 Today, we were frog fishing this drained pond and we ended up catching some giant bass. Right when I think I'm about to have a blowout day of fishing, the rain starts. I was afraid the rain was gonna hold me back, but little did I know, it was the start of a wild, top water adventure. I cannot believe what's happening with this pond, guys. After two years of not being here, I come up and it is completely drained. The water used to come all the way to here and now it looks like there's barely any water in the pond. I don't know what that has done to the fish. You know, I don't know if a lot of them have died off if there's even bass still in here, but we're gonna try it today. That is the plan. I got a poppin' pickle on, so we're frog fishing today. All my kickin' their bass TVX loose combo. If you guys wanna check them out, kickintheirbass.com. Without further ado, let's go ahead and hop into this drained pond and I do some frog fishing. Hopefully, we'll end up getting some bites. I don't know what to expect. Right now, they should be bedding in this pond, but like I said, I just don't know what to expect here. They could all be dead for all I know. This pond could have gone to trash. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of y'all watching these videos are actually subscribed, so if you could, take the time at the subscribe button. Really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. The water is very stained. It used to be slightly clear, so you could kinda see everything, but now it's so stained that I mean, even if there's fish on the bank, you probably couldn't see them. Let's go ahead and get started. This used to be such a good frog pond. Breaks my heart. Like around this time of year, there used to be a ton of nice grass on the edge that you could just smoke them on the frog. I mean, you could just destroy them. And it's crazy to think that this was in the water at the time. I mean, look at all the little crevices and places the bass could pretty much hide out. It's pretty crazy. There is a juicy area. It's definitely this corner. We actually still have a lot of grass over there. Maybe we'll smack us a big one. Before we do that, we need to fish in this little corner. Stuff looks crazy, man. Ooh, look at that, look at that. I don't know if that was a bass, but something was right there. We got it right up on that grass. Ooh, that looks good. I am beaming this frog. All right, well, we have yet to have a bite. We're gonna keep moving though. Look at that. It looks like somebody's been doing some fishing. Got some split shots and some bluegill hooks. Somebody's still fishing out here. All right, the idea is to go to the other side of the pond. I don't know if it'll be any better, but we're gonna go check it out. Maybe this other side might have some fish. Kinda hurts my heart to know my dad caught his PB out of here. We've caught plenty of really big bass before. And he come out here and it just looks like that. That's depressing, man. Let's go check out this other side. Well, this side isn't looking too much better now. Holy cow. I did see a boil up there. I don't know if that was a turtle, if that was a fish. There's gotta be some fish in here still that are surviving. Don't get me wrong, I definitely think some have died off. Just the caliber of big fish that are in here is crazy. I'll be, ooh, that's get hit. I think I did. I'm not really able to pop this frog howl one either because I'm on a weird angle. It's not like I'm level with the pond. Oh my gosh, let's go. I didn't even know we ate it. That's a nice one. Oh my gosh, our first bass. Frog fishing in this drain pond. And it is a nice one, man. I am satisfied with how thick that fish is. I mean, he's not like he's super skinny. He's not fat by any means, but it's still a nice two and a half pound or easy. I've been paying attention to my frog this whole time. And the one time I wasn't looking at it, I got a bite. Maybe that's the strategy. Oh, no, buddy. I was gonna get you back. Hold on. Oh boy. Don't you hate when you're just trying to get them safely back in the water and they do that? All right, buddy. I don't know the best way to release you. I might have to toss you because it is really shallow. Where there's our first frog fish. There you go. Boys, there's fish still in here. That is, that's a good little sign. I don't know if rinsing my hands off in this water is definitely the best thing, but. Well, there we go. We figured out our first question. Is there bass actually in here? That obviously answers it right there. We got a pretty nice one too. Not a giant by any means, but that was a nice fish. It wasn't like it was no little one pounder or something. That guy had some meat on him. He was at least a two and a half there. He ate it more off the bank. You know, it is super shallow. I mean, I'm assuming it's shallow throughout this whole pond. If anything, if I had to think, I mean, these fish are probably really hungry. If you get in front of them, they might not hesitate. All right, let's keep walking around. So back a few years ago when I used the frog fish this pond, this was all water and I would just cast in between these trees and it had its branches hanging down. And I would catch a lot of good bass right in this corner. Look at that tree, holy cow. I don't know if I caught one right out of that tire. Oh, oh, dude, I just hit it. I literally came out of the tire, dude. Oh, no shot. Here you go, here you go, boys. This is it. Dude, come on, I know you're hungry. It's a big one. It's a big one out of the tire. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. Oh, dude, it's a freaking, we just caught a freaking giant out of the tire. No shot. No freaking way, boys. No freaking way. We got him to crush the poppin' pickle out of that tire. Oh my gosh, he ate it so good. See, the first time he was a little iffy about it. And that second time, he just decided to clobber that puppy up, man. That is a beautiful, beautiful fish right there, about a four pounder, getting close to it. He's a little skinny on the lower end, but he's close to that four pound range. Thank you, buddy. So these fish are looking a little skinny, I will say. That has to be the coolest buy of the year by far. He was cradled up in that tire right on the edge of that tire. Unbelievable, man. Thank you for biting, buddy. I'm gonna give you a little toss. Man, we've only had two bites today, but they did not disappoint on either one. I know this is probably near impossible, but what, just imagine if there was another one right up there with them. He ate that thing so subtle. He ate it just like a big one. Instead of coming up and just destroying it, he just slurped it right down. Just... And that's all I ended up catching today, but I came back out two months later to try and catch some of these giants. We're back at this pond 60 days later and it is still drained. The water that used to be up to here is still down to there, but the pond looks a lot different. If you can tell, there is actually grass that has grown around pretty much the whole side of the bank. And if you go over to this side of the pond and also that side in this corner, there's a lot of tall grass that has grown on the edge of the pond. So we're gonna go ahead and get back at it today. We have the popping pickles still on and we're gonna see what we can do. The last time we came out here a few months ago, we ended up catching two really good bass on a frog and we're gonna see if we can continue that trend today and keep catching some big fish out of this pond. This grass actually goes down in the water as well. We've had a lot of rain the last couple of days and this grass, like I don't know if you can tell down here, it is legit in the water. So I'd be curious to see if some of these bass are pushed up super shallow on this bank. Let's go ahead and start hunting and see if we can catch us some big ones. I won't recall if that fountain was working last time. I can't remember. Oh no, maybe it was. We got a big storm rolling in too, guys. It would not surprise me if we start getting rained out in the next 15 minutes. Look at this. Oh my gosh, this looks amazing. I'd be surprised if there's not a fish in that. So good. Looks like there's a boiler right there to the right slightly. Looks so good, guys. Patiently waiting for this bite. I know the fish are a lot of whack right now with how the weather's been, but I know we can get some good frog bites here. We just gotta keep trying and put our head down, keep casting, and we'll get the bites that we want. I believe in it. Just looks so dang good. Here comes the rain. All right, let's hit a little re-game. Starting to rain right now. Hoping we don't have a big storm about to roll in and that's what it's supposed to be like. So let's get in the car real quick, relocate and make sure that we can fish before it starts pouring. Another lucky penny. It's like the fourth one this week. I don't know if you guys remember last time, but there was actually an island right here and we actually walked out on it. So the water has got up a little higher than it was a couple of months back. Definitely higher than it was before. It's like a little bush that's planted right out there in the middle looks so good. We got this big storm pushing in and it's about to start pouring. We're gonna fight through it as long as we can. Boys, we ran back here on the other side of the pond. I got my kicking combo with the chatter donk on. I know we've been fishing frogs, but I wanna try something different. The rain just picked up, it's getting a little nasty out here, but maybe these fish a bite really good. So let's throw this chatter donk around and see if we can get some bites. That frog I couldn't get anything to commit on right now. Maybe just throwing a standard moving bait to get these bass a bite. That rain's cold, boys. There we go. We're on already, second cast. Let's go. Oh my gosh, that is awesome. In the rain, second cast on the chatter donk. We threw that frog around for half an hour. Couldn't get nothing. We're already on board pretty quick. Not a big one at all, really small, but we'll