I decided to take you guys with me on my quest to find fish during practice on santee cooper for the hobie bass open tournament!
I decided to take you guys with me on my quest to find fish during practice on santee cooper for the hobie bass open tournament!
Great video thank you for sharing 📹
You are so welcome, Thanks for watching!
You walking us through your pre tournament plans, and how you find the fish is really helpful and informative. Thank you for thinking of us... not a lot of content creators do that.
Glad you like them!
My favorite lake. Some monster bass there! Good luck
Spoiler alert.. Tournament is over and I caught some of those monsters!!
I truly appreciate videos like this. I just got back into fishing and just got into kayak fishing. Seeing how people breakdown water is super helpful. I feel my biggest problem is either going to the wrong spots or not using my electronics efficiently. But, I do enjoy all your videos more than most fishing videos. Thanks for all you do.
Glad to help, hoping it helps folks break down water better
Great to hear! I will try to do this more!
Man I've probably learned more from you than any other channel. My wife is constantly impressed by you as am I. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Probably the most valuable content I have seen on any channel. Thank you. Great job cashing 2 checks this weekend.
Awesome! Thank you!
Glad to see our ambassador’s out together. I get the feeling G is camera shy 😂. Love your breakdowns on an area. Thanks for bringing us along
He is haha!
@@kristinefischer2289 tell him he’s gotta get over that haha. Y’all are the power couple of kayak fishing.
Any video catching fish is worth watching. So practice, tournaments, or just stopping by like you did recently to Texas….any video just catching fish will do!!!!!
Thumbs up Thanks for a great video have fun this week
Great video! Thanks, Girrl. ✌️👱♀️
Thanks for watching!
Because your So consistent...I can't not watch this. Thank you for your insight.
You are so welcome
Absolutely love this kind of video
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and strategy on finding fish. I love watching your videos and Im praying/believing for you to cut a check in all the tournaments you compete in. Always looking forward to your next video and God Bless.
Thank you so much, God Bless too!
Definitely like this kind of video! Great to see others perspectives on pre-fishing and breaking down a lake! Thanks for sharing!!
More to come!
Loved the video. Nice seeing behind the curtain. Thanks for sharing your info!
You are so welcome!
Always love your videos…. Great content. I’ve been kayak fishing for about 3 years… totally just for fun. Maybe one day I’ll try a tournament.
Thanks for posting. I’m looking to get into kayak tournaments next year so this was very helpful. If I go camp on a lake, day one becomes practice day too very similar to your approach. I may only bother to bring two or three rods with me, mostly to see what sort of presentations they will hit.
loved the video, always enjoy watching you. Keep smiling and keep growing this sport. You are a true inspiration. See ya on the water.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for that BTS deal. For someone just getting into kayak tourneys, this info was invaluable.
Awesome, good to hear!
Great video! I enjoy it
Glad you enjoyed it!
Congrats on your finish and awesome to meet you and Guillermo today, thanks for coming to Clarendon County!
Great meeting you too and thanks so much for having us!!
It was awesome getting to know how u do everything.
Love the video. Tight lines.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for sharing I joyed how you break down the water for your practice.
You are so welcome
Great to see the practice and the way you break it down. Thanks for sharing and good luck!
Very informative video of your thought process pre-fishing a tournament.
Great information on Santee. I again struggled on this lake with QCKBF. Congrats on the two checks!
It’s always been a bit of a struggle for me the two times I’ve fished it, glad to do something different this weekend! You’ll get em on this lake next time! 👊🏻👊🏻
Love the video...good insight 👌
Gust @ 45, that is “that bad” on that lake!
Yes it is!! Big shallow water!
Like the practice, vid. You are so real…refreshing Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the practice video, and how you gave us a sneak peek into your mental process of how you break down a body of water taking in as many of the variables as possible! I hope you have a great tournament, please take care and be safe! Best wishes to you and G! 🙏 Anxiously awaiting your next video!
Cant wait for you to see this one!!!!
Great video and good luck with your tournament 👍 stay safe
Thanks 👍 Looking forward to sharing day 1 with yall
Love this style of content
I will be on Santee Cooper next Thursday! Making the drive from TN!
