 It says it's live. Yep, we're good. It's not there yet, but take a minute. All right, let's drop that, okay. Oh, I need to mute it, sorry, hang on. Yeah, I was gonna say that. I'm just gonna put my headphones on. Oh, and then make sure that you're not clicked so it bounces around. What? Make sure you're not clicked so it bounces the camera around to who's talking. You know what I mean? The box. Just make sure it's un-clicked. You click it once, it'll select it, click it again, it should un-select it. Like that, yeah, there you go. All right, all right, people. Are you on the chat yet? Yeah, I'm watching the chat right now. Oh, wow, yeah, I'm on there. I just announced the giveaway winners on Periscope. So, if you don't follow me on Periscope or Snapchat, you need to do that. Awesome, all right. Yeah, we're good. All right, let's get some good questions, everybody. We're not... We don't have a big objective. I'm tired. So, this is just kind of like a chat. You know, normally I'm doing like a boxings and stuff. I left my mouth and did it across the room. That's unfortunate. All right, so let's pick some good ones which they're spamming right now. I'll let you go first. All right, I'm trying to find some good comments here. You guys got some good comments that are disappointing right now. I don't even lose. Ah, that's funny. Uh... Dad. What did you say? Nothing. My goodness, you guys need some good questions. God, it's so fast. It's... Okay, let's just rock this one. Top five bed fishing dates. How about top two? Yeah, that's what I was saying. Okay, really. All right, go for it. A tube and a craw. Both white. A tube and a craw. I agree with that. What color do you use? White. I use white too. You can see it easier in the water. But I actually fished a gambler tournament. In the gambler tournament, you had to use the gambler lures. So, and they had like a fish head, the wheat. Or what? It's been so long, I'm not sure. Was it a craw? Yeah. It's probably a flappy daddy. Yeah, it just kind of looks like a rage craw. So, we also fished like a little fish head and fished out over there just with a white trailer on it. And we caught some off the bed, which is pretty crazy. Just kind of pissed them off with it. All right. AP's on here, that's funny. Yeah, that's funny. All right, these guys are... Yeah, I'm going to college. God, you guys are quick. They're so fast. Best scale? Do you have a preference? No, I've got one. Best scale? I can't think of the name though, the one that I have. Dude, this thing is 20 bucks. I rock it all the time. It's made by the company that makes EyeBobber. It's cheap. It's cheap. It's accurate. I featured it in a video, one ride made a video. AP. Yeah, dude. He texted me and said he was going to troll us this whole chat, so it won't end. Braider mono? I like braid. I like braid, dude. I don't use mono. I mean, like the only thing I'd use for is a top water, which I'd still rather use braid. Yeah, once you use braid, it's like you don't want to go back. Because I mean, it doesn't tangle, it lasts a long time. It's cheap. I mean, all around me. It's cheap if you compare it to it lasting, it's actually pretty similar price to floral, but floral, you're changing every two or three months. Yeah, the floral, I think it's in the Seaguar. It's expensive. Yeah, dude, I got kind of Seaguar there, but it's like, it's just way too much money. Yeah. But if you are looking for carbon, Seaguar envisage stuff's pretty good if you got the money. Otherwise, braid's pretty, pretty much. Yeah, the braid I usually just use like the spider wire. You like spider wire? Yeah, I mean, I've never had a problem with it. It's not bad. It's a little too slick for my liking. I don't know, I tend to get some more bird's nest when it's a little slick like that, but it's not too bad. Yeah. What boat? I should have talked to you about this, Noah. I'm probably getting a boat. What are you getting? I can't say. I can't say what I'm getting yet. Cause it's not final. Like it's not a hundred percent. It's still- Are you talking to a company? Heck yeah. I may be talking- Well, we'll see. I'm not gonna give anything away. I'll be looking up for that. It's definitely not gonna be no fiberglass ranger though. I'll tell you that. I'm not about to drop that money. Let's see. Frog or Buzzfeed? Gee. I mean, there's two- They're two different deals. They're two different things, but if I could pick one to be honest, I would love a frog, you know, that's just the excitement of it. There's blowing up on a frog, but if you're trying to cover a lot of water, go with a buzzbait. If it's a little windy on top, go with a buzzbait, so you're fishing over some grass and stuff like that, that's really great. But frog, definitely. I mean, that's my favorite, you know what I mean? What's your favorite time of year to fish? I'll let you go for it for now. Spring, dude, all day. Those spawners, they're really big and fat and easy to catch because they're shallow. Yeah, spring is great. Summer, I don't mind at all, but it's nice outside. I don't mind summer either, it's just like, for me, the way that my fishing goes is the fishing doesn't get good until like early to mid-April, and then it's really good in May, and then June through September is all the same. The fish are always in the same locations, the weather's always the same, it doesn't change, and then October pretty much sucks, and then it's winter. The reason why I like spring is because it's quick, and it's really good fishing. But my summer tactic fishing, throwing worms in trees lasts four out of the seven fishable months where I live, so that's kind of why I like spring. You're always iced up. Mm-hmm. All right. Got all those boxes of reels, that's not looked at that. I was like, dude, they got them stacked. Got them stacked up. Got the lucky bag of boxes. And I'll make a wall back there. Best leader knot? I like a uni to uni knot, that's my favorite. I usually like, mine's probably not very good, but it's, I think it's got surgeon knot or blood knot. I just know how to do it, so I usually stick with it. But it's, I mean, you just got to kind of go with whatever. If you're, I mean, if you're throwing it on spinning, it really doesn't have to be that strong, because if you're throwing spinning gear, like you're probably putting like six pounds of tech, like pound test, you know, like putting it to test, because your drag usually kicks in, you just have it pretty loose. So it's not a huge deal for us. Most of the time I'm just doing it on a drop shot, and you're just lifting up on it. But thank you, I mean, I've never really had one break. Yeah, we're going to the classic. He's getting