 Welcome back to the channel fishing freaks. It is time to do some dangling and this day is special I'm gonna explain to you why in just a minute, but today's video is sponsored by our friends over at Carl's Shopcrawls.com is chocked full of everything you need to get geared up for springtime fishing and beyond y'all I mean for everything from rods reel blind terminal tackle all the latest Guggen Drops our apparel as well. Everything is on Carl's and you can save big at Carl's by becoming a member So for you watching this video right now, you can actually save ten dollars off your first order over 25 bucks When you sign up to be a Carl's member, so over time I'm telling you guys it saves you a ton of money and you're not gonna find Guggen baits and all our stuff for a lower price So shopcrawls.com place to go link is down in the description You can use my promo code as well right here This beautiful one and you guys are gonna see in the video what we're using here today It's all available at shopcrawls.com with the heavy hitters This is gonna be your lunker log and your bandito bug man I'm gonna show you guys how I'm rigging this and fishing this in the video But these are your springtime best buddies right here as far as plastics go And thank you Carl's for sponsoring today's video So just kind of set this up for you here guys. I've seen this happen for years It occurs on a different week every month a different moon It's always under a full moon, but it happens at a certain week. It's when that water temperature Which is 62 as we're getting on the lake Which is the perfect temperature for spawning meets the full moon or an approaching full moon by a few days Which we are like a day or two away from a full moon So fish are rushing to the bank and we watch the progression throughout the day So it's really cool video to kind of watch them transition a little bit Just right And we're starting off throwing moving baits and I'm thinking we're gonna get slammed on our vibe jigs our spender baits Trace toe on a saucy swimmer up there on a little under spin around some shallow cover I'm throwing a swim jig our grass hero with a little crack-and-crawl trailer Trying to bust through some of this shallow cover that I've honestly never even seen the cover looked as good on this leg I'm thinking they are going to be up in it munching, but they're not they're not eating those moving baits So about after an hour of that. I started to realize okay full moon These fish are probably getting into their lockdown or cruising modes and not really in that Eating a moving bait mode and that just comes from years of experience fishing in the spring during the full moon and knowing when to transition to this but Everyone knows this in the spring. You've got to have a Wacky rig stick bait or at least some sort of stick bait or Shouts I'll bait like our dart to kind of dart around and just do that that slow Fall and a wacky rig the way I'm rigging it today is very simple You just take I'm taking a one-ought Finesse style hook and I'm just putting it right through the middle of the bait and hopefully everyone's done this But if you have not This is an excellent way to catch fish when they are in an area But they're not chasing moving baits and this thing just kind of sinks slowly through the water column and wiggles and It gets those fishes attention that are there they're cruising around they're kind of looking for beds They're looking for other fish, but they're not really in that eating mode So if you know the fisher in the area you got a good sense of it waters in that 60s They're just not cranking on those moving baits. That's when I break out the plastics and especially that weightless bait Hey, buddy. Congratulations on the first catch of the day Well rule here First catch first baths be here. You just got to do it little minis Many This is clear and beautiful T is Watch the wacky rig do the damage Just gonna do a little quick twitching over these Yeah float and approach see if one might Full contact we might have to lift the troll motor up to But we know darn well what's living back here got him a little guy through my log. Oh He's wrapped around the tree now There you go. He just he just pretty much just swallowed it. I need your I need your big girlfriend Since it's full moon Come up here And show me For a big old tail fin Got him. There you go Yeah There it's that kind of day where they're just up in the I would not be shocked there was also a Everywhere I need I need one of any color imaginable The best color So you can throw a weightless wacky ring on whatever you're comfortable with and I often throw it on both a big castor and a spinner spinning rod, but just depending on the type of cover that's around that'll kind of Make my selection on the big castor or a spinning rod I like a spinning rod with braid with a fluorocarbon leader when there's docks around or I just I'm in clear water I want to make a really long cast. So I'm using a spinning rod today And it makes it very very easy to throw that bait, especially if you've got wind It's extremely easy to throw that and with a little bit of practice You can learn to skip this up under trees and you can skip it up under docks and things like that The weight of that lunker log is is quite hefty and it's got It's got a lot of surface area so you can skip it and with without having any weight It