 The Great Lakes is not only full of fish, but it's full of beautiful scenery, a vast amount of forest and open water. Sometimes you won't even see a boat for days. The abundance of life up here this time of year is insane because they don't have very long to get it done. We are officially Yulpers, baby. We're going up to the Yulper Peninsula. This is two Texans heading up to fish the Great Lakes and experience a totally different fishery than what we're used to. You're going to want to stay tuned. We got it! We got to respect the heart of the smallmouth. Welcome on back to the channel, y'all. If you haven't seen the last video, go back. We're up here at Lake Michigan and we're on smallmouth today. We're trying to catch 100 bass out of this boat today. Right now, Matt is on possibly his personal best fish on a bed dragging a little rattle in the head through there. Let's see if we can get hooked up. Start this video off with a PB. That would be amazing. Dude, you just have your PB on. He just swam off with it. That watch can swim to the left. You can see him just glow when he bites. You're waiting for the right. Come on, Mattie. Eat that PB. Shotgun and Mickolo. Little nervous. You guys got me a little worked up over here. How do you lose it? How big was it? It looks like a three pounder. I didn't see him. You got him. Brother. Switching up to a drop shot right here. This fish just keeps nipping at it, spitting it out really quick. So something like this. He'll probably just suck it in like a little candy corn. He's got it. He's got it. Oh, dude. What kind of hook set was that? What kind of hook set was that? It's a wrong handed hook set. I'm left handed. That was a skinny jean hook set. That's what that was. Oh, now we got it. He's flustered on the bed fish. Where we left off. I lost a fish at the boat. That was a really nice bed fish. We've given it about ten minutes. I'm going to throw back in there now. This is the crazy thing about smallmouth. They'll go right back to their beds and hit a bait over again. It's not like a largemouth. Broke me off. You break him off. Dude, he was right there. So here's the other thing. I've fished it up here. I've gone down to eight pound test. And you set the hook like you were flippening. Did I? You did, dude. That's bad. I'm sorry. I broke that fish off. But at least I didn't set the hook like Matt. Yeah, that was... Somewhere in between what y'all just done is perfect. Yeah. I also have... That was eight pound on braid with a pretty stiff rod. So I'm going to tone down that hook set from Texas style. Just go to a lean method. Did he smoke it when it fished in there? I don't do it yet. It was sitting there. Just solid. The crazy part is I might catch this fish again. And it'll have the bait in its mouth. I feel bad, but I don't. Because I lost him, you know. We'll see if he'll leave again. So if you didn't see last episode, we said that we were going to catch 100 fish. We're out here. We're about, I don't know, about an hour and a half into the day. We got about 12 fish in the boat. So we're feeling good about the 100 fish today. We got a lot of daylight. It stays light here until almost 10 o'clock at night. I feel pretty good about it. I feel really good about it. Here's what's going to happen. This would be epic, dude. If you could get this fish that has a rattling net in its mouth on this drop shot over here and it's your PB. And I tactically, I didn't land it. So how do you feel about that? That being your PB, or do you want that you already punctured? Yeah. Or do you want to get this fish out here? Jeremy's going to get this fish for the drop shot. No, I'm not going to catch it. No, I'm not. Oh, God, look at him swimming with it. Oh, yeah. No, we're not doing that. I want to see you shot gun up here. Dude, he will bite. You saw that. I can catch him on a hot dog weaning right now. Catch this up there. Where is he at? I'm going to pass it and bring it right to it. His right hand is here. Let me change it for you. We're going to do this the right way, I guess. Matt has already said when he catches this PB, he's going to shotgun up here. So I definitely think that should occur. And I think it will occur here in the next few minutes. Oh, God. There he is. Oh, my gosh. Looks that was good. Dude, he'll bite it immediately again. Just get it back in there. There on the right side there. He's got it. You got him at time. Fish on. Fish on. This might be a shotgun. Fish on. Take him left. That