The Fish Weren't Biting So I Tried This....

oh that's a good one i didn't realize he was that big at first [Music] right here look right here at this rod we're about to start the day off right here we're hooked up now that's gonna be fish number one i've been anchored down here maybe 20 minutes or so i got out here right at dawn and uh for my regular viewers this is going to look like a familiar spot because i have been out here once a week for the last three weeks this is a hot area for me this time of year so i'm just going to keep hitting it as long as i'm catching fish here and uh my first trip out here this year i caught some nice blues and some nice flatheads fast forward a week i come out here got on some nice stripers so here we are i think today's oh look at that rod look at that rod too it's it's got a fish on too oh there he goes man that's a head piece there this is the mid section we're doubled up here but uh today's i think nine days since the last time i was out here and uh conditions are a little different out here today than what they've been and i'm hoping it's going to just get the bite going even more we've got the waters up a few feet from the last trip out here we've got a lot more current flow today and i'm hoping that it's gonna have the bite turned on i don't know that other one is still on there or not he may have not hooked up he took the rod over pretty hard i'm gonna deal with the one in the hand here first because he feels like a decent fish kind of hard to judge because we we do have more current out here today like i mentioned it's it's moving that's why i've got my baits cast out instead of suspending them like i normally like to do let's see what this is well that is a dark dark blue cat right there man that's the darkest cat i've caught all year yeah buddy i want you to look at this thing man that fish is dark and i've got this sun behind me it's a terrible location for me to be filming with that front camera we're gonna make it work cause like i said this is a hot area for me this time of year and i just i get excited about coming down here that one rare ate about a palm sized chunk of skipjack to look at it man that thing is dark he's talking to us too man i'm gonna hold him out here in this front camera a little bit see y'all see him in the light there but man that thing's dark me and my buddy mark uh from deuces wild fishing charters was talking about this the other day you know it's kind of a common assumption when you get a dark fish like this that you think it's probably been up real shallow kind of in the sun gets maybe a tan like us humans do but uh you know that's the assumption we don't know that for sure so uh we're trying to we're trying to figure that out it's like is that a truly a suntan or is there something else going on that causes them to get like that because flatheads you get a lot of flat heads early spring they're really yellow compared to later on in the year you get them they're more of a brown color so i don't know nevertheless let's stick him on the board here yeah that's a long dark fish 34 inches right there man awesome oh he's clamping down all right one last look send him out of here they gone but uh no i was talking about there when i was reeling him in y'all so i've hit this area now this is my third time fishing this spot and if you're new to the channel here or haven't watched those other videos there's a creek right here beside me that dumps into a secondary channel now depth out here today i can't give you an exact depth of water temperature because i don't have my graph on here i forgot to put it on back on this kayak when i switch back over here goes this rod uh he hit it he didn't hook up we got some active fish working through here but uh now i switch back over to this kayak today just because the launch i'm using uh the lighter kayak i can have the better and this one i have a cart for so i switched over from my old town kayak today and i forgot to put my graph back on but anyway creek flows into a secondary channel here should be 30 some odd feet deep here today now our water level first time i fished out here water level was a few feet below winter pool it was low and we didn't have a lot of current fast forward a week we got some rain our water level was up about three foot had a little bit more flow out here today you fast forward another nine days and we've had a lot of rain our water level is within from looking at the shoreline here two to three feet below normal summer pool and again we've got good flow out here this morning so much so that my lines when i'm when i'm trying when i came out here and first tried to suspend my my baits were getting kind of pushed up in the water column a little bit i use eight ounce sinkers but it was still kind of pushing them up forward and so it's kind of hard to control my depth and the fact i don't have my graph i know approximately where i'm at using my phone app but i don't have that that graph there to just kind of confirm that i am where i think i am right against the ledge where i normally like to be i thought i'll just cast my baits out and just get a nice spread and get that scent really moving downstream here so um yeah guys enough of me gavin on here uh again i filmed two videos out here recently so if you want to all the the details and all the extra stuff about how i set up and where and why and all that