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Another great springtime fish here on the
Vineyard. They're plentiful. They are fun to catch. See you in a few years buddy. The water is in the high 40s/low 50s. The fish showed up about 2 weeks ago, and
they've just really picked up. I'm Joe Rogers, and I'm out here fishing the
south shore of Martha's Vineyard outside oneof the Great Pond openings that's been cut
to allow the water flow. These striped bass are coming up here and
they're feeding really hard on the herringand silversides and various other things flowing
in and out of the pond. These fish are honed right in on it every
year. They come and they do the same thing and sit
outside the opening here. Some of them actually chase the bait into
the pond. You just take advantage of that. They're here and they're hungry. We've got ospreys and seagulls feeding on
bait. Those fish are down there, they're hungry. Early season is about catching a lot of fish
on a tide,bouncing these jigs off the bottom primarily. These fish are just all over the beachand we are presenting some nice lures to them in the proper fashion. They're just all over it. This is a Pro Blue 7'6", a really fast-action
rod. I'm fishing 20-pound Power Pro braid and 20-pound
fluorocarbon leader. You've got to have light line in order to
feel those hits and cast these small jigsout and not have the water tow them all over
the place. You need them to get down to the bottom to
where the fish are and be able to snap thatjig around. This light rod, you can cast it all day and
keep these nice jigs on the bottom where thefish are hiding out. You want to kick up sand kind of like when
you're jigging in deeper water for bass witha big steel line setup. You want to kick up stuff, they want to see
that sand eel digging into the sand and theywant to go root out that fleeing prey. You can trigger than attack. You don't want a lazy bait. These fish are aggressive, they're hungry. Sometimes they'll hit it on the initial drop,
you just gotta be ready for it and work itall the way in. They'll hit it right in the wave, right in
front of you. It's May 1st and these fish are just feeding
hard.

in today's show we're focusing on one of
the most critical techniques a flyfisher must master to be successful NIM
f---ing it is widely accepted that tropefind 80 to 90 percent of their diet
below the surface though some of that iseating baitfish and other species the
bulk of the food is in vertebrates andother aquatic insects which they pick
off in the feeding lanes before wediscuss insect activity we must
understand where fish hold in order tofeed the anatomy of a stream is
generally very straightforward fish willgravitate to those locations that
provide the ideal security watertemperature oxygen and food trout hold
in different parts of the stream basedon the mechanics of moving water they
want to have all their basic survivalrequirements met with the least amount
of energy expended in most streams andrivers the primary location for finding
fish based on these needs are rifflesruns pools pocket water and seems
dissecting each of these different fishlocations would take more time than we
have in this program however of all thefish holding locations seams are
probably the most common and effectiveplace to locate trout seams are usually
created by differing water speeds or bydeflection of stream current off
structure such as boulders or log jamsseams can be readily identified by
visible changes in water speed oftenphone lines will help you determine
where the seam is located in slowerwater fish will usually hold in slow
water adjacent to fast water becausethat allows them to have access to food
and still exert minimal energy tomaintain their station for nymph fishers
this is the ideal place to startsearching for fish with a nymph pattern
fish will lay where it's almost a voidit doesn't take a whole lot of energy
for the fish to lay there so this iswhere I'm gonna place my fly along the
scene right along here I'm gonna try todead drift it and follow along with the
rod tipit is important to keep the cash short
and lift the line off the waterfollowing along with the rod tip at the
same speed the indicator is traveling onthe surface it's as important to have a
drag free drift when fishing an impsimilar to when fishing a dry fly micro
drag must be avoided if at all possibleas this will impact your success ratio I
think I might put a little more weighton here I don't think I'm quite making
it to the bottom fast enough nowanything that moves that indicator
whether the indicator slows downsometimes you get lucky and it goes
under the surface sometimes it moves alittle bit sideways and sometimes it's
just a feeling you got set the hook itcould be the rock on the bottom but it
could be the biggest fish in your lifeyou never know until you set the hookoh that was a good hit I was a little
slow on that onemoving water that has ideal conditions
for invertebrate insect life is alsousually perfect for trout aquatic
insects such as main flies catice andstone flies all need clean well
oxygenated and generally cool watereach of these insects has a differing
life cycle and means of emerging thenymphal stage of an invertebrate such as
a mayfly composes ninety-nine percent oftheir lifecycle as a nymph they are
rarely seen by trout as a high Binistones or burrowed into the bottom to
avoid predation this is one reason whythroat will readily take a nymph
tumbling in the current when a mayflywants to emerge during a hatch this is
when trope really get turned on troutwill lay in feeding lanes greedily
