 Today we're having a $25 versus $250 budget fishing challenge. Fletcher is gonna get $25 and your boy Noah is gonna get $250. Each contestant must use their budget on a rod, a reel and five baits. This challenge is made up of three different contests. Whoever wins two out of the three contest wins the challenge. All right, Fletcher, you're gonna get $25, brother. $25, he's balling on a budget. You couldn't give me the $250, man. Maybe next time, maybe. These rods are looking a little spicier than what I'm gonna have to work with today, but since I got a $25 budget, that is gonna be leaving me with very limited rods on the rod and reel side of things. 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. So we basically have two options, and that is gonna be either one of these kitty rods, which I think these are like 15 bucks a piece, or this tangled red combo, which I think a $10 combo with the line and everything, or we'll deal with this in a second, but it's between those two things. What about this one? What about the Zepco? The Zepco? I mean, maybe if this was like a $50 versus $500, I could go with this little guy. This is the world's smallest fishing rod right here. This thing actually surprisingly works. I've got a four and a half pound bass on this fishing rod, so better watch out, son. Amen, I'm worried. But I do need to leave room for my baits, so I think this is gonna be my best option for our budget today, just because I'm gonna have a little bit more room to work with. Let me get all this untangled in a mess, dude. How did you even do that? Dude, you probably backlashed it last time you used it. Noah likes to just break and use all my stuff. That is not true. I'm sending him an invoice for like the last four years soon. I love to use all of this stuff. I don't know about break, even though I lost one of his homemade lures the other day, I think he's taking it a little personal. I don't know. Out of all, out of the four years I've known Noah, I've probably given him $2,000 to $3,000 worth of tackles and rods. I was gonna see like five, so I guess that's not fair. It's probably closer to the five. You know what I've gotten in return? One KTV kicking combo. One. Well, it's gonna be two after this week, Fletcher. I promise I'll give you a brand new one. Fresh out the box. All right, Fletcher, what are you using for the baits, man? So, five lures. Baits, we got 15 bucks to work with. I definitely wanna try to get some moving baits in here. Fall is around the corner. It's like kind of that transition area. You know, we just have random boxes of things all over the place. Really kind of need to do some searching to find a lure that I can afford. Considering I gotta get five of them. Are you gonna try to do the whole discounted thing like last time? He was like pulling individual worms. He was like pulling a worm out of this bag and crawl out of this bag. I made a multi-pack. I mean, that's gonna be an option. I'm gonna try to find some moving baits though. If I can get like two moving baits and then make me a little combo pack for five bucks. Fall time. Just chewing up on some bait. That's really what you need. Okay. All right, I got some combo packs in mine. I got some combo packs. Give me these. Give me this rage slimmer right here. Ooh. That's probably six bucks. It's like a $6 pack, but if we take just one. It's a dollar. Two baits. Is this a dollar right here? Okay, that's fair. That's fair. That's a dollar. A dollar for two soft plastics. Then we need a jig head. This one's looking a little old and crusty. Can I get 25 cents on this? Yeah, 25 cents. That's good. You can drop a quarter on it. I can drop a quarter. 25 cents on this old rusty little fish head. That's fair. So that's bait number one. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We got a beetle spin. We got some beetle spin little things. Can I have it with this for what's this gonna run me? Think about a dollar, man. A dollar. Actually, I don't know. Two bucks. Two bucks. Okay, so you got two dollars, three dollars, three dollar 50 cents. Okay. So you got approximately 13 bucks. Okay. 13 spent. Yeah. 12 bucks, Fletchy. Come on now. Can I get a used discount? Let's see what you got here. Bro, this is a jackhammer. Is it not? Oh no, that's another thing. I was about to say jackhammers are like 20 bucks, bro. Can I get the used discount? Five bucks, Fletchy. Five bucks? Ooh, I got that Goodwill special. This little setup, we have a used and abused crawl with a bent hook. I think I can make some repairs. Can I get this and one- Extra crawl? One extra crawl for a dollar 50. I was gonna say two bucks. Two bucks? I