Epic Battle With A River BEAST! 

I've often thought what an excellent caster you are.....nice to see even the best catch a tree like the rest of us.

Still the absolute best fisherman RU-vid channel, no extra loud music, click bait, etc. just being yourself man, I hope you’re doing well.

Thanks for including the tree retrieval followed by a hook foul up. Makes me not feel so bad when it happens to me.

Thanks for not being a sellout like most RU-vid fisherman….always about fishing pure and simple not doing whatever gets you clicks and what’s popular

This guy is the Bob Ross of fishing

BEST FISHING CONTENT ON RU-vid! Idk how this guy doesn’t have 1,000,000 subscribers. Keep on posting these amazing videos!

It's such a relief to see that at least some parts of your outings look exactly like mine - I mean getting lures out of trees, cleaning salad off hooks, and losing fish that you thought were on.

Last second hits at the boat always get your heart pumping, i was holding my breath every time you got it close. Great video Matt.

And I love that you still don’t play music when you catch a fish. Not hating on the other channels, but I love that I feel like I’m there and everything is just natural.

Matt you are a hell of a fishermen always love your content thank you for taking a cripple man on a fishing adventure keep it up thank you again

After watching everything you put out for a few years now, you FINALLY caught a damn tree !! That's where I would spend 50% of my time. Enjoy your content, keep up the good work !

Thank you Matt, real, with reverence for nature, no music - so glad to have found your channel!

You were totally not expecting that fish to hit 😂 those are the most exciting bites.

Thank you for showing at least one tree cast. It certainly makes me feel better.

Matt, I’m a die hard musky guy! That musky was MUCH bigger than 40!! I’d put her at 43 - 45! Great job!! 👍👍

I'll tell you what!, I've been fishing rats, frogs, and super spooks for a long long time (I'm 50), but I didn't get good until I started watching this angler back in 2017, thank you for reaching and teaching all of us through great content and knowledge of the lures and love for the tradition of fishing!.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who fishes for squirrels! 😁

I had a nice pike this morning. 42.5 inch and 18.2lbs. Took a 5 inch swimbait from westin in gold perch color. Such a good fight. When it hit it felt like a tiny pike, just a thump, and after 30 seconds she would not leave the bottom then i knew it was a bigger fish. Great film again my friend. I use the savage gear rad rat 10 inch, just bent the lip way back so it cant dive. So much fun

You know its going to be a good day when you just sit down with your morning coffee and see NDY has posted a new video. Keep it up. I love the videos

First cast blow up!!! 10 inch Rat Lure freaking awesome brother!!! What a MUSKY!!! I AGREE BEST FISHING CONTENT ON RU-vid WITH NO YELLING, ANNOYING YOUNG IDIOTS, LOUD MUSIC, CLICK BAIT..ETC. BEAUTIFUL VIDEOS AND ALWAYS CRUSHING THEM HOGS/MUSKY!!! PIKE TOO!!! WISH I LIVED THERE. Much love from Pittsburgh!!!

Great start to a Saturday morning!! My favorite river that is close is too shallow currently. 29th anniversary is tomorrow so taking mama on a overnight excursion as well. I choose to live to fish another day 🤣🤣. Thanks for the fishing trip this morning 👍

Love when fishing’s own Bob “Matt” Ross hits the water. Thank you for a great video.

I have always enjoyed your pinpoint casting but was thrilled to see you put 1 in the trees. Nice musky battle. More northern & musky video's my favorites.

Awesome as usual! ...and once again I love how you properly treat your catch so others can enjoy them as well! THANK YOU :)

Never thought I could get a rush off watching someone else fishing on video but hell I sure did !

I love your videos I live in the same area that you live and I fish the same rivers that you do. It’s a real joy to watch a local fisherman.

Always a good day when Matt uploads

Throwing the lure into the trees? Now you're on my level.

Great video! I appreciate how you didn’t edit out snags, fouling and fish that got off. The video shows a fisherman’s true experience.

Another exciting kayak fishing trip! You are a joy too watch and an excellent teacher of fishing techniques!

You are still my you tube hero of fishing!!! That muskie was insane!!!

I call those catches temporary trolling motors. Snagged a big carp once that towed me around for an hour before I finally cut the line. Many Pike did it also.

