 what's going on guys welcome to another video thank you guys so much for the support before I even start this video I just like to wish you and your family a merry Christmas because this is actually the day before Christmas I hope you guys have a great time and spend a lot of quality time with your family let's go ahead and get this video started today I want to have a sit-down topic over how I started bass fishing because I get so many messages saying know how to start bass fishing and all these messages and I'm like I have to make a video over I think this is gonna be a very quality videos gonna awesome before I go anywhere at the end of this video I will announce the GoPro giveaway winner which I did run on Instagram and I also ran on YouTube so I will be announcing the winner for that so one lucky winner so make sure you watch this video all the way through to the end I'd really appreciate if you watch this through and kind of understand my story and how I started bass fishing so let's go ahead and get this started guys where should I start off let's say let's start off all the way before I even held fishing pretty much when I was younger I never bass fish I pretty much fish my parents in the bigger boat they had a docked out of Marina and I would always go fish for you know little brim and stuff like that when I was younger I would just fish off the docks with like little biscuit dough on little tiny hooks and I would catch a ton of tiny fish ton of little brim honestly they weren't that tiny you know I mean I there's some big ones as well as I got older I'd say around 11 years old me and my grandpa started to go cat fishing so we would go to this lake if anyone's in the Gwinnett County area Atlanta area see it's called Gwinn bridges and it's a little catfish lake it's pretty much just a little pay lake you pay like $20 you can fish all day and I would start off there and I would go cat fishing and that's that's pretty much what we did we go out there we just slayed the catfish it was insane we kept so many catfish I'm every time I went it was a blast me and my grandpa used to do that all the time and that's kind of what like launched me into fishing after that happened my grandpa did talk to some of his buddies that owned some private ponds from there on we actually started go pond fishing at some of his buddies ponds and I wasn't like hardcore into it at that time to where I was throwing a bait catch to where I was throwing artificial lures reason live bait we're using like little night crawlers that's where we're using to catch all the fish so we would go to all those ponds and throw out night crawlers on bobbers catch a ton of brim I mean brim like the size of your hand and catch a ton of big bass I just remember like all the fish I swear like these ponds that actually fish in my videos like those are the ponds I use the fish when I was younger those ponds used to be so much better I couldn't imagine like going there with artificial lures like back then if I knew how to bass fish and just slaying the fish because on those night crawlers we would go catch like five pounds like it was nothing like wouldn't even think nothing of it and you know like I get hype over a fish but like back then I really didn't I mean yeah I got excited but like I wouldn't realize the value of like a five to a few fish around 10 pounds that's pretty much where my personal best this game from personal best on the lakes around 8 and a half give or take it's just a lot of fun so I continued to fish with my grandpa and I got my first bait caster which is actually from Bass Pro Shops is one of those combos I don't know if you guys remember I don't know if you guys have been fishing this along to where they had this combos it's just like a cheap as per shops combo and it was actually an orange reel I can't remember the exact name of it but it was Bass Pro Shops brand that was actually my first bait caster I believe I still have it at my grandpa's house was just on this crappy pole it's probably like a 6-6 pole start to learn how to cast a bait caster which at this time my parents still own their big boat so when I would go to the marina I would kind of go on the in the marina and start casting the bait caster and I would dial it down you know figure out how to cast this thing if you guys don't already know my dad is actually allergic to fish so he really doesn't fish he doesn't fish often the only time he fishes is when he goes out wants to spend time with me on the water and we go off fishing then my grandpa was the one who kind of hopped me into fishing so it's kind of learning you know the whole bait caster thing my dad knew a little bit about it on my own for the most part and just going out there and just you know casting and casting and casting once I got that down I started to take that the ponds and everything and learn more about you know using artificial bait using lures to catch bass and that's when you know I started to learn a lot I was adapting over that and we ended up moving marinas to a different marina and I remember one day I was fishing I would always fish under the walkways by the marinas and I would always fish my bait caster right there I always try to catch bass you know throw like a little shaky head or a little rattle trap or a spinner bait whatever it was and at that time I really didn't know much about bass fishing our buddy now but my parents the people next to my parents boat actually in a big boat their son actually owned a bass boat so he came pulling up on the bass boat this is a funny sport and I was over there like walking around like looking at it and