 What's cracking y'all and welcome back to the channel currently I'm in the wrackly roost right here taking care of the chickens this morning it's gonna be another brutal hot summer day here in Texas got one of the stranger get-ups I've had on in a while but you know what in the summertime it just brings it out of you gotta get the big funny hat out currently I'm wearing boots and athletic shorts but hey you know it's just how things get done while it's been flooded around here I've been going ham in the woodworking category but it is time to dangle y'all and I've been to six different boat ramps this week they've all been closed I'm tired of it I'm heading up to Guggen HQ right now I'm gonna hop in the yak one of my fellow Guggen's told me about a pond I need it hit up so I'm gonna head up there right now get some gear ready and then we're gonna get out in the hot zone and just got up to the HQ here everybody and it is actually hopping in the store I just swear I did not plan that everybody was grabbing mystery tackle boxes so we had a bunch of those here for the grand opening and they're just about all sold out now but if you want to get your hands on one it's really easy there's a there's a thing called the inner webs and mystery tackle box has a website I will leave it linked down below if you use the code Mondo you can pick up your first box for slow as five bucks so they have standard boxes they have pro boxes they have elite boxes what they do is they bundle a bunch of different baits good baits together they select the kinds of baits that you would want to use for that month just depending on you know the time of your patterns and things like that bundle them together you save money it's delivered to your door it's super easy and because you don't know what's coming every month it's literally like fish mess in a box so today's video is sponsored by them y'all I am going to go out and fish this month's box out on one of these local ponds that I've never been to and I'm going to be using a kayak I've never used either I'm used to using the the hobie kayaks I have the pedal drive system these have no pedals or just a paddle so that should be interesting that'll be a challenge for myself it's not too windy but I'm gonna hang out up here at HQ for a little bit and check out anybody that's coming through the store and I'm gonna wait for it to get a little cool because it is it is Texas summer so I'm gonna head out about four o'clock give myself a few hours in the evening maybe there's a topwater in here and we can get on something with a little little splish-blash on top but I don't know it's a mystery we get into it when we get out to the waters okay doki all we've made it out here to the waters today this is actually one of our landlord's spots he's coming along today and got our employee of the month Garrett's coming along with us he's working the store and he's taking a little time off to come out here and do some market research with some gook and baits we allow that of course here's what we got here I cannot believe how amazing this place is and I didn't know about it so we have multiple different kinds of grass that is in the lake we have pond weed we've got submerged and a terrestrial vegetation cat tails big lily pads you name it we've got it around the edge and we got some open water out there we have the yaks right here that we're gonna be using I've never been in one of these so this is gonna kind of be the challenge for me these are the bonafide kayaks that we got up at the warehouse so pretty convenient for today's adventure but they are paddle kayaks versus the pedal kayaks so you're gonna have to like actually use the arms and put the paddle down and pick up the rod Garrett has found one of my boxes that is actually perfect for this pond yeah top waters it's got plastic and it has top water it even has your wacky rig situation right there that's from the last month yeah I got a jerk bait which is tough to fish around grass I do have a square I have Carl's amazing square bill this is the golden boy three five foot that should do some damage we do have the old line through swim bait by optimum baits which I caught some fish on last month as well you have some drop shot looking situation a z-man elastec trickshot there is a jig and Texas rig weights five sixteenths I did bring a frog as well as soon as I heard that there was some grass in here so regardless gonna be throwing a frog at some point today we're in the evening time to which is nice it's six o'clock right now so we've got a couple hours to fish we're gonna be hitting that evening perfect time where you think about summer into the day bite that's what's going down so let's put the axe analyst snag couple green trout what I'm noticing so far there's little holes in the grass around the bank and then right here it's super thick so I think we're gonna have to fish out on this edge it's good to go here there's reeds it like they're pretty much around