How to catch an 8 pound Bass

hi folks roland martin here and welcome to my youtube channel you know i get a lot of requests a lot of comments of people wanting to know where to catch a big monster bass now i'm kind of a real expert at fishing south florida i fish all the everglades areas i fish the stick marsh areas i fish the okeechobee areas i fish kissimmee i fish the center of the bass capital of the world and i know a little bit about how to catch an eight pound bass and that seems to be the going thing how can you catch an eight pound bass so if you watch many of my videos you'll see that i post quite a few eight pound bass i don't catch them every trip but i try to catch them every trip that's my goal whenever i go fishing it's here in south florida each and every cast that i make i'm thinking eight pound bass okay how am i gonna do that well i'm gonna i'm gonna explain the two or three great lures to use and we're gonna explain two or three great areas to fish so whether you fish in in connecticut or california you know you can come on down maybe emulate these same kind of conditions in your lake you might not catch an eight-pound bass but you can certainly catch a big bass but if you can come on down to south florida i'm going to give you some rock solid information of where and how to catch some fish okay let's get started okay let's let's start off first with uh a top water lure and this sounds crazy but it's warm weather now it's 80 degree temperatures and you might say well what's a top order what what kind of a big deal is that here's a devil's horse devil's horse is really a good top water lure for big fish in the summertime anytime the water temperature is over 80 degrees like it is right now i can take this top water like a devil source and it's a target lure okay now i'm going to throw to a target i don't know maybe i'll just come out here and those targets up here see underneath those trees that rock i'm just going to throw the devil horse right right to that rock okay and let it sit there let it sit there let it sit there until the ripple die away and just barely twitch it along okay that's the kind of retrieve that i'm doing i'm fishing i'm fishing an ambush point i'm fishing these lily pads for example this little patch of lilies i'll throw right by it like there okay let's let the ripples die away let the ripples die away they threw up his eye away just little bitty twitches little bitty twitches okay now i'm using a 20 pound chest line on a big favorite rod and reel it's a good compliment for a big topwater bike now that's that's one good way of starting early in the morning late in the afternoon a top water bite on a devil's horse is a great great lure okay let's go to let's go to this other other combination right here and that's the whopper plopper now the nice thing about the whopper plopper here in south florida there's a lot of hydrilla flats there's a lot of big shallow water areas and i can take this whopper plopper and i can throw it way across the canal all the way to the other side and just come right across the thing and i'm covering a lot of water with that thing and look at that i'm just just cast after cast of cats it's kind of like a buzz bait and you're talking about big fish i'm talking about big seven and eight nine and even ten pound bass are biting this this top water plug again i want calm water again i want warm water again i want clear water and most importantly i want kind of an overcast condition it's sunny right now and it's not maybe not the best whopper proper time but nevertheless now lake okeechobee and some of the headwaters areas there's a lot of real heavy lily pads there's a lot of real heavy brush and cover and that frog the spro weedless frog is the ticket now here's the deal i'm running that on 65 pound braid it's a whole different ball game now talking about a frog and big fish i got a great big heavy duty uh pro series handle i can stick in my stomach like 65 pound test line and i'm gonna throw it in the lily pads like those lily pads right there throw it right in the middle of them it doesn't get hung up just pop it along slow and easy just kind of walk along just pop it right through the now this is not a very representative place this is in my backyard but i'm saying if i were at okeechobee or if i were at the headwaters pond for out at the stick marsh i'd be throwing in the thickest eelgrass i could find i'd be throwing in the thickest hydrilla i could find i could be thrown in in patches of scattered uh reeds and and all sorts of heavy cover again i'm ready to set the hook hard i'm ready to horse them out of that stuff i'm coming right through the lily pads right there that's the secret of having a weedless top order you have to have a here in south florida there's so many weeds the devil horse and the and the whopper ploppers are great for open water but you have to have a weedless lure like that spro popping frog and by the way i know you've seen me do videos with like gary milicivic he's one of the champion fishermen in lake okeechobee he catches a lot of 25 and even 30 even 35 pound stringers of five fish on this spro frog the black with a little red face on it it's just an amazing thing he uses 50 pound braid i'm using 65 and a fairly long rod about seven foot rod and he's throwing a little isolated clumps of grass back in all around the north shore of lake okeechobee anyway that's that's that is paramount to him now at the same time here's the other deal about catching big fish a lot of times a big bass whatever you throw whatever top order you're throwing a lot of times the big bass will swirl at the lure you'll see a great big boil underneath it so here's the deal you have to have a backup you have to have a backup plan the backup plan is a is a real lightweight uh five inch senko this is i'm throwing it on on braid here because i'm i was just down in okeechobee and there was a lot of heavy reads and stuff that's a 50-pound braid that's a 16th of an ounce that'll screw in weight four out hook small little little senko so what i have it i have the i have the senko when i'm throwing the boat see i have the senko in the rod like this i have the sinker rod just laying right in the front and i'm throwing my top order and the senko rods right there when i get that strike out there and i see the boil maybe i'm throwing this frog okay here's a good example i'd throw the frog out there and all of a sudden i'd see i i'd be twitching along with the frog oh i see a big boil underneath it oh big ball