Probably my favorite Bilge podcast to date. Met you in passing at OH Ivie, lots of great perspective here from you, Z and Trait. Greatly appreciated y’all.
Great interview man. I’m instant fan but dying for your UA-cam channel! Now I gotta go buy another damn graph and transducer. I hope they come with marriage counseling vouchers!
This, hands down, was one of the best interviews I have seen in some time. As a podcast host myself, to be able to tell Josh's story through the interview process was special. Lots of respect earned from me towards all of you on this one. Stories matter, and there were some good ones in this episode of The Bilge.---Cuda from Jigsquad
This was the best pod cast I have seen . What an awsome guy. Just so humble. Took his love of the game to a next level and learned and willing to plus able to make a living for his family. I would love to have the opportunity to just sit down and have dinner with him not even talk about fishing. But I am sure it will come up
After spending almost every evening with him last week, I can vouch that he’s confident in what he does but also very gracious about how it’s come about and how it changed his life forever for the better. That’s my personal experience with him and also after talking to numerous guides on OH Ivie last week, as well.
Great podcast....If I could sit down and talk fishing with two people it would be Chris and Josh and that's exactly what it felt like watching. The hour and a half wasn't near long enough, you guys must get together and do this again! Best of luck to you both in 2023!
Great interview. Josh seems like a really great guy. It seems anytime somebody does something out of the ordinary people try to tear them down. Wish him the best and have a lot of respect for how he handles himself despite the hate.
Love this episode, I was laughing with y’all like I was in the room together. Keep up the great work!! Definitely will be rooting for Chris on the elites this year and his “douchey” celebrations! 😂
Enjoyed watching this. Really enjoyed the honesty about ffs. It is definitely going to hurt the television viewership of tournaments. For me pulling up to a lay down and not knowing what is in there and catching a decent fish is what’s fun. Everyone is different.
An awesome interview with a great guest. First time hearing his name and seems to be a class act. FFS in my opinion is great. I fish local tourneys here and there but just like catching fish. Josh Jones comments on catching catfish using FFS , I have to say is the best fishing I’ve done yet. It’s 9/2023 and have been hammering big cats using FFS and 1/2 oz spintail jigs and spinning gear. Biggest ones yet are 20, 22,30,34 along with several 15’s etc… Just thought I’d share and say I love the show and you both are incredible. Love you guys
Just happened to be on the Texas Fishing Forum and saw a post about this. Read most of the comments then watched the video. Really liked the interview but I have liked all the interviews you guys have done. Keep up the great work! TFF is all haters for the most part that’s part of the reason it’s irrelevant these days. I never see anything but negativity on there. Not even sure why I went to look at it now other than just boredom. Seems like its nothing but a place to argue where many people say stuff they would never say in person cause they can hide behind a screen name (handle). Also it would be cool, like someone above mentioned to see you guys talk to Milliken as well. He went through a lot of hate as well .
Awesome interview! I can attest that Josh is a good dude and definitely a hammer. I fished in 2020 against him in a national crappie trail and he was always at the top and was always pleasant to be around. He doesn't deserve all the disrespect that comes his way. He made crappie fishing what it is today. He will and has impacted bass fishing also.
I am confident after spending time in the boat with him that he is the REAL DEAL. If I owned an electronics or bait company, I would personally be financing a talented content guy to follow him around and capitalize on what he is doing. Not many people in fishing I would say that about.
Guys, thank you for having Josh on. I believe he is a great guy, just as you are. I have never met either of you, but anybody who supports the underdog says a lot. Supporting the next generation is always a good thing in all walks of life. 🍺🎣 I knew the Googan's were on to something when they started their official collaboration, and the fishing world was laughing... #theAmericanDream
Love this channel. I'm a delta native fish the franks track old river area alot. Hearing how the fishing can be in some other states really makes me appreciate this fishery. Hope to enter my first tournament soon
Great to see you and Trait at OH again. Josh is a legend in these parts, he's a great guest choice. These sessions are fascinating, keep up the great work Chris! That Nitro w/o graph probably had you feeling naked. Can't wait to see the new whip, will probably have 6 graphs. Lol. See you on the water buddy.
Thank y'all so much for having Josh Jones on your podcast. It was so very interesting and very educational to someone fishing with FFS in these times. Good luck to you Chris this year on the Elites and also to you Trait with your fishing career and this awesome podcast.
Many people might think that what happened at O.H. Ivie Revervoir in 2021 is an anomaly. But TPWD Biologist John Dennis, who loved to fish and regularly came to bass club meetings, told us that this day and those from the past - were coming. Many of us kept asking him and other TPWD personnel to add many more Florida fingerlings - but he just kept saying that the fish would make their own fingerlings and to just wait for the day when everything would come together... John said they (TPWD) had a plan to make Ivie a trophy bass lake and it was underway. Part of the plan included special regs for keeping certain size fish and not too long ago taking undersize fish out of the lake... John Dennis has retired from TPWD, and so have many others, or the Good Lord has taken them, but I just want to thank TPWD fisheries personnel (past and present) for all their effort in making this happen. And thank you John - for understanding the biology and science of all this. You were right my friend and we are seeing one of the greatest events in fishing history as it unfolds right before us. It is what we dreamed about but what you built. Thank you.
