I don't know if you'll even see this, but your channel has changed my daily life. I have been searching for something to do in my spare time, and with two ponds on our property, fishing seemed like an easy getaway. I am in my mid-thirties and it seems like I am late to the party, but I have fished every single day for the past three weeks. I have a stronger relationship with my step-son and the look on his face when I pull one in, makes me smile bigger than I thought possible. I look forward to learning from you every day. So thanks for all the content because it matters, and it's useful. Not to mention, your videos are kid friendly, and appropriate. I appreciate the fact that your faith is on full display in your content so I can consume it with my family.
Great video Tyler. One of my favorite soft baits to throw. Always get some great tips from you as you pack so much info into your videos with NO time being wasted. Keep em comin' my friend!
Here in IN, I've noticed that bass have been getting smarter and smarter every year. We have some ponds that are overrun by crawfish, and there's not a bass in the lake that will bite a craw lure at all. But a salamander or worm works amazing. Then there's a lake that has a TON of frogs, and bass will go after a craw but never bite a frog lure. It's really strange because you would think they would go after the most abundant food source in the water, but that's not the case at all. It's like they're after something different. Kind of like us, if we eat burgers everyday...a fish sandwich will be a breath of fresh air.
@@JoeysFishingAdventures I hit up a pond last Sunday, the water was clear, there wasn't much around it in the way of crawfish or frogs...just TONS of poison ivy lol. But I was watching what everyone else was fishing with and what was stuck in the trees. There was a bunch of crankbaits, rattle traps, spinners, and a few bobbers with white crappie jigs. everyone I could see was fishing with green & black worms or plain old nightcrawlers. So, I thought "let's try something completely different and off the wall" So I threw out a bubblegum pink flourescent texas rig. And boom! right on my first 4 casts I nailed 4 bass. Then I walked down the bank and just nailed one right after the other. In 4 hours I caught 26 largemouths, 3 bluegills, 2 gar, and 3 bowfin ( I saved the bluegill and bowfin for my freezer 😁)
I know that colors matter most of the time but something about the peanut butter and jelly strike king rage craw just catches so many good fish! It's a constant presence in my tackle box, and I always have it rigged on at least one pole at all times, even in the winter! And it's strange because I live in Idaho where water clarity is almost always crystalline and the bass just love them purple and creamy brown craws! 😂
One rigging that I feel you left out, was the RAGE RIG. Fishing that through a brush pile, it is really easy to worm it through some of the gnarliest structure on the bottom
Absolutely love your content Tyler. I have been a Bass fisherman for most of my life and I still find something I didn’t know or something I never thought about on your channel. When are we gonna see some merch though?! Or am I just oblivious and can’t find the link to find it?
The Scounbug is freakin awesome and is perfect as a jig trailer, chatterbait trailer, or a flipping bait one of my favorites ever. Just wish they were a little less expensive!
It's crazy you dropped this video today. I've been fishing a heavily pressured small lake, with a zoom ol' monster. I've caught a couple but I have been wondering if there are crayfish in the water and I saw a dead one today on the bank. It's was dark Grey and blue. Most black and blue.
When I fish for bass, I have started thinking to myself, "Bass could be like humans and want something different to eat from day to day. We may want tacos one day and pizza then next day." The only thing is, when I have caught bass on my black/blue curly tail worm, when I unhook the bass, I looked at it and start wondering what the bass even thought it was????........ Same thing with bluegill and sunfish. Nightcrawlers don't live in the water, but why do they eat them?
You could 3D Print a Crawfish Lure that would be so realistic no bass could resist trying to eat it- I am surprised There are no 3D Print Lure Companies- If you can make a House you can make a Lure- Anyone who does this first and Patents it will dominate the lure market!!
I honestly think most lures are bit because the bass thinks "hmmm. I have no idea what that is, but it looks alive and it's the right size." No way most of these things look like what they're supposed to look like.
