 What is up guys? Joe Holland here. I am coming to you from the Green Mountain State. That's right. I am in Vermont. Long time since I've seen this state, it's one of the prettiest states, one of the coolest states there are in the Union. And I'm heading to one of my absolute favorite bodies of water to fish, going to Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain comes in at 110 miles long. It's in two different countries. It's in three different states. I will be fishing from the Vermont side and I'm hooking up today with another YouTube channel you may or may not know them as Bended Fishing. Josh from Bended Fishing has been on a pretty good lake trout bite and we're going to chase some lake trout with the live scope and actually cast to lake trout. So it's going to be really fun watching how they react on the live scope, seeing if we can find them with the live scope and then cast to them with blade baits and swim baits and spinner baits and chatter baits and who knows what kind of baits we're going to be throwing at these things. But I'm really looking forward to fishing with Josh. It'll be the first time meeting them. I'm looking forward to getting back on Lake Champlain. It's a lake I grew up fishing once a year for the Lake Champlain International Tournament. My dad would take me out of school to fish this tournament. It was like a three-day, 24-hour day tournament. You could fish for any species in the lake. I think there's over 30 species in this lake and it's just one of the most amazing lakes. It can get angry. It can blow up. I've seen bass boats sunk to the bottom on this lake and I've seen some really big boats and ships sunk on this lake too. So it can be an absolute disaster. I think the last time I was here I was fishing an FLW tournament and it was just an amazing tournament. Incredible fisheries. I think the Whopper Plopper had just come out. Man, you could hardly put that thing down without getting like a three-and-a-half, four-pound smally smashing it. So awesome tournament. Awesome lake. One of my fondest memory lakes growing up as a kid and I'm really excited to get back on the water here and fish it for lake trout. It's something I've never done before. Casting the lake trout is something I've absolutely never done before either. So if you guys subscribe to the channel or you tune into my channel a lot, you're going to see some different types of stuff this year. Stuff like casting the lake trout or chasing after big pan fish in Maine or sunfish or weird things. Maybe some striped bass this summer. So not being a tournament bass fishing guy has really opened up the page for me to fish at my liberty and at my will for any species and any kind of cool technique. So if you guys want to see anything in particular, leave it in the comments. If you're excited for this year and you're a subscriber, let me know in the comments too. And like always, I get back to everybody that leaves a message, question or comment. Weather for this trip is a little iffy. We're going to fish for hopefully two days, maybe a day and a half. It looks like today's going to be the best day for like the next two weeks. So Josh gave me a shout and said, Hey, man, we got a small window of time where there's some decent weather. We got like a day, maybe day and a half. And if you want to hit it, let's hit it. So let's hit it to the size of that. So we're looking for a good day of fishing today with weather. You really got to watch the wind on this lake. It's like it's the windiest lake I've ever been on. When it blows a little bit, it turns into a giant, giant waves. So, so yeah, so it's looking good for today. Tomorrow, we might get a little bit of wind. We might get a little bit of rain tomorrow. Depending on how the fishing is, we'll see if we can brave through that for you guys and get some really good footage. So really appreciate you guys tuning in and let's keep our fingers crossed that Champlain does not blow up and that it just shows up for us with some big lake trout. Temperature for this trip, we're looking at like a high of maybe 50, we're hoping. Right now, it's kind of holding out like 28 degrees. The sun just came up. I did a little bit of truck camping last night. I had about a six hour trip from home, so I decided to cut off most of it last night and just drive till I got tired and camp in the truck. As you can see, cut a bed in the back with a sleeping bag and a couple pillows. Works just fine for me. So cut off a lot of that time last night and did a little bit of editing last night on the laptop. So that was kind of cool. But yeah, we're looking at 28 degrees Fahrenheit, hoping it warms up pretty quick because that can get a little raw out on the water. As you guys well know, you know, the lake trout in Maine that I found on Saabago is they really feed better with the sun up. It'll be interesting for me. It's a big learning event for me down here on Champlain and see how these fish feed and how they react in different weather conditions. I got him on the back end. That was the other fish, I think. Yeah, it was. It was one go down and the other one went up. That was so cool, Josh. Thank you. He's pretty long. Is