Fishing For Spillway MONSTERS!

Don't dip your toes in this river! An unbelievable day of fishing for ferocious muskie and northern pike! The river had just receded from spring floods and a fresh crop of fish had moved in below the spillway, and they were looking to eat!
Gear used on this trip:
Lure: Savage Gear 4Play 8" amzn.to/3Lcsh4v
Rod: St Croix BassX 7'1" MH F amzn.to/3ZVhKit
Reel: Shimano SLX DC amzn.to/3yrkrfV
Line: Power Pro Super Slick V2 30lb amzn.to/3T8zCEf
Leader: Berkley 30lb 6" amzn.to/3LdcuCS
Net: Ozark Trail brand from Walmart

[@rodbelding9523]

8 muskies from shore in one day is literally insane. That spillway is magic.

[@Buce-ku9vx]

....and so is the editing. Every cast a Muskie or Northern 🙄

[@PartyRockerOG]

@@Buce-ku9vxyeah you want like a 7 hour unedited video bro?

[@Agile47509chicken]

You know a channel has top-notch content when you can keep a video like THIS in the hopper for almost a year.

[@Jetrojack04]

Haha. I was thinking the same thing! Can't believe he sat on this for a month! I'd be trumpeting this to everyone who would listen.

[@mk4surgeon947]

@@Jetrojack04 Nah, he saved it for Spring content so he can start the season with a bangin video. Saves time editing and more time fishing. Ideally, getting ahead on content is the goal.

[@7bridgesroad213]

I wanna take a moment to thank you for your content. We watch you as a family. My kids will say, daddy let’s watch the fishing Bob Ross. We don’t have to worry about vulgarity or anything. Thank you man.

[@christinerogers5331]

That certainly has to be some kind of record, 8 big muskie landed and one that got off and 3 or 4 nice size pike, AWESOME! What a fantastic day of fishing and you had the entire bank to yourself! Thank you so much Matt for sharing this wonderful adventure with us and keep up the great content!

[@johnrickards1908]

"Bank to yourself?" Not any more😂🤣😂

[@markrosenquist8259]

@@johnrickards1908 Haha! Right?😅🤦🏼‍♂️

[@nicholasmurray4061]

I've commented this several times, but you have the best channel out there. It's so relaxed and real and calm. Exactly what fishing should be. Good job man!!

[@johnrickards1908]

Bob Ross with a fishing rod

[@nicholasmurray4061]

@@johnrickards1908 100% and it's amazing

[@FishingWithZach]

I agree, just good fishing! I'm not a fan of the loud and crazy antics

[@vrxtile]

Finally a fishing video where its not just people shouting for 12 minutes for the intro and this guy starts in the first 30 seconds.

[@yangulomam]

Bro you have Walter Hartwell White as your pfp you can not complain about gen z mfs lol

[@briansantarossa2331]

Check out the rest of his videos ! Very calm and straight to the point! No screaming at all

[@dlgraber9146]

Why does everyone need to point that out?

[@Bdub1952]

Refreshing, isn't it?

[@mattfleming86]

​@@dlgraber9146 Because it's rare, and it's special... I'm down to a handful of fishing channels but NDYak is never going anywhere on my subs list.

[@514fishing_official]

That is insane man! Catching 8 musky in one spot in one session is epic!! Worth the sacrifice for sure!

[@TannerPaul-op4nk]

This has got to be the greatest fishing spot in the world. To land that many sizable Muskie bank fishing from one spot is insane. Cool video

[@xlucim]

You just made a once-in-a-lifetime memory. Unbelievable. Congratulations.

[@touxiong9372]

Some people dream of catching just one muskie in their lifetime here you are catching then left to right

[@justin2953]

That sir was the baddest day of muski fishing the world has seen. Can't change my mind. Awesome stuff!

[@865CreekAngling]

I live in Tennessee and man the last two day’s fishing has been on fire for me! Awesome video brother!

[@stevenfetterman916]

I always loved fishing below the dams in TN and KY....great fishing for sure!

