 Oh god, got him. There we go. That one smacked it good Fish and freaks welcome on back. It's cold man Whoo, I've decided to bear the elements today See if we can catch the fish on a really cold day on the big waters So I'm on the lake. This is Lake Texoma It's known for having small mouth. The reason I like coming up here in the winter time is Because it usually has decent water clarity. I like clear water in the winter time There's just not a lot of lakes around me that have Water with this clarity There's really good small mouth. You can catch a really nice small mouth. In fact, my biggest Texas small mouth has come from here five pounds. My PB small mouth period is out of period Six pounds, but until then until last year. This is probably ten years ago Maybe more than that. I've caught a couple of personal best out here this time of year on a spoon Fishing a gold spoon off ledges. So I was talking about this a little bit the other day on a local lake And then I just got thinking yeah I'm gonna go up to the big water and see if I can throw a spoon around throw some crankbaits Throw some swim baits and just see what happens. Of course the jerkbait. Don't forget about the jerkbait I've been hearing about that a lot lately. That's just because Proven winter time tactic, but anyway, we might get it. We might get into some big stripers And we might not catch anything. I don't know. It's really tough conditions as far as just reading the elements out here, but Wendy Got some gravel got some boulders. We're gonna fish some points and right now I'm just looking for ledges looking for bait and then we're gonna get the shiny stuff out there Okay, let's give her a whirl Deep spooning jigging That's what we're gonna start out with I'm just gonna kind of drift with the wind over some deep water sitting 40 foot Just graph this whole Bank I went like 200 300 yards and I was just looking for bait. I didn't see a whole lot, but I did see some fish that are Hanging on these ledges. So I'm just gonna Just take a chance here the the idea with this technique Which I really like for deep water fishing is is you can get your bait down there pretty quick with With these spoons, I mean it's at the bottom within seconds and then you're you're working where those fish are So if I'm seeing a lot of fish suspended higher up in the water column, this is This is not going to be the deal. But if they're close to the bottom or hanging on some structure Which they are here just a ledge It starts in kind of 20 foot and then drops off I'm sitting in 40 foot throwing up into probably 15 and then working it down that ledge Big boulder cold water Big old brown fish Come on Even though there's not many bites. It's the Kind of the program of winter fishing. You don't get nearly as many bites as you would in the spring or summer or fall but The chance of catching a big fish is always there. They're going to be at their fattest In the winter and early spring Gosh hammered I don't know if y'all saw my line Twitch right there, but it Just got smacked There's one you got him Come here, baby Oh Smally Think he's a smally He's awfully pale Yeah, he's a smallmouth Good fight on the old spinning gear Man, I don't know if that was the same fish But one just smoked it Then this might this guy might have come back and gotten it. Can I sling you dude? You're so heavy smallmouth. You're just heavy There we go That's what we're talking about right there folks Look at that water depth See a little bit of bait down there deep 56 feet of water And uh We just pumped that thing. He was probably in 35 or so Down there pretty deep Nice fish right there It's a beautiful thing right there. That's what I came up here for Just to catch one of these cold texas beauties in the winter It's fun stuff guys fight The fight on a largemouth versus a smallmouth in the winter I mean, there's just no comparison But gosh see the first one just smoked it And then I don't know if it was the same fish. It was probably a good 20 feet Uh after I I got that first bite and then it just loaded like the fish just had it So it might have chased it down the ledge That's one good thing about a smallmouth is is even when it's cold They're they're just more aggressive. So they got a little bit more tail power Even when it's cold they're just designed to be in it more But uh, I might switch up and throw some other spoons and things like that because that was Uh, that was my second or third hit that I just didn't connect on so um I really like gold For these conditions, you know, we've got mostly overcast right now and the gold's gonna have good flash down there deep Um, I'll probably end up tying on a gold just a plain spoon as well But uh, we're gonna keep going with this tactic. I've got this on Uh, I think this is 10 pound mono leader and then I've got um 15 pound either 15 or 20 pound This is some of our early uh, Guggen squad parade that I got in some samples of orange Just throwing that on one of our finesse rods in the gold series All right, let's get back out there. See if we can crank another one I had one dumped it Well, I could be doing myself a disservice If I didn't just pick up a jerk bait throw it around as a point Might be a shallow one or two suspended up there. Oh my gosh. I hit a carp on something I got smacked right there