This is a small channel, but I make every effort to not blow up or otherwise ruin certain places by naming them. Dicks Creek has Chattahoochee Bass but getting one that far up could be a challenge this late in the year. If you can't get one there the bass might be more active a few miles downstream.
@@walkfaster Thank you for taking the time to leave such an awesome compliment! It's always great to read the honest thoughts of people who like and appreciate the videos! Thanks again for the great comments and for watching!
You can eat every member of the sunfish family, but the general consensus is that Bluegill, Redear and Crappie taste best. Alabama Bass are good eating and taste better than Largemouth. They're also more common than Tallapoosa Bass and grow much larger, so most people prefer cleaning/eating them.
Well, what are you waiting for! I still need one for the Georgia bass slam this year. I'm just waiting on the gages to go down. They went up about 25 feet after all the rain from Helene!
I've been trying to find more info about the spill thanks for the suggestion. I know the river came up almost 24 feet Wednesday-Friday on the Atlanta gage. I'm working on another video right now, but the next one will be about the spill. As far as fishing goes my advice would be to fish the creeks because they'll go down/recover faster than the river.
This is the best ID video I've come across, addressing really confusing similarities like longear having shorter flap than redbreast was liberating. Thanks!
Really interesting. Being from the Great Lakes region we really only recognize smallmouth and largemouth bass. Most of these other species/subspecies appear to be from the South/Southeastern regions which is maybe why I never knew about them? I am surprised at how distinct some of them look. Thanks for sharing.
In my opinion there is no better fish to eat than bluegill and redear sunfish. We call redear "shellcrackers." No better fish in fresh OR saltwater. There are lots of awesome fish out there but none better.
Hello Mr. Shoal Bandit! Is there anyway that we can get a detailed run down on your rods and reels, line size, mono, or braid line hooks weights etc. etc. ? Please and Thank You!!!
Sure, no problem btw the lures, line, weights, hooks, etc... are always in the video description in the lures used section. I'll go back and add the rod/reel info to the description. Thanks for watching!
I’ve caught hundreds of these in the ‘Hooch through Helen over the years. I assume Nora’s Mill dam keep the spotted bass out of there. I’m always wading for trout when I catch them. We always called them red eyes.
Yes, and those fish are actually Alabama Bass (not Spotted Bass). I know anglers and the fishing media call them 'spotted bass' but that's actually part of the problem. Anyway, that dam is falling apart so it's not going to keep them out of there forever which is sad because they're native and trout are not.
@@tommyhunter1817 Yes brook trout are native but technically char not trout. Trout are coldwater fish and we don't have coldwater streams in the Southeast.
First! Good to see you're still at it! I just completed my first GA bass slam this month; in part, thanks to inspiration from you and your channel! Thank you. Chattahoochee bass was not on my submission,I need to track em down!
Looks like another great day of fishing for you. I always enjoy catching your analysis of the water and riverbeds. My dad fishing in a lot of brackish water in Florida and the battle of line guide corrosion is never ending. Even when we wash the salt off, it eventually eats the guides.
Thanks for watching and for the comments I really appreciate it. I want to fish more below the Fall Line but every time I start to head down there it rains a ton and those rivers take a long time to go down.
Pure Guadalupe Bass have been expatriated due Smallmouth hybridization in some parts of the Texas Hill Country. We can thank Texas Parks & Wildlife for that.
No but it's made by the same company that makes the Shad Rap crankbait-Rapala. It's called a Skitter Prop and I'm using the 'silver' color in this video.
I know this is an older video, so don't know if you will see the comments but...the range map is weird! Showing 3(one large in U.P., 2 smaller in Lower Pen.) "blanks" for the rock bass population range in Michigan. Those areas all have rock bass, indeed, I've caught some very large ones right in the middle of the "black spot" in the U.P., in North Manistique lake!
Thanks for pointing that out! When I made these videos (in most cases) USGS distribution maps were used as a reference. I actually saved the USGS Rock Bass distribution map, so I wouldn't have to constantly go back to the USGS site. I just went to the USGS site and was surprised to see the Rock Bass map has changed considerably. I'm going to update these videos at some point, so they have the latest/greatest info. Without your comment I probably wouldn't have noticed the map had changed!
So Americans will get jealous at other countries because because they'll have pretty fish. I wonder if other countries get jealous of our sunfish because these are some pretty fish. I had a pet green sunfish that i used to feed crickets and worms to.
Just got Matt Lewis’s redeye book last week. It’s like reading one of your videos. You two are the best. Thank you so much for the effort to share the knowledge
Thank you very much for the compliment! I keep saying it, but I'm going to make some fly-fishing videos at some point. Thanks for the support and for watching I really appreciate it.
Great to see another video from you. Your channel helps out a lot with information needed to complete the GBS. This will make 2 years in a row that I'll achieve 10/10. Just have my Suwannee bass to go.
Thanks I do fish the lower Flint just not very often because it's 200 miles from where I live. That's 7 hours of driving both ways for 8-10 hours of fishing. When I was younger (and gas was cheaper) I used to fish down there a lot more.
