 Welcome back everybody. Today we are going to leave the crispy at home. We're gonna try some bank fishing. So I've picked out a little spot that is below the dam area of a lake that's they stock trout in it this time of year. We're in between stockings so there may not be that that many trout but there's there's carp, there's bass, there's crappie, there's catfish. There's literally everything in here and I kind of want to get out there in the water do a little fly dangling, a tiny bunch of flies. We've got conventional as well. I just want to go fishing. I just want to get a rod bent. Hopefully we got a little flow and we can get some rod bendage. All right, trek through the woods trying not to get the danglers tangled in the brush here. Oh yeah, this stuff is grabby. Grabby McGee. Rock traversing here. It's already getting spicy. You know this is this is the thing about bank fishing that they don't tell you about in school. Just imagine this nice little grassy bank going out. I'll tell you about all the traversing, snags, snakes. Okay, I've been out here about 10 minutes and I'm seeing something that looks tremendously fun. If I can get it to happen this is really something I want to make happen. It's been on my bucket list for a minute. There's some some buffalo, some smallmouth buffalo, and some other types of carps and they're up here in these shallows and I've got just a little scud right here. I'm gonna attempt to get these babies to eat. This is gonna be pretty tough. I've got a 10 and a half foot nymph rod in the truck that I can maybe straight-dangle them but I'm gonna try to cast to them with this little light nymph and just see if I can get one of these things to eat. It'd be so sick. Such a good fight if I could. It's hitting the water a little hard but he's close to it. He's close to it right there. Oh my god. I think he was eating it. It was really close. They're a handful of these smallmouth buffaloes swimming around me right here but what I quickly realized is that they're very spooky. Trying to cast ahead of them and get the current to bring my nymph by them just isn't working. What I also learned watching these fish for a little bit is that some of them are just sitting in the current chilling and some of them have their little lips in the mud and they're picking out bugs. So what I decided to do was go get a different rod set up that I could put my bait right in front of these fish that are feeding in the mud and keep it there. Just playing around in the tackle cave last night I tied up a heavier weighted nymph that I think might stay in the mud and do the trick. I went back to the truck and I switched poles. We now have our nymphing rod 10-6 and I put on one of my little hand ties I tied last night. Just a little rabbit hair on there kind of a heavy nymph and I'm gonna try to ninja attack some of these that are just facing into the current. Get behind them and just dangle this thing in front of their face. See if I can get one to eat. It's gonna be an incredible fight on this pole if I can get one to eat. Oh here's one right here literally right here. Ninja attack. Ninja attack. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Come on. Eat that baby. Eat it baby. That's how I'm gonna have to do it. Straight. Oh he's He spooked. He spooked. He spooked, but that that's how we're gonna do it, I think. He spooked like they are scary spooky. Not sure what's going on with this fish. I think it's I think it's dying. I'm gonna leave it alone. There's another one right here. Damn these suckers are tough. Boys were hooked up. Oh I can't believe that actually happened. There we go baby. Here we go. Now here's a fun ride. On a three weight I had to straight dangle that thing in front of that fish's face and I think it just accidentally sucked it in. It was just part of the part of the bottom. It was sucking. Just straight weight right here. Straight up weight. Oh my goodness. Not much I can really do here. We're talking five pound, five pound tests. Just need them to come up here. Come up here baby. Just want to net ya. I want them to come up here because I don't want them to stir up all those fish down there walking. I cannot believe I hooked that fish. I really want to see if it's in his mouth or not because I think I felt the thump but I just want to make sure. It looks like it is in his mouth. Come here buddy. Absolute Magnum. Pretty good size one too. I mean on this pole. Look at this pole guys. This is insane. This is gonna be hard to land with this really long pole. Oh it saw me. Now it's taking off. God what a fight. This is crazy. See if I get him up here in the shower of water. I told you all if I got one it was gonna be an insane fight. They're swimming around everywhere. There's like