mean, it's your call. It's two bucks, that's your fourth bait. And then, yeah, two bucks. Can we meet at 175? We'll meet halfway. Yes, sir, yes, sir. It's a deal. That was a good bargain. Thank you, sir, thank you, sir. So let me find a crawl to put- Why am I like the auctioneer of this video, man? I'm just making the prices up. I kinda like it, though. I need an actual cash register, though. So next video, if you guys wanna see a cash register, we need to go to a pawn shop, Fletchy, and get one of those like old cash registers. Typer on up, you know? Choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo. So there is my extra crawl. That's gonna be part of my little combo pack. So we got four baits, we need one more. If I could get like a crank bait, we got like a little KVD 1.5. Boom. Money. Money. I like it. Five bucks. Dude, you got five bucks, you got the deal. We got our five lures, we got our cheap rod, and we're about to hand to this boy with the Mac Daddy budget. Thank you for coming to Fletcher's Tackle Shop. You're welcome. I appreciate the business and your $25. So I'm definitely gonna use that on my budget, so now I get $275. Thank you for letting me purchase the items I already own. I know, yeah. It's good deals. It's good. Yeah. All right, boys, now we go in with the $250 budget. First things first, we have to go with the rod. That's gonna be the heftiest spender out of my items. So I need a rod and I need five baits. I could possibly get more baits because I'm balding. So we can go a little fancier. You know, Fletcher was over here around the budget bin. I don't know if we'll do that today, but let's go ahead and walk over here to this little rod holder that we got. And we got a bunch of different options. Fletcher, matter of fact, I might go with two rods, man. You won the 100 year old combo? Dude, I could knock somebody out with this thing. It's actually very hefty. This originally retailed, I think, $25, but adjusted for inflation over 100 years. We're looking at about $2.75. Like $2.75 or something? $275. You're crazy quick. You're crazy. Not doing that. All right, we got some spinning rods. We got some nice ones. But to be honest, like, I don't even know if I wanna go with spinning rod. I want something that I'm comfortable with. I wanna go with the baitcaster. What Fletcher was saying, you know, this time of year, fish are chewing up on bait fish. We're gonna be throwing a lot of moving bait. So with that being said, probably not the spinning rods. So let's go ahead and walk. There's a couple baitcasters there. We got a Mach two. The problem I have with that is that it's left-handed and I am not left-handed. We got a bunch of different options over here. We have a Mach crush, but I believe this might be too expensive. That's like $200 or something. Yeah, that one's, I think it's 280. That's way out of my budget. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Not even a picture. Okay. Not even a picture. I mean, you go with the Zepco. I mean, if you're feeling it. I mean, what? I mean, we already know that we are going with the KTV. No, we're going with the kicking combo. That's right in the business. Oh my God, unless I broke it there. All right guys, this is a 150 bucks kicking combo. You guys can check them out on kickinthebass.com. I appreciate everybody for the love and support. You know, co-partner with Luz on this. And this is just an awesome rod. One is great for the price. One, it casts far as heck. I've seen it outcast $500 reels. I've been blown away since he released this thing and being able to use it beforehand. This thing has been phenomenal. Like it casts a mile. I've let a ton of people use it. You know, fans, friends, all that. And everybody can't believe that it's only 150 bucks. So it's a good bang for your buck. So that's definitely what I'm going with. I know I'm not on like a short budget, but like honestly it's perfect for this. 250 bucks, pay 150 for the rod. We got $100 in baits, bro. I think I can choose more than five if I really wanted to. And that might be a good thing for us today because think about it. If I had five baits and they're just not biting one of the baits, I can always switch up to another one, man. That might come in handy, you know? That is an option. You know? So let's go over here to the bait section. So I'm thinking definitely a square bill. I mean, the fish are just chewing up on shadow. These liplices are some weird colors, Fletcher. I love red, but I just don't know about that right now. Yeah. These are like, oh gosh. Dude, you break it, you buy it, man. Come on. Well, here we got Strike King Two Tap, Ketch's