 What's poppin', people? Welcome back to another episode of Kicking Their Bass TV. If you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell. Also, hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. Today we're out here on the beautiful Savannah River. It's been about two weeks since we've been out here, so we're like, you know what? We got to get out here and try to catch some big bass. We're actually doing something different today that we've never done before. There's one bait that I really haven't got to experiment with much on the river and it has to be throwing a big worm out here. So what we're going to do is break up some big worms on our rods, throw around some of this beautiful cover behind us, and see if we can catch some big fish. So that's the game playing today. It's actually around 100 degrees, but we got the cooler packed up with the ice and the waters and we're all prepared for today. The weather the last few days has been insane. I know you guys are probably experiencing it too. It has been super hot and it has been brutal. Let me tell you, it's been rough just being out here for like an eight-hour day. It's been pretty hard. Also, let me know if you guys have been enjoying the river videos. Hit the like button on this video, leave a comment down below. If you guys have anything that you want to see us do out here on the river, let me know down below. So we actually stopped by dicks this morning because we had to get a little bit of supplies. Boys and girls, let me tell you the hardest thing to find recently within like the last year has to be bullet weights. We actually found some. These are like some Eagle Claw bullet weights, but they're actually one-eighth ounce. So it's not really what we wanted, but this is all they had. This has been the hardest thing to find. I don't understand. Like you can find baits, you can find whatever, but when it comes to your simple lead weights, you cannot find them anywhere. I ended up buying a couple packs of flukes, which we'll probably be throwing around a good bit today. That might be like later in the day. Cody got him a little pack of lizards. We're gonna try those out. That's in California 420. And then I got two different big worms that we're gonna be trying out today. We got the old monster and plum and then we got just one of these like culprit 10-inch worms. This one's in Junebug. I'll show you guys both of our options. So that's the Junebug one. It's looking pretty saucy. Out here on the Savannah River, you guys know water's a little bit more murphier, but today it's actually pretty clear. So I think it's gonna be good. And then we also have the old monster and that's a plum worm. That's crazy. That sound like a mudfish though. So that's the plum worm and then the Junebug right there. They're both 10 inches. I think I'm gonna probably start off with the Junebug, this darker color one. See where this gets us. If we don't have any bites on this, I'll end up switching up to the plum worm right here. So that's kind of the game plan and then we're going to be putting this on a 4X extra wide gap hook and then that one-eighth ounce bullet weight. So if you guys are wondering about the combo I'm throwing too, this is actually a Luz Custom Pro on a Mach 2 Rod 17 pound fluorocarbon. So let's go ahead and get this started. I'm gonna stop talking. Tie this bag girl up and see if we can catch a big one on this today. This is the thing when you're fishing a big worm, you can get a lot of bites. You know small fish are gonna bite it but I'd almost rather only have a few bites today that are really good. You know, some good big fish. And I've never done this out here on the river so I really don't know what to expect. You know, a big worm might be the secret to catching some of those big Savannah River bass. So we're gonna find out today. If you guys are wondering what knot I'm tying, it's a simple uni knot. Tie her on up, wet her line, boom, cut our tag in, pow. One side of the worm is gonna have like ribbed side. The other side is gonna be flat. So what you want to do is take the point of your hook, go through the head of the worm and you're gonna want to break out of the flat side. So where you break is you're gonna want to slide this all the way in the worm and once the worm hits this corner that's exactly where you're going to want to break through just like that. Now we're going to push this worm all the way up to the front of the hook just like that. And if you guys are wondering we're going to rig this weed list because the last thing you want to do is be hooking trees and a bunch of vegetation. So you're going to lay the worm right here on the hook where the back of this hook is exactly where you're going to want to penetrate it. Boom, just like that. And I'm going to bury the point of the hook. Boom, look at that. That's our big worm. We're going to go ahead and get started just fancast around a good bit and try to see what we learned today, put a bunch of information together in the first hour and then use that to our advantage and see if we can catch some big ones. Alright baby, we ready to get it started. Here's our big old worm. I'm excited about this. I've never been so excited to be out here on the river and just try something different than I haven't done before because you know we come out here a lot and we enjoy just going and trying to find these big fish and throwing whatever we want but there's not many times where I just get a bait that I haven't thrown and come out here and give it a whip. So we're going to try it out today see what we can get started with. Cody's throwing the big worm as well and if we don't end up getting them to eat this guys we're going to have to adapt. You