Duck Call Room - Uncle Si and the Loch Ness Bass

Episode Date: April 29, 2021

Uncle Si is a Louisiana legend, but he's got some competition from the Loch Ness Bass of Toledo Bend. Major League Fishing pro Jacob Wheeler drops by and reveals the craziest thing he's ever caught (and why he had to call the police after he reeled it in). Johnny D is stunned by what the professional angler catches with his $500 lure. Wheeler shares the story of the one that got away — the infamous Big Ed. Si introduces Wheeler to the joys of mustard fried crappie. The boys weigh in on what bait they'd use if they were limited to just one. Martin gets Wheeler to tell the embarrassing story of how his boat almost made an escape on the interstate. The boys try to settle the corks vs. bobbers debate. And Wheeler breaks some BIG personal news. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back for another episode of the Duck Call Room. Look, it means a lot you guys have been supporting us here on the Duck Call Room channel. If you are new to the channel, make sure that you subscribe, hit the little notification button. What does it go to Johnny D? Oh, Cy jumping the gun today. Perfect. But when we... Sorry for yelling.

Hey, I'm ringing them. I'm ringing them and dingin' them today. Oh, here we go. It just punched me really hard. Well, when we hit 40,000 subscribers on the new channel, that's YouTube.com slash duck call room, all one word one subscriber is going to win a 15 minute zoom call with uncle sigh so so you probably didn't even know you were giving that away but that's good so 15 minutes with sigh all you have to do is subscribe to the new youtube channel that's youtube dot com slash duck call room and leave a comment that

mentions uncle sigh on any episode so you can just say i love sigh we love you sigh happy birthday sigh you're an idiot we don't care what you say just mention sigh and you're entered then we're going to randomly select one once we hit 40,000, we'll announce the winner after we've hit 40,000. That's all you have to do. Anyway, that's a lot of to do. You get to zoom with Psi? Yeah. Do you know how to zoom?

Which by extension, that means you're going to send with John David, too. I'm a boy. Somebody's hot car. And then we're going to zoom, zoom, zoom. He's going to zoom, zoom. I don't know what that. I don't know what that be. I mean, boy.

Oh, but anyway, look, we're in the duck call room, and I've done. been accused of being, if calling people the wrong thing. But I think this time I can actually call it our first real guest, since Willie refused to be called a guest. We have my good buddy and professional bass angler in here. Jacob Wheeler. What about it? What about it?

Who is very much known for that sound right there. That little bell sound. I don't tell you if you ring it, I'm going to ding you. And if I ring it, I'm going to ding you. Oh. So you're going to get dings, baby. So there's dings all around. So Van Dam's over at the bad fishing booth?

Oh, how's the wrong man? This is wrong. I just, Jason Wooden, I know. Jason. Hey, that's right. I know who it is, boy. Jacob. Jacob Wheeler.

I got half of it, right? You can call him Will's, Jay Will's. Wheels up, boys. There you go. With a czar spook. Oh, okay. I know a few things. Sy likes a little top water action.

Oh, yeah. Mine was a devil horse. He's a big horse, man. The big one. And then I always took the little sissy hooks off of it and put me some sure enough. Three, three hook. Dang, you actually got, you. Oh, no, no, no.

You're dialed in a little bit. Tweaking that bait already, getting it ready to go. Get some biggins. There's some biggins around here in Louisiana now. Oh, yeah. I know y'all, you'll say, man, there's some big ones around this place. I vote. They already know it.

I told them, I think last podcast, one year I hooked 30 baths over six, anywhere from six to 15. I thought that was one day. No, it was a year. No, it was a year. And I never. Six to 15 pounds. You know how many I got in the boat? Zip.

They either stripped the gears on the rod and the reel. They broke the ride. They broke the line. Or they, they pulled me in a P-roll. one mile from where I hooked him, and it was one little log and one limb on the bottom of that lake. And he pulled me one mile. That one weighed 15.

Yeah, you can laugh in the mic. You're like, we've blown out the ears to everybody to listen to the podcast. Especially Sye, because Sire goes from here to... And then back. And then back. Johnny D. O'Hill chase him with the mic. Jacobs over there holding his nose, trying not to laugh. I don't think he believes your story.

Yeah, I'm not too sure he's all there. I don't really care. Okay. This ain't for entertainment. This was a true life event for me. That is a good. So that big it on the, that got you on the law, he ate a spinner bait, right? White willow leaf, willow leaf spinner bait with a white skirt on it.

And the dam had blew out on Corny Lake. Cordy Lake. There it is. And dropped it four foot in all the cypress trees, all the root water. on them. He was under there splashing with his tail knocking all the mosquitoes and bugs off and then coming back and eating them.

And I threw it past that cypress tree and before he even clicked my bell, it was, I said, uh-oh. And when I sat the hook, it was just like hitting a log. So being a professional fisherman, do you think that story checks out?

That's a pretty interesting story. I mean, I'm going to say you have a lot of details in that story, and I've seen some things on the water. I've never actually seen a bass knocking a tree, tree knockers you know i've seen some tree knockers in my day but you know hey you know around here in Louisiana I can see it I can see it there's a chance there's a chance it happened oh it

happened trust you 100% it made me sick at my stomach the whole day after that because he he pulled me how big was he sigh 15 pounds 15 hey we we fact check I'm looking at 8 inches maybe and that's half of him sticking out of the water he looked like a big wheel come up when I was doing our playing him. But no, I wasn't playing him. He was playing me. I bet you say. Who was playing? I thought I was playing him, but now it was the other way around because he pulled me one solid mile. How did you get back to where you were? Oh, JD, it made me so sick after I hung up on that, after he hung up on that limb. I said, I got to know. And so I just started from right

there and started paddling in a circle, getting bigger and bigger and bigger until I got right beside that big hopper's tree where I hooked him. And then I looked over and said, good grief. That's a hole, that's a mile at least

to that log. It's a mile in a circle, man. I said, you're talking about a pitiful. What are you? A cartographer? How did you?

