Catfish Derby: I Caught a Rare Fish and a Golly Whopper Size Flathead

[Music] hey y'all just lokahi catfish I'm gonna be competing in a catfish derby this weekend and I thought you know what I'm gonna film the process and bring you all along with me now this month's tournament is a slot fish tournament if you watch my catfish derby video from July that video it was basically our 22 longest fish over the course of the weekend this month's tournament it is still 22 fish that we can submit but 20 out of the 22 have to be 24 inches or less so this is basically a small fish tournament I mean yeah you want your to over slot fish to be as long as possible but the bulk of your score is gonna be made up of those small fish so that's what I'm gonna focus on now I hope to be able to start fishing tonight y'all this tournament starts at midnight and runs through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday I don't know if I'm gonna get to or not we got some scattered storms in the area they're supposed to kind of dissipate through the night and tomorrow morning it's gonna be fine but I'd really like to spend as much time as possible fishing the nighttime hours to avoid the heat and also just avoid the pleasure boat traffic but I don't know if I'm gonna get you or not but my plan is to go out I'm gonna work some flats and I'm gonna work some secondary channels and I'm gonna get out there with chicken breasts I have downsized hooks and try to catch them having small fish as I can I'm gonna be drifting and trolling depending on the current situation I'll have three rods that are downsized then I'm gonna keep one rod just my regular normal baits that I use to try to you know get those to over slot fish but the bulk of my time and the bulk of my efforts is gonna be spent just getting after them small fish that's what you got to do I mean you just got to sort through as many fish as you can to try to get them as close to that 24-inch line without going over you know I know there's a there's a perception in slaw fish tournaments that it kind of levels the playing field if you will and on paper it looks that way because the scores at the top of the leaderboard are much closer together nobody can really run away with it and a slot fish tournament but in reality that's not really true an hour normal tournaments of which are are either too big fish or three big fish over our month alone and those tournaments a person can kind of get lucky right I mean you can be the worst fisherman in the world and the right place right time and get you two big fish and win the thing and this kind of tournament a slot fish tournament you ain't gonna get lucky that many times I know everybody thinks well VI catch 24-inch fish all the time in reality you don't you catch them 22 inch so I'm 23 inch some 26 27 etc I fished the Yaak tribe tournament last year on the year before man I never caught so many 25 inch fish in my life as I did when I was out there trying to get 24 inches so in order to be successful in this town of tournament you really got to catch a lot of fish and just keep sorting through those small ones to try to like I said maximize your score there on the slot so this kind of tournament well it seems like it levels the playing field really it swings the pendulum the other direction for the guys who are really good fishermen and can go out and catch a ton of fish so I'm gonna give it my best shot this weekend and we'll see how it goes like I said I'm gonna bring you all along with me good bad or ugly we'll see how I do y'all wish me luck okay it is time to get the party started it's about 6 a.m. right now after I film that intro last night I looked at radar it wasn't looking good and I said you know what I'm not gonna chance and I'm not gonna go out there and sit in the rain for small fish I'll do it for big fish ain't gonna do it for the smallest so I went and got a good night's sleep inside I'm gonna get up early this morning and get at it so like I said it's a little before 6 a.m. right now and I'm about to get baited up know what i'ma be doing so I'm just gonna take small pieces of chicken breast and I've got these on my bass rods basically this is what I use to catch bait with my skipjack white bass rods I've just taken those too you know try to try to make it a little bit more fun catching small fish this weekend when you're going for 24 inch and under fish like we're doing you know for this Derby here this is a you know that's some really small fish and the the tackle I use while it's a little bit lighter action than a lot of the catfish gear out there it's still a little too heavy for those size fish so I've got some just three OTT must add circle hooks here and gay guys I've set it in other videos where you've seen me using chicken breasts wash your hands good don't be putting it up to your mouth after you've been handling raw chicken that's a recipe for disaster there but that's it guys I've got that just on a basica down sized Carolina rig small piece of chicken breast and I'll do it like I do the other my regular fishing I'm just gonna be drifting and trolling I don't have any current out here right now some will start out trolling then as the morning goes on and the current flow picks up I'll start drifting I'm gonna do a three rod setup with the chicken breast and then on this back rod back here I'm gonna have one raw baited up with I've got a white bass head to put on here so I do need a new need to fish as big as I can get on this weekend for my to over slot fish that one down and I'm gonna start out working there I'm gonna start out working off of a flap and I'm gonna make my way down the channel here and see what I can get hopefully I get on some fish and I'll just keep making my way up and down along this flat I'm not getting any fish here or not getting enough fish in my opinion well then I'll move and I'll go downstream hit a secondary channel and see what I can get into there but the theme of this weekend is basically it's going to be keep moving this cover as much water as I can and just try to like I said in the intro try to catch as many fish as I can to be able to sort through the small ones so let me get finished baited up here and we'll get to it number one take l'homme y'all maybe maybe five minutes I basically got baited up got spun around here got