Winter Creek Largemouth Before The Snow Storm 

Very entertaining and educational video! Thank you!👊🏻

Another great video Jeff. I really appreciate you taking every opportunity to teach.

I commend your clean-up efforts, also your hike/drag-ins, that takes a lot of effort which most will not do. I agree with the scouting and "putting in the time" mantra, especially for river fishing. I fished my local river dozens of times last year, and really started to pay attention to learning it. There are so many subtleties and details to watch for, high or low water levels, vegetation changes, underwater structure, inlets/outlets, etc. I have 3-4 more rivers, miles and miles, I plan on exploring this year on my kayak, and cannot wait for ice out. I truly enjoy river fishing more than lake fishing now!

Love the video!!!

Now that's taking your fishing up a notch. Trash clean up, landing improvements...and no electronics needed to find cold water feesh. But no smallmouth in that much current?

Even my rivers are frozen up here, so to me, you did hit a home run immediately. Really can't wait for the thaw. Thanks for the video, Jeff!

The confidence!

Great video Jeff! I can remember one winter fishing trip where it occurred to me that I needed to get off the water while I still could do so. It was a cold day but I had fished on colder days. That particular day it felt like the breeze was knifing right through the drysuit. Perhaps I was more tired than usual or my diet in the preceding days was inadequate.

I’ve had some tough days in the river in the winter but you’re 100% correct, you need those days to help figure out the spot within the spot.

I love it man! Especially when u break-down the dynamics of the spot! It helps me to answer the “why?”, ie, Why did it or why didn’t it hold fish and where were they located? and at what water level were they they located there and “why”, “why”, “why”. I have a lot of “why’s” and “where’s”. I suppose the successful answers or solutions to the “why’s”and “where’s” do lie in a lifetime of exploring. I love exploring, I think that’s why Ii enjoy fishing so much, but free time is very limited these days and i have a huge exploration gap to fill, but your efforts are helping me close the gap fast! Thanks to your videos im starting to recognize the visual characteristics of a good spot, by watching the foam and the leaves and how to “scratch-it” to determine the subsurface environment and systematically find the “eat-spit”. Wow, I’m up too late but I’m gonna watch one more or at least start it. Hope you had safe travel on those deliveries and I’m looking forward to the next video in the dead of winter! I hope you don’t change a thing and keep them coming!

Nice teaser shot there 😂. Fun video…. I enjoy watching!

Awesome content as always. Do you think you could give the jig weight (or close to it since we modify the molds) that you start out with and a roundabout flow number of the water your fishing? Might help with initial setups for some people. The flow is sometimes hard to gauge on video as we’re only seeing a +\- 20’ section. Here’s a tip I figured out- if you keep a small piece of cloth saturated with Reel Snot in a ziplock and rub your rod guides with it and the ice will have trouble sticking to them. Keep the hammer down man! 👍🏻

Another good one 👌

Great vid Jeff. Lil tip from Wisc. You have to try a thin neck gator, just once. Its majic for keeping the chill off.

Nice interaction with law enforcement. The thunbnail made me worry they were going to give you a hard time about the access point. Great vid man.

A day of fishing is so therapeutic whether you get skunked or catch a boatload. Still a wonderful day. What knife do you have on your chest? Looks like a TKell with the ring on the end. TKell is American made 100% and veteran owned if you need a good all around knife. Love the video as always Jeff. Always learning when I watch. I’ve fished when I would have to hold my eyelets to get the ice to melt so I could reel in😂. Still great days. Thanks for all you do Jeff much appreciated

jeff great video as usual. Wondering how much energy is spent to make sure you don't end up in the water. I go out and spend half my time / energy thinking about not going in the water. Does it just come 2nd nature for you doing it for so long. I am looking forward to getting out on the water.

The officer at the end was dumb founded by your clean up 👊👊

Nice day Jeff ! When you first started talking to the game warden he was out of frame and I thought it was some guy walking down the road, lol and I was wondering why he was asking for your license? Lol! good stuff

I'm not going to give anything away but is that one of the anna rivers, that spot looks super familiar

Jeff, I belong to the inflatable fb page you admin and am interested in the 12” Kuda. Watching you drag it around, how durable is it really for portaging/dragging? My PA14 360 is proving way too heavy for the skinny waters and rough brush,rocks,etc that we have to travel through to get to good water.. I just can’t afford a huge rip in the boat when miles from a takeout.

Hey, man, you own Confidence Baits, dont you? If so, your stuff is so nice! Is there any chance of getting a bulk deal on draggin’ heads?

The frame you have on your truck for your kayak..is that home made? If so I’m curious how you have it mounted to the bed

Did he say anything about the access? I know it depends on each state and each game warden on how they view ROW access?

Did you ever consider not using a net? I find it very annoying when kayak fishing. I never use a net.

Keep a hit hands in your shirt pocket over your heart theory is as blood flows through the heart that’s warm the warm blood carries the heat with it. 20+ plus years of winter construction it does help.

Just noticed ur knife on your vest!! What brand is that??

Where did you buy the plug knockers or do you make them is there a video of how ypu made them

Please explain why I continue to catch smallmouths walking a frog on the W.Branch in winter? Your "furnace" works much better on PayDay bars and PB sandwiches;)

Just stopped to see if you were alright. "Oh" by the way. Can i see your license?.....lol

Not sure why enforcement checked you. He didn’t witness you actually fishing with line in the water. Nice catches.

Jeff, I belong to the inflatable fb page you admin and am interested in the 12” Kuda. Watching you drag it around, how durable is it really for portaging/dragging? My PA14 360 is proving way too heavy for the skinny waters and rough brush,rocks,etc that we have to travel through to get to good water.. I just can’t afford a huge rip in the boat when miles from a takeout.