 Good morning and welcome on back to the channel everybody today. We are going fishing there girls. Oh easy easy their puff Taking out of the straight basket leftover oats grapes apples bell peppers bell peppers are really good for their immune system by the way Sandwich bread ends that any doesn't like to eat leftover broccoli and looks like some I don't know random stuff in there. They like it We're gonna go try to conquer some winter bass today y'all, you know my last trip out fish for smallmouth really deep very tough conditions We're gonna go after some largemouth today. I'm gonna try to fish riprap shallow riprap, which is a great great technique That is relevant all over the place any type of shoreline rock You know it typically holds some heat during Well sunny winter days, so the bass will kind of scoot up there bait fish will scoot up there get a little heat Mid to late day, you know the mornings are really cold. This is a big Public lake around the Metroplex area where I live We've had just brutal winds 30 to 40 mile an hour winds last couple days. It should be calm now Sun's coming out. It's gonna be decent conditions So we're gonna go try to catch some fish on that riprap But we're gonna keep some other things in the arsenal ready to go because bass fishing is bass fishing and they never read the rule books, so let's get it On the water and our water temp is 4.6 No, over there is just a massive long stretch of riprap Okay, under the bridge we go Definitely some fish sitting here under the bridge interesting Gonna have some bridge noise here. Apologize This is the grande clutch gonna get a little more distance on her cast with it It's like we got some brush out here. No one might snag this thing up Very much fast Yep, yep, we sure did may have to switch up my tactic here if I keep getting snag, but Stuff right here looks really nice Wow, okay, this is staying out of the rocks much better Fill on bumping it, but I'm not getting hung in it Can't get bit y'all. It's extremely loud right here. I apologize This looks like a good little pinch point There's shad that are moving through under this bridge these all these bridges out here the shad move through and I'm seeing these Good-looking size bass that are following these shad. They're just on the move You know I tied on them an underspin a deep underspin try to get down there I haven't got bit went down to the net rig y'all went down to the rattle of net Fish doubt doubt doubt down there fish it on the drop off Can't get bit so I'm gonna leave this area. I'm gonna abandon the riprap thing I just kind of get I got to get out of it for a second and see if there's there's any hope anywhere else It is an absolute grind But I'm not giving up. So let's pull this troll motor up. Let's get on the Merc Let's go find some dadgum bass Come on, man. Come on Hooked up Shallow shallow rock. That's a cold one Barely hooked on the seven eight ounce Nice healthy fish right there Cold lips. All right y'all. We're gonna let that one go. I Hope it's not the only one I catch today Go back into the shallows warm up get those red lips Nice and ready to get another crawfish first bite and it's like One o'clock it's warmed up a little bit, which is good You know, I always say like midday later in the day is better in the winter Obviously because the water is gonna warm up. I've come into an area. I fished all like deep deep areas or close to deep water With riprap I came in to an area that's got shallower rock deepest around here is like 15 20 foot And there's no shad less than 20 feet of water that I've seen so they're gonna be feeding on bluegill crawfish in this area And that and that fish was literally in like two feet of water. Good sign. We're gonna keep cranking in here I'm gonna definitely throw a jig around slow my roll and try to pick up some bites Come on the old big face. Oh my gosh. No, he came off, but I had him He was in as a dirt Saw his tail He wouldn't he wouldn't giant dang Oh Dang you want to get every single one you can when it's like this He hit it and then just sat there and I had to check him and when I lift it up he bit it again, so he could have been in the process of Kind of spitting it out. I love to fish lakes with grass in the winter because of that reason the grass warms up Just like rocks will this lake is not a grass lake. It just has some shoreline grass with a very very few patches that are like that vegetation will warm up and It'll attract those bass Sit next to it like a warm blanket I'm gonna jerk bait slid off a little slow on the GoPro. Oh, I think just load it up Feel the head shakes Coming man Let my drag set and everything That was a toad One thing on this this new GoPro You have to turn it on Let it sit for like 30 seconds before you start recording or it'll get like really bad audio pops Notice that when I was deer hunting, so Not not good on the quick capture for bass fishing doesn't matter. I didn't catch him anyways, but that thing was pulling All right, I've had three bites on three different baits two of them come off and the the one I landed was barely hooked so Needless to say I don't think the bite is very strong. I'm not gonna lie to you guys I wanted to make an entire video for y'all About fishing that riprap because there's a ton of lakes that have it