Well, it's like I've never done this
before.
Jesus, man, I can't frickin'
see.
That was interesting,
I could have added about two more
feet of concrete on this side.
I'm in the rocks.
Hope you didn't film that.
No, no.
I didn't. I know where it's going to
be.
They're like, you guys are going,
this guy ever launch a boat before?
I'm coming down the rocks,
there's a lot of scratch marks on
those rocks I noticed.
Oh yeah.
At least that started.
More than I can say about other
stuff here.
I was working on the score.
So I was going to
replace the carpeting with
vinyl flooring two
years ago and
that's when I had all the...
Terrain load of sicknesses
and just sat out
there and I never got it done so
that's why it looks like it
needs to do carpeting because
it does so
here we are like I said
I've been working on
electrical stuff come
on I ain't
going out there without this working
Do you want me back there, or am I
going back there?
Yeah, if you're not allowed to sit
up there, I don't
care.
Swap in or just set it free.
I don't care about the game more
than one.
Demis Jameson used to be the
game warden down here years
ago.
He checked me
every day.
One of those deals.
He said to me,
one day he came to the dock and he
goes, I was watching
you with a spotty scope all day.
He says, I think
you caught two more fish
than you were supposed to.
I said, you do, huh?
He said, now, Darrell, you know
better than that, right?
You're not supposed to be catching
fish for other people, right,
even though you're guiding, you
can't do that.
I said, I know that.
He says, so,
well, what are we going to do about
it? I said well, I don't know what
you're going to do about, you're
gonna prove that I did that.
Because I did not.
And I said I have two witnesses that
will testify that I didn't.
Well, it sure looked like it to me.
I was watching.
And so I said, well I caught a
couple of, well, probably
caught 50 fish that day
that I kept throwing back
and I said I
kept fishing because
it's legal for me to keep fishing
after I have five,
but I was throwing them back.
I don't know what to do.
I'm giving you a warning.
Messing with me,
pretty much.
So I gotta...
I have a spot down here,
when these fish come up in the fall
that they
always stage on and
when we go for water temperature,
I'm afraid to look, it's probably so
warm you
can't see.
Too much glare.
And
But that's where I was, so that's
what we're going.
Because it's a good staging area,
it's kind of hard to fish, a lot of
guys don't fish it because
the current's squirrely there.
Looks like we got wind
gonna blow us up stream today.
Man, I can't see that.
I can get this luscious on there,
so I'll tell you.
Oh, put that in there.
I did.
63.
That's really warm.
It should be 53 right now.
Yeah, well, at
least it's not 73.
There's still 70 up there.
Some of the lakes up north that we
were on.
Yeah, the Muskie guys were really
griping, and all my
buddies are saying the fish aren't
going because the water is too warm.
I'm glad it'll change.
I'm not sure what
this guy is doing.
He's going to go around in here.
I'm not going in there because I
know it's about a foot deep.
I was thinking about this spot, you
know, all day, all
night, but
I want to start on my best spot.
It's usually a bad idea.
And then not catch any there, and
then if you don't it's like, oh man,
you know, now what,
now where are we going?
One thing about it, it's good
scenery.
I was talking to my neighbor, and he
goes,
he says, how many fish you got to
catch? I said, they said a few.
Need a few fish.
He's like, you can do that and go
on.
I guess I could pretend I'm
guiding today and that
would help, make me more intense.
It doesn't help when the camera guy
goes, well we just want to get some
shots of you fishing.
Catching the fish ain't that big a
deal.
The producer goes, yeah it is.
Hahahaha
It's a real big deal.
You know, I won that Old Style
National Wildlife Tournament here
in 1988.
On a $7,000
boat which was a lot of money back
then.
And I just bought one,
so I sold it right away.
Some guy offered, he said, I'll give
you $7,000 for it.
Don't have to guide the rest of the
summer
This is what they call the high
lines when
you hear
people talking about a fish going
by the high lines yeah and
obviously they're not there's nobody
down here but we'll
see.
Now a fish probably moved in last
night with the cold
tempered they feel that temperature
drop the only bad thing
is there's no uh
There's not a lot of current.
They're not running much water to
draw them out of Lake Wisconsin.
But I've caught them there all
summer, so.
