This Bait Paid Off BIG!!! 2 Days of EPIC Florida Keys Fishing Vacation

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hi y'all Justin with kayak catfish well my South Florida vacation is in full swing today I am in the Florida Keys and boy we're going to have some fun today I'm going to see if I can work this bridge here behind me and get us some bait don't matter to me what we get we just need something to bait a hook with once we do that boy oh boy we're going to have a good time I'm going to head up to the 7 Mile Bridge which is a well-known just tourist attraction really down here in the Florida Keys tons of fish most importantly tons of big fish swim around that bridge so we're going to take whatever live baits we get here we're going to take them up there troll around with them and hopefully hook into an absolute monster today come with me y'all come enjoy this vacation with me let's have some fun so here's what I'm going to start with trying to get us some bait these are crappie magnets on 1/8 oun jig heads I got a couple of them on in a series this is basically what I use to catch catfish bait with back home I catch skipjack with this Rod I got a a 6 and 1/2 ft medium heavy bass fishing rod 3000 size reel and I'm going to throw this rig around these Bridge pilings in here may be a little loud on camera with all this traffic going over but we're going to work this bait around through here if this don't pan out look right here look right here I had one following it right all the way up I don't know what that was if this don't work out though for what forever reason we got a couple other options I've got some gulp that we can put on and I've also got I stopped at the tackle shop on the way out through here and got some frozen shrimp that we'll tip a hook with and see if we can get something with that but we're going to we're going to get us some bait y'all and then we going to go have some fun so the crappie magnets have failed us thus far so what I'm going to do is take a a piece of shrimp here here just a tiny piece and I'm going to tip a Gul minow on a 132 o jig head number six hook we're going to put a little piece of shrimp on there and we're going to throw that around these Bridge pins I'm having the crappie magnets getting ni they've bit the tails off of the D Plastics but they ain't hooking up so we're going try this out here and see what this will do got something right here y'all watch out behind me now this current's flowing it may take me into these Bridge columns here if y'all ain't paying attention to me I don't know what this is let's see we'll get him over here get a look at him see if it's something we can actually use or if it's one of them protected fish I'm having a hard hard time getting spun around here y'all bear with me we I will have something come up and eat this thing while while I'm messing around trying to get the kayak spun all right now I think that's one of them there Snappers we can't they fun at least on this ultralight anyway this size but we can't use that for a bait give me that hook back fish well he's wanting a souvenir ain't he don't even want to open up yeah we can't use that we ain't trying to get no ticket out here let's take us another little piece of shrimp and tip this gulp I don't know that we need we probably get by with one or the other either just the piece of shrimp or just the gulp but I said bye gosh let's just use them both one or the other might work but both ain't going to hurt nothing throw that over there by that bridge column just let it sink down that current's working this way under the bridge and so I'm just kind of letting it kind of sweep back into that shaded area over there we got a fish on too just like that I don't know what he is but I hope it's something we can legally use they proud of them Snapper things down here we they don't want you using them but pretty much anything else you get is Open Season oh boy it's going to pull now let me let me steer him on up this way I could make a day out of this right here if there wasn't so many big fish around that are just pulling out my heart strings to go catch I could make a day out of just working these Bridge columns with an ultral light oh that's a that's a another one right there all right let's let him go another one of them old Snappers something thumped me let's hope it ain't another one of them dang those Snappers anything but a snapper come on now we liable you reeling these dang things in you liable have something come up and nail [Music] them yeah that's a that's another one right there the old Snapper leave them things down there so I can catch me something better why don't you we got another one it's evercast with this pieces of shrimp frozen shrimp on a jig head tossed out IID hoped to work those crappie magnets through here maybe pick off some lady fish or mackerel you know something larger that we could chunk up but just wasn't getting anything I was getting small Taps from fish that were biting the tails off which I assume was probably it was probably these Snappers biting the tails off of my crappie magnets so they can they can chew up these pieces of shrimp I don't care about them but we catching them every day a cast we just need something that we can legally keep there's this another piece of that shrimp on the jig head I if you can see it under this bridge while we're in the shade here but literally that's all I'm doing is taking a just a small piece of shrimp I've cut up put it on that jig head cast that let it sink down and all along these pilings there's fish now unfortunately they're mostly Snapper it seems like which for whatever reason you can't can't use those as bait down here but it's Action Man I mean it's literally ever about ever cast I'm either catching a fish or I'm getting the bait I got one after me right here he's either going to get that