was your personal best. Listen, that fish wasn't meant to be caught. It just wasn't. We have a slippery mouth. There's something going on with that fish. He wasn't meant to be caught. The good news is, there's a lot more out here. We're going to keep hunting. We've got 13. Working on 100. Our pace right now is okay. We've got a 20-hour day with all this sunlight up here. I think it's achievable. I think we're going to have to go to the deadly tactic. The dragon in the neds to be getting a lot of bites, drop shots. I wanted to whack him on moving baits, but it seems like this is the ticket to catch numbers. That's a good one. I think Jeremy's paid some people to go out there and scuba dive and just hook fish on his hook at this point. I mean, I don't know what we're doing differently. Somehow we got conned into putting a little money on this at the beginning of the day. But as of right now, he's big. Jeremy is the 96 bulls. Okay. He's absolutely trained right now. They shot here and they're also taking all of our money. So I hope they'll give us a chance to redeem ourselves out here. Every one you guys pull in is my pv. A squishy, that's pv. With the drop shot now. I'm just lifting up on him. It's all you got to do. I'm just here for the ride. I'm watching two legends of the fishing world just catch giant smallmouth all around me. I just pull in the leftovers. That's what I do here. There's still a little tug right there. Whoo! Let's do this! Oh! Get the lobes ready! It's still fishing. It's an absolute savage. He was the one that wanted to stop. No. He was asking like, hey... I thought we could like... I didn't mean we just like quit fishing. We just keep going. This is John B. in 20 years right here. What? John B. in 15, 20 years. Never stop. I just want everybody to know, while we're eating sandwiches, this man right here has got some four-pounders. And in case you forgot, this is the man right here that put just a whooping on Kevin Van Dam in an elite series tournament and coined the phrase Kevin Who. That's him. That's savagery. Savagery. We're gonna have to say much about this though. Hey, buddy, I'm gonna tell you right now, if we didn't have him in the boat, a century mark would not be met. That's Matt's PB. He's sitting right in front of him. I mean, we'll look at him in a minute. Jeremy has caught like ten of Matt's PB's. That's a good fish. That's beautiful, too. No doubt. Milestone fish right here, number 70. And it's a good one. Just got this one off one of these beds. We just launched the drone and we could see like an acre of these beds. And I think there's a lot of a lot of smallmouth home on those houses. Oh, my God. Oh, like Michigan. I love you. I love you. Look how pretty that fish is. Look at the stripes, the lines. They're just mussel. Like if any of y'all have never caught a smallmouth, then when you pick up a smallmouth versus a largemouth, they're just dense. They're tight packed with mussel. Even their jaws, you just feel it when you pick them up. We'll make some more Michigan smallies. 70. 30 more. And we're going to reach that century mark. We're going to do it, y'all. We still got plenty of time left in the day. Got it dialed in with drop shots. It's on. We're going to reach up to the 10,000 fish shimmer shad. This is a Ketchco bait. And it is just about identical to a bait fish in the water. And it has these strobe strips in the center of them. So how this works is they've got the plastic around these strobe strips and they also have 3D eyes embedded in them. So really good translucent colors and there's that foil strip in there. So when this thing is in the water and you're twitching it on a drop shot just nose hook it and then you're, you know, twitching the end of your rod this thing is dancing and flipping up on its side and it creates that flash like a bait fish that just twitches like it's dying making a sudden boof and fish just can't stand that sort of thing. So it's really cool bait. You know, it's a lot different and it's just really great bait for up here. You know, especially with all these great colors. So I'll leave a link down below for these. I've used these in the past on drop shots in Texas and stuff, but never up here. This is really where they're dialed. Like really where they're supposed to be used, I think. Like at their greatest strength is up here when fish are getting a little finicky. So I'm just going to Texbo's rig this thing right on my drop shot. There we go. Super