gobbling the emerging mayflies such asbetas or Ison akia as they struggle in
the current to reach the surface it isthe nymphal or pupil stage that flight
Fisher's wish to imitate with herpatterns and presentations trout derive
an enormous amount of their energy byreadily feeding on nymphs as they
tumbled in the water current having awell stocked fly box - filled with
different nymph patterns is idealpopular name patterns which seem to work
everywhere include hares ears pheasanttails Prince nymphs bead head caddis any
mergers the key is not to exactlyimitate the specific nymph but to
suggest both the silhouette size andcoloration
thus a pattern such as a prince nymph ispopular because it represents a number
of differing mayflies or smallerstonefly names while nymph fishing on
the North Platte River call and learnsome valuable rigging options from Brett
at North Platte River Lodge the NorthPlatte is renowned for its brute
strength and acrobatic jumps of itsrainbow trailthat's a no question take a little head
shaking going on now you want to keephim balanced right here because if he
drops off thiswe're running turn the left alright and
that fish is ripping all over the placethese Fisher's hottest you'll find I
think there's not many most people whocome here and fish I have never felt
fish that worked like this this is thismight be an 18 inch fish and he's he's
working you over which is greatI heard the biggest wine is my arm sore
yeah it is food booze he's using thatcurrent sure is airy rolled a little bit
and we'll be lucky to squeeze 18 out ofhim yepand we'll be lucky if that fish is 18
he's a great fish but hi rod perfect wetook that little PMD and this is a cut
bow he's crossbreed he's still full ofit no that's a nice fish he's probably
18 19 you can see the cut on in therewell done jump in there okay Brad I
think it's real important that wedescribe a little bit how you got this
set up and Homer fishing over here butfirst let's talk about the rig you've
got set up here basically we've got ashort rig a fishing shallow water the
water we're fishing is less than whatwe're standing in so it's it's meaty or
less and there's a couple pockets thatare a little deeper so we don't need a
lot of length so we've got a lightweightthere's a number four number six shot
there so very little weight but we don'tneed it to get down we're getting down
we're hitting the bottom occasionally Ilike to put the first fly just a little
bit closer to the lead then the secondflight is to the first fly and the
reason for that is take that first flyand it puts it right on the bottom with
this if the closer you put it to thelead closer it's going to be at the
bottom this fly is gonna be a little bitfurther away so it's going to have a
little more action because of thecurrent stumbling a little more tumbling
and our rig is at this point it's about5 feet from indicator to lead using a
small indicator because we don't needmuch because we don't have much weight
so we're 5 feet we could probably goshorter the shorter you go in this
situation when you're in shallow waterlike this the more direct your strikes
going to be if you've got 10 feet aliter in your fish and 3 feet of water
that fish can eat ithe can run 2 feet before your indicator
even registersyeah critical that you have the right
length of your indicator this particularcase I like five feet because it allows
that fly to settle down before theindicator does any drag because we're
fishing almost straight up at this pointwhen we turn out a little bit
it'll be fine because it's a little bitdeeper out there it's about three and a
half four feet deep the most popularrigging technique is known as the
two-to-one system basically for everyone foot of depth you use two feet of
leader thus if you're an infant in fourfeet of water your strike indicator or
leader length should be set at eightfeet from your fly another critical
consideration for your nymph rig is touse weight to present your fly properly
again there are some excellent generalguidelines to help anglers ideally you
want to use the minimal amount of weightto get your fly to the bottom usually
fish are holding in the bottom twentypercent of the water column in order to
effectively fish this area we need toadd weight to the leader and/or fly
pattern to reach this area the rule ofthumb is to add weight until you begin
to snag or regularly make contact withthe bottom then you know that your
pattern is in the feedings over fishbasically if you're not losing flies to
snags then you're probably not in thezone because you're not deep enough it
takes constant experimentation andchanges to your rig to find the best
system to accommodate both the waterdepth and the current speed in order to
present your fly properlyin 2002 we met with Jeff blood who was
one of the top nymph fly fishers forsteelhead in northern Pennsylvania Jeff
explain a little about why it iscritical to constantly change a rig and
weight system for nymphal one of themost neglected principles of fishing by
fly fishermen as well as conventionaltackle fishermen is to vary their weight
according to the fishing condition thatyou have and too much weight you'll be
dragging on the bottom which does notgive a natural presentation and actually
pulls the fly out of the fish's zone andnot enough weight will not get it down
into the zone fast enough or keep it inthe zone so that you get the longest
drift and most of the really goodfishermen are constantly changing their
weight according to the characteristicsof the pool so I'll start out fishing
