The only gripe I have with this reel is the weight, but that goes with the size of the reel th-cam.com/users/postUgkxM68VkfsQhHaabDce1IwOCXuvumcpbZ_k . I brought this salmon fishing up in Oswego, NY. I coupled it with a Cabela's Whuppin Stick. I had no problem pulling in a 14lb salmon. I will probably use this for surf fishing this summer and downgrade to a 3500 series Battle II next salmon season to save my wrists. All of the operations are butter smooth and the bail is nice and thick and has a solid flip to it. Everything about this reel is sturdy and strong. The drag system held up to the salmon and was also super smooth. I did use a scale to set the drag properly before going out to the river and this worked out tremendously. A bunch of other guys on the river would hook up and snap almost immediately. Just because you have a good drag system doesn't do anything if you don't set it correctly.
I see all these comments talking about how you’re not gonna watch his channel or sub due to the title... y’all seem really pressed about it but imma keep watching cuz he’s just doing what he loves
@opaque the reason people do that is because of past or something that happened to them. and their not going to post them doing that. so shut up and just watch the damn video
Opaque Motives what does that have to do with anything? Like the other guy said, shut up and watch the video, and if you don’t like it, don’t watch them. Simple as that.
Kudos to you for leaving in the "mistakes". I've had days where I can't catch anything but tree limbs, so it's nice to show others that we're all human!
Yeah and that one time I was fishing a bass fishing torney (I’m 12) and the boat was parallel to the bridge and it was great lots of rocks and cover I was using a deep diving crank bait this one cast was (VERY) bad and I threw up over the wall of the bridge and into oncoming traffic it would’ve been my first ever semi catch and IT WAS BIG but I reeled and got the crankbait out and over the bridgeand got the lure out into the water
Man Nick quickly one of your best days of fishing you ever had. From my point of view your always slaying fish & having fun in every episode aha . Keep it up brother!
You are the only one I’ve seen who gets as excited as I do about catching gar. I love fishing for them and love eating them, they really are poor mans lobster.
Angling With Alex haha I wasn’t losing that fish! For real though that reel refuses to quit.. same reel I fished with underwater in saltwater years ago. Still works great!
Anybody that knows about fishing knows that[sometimes] it more fun watching someone else that is very enthusiastic catch fish then catching them yourself.Some of you may be old enough to remember when a water moccasin fell into bill dances bass boat.It was every man for himself!!Lot of high pitched screamin going on,sounding like a bunch of girls.Now thats enthusiasm!love it!
I now see why Ty PigPatrol uses soft plastics when he's shooting lures into tunnels for Crappie. Probably a little more durable than UL cranks. Awesome video 618! Keep up the good work!
Sweet vid! Gotta love catching multiple species in new areas! It was an expensive day for you 😅 but it's easy to forget about it when you're catching fish! 🙌
One of the greatest video I've seen from you in some time and even though you you lost alot of lures I see you had fun and I had fun watching you. 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍
I see you using my favorite brand of lures, Rapala. Try loosing the drag everytime you het a big fish most of te times they do a suprise strong run and cut you off
To prevent your hard baits from breaking so easily; 1)first remove all hooks and hardware,2)cover the entire lure with fingernail clear polish harder,overnight to dry good; 3)dip the whole lure in polyurethane, let it dry overnight and your done. I guarantee it will make a lot of difference and less breakage. Good fishing Texas 7
Who cares about the state record thing.if you are subscribed to the channel then why complain.its still a good fishing video and hes doin what he loves doin.haters all over
I'm just wondering when he's going to catch something worth eating. Ive see gar and mudfish twice the size of those. We never throw them back because they're hurting the population of the other fish
Gar and bowfin are the two most abundant annoying large predatory fish in the river (Oggeechee River) where I fish here in S. Georgia. I don't think I've noticed the blue mouth bowfin. However during spawning season (February here) the tail and fins will take on a beautiful orange color on the males, especially the smaller males. Most of our gar here are the long nose type. Whatever tackle you are using is pretty much gone when you hook one of them. It's a fun fight when they don't cut the line with those teeth right away.
It's obvious you've become accustomed to using an ultralight setup, and darn good with it to boot! If that adds to the excitement on our, the viewers, end... I can only imagine how it is on your end. Thanks for sharing.
