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Jake makes the long trip to fish a large lake in Iowa. The ice is rapidly deteriorating in the warm weather of winter 2024, so the trip has to happen now or never. Using a combination of iFish Pro tip-ups and Rapala Slab Raps, Jake is able to get on a hot bite. Here are some of the highlights from this awesome day of fishing for hybrid striped bass. The wiper in this video are studs!
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Hey everybody, welcome to southern Iowa
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I have some catches for you. We're gonna get on some big wiper today
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Welcome to the bucket boys. I'm gonna get this one back in the water. It's absolutely crazy
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Hope you guys enjoy this one. Stick with me. Well, happy end of January, everybody
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If you can't tell by that speed in which I drilled through the ice, the ice here in Iowa is basically on the downhill slide
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I don't know, a few more days and I think we're probably going to be done here unless it turns cold again, which fingers crossed it will
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There's a lot of winter left, I would imagine, but it's just been an unseasonably warm winter
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I basically had like two weeks where it got really cold and froze to about 8 to 12 inches across the state and
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I've been hitting it hard it's been difficult but we finally got on a good bite today here so
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I'm just hopping around a little bit more yeah just gonna keep at it
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Holy crap. As usual, having GoPro issues, so hopefully this is working
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I'm having to literally hear the go or the I-fish pros start to clatter before they go off
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because these wiper are biting the minnow and stealing it and then just gone
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So luckily I was able to get over here and snagging him right as the flag went off
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this feels like a good one oh yeah oh my gosh these fish are huge
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oh my gosh just raking on the ice this is not good for line uh
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get his head started here here he is oh no oh my gosh these fish are huge
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Look at that. Oh my gosh
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Open your mouth. Right in the roof. Look at that. What a mess. Wow
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Let's get a measurement on him real quick 22 Wow Wow
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I think this is going to be the right flavor. Oh my
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Just waiting for my other flag over there to go off. They just keep coming through in packs Oh my Oh geez Well there my depth markers so I 15 feet away from
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catching this thing, assuming I actually land it. I'm like literally making no progress here
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These fish are awesome. Literally no progress
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Wow. Oh my gosh, there he is. He's not happy. Ah, the ice
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It's just so chunky right now. Holy crap. Oh my gosh. I don't know if you can see him in the hole there
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Oh my gosh. Just monster. Get his head started here. Come on
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Oh my gosh, look at that. Yes
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Ow! Just tearing me apart. You can't get their dang mouths open
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Good Lord. Just a flippin' monster. my gosh look at that flipping thing I don't know if I can even get him in the whole flipping camera
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wow let's go get a measurement on me 25 and a half
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get him back here oh my gosh come on but Woo
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That's so flipping awesome. I don't know if you can see this
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I was actually able to find Shiner's in Iowa, which is not a common thing
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We usually just have fat-head minnows. So I feel like this might be a D
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be a differentiator from a lot of the other presentations that people are showing out here
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I'm using whatever advantage I can get. Okay. Try and set flags as they're going off and get everything on video has become quite a chore here
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All right. We are set up. Let's see if we can do this now
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My gosh. Okay. Set the hook. Ha ha ha ha
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Oh my god. Oh, he's stuck. Oh, that ice. Holy cow Oh It's Oh
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Stuck on the ice So bad Just doing loop-de-loops
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This is a good one Oh, just grinding the line
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I hate it. Oh, come on, dude. Oh, it's such a big one
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Oh my gosh. Come on Oh come on Cool your jets Holy cow Oh my gosh it a flipping giant guys
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Just a flipping giant. Holy cow. Oh, my gosh
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This might be my biggest ever. Oh, come on, bud. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come
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Oh my gosh. Holy cow. Oh, I'm shaking so bad
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Oh my gosh, look at that fish. Holy crap. Wow
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Okay, I don't know if you can see that. 23 and a half
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All right, check this. Today's been a perfect example of why you should really be running set lines in as many lines as you can
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I'd say probably 90%, well, no bait, so that's probably why this hasn't gone off in a while
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As I was saying, here in the state of Iowa, you're allowed two lines per person with the purchase of your fishing license, but you all
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We also have the option to purchase a third line license and I am running three lines myself today
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So two set lines on these I-fish pros and then I'm actively jigging with my flasher
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The majority of fish I've caught today have come off of the tip-ups, probably mostly because I haven't had time to get back to my flasher and jig for fish
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But whenever you have the opportunity to put as many lines in the water as you can, take that opportunity
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really gonna help you catch more fish and have a heck of a day like I'm having today
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So take our opportunities to get as many lines in the water as you can
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Here we go. Oh my gosh
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I've got 10 flags going here. Here we go
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I don't know what I'm gonna do. flag going to oh boy this is gonna be a disaster this is a big one
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in the world a catfish here okay okay okay but on there
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Complete chaos right now. I don't know if this was still going or not, but
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literally they both went off the same exact time. Oh my god, I don't know how we managed this
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Holy crap. Probably another catfish
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Nope, catfish. Oh my gosh. who what hey
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What a run around, holy cow who GoPro dies If anybody knows a contact with GoPro
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Tell them to fix this because These cameras are not good. I don't know what's happening
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Just keep shutting off on me. See if we can get it charged here and get going
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Anyways, we got action. They weren't the wipers I was hoping for, but..
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Hey, flags are exciting. Stick with me. We'll get some more. ...cruits and prepare for the future
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Your day is a six. Here we go. Oh boy. Get the juice right away
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Oh boy. We're getting the deuce are out of the wait. Well, here's hoping they don't cuss on the video
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They're just coming in your life. Hey Libra, you have a little bit more appreciation than you've been giving them
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Your days a six. They're just coming through in schools. You just get above them a little bit, one peels off and just smacks it
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Ugh, the ice in that line just tinging off of it. Not great
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That's a good one, I can see him. Oh, this is awesome
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What a day. Oh, it's a big one. Oh, it's a big one
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This quiche was so delicious. It had vegetables in it. It felt healthy
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Seven days. Seven days. Oh, my. Come on. There he is
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Look at these fish. How do you? I don't think you can argue with me that
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I don't think you can argue with me that... catch anything better than that through the ice. I know you all love walleye but
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who look at that. I'm gonna measure it real quick. 23.5 inches. 23 and a half inches. Get him back
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Love it. All right, let's get another one. well the sun is setting I'm actually going to start picking up gear here I've got quite a bit of a walk ahead of me to get back to the truck but
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guys this was probably one of the best days of ice fishing I've ever experienced in my life
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it non-stop action all day long and almost every single fish I caught was
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22 inches or longer I guess the catfish were a little smaller
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And I did catch one white bass that was, it was a decent white bass, but nothing crazy
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But wow, absolutely made my year. I thought we were going to be completely beat down with the warm weather and the rapidly melting ice
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So I'm glad I got out here, made the best of it. Hope you guys enjoyed it
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Hope you learned a few things. I don't know if I really taught much of this video because it was mostly catching
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But anyways, my name's Jake. This is the Bugget Boys. We'll see you next time
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