I can’t express enough my Sincere Gratitude for this channel! Please, Please, Please post more videos like these! It’s the best channel I know for Expert Bass Fishing tutorials I have ever watched including videos I used to own and watch all the time! It reminds me of Johnny Schultz’s channel he put up long ago. 👍
RIP Ken Cook I was devastated when I heard of your loss 😢 But I smiled once I knew you were fishing high above with our maker where the bass fishing is all top water fishing😉🤠
I remember watching all the greats in the 80s as a teenager. My 11 year old watches them with me now. Tells me we dressed funny, but every time he sees a lunker, he's determined to catch one. Thanks for the great channel.
I still have my 5'6" pistol grip too. It's a Fenwick i got at a flee market in Tennessee when i went on vocation and the guy was selling it for $30 Dollars and i tried to buy it for $25 Dollars and he said to me you do realize it's a Fenwick right and i said yes and gave him the $30 Dollars. what a great well built Rod still in great condition.
I use mostly 6’3 & 6’6 straight handles still. Great for walking the dog, stick baits, soinnerbaits, and throwing small stuff. Can really thread the needle skipping docks and bushes. Longer rods have their uses too. 90% of the time I’ve got a 6’3 or 6’6 in hand.
I had one of those Ryobi reels, was super light, even by today's standards, only thing that held it back was bearing technology. Wish I still had it, great reel.
How cool was it when he used his foot to adjust the trolling motor? I know that's how it was back then, but to me that's some mental acrobatics. I'd lose my mind.
Billy is a legend. I live 30 min from Dale Hollow. Wish he had caught the world record smallie he tried so hard to get. There is a story I heard years ago, may not be true, that he hooked up and lost a smallie he was certain was world record. He would know, since he caught several close to the record and two or three that were top ten Smalls on record.
That method of operating the trolling motor looks very obnoxious. I couldn’t imagine doing it like that…I’m just way too used to the foot pedals we have now.
the opening though. i caught that on a plastic worm.. its a plastic crawdad imitation... wtf. though he is dead right. plastic worms catch fish. even in the most high pressured hard to catch lakes. this video is good he explains exactly how i fish which i learned from mainly fishing this way. dropshot, wacky weightless or on drop, and texas but with texaposed. i do my texas weightless though. and instead of reeling it in fast when you think there is no fish. i just take it slow all the way in. it has two advantages. you catch more fish. but also it helps expose the fish you cant see when they chase it but dont bite it all the way to the banks. then maybe you can downsize your bait and go for that fish or maybe even upsize. i think light line is also better at exposing big fish because when you catch the small ones you have to play them a little in the water and the action the little bass make trying to fight will make the bigger fish in area become more aggressive. though the bigs are hard to catch even when you know they are there and can even see them.
And the good thing about worms bass don’t remember the bait so you can catch them again on the same thing. Say you catch 12 bass on a crank bait the bass you caught probably won’t eat that bait for a couple days to a week.
I can’t express enough my Sincere Gratitude for this channel! Please, Please, Please post more videos like these! It’s the best channel I know for Expert Bass Fishing tutorials I have ever watched including videos I used to own and watch all the time! It reminds me of Johnny Schultz’s channel he put up long ago. 👍
No forward facing sonar
I love it
He was one of the best
These old school fishing videos are cooler than the other side of the pillow. Keep em coming and thx for the upload
the good old days,
i wish them back
RIP Ken Cook I was devastated when I heard of your loss 😢 But I smiled once I knew you were fishing high above with our maker where the bass fishing is all top water fishing😉🤠
I remember watching all the greats in the 80s as a teenager. My 11 year old watches them with me now. Tells me we dressed funny, but every time he sees a lunker, he's determined to catch one. Thanks for the great channel.
I love these old bass videos, these are from when I was young young.
Worm fishing with a 5 and 1/2 ft pistol grip rod,,,
A true warrior in the trenches!
I've never seen a Ken Cook video before. He's great! Sad to read he is has passed.
He was only 68, rip
Watching this in 2024 and still using a pistol grip casting rod.
Blue jeans and no sunglasses… this dude is a gangster
😆
Straight up
Great stuff. Brings back lots of memories. Can anyone find Ken Cooks spinnerbait basics. Watched it so much I wore out the vhs tape!!!
Fantastic instructional video. Ken Cook was one of the greats.