check out those videos i'm gonna get another bait on here and we're gonna get another one it's about i think it's a little after 8 a.m right now and uh my plan today is to fish until the winds blow me off the water about midday it's supposed to really kick up so let's be 20 25 mile an hour gusts this afternoon so i'll be long gone by then but i'm gonna try to fish until it forces me off all right there's our next chunk just a piece of skipjack i've got head this rod up here we're going to screw around with today that's a light action rod that's one of my bass rods i've got a jig head on there with a small fillet got another headpiece here that got hit while we were fighting this one and then this body section so i'm just going to give it a toss and down it goes this headpiece right here just got hit make sure he's got it i think he does yeah he's on there he's on there yeah buddy fish number two i've been getting some dink taps here y'all really since i got lines in the water they've been just chewing down there so i don't know today i may have to kind of just periodically check my baits and make sure i've got bait on the hook that they're not chewed all the heck usually this area has got a lot of big fish in it this time of year but there's some small ones down there munching this morning listen here i don't know again it's kind of tough because my baits are cast out and because we've got this extra current flow than what i'm used to today it's kind of tough to judge on exactly how big a fish is what i'm bringing him in here that's just a small one no it wasn't no monster oh my gosh i'll show you when you get when i get him up here they can look at this headpiece what them thinks have done down there very much left of it oh look at that look at that headpiece that's all that's left of it they have chewed it to pieces down there fish that size right there and smaller yeah he gone yeah i'm gonna have to switch that out and i probably need to reel in my other head piece over here too because it's been getting hit a lot also those small fish man i don't care how big a bait you put out when you put out larger baits you can sometimes prevent the small ones from getting hooked up because they won't be able to get the bait and the hook in their mouth but they can sit down there and just take bites and nip at it and eventually when i first threw this head out i had a you know a big section of the meat on there too with it it's all gone and pretty much just gill plates left in this thing so we'll switch it out put another one on there there's our next bait there another headpiece that's a smaller head there i'm gonna cast it out and then we'll reel in my other one and see what it looks like get it out there i'm willing to bet you money right now though my other headpiece looks just as bad as that one yeah here's this one you can see it's chewed to pieces too we'll switch it out also these dinks better leave me alone man we're gonna burn through my bait early today there's our next bait going down on this rod that's a larger bait there hopefully it'll take more than 10 minutes to chew it up this back rod's getting hit yeah yep he's on there it's on the midsection that kind of felt like some head shakes down there i don't know it's it may just be rolling down there but it kind of felt like the head shakes of a striper but it ain't running like a striper so maybe i'm just imagining things either way hooked up again here and i'll take it i was about to wonder on this bike too because it had been hit several times if i needed to reel it in and check it make sure it wasn't stripped off the hook or chewed up by the small fish just did that on the heads there a few few minutes ago hopefully today i could i need to burn through my bait today anyway so we got some bad weather coming in tomorrow and i probably won't get to use my bait before it goes bad anyhow so let's see what this is yeah that's another blue right there i thought it was head shakes down there it must have been him rolling yeah i'm used to i'm used to suspending baits this whole casting out when they hit i can't judge fish as easily as what i can when they're when i'm suspended well look at that right there y'all it just about happened that hook went through my glove and thankfully not my finger well this thing started acting a fool here at the wrong damn time there look at that hook man coming out the bottom his lip right there had just about got me man i got lucky right there maybe having a black cat crossed my path this morning wasn't so bad it's supposed to be bad luck if it's the feline type i don't know about the catfish kind he's got that line all wrapped around him don't he [Music] goodness gracious man acting a fool up in here nope still acting a fool oh that fish right there man he's way on tighter than a georgia pine come here buddy enough of that now yeah i stuck him on my board there he's a little over 30 inches now gonna help me for my slot tournament today's march 30th let's let him go before he goes crazy again but uh i'm in that month long slot turn to my hair month of march it's march 30th today so probably the last day i'm gonna get to fish for it and i need fish today that are between 31 and a half inches and 32 inches to help my score so kind of a narrow window we don't know if it's going to happen pretty much got to get lucky to catch one within a you know a half