 to the channel y'all. We're gonna hit the water today, fish a deep summer, I'm doing something different just like a three hour session and I'm just trying to catch everything but I'm gonna focus on a few key ways that I like to catch them. It's really hot in the summertime and I'm filming today's video a little different. Please let me know in the comments if you like it, if you want me to do more of that style. It's something I used to do a long time ago. I think it helps explain things really well. When you're done checking out today's dangle, do me a favor go over to googinsquad.com, do a little shopping. Maybe get some new apparel. We've got brand new styles, designs you've never seen in fishing wear. I mean it's just completely different designs, a lot of really cool stuff. It's so hot right now, I wear these things just about every day. Those are the new polos, you know, if I'm going out or something and the hats. I don't even wear a Richardson style hat anymore which you know it's that's cool if you want to wear those but this right here it's a little floppy, super comfortable, non-constricting, and a stylish. So use that code L-A-G, same temperature at all. Alright let's get out on the water and let's give it a day. Alright we're gonna switch it up a little bit today. Filming wise. So today we're on the hunt for some schoolers, some schooling fish, hopefully some white bass. Pop it at the surface, that's always fun. Maybe a large mouth or two in the mix. Looking for birds right now, birds diving on shad and just any surface pops keeping the ears open. Okay we have got just a wad of these puppies. Wads waiting to come to the surface, they just need a reason. It's a little white bass. They pushed the shad up, there's one that just popped. They pushed these shad up on this little shelf here. Like out over 40 foot of water then it comes up to about 15 and they're just running these things all over the place. Just want you to bite my toppy. Just want a little toppy pop. This is a good opportunity for like a big spook as well, something that will get these fish like get larger bass too to bring them all the way up to the top. So I never discount that. I mean when I'm out on the lake I'm thinking how can I catch everything. Everything that's happening. You know the big main predator species, white bass, striper, crappie and large mouth. The bass jawed. The big jawed things. Large white bass. Big old spoon. You know the main difference between large mouth and white bass doing this is the bass will typically be on some sort of structure. They'll be over a point on top of a hump. Yeah maybe it's something just subtle but a white bass will just chase the shad all over the lake. They really have no relation to the cover at all. They're just pelagic. Later in the summer largemouth will do that sometimes where they get less related to this the structure and start to chase the shad and spotted bass are really prone to doing that. They do that a lot but typically largemouth is going to like some sort of contour. If you just if you notice where schooling is happening and you look at the map you will most likely see there's some a ledge right there or there's you know a long extended point. Something of that effect that's holding that largemouth there. I'm gonna make a move. I don't like their popping frequency. I need mass poppings. All righty it is 8.45 in the morning. We don't have that low light top water action. Unfortunately we're probably gonna get a little bit of a I don't know random schoolings you know that pop up. It's just that time of year they push shad up random times during the day. I really appreciate that. Except for spring I usually have some sort of spoon tied on because I'm always trying to catch whatever is biting. You know I'm always trying to go after the striper the white bass the largemouth the croppy whatever and a spoon just represents a shad and it's one of the easiest lures to fish and this time of year through the fall it just really excels and the reason why in my opinion is because it's so effective at getting to the fish. Right now I've got a flutter spoon tied on. A flutter spoon is different than a jigging spoon. The way that it's shaped it's got like a cupped you know typical of like a spoon you would eat with at the end and it makes it fall so oh wow full-blown carp. Carp mode right there. These flutter spoons they fall very erratically and you'll miss a ton of fish on these. You'll feel a fish trying to eat it and chase it. It's just so erratic that they usually have trouble. Well man them trying to eat it is such a fun bite but it just gets down into that zone of you know 20 25 foot where throwing a crankbait is it's very difficult to get everything perfect and get it in that zone and get that right trajectory where it's going to get down in that depth and meet so a spoon it just goes right down there. A jigging spoon more so than a flutter spoon but the flutter spoon will get down there easier than a crankbait in my opinion and when you have semi stained all way up to clear water a spoon just really excels. When I'm throwing at a bank like I'm looking at some sort of contour or structure like a long point something that nature or a ledge I'll get out the spoon and I'll throw it and I'll work it down and I'll just wait for it to hit the bottom and a spoon is really you know you're ripping it up like three or four feet but instead of doing this with the rod I just use my reel and I reel pretty fast four or five cranks get that bait to come you know three to five foot off the bottom and you really want to pay attention when it's hitting because if it hits and settles you're gonna get snagged so as soon as your line goes slack you want to just reel and I'll just keep my rod at a you know 45 out here and wait for that doink to happen stuck on the bottom per second but you will be surprised at what you catch on spoons you'll catch everything catch everything from catfish crappie white bass largemouth catch them all ah alright well as we'll show you guys how to get these things unstuck oh my gosh I'm watching a gizzard shad get blown up right now holy cow large mouth it looks like large mouth just pushed some shad up on top