natural. Let's go get another one. Last time we were all together, we were on Lake Erie and the wind, I don't even feel like it was blowing this hard. And there were some big rollers out there. Now Jeremy might have to tell us exactly what's going on here, but he's telling us we're protected back here and we're still getting blown around a little bit. We're protected back here, we're not protected out there. We don't have a long run, but it's probably a bumpy ride. I'm probably thinking there's going to be some rain happening. Oh, got a fish, got a fish. Come on. Oh, it might be the one. Oh! It is. It's a deep fish. Come on, Sally. Yeah. He's bird-dogging it. Bull-dogging it. Get him in the mouth. Look at that. Given the weather report. Catching fish, number 80. That's the regular number 80. He is a freaking chunk. Look how thick, man. They're just so different than our smallmouths. Okay. That's a chunky one, dude. I don't think it's quite your PB, but it's a heck of an 80. That was a good 80. These boys around me might say that rain's going to stop them. Rain's not stopping me at this point. But I don't want to get away with it. I'll be honest. Hey, we got one on here. That was a fun one. We cannot be stopped. We cannot be stopped before we get 100. This is Jeremy's call because he's been out here way more than us. Oh, we're not... I don't care if a freaking tornado comes through here. We're not leaving until we catch 100. I don't care how bad it gets. We're just spending the night out here, I guess, but we're catching 100. Folks, we got a situation. We're almost to the mark and we have high winds, big waves building out there. I don't even know anything about, you know, fishing the Great Lakes and having to run waves that size. This is Jeremy's call, but he's committed. We're all committed here, but... What kind of committed, no matter what? Trust me when I say this ride back is not going to be enjoyable. This is going to be bad. But we're too deep now. We can't just stop it, you know. So we're going to catch our 100 and it's going to be a rough ride back. Not a big one. Let's count. All right, folks, three more. Three more and then we've got a nice, easy boat ride with some possible drenching in the forecast. Oh, dude. We still got so much time in the days to think we're just up against the storm. Like, I feel like we could get 150 if we had a full dive. 100, we might. Dude, if the evening bite might get so good, it might get 200. We're accomplishing goals. The big check mark. That's getting knocked off today. It's a good one, too. Is it? It's a good one, yeah. 98. I mean, look at that. I'm not going to happen. They're a little heavier than they look. They get a little thick, man. This is 98. 98. This is setting me up. Nice one, too. We caught something really nice the very last 40 minutes. I thought it was going to come together right there in that last five minutes for Matt, but the rain is coming down. We're going to get completely soaked if we don't get a fish in here in the next five minutes. We got to go. I just don't... Oh, I got him. I got him, number 100. We got one? Yes, a big one, too. 100. Okay, this is it. This is it. Come on, Sally. Get that fish. We cannot lose that fish. Get that fish! Yeah! There it is. Oh, my word. I didn't think that one was going to come. That was the longest stretch we've had without a bite. Right there at the end, baby. Thanks for saving us. Oh, my gosh. Hey, we did it. We got to 100. Hit that landmark achievement. Check the box out here on Lake Michigan. Incredible fishery. Jeremy, thank you for keeping us safe. We got a long way to go. We got a long ways back. Oh, my gosh, man. It's a beautiful fish for number 100. Oh, yeah. Great, fantastic fish. It's only day one. It's just day one, folks. You're going to want to stay tuned. But monster accomplishment done today. See you one, honey. Thanks for the fight. It is tradition at Brownfish Camp. Brownfish. When you have an epic day, you get a little brown water. So that's what we've got here. So big check mark off the list today. 100 fish. Next time, PV for you. That's the next big check mark. Yes. We've got a lot more time here, ladies and gentlemen. Toast to the gray-haired fish of the north. Just a little wood for it. Just wood for it straight. Cheers, boys. Cheers. Thank you all for tuning in today. Y'all better smash that like button for catching 100 fish and subscribe because we got more action to come. Thanks for being here. Got this one.