inch length there so all right let's get another bait on there there's our next bait hunk of skipjack toss it out there yeah folks that's me casting eight ounce sinkers with these old ugly sticks here i didn't want to switch my sinkers over to lighter sinkers today since hopefully you know i'll be suspend fishing again here very soon so i cast eight ounces with the man i just you know you can't go you know real sharp cast with it but if you kind of wobble you can lob eight ounces with these ugly sticks no problem been doing it for a long time never broke a rod knock on wood this head piece is getting some action we'll see if it goes down may just be getting chewed on by smaller fish that's been happening ever since i switched out my baits i'm just feeding them a buffet down there this morning for them sub one pound cats that there may be hooked up we're gonna pick up on him here yeah yep he's on there that narrative he accidentally got the hook while he was munching quality just ain't been there this morning yet let's see as the morning goes on here what happens i've i've just i have so much faith in this spot this time of year i just i know people don't like me i always get every time i fish a spot numerous times on video people just you know got their negative comments and whatnot but i don't really give a crap they gonna find something to complain about regardless i'm gonna fish wherever i damn well please whenever i want to and this time of year i want to be right here now here in a week or two i'm gonna switch up and i'm gonna go hit another area that i've had good success on in the spring and water temps i don't know what they are today but they just ain't quite there yet to get them where i need to be for that other area but it's going to happen in the next week or two we are about to have a little cold snap we're supposed to get a bunch of rain tomorrow and then the day after it's going to be highs in the 40s today it was that's another small blow right there um today it's a little chilly out here this morning is in the 30s when i got out here but it's supposed to be in the 70s this afternoon and then two days from now we're gonna be back down the 40s it's it's march and east tennessee that's just how it is our weather's more extreme to the other seems like it'll level out here here soon and we'll be back to being a little bit more consistent with the bite and water conditions and all that look at that bait we just switched out not long ago and that's what's left they've been down there just having their way with it that in there is big enough he can eat that bait but chances are the fish that's been chewing on it down there has probably been much smaller get out of here buddy it'll get big for some day but you just ain't quite there yet well i'm gonna go ahead and switch this bait out because i don't eat much left so i try to reuse baits whenever i can but i need something on there to be reusable all right guys i have moved to a different spot i have slid on down this channel and right out here in front of me there is a deeper hole it drops off to at normal summer pool it's about 46 47 feet deep right here and hoping to just get away from them smaller fish up there at that creek mouth i was just getting pestered non-stop with them small just too small a fish to actually get my bait and the hook but they're just sitting in there chewing away every time my baits would hit the water i'd switch them out they were just on them so you know wasn't getting the quality or quantity of fish up there like i had hoped so i thought i'm gonna just come on down here to this hole and see what's going on here so it's about 10 30 right now probably finish out the rest of my trip here on this spot and hopefully we gonna get on some good fish today i know they in this area it's just a matter of tempting them to bite and just like that buddy we're hooked up we're hooked up oh man that's a pulling now yeah man that didn't take long i just filmed that little update right there talking about where i'm fishing at on this hole and then this rod goes off so hopefully these bigger fish are down here in this hole you know it's kind of a you get a hole like this it it creates like a current um by getting my words out i'm choking i was going to say before i got choked up it creates a current break for them to get out of this flow and so hopefully since they weren't up there at that creek mouth i'm hoping there's some better quality fish down in this hole and i've got my baits you know i'm using the phone app here to kind of judge where i'm at because you know again i forgot my graph but i've got my baits hopefully cast down to the top part of that hole maybe down in it and these fish here they'll be able to pick up on my scent as the as the current moves it down through there i'm encouraged already that this one hit so quickly i still can't believe my light action rod that's a you know just a small bait on it i would have thought them smaller fish up there would have been able to get hooked up on it but not so much they just been stripping it clean this in here i mean again with the current it's so hard to judge but it don't feel too bad he's pulling now man take my time with him here let him do his thing been kind of a slow morning overall i mean i've got some fish and have musical rods going non-stop but i just i've got my expectations too high on this spot