Fishing the Thick Stuff with Pops on Okeechobee

what's going on guys guess what new episode coming at you in this episode is my dad and I on Lake Okeechobee it was an episode from last year we kind of we kind of ran out of upload time so we saved this good one for you for 2019 it's an awesome episode and how fitting because this Costa Series tournament is right here on Lake Okeechobee this next week so so Billy you need to watch this episode you know why because that man right there is fishing the coast is series tournament here on Lake Okeechobee yes he is he's a pro now he is a pronoun and he's got a brand new boat with a brand new rap favorite rap googan bait rap awesome stuff guess and check this out come back here I'm proud of this this is cool check it out team s/m see team SMC so guys if you want to be part of team SMC all you got to do is follow the link down below get some merch represent some of that stuff appreciate you very much for all the people tagging me on Instagram showing me the love with the shirts and at all the other tournaments this year we have a booth and we're gonna have SMC March at all the uphill Derby tournament so this episode again is my dad and I crushing them unlike you chilli Billy you need to go in there and watch this episode real fast and then we're gonna go fishing okay okay okay let's go welcome to the Scott Martin challenge guys that's right we're standing here on the shores of Lake Okeechobee in the beautiful town of Clewiston Florida at our marina roller Martin Rina and guess who I'm fishing against today I'm fishing to get some pops that's right nineteen time bash champion nine-time hanging over the year he's going down today I'm gonna take him out stay tuned this should [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well all I know is that I got my teeth kicked in a little bit on the last tournament so today you wear that well today you have hey cool today I'm gonna take you on one on one how about that I gotta get my mojo back no but I'm gonna have look I get to stealing luck is gonna play a big part of it you might even catch more fish but it's the last minute a lucky thing is gonna happen a lucky thing happened he had me beat all day you know I can't just monstrous one-on-one Marten challenge today okay for the time pass I've been I've been doing this long enough I can special it's alive and well every time I try this I get beat I want to beat you wanna catch up good you catch them but like most of the time or forfeit well then somehow you catch a big one something I don't even beat me somehow the last minute all i care about honestly is is didn't revenge on that 10 pounder that you caught i'll slap me in the face content miners and are fine if you catch a 10 pounder but i would rather catch like six big seven pound bass just just because that's cool dude what's gonna be cool is gonna beat you that's gonna be cool [Music] the challenge has begun the challenge has begun first cast I hate catching the first cast I really do I really kind of hate hate catching the fish the first half but I'll do it alright so here the rules we got it we got to make it as fair as possible cuz we're in the same boat okay rule number one is if I catch a fish then you take the trolling motor okay and then if you're on the Troma you catch fish no matter how big it is and I take the trolling motor so that gives us sort of advantage there you know that's really good because I tell you what in the past he hogs in front of the boat he is such he is so competitive with that trolling motor I can't even get near it so that's a good deal it's me as close as you're gonna get right here or coming right into these little pads here guys right here behind us you know you know there's a lot of wealth and little pad holes and cattails sticking up really really beautiful little marsh here it's called moonshine Bay a lot of big fish over the years have been caught here in this area and the best way to fish moonshine Bay is by covering a lot of water and finally groups of fish whether it's a swim Bay a swim jig and there were years ago will you see is the Johnson Space Johnston just things that are moving because it's shallow your top waters work good if you find a bunch of fish you can stop and start warm fishing a little bit but for the most part that's fish like moving baits in this stuff you know lady enthroned of Johnson Spooner in a long time at Bates over a hundred years old really and he get back 20 or 30 years ago when we fished this a lot with a spoon we would call good you got a big one you get it it's powerful big you get it Oh son you get the first one first one of the day that's a good one hey that's hey what hey it was cool kid away came up and you dropped it in the second time that was all over it was a goof job I must take him in the box so far that's our mark to beat that's the mark that's not gonna get it done but we will put it in there because we have to go now I caught a fish now you're running the trolling motor okay that was a neat night and I'll tell you what's so fun about like you hav like the cherry first of all just tons of grass everywhere the few big marches and it's the top water bite whether it's a top water regular top water or a swimbait bite it's awesome see those fish wake up behind it like a big shark and then go boom and at first you don't know how big they are sometimes they're eight or nine pounds and sometimes they're a nice one like this but that's it's just awesome the Scott Martin challenge is brought to you by trokar the worlds sharpest fish hook Ranger Boats still building legends one at a time