Giants. I actually caught a lot of big ones. And one of the last episodes, you guys need to go check it out. But this thing's been killing it. This is one of my favorite fall time baits. So I have to go with the lipless here in the perch color. It's called Sugar Daddy. Sugar Daddy. Sugar Daddy. That's what I am over here. All right, we got that. We're definitely going to go with a KVD 1.5. This is just what it looks like. Just a standard like bluegill color. Yeah, it's called bluegill. You got Sugar Daddy and then you got bluegill. Two polar opposites of names here. But there we go. Two baits right there. Let's see what else we got, man. Do you have any jake heads flush like swim bait heads? They're around here somewhere. You're going to have to do some digging. Cause I mean, you probably have used 90% of them. Probably. We got right here, just paddle tail swim bait. Pretty basic. That's a good natural color. This one's actually, you know, it's a sexy shad. It's got a little blue tint to it. That's, that's fire, bro. Probably could have took your used pack, but you know, I just got too much money. Yeah, too much money's spent. What are you looking for? You looking for? Looking for anything and everything. I'm going with a spinner bait, man. What you think about that, Fletch? Look at that. It's got a trailer hook and everything. That's fancy. Do you want an old sluggo? What is a sluggo? You don't know what a sluggo is. No, what is a sluggo, bro? Dude, that's an OG bait. Missed a twister? Missed a twister on the bait. We'll just set them right there. Oh, you do got swim bait heads. Fletch, look at this. They're a little hefty, little hefty. What are those, like half ounce? Quarter ounce, those aren't bad. Quarter ounce, okay. Yeah, that's cool. So we're going to get some little swim bait heads. So we have them with our swim baits. What is that? One, two, three, four, five, five baits. As far as the baits go, like if your moving bait bite is just not on today for some magical reason, what do you do? Cry. So I want to like stay in a good spot. So I think I'm probably going to go with, I'll go with rage crawls because that's definitely my bread and butter, but no, no rage crawls. We're just going to go with these ultra wide speed crawls. That's one of my favorites, too. That's sick. We'll grab some hooks and weights here at the end. I kind of want to grab a couple more moving baits, Fletch. Let's see. Dude, I know what you need. I need a chatter dog, bro. I want to gift you this rat. You can have it for $50. 50 butt, dude, you're crazy, you're crazy, Fletch. I don't know how to, no. Look at this, Fletch. I had to go with a chatter dog. That would just be illegal if I didn't have it. Yeah, now you're copying me. Listen, dude, I'm actually going with two chatter dogs. This one doesn't even have a skirt. That's considered a different bait, right? Technically, yes, technically, yes. I don't know, we'll see. Maybe we won't even use both of those, but we're going to just throw a couple of those in the mix. And then lastly, Fletcher, do you have like a trap box? You got a little trap house box? Yeah, dude, I got a trap for you, hold on. Bro, that is insane. Have you actually caught a fish on that? Yeah. That is ridiculous, man. Hold up a regular sized trap for that. Well, I bought one over here. Yeah, go get your sugar daddy. Oh, my sugar daddy. Dude, that is ridiculous, bro. That's how you catch the bigs. That's pretty crazy, man. We'll see. That lure was actually $25, so if you wanted that. This one was? Yeah, that one was actually $25, but I'll give you the used discount for 17. To be honest, I think I can still buy it. I can still buy this and I want one other trap. Okay. All right, I want a normal trap. You have like a normal color. I got sugar daddy, but I want something special. I got some hybrid hunters. You want a hybrid hunter? That's a little spicy. You want a hybrid hunter? Hybrid hunter. Oh, a hybrid hunter. This little white guy right here. Oh, yes sir, little L Bill. Okay, I'll take that. That's actually a pretty cool color, man. Looks slick. Okay guys, I think that is all that we're gonna pick out for my budget. I got the $250. Oh, Fletch, he's got the $25. Now we're gonna catch y'all at the pond and we're about to smoke these fish, so let's get it. I'm gonna smoke this boy. All right, boys and girls, ladies and gents. What's going on, Fletchy? That wasn't good getting my GoPro bra all ready to go. And now it's time to get down to business. Yes, ma'am. Okay, boys. Yes ma'am. Yes, ma'am. I got a whole cardboard box full of goodies, $100 worth of goodies, and we got to decide what we