I don’t, I use 17lb fluorocarbon. Couple reasons for this. The first is I like the slight stretch that it has versus braid. That split second helps make sure the fish has the bait in my opinion. The other reason is fluorocarbon is much less prone to wrapping around cover as it’s more rigid than braid. Prevents you from getting hung in laydowns, bushes, or docks as often.

I fish in Mistletoe some during herring spawn and summer time. There’s some good points and brush piles in there!

No doubt! Keep dunking the rod and keep the hand warmers close! 😅🥶

I bet! Still pretty darn cold up that way

😂 gets your sinuses cleared out 🥶😅

Thanks, I really appreciate it! Glad you’re enjoying the videos!

Thanks! Tanner is the man on the hill. Key baits were damiki rig, drop shot, and shakey head!

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I haven’t been really far up the broad but I’ve heard the same. Meant to go up there this summer but never got around to it. Will have to make that happen in 2025!

@ sounds good, I’m thinking about getting a trip with Tanner, will he show me how to catch a 4lb fish or go catch a hundred spots down like Modoc and around down lake, I already can consistently catch the spotted bass like crazy year round, but struggle to find quality bass, biggest bag this year was only 13lbs and I can go fishing and catch 70 bass and out of that 70 I won’t catch a fish over 2.5lbs. I would like to get a trip with him, but idk if he’s going to just take me down lake to catch a boat load of spots, if so that’s a waste of $440, do you think he will show me how to catch a 4lb bass?

I hear ya man. I think he can definitely help with that. I would communicate with him when you book about what your goals for the trip are

Sure is! It’s one of my favorite scoping baits and one I feel like people forget about sometimes!

@ heck yeah I have one tied on for our tournament at Russel

Nice! Should catch em!!

Thanks man. Yeah I love Murray, will be fishing there more this winter and spring. It’s an awesome like with some giants. I love fishing grass, so it’s definitely more fun than the hill. I wish Clarks Hill had grass too. Maybe eventually they’ll invest some more resources into the lake

@ long time ago it had tons of grass, you could almost walk across that flat by the road in parksville it had so much hydrilla, but the jack fish were bad.

For sure. The first time I ever fished it was in 2015. One of the last good years of grass. Having grown up fishing Lanier, I had never seen so much grass in my life 😂 little did I know how much I would miss it 10 years later.

Thanks!!

Thanks! 😎

lol didn’t know there was such a thing

@ it used to be a huge trend back in like 2018-2019

Nice man! I haven’t been to Russell in a while, but I would say with this cold weather, stay down by the dam and start scanning for bait in ditches start in 15-20ft and work deeper till you find them. Once you have a depth start running ditches till you find some with bass. Drop shot, Keitech, damiki, shakeyhead, underspin. If that’s not your thing I’d say go polar opposite and find some shallow dirty water and hit it with a jig, crankbait, and spinner bait!

I appreciate it man I will definitely try it

For sure! Let me know how it goes!

@@ZachRamseyFishing I will

Awesome! It’ll be a great experience!

Absolutely!!

For sure!

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Thanks! It was a fun one!

@ I bet

Awesome! It’ll be a good experience.

No doubt! He’s a hammer, and I’m glad I got to learn from him!

new fan . looking forward to future vids.

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

Thanks!!

Oh yeah man it was a blast! Been a long time since a first spot had that many fish haha

Me too! It’s fun when it’s on!

There are definitely largemouth down lake, just gotta weed through the spots or fish really shallow haha. But this was up the Georgia side of the lake towards Amity. Congrats on the boat, that’s awesome!

Fair enough! Yeah ever since college I tend to fish pretty much shoulder to shoulder with my partner. It helps with boat positioning and gives both of us good angles and usually allows one guy to fish a moving bait on the outside and the other to fish something slower on the inside or alter depths, etc. Plus with electronics being so crucial these days it really helps if we can both see the view on scope and know where we need to be casting. Each duo is different though and as long as y’all have a dynamic that works, that’s what’s important! Tight lines to you as well!

No doubt!!

Haha well glad I’m not the only one! Shoot there’s probably a bunch down there 😂

Damiki rig and underspin are what I have the best luck with. Sometimes a drop shot will work as well. Sometimes it’s a matter of rotating brush until you find some fish that want to eat!

@ thank you so much, that will help a lot!

Glad to help!

Yeah I was pleasantly surprised! Will definitely be coming back there it was a blast!

Thanks! I sure will!

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah you should definitely try some out. The best way to do it, in my opinion is just jump in them. There’s a couple different options. You could join a club which are usually low cost of entry and 10-20 boats depending on the club. Some clubs have boaters and non boaters depending on whether you have a boat. Other good options would be tournaments run by the Clarks Hill Classic and Hadden Outdoors. Give them a follow on Facebook. They have a Super 6 Team Series that starts in January. They also usually have some Fast 5 tournaments in the winter/spring in the afternoons on Sunday. Other than that, there’s almost always a SMOT (Sat/Sun Morning Open Tournament) that goes out of wildwood. Sometimes they’ll have a random one out of Cherokee or Amity as well. But the Clark’s Hill Tournament Fishing page on Facebook is a good one to follow to keep up with any that pop up.

@ awesome. Thanks for the info and keep up the great work!

Happy to help! Thanks!

Many Lakes around here that do tournaments. Lake Greenwood does one every Sunday.. I just got going into tournaments in the last year. I love it and will continue to roll with it. If I can help in any way let me know!

Nice! Yeah I think most lakes (maybe other than Russell) around here have tournaments every Saturday/Sunday to hop in.

It definitely can be!!

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What technique are you referring to? Oh heck yeah I bet that thing is SWEET!

@ meant buzz bait 🤦🏻 my bad

@ meant what rod for a buzz bait

Haha all good man! Toadface is the way to go!

That’s a great idea. I’ll definitely make a video on that. Probably my two most common baits for FFS are a damiki rig with a Keitech or fluke and then an underspin!

@ can you do livescope footage, that would be awesome

Yeah I’ll have to work on that!

Oh nice! Appreciate you watching for sure. Yeah maybe we can figure out a time to do that. I put in all over the lake haha anywhere from Wildwood to Big Hart to Russell

Yeah for sure! They’ve surveyed me about 5 times in the last 2 years. They ask me if I’ve seen any hydrilla, and I ask them if they have and where it’s at 😂

I hear ya! I couldn’t last weekend so I’m pumped for this weekend

@ so lucky man I might but where I live it’s getting pretty cold now I might go this weekend if anything gonna have to sneak away lol

Nice well I hope you get to go catch a few!

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Thanks y’all! Helps to have the best rods in the game on my deck!

You definitely should lots of fun patterns to chase whether you like deep and clear or shallow and dirty water!

Thanks man! How did your tournament go last week?

Nice! Congrats on a great finish!

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