 We're gonna be building a $25 tackle box and also a $250 tackle box and putting them head to head and seeing which baits are gonna be catching the most fish today. So we're gonna go ahead and go behind us, pick out the baits, put them in the tackle box, get on the boat, hit the water and catch some big fish. If you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell. Also hit the like button. It really helps out the videos and if you guys wanna see more content like this, let me know down below. Let's get right into it. All right, so we have two tackle boxes here. This one's gonna be the $25. This one's gonna be the $250. Actually got Flusher behind the camera, I'm gonna show you. What's going on, guys? And he's gonna be using the $250 tackle box today. You got lucky. You either got lucky or you're taking it out. I don't know if I got lucky. I think we're gonna have to use some baits. Cause this is like a challenge. So, you know, $250 worth of baits, you're gonna be using some expensive ones. And usually expensive means big. Yeah, that's true, that's true. So, we're gonna start off with the $25 build and then we're gonna cut to him and he's gonna show you guys his little secret bait stash for the $250 tackle box build. And then we're gonna go out on the boat where we're gonna do some fishing. So, Flusher's actually got this beautiful little tackle wall over here with a bunch of different baits. You got crank baits, you got soft plastics, you got hooks, you got weights. You got just about everything over there, Flusher. Let's see what you got, dude. So the problem is you can spend $25 really quick. Like way too quick, you know what I mean? Like if I get a hard bait, that's about six bucks, bro. Like how the heck am I gonna have that big of a variety? So, when it comes down to it, how many baits do you think we should have? Like should we have like a number on it? I think lucky number seven, I think that's the... Lucky number seven, all right. So, I gotta pick seven baits. I don't know if that's possible with 25 bucks. Then you're gonna have to like take fractions of baits. Like, you're gonna have to take like maybe... So, I'm just gonna open a pack and be like, oh, I'm only allowed to have one? Yeah, I think that's what you're gonna have to do as far as like the soft plastics goes. Like you gotta take like a third of a bag. That's fine. All right, let's go over to here. Let's see what we got. So, all right, you got some sort of crawls up here. You got some rage swimmers, swim baits. You got some beavers. You got some menaces. You got some rage bugs. I'm gonna get to know what those are. Speed... Speed crawls? I'm not sure. This is my dad's bait wall, by the way. This is your dad's, okay. And then you got some like brush hogs. Oh, cool. All right, so I think the bait of choice that I might have to start with. All right, this is what we're gonna do. Since I have to have seven baits, I'm probably gonna split it half and half. Like maybe like two to three hard baits and then the rest would be soft baits. But we're gonna do the fractions. Okay, yeah, yeah. All right, so we're gonna grab... That makes sense. So I'm just gonna start grabbing stuff. Oh, gosh. All right, we're gonna get the rage bugs right here. These are in black and blue. By the way, if you guys wanna check out any of the striking baits, discount code to be on the screen link will be down below. You can check them out on striking.com. We're starting off with these. So these are the rage bugs. I'll show you guys however many I'm gonna pull out this package on. I'm not sure yet. We're gonna grab those. What you think, dude? A menace? Can't go wrong with a menace. This is a menace in blue crawls. So this is like a green pumpkin. I love that color. Dude, this color is like a great all-around color. Yeah, it is. Especially for clear waters. Yeah, it is. I also like pairing that up on the jigs that are like green pumpkin and blue spark. It's fire. All right, we'll do that. I think we gotta go with the bubble gum worm, dude. Bubble gum worm has done wonders for me in the past. I've actually caught a nine plus bubble gum worm. All right, we got those. Probably go with some brush hogs, man. I'm gonna go with black and blue, too. There you go. Oh, fine and dandy, right? We're gonna go with black and blue. We're gonna go for a full rainbow effect here. What else do we got? Let's see, let's see, let's see. How many baits do I got there? I got four baits. Four baits. Four baits. So let's go with some hard baits. So you got, you got some spinner baits here. Dude, you got a lot of weights here. What are these, bro? This is something, that's an expensive box. And my dad's been niffling on my bait collection. Once in a while I might have to niffle out of this. All you do is niffle every time you come over here. That's like a solid 20 bucks. All right, let's see. I definitely think we gotta go with like a trap. So like some sort of red eyeshad. Oh dude, what is this one? Oh, that's a sexy looking bait. I believe that's $6, too. Which we're gonna calculate this here in a moment. I like that color, too. That's a good little natural color. Think that this should smoke that. I'm gonna add that one. And then I do kind of like this popper. Think we should add some sort of top water, right? Yeah, for sure. I believe that's between $6 to $8. The Palmer fishing my buddy was throwing top water the other day was catching biggest. And I haven't filmed a top water video this year. This isn't really a top water video, but we'll catch one on top water. One, two, three, four, five, six. I need one more. One more. Swimmers? Should we get some rage swimmers? Or what else we got over here? We got these big anaconda worms. I don't know if I wanna do that. Should I go with the anaconda or should I go with? I should probably go with the Swimbay, shouldn't I? I think so. Makes more sense. Let's go with this natural color. What is this? I really like that color though. It's like a green with a blue spark. What is it called? Is that the KVD one? KVD Magic. Oh yeah, that one's sauce. Yeah, that color looks saucy. So you got some green on the top, a little bit of silver on the bottom, blue sparkle, money duel. All right, is that it? I think so. All right, we're gonna rock it. So now this is where Noah's high school math skills are gonna have to come into play here. Let's open up this tackle box. All right, Fletcher. This is gonna be the most pitiful looking tackle box you'll ever see. You know what I mean? When you're playing with 25 bucks, you really don't have too much room. The tackle box counts more than the baits. This red eyeshadow right here is $6. I'm gonna go ahead and put that in there. Then you got this popper. That's gonna be eight bucks. So six plus eight, Fletcher, is what? 14. 