the whole thing but looks like there's submerged grass on the edges okay I'm thinking a good plan of attack here is to go with a crankbait and the swim bait so I'm looking at this pond I'm going wow I need like a weightless plastic like that's that's what I would normally throw it's kind of windy though makes it difficult so this would be a good way to just kind of try to find find some fish see what they're doing so we'll give it a shot good thing about this this crankbait here that's your standard size square bill right there but it's a bluegill color this water's fairly clear so this should be a good color with these bluegill that are in here along this these weed edges so for this I'm gonna be using a medium action rod with 10 pound fluorocarbon okay we'll give this a whirl first then I'm gonna switch to the swim bait if I start getting caught in the grass a lot one thing you can do to kind of keep your bait up is hold your rod tip up that'll keep that that bait a little higher in the water column swimming above there's definitely areas that are a little bit grassier than others I've drifted over to the side that's really grassy but it's not a bad thing oh got one oh think of the bluegill felt it hit it like a bluegill might be just a really tiny bass smacked it pretty hard for how small it is oh yeah they got monster skills in here monster skills if those are the size bluegill that are in here wow look out and I just discovered how delicious these things are so I might have to get my pan fish rod out here and come back for you sir that's good that is good to know okay let's paddle on to another area see how deep it is over here there's reeds that like they're pretty much around the whole thing but looks like there's submerged grass on the edges oh gosh bass grabbed it big time oh man freaking smoke you cream that thing watch them hooks now watch them hooks come on now hang on now I'm in a kayak let me just grab you oh boy he almost got me there I have no pliers yes you look like a Florida bass my thumb is stuck in your gill rakers I'm sorry oh yeah dark big mouth wow by him nice fish snippet good summer grassy bass a little crank y'all absolutely smoked it so you saw the size of the bluegill that I first caught well you can't quite eat that one that one is safe for most bass you get up to about six pounds they start slamming those guys but that one right there is eating bluegill the size of my crank bait my next idea here I'm gonna I'm gonna put a jig on I've got one of these lifted jigs three eighths I'm gonna put a leftover bandito bug that I modified look at these colors perfect match PB and J and a little bit of Bama bug Bama bug right on that PB J that's a good color combo on a jig represents bluegill very nicely so what I'm gonna do is try to drop this to some of these holes see if anything comes up it's really scared to stand up in this kayak but I'm gonna just gonna attempt to pitch it in there lock the drag down a little bit and I'm totally not equipped to really be fishing heavy grass here this is something you want to use like heavy braid heavy rod I've got a medium heavy action pole here with 17 pound Guggen fluoro sometimes around these reeds there's clean water underneath it find those little clean pockets where there's not all that wadded up grass could get serious go away in there nice thing about a kayak is you can just kind of subtly approach be stealthy from what I saw the one bass that I've caught so far is it looked like pretty high Florida strain genetics it's a good sign though means there's bait up in there yeah that's a good thought he was another Florida looking bass boy I had to just sit in there and he was munching on it so got him on the jig a little bandito bug about the same size Florida dark dark lateral line pretty fish that was fun okay so kind of figured out here that that's two fish kind of close to this weed line and there is a clean spot that's in there it's definitely a spot I want to focus on like I'm not I'm not getting all the clumpy grass on my there's another one oh my gosh I launched him holy cow that's a bluegill oh my gosh no that's a that's a some sort of Sunfish species right there I absolutely walked him hashtag walked him that might be a warm house whoa boy sorry about that hooks that if you notice the color on that guy real similar to my jig takes you about 14 feet away from your cast and that's called kayak fishing there's another one I think no just a regular just one of the local regulars here I keep thinking there's gonna be a mondo in there okay jig is coming through hot right now jig and bandito bug nice don't know where that noise came from they're hanging on to it really good to it means that's the forage they want that combo right there like a peanut butter and jelly color jig this is a 3-8 it's kind of a casting style head more than a flipping but it's pretty good jig a bandito bug on there it's a perfect trailer oh there's one a little too late took a