Hey, look here. That wasn't even, that wasn't even a blade of grass on the bottom of the lake. Clean. There was one log and one limb on the log. Did you get you,

spinter back? No. I broke it off. wouldn't come loose oh when he unhooked me he unhooked me he tied you in an otter oh yeah hey and I look at it and I look at it and I'm like

yep that's a good spinner bait but it's too bad I've had stories like that over the years but not not that crazy oh no no look that's a pretty good one man I'm looking at eight eight inches of it and I barely seen that fan

on the middle of the middle one she went eat Christmas oh he was a bull I have My biggest one is, what, seven and three quarter or something like that? So I've called some good baths. Yeah, that's a big one. But you've almost caught a record bass.

That would have been the record. What is the state record in Louisiana down here? What we looked at that was like, 1540 or something? 1596. Yeah, right at 16. I'm wanting to say. California is something like 24. It's a saltwater group or something.

And he was caught on a one pound trout looking stupid swimming bait. That's a job. 1597 1597 Greg Wiggins Caney Lake Oh and is that Caney Lake

1994 So Jacob you were Four Four four Joe Diffy I was five I was nine So I was 65

Watch it I don't pop you again I'm in that dough pop and mood I'm like a Purportale Wals today boy I will pop you You have hit me a couple times He got that hummingbird shirt

Don't you ready to stain. Oh, yeah. It'll be all right. Well, look, that's a pretty wild story. Jake, do you have a fish story about a big and did anything remotely? I just noticed your name's not anywhere on this record list. Yeah, I'm not disappointed in. You know, it's sort of crazy.

I've actually got my start here in Louisiana on one of my biggest, my first big tournament win. I was 20 years old, and I won the all BF All-All American here in Cross Lake over here in Shreveport. So that was like, hey, Louisiana has a very, saw a place in my heart from one of my home away from home you know it's sort of

a pretty cool place but I'll say one story I'll try to make it pretty quick because this one I'll tell you what it was one story and I was fishing

for half million dollars in the Forestwood Cup half million $500,000 and I was practicing okay two weeks before this tournament and I see

I'm going actually up there to grab bite to eat in the middle of summer and I was on Lakeland near in Georgia and I look down there and I see this big bass I'm like oh my god

it's a big one that's a really big fish It's probably seven pounder, which is a really big one for this lake. Seven, eight pounds, somewhere in there. So I see that fish there, and I'm like, okay, cool, just sort of mental check. And in the tournament, in practice, I never, the fish will practice, you know, fast forward 14 days. I never went back to that location to see if that fish was still there. So I'm, this is day two of the turn, day three of the tournament.

I'm leading the tournament up by like, maybe like a few pounds. And I'm way, I'm fishing way far away, 50 miles away from this fish. and I'm like, man, I got to win this tournament. It's half a million dollars. So I run 50 miles, 50 miles straight to this fish. I'm like, man, I hope he's there. I look up there and I get up a little of this, like walkway. What do you think?

It's like, you're sitting there. I'm like, there ain't no way. I ran 50 miles for this fish. There's no way. There's no way. Two weeks earlier. There's no way. I haven't nobody found it.

Well, that's true, too. So I'm sitting there and I'm like, man, I tell the, camera I said this is a big I mean a big in okay and he's like oh yeah I mean there I'll be quiet and I'm casting out there and I throw a swim bait out there and he looks at it like and about this time a couple people out of this it's actually like on the water boat dealership you come out and I say man he's fishing for big ed he's fishing for big ed oh he's got a name he's like not only this bass known they've done named this is yeah so this fish is sitting there and I finally pick up a shaky head.

Pick up a shakey head. I fired it out there. And he's like, then there's probably about this time. There's 10 people standing up there. And I'm firing out there about 10 more cast. There's about 15 people. And they're like, man, that's the guy's leading the tournament. So the pressure is on. Oh, it's on.

He's after a big head, boy. About that time, tick. Mike. Oh, there he is. Zzz. And about that time, how are you going? Goes take straight up underneath the dog. Just, I mean, I'm talking.

and straight. Jump in all this stuff. I get him all the way to the boat. I'm reeling him. They're all hollered. He's got him. He's got him. And I'm like, I do got him.

I do. Actually, believe it or not, I cannot believe this is actually happening. About that time I get him next to the boat. St throws a shake of head right at me. Hits me right in the chest. So inquiring minds have to know. Then you can say, I buy 500 grand.

Did you win the derby? I did win the tournament. I did win. But Big Ed lives. But Big Ed got away. With no help. Well, hey. Across Lake, that's a good lake to fish.

A lot of cypress trees. Hammer hole. Yeah. Absolutely hammer. That's good. I love the first section having two fish stories. And look, we're just getting started. Let's take a quick break.

We'll be right back after this. Now, the difference in mind, he may have had a name, but hey, he wasn't worth no 500 grand. All right. springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cook. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson would say, buy on the grill. Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left

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What are you headed Texas? You're headed Texas for another MLF event, right? Absolutely. Got to head to Lake Austin. Well, actually not Lake is, sorry, Lake Travis in Austin. So I, that's, yeah, Lake Travis, I fished there a couple times. Really pretty area of Texas. So I'm looking forward to it.

Oh, that's good. No, we, I'll actually be joining you in Texas. Absolutely. We're going over to celebrate Brittany's 30th birthday. So in case you didn't know Jacob's wife, Alicia is one of the, best people on this earth. She's a friend everybody needs in their life. She's, she's hilarious. So Brittany and Alicia, because me and Jacob are friends, became quick friend. So the girls want to get back together. Brittany's turning 30, and they're just going to have a good old time. I don't know.