sometimes i'll just drop the rod right there leave the frog sitting in the water pick up the senko and throw it right to the frog bam instant bass hey that's a good way to catch them that you know the back up the backup plan is really really strong when they don't bite it and they just swirl at it throw the senko okay that's that's top order okay now there's a lot more fish to be caught other than top quarter let me just show you the lure that i think is probably the number one lure to use for really big fish and you've seen me do a lot of videos in the last two years on this this is the yamamoto 4.5 inch swimming minnow it's 4.5 inches long big deal and i'm throwing on a big seven art weedless hook with a little bit of an eighth of an ounce weight again i'm using heavy braid that happens to be a 65 pound test line now i'm throwing it in heavy hydrilla i'm throwing it in heavy stuff now you can reel it real fast on top and some people take these swim baits and just run them on top like that okay and and okay that's fine but she'll catch small fish if you want to catch a big fish on this swim bait look at this i'll come out here a little bit farther if you want to catch a big swim bait fish what you'll do is you'll throw out there and you let it sink down and slowly reel it get your rod in the strike position and slowly reel it and watch that lure as it comes in the water watch that lure come in it's just so pretty watch watch that tail action it's coming through the it's pretty weedless it's coming through the lilies right now it's coming through the weeds look at that look at that tail actually isn't that beautiful that's just beautiful as can be so that's what happens it comes right through all the weeds it comes right through all the stuff you can see it coming swimming along just as pretty that is such a gorgeous lure it has such great action they really heal to hit this thing now it's kind of like a worm hit when you throw this swim bait and and i use other swim baits as well i mean i use uh the kytek series i use the gambler series i use everything else but my favorite nevertheless is this is this four point five uh but by the yamamoto okay now what i'm gonna do i'm gonna throw it out there in those lilies for example i'm gonna stick the rod right here and i'm i'm kind of in a strike position i'm going to reel it along slow and easy i'm ready right through the lilies and it's pretty weedless i can i can just i'm slowly reeling it along it's down about a foot or so maybe even even deeper i can go slower but it's just it's just kind of coming along when i get that strike it's a worm i go forward wham all pretty quick and i really set the hook i set the hook because i have the rod butt right here in this in my side and i can really concentrate on a good hook set and this is a big this is the big pro series rod my favorite and it's a big heavy duty it's actually a flipping stick it's a seven and a half foot heavy action boy you can really lay it to him with this wrist rod reel so that's that's a good combination if you notice i'm a power fisherman all the lures that i'm showing you today are not finesse lures these are heavy duty stuff i got heavy duty rods heavy duty braid i'm trying to catch an eight-pound bass okay let's talk about some other lures okay now this is the emperor series rod look at that weight that is the biggest that's a tungsten weight that's a two ounce tungsten weight that's a that's a it's a well it's a crawl worm it's called a psycho dad by yamamoto and i got it on a four out big heavy duty weedless hook i got the weight pegged now look at that look at how heavy that thing is that thing is really big and heavy now what i'm doing okay and you might live some other place and you might not have heavy weeds that we have here in south florida but i tell what you do have you probably have beavers that cut trees down that works you probably have lily pads and in the summertime sometimes the lily pad mats get really thick and you might have a flood that comes by like in central missouri for example in those lakes a lot of times the floods will come in the spring in april and may and all the sticks and logs and leaves will all congregate in the coves and then they'll all pack in with the wind and stuff and it'll just be a thick mat of debris from the flood great great great place flipping flipping okay okay now what i'm doing here is i'm pitching and flipping this isn't very representative of a of a deal but i'm i'm flipping in heav the hec way heavier cover than these lily pads these lily pads this is just representative of what i'm doing but what i do is i i do what i call punch there's a lot of hyacinths that are just matted there's a lot of dead uh reeds and and and hyacinth cover and also uh uh eelgrass cover it's all matted up stuff that just the wind has blown it into a spot it's thick it's it's three or four five inches thick and that's why you have to have a two ounce weight you have to have a two ounce weight to punch through all those roots of say the hyacinths or back or down through the mat of old dead lily pads and and and uh bulrushes and so that's why the two ounce weight uh two ounces kind of the extreme that's about as heavy heavy as i go i'll go lighter if the cover is lighter but so often like in headwaters and so often in okeechobee right now with the pig patches of hyacinths you got to have about two ounces to get through it it's it's really kind of like hard packed stuff and it's about a foot thick but it might be two and three feet of water underneath the cover so i'm doing i'm pitching and flipping there's kind of two ways to do it one is a a flip is where you hold the line and you just pitch out like this and see it's a quiet presentation so you'll notice it hardly made a ripple see when i again i'll show you that pitch i mean that flip it just barely hit the water it just barely just there's no no big splash that's why this heavy heavy weights and stuff you don't want to make a lot of noise now i can go a little farther and actually flip it or pitch it a little farther now you make a little bit of sound and a little bit of noise when i go into that tree i go right through there see i see how easy it went in the water just went in like like real soft and easy and the quieter the presentation the more it fools those big fish those big eight pounders are laying there and they're they're used to hearing a lot of sloppy cats and other fishermen so hey it takes a sneaky sneaky approach to catch a big bass and that's the other