've had ice. It's been bad conditions getting out here, but now we're out here and we're scoping. We're scoping. We're double digit scoping. Dude, big school fish. Get them. Last video left off with John catching a fish. I just picked up the camera again. There's a school of bass. John is throwing the chandelier at him on live scope right now. Trying to get him to react. Are there bass? No. I don't actually. One of them, no. Could be a school of spotted bass. Is there spotted bass out here? No, there are small ones. Smallmouth. That's good, man. The folks at home want to see you tweak. Tweaking is good. Tweaking over bass fishing. Now that the sun is coming out, there's some boats. We were the first boat on the lake. Now these boats are getting out here. Anyways, the goal today is for me to catch one of these. My first OH fish. That's it. I got a spinner bait tied on. I'm probably going to switch to an A-rig here pretty soon. And we've got Megatron scopers. They're coming in. They're coming in. We went from no boats on the lake to all of a sudden a tournament just blasted off. It is Saturday morning. There might be a little derp. There might be a cold winter derp going on. The frosty derp. I got to get to Cassin. I've been warming my hands up by the buddy heater. It's not how you catch a big fish. It's time to break the eyes of the gods and start winding. That's a good one. That's eight plus, bro. There you go. There you go. There you go, buddy. Good line. Got her. There you go. Oh my god. Oh, my god. Handline? Oh, my god. Handline. Handline. That's real. It just came off, dude. Dude, how big is this fish? It's real. It just came off. It's still off? Yeah. It's not that bad. No, it's not that bad. Dude, just handline. What the ****? My reel just came undone. What just happened? I had no idea. No idea. It's five, yeah, look at the belly, holy crap. I was like, hey, Lion, what are you talking about? Dude, my reel just came on done for no fucking reason. That was the weirdest. Cold, man, I don't know. It's so cold, it just came on down. Dude, nice fish. It would only happen with us in the boat. Yeah, absolute Guggen classic right there. I don't know what the crap happened with his reel seat on that last fish, but anyway, it was an assist. That was one of those Guggen moments that'll probably live on TikTok and Instagram for a while. Only happens in our boats, apparently. Abuse the power of the A-Rig, this is the time of year. This is it. I don't think throwing an A-Rig in the summer is the best springtime maybe. A springtime, I just, I'll take this graph off and I'll just go and shell water, but it's fun. There is, yeah, it hits definitely different when it's cold. There's no question about that, like John said. You can throw it in the summer and stuff for school and fish, but it definitely shines in the winter time and catches big ones. It seems like they're kind of on this flat point or in this depth. I don't know where we are on the point. Hit them, there's hit them. You're looking off our left. They're moving so close. God damn it. Look how come back. See, it's not us, it's them. Look how close they're moving. I was just trying to get to see if they find it. You're right in their zone, I'm pretty sure. I am in their zone. I threw it in their neighborhood. Oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh my God. Come and get it. Come get that. No, dude, just came up and licked it. He was just, oh my God. Just, oh, coming, he's still coming. He's still coming, he's still coming. Move the boat away, move the boat away. I'm not moving it at all. Oh my God. Oh my God. Wow, that's a good one. That's a good one. That's a, oh God, got girth. Oh yeah, that's a big boy. Oh, here you go, John, here you go. Come on, get it. Oh my God, come on, come on, come on. Get, go. Net. Other side. Here we go. Oh God. Oh my God, dude, oh my God, what just happened? That might be another double digit. Dude, this is why we're out here, baby. Oh my God. Look at the size of that. Holy shit. Step on your pants, it doesn't matter. Honest saucy swimmer. God, look at the head on that thing. You grabbed my camera. Holy. I think I just caught my second double digit all of the year. This was probably gonna go 10 or 11. I don't even know. Rackley, to share this moment with my good buddy, Rackley, is so happy. Look at that. 10.11. Yes, sir. 10 pounder, 10 freaking pounder. Let's freaking go. I'm missing you back, old girl. I'll see you in spring. Holy, dude, we just got a 10 pounder. Let's go. Oh my God, yes. Still recording, still recording. Thank you. Come on, get it. Oh my God. Come on, come on, come on. Get it. All right, guys, so switching up here. John, so John is definitely getting