Loved all of your comments, on fishing, Crappie scopes, buttheads, and even deranged law men. I'm and old fart, started fishing after I came back from Nam in '69 because, my first love was hunting but, I'd hunted and been hunted by the ultimate game, man. Just couldn't do it anymore. So went fishing. So a couple of years into it, I caught my first 6 1/2 lb bass on Toledo Bend after the 60+ casts at a down tree in a creek bend against the bank, on a baby hellbender no 'name' crank baits available at that time. Had to be one there. Had it bad in 3 bass clubs and fishing little $ tournaments down here in Texas. Almost missed out on the love of my life, when I met her, my current wife (45 years ago), I only asked her out once a month or so, because wanted to make top 6 in all three clubs. Found out she liked to fish, so she started pre-fishing with me. In 2007 found myself out of work, with a job offer in CA with a company I had worked with for 10 years prior in Texas. Went out there to work, and started fishing with a friend I met out there. Fished the Delta and all the little lakes around Morgan Hill. Coyote lake, they drew the lake down because they found there was a fault running under the dam. I had fished it once when full, the guys at the coyote tackle shop talked about 16's & 18's that had came out of that lake. I started fishing every Sunday after church on local lakes. Decided to go back to Coyote and just walk the bank, since pressure had been off. Walked the bank throwing a BBZ all the way from the ramp to the head water creek, about 2 1/2 miles noting. Had 2 rods one with the new line for me fluorocarbon and another with braid. Dreaming of those big girls I'd heard that lived in that little lake. Got to the head waters nada, there's a gravel bar across the entrance to the upper creek, big pool about 20 feet deep, but the lake is down about 10 feet. I decide to fish a little of the creek before I call it a day. Step over and up on a flat shore that's about 8 foot above the water. Chunk that BBZ across it and start slowly working it back and notice to my right coming down the creek towards the big hole 2 bass ones about 8, the others about 10. I gauge my baits progress to intersect these fish as they came down out of the ditch of the creek and head for the open pool. They look, they change their cadence, they swim up to it, give it a good look in that crystal clear water, and swim away into the hole. As I stood there for another hour or so, that hole filled up with big bass. The 8 pounder was the littlest. My PB is a 15/6 out of Falcon, and I've caught a few thousand bass prior to this day. There's at least a 15 in the hole, maybe as big as 17. There are at least 15 queens in that hole. Out of the one each type tackle box I was carrying, I threw from A to Z at them, worked worms, jigs, rattletraps, lizards, cranks everything at them, they would just move out of the way when I brought them to them. Then off to my right I see the queen show up, this fish is the biggest I've ever seen, she's 18 if she's an ounce, got a big scar across the top of her head, looked like she'd been hit by a prop. Now I'm hyperventilating, what the heck, what to do, then I remember I have an 8" huddleston (trout) swim bait in the bottom of that box. I go to the box, pull it out, tie it on the set up with fluorocarbon, only knot I regularly used at that time was a polymer, tie it up, then take some trout scent and give her a good basting, always out of view of the bass, pitch it across the pond. Start her back down towards the pile of queens, that sexy roll, and gentle sway just like a stupid stocker trout would swim like. The Bertha peels out of the hole slowly, then picks up speed, then streaks over to the Huddleston and slams it, just swallows it. Watching this the Testosterone goes through the roof. I rare back with a hook set, that I regret to this day. She's hooked, she has the huddleston in her throat but I have a rod in my hand that is disconnected. The damned knot came un-tied. She's got a huddleston stuck in her mouth and I'm in 'no no I can't believe this land'. All I can do is watch her. The only huddleston I had. It took her almost 30 minutes fighting with that bait to finally spit it out. Then I go to work, doesn't matter if the see me or not, have to get that hud back. Rattletrap sinks, got trebles, took about 10 tries and I finally snag the hud and slowly bring it back in. Dump the Fluoro set-up grab the braid set-up, time for war. Tie her up grease her down, all out of view, make another throw across the pond, start her towards the herd again. The bass that I would say is 17 lbish peels our of the crowd and starts slowly moving toward the hud. Yes, it's gonna happen, yes. No Bertha runs out and head butts the 17 knocking her away from the hud that she was about to eat. DAMNIT YOU BITCH just automatically got screamed out of my mouth. I stop the retrieve the hud settles to the bottom and lays there. Now Bertha swims about 4 feet over to it and does that Yawn - Mouth flush a big bass can do and blew on the hud. She did it three times. Then she turned to the whole herd watching and does it towards them three times, then back on the hud. I spent another hour and a half as it got dark swimming that hud through the herd, couldn't even interest the lowly 8 lber of the herd. Good thing I didn't have a dupont stick bait, might have used it that day. A week later I made my move back to Texas. Will never forget Bertha. Hope she lived a long safe life. Originally from Okla. have lived most my life in Texas. Got the bass bug after my little stint with Uncle Sam in the Jolly Green Jungle and still have it to this day. When I can scrape an extra $2K together gonna give You a ring Josh. Hey to not have to fight that trolling motor quite so much, I put a 'rite hite' lowrance forward looking "Crappie Scope". Chirs follow you regularly lots of luck this year. Take no prisoners, get R done. Tight lines guys! Oh, and Josh, drop the polymer and go with a west coast cinch you'll be a happier man for it.
Awesome Podcast and loved seeing my buddy JJ killing it! JJ taught me so much in the crappie fishing world and I am forever grateful. One of the best dudes and fisherman out there.
Down to earth and humble. I watched him on a Crappie Connection podcast over a year ago, and put a lot of it to good use to include adding livescope to my 10' bass raider.
Great episode. I like how Josh has put the thought into how FFS may or may not negatively impact fisheries of various sizes. I think I would agree with his thoughts that smaller lakes may face issues but not as much with the larger lakes.
