My dream has always been for as long as I've been in the media business is to do a fishing video.

This is exciting. This is exciting for me. I don't know if it's exciting for anyone else.

We're going to find out if there's any interest in the audience for this kind of content.

And if there isn't, then there isn't. But I'm interested in it, and that's what's really important. If you're just getting into fishing, if you've never done it before, if maybe the only kind of fishing you've ever done is where you go out with a worm and a bobber, then this will be useful to you. If you're younger and you want to get into fishing, if you're a dad, maybe you want to teach your kids how to fish. These are the basics. This is bass fishing 101. Of course, the first thing that you need if you're going fishing is a fishing rod and a reel. So there are a couple different types of reels. This is called a spinning reel, which is probably the most common that you'll see a fisherman out there, an angler

out there using a spinning reel. There's also kind of the push button. I think those are called spincasters and those if you're over the age of 12 you shouldn't be using those. If you see like professional anglers, if you're insane like me and you actually watch people fish on TV, you'll see them using something called a bait caster. That's for If you've been doing it for a little bit, it's a little bit more complicated.

Not very complicated, but it's a little bit harder to use. on TV. You'll see them using something called a bait caster. That's for, if you've been doing it

for a little bit, it's a little bit more complicated. Not very complicated, but it's a little bit harder to use. So this spinning reel is what I like to use. Most of the time, I have a few bait casters. This is a kind of a mid, small to mid-sized lake. We're not going to catch any probably 10-pounders on this lake as much as I'd love to and so the spinning reel is a great

reel for this kind of fishing.

We also have about a six and a half foot rod here.

And with bass fishing, you want to be about six feet to eight feet

at the absolute most for the size of the rod.

If you go to Bass Pro and you see these massive rods that are, that's what she said, that are nine to ten feet, that's like if you're going to catch sharks and salt water. But if you're doing just this kind of fishing, really you don't need to go above seven, seven and half, I don't think. And with rods, you've got light rods, medium rods, heavy rods. It's a very light rod, because there's a lot, it's very, it's very bendable, as you can see.

And I like that because I like it's a very light rod and because there's a lot

it's very it's very bendable as you can see and I like that because there's more

sensitivity to it you can tell when you have a fish on what else do you need you're

gonna need your hooks if you go to tackle shop you're gonna see one dash zero

two dash zero that's one aught two a three a0 hooks. All the hooks that I have in my little compartment here are 4-3, 4-0 hooks. This is the kind of hook that I'm going to be using. This is a 4-0, which for bass fishing is kind of a bigger hook. I like the, I like the big hooks. I cannot lie. lie. Now again, if you're going salt water, then the hooks are a lot bigger. But for bass fishing, this is kind of on the bigger side. I like the bigger hooks. And I also usually use weight. Now, one of the things that you want to look at when you come out are the conditions. So right now, there's a little bit of a breeze and there's a little bit of a current. And so I'm going to use a slightly heavier weight because when I throw the bait out, I want that bait to go vertical. And if you don't have weight or if it's a smaller weight, then it'll drift horizontally. We want that vertical motion. And so for me, in my world, this weight is what I would consider a bigger weight. though it's only about a quarter ounce. I usually like to go with a 1 eighth ounce or 1.16th ounce.

So these are the two things that we're going to use.

So we're going to tie the hook on, and we're going to put our hook and weight on, and then I'll walk you through really the most important thing, which is the baits, the lords that you're going to use. And I also forgot to mention when you go to the tackle shop or you go to Bass Pro and you want to look for fishing line, it's a little bit overwhelming because there's going to be, you know, hundreds of different kinds of fishing line.

This is called a Floral Carbon line, which I think works great for bass fishing, and they're different pounds.

So for bass fishing, I think you want to be in the world of like six pounds to ten pounds. And that tells you how much weight the line can take. Unless you're very ambitious, you don't need to go above 10 pounds. This is an eight pound line. It's actually kind of an older line. It's been on this reel for probably about a month. And it's getting kind of a, you want to change the lines out sort of frequently. But I didn't change this out because I'm lazy we're gonna tie this on there's all kinds of different fishing knots that you can do and again a little bit overwhelming if you're just getting into it what I'm gonna do is called a Palomar knot and you'll hardly be able to see this you can look this up on YouTube there's YouTube tutorials and how to do a palomar knot. I think that's the

quickest, easiest not to do, and it's very reliable. You know, you're not going to have a lot of fish breaking off with a palomar knot. If I can actually do it. Once you tie it on, you want to cut the tag end. This is the extra line. You don't want that on you're gonna want to cut that off now

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