14. Now, the products only have $10, $11. I'm gonna let you think. Okay, so with the soft plastics, I think, I believe this pack of soft plastics is like $6, but they're seven baits, which would leave each one at about 85 cents. Yeah. Do you want us to call them a dollar? Yeah, let's call them a dollar. All right, so we're gonna call it each soft plastic a dollar. So we have 11 choice. Ooh, we gotta do hooks and weights too. Yeah. So we gotta save money for that. Well, you wanna do like four hooks, two weights? Let's do that first real quick. So open this bad boy up. All right, so I'll save for the hooks. We're gonna do 25 cents a piece. What do you think about that? I think that's a good idea. So we're gonna get four hooks. And then with the weights, since they're tungsten, I'd say we end up going with 50 cents a pop, right? I'm just gonna have two weights. Yeah, that's, that's, that's pretty. All right, that'd be fine. So that's $2 between the hooks and the weights. I'm gonna put these in this bottom corner right here. We're actually, look. We put the hooks right there. And then we're gonna drop the weights in there, okay? Boom, boom. So we got two hard-bates hooks, weights. So that's $2, let me say 14, 16 bucks. We have a total of $9 left. So now we gotta choose nine soft plastics out of the five options. Should I go two of each? And then do one of one? One of one of one. Because if I do, if I do two or four of them, that's $8 piece, so you get, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I could do four, four of the baits I could pick two of them. One of them I'm only gonna pick one. Okay, yeah. All right, so personally, I'm gonna go, I love the menace, but I'm gonna have to do it. I'm only gonna go with one menace, okay? So $1 with the menace, and we're gonna get a little close-up shot, man. Look at this. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Fun and dandy. I'd eat it. Looks so good. It's a little bite. All right, I'm telling you, it's gonna be the worst-looking tackle box. It's gonna put them right up there, okay? He needs a little AC up in there, too. A little air conditioning. All right, so that means we're gonna go with two of the rest. We're gonna go with two of the bubblegum worms. Drop them bad boys in the tech box. Then we're gonna go two of the rage swimmers. Two rage swimmers. Drop them down. And with the old brush hog, or the game hog, those are black and blue. Ooh, that one, what did they do? Is it a melt? They've been in my car. Nothing to do with it. Listen, if I'm paying a dollar a pop, boy, I don't wanna have to get some saucy-looking ones. All right, these things are greasy, too, boy. Good thing they smell like coffee. At least they got a good smell to them, all right? Last but not least, this is probably my favorite soft glass I got all of them. Is the rage. I wish you had rage crawls because I love rage crawls, but the rage bug will definitely do. Those are black and blue, man. You know why I don't have rage crawls now? Why? If I had rage crawls, I would use them all. You would take all of them. I probably would, dude. If you had like 100 packs of rage crawls, I actually tried to place a order the other day and I realized that I had 155 packs of rage crawls in my cart and I was like, that might be the one. That's why I can't find any. Maybe that's why I don't have any. That's why others sold out on the website. But yeah, so then we get the two black and blue. And that's it, bro. If there's a $25 tackle box, that's a $25 tackle box, baby. What's your thing? Ooh. What's your thing? $25 tackle box. Except the tackle box is probably not $50. Yeah. We didn't really think about that. Excluding the actual box. Excluding the actual box, okay. Well, there's no tackle box, man. That's what I'm going with today. I do think I might end up catching more fish than you if you're gonna have to find $250 for the baits with seven baits. That's an average of like almost $50 a bait. Yeah, that's, oh gosh. 30 to 50 bucks a bait, bro. All right, let me just hand you this thing. Let's get into these guys. All right, so what's your game plan for this $250 build? We're going into the saucy little secret stash of expensive baits that I have here. This one's got pretty much every bait that I own that's $20 plus in it at the current moment. I don't know how we're gonna catch a fish with this in a pond, but this is a 10XD. This thing I think is like 20, 25 bucks. And you have to fish this thing in like 30 feet of water, but we're fishing like a five foot pond. So that should be fun, but you know, you know. I think you're gonna catch a lot of grass without it. A lot of grass. Just a little, a little bit too much grass. Probably way more grass than bass. Oh yeah. I'm gonna have to take all these out. Come on over. He's got his own compartment. You might need a few tackle boxes for this. Then we have one of my personal favorites as far as like little swim baits go. This is an S-Waver. Great bang for your buck. And this puppy runs you about $20. This is a puppy? Puppy? Puppy? Yeah, look at their puppies. Everybody knows what this bait is. The whopper plopper. Can't go wrong with that. These are a little pricey, but they get the job done. Also, let's call it $20. I think they're like 16 or 18 somewhere in there, but you know, for the sake of thing, making things easy. There