it? Yeah, he doesn't feel cute. Oh, he's beautiful, though. They're pretty fish. Yeah, they're always light colored in this lake. No, kid. All right, we're on the board with the first one. There he is. Pretty fish. They got a little bit unique color here. Let's get him back and see if we can get another one. There he goes. Josh from Bendit Fishing is from New Hampshire and I came from Maine to get here. So we both traveled a long way and we're going to see if it's worth it. I know it's worth it because he showed me what he's done here in the past. But I'm going to let Josh tell you a little bit about his channel. It's one of the channels I subscribe to. He does a lot of the similar stuff to what I do but then he takes it like one step further when you're talking lake trout and live-scope fishing and stuff like that. But I'll let him introduce you to his channel and if it's something you guys are interested in, give him a little love over there. Throw him a sub, throw him a like and I'm sure you're going to love this stuff. Yes, welcome to the Beneficent Channel. I started, I learned how to fish on this lake and you fished this how many years ago? 25. 25 years ago. So it is a phenomenal lake and I'll show you real quick what we're looking at. Just to give you guys kind of a sneak preview. Every little speck you guys are seeing on there like that's a lake trout. That's a lake trout. That's a lake trout. That's a lake trout. I'm just spinning the live-scope pull around here. So yeah, come over to the Bennett Fishing Channel. Like Josh said, subscribe. I do a lot of lake trout content. I'm based in New Hampshire and if you want to come out in the boat with me, it'll be the first time I'm actually promoting the guide service. So you can find it on BennettFish.com. That's me out there. Yeah, as soon as I started to drop, oh, there he is. Did he come back on you? Yeah. That's awesome. Come on. Come on. This is so cool. Oh, he's all over you. Tricker. Yeah. Oh, he's on it. That was awesome. Oh, he's off. Oh, man, that looked like a good one. It was a good one. Yeah, he's still there. Will they come back? Oh, there's two of them. Drop down. Drop down. I might have had him. Actually, I might have. No, he sees me, I think now, right? You're hooked up. Yeah, drop down. He's right next to me. I gotta be. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, that's a giant. That's a giant. Get in that net. Yes. Awesome. First one of the day, folks, and it is a wild fish. It has all of its fins. Not a bad way to start the day. No, not bad at all. Got it. It should be good. I don't know how you haven't got smoked yet. I didn't see my bait. Yeah, I didn't see mine either. There he is. Nice. There he is. That was a surprise. Oh, yeah, he came off that right off that rock. There's not a one right behind him. Okay. You holler when you need the net. I'm gonna try to pick off the second one. He freaking joked that I can feel it's in the back of his throat, guys. His freaking teeth are smashing. Oh, yeah, you can see it. Oh, jeez. Four or five pounder or better? Yeah, he's pulling the boat. He's going under the boat. Yeah, they don't know how to do that. He might be a little bigger than you thought. Yeah, well, he's slain the hell out of there. Good fight. That's a long fish. There's more than one over there for sure. Oh, that's a pretty fish, folks. I noticed a lot of these fish have scars on them. Yeah, they're all lamprey. Is it? Yeah, sea lamprey. Wow. That's why fishing game stocks later. They're almost fished to extinction. No way. The lamprey took over the lake. So now they call cobalamprey. What a beauty. That's a beauty. Oh, yeah. In a while, that's fin clipped. So they stock thousands and thousands of these in the lake and this is a stalker. I saw that fish. That's, oh, what a pretty, that's smally. Oh, it is freaking tank smally. Yeah. Oh, crap. I'm like, that was a weird bite. Yeah. I flashed and saw him. Nice. That is a big smally. That could be a PV smally. Really? Yeah. Dude, that's awesome. That thing is huge. I saw it come off the bottom. You just, you just scanned over him. 4.16 pounds. No, no, yeah, it's not my PV. That's a beauty. That's a beauty. Four pounder. We got to get a picture for that one. Does he really? Huh. Got it. That's a freaking chunk. That's a tank. Chunk guys. Chunk. 45. Yeah. About there. Yeah. So that was 55. Just fine. See if we get somebody's attention. You're recorded. Oh, yeah, I'm recording. There's no way you don't get smoked. Real. Real, real, real, real, real. Real, real, real, real. Yeah. Here he comes. Yeah. Got him. All right. I got the bite now. Six of them bore that. That's a long one. There's one with them. Oh, look at, what is it? You got a goiter? Oh, the fungus just fell off. I just lost a pound. I lost a pound of fungus. Poor guy just so beat up with lamp rays. Oh, dude, that, that was awesome. Stop recording on that one. You just horse them in the hour? Do you ever want to do whatever you feel like is appropriate? Because that's a big fish. Oh, man. I'm not going to die for him yet. Look at that fish. That is an awesome fish. He is like a zombie. Not ready yet. I'll turn his head for you. He's pegged pretty