 What is popping people? Welcome to another video. Today I'm going to be teaching you guys how to catch 10 times more fish in any conditions, any time of year. You throw these baits, you throw the way that I'm talking about, and you guys will catch a lot more fish, whether you're fishing ponds, whether you're fishing out of the boat at some lakes, whether you're fishing rivers, whether you're kayak fishing some smaller places, neighborhood ponds, big private farm ponds, wherever you're at, all these techniques are going to work. Today I'm actually out on the beautiful Ogichi River, and we're going to be trying to catch some fish on the ways that I'm talking about. So we're going to go ahead and hop into this, jump right into it. We're going to be talking about some of the baits while we're going to be throwing these. What baits to switch over to if they're not biting a certain bait, and we're going to hop right into it. So first thing that we're going to talk about today is first, before we even get into the bait, we've got a few baits we're talking about. We're going to talk about the rod and reel setup. There's one rod and reel in particular that I like just because it's one of the most versatile combos, and what I like is 7 foot to 7 foot 3 medium heavy. You can throw just about anything on it from a Texas rig all the way to a chatter bait, all the way to a spinner bait, all the way to even a crank bait if you want to do that, like a smaller one, rattle trap, whatever you want to throw. So around a 7 foot to 7 3 medium heavy for your rod. As in the reel guys, I keep it very basic, like a 7 3 to 1, 7 1 to 1 gear ratio reel. All these people talk about the different gear ratios, but once you've been fishing for a while, you know, you can adjust it with your hand and however you're moving. But the base that we're throwing today, you're not even going to have to worry about that. Pound test, you're going to want 15 to 17 pound because you're going to go out there, you're going to use your big bass energy, and you're going to catch those launches. So let's go ahead and talk about the rig that we're going to be throwing. So this is one of the most basic rigs out there, and this is actually a basic Texas rig. I know you guys have probably heard about it, and you guys are probably saying, man, I already know about the Texas rig. I'm going to click off this video, but don't do that yet. If you're new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell right next to it. Also hit the like button if you guys want to see some more tip videos. So let's go ahead and hop into this. So basic Texas rig. Let's go ahead and take this bait right off of here because that's irrelevant for this part. So in my hand, I got a four eye EWG hook. These are actually by 6 cents. Any of the stuff that I'm talking about today, if you want to discount on, I will pop the code up on the screen and I'll drop the links down below. But this is a four eye EWG hook. These hooks are sharp as can be. As for the weight, I'm using a simple 1 fourth ounce, just standard bullet weight. This is a lead weight. Keep it basic. Keep it simple. Where's the packaging? I have it somewhere right here. Just simple and basic out here on the river. I don't want to use tungsten. I use just basic lead weights just because I break off a lot. Or if you catch like a mudfish or something, that's going to snap you off. So that is the basic rig right there. If you guys are wondering about the knot, I tie a uni knot. I know a lot of people out there tie a polymer knot, but I love the uni. I've been tying it for years. I haven't had any problems with it. It is overall my favorite knot. So that is the rig that we're going to be using. Now let's talk about the baits that we're going to be throwing on. I have three specific baits in my hands today that we're going to be talking about. One is called the prawn. This is a craw style bait. It's more of a beaver style. It's going to be different than the stroker craw that I have right here. Comparing these two baits, let's whip them out of the package. So this right here is actually the prawn by six cents. In the last like probably six videos I've uploaded, I've absolutely killed the fish on it. And this is like a beaver style bait. It's a smaller beaver. And as you guys can tell, you pull these apart right here. And it's just got a tiny bit of motion at the end. On the other hand, we've got a stroker craw right here. When you get them out of the package, you're going to pop them off like that so those legs are free. As you guys can tell by this one, there's tails at the end that are going to be kicking the whole time. That's going to put off a lot more vibration. A little more subtle, a lot more vibration. So if this fish are a little bit more finicky like today, last night we actually had a cold fry. It went from 80 degrees all the way to a high of 50 today, 30 degree drop. I'm going to want to use something more like this that's a little bit more subtle that this fish are going to bite because they're going to be slower today. Pressure may was low last night and now it's just skyrocketed. So this fish are going to be a little slower. I'm going to go with the prawn. Fish are a little bit more active. If you're fishing more dirty water, you're going to want to go with the stroker crawl. That's going to put off a little bit more vibration. You'll get a ton of bites on that. But if you don't get bites on a crawl that has a lot of motion, you want