 What is poppin' people? Welcome back to another video. Everybody has been asking about the river videos and today we're putting in on the river and we're gonna be searching for some river monsters. That's the game plan for today. I cannot wait to be out on the boat. I mean, it's been a while. We took a couple trips down to Florida, fish some awesome fisheries on the boat, but it has been months since we've been on either the Ogichi River or the Savannah River. So today we're hitting up the Ogichi. We're gonna see what's about to happen. I think we're gonna catch them pretty good. The water does look a little high for where I think it should be, but it is an outgoing tide and I think these fish are gonna be biting pretty well. So we're gonna see what's gonna happen. Got the new truck right there. Got the beautiful kicking boat. Got the man, Connor. Let's go, brother. What's up, guys? And we got Tara. What's up? We're gonna be going for some bigings today, guys. So if you guys have been enjoying the content, hit the like button. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Share this video with a friend. Get somebody new in the fish and get somebody into the outdoors. That's why we're here on YouTube. But yeah, let's go ahead and back the boat in and see what we can do today. All right, guys. We just got out to our first spot. As you can tell, we got a beautiful deck of kicking combos and mock crushes. If you guys wanna check out any of the green kicking combos, you can check them out on kickintherbats.com. I'll drop the link down below. That's what we're gonna be starting off with and on this in particular, I'm gonna be throwing a Texas rig. This is a 3 eighth ounce bullet weight by Strike King, three extra wide gap hook and then average curl. If you guys wanna get a discount on any of Strike King baits as well, I have that down below in the description. Just pulled up on our first spot. This is actually a main river spot. I haven't been out on this river in probably six months. So today's just gonna be a little bit of trial and error. Trying to find these fish, seeing what they're doing. The water's a little higher than I would like it, but it's not high enough for us to not get bites. So today's gonna be fun. We're just gonna go search for some big ones and see what we can put together. Usually this time of year, and we're in January right now, the some really good fat bass come out of the gucci, at least from my experience in the last couple of years. So I'm excited to see what we can put together. And this is also the first video of 2023. So, and I know you guys are the same. Any fish we catch today is our first fish of 2023. First one of the year. So it better be a 10 pounder, boys. It better be a 10 pounder. I don't know if you guys remember three years ago, my first fish of like 2019 maybe was a seven pounder. It's just pretty crazy. I don't know if we're gonna get into that on our first fish, but hey, I'll just be happy to catch them today. I will say these dang gnats are out like crazy, dude. They biting your legs? Gosh. Dude, that's the one thing I can't stand are those gnats, man. Gnats are so annoying. Get in your hair and on your head. Get on your legs. It's got a jacket on, so they're not on my arms. There we go. Oh, he spit it out. That's so weird. He went tick, tick, tick and just done. Yeah. So guys, I'm actually gonna switch up from that rage curl. I'm gonna put like a speed worm style bait on here. So I'm a little different. Not really feeling a crawl. I'm feeling more of a worm right now. This spot was kind of dead the last couple of years. Like this tree in general, I used to always pop a good one off this tree. Oh, dude. Dude, I've never seen you get so excited. That was your first cast, wasn't it? Your second cast? That was on a crawl, right? Rage curl? But it was like a hundred percent a bite, like. A hundred percent. I waited for you to bite. Yeah. Now that's kind of where I got my bite. They might be on that bank more. A little tighter up there. It felt like a mudfish bite or a bass. It had been a mudfish, but I was dragging it so slow. Yeah. There he is, right there. He just bit me out. Oh, dude. Hey, that one had some weight onto it. I'm gonna tell you, man, if that wasn't a mudfish, that was a good bass. They are on that bank. I'll bet you that's a different, that was about, yeah, right where you're out there. Just ease it out really slow. I think there's a school of mudfish there. Or that was a three, four pound bass, dude. That one had weight. All right, I got spot number two. Like I said earlier, I think the water's still just a little high. A little high from where I would like it. Doesn't mean that we won't catch fish in here. It just means it might not be on fire by like 10 fish and 10 cast, that thing. Did you get a bit? I got a bit. Oh, oh, oh, oh, dude. I'm over here watching her worm, and my worm is