and a ton of side waterways that have it as well And it's a good winter technique. It was just tough and that's why I'm out here today I want to see why or how the pond is fishing. It's gonna be colder at night out here The water temperatures are gonna be colder, but it might be a little bit warmer during the day And this is more of a likely scenario that anyone can go and fish You know, this is basically pond fishing vague fishing in the winter time I grew up doing this and I love the fact that this pond out here has shoreline vegetation That's gonna hold a little bit of heat It gives a blue gill and things something to hide in I will tell you guys any any kind of body water That has grass in it can have year-round shallow water fishing Let's just get down to the water and start fishing where we got two hours of daylight Plenty of time to get some bass in the warmest part of the day. And yes, I do realize I have a bandana on my head I've never really worn one on this channel sides up one time. I was deer hunting out here It's it's literally to keep the hair under control during windy conditions. Okay, it's a hair compensator I need to cut it. It's about time. I was trying to go for Casey off Yellowstone Make the wife go wild, but it's beyond that point now She says it's unattractive. So that's rough right there y'all. Look at that. There's just tracks beyond belief There's a lot of cows down there for some dogs getting up off the water. Oh Man, there's Cormorants in here. That is not good. I've never seen them in here Guys need to get the heck out of here Just so you guys know Not much you can do about it because these birds protected but this this one flying in that's a Cormorant They're federal federal really protected and they eat their weight in fish like every day But it's absolutely terrible to have an upon like this and that's very disappointing To see you in here you Sucker if they were legal to shoot I'd blast every single one of them that was on this lease, but They're not so we're just gonna have to Leave them be Grab our money bag. I've also got another box full of goodies Gotta get past a little Bertha here Excuse me Come to get my dangle on So what am I gonna start out with? Get the heck out of here Cormorants Go away never come back Folks it is hard to beat a half-ounce spinner bait anywhere in the country winter through early spring Same thing with this right here. This is in a three-eighths ounce, but this is the clickbait I'm gonna show you guys something here on this in a second Some feedback that we've gotten some people from people and I've played around with this bait a lot So I know how to tune this so we get into that here in a second. There are bluegill in here and Just want to slow This bait down in the winter. So that's why I like to go with the three-eighths Pretty decent there. I just want to be able to roll it Slowly through here Pretty good. I'm gonna show you guys something right now. So This is actually a some feedback that we've gotten from people that this bait brides up and What happens that you have to tune this like a spinner bait If you want to maintain that that neutral depth What happens here if you Get snagged at a log or something like that or you know boat flip a fish This wire will bend forward and what that does is changes this blade angle and it'll make it lift You can bend this backwards and you can get it to go a little bit deeper Or stay neutral whatever you want, but if you're fishing shallow grass like I am right here I just bent that out a little bit and it's it's gonna add a little lift and You can use that to slow your bait down So the more lift it has the slower you can go without it hitting the bottom and with this water being really cold I need to do that. So I want to add just a little bit of lift and when you're fishing a vibrating jig and Around vegetation like this if you feel it start to sock up like get wrapped around something Just give a quick pop like that And it'll usually clear it off and you can continue fishing the bait Well, I just noticed something where I'm standing. This is a very bad sign There is bluegill Just on the bank right here, and I'm guessing that it got so cold That they could barely move there's one next to the water. I'm just deducing this Looks like they've been stabbed This is so stupid see this is the Cormorant poop right here, and you can see the bluegill sitting right next to it This is what these bass are feeding on. This is the forage And you can see like they've just discarded them like they just chomp chomp chomp There's another area with some poop. They just chomp everything. They're just fish massacres That's what we're dealing with there folks Really sucks There's a cold big bass. Oh, at least you're fat Tasty cakes Spinner bait fish look at that hook just falling right out that fish is cold cold cold y'all So there we go. That's like a three and a half pounder put that fish in the water Give you a little more water there bud. Shake it off. Shake it off. You got it Mouth is on a root right there. It'll get its bearings here in a second Other way other way turn back around let me help you Sinar Sally you want to warm up? I'm gonna get that warm water. There she goes. Let me give you the replay I'm running out of GoPro batteries. I'm having