I had to stop watching those "On yeah!! It's a big one!! Huge fish!!! He taking line!!"... As they loosen the drag... After they get the fish in they long-arm like champs...
Love the stress free, laid back composure of all your vids. I get tired of vain and competitive channels trying to convince me of something or another. I just want to relax and catch the dumbest fish in the lake.
@@justinbecker947 Lojo, Norm and guys sponsored by Googan. They never seem to have any rods break or anything. I broke a squarebill in my 3rd cast. Bill just broke clean off. Soft plastics suck. They tear apart so fast. That's just my take and opinion.
What a great way to start a Saturday morning in upstate South Carolina, watching my favorite UA-cam angler catching his favorite fish, river small mouth bass. Thank you for sharing.
One of the only fisherman I've been able to consistently watch without pause. I wish I had as much awesome places to go as you! Thanks for the great content!
@@scottweisel3640 I thought I replied but I guess I didn’t because I don’t see the response. I was wading near John Wright restaurant and heading up the river.
Rainy today where I am, and calling for strong storms later. Can't get out to go fishing. So, the next best thing. Watch your videos. Thanks for posting!
Just a dandy day to be on the water. The river conditions were spectacular and you found some willing participants. Had to spend the first half of the day laying down fresh mulch. This was a good choice to unwind for the end of the evening. Thanks Matt
The fish wink at me when it’s that clear ❣️🤭😜🙏🏼😝😆🤪 Great blue heron flew by w/a 1 1/2lb bass, he was laughing, no wink🤣🙏🏼❣️Tight lines everyone, God bless❣️
I very much enjoy your videos. some of my most memorable fishing excursions were in my kayak on the Wisconsin River chasing smallies and any other fish I could coax into hitting a lure. My kayak days are over-, age related, but I will relive these fun days through you. Thank you
Thanks. Matt, for sharing this wonderful trek on a gorgeous clear water river, while you're catching some beautiful smallies, it just doesn't get any better than that! Take care and be safe!
Due to the warm winter most weeds never 100% died off, this will be an interesting opener in MN. I was out a few weeks ago targeting crappies and was surprised at the weed edge still in the lake. Can't wait to go for the LM and pike !
Probably a weird question, but what pants do you recommend for kayak fishing in the summer? Completely scorched my legs over the weekend when I was out on the water for a few hours
I like the Columbia silver ridge stretch pants. The little bit of stretch is nice for getting in and out of the kayak and climbing around rough terrain, and the synthetic fabric dries fast. I’m not sure if they still make them, I bought like six pairs when Amazon had them cheap and have used them for several years now. Last I checked they had a newer version that didn’t have the zipper cargo pocket like mine.
Man I love smallies . The best fishin on the planet in my opinion. I miss it so much . I’m disabled now and can’t go like I used to so thanks for takin me along
@@ndyakangler I use to fish the James River in South Central Virginia which has some really good smallies . I’d would have loved to fished in MN or Michigan.
Caught me a flounder out off Carolina beach this past week on vacation.. Bout time to try and fail to bass fish again this year in Kentucky. Love the videos man.
I watch several fishermen on a regular basis and I love you all. The thing I find really funny is that you all say the same thing: "I forgot my ??? today." You guys need a checklist...😄 Thank you for the great videos.
There’s just so many different variables it makes it easy to forget something. Different rods and gear for different fish, different kayaks and with the Hobie there’s detachable components I can’t forget. Half of the stuff I leave in my truck while half of it has to come out after each trip. I had my anchor stake sitting in one of the grooves on the bottom of my Tarpon which was sitting upside down in the garage so it’s easy to look right past it and forget if I switch it up and take the Hobie.
Another treat to liven up a Saturday morning! Thanks for another great video, Matt! Used to be the first thing I did on a Saturday was check last night's lotto drawing, but now I've switched to your channel, and get a winner every time!
