I caught a pike. No, it's a musky. It's a musky. Guys, it's a musky. Today, we're exploring some new waters around the DMV area and today we're highlighting Little Pool. I have never been here before. It's a really kind of small little pond slash lake that was created by the old C&O canal system. There's two of them. There's Big Pool Little Pool. Little Pool I found on a map and we're going to explore today and I don't know if you can tell guys it is beautiful around here. So let's try to explore this place today. Let's see what we can catch. Everything that I use today will be in the item description in the video along with directions on how to get here. So this is going to be fun. It is absolutely clear water. You ever go to a place and you're like, you know what? It's just fishy. Got one. First cast. Oh my gosh. First cast, guys. With the fluke. Hello, baby. Guys, I didn't even like paddle far. Oh my goodness. Look at him. This is going to be fun. Oh my gosh. That was the first cast. And this is a really small. Like I was saying before, it's not really big and it's public water. You know, something I'm big with this channel is public water. Everywhere I'm fishing, I want it to be a place anyone can go. Not that I somehow stumbled on a private lake or something like that. This is I want to be able to really highlight areas that anyone can fish whether you have a bass boat, kayak, your fishing from shore. I'm going to stay right here on this edge and this cast. See, I don't know if you can tell there's a grass edge. There's definitely an edge. Got him. Got him. Number two. Keeping with a jerk bait. So every time I see a blue-gill pop, we're getting bit. Any bad. Little guy. I think there are bigger ones in here. This is what gut says. I just think they're off on this edge. So we've got to figure out a way to fish this edge more efficiently. See, that one came right in that grass. There was a little grass mat right there. Kind of where he came off of. That was like my third cast, too. I had to really get him to react to that thing. Got one. There he is. Bigger one. Yep. Swim jig. Oh, no. Same size. Same size. There he is. Look what he hit. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Look at him. Swim jig. Outside grass edge. So I might actually have to change to a heavier one. But I was just working this. I don't know if you guys can tell with the light, but there's actually a big grass edge here. I was fishing on top of it. I was catching some little ones. I was like, you know what? Why don't we just switch it up and cast out, you know, right down the gut of this line. So now let's try that again. That was fun. Oh my god. He clocked it, too. I mean, they're hitting the sun. Got him. Got another one. Got another one. Oh my god. Oh my god. I got another one. I don't know how big he is. He's coming right to me. Oh my god. Oh my god. This is a little pool Maryland. Oh, oh, get in here. Oh, I'm at the same size. Oh my goodness. Guys, that was my second cast in there. Gosh, I love, God, I love grass fishing so much. This is why you love it. You find that area. Oh my goodness. Oh, my forms are going to get tired. Oh my god. Oh, this is any bigger areas. Oh my god. Get in the boat. Get a little bit bigger, guys. Oh my gosh. Guys, I'm going to have a heart attack. Can you see that? Guys, they are choking it. Oh my goodness. That one's nicer. Get back in there, guys. So what I'm fishing here, guys, this is a dirty jig, swim jig. You can also have the striking version. If you had to pick one jig and you're going to deal with a lot of grass, I would generally think go with a swim jig style or that arcane style head, one of those two. What's nice about this is I can still pitch and flip docks with this. I can pitch in a grass clump for this jig. They know what you do. This is what I prefer to do and some people that I really respect just slowly reel it. I like to keep the rod tip at an angle and you see me that I'm bouncing my rod tip, but all I'm doing is I'm bouncing the line. And I usually throw my swim jigs on a, I use it on a heavy rod with an extra fast tip. I just want the backbone when I lean into them, I got them because you'll catch big ones doing this. And specifically for me, you probably can get away with a medium heavy rod, but I also will, you know, flip and pitch this thing, whether it's with a swim jig style head or an arcane style head, has a thing with grass fishing. I know a lot of younger anglers get really overwhelmed by grass, but once you figure it out and it takes time and it's not even just figuring out, it's just getting confidence with it. You can have this in the best days of your life on there because you can, a small area of grass will hold more life bar none compared to any other type of cover that a fish can get into. Hold the memory where we had those bites beforehand so we're not able to do it, but we can go right back there and try it again. That's the one. Got one. I don't have a good hook again. There he is. Again, right on that grass edge guys. Oh, isn't that fun? Oh my goodness, that's so much fun. Oh my gosh, look at him. I like it. It did dirty jig. I like it a lot. That was fun. Pro tip, I'm probably going to make a video about this too. This is just the boring old power worm. You can also use a speed worm. This is one of my favorite techniques. Now the difference is here, what I do is I die the tails. I don't know if you guys can see this, but I die the tails that way. You guys don't think, well, I can't catch anything. I can't use a big castor, guys. You just use something like this. You will be shocked at what you can catch. You might actually catch the biggest fish in your lifetime too. And with this technique here, all you're going to do is you're just going to slowly reel it back. You treat it basically like a little swim bait. It's so stupid basic, but people just don't like to do it. I really feel like the reason is we just get so as human beings we like to make things complex, we really do. And as saying they're like throwing just a worm. It's so easy and as a kid we fish it and we rack them. And then we get older, we read some magazines, we watch some TV shows, we watch a YouTube channel like this and we're like, well, now I'm like, I'm sophisticated now. I know something that they know what else does. And there's a time in that and that's cool, but sometimes you just got to keep that simplicity there. It's easy to make things complicated. It's hard to make things simple and work. Come on. We just need one big one. Let's get one big one of the scales here. Show off this place. Like that. That's a big one. Oh my God. Guys, this is it. This is, oh my God. Oh my God. Guys, guys, oh my God. Oh my God. Don't you come off? Where are you? I caught a pike. No, it's a musky. It's a musky. Guys, it's a, I caught a musky. Oh my God. There's a, oh my God. I got a land you. I got a land you. How the heck did this guy be a musky? You see that are pickerel. Oh my God. Teeth. He's got teeth. He's got teeth. How do you do this? How do you do this in a kayak? Oh my God. I don't know what it is. I think it's a, it's a baby musky or it's a pickerel. Could it be a pickerel, guys? Oh my God. Whoo. Got him. There we go, guys. Right there. He's water, water, water. Where are you in a boat? Oh he's like one of the bigger ones we've got too. Oh my goodness. Sorry, I just saw another best like right freaking here. I just blew up out, but a link to where I am in the base of use in the episode description. In the description. Please, if you like this comment, if you hate me comment, if you think I'm ugly comment. I don't care. But let me know what you're thinking. Have a beautiful day and God bless. Hopefully I'll see you out in the water.