Winter Fishing For... Topwater Bass? 

Amen! Cannot believe Matt is topwatering it in Jan anywhere, let alone ND.

Here are some words to possibly describe watching Matt fish: It is the quintessential form of all life in the universe. More enjoyable than attending a local baseball game and arriving early enough to watch the grounds keepers prepare the field. A warm summer day with the smell of freshly mowed grass and freshly popped popcorn. These things, while enjoyable, do not compare to the sounds of nature, paddle strokes and fish splashes that Matt captures in his videos. And his casting? A true sniper is the best I can describe it.

Amen! I know the feeling!

What’s short for him is a perfect cast for me 😂

If 6 inches is considered short then I'm in trouble...

@Archenhaust nah, it's how you wiggle it 🤣

😂😂 a little short of absolute perfection?

@@Archenhaustwith your casting accuracy?

He is

You nailed it.

GREAT story. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome stuff brother

We call that a pond brother. I'm headed to my family's pond in a couple hours. It's been 4 feet low since May, now its flooded from snow and rain over last 2 weeks.

@@gslang3489 I guess. I think of a "pond" as a dirty, shallow, stagnant body of water with no input or output flow. This is a dammed valley on an existing river (Tradewater). Over 20feet deep with a functioning mouth, spillway, creek offshoots and a floodgate. Water always moving. We have "ponds", too, but those are for the cattle to wade and poop in.

Pretty much!! 😂

Thanks, I was feeling a bit dumb wondering how that was possible! 😂

Yep... Nelson in ND

In mid-summer the entire lake will be about 84F, and up to 96F where the outlet channel finally hits the lake itself. Small lake, but good fun.

Oh brother...😊

@@docholliday4546what?

There are some giant bass in that lake!State record of about 8.5lbs was caught there and lots of 5lb+ fish. It’s a tough lake to fish with basic electronics like I have though. I wish I had side scan so I could paddle around and find more of those little isolated rock patches. The one I found I just got lucky and hit some rocks with my jig and ended up getting bit there.

It’s a tough lake to fish with basic electronics like I have, pretty much just down facing sonar and gps. If I had side scan I could probably find a half dozen more spots in a day just like that one I caught most of the fish from on this trip. I just got lucky and found that spot by feeling some rocks with my jig and I marked it on my fish finder.

We have ice and I’d been out about a half dozen times the couple weeks before it warmed up again. I’m just not going to post videos of me sitting on the ice for 8 hours for one dinky little pike, that’s about the highlight of my ice fishing trips lately. I start to feel like I don’t know what I’m doing out there and it makes it tough to film videos when I’m doubting myself.

@@ndyakangler// I wouldn't worry about a string of trips with little to no success. When I fished tournaments and followed the bigger circuits in our area, everyone was reminded [with a bit of frequency], who was really in charge of the bite i.e., God who controls the weather as well as the fish who are subject to the weather, and everything related them. So regardless of who the person was, many had streaks of little to no success that they'd rather forget. You're fine.

This is the best time to fish till end of spawn..

wow, you didn't get a week of -5F?

@@paulbunyun3663 Nope. Only at night for a day or 2. Record highs. Crazy weather. I think there was like one week of 6 inches of ice for fishing.

Exactly!

That’s when I fish too. That why I love afternoon shift. I always fish weekday mornings while the masses are at work

I try to schedule work Friday through Tuesday and I hunt and fish Wednesday and Thursday. One of the perks of working for myself.

From what I remember-he recently (I think within the last year) started doing full time youtube with the amount of prescribers he’s been getting. It’s well deserved.

Welcome