Uuugh!
What's going on, guys?
Today, we're going to see if we can trick a fish
into biting one of these little toys!
So, last week we were in Hoopersville, Maryland,
and we stumbled across an antique fshing store,
and, uh, this place is really cool, it has stuff from
a long time ago, and
and a lot of the stuff wasn't workable,
but we did find something pretty interesting.
Ooh yeah.
Vinyl baits.
So, I saw these on the shelf and they stood out to me
'cause they look like little kids' toys...
but they have hooks in them...
and I haven't seen baits like this before, I mean,
I--I usually use my swimbaits, like my Gulps!
and my DOAs,
um, I don't usually use stuff like this.
So, today we're going to give them a try and we're going to see if they work,
we're going to see how they work, we're going to see if
you know, they're better than
than the little Gulp swim baits I use.
They've got a little crab here,
they've got, um, a hellgrammite,
crickets,
a spider,
a--another kind of cricket, I guess?
and then they've got these
I don't know what these are, but--critter,
look at that frog!
*sniffs*
Okay, so
we are fishing, like, brackish water right now,
and I think that the crab would work well,
one of these little hellgrammites,
even though they're not salt water,
this would look like something you would see in the water.
This little black guy.
Maybe this...
Which one would you try?
The species of fish that are running here are
striped bass, red drum,
flounder, croaker, spot,
(Perch.) Perch.
What would you throw?
Pick one of these!
Comment it below!
So,
first up: I'm going to try the crab.
'Cause I see little crabs like this
swimming around here all the time,
and fish chasing them,
so I think that this guy will work,
I actually already have it tied on.
So...
So now, it's so light, it's like
it--I can't cast this,
I really just have to dip it in, or I'm--
maybe I'll put a sinker on it.
But first, I'll try floating it.
We'll see what happens.
Oh!
Ha ha ha!
On a little baby crab.
It worked!
I mean, why wouldn't it work?
It looks like a little baby crab.
Look!
Ha ha!
It's a toy!
The hook is definitely too small.
Got'em!
Whoo!
Alright, so the crab works.
Nice.
We should try a different bait.
What next?
I think I'm going to try...
this one or this one.
I think they're going to like this color,
but I think this is gonna look similar to what's swimming around down there.
(Try that one.) Let's try this one first.
Next one:
is this little creature thing!
It could pass off as a leech, it could pass off as a little minnow,
I don't know, I think maybe if it just flashes in front of a fish it'll get a reaction strike.
Let's try it out.
Whoo!
What's that?
It's another rock fish.
Nice!
Alright! So they're eating the--?
The little toys.
This one ate it as soon as it went down.
Honestly, I think it's just
they're hitting it out of reaction,
it doesn't really matter what it is, I could throw whatever, I think.
I'm just kidding, it's all skill, guys.
(Very nice.) Little tiny schoolie!
Let's see if I can catch something else.
Anyway, that was on this one after like, a million bites.
I think it was, it was like, little perch pecking at it,
and then I saw some activity on the surface and I threw this at it, and it was--
pretty much instantly hit it.
Imma try again.
Bites.
Whoo!
Another little one.
There's a lot of them tonight!
(Yeah, and they're hungry.)
Yup.
They're all just hiding right by the shadow lines,
and, uh...
They're tricky.
It worked!
Let's try something else!
If you guys are wondering
what reel I'm using,
it might look kind of strange to you,
or it might look very familiar to you,
it might be nostalgic to some of you, too.
Um, so this is the Mitchell 300,
it's actually the first spinning reel ever produced,
I think, um,
but anyway, this is made,
handmade in--
these were made in France,
and they came out around the 1950's, 1960's,
and the world was introduced to the first spinning reel.
Now, this thing is reely cool, because, uhm,
these things last for frikkin ever!
Um, you can open it up and there's reely only two or three gears in there,
there's no bearings, no ball bearings,
it's very minimalist,
and um, it has definitely been able to survive the years,
because this is working like new, just look at how it reels.
The spool stays still.
And look at that.
It's that weird, guys?
Yeah.
So today we're fishing with vintage reels and vintage lures,
and I'm having a ton of fun.
Alright, so we tried the crab,
that worked alright, it just
it was harder to fish 'cause crabs move slow and I didn't want to move this too fast,
this worked really well,
it was one after another on this little guy,
um,
next, we're trying:
this orange cricket!
I bet you this will work well, too, just because of the color.
Alright.
No bites so far.
Did it just die?
It just died.
We didn't charge that last night?
No.
Just step into the light.
Like, even there, you're good.
*fish splashing*
Ha!
Whoo! OH!! No!!
What happened?
I didn't set the hook hard enough.
That was-- I heard it pop right there,
then it was gone...
I know, you were on it. But I heard it pop, and then
it--it smacked it.
You were on it, man.
It looked like you did, like, a twirl
to get to it.
I know! Ha ha!
Dang!
The hook was too small!
Look, look how much hook is showing in this.
It's too small for their mouths.
Now I'm just going to let it really...
Hang out? Hang loose? Yeah.
Hang loose. Gonna hang loose...?
No!
I missed another big one!
Look what it does!
It takes the hook all the way down!
What the heck?
That just snapped me off.
What?!
It just snapped me off!
What the heck?
There's something big there. What do you think it is? I don't know,
but there's something big, I'm going to get it.
Okay, so it took the cricket, the whole thing,
and snapped me,
this is very light line, 8 lb test,
uh, because these hooks are very small.
so now, I'm going to use the cricket--uh, the
the beetle.
Or whatever this is.
Look at that, ha ha,
Nice.
The hook is still so small...
How am I going to hook this?
Do your best!
I'm going to do my best.
I believe in you.
Even if I don't catch it,
I'm still winning 'cause I'm having fun.
Yeah...
Oh!
He got it.
Hoo! Got it.
I got it. He got it.
Another tiny schoolie. He got it.
Alright.
See, the other one got my drag going like crazy, earlier!
This is not what I was trying to hit...
So there's no doubt that these work.
Yeah, that was first cast.
But we seem to only be really catching small ones with these.
Maybe if we
tried using the bigger lures
we would catch something bigger.
Let me try one more time.
*Growls*
Uuuuggghhh--ghh-ghh-ghh
*Erin giggling*
Did it take it?
Look what happened.
Completely snapped the hook.
What?
It snapped the hook.
I told you, there's something big there.
Either that,
Or these are really old hooks? Yeah. --or these are really old hooks
They were sharp, they're still sharp,
they're not rusted,
but this is a doner.
This is a gone & doner.
Alright.
The consensus is:
these vinyl-
these vinyl baits, these little toy baits,
they worked really well.
We had a lot, a lot of bites,
got a lot of fish,
but my problem with it
is the hooks are really small,
that it came with.
If you switched out the hooks maybe it would be a different story,
and, um,
the crab was really hard to work.
Um, other than that I think they worked great! They worked!
They worked really well.
Yeah.
*Hulk Noise??*
*laughs,*
Thank you guys for watching, I hope you liked that,
Let me know if you're interested in learning more about this reel because
I have lately been...
somewhat obsessed...
with the-- Somewhat obsessed...
Ha ha ha ha Okay.
I bought three vintage reels in the past 3 days.
Four. Four days.
No, four reels.
Four reels? I got four reels?
They're so cool!
They're so cool, and
I really like them because I can work on them and I can-
I can- Yeah, they're cool...
mess with them and they're just reely cool looking reels...
Anyways, let me know what you think about this, these vintage stuff,
um, and comment that below,
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