two dozen of them right here. It's so hard to get them to eat. We're still not even completely sure what they're eating. Rod is not really made for these giants like this. Come here. He's so big he can barely fit in my net. Come here this way. This way. This way. I just cannot turn him with this little litty rod. This lightweight rod. Afraid my line's gonna break. Come this way. Get in this spot. There we go. God you won't even fit in my net. Look at that guys. Look at that. Won't even fit in my net. Yes and he is hooked inside of the mouth. Absolutely insane. Yeah he just sucked it right in. Boys you want to talk about an insane fight. Alright buddy. Can I put you in the water? Will you be less less crazy? Let me get my fly out. Gosh I don't want to damage my fly. This is a hand tide. Flop over one more time on the other side. There you go. Alright fly is out. Here we go guys. Now we're just gonna let this fish go. Look at that. Oh guys I've been wanting to do that for so so long. So so long. There we go. I had him. I tied this fly last night. A little nymph. A little 4 millimeter bead and some rabbits fur. And I was actually just playing around with it used for some crappie but I like using those heavier nymphs on this straight nymphing pole. So just makes it easier because I'm using the rod to really control what the lure is and not not casting it out there and needing to use floats and different split shots to control where it is. So that was crazy. Let's see if we can actually get a hook set on camera here. It took forever but maybe we can make it happen again. I'm also thinking about just flipping over some rocks to see what's underneath here. Kind of match the hatch but we'll keep going with our hand tide you know. See if we're more special when you get a hand tide strike. There's just like a whole kitten a kitten caboodle of them here. Oh my gosh this one's gonna eat it. He's on it. I got him. Oh my gosh very next cast. What? What? I saw him follow it. Oh he broke my line. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I mean he was on it like white on rice. God he took my hand tide fly. Yeah absolutely. That was that was insane going from what I witnessed on the first dozen fish that I tried to catch and they were extremely shy. Do I got into a herd of them? I think they're feeding and I went in I went in there with that deal and it literally just came out at it like it was it had to have it. So let's try to do that. Unfortunately it's not going to be the only one I tied myself but I do have something similar. Just a little booger on the bottom here. It's got to have some weight. Try this little rabbit's hair ear thing. I don't really know what it is. Little scuds. That's what I need to tie up for this. This is crazy because I you know you go rainbow trout fishing it's fun it's a challenge and a lot of times I'm going after them to eat them. These I'm not going after to eat them but I just want to catch them in there. They're so big they're so big that I'm not really sure that I'm gonna land them like most of these are very large I'm trying to fish on four and a half five pound test. That was a crazy heat right there. I mean as soon as I got it in there it was gone. So let's let's try to do that again. This nymph is much lighter. It's gonna be way more difficult but if I can get one to attack like that one did there's one coming up to it right now. He's got it. He's got it. I got him. Oh my gosh I got him. Oh my gosh. Guys we're on the deal now we're on the deal like they're coming to it they're coming to it they want it this one's gonna eat it's gonna eat you're following it like the whole herd is moving to me it's just kind of it's got to be a natural presentation. Sight fishing for giant buffalo carp man. I don't know why it just went like super hot and heavy there for a minute like it was like I couldn't I could not miss. Oh my gosh they're right in front of me. They're right here in front of me. Straight dangle. Okay new fly. This one's a tad bit heavier. Got him. Got him. Oh gosh. Is he awake? Is he alive? Is he awake? You know what's going on? He did not take off like that last one. It's crazy. I can't I can't really do much with these fish. I tried last time to get him to come back and that was not happening. I mean this is like an eight pound fish. I'm a three weight. Last one woke up when he saw me so see what's gonna happen here. I think he's just confused. Look at this fish. This is insane. This is insane. This water is also really cold so these things are not too fired up. Barbellous hook. Just keep them pressure. Come flop over here bud. Come flop over here. We'll flop you in the net. I can get him up ahead of me and just scoop him behind. I mean he's just barely hooked. Barely hooked