This Fish Left My Kayak Looking Like A Crime Scene

[Music] right here y'all right here oh my gosh i'm just getting my lines out i just got this line cast out i'm already hooked up man that's a big skip jack head big skip jack head and that feels like a good fish too now the current out here today y'all it's ripping oh yeah that's a good fish man yes sir hopefully you can see this y'all i'm i'm getting out here at first light it's about 7 a.m right now just getting set up man i just cast this first line out i'd hope to suspend a couple baits out here today and cast a couple out there's a creek that comes in right here but the current out here today man it's it's ripping well ripping for around here anyway from what you all are used to in a lot of places this is nothing but normally our flow is about a half a mile an hour and where i'm at today is probably closer to a mile and a half an hour so it's about i'd say probably three times our normal flow just from all the rain we've had in fact they got the spill gates open at the dam and so i can't suspend baits today i just it's the currents i tried when i first put this bait out and my lines getting pushed up in the water column just due to the amount of flow so i cast it out and i got my other bait on cast it out and i'll be doggone if this thing wasn't going off before i could even get the other one in the rod holder and this right here man this is it feels like a really good fish it feels solid but again you know i am pulling it in with about a mile and a half hour current too so that's going to add to it but this area where i'm at here this creek mouth this is a shallower section of the river about 20 feet deep here where i'm at i don't have my graph on this kayak but just having fished here in the past i can tell you it's about 20 feet deep and this area has done me really well historically this time of year this is my first time fishing it here in 2021. yeah i see that fish out there it's a blue cat we gotta pull him in here through this through this current here he looks like he's about done nope nope he's gonna take off again i had planned on fishing four rods out here today i don't know if that's gonna be possible because of the current flow i've got eight ounce sinkers on but with the amount of flow it's going to bring all my baits together out in front of me it may be difficult to use four rods and this narrow platform of a kayak and keep everything separated this is a good fish man yes sir look right here now first light big blue i'm gonna bring him in now he's got some weight on him i gotta be careful look at that thing right there man that's a horse that is a horse of a fish more my pliers out here okay oh man that's a horse of a fish okay let's get this bait back out right quick he swam through my other line there on the way in sorry y'all i'm pumped up i'm excited right now again i have had really good success on this spot in the past this time of year first time fishing this spot this year and can't even get my lines out before i'm hooked up with a really nice blue cat right here on the floor of my kayak so here's what i'm going to do i'm going to stand up right quick get this bait cast back out you can see what he eat here let me show you this is a big skip jack head i mean that's one of my bigger baits or one of my bigger skip jack that i got i'm just casting it out here kind of right here where this creek comes in not making really long casts don't really need to i'm gonna set it back in the rod holder now let's fix this line too while we're at it because he swam through it he may have knocked my bait off this one yeah okay we still got our bait on there this is a big hunk of skipjack big body section i want to be using big baits today y'all cause i'm out here whopper hunting man and we got a sword in the floor of the kayak that's a beast okay i'm gonna set that one there let's move our bait out of the way i'm gonna get my front camera set up real quick now we're gonna get some pictures of this thing oh yeah look at that thing man look at that he's got some blood there at the corner of his mouth where i hooked him he'll be fine it's just superficial but that's awesome oh yeah all right let's stick him on the board just a quick measurement and we're going to get the rest of these baits out here because i think we're in for a good time today yeah y'all don't pay attention to all that blood it's just superficial from the corner of his mouth but that fish there just shy of 40 inches but look at the girth on that thing man that is a fat fish man awesome okay one last look at him mary's bloody mess but he'll be fine [Music] okay let's let him go i can't lean over too far with that thing he's gone man that's about all i can do with it with the current out here today can't be taking no chances leaning over for these fish because you make a mistake out here you're in trouble this is one of them situations that if i wasn't in this kayak you know i have two kayaks i have the this one which is a hobie pa14 and i have an old town sportsman autopilot both are super stable kayaks if i wasn't in such a stable kayak i wouldn't be anchoring down in this kind of flow and i don't recommend you all do it in a you know big box store kayak that's real tippy you in for a bad time you could be in a real dangerous situation if you ain't careful man no coffee needed this more and my adrenaline is sky high right now all right y'all we're gonna hook us up another bait on here this is another big skip jack head there's my hand beside you can see it's palm size hustle big fish bait and way after the big ones today i'm gonna cast this out and we'll see where this one lands i think i am going to go ahead and put a fourth bait out and just i'll try to chunk the fourth one way out that way best i can to hopefully it'll get a little distance you know between these baits it's just so hard when you got this much flow it just brings everything together even when you're using heavier sinkers okay cut that one out next one here i'm gonna put this big body chunk also y'all while i'm at it today's video sponsor catfish sumo you can go to catfishsumo.com justin get you some awesome deals thank you catfish sumo for sponsoring today's video and helping my audience with some huge savings that last fish there was approaching sumo size he'll get there someday with his