The Bite Is Back On Again | Hot Summer Catfish Action

[Music] folks look at that rod tip right there it's got a little weight on it and my kayaks kind of spun around i think we got a flat head right here let's pick up all them yeah buddy i think we got us a flathead on here this would be the first one and well since the spawn started i don't think i've got one since may it's been a long time i just really struggle during those months of june early july when they're on the beds i struggle to find any any flatheads at all i occasionally look into one i'm pretty sure we got us one here right now today's july i think today's the 27th so spawn should be wrapped up completely here in east tennessee i think all the all the fish should be off the beds by now we can get back to business if you can just find them and be on the water when they're active blues and flatheads today i'm out here fishing a point i'm actually kind of off the end of it here on down into the main channel i'm anchored down like 58 feet here i've got my bait suspended right off the bottom but there's a point over here beside me that comes up we've had some fish feeding up here i've seen some white bass here at first slide it's about that's a little before 7 a.m right now i got out here about 6 30. excited to get a look at this fish i don't know how big he's going to be it's hard to tell these flat heads the dang things fight so hard this one ate a piece of skipjack old catfish dave another youtuber most of you know he's a friend of mine he lives here in east tennessee too he got on some skip jack the other day and invited me out in his boat we went out there and tore him up and uh he gave me his freezers out so he gave me everything he called other than what he needed for his trip his catfishing trip so i've got a cooler full here of fresh skips and was able to put a few more back in the freezer too so catfish dave he don't watch my videos but if he does or if you watch his and comment on his videos tell him i shouted him out here and said thanks again for helping me out with bait we are putting it to use right here i'm taking my time folks seeing bubbles coming up that's what you want to see when you're fishing this deep again i'm in 58 feet here we'll take your time with these fish let them decompress on the way up that'll make sure they swim off in good condition yep that's a flathead folks fish number one's a flatty good to see them again all right folks let's bring that thing in man it's nice to see these flatheads again very nice to see them again getting that hook there that one ate a skip jack body section didn't feel myself getting baited up when i got out here this morning because it was still kind of dark i didn't want to set my light up just to have it for a few minutes this one's got some kind of weird bump on the side of him it's like a like a knot or something there some kind of infection they fought hard though didn't he that thing was fighting this morning all right one last look at him there let's let him go go home mr flatty he's out of here all right folks well let's put us another piece of that skip jack that old catfish dave hooked me up with we'll put that on the hook air and drop it back down i've got three rods out here today uh-oh the camera's still going cause that rod just got hit i can't tell if that's another yeah yo yeah he's got it he's got it buddy i couldn't tell if it was a dink messing with it or if there's a better fish that had it was getting ready to take off heck yeah well this one here ate the body section too i was saying i got three rods out here today my back rod here has a headpiece and i had two body sections on these front rods this fish here i don't believe is going to be quite as big as that flathead when them rods go down you see them right tips get a little oh now he's going to pull now then broad tips start going down you just don't know what's on the other end of it that's a part of the excitement of doing this it could be a five pounder ten pounder or maybe a hundred pound or one of these days my day may come you never know all my bubbles coming up here oh that rod got that rod got tapped something's after that head piece folks i'm gonna deal with the one in my hand here till that one takes off my line though you can see it's it's swam outward there a little bit something's got it that's a blue cat there we got us a blue on this rod i'm going to reel down on this one with the head piece over here let me set this one back a second because you can see my line is going that way so we're just going to reel down on him yep yep he's on there we doubled up here this one here we gotta get some baits back in the water folks we got some fish moving through you see that sun just peaked up over the tree line there we got some active fish on here and i ain't got a i ain't got a bait down there right now this one's just gonna be a baby that one there just a little thing we're gonna get our headpiece back though that's exciting laying this one first so we get our we get our bait back we'll go ahead and drop it back down oh well there he went he popped off the hook that's perfect bait's still hooked good no quick release on that so let's drop this bait back down we'll get it back down on the water see if we can hook another one of these fish that have come through this area here and then we'll land this one we got on the front rod yeah well that sounds blind to me folks i'm looking right into it there to look into that camera yeah a little fun size blue and a fun sized flat head to start the morning off plus that little dink there that we that we lost right here at the side of the kayak all right man let's let him go now let's get baited up again i'm gonna pull out one of these skip jack like i was saying catfish dave hooked me up man it's good to have friends that are good at skip jack fishing because i definitely ain't as good at skip jack fishing as i am at some other types of fish so let's get these baits on here okay there's just a piece of skip jack on that one body section we'll drop it down again i'm just going to raise it up off the bottom a couple feet and some of you are probably wondering why i'm not in my new kayak i've made a little facebook post a little video there the other day showing off my how i got my rod holders mounted on and talking about how i was going to go out the next day put them to the test well unfortunately i had a malfunction again the motor about three hours into my first trip i filmed that video my first trip in that new kayak wrapped up on it and i was on my way back to the launch and i thought you know i'm going to stop fish one more area just do some me time fishing you know let me get this other bait on here some scales off there's that bait there on the piece of skipjack uh but i stopped