with what my instincts tell me is theright amount of weight and if I'm not
catching fish most of the time I putmore on rather than take it off of
course if it's shallow water and I cansee that then I will take it off but
most the time I add another piece onuntil I figure it out after time you
kind of develop an instinct where youcan just look at the pool and say it
requires one BB shot or two BB shots orsometimes even more and if you don't do
this you're going to diminish your catchrate substantially simply because you're
not into the fish and right there's anexample of
and you have it right now you should beable to catch a fish with the right
amount of weight on it that's what we'vegot is a little three pound male maybe
they're funhe's a little bigger net it's probably
more like pounds it's a nice little mealfish can tell by the little bit of hook
in this jar right there anyway let's putthem back real gentle-like strike
indicators are loved by some and not byothers it is truly a matter of personal
choice strike indicators are valuabletools because they easily help you
detect strikes which is particularlyhelpful to the new fly fisher who is
still learning there are wide variety ofstrike indicators available choices
should be made based on water depthclarity and speed plus the size of the
indicator is impacted by the overallweight of the rig you are using over
time and through experimentation youwill discover the best strike indicator
options for the water you fishthere are a number of techniques related
to rod position that will help you toproperly present your nymph as well as
detect strikes most people are familiarwith the terminology high-sticking which
is essentially the raising of your rodthroughout the swing of the fly under
the water this helps lift the fly lineoff the water thus minimizing drag on
your fly it is critical that your rodtip followed the fly line and the
current through the drift this helps tomitigate the impact of the currents on
your presentation of equal importance isthe need to closely watch your strike
indicator or fly line for anyhesitations or unusual movements which
will transmit to you that a fish haspicked up your offering very go fish on
this underwater footage of a rainbowtrout inhaling then spitting on a piece
of debris clearly indicates why you mustreact quickly to any detected strikes
just a simple flick of your wrist willset the hook if indeed it was a
straight-a student experienced nymphfishers are constantly flicking their
wrist potentially setting the hook onany possible strikes with practice you
will learn to detect even the most minutindication of a pick up of your offering
by a fishmmm that was a fish positioning during
the drift is key to nymphal downstreamnymph is generally not a good idea since
controlling the drift is problematic aswell it is highly likely you will not
get a solid hook set from this positionpositioning yourself slightly below or
perpendicular to the fish is ideal forcontrolling the drift of your
presentation upstream presentations arevery effective but it is imperative to
tightly control a drift of your fly linewatch how this angular positions himself
to properly control the drift whilesituated below some fish holding water
he is constantly stripping in the linekeeping tight contact with his nymph
while not impacting the speed nymphfishing is undoubtedly one of the most
effective means of catching big trout orother species anglers make the mistake
of believing nymph fishing is for onlytrout watch as I fight an enormous
Pacific salmon caught on a small nymphon a great lake tributary near Toronto
Ontarioside pressure oil boy we're passing a
lot of fish on the way down you mustcome out it this time of year folks this
is the best time of year to catch thesebig fish they there are a lot of fun
you're catching many many big fishyou're not landing everyone as you've
seen with other fish with meI hope you enjoyed today's show and
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here and again I'm holding it face-firstinto the current oh he's ready to go
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There we go there we go
there we go there we go! Oh, that's a
bass, folks!-Is it?-That's a bass, that
ain't no crappie, son!What's going on here?-You are a bass fisherman. -Well, that's true. You put a dropshot
in my hand,you can almost guarantee- you can almost
guarantee, Art, that. . . -He's not a giant,
but he's a keeper. -On Arts' rig. I gotta be careful
with this little dude. That little hook. . I don't
know how well he's got it. Not very good. He got- he got the
minnow, that's for sure. -Mmm-Hmm. -Alright, I gotcha!Lookee there!-Nice. -It's not a crappie,
but it's a bass. -It's not. -That's- that's
what you get though,when you fish the same
areas that bass like tohang out. -Well yeah, in
this type of stuff,you'll catch
bass, crappie,bluegill. . yellow bass. And catfish. -How awesome is that?-Just slip that
dropshot- or that uh,. . . -How awesome is that?Folks, today we're
at Roosevelt Lake. And I cannot believe I've
got one of my favoriteguys ever, growing up,
I loved him to death,Art Chamberlin. The 'crappie guide'. The guy that- that I
mean. . I hate to tell youthis, and I don't want
to just, you know,make your head
swell too much,but you know that your
legend in Arizona. I gotta let you know that. -Well, I got Matt
Shura for a PR guy. -That's- that's
what you got!You got Matt
Shura for PR guy. Art's been around this-
you've guided on this lakehere at Roosevelt,
for how long?How many years?-31 years.
