Using the Garmin Live Scope in Kansas to fish for catfish
Will using the Garmin Live Scope in Kansas to fish for catfish work? In this fresh video prepared by Steve Douglas the Catfish Dude, you are going embark on a journey with the Catfish dude where he goes all the way to Kansas to fish the Milford Lake looking for cats and crappie with the help of this wonderful tool called “live scope”.
As you’ll see they got a few cats, including the blue catfish highlighted here below.
Don’t forget your catfish bait and jump on board for a moment of pure catfishing passion.
Catching a blue catfish on the Milford Lake, KS
Using the Garmin Live Scope in Kansas to fish for catfish
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all right guys today i’m in junction
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city kansas on milford lake i’m with
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ryan nagy guide
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uh he’s been guiding down here i know
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over a decade haven’t you yeah pretty
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close we’re uh we’re going to come out
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here and try to catch some strikers to
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say wipers crappie yeah crappie okay
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something new for me
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so we on our first spot we’re getting
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pretty close we’ll see if there’s some
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crappie in here
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what what how how are you approaching
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this what’s what are we pulling up here
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too this is just a man-made brush pile
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it’s a bunch of oh it looks like i think
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it’s old
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plastic casings in a pot of concrete and
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it’s just dropped down here but there’s
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several it looks kind of like a
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christmas tree i got more
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upside down
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palm tree or something like that
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but i know it’s here i got it marked i
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found a side scanning shoreline just one
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day looking for stuff i’ve seen it right
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it’s nice because you don’t really get
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snagged up in it but it’s it’s got some
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really good crappie but i gotta get that
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set up on girls the wind’s gonna be
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all right guys ryan is going to show us
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the live scope the garmin live scope
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and see what it’s about i’ve been
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interested in this myself i have one but
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i haven’t had a chance to play with it
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jenna had it turned on and had it ready
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for you
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to get this thing fired up we’ll find
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our pile and we’ll look see what we can
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find this wind is just normal up here
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huh yeah i mean
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in the spring it really blows but this
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is not normal out of the north unless
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we’re in the in the winter right but
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rush pile’s right over here
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we’ll get pushed back over here to find
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it we’ll look in and we’ll look at it
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and see if we got crappie in it before
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we actually start fishing for it right i
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gotta teach you
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so i got this thing set up to where
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we’re just gonna be just above the
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bottom just a little bit
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right here’s our bottom line
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now i’m gonna run this out to about 45
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foot and we’ll start looking for it real
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quick
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so you’re looking out forty foot
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fifty a little something like that with
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this
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yep that should be coming up ahead of us
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so we’re we moved our
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i’ll move this onto this but we moved on
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you got you can see i got a
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waypoint dropped right here so we’re
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right here we’re creeping up on us okay
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we’re just nine foot of water yep
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not a very deep spot
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and so the crappies done spawned in here
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this year that’s definitely does it tell
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you how much power you have and
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everything yeah that trolling motor
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that’s how much i’m running right now
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transferred over to them lithium jet yep
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have you yep
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i’m running an amped outdoor lithiums
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and they seem to be pretty good i’m
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running the smallest ones they got which
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are only 60 amp hour i got 312 to make a
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36 volt system but with these
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brushless trolling motors man they just
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they last
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oh yeah i go all day long and never have
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any issues i think we’ll start seeing
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our piles in here somewhere
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down a little bit deeper
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there we go i passed it up just you can
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see them crappie in that pile right
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there
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that’s all
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i’m gonna pull that back
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ahead of us now you can see
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yeah you can see the structure that’s in
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there and since we’re close enough we’ll
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shrink that down just a little bit
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and still need to back up
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oh that’s quiet
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that trolling motor yeah yeah it’s real
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i mean you can’t hear a run either like
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when it’s running
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i’m gonna change colors because green’s
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looking a little fuzzy today so
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let’s go back here
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and
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so then our setup appearance color
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scheme go back to amber that’s going to
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look better oh yeah
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so you can see that’s the that’s the
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big pop that all this is sitting on you
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can see the umbrella umbrellas coming up
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you can see all these hot spots right
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and that’s where this this it’s a
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like a pvc type deal
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see one coming up swimming around but
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yeah it’s a pvc type deal um and so this
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one actually reflects pretty hard but
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there’s three of them sitting right in
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here i got this to the left of us i’m
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gonna back up just a little bit more and
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then i want to get this thing just right
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off to the side of us or right in front
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of us just
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now the transducer you’re working with
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is this one this one okay and so
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wherever this is pointing
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is where is where this is at so i lost
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should be ahead of us just a little bit
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i’ll keep turning this you see them
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coming in they’re coming into that oh
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yeah there’s all they move in and out of
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that
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okay so it’s gonna creep back up so you
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can see there’s quite a bit quite a
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big pile of whatever in there
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and right now i’ve got this
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there’s a pile from four foot zero
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is this transducer right so from about
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four foot
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to 26 foot we got stuff in front of us
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that way yep straight ahead of the boat
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actually let’s talk on your side just a
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little bit so so when we start casting
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we’re gonna cast that way yep and i’m
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gonna actually bump forward one more