Haven’t found the smallies return to my leg of the river from wherever they go to spawn. But! A little feeder lake has been nice with the largemouth, blue gill and crappie while I wait for them to come back
Thanks for another great fishing adventure. I fish in a northern Wisconsin Vilas County lake. And it's similar to a lake you fish in. There is large mouth bass, pan fish, pike and musky and crappie. But no small mouth sad face, but I manage fine with catching large mouth. I just recently ordered a few top lures and can't wait to try a whopper plopper 75. I normally do fine wacky rigging the large mouth. And I also recently broke down and spent 200 on a Daiwa set up. Good luck to you fishing this season
I caught my first muskie last friday on an Ultra-light rod and 1/16oz jighead i was using for panfish 😅 it was a real small muskie though maybe 9 inches
I think the rocks and concrete hold in heat from the sun rays and that's why the fish hold tight to it plus it's the perfect place to get out the current and ambush food. Great video any day the sun is out or the weather is nice is a great day to be on the water. For us diehard fisherman any day is a good day to be on the water my favorite time to drift the river for steelhead is in a blizzard because most of the time you have the river to yourself.
There’s always some algae rising up off the river bottom this time of year. We just didn’t get much snow over the winter and no spring flood to flush it all through. There was about 40cfps moving through this river when I was there last week, normally this time of year it’s somewhere between 500-1,200cfps. The wind was stronger than the current and those spots the wind was blowing into had a bunch of green stuff piling up.
@@ndyakangler thank you for explaining the situation and educating me. I've not experienced anything like that in the spring. I enjoy and learn from your videos, thank you again. TIGHT LINES
I enjoyed this video very much, the clear natural water mmmmh,. But still no green on the trees, here (Germany) green of nature is exploding allready the last 10 days, I love it when live is coming back. Anyway I think your nature will follow very soon ...👍👍👍
man you are blessed with some world class fisheries. here in maryland we have 3 rivers you can target smallies on and everything you catch would be a PB here. it's all rooster tail and 2" grubs here.
Nice one buddy. Quick Qoustion you should buy a tagger to tag them for the wild life fisheries an it will remind u u have caught this same fish before just was throwing that out their 🤘🤘
Hey Matt do you put a drop of super glue on the point where the swimbait & jig meet? Helps prevent the plastic sliding down the hook. Even with wire holders swimbaits drag down and I'm constantly re-rigging if I don't do that.
just wanted to say, I used to watch about 20+ fishing channels on youtube, after filtering out the crap / boring / over hyped idiots, only you and 618 fishing remain. Keep it up my man.
Nice my friend I can’t wait to go our opening small mouth is June 5 in Hurley Wi..Ps it be cool to see you fish some urban creeks like that one where it was real misty and I said looks like some mystic river smallies…lol I used to live in fl never caught one now I’m in Hurley Wi wearing em out ..🇺🇸🦅👍
Love the video man!!!!! I have a question the musky that you fish is the common musky or the tiger musky I looked and I find a variation in the species??
I wonder what that hollow concrete column was? It looked like there was some structure on shore. It would have made a strange bridge or an out-of-place massive dock.
Hello, I've been watching your channel for a short time. I enjoy your video's, enough to start looking for a kayak and exploring the many fishing Ponds available to the public. I have a question, length of your Hobie kayak with the pedal power feature ? Thanks for your time. Cheers 😁
I built my own hat cam mount out of some ABS sheet plastic I had laying around. If you search my channel for “hat cam rig” I did a video several years ago where I show it up close and talk about how I built it.
caught my pb yesterday
Congratulations brother 👍
Cograts
Hell yeah!
thats cool bro, caught my first crappie yesterday and it was a 1.5 pounder
How big
I appreciate it when you catch a fish and don't scream and jump around like a fool like most other fishing UA-camrs.
Who are you watching that does that lol
@@justinbecker947prolly Jon b or most younger fishing UA-camrs lol
Agreed.
@@justinbecker947 it is more like "Who are you watching that DOESN'T do that?"..
I had to stop watching those "On yeah!! It's a big one!! Huge fish!!! He taking line!!"... As they loosen the drag... After they get the fish in they long-arm like champs...
Love the stress free, laid back composure of all your vids. I get tired of vain and competitive channels trying to convince me of something or another. I just want to relax and catch the dumbest fish in the lake.
Dude who are you watching who does that?
@@justinbecker947 "Go buy this!" "Do this" "This is the $70k set up you need!!"
When they are looking for attention more than fish
@@justinbecker947 Lojo, Norm and guys sponsored by Googan. They never seem to have any rods break or anything. I broke a squarebill in my 3rd cast. Bill just broke clean off. Soft plastics suck. They tear apart so fast. That's just my take and opinion.