myself on that right on that brake line of the drop I started making my way down through here got this alone I'm gonna be running one camera got me soaking wet first thing I'm gonna be just running one camera because I'm gonna have to like I said sort through all these fish this weekend I'm probably gonna have to end up actually don't get to I'm probably gonna have to at least take pictures of 50-plus fish probably closer to a hundred fish this weekend as I get my limit and Cole and keep getting me get broads getting hit everywhere but I don't want to be full with the second camera while I'm doing that so get this one landed here Jenny we have rods going down everywhere that's what I want to see it's gonna be like it's all weekend long y'all you know a lot of times you see me in the video as my rods are getting pecked people make comments all the time well you were talking the camera and that rod is getting hit it's just small fish you know it's these small Dinks like like this one right here just uh you know fish it's too small to eat my normal size baits and get a a taunt size hook and smelt them when you've got little pieces of a small bait and a small hook fish like this can get hooked up you can get my bait back on that one that one right there that's only 15 inches so I'm not even gonna fool drop that bake back down before I land this other one over here alright y'all there's that one just get a length on him here for reference yeah that was that was 27 inches right there's waiting here to can even get my husband rod baited here and this took that oh goodness that's what we don't want to see right there that's too small but again you all this right here when you all see my rods getting pecked at and stuff and you know fish not hooked up and my regular videos it's these little things they just get down there and go to town on her bait and can't do anything with it but they'll pick at it and go at it and get pieces of it off air and not get hooked up all right guys first measurable fish that one is 22 and a quarter just need me about 19 more that size or slightly bigger so here's gonna be a little better I think okay been at least my drag I guess keep my drag walking down when I'm fishing with skipjack I like the horse on the Horsham and if you don't him skipjack will throw the hook today since I might accidentally hook into one that's uh yeah there we go since I might accidentally hook into a big one on this light tackle I better keep my drag a little looser no wasting them others too good a double own and the other rods get hit back here I'll set that back deal with this bigger one here it's funny oh man this is fun yo my real listener left that and tire himself out while I get this y'all I don't know how many of these fish you're gonna see because this video will be three hours long if I show all the fish I'm going to catch this weekend so I want to edit most of them out but yeah it's just been non-stop here that's how it goes the chicken breasts you don't need to add no garlic powder or kool-aid or any of that other crap just straight chicken breast and you'll catch the heck out of these small fish 21 and a half inches that's more what I'm looking for let's plan this a little bit bigger on here there we go y'all biggest one of the morning oh there ain't as big as this one so get him squared away first he just pooped out that shale right there and got poop all down the flip-flop guess he Shi T only didn't he there's the one at 8:00 to head yeah that's about 25 inches now in this tournament you have to pinch the tail of the fish down because nd YAG trap tournament man there were people that would take a fish like this and spread its fork tails as far as hard as they could to try to make it fit on the 24 inches so this one when you got them on the board this one's not going to behave but you got to pinch the tail down to get the maximum length out of them and so this one's gonna be well beyond the 24 inches all right let's get these baits back down there and catch some more I can't hardly keep all these lines in the water y'all lift that and go pick up on missing it right there guys that is a little piebald catfish just a fish with a pigment disorder that's a second one I've caught in my life I caught one in North Carolina when I went over and took a trip with Zack Royce and now this one that is uh that's cool man that's uh it's easier to catch fourty fifty pounders than it is to catch one of these that is awesome holding my pair so I can get a good picture he's only 16 inches long all right there's cool man all right let's let him go get big there's fish he hid it soon as I drop downhill rebated soon as I dropped it down to get it over this pond school Dale - I got rods going down there for work damn sit tight while we land missin triple-triple own sitting back work don't listen I've got this one up here to the surface he's uh you're probably one that I'm able to measure for the tournament this one here is probably gonna be too big I don't know about that set him back now let's work on this to you he's after it again I guarantee if I had six more rods in the water right now I'd have six more fish on I'm just gonna pile of them right now yeah there's about 26 inches too long for our needs they'll land this other one here all right there's the third one of the triple there he's a little too long too that's a good fish class that's a good one right there I'm trying to submit my other fish into the tourney ex app and this one just nailed it that's on that white bass head getting all these fish submitted in the app it's kind of a pain because there's so many you know trying to stay on top of it best I can oh yeah oh man he's still taken drag I think he's got this other rahat over here I don't think that's a fish on there I think it's this fish that's got it he's gonna end up with all these rod sports setting down just right here that's why I wondered one rod with a big bait on there just in case even though I'm fishing areas that are you know I'm really looking to get small fish you just never know you never know I've got a boat coming here I gotta be cool I'm gonna have all my rods in the damn tangled mess before the hiss once said and done these boaters I always stop and watch it when you got all your rods tangled it if they look at that idiot in the kayaks got