want to use. To be honest, boys, I think I'm gonna go on the edge. I haven't put a square bill in a while and start off with this KVD 1.5 square bill and this is in blue gill color. So there's a lot of blue gill in this pond and I can only assume that this bait's gonna work really well. So this 1.5 actually dives three to five foot. So I think it's gonna be perfect for this pond and we're gonna get this started. As far as water clarity goes, it's a little dirtier than what me and Fletcher are used to in this pond. So hopefully the fish are still gonna bite good. One of the first challenges we filmed out here was unreal. I mean, yeah, we were freaking out and one of the best like hour stretches of fishing we've ever had. Yeah, it was unbelievable. So yeah, we're gonna start off with a square bill. So I'm gonna go ahead and tie it on and see where we go from there. While Noah has a whole box of stuff, I have one little hammy down plastic bag of baits with just a little variety pack. This is the poverty tackle box. We got ourselves a nice thunder cricket for cheap and we're gonna see if we can catch a fish with it. All right, Fletcher. I think it's only fair for me to wait for you to tie on and then we're just gonna jump right into it, man. Got it all tied up and we're actually gonna spice this thing up with one of our trailers a little bit. This doesn't count as two fish for two different baits. We're gonna actually have to catch a fish with this individually, unfortunately, but it will definitely help us catch a fish on this little shattered onk. Slipper right on there and we are rigged and ready to go, fellas. All right, brother. So this is how this is gonna work. It's first part of the contest, Fletcher. We gotta catch a fish on each of the five baits. First person to do that gets a point. After that, we're gonna move to the sudden death round. 30 minutes on the clock. The person that catches the biggest gets a point. The person that catches the most gets a point. So what you're telling me is I'm about to get all three points. I wanna see it, Fletcher. I guess we'll see it, but the challenge starts right now, baby. All right. Come on, Fiji. I'm excited, man. I just wanna get a little crankbait bite. Ooh! Fish number one. Gotta get it in the boat. Yeah. That's an absolute donkosaurus. One bait down, guys. Chattanoag going to work. That's one of the smallest fish we caught here recently, man. And usually not that small. The big ones are coming. I'm just gonna switch over to the 1.5. The same bait Noah has on just to show them that I'm better than them. Wait, Fletcher. I won't get him. Just give me a moment. Dude, you were like, not even in a crevice on that fish too. You were right up. I don't know if you noticed that. You were right on the edge of a tree, but he bit it like near the boat. If you haven't figured out, I'm studying what you're doing. I'm paying attention to every. My really established pattern off the fish. Yeah. You just gotta cast over here. Dude, I'm gonna tell you, you know what's funny is you're gonna get hit. Ooh! Or I get hit, baby. Or I get hit, baby. Oh, yes, sir. That's a decent fish too. Come on, boy. Oh yeah. That's a good two and a two pounder right there. A lot of ball. I got that old treble hook, man. I don't know if she gonna do it. Yes, sir. A little old two pounder gander. We are tied one in one and the fish seem like they're biting. So this is gonna be a fun day. Thank you, baby. All right, boys. Well, we got the 1.5 out of the way. Fletcher's throwing his 1.5. We gotta bite pretty quick. So that kind of worries me because Fletcher's just gonna be cooking here. And I think for the second bait, I'm gonna rock with the dang spinner bait. All right, boys. Well, we got the old spinner bait with a trailer hook. We gotta be careful with that trailer hook because we don't wanna hook one of these trees, but old spinner bait should get slammed. Last time I threw a spinner bait flesh, I caught it 10 pounder now. Oh, okay. So I'm just saying. Last time I threw a spinner bait. It's like I love getting spinner baits up on that cover and hitting off the branches, but then you get hung up like that, you know? I was just speaking into the existence. You got a tree pounder this time. You know what's funny? I was gonna say I love it. Yeah! Oh, come here. Come here, pretty little lady. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, she ain't hooked great. Get her in the boat. Dang, boy. Well, Fletcher's ahead right here. You know, we're gonna take our time. Get our fish off. Just kind of drifting here for Noah. Thank you for the bite, honey. We just kind of burnt our good baits. Actually we got, we got one more little paddle tail guy that I think's gonna be money. Oh boy, I don't want to get behind, man. I really don't. If these challenges repeat themselves, you usually win the first one and I end up coming in clutch and winning the last two. So I guess we'll see what happens here. Okay guys, we got bait number three. That's our little paddle tail on our jig head. And I think this should have no problem getting smoked based off of the success of the first two lures. Similar profile, similar fishing style, just kind of cranking middle of the water column, trying to get those fish out of chasing bait. This is the perfect little snack size for a bass that's looking for a munch. Dude, that swim bait should get clapped. I know. All right, come on, fish. I need something. I want to even up the playing field here. Oh, let's go. Let's go. Fish. Oh my gosh, this is a good one too. Number three. Way to go. Stay on. Stay on. She was off the bank too. Don't spit it, honey. Don't spit it. Spitters are quitters. Oh, it snapped off. No way. I'm gonna hold her in. Oh, Fletcher. I got a good one too. Yeah. Yes, I think I got her on the trailer hook. Stay pinned, baby. Always a freaking nice one. Come on. Come on. Last fish number three, guys. No one's on his third. I'm on my fourth. We got to secure this dub in the first quarter. We're gonna go switch to our little beetle spin jig. Here we go, boys. Look at that. Look at a little two and a half. Pretty fish. Thank you, baby. I was starting to think I was like, maybe both of our baits suck or we're just not in the right spot. And I guess we weren't in the right spot because we just both got clobbered. You're going beetle spin. I got my beetle spin soft plastic. I was gonna put it on the other jig head, but I kind of like the jig head I just had. It's got a little bit more size to it. You know what I'm going with? Chatter, chatter bait. Yes, sir, the old chatter donkey. We're gonna put one of these swim baits on the back like Fletcher said earlier. We're not counting that as, that would just be a little crazy. That'd be a little unfair. It'd be overpowered and then everybody would be doing it at every challenge. But I am on to bait number three. Are you on the bait number four? Oh, we're all four. Oh my God. Okay. We're closing in. This $25 budget is about to put your booty to shame. Come on. Oh, this chatter donkey just feels right. It just feels right. Oh my, my skirt fell off. Already? Yeah, and this was the, this isn't even- Did you melt it off? Yeah, it just totally melted off. It was a little sticky like it was sitting in the sun or something. Yeah, no, that's crazy, bro. Look at how good it looks guys without the skirt. Just looks like a regular swim bait. Oh, oh, come on. Oh dude, this, this, the twitch on this is kind of fire. This might- Is that a bluegill or what? No, it was a bass, dude. It was a bass. I can't really straight reel this thing. So I'm twitching it and the twitch action on it is fire. Oh, yes. Yes. One more bait to go if we get her in. Boom. I can't believe that. That's actually a good fish too. That's all it took. That's all it took, folks. Thank you. Oh, you missed one. We're gonna do that prize. Dude, we're, they're biting, bro. They're biting. Come on, fish, please. I'm taking that off and we are gonna actually just throw our crawl onto this jig head because I think that is just a smarter move at this point. Save us some time. Doesn't matter if it's got an eyeball on it. I think, I don't think the fish will mind. That was perfect too. It was like you were unhooking that fish. It was like the last time. It is not capitalizing on your opportunities, man. The odds are in my favor, though, even if you win this because this is how everyone's gone about. Oh, dude, he was running at me so hard, bro. Please stay pinned, baby. This is our chance. Is number three. Yep. So I'm on bait number four now. Oh, he was barely hooked too. Thank you, baby. Thank you for staying pinned. Fletcher needs one more bite. I need two. Okay, there we go. I'm hoping this crawl isn't my downfall. I mean, you think this would be a dominant bait, but they've been really liking that like white moving bait. Dude, I can't believe I haven't whipped this out yet. I was kind of saving it, but I gotta go ahead. Oh, you're going for the two tap. The two taper, dude. This is sugar daddy. Sugar daddy, bring home the prize. You know what I mean? I mean, sugar daddy gets all the ladies. So guys, Fletcher needs two. Yes! Stay on, stay on. Please, come on. Stay on. Oh, please, come on. Oh, I thought she came off for a second. She had a nice little jump there. Come on, dude. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Boom! Oh! That's one point for the good guys. All right. Well, I got one point for the good guys. Bad guys got zero points. We're about to go into the speed around 30 minutes. Most fish gets a point. Biggest fish gets a point. There we go. Question for everybody. Easy there, dude. Did you bring a scale? I did not. All right, boys. A little change in plans. We don't have a scale, which is just stupid. So what we're going to do, and this is scary for me because I can lose right away, we're going to do the first fish and the most fish. So whoever catches the first one automatically gets a point. So if I catch the first fish, I get right back in the game, level playing field, whoever catches the most wins. If he catches the first fish, I'm totally knocked out of the challenge. So that's, dude, that's crazy. I actually like that. I could bring home the trophy in a matter of seconds or, you know, we could be racing for the finish line. I'm choosing my bait, bro. I got the chatter dunk of the swim bait. I feel confident. Listen, I can throw that out in the middle. I can let it sink. I can reel it at the top. I can reel it in the middle. I can skip it under trees. Very versatile. It's a shad bait. It's going to be money. All right, dude. While you're tying up, I'm going to get our timer ready. Call me crazy guys, but I think I'm going to start with the little beetle spin soft plastic trailer. That was the thing I got the fastest bite on. And I really kind of liked the action that like erratic darting is just something different. I've never thrown something like that of whatever I've thrown these little trailers. It's always been on like a little beetle spin spinner bait, but just kind of darting around like that. Honestly, just looked like a snack. So I'm thinking the fish are going to like it as well. All right, Fletcher. 30 minutes on the clock. Whoever catches the first fish gets a point. Whoever catches the most fish gets a point and wins the whole thing if I move on to that round. Yeah. And the 30 minutes starts now. All right, all right. Let's get right in here. Okay. We'll all just run around. I have to catch the first fish guys. If not, they were screwed. That was kind of the front of the boat now. Oh, I got bit, dude. No way. Oh. No, I bet you just missed one. No. Come on, please come back for it. I didn't stick them at all. If we both hook a fish at the same time, is it first person to get it to the boat? I guess. Yeah. I mean, the first person to get it to the boat, I would assume. This is intense, Fletcher. I can't afford to just get sweet. You're not getting sweet, baby. You're not getting sweet, baby. I literally was fishing where you were fishing too. Come on, catch one, catch one. Come on, come on, catch one, catch one, catch one. Oh, oh, I just got a bite. No way. No way. No. Yes. And he's in my hands, boy. It looks like this is going to come down to the most fish in the next 30 minutes. Noah's ahead, one to zero in that category. We got some time to go. We're pointing on coming right back in here. Oh my gosh, dude. My heart was racing. I felt you just eat it. And it honestly felt like grass got stuck on my bait, bro. It didn't even feel like a legit bite. It is one to one in point system, whoever catches the most fish. You know the skirtless chatter? Yes, dude. That's kind of a fire bait. It's honestly amazing. I think that's going to be one of my go-tos. I can't believe you had a bite when you went there. Literally the second it touched the water, that fish got slurped. There's one. No, it came off. No. Dude, I hadn't missed a fish the whole time and then instantly just missed two fish, right? When it comes down to this segment. I'm not stressing yet. I'm still in the lead by one fish. If I can just catch a couple, that would make me feel really good. How do you miss it? And he pulled my dinks, he ate my tail. We're not really balling on a budget like Fletcher. We can actually switch out our swim bait. We've had a fish, had a bite, had a couple bites. We got to lock in here. Fletcher doesn't have a fish yet and I really want to get ahead of them by two or three fish. Oh my God, why am I missing fish now? Yeah, here we go. It's a bluegill. It's a bluegill. I'm sorry. Oh my God. Meaty. Fletcher, that's the biggest bluegill I've ever seen. I'm not bringing this thing out to disc golf course or something. That's what this thing looks like is a dang disc golf. Dude, they're all here. They're stacked, Fletcher. He ate my tail off again. That's what hit me before. Those are giant bluegills. That count