This summer was tough, lots of real low water. I did start having some luck beginning of sept with a frog and some rain. I was fishing around the mid Atlantic, south Jersey, Pa, north east Maryland, and Delaware.
Yo Sad isn't it !!! Ole Matt makes us all look bad LOL.. Course he's in one of Americas best fisheries & he knows all the best spots he's learned over the years. I've fished in Minnesota before & it's the most fun at every place you have river systems. He's one lucky guy & you can tell he never takes this as no big thing . He has access year round to fish for everything from Smallies to river & lake monsters . Best fishing channel & right there with those famous fishermen from The In Fisherman show & magazine. No BS just fish & the sound of the rivers.
Like that you stated you fished earlier and didn't do good. Most people would have never even mentioned it. Nice to know you have some off moments too. Those are the days I usually appreciate my surroundings and just being able to get out and fish. As always thanks for sharing!
I stopped your video at 2 minutes and grabbed my rod and went out to my dock. Put on a jig head and a 3 inch black worm and caught 2 smallies and a largey in 3 casts. Now I'm back to watching. Thanks for the motivation.
You have access to some really great fishing locations and, best of all, they are all public. Thank you for showing us it can be done even in northern waters.
Great video as usual, one thing that stood out though. He went down with two rods and came back with one, hoping that was just an edit and he did not leave the bait caster behind.
Wow! The rivers and streams there are just TEAMING with life! ALSO, awesome to see some BANK FISHING. That's all I can do as I have no boat of any kind. Great video Matt...as always.
Was literally looking at swimbaits and thinking about some great videos you have done with them and here you are with a video using a swimbait what are the odds!
You forgot your other rod! haha, just kidding. man, any of those fish you were calling small guys would be a fine fish where I live in the Ouachita mountains. They live here but they take forever to grow up into big fish. Anything near 20" is practically unheard of. They're still pound for pound the most fun fish to catch though!
I had to make a trip back to my truck for more plastic and dropped the second rod off. I walked down the other side of the dam and tried over there too but the wind was blowing spray right at me.
I’ve been following you for a long time! And yesterday I was in Canada and I caught my first northern pike 33 inch. I’ve been fishing all my life and I only had one other opportunity to go for it and I lost it lol. Check another one off the bucket list for me! Thank you for the great advice and videos! 🤘🏻🤙🏻
33 wow, nice catch! I'm in the cities of Minnesota (central east) and it's hard to find any pike of substantial size, I've caught probably 40 of them this summer and only a couple of them came anywhere near 33 inches
Yak Angler video upload Great...Spidey sense tingling about the dam area Priceless. Favorite moment..."That spot looks fishy"...then one crank of the reel handle and BAM!! Thanks for sharing brother
Eating a bowl of cereal and fishing, can't get better than that on a cold October morning....well, you're fishing and I'm watching while eating cereal :)
I drove to a convenient spot (too old to climb down river banks now) very early a couple of mornings about a week and half ago near Red Lake Falls, MN. I had some of the best smallmouth fishing I have ever had, especially size-wise. Some of those larger (near 19 inches) fish just did not want to come in. I had my luck on a black twister tail. Too bad very cold air is in the forecast.
I live in the city and struggle so much, going from bayou to bayou, no rivers/creeks near me, trying to catch bass. I found a spawning spot last winter and got a handful but that spot is now infested with carp jumping out of the water, hundreds of them. No more bass there. Will move to the NW after finishing school JUST so I can fish. Thanks, Angler! Keep up the content.
You are a beast when fishing bro keep going but I love the whopper plopper and the spook because I see the whole action and aggressiveness of the smallies, that's cool
Very awesome! But, in wandering if you threw the plopper...I noticed that you didn't have two rods with you when you left...did you happen to forget it back at the dam? I have done that before! Lol
Great vid as always is this a recent trip? Action has really slowed here and I’m pretty far south of you. Those smallies you catch are just gorgeous keep it up!
This is from a few weeks ago. I haven’t been out since the start of the month, we got a new house and it needed a bit of work. Hopefully I’ll get out this week but the next couple days we have highs in the mid 30’s.
Awesome video. Didn’t you walk to the spot with two rods and then walk back to your truck with only one? If I’m right I hope you retrieved the second rod! Love your vids.