some strikes with the double shandy here. Double chandelier. So he's rigged me up one. Obviously this isn't our goog and stuff, but you literally, this thing is like over three ounces. It would break my rod. We are coming out with a rod that is gonna be able to handle the things, stuff like this. We will. We will. We're working on it. There's a bait situation going on here, guys, on the edges. Very outer edge. You notice in this brush, there's, it's either a big shad, like individual shad, like is or shad, or bluegill, or really small trophies, or something like that, but they're basically large nuggets of protein. Oops. It's not like little thread fins that are messing around. Thread fins look more like bubble wad. This is an actual individual fishies. You know what? It's not that cold out here when you're catching 10 pounders. No. No, if you're, you know, it's so funny the whole time we're out here, I'm thinking, God, it's cold, it's so cold, it's so cold. And as soon as that happened, I haven't once talked to myself that it's cold. Matter of fact, it's pretty warm. It's very warm feeling. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Look at my deal. Look at my deal. I can catch five or six bass on my deal. There's one. Oh my God, John. Yeah? John, John, John, John, John. We heard it. You see that? He heard the splash. No, you're good. He wants it. You're good. He heard it and he's wanting to, he's wanting to see what that's all about. He's going right over his head. I instantly like gripped the reel a little harder. Like he went down, down, he's like, I know what to do. And I was like, they're so gun shy. I feel like they're used. Yeah, get him. Look at those random trees that are away from everything. There's no talent. There's one, see if you can get that one. Oh my God. Oh yeah, you're right on the line. God. See that? See that? You can see it's tail. That's a con. That's a con. Come on, Raquel. You got this. You got this, dude. He went down. He went down. Freakin' A, bro. These big ones are smart. Yeah, they are. They've seen it. They've seen it in a timer, dude. I feel like it would be a mom bath. That's certified, dad. That's like, I have no idea, John. I'd probably 12 plus though. Yo, yeah. 100%. Wow. Double digit, all day. God damn, I'm fixing to shake. Just knowing that there's fish like that down there. That's another tree, I see. It's a different one. Little update for ya. So far in this journey, I'm still fishless, but I've watched, I don't know, eight or nine decent bass come up to my bait and then follow it for 10 yards or so and then turn away. It's a numbers game, you know? It's how many do you have to throw out until that one gets super charged? What's crazy is I think John is right about the early morning, which seems completely weird with it being so cold, but there's still that low light bite going on. This water's so clear. And even though there was frost, or ice on our guides and line this morning, it seemed like there was more that would just come out and grab. So we may be looking at kind of a tough midday bite, but just gotta keep grinding. I mean, guys, 10 pounders swimming around in here. Think about if you didn't have a graph. Had no idea. And you had no idea, you'd be like, this sucks. But at least you know there's fish down there that are reacting and it's enough confidence to keep you in this area. Sure, you might go through 30 fish that don't want it, but then 31 might be enough. It definitely does give you confidence. And you could say, well, okay, there's, I know that you can see those little bits of bait, those little things that make it different. So you see if the fish are reacting to your bait. We saw that they weren't reacting at all to John's single swim bait. They're following the umbrella rigs. It does give you that opportunity and it keeps you interested, like John said. If I wasn't seeing any of this, I would be really bored. I mean, I'm used to grinding, but I would just be like, man, I need to move. I need to do something else just to kind of keep engaged. The right ones are in here. Megalodons. I got this dirty stash ready for him too. Give him a big old sniff. Oh, yeah, it's a zoo. It is now turned into an amusement park. It does feel good to be the first ones here though. We were the first ones, not scared. And I gotta say, it paid off. We're gonna do that every morning. We're gonna wake up coffee, maybe a morning dookie, and then get out in the water right at sunrise. Good. Have that little window. And then here's the thing is today or maybe tomorrow we gotta figure out what we're gonna do. Like now, how do we get them? How do we get them when it's 11? I forgot my flask, which is pretty important for