 Look at this, it's hanging over the limb. Fish ate it. Oh, hello, everybody, and welcome back to the great outdoors. We're at the deer lease again. And last time, I was able to get a pig on the e-bike. And this thing is awesome. And I actually took it out last night again to go after some predators, ended up running into some other hogs. And whatnot. But the rifle scope was apparently off, where I just really suck. Because that ended pretty much unsuccessfully. So there is a pond out here that I've yet to fish. And it is just lined with vegetation right now, weeds. And it's a pretty wide pond, but it's shallow. And I just thought this is the perfect time to break out a little frog. And just go bob that thing around the edges and see what happens. So that's what we're going to be doing in today's video. Sometimes you just get these ponds in the summer and early fall that, dang near, all you can do is throw a frog. And it's such a good, effective way to fish over the top of grass. And with our collaboration with Ketchco, making a lot of our hard baits and frogs, we decided to go with a junior-sized frog. Now, everybody's got their frog color preferences. But for me, I like to go dark on overcast days like today. We've got a little overcast coming in. So I've got some black frogs and I've got some white frogs. I really just like to go with light colors, dark colors. The ones with the little yellow and the white on the bottom are good too. I like that color. You're going to be hard-pressed to beat that little color right there, that little unit. Just a little bitty buddy ready to be slurped. Now they're available. So you can pick them up at GuggenSquad.com. And you can always use the code LFG if you want to receive 10% off. If you don't, it's up to you. My new e-bike here, it allows for a few danglers on the back. There we go. All right. Now we're ready to rock, y'all. So let's head down to the pond. I have not fished before. It's covered with weeds. And this is the pond where the pond deer was living last year. This deer that I really, I was targeting for weeks. I was really trying to get him in the fall. And I never really wanted to mess with that pond. I never fished down there. I never duck hunted down there because I just did not want that pond deer to go away. But we are not in hunting season yet. So it should be good. So let's head down to the water and see if we can get some bass on the frock. Up top. Let's ride. We're going here to see if I can do all this at the same time. With a drink, with a fishing pole, and not bust my butt. Oh, spilling my drink. I'm going to get real nasty in a second. That's a doozy. That's a doozy with the one hand and the drink right there. Look at me go, get my morning drink. Don't hit the rocks. Fishing pole. There's a whitetail just across the road. I think we ought to fish the damn deepest spot. It could be wrong. I think that's what we'll try to do. Oh yeah, there goes the fish right there. Just all one swim off. All right. What a beaut. So you've got really clear water around the edges. That's due to all the filtration of the grasses. There's some surface grass with leaves, and that's pondweed. It's really common. Oh, I see baby bass right there in front of me. Baby bass, so that's a good sign. So I know there's bass in here. I just heard like a good pop. It sounded like a bass. I was slurping something. But look how far this grass goes out. I mean, you have to make a long cast just to get to open water. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to look for edge holes. Anywhere that has an opening with deep enough water, then I'm going to throw out into the middle and work it to the edge. Thought it was going to be overcast, but we'll still go with black frog right now. Crazy story about this place. The first time I ever came out here, rode straight by this pond. And the first thing that I saw along the dam was a dead 10-point buck in the water. It had drowned. And I was like, wow, there's some good bucks out here. And way back there, that's where the pond buck kind of resides. There's this ridge. Pretty sure I got him on camera in the last video. Real tall, main frame 10. He's got a little extra kicker. But he kind of goes over that ridge and back and forth from here from what I've seen on the trail cameras in the past. So we'll be looking for him this year. All right, let's do a little exploring. Look at that little nook right there. Why would a bass not? Watch out. Oh, gosh, a big bass or a big fish. Just moved from right there. It was hanging in that shade, guys. Oh, there's a bass right here. See him. Oh my gosh, he's going to eat it. He's right under it. Oh my gosh, got him. Oh my gosh. Let me watch that fish. I watched that fish. I set the hook way too early. I was watching him. That's cool. Oh my gosh, I got him. Oh, what a champion. Oh, it's inhaled. It's gone. Oh, dude, are