Top Kayak Bass Fisherman (The Bilge Podcast)
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2022
- Chris and Trait sit down with the king of kayaks, Rus Snyders, to discuss the differences in kayak fishing and bass boats from a guy who has won on both sides. As well as talk about his past as a Clearlake Bass Guide & an OG Big Bait film guy (before UA-cam took off), and why he left California to move to Tennessee and eventually sold his Ranger bass boat for a kayak.
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Love it when us Kayak guys get some love. Fastest growth in bass fishing currently.
Is kayak fishing growing fast than the UA-cam pond guys these days? Honest question
@@Zaldaingerous if it was 10 years ago i would say ponds. But personally I’ve experienced more and more ponds become private property or prohibited while the bass fishing grows. Kayaks allow someone to go to any public body of water that has a small public access. And the cost of entry is very low.
One of the best podcast interviews and Rus is the GOAT in kayak fishing.
Thanks for bringing the recognition to the sport of Kayak Fishing!
Hey chris, you should have the guys from tactical bassin on your podcast sometime!!! Love yalls content and ideas, thanks for the continued info and hardwork!!!!
Trait & Chris - Out West we 100% know it. Bryant Smith just qualified for the Elites and has one interview to about 30 that Bradley Hallman or John Soukup have had. The guys out here who fish well entirely get that there is not a financial gain to be had strictly from tournaments, there are a few guys trying to get the ball rolling on circuits to help but quite frankly it seems there is never really a unified support. Hope it changes one day! Thanks for bringing it up on the show!
Hopefully it does change one day. Maybe we can do a small part in helping and shine some light on the West Coast.
@@Zaldaingerous Arguably the smartest guy to come from the West Coast is Michael Bennett - 1.1 Mil in a year and walked away a couple years later. What a story! Thanks for "sticking to your roots" when applicable. I look forward to each episode now.
This was such a good episode. Wild learning his real full name! Rus is a great leader in the kayak game. Kudos for bringing more light to the kayak game, guys!
Another great show. Rus is an incredible angler and person.
That he is, Dave!!! Can’t wait to have you on 👊🏽
Thanks Dave, you are as well! Glad you enjoyed the show!
I have followed Rus for several years here in middle TN and in the national tours and I learned stuff here that I never heard before. What a great show!
Rus is one of the best people I know in kayak fishing. Nice to see him having great success.
Rus is not only a great fisherman but he is what every sportsman should be and that is a positive role model for their sport. Anything good you hear about This is true and then some. I have been proud to be able to call Rus my friend.
Thanks Jim, proud to call you my friend as well!
Great show! Really have enjoyed your guests so far. Y’all are doing a great job!
Great interview…nice to hear of all the before and now between you guys. He’s a hammer!
I'd like to see a kayak tournament/tour professionally televised
Yesss! This was a good one yall!
Thanks Kristine!!! Girls episode soooooon.
Loving the pods. Keeping coming. 🤙
Rus is awesome! Glad the world gets to see more and more what kind of talent is in the kayak game! 👊🏼
Might be my favorite podcast right now. Great job overall.
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Another great episode very interesting guest. I didn’t know a lot about the pro kayak fishing scene but now I do! Thanks for the great content guys!
Glad we were able to pull the curtain back a little on that side
Great show, great insight!
Glad to see some kayak angler on the pod cast Rus is an awesome dude.
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I knew Rus was old school in the industry, but never knew you guys were buds. Glad to see this video.
NORCAL!! Born and raised in Cottonwood, spent hundreds of days on Lake Shasta and all the little trout streams in the hills! Love you guys and appreciate all your content!
Great show Chris, just getting into kayak fishing. Good to hear from Russ & his experiences.
He’s a good one to talk to because he’s got a ton of experience in every aspect
Chris, keep bringing the heat on these podcasts
Glad to see a great kayak angler on the pod , two CA sticks I love it
Another Great show! I'm about to start entering some smaller kayak tourneys. Finding out some background info about Rus and Chris was great. I had no idea about most of it. Trait, you are awesome. I like how you ask the good questions and keep the train on the track. It would be cool to see you fish some kayak tourneys. Everytime you bring up JW I start laughing 😂.
That was a killer episode
Great show
Love all your videos!!!!
Great show guys I love talking fishing just as much as fishing itself!! Subbed for for!!!
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Rus is definitely a 🔨! Me being from Middle TN I hope to come across his path on local waters so I can shake the hand of a legend! Also hope to make it to another elite tourney next year and cross paths with you and Trait. Yall are 2 of my favorite ppl in the fishing world! Keep up the great work on the channel! 👊
We will see you somewhere I’m sure! 👊🏽
Russ is a legend!!glad you had him on here
He is!!
As a yak fisherman wanting to start tourneys,, this was a super cool episode!!
Awesome that you enjoyed it 👊🏽
Glad to see y'all get Rus on there, he's as good as they come.
