 Uh-oh, uh-oh. I just got one. I got one. I got him. I got him. I don't know how big he is, but he is tugging. No freaking way! Hope everybody's having a wonderful day. We're back with another video. If you guys are new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell, also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. Got my boy Fletcher in the background right there, and we're filming a freaking bane. Don't be doing some weird crap. Don't be doing it. The last time I was with Fletcher, he tried to do some some stinky stuff with me. What are you doing over there, boy? I'm watching you. Last time he put a net over my head, so I don't know what he's gonna do with a shovel. But today we're gonna be doing some live bait fishing. It's been a while since I've filmed a live bait video, so I'm very pumped about it. Very excited. This is like when I was younger, me and my granddad, this is all we used to do is fish with live bait, and that's kind of how I grew up fishing and bass fishing as a whole. So I'm excited about it. Fletcher's excited about it. We're gonna have an awesome day today. But the first thing we're gonna do, this is gonna be like a live bait train challenge. We did one before. It actually hit over a million views. You guys enjoyed it. So it's like we got to come back with a part two and do it even better this time. So we're in the woods right now. Got old Fletcher right there, and show them what we're doing. Alright, well we're gonna be taking a good old shovel, and we're gonna be digging some holes today. And Fertig's gonna be looking for some worms. As you can see, it has rained quite a bit recently. The ground is super wet, which should mean all these worms are gonna be up close to the surface. So we're just gonna start digging, and we're just gonna be looking for as many big juicy worms as we can find to hopefully catch some nice Luke ill with, some other little pan fish, and throw those suckers on a giant hook in hopes of catching some monster bass above some suspended structure today. If we do everything correct today, we're gonna catch some monsters. No way, that quick. A big old juicy one. That's a solid one. So we have the live will too. We'll show you guys that in a little bit. It's kind of going through the process, so we're just gonna throw him in there. We actually tried to film this a while ago, and it just was not working. But with it being so moist outside right now, I think we're gonna find these worms fairly quick. I think we're gonna find them quick, but we definitely want to throw just a little bit of dirt in here for this dude. Just so he doesn't dry out if the sun ends up coming out. We want him to be able to bury down in that dirt. Let's go somewhere else, somewhere a little more moist. Maybe somewhere over here with these logs, you might be able to lift some up. You might find some grubs. I mean, there's no telling what you might find. You could find something other than some microbes. Try some of these that are like down in the hole a little bit. A million ants. Literally a million. I'm gonna pass on that one. Yeah, I'll know about that one. That's a hard skirt. Well, we got one more worm right there. We only got two total, but I think we have a little plan just in case we don't have enough worms. We're actually gonna head to a pond now. Now we're gonna go catch some live bluegill to fish for the bass. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. We're gonna hop in the golf cart and get out there. See how many live bait bluegill. That makes a lot of sense. Live bluegill we can catch and get in and get in. What am I saying? And get on to catching some big bass. Alrighty, just made it out to the spot where we're gonna try to catch some bluegill. We got this big dock right here, hoping there's some around it. We were gonna go to a couple different spots, but there's a lot of noise. So we're just going over to this one. We got this little tiny hook right here. These little bluegill. But we've got a little spinning combo rigged up. This one actually is tied to the straight braid. Where are the split shots? Yeah, we will need a split shot right here. That braid will float, so that is the one thing. Put us a split shot or two on there. I think that would be good. Put a little bit up our line. Put it about right there and we should be good. I think just one of them would be fine. Just that braid floats, that's the only thing. Keep it very basic with the bream fishing. Alright, the worms. Oh, little slippery boy, where'd you go? Ha ha ha, gotcha. That's a juicy little worm too. We're gonna have to use some small pieces. I'm sorry, bud. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, bud, but we gotta do it. This is the food chain challenge, baby. Just a little tiny piece. I'm talking really small. Split shot is on, little tiny hook, little tiny piece of worm. That's all we need. Now let's see if there's some bluegill out over here that we can cop up real quick. Hopefully we'll just drop in and find the little mother load. I'm kind of wanting to get a mixture of small bluegill and some big ones at the same time. I'm a big fan of fishing with just some big giant live bait. I like using the big bluegill that usually gets those big girls. Yeah, we do gotta fill up the cooler. Should we do that first? Yeah, we should probably do that. Make sure we get these guys some nice pond water. That stuff that they come right out of. They have a nice place to live. Perfect. Put them on the hook. Definitely want to put the pond water over hose water. They just have all the little things that they need. This will survive. Show them the little setup that we got, too. Oh yeah, we got the essential. If you're gonna use a cooler for a little live bait well. We're gonna put these guys in here. Got the little aerators. This is just a basic bubble box. This is actually the bigger one that I've used before. It's called the power bubble. Let's take the right up to his battery. We're good to go. Got the two little bubblers in there, two little aerators. That should be good for our live bait. I don't know how many we're gonna get, but we're gonna go ahead and start catching them. Load them up in here. This will be our little tiny live well for today. Alright, here we go, Fletch. I do not know. I guess we're gonna see. Oh, what if we did the whole drop 5,000? He just spiked my creativity right here. Fish were so smart. Uh-oh. Got them all. I want to go for some bigger ones today, but... That's bass candy right there. That's bass candy. We're gonna throw it in there and they're just gonna freaking munch that. Look at that. Still saved our worm. That's a good little sign. First little bait fish for today. He ain't big, but like I said, we're gonna load up on some bait. The last thing we want to do is get out there and run out of bait and that's to be like... Yeah. We have to go back and get some more, so... Got a last little one. He's over here barking at me. I don't know if you guys can see that. See him barking? Look at him. Look at him roughing right there. Yeah. That is literally bass candy. I know that. You know how you have, you know, you got your king size bars. You got the regular size. Then you got the fun size. These are like these little bite size, fun size bars. Oh, yeah. Little bite size Kit Kat action. This thing is barking the whole way up here. He's trying so hard to get out of my hands, but it's not working. Let's see what we got. First little bait fish. Oh my God. Oh, man. That's gonna be deadly. That cooler's gonna be slammed by the time we're done. Oh, yeah. Little tiny guy. Don't eat it. No. Yes. Yes. Oh. Another little bass candy. Gosh, man. That is... I'm telling you. That's gonna be inhaled. That's gonna be inhaled. Did you have one? I had one in the hole. Really? Yeah. You got them? Oh, yeah. You got them in the hole? Oh, yeah. Now we're talking. That is what we're talking about right now. Now we're talking. That is perfect size for a giant man. That's like a nice... Oh, that is perfect. Was he on the bottom? What do you think? Like a nice... Oh, don't lose him. Like a nice like probably like six, seven inch right there. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good... That's a perfect big catfish. That's a good one. Was he on the bottom? Yeah. Got one? That's a really nice one. Is it a... Yeah, that's a bass. I ain't never believed you. Oh. Is it a catfish? I don't know. Is it catfish, bro? Who is a catfish? Oh, my God. On that tiny piece of worm. Oh, no. Oh, he came off. You've probably bent the hook out. Yeah, he did. Oh, my God. That was a tiny one. He did bend it out, didn't he? Yeah. Wow. Uh-oh. Oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. That might be the best one. Yes. That's perfect size. Yes. Get back in a lucky hole now. They were loaded down there. That was a freaking good one, too. That was a really good baitfish size. And I have used the same little tiny piece of worm this whole time. We just had to look with it. That is a good one right there. Now we get in. Now we get in the good bait. All right, let's grab us another worm. Nice little piece right there. Oh, yeah. I got a good little piece on, too. I think I'm going to launch it. Oh, no. Oh, no. All righty. So we got about eight bluegill now total. I think we're pretty good for the day. I think we're going to be fine with about eight. We got a few big ones in there. We also got a few fun-sized little Snickers bars in there as well. So it's going to be good. Let me show you guys. This is the final little go-around. We got eight total in there. I think it's going to be good. Look at that, Fletcher. We got a bunch. We got a good little bit. Woo! Look at that one. That's double-digit bait right there. That's a big girl. All day. Now it's time