know we're going to adapt, we're going to change, we're going to try to catch these fish today so we're going to go through the whole process and see what we can put together but I'm just hoping we can get some good fish on this worm because it's something I haven't done before. I'm kind of excited about it but you can't tell me if this went past the five pounder's head right now you wouldn't eat it. No way. Do you actually have one? Yeah I had one dude. He bumped it super hard. He burped you all off? Cast in there yeah. You know what I just looked at my line. Where was it at? I casted at the base of that. Not that but over there. Dude I looked at my line and it was frayed after I did that and I was like you know I should retire and I didn't know. Did I feel like a good bite? Oh Cody. I'm kind of sad that they're done. The spring bite's done. That's depressing. No. Dude you're lying bro. I'm not. I might need to put on that color dude. They're smoking that thing. Are you serious? Yeah I just had a bunch of slack in my line so I couldn't set it right when it hit. Might eat it again dude. Oh yeah. No he didn't come on. I thought he had the whole worm dude. I thought he had like the tail. Mmm dang dude. You saw that one. Yeah you had him. Yeah. Did you get it? Yeah. Oh my god. All right guys Cody's been having, he's had three bites already on the plum one so that's what I'm about to try. Don't be copying me bro. Hey dude. Hey bro. Hey you bought him. Hey dude. Easy way. I can't believe you've had that many bites on this same thing I believe. I think this worm is a little bit bigger than the one I was throwing too. Yeah it is. That feel like a small one? You've been moving it a lot too haven't you? Yeah. I've been kind of dragging it maybe. Maybe you've been like triggering them to bite with how you're popping it at the base of this little thing where you had that fish. Right there. See if you're still there. If I got your worm back. Oh gosh is it a big mud? Dude I thought you had a mega. Oh dude. I was just waiting on it to jump because I thought it was the best. Yeah dude I was about to say you got a freaking monster. Yeah I can get them off. You can hold it out and I'll fly over. Honestly I'm going to hold it on and let you plier it because you got you got the pliering skills dude. Oh yeah guys I got my first fish. That's a freaking big boy. Yeah dude when you hook set I was like either as a tree or a monster. I got one. Dude my whole rod just went like little tiny like. I didn't realize your line was still in the water. Yeah I was like looking at my rod and all I saw was this. What if that's what's been biting you the whole time? A mud. Yeah hit him man. Some of them felt like a bass. Yeah one of them definitely was. Oh my dude holy cow that was that was a big fish. Might have been a mud dude but that was you just didn't have it all the way? No he has his teeth marks on it too. Dude I like lift it up and it like pulled back on me dude just stopped it all the way. Like when hook set and there's nothing there. You got one? Another big mud? I'm gonna see if I can double up with you. See if this one'll bite me again. Right as you've been your hook yet back out. Yeah those mugs are freaking munch in that thing. Oh that was a big one. Nice. Oh I got one. Oh that was a freaking big bass dude. Oh I mean not like a freaking monster but that was like a solid three pounder yeah. Yeah dude I stuck him he ain't gonna bite again unless there's another one over there. He ate it right away though. Dang dude. His teeth marks are up past the hook too. He had it just uh he didn't stay pinned. It might be another one though. Dang yeah that was a good one dude it was like a solid like high two pounder like maybe a three. Might be another one. That was my first like bite. Yeah. I actually had it. He felt freaking good too. I was glad I saw him. You didn't you never. You did right there? Should be one right there. Yeah dude I just threw it up there he was like instant. He had it thump and he was running to the left. I had my hand on the camera too getting ready. Oh you got him. Is that a bass? Oh it's a pike dude. Nice. You know what's funny my first pike on the river came in this cut. That's your first pike from the river isn't it? Nice. I have no idea what that noise is in the background. You know how to get them off. I can't believe you just caught that on a big one. We caught everything but a bass. Yeah. Nice. So we're pulling up to our second spot now. We threw that big worm a good bit. Cody had like probably five bites but we don't know if they're a bass or mudfish. We want to say at least like one or two of them were bass but he caught what did you catch two mudfish? Yeah. On that worm and that's really all we've had so far but that first spot we stopped at we were just kind of playing around it was mainly for the intro and rigging up and then we cast it around a bit but we're pulling into the second spot. I think we're going to have a chance of catching a big one here so let's uh let's get the work I know we can get a big one on this worm. That's our first fish of the first bass of the day and there's something on them. It's crazy that you catch like a 10 inch bass. I don't know what's going on with the side of them. That's interesting but that's our first fish on the big worm today. That's exciting. I don't know if it was him or a different fish but something slapped the mess out of it. It could have been him. There also could be more fish back there so let's keep on casting. I don't even know how that's possible. Like it's dang near coming out of his butt. I would not have you know I thought we would have had some more mouth bites today but I would not have expected