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bump get me just a little closer look at
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them fish swimming in the top of that
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pile yeah
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oh this is awesome
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we’ll get to where we can put the baits
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right here these crappie i mean we’re
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only 11 foot these crappie are not
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bashful about me sitting right on top of
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them really nope not at all
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as a matter of fact i can take
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this is this this this is
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easy i know
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that there’s crappie right in here so 10
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foot take a 10 foot rod
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i’m gonna put this right in front of
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here i want to watch my bait go right
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down to them and i’m gonna stop that
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bait right on top of them all right so i
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just tossed it in there guys yeah i see
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it
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there’s one right there on it yeah
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that was quick dead stick it yeah they
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find it real quick and then
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probably a bunch of little ones right
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there on top they’re bigger ones they’ve
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usually got in there a little bit deeper
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but i’m gonna do it again
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i’ll drop it down a little farther
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see my bait go down see that little
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one’s changing oh yeah they do i get
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down in there
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i’m a dead stick it right in the middle
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and give it
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10 15 seconds and wait and see what
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happens
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and i’m going to slowly just as slow as
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i can turn the reel reel it straight up
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and usually you’ll get a big thump on
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the way up
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you ever tip it with a minnow or
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anything i never use minutes really i
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don’t feel like you need to anymore most
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the time i mean in tough situations
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probably but normally
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these fish in this lake will eat
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any type of little
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just two inch anything i mean curly tail
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grubs when they’re on the banks or if
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they’re not on the banks anything with a
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straight tail or something that just
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wiggles and
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from what i i used to
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think everybody used to have to put it
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down there and they jig it and they jig
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it and they jig it and after watching
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that on this live scope when you jig it
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most the time they turn and go the other
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direction oh really they they like it
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very still presentation
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um you put it down there and you just
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dead stick it hold it dead still
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and what sits there they’ll look they’ll
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swim right up to it look at it
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and then make up their mind and they’ll
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either leave or they’ll eat it right um
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but as soon as you start twitching it
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and jigging it real hard man they just
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did that’s not even natural no they dig
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out quick so they’ll hit it on the drop
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real fast if they want to right off the
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bat or sometimes the slower you can lift
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that thing just reel it up i mean super
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super slow and they’ll follow that bait
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out of 25 foot of water almost to the
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surface of the water right and
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they’re interested in that and they’ll
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hit it on the way up if they’re going to
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eat it but if they come up and you stop
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like if they’re following it and you
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stop that bait they’ll turn and swim
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right back to the bottom they want a
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very natural slow presentation they are
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not an aggressive i want to chase
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something fish right unless they’re on
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the bank spawning so that that live
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scope is taught
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yeah a lot of stuff yeah
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you get to see firsthand what how that
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looks like a big nice fish yeah that’s a
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better fish right there that’s not a
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crappie it’s not a crappie nope that’s
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something else swimming through there
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could be a blue look how he’s real this
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real slow tail two of them coming
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through there yeah it could be a blue
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could be a buffalo could be a carp it’s
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hard to tell uh really what it is but
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you know that ain’t no crop you swim
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through there our crappie are gonna be
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these smaller dots swimming around up in
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here right okay
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okay
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that’s
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try this again 12 foot
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that’s a little farther
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watch my bait drop right there put it
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right in front of that guy
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they drop down and look at it yep
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they’re looking they just ain’t
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we got a north front that came in we had
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a big storm could flow through yesterday
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we didn’t get the storm here but it came
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right north of the lake
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and we had 60 mile an hour winds did
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some damage here in kansas and this
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morning we wake up to a nice north
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northeast wind so
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we don’t normally get northeast winds
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here in the summertime oh yeah
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that’s a shame
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oh that one there went crazy dude yeah
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changing something i don’t know what
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he’s chasing
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it’s interesting to watch it’s
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fascinating see how much movement there
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is right because you used to look at a
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normal sonar and on that normal sonar
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nothing’s moving it’s just printed
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across your screen and it’s sitting
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there right with this you i mean there’s
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movement of all kinds in there oh yeah
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i just came over
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look at all that stuff swimming around
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the top
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some of it is pretty big yeah it’s
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probably buffalo or something oh yeah
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maybe white bass or something swimming
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through there
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there’s a bunch of them coming in yeah
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feeding on the little crappie baby
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hey a little guy
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well you gotta be nine inches around
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here we don’t have a length limit on
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this lake most of the lakes in kansas
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have a 10 inch that one’s probably about
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eight so okay fat little guy but
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and that’s what i i’ve seen a lot of
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little smaller fish i bet that’s what
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this one’s full of we may have to go
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find something different too i got you
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see my crappie piles that’s what we were