Whoa, that had to be a small mouth Oh my gosh, he cranked it A little shallow spot next to this deep water That one thumped it can't believe I didn't connect a little switcheroo here with a saucy on a under spin Give a different look something to throw across these points and Juicy banks I've had uh one shallow bite now on a crankbait This I can Fish mid-death and deep there's gotta be one around this bank Just too gnarly looking I don't like the water clarity. I'll tell you that I don't know what's going on here, but These huge boulders Sitting in 56 foot The old brown beauty is down there Really want that thing falling I want to lift it up and feel it falling down the ledge Oh gosh one smacked it Smacked it on the fall That's seven bites I've gotten It is some wavy gravy out here, man Come on Make it all worth it Give me that four pound brownfish Oh god, got him. There we go. That one smacked it good Come here, baby Be a good another brown one about the same size Fun though, I mean crushed it Gosh broke my line Should have not done that All muscled All just a complete muscle ball, man dude Thank you for giving me that bite because that's just the bite I needed right now Eight bites two fish, but I'm proud to have that one. I needed that one. That was like a uh Just a momentum fish right there Any smallmouth is a good smallmouth See you buddy Man y'all when they hit it down there, even though it's it's you know 30 40 foot down you can just feel it So awesome. I really like using that braid too so you can feel every Rock it's really important when you're fishing the spoons and the you know Basically things that are heavy and have treble hooks Throwing it down these rocks and these ledges as soon as you hit the bottom Lift it up. So having that braid As a main line really helps to feel that as soon as I I feel the bottom just lift up let it keep falling So I just got my night bump idle over to a point here sitting in 47 Been sitting at about 50 foot And I'm pretty much on a point That's been the two things in common Yeah There is a spender right there on the point There's a couple of them Just don't know Just don't think we have the water clarity for the jerkbait bite today and they're just They're deep too deep where You can't see it I think we got to move You got to try down the location here just from grinding on the same bank Yep. Yeah, that's a solid in the crack. Oh no, we got it Very nice very nice Let's do this Sun going down Final final countdown Tried a lot of different banks Caught a lot of different rocks. That is the song of sad man right there Just tied that thing on up there it goes Um, I'm slowly working my way back I have slowly worked my way back close to the ramp and Just trying these points as I go, you know picking up the shallow baits Hid the points moving out deep But it is shut down The closer I've gotten Back to the ramp big Scooter McGee's Right on the point. They're just Mastadons Down there. Oh got him You've got to be kidding me on my last fishing spot be a hog Or just be something Jumper baby. That's what I'm talking about Goh Oh my mental capacity needed you Oh Man We choked that white color too I had already just given up mentally. I was like in a you know, just a autopilot casting And uh little guy came out and stroked it Little sundown smallmouth Gotta love it go ahead and smash it My smell has been off since I've had the virus so I gotta gotta train it back again No, I don't have it yet y'all just don't have it I should probably end on that one, but I'm just gonna punish myself a little bit more God these fish are just so deep y'all Just all species everything that I've worked today. I haven't even really seen any good groups of shad But the shad that I have seen are just Like 40 50 foot down It's crazy Good and two No, it's not fighting it yet is there we go. Here we go Oh, yes, sir, come on now You might have a little something here Yeah, there he goes There he goes now he's going Oh my gosh Oh the smallmouth You gotta love him You gotta love him. He's taking me everywhere Look at that beautiful brown fish It's not a giant but he's just It's just uh, this is solid Oh, man, I'm uh, I'm in some trouble here in a bad spot with the Troll motor situation. Okay, here we go You're a little too big for me to fling Godly man. I thought you were a Just absolute chunk the way you came at it like a spider monkey And he just loaded up too That fish just kind of was there Yeah, that's a healthy one man Sun down added bonus chunk ball brown beautiful. Love you fish right there Go back into the deeps Get your feet on see you beautiful Sun's going down. We are done fishing Tough day grinded it out though and ended on a good note and i'm not going to sign it off right here We're done fishing but i'm going to take it to the tackle cave right now I got one more thing i want to show you guys so i think it's going to help you out To the cave So i'm going to show you guys my my spoon box And I wanted to show it to you because I use this so much and especially in the winter time I use it in the fall Using the summer and I use it for so many species. I catch crappie on these spoons. I catch bass, obviously White bass, uh, I can't tell you how many White bass I've caught on spoons in my life, but it is a go-to tactic for deep water This feels like