good, I think. All right, I got it. I got him now. Nope. Boy, they're fighting hard. The wild fish fight harder, dude. There you go. Nice. I can't get over the marks on these guys. So that's all from, oh, he's got like a little baby lamp ray on him. Would you pick those off? Yeah, I should come stop recording like 10, 25. Lamp rays get up to like two feet long. They're nasty. Oh, that's gross. Did it come off? Yeah. Yep. Oh, there's one down. I think by his fin. So he bumps at, oh, is he going to make 30? Oh, no, he's 30. He's 30. He touches. He touches. That's a Vermont master angler. Sweet. Look at the holes in them. There we go. There's nothing better than those mountains in the background too. It's so sick. You know? All right. Nice one, guys, going back. Big ol' Laker. Hey, buddy. That was pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah, it was definitely like more of a sponge bite. Yeah, it just let him load up on you. Yeah, let it load up and then you can wheel him again if you want because your mouse is tricky. I got a second one. There you go. I didn't even see him, man. That was a different one. Yeah, what was a different one? Yeah, I was watching the other two that were on there. Come on. Got a water temp of, was it 37 still? 36, yeah. Yeah. 36 and change. I'm going to try to double up for you. Do it. It's a decent one up. Plus, yeah, the average. Slamming them, folks. A little bit slow this morning, but not bad. Another wild beauty this morning. Holy crap. The colors on that thing is amazing. Sorry, I'm all backlit here. This is what happened last time I was here. Gorgeous. Going back in. All right, so I waited on that hook step. Yeah. And I know I got him near the end of his mouth. Yeah. Did you see him lunge and miss it? I see him lunge and then I froze because I couldn't tell if you hooked up or not. No. Oh, no. No, it was that same thing where you just barely. Barely got it. And I know I got him near the skin of his teeth, so I'm actually going to, I'm going to have to fight him out, I think. Yeah, go ahead. Nice one though. Yeah. It was like you said, like on camera where he didn't open his mouth and there's just like a quick little nip. Oh, look at the fight on this guy. Yeah. Nice. That's bigger than some Bego average right there. Yeah. That's, that's what I'm saying. Like this, this is why I come here. It's an extra hour drive for me, but oh my God. Well worth it. Yeah. I'm really liking your jig. Hear that folks. Bye jig heads. Yeah, pretty good one right there. Fun, fun size. Yeah, wild fish too. Fun size. They're coming in like into the boat, dude. Yeah, they just follow us all the way back here. Oh yeah. Um, you see what you want from that? No. Just, I'm trying to get you another fish. I'm trying to double up here with you. Go! What the heck is going on? I'm sorry, I'll throw, I'll throw whatever they were if you want to just catch that fish. See if they're still there. Don't worry about me. Another beauty folks. Yeah. Wow. It was silly though. There had to been, my phone's not recording that. There had to been 10 fish back there. They just kind of came out of the rocks all together. Yeah. They were just after I came over. I don't know how I was going to look here. So Bego's so clear obviously. Yeah. That's a pretty fish. That might be the prettiest one yet. Super pretty. That super green back on them. Yeah, they tend to have that. The wild ones have just a slight more, a little bit better green and a little bit like orange fins. Okay. That's what I saw last time. What a chunk, guys. I'll take out the nice camera. We'll do some greens on there because the GoPro just doesn't, doesn't do it justice. Nice burp shark. Oh boy. Oh my gosh. Nice. That was pretty awesome. It's a big fish to eat us through up. Look at him. He just wrapped himself up. Oh, he's already out. Yeah, he wrapped himself up. Fun's worth it. For sure. Another chunk going right back in. A little bit deeper than we were over there. Whoa, there's, are there more or is that they going away from us? They're going away from us, but I would farm it 80 something. In the 80s? Yeah. Wow. Never mind. He flew up, he flew up quicker than I could even get to that. Did you see that? Oh my god. I was sick. Hopefully the head cam caught that. Yeah. I literally looked down and I'm like, he had it before I could even get to it. That did not look like an 85 cast to me, but obviously you were doing, you know what you were doing. Yeah, he landed perfect. He's up. He's already up the surface. Yeah. The other one was halfway there, but I think it was a smaller. Oh, do you see that job? Dude, if you catch one on a Whopper Plopper, that would be so sick. It's possible. If you get that bite going, I'll have the drone up there for 25 minutes. That would be sweet. Sweet man. Thank you. Nice. Got it. That's another really pretty one. That was awesome. That was one of the coolest bites of the day for me. Yeah. It felt like it. All right. Another good one guys. That's a old slime dart for you. Beauty. Yeah. Let's get him back. Yeah, where are you? Oh, you're right on him. Oh, you're on him. Yeah, he didn't think I was, yeah, I didn't think I was too far from him. I