getting, this is a big, I mean, I catch them on 10 inch worms in these canals though. So I mean, I feel like this worm wouldn't be too big. You got one? Yeah, there we go. Here's your first bass. First bass. First one of the year. First one of the year. All right, you're on the day, let's go. Yeah. There you go. There you go. He ain't big, but here's the start, all right. Oh, look at that. There you go. That's not a bad one. Beautiful. Something to start off with, all right. It's your first one. First one of the year. What's up, girl? He's more out off that bank, isn't he? That's something to say in like, see that bank like last year, I caught a few there, but it wasn't like they're on it like that. I might have to put a fluker jerk bait on. I'm feeling it. I don't know if you guys remember you were watching some of the content last year. Like we had multiple days over 50 fish on jerk baits and big worms, but you know, that jerk bait bites just so fun. I might have to tie it on. I actually got a mock jerk bait on. The one I was throwing last year was a striking. I have yet to throw the mock one in the river. So maybe we try that out. If I'm not getting bites, I might switch up to that color of the striking one just because I know that color is fire out here. But I do have a mock jerk bait on that I will try. Brook off, guys. I'm gonna show you the rig up process on this Texas rig I'm throwing. So I had a tungsten on before, but I usually switch to lead when I'm out here on the river, just because you tend to break off a lot. I don't like going over and unhooking it either because a lot of the times, you know, you don't wanna air out all those spots with your trolling motor. So yeah, I put on a little lead weight, very basic. Notice that I'm not pegging this. I'm not putting a peg on this weight. When I'm fishing current, I like to not use a peg. It allows that bait to have more of a natural flow in the water. When the pegs on the weight, which I can demonstrate for you guys in a second, but that bait, you know, isn't gonna flow as natural in the current. So just rule and thumb, when you're fishing current, and if you're on some of these rivers or tidal water fisheries, you know, try to do it peg-less. I've had days where my buddy would have his weight pegged and then I wouldn't, and I would end up having 10 bites versus his morning chew. It just allows the bait to be more natural in the water. I'm gonna rig up this mag worm. This isn't like an old monster. It's a little smaller than a mag. I tend to catch them pretty good on this. And instead of going with like a black and blue or a june bug, you know, I tend to go with more of a natural out here. So like a lot of people throw the darker colors, but that natural green pumpkin tends to work pretty good for me. I'll usually dye the tail and chartreuse, but I don't currently, I don't think I have a pen with me. You're in prime water, you know. I'm hoping if we start catching them here, this'll be a good bite. This mock jerk bait's honestly perfect for this. It only goes a little bit below the surface. Really good for this water. You got one? Yeah, I'm about to say you looked it up like a drop shot, didn't you? That's a better one. There you go. Connor's on board. That's what you got. Yeah, that's not a bad one, dude. Oh, look at the black mark on his fin. Oh, he's got really cool markings. What is that? I don't know. I got braid on my hook, dude. Wait, that's actually weird. Yeah, that's some crazy markings on them, Luke. First bass of 2023. First bass. Thank you, buddy. See you later. I got like some sort of like thick line on my hook. I like hook the guys knot that he tied, his leader knot. Same spot, probably five or six times. Before he bit it. With the sink out, and then didn't get any hits and I switched to this and the first time I threw it at him. What is it, the crawl? Yeah. So you switched back to the crawl and then you got bit it? Yeah. See, that's one of those things either he really could have been there and just not wanted that worm or, you know, he might have just pulled up, you know. You make it the same cast 12 times and then finally get a bite, but not really because he's sitting there. It's more of like the waters move in. Fisher pulling out, I got one. Oh gosh, man, come on now. That was the weirdest little nibble. They do seem to be biting a little weird. They're not like, you know. Well, that first one was like a good thud and that one was barely taking it. Yeah, yeah. See if I can get this one to bite again. That was like such a soft little tap. Yeah. Dude, come on now. I'm gonna play him like that. Let's see. Yeah, he's got a little, yeah, he got a little, he sounded mine. That was a good one right there. It was right by the bone. These fish might be coming through now. That's a good sign that we just got how many bites right there? Three or four? Isn't that crazy? Like you can be