Absolutely, they generally recognize something real from fake, which is why they can be targeted from various bites. An angry Im going to kill this thing bite might not be the same as I'm hungry and want to eat that tasty morsel bite. But there are some great imitations on the market obviously to make them think its the real deal. That being said, I believe live bait fishing with say bluegill can be more difficult than fishing with lures
Bass will inspect most everything that comes in front of them. Actually.... most, if not all, of the sunfish act similar this way. They are very curious and smart. If they haven't seen it before and don't know what it is, they will check it out. Fortunately for us, they use their mouths for further investigation. Or... if it looks like something they have eaten before, they will give it a go. But their intelligence is also why they won't bite on something they had a bad experience with before.
I wish there were a two inch finesse-y version of the rage craw👀 if they had one it’d prolly be one of my favorite baits👀… cause now for craws, my favorites are the net bait paca chunk craws in green pumpkin and the zman trd crawz in Canada craw!
The first respectable size bass I caught at 18 inches was on a black and blue space monkey. Then yesterday in a small river I had a bass take my bait before it hit the bottom on same color lure. I was wondering why line was spinning when I looked down. It was like the one on this video.
I have a craw bait that is like a hollow body soft plastic crawl that i simply dont know how to rig up. could you show how to rig up all of the different types of craws there are. it looks a lot like the Yum CrawBug
Robert hale created the craw worm in the 70s...just an elongated craw with a worm body...heck of a bait and still has a small cult following lol...around that same time gene larew made the salt bug or salt craw...about the same thing just a couple pinchers on a worm body..thanks for the knowledge tyler
Hey Tyler, I'm from Ohio. Near Dayton, and I've tried most waters within an hour away from me. There's muddy waters and clear waters and mossy waters. I've tried many different ways to rig and type of baits to catch fish but I can't catch many fish. I'm lucky to catch one bass or blue gill. Please help!
I'm a new angler so I have what might sound like the stupid question of the day. Bear with me. Is it effective to fish a craw where they aren't normally found in nature? I assume live craws are normally found in shallow water with plenty of hiding spots. Put another way, will a craw style lure entice a fish to eat it in clear water at 20 ft depth?
As discussed in this video, a bass is opportunistic. So even if you do not have many crawfish in your body of water, the presentation itself may still look appealing enough to the fish. I would always recommend first trying to closely match the forage you have though.
Two answer your question another way: in my own experience. Yes they will catch bass. It really comes down to the specific water you’re fishing. There’s a specific pond in mind that I’m thinking of near me in which I cannot catch a single thing except when using a black with blue sparkle craw lure. The ozark trails work fine for me. Doesn’t matter if I fish it on the bottom, on the top, in the middle, fast, slow, medium paced, weighted, Texas rigged, ned rigged, whatever. If I throw those craws on in that pond I catch bass after bass after bass. It’s approx 23 ft. Max depth and has a VERY steep drop off from the shoreline. Make of this what you will.
It's my opinion that like so many other bass fishing lures, the crawfish style lures too are first and foremost, designed to catch fishermen's dollars. If they happen to catch a few fish in the process, so much the better. Bass aren't the smartest creatures in God's creation so, it stands to reason that even the most ridiculously made craw style soft plastic bait will catch fish under ideal conditions. I watched a guy tie two treble hooks onto a four-inch length of thin wood and proceed to catch bass fishing it as a top water lure so yea, under the right conditions, a bass will bite just about anything resembling a potential meal.
I quite literally named like a dozen companies that make crawfish baits. But strike king makes some awesome ones too, and they have sponsored my channel for 6 years. So I talk about them
A few weeks ago Tyler mentioned an App with GPS for tracking fish catches. I believe it is connected to the hat button. Does anyone know what the apps name is?
Why are you hating on Randy, that’s not right Tyler just because he has a different opinion than you do you shouldn’t say stuff like this because it may make other people think bad of Randy, just sayin
SENKO OR LIVE BAIT. all these youtubers are just making money off of impatient guys. MLF pros get skunked on live TV. lets get real. if bass want to eat they will.