we go, spit it out. We'll call it $20. Let's go with a small bait. Most crankbaits are like five bucks, but this one is $25. We got a megabass crankbait. All these things are super expensive, so throw that in there. Did you like have this print before I got here? I feel like people are like, or you don't. This is for all the expense. I told you, it's a secret bait drawer that's got the expensive ones in it. These are the ones I hide from you because every time you come, you just take my lure. So you, yeah, you did have a lock on this when I came. What we got here, Noah asked me if I had a big rat lure and I said, well, I did, and I said, where do you think it is? We have no idea. Well, I stopped at use and went home with them. Moving on to another megabass lure. This is like a funky topwater lure. I've only used this once, but it's like a wake bait with a little propeller. I think this should get the job done today. Like I said to you, my buddy has been catching some really nice ones on topwater in this pond. So hopefully the trend continues today. Then we got two swim baits. This one is another megabass one and this one is like 35, 30-ish bucks. And this thing is super good. I've had a lot of luck with that. I don't think we should have much problem with that. And then finally, but not least, this is a homemade swim bait that one of my subscribers made for me and sent to me. I believe these things are around $100. I could be wrong, but I've had quite a few swim baits sent to me from you guys and I believe this one was a hundred. So we're gonna throw that one in there as well. And this thing is really cool because it's like laser printed and I just like homemade baits. I think they're all unique and I have yet to catch one on this. So hopefully today changes that. Oh, this is a saucy looking box, Fletcher. It's a crazy looking one compared to mine. Mine just looks pitiful. This isn't even right. But I might have the advantage, even though mine is literally like 10% a tenth of the price. So what's the goal here? No, let me ask you that. Are we trying to catch a fish on every bait in the box? Is that what we're going for here? That's our goal, yeah. Just one by one? One by one. Knock them out? Yeah. God, leave it. How am I supposed to catch a fish with this? Listen, you're the one who picked it. You picked it, not me. I don't know what you want. Fair enough. Fair enough. But I will say, I think these are, like you're gonna smoke them. Yeah, I think these three, these are almost set up. Especially the crank bait. Like that's the one normal bait I feel like you got. And then the weight bait, the top order is I think they'll eat it. I haven't top order fished this year. I didn't intend to do this, but this is almost like set up in difficulty trays. Like the easiest, like medium-sized swim baits and then big swim bait and just, the best pond fishing lure, guys. We're probably gonna be the death of you today. I will say though, like these swim baits too, they smoke them. Those are good swim baits. Oh yeah, I like this. I've caught a lot of fish on both of those models too. And then these, you should catch them. That's where it gets a little iffy. That's the little, yeah, but we'll figure it out, right? I'll figure it out. We're gonna go ahead and hop into it, load these tackle boxes in the boat, load the boat in the pond and see what we're gonna get after today. I'm a little worried for Fletcher. What are you doing back there, dude? You came a little bit away. You've been in the gym, man. Just stored the tackle boxes. I've been bench pressing a little bit. This is the new bank fishing set up. Is that the new, oh, that's the new back pack, the big pack that you've been coming out with. I don't understand that. Makes sense. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, we're gonna go ahead and load this in the boat, get out on the pond, see what we can do. I'm hoping we really get on some big ones today. We've got to scale with this too, so I'm hoping we can get like, I don't know, Fletcher, you might have an opportunity to catch a really big fish today. I think we both do, but you... Especially me, I got some big baits. Like, we can talk about how you might not win the challenge today, but you might catch the biggest fish today. That is true. So, let's go ahead and get after it. Hope you guys are enjoying it this far. Hit the like button if you haven't already. You better smash that thing, baby. Let's go ahead and hop into it. Get her a little cleaned up. Yeah, gotta take everything out. That's not these incredibly well-made tackle boxes. I told Fletcher I was like, so should I put the packs of baits in here? And he was like, no, we can't really do that, because I mean, I'm only allowed to spend 25 bucks. So if I lose a bait, then, I mean, it's whatever. Yeah, if you're out of luck. We gotta do what we gotta do. Do you want some bullet weight suffers? Yeah. I'll give you a courtesy. Here's $25 and 25 cents. Make sure you put that in the towel. Alrighty, we just got the boat in the water. Got all flat. Where you running? There he goes. That's the problem. It's getting done. Oh, the blinker? I don't want to come back with a dead battery. Are you ready? Yeah, this float is like to be a girl, dude. This thing just bounces up and down here. You little brawl strap. All right, so we're gonna hop on the boat. We about to get it started. So this pond, I've been to one time with you. Yes. I haven't been to this pond more than once. So I don't know what to really expect. I know there's some really big fish in here. I've had friends catch some monster fish. I've probably fished it maybe six or seven times. It has a ton of fish. A lot of them are small, but recently my buddy's been catching some decent ones and a handful of five, some threes and stuff like that. So I'm hoping that's what we're gonna find today. Just some good, solid, healthy-sized bass. Water's looking clear, too. It is really clear. It's really good. Super clear. Yeah, I like it. And I'm curious to see if we can find some fish on bed today, too, guys. I