Fishing a GIANT Natural SPILLWAY for River Monsters!!!

[@jeffnordquist9231]

Your fishing videos are the best and I enjoy them and this is why: 1. You don't swear on your videos 2. You are so full of life and excitement especially when you catch a fish. In which makes your videos enjoyable to watch. 3. You are very informative in explaining what bait you are using. 4. You are very polite to others; when the police ou DNR came on one episode and informed you that you could not fish in that spot; you were polite to them and respected them.

[@rfire731]

No matter what's going on, I always look forward to your videos. I'm always at the edge of my seat when ever you get a bite. Thanks again for making these great videos!

[@618Fishing]

Thank you I appreciate the support!

[@jameswilliams9710]

He could fish for rocks as far as I'm concerned , I'd watch this dude all day he's a lovely dude thank u for being who u are nic 618

[@darthdennis6681]

With ALL due respect...If you're trying to make a "virtual" move on this man, forget it....HE AINT GAY!!

[@joesephkroll2056]

@@darthdennis6681 everyone is a little gay, also you could 'make a move' in a friendship context just as easy as a romantic one, also its known that most people who jump to homophobia in conversation are secretly gay.

[@jasonchow6475]

@@joesephkroll2056 Nick has a girlfriend or probably wife though. Not sure of the exact status

[@RickMarshallMaps]

Thanks for another great video. I started fishing again last year after taking about a 30 year break. I haven't caught a lot of fish the last two years, and I have been discouraged with Southern Illinois fishing. But your videos show me I've been going to the wrong places. Your videos are very inspiring and I'm going to start hitting the local spillways. I recognize a few of the ones you have been featured. Hopefully I'll see you out there. I'd love to fish with you. You make catching the smallest Bluegill look like a young kid in a candy shop. Your enthusiasm is contagious. "See ya later buddy'

[@brian9670]

When I was little, I always wanted to live in that castle looking pump house right below the Chain of Rocks, haha.

[@johnnygee4206]

Heh heh. That's my spillway. Usually a great spot to land some bowfin.

[@flyinbrianz22]

Nick, I have to say I think this was your finest video ever. Your videography was spot on. And your drone footage was breathtaking. I look forward to every video! Thanks for the hard work and entertainment

[@Viv1998NorCal]

Going with a fish , looked like that rod tip had some movement , anyways , great vid , cant wait for the next spillway vid , one of my favorite series yet .

[@Tomasco13]

Who else says "See ya later buddy" out loud as he returns one? Love the channel Nick!

[@brianessenpreis8599]

I fish in this location often. I caught a 7lb walleye last year. I catch sturgeon in the spring each year. I have Also pulled some nice cats out of there.

[@618Fishing]

i've heard of people catching sturgeon there... how do you go about targeting them?

[@brianessenpreis8599]

618 Fishing Carolina rig with a night crawler. They are generally caught by waking directly south of the barrels until you reach the sand at the end of the parking lot. The entire length of the sandbar holds a lot of sturgeon every spring.

[@simonemerlo4849]

hello from Italy! keep doing videos! i love to see catfish from America

[@connerdelaney128]

My favorite KZbinr there is right now!! I wish only good things to you in the future!!

[@marrked646]

Chain of Rocks! That river is gnarly. Watch out for the Bull Sharks. Maybe not in this weather, however.

[@MonkeysMom15]

Those little cats are so pretty. Looks like you need to clear a path for yourself while you are fishing with all those lines out. lol It might save you getting a twisted ankle or going for a swim. Happy fishing.

[@ivanaguilar6949]

My dude either trips or tosses gear in the water. This mans a trip. All positive vibes tho!

[@mountain66diecast]

for walleye use a 3 " chartreuse mr twister

[@DannyCal]

Nice! I was out running on the levee today. There’s a video on KZbin of some kid catching a monster flathead at those pillars.

[@618Fishing]

The fish pics on Fishbrain from this spot had me excited... there’s been some epic catches there

[@DannyCal]

618 Fishing yes unfortunately parking lot was closed all year due to flood and summer can be packed out there.

[@ringo_fishin]

That dude in that flathead video was like 40.

