so tell me top three top three lures okay for River fishing my favorite this time of year oh
well come on now this time of year okay this time of year yeah let's do both there is nothing like
a kayak fishing for River Smallmouth the fight pound per pound goes unmatched and if you're
coming up short on bites well I got good news for you my friend fellow YouTuber itching a
fish and I are sharing our top three lures for River kayak fishing smallmouth bass let's go
hey guys my name is Darren I've been fishing for over 30 years and specializing in Kaya fishing
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fish if I could have my way all year round number one Whopper blocker or some type of prop blade on
top the choppo just whatever and then second bait would be uh you know swim bait I'll do a crankbait
kind of depends on the depth you know I'll kind of go either or there but um that'd be number two
I've caught so many nice fish on a gizzard Shad write this down crankbait KVD 1.5 oh yeah we're
all see them right there yes yeah and then um and we have a lot of Clearwater streams here so I try
to keep everything natural looking nothing too bright and bold unless it's I did a video a long
time ago to kind of prove a point about you know reaction strikes I did a custom Spider-Man Whopper
Flopper where I just threw a blue and red it is a blue and red Whopper plopper see yes you made
a Spiderman or do you like paint a thing no no I had a guy paint it for me and put the whole eyes
and everything on it and I guess I have a picture of this right now and I told everybody like color
does not matter when it comes to top water they're just totally keying on that commotion and they're
hitting it so you know so color on the locker blocker doesn't matter to me you know but then for
something Dragon it either be jigs or Ned rig I mean the Ned rig I know a lot of people give it a
bunch of crud you know it's just one little space oh I love that rig yes the Ned rig I mean I'll
just bringing this little bait but man you catch billions on it all year round winter it don't
matter if you're not getting a bite all day and you're like I'm gonna have to tie one on that's
the bait I would tie on just to get one bite so I I love that rig I usually use z-man or the Ocho
um which are my go-to's just for River non-river right eat it up I don't know why I think it's so
much why'd you get so much crap yeah I pick up some things with it but I've also caught
five Pounders my PB came off of a Nico you know uh Med rig SO waiting essentially yeah so crazy
yeah I'm always getting one on in the kayak with me all the time so all right so my my
favorite for when I go over fishing obviously if if I'm waiting around I take the time to go
find crawdads yes so those things just yeah you did a lot of live bait don't you well I don't
do a lot of bait when I go on like lakes and rivers it's all okay officials but when I go
um smallies in the University of Pennsylvania see I'm narrowing down to Pennsylvania I'm not giving
away the honey hole here right I can't can't believe you can't believe me yeah good luck
somewhere in there I go fishing and uh so it's either that and then my second I use Whopper
plovers I use a Terminator but like I believe yeah it doesn't matter things flopping around all those
things at the bottom of it right and then here let's go over here because some of these I also do
um let me see I also have a hellgrammite um yeah I use those I use a jigs I use one as itsy bitsy
jigs with a z-man cross and a lot of times they'll smash on that and then where I'm at man the
um I believe it or not catch a ton on the Wacky Worm yeah so hit that usually with a red flag
green pumpkin red flag Don't smash that but if I cannot get a bite out of all that stuff I use
the Crawdad bomber oh okay yeah yeah this crank face I just run along the you know the bottom
and not getting as many things I possibly can and that's how I caught my first ever double fish one
cast nice was on that so it was one of my shorts that I did don't get me all Roundup about George
here we got Keith Ned rig is the deal that's right Keith z-man Mini Max spinner bait yeah I
think you do I saw a video I did I found some big ones on a spinner bait like a 3 8 in small Creeks
I mean they chase those small amount they're just aggressive and they chase those big old
spinner baits so one of my favorite colors is called the sexy moose no mouse sorry sexy Mouse
it's like a silver Shad yeah with chartreuse slime in there man it's good for Clearwater streams so
money write that down right this is your man here try the Nico crawl yeah Mud Bug color
that's a good natural color yeah yeah and we have oh yeah here we go leather stocking angler wacky
rig my man Ned rig my man those are my those are my go-to's you gotta have a Ned rig on Ned rig and
wacky rig yeah it's almost like my search bait it's crazy and paddle tail swimbaits I haven't
had a whole lot on those you know real quick this this whole this whole show right because I'm not
trying to position myself as an expert like I know some things yeah at the end of the day I
don't know a whole heck of a lot so that's the idea of kayak fishing obsessed is getting right
people actually are are out there doing things that I'm not familiar with and so just so everyone
knows that's what this is all about and if I'll share the things I know and if I don't know well
here it goes hopefully they'll let us know in the comments Tyler says you killed on the spinnerbait
that's nice yeah he's the one I went to Tennessee and did a camping trip with and I caught almost a
three pounder on a spinnerbait right there so it's I mean I love the spinner bait you know for Creeks
for sure right here's a new one Texas Rig senkos yeah can't go wrong so Cinco all right oh let me
left field mouse yes legit I use the mouse not too long ago actually in one of my earlier videos and
it had some great action it wasn't topwater is kind of a waking bait more than anything yeah
man it got some fishing boat it's pretty exciting so I was recently watching uh the live show that
Burley fishing does and they had Chad Hoover on and Chad was talking about this rat lore yeah he
loves to use with the Rattler away they tell the story like he goes you see these Farmers out in
the field and it goes up to him like Hey can you wait to cut this part of the field until like the
day I can fish because right which is all these mice across this little stream that I fish and I'm
gonna throw this rat lore and I was like you're crazy I love it and they agreed to it which is
also crazy I know they use a lot of rattlers for uh you know pike fishing for sure so okay okay
uh what's your so let's kind of break out a bit well what's your PB I'm curious for uh
River smallies if you were on and watching what is your PB because I asked that question earlier
in in the show however I don't think people are on yet so let me know uh what your PB for River
Smalley was but Eric what you got well uh here in Arkansas you know I think they're out there
but we don't have the Giants like y'all do up in the north or Tennessee's got some big ones
too but you know I caught a three pound Smalley and it was like a butterball it was like maybe
17 inches but it was just so thick and I caught it yeah the mom's excited you know because the
ones that was kind of early in my fishing you know YouTube Adventure there and the majority
of the ones I was catching at that time was like 10 12 inchers and I was like oh my goodness this
is a giant you know and I've put it on the scale so that is my PB still trying to break that one
hopefully I can get up there north of you know the Lake Michigan you know they putting out seven
eights all the time and stuff like that but I'm fishing a lot of shallow Creeks so a three pounder
a two and a half evens we consider a nice one you know a lot of these streams in Arkansas so yeah
yeah what about yours Pennsylvania you know what I'm not sure about my River smell like PB forgot
a scale that day didn't you oh yeah oh yeah so I mean it was it was a Mondo hey guys I hope
you enjoyed that interview with itch and the fish if you're looking for some few more lures
to kind of give you that Competitive Edge for those River Smallmouth I have a video out there
called seven Smallmouth lures that will slay right there hey guys thanks for watching good