 Fish and Freaks, a great atmospheric disturbance will be happening within hours. Not in another 300 years will such a lunar-solar interaction take place in this longitude latitude where I'm standing. That's right, a full eclipse will be happening here shortly. And we're here to find out will the world still be standing? Will revelations be taking place? Will the earth split open? And most importantly, will the fish be biting? That's right, y'all. Welcome back to the channel. We are going to be witnessing an eclipse today. We've got sort of overcast conditions, kind of keeps going in and out. But I'm really curious. I can't even remember the last time I viewed an eclipse, probably when I was a kid. And I've certainly never been on the water during an eclipse. I want to see what is going to take place here. I'm not even going to be species-specific. I'm just curious, what the heck is going on? What are that shad going to do? What are the catfish going to do? Are the bass going to be feeding during the darkness? That's just going to be weird. It's going to be middle of the day. It's just going to go dark for like five minutes. Let's load up the crispy. Let's head out to the lake and let's see if we can capture this eclipse and capture the fish activity. It's going to be a really cool top water day. I don't know. We are floating and the eclipse is already starting to take place. So we're getting out of the water just as its little age is starting to happen. This process will be a couple hours. The apex, the totality is what they call it. Totality. That's only going to be about four or five minutes. The park is absolutely packed today. So we've been putting around for about 20 minutes and we're just starting to see the eclipse happen. And it feels a little darker, like a little bit hazier. Not too far off from being just overcast. So my prediction is the fish are going to basically think it's getting darker earlier and probably be a little bit more preposcular feeding. That's the word I was looking for. Which is basically like low light triggered. I'm on a big just main lake ridge. And I think what I'm about to do is just as an experiment, just toss on a crankbait and I'm just going to troll around here and see if anything will bite it. See if catfish, bass, white bass, whatever wants to bite a crankbait. Just running mid-depth crankbait. See if there's any solar biters. Eclipse biters. Get with the old cast out there. A little stickering gear. I'm just going to kind of keep my boat in, you know, about 15, 20 foot of water. Look at the sun. Let's check it out. See what's going on here. What are you guys seeing? Out here in my tinnary, looking for the eclipse. Oh, got bumped. There we are. We're on. We're on, dude. White bass beater. That's a good eater right there. Fortunately for you, we're going to keep you down. I don't know. I'm out of fish. I'd say that one was pretty predictable because it was right on a point. I've seen so much activity. I'm like, how am I not going to get bit in here? Let's do a sun check, sun update. Let's look up in the sky. I'm looking at the LCD screen. So it's not hurting my eyes. It's kind of like looking at them here. Okay, I'm not really seeing the full effect yet, but we are getting some clouds to move out. I would be really impressed if they started actually coming up and eating top water. That would probably convince me of, okay. Yeah, the eclipse really has an effect. So I'm going to film this in 6K. This is going to be in 6K. This camera does 6K. I've got a long lens. I'm going to try it with this one first. I want to see, let's turn our f-stop all the way up. See the eclipse forming yet? Oh yeah, you can see it. You can see. It is starting. It's on the edge, folks. We are on the edge of the eclipse right now. Wow, that's really cool. I'm going to get my big lens out. Look at all these fish down here. That wild. The fish are here. The fish are forming. The eclipse is happening. It's happening. The fish just jumped over here. Oh my gosh, guys. I got to get to the shoreline. This is driving me crazy. We can't miss the apex. All right, let's go. Let's get it, boys. Come on. It's going down. This is already starting to get darker. I can feel it. It is getting darker. I don't know if you can tell. It's just this haze. But I'm looking at it through the LCD screen right here. You guys are actually looking at it. You got a pretty good view. This is nuts, man. So I'm going to say in another 10 minutes, it's just going to be fully covered. I got a stick on the bank for this. I just had to see it. Everything is so still for some reason. Oh, are the heavens going to open up? Is the earth going to quake? I think it's just going to be another day, folks. Another day, another dangle. But with a very special atmospheric situation. It's on dark, dark. It's so cloudy. Wow, look at that. Look at that. I see birds going crazy. It's like they are coming up to the top. I think fish are underneath. I'm pushing shad up. The fish think that it's getting dark right now. I'm torn between, do I stick here and get the apex of the eclipse? Or do I go out there and throw my lure out there under these fish? That is amazing. Gosh, I'm just looking at a small little camera lens right now. Wow, that is insane, guys. That is insane. Wow, this is amazing. This is amazing. This is a first for me. What an experience. What a universe we live in. I was actually wrong on my prediction on this. I know if you're not really paying attention, you probably don't even know, with the Overcast Day, there would be no way to not notice this. Where we are in the state of Texas, we just happen to be in one of those cities that is right on the line of getting a total eclipse. And we got it. This is so cool. I'm sharing it with you guys right now. You guys are getting to see it is 142. We are at the peak of the eclipse right now. Supposedly this lasts for about four or five minutes. This is dark. This is like night fishing. This would be night fishing right now. I just got, I got to look with my sunglasses on. Still bright. It's still really bright to look at. Probably damaged your eye. Now it feels like, all right, we're coming out of it. We're