[@865CreekAngling]

@@stevenfetterman916 I was Douglas dam and caught a bunch of walleye the last two days

[@stevenfetterman916]

I fished below Cordell Hull Dam, Woods Res. Dam, Tim's Ford Dam, and in Ky I fished below Barkley Dam ALOT..... 😂

[@bradrtorgersen_videos]

I'm a simple bank fisherman out here in the Mountain West, so it's a supreme delight to see you hauling in so many fine fish while you cast from the rocks. I know boats and kayaks cover a ton more water, but shore fishin 'aint half bad sometimes. 😃🐟

[@oichtown]

I'm living vicariously through you. Thank you!

[@Chompchompyerded]

Muskie lunged. We were cleaning out a rearing pond and took what was there and dumped it in just above the dam. We were pretty sure some of them would go down stream. Glad you had fun with 'em and even more glad that you released them for other fishermen to catch later on. We didn't dump any pike or other species in this time out, so those are all on you!

[@slowburn_1725]

Well deserved man..! No one can argue that you don't put your time in. Days like this is why we fish all those hours

[@davew4247]

Guys can go years without catching a decent muskie, great job man!

[@johnstephany4029]

What a fine display of fishing 🎣!!! Well done my friend. I bet your arms are burning from catching all those monsters. Back to back to back to back…you definitely found the honey hole. Thank you for sharing. I just started watching your videos about 2 weeks ago. I love you style and your representation as a respectable angler! I will continue to watch and support your channel! Thanks again for what you do!!!

[@rjb10101]

Love it.... From Nottingham England...🐟

[@Silverbuzz]

Another excellent fishing trip! Will continue to watch your trips…your delivery is so calm and consistent…very nicely done!

[@DeaconMike]

The best thing about this is,,,, 30 years from now you'll be able to watch this vid & easily remember what a great day it was.

[@B25gunship]

That's the most insane fishing video I've ever seen. My hats off to your skills. Unbelievable.

[@stevehofer3482]

That is a nice Muskie. I really like that the culture of catch and release is ingrained in the KZbin community. If you don't eat them let them go.

[@paulfetscher7919]

You do it better than a lot of the pros, love watching your videos.

[@dr.freudstein]

ahhh new video...best youtube fisherman

[@AndrewMorris-md6dw]

Truly and EPIC day of fishing Matt! You have redefined a 'good day of fishing'. Thanks for sharing.

[@greatlakezgirl649]

You do an awesome job releasing them.

[@MuskyJaeger19]

You timed that fish outing about as perfect as possible.

[@ndyakangler]

Yeah we had a spring flood last year for about a month where this river was as high as I’ve ever seen it. I was watching the stream gauge every day waiting for them to start reducing flow back down to a more normal level. As soon as they did I was there!

[@MuskyJaeger19]

@@ndyakangler good game plan. Probably count on more flooding again this year. Minnesota will probably flood anyways with all the snow we got so far.

[@markg1490]

What a great day!! So fun to Watch. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience

[@JoshB-Fishin]

Looks like a great day of fishing a spillway! Love the videos as always. Great narration and a pleasure to listen to while working.

[@reelextremefishing]

All I could say is wow! Congrats on your best day of fishing for Musky.

[@isaacbrascoupe]

Stacked like cord wood!!! But you still have the skills to bring'em in!!!🎉

[@fishflex]

For Matt the Muskie is " the fish of 19 casts,...maybe 20? " 😂 Amazing day of fishing! Thanks for sharing! 💪

[@richard.sexton]

Thank you for sharing this day! Epic for sure!!

[@AlaskaOutdoorsTV]

Super awesome! We’re spending more time on pike fishing this coming year.

[@Spahr62]

Great job! Wishing I was out there too! Thanks for the great video!

[@randymyers2252]

Awesome video! And I’m glad to see that perch 4play works well for musky and pike because I just picked one up for exactly that 😏👌🏻🎣

[@DanKoning777]

I loved the first strike cuz when "Mr. Ross" gets excited, I get excited! Good stuff Matt. [edit]: what I wouldn't give for a full side to side 360° "Aqua View" pass to see what was lurking up there.

