 The abundance of life up here at this this time of year is insane Because they don't have very long to get it done. They got to get in there spawn reproduce Their life cycles are definitely different up here And if you look down in this water You can see all these splinterings and you see these giant rocks that just have these long cracks in them You can see the evidence that glaciers Made this lake and they made all these formations in this rock and it's a giant natural lake It's so different. This is something everybody needs to see They just where's your drop shot here? He's sitting right here. Let me look at it. He's sitting. He's right here. Oh He followed it to the boat. He's right here like the right beside the boat Curious look at this pike. Oh my god. Oh my god. Is that a musky they have muskies up here? Holy cow There are pike everywhere back in here spying That is it. That's a cool predator fish off. I haven't gotten one to eat it yet But it is just scary when you see a log behind your bait coming You got to come here Small mouth though your spinnerbait They're just curious cruisers They stopped on my baby. They're rogue big ins dude. They are big ones That pike could just follow you. Oh god. They're freaking huge You guys got a big big ins son. Oh My gosh rogue big. Oh my gosh, dude, this one's like the over five Hey, look at this dude. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh These are rogue nasty up in here Dude look at the size of that small mouth. Oh Man That fish look at that speckled belly Mono Holy cow. This is this is thick dude. That's an old fish. Look how big his mouth is Old fish golly Got him on that drag and drop Dude, they love that just just curious enough. You kept him curious enough Here you need to do that is a beautiful feel Oh power and girls and awesome. Where's that skill at? 558 558 biggest fish of the trip. I mean that's a bad old fish. Yeah old fish Look how big his mouth is we haven't had one like that with a big head That's awesome dude that was awesome Welcome back to the channel everybody. We are at the fourth video in this series and We have caught numbers of small mouth But we've kind of stayed in the same area So we just rolled up into a pocket were many miles away From where we have been fishing and it was mostly you got to find the reeds and oh my gosh There's another rogue huge small mouth giant small dude And the water is gin clear here the bottom is different we have more rocks and I think we have found Prespawn fish. There's a giant pike here, but these small mouth are running in these packs and they're huge Jeremy just caught the biggest fish of the trip. It's five and a half pounds and There's not a boat to be seen. We have not seen a boat for an hour We're up here all alone. So hopefully nothing goes wrong with the boat or motor or anything It's windy We just rolled up here to this other spot. I just have a small mouth chase me in Big small mouth you saw one. Yeah chase must better bait big one We have 20 miles of open water And that's already ripping this could get real nasty real Anyone have service does anybody have service? Our lives are not in danger. No, I'm not I'm gonna look at the window see what's gonna happen here. Nope. No service Okay Y'all want to give it five more minutes or go? I don't think we can break this place down in five minutes like five minutes is just gonna give us a tease if even if we catch one These are getting bigger Since this is right now. We just gotta prove It's choppy here. It's gonna be four or five foot swells out on the main lake And it's just it's gonna get worse worse worse worse. So we had to make a call Move back move back to the bay same kind of areas. We haven't been fishing the last few days We're gonna catch some other small mouth Have some fun. We got our exploration Fix here, and then we're gonna go after some tasties Talk to the white fishes talking Purchase wall eyes You know, we haven't really discovered that aspect yet, so Seems like a good thing to do others We had to know you think they know we're here Here's coming They probably know trains are coming like I know the slap on that basket. Oh, yeah, that's that's solid You know, that's our that's our solid resident three and a halfies three and three quarters here You know just another one of those here I have to get my small mouthflips in here Yeah But look at see like that is a good fish that one you caught over at the island Had a giant mouth You know I'm saying like this had a small mouth still old catalog how healthy they are all the way down the tail Yeah, it's crazy. Y'all we just had to do it We just we just had to come back And honestly, these are these are all new fish. We're not kids and same fish over again They clapped back Turn around a little bit here Don't move. Don't move. Nobody move. This is don't cast We've got a giant a giant located hot that fish is caught Oh, she's agitated Oh, dude, you got you got one of them. That's a big one. Yeah, I don't know if it is or not Dude, that's a big fish. That's not that's not a pb fish though That's a big fish That's carol. Do you think that's carol? Gosh dang carol. I don't know if that's the big one. I don't think it is Dude, that's still a big fish You should well this one and try to get the other one. Oh, dude, that's I believe that's a five pounder Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh Come here. Oh my gosh Oh, no, no. Oh, dude, it's a five. It's a it's a five pounder for sure I got her. Oh my gosh, way bigger in person Oh my gosh, that one first before I weigh her. It's it's bigger than the last one In fact, before I weigh her, what are you going to do if she is your pb? I told you I'd make you all the old faster besides that Are we shot getting two beers? I think the whole boat has to shotgun beers. Oh, absolutely Over five gonna