there Friday, right? I think I'm gonna leave here Thursday morning and then get there sometime Thursday afternoon, evening. I'm excited. Yeah, I've never been to one, so I don't even know what to expect. You've never been to one? Dude, I've never been to one. Oh, it's because you're always down south. You're always down south. The one that was at Grand Link, like, you know, back in 13, like, I wasn't gonna buy, I was about to go drive my 15 year old self down there, you know, like, I ain't about to do that, so, yeah. Yeah, and I can't wait to eye-cast, because I've never been to eye-cast. But you went last year, because I remember when we first nationalized, you came, like, straight from eye-cast. I was at a time for, like, three weeks straight. Yeah, I was jealous for that. Yeah, see, the thing was, I fished. Remember, I was like, you were out of town. Yeah, I was out of town that whole month, too, because I fished on World Finals next week. Yeah. Oh, that was a crazy month. The life was just, like, ridiculous. Like, that changed my life. Like, I just feel like I was tired forever. Yeah. It was crazy. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'll be vlogging. I'll be vlogging. See, I don't even know what to expect, but I'll plan on vlogging the classic, for sure. AP? Dude, AP, get out of here. No one likes you. My God. What color of buzzbait? I like white. I like black. Black's good, yeah, I was about to say. Black's pretty good. The only two colors you need are white and black. If you want to go with, like, white and chartreuse, maybe, but, like, white and black, that's the only two colors you'll ever need. They're chasing Chad, they're the white, if any other time, for the black. Baster FLW. I prefer Baster, dude. I think their termets are well-run compared to, compared to, I'm not bashing FLW. I just think, like, from high school experience. Yeah, with my experience with it, my honest opinion is, yeah, I love bass. I think those tournaments are really, really fun. You know, you meet a lot of new people, and I know a lot of people that fish bass anyways, and then you have FLW, which FLW is actually really organized. For what I've seen, they've been pretty organized, but I mean, I really like bass. I would go to Andrew on that one. Either way, like, people ask me that all the time, you know, which tournament trail should I fish? Fish everything and anything that you can. You know, don't get caught up on whether it's a BFL or a Costa series or a tour event, or, you know, the local Tuesday nighter. Like, just fish as many events as you can. It doesn't matter what category or what company's running it. Just fish all of them that you can, especially high school, because high school, you know, you don't have that many opportunities to fish. So, I wouldn't get too caught up in the company. Yeah, have I been fishing with Skad yet? No, I actually start in the fall. So, what end up happening is school starts in September. So, I'll be going down August. I might wait till September, but I'll probably go down like August, mid-August, and go ahead and just live down there for a little bit before I even start school and fishing and everything. But everything starts pretty much in September of the fall. All right, let's see what your Mr. Frog master, I'll let you answer that one. Wait, what was the question? You liked out. Can you hear me? Yeah. Popping frog or regular frog? All right. I personally prefer a popping frog. But you can catch them on a normal one. The reason why I prefer a popping frog is because most guys don't throw it. And so, when you're fishing topwater at any time, you always want to throw something different than the guy behind you or in front of you. So, I always do that because most dudes just pick up the regular one. Two, you can't, if you really try, if you really are getting good at working a frog, you can make a popping frog, not pop. You can make it work just like a normal frog. But then, of course, you can make it work like a popping frog. So then, you don't have to change frogs. You don't have to, yeah, it's two lures and oney. You don't have to change frogs. If you wanna, you know, if the bass is being finicky. And I just, I don't know, poppers just get a lot more bites in my opinion, but, you know, either one. Can't go wrong. Gotta let the fish tell you what they want. With the popper, I love fishing in grass, like over grass. Yeah. I love that, but if I'm fishing lily pads, I'll go for normal frog. I mean, it also, yeah, I was gonna say, you're probably right. It depends on kind of like how you work it. How I would do, how I think about it is, if you're fishing it where it's, there's a pocket of open water, like, you know, you're not fishing in a big spread of open water. You want to keep that frog in that open water spot as long as possible. You know, the strike zone and with that popping frog, it resists the water a little bit better so you can, you can move it more without moving it as far as forward. You know what I mean? That way you're not, you're not pulling it too quickly. What is this comment section? I know what. Maybe you just get out. He's gonna be at the classic. I don't know why, that's weirdo. I never met him, so. He's like a little pip squeak hamster kid. He's pretty weird. He's weirdo. When am I gonna lose the beaver cut? Never dude, beaver is life. Dude, I'm about to shave my head, man. Nah, ah. I'm gonna shave it all off and it's like. No, you're not. I'm gonna look like a robber. I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put on your tank top. Do it, do it. I'm gonna wear that. Dude, I wanna see a snap, I wanna see a snapchat in the gym mirror of you in my cut off with your head shave. You know what, I'll wear it tomorrow. Okay, all right, I wanna see it. I don't want to shave my head yet, but dude, I don't look like a robber. Dude, I wanna shave my head. I wanna see it on you, that's fucking scary. That's awesome. I'll wear it tomorrow. Okay. People are probably gonna look at me like, what the heck? I'm telling you, I look like a robber in that thing. You'll see. Like, cut's off right here, it's just the sleeves are gone. It's everything, it just covers your traps, covers everything, boom, right there, and then the arms are just showing, it's like, what the? You might need to like, take some scissors and cut it off with your scissors or do something. That's so funny. What inch kit do I got on my truck? I got a six inch right now. I did have 35s by 1250, but now I have 37s by 1350s, just because I wanted that offset. Now I have a negative 44 offset on the wheels. I wanted it to stick out a little bit more and pass my fender, so it gives it