keeping warm out here. So, and honestly, we need a little celebratory shot. Got some Woodford. Thank you OSG for my Christmas Woodford gift. We're gonna go get some of that. Do a little cheers for a double D and get regrouped out here. It's appropriate. Come bearing gifts. I've got 10 pounder poles. When the cap's popping, you know something good just happened. Unbelievable, my God. Cheers, Amigo. That's good stuff right there. Shit, dude. Comanches, comanches. I just need to tell a story. Oh my God, look how broad that fish is. What do we, that looks like a carp. That's over. That's might be a tenor. That might be a tenor, dude. My earring broke again, didn't it? Oh no, it didn't. Oh my God. I don't even know what I'm looking at. She was barely hooked too. I don't even know what I'm looking at either. This might go like. That fish is short, but it's a basketball. Barely hooked, one hook, one saucy on the outside. She swiped it. John, when it's over nine, I don't know. I can tell you what a nine is and then I have no idea. What the fuck is going on right now, dude? The head is absurd. Put it in there, baby. They're number one, two, figuring stuff out. What is this guy doing? We were just telling a story. I was like, lacks of days, cool. I was like, you know, we're just kind of up here. We'll like tell a story because we'll kill some time and you're like, there's one coming, there's one coming, there's one coming. That fish moved like a trout, profile-wise. Dude, it's got so much meat. Look at the tail. That could be, it's definitely over 10. Dude, definitely over 10. It's the fattest fish I've ever seen. Like the most wide. Dude, I'm not kidding you. You have to mount this fish because it's the widest fish I think I've ever seen. I wish we had a tape tape. This looks like a crappie. Yeah, here, I mean, it's slow, but we're getting them. How about y'all? But when you're breaking it in, I mean, did they hammer it or? Not all of them. That one destroyed it. But some of them will look at it. Some of them just follow it. Yeah, or they'll just kind of follow it. Other times, they won't even, you'll think it's a carp. But there's, chances are, if you see a big blob on your screen, it's a bass. I caught it 10 last summer on your work. Oh, nice. Out here? No. I don't know what to say anymore. I don't know. I don't really know. I mean, good luck, Jim comes by. That was really weird, man. Jim, Jim comes by. You hook in the fish. It was almost like, it's almost like Jim was an angel. Yeah, Jim, I don't think, I think if we turn back around right now, he'll be gone. Like, he's not like, that was just, shout out to Jim, Jim, if you watch our video. Wait, apparently, does he want, how does he know about our bait? He just likes our baits. He got, he got, he caught a 10. He said he's a worm guy. Caught a 10 pounder on a worm on here. Jim, Jim comes by with his good luck vibes. We're literally witnessing some super rare, incredible moments in fishing. And I'm so glad John just told me to come down here. Like, this is incredible. I was like, if it's not me, it's you. If it's you, it's not like we, someone just has someone other than myself, part of the Gugans, and a good friend has to witness this. Because it's not going to be here forever. You're right. And I'm glad we're doing it. We bet the point. We got like two more days out here, man. Two more days of whiskey drinking and setting the hunk and just having a good little freaking time. We're going to keep watching old school and repeat every night. Oh my gosh. How big was that fish? 11, what? It was weird because Jim was there. Here's some stats. So this is actually one of the best days I've had out here. Because we're getting, actually, this is the best day you've ever had in your life. That's my life, period. Besides the 14. Besides the 14, we only caught another one other fish that day. So today we've got a four and a half, a four eight, a 10, 11, and 11, 33. So that was almost 11 and a half pounds. We have 30 pounds for four fish. We broke the 30, 30 with four bass. What on earth could you do? Right. What on earth, man? So this is one of the best days of bass fishing I've ever experienced in my life. And I haven't even caught a fish. That's how good it is. Good friend. Thank you, buddy. Let's do a quick cheers. Dude. Cheers. Cheers. Just to quick, I love John Pluck. But John's been doing YouTube as long as I have. He moved down to Texas with the squad. How many years ago was that? I moved down here in 2018. 