Have fun! It’s beautiful
Just great vids Kristine Keep ‘em coming im learning so much about the bass game
Thank you! Will do!
I mix the ketchup with the BBQ. …. SO that is your secret sauce, huh, I thought there was more to fishing than that :)
awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video, great tips. 🍻🤙🏽
Glad you liked it!
You’ve become one of my favorite KZheadrs
Wow, ,thank you so much!!
Cant wait for day 1!
Coming tuesday!!
Really looking forward to this one!
Cant wait to share this with you guys!!!
I like that information video.
Good to know thank you!!
Are those tiny cypress trees? That is really cool looking.
Yea!!
Can you launch out of different ramps and locations on this massive lake/s in your tourney? We used to fish out of the Diversion Canal, and went to each lake as necessary to limit wind. Always wanted to fish upper Marion. Thanks for you many videos.
Good luck... that torqueedo speed looks insane.
It is! Fastest on the market!
I like videos like this that let us know how anglers approach their game plan. I have a quick question. I’m a father of four and don’t get out much. However, I went this past weekend with a friend on a big lake in NC. Water temps were ~58. We fished a ton of shallow areas around lay downs and such. We had very little bites in water less than 5 feet. Is it possible they haven’t moved up yet? Do bass bed in deeper water normally as well? It’s a little frustrating trying to figure out bass when I don’t have many opportunities to get out. Best thing I caught was a 5lb hybrid in 24ft of water on a spinner bait. 🤷♂️
Oh, and I’ve been meaning to ask you how G like NuCanoe? I was tempted to get the Unlimited for an option to bring my youngest son but ended up with a used Native Slayer max 12.5.
Oh yeah- with 58 degree water temps I’d be looking in 7-10’
I've had my autopilot for a couple years now and it never occurred to me to steer with my shins. Gonna have to try that 😂
it is a game changer!
Thanks for sharing.
You bet!
Thanks for watching!
Where were you fishing that grass at on day 1 of practice? I'd like to try that area out and it's gonna be my first time bass fishing at Santee.
I like it
❤ nice 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
What size spool are you using for the revo rocket spinning setup in past videos, I could watch you skip all day 😮
being as ive never fished in a kayak before curious if yall have any issues with gators or snakes more so because you are lower in the water?
@kristinefischer Where did you get your torqueedo mount with the power pole set up?
I ,d love to practice with you 🐠🐠🐠
What type of sunglasses do u wear.iam thinking about buying some costa?
Ive been alllllll over with sunglasses trying to find a brand that I can wear all day and dont get headaches. I think I finally found a pair.. stay tuned!
You really need to go fish Omak Lake in Washington State the fee's they charge keep this trout lake awesome, 20" trout all day long. Its on a indian reservation
No fishing pressure at all
How often to you fall in and have to repack your vest?? Thinking about getting a Kayak from watching your channel.
I have only done that one time, and it was because I was goofing around!
@Kristine Fischer Wow! Are they that stable?? I am a little worried because I would be fishing alone, and I am not getting any younger.
On the shallow water subject.
In regards to water management organizations that change your water level, as they build up water, or run water out of the impoundment. One won't really learn a whole lot, in regards to that phenomenon. From freshwater anglers, or freshwater angling (the freshwater guys simply haven't been used to that concept for long enough). There are some of the better channels from the saltwater guys, around the coastlines of southern England, or Ireland occasionally. Where they're used to dealing with tides, and fishing at very short range and distance. Where the fish are moving, as the water itself changes (as you described, with the levels vertically moving up and down as the water management company does different things to change the level). Whether it's Santee, Pickwick, wherever you happen to be. I've looked at enough of the freshwater impoundment reservoir anglers now, to notice this about them. There's a whole body of knowledge about how fish behave in water that changes level (on the saltwater angling side, not on the freshwater). Which the freshwater anglers simply aren't making use of. Because it is saltwater fishing, rather than freshwater.