hooker he's going to steal the bait he got the he got got the the hook look got another any fingers crossed y'all anything but a snapper it's a little better one right here Budd he's pulling he's going he's going to run this way I'll just follow him on out they want to come out here and get in the Sun so y'all can see him see him in the light there I need a big shark to come up eat this thing while I'm reeling him in since I can't since I can't officially use him for bait that's what we need to happen that's a good size one right there too though there Bo I think I was ever getting that hook out of him man gosh we got it we got the hook and a piece of shrimp back at him he didn't want to open his mouth for nothing though that snapper right there he knew he knew this was his big opportunity to get on this video oh boy this one's going to run this one's going to run right here man this one's a little better fish don't know what he is but he's definitely a little better quality again fingers crossed anything but a snapper man he going to he's going to run out here let's go out here and see if we can get this kayak spun around a little bit well now he's coming back this way he can't make up his mind which direction he wants to go yeah yesterday I was in I was it Lake Ida up on the mainland there Florida and catching peacocks and copper noose Blu Gill on this setup I'm going tell you these things right here whatever I've hooked right here fights a little harder than those whatever he is here oh my gosh it's another one another one y'all my God gosh these things are a nuisance people may love them down here but by gosh they're a dang nuisance oh no oh look at that he just crapped all over my foot that dang fish doed on me things went from bad to worse man I can't believe that y old fish you why'd you do that for this fish said doooo on you I got to use my pliers on him he's going to he's going to be an honory thing well I bent my hook trying to get it out but by CAU we got it out of him that there I think that's probably the the biggest one out here so far there he goes he gone I got to wash this crap off my foot and I'm going to put another piece of shrimp on there there we'll keep working along through here oh here's something else that's pulling Like A [Music] Dickens what do you want to bet it's another Snapper somebody bet me a shiny nickel right now if you want to lose you nickel get your bed in right now I bet you it's a snapper these dang things are everywhere here on these Bridges see I a't got a good look at him why yeah it most certainly is I called it if you bet against Me by gosh I expect that Nickel in the mail another pretty good size one at least though at least this one here was kind enough not to crap all over me yeah they're a sporty fish especially on an ultra light Rod if he'd open his mouth he'd show you them teeth ain't none of them got a full full mouth of teeth they like them meth heads back home man just one tooth here and there oh I've insulted him now he's mad at me he said he'll make sure he'll make sure to tell all his friends about in time they'll all gang up on me down here well I'm going take another piece of this shrimp we'll go throw out over over here and I'm going to give it a few more minutes see if I can get something if not I did when I stopped at the bait shop and bought this frozen shrimp I got some frozen Baloo and so we'll cut them up and chunk them and go see what we can get with those I kind of wanted to kill some time out here for a little while today one to see if we could get us some life bait the other reason too is to let the wind die down this bridge here I'm kind of protected from it but when we get up to the 7 Mile Bridge the wind was really going to be moving and it's we've got a window of time this afternoon where the wind was going to die down significantly and so I was kind of killing some time to let it die down and something just hit us so it's about time to time we get on up there things should be good with the Wind oh there's another one there broke me off how you wanted him a jig too Dad going yeah we'll mess around here a few more minutes and then we're going to get on the move and go up here to the other Bridge so I've made it here to the S mile bridge it's directly behind me and right now the wind has died down it was really high this morning it's died down Sun but it is still incredibly choppy out here the current is currently going this way through the bridges and the wind is blowing this direction so it's creating a lot of chop now out here where I'm at right now we're going to be fine where it might get a little sketchy as if something we hook into something big and he toes us through the old bridge over there getting through that with the current and the wind that may be a show that may be the most exciting part of the video so I'm going to need y'all we hook in something big I'm going to need y'all tell them tell me this direction it's wide open out this way so we'll gladly go that direction anyway I'm going to get baited up y'all I've been looking forward of this trip for so long so let's get baited up see what's swimming down there and hopefully hook into a Jag on Monster and go for a sleigh Rod today so there's our first bait that's a chunk of Balo on a 10 o size circle hook wire leader about 3T up my line there I've got a balloon just going to give that a toss here behind me I'm going to backlash myself in the process and I'm going to let out some line and I'm going to troll through here along these Bridges and we're going to see what all we can hook into I think if we do cook something we're going to be in for a good time y'all so I'm going I'm going to get that thing boy I done got it wrapped around the bridge Pile in there behind me there it come all right I'm going to stick this in the rod holder I'm going turn that clicker on