MAN! This is crazy! People need to take notes. This is how you go thru the process. This is how you learn to pattern fish and how you get there. Straight up gold!

Brent said to put that thing back in the water and let nature run it’s course 😂 Love this series 👍🏼

This is what fishing IS and what it has always really BEEN ABOUT.. getting and being in tuned with your surroundings and and looking for NATURE and the differences in the lake and your surroundings!!! I think over time and as technology has evolved we've all forgotten that at some point. Or at least leaned on technology more than we ever would've in the past. But when it really all comes down to it... It's about picking up the rod. KEEPING YOUR HEAD UP, watching your surroundings, and trying to find those special differences that no one else has found and catching them... At least in my opinion and that's what I've taken away from the series so far... This is great!!! 💪✌️

Your teaching people the process you used to get where you want to be. People are looking for the shortcut, and there isn’t any shortcuts.time on the water is the MOST important thing.

This needs to become a regular addition to the playlist. Those that say they haven’t been learning, haven’t been paying attention. Very well done, informative series.

This is great! I imagine I will binge watch the entire series again after going through it this time because I am sure I am missing somethings, there is a lot in here. I wish more videos were like this. I hope you are able to run into more tournaments where you can put something like this together. Thanks,

keep em coming Scott! A different level and approach/mindset to being on the water. 👍👍

Man you have the best series. Very informative and you break it down how I fish and look at things too. You keep it real and to the point.

This is the best series (type videos) on KZfaq yet. I hope you continue this style!! Very enjoyable and educational!!!

Keep this series going. I am digging it! I am glad your doing something different than the average youtube video to teach people.

Another good video with a whole lot more stuff to think about.......keep'm coming Todd. I get more out of your videos than any other videos that I watch. You explain everything at such a level that I can understand. Definitely feel like this is making me a better fisherman.

This is Fantastic!!! I have watched for a while and always enjoyed and LEARNED, but this is the best.

Man this is Great Todd thanks for this, I cant believe you are actually doing this, this is what fishing videos should have been from the beginning, this is real and I TRULY HOPE YOU DO THESE MORE OFTEN, man this helps so much you have no idea.... Good stuff man your a great human being. There is still hope for humanity after all....lol

Love it!! Keep them coming

This is an awesome way to approach fishing. It’s so easy to get bogged down in textbook fishing and the thousands of lure options. Thanks for sharing your perspective and ideas!

I commented on the fist video of this series and the other videos you've put out since then have just reinforced my comments, these are the JUICE! These are the kind of learning videos I've been looking for and what will actually help improve my fishing. Thanks Todd, keep em coming.

Love the series and learning a ton. Guys…pay attention all due respect , so many nuggets of helpful information.

i love all these episodes and just can't wait to the next one. i will have to rewatch them till the next comes out

Great progression to figure out a pattern Todd. It's all about eliminating water and honing in on specifics. Definitely enjoying the series, thanks!

You and Randy Blaukat are the only channels I pay attention too because I can relate alot to the old school of bassin. That's the way my father and I fished back 24yrs ago in Lake Amistad. When the deep jig bite wouldn't work, right away we would start to hit the shallows.

Great video. Completely agree on keeping open mind at all times. I got a lot better at catching fish once I figured that out. I’m glad you addressed the learning aspect. For me personally, explaining the thought process is much more educational. I think that’s what makes the difference on how well guys catch ‘em vs. the rest

Great video to learn how to pattern the fish and I like the points about trying different things. Todd is doing a great job can't wait to see the rest of the series. If you can learn from this you might need to rethink what your doing. Keep it up.

Everything is figureoutable! I’m the crosscut saw; I almost always go my own way. Sometimes it works other times it bites me the farse. But the more I do it the better I get at doing my own thing. There are no secret honey holes on any lakes anymore; you gotta be bold and learn differently. Loving the series

Todd!!!! Love these man. Keep ‘em coming… for me what you are doing is filling in some blanks that hadn’t clicked for me. Don’t change a thing.

I'm loving this, one reason is because it's great you figuring it out without it being so obvious to others & your not using your live scope which I don't have one to use👍

Hey Todd, This is an awesome approach. Choke is such a gem. A wilderness setting that's full of fish. As a transplanted Wisconsin guy who fished tournaments for 20 years, Texas has been like learning to fish all over again. And that seems to be the nature of Choke...fluctuating water levels make it fish like a different lake each year, at least the eight years I've been in Texas. Shoreline cover becomes flooded or dry, grass beds move, perch (sunfish) spawn in different spots, and shad become players or non players. Maybe the yearly changes are why Choke is so intriguing...Next year you will have to do this all over again. Hope I get to watch.

