 helpful tip for you guys right off the bat here go ahead and smash that like button electronics cleaning vinegar that is the key a little bit of vinegar in a mixture that will take the water spots right off all right we're gonna be using the electronics today so go ahead and give it a little pre-wipe and I don't think we're gonna be dealing with a lot of waves and splashing today so keep the screens nice clean welcome all back to the channel today we're going to be addressing brush piles how to find them with the electronics and how to approach them the reason I want to focus on brush piles today is because this is the time of year where brush piles become very good a lot of fish move towards brush piles but what I was first getting into fishing and I got a boat and I would hear about people catching fish out of brush piles it was very intimidating you know first of all how do you how do you find a brush pile and then how do you really fish it so now that I have some years of knowledge I just want to show you guys how I look for brush piles and some ways that you can fish them for bass and crappie and we've got to try out the new Doppler man the new life scope turret so we're gonna take this off of our trolling motor right now we're gonna place it on the turret we're going to put this to use out of the way so what I want to look at today and show you guys is where do you even look for a brush pile I haven't planted a brush pile in years there's so many people that do plant them just just saw one right here you saw one on the on the down scan one little pile right there so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go in here I'm gonna mark that just a little thing just a little thing okay mark it with that symbol the tree and we keep going and sometimes they are random but really what you want to look for is what is your lake's good offshore depth that's one of the first things you need to figure out where do you see a lot of the bait and how deep is the lake you know a lot of our lakes here in Texas reservoirs they're like 50 60 foot deep some get out to like 80 90 100 feet and really clear deep water those were those were like very clear deep water lakes here for Texas but most of the time they're gonna be around 60 feet and that good depth to look for is gonna be anywhere from about 15 out to 25 and that's where I see a lot of the baitfish moving in the summertime and look for the little irregularities on offshore points so when you look at a map you want to look for the little little nodes that are coming off of points sometimes they're they're right on the big main lake point and then sometimes the guys that are smart that plant brush piles they'll put them just off to the side of the juice and in today's day and age the obvious stuff gets hit so hard and fish will move off to the sides of the juice and feed because they're so used to getting hit right on top of the best-looking stuff you don't have side scan that is the biggest game changer in finding brush piles you can use 2d I used to find them with 2d it just takes a lot more time to idle over those spots and you just kind of zigzag back and forth but when you have side scan I've got mine set on 110 120 feet and I'll look for the things that are casting shadows not necessarily looking for fish because a lot of times you can be fooled with carp and catfish and other species and you can utilize one of these babies I don't use these anymore because I've got spot lock and all the you know latest and greatest in electronics but if you don't have life scope and all that you can use this and this is a marker buoy it will basically show you line you up keep you lined up where to cast so once you find that brush throw this out and then you can keep in that position with the troll motor you don't have to throw this on top of the brush you can throw it off to the side or where you want your boat position and keep casting that spot so it's just a it's a way to keep reference on your spot what we're going to be utilizing today is the new live turret which is awesome because I can just spot lock and I can zone in and it's game over but right now I'm on a huge huge offshore point this thing comes out it's hundreds of yards long and I'm going in the little areas between 15 and 25 and I'm looking with the side scan for any irregularities so I'm looking for those brush piles that somebody that was sneaky is gonna put out here and that's gonna hold fish on this huge flat there's no timber out here there's some rock cover that holds some fish but if you find a brush pile that is amongst a lot of nothing you're usually gonna find fish on it's just a great attractor so I'm running garments here y'all but the color palette that I love to use is this lime green this kind of crazy green it just really stands out to my eye everybody has their preferences on color palettes but right now I'm in 20 foot that's a good depth because I can see them off a little deeper or if there's something up shallow I can see that coming up right here this is an old foundation I have never fished this in my life it looks like there is something else right here to maybe another foundation I'm basically going right over here if we look right here on our down scan I can see some fish that are on that foundation so we're actually gonna fish that right here all right we're just gonna pick up a spoon and toss it out here it's a