dropped. This one feels better. Yeah, yeah, it's a good fish. Now he's not much bigger. Nice. Is he getting close to the pole? There he is. Nice. Another good one. He ate that pretty good. Oh, look at the freaking marks they got on him from those land pricks. They don't die. I don't know how. Yeah, I don't. I don't really get it either. We were talking on the Brook trout podcast is that oh yeah, the guy ripped a gill plate or a gill raker out of a Brook trout's mouth, released it and it still lived. Oh my god. They caught it later. It's same tag fish. They caught it later. Oh yeah. No, I've caught some Brookies like that. Some Brookies are squirrelly. I mean anything raised on a hatchery is squirrelly, in my opinion. Yeah. Nice fish. Not a bad one, huh? Yeah. Good one, guys. Another. These are definitely slime darts. Yeah. Yep. But heavy. Let's get him back. Yeah. Definitely a bigger average than the baby one. 50, 60? Right there. Oh, I had him left of that. Oh, no, yeah, you're right. Yeah, you go ahead. I might be a little too far. I'll give you some time to get on them. No, you're close. Oh, is that me already on the bottom? They got to be. They had to have seen that. I'm surprised they didn't. How did they go? Oh, did they follow you? Did they see you maybe and follow you? No, drop, drop. There he is. Real, real. Yeah. Those other two just darted when you hooked that one off. Really? Can we double up or are they gone? They're gone. Oh, no, there they are. This guy's not pulling crazy hard, but he's got crazy big head shakes. That's usually the bigger ones. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Look at that fish. That is sweet. That's some cool footage right there. I hope the Hat Cam's picking them up. I'll get this one. You keep fishing. Nice fish, big long one. Yep. Yeah, your jig had to keep him pegged pretty well, man. I like that hook. Yeah. I like that length. It's an owner, owner one-off. I didn't have, wasn't making me some cool odds that I needed to stop. Yeah, I like it a lot. It's strong enough for these guys. You know, that's the key. Did I catch one without a lamprey mark on them? That's possible. Oh, look at he freaking, he got that so good. I wish every fish bit like that. Yeah, he's got some fired up ones. Yeah, nice fish guys. Another big Laker. Are we on the best lake trout fishery? We're out here casting for lake trout. This thing is amazing. Look at that thing. The big, yeah, that was a nice slow, slow swim off. I see you. Yeah, 60. Looks like there's something past me, doesn't it? Yeah. I'm on that little 80 mark there. Oh, there's one in front of you. That took so long. Look at that time, man. Did you see how long that took to bite? Man, I was like, I'm like, what is going on here? That guy took forever. Please load. Please load. Right? That was awesome. Guys, that fish showed up in front of me on the live scope, so I realized as fast as I could to him, and he turned and like jumped on it, but never touched it and he followed it. What, 30, 40? 30, 40 feet before he bit. And I'm like, what? Oh, there he goes. That was a quick catch and release. That was awesome. That was sweet. Yeah. That's the first one we've had just show up out of nowhere like that. Oh man, they're following us. Yeah, straight back 80. Go for it if you want. I'll back you up. Nice. That should have been money. You almost just have to watch them see how they move. One of them come. I know I'm just going to freaking feel it. No one can have time to set the hook. Oh, I think I got one. Yeah, I got one. I stole one. He's small. His buddy's Jason. Oh, let's see if you can get on him or just reel in front of me. I'll bring it. I'll bring it towards you if you want to reel in front of it. Let's see if we can double it. Is he still with him? Oh yeah, he's still with him. Bring yours. He's at 55. There you go. All right. Oh man, just a little short. Dang it. No, there's two. There's two. Is he still there? Is it one? He looks like a shark. Oh, it is. Sick. Yeah, I got to land this guy. That's sick. Because people hate the damn things. They usually fall off. Oh, really? Sick. I will give you $5 if you put that on your neck. Absolutely not. Oh, he fell off. Yeah, they're nasty creatures. Look at that thing. What? Those are all teeth. Ew. Stunned a little bit more. So they have a little wrath tongue. So that's the grippers. Those aren't teeth. And then they use their wrath tongue to like literally lick a hole through the fish. Ew. That's disgusting. Yeah. What a terrible parasite. Exactly. Oh, it's not. You want to get your liquor? Yeah. I forgot about the fish because I was keying on that freaking lamp, right? I'll show it to you in a minute. I'm just trying to count. Oh yeah, look at the, he was just got on there. Yep, shimmy his way around. Yep, that's a nice healthy trout. That's the only one he had on him. But it was your lucky day, bud. All right, we'll get him back. He never thought being caught would be his lucky day. And I tried to put him on the hook for bait, and they won't eat it. Ew, really? Yeah. That's a weird, weird animal. Parasite. Yeah, so these are sea lamp rays. There are native lamp ray to this lake. This one is not. This