that more bulky, fat look. That's what I did with it. It's just too much money. Yeah, I didn't just leave my truck. Dude, that's all I spend money on, I swear is that thing, and I'm just finally done with it. I'm like, that's all worth it. Ooh, someone's mom said you're a cutie pie. Hey. Favorite professional bass fisherman, which yours? Wait, what? Favorite professional bass fisherman, dang. And you guys are putting me on the spot right here. All right, I got this. FLW, Scott Martin, Scott's a really great guy. We actually filmed the show sure most of you guys saw that. Scott's fricking an amazing dude, but if I had to go pick for bass and everything, Brandon's really cool. I like Brandon because I can relate to him. He's younger, he's made some videos in the past. Mike Iconelli too. Mike Iconelli's pretty cool. That's one of my favorites too. Gerald Swindle, I can't really put a favorite on it. Yeah. Look at Tyler over here. AP, I like that snap story by the way. It's like him and some of his friends watching this making fun of us. Anyways, I think Iconelli dude, not just, I mean obviously I like those young kids, but for his age, he keeps up with the social media. I mean, Scott does too, I'm not gonna, don't get me wrong, Scott definitely is in the social media game, but Ike with the whole going Ike series that he came out with, he just seems to be really in tune. I guess if you wanna split it, FLW, Scott for sure, and then Bass would be Ike just because they're not young, but they keep up with the young crowd and that's what makes them the best in my mind. Yeah, that's what they're doing. And I'm just gonna talk about this cause that's, this is very, very good key tips that I'm sure a lot of you guys would like hearing cause me and Andrew do a lot of it anyways and the other YouTubers and other people on social media. If you look at Scott and you look at Mike, I mean, they're having something to bat, yes, they're fishing and everything, but they're having their social medias, they're having their YouTubes. I mean, Scott's running a TV show, they're having their social marketing around everything and they're really getting their name out there. They're ahead of most people. There's a lot of people that really haven't made any. Some of the older crowd that fishes, they haven't made any social medias and so that's a really big key tip which I really think that's why they're so well known is on their social medias. I mean, that's such a big key nowadays. I mean, everyone's on their phones. It's like, you know, brand in as well. I mean, the brand is doing the same thing. Yeah, I just, it's just crazy cause I know how much work it takes. You know, I do it for a living, the whole social media video thing. And it's like, they do that on top of fishing the tour which in and of itself is insane that they fish the tour. Most of you guys watching this, most of you guys watching this probably have not a clue what it takes to fish a tour. And I do, not because I've done it obviously, but like, cause I know I'm really good friends with a lot of people who do it. And it's like, I don't even think I could do it, dude. It's insane. And then on top of that, they do exactly what I do which requires a lot of time, almost a full time job is worth the amount of time a week. It's just like, these dudes don't sleep. I don't think you guys realize the elite series dudes who are like the most well known, like Scott, dude, they don't sleep. They don't, I'm not kidding. They don't sleep. They literally sleep like an hour, get up and then make an Instagram post. News are off. They're just insane. I was talking to Scott about that the other day and I was just like, you know, is it really worth it? And, you know, we're just kind of talking, we call each other about that stuff all the time. And it's like, there's so much time to put in on it. And when you're throwing this much money towards a tournament, you're gonna wanna win, you know what I mean? Of course you're gonna wanna win but you're gonna wanna go practice. You're spending all this money in gas. You're doing all this stuff. You're working your butt off, you know? You're waking up at five in the morning, going to bed at 11, 12 o'clock at night. You know, I mean, that's a rough life. And once you do that like three, four, five days straight, I mean, that really beats you. Cause I know Andrew knows. I know because this past summer I fished World Finals and Nationals back to back. It was like a whole month trip. I was waking up at five in the morning, going to sleep at 12, one o'clock. I was still making videos. I had videos scheduled throughout the whole months and it was crazy, which I can't, I mean, it's crazy how all these other people keep up on it but Scott is, what he usually does, he usually films all the shows in like one section and then he fishes all the tournaments, you know? He tries to get all this stuff out of the way and spreads them throughout the whole year, which is very smart. It's just, I don't know how they do it, honestly. Like I don't even know if it'd be worth it to do all that. It's just, I don't know. It's, I mean, obviously like, yeah, you wanna say you're a fish for a living but for all of you guys watching that one of fish for a living, just start making YouTube videos. It's a lot easier and it's a lot more fun. You don't have to spend $10,000 entry fees and file a bank policy and make your house. Like dude, just make YouTube videos and have fun. Like, it's totally a way to go and it's, and we know we're talking about this before we even started is, everything is turning so digital, you know, with all the streams and like everything, not saying tournament fishing's dying but everything else is just growing at such a fast pace that I'd recommend anyone that wants to fish for a living look elsewhere or look outside the box of tournament fishing, don't exclude it but just keep your options open because there's a lot of other opportunities out there. Yeah, so what he's saying is, of course you can go fish tournaments, you know? You just gotta know it's gonna be a lot but another thing is, if you're gonna be fishing tournaments, you look at the most successful guys out there. You look at Scott, you look at Kevin Van Damme, you look at Ski Reese, all three of those people right there, they all have something to back it up. Yep. Gottbean, his TV show and his sponsors and stuff, then you've got KVD over here, he's with Strike King, then you have Ski Reese over here, he has his whole line. Ski makes the most money out of everybody, he's got business. He's doing business along with it and that's what I'm going to college for, I'm going for business and marketing