I think it'll be good. Those two together, I don't know, though, you know. I know. I talked to Swindle yesterday, and Swindle said, I got two words for you. I said, what's that, Swindle? He said, bail money. He said, you get them women to get them. He said, especially if you throw Kinsey. That ain't too good, boy. If the first thing you discuss it is, hey, have you got the bell? Maybe you shouldn't go on this vacation. Well, 30 is a big birthday these days, you know.

Being you spent yours in Vegas, and that was a good time. So we look for Si everywhere, but no poker tables were open. So, you know. We have a good time, man. I'm looking forward to it, Jay Moore. That's going to be good. I think it's going to be a good time. I'll tell you what, it's going to be,

there's a lot of good stuff to do in Austin. Obviously, we have a tournament as well, but I think we'll have a lot of fun in between it. We're going to smash some sushi regardless. Hey, that's going to happen. Facts. Y'all didn't know that this guy's favorite meal is sushi, right? Fish is for a living, his favorite food sushi.

That's kind of. There's raw fish. Okay. I'll take mine fried. And it would be mustard. mustard covered croppy is that your favorite so your favorite fish mustard covered

croppy yep yeah by far fried croppy mustard covered he said uh huh but it you got it has to be fried you got to roll it in mustard then roll it in flour it mustard fried flour I have no idea with mustard oh no no no mustard

you'll throw the cornmeal out the back window wait what yeah you'll throw the cornmeal out of back window and then fried mustard and flour For the record, I haven't thrown the cornmeal out of the window. But I will say, Phil, Jace, Stone, have got, Willie, have got the mustard-fried down. They coated in mustard, mix it all together with whatever, and then they put it in flour.

It's a correction on that. What's that? Correction. Hey, I just was told this yesterday by Stone. Yeah. Dave cooks better fish than Phil, Willie, and Jason. Who? Who's Dave?

Dave. My dad? No, that's teaching him to do just you. Oh, Martinez. Yeah, Martinez. I got you. Yeah. He put some special stuff on it and Jay said, hey,

Stone said it is the best fish he has ever eaten. Hey, I'm going to pop you if you keep this up. Forget the bail. I'm going to ring your bell. So what's it like every time you go fishing, you just got to throw them back? Because that's not really the life we're about around here. We're not about like, we ain't in to catch him release. We ain't, we ain't catch in and stink up some grease.

Well, you know, it's sort of cool as you go up north and like, we'll catch bass, we'll release them. You know, but like, hey, you catch a few walleye in between there. I'll tell you another one that's low-key, really, really good from up north. Rock bass. Have you ever had a rock bass or a goggle eye or something like that? You ever heard about that? Yeah. That's actually really good.

Yeah, we call them goggle-eye. Yeah. Those are pretty good. But as you go up north, everything gets a little better. Yeah, I mean. Because the water's cold. Yeah, it's typically colder, yeah. So it's like a cold water.

You're up there in June, July, August. It's typically better. But I still, I, every once in a while, I got to slide out and catch me a handful of crop. I love cropy fishing. They just ain't no good at it. I'm just not very good. That's why I have Justin here for it. Well, the man, bass.

He bass fishing far-living. And he's really good at that. And he's good at that. Really good at that. The one he just won proves that. I realized if I put my foot on the troller motor too much cropy fishing, I don't catch as many. So I have a lead foot.

I'm not trolomot a lot of times, and I just keep on going, and I got to slow down. I had a buddy of mine that, you know, he told me one day he fished to the lead of being a lot. You know, and he's killed. He said, boy, I burned 18 gallons of gas, you know, the other day bass fishing.

I said, you catch anything? He said, no. I said, you know what your problem is? He said, hey, I fish the pro circuit. I said, hey, look, I just, you know, I'll give you a. Well, I can tell you, your problem. I said, if you burnt 18 gallons of gas,

you need to shut the darn motor off there once in a while and fish. Even if you are on the pro circuit, dude, shut the motor off. You get the bait wet. It happens. You ain't going to catch nothing if you ain't fishing. That's it. You got to fish, son.

How many gallons you burn a day? In a practice period, typically, 40 to 45 gallons. 35 to 45. In a day? Yeah. I've watched you. You don't sit still very long.

I'm not very good at this sitting still thing. I'm proud of you so far. I'm doing pretty solid over here. I'm still wiggling chair a little bit. These people watching, they notice. They think I do drugs. So you're in trouble. No, no.

I got to tell you this story since you said this. Okay. Okay. I can't afford a motor. Okay. So Phil gave me a durecraft, 14-foot, aluminum dirt. This was,

you can afford a motor now. No, well, I couldn't back down. But anyway, Phil gives me the boat. I got in the back of the pickup, go to Toledo Band,

pull up to the military landing, okay, slide it out of the back of the truck, in the water, tied up, go park my truck, come back, get in it.

I got my paddle. I ain't got a throttle motor. Okay, and I start right there where everybody, they're jumping in these big boats and they backing them in the water and cranking up these four,

50 yomahas and all that stuff and they're, and here they go shooting rooster tails. I go right around the point and catch about 40 bass. Just fast that I can throw that, darn, gosh, came to the rebel. On top water, it's early in the morning. Just every time I throw it, twitch it. Pop-Ar. They're on a pop-arm.

Yeah. Yeah. Now, hey, piled back to the boat, bring my truck down, load it up. You don't put the cooler in there. You don't go to the house. So they is saying, okay, I can understand it. Covering territory. You fish the spinner bait a lot?