[@ndyakangler]

I want to go up there this spring with a GoPro under a big bobber just to see how many fish are around that spot!

[@DanKoning777]

@@ndyakangler// Excellent-that'll we'd all love to see; including the structure. Who knows, maybe you'll get your "tail" back and few more lures. :)

[@lukewatkins_mtnpro]

That’s the most insane day of musky fishing I’ve ever seen! Killing it man!

[@richardsolomon8076]

Well that was an afternoon of 2tails 👍 and lots of nice fish .

[@prodby.zartbeatz9513]

I just had a 4 pike day here in Sweden 🇸🇪 they were all big pike too! 8 fish though is incredible and I hope this much luck keeps happening for you

[@oldschoolhawking8191]

For such a great fishery, I'm surprised the banks aren't lined up with multiple anglers.🤔

[@ndyakangler]

I’m lucky that I can get out there during the week when it’s usually quiet. It was packed that first weekend after the flood receded, a few days after I filmed this video. I waited a couple weeks to post a vid but a few other guys posted vids as well, and about a half dozen people posted muskie pics with the dam behind them on local social media pages all on that first weekend. It was packed there for about a month straight after that where even if I got there at first light someone was already posted up in that corner. And people wonder why I hold on to footage and don’t name locations lol.

[@oldschoolhawking8191]

@@ndyakangler That's smart, bc you know they watch every video. We have one guide in our area who has a KZbin channel, that discloses every hotspot on the Sacramento River. Talking to local anglers, they're not too pleased with the dude. One guy nicknamed him: "Crusty Bob's Guide Service".🥴

[@ndyakangler]

@@oldschoolhawking8191 Yeah I try not to make it too easy to find me but there’s plenty of people that know the spots I fish. If I post a video Saturday morning I’m probably not going back to that spot for a week or two because I know there’s gonna be several people fishing it. I had one guy pull up and start chewing me out last year saying I was ruining his river for sportsmen by posting vids and a he’d seen plates from three different states there. I guess out of staters don’t count as sportsmen lol. I’d been on that stretch about a half dozen times already that season and hadn’t seen a single other person out there.

[@oldschoolhawking8191]

@@ndyakangler That's unbelievable. The only time I ever had somebody comment on where I fish was, we were out on the river and this guy drifted by and said he saw our spot on my YT Channel. He recognized a stump on the beach, then pointed at it.

[@theriverbend]

Didn't know Muskies were schooling fish... lol. Amazing catches sir!

[@harrisonmantooth7363]

You just shared what I've dreamed about. Excellent video and congratulations on your PB on Muskies. I'm getting the fishing urge just watching you catching fish. Thanks for sharing this video with us.

[@redbeard6606]

Man, that's an amazing day. What a great video.

[@jeromeeaster-tz1sy]

Great catches.... ur one heck of a fishermen! Way to go

[@kierra_mist]

Huge fish back to back to back to back😮I’m here for it, new sub here.

[@Honks34]

Man, ND is a dream. You should make a quick video on how you tie your leaders.

[@ndyakangler]

Maybe I’ll do that this spring! On this trip I was just using a regular Berkley steel leader.

[@AaronHuntFishing]

Sweet! Amazing video, great spot, and as always impressive fishing. Even more crazy is you can save EPIC trips like this for months before sharing them!

[@chesschess100]

Well, you know what they say. “Musky, the fish of every 10 casts.” 😅 What a day you had!

[@johndrx165]

Hard work indeed! You were slaying them. Great work!

[@santannathegreat5167]

Lol lol I absolutely love it!!! What’s the chances as a fisherman to have a double of the exact lure you need!!! Love it when it works out for us my guy!!

[@teamjohnson6164]

🤏 pinch 🤏 pinch 🤏 pinch 😉 my adrenaline was pumping just watching this! Great video!

[@danielschwehr8414]

I caught a bunch of really nice pike/ Muskie at the exact spot this past summer. Consistently getting into 40”+ fish. Along with some nice smallmouth around 4 pounds. Definitely our go to dam in the area

[@ndyakangler]

It’s always a fun spot! Some real monsters in there and a great variety of fish, even caught a mid 20’s walleye on the Plopper there!