sitting here for like 20, 30 minutes and I get a bite and then all of a sudden it's like, don't, don't, don't. Yeah. Hole. Nice. He swam. That's a good one. Two found here, just about. Nice, Connor, I'm going under you. Yeah, they're down there because my bait hit the bottom. That's probably not the same fish he hooked a second ago either. It's bigger than last one. I wanna see that one that you had a second ago. Yeah, see the belly on that thing though? Let me see the belly. It's fat. Oh my God. Dude, come on, that bite, man. That was the bite I've been waiting on all day. Geez, dude. That had to have been a mud, man. I don't believe that was a bass. I'm about to call this bluff right here. I mean, that bite was just this. Look, that was it running at me. There's no way there's a bass. I can see a mudfish, like not getting this big worm all the way in his mouth, maybe. Get him, buddy. Yeah, I saw your rod. Dude, that's how they're biting me, Connor. You got them? Really? Yeah, I don't know what it is. Oh, he's staying. He looks like a mud. Oh, that's a bass. Oh, it's a red. Is it? It is a red. Oh my gosh, let's go. Connor said earlier, I said you might catch a red and you guys, you can catch them in here. Look at that. Have you ever caught a red? Wow, on a bass lure. Maybe that's what's been biting us, bro. I know that sounds bizarre, but... Look at this beautiful red fish that he just got. You gotta get a picture of that, dude. Man, they got some sharp fins, dude. Hold them out. Look at that, dude. That is just something else. Out here bass fishing? That's crazy. Can you catch that? Wow, beautiful. Two spots on this tail. Pretty little red. Good looking red. Thank you, buddy. You got a picture or not? Yeah, let's get a picture. Dude, I'm shocked. I didn't think they were up in here this far. Oh my God. You got a good one, Tara. Dude, she has something big. It might be another red. The way is fighting. Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Wait a minute, hold on, wait a minute. Hold on, wait a minute. Tara, that's a good one. Tara's got a monster red. Get him in! Oh! Oh my God. Tara, that's a unit right there. Oh my God. Bro, what? Boys, that is something else. Tara, look at that. On the kicking rod. Both kicking rods. That's crazy. You need to get in there. No one needs to get in there? Yes, get one. All right, Tara. Look at that. Hold him out. Let's go, Tara. That's a freaking monster. That's a really good fish. All right, let's get him back in the water. You want to get him on this side? Yeah, put him back slowly. I'm going to get my fingers out fast. Don't drop them in there. Oh, he was ready. I cannot believe that. Dude. Get him in. Let's do it. Let's do some more. What in the world? That is the craziest thing. I'm going to tell you all that. Hey, Tara, that fish that bit me back there, I bet you guys, that was a red. Dude, honestly, it might have been. It probably was. It was a tick-tick and I was like, I let it sink. Yeah. You ain't got that. The crazy thing is they're buying a freaking big worm. You know what I need? I need to tie that fluke on, bro. I really need to tie that fluke on. I hope that wasn't just like a quick school when they're done. I hope there's some more here. I'd love to catch some. Hey, lessons. So yours ate a rage crawl and hers ate the big worm. That's crazy. I'm going to, I got to go with a fluke, dude. I got to tie one on. To be honest, it might be smart for me to put a weight on it though. I know it sounds weird. I've never tried it with a weight. It might, like for the, for the reds I feel like I'm going to actually do that. So I don't have to cut this off if it's wrong. So guys, this is very odd what I'm about to do, but I'm going to actually take this speed worm off and put the fluke on my Texas rig. I kind of want to wait on this because where they're getting these bites, I think we're just slightly deeper. It might be a good thing to bop this off the bottom. Like I feel like a red would just smoke that right there. Yeah. Like I got them, dude. I got a red. I got a freaking red. Or it might be a mud. It might be a mud. It's a mud fish. Oh, my first fish of the year. Don't net that thing. I do not want that in the boat. Whatever, man. Okay. Whatever. I was like, I got him. He's fighting like a red. He didn't fight like a bass. That's all I know. Okay, buddy. That's my first fish of 2020. That thing is still on. Well, I got me a fish. I got the skunk off my back. So maybe, dude, he destroyed that fluke. Good Connor. You mind if I have another? Was your first catch on it? Yeah, look at it. Look at it. You ripped it in half. He tore it up. Here. Yeah. I'm going to retouch. Well guys, I just, you know, this is our first day back on the river in about half a year. To see them catch some bass, that was awesome. I wanted them to catch some fish. I was telling them about the whole red stuff and sure