Fishing For BIG Fish With Bluegill As Bait

well good morning folks it's Richard here I tell you what it's a beautiful day here on Lake Guntersville now this morning what we're gonna do is fish for flat heads or just catfish in general would you catch a flat head a balloon would you catch a big channel cat you never know with laia bluegill well I'm gonna show you what I'm doing right here today I'm using I have two rods I have another rod out right here but this one right here is a duck yet silver rod it's medium heavy action 7 feet long and only I have an ambassador 5,500 s and it's loaded with 30 pound test trialing big game and I misuse and we've got a lot of rocky rocks a lot of rocky a lot of rocks out in front of us so I'm just using a barrel swivel and a short leader and this is a j-hook right here this is a full rock Jay hook tab with a Palomar knot and a bluegill about 3 and 3/4 inches maybe long it's a small one so that's reason I'm using the J hook this morning let's make us a cast out here okay now I cast probably in about 17 feet of water and we have some scattered rocks out in front of me and I'm fishing for catfish see if we can catch them a few this morning blue channel flathead that really don't matter what but we'll see what we come up with right here and I'll show you my other little setup which is a real good one right here for this kind of fishing now this reel right here this is a 50 500s 5 to 1 to 1 gear ratio has a clicker feature right here and once that bluegill makes it to the bottom which he should be but now I'm just gonna lean this rod right here my rod holder is just a bunch of junk right here that that flood throw it up here on the bank okay I mean contact my bluegill so I'm gonna push my button and engage your clicker like that and just lay it right here like that I see you know this rod is the one I want to catch a big flathead or a blue long it's a cadence seven-and-a-half foot heavy action fast he'll 40-ton construction but this rod is extremely light real light and it says heavy action but I won't categorize it as a medium heavy it's not it's not that heavy but every month a rod manufacturer they classify the rods way they want to but that's just me same reel same setup except for on this when I have a big bluegill about that loan only with a a top circle hook so I'm fishing bigger right here so let's just lay it down engage the clicker feature let's see if we can catch a fish this morning whew okay first by the sedation there he is that fish is in some rocks or something let me turn my clicker off right here folks oh that's pretty good fish too now this is probably a flathead right here on that bluegill we'll see though he ain't no giant but he's a good fish he's trying to get in my other line right here don't go in it no that fish falls just like a flat head just exactly like one cuz water's still pretty cool folks big ol drum and a good one teeth clean yet powerful fish when drone gets this size and bigger earth they're real powerful all right come on in here I thought we had a flat head about 10 or 12 pounds be honest with you but what a drum this looks like a trash pile right here and I'm embarrassed about it be honest we but most of this is from all that high water we had and a lot of this trash accumulated and uh just certain spots but my goodness water drum tell you what folks honestly thought I had a flat head right there hard to tell the difference but that is a big drum there at least we protons let's let him go the fish right there now he'll get his hair about his hair back but one of my saying he got is a balance there he goes there he goes he'll survive I was real easy for that fish and I didn't handle him in the Ghilzai it's just data killing me to set up an infection and their gills quicker than anything you can do all right let's see what else we can get a hole - whoo whoo let's hook that bluegill there make sure there's no scales in front of that point now I'm using enough that's a seven out circle hook Jemma katsu circle hook I said hey eat all I think I did well ago but let's be faster now hooked like that he's gonna go to the bottom and once he goes to the bottom folks he's gonna move around a little but not a whole lot and he's gonna face up just like this now he's a big flathead or blue or big Channel anywhere near him over a big drum we'll catch you look here folks that's on my big bluegill right here let's let him have it a little bit longer okay we're just going to real wait daddy circle hook for those of y'all who's never used one just start reeling now fight assistant hook right there I didn't miss that fish no doubt about it I would have missed him if he sure he is fighting he's not quick so I know it's not a blue it's either a flathead or big drum one of the others one or the other and that was a big bluegill and taking a little drag when I get them pretty close to the bank like this I will loosen off of the drag because that's where you'll lose most your fish it'd be right beside the bank we ain't got an old stretch in her lamb or real close to the bank like this I'm interested to see we got a flat head or a big drum fish no it's the flat head that's the fish I was putting a target on the start with of course I don't care what kind of fish I can't just long as it's a