in those little soft lips. This is an insane fight. Like look at this bend in this pole man. It was crazy. Come here. Come here. Oh. God. I mean as soon as he turns his shoulders the fish has all the control. Just gonna try to get him up ahead of me and then I'll let him drift. Kind of drift in the net. Get him up in the shallow water. Come on baby. Come on. Come on. There you go. There you go. There you go. I gotcha, that one's bigger than the last one. Holy schnikeys. Fet him in the tag on that. Look at this tag on fish, man. On a fly pole. On a three-way fly rod. God, what a fight. Oh, the fly just popped out. Just popped out. Just popped out. Look at that. That's a beautiful one, too. He's unmarked. A lot of them have scars from getting snagged by lures. It's pretty cool. So a lot of people will call this a carp, including myself, but it's actually, it's a smallmouth buffalo. That is the correct term for it. But I've called a buffalo carp for years. Look at that, man. So he was hooked just right in the top of the schnoz. Perfectly hooked. Oh, I've caught two more than I expected to catch. I'll tell you that. I've hooked four, so if you guys just look out here, there's, it seems like there's more coming. Like, there's probably 50 of them right here. This is so cool though, because I'm sight fishing for big fish, which is one of the best things to do in fishing of light line. Just happens to be a buffalo carp that, or a smallmouth buffalo that not many people want to catch, but I'll tell you what, man, they are a fight and a half. I'm surrounded by fish, surrounded. Got him. Look at all those fish go. Look at all those fish go. Oh my gosh, this one is charging. Now it's coming at me. Yeah, this one's on the next level. Next level fight. Oh, I think I got him. Oh, I came off. Well, I think I had him in the top fin. I'm not completely sure, but he felt a little bit more rambunctious. Okay, yeah, they're a little reperturbed. I think I need to move away, let them resettle. Oh, here we go. Got one on a copper, John. God, he just sucked it in so light I didn't even feel it. It's actually just floating through there, drifting. And it just got heavy. Doing here, bud. Look at this pole, man. My gosh, can I land you already? Can we do this? Can we do this? Yes, there you go. Come on back, come on back, come on back, come on back. Step up to you. No, no, no, no, no, no. He'll take off. Here he goes. Gosh. Whoppers, man. Whoppers of fish. Oh, no. He doesn't look so pretty. He's been, he's been torn up in his day. This is low key just nuts. Get our little fly out. There we go. And we'll release, release the buff. Out there on the creek today, guys. That was more than I expected to happen. And it was awesome. I really don't know what is better. And you guys can let me know in the comments. And one of the things I cherish about fishing is most of the time you're going out there, you fill a tug on your line, you set the hook and you truly don't know what is on the end of your rod and reel. You know, it could be a two pound bass. It could be a 10 pound bass. It could be a crappie. It could be a big cat. But you don't truly know until it surfaces. Then there's those rare times where you are looking at a fish. You know exactly what species it is. You know exactly what size it is. And you kind of get that buck fever feeling, trying to fish for that thing and get it to bite. The sight fishing is so rare in fishing throughout the year. I feel like, and I don't know which one is better. The true mystery are really knowing and having that buck fever feeling. You guys let me know in the comments on that. Catching a eight to 10 pound fish on light lines, sight fishing, I don't care if it's green, I don't care if it's brown, I don't care if it's a gray smallmouth buffalo. It's pretty awesome. I have crapped on buffalo and carp for years and years. And a lot of times that's because I don't know how to catch them. You know, I stick them with my bow and stuff like that. And we have so many of them here. And we just pass them up. They swim by our boat while we're bass fishing, crappie fishing, whatever. And what I figured out today was that they're extremely challenging to catch. They're smart. They have great eyesight. And they actually are really fun. I have tried to eat one of these before and it was the worst freshwater fish I've ever put in my mouth. Some of you may have another experience with it, but as far as just catching, it was a fun time. So thank y'all for tuning in today. Smash that like button for a challenging fishing adventure. Speaking of adventure, we're gonna hop in the wagon here and take the crispy. And we got some camping fishing videos coming up. So y'all stay tuned. Subscribe to the channel and I'll see you soon.