Any negative comments directed towards me, Brad, or Brant in relation to Ron will get you banned from the channel. Just a heads up.

It may have been rough out there today, but it's still 1000% better than sitting in an office and all you have to look forward to is going home in rush hour traffic.

I would love to see you guys all go get his phone and do a fishing video for his channel!!!! Spread the awareness and the support. Great video Matt

Thank you Matt for mentioning CMR all of you influencers should get together and do a benefit of some type for him,Sarah and the boys praying for your vision as well

Matt...If you were in North Carolina I would just have three words, "Follow the money." The commercial fishing lobby controls the state legislature and as a result recreational fishermen have a two week flounder season, practically no striper season, and speckled trout being limited more and more. But the commercial harvest is almost unlimited. Yet economically, the recreational fishing community provides almost 100 times the economic benefit!

Thanks Matt for giving CMR some good vibes - I know you, Brant, and Brad still find him to be a dear friend even though you moved on business wise - He is a great guy and we all hope for a good outcome for him . Again- Thanks

Any video fishing is a good video…. I was recently stricken by a motor neuron disease so I haven’t even left home since April…. So I’m kinda living vicariously through the videos!!!! Big catches or not, keep posting!!!! Thanks

Need to put regulations on whiteing last week a fisherman at mobile st had a cooler full of real small whiteing I mean small 😠

Thanks for sharing a not so successful trip. It makes all of the rest of us feel better about our fishing trips. Some days are just tough.

Prayers for full restoration and healing for both you and Ron. Love the channel and all the content. Blessings from the South Texas front here here in the Gulf Coast. Be blessed brutha.

Great seeing the love and respect between you and the couple walking by, can’t wait for an opportunity to do some beach fishing as well. Learning a lot. Thanks, it’s appreciated. God Bless 🙏🏼

Thank you for putting the word out for Ron!!! We will be praying for you, it has to be scary losing some of your vision!!!

Brudda, stay steady, strong and keep on doing your thing. I'll keep watching because we all know that fishing isn't always about success and looking like everyday is a good day on the water. We all have these days....all of us! Looking forward to the next video and hoping things take a turn for the better. Much love from Va. Billy

Hope you can get some more of your vision back in that right eye. As for Ron, my prayers are with him, it sucks, but been watching the PYT for updates on him. I do pray he is doing well. When he gets out, it would be nice for all of you get back and do some fishing together once in awhile.

I fish east coast of the Carolinas. Beach replinishment (sand dredging onto the beach) definitely affects our bite here. There will be no sand fleas after replenishment and fewer fish. Size limit I would love to see and support. Thanks for the awesome job that you do and prayers for you all.

I am glad to see yall are still friends and care what happens to each other. On a norther note even if you ain't catching fish every video we still like to see it. It lets us know that sometimes they just ain"t going to bit.

We're still having great fishing up north here for striped bass and tautog is just starting. You have a really great channel. Bless you and your family and all the new store family.

Some very odd redirected anger over Ron’s sickness floating around. Thanks for bringing the awareness to the go fund me. As always great video

Grace and peace to you, Matt. Definitely will be keeping CMR in my prayers.

Was just down there again and had great success implementing many of the your techniques I learned from your channel. Gulf shores beach fishing. Imitation sand flea with green fish bites was on fire. Whiting , one big red and multiple 18-22 “ reds on this combo. Can’t wait to return and chase other species . Love your channel.

Enjoyed the video. Will pray for your eye, you, family and Ron's. Take care and GOD bless.

Praying for healing for your eye and Ron's gallbladder! You guys are among the best YT has to offer and I respect you all!

matt im glad to see that your human also and have them rough days on the water also. please keep us northeners posted on the progress of the Gulf State pier this winter. hope things are going well with the new store and cant wait to get back down in the spring

Thank you Matt, love your videos and hope your eye continues to get better!

Of course we are all praying for Ron. And certainly hope your eye issue gets cleared up and healthy again.🙏

The struggle is real. I have been in similar situations while fishing. With all that is going on in the world, even a not too productive day is a God sent! You stay Bummy!❤

Thank you for mentioning CMR. In times like this it is important to pull together and take care of each other.

The struggle is real. That was a video of my average day! Thanks for all the great videos.

great video matthew Just goes To show that you got to persevere Like you said, there's a lot of things. That could be worse, at least you're fishing.