I throw a spinner bait quite a bit. Absolutely. Yeah, because the man I like to watch, man down. Hey. Kevin's the OG spinner bait, crank bay. No, no, no. Hey, he down there on what? Lake Pontchartrain, I think, is where they had one of them big tournaments.

Uh-huh. Yeah, he was. And he's strapped there. with a spinner brake. That's a classic down there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and he strapped him. Yeah, strapped him. And I mean, it was like, what is that in the way?

It's four and a hash. What's that next in the way? He weighed five, too. You want? Six. He just kept upgrading, and, you know, he'd pull them, throw him away, throw a four pounder away, you know, that's when it's nice.

You just look, tell me, you throw the four pounds away, boys. Yeah, well, they're just, There ain't no doubt about that. But look, that's something I want to get into a little more. Let's take a quick break. And we'll talk about Kevin and some of those things that happened back in the day on bass fishing. We'll be right back after this. Boy, you run that bait by a bass.

Well, let me tell you something about this boy here. He is about, I fished with him a lot. And I have finally figured out how to hold on to the deck of his boat with my feet. Because the first five or six times I fished with him, He has thrown me from one side of the other with that trolle motor because he's like, no, we got a goat, but he don't say that. But I just, now I start. No words, when he's got it, it'll jerky, it'll jerk you off his feet.

I look at him and when that hand goes for that bait and goes towards that rod, it's time to hold on because he's about to turn it towards the middle of the lake on 10 and go. So you better, and you better be quick, get your stuff ready and get ready to roll. He's about to find, you know that little flat piece of metal that's behind an accelerator? He's about to find that. He's going to get it all the way to it. Try to put his foot through the floor. Listen, you only got so much time in a day.

That's exactly right. But look, Sal, you were talking about Van Dam. And for those of you listening, so you may watch fishing, you may not. I love to watch fishing. I think a lot of y'all watch just because I put a little Instagram poll up or questions that we got for you. That's going to be our last segment today. Oh, yeah.

So there were a lot of those. But talking about Kevin. So Kevin is like the time. Tiger Woods a bass fish Kevin made Michael Jordan Michael Jordan

even Kevin made bass fishing cool yeah 100% I mean you're like Steph Curry like it's like we kind of like

you could shoot so well but Michael Jordan was way cool but you know when he said that about the bait I just remember and it

the classic on punch train yeah the spinning bait was always hitting the water I mean It was just a blur. Yeah. You know, and the other time, he just, you know, and that's about the way he was fishing,

and every now it would be, yeah, okay, put in a five-pounder. Put him in the cooler. Well, Kevin, though, Kevin brought it to a new stage where you could finally make a living bass fishing. Yeah, I think there was a progression that happened. Rick Clun was an OG as well. I would say that I would put up there as one of the best of all time ever to hold the rod and reel. still is fishing and won a tournament in the last two tournaments the last five years. So shout out to thank you.

Shout out to Rick Klan. But yeah, Kevin in the 90s, there's no doubt when I was growing up watching Kevin and you were seeing the Edmenevers and Mike, you know, and Icanellies and those guys and ski races catch all them big fish. It was just at that point in time, TV had, you know, really hit real hard. A lot of people are starting to watch bass fishing a little bit. And Kevin really was the, he was ahead of the game. That was the thing.

He was ahead of his time. He knew things. He learned things. He was able to cover water faster than others. And he had a style where you look at like the Denny Browers and the Tommy Biffles was the back in the day where you're pitching and flipping and slowing down. Roland. Roland.

Roland? Absolutely. All them guys. And those guys were slow, methodical. Kevin took a different approach. And he was, hey, if I can put my bait in front of 300 bass in the day. I'm going to beat you. Yes.

I'm going to beat you flipping. You might put your position. Yeah. But I'm going to ultimately get more bites. And that's what it came down to. And he's been most successful, probably basketball in the history of the sport. Back on baits, though. No, no, no.

I love it. He's going fishing this afternoon. He said he don't have a favorite bait. Yeah, I know. And one way I understand that because you've got to have a lot in your arsenal. Yeah. Okay. You have to.

You really do. Okay. especially with the talent, okay, that y'all are going up against, okay. But I just, y'all, because I mean, that devil horse. I can't get off that devil. No, no, I'm serious. Because if, look, if you throw that and get 10 bites, one of them is going to be a big one. Yeah.

It's just, that's guaranteed. If 10 bass hit that devil horse, one of them's going to be six or better. I think what you're saying, though, is basically, Si is saying a devil horse is a bait. He's got a lot of confidence. Maybe not your, maybe not the favorite. Okay. Which bait?

Maybe the best producer. You got to catch a bass this afternoon. What are you going to tie? It all depends on the time of year. So technically, I mean, I, I love from a little boy when I was I was out there fishing people I loved throwing a top water bait very much so like a devil's horse a buzz bait a skitter pop skitter walk whatever that is hands down to this day there's nothing like seeing a bass more excited oh coming out of the water yeah

moh more excited I mean just straight this straight shark I mean you know dunna it's like the music stars what was shark here he comes it is awesome I mean a frog's unreal So, yeah, I mean, if I had one bait that, like, if I could just go down the bank fast and efficiently. And I think that's a buzz bait's my favorite. You hear that dang buzz and sound. They go up there and eat it. There's airing nothing better. I see, you asked me to tie one on, go catch a bass this evening.

You know what I'm going to tell him. Who, who? Yeah. Which is a vibrating jigger and chatter. I already know this. I'm going to love the one of chatterbate. He rode on chatterer bat. He rode on chatterer around for days.

Oh, 100%. So I looked at it. He said, how does this thing work? I said, I don't know. But every fish in America loves him. I've done got whipped up by J-Mart a couple times on that hoo-hoo bag. Corny Lake, well, hung that big bag. Yeah.

