 Springtime is here and the pond monsters are biting. We started off fishing some small ponds we've never been to and ended up hooking our first bed fish of the year. But just know the madness doesn't stop there. We found this small pond and it was loaded with giant bass. She just ate it. Oh my gosh. Dude, there's one on bad right here. Come on, come on. Oh my gosh. All right, boys and girls, ladies and gents, we're at a pond that we have never been to before and boy, does it look saucy, man. It is looking spicy. I got my kick in the bass TV ex-loose combo. If you guys want to check them out, kickinthebass.com. They'll be linked down below. Springtime's on its way, guys. It is coming up. So make sure you go get yourself a combo and catch some giants this spring. But we're gonna go ahead and hop into this. And I got a little special crawl that I'm gonna be using today. It's a new mock crawl, baby. And this one's in Junebug. And we're gonna be fishing around. It's an 80 degree day. It's around mid-70s to high, to low 80s. And we're just gonna be putting this on a three-awt extra y-gap hook, on a quarter ounce bullet weight, simple Texas rig. And we're just gonna throw this around pretty shallow today. I'm hoping some of these big girls are pushed up and see if we can catch some giants. Before we get deeper into this video, only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed. So if you could take the time, hit the subscribe button. Really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. Like I said, I've never fished this pond, so I don't really know what to expect. But it looks so saucy. Pretty clear water. And there's the action of the crawl in there. You got a bunch of laydowns on the other side of this bank, and we're just gonna start casting, guys. Let's see what we can put together. And hopefully we'll end up hooking some springtime giants. The one thing I was hoping to get on today, guys, is some bedding fish. And this side of the bank is so shallow. I don't see any beds. But then again, they could be on this side of the bank over there. Or it could just be a little too early. A lot of these ponds, these bass have been pushing up. They've been staging up shallow. I haven't seen any directly on bed, but you can tell they're just, they're getting in the mood and they're starting to push up super shallow. So I'm hoping we're gonna find some today just up on these banks. Like right up there, it looks like a prime spot. It looks too spicy for there not to be. I'd be very surprised. I am using this Junebug color, and that's not exactly what I would wanna use in clear water. I just predicted that this place would be a little dirty and I pulled up to it, and I'm like, man, I should have brought a clean water color too, but it shouldn't be too big of an issue. Looks so good. There we go. Not a big one, dude, but he ate it right up on that bank. Oh my gosh, beautiful fish. The tiniest little bass, hopefully that is our smallest one today, but we are on board with the Mott Carl today. Beautiful fish, pretty lateral line, just really small. There's gotta be some giants in here though, guys. Here it goes. Heck yeah, boys. I'm about to say that bank looks so good. There's gotta be some more up there. And just know we're hitting this place today, but if they're not biting in here, we're gonna hit some more spots, guys. We're gonna be hopping today, pond hopping, pond hopping video. I know you guys love these. We're just gonna be searching around for these big bass, and we're gonna find them. It's the spring time. Fish are getting ready to stage up, and the big bass are out. Ooh, oh, dude, I just got here. Right in the middle there, dude. I thought I was on like a little stick, and I just pulled it right out of his mouth. He's about right there. See if I can get him to hit it again. Come on, baby. Show me what you made of, son. Oh, there we go. Another little tiny one. Right up on the edge of that tree, dude. See, that's a prime bank right there. We're not getting the size that we want, but that is the whole purpose of these videos is hunting, searching around, going to new spots, and figuring out how to upgrade these fish throughout the day, and catching bigger ones. But this is a good start, guys. We don't have any big fish, but we're at least getting bites, and that's all that matters. Thank you, baby. Let's go, boys. Come on, now. Not what we're looking for, but we're gonna find them. I guess this Junebug crawl ain't too bad right now, man. Ain't bad at all. I love these little reeds that are coming up on the bank down here. Everything that I'm looking for, you know, it's pretty shallow on the bank, and that was the best, I just swam off another small one. There's more ponds in here, so you might just have to move around. There could be a lot of dinkers in here. All right, guys, this is the same pond. We just walked around to this other corner. It looks pretty solid. This water's so ginger and