Will Fish Eat a Block of Wood? 

I come back to this video whenever I want to spend more than $10 on a lure.

i wish someone would have came up and asked him what he's using.

“Will a block of wood catch fish?” 2M people: I n t e r e s t I n g

No BS one day ran out of plastic worms. Carolina rigged a cigarette but t it caught at least five fish on it.

Typical live bait: Fish: ... Handcrafted lures designed to mimic prey: Fish: ... A Block of Wood: Fish: *This is some serious gourmet sh*t.*

He's caught more bass on a block of wood than i've caught my entire life

I'll bet that fish feels dumb. When he gets back to his fish buddies. " So Charlie, was that a block of wood you got hooked on???"

At this Hydro powerhouse I worked at years ago some coworkers found a very large Brown trout floating dead on the lake surface . It had apparently struck at 4" block of wood of trimmed off the top of a fence post and sufficated after it got lodged in it's hooked jaws full of teeth . So the answer is yes .

Your attention to detail is excellent, it looks exactly like a block of wood 😁👍🏻🎣

Fishing equipment is designed to catch fishermen.

Best tip for fishing: fish were the fish are. You catch tons of fish

Can you catch a fish on a piece of wood? 1.7 million people: well let’s find out

Throwing out my tackle box. Going to Home Depot.

This guy: Catches multiple bass with a piece of wood Me: Doesn’t catch any fish with actual lures

"I'm not trying to please fish" Most honest fisherman ever. I see this mentality in fly fishing quite a bit. Insanely simple flies catch fish all day long but so many spend ages on fancy more realistic flies (including myself sometimes).

Imagine breaking the 22 lb record getting a plug deal based on the the bait that caught it and you present a block of wood with hooks 😂🤣😂😛

It's that time of night when "Will Fish Eat a Block of Wood?" seems like a good choice

imagine how many lures you could get from a set of jenga

I’ve never had luck with my top water baits but to see you catch them with a wood block and a few treble hooks makes me want to try the top water again

And also with the turd lure idea, I once made a fly with a blob of gorilla glue on a small hook colored with a sharpie just to see if panfish would hit it, and they totally did. I called it a turd fly. It was about the size of a rabbit turd.

Carve out the words "It's Official." And make it into a lure, to make it official that fish think its official.

Jokes on the fish, you've always been using blocks of wood

When the fish are on, they will bite anything and everything. I have hit bites where you couldn't get a bait back to the boat without a fish on. The trick is to get the fish to bite when they are not that interested. I was catching fish off everything I threw out in a little shallow bay once where I found some pike feeding on spawning perch and then the bite just ended. All of the sudden, instead of getting bites, I was getting follows and they would turn back as soon as I stopped cranking. I changed tactics and I found a bait with an action that I could induce a strike with, a suspending husky jerk that would twitch side to side when I popped it. I could get bites anywhere from when it hit the water to the end of the retrieve. That block of wood would have worked as well as anything else when they were biting, but when it turned, it took a specific action to get them to bite. The shape and color may not have mattered much, but the type of action was pretty specific. Photo realistic doesn't seem to matter, but sometimes lighter or darker is better depending on water conditions. The action seems to be one of the bigger factors. But the tools don't make the fisherman. There is no substitute for experience. If you can reliably find hungry fish, it makes everything else so much easier.

This just shows me how bad I am at fishing lol.

You know you're a true fisherman when you say 1 more cast like 7 times 🤣🤣🤣

Fishing lures are marketed to lure fishermen, not fish.

Dude just caught more fish than I’ll ever catch in 1 day with tons of different bait

I've seen this on my recommendations a few times and after finally watching it I absolutely love this guys thinking and humor

Me: One more cast Me 27 casts later: one more cast

Should make a tiny lure version of yourself. See if it's official that bass like you

My father and I used to make bass lures from old broomsticks or mop handles ,anything shaped like a dowel. They worked great for striped bass and cost almost nothing.

Don't take this the wrong way: this is still one of my favorite videos :)

Finally! A lure you make that I can recreate!

It resembled a wounded or injured block of wood. Bass love that.

I got into injecting plastics because of this man. I recently caught my first bass on one of my own lures. What a feeling

As a fellow woodworker, your dry but accurate woodshop humor is quite refreshing when applied to the bass fishing sport. I'm gonna shop scrap on the garage floor now and get that biggun. lol great video bud

"FISHING COMPANIES HATE HIM"

I've been fishing for bass for 49 yrs. & You inspired to make my first lure! I was going for an Oak block 3.5" L x 1.5" x 1.5" but grabbed a piece of pine and cut same size as above and cut it down to a short lipped crank-bait just clear coated it added # 4 treble on belly & #6 on tail plus added just over 1/4 oz. of lead weight just behind belly, she swims or shimmies wagging her tail and dives around 18" - 24"depending on retrieval speed ! It actually pulls while diving about as hard as a Spinner bait with double #5 Colorado blades! Thanks So much! Love videos and Subscribed!

Crazy! Some of your most intricate pieces have caught less or none and this block of wood slays the bass!

It's an amazingly realistic representation of a block of wood. I'm betting the fish will never suspect that it's a lure.

Next video: 'Will a BIGGER block of wood catch BIGGER fish?' River muskie here we come!