think there's a bass on bed right there. Bro, he is. I saw that, too. Wait, hold on, wait a minute. Before we even, just don't count, okay? Let me flip this new Hickey here. Dude, if that fish bites with the boat right here, I will be so confused. I already got a Texas rig on my rod, and this is flipper. Flipper on out. Dude, I saw what you, it wasn't, it didn't look like he was big, but I did see like a tail or something new. Oh yeah, there he is. There's two small ones. See him? Oh, dude, there's a lot. Yeah, it's a whole small one. This worm looks good, too. Oh, dude, my legs are killing me. Guys, I've been going to the gym twice a day, once in the morning for cardio, and once a night, and I went, I did some legs last night with Bob, and we just, it was something. Okay. Yeah, there's definitely going to be some bass on bed. I don't think that that's going to be like what we do today. But then again, I think, I think we will catch one on bed. Definitely going to be some, but this water visibility is super clear. That's a bed deep right there, you see that? Look at all these beds, bro. All right, y'all, let's go ahead and get this started. I'm going to dig in my tackle box, figure out what we're going to fish with. I'm actually going to just keep the Texas rig that I have on. I don't think there's a point in cutting it off before we get into this. Yeah. Let's put some stakes on it. All right. I'm thinking winner is to keep all the tackle. All right. All the tackle boxes. So whoever wins, we keep all the baits. I get to keep all your baits if I win. That wasn't a very good deal for me. Never mind, we're loaded. We'll go with it. If I win, I get to keep your rod. I get that KT-Pombo. All right, that's fair. I'll give you two rods. I've been trying to get those, this is a hot commodity. I know, I'll give you two. I'll give you a spinning rod and a bait caster. If you win, if I win, I get to keep the tackle boxes. All right, that sounds like a good deal. Okay, we're doing it. Stakes on the line and winner, we got to catch fish on every bait. I don't know how the heck you're going to throw a dang 30 foot crankbait in here, but I'll leave it to you to... Oh, that's a carp. Oh. There you go, bro. Throw that crankbait in here. You got a snag, is that you? Totally kidding. No, that does not count. That is mean. That is mean. Okay guys, let's hop after it. Yeah, I saw like a really big fish. I'm like, dude, that is like a 10 pound bass. And I was like, oh, that's a 30 pound carp. Yours looks so... All right, just put yours next to mine real quick. Yours looks so much more appealing. Like, if they laid these two next to each other and was like, no, which one would you want? I would definitely choose that. But to catch fish, I don't know. I'll think he out. I think, all right, all right. Big bass, I think that. For sure. But listen, you can catch a big bass on anything. All right guys, we're going to dig in this. Let's figure out what we want to use. I'm going to go with the soft plastic since I have five soft plastics versus two hard baits. And I think the bait that I'm going to start off with today is simple and sweet, just the rage bug, black and blue. I don't feel like I can get wrong with it. So we're going to go ahead and put this on the Texas rig. I'll show you guys exactly how I'm rigging it up. And then once I catch a fish or so on this, I'm going to switch up. I'll probably switch up after the first fish. I don't know, we'll see. So to rig it up, I kind of hopped right into that. I'm going to go through the head of the bait all the way until where the hook bends. And you're going to break the hook through and you're going to push the bait up onto the top of this hook. This is a three-eyed extra wide gap, or actually a four-eyed extra wide gap. And to make sure that this bait lays perfectly flush, you're going to want to lay your bait on the hook and right where the back of this hook is, that's where you're going to want to penetrate the bait. So do that right there and boom. Put our little nose hook into the bait so it's weedless. That is a beautiful little setup right there. And we're going to break this apart so you get the flappers. That's money. What you think, Fletch? Money? I like it. Money, dude. All right. Let's get after it. What am I going to get into first? That is the question. Can you answer, start with topwater? Honestly? Yeah. All right. We're going to go ride for it. My buddy was out here fishing like three or four days ago, said he was smoking them on topwater. And the conditions are definitely different, but hopefully we're still wanting it. We're going to throw this megabass, crazy looking topwater. I don't even know what kind of topwater to call this. I guess it would fall under the, I don't know if it's a prop bait or a wake bait. It's a prop wake. It's a prop wake. That should be good though. Let's go ahead and grab this rod and get this thing tied up. The one advantage I will say as I do get it, look at his little tiny things. Does that count? Oh, it counts. Ooh, the tiniest bass I've ever seen. It has fins, it counts. Whoa. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That one always, always got me in the face. Yeah, that was, that was a close one. Dude, there's some deer running back there. Really? Oh, that's not a deer. That's a golf cart. Dude, I will tell you my imagination saw a little fluffy white tail on that son of a gun. Did not look like a golf cart. Hey, look at that Lamborghini. Yo, it's just a Camry. All right, nevermind. I don't know. That's a fish right there. You see him? I don't need the twig towards the end of the tree. Oh yeah, no, no. That's not a bad fish, dude. Don't want to pay you no business, does it? He's actually sitting on bed, ain't he? Well, yeah, you see him move off. Did he just go, is he looking at me? Things, boy. The ideal bed fish bait. Oh yeah, you see him? That's a good little bass. I'm going to go on his hot spot. Yeah, no, that's, that's cool to see. We found our first bed fish, guys. Look at the dangle, bro. Just