Best search technique for finding catfish on a river

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looks like we're gonna have the river
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all to ourselves today
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all right here we go wind's gonna get on
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my nerves
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well we found us a couple spots that
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we're gonna try but this bank is just
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riddled this whole bank is just riddled
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with
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uh logs timbers uh different types of
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rocks structure mud it's just got
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everything you would want
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but we're going to start in one spot and
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try it there if it doesn't work we're
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going to bound on down
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a couple times until we run into what
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we're looking for
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all right guys this is what i'm kind of
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looking for
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i've come up this bank and made some
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waypoints
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where i found some good uh
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cover wood cover
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all right we're gonna get right above
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this
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piece of structure here
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and start our process
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it looks like there's fish on it
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that's a good sign
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but can we make them bite
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yeah see all that in there guys that's
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what i'm gonna be fishing
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we're gonna
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hopefully find a big one in there
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all right let's hank her up
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all right this shows that we're probably
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about 80 feet
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all that stuff that i showed you on the
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depth finder is about 80 feet behind me
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so we throw our lines out that scent
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trail is going to just be going down
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river so anything that's down in that
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brush pile that's interested is going to
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come up and get it
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so let's get our lines out and see what
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happens
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we've got plenty of fresh bait
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thank you j.r hall from black sheep
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guide service
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he's one of our gentlemen that's on our
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monster pro staff and
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i called
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to see where the bait might be down here
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and
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he was able to go catch me some
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and i thank him for that
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that was uh
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saves me a lot of time
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[Music]
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so we've got nice fresh bait
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to throw at these
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fish
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and we're in
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about 24 foot of water
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to 30 foot of water to the outside edge
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here
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ah yeah i feel
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i feel that in that stuff down there
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so i might not get some of this these
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hooks back
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if i don't get a fish on them
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you gotta fish where the fish are
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now i did see some fish down there so
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we'll see if they're ready to
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eat or not
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i hope it's gotta come out here and
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wreck me
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we're right here
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[Music]
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sitting right on a point
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when these bass fishermen coming around
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70 mile an hour
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all right now what we do is is wait
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about 15 20 minutes and see if we have
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any action if not we're going to bound
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down we're going to do it
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uh pretty fast for the rest of the day
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it's probably about a
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mile mile and a half stretch and we're
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just going to
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15 minutes 20 minutes every every 20
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minutes we're going to move down bound
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down and see if we can catch that active
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fish that fish that's
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uh hungry
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ready to eat
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all right we spent about 20 minutes in
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that little spot right there we had
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some checker outers but
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no no committers so we're gonna move on
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down we're gonna hit this bank
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pretty fast and pretty hard to find the
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more active fish
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if you set up on a spot for 20 30
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minutes and the fish are not there it's
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time to move on down with this
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particular technique i'm using
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this is an old school technique i
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learned about 20 years ago from a man
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named joey hall
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they call him long tall joe hall
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and uh
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that's when i was fishing on the
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cumberland river he's he's uh he's
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well-known angler for the cumberland
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river
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but this is gonna be my plan until i
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figure out what's going on with these
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fish this is the first day we're out
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here
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so we're just going to kind of
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figure some things out
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we may bomb or we may run into a good
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one
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only time is going to tell us
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hang tight
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let's go to the next one
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all right this spot really here really
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surprised me but we've sit here
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i gave it actually 20 25 minutes this
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one here because i seen fish down on
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that wood pile but
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they're just not having it so
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so here we go bound down number two
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there's a fish on one of these
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pieces of wood that's going to bite
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he's swimming with it oh yeah that's a
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good one
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yeah he's pretty good one
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so it's gonna be a pretty good fish
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he don't even know he's hooked right now
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he's coming up back there oh now he
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knows now he's doing a little fighting
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i don't know how big he is but
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he's worthy of the film
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but a fish is a fish
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and action's action no he's really
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coming
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swimming my way now i mean he went fast
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oh
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now he's filling up river
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we got we caught up with him now
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here it goes what is it
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ah a little flat here
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i only had so much power
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first flat head of the year and it's not
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even april yet so
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that's pretty cool
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all right let me get my
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my net out here
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i was not even prepared
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so i feel really good about that
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my boat is a total wreck right now
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all right he wanted that head
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all right that's a nice little fish
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for the first one of the day
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got the skunk out of the boat and he was
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on the deep side of the water he was on
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the deep side of our
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uh
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spot we're fishing here
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but he's in that wood i guess so
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we're gonna turn him loose a little
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maybe 10 15 pounder
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but boy he had some power in that
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current i thought he was way bigger than
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that
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i thought he's a 30 or 40.
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[Music]
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yeah the bounding down is a good
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technique to use uh when you're trying
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to locate some fish
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like saying you don't have a lot of time
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you can just pick you about a mile worth
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of bank and just
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work that whole back there
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chances are it's going to have fish on
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somewhere is it going to be the right
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fish
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we don't know until you fish it but
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it's got the makings this whole bank has
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got the makings of a 100 pounder
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we've got food to the right
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cover to the left
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current rolling right down the middle
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you

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