EASY Way To Catch Sauger From The Bank! (Delicious Eating!) 

How Richard Gene don’t have a million + subs is beyond me. Hands down the best and most informative fishing channel on RU-vid

I wanna tell you something Mr. Richard. I've learned so much from watching your videos the past 5 years. Thank you for the all the good times, laughs, and knowledge you spread. I really like how you love God. As for me being a 15 year old. It's hard to find people like you anymore. I appreciate it alot. I like all your videos, I'll see you out there on the water Mr. Richard. Catch em all brotha.

By far. The very best fishing channel in all of RU-vid history. So underrated!!! Gene you hide nothing. You belong in the Fishing Hall of Fame. No cap!

Love the sauger videos! Need more of them on the channel!

I'm heading out to bank fish / dam fish for my first Sauger this weekend. I love these detailed tackle overview videos because they help give me confidence in my own decision making when targeting an unfamiliar species. Thanks Mr. Gene!!!

Richard, your photography has improved enormously - the pictures of the sauger at the end of the video (with the sun in the background) were just gorgeous. And your fingernails have all grown back! I'll bet that's much more comfortable.

Best fishing channel on RU-vid

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise Richard. God bless you and Momma Sue. Love y'all Both...! Please take care and stay safe. "Tight Lines" , Sir. We'd love to see more of Momma Sue Richard. Just bundle her up and bring her out some more .! ❤

Damn I just love Richard .... he is just a great guy! Thanks for the content. I fish here in Texas and mention your videos to everyone I meet when fishing. EVERYONE knows about your content.... Keep up the great work.

Was just telling my brother in Spokane a few days ago that I was thinking of running up to Guntersville Dam and fishing the riprap from shore. I guess Richard convinced me to go ahead and do it.

God bless Richard Gene.

You the Man when it comes to fishing and catching anything out there I honestly believe you could catch fish in a mud hole thanks for all the informative vedios you put out it’s sure help my fishing game and I appreciate it thanks and God bless you and yours buddy

I hope Z-Man paying This Man. He’s the best fisherman on RU-vid.

Thank You Richard, for sharing you great info and d you video, you are the best on youtube! That is why I always share your videos! 🙂 God's Blessings Always! 😇

Love your videos. Very informative and entertaining

I made a Dutch oven pot for f beans outside the other day, I think I had four different kinds. My son and a couple of his friends were over and I was deep frying some bluegill, a few crappies and perch. I had three, four bags of fillets about thirty, forty each bag. I kept frying and putting them on paper towel they kept eating. When I was done I had six fillets and scraping that pot o beans!! They all said that was the best fish they ever ate!! Now I’m waiting for the ice to get some more fish in the freezer!!! But it’s all good👍

I love watching it videos Richard. I love the zman baits also. The 1/15 micro shroomz head has a #4 hook, 1/20 and 1/30 has a #6 hook. They work very well

Little walleye cousins... beautiful fish.

Nice video, Richard! Getting back to the basics is always a sure thing! Reminds me of the time I was bank fishing, and had caught a few nice catfish. I made a cast and let it settle to the bottom, but before I could put the pole down, I felt a hard THUMP! I set the hook, but all it did was bend the rod... Whatever it was didn't budge... So I figured it must be hung on the bottom or a 'blind fish' or else. I kept pulling, puttin' some kinda strain on that line, when directly it started movin' slowly... I was moving along the bank as it did, and it happened that I was walking toward my truck... I had an idea, so I loosened up the drag just a bit, and let it take some line as I angled my steps toward the back of my truck...! As I got there, I reached down and put a couple of half-hitches on the tow ball, and threw the rod in the bed... I ran around, jumped behind the wheel, cranked it up and eased up the bank in low gear, and I was making progress! I kept easing up the bank, and right about the time it was gonna break the surface of the water, IT JUMPED UP OUT OF THE WATER, POPPED MY LINE *AND FLEW OFF!* Happened so fast, I didn't see a thing by the time I climbed out of the truck... I started to go straight home and tell the wife what happened, but something told me she'd never believe me... So, I just kept on fishing... God bless ALL of us! WWG1WGA

Hello Mr Jean, love your program and wanted to say thank you for all the tips and tricks. Take care and Happy Fishing 🎣 👍

Good one! Miss those walleye and sauger

We fish for saugeye here in Ohio. Lake dam evening to dark. The colder the water the better the eating. We bleed them out and eat them when we get home. Nothing better!!!! Yummy 😋

That was fun and reminds me to be more patient and take my time. That probably why I have been struggling catching my bait fish for the cats because I get on a hurry.

Awesome video my friend. Way to go Richard, thanks for taking us along.

I always enjoy your fishing adventures on the water.

What a wonderful Sunday night surprise. I'm Loving it.

Thank you, Richard, for another good video. I really appreciate all the knowledge and tips that you give us. My Sunday evening is complete now, I got my Richard Gene video seen. Thank you, Richard . God bless ya'll, and stay safe on your trips to bring us these videos.

Great video Richard, really appreciated. Thanks for sharing.

Some of best eating fish I’ve had ! Awesome Richard thanks!

My favorite rig off the river behind the house in spring was a 9 ft salmon rod with a tiny ice fishing reel loaded with 8 lb fire line which is 6 lb diameter. To that is attached a small snap lock swivel. Then using a small chartreuse jig with the soft body and feather tail similar to yours I would run about 26 - 30” of 8 lb. low vis mono. Do a palomar knot for a loop to make change outs easy & quick. Add a split shot at the top, a small crappie minnow and a touch of walleye scent attractant and have fun. This gave excellent casting reach and with a 20 ft. wide stream coming into the river there you could cast to reach the far point and come across the mouth drifting down. That mono made for quick change outs but with a split shot on the mono if you snagged and broke off it was the mono that went. Much easier than tying up fireline. Have a few mono leaders tied and set aside and you’re right back in business. With this and sharp hooks you don’t have to set the hook, just draw up tight. And yes; by late evening those fish would be within 2 to 3 feet of the bank chasing minnows.

