 What's poppin', boys and girls, ladies and gents? Welcome back to another video of Kicking the Bass TV. Today, we're gonna be pond fishing. We haven't just gone around and pond hopped in a long time, so today we're making it happen. It's very hot outside, but I think we're gonna be able to catch these fish. Got my new Kicking the Bass TV combo brought to you by Luz, and I have the same trap that we've been fishing the last few videos. This is actually by Striking. If you guys wanna get a discount on the rods or the baits, I have my links and codes down below that can help you guys out a little bit on price. We just pulled up to this pond, we're gonna walk down to it, see what we got. If you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell, also hit the like button. If you guys have been enjoying the content, let's go ahead and hop into this one and see if we can catch a big bass today. We just made it out to the first pond, beautiful little place, and I've been here a few times before. First time I ever came here was with my boy, Delton. He hooked one that was like seven pounds, monster, and then we ended up coming out another time, and I was filming a video over the $1 of the Lipless Crankbait from Walmart. The hooks were horrible on the bait, just horrible. And I hooked one around five to seven pounds, just monster, I don't know exactly how big he was, but he's well over five, and he came right off at the bank. So there's big ones in here, we just gotta cover a lot of water so we can get them to bite, but I think we might get lucky today, I'm feeling it. This feels good just coming out here throwing a Lipless Crankbait. This is like one of my favorite ways to come to ponds and just kind of pond hop, and try to catch a lot of big fish, just walking around with a Lipless, so we're gonna get over here in this corner and see if we can catch one. The water is a little bit low. Oh my God, I got one right away, first cast. Not big. How are you? All right, I can walk down here if that's cool. All right, yeah, I won't, for sure, I understand completely. I'll walk down here and get out of your way. Yep, there we go. First little fish today, literally on the first cast, I don't know if that's good luck or bad luck. Not a big one at all, but still a nice little fish. Right down here? Yeah, I'm gonna go down there. You're walking that way. All this is. That's fine, we're walking right now, brother. Thank you, have a good day. Not a big one, but we will go ahead and get them back in the water. It's a little guy, something to start off with. You gotta start somewhere when you're fishing, so. It's our first fish today, let's see if we can catch another one. Standing right here. All right, guys, that is a nice little start. Not a big one, but we gotta start somewhere whether it be in a hot summer day and we catch one right off the rip. That's just a good sign. Love throwing this trap, we just cover a lot of water with it. That's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna hop to a lot of ponds, just cast, cast, cast, cast and see what we catch today. And more importantly, just see if we can run into a big one. I think if we throw enough cast today, it can happen. Oh dude, he's following me in right there. Oh gosh, that's a decent one, dude. I was about the same size as the first one. I thought he felt big the way I haven't hooked. Oh man, he's smaller than the first one. We got, oh my God. All right, these are the ones that you gotta be careful with. So I wanna show you guys this. I think this is a great talking point. When you grab these bass, see how I have his gill plates shut down that actually paralyzes the bass. He can't flop right now. So I keep pressure on his gill plates. And once I have a firm grip on this fish, I can just go in and take him off the hook and I have to worry about him hooking me. It's very important. Pretty, oh. All right, all right, all right, guy. He's just gonna release himself. Well guys, we have caught two fish right away. This is like the quickest I've caught some fish in a while. I haven't been in this pond in like a year. So it feels good to be out here, but two little bass so far. I feel a big one coming. Oh, dude, you see that blow up in the corner? That was crazy. Got some on my bait. Real listen real quick. This fish just like schooling in the corner back here. That should be him. Come on, baby. Oh, there he is. Little tiny guy. We found the small ones today. But we gotta start somewhere. That's the thing with this pond is like, there's some really, there's some really big fish in here, but there's also a lot of small ones. So you kind of got to weave through them. But at least we're catching some right now. How many miles are we gonna walk today, bro? We're gonna walk a lot, brother. You know what's crazy is back in like my pond fishing stage of YouTube. You know, I only fish tournaments and only filmed boat videos for like six years. Then I went on this like pond fishing craze because I was like, you know what? I understand a lot of people don't have a boat. You know, I want to relate to you guys. So I start pond fishing a lot. I was walking like five miles a day, Cody. Like, you know that little app on your phone that tracks it or it's the health app? Dude, every day at least five miles of walking. Oh, yeah. All right, so we're gonna be going to the next pond. We caught three fish in that one, which is a plus. You know, we got to start somewhere. It was super quick. We were probably only out there for like 15 minutes, but we did meet a homeowner and he was a little frustrated that we were out there. I told him, I was like, yeah, we can move. Like, it's no problem. I fished out there for two years. I haven't had a problem with anybody. You know, when I go out to these ponds, guys, one, I make sure I go to places that one, I either have permission at or two, I know I'm okay fishing with. And like I said, I've never had a problem out there in a few years, but he got a little frustrated, didn't he, Cody? He sure did. I don't know. He like walked up and was like, hey, if you don't walk on my