and I mean, they're doing a phenomenal job with it and honestly, I was always like, yeah, I kinda wanna be a pro fisherman but now that I think about it's like, I'd rather do this and have fun with my life. Like, I'm sitting here fishing these Thai school tournaments and I'm on a bunch of other, go out on the lake, make memories, post videos and go watch these videos five years from now. You know what I mean? Of course it's awesome to go, of course I'm gonna fish the tournaments just because I'm almost out and then in college I'm gonna be fishing them anyway so it's like, you know what I mean? But I love making videos, that's pretty much favorite thing. I'm only fishing college tournaments literally because they're college tournaments and they're cheap compared to Elite Series and whatever but like, if I wasn't in college, I wouldn't fish any tournaments other than like the Wednesday nighters at the local, just have fun because it's chaotic when you get out of high school and college. So how do those compare to high school entry fees? Are they about the same? College? Yeah. I don't know 100%, I know there's some that don't even either have entry fees or they're like, nothing, they're not. I think it's fairly similar to high school. I don't have an exact number but I don't think it's much. You know, it's definitely not thousands of dollars. Yeah. Maybe a couple hundred at max. Definitely. Then again, college is gonna help you out with that. I don't know, it depends on the college that you're going to. With what term, entry fees? Entry fees, gas. No, my college doesn't do anything with that. It's just a technical school, right? My school? Mine's a business school. Business school. You're going for business and marketing, right? Yeah, entrepreneurship and business management. Two majors. Two majors. I'm getting two majors and a minor in marketing. All right. That's good. Yeah, it'll take five years. That's what I'm doing. Entrepreneurship, I'm getting a major in marketing, minor. Yep. Come on guys, just kidding. Jesus. I'm going to University of Nebraska Omaha, which I got my first tournament in the beginning of April down at Table Rock. If any of you guys live at Table Rock, you want to hit me up with some tips? They're coming in so fast. I know, I can't even read them all. Ben or twins outdoors, shout out to you, man. How people are, hmm. Yeah, yeah, I know. Oh my God. Do you guys want to ask some questions about like looking both answer, talk about it a little bit? Try not, dang, do my batteries, hold up. Hey, I'll be right back. Let me grab it. All right, he's got a good guy to start here. You guys are just, talk about my pro staff. Well, all I'm going to mention is if you want to join it, you can email afoprostaff at gmail.com and I'll fill you in on anything you need to know. Through that, I'm not going to talk about it like on this or whatever. Bait for muddy waters, dark colors like black and blues, chatter baits, jigs, square bills. My gosh, you guys are right way too fast. My God, I literally can't even read these. Spawn baits, chatter baits, buzz baits and then once they get on bed some craws, white colored. Not coming to Alabama anytime soon. I may go fish with AP if he allows me. He seems pretty salty at the moment, but AP lets me come down. I may maybe fly down there and fish with that kid. Ram trucks, I like my Ram so far, it's good. I like their $100 speed spooled LFS ones. They're pretty legit. Soft plastics, fluorocarbon, 15 pound test, 17 pound test for heavier cover. Yum bait, Christie critter, it's a pretty good one. I like lures over Abu. The giveaway, no, the giveaway wasn't rigged. I did the random comment picker and then just listed them in my pages. It wasn't rigged, I promise. I don't pay for the lucky tackle box. I wouldn't have to rig it. I don't care who wins it, it doesn't matter to me. What happened? Some dude just saying my giveaway is rigged and I was just saying I don't pay for the lucky tackle boxes to give away anyway so why would I rig it? I don't care who wins. I mean, I understand coming from your standpoint there's a lot of people that do fake stuff out there. Yeah. I can guarantee you. There's no reason for us to. None of us YouTubers pay for any of our giveaways. It's called advertising, that's what it's for. So I don't care who wins it. I went out with our names out there, we wouldn't do anything like that. No, I wouldn't, forget whatever, $50 boxes, it's not worth that. Yes. I mean, we ask our sponsors for this stuff for you guys, we're giving it away for you guys. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna touch on that real quick, just because you brought it up. But when people ask me why, some people, it's not, I don't get accused of it as much anymore, but people will be like, oh, you buy your subscribers because you give them stuff. Honestly, giveaways don't even gain me subscribers anymore, I did a 24 hour giveaway, you know how many subscribers I got from that? Probably like seven, maybe. The reason why I do it is to give back to you guys and for the people who subbed in my channel, give you guys stuff for, for those who don't know, I do this for a living. Noah, I know you've got some side jobs, but mainly this is probably your main source of income. Yeah, it's definitely. And so it's like, without you guys watching my videos, I am literally unemployed. And so I do that to give back to you because without you guys, I'd be screwed. It's not to gain some more subscribers, gain likes on a video, like yeah, I have you like it, that's just for other reasons that gain publicity, but it's not, it's not just to get likes. Yeah, it is definitely not that, because it's like- I buy my subs. I buy, I've bought every single one of my 55,000 subscribers. They're a dollar a piece to why I'm broke living, living at home, no money. I just sold my truck to buy some more followers. That's pretty much how it goes. I don't even, can you even buy YouTube subscribers? I don't think so. I don't think you even can. Oh, I do though. All the time, right? Yeah, all day. God, dude. Why? Some of those comments are rough. Yeah. I can't comment on them though. God, what was I gonna say? I was gonna say something about that while you're touching on- Something about giveaways, people. Yeah, about giveaways, like on Instagram. I'm getting completely honest with you guys, like Andrew said, I'm giving it away for you guys. I'm giving away, asking my sponsors for free products. I know you guys support me a lot and I just like to show some respect back to you and do a giveaway. And to be honest guys, I honestly lose followers from giveaways. Which is really crazy. Yeah, if I break