imagine. Oh, oh, oh, what's he doing? Yeah, look, look. Oh, oh yeah, he's coming. He's coming. Look, dude, look at this. He is triggered. Oh, you guys. Dude, he's so close to eating it. I just, I'm missing his bed by literally probably eight inches. Bro, that fish is going full. Oh, I was staring at you. Look at that. Top water, baby, let's go. First fish. I thought Noah was for sure going to get it, but. Ready? I'm going to double up with you, dude. Looks like my buddy wasn't lying. Here, he's pissing. Here you go. What am I? Oh, stop. Okay. That's a male. Looks like it's time to switch baits. I think I know what I'm going to. The wapa plapa. But our first fish, not bad. Probably about, what do you want to say? Like two pounds? Yeah. Yeah, two, maybe. High one. High one, one and three-quarter. Get her back in. Thanks, little mama. You know, it's the funniest thing is right when you went- Oh! That fish moved off his bed so fast. I swear he was discerning, dude. I swear. I'm going to let Noah have a shot at that bedding fish while I change baits. Going to the plot. Right on his little spot, too. He should pull up on that. He just sees us. Oh, here we go. He didn't like that. Yep, I'm on your spot. Yeah, here he goes, Fletcher. Here he goes. Yeah, he's not using his nose on me. Here he goes. He's about to eat it. But this would be the wrong time to ask you for the scissors right to your left. Look at him, dude. I really need those scissors over there, right? Thank you. Bro, I can't believe he did eat me right there, bro. He's just nose. He's a little squeaky. Oh! Fletcher, watch this. He's going to eat it right here, watch. Oh, dude, he's chasing back to the boat. That's not what I wanted, buddy. Oh, he's doing a big circle. Look, look, he's coming out of the blue. Look, he's so mad. It's crazy how he went from being so calm to just. How triggered he could be when I heard his whopper plopper in there, and he just spanks it. I got him brewed up for it, honestly. All right, guys, let's see what else we can put on to entice this bass, because he's 100% going to eat. It's just he is being a little weird. So we are going to take this rage bug off. We're going to put it back on here in a little bit. And I think what I'm going to do, Fletcher, I'm going to put on a. Pink worm? Yeah. That's what I was thinking. I think this pink worm is going to irritate him. He's going to see this flop in there, and I think it's going to be. Wouldn't that be cool to see, though? Switch up the bait, and then. Like, just get that immediate reaction strike you're looking for? Yeah. I'll be able to see that a little better, too. See this? I can kind of hit. Make that tail move more. Look at him coming up on it. I don't see him. Oh. Oh. Like, for you to pop a bait like that in front of a fish's mouth. Like, look how. He's literally sniffing it, bro. Oh, he's got it, he's got it. Oh, that's it. Yeah. Dude, that was awesome. Let's go. Yeah, it's like a two pounder. He's not three. Didn't he look a lot bigger in the water right there? I think so. That was the most stubborn bedfish I've seen in a very long time. The pink worm did it, though. Old bubble gum ski. Boom. You got a top order off the list. I got the pink worm off the list. Hey, that was cool. That was probably the most stubborn bedfish I've ever seen. Can you agree with me that that fish looked so much bigger in the water? That fish looked like it was at least three and a half pounds in the water. Why did he look that big? And he's not even two pounds. He might be two pounds if we're lucky, but he's not over that. Wow. Well, buddy, thank you for biting. We had to work on you for a minute to get the old bubble gum magic on you. Ooh. What'd you do? I don't know what he was doing. He was like biting my hand. Thank you, baby. Oh. Yeah, that fish looked so much bigger in the water. We'll get her go right back on her bed. Look at that. Show that to the camera flash. She just went out. Let's see. I got my first fish. You got your first fish. I guess we're going to keep on fishing now. We did find a bedfish, though. When we first got here, yeah, look at her on bed now. Oh, yeah. What if I just knocked out every one of my lures on this one fish? I don't think it's possible. Not without stubbornness. Why did she look so big in the water? I don't know. I am confused on that, because if I had to a guess, bro, I would have promised you that was between two and a half and three times. Oh, that's funny. All right, let's keep on moving. Let's see what else we can do. Y'all, since we got the bubble gum trick wearing them out of the way, I think that was a good choice, because I feel like the other Texas rigs, I could fish more like a Texas rig. This might have been a harder bait to fish on. So to use that for the bedfish was pretty cool. And to catch the first, my first fish today on bed was very exciting. So let's see what else we got. I might end up putting that rage bug back on, to be honest with y'all. That's what I think we're gonna do. I'm gonna go right back to the rage bug where we started and see if we can knock this puppy out. But the switch in the baits did entice the bite. I really do believe that. I think that fish was bound to eat this either way. For sure. But I do think the bubble gum worm kind of definitely sped up the process. Yeah, it definitely made him a little irritated with it. So that's a bonus. One thing that's making me feel confident is that at least I'm gonna get the first cast on a lot of this stuff. I think there's gonna be a way more interest in those soft plastics. But, hey, you know. It's all a little flash in there. I mean, I've gotten two bites on top water. That makes me feel good. Probably, I only got more bites. Oh! Dude, I got way too excited. Bro, I didn't know what was happening right there. I just need to go, and I look around and I just see a flash of this fish. Dude, that was actually really cool. That go first a little bit sweet. I hope you guys saw that. That was freaking crazy. That bad boy came out of nowhere, bro. All I did was I did this. This