It really says alot about your character the way you fish with your co anglars. That's why I watch your channel and I'm not a tournament angler. It's the thought process you have that keeps me coming back. Great work.
Great job, solid video and would love to fish there sometime. I always look forward to your content! I fell victim to close mindedness at Douglas a month ago after a very good practice!
Absolutely it was me! Headed to lake Onidea in Syracuse NY. At least it will be cooler. Not going to complain about the diesel price since you feeling it worse than most bud! Hang in there 😥
Think 🤔 you did enough teaching in your day. I couldn’t teach you much bud! Where’s your truck parked after a day of fishing is what I learned to ask you after a day on the water!
Man that's my homewaters! I've caught so many fish down that way. Do you know if the entire field went down river or if anyone actually stayed up around Richmond?
Bradley, great job on the edit. I don’t remember your videos being synced to the music like that. I’m going to go back and rewatch some to make sure. If you get some B-roll and some graphics going McCoy is going to be out of a job. Fun video to watch as usual. Keep up the good work.
If you think about it. There is so much structure, vertical timber. It's spring time, and water is not warm. There is a breeze, a bit of a swell in the water. It's moving at least in terms of tides or whatever. There's a lot going on. To make an impact at all (those larger fish hunting using lateral line). I'm almost going to say. That any movement that a hard plastic bait is going to make there. Is going to get drowned in that environment. The shockwaves from a hard plastic bait will be absorbed into so much structure. The bait will leave very little vibrational signature at all. I'm almost going to say, that one needs metal. And in the bell ringing resonance made. By something made out of metal.
People often think about soft plastic baits. As only soft plastic baits. And forget that when you have a substantial piece of metal hook (even though it's concealed inside of a soft plastic lure). And some kind of an egg sinker, or a tungsten bullet. And you begin to start flipping and pitching that around. In that environment. Because of the heavy metal components of that system. With a lot of less dense timber structure. It's going to result in a much better vibrational signature. That bass can key into. That hard plastic, which only gets absorbed (hard plastic is too much like the same density as standing timber structure). Think of a carpenter busy with their tools and nails. On a roof. And if you are several yards away and close to a piece of timber. It's dry timber sure, instead of wet. The point is that heavy metal knocking off timber. That travels. You can tell from yards away what someone is doing. Working on structural carpentry.
Now if you go into an environment where there is stone, gravels, sands or hard surfaces. It's like being inside of a church. Acoustic and vibration noise works differently there. Than around timber structures. Often in a church, some tiny metal object like a penny falling on the ground. Can seem like an orchestra playing an opening piece. And children figure that out fast. So if you want to misbehave and make a nuisance of yourself (even babies understand that they can whale inside a church and it shattered ear drums). A place with hard material surfaces. Is where to do that.
Then a grass environment is different again. Walk into vegetation and grass cover in the morning. When the sun is coming out. Or late at night. And there are sounds coming from everywhere. I think even the dew melting off the grass. Makes it's own kind of sound. Grass and vegetation environments are definitely far from silent. Whether it's a field of barley, or standing corn. Or cattle grassland. Or dry desert transition places. The wind and breeze blowing through that. Always makes a different and unique baseline soundtrack. Against which the angler throwing baits in that. In the aquatic environment. Will either integrate or stand out. For reasons of how the bait is designed, and how it's fished.
Then think of a place with mud. And in that environment of mud and soils. Sound and vibration is perceived in a distinct and different way too. Kind of like the way sound happens. When horses gallop over ground. In early springtime before the grass cover comes back. The sound of that galloping goes a long distance. Think of what a boat must sound like. To the fish when the boat travels over mud bottoms. Making it's own shockwave as it travels. It must sound like galloping horses in springtime. Not a good thing if you are a bass. In a tidal environment. Where you are not top of the food chain. And boat traffic noise might render you vulnerable. From having less awareness of possible predators around you. It is why bass stay away from boat traffic. Where there is mud (you would not stand in the middle of a race track with steeple chase horses and riders either). They venture out to go feeding when it is shallow. They can sense more what is around them. And the boats cannot race quickly either.
Let’s all say this together. I hate,despise,dislike,unwanted,and flat out hate tidal fisheries. Tide water is for salt water fish not fresh water fish. The fresh water fish are there by accident. They don’t want to be in there also. I would rather paint than put my boat in that acid water. Flat out despise tidal water and you can to. Just quit fishing it like I have and go on enjoy life on real fishy waters. Hate it get it.