to go catch the big bass. Are you ready? I'm excited. Let's do it, bro. Let's get it. Yes, sir. All right, so we just made it out to the lake that we're going to be fishing in today. As you guys know, we got the John Boat. We're going to be going out on it. Me and Fletcher actually filmed a jig and big creature bait video. A couple of episodes ago and the fish were just loaded on this offshore structure. The brush piles are freaking phenomenal. Big pipes in the water and these fish are just loaded. So we're actually going to be putting it in here and testing out the theory if they're going to eat the live bait. Because we already know that they're going to eat the bottom baits. Oh, yeah. We killed them the other day like really good. Destroyed them. So now we're kind of like, let's see if they're going to eat live bait. So we're going to try it out. We're going to go out there. It's going to be a blast, man. I'm excited. Let's go ahead and dump the boat in the water and get started. Whoa, boy. Guys, we're about to get it started. Fletcher actually already got his poles out there. He put a smaller bluegill on there and then he has his little electronic lure out there. So as you guys can tell, big bobber, circle hook. Let's go ahead and pick our poison on what live bait we want. I think we're going to go with a good medium. Nothing too small but nothing too big to start off with. I'm thinking that guy right there. It's a nice medium one. I think that's perfect. The medium is the way to go. So there's a way to hook these. I can't remember exactly to where you're not going to puncture them to where they're not going to get injured. So therefore they're going to move more. Do you know exactly where that's at? I hook them up top. So like right in front of their dorsal fin. Oh, don't drop them. Oh, he's flopping over here in my feet. Let me see if I can't get him. Oh, come here. Got him. There you go. Yeah, I'm going to go through. Yeah, right in front of that top dorsal fin. Not right here but right in front of it. There. Break that through. Boom. Perfect. I think we're solid right there. I think that is the go. Good medium size. It's awesome right there. All right. So this is the spot that a lot of, look at his action. Man, that's a feisty one. We're going to make sure our drag set once I cast out there. This is the spot where we found a lot of fish stacked up on so I'm excited about it. I'm going to go ahead and give her a good swing. Oh my gosh. A little to the right. A little. Oh my God. Look at your arm. Oh my God. That's a lively one. That's exactly what you want. Exactly. Look at him going. Me and Fletcher were talking about their only problem today is going to be making sure our poles don't get tangled up. I'm going to get this drag set up. I think we're going to hook a big one today. I'm excited about it. Now we just got to stay put. It's a waiting game now and see what our bluegill does. If we start to see him kind of move around a good bit or if he's staying still, I'm probably going to reel him back in and cast him out. Let's see that movement to where you can almost tell he's intimidated of some of the bass that he's around. But he's got a good bit of movement out there. I think if this doesn't work, I'm going to go reposition the cast every more on this left-hand side. But now it's just a waiting game. Let's see if we can get a bite. Is that you? Did you have one? I think I had one. You had one. I had one. Oh my God. No. You freaking had one. Oh my gosh. He was just sitting there munching on it, man. No. He took our bass candy. You had one, dude. I know. Dang. Let's see if he eats this one. He's got a little muscle. Try it. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I just got one. You got much? I got one. Oh boy. I got him. I got him. Oh, yeah. It's a plug-in. Yes. Dude, we just came to our second spot. It's right away. This fish is fighting hard, too. I don't know how big he is, but he is tugging. Oh, yeah, guys. This is what we came here for today. Oh! Yo, what's he doing? Oh my gosh. Yo, that's a big one. That's a fatty. That's like a four-pounder. Oh, he's barely hooked. He's barely hooked. Bluegills gone. Yo, don't spit it. Oh, yeah. Look at that, boy. Yes. Give me some. We're wanting to come forward today. Look at that. Look at the corner of his mouth of that circle hook. And that bluegill is gone. Holy cow. That was a good sign. Yeah, it's not in his mouth. Look at that. Little circle hook. We can cut a weight on this fish. I don't know if he's quite four. He's a solid three number, though. Do you have that scale? Yeah, we left it in. We left it. I think we're safe to say that he's a mid three or a high three. That's a good fish right there. Beautiful bass right there. First one on the bluegill today. We didn't have any luck at that first spot. And then we came to our second. It was like instant. Gosh, that bluegill