Hope to have him back and dig into the meticulous details he hones into when on the water
Rus is the man! Rippn Lipps Hit Squad Flip Squad! 🔥 episode Z
The questions that they were asking were so on point. It should give a great insight to what kayak fishing is like. And how you can compete at a high level with decent payouts. Subbed.
Thanks 👊🏽
Hahahahaha "why you trying to crack the whip already?! Two Ca Legends remember watching both on western bass back in the "og triple og" days, such a fire episode keep em coming, Trait keep the fire questions on deck and cracking the whip lol
You go bro! Still have our trophy Rus from the Anderson Lake tourney.. just behind Chris! vintage 2007! Proud to be one of your OG clients.. now friends!
Dry creek tubes w/ Walmart jigheads!
Niiiiice 👌
@@bassfishingasia those tube jigs are money! For sure have had some memorable days with you out on the water bud!
@@russnydersfishing7541my bro Rus is not only a kayak hammer.. he was the best guide ever!
Great interview!!!
Thank you 🙏
I'm really digging this show!
Thank you!
About 15 years ago Rus took me out on Lake Berryessa, its was cold, windy and raining, January I believe. And we caught fish! Rus knows bass fishing...
Freaking great episode y’all ! Trait showing no mercy ahaha 👍🏻 see ya in Florida Rus!
She’s always at the ready to pounce no matter the person or subject 😆
Thanks for throwin some respect to the kayak anglers. Love the fact that Trait pulls ZERO punches.
Florida does have a bit more than shallow grass, though. We also have shallow reeds, pads, mats...lol jk. i was seriously catching fish suspended at about 8' in 18' of water the other day, though. i guess shallow is subjective...but that's deep for here.
Subscribed. Great interview!
Thank you 🙏
Kayak fishing has been huge in Florida for a couple of decades now. I've been kayak fishing for 18 years now and love getting into spots that people with larger boats can't get into. Also fishing ponds people can't get into.
His lunker punker stripe bass fishing in the delta always have me hype!
THE BEST
Dude amazing show. Next time y’all come down to corpus bring the yaks. Y’all have an open invite
I would like to be 1/10 as successful as him in my kayak tournaments 🤣..super hammer! Great pod
Russ is an awesome dude. Very cool to hear his story!
Much more to his story but we tried to be concise on this one
Also I see Trait is asking questions about kayak tournaments. Be cool to see her out there dominating too! 👍👍
@@EricRominesShe’s got a degenerative brain disease that makes the physical side of things not so fun. She tried the co angler thing this fall to fill the void but by day 2 was puking her guts up in pain. Just not in the cards for now unfortunately.
@@Zaldaingerous oh dang, I’m sorry to hear that.
👏 one of the most genuine persons I’ve met kayak fishing. It’s always a pleasure fishing against Rus (or however you say his real name) 😂
LOL his first name is a doozy
@@Zaldaingerous I’m just gonna go with squirrel 🐿️
I fish the Musselshell River in Montana for smallmouth. Back 10 years I really started looking at kayaks to do a 3 day float on that river. I looked at everything, and then I realized that I was too old to do it. I was only 63 then, but a kayak was the way to float that unfished river.
“Nooo….should’ve re-tied!….” Classic!
I almost ran into Rus kayak in my Hobie PA the second day of the hobie obos pen on broken bow in March. “year he won first.” We was sprinting out of the marina area and I needed to go left and he needed to go right.
The GOAT!
Really enjoying your podcast. Maybe next year you can film one with David Fritts about the history of crankbait fishing.
Maybe…. could be an interesting one
Slay Nation tournaments have a number of state wide series. They fish CPR and have both a small boat and kayak series. You can use a kayak in either.
Hey Chris! I’m looking at 13 fishing reels for throwing crank baits from squarebills to 12-15ft divers and bladed jigs. Should I get the c2, a2, or the z slide?
If you are ever out west and happened to be connected to Kelly Puppo it would be awesome to see him on here as a guest. I met him once when I was in high school at a tackle shop out there about 15 or 16 years ago. Im in Kansas City and that was my first introduction to California fishing culture. Then I see him pop up on Oliver’s channel. That guy is a wealth of stories and information. Kind of guy you’d like to sit around a campfire with sipping on a good whiskey. Just get him talking and listen.
NorCal represent! I love the Pendleton!
Can’t believe I didn’t get a shout out for sending Rus all those lures he lost when he flipped on the flint river! Jk bud! Enjoyed the podcast! Huge fan of both of y’all!
Check out The Little Stuff channel where he follows Russ for a couple tournament days when he wins 45 grand ! It really shows how this guy is a true professional !!
If Chris goes another year without fishing out of the the autopilot I challenge him to a fish off in it next year out of my old town predator for it. Boat for boat lol. Love the podcast have been binge watching the last couple days. Great interview with Rus. Guy has always been down to earth at every tournament I’ve run into him he’s taken time to answer any questions and just talk.
LOL! Deal. Trait’s wanting to get a 13’ skiff for herself now, she’s given up on the kayak solo because it’s too much for her to load and unload alone.