take that knowing the conditions are bad. Thank you for biting, buddy. Let's get back in there. That's a good sign. Heck yeah, guys. Looks like the fish are still biting. We just gotta throw something different. Something either moving in the middle of the water column to the bottom and possibly a bottom bait. They're just not wanting to come up for that top water right now. Which is surprising. Usually in the rain, you'll end up catching some good ones on top. Guys, that was a crazy bite. Oh my gosh. Maybe these fish are getting fired up. Pulled my whole fluke down. There we go. Oh, that feels like a nice one, guys. Oh yeah. Let's go, boys. Storm rolling in. That ain't stopping us. We got two fish pretty quick on this chatter dong. This might be hot. Seem like they're biting pretty good. Not big, but not small. That's a good two pounder right there. Very skinny, fat head. Wow, he hammered that right off the edge of that grass. Beautiful, full of two pound bass right there. Thank you, baby, for biting. We're getting bigger. Caught a one pounder. They're back in and caught this beautiful one. Thank you, baby. Let's go, boys. Let's go. Listen, I'll tell you. Not the most ideal conditions, but we're fighting. And we're getting bites. That's what's important here. We need to go get to a protected area. Oh, look at that huge boil. Oh my gosh, that was a massive boil. Seems like the bass are biting pretty good. I mean, at least we had a couple bites of that quick. I thought I just had a bite right there. That scared me. That boil was massive. There's some monster fish in here, guys. Like I said, my dad caught his PV bass out of here. So they live here. He's got to keep casting. It might not be as healthy as they used to be just because of the water being so low and probably not much bait for them to eat. There's still some nice fish in here. There we go. Yes. Yes. Fish number three since the storm started with the Chattanoogs. Not big at all. We'll take them fighting through this rain and they're fricking biting. He bit it like that second one, man. The bait hit the bank and he just had it. Thank you, baby. There we go. Gosh, it's just coming down hard now. Keep on going, keep on pushing. This spot over here, we're under a tree. A little more protected. Going to cut off this frog real quick. One thing that is really good in the rain is a buzzbait and I don't have a buzzbait with me but what I do have is this mock patroller. If you guys wanted to get a discount on any of the mock baits, I'll pop up my discount code on the screen. I got the link down below. We're going to tell them this patroller should be a very good bait right here in the rain and maybe some of these fish are more off the bank. I can work this a lot better off the bank than I can this poppin' pickle just because I'm standardly going to throw this pretty shallow. So let's give this a shot. One thing that I don't like about this patroller right now is I kind of got to keep my rod tip high and it's thundering and lightening right now and I... Oh, oh, oh gosh. Nice. Let's go, baby. Let's freaking go. Look, there's had me on a mess there. First fish on the patroller. Probably about five cast in. I already got one on the ding patroller. Not big, but we'll take them. Got a thick little body compared to those other ones. One of those other fish were a little smaller, but thank you, buddy. Thanks for the nibble. There we go. Yeah, what I was getting back to is still like keeping my rod tip high right now, you know what I mean? But if we make shortcuts, we don't really have to do that. It's just that we beam it. Kicking combo beams, boys. And we beam it on the other side of the pond. We got to keep that rod tip pretty high. This rain's starting to come down a good bit too. Get a little crazier. All right, guys, we came out to a different pond. Still got the mock patroller on. Old kicking combo. I wanna see what we can get going here. Still raining. Not as hard as it was earlier, but still raining. I think we can get some bass on this top water right now. Hopefully some big ones. That's the game plan right here. Last time I came out here, guys, ended up missing two really good fish. Hopefully we can get a couple of them in the bite right now, get some revenge on these bass. They don't let me catch them last time. Oh my God. Yes, yes. Guys, look at that. Oh my God. That bass went through this airborne. Oh my gosh. That freaking bass, guys, went complete airborne on that mock patroller. And that is what we're looking for. Let's go, baby. That is what we're talking about, boys. It's an easy three pounder right there. Oh man. She didn't decide to eat it right until we were getting it up on the bank too. That was such a cool bite. That is what we live for. And I know we're getting wet out here today, but that's what it's about. And we made it happen. Freaking nice fish right there. Let's see if we can catch some more. That's a great sign. Let's freaking go, boys. Oh my gosh. I knew I'd get my payback on these fish, guys. Last time I came out, I missed two good ones and I was upset