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fishing but we got a lot of other stuff
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so we we noticed on that video there was
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stuff swimming in and out of here but
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this is all probably white bass and
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small wipers uh-huh all this small stuff
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that was coming in and out of here you
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can see some back in this area yeah so
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but that was the that was what the
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structure we were fishing and this is
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other stuff that’s just in the area and
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this is just a mud flat out here
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snagged
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do this trick
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nope not deep enough
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all you got
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you ever seen anybody do that i see
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nobody do that
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basically you just use the tip of your
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rod run it down there and knock it off
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the branch well yeah i’ve never seen
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anybody do that before
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you don’t think i messed them fish up no
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probably they just don’t spook from
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stuff like that now i mean they weren’t
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feeding all that right again with it
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well they’re still in the power it
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looked like me they had to run them out
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of power but
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i thought i found a big wad of shad one
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time i threw my cast net on it there’s
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one little stick stick and i’ve added a
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bunch of nice crappie about that big and
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i had about a dozen crappie in my net
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and i dropped
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there’s one
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oh where’s that’s another one
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i dropped that all them crappie back out
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of the net and i watched him on live
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scope and go right back to that tree and
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i thought huh
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well i’ll be dang
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crappie there so i took my pole and cast
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it out there and caught me four five of
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them bro yeah they just they’re just a
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weird fish zap like this doesn’t bother
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them
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nice crappie oh yeah let’s open up on
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that
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that branch
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oh
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well they’re starting to become a little
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more active though yeah you’ll probably
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have to catch 20 of them small ones get
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one he went right back to them
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but right there yep
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and went right back down
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like i said i don’t know if that little
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front did something to him so i didn’t
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get out there quite far enough i’m gonna
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reset that
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drop it right in on these fish right
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here
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stop it right there at his level and let
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him make up his mind
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see that bait swam back on
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yeah it’s swinging back
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we’ll do it again
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you’re going way out there a little bit
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farther let that drift right across the
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top of that
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see if i can
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tune that in yeah there you go oh
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something come out of that pile this big
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probably a bass
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have you dialed this in on any catfish
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yet yeah a few um
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i really really really like using the
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the perspective mode which turns the
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transducer into what basically is a
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forward-looking side scan yeah and uh in
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shallow water it’s it’s really effective
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um you can look around find them and
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then
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either
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anchor spot lock or whatever and then
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cast in those directions and use them i
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have not been able to really use it too
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effectively
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in um
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just open water chasing something down
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and right and catching something that
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way but definitely can use it
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kevin parks and i used it at the cap
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masters tournament down at possum
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kingdom and took second and and
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livescope come into a big play in that
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right and they stand in timber
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that’s all that lake is is temporary so
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yeah so you come out of that shallow
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water and went to that standing timber
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yeah did good yeah we got nothing big in
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this one let’s go find another one all
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right
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but yeah it uh
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it’s effective i mean
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all right guys we uh we have finished up
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with the crappie the crappie weren’t
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cooperating as much as we’d like today
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so uh we are going to try to drag
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for some catfish
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and give her a shot we’re going to give
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her a shot
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in the middle of the spawn so yeah
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probably gonna be tough on that but
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we’ll catch a few
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you’re gonna run some planer boards on
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yeah i’m gonna get out some planer
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boards and uh spread them out a little
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bit because we’re we’re pretty shallow
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we’re only in nine foot right now and
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we’re gonna drop off a little bit deeper
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but those fish don’t like being under
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this boat so they’ll
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pull off the sides we’ll cover a bigger
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area we’ll see what we can get all right
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okay guys we’re fixing to pull a drip
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i like to say i am on the boat with
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ryan nagy he is
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on milford lake and what’s name of your
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guide service it’s prime time catfishing
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it’s three words prime time catfishing
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all right you’ve been doing this for
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over a decade that i know of it yeah i
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started i’ve been doing it full-time for
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11 years and i’ve been
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um i did it part-time for a while before
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probably three or four years before that
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before i decided to make the jump yeah
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it’s been a good time
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loading the planer boards up yep i like
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to lock them down so they don’t pop
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loose yeah now we are motivating right
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now yeah greg we are going forward we’re
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running i got a half mile an hour once i
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get them spread out i’ll speed it up
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just to get the boards out a little bit
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farther and faster and then i’ll
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probably
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drop her back down just pull a slow
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through
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point four point five
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i’ll probably go yeah point five point
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seven somewhere in there there our
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water’s warm so
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it’s 80.
