What's popping people welcome back to another video if you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell also hit the like button you guys are enjoying the content today we got a tip video we haven't filmed a tip video in a long time a lot of you guys have been asking for it so we're going to hop right into it and today's tip video is a little different than some of the tip videos we filmed on the channel before I have filmed a video similar to this around three years ago and I just thought I would film a more updated version go more in depth today and talk about one of the best bass fishing baits in my opinion and why and three different ways to fish it to catch more bass and how versatile this bait really is by the way I do have a giveaway in this video as well but it's actually randomly throughout the video so you guys are gonna have to watch this all the way through giveaways gonna pop up randomly throughout this episode I'll show you guys exactly how to win so I'm actually at a very special place today it's this little tiny pond right here behind me by the way I got Cody what's up Cody it's going on it's good man just trying to have a good morning out here so you have a good morning pull out of this pond I know so we're at this little tiny pond and if you guys know a lot of you guys probably have seen this pond in a few episodes I'm in Atlanta Georgia this is where I grew up this is actually the pond where I caught my first bass ever me and my granddad used to come down here and fish all the time just like a bobber in a night crawler we used to catch some really big bass in this pond over the years you know the fish have got a lot smaller but there's still a lot of good fish in here so hopefully we'll hook you know a couple decent ones today but at the end of the day that's not the point of today's video the point is you know to show you about this bait different ways to fish it and to help you guys catch more fish but it feels good to get out on this pond a lot of great memories were made me and my grand dad used to just come out here all the time I believe my first bass ever was actually in this pond right here and we caught some really big ones I mean we used to catch a bunch of seven and eight pounders in this pond just on a basic little night crawler so let's go ahead and hop over here I brought one rod with me today and a pack of baits let's go ahead and rig up I'm gonna show you guys the rig that we're gonna be throwing today and then we're going to show you guys exactly how to fish it different ways you can fish it and I promise you this is gonna help you guys catch a lot more fish a lot of you guys have been asking you know Noah what is a versatile rod and reel combo you know what should I use if I want to tie on a bunch of different baits or if I only have the money to go spend on one fishing combo so let's go ahead and talk about that real quick so on this combo that I brought out today I have a custom probe I lose and if you were gonna get a baitcaster I I don't really I'm not very specific on the gear ratios like seven one-to-ones seven three-to-one gear ratios if I need to go slower then I'll just slow down my retrieve I don't really mess around with five gear ratio of reels if I do is more than likely I'm gonna be cranking so as far as the reel grows seven one-to-one gear ratio in the rod this is very important so you guys are looking for a versatile combo if you're only looking to buy one in my opinion my favorite is a seven foot to seven foot three medium heavy you're gonna be able to throw chatter baits on that combo you're gonna be able to throw spinner baits you're gonna be able to throw Texas rigs you're gonna be able to throw shaky heads even some smaller jigs you can get away with on this rod so if you guys are looking for one just to buy you can throw just about anything you know you're not wanting to go out and buy like five combos seven foot to seven foot three medium heavy that's gonna do the trick the one that I have today is actually a Mach 2 by Luz this is a seven two medium heavy fast action and you can tell right here it's got a good bit of tip as well and it's not a meat stick when I'm out here fishing you know I like a little bit of tip on my rod some people are gonna say you know you need a heavy or medium heavy I think that's all you need and I you can throw just about anything on this and I believe when you have a lot more tip with your rod and be a lot more accurate with your cast so yeah guys if you're looking for one rod in real medium heavy seven one-to-one gear ratio real that's all you need so let's go ahead and hop into the baits all you need for this rig is you need a three odd extra wide gap hook EWG right here very basic and go get them at Walmart and get in my Bass Pro get them at Tackle Warehouse you just need like a three-odd extra wide gap hook you can even go up to a four-odd if you need to and you're also gonna need a little bullet weight which we got right here and this is actually just a little half ounce or a quarter ounce bullet weight this is one-fourth ounce it's actually a tungsten so it's gonna be a little bit smaller but still heavier weight it's one fourth ounce you guys are wondering about the fluorocarbon that I'm throwing today this is actually 17 pound that's what I'm comfortable with you can throw this on 12 pound 15 pounds 17 pound you can get away with anything depending on the cover that you're fishing as well if you're flipping like very heavy cover you're gonna want you know some some thick line let's go ahead and tie this up real quick so we're gonna put our bullet weight on the line just like that so once you got your weight on your line I'm gonna get our hook and said three odd extra wide gap we're gonna tie this bad boy on it you guys are wondering what not I'm tying me personally I love the uni knot I tied the polymer knot for years but over the last I'd say probably seven eight years I've been tying a uni knot it's a very strong knot if you guys want to check it out or you want to see a video on how to tie it if you actually type in