or no? I mean, if you're... I feel like just straight fishing for them. I don't know. I'll count that fish for you though. If you catch a bluegill and it weighs over a pound, it qualifies. Well guys, we're switching up swim bait. I have plenty of swim bass to use, so I might as well take advantage. Eat up another one. Oh wait, it's clocked my tail off, dude. Same thing. That's what I'm saying. It's definitely those mega bluegills just coming up and eating it. Maybe that's what I've been getting hit by. There we go. Oh, it's gotta be a bluegill. They gotta be. That's absurd, bro. Oh no. Oh, that's a nice bass. Come on, baby, stay pinned. We gotta take the lead here. That's a nice fish. Can't be falling in, man. There we go, guys, fish. There we go, there we go. Got one. Sit, be a bass, be a bass, be a bass. Yeah! Tighter, right back, go! Come on. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Two to. Two to. How are we looking on time? We've got 22 minutes left. About a third of the way through. I can't believe the fish on this bank and how they're eating them. Yes! No! Do you think it's all bass? There's probably more than that. That one felt like a bass, dude. That one has some size to it. Oh! Dude, no, those are angry bluegill flesh. I promise you, those are angry bluegill. I, dude, they're goliath bluegill. This little darting bait is really, really saucy. I might start throwing this on a regular basis, just to mix it up. Kind of crazy, right? It's kind of fire, dude. It's erratic. It's got a cool fall and dart to it. If you had it on a beetle spin, I felt like you'd have less confidence with it because it's kind of hard to move. Yeah. But look at that little jighead do this. It really opens it up. Stay on, stay on, stay on. Oh, no! Oh! Slammed on it. Slammed. Oh! That's fish number three. I gotta catch up here. I can't believe this. I would have never thought that that little beetle spin thing is gonna do that much work. Hear about the get waxed by the bees. I'm nervous, dude. I actually am. Like, I know you're only one ahead of me and I can easily get it on this cast, but like, what that thing's producing right now is worrisome, for sure. Come on, bass, please. I gotta tie it up. You doing? Oh, it's a good one. Fletcher, that's a big one. That's actually a big one, dude. I got five. Oh, I don't know close to four. Oh, gosh. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Oh my goodness. Thankfully, we're not doing big. Look at that. Yeah, that would have been big fish. Close to it, maybe. Oh my goodness, boys. Well, we are tied up. That fish is almost four pounds. Let's get back in the water. Holy cow. Fletcher, this is getting intense, man. I'm not gonna lie. This isn't the same. Do you want me to help? I've never been so pumped. We've been fishing the last couple of days. We haven't seen fish in this good. No, not at all. It has been slow, but today the fish had other plans. I feel like we're about to get up on this other bank coming up here, and it's about to be crazy, man. Where this bank cools down is the same side on the other. Yeah, I know. He ate it on the... There it is. Yeah, baby! He ate it. Oh, you lost it. Bro, I don't even want to hear it. I don't even want to hear it. I hope that comes back to my shoes. Dude, listen. This is the most suspenseful video I think we've ever filmed. It's way too... I don't even know the word for it. All right, this will go down to the final second. Yes, yes. Come on. It counts. Dude, I don't even want to look at your fish. Well, that just makes me so mad. All right, I got the lead. Oh, my gosh. I've had a good little streak going, boys, but we're not giving up yet. Fletcher's just fighting back with the dink. Oh, no! We're not fighting back. Stay pinned, baby. Stay pinned, please, baby. Okay, this is fish number four to tie it up. Dude, these are good fish, too, man. Like, good two pounder. Wow. Four to four, Fletcher. This is coming down to the end. I'm about to give us a little time check here. Ooh, are we sub 15? Let's see what we got. We got 12 minutes. 