Great video, come on down to the Emerald Coast, Narvarre, Okaloosa, they have been catching nice stud Whiting's 🎣 over here lately, water 🌊 pretty clear,,, Also we're praying 🙏, for Ron and his family,,, Stay Safe God Bless,,,

I agree. I have fished St. George Island, FL for going on 30 years now. For years, whiting was by far the main catch in the surf. Recently (maybe the past 3-4 years), the numbers have drastically dwindled. To where, I'll only catch a 12"+ whiting a handful of times per year? I do think either a bag limit or size limit (or both) would be helpful to the population in that area of FL. Apparently, where you are in Alabama as well.

Up here in DelMarVa I find that when the whiting fishing is tough I make long casts on top of or over the outer bar. Strips of spot are the preferred bait. They've been deep, but plentiful all year up here.

your absolutely right. the whiting bite has been slow this year

Nice video, Matt! I hope there is a solution for your eye. That can be frustrating. Fishing is just a hit and miss kind of thing. I think everyone understands that. It's safe to say you hit a lot more than you miss. Thanks for the video!

Dude I thought it was only me that couldn’t find the same whiting bite that I have the past few years. Glad someone said it out loud haha prayers for CMR man that’s awful news. Great video dude!

At least its good to hear its not just the east coast of florida where the whiting have not been biting, all year

Hey man I enjoy all of the videos y’all post. Big fish, little fish, a lot of fish, no fish, I don’t care I just enjoy the content.

Nice to see a video even if the fishing isn't the best. I know you were trying your best, but it was just one of those days. Enjoyed video anyway.✌️

any day fishing is a good day... I heard about CM Ron from Daniel (arms family homestead) been keeping him in my prayers.. and you now.. I didn't realize you were still having trouble with it.. keep on fishin!!! lol

Man I’m sorry to hear that. Prayers for Ron and your eye 👍🏼🙏🏼

Oh yea, sending positive and healing vibes for a recovery on your vision. Godspeed

The whitting bite came later for me this year up here in NC as well today was the first day i caught plentiful of 10 pluss inch whitting this fall

Prayers for Ron and family, and for you and yours.

Was using shrimp on a pompano rig yesterday and caught a drum.. Hoping to stop by beach bums tomorrow. Hoping the fishing picks up this week.. Had some hard hits this evening but never could get anything on the lines. Was using shrimp and squid.

I'm over in Santa Rosa Beach, FL and have noticed the fishing this year has been a little weird and not all that great. Hopefully next season will be better.

Great video regulations are important and you may be right whiting probably should be added Funny here keep in mind what you said suggesting that whiting should be added to a regulations list and just a few moments later saying that the one you caught you will use it for bait.. What!!! throw them back if the bite is weak or maybe use a stringer many times that keeps them alive for a last minute release. I don't know You can come up with something better, I've seen your videos so I know that usually you are good at catching and releasing

Our fishery up here in Ocean City Maryland has been odd this year too. It wasn't a horrible year, but species were defintely showing up later than usual or not at all.

You’re the MAN to meet… you have a great professional thing about your self…. lol… that’s a good thing…..👍😁

Matthew, get on your kayak, the reds and trout are in the creeks! Bottom rig with live or fresh dead shrimp are the ticket! I appreciate all you do brother, keep your chin up.

I love your videos. Even the ones where you struggle. Sorry to hear about your eye and scar tissue. I will be praying for it to go away for you.

I,m a nearshore in shore guide whiting are my go to in Winyah Bay SC,this year has been tough very few and reports were bad too.Don,t know what happen this year up here either.🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼

I was out last year 3rd week of Oct and slayed whiting and Pompano. We rented the same house same week this year and all I caught the entire week was hard heads and 3 or 4.... 6-7 inch whiting. Hard heads were awful this year.

Hey come over to jville fl on Amelia island beach also known as Nassau sound you can toss out close and get many breed of fish many reds and whiting.

New to your channel just subscribed. You do an awesome job on your videos. Thanks.