off to do some me fishing and i was in spotlight mode on that thing and the motor just went crazy on me absolutely crazy just shot off full speed out of nowhere so i turned the motor off real fast you know try to turn it off turn it back on turn the remote off turn it back on could not get the gps to uh acquire signal anymore after that and so i thought well maybe i was just in a bad area so i went out the next day hit a different body of water same story couldn't get the gps to hold a signal so i called her customer service department girl was real nice on there she put me through to somebody there with minn kota and they walked me through a series of checks on this kayak trying to figure out what was causing the problem and we thought i had a bad relay when i connected the motor to the battery itself uh the gps come on and it worked properly so we thought we just had a bad relay that there's a relay there that connects the motor and the kill switch so we just thought it had went out and so uh i took the kayak back to the lake there tried it out for about 10 minutes everything worked perfectly if we bypass that relay so i'm thinking okay no problem i can work around this so i took it out to the lake or took it out to the river after i got my rod holders mounted ready to really put this thing to the test i apologize that sun is blinding me but i get out there gps acquires signal works for about five minutes and then it craps out on me again so that's technology folks it's just uh one of those things it's awesome when it works it really helps you out but when it don't it's a pain in the butt right there something wants that bait can he i think he's got it folks i wasn't sure if he was gonna hook up with it or not but i'm pretty sure he's got it yeah he does sometimes when they eat that bait and they come up in the water with it you don't always get to hook up these circle hooks you know you need pressure for them to set that hook when they normally they eat the bait and start to go off with it there that's what sets the hook on them so when they come up with it either gotta reel down on them or hope for the best and this one here ended up getting it oh there goes that front rod too let's pick up on it yeah man let's get this one we'll leave that little one over set in a second the action's been on the body pieces so far we got that one dink on the headpiece everything else has been on the body so far i don't mind i'll feed them whatever they want today i'm just happy to be out here getting a fish another line over here on that head piece is moving i think this fish may have gotten in that line possibly i don't think it's another fish on there i could be wrong but we're going we're going to deal with this in here first and just see if we pull him up he's got two lines we'll know he's the culprit won't we yeah he just got in by the line there swam through it all right all right let's get this other one over here first well this one here acts as a fool we'll let him tire that energy out we don't want to bring him in the kayak acting like that let's get this he ought to be calm down all right there's that first one a little dink blue let's grab this one now i'm guessing here he's about the same size probably all right there's that one again about the same size could have been twins down there there's that piece there got all them guts there hanging out of it all that put all that scent down there in the water i don't have any current out here this morning tva is not generate so what i'm counting on is just fish working their way either up or down the main channel ledge here and hopefully going to work their way up onto this point or back into this creek over here and when they do they're going to come right through my bait so i'm kind of sitting in one of those places where i'm just hoping active fish are going to move through my bait since i don't have that current out here to help me out and get my scent going downstream and allow them to really lock in on it from a long distance away and come get it so so far so good today look at this headpiece right here something ate it something ate that head yep man he went under the kayak too he's going that way this lob will end up in that other line over there if i ain't careful ain't got nothing to do about it though when they go that way yeah buddy well the headpiece finally getting a little bit more action here it's been all all body sections getting the take down so far than that one dink so i still like to have a head piece on at all times that's just a to me that's just a big fish bait i've caught so many big fish on them head pieces through the years i've got an extraordinary amount of confidence in it at all times another blue right there the old billy blue cat let's take a look at that y'all that headpiece is still in really good condition i mean that's the second fish on it but you can still see there it's got the meat on it it's still pink in there so we're going to drop it back down here in just a second once we let this fellow go that's another dink right there another small one but that's good a good action out here today the lord knows i've had a oh splash me on the way out i was gonna say lord knows i've had a lot of catfishing trips over the last couple of months that has been limited action so yeah you can see they've they've tore that thing to shreds man they've ate the gut pocket out of it it's still got some meat on there but i'm gonna go ahead and replace it and i'm gonna put that other head piece on we're just gonna put three head baits on all right third and final head piece all three rods now got heads on let's see if that don't prove our quality there goes that rod oh yeah he's hooked up he's hooked up what's on one of them head baits didn't take long down there they've been all over it this morning i've just been the right place i suppose get lucky once in a while folks a little blind squirrel finding a nut and it's gonna pull buddy he's gonna take some drag now in fact i'm gonna back off at this smidge yeah man i think this in here is gonna be a little better fish that's exactly what i was hoping to do by putting them head baits down there since then small fish was down there just tearing up them and then body pieces when you get big fish moving through you got to have baits in the water and if i'm constantly reeling in them smalls or having my baits just shredded up down there like at one i showed you since they're on camera it's not very it's not very tempting to the to the big fish if you got a bait like that so for whatever reason them small fish just haven't been on the head pieces today so if they'll leave them alone when the big fish come through i'll have a bait down there in perfect condition that's a long-winded story to say that it's still early i'm