Great video 📹 Thank you for sharing 👍

Great videos keep them up. This is what I am trying to learn how to do on my own. I have already watched them twice already. Thank You

Definitely going to have to watch these again. Thanks for describing the process. It is certainly important to keep the head up and be looking around. I really think that is what a lot of folks could take from this. I was heading down the lake I normally fish. I don't drive with blinders on to my next spot I am always looking around. In an area that hasn't been all that good (an outside creek bend with a steep drop off with a highly wooded bank) I saw a little stump sitting out of the water and realized that it hadn't been there before and slowed down to take a look. Motored over to the area and sure enough someone had cut a tree on the bank down where it dropped right into the water. 30 foot or thereabouts tall tree dropped at an angle into 17 feet of water. Deep water right up to outside bend in this lake. Didn't even check my graphs I just pitched a worm into where it looked like the tree was angling out and sure enough. Slow drop then my line took off at 90 degrees and didn't want to slow down. First fish off it was a 3 1/2 to 4 pounder. Second one was about half that size. All from keeping your eyes up and seeing something that just looked out of place. Some folks seem to think the electronics will tell them everything but common sense and awareness goes a long way.

I have really enjoyed your series. Thanks for your thought process.

Great series. Learning so much concerning the mental aspect. Old School or whatever, its good stuff.

Thank you Todd, I appreciate this series!

Good stuff man. I'm liking seeing how its starting to come together in your mind. What is not working, where is not working. ✓ That leaves X, Y, and Z still open then. ✓ I wonder if (insert bait here) will work in that situation. Let's find out.That's one of the things I love most about fishing. The buildup before catching the fish. Trying to put it together. A game against myself as much as the fish. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these. You always seem to put a lot of thought into your videos but I think even moreso into these and I dig it. Keep up the great work.

Nobody has ever revealed the context clues & the progression from practice to results before. This is awesome.

Awesome video series

Damn good series bud!!!!!!! Definitely got me thinking about these same kinda hidden gems around my favorite lakes

Honestly I have been hoping someone would start really explaining the thought process behind successful bass fishing, love the info man keep em coming!!!

Awesome Todd 💯

Absolutely love this series. I have been looking for content that is a little more advanced than the majority of fishing content. This is it. Keep up the work, Todd. I fish team deals too, and I think it would be pretty informational to hear what your partner was thinking as well. Maybe you capture some of ya’lls game planning in the evening or insert some clips of him explaining why he was doing something because you were throwing x,y, or Z. Thanks for your time.

Great content……Keep’em coming!!! ✌🏾👍🏾

What's up Todd!!!🤓"Let's be Honest"YOU the man!!!TxTT Legend.Loving it Bro!!!

Lol I was so confused because I didn’t think you guys had yellow perch down there😂 that makes more sense. great video.

Keep em coming!

Who da man ? Todd Castledine da man !

Good job! Keep it up!

Great advice for sure. I don't like to do same thing everyone else is doing. I try to do things different as I can. Always trying new things. Now days everyone is running from one spot to another they drop trolling motor & LS look around make couple casts then roll to the next one. I watch so many guys come & go from same points, channel swings ext & it looks like they all do same thing. I'm a kayak angler so I can run n gun anyways. I kinda have to pick areas apart. I pay very close attention to my surroundings so & I know that has caught me alot of extra fish. This is stuff these guys are totally missing. I have no problem going to spot after someone else has already fished it because I can still catch fish. So many guys are throwing same popular baits, fishing them the same way & fishing same obvious stuff.

Great video Todd

fishing on the ozarks most of what I do is find scratchy spots on no nothing banks, sometimes the worst looking stuff cab be the best. ready for episode 4. 👍

This is some goog stuff,lol,great wat to break it down for us,love the old school techniques I'm as old school as they come,lol

Wow Todd I'm liking this, Big fan, Big Big fan.

Excellent

Thanks for giving me something to think about for the rest of my work day. I was thinking about this Saturday while I was fishing. One bait challenge day, the fluke. Both prompted from you. Got me ready to move from Zoom to SK, as I wanted a little heavier bait. It seems you two are zeroing in on something solid. It's weird watching you hook fish in practice. I get it, it's Choke, still weird. Finding bites all over the place, but not the "right" bites. Can't wait for the next one - great series Todd 👍

Since the end of the second one I've been waiting for the "magical bush" from the swim bait video to appear. I'm still in that frame of mind. Loved the eyes on the bank and not at the live scope. Old school 👍

Awesome can't wait for the rest got a derby Thursday night lol

Thanks Todd

Digging the hat. Good videos

All I know this is great. This is how I learned to fish I didn’t have the money for all the toys then. Thanks

Although I’m liking the journey Todd……THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!!!!! 😖🤣

Probably a little bit more than that really like the video Todd really like that you did a video on deep deep water fishing I learned a fish deep when I lived in California Northern California on its reservoirs Oroville Shasta berryessa Don Pedro really like the video Todd

Great series. Thanks for sharing how to find and catch your own fish and not chase how you caught fish in that tournament.