genetics and that's the kind of fish y'all the one i just let go those are the ones you want to let go because you want their genes getting passed on to the next generation that's going to keep this trophy fish population going and make sure that we all got big fish to catch for years to come all right here is the next bait going out oh one bird's nest of that man amateur hour here i look like my my moderator the bass fisherman trying to cast then didn't i that's terrible i just put fresh line on my reels the other day get geared up for spring here we'll mess it up first thing all right that'll do all right guys i have got my baits out and i am waiting again everything is cast out here just due to the amount of current flow got a shallow creek that comes in here this section river again is normally 20 foot deep or so here where i'm at i don't have my graph on this kayak today i'm using this kayak because of the launch side it's so terrible that it's hard to get in and out of so i wanted to be in the lighter weight kayak today in case i end up dragging this thing up at a hill when i'm done today so uh i'm in this one today but i didn't switch my graph back over to it because well quite honestly i just don't need it out here i know where to position myself just due to history water temps all that stuff doesn't really matter this is more of a time of year seasonal thing i know month of april this is usually pretty good we're in the mid-april now so these fish should be here and so i'm going to put in a few hours out here this morning we're right here at first light my plan is to fish till 11 today noon it's gonna be a morning trip for me and then i gotta go restock on some bait this afternoon but uh man we off to a golf start i'm so pumped up right now i'll tell you something y'all you would have thought i murdered that last fish there as much blood as he left in the floor of my kayak nothing else he's putting us some extra chum down there in the water right now oh my gosh look at this my gosh that's why that big body section i was looking over here behind me there's an island over here and i'm thinking for an upcoming video i'm gonna be over there set up on the bank and i was looking for a clearing on it and felt my kayak moving very sharply it's a great feeling this is uh one of the midsections though it's a large size bait too you know i'm throwing all big baits today unless i just start running low on bait which i don't have a lot of skip jack with me i got to go restock this afternoon try to get some more get some fresh bait i'll tell you man this is exciting though it's just i look forward to fishing certain areas certain times of the year and this is one of those places that i look forward to it's just a predictable bite with some big fish and i really wish we didn't have so much dang current flow that way i could suspend baits because that's the most fun way to catch them and i have caused some really big fish doing that i've got some really nice flatheads here this time of year too doing that but with this amount of flow i don't care how much weight you're using it's just going to bring your bait up and the water column you're going to have a hard time controlling depth and when you're suspending you you need to be able to control your depth at all times so we're going old-school and casting out today it's this is that's a blue cat right there that's another good one too but just anchoring down casting baits out that's that's catfish 101 right there man let's keep it simple my baits are right here this creek mouth right as the edge of the channel starts to come up and when fish come up this channel start to go into that creek where they cruise down the back of this channel from behind me here and go to turn in this creek there's my baits i'm playing this thing out a little bit here y'all cause it's a pretty good fish i don't want to bring him in too green and i don't want to be battling him too much when i'm trying to get him into the kayak and i'm kind of leaned over you know well he may not be as big as i thought there he's he's a fun-sizer but i when i first got a look at him i thought he was a little bigger than that that's all right he's still a decent fish i'm happy to get a fish this size anytime i can we'll throw him on the board here he's probably a 36 incher i'd say 34-36 easy buddy easy easy easy peasy hey man getting these fish in is no joke today i know a lot of things out there you know you're dealing with two mile an hour five mile an hour current every day you know it's a regular day for you but you know again around here our flow is normally half a mile an hour so this is a big difference for us yeah folks that one right there about 34 and a quarter up up up mary went too by gosh heck with that i didn't want to hold him up for the big camera there anywhere the front camera he wasn't worthy of getting a picture he said screw this i'm getting the heck out of here while i can yeah 34-inch fish right there that's a quality fish fun time they threw the bait off though i'm gonna get another one ready and we'll launch it out there all right there's our next chunk going out toss it right there in front of me down it goes let's see if we can pull up next look at this headpiece right here look at that something wants it there i'm just going to let him take it i think he's got it i think he's got it yeah oh he's got it kind of acting like a flathead wasn't it just sitting there messing with it like that like i told you man i i've caught some good flatheads here i don't know for sure that that's what this is but the way my rod tip was just kind of bouncing around there not really committing to it and you saw how that last oh my gosh you let it go too i bet that was a flathead and got motherline got mother line and worked himself free see that right there see how my hook is coming up that line sometimes that will happen a fish will get in your other line and that line will just work its way down and pop that hook free and that's what happened to me there dang man i was worried about that you know i was thinking about just ditching one of these rods because of that you know here i'm gonna do something y'all i'm gonna do something give me a second bear with me all right y'all there's our next bait going out that's a big skip jack cut in half double hook i'm going to toss it out here