you know there's a fishing spot and women they're both the same you get your expectations too high they'll let you down every time yeah this is a it's a little better fish he's a fun-sizer we'll throw him on the board i don't know if he'll be as long as that really dark blue cat that we got earlier but definitely a little thicker got a little bit more fight to him this poor thing here got hooked in the tongue a bad place to get hooked right there all right y'all there he is best one of the morning so far just a few minutes after anchoring down here above his hole so hopefully fingers crossed business gonna pick up here we'll see can't do much worse here than what i've done up here at the creek mouth this morning so let me throw him on the board here we're gonna let him go this one's got a unique mark here on his tail look at that he's got a little black mark right there that one there y'all he is about 33 and a quarter looks like so nice fish man all right one last look we're gonna let him go i'm getting the bait out there there you go all right man well the day is getting better it's getting warmer out here i was able to shed some layers getting a better quality fish so things are improving just hope it keeps getting better and hope that wind don't move in here for a little while i mentioned earlier there i think it's supposed to be bad today it's supposed to be 20 25 mile an hour gusts this afternoon but right now it's flat calm and i'm hoping it stays that way for a while well guys it's time to mix it up again i know i had said i was going to set on this hole for the remainder of my trip but it just ain't working out i've been on this about an hour now got that one fun size blue there almost instantly after getting my lines out but that's been it they just ain't been nothing going on so i'm gonna do something that you don't see me do a whole lot of on this channel and that is i'm gonna go hit the shallows that creek mouth that we were setting that first thing this morning i'm gonna go on to the back of it and set up there i don't really like fishing the shallows all that much you know usually you watch my videos i'm fishing deep i like deep structure that's my comfort zone that's that's my home out here but you get up in the shallows you get you get dinked to death you get turtled you get gar you know all that messing with your bait's non-stop and so i don't generally fish the shallows very much but out here today the fish they warned at the creek mouth they don't seem to be in this whole process of elimination where else could they be right so i don't know maybe it's just a bad day maybe they're just hunkered down and inactive but i think it's worth trying the shallows and just see what's back there so let's go do it look right here y'all right here i forgot to set my clicker but he's got it yeah yep he's on there man we're hooked up here in the shallows i i gotta check my other reels i may have forgotten to turn my clicker on on them too i've set up here in a creek y'all no quicker than i got in here the wind came out of nowhere so i'm sitting in my kayak but i've got the back end of it here up on the shore as opposed to trying to anchor and get spun around in the wind y'all this don't feel like a bad fish right here i ain't very deep um you know again i ain't got my graph but when my baits when i cast them out they couldn't have been more than three to five feet deep at the most it's not going off crap man i got i got two fish on this one here i'm gonna leave this in set and try to try to set the hook on the other one yeah yeah that was on two man i'm doubled up here on on the shallows here comes the wind blowing right in the microphone i can't tell i may have lost this one see no no he was there he's coming at me y'all maybe i should have been in the shallows all day this was the last resort here for me but you know you gotta do what you gotta do and i wasn't getting it done out there where i was at this on here is just a little one the other one up here on my other rod is going to be better we'll uh i'm gonna set this one back here just a second now let's work on let's work on this in here this one's gonna be the better one of the two yeah y'all that one's uh that's a better fish right there that's a better one nice man that's you know again three to five feet deep this creek here comes the wind it's blowing down into this creek here so i just found me a spot right here that i could back the kayak up on and uh got my baits cast out so we'll give it some time here but obviously losing my trash out the kayak let's get it i don't like leaving a mess but uh heck i'm gonna step out right here landing should have brought me a chair i just didn't know i was gonna be doing this today we up laundry devil okay oh oh crap come here ow dang i was getting my line undone around him and he's gone man i was gonna throw him on the boards for you that would have been the biggest one biggest one of the morning dang man i botched that let me get this other rod here we'll uh dang man let's at least get this and then get him going and we're going to rebate well we got that in y'all let me just throw him here on my board checking for my tournament i don't think he's gonna work for me no he's about 28 inches there nothing like that other than i sent him out here well y'all the shallows i ain't been up here i don't know 20 minutes or so that i've had