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we got some 50 pounders in this lake
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yeah yeah there should be some bigger
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than that all right yeah
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now i seen something that that i don’t
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do that
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you just did what’s that you double
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wrapped that clip i do not like it to
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pop loose at all no i’ve never
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even guiding
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with people that don’t know how to fight
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a fish i’ve never lost a fish due to
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having to take that planer board off
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right so i lock them down so you get
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those little ones that wrap on it bang
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on it pretty hard and don’t hook up
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there’s no sense of happening pull it
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back in and reset it right
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that’s a good idea yeah
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speed speed game sometimes you know you
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got a
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time if you only got five hours to go
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out and fish and catch as many fish as
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you can right and then and you have to
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pull a super super slow drip there’s no
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sense of doing it super slow right
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maximize your time you’re out there
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now your one board’s way out there
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already is there a
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have you got a pattern that you stagger
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them no i’m just gonna drop the drop the
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first two that i set on there at the
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same distance and then once i get out
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there
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i don’t know
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i’ll go a little bit farther and i’ll
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lock it down and let it pull out to the
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side and i’ll do the same thing with
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these okay
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these boards
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i’ve got that one locked down so it’s
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starting to pull out yeah
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so this is just a random flat there’s
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really nothing here that you’re fishing
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other than being a flight not much other
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than the you know right now you got the
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river that comes in and it kind of dumps
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in this is the first area of the lake
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there ain’t no
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there ain’t nothing
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nothing just mud just mug
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that’s all this lake is mud
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that’s why i said it was a trollers
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drifter’s dream
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oh yeah yeah i mean
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back in the day we used to drift
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coagulated blood um oh i remember that
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and it was it would you had to use a
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soft rod and light line you know
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stretched a lot because this stuff would
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would uh
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come off the hook pretty easy and if you
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had a rough bottom at all then that
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stuff just
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gets snaggy and pop like that and just
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pull off the hook but this thing is just
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mud bottom man that’s all it just
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smooth i remember old john jameson back
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in the day he he come up with that blood
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that’s what he used to come he comes
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kentucky at henderson cabela’s
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and he’d have that coagulated blood yep
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oh there him
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well
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i don’t
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oh yeah
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you want to drop me in a little booty
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leave it big like that that’ll pop off
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so fast all right
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that’s not an issue i’ve never had an
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issue with that one
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you’re catching anything
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i’ve
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33 pounds
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there we go
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a little one start today yeah