such an old school video right now those of you who've been on the channel for a long time Don't know what i'm talking about used to do a lot of videos in uh in the garage Definitely recommend investing in a nice box. This one's bass mafia. I like their products Obviously, this is one of ours, but I'll leave a link if you guys want to want to get these but This has a rubber seal around the edge You know just something to keep your spoons dry and moisture free because this would be a lot of money to to run So I have all sorts of spoons in all different sizes to kind of match the situations So i'm just going to quickly go through them. These are my summer Style spoons and fall. These are flutterspins. I don't break these out until Really post spawn like june and into the the fall when they're wanting something big this thing Flutters down and then I have what I call casting spoons But what they these have like a little Angle to them and it makes it kind of do a flutter action when it falls I have them in nickel. I got them in gold. I got I've painted some of these Just refresh the hooks, you know, that's that's another thing I have in here. I have Some assorted trebles and I also have swivels So when you're fishing spooned your line is going to get twisted quite a bit depending on which ones you're throwing But I keep an assortment of these little barrel swivels On hand in here so that prevents line twists. I've got split rings So this this entire box is just made for this the other style spoon is a jigging spoon So I've got an assortment of these These style spoons don't have any action to them when they fall You basically just pick it up put it down and it is a straight up jigging spoon But you can basically put it right on top of the fish and jig it up and down or you can cast it down the ledge like it was today But there's really Hardly any action on these and I do like them when it's really cold when they're sitting in one spot Today I didn't run into that. They were kind of scattered. This style right here is the same thing It's just a little bit different profile and I use these for for crappie quite a bit the other style Is the blade stop bait which I was using today This is one of my my favorite baits of all time from ketchco This is the 10 000 fish Death stalker. This is a modified version of a Classic blade bait style So it is a sheet of metal with a little bit of lead on the bottom of it It has a vibrating action when you lift it up So when you lift lift this thing up, it'll vibrate just like a lipless crankwood. This has a barrel swivel and That little uh willow blade on the back So you get that added little thump and flash and it just fishes deep water So effectively all these do that's why I love them So I keep a good assortment of those running low right now. I need to get some more and then the last style is Some people call it a wing ding. There's a bunch of different People that make this but this is kind of the same thing It's just a slab of lead With a willow blade on the back and I really like these in the fall But you can just slow roll these like it like a spinner bait, but it just gets down there deep It's effective For fishing that deep water. Just slow roll it let that spinner do its thing. That is the spoon box Uh, I would definitely recommend Putting one together, you know get you a small box start out small Um, but just get you a little bit of an assortment. I definitely recommend nickel and gold um and for sunny days and just depending on water conditions I like nickel and really clear water And then get you some painted ones for for stain and stained water just depends on on where you are, but Uh, that is the spoon box ladies and gentlemen a little old school presentation here I thought I would leave you with that little tidbit because the first time that I had ever Uh, read about spoons It literally read about spoons Heard about them. It was in bassmaster magazine many many years ago And there was no internet videos about how to fish them or anything I literally would look at the animations in the magazine Uh and look at some of the photos obviously read it and then go out and experiment how to do it So glad that I could you know go show you guys on the water how I'm fishing it and everything because it just To me visually, you know learning it you can just learn it so much faster and see the little things that you can't See when you're trying to read that and I just I don't know going out there and Failing so many times trying to do it when you finally get one on it It just kind of unlocks some deep water, you know fish are down there deep in those of winter haunts they usually hang out in your creek channels and deep water and Uh, most people fish like when it starts warming up in the spring, but you could fish you're around Uh using this technique you can fish it in shallower water too It doesn't have to be super deep, but just remember to go slow go slower always in the winter time and try to match Um, you know the the fish that are moving slower. They're cold-blooded animals. You gotta remember that so Anyways y'all thanks for tuning in today Go ahead and smash that like button for some tip action and catching the beautiful brown fish And I think I'm gonna head out to the deer lease next so hang around. We'll see you then