pincher that little son of a gun that was probably one of them big deals okay paddled myself into a little bit calmer waters see if this works out that that area I was in was juice but couldn't keep on the spot there's still some gaps in this grass up here though should be a few in here not a huge fan of the oh there was a boil right from me not a huge fan of the paddling versus the paddling I guess I've been spoiled by fishing in a paddling or a peddling kayak and I don't have to take my hands off the rod which is awesome but this is nice that I can stand up in these I'm gonna do something that I probably should not do and that is called frogging with fluorocarbon and a medium heavy action rock that is the stoutest thing I got and I happen to have a frog brought a frog with me and there's no way that I'm not gonna throw it there's just no way I'm a jig man love fishing jigs that's the key bite right now but I'll give it on this I'm gonna go back to the jigging but you know we're entering the later part of the day 714 been out here an hour you know caught four bass not too bad a couple of huge bluegills but I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen if I actually hook one on this thing having this light gear but I'm willing to give it a go tangled with them another reason you don't want to use fluorocarbon your frogs is there is the tag end of your line is gonna catch on the grass where's braid is so soft it doesn't really do that but just see what happens here let's give her a go open water give a little bob and weave here this might be just a sundown sort of scenario but kind of got tired of picking grass off my jig oh my god oh my god that was a big one oh shiitake mushrooms oh god that scared me right in that hole okay I'm gonna put my jig back on and catch a few fish right here I'm just confident in that way on this little spot and then I'll pick up the frog try to get a try to get another couple blow-ups okay I'm gonna paddle back to my juice stretch you know it's super windy over here I just wouldn't get any bites over there on that other side whoa that's a big deal that is a it is a war mouth I believe yeah okay for shiggles and gigs I'm gonna work this frog around some of these reeds if I can actually get my boat to cooperate it's very difficult very difficult in the wind it's the prime hour I've put down the jig like me by the way this frog is not in the box I'm just just half fish frog right now I can you not fish one oh my god wow terrifying strike yep see later good spots hi oh god we put it in the sugar pie and he've wopped it can't get it back in there I got you boy yeah there we go there's me a frog fish absolutely hose hounded it yes there we go oh my god oh I saw that one oh that was behind the back two and a half pounder guys never didn't see it completely came out of the water they are absolutely they're tacking but they're just not just not grabbing that one was not me oh god came off I got a hook in him got a hook in that one oh my gosh you have to love frog I've caught like one out of nine blow-ups it's terrible oh man I gotta work on my frog game just blew up right here oh real frog bass and he go hey gal it's pretty cool when you get to watch it happen just right in front of you like that I couldn't buy a bite out during this grass earlier it's just slow light it's got him looking up ready to slurp oh god just didn't get the hook set waited had the timing down on that one just did not get him oh god that's a big oh my god he got off oh god that was five six pounder cheese actually had him to oh my gosh that that is why you know he's for a guy oh man I feel like an idiot practice what you preach but I didn't I just didn't have I'm not my boat today I wasn't expecting this so that was a freaking oh oh my gosh catch a bunch of twos and then that one comes up blah yeah I got to see him to flopping around that was that was cool that was worth every bit of getting in this kayak coming out here even to lose that fish just to see it pretty awesome I love frog fishing with 50 pound that's really my favorite keep some 50 pound goog and braid at all times in the truck you think I'd be smart enough to do that as much as I dangle I should have had that one wasn't even looking wasn't paying attention got it again and I got him oh subtle bite subtle bite came back and got it barely barely got it you were close enough hook up on you buddy the final sniff of the evening beautiful beautiful grass fish I've enjoyed getting out here today y'all and catching these fish getting a little evening frog action shout out to MTB again link will be at the top of description guys if you want to go sign up for them they've sponsored me for a long time and I appreciate them and I know I know they would be hitting the like button right now they love frog fishing too I hope you guys hit the like button for some frog blow-ups as well and it's time to shut it down 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