2018? All right, mostly fished up north for the majority of his life. Came down here years of grinding the spring trying to get that elusive double digit. It's incredibly hard guys to catch a double digit bass. My biggest bass ever, 11 pounds, four ounces. John, in the scope of a month, has caught three double digit bass. A 14, a 10, and one that just broke my personal best by an ounce or two, I think, if I'm doing the math correct, just a few minutes ago. I can't think of anyone more deserving, and I think it's awesome, John. So, honestly, let's just continue the sack, buddy. Wow. Where's it? Where the fuck is that fish? That's right there. It's still following it. It's still following it. It's still on. Dude, that fish hit him with me. Little guy. Little guy. I didn't even see him. I saw him at first. I didn't realize he bit me. I put two extra hooks on this thing. No, I still didn't want it. I'm not mad. Watch me. Nope. This is Deese. Nice job, dude. Little blind caster, bud. Here we go. I don't know which fish that was. I don't know what it was either. Dude, that's our, I mean, we got a limit. Yeah, we got a limit. Hell yeah. Ah, little random fish. There we go. Oh, look at this jaw, man. He's chomped a time or two. He's maybe seen some worse. He's maybe seen some lures. Fish number five? That was a random cast. Like you saw a fish and then it disappeared. And then this one just kind of came out of nowhere. The red dot that I'm recording right now. Yeah, I'm recording. Oh, you're on my camera. Yeah. There we go. That's my first fish of the day. What's crazy is this is considered small. But it's everything else we're catching. And this is like a five pounder. Unbelievable. Cold. Absolutely cold fish. And that was our first like blind cast. I just kind of threw in that area where we saw the brush and just kept it right in that brush line and trailing it above. Look at that. Look at this fish's mouth. It's been caught before. Somebody did not take proper care. I'm gonna take proper care, you sweet pea. Don't worry. I got an extra big sniff for an awesome day for number five, man. If you're going out here in the wintertime, you're not expecting to get a lot of bites. So number five is clutch. You want to weigh it? See what it is? I'm gonna say 492 or 5'1". I'm gonna say 5'1". I'm gonna say 5'1", 6". Built like a brick house, like all these other fish. Yeah, I know, right? I think you've about worn out this little scale part right here, with all these giants. Oh, oh my God. Where'd it go again? What's that? 606. 606, are you serious? Dude, we've just been staring at so many giant fish today that it's awesome. It's weird. That's awesome. That was a good fish. Oh yeah? Let you go, baby. Put you back, take good care of you. Somebody else can enjoy you. See ya. Off he goes. Hell yeah, brother. So we have, we have, this is our weight right now. We've got 36.79 with 36 pounds. Yeah, we broke the 30-30 today. Nice job. All right friends, first fish of the day for me. And honestly, this has been such a weird day, such a blur that it feels like it's 10.30 in the morning. And it's like in the afternoon, me and John have just been on a high all day with these big fish that we've seen and captured and, you know, you don't catch them all. You get to look at them a lot on the live scope, but that one was just kind of a bonus fish. Just, I was throwing in an area where John had seen one and one followed, but I threw past and just kind of kept it in that same depth reel and just boom, one got it. So, there we go. He spanked it good, man. Woof. And they're spanking it. Yeah, 15 foot of water. It's not like they're crazy deep or anything. So, oh, it feels good, man. Feels good. We have captured a limit of bass today and it's been absurd. The weight is absolutely absurd. I am pushing John to do at least a double mount of his fishes today. And at least get a replica for the Guggen, Guggen office, man. It's absurd. With a big old saucy hanging out of its jowl. Just saucy. Just meh. Oh, here we go. Oh my God, there's two. What was that? That was a fish, dude. That was not a bass. There's no way. I guess it was, dude. That's exactly what the 11 looked like. No. Yes, I fucking do not. I saw him on the tree and I was like, I'm not that quick. Yes, I'm telling you dude. Just a darter? I'm telling you. I wish you'd have held on the rod when that fish ate. It was as if someone was down there. Yeah, like, maybe shit myself, but yeah. Just like that. Oh, got him. Yep, I'm on. Dude, feels big. Is it? It feels real big. Oh, so what is this? No, I got a hook sideways. It's not very big. I had a hook sideways shove. That's the second time where I've like saw a fish and then not caught him and then caught him there. Honestly, I thought that was gonna be a double-touch. Dude, I mean, did you see the rod? That's an eight-foot rod, eight-foot extra heavy. Look at that black lip. Yeah, it's unique. Well, we have