I would be leaving when the sun's going down. Oh, it's getting dark. A guy would be putting up, older men, would be putting up back in his bodied. And I looked in his tucker bag. He was fooding with it to fix the tie on the bait. He had one color and one color only. Black. And he fished at night.

Yeah. everything he had in his tackle, I just, I couldn't get over it. I said, wait a minute, everything in there is black. He said, yeah. He said, I don't fish in a day that ours. And like when he come out, the morning time, if you were there and seen what he had in his cooler,

you'd say, good grief, maybe I ought to buy me a bunch of black baits. That sucker better had a whole bunch of mosquito repellent too. Yeah, you are a kid. Ooh. Yeah. Lord. I said, all the years, you guys have been down. Now, Sa, you've been out here a lot.

Jay Martin, Justin, you've been out here as well. Obviously, you guys, you fish out a lot of times to get out here on the water. You guys duck hunt on the water, you fish on the water. Now, this is the thing. I don't know because, like, now you think of, like, all right, you think in Scotland, there's the, like, the legend of the lake, the Lochness Monster. Is there a legend in Louisiana for like that, like a... He's sitting right here.

The only land is a lake monster. Is that a lake monster? The lake monster of the war. The lady of being probably got... They're like the locksnest months? You think so? Okay, and in the bag, because look, I had a buddy-binder, he was into strippers.

Mm-hmm. Okay, so he would troll for strappers or strippers. Careful. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I started to say something else. But anyway, teal season, though, you know, blue-winged tail. So I said, hey, look, you know, drop me off on an island, I'm going to throw out of six-de-cars, kill me for blue-wing-till.

You know, and then come back and pick me up after daylight, you know. And he was fishing? Oh, yeah, he's out fishing, you know. That's just fun. So, hey, you know, daylight, here comes two, and I kill him too. Here comes two more, kill him, too. You know, I'm done. So I keep hearing this giant splash, you know.

So I'm waiting on him to come pick me up. So I start walking around the island a moment, you know. Now, I get on the back side. I kept hearing the splash, kept in. Finally, I see his splash over, you know, in some stickups along with the bank. you know well next time i look and here's a two-pound cropy come out of the out of the water and then behind that two-pound crop is about a 14-pound bass okay and look he he looked like

he was that deep okay when he was way bigger than eight inches though yeah yeah i mean he was a bull but anyway as soon as the guy comes on and picks me up i said hey look since you're under the trod and i don't know if you can do it over there along that tree line over you under near the bank I said, but you need to go over and fish. I said, because there's a bass always weighs about 14 pounds. I said, he was trying to eat a two-pound croppy. And he had a 27-pound stripper, you know, in his live well. So this guy could, yeah, he could fish.

So that's the Loch Nish bass in Toledo Bay. They got some bulls. And shortly thereafter, a Black Panther walked down the bank and grabbed him. It's crazy. I caught him in mid-air, boys. and then ate the whole sucker and licked his lips and then swam away underwater

you got to watch out with black paper no on top of one hey don't get me don't tell his stories god this is the episode I was born for fish stories tell us a few fishing stories well no no because this was

things that are guaranteed they're not things that happen No, they're just things that interest you. Well, no, no, because hey, the man's got a tough life. He does? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you go fish for a living and try to make your living there.

No, I wouldn't be able to do that. Well, I was just saying, that's why I said the man's got a tough life. His family opted for the other end. They sell stuff to the people trying to fish for a living. We're trying to get all you suckers that think you're as good as him. Let your chicken, baby. How good he does this and this, and then the next. net.

Yeah. That was nice. No, ain't no nets alone. You got all the dang moves over there. Now he's out of breath. Now he's winded. Look, sigh's winded after that. Oh, I got, no, I got excited.

I can tell. You get to putting these big bass in, boy, you'll get excited. Real or fake. I like it. And expect it when you got $500,000 riding on, dude. Can you get him in the boat? I don't want that pressure in my life. No, I don't either.

I get enough pressure whenever I fish with him trying to beat. him. I thought, oh, you needs one more to beat him. No. I'd like to fish with him. Next time he just sounds fishing. We'll slide back through. Yeah, I'm going to strap him. I guarantee. I'll take that bet. Ladies and gentlemen. He said he'll put his money on to that.

Yeah, I'll take that bet. I've played this cat in just about everything you can play, man. I got one thing I can consistently beat him in. What's that? Top golf. Yeah, what me. But not that short game. Yeah, you probably can. Yeah. You can be able to that drive.

Is this on the Nintendo game or for real? No, it's top golf. Oh, okay. Golfing like, you know. It's like a driving range with scoreboard. That's my kind of golf. Yeah. I'm horrible.

Give me a bucket of ball with a driver. Cy's a great coach. If you need any help learning how to golf. Yeah. Sae, can you hit a golf ball? Not very good. But he can teach you how to. But I can tell you what you're doing wrong.

Hey, that's fair enough. He's a coach. I need it. I told that to Jason. And Jay said, hey I play golf five days a week how long have you been long you've been playing I said I've never played the game

I said but just because I don't play the game don't mean I can't coach you to become better at it so if you're looking for a fishing coach I bet it could help you there too I've already learned a few things he's already learned a few things already he's already learned turn the motor off and keep the bait in the water

okay that's the key of a lot of actually a really good tip that is a good That is a good tip. That is a good tip. MLF stops by Corny Lake. You know who to call. Oh, no. Hey, you ought to go up and fish it.

He's still up there. And you can give him the name if you catch him. Fifty years old. How's that? 50 years old boy. Oh, Lord. He's got a long white beard. Well, let's take another break.