now so we're in business folks I said I'm just going to just slow troll up through here hopefully something's going to pick up on that Cent Trail and come eat it don't matter to me what it is but I hope it has teeth oh we got a little something happening here something hitting oh there we go there we go there we go buddy oh here we go oh man oh man there he was behind me did he oh did he just come off let's tighten down her drag a little bit let's see which way he wants to go we got something on I saw him come up and thrash the surface but I don't know what he is we got to back up a little bit here we got to see which one of these Bridges he wants to go through this is going to be the challenge folks this is going to be the challenge when he cuts through one of these Bridges we're going to have to I've got my other rods laid down behind me oh okay come on buddy turn go the other way would you he ain't he's going that way it's going to get a little sketchy I don't know how big He Is We may he's not taking a ton of drag here maybe we can turn him whatever he was he was th in around but I I was couldn't get a good look I just saw the commotion oh he's got me on the edge of that concrete okay here he comes here he comes he's going the other way good fish good boy y'all told him I told you to tell him which way to go and y'all done it and he listened let me get spun he's going to go in a circle with us now this is awesome y'all this is awesome yes in here ate our ate our B who I tried fishing there under that other bridge and just cutting kept catching Snapper which I ain't trying to get no ticket out here so I'll let them go but thankfully we had Plan B and Plan B has got us something although I don't know exactly what it is yet he can't be very big for us to have been able to turn him though it's a good starter size today yeah man oh yeah he's strong he's strong whatever he is man this is fun y'all I've been looking forward to this for so long since last year when I left here I've been looking forward to coming back I'm a terrible saltwater fisherman very minimal experience I make a ton of mistakes but boy I sure have a lot of fun as long as you don't end up in the water you're able to have fun doing this if I end up in the water that ain't going to be for a good day I have no idea what this thing is I don't think it's a shark it's something that wants to spin in a circle he needs to just oh man Mor's going to get over here my pedal drive yeah I don't know what this thing is y'all is that a is that a barracuda I think that might be a barracuda old old Barracuda here bar Cuda has ate our cutbait oh that's a toothy Feller all right that's pretty good fish I don't think these are very desirable down here but for an old Hill belly like me from Tennessee I'm happy to catch himy it was a fun time right there oh that hook Hein hook very good y'all Hein hook very good let's see if I can get my lip grips here see if we can get a hold of this thing man oh look at the mouth on that thing man look at all them teeth right there there went to hook buddy man look at that y'all that's awesome man again I don't know if these fish are very desirable down here but boy they are to me kind of same way with sharks nobody wants to catch a shark that lives in Florida but I'd love to hook into a big today nice going try to get him like this maybe you can get a look at them Chompers on him there he go open his mouth for you now smile for the camera there Barracuda ain't going to do it well that was fun y'all all right let's let him go hey out of here he gone first big fish down here in the Florida Keys let's get us another piece of Bley whoo on and I'm going to keep doing the same thing just troll it throw it behind me under the balloon about three 4T down and just work along the edge I'm just going to keep working down through here and who knows what else we going to run into everything in this dang ocean will be up here around these Bridges so we could hook possibly anything so I'm trying to slightly different strategy this time I've been trolling with the bait behind the kayak and that makes it a bit of a challenge when the fish hits I have to get this kayak spun around before I can take off after them now what I'm trying this time is I've got the bait out to air uh kind of the same areir you know working along the edge of the bridge columns but I'm facing the balloon and I'm pedaling backwards now it's a little bit more of a challenge as far as boat control goes since the the wind's this way and the currents this way but when a fish does hit it's going to make it so much easier to pick up the rod and take off after him since I'm going to be just right there pointed in the right direction so just one of these things I'm kind of experiment with at the moment yeah I'm a complete amateur rookie saltwater fisherman especially when it comes out here in this this open ocean type fishing I've just done it a handful of times in my life now so uh still still learning the ropes if you will but we're experimenting we already got to skunk out with the Barracuda so I'm feeling pretty good good right now oh I thought something was getting after it by gosh he is something got me oh man oh did he just drop it no he's still on there he's still on there I thought I saw my balloon it wasn't really it wasn't really taking the the line but I saw my balloon it just didn't look right oh oh man we got to go through we got to go through y'all he's going to run me over the edge of the concrete here if we don't woo all right we off y'all we off we got through it go out here and see what we can see what we can get we can chase him down it's been a while man I've been just working my way just right along the edge of those bridges with the current going this way I thought the scent and the blood would kind of come through the other side through those bridges