to switch over to something like this. That's a little more subtle, the fish abide it. Now let's talk about if they're not biting either one of these baits. Because I've seen it like this where these fish just don't want to eat a crawl. They really want to warn better. So that's what I'll switch over to. This is actually the clout. This is a stick bait right here. And by the way, this color right here is called Dark Water Bug. This is perfect. It describes itself as perfect for dirty water. On one side it's got a purplish color with some blue flakes. On the other side is black and blue. It's split half and half. This is going to be amazing for a bunch of the ponds that you guys are fishing if you're doing that. Because the majority of the ponds out there have dirty water. Therefore, you're going to want to use like a black and blue dune bug and a dark color like this. So if you're not getting bites on the crawls, a great option to switch over to is a Sanko. Right here. You're going to throw it the same way. So let's go ahead and actually rig this up on the rod. Let's use the Sanko as an example. Fish aren't biting today. It's super tough. So this is what you're going to want to do. You got your EWG hook. You got your stick bait. You're going to line the stick bait. Boom. Right there. You're going to break it through. You're going to push the bait all the way up on the eyelid of the hook. Just like that. We're going to want to rig this weedless. So right here, you're going to lay your Sanko on top of the hook. Where the end of the hook is right there, that's exactly where you're going to want to penetrate it. Boom. We're going to go in right there. I'm going to keep it right below the plastic. Now I'm going to pull the front end and bury that front of the hook. Look at this. It's perfect. Right there. Look at that. This is weedless as it gets right there. And you're not going to have any problems going through grass if that's what you're fishing. So this bait right here is amazing. But this is only one part of the process. We're going to have to figure out how the fish want it today. Whether it's us dragging it. Whether it's us popping it. Whether it's us throwing this thing weightless because there's a lot of grass. And I know a lot of you guys are fishing ponds. You might want to throw this weightless just because there's so much grass. But we're going to be throwing this around some cover. Around some of these reeds right here. And, you know, we're going to want a weight on there today. But that is the beautiful rig that we're going to be using. Like I said, tough conditions today. Cold front last night. I'm going to go to a worm. You know, sometimes they'll eat the craw. But if they're not eating it, you know, we've had a few bites on it today. We're going to switch to a worm for a more subtle approach. Now let's see how we're going to throw it. Move your bite there. You got him? Get him boy. Yeah. Bradley. Oh yeah. Right. Two seconds on the worm. He's on the Senko. He's on the Senko though. Yes sir. So Bradley is throwing the Senko. He's throwing the clout. Caught him a little bass. Nothing big. Right there on the grass though. As you guys can tell, he's tucked up on it, wasn't he? Tucked right up on it. Hit it just like it's messed up. Right there. Right there guys. He's in that little cubby hole. Little things like that you want to pick up on. Oh my gosh, look at this. Oh my gosh. Dude he's running. Oh my gosh. This is a good one. Oh, oh, Bradley. Yes. Boys, we got us a good one today man. We got us a good one right here. And we are getting one step closer. Me and Bradley have been talking. And we were going back in the slew for probably two miles already. And it's high tide. We're going to see if we can find them stacked up. We haven't had a bite this whole way. And then boom, just knocked a good one right there. That is a beautiful Ogichi River bass. Fat and healthy. We're going to keep on fishing. I hooked him. By the time I hooked him, he's already under my boat. That's how strong these fish are out here. That is awesome. Let's keep it going. We talked about the rig that we're going to be using. Now I'm going to talk about a few different ways that you guys can catch more fish on it. This is the important part to where it's going to make you catch. I promise you a lot more fish if you're using these tips I'm saying in today's video. So if you look around, there's a bunch of different things. You see these little reeds and stuff all around this weird looking grass. You guys probably don't see that much. We're actually in some brackish water right now. We also have some lay downs right here in this corner. Bass, what they like to do is they hang up on all that stuff. Whether it's wood, whether it's rock, whether it's grass. They like to have their back in all that. So seeing that lay down right there, that fish is going to be right up on that thing. If you guys are fishing bank spots, especially, if you guys see anything like that, if you see lay downs, whatever it is, you need to be flipping an old Texas rig in there. Here, this is current. As you guys can tell, I have my weight free. If you guys are flipping in some heavy cover, I would suggest putting a bobber stop on top of this so your weight is pegged. Here, if you're fishing tidal water, if you're fishing where there's a lot of current, I like to use no peg because it's going to have a lot more motion. It's going to look a lot more natural to that bass. So we're