one came in here. How do you know that's a sea lamp ray? Because it gets to this size. It like feeds like this. The other ones don't feed like that. Yep. What do you do with it? Eat it? Well, I'm sure there's cultures. I'm sure there's cultures that eat it. I ain't gonna eat it. I'm just gonna make sure that it's dead and then it'll have a baby lamp ray on itself. I'll give you $20 to put that. I see people do it out here though. No. Yeah, they put them on their tongue. What? Like smaller ones. Yeah. This is, this is a medium. I've seen ones that are like two feet long. Touched it. He touched it again. Keep going. I should have shortened this bait up. He's right below us. Is he still there? Yep. He touched that three times. I know I'm sorry. I left the bait a little bit bigger than normal. Yeah. See if I can get him. He's not hooked. Right there. Yeah. He just smoked it. Oh my goodness. Is that him out out to 50 or a different one? No, that's a different one. Yeah, I'll go out to 15. I'll see if he's still around. There he is. Vertical. Vertical. All right. This guy's got two, two skin marks in his, in his, yeah, in his jaw. We each, we each got to look at him once already. Feels pretty decent, but this is the first one I've actually vertically jigged like that. You're like, oh, where can he be? Oh, there he is. He's got to still be there, right? Oh, it's a nice one. Is it? Well, no, I got him. I got him, bud. I mean, they're, they're all nice. You know what I mean? It's like, definitely one of my better fighters with that vertical jigging. Yeah, he's not, I mean, yeah. I think the, I think the vertical, the vertical kind of fooled me into thinking he was a little bit bigger because of how hard he's fighting. Oh, they're pike fishing. I just heard it. This one's actually short and super fat. That's no marks on them really to speak of. Super healthy one. He's got all those fins. That's just a beauty. Look at that fish. Nice. That was awesome. I shortened it a bit. Yeah. That was one of my better fights. I don't, it's probably because it was vertical, you know? Yeah. Cause it's like, I, you know, I caught him like right near the surface 80 feet away. Do you have to like lean back almost behind you? The angle is just so steep. Right. This is probably your first time casting for Lakers, right? Yeah. Do you got one? Yep. Was that blind? Was that blind? Yep. I don't even know who's on there. I just thought it really, I'm like, that feels heavy. Something bit me. You got to fish right on you. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Just not feel like a Laker. Not at the rate that you're bringing them in, unless you were the master of catching dinks. This would be the smallest one of them. The dink master. He's going up. It is not a Laker. Nice. Smalley hooked up nice. There's a couple of fish in front of us though. Ball flap. Tail smack. Nice Smalley right there. Boom. We're back in the bass game just like that. Got a black spot on the tail. Nice Smalley right there guys. Give mine a quick picture. Get me back in the bass game. Going pro. Right now. Getting out of it. Let me know if you got it. Oh yeah, I got mountains in the background. What kind of depth was that? 35 or so? We're like right on the edge of it still. Dude, that's such an awesome way. We got Smalley's and Lake Trout. Smalley's, Lake Trout. One right now. Nice. That fish was so hangry guys. Holy. You got a hangry one? He tackled this thing twice. All right, I'm going to drop straight down. Just in case he came. He stayed. He's right there. Oh yeah. I feel like my my plastic's jacked up. Yeah. Oh, we shallow? Yeah, 18. First time today I've had to switch baits. Is it really? Joe's been smoking my baits all day. Yeah, nice. I don't know what I do with that. It's because you don't you don't let them just bite the tail like I do. I'm not feeding them. You try to get them to the hook. Here he comes. You son of a gun. He doesn't even know he's hooked yet and it's a fat one. Oh, that was almost epic. I could try. I knew that was going to happen when you hook them that close to the boat. He got them and then I missed them again. He can't win them all though. You were destined to miss that fish. The old reverse cast. You should come right into them. This did the whole cast and reel on my back right now. You should have stayed backwards. He's definitely still there. I got him right on. Oh yeah. There you go. There you go. Nice. The reverse. If you just coached, I could have just done that backwards the whole time. That one might be a better fish. No. Oh no, it would look decent. Or even. Goose him then, but it's all right. That's what I get for using one hand on you. Trying to get the footage. That's for you guys at home. See that? We're losing the fish because of you guys. I have giant tanks. Look, it's coming off the ledge for me. Look at them. Oh yeah. Smally. Laker? No, no, it could be a smally. You look like a smally on the smally. Nice one. Nice smally. That's two good ones today, dude. Nice one. What a pretty fish. Usually there's stuff full of crawfish. That thing's a beast. That is a beast. That one's got shoulders on them. He was just like slid off the top of the rock there. One thing I'm very good at is his fish ID on the life scope for size. I have never gone out with the life scope to target bass. Yeah. Just haven't had a fan. That's a beauty. Like I need to simplify stuff. Stop using the Sony camera. Blind. I might have a smally. Yeah. Got that one on the old blind cast. I pitched back to your smally hole. Although now he's fighting like a Laker. It's long. It is a Laker. It is a Laker. It's a little guy. Yeah. No, no, I got him. I'll probably just boat flip this guy. What are you burping for? You weren't there. So why don't you stop professional bass fishing? It was for the business, the family business. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Nice one there, guys. That was fun. So you don't always have to look at them to catch them. It's just more fun. It's just more fun. Yeah, it's more fun. We're going to find out. 100% a smally. Is it? Me and that? The giant smally. Oh, it's another. That's a big smally. That was awesome. You'd be having a decent bag in a tournament. After sure. Josh is smacking some pretty good smallies now, guys. Smacking smallies. Another decent. Oh, yeah. Oh, she's just going to be a good one. Yes. No, my braid is wrapped around the tip of my rod. He's still on it. Yeah. Oh, there you go. That was good. Is he good? Yeah, he's good. Yeah, it's been a while. He's heavy. He's heavy. The lunchtime slump right there. Heavy and healthy. That one had looked on the screen. That one's a beast. Step, step, step, step. Nice, good fish. Nice fish. Chonk. Chonk, it's been a while. It moved spots. Another wild fish. They've been saying that the stocking returns are more than 50% or been wild fish. So that's always a good sign. Going back in. Good fish. I'm going to say there's some if you turn up this way a little bit. There should be like three or four there. Yaddy. Get another one. Is that a decent? That's decent. That helps. I might. Unless you're on one. I know. I casted short. I don't think he wants to come up anytime soon though. You might be good for a couple more minutes. No mercy on him. Yeah. Oh, he's just barely hooked. Got him right now. He's a dirty dog. He's a dirty dog. This one. Wow. Yeah. When you get that hook that far out, I've always found they fight so hard. Oh, man. And I really want to land this one too, guys. This one is pretty. This one is super pretty. He's not all stovetop. He's got good colors. All right. He looks ready, doesn't he? Oh, we're not. Wow. Yeah. There you go. All right. There's my biggest one of the day, guys. Best fight of the day for me. Is there? Yeah. I'll deal with him. Oh, he was lampreyed. It was just in the guts. Oh, yeah. That's why I couldn't see it. Yeah, you'll catch moys with them on it out here. It's rare, but it happens. Try to counterbalance you in the bush. Yeah, sir. It's a heavy fish. There we go. He was not coming off. So I had less worry than I thought. Oh, my goodness. They're stacked back there. You got them stacked? Yeah. Nice. That's a good one, guys. Yeah, that is a nice one. He's probably in that 30 range, wouldn't you say? Yeah. Master Angler Vermont. Oh, come on, doubles. Come on. We get a doubler? No. I'm going to get a measurement on him. Yeah. I think he's 30. Oh, you freaking crackers. What happened? He's not 30. He's 29 and a quarter. 29 and a quarter. Nice one. Oh, that is pretty fish. Isn't it pretty? Yeah. Yeah. Going back. Nice. Thank you for netting that for me. Come on, Cherby. Picked it up on the way down, but he did that time. We're about to get a double. Yeah, double-double. Come on, Joe. He would not keep coming in. I think there's another one right under us, too. There is. Well, there's the one he just brought in, and then there's this one. Yeah, there's two of them. You, like, did a big swing on him. Yeah. And master, or there was nothing. And then by the time you reeled down, he was there. Slam him. I let him eat. You know, he, that fish ate that swimming towards me. Oh, yeah. I had to catch up to him. Oh, yeah. They'll slack line you. That's why I got those 1,500 size reel. Monstrous head shakes. Look at the size of these head shakes. Oh, yeah. Keep him pinned. I'm going to try. Is this the biggest fish of the day? We don't know. You haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen them. Just got a little bit of a look. Oh, yeah. It's a big one. It's a nice one. Yeah. Class. Man, they fight hard here, don't they? Yeah, they do. I guess 30-inch fish, though, what he's back. Yeah. Oh, that's a beast. That's a beast. It's time to tell it when they're, like, in the water. The guy, it looks big. Yeah. Yeah, right. You get, like, the magnification of the water. But that thing is heavy. You know, he might not be super long. Yeah, it's down. Oh, yeah. He's got shoulders on. Yeah. That's nice. Shoulders. And, like, top to bottom. Like, see how wide he is that way. That's my biggest or heaviest of the day. I don't think he'll go 30, but, well, he wasn't coming off. Your hook's pegged him over under. Wow. That's heavy. Yeah, he's heavy. That's a heavy laker right there, guys. He's hard to hold on to. He's such a slob. Perfect. You know? Yeah, yeah. Sweet. How much? How long is it? 20 