of this little shelf over here so you definitely don't want to set the hook into these things like I did thinking it was a fish you just want to get over top of it and shake it it acts as its own lure knocker because it's so heavy I'm not sure what I have here I've got a rock or a stick or a rope don't know but I got it back man really need some sort of walking bait to add to this equation right now just got to do it I'm gonna get out of walking bait it's not not ours because I needed to make a ton of noise and be very loud right now through the fall is when I like to have some sort of aggressive walking bait tied on and I really like I like to popper style bait more in the spring but like our our hound is a good bait I like it in real calm conditions but when it's a little choppy like this I like to have something that is really easy to get to smash back and forth and overcome those little little bits of chop and just it's this is overly aggressive for shallow calm water but it's perfect for these big open water conditions especially we were stained your stained water like I just saw a large shad get harassed up here it's going down somewhere it's going down on a random big boy where yeah get that random big boy oh that was beautiful that's one of those bass that was just chasing those gizzards oh yes good fish oh big one big one I can almost guarantee you this was the same fish got it too it was a lazy bite but he wanted it oh belly land that is awesome right there guys that's fun I can almost guarantee you those that was the fish that was harassing the shad so cool stunted you know it's probably about a four pounder he's got a weird weird stunt to him awesome fish guys topwater bite at 9 a.m. exactly a little late little lazy bite but fun that was weird how we fought because that was literally like hunting and that that's one that's one of those reasons you want to have that bigger topwater tied on it's just you see something like that you see a shad just like getting chased and I can tell it most likely was not a white bass because it was a big shad that was being chased flunging out there and just worked it for about two or three minutes you know in that same area and eventually that fish just just rolled on it had a weird tail it didn't fight that hard but I can tell it's big fish had had better weight so typically I'll throw my top waters on this twitch rod with you know anywhere from like 12 to 15 pound mono it's usually what I like but for a little bit bigger top waters and in the summertime when I'm trying to just fling it out there cover a ton of water I like using the the reaction rod just loads up perfectly flings it out there really good and it's still it's it's 7 2 so it's not extremely long I just have to work it a little bit more to the side rather than straight down so that is one of the baits I like to have in the in the summertime arsenal so now we'll go back to the spoons we'll try to fish this ledge and see if we can get anything going there oh yeah oh yeah buddy oh this look like little ones baby come on now oh my oh I see a school of them look look at they're about to jump on my boat it's crazy we'll get some of these guys there's a spot I want to fish over here for large mouth but I'm sorry I cannot this and I hope you don't either don't be that guy that turns their back just way laying on some white bass man oh yeah good keeper that's a good one right there that's fun it's perfect fun size I don't know why it is every time I come out here by myself I get into them when I bring my daughter out it's like they disappear I literally have her her pole right here waiting for her this morning she's got a she's got to go to a play date so she can't come with me unfortunately so these spoons are also very effective at doing this right here just long-casting them get you son maybe mini recon right here would be pretty deadly it just can't get the distance like it can with a spoon it over the course of ten minutes or not even like a couple minutes these fish have moved a long ways oh yeah we're getting into these are all about about keeper systems sub all right that's school of fish is like a hundred yards ahead of me now and I don't want to pass over my bass spot I want to fish oh typically how I like to do it keeping fish is unless it's crappie I'll just you know do me a little haul he's actually just a hair under do me a little haul you know give me a couple couple out of time eat them fresh never frozen just keep the process going all summer long some big waves the camera all right try gave you guys another example of fishing these spoons so we've got some fish that are like directly on a ledge they're sitting on it so I'm gonna throw the vertical jig spoon down here so brown on top of the fish just giving it that vertical dangle I want to eat it I think it's just a little too intimidating for him too big I gotta go throw a crappie jig down there it's just not it's not even a question not even a question give them a little natural juicy jig is falling into the juice he's come they're coming to get it already got him they just just can't handle it that's why you couldn't get that spoon because you're too small everybody got Lee coming out of the woodwork for it little buddy there appears to be a lot of Kropsky's open waters that are just kind of hanging around that I think you're wanting me to catch a couple of them just to end this session oh yeah that one smacked it had it to the list baby I am the open water suspended drum master our session today if you guys never fish spoons they really are a pretty powerful technique on a variety of different lakes and rivers and stuff like that there's so many different kinds as well it's a good thing to add in your arsenal even though this lures around for over a hundred years and never forget about that top top in the summer that is pretty much a player all summer and when we get to fall when that water starts cooling down again that's when it gets really fun if you haven't commented already go ahead and drop one and if you already did drop another let me know with some question fire away fire away on loose questions guys thanks for being here be luck in all your outdoor adventures Godspeed