Fishing is to be relaxed, that’s why I don’t do tournament fishing,🐟on
Hey man, I don't even fish that much myself but I love your videos! They bring me so much happiness and tranqulity. Cheers from Canada
you know it's a good day when ndyak uploads
What a great way to start a Saturday morning in upstate South Carolina, watching my favorite UA-cam angler catching his favorite fish, river small mouth bass. Thank you for sharing.
Im here in Central Georgia!
I’m Irmo, SC
I was going to go fishing this morning but it rained me out. Watching your video is the next best thing.
Smallies are a lot of fun to catch!
One of the only fisherman I've been able to consistently watch without pause. I wish I had as much awesome places to go as you! Thanks for the great content!
Some nice catches! Thanks for sharing!!
Just went wading for smallies in the Susquehanna on Monday. Caught 14 smallmouth and 1 big walleye. The fish are getting really active again!
I'm getting excited for the topwater bite. Only a couple more weeks...
West Branch or North Branch?
@@scottweisel3640 near wrightsville/ John Wright restaurant
@@scottweisel3640 I thought I replied but I guess I didn’t because I don’t see the response. I was wading near John Wright restaurant and heading up the river.
Rainy today where I am, and calling for strong storms later. Can't get out to go fishing. So, the next best thing. Watch your videos. Thanks for posting!
"Sometimes you just have to say 'Please'..." LOL Love that, mate; another awesome video...!!! 😎
Those smallmouth you caught are impressive. Nice size and thick too. Pretty fish 👍
Just a dandy day to be on the water. The river conditions were spectacular and you found some willing participants. Had to spend the first half of the day laying down fresh mulch. This was a good choice to unwind for the end of the evening. Thanks Matt
Love your videos! I refer to you as the Bob Ross of fisherman. I always watch your videos before bed cause it’s so relaxing. Keep it up man 🤙🏼
You make it look so effortless. A year of getting skunked in the Kayak, I finally got 3 smallies today. You're great keep doing your thing.
Perfect timing. I was watching one of your videos to see how to tie a Trilene Knot XD Then I got a notification of a new video! Good Saturday morning.
Any tips on a good, camera for hat?
The fish wink at me when it’s that clear ❣️🤭😜🙏🏼😝😆🤪
Great blue heron flew by w/a 1 1/2lb bass, he was laughing, no wink🤣🙏🏼❣️Tight lines everyone, God bless❣️
some great fishing videos with my morning coffee, thank you sir
I very much enjoy your videos. some of my most memorable fishing excursions were in my kayak on the Wisconsin River chasing smallies and any other fish I could coax into hitting a lure. My kayak days are over-, age related, but I will relive these fun days through you. Thank you
Great video! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.
Thanks. Matt, for sharing this wonderful trek on a gorgeous clear water river, while you're catching some beautiful smallies, it just doesn't get any better than that! Take care and be safe!
I have the hobie passport 12r and it's amazing. I got the turbo fins with the reverse on them too. Is that the compass 12?
Due to the warm winter most weeds never 100% died off, this will be an interesting opener in MN. I was out a few weeks ago targeting crappies and was surprised at the weed edge still in the lake. Can't wait to go for the LM and pike !
Probably a weird question, but what pants do you recommend for kayak fishing in the summer? Completely scorched my legs over the weekend when I was out on the water for a few hours
I like the Columbia silver ridge stretch pants. The little bit of stretch is nice for getting in and out of the kayak and climbing around rough terrain, and the synthetic fabric dries fast. I’m not sure if they still make them, I bought like six pairs when Amazon had them cheap and have used them for several years now. Last I checked they had a newer version that didn’t have the zipper cargo pocket like mine.
@@ndyakangler thank you for the info! Much appreciated!
Very happy to see this pop up again.thanks for another great fishing trip.
Enjoyed the video very much. Very high-quality angling but nice and low-key. Appreciate you sharing your fishing experience.
On a stay at home day like this one of your videos was just what I needed
Another great day!! Thanks, Matt!!
Always looking forward to your next outing, didn't disappoint!
I just bought the yellow duck(savage gear), got it yesturday. Can't wait to go try it.
Beautiful day. I like to plan my fishing by the wind and let it move me around. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Man I love smallies . The best fishin on the planet in my opinion. I miss it so much . I’m disabled now and can’t go like I used to so thanks for takin me along
MN opens their season next weekend then I can get back on some of my favorite smallie spots! I can’t wait!
@@ndyakangler I use to fish the James River in South Central Virginia which has some really good smallies . I’d would have loved to fished in MN or Michigan.