fish this ain't no giant but I'm gonna tell you you talking about fat flat heads have got the power there we go ain't bad though not at all they're all good to me I love it just like y'all do I'm no different I'm the same we're one of the same when it comes to fishing there we go old flathead I'll show this fish to y'all because ain't real big but he is Purdy he's I mean lookin dude - well he's looking bigger pretty food Tennessee River flat he had fish right here yeah he's bigger and I thought he was a little bit more laid down real gentle like that and then we'll take a look at him he's pretty doggone good it to be honest hey I'm talking about smell this little bee flyer all right folks check him out that's the fish shots later one that size well or bigger let's get e my buttons right here now I don't like to hold them without supporting their belly right here they're so dense and heavy they can actually break their bags I just wanted to let y'all know that there's no need of me killing this fish for flathead okay he's a good shape or she a lot of fun right here again I'm in an area that has a lot of trash right here and it's just because while that high water all that flooding that we had folks all right folks it's lungs just another one of these bad boys out right here okay remember now this is a a tall Gamakatsu circle hook and right here is a knotless knot and I've in 40 pound test leaders all I'm using today this is a swivel and I went to a little bigger beefier swivel by the way 30 power lane and the connections right there at the swivel or Palomar knots so here we go we're gonna hook him like that right there there's a scale get it off we're gonna launch you back now let's watch this blue cube right here this is the main part about free landing he's gonna go straight to the bottom did y'all see that that's why I'm able to do this flat head stay on the bottom for most part okay to the bottom right here but you know we could catch a blue if they're in here the big blues and I don't know if they are or not I'm gonna pull him to me a little bit because I want it right on that ledge yeah fish kept messing around with that that blue gill was real real nervous let me get right over here where I'm landing I don't think he's a real big fish you can't never tell those a lot of times I'll start really fussing right here that I'm going this fish right here is gonna be dedicated to Ricky Wallace what happened mr. swimming bird oh this is a small fish this is about his kind right here it's a little blue Oh si chunky little blue and I want to show y'all something about this fish right here yeah he hit that bluegill real hard though ain't that amazing [Music] look at that there is a unique fish right there yeah now this is a I'm gonna have to do this because Oh Ricky's pestering the dog out of me now this is the kind old fish right here that Ricky Wallace catches all unusual-looking stuff you know but that fish get like a good one I'm not kidding you he's still capable of feat ain't that something how nature takes care of itself and there's that bluegill down in his mouth now the way I hook hook these bluegill I want to point this out too on the bottom like I do so they'll dive down that is a perfect placement for a hook when you're using light blue you know in my opinion remember everything on this channel is about opinion but yeah that's an old Ricky Wallace fish I gotta let him go look that thing he smells funny but now he's fat he's fading oh you talk about okay of my spurt yeah he'll come on their nerve when you fishing baby Bank poor people trying to fish he'll come on in there and horde in there hey hey face it by my poems you know able to spend that's a doable folks I can't tell how big the way that piece took off I figured it was a big one but fighting much we'll see let me get the clicker off that's not your fake the far out y'all I know it is got to be he ain't that big guy took off like a big blue though that's the way a big bully will take off ya see what we got he's gonna give me a fit right here he ain't gonna grant budget but he's a pretty good one we'll take him they don't start fighting until they get right up here next to the I thought that was gonna beat one mo big blues but it's just the mail alright I got to do something with him he's just gonna twist roll tumble and turn right here's what he's gonna do oh yeah now you're done you're done my fish hit a big bluegill I locked in Gamakatsu I'm getting where I like them chemists gimmick Otzi's my fish ugly that's just the right size right there's bocce pretty good then males a lot of times I mean that's the male blue but as a wise jolly bummy looks like an old home her father's gonna give him a name it be Homer yeah let's get her hooked yeah y'all can see I'm gonna let him have that bluegill it's a big one I have bluegill I blew a hit on this time of year quick if he's there he'll hit I'm guaranteed free lightning like that is a great way to catch all species are you going hey man hey man I tell you the best thing we can do right here oh did that hurt right there now [Music]

Channel: Richard Gene The Fishing Machine

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Id: rz30ak3640I

Length: 19min 58sec (1198 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 25 2020