Largemouth was flushed out from upstream of dam. You're correct ou wouldn't expect in such habitat but I'm certain he resided in slack vegetated water above dam. Along with that pike. You said they were working on the dam itself, they may likely have been releasing water at higher rate than usual. Thus releasing providing bonus species
NDYakAngler has become an inspiration fishing site to me in order to try new lures and tecniques. Yesterday Saturday I caught my first two bass on a wacky rig. Later on when the sun had just set I shifted to a Chinese imitation of your striped fat Whopper Popper and several bites succeded and got a 45 cm bass. The bites continued and it was a joy...until "bad" luck ocurred. In a shallow corner a monster brutally took my lure, jumped...and I could see its entire body out of the water at a distance of some eight metres. I bet it was over seven pounds. On just that jump I snapped my line as I made the hookset and the bail of my reel painfully hit my knuckles. The bass of my life was gone in a split second while that beast was suspended in the air. In the long drive back home I had a bitter sweet aftertaste. Well, that's fishing! One must learn from the mistakes. I am a rookie on brided line. Monofilament allows you some stretch. On this occasion the double uni knot didn't break. It was the leader snap union that failed.
@@ndyakangler Thank you Matt for your simpathy. Next weekend is the last one before cold weather sets in my area. I'll drive to the same reservoir and it would be great to catch that same marvellous bass and spare it the agony of having my lure stuck in its mouth and then release it so as it can continue to transmit its valuable genes. Most unlikely, I know...but it would be awesome...
I’ve fished there several times and this was definitely one of the more productive stops at this spot! I’ll usually find one decent fish there and a bunch of little ones.
For whatever reason that spot is better on overcast and windy days. Only the fishing gods know why. My teenage son fishes that nearly every day and has pulled too many big smalles to count. He has also stumbled upon a 7 pound walleye and 25 pound cat there this summer. It was fun to see you there. That will make his day!
Man you are brave throwing straight line at toothy slime rockets. They are experts at cutting my line. I've lost so many of all kinds of lures to them that I put on a little steel leader if there's even a 10% chance of pike.
When my soft plastic gets destroyed I usually turn it belly up, so it can stand a few more strikes without getting off the hook. Sometimes it even works better that way.
I actually did that with mine! I filmed myself rigging it that way and explained why but I don’t think I caught anything before a fish completely ripped it off so I left the whole thing out of the video. I probably would have left it in but I had to do a quick edit last week so I could tear down my computer and start getting set up at my new place.
You should come to Wahpeton and make a video. Do you fish for walleye or just for pike and smallies? The walleye are biting down there and some smallies too
That was at least a decent little pike. Those little 1-2 pounders are the bane of my existence anymore. They're always hungry and tear up my tackle and my line. If they had any size to them, maybe I'd be happier but I'd rather catch a bass and not have to tie so many knots.
It’s been non stop lately! Fine with me we’ve been getting moved into a new house the past couple weeks but I wouldn’t mind a calm day or two now that a few projects are done.
Actually you’re feeding all of our addictions 😂 I thank you 🎣🐟
You’ve caught more fish in a single trip than I have this past summer 😂
This summer was tough, lots of real low water. I did start having some luck beginning of sept with a frog and some rain. I was fishing around the mid Atlantic, south Jersey, Pa, north east Maryland, and Delaware.
Yo Sad isn't it !!! Ole Matt makes us all look bad LOL.. Course he's in one of Americas best fisheries & he knows all the best spots he's learned over the years. I've fished in Minnesota before & it's the most fun at every place you have river systems. He's one lucky guy & you can tell he never takes this as no big thing . He has access year round to fish for everything from Smallies to river & lake monsters . Best fishing channel & right there with those famous fishermen from The In Fisherman show & magazine. No BS just fish & the sound of the rivers.
This guy definitely knows how too slay ‘em.
@@paullevine1813 I do agree
Same. Hack of a trip!
Nothing better than waking up to this video on a Sunday morning
How bout actually being out there fishing with him?
@@sean4236 I wish
Like that you stated you fished earlier and didn't do good. Most people would have never even mentioned it. Nice to know you have some off moments too. Those are the days I usually appreciate my surroundings and just being able to get out and fish. As always thanks for sharing!