coming out of it right now. Weird light it is. Okay, it's coming back. It's coming back. It's getting light again. This is the strangest feeling. Wow. It's pretty impressive outdoor moment. I'm not going to lie. I will remember this for the rest of my life. That time I filmed that total eclipse. Oh, what are the fish going to do now? Let's go check on all these birds that I was seeing crazy over here. There's like a chill in the air guys. All right. It looks like fish are higher up on the water column too. This is crazy. Look at it. Look where the fish are in the water column. It came up. That definitely had an effect on the fish right there. We're going to slurp, spoon them folks. It's time. We're going to get that big old half ounce on them. It's like the world stopped turning for just a little bit. And now we're back in action. Oh my gosh. Look at this school underneath me. Look at this school. We're about to just get bopped. We're about to get bopped. Those are big. I have noticed a weird thing with the bugs. Like the bugs definitely came out thinking it was evening. Oh, there he is. I got him. He was under the boat. That's a good one there golly. Oh my gosh. We're just on a big school of them here. If I get on these things, this is going to be my first one of the year. We're breaking it in boys. Breaking it in. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Look at the electronics. Look at that wall. Those are all big ones. Oh, I'm getting hit on the way down. Getting hit on the way down. Oh gosh. Another one had it. We're getting bopped. Oh gosh. I'm going to brush them on. I just had to get it to the bottom. Oh yeah. Come here, buddy. As soon as it got down there. Biggins. Biggins. Gone. Oh, shiitake mushrooms. I apologize for that, sir. Oh. Keep them hot and ready. Keep them hot and ready. They're all over the place. Oh. We're on. Oh, little boy. Maybe out here. Maybe out here. Oh my gosh. These big schools. Oh, something just came up to the top right here. At the surface. Topwater Eclipse action. Oh, got it. Oh, I see them pop. They're popping the top over here. They're popping the top in the back. They're popping the top. This is no joke. This is actual Eclipse topwater happening. Oh my gosh. On the way down. Popped. Popped. Popped. Oh, I'm on. I'm on. Just getting popped. Every time. Oh, it's so fun. I'm not kidding you. I came out last week trying to catch these things, and I could not catch them. They are on fire right now. The Eclipse has them fired up. I just had another one. Gonna try making a cast. Oh, smashed. All the casts. This might be the method. Little guy. Come here. Come here, bro. You want that cast, don't you? All right. Big. I mean, we're just not like a big flat. Nothing special about this. Half-ounce spoon. Here's the technique. I think this is going to work really well. Cast it out. Let it go to the bottom. Hold your rod at a 10. Five or six cranks with your real handle. And just watch your line. Let it go back to the bottom. Five or six cranks with the real handle. Let it fall. That's it. That's done. That's all you got to do. That's it. That way you're getting your spoon through multiple schools instead of vertically jigging. Look at this. Look at this bird. Bird's diving. Oh, this guy is spitting up. Shad juice. Look at these creatures just swirling. Swirling creatures. Look at that brush. There's fish in the brush. Fish just surrounding the brush. Look at these over here. Right under the boat. I'm going to go right into the school. No tips needed here. Just throw out the birds. You know what happens. Really thinking if I had some top water right now. Look, come on. Did he make it to the bottom? Oh my gosh, y'all. I have a fish on. I put my rod down, changed my battery and my camera. There's literally a fish on here. Okay. They're biting. They're biting. But that's happening. They are biting. This is a significant adjustment to fish feeding activity before and after. Same area. Same area. Little buddy. Man. Woo. There it goes. That's silly. I'm so tempted. I'm about two fish away from being like, okay, I'm just going to keep you. Something to be taken. Sacrifice. Headed on the way down. Can't even get it down there. Headed on the way down. Big boy. 100% general fish behavior has turned it up. Now they are everywhere. 10, 20 foot. Like they're coming up. Somewhere at the surface. There it goes. Bumping my spoon. Getting bumped. We're on. We're on. Got one out of the school. Look at them. Look at them. They're all coming. They're coming up. Here they come. The whole army is coming with them. There's just more. There's more. I need backup. I need backup out here. What are you doing in my boat, peaches? You never get up here. She's my most curious bird. She's a curious bird. So we're fresh off the lake, y'all. And what did we experience during the eclipse? Fast and furious fish catching action. Basically the fish started schooling. And then right after it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. The fish were going crazy. And there were two things that were really going on. Number one was the low light. I think the plankton and that short span, they also went up towards the surface. You got phytoplankton. The phytoplankton go higher in the surface in the low light hours to get as much light as possible. Zooplankton falling that. Shad falling that. Predatory species following that. So you got that whole thing going on. And then also the wind. The wind just stopped. And if you guys know the explanation for the wind stopping, let me know in the comments down below. But it just got still. So it was like calm and low light. Just like perfect top water conditions, but honestly. And it was without a doubt one of the coolest experiences I've had on the water. I've watched some fireworks shows out on the lake. I've done some night fishing. Had some pretty cool experiences out on the lake. I've never seen anything like that before. That was really cool. Steph and the kids were back here at the house. And they got to experience the whole thing as well. And she told me that the chickens didn't know what to do. They basically just froze. 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