Crazy this was almost 40 years ago, and not much has changed. Baitcasters, worms, and stiff action graphite rods.
I started tucking my button up shirt into my shortshorts when I fish. Now I'm slayin em.
These guys had little to no technology back then. So pure.
I still don't, I can't afford it lol.
They had all the latest and greatest technology of their time. They would have took a livescope and a ultrex in a skinny minute I bet 😂
I still use the 5'6" pistol grips today. No need for a 7 or 8 foot stick! Great vid!
from the banks the longer poles helps get farther casts it is important. but for boater not so much, and the smaller poles are more accurate.
@@jdogg661420 Idk I'm more accurate with the longer rods compared to the shorter rods
I still have my 5'6" pistol grip too. It's a Fenwick i got at a flee market in Tennessee when i went on vocation and the guy was selling it for $30 Dollars and i tried to buy it for $25 Dollars and he said to me you do realize it's a Fenwick right and i said yes and gave him the $30 Dollars. what a great well built Rod still in great condition.
I use mostly 6’3 & 6’6 straight handles still. Great for walking the dog, stick baits, soinnerbaits, and throwing small stuff. Can really thread the needle skipping docks and bushes. Longer rods have their uses too. 90% of the time I’ve got a 6’3 or 6’6 in hand.
I had one of those Ryobi reels, was super light, even by today's standards, only thing that held it back was bearing technology. Wish I still had it, great reel.
The Man The Myth The legend Long Live The King 😎
This was really informative and just a classic
RIP Ken
These videos really inspire me man, keep em coming.
23:44 was really cool to see how he works the bait. 🤙
Awesome video!
That was fun and informative.
Really enjoyed seeing the “Technology” they had to be so successful.
Thank you.
Nice video 💯💯💯💯
How cool was it when he used his foot to adjust the trolling motor? I know that's how it was back then, but to me that's some mental acrobatics. I'd lose my mind.
Thats how its always been done lol.
It’s still done like that I’m pretty sure...??
There is something very fishy going on around here! This guy is good! I think I'm hooked!
こんな男になりたいぜ
かっこよすぎ
These are great. Do you have any with Billy Westmorland
@@oldschoolbassfishingvids9059 keep all these coming there great and thank you for posting
Billy is a legend. I live 30 min from Dale Hollow. Wish he had caught the world record smallie he tried so hard to get. There is a story I heard years ago, may not be true, that he hooked up and lost a smallie he was certain was world record. He would know, since he caught several close to the record and two or three that were top ten Smalls on record.
Ken was the shit! Rip!
If I was a pro today this is how I would dress!
“Thars a feesh!”
"I take many jerks to the lake, I jerk it" ..😆👏
why is the FPS and quality not bad for this video lol
Hook sets are free
Word.
This mans a g
that toothpick trick tho
That method of operating the trolling motor looks very obnoxious. I couldn’t imagine doing it like that…I’m just way too used to the foot pedals we have now.
No bullshit Ned rigs no stinking $90 swimbaits needed
He was also a fisheries biologist.
The Oklahoman ... RIP
the opening though. i caught that on a plastic worm.. its a plastic crawdad imitation... wtf.
though he is dead right. plastic worms catch fish. even in the most high pressured hard to catch lakes.
this video is good he explains exactly how i fish which i learned from mainly fishing this way. dropshot, wacky weightless or on drop, and texas but with texaposed. i do my texas weightless though. and instead of reeling it in fast when you think there is no fish. i just take it slow all the way in. it has two advantages. you catch more fish. but also it helps expose the fish you cant see when they chase it but dont bite it all the way to the banks. then maybe you can downsize your bait and go for that fish or maybe even upsize. i think light line is also better at exposing big fish because when you catch the small ones you have to play them a little in the water and the action the little bass make trying to fight will make the bigger fish in area become more aggressive. though the bigs are hard to catch even when you know they are there and can even see them.
I guess lol now days he'd get clapped 😂
And the good thing about worms bass don’t remember the bait so you can catch them again on the same thing. Say you catch 12 bass on a crank bait the bass you caught probably won’t eat that bait for a couple days to a week.
Ken did not have a good camera presence. Grigsby, Brauer, Nixon etc... made much better videos in this series.
why criticize
Substance before style everytime
It’s about the information being presented