A Mississippi River Smallie Fishing Adventure!
A fun filled day exploring and fishing smallmouth bass on the upper Mississippi River in Minnesota! This trip is from late May a few years back and I floated a stretch with a group of fellow smallie addicts including @smallietalkpodcast5821 @HoosierStateFishing and several others. Lots of fish were caught and good times were had by all!
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Gear used on this trip:
Lure: Nikko Craw, galaxy https://amzn.to/3I4wCEs
Hook: Owner 1/0 Mosquito https://amzn.to/3uLkE9y
Rod: St Croix LTBS510MXF https://amzn.to/3OLu5m6
Reel: Abu Garcia Revo MGX 20 (old model) https://amzn.to/3pltGsy
Line: 10lb Trilene Sensation https://amzn.to/3g6lMiQ
Pliers: Umpqua Rivergrip https://amzn.to/34Ujq0Z
Anchor: Power Pole micro anchor https://amzn.to/3SLFzHs
Useing a whopper on a spin cast instead of a bait cast.. thank you 4 letting me know it can be done..
I live in Northern California, but my families Heritage is northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. I grew up with a fishing pole in one hand and a shotgun in the other one. I love watching your videos. They make me homesick. You keep making them, I’ll keep watching them.
What brand/model is that inflatable boat in your group
What are you using to record your videos? Great quality. Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming
Matt how did you rig your craw up? It didn’t look like a jig head.
I was just fishing there literally today what are the odds i see this video!!!
SCSU landing?
I’m really enjoying your videos. I like that you’re calm and not loud and yelling. Your content makes me want to grab a rod and go fishing. Appreciate the work you put into this. Although, can you call it work when you’re having a blast fishing?
I can’t wait to get plopping this year! Last year was the first year I used them and had a blast!
what stretch of the river is this? looks like a great place to kayak
Great job with the videos
How deep is that river, it looks wide and shallow, is it deep enough for a canoe with a small gas motor ? Thanks.
Man , I can’t get over how big and healthy looking those small mouth are in such shallow water. Smallies are such fun.
Probably the best small mouth fishing channel on youtube
What anchor do you use on your Wilderness System?
Yeah ,this dude is low key, good fisher. But the real star is this river & those vicious smallest. Damn. Good on ya bro.
How does he have that milk crate strapped behind his chair?
Hey say how many fish on’s were you retieing after and about after how many casts to retie s would you say you were averaging? love this river for smallie fishing. didn’t even have to know where you were because so much of it is the same features all over the stretch north of the twin cities. i’d have to say there were over 2-3 dozen features that are about the same where i fish in the restricted smallie zone.
there used to be a ton of large mouth as well but i think with the smallie restriction that every one depopulated the large mouth a few years ago too
i remember about this time i was using some purple body black head chrome flash double blade spinners and was just coming up walleye walleye pike, walleye bass walleye walleye walleye type combinations with 3:1 walleye vs everything else at this time…i suck at catching walleye too much frostbite to feel the death strike in time to make it real and that makes them super light taste test for hook, line and sinker weight that i can’t feel to let them eat.
those gravel bed washboards are some of my favorite places to catch live bait to use when the crappie minnows and shiners are out of stock or priced high.
i use crawdads i catch alot just because they are easy to find and catch, esp. with a minnow net since it’s natural food they eat that’s super plentiful…. the hard part is they are live, and go right back to what ever rocks they can shelter under…i have to use a slightly more powerful bobber in the current to coerce them to be eatable. sometimes i will double them up with a much larger plastic to hinder them from that.
Was this the stretch from Monticello to Otsego? If so I live on there and there is a couple spots where I’ve caught 5+
Love seeing you fish with Chrenko and the boys from STP! They are a great group of guys local to me here in Indiana!!!
What a beautiful day
Love the excitement these guys have launching!!
That spawning flat was awesome❤
I’m glad i’m not the only one who gives him the little poke and chase lol.
Fishing with a group? No thanks.
24:17 fish right in front of him as he hooks another lol
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why don’t dudes on kayaks weigh their fish why only measure length. Me personally i’m more interested in weight than length
love your channel man keep doin what your doin love watching ya!!!
You really had your hands full with those beauties! They fight like mad. Even more than in the lakes.
Could you link the plopper
Great video! It was cool of you to share that Honey Hole with the other guys. You could have just kept quiet about it. But you did the right thing. Nice job!
How is this guy so good at catching fish?
Matt and Josh are absolute hammers on the river!
So good of him to share with Hisz friends..
Another Fantastic Video!
Great collaboration video with the out of state boys on the mighty Mississippi. You guys hit the window for big spring smallies. Looked like all kinds of fun. Blessings Matt
Those guys seem so annoying
Would you tell me what you use for boots and pants when you’re wading like you are in this video?
Nice area to fish. Looks pretty shallow all along there.
Awesome video as always man! Do you think using a conventional anchor (instead of the power pole) would work for a kayak in this situation?
So in America is it frowned upon to keep largemouth and small mouth bass? I’m in Australia we mainly have redfin perch in my area of south western Australia they grow up to 50cm and are a great eating fish
When I was growing up in Ohio we would do the same thing in Big Darby I love that place
Awesome video
That anchor on the yak is key. Nice float❤
Now THATS a great day of fishing… and nothing but beauties!
The only time I caught smallness was on the Crooked Creek in Arkansas. Caught quite a few and we were the only people fishing.
Matt, you run one of my favorite fishing channels on YouTube. However, I don’t approve of fishing the spawn. It always amazes me when people complain about how there’s fewer bass that are harder to catch these days than 10, 20 or 30 years ago, yet they fish spawning beds, and interfere with the reproductive process.
You were claiming that all of these fish were returning to their beds, but we don’t know if they actually did or were just going in the general direction. In the meantime other fish might’ve come in and gorged on the eggs or fry.
During the spawn, I stay off the bass beds and hit the trout streams instead.
Nothing beats the plopper when it’s on. Fun as it gets. Good stuff!
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