 Tournament morning guys, we're boat number 73 this morning. There's about 80 boats in this tournament. Might be a little bit more. Big shout out to Clint for putting this on. It's a benefits tournament. We actually showed up last year. You guys probably saw the video where Bradley drove his boat into the trees. This is the same tournament we fished last year. Got Katie with me this morning. We're gonna try to put her in on him. If you guys are new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button. Hit the notification bell. Also hit the like button. It's gonna be a good day, man. We're gonna document it. I'm gonna film as much as I can. Hopefully we're gonna whack the big fish today. The river is super high. I thought it was gonna be a lot higher this morning. So it's gonna be interesting to see how the river plays today. I haven't been out here in a few weeks. So we're kind of going in this blonde, which honestly, I'm happy that we're doing. So I don't have a bunch of information in the back of my head. And we have a little game plan on what we're gonna do. So we're just gonna put the boat to drive and go try to catch some big ones today. Let's get it. All right guys, we are getting the day started at our first little spot that we pulled up to. Hopefully they're gonna bite. I'm throwing a buzz bait. Katie's throwing a spinner bait. And we're gonna get it started with that. I'm gonna work my way back in here pretty fairly fast because I really don't want the fish right here at the mouth. I'm not too interested. So I'm just gonna put that on the trolling motor and just go and cover water. See if we can get a couple good bites. And more importantly, see if we can get a bonus bite on this buzz bait because that would just be awesome. All right, let's retie that. Retie it. There's a fish popping up there. Flip really very good on this right here. There he is. That's a good one. Yes, thank you. Shattered dunk, boys. First fish already. Right where I thought we were about to catch him. Right in this one in the box, boys about a pound, pound and a half if we're lucky. He felt really good when I hooked at him. I thought he was gonna be two plus. That's okay. I will take it. He ate it. Yeah, that fish is very good. That was good. He actually bit like that last one, that first bite I had. So that first one's definitely a bass. Just take the room over towards you, parrying that you're gonna scoop or just let it fall in the net. When I saw him come up, oh, there's a warm out there. I didn't feel it, but I just felt it. Yeah, that's all you got. I was like, you got a fish. I don't know what you got. You got the monkey off your bag, not really what we want, but big warm out. He ain't gonna hurt you. He didn't go out by the mouth like a bass. We're just gonna go fish around here. There's a lot. What's up? Just figure out, just pay attention. I weren't casting the middle of that, but there's been a lot of fish. Yeah, there's gonna be limbs down there, but you just gotta drag through it, make sure your bait's buried. How you doing? Doing good. There you go. Get it right up to the net. Let me get him for you. Yeah. Oh, you good? Yeah. Good job. Well, Katie's on board now. We got two fish. It's right there on that tree over there. I know what it's on. Good to go. Cast back in there. Good job. There we go, fish number two. That was good. Keep it going. Get me three more. Guys, I don't have a, I never tied a slow moving bait like a Texas rig on today. I don't have a big flipping rig, but I don't, I never, I didn't really tie any little finesse bait to throw around this stuff. I'm just gonna be sticking to the moving baits and topwater and really trying to catch the big fish today while Katie kind of goes behind me and throws a, you know, slow moving bait and kind of picks up the fish that wouldn't eat the moving baits. So I'm just kind of looking for a big bite. Should be one up in there. I'm hoping I'll find one that wants this thing falling fast in front of his head. Now, when you call that fish, how far up was he? Like up on the bank. I can get on this crank bite today. Could catch some big ones. And I had a damn aggro. It's so bloated. Oh, it's small, it's small. I keep very good. I just want to limit right now just so we can hunt for good ones the rest of the day. Then we'll just go, go, go, go. And if we're getting bites for small fish, have you ever done weightless? Mm-hmm. Oh, there he is. Oh, yes. No, he pulled off. There's no way that was a big one. Hammered it. No, he was off the bank a little bit. Oh my God. Right behind those people, too. That