 Today we're going to be fishing with this $25 budget fishing kit. I went by Dick Sporting Goods a few weeks back and I ran upon this juicy looking bad boy right here. We're going to go ahead and open it up get into it and see what we got inside. So this is actually the Strike King Rage Imperfect Plastics kit and we have a bunch of different baits inside guys. This is a good variety and I think it's going to be perfect for the fishing today. You know the spring time is here and we're ready to catch some of these big fish. I have been sick the last week and I've been dying to get back out and do some fishing and today happens to be the day. So let's go ahead and pop this thing open real quick and see what we got inside. Before we get deeper into this video only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed so if you could take the time hit the subscribe button. It really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. All right let's open this bad boy up and we have a wide variety of soft plastics and we're going to go ahead and go down the line and figure out what we want to use first. So the first bait here we actually have one of these Rage Swimmers and this is a Kai Tech style bait by Strike King. It's got a little bit of white on top and it's got a little bit of sparkle little bling bling. Coming up second we have a Strike King Ocho and I believe this is the either a five or the six inch Ocho and this is in watermelon flake really good natural color. That bait right there can catch fish any time of day. You can put that on a Texas rig. You can rig it up on a wacky rig. You can do just about anything with that Sanko. The next bait we got is probably my favorite out of the whole batch guys. We have a Rage Crawl here and this is in I want to say sapphire blue. It's got a darker blue flake on top and on the bottom it's got that sapphire brighter blue action but the Rage Crawl is by far one of my favorite soft plastics of all time and this bait is going to get smoked today. 100% that has to be probably my favorite out of all these baits. Next we got a Rage Bug in Green Pumpkin. Another similar bait to the Rage Crawl. This is just more of a beaver style bait and this bait right here is going to get smoked as well and it's got just a standard natural color. It's pretty cool that we have a natural in the Rage Bug and we have more of the darker watercolor in the Rage Crawl. Moving on we got the Rage Menace and this is a little natural color. It's got some blueish swirl on the bottom, a little bit of green on top. I don't use menace as much but back in the day when I fished a lot of tournaments I caught a ton of fish on the old Rage Menace. That thing should get munched as well and moving on to the final bait this is super exciting guys because we have not topwater fished all year and we got the girdle toad right here by Strike King and this is actually in the summer crawl color. It's got chartreuse on the bottom, green pumpkin on top and we're going to get to throw a dang topwater today and attempt to catch our first topwater bass of the year. Our plan is to catch a fish on every single bait in this box. There's six baits so our goal is to catch at least one fish today on every single bait to complete the Strike King fishing kit challenge. Let's hop into it boys. All of these I think are going to get munched pretty good today. The frog I'm a little concerned about but I think we're going to have some crazy stuff happen and I want to save this until the end of the video guys so make sure you stick around. We're going to catch a bass on topwater today and lock in our first topwater fish of 2024. I just feel like it would be a disgrace if I don't start off with my favorite bait of all time which is the Rage Crawl. By the way I'm pairing this up on my Kicking Their Bass TV X Lose combo. If you guys want to check them out KickingTheBass.com. They'll be linked down below. Springtime is on its way. Head over to KickingTheBass.com guys. Get yourself a combo and start catching some fish with me now. So we have a standard Texas rig. This is a quarter ounce bullet weight on a three-awd extra wide gap hook. As simple as it gets and that is the perfect thing to throw for this Rage Crawl. Simple Texas rig. It's the springtime. You can't go with a better rig right now so there we go. That is our first bait of choice out of the tackle box and we're going to get the casting and see what we can do. So when I was out fishing two weeks ago these fish were pushed up pretty shallow getting ready to all be up on bed. So that's what I'm hoping is the pattern still. We did have a little cold front blow in a few days ago and that's a little concerning but I still think these fish should bite really good and hopefully still be positioned up on this bank. Let me walk a little bit right down here. So on this side of the bank there's only a few little crevices you can really get in. I just feel like this bank with all these trees there's got to be some big bass pushed up here. It just looks so good. You got a mixture of a bunch of laydowns, some willow trees in the water here and some grass up on the bank. It just looks like a prime spot for some big bass to be