Josh Jones is a badass. Ya, I’d be a little extra confident if I was catching the size of fish he does. He has some amazing stories. Crazy to hear all of the heat he takes just because he’s a talented angler. This was an awesome listen 🙌🏻
They are doing a case study to see if forward facing sonar is hurting the fisheries and they need too but, the bad thing is by the time they get the data back ten years from now it will be to late
I had been thinking and remembering years ago about some studies done on bass and fishing pressure. They had some lakes I believe it was in California where they had shut the lake down to boating and found that the big bass had moved back into shallow water. I wonder over time and with FFS the fish that moved to open water to avoid pressure will push them back to the shallow waters.
Dude! I was taking my transducer on my Hummindird 1187 and mounting it bottom forward in down imaging and fishing brush piles and killin it long before live scope. its just a tool, learn to use it! Im 61 yrs old and still find the new tech exciting, Love the show and that Josh is the real deal!
What a great interview. The only question I would have asked is does Josh believe that FFS has taken a little shine away from catching 10lbers. Especially because he caught 1 10 before FFS and over 100 after. Regardless the cream always rises to the top, and the people who are good without FFS are good with FFS.
You Go Josh! Yea, Video your trips and let someone edit them. Many would follow you! There is so much hate and jealousy but you just have to ignore the haters. There are many more that appreciate you!
I don't understand why someone like Milliken is getting as much hate as he does when he's actually taking the time to film the screen along with his other camera angles and add it to the video n teaches an shows what he's looking at and casting at... What he's doing, someone on these trails should tap into that and watch the viewership jump back up after seeing it go down drastically this past year!!! This dude and Milliken get hate for putting in the work and grinding n being good as shit at what they do. Haters will hate I guess
Three awesome people doing this Podcast! Let the Haters Hate and this Goes For Ben M. Too y’all keep doing what your doing! All of you are Pioneers as far as concerned! Fish on🎣🎣🎣
I grew up out west about an hour from OH Ivey and I remember my dad telling me when the lake first filled up it was on fire with tons of little bass. He said he would fish under huge pecan trees that was dropping green pecans on his head.
If she built her own channel, who would help build mine? Haha but yeah she wants to do a “I suck at fishing” series on this channel when she has some time
This is great. I really like the social media stuff around the hour mark and everyone's take on stuff is really solid to me. Josh Jones is cool because he doesn't seem invested in any of the bullshit.
Josh and Ben are true pioneers of this sport and with that comes envy. I fish in Ohio where big bass (>6lb) are few are far between and to see what you fellas do is pure entertainment. I've done pretty well with Live Sonar myself and people don't realize that as much as it helps you find and catch fish it can send you on a wild goose chase. Especially when you first start using it. If you can't grind through the first year of not catching much and teaching your eyes you will give up and call everyone that is successful with it cheaters.
This video was seriously awesome! Love all of your guys podcasts so far! Keep it up Chris! Bring another googan on too! This got me to be more interested in Josh Jones! Love hearing him talk!
I finally got around to watching this one. Well done y'all. I am in the process of installing brand G on my boat now, I bet they are looking over the fence going, damn, we screwed up!! Anyway good luck to you Chris and Josh as well. I think Trait has her hands full keeping Chris in line. See ya.
Big fan of all of you ! Josh seems legit ! I’m a Washington state tournament angler and the fishing up here in the Pacific Northwest for bass is incredible. We just have no way of making it to the next level here due to lack of exposure it’s a blessing and a curse if you’re trying to make it to the next level. We just had a tournament on the river here in Tri cities Washington and there was 3 bags weighed in over 26 pounds. Two of which were 29 pound bags. Would love to run into you guys up here one day !
@@Zaldaingerous And I made that comment with love being another Northern California boy here. After this Josh Jones episode I can't wait to listen and watch you and Snyder talk I still watch his old handycam videos.
Washington gets a bad wrap on bass just because salmon is king out here but we have some really over looked smallie fisheries. Was happy to hear josh show some love
Great show!! Love Josh, been following him and ignoring the haters for years. Trait… Chris will get the FF down some day. If not, then you take the trolling motor 😂
Josh is a HAMMER!!!!I always wanted to learn more of how he catches em!!!! Speaking of his plain white jig,my friend and I caught 17 back to back 2 to 3 pounders at Taylor's Bayou on a Evergreen Grass Burner jig(black and blue with a spark shad trailer)
Just watched this, and also seen Josh's 60+lbs bags. Chris this is an awesome pod cast you and your wife are doing..... What I can said to Josh is Let the haters hate, there just mad they can't do it. I was told a long time ago, time on the water is the only way to get better. Kind doing you Josh, and let the haters hate
Early on: “I don’t read comments” 3/4 of the way through pulls out screenshots: “dude I could read out thousands of these” LOL. This was a good interview, really enjoyed it
I spent a week getting to know him personally. Spending evenings shooting the breeze with no cameras, just talking. He’s the real deal. I don’t know everything about him but I can attest to his fishing knowledge.
Bahahahaha she said did you cut the guard off to snag’em literally laughed. Hate the dude out of jealousy and glad to see a guy chasing the dream. Keep the head up and paving the way brother, both of y’all.
Great show. I would like B.A.S.S. to have 1 event, maybe a ProAm or CoAngler Event with no electronics. Market it as "Old School Throwdown" or something like that. Maybe make it a charity event, small layouts to cover expenses for anglers. I think it would be an infusion of different viewers. I was a Marshal at Pickwick last year. Learned a lot from Destin Demarion on electronics, great young angler. Keep up the great content.