even, that's good. Every once in a while I'll gain a few. I'm losing a lot in the process of me gaining a few. And I don't know if it's just because people think it's spam and they think it's- Yeah, I bet that is. I bet that is. And they think it's fake, but I really don't know, you know. They don't do as much as you think they really do, even if all these people enter, you know. Of course, everyone's not gonna follow all the steps and everything anyways. No, nobody ever. I mean, not everybody. I mean, we check that, but. Yeah. All right, let's see. When's my next tournament? I wanna say West Point. When's that? Wait, dang man. I got a few tournaments, I have them all in my schedule. I just don't know if I'm gonna be skipping some. I believe I'll have one in March, mid-March. Yeah, I have some in April. I'm gonna be fishing on State. Once I fish a tournament to qualify for that, I haven't fished any high school tournaments really, yeah. Except for on the FLW in the past week or two. That's the first tournament I've fished, and forever. These comments are too good. Yeah, I read that one at the same time. What are your thoughts on Scent? On Scent? All right, this is a good one. Stuff smells, first of all, but it works. It definitely, I think it works. Bates that are Scented. I don't use too much Scent though. To be honest, I don't use too much Scent. If I use Scent, I use, I don't like the JJ's magic and stuff like that, because I'm scared I'm gonna spill it on the carpet and that's gonna, you know. I mean, it's good stuff, once you spill that stuff, it's crazy. I use markers if I color my stuff and it also has Scent on them, but if I'm gonna Scent them, I usually get some coffee-scented spray. Yeah, I know you're talking about striking stuff. This is striking stuff. I don't know if striking makes that particular one. There's the coffee one and then the other one. You know what Netbait smells like? Kind of smells like licorice. Yeah, it's licorice. Yeah, and then I get licorice. So, I mean, they don't smell, they're not straight up garlic, which my dad cannot stand that, so that's one of the reasons. The garlic? Yeah. I mean, I don't mind it too bad. It's pretty dang smelly, but it doesn't matter too much, but we just usually go with it. I started using Batemate. After, like the LTV started sending out, you know? I mean, like I'll use JJ's, as long as you don't spill it, you're fine. I've used the markers. But the Batemate, the thing I like about it is it's, it doesn't like spill, it's just like, you just like literally scored it and it like hit your lure and it stays on it. It's just like, you hover it over the water, you spray it and you just cast it and stuff. And then they have a bunch of different, they have a bunch of different kinds. They have like the garlic, they have the bass, which I think is like the licorice scent. And they have like some other types, but they work pretty well, yeah. I haven't tried it yet. It's pretty good. The stuff LTV sends isn't like what I'm talking about. That's more of like a marinade. You gotta get the actual bottles. Yeah, the actual spray. I believe you had it in one of your videos, didn't you? Yeah, I think I put it in one of them, but I have a whole box of it up there that I need to, that I'm gonna use. For you guys asking which companies for the tackle boxes, just look in Andrew Flair's background. Yeah, we won't get into that. I think I'm trying to pick one of why I picked Lucky Tackle Box and there's just, I don't need to go over it again. It's okay, we'll leave it out for now. But you know what we like. Yeah. If I make a YouTube vlog at hot girls like y'all. Yeah, that's where they find us. They're just like, hey, we saw your fishing videos. You look sexy, boy. I'm just kidding, basically I had no idea that I made YouTube videos. We were talking about that though. We were saying like when we were in middle school and when we were like early years of high school, it was like when you had your fishing YouTube, you wouldn't want to be like. You wouldn't say it, dude. It was embarrassing. It was. Dude, you don't want to tell you. There was a time in my Spanish class, freshman year, this kid always teased me about having YouTube videos. And he'd stand up in front of the class and be like, Andrew Flair makes fishing videos on YouTube and all these girls would be like, that's weird. Why would you do that and all this weird stuff? And now it's like, oh, you make YouTube videos? That's pretty cool. And now it's like the cool thing to fish. Like all these girls want guys who can go fish and catch them fish and have fun doing it. It's weird. It's weird how it's just changing like that. And then like the whole community is getting bigger and bigger. It's honestly awesome. Hey. Hey, shout out dog. My dad's home, so he's barking. All right, let's get a good question. I've been watching. But honestly, I've liked what we've talked about so far. Dang, it's only been 30 minutes. I honestly feel like forever. Yeah, usually goodbye quick. Yeah. Doing live chat. So don't get him to bark. Can I put my phone back on? What did he just say? He went to the bathroom, he had his belt undone. Yeah. You know my dad. Yeah. Some of these comments. I know. How did you start your careers? That's good one. You go ahead and I'll touch up. All right. Pretty much how it all started, you know? I really liked, I really, I got into fishing hardcore. I really liked it. I really enjoyed it. It was just a great time on the water. The excitement of catching a fish. I just loved it. And as I started to learn more and more, I was like taking some friends out and we were catching fish. We're having a good time. And I was like, man, I want to spread the word of fishing. You know, I want to keep track of what I'm doing throughout my whole career. Because I mean, I was honestly committed towards it at this point. You know, I was like, I want to do this. So I was like, I want to inspire others. I want to teach others more about bass fishing and entertain them and stuff like that. So that's pretty much what I did. I created my YouTube. Now we're going on three years. Andrew, what's your four year anniversary? Is it April 21st? 12th, I think, or something like that. Maybe it's 21st. No, it's 12. I think mine's April 20th. Because it's like a day apart. I don't know. It's something like that. Look, look. But yeah, definitely, we just created my YouTube. And now it's three years. And it's getting bigger and bigger. And I also have the other social marketing with it. And it's just really great. I'll let you touch up on some of that. I don't want to get too into detail. Yeah, but I mean, I guess as like starting