 Yo, what's poppin', people, welcome back to another episode of Kicking the Bass TV. Thank you guys so much for the love and support. If you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell also with the like button, if you guys haven't been enjoying the content. And share this video with a friend, get somebody new in the fishing. But today we're at Walmart, we're about to run inside, grab some swim baits because we are literally going to swim bait fish today for whatever bites. That is the game plan, so we're gonna go inside, grab some baits, and then head out on the river and see what we can catch. So we can be catching some bass today. We could be catching some mudfish. We could be catching some redfish, some flounder, maybe even some trout. We're going for just about anything. We're gonna be in brackish water, so let's go ahead and get it started. By the way, I got Tara with me. So yeah, we're gonna go ahead and get inside, pick out our baits. And you're gonna get to pick some too. So we're gonna get multiple options, and then we're gonna go to the river and show you got some big fish, so let's get it. All right, Tara, what are we getting? Swim baits only? Swim baits only. So I'm gonna let you pick first. Whatever you wanna pick, but it has to be a swim bait. And so one thing that we're gonna need, we're gonna need a lot of jig heads, say, because we're gonna tend to break off. So we'll actually start off with the jig heads. So which ones do you like the best? What's your favorite jig heads on the wall? You want me pick first? Yeah, I'm having you. You don't want to pick? Well, these are, I can pick here, here. I can pick the jig heads. So last time we went out on the river is just me and Connor. If you guys didn't see one of the last episodes on the river, you need to check it out. It was a very long video. We went out two different days, but we caught a lot of big fish. I'll link it down below. It was a lot of fun. But we grabbed a lot of jig heads and we only had, well, we had two packs. So we had 10 of them and we ended up breaking off every single one. So we're gonna need a lot today. Okay, so these are the ones that I went out with last time. These are 3 eighth ounce. There's five of them in each one. It's just a white jig head with like a red eye. I think this is a good, just standard jig head to get. So I think we're gonna get, how many packs, Tara? Three? Three? Four? Four, why not four, right? Should we do four? Yeah. I feel like it's better to play safe and then next time we go out, we'll have some jig heads. Hopefully, hopefully we don't lose them all. Okay, so now we're gonna go over to the swim baits. I'm gonna let you pick first. So I'm gonna let you pick, I'd say you pick out two to three packs and then I'm gonna pick out whatever. All right, Tara, you were first on the list. Are you feel special? Yes, I do feel special. You get to pick out the first batch of swim baits. So what are you thinking? I'm gonna get the best ones. Okay, so we got a lot of different options guys. Ton of different options. They actually have a pretty nice like saltwater section. So we're gonna go through these and then we'll go over towards the bass stuff as well. They're like almost sold out over there though. I'm huge on color. I love the color. Usually sparkles because I like sparkles. What do you think? Should I have a yellow tail on that? Let me see this. Okay. You like those? I like these. These ones look kind of crazy. I like the sparkle, but I'm gonna go with the white ones. Mama's chicken. Mama's chicken. Yellow tail. I'd munch it up. You don't like mama's chicken? I always love mama's chicken. We got the gulp. Our last one for our bass. Beautiful white. Love the pearl white. All right, so that's Tara's choices. We got two saltwater packs and then we got a zoom pack of a swim baits. Cool. That's it. You don't want to pick out any more? I have everything. I might change my mind. Okay. I think that's good for our options. So we got four packs of jig heads, three packs of baits for Tara. Now we're gonna put the camera on me and I'm gonna figure out what I want. So you picked all the good options. Just kidding. You didn't pick the ones that I would have picked, which I'm glad. So last time that we actually went out, we got some of these DOA swim baits and it's got like a little chartreuse tail on it. So it's got like watermelon red on top, a little bit of whitish flake on the bottom. It's got like the chartreuse tails. And we ended up catching a lot of good fish on those. So I think I'm gonna go with a pack of these. I might actually