didn't have much life in him yet. And then I saw that bobber go down. It was like that. Yeah. That bluegill didn't even have enough in him to do that. That is a beautiful fish. First live bait bass today. Let's try to catch another one. Oh man. That was a lot of fun. Give me some flesh. Yes, sir. And I wasn't even recording. That's even better. You guys just missed out on a lot of crazy events. Fletcher lost one on his bluegill. I got hung up on the bottom. And then his electronic lure got wrapped around something. So, yeah. That's about what happened in the last 45 seconds. All right, guys. While we're waiting on the live bait deal, I kind of wanted to pick up my bass rod. It's got a big flipping rig on here. Kind of wanted to try it out. See if I can get a fish on here. Fletcher's still live bait fishing. It's so hard for me to freaking do that anymore. A bass fish. So much power fish. And it's hard for me to sit down and wait on a fish to bite. What? No, I think we got one. You got one? I think he's got it. Or is he just chasing it? I'm letting him take it. I'm letting him take it. Do I need to get the camera? Do you actually got one? No. You got them? We're good. Actually? There we go. Oh, that's a decent little one. You wanted to do much, did he? That's a nice little fish. That's a two-pounder. Where's that camera at? Donk right there. He popped off my bluegill. Just ripped right through the top of his back. Not a bad one. And he's hooked in there good. Right where he's supposed to with that circle hook. A solid, I don't know, he's probably two. A pound and a half, two pounder? Yeah, two pounder. A solid one to eat that little bluegill right there. Man, these fish, even when they're smaller, they will eat those big baits. Especially a live bluegill. When they're just sitting there fluttering out there and it's all distressed and all that, these little fish will come up and munch it just like you see right there. Dude, definitely was ambitious with the size of the bait that was on there. But thank you for buying there, bud. You definitely munched good. All right, little bud. There it goes. Good job. Let's go. Now we're one for one. Yes, sir. Let's do it. There's gotta be some bass on here. If he stays still, I'm going to cast in front of the boat right here. I would just love to throw it in there and just watch one eat it like a topwater. Just right away. Just slam it. We can just drift this tree live. He got it. He got it. He got it. He got it. No. That was the craziest bite I've ever seen. Oh, my God. No. You dragged him over that limb. All right. That's got my confidence high now, though. Oh, guys, it was getting painful. There was like no wind, super hot. Now the wind's picking up a tad bit. Just had a fish try to eat that bluegill like a topwater. That was insane. Oh, my gosh. We got some more. We're going to try that again. That might be the key, Fletcher. Yes, sir. By these trees today. Oh, dude, that was dope. Oh, man, dude. That was crazy. Why didn't he stay pinned? I tried to let him eat it for a second. That was insane, bro. That was one of the coolest little bites I've had in such a long time. He was like starting to get hung on a branch, so I started to reel him in. And that bass said, nope. I'm going to destroy this thing. Or you just want to call it. Do you think I'll be fine with what I got? I think you'll have plenty enough for a video. Yeah. That's the only thing as long as I got enough for a vid. No freaking way. Oh, the bluegill's still in his mouth, too. Oh, he's got it choked. All right. That was so cool, man. Look at that. And look exactly how they eat these bluegill. Look at that tail hanging out of his mouth. Headfirst. Dude, he's got them headfirst. Artie and his crushers. Oh, my God. We should probably just let that bass eat it, shouldn't we? Yeah, just give it to him. Holy cow. Now, look at that bluegill and that bass's crushers right there. That is exactly how you want it. We're just talking. We're like, man, it's already late. I was trying to get this video up today and we're like, man, I guess we're just going to have to call it. All of a sudden, you just dook, dook, dook. And then you got a beautiful bass right there. About a two and a half pounder. Choked that bluegill. We're just going to let him have that. He's going to be able to digest that when it's really small. Don't you think? Yeah, definitely. He should be good. But that is awesome right there. Got some topwater action right there. Bluegill hanging out of his mouth. You got you a free meal, bud. A little souvenir. Oh, yeah. I'll eat that bluegill. Yes, sir. That was freaking legit, bro. Legit. We just waited. And all of a sudden, he just came up behind it. Just slammed that. That's some of the most fun you'll ever have right there, especially witnessing the bass come up and eat them like that. Man, hit the like button on that one. That was fun.