career, just started the YouTube videos back in 2012. I was like 15, 14, or something like that. And I just never stopped. Like, that was the thing is I never took a break. April 19th, that was my day, by the way. So mine's 20th. OK. But I just never stopped. Like, I mean, obviously I didn't upload two and three videos a week, but I at least did like one video a week for four years. And it's just something that I really just really enjoyed doing. And then I just started to get sponsors. And that's what really drive me. Because I thought getting free lures when I was 15 years old was the coolest thing ever. So then I just worked my butt off to get as many free lures as I can. Discounts and stuff. And then this year, I get to take that back 2015, I got my first paying sponsor. So that's the other thing. I got about 20,000 subscribers when I got my first paying sponsor. So if that gives you guys an idea of where you start making your money, that's about it, 20,000. And then that's when I realized, oh, I could actually start making. That's, I take that back. That's aside from YouTube. YouTube obviously paid me along the whole way. But it wasn't anything substantial until a couple years ago. And then got my first paying sponsor. And when I had about 20,000, basically a year ago from now. And that's when I realized, oh, I could actually make a living at this. So then I worked as hard as I possibly could my last year of high school through summer and just worked and worked and tried to just grow as much as I could, gained as many paying sponsors as I possibly could. And I quit my job two days before I started college and just went YouTube full time. So it was kind of like, I just jumped with both feet and I quit my job. And I started paying for college, which everybody knows is just a ridiculous amount of money, all in the same week. And that's just how much faith. I put that pressure on myself. The reason why I did that is because I said I'm paying for college now, which is a huge amount of money. Oh, and that same week I bought a truck, $30,000 truck. So I basically laid it all on the line on this week. This was like the first week of August or second week of August. I just laid it all on the line. I was like, hey, I'm going to buy a truck. I'm going to quit my job and I'm going to enroll in the college. So basically, brokus can be, right? So the reason why I did that, I mean, obviously, I wanted a truck, but I put all the faith I had in myself. So that way, I forced myself to work. And I forced myself to make videos. And I forced myself to make money at this. So I didn't go into debt for college and didn't go, couldn't afford the truck that I just bought, all that kind of stuff. So I don't really know where I'm going with this, other than if you want to do this for a living and for a career, you have to do everything it possibly takes. You can't go hang out with your friends on Friday night if you have a YouTube video that needs to go up. You know what I mean? You got to stay up till midnight editing. You got to do everything you possibly can to make it work. It's a lot more work than people think. All right, so somebody's been asking a lot about camera gear and where you should start. Where I think you should start is pretty much. I didn't know what I was talking about. Where you're starting for camera gear? I was going to say go-pros for sure. Yeah, go-pros. Go-pros to definitely start off with if you're wanting something. Because guys, to be honest, it's like when you're on a boat, you're in one still position. So it's so simple just to clip a go-pro on. It's so simple that's where I would start off with. Of course, you can get someone to hold the camera or you can get a regular camera. You can put it on a tripod. You can have it record you. But a go-pro, you can just stick it on the boat. You can leave it there. You can just turn it on. You know what I mean? I mean, it's perfect. There's nothing. Yeah, when people are talking about starting a YouTube channel in particular and then filming, just go look at one and add one real. He uses a go-pro, like 95% of the time, on his chest and smoked all of us in subs. There's reasons behind it all. But it's like, you don't have to have a camera, man. And a super expensive camera. It's not that you shouldn't have it. It's that you don't need it. Because the quality on the go-pro is good. I mean, it's great. But if you compare it to the other camera that I have and the other camera, I know Andrea has another camera that's really, really nice, you can't go wrong. I mean, those are going to be definitely more high quality. But you can't go wrong with a go-pro. So just get a go-pro and then you can work your way up. I mean, you can honestly do whatever you want with a go-pro. Get the one with the LCD screen so you can actually see what's going on and you'll be good to go. That's the best. Because they have one that's built in now. So that's my favorite camera. That's really the only one I use. I have a lot of them. So, I mean, that's my favorite. Let's see what we got. And for the camera that I have, I have a Sony X830. The Canon Sony X830. What do you have? I have a Sony A5100. Is that the small one? It's like a vlogging camera. Yeah, it's like the flat one, right? But it's really crisp. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's like a digital camera. It looks like a little digital camera. I've got it so it's up there. I'm not going to reach for one. And it's, is that one with the, how much is it? I think base is like, it's like base and then like the normal lens, I think it's pushing seven, or sorry, 500 maybe, maybe 400. Then I bought like a couple hundred dollar lens. I would get them there. I heard that camera is amazing. For the price, it's great. Yeah, you can't beat it for the price. The quality is good too. You can hold it. It's really small. Mine's like really big and bulky. Well, I've used that thing by myself. Yeah. I am 19. How old are you? What's up, Paul and Bassmaster? I'm the 18. Are you 17? Are you 18? Yeah. I'm 18. Have you used software? Final cut? What do you use? Wait, what did you say? I use Final Cut. What do you use? Final Cut. Finally she's livered to it. Final Cut's a good software. I mean, there was better, but there was also worse, so. You'll buy my channel for five bucks, make it six and you got a deal. I announced the giveaway winners on my Snapchat and Periscope 44 minutes ago. All right, let's see. God. Now they're flying in. Yeah. Someone said PS4, Xbox. I don't play video games anymore. Yeah. I don't either. I only had like a 360 in middle school. I still have one, but I don't use it. I haven't played Xbox in four years, three