good thing to note the general depth of activity this looks like about 22 to 24 to keep that in mind and this this foresight turret is much faster just got hit it's much faster than my other one hooked up first cast see what we got here a little white bass first cast got a fish it's never terrible so I'm locked in position here I'm on the apex of a point and I haven't even pulled up to the structure that I found it looked like there was some foundation and then off from that someone had planted some brush so we're gonna search for that I'm just gonna try to pick these fish off might be a bass or two roaming around here as well as a little buddy I'm gonna come off on his own alright so we got some general feeding activity on this point that's good okay looks like I just spotted spotted the edge of it's like some brush possibly I usually will keep my settings around 75 I'm really looking I'll go to 100 I just saw that there's a bass coming out we're getting a little too close for comfort for him all right I'm seeing it just a ball of fish right there that's not moving that's telling me it's most likely crappie we've got some baitfish above them which is perfect so I'm gonna switch to a crappie jig and realign myself here come on eat it there we go you got a crappie that swam out from the pile yeah I'll grab that snacky we go nice little crappie let him go I'm a little far right now about 40 feet away 35 40 feet typically when I'm crappie fishing I like to get about 20 to 15 but I just wanted to see if I might get one of those sneaky little bass okay something else I'm also gonna do is go ahead and rig up a mondo worm so it looks like there's a bigger mark in there could be a bass I'm gonna go red bug mondo I remember to pack some mondo worms but as you can tell I'm running low Guggen Squad comm news code LFG and save on your mondo worms another summertime wigglies and jigglies mondo worm is a central summertime worm all right there we go you can see the bass sitting on top just waiting for a big worm come on that typically when I'm working a brush pile for bass I am not gonna wait too long for that fish to bite and I'm not necessarily just watching the scope the whole time I'm looking for the brush pile to kind of angle up my cast I like to stay you know 40 feet plus away from it work that worm through there the worm is so great on the Texas rig because it gets through all that stuff if you're fishing something like a Carolina rig or a crankbait crankbaits can be good and it's nice with life scope you can see your crankbait coming through there but you do tend to get hung a lot so brush pile fishing a worm a Texas rig worm is really your best friend I can't get those bass to bite now crappie I approach a little differently and I will spend a little time on them with a bass it's usually reactionary for me I don't sit and plug away I might come back to the pile and try to fish it later if the fish isn't firing the bass aren't firing on it but I typically do not spend too many casts on the bass if they're not firing away and what I've been seeing lately like this past year see that bass swimming away right there it's like if you if you go into crappie mode on these piles you'll often see the bass from away it's like they notice the electronics and they start swimming off so you definitely want to stay farther away so whether using life scope or whether you're using you know 2d side scan marker point put your put your your buoy out you want to stay a pretty good distance away basically as far as you can cast I've never never fished this spot before so I'm interested to see if we can catch any decent crappie off of it switch up to a dart this is my favorite summertime when it starts getting sticky they want that direct vertical presentation love this right when they start getting on the brush piles the crappie they really like that swing in presentation I'm throwing well past the brush palm swinging it in and that little snacky swimmers is great for that we go just floated that one real slow over the over the heads there's decent keeper crappie I'm leaving for a trip in the morning go up to flares so I'm not gonna keep any today but this is a good this is good little warm-up right here for when I get back go full blown fill the cooler crappie mode there's another one coming got him there we go looks a little better pulling it's a good crappie right there it's a big one look at this slab y'all it's even better when you find a new one catch catch one that size that feels like a crime putting that one back look at that tiny little hole in his mouth that's why you got to use a light rod nice keeper crappie better than nice it's excellent those are fun to catch that size all right something I'm gonna do here on my live scope as I'm going to adjust it face more down I'm gonna go one notch down because I've kind of had it set on spring live scoping early summer at this point I'm getting more into getting close to the brushpiles for crappie want to be able to see see basically more straight down rather than out ahead I had it out ahead before because you can actually see your lure at the surface so the way I had it adjusted I could see I could see fishing a topwater they could really get those jerk bite jerk bait follows get a great read on them but now fishing deeper I'm gonna adjust it notch down and I can already tell it's you can see a lot better with it