something? I bet he's not even 28. Yeah, he's 26 and three quarters. He's probably my heaviest one, including that 30 enter. This is what you need them all shaped like. Let's get him back. Whoa. He's so strong. Dude, that thing's over eight pounds. I wouldn't doubt it. Wow. Wow. They get chunky up here. Holy cow. That's a fish. Don't know if, oh my God, look at them all. Holy cow. I don't know if I reached them. You might want to bomb. I didn't bomb. When in doubt, bomb. You can always sweep it in. I know. I'm not even sure where I am. I saw that. I saw that in the corner of my eye. That was sick. He came out of that mess. There's like three fish in that mess. Look at them all. Look at them all. I wasn't even as far as that school. All right. Start recording 231, folks. We are stacked on them right now. We're going to double up. You worry about the fish. I'm going to flip this guy and get him off. All right. Quick catch and release. Oh, he's all over you. That was awesome. I'm going to get out of your way. That was sick guys. There has to be 15 lakers down there. It is nuts. Yeah. I didn't just want to flip one out. That was sick, folks. That's a good one. Decent. You got them? Oh yeah. I got a little baby lamprey on them too. Oh yeah. That's a good solid fish. Decent. Fatso. Phatosaurus. Just the real chunk 25. Going back in. Yeah, that's a nice one. 25, love, but they're so heavy out here. Yeah, they are. Got some of them. Got them? Yes, five of them. There he is. And you got another one up. Well, yeah, no one chasing them. Looks really good. What for that, you follow? Oh, he's got a huge lamprey. You got them? Yeah. The lamprey is as big as he is. That's the biggest lamprey, yeah. Get it? They're nasty. Oh, so nasty. That's a good fish too. Finally guys, it is all, not all leg trout down there. It can't be because they're not, they're just not fired up, but another one right there. And I'll show you the big lamprey that was on them. Look at the size of that freaking parasol. That's touching me. That was disgusting. Real, real. You official? I'm eating a cracker. No excuse, man. I'm eating a cracker. This guy's got a jump. Okay, he's freaking trying to eat lunch or something over here. Small or like? I think it's a lake. It was coming up like a smally, though, because you're like, what are they just doing? You got a life skull, bitchy. Let's go ahead and go deep. He came up, like a little guy at first. I was thinking of smally. Well, I probably didn't realize it was huffings. I probably had 30 feet of slacky eyes over here. That's why he came up so hard. I'm going to go all the way around, I guess. A lot of fish in this lake. There it is. Wow, it's another, it's a pretty one. Don't worry about the thug. Oh, he's all over here. I'm just going to go blind. Shit. Mr. Oh, me too. He's up back on it. He's back on it. He's not eating, man. That was my fish. Oh, was it? Yeah, it was. He's still on me. Oh, you freaking got my tail. Yeah, I think you've got my tail in his mouth. Dingleberry. You got him now. You want your tail back? Give my tail back. Fish? This is awesome. Does not think he's something, too. He thinks he's something. Yeah. He's fished way better over the years. Look at the colors of that one. Yeah, perfect pattern on that. There was a bag. It might be under that. Joe caught my fish again. Yeah, operation game, Pete. And look, I got no tail either. He's got a mouth full of tails. Yeah, he got your tail, my tail, then he finally got my hook. So third one, you still on him from there. Operation game. Oh, he's on you again. No way. Bad hook. There's no way I'm landing this guy. Yeah, I'll land him. Oh my goodness, he's so freaking tiny. Yeah, that's a lie. Yeah. The little ones are fun. Yeah, look at the eye on that side. I've never seen that one. No, you're either just blind. Yeah, this guy's re-growing his tiny eyeball. He's got an eyeball full size on that side, and he's got a tiny eye on that side. Weird. Crazy how a fish can live with that big of a hole in their side. And they're like, yeah, I'm fine. He's got a hole like that. Oh, yeah, he's got a piece of meat. He probably won't be eating as much. Biggins. Just like flesh hanging out there. That's crazy. Is it really? Yeah, you can see bone in there. That's a bad one. That might be the worst one, yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, that guy ate. Finally. Yeah. That was a challenge. Good one. Yeah. That might, is that the biggest lamprey yet? Yeah. He's like almost the size of the fish. That's terrible. Fan or something? No, he was, he just wasn't fully sucking blood out of him yet. Oh, good. He's just started. He's just a hickey. He got that fin now, see? Yeah. The fin must have saved him. Lamprey suck. Really? Ew, ew, ew. He's pretty gross. Needs braces. Yeet. Go, go, go. I like that one, dude. That was awesome. Those are called classic chases jokes. Those are the best thing since sliced bread. This one might be decent. They look decent. They look long when it stretches itself out. Yeah. Oh, there's one that falls in below us, too. He might have a buddy. Whoa. That was a little bit different move. You ever get any pike doing this? I got bit off by something