and by Evinrude e-tec g2 the outboards that are changing everything this segment of the Scott Martin challenge is brought to you by Chevy Silverado the most dependable longest lasting full-size pickups on the road Okuma fishing tackle there's no stopping Okuma and by Garmin Panoptix all-seeing sonar join the pros who switched to Garmin I know dads have charged the trolling motor not to be honest with you that's not much of an advantage out here because that's everywhere there's a big in in there I'm telling you there's a big in there you need to throw in there that's not the one there's a big fish there somehow the male got it dang there's a big fish right there there's a seven or eight pounder right there I'm telling you it moved so much water was unbelievable and then I got stuck in the pads and I hopped it out of there one instantly bit it was that little one did you imagine if you'd have flipped the way we flipped now twenty years ago thirty or thirty years ago like back in the 70s punching the mats and stuff peace because y'all didn't really know to do that well the best one-on-one that you and I had was that time they were spawning real get here on the lake oh yeah yeah and you had me beat all day I did that was that was you had some big one - amazing amazing you had a couple eight pounder you were really not fat guys just just take a look at this look at how this little Trant this little challenge transpired here I had him on the ropes then he did this that's that's eight or not that's a seven or eight that's a pretty big one dad's called a ton of fish off the beds over the years and he's great at it he Wiggles that worm along that fish spins around i watch the whole thing oh I judge i n't way bigger than I thought whoa he's a big one oh I'm a big ol bass bites that lure he sets a hook and here she comes jumping all around the boat thrashing around this is a ten pounder that's might be a ten [Laughter] [Laughter] we get the fish in the boat Wyatt sure enough a true Florida trophy bass ten pounds four ounces he's got me he wins a challenge game over but you know what if I'm gonna lose to anybody losing to my dad's not so painful but I'll be honest with you getting smashed in the face by a true 10 pounder that hurts pretty bad think you got me oh I think you got big so go in there boy I think you got me huh I think you got me so far hold on let me that's it oh go go what was it 10-4 10-4 10-4 10-4 no I love it hey mega bag I honestly had no idea that fish was over 10 pounds I thought I was like 1/8 but it was a 10 you won you beat me on that one for sure huh that was uh but you know you'd been doing better all day than I but you were kind of hogging their shoulder all right so what we're doing here and as you can see you're fishing slow fishing real slow just trying to pick the perimeters of these these little read heads apart and that's it now my rod real important this is uh nakooma TCS flipping jig rod it's a heavy action it's uh it's really really good for this kind of stuff a very durable rod that's important you know here I tested these rods here when we when I made them here on the couch OB and if they hold up on with you chilly they'll hold up anywhere if I'm flipping the mats I'm fishing a 7-eleven extra heavy but for my cast in the 76 heavy is the deal there's one son you might get me stick him on your side your sides the right side now where did he come off that same beer ha standing around looking around he he swam off with it pretty good oh by the way it's my turn around Roman oh yeah yeah that's right now now I can really concentrate I don't have to worry about the trolling over I tell you know what that reminds me I already know the show that dad not being years ago and we were practicing for mlw and we were out a couple weeks before enough only returned that we're out there and I kept telling dad to shake them off remember shake them off yeah shake them off sure I shook off a couple so then I told Dad to shake them off dad you didn't check them all well that's because you didn't exactly shake them all off either well I should I'm off like you were shaking you had to check them we had to check a couple let's shake them off like you shake them off check this out this and I would say the classic rolling Martin right here this is one of the best moments ever Scott there's a bike there's a bike that come off yeah that's right I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna shake them off like you do it's like Oh what is he do I have them on there I think you lost him huh watch it it's like Christmas oh my gosh oh my that crazy or what is that a big one look at that sighs this is big as your that's another mom I drag it to mine huh he might be bigger than fat oh it's a monster BAM it's another monster bass boom I'll ship them off you sure did shake I did take him off kind of a little bit [Music] hmm he's not old if he's gonna help me or not I got him and half the lake so that's a male there now what dad's gonna do now while I'm messing with this fish is he's gonna keep cast around there because the female could be there next and that is a big tip here on this lake guys is especially this time of the year during the spawn isolated cover you catch a male bass like this power pull down keep fishing thoroughly through there because I'm telling you you'll catch a big one or Waypoint it GPS it and come back to it later on you'll be real surprised at what you catch I don't think he's bigger than my other one but we'll check got it no no guts on hey you might have the big fish of the day that's a pretty good one yeah look at that top