there and so we'd have a chance at getting fish both on the front and the back side of the bridge and well it just ain't belly who don't seem to be where it's at for bait but it got us at Barracuda and it's got us hooked up with something here that we having to get out here and Chase down man this fun y'all I think it's just the excitement of just not knowing what the heck you got what you got hooked up to you know it could be anything oh I see him thrashing around out there I don't know what it was I saw him come up we go into these waves may get splashed a little bit here if with water gets on the lens y all just have to come through the screen there teleport yourself through and squeegee it off I probably I probably ain't going to be able to to keep track of it right now while I'm hooked up to this thing and trying to keep myself upright out here we're just going to Tire him out whatever he is let him let him tow us along he'll wear down eventually he's going to wear down before I do I'll tell you that I've been waiting a long time to hook into whatever he is so I ain't going to tire out after I've called a few of him and his friends this week maybe we get toward the end of the week my arm might be tired he might have a better shot at me then I just want to keep myself I really just want to as he pulls I want to keep myself as straight as possible with him don't want to get sideways with him and the waves out here that's for sure I didn't mention my gear here in the in the intro but I'm using catfish Sumo Elite 150 rods these things you talk about a stout Rod there a catfish Rod but they can hold up to whatever this is he's pulling hard and you can see where my rod tip is there these things can lift 150 lbs so I mean they're they're a stout Rod now I got a Iowa Seagate reel it's the size 50 I've got it spooled with 50 lb monofilament and that goes down to a wire leader that's about 3 ft long and on that I've got a a 10 o size circle hook oh man he is strong man we just we just made him mad there he goes again we want him to go if he's going somewhere go this way he don't need to be going to the right cuz there's a bunch of them old Lobster pots or whatever they are over there I got into them things last year and it cost me a couple fish so we hoping not to run into them again this year they may be some wind noise on the camera y'all I apologize they ain't nothing I can do about it the wind has continued to die down as the afternoon went went on I waited later in the morning to leave today just just so that it would be calming down as I got out here the rest of the week it's going to be questionable I'm going to have little Windows of time that I can maybe get on the water so I'm going to try to take advantage as much as I can we definitely making the most of it today getting a barracuda that's my first ever Barracuda by the way I've never I've never got one before but first one of those and whatever this is W y'all I think I'm just going to have to it's going to be a long fight I'm just going to have to edit part of it out I'm just going to hang on let him pull me around till he gets tired and then we'll pick this video up when I get him up to a point where we can see him I reckon there he is oh crap he's up under the Kake he's up under the Kake oh man oh man what's going on here what's going on here where's he at oh crap what has happened here oh no he's got my dang pedal drop he's got my pedal drop y'all oh man we're in big trouble we're in big trouble uhuh okay oh man what a disaster that was I hope I didn't just oh crap I cut my line I hope he didn't just cut my line on my prop I got a dang backlash now I brought him up here okay good he's still on I hope it didn't weaken my line I was bringing him up by the kayak trying to get a a look at him there for the camera he swam through my pedal drop well we got lucky right there he's about wore out out and I know I am too oh yeah that's a better look at him right there oh man man there's my leader y there's just no way there's just no way this is too dang he is too dang strong I'm not going to be able to get to that hook out there's no way around here to beach man there he goes I get him up for a second and he's right back down all right y'all it's over this ain't nothing more I could do with it I had to cut my line I got down there as close as I could to my leader and snipped it I just wasn't going to wear that fish out to be able to safely remove that hook out here in open water and there's just no you look around there's an island way back over there but otherwise I mean there's just there's nowhere for me to potentially Beach him and that's if I could even coax him to going where I need him to go to be able to do it so that's just part of it you hook a fish that big and what can you do but good thing is out here in salt water my wire the hook it'll rust out in no time truth be told snipping that probably better than just tiring him out to more exhaustion but anyway y'all you can see over there the sun's down and I'm a long ways out through here so I'm probably not going to make it back to the car before dark but I'm going to dang sure try I'm going to Huff it and puff it out through here to try to get back cuz this type of place with the type of sharks that's out here I don't really want to be out here after dark to be honest with you but what a day though man I've had a blast well my Florida Keys Adventure Continues today I'm in a place called baj a Honda which I kind of feels a good omen cuz heck man I drive a Honda but anyway I've had several people last year and this year both tell me there are some big sharks that hang out down through here so we going to try to do some fishing here today I'm about to launch my kayak here through these ankle breaking rocks this place right here dang near treacherous to get your kayak out but once I get