lawn, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, yeah, of course. And we just like continued walking down the bank and tried to follow us and just keep going. We weren't disrespectful at all. We were just trying to move on from there and he kept talking to us. So we felt like it was just kind of a place we needed to move along and get to the next pond. Yeah, so we're going to the next pond now and see what we can do. We did catch three fish there, so that's a positive note. You only made about 10 casts. Yeah, dude, I mean, I caught three instantly. It's usually not like that out there. So that was, it's a good sign to know that fish are biting today. I'm just hoping we can catch a big one. So we're gonna get out of that guy's hair. I don't want to upset him by any means. He might be having a bad day. You never know what somebody's going through. But we're having a good day, aren't we, Cody? We're having a happy day. So we're gonna go catch us a big one right now. Oh yeah. We just came out to the second pond of the day. This pond is actually very special to me. One, because I filmed my 100,000 subscriber special out here, we filmed a bunch of bangers on this pond. But I don't know if you guys remember, I filmed a video of fishing in a pond that they were draining. It's actually this pond, and this is over a year later. There's still water in this pond, which is crazy. I thought they were draining it completely. But yeah, I don't know if these fish are still alive, but it used to be a good little juicy area. So we're gonna spend a little bit of time in here. Let's see if we can catch some big ones. I used to always catch a ton of like three, four pounders every time I came out here. So let's see what we can do. This pond was so hard to fish before. It had like a lot of trees in it. And you had like little tiny areas that you would have to go to to be able to cast. And now you can kind of cast around the whole pond. It's like they cleared out the whole thing. But I have a feeling a lot of these fish died off, which really upsets me because I have a lot of good memories at this pond. We filmed some freaking bangers out here. But maybe today's the day that we're gonna figure out if there's still fish that are alive in here. See if there's some good ones. Where's some fancast a lot out here in the middle? Yeah, it used to be so hard to cast here. There's trees everywhere. Kind of how those trees are all around this pond. Yeah. About a year and a half. I know there's still some fish in here because I was gonna film a fish rescue where I transported the fish out of there. Yeah, I was gonna ask you, when it was drained, was it like, was there still like a little pool where there was some fish? Or was it like, did it get empty? It didn't get empty, empty. There was still like a little bit of water. Over here was like really shallow. But on the other end, I caught a few fish. I still know with them draining it back, like with these fish die, you know what I mean? I'm not sure. I assume there's some in here, but I used to film, catch a good bit of fish. Down there is like my favorite spot in that corner. But right here, there used to be some big ones out here in the middle, but I just don't. And then that bank over there, where there's little pipes in the water, that was like a fire spot. We'll walk around there to that bridge. So I talk about it all the time. It's very important to retie. Had a bunch of frays on my line. Last thing you want is to break it off. So when you guys got some frays, it takes two seconds to retie. I promise you to be worth your time, especially if you lose a big fish. It's happened to me so many times, where I'm just stubborn, I don't retie and then end up losing a giant. So always retie your line guys, even if it's the slightest fray. It'd be worth it in the end. Place looks so different. If I just catch one decent one in here, I'll be happy. Used to always be fish on that. I saw some bait flicker right where I just cast. Armadillos are so fly, dude. Hey, what are you doing? Dude, there's multiple cuttings. You're what in the world? Oh, there's one right there, it's like a little cat. I'm about to spank it. You're gonna spank it? I don't want to spank it. Is it recording? Yeah. I'm about to spank it. Wait, hold on. Oh, there's another one. I spanked it. Did it do anything? It didn't do anything. Oh, I spanked it. I've always wanted to spank an armadillo, dude. So why? All right, so I saw this video a while back. This guy sneaks up on one and he spanks it and it jumped up like this high. Like it jumped up super high. If I can find the clip, I'll roll it if it's not copyrighted. But man, that was cool. I've always wanted to spank one. There was three, man. Did you see that? Yeah. Armadillos are fly. Those things are cool. What did it feel like? Like a hard chill? Yeah. Well, not as hard as you would think. Like not like a turtle shell. Yeah. More of like a thick leather or something. Dude, that was funny. When you were like, hey, and you're just like. He didn't even like really flinch. This is some sneaky stuff. If we don't have a bite in this corner, I don't know what to say. This is like a good little spot. Did you notice that? My bait was tangled up when the hook is on your line. If you could do this, it'd come off. Yeah. I knew there was a trick for it. I can't remember how to do it. That's weird. Somebody had to. Oh my God, I got him. Let's go. Guess there is fish in here. Oh, he came off. Oh man, that just feels good to know that there's a fish in here. That's my first bite in this pond ever since they drained it. So I guess there are a little bit. There's a few fish here and there. I was expecting to hook a big one. I don't really hook small ones in here, but heck, there's some fish in here. We just gotta keep on casting. I think there would be some more. This corner is like fire, guys. I used to always get a good bite. So we're gonna make a good bit of cast to see if we can fire up a big one. A big one. Oh, oh my God, dude. Cody. Did you see how big he was? That was like a five pounder, dude. As we