 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 10. You got it! You got to respect the heart of a smallmouth. Welcome back to the channel everybody. It's going to be a great day. Glad you're here. If you missed the last episode in the series, we were basically catching as many smallmouths as I've ever caught in one day. We caught over exactly 100 fish. So awesome, awesome time. But we've got some more objectives, some more challenges for you today. And we're going to be going after some smallmouth with fly rods today. Actually having a competition and also another big goal, another big check mark and we're going to try to get Matt's PB done. So that's a big goal of the trip and the conditions right now. We've got some sun possibly that's going to come out. It rained yesterday afternoon. It got really nasty. We had to get off the water. Now, if this sun comes out, Jeremy's saying that the fish are going to be moving in like three times more than what we saw yesterday. It could get insane. So, let's go. PB day? It's PB day. We got a surprise for you. Okay. Okay. Got a surprise for Matt. It's Matt's birthday. So we got to break his PB and I'm a big, I'm a big cutlery man. Okay. Good cutlery man. I think you need some cutlery in your life. So we got a little surprise for you. We're going to roll up to a nice culture store over here and get you some good cutlery. When is your birthday? Friday. Friday? Yeah. We already got your birthday week. Birthday week. Yeah. We're celebrating the whole week. I have a whole week to catch a PB on my birthday. Oh, you're catching it today. Okay. Are you shotgunning a beer? No matter what time it is. No matter what time it is. If this is the first fish I catch out there today, I'll throw a lobin. Oh, Matt. This is your day. Custom crafted knives, huh? I think you should wear this knife you're about to get on your belt. And they make them right here. We get to watch them make them. They're showrooms like on this hand. So cool. So this is for like your grunt work, your bone, going through the bones and whatnot. And then the bottom part is actually a flame. I've never seen that. Wow. That'd be perfect going up the belly. Awesome. Rapid River knife works. That's where we're at. They've got all these custom knives. We're talking well-balanced beauties. So I'm thinking we need to get you something you can use. Not just something that's going to be on the shelf, you know. So we should try to find something mid-sized that you can use in your everyday life. I mean, you are the knife king. There's one thing that gets you going. It's knives. Dude, I love them. Some people don't know that about my life. I have a collection and I do like them. You like to sharpen them? I love sharpening knives. There's an art to it. It's very relaxing. Feel that in my hand. How do you feel about that? I feel like I can get some things done here. I know. You know. I'm looking for that perfectly balanced, simple knife. That's good for skinning. It's good for shaving. You can wake up in the morning and shave your face. You've done this? You can do it at deer camp. If you have a sharp enough knife, this is high quality steel. All these knives are high quality. How do you tell? How do you tell good steel? A good steel is really hard to sharpen. That's all I really know. She's laughing at you, the expert of that. What do you think? Should we engrave it? I think it would be something cool. Okay. What do you think? I like the MK Ultra. MK Ultra. I like that. MK Ultra. Do you want just MK in the space? Yeah. You're getting MK Ultra put on the knife? Yes. Great. Why does that not surprise me? Chris, will you explain what is going on here to our folks at home? Yeah. So this is over a 100,000 year old essentially fossilized woolly mammoth tusk. It's solid ivory. Approximately 260 pounds to the tip. And to get the blue green ivory natural color, it takes 100,000 years buried in the perfect environment to color like that. This tusk will not... I bet you don't have one of these at home. Yeah, I want to see the shoes. That's cool. What did you get put on yours? The font is awesome. MK Ultra. That looks sick. Nick, well that's the first one she's ever done. With that font? Yeah. First time she's ever done that. Really? Yeah. No. No, I've done like 20,000. Okay. What are you going to say? What are you going to say? Good first go. Matt. Hey. Thank you for the birthday gift. I appreciate it. Congratulations. What a great friend. How's your knife? Everybody needs a good knife in their life. I just got to have to go cut himself. Just don't give that to John or Alex Perrick. We'll be fine. Okay. I'll be fine. All of our warranty stuff, my cards in there, websites on the side. Awesome. Thank you so much. Look at there. Brand new knife. Catching smallmouth. Yeah. We'll have to go do that. And saw a woolly mammoth. And saw a woolly mammoth. This is real life up here. Look at that. Perfect. I'll