about it. And that makes up for it right there. Out here in the rain and a crazy blow up. That makes up for everything. All right, let's go on to the next pond over. I want you guys to look at something too. It's been raining. Water's so dang high. It's above the grass. Kind of like how it was at that last pond. Oh, I'm about to say it looks so good and I got freaking destroyed. Right here, grass in this little pocket. He might hit it again here. Come on. Gosh, that was a crazy bite. I don't think he was big, but that was just insane. This is actually where Terrell caught a PB right here. Had a freaking almost seven pounder come up and eat at Topwater. About right where my Topwater's at now. The Topwater bites have been insane. I can only imagine how he's gonna hit it if he hits this thing. Only had two bites at these ponds, but they were intense for sure. Not a bad one, boys. Not a bad one. Came up, slurped that gang patroller down. Look at that. That's a little pound and a halfer. Look at that, boys. First fish in this pond. You know, we had that initial bite at the beginning and he just came out there in the middle and smoked that thing. The rain's starting to slow down a little bit. Starting to get a little nice outside. Maybe that's a good little sign. Thank you, buddy. First fish in this pond. Thank you for biting. Beautiful. There he goes. All right, guys. We're starting somewhere, man. Two fish since we left the old drain pond. We're gonna see if we can keep on adding on to this. Caught one out there. These came up and slurped that dang Topwater down. Let's see if we can get us another one. Look at this rain finally stopped. Oh, it feels good, man, to be in some decent weather for a minute. Hopefully it stays like this. Fish didn't come all the way out of the water like those last two bites, but there's still a nice little blow up. Do you guys see that? You literally kissed it. Right when it landed, he just kind of kissed it. Here we go. Oh, come on. Come on, man. That fish literally just put his nose on it, nothing more. There's a huge boil behind me. I mean, a massive, massive boil. Oh, my God, he's still behind me. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Dude, does he under it? Oh, my gosh. Dude, it literally had waves that I was going over. That boil was so crazy that it literally had waves. It was like I was working this thing in the freaking ocean, dude. What in the world just happened? Every ounce of me is like that had to have been a carp, but why was he chasing it? Carps are so skittish. They don't chase like that. That is insane, guys. I don't know if it was a bass. I mean, it could have been a carp, but that is weird for a carp to do. I don't see a carp like chasing the top water and getting behind it, but the fish was so big that it was causing waves and I was just going over it with my top water. Guys, I don't know about that, man. That was something. Oh, my gosh, I'm getting a little too antsy here. Just slow down. There's boils everywhere. That fish just hit me. I don't think that one was big. What in the world is happening right now? That was a good one, man. I've been watching my top water the whole time I've been working it. That was the one time I looked down at it, I get freaking slammed. That seemed like a pretty good fish. Dang, man. That was unfortunate. That was a nice little blow up, too. Maybe we can get another one back in here. We had one on our first cast. It's got to be more fish. Big boil, big boil. Oh, that was a monster. That was a monster. That was a monster and he came off somehow. No. No, no, no. And I stuck them too, guys. I don't think he'll hit again. That's unfortunate. Dang it, man. Oh. I don't know what is up with me missing fish recently, guys, but I swear it comes out the worst times. Two in a row we just lost. We should have had them both. That's unfortunate. Maybe that's the one that we can always come back for, you know. Later on, maybe for a different video, I doubt he's on bite again. He would have ate, but it's all good, though. We'll keep our positivity up and keep cranking away. Another good one that just came off. I couldn't even move that fish, bro. What is going on? I'm trying to understand what's happening here because this is like the fourth time it's happened. And the last two times I came out, the hooks are amazing on this bait. And they really are. The sharpest can be. I don't know if you guys remember that episode last year when Fletcher yanked it out of a tree and it just went right in my leg. Like, these hooks are sharper than any baits I throw. Got premium hooks on there and I just can't get these fish pinned. I don't know if they're just eating it weird. I will say the last two bites, that one and the one before that I both thought were really good fish, they didn't really come up and just destroy it and eat it. You know, they're kind of just sort, like just kind of bit at it. And I think that's what happened. What it felt like there is that I only had one out of the three on my treble hook, hook them. Oh my gosh. He's barely hooked. Yeah, that's