 First dangle in the new boat, fall and winter fishing tips, and some good old chunky large mouth bass, all coming up on today's video of LFG fishing TV. Thanks for coming along today everybody. We've got something special for you. I'm heading to go on a big whitetail hunt with my good buddy and manager Matt Kendrick, also known as manager Matt here at the Guggen Squad. And there just so happens to be an awesome bass lake on the place that we're going to, so we're going to be heading out there and doing that. Today's video is brought to you by the best holiday gift for the dangler in your family, Mystery Tacklebox. That's right y'all, if you're sitting there and you're wondering, I don't know what to get Uncle Jim, he loves to fish. I got him that daggum bass that comes off the wall and talks and says things and I don't know what to get him this year. This is it right here y'all. Any man, woman or child that loves to give it a dangle, you can get him one of these right here. 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The good thing is we do have grass in this lake, which is always like fishing grass lakes in the colder months. It seems to like the fish kind of bury up in that. But like you always kind of know where they are. Whereas like clear open water lakes, they might roam around a little bit and they just become harder to locate. They'll suspend. They kind of go up and down with the temperature. So I like grass lakes when it's cold. The first starting of the engine. There's the first little bit of pee right there. We know it's working. And the graph seems to be working. There's that grass down there. 51 degree water. That better come up. Yeah, she's rolling. What I'm going to do in this little lake that I'm in is try to find the deepest spots that have the grass lines on them. Because we don't have a sunny day. If it was a real sunny day and it was going to warm up the shallow grass flats, then I would go out there. But since it's overcast, we're in the afternoon, the weather's just not warming up. I want to stay close to deep water. The deepest spot out here is probably like 12, 16. So I'm going to be fishing on the edges of these grass lines. And actually even trying to keep my bait down here in this grass. Because these cold days, they just kind of bury up in it. And let's get into the box, baby! Yeah! I'm ready to get to fishing, y'all. We've got some good stuff in here for this time of year, these conditions. This is a jerk bait right here. A excellent cold water bait. This is by StrikePro. It's the first one on the list that I grabbed. StrikePro Jumper 110. We've got a Chatterbait Bucktail, the E-Man Chatterbait Bucktail, which is like a cold water version of the Chatterbait. We've got a Boo-Yah One-Knocker. Excellent little wintertime and fall bait when they start chasing shad. That's a really good imitation there. We've got our fish sticker. We might as well break it in. First sticker to go on the new console. Crescent with the sweet guitar sounds of the bass. We have a Carolina Kit. Dang, that's cool. So you've got brass weights in here with brass knockers. They make sounds. You have beads and swivels. So everything is included right there. And you also have a finesse style worm. This is Carl's Amazing Bait. So it's a finesse style worm there. We've got the StreakZ Curlytail, which we will put on this even Chatterbait there. And then we've got a... Dang, I think this is a rodent. I forget the name of these. The thing I really want to try is the old Bucktail Chatter. I really want to try this. Pick that up right there. That should be money juice. I don't think I'm going to fish any plastics to be honest with you all. I'm just going to go straight hard baits with it being a little windy and just trying to cover some water here. I'm going to tie on this One-Knocker. Interested to get the water readings. When the water is around the low 50s, low to mid 50s, these are great. I love fishing these in the spring as well at those water temps. All three of these things. This is good from 50s down into 30s. Those are really good. I mean, that's good at a lot of temps. Why don't we see if this trolling motor even works, y'all? No idea. That thing turned on, so that's a good sign. Let's deploy it. Let's see if it's going to work here. Oh yeah. Yeah, we're good. Hallelujah. We're good. Let's catch a fish, baby. I'm throwing this on a 7-3-1 gear ratio reel and I've got a 7-2 medium, a medium power fast action rod. It's good for throwing just all sorts of crankbaits. And what I'm trying to do with it is just kind of tick that grass. Just let that bait fall down there. Hit that grass. Almost like I wanted to get snagged in there a little bit. Oh, there's one there. Oh yeah, he knocked it good. It feels like a little one. I expect to catch some donks on the old quarter answer. Man, he looks cold. He looks cold. Couldn't resist that little shad offering. Oh, he actually barely got it. What happened on that fish is like my first crank, he hit it. My gosh, he is cold. He is cold. Hey, buddy. In the fall, sometimes you get a lot of small fish that group up in creeks and certain areas, but usually it's like in the backs of creeks. And you'll just be going along, you'll be catching a bunch of little ones, and then all of a sudden you'll hook into like one big, nice one. In my experience, I usually catch my bigger fish in the fall like just close to deep water. I get out on ledges or just hang close to deep water so that if a big cold front comes in, they can easily just head out there to the deep water where they can maintain a