you the same fish? You look even bigger. Oh, man, it is down the hatch. Down the hatch, guys. That was awesome. Just right next to the bank. I mean, literally a pitch. Two rod lengths. What a beauty. Got a little bit of a bloody tail right there. I'm going to let this fish go. I honestly think that was a different fish, guys. It is. It was a different fish. I just saw the other one. Oh, and there's two more over here right here in the shallows. I'm going to let this fish go right here. Other way, other way, other way. There you go. Come on. Just give it a kick. Give it a kick. Go that way. No. Go the other way. You mud fish. Why do you keep wanting to go in here? This fish just wants to come home with me. One final attempt here. There you go. No, what are you doing? I had you in the clear part. You could clearly see it to go home. I have to get in here. If you come back up in here, I'm going to be upset with you. Oh, my God. I've never had this much issues releasing a fish that does not want to go back into the. OK, I saw another one right here in this little shade pocket. I'm just going to try to stay back and flip this. Oh, my gosh, ate it right away. Ate it right away. And I don't know if you guys could see this on the camera, but that fish tracked it in the air. Oh, man, I got mud. I got clay all over my reel. I'm all slippery. Just a hot mess, as they say right now. That was insane, guys, because I saw the fish tracking towards my bait in the air, just like if something was falling out of the tree and it already knew it was already looking at it. So I'll try this again. Just could not even react it way too fast. Got to settle down. Look at this hanging over the limb. Fish ate it. Fish ate it when it was sitting over. Oh, my gosh, I'm a little kid right now. I'm a little kid. I'm not sure why I did not hook up that time, because I let them have it for just a split second. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I thought I did. This fish is like waiting. Just waiting. It's not a big one, but it's exciting on the last. Let's see if I can. There he is, he's right behind it. He's right behind it. These fish are ready for things to get in the water. If I get this fish on the third try, it's going to be, oh, my gosh. I can see him in this little pocket, just waking. See if I can shoot it out there. That should be money juice. Just going to let it sit. See what he does. I can always look at it. He's right under it, just so I'm awake. Right under it. He's like fooling me once. Shame on you, fooling me twice. I won't get fooled again. There's plenty of tries there. All right, there's still, gosh, there's another one right here. Try this little cast again. I just spooked that one off. Got to be sneaky with these guys. Oh, my gosh. Oh, that was the fish I just caught. He finally woke up. OK, all right, let's just make a cast out into the deeps. See what happens here. I really don't think this is very deep at all. I think that's why the ducks like it. There's a lot of stuff to eat around the middle they can get to. So this thing could set up for a shallow bass. There's no reason for them to go out there and be on the sun. Just hear those frogs in the background, too. Oh, yeah. Good hit out of nowhere. Oh, I lost him. He got me in those weeds. Tried to put the hammers to him. Oh, that was fun, man. Just working it in that open water. Wow. Yep, got a good hook in him. He's not coming back. Another bluegill just tried to eat it. Come on, bass, wake up. Wake up and smack that frog. Frog croaking right in front of me. It's like doing the jaws thing. Down it, down it, down it, down it, down it, down it, down it. By the way, I have no idea how big, like what's the potential out here for big bass. From what I've seen around the edges, it looks like a four-pounder would be a pretty good one. But there could be some giants in here if they're eating lots of bluegill and frogs. To get that little bob action, just small little twitches of that rod tip, it just makes a little nice little wake, kind of like a buzzbait. Got him. Oh, dude, right there. Just having a little trouble with that hook set. I suspect that was a little one. Something about the smell of cow manure around the pond just brings back old memories for me. Pawn hopping. I was younger. Oh my goodness, there's one right there in that hole. I spooked him. He saw me before I saw him. That's the name of the game sometimes. Caught in a thorn. Company's bass are living in just inches of water. OK, I'm going to try the shallow end. I don't think this is going to be the deal. I think these fish are going to be, oh, there's one. Oh, I've got him. And then I'm tuned in here with a spinning rod. Is there anything in there? What are you? Are you a snake? No, there's nothing there. It's just weeds. I had me fooled there for a minute. I had one on. It's a sloppy pond fish. Let's see if there's one in this gap. There was one. I just don't know. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, straight reeling it right there. Well, that fish was living in gulk, absolute gulk. I was not even looking. Oh my god, oh my god. What in the heck is going on? We are in sloppy slops, I swear. Three quarters of the fun of frog fishing is just watching those little blow-ups. This guy's still hanging around. What is he living in? This is some nasty, nasty stuff here. I am just as confused as you guys are. Like, what did that fish just come out of? Oh my gosh, one right there. He's just waiting. Just not quite big enough opening. They are definitely in that gunk, that nasty zone. But I've been hearing the most activity on this other side. So I'm going to head back over there, where I originally saw those bass, and then fish that thick edge and fish over these mats and see if we can get some of it here. Let's try this little mudskipper again. Give him another chance. There he goes. He's swimming towards it. He's like, ah, oh, there we go. That's why I kept missing you. You're that small. That was so cool, though, to watch him come over to it. Just barely had it. Good job. I like the way you move. I like the way you do business. OK, we're back at the bike. I'm just going to do a little slop work here. Oh my gosh, that was awesome. Come here. Oh. Well, he was about 12 inches too, but hit it right where we're supposed to in that little gap hole. Our hit to sniff ratio is pretty low today. Frogs are the worst. Look up ratio of bait in your tackle box. Oh my gosh. You little body. You just came out of the weeds. Look how small. That's what's happening on these guys. It didn't happen on a eight pounder. They do not have a problem with it. They sound a lot bigger than they are. Just a light sniff for you. OK, I'm going to try to work a few more of these openings, and I'm going to grasshoppers out here right now too, let's see. We've got plenty to eat right there. Good one, good boil. Come on. How big are you? I don't know. I don't really know. Probably not big. I need to follow up with like a lunker log or a dart. I probably should give a couple of those things a cast just because they're being very snippy. Oh my gosh, I'm watching. We've got to stop setting the hook on impact. This is what happens when your frog game is weak. OK, I've just got to see what a soft plastic would do. Wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Oh, look at this bass right here. I just saw him. He's right there in a little juicy gap. And did you see the impact mode? I mean, I saw him. I turned around through to him and wobb I am. I just, I don't know. It's almost like, do they think it's a grasshopper? And I just not fully am I setting? I don't know. Put it in your mark on you. OK, let's see what we got to play with here. The money bag and the saddle. Tell me I've got just something. What is this? Tell me. Bandito bugs like the color, though. I'll just try one of these colors. Maybe it'll look like a grasshopper or a poison dart frog, three-ot, hammer hook, detach our appendages, rigging, go in, quarter inch. Come out, do your twist, textbooks it on top. Let's go in the same gap. Oh, my. OK, OK, folks, clearly what's going on here. These fish are, I don't want to need more bugs. These fish, I think, are targeting bugs that are falling out of the trees. They're not getting that full, full on mouth. They're not getting their whole mouth on it. I think they think it's a grasshopper, and they just assume the size, and it's not the same size. OK, got to let them run with it. Do not set the hook, dude. Got him. There we go. That's the key. I believe I saw you earlier, dude. I saw you. Oh, look, he's got an injury. Trying to get eaten by something. I saw you earlier in there. I came back for you, because I love you so much. See you, Bob. OK, there we go, a little wading on the hook set. That's what I should have done with the frog, too. Give him a little wait, just wait a second. That's that one I just missed on the frog a minute ago. And small, small, but very aggressive. Pretty healthy look at fish, actually. These fish don't look too stunted. Yeah, they don't look too stunted. So it's telling me they got enough to eat out here. Hit it on the swim. Again, if I, uh, they're just getting me, guys. Still see his fresh little boil. All right, gotcha, boy. Let it sink down there. We had to have another fresh, healthy little guy. These, these fish's gearing is towards bugs. I mean, stuff falling out of the trees. It's pretty crazy. Oh, there's a bite. Does he have it? Got him. Yeah, there we go. Come here. The old willow tree fish. Hopefully you've not damaged my bug. Ripped the pincher off, but you're OK. It's OK. It's my last one I got on me. Back into the slop. Oh, guys, it looks like size. Uh, that's, that's what we're dealing with. I'm thinking I need to put a fish feeder out here. I've actually got one. I just need to fill it up with some pellets and let it do its thing. Maybe get these bluegill to a bigger size, get these bass to a bigger size. But I've never run across a fish that didn't want a banditio bug. This thing is just crazy. You can like swim it at the surface like a frog. There's another one. Hit it as soon as it hit the water. Oh, I mean, they are just waiting for things to fall out of these trees. 