 Come here, come here. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Gosh, dude, this is a big, this is good fish. Good day everybody and welcome back to the channel. We're starting off right where we left off. Being on Lakers TV out here doing some fishing, there's a waning gibbets up there in the sky. We're shoreline right now. The birds are just starting to chirp. Some boats are getting out in the water, much better conditions today, much less wind. And today's video is sponsored by Carl's Mystery Tackle Box. Shopcarls.com is a proud provider of Gug and Bates and they also have these mystery tackle boxes. I'm fishing with a pro box today. And you know, there's a lot of plastics and stuff you can find in there, but if some of y'all are looking to save a ton on a mixture of good hard baits, do yourself a favor, get signed up right now. If you can use the code Mondo, I'll leave it all down below. But you're essentially getting about $12 off when you use that code, signing up for the first time. And some of those baits, you may have those for years if you don't break them off. A lot of those hard baits. So it's a good time to sign up. If you wanna save money, I know there's a lot of you out there that just wanna get into bastards. Maybe learn some new lures. You're getting your first box for like five bucks. Do yourself a favor, go over there, check it out. And I'm gonna be showing you some of those baits that are in this month's box right now. There's already guys getting out of the water. I gotta get out there, dead gummit. I think they're already in my hole. Much different conditions today, y'all. Yeah, the coots are out. Guts good. Coots are out feeding on the grass. So many more fishermen too. The boat ramp's loaded at just at sunrise. Me and Rob got all excited and scared yesterday. No one was here. I think it was because of the crazy winds. Got my breakfast to go here. Sour Crout sandwich and a little coffee. Probably need a breath man after that one. Let's go give it a dangle, guys. See what we got in this box. Alrighty, let's just see what we got going in this January box. Right off the bat I'm seeing something I wanna tie on. Immediately. A jerk bait. A cold weather crank bait. Excellent. This is a Weston, looks like a, what do you call it, not a walking bait. Side to side, goes like this. That's a good bait too. All these are fantastic. Well, we got some jerk sheds. Got some stuff we can flip. Oh my gosh, NTB, you have got the weather. Yesterday I was catching them on a lipless crank bait. Which I might use as a search bait as well today. I was literally thinking about tying on a jerk bait. Conditions are just good for it today. They're calmer. I've already got two boats in the spot that I found yesterday, so I'm not on the juice here. Jerk bait, bone color. Always good, always good. Now this is a slower fishing bait. Like yesterday I was using that lipless. It's really good for covering water bass, and that's why I wanted to use it yesterday. It was windy, and I'll probably use it today to actually find grass too. Or I could use, well, use the jerk bait this time. That hairy stuff right there. This is, I think this is a bagly? Yeah, bagly. Known for making really good balsa baits, and this is a flat-sided square bill crank bait. It's got a different wobble to it. It's tighter, so when shad are cold, or when fish are cold in general, they have just a tighter swim. So this emulates colder bait fish. So it's better for this type of year. When you get into warmer water, more aggressive fish, then a more aggressive presentation is better. So right now, I'm finding is this stuff. That is not the good grass right there. First fish on. Came on the search bait. He absolutely slammed it. Fish is so chunky. Chunky and healthy. It's good. It's a good sign. First fish. First fish of the day. I feel like I can eat my breakfast now. Absolutely ripped it a little bit farther off the bank, so I'm trying to fish it out here a little bit. Today, they might be, since it's cooled off a little bit, they might be just backed off. They'll probably move closer when the sun gets out. And later in the day, when it just warms up a little bit, I thought he was his little on the search bait again. They're liking that red, for sure. It's just this time of year. He must have gotten caught in the grass. My gosh, these fish are so fat. So fat. I think he had been caught in some grass or something when I first hooked into them. They were just stopping that thing and just tracks. Well, something I overlooked in the box, which I don't even know, to be quite honest, how to rig it. Five bites to go. Five inch fluke. Four-ought. So I guess this is especially made for like, rigging up weightless soft plastics. With the hook exposed, like not a wacky rig, but I'm just gonna guess out of the top. Like it's such a weird looking deal. We'll give that a try. Definitely not seeing the numbers on the electronics like I did yesterday. I may bounce around to a few more areas. I'm gonna try to fish some timber too with that jerk bait. I think that'll be good. God, fishing weightless soft plastic is probably the most boring. I am not being that patient right now. I'm gonna whip around with whiplist and crank here just on this flat. I'm gonna change depths a little bit. All right, I'm gonna go run some other water. See what we can find. We