I can’t express enough my Sincere Gratitude for this channel! Please, Please, Please post more videos like these! It’s the best channel I know for Expert Bass Fishing tutorials I have ever watched including videos I used to own and watch all the time! It reminds me of Johnny Schultz’s channel he put up long ago. 👍
I remember watching all the greats in the 80s as a teenager. My 11 year old watches them with me now. Tells me we dressed funny, but every time he sees a lunker, he's determined to catch one. Thanks for the great channel.
RIP Ken Cook I was devastated when I heard of your loss 😢 But I smiled once I knew you were fishing high above with our maker where the bass fishing is all top water fishing😉🤠
I still have my 5'6" pistol grip too. It's a Fenwick i got at a flee market in Tennessee when i went on vocation and the guy was selling it for $30 Dollars and i tried to buy it for $25 Dollars and he said to me you do realize it's a Fenwick right and i said yes and gave him the $30 Dollars. what a great well built Rod still in great condition.
I use mostly 6’3 & 6’6 straight handles still. Great for walking the dog, stick baits, soinnerbaits, and throwing small stuff. Can really thread the needle skipping docks and bushes. Longer rods have their uses too. 90% of the time I’ve got a 6’3 or 6’6 in hand.
I had one of those Ryobi reels, was super light, even by today's standards, only thing that held it back was bearing technology. Wish I still had it, great reel.
How cool was it when he used his foot to adjust the trolling motor? I know that's how it was back then, but to me that's some mental acrobatics. I'd lose my mind.
Billy is a legend. I live 30 min from Dale Hollow. Wish he had caught the world record smallie he tried so hard to get. There is a story I heard years ago, may not be true, that he hooked up and lost a smallie he was certain was world record. He would know, since he caught several close to the record and two or three that were top ten Smalls on record.
That method of operating the trolling motor looks very obnoxious. I couldn’t imagine doing it like that…I’m just way too used to the foot pedals we have now.
the opening though. i caught that on a plastic worm.. its a plastic crawdad imitation... wtf. though he is dead right. plastic worms catch fish. even in the most high pressured hard to catch lakes. this video is good he explains exactly how i fish which i learned from mainly fishing this way. dropshot, wacky weightless or on drop, and texas but with texaposed. i do my texas weightless though. and instead of reeling it in fast when you think there is no fish. i just take it slow all the way in. it has two advantages. you catch more fish. but also it helps expose the fish you cant see when they chase it but dont bite it all the way to the banks. then maybe you can downsize your bait and go for that fish or maybe even upsize. i think light line is also better at exposing big fish because when you catch the small ones you have to play them a little in the water and the action the little bass make trying to fight will make the bigger fish in area become more aggressive. though the bigs are hard to catch even when you know they are there and can even see them.
And the good thing about worms bass don’t remember the bait so you can catch them again on the same thing. Say you catch 12 bass on a crank bait the bass you caught probably won’t eat that bait for a couple days to a week.