enough, it happened. Oh, we're freaking bass fishing. That red that Tara just caught is the biggest one that I've seen out. The biggest one that I've caught out of this river or seen caught out of this river. So that's pretty exciting. I had one in a tournament that was slightly smaller than that one. It was close to it, but that's crazy. We're going to see if we can get back in here and catch some more. It might be one of those things where they were just traveling through and we just got lucky there. But then again, there could be some more down there. So we're going to keep on trying it. I still think this fluke on this Texas river can be a good strategy. If there's some reds, kind of hop this thing off the bottom. This fluke could be like nose down. I think that's a good call for a red fish. Did you get a bit? I'm just, yeah, he's got it. He's got it. Oh my God, Connor, I missed them. That's a bass. Dude, I just missed one when you got bit too. That's a good bass, bro. That's a nice one. Get them up in here. That was it down there. Where'd you get it all the way far? Oh, fuck, here he is. Yeah. That is him right there. That is him right there. Whoa, dude. Oh, it's got to be a red, right? Got to be a red. Yes, it is, dude. Yes, it is, baby. Oh my gosh. It's another nice one. Oh, fluke rig on the bottom. Oh. Oh, dude, that's another good one. That's like the size of hers, if not bigger. All right, I got to step it up now. You see what I'm throwing though, dude? You see what I'm throwing though? Hey, you guys see that next to the kicking fish? Well, guys, listen, I have yet to catch a bass those new years, but I'll take a big old solid redfish. That's where it's at. Little did I know have not caught a bass in 2023, but we're pulling up some pretty redfish. We run into them sometimes out here, but just to come out and actually start catching them like this, like we all ended up getting one is just awesome. We're going to see what else we can catch. Let's go ahead and get him back in the water. First redfish of 2023. I've yet to catch a bass, but we're on these beautiful reds right now. Look at that. That is so much fun. Give me some Tara. We all three got one, baby. Now your boy just needs a bass for 2023. But man, that is surprising. Retime right now. I had to cut off kind of how to mess with in the net there. That is just crazy, guys. You clicked on here to see some bass. We thought we were coming out here to see some bass and we're seeing some big redfish can not complain with that. I didn't get to get on any big redfish this year. So that's just, it's a little treat to start off 2023 with some reds. All right, we just pulled up to one of our last spots. We're going to see what we can do. You got them. Let's get it, baby. Let's get it, baby. Nice. Good job, buddy. Noah literally goes, throw it up on this bank right there. There's a fish on it. First catch and then he comes out. We'll take it. All right. Ooh. That tree was tough. We're out here the next day about to put it on the Ogeechi. We have a little game plan on what we're going to do to try to maximize catching some bass today and catching some redfish. You guys know I still have yet to catch my 2023 bass. I have not caught one. And you don't catch any redfish, which you guys saw right before this, but I haven't caught a bass yet. So that's the game plan. Get Connor with me. What's up, guys? Again. And we're going to get after you. So we're going to go ahead and back the boat in the water to try to find these fish. Once we get on the water, I'll kind of tell you guys my game plan. We also went by the store, grabbed some more baits. And yeah, so I'm excited about it. It's going to be fun. Hit the like button if you're enjoying it this far. Let's hop right into it. All right, guys. We just got out to our first spot. As you guys can tell, the water's still pretty high. If you guys don't know how the tides work, I was explaining it to Connor where like yesterday, high tide was 12 o'clock. Today, high tide is one PN. So pretty much it goes up by an hour every single day. And with that being said, you know, this water is a little high and we don't have too much daylight. You know, it gets dark at five 30. So it's one of those things where it's three o'clock right now and the water's still pretty high. And we have two and a half hours of fishing. So we're going to try to put together something today. I'm hoping I haven't been to this spot in a very, very long time. It's probably been eight months. So maybe we can get on some fish here. The water is fairly high, but then again, I think there's still some fish in the area that we can catch. So let's go ahead and get after it and see what we can put together. And then I'll show you guys what we bought from Walmart. I know I said I was going to show you all that, but I'm going to keep it a surprise until the end of the video. A lot of the times I'll throw