buy, I'm gonna buy two packs. Why not? I think that's just like a saucy color. What do you think? I didn't pick them for a reason. Okay. So look at this. We actually got some of the same brand, the same paddle tails, but these are chartreuse on top and white on the bottom. I think we're gonna go with those. I really like these, but these aren't really a swim bait. Like it's got like a little twirly tail on it, but should we try it because I, so this color Tara is called electric chicken. And I've heard a lot of good things about it. Like saltwater fish supposedly love electric chicken. I've gone crappy fishing once. I used the electric chicken and it caught them. So I think I'm gonna have to go with these. We're gonna consider that a swim bait. I mean, it's got like a little curly tail, swim bait body. We'll go with those. Let's try this one. So that's like a purplish blue. It's got silver on the bottom and then another chartreuse tail. I don't know what it is, but I like the base with the chartreuse tail. I just feel like the fish are gonna munch this. So these are the base that I'm gonna pick. We got five packs. We got the electric chicken. We got the chartreuse swim baits. And then we got two packs of these. That's like the saucy color. Then the last pack, we got the purple chartreuse tail. I think those are gonna work pretty well. So yeah, that's about it. Grab Tara's pack of baits, four packs of jig heads. Let's go ahead and hit the water guys. I didn't wanna spend too much time in here, but I did wanna show you guys the whole tackle process of what we're gonna be throwing. So a big variety of this stuff. There's actually one more thing I wanted to look at, Tara. For all of you all that are big on catching redfish, not shrimp, okay, the shrimp are really good. I really wanna get a pack of them, but I feel like that's cheating. Like we gotta fish this one bait today. Did wanna get some stinky stuff to put on the bait. Like you guys know, the saltwater people are big in the scent. And I didn't know if there was a bottle of something I could buy. That is gold paint, that's not what I'm looking for. Hold on, we got something going here. So yeah. This pack of electric chickens are very similar to that. I think we can consider that a swim bait, right? I mean, it's got the curly tail, but it's in the nasty juice. So you know what we could do too? We could also like open this pack of baits and put it in the nasty smelly stuff if we wanted to. I think we should go with these. Let's just do it. Okay, we're gonna go with this. We just gotta be careful, Tara. We do not spill this on the boat. That's like prohibited, okay? My boat will smell for years if we spill it on the boat. Okay guys, I'm gonna stop grabbing things before I like buy the whole fishing section. And we're gonna go check out. So I will catch you guys at the lake. All right guys, we just made it out. I'm debating to throw this loose Xfinity Intra rod, or if I should throw my kicking combo, I'm not sure. But if you wanna check out any of the loose combos, link would be down below. If you wanna check out the kick and their bass, X loose combos are available on kickandtheirbass.com. I'll link those down below as well. I think I'm gonna go with a spinning rod. I want more of a fight today. And I feel like with this light swim bait to be pretty good, Tara's gonna be running a Mach 2 spinning rod. And we're gonna get it started. We're gonna go ahead and tie up. We just had someone ride past us and hoping they didn't wash the fish up too much because they did not really slow down there. Hoping they're gonna be biting guys. We literally got like an hour and a half of fishing. We don't have long just because of how the tides are. So I'm hoping we're gonna get on these fish fairly quick. That's why I went to a good spot to where I think we could catch some bass, redfish, mudfish, really about anything that bites. So I'm gonna go ahead and rig this up real quick and I'll show you guys whatever I'm gonna put on. I'm gonna put on that standard jig head, but then we're gonna pick out our little swim baits of choice and figure out what we're gonna end up using. See if Tara picked out some good baits because I assume you're gonna be picking out one that you got. I'm gonna use one of yours. Well, you tie it on, Twinkie. You need to tie on the jig head that we bought. That's habit. It's a habit, I know. Every time Tara comes out fishing, she usually throws a Texas rig. So I don't blame you for doing that. But yeah, we're gonna throw these, we're gonna throw the old jig heads here. These ones are