teeter on four sixteen or fifteen five one six Oh my goodness, carol baskin. I got you I got you Dad that is awesome, buddy. What a tank. That's like that's a landmark achievement when you get a five pound smallmouth That's getting up there. That's like, what would you say that compares to on on large mouth? I mean like for real that's a smallmouth. It's like a lifetime people's Never catch a five pound smallmouth Give her a dip. Let's get some picks Dad come she went down Carol's returned to the jungle Y'all huge achievement. So matt already got his pb In one of the later videos, but catching a five is a different. That's just a different level Listen since I broke my pb twice this week The second one everybody has to shotgun. I'm glad we joined you sir. We gotta we gotta get another one in here. There you go So ice cold lobes. I think this is the send-off Oh for what's next? Yeah for the next mission. I'm interested to see what's gonna happen here So we've caught we've kind of conquered the bass I don't will say conquered but dad gum. It's been pretty close to two times hundred bass in a day It's been fun. We've had had a legit what 24 pound here. Let's have another hole. That'll legit 24 pounds yesterday. Wouldn't you say Oh, yeah. Well today might be We could be close Oh, nice Here we go to pbs. It's pbs, baby Cheers smallmouth. It was good. Good job boys. Good job. Whoo Let's go perch jerk. All right, y'all it is time that we complete the last Box that needs to be checked. We got to catch some delicious fish up here to eat Now we got off the water yesterday. It was really windy We ended up coming in I'll be honest with you. We were fatigued from catching so many smallmouth. We said Let's save this last day for the meat hall So we actually did up end up catching one of the fish that we didn't even expect to catch But it is a really good fish to eat that's up here and it's called a rock bass So this is a rock bass right here. This is uh, it's sort of like a large bluegill But we're going to go ahead and fillet this up. We're going to taste this fish And then hopefully we're going to get some perch and some walleye So we're going to have three different species to actually taste all these are going to be really delicious Me because the water is cold and any kind of fish you catch out of cold water is always good. So Let's crunch these Let's get the meats Just going to rinse these off Put them in the fridge And then hopefully We're going to have perch and walleye right there. We're going to taste them all Let's get some crawlers Two dozen crawlers Look at these hogs That's a Mondo there, eh? Oh man, that was oh she totally knew we were not from Wisconsin What happened? We had a very rude accent there I think he had it It was Texconson Texconson? Anyway, we got uh, we got live worms He did it, we got minnows Um, literally I've heard that they're hitting drop shots like basically a weight uh with a small hook So we already have those components or literally bass fishing components. We just needed this in the minnows So it's cool to get asked. It's going to be fun About 12 feet off a weed edge Right now we're just throwing on a quarter ounce weight with a minnow Just kidding. I love you. I love you guys up north Um, oh, I just got hit. Oh dude smoked Dead serious Dead serious So we got our real good smoke. I've for real got a bump like boom Yeah, we got a wad I know these are the perch or walleye. We're not sure If they're too small That's probably what hit me So we're just gonna drop these minnows straight down. I think this is gonna happen right here But I gotta believe there's walleye out here too. Whoa took my minnow Took my minnow. Oh, he's got a bite Got shanked. We're on him boys. Oh That's gonna be a walleye. It's gonna be a big walleye. It's gonna be a nice walleye. Here we go boys He's on him. Here we go boys 15 inch or there he come on now Nice oh, we're gonna eat him man. Well, he's not quite a keeper, but he's out here eating the minners, baby You think he's 15 inches We got a stick there. Let's measure Okay, we'll put him on the stick just to let folks at home know All right, they got to be 15 to keep that as about a 13 Can't keep but first walleye of the trip. Look at that guy You want to hold him? You're held a walleye you ever call work. No, I don't even know where to hold these guys right here He's just grabbing by the back. Look at that. Look at those little vicious teeth. They got in there. Yeah He feels meaty He feels like he'd be goody. Oh, dude. They're just delicious hot dogs. No question Awesome, dude. We just got to catch a keeper, but that's bucket list fish here on this trip We got lots of minnows. We've got them located. Let's get her done. You need another minnow bed Yeah, if you want to send one on over here, we just fished one out. Here you go. There you go two bites Oh, yeah She's got a bit I got it hooked up waller Waller or perch perch baby big First perch Yeah, we got this dude. That's a biggin. Look at that eater, baby Oh, that's my biggest press my PB perch Yes Yes, look at look at the profile Same as the walleye same family of fishes So cool. Oh, dude. Look under the boat. There's magnums Let's put this in the well. This is gonna eat deliciously Got him Come on, baby. Little there he is Got him. That's a juicy Come on and I kept my minnow You know it oh you I got you Gotta be careful when you're reeling it with an open beverage in waller Dude, this is a sucker. Oh my gosh, dude. It's a sucker It's a white horse white or red horse sucker. What in the Is it a river red horse? It's a it's a sucker. Yeah So I don't know I don't know about one of these But this is a red horse sucker. It lives on the bottom amongst these other fish It's a beautiful northern fish. We're gonna try it Ladies and gentlemen, we have sand lake michigan dry We got on