100 percent. It's it's almost like it's like you've got to cast it around a tree and just make it plop on the water. And that that plop is what's triggering them to come over in there and eat it. Don't even know if I can try to make this banditio bug work one more time here. It's like plop. Oh, yeah, I need to go eat that thing. There's one. Get out of there. Fish might have got off. Nope, we still got him. My little surprise. Thank you for for eating my last my last worm or officially torn up. You need to grow possibly the last sniff of the day. Smells good. Good old grass bass. Smells extra watermelon like sweet like sugar wine. Back to my old trusty horse. Sheath are a rod for the moment. So there is another pond out here that I know has bass in it that we can ride to. But a lot of fish died in it during the winter. So I don't know how it's going to be right now. But I know it did have bass and I've caught some good ones out of it. So we'll load up on the horse and head on over. Piece of cake for the old block you going to need to take your water and whole here for a minute. I know I'm sorry. Just got to give it a quick dangle. Be out of your fur just a minute. So unlike the other pond, this one doesn't have an overhang of trees. So these fish are not on the edge like the other ones. But we do have some pond weed around the edges of the pond. And I think like right there, right out in front of it, could be where they want to hang out. It could be all the way up in it right now too with the sun being out. Oh my gosh, that's a good one too. Yep, he was all the way up in it. And that's the difference. When they're big, they just suck it in. Oh, yeah. Woo, that was fun. You skinny, though. Indeed. Old mud face. When they're that size, you really don't have to let them take it. They just do it all on their own. Sorry I got you in the tongue, buddy. I want you to go quick because tongue hooked fish never do well to get back in fast, especially in the summer, guys. You get a fish hooked in the tongue. If you're in a tournament, it's almost guaranteed you're going to have problems with that fish. But their blood coagulates in water, so you want to get them back in the water as soon as you can. Wow, that could be a dayender for me. This is the ball game. We're going to call it a day on the fishing scene, y'all. But just crazy how those fish were tucked up under those willow trees. And you had to just be sneaky and pitch to them. And I really think they're just waiting on bugs. Grasshoppers, dragonflies, little beetles, things to fall out of those trees. After I started really looking in the water, I didn't see a whole lot of bluegill. So they've got baby bass to eat. They've got little minnows, little top minnows. They've got bugs. And they've got frogs. So those seem to be the natural resources. I don't know if they just scooped up all the bluegill, ate them all, but I didn't see any in the shallows, where you typically would see them. And it just goes to show you a bass is just going to be a bass at the end of the day. A largemouth loves to be in the shadows. And no matter the water temperature, it seems like they just love to be in the shade, love to be in those dark places where they can ambush prey. So we always think about, and I say this all the time, and I love to do it, we got to go out to deep water and we got to find these groups of fish and catch them. But you can catch fish year round up in shallows. And especially in the summertime when it's hot, if you can find shade, that is really key. So no matter if you're pond hopping, creek fishing, or you're going on a lake, there's always going to be those bass that are tucked up and inches of water just waiting for something to fall out of a tree or smash a big bluegill or a frog, things that are living around the bank. One more thing that just blew me away was watching those bass track my lure in the air similar to a trout does on like a dragonfly, something like that, where their eyes are looking up and they're tracking timing when the bug or whatever is going to hit the water and just chasing it. I mean, it's like a wide receiver on a football. It's insane. So very awesome, very like button smash worthy. So go ahead and do that and just want to thank you guys for being with me in the great outdoors and hopefully you're having a blessed day in the great outdoors as well. So I will see you guys on the next one. God bless.