were talking about it. Dude, I watched him just go like this. Just eat it. I actually saw him eat it. I saw his whole body. Dude, they're in here, bro. Oh my God, why did he have to come off? I think it's the angle that I'm on. See, I'm on a hill. I know that sounds weird, but this happened to me before where I'll be like fishing kind of on a hill and I just can't get a good hook set on. Dude, that was a big end, bro. Did you see it on the camera? All right, let's keep on casting, man. That was the next cast after that other fish. I feel like they don't get fish a lot, so maybe you'll eat it again. They usually don't bite that good in here though, but I don't know if that was just a fluke or I hope there's more, dude. But in this corner, I used to always have like one opportunity to get a three to four pounder. And that fish was over four. Yeah, that was a five pounder. God, dude, I watched him eat it. I got a small one. Dude, there's fish in here. That feels so good. How do you go from, dude, I know people talk all this trash like it's always the big ones that get away, but hey, you guys saw that fish. Like what, like how do you go from hooking? We had one that was like a pound and a half. Next cast, we hook one that's like five pounds. Then we catch one that's like a quarter of a pound. A double cheeseburger weighs more than that thing. And that is a- A napkin? Yeah, bro. Hey, you never know what you got to use. You got to use what you got to use. Dude, I'm like getting excited about this pond because we've had three fish bite. There's a decent amount of fish still in here, but you feel so good. I really thought these fish were going to die. Like when I came out here, I was actually coming back to film a fish rescue. I was talking about it in the video and then I kind of got a word from somebody that they said they're not draining this thing completely, but the water was like all the way out of it. But there's still some giants in here, bro. That was a freaking toad. That was a big fish. Like with us not fishing in a couple of weeks and losing one that big, that kind of hurts. Cause that would have been our biggest fish back on the water. But I'm sure there's another one lurking. Let's just keep on casting. We're going to catch a big one this week. We're going to do it. Sometime this week, we're going to have a meager. It's going to happen. We're going to catch one over eight this week. So you guys better stay tuned to the content. Hit the notification bell next to the subscribe button because 500 likes on this video and we'll take a scale everywhere we go. 500? I should we do more. 5000. 5000 likes. 5000 likes. I know the kick and fam can do it. All right, so if we get 5000 likes on this video, Cody, this is Cody's responsibility. You're listening Cody, right? Okay. Cody's got to bring a scale everywhere we go. 5000 likes. I know you guys want me to bring a scale because if we were to call that big one right there we wouldn't have a scale. Nope. I'll make sure to have a scale. But you guys got 5000 likes on this video. All right, that's a bet. I never asked for likes. We never asked for that. Not since we've been filming together. We've never asked them like, hey, go and like this video or anything like that. 5000 likes. We'll have a scale on this every single time. I promise you. All right, so we just got out to this new pond. We're going to give it a go. There's some massive fish in here. Freaking huge ones. I've caught so many eight to nine pounders I could not even tell you. So we're going to go down this bank fish a little bit. There are golfers out today and usually today they're not golfing but since yesterday was the fourth of July there's golfers out. So if people do pull up we're going to get out of their way and go to a different pond but we have about five minutes to try to fish right here. I got one. He ate it on the fall. Dude, we're just finding the tiny guys today. I don't know what it is. This tiny guys are just munching this thing. Then every time we hook a big one he just happens to come off. We are trying our best. Catching fish, those are pretty colors on that bass. Really pretty colors. This pond used to not have a lot of grass and they have a ton of grass and that's why that bass is that dark. I've been living that grass. Thank you, buddy. Thank you. It's getting me all wet. All right, we got a little merch. Shout out. Somebody just got him some merch. Shout out to Robbie. Thank you so much for purchasing the premium fishing American flag t-shirt. If you guys want to check out any of the merch, kickinthebass.com I'll drop the link down below. Thank you guys so much for everybody that supports kickinthebass.tv and supports the brand. I really appreciate it and that helps out a lot with my traveling expenses. So anybody who buys clothing online, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. We are going to our next pond. But first we gotta stop at Parker's and get us something to drink because me and Cody are freaking dehydrated as they come and we need us a water in our lives. So we're gonna stop at the gas station and then I will catch you guys at the last pond. Here it is. Not big. I don't know what's up with today, guys, but we have been pond hopping. We've been to so many ponds, probably like our sixth pond of the day, and these are just the guys that we're catching. You know, we had that really big one that came off which I'm so upset about, but you know, at least we're catching fish today. Trying out some new places that we haven't fished in a while and it's just fun. It feels good being outside and enjoying nature, enjoying life and catching bass. Please bite it, baby. I feel it. Well guys, we had a struggle today, but it was a lot of fun. You know, we got to spank some armadillos. We got to run into a few angry homeowners. We got to lose a five pounder. But it was a good day. You know, we had a lot of fun. We hit a lot of ponds. We did some pond hopping today. It's been a while since we filmed one of these videos. I hope you guys enjoyed it. 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