clear, and it's a lot deeper on this side. It's another little small creek that actually branches off of this pond. Gosh, this looks crazy, man. I just know there's some giants in here, guys. There's gotta be, it looks too good. I mean, dude, we are smoking them, but these are not the size ones we want. Okay there, buddy. Thank you for the nibble, but we want bigger ones than you. There he goes. I'm not buying it, boys. I am not buying it. I know there's a big giant lurking. He's somewhere. He is somewhere in this pollen-infested water. Holy boy. It bought the thing now. This spot is a lot deeper. Different water clarity, a little warmer here. See, this looks different. Maybe this is where the big girls are, man. I'm about to say that feels like a giant. I hooked some dang fishing line. We just might, we might end up getting a free lure out of this. Oh, come on. There she comes. There she blows. I thought I finally hooked what we were looking for, and it was fishing line. Dude, he ate it. Oh my gosh, guys. He ate it as a dangle, and that's a better fish. Oh my gosh, not a big one, but he is so unhealthy. Oh my gosh. He's got some stuff all over him. That fish ate it as a dangle though. I landed over the branch, just bobbing it, and he came up and ate it like a dang topwater. Oh my goodness. Yeah, he's got a bunch of nasty stuff on him. Poor guy. I don't know why this water's so clean. You expect these fish just to be super healthy. He's got something going on with him. All right, buddy, thank you for biting. There he goes. Poor dude. I don't know what was going on with him. Maybe we broke out of the nursery with this pond, because those other ponds, they were ultra small. He at least had a little bit of something on them. I have a weird feeling there's another one up in there. That was my first dangle bite of 2024. Love to see it. I got me a tree, and I'm just gonna pull them on in, man. At least we got a big one. So join, boys. Come here, son. You said the kicking combo can't catch trees too, baby. All right, boys. Well, we didn't find any big ones, but we're gonna keep on moving. I learned this new trick from Connor. You just go like this. Well, there we go, boys. New pond, new me. Hopefully we made it out of the nursery, man. I'm ready to catch some big ones. And this water is totally different. And there's a freaking bass right there. Oh, there's a big one. What is that? Oh, there's a bass, dude. There's big ones. There's a big one right there. And this small one's gonna look at it. Please, big ones. Oh my gosh. I should have been paying attention, guys. I didn't expect there to be some freaking good one right there. Oh my gosh. Dude, he's just totally ignoring me. He saw me. That is a good... Dude, there's one on bed right here. There's one on bed right there. Oh my God, he's looking at it. Please eat it. What's up, brother? How are you? Oh, I see one right here on bed. I've caught a few small ones, but nothing crazy. I should catch this one right here. He is just right up on bed there. Hey, she's being crazy. And she's getting mad now. Oh, man, I hope you get them. Have a good one, brother. Yep. We are a second away from catching this fish. Just have that guy come up and talk to me. Really nice kid. But he's about to eat it. He's a pretty dang good fish. It's a little windy. This fish is getting mad. Yeah, she just ate it. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Dude, that's a dang close to four pounder, man. Three something right there. Let's go first bed fish guys of 2024. A crazy eat on the new mock curl, man. Let's go. What an intense fight. We started off at the nursery today, boys. Catching some small ones. And now we got us a good three pounder on bed. First bed fish of 2024. That is freaking hype. And I'm gonna tell you guys, we've only walked five foot down this bank. There's gonna be a lot more bed fish. I'm actually gonna release her right back on her bed. That's her bed right there. And we can put her back in. Thank you, baby. I didn't mean to disturb you, but you stay there. Well, she's like, I'm getting out of here for a minute. And she's right there swimming. Let's go, boys. That was such a sick eat, man. Between the fight, the eat, I could tell she was getting aggravated with me. And that is the first time this year that I've gone out to a pond and just totally seen a fish that's like, okay, that fish is on bed. And that was awesome right there. It looks so freaking good. I can't see in this corner, but we'll fancast it a little bit. See if we can get any activity, any movement. Cause we're not gonna be able to see through that slop. It's a little boil back in this pocket. This pocket's a lot shallower, kind of flat, similar to how the other side set up. That's kind of what we want right now. Something shallow, flat, little corners. Look at that. See that boil? That was probably one on bed right there. I just spooked off. There's another boil right where I casted. This