If ur gonna buy a craw lure, use my links in the video description🤝🏼🔥🎣 THANK YOU!
I don't know if you'll even see this, but your channel has changed my daily life. I have been searching for something to do in my spare time, and with two ponds on our property, fishing seemed like an easy getaway. I am in my mid-thirties and it seems like I am late to the party, but I have fished every single day for the past three weeks. I have a stronger relationship with my step-son and the look on his face when I pull one in, makes me smile bigger than I thought possible. I look forward to learning from you every day. So thanks for all the content because it matters, and it's useful. Not to mention, your videos are kid friendly, and appropriate. I appreciate the fact that your faith is on full display in your content so I can consume it with my family.
Man, what an encouraging comment! Thank you for being on this journey with me 🙌🏼
Every time I watch one of your videos I feel more and more confident in catching bass on jigs. Keep the vids coming 🫡
Glad to hear it!
Great video Tyler. One of my favorite soft baits to throw. Always get some great tips from you as you pack so much info into your videos with NO time being wasted. Keep em comin' my friend!
100 lakes next, it would be amazing
I agree
I second that.
Same
Hey Tyler as someone that just picked up fishing this year your videos have been invaluable. This video type in particular is awesome!
Here in IN, I've noticed that bass have been getting smarter and smarter every year. We have some ponds that are overrun by crawfish, and there's not a bass in the lake that will bite a craw lure at all. But a salamander or worm works amazing. Then there's a lake that has a TON of frogs, and bass will go after a craw but never bite a frog lure. It's really strange because you would think they would go after the most abundant food source in the water, but that's not the case at all. It's like they're after something different. Kind of like us, if we eat burgers everyday...a fish sandwich will be a breath of fresh air.
Interesting! Like I said, everyone has to find what works for their body of water
My name's Joey, after I read your comment I really thought about it and your on to something. I live in Indiana also and agree with what your sayin
@@JoeysFishingAdventures I hit up a pond last Sunday, the water was clear, there wasn't much around it in the way of crawfish or frogs...just TONS of poison ivy lol. But I was watching what everyone else was fishing with and what was stuck in the trees. There was a bunch of crankbaits, rattle traps, spinners, and a few bobbers with white crappie jigs. everyone I could see was fishing with green & black worms or plain old nightcrawlers. So, I thought "let's try something completely different and off the wall" So I threw out a bubblegum pink flourescent texas rig. And boom! right on my first 4 casts I nailed 4 bass. Then I walked down the bank and just nailed one right after the other. In 4 hours I caught 26 largemouths, 3 bluegills, 2 gar, and 3 bowfin ( I saved the bluegill and bowfin for my freezer 😁)
Fish go to school
@@rickvann3489 when they graduate they go to a 20,000 league college and major in fin-gineering 🤣
I know that colors matter most of the time but something about the peanut butter and jelly strike king rage craw just catches so many good fish! It's a constant presence in my tackle box, and I always have it rigged on at least one pole at all times, even in the winter! And it's strange because I live in Idaho where water clarity is almost always crystalline and the bass just love them purple and creamy brown craws! 😂
There a challenge for you Tyler - get some old lures and see how they catch
One rigging that I feel you left out, was the RAGE RIG. Fishing that through a brush pile, it is really easy to worm it through some of the gnarliest structure on the bottom
Absolutely love your content Tyler. I have been a Bass fisherman for most of my life and I still find something I didn’t know or something I never thought about on your channel. When are we gonna see some merch though?! Or am I just oblivious and can’t find the link to find it?
Chigger craw, either regular or crazy legs variety have caught a ton of bass for me. By far my favorite craw lure
Good ones!
Yum makes a pretty good crawfish imitation.
The Scounbug is freakin awesome and is perfect as a jig trailer, chatterbait trailer, or a flipping bait one of my favorites ever. Just wish they were a little less expensive!
