 you don't have to pay an entry fee did you hear me you don't have to pay an entry fee no better way to start out your Friday TGI Friday here with the clan here with the clan should I say gang or group group is probably better than clan alright PC it's about 75 degrees outside right now sunny warm Florida I love you always good morning cat oh I stopped you could have had the perfect kill shot but this is Florida and you're not about cat well as you can guess we are in the morning time here in Florida lost an hour so I'm a little sleepy but I feel like this is the start of the video welcome back to the channel everybody the reason we are down here in Florida we are going to be visiting the the bash pro tour the the MLF event where they're taking I think it's 80 of the world's best anglers and they're doing a new format I think it's really cool I did a video on it over the summer but I think this is where the future of tournament bass fishing needs to go is heading and I I'm glad to to talk about it and see what it's about before I can really go into it I need to check it out myself so that's what we're going to be doing today we're going to be checking that out in matter of fact the lake that they are fishing at the Toho chain that is where I had my very first professional bass fishing tournament I'm debating whether I should show you guys my first video on YouTube because that is where it was conspired was down there I filmed it on an old JVC it's not even 16 by 9 format you know what let's just do it we got to watch that together can't even show the first 45 seconds because it's just alternative rock music from the 90s we'll just skip through that tournament it's the first one of the series and we're here on Toho wow I'm frosty on that camera there's a few things that I've been doing to help catch some of these seven bass I'm gonna show them to you I'll show them to you bass are in pre-spawn down here they get on this this is almost the exact same date that they're fishing just flipping it into the spatter yeah I'm flipping it right at the camera y'all oh my gosh every time this is so cringy that's pretty much been the deal just flip flip flip just flip flip flip flip flip flip I want you guys to let me know in the comments how much has changed right now or do you think I'm just the same big thing is a gold rattletrap and it is you'll find if you watch the Bass Pro Tour right now a lot of American gold traps that's a good tip I still found that's true that is true just about every link I fish yeah what am I wearing like Ginko jeans right here what's going on that's been the Florida and get back to Texas and that's the it I'm really Florida get back to Texas if I remember correctly I actually made the cut on that tournament and it did okay but all I did was throw a a gold lipless crankbait it seemed like on braid and a flippant stick where I could just rip it out of the grass thick thick grass and it was all reaction bites like I said but yeah I want to hear from you guys what do you think about that I mean that was from 2008 my first video upload ever it's pretty embarrassing I'll leave a link down below if you really want to indulge yourself but anyway let me know how much has changed or if I'm still that same guy wearing those big jeans and a lot of arms and butts and not much excitement I'm very tempted ladies and gentlemen to give her a dangle in this hotel little waterway there has to be bass in here I mean there's gators and snakes I might have to acquire a rod and some lures probably some goog and baits there's water everywhere I love Florida but it's my second favorite fishing state you can't go anywhere and there's not fish in some little ditch you got ditches and oceans that sounds like a the U2 song ditches and oceans give it a dangle it's all the same water is water man it was mythical do I have my truck crap no when I came here in 2008 my boat was wrapped it was erupting oh it was wrapped in you know Texas A&M largemouth bass flavor probably still have a picture of that throw that up there we got Wheeler and Lunkers and Randy Mitchell look at those rocket cannons on top man ready to take on Isis with that thing Wheeler what is this what is this nonsense here I mean you still got your your little danglers inside of there what's that called Matt we call that we didn't finish weeding the vinyl weeding yeah well I think we should probably dig it out right now yeah we should probably help him yeah come on Wheeler I mean you're on the tour man you got it I don't think you cut it you got to get with the deal here it's on there pretty good I think I might be taking off a little extra supposed to get an exacto knife get in there it is look look at that make it a pop boom goo go start today with an uncle Herschel was some coffee being Robert split the pancake just because it's gonna be a good day another backstory on cracker barrel let you guys know this is kind of like a flashback to me in my tour days but I used to always come to cracker barrels number one because I would usually leave on Sundays and I would come back on Sundays they're open and they have really good butter milk fried chicken on Sundays they also have boat parking which not a lot of places have amazing and I liked them so much I even tried to get a sponsorship with them somehow I got a contact and anyway I think I got some gift cards or something like that but I went hard on cracker barrel me it's one of the best places in the country to go take your vessel go out there give it a dangle park your boat there get yourself some cornbread biscuits some butter milk fried chicken my gosh cracker bro I'm still here holler at me love you guys another reason cracker barrels amazing look at these novelty items you can get a giant rice crispy I think OSG would be a fan of this ready to decorate and serve soy in this though I'm sure it's loaded with soy we could decorate it yep contain so there we are big sexy I made a very crucial mistake and I forgot my sunglasses I might just have to get a pair of one down here well there's a big backstory to be told here it's crazy pulling up here memories are coming back right over there is the lake and we're gonna be hanging out here I see Bryant over there somewhere it's one of our it's one of our camera guys we're just we're gonna get settled in here have some fun what's here too oh shoot homies homies getting that good stuff out there good to see you man the anime who made that big climb to get inside the elimination line I thought it was much better I thought it was much better yeah you can hear the rain we were just behind the scenes the KVD Gary Klein and there was one other pro angler in there and they had the whole production team dude I've never seen anything like that I was crazy that was control room that's where everything's going down they're cutting shots here they're directing like I've always wanted to see that go down so that was really neat so I don't think John here the coordinator let us go inside of there and check it out this is a really neat format guys I like this here we go we're hooked up take me and Robert gonna have