Perfect example of, as long as your lures in the water. And always be ready. This why , when I reel in close I keep in the water as much as possible. I don’t short it when it’s close.

I thought that he may have tied into the Great White Whale. AHHRRRR! When Matt gets excited, you know it is a big deal!

that first TREE pounder you caught was nice lol the muskie scared me just watching the video i could only imagine the rush you got great video like always

Thank you so much!!! I thoroughly enjoy watching you fish and your genuine verbale response when you hook-up! Great muskie!!! Keep up the wonderful content!

Nice catch! If you find some time, I would be really interested in you doing a video on your kayak set up, trailering, etc.

4:09 This here makes up roughly half of my fishing day usually.

Smallies ain't afraid of nothin'!😂 DANG! MONSTER BATTLE!👍Well worth the watch too! You have the best channel on RU-vid..hands down 👍

first I just got back from fishing catfish in a little town called Caledonia, Ontario. Caught some nice ones for the size of the river, about 5-6 pounds. Are you thinking about doing another catfish video? I'd love to see it!

Excellent work right there! Probably my all time favorite is the SPRO rat, tried the BBZ30 and was amazed how many lmb demolish the rat then moved up to that 50 and super exciting having them blow up on that thing.

Enjoyed it we did! Big time! Awesome to watch!

Love your videos Matt. Being disabled, I’m unable to fish as much as I would love too. That’s why I enjoy watching videos on RU-vid and yours is by far one of the best. Just subscribed to your channel. Keep sharing your amazing fishing adventures. Watching from West Virginia!❤️👍🎣

If those muskies fought half as hard pound-for-pound as smallmouth's, you'd never get one in! LOL Fun stuff here!

I’ve been catching lots of Largemouth on the River to Sea Whopper Plopper 75. Really fun blow ups. Credit and thanks to NDYakAngler for the inspiration to try that!

Thanks for showing your tree hang up 😂 your casts are next level, so it’s good to see even the best get hung up sometimes!!

Well Matt using 1 muskie power I'd say 20 to 25 mph lol! What a great fish and video really enjoyed it!

Beautiful footage as always! Thanks for always uploading great videos!

Best outdoor show I've seen in years. Well done. Makes me miss the U.P. and my Montana days ❤

Cool. I have to laugh at times at the things that can go wrong. Last week I broke 6” off my rod. Caught two trees. Love it tho….. keep going back. Thanks for sharing

Was betting musky the whole way. Ive accidently caught them doing that ecact same thing. Thinking you're done with the cast and speeding up the retrieve for the next cast...BAM! Boatside crash!

I appreciate you including your mess ups in your videos. We have all caught a low hanging branch or overshot our target location with our casts before. It’s refreshing to see someone keeping it so honest in their video.

Awesome video as always. Thanks for letting us tag along Bob Ross. 🤪

I fish the same river often and just picked up one of those mouse lures. Can't wait to try it out

River monster!!! Absolutely beautiful patterns on that musky!! Great video as always buddy

I love this channel... It's just very real... None of that fake bs you get with many yt channels...

For a river catch, that's one epic musk for sure. We'll worth the grind.

Definitely the fisherman's RU-vid. Straight to the point no bs.

That's what the old whalers called the "Nantucket sleigh ride"!

You are great at what you do, always something new to see. So real and no pretend. Thanks for all the hard work you put in for us. 💪

❤ great trip! When the muskee hit I was just as excited as you were! He was towing you along pretty good too! Always happy to go along, thank you so much and keep up the good work!

I have only watched the intro so far and I know this will be good. But I wanted to record my gratitude to you sir. Can't say enough how you have made me such a better fisherman. Saturday I hit a river I've only visited twice before. Still learning where the best stretches are. Thought I got into a section that was too shallow but I ended up joining a local that has lived on the river for 20 years. After an hour or so we fished a stretch and I hooked into a decent pike about 30 - 35 inches using your techniques and a Whopper Plopper. He screamed "dude I've been fishing this river for 20 years and I never caught a pike out here!" Caught my PB smallie at 2.14lbs (only my 2nd smallie all this time I thought I have but now I know they were just smaller large mouth.) After a 5 hr float I was the only one to land any fish. This has been the best for me. Spent my whole life fishing from my dad's boat in the Great Lakes and lately I'm changing everything up going the kayak route and fishing rivers for the smallie and largies. Appreciate you.