[@lornekofman2163]

Youre making Bob Izumi look bad!!!!😂

[@theanglerelitist]

Your vids are always tops.

[@briand8180]

He’s back!! whew it’s been a lonnng winter!

[@stevehogan8829]

That's a beauty. you got em dialed in.

[@kross1261]

Like the looks of that lure so much I stopped the video and ordered one off Amazon.

[@doster59]

Just amazing! Congratulations.

[@thomaslockemy7187]

Now that’s a dang day !!

[@CR250rSMITH]

these spots he fishes are such good spots, im so jealous

[@sgangling]

Such a fantastic day. Congrats! 👏👏👏

[@dersmi]

Great video! Nice job!

[@proteusxavier9477]

So many muskie! Amazing!

[@jamesmcdermott6934]

Damn dude I'd been campin out there for the night!!!lol! Yeah unbelievable!

[@bigfishboss2103]

good stuff man those spotted muskie are perty

[@randyemiller1132]

Damn dude that's a lot a skis. You think you caught the same one more than once or just a year class thing? The trim or notch a fin lets me know if I have a repeat offender...lol...not that I do it often. Thanks for the vids. New sub from Minny here.

[@ndyakangler]

I haven't compared screenshots of each fish but I wouldn't be surprised if one or two were caught twice. There are a lot of muskie there though so I wouldn't be surprised if they were all different either. They stocked a bunch of yearling muskie in the lake above the dam about 8 years ago, that's why there's so many of them and they're all about the same size. It was just one of those times of year where they were probably following the walleye migration upstream, or there was an abundance of other type of fish up there to feed on where the muskie were stacked up there. Most of the time they're spread out a little more farther downstream.

[@b1sunpeopleb165]

He's caught more Musky than most people catch in a lifetime.

[@andresroelalvarado5943]

Look all those teeth in the musky's, awesome day of fishing

[@jeffwolfe191]

You the man!

[@Thepondguy85]

Wow unbelievable day.

[@cwagenaar5080]

Great day of fishing. You caught some hogs out there.

[@quags7744]

This man catches fish like he sold his soul for it.

[@chuckkfinnley]

not even pro fishing shows catch this many muskies......once in a lifetime....very nice

[@bobbyswain7049]

You need a bigger net haha......epic trip

[@aprilgeneric8027]

they all have that same scaled area wound. i wonder if it is because they are coming down from the dam and that's where they are having to wiggle to under the release gates or trying to go up and that's where the flow rate is too great that they can't get past because the thrust power is too far reduced at that point in their tails not being able to go thru at that point due to the extreme limitation of tail range of motion being 50-30% where they need it in the direct flow and not enough out of the burst spray in thrust power to shimmy thru on their sides where they are thinnest? thanks for the video this is one to point out at the state fish and game HQ office in st.paul next time i am down there this spring about dam gate opening width

[@ndyakangler]

Those were all spawn wounds. They bite at each other and can get pretty violent during the mating ritual and this was maybe a few weeks after spawn. I see it every spring, almost all the big ones I catch have those wounds. You won’t see any beat up looking muskie early season, then spawn happens and it looks like they tumbled over the dam that’s actually what I thought it was at first too, but by mid to late summer they’re all healed up and you don’t really see any beat up looking fish again until post spawn next year.

[@JaseJohnson24]

What a day!

[@chrisnelson6686]

Awesome & Very Impressive!!!

[@martytotten3086]

Love your channel. Was wondering if you ever eat what you catch.

[@ndyakangler]

I do every now and then, more so in the winter and spring when it's easier to transport fish. My main goal is to go out and get footage of catching a few fish. I might hit 3 or 4 spots over the day sometimes and in the summer time when it's hot out I don't want to be driving around with fish in the bed of my truck all day.

[@janosczovek8524]

Fantastic day 👍😃

[@davidsagastume3700]

What a day 🔥🔥🔥

[@Warmachine-tu5zo]

Ohh the fish of 10,000 casts eh? NDYak - Hold my beer

[@peterwilly9240]

You should get the Shimano Bantam A for those bigger baits, I have one and I prefer it over all my other reels.

