Fishing LAKE FORK for the first time (SHALLOW BRUSH bite)

In this video I hop on a plane and head to Dallas, Texas where I pick up a UHaul truck, borrow a kayak and catch a decent fish or two in preparation for the B.A.S.S Nation Kayak Tournament on Legendary Lake Fork!
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[@GregBlanchardFishing]

FRIENDLY REMINDER FOLKS - This video (and the entire Texas trip) occurred March 12th - 15th which was right before things got crazy in this country. Being in the San Francisco Bay area, I've been on a "shelter in place" order for 1 week straight now and have yet to go fishing (Fortunately, I am still able to work since I'm in healthcare). I've got 1 more video from Texas (the tournament) on the docket but other than that I'm not sure if and when I'll be able to fish locally again. Lakes, parks and other launch ramps are closing one by one despite fishing being a permissible activity with appropriate social distancing.. More than likely, fishing/content will slow down a bit on the channel so if anyone has some creative "at home" video ideas, I'm all ears. Other than that, I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe out there! -gb

[@arytonoliver6424]

Greg Blanchard do some updates gear videos or talk tournament strategy with lake maps and stuff. Or do some bank fishing if ramps are close

[@nobodyman4833]

If you work in health care wouldnt it have been more responsible to your patients to just go fish on an isolated lake? Why travel across the county and possibly pick something up.

[@2374270]

Stay safe man, just got to let this crisis pass. The bass will be fed and big by the time you get out. Stay healthy and safe. We'll still be here. Nice vid tho.

[@Eckyredtheunready]

A five minute 'fit for fishing' workout would be pretty cool. stay safe Greg, all the best from the UK.

[@dredknotgsx600f]

I'm in washington and we're about to have the same order. It's been nice fishing everyday since my work closed down. Crazy times.

[@rjm830]

While everyone is quarantined, Greg's videos comes in to save the world. appreciate you always bro

[@fragelicious]

Go yourself WEEN!

[@JayNev27]

You're literally the only fishing youtuber that I can stand to watch the entire intro.. great video!

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

haha thanks man

[@themosswillreclaimall8098]

U should check out thresher fishing for saltwater, Greg and coop are my favorites

[@evannazario331]

Same here. Love the vibe I get when watching your videos.

[@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz]

Here ar the end of the world, I at least have my Greg Blanchard videos.

[@timf1095]

end of the world, Jesus Christ

[@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz]

@@timf1095 calm down, nancy

[@timisoutdoors]

Greg, can you do a price breakdown video that covers tournament travel and costs (hidden or obvious) for us? It looks super expensive!

[@nigeldonaldson2320]

I second this!

[@Ozzypup1]

I like this idea.

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Love that idea, will answer it in maybe the next 2-3 videos!

[@nigeldonaldson2320]

@@GregBlanchardFishing thanks bae 😘 I'm a man. But l love you.

[@timisoutdoors]

@@GregBlanchardFishing Thank you, sir!

[@pimperatze]

Younder Gang baby!! My guy!

[@cornellcooper2581]

Lake Fork Is Texas Best Lake For Crappie & Bass Fishing Hands Down!

[@promess]

I've been fishing a few seasons and was thinking about getting a boat with my bonus money this year after we get out of the lock down. I'd been vacillating on what to get, your videos of the native watercraft titan helped seal that deal for me, and I was stoked to find the native watercraft titan and then to also see that you went Mariner Sails in Dallas and they hooked you up... Yeah. I'm going there to buy my boat and gear, you should show them and other sponsors this because your content guides people to their products. Thanks for what you do my dude.

[@mariafishnfooorivas3858]

Greg you did a fine job picking your spots.

[@wannabetraveler6595]

I’ve been watching you for two years or more now and I’m hooked on your fishing style. And I don’t even fish. Because of you, I’ve bought two Native Watercraft pedal kayaks and do recreational kayaking and photography out of them. My kids love using them because they’re easy to get around in. Keep doing what do, because I watch. And I enjoy your style of fishing and how you detail everything that you do. Who knows, maybe one day, I’ll try my hand at fishing. Stay well.