this live scope technology here a minute ago and we caught every walleye and perch that we could see We could not get a 15 inch walleye. We got a 14 and a half. It was close But we've got plenty of perch We've still got the rock bass. We've still got What's our other fish? Sucker suckers big suckers So we're gonna get back to the house and we're gonna get the flay knife out flay some more fish We're gonna get our Ingredients and we're gonna cook these delicious white fish didn't get the walleye, but gosh, we've got everything else So let's get to cooking We got some magnum perch Talking big ins. Well, there's a big in there. So we got about Eight or nine perch here. We got some red or suckers red or sucker is gonna be very interesting to try But I don't even know how to filet these fish honestly, but I've always wanted to try perch I've had walleye. I've had crappie. This is one of the great northern fish. It's supposedly one of the best So I'm excited to see how it tastes Here is the rock bass boom I think we could be able to sell just like we'll be able to. Yeah the sheer size Sucker Sucker and now we got our perch the perch look the most delicious. Look how clean it is clean Translucent meat get that bone out of there. There we go. That was one of the suckers, I think I've never had perch. I'm so excited. Never. No. Well, I've never had fresh fresh cut. Yes Jeremy Take it away here. What do we got in this money bag? Equal parts flour and cornmeal and a little bit of Cajun seasoning pepper Toss it in there shake it up drop it in some hot grease at about 350 degrees my man, and we will see what we got my man Let's try. Let's go ahead and do that fast or you want to do the rock? Let's drop that sucker in there. Let's drop the sucker Drop that sucker in there literally Grease is perfect That's rock bass. Can you tell the difference? Yeah, that's after the fries Well, we're just going to keep them separate Sucker Here we go. You tell me you tell me sucker first sucker ever Dude, it's incredible The texture on that is smooth. It's really good Really nice. So this is like almost a this would be a considered a cart family fish. Yeah, and it You know it doesn't have a fishy taste at all. Not like I was very clean This is the red horse sucker. You can see it's it's sliced just kind of down the filet But right here, we've just got our first perch filet is coming off tiny real tiny These right here should be the most succulent most flaky out of the bunch So try the perch. This is your first fresh caught perch This is my first fresh caught perch I've ever had like I've caught it Matt you gotta get over and trap piece of this Yeah, what are we doing? You gotta try a piece of this perch. You gotta let him out. Here you go. This is them I gotta take a drop first Those are good. Oh tasty Golden crispies. It's a whole different golden crispy golden crispies It's like sweet God that's a good meat Yeah, I game really super. There's no no gaming taste in that whatsoever Oh, that's good. So here's a rock bass This I would say is most comparable to a crappie like the flays the look everything So Have you tried that? Yeah, no Which one is this rock bass? I think it needs a little bit of salt. No, I won't try just without without the salt I won't try just this is right. Yes rock bass I mean, I'm not saying this is flaky. Yeah, it's also It's kind of dry tasting. I don't feel like it's as tasty as the the perch is amazing Yeah, you think I cooked it a little too long. Our chef has uh, did I fail you maybe gone a little too long But here's the deal the perch is so small It doesn't take very long to cook Those are good Telling you they're pure Hey, it's pure michigan. You ever heard the phrase pure michigan? Put the perch in your mouth. That's pure michigan taking it in Y'all we have come up to the shores of lake michigan and had An amazing time amazing time This week. We have just checked the boxes y'all we accomplished the goals So catching a hundred small mouth in a day Got it done catching matt's pb and then breaking it again He ended up with just over a five pound small mouth a big life achievement right there Check that box And then we wanted to go out and catch some of the golden crisps, baby The great crispy of the north the walleye the perch We caught those didn't get that keeper walleye became really close And we just had some delicious fish all the fish are so good up here because of that cold water So we just checked all the boxes got our objectives done and this series was just awesome The reason why we call this unthought is because just a couple months ago This was all ice and the life up here is just exploding and it's it's awesome They don't have much time They have way less time than fish down in the southern states that you know, they eat and they'll they'll have way more Time to spawn and everything like that. So it's explosive and it's explosive action So this week falls on the full moon of the spawn and just so happens to be Buddy matt's birthday as well So we're going to make it a tradition to come back up here during this week year after year Somewhere around that spawn time and his birthday and just have have a great time We built some traditions here We're going to build upon the goals and if you like this series go ahead and let me know in the comments I want to do some more Stuff up here in these northern states while it's it's hot back in texas So I want to give a huge shout out to catch co for sponsoring this series They've they've been a part of my channel for quite a long time But we've never done something like this where they've had fully sponsored a series and it's just No, we'll document it. We did good on this one. So go ahead and smash the like button And thank you guys for being here on every single video I will see you soon on the next one. God bless you later