sitting. It's so pumped right now boys. I've been dying the fish. I went to the Bassmaster Classic met a lot of y'all. It was an awesome event. It was a great time. Got right back and got sick as a dog and now I got that dog aiming boys. I'm telling you got that dog coming out with these big old bass they don't even know. This bank looks really good. So the weird part about this guys is when I was fishing this pond you know six months ago this whole bank had trees and they totally wiped it out. I mean it's completely gone but I can still kind of feel a bunch of the laydowns up on the bank. There's still a lot of wood here and I was afraid to come back to this place recently just because of them cutting all this down. I didn't know how it was going to affect the fishing at least for a while. So hopefully it's all primed back up again. This spot right here I mean all these divots in the bank little bit of wood, some laydowns. I mean this is just prime for some big fish to be sitting. I was hoping to come out here and just be like oh my god they're on bed everywhere but it doesn't look like that's the case. I'm convinced there is not a single bass in this pond. They're all dead. They're all gone. This appeared. All right new pond knew me. First time I fished this pond I ended up putting a 10 yonder pounder on a spinnerbait so maybe today would be the day. I do not think the rage crawl is going to be the hardest bait today which I definitely don't think it is. I know what's going on here there guys we're not getting bites because we got a plan of catching a dang 10 pounder. I'm hung up. Big old tree man. What in the world? Well there we go. That was our first catch of the day. It's a dang giant. Thank you sir. Thank you for biting. Beautiful release. It was a biggin dude. Oh my gosh I was literally hopping that bait in. I just came up and grabbed it and I stuck that fish too man. Well that's our first bite of the day right there guys. Pretty dang shallow and I was just thinking about it. I've never seen this but you see these little like flowers here. It was right in front of that man. Maybe this bank's going to be loaded. Let's hunker in right here. I'm going to be honest too I was at such a weird angle for a hook set. It was like one of his left hand hook sets and it just I don't know. That's got me feeling pretty good about this though. A couple times I've gone out here obviously the first fish I caught here was just a megalodon of a bass. I threw all the way across the lake. There he is. Oh my god dude what is going on they're hitting it. Oh these fish might be on bed in here man. The way he just hit it was exactly like any bed bass. Please dude. Gosh that was a good bite too. It was just such a far cast. I don't think he had it all the way. Or in that springtime weird biting phase I'll tell you that. The first fish I missed and that one. That was a gator. That freaked me out man. I got a fish. He's running. He's running. He's running. That fish was on bed on that bank and that was a freaking megalodon of a fish. There's no way that just happened dude. I couldn't catch up to him. I literally couldn't catch up. These bed fish are crazy man. He was right where that gator jumped off too. I'm talking right where he jumped off. All right we just got to lock it in guys. We got to lock it in. We've had two too many mistakes on this couple bites man. That was a giant. Giant. Eat that bait. Oh my gosh. Dude I thought I had a monster right there. When I leaned up he did not move. I think he was stuck in the tree. Oh my gosh guys. Well that was a dang grind to get this dang fish. That's just a little male bass right there. And that is our first fish of the day on the Rage Crawl. And that is one bait knocked off the list. Heck yeah. Thank you for biting buddy. There he goes. Let's go man. All we needed. Just needed to get on board right there. But let's go ahead and go back and get our other baits. All right boys so we've got our first bait knocked off the list. Got the tackle box with me. It's time to pick out bait number two. Keep this rolling boys. I'm feeling good about it. We've had three good bites. We said to keep on fishing. Let's go back in the box and see what we want to work with. So the Rage Crawl was a success. Had a bunch of bites. That's what I thought. I mean that bait is just a money bait. I think we're going to switch up to this beaver bait here which is the Rage Bug. This is in green pumpkin. This water in this pond compared to the first one is a little more clear. So the Rage Bug is going to be perfect for this place. We're still going to be putting it on the Texas rig. It's pretty simple. Go through the head of the bait. Rotate it all the way up and give her a little weedless hook. One thing about the Rage Bug you can unpinch these arms, unpinch the tail so you can have all that flutter action. That is going to be our second bait of choice. I'll tell you the Rage Crawl I'm more of a fan of. But this Rage Bug here, a little beaver presentation I'm telling you is a really good bait especially right now too. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I snapped my rod. I snapped my rod. But I got a fish. Oh my gosh dude it's a good one too. And I can't catch up with him. I literally just snapped my rod. Good one. Oh my gosh. Come on baby. Oh my gosh. That is so unfortunate and I hate that because I haven't broken a rod in a minute. But oh my goodness we just caught us a almost a three pound bass all the way across the dang pond man. Oh and there she goes. Oh my gosh. What just happened dude? He was all the way on the other side on that tree. And I threw all the way out there with my slack line. I could feel that fish hit it. And it instantly just reeled up and torqued down on him. Unbelievable. That sucks about my rod though and I'll tell you guys I actually had this wedged in between my dang truck bed the other day. I was praying that it wasn't gonna break but I was already anticipating it and sure enough it freaking happened. With that being said guys that's our only bait caster with us today. We have a spinning rod in the car so we could definitely go back and get that thing and keep on fishing. So I'm gonna take a little break go grab this rod and we'll get back after it. All right boys and girls we broke our rod but that is not gonna hold us back today man. I got my mock jacked out spinning combo and I have a whole idea on what I'm gonna do for this next bait here. So we got the rage bug done on that last fish. We got the rage crawl done on fish number one and now we're gonna move on to the ocho. And this is a green pumpkin ocho. We're gonna be throwing it on a spinning rod. This isn't the most ideal wacky rig hook but it's not bad at all. It's actually one of my drop shot hooks. And we're just gonna throw this thing wacky rig. Now I'm gonna tell you guys in the spring time here there is not a better bait than a dang wacky rig because it's just about anything on that. So any of this cover that we see along the bank we can throw this wacky rig up there and just work it super slow and we should have a lot of bites here. Yeah that's very unfortunate about the whole rod situation. I had a feeling I was gonna break that rod and I guess today was the day man. All right boys and girls we are out at a new spot and we're ready to get this dang thing started here. I'm ready to start smoking some fish now. We got our Senko on our spinning rod and I actually ran back and got a new rod so we are chilling now and I'm actually gonna put the menace on this Texas rig. So we're gonna have the Senko on the wacky rig on the spinning rod and then we're gonna put the menace on the Texas rig here and we're at the old hidden 10 pound pond baby and I'm hoping some of these fish in here are pushed up on the bank and there's some big old bass in here son. So we're gonna see what happens in here. I'm glad I had some time to go grab this other rod because I need a bait caster with me today. I'm kind of worried about my mock jack too because I after I was just talking about it I didn't have this rod stuck in my tailgate too. I would hate to break up another rod today. Now that would be a big mess. But we're gonna start off with the Ocho here and make a few casts and see if we can get something rolling. Get back on board. I was also stuck in traffic for an hour guys. I've been I've been fiending man and I gotta bite. We're hooked. We're hooked. Oh my gosh baby. First cast man. Oh my gosh it's a big one. Oh my gosh I didn't think she was big. Oh my gosh. Come on. Come on. Stay pinned baby. Stay pinned. Oh it's a really good one dude. Let's go. She's putting up a ridiculous fight right now. Come on baby. Oh yeah come on. Stay pinned for me. Looks like a three pounder. Come on. Come on. We've lost our Sanko. We just caught us a dang three pounder. Look how small her mouth is. Absolute football. Got that Sanko right in the back of her mouth and that is a good three pound fish close to it guys with that fat belly. Small mouth fat body. That is what we're looking for guys. Let's freaking go baby. Well that is bait number three knocked out the list. I guess I had a good feeling in coming here and first cast. We caught a dang three pounder man. Beautiful bass. Thank you baby. There she goes. That is a way to kick it off right there. We had a slow start to this video and ended up breaking our rod missing some fish sat in the hours worth of traffic. We didn't let it get us down man. We kept on pushing. Came out to a new spot and boom first cast caught a dang three pounder. All right well we're going to put the spinning rod down for a minute. If we get a little I don't know we get a little excited man. We might put another one of those Sankos on that wacky rig and throw it back out there but I want to throw those minutes for a second. So this is that natural color. It's got like a little blue sparkle green on top. It's on the Texas rig. If these fish are on bed on this bank which they very well could be with us getting that bite right away. We might be smacking them here guys. Beautiful shade line. Good bit of lay downs right at the mouth of this pocket. Let's see if we can get some more bites here. I really didn't think that fish was big guys. I thought he was like a pounder ended up being like a three pound fish and she jumped I was like holy cow. Put up a great fight. I just feel like there's some more fish