_Back in my day I only had a block of wood to catch fish!_ -Marling Baits 2070

The evolution of your project is priceless. Love it

I’ve caught bass on just a piece of foam I ripped off my truck seat when I lost my last lure. They’ll truly eat anything lol. Your block of wood runs like a popper more than anything, cool vid 👍🏼

Uses fish lure and catches fish Uses Block of wood and catches a piece of wood. *_Interesting_*

I wish you put eyes on this. Like generic googley eyes

idk why i laughed so hard at “chunks of wood likes blocks of wood,it’s official” also i think they were biting the wood mainly because sometimes bass will do a aggression bite without really wanting to eat it,they just see things and if they dont like it the bite it,or they do want to eat it because for some reason the like eating wood lol

I caught a bass on just a bare hook one time... Something stole my bait, I seen a bass following the hook, stopped reeling at the dock & boom he ate the hook...

You should do a series called “bizarre baits” and make weird lures. Loving the content!

Imagine this scenario he enters a bass tournament and beats pros with a block of wood man theyed be pissed

My local fish don't even eat a piece of meat, but your fish eats a block of wook. I'm so jealous.

Love the videos! Been watching you for 3 years now😳

I have ALWAYS said fishin' lures are not made to catch fish; they are made to catch fishermen.

With Halloween coming up you should make a fish skeleton lure.

When I was a kid we made our own surface poppers on-the-spot by tying a trebble hook to a piece of wood. The bass loved them. Nice video.

Unbelievable; I'm glad that You had it on film.

Not even gonna lie. I randomly came across this channel and it's one of the most entertaining on RU-vid

Fish Be like : “I can’t I even have a block of wood peacefully.”

Excellent video, had me laughing the whole way through it, beautiful lure btw. 😁

This is so awesome! Lol! I think I'll start with this as my first lure build...it's a lure just like men like things, cheap & easy...Lol!

Hello Marlin baits, you should make a video were you use a triangle lure, it basically spins like a buzz bait but just the buzz, and then a trible hook at the end of it.

One more cast, I gotta get out of here before this storm .... one more cast.... one more cast. This man is speaking my language

Thanks for making this video, it was great! U da Man!

when he is catching more fish on a block of wood than me anyday

Yes. A turd lure! And call it the Bass-turd

Turd lure sounds interesting. Try a jointed block of wood.

This is my favorite Video ! so fun to watch !!!

I'm amazed he can catch multiple bass with a block of wood when I struggle to catch them with an arsenal of store bought lures but what amazes me more is why people could give a thumbs down on this video; they must be jealous.

I give it about 2 months before strike king comes out with the KVD sexy block

For Halloween do a severed finger lure. That will get your gross lure fix.

Absolutely awesome!

"I just felt a sprinkle, I gotta go." "One more cast." I feel like you understand me.

You caught that chunk of wood so make the next lure out of it

Just found this channel and its my new very favorite, from a very new fisherman.

Want to see more pieces of wood. The best bait you ever made! :-) You should build versions for trout and for larger fish!

You need to pop some eyes on that thing and patent the crap out of it! A gag gift for a fisherman that CATCHES fish? It could be your legacy.

Make a lure that looks like a fisherman complete with waders. You'll catch a lot of lures.

Great fishing (experiment) video, thanks.

your block is doing awsome catching,super

this is weird but youre like the only mono-tone person that has excitement in your voice. lmao

When will marling baits block of wood lures be available to buy?

That's as cool as it gets. Good job!

I can’t tell when your being serious or sarcastic and it’s my favorite part

The big piece of wood was trying to devour the smaller one. The food chain at work

How to entertain your RU-vid audience and destroy your custom lure making business in one easy step - by Marlin Baits 😂

His voice and like his like unsureness and like him thinking on the spot about some things and like debating things idk it’s all satisfying I love it!!!! I’m glad I caught u when ur a smaller channel (ur not small but with today’s expectations or a profitable youtuber ig u are a small rn) cause I’ll be proud be like yessir I’ve bin a subscriber sence 400k 🤠🤠

This totally makes me want to buy the tools to make a block of wood fishing lure and then use it when I go out with friends to fish.

He looks like a mix between Jim and Kevin from the office

Finally, a lure i think i can make on my own! ....Where's my pliers?!

Watched this 30 times. Never gets old.

I have try this. Its working. Thanks!

That moment you realize a block of wood is more successful than some lures you spent days on

I can’t even catch a bass on a frog and this dude is literally catching fish on a piece of wood

Great experiment dude!!!

Me: fishes with every bait I have and doesn’t catch 1 dink Marling: uses a block for 5 minutes and catches 8472627 fish 😃

Other youtubers: catching bass with the cheapest lure Marling baits: hold my block of wood

Had me weak af when he said "biggest chunk of wood caught all year" 😂😂

Who would have thought that I would find a new favorite channel to watch while sitting in the throne room! lol

This video is 100% proof that you can catch a fish on anything. When I was four I caught a bluegill on a leaf. And when I was 9 I caught a 24 pound channel catfish on a potato. I was just messing around and joking to my friends “Hey, watch me catch a 30 pound catfish or something😂” little did 9 year old me know that was gonna happen.

I love your humor. You have truly pioneered the making and catching fish, from a "block of wood". Looks like a patent to me!