dinner tonight. I'm just kidding. Right, a three-pounder? Yeah, dude, that's the best. You just toss those back, you know? It's almost done. Wow. John, I'm pretty conservative on like, hey, get the net. But on that one, I would have told you like, if it would have gotten off, I would have like do those. That was a job. Eight plus, for sure. Yeah. Right where one should be. On top of that tree. There's one, yeah. Yeah, that's a fish. Oh, yeah. This is a good sig. It's a good signature. Right there. Come tight. Got him. Oh, baby. Hold back, hold back, hold back. Got him. Coming back. Decent. Net's caught up. It's not a drive, but it's a good one. We'll take that. Yeah, buddy. That one came after it, dude. He came back for it, dude, I missed him. That's awesome. Five out of four or five. Oh, I thought he was quite bigger. Might be six. I think he's my ass. He's trying to curl. Look at the bees. Look at the bees, dude. Beautiful. You just don't know. You just don't know what you're getting. All right, folks. We're entering into the golden hour. This is the last low light part of the day. But we definitely saw more activity going, low light hours. Gunges caught one, had a fish come after it, turned around, came back, which is great. We got a little bit of wind. So it's a good setup for this evening bite, and hopefully we'll get one or two more. Either way, oh my gosh, an incredible freaking day, y'all. Incredible. If you're not smashing the light button, what's wrong with you? You have bad blood. Just amazing. We've got elk stakes tonight. We're gonna celebrate catching double dees out here. My gosh. Giant located. Time to keep cast. Rock Giants. See you? Rock Giants. There he is. Got him. Got him. Dude. That? No. Little guy, little guy. Three to half, four. They're following and eating now. He's stalking it, too. Yeah, they're stalking it. They really have him at ground. Get to see how good it is. Absolutely. He hooks on there. Get it? Are you on him? He's looking for it. He's looking for it. No, I'm coming in. I'm coming in. Drop it. It's coming in. Here he is. Here he is. He's coming for it. He's looking. Dude, that's a big fish. I just want it. It might be a big one. No, I lost, I just lost. He's looking, he's coming. Look at his tail. He's coming. He's migrating. Look at him. Oh my God. Dude. Why? He's just, he's cheeky now. He was way bigger than I thought. He was way bigger than I thought. Well, I fucked up. I fucked up, I fucked up, I fucked up, I fucked up. All day. God. What happened? I don't know. He slammed it and I set the hook and... You just, you just don't want to save him. Triggered. Oh, okay. Oh my God. That's a tree. Oh, they are eating. Well, we've had three shots. Here, go back that way a little bit. Got it. Awesome. This is the spot where we saw like four or five big ones. And we said we're going to come back here at sundown. It's sundown. There's no one here. I'm like, good luck. Getting it in. Right on the nose as far as that cadence goes. Look at that. I'm dialed, buddy. That massage. There it is. There it is. That's what it looks like. Slippery. Slippery stuff, man. Oh, you know why this is zebra mussels? Zebra mussels. Holy cow, this place has zebs. I forgot to tell you. So this is one example of zebs doing their thing. It did end up being kind of a nice day, John. Do you mean the weather, or do you mean the fishing? Yes, it does. Folks, we're entering our last cast right now. Sun's kind of going down. It's starting to get a little cooler. I think I'm done for the day. I think I have three fish. John, I think you caught six or seven, something like that. Two of them happen to be the biggest fish of your life. Two of the biggest fish of your life. Two of the biggest fish of my life that I've witnessed, personally, like netting, being part of, touching, feeling, smelling. And there's just not much more you can ask for, folks. I mean, even just to get out here was tough. Like getting through the snow, digging through the snow. And for the first day to be like this, oh my goodness. Thank you. I'm going to take you back to the trailer park right now. Head to the opus. And I say we celebrate with some elk steaks. Elk steaks, some brown water, and just cheers the glasses, because today was epic. Well, y'all, there's one more tale to be told today. We were about to go in to the trailer, but I was putting my rod down. John was like, one more spot. Sundown, sundown, one more spot. I'm just going to link his channel down below. Let me just say, there has been three fish today caught. This man is on fire. You better go. You better go subscribe to the channel, you better smash. Every like button there is known to man. There's moments where you get in the