ourselves a little thing we'll competition here we got some live wigglers what we got there are those Florida grown or are they yeah look straight out of Arkansas key to catching a big yes you got to get a big wiggler man sorry Peter got to do it oh yeah oh we're cleaning me hey we're snatching them now son hey well I wasn't expecting to catch any fish in this video but here you go guys a bluegill look at him look at him that bobber's gonna go down yeah these things are voracious my gosh little behind the scenes here I'm about to do a Facebook live stream we're gonna talk about boogies one stuff like that so I figured I probably just keep it rolling till they get here good good I was just doing a little vlog action awesome well that went well that was fun west one of our camera guys he just got back guys it is crazy what's going on on the water right now one of the guys that we hooked up with earlier last year and that we're we're hooking up Gug and Bates Dustin Connell he's one of the younger tour pros had a slow start but he is crushing it right now and he's actually well he's an elite so pretty amazing I'm gonna walk down here to the water because I kind of want to kind of want to just relive some memories right now you know what I'm saying so right here at this marina this is where all the pros are launching out of this this lake is actually a connected lake there's multiple lakes there's Lake Toho there's it's actually that's not even the full name it's Toho peak a guy or something like that and then it goes there's Kissimmee there's Cyprus there's I don't know all of them but there's multiple lakes here and you can walk through you could take your boat you can go into these things that are called locks they raise the water up and down and take you into other parts of the lake it's crazy first time I did that I was like because going on a water elevator man so I can't wait to find out how the guys are catching them out here honestly these fish are moving up right now Dustin Connell just caught a nine pounder later in the day people were catching them later in the day you know what that means that means that the bass are waiting for it to get warm they move up on the beds and then they start feeding up they're getting ready to spawn I'm talking about mega fatties with huge bellies just excited about it on my first tournament here I went out of this marina my boat was going 78 miles an hour I remember wondering why is my boat going so fast and it had something to do with water being colder the prop could turn and could grab more and it was just hauling but I was you know flying next to all these pros and everything and it was crazy and I was I was 22 years old at the time and I didn't know what I was doing I mean I was just trying to learn everything I could and fish you know competitively at the same time and it's tough and I definitely have a lot of respect for all these all these guys that are out fishing this this grind but I think especially the young guys that really put everything out there it takes a lot of guts it takes a lot to put everything out on the line and continue to learn and compete against the best in the world it's not like other sports where you know you're competing against mostly young bucks I mean you've got people that have fished in the sport for decades and they are out there just with all that knowledge so to compete against them and then do well and put it all online it really takes a lot and I'm excited about this format also being where you don't have to pay an entry fee did you hear me you don't have to pay an entry fee you just have to be good enough to make it and let the talent shine through that's the way it should be I mean for God's sakes all these guys these big pros they should not be having to go pay entry fees it shouldn't be having to pay entry fees to go fish an event where a lot of people want to come see them and you know you know what I'm saying like how would you feel if you were Mark McGuire showing up to the batter's box and they were like you know what Mark you got to pay your entry fee play it day before you go hit some some dingers sorry about it I don't think so that's not how it should be and I want to see the move the sport move forward with a more stick and ball style format of other sports and I think this way to do it I've learned a lot today about how this thing goes down I'm excited about it I will be filling you guys in more but basically this is where this is where it started for for me as far as tournament fishing Colby from Tallahassee it is yes sir all right going back to give it a dangle he got a little bit more than what he was expecting I think but I think it'll catch some fish on that so open sniffing catch man got one of our boys here Jacob Wheeler catch it up on a mondo worm all the guys are starting to come in right now this is very exciting get the get the skinny get the on-the-water scoop but the nice thing about this format I get to see live stream but there's always little stories secrets there's Brian one of our hardest-working individuals ever getting the actual goods out there on the tear with Wes these guys they've been working hard here all this week and getting getting some actual stories behind it's not just fishing but the stories behind the anglers and everything like that really cool stuff so that is actually going to be on our channel Guggen Squad channel so do yourself a favor go subscribe to that channel you're not gonna want to miss the series that these guys are doing I just want to say personally I'm super proud of those guys it's gonna be good series make sure to tune in and I'm really excited about what they're gonna bring together to be good already all this has been fun getting to know this event seeing where I think where I hope that it's going to go and really propel the sport of bass fishing into the future I know a lot of you are tournament anglers getting into it some of our high school college or just you know fishing in general tournaments I think this is the direction to be quite honest with you especially with getting brands involved involved in everything like that similar to how you see golf I really really like this format just from what I've learned today so basically I was here eight years ago being a tournament angler now I'm here being a fanboy learning about the sport and just supporting the sport in general it's always been my dream my goal to be a part of it and I'm in the mix and it feels amazing and I want to thank every single one of you there's already come up to me here said hello we've talked maybe shared some bates and everything like that but I hope to see a lot more of you you guys know what to do good scrub back here I love all you all you guys and being here in this warm weather and having the bass move up on the spawn is like torturing me right now I'm like gosh dang I almost want to just move here for a second and catch all these fish and then move back to touch when the spawns going on down there but can't do that to us gee and maybe I got a bit back quick so love you guys subscribe right here I'll see you on the next one