12 minutes, okay. It's cutting down. No one's been able to pull away from the pack yet. Come on, fish. Can I get the lead, please? I haven't had the lead since one fish. We've been tied, or you got it. Yeah. Come on, fishy. Just buy my bait. Every time I sing to him, man, it's usually the wave. Mezmerized the fish with my voice. Buy my lure, eh, eh. I like how you got the rock style on that one. Yeah. Yes, yes, you just got to sing to him. Yo, yes. Yeah, she's a little thick, a little thick wall. Boom. That's the lead. That's the lead. Well, guess what? I'm after this cast, Fletcher. Thank you, mama. All right, I got to change swim baits. I'm gonna make sure I'm on par. That could possibly be costing us bites, so there's no point in risking it. Might as well take 20 seconds out to rig a new swim bait on. That's where you're losing time is all that rigging. I don't know, man. I think it might be worth it, especially on this cast, Fletcher. Oh, no. Right there, I didn't even move my bait. That's a nice one. Oh, oh, Fletcher is actually a big one. He's actually a good one. Look at that fish. Yes, good three pounder, man. I'm out of the game. Tie ball game, was it five-five? That was a good one. Yes, oh, is that a fish or a snag? Oh, no, this is not good. This is not good. I just filled my body with one and it was me hearing the sign. Saw you trying to sabotage my fifth fish, Fletcher. The heck was that? That was an accident. I was not trying to... It couldn't have happened a better timing for you. What a coincidence. Sorry, that was roughing the passer, 15-yard penalty, repeat of downs. Is that a fifth penalty? No, dude. We're not deducting any points. It's a 10-second no-fish penalty, or no-fishing penalty. In a future challenge, if you miss a fish, you have to take a 30-second penalty box violation. Come on. Is that the lead for you? That is the lead. Number six. He's barely hooked, too. That's number six. All right, Fletcher. I've been going easy on you. I'm locking in, bro. Are you locking in? I actually haven't locked in this whole time. I'm ready to just slip howl these fish. Should I plow on them? Should I plow? Is that another one? Yeah, it's a big one. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm locking in. I'm locking in, Fletcher. No. Get out of here with all that. These are healthy fish, too, man. All right, boys, number seven to five now. I'm locking in. I got the touchdown. I know exactly what they want. It's taking me all day to figure it out, but I know exactly how to run this bait now. How are we on time? Are we subbed five minutes yet? Let's see what we got. We have five minutes left. That's plenty of time. Plenty of time for a comeback. I just don't know if I'll allow that to happen. I need another fish right here. I feel like I can finally breathe this whole challenge and holding mine. What are you up to? Me breath, yeah, seven to five. Come on, we're probably like three minutes and we're in the tree. That's not what we needed. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, we're gonna have to snap that. Yep. Oh my gosh, we're snapping that. Yep. You got a speeder there, dude. We ain't playing any games. We ain't playing any games. All right, Fletcher. I got the old Thunder Cricket tied up. Did you just get enough of this? Yes, I did. There's no time for you to talk right now, Fletcher. You got like three minutes. Okay, okay, dial in, dial in. No explanation to the people. They just want to see you try to tie it up. Attempt. Time is ticking. Maybe I could get like a two for one on a single hook. What if I caught a two-headed bass? If you catch a two-headed bass, I will happily count it as two. Oh dude, I just threw that in there and this fry little bait ball started popping. They don't want to eat my chatter. You got to slow it down, man. I shouldn't be telling you that, but you got to, I'm talking, I know it's hard to slow down when you're fishing in the last couple of minutes. You get bit? So what did you do there, Fletcher? You slowed it down? No, dude, I sped it up. It's so weird how they're eating it, dude. There we go. There we go. There we go. That puts it within one. What, how much time we got? How much time we got? We got two minutes, bro. Oh my gosh. Okay, there goes that fish. One more and it's a tie ball game. And then we can, I can at least push a sun and death round. Oh, bro, shut. Oh yeah. Oh, no, dude, it was the angle. No. I got to change one baits. I can't, I can't be just playing like that. I've got a lot of bites in the last like five minutes. It's just I can't get them to eat it. Dude, only if I could just caught the first fish this round. Come on now. Yeah, you would have put it away, man. 30 seconds. 30 seconds, oh no. Oh no, my bait's wrapped up. Not how, not how I need to spend my seconds. You can tie it. You could definitely tie it. Eat it. I don't think you're gonna win. Well, I have time for one more cast. Oh, get right up in this little pocket. Oh, OK, you can work it in. You can work it in. Catch one, it counts. I don't think it's going to happen, man. No. I do not know how I've came behind all three times that we've done it out here. I really don't, but Fletcher. I'll take it, man. Good challenge, man.