I think a lot of the same guys you see at the top now, would still be at the top in the pro world. Maybe a few wouldn’t, but the guys who are truly consistent in pro tournaments would still be on top bc they understand fish patterns so well.
@@Zaldaingerous absolutely agree. You guys are there because of thencollective skills you've honed on the water. FFS and the like make you MORE Zaldaingerous 😉. I meant it would just be a cool marketing plan to pay deference to the old school and make it feel relatable to us guys who have to go on instinct, practice, etc. I watch you guys as a middle aged parent who got into BASS less than 5 years ago. Now its all I want to do. 2 kids in college so no boat. One day, my friend, one day. I wish there was an easier way to find guys with boats who want coanglers. Sorry for rambling, got me excited talking fishing! Be safe brother!
@Zaldaingerous a no electronics tourney would likely just help guys w experience on that water previously. It makes zero sense. I dont think your old enough, but when side imaging came out they talked about banning it and it had haters same as scope. Same w larger engines after the 150hp rule. Good interview. First time watching one of your pods. It was shared on tff so I saw it. I was banned off there, you can’t use common sense or post facts on that page with the user name Jeff from Iowa! I usually spend 3-4 months in Texas each year to get out of the snow I’ve met a lot of nice Texans and helped a lot of them get into the scope. I saw you just posted to sinkey at least he used punctuation and grammar after watching this when bashing you!!! You had a positive influence on his miserable life for that post at least.
First my new favorite fishing podcast!! Second I want to see what are lakes we be like in five years. Will the fish adapt to technology are will it kill are lakes. Yes I have livescope. I’m in Missouri and from what i can see crappie has already been affected. People eat more bass then you think. There is going to have to be slot and lower limits to support technology. What’s your opinion. Boxing fish is a problem I think in hot weather.
It’s on Apple but Trait’s been pretty hardcore about keeping the video format and not doing it in a ton of audio only options so that Battle Born gets the love they deserve.
He really is. I’m glad I didn’t believe what was written about him in the forums and instead took the time to get to know him personally. I’m a huge fan of his.
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Thanks for having me on y’all. I enjoyed it and have many more stories to tell. Good luck on tour this year and I look forward to that trip out West 😃
Our pleasure, Josh! We gotta do it again 👊🏽
Probably my favorite Bilge podcast to date. Met you in passing at OH Ivie, lots of great perspective here from you, Z and Trait. Greatly appreciated y’all.
Josh, been trying to get a couple guide trips with you through FB and Instagram. Let me know brother!
Great interview man. I’m instant fan but dying for your UA-cam channel! Now I gotta go buy another damn graph and transducer. I hope they come with marriage counseling vouchers!
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This, hands down, was one of the best interviews I have seen in some time. As a podcast host myself, to be able to tell Josh's story through the interview process was special. Lots of respect earned from me towards all of you on this one. Stories matter, and there were some good ones in this episode of The Bilge.---Cuda from Jigsquad
Thank you 🙏 😊
Still not a fan of FFS, but I am now a fan of JJ! Super chill cat! I could listen to him talk for hours. Seems like a class act! ✌️
This was the best pod cast I have seen . What an awsome guy. Just so humble. Took his love of the game to a next level and learned and willing to plus able to make a living for his family. I would love to have the opportunity to just sit down and have dinner with him not even talk about fishing. But I am sure it will come up
After spending almost every evening with him last week, I can vouch that he’s confident in what he does but also very gracious about how it’s come about and how it changed his life forever for the better. That’s my personal experience with him and also after talking to numerous guides on OH Ivie last week, as well.
Bring Josh back love hearing his stories there crazy
He will definitely be our resident FFS expert for the future
Dude I am blown away. I feel bad that he has to deal with all this shit
Great podcast....If I could sit down and talk fishing with two people it would be Chris and Josh and that's exactly what it felt like watching. The hour and a half wasn't near long enough, you guys must get together and do this again! Best of luck to you both in 2023!
He will be on more in the future. Josh will be our resident Forward Facing Sonar expert for the podcast 😁
Josh is showing the world what this tech is capable of , nothing short of impressive & you can definitely learn a lot from this guy no question
He’s a trophy bass hunter. That’s his lane and he does it WELL. I can admire that.
Great interview. Josh seems like a really great guy. It seems anytime somebody does something out of the ordinary people try to tear them down. Wish him the best and have a lot of respect for how he handles himself despite the hate.
Love this episode, I was laughing with y’all like I was in the room together. Keep up the great work!! Definitely will be rooting for Chris on the elites this year and his “douchey” celebrations! 😂
Thanks for having Josh Jones on. I thoroughly enjoyed the vid!
You guys need to get him back on. I’m not a big podcast guy but I’ve watched 5 or so of yours but this one I didn’t want to end.
Enjoyed watching this. Really enjoyed the honesty about ffs. It is definitely going to hurt the television viewership of tournaments. For me pulling up to a lay down and not knowing what is in there and catching a decent fish is what’s fun.
Everyone is different.