Come to my neck of the woods tyler! some of the stingiest Bass of all time! 😂 South shore of mass!
It's crazy you dropped this video today. I've been fishing a heavily pressured small lake, with a zoom ol' monster. I've caught a couple but I have been wondering if there are crayfish in the water and I saw a dead one today on the bank. It's was dark Grey and blue. Most black and blue.
The smaller craw is for smaller rivers, creeks, and ponds and they are best on Ned rig hooks. There are weedless and exposed hook options.
When I fish for bass, I have started thinking to myself, "Bass could be like humans and want something different to eat from day to day. We may want tacos one day and pizza then next day."
The only thing is, when I have caught bass on my black/blue curly tail worm, when I unhook the bass, I looked at it and start wondering what the bass even thought it was????........
Same thing with bluegill and sunfish. Nightcrawlers don't live in the water, but why do they eat them?
It's all about presentation any lure that closely resemble the real thing, I would get.
Totally
You could 3D Print a Crawfish Lure that would be so realistic no bass could resist trying to eat it- I am surprised
There are no 3D Print Lure Companies- If you can make a House you can make a Lure- Anyone who does this first and Patents it will dominate the lure market!!
My favorite youtuber and fisherman.
I honestly think most lures are bit because the bass thinks "hmmm. I have no idea what that is, but it looks alive and it's the right size." No way most of these things look like what they're supposed to look like.
Absolutely, they generally recognize something real from fake, which is why they can be targeted from various bites. An angry Im going to kill this thing bite might not be the same as I'm hungry and want to eat that tasty morsel bite. But there are some great imitations on the market obviously to make them think its the real deal. That being said, I believe live bait fishing with say bluegill can be more difficult than fishing with lures
Bass will inspect most everything that comes in front of them. Actually.... most, if not all, of the sunfish act similar this way. They are very curious and smart. If they haven't seen it before and don't know what it is, they will check it out. Fortunately for us, they use their mouths for further investigation. Or... if it looks like something they have eaten before, they will give it a go. But their intelligence is also why they won't bite on something they had a bad experience with before.
The first bait to add salt was the Gene Larew Craw. and the first craw from Strike King was The Guido Bug.
love your vids bro
Thank you!
Good video n perspective! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Not the Strike King Rage Craw, but they still love it
I wish there were a two inch finesse-y version of the rage craw👀 if they had one it’d prolly be one of my favorite baits👀… cause now for craws, my favorites are the net bait paca chunk craws in green pumpkin and the zman trd crawz in Canada craw!
Do you have a bass fishing color guide video?, if not you have any recommendations for videos if you know any?
Watch till the end my guy
He does
@@TylersReelFishingthanks
15:53 ..."get youself checked out"? Not a bad idea but not for the reasons intended in the video. lol
I used to fish with a guy who burned craw lures across the top like a horny toad. The claws would flap similar to the legs on the toad. It worked. 🤷
The first respectable size bass I caught at 18 inches was on a black and blue space monkey.
Then yesterday in a small river I had a bass take my bait before it hit the bottom on same color lure.
I was wondering why line was spinning when I looked down.
It was like the one on this video.
You left out the Arbogast Mud Bug
Excellent video!
When you gonna make another boat and tackle organization vid?
I dropped my glasses in the river the other day, I got them 2 days ago on my bday
More action= Rage Craw
Less action= Rage Bug
Let the fish tell you which one they want. And don’t forget dead action baits like the Rodent
Best craws I’ve used is Zman Pro Craws
I have a craw bait that is like a hollow body soft plastic crawl that i simply dont know how to rig up. could you show how to rig up all of the different types of craws there are. it looks a lot like the Yum CrawBug
I rigged them all in this video
Robert hale created the craw worm in the 70s...just an elongated craw with a worm body...heck of a bait and still has a small cult following lol...around that same time gene larew made the salt bug or salt craw...about the same thing just a couple pinchers on a worm body..thanks for the knowledge tyler
I knew I should’ve asked an older guy before making my script! Thanks for the input
Haha i like Randy
He’s definitely a character
Randy who?