[@helotaxi]

The Mariner Sails guys are great to do business with.

[@jaysonelam8321]

Good luck tomorrow! Tight lines😎

[@paulanderson2225]

LMAO 😂😂 all the comments on a pre recorded video. Before the lock down. Calm down people. I actually chop it up with greg from time to time. He's taking things seriously. He's not out fishing right now.

[@lydiapawlak8564]

Everything is bigger in Texas! Everything..... Have fun fishing a world class Lake in texas

[@cithamao7181]

Good to hear you’re safe bud!

[@nyewang]

Good Luck in the tournament!!

[@tincanforacup2745]

Crazy you caught a drum off that bait

[@GalaxyRods]

That lake is a prize fishery for sure. I was there for the Hobie BOS 2 weeks before this. Fish were just starting to move up back then. We had some cold weather when I was there...mornings in the low 30's, and I thought that those Florida strain were gonna freak out. Come to find out they adjust pretty quick there. I would love to go back there again. Next time I might just go for fun...no tournament...lol! Fishing for me is different when a tourney is not on the line! Stay safe out there!

[@cobbs]

lockdown video ideas: how about a tutorial on how you setup your sonar and what you look for? Always interesting comparing notes with other fishermen. No two will ever do it the same way.

[@larrymor]

It's always humid here in Texas and the closer to the Gulf you go the more it's humid. Some folks call it "the air you wear" but it keeps us from freezing to death in winter. We can fish and golf year round.

[@TAStormChasing]

Stay healthy! Thanks for sharing.

[@mattw210]

Seems like you planned very well for lake fork. Hope you slay in the tournament. Stay safe out there.

[@charlesfitzgerald3201]

Now That’s what I call living the dream , stay safe

[@BudjetBassin]

Great video my friend!!!Looks like an amazing place!!👍👍👍

[@cyigearup2]

Love fishing the brush, we nearly always used spinner baits and would wake them just below the surface never letting the blades come out of the water. Highly effective and can cover a lot of water for the aggressive ones. Won several tournaments with burning spinners even in the winter especially on rainy days. Your welcome

[@55Dag]

100% on Mariner sails! I stopped in there while I’m here in Dallas for a school and was really impressed. Dave was great and showed me all over the store. Just wish I could’ve fished fork.

[@johnkent9019]

Thanks Greg, virtual fishing with you while in quarantine.

[@kyle1562]

Good job, greg!!!!!

[@midwestfishingandoutdoors3077]

Good morning first off. Spank some bass in Lake Fork

[@midwestfishingandoutdoors3077]

Hey people dont understand patient responsibility vs my life responsibility is beyond me. Again you stated this was before it all broke heavy

[@Ozzypup1]

Man I wish I had a kayak shop like that close to me. That place looked awsome. Id be broke when I left.😁

[@eh2bseries]

My brother called it. Cool that mariner sails helped ya out.

[@gb2710]

Fishing in the rain- orange 1/2 oz. Spinner bait with double Colorado orange and red blades

[@billyb9067]

Seriously fishing is the only and best thing you could do in a quarantine.. I’m going this week

[@58fishing57]

Man great timing on video. I fished Lake Fork in 98 while I was down there with Fast Track Driving School. Great lake.

[@mseibel2355]

Nice production

[@dannyramzinski2631]

Good job figuring out that Fork bite!

[@9321spiderman]

Captain your taking on water at the start of the video, lol

[@tumbleweed265]

Super cool shop! Need something like that in Northern Indiana..

[@joseinocencio7369]

Love the Sierra Nevada shirt!!! Shout out from Santa Rosa Cali

[@charlietownsend3922]

Been seeing mariner sails on 30miles out with Ty an Theresa for years seem like a great shop an great people

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Same! AGreed, great folks and shop

[@jimmiecampbell4357]

Greg, Watch you, & enjoy. Don't Yak fish, but really enjoy your vids. Today is 3/23. I live 115 mi. from Fork. Probably going 3/23,(new moon). Stay safe, hope this crap fus it's course sooin. I'll post back to this vid if I land a PB, lol.