years. Ever since I started fishing and working out and stuff like that, it's so time consuming. You don't have time for that, to be honest. Yeah. Man, these comments, they're not like bad, but they're just like, they're not very easily answerable for both of us, you know? Yeah. 15 minutes guys, you gotta ask them good questions here. Noah getting his girl to work. Oh, I saw that snap, yeah. How long have you guys been dating? Someone were you putting out long. I was talking to her for a while, like a few months, but... I guess, yeah. That's a big mistake, man. Shout out to the realest one. Hell, falling to the trap of a girlfriend. You're in that trap right now, aren't you? I'm telling you, don't get in it, man. It's impossible to get out. True. Now you're at a UNO, oh my gosh, we need some questions. God, it is going, dude. I know, I'm like, I feel like I'm missing probably some good ones, but I'm trying. I'm not gonna cover sponsors, it's just too in-depth. I've got a video on how to get sponsors that you can look at. Dude, look at them coming in now. What in the heck's going on? I can't even read them. Yeah, I know. Trap City or Trap Nation, I like Trap City. You know those YouTube channels? Yeah. I subscribed to them. I haven't really listened to them lately, but I see them come through. My goodness, you guys are just too fast. And by the way, me and a few other YouTubers may be doing a live chat Thursday, so I'll make sure to let you guys know on that. I'm not sure I'm gonna be going out of town. I have just a lot going on. I'm having to stay at school a couple extra hours a day this week. So I mean, I'm taking some tests that I have to take to graduate, so it's causing me to be late to the classic, but it's all right. Shout out to Rippin' Lips on YouTube. Go check them out. Bass Pro or Cabela's? Bass Pro all day. Bass Pro. Honestly, I've never been to Cabela's except for last week. Was it last week? Yeah, last week. Cabela's isn't bad, but I think it's better for hunting and fishing. It's honestly really cool. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I mean, it's whatever's honestly closest to me. What's convenient, but... Yeah, the way it's set up is really good. Gosh, you're coming in so fast. Jesus, man. Yeah, I can't even... My eyes are hurting trying to read all these. I can't stop on one. Fish, definitely oversleep. My gosh, stop comments. It's pre-spawn baits. Let's just talk about it. I like lipless crankbaits. I like jerkbaits. I like chatterbaits. And then once they kind of start to spawn, I like buzzbaits. And then once they're on beds, I like to throw like craws and stuff at them. What about you? What was the question you were lagging out when you were saying... Some about spawn, favorite spawn lures, or pre-spawn, pre-spawn. Just like pre-spawn. I can just set up and fish on a shallow and everything. Of course, like a buzzbait. You gotta crawl, you gotta jig. Just a simple stuff. Nothing too fancy. Have you ever added weight to your top water like hollow body frogs? Have you ever... Do you see the Wired to Fish video on it? No. What did they add weight on to it? Dude, they stuck like 20, 20 like BBs in it. And they were fishing over like mats and so then it makes like an imprint in the mat. And then once it gets to a hole, it literally just like dives down like a real frog. And they were just like... Like BBs from like a BB gun? Yeah, like pellets, BBs, anything metal. And they stuck like 20 of them. And it was just like this rock, like rock hard. I think it might have been Jason Christie. I couldn't remember who did it. I'm pretty sure Wired to Fish did it, but it's pretty sweet. I need to try it this year for sure. Dang. That's pretty cool. I never thought about that. Yeah, I didn't either. No, I don't vape. I put that in a video as a joke. I don't vape. What'd you do? I was like, I was filming outside. I was filming an outro outside and like you could see my breath. So I was like, we did it. Flare you vape. And like everyone's like, dude, me too. What's your favorite juice? Dude, I don't vape. The joke. That's your vape, God. Flipping or pitching? Dude, this is just getting crazier and crazier. Flipping or pitching? Flipping. What? Yeah. Really? Yeah. You like pull the line back and swing it in? Well, now that I think about it now. Pitching? Yeah. Pitching. I feel like flipping is just so like... You got to use to it. Yeah. Well, it's those situations. Like very little do I need to cast six feet. Like normally I'm skipping them. You know, like I'm underhand skipping and I'm under docks and whatever. I don't know. I mean, I live up north so it's different, but... Yeah, that's true. All right. Let's see what we got. We got nine minutes. Good questions, people. Shout out to Jackson Bass Fishing. A lot of people keep commenting that. I know you're seeing it. I know, I know. Who's your favorite non-fishing YouTuber? Does that exist? Dang. All right. Does it matter the category? Mm-mm. Huh. I like... It's in fitness category. I like Christian Guzman. I don't know who that is. Is a fitness YouTuber. He's pretty big out there. I don't watch too much YouTube anymore. I used to be like... I don't even watch TV much anymore. I've never watched TV, dude. Like if I watch YouTube videos in the morning and I wake up, like that's it. Yeah, like I haven't watched... I haven't watched TV in probably a year and a half. It just hasn't happened. If I watch TV, it's like if it's on when I'm eating. But yeah, I've never gone... I try to turn on my TV to watch the Scott Martin Challenge other than other night. And it just didn't work. Yeah. That's all the longest been since I've turned it on. But YouTube's definitely... I mean, I was to the point where I was watching YouTube, like... You know. Oh yeah, I watch it religiously. Like I was watching that. I was sitting in math class. I was sitting here watching like Wire to Fish and FLW tournaments, like under my desk. Like that's all I did in high school. I like Roman Atwood, dude. He's the dude who comes to YouTube. You know who that is? Who? Roman Atwood. Oh. What? What kind of rock? I want you to look up a guy. Roman Atwood. He started off making pranks. And now he's just a vlogger. And he does some pranks, too. But he's the freaking man. Travis Williams is pretty cool, too. I got this pretty cool. He does a lot of vlogging stuff. He kind of stopped going crazy with it, though. God, who is that talking about? I'm going to text this guy to you, because I don't want... Okay. Yeah, this text me. You're going to lie. Dude, you're going to be like, this dude's crazy. All right. Oh, my God. I'll have it on my mind. I got to tell you. When you look