Not gonna lie, watching you miss fish like that makes me feel better - if it happens to you too then I'm not just a buffoon of a fisherman. Nice to see another pond video, thanks for making anglers out of fisherman.
As mainly a bank/pond bass fisherman these kind of videos give a lot more useful information to me personally than boat videos or how to find the color line, etc. this shows how real it gets
I have been fishing a pond all summer due to the lack of rain and water levels bank fishing just ain't happening out at the lake we have and I don't have a boat so pond it has been. The other day I just wanted out of the house and let me tell you I called them with a spinner bait rigged with a swim bait and a smaller under spinner with smaller swim bait both white grey in color!! It was awesome! As the sun went down I switched to a deep dive crank bait and got it out to the deeper part of the pond and got like 4 more before I called it a night!! 9 fish all together when I hadn't caught any the last 3 to 4 weeks! But I have y'all to thank for that and one of your latest videos on the transition of august and the bait to use!!! Thank you!
Great job showing that you also face the same challenges we all do when pond fishing. I have used all these lures but with water temperatures of 88.5-90 degrees, the fishing has been very slow for me in South Florida in August. I feel like I have tried everything and almost all times of the day (need to get up early one day to catch the sunrise and try when water drops a few degrees). For the first time in a while, it has been three days since I last caught anything and bites have been very faint only on senkos but without bass really taking the bait so to speak. My pond has two deep pits of 53’ and 45’ but the bass don’t appear to be there. I have checked on a fish finder and see them in 15-20 feet but they are not hitting anything right now, not even senkos except for a slight tap now and then.
I loved this video because it shows how frustrating my trips are in the summer. I seem to miss the hookset on more fish than I catch or just lose the big one of the day.
And why is he missing so many hooksets? Seems to be fishing with the off hand if he is right handed; and he has the wrong reel on the pole. It all adds up. You are either right handed or left handed. Buy the correct equipment and fish accordingly. :And the hooks are dull! Fishing Pliers?
This is my kind of fishing; all I have are little playa lakes and those fish are pressured and picky. Love the top water action, giving this a real go tonight! Great video man!
Noticed those Cali clips, they are a game changer. I got them to hold my drop shot weight but the hook keeper on these are incredible. I’ve never had a bait swing away when putting it up.
Absolutely love throwing topwater parallel to the bank like that; it's a productive technique that's also a lot of fun. Loving the bank-fishing videos. I'd venture the guess that a very high percentage of your audience does most of their fishing from shore; thanks so much for giving us some high-quality instructional content. Can't wait for the next one! Would love to see a Buyer's Guide aimed at bank anglers sometime down the road. Thanks, Tim!
So awesome to see this vid as most of my fishing is in ponds currently. I have a few local ponds with decent sized fish here in Florida but when makes it tricky is the general lack of features in them.
Done this with little beaver ponds we find in the woods near streams on some hunting property my buddy has. Stand right on or near the dam, and take the kayaks in if that doesn’t work. It’s only about 6 foot deep at the dam, but we’ve pulled a few solid 3-4 pounders out of there. Bunch of pickerel too that I’ve gotten to follow and swipe at an S-waver, but they’re too crafty to get hooked.
I absolutely LOVE these videos!!! As a guy that fishes a lot of ponds I love seeing how you guys attack them. Would love to see Tim pack Matts bag and send him to a pond and vise versa!! Those videos are always so fun! Appreciate you guys for always being consistent and for just nailing the times of year to drop these videos!
There is a challenge video where Matt packed a box for Tim to use and he could only use what was in the box, it is an older video from when they lived in CA.
Great pond fishing video. 👍 Most of my fishing the last few years has been small waters. I haven't looked at a graph in 7 or so years even when in the aaluminum boat, but I have a wealth of good fish pictures. Really appreciate the simple style of fishing.
I’ve been getting my ass kicked all summer at my local ponds. The water levels here in Texas have dropped so much that the fish just aren’t where they usually are. And the spots where they are are inaccessible from the bank lol
I understand my daughter and I have nothing but a pond to fish at with the water levels here in Waco the lake just ain't happening without a boat. We had the time of our life the other day using spinners with swim baits on them and deep diving crank baits!! The best day we have had all summer. We both got about 10 each in a 3 hour period! It was great!!
You guys ever come back through indiana again I know a 8 acre pond that was a old paylake from 1940ish through 1980ish that has monster bass and monster crappie (for indiana) ...