See, so normally
I'm fishing 17 feet
with the lower water as far
as you'd be more like 14,
15.
We're going to hit either side of
this puppy.
It's got to find where the
break is here.
Oh, I should have done that.
What?
All right, well,
I know where I'm at here, so...
There's absolutely no current
here.
Wow, usually
you're going down, you're racing
down through here.
I got all too heavy a jigsaw.
All right, let's see what we got
here.
Okay, so
So how good a jig fisherman do you
think you are?
Uh...
Pretty good.
Well, we primarily drink
with jigs when we're fan fishing.
We've done it before, but.
Now we're shallow enough here, I
think this will work for you fine.
I'll show you, we need to show you
this once right.
Through the end of the mouth,
side of the mouth,
and just through the back of the
head.
Now if you want, because there's no
current to speak of, usually what
we do with that water dirty,
algae bloom, is we drift
this.
Now there's some snags here,
and just vertical jig it.
Now when your line goes slack, you
know it's on the bottom. You got a
pretty light jig on here.
If you want something heavier, you
can do that.
So you can that if
you want, or you can cast and
retrieve it if
you wanted.
It's entirely up to you.
We're probably gonna make several
passes through here.
So, then you can just jig it kinda
like that.
Let her drop,
swim it, let it drop,
the line goes Relax.
Swim it, then drop.
So that should work for you.
If, like I said, if you're not
feeling the bottom good
and other times
you know, thump it to where they'll
just smoke it and
then other times they'll
be hanging there.
Saugers especially.
Which I'm going to ask of that
Dosagas count.
We can make them count.
They're just the cousin of a
walleye, right?
By the way, I'll slow this current
this year.
Boy, we're coming right down it.
Perfect.
As long as this water is,
we can fish this pretty
aggressively.
I mean, these fish
ought to be, they see something
come through the water, they ought
to just hammer it.
I just want to get a little deeper.
11 feet here.
Now, this is normally
considerably deeper than this.
That's ridiculous that the
current, the wind's actually blowing
us against the current which
just don't ever happen.
Okay, 12.
So as we get deeper, it's going to
be...
I'm eyeballing those geese thinking
about my goose hunting.
As we get deeper...
We may have to go with a little
heavier jig.
You got to make sure that
114 that you just let
out more line.
Oh, come on, this is
the spot.
This is the spot.
I mean, there's not even a current
break down here.
It's just more like a flat, you
know.
Usually it's just rolling over here.
When we get down.
A little, am I
blind, okay, yeah when we get down
here a little bit further,
you see that buoy in the middle of
the river,
that's a rock, it starts to turn
into a rock down there.
They may be on the rocks, but that's
usually later.
We may have to go up towards the dam
where there's more current.
This is a huge staging area,
almost every fish that moves up the
river stops here.
So how long have you been fishing
this stretch?
Since, uh,
1982,
I started guiding here, yeah.
Okay, so I'm just not...
Don't tap me.
I was guiding a couple
of guys down on the Fox River
one fall,
early November,
might have been late October.
And one of the guys goes,
there's a goose over there on the
shore. I go, where?
He says, right there.
Well, I figured it
wasn't a place a goose should be, so
I figured was wounded, you know.
Where are you guys?
They're not out here.
Not yet. I'm not seeing anything on
the graph either.
I got to get that bomb lock graph
working, it's the one we're
taking up north.
I don't know why this always
works, I don't know why it's not
working today.
It isn't like it's,
I don't know, wet or something.
Oh, come on.
It's just.
They haven't hit those rocks yet.
Might help.
So very little current.
14, 15
feet, boy they should be here.
This would normally be
our 17 feet.
I'm gonna screw this across here.
They weren't off the brake, so I'm
going to move this.
Little bit here,
okay
It should be nice to look at that
graph and see some fish.
So this over here
I said if I find an area with some
fish, I'll tell you
where they are, you can come and
fish them.
I just want to catch a few fish.
Okay, so that's
really shallow over there.
I think I want to keep
us out of that.
Yeah, you can kind of see the rock
on the shore there.
Then it comes all the way out to
that buoy.
Almost like a wing dam.
That's where they put the ducks in
right there.
I wonder if they didn't put a wing
dam in there.