how they're eating it. Oh my gosh. See that? Don't come off, baby. Oh my God. It's like a four pounder. I give him three and a half. He's fat as can be. Holy cow. This is why they're coming off guys. It ain't that I'm doing something wrong. Look at how he is barely hooked. I mean, just like a hair, a little sliver of skin. Wow. Almost a four pounder. That's easy, three and a half. That's freaking go boys. Look at that thing. Came up and slurped it barely. Barely had it on the edge of his chin. And what sucks is we probably would have had multiple fish that are big in the last couple of minutes if they're not eating it like that. But at least he got it and we got him in. Thank you, baby. Wow. Gosh, I'm pumped up guys. I'm pumped up. The bites that we're getting in here, freaking good ones. We caught two out of this pond. And they were both over three pounds. Missed that other one. I bet you it's the same way between three and four pounds. That's what he felt like, at least. I'll take three and four pounders all day long. Yeah. What's up? Yeah. That's cool. Thank you. Yeah. What's up, man? How are you? What's your name? Mason. Mason Noah, nice to meet you. What's up? How are you? What's up, buddy? What's up, buddy? We were just coming home and the house goes, I was just a kick in the basket. And I was like, I'm sure it's not. And he goes, we gotta go see. So we literally parked the car, ran over there. And then I was like, where did he go? That's awesome. Yeah, I caught a couple. Really? Yeah, a couple, like three, three pounders. Come here real quick. I might have some baits. I wish I had some rods with me. How long have you guys been watching? I've been watching. Two years ago? Two years. Wow. There you go. Thank you. Yeah, of course. I caught it on this one. Yeah, whatever one you guys want. They all catch big ones. Are you on YouTube? Very bless, yeah. You want to say hey to it? Hi. Hi. Awesome, you guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate it. I was going to meet you. Yeah, it was nice meeting you all. I was going to have some fans. Yeah. All right, thank you. Okay, I just met some supporters of the channel. I appreciate everybody. And while we're at it, I appreciate everybody watching the videos. Thank you guys so much, first of all. But yeah, I just met a group of kids and their mom. Their mom is just as excited as they were. That's funny. But that's so cool just meeting you guys. And I would just like to say, everybody watching, even though y'all aren't here with me right now, I'd just like to say thanks for the support. And to know that I've been doing this, been making fishing videos for 12 years, been doing kicking their bass for 10. It's just a blessing to be able to do this. And it wouldn't be possible without you guys. So I really appreciate that. But yeah, I think we're going to finish off at this pond right here and go to a different one. I haven't really had any bites in here, but let's keep on moving guys, see what else we can get. All right guys, out at another pond. Another pond, another journey. And another big bass, hopefully. I'll see what we can do here. Hopefully we can get another couple fish on topwater. Hopefully a big one. Last time I came out here, I missed a couple really nice ones. I'm back for some revenge here, boys. Oh, he came out. He ate it right away, dude. I'm talking the instant, I started cranking that thing. What is going on? To be honest, I did that one to myself. I hooked set it like it was a dang frog. Little lesson learned by Noah. I just messed up. I've been doing this forever and I still mess up sometime. I hooked set up. Okay, on anything with treble hooks, you just want to lean to the side. You don't want to do nothing crazy. If they bite it, just lean. And I hooked set up and therefore I pulled it right out of his mouth. Let's walk over there though, see if we can get a better cast and not be casting way across the pond here. There we go. Not a big one, but he destroyed it. Not a big one. But I can tell you one thing. Look at this bass. You guys see all the colors and how his green tone's a little darker and he's got like this blue all over him? What causes that are these bass will get way up in this slop, way up in this grass and they're not sticking in the sun a lot and pretty much what happens when they're up in that grass aton is the bass' skin tone will pretty much change. And that bass is just beautiful. Look at how sparkly he is. It's like a bluish green tint. But that's what happens when this bass are living in this grass right here. There he goes. That was a nice little bite right after that last fish, man. That's probably it. I think that was the next cast. This fish are biting, man. It's got a commit. Ooh, yeah, boil it right there in that corner. Come on, it's just like that. Not a big one, little tiny guy. Not a big one, just a small one, but we'll take him. We appreciate all the bites. He is as fat as can be. This fish had some size onto him, like some just length to him. This fish would be a brute, man. Thank you for biting, buddy. Have a spoon.