got calm conditions today and it's time to take advantage of it. Okay, I just rolled up to one of my favorite pre-spawn spots. It is calm enough to throw a jerk bait, which I'm really liking. Fish like to stage on secondary points like this before they really go in the spawn. Even if they're not on key structure, like a point or something like that. Just following trees that live along the creek channel edge. Like fish will use those creek channels as highways and they'll suspend in those trees and that's where the jerk bait is really the perfect bait. Of those creeks coming out of the pockets, can't get my words right today. I'm like cold or something, but you get what I'm saying. This osprey up here in this tree knows what I'm saying. It's like, yep, I followed him fish, man. I cannot stand not throwing a jig right now. It's killing me. Ooh, this is big. This is a big boy here. Boy, that thing is funky. This is called a battle bug. This thing's got a lot happening with it. I'd really like to fish this by itself more than just on a jig, but I'm gonna take these long pincers off or those two curlers off. I'm just gonna fish it like that. Actually looks a big craw pincers going down. I love fishing jigs in trees like this too. Like this is a really good combo going here with the jerk bait and fish. You know, fish on the suspended fish and if they're on the bottom, hit them with this jig. Nothing better than a bass thumping a jig, baby. Suspended fish right there. That's the fish I'm targeting with these jerk baits. They kind of just suspend with the water temps, move up and down the trees like a thermometer. They are in here. Oh my gosh, there's another one. We have found the fish. Those are good marks, dude. Really good marks. See if they'll eat this bagly. When I start seeing that stuff on the graph, I know I'm doing, I'm in the right spot. It's time to start really experimenting. One, two, three, four. Fat tease. Sitting out here. They're waiting. They're waiting. I guarantee you, this is what's going on. They're waiting till this afternoon. See if they're gonna be this afternoon or tomorrow and they're just gonna flood the banks. Like all these trees you see are gonna have fish on them. There's another one right there. These are good marks. These are probably two to four pound fish. I just got my first bite. Received a hard hit. Dragging that big bite creature bait on a little structure head. And didn't wanna hang on. I mean, I slammed it. I went to check the fish, but it wasn't there. I think what I may do is put on a finesse-style worm. That might be the profile they want right now. There's one. Fishing so slow. Three bites, that's my first fish. Fishing a little shaky head. That's a better fish though. I'm gonna switch up colors. I just broke a fish off. Every time, give it a day. This is such a slow presentation bite. You're basically just dragging a hot dog on the bottom. You just feel it tap and that one that was actually a good fish. That was one of those probably upper fours that I was talking about. Hit it real good. It was just a little close to the boat so the hook broke it. God, this is painful. It's brutal. I know there's good fish in here. I know if I just keep dragging this every once in a while, I'm gonna get a good one. Hey, yeah, yeah, I need to eat too. While you're eating, you may wanna just cast and literally it's that slow. They're all around me. I've got some, thank you. Oh, there's my, what do we got here? Come here, come here, come here. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a big, it's a good fish. Only got 12 pound on here. Not good. Oh my gosh, dude, this big, it's a good fish. Gosh, this fish's got me up in the tree. There you go, there you go. Oh yeah, that's a better fish. Good fish. It's like a five pounder, dude. Yeah, trees everywhere, I gotta be careful. Dude, I've seen so many marks like this. Telling you, just fishing that hot dog on the bottom. Oh yeah, baby. This is what we came here for. It's a nice fish. That's a stud. That is a stud, puppy. No, dude, they're all super fat like that. They are pre-spawn. That's a nice five pounder. All right, we're gonna let this guy go. That was an incredible fight. Almost lost that fish in the tree. Finally got it out. We'll see you later, Mr. Five. Go get bigger. I could've even been bigger five, I don't know. Lunker's bringing me some luck. Some food and some luck. Oh boy, oh boy. There's a lot of trees in here, my friend. He's tiny. He's not like the last one. Dude, they're, they're feisty. Well, I just went from a five to a two. She's coming off a good lunch break there, and that fish is like two pounds. Should, I mean, that should be a one pounder, but he's so fatty right now. I'm still seeing all these fish they're moving through. They're staging. I've moved over probably 50 yards from where I was. They just don't want to eat. I mean, I'm really having to finesse them. Rob's behind me. He just caught one on a drop shot. This is pre-spawn fishing. It's slow. It's a grind. You can catch the biggest fish of your life doing it, but quite honestly, I like to get out there. I like to really just chunk and wind and really throw some, you know, aggressive type stuff to catch fish, but I will do anything to catch fish. No mistake. I'm here to dangle. There we go. Good fish. Come on. Decent fish. Little guy. Oh, get around