Hey folks check out who I ran into Chris Gill from a sleep at the real how you doing guys check them out man He's got a great YouTube channel. I've been watching it myself and you're from Texas right from about an hour from here Yes, oh wow, so he's got experience Are we gonna go out there and we're gonna check out some spots? Are you gonna put me on them? You may be sure to me where to catch one today. I don't think so hey excited at the beginning of a day Full day efficient ahead of us and so thanks for joining me here. We go man. You got a love a good morning This is beautiful out here Thomas. I've seen it Totally stoked Gonna be catching some big fish vertical jigging Chris is gonna join us for a little while fish around us and Check out this just check it out It'll get all better than that folks. That's just that's too good Let's put some big fish in the boat. I can't wait to show you this man You have to love the start of a day like today. Let me tell you so today We are fishing with Chris Gula from a sleep at the real you can check out his YouTube channel He's a fantastic guy very nice guy and we are coming out of Johnson Creek again And there's another very popular creek that people use it's called Ali Camp Ali boat ramp They also call it but here's where the timber starts and let me tell you folks. This is a great start to a day We were supposed to have relatively low winds, but unfortunately when we get out there We notice really quick that these waves are substantial this early in the morning So stick with me. We're gonna bits and big fish in the boat regardless and we're gonna have a great time on Lake of the ponds Please subscribe You First fish today folks, I did take long we've been here for three minutes Oh One what a beautiful morning Yeah, okay, he better folks. I'm stoked now. I can tell you right now I wish these waves would go down a little bit. It's supposed to be eight mile an hour today And I tell you it's higher than that So Yeah, folks the footage doesn't even do it justice and they will even get worse than this But I'm talking coming over the bow of the boat It was like the whole front end of my boat was was drenched and We weren't we were we were taking it back by this because again like I said we were expecting eight mile an hour winds And all of a sudden we were welcomed with probably 15 to 18 mile an hour gust at least Yeah This ship ain't gonna that There he is. Came here for white cropping and now I'm getting black cropping. I'm getting black cropping. Alright. This is a hammer. Oh my god. That is a hammer. Alright. I wanted to take a little bit of time and show you exactly what I was fishing at Lake of the Pines. Now obviously we were fishing timber and you can see on this mark coming here we've got a good mark on the side of the tree. This is a perfect example of something that's perhaps not that deep in the column. My personal opinion during this trip if it was a little high didn't seem to be as big. This is a good fish. So again just going through some of the live and the active captain footage that I did take. Again good mark right here. We're at 18 foot down. Great target. Something I would definitely be shooting for. Didn't have as much success off of the trees like this though. You're going to have an image here coming up here that's going to kind of show you exactly what I was having more success. Right here this is a perfect example. This is numerous fish on it. I'm trying to target the biggest ones I possibly can. This one right here would probably be target number one. But definitely when you drop into this stuff this is where you're going to lose a lot of your jigs. Again another perfect example of where I was catching a lot of my fish. These type of trees. Again lots of targets. Definitely a grouping of fish down here. These are all large fish. Look at that 26 foot deep folks. I mean that's just that just is amazing to me. You've got to have a big weight to get it down there quick. And then again this tree right here you've got a good bunch of them down there at the bottom. These are the types of trees that I had the most success. And I would just keep that bait right on their nose. And eventually they would fire. It was just great to walk. So one or two more examples here. Just want to kind of give you a feel exactly what we were looking for. And again here similar fish. Look at those guys. Those guys are down at 32 feet. I caught my biggest fish down deep. Several two pounders were at least starting at 22 and below. Never got a real big one that was actually any shallower than that. Now without a doubt I also on top of using two 1-8 ounce weights on my line to get it down there quick. I also up sized my jig head and I was using a 1-8 ounce jig head. So something I'm not used to in Southern Illinois to be quite honest with you. We've been downsizing downsizing. We always downsize it seems like. But here they wanted that jig head to be really really big. Now maybe not a big large body. Something slim seemed to work really well here. But big jig head smaller body. That was the ticket. All right. I'll tell you what. That was so brutal out there that I had to take a break. And now I'm on my way back. I took a little nap and it's a new day. It's unbelievable. The sun just came out and it's really the same day. But after my nap and I'm telling you right now, I felt like an old man but I could tell you it was brutal cold out there. So we're trying something a little different. We're going to go back out there and we just might actually have some sun which I'm excited to see. Yeah. So those rollers were actually coming over the front of my boat. Which I do have on film. But I'll tell you it was treacherous. And any time I'm out on a new lake and I see no boats. Kind of like the first day that I was here. That's kind of an indication that this is beyond even what the locals are willing to do. So I pulled it back in. Took a break. Parked the boats. Unfortunately I couldn't charge my battery. My battery definitely took a beating when we were out there earlier. But we get back on the water. We got to a few more fish and we end a day that was still fantastic. I mean look at that. This is just an indication of the days that are ahead of us. Thanks for watching 3-pound fishing. Partnered up with these fantastic companies. Folks, this video is sponsored by Pinecove Cabin. You can reach them at Pinecove Cabin.com. Whether or not you're visiting the historical city of Jefferson. Or you're fishing for big slabs on Lake of the Pines. This is the place to stay. We're talking two bedrooms, two baths. It's right on the water. It just doesn't get any better. Folks, I've never been to Lake of the Pines. 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