-31 years. -And fished it 40. -Yeah, we came out
here to crappie fish. And uh, of
course, you know,if you're crappie
fishing in the area,sometimes where we're
fishing you're gonna catchsome bass, right?-Absolutely. -So that was our
first fish of the day,but we're getting
started out here. Hopefully we catch
some crappie today. But Art, I'm gonna tell
you something. . He's donea lot of tournaments. When I was a kid, I
remember him being in thetournaments, uh, I grew
up watching you, you know?And and and I always
hear about the 'crappiefishing', 'crappie
fishing. . 'And even at my restaurant,
wherever I go,'How's art doing?How's are doing?'Everybody's always
asking "How's art doing?"So Art, how are you doing?-I'm doing great. -Yeah? You been doing good?You're still doing
some seminar work?-I'm doing some seminars. Be at the Sports
Expo next spring,and Bass Pro Shop uh, I
think the first week ofDecember. You'll have to
check online but uh,we're talking about doing
one the first week ofDecember, and doing one
covering crappie andhaving possibly a Game and
Fish there to talk aboutthe habitats
we're fishing. -Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And that's what
we're doing today. You know, they dropped
a lot of habitat in uh,Roosevelt Lake. And the crappie are just
getting stacked up along-along with it. Art has done his
homework now, folks. Now let me tell you
something: he pulls outthe little black book;
he's got everything marked; he knows
exactly what he's doing; he does homework. And probably more so
than- than me or Matt do. I'm telling you,
you got it down!-Well, I'm retired!-Oh that's what it
is. . He's retired now!But I've learnt more
in the half hour justbringing him out, before
we even started fishing,than I have in years
about crappie fishing. I never even knew
it was like this. And hopefully we get
something going today. Caught a bass
right off the bat,but it- get something
started- but I'm lookingforward to seeing some-
what'd you call it. . 'Sac-a-lait'?-Sac-a-lait. I just want to mention
real quick though: thesehabitats- and I've found
18 of the 20 of them,there's two of them that
don't match up with thecoordinates- but I want to
give a big shout out uh,Rich and Sue Pratt are
good friends of mine. And Rich helped me
program these in,to where I can go
right to them. . -Awesome awesome. -And uh, start fishing. -Well, that's awesome. We're gonna see if we can
catch some fish off ofthem, so stick around. Uh, you need to hook
me up another minnow. I can't believe I'm- this
is the first time I'veever fished with live
bait since I was a kid. And we're throwing
little jigs,but we're also
throwing minnows, too,and we'll talk about that
here in just a second. Stay tuned. -I can get you one, but
the price just went up!-That's funny!Start with the
hook, right?-Start with the hook
facing towards the rod tip. They make the eyes on
these smaller every year. You put that on
facing the rod tip. Then I go ahead and put
my drop shot weight on. Pull that up in there. And I always tie a
granny knot on it. I know a lot of people
don't, but I just do that. Keeps it from
accidentally falling off. Now, I take my hook. . and I go about
the distance-and I just guess at it-
that I want to be from thedrop shot weight, and
I just pinch the linetogether. Doubling it up. Go around my fingers,
creating a loop,and I go through that
loop once. . Twice. . Three times. And this is the same
thing Casey and I do,bass fishing. -Wow. -I wet it. . I draw it up. . And like I say,I know that people are
skeptical about thatbreaking, but we have
landed a flat head over 15pounds on this. Then I take and put. . a plastic bait on. In this case, a little
inch and a half Bass Protube jig. And I run that
up on there. And I'm not going
to do it now,but a lot of times I
just put just a drop ofsuperglue to
keep that there. Then I put a
little bit of uh,MegaStrike scent on it. -And why are you
using the scent?-Just a extra uh, initiative
for them to hit it. -Alright. -And I always run it
up my line little bit. Now I take a- a live
minnow out of the minnowbucket over here. And I take and hook them
as close to the front,up through the bottom
lip, and out the top lip. And that is your. . -That's my drop shot rig. -That's your dropshot rig. -That's what I'm throwing
for my drop shot rig. -That's right. -That's what I'm
talking about son!Look at that thing!
Hi little dude!Got him!-Alright. -Got that one. I got that one, Art!-Hope you got the
right species. Nope. . Oh!I do! I do!-Yes you do.
-I do!-Swing him up in here. -Lookee there!Little paper-mouth!-Yes sir!-I think we found a-
a good little spot. -I think so. -Look at that!Huh folks?Now that's not
a giant crappie,compared to what-
compared to what we're uh,what we're getting- what
you see in this lake,but that is a crappie. -That's right. -You know, Art, can you
explain a little bitabout. . I know folks at
home are wondering, "Okay,what are they using. .
What's the line?"I'm throwing braid. I'm throwing my
drop shot rig. Explain to them
what we're doing,and the rod you're using. -I've got the jig
rod at the moment. It's a- it's an 8'2" rod. But on both my drop
shot and my uh, jig rod,I start out with a um,
medium light action rod. -Okay. That's what
I've got here. -And uh, I use a
fairly small real. -That's a 200?-Yeah. This is a uh,
different brand,but it's- yeah. . A 200.
Small real. I do use pretty much the
same line as I use forbass, as far as
my main line. -For your braid. -12 pound braid. -Okay. -And I like the high-vis. -Alright. -I can detect strikes
a little bit better. -You can see it. -And then, I tie- with a
knot I saw on the JohnnyJohnson show- that fellow
that he- the refined uh,Alberto. -Yep. That Alberto knot?-That is so slick. -I know. -I taped that and watched
it about 12 times. -Did you?-And then I use a
fluorocarbon leader. Right here, I've got 5
pound test fluorocarbon. And then on the jig rod, I
tie a little loop knot sothat when the jig
is down there, uh,it will sit natural
instead of up and down. And then we uh, kinda
showed already, didn't we?How we rigged
and tied the uh. . -Yes, uh-huh. We
already showed that. -Yeah, so. . And uh, I
usually put that about 15inches above. That way, if I break
a weight or two off,I can put another
weight on. And that 1214 Eagle
Claw extralight hook,a lot of times you
can catch in a tree orhabitat, straighten
it back out,put your minnow
on and go again. -Gotcha. . Gotcha. -That's pretty much it. -Awesome rig. .
Awesome rig. And you know, something we
were talking about earlierwhen we came out here:
fishing's not quite whatwe were hoping for.