See right now, I'm saying to myself
I'm glad I'm not guiding out
here.
Well, it's...
I mean, I know there's
walleyes in here all summer.
There's a trip.
Come down here in the summer when
they're doing water ski shows
and they're running ducks up
and down through here and somebody
wants to hire you to fish.
I'm like, oh man.
I'd always try to not do that.
I didn't guide much in the summer
anyway when I was tournament
fishing, I just didn't have time,
wasn't here.
Fall, spring,
now we're right on the break now,
again.
There's some, finally, there's some
fish right there.
Nerdy catfish.
Right off the edge, just like
they're supposed to be.
Huh, I wonder what those
were.
Whatever they were, they don't eat
minnows, evidently,
you know.
Usually you see four fish in a spot,
one of them is going to bite.
Oh, there was a
little...
I am one of them agent saugers.
But we couldn't be better on this
spot here.
A little more.
That all looks tasty.
Notice we picked up speed a little
now, which is
good. Got a little more current.
There he was,
missed that one.
I don't know, there's no mark on the
middle.
Tooth marks or anything.
It's just supposed to be.
We got some fish down here.
Come on, guys.
It didn't feel
like a decent
fish,
small.
Now this little water is going to
keep us from going downstream any
further because
it gets all boulders and rocks
down there and the spring
and the high water you can motor
over them.
Those guys are telling the
guys over there are telling those
guys don't get too close to that
boat.
That guy might have a gun in there.
Oh
All right.
Let's work this a little more,
we got all day right?
I'm used to marking more stuff down
here from when
we first started.
I'm not sure what kind of fish
they are, but...
What is low low low
Got a little more current,
swirling current.
Be down there.
It's only perfect though there's
fish in it.
What?
63 degrees
water.
Who's making that noise?
Who you are.
That would right be crazy.
Yeah we can rig down that thing
perfect.
Well okay.
There's a real nice fish back there.
There's just not a lot of fish here,
guys, I mean, I'm seeing...
One here and one there,
but
Take us in this inside cut here,
we'll take it up,
bring it back, see what we get.
Hoping to see some fish here.
Yeah, look at that graph in front.
I mean, that's as bare as a bear can
get
He starts dropping off again towards
shore here.
I thought he'd bring us inside
of this.
Sometimes they do cut into these
shoreline
cuts more in the spring and fall.
Behind us there was some fish
so there's
some here too
right off of this break
Well, I'll just...
Crazy lot of bait fish right here,
look at them on there.
Oooooooooooooooooo
Rock.
My first rock bite.
I knew it didn't feel right.
I didn't like that jig anyway.
I felt that thing go right in
between two rocks, I'm getting that
out.
Welcome to the Wisconsin River.
Yeah, that was
a sharp snap.
I only got five other rods here
I could use, but...
Kind of like this one.
Hmm, hmm, hmm.
These are chained.
We got a nice sunny day
Oh, beautiful.
Loose guys
A little bit of color in the trees.
Tucker grabbed it and let it go on.
That ain't, that's gotta be
sheephead or something.
Walleyes don't do that.
Especially vertical jiggling, they
hit it, they thump it.
You look how eroded that is
and how high it's eroded.
I mean, how high does...
This is insane.
That is insane.
I'm sure you've seen some of the
photos from the Upperdales, like all
those caves and caverns back there.
Like the H.H.
Bennet stuff.
That's crazy.
Okay, I'm gonna get us.
I'm going to move us.
Where we
Why aren't we crashing on a rock
pile?
Looks like a guy boat.
Shows how good to bite is by the
dam.
Yeah, that guy's guiding.
He's guiding husband
and wife.
Looks like...
Should I go tell him there's no fish
there?
If there were anything like me,
they'd try to get away from the
crowd, you know.
That's what I know.
I'm actually on the
Wisconsin River,
trying to catch something
beside the seabed.
Okay, we're both done.
At the Dells.
Oh, no.
Yeah, you can see where they've
drawn all of them.
Right.
Okay.
There you can pump it in.
Right, sir.
Sir.
We're gonna do this together, I
don't think you can do this by
yourself.
No!
I'm off, I have
to meet you tomorrow and some other
good people,
you guys can take care of that or
you can not.