The content itself is really nice, but there is no way anything you caught approached the record. Why would you undermine your credibility and integrity for a title like that?
Nice! We catch a ton of gar here on the east coast but they are all on the Longnosed variety. Even the few I've caught in the Mississippi basin in northern Iowa/Wisconsin were all Longnose. Shortnose would have been epic! I forget that there are areas were Bowfin aren't all that common. We catch a flat ton of them and if you ever want to get sick of catching them you're welcome to come on down! :)
We had a tunnel just like this growing up it was a run off creek from a huge Huge tire plant and dumped in the Des Moines River so it was always always full of bait or full of real fish one tunnel was always closed so only one was rushing like yours . I caught thousands of fish in there ! 100s of thousands if you counted all the shad we seined and sold to the bait houses I remember it was 20.00 per 5 gallon bucket made tons of fishing money , Coleman fuel hooks sinkers bait ditty poles it was a phenomenal fishing area and a great swimming hole on those 100 degrees days and 65% humidity! I swear it saved my best buddy and me once we were in fish the gravel pit beside the creek and huge storm blew up hail the size of golf balls then we ran for tunnel and soon it was baseball sized and the wind was like a tornado but we survived thanks too that old tunnel !
Great video! Did anyone else catch the other fish jumping at 4m07s? As he was reeling in the Gar a small fish jumped from right to left on the screen! Great job on finding this new location!
Love your videos man. Great editing, camera work, and love the drone footage. I used to live in Granite City and me and my dad would hit a lot of little creeks and ponds. Good times!
Yea fishing can be expensive, my girl wanted me to show her how to work a frog lure today, so I tried to show her and tried to skip it underneath a hanging tree. Very first cast with that frog and it's gone lol. Awesome video man. Great quality.
2:33 "... into the side that's pretty calm." It's called an eddy, where the water is doubling back on itself, creating a circular motion. ;-) Trout love these currents in a river.
Carp might be known for foraging for food but they can be pretty predatory at times, they'll definitely hit small lures and I've even had them on small live baits. They're extremely adaptable when it comes to finding food which is why they do such a good job of colonising any water they're introduced to and this is also why they're considered such a dangerous invasive species.
The only gripe I have with this reel is the weight, but that goes with the size of the reel th-cam.com/users/postUgkxM68VkfsQhHaabDce1IwOCXuvumcpbZ_k . I brought this salmon fishing up in Oswego, NY. I coupled it with a Cabela's Whuppin Stick. I had no problem pulling in a 14lb salmon. I will probably use this for surf fishing this summer and downgrade to a 3500 series Battle II next salmon season to save my wrists. All of the operations are butter smooth and the bail is nice and thick and has a solid flip to it. Everything about this reel is sturdy and strong. The drag system held up to the salmon and was also super smooth. I did use a scale to set the drag properly before going out to the river and this worked out tremendously. A bunch of other guys on the river would hook up and snap almost immediately. Just because you have a good drag system doesn't do anything if you don't set it correctly.
This is how many crankbaits this man lost
👇
try try again
😂
Genius
😅
Lmfao
Super jealous of the bowfin. The males get those blue mouths and bellies when spawning. Great vid!
Keith Andringa very interesting! Thanks for the info!
The first fish looks more like a big redhorse
@@618Fishing bigmouth buffalo, Ictiobus cyprinellus to be specific
Small buffalo😂😂😂
Very small smallmouth buffalo. Pretty much the US version of the carp.
You forgot to include the "state record size" fish in the video.
It was click bait not going to watch anymore of his videos now
He has good content, just misleading titles.
You guys are stupid. State record SIZE!!! Not state record 😒😒😒
It was @ the end not his catch but the record picture.
Your missing out
Any person who uses ulta-light tackle to do sport fishing is a true fisherman . Congratulations . Great video .
If you're trying to match the hatch the bowfin seem to be feeding on Blue Raspberry Jolly Ranchers.
Atomic Bean Hahahaha 😂
I caught a bow fin on a piece of razor grass one time at my local creek. They really do bite anything.
Never caught a bowfin? I’ve seen you catch a hundred now. How old is this? I hate bowfin, anyway. Those gar were awesome, though.
