 There you are. There you are. Back to the channel y'all. It is the dog days of summer. So in today's video we're doing some kayak fishing with my best friend Greg. Old Craig's got a stock pond in his family that is pretty special and it's just loaded with a lot of three pound plus largemouth bass. But it is still tough fishing this time of year and this is when I like to get out of the top waters early early morning right at sunrise and then after nine o'clock you're pretty much praying for a bite. And this is when soft plastics are a heavy part of the program. I like to throw worms, worms, more worms and worms for the next few months or something about worms. They just work fantastic in the summertime and we got all kinds with Guggen Bates. So if you guys want to get some of the baits that I'm using in today's video or anything else, worms, craws, creature baits, whatever, GuggenSquad.com you can always use my promo code LFG to save 10% off, not just baits but the entire set. That's enough talk. Let's get out on the water in the kayak and get to ripping some lips. Remember how to work this thing? Look at him feeding out here. A little popper. Come on, Sally. Crop it and give it a little top atop it. Right out in the middle for the old big summer fish. There you go. Hey, buddy. Alrighty, y'all out here early morning. Couple of buddies. Just starting off with a little poppin' style bait. The old blooper. And this lake is actually stocked with crawfish. Oh, there was a boil up there. We got to get that fish. Oh, there he is. There he is. Come here now, son. Come here now, son. You liked the little paws on that, didn't you? Just pulling me around in the kayak. Haven't been kayak fishing in a while. This is kind of fun. Just a totally different feel to it. Oh, yeah. Nice fish. Hooked up. Yeah, he's pulling me around a little bit. Just, you know, beautiful three-pounder. Oh, yeah, I got double hooks, too. Look how healthy this fish is, y'all. I mean, for a, you know, dang near August fish, fairly small mouth compared to the body size. That's just nice. That's just good to see right there. Look at that. Beauty. The fish is actually over three. Just chunked up. Oh, bloop, bloop. Oh, God, Lee. I haven't got away from him in there. Little reaction rod. That one was with the topwater. Blooper out. Fish all good. See ya. Well, given the fact that there was not a frog blow up on the cypress roots out of the gate, I'm willing to bet that they're doing their little scooly thing out deep. What's it, dude? It's just in there. Holy cow. Greg, get on it. You throw that popper over there. That's him. That's her, baby. I'm going to do a little whacking. Yeah, I think that's... And I will catch a big one. Just off the shore. Oh, there's one. Oh, hey. Oh, yeah. This is what you can catch when you try on a wacky worm. Look how healthy that fish is, though. It's a very healthy little... little young lad. Oh, I can feel it. I can feel that doink coming. Oh, I got something solid here. Come on, big girl. There you are. That's dandy. Yep, getting worked on the spinny spin. That's just a decent strong as hell. Oh, come on now. You're not that big. You're not that big. Just strong. It's long. There you go. Have a nice day. Thank you very much. All right, little wacky. Sun is coming out. This is the time. This is where the worms and the jigs start to do the damage. Just throwing off from the bank a little bit. We start getting in that four or five foot of water. This tapered grass line. Oh, there's one. Oh, yeah. What have we got here? What do we have here? Just a decent one. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're so pretty. Give me that face. Don't do that. My goodness. Man, they are sucking that lunker log down. Just beautiful. Love to see it. We're just going to do a little bit of worming while we've still got some shade line on these pockets. Get that mid-depth. Like, usually when the top water turns off, they're still kind of they'll boil on top water, but they won't like fully eat it. That's when I love to throw something weightless like this. It doesn't have to be wacky style, but just something weightless plastic. This pocket is just tailor-made. Tailor-made right now for weightless. Oh, there's a bite. Took my worm. He was running with it good. Hard thump, too. There's one. Little guy. Little bitty dude. Oh, there's a bite. Come on, baby. Yeah. I figured. Goodness, these little fish are healthy. All right, little dude. Grow up. Oh, there's a bite. Oh, it's a little donker bite. Little rat-a-tat-tat. There's a, there's a point that comes out here into the big part of the pond. It's real shallow. And I threw up there earlier. I didn't catch anything up top with the top water, so I'm going to throw in this kind of mid-depth area. I'm going to guess it's four or five foot deep. Transitioning out into the deepest part of the lake. And there should be some grass tapering out here. It's just a good area for fish to hold. Kind of rush bait up on. It uses a little feeding platform. There's a bite. Oh, God, that one felt good. That one felt good. And my worm got all buggered up. Dad gum it. Worm got buggered. Let's see if I can get that fish again. That happens sometimes if you don't use a ring. I don't have any rings on me. I really like those new ones that can face your hook point in the right