really goes a long ways on the spinning rig So I highly recommend to that recommend that if you've got overhanging things or things you want to get that under Just keep in mind You might want to bump up your fluoro leader if you've got either big bass You know there's huge bass in the lake or you've just got some hefty cover that you're gonna have to get them out So I recommend starting with 12 Going up to like 15 maybe even 20 if you've got real heavy cover around. Oh You just got his fish poached it What a move a little better one there This isn't you want me to put it back Got him too late now Fish on you got it. You got to play them out. Oh come here. Oh, that was beautiful See that I'm trying to spit it, but can't because I got that little finesse hook She's got that lunker log lodged in my throat. It's a little better One-and-a-half. There you go There it is folks. Look at that. Look at that hook just beautifully stuck in the upper roof Just kind of let him do their thing. Oh that hook actually came out on that last twist and then Still managed to get him. You know, I'm gonna say he's an upper three. He's maybe just under four Just just over four Chunky butt though. Let's see it Mm-hmm Sorry, I was about to show the folks at home how you can stick a buddy Sorry, Trey There's a beautiful Fish right there. Let's check the tail doesn't look Doesn't look beat up. Yeah. Let this fish go see you That fish was kind of mid depth just working the wacky out here on the shade line of This walkway so just kind of a floater But oh my goodness. Look look at what we have here We have sight fishing water Full moon Big girls come to do business wacky-attacky Trace hooked up wacky Suspended Is that a spot? No. Largie. Largies are up shallow. Let's get a peek at that guy I just stalked myself. Nice It does look bad like I see another weightless worm hanging from the tree. This is It's the program here Local always you're gonna die That one was also just sucked off the floater and they're just kind of floating around yeah Like they're swimming up to the bank right now cruisers See if I can log one out of here Oh, yep, you got it Come on sure it did Yeah, he did not feel big but fish I didn't want to lose See what happened. Folded you up folding me What happened sometimes Think man they are They're all on the bank. Hope there's another one Like my freaking reel Like my cheap ass shawarma. Oh that's stratics you have more Oh goodness I took a rod out of my hand Hot action. That's how we do it boys three quarters of the way They are coming in fresh Oh good one Tasty cake But getting some sizies on the lunker Just kind of throwing off the bank a little bit Trying to get those trying to get those beams. Oh, you're going back to march I'm over it I'm over it. I've been jerking for three months It sounds bad, but that's a blacktailed beauty right there That one did not come off of the good hook set on it. There we go. Nice little three pounder Catching hogs on the log I'm gonna throw out in the abyss here for the The whale. Oh, he broke me off. That's a good one, dude Felt the weight. Laps under the weights Damn that brick That was a big one. It's out there in that like three foot zone I just don't think we're fully engaged You just have one flash on Yeah A little buddy assist Good fish too Look at that lay down excellent maneuver, sir. That's a bloody tail three pounder Oh, yeah, and then look what I can squirt I'm looking at that and I realize I don't want to run out and snatch my That's two jig bites in a bow Oh, man, I missed that catch. That was like That was a fun buddy moment right there Trey just pulls it down. He's like, man, I see a fish right here Oh, f**k, fino Cruiser here Oh, it is And uh, he's like Oh, man My lines Whoa I flipped up in the bed and I'm like, oh, it's scooted off and then I look at my lines like 18 feet My line is with it That was funny One flipper they are they are hot hot trot. He's doing some damage here little boy Go pro just died. Look at that. Look at that pee. He's doing a little pee action See that squirt He is he is ready to go Yeah, I think I actually got the lens a little bit. Sorry guys I did a little something different on this one. I'll be honest with you. This is my first time using this Let this guy go a little male After just breaking off on a big one So hadn't retied in days It's never never what you want, but I tried one of these little uh Slip-on bands I've used o-rings before but I've never used one of these slip-on bands You slip your hook through the band. It's kind of slick And I think it'll help you get a better hook set But I was just rigging the hook through The work itself and I got It got clumped up one time. It just happens the fish trumps it I kind of twist it up in their mouth and then it The hook can kind of get into the plastic more of this will be uh, that hook's just fully exposed and then It'll uh, it'll probably save you some baits as well Because on our Lucker Logs The plastic is a little bit different than our other baits And the arsenal it's designed to be I'm trying to film a fish video. I don't know why your bow and grass on a beautiful screen bay, but Folks at home can't hear anything I'm saying right now. The point is Our Lucker Logs they sink really well because they're dense for plastic But they catch fish Very very action Action pack thriller Little spotted bass, that's