We'll be right back after this. Anyway, look, you spend most of your time on the road, which, you know, God bless your wife. You have a two-year-old? Two-year-old. Two-year-old at home. Olivia, who is one of the funniest two-year-old you'll ever run into. She's not missing any personality.

She got the energy of her daddy and the attitude of her mama. Oh, boy. So you walk up to her now, she just looks at it. She said, go way. That's the truth. Go away. Get lost. Yeah, go away.

Go away. But look, y'all, so I guess we can break the news here. Break the news. First ever. Look. What are we breaking? Well, he's wearing blue. We're in blue.

Uh-oh. He's got a, they've got a little boy. A little boy on the way. On the way. Oh, good. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Hey.

I'm not going to hit you because of that. That one was appropriate. That was very much appropriate. That was very appropriate. That's funny. Number two, another little Jacob Wheeler in this world. Late October, man, right before, man, it's going to be cool, man. Right before duck season.

Right before duck season? before deer season. It's going to be... Late October. I'm pretty pumped up, man. I'm not going to have a little girl. In Tennessee. Snowing in.

All right. It's a family show, people. Oh, Lord. That's awesome. You do spend a lot of time on the road. You said your trip down here was pretty interesting. What happened on your way down to here to Texas? What's you been dealing with all day?

You know, this is the deal, y'all. I travel over the country. I got to have a lot of fun. And the thing is, things tend to, to happen some point in time throughout the year just you know you have things you have good things happen you have tough things that happen so so i'm driving down here and i said you know it's just typical day and and the other day i'm just going to sit this up like the other day i was driving back home from a turn to me and a big crush my windshield like it was like a big you know i had to get my windshield

replaced so i got that replaced that stuff happens all the time you're on the road all the time i feel like i'm a glorified truck driver sometimes we travel so and we're driving and i look back and i'm like man my boat's bouncing like my front of my boat and you know on your trailer where you have the roller on the on the right on your boat well just happened coming through mississippi i hit a hit you know i was just going over this bridge and sure enough i saw it bouncing come off the side and it literally broke that roller broke it gone and it's cutting into the fiberglass the whole time holes and boats aren't good that is it's a good no matter your profession it's on a boat you don't want a hole Yeah, what's the prize tag on this thing? It's right around 80 grand. Yeah. Yeah, I was sitting there, like, this is not a good time. No, it's not a good one.

It was not. But he won that tournament. But. Yeah. But fortunately, I was really close to an academy, stopped in an academy, grabbed another roller. And, you know, I have a little fireglass damage, but we got one.

We got it ready to get down here and be able to hang out with y'all. Well, but that's not all. Okay. Human error played a part. The light to you hear this next thought. I didn't want to. I love that. That's why I skip past that part. Look, our fans love when we show that we're human like them, too, and screw up.

So what happened once you left and got that on there? Okay, so I was in, like, Pearl or, like, right around that area, like, right around, what's the name of that lake right there? Ross Barnett. Ross Barnett. So the Academy right there grabbed the roller. I rolled the Ross Barnett because I had to drop my boat in the water. I had to drop my boat in the water so I could actually get to the roller to where I could put the roller on

because it was like the boat moved forward. Well, I'm rushing to come down. I'm like, whatever. I put everything on. I hook it up and everything's good to go. The roller looks good. I go back to the back of the boat and I lock in and put all like, you know, I put everything on the motor, make sure everything's good to go there.

And I jump the truck and I start driving. And I'm driving. And about an hour in, I look back and it's bouncing again. And I'm like, you got to be kidding me. So I jump out and I forgot to put the straps on the back. But this is even better. The front strap broke. So now there's nothing holding the boat on going 75 miles an hour down the interstate.

And I'm like, your boat's just sitting on a trailer? Literally. Well, the only thing was there was a safety strap that was locked in because that one broke, the front one broke. And the front, the main strap broke in the front. And so basically there's a safety strap and no other straps. There's one little strap. I don't know if you've heard about it. us and our good friends from Mississippi, we're not very good at making roads.

So you're very lucky. At least along this I-20 portion, y'allers. Now I understand why he don't like I-20. That's the thing. I-20, man. His boat was almost just sitting in the middle of it. Oh. If I would have been in Shreveport, Louisiana, I bet you this has happened several times.

If you would have drove in Shreveport and you started going across the Red River and you hit one in Pals, my boat would have been. straight down into the red river into the river I didn't never been seeing it you know what my favorite part of you is when you describe where you're at you don't know what city you're like some city and then he says

whatever lake that was I have no idea you just all geography is by lakes it's all by lake yeah I know absolutely that was my favorite part about him and not on that he's accident prone he's not a good traveling companion if you only knew

Well, when he says, all these things just happen. Oh, that at all that. It's always, it's always picking on me. Oh, no. We've had, but, you know, we've, we've had some fun. But look, as outdoorsmen, for the most part, I think I can speak for us all, we're all pretty deadgum rough on equipment. No doubt.

You are, too. Oh, hey, the Robertson is nor known for baby and equipment. No. Baby and it. Not at all. I mean, we just. Good grief. I mean, kid gloves.

We handle this stuff with kid gloves. And it's always breaking down for some reason. Phil had that traco down there about two weeks for the windshield just shattered on it. And it was like, and then it just caught fire one day. Yeah, and then it just accidentally caught fire one time. Yeah, just actually caught fire and burn up. Oh, I'm so.

But the windshield got busted. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I thought that's where you're going with the massive structure fire in the middle of the west. Not just the windshield. Well, that at least, he actually had some. hours on it whenever he had a structure fire the windshield he had about three hours on it and it's gone like that happens though you're going to have things happen if you use the equipment

no no that's this kind of stuff happens that's what i was telling i used to be the one that uses all equipment and it was always breaking down so phil said cali man like every time you get on it you break something on it and i said hey look yeah because i'm the only one that gets on it and does work with it. God. There is actually. Yeah, it breaks down. I got an excellent arguer, by the way.