and then i'm going to reel the other the other line in we're just going to go three rods have a head a midsection and this monster bait right here i'm just feeling it today man i'm just feeling it today i ain't got a lot of bait with me we may burn through it real quick but it's gonna be a short trip today anyway and so let's just swing for the fences why don't we i don't have any dinks out here knock on wood i'm not getting chewed up or anything on my bait so hopefully it'll stay out there in good condition and be ready for when a monster comes along i'll reel this other one in though get it out of the way way we don't have any more mishaps look at that there it goes there it goes it just happened it just happened that's a half a skipjack right there oh he just let it go dang man didn't feel like a very big fish i may have jinxed myself when i said i wouldn't have no dinks tapping or nothing like that because that one there did not feel like it had any weight to it oh well it's still on there we'll see what happens that double hooked bait right there man i'll jinx myself y'all it keeps getting tapped by them small fish they're just down there chewing that thing up look at it got to hit again i just i bragged too soon i was like you know there's some good fish in the area ain't no small fish out here chewing on my baits or nothing yet and i'll be dog gone that bait ain't been out there 15 minutes and it's been hit numerous times from just small fish just taking bites out of it just chewing on it and got hit too i think a small fish are moved in y'all nope that may happen there that's getting hit again we got musical rods going on here there's something happening here now yeah my gosh he's on there y'all i've put out a fourth rod again i've sat here for about an hour and a half with nothing going on and i thought i'm gonna put me out a rod with a small bait on there i want to leave my big baits on the others but i keep getting hit on those other pieces there and and you know when you're using large baits like that you're smaller fish unless they hit the hook just right they're not going to get hooked up and so that's fine with me for normal circumstances but when you know you're doing this youtube stuff you you got to catch some fish you got to get some action so i thought i better just throw me this fourth rod back out with a smaller bait on just to make sure i get some get some content today because i was full of hope and optimism first thing when i got bit right away and boy was i misled on how good the bible was going to be to check because it ain't it ain't been owned like i thought it was going to be on i got another little one here these guys have been down there chewing on my other baits i got cocky earlier and thought that they weren't gonna pester me today and sure as the world a few minutes later they showed up i gotta be careful because this one's hooks coming at the bottom lip let me get my pliers here so get that thing free you can see it right there i put on just a tiny bait to try to let one of these things get hooked up get out of here buddy because otherwise i fish that small right there uh i ain't gonna be eating you know that half a skipjack on there or with a big head piece over there it just ain't gonna it can take bites out of it it can chew on it but unless it gets that hook just right ain't gonna get hooked up and then if these bigger fish don't do their part today we ain't gonna have much content but i'll tell you what i'm thinking about doing and i might end up doing this is going back in this creek lately some of my better fish have been coming really shallow and since the fish aren't out here at least in the numbers that i was hoping for out here at the mouth of this thing with the heavier flow we've got i'm wondering if they ain't back on up in this creek here it's just this particular creek is heavily populated there are houses all up and down through here so bank access very limited and i don't know if i'm gonna find any back there i could go all the way to the very back of it and set up there's not the houses back there but the water level today it looks like it's down a foot or two and i don't know if i can get back in there or not so uh kind of kind of on the fence about if i should pull anchor or not but i really haven't done any good out here in a while so uh me to see what time it is here hell i'm making decisions on the fly here y'all let's see it is 9 24. so uh you know got bit right away and then not much else since so i think i'm gonna do i think i'm gonna try out my pull anchor and just say worst case scenario it's a buff then we end up with a three fish video but hey with that first one there being a whopper i'd be all right with that but i do want to try to get some more today so let's go see what we can find in this creek right here i'm gonna crank down on this thing my gosh there he is man there he is that's that half a skip jack right there yeah buddy and i felt him just messing with my bait there and my line kind of went slack why don't you look at this man look at the size of the fish that's ate this half a skip jack i don't even know if he ate it if he just got wrapped up in it look at this he's literally he's lassoed himself with that happy skip jack this fish ain't even here i'm gonna get out of the kayak here this fish here ain't even hooked y'all i've set up on the bank here i found me a clearing here on this creek i'll show you here in a second look at this right here man i don't even know how he's done that he got that hook he got the top hook through the fin okay there's one let's see where the other hook's at i heard my bait got flying off i don't wanna lose oh he did get a hook he got the back one in the mouth there just a little thing oh yeah lordy days quit that acting a dang fool now no calls in that yo that's a fairly long fish i'm gonna play my board just saying i'm still in the slot tournament here in the kayaks and cats group let's just say now he's shy 30 inches well let's let him go yeah here buddy there he goes let's see did he get water all over the lens boy he sure did he's trying to make sure we ain't getting no filming of that action didn't he he said he didn't want to be on camera he's going to block a camera if he had to that small fish there ate my half a skipjack you see it's been chewed on some out there in the