I Caught a GIANT Beneath POWER PLANT SPILLWAY!!! (New PB!)

[@prestonward7533]

Hey brother. I have crippling arthritis. I 64 and have let the pain keep me in my recliner during the days for years. I was an avid fisherman and watching your videos has encouraged me to get out of my chair and fish. It's been difficult but I've been out 2 times now in 3 weeks. Gosh my outlook on life has increased so much. Thanks for your encouragement! 🎣

[@618Fishing]

Preston Ward that’s awesome to hear Preston! These types of comments are my absolute favorite. Thanks so much for watching, I appreciate it. Good luck out there!

[@gelliohumberto5858]

Nick should be so proud that he made such a difference in a persons life, I know I would be!!👍 I am really happy for you, I am in a similar situation and you have motivated me with your comment to get off my butt and do the same..thanks👍🙏😊

[@S_M_360]

Hey Nick, just wanted to pass along how much your videos are a pleasure to watch. I travel a lot for my business and tend to watch your content at odd hours to relax a bit and it helps! Currently 4am on a Hawaii trip, bad jet lag, but your vid is there to help! Keep doing it!

[@LunaGuldeira]

That ending was great though! 😂 “First cast.. and I’m snagged”. I feel for you man.

[@creeksidehashman5365]

That's crappie is known as a black nose or magnolia crappie. Always interesting to catch somewhat rare fish to be sure. Spring is right around the corner, gonna be a great year.

[@Sandman14xx]

Mark Withers yea aren’t those like mutations ?

[@creeksidehashman5365]

@@Sandman14xx exactly, just a genitic mutation that occurs. Some places have more than others, definitely not a separate species. I've been fortunate to have caught the black nose crappie and silver pike and a friend caught a striped pike. A lot of interesting fish swim our waters.

[@thataverageguy3883]

Not that rare. We have them all over here in missouri

[@RevampedOutdoors]

Was going to say the same thing, I think the mutation is more prevalent the further south you go in the US, I haven't seen any up here in WI, probably some around somewhere just never got one. I remember seeing a bunch in videos from Texas.

[@j.d.9648]

It’s always better to be down the creek (as you say you were) than “ up the creek”! Lol! Always enjoy the trips you take us on! Tight lines always!!

[@jasonventuro4523]

Love your shows makes me feel like I fishing there too great filming and nice fish 👌✌️

[@johnmarston2915]

another great video Nick and what an awesome fish. Keep up the good work buddy can't wait for the next adventure.

[@618Fishing]

Thanks David!

[@kencrump9661]

I think the "stripe" is actually considered a lateral line, a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.

[@charlesferry3541]

Lateral lines are on the fish's side hence the "lateral".

[@kencrump9661]

@@charlesferry3541 Good job, yes they are on the side.

[@tomtombeto]

Thanks for all your great fishing vids. good stuff :)

[@TeamActionAngling]

You're my #1 inspiration, love the spillway stuff man. Awesome video as always, cant wait for the next one!

Your fishing equipment is very good, congratulations on your incredible fishing, beautiful fish. Hug!!!👍🎣😉

[@fueledbykush]

Love your channel. From cinematography to the music. I love how you show ups and downs when it comes to fishing. Many channels only show casting, fish on! Keep it up bud.

[@all-seasonracing520]

This is definitely at Lake Sangchris! Great local lake, keep up the awesome videos man!

[@cheza7061]

Great video as always, well done catching many different species. See you again soon I hope.🎣😎🇬🇧

[@raynman67]

You can catch crappie/bass/bluegill/sunfish with a Fly Rod as well. Streamers wooly buggers bead heads dry flies

[@nickadge]

Nick your fishing video’s are a joy to watch! Nick Speaks

[@jenniferoney7653]

So happy to see these spillway videos again 😀

[@mustangcarpenter]

Love the gulp alive minnows, caught a bunch of brook trout last weekend with the 1" size.

[@Bud0420]

We catch a lot of crappie and I've never seen a stripe like that let alone multiple ones. Good job on that 1.5lber!!

[@matthewmiller5652]

I definitely next week when I get paid I will be buying that see you later buddy shirt. It looks really cool. 618 fishing at it's best. 618 fishing is my favorite fishing channel.

[@joshuawalker7992]

Nick!! You have been to that spot multiple times. I love your vids, there is no need to make it more exciting as if it is the first time you have been there.

[@calebkoch6724]

Who's justin?

[@joshuawalker7992]

caleb koch nice call. I mean Nick. Don’t know why I said Justin

[@calebkoch6724]

@@joshuawalker7992 lol sorry , I figured you meant Nick.