I'm so jealous, all those fisheries you have access to, it's just incredible. Love your Channel.
😎🎣📹👍
This. I have nothing even close to this accessible in WA. Beautiful scenery and amazing fisheries with a chill angler on this channel.
I'm beginning to think I need to relocate, this seems like a Smallmouth Bass fisherman's Heaven. Thanks for the Sunday morning entertainment!
until the water freezes...
@@JenkinsB ice fishing 🤷🏼♂️
I stopped your video at 2 minutes and grabbed my rod and went out to my dock. Put on a jig head and a 3 inch black worm and caught 2 smallies and a largey in 3 casts. Now I'm back to watching. Thanks for the motivation.
You have access to some really great fishing locations and, best of all, they are all public. Thank you for showing us it can be done even in northern waters.
Great video as usual, one thing that stood out though. He went down with two rods and came back with one, hoping that was just an edit and he did not leave the bait caster behind.
This is exactly my concern
I brought it back, just didn’t show running it back to my truck when I grabbed my pack of plastics.
Ok.. I’m breaking out my kayak and gonna hunt some striped and largemouth bass on the California Delta.. thanks for inspiration you rock dude!
I hope you picked up your other rod that you set in the rocks!
Yes I ran it back to my truck when I went back up there for more bass assassins.
Came to the comments hoping someone had already said this lol
You didn’t choose fishing life !
Fishing live chose you my friend!!! All the best from Portugal 😊
solid solid fish! the spillway/dam was a good place to stop and check out!
Tore my bicep and rotator cuff 3 weeks ago loading my kayak on my truck, just had surgery 2 weeks ago. Your videos have helped me while I can’t fish 😊
Best fishing channel on the Internet 💪🏼
Wow! The rivers and streams there are just TEAMING with life! ALSO, awesome to see some BANK FISHING. That's all I can do as I have no boat of any kind. Great video Matt...as always.
Was literally looking at swimbaits and thinking about some great videos you have done with them and here you are with a video using a swimbait what are the odds!
Good way to end a so so trip down river. Always great to see you posting video's. Look forward to next one. Stay safe.
Everyone worried about the second rod on the way back to truck =D
You forgot your other rod! haha, just kidding.
man, any of those fish you were calling small guys would be a fine fish where I live in the Ouachita mountains. They live here but they take forever to grow up into big fish. Anything near 20" is practically unheard of. They're still pound for pound the most fun fish to catch though!
I had to make a trip back to my truck for more plastic and dropped the second rod off. I walked down the other side of the dam and tried over there too but the wind was blowing spray right at me.
MN smallmouth fishing has spoiled me. 17" is a pretty average size, and usually manage at least one at or over 19" per trip.
Damn!!! Very nice stop n thanks fer takin us along!!!
I’ve been following you for a long time! And yesterday I was in Canada and I caught my first northern pike 33 inch. I’ve been fishing all my life and I only had one other opportunity to go for it and I lost it lol. Check another one off the bucket list for me! Thank you for the great advice and videos! 🤘🏻🤙🏻
33 wow, nice catch! I'm in the cities of Minnesota (central east) and it's hard to find any pike of substantial size, I've caught probably 40 of them this summer and only a couple of them came anywhere near 33 inches
Yak Angler video upload Great...Spidey sense tingling about the dam area Priceless. Favorite moment..."That spot looks fishy"...then one crank of the reel handle and BAM!! Thanks for sharing brother
Eating a bowl of cereal and fishing, can't get better than that on a cold October morning....well, you're fishing and I'm watching while eating cereal :)
Love your videos with the natural sounds. You’ve got this video thing figured out. Thanks for sharing!
Nice catches . Can’t say I’m surprised always nailing the Bass !
I drove to a convenient spot (too old to climb down river banks now) very early a couple of mornings about a week and half ago near Red Lake Falls, MN. I had some of the best smallmouth fishing I have ever had, especially size-wise. Some of those larger (near 19 inches) fish just did not want to come in. I had my luck on a black twister tail. Too bad very cold air is in the forecast.
I second that! Nothing better to waking up too fishing with NDY on a boring Sunday morning
Nice ones
I can’t believe I never saw your vids before they are so great and inspiring ❤
It's like when I was a kid looking forward to Saturday morning cartoons.....Sunday morning therapy.