thing, I didn't really like jacking. Jack them good. He came out of nowhere, though. Like he didn't follow me in from there. He came out like this direction. It was almost like it was one of your followers or something. Yeah. Like he came this way. He probably followed us out, honestly. He could have followed your plopper out and just saw this thing and was like, I'm going to eat it. I think we're just on the dud end of the lake or they're on that bank. Yeah, what do they do? I feel like that grass thing is just going to happen for some reason. It's just going to be different. Yeah, the laydown's not the trick right now for some reason, but it'll be one up in that. Son of a gun, I'm going to get you, man. I saw that also. I thought I'd just scare you for a second, then. Fletcher, we got a problem. I ripped my bait, dude. Oh, boy. I ripped my bait. Dude, that was my first bite in a minute. Did you get two of those? Did you break two of those? Yeah, I did, so I'm lucky. All right, save the other one because you might be having the lucky one. That's what I'm saying. It's a half-bro's bait to finish this challenge. Listen, I paid a dollar for pop, so we got to conserve these puggies. Oop. There it is. That was a dang big one. Did you see how big he was? That was about a fourth pounder. Oh, really? He ate it way off, though, yeah. Yeah? Really, was it? No, seriously. That was a dang big one. Dude, she was huge. Did you not get an eye on her when she came up? I saw like a splat, I didn't get a good look. Bro, that fish was every bit of four. Like, just, just, just, yeah. God, look at this wind. I'm like curious, because I was so far off that bank, too, man. Yeah, that could be off. Oh, really, dude? Oh, that's like a sixth pounder. Fletcher, do you have a swim bait? No, you don't have a swim bait. You have to swim, just do it, just do it. I'll do it, just drop it. I'm just gonna let this fish fight, dude. If you could somehow, did you see how big that one was with him? Come on, that one was big. That was a really big fish. Dude, all right, I'm gonna bring this fish up. We, me and Ryan did this, dude. I don't see him anymore. I think we lost him. Gosh, that fish was every bit of five, six pounds. Why did this little squirt have to bite? Dang, dude. That was a freaking big one. It's crazy how, I guess our prediction was right when we were on the other side. It just wasn't it. I mean, that was my first cast on this side of the place. Wow. Ragebug off the list now. I wish I would have caught that big and went, that was a huge girth, man. She has some, some cheeks on her. Oh yeah, let's go. That's a better one. Stay on, stay on, stay on. He's not hooked that well. Gosh, he just nipped it, dude. Just came up and gave it a little chef's kiss. Okay. He wasn't lying about this side of the pond. Knocks off another bait. The one thing I realized about you, you don't have to freaking retie every time. I am going to put on a hard bait. Okay. I do want to flip the same bait back in there. How many bites have we just, oh. Did you get another one? Oh, they're floating. Yes. I could have put on some melts and knocked it out, but I mean, oh, all right. Well, they buying, they buying. Wow. Have your day flop around. Look at his gills, dude. Well, Fletch, we got to double up. There we go. Definitely fatter. That's a good fish. I know. Look at that belly. Got a little chunk. They were all in the same spot. Of course we caught all the ones that weren't the big, big ones. That's really good fish, dude. That's sweet. Well, we both knocked off two baits off the list. Now it's time for me to switch up, guys. I'm going to actually go, I know I was saying I'm going to go with a hard bait, but I'm going to go with a little soft bait here. Just because I feel like there's so many. How can you not? You're loaded. Yeah, that's swine bait. I think you're going to get a big one on, dude. After seeing that big one follow me up and me losing that other one, the big ones are in here biting. Question. This is not the S-Waver in my box. You can use it. Can I use this one? Yeah, you can use it. Is that fair play? That is fair play. All right. That color does look a lot better. Yeah, I like the colors. Well, guys, I'm going to put on a little black and blue brush hog. That's what we're going with next for our next bait of choice. And then I'm probably going to go with a hard bait after. I'm not sure. I found a lot of fish in this one corner. So I'm just like, I think there's more in here. Dude, you might. I bet you that big one might just a lot of gun right back in there. You might be able to catch a big one on there. That's going to be crazy. I'm back lost my reel somehow. Oh, God, dude. Same spot. Oh my gosh. I'm the dude. You're in the same challenge, bro. This spot is cracked. Oh, golly. You didn't even talk about you tying it on. No, I mean, I asked you if I could use this one. So I didn't retie. I just picked up the one that was on here. One cast with the with the S way. It's all it took. What is going on? Got it out, but she came up and just crushed that thing right away. It hit the surface. I just saw like a dark shadow go across one of those trees that's lit up by the sun and just bam. Just sucked it in. She did what one more time? She just bam sucked it in. Let's get another bait tied on. We are one cast and done. You can't beat that. Let's bust this open and get on to our next bait. No, what do you think I should go with? I'm going to let you make the call here. Let me pick. This is knocked out. All right. I feel like you're definitely probably going to save these two for last. Probably. All right. I'd say go with the crank bait. All right. We'll go crank. We'll go crank. Something different. You'll definitely smoke one on that. That was like the one bait in the box that you felt was like going to get chomped. I don't know, man, but this one day game might be popping the day. Remember the last time we came out here, all they wanted were big baits? I think I've ever thrown a crank bait on a 7.6 heavy, but we're going for it. I did not break