exactly what we eat that sort of Hey, why are you hating on that? I just Just look at that rig and I think Never seen you be this mean to bat You went from a trench hog I actually put it on the wrong way here to a A skirted butt plug Actually, I don't even know if I can go because I'm going on a two-week honeymoon like immediately before y'all do that Oh Oh running with it dark one Right up on the bank, huh? Right up on the seawall. There we go. I got one. Oh goodness. Good one. Big one Oh good Had to have to play him out Hey, it's just fun to say big one. Is it not? Oh drag ripper, baby. Hmm. Come on down to funky town double up with my boy That's fun times I like it. I like it a lot Matt You ready to get in on this action Your uh arts and crafts rig ready I think the folks at home want to see this thing that you're doing Well Like what is what? What is it that you're doing here? It's this thing called Hobby lobby rig the hobby lobby rig Let him go Still rocking the same longer log This might be bad for sales. I probably shouldn't tell people about this Little invention we got here So you're doing a butt worm rig Is this right? What do you do? What do you do? You take one of these little little bum plugs and you stick them in the end of your plastic worm This looks like Did you make these yourself? Yeah, when my daughter's do arts and crafts at home, I make my own Like an arts and crafts show I just need to see it work. That's all. I've got one already on it. What? So I won Sorry Gave that guy the Full lecture Fresh one I'm told you can take the little wacky thing off you had Trinchog on be be a man Aided ate it good That one looks a little suspect as well got the red eye Sure does You know Texas Parks and Wildlife asked you to start reporting The black spot sighting Reported right here takes takes parts of wildlife if you watch my videos you would know black spots There you go Hopped the jig and So this is the really interesting thing about today is we're catching a lot of fish getting a ton of bites Um, I started out throwing that weightless after not getting bites on the moving baits And that really seemed to be the deal everybody started switching up throwing The weightless program, but my buddy Trey it's normally me that does this but my buddy Trey he he just gets out of jig He he likes to get that jigs up look just like I do and he Eventually starts getting more bites than I am on the weightless And that tells me that those fish are starting to move on to the areas that they want to be in And get defensive and eventually we even see some fish that are getting on bed some male fish Not any pairs with big females or anything like that But these fish are starting to lock on because the full moon is setting in that temperature is just right And they're starting to set in so that is where I like to get either a jig and Trey's throwing the jig in this case But I'm throwing a bandita bug on a texas rig quarter ounce weight Um a three-odd hook in there I'm throwing our new straight shank Um flipping hook, but you can throw it on any three-odd Hook basically our hammer hook is Extremely good for this as well and fish it around any type of little cover piece that you see Fish it slow make contact with the cover and don't be afraid to throw it all the way up there To the bank because if there's one time a year where they go all the way in the dirt it is right now Sorry Roll casted On you spakito Make a bow out of that one stick up that's cut off Fish in this episode I think we caught over 40 fish not all of them were we're on camera But I think the biggest one was around four pounds and I broke off one That was what was probably bigger, but you never know It's the one that got away one more tip. I'll give you guys On throwing the weight any kind of weightless bait Is especially using that small hook Fish can sometimes just get that bait and you don't even know it There's not a weight that's hitting the back of their throw when they suck it in It's a subtle bite a lot of times and they can have it deep down in there Um, especially if you you're just you don't know they're just running off with it So it's always better to just reel into that hook set With those weightless baits Then just go ahead and do a big snappy hook set and that's one great thing about the spinning gears You can kind of back off your drag and compensate for that But if you're using that baitcaster and you just you know, you all of a sudden it takes you by surprise Whip up and they've got it all the way down there. It'll rake across their teeth. You'll break the line It happens to me every year when I first start fishing those weightless really hard when they start Flooding the banks. So just be cautious of that So thank you guys for tuning in to today's video of just classic bank fishing spring time I I've really enjoyed Today's video fishing and I definitely want to get out there again But hopefully if you're lucky enough To be around that that full moon. Hopefully you already were where fish are flooding the bank It's it's a special day and especially in clear water where you can actually see the fish doing that But keep those baits that I talked about in in your arsenal and ready to go try to recognize those situations And I think you're gonna catch them real good So godspeed god bless you in the great outdoors guys. Stay tuned for more outdoor action. I'll see you