lines out but uh man off to a good start here look at that rod it's getting hit over there too something was after all right well i'm gonna get these baits back out here you know again working real shallow with this water here you can see it's super muddy so i don't know what the water temps are but i can tell you they're going to be far warmer back here than anywhere else and we got the wind blowing in here on this area and you know i always like but if i'm fishing shallow i want the wind blowing in to where i'm fishing to just kind of get the get the shad's food source back there so it gets them moved in here plus they're gonna be in here anyway because of the warmer water so yeah all right let's get back to it well how far y'all i didn't have my camera rolling i cast out my other bait but both of them ate head pieces there's the other both are still in good shape i switched them out switched out all my bait when i got over here to this creek i'm going this hall back here and just kind of toss it out there you can see right there my sinker hit bottom almost instantly so i can't be no more than three to five feet deep all right set this back here i'm gonna engage my clicker this time make sure are we back in business right here right here yeah he's on there what i'm excited y'all it scared me when it took off i was sitting here candy crushing and it just shot off on me oh it's fun that's what i like about bank fishing so much is using the dang clickers and i'm basically kayak fishing from the bank here right now my other kayaking i've got that dashboard and i've got it kind of set up for when i do bank fishing it's a whole lot easier this rod up here is getting hit too i'm about to be doubled up again y'all let me get this one over here see what he's like yes and here's another small right there i'm gonna reel down on this other one here see what's going on oh that one come free nope nope he's just coming at me no dang i hadn't got my bait oh well we got one out of the two listen over here buddy look at him he's just sitting there all calm ain't no way we get him up here he's going to act a fool reeling in all this moss here whatever this weeds are yeah okay all right fishy should calm it down there because stay calm i should say because we're gonna throw that bait back out there in a second yeah y'all there's another one got more action in this creek than out there in a deeper water look at that silly fish there he goes let me get my get all this grass off here on this one we're gonna toss it back out and i'm gonna put a fresh piece on that other one there oh this grass here i'm telling you this is something else it's gonna take me a minute here y'all nevertheless this bait back here is getting ready to be cast out and i'm gonna put me another body piece on this other front rod as it got ripped off there i had about a palm sized chunk on it when it got eaten here we go again here we go again yep we're on again my drag just a smidge you can see my line going that way man he's heading back out of this creek this right here y'all this is my reels here people talk about being you know way too big for the fish that i normally do and they are okay look at him pull but when i'm bank fishing like this this model of reel here has 48 inches per handle turn and so when these fish shoot off or if they come right at you real quickly you can catch up with them in a hurry being able to reel at 48 inches look at him there you can see him come up man they're a lot of fun in shallow water i need to do this more often i just so many times i've tried you get turtles and gar and just small fish they just pester the heck out of you but that hasn't been the case today the fish that have hit me have been fish that can get hooked up oh that's a good one i didn't realize he was that big at first know it now here i am standing up in my kayak on the shore nice man you know if i smart at this youtubing thing i would have done one video out there in the main channel and then come back here and make a separate video but oh well we'll just have one long video today well let's bring him on in the kayak even if i don't need to bring him on in the kayak this kayak makes for a comfortable place to sit even if i am kind of up on the bank this is a good fish man we'll get the front camera going for this one here in just a second and get this hook out if he'll open it there we go how about that that's a pretty nice fish man and a whole lot of fun here in these shallows well when they take off here they can't go deep on you most the time you catch a blue cat the fight straight up and down they're trying to stay down and the shallows they got nowhere to go but sideways oh wait i'll stick him on the board here for him so we're going to get him out of here and get the next one how's that in there 36 incher that's probably comparable size to that one that i lost up here on the bank that's trying to get first thing going out there buddy there you go nice man that was a fun time that was really fun you know when i went over to santee cooper in south carolina there a couple years back catching good fish you know big fish shallow and had a great time doing it and i thought i would spend more time doing it here you know trying but just have it you know like i said you go out and you get turtled to death a few times and it's like ah heck with this i can avoid the turtles in the gar