[@keithkarbel2000]

I think he really is that excited.

[@joshshoberg8598]

I'm actually going stream trout fishing up here in Minnesota for the first time in April inspired by your videos. Wish me luck!

[@romanodouglas5714]

It's amazing the difference a change of location can make! Wow

[@minnorbucketfishing2695]

From other videos I've seen, that is called a black nose crappie, so, if that's true, congrats on catching your very first black nose. Great job landing the 1.5 pounder, that's awesome!!!

[@lucas3252]

Absolutely amazing! Love your videos🔥👍

[@tylerp1105]

Up in northern Michigan we catch crappie like that all the time. I’ve seen my brother catch a 17 inch, almost 3 pound crappie.

[@gelliohumberto5858]

Must be downstream from a nuclear power station lol👍

[@tiickl3941]

6:43 very inspirational

[@billcotton1551]

What a great day on the water! Some very nice crappie.

[@lucasluresandfishing2398]

Video quality is in the sky it’s so good

[@len4338]

Another great video, how did you find that spillway?

[@sonnyechols5140]

Dude if a pound and a half crappie gets ya that excited ya need to come to Mississippi ...great video

[@taronrich6839]

The whole pb thing has to be a meme now

[@TexasJungle]

Yessir!! Bro I just uploaded our 53,pound blue cat we caught. Catch and cook surf & turf with deer meat!

[@jdsharp5036]

There’s also a golden crappie, and I’ll bet that creek is full of them slabs, they come up in creeks like that from lakes to spawn,especially water coming out of a power plant,it’s warmer.I woulda took home a few and had a sammich and some crappie nuggets.lol

[@Bowhunt]

Good thing it isn’t hunting season :) I need to give this spot a try.

[@joshuastout7975]

If you ever travel toward Tennessee in the summer I could take you to a small creek and show you how to catch some monster bass in a creek not over waist deep.

[@nicholaspouliotoutdoors384]

Great video nick nice crappies . I been to most of the spillways in our area I need to try this one my fav so far is Carlyle spillway . I had a great day at coffeen lake spillway the creek goes way back but after I fished it I found out you can’t fish back there lol 😂

[@chrisstewart5894]

The black nose or magnolia crappie are stocked only. They don't reproduce as far as I know. We have them in all major lakes in Tennessee.

[@napagamer7634]

You gotta love how the most unsuspecting and tiniest spots yield the biggest fish. I trout fish a off shoot of a lake no bigger then the end zone on a football field and catch 10+ pound trout there

[@spencerethridge5048]

That was edited so well! Great video!!!

[@bladeunknown6517]

Isn’t that where the game warden stopped you awhile ago?

[@russredfern167]

Those don't go back . Flaky white meat. Hmmm Never seen a yellow bass before , cool.

[@mustangcarpenter]

That was my first thought when I saw the spillway, sudden recognition lol.

[@chadb1878]

Congrats on the crappie (sac-a-lait to me), fish of a lifetime!

[@johnlenz2921]

If you ever want to take a road trip, come in out to South Dakota and we’ll get you hooked on walleye!

[@jaxonbone1665]

I remember when he didn’t talk and he went in the woods to small creeeks

[@calvinlarsen7606]

Did he ever see him later buddy ?

[@BassGeek]

That was a beast crappie. Nice man.

[@stevenfobear4793]

It must be the big one little brother lol

[@rodamik]

Thats an indication to get back to your creek/spillway! A little hike down the bend and caught a personal best!

[@blindeyecandy]

We call that Crappie “Sac a Lait” in Louisiana. Great catch!

[@Greengoblin2345]

One of the members from stlbassboys here. we met at coffeen lake a few years back. My buddies grandpa said he used to catch monster catfish at the Ameren power plant across the river by the Alton bridge. I have no idea if you can go there nowadays but it’d make a cool video if you can!

[@618Fishing]

Connor Jones hey man I remember meeting you guys out there! I’ll look into it man thanks for the tip!

[@frederickwestberry7895]

Awesome video bro looks like you found the honey hole

[@oldmanronerickson2221]

Finally another video to enjoy buddy. Thanks for this.

[@russredfern167]

Good eating fish. Haven't seen a yellow bass before.

[@xiong_boy562]

Love ur videos keep it up!!

[@williamporter6227]

I like to watch you fish no madder how big. the fish is you show it I fish now thanks to you

[@middletnpyro]

Nice catches Nick! Them blacknose can get big biggest to daye for myself was a 16" beast easily over 2 lbs. If you wana see a beast look up tn world record crappie, dude caught it out of a freakin pond!