kicking their best TV best fishing knot on YouTube I have a video that shows you guys exactly how to tie a uni knot tie that on there what are lime since you're down boom just like that go right here cut our tag in boom just like that before you guys say this is just a regular Texas rig video the ways that we're gonna be showing you how to work it today it's a lot more advanced in your basic Texas rig so don't think it's just a basic little Texas rig video and we're gonna talk a little bit about it even if you guys know about the Texas rig I really want to show you guys what I'm gonna talk about today because it's gonna help you catch more fish so moving on to the bait that we're gonna be throwing on this Texas rig today it's actually just a standard little rage crawl right here and this is a little natural color this is actually green pumpkin purple in gold it's a nice little color it's just a regular green pumpkin it's got a little bit of purple and gold flake it's a natural color you guys are wondering I have a lot of people ask me about colors as well through fishing a lot of ponds the majority of the time we're gonna be fishing dirty water I highly suggest going with like a Junebug a black and blue a black and red that's gonna be really good and dirty water if you guys are fishing water that's a little more clean which the pond that we're out today has a good bit of visibility in it you can go with a green pumpkin you can go with a watermelon watermelon red green pumpkin with different colored flakes in it all those are gonna work well but the simple rule of thumb clear water green pumpkins watermelons dirty water black and blues Junebugs your darker colors so we got the rage crawl right here I'm gonna show you guys exactly how I rig it up here on this hook so we got our extra wide gap all you're gonna do you have the bottom side of the bait it's got a line through the bottom of it right there you got the tip of your hook so what you're gonna want to do is go through the head of the bait all the way up to where that hook bends all right sticking in there just like that you're gonna pop the hook through you're gonna slide your bait all the way to the eye of the hook and then you're gonna rotate it boom just like that so you have your bait just like this a lot of people ask me as well how do you get your bait so perfectly on the hook and this helps out a lot so when you have your bait and you have your hook you can just go ahead once you know naturally you know where to penetrate the hook you know you can just go ahead and keep it right there and it's going to be flush but my way of knowing to do it perfectly and straight on is to line your bait up on the hook you got this backside right here right where this backside hits the bait that's exactly where you're going to want to have that hook penetrate see that's where that backside's laying we're going to penetrate that hook right there in the bait push the bait up a little bit get that hook to come through and boom see how that lays flat just right there you got that curl on perfectly but there's one more thing that we want to do when you're fishing a lot of these ponds even lakes i mean this can work anywhere that you go there can be a lot of grass there can be a lot of slop and you can be throwing this around a lot of cover so you don't want this hook exposed if this hook's exposed you're going to be hooking a lot of the wood you're going to be hooking a lot of grass get a lot of slop on that bait so what i like to do is pull the bait up a little bit and bury the front of the hook boom right in the bait so now that tip isn't going to hook on all that grass you're not going to get stuck in that cover as easily and as you can tell you know i'm not getting hooked right here it's buried in the bait and when you get a fish to bite it don't think that this is going to mess up your hookup ratio it's going to hook perfectly in the top of their mouth all right so that's the rig that we're going to be messing with today now let's go ahead and get out here show you guys how we fish this bait we're going to show you three different ways to catch fish on this bait and why this is such a versatile rig right here because this bait right here normally what you do is flip it around cover and you work it on the bottom but there's also a couple different ways that you can work this bait to catch more fish and have a different presentation with this crawl right here so let's go ahead and start this and talk about the different ways to work this bait so you know your basic Texas rig like i said you're just going to drag on the bottom you're going to work it on the bottom and that's going to catch you a ton of fish you're going to flip it around some cover you're going to throw it in the middle of ponds you're going to throw it on some lakes you're going to throw it on some lay downs very basic there's also another way to work this you can reel this bait in then after that you could also reel this thing on top like a top water and still catch a lot of fish so where we're going to start is working this bait on the bottom i'm going to show you guys different retrieves depending on the condition depending on how the fish are biting on how to get more bites there's going to be some days that you throw this bait out there and just drag it on the bottom and you're going to get a ton of bites and there's going to be some days that they don't want to eat it like that and you're going to have to give it little hops then there's also going to be other days that you're not even going to be able to move the bait and the fish aren't going to pick it up unless the bait is just dead on the bottom so let's go ahead and start casting around talking about what we're doing today and see if we can catch some fish along the way so as you guys know bass relate to cover so whether i'm coming out of a lake a pond a river i don't care what it is bass especially largemouth bass they love wood they love to tug up against it i don't know if you guys ever go to bass pro and go look at the fish tank in there but you can tell