[@ndyakangler]

I like that SLX DC because it casts farther than any other reel I own and I can get my lure a little bit closer to the opposite bank. I picked up two of them a couple years ago and honestly they kind of turned me off to Shimano. The brake system is great but both reels developed gear noise within a month or two and they sound like cheap Walmart reels now. Cleaning and grease didn’t help and someone said it’s common with the Shimano gears and the only fix is replacing them. I’ve pretty much dedicated that reel to using it at this spot where the roar of the water drowns out the gear noise and it doesn’t bug me as much.

[@peterwilly9240]

@@ndyakangler yeah the slx typically has worse gear quality but I have used the bantam A since it just got released and it's perfectly silent and it casts great. I don't like DC reels too much but I do own the metanium DC and the bantam does cast just as well as it with a heavier lure. I have it on a 7'4 heavy st croix legend tournament and it throws the megaBass I-Slides extremely far, I would say around 40-50 yards with braid

[@peterwilly9240]

And I have spooled my reel completely empty to the spool with a half ounce frog and 40 pound power pro using the Bantam A.

[@kockarSO]

Great video....no, insane video!!! As I remember 4plays had spare tails in the package?

[@ndyakangler]

I don’t remember ever seeing a spare tail with any of mine but I’ll have to see if I have one still in the packaging somewhere.

[@kockarSO]

@@ndyakangler my bad it was some other lure, not 4play.

[@mr.onethirtyeight5088]

EPIC!!!

[@waynegilbert7535]

I'd sell my soul for musky fishing like this!

[@tadhghayden8440]

Amazing really!..the fish of... how many casts??.super glue on that tail to get more use out of otherwise good condition bait...

[@shawngremm3226]

The musky god

[@alexvasquez9313]

what line set up is best for like/mousky? i’m tired of steel leaders getting caught up in weeds

[@TheBeefSlayer]

Like to say thanks to fish and wildlife and federal government for regulating fishing. If we didn’t have the laws there wouldn’t be any fish to catch. One person on a day like this could put a real hurt on the population if they kept all these fish. It’s strange how other countries don’t realize you can’t keep every fish or they will all be gone. In other countries there is a “I better keep it cause the other Guy will just take it.” Mentality it seems. And I know they need food. But we are blessed for sport in the USA. It’s expensive to fish but we all can fish if we want and keep a reasonable number of fish if we want. And it’s because people catch an release. And the fish and wildlife departments.

[@colevideen]

Great fishing. Off topic, I've seen you use a kayak trailer in some of your videos. I am currently window shopping for one and curious what kind yours is? Great videos,Thanks.

[@ndyakangler]

I have a Yakima Rack N Roll 66. Its a nice little kayak trailer!

[@borrero-md1196]

Hey when my GoPro starts doing that, it’s usually caused by a bad battery

[@pauldockins9635]

It’s awesome 😊

[@formerparatrooper]

Is this by any chance the Garrison Dam area?

[@huntermorse4065]

What’s the rod and reel you use I’m trying fone something I can throw big swim bait around with

[@warrenbartram6947]

I also lost the tail on my exact lure recently.

[@ndyakangler]

Weird in all the years I've been fishing those lures this is the only trip I've broke a tail on one, and it happened twice! The second time was totally my fault, not many lures can handle getting whipped into the rocks like that lol.

[@jonathanbranum8976]

now catch yourself a couple pickerel and sit and relax with a couple cold ones and some good eats on the grill... remember today lil brother, for today life is good... :))

[@Ghosthawk332nd]

You ever find any white bass in the spring? I'm in Fargo ND and would rather not have to drive to Devils Lake to find some.

[@ndyakangler]

I catch quite a few on Ashtabula early summer on topwater. I’ve never gone targeting them I’ll just see them busting the surface and toss my spook at them and catch one just about every time.

[@SunnyIlha]

I would use my daiwa 120-UL underspin with 17lb mono 😁