I was actually shocked to see how those shoreline (pedestrian based, no kayaks, boats or crafts of any description), saltwater anglers operated. I had no idea. And bear in mind, that those anglers in saltwater in southern England (basically that stretch of water that exists between southern England and France, is shallow and it's always been used to fish in). It's where things like the 'battle of Britain' were fought in World War Two. Or the Normans invaded southern England and took over from the Anglo Saxon's around a thousand years ago. They're up on all of the latest tackle and gear, that comes from the best America, Japanese and other tackle makers in fishing. Except, their specialism is fishing in situations where water levels change (mother nature does it, it involves 'the moon', and it's a whole thing, this movement of tides in saltwater). I suspect that one could spend a life time studying it. Anglers such as Bob Blankemeier in New York and New Jersey (striped bass), is around as close to that culture or way to fish. As you'll find in north America. But it's a type of fishing that you'll find all across the globe.
What you'll find with those saltwater shoreline anglers, is they manage to combine together 'two' things. The dynamic nature of the water level, and the underlying surface of the bottom, underneath the water. And they're constantly putting those 'pieces of the jigsaw' together, to understand it. To the extent that many will explore the shorelines, when the 'bath plug' has been pulled out by mother nature (when 'the tide has ran out'). On purpose, they'll physically walk across this ground. In order to gain understanding about it. Sometimes those anglers go walking what is legally referred to as 'fore-shore' (legally speaking, nobody can own fore-shore, the piece of land between where the tide runs out, and when it comes back in again). And they'll find the thirty-dollar hard plastic lures that they lost in the weeds. When throwing them into the in-coming tidal flows. That's an upside. You walk long enough, you might even save yourself a hundred dollars worth of lures (and these fore-shore areas are full of that 'emergent vegetation' category of weeds and plants). As well as various types of bottom geology, sand, mud etc.
One thing I did learn from listening to them. Land warms up faster than water (where the tide goes out, and exposes a mud flat). The water covers that mud flat that has been exposed to winter-time sunshine beaming on it (it's like a big, flat desert that is colored dark grey and it just absorbs heat from the sun, via 'radiation'). The water that flows over the mud, acts like boiling a kettle of water. When that water is flowing back out, the fish seem to like to set up in the out-going water flows. Why? It's like standing in a warm shower in the morning. It's good for waking up, or putting you in a better mood. And if the angler throws a hard plastic lure, that looks like a shad across the fish then. Chances are, they will bite. Bear all of this in mind (think about the sunshine in days leading up to events, and water levels, and how it affects what's happening with water temperature). If water levels rise (where there is a 'foot' depth of water, and it became 'two foot' depth for example). My hunch is that, like pouring 'the cold' jug into the kettle to top it up. You'd dilute all of the existing 'warmer' water that's already inside the kettle. And you end up with a rapid decrease in water temperature overall.
Or visa versa, if they drop the water. My hunch is that fish will set up. Just off of these flat areas. Why? Because what the water dropping means, it's exactly like the out-going tide over those 'mud flats' in saltwater. The fish will stand there, and experience the warm water, washing over them on purpose. With the added bonus, that lots of those 'Brim' bait fish that you mentioned, might get taken out 'by the wash' of water off of those shallows too. And guess where those trophy bass are going to be sitting and waiting? That's when you 'up-scale' too. Because that big bass, that is looking to set up with warm water washing over it (and loads of Brim swimming past it's nose). Is going to 'fight' off smaller bass, who want to take it's place. Throw a big, bad, Zaldain glidebait (casting from deep to shallow, and reeling back). See what bites you get then. If you view saltwater shoreline anglers (and they can't make that cast from shore, they only cast from shallow to deep), one can learn plenty. That freshwater anglers, especially anglers from mobile kayak platforms, who can 'exploit' these huge shallow margins of water in lakes. Those kayak anglers would learn from the saltwater shoreline guys. Is my guess.
Bummer there is no kill switch on that motor.
Or is there?
There is a killswitch
Why do you use Hobie and your partner uses Nucanue?
He actually owns a hobie and used for for this tournament. When he uses a motor he uses nucanoe
OK,, but bet you can't catch just one.