I live there if you want to fish the river lets hook up

Thanks for “bringing” me along for your day on the water. Enjoyed it. Be well.

talking smack to the duckies , shame on you lol

I was there July 14-22, what used to be an awesome lake had been decimated by a phosphate bloom. The water looked like a gas slick, we head down to dam and all the dead fish were stacked over there. It was sad to see and had to fish Big Green Lake to get some action.

Nice seeing a new spot, even if it wasn’t the best lake ever.

My families place is about a hour north and have fished it a few times, they drained it about 15 years ago to rebuild the dam and try to slow the weeds but it is a losing battle, but it actually looks like much cleaner than I remember. I remember only very small trails around the lake. SPRO actually used to hold a huge SPRO frog Only tourney on Buffalo.

My family has been vacationing at a tiny lake near Montello for decades- tons of smaller bass, not much else in there. Glad to see you checking out new spots!

Nice looking place. Thanks for sharing the adventure! Enjoyed checking this out buddy!

Lake Delavan for around Chicagoland area. Hard to have bad days on that lake even with all the pressure it gets. Chickamauga and Door County are special places to fish though so had to mention them. Love the videos and was nice getting to meet you this summer! Will have to get you on the kayak for a Fox trip. Looking to hammer the South Elgin to St. Charles pool this summer.

I love the fox river Carpentersville stretch, it’s always great to see you fish jt

Des Plaines River for me, It was nice meeting with you out there. Looking forward to seeing you at the show, I'm saving up my lunch money

Fox river. Congrats on the monetization!

Dig the okeechobee crawfish shirt

Congratulations on your channel's growth and the Fox river is my favorite body of water to fish

Lures look amazing, Green Lake Wi is the place to go my brother

Nice giveaway! Hope I win! I’d have say the Fox river is my go to body of water.

Grateful for your channel. Have learned a thing or two for sure!

Thanks for your videos met you at RM show last Spring. Fox river is my favorite!

Really enjoy your shallow river smallmouth videos. One of my favorite lakes is Eagle lake in Racine county for largemouth and northerns.

Although I live in Chicago, my favorite body of water will forever big Big Bob Lake in Ontario. I grew up at my cottage on that lake and miss it all the time. No largies, but lots of good sized smallmouth and lake trout Congrats on the 1K man, it's peaceful watching you

Great video as usual and congratulations on all the subscribers. I love the Fox River fish Saint Charles area mostly sometimes Montgomery the small mouth has been my best year forever mainly using jerk baits and square bills, but my PB almost 3 pounds 19 inches normally in a year I catch about three or four smallmouth so far I’m up about 40. It’s just been fabulous here. Keep up the great work.

I just started fishing again this year, and the Fox is my favorite- I had multiple days at the Algonquin dam pulling in 20+ smallies from the bank, plus the odd drum or walleye. I do appreciate your specificity when talking about the general stretch of the river you are in, and I’m definitely going to try out some of your favorite baits in the spring

Congratulations! You have certainly earned it, and I wish you many more awesome milestones! I'll say Lake Vermillion in Minnesota is my favorite since it's the only place I've ever caught a musky. 45 inches by the way. While you are offering up some sweet baits, I must disqualify myself, having won last years giveaway. I had a pretty fortunate year, fishing anyways, and would like to see a fellow angler start next year on a high note as I did. Best of luck to all of you, and keep those videos coming. Cheers!

Been hitting the Fox from Batavia to St Charles and north of Elgin since watching you. Better luck than almost all the ponds out by me in DuPage. Congrats on your 1K+!!!

If Ben approves this, I’ll send 5 football heads 1/8,1/4,3/8&1/2 oz (5) of one size to a viewer. You need to message him so he can get ahold of me. Cheers Ben great job on the channel!

Congrats on getting 1000 subscribers, that’s big time. My favorite spot is the Kish

Congrats on your continued channel growth! My favorite place to fish is the Chickahominy River here in Virginia. Great largemouth fishery!

Mississippi River! Congratulations BTM on your year!

Hi Ben, my favorite body of water is the Mississippi River

Awesome color schemes on your custom painted lures! One of many favorite places to fish for me is a small Interstate lake right south of Cozad Nebraska, always a great time fishing and enjoying the outdoors!

For me, the body of water will be Lake Michigan, for those giant smallmouths. Since you have a good kayak now, you most definitely need to join the US next year. As for the river, I love Pool 13.

Bangs Lake IL…. looking for a new crappie lake. There was a HUGE fish kill on Bangs this summer. All the crappie died 😡 so my annual start of crappie season will have to be elsewhere. Btw, I live on Bangs Lake

West branch of the DuPage river for smallmouth and (if you can find them), big largies.

Lake Kabetogama, MN. Love fall fishing up there.

Glad you got that motor figured out. Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving, BTM! 😊

Same place you fished for crappie in winter? Looking forward to seeing you next year

Nice video buddy! Thanks for taking us along! Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Just came across your video. You still run tournaments outa here and what club is this?

The BIG bass, what made you fish there? Was it on wood, rock, edge of a river channel? Trying to learn. Thank you

Cool

Great video and good job! I wish you the best my friend! Thanks for sharing!

Dixon stretch is a lot deeper. Lowell park ramp is good.

That was cool to see! Do you think you’ll ever be able to use your boat on this stretch again? Maybe in the spring assuming we have a lot of snow melt and the water levels go up significantly for a period of time? It’s rather worrying to see Fox River turn into Fox Creek above the old Carpentersville Dam.

Where are you launching at? Been wanting to get out on that stretch of river.

I don’t know if it’s just the fall but a lot more pressure on this stretch lately. Construction at the launch sucks too.

20:16 i thought u had it , remind me to donate some fish grips I have like ton of them

ama be bold and call it , with in 2 years you will have more kayak trips then a boat . cant wait for you to get on a pedal drive kayak

Solid trip there BTM!