This is the stuff I truly enjoy. I know what I can throw and why I have confidence in them. I want to know how to break down a lake and understand WHY I'm not finding fish, or WHY I found some here, but not there.

Old school that's what I started getting back to had all the mega live and 360 but just seems to be a distraction for me trying to be something I'm not. Your videos help

This is THE WAY to hook up to your boat or load your kayak or put your rods in your vehicle and go ANYWHERE and catch largemouth bass. This is lake breakdown using the "Costascope"

Todd you need to make a video on how you would dissect Lake Amistad now that it has gotten back down to the levels it was once in the late 90's.

YUP!! 👍

them Carolina Rig bites that Brent was getting in this episode looked like them ole Thump & Tug Carolina bites that only the Good'uns do...(or 12" Kentucky bass on Rayburn that think they are 6lb Largemouth) ready for Episode 4

After 3 episodes, the most important thing I've learned is to give those "no nothing" banks a chance. Great videos and looking forward to the next. Do you plan on doing additional series for some future tournament or lake?

That’s the reason why. He’s telling you this. Why he’s. Always In the 💵💵💵. Power of observation Developing instincts.

I'm from OH & we have Yellow perch in most body's of water. Sense I've moved down here bto southern SC. I have found yellow perch in most of these lakes, even smaller lakes, the Savannah river & local creeks. I was surprised because I thought they were a northern species

The snake lol

Exactly what he said I don’t read magazines I don’t look up much for bass fishing either nor do I READ fishing reports I hate them I do my own learning and reading the water

I have watched this series several times, I have been told numerous times that I can't throw that lure or that color. Then it worked. My response became, which fish wrote the " book"? If I can get bit, then it is not wrong, just different from the way you fish.

It’s dam perch beds people lol 😂

Digging these videos!! I want to learn not 1v1, catch and cook… want to learn how to catch fish constantly every trip I go out. I work 50 to 60 hours a week so when I get to for a week or a weekend I just want to catch some fish. I bigen dust puts the icing on the cake 🎂 I fish Missouri Ozark lakes so this info is money for me!

Todd man I really like how you fish, you as a individual I like. But I just can't get into this series. I feel like I'm chewing hay. And I just can't swallow it. I'll keep trying and good luck Todd.

Fishing has been tough these past few days. Been on the bank and these fish just ain’t biting. There is a ton of blue gill schooled up but nothing is biting, I’ve been all along the bank and nothing. I got to get on the water.

Everything to me is a bream. Shellcracker, rockbass, sunfish all are bream. Bream beds in Alabama and absolutely any carbonated drink is a coke

Watching this mad cause I didn’t get my calls done early enough to fish Rayburn this eve lol but the A/C business is kinda busy right now with this mild east Texas heat we having lol 😂

You picked everyday to describe a bluegill without saying bluegill. That’s what everyone calls them here. Drove me nuts. 🤣

need… episode… 4… 🧐

Great series. Totally like and understand process you're taking. Perfect. One question, who gives a rat's ass what Hallman thinks about anything. Don't waste time with his opinions.

don't get frustrated with comments keep on keeping on

I watched your carolina rig videos and learned a lot. Could you comment on why in this video your partner chose to throw a carolina rig, instead of a texas rig or swing head type jig?

Around here everyone calls all the sunfish species bream. Idk what they call yellow perch? In OH we called the yellow perch a yellow perch, bluegill - bluegill or sunfish. It's funny how different areas have different names. A guy knew I was from the north because I said a pop, instead of soda or coke...

Fishing world needs more stuff like this and less Walmart budget fishing challenges

So what’s a perch? 😂😂.. glad I’m not the only one that calls em that. It’s a Texas thing I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️

Looked like some sort of constrictor

QUESTION - Is practice equal parts figuring out what THE DEAL IS and what the deal is NOT?

I feel smarter all ready

Big ol NOPE at 19:20!!!

dang talk about leaving us on a cliffhanger

Favorite c-rig bait???

Todd can not even make a series like this without giving it all up so it will make sense to us. You will not see this kind of info anywhere else. I have always wanted to know a pro breaks a lake. They are all perch to me to man.

Wanna find grass without graphs? Look for coots in the water.

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I hate schnakes!

Who knows what type of snake that was?

Love it. Turn the shit off and fish. 90% of the time it's fishin by your gut