[@kentcostello8099]

Hay is that the same spillway you got checked by DNR about year ago? Good video. I'm ready to go fishing because we didn't have any ice for ice fishing this year .

[@thegodmnick8773]

Yooo my boy back at it again in the spill way where he be catching' em

[@schwinew]

Fishing with a trout float above that with a little twitching reeling to you one of my favorite ways to run in moving water

[@monstersofthewater3648]

Love the spillway videos

[@Blaqk_8298]

WAIT! 😝 isn't this where the game warden showed up? _SURE IS, I JUST CHECKED._ 😆

[@werftv4580]

blacknose crappie.. nice fish

[@Rookie_Cultivation]

I would definitely say u should do some salt water fishing some time cause even the smaller fish fight pretty good

[@Unknownbrand]

Persistence pays off! Epic Crappie!

[@Dutch1722]

Come back there around Labor Day. Huge strypers in there.

[@skitsandgiggles8483]

Love you videos man, you inspired me to get an ultra light rod and go for small fish in random creeks

[@618Fishing]

Skits And Giggles awesome! Thanks for watching!

[@reeltherapy8378]

This Channel needs to have a million subs🤟

[@barrylyda6959]

Yo vids are awesome and you should do more bass fishing

[@clydeshope6942]

Love pan fishing

[@tevionsaunders2506]

I couldn’t see but with the worm did you have a small weight above it or were you just running the work weight less

[@sebastianj5848]

Do you find that type of Crappie in Florida? I was recently there and was catching fish very similar but a bit bigger in the retention pond behind the in-laws place.

[@colincole356]

That lake is full of 1lb area channel cat. And some good bass fishing too

[@juanvaldez5811]

Good music, good video, good job!

[@Andrew-cc4ri]

What line do you like to use on your ultralight reels?

[@madmattfishing]

Awesome video bud

[@FishHuntFreedom]

I love this channel because you beat the bank like most of us 👍👍

[@noneyerbidness]

After watching this I have just one question: why do weigh stations always seem to be closed?

[@gelliohumberto5858]

Great question, I have often wondered the same lol!!🤪👍

[@overlandtowater]

my kind of fishing!

[@billmatson8711]

Love your videos . Subbed

[@aarons2moody]

Nice video man!

[@618Fishing]

Thanks Aaron!

[@haydenwells7890]

U match your pb every time a new video is made

[@kylehd8453]

Can I send you some ultralight lure suggestions for your ultralight videos?

[@codyack02]

nick I wanna see a Bambo pole video this spring at a creek !!

[@vanquish_8145]

Those crappies with the black stripes are black nose or magnolia crappie

[@stevenfobear4793]

He's a big guy

[@benstiles5765]

Those Crappie are a blast on lite gear, that yellow bass was cool looking too, I've never seen let alone caught one of those. Is it some kind of striper hybrid? Any ways cool video and as always can wait for the next vid , keep it up

[@618Fishing]

Thanks Ben! Yellow bass are a fun little species related to the striped bass, but they don’t get anywhere near as big!

[@theresafultz6027]

You should try to find old rock quarry

[@haydenwells7890]

U always catching new pb damm bro every time

[@haydenwells7890]

But good job

[@stevenfobear4793]

Way to go man

[@scchris1]

Crappie with the stripe is a magnolia crappie. Loving the music in the intro, can you share the artist/song?

[@618Fishing]

Chris McIntyre that song is “Growing Pains” by Layup. Thanks for watching!

[@trigeektk]

Growing Pains by Layup

[@kencrump9661]

I think the stripe is actually considered a lateral line, a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.

[@mojoejojo171]

I can’t believe you released those crappie.

[@jdmasf9936]

My prayers have been answered!! 💪

[@jordanlee4279]

Ready for some more.... this would be a "PB" if I caught it 18 years ago.

[@peterodushkin8434]

Thanks for good video man

[@618Fishing]

Thanks for watching!

[@68weebee]

Crappie and good eating.

[@noahstoll977]

Try to take your kayak there and fish down the creek.

[@eddieorf]

Guess you don't like delicious fish. Nice catching man

[@MonkeysMom15]

Say Nick when you go out to these isolated places, is there anyone who knows where you are? I'm just an old worry wart grandma and some of these places look kind of dangerous and you are all by yourself. Maybe you should think about getting a dog to take along with you. Well anyway I will keep you in prayer for your safety. Happy fishing.

[@cottontownbo]

I swear the edits get even better every each video

[@618Fishing]

Thank you!

[@peterderidder9922]

What a life beneth this creeks, its eten or be eten.