that bass like to be tucked up against something therefore when you have laydowns treason upon those bass are going to position up on those laydowns so when we're looking at this pond there's not too much cover in the water over there we got a big tree over here you can tell we have two little tiny stumps they used to be a dock right here and it got knocked down now there's only two stumps in the water what i really like about this is there's not a ton of cover in the water so the cover that's presented there's more than likely going to be fish on so let's go ahead and throw at these two little stumps right here there should be a bass on it and we're going to work this bait on the bottom so let's go ahead and throw out boom right there we're gonna check our drag as well i had a different bait on here before and so let's talk about working this bait when you throw it out there especially when you're on some cover what are you going to want to do so you're going to one let the bait hit the bottom and two what i like to start off with is just hopping this bait so what i mean by that is you reel up the slack in your line and you're just hopping your bait just like that i got one right here a little tiny guy right there it took him a second to eat it look how fat this little bass is beautiful colors look at that rage curl hanging out of his mouth couldn't even talk to you guys about what i was doing i already had a little one bite in it i knew there was going to be one on that cover especially when you find some isolated stumps like that but look how pretty that little fish is it's not big at all but just beautiful markings let me tell you look how fat that little bass is too he's got a little belly on him that's pretty let's give him back in the water i cannot believe that look how he's just a little chunk a little fat dude thank you bud whoo there you go so what i was getting to with that cast was you know throwing it out there how i start off the day with this texas rig let it hit the bottom and i just straight hop it all right now i'm throwing it out there i'm just hopping that bait on the bottom that's one way to work this then you're going to have some days that you get out on the water the fishing is a lot more tough and this fish aren't going to want this bait hopped you know you're going to want to throw this bait out there just like this boom let her hit the bottom again there's going to be some of those days that this fish just want this bait dragged on the bottom so all i do is shift my body point my rod out drag this bait on the bottom and sometimes that's going to trigger those bass this is what those bass are going to want that day you guys are going to know that fish aren't going to want the same thing every single time that you go out depending on the conditions depending on the weather depending on how active the bass are you're going to have to change up your retrieve to how the fish wanted that day so that's two different ways to work it you got where we're hopping on the bottom now you got where we're dragging it on the bottom one of my favorite ways to work a bait especially when it's super tough throw the bait out there you know we got that cover right there got those two little stops boom throw it right there and i just leave the bait just like that every once in a while give it a couple little pops you just let the bait sit so if you have some cover and upon the lake wherever it's at you know there's fish there just dead stick that bait on there don't move it much every once in a while just kind of give it a couple little pops let those legs flutter in the water and that can also be a great way to catch some bass a lot of people have been asking know why do you go like this with your rod and start tapping your rod this is actually a great bed fishing secret you catch a lot of fish by tapping the end of your rod but what we noticed me and Cody had been going out on the river a lot and i'll go down this bank i'll be fishing a ton of laydowns and then all of a sudden i'll start giving my rod a bunch of pops at the bottom giving that bait a little flutter and then we start getting a ton of bites we've both witnessed it on the river and it's crazy you know i threw a 15 cast down a bank not have any bites right when i start doing this with my rod the fish are hammering it so that's another way working bait throw it out there get it on your cover whether it's a cypress tree whatever it is some laydowns in the water let your bait hit the bottom what you want to do is you don't want to have slack in your line see i'm slacking my line right here you want to have your line to where it's pretty tight and all i do is i grab the bottom of my rod just like this i'll start hitting it as you can tell my line's just jumping in the water right there so what that bait's doing underwater as i'm tapping this the bait is staying in the same spot so that's why it's great when you're throwing it up on cover you know you're throwing it up on a tree by the time you pop it out a couple times you're already off the laydown this technique you can throw it up on the tree you can keep your line tight and just barely give your rod a little bit of taps that's going to keep the bait in the hot spot of where the fish is at and it's also going to give it just a little bit of movement to trigger that best to eat the bait that's also another great technique when working the bait on the bottom so we talked about when you're throwing your bait out there letting it hit the bottom hopping off the bottom we talked about adjusting to where if the fish aren't biting that you just drag the bait on the bottom we also talked about dead sticking the bait on very tough days and the little tiny rod technique and i'm telling you guys a lot of you have been asking about that you need to go try it not many people are doing this a lot of people do all bed fishing but i do it year-round if i think there's a fish on a tree and i just can't get them to bite i'm going to play with the bottom of my rod and try to trigger that fish to eat that crawl because all you're