pretty. Yeah, you can throw any of the baits. No, not that I wanna use. You can, which, I'm gonna be honest guys, I think we went a little overkill on the baits. I spent $70 on swim baits that won't work. Which is pretty impressive, to be honest. I didn't think I would spend that much money on solely swim baits. So I don't know if we'll get enough time to throw each one. I mean, we're only out here for an hour and a half, two hours max. I don't know, maybe. Should we start out with smelly or no? Probably not. No, I don't wanna start, I don't wanna start with smelly. I think I'm gonna go with this, this one right here with the Watermelon Red on top. And it's got like the gray on the bottom with the little Charter scale. I think that would sound to be a good one. That's what I wanna start off with. All right guys, well this is what I got rigged up. What you think Tara? Looks pretty. And I actually threw this the other day, so I'm curious to see what we gonna get. First things first, we're gonna check our drag. I think it's pretty good. And we're gonna get the casting guys. Hopefully we gonna get some big fish right now. I'm excited. I haven't been this excited for a video in a moment. And we're gonna work this thing on the bottom and kinda slow reel it, kinda pop it off the bottom. See if we can get some bites. We got a big cold front that blew in this morning, so I'm hoping that these fish are gonna bite pretty good. I don't know what to expect right now. My current is whipping Tara. My bait is already over here guys. I just threw it up there on that point. No way. Wait, no, I'm stuck. Okay, I got it, I got it off. I'm about to say no way on my first cast. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Okay. That would have been insane. First cast of the day, we're gonna hook a big one. What's that? I don't know, you can consider it bad luck or you can consider it good luck. I don't, I guess it goes both ways. Is either gonna be really bad or really good if you catch one on your first cast? That's all I feel about it. There's no in between. It's not just gonna be a mediocre day. It's either gonna be really good or really bad. You're gonna throw the same one as me? No, this is mama's chicken. Oh, mama's chicken. This guy's got a little bit of gravy on him. I'm excited to fight these fish on a spinning rod today. I don't throw a spinning rod often, so I'm kind of pumped up. I feel like there could be a good bass on that corner. Here's Tara, if you guys like to the right of me. I thought there would be a good bass sitting there on that break, on that current break. Oh, I got slammed. Tara, I'm on. You're on there? Yeah, I'm on. Oh, it's a nice bass. There we go, baby. There we go, first fish is a bass. Look at it, nice little fish right there. Gosh, you find goodness current. Here we go, guys, let's get it started. Boom, baby. Boom, baby. Right off the rip. Maybe I can smell your fish. I told Tara, I said there's gonna be a bass on that corner, and I thought it'd be more to the right, but there's probably some more there. So just get out here, and we catch our first pretty little bass. Nothing big, but a nice fish. Get him back in the water, let him swim another day. Already on board. There he goes. There we go. He bit like a bass, he didn't bite like one of those reds. Yeah, he kinda like tick, tick, tick, and he had it. Those reds were like playing like a bluegill almost. Good boys and girls, gonna get it started somewhere. There should be some more up there, Tara, some of them bass. You gotta get up on the bank though. If you're hanging off of it, I don't know if it'll be up there. I kinda, I grind up that, that. So much stuff on top of the water, guys. When you got this tide pushing out, it just, so much debris gets flushed down the river. I got this threw right into a piece of it, I bet we're all, gotta be careful of that. I'm glad we got a bass marked off the list, guys. Now we just need some other species. I love to keep catching some bass though. I can't complain of that. I love catching bass on this channel. I don't know if there would be any reds here. I'm not sure. I guess only time to tell. Yeah, I mean, we went out here last week, guys, and there's some reds here, but there's no telling. You know, they could be done. There we go, Tara, oh my goodness. Red? Yeah, that was a red bite. I let it hit the bottom and slowly reeled it, and he just, my line was pulling, like he tugging the line hard. That felt like a red bite. All right, that gives me some confidence here. I didn't feel like a bass bite. So I let it hit the bottom, I slowly