I see all these comments talking about how you’re not gonna watch his channel or sub due to the title... y’all seem really pressed about it but imma keep watching cuz he’s just doing what he loves
@opaque the reason people do that is because of past or something that happened to them. and their not going to post them doing that. so shut up and just watch the damn video
@Opaque Motives no, you dont know what your talking abt fool
@Opaque Motives no u
Opaque Motives what does that have to do with anything? Like the other guy said, shut up and watch the video, and if you don’t like it, don’t watch them. Simple as that.
Julius ortiz don’t even waste your time arguing with this idiot. He’s not worth it.
Kudos to you for leaving in the "mistakes". I've had days where I can't catch anything but tree limbs, so it's nice to show others that we're all human!
Yeah and that one time I was fishing a bass fishing torney (I’m 12) and the boat was parallel to the bridge and it was great lots of rocks and cover I was using a deep diving crank bait this one cast was (VERY) bad and I threw up over the wall of the bridge and into oncoming traffic it would’ve been my first ever semi catch and IT WAS BIG but I reeled and got the crankbait out and over the bridgeand got the lure out into the water
That was an expensive fishing trip. It hurt when you lost that Rapala lol 😂
Love ur vids dude
SuperKoker playz thank you :)
yes , sad moments in fishing
My guy when we going fishing
Anyone who's followed his channel and stumbled back to this video gets a treat as we all know he's caught so many huge bowfin in later vids. 😂
That first fish looked like a smallmouth buffalo.
Bigmouth buffalo
Man Nick quickly one of your best days of fishing you ever had. From my point of view your always slaying fish & having fun in every episode aha . Keep it up brother!
"I brought 4 setups, a bag of tackle, and a drone" but no net haha
Nets are for sissy's
@@beebob1279 Yeah, but when the TH-camr's catch phrase is "See ya later buddy" as a C&R fisherman a net is important
9:36 the gar came up to say "See you later Big Fella" LOL!!
Damn buddy. I think you might’ve broke that record! I can’t wait for the next video on the same exact place. Hope you break it! 💪🏼
L . O . R I hope so to man! Upset that I didn’t weigh any of my catches!
618 Fishing If you haven’t noticed. I saw you on tv awhile back lol. They had a clip of you falling in the ice. 😂
You have the best production quality of any youtube fishing channels. Keep it up!
Breaking all those hard body lures...Would of switched to a soft plastic for certain
You are the only one I’ve seen who gets as excited as I do about catching gar. I love fishing for them and love eating them, they really are poor mans lobster.
I love your videos, keep up the work, been around since 30k. Been cool to see you grow🙌👏🤲👍🤟
Nate Alwood thanks so much for the support man I really appreciate it!
The markings on that first fish were lovely. And now you know where all the Gar live. Great vid.
This place is amazing, congratulations, good fishing with beautiful fish.
*_Hug!!!_* 👍🎣
I’ve been watching you for years and watched you catch ton of bowfin. What a treat to see you catch your first!
That’s a weird but cool bowfin!
Why did you spoil it
Saylor Bland why read the comments first before watching. What do you think people comment about?
georgia fisherman Saylor Bland why read the comments first before watching. What do you think people comment about?
Dude you killed me with “ this little fishing adventure is getting to be a bit expensive”...hahaha
When you dunked you reel to grab the gar I gasped out loud haha. Always a good upload from you man.
Angling With Alex haha I wasn’t losing that fish! For real though that reel refuses to quit.. same reel I fished with underwater in saltwater years ago. Still works great!
Anybody that knows about fishing knows that[sometimes] it more fun watching someone else that is very enthusiastic catch fish then catching them yourself.Some of you may be old enough to remember when a water moccasin fell into bill dances bass boat.It was every man for himself!!Lot of high pitched screamin going on,sounding like a bunch of girls.Now thats enthusiasm!love it!
Damn the filming is on point! Awesome job and that all by yourself 👌👌 Respect!
Love the bloopers at the end. Definitely makes it more relatable to everyday guys. I'm clumsy so I'm always tripping on something.
4:06 watch the fish jump out of the water in the moving current
Anyone see it
I saw that too the one jumping from left of the screen to the right towards the tunnel?