Dude I love your videos this one was sick!
I love those "stopping off" spots when they pay off
Wow, all you catch are TANKS!!!! I'd give anything to have access to water like you have in MN/ND. Thx for sharing the videos.
Nice catches! Nothing beats a good day of fishing
I live in the city and struggle so much, going from bayou to bayou, no rivers/creeks near me, trying to catch bass. I found a spawning spot last winter and got a handful but that spot is now infested with carp jumping out of the water, hundreds of them. No more bass there. Will move to the NW after finishing school JUST so I can fish. Thanks, Angler! Keep up the content.
just got off a 12 hour shift time to watch this video and get some sleep thank you Mr.Yak
That look like so much fun... Great video as always keepem coming brother!!!
Seeing the spots you fish it makes me wonder how we haven't run into each other. 😁
I love these videos. It’s the voice. Same reason I would watch Bob Ross paint! I am just going to paint a happy little bass up there…
Well done sir, we'll keep watching ...
I never can get over how much attitude smallies have. they are so feisty lol
That plastic had much more life left in it! Another great video and action!!!
Always appreciate the videos
Great bass action 👍
Love this channel, I was inspired to go fishing yesterday and I caught the smallest largemouth ever, lol
I am from Northern Europe and these def work the best
I am always amazed at all the water (full of quality fish) you have all to yourself. Jealous!
You are a beast when fishing bro keep going but I love the whopper plopper and the spook because I see the whole action and aggressiveness of the smallies, that's cool
It's always a pleasure! God Bless!
Very awesome! But, in wandering if you threw the plopper...I noticed that you didn't have two rods with you when you left...did you happen to forget it back at the dam? I have done that before! Lol
I noticed that too.
I ran it back to my truck when I grabbed another plastic. I did try about ten casts with the Plopper but no action so I didn’t add it to the video.
@@ndyakangler Dangit!! I was just about to catch a flight from the UK to grab me a free rod 😂🤣
You’re fantastic Matt🙏🏼
Fun. Thanks for sharing this with us
Wow a 19 out of that little pool heck of a nice fish!
These videos make my addiction worse 😂. Now I’m going in the morning lol.
I like the ball head jig videos! Also the top water vids
I get Mr. Rogers vibes there at the end when he's walking back to the truck,,,😂😂😂
I often ask myself that same question, “is that my blood or the fishes blood”? Great video as always, thank you!
Matt you rock! Love the channel and content! I'm here for the algorithm! Peace
Looked like you went down with 2 rods only left with one 😮
I had to run back up to my truck for another bass assassin minnow and dropped off the second rod.
That was a good stop. Be well.
Great vid as always is this a recent trip? Action has really slowed here and I’m pretty far south of you. Those smallies you catch are just gorgeous keep it up!
This is from a few weeks ago. I haven’t been out since the start of the month, we got a new house and it needed a bit of work. Hopefully I’ll get out this week but the next couple days we have highs in the mid 30’s.
Again another great video. Thank you
Bank fishing with spinning gear....freaking awesome
Awesome video. Didn’t you walk to the spot with two rods and then walk back to your truck with only one? If I’m right I hope you retrieved the second rod! Love your vids.
Dude nice spot. That was like fishing with a hand grenade in a barrel 🤣
Largemouth was flushed out from upstream of dam. You're correct ou wouldn't expect in such habitat but I'm certain he resided in slack vegetated water above dam. Along with that pike.
You said they were working on the dam itself, they may likely have been releasing water at higher rate than usual. Thus releasing providing bonus species
Simply AWESOME!!!!!
Hi from Irkutsk! Good fishing 🔥
Hope you didn't forget to grab your other rod. Old mate would've picked up a sweet setup.
Caught almost 30 fish and still wasn't happy enough to go home lol never felt so relatable
living vicariously thru you lol
All to often I hit the boat ramp with that same feeling, "that just wasn't enough..."