doing when you're hitting that bait all this thing's doing you know it's it's angled down like this your crawl is going to float up and this and these little legs they're just going to be vibrate so if that bass is nose down on it you know you're up here on the laydown you're just kind of hopping it and that that doesn't do much to trigger them off to eat it once you start hitting your rod these little legs are going to start to vibrate and that can trigger the bass that boom attack it boom you can get really aggressive boom eat the bait so that is one way to work this bait is on the bottom you're working the bottom of the water column and that's your traditional way that you would work at texas reef you know say the fish aren't eating this thing on the bottom are you already threw it on all the cover and now you're like you know what i want to cover some water which i love doing what what you can also do with this bait that many of people don't do how many people do this is you can just throw this bait out there and steady retrieve the bait in just like that it's like if you're throwing like a little swim jig or a little swim bait or anything it is this crawl is going to work in the same manner you know you're just going to reel this bait it's going to have those legs kicking it can look like a little bait fish so maybe just walk down the bay wherever you're fishing and just steadily oh my gosh i have one right there that just shows you can still get bites on that you know people think oh my gosh look at this guys don't do it to me oh my gosh there's no way so i just retied this bait but what i was getting at just remember there's no rules of fishing guys people are going to tell you you need to fish this way this way that way that way but everything with fishing there's no rules and you can always break the rules while fishing you know people that would tie up this bait they're not going to go reel this thing they're going to work it on the bottom but that doesn't mean that you can't reel this bait i've caught a ton of fish on rivers lakes and everything reeling this bait just like a little bait fish so let's go ahead and go back to talking to that before i you know got that bite and it messed me all up so i was just throwing out there you know just steadily reeling this bait in it's a steady retrieve nothing crazy and when it comes to moving baits one thing that i like to do is give my baits a little sporadic movement so what i mean by that is i throw my bait out there i'm gonna start reeling it in there can be a bass behind that bait just tailing it and he might not want to eat that bait so one thing that i like to do as i'm reeling it every once in a while give your rod a little pop or give it a little faster treat do something to where that bait's going to have a bunch of weird movement it's going to keep that bass off the bite that bass is a predator and when he sees something he's going to hone in on it especially if that bait goes and does something crazy he's going to go ahead and strike so when you're throwing that bait out there don't hesitate to steadily retrieve it and every once in a while just kind of pop your rod give that bait just a little hop or every single every once in a while you know kind of speed it up and drop it just give it a bunch of different movement because you never know when there's a bass behind your bait and you know he's just not wanting to strike but once you do that boom you get bit so let's go ahead and go down this bank right here let's steadily retrieve this bait and see if we can catch one down here so we're just walking down this bank right here and one thing i want to talk about too while i'm at it a great way to cover water especially in little ponds like this is throwing parallel with that bank a majority of your bass are going to be between the bank and 10 foot off you know you can have a deep drop off especially depending on what time of year it is but since we're in the spring time these bass pushing up shallow a great way to cover water and to make sure you're in the strike zone is i like to just walk down the bank and just throw parallel with it just like this reel your bait back we can cover and move water very fast and i got one right there look how tiny these guys are guys this is it's so crazy because this pond you know like i said this is where i grew up fishing i caught like my first bass ever in this pond and me and my granddad used to catch some hogs in here i mean straight hogs and just over the years these fish have got a lot smaller but there's still some good ones in here because last year i actually caught a couple really big bass but pretty little fish at least they're fat and healthy that's good to see all right let's get this guy back in the water pretty little dude thank you bud there you guys that was our first fish that we caught reel in the bait we've had a few other bites like off-camera i was just playing around throwing out there and they were eating it but i i just shows you you know that little strike zone right off the bank just throw in parallel with that thing reel in this bait you don't have to work at texas rig on the bottom guys that's all this video is about right here you can break the rules of fishing you don't have to do everything on how the textbook tells you you know go out there fish baits differently we're gonna throw this bait like this and reel it back in a couple more casts down this bank i think we might be able to catch in catch a decent fish out here look at that still my little pincher right there right right when i popped that bait you know i was talking about steady retrieving and popping it right when i popped it that's when he hit it gave it that little movement if we can get him to eat same thing oh that was a better one i should have hooked that better i saw him right there's about a pound and a half but right the same way right when i kind of gave it that little movement that's when that fish ate it oh that was another gosh that was a better one these fish are better in this corner right here covering this water with this cross