@@Zaldaingerous 👀Sooo let’s meet up and have and film a fish off for it #content #zaldaingerous 😂 fishing the bassmaster event at guntersville this weekend too bad you’re not in the field would be awesome to compete against you.
The CPR App format of scoring is really cool. A group of friends and I do a monthly on line tournament. Most of us fish from bass boats. The one guy that fished from a Kayak usually wins. He fishes more than the rest of us and doesn’t spend any time working on his boat. He’s fishing out of a paddle sit on top basic kayak. The nobody that knows how to fish ever fished it places he fishes is a big factor.
I park my yak on banks shore fisherman can get to all the time. Especially on those rock points in nor cal way easier to keep bottom contacts up hill
Yeah, Russ!!! 🔨🔨🔨
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Awesome Show, I wait for these shows....John Cox on the list ????
Inspiring video! Just got into fishing a few years ago and learning really fast! I can say it’s definitely fun to catch a biggin and fight it right next to you on a kayak! Those hogs will pull u around 🤣
I wish ultraskiff 360 was allowed in kayak tournies. They are safer and fish like a bassboat they are awesome 👌
Rus has taken a lot of our money in the kayak realm!
He’s taken a lot of $ in the boat realm too 😂
@@Zaldaingerous I believe it! Never knew he was from the west coast
Awesome podcasts! The only thing is that it would be helpful if there was timestamps!
We’ve thought about it but also that’s a heck of a lot more work 😂 buy maybe going forward we will
I feel like trait makes chris walk a straight chalk line haha
She tries 😆 I call her my Texas Rattlesnake
What about interviewing the tacticalbassin guys?
Who we interview is dictated by our location (we travel 10 months out of the year) and who (guest wise) is in the same vicinity as our RV. Most fishing podcasts have guests Skype in which make the logistics & guest list much easier to build out.
That makes sense, thanks for the reply! Appreciate what you’re doing with this podcast. Crazy that you and Rus grew up in NorCal fishing Clearlake, I grew up in lakeport and never fished the lake. Now I’m on my 30s and trying to catch up haha
How about Ben Milliken 🤔 😬😬
Ol JW back pedaled fast
We need to see Jon Cox on the show!
He’s a must have!
Too bad Fairfield won’t be available anymore after next year
Synchrony bank does finance kayaks..started with hobie last year.
WOW - that’s crazy but also this is America so I’m not surprised!
1000% we know it out west.
Being a coangler in a boat with forward facing sonar is like pissing in the wind. The sport is in a downhill transition.
That’s why tournament orgs like WONBass who use shared weight pro-ams should flourish. You get a new co each day, but the pro and co weight is combined so you are essentially working together
Instead of great whites he’s watching for gators on Toho 😂
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Trait how long did you live in California, I get a sense you where wronged by the state in your current and past comments
I lived out there when I first started college. My my Mom was born in Southern California and her father’s side is all on the West Coast. My grandfather lived in San Francisco. Me saying Cali is jacked up isn’t because I took something personal, it’s really heart breaking because anglers trying to make it in fishing out there have no clue that they are only spinning their wheels. Moreover, what the state’s government has done to hamper bass fishing is mind blowing and in my opinion, straight robbery of its anglers. Hence why so many trying to make it in fishing have moved to Texas. - Trait
@@Zaldaingerous nice, some people make it seem ALL the people living here like ALL the change made by a minority of people for a vast majority of people and most people living here are practically stuck here for a variety of reasons- I myself don’t want to be here any longer but am sticking it out for my pension I earned!!! 2008 was a year things started happening and VERY slowly got worse and worse - the silent majority didn’t think it would last and now it’s too late
When are you gonna get into the kayak game? Big swim baits are fun from the yak bro
Eh, I used to do the kick boat thing before I won a boat. Kayaks are too much work when it takes me two seconds to launch a boat and zip around a lake. Only way I’ll do the kayak thing is if I’m fishing a body of water I cannot get a boat.
The best kayak fisherman in cali is Damian Thao..
Hey Chris and Trait,can y'all interview Kayak Kevin and Chad Hoover
Trait’s probably got a few questions for Chad 😆
Fishing is a business just like the gold rush the guys that do the work get lucky here and there but the winners are the guys selling the tools for the dream
I’d say Rus is the guy doing the work on the water and reaping financially because of it?
ALERT.... hi chris buddy on other channels we seeing a group of scammers go on UA-cam with large sub. then posting on comments saying stuff like
"" I earn 1 million in one sec from so and so""" then they give a name then have all their buddies scammers comments to make it seem real.... please watch out for that
u know I own a coding company for 20 plus years u can spot them miles away.... sad cause we here for bass and great debate...
just a tip ok
seen it on Dave cull podcast today again
That's not kayak fishing lol motors and electronics , buy a boat lol I kayak fish with a paddle and no electronics ,
Wonder if Rus actually got paid by KBF. 🫣
Awhhhh a question Trait would love to ask Chad
I’ve never had an issue with Chad not paying me
@@russnydersfishing7541 you may not have but you know others have.
@@russnydersfishing7541 is this still the case for the KBF championship?