An awesome interview with a great guest. First time hearing his name and seems to be a class act. FFS in my opinion is great. I fish local tourneys here and there but just like catching fish. Josh Jones comments on catching catfish using FFS , I have to say is the best fishing I’ve done yet. It’s 9/2023 and have been hammering big cats using FFS and 1/2 oz spintail jigs and spinning gear. Biggest ones yet are 20, 22,30,34 along with several 15’s etc…
Just thought I’d share and say I love the show and you both are incredible. Love you guys
Just happened to be on the Texas Fishing Forum and saw a post about this. Read most of the comments then watched the video. Really liked the interview but I have liked all the interviews you guys have done. Keep up the great work! TFF is all haters for the most part that’s part of the reason it’s irrelevant these days. I never see anything but negativity on there. Not even sure why I went to look at it now other than just boredom. Seems like its nothing but a place to argue where many people say stuff they would never say in person cause they can hide behind a screen name (handle). Also it would be cool, like someone above mentioned to see you guys talk to Milliken as well. He went through a lot of hate as well .
Never knew who Josh was before this. Seems like a good, genuine dude. Really enjoyed this episode Chris and Trait!
Awesome interview! I can attest that Josh is a good dude and definitely a hammer. I fished in 2020 against him in a national crappie trail and he was always at the top and was always pleasant to be around. He doesn't deserve all the disrespect that comes his way. He made crappie fishing what it is today. He will and has impacted bass fishing also.
I am confident after spending time in the boat with him that he is the REAL DEAL. If I owned an electronics or bait company, I would personally be financing a talented content guy to follow him around and capitalize on what he is doing. Not many people in fishing I would say that about.
I have even more respect for you Josh. Keep doing what you’re doing.
Guys, thank you for having Josh on. I believe he is a great guy, just as you are. I have never met either of you, but anybody who supports the underdog says a lot. Supporting the next generation is always a good thing in all walks of life. 🍺🎣
I knew the Googan's were on to something when they started their official collaboration, and the fishing world was laughing... #theAmericanDream
Love this channel. I'm a delta native fish the franks track old river area alot. Hearing how the fishing can be in some other states really makes me appreciate this fishery. Hope to enter my first tournament soon
Josh is a very smart positive person. Great example for people. Thank You
Great to see you and Trait at OH again. Josh is a legend in these parts, he's a great guest choice. These sessions are fascinating, keep up the great work Chris! That Nitro w/o graph probably had you feeling naked. Can't wait to see the new whip, will probably have 6 graphs. Lol. See you on the water buddy.
I get my new boat this week 🤗
@@Zaldaingerouswill it be a Nitro
Thank y'all so much for having Josh Jones on your podcast. It was so very interesting and very educational to someone fishing with FFS in these times. Good luck to you Chris this year on the Elites and also to you Trait with your fishing career and this awesome podcast.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Many people might think that what happened at O.H. Ivie Revervoir in 2021 is an anomaly. But TPWD Biologist John Dennis, who loved to fish and regularly came to bass club meetings, told us that this day and those from the past - were coming. Many of us kept asking him and other TPWD personnel to add many more Florida fingerlings - but he just kept saying that the fish would make their own fingerlings and to just wait for the day when everything would come together...
John said they (TPWD) had a plan to make Ivie a trophy bass lake and it was underway. Part of the plan included special regs for keeping certain size fish and not too long ago taking undersize fish out of the lake...
John Dennis has retired from TPWD, and so have many others, or the Good Lord has taken them, but I just want to thank TPWD fisheries personnel (past and present) for all their effort in making this happen. And thank you John - for understanding the biology and science of all this. You were right my friend and we are seeing one of the greatest events in fishing history as it unfolds right before us. It is what we dreamed about but what you built. Thank you.
Awesome Podcast! These series of podcasts has been nothing short of info and knowledge. Thanks Chris and Trait for asking the BEST questions!
Our pleasure!
JJ is one of the folks that sold me on the Livescope back in the day. I've never looked back. Thanks, Josh.
Loved all of your comments, on fishing, Crappie scopes, buttheads, and even deranged law men. I'm and old fart, started fishing after I came back from Nam in '69 because, my first love was hunting but, I'd hunted and been hunted by the ultimate game, man. Just couldn't do it anymore. So went fishing.
So a couple of years into it, I caught my first 6 1/2 lb bass on Toledo Bend after the 60+ casts at a down tree in a creek bend against the bank, on a baby hellbender no 'name' crank baits available at that time. Had to be one there. Had it bad in 3 bass clubs and fishing little $ tournaments down here in Texas. Almost missed out on the love of my life, when I met her, my current wife (45 years ago), I only asked her out once a month or so, because wanted to make top 6 in all three clubs. Found out she liked to fish, so she started pre-fishing with me. In 2007 found myself out of work, with a job offer in CA with a company I had worked with for 10 years prior in Texas. Went out there to work, and started fishing with a friend I met out there. Fished the Delta and all the little lakes around Morgan Hill. Coyote lake, they drew the lake down because they found there was a fault running under the dam. I had fished it once when full, the guys at the coyote tackle shop talked about 16's & 18's that had came out of that lake. I started fishing every Sunday after church on local lakes. Decided to go back to Coyote and just walk the bank, since pressure had been off. Walked the bank throwing a BBZ all the way from the ramp to the head water creek, about 2 1/2 miles noting. Had 2 rods one with the new line for me fluorocarbon and another with braid. Dreaming of those big girls I'd heard that lived in that little lake. Got to the head waters nada, there's a gravel bar across the entrance to the upper creek, big pool about 20 feet deep, but the lake