[@thenotsojollyrancher-akate9516]

Love ur truck! 19.95! 😂🤣😂

[@InocenteSandoval]

Ayyy, Mariner Sails!! I work about 10 minutes from there. Great shop!

[@cyclonedronz7861]

Man it is good the hear from you! I think in depth video's of what you use and how you tie it on etc would be great. Stay safe!

[@timothybest4064]

Greg, your the reason I want to kayak fish...can’t wait for the next video

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Thats awesome man! go pick up a yak, anyone will probably work first time out. thanks for tuning in

[@danielortiz9927]

good look blachard, i luv me the 6th sense lures, great baits. good luck on ur tourney man hope u catch some biiggins & place good bro!!

[@dcrane4]

Man you really put in the work to make your dream come true. Great job! I bet that was an exhausting weekend.

[@wgb925]

You are a logistics wizard! Cool video Greg!

[@Weenker2002]

Just wanted to say thank you for all your content!! I’ve been watching most of everything you have and it’s good work!! Keep it up!!

[@stormyoutdoors4845]

Dude ... I will save it for the next one 😁

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Haha, good seein' ya out there man

[@yakoobjunior9631]

Keep rocking Greg 👍🏼 You can do this 🤘

[@shaynegonzalesoutdoors]

Dang man, we fished that Tuesday and Wednesday that same week....just missed you. We always stay there at the Marina. I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Allen Sweat. Can’t wait for the tournament video!

[@musthate885]

Lake Fork is definately one of those bucket list lakes, hopefully you had a great time. If you get desperate to fish, Folsom lake is still open. Unfortunately I was there on the 22nd of March and the fishing still sucks. Great video as always, stay safe

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Bummer! Fish on beds yet? I would've thought for sure they'd be locked on by now.

[@musthate885]

@@GregBlanchardFishing I did not see any beds, caught my only fish in 12 feet of water--- water temp was only 54

[@greg94yj]

Wahoo!! It’s the time of year for series videos!! Stay safe Greg!

[@MSmith-jf5wo]

Good "Run-Up" to the Tournament. (Just stay away from anybody with the "Beer Flu"!) Hardly wait to see your NEXT Video... Take care, Bro...

[@timhenderson2795]

As always you've delivered good stuff keep at it

[@BuckeyeBassMaster78]

"Another great video brother tight lines"

[@robertdiehl1281]

Yes. Thanks for going fishing. Smart move on the opposite color on fishing the jig. Here’s hoping you win this thing dude. Bring it back to California. SoSoCal

[@LeonStjames]

Thats crazy, you and Mark Daniels both gave a shoutout to O while yall were at Lake fork

[@OhKee12]

Glad you found a brush bite. Where I was at on the lake there wasn’t a brush bite. I got 7 bites the whole tournament pulled 6 of them to the boat. Only able to measure 5 as the 6th one wasn’t a cull. I drove down Thursday night and only pre-fished Friday. That species was a Freshwater Drum lol.

[@donaldschumacher6592]

Thank You for sharing your adventures

[@mariafishnfooorivas3858]

I was on a trip to Pyramid NV on 3/15. It was supposed to a 5 Day trip. Unfortunately it was cut short because of the stay home mandate, the closure of our hotel and eat in restaurants. Can’t wait til all this is over.

[@xyoojlegend]

Good luck. GET THAT W!

[@bennysupreme1]

Heck yeah brother! Hope you lay the smack down during the tournament! I want to see 110 inches or more. I think that will at least get you in the top 5. Good luck, stay safe!

[@Kast2Katch]

Awesome video!!

[@andrewcedrone1945]

Awesome video my dude! Always dope when the plan come together 🔨🔨

[@ZMEDICALFARMER]

You can launch anywhere out of Stockton still, or even holt, the whiskey slough area. From there you can get to franks track pretty easy for the monsters too. =)

[@paulbuchan4486]

your videos get me pumped for fishing man! keep up the great videos. (But stay safe)

[@GeorgiaTrappingandFishing]

I never knew how much was involved in traveling the tournament circuit, great job 👍

[@WaynJul]

You have been busy. Hopefully will be fun fishing Lake Fork catching some Florida large mouth.