thing they hit it because you're landing right on top of them they're in the underneath this stuff and they want that uh they want that horizontal uh cover because they don't have eyelids you know bass they got to get underneath stuff in a bright sunny day like today and that's the best time to flip and pitch and that's the bright sunny day because they can't close their eyes like we can they got to get underneath horizontal cover in the form of a matted up thing like like i'm talking about so that's the way so many tournaments are won right now lake okeechobee okay what are the best places to fish in south florida you know for one everybody asked me what's my favorite lake of course okeechobee has been my favorite lake forever and ever but this year it's not maybe as good as it was last year it's still a great lake and i still fish it a lot but there's some other great choices in the area let's talk about let's talk about another area let's talk about going south of lake okeechobee and let's talk about going into the everglades and talk about the a1 unit the a1 unit's a 17 500 acre big diked off area where they're taking affluent water from lake okeechobee and trying to cleanse it by by letting it sit and settle in this big 17 000 acre weed filled hyacinth packed it has rock pits in it it has canals in it it has hyacinths in it it has every kind of grass you get hyacinths and hydrilla and eelgrass all over the place anyway it's got a lot of cover and they can flip it you can use the swim baits you can use the frogs you can use the senkos all that works at a1 but there's one one problem with a1 this is a big bass boat it's a big seventy thousand dollar bass boats on a nice trailer beautiful beautiful wonderful boat you can't use that at a1 you have to use either a canoe or a little john boat and it has to be car topped you can't even use a trailer and it's open only opens three days a week so there's some restrictions here it's probably some of the finest fishing in florida but it's very difficult because it's only open friday saturdays and sundays and the other problem is that you've got to carry the boat all over the levee and you got a there's no kind of really launching facility there's a kind of little launch ramps but you still got to carry the boat from the car back down to the water it's just a big pain in the neck you can use a trolling motor but if you want to catch some really good quality bass and you want to shot an 8 pound fish a1 is one of those places that i guarantee you you got a shot on each and every cast okay let's talk about another spot okay let's go let's go north a little bit of course we we talk about okeechobee all the time and we know we know how good okeechobee is but here on my computer i have a i have some stuff right here it's that's hard to see and i don't know if you can see it that's not going to work oh well okay folks i was going to show you the computer but there's an area and you might have heard about it i can't i can't show it to you on the on the that on the on the screen it's not showing up too much sun too bright but anyway around the stick marsh it's around the the verrell beach area now the the stick marsh is a big thing it's the saint john's river marsh and there's not only the stick marsh there's farm 13 and that's another six or seven thousand acres there's garcia that's 5 000 acres and there's the new fabled headwaters lake headwaters lake is a gem of a place to fish it's ten thousand acres and it's right next it borders the stick marsh and six marshes about six thousand acres but this is ten thousand acres all full of lilies it's all full of hyacinths it's all full of hydrilla it has trees it has an enhanced area it has dug out places it it's an old irrigation uh setup with an old field but then they've gone in and dug all sorts of pits in there there's about 15 big growl pits it's just oh it's just the finest place to fish right now in florida okay in addition to to the uh headwaters pond and the headwater spot all the lures that i've talked about are the exact lures that i use in the headwaters spawn totally totally i'm not using anything or anything else there's other lakes around the area in the st john's marsh for example just north of that whole big facility there's three or four other places well one is keenansville okay that's kind of on the western side you gotta kind of drive around the state but that's a six thousand acre lake it's full of big bass i just went there the other day and i had three bass over seven pounds had one of them over eight okay so that's the kind of lake it is and it's a really great lake full of hydrilla full of hyacinths plenty of ditches plenty of bass okay that's keenansville another place is called three forks now three forks is again north of the stick marsh and you got to get through it through palm bay and you can use the big boat but the waters are a little low and i you have a little kind of tricky going in there now there's another lake that's even better and i'm going to go to it tomorrow that is it's called broadmoor it's a broadmoor system and it's it's about a 4000 acre reservoir but it's only open one day a week and you can only use a 40 horsepower motor but i got one i got that bass tracker heritage you've seen me use that vast tracker heritage from time to time it's just really a special little boat it's uh it works just perfect but anyway that heritage is is is a perfect perfect boat for for for that uh broadmoor and also there's a place right next to it called uh goodwin anyway that's just part of it there's still two or three more areas around the saint john's river marsh area that the state controls and owns some of them are catch and release and some of them you can keep the fish is just have to check the local regulations and have to check the regulations for each of those areas because they're all different all the regulations are but they're just dynamite places to fish right now along with okeechobee and along with lake kissimmee south florida is definitely the best capital of the world if you want to catch an eight-pound bass hey take up some of these lures i'm talking about visit some of these places i'm saying to fish hey with a little luck and a little perseverance you'll catch yourself a 8 pound bass i guarantee hey folks thanks for watching thanks for subscribing hit that likes button we'll see you again soon

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Length: 19min 46sec (1186 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 25 2021