the tackle for this. Oh, oh no. I want that KTV combo, man. Come on. Oh, there we go. Got him. Noah's too busy talking on the phone back there while I'm running away with the lead. He ain't got nothing on this. I ain't sleeping on you. You missed one a second ago, too. Oh my gosh. I'm one of my three baits away. I know. Better watch out, son. There we go. Let's go ahead and put her back in. Noah's going to need to catch some fish fast if he wants a shot. I think there's only one sensible option right now, and that is going to be this bluegill swim bait. The bass really like bluegill this time of year, or I shouldn't say like they hate them with a passion because they get on their beds and whatnot. So they definitely do not like these guys this time of year, so they definitely eat them. That feels like a decent one. Oh yeah, that's a good one, dude. That's one of the better ones over there. Yeah, that's a three pounder. Bro, on that little isolated lay down right there. He, you know what's funny is he bit it like a little small one, dude. He just went tick, tick. Wow. That's a good three pounder. Yeah, buddy. She got any girts, dude? Get your own up here, girt. She got a little thickness. Yeah. She got a little fish, eh? She's not spawned out, but, you know, she's definitely, she's definitely got some size. She's a little thick girl, a thick booty girl. Thick and then a snicker. Dude, that's a nice little fish though. I'm telling you, I bit it like the smallest little bass though. It's like a little tick, tick. It wasn't nothing crazy. You know, the big ones sometimes they one hit it. That one is like tick, tick, tick. Dude, if there's a healthy fish, that's a healthy fish. Oh yeah. It's all pretty, that thing is. Colors are just coming out nice. Thank you, baby. Well, I got three baits off the list. You're on bait number five. I'm on bait number four. So I got some catching up. Oh yeah. I forgot I had a two bait lead. Yeah, you got a two bait lead off of your first bait. So I am not casting back in until I have a lot of luck. That was my biggest regret tonight. Four fish on that rage bug, bro. I was just, I was thinking in my head because I had that fish that came up and I played with it. Yeah. Then I lost this two by the dock and then I caught an extra one on it. If I lose today, it was my choices, bro. Guess what I'm going with? Deep popper. Deep popper. I'm going to catch eat topwater. I think this is my first topwater fish of the year too. You got the skizzers. We are finally going to stop fishing the Texas rig for a minute. Just for a moment, we got to go back to it. Yeah, we're going to fish with a topwater right here. A little plopper or a popper and see if we can get one to pull on it. I bet you there's another fish on that tree, Fletcher. Got to be. That's probably where that fish came from. Did it fry on there next to the stick? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh my goodness. That looks so good, bro. Something about topwater, it's been too long, man. You go on that half-year break of topwater and then you come back and then you throw a couple casts. It's like, oh my goodness. And I'm kind of excited about this guys because I haven't got to throw a moving bait today and they have been spanking it. That is a tree, bro. Golly. That is a tree and a hat. You can take the tree off if you need it for this. I know. I know. I just told myself that I was going to switch out to one of these but even these trees look so good. Yeah, I think you got a career as a jingle rider, man. Oh, I had a follower. Dude, that's what I need to be playing more with my Texas rig and to drop it down. Oh, oh god, did you see that? Got a little Dincasaurus came out and popped my thing. Will he pop my poppin'? No. He'll pop that popper all right. Got a little rip rat back there. Poppin' action. The little pop pop. The middle of these shoes, I've never seen it. It was hidden with it. Dude, that, that was amazing. Amazing. Can't make it up. In this perfect timing because I got to get my Texas rig back on, boys. Look at that little, little male action. Okay, and that's my first top water fish of the year, guys. How exciting. We are tied up. We are tied up, Fletcher. I'm coming back for you. Pretty fish. Beautiful markings on these bass too, man. So guys, we're going right back to the Texas rig that quick because these lay downs right here look so saucy and I think this is my opportunity. I got that swim bait. I got the menace and I got the trap. So I got three baits left, just like you got three. So you got another one? Yeah, dude, they're following this thing like crazy. Texas rig menace. And we'll see if we can knock her out real quick and take the lead me and Fletcher tied on. Number of baits we caught fish on, which is just crazy. I thought that they would eat a Texas rig or plastic a little better today. I think moving baits honestly been pretty productive. Off through that popper, less than anything I've thrown today. And I was kind of excited to throw it. It happened way too quick, but I am fine with that. I like want to put it back on, dude. Like I'm not pleased with that, like top water. What was that? A little whipper snapper eat my. Dude, he is fighting so good too. He was way off the bank. Way off? Yeah. Like he was out in the middle, dude. He bumped that thing so good. Oh, look at that fish, bro. Oh, that one's a fatty. That one's built different. That is a fatty. Committed to. I know. Fletcher, I hate to say it, dude. But I just took the lead. Yeah, we got to bite it the exact same time. I like, I heard your rod go up as I set my hook. Really? And my fish is big and clean. Oh, man. Well, I'm just about done, dude. I'm getting there. I think I'm going to switch up to the swim bait now, guys. We got the menace all the way. I think it is time to retire the Texas rig. And we're going to put a swim bait on for the rest of the day. Or actually, no, no, no. I got a swim bait and I also got a, I got a lipless. So I got to do. So I'm going to head of yourself over there. Hey, boy. What's that? I'm