Hey Tyler, I'm from Ohio. Near Dayton, and I've tried most waters within an hour away from me. There's muddy waters and clear waters and mossy waters. I've tried many different ways to rig and type of baits to catch fish but I can't catch many fish. I'm lucky to catch one bass or blue gill. Please help!
Follow the 100 ponds series and emulate EXACTLY what I do and talk about for various conditions. You’ll catch some soon!
You miss-pronounced crawdad. 😂🎉😂
Lol
I'm a new angler so I have what might sound like the stupid question of the day. Bear with me. Is it effective to fish a craw where they aren't normally found in nature? I assume live craws are normally found in shallow water with plenty of hiding spots. Put another way, will a craw style lure entice a fish to eat it in clear water at 20 ft depth?
As discussed in this video, a bass is opportunistic. So even if you do not have many crawfish in your body of water, the presentation itself may still look appealing enough to the fish. I would always recommend first trying to closely match the forage you have though.
Bass are oppurtunistic feeders so probably
Two answer your question another way: in my own experience.
Yes they will catch bass. It really comes down to the specific water you’re fishing. There’s a specific pond in mind that I’m thinking of near me in which I cannot catch a single thing except when using a black with blue sparkle craw lure. The ozark trails work fine for me. Doesn’t matter if I fish it on the bottom, on the top, in the middle, fast, slow, medium paced, weighted, Texas rigged, ned rigged, whatever. If I throw those craws on in that pond I catch bass after bass after bass. It’s approx 23 ft. Max depth and has a VERY steep drop off from the shoreline.
Make of this what you will.
Pls do 100 lakes tyler wed love it
Rage Lobster was the best. I think they’re discontinued
Yeah that was a good one
50 states next series
Alaska? Hawaii? I don't think they're worth Bass fishing
Upper 48. Lol
at this point im starting to think bass eat everything that moves even tha poop lures
Absolutely
I saw a vid where they bit a Donald Trump topwater
It's my opinion that like so many other bass fishing lures, the crawfish style lures too are first and foremost, designed to catch fishermen's dollars.
If they happen to catch a few fish in the process, so much the better.
Bass aren't the smartest creatures in God's creation so, it stands to reason that even the most ridiculously made craw style soft plastic bait will catch fish under ideal conditions.
I watched a guy tie two treble hooks onto a four-inch length of thin wood and proceed to catch bass fishing it as a top water lure so yea, under the right conditions, a bass will bite just about anything resembling a potential meal.
Yep!
Soooooo......only strike king makes crawfish baits huh?
I quite literally named like a dozen companies that make crawfish baits.
But strike king makes some awesome ones too, and they have sponsored my channel for 6 years. So I talk about them
Have you tried the chasebaits mudbug crawfish
No
@TylersReelFishing look it up and try them I love them and they look. Like craw the most
A few weeks ago Tyler mentioned an App with GPS for tracking fish catches. I believe it is connected to the hat button. Does anyone know what the apps name is?
It’s been discontinued. I haven’t mentioned it in years, you must have watched an old video
Thank you @@TylersReelFishing
What is a water column?
The entirety of the water from the surface to the bottom, is the “column”
That’s LFG’s cave lol. Collab?
LFGs cave? Where?
@@TylersReelFishing with the bass behind it. Is that not his space? Lol maybe I haven’t been on your channel in a while
Bass aren’t that smart. Go catch ‘em and quit over analyzing it.
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Not randy
He’s a UA-camr that’s for sure 😂
Why are you hating on Randy, that’s not right Tyler just because he has a different opinion than you do you shouldn’t say stuff like this because it may make other people think bad of Randy, just sayin
No hate was spoken at all!
SENKO OR LIVE BAIT. all these youtubers are just making money off of impatient guys. MLF pros get skunked on live TV. lets get real. if bass want to eat they will.
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