Jeez. A lot of sense. You're smart, man. That's unbelievable. Guarantee. Well, look, we got our last segment. What's you got over there? Go ahead.

I still want to answer my question that I asked earlier and you said we're going to get to that later. What's the biggest of that? Oh, that's what's coming. We're going to get to that later. He would be sure. Well, let's get it home. Well, let's take one final break.

Let's take one final break. Do we have to? Yeah, we do, actually. Because somebody's got to pay for this thing unless you want to. All right. Look at our guess. We've got a big budget today. Yeah, big spend today.

Yeah, let's take one final break and we're going to ask all the questions that everybody wants to know. I was just thinking so, Jay, D, don't bother me with the details on big budget and all that. We ain't got no budget. All right. Normally this segment of the show, Jacob, is reserved for our email inbox. but today we're doing something a little different. I let everybody know we're going to have a guest on, so I put on Instagram for them to ask Jay Will's a question.

So let's answer size first, because it's also a very popular question from our fans. What's the biggest one, boys? What's the biggest bass you've called? The biggest bass I have caught. I actually thought it was an alligator, believe it, when I hooked it. It was an absolutely unbelievable. I flip into this man.

Now, that's in the monster class. This is a big one, okay? It was a big one. So I pitch into this mat, and I set the hook, and it just doesn't move. And then when it starts pulling, it goes, I couldn't even hold on. It about pulled the rod out of my hand. And the boat's moving, like, you know, pretty fast. It's moving the boat.

And I'm like, gosh, this thing's big. And it comes out of this mat and jumps. Oh, my gosh. I thought it was 20-pounder. And it comes all the way of the boat, and I'm like, oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. And I grab him, and I weigh him 1238. 12.38 was the biggest one.

But I would have swore if that fish got out, it was off was a 20-pounder. It was a world. It was at least a stay-directed. Tell me, that was in a tournament, and of course you won it. It was not in a tournament. You've got to be kidding. Well, following that. That's incredible. Where were you? I was in Florida.

In that one, the biggest one I've caught in a tournament, I've caught a 10-pounder last year, and I did get Big Bass, and I did win it. So there's, but, but I've, uh, that was the, caught four fish over 10 in my life. And that was the biggest 12, 138.

12.38. I actually waited the first time I think I put it on Instagram like 12, 30, 20, 27. They weighed bigger a little bit. No wonder you thought he was an alligator. It was a big one. I got a big old tail. If he's put in a big old bass boat, he's a bull.

Yeah. I mean. Either that or he's on steroids, one of the two points. Or maybe both. He caught a 10-pounder last year on Chick-a-Mogger. And that spot has had seven boats on it since every day. today. Somebody's sitting there right now.

Right now. Watching this. Not just one. There's a few of them sitting there. So what, if you're sitting at the Chester Frost area, then listening to this and enjoy it. Yeah, exactly.

Here's another good one that I think is kind of, what is the strangest thing you've ever called? Beer cans, turtles, things like that. That comes from Hank. Huh. The strangest. From tank?

Sure, let's go with Tank. Is he from Oklahoma? I don't know. I got a buddy named Tank from Oklahoma. Man, there's been a lot of days. I mean, it's so many things that you've caught, but I would say, I mean, I've caught a full ride and reel before, full ride and reel, like rigged up, ready to roll. That was completely good to go.

I was with Godwin. That's funny. I was with Godwin. We were trolling for Crappy through a bunch of stops, and he forgot to set to drag on his reel. So it got hung up, we weren't really paying attention. Foo! Rod went out of the boat. well we just turned across where we just went and we caught the ride

trolling back through it we got that one dry and got a ride back got it on all right i'll tell you the craziest thing i've caught this is facts craziest thing i've caught i was in downtown in annapolis and i see this bag down there and i look down there i intentionally caught it i catch this this bag i'm reeling it up it's heavy and i'm like it water's real clean in the river i get it up there and i'm like what the heck is this thing. I open it up and there's towels and I'm like

what the heck I'm, it's heavy I'm real opening it up two guns in there that were tossed in the river tossing the river are you kidding me? No joke I gave it to the police yeah but it was like

yeah two guns thrown off the bridge landed right there facts that's the craziest thing I've caught 244 Magnum the most powerful handgun in the world make you move punk i like this one this person said i just want to thank professional fishermen for not letting politics get into their sport so there you go you got that yep um tray wants to know what is

the biggest obstacle for young anglers when wanting to become a professional i would say the biggest obstacle in life okay in life is is deciding you truly want to do something and having the work ethic to do it the problem is in america we have so many opportunities to be successful, no matter what we want to do. And I see a lot of people that try to make excuses of why they can't do something instead of figuring out ways they can. So I would say to him and everybody out there watching, you know, that's the biggest thing. You're going to have to make sacrifices.

You're going to have to do things. You have to work hard. But if you truly want something, you have to have that work ethic and you have to work hard. And, I mean, that's, I'm just telling you right now. It's not going to be a gift to you. It's not going to be given to you. Absolutely not. That'll preach right there, Pastor.

Well, no, no. Guarantee. No, no, because what he's saying is that's what's wrong with America today. Yeah, 100%. Instead of putting in the time, okay, to make it work, they're always saying what is your fault. It's everybody's fault except the man that decided that's what I want to do. I'll tell you something.

My dad told me growing up, and he always made it to where we've, We knew it as kids. He said, this world doesn't owe you a thing. It doesn't owe you nothing. It owes you what you put into it. He said, and as long as you put into it, you'll get out of it. I was just saying, whatever you put into it, that's how much you're going to get out of it.