[@B1gcotton]

Fished there for years ! Also was a make out spot !! Lol

[@frederickwestberry7895]

Awesome video Nick keep them coming

[@roberttheriac3259]

I enjoy the videos. You do know that you could have driven your vehicle right down to the bank, where you were fishing. Great spot! I grew up in the area.

[@phillipbartlett1819]

I always judge a day not by how many or how big the fish but did I have fun and learn something new.

[@rockfly8384]

Another great vid, love all different spots!!

[@hon.mr.ronburgundyiiiesq.2096]

Head downtown where the grain barges get loaded! Insanely huge fish.

[@donniedee618]

How do i get Down there.. Im From Belleville and Need Some nee Spots. I've heard of Monsters down there But Don't knw how to get down there

[@hon.mr.ronburgundyiiiesq.2096]

@@donniedee618 on Stan musial westbound in to mo look to your right. On the Missouri shore there they load grain. Musial going east to il look right and same on Illinois shore. On poplar street bridge headed West in to mo look over your right shoulder as you get on the bridge on il side they load at that pier. Those are the ones I know about. I worked there so I dont know how those anglers were getting to their spots. Hope you figure it out. Id love to see what those things look like!

[@hon.mr.ronburgundyiiiesq.2096]

@@donniedee618 also, try to go on days you see lots of grain railcars parked nearby.

[@donniedee618]

@@hon.mr.ronburgundyiiiesq.2096 North of the Casino? Or on the Illinois side? And Technically HOW....? Do i get Down there.. Where to Park my Car and Walk From?

[@donniedee618]

@@hon.mr.ronburgundyiiiesq.2096 Thanks Bro

[@shrekopher]

If you are up for a drive check out Joel Island. There is a land bridge behind the farm supply places that is perfect for the type of fishing you like to do.

[@dougalexander7204]

Rather new subscriber but have been enjoying one of two of your videos a day. All I can say is, quality effort and excellent equipment, Stay awesome.

[@BTROutdoors]

Huge spillway looked like a great place to fish

[@fortnitingunclepappy]

Been there several times. Chain of rocks area has always had some monsters lurking around. Caught some big blues in that area.

[@beards_n_bass2262]

Love the spillway videos dude. Great video!

[@618Fishing]

Thanks man!

[@SBDavin]

Those small cats are almost as pretty as rainbow trout.

[@Draven-tc3mn]

For some reason here in florida the channel cats are just navy no little dots

[@TheWhipConnoisseur]

Ive fished here plenty. Definitely gotta be careful around the water drums. Lots of rocks you cant see with the water so high. Ive always had my best luck all the way to the right closer to the bridge or the left when the water is down enough to see the sand.

[@edwinsandiego3122]

Holy cow! Nice video 👌👍 that's fishing

[@valoriek.1933]

How many different jeeps do you own?? Love me my jeeps!!

[@biohacktive9979]

Wow the quality of this compared to your new videos is nutty. Major improvements man! Good job.

[@jorgeandreszanocchi6485]

Well, first spot was awesome regarding drone images, whilst the second one surely made you lose some ounces!!! They made you run Nick!!!!. I would like to see the first spot maybe during spring. Looks promising. Great video. Keep them coming!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@bryceobrien3094]

soon as I saw the spot thought good sturgeon fishing

[@cerokelor9328]

Very good its fishing guys...

[@ExplorishingAdventures]

Hit that river spot with some bigger crank baits, drift jig a minnow, or fish a drop shot if there are 'Eyes and Sauger there. I'd probably try to hit it three times a year until you get the feel of how fish transition there. A couple times in the spring, a couple in the summer, and a couple in the fall and then target in on the bite window that is most productive of you like the best. That or really get it figured out and then try to really get the other seasons on point too. I do have to ask what exactly in this river was a "GIANT Natural SPILLWAY" The one spillway you did fish is clearly man-made and the other location was an eddy behind another man-made structure.

[@trevorkinkel3750]

I fish that spot in the spring catch a lot of sturgeon and sauger there the water has to be much lower though

[@michaelws6247]

I wanna try this spot when the river drops and more of the rocks are showing. I think with sauger relying more on sight then like catfish, I think better.... ish visibility would help... of course we are talking about the mud queen here lol worth a shot anyway

[@nicholaspouliotoutdoors384]

Michael WS6 I never had any luck at the barrels I would like go find that spillway he went to by this spot not sure where that was the only spillway I know by there is Lewis and Clark

[@michaelws6247]

Nicholas Pouliot Outdoors it’s not far from the racetrack 😁😁

[@peteciurczak5132]

Loved it!