-No. -It's not like, you know,
one fish after another. But you were talking
a little bit about thebarometric pressure. I think if a lot of people
at home don't understandthat. . Can you explain
a little bit about thebarometric pressure
on these fish?-Well, yeah. Barometric pressure,
as I understand it,and what my theory I've
learned from Bill Dancemany, many years ago:
that a rapidly rising or arapidly falling barometric
pressure will make thecrappie, in particular,
-all fish somewhat- butit'll make a crappie feel
like we do when we havethe flu. -Wow. -Now, we're going to eat
a little soup or somethingwhen we have the flu, but
we're not going to eat abig meal.
-No. -So we've got to
be very precise,and put our baits right
in front of their nose andhope that they'll eat it. On a good day, when
things are right,sometimes you can't
keep them off of it. So uh. . -Gotcha. . Gotcha. Well, it's your turn!-Okay, thank you. -You let me
catch two fish. Boy, he's been
gracious to me today. Allowing me to catch the
first couple of fish,but it's his turn now. -I even dumped my. . . Get your own minnow, or?-Yeah, I'll get it. I feel comfortable throwing
this dropshot rig. That's probably
a lot of it. I was throwing a jig for
a little while and I know,you know, that thing
catches a lot of fish. But when you said,
"Hey, I'll put you on adropshot", I'm like,
"Hey, now you're in mywheelhouse". -Um, lift that net over here
and hand me a minnow also. -Alright. -Whatever it was down
there, got my minnow. -See? There you go. -I just got bit again. -You do it too much, I
might have to go to mydrop shot. -You better go to
that drop shot!-Look at the fish on
the screen right now. -I know. . We lit them up
right there, didn't we?-Yep. -Oh. . There's another-
that one's a little bitbigger than that last one!
-Yep. -That one's a little bit
bigger than the last one. . Look at that!Alright!Alright, Art!-Good job, Johnny. -Little sac-a-lait!-Yep. -Look at that. They're fun to catch. Your- kids would have
a blast doing this,wouldn't they?
-Oh, they would. -And you know what's
really cool about whatArt's showing
us today, folks?We'll let him go. Is. . You can bring, you
know, or- or folks out,and you don't have to
worry about them throwingthose big ol' crankbaits
with- with uh,treble hooks, and getting
hooked up and all that. This kind of- this kind
of fishing's a lot of fun. -Open the bail
and drop it down. -Open the bail
and drop it down. Now the ticket is, though,
you gotta learn how toread a graph a little bit. Because you find these
habitats in here,or an edge where
they're at,you gotta be able
to know that, 'hey,there's fish down
there', and do that. But I'll tell you, other
than that, it- you know,that part of it. . Once
you figure that part of itout, it's a lot of fun.
It really is. And we're fishing
in what. . 20,27 foot of water, so. -And you know, I know
we practice catch andrelease, and I
think people should,but to take a few of these
home and. . For a fishdinner. . mmm. -Oh. . There you go. -Tremendous eating. There's one!
-Did you get him?That one a better one?-I don't know. .
Oh. . He come off!Dog gone it!
-Are you serious?-Sure did. -They're down there, huh?
-Got my minnow. -Do you need
another minnow?-I had him halfway up. .
Yeah, if you don't mind. -Here, take this one. There you go. Got him?-Got him. -I'll help you out
the best I can. -Somebody has to. -You get him?
-Yeah. -Alright, he got him!Boy, look at that-
look at that rod bow!And there you have it!Oh that's- that's bigger
than the one I caught!-Well, of course!-What do you think. .
You're the crappie masteror something?
-No. -That is fun. That's a nice one. These are black crappie?-All black crappie. Uh, we do have black-nose
crappie in this lake now. -Really?-Yep. . I'm gonna need your
pliers for this one, Johnny. -Here you go.
-He did eat it. -Look at that.