main channel but i'm gonna send it back out here in a second but uh yeah y'all you can see this creek here heavily populated there's houses and boat docks everywhere up here can't hardly set up anywhere without being in somebody's yard but right here behind me there's a wooded area and where the water's down a foot or two i've got a mud bank here that i could pull up and be able to cast my baits without without getting caught in these trees here behind me so that's what i've done i've just cast them out here in this creek now again i don't have my graph on this kayak today so i can't tell you the exact depth of this creek but i can tell you from history an experience of being out here this is a pretty shallow creek it's maybe i don't know 12 15 feet out there at the mouth of it before it drops off into the channel and so back in here you're probably looking at seven eight feet that i got my baits out but you know lately i've been doing real good in the shallows for cats so uh i've got the small bait on this one over here head piece midsection that may be a lie i may have those two reversed either way and then i have that half a skip on this rod cast right over here in this direction so i've just kind of got them fan casted and i'm going to spend the rest of my trip probably another hour hour and a half out here and uh we'll see if we get something moving into this creek all right guys i showed in a recent video how i tie my double hook rigs but uh if you're new to the channel or you missed that what this is is two 10 aught must-have demon circles snailed onto a leader here so the hook that's closest to your swivel i'm gonna go in the skip jack mouth up under the gills there and come out of a nostril this back hook i'm just going to run it through the meat here in the back now you got your double hook rig so if they bite the front about the back or if they just lasso themselves either way you're going to get to fish hopefully we hooked up again looked up again right here another one on here i've been sitting here i don't know 30 minutes or so he's coming at me too man he's making a run all right we caught up with him now but uh yeah 30 minutes or so probably oh he's gonna pull some drag nothing going on and then just got bit not using the clickers back here since i'm in such a narrow creek my lines are so close together i'm trying to get control of these fish quick as i can i don't want them making a run with the clicker zone and today you know kind of been limited on the fish action i want boy look at that man they're fun in the shallow water but i was saying i want to make sure we get some fish on this video too with it being limited action today i sure was excited first thing when we hooked into that whopper a couple minutes into the trip but been kind of slow since then this fish right here ain't slow though is he man he's got some spunk yes here's another one i may just i'm gonna step out of the kayak for him you know it's a funny thing with this whole bank fishing you know i never was into bank fishing for catfish anyway i did a lot of bank fishing my teenage years but uh i didn't get into catfishing until until my adult life you know early twenties and by that point time i already had a boat and then i got into the kayaks and uh it was until just a couple years ago i got into bank fishing for catfish and i really enjoy it it's a lot of fun and especially being able to use the kayak to access areas that are you know places that you wouldn't be able to fish otherwise and kind of get away from the crowds and stuff away from the dams and public parks and things like that this one here's a decent fish man this is a fun sizer i bet you he's 34 to 36 inches too he calms down we'll put him on the board and find out yeah guys that's air not a bad fish i put my board here out on the we're going to measure this thing right here in the daggone water man well i was dead on what look at that 36 inches right at it that's another solid fish man that's a solid fish i ain't gonna get the other camera going for him since i'm over here on the bank but uh man that's solid get out here blue cat boy he come back at me didn't he he ain't done these fish right there man they'll pop your tail yeah he gone let's get us another bait out there all right y'all it's a little after 11 i'm gonna pack up and go get some lunch and then go reload on some bait because if i'm gonna catch some more catfish this week i need to load up on some skip jack this morning's trip though yo man got me a whopper right away and got excited and uh kind of sporadic bite since then out in the main channel and even back here in this creek i only got two bites here in this creek and surprisingly haven't even had small fish chewing on my baits uh in this creek here i had more small fish chewing on me out there in the main channel than back here in this creek but nevertheless i'll be back out here again soon i'm definitely going to go over there on that island and fish that bar at some point coming up and i'd like to hit this creek mouth again it's just i'd like for the current to be a little uh a little slower when i go back out there so that i can suspend right at the bottom of that drop where it starts to come up into this creek that's where i have historically uh done much better but it's just hard to hard to deal with that kind of flow in a kayak and do it safely that's the most important thing to me you know i've said it before and i'll say it again they ain't no fish out there worth risking your life over and now that i got a little bit of a following on this youtube stuff it's kind of it's bad on me to be in a situation like that and and potentially influencing other people that's maybe new to kayak fishing to go and anchor down and heavier flows like that and possibly get themselves hurt or killed you know so i gotta i have to kind of be mindful of that when i'm doing that kind of stuff but anyway i'm rambling on now i'm getting out of here gonna go hit the kfc maybe get me a famous bowl because i really like them and they're cheap and uh we're gonna go catch some skip jack later on today i'll see you next time thanks for [Music] watching [Music] you

Channel: Kayak Catfish

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Id: C0wumXK69eM

Length: 32min 19sec (1939 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 20 2021