You can get that action at the Jim Woodruff Dam in Chattahoochee, FL. Fish the upside of the Dam with white jig on a surf rod, Jig it out of the lock, have plenty of jigs. Catch stripers and hybrids, we fished the east side. Been years ago, should still be good.
Hey Buddy I’ll be in Orange Beach the second week of February for my 50th Anniversary will keep my eye out for you as I fish the beach. Good luck and good fishing !
My brother Dan is a dedicated fisherman- you may find him there in any conditions if he has a chance- I’m sure he was thrilled to caught that huge one on camera! And meet you of course! Please come visit again! 🇺🇸✌️😎
Great to have you back for a short trip in our old stomping grounds. Always fun spending time with the family around the holidays for sure! Especially Christmas!!! God Bless you and your family this next year and we'll see you back down at Fort Morgan soon!
That first fish is a White Bass. We caught a bunch of those on Bull Shoals Lake in 1974, I think. We got into a school of them. We caught about 50 of them. Filled our freezer for the winter.
Those stripes are awesome to fish ! Another spot not far from there is Boulden Dam . Really awesome fishing the Coosa. White or pearl fluke Across top of rapids , almost guaranteed a hit.
My buddies up that way catch white bass in the fall winter and bring them down here for snapper bait. They only use chartreuse gulp curly tails. They use white flukes for stripers when they are chasing them.
You crack me up.....when I first saw the title of the video, I thought to myself, "that isn't like him to cuss"...........then I figured out what you meant by DAM........LOL. That was fun, as usual.....
I do a good bit of "dam" fishing up around B'ham...love the variety of species I'm lucky enough to catch. Only thing that bothers me is how much trash people leave behind. I noticed the same thing in this segment. I wish there was some way to make people carry out what they bring in, but sadly, we just can't educate people who don't care. Just my two cents...
Het Matt, you forgot to mention the City of Wetumpka was where the movie The Big Fish was filmed. I live in Montgomery and used to fish on the other side of the river and would catch stripped bass and alligator gar. I've heard of a lot of people jug fishing for catfish there.
White and Chartreuse in the wintertime below any TVA dam, you are in business. O2 rich water that is actually warmer than surrounding water this time of year, cure the wintertime blues. I bet there are 30 pounders in there.
Happy New Year Matt! Cool to see something a little bit different than normal. Those stripers look really awesome fish! I’d love to try and cross the pond one day and have a go for them! Even though you only caught a couple, it’s good to see you learned a ton of stuff instead. That’s what I love about fishing- there’s always more to learn! Tight lines Matt. Peace and love from the UK
DANG man you weren't far from my neck of the woods in Northwest Georgia. That is the fishin we love up here, but still for me, nothing beats a good saltwater bite. Great video
A Lucky Craft Pointer100 jerkbait, drill a hole in the bottom and epoxy a large split shot to add extra weight. Works great for stripers in that swift water.
Lake eufaula in oklahoma produces some nice stripers. Homemade flys with a 3oz bank sinker, throwing right into the discharge of the turbines and along the retaining wall.
Not getting skunked on Jordan is an accomplishment in itself! I live in Prattville and your channel inspired me to give TH-cam a try so it's neat to see you fishing a spot I've filmed at a couple times.
Hey Matt. Good to see you man. I've already wished you guys a Happy Holiday Season. Hope it was all fun for you guys. It's a Hybred White/Striper. Nice fish. That would be a great river for kayaking. Nice eddy right in front of you.
the coosa river starts in my town of ROME GA,the etowah river meets the ostanola river down town ROME and becomes the coosa river right on second ave down town,the coosa starts HERE.
Great content today you started sounding like bubbles from trailer Park boys I don't know if it was on purpose or you just sound like trailer park boys and bubbles I don't know dude but that was fun thank you
Great fish!! Shows you that fresh water fish can pull hard too. I haven’t caught a stripper in 30 years, that kinda makes me want to. Great video Matt!!
You’re very fortunate to be able to fish damn is like that the dams on the Ohio River near me you can’t even get close to them.And they certainly don’t have nice fishing areas like that
Man that looks like the perfect place for a Kastmaster Metallic Perch lure. Casts forever and is the best all around lure I've come across! I usually give a few away whenever I go fishing, especially in Black Canyon National Park.
Those guys were great thanks for helping each other and enjoy your journey next time Matt try top water or. Shallow lurers that are shad color you will get them 👍 thanks for the video
You seem like a good guy. Love the part of the video where you said "I gotta get me one of those Stripers"...reaches for rod...jump cut to getting out of car. I was almost as bummed as you must have been!!! Love the dam segments. Disheartening to see all the garbage in the water / on the banks. Wish people would just clean up after themselves.