golly that was a dog a dog crappie dog that's that's nice okay definitely going to so another thing that I like to do when I find a spot get a general area with this the side scan but I will get right on time as I'm leaving the area I'm done fishing it I'm gonna get right on top of it with the nose of my trolling motor and then I'll remark it it's one thing I love about the garments crappie and there's another spot oh my gosh just ahead of me here I'm gonna spot like that because it looks like some juices darling see if I can dangle a couple of these snickerdoodles up here that's gotta happen oh my gosh these are towed these are towed crappies oh yeah baby Tony this is like the size down there that's the size what a fish they're a little trick here these bigger ones I really had to float that one on top but I'll let you go let you go that hurts that hurts letting that fish go but sometimes those bigger ones you just have to you just have to hover it above them the dangled art's just irresistible you just got to put it right in the spot and I'm 10 feet away my pole just holding it over and this little pile is it's not very big all this this pile is probably the size of a bike the size of a bicycle and there's probably eight to ten fish on it but they're just big they're just bigger fish so see if we can get another one here all right this should be it ladies and gentlemen jig entering perfect trajectory I'm just gonna try to float it right above those marks there we go oh my gosh big and big croppy just came off right there this is where the turret is the program I got a light wind my spot lock is keeping me in place but I don't have to move the turret or move the trolling motor with my feet which allows me to put all my focus oh there's a good one coming up to tag it oh my gosh that actually could have been a white bass it's coming way out for it I can put all my focus oh gosh drag got walloped there's a good big and I can put all my focus in in trying to present my lure the right way and that's what it takes right now on this particular spot oh man you had a hard spawn dude have your tails missing all right let you go hang out with your big buddies down there we'll go try to find another pile maybe try to get a bass off one pause for a jet skier run through right here probably here in the background every time jet ski or boat comes through get a little caddy mampus but here's what I will say about live scope cuz live scope gets a lot of and I'm I'm one of those that has often played devil's advocate about it because it is transforming fishing the way that we fish but here's what I'll say and anyone that has been on live scope for a while will will recognize this you have to be dialed on your casting so if any if anyone talks smack about live scope and has never used it I want you to understand for casting you have to be precise there is a beam that is like that wide I don't really know how wide it is but I know it's probably close to about that that you have to cast in to be able to line up and follow your lure on live scope or follow the fish or whatever so you have to be precise with the life scope in order for it to be effective a bass lure shows up pretty well a crappie jig is pretty difficult especially when you start pitching it out 20 30 feet you'll notice it gets hard to track if you get live scope you have to really practice with it and you have to be in tune with it just it doesn't mean you're gonna start catching fish now once you get dialed with it it is a it is a force to be reckoned with and then I will say it will affect fisheries and it does affect fisheries and there's no putting that genie back in the bottle folks I'm finding these piles using the the side scan but to really step it up and get precise with these crappie I don't know if you just saw that but had to I made multiple casts 10 15 casts or it was just a little bit off few inches off in order to get those bigger crappie have to get it right on their nose like they do not want to move and by the way that's I've say this a lot but that's one of the ways that you tell that fish are crappie because white bass are moving all the time you'll see catfish kind of moving around bass on a brush pile you'll see them kind of circle around they kind of hunt it but a crappie just sits in it and they don't move and that that makes them easy targets with life scope kind of but you still got to hit them right on the nose if they're smart and pressured so I just wanted to say that just put that out there because just because you have life scope doesn't mean that you're gonna start catching fish another area that you really want to look at if you have this on your lake is docks people love to plant brush piles under their docks and also fishermen love to plant brush piles out away from the docks there's a lot of lakes I've been to where you're fishing the dock you know you're flipping the dock and then you you look at your electronics right below the boat just 2d you look at it and you're sitting right on top of a brush pile you're sitting right where the fish the bigger fish are and so get on your side scan idle out in front of those docks and you'll probably find some sneaky ones that are away from it that are just less obvious when you start island around in this deeper water in the summertime you get in that zone where the fish like to hang you will see fish everywhere not necessarily