Thats why its called fishing and not catching lol. I only get to fish fresh water right now so I know about the small struggle bus lol. Prayers and much love from Texas

Thank you for putting the word out about CMR. Even though you boys don’t wrong together, I’m sure you’re still friends. I enjoy each and everyone of your channels. Stay blessed😊

I believe this year has been off all over the N Gulf Coast. Possibly related to warm Gulf water (though I don't actually know). 20-30 years ago I could fill a 5-gal bucket with keeper Whiting inside of 20 minutes fishing the way you are now. In 2017 (I think), my wife and I caught > 40 fish (mostly 14-16 inch whiting) off the East End of St George Island. The last couple of years, we haven't been able to surf fush as much as we had before because of parental health issues. This year though, we have been in FL over 4 months and have caught a geand total of 6 keeper Whiting. We've gotten Reds, trout, flounder, black drum, pompano, largemouth, warmouth, hybrids, and several other species (that we actually wanted). But for some reason, the Whiting have all either been elsewhere or have gotten wise to our ways 😂

Visited Gulf Shores myself late last month, I was able to visit the store and shake your hand that was worth it.... But the Fishing was definitely weak we caught Pompano n whiting last year but this year one small pin fish was all in 4 trips

I fish Navarre beach to fort Pickens. It was tough first part of year thru May then since then thru end of September I did very well caught lots of whiting but Oct was tough. Maybe it’s your location that is different. There do seem to be lots of more guys fishing but they don’t seem to know how to catch whiting they throw out further and use bigger rigs I use the Tony Faglioni Méthod with runt rods and fish close in with lighter leader and smaller hooks

It's the same here on the SC coast Matthew. I've been surf fishing here for 37 years and it seems like the Whiting catch gets smaller every year.

Our whiting have been no more than 10inches over the past yr in the south gulf coast area of Florida

Good video, Matthew. I enjoy the catch & cooks. It’s great you take your wife and daughter. Prayers go out to Ron 🙏

Matt, in my 78 years of life's expertise at least you didn't get skunked. Any day on the beach is a better than watching TV at home. Big Hi to the family.

On the east coast of Florida we have issues with beach erosion and replenishment which kills habitat and forage. This in turn starves out the remaining fisheries. It takes a year to recover but the touristo’s still keep coming and fishing. It’s a bad cycle that is easy to correct. The solution is no fishing recovery zones. Another idea would be more fishing piers to compensate for the closures.

Found the same whiting challenge on the Texas coast last month.

Here in Oz, frozen prawns (shrimp - what we call shrimp, you call prawns lol) are probably THE most commonly used bait in the country, for both fresh and salt water fishing. The only way here to get live prawns is to catch your own. Whiting (just like the ones you get), bream (similar to your porgy) and flathead (not the catfish, but a true flatfish that looks like an elongated flounder that grows to about 4 feet long) are the common targets.

A few months ago Brant posted a video from a pier showing a bazillion whitings in a huge school. There were a bunch. So I wonder why you aren't catching as many. Interesting. I've seen a few caught over the summer in the Chesapeake Bay but I didn't do any proper surf fishin' so I don't know how they're doing up here. I saw small sand fleas in July on VA Beach but I didn't go back after that. There were enough for me to think that the pompano and whiting should have been there soon. Unfortunately the beach is too expensive so I moved to the inside of the bay. The redfish and trout are biting like crazy lately near my house though, so it's all good.

Love your guys channel i also love rons content, keep up the great work

I caught some 15 plus inchers in the spring but fall has been tough

We don’t have catfish here in the Carolinas but what we do have are pinfish… they don’t even do you the favor of getting hooked, only a bite then nothing. And sometimes fishing is just like that. Last year for me was PB whiting (also largest numbers), PB Spanish, and epic bluefish runs. This year? Much less action on the blues and whiting and one, I said 1, spanish all year (same conditions and same time of year; everyone else was catching them too). I even got skunk on a 3-day fishing trip specifically targeting the toothy critters. However, this year I also caught PB’s in pompano, red and black drum from the surf. So 🤷‍♂️. We can’t control what bites. The only guarantee is that if you don’t go, you definitely won’t catch anything.

I just caught a 1 pound 3 ounce whiting with a live shrimp in Atlantic Beach NC yesterday. I know that’s not huge but it’s a big boy!!!

I've noticed the issue for at least three years. It wasn't long ago that I could catch a dozen keeper whiting before noon, clean them and have a great fresh seafood lunch for my family. I would appreciate a fisheries biologist's thoughts, if there is such a person who works with inshore species. I will say this. Gillnetters aka commercial fishermen who work so close to the Alabama beaches that I could almost cast to them, cannot be helping. I don't know if they are to blame but I've watched them pretty closely and I have never no not once seen them throw back anything they haul in.

I did some surf fishing in Destin several times this year. My problem was birds flying into the line!

Hey man, if your looking to get on some whiting. The Navarre pier has been loaded the last two days. Surf conditions have Been very calm. Fishbites on light weight Carolina rig has out produced anything else I’m seeing out here.