[@shawnmcadams3154]

Don't want to tell you how to fish Nick ,but seems like if you jerk the pole a little harder you might not lose so many fish ...It doesn't appear like you jerk the pole at all when you get a bite... With that being said I still love your videos... Amazing camera work!!!

[@boxy8438]

Sturgeon central on MO side and its sand flats. I hooked into a huge one few years back at Columbia Bottoms that bent my hook straight. Felt like I was bringing in a turtle. It jumped right before that and was over 2 feet long.

[@ianj1828]

My favorite spillway!

[@2dafish777]

I love ur videos they are always so positive

[@BassGeek]

Nice spotted up little cats.

[@leroydavisjr7076]

Great fishing spot Chain of rocks water looks kinda high seen big flat heads caught off the side of those pillars using blue gills

[@emilio242]

Please do some more videos at that river. Looks like a perfect place for some real giants.

[@bensmith4563]

It's the Mississippi river

[@kariwalters8666]

I loves your videos please make more.

[@timeforsmalltownlivin]

great drone shots in your videos.

[@MrDalebob1957]

Across the river is a really dangerous park with a boat ramp . Some one will steal your rig but nice ramp.

[@MrDalebob1957]

Nick be carefull if you go back. bad things have happened in that area ask any local . Taking a friend to that place would be a good idea. Don't ever go to the canal boat ramp north on route 3.

[@danielprokopchuk4551]

Good videos

[@GabeZawalski]

Dude, get back there with an adjustable float on your line and run it in that seam of water! Fish chill in the slow water next to the fast water and eat what is pushed by.

[@toddcooper3599]

Merry Christmas From The Cooper's Cleburne,Texas

[@AmericanPhantomHunters]

It wasn't a fish or the wind it was a ghost 👻👻👻lol love the video

[@daFrimpster]

I had high hopes for the first spot too. I’ll bet fish are holding there sometimes

[@ethanstukenberg2728]

That is at chateau island on the Mississippi I lost upwards of a 50 pound catfish there

[@loganlacefield3364]

Ethan Stukenberg I live a minute away and I’ve never been able to get a big cat out off of chateau

[@ethanstukenberg2728]

I was using mooneye as cut bait and it broke me off

[@nicholaspouliotoutdoors384]

We call this place the barrels. I hunt on that island . There’s ponds on that island that have monster bass on them but you can’t fish them sucks

[@fishingfanaticsuk]

When fishing big rivers like that, why not use your drone to take your baits out past casting distance into the deeper darker water?

[@homeofinventions]

PB! PB!! PB!!! Fishon...

[@eddyvelasquez-toscano4698]

Greatest fishing youtbe channel bye farr

[@golddog0113]

It would be better if you could spell lol.

[@eddyvelasquez-toscano4698]

@@golddog0113 lol ok ye

[@eddyvelasquez-toscano4698]

Lol he liked me o yeee

[@suhdude6485]

You should go back to the first spot and try for sturgeon try using salmon roe

[@joesephkroll2056]

When the pole almost went in my guess is the pole wasnt totally secure and he got a bite, which was just enough pull to make his pole tip over.

[@danhartleysr.7383]

Lincoln Trails close to you off Rt. 1 has some awesome Catfishing.. Best off of a boat... Dont know for sure where you live but I used to live in Lawrenceville , I now live in Danville..

[@Bobrohde6]

From what I'm seeing he's on the west side of Illinois. Somewhere near St.Louis. Lincoln Trail is across the state near me.

[@danhartleysr.7383]

@@Bobrohde6 ok. I couldn't find where he lived on my map... Have you ever fished at Lincoln Trails ?

[@Bobrohde6]

I've fished there every year for the last 25 years or so. It's a great bass fishery. It has a slot limit. You can only keep fish that are under 14 inches or over 18 inches. This keeps the breeders safe and makes for lots of smaller fish that are the best size to eat. This lake is also loaded with red ear sunfish, blue gills, crappie, and channel cats.