direction. I mean, number one, you get to get more fish out of your soft plastic, but number two, you just get a better hook set. You don't get that balled up situation that happens when sometimes when they clamp their mouth around it and they, you know, they smash it down and they kind of readjust your hook. There's one. There we go. Come on, baby. Little guy zipping around. Look at that strength. Yep. Just a little guy. No, it's a little bass. A little healthy guy. I don't know. Not really. Just hit it really hard. No, I'd set the hook right away. Not very big. Just very aggressive. Man. I mean, for the size, pretty incredible. Chunk. Yeah, it's not right. Yeah, I'm used to picking up bass this time of year and you're like, where did all their weight go? Long and skinny. Yeah, these are, you could feel, feel the chunk. If you guys ever get a bite and you miss the fish and you're trying to figure out if it's a big one or not, if you just get one thump, it's just a bonk. That's usually a good fish. If you get a dink, dink, dink, like a couple little bites, smaller fish doesn't mean it's always that way. But that's usually how it goes down. There's a bite. Oh my goodness. Little buddy. There's a bite. Oh, come on now. Be a stud, baby. Come on. Working this new green series, really, y'all. Really been liking it. Oh, that hook is in that good position to go right in my hand. And I'll catch that fish every day of my life. 14 inch standard unit right there. Just jumped about 3 feet in the air. Want to hook them? Awesome. Yeah, fishing that green series uh, spinning reel and man, I've got no complaints on this thing. No complaints at all. I especially love the grip. The grip, man, it's real tacky. It's wide. It's how I like all my real handles to be. Grab a good old juicy large, man. Go catch that next when you want a good solid grip on there. Yeah, but seriously everything feels solid. Feels very solid. Good bail. Drags, not bad. Oh, I got another one. Little boy. Little boy. Oh my gosh. Look at the belly on this thing. Dude, you need Ginny Craig. Actually, forget Ginny. Live your best life, dude. Oh, he's got a little red coming out of his bum hole. He's been eating him crawfish now. Which uh, this black and red color y'all, definitely looks like that. I've actually caught fish out of here before. They have crawfish, pincers sticking out of their mouth. I caught one today. But that one that I just caught even though he's a little guy he had like red doodoo. And you got red doodoo you've been eating Cajun food. Got that eight boys. Oh yeah. Eight incher. Oh, he's bigger than an eight incher, but no eight pounder. Come here. Give me that face. Ah, man. Alright, let that fish go. Just another beauty on the whack. I had to just go back to that whacky, man. I'm going to do something very important right now and retime a line. Because I've had four or five fish eat this thing like it was their last meal on earth. Fresh and clean. But our last Lunker log. It's pretty good. We can go through a whole pack. Whole pack in a day. Go to googlesquad.com. Use that code LFG I can save 10% on my next stock up. Got sort of a steeper wall right here and sun's fully up. 9.30 in the morning I'm thinking there might be some posted up this little deeper spot. Oh yeah, well that's a good one. Right by the boat. Oh goodness. He's going out to sea. That's a good one. Oh! Yeah, I lost a big one. God, he was right on that deep deep edge. Got no idea what happened on that last fish. It was a good one. It's the biggest one I've hooked all day. It's at least four. Looks like four and a half. I had a big old belly on it. I was already thinking about grabbing his lips and giving him a sniff. And then just pulled off right under the boat too. It's my favorite thing about fishing in a kayak is it's so quiet. I just pitch my bait out there and then line starts moving. Two feet away from the boat. It's crazy. That's why kayak fishing is really stealthy. It's really fun. Great day on the water y'all. Top water as predicted. Pretty much shut off right after sunrise. Had about a 30 minute window. Couldn't even get the frog in the shallow grass. A lot of those fish have moved out and you'll start to see in the summer especially fall. They'll group together deep spots over points and they'll rush bait fish into shorelines and all sorts of schooling activity. But when you don't see them busting it's a great time to drag a worm or maybe throw a weightless bait like I was today. Quick programming note. I've been doing kind of adventure style videos on Mondays and then I'll throw a vlog in there later in the week. But I've decided on Tuesdays I want to do a dedicated technical style video. A lot like what I used to do where it's strictly informational. We're getting down into the technicals of a piece of gear that I'm using a technique. Whether it be in fishing. Maybe it's hunting. Maybe it's something else really cool that I've just discovered that I want to share with you guys. So look for those videos on Tuesdays. And this next one coming up I'm going to break down my entire weightless rig setup. I know I've seen a ton of comments on what line are you using. I'm just going to break down the entire thing from literally the hook all the way to the reel. So subscribe to the channel. 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