reeled it, and he pulled back on me hard. Ooh, Tara, oh my gosh, that bite was just intense. That was crazy right there. I mean, it was just a straight, like, like one hard hit, yeah. It was aggressive. It was almost like a mudfish, but jeez, I can't believe you didn't hold onto it. Like he just slammed it and then let go. Yeah, they're definitely not here. There he is, Tara. That's him, that's him. What is that? Is that a bass? It's a red. It is a red. I guess they're here. Guys, I was literally just saying, I guess the reds aren't here, and then I just, I get a bit, as I was saying that, that's funny. Not a big one, but now we got a bass and a red for the video, which is awesome. Look at that swim bait in his mouth. Beautiful fish, one spot on his tail. First old red of the day. There we go. Let's get it. Think about that, Tara. That gives you hope. I will say I threw this one up a little shallower and was grilling it, like, slow on the bottom, so maybe we're figuring out something. I mean, if there's one guy, there's more. There's not just one red sitting here. There's definitely more of them. I was grilling it slow on the bottom, too. I kind of got my rod tip down and just kind of barely creeping it. Guys, kind of popping my rod tip and I just felt him start grabbing it. You know, one of the last times we came out here when we were trying to catch those, we were kind of hopping it off the bottom, just like a little shaky head almost, like a little worm. I'm just kind of bobbing it off the bottom, but maybe they don't want that today. Maybe they want it moving. Just kind of creep it along the bottom pretty slow. So throw it out there, let it hit the bottom, point a rod tip down so we keep that bottom contact, slowly reel this bait. Kind of give it a couple pops, slowly reel it. I made like the money cast and just got hung up, so it looks like we're about to rig up. All right, we're gonna have to tie it back in real quick. Try to get back in there. I might push up a little shallower guys with this shallower, shallower. Might push up a little shallower. This fish might not be deeper right now. They could be more up there. I guess we're actually got that red. The bass was on the edge of the current break, which makes total sense, but as far as that red, he was pushed up a little more. I think we're gonna switch up a little bit guys and throw a different color. Kind of wanna try this one. This is the, like a purple or blue flake on top. And then it has the silver on the bottom with the chartreuse tail. This one looks, honestly, this one looks fire. Maybe this would be the secret bait. I wanna keep switching up and trying different baits throughout the day. I wanna throw the same ones. I mean, we only got $70 of Walmart swim baits. We at least need to try a few out. Oh, yep, I'm hung up here, but I don't know. That really did feel like a nipple. I don't know about that. That might have been a bite. I'm not sure. I guess we'll never know. You got one. Big? It's a bass. A striper! Yes! Yes! Give it three species. She's got a striper on, guys. A little hybrid bass. Get him, girl. Get him, girl, get him, girl. Yes! Good job. All right, that's your first striper ever, isn't it? A hybrid. Wow. There you go, Tara. Look at that, guys. So, Tara, we've got three fish today. We've caught a bass, a red. And now, a baby striper. That's crazy. That is so cool. So, it bit it. And then I dropped it back in, literally. And the second time I dropped it, I saw it go in, I saw it bite it. Right next to the boat? Right next to the boat. Wow, here you want to hold them? Yeah. Yeah, he's on fight. You gotta grip him good. See how small his mouth is? Yeah. Look at that. Good job, girl. That's awesome, your first hybrid bass. I'm stoked. Nice. Gosh, these are pretty. There you go. That's awesome. My first striper. Well, we've caught three species today. Only three fish and there's been three different kinds. That's awesome. You want to get a picture with them? That's awesome. Your first one? I look like I'm fishing in Alaska. I don't know. This is... Tara's got a winter coat on and 55 degree weathering. It is a little chilly driving. Nice. Heck yeah, let's try to get some more. So, you watched them eat it? I watched them eat it. All right, so when those stack up, so throw back out there. I'm literally here. Yeah. Boom. Yeah, I'm not crazy. I'm actually going to switch up this all-star truce one. Just because this one's actually messed up. Look at the tail. Just because I want to keep switching up baits. I didn't get to really fish that other one productively. Like I never, I