corner should have a few. Oh, he just, he had it. Okay. So right there, that gives us a sign. Okay, there's a bed fish right there. He's got a bite. He barely picked it up and dropped it. So what I'm gonna do is let that bait hit right where he bit it. Shake this bait here in front of his face. He got it. He's running. Dude. Yeah, that fish is on bed, heavy. He grabbed that thing, ran five foot to the left. We're gonna pitch it again. Same deal. Same deal. Let it hit the bottom or make him mad, okay? That fish can't see us. We can't see him. We're gonna have to walk around. We're gonna stay off the bank. Notice what I'm doing here. Oh, he just ate it. He broke me off. He broke me off. He ate it off the dang tree, boys. And it totally clean snapped my line. Well, that happens. Probably should have checked my line. I had to have had a fray either that or it was a toothy critter. It's always a possibility. All right, boys. We are continuing to truck along. Had another fresh spot. And that looks like a dang bed over there, man. What we got over there? There's a lot of grass in here, but it ain't bad grass. It ain't like a bunch of nasty sloth. There's actually some good grass in here. Mm. Oh, he came off. That felt like a dang goodbye too. Oh my gosh. Pretty much what I was doing, I'll let this thing sink. But it was kind of getting down in all that grass. So I started to kind of really at the edge of the grass, kind of ticking the top of it. Dude, that fish hammered it and it started running towards me. All right, guys. With this wind picking up, I kind of want to try me an old Chatterdong now. So we got this white Chatterdong and we're going to cover a little bit of water with. Maybe they want something moving. You know, we've been throwing that crawl all day and we've got some good bites. We caught some fish on it. We have yet to try a moving bait. So let's give this a shot. We'll throw a few here. If we don't get anything, we'll just keep moving. But I think it's worth throwing this, especially with that wind and cloud cover coming out. These fish could be moving more. Plus all these ponds fish so different. I know that one, that fish was bedding, but all these ponds fish differently. Dude, I just had a big one right here. Oh my gosh. Dude. There's a small one and a big one. A big one tried to eat this dang thing, right? Before I got it up on the bank. Looks like about a four pounder. Geez, man. Barely missed him. Gosh, that was sick. Man, he ate it right as I was bringing it in. Not a big one, but he was barely hooked, dude. That was a sick eat. Hopped it right over that rock, man. He just grabbed it. I watched him. Only about a pound, but that was sick, man. Thank you, buddy. Heck yeah. All right, boys and girls. We are back out on a different day. We ran out of time the other day, and we're at a new pond to try to find some of these big fish. We caught our first bed fish of the year, and I'm just pumped about it, guys. I'm hoping we can find some more giants today. I got a mock jack with the drop shot on it. I got a new mock stick on there. Then I'll also have my kick in their bass TV, ex lose combo. You can check them out, kickintheirbass.com. And I got the mock crawl on a Texas rig. The last time that I came out to this pond, ended up hooking a five pounder on my second cast. So I am just pumped to be out here today to see if we can get a couple giants to bite. So let's go ahead and start casting and see what we can do. There's a lot of fish that hang out here too. So pretty much, you know, it's flat on the bank, especially on that side, pretty flat. And then it has a drop off. And this fish usually sit in that crevice. You know, right now with these fish moving up and starting the bed, all ponds are going to be a little different. You know, that's another thought that we need to have. You know, some of these fish could be super shallow on those flats bedding right now. Guys, I just had my first bite right up on this edge. There's a couple of people golfing over there so I didn't want to make too much noise and just totally miss this fish, man. He grabbed it good too. So these fish are probably moved up a good bit. And I think that's going to change our strategy a little bit on the spot. What we need to do is throw this crawl, pretty shallow in this corner. I think we should give it a shot. Oh, here we go. Oh, come on, dude. Oh, he's got it. Oh, gosh. Okay. Maybe fishing this Texas rig up shallow on the grass is going to be the move. I'm sorry guys, my voice sounds a little weird to this pollen. It is killing me, man. I'm trying my very best. Let's see if we can get a bit again here. That was a good little bite. You just didn't have it. I just got hit again, dude. Might be loaded in this pocket. Come on, baby. Oh, dude, there we go. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a decent fish too. Come on, get out of that grass. Get out of that grass. Let's go. It's a good two pounder. Freaking slam that my crawl, baby. That's our first fish at this spot. I'm telling you, that's two casts up in that pocket. Pretty shallow on that grass. Got one. High one pounder. Thank you, buddy. Let's see if we can throw it back in there. There's definitely more fish in that area. That's exactly what we wanted, boys. My crawl, I'm telling you. This thing recently has been getting some good bites. Let's throw it back in there, man. That's two casts, two bites. I don't think that that was the same fish. I think there's just a good bit of these bass pushed up shallow. Only thing with this Texas rig is just keeping it out of that grass. So when we throw it out there, we're not just letting it sink in that grass. We'll lift up and kind of pop it pretty good to get all the grass off the bait. And that's very crucial when you're fishing heavy grass. The last thing you want is a ton of grass on your bait the whole time. All right, we're gonna walk a little down where we started here. There's a little bass right there. Little tiny squirt. We're about 10 foot off this bank. Nice, got hammered. Dude, he ate it on the fall, bro. This shade line could be magical now. Hope I didn't hook that fish. I'll tell you that bait was sinking and all I felt in my rod was one hard hit. See if we can throw it back in there. Come on, baby. I might've stuck that fish. Oh, oh yeah, right out of the grass, dude. Look at that. I started working that bait a little fast and just barely reeled it by that grass and he came right out of it and smoked this thing. This fish are right on that dang grass edge, too. It's crazy because these fish are ranging, man. They'll be like 10 foot off the grass or they'll be right up under it. That is not a big one, but that was a sick bite. There's two more bass sitting right there, pretty small ones, but heck yeah, man. I can tell that fish was a little darker, too, from being all up in that vegetation. All right, we moving now, boys. Got about four bites, five bites. Two fish. They being a little weird, man. But that was a sick eat right there. All right, we're gonna go up in the forest for a second to see if there's any little crevices and openings we can get into here. I feel like this back little corner, it's a super shallow little pocket and we can find some of these fish on bed here. That is not what we want to catch back in here. Come here, boy. Oh my God, that's a big end of the day. Holy moly. All right, I probably washed out this corner. So this pond right here, boys, I haven't put a ton of time in, but I came out here with Adam a few weeks back and I probably had the craziest catch of my life. Go ahead and roll that clip. Adam, Adam. That was the craziest moment. It was actually right here. I have never seen anything like that, dude. I just had my spinner bait dangling there. Somehow had a dang fish just run up on it. I've never seen a bite like that in my life. Oh dude, that was a crazy blow up right up on that bank, bro. Come on, please eat it. Crazy little blow up there, man. There we go, he's running so far. Oh my gosh, he came off. Dude, he was flying at me and that felt like a freaking toad, bro. I couldn't move the fish. No. I was like hopping it over that branch right there and she just picked it up. I hooked it and it was just running. All right, we need to try to get to the other side. We're walking through the woods here on this other side. That bite right there just made me sick, man. I just feel like that was the bite we've been waiting on all day and he outsmarted me, man. I felt him eat it, I hooked that, he had it. He was running at me so fast that I couldn't catch up to him. Fish played that really smart. I lost him and it felt like a dang nice one. He was 100% on bed too, but you know, where I caught that fish was on some laydowns on the other side and this side over here has even more cover. So we're gonna make some good casts here. I'm not asking for 10 dang bites off this bank, but if we can catch a big one, that would just be insane. Oh no. Dude, I am a mess right now. We're good, we lost a tail on our crawl. Oh my gosh. What am I doing, dude? I might just need to put the dang fishing pole up today, boys. And I lost both of my tails. What am I doing, man? Yeah, I'm in a blender right now. Keep on chucking along, today ain't going as planned, but hey, we're trying, we're putting the effort. Oh my goodness, I couldn't tell you guys how many spots we hit today, but we're on spot number, let's just say 15. And we're gonna hope we get some good bites here and capitalize and catch them. I'm a little upset on that last spot, man. My fish just fell. Oh, there we go. Oh my gosh. Okay, well, he's on the bank and we get to catch him. Thank you for biting, buddy. Not a big one, but that was a sick eat on the first cast. That was a good sign. Oh my goodness. Thank you, buddy. Wow, okay. Maybe it is gonna shift to this part in class. Oh my gosh. Yeah, when I felt that bite mid-talk, I knew