when i'm fishing deep but i hear today ain't been nothing but nothing but blues in here so far down there put my bait off i'm gonna put another piece on we're gonna send it right back out today's video is probably a long one y'all bear with me again if i was a smart youtuber i would have filmed a video out there this morning change shirts and then come back in here and filmed another one but that's all right i like to show a trip start to finish you know today like you know out there today i was getting bit and getting some fish but didn't get the quality and action that i had hoped to get or expected to get on that spot and so i thought you know i'm just going to mix it up because these fish they got to be somewhere they're in this area this time of year so i know if they're not out there at the creek now or in that deep hole where else could they be they're either in this creek feeding or they're up on that bar feeding one of the two places so anyway let me get another bait on there a little something going on here i'll reel down on him yeah he's on he's over he didn't he didn't take off running with it but he's on there i mean i've been big enough to take off running with it may just be a small fish or something he's still kind of coming at me here whatever he is he's obviously big enough to get the hook see when we get him in here i've had a little bit of a lull here y'all probably went 30 45 minutes but nothing happened it's all right i'm just waiting that's a flat head that's why he ate it so funny oh old flat boy look at that man he's pale he is pale and yellow nice man oh flat head i don't think he's hooked very good either another rod over here behind me getting hit let's bring this thing in why don't we that's what he eats at skiddy head look at that thing buddy look the colors on him man he is pale yellow it's just kind of just this i mean that's a flat head bite if there ever was one just kind of messing with it there not really running with it not committing to it we got him all right let me throw him on the board here for those of you that care about that and then we'll get a bait back out there all right y'all i just got my pictures of this fish for my slot tournament look at that man almost 32 but don't touch that is a perfect fish for my tournament let me get that out of the way we're going to let him go here one last look at him here y'all got my pictures i needed this fish today's march 30th i was losing coming in today by a quarter of an inch and that one there is a perfect score because we can't if it touches a 32 inch line it's considered over slot so really 31 and three quarters is as big as one we can turn in and that's perfect okay let's send him home get out of here buddy there he goes man all right y'all it is 2 30. i have been out here way longer than i anticipated today but you know what i'm glad i moved back here in this creek this is uh you know shallow water fishing i don't like fishing shallow water but i love catching fish in shallow water if you can understand that contradiction there all these fish i call back here was a blast to catch especially that flathead because man i needed that fish this march 30th is the day when i'm filming this video that slot tournament that i'm in runs through tomorrow march 31st and that fish there when i zoomed on in on the pick man it is close i mean you're talking millimeters away from the 32 inch line which for our tournament here it has to be as close to 32 inches without touching and we round down so the biggest fish you can submit for this tournament is 31 and three quarters and for my five fish limit assuming that fish doesn't get challenged and overturned that'll put me up four fish at 31 and three quarters and one at 31 and a quarter so i'm within a half inch of a perfect score and currently as the leaderboard sits that puts me a quarter an inch ahead of second place so you know this tournament everybody else you know they've still got today and tomorrow that they can be fishing and submitting fish so who knows how it will all shake out but right now i'm currently in the lead by a quarter of an inch but that's it for me in this tournament though i'm done tomorrow uh the weather here is supposed to be terrible supposed to have heavy rains and some flooding and stuff so i'm not going to get to fish tomorrow so that fish today assuming it stands will complete my score for the month but this tournament though it's been fun this group is called kayaks and cats they have a facebook group catfishing tournaments there online and you all have saw me fish some catfishing tournaments in the past this is a different group from the other regime that i had fished this group's a lot more proactive on things and especially when it comes to getting people paid so uh if you're interested you can check them out there on facebook they've got these tournaments going slot tournaments and longest fish tournaments there every month and uh anyway guys yeah i'm gonna get on out of here i guess i think the moral of today's story is if you're out there and you're fishing like me and things ain't working out well go shallow maybe things will get better because it did for me today anyway y'all i'm going i'll see you next time thanks for watching bye

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Length: 42min 35sec (2555 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 05 2021