to conserve Got in a little green stuff over here Most of it's dead so I can I could run this spinner bait through the little thicker grass, but I I got a bump and Saw a boil so I was rolling it through Right here. Just keeping my rod to pie And I got a like a just a slight bump and I could see a boil and I threw back in there again And that fish grabbed it ever so slightly Super subtle light bite But I can already tell you the bites The bites are going to be similar to what they were on the lake just Few and far between Wood is another thing that holds heat in the winter. We're gonna get back in there on that wood over there We're gonna do some flipping Behind the scenes action I am trying like crazy to do Something to help you guys wintertime Techniques the stuff I'm talking about is not BS. It's just Dude, it's tough. It is really tough right now. This early part of the year is just It's not for the faint of heart It's where you grind you earned your you earn your points up and then spring when it turns on You're already dialed we're catching Mondos it's like pregame, but there's some suffrage to be had Lake versus pond, you know, I could break it the advantage of the pond is you can break it down a lot faster So you can identify what's going on a lot faster because you have less water And lakes you got, you know 40 feet of water out there. They could be on deep creek channels There's a lot of different options and here There's not as many options. So I'm gonna walk my my happy little butt over there And I'm gonna attempt to get me a wintertime flipping bass dedication to the bug right now vegetation like this Makes it hard to fish jigs a lot of times the heads get caught in the grass Sometimes you have to this is the method you have to go with Come on right on the tree Please don't get hung in that thing. Oh, there he is right there. He's got it The piece of the tree He ran out He ran out and he caught up to my slack that coming man. This could be why this fishing is just Cancer right now Look at that. Look at these little guys Just a lot of blue go even the bit this big one right here died That's not good. Probably lost some small bass as well bummer cakes Take it as a sign from God that when the fish are just dead on the shoreline Probably a good idea to just turn around You know on the last 24 48 hours 36 hours will say I I have fished Hard I have gone hard. I've I fished pretty much all day on a lake Did everything I knew to do from deep water to shallow water and I come out here Expecting it to be a little bit better and I get two bites. I mean, it's it's right on par With the lake fishing but over here the water sound is deep and the fish I guess because it was so cold died It's never good dove hot action Think it's still winter dove season, maybe not probably not wouldn't be legal anyways I think that's why the Comorants were here is because there were dead bluegill and probably some small bass All over the bank and they just scooped them up But today's just a display of heart the harsh reality of winter bass fishing. I'm not gonna lie I wanted to bring you guys some awesome winter fishing tips I feel like I gave you guys some decent stuff here today, but it's not backed up with any fish catches, you know and These are the type videos where I debate like not even putting them out, but I also want to show The reality of it. So I'm posting it. I also want to end today's program on another sad note It was brought to my attention The other day that a Fishing mentor of mine when I started getting into pro fishing and guiding died He passed away his name was mark pack and he was one of the founders at Lake Fork trophy lures and One of the best guides at Lake Fork and really when I got out there and started fishing He was one of the guides that that helped me and showed me the general patterns helped me break down the lake and showed me areas of the lake and Lures to depend on to catch fish and and really jig fishing he amplified my jig fishing as a young angler and he he's a he's a legendary I'll just say angler period. I was gonna say legendary Texas angler, but he's a legendary angler period rest in peace brother Thank you for the help mark pack And I know a lot of you guys in Texas have heard of him There's big shoes to fill for for losing a great angler like mark pack So I just want to give a shout out to him many of you that that are watching this video right now are Dedicated hardcore anglers and are going to dedicate your craft To be like mark pack someday. So that's a good thing That is a good note that we will end on about this is making all these videos throughout the years And just watching the sport grow as much as it has I'm just watching some amazing young anglers come up and I know some of y'all are watching Right now. So keep doing what you're doing. Don't get discouraged by harsh winter fishing like I am right now Take this time to hone your craft. Anyways guys Thank you as always for tuning in. I'm gonna look forward to this spring I got a feeder I'm gonna put out here and get some of these bluegill fattened up and hopefully get some some monster bass going in here But I'm gonna wait for it to warm up a little bit before we give it another dangle out here Y'all I'm signing off for today. God bless you. I'll see you soon