sucked. Oh my God. That's a freaking big. Oh, well, it's probably what bit me. I feel a little better now. I don't know if I feel better or worse. Oh guys, got our first muddy today. Nah, I think that first fish I hooked was a mud, too. It both felt so big. I couldn't believe I threw back in there. That was a big, that was a bad. Oh, I know. My drag was really loose, actually. A lot looser than I like it. About to say we went right behind them people and hooked too big bad, so it was like, okay. All right guys, we just came out to our second spot of the day. I'm gonna catch around this chatter bait a good bit, just searching for a big one. There was baitfish jumping right there. We got this bluff bank right here on the left side. When you go back in it, there's willow trees. And I'm curious to see how much water is up on them willow trees. And if I can skip this chatter bait in the back of them because I think that can be a great way of catching a really great fish right now. So I'm gonna cover some water. We're gonna fish this steep bank right here first and just see if there's some fish on it. And if we catch one or two on the steep bank, we're gonna go down towards the mouth and fish it. Cause I just went all the way past this bank. I haven't really tried it, so. Oh no, we're gonna cover a lot of water. We're gonna try to treat today like a practice day almost. And I'm just gonna cover water because every time I fish a tournament, I kind of get stuck on what I did in practice. And like I said, we didn't get to practice at all. And I haven't been out here in a while. So I'm just gonna keep an open mind and act like this is a pre-fishing day and cover water. And we should put together a really good bag. Uh-oh, what are you doing? Why are you hitting me like that? That was a brim, which is a good sign. So it tells me that the brim are pushed up in these trees in these flooded areas. The bass would be up in it and on the outskirts. Pushing in, feeding, coming back, sitting on the edge of the trees. Then when the sun gets up, we'll get a little more tighter. We might need to flip that, re-flip that. I'm telling you, there's big ones in this. It's just you can't, the water's so high, you know? That you just can't, unless it's right place, right time, like a bass cruising on the edge or you skipped in a little crevice. That's the only time that I really catch these fish. Third spot of the day, still two fish in the box, but I believe we can fill out our limit here. I think we can make it happen. The water's actually very clear. Holy cow. I was not expecting the water to be clear, especially after this flood. But let me tell you, the water is outstanding in here. And the mouth of it, it wasn't as clear and I drove back here and it looks amazing. So I'm gonna cover a bunch of water and see if we can finish off this limit and more importantly, hook a couple big ones while we're at it. Uh-oh. Oh, he spit it out. Why'd you spit it out? That's right where he should have been. In my body again. They put it in his mouth and he spit it out. Oh my God, he was right there behind me. Oh my gosh, that was a good bass. Please follow it down, I need it. Please follow it down. That was a good one. Did he really hit you? You got one? Sure he's not running with it. Is he running with you? Uh-uh. Get him up in here. He's 11. You can try to measure him. I think he's 11. About to put a new swim bait on the back of this chatter donk. This is a Baby Sun Gill. Gonna rig this up. This is on the back of the black and blue. Not the best match, but I seem to have a good bit of luck with any color on the back of a black and blue chatter bait and I rigged that up. Probably the worst rigging job. Look how bad that is. That's horrible. Probably the worst rigging job I've done in years. My God, get your crawl, yeah. Throw it right here. Right there. It's weird. It's so lizard. That fish bite you? He has it on him. Giant, hey. That's a good one. Team up for it there. Yeah, that was good. All right guys, third fish. There we go. He actually bit my chatter bait. Told Katie to throw her soft plastic in there. Sure enough he had it. Make sure you throw on that thing right there, that old stump. Looks really good. I've had some bites on it. You got one? Really big. All right, you're good. You're good. He's a big one. He's going under the boat. Don't let him go to him. What do you mean? That's my drag. Oh my God. Freaking four pounder. Oh my God. Is he hooked? Yeah, he's hooked. That's a good one. He was right on that tree? Yeah. Oh my God. Good job. I don't know if he's quiet for