at the name, I'm just like, God, that's bad. I feel like I've looked that up before, but maybe I haven't. I'll look it up when I get it on this. All right. Let's see what we got. Let's answer a few more while we're at it. Yeah. I've got a few more. I've been watching. All right. But shout out to Akuma. I'm with Akuma now, guys. I know you guys... A lot of you guys know that, because I did an unboxing. But I'm going to give you my honest opinion right now. I'm going to take, like, a minute out. You know, when I started bass fishing, I used my former companies from the start. And I loved them. I was never sponsored by them. And then again, I kept using them. Got my name out there. They ended up sponsoring me, both companies. And you guys know who they are. And I really loved them. You know, I used them. I used them. I used them. And to be honest, I started to kind of... You know, I like to switch up every once in a while. I like to change. And when I went on the Scott Martin Challenge, Scott was using the Akuma. And I asked him about it. And I was like, so how are these rods? I didn't cast one that particular day. But I ended up talking to the guy at Akuma. He sent me a few rods to test out. And I know you guys saw them in some of the videos when I was testing them out. But to be honest, guys, like that, the Helios reel, it casts so far. And like once the first cast I threw with that, I was like, oh my God. And I was kind of like, fell in love with it. And then the rods were just sensitive enough. I mean, they were perfect. And it wasn't like too oversensitive. Or I don't even know if it can be oversensitive. But it wasn't to the point where you couldn't feel it fished by. And it was pretty dang sensitive. And but the reel, the reel is phenomenal. The reel is casting far. Like, I mean far. It was really weird at first because I wasn't used to it. I was like, gosh, this is crazy. And then once I got all my other reels, I mean, they all cast the same. So it wasn't like one was just better than the other. I mean, they all cast it really good. But that's my honest opinion. I'm not going to sit here and force you guys towards a certain company. But I really like Akuma. And that's what I'm going to start using now. I'm sure it's going to take a little bit for me to get used to it. But I'll come out with some videos on that stuff if you guys want to know about it. Yeah, we're going to be at the classic, by the way, if people are joining late. Heck yeah. If you. Yeah, definitely. I'm going to be posting definitely in the description. I need to put Andrew's YouTube. If you guys aren't subscribed to Andrew, you can just type in Andrew Flare outdoors on YouTube after this video. I need to go ahead and put your link in. But I also have a link to my snap or not a link, but I have my snapchat in the bio. You can have me on snapchat if you want to see some updates to the classics. I'll be posting tons of stuff. And if you guys want to come up and see me, definitely come up and talk to me. I love talking about fishing. I love talking to some fans. We can take some pictures and do some stuff. Are you hanging around anyone's booth? Or are you just going to screw around? I'm going to be hopping booths. Okay. You know, I might be with Ridgey. Then I might be with Lucky. And then I might be with, you know what I mean? Yeah. So you don't have like a schedule. Like you're just going to go everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm scheduled Cigar three days and I'll be with Lucky at one point. And I'm scheduled with Carhart too. I got to be with them for a little bit. When did you get with them? Like maybe a month ago. They're the ones that are taking me down there. I'm not staying with Lucky. I'm staying with Carhart. Oh really? Yeah. So they're going with them and hanging out with their college crew for that. Are you starting off of them? Am I what? Are you starting off of them as in the first couple of days? I don't know yet. He's going to shoot me an email, but I'm just staying in their hotel and going to hang out with them for a while. I'm going to go over to the Ranger booth. Oh yeah. I may be a wink, wink joining you. I just dropped a hint if you didn't pick it. One more question. All right. Let's pick your good one. Brayden Cross, shout out to you. Oh, they're coming in so fast. I want to see a good one. One more good question. God, man. Dude, they're honestly coming so fast. My eyes are like. I'm trying to just get one more, one more good one. I can see one comment just coming in, coming in after another, after another. I'm sure you see it too. It's all different people too. That's not good. Gosh. All right. Tungsten or lead? Like what? You don't want to let it end up the choice. But like what, what, what, like when and why and is it worth the money? Wait, what were you, you cut off again. Tungsten versus lead. Like when would you use it as a worth the money? Tungsten, yeah. I mean, I like tungsten. There's a lot of money, of course. Is it worth it? Depends. How heavy of a weight you're going to be fishing. You know, if you're going to be fishing something that's just moderately lighter in the middle, you might not want to go with the tungsten way. But if you're fishing something that's heavy and you want a smaller profile of the weight, definitely go with tungsten. There's nothing wrong with it. But just be careful. Don't get snagged up, you know, and that's expensive stuff. Yeah. I think, I mean, the main difference is obviously tungsten is more sensitive. If you're, if you're not a serious fisherman, you know, you don't fish tournaments, you're not like banking on any cash, trying to catch anything. Don't worry about buying tungsten. If you're fishing for money, like you probably should be fishing tungsten. It definitely gives you an edge. It's definitely worth it. But if you're, yeah, like you said, if you're fishing in ponds and you're just kind of fun fishing, you know, there's really not too much of a point in it. Just go buy you some regular weights and get out there. Yeah. And use your money somewhere else for more lures and stuff. All right. It's eight o'clock. You ready to peace out, Girl Scout? Yeah. All right, guys. Well, I appreciate everyone for tuning in. If you guys are new to my channel, please hit the subscribe button and also go check out Andrew's channel. I'll have to throw his link below, but you can just go type in Andrew Flair outdoors and it'll pop up. But seriously, thank you guys so much for watching and click the like button if you enjoyed the live chat and you want us to do more. I'll catch you guys again. You want to say anything? Nope. See you. All right. Peace out, guys.