Man, that's how it was the first week of the tourney for me. Only saw a total of 4 whiting over 10 inches.

i was at miramar beach late oct caught a ton of juvie pomps 3 keepers , and 4 whitting 1 keeper and 2 slot reds , no big boys

Matt you mentioned the tough whiting catch a few times. I am in Louisiana right next to the Texas border and I have been catching more whiting this year than normal. I also caught some Pomps and Bluefish after the hurricane ran through over there. I assume they were pushed this way, but that is just a guess. Perhaps for some reason they have moved to the west?

No bad days! Any day you get up and are able to go fish is a great day in my book. Keep the reality in check, my friend. No bad days!

you cant win them all, i still watch even when you dont have a good bite on. keep em coming

you and family..plus..🙏🙏🙏...positive vibes.

That's so beautiful,,,,Hard to find a prettier beach than Alabamas

Just gonna throw it out there cause I seen a really cool idea. I follow a few gun Utubers and what they did for a fellow friend is posted videos under his channel while he was in the hospital recovering. It was a super cool thing to do to help a friend out

I have permanent damage to my only good eye from CSR (Central Serous Retinopathy). I had similar symptoms to what you are experiencing. It's scary but the body will heal somewhat. One thing that helped me was to use eye drops. I found that my double vision was more due to dry eye than the disease. Put gel in before bed and 1 drop in each eye in the morning. Seems to help. Good luck

I live in virginia beach.We are having same problem up here.I was wondering if it has anything to do with el nino.Dont really know.All you can do is keep wetting hooks.My prayers go out to Ron and his family.In the end thats what really matters

I only get to surf fish 1-2 times a year sadly, but the last couple years fishing in general has been slow, and the ones we do catch are smaller. From an outside view, it seems like over fishing, or not having regulations on some species.

No whiteing. Lol. I am reminded all those bull reds you caught the last video. Smh. Get less intense. Enjoy the weather and your great life. You are in the sweet spot.

Thanks for not forgetting Ron. I can understand that Ron went a different route than y’all. I feel all of y’all have been friends for quite awhile. Other than that the this was a good video. Keep up the good work

Love me some whitting... great video once again

From me and all my slay girleies at my college we appreciate the content totally slay it, all the time love the content. rip camera man Ron❤️

Just a suggestion maybe you ,Jack and Brad maybe could go down and spend a day fishing with his kids and make a couple vids for his channel. I know all of you are busy with business and life but I think that would be so cool of you. Or Courtney and the PYT doing some fishing maybe a one v one.

I’ve definitely noticed the whiting bite has been pitiful this year, I have a very hard time believing the population is hurting considering how often they spawn but who knows

where are the girls , its a blast watching them catching the fish . Praying for CMR for a full recovery .

As someone who gets to fish saltwater 4-6 times per year, this has actually been my best year. PB flounder, PB whiting, and PB redfish. But those could be just getting lucky on the times of the year.

I think whiting should have a catch and maybe a size limit. Maybe a 10 to 15 bag limit and a 10 inch size minimum.

Im on the east coast. Ive noticed for 2 years now there havent been many whiting. I just quit fishing for them. I think its because there havnt been as many sand fleas. And there gas not been any for 2 years. I wouldnt hang around an area that doesnt have alot of food.

I pray that Father God heals u as well as Ron with his mighty powerful merciful healing protective comforting hands in Yahusha name I pray Amen.

Prayers for Ron and family

That's why they call it fishing, not catching. If you don't have a few bad days, it's hard to appreciate the good ones. Prayers for camera man Ron. Also hope your eye gets better.

Love the content as always. From my perspective I hope that Whiting remain unregulated. As an avid angler but infrequent visitor to the Gulf coast, when I'm there I head to the beach for dinner and Whiting are the most reliable bite on the beach in my experience. And while I'd love to be selective and only take the big ones, the little ones taste just as good! I have been trying to get someone from fisheries interested in studying Whiting for years though. One thing I was able to do was to catch a bunch of whiting of all sizes and have them aged via otolith thin sections. This revealed that even a large whiting (12-14 inches) was still less than 2 years old. This is great news as it means the schools can probably recover quickly. Personally, I have noticed they have been a bit tougher to come by these last couple years but I thought it was my poor fishing skills! A well thought out systematic study of Whiting would really help answer a lot of questions about their abundance though, I suspect.

Love your just fishing videos. Did I see a Tica hat on your head ?