I now see why Ty PigPatrol uses soft plastics when he's shooting lures into tunnels for Crappie. Probably a little more durable than UL cranks. Awesome video 618! Keep up the good work!
Almost sub’d. Why ruin what you had going, with a misleading title?
Did you watch the very end of the video? He made an addendum of sorts.
Bro u that upset? Dude still makes great content...
Well I'm sorry just watch the end of the video bruh
Sweet vid! Gotta love catching multiple species in new areas! It was an expensive day for you 😅 but it's easy to forget about it when you're catching fish! 🙌
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You should always have some steel leader and a tiny kastmaster in gold!
So glad this popped up in my feed. Very entertaining.
I have to hand it to ya! You seem to make catching trash fish fun!
One of the greatest video I've seen from you in some time and even though you you lost alot of lures I see you had fun and I had fun watching you. 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍
What was record breaking
Exactly. I think the short nose gar?
The number of ultra-lite crankbaits he busted trying to fish in heavy flowing, turbulent water for fish that have teeth.
Hate clickbait promoters. Bank geeks are always overly excited about catching trash fish. In the future leave the turtles alone.
Losing the most lures
He just named it this to get views very dissapointed
Keep the great attitude up! We appreciate your enthusiasm😎
Which fish was the state record?
Click bait
One of the best fishing days and probably the most expensive fishing days 😂😂 good video!
I see you using my favorite brand of lures, Rapala. Try loosing the drag everytime you het a big fish most of te times they do a suprise strong run and cut you off
See ya later buddy...gotta love that phrase every time he releases his catch...truly loves fishing...just waiting for his fishing show to hit tv.
Hell yea 618.. Im from belleville, theres alot of great spots i know all around here..
To prevent your hard baits from breaking so easily; 1)first remove all hooks and hardware,2)cover the entire lure with fingernail clear polish harder,overnight to dry good; 3)dip the whole lure in polyurethane, let it dry overnight and your done. I guarantee it will make a lot of difference and less breakage. Good fishing
Texas 7
👣 camera shots in every fishing video ever...
Dope man, Nice bowfin and great video as always!!!!
He had a jermy wade moment
I’ve just so happened to run into your channel a couple days ago and I’ve almost watched ALL of your videos! I love it!
Thats a buffalo. At least that first fish was.
Dang man! What an amazing day of fishing, gotta love it when you get that possible state record!
6:18 Is it just me, or is the water flowing backwards?
He probably played it in reverse bc he took the video starting where the rivers meet then went up stream to the tunnel
The time stamp is 618 lol
@Riley Thomas your an idiot
@@BlackbeardJohnson your an extremist. Man was joking.
@@dylanharris4670 shut your face, peasant..
Everybody needs to watch this one twice and share it to help the man get some new lures!
I saw the drainage ditch on the thumb an thought it was Typigpatrol lol
Who cares about the state record thing.if you are subscribed to the channel then why complain.its still a good fishing video and hes doin what he loves doin.haters all over
Was about to sub but got clickbaited instead. Bye bye!
I'm just wondering when he's going to catch something worth eating. Ive see gar and mudfish twice the size of those. We never throw them back because they're hurting the population of the other fish
Gar and bowfin are the two most abundant annoying large predatory fish in the river (Oggeechee River) where I fish here in S. Georgia. I don't think I've noticed the blue mouth bowfin. However during spawning season (February here) the tail and fins will take on a beautiful orange color on the males, especially the smaller males. Most of our gar here are the long nose type. Whatever tackle you are using is pretty much gone when you hook one of them. It's a fun fight when they don't cut the line with those teeth right away.
111 in Washington Park / Fairmount City
That was fun to watch. Best one yet.
Bow fin are great fighters
Your best video by far!!!! Great fishing & well done 🎣😎
cheryl ashbrooke thank you!
anyone else see that fish jump up current at 4:05?
haha yeah
It's obvious you've become accustomed to using an ultralight setup, and darn good with it to boot! If that adds to the excitement on our, the viewers, end... I can only imagine how it is on your end. Thanks for sharing.
I kept waiting for the state record...
It’s state record SIZE!!! Not state record exactly
Love all of your video man. Thank you.