it like kind of where you threw or like more down that bank and I'll let the current just like take my bait. Yeah. I've got a thing like anything getting washed down this, like if you just let your bait go with the current, that's kind of what the current's going to do with the bait in general, right? So this bass. It's like trout fishing. Yeah. Like so the bass are kind of, it's going to take you right to the bass. That's kind of how I like to think of it. You know, it'll take you right to the fish, whatever's down there. I think it's like all this water pumping out. You think there's just be some fish like sitting out here, you know what I mean? There's got to be some bait. I used to catch a lot of bass up on this one, but I haven't done good on it the last couple of years, but first year I started, first six months I started fishing. I was catching a good couple up here. All right boys, we're going to rig up off of some of the stuff I got at Walmart. So we got these jig heads. I was going to try them out because we can catch bass on this jig head. We can catch reds on this jig head. We can catch trout. We can catch flounder. I mean, we can catch literally anything on this jig head, even stripers. So I kind of want to try it. This spot has a lot of current, a lot of water moving off of it. And if there's no bass up here, at least we could catch something. I want to try it. I know there's some sort of species. There's some sort of fish up there. And I'm willing to catch whatever bites right now. Since the water's high, and we're just honestly like trying to kill time at the very moment. I mean, when that water's that high, you ain't getting those bass to bite. I have a few spots that we could pick a few small ones off, but nothing worth even going over to. I got these like little swim babes. Got like a chartreuse tail. Good green, like a watermelon red top. And this guy like a silver bottom. And this is just like a three eighth ounce jig head. It's pretty simple. It ain't nothing crazy at all. How are you hung? That is why I bought two packs of them jig heads. Just in case. Yeah, we're probably gonna be hung up a good bit. No, that's half that was rock. There's gotta be something up here that's gone. That would bite a little jig head a little someday. Oh, you didn't see what you know. Yeah, that's a whole rock wall. Yes, that's literally a whole wall of rocks. Yeah, there's something flicked right there on the edge though. We got some. That's what you gotta deal with. Bro. I thought I literally hooked a Loch in this freaking monster. What am I on down there? Like actually, I was like, I'm gonna try out here in the middle on that draw ball. It's very stretchy. It's gotta be like a tree limb. Yeah, I got it all. What in the world was that? That's weird, man. I thought I just leaned into like a freaking shark. Literally, things were in the current too and that it was like a tree limb. So when I hit it, it felt like it was, like there's something on there. It is dude. I don't even know what that is. I'll let it sink to the bottom. Is that a bass? I think it's a bass, dude. It is a bass. Hey Noah's 2023 bass. First bass of 2023. It is a little fatty, little fatty. I couldn't catch one yesterday. I put on like a little salt water licking bait. He just smokes it. I'm about to say that's a fish. I was like that. I knew for a fact that wasn't a rock bite me. Well, while we're killing time for the tide to go out, we still got us on a bass. Thank you, buddy. Get us started somewhere, guys. That's what we needed. He said where he needed to be. He's like right up on that corner, boom. He's in a rock. I saw your pole doing something. I was right up on that like edge, like to the right of my cast right there. I knew that was a fish. I just felt him just eat it. I got an idea. Dude, I haven't been to this spot in a minute, but I know there's crazy stripers in there. It looks good, huh? You'd think something would be there where there's a striper, a redfish, a trout, a bass. That's why this spot just looks so crazy to me. Yeah, sounded pretty good, didn't it? I got him. Oh, dude, he freaking had me, Connor. What? In his mouth the whole time as it was falling right there. 