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there we go
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and then the rest were scattered around
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the lake so they wanted to see what
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their movement was over a two year
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period
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and it’s it’s
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with the device in them
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and then they had
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that was for the first summer and then
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after that they had a much more that
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they got
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loaded up right about 150 total and i
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caught one of those 150 out of all of
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them in this lake all right and then
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brian panic is another guy down the lake
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here he uh
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he’s caught one also but i’ve still
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never seen one since
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he feeling bigger
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well i figured that’s all we’re going to
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get anyway today because we’re spawning
21:36
occasionally we do catch some bigger
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ones you know
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back in the game
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now both of those hit like the farthest
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one out didn’t they pretty typical the
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outside board seemed that like
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that one’s gonna be an outsider for sure
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the outside board seems to always pick
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up more fish
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he’s about the same size got the same
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size
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that’s why i
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keep talking to people about you know
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it’s better if you’re gonna take any
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home and eat that fish is only three or
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four years old that’s an easy fish to
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replace in the waterway but oh yeah 12
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to 15 and this lake is 10. oh 10 years
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old so
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it takes 10 years before you get any
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good to have a fish in the lake so
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that’s why it’s important to turn those
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loose yes sir
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you got a lot of bite marks on this yeah
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he’s had uh
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something bigger yep
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he can go get bigger
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well that’s two and just like a little
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little pass yeah well i know the eaters
22:54
themselves fishing people been catching
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those but
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anything of any size
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but there has been some good ones caught
23:04
so
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for us it seems like
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oh hey
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green rod holder oh
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that’s a good one
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he didn’t hook up i don’t think yep
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well
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they’re all over
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that’s a little guy
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they hit it hard though don’t they
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yep good stuff
23:57
i think he’s a little bit bigger than
23:58
rick than we talked though not much
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give him an extra pound yeah
24:04
pretty fast action so far
24:08
yeah i mean i don’t know why any little
24:09
kids wouldn’t have the ball doing this
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or even there’s a lot of adulterer
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that’ll fall down
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oh yeah
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i think a lot of people get hung up um
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everything’s got to be giant yeah
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well i’m i’m tired of giant myself to be
24:21
honest with you that’s why i had so much
24:23
fun yesterday in that little mud duck
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boat yeah going up the kansas river
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fishing with worms and stuff is that
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back old schools yeah yeah
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fat healthy little fish they are
24:38
they sure are they’re pretty i love all
24:40
their colors they got inside of them all
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that iridescent purple purple yeah
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golds
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they’re pretty
24:47
they lose that once they get so big
24:49
though yeah
24:51
i mean they still got to an extent but
24:54
they do that they got that
24:56
pearl look when they’re
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really young
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pretty yeah those
25:03
those are the
25:04
high bulbs that we catch man they got
25:07
some coppers and golds in them and
25:09
oranges and pinks and
25:14
they got some real fancy colors in them
25:15