have G centered up. We'll sheath it up. Let's go fly something with this thing. Got some boats loaded in there. We've never taken those. We had some scouts go quite close to us. Look at these boys catching these fish. The game rod pattern is strong. I think people catch a fish today. They were not catching fish. We got the juice. They like flare it up. Oh, he's going to bite it. Yeah. It's getting tighter on it now. Please tell me y'all can see all these baits. Yeah. Can you see them everywhere? I see them, man. Like there's a bed right there. Bed 10 feet past it. Oh, he bit it. He's got it. Got it? Yeah. Yes, baby. Oh, it's a big one. Oh, it's a big one. Oh, it's a big one. Oh, it's a big one. Get the lobe ready. You heard me. Take her easy. Take her easy. Oh, my gosh. Did you see the size of this thing? Matt's got his PB almost landed right now. Spotted this four-pounder. Oh, no, no. This is one of the biggest ones of the trip. God. He's still got some fight in him. Come on, baby. Grab that thing. Grab that thing. Yeah. Four-pounder for sure. That's one of the biggest ones of the trip, dude. He's missing an eye. He's missing an eye. Oh, man. Dude, that is awesome. That is cool. That is cool. Watch that fish get matter and matter and matter of work. Matt now has first fish of the day and biggest. And we have no money on the line today. Hey, dude. Thanks, guys. That is my boy. What do you think? Take a guess. It's a little skinny, but I'm going to say. It's a little skinny. I think some of the fish we caught yesterday might have been a little bigger. I'm going to say four and a quarter. Four-eleven. Four-eleven, baby. Four-eleven. All right, let's break it again. Congratulations. Thank you. Let's get a solid pick of this guy. Yeah, me too. Wouldn't you catch a four-eleven? I caught on the drag and drop. Drag and drop? Nice. Of course. What else would you fish? Two. That's your bait. Thank you. Got him. That's my mate. All right. There it goes. Back to the bed. My man. My man. Come on up in here. Here's a Micolobe. That is a monster. Isn't that a shotgun of this, though, right? Yeah. Just wait a minute. Yeah, yeah. You said you were going to shotgun this. I can't use fishing pliers to do this. Okay. The superior light beer. Bottoms up. Yes. Four-eleven. That's awesome, dude. Four-eleven. Look at the pro. Look at the pro. Is it gone? No, we need to get the kid. There he goes. There it is. You know, what's impressive is that you spotted that and immediately said that's a four-pounder. Yeah. Immediately. Used to do this a four-pounder. Well. I knew. I knew it was meant to be. I knew. Monster goal accomplished right there. Beer everywhere. Off the bucket list here. So we've got 100 fishing a day. We've got Matt's PB broken now. Yeah. What's next? What's next? I think we need to get him creative. Well, as Jeremy's bringing another toad in on the drag-and-drop, we're going to switch methods here. I don't know much about fly fishing. I've done it a little bit just for fun. But casting and working debate is definitely a challenge for me. And I think it'd be awesome to get my personal best on a fly rod. So yeah, we only have two fly rods. So it's only going to be two people. It's Matt and you competing? You have a lot of experience with fly. You would just, you would whip us. I feel like Matt would be definitely more entertaining. You guys are going to enjoy Matt watching, watching Matt cast, I think. Do not take your glasses off during this experience. Okay. I feel like I'm missing something. First time flying? First time flying. The question is, where's the rest of my rod? That's it. That's your tip. What about the ass end? You got an ass end. Where? What are you talking about? I feel like something goes on the bottom. Oh my gosh. Yeah, Jeremy's got a hog on. Look at work. Jamie. Tell me something doesn't go on here. Like what's this for? Okay. Our, our residential expert on fly fishing is behind the camera right now. Backwater brunt. And so he's given us some inside knowledge here. I don't know, I don't know much about these classroom in those, but I know that we're probably going to have to let it sink into these bedding areas enough to where they're going to slap it. I don't know if they're going to come up to the top. We got problems. Backwater. Oh, you're going to get hit, dude. You ready to get, get a fly in the back of your hat? There's a bed right there. Where? Right there. Oh, I can't hit it. This is just a straight dangle right here. This is, you know, the shortest fly casting. You got to let this thing sink in there though. Look at this. I got the hang of this. Come on, baby. Eat that thing. Dude, if he ain't got it, he's all over it. He had it. He had it. Why is this so exciting? My head is, my head is in there. I think this fish is just confusing. I'm feeling pretty confident. You get all this line everywhere with this fly fishing business. It's just, it's just a mess. He's got it. He's got it. Oh, I got him! I got him! Oh my gosh! This is hard. It's hard to do this. Setting the hook and... This is way different. Sorry. Yeah, you guys were all worried about meat on that thing. That looks like he's getting the hang of it back there. That's got me a little worried. I was thinking it was going to be, oh shoot, that's Jeremy casting. No, no, no, it's fine. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. It was pro level casting. This guy just picked up a fly rod and he's zooming it out there 40 yards. I got too much line out here. You just do this? I've got way too much of this thing. I just don't understand. Like, what, there's got to be a better solution than like just this line all over the ground. I step on it. I can't get it out there fast enough. Hey, what are you guys doing? We're talking strategies. No, I want to find the beds. I know there's beds right over here. Where are they at? They were over there. No. Oh, God, I hit myself in the back of the head. That hurt, man. It's like a bee stinging me. I got to move. I'm going to get somewhere safe. I don't feel safe in this boat. There's stuff flying around my head. You'd rather run in 20 foot radius than deal with this right now? All day. I'm 100% certain there's a fish in here. I mean, I don't doubt it. Oh, we got it. We got it. Got him. Big one. Came and grilled it. Now I got to figure out how to get this thing in. I think it's a good one. Oh, he's running. He's running. What do I do? What was it you asked me again? Should I reel? Was there a fish in there? I have no doubt. Oh, he's in the reeds. Come on. Come on. Break him off. Break him off. Get him off. I don't even know how much line is. You have to land your own fish. You have to land your own fish here. Come here. Come on. Dude, this is a wrist workout. Dude, that's a good small amount. Come on. Dude, they don't quit. Where do you stick this thing? You stick it in your belly button? Stick it in your belly button. Come on, Sally. Get me. That's one. Come on. Yes. Oh, my gosh. That is so hard, dude. He came out out of the bed and attacked it, though. Gosh, that is my biggest smallmouth bass on a fly 100% PB on a fly right here. And that's number one. You got some catching up to do, but I feel accomplished now. Can we get this on a fly fishing magazine? Is that good enough? That's as big as my arm. Look at that thing. It's so cool. That's my biggest smallmouth on a fly ever. That's probably three and a half, three and a half, three high threes. Thank you for the awesome catch. We've got to get another. What about you? Am I in the right spot here? Oh, OK. Got it. Got one. Got one. Oh, I got him. No, he does not. He does. Oh, son. It burns. It burns your fingers sometimes. Dude, that's a four-pounder. Oh, my God. That's his personal best, and it's going to be on a fly ride. That's your personal best. You think so? Absolutely. How am I supposed to get this in? It burns your hands. Does it not? There's a little tangle on it. No, your personal best was 411. I forgot we had a 411. Oh, yeah, yeah. I forgot about that. Matt, you're about to land your first fish on a fly ever. Is that correct? Yeah. This is going to happen. I found it to really all the way to the end. How does that rod feel? It's under the boat. I can't get on it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. When it come out. It was hard. It just came out. Wow. Little footballs on fly rides. This might be it right here. Y'all, we've got that. We've just found the absolute hammers. And the conditions are cut like slicking off. Dream scenario for Great Lakes. I did not think we were going to get this calm. So these fish are piling in here like dag gum Vienna sausages. How big is yours? I don't know. It's like it's closed up for. How big is that one you got? It's like a four. Look at his mouth. He has a whole, whole fish in his mouth. He has a whole fish. Look at this. Look at it. It's huge. What kind of fish is in there? Oh, wow. Look at that. Look at that. It's like a big perch. Big perch, man. If we have perch in the area. I would love for us to get some of those fresh. And do a cook. Not a bad double. Not a bad double right there, man. Beautiful fish. Dude, this is so awesome. So awesome. So we got a little something different here with these calm conditions. We might be able to run around a little bit. Find something to see you guys. And the thing that was in its mouth, a perch. There's one more thing we got to do out here on the bucket list. I want to try. I've never caught a perch. And I want to try to catch a perch or a walleye. And we got to just eat the greatest fish up here. Absolutely outstanding. And I think we're going to have the conditions to do it. So y'all stay tuned. Make sure to go ahead and smash the like button for Matt. Catching his pee pee. And just catching all jammers out here. God bless you. I'll see you on the next one.