Wow! That Muskie was awesome! Great video, love your relaxed attitude and manors..

WOW!!! That was an awesome strike. We have to go offshore to get a fish like that. I love fishing for bass at night with a mouse just barely wiggling. Took me awhile to get used to night casting for them. It's all audible and helps to know the water layout. Thanks for sharing. Cool lure.

That was a nice Muskie sir. He hit it savagely and put up a good struggle till you netted him.

I second that. A lot of hang-ups and slow days are edited out by RU-vidrs to make themselves look better. You keeping those in gives much more credibility to your channel. Having said that, I still think you had a great day with the monster and smallie you caught!!!

Man that was badass, even the big Smallie was a rush I'm sure!!!

I seen the short you uploaded and couldn't wait to see it that was awesome brother!!!

Its always a beautiful morning to fish

Really went after that lure WOW AM SHAKING LIKE A LEAF ON A TREE!!! WOW !!!

OMG that muskie is a beautiful beast!!! Great job man! Love the channel!!

Probably my favorite fish battle I've ever seen on your channel...definitely got my adrenaline going just watching. Can't imagine being on the reel end!

Sheesh that fish had a lot of fight in him, as soon as he saw the net he started thrashing around

That was truly an epic catch! Congrats! I love watching your videos every Saturday morning when I wake up!

I love that you full send that thing right up into a tree! I don’t know home many $17 whopper Ploppers of mine I can still see hanging when I go fishing.

He is so good at casting. Was good to see you are human and included it in the video. Great fish fyi

Well done; great catch Matt. *God bless.*

Hooking a musky that big with very little line out is a thrill like no other…good job not losing that fish. 👊🏻

Nice job! I caught a 19 inch river Smallie a week ago and posted a vid of it! I was surprised to get one that big at that spot and he even drew blood!

Great job as always matt!

what a beautiful fish!! and a great fight !!! love your videos brother!

It's so nice to see even the mighty Matt gets stuck in branches and trees

when those red fins are right alongside your kayak it drives the heart rate to the moon. So powerful

the foot dip to clean off the mud 1:35 🤣

Love this !! Can't get out today, this will do, nice job as usual !!

Epic Musky! Great video! I think your hook set issue was that they hit when the bait was way out on the longest part of your cast. Tough with so much line out. Awesome!

Lure into a tree, I love that was kept in the video. Typical day for me! As everyone says, the BEST content! I enjoy the relaxing nature and not screaming like a moron that it's a "huge one"... Keep up the excellent work!

Love your Channel!! You certainly are an incredible fisherman. Great Musky! Good luck, and God speed.

Thanks for sharing, Matt. It's nice to know that I'm not the only kayaker who recently had to retrieve a top-water lure from the jaws of a tree-bass. 🎣🥴👍🏼

Finally got out on the water this week. So peaceful and quiet. Lots of blue gills, sun fish, and 1 12 inch large mouth. Restored my calm. The world is so stressful and that 4 hours helped.

Great video.. Big muskey..nice fight..love the explosion…🎣

mans out here with the determination of catching a monster with only 1 lure that's longer than some of the fish I catch. And the determination was well paid off.

Thanks, that was really really cool! I love your channel

Epic. Glad to see I’m not the only one in the tree every now and then, I mean come on if it happens to you

An average day, even a slow day watching you fish is better than most guys reeling in their pb's. Such a good channel.

Another quality video! Well done and thank you for sharing more of your tips with us!

HAHAHAHAHA! It was great seein your hands shake like that Matt! Shows you haven't lost the true love of this sport! Tied into a 5lb Peacock in the Everglades that made mine shake like that but they shook more when the 10' Alligator swam close to the boat! Keep the vids coming Matt (the best on youtube), they're what get me through from early winter till I hit the Glades!

Speaking of trees ... last October I tossed a "Spook"across a local canal and caught a tree. This Spring, with the canal drained, I went back and rescued it. Along with a few others. Some trees are just more aggressive than others 😂

Thanks for showing you have fishing days like mine.... Cast into trees, missed hook-ups, line fowled in hooks, & retrieves full of weeds. Nice Musky Congrats.

Matt you rock! Love the channel and content! My heart was pumping for you when that muskie hit that rat! Boy did he ever take you for a ride! You was trying to make it back so you could cast out longer! I'm here for the algorithm! Peace