Best fishing content on UA-cam, IMO. Love the areas you fish. Keep the vids coming. Great work!
Got my first Striped Bass of the season here in Connecticut. Spring finally feels like it's here.
It's a great spring! Great stuff Matt
Nice bass as always Thanks for taking us along
Caught me a flounder out off Carolina beach this past week on vacation.. Bout time to try and fail to bass fish again this year in Kentucky. Love the videos man.
Thank you for taking us with. Great vid as always.
I watch several fishermen on a regular basis and I love you all. The thing I find really funny is that you all say the same thing: "I forgot my ??? today." You guys need a checklist...😄 Thank you for the great videos.
There’s just so many different variables it makes it easy to forget something. Different rods and gear for different fish, different kayaks and with the Hobie there’s detachable components I can’t forget. Half of the stuff I leave in my truck while half of it has to come out after each trip. I had my anchor stake sitting in one of the grooves on the bottom of my Tarpon which was sitting upside down in the garage so it’s easy to look right past it and forget if I switch it up and take the Hobie.
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Yess, warmer weather, more ride alongs, more vids.
Yeah buddy another great video!
Another treat to liven up a Saturday morning! Thanks for another great video, Matt! Used to be the first thing I did on a Saturday was check last night's lotto drawing, but now I've switched to your channel, and get a winner every time!
Haven’t found the smallies return to my leg of the river from wherever they go to spawn. But! A little feeder lake has been nice with the largemouth, blue gill and crappie while I wait for them to come back
absolutely love the content you do. Keep it up!!
Another great trip! Keep them coming!
Makes me feel better after getting skunked this morning after being on the water for over 3 hours. Thank you Matt!
It’s been a tough bite here the last couple weeks. This was about the only success I’ve had.
What is your camera set up? I want to start recording my kayak fishing trips but im struggling to find good answers for this.
What is the best pound test for braid on a baitcaster in your opinion?
I like 15lb on a medium xf setup and 30lb on a medium heavy.
Real fishing. Wonderful. Gentle.
haven't been fishing in 3 years. finally got back out today and caught 2 bass. lost 4. what a great day
Nice man
@@kyleangelone1074 felt so good to have a fish on
Thanks for another great fishing adventure. I fish in a northern Wisconsin Vilas County lake. And it's similar to a lake you fish in. There is large mouth bass, pan fish, pike and musky and crappie. But no small mouth sad face, but I manage fine with catching large mouth. I just recently ordered a few top lures and can't wait to try a whopper plopper 75. I normally do fine wacky rigging the large mouth. And I also recently broke down and spent 200 on a Daiwa set up. Good luck to you fishing this season
I caught my first muskie last friday on an Ultra-light rod and 1/16oz jighead i was using for panfish 😅 it was a real small muskie though maybe 9 inches
I think the rocks and concrete hold in heat from the sun rays and that's why the fish hold tight to it plus it's the perfect place to get out the current and ambush food. Great video any day the sun is out or the weather is nice is a great day to be on the water. For us diehard fisherman any day is a good day to be on the water my favorite time to drift the river for steelhead is in a blizzard because most of the time you have the river to yourself.
Nice job getting your jig back
Great content as usual. Can’t beat big smallies.
awsome video some nice smallies🎣
wow nice looking samlies good job tks for sharing😊
Thank you for creating and sharing this content. Curious about the algae, spring still and cool water, caused by fertilizer run off? TIGHT LINES ALL
There’s always some algae rising up off the river bottom this time of year. We just didn’t get much snow over the winter and no spring flood to flush it all through. There was about 40cfps moving through this river when I was there last week, normally this time of year it’s somewhere between 500-1,200cfps. The wind was stronger than the current and those spots the wind was blowing into had a bunch of green stuff piling up.
@@ndyakangler thank you for explaining the situation and educating me. I've not experienced anything like that in the spring. I enjoy and learn from your videos, thank you again. TIGHT LINES
400,000 subs ! Happy for you.
I enjoyed this video very much, the clear natural water mmmmh,. But still no green on the trees, here (Germany) green of nature is exploding allready the last 10 days, I love it when live is coming back. Anyway I think your nature will follow very soon ...👍👍👍
The leaves are starting to come in now! I’m along the north edge of the US so our spring is a little later than everyone else here.
best fishing channel on YT by miles. keep up the amazing content, dude.
man you are blessed with some world class fisheries. here in maryland we have 3 rivers you can target smallies on and everything you catch would be a PB here. it's all rooster tail and 2" grubs here.