Finding sauger and walleye is a real treat. Tastes every bit as good as bluegill and crappie, but they really fight hard.

A true blue, damn good fisherman. 👊💀

I love catching them jack's. I've learned so much watching your channel. God bless, and Merry Christmas.

the goat 🐐 great video richard

Like always…..you make the best videos!!! Wait on a new one ever week!!

That was funny when you started ramping up your "woo" and the dam siren finished for you!😁 Thank you for using your gift of teaching for our pleasure and benefit. The Lord bless you and yours. Happy Christmas.

Excellent, excellent bank fishing sauger video!!!

I do that very same thing on the Kentucky river. Fishing the locks. Ill see you out there come Christmas. Finally get to go to guntersville after all these years watching your videos 🎉😊

Great show ,THANKS

I have never caught sauger before, definitely on the list of species to catch! You do great videos Richard! Keep em coming brother!

Great video Richard! Those look a lot like walleye to me, we don’t have either in Fla. God Bless you and Mama Sue, and Merry Christmas!

Way to go Fishing Machine wooo!!!!

Can you do a video on tackle organization? I’m curious to see the lures & reels you have!

Merry Christmas and happy new year 😊

the best sir. keep it goin legend :)

Those sauger look super cool 😎 👌 looks like a picture perfect day for fishing Richard!!!

Richard..............WOO right back at you :) You are the best! I learn something every video....WOOOO!!! God Bless and Merry Christmas!!!!! I'm a happy camper....Santa is bringing me a St Croix UL and a Penn Spinning Reel.................Better Yet..................It's our Lord's Birthday!!!! Happy Bday Jesus!!!!!!!

Beautiful dark bars on sauger. Kind of like mini-walleye.

Richard Gene...it's Fuego. Like fire in Spanish. FUH-WAAY-GO. LOL. Love your content and expertise. God bless you and your family during this holiday season. Merry Christmas.

Richard this rain we just got is going to help the jack( sauger) bit!! LIVE FOR THE THUMP MY FRIEND!!

God bless my friend!!

Those little fish eat big meals. I remember catching a 18in one that spit out a 12in shad

I have never caught one of those. Looks like fun fishing

Keep on catching sir! Hey can you please do a video on how too clean a sauger for the dinner table if you got the time sir

Funny man, knowledgeable man, love the experience he shares. Seen Elmo lately?😅

THANKS!

I use that loop knot on all my jigs, even ice fishing with 2lb line. You’ll get more bites with it for sure. Braid to mono as leader is pretty strong but I’ve found braid to flourocarbon the knot and I’ve tried them all will eventually slip out!!!

Richard! I want to see more framing and carpentry!

outstanding video never caught one or ate tks wooooooo

Heck yeaa I caught 2 here in kansas probably 3 months ago

I'm going there today

Hello Sir luv your channel!! Could you cut one of them lures and take about 1 quarter (thick end piece) then trim off a bit of another( setting end ) and use that lock tight stuff with your patented floss hook technique ( which is genius) to modify this lure to the size desired 😮?! Thanks again for everything you do and God Bless!!

Merry christmas Mr.richard..give my best to momma sue... And rub elmo's head and tell him max said merry christmas.. Much love and respect to you and your family

Cut another bait and glue them together to make the length you want.

Hey Richard, How do you clean your sauger to eat them. Can you have a video how to do that when you get on some. God bless buddy.

Same thing we call them in Illinois

Yes sir

Would love minnows work from the back on sauger. If so show us how to fish them fro the bank.

Early bird 🪱

I swear I’ll run into ya there one day. 😅 they are moving in for sure! I am still getting mainly undersized ones.

Hello Justin. It all looks very good. I would worry about getting fat later. 😂 I am just jealous I cannot have some of that crappie. God Bless. 🙏. Charlie.

Ive been trying to catch sauger and walleye lately at night with no luck but our weather here in Nebraska is ehhh.

as much creek fishing as you do in the summer, i'm very surprised you don't chase those sauger up the creeks in the winter

Hey Richard what size jig head do you use with those baits

In the butter beans I like biscuits and potatoes in mine 😛😛😛

They are starting to get good on Kentucky/Barkley lakes. Catching a few 3-3.5lb fish

Please get us a catfish video out!!!!!!

How do you keep from hang up fishing on rocks ?

You found my spot

Hi Richard when the wind is out the east?

I concur that 🤗🤪

WOOOOOOOOO!!!

I've been catching em off the bank in the Ohio River, below a big dam. I caught several small ones and this guy got mad because I was throwing them back. Lol. They were only 10" at best.

Are sauger line-shy, then, Richard, that you need a lower-visibility line?

What lb test leader was you using with 8 lb braid?

Tell Vursell, his wife said pickup some Pepto. Them old Thanksgiving butter beans causing some problems.

Richard, where can I buy Sowbelly rods? I live in Illinois and I looked all over. I’ve tried to find sowbelly website.

Another goodun 🐖🎣🇺🇸

What brand of braid?

Iv never caught a saugher before I guess we might not have them in Florida maybe we do 😶 idk

Does anyone recognize who makes the two fishing rods Richard Gene is using in this video? Thanks.

Had not heard anyone call a small sauger a cigar since my dad many years ago.

Like me some Sauger, probably just a little better than walleye, just like them yellow perch.

Those look like what we call walleye lol

So what is a Sauger? kind of like a pike or walleye?

Gahlleee 2nd to none folks

Are we sharing

I Hope U Tool daiwa j Brand on ......

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