 In this episode, we're exploring the effects of the full moon on largemouth bass in the spring time. Will I finally break my Mexico PB? And is it scientifically proven if your south of the border to coddy light increases your fish catching ratio? Let's start the dangle. Welcome back to another beautiful south of the border Mexico video. This is the final Mexico video in this series and I am trying to break my PB in Mexico, which is eight pounds. I'm going to do something a little different in this video since there's so many fish catches that happen in Mexico to make it worth you guys time. I'm sort of breaking down what is going on throughout the days. This is a couple of days actually that I'm fishing in this video and I'm starting out fishing with Juan and I want to tell you about the wrong decision that we made given the circumstances of the full moon when we started out the day. In the last video, I noticed when I was fishing with Casey under that full moon, these largemouth bass, these females are starting to go to the bank and they're trying to spawn. They're doing their spawning thing during this full moon and what me and Juan decided to do was start out offshore, which we'll learn pretty soon is the wrong move. We should have gone to the bank and this is the season where I say you got to pay attention to the full moon. Other times of the year it really doesn't matter, but in the spring time, which of course down here in Mexico it's you know the spawn is January through March. Most of the southeast in the United States, the southern states you're looking at March and April being the main spawn. You're looking at May, June, even July as you get up north. So it really depends on where you are, but that first big full moon during that big spawn month is when you really want to pay attention to some good banks and we'll talk about those banks and what they look like in this video, but we started out offshore which is more pre-spawn and post-spawn and that was a wrong move. I started out with a search bait, just putting a saucy swimmer either on a flashy swimmer or just a three-quarter ounce jighead just to swim around in some of the deeper water and you know it got a lot of bites and it's a really good way to catch fish, pre-spawn and post-spawn, but we really needed to be slowing down with Texas rigs, we'll kind of go through that, but we ended up throwing these Texas rigs in some offshore areas catching some decent bass, but you know decent bass Mexico, it's fun, but at this point in the trip I've been catching so many fish, I'm spoiled, I'm really just trying to get that big one, so you know some two to three and a half, maybe four pounders, good, lovely, love to sniff them, but I'm really trying to break that eight-pound mark, I've been down in Mexico for four years and haven't broken it. Three pounds, thirteen ounces, so almost four pounds. Hey, that's a cate, a cate, doesn't every time. And the hilarious thing is for the last three years I've come back to the states and I've caught a bass over eight pounds within that next month as I get back into the states, so Mexico is like a numbers warm-up and just I don't know it just greases the skids for me to go and catch a big bass elsewhere. And spoiler alert, I've already done it again this year. Yeah, yeah he's probably two and a half, it's bigger than our smallest, but what's our smallest? We'll call him two six, two seven. So we're catching a lot of bass on trench hogs and lunker logs just dragging them out and you know 12 to 15 feet of water and that's been a good technique but it's where we need to be fishing is important. So we're fishing offshore humps and points and this is where these big bass like to school up in the post spawn and in the pre-spawn before they move up to their spawning areas. In Mexico it is a little bit different because they need steeper banks because the water fluctuates so much. So they need access to deep water but they need some protection and they like that little gravelly stuff in somewhere that just fuels protected and for this particular lake that is a about a 45 degree maybe a little steeper angle bank with deep water close by that's not getting just thrashed by waves and everything like that. So that's what we needed to be looking for. The other guys on this trip a few of the guys found these areas and had just some amazing days. I think Trent and Trevor they called like a 40 pound bag that morning fishing in these similar areas which is kind of holding and I was like well offshore always has a big bass right well not not this particular time when you see that full moon in the sky and it's spawn time go to the bank all right run to it. This is when the big bass are locking down in their bedding areas and you just need to go slow. You need to fish those areas that that look good drag your Texas rig or whatever it is your Carolina rig whatever type of slow plastic presentation that you prefer take that and put it in those areas and just just hang on just go slow that is the key to catching a big bass when they move up into these shallow areas their own bed but you can't see them so you need to just drag that thing really slow where it gives them enough time to get pissed off essentially go over there and grab that thing and you're going to catch a lot of male bass in the process you know these smaller fish but eventually you're going to connect. You want to lay the hammer down? I'm not afraid okay kind of really felt it on that little rock pile that stuck out right there spawners moved up I'd explain it to you but you probably wouldn't get it but they're in here okay they're in here. Me and Laun just continue our offshore points and humps and I'm catching them on the saucy swimmers it's fun you know I mean this is typically something