Love the lakes you fish and your kayak
The water in Iowa is sooo high and I can’t get out right now 😞 thanks for posting so I can get my fix!
GREAT VIDEOS! Makes me wish I could go fishing again.
Nice one buddy. Quick Qoustion you should buy a tagger to tag them for the wild life fisheries an it will remind u u have caught this same fish before just was throwing that out their 🤘🤘
Hey Matt do you put a drop of super glue on the point where the swimbait & jig meet? Helps prevent the plastic sliding down the hook. Even with wire holders swimbaits drag down and I'm constantly re-rigging if I don't do that.
This Guy catches more fish in 3 minutes than most people catch all season.
Knowledge of habitat, coupled with knowing what lure(s), will give ol’Matt the best chance to boat a few. Very Sharp Fella!👍
Awesome session. Seems like you had a pretty good bag!
Man I can't wait for MN Bass opener this Saturday 😩🎣
Them awesome lure .I've use them in the past when yakking for sea trouts😊
Nice seeing the 'ol Hobie Revo drive in use!
What nice river smallmouth!
some beautiful smallies man - the bronze color is stunning in them
Hi Matt! Really enjoy your videos, thanks. Regarding your equipment, what model graph do you have on your Hobie? And power source? Thanks.
Thanks! I have a Humminbird Helix 5.
Thanks. I’ll investigate it. I have never owned one and live on a small lake, great for bass which will be the only water my Hobie will see.
just wanted to say, I used to watch about 20+ fishing channels on youtube, after filtering out the crap / boring / over hyped idiots, only you and 618 fishing remain. Keep it up my man.
Thanks! I've watched several of 618's videos too and enjoyed them!
Nice my friend I can’t wait to go our opening small mouth is June 5 in Hurley Wi..Ps it be cool to see you fish some urban creeks like that one where it was real misty and I said looks like some mystic river smallies…lol I used to live in fl never caught one now I’m in Hurley Wi wearing em out ..🇺🇸🦅👍
Where I’m at it seems we have more river algae, grass, and weeds than usual for early May. Rivers are high from regular rain. Wind is a factor too.
That kyack is sick!!
Excellent! Glad the smallies are back!!2
Love the video man!!!!! I have a question the musky that you fish is the common musky or the tiger musky I looked and I find a variation in the species??
I believe they’re mostly common muskie, Leech Lake strain. There might be a few smaller tigers in there from cross breeding with pike.
@@ndyakangler thanks man, awesome!!!!!!!!
Those geese were NOT happy with you being there at the start LOL
Great catches my guy! God bless, and keep those lines tight...🎣
Always happy to see a new upload
Love your channel, wanted to ask any recs on a 200 size reel to chase pike and musky? Plan on throwing up to 3oz lures...
I wonder what that hollow concrete column was? It looked like there was some structure on shore. It would have made a strange bridge or an out-of-place massive dock.
more quality smallmouth Thanks for sharing
Hello, I've been watching your channel for a short time. I enjoy your video's, enough to start looking for a kayak and exploring the many fishing Ponds available to the public. I have a question, length of your Hobie kayak with the pedal power feature ? Thanks for your time. Cheers 😁
sir may i ask what kind of hat mount that you used? mine always make my hat falling off, thx! big fan of yours!
I built my own hat cam mount out of some ABS sheet plastic I had laying around. If you search my channel for “hat cam rig” I did a video several years ago where I show it up close and talk about how I built it.
@@ndyakanglerthx buddy, appreciate the reply😂, you are my motivation to start making my own fishing video 👍
Surprised to not see you get that floating moss on your bait. Enjoyed the watch.
It broke apart pretty easy if I yanked my lure through it. I think it’s the dead decomposing bits of last years algae floating up.
Are there fishing seasons in ND? It seems like you're fishing for everything all the time? 😊
The fishing season never closes in ND!
Ohh. I'm in MN.
What are all the pieces on your jig I would love to try it? also that a sweet kayak.
Man I would love to have one day of fishing with this man
Videos are exciting and calm. Really enjoy...
You should try fishing with the Z-MAN hellraizer NDYakAngler.
Those smallies were nice chunky fish!
What kind of kayak do you have. Im looking to get one with pedals to maneuver better.
I have a Hobie Compass.