pulling up in this pocket. We've got some grass, got some lay downs, and I want to cast at that tree. I want to see if there's a fish on that tree. So I'm going to get this Texas rig and give it a little cast right up on that tree. Let it pull my line out. Make sure you're on the bottom. There's going to be one style that if the fish are super tough, this is what I do all the time. So I just let it sit for a minute. Once I cast out there, I'll reel up my slack. I'm going to slowly drag that thing over those limbs right there. Very slow, okay? Reel up your slack. Slowly drag that thing. And if those fish are really finicky, sometimes that's how they're going to want it. But then there's going to be some days that you're going to cast this bait up on there. Boom, just like that, right up in that tree. And you're just going to want to click it and not even move that thing. That's called dead sticking. That is the worst case. If the fish are just totally shut off, you can't get a bite. You need to try dead sticking, okay? Then there's going to be those days where the fish are a little bit more active. You're covering some water and you're going to pitch up in that tree. If you're throwing the crawl especially, you're going to want to kind of pop it. You know, you're going to want to kind of hop it. And those fish are going to want it better that day. You know, it's just going to depend. You're going to have to experiment with dead sticking it, dragging the bait, popping the bait, but make sure you're up on that cover. That's very important because those bass are going to suck up to that stuff. One very important thing is in a sunny day. That's when those fish are really going to get up on that. If you have a lot of clouds in the sky, sometimes those fish are going to be roaming a lot more. But when that sun gets up, those fish are going to want to get out of that and they're going to get pushed up in those laydowns and a bunch of that cover. So I'm going to flip this little Sanko up on all of this stuff along the bank. And we're going to also hit some of this grass back in here and we're going to see if we catch some fish. I'm going to be using some of the techniques that I just talked about. You know, whether it's slow dragging it, whether it's popping it. But today with that cold front, I think it's going to be a lot slower and we're going to have to work it very, very slow. We're going to try that crawl a little bit. If we can't get them on that, we're going to result over to this Sanko. I've seen so many comments of people saying, man, Noah, there he is. Took my Sanko. Gone, bro. Gone, bro. Look at that. Gone. All right. Here's a great example right here. You guys ready? When that happens, I didn't get a hook in him. He just took it. Okay. I'm going to switch up to this crawl because it's a different presentation. He noticed that worm. Okay. Now we're going to switch right over to this. We're going to pitch in there and we're going to see if he'll eat it. Rig it the same way? Yeah. Rig it the same way. Right up on there. We're going to pull these tails off. There we go. That's perfect. And this is important. You want to get back in there really quick. He was right under that tree, guys. Right on that cover. See if he'll eat this thing. But you saw how slow I was working that worm, guys. It's important. But he had it. He peeled it right off. But usually when that happens, you can get back in there and catch him. This could be another one of the situations where they just don't want this crawl. You know, they want something a little more slower, like a worm. And, you know, I wanted to put on the crawl because he just saw the worm. You know, maybe switching it up, throwing something a little bit different in there might trigger that fish to bite. He just did not have it all the way. He was running with it. Anything about that was just... Holy cow. Yo. That was a big fish. I don't know what it was, but it was big. You didn't even shake it. I don't think that was a mudfish. I really don't. I really don't. He had frayed. Look. It's a frayed. That ain't a mudfish. That was a bass. That was a big one, dude. That was a very big fish. That's a great learning lesson right there. And this is something I want everybody to know. At all times, you need to always check your line, especially when throwing something like this. You're pitching in all those trees. And, you know, when you're going through all that stuff, even when you get hung up, the smallest little things, even when you're catching fish for a while, you always want to check your line and retie. And that is a little mistake that I just made, and I broke off a big fish right there. So we're going to retie right now and get back in there and catch a big one. Big bass? Yeah. A striper. Don't mean that, so... How the heck you catch a striper in here? That's a good one. Holy cow. Big bass, energy. Just striped it bad. Dude, that's a good one, though. That was a fatty. I can't believe you caught him back here. That was insane. On a crawl. On a crawl, I've never seen that before. That's a beautiful striper, though. That's seriously a good one. Oh, yeah. What about... You thought you had a donk, didn't you? I thought I had a donk. I was like, yes, sir. We're about probably three miles back, guys, and I just can't believe you caught a striper back here. That's insane. All right. Was it on the bottom? Yeah. Or are you reeling in? On the bottom. What? That's wild. I don't know. Yo, yeah.