it out there I'm going to go up here to this Old Bridge and work these columns I spent the morning getting us some live baits so we're going to go up there drop them down along them columns and man I don't care I ain't discriminating today whatever big wants to play tug-of war with me I'm up for it man I'm up for the challenge man I'm here to have some fun and I hope y'all are too let's get out there and get after them y'all y'all here's our first bait going out there I've cut a few slits in him just Mak him thinly sliced just like I like my Del meat on my sandwiches we're going to toss him out to air I've got him under a balloon on a wire leader so I don't know if you can see the balloon is kind of on the edge of that column I'm farther out from the bridge the current is going this way so I'm letting it push the bait and the balloon and so I've got him swimming right on the edge of these things as I troll my way along so I'm hoping any fish that are that are working around these Bridge columns feeding or maybe directly behind it there that pick up on the scent where I've slid him and got him bleeding a little bit they're going to rush up there and get him if this don't pan out we'll go over here and we'll hit that other one do the same thing oh oh oh oh oh here we go here we go here we go finally hooked up here on something oh look at him going over there look at him going over there oh man I don't know what that is oh man he's back there he's going crazy back there by that bridge y'all oh did he just come off oh crap I botched it no no he's still on there he's still on there he's going back that way 100 miles in Air Buddy there he goes there he goes I thought he I thought I'd boted it I don't know what this is oh man oh man I'm just hanging on I'm just hanging on goodness I don't know what he is man I've waited a long time for him I know that I've been out here trolling around about 2 hours now it's been tough going this current is it's been tough this part of the bridge over here it's not as bad over there on the other side holy cow it's just it's a dang treadmill just to hold position boy I need this fish to turn cuz we're going we about to go through these Bridges here oh I can't he between him pulling me I need him to turn between him pulling me and the current we're about to have a hard time here this bridge oh no he did come off then he just broke me off on that on that bridge piling crap that was some kind of shark I don't know what kind oh no he didn't uh no I thought he broke me off off on the bridge pile he bent the dang hook out well crap Ola man ain't that a big howdy do bent the dang hook out and here we go through the bridge well unfortunately as you just saw yesterday did not go as planned down there at I don't even really know how you say it bajia Bahia Honda crappy crappy tomato tomato who knows but either way it was a challenge down there man I only hooked one shark completely fumbled it and just had a hard time fishing down there yesterday man the current of the places I have fished down here in the keys the current down there was more intense than anywhere else especially kind of in the in the middle of that bridge there the deepest part of the channel That current was ripping man I had to I had to keep after if you took your foot off the gas if you quit pedaling you were gone so in a sense I'm kind of thankful I didn't hook into something big that towed me way out cuz i' had a hard time getting back but today you can probably see here the wind is up a little bit this morning right here at Sunrise and supposed to get worse throughout the day so I think it's going to knock me out of fishing safely today so I'm going to head down to Key West play tourist maybe get me a cheeseburger in Paradise it's a original Margaritaville you know see the sights and stuff and then get back after it here once the wind calms down here later on this week but uh I think this is unfortunately probably going to be the last saltwater video you see of my trip here I made myself a promise on the way down through here after I left Lake a I was like you know I'm going to film for 2 days down here fishing hopefully get two videos unfortunately didn't work out after yesterday but I was like after that I'm going to take the rest of the week and just vacation have some me time off camera not worry about lighting in the Sun or the wind messing up audio like it's probably doing right here on this segment but I'm just going to enjoy myself down here in Paradise man the Florida Keys just absolutely beautiful this place right here is is where I'm staying these little Villas right here got their own Beach got a launch right over here got a dock been catching some bait right here off the dock so very convenient very awesome so I'm just going to take the rest of my vacation time here and enjoy me so unfortunately didn't get the the two full videos like I had wanted to but I'm hopefully going to catch some fish out here the rest of the week man right out here last year about 100 yards off this dock is where I hooked that Hammerhead and so definitely going to put in some time out here uh later on this week and uh yeah just have some fun man just live it up a little bit down here so wherever you're at out there hope you're doing well thank you for watching hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving or at this point had Thanksgiving hasn't happened yet but by the time you see this it is so I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving and uh yeah y'all so anyway thanks for watching wish I could have landed that one yesterday that straightened the hook but either way I'm having a good time down here and hopefully going to keep it going I'll see you in the next one
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Published: Tue Dec 05 2023
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