good homeostasis. My favorite retrieve with lipless baits is a start and stop or almost like just a pull and stop. And I do this a lot in the spring, but I've started doing it just year round instead of a straight retrieve because even when it's cold like this, there's a fish right there. Oh, it's grass. No, I got one. Oh my gosh, I had a fish. He was so small. Couldn't even feel him on there. A lot of times what happens though, the fish will be following it, and if you just keep reeling, they never really get the opportunity or never triggered to eat, if you stop it and they just kind of run into it. They're swimming behind it and they run into it and they're just kind of forced to eat it. As soon as I stopped it, man, these fish are lethargic. I have a feeling they're going to eat the jerk bait pretty good. Another little guy, another little boss. All right, that's two little ones on the little quarter ounce so far. If I just kind of like pump that rod tip, and a lot of times you'll just start to, oh, there he is again. Oh, he hit it on slack line that time. That was crazy. On the pause, hit it while I was dropping there. So closer to this deep water, I've gotten more bites for just little guys. They'll just get on there and then like your next pump, you'll just feel the bass and it'll get heavy. And I like fishing this medium power because just a lot of absorption and you just land a lot more fish with it. Plus you can cast it super easy. We're going to just slow roll this baby right here. Bumping up my rod to medium heavy, medium heavy power, fast action. It's a slower retrieve. I want it to get down close to that grass and four to six foot, maybe even eight foot, wherever it's making that contact. Just pull it out like that when I get hung in the grass. Got him right there. Little better fish. Oh, that bite was interesting. Sucked it in. Got you, buddy. Check our water tips. Your fish right there. Fish sitting right over the grass. 52. This vibrating jig bite. It is usually better when it's just a little bit warmer. Oh, okay. I'm going to fish this Guget Squad Scout real quick, just because I've already got it tied on. Just to see how the jerk bait bite is. It's a little bit smaller profile too. With the jerk bait, it's totally different. You work this more like a top water than anything. You're twitching the bait and then just letting it sit there. That erratic action and then just pausing it. That's the key. They grab it on the pause every time. You're almost never hooked on why you're going through a series of twitches. Unless you're fishing for smallmouth that are super aggressive. Okay, nothing on the jerk bait so far. Switch back to the old lipless here. I think what might be better, just for the water that I'm in, if I have like a three-eighths or a half. Oh, there's one there. First cast after switching. Like, man, they really want... They really like this. They like it on the pause. But that is not the size that we want right there. I think what I may do is switch up this size. Go with our Guggen Squad clutch that's in a half ounce. And I can just get it out a little bit deeper. Fishing on those deeper grass lines. Just more effectively and try to get a bigger fish. There's one. Oh, that was better. That was better. I think he is. He might be fooling me. What do we got going on here? Oh, he's a little bit better. Oh, gosh, he came off right there. That was at least a two-pounder. Oh, there's another one. Oh, that's good. He hit a good. No, he's small, but he smoked it. Oh, a little better, actually. Sometimes I get on these, like, windy areas. Windy points, windy flats. Yeah, he got it. He got it. You are a green, green grass bass, sir. It's a matter of time until I catch a good one. I tell you what, this is the bait. They want a lipless. Oh, gosh, smoked. Oh, we come off. Oh, my. Talking hammered it. There's another one. We're sitting there. They're on this windy situation. I'm going to just spot lock it here. There we go. Gotcha, buddy. A little bit better. A little bit better, and you ate it. You ate it by the head. Yeah. The old bucktail toss here. Look at the skier. That's what you call a skier right there. Come on, man. Still got bulk on your lip. Out there, get a little bigger, son. Right under the boat. Smoked it. Absolutely choked it. I mean, it's gone. Ah, there we go. That's how we get the better ones. That's how we get those better ones right there. Down the mouth, that is. If you guys notice on the rod tip, it was just kind of like a pump. That last one choked it, but it was literally like, I'm doing what I'm doing right here. Like it's in the grass. I could feel it. It's in the grass, and I'm just lifting it out. Almost like a Texas rig. Like you would like a fast Texas rig move. Crawling it on the bottom. Action has been hot, y'all, but the size is not. So I'm going to actually switch up from this quarter, and I'm going to go with a half ounce. I'm going to go with clutch. Gookensquare clutch, y'all. This is, whee! I love this color, too, in grass. When there's crawfish around. Little orange on the belly. Little red. Almost got a 10-powder. One like this here. So anyway, I think the quarter's a little small. It's perfect for like fishing high up in the water column. Schoolers, but I want to get down there a little bit more, so I'm going to use this bait and try to catch a bigger one. Because at this point I've got a bunch of fish. I'm satisfied. I just want one good sniffer. Oh, gosh, smoked it under the boat on the paws. I don't know if you guys can see that. Just my line flinch. Literally like a long