No, I'm working all day tomorrow
because I want to get everything
done before I head up north,
so.
Five feet and
another six feet.
Oh, I honestly haven't
looked at it in a while, I didn't, I
just...
Yeah.
I thought, oh, what the fuck is the
gravel?
Why should I have my way doing that?
What we can do is just go out of
here.
Right, well what
we really need is some rock,
some big rock or
something to keep it from washing
out.
Right.
And they've already pre-inspected
that it needs to be done.
Yeah.
It's just gotta last this long.
Okay.
Roughly, uh, Matt's been lost the
whole day today from church, but uh,
what time roughly you want him to
meet you, and then you guys can call
him.
I mean, any time he gets, you know,
he want that he was good for him,
because I plan.
I'll see you at 9 o'clock.
Well, we're actually
trying to finish up
a PBS
special,
and everything's
been great so far.
Lots of wildlife, beautiful blue
sky, colors, trees,
no people to speak
of, and
the only I think we need to now have
some fish.
You got you hit that right on the
head. Yeah, there's no there's
probably no fish.
That's why there's no people there.
I hear you.
Okay.
Well, part of it.
Part of all day.
Got a DNR.
Thank you. You too.
There we go, got it.
Yeah, that was definitely a guide.
He went down, went around a corner,
probably graphed it, looked around
and said there's nothing there but
sheep head.
They sure didn't fish, or if they
didn't, they fished it really fast,
didn't get bitten.
He went all the way up to the boat
launch.
Well, it's that time of year, guys.
You know, in a normal fall,
like back when I guided here, this
would have been fine.
This would have be good.
Anyways
Ain't that there?
Private beach
Yeah.
Yeah yes it's
really uh really telling
you how to fish in this up river
when you see everybody coming down
at 11
30 downstream
Or vey...
Be nice.
So right next to this, that's
River's Edge Resort.
So I guided out of there,
and there's your boat landing.
And it got so crazy
when this got so popular
that that was the only ramp,
and it was private.
And then this guy next door,
Cedar Lodge, he put a
ramp in because he could charge
people to launch.
So this public launch was not here,
it was just those two private
launches.
And people always grab because they
charge so much, it's just a delt.
And look at the fish in here,
guys.
That's 16, 17 feet.
This is one of the spots I always
would like to drift.
Wow.
I'm not saying they're walleyes,
but we'd better fish them.
Still marking them.
As long as I'm marking them, I'm
going to keep going and we'll drift
her back.
Okay, let's sketch one right here.
Let's do it.
Right here.
Huh?
There's two. There's Army and Bell's
original.
So there's our Army, Bell's and
Army.
Well, we are in mega wind tunnel
here.
It's been stronger than the current.
What if we just drift through here?
That's all right.
This will work.
Holy moly!
I have some rent.
Pecking on my minnow down there.
He's a little guy.
Tap tap tap.
Some of those fish weren't
little. They're pretty good-looking
size fish.
That'll get us in tighter.
There is actually current here, you
just can't tell
with the wind pushing us
back.
Oh come on, bite that,
that's got to be sheep head.
Tap, tap, tap.
Tap, tab, tab.
The sheep are trying to get that
metal.
And a little tiny mouth.
Oh man did he drill that.
I don't know if that was a
sheephead.
He got the minnow.
That fish just hammered that minnow,
that's what I like it wasn't
much like a walleye bite though.
I didn't know what it was but man
did you drill that?
All right, well.
That's the first really good bite
I've had,
I just pasted it.
I thought I had that fish.
Funny how if you fish where there's
fish you get bites.
I'm like down below there.
That could have been a little smally
too.
Looks like the guide's done for the
day, pulling his
boat out.
River's Edge Resort, boy, could I
tell stories about that place.
I'm not gonna, but I could.
Ah, I was a different person on
those days.
Lot younger
Man, what are
those?
There ain't a walleye or a sauger,
because there ain't a mark on that
minnow.
Whatever grabbed that other metal
ripped it off of there
real well.
This was more like a sheep bite.
And hold them right tight to that.
12 to 15 foot break.
That was supposed to be.
Alright.
I think it's worth it to
make another drift through there.
I don't think it was a sheep as hard
as it hit.
Look at him down here.
Those are biters right on the
bottom like that.