is down about 10 feet. I decide to fish a little of the creek before I call it a day. Step over and up on a flat shore that's about 8 foot above the water. Chunk that BBZ across it and start slowly working it back and notice to my right coming down the creek towards the big hole 2 bass ones about 8, the others about 10. I gauge my baits progress to intersect these fish as they came down out of the ditch of the creek and head for the open pool. They look, they change their cadence, they swim up to it, give it a good look in that crystal clear water, and swim away into the hole. As I stood there for another hour or so, that hole filled up with big bass. The 8 pounder was the littlest. My PB is a 15/6 out of Falcon, and I've caught a few thousand bass prior to this day. There's at least a 15 in the hole, maybe as big as 17. There are at least 15 queens in that hole. Out of the one each type tackle box I was carrying, I threw from A to Z at them, worked worms, jigs, rattletraps, lizards, cranks everything at them, they would just move out of the way when I brought them to them. Then off to my right I see the queen show up, this fish is the biggest I've ever seen, she's 18 if she's an ounce, got a big scar across the top of her head, looked like she'd been hit by a prop. Now I'm hyperventilating, what the heck, what to do, then I remember I have an 8" huddleston (trout) swim bait in the bottom of that box. I go to the box, pull it out, tie it on the set up with fluorocarbon, only knot I regularly used at that time was a polymer, tie it up, then take some trout scent and give her a good basting, always out of view of the bass, pitch it across the pond. Start her back down towards the pile of queens, that sexy roll, and gentle sway just like a stupid stocker trout would swim like. The Bertha peels out of the hole slowly, then picks up speed, then streaks over to the Huddleston and slams it, just swallows it. Watching this the Testosterone goes through the roof. I rare back with a hook set, that I regret to this day. She's hooked, she has the huddleston in her throat but I have a rod in my hand that is disconnected. The damned knot came un-tied. She's got a huddleston stuck in her mouth and I'm in 'no no I can't believe this land'. All I can do is watch her. The only huddleston I had. It took her almost 30 minutes fighting with that bait to finally spit it out. Then I go to work, doesn't matter if the see me or not, have to get that hud back. Rattletrap sinks, got trebles, took about 10 tries and I finally snag the hud and slowly bring it back in. Dump the Fluoro set-up grab the braid set-up, time for war. Tie her up grease her down, all out of view, make another throw across the pond, start her towards the herd again. The bass that I would say is 17 lbish peels our of the crowd and starts slowly moving toward the hud. Yes, it's gonna happen, yes. No Bertha runs out and head butts the 17 knocking her away from the hud that she was about to eat. DAMNIT YOU BITCH just automatically got screamed out of my mouth. I stop the retrieve the hud settles to the bottom and lays there. Now Bertha swims about 4 feet over to it and does that Yawn - Mouth flush a big bass can do and blew on the hud. She did it three times. Then she turned to the whole herd watching and does it towards them three times, then back on the hud. I spent another hour and a half as it got dark swimming that hud through the herd, couldn't even interest the lowly 8 lber of the herd. Good thing I didn't have a dupont stick bait, might have used it that day. A week later I made my move back to Texas. Will never forget Bertha. Hope she lived a long safe life.
Originally from Okla. have lived most my life in Texas. Got the bass bug after my little stint with Uncle Sam in the Jolly Green Jungle and still have it to this day. When I can scrape an extra $2K together gonna give You a ring Josh. Hey to not have to fight that trolling motor quite so much, I put a 'rite hite' lowrance forward looking "Crappie Scope". Chirs follow you regularly lots of luck this year. Take no prisoners, get R done. Tight lines guys! Oh, and Josh, drop the polymer and go with a west coast cinch you'll be a happier man for it.
Awesome Podcast and loved seeing my buddy JJ killing it! JJ taught me so much in the crappie fishing world and I am forever grateful. One of the best dudes and fisherman out there.
Man Josh can tell some stories. He seriously has to be one of the most hated fisherman. Keep being you josh!
Every now and then a legend is born, JJ is that legend
Down to earth and humble. I watched him on a Crappie Connection podcast over a year ago, and put a lot of it to good use to include adding livescope to my 10' bass raider.
He knows his stuff! I can confirm, he’s the real deal.
Dude is a legit hammer! FYI Christie did win St. Clair in 2017 with Panoptix...
Great episode. I like how Josh has put the thought into how FFS may or may not negatively impact fisheries of various sizes. I think I would agree with his thoughts that smaller lakes may face issues but not as much with the larger lakes.
So entertaining. He is such a good guest just to listen to tell stories. I started this and could not stop listening to it.
I rly enjoyed this episode thanks for having Josh on the show yallz. much love and respect from Delaware🍻🍻
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
Josh Jones is a badass. Ya, I’d be a little extra confident if I was catching the size of fish he does. He has some amazing stories. Crazy to hear all of the heat he takes just because he’s a talented angler. This was an awesome listen 🙌🏻
They are doing a case study to see if forward facing sonar is hurting the fisheries and they need too but, the bad thing is by the time they get the data back ten years from now it will be to late
In your opinion. Let's wait for the results. Where is this study taking place?
I had been thinking and remembering years ago about some studies done on bass and fishing pressure. They had some lakes I believe it was in California where they had shut the lake down to boating and found that the big bass had moved back into shallow water. I wonder over time and with FFS the fish that moved to open water to avoid pressure will push them back to the shallow waters.
These keep getting better and better
Thanks Dustin! Trying to keep trending up 📈
Absolutely loved it! glad to call him a friend.
Same here!
Dude! I was taking my transducer on my Hummindird 1187 and mounting it bottom forward in down imaging and fishing brush piles and killin it long before live scope. its just a tool, learn to use it! Im 61 yrs old and still find the new tech exciting, Love the show and that Josh is the real deal!