every one of his lines thing that's I'm big flathead big and he does have every one of my lines what mess this is gonna be I'm left or just start over just cut everything and start over all right yes let's bring his tank Vienna look at that man I was not expecting this man huh like I said I kept that one rod with a big bait on there just in case because I'm drifting areas that are I mean you always got a chance coming down through here when you ain't time you work on a flat or drop off a main channel ledge fish like this could be cruising look okay man it's awesome look at that thing man that is a fat heavy fish all right may get him here on this board we'll get a quick length on him I'm gonna have to zoom in on the pics to get a accurate length on him there it's somewhere between 43 and 44 inches though so this is gonna be my second biggest flat head of the year just based on length not sure on weight I'll tell you things heavy all right let's let him go all right guys I ain't got a second camera with me today so we're gonna use the phone on the release shot our mister flatty absolutely messing my lines and I don't even mind there she goes called her breath and off she goes all right guys it's about 1:30 right now I just got back to the launch I have caught a ton of fish this morning I mean it's just one fish after another after another I'm kind of regretting my decision to commit myself to filming this because that's kind of the same reason I don't like filming ultra live videos you just catch so many fish it takes forever to sort through and edit all the footage but like I said I caught a ton of fish I'm in pretty good shape with this tournament right now I've got my limit and then some I probably caught I don't know 50 75 fish out there today but most of them that big school of Dinks I was on most of them more in that 14 18 inch range so you know with this slot limit being 24 inch max fish I won't hit all those fish I caught I only caught one that went between 23 and 24 inches so I've got some work to do on that end but my over slide man I got that huge fly head over 43 inches so that put me in good shape for it so I need one more over slot and then I just need to upgrade some of my slot and I'm gonna be in good shape in this tournament so I'm gonna go home get some rest don't know if I'll get back up this evening on so let's be some storms in the area and we'll just kind of see how I feel at the very least I'll probably try to go out and get some bait so I can hit it tomorrow morning if I just do my regular fishing tomorrow morning trying to find big fish maybe just put out like one rod for small fish just try to like I said up great some of those upgrade some of the slot fish that I got there it's in that 1718 inch range so overall though guys it's been a great morning I hear it couldn't have went any better as far as I'm concerned all right guys well if you have watched at this point in the video you probably feel like you have survived waterboarding at Guantanamo that knocking sound was just torture I apologize for that I apparently left my external battery cord too close to the camera mount and every time the COG moved it was just hitting that mount and transferring up into the mic so I apologize for that if I wasn't my own cameraman I'd fire myself for it but anyway guys though I didn't end up going back out on Saturday night I waited till Sunday morning to go out and I basically just tried to focus on more on big fish but just keeping once one rod out with the chicken breast looking for smaller fish to try to upgrade on my under slot but I was really hoping to hook into a bigger fish for the over slot and I got a couple of them here they are that's right here's gonna be a decent fish I believe don't know how big he is yet but decent oh yeah yeah that's a good way to get some morning started man look at that there he is guys let's bring them in that's a good fish that's a real good fish nice fish to start the morning man nice fish quickly yeah that one's gonna go captain right there's about thirty seven and a quarter good fish well hey going won't be measuring him for the tournament thing up off that board before I could get the pitcher sitting there watching a funny video only here man this fish took off on the chicken breast that's a little better fish here now they're gonna taste the chicken breasts I think this is gonna be a pretty good fish I know it's tough for me to tail with it being on light tackle but I think it's gonna be probably the biggest one I ever got on a chicken breast not a bad fish definitely the biggest one I've ever caught on chicken breasts I'm thankful to get into because that hook was just barely any but it's a small hook I'm using there for the small fish nice okay we get him on this board here we'll get a length of it that's another one there that's about 37 quarter 37 1/2 another good fish all right there there he is looks like he's about 37 2/4 37 1/2 actually got some pictures of that one for the over slot portion of my tournament so he's ready to go well y'all those two fish there that you saw was pretty much it for Sunday I mean I caught a bunch more fish but they were either too small to replace what I had already caught the day before or they were a little bit too long to account for the slaw portion this tournament but I ended up putting in a score of four hundred and eighty three and three quarters inches which was good enough for the win I pulled off first place in this thing a one I think it's a hundred and twenty seven dollars and I had some change there which ain't bad man anytime you go out and make some money : fishing that's a good time and catch a fish on light tackle that's a lot of fun I'm even though small fish 24 inches in lasts on my own the bass tackle there they were a good time it was a lot of fun I had a good time on this tournament and you know thankful to pull off the win so thank you all for sitting through this video and through the knocking sound I know it was relentless the hair for that first 15-20 minutes of the video I appreciate you sacrificing there for me but anyway guys hope you enjoyed it I'll catch you in the next one thanks for watching [Music]

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Length: 27min 48sec (1668 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 27 2019