NDYakAngler has become an inspiration fishing site to me in order to try new lures and tecniques. Yesterday Saturday I caught my first two bass on a wacky rig. Later on when the sun had just set I shifted to a Chinese imitation of your striped fat Whopper Popper and several bites succeded and got a 45 cm bass. The bites continued and it was a joy...until "bad" luck ocurred. In a shallow corner a monster brutally took my lure, jumped...and I could see its entire body out of the water at a distance of some eight metres. I bet it was over seven pounds. On just that jump I snapped my line as I made the hookset and the bail of my reel painfully hit my knuckles. The bass of my life was gone in a split second while that beast was suspended in the air. In the long drive back home I had a bitter sweet aftertaste. Well, that's fishing! One must learn from the mistakes. I am a rookie on brided line. Monofilament allows you some stretch. On this occasion the double uni knot didn't break. It was the leader snap union that failed.
I’ve had a few long drives home like that. It’s always painful losing a monster fish.
@@ndyakangler Thank you Matt for your simpathy. Next weekend is the last one before cold weather sets in my area. I'll drive to the same reservoir and it would be great to catch that same marvellous bass and spare it the agony of having my lure stuck in its mouth and then release it so as it can continue to transmit its valuable genes. Most unlikely, I know...but it would be awesome...
White jigs heads make a heck of a difference
ahh sunday afternoon video made my day :)
You're definitely addicted; looks like you got it bad Matt too; you may want to roll up your sleeve and check for "bass tracker marks" :)
I hope, you didn't forgot your other rod there :D
the elite shiner is my go to lure
They’re tough to beat especially this time of year!
Did you forget your other pole with the plopper? You walked down there with 2 poles. Nice fish 🐟!
I didn’t show the part where I ran back up to my truck for a pack of plastics and stuck the other rod in there.
I am shocked how often you use and exposed hook/jig. I would get that stuck on the rocks instantly haha Idk how you keep them.
nice vid as usuial. keep up the good work!
Thanks 😊
I have to admit some jealousy, because I know exactly where you’re fishing, I fish there often, and you catch twice as much as me lol.
I’ve fished there several times and this was definitely one of the more productive stops at this spot! I’ll usually find one decent fish there and a bunch of little ones.
For whatever reason that spot is better on overcast and windy days. Only the fishing gods know why. My teenage son fishes that nearly every day and has pulled too many big smalles to count. He has also stumbled upon a 7 pound walleye and 25 pound cat there this summer. It was fun to see you there. That will make his day!
@@ndyakangler where in Minnesota is this located?
Did you forget your baitcaster on the rocks? Great little trip.
How was the fishing at that spot? Dam good 😂!
Awesome video....hope you remembered your other rod with the Whopper Plopper 🤔
Man you are brave throwing straight line at toothy slime rockets. They are experts at cutting my line. I've lost so many of all kinds of lures to them that I put on a little steel leader if there's even a 10% chance of pike.
I would love to watch this guy get some of these smallies on a fly rod.
Keep ‘em coming
What about your other rod with the Plopper😮! hope you went back and got it 😊
Another great one! Did you leave your bait caster at the dam?
Is there a brewery near this locations?? if so the other side is stacked as well!!! Great spot I fish here a lot
There is! I’ve pulled a few fish from out in front of the brewery there from the other side on the river walk.
great strike bro
When my soft plastic gets destroyed I usually turn it belly up, so it can stand a few more strikes without getting off the hook. Sometimes it even works better that way.
I actually did that with mine! I filmed myself rigging it that way and explained why but I don’t think I caught anything before a fish completely ripped it off so I left the whole thing out of the video. I probably would have left it in but I had to do a quick edit last week so I could tear down my computer and start getting set up at my new place.
You should come to Wahpeton and make a video. Do you fish for walleye or just for pike and smallies? The walleye are biting down there and some smallies too
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That was at least a decent little pike. Those little 1-2 pounders are the bane of my existence anymore. They're always hungry and tear up my tackle and my line. If they had any size to them, maybe I'd be happier but I'd rather catch a bass and not have to tie so many knots.
Man that looks fun!
I'd love to know the approximate times of day (and more) you're hauling these babies in. Thanks. Great channel.
I’m in Minnesota today wind is been crazy
It’s been non stop lately! Fine with me we’ve been getting moved into a new house the past couple weeks but I wouldn’t mind a calm day or two now that a few projects are done.
@@ndyakangler congratulations on your new home. Maybe one day next year I can get up there and catch some big small mouth with u
Always awesome,, but where are the walleye?