What a great interview. The only question I would have asked is does Josh believe that FFS has taken a little shine away from catching 10lbers. Especially because he caught 1 10 before FFS and over 100 after. Regardless the cream always rises to the top, and the people who are good without FFS are good with FFS.
I do think for him, maybe it’s taken the gleam away from a 10lber but only bc teeners (which was once almost impossible) now have a gleam.
@@Zaldaingerous that was my thought as well. The 13s , 14s and 15s are the new 10s with FFS. Thanks for the reply!
Solid Vid Chris. Dude is solid. For Chris who is out there on the Elite's to say it ain't easy, it's not.
Probably my favorite podcast ever. I really enjoyed this! Great stories and conversations between you all.
Thanks Daniel 🙏👊🏽
Loved it guys I stayed awake way later than I'd planned watching I'm going fishing tomorrow but thanks
Didn't Jason Christie win on St Clair back in like 2017 with the original panoptix?
Y’all leave daniels out of this 😂. Great show guys!
😂😂😂 I’m sure google maps has been lighting up
You Go Josh! Yea, Video your trips and let someone edit them. Many would follow you! There is so much hate and jealousy but you just have to ignore the haters. There are many more that appreciate you!
Awesome podcast! Great to see J.J on the show and wonderful questions asked. Would love to see more podcast and fishing videos from the two! 🔥
I don't understand why someone like Milliken is getting as much hate as he does when he's actually taking the time to film the screen along with his other camera angles and add it to the video n teaches an shows what he's looking at and casting at... What he's doing, someone on these trails should tap into that and watch the viewership jump back up after seeing it go down drastically this past year!!! This dude and Milliken get hate for putting in the work and grinding n being good as shit at what they do. Haters will hate I guess
We applaud you Josh, what a great podcast Chris and Trait! Thank you for staying positive and doing what you love ✊
Always! Thank you!
This is the best show that y’all have done !!!
Thanks 🙏👊🏽
This is a classic game recognize game moment. Really enjoyed it. And now my dad doesn't get my seat anymore in the back, it's going on the front deck.
Three days after this, we hopped in a boat together and that’s when I really recognized his game. He’s the real deal.
I remember that comment about the high fence fishing 😂🤣. Keep on catching big fish man.
Three awesome people doing this Podcast! Let the Haters Hate and this Goes For Ben M. Too y’all keep doing what your doing! All of you are Pioneers as far as concerned! Fish on🎣🎣🎣
What an absolute crazy adventure that Josh has had. Pretty much has single handed change the sport of bass fishing
He will definitely go down in history as a name who contributed to a major shift in fishing for our time
I grew up out west about an hour from OH Ivey and I remember my dad telling me when the lake first filled up it was on fire with tons of little bass. He said he would fish under huge pecan trees that was dropping green pecans on his head.
Love the down to earth format of your show, should be sitting around a camp fire while filming it
More podcast please, love listening to you guys. You should try to get Ben Milliken on as well.
Ben is a douche
Josh, mad respect! Your heading places & can’t wait to see it unfold!
I love Trait. She’s the best. If she had her own channel just talking technique, I’d give her like 500k views.
If she built her own channel, who would help build mine? Haha but yeah she wants to do a “I suck at fishing” series on this channel when she has some time
Really enjoyed this.
A really fresh perspective on the sport.
When you are taking flak, you must be over the target.
Thanks Steve!
This is great. I really like the social media stuff around the hour mark and everyone's take on stuff is really solid to me. Josh Jones is cool because he doesn't seem invested in any of the bullshit.
Josh and Ben are true pioneers of this sport and with that comes envy. I fish in Ohio where big bass (>6lb) are few are far between and to see what you fellas do is pure entertainment. I've done pretty well with Live Sonar myself and people don't realize that as much as it helps you find and catch fish it can send you on a wild goose chase. Especially when you first start using it. If you can't grind through the first year of not catching much and teaching your eyes you will give up and call everyone that is successful with it cheaters.
This video was seriously awesome! Love all of your guys podcasts so far! Keep it up Chris! Bring another googan on too! This got me to be more interested in Josh Jones! Love hearing him talk!
I finally got around to watching this one. Well done y'all. I am in the process of installing brand G on my boat now, I bet they are looking over the fence going, damn, we screwed up!! Anyway good luck to you Chris and Josh as well. I think Trait has her hands full keeping Chris in line. See ya.
Wow. Outstanding interview again. Josh is the real deal and it shows.
Thank you Rex!
Big fan of all of you ! Josh seems legit ! I’m a Washington state tournament angler and the fishing up here in the Pacific Northwest for bass is incredible. We just have no way of making it to the next level here due to lack of exposure it’s a blessing and a curse if you’re trying to make it to the next level. We just had a tournament on the river here in Tri cities Washington and there was 3 bags weighed in over 26 pounds. Two of which were 29 pound bags. Would love to run into you guys up here one day !
I’ve fished a derb or two in tri cities!
Love Trait calling out Chris for the "douchie" fish celebrations. That's true love right there.
Hahaha
@@Zaldaingerous And I made that comment with love being another Northern California boy here. After this Josh Jones episode I can't wait to listen and watch you and Snyder talk I still watch his old handycam videos.
Plain and simple josh Jones is a fuckin legend PERIOD
Washington gets a bad wrap on bass just because salmon is king out here but we have some really over looked smallie fisheries. Was happy to hear josh show some love
The year of Zaldain! #2023 Loving all the content.
Thanks Chris 👊🏽
Chris and Tait, best pod ever! And I'm an old guy!!
Thanks John!!!
Great way to give us a real life Josh..goes to show that public perception is powerful but hardly ever real.