going to head of yourself over there, boy. Literally, guys, two moving baits. And we got the duck. That's all we got to do. Buster's still on two swim baits and a big crank. So we got the lead slightly, but we still got to keep going. I'm just glad to get the little soft plastics out of the way and get to play around here a little bit. Some casting action. Yeah, it was awkward. Yeah. And that pine straw hit the shit out of you. Uh-oh. You got one. Yeah, dude. Oh, man. That was a cool little bite. I hit off that tree doing this. I hate to break it to you, Fletcher. But I am, once I get my hands on this puppy, I'm down to one lure, buddy. Out of all the swim baits, this is the one I had the most confidence in. I know. I was thinking the same thing. And I've had, oh, I'm still in it. I'm still in it. I'm still in it. I'm still in it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I'll watch that, dude. I was just looking at your bait when you were talking. Wow. Look at that, dude. Double up again. Hey, give me some. Give me some. Wow. Tail. Tail. Tail. Swipe. Dude, that was cool. She crushed. That was the best hit I've got all day, too. That was a cool bite. She ate it good. Yeah. She ate it real good. What am I doing? Am I doing it to myself? Yeah, you're fishing. I am. I am. All right. It's not. Oh, golly. Golly. God, dude. She about ripped my dang thumb off. I was trying to put you in nicely. I was going to say I'm going to put you back quick because I got to get another lure on my line because that was pulling away right now. I got two to go. And one absolutely absurd bait, but I think we're going to try this little homemade newer next and see if we can get that done. Well, y'all, it is the time we have been waiting for. We are down to the last lure that I got to catch until I own all of these lures. No, but no, sir. Oh, that was the deal. I mean, it's cute that you think you're going to win. I mean, listen, I'm a cast away, buddy. What if I was through my next cast and it was all over and one cast away. And this is a pretty looking color. I'll tell you, boys, look at that sexy dog. Ow! I want to see if I can catch me fish all roaming out here. I got to get a bit of wind action. Let's see what we can do. That one lure right up in my downfall. But this is like the hot zone, dude. Like this little choke point, all these fish are stacked up in here. Literally. I can beam this sucker a mile. Oh, there's one in there. He came off that bed. I thought it was a fish and then I looked away. Oh, he's pissed, too. That fish is pissed. You don't punch swimbaits? There's two. There's a male and a female. You don't punch swimbaits, dude? I bet you can get the nastiest thing in the world over there. Bro, if you pull this off, I don't even know what to say. Put me in the hallway. There is a male and a female in there. Yeah, I thought I saw two. He's one right off here. See what I'm saying? Yeah, I'm looking at it. I think he's off right there. You got him. You got him, bro. No, he's straight. He ate the top of it. He ate the top of it. He ate the top of it. Oh my gosh. He grabbed it this way. I honestly think you can get one of these fish on there. Yeah. That was nutty. They're both there. They're both sitting in that dark spot. That was nutty. They're both sitting there. This is you. All you. Always going to turn back around on it, dude. Oh, he's. No, no, no. He just hit the nose of it. He hit like the line. He hit it, and you could see the nose go down. All right, I'm just going to watch this. Just going to watch it play out. I think you're going to actually get one of these. Oh, me too. You're going to have an opportunity that's right here. I was about to try to sit. I'll take a piss if I get it. All right, a ride on the black stuff. Yeah, he's pulling up. You see him right there? He's looking at you. See on the right side? Yeah, he's about to come up to you right now. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes. Oh, get out, get out, get out. No, on the tree. I'm going to kiss you. Oh, that makes me mad. Oh my gosh. That was the perfect wrap around for him to... Oh, dang. I had one, guys. That is unfortunate. That's not... Gosh, on the big swim bait. Yeah, right when I saw him wrap around that tree, I was hoping you were going to be able to get him out. Yeah, dang. That is a try one more time. Yeah, I never had to leave it alone for a minute. Well, you can do it. Get it in the tree. No way, bro. You got one? Oh, my. It's a freaking good one. Good one? Or, oh, I guess this is the... Troll, I'm ready. Oh, my gosh. Dude, I was trolling. I was like, I'm not giving up. Hey, we were literally going to a different pod just because we... And the challenge is complete. Does that count? Does that count? I think that counts. I think that counts. Did you touch him? Wow, I did not touch him. Does it count? Maybe? I don't... I think we can count it. I think we can count it. What a freaking... Challenge, dude. This was a day and a half, guys. This was a... We had a slow start, and then all of a sudden, we started smoking them, and then it was just a hassle. Like, what would you say, the last two and a half hours have just been pain? Yeah, a grind, to say the least. And Fletcher, he worked all the way up to that big swim bait. He still had the big swim bait and the big crank. Honestly, we called that, dude. We called that at the beginning. You'd make it up about that far, but that's where it was going to get interesting. The thing is, I had one, and... You had one on that freaking big swim bait, and he just happened to come off. But, man, what a video, guys. If you enjoyed it, hit the like button. Check out Fletcher's channel down below. Hit the subscribe button if you guys are new to the channel. We had a good time doing this challenge. I don't film many challenges anymore, but if you guys want to see some more like this, let your boy know. We'll make sure to do it. If you guys want to check out some of the kicking their bass combos on the website, kickingthebass.com, and I will catch y'all in the next episode.