everything I was just amazed like I've never seen anything like this like if I think about it now like it was just like a standard I'm assuming I can't remember exactly just like a standard old bass boat but to me it was like a million dollar boat like it looks so good I was like oh my god look at the sparkle you know it was just so fascinating I thought that was really cool and I was just staring at the boat so I just couldn't I just could not stop looking at the boat he actually ended up taking me out on the trolling motor around the docks his name is actually Robert pretty much got me in the bass fishing after that he was letting me run the trolling motor you know we're just running around the bank I just fell in love with it like we're out there fishing we didn't even catch anything but like all on all I'm pretty sure I had a bite but all in all like that pretty much got me attached to it I was like I want to go bass fishing like this is what I want to do so I guess a few months past I kept talking to my dad about it I was young at the time I kept talking about you know let's go fishing let's go fishing so we ended up purchasing a small bass tracker which is just a little metal boat I started bass fishing out of that so we would go on Lakeland area and if you guys don't know what a bass tracker is it's just a little metal boat this is like a very small one though it wasn't like a super nice bass trackers you know just right now I think I have like a 40 horse or like a 50 horse on it just a little tiny boat just to get us around and do some fishing so that started off we use that for a while you know have tons of pictures of us in that boat started to go around Lakeland here on it and it was just very Lakeland here is a party lake I'm gonna let you guys know it's one of the biggest party lakes if you guys want to go party go Lakeland it's just what it is tons of party boats tons of big yachts like just a lot of big boats a big luxury boats speed boats everything if you go on the weekends you're getting screwed that's why like if I fish on the near I tend to go during the week because on the weekends it is extremely packed and it's not the best idea to go out there on the weekends so yeah so we ended up just getting destroyed in that boat like every time we would go out and because my dad worked all the time and most of the time we would only go out on the weekend that's the time that we had I did go out during the week every once a while my grant my grandpa would go with me he would be like a few times and we'd go out there well over a time span I will I once a year we ended up upgrading to a nitro I'm sure most of you guys know what a nitro is it was an 18-foot nitro this is a small little nitro nothing big at all it's just a little nitro and I ended up upgrading to that we fished out that for like another year and decided we still got our butts kicked in that thing so it was a little boat it was nothing big and then we ended up looking into more boats in that meeting a guy named Kevin Stowers he was selling his boat and we ended up getting a ranger upgrading to a ranger and that's like luxury as it gets very blessed very thankful that I could hop into something like that and that's kind of like where it all started once I hopped into that ranger I I mean we were going on the lake all the time and we were fishing all the time like religiously going on the lake I was learning more every time I went out like I was learning a lot like a lot so at that point in time I know this sounds weird but even when I was younger I love to sell things I love to like start things and my dad was a business owner so that just made sense right I saw my dad owns an airsoft arena called SS Airsoft pretty much like paintball and I used to go there all the time when I was younger and I followed pretty much that niche of airsoft but airsoft was doing which was a lot of GoPro filming which I did previously when I was younger so I looked into that airsoft niche so that they're doing filming I was like you know what no one's doing filming in the fishing industry because I started like you know five years ago I mean there's a few people doing I believe you know John B is out for a while while we fluke was doing it for a while there's a few people doing out yeah flair flair started a year before me and you know there's a few people doing it so I decided to hop into it it just there wasn't too much content dude when I decided to hop in so I started GoPro and started filming it's absolutely awesome start capturing a lot of content created kicking their bass which was a brand because I just didn't want to you know result in myself as a personality itself I wanted to build it around a brand so came up with a brand name came up with everything started producing clothing as you guys can tell right here if you guys haven't checked it out check it out pretty much just started blowing up you know started to learn a ton about bass fishing I mean if you go back in my videos and you watch like my beginning videos it's honestly hilarious I should go make some like roast videos over myself I've learned so much it's ridiculous so after having that ranger for around you know two and a half I'd say two and a half years maybe three years we decided to wind up getting contacted by ranger and ranger has a deal for their pro staff members because I am on rangers pro staff and it required me to go get that brand new boat or wasn't brand new it required me to get in here but that ranger that I had I believe was in 2007 now the ranger that I have now is a 2014 so I ended up upgrading to that and I've had that boat for