Good job, Art. -Thank you. That was
no minnow, either. -Now that was on the
jig. . Show that jig. Um, that's got a
little blue to it. -Yeah, this is a
little teardrop uh,jig uh. . Kurt Rambo come
up with this outfit righthere, and he's the master
of this jigging technique. And uh, it's about 3/16
of an inch- of an ounce Ishould say- and that Lit'l
Fishie on there is uh-Creme Lures makes that-
and that's been a realstandby out here
lately for crappie. -Let me get you
a new minnow. You know, a lot of
it's about timing. Right? I mean. . You say- you didn't
want us to come outhere until
after 7 o'clock. -Right. -Most guys would be up at
5 o'clock in the morningto be out here. -Yeah, I've been out
here at first light,but they're just not
biting until later on inthe morning. I think they like to
sleep in as much as we do. But um, you know, one
thing I mentioned,Johnny. . Um, is the fact
that if you walk into BassPro shop and walk straight
back towards the fishingdepartment and look at
that fish tank- thataquarium-, they've got,
in the middle of that,just a little
bit off-center,they've got a nice tree
in there and six or sevencrappie. I'm not sure
exactly how many. When I walk in the store,
that's the first place Igo. And I look at that, and if
those crappie are burieddown in that tree,
they're not catchable. So if you walk in there,
and if they're up aroundthat tree- the
perimeter of that tree,then you can catch every
one of those crappie. -Okay. -And uh, that's exactly
what they do out here. They bury in the habitat
or the structure whenthey're off their feed,
and they come up and movearound that habitat
on the tops,or structure that
you're fishing,when they're active. -Gotcha. -And that's part of
your 'timing' situation. You want to take a kid
fishing and have a blast, this is the kind
of fishing to do. This is a lot of fun. And uh, I'll
tell you what,Art's- Art's been fishing
this lake since what. . Yousay the early 70s?-Uh, '76. . January, '76. -Mid-70s. And he knows this lake
like the back of his hand. Now, in saying that, what
makes Art so great on thislake is the fact that
whether this lake isempty, or whether it's
full, just like this,he knows where
to find the fish. He knows exactly
where they go. And that's the ticket. Look at that!That was bigger
than my last one. -Johnny, why don't you
point them out for thepeople on the screen, what
we're- what we're doinghere. -Yeah, if you take a quick
little poke here. . Little look. . What we have
down there,is there's some
habitat down there. Okay, you have the bottom-
right down there's somehabitat. But in that habitat-
it's lay-down. It's hard to see- the
trolling motor's goingback and forth- but
every once in a while,you'll see a hump-up. There's some trees and
things down in that area,but all those
fish are in there. Now if I want to, I can
take- we zoom up on it-one time zoom
on this thing,and that way all of these
fish that are not stuck tothe bottom like that. . . All that's fish
down in there. We're staying
in one place,so it's not going to show
all the arcs all the timeunless they're
swimming through. But they're just laying
on the bottom in there,in the trees and the
habitat that's down there. And we're just kinda- you
can feel it pulling upover the branches, and
over the- the habitat. And usually, they're
right on top of it. Or they're in it,
coming out of it. -Right. -So it's a lot of fun. Well, Art,I think we had a great
time today on the show. -I know we had
a good time. -That's right. I always have a good time. But the thing is, is today
was a special treat for mebecause I always wanted
to go fishing with you. I appreciate you coming
out here and sharing theboat with us, man. -Well I appreciate
you asking me. -I'll tell you what. . Grab
some of these rigs and uh,try them out. And if you have any
questions for Art,you know, I guess you
could email me and we'llfind a way to uh, to have
them get a hold of you orsomething. But I know that
you do seminars. You're going to be to
doing the Sportsman'sExpo- for how many
years in a row now?-Uh, it'll be 19 in March. -19- 19 in March. And I'll be
there, probably. But Uh, you learn a lot. I've learned more in the
day that I've had- thehalf of day that I've had
with Art- about crappieand- and the way to go
about catching these fish,than I've ever
done before. I usually catch
them by accident. So, you know, it's hard to
say I'm a big-time crappiefisherman. But uh, man, I've learned
a lot from you today,I'm going to take to the
bank, without a doubt. -Well I appreciate that. You know they can watch
uh, in early December,we're planning on one
at Bass Pro Shop on--There you go. . Yeah.
-On crappie, so uh. . . -Yeah, we'll get
that done, too. And make sure you stop
by and say hi to Art,for sure, because you'll
learn a lot from him. And uh, I appreciate
you coming on. It's been a dream of mine
to be able to have you on. Like I said, it's
been a great day. Had fun catching
some crappie. Different day
for me, for sure,but get to go out with a
legend like this just mademy day. I appreciate it buddy.
-Thank you. -Casey told me
to tell you that!Thanks so much folks!We'll see you next week!For Art Chamberlin,
I'm Johnny Johnson. We'll see you next week on
Fishing with Johnny Johnson. -Good fishing.