Mmm, bigger than I'm there.
Big wad of fish right there.
Try to keep us in it.
I think I can fish
this cleaner by
fishing the shore.
Of this wind.
Let's see.
Maybe.
That's definitely the best group of
fish I've seen.
There just isn't much current.
Ah rock
bite
The rock bite.
I'm going to pack this up
here.
You find the rock too.
And so it chased her on the motor
for a second. I thought something
was actually on
Oh, okay.
You get her out?
Arrrgh!
Well,
that duck opened up that spot.
Yeah, they're
out of their car.
You know that don't bother those
fish, they're so used to that.
May have to go across and make a
drift through there.
Here we go Zach, this is it.
This is the drift.
The yank went out of here.
The wind died down.
They were drifting with a perfect
Perfect wind drift.
What have I got on there?
Something hanging on there.
It wasn't a fish, but...
Oh, you got the big rock.
Get you above it, if I can.
Perfect
I can always rock before you get to
rock, but
it don't always happen.
Okay, here we go
Come on guys, where are ya?
What happened to that fish that
hammered me?
Ripped my metal off,
never came back.
There he is,
oh you doggy, what is
that?
How do they grab it and let go?
Oh, God.
Little guys,
they're little guys.
Hmm
Oh that was a better fish.
That was definitely a better fish.
What is going on here?
See that rod tip bend?
I'm not saying it was a walleye,
could have been a sheepie,
right in front of that rock.
I don't know if that fish will come
back.
I think I might have turned him
inside out with a hook set.
Kind of in the same area I had that
bite before.
I always hated that when that
happened in a tournament.
Now we're out of the zone.
Just leave this out here, we'll do
it. Oh, is that a
fish?
Don't like it for a second.
Let's make it.
Point now that's not
Yeah, well there's one coming up.
I just hooked it
a rock
there we go oh
what is that
Oh man, loosen your
drag buddy, that
ain't a walleye, it's too freaking
big.
I don't know what it is, but...
Big cat, feels like
a big cat.
Couldn't have a worse
Gahhh!
Why'd I grab this reel?
Alright.
That's a cat.
I'm sure it's a big flathead.
All those fish we were marking,
that's a cat,
and it is.
The whiskered walleye
And it is a flathead
kind of fought like a flat head
man
Fun
Look at that, that's what they call
a whiskered walleye,
little flathead.
People that fish those, eat
them, say they're better tasting
than walleyes.
Seriously.
That's a nice little cat.
But it's not what we're looking for.
I'm gonna beg him.
There you go.
Now for what it's worth,
flatheads and walleyes do
hang out together.
So we may
want to
fish this past another,
another, yeah let's make another
drift.
Yeah, so hey, it's
the right thing.
It's a sager.
Look at this!
I'm telling you,
official key to not lie.
So give us our biology lesson.
There we go. What's the difference?
It's a really nice sauger.
You can tell the difference.
You see all the spots on the dorsal
fin?
Now that tells you it's a sauger
instead of a walleye.
Plus it's brown instead of green.
And I know some walleyes are brown
in a real dark water,
but they're always that color.
And then you don't see the big white
tip on the tail.
Like a wall eye has.
Just have a little sliver of white.
That's a pretty sawger, that's
actually a nice sawger.
I mean they do get,
you know, four or five pounds in
here.
Not a lot of them, usually two or
three pounders are a really good
one, but that's a good one.
That's the keeper,
maybe.
Let's find out.
The only guys, they gotta be 15
inches down here.
Not that we're going to keep it.
See ya.
Quite a legal size fish today.
Somewhere in my basement
here.
I bet he's 14 and a half.
No he's just 14.
Still nice swagger.
In the past they
didn't have
a size number on these fish in here
and of course
With all the fishing pressure,
you think about, there was nothing
to catch 15 of these three
guys.
Come out and catch 15.
Well, they got smaller and smaller
and smaller and
the guides and
the people here said, you know,
this hammer and this resource was
50 inches on walleyes
and now it's 15
to 20 inches,
only three.
And then the next one you can keep
has to be over.
28, so you're lucky
that a 9-10 pound fish
Trophy fish, so that's
good really protect.
So there are a lot of walleyes in
that four or five six pound range
Another couple of weeks, they'll be
up here.