Man, that video reminds me of Lay dam...north of Montgomery....in the spring. Close to the dam itself. We used white gummy imitation minnows with an action tail ( 3 or 4 inch) with a 3 quarter to 1 ounce jighead with a white paint..( painted black eyeball on it optional. Cast into the top by spilling water cascade, and bump it down...big ones, bro. Then take the castnet and catch threadfin, and go jug fishing for nice catfish in middle from dam start to 1/8 mile or so drift downstream...then back up again to top for a second jug drift.
I had no idea you were from Wetumpka. I’m from, and live in, Prattville and watch your videos before I go to Fort Morgan every year. I can’t believe you’ve not spent much time fishing this area. We have great fisheries here with all of our lakes and rivers.
This video brings back memories of striper fishing below Storm Thurmond dam growing up. Stripers aren’t very common in my current neck of the woods. Good stuff Beach Bum!
Excellent change of pace video! Always great to get back on your home waters. Stripers are a species that I've yet to catch a keeper. Caught plenty undersize in coastal Maryland last several years on vacation. But still looking for that stud! Very fun to catch regardless. 👍
Man I didn't know you were from Wetumpka. I grew up in Notasulga and Tallassee, AL. I have fishing below the Jordan Dam for years. Caught some nice stripers, hybrids, bass, crappie and white bass. I've seen monster blue cats caught also. I hope I get an opportunity to run into you one day. The stripers and hybrids and about to start running soon.
Hey man love your videos, you can Carolina rig that jerk bait with a half or 3/4 sinker and can get out there with it , problem is you get hung up easier , but I found that if you hold your rod tip high it helps , keep the videos coming brother
Hoping to connect with another subscriber that fishes the Jordam Dam and was there Memorial Day. I was they guy with the Bummy Stick. Hoping this message will get to him.
That is a white bass. Strong single lateral line with less prominent stripes. Hybrids look very much like stripers as far as striping, except the lateral lines are distinctly broken and they are taller in body and head than stripers.
Come back in April or May. The white bass, hybrid, and stripes come in gigantic schools. Hate I missed you being there. Maybe I'll catch up with you next time.
White bass. Only Stripers, hybrids and yellow bass have 3 or more lines continue all the way to the tail. White bass have only the lateral line touch the tail
Sure was fun meeting and fishing with you! That was a nice White Bass! We got you covered when you return.
Where yall fishing
What kinda jigs y’all using
Dan-o were you at the Dam Memorial day ?
That was fun. Enjoyed the interaction with the other fishermen. You do the fishing community well.
What beautiful fish....you need to bring Brant, Brad, & Ron up there and yall make a vid.....that is awesome
You can get that action at the Jim Woodruff Dam in Chattahoochee, FL. Fish the upside of the Dam with white jig on a surf rod, Jig it out of the lock, have plenty of jigs. Catch stripers and hybrids, we fished the east side. Been years ago, should still be good.
You can always learn so much by watching, listening and asking questions! Good job
Hey Buddy I’ll be in Orange Beach the second week of February for my 50th Anniversary will keep my eye out for you as I fish the beach. Good luck and good fishing !
I lived in Wetumpka back in 1986, liked that little city❤👍
My brother Dan is a dedicated fisherman- you may find him there in any conditions if he has a chance- I’m sure he was thrilled to caught that huge one on camera! And meet you of course! Please come visit again! 🇺🇸✌️😎
Cool change of scenery. Hit that home town hole again!
Great to have you back for a short trip in our old stomping grounds. Always fun spending time with the family around the holidays for sure! Especially Christmas!!! God Bless you and your family this next year and we'll see you back down at Fort Morgan soon!
That first fish is a White Bass. We caught a bunch of those on Bull Shoals Lake in 1974, I think. We got into a school of them. We caught about 50 of them. Filled our freezer for the winter.
I know the Coosa river! It runs through my town of Rome Ga!! A small but cool connection!!!
Right on I fish this dam almost every weekend let me know when your coming back and I'll go with you. Great videos.
Tennessee River in North Alabama is where I grew up fishing..,similar but somewhat larger.. good video Matt ✅💥
Those stripes are awesome to fish ! Another spot not far from there is Boulden Dam . Really awesome fishing the Coosa. White or pearl fluke Across top of rapids , almost guaranteed a hit.
My buddies up that way catch white bass in the fall winter and bring them down here for snapper bait. They only use chartreuse gulp curly tails. They use white flukes for stripers when they are chasing them.
You crack me up.....when I first saw the title of the video, I thought to myself, "that isn't like him to cuss"...........then I figured out what you meant by DAM........LOL. That was fun, as usual.....