100% a fish right there. Dang. Yeah, he was just chomping on it, dude. I just felt like, doot, doot, doot. Dang it, bro. I don't even see teeth marks for that like out of any bite today. Yeah. He had it in his mouth. He just guessed he didn't have the hook. Right. Did you see my line? Did you see that, bro? There's no way that's current. No, that was a fish. That was a million percent a fish hitting me right there. You saw my line jump, didn't you? Hey, hammered it. Oh, dude, I've had him, Connor. Bro, yeah, they're loaded down there. Oh, dude, I actually had that one on. I don't know what these are, but the trick is to let it sink to the bottom. Dude, I feel like I got to get up on that dock. Here we go. That time I actually got a piece of them, but there's got to be more than one, all right? That's a big fish, I think. That's a big fish. I don't know what this is, dude. I don't know if it's a red or a striper. Redfish. It was a baby red, but he got it. Look at that, man. Beautiful redfish. He was freaking hammering me, bro. Ain't that a pretty one? Isn't it crazy how the smaller ones have more of the black dots on them? Yeah, notice that. You notice that? That one that I caught yesterday had two dots on the tail. Yeah, that's pretty. I'm actually going to do a quick release. I'm going to try to get back in there and catch another one. He ain't nothing much to take a picture of. Thank you, buddy. A little quick release. All right. You want to see if I can do back to back? Let's see. All right, let's see if we can get another one. I'm hoping that there's a lot of fish down there. So I figured out the trick. It's like if I throw it there and I just reel it in, I won't get a bite. But if I throw it there, kind of let it sink and then slightly reel it in, that's when they're hitting it. I believe there's more than just one up there. Let's try this right here. I'm going to lose it, man. They're down there, bro. They're literally down there. Dude, I just got to let it fall. That's all I got to do. If I let it, like, if I'm patient with it, I'll let it sink, I'll eat it. Why do they eat it like that? Why do redfish eat it like that? Oh, there he is. Oh, you know what, Con? You know what I'm gonna try? So guys, you know how I said I went to Walmart? I showed you a few things that we got, but I got some secret juice. These fish aren't holding onto the bait. And if I know anything, I would think I would want to put one of these on. It's one of the shrimp that have that nasty stuff on it. I'll be honest, bro. I'm gonna take all this stuff out of here because I don't want this to spill. Ooh, yeah, this stuff is ripe, buddy. Smells good. I don't want to say it smells good. I bet they'll hold onto it, too. Doesn't matter. That might be the key there, a little extra juice to get them enticed. A little shrimper. Look at that, beautiful. Will you be mind-blowing if they just hold onto it? It honestly would not surprise me. I know a lot of the saltwater guys do that. Put that nasty stuff on there and they start catching them. Let's see. I'm getting consistent bites and I already got one on. This is that much of a difference. You know, I could not for the life of me get one hooked. There he is, beautiful. He ate it on the fall. He ain't big. See how small they are? What's up? See, they ain't big. Hey, they're redfish, though. And we're catching something. Hey, just because the bass aren't biting right now and the tide ain't right, don't mean we can't come over here and catch a different species, all right? Look at that beautiful redfish. Beautiful red. Okay, let's throw it right back in there. Keep it rolling. It's alive. You ready? Yep. I'm gonna catch one back to back cast. All right. So I'm not gonna move. I'm gonna let it sink. He's gonna grab it. At least he should. That's probably that's too far out now. That was your first cast with that. Oh, I mean, I got a bite on my first cast, but so I threw more to the front of it, like right there. And that's kind of where you've been throwing, all right? Yep. So look, now I should get bit. Get in there, buddy. Get in there, buddy! Is it bigger? I'm about the same size. It's so weird, guys, because you'll get like some of these big reds and then you get these reds, like the smaller ones, and they just got these beautiful marks, like more marks on them than bass. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Now the quicker release, we're just gonna, we don't catch them guys until they're big. But they're big, we'll hold them up. If not, we just gonna keep trying. All right, boys, that's where it all happened yesterday. We go and give it a shot. Give it a shot if you shot. See what we can do here. Praying that these fish are here. These fish were freaking big, man. Because once we just caught, that was a lot of fun. The cool part about this place right here, that other spot, not really, we were more down. This is more of that brackish. This is where we kill the bass at. Like we catch the heck out of them over here. So we have an opportunity to catch some big bass right here, some big reds, some flounder, some striper. Pretty much anything that I eat right here. So it would not surprise me. We even caught some bass here yesterday. So pretty much all the bass. Got about an hour of daylight left. We're gonna put some work in here. And this isn't happening. I got a bunch of good bass spots that we'll go hit on the way back. You got him? Oh, he's big too, ain't he? That's a big encounter. I can tell you Rod. Whoa, how is this net in here? Uh-oh. Look at the spots on his side, dude. You care if I sit him down in