so you got
25:17
there’s a bunch of them that must be the
25:18
genetics are up in here then yeah it’s
25:20
genetic
25:22
yeah we got a lot of them what’s the
25:24
biggest one you’ve caught biggest one
25:26
i’ve got a 33.
25:28
that was a black and white 33
25:30
and actually caught it two weeks in a
25:32
row already had the black and white
25:34
coloration it was really easy to
25:36
identify in pictures oh yeah what’s
25:38
weird is both of them
25:41
they’re about 700 yards apart from where
25:43
i caught it
25:45
both of them caught by 13 year olds
25:47
one was a 13 year old boy that was a 13
25:49
year old girl
25:50
and i thought that was so cool yeah
25:54
but i think there’s one of them
25:55
one of them i’ve caught three times um
25:57
it wasn’t very big it’s just a little
25:58
one but right um i know by
26:02
the way the patterns were on it you can
26:04
hold those pictures up side by side and
26:05
they’re gone yeah easily identifiable
26:22
whatever that snag was we hung up on he
26:24
was right there with it
26:29
yeah that’s the size you want to eat
26:31
yeah
26:35
yep
26:36
actually i like his black fans
26:42
so on a rule of thumb you’re in what
26:44
kind of water here
26:45
13 foot so
26:47
what do you got about 25 30 foot of line
26:50
out before you like if i can
26:53
usually about double or triple the
26:55
length before i put my board on okay and
26:57
that way i get a good angle some people
27:00
you know
27:01
get them too far this way and then when
27:02
the fish pulls on it they’re pulling
27:04
down and you got to do a lot of reeling
27:05
before you ever get the attention put
27:06
off
27:07
if i can keep the angle of this line out
27:10
to my board and then not change that
27:12
angle too much to to the hook yeah
27:15
they’ll hook themselves
27:17
so kansas guys
27:20
y’all
27:21
got a pretty good force of catfish
27:23
anglers in your state
27:26
every year is blowing up so what’s
27:28
what’s the main bodies of water that you
27:30
kansas guys fish i know milford’s always
27:32
on the map yeah that’s like the premier
27:35
one to go to but man we got a lot of
27:36
good lakes title creek’s good perry is
27:38
good clinton’s getting good john
27:41
redmond’s a great catfish john riben’s
27:43
got awesome channel cats in it and some
27:45
blues
27:46
we got wolf creek that’s got blues in it
27:48
wilson’s got blues in it i mean the
27:50
state stalked a lot of blues over the
27:51
last 10 years oh okay and uh
27:55
and of course fish the rivers itself we
27:57
got yeah we got the
28:00
well the only navigable body of water we
28:02
only have three rivers you can actually
28:03
put a boat on and travel up and down in
28:05
kansas oh so kansas river is the main
28:07
one
28:09
but then we have the the
28:11
rivers that run into these reservoirs
28:13
you can go up those rivers up until the
28:15
end of the wildlife area right um so
28:17
there’s a lot of rivers you can still
28:18
fish especially when you get water
28:20
running in those fish come out of these
28:21
reservoirs and go up those rivers and
28:23
that can get really good oh god so and
28:26
then of course the missouri river is is
28:27
a pretty one for oh yeah that’s close
28:30
that’s just you know the east side of
28:32
our state is the missouri river up by
28:33
kansas city
28:35
at st joe missouri and
28:37
all of central missouri a lot of
28:39
catfishermen in there too right
28:41
they got that river and that river’s got
28:42
some giants in it it’s a big chance
28:45
right
28:47
well y’all got some pretty country up
28:48
here i’m having fun
28:51
learning some new water
28:56
yeah well i do like the dragging aspect
29:00
of this as far as no hang-ups yeah we
29:02
don’t have to worry no trees we got no
29:04
trees
29:08
no it’s a drager’s flake so
29:12
people ask about tournaments well how do
29:13
you pinpoint what you’re gonna do well
29:15
you gotta spend some time on it and look
29:17
around right
29:18
spend a lot of time on these sonars find
29:20
what you need what you’re comfortable
29:22
doing and
29:23
that’s the other thing people well do we
29:24
need to drag it do we need to anchor
29:26
fish it whatever your comfort zone yeah
29:29
stick to your comfort zone don’t try to
29:32
change up just because somebody else
29:33
says that you got to catch them
29:34
suspended or you got to catch them
29:36
dragging or you got to catch them
29:37
anchored or you got to catch them on the
29:38
ledge or you gotta catch them on a flat
29:40
you know
29:40
what is your specialty and stick to that
29:42
you know maybe there’s times to go
29:44
outside the box but
29:47
if you’re comfortable doing one thing
29:48
and you can produce fish doing it that
29:50
way then do it absolutely well i think a
29:52
lot of guys especially with these
29:53
tournaments they get psyched out from
29:55
listening to other guys they got a game
29:57
plan they’ve gone out there and caught a
29:58
few fish but then they get back to the
29:59
captain’s meeting and then they started
30:01
hearing this other stuff 80. i caught a
30:03
90. i got this and then they’re like
30:05
well we got to change things up and then
30:06
today the tournament they’re all screwed
30:07
up yep
30:09
use your gut your gut feeling and that’s
30:11
generally your best one
30:12
absolutely yep
30:15
if you got a solid game plan going into
30:16
a tournament you know and then you’re
30:18
comfortable with it i’d stick to it yeah
30:19
it’s usually what’s going to do do you
30:21
the best yeah don’t don’t get
30:23
sidetracked
30:25
or psyched out right
30:27
that’s more like it though
30:28
people panic yeah about noontime they
30:30
ain’t caught much and they panic and you
30:32
see them start running all over the lake
30:33
and you’re like huh
30:35
that guy he’s struggling today yeah but
30:38
you can definitely tell when they’re
30:40
struggling yep
30:43
that’s what i like about it when you got
30:44
a couple good ones in the boat and uh
30:48
everybody’s starting to struggle you’re
30:49
like i’m just going to grind her out
30:51
yeah
30:54
makes you feel a little better oh yeah
30:57
grind it out
31:06
oh
31:07
he’s got a lot to say yeah
31:10
he’s made
31:25
another nice one he’ll grow up
31:33
right there’s why i like braid though i
31:35
mean they hurt themselves
31:45
okay guys we’re going to wrap it up we
31:47
have uh come out here today and we’ve
31:48
got a good education on some garmin
31:51
uh electronics yep trolling motors that
31:54
life scope
31:56
and how to use them so it’s very
31:57
interesting on my end
31:59
uh and you got to come out here and
32:00
catch some catfish as well so appreciate
32:03
you uh coming out with me anytime i’ve
32:05
said it for years come on if you’re ever
32:07
out here come out see me well this won’t
32:09
be the last time i come to getting to
32:10
kansas i have a really enjoyable mistake
32:12
so it’s a nice place all right guys that
32:15
is the end of our day appreciate you
32:16
watching and we’ll see in the next one