Yeah. So he said, it only owes you what you put in. He said, if you put in nothing, you get nothing. I love that. No matter how much, whatever you put in is what you'll get out of. It's facts. Well, that's just common sense. Okay.

I used to be. You see someone that is good, okay? Hey, he's done the time. Yeah. It's like the deal about, hey, if you do the crime, you better be prepared to do the time, boys. Amen. I will say after spending a lot of time on the water with this guy,

it's incredible. It's incredible. Your work ethic is enviable, I guess, is the right. Yeah, you work your butt off. Don't let anybody take that from you, because, I mean, you call me in the middle of December. I'm like, what are you doing? I'm just idling around, just looking for stuff.

It's hard, man. When you can't turn it off, though, you cannot. I'm like, but you live on that. Like, what else do you need to idle? Like, you know every square inch of Chickamauga. What else? What are you looking for? Another pebble might have been moved somewhere different because the current got strong.

You know what I'm saying? You got to make sure all the pebbles are in the right places. Here's a good one from Jay, man. This one's going to be good. How much money a year do you spend on tackle? That is a good one. Jay man, eventually you're so good, people just give it to you. No.

Look at my boy. He's got a problem, ladies and gentlemen. Have you heard of the Honeymole tackle shop on North 7th Street? Alicia, my wife, if she's listening right now, can you please turn this off? Right at this moment. That's right. Yeah, my wife does not need to hear this. Cut it off.

So it varies. It varies. But I would say, I'll tell you the most. I don't even know if I'd say this. Okay, let's change it. What's the most expensive lure you on? I would say a $500 swim bait is probably the most expensive swim bait. What?

The $500. Yeah, 500. Just 500. Does it catch golden fish? I've never caught a bass on it. What are you catching on it? I just think it looks pretty, you know. Whales?

Yeah. Is this like a decorative piece for your own? That's what he's hoping for. You're not fishing with it. You're not throwing this in the water, are you? I mean, I've thrown a couple casts with you. Absolutely. Like in a swimming pool.

Okay, a week, no, no. Not like in a uncontrolled pond. No, this is a good one like where you can lose it, J.D. Yeah, like, this is, you got to understand. There was a, there was, we were fishing tournament last week. It was called heavy hitters. Big fish pays $50,000 for the knockout round and then $100,000 for big fish in the final round. So you know I had to make a few cash with them, hoping that big, you know.

So you're like, hey, $500. $500. $100,000. I was pretty good investment. You know what I'm saying? I mean, you think about it. Well, did it work? It did not.

I don't think it was worth it. You so know. Martin complains about them jackhammers being 17. At my dad's store, we got them all behind the counter. You can't even hold them until you buy them. Let's just, look. And this dude got $500 baits. I know.

Martin, I'm nervous. Let's think about casting. We just have to compare tax brackets and we'll see why 17 equals 500. It's fine. It's not a big deal. Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to MLF.com today. I've seen the career winnings. He's doing all right for himself.

Oh, Lord have mercy. Well, hey, here's the deal. Common sense. Bigger bait, bigger fish, right? There you go. That's a very good point. Most of the time, not all the time, but yeah, it does tend to attract a bigger fish. You know what my favorite bait is?

A live one. A live one? A shiner. A cricket. A crickets. A worm. So, okay, I'm going to close with this one. Me and Brittany get an argument about this all the time.

The thing that floats on top of the water called like a strike indicator. I don't want to give you any inkling to what I call it. What's that thing called? A bobbler. No, it's not called a bobbler. It's a cork. It's not a cork.

You go into the, I mean, it depends. There are some corks and there's bobbers. Oh, no. There's old school. It's a cork. Well, if there's a cork and there's a bobbler, there's two. You got the one, like, the bobbler that has the deal through there, and then I feel like a cork is when you put it through.

It's like you have, like, and then you have like a cork is when you have a cork is when you actually put it through the cor. A cord versus a clip-on. Yeah, clip-on. Clip-on's a bobber. Okay. You actually thread it through. I just call them all corks.

They're not all corks. Now, a cork is made of cork, and a bobber is that red and white thing. Plastic. Yeah. Plastic. But you have to clip it on. I don't think a cork. It's a cork.

It's a cork. A cork. I've said barbour a lot. Shorts a corks a cork a lot, too. Ask anybody that drinks out of a junk. You got to have a corks to put it back in it, boys. Ah, well, look, Jacob, we've had a blast sitting down chatting. Thanks for coming, I've enjoyed it.

I really have. And I've actually learned something. I have, too. That makes two of us. Come back anytime. Look, we always close with a Bible verse, so we're going to turn, flip it to Johnny D. Let him close us out and send us home. I know where it is.

It's Matthew 419, but I want to read a little around it. So I had to pull it up. It's got to be good. It's got to be good because my message. Better be. My man, Jesus, knew a little about fishing, too. Hey, there you go. I like it.

Before 18 through 20, as Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter. May I heard of him. And his brother Andrew. Yep, heard of him too. He heard of him too. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said, come follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people. At once, they left their nets and followed him.

Hey, fishing's awesome. We all love it. It's, you know, provided some money for some of us. It's provided a lot of fun for all of us. But most importantly, we're going to fish for people and bring them to heaven. Be fishermen of men. Fisher's of men. There we go.

And hey. And we thank the creator for creating them. Because they taste delicious. I'm sorry you throw them back and don't eat them. They're very good. That's what Jesus did. He fed 5,000. people with them. Well, just a couple.

Just two. And you're three. If Jacob Wheeler would have been there, Jesus would be like, can we, anybody hungry? He's like, I had two, but I put them back in the water. Sorry, Jesus. You'd have ruined the whole day. All right. We're out. Appreciate you. All right. See you.