tired i love being out here early mornings but i ain't never going to be a morning person i see yeah that's a better fish right there it's going gonna be the biggest one in the morning i believe it's gonna be the best one in the morning that's a good blue cat see if i can get him up here yeah man that is a good blue cat that is what i was hoping to accomplish let's switch to all them baseball now okay now you come on in here to action like that yo thing that's a good fish right there man that is a good fish get that bait out there to hook out it's nice we going we got one on that rod right there take a look at that look at that one man he's stripping drag let me just set that fish down just a second we're gonna pick up on this one man this one right here i wonder if this ain't a striper he made that hard run now he's coming right back at me here full speed we'll see him we get him up here i could be wrong but i don't know what this is let's see no folks that's just another good blue cat right there that's another good blue cat heck yeah man all right well ain't done man we got him up quick because he he shot off that way full speed and he'd come right back at me and open the water column full speed i'm gonna set him back in the rod holder we got this one here on the floor he's gonna go crazy on us if we don't get rid of him right there folks that's why you need to have your rod holders reinforced on there so they can stand up that kind of torque right there oh we gotta get rid of this fish he's wound up we're gonna put that bait back down there it's still in good shape let's hold him up folks that right there is a long fish now i'm guessing this is probably a male uh he's about to flop on me i can feel the energy brewing in him let's try to hold him up one more time as i was saying i think this is probably a male fish just because he's so skinny i think he's probably been on the nest and it takes them a while to get their weight back on once they get all get done with the spawn so this one give it another month or so and he'll be filled out and that'll be a really good fish because oh goodness heck with him buddy he's ready to get out of here he's full of piss and vinegar this morning goodness man he's wound up let's land nissan now maybe he'll be more cooperative that narrows trying to put a whooping on me what oh no this one here got back there my anchor rope while i was fiddling with that other one man folks we got to bring the whole damn anchor in i guess that thing well i was full of that other one did the laps around my anchor rope there i'm gonna try to get this hook out i got all this pressure on it here because where it's i hate to have to pull in my whole dang anchor there goodness gracious man he just did laps around my dang anchor rope down there man that's one of the things i was so excited about getting a new kayak without having a spot lock i won't have to deal with the damn anchor or anchor rope anymore so we're going to have that happen while i'll be out here some spin fishing but hopefully it'll work out if they ever get the new motor to me there's that one he's a little bit shorter than the last fish but it's thicker he's got some more weight to him it was a good time wasn't he that goes that other front rod up there let me see if i can get that camera shot look at that it's got weight on it let's let him go we're gonna pick up on this one now oh yeah oh yeah let's pick up on this one now well we own some fish right here ain't we we are on some fish i think this one might be in my anchor rope too because i moved my i had to slide my anchor trolley up to get that other fish he is he's in it dang man yeah i'll be looking forward to getting a the other kayak function again that's for sure i love the whole of this kayak but i hate i hate having that dang anchor rope especially when you suspend fishing when you suspend fishing and you ain't got no current that anchor rope's just down there you basically got to keep it right there under you this and come out of my anchor thank goodness yeah hasn't come out of the anchor so okay i'm gonna set him back i'm gonna drop this bait down from the first fish we're going to get it repositioned here get re-hooked it's still in really good shape let's send it down at least get another bait in the water in case there's some more big fish moving through i don't have anything down there right now we'll do this i'm going to get that line unwrapped from my anchor rope get another bait on there and then we'll land this other fish up front here finally here's that one that's the smallest of those three that come along again that bait still in good condition so we're just going to send it right back down hopefully some more big fish are still there or move them through that's been a good morning out here y'all it's been a real good morning it's been the best trip i've had in a long time i've missed trips like this okay folks i've put my other camera up i'm gonna leave that front camera going just in case i hook into another whopper before i stop fishing today but otherwise we'll call this the end of the video because i've just caught so many fish out here this morning this video is going to run too long as it is but this is the kind of day that i have been waiting on for the last couple months since a spawn started a day where you get good quality of fish and some quantity of fish too it's been action-packed out here this morning and i've had a dang good time so big thanks to catfish day for hooking me up with the skipjack having fresh bait especially fresh skip jack out here it makes a world of difference and you saw it out here in action today so big thank you to catfish dave i know a lot of you all tuned in to this video hoping to see me have my first catfishing trip in the new kayak and believe me i was ready to do the first catfishing trip in that kayak too but unfortunately we all just gonna have to wait until i can get that motor fixed or replaced or whatever it is they end up dealing with i think they're going to replace it but again i don't know how long that's going to take for that uh for them to get that to me so whenever they do we'll get out here and test it out but until then we'll keep using this one and hopefully keep having some days like i've had out here this morning but i'm going to uh kick back here relax and hopefully reel in some more fish so if you see a bonus fish after this i got another whopper if you don't see anything after this well i either didn't catch any more fish or only got some small ones so anyway if this is the end i'll see you in the next one thanks for watching me

Channel: Kayak Catfish

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Id: pEP6p21VwVU

Length: 27min 9sec (1629 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 28 2020