new tacticI am using Savage Gear Ribwormlook at thisthis is prey fish and at the bottom are predatorsgot a fishlittle Zanderbut is a fishthis fishthere he goescome herewe got himis officialthe season with Savage Gear Nails is openI will take a photo therehe is unhooked alreadyso we got our Barbel45Cm Barbel that we will release nowlook at thisthis is so good to Barbel, so goodwould be better with sunis still shade herethey are like us, prefer the suneven more in springbut maybe there are one therelike this onemaybeeasysome places we just know they have fishseems biggermy drag is very closedhe is biggerhe is unhooked, Savage Gear Nailsbeautiful Barbellet´s take a photoyou can´t imagine the work I got to take a photothe line of my fly fishing rod wrapped under the kayakso I paddle all the way but is doneis a 56Cm fishyou will see on photoslet me show youlookbeautiful fishvery beautifullet´s releasethe work you give mebut he is alive, let´s try to get morelook how close I wascan you see the scale?he was near that vinesin the grape season will be greatlike I said this year I will do lot´s of sea fishingbut I think I will leave the kayak on top of my carand Sunday morning I will fish near home to Barbeljust to feel big fish, the ones that bend our rodsand put our hurts pumpingthe bottom there is sandso is goodrear . . . rearwe got himone moreand releaseyou will break my rodgot him, one morethere he goes4 Barbels and 1 Zandercan´t ask for more, I am tiredso my fishing morning is over, got some BarbelI try to fish them in fly fishing but there is lot´s of wind as you can seeyou can see by the waves since the deadcat is cutting the noiseso my bet was Savage Gear Nailsand got some Barbelsand a Zander in the begin of the daybecause we want fish that pull drag, hope you like and see you in the next video

- Welcome back to another vlog. I'm back in Grant Nef for a little bit. We are packing up. I can't show you the footage
from that shoot untilit gets producedbut we're gonna fish on the way home,so that's what we're
gonna share with you guys. But for now, gotta pack up this disaster. We got,We got a lot going on there. Quite a bit thereand just a,just a full cluster right therethat needs to get sorted out in a hurry. But next stop, we'll go pick up Kevinand we'll hit the road. And we're at Kevin's house. You remember him from
all the goose videos?That's the guy. - What's going on?- What's the plan?Did you get a bottle for us?- Well apparently, I wasn't
supposed to pack anything'cause you have too much camera gear. - Too much camera gear. Alright. We're off to
Winnipeg, gonna go pick up Nickand then we're gonna make
it to Bissett tonight. We're flying out of. Who do we have here?- Hey!- We got Nick, we got Kevin. We are now about to depart. - Three hours later. - We made it to Bissett,
where we're flying outin the morning. It is midnight. We are gonna unload
and then we fly at six,we gotta be ready at the dock at 5:30 so. The beauty of filming
fishing is sometimes you haveto catch the fish,so we might do a little
fishing on this trip. But I am gonna try to fit
all my tackle into this,right here because,why not?You ready for a I see you back a little bit. That's a wrap. We made it to Bissett in
the San Antonio Hotel. We are gonna sleep for
four hours and we're gonnahit the plane and we're
gonna fish on the way home. So if you don't see us there,
I'm sure we'll check inwhen we get back, butgood night. Okay. Flight's delayed, how long?Maybe an hour, maybe three hours?I don't know. And we're gonna go bass fishing,'cause Grace Lake here
has some big, ol' bassand we have some limited baits. I have a called a Ned Rig but basicallyjust a plastic worm. Kevin's just got a Chug Bug,so we're gonna go fish offshore
and see what we can do. We're gonna fish around
here, I think we're gonnacatch some smallies. Look, there he is. Watch this. Ready?Yeah, it'll just be, you
won't probably see the fish. Ready?Got it. You chucklehead. That's all I get sitting there before. That is what you do, when
your flight's delayed. We had some rods in the truck,and I saw this fish, sitting on the bed,right by the docks. E-boy hotspot now. And that is our first
smallie of the morning. We're gonna catch a couple,we're gonna make the most
of this flight delay. Gone. That was good. He was aggressive. Oh!I lost him!Hooked up under the dock,
that fish just crashed me. We're doing the shore fishing thing hereand we have limited stuff we can fishso there's fish under the dock hereand I got rocketed by a fish
so he might have been on a bed,I'm gonna cast back under there. But that fish just derailed me. Just hopping along the edge. Got him. Oh jeez!It's a big bass. Oh my goodness. Oh ho ho!This is ridiculous. Bass number two. Fatty. 'nother nice Manitoba smallie, number two. Waiting for our flight,and we're catching. You always need a rod in the
boat for situations like this. I don't shore fish as
much as I used to but,a different challenge. That audio's gonna be bad. - Oh it's gon' be so bad. Won't be able to hear anything. - Oh there we go. Number three!- Whew!We're slinging this one. Got it!A little baby. You're fat. Right there. Whoo!Gone. That's okay. I wasn't expecting to catch
any fish this morning. Number four. This dock has been good to us. This is just crazy,I can't imagine we'd get
her on a boat right now,how many fish we'd be catching but,it shows you, you do not need a boat. Nothing wrong with this. Alright, we're going back. Kevin, do you want this rod?I set Kevin up with the top
water in like, big winds. But there's a bunch of
fish under this dock. So I'm using, this is called the Ned Rig,and honestly it looks like half a Senko,looks like just a basic worm. I did not realize how
popular these things arein the bass world until the spring. Basically, the main difference
of this and a normalhalf a Senko or plastic worm is,this has tons of floating in it. So when it sits on the bottom
it's not gonna sit flat,it's gonna cock up a little bit. It just sits right in their faceand just with how it pops off
the bottom, it's a different,I don't know. Whatever it's made of,it's got a little more silicone in itthat makes it float so,that's what I'm doing, I'm just
hopping it along the bottomand seems to be good