I love Jordan for big spotted bass, but never tried that before. Cool vid to watch this morning from my treestand.
I do a good bit of "dam" fishing up around B'ham...love the variety of species I'm lucky enough to catch. Only thing that bothers me is how much trash people leave behind. I noticed the same thing in this segment. I wish there was some way to make people carry out what they bring in, but sadly, we just can't educate people who don't care. Just my two cents...
Het Matt, you forgot to mention the City of Wetumpka was where the movie The Big Fish was filmed. I live in Montgomery and used to fish on the other side of the river and would catch stripped bass and alligator gar. I've heard of a lot of people jug fishing for catfish there.
White and Chartreuse in the wintertime below any TVA dam, you are in business. O2 rich water that is actually warmer than surrounding water this time of year, cure the wintertime blues. I bet there are 30 pounders in there.
Happy New Year Matt! Cool to see something a little bit different than normal. Those stripers look really awesome fish! I’d love to try and cross the pond one day and have a go for them! Even though you only caught a couple, it’s good to see you learned a ton of stuff instead. That’s what I love about fishing- there’s always more to learn! Tight lines Matt. Peace and love from the UK
Bama Beach Bum that first fish was a white bass. They are really good fried. I catch them all the time at the Ohatchee Dam back home.
DANG man you weren't far from my neck of the woods in Northwest Georgia. That is the fishin we love up here, but still for me, nothing beats a good saltwater bite.
Great video
You may not have caught many fish, but you made some dedicated fans !! Nice job
How cool that mist be for that sub. He tells you he's been following you then lands a beast in front of his idol!
That was my brother- he not only was glad to meet Matt but to land a Lake Donkey on camera was epic! 😅✌️
A Lucky Craft Pointer100 jerkbait, drill a hole in the bottom and epoxy a large split shot to add extra weight. Works great for stripers in that swift water.
nice white bass... and really nice stripers! Loved how you converse & film the locals who had fish on!
“Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.”
Lake eufaula in oklahoma produces some nice stripers. Homemade flys with a 3oz bank sinker, throwing right into the discharge of the turbines and along the retaining wall.
I did my share of rock hopping down there when I lived in Wetumpka.
Not getting skunked on Jordan is an accomplishment in itself! I live in Prattville and your channel inspired me to give TH-cam a try so it's neat to see you fishing a spot I've filmed at a couple times.
Great start to the new year!
Korker boots or slip overs can be a life saver on those slippery rocks.
Hey Matt. Good to see you man. I've already wished you guys a Happy Holiday Season. Hope it was all fun for you guys. It's a Hybred White/Striper. Nice fish. That would be a great river for kayaking. Nice eddy right in front of you.
Great video. Fishing community is pretty awesome!
No place like home! Especially when hometown people are nice and friendly.
White bass... single solid stripe full length of fish. "Sand bass" in Texas.
Loved your description of that first fish...looks delicious!!!
Happy new year, hopefully this year brings in a dam good year of fishing.
Beautiful looking river spot. Better like next time Those regulars landed some nice looking stripers. Looks like you need some dam bait !
the coosa river starts in my town of ROME GA,the etowah river meets the ostanola river down town ROME and becomes the coosa river right on second ave down town,the coosa starts HERE.
Great video glad you posted keep them coming thanks
He said it. He finally said We-tumpka.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Matthew!! Looking forward to what 2022 brings!
Great content today you started sounding like bubbles from trailer Park boys I don't know if it was on purpose or you just sound like trailer park boys and bubbles I don't know dude but that was fun thank you
That was awesome to watch,I learned a few things also,have fun and keep fishing Mat.
Great fish!! Shows you that fresh water fish can pull hard too. I haven’t caught a stripper in 30 years, that kinda makes me want to. Great video Matt!!
It’s about the adventure. Good stuff.
Happy New Year to you and your family, Matthew! Stay Safe and Healthy
Thanks!
That was pretty cool!
Beautiful Morning !
You’re very fortunate to be able to fish damn is like that the dams on the Ohio River near me you can’t even get close to them.And they certainly don’t have nice fishing areas like that
Man that looks like the perfect place for a Kastmaster Metallic Perch lure. Casts forever and is the best all around lure I've come across! I usually give a few away whenever I go fishing, especially in Black Canyon National Park.
Those guys were great thanks for helping each other and enjoy your journey next time Matt try top water or. Shallow lurers that are shad color you will get them 👍 thanks for the video
You seem like a good guy. Love the part of the video where you said "I gotta get me one of those Stripers"...reaches for rod...jump cut to getting out of car. I was almost as bummed as you must have been!!! Love the dam segments. Disheartening to see all the garbage in the water / on the banks. Wish people would just clean up after themselves.