it. Yeah, he's hooked right there. Son of his mouth. Did you see him go under the boat? My rod went in half. Remember what I said the timing thing? I think we hit it right on the money. We can get five of these. Yeah, seriously. I thought he was bigger when he came up next to the boat. That's a three and a half pounder all day. Good job. That was half of you. Called the shot. That was a good fish. Look at that. Katie just called her solid three pound, three and a half pounder. That's a really good fish. I'm gonna put him on this side. Big side right there. We got four fish. He just caught that other one a couple minutes ago. If we can get some more like that, I thought that fish was bigger. When he jumped next to the boat, I thought he was like four or five pounds. We need more like that. Oh my God, there's no way. Okay, you got him. All right, he's gonna be so close. He's gonna be 11. Jake, you try to measure him though. Don't ever guess it. I'm gonna put on a Texas rig because they're eating that. Good job. Hopefully that's number five, but I don't know, it's gonna be 11. We're gonna be 11. It's okay. I might've been a different fish because you stuck that first one. I literally was watching you. Right before you said it, I was like about to grab the net. I was like, she got another one or he bit it again. What came in my head was a mudfish. I was like, maybe a mudfish? What am I doing? All right guys, I'm gonna rig another Texas rig up because she had three bites instantly and we were talking about it. It's like a timing thing. The whole time I fished the river this year, like all the times that me and Bradley went out and everything, the bite has just been later in the day. I don't know why. And so we came back to our first spot. We went to a bunch of other spots. I think she caught two fish that were like 10 inches and that was it. I had a few bites. They're not chasing anything. They're not eating you. This is gonna be a slow day. So I'm probably gonna put this Texas rig on and just start covering some water. And I'm also gonna pick up my flipping rig and flip some of these willow trees. It's just hard to flip these willow trees now because the water's so flooded behind them. So I don't know. But we're gonna just keep on chucking along. The fish are on the edge of this stuff too. If you guys are wondering what we're doing now, Katie had all those bites on that slow moving bait. So, and there's been five boats literally in here at the same time. This isn't a huge lake. So it's been pretty crowded. On the people that we saw here this morning, they actually came back right after we did. And there's just been a ton of boat traffic. So what I'm doing right now is I'm just flipping these willow trees and bushes and just trying to do something different than everybody else. I don't think anybody out here is doing this right now. So kind of over here flipping all around this cover and in hopes of catching a five plus pounder. Cause since she caught those fish on a slow moving bait, I'm like, you know what? I need to be throwing this. Everybody's going around the same stuff. I've seen 10 boats or 10 times somebody's passed this today. But they're all thrown on the edge. You know, I'm getting up there way up in that stuff. So there's more of an opportunity for me to catch one because the fish are possibly not how to bait in front of their nose. Uh-oh, I got them. Oh my God. Yes. Yes. Look how fat he is. Oh my God, the net broke. What did you do? Look how fat this fish is. Literally guys went to another spot, destroyed my boat. I don't even know if I'm putting any of that in the video. And I freaking didn't have anything. Then we come back to the old reliable spot and solid fish right there. Yes, we got five. Now we got five fish in the box, baby. Let's go. I trust this thing. Get them. Oh my gosh. Yes. That's a freaking big one. Just keep her coming. Keep her coming. Keep her coming. Oh, she's going under the boat. That's a big one. Oh my God, that's a huge mud. No, yeah, he was fighting the same way. I thought he had a freaking toad. I caught a mud in the same spot earlier. Remember? Yeah, you did. All right, guys, that way in. It's a beautiful one. Look at the colors on that fish. Cool one, isn't it? That's a spot. Thank you, brother. Thank you, bro. Good job. What's your name? Riley. Riley. I was in your last video. You were in my last video, I remember. We fished the same tournament last year. You were here, too. I remember. Oh. That's Katie's favorite one. Look, he's got spots on him. Ooh. 338, 3.38. There's five allowed for total weight. 9.18. 9.18.