It was a Buffalo carp
They actually aren't carp at all, they're sucker-fish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigmouth_buffalo
Great fishing skills mate!
The content itself is really nice, but there is no way anything you caught approached the record. Why would you undermine your credibility and integrity for a title like that?
Thank you for taking that softshell turtle to safety. Great video.
Click bait just for some gar 🤦🏻♂️
Awsome video nick love your vids man
You know what the librarian said?
Read more
Awesome presentation for the catches. Better than tv shows!
Cheap move with the click bait. I'll make sure I never watch another one of your videos.
Nice! We catch a ton of gar here on the east coast but they are all on the Longnosed variety. Even the few I've caught in the Mississippi basin in northern Iowa/Wisconsin were all Longnose. Shortnose would have been epic! I forget that there are areas were Bowfin aren't all that common. We catch a flat ton of them and if you ever want to get sick of catching them you're welcome to come on down! :)
Straight click bait not gonna subscribe just for that🤦♂️
We had a tunnel just like this growing up it was a run off creek from a huge Huge tire plant and dumped in the Des Moines River so it was always always full of bait or full of real fish one tunnel was always closed so only one was rushing like yours . I caught thousands of fish in there ! 100s of thousands if you counted all the shad we seined and sold to the bait houses I remember it was 20.00 per 5 gallon bucket made tons of fishing money , Coleman fuel hooks sinkers bait ditty poles it was a phenomenal fishing area and a great swimming hole on those 100 degrees days and 65% humidity! I swear it saved my best buddy and me once we were in fish the gravel pit beside the creek and huge storm blew up hail the size of golf balls then we ran for tunnel and soon it was baseball sized and the wind was like a tornado but we survived thanks too that old tunnel !
yet another clickbait video about"pb", or"state record" lol
Another very entertaining video Nick!
Hey, great films Love the way you produce them and good to see you mixing it up with the species on this episode. 👍🏻🕺🏾
Loved this video so much, variation of fish and nice knowing pros also make mistakes when casting lol
Great video! Did anyone else catch the other fish jumping at 4m07s? As he was reeling in the Gar a small fish jumped from right to left on the screen! Great job on finding this new location!
Awesome video Nick.
Love your videos man. Great editing, camera work, and love the drone footage. I used to live in Granite City and me and my dad would hit a lot of little creeks and ponds. Good times!
At 1:59 Is not a common carp in which it is a Buffalo because common carp don’t get those colors but it is in the same species as carp though
I hope you go back there soon. It would be awesome to see you break your State record for short nose gar! good luck, and good fishing my friend.
Yea fishing can be expensive, my girl wanted me to show her how to work a frog lure today, so I tried to show her and tried to skip it underneath a hanging tree. Very first cast with that frog and it's gone lol. Awesome video man. Great quality.
That place was loaded!!! 🔥🔥💪🏼
First fish is a Smallmouth Buffalo. Completely native and completely unrelated to the Common Carp. Really neat to see one crush a crankbait!
Really cool video dude. Love this channel 👌
Oh my gosh this video was so awesome been her since about 32k keep up the great vids
Love the way all your videos are edited
Nick, this video epitomizes the expression "no pain, no gain"
Sweet video, really enjoyed the high action.
as much as I love the Vids... Out Takes are AWESOME
Very cool!!!! Wanderfull video,congratulations from France👍👍👍
You are the best ! i really like your videos!
Bowfin are great fun to catch. They are strong fighting fish. Good luck on catching a large bowfin. If you do, enjoy the fight.
Wow 😲 great save on the gar!!
It's so awesome how much more energy he has now than back 3 years ago
2:33 "... into the side that's pretty calm." It's called an eddy, where the water is doubling back on itself, creating a circular motion. ;-) Trout love these currents in a river.
ThrowItOnTheGrill thank you for letting us know it is called an Eddy because no one but you ever fucking knew that
Carp might be known for foraging for food but they can be pretty predatory at times, they'll definitely hit small lures and I've even had them on small live baits. They're extremely adaptable when it comes to finding food which is why they do such a good job of colonising any water they're introduced to and this is also why they're considered such a dangerous invasive species.
i think it was a smallmouth buffalo