But hey, that's a nice one.
Let it go.
All right you know what
we better drift that again oh
i got one on here
one's this little guy
right here another
sauger
They're long, you know,
they're not as chunky as a walleye,
real long fish,
but, yeah,
fun to catch.
I mean, they are more aggressive.
In tournament competition, we fish
a lot of real dirty, stained water,
saugers like that.
Yeah, very cool.
It's good, healthy.
Man, it's good to see these in here.
Good future of fishing in this
river.
Want to make another pass?
Sure. Ha ha ha
ha.
I thought you might.
I think I'm caught in the net.
I sure do.
Something blew out of that.
Something blew outta the boat.
What the hell is that?
Oh jeez, you got it back?
Oh, is that lucky.
They're real embarrassed, they're
not going to stay.
They're out of here.
We don't want to be around other
guys.
Especially down there,
you know we fish this depth,
we didn't mark many fish there,
what's this big attraction
here, but there's quite
a few here.
I mean even this time when I motor
back up I marked several.
It's that sturgeon thing I think
it's sort of...
Yeah
Well, I set a bite there but it
didn't take it.
Yeah, I caught the end
of it. It was huge.
So...
Rex
Then there's a hybrid, a saw
guy, you know,
across,
where they cross.
Real common out in
the prairie states,
the reservoirs out there.
So in the professional
walleye trail championship on
9-11,
after the
twin tower thing.
As it happened while we
were out there pre-fishing the last
day.
No way!
I'm looking at my locator, it says
there's no rocks down here.
Good job.
You're openin' up my mind.
I can't see.
Thanks to different
Good job finding that rock.
Kind of nice.
Kind of got us in.
I thought that line was probably
getting pretty frayed.
Okay.
Look out now, I'm
giving you one of my quarter ounce.
Sager,
these eyes shine.
Yeah, I saw
it. You know, he wasn't letting go
either when he decided to hit.
He just smacked it.
Nice
Our first tournament of the year was
Spring Valley, Illinois,
on the Illinois River,
which was all usually a flood in
March.
They had big saugers in there,
four or five pounders, lots of them.
We partnered with the DNR
to...
Females be caught and D
and R would strip the eggs
take them to a hatchery
for restocking
anyway and
now she's starting to shallow up
seems like you just get past that
rock and
that's kind of the end of it
You know, and that thing is full of
people.
You'd think every person in America
would have done this by now,
wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you, I mean?
I mean, it don't matter.
I was talking about the guy that
took over my guiding out here.
It's those little tiny boats right
there that are on shore.
He's got the same boats he did back
then.
And he's kind of a big guy.
And he was so nervous, you know.
He was a good fisherman, a good guy.
So he would put two customers in
on little boats and himself.
In the middle of whatever they are,
10 or 15 horse to our motors.
He would start right at this point
and do just what we're doing.
That's how we guided.
This whole first year he never left
the site
of the resort, probably in case the
motors broke down, you know.
I'd come out and there he'd be.
I'd be out here and be, hell yeah,
now we're getting some soggers.
How bad.
Yeah, eventually you get a
nice big old Ranger 200
on it, not that you
need that here, but uh...
That was Bass Pro,
my promotion manager there.
What she did say was,
well, your boat's ready to be picked
up sooner than later, she said.
When she said that, I went, okay,
yeah, I get it.
So we've got a really decent
sand bank over here,
we can try.
Just go up to the point just like we
did here.
See where the brake is there
and follow
it down.
It'd be nice to
That's a few more fish.
So that was 2009
winter
of, and so
I've had this boat since then.
It's seen it's better days.
Doesn't leak, motor runs
like a dream,
poor stroke.
It was a perfect river boat for
me.
I did some guiding out of it on
Winnebago, which I wasn't real
comfortable with.
Then I kind of wished I had my big
boat.
But most days out there,
you know, just don't be stupid, you
don't go out there when it's
just horribly windy.
This can handle three-foot waves
pretty nice,
so that's all I need.
I don't fish big waters, you know,
I'm not fishing the Great Lakes with
it.
So, yeah, it was really a
great gift for me to
have a brand new boat and
had zero breakdowns
other than when I took the low
eulogies out.