Hey Tim I know how you like smally fishing. I ran across some new baits on face book. well new to me, you ever hear of Rabid Baits? Unique soft plastics. I ordered some jerk baits to try out. It's called Rab Shad and has a Fox furry tail. All their baits incorporate the fur. I have never seen anything like them. You probably have heard of them been in the business and all. But if you haven't well take a look.
There is only one bait I didn’t see you throw and I throw it in every pond and that my friend is the wacky rig I can’t tell you how many fish I’ve caught on that bait and a fluke two amazing pond baits
I can't believe our go to pond set ups are the exact same. I throw a headbanger, plopper, popper, fluke, frog, shakey, swimbait. Were you fluking on top? I feel bad for you guys and that treeline.
My oldest kid is driving me nuts to get baits called googan, have you guys tried them and are they any good. To me the hard baits look cheaply made and painted but they carry a premium price ( for massed produced baits) I trust your judgment and opinions on these things and can't find a video of yall ever talking about them, that scares me.
This question may or may not be covered in this video, I just had a couple general questions dealing with bass fishing and thought I'd ask it/some of them on this particular video. Whether it gets answered or not will remain to be seen. If I'm using a topwater bait like a frog or a popper or some kind of plopper, does it matter what kind of fishing line I'm using? I know that mono floats, and I believe braid does as well (never use braid hence the "believe" term), and fluorocarbon sinks. After hearing much on the positives of using fluorocarbon, I decided to switch some of my reels over to it. Does it matter if my line sinks if I've got a lure that I want to float? I would assume that the line would not be heavy enough to pull the lure down, however, like fishing in general, as many stipulations necessary as possible seem to work a lot better than just "winging it."
Simple...topwaters with treble hooks...monofilament...12-17lb. for Topwaters under 1 oz...1-3 oz topwaters with treble hooks...20lb. Monofilament....Frogs- 30-65lb. Braid, 30 for spinning, 40-65 for baitcasting...another option for baitcasting is 20-25 lb. Monofilament, if u don't like braid....Braid is ideal in vegetation types of cover...I prefer 20-25 lb. Mono for frogs in woody types of cover, stumps, logs, brush, docks, rocks with drag tightened down. braid will work, but will fray quicker in harder types of cover
They list and link all of the gear they use in the video description. Do you mean at about 4:29 ? It was a St. Croix; probably the St. Croix Legend Elite.
@@loritsimon7445 I see it now; his first cast setup? It looks like the G. Loomis IMX Pro; maybe the one they link here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8-GcczYSr38.html . Not sure where my brain is; I even noticed he was throwing a Loomis right at the beginning. Hopefully they look in and confirm, but that's my best guess. Good luck out there!
These are the type of videos that the majority of your viewers can relate to.. remember us bank fishermen don't have the access to the fish that you guys do so help us out with more of these videos.
@@DylanHarperGolf yeah if you live in the middle of a state like Texas or Florida where there's millions of lakes with bass whereas I live in Maryland overpopulated area with extremely pressured minimal fishing lakes.. and a matter of fact I live in Maryland which only has one lake in the entire state that allows for gas powered motors on so you're probably not familiar with anything that I have to deal with.
@@DylanHarperGolf and second of all how are you supposed to access the deep water if you can only fish from the bank? You're limited to the access of certain depths of water whereas a boat you're not so how do you figure?
@@DylanHarperGolf so being able to throw from the middle of a lake towards a shoreline is harder than having to fish from the shoreline? And being limited to accessing deeper water and being obstructed by shoreline cover that won't allow you to make certain casts? The point of having a boat is it gives you more accessibility to more water what world do you live in??
I had a question unrelated to today's video. I recently purchased a couple Evergreen SB 105s and have a 7'2"M zodias to throw it on per your recommendation. I was curious as to whether that recommendation was with factory or upgraded hardware.
@@frankh2213 right now I don't really have much. All my good stuff got stolen (6 loomis rods with shimano and diawa reels) a couple years ago. I'm throwing them on a 7'6 MH kastking speed demon pro (cheap but good budget rod) with a shimano curado dc. Not perfect by any means but it works.
That was for stock hardware. I've heard rumor of some hook issues recently (breaking or bending) but historically their stock hooks were great. If you have an issue at all, don't risk it and change them all out.