last year, which was like Vermont master angler coming up. Did the other one go away? Definitely a big one. Yeah. He's got some fight to him. This is when I get nervous when they're this close. First one that pulled drag all day. Yeah, when they're this close. And you got short line out. I don't like that. Yeah. Man, he just went to the bottom and sat. Yeah, I know. I can see him on life's scope. I mean, he hasn't surfaced yet. No, I saw him. He's big. Big old brown one. He's going to make another run over. Yeah. Don't want to go around me or no? No. I don't like that move. He just did. No, I knew to do why. I was going to pull the left. He just burped. Man, he shouldn't be foul hooked. I think he's just big. I hate those big headchinks like that. Oh, yeah, he's heavy. That's a monster. That's the first time he surfaced. I'm kind of, oh. I'm kind of finning the drag. I got the drag fairly loose now because he's for real, but I'm thumbing the drag too. I'll do that on big ashes. I won't do that. I trust my spinning gear stuff. Yeah, spinning gear is awesome for that, but I still, for this guy, this guy's got serious shoulders, guys. I mean, serious, serious shoulders. He's, all right. I think I got him smart now. I got him surfaced once again. We've only seen him once, and he's thick. It's just thick. It's kind of like probably 29, 30 inches and just stopped growing long and started growing wide. He's about to get me one more time. I don't even see him, do you? No, no. He's deep down there. There he is. He's going to come up one more time, but I don't know if he's even ready yet. What do you think? All right. Use your better judgment. I'm going to do my best with the net. I'm just keeping him out of the trolling motor. If he turns, I might be able to get him. Yeah. Yeah. Nice one, dude. Thank you. Good job on the net. He did a great job. He's a heavy fish. He's a wild fish. Yeah, he's heavy. Those wild ones sure do fight, don't they? Oh, he's slimy. Yeah, that's heavy. Yeah, that's a fat so. What do you think of that guy? That's a beauty. Perfect. Yeah. Healthy. He's got no marks on him. Yeah, nice. Good. Yep. Nice fish there. What do you think he goes? Yeah, we can check him if you want. I think he's seven plus. Yeah. Maybe eight? Maybe. I don't weigh that many. I only weigh the ones that are like over my PB size. Yeah, it's 28. It was 28. Yeah, 28. All right, let's get him back. Now, he's had a good hard fight. There he is. Awesome. Awesome fish. All right, you good with him? Yeah, I'm good. Oh, yeah, there he goes. Fins right out and everything. Laker. No way. Yeah. What? Yeah. Not very big, but the Laker. Now, I'm too. Yeah. They spawn on this. This is a nice and rocky show. I just kind of threw blind over there. Let me check the whole deep side. A couple of Lakers. This side loaded with fricking. Got plenty of practice today. Yeah. He's not as small as I originally thought he was. You want them that? No, no. I'm gonna just scoop him. He's bigger than I can use you. Yeah, look how he's pretty good. I saw it. I would assume they would just stay up here in the spring, if you're pretty good at this, actually. Nice. Fish him blind. Was it? Yeah. Nice. Any bump you? Bump me, drop it. That was like my last one. I feel like sometimes they won't fight with the fish. But all I got, I think you were like you were saying before, it has to be adverse conditions, like the bite can't be on and then they won't fight. Yeah, or they've been hit so many times. They always do it fast. Yeah. They're just reaching to grab the scissors, chomp his fricking head in half. Awesome day of fishing, guys. Just amazing day on the water. I honestly can't. Yeah, it feels like we caught 50. Yeah, I don't know. I just don't even count it anymore. I need to bring that counter. Wayne Lad gave me a counter. I don't know if it's in my truck or not. I wasn't expecting to catch enough that we would have needed a counter for a lake trout because we caught them up in the eight pound range today. Probably average 26 inch? Yeah. 27 maybe on the 26 on the low side. Maybe I caught a couple of things. So I hurt the average, but I didn't get a 30 inch, which I guess is a master angler in the state of Vermont, which was really cool for me. It's the biggest one I've caught open water fishing. And then I caught a couple of tanks that were shorter than that. Just absolutely awesome day of fishing. I fished one jighead the whole day. It was Josh's jighead. You got to check these things out. One jighead that's in all those fish and it's still sharp and the hook still in the right form. Yeah, it's a lot of pressure on a lot of fish. But we had a ton of fun. We caught some fish blind casting, but for the most part, pretty much most of the fish we caught we were looking at on the live scope. So I'll get into his live scope settings and how he's got the boat set up in a little bit. Watch for that in another video. But for the most part, really appreciate you guys tuning in. Really appreciate you checking out his channel, Bend It Fishing. And if you like this kind of stuff, man, click that like button and subscribe for more content like it. Perfect. See you on the next video. Nice. Perfect.