Running a river and I hit a stinking
log in high water and it floated
in a tree or something.
But that's not the bullet's fault,
that's pilot error.
Do the birds here, baby.
I was guiding bird
watchers
out on Lake Buckeway.
That's way better than guiding a
fisherman.
Birds are always there, you know.
And you don't have to catch them.
It's good to see them.
Nobody was doing it,
so I'd take people out and
they just loved it.
He's got the big jigs on.
Your dog you're
gonna come your
dirty dog
I guess I should have powered her
up.
Serious it's got to be an
insight
Okay.
No, there's not.
Hee hee hee, hee.
No, There's not
People say, why are you running
your boat with your Balmont down
there? Because the Balmont sees
it before the
Before the back end of the, or the
mower sees it, or hits it, you know?
Yeah, he's gonna set up there
already.
He left some marks and fish because
he went back and
forth.
The break is way out here, just like
it is down there.
Young one, old one.
Let's start the vlog.
I don't think he'll care about that.
He doesn't know that we weren't
fishing here.
He's not going to come out here
anyway.
Just working that inside.
I'm going to work this edge
again.
Let's see how we, see what
kind of drift we get here.
This goofy wind, it's really hard to
make a nice clean drift down
the channel edge.
I'm going to hold this straight off
of that break.
So far, so good.
I didn't see a few fish when I came
off the break in front of that
downed tree there.
Okay, he's not walleye fishing.
He must be fishing crappies.
He's using a slip bobber.
See how far in the shore he casted?
Let's see uh
this worth this breakdown
He's getting his net ready, are you
serious?
It's a hell of a song.
The brewers couldn't quite get it
done last night.
They had opportunities, so...
I'll finish them tomorrow
Why'd you give you that look, Zach?
You gotta have faith,
man.
Yeah, boy.
That's a lot of faith.
That kind of faith gets you into
heaven.
I was in Mosa way back when
sports guy and I, any time we wanted
to talk about something that just
like inexplicably went
wrong we were like Booze.
That just meant anything that was
just stupid and went wrong.
You have some brewers?
I have brewers.
2018, game seven,
they are getting ready to go to
Boston for the World Series.
I was working at a Channel 5-7,
and if they won, I would have went
to Boston to cover them with a team.
I was so bummed, me and some buddies
were watching the game and they
lost, I'm like, yep, typical.
There it goes.
I think the game's out in Zimbabwe,
too.
I forgot who they were playing.
Diamondbacks?
Might have been.
It was at the carcass.
Well, that first inning just
killed them.
I mean, Cubs never scored a run
after that.
Two or three walks.
Can't do that in a wild pitch.
But it was only the first inning.
They definitely had plenty of
chances to come back and win it.
They had the runners on to do it.
So.
The bullpen was
stellar.
Yeah.
I thought the umpire was pretty
interesting.
Yeah, it feels fine.
Yeah, I mean, seriously.
Well next year they're going to be
all automated in the strike zone.
Yeah. Interesting, I don't know how
that will work.
No, I don't either.
Two fish, buddy.
So he's jingin' walleyes
on one side of the boat and draggin'
up on the other.
There's a few fish out in this but
there's not many.
I like that better.
The next one up.
Not as rocky.
I would watch that a lot.
So then I'd just go and hold over
the top of that spot, whack five,
and get out of there.
These guys would look at you like,
what are you doing?
Can't you see we're all drifting
here? You're blocking our path.
The fish are right here.
Why are you drifting way down there?
There's nothing down there.
Wisconsin guys, you
get all mad.
You're not following the program,
you gotta stay in line with
everybody.
I see you guys do that, but jeez,
the minutes you waste fishing
unproductive water.
Oh I see, you know you can't.
During these transition times
especially.
Like I would have never come down
here in September, July,
August.
Just... Just not any
fish, I mean.
Usually by October it starts
and it just gets better, better,
better.
These two cold nights
Obviously there's no walleyes
live there, so at least you've got
an year-round pot
of fish compared to
a river that's just contingent on
current and fish movement and water
temperature.
But I know if I'd have taken you on
the Fox,
it wouldn't have happened.
No way.
There in Montel we had.
See how that affects it.
Dang it!
That
wasn't...
That wasn...