the bed? Yeah, let's have a moment. Dude, he's got a- Look at how many spots are on him. Oh my gosh, there's like eight or nine. That's crazy. Dude, that's nine spots on one side of his body. I've never seen that. Did you got Connor your first red of the day? Well, it felt okay. Thought he was bigger. Using that hook being in there sideways to help him out a little bit. Yeah, show me that. Look at all the spots that look at that. It's great. He has 14 spots. Yeah, I'm gonna count that. I've never seen one of that many spots. We'll see if we can catch another one with more. All right. All right, nice, dude. See you, buddy. Nice, buddy. That's awesome. Got your first one of the day. Do you think he hit you? You just happened to accidentally get him foul hooked? What's that? You think you just accidentally foul hooked him like he actually hit you? Like, swipe- He hit and I was, like, talking distracted, so I didn't set the hook early enough and then I did after and probably got him when he shot. Oh, here he is. Here he is, dude. That was one right here. He's biting me. Yep. Oh, dude, he came off. That was one. That was one. Freaking knocked my day in GoPro with my chest. Hey, we might have just fired him up. You know? That wasn't a bass that bit me, though. That was one. He was up shallow. The head's cut off. Yeah. Oh, it looks clean, dude. It honestly looks better. Oh, I got one. Oh, yeah. Oh, dude, I cannot believe we're doing this right now. We're bass fishermen. Yeah, that's a better. Oh, oh, no, get the net, dude. That's bigger than any one yesterday. I didn't realize how big he was. That's a bass. That's a bass. Oh, no, it's a mud. It's a mud. Oh, man. Dude, it looks like it's a monster. Look at that. You don't want him in the net. Oh, heck no, dude. Don't even let him. I thought it had like a nine pound bass on a shrimp, dude. I was about to lose it. I'm going to say everything I know about bass fishing is just out the door if I would have caught a freaking 10 pound bass on a shrimp. Hey, just imagine me seeing the side of that, you know? I thought it was a big red, but what does it look like? It turned. I thought it was like an eight pound bass coming to the boat. Jeez. Hey, it's a fish, man. It's a fish. God, you're a bass. Dude, I did too. Well, I thought it was a monster red. I was like, that's twice as big as the ones yesterday. Dude, but when he turned and I just saw like green, I was like, oh, that's a bass. That's what I'm saying. And usually the mudfish don't have green on them. For some reason, he had green on them. So I was like, yo. I was like, yo, that's it. That's what I was saying, guys. You can catch anything. Like I wouldn't, it wouldn't surprise me if we caught a big bass right here at all. I mean, this is usually where I fish for bass. It just happened to find those reds here yesterday, which is crazy. It rode the tree branch. I thought it was the one, if I was running with me, I'm just gonna have to pop this. We still got a couple. I ain't going up on them fish, man. I ain't worth that off. I used a Texas rig like yesterday. Oh my goodness. Oh, big one, it came out, it came out. Oh no. Oh my gosh, dude. Was it red? I think I'm sending it too hard. I feel like I just did. Connor, what was I telling you at the other spot? Just lean, just lean into them, bro. That's coming from the, that everyone on the internet thinks I rip a fish's face off, bro, but it's coming from me. That is, that's true. Just bare, dude, I'm telling you, this Swimby hook, you just hooks that sideways, it's gonna go right in the mouth. I'm not saying to not, Hey, I'm not saying, I'm not saying to not put some, some bud into it, but just lean to the side. Torque your body, torque your hips. You think I was a red bite? I couldn't tell, but he was on. All right, we got two of these shrimp. I'm gonna put a shrimp on and then after this, I might try a swim bait, but since this is working, if you guys are wondering how we're rigging it up, just going through the head of it, just like how you would like a swim bait, pushing it through, breaking through, sliding it up on the hook. Pretty, pretty simple and basic. I actually did that slightly too early, but that's all you need. Same way you would rig up a paddle tail swim bait guys, just same more deal. But for y'all watching right now, like we're, yes, we're kind of more of targeting these reds just because we know they're biting right now, but this is where we bass fish. This is, it's not like this is out of the ordinary and we're going to some place to fish for reds. We're fishing in the same area that, you know, we catch bass and we caught how many bass up in here? I saw that, I saw your line. Just lean, watch. You're not going like this. You're going like, you gotta put body weight into it. You know what I mean? Connor, I would try over here too, buddy. You know, we had a lot of bites. That's what those people