5 Things You Need To Know About Gobies To Catch More Bass!

[@timothyoconnor2736]

Matt, With a fishery biology degree and having a two year old watching Paw Patrol as I organize tackle, I really relate to your videos and just wanted to say thanks for your time and what a great job you do! Please keep the videos coming. You are on of the best out there.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Right on!

[@shawn_r_schultzfishing4883]

Man every day you pack these videos with such great information, keep up the good work!

[@MattStefanFishing]

Will do!

[@aarongreenlee7867]

Thanks Matt! They sound like a really interesting little forage fish. Your pictures of them were really neat.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Cool little guys!

[@mikethomas312]

knocking it out of the park again great video

[@MattStefanFishing]

Appreciate it!

[@steventakach8128]

Fantastic info, I fish the st Lawerence River so this info is pure gold!! So fishing above a thermocline will tell you where the bass are... although rivers generally do not have a thermocline, but the lakes do. Now if we can figure out when and where the gobies spawn .... great info. Thank you.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks!

[@B.A.Bassangler]

You're crushing it brother. Too much time is spent by most on lures and techniques, myself guilty at times. Habitat and forage species knowledge is where it's at!

[@MattStefanFishing]

Well said!

[@stevencaldwell838]

Haha! I just stubbled across this video after watching your video on gizzard Shad! I was about to purchase a few Dark Sleeper lures but thought I’d watch this video first. I’m really liking this subject on forage. Knowing when and where bass eat is huge!

[@MattStefanFishing]

THanks!

[@juleswinnfield826]

Ahhh...... gobies...lol. Good subject. Long story, short version. Mid 90's fishing Clair is when i first encountered these critters. A fellow competitor said.... 'Dude, im crushing them (smallies) on Erie dragging". I said Dragging!?!?!? What the heck is dragging. Welp.... just that dragging tubes on the bottom. Starting doing that on Clair and crushed em as well. At the time we had no idea we were emulating gobies....we just knew if ya dragged tubes around ya'd catch the bigger smallies..... go figure. Obviously 20 some years later we know what deal is. Great vid, looking forward to the next one.....and the salmon colored shirt makes a return.....lol. J.K.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Great info! Thanks for sharing!

[@dustinwalker8152]

I feel the exact same way that if you understand the fish, how the behave and react to their environment, weather, etc; what they feed on, how forage species react to the same; you will become a way better and more efficient angler. I wish smallies and gobies could live in Louisiana! There isn't much, if any fish, more fun to catch than smallies. We have a few spots in certain bodies, but they don't get very big here. Thanks for another great video!

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for the support!

[@ShannonReese-if1zl]

So much information! I can't wait to share with my dad.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Please do!

[@jimhalleran6239]

Man you are awesome. I’d just love to fish with you. I learn so much every video. Best on KZbin.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for the compliment!

[@freddenk]

Thanks!

[@MattStefanFishing]

You bet!

[@sonnygreen9698]

Always helpful Matt, thanks for all you are doing !!!

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks!

[@ardentran8443]

Excellent information. Love all your contributions! Thank you!

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for watching!

[@donaldalbert4773]

Matt, wow, many thanks for these 5 Things you need to know videos. I watch them over and over again. I really like the one you did on river fisher. As it turns out my next tournament is on a river. The problem is that it as a rather slow flow and and does not change much in water levels. I will need to take the info you gave us and try to figure this out. Once again, you have my wife and I, my co-angle, our most sincere thanks.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Awesome! Thanks for the support!

[@johnrayner5599]

Great video Matt, I dont have a lot of info on them since they are not really here where I live but excellent content and now I do know something about them thanks to you. Good luck and thanks for all you do for all of us.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for watching!

[@randomschmo5778]

Great info Stefan! Like many bass fishing junkies, i love this type technical info. Btw, everyonee here prolly knows already, but there are some cool underwater vids on youtube of Smallmouth chasing and eating Gobies...

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for the info!

[@tommywalker741]

Great information Matt i appreciate it 🙏

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for watching!

[@bulldog2200]

I live in Charlevoix, Mich and here we've found that every game fish from perch to pike to cisco to coho will readily feed on gobies. We catch gobies and use them for bait in the same water with very good success.👍👍👍We also found that color and size matter on the average

[@MattStefanFishing]

thanks for sharing

[@jamesh7469]

If you fishing goby forage.... just work a dark sleeper like a jig. Pretty much no better way to do it. Great video

[@jamesh7469]

And when you hook a lake trout on accident, hold on tight! Even the small ones feel like a 6lb smallie

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks for sharing!

[@chrisboyd1408]

I am not sure if they are in Indiana yet or not. I have bought a few of the Megabass Gobie plastic lures. Now I understand how to use them correctly.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Good luck

[@shannonkirby9295]

No gobies down south but good stuff, matt

[@MattStefanFishing]

Thanks!

[@anthonyqueen7198]

I live in Oklahoma on Lake Eufaula and I don't know if we have gobies or not but we do have zebra mussels by the ton

[@MattStefanFishing]

probably no gobies yet but i imagine they will get there at some point.

[@bigmikefishingchonicles9950]

man, i want to say thank you so much for teaching about other fish like I did not know that bluegill spawn all summer but now that I go fishing and look you can see them spawning but I have been doing a little bit of research myself I have been trying to learn where did the largemouth bass come from like did two fish mated to make the largemouth bass can you offer some inside please thanks

[@MattStefanFishing]

I don’t have that answer unfortunately

[@1999tenorio]

we have so many of them in Erie

[@MattStefanFishing]

Yes you do

[@1999tenorio]

@@MattStefanFishing fun for the kids to catch em off the rocks with worms

[@McCoy4837]

Really appreciate your channel. Have been watching videos over t he e past month and decided to subscribe. You do an excellent job of instruction and presentation. Thank you.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@RIPPNLPS]

Would be great if they would devour all of the Asian Carp eggs. I can think of a couple of river systems that might benefit.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Yep

[@HamzahTheH]

How do you hook them

[@MattStefanFishing]

on dropshots

[@HamzahTheH]

To use them as baits how do you hook them is there a specific way

[@waynesammyswingle6107]

I have been going to Clayton NY since I fished a Redman Tournament out of Cape Vincent in 86. I remember years back you could catch tons of smallies in 12" to 15" range with a bigger one mixed in now and then. To win a tournament back then you really want to find largemouth. I remember all the talk about all the damage the goby would do. I really don't know what damage it has caused or what it may cause in the future. One thing I do know is the smallmouth are much bigger now. I was just up there at the end of June and the smallest one I caught was about 1 3/4 lbs. It was the best trip I have had up there. So I have to say, I am kinda liking the gobies. Also, thee are a bunch of good videos on youtube of some divers in the Great Lakes showing gobies and you can get to see their movement. Thanks for the info

[@MattStefanFishing]

Great info thanks for sharing

[@Bass_Fishing_101]

This has implications for the Hudson River

[@MattStefanFishing]

Yep

[@jonbullard7074]

Michigan DNR want anglers that happen to catch a goby to kill it.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Yep

[@1MrVillain]

I'm in Western Washington state and I'm not sure but I don't think we have Gobies here.

[@MattStefanFishing]

Not yet

[@1MrVillain]

@@MattStefanFishing I still fish the dark sleeper and get lots of strikes!

[@petewrobel3050]

I know Lakers walleye sheepshead and rock bass will eat them

[@MattStefanFishing]

Yep