[@danhartleysr.7383]

@@Bobrohde6 yup. I started fishing there alot just this last summer. I normally go for the catfish.. I agree completely , a great place to fish as well as camping..

[@larryd4352]

I am glad you have fish in freezer....otherwise dinner would have been a salad! 😂😂😂😂 But..anyone who has fished for any length of time has had the same type of luck!!! You'll get some big'uns the next time!

[@juanmartinez6470]

You should go back to those spots in the summer

[@xTr4c3d]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses split shot to stop the weight.

[@Matta1224]

Nice one!

[@greygraham5361]

wait where’s the river monsters

[@kellyharris8021]

Chain of Rocks?

[@TomAHawk-lb8wk]

How many rods can you use at one time in Il?

[@kronos9685]

Like your music selection

[@teddykeys7271]

Yeah the chain of rocks is a good catfish & sturgeon spot

[@brianlocal3]

You can drive back there so your not walking. I’m assuming the gate was locked Be careful out there

[@cag1763]

Nice...but you get the tangles cause you pokes are to close together

[@hookedonprjonrojas2314]

Fishing has been real tough.

[@christopherpcreation]

Nice

[@anthonyszarek6905]

Almost everything is a monster compared to the bluegill and 5in bass you've been catching 😂

[@michaelparrish1124]

It must cost you a lot for your fishing license and all your extra rods. In Colorado they only allow us one extra pole and it’s $10 for that sticker. What does it run for you? And what state are you in?

[@Bobrohde6]

In Illinois its $14.50 a year for a resident fishing license. You are allowed to fish with 2 poles at the same time. You can have as many as you want to carry. The only add ons here are a trout stamp, which used to be about as much as the license cost. You only need the stamp if you fish the landlocked trout and salmon in and around Lake Michigan.

[@essskateit8716]

Next Jeremy Wade I see👍

[@timking7440]

You said that you go on Google something to find these spill ways all around?

[@zanderhibbets]

FISH ON!!!!!

[@joewineburner8330]

I’m fishing at this spot right now.

[@jackalwatermelonred]

Bill dance on the introduction

[@leinenweaverp1]

looks like right around granite city

[@davelester1985]

The current in the middle of that last stream was slower in the middle.

[@leroydavisjr7076]

Is the road close to chain of rocks I was wondering why you was walking down there

[@ringo_fishin]

There is a huge chunk taken out of the road from the flooding this year. It's dumb because you can still easily drive around it.

[@joshmoore242]

Was gonna say. Ditch the circle hooks.

[@Mike-kl3mo]

6:23 hook nearly pierced the fishes eye

[@mlpuniverse9785]

Try the first spot in the spring or summer

[@goldsmithfishingadventures8537]

man how far did you have to walk to that first spillway

[@catfishcommandodavid7330]

is this chain of rocks on the Mississippi?

[@nicholaspouliotoutdoors384]

I know a epic fishing spot close by here if you ever want to colab it’s good in the summer and fall though lots of stripers and bass huge smallies further down the river also pike and walleye

[@franzey5619]

What is this title?😂 Nice vid tho!

[@brandonresendiz2490]

His ears look a little red at 8:27😂

[@monstersofthewater3648]

You need to throw a cast net in the spillways

[@doughboy5840]

How do you find these places?

[@kevindowlatt6155]

How does that work,you put a camera down,walk past it(for a walk by shot)then go back and get it? :)

[@jprizzle2604]

kevin dowlatt yep it’s called setting up your Shot

[@kevindowlatt6155]

@@jprizzle2604 so that's how it works then???

[@grossla8053]

kevin dowlatt yes

[@kevindowlatt6155]

Most times all of that isn't necessary,I just come to see the fishing

[@grossla8053]

kevin dowlatt alotta people like the b-rolls. All about targeting the whole demographic of viewers.

[@tomwalker1921]

I tried to go there Saturday and the gate to the lot was closed.

[@tomwalker1921]

Oh and you were in the wrong spot for the sturgeon there. Judging by the drone images you could not have got to magic spot. Like the videos. Keep it up.

[@bojaiden5175]

C ya later buddy