right here man. That ain't going to be the only bite we get here. I'm about to say we're going to catch another tree pounder. I'm trying to be nibbling man. A little bit of chomp chomp. I know I'm actually having a truly. Oh my gosh. I just about got sniked boy. I can hear the dang wind breaking dude. That puppy about smacked me in the rear end. That would have left a mark for sure. I literally bit my hook out holy cow. Today's been a day man. It's been one a damn day. Boys and girls we're going to leave this pond. I thought I don't feel it. I felt like we could spend a good bit of time here and possibly get another bite. It's just I think there's better spots for us to hit and the fact that we just caught one on the first cast and haven't had another bite kind of makes me want to just go to a new spot. So we're going to pack up this tackle box pack up our rods and I will catch y'all at the next spot. All right new spot and we ready to rock and roll lost a complete tank a couple weeks ago while I was fishing here and then before that ended up having the craziest fish catcher in my life. I know you guys probably saw that but we'll run it back one more time. Adam pretty crazy guys had a fish dang hop out on the spina bait but it's time for us to catch another fish in this pond. It's the only one that I've got in here and I just know there's some tanks. I mean I missed a crazy bite. We just need to take our time here and we might end up catching a really good one. So let's just throw along this bank or some of these laydowns is a little crevices in this grass and we might get lucky. That's where I got bit last week or two weeks ago. Dude that fish was running. He hammered it a hook set and he was just I couldn't catch up to him. Sticks are biting today man. This pond is ridiculous. I don't understand the crazy stuff that can happen. I literally envisioned that. I manifested that whole bite dude. I popped it off that tree over there my bait landed. I let it sink and I'm like you know what there might be a fish here. I'm just slowly working in. He bites it right there. I don't understand man. Oh my god they're on bad dude. That was a giant look at the boil. Oh my god what is going on dude. I didn't have time. He broke me off dude. Like how does my line even get frayed that bad bro. How is it even dude that fish must have been a dang shark. I really don't even know what's going on. This pond is something man. I guess I need to come out here and fish more. I just get I get schooled out here though. I just get the weirdest stuff. Anything that you think that could go wrong or just go oddly good in this pond has happened. The fish that I lost two weeks ago the weirdest bite ever was running 2000 miles an hour. He should have been a track star. He shouldn't have been a fish. Then two weeks prior to that had the craziest fish catch of my life and then we about had the craziest fish catch I've ever seen again. Like three times and I have a feeling that there's a lot of fish right here. We were standing on the fish the whole time which is crazy. The fish are loaded on this bank. I think the first bite was a small male bass. That second one I think was big and the third one I don't even know what to think. That fish felt good too but totally broke that one off. I mean that one I don't see biting. The thing is with this fish biting like that you would think that they would be in this pocket. I mean the last couple times I've came here I didn't get a bite in this pocket. I just got hammered. I gotta stop this awkwardness dude. I gotta get on my right side and I gotta lock in. There's water pumping out of that dude. Giant. Oh my gosh. There's toes in here dude. Straight up freaking freaks. Oh my gosh. I literally thought I hooked it to the bottom man. That was like almost a four pounder. Oh it's a beautiful fish. These fish are freaking biting man. I just can't believe we could just hook everything that we're getting bit by. Oh my gosh. Thank you honey. Let's go boys. Guys I understand that we gotta catch fish on every bait but I'm gonna throw back in. How they're biting in this pond is crazy. We've seen some decent bites today. Some decent fishing but I'm gonna tell you I got another fish. Oh my god what is going on. All these fish are doing guys you know here in the springtime this bass they'll just grab it. They won't really eat it and that's what they're doing right now. They're just grabbing this bait and you can feel them pick it up and you know you go to get ready to hook said and they're already spitting it out or you hook said and you end up missing the fish or losing the fish. That was a freaking monster dude. I saw his whole back come out of the water. Dude there is that might have been a seven eight pounder if not bigger. There's some monsters in this pond. Alright guys it is time to switch up. So we have got the Senko complete. The Rage Crawl complete. The Rage Bug complete. The Minus complete. And our last two options come down to the Swimbate and the Frog. The Frog we're saving for last because I'm excited about it and I just want to save the best for last. For the Swimbate we're gonna go ahead and rig this up and we're just gonna put it on a Texas