technique, these fish are,I don't think they're all bedding yet,but I think some of them are on beds,some of those fish are
still pretty fat so. Kevin's hooked up!Kevin's hooked up!Kevin's hooked up!- Here it comes. - Top water!Whoo! - Ooh! Another Manitoba smallie. What's our count? Four? Five?- Well, I think we hooked the
biggest one of the morning. And it's gonna be,I don't think it's a master but it's,it's pretty big, like,that's a good bass for
the morning spent onshore. That's probably a 17-incher or so?We're gonna put it back and
we're gonna keep fishing but,it shows you, you don't need a boat. The shore fisher
opportunities are pretty sweetall over here. I mean, we're gonna
probably fish couple lakeson the way home after
we finish this shoot. Catch couple more bass
today and I don't know,we got limited water, we've caught like,how many bass, Kevin, eight?Eight bass probably,
couple pike and you know. Especially in summer and
spring, the bass are shallow. You can just go bank,
shoreline and catch fish. What do you think?What are we doing?Give me an update. - Loadin' up on the plane. We're finally got the all
clear to head out so we'reloading up all the gear
and we're headin' out. - Well, we will fish when
we get back but now we'regoing on a plane. Well they decided to let me
fly today so it should bea good time to learn. It's not too windy and all
these people would trust mewith their lives so I'm
pretty happy about that. Just kidding. We gotta get the pilot. Welcome back folks!Four days of filming and good times. And we're back on the road
but the fishing is not over. As promised, we are gonna
fish on the way homeand we are about to pull
up to the Manigotagan Riverwhich is just ahead here. I've never fished it before
but I hear that it's gota pretty good run of
white bass in the springand we're gonna continueour springfishingbonanza offshoreand hopefully catch some white bass. Well, we're just rigging
up and we're gonna havea little fly versus swim
bait competition, I guess. Have you caught a white bass before?- Yes. Not on the fly though. - I am throwing a little swimbait. A little three inch swimbait. Whoa whoa whoa!If that doesn't work,I'm gonna throw a little crank. If that doesn't work,I'm gonna throw a Mepps. So those are my options. - Option number four, baitfish pattern,gonna crush 'em. - There's a fish!Fishin!Yeah!It's just about the switchbaits. Oh I hope it's a white bass. Oh I hope it's a white bass. Don't be a pike. It's a white bass. We got a white bass. Okay four. Yeah!That is a little silver
beauty right there. Look at that. Chow! That's one big,man, I just slowed it down a bit. These are cool fish. These fish just stack up
during these little tripsin the spring. And that's probably a
14 and a half incher,but it's a good start. Just like that. Number one on the board
took us five minutes. So my mood changed greatly as you can seein that last shoot. We're gonna keep doing it. Maybe Kevin will get a couple on the fly. It might be tough to see
but when the sun comes out,that whole river turns
like a copper color,'cause there are thousands of suckers. I thought it was really
shallow rocks at first,and then I saw them kicking up. There are so many,if you wanna catch a master angler sucker,it's probably one of the best places. The Manitoba record used to be from here. It is wild. I was snagging them, not on purpose,just every cast, if you're
not getting bit by a fish,you're bumpin' off a sucker or
hooking a scale or you know. It's cool. There are so many fish to
get sucked in to these falls. And this is low, I can't imagine
this when the water's high. Well Kevin, what do you
think of our trip together?- Oh it's been amazing. We've shared some good times. - Oh so cheesy. We're done. That's a wrap. Finishing things up in
the Manigotagan River,I think the theme of this vlogis making the most of your situation. Flight was delayed, we caught
smallies offshore in Bissett,there's bridge at the side of the road,there's a waterfall,we caught white bass, we
caught small mud bass,we caught pike. We saw a thousand suckers
and carp at the bottomwhich was pretty cool. I mean, it just shows,
you don't need a boat,especially in eastern Manitoba
there's so many tribs,so many lakes, if you
go through the Nopiming. - Just get out there. Like you said, make the
most of your situation. - Well, I think that's pretty much a wrap. I'm sure you're gonna
see Kevin on another vlog'cause he seems to be the
most consistent co-host. - That's true. Made quite a few appearances already. - Yeah. Make sure to subscribe. Make sure to follow Kevin
on Instagram and up next,I guess we'll wait and see. (Broken Heart Original
Mix by The Illjazztic One)

I get asked all the time about crankbait colors.
When do I throw this color? What's the bestcolor? Well with the Original Little John
we make about 12-15 colors that are all fordifferent situations. There's not one color
that works all the time. We have natural colorslike the Shad Colors. Then we have the crawfish
colors, we have the reds like this one isa type of a red type crawfish color. Then
we've got the brighter colors like the ChartreuseBlack Back. So you really need to have a
little bit of everything because when you'rein the stained water in the summertime or
the fall I really like Citrus Shad or a ChartreuseBlack Back because those colors work real well.
But if I'm fishing in the summertime or thefall and I'm getting around a lot of baitfish
with the water clearing up a little bit, I'mgoing to go with more of like a Cell Mate
color more of a natural looking white shadbait maybe Nasty Shad. Then if the water clears
up even a little bit more I may go tolike a Spooky Nasty or something with a little
translucence to it that helps break up theoutline of that crankbait and the fish get
em' a lot better when you do that. In thespringtime I really like colors with some
red in them. Whether it's this color the BloodCraw or a Spring Craw, which is more of a
yellow color with a reddish brown back. Somethingwith yellow and red in it seem to do real
well in the springtime. Also the old ChartreuseBlack Back can be good in the spring as well.
General rules to think about when you're crankbaitcrankbait fishing and color selection is as long as
you've got the right action, the color iswhat helps you dial it in and make those fish
eat it real good.