do for strippers out here. They troll you. Let's try it. We just had to keep an eye on it. I don't want to lose this rod. Hook it on to. I'm going to throw it out. Only thing is it'll be going with the current. Dude, I can technically let this like, spool the whole rod and be way back there. Oh yeah. Dude, there's a ton of current. I think it's good right there. We'll just keep an eye. Yeah, I don't want to lose the rod today, man. So guys, we didn't show it on video yesterday. We had crabs on the back of the boat that were coming out of the redfish mouth. And so that makes me think, Connor. You know, they're getting those crabs up on these banks, which I get there's some out here in the middle, but there has to be some of them up shallow, you know, eating all them. So even this whole bank edge, you know what I mean? Connor, yes. Yeah, there he is. Nice. Nice. See that? We were just talking about how they don't come back for it. Yeah, he came back for it. Look at that. That's a better one. A little better than the first one. Yeah. Oh, here we go. Come on. Double up, buddy. Double up, buddy. Oh, you got one? Yeah, that's a good one. Oh no, it's stuck in the thing. So I do got one. Same spot. Hey, double up. First double up of the day. This one's a lot prettier. Like, oh no, it's both the same. Oh. Dude, your gill plates are so sharp, dude. First double up on some pretty reds. Do a little quicker release again with them. These fish tore me up yesterday, but what's the best way to grab these red fish? I usually grab them like in the gill plate, and I'll stick my fingers up there. They sliced the heck out of me yesterday, though, and I'll kind of grab one with the tail. Nice, Connor. Yeah, I can't believe we got that one with nine spots on one side, so that's crazy. Yeah, that one was insane. I'm gonna keep a mental note of that, and just know, like, yeah. No, they literally, what I was saying before Connor hooked that fish is they go tic, tic, tic, just like a brim, and then all of a sudden they'll stop. Oh, do I have that jerk bait out still? The guys literally go tic, tic, tic, then they don't eat it again, but his went back for that time. Usually you'd have to reel in and recast, and then you'll get another bite. And I caught him in that same spot. You pulled your, yup, there he is. Dude. The boom, boom, boom, the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Just done. I would never like, like I'm not too big into the saltwater like species, but like, as of right now, I compare these dang reds to a bluegill. I just don't even understand how I can say that, but how they're biting, that's what it feels like. Their mouths are a lot smaller. I mean, a bass just kind of goes, yeah, sucks it in. Dude, Connor, I keep seeing them bust up here. I'm gonna try up here in this pocket. Dude. John, look at the boil, dude, look at the boil. He came back. Wait, I got him. He's on my pole the whole time. That's a better one. Yeah, that's a big one, dude. Maybe. Yeah, that's a big one. Maybe the big ones are up shallow. Yeah, net him. Oh yeah. Oh, that's a good one though. Dude, that might be bigger. Oh. No, that's a unit. Yeah, that's bigger than the ones yesterday. Hey, baby, look at that. Oh, that's where he was. Get some. He was shallow. You know what he was doing? He was eating crabs. Ain't he? Look at that one, boys. There we go, guys. That is what we're looking for. That is a beautiful redfish right there. That's a big one. We're gonna get her back in the water later for another day. Wow. So I'm gonna tell y'all, we've been fishing out deep on the drop off for a lot of these fish. That fish was the first one that we've caught in like two foot of water. And my whole thing is, they might be up there chewing on those crabs. Well, we talked about, what, 15 minutes prior. So now we're gonna start trying up here and see if we can get some bigger size redfish. Let's get it, baby. That's the size we want, guys. Let's try it again. You know what's crazy about that, Connor? I thought the fish was off. Unless he was literally just chasing it. He could have been chasing it, bro. This is the record day. Dude, that was right here in the middle of the canal in two foot of water. Yep. There he is. They are biting so good, though. That's a bigger one. I don't think bigger than the last couple, though. Ah, yeah, he ain't easy. He felt like a dude, he really did. Oh my God. You get it? It's attached. It's attached. Oh, this is crazy, guys. I'm never, never in my life. I think I'm gonna kick in their red TV today. I'm not kicking their basketball. It's 2023, different new me. 2023, new me. I mean, bass fish are no more, guys. I'm just kidding. You guys already know 95% of the content on this channel ever posted will be bass content. Even though we're smoking their reds right now. We just happened to figure something out yesterday's video. I'm glad we came back to do it.