broke off twice on it. So, maybe we'll go back to it, but I want to throw this one. Hopefully we'll get on some of those stripers right there. Yeah, Tara, those usually stack up pretty good out here. Yeah, you can get on them. I'm just going to let the boat sit here. We're like bottomed out. Where was he at? Just kind of out in the middle. Right here. That's pretty crazy. I told you I was. Okay, where was your initial cast? Cause he definitely followed you in. I just cannot believe guys that we, we've had three fish today so far. Three fish and they're all different. A redfish, a striper and a bass. And that's what this video is all about guys. We were trying to throw swim baits for whatever bites and we're doing it right here. And it looks like everything's biting them. I'm pretty sure I had a mudfish bite earlier too. So we probably would have had a mudfish too. Told them pretty crazy. Which I never like love catching mudfish, but I mean for the video sake, it would be pretty cool. That's the glorious part about fishing this brackish water like this guys. I mean, you just catch in bass and saltwater fish in the same spot is just crazy to me. Wait, was that on your white swim bait, the bass swim bait? Mom is chicken. Oh, that was mom was chicken. You switch back to it. He bit me right at the freaking boat. It's like right there. Just throwing like parallel with his bank. There he is, Tara. I threw back in there. No freaking way, it's a mudfish. It is a mudfish. We're doing the most in this challenge today guys. We're doing literally the most. Oh, already came off. I'm not complaining. Okay, four fish, four different species. What in the world? I don't think we could do this challenge any better. Unless we go five for five. What are we catching next? A flounder? It really wouldn't surprise me. I don't know what else it really is to catch other than flounder, maybe a trout, maybe a warm mouth. I feel like I don't really catch warm mouth on this river though. That was a good buy. Now I'm stuck in a freaking tree. That's so annoying. Now you know why I bought a ton of swim bass guys because I've broken off four times in the matter of 15 minutes. It can happen out here. Especially when you're throwing an open hook swim bait in an infested river with just trees everywhere. I mean, the river is infested with wood just all around. So that is gonna happen, it's part of it. But that is okay. I'm just gonna tie another one back on. And I might go back to the original swim bait I put on, I actually really like that color. I just feel like it's a good overall color. Oh dude, don't do it, dang it. Okay, I popped it off. All right guys, I'm going with Mr. Electric Chicken. Tara's gonna go with a smelly one. Ew, this is slimy. Let's see. Oh yeah, guys, look at that. If there ain't a bait, there's a bait out there. All right y'all, we're gonna ride up here a little more. I love them all. I'll show you what we can do. I didn't plan on coming up in here, especially in this shallow water. Like usually when it gets this low, I don't even bother to come up here, but you know, I'm fishing for best 90% of the time. So maybe, just maybe, there's some fish up here. Tara, we got about 30 minutes of daylight. We've done good, but we need more than what we caught. We're doing good on the species part. If we can just find some fish and start catching them. The sad part is guys, I know of a ton of spots that we could go and just kill the bass right now. Like I know we could go catch them, but I kinda wanna try for some different fish still while we have the momentum going. I'm honestly just curious. Look at that right there. That's a different fish, Tara. Oh, it's a bass. Oh, I lost all my traction. He smoked that electric chicken. You see that? That chicken was going crazy up in there. Hey, he was right where he needed to be. I cast it right down the pipe and I was slow rolling that thing on the bottom. He popped that chicken. He going, turn, turn, turn, turn. You know what I think of an electric chicken? I think of one of those like animal toys where they have a little twisty key on the side and it goes shi- qui- chi. That's what I'm tanking it when I think of an electric chicken. I can't believe I've just lost that. Oh, that was a good one, Tara. That was a good one. That was freaking. That's a massive mud. Ah, the electric chicken. Chichi-chichi. That's what he's doing down there. Chichi-chichi-chichi. That was a good buy Tara, holy cow. Boys, the electric chicken, I don't know man, this might be the sauce. Let's see if we can get a couple more bites on this puppy.