it was on. Let's keep on flipping, see what we can get into. What I was saying is that fish at the last spot, it upset me, man. Nothing felt pretty good. I just didn't capitalize on them. That's part of fishing, man. You're gonna miss some fish. It ain't always gonna be catching every single one that you hook, but for here on out in the video, let's try to capitalize here. Catch as many fish as we can in this pond. Got one on our first cast, so that's a good sign. Just gotta keep that momentum rolling. Oh, big boil. Oh, no. What are these fish doing today, man? I mean, they're just not eating all the way. I've had some really good bites here and there, and they just don't have it. I threw in there and there's an instant big boil right to the left, and she was running with it. I went to the hook set, she just didn't have it all the way. That's been the story today multiple times, man. Oh my gosh. There she is. There we go. Who's the giant? It's a giant. It's a giant. Oh my gosh. Right here, boys. Right here, boys. Come on. Oh my gosh, come on. Come on. Come on. Oh my gosh, let's go. Let's freaking go, boys. Let's go, man. Freaking four pounder, baby. Barely hooked in her mouth. I don't know if that's the same one that just bit me, but that is a freaking tank right there, man. She smoked that new My Crawl, man. Oh my goodness. Yeah, no, she felt big, but when she jumped, I was like, oh my goodness. We actually got a toad, man. And all that hard work today has paid off right there. Thank you so much, baby. Thank you for biting. I'm gonna be able to get another bite in that corner. Oh my gosh. What a fish. Let's go. That could have been that big boil I saw, but there might be another fish up there. So we're gonna go ahead and we're just gonna take this crawl off. It's been ripped a good bit. Get this other crawl in my pocket. And we're gonna throw back in that corner, guys. We saw that boil through in there, got hammered, missed them. Threw back in there and just had that giant eat of this. There could be some more big ones up in that corner. Oh my gosh, dude. I'm so pumped, man. We needed that bite. Here we go. Here we go, boys. Another good one, dude. Oh my gosh. Not a big one, but that's a nice fish. Let's go, man. They are smoking this crawl right now. Just came off. Beautiful pound and a half fish. Not a big and weird getting on to something, man. This has been the first place today that it's just been happening. Crazy thing is we just, we haven't really found a spot where we got just a ton of bites like that other than the first spot today. Let's keep on casting. There's gotta be more down this bank. They're eating good, too, man. I wanna see another big one, though. Oh my God. Oh my. Dude, I thought I had grass on my bait and I was literally a fish eating it right when I casted in there. Oh my gosh. How about popped it out of her mouth? Shaded again. I cannot believe this, man. Look how fast he's running. I can't catch up. He's gonna run up on the bank. Oh my gosh. I do not know what's happening, man. But I just lost my last bait. I'm gonna go grab a few more. All right, y'all, we're back. And we got this little, like, candy-crawl color. It's like a green pumpkin with some green, pink, and blue in it. Looks really good. We're gonna do this color a try. We've used so many different colors in this video. Probably used five different colors, but they're eating them all for the missed part. The one I was catching them on a second ago is like an Okeechobee curl. This one just looks so good. This water's pretty clear. And it's like natural color with that sparkle. Should be money. See if we can get some more bites over here, man. These fish are just turnt up. I got another one. I mean, he's running again. Oh my gosh. He came off and he took my dang crawl or he took my pinchers. These fish are 100% on bed. They are just sitting on the edge. And right when I hook them, I mean, they're just freaking out. They're going crazy. I got a June bug now. He was running 100 miles an hour right at me and I just couldn't catch up. No matter how fast I reeled. Oh my gosh. Unreal is going on right now. I'll understand how we can have, you know, a subpar day the first day we came out. And then today has just been pretty tough. All of a sudden we just hit a spot that's just on. I mean, dude, like, you can't make this up. Every time I throw up in that little crevice on the bank, I'm getting smoked. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Dude, I am just mind blown right now, guys. I'm going to be honest. I'm so mind blown at how good these fish are biting. I can't even believe it. Total shift in today. And this has just been so much fun. I cannot believe that. It feels like a big, I can't tell. Nah. Oh my, oh my lordy man. Oh my goodness. What a freaking day that this has turned into. I guess when you catch one on your first cast, sometimes it means you're about to have the best look you've ever had. Let's go.