to catch one on that big worm and like actually get them hooked. That's crazy. I was just talking to Cody. I don't know what's up with these fish. I don't know if they just don't want what we're throwing but like everywhere we've been fishing today should be prime like good spots good areas that we're fishing and it's just not happening. I don't know. I just have to keep on covering water. It's gonna take a lot a lot of water covering today. That he is. Oh my gosh. Guys look at that. Got us our second bass today. We finally found some fish on this bank found some more mouth got bit by like a mud and then had this like short and stubby just fat dude. And the way that I caught him is I threw up in there he bit me the cast before threw up in there started really my worm it was hung on a tree and I saw a boil underneath so I just let it sit and he ate it. That is a fat dude. He was hungry. He wanted him an old double cheeseburger. Get that baby back in the water. There he goes. That's the cater. Did that sound? Yeah. Yeah I believe so. How was it you? No. I thought it was you pulling your bait back. They're down this thing. What is it? Another small bass dude. I don't know what's under the small guy. It's like we put on a massive bait you know to catch these big fish today and then we're just catching some small ones but I was just talking to Cody we're like you know I can't believe we haven't been catching a ton of fish and this tide you know the water was full pool I'd say about two hours ago this water is finally starting to come out and when we fished this place you know if we would have fished it two hours ago we would have fished in the back you can tell that these fish are starting to pull out and now we just finally caught where they're at and now it's been bite after bite finally getting some momentum here and I think we're going to have a big one coming up soon we just got to keep on casting we're seeing a lot of activity I think we're heading in the right direction. I could not tell you how hard that sucker hit it. Fish is like five inches no bigger than that worm. I've never seen small bass like hit something so hard like my whole rod just went boom did not expect it to be that small. Look where I just flipped next to that gator yeah uh right there it's all good I'm gonna catch one right here real quick you know the moment I went over that tree he was taking off with it I had to itch my nose dude he was taking off right when I went over that oh he's got it that's a better one that's what we're talking about a little bit better that's a fat guy dude look at that one this was on the june bug worm now we're finally getting somewhere I'm so excited man finally just see some fish bite feels good it's not a big fish by any means but that is a thick and fat dude you gotta love it thank you buddy for biden you're not big but you're a nice little fish see you later grab that net grab that net right here right here right here right here. Yo that's wicked that's wicked we got you that time buddy we've been seeing all these garr just like roaming around guys and I like flip my worm in front of them and they'll like follow it in like they're about to eat it and uh that one actually kind of grabbed onto my worm and me and Cody have been talking about I was like dude when we see one let's follow them up to the boat and then scoop them with the net that's exactly what we did oh that's funny dude yeah yep how about to say oh my god I'll knock them out dude what what is up with this bro like this is probably the weirdest day I've had on the river this is definitely a record day I'm just gonna be honest with you I'm not even kidding this is a record day on the river for smallest fish I've never caught this many small fish in one day on the river never it's a garr literally I caught a garr I'd rather take him off at the boat but look at that I actually hooked him perfectly look at that couldn't could have been better I was reeling it he came off I was reeling the thing dude and he just hammered it yeah the moment I hooked said he was just going eight you notice like every time we want to film a video like this where it's like over a specific bait they're like doing something totally different that we could like smoke them if we were throwing something like if we were throwing yeah happens every time dude get him up here it's a dang two pounder in it yep oh dude he's fat he's crap oh yeah cody bob on deck oh yeah that's what I'm talking about yep fat one dude look at that belly oh yeah good little belly on it yeah it's uh like one pounder body but like a two that's a two pounder nice yep better one so we've been looking for this little tree right here when it's and all the water goes out how it is now I've caught I've caught a few good ones on this I got one oh yeah it's a good one dude he's got he's got the same thing wrong with him as the other one look at all this stuff on him dude that is weird man it's kind of gross it's like some parasites or something eating away at them there's another spot on that side these little fish right here on the main river that was my first cat cody cody you're out you're out I don't know if you got a fish or not oh this is definitely a record day of river fishing let me tell you but it's a record for the smallest fish I've ever caught this is crazy like I've never gone out on the river and caught so many fish and they're all like really small like yeah we'll have those occasional pound and a halfers that we catch all the time but I caught a lot of half pound fish I don't know what's going on today and it's funny because we came out we're like yo we're gonna throw some big worms to try to catch some big ones and uh it just hasn't happened