that stump. Come here. Such a slow, slow bite guys. Gah. It is brutal. They're here. They're definitely here. They're staging, but it is just drag some sort of bait that doesn't have a whole lot of movement on the bottom and wait, wait for a tab. And these fish are just fat. These are just fatties. Get in here. Absolute fatties. Gotta love them. Let you go, buddy. Appreciate the fight. I'm gonna instate a rule right now on this boat. So if you catch a fish that is longer than the Guggenbates logo, you have a certified Mondo. That's what it is. You know, that fish was probably two and a half pounds, maybe two and three quarters, but I'm thinking a five is gonna be pushing it. It's gonna get close. Six will definitely be over. Another fish dragging slow. See these fish guys suspended on the move. I just gotta get some different scenery and try some other things. You know, the spot's just getting stale. It's got good fish here, but it's getting stale. I'm gonna try some other things, make sure I'm not missing out on any good opportunities. Same pattern taken off the bait I was using before. Right there, we'll catch them. I came over to a pocket that's, it's on the same side of the lake as where I was catching them earlier. It's got trees and everything. I'm on basically the same type thing. Look at that fresh hydrilla right there. Ooh, I wanna find out where that came from. That's the other pattern that I found is fresh grass, bright green grass like that is holding fish too. Jerk bait fish, jerk bait fish. Oh my gosh, look at them go, look at them go. Smoked it. All right, this is that jerk bait bite I was talking about earlier where these fish suspend in these creek channels on these trees. And I just threw it to one of these trees right in the middle in about 16 foot of water. That's a good fish. A lot of hooks in his face right now. Good fish, good fish. Let's see if we can sling this guy. Oh my gosh, he's so fat, maybe not. Oh, almost lost him. I got a, I got a seat landing. He's too chunky, he's too much of a butter ball. Oh my gosh, what a beautiful, beautiful fish. That's one of the prettiest bass I've ever caught in my life. Look how white the belly is, that little jerk bait finally came in handy. Good fish, fatty, it's nice. Three pounder, maybe a little more. Beauty, beauty, beauty. Gosh, dang. All right, I gotta get me another one of them. I think that's a female too. Just how small the face is and how fat it is. Absolutely gorgeous, powerful, strong. I think I found every shad in the lake. From like five foot down all the way to the bottom, it was just all shad. God, all those shad are right moving through. Oh, I just hooked into a good one on a lipless ripping it through there. God, that feels really large. Shallow too. Came up there ripping shallow, that's a big one. Golly, that fish fights so hard. Almost felt like a foul hook to fish. The dandy, another dandy. Catching some good ones, good ones up here. That fish barely hooked, barely hooked. There we go, nice fish right there. On that lipless, smoked it. Just kind of ripping it through and I'll pause it for a second and just shallow, shallow water. I was like, you know what, I think I'm just gonna try sweeping through here on this flat where I see some birds. That one crushed it in probably two feet of water. And there we go. That was the pattern from yesterday. Find that fresh hydrilla grass or whatever kind of grass it is. Well, our little GoPro is full, it's full of fishing footage. There right there is one more. That's on the drag and drop or the slim shake actually. Yeah, just trying to jump that at us, aren't ya? All right, y'all, we have gone hard today. We're gonna end on that last fish. Had to try everything today. The fish were, there was shallow fish, there was mid-depth fish. I seem like the best bite that was going on though with the good size was that mid-depth, five to seven. Something I consider that shallow. That's kind of mid-depth here. Using a soft plastic going slow, really paying attention to the electronics. When you see fish, just really slow down because if you just fish fast, you'll see the fish, but you'll go right over them and get frustrated and just keep moving on to the next spot. But if you just buckle down and take your time, get a few fish here and there and end up with a nice sack, I would have got way more excited about that five pounder if I didn't have like four boats around me because it was like a signal beak in it. Hey, put your weight point right here. Cast it over here, son. But that is a really nice fish. That's my biggest fish in the States of 2019 so far. I thought the jerk bait was gonna come more into play with the suspended fish on the tree as the day went on, the sun got higher, but I only caught one good fish doing that. But I'm gonna leave you guys right there. Great couple of days out here. Make sure to hit that like button. Put a lot of effort into fishing these last couple of days to try to get you guys some patterns and some looter choices. And if you guys want to save some money on the box, don't forget about Carl's Mr. Taco Box. Use the code down below the link and Mondo will be applied and you'll save a bunch of money. Big shout out to MTP for helping us out on these videos. So thank you guys. I love you. I hope you learned something today and I'll see you on the next dangle later.