bass but you are going to see all sorts of species and it's really confusing and it can it could put you off track it's just so hard to know that their bass are not so you can get on a wild goose chase chasing around fish that look like bass but I guess the best advice to that is if it's something that looks like good cover close a hard bottom bass love hard bottoms a lot of predatory fish love hard bottoms then you're most likely gonna have a few bass in there but if it's just like silty sand areas that you're going around but there's a there's a drop then it's probably catfish and carp and drum and all of that stuff I just went over this with down scan obvious tree looks looks like we got fish in it so we'll give a shot now I want you to just look at this son of a D coming right between me and another but a shot very pleasure bees are coming out oh yeah big old big old over the bow come on finally oh my god he got off son of eight biscuits not get the best long range hooks out on that caught me off guard had to run to the back of the boat because I had so much stretch in my line there's just a little bit of brush on a point and as soon as I started coming into the little brushy spot I got bit and it's not a it's not a real tall brush pile it's kind of or laid over okay we got one more spot I want to show you guys it's brush that I have fished before and it just looks different so I want to show you what it looks like on the electronics what's it look for here this is 2d old-school standard that's what brush looks like and when you're sitting over the top of it not moving very much you're gonna see the lines get flatter and if you're moving over it it's going to obviously make an arc but that's what the brush looks like you can see the lines going up those are the different branches it kind of tapers off it looks like there's some bait in here a couple of individual fish that you can see and then this is the down scan so you can see the tall brush see a couple of fish in the top not not a whole lot going on but I wanted to show it to you guys so now with the scope you can really see it open up like there is that Christmas tree we were looking at and see just a couple fish in top it's mostly like bluegill back behind it there's just a series of those trees that are just bunched together studying that brush is kind of important because it will help you understand how to fish it you know there's very snaggy tangly brush like cedar trees that will just catch your lures and there's not much you can fish in it you know bass wise except a soft plastic Texas ring you don't want to have your hook exposed but other brush like PVC and things like that you can fish open hook lures through it just fine and so it really does help to to understand what kind of treat is what kind of brush it is and how aggressively you can fish it last spot guys one more little section there's a drop-off that's got a couple of different brush piles on it there are some crappie here looks like there's a few bass here and I'm gonna position my boat off the ledge throw up behind the brush and bring it through with the worm if we don't get any of bass and I'll switch to the crappie jig but I'm gonna just stay backed out first about 60 70 feet cast up there bring it through and see if we can get a big old Mando this shad look like they've been pilfered a little bit which is great look bass bass chasing the shad right now got a bussing them up going through there this would actually be a good call for crankbait and bringing it through the jam session and it's not getting the bass not getting the bass to go got something oh yeah they're hooked up on a good oh yeah oh my god it came off dear lord that felt like a big old bass I don't have my don't have the trebles the barbs on the trebles here oh my god smoked it it's probably gonna be a crappie it hit it so hard oh it's oh yeah it's a giant crop here we go fellas just hit it so hard we caught it we're gonna lose that spoon dead gum it oh we got it out when you snag up and brush if you pull into it real hard obviously it's gonna go into the brush it would go into my finger right here but if you get over top of the bay and you just shake it like that a lot of times it will just come out the weight of the lure itself we'll get it to come out back at the treehouse everybody got to give you a chicken check got to do it because these little chicks they're growing by the second there they are they were hiding in the woods they have been demolishing bugs so good for the yard just nice to see my little little exterminators out there doing their work and they go in a few times a day to chow down on the feed but you know honestly they prefer to be outside and just scratch around and find bugs it's nature's way and the rest of flock gets along with them beautifully there's there's no discrepancies just yet when they start getting a little older maybe they'll start picking at them when they get in that pecking order phase but right now we're Gucci and let's talk about the turret y'all the the new Doppler love how quiet it is very quick need to move this out a little bit so it will basically not make contact with the shaft of my trolling motor and be able to almost go 360 essentially so thank you guys for tuning in to today's somewhat educational video stay tuned for more outdoor adventures right here you know what to do I'll see you on the next one