I agree. I think most fishermen clean up after themselves, but there's a bunch who make us all look bad and make a mess of every good fishing spot.
Man, that video reminds me of Lay dam...north of Montgomery....in the spring. Close to the dam itself. We used white gummy imitation minnows with an action tail ( 3 or 4 inch) with a 3 quarter to 1 ounce jighead with a white paint..( painted black eyeball on it optional. Cast into the top by spilling water cascade, and bump it down...big ones, bro.
Then take the castnet and catch threadfin, and go jug fishing for nice catfish in middle from dam start to 1/8 mile or so drift downstream...then back up again to top for a second jug drift.
I had no idea you were from Wetumpka. I’m from, and live in, Prattville and watch your videos before I go to Fort Morgan every year. I can’t believe you’ve not spent much time fishing this area. We have great fisheries here with all of our lakes and rivers.
Happy new year Matt. I hope your family flourishes in 2022 and many more to come.
The fish was awhite bass. The hybrides side strioes would be uneven and broken.My kind of fishing here on Lake Texoma Okla. Havagudunfisherman.
Happy New Year. Loved that white bass. They tug pretty good. Loved the vid. Can't wait to see what's next in the New Year
This video brings back memories of striper fishing below Storm Thurmond dam growing up. Stripers aren’t very common in my current neck of the woods. Good stuff Beach Bum!
Thanks for all.
The first one is White Bass!! They are delicious!!
Damn that is a monster🤣
If your ever in town let me know I live a few mins from the lake we can get on the boat and get out there
Great video. Giving these folks some fame. You are an awesome guy.
Excellent change of pace video! Always great to get back on your home waters. Stripers are a species that I've yet to catch a keeper. Caught plenty undersize in coastal Maryland last several years on vacation. But still looking for that stud! Very fun to catch regardless. 👍
That is a white Bass you catch first fish👍👍
Great show
The best title I have seen in a long time. Well played.
Man I didn't know you were from Wetumpka. I grew up in Notasulga and Tallassee, AL. I have fishing below the Jordan Dam for years. Caught some nice stripers, hybrids, bass, crappie and white bass. I've seen monster blue cats caught also. I hope I get an opportunity to run into you one day. The stripers and hybrids and about to start running soon.
Hey man love your videos, you can Carolina rig that jerk bait with a half or 3/4 sinker and can get out there with it , problem is you get hung up easier , but I found that if you hold your rod tip high it helps , keep the videos coming brother
White bass , they are good to eat , happy New Year's to you and your family ,
Just started the video. Excellent title. Hope you catch some big ones this year Matt.
Hoping to connect with another subscriber that fishes the Jordam Dam and was there Memorial Day. I was they guy with the Bummy Stick. Hoping this message will get to him.
That is a white bass. Strong single lateral line with less prominent stripes. Hybrids look very much like stripers as far as striping, except the lateral lines are distinctly broken and they are taller in body and head than stripers.
Believe it is a white bass, hybrid bass the lines are more broken and crooked.
Generally speaking fishermen
are some of the easy going people you can meet
I’m from laurel Mississippi where hometown started!
Did you see that it’s snowing up in Hoover Mr. Beach Bum?
White bass they are good eating!
Dude your in my neck of the wood I'm in hickory NC love to take you out in the bass boat sometime
Remember to watch all the ads guy's
White bass! Nice!
Happy New Year Fellow Gulf Dweller!
Come back in April or May. The white bass, hybrid, and stripes come in gigantic schools. Hate I missed you being there. Maybe I'll catch up with you next time.
What with blue fishing line I do a lot cat fishing and bass fishing but I’m always lucky with red line but does blue work better?
What about sauger and saug-eyes in that river?
First fish is a white bass and they are delicious
White bass and they are so delicious. Bleed them out after catching
Dang i missed you. Im usually out there. Thats my favorite lil honey hole. Got Dan on the thumbnail🔥
Definitely a white bass!
Loved the size of those stripers!
Hey bud loved the video!
What size line, leader and what is your travel rod length and reel size?
We tumpka 🤣🤣
I caught 40 pound stripped bass in salt water in Massachusetts with a chunk of mackerel
I didn’t know you were from Wetumpka! One of my wife’s best friends is from there!
White bass. Only Stripers, hybrids and yellow bass have 3 or more lines continue all the way to the tail. White bass have only the lateral line touch the tail
I was just in clayton for the Christmas holidays.i could shot my self for not fishing Jordan lake .love your vids Bama