I love to do in May but I just kept thinking like godly we need to go up to the bank. See ate it very nicely little guy they all feel good catching them deep. We finally did but I feel like it was it was just a little too late in the day you know we were already about to come in for our break and caught a few small ones but we just didn't spend enough time up on those steep banks little ones when the afternoon rolled around we got some overcast and some wind and my instinct just said hey let's pick up this swim bait for a little bit more here we might have a feeding opportunity and we were around this big main lake swing area so I started throwing a saucy and this kind of goes against this the steep bank slow dragging but just given this window of conditions I thought this might be a good thing to do right now and I ended up hooking into what I thought was going to break my eight pound curse in Mexico. Saw that how's the carp got a fish I think it's a big one yep it's a big one. Mucho big this may not be a bass but it is it's huge look at this the bass. Moe grande see it's gonna jump big bass I think it's a bass yeah side hooked it's hooked in the side barely hooked grande gots an eight pounder nice I don't know what happened 714 seems to be hitting that 714 yeah a lot all right 714 just shy of an eight pounder that's a stud all right that's a big bass go 7 pounds 14 ounces big girl grande mama I basically stuck with that swim bait until that wind in the cloud cover started to fade down and then went back and picked up the Texas rig and the guy I'm fishing with his name is Patrick he's from SIG and he's got a lot of bass fishing experience as well and we just said man we we need to get on these steep banks don't we it's starting to get calm we got this full moon I mean we just need to slow down and so we went to a really good looking steep bank and just started slowing down with uh lunker logs and I threw a trench hog a little bit um and honestly I just I had a I had a lot of bites get away from me I like I set the hook and the fish was just moving off with that big that big lunker log taken taking the tail and I probably should have downsized given that pattern or gone to like a smaller more compact bait but Patrick ended up hooking into so many bites well a giant just like this caught a giant on yet here we go be a good one oh shoot that's a big one I don't want a big big one touching that's a big one dude let it go let it go let it go yes oh god that's a big one bro holy cow that's a slodge that is aww he more bigger that might be nine dude what's your pb nine something seven pounds and ounces really close like 812 to 810 I have I've definitely done my fair share of witnessing of eight pound plus bass in Mexico I just haven't caught up myself I don't I really can explain it but uh I think it's the tucati light the tucati light just brings luck to my fishing partners in Mexico and uh well here's another ocho for the records we had a little bit of time the next day to go out I went out with my born and raised boys a Trent and Trevor and you know same conditions got the full moon uh and those two fish together the previous day and and really caught them on those steep steep banks I and I I knew it as soon as I talked why why why didn't I focus on this for most of the day but they had the right idea as well and you know we we still caught fish we we just I don't know we just didn't get into the giants even fishing in the similar areas I really can't explain it other than it's just my Mexico bass curse but uh still got to got to witness you know some more decent bass just just no giants the overall key factor in eating bank that we went to though was slowing down at this point you'd have little windows where you'd get some wind and cloud cover and they might eat a little bit like they'll grab a moving bait or something but when you pick up a Texas rig it's a it's a kind of a drag you're feeling those rocks and the thing that makes this a lot easier that increases your time in the strike zone is just taking that boat and you know in this case I was I was trying to tell our boat driver he did a great job just kind of get us up there closer to the bank and I'm going to cast parallel with the bank and just keep my bait in there rather than going perpendicular um just get close and cast off the bank to where you think those fish are in this case it's you know 12 to 15 maybe 20 feet deep and just drag it through that area instead of working it down through the depths and having to make a lot more cast to intercept those bass overall another fantastic trip down in Mexico for me I just can't seem to break the eight pound mark it gives me a reason to go back for sure but it's always a good warm-up down there for me and like I said again I come back to the States and I've I've caught a Mondo I've caught a Mondo for three years in a row now including this year so you guys stay tuned for the Guggen squad channel for that just had a great kickoff in Florida and we got we got a lot more exploration this year 22 is going to be a big big year for the squad so really excited about it thank you guys for tuning in to my Mexico series of 2022 if you want to check out more of my videos from previous Mexico trips I'll link them down below I've been down there quite a few times with the squad with my dad just some really good trips down there I always love fishing in Mexico so I will definitely be back next year and I'm looking forward to catching some more pigs for in spring taking these techniques come March and doing the same thing and catching some toads so I hope this video helped you guys come these next coming months and I hope you're catching some pigs where you are now so thank you guys for tuning in Godspeed God bless you in the great outdoors