rig man which is something I would never do but I think it can get the job done right now especially with how these fish are just up on the bank and we can work it a few different ways of this Texas rig. We can reel it if we want or we can hop it on the bottom just like the curl and the worm. I mean we can work it multiple different ways with that rig. It feels good to throw a moving bait for the first time today. You know we were getting all those bites on this little corner. You might be able to trigger a reaction bite right here. Now you want the yellow Swimbate. Oh my, biggin, biggin, biggin. Oh my gosh she's a monster. Stay pinned baby, stay pinned. She is running so fast. Oh my god it's a tank. Come on, come on, let's go. Oh my gosh guys look at that. That is a good three and a half pounder right there. Smoked that Swimbate man. That is bait number five. Knocked off a list on almost a four pounder. I'd say she's a good three and a half but she put up a sick fight and hammered that bait man. Let's go. Thank you for biting baby. There she goes. Wow. What a day this has turned into. We were throwing the Swimbate for five minutes. Not even, maybe three minutes and got clapped man. Totally smoked and I'll tell you guys we have one more bait today and that is the Topwater Frog. We have not caught a fish on Topwater all year and we're about to witness our first Topwater Bite of 2024 baby. Let's go. So I'm actually just going to use my extra Y gap hook for this. I hope it's all going to work out fine and dandy. That frog is not too big. It should pan out. First things first we had to take off our bullet weight. We're going to tie this extra Y gap hook back on here. Boom. You're all good to go right there. Cut that puppy. Now for our frog. We've been waiting on this the whole day and we're hopping right into it boys. Right into this thing. I'm going to be honest if we catch fish on this quick I'm going to keep fishing because the fishing just seems really good right now and we're just going to rig it up like that. It's been a long time since I've thrown a soft plastic frog and I would love to get smoked on this thing right now. This isn't the perfect rig for this frog and I would like to throw this on braid but we're throwing it on fluorocarbon because we don't have a braid set up at the moment but this thing should work perfect. You can get away with throwing this frog or a buzzbait on fluorocarbon just for the fact if you keep the rod high and you're reeling the whole time these fish are going to smoke this thing. All right guys this pond has been awesome and I would love to catch some more here but we're going to keep on moving. We're going to get to a spot that I just think that they could be loaded and they might destroy this frog. All right boys and girls we are at a new spot now. Got our frog and it is time for our first top water bite man. I have a weird feeling about this spot. When I came here about three weeks back these fish already looked like they were staging up on bed heavy. I feel like we could have some crazy bites right now. That's what I'm praying that happens. You have no idea how long I've been waiting to throw a frog and this isn't usually the frog like I like hollow body frogs but just getting a bite on a bait that's technically a frog. Well it is a frog. It's a different type of frog. I've been waiting months for this bite. I'm just praying we can get one to come out. All right there's two ponds of the frog still new bites but uh let's keep on moving. Next pond with the frog. I would love to see a frog fish guys. This is the one bait in the box that just seems like it could be a tough one but I think we can get it done. Oh no I missed him. I missed him. Gosh dang it guys. Well I got hit. Our first top water strike of 2024. Oh gosh dang it man. That was such a far cast and to not have braided to be on fluorocarbon trying to drive that extra wide gap through that frog. I mean that was near impossible unless that fish just totally swallowed the bait. Dang dude. Well at least we got a bite. That gives me some hope. Into the forest we go. Into the forest we go. I'm just swimming right out of this grass. Oh big bull behind me. Right back in there. Dang it man. My frog was like going sideways. I thought I was about to have it guys. I thought we were about to get her. I'm feeling good about this bank still. I can just get this frog to run right. Come on just one bite fish. Not asking for much. Give me one good bite. This is a shallow flat all right here. See I couldn't get my bait on top of the water and he just bit it right there. I couldn't get it on top man. Well we can say we've got our first top water bites of the year. We've had two fish try to eat this thing just not totally coming out of the water and smoking it. The first fish he came out of the water and ate it. He just didn't have it all the way but we're gonna keep on trying for a little bit longer. Let's go baby. Let's go baby. That is our first top water bass of 2024. Oh my gosh not a big one man. It is the smallest fish of the day but that completes the tackle box fishing challenge with the dang top water bass boys. First one of 2024 hopefully we'll have more to come.