crazy how many bites we're getting crazy how many bites you know if i just had one one rod with me today guys and this is all i had i could do just about anything with it you know i can still throw up here and do this look you still throw up on that tree and work this bait on the bottom or you know i see some fish popping some bait up on the shore i can just throw it right in there and they can eat it as i'm reeling it i'm gonna be honest i'm having more bites reel in this bait today than working it on the bottom just saying these fish are you know a little bit more active they might want something to react to something to trigger off on another good thing about that all right guys that's enough he just took my last little pincher i'm gonna have to walk back and get another curl but that is two different ways to fish that bait we talked about fishing it on the bottom covered in the bottom of the water column we also talked about throwing this bait around reeling it as a moving bait and still being able to catch fish on it so let's go over here get another curl and i'm gonna show you guys the final way to catch more fish just on this bait i just got a new crawl i'm gonna rig it up on this little t-rig kody actually brought up a really good point when we were walking back over here and he was saying you know right right over there where i had one take one of my crawls off does that mean you should change your crawl completely not necessarily you know not if i'm fishing a tournament and a fish eats one of my pinchers off i'm more than likely gonna put on a different crawl but as far as me just fun fishing i'm probably just gonna roll with it guys and you know like we're saying before there's no rules to fishing you don't have to have everything perfect you still have a little bit of vibration with that one crawl on there and you guys saw once i got that bit got that little pincher bit off i still went down that bank and i had like five more bites you know maybe i'll have more bites with this but just know that you don't have to change it out that was a cool little thing that kody brought up and i was like you know what it's cool to talk about so now that we covered the bottom of the water column then we covered the middle of the water column now we can cover the top of the water column with this bait so that's why this bait is so versatile guys you can fish on the bottom middle and top you can cover everything and still catch a lot of fish on it so i don't know if you guys know but they make soft plastic frogs like if you had a horny toad by zoom and that toad is made you know soft plastic and you sit there and you reel it across the water this crawl is very similar so what i like to do is just throw it out there and what what's going to happen are these little legs when you're reeling this out the top of the water they're just going to kick i'll show you right here it looks really good i'm telling you this i mean it's just as good as if you're throwing like a horny toad it'll catch him it looks the same way too i throw that bait out there keep my rod tip up and just reel it at the top and you see all those legs are kicking in the water let's do it one more time it's reel that bait in at the top boom so you literally have a top water literally have a top water this is a bait that you normally just fish on the bottom and we can sit here and reel it like a top water as well that that is just the cool thing about this and you can just catch fish in so many different ways of this bait it's throwing it out there i keep my rod tip high because you do have a weight on this bait and i just make sure that those tails are kicking at the top of the water boom and look at that you cannot tell the difference between that and a frog right there i mean you can't not one bit and one other thing i like to do i like to swim baits the same way but i mean like i said this bait can do just about anything so let's go ahead and go over here we are on the spring time we should be able to have a few of these bass come up for top water these fish are starting to get more active only thing that i'm thinking about is we had a cold front last night i could have messed up this fish a little bit but then again this pond i mean they bite pretty easy in here so we might be able to get one to come up so let's walk over there where all that scum is on the water work our way down this bank where that lay down is see if we can get one over here dude that was like first cast you can't even make that up we literally caught one on the bottom just like that then we're reel in the bait have all those bites and then like right there just like on the top water it's just so cool to me how you can get one bait like that one bait and catch all of these fish doing three different things like that's that's they're not big man they're not big at all i could just take a little bite out of him and pop him on a hot dog burn but i mean as quavo would say that's a fish stick yeah a little fish stick did you say that's a fish stick that's a fish stick i've seen one ever but that's guys that is so cool to me knowing that you can come out here with a bait that you would normally work on the bottom and just fish it so many different ways and have bites all the i mean that's just so cool to me if you guys enjoyed this tid video please hit the like button let me know in the comment section down below if you guys would like oh gosh you guys would like to see some more tip videos let me know if you could also drop a comment down below on the next tip video that you guys would like to see from my channel um you know this one's very basic yeah i tried to i get too advanced in some of these tip videos just so i can get very relatable with them and i like doing a lot of these out at the ponds but if you want to see some tip videos like on the river or on some of the big lakes or lake lenear you know my home lake let me know in the comment section down below i want to know y'all's feedback you guys are new to the channel please hit that subscribe button and i'll catch you guys in the next episode