Snorkel Fishing For Smallmouth Bass
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Cultus Lake, British Columbia. Since it's a 10 minute drive from my house, I thought it's about time I started to figure out the fishing in this lake a bit. In this episode I get in the water to fish for smallmouth bass. It was a blast, but not as easy as you might think. 2 hours in the water got me 3 fish to take home. I'm pretty sure I'll get better at this kind of fishing over time.
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Awesome video
Glad you liked it!
Such a awesome vid!!! Snorkeling while fishing to see what’s going on down there instead of just waiting and wondering , gonna try it myself :) Subscribed!!!
Welcome aboard! Yes, it's a lot of fun. There is a learning process just like with everything else. Easier to hook fish, but way harder to land them.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 thanks for the reply PETR, can i ask some TECHNICAL QUESTIONS? What kind of little pole is that? IM READY :)
@@skinz1234 The fishing pole is ghetto. Just a crappy old reel taped to the top half of a rod that I found in the lake. The type of wetsuit you need depends on what type of water you want to swim in. I often swim in the middle of winter, so I have a 5mm open cell freediving suit, some people even use 7 mm. In the summer in lakes a 3mm well fitting suit is enough. If you're in the Vancouver area Diving Sports has all kinds of great suits to try on.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 ty for anwersing means alot to me :) I ordered a open cell wetsuit i cant wait to see it!! Exciting to jump in the water with it and see what it feels like!!! SUBBING AND LIKING ALL YOUR VIDS THAT I SEE!!! :)
@@skinz1234 Welcome aboard! Open cells are awesome, mine doesn't even feel like I'm wet. Requires lubricant to get into it though. I use baby shampoo and water mixed in a pop bottle.
I like the video, I like all your videos. You have a calming voice. Interesting vids. Anything underwater is really cool to me. Thanks
I really appreciate the comment and I'm glad you like the content.
Awesome, a new perspective on bass and alot of info
Glad you liked it!
good show Petr ! Thank you!
Many thanks!
Love it...more bass stuff please
Thanks! Will do!
That was really interesting!
Let me know if you're ever in the area again, perhaps we can dive together.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 Thanks! I'd love to. I'd especially like to see those bass!
@@emeraldsky8009 The spawning is pretty much done, but the males will be guarding the nests for another 3 weeks or so. After that they spread out and are harder to find.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 Thanks for the info! Unfortunately I am booked for at least another 2 weekends so can't head out there any time soon.
Awesome video!!🔥 keep it up!💪
Thank you! Will do!
Thanks for doing this man! Hopefully it puts a bit of a dent in the population
Thanks for watching. I think there is no putting this genie back in the bottle. All we can do is supress the population a bit so they don't become totally dominant in this lake.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 Ya. Sucks that someone would ruin an ecosystem for sport
@@tannernabozniak5196 This ecosystem was already ruined decades ago. Long before the smallmouth arrived.
these are very good tasting fish， last time I saw a big sockeye jump up close to my kayak.
I like trout and salmon better, but you're right the meat tastes pretty good. I just have to find a way of cutting all the bones out.
Super cool., bass fishing pressure lol., ran from bait on a ( jig )..
I found that interesting. I always thought that they pretty much inhaled anything, but that's not what I was seeing.
Would stirring up the redds help keep the numbers down?
Some people are already doing that. The fishing community are a bit divided here. Many people feel that we should just accept that the bass are here and enjoy the fishery. I'm not completely decided myself. The damage is done, best we can do is keep the numbers down. Pike minnows were the dominant predator in this lake for awhile, now maybe it will be the bass. Either way the Sockeye are fucked unless there is an extensive effort to keep agricultural runoff out of the lake.
That's amazing footage! Hows the population of bull trout there?
I see pictures of them being caught once in a while, but I have not seen a bull trout in Cultus, maybe they hang out deeper than I dive.
They’re in spawn mode small jig head with a plastic worm brown color to also imitate a craw and instead of jigging it bounce it on their redd will piss them off never failed me
Thank you for sharing this advice.
How long can you hold your breath for because you where underwater for along time
I can only do about a minute, which is short by freediving standards. When I was younger and freediving regularly 2 to 3 minutes seemed easy. Now my lungs are a bit damaged by construction dust and also I'm a bit out of shape.
How long can you hold your breath for Petr???!! Great video keep it up!
when I was younger I could do 3 minutes no problem, but now my lungs are a bit damaged from construction dust and I don't actually train, so around a minute.
Another good vid Petr.. How did they taste...
Not as good as trout, but not terrible :) The skin definitely has a very fishy smell, but the meat is nice.
Wonder how the person who introduced them feel now. The lake in mission has massive bass, friend got a good eating size, went to fillet it, saw worms in its fleah
The ones I got had nice clean meat, but the biggest was around 2 pounds.
We can used hook with barb in cultus lake?
Yes. In B.C. all rivers, creeks, and sloughs are barbless hook only. Lakes allow barbed hooks unless specifically stated otherwise for that lake.
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Thanks you! See you in vedder river
Wow! They let you get so close! I wonder if it would be more effective to spear them. (Might not be legal)
Spear fishing is not legal in region 2, otherwise that would be the way to go and could really put a dent in the population.
Have you tried Spear fishing ?
Unfortunately it's not allowed in region 2, which includes up your way. I used to spear fish when I lived in Mexico and it's one of my favorite ways to get fish.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 to bad they couldn’t make an exemption for Bass and Carp ,
@@squamishfish It used to be legal and then suddenly about 6 or 7 years ago it wasn't. My guess is this was about safety rather than conservation. There are still other regions in B.C. where spear fishing for no game fish species like carp is allowed.
Never ceases to amaze me how people will kill the larger spawning bass, destroying a fantastic fishery for a run of about 400-100 salmon and some sculpin. These fish are truly vilified, literally the pitbulls of the freshwater world. How lame.
fished cultus last week, caught more trout than pikeminnow thanks to the bass. lots of people taking their kids out fishing...excited about the smallmouth in the lake.
I realise opinions vary. The really lame move was by the person who wilfully planted bass in the lake. I choose to go with the opinion of the fisheries biologists on this one. In the end, no matter what we do, the bass are there to stay. I did not waste these fish. All the meat was utilised and I had fun catching them. If you consider that all the bass spawn in spring and people continue to fish them, then I'm not doing anything different, except I did it knowingly. It bothers me when people kill pike minnows just because someone told them they were bad and waste the meat. My point is that I totally understand your point of view and will take it into consideration as my ethics regarding this fishery continue to evolve. I'm sure you'd agree that educating people about bass biology and behaviour is not a bad thing, regardless of how you feel about me catching them.
@@bobswildoutdoors4297 exactly. Say what you want, but the bass in this lake are bringing folks from all over to fish for them. It’s a great way to get kids into fishing and a great fishery for the community. If only some people would stop completely vilifying these fish.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 nice video Petr. Fisheries updated their bass sign on the lake to voluntary killing ...not mandatory killing of the bass. It was based on stomach samples taken showing no evidence of salmon fry endangerment.
@@bobswildoutdoors4297 I have never seen sockeye smolts in Cultus, so I would not expect to find many in the bass. The sockeye run there is in really poor shape. In Chilliwack lake I see huge schools of smolts.