zone. Today, this man got in the absolute freaking zone. No one is on the lake anymore. Everyone is gone, except John. Still my sunglasses on. What am I doing? So that's that large monster that was just falling in. We're going to go right back down. There's the gizzies right there. All these gizzies are coming up in the low light hours. And that's how this final bass was caught today. That's all I'm going to say about it. I also, in the chaos of all this, I lost John's rod with the other A-regg on it. I apologize, John. We'll get you another one. Hey, listen, promise me we'll go spank him even more tomorrow. Yeah, we're on day one. We're on day one. It's all right, day one. Those are all big gizzards. I don't understand. All big gizzards come up to the surface. It's 46 degrees. What are they doing? Let's do it. There's something different in these legs. This is a different kind of deal. Look at these. These look like crappie or white bass. They're chad. They're giant chad. That's what's making these bass get full happy, full of eggs. Mega three fats. Oh my gosh. Candy nectar. I might have kicked it over, honestly. I think I don't know where I had it. I honestly don't remember. It was like, it was mayhem, like you said. It's right there. I think it's right there. So it's right there. I bet it gets kicked over by me that either you or me. Yeah, it's like who cares about the rod? You're holding it. Yeah, we don't even care. It's finally like hitting us. We're processing right now, like what actually happened. And we're cooking some elk chili. And we're just kind of chilling to celebrate. John's dumping his footage. Somehow in the chaos, a rod was lost. Someone said to me, you had the opportunity to catch three double digits. But you have to throw all your rods, except one, in the leg. I would probably slip and fall sprinting to the boat to throw all my rods and reels in the water. 100%. I think everyone would. This is the most unbelievable day. I don't really know how to end this video. I'm like dumbfounded about it. I guess the one thing I will say that I will commend John on is not even his fishing ability, which was amazing to pull first of all. I'll say to our previous manager, Matt, now CEO, who was your tournament partner last year, you guys had a big squabble. Me and Trey fished together. You guys squabbled it out because you were so adamant about chasing fish on Live Scope. There were some fish that were offshore and he was like, no, we need to go up. Shout out a lot. Y'all got back to work everywhere, though. No, it doesn't. My point is you guys got in a squabble about that and fought over it. And I literally texted. I'll read the text that I sent to Matt. So this is what I sent Matt today, because it just all came together. I said, the dedication to chasing fish on Live Scope with John during those tournaments last year had to be frustrating. But it all added up to the most epic day in Guggen fishing history. I just witnessed a man catch three 10-pound-plus bass in one day and he watched all of them come and take it. John was meant for this. It was insane. So I mean, that's what it felt like to me being the viewer of watching that. I was like, this was meant to be. I will also commend you on releasing all those fish. Put them back. Put them right back. Like most people would put that multiple fish in the live while maybe try to hold like two. I want to come back here in 10 years and do the same thing. So that's why I'm trying to put them back. Exactly. You know, that was our goal. We're regular on the same page, which is good. But hey, listen, we got one more. We got actually two more days here. We got two more days. Two more morning. That's the same thing. And they're all the same weather day. Like it's going to drop down tonight. It's probably going to get in the low 20s. We're going to wake up. It's going to be 20 degrees. It's going to be frosting the boat. We're going to get out there. We're going to go even farther up the river, run some new stuff, and we might find something magical. Oh my god. I can't imagine it being more magical than today. But just subscribe. Just subscribe. Stay tuned. Pelvic thrust that subscribe button. Pelvic thrust that subscribe button. This year is starting off with a bang. So thank you guys for tuning in. Each and every single video. Join me in the great outdoors here. If you want to see more videos of me and John, let us know in the comments. Let's do it. We don't fish enough together. I feel like. You have to say no. We're going to keep doing it. Yeah. It's fun. Doesn't even matter. But if you like it, haul it back to the comments. See you guys on the next one. God bless you and the great outdoors. Say it out. Hey.