water pass there's nothing better my secret little honey hole prettier I had a blindfold dad to get him in here guys all right a little top water action doesn't get any better than that right there and so what we did is we just came back in this little marsh area and it's got openings all through these dead cattails live cat tails or lily pads over there nice fish right there all right you've taught me a lot you've taught me a lot but are you getting worried yeah got you on the ropes yeah you're not gonna just don't let me I'm not gonna give up I'm just almost ever heard cuz I got my teeth beat at the last step fellow determines I got a win I don't feel like I said I don't care how big it is I do want to catch a big one them I didn't even want to take you to the best stuff on the water because you might catch a big and I just figured I'd keep you uncomfortable to that all these weird places like 1.8 foot of water that's what we're fishing another one and that crazy he fishes in 1.8 foot of water Garmin craft shows good look it even shows the individual stalks of grass side image right the side view it shows that's all thick everything you've got a fish you all he's got a good one too he's got a good one I might have to start fishing here a second that's pretty good there pops and I still not as big as yours pretty good pretty good here's good you go be beat still but look at this side image grill side view okay we're in it we're like in less than two foot of water and is drawing the grass left and right up to 40 feet of what I have it set on right now that honestly guys that's amazing right really I saw beds early I should have said something I saw beds you can see beds and a lot of more tilapia beds but I could see beds the circles on the screen the two for the water that's crazy all right I'm a fish big one that's a pretty good one oh my gosh told you it was a bad slider Scott's gonna do it Scott's got me he's got me down he's killing me he's killing me he's killing me he's killing me oh okay barely hooked it he's not a summer pounder but it's a good one good one I think the other one I caught on top was bigger it's good fish though you kill him loose on you no that's okay cherry still fun to fish because you can flip you can throw swim jigs and top water it's a shallow fishing paradise and it's beautiful it's beautiful here's the other thing about Okeechobee right here and close to is that you have access to both ends of the lake enclosed and that is real important so if you're gonna come down to Lake Okeechobee be sure to stop then Clewiston our marina especially because you can take off in the south you can take off and go north you can fish everything in between so it's a it's good and every every cast you make you feel like eight thousand pounder eight pounder a powder coming up he's behind it he's behind it he's behind it oh he's got it oh my gosh oh it was good did you see what I did I dropped it back to him I dropped it back just like the old pro yes sir now where'd she go that's the same side yeah I think it's gonna be close it's gonna be bloody man on your side but they waked up behind it and I dropped it back to him I just waited about five seconds since septum--ah good that's what you have pump put him on your side oh he's right behind it yeah oh I missed him you gotta I lost him I lost him when I had him it was a good one I know that was last cast it was good we caught a lot of fish we didn't get the big one you lost a big one on this one good I lost a big one right off the bat in those reeds it looked like a seven pound or so but a lot of fish yeah the day though I'm just hoping by the way for years oh yeah you might have me you might have me I really want to grab the bag so we're gonna grab the bag away the fish I don't know I'm nervous about it now man it's not awful we come out here no catch a five pound fish but you know we hit him hon we did I had that big one on the rear foot pound fish I don't know what it's all about the victory okay there's a big tub but we weren't gonna root for okay first whoo son to yours first that's a good one fish right here I don't know if it's gonna do it or not but we'll try it we're gonna see what he weighs bagging all huh what do you think i think he's close to the border Wow what do you think son what do you got what is it for 40 whoa son for 40 - oh I like it 42 that's a good one yeah bad ways a little bit but the same amount for each one of those so it's the same so that's our 42 that's good for 42 44 42 son look at that one oh no what do you think it's about the same it's a phat 100 over what do you think for 42 for 42 son what do you got are you got what do you got what are you gonna beat you what what what what is it 420 I got you by 2/10 of a pass something like that oh heavens something like that I really thought you'd want I thought you won I really did my goodness I need you to do that because I just told you how to bed would you talk like so many fishes I did you know he got me he got me I talked a little trash a little too much trash probably he got me of all people that can beat me at 10 is as advanced a big deal that's a good one of these days you're gonna win one of these days one of these days guys stay tuned next week news new show new challenge and we're doing this it was fun it was great I love this I love fishing with this guy I can't win I can't win [Music]

Channel: Scott Martin

Views: 158,556

Rating: 4.9198594 out of 5

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Id: 3GT_KDqLO8Y

Length: 21min 13sec (1273 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 26 2019