pause while I was sinking. And it's gone. That's why you use the medium rod. That's why you do those pauses right there. It is gone. I love it. Alright, now we're getting out here a little bit bigger. A little bit bigger water. This little heavier bait, I can get it down there. Some of these deeper grass lines, there's one. Oh, you're not big. You were attached to my line and I thank you for it. Oh, there we go. There's a good one. Hit it on the paws and he's loaded. He might be coming at me. Oh, he loaded up good at first. He's being a little weird. Oh, he come off. That was a good one. That was a better one for sure. Oh, gosh, smoked it. Smoked it. Not as good. That last one, I wasn't sure how big it was going to be. Dang, they're freaking fired on these lipless cranks out here. Oh, gosh, latched onto it. There we go. There's a bend in that rod. There's a bend in that rod now. No, he's just side-hooked. God, that one latched it good. And hammered it. And it's fish are cold, large and like this. I mean, that is just what you know. That is what you know. They want a bait, y'all. Look at that. It's gone. It's choked. It's amazing. They're hitting it like a jig. Like a jig bite. When you just drop your rod tip, let that bait fall. God, look at that beautiful dark bass right there. Beautiful dark fish. And it's just on that pause. That's the key. Pause that bait. If I was just straight retrieving it, I wouldn't get near as many bites. I know you're in these little deeper cuts. Oh, gosh, hammered. Gosh, not Sally. Just another good fish. I absolutely smoke in these lips cranks, y'all. A clutch. I'm seeing a clutch right now. Woo! My goodness, y'all. This is like way better than what I thought it was going to be for this cold front that's here. All right, y'all. This rod action here. It's like a sweeping pump. Stop. Stop. And on that stop, that's when you get the bite. It's dang near like a jig bite. Feel it. Oh, that rod loaded up. Not hurt, though. It's not hurt. I always, like, on that first initial pull, I check my rod and I'm like, not good, but it's not the stopper that we're looking for. It's really typical of fall fishing, though, right here. Just a lot of, you know, 2-pounder and less than 2-pound fish. I'm looking for that one stud. Oh, gosh, there she is. Loaded up big time out in the neaps. I need to stop my rod. That's a good one. She stopped it. Oh, yeah, there you are. You're a big old fat, beautiful face. Get my hands a little wet for you, baby. Yeah, there we go. That's a nice fish. Just got that thing. Nice, thick, and healthy. That's a little better one. That's what we're looking for. Oh, yeah. Woo, darn. See you, honey. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. Oh, I got her. Got her. Came back. No. Oh, my gosh. What? All right, I've got a couple of good bites out here. I'm going to just make a few more casts in this deep zone where I think that little big mama is. Oh, gosh. Smoked it. I can't believe that fish didn't get on. Just a reactionary slap. Wow. There's definitely. Oh, there's another one right there. Good one. Oh, gosh. Came off. That was right in the same area I got yo-yo hit. There's like a hole right here. And there's some good ones. I'm just not getting them in the boat. There's like one little deep spot right here. Oh, gosh. Why am I losing them? They'll came back and got it. What? What in the heck? These are good ones. Oh, gosh, that's a big one. These are big ones in here. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, choked. Oh, my gosh. This is like my fourth bite right there. I knew they were good fish. I just felt like they were smoking it. They're in a deep hole together. I finally got this one. Oh, yeah, baby. Come here. Oh, you're barely hooked. You're barely hooked. Don't do it. Be that face. Open that mouth. She's hooked on the outside of the mouth. She doesn't want to open. I'm going to have to two-hand it. Oh, yeah, baby. Now that's a fish right there, y'all. That's the one I wanted. Yeah. That is an absolutely gorgeous fish. And I don't know why they're just kind of slapping it. These big ones that are in this big hole. Out here, they're just slapping the bait. I've missed quite a few of them. But that one finally got it. Got it on the pause and it stopped my rod like I was talking about. You just know when they hit it. It's like, that's her. That's her. Godly, man. What a beautiful fish. Beautiful fish. Must add triple grips on that clutch. That, my friends, is the Game Ender for today. Let's give it a sniff, y'all. Return it back to the waters. What an awesome fish. See you, girl. And that is how we're going to end today. I would fish a little bit more, guys, because I know there's more in this hole that I found. But I have to go get my rifle ready for a deer hunt. I have to go side it in. I'm going to do some deer hunting. That's the next video that's coming up. But there's such a good bass lake on this place. I was like, I have to bring my new boat out here. I have to break it in right. And it looks like we just got our first 5-pound Mondo in the new Silver Blood. Thank you guys, as always, for tuning in for all the action right here on the channel. And make sure to subscribe if you want to see more. If you're into deer hunting, if you like big bucks, you want to stay tuned. I'm going hunting with manager Matt. It's going to be his first time deer hunting. I'm going to sit in a blind with him. And I'm going to get the opportunity to go after some bucks as well. Some big ones, y'all. Stay tuned. I love you guys. God bless you. And I'll see you on the next one.