Great show!! Love Josh, been following him and ignoring the haters for years. Trait… Chris will get the FF down some day. If not, then you take the trolling motor 😂
Josh is a HAMMER!!!!I always wanted to learn more of how he catches em!!!!
Speaking of his plain white jig,my friend and I caught 17 back to back 2 to 3 pounders at Taylor's Bayou on a Evergreen Grass Burner jig(black and blue with a spark shad trailer)
I love when josh says, the jig with no trailer and brush guard was a accident and she says "whatever".
Just watched this, and also seen Josh's 60+lbs bags. Chris this is an awesome pod cast you and your wife are doing.....
What I can said to Josh is
Let the haters hate, there just mad they can't do it. I was told a long time ago, time on the water is the only way to get better. Kind doing you Josh, and let the haters hate
I'm a old man that loves you guys I want to learn...thanks
Love listening to Josh. Big fan. Love his attitude about all this.
And Chris I'm growing to like u bro !! U are getting on my favorite list rapidly
Josh is a great guy I've seen him go out of his way to help people!
This is a great one. Josh has been through some shit! Great stories and great dude, keep the shows coming
Early on: “I don’t read comments”
3/4 of the way through pulls out screenshots: “dude I could read out thousands of these”
LOL. This was a good interview, really enjoyed it
L O L … glad you enjoyed it!
great interview. i was aware of josh and his catches at Ivie but had no idea he was such a pioneer in the forward facing sonar
I have a new respect for Josh this was a great podcast
I spent a week getting to know him personally. Spending evenings shooting the breeze with no cameras, just talking. He’s the real deal. I don’t know everything about him but I can attest to his fishing knowledge.
@@Zaldaingerous wow thanks for commenting back so quickly.... I think I like you even better now too😁😁
Omg, I don't watch vlogs, but this is a classic!! Great insight, but I'm in stitches on the personal stuff!
Thanks for watching it, Willy!
Best 90 minutes! Thanks for the great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Phenomenal Interview 🔥🔥
Bahahahaha she said did you cut the guard off to snag’em literally laughed. Hate the dude out of jealousy and glad to see a guy chasing the dream. Keep the head up and paving the way brother, both of y’all.
Great job! Josh is the reason I got LS. Huge supporter
Great show. I would like B.A.S.S. to have 1 event, maybe a ProAm or CoAngler Event with no electronics. Market it as "Old School Throwdown" or something like that. Maybe make it a charity event, small layouts to cover expenses for anglers. I think it would be an infusion of different viewers. I was a Marshal at Pickwick last year. Learned a lot from Destin Demarion on electronics, great young angler. Keep up the great content.
I think a lot of the same guys you see at the top now, would still be at the top in the pro world. Maybe a few wouldn’t, but the guys who are truly consistent in pro tournaments would still be on top bc they understand fish patterns so well.
@@Zaldaingerous absolutely agree. You guys are there because of thencollective skills you've honed on the water. FFS and the like make you MORE Zaldaingerous 😉. I meant it would just be a cool marketing plan to pay deference to the old school and make it feel relatable to us guys who have to go on instinct, practice, etc. I watch you guys as a middle aged parent who got into BASS less than 5 years ago. Now its all I want to do. 2 kids in college so no boat. One day, my friend, one day. I wish there was an easier way to find guys with boats who want coanglers. Sorry for rambling, got me excited talking fishing! Be safe brother!
@Zaldaingerous a no electronics tourney would likely just help guys w experience on that water previously. It makes zero sense. I dont think your old enough, but when side imaging came out they talked about banning it and it had haters same as scope. Same w larger engines after the 150hp rule. Good interview. First time watching one of your pods. It was shared on tff so I saw it. I was banned off there, you can’t use common sense or post facts on that page with the user name Jeff from Iowa! I usually spend 3-4 months in Texas each year to get out of the snow I’ve met a lot of nice Texans and helped a lot of them get into the scope. I saw you just posted to sinkey at least he used punctuation and grammar after watching this when bashing you!!! You had a positive influence on his miserable life for that post at least.
@@tigers3321 local bass clubs are always looking for new anglers.
First my new favorite fishing podcast!! Second I want to see what are lakes we be like in five years. Will the fish adapt to technology are will it kill are lakes. Yes I have livescope. I’m in Missouri and from what i can see crappie has already been affected. People eat more bass then you think. There is going to have to be slot and lower limits to support technology. What’s your opinion. Boxing fish is a problem I think in hot weather.
this is an awesome interview, really enjoyed hearing josh speak long form…he’s got a cool story
Josh is full of stories and easy to talk to. Makes for a great sit down!
Thank you!
Really enjoyed it. You both do a great job.
I absolutely loved this! I’ve recently started following Jones and I want to learn more about this young man and his skill. Major props!!!
Thanks Tony! He knows his stuff
When are y'all going to put the podcast on Spotify or Amazon? So I can listen while I'm working 😂
It’s on Apple but Trait’s been pretty hardcore about keeping the video format and not doing it in a ton of audio only options so that Battle Born gets the love they deserve.
Just keep fishing!
All three of you!
Always!
Great pod, thank you guys ! Really sucks this man has gotten so much hate, keep doing you Josh ✊
I guess it’s just part of the course these days with social media, but glad we could give him a platform to tell his side.
Love it I meet josh last year on Ivie ,definitely humble dude helped us Wyoming boys out.
He really is. I’m glad I didn’t believe what was written about him in the forums and instead took the time to get to know him personally. I’m a huge fan of his.