[@orlandomartinez4031]

Glad to see you're doing well, hopefully you got yourself some wataburger before you left lol

[@yakfishingguy7037]

Last time I stayed in those rooms the ceiling caught on fire. Always good times on Fork.

[@CodyJMorgan]

Great video Greg !! While we’re all on lockdown do some rod and reel and tackle trunk videos. I always look forward to your yearly run down of gear you’re using!! Stay healthy dude!!

[@skeedabos403]

Lake Fork Marina!!! Fished there many times...many 3-8 lbs. in the launch area.

[@HankAaronJoseph19]

I love the 6th sense swim jigs. All 6th sense tackle seems to be excellent

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

I've really enjoyed it so far. Just made an order for some shad style baits including their big swim bait which I think will do really well!

[@derekblanchard4]

Definitely like that native... Good luck brother...

[@johnnysaechao6218]

Stay save out there! Good luck on tourney..👊

[@Nick-mc2hy]

Wish there was a kayak shop near me like them. Seem like pretty nice dudes too.

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Definitely Nick! honestly can't say enough good things about them.

[@justintate4340]

Been on that lake once or 5,000 times lol. Welcome to Texas Greg!

[@joeg.c1255]

Good luck 👍 friend

[@gn3ricc]

That’s funny, going to Uhaul to pick up a truck and turns out to be the same truck you own. 😂

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Haha they tried to give me a brand new Chevy Silverado and I was like, nah I'll take the old Ram

[@randymirando4214]

You parked next to The fluke master of all people

[@chernandez7306]

It would have been nice to see you catch a Toyota Share Lunker while you were at Fork. There was a guy in our area catch two a week apart. That's a 13 plus lb. bass. It qualified him for the Share Lunker Program twice.

[@jamesparrish6476]

Can you make a video on how to flip and the setup you use .you make it look so easy

[@TheSilverstonedwolf]

Try throwing a 14 inch curly tail worm on the edge of those areas with the snakes lol hahaha

[@vegasvato55]

I absolutely love your videos Greg, and i have improved my casting ability a lot watching your POV Check Cam, but i wish you would give us more information about how to get more involve din these tournaments... Great Videos

[@brandonmartinez5550]

You just fished my dream lake.🙏🙏🙏

[@pinkmist3755]

Doin it up in Texas Delta style loving it stay safe out there in crazy Cali

[@sg-mx4ii]

You got aris to lend you a kayak and you spoke with my buddy Dave Potts. He is part of our Heroes on the Water chapter.

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

great guys and awesome shop

[@coreypesina8285]

Good video man your going to hit 1mill really soon your going to blow up and the hard work is going to pay off.

[@GregBlanchardFishing]

Thanks Corey! 1 mill would be unreal

[@coreypesina8285]

Greg Blanchard it’s going to happen really soon your probably next like tacticalbassin

[@jonw00]

Shout out to that dude

[@rm5013]

Great videos as always! If you ever need a kayak near Houston, let me know. The Titan 12 propel is all yours and I’ll deliver it to you and pick it up.

[@kendawg44]

Nice Greg! I love that kind of lifestyle, traveling to new waters. I do a lot of moving/traveling myself. Except I don't get to do it solely to fish. I'm jealous. Good luck out there!

[@TIMOTHYsaechao]

Greg looking extra swole. lmfao

[@Osprey1955]

Interesting that you were able to catch fish on the white swim jig given the conditions.

[@overloadedoutdoors7582]

Great video bud good luck

[@KG_85]

Good luck bud, kill it in Texas!

[@hankwilliams999]

Homie with the air pods killed me

[@trevlastwordz]

Hope you stay Healthy with all this stuff going on. It's weird seeing you in my hometown picking up a kayak haha!

[@andybrotonsfishing]

Hi, I watch your videos of France I follow all your videos ... Good luck for the B.A.S.S kayak nation in France we have no contest of this type the United States do rever for fishing