the past I'd say two and a half years so it's been amazing it's been awesome boat and I've learned so much it's been absolutely phenomenal and you know I want to be where I'm at today if it wasn't for me you know my grandpa showed me you know everything about fishing taking me out fishing which I really respect a lot and also my dad and my parents for supporting me along the way because when I was like 13 years old I wasn't gonna be able to buy a little metal boat just wasn't gonna happen and for me to be able to build this brand up and generate revenue and build a company pretty much and been able to support myself and still the support my family it's absolutely amazing but it's just it just mind blows me guys like that five years ago to look back I was in you know this little I was in the metal boat five years ago but eight years look back I was in this little metal boat and just to build up now is just insane or to look back 10 years from now and say I was fishing at ponds with the live bait and to just look and see how much I've learned and processed but the only reason I process that much information the only reason I learned so much is because this was my desired passion I played baseball my whole life I think this can be another topic but I play baseball my whole life I quit baseball for fishing because I realized that baseball was not my passion I thought it was my passion it was something I liked doing I loved doing it was taking a lot of my time jumped into fishing realized I can do fishing for the rest of my life and something I truly loved I love being out in the water and that's where I pursued 100% so you know 10 hours a day you know I was just always thinking and researching and looking up about fishing and going fishing and learning information I put that all together and learned so much over these years and in my opinion I learned more than most people could ever learn that quick just because I'm very passionate about the sport it's just been phenomenal I'm very blessed for it and I just thought you guys would you know want to hear this story and you know maybe be inspired by it and you know teach more people how to fish and bring more people into the sport the sport is growing so much and what I've built kicking their bass isn't just about fishing you know it's about striving to be the best it's about working hard it's about motivating and inspiring because that's why I built this brand is to inspire others to teach others because when I was fishing if you guys look at the process of how I grew up and how I started fishing I started from ground zero fishing a catfish pond worked my way up without knowing much you have to result in YouTube videos nowadays to learn a lot of information you have to result in Google to learn a lot of information there wasn't many things out there so I decided to take that and share the love with everyone else and teaching people how to fish and inspiring people to go fish tournaments and inspired inspiring people to go fish high school tournaments and that's kind of where I took the ball and ran with it because there really was much when I was growing up it really wasn't much when I started into it now it's like blown up it's absolutely crazy I went from fishing high school tournaments with 20 boats and I even high school terms in 500 that is freaking unbelievable that's 25 time like that's unreal the numbers I've blown up very thankful for it I'm very thankful for you guys that is my story that is simply my story right there I'm sorry this is a very long video but I'm going to announce a good perfect giveaway winner now I just think that this is a cool video and I want to start adding story time videos into my channel because I think it presents a lot of value and where I came from and hopefully is inspiring to other people that are beginning to become a bass angler and another video that I might hit on topic is how to start a fishing business or how to start a fishing brand how to get yourself into the market how to get sponsors if you guys want to see a series like that be sure to smash that like button and comment below let me know because you know a lot of you guys are supporters are just going to smash the like button which I appreciate so much but I can't really dial down you know who's actually liking that why they're liking that so comment below if you guys want to see a series like that on how I build kick in the rest TV and how to put how to go about it on building a brand in the fishing industry or building a business in the fishing industry and blowing up with it and conquering everything but thank you guys so much for watching I'm gonna go ahead and hop in to the GoPro segment of this video to the GoPro segment guys thank you guys so much for the support the reason why I made this GoPro giveaways because I made 500 uploads on YouTube and I wouldn't be there without you guys because you guys motivate me even though I inspire and motivate some of you guys you guys actually motivate me each and every single one of you guys try to be the best that I can be and post three videos a week and just blow this channel up in the past five years it's been absolutely amazing you know we're at a kind of steady pace right now but that does not matter because I know I'm presenting value to a lot of you guys here for the GoPro winner I actually took what I did is I took everyone that entered on YouTube and everyone that entered on Instagram later I'm all out generator it generated someone so lucky winner is Niko all-star that's I believe it is I believe that's his name I'll 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