I caught my PB largemouth bass on this OLD SCHOOL combo!
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025
- This week on the Retro Bassin' Show, my buddy Brandon and I hit Lake Travis outside Austin, Texas, in search of some post-spawn largemouth bass. We throw everything from the Banjo Minnow to the pre-Rapala Storm Wiggle Wart, but all the fish come on an OG Bass Magic swimbait. Watch till the end to see me catch my PB largemouth bass on an old school Abu Garcia baitcasting combo! This one gets wild!!
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Fish it old school, weigh those tanks old school! SEVVVEEEENNNNNN LETS GOOOOO!
That is a legitimate tank! I'm in a hotel in Oak Ridge, TN, thanks to our friend Terry Battisti, and for the first time this weekend am getting a chance to watch this episode. All I can say is "WOOHOO! Way to go bassin' bud!" Looks like you and Brandon had a great day on the lake with you boating that lunker. So cool that you got it on video and shared it with everyone. That rod and reel combo did the job, no doubt about it.
I have some of those swimbaits, Now I want to try them 👍
This episode is EPIC. she’s definitely a seven 🔥
What a catch, Chris! Cant beat the ol’ swimbait.
those bass magic swimbaits used to come with a couple of screw lock swimbait weighted hooks in the pack . some times they are real fish catchers
That rod was straight up BENDIN lol. She's a beaut!
She was…bet she hasn’t bent over like that since 1984!
Congrats on the fish! Gotta love those old Abu reels
Abu rules! Thumb bars are for sissies and live-scopers. What a beautiful bass! Congrats! I need to get me one of those little boats.
That's awesome! Nice catch! Love this channel!
Thanks for stopping by again, Rich!
Congratulations once again!!! I'm so glad to see a fellow retro bassin buddy using a Abu Garcia 5500 reel and pistol grip rod!!! Lol o how cool is that!! I only use Abu Garcia reels . Welcome to the Abu CLUB my friend!!! And what a beautiful bass. Again congrats 🎣🐳
Awesome man congrats!
Thanks, Jonny!
Congratulations on your PB. Love the bend in that old-school rod.
I keep my old school spring load zebco pocket scale in my vest pocket. It even has the pull out ruler like the model you have. Pretty handy and works great.
I have mine too. I actually have the small and large size but the tape measure on the small one no longer works. They're both very accurate.
Congrats on the PB man!
Still use the abu C3 reels in various sizes, bomb proof!
I still have one of those old reels. Always liked them. The other two wore out after 20 yrs.
Nice one mate! Enjoying your content from down under
Congratulations on your PB chris! Awsome fish.
Thanks for tuning in, Randy!
Congrats!!! Great bass on that dink city Lake! For others that can’t appreciate, it’s like catching a 10lber on Lake Fork
Great fish
Looked like a great time
Best theme song in RUclips
Congrats on a big fish. I like your channel and it's awesome to see you get on a big fish old school! I like the video style of just going out with a selection of old school lures trying to get on some fish.
Very sweet . FISH ON.
Congratulations on a personal best! I used to live in that area (Round Rock) and fished Travis quite a bit. I also lived near Canyon Lake and my personal best came from there. I’ve lived in MO for the last 4 years and haven’t broke 4 lbs since I moved here. Love your channel.
Love the old school stuff
I just turned 36 and my friend Charlie just turned 63 I just recently rebuilt that same reel for him.
Congrats on such a great catch. That was a tank. Gotta love catching them on a pistol grip !
Honestly, still shocked we got him in!
DUDE!!! Congrats! Beauty of a fish!
Aaaaaahhhhh that’s awesome guys!
On that “little” lake west of town…
Nice bass! The Abu 5500 was a standard for salmon and steelhead here before line counters became the vogue. Congratulations!
Yeah buddy, Randall!
What a great episode!
Thanks, Bulldog!
Great fish Chris. Warming up for Florida
We’ll discuss that topic in the next episode…
Great catch, I understand them hard fishing days too.
Very cool! Congrats brother!👊
Congrats
Thats a BEAST anywhere you go congrats brotherb
Congratulations that was awesome
congrats on the new PB!!! I had that same scale as a kid!
might not hold to our upcoming FL trips...
I hope not…
Great catch, love the OG combo! 🔥
I love that combo!
Finally got you a TX piggy-Congrats Chris🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤠
Only took four years!
Beautiful bass! 👍💯
Love them pistol grip rods I’ve got an old hank Parker rod and abu reel I still use today and you are one of the very few people I see with stickers all over their windshield I’ve got mine cover in them to on a fisher 1600 with a 50 mercury love it!!!!!!! And keep it up 👍👍🎣🎣
Is that an old Abu Garcia , that was my first bait caster was my favorite too broke though when I was a kid , wish I had another. Sweet video man
Nice catch good to see you out fishing
Thanks, Carl!
I have a pair of the Abu Garcia S series round reels.went to a local fleamarket and picked up a bag of bass assassin 7 in flatworm in the color yellow with black dots I enjoy watching your videos and was wondering if you would want them?
Old school combo for the win nice Bass
Thanks, Uncle T!
Nice fish
Awesome awesome fish!!! That was just great!
Thanks, LowBrow!
Hey I new to the channel but I like the content I started looking for old fishing baits keep it up bass bud from tn
Welcome, Marty! Thanks for the sub, good buddy!
I’m really enjoying your channel. Subscribed.
Thanks for subbing and tuning in, Paul!
I still use that reel! Fresh and saltwater
Pistol grip rod for the win!
Call it 9. After all it is the Zebco De-liar. Awesome catch man. Keep up the good work. Love the channel.
9.5!
Nice fish man
Awesome Bass
Nice!
I enjoy your shows so much…they go by way too fast…Congrats on that GIANT ❗️😃
Thanks for tuning in, Blain!
Dang good one brother and couldn't see the scale from my house I'd go with seven
Sounds good to me good buddy!
Nice fish!! Have you fished the Flying Lure? 😂
Very nice fish brother congrats. I'd guess between 5-6 pounds but it's hard to tell on camera, they always look smaller on camera. I've caught 11 bass over 5 pounds this year out of loch Raven resevoir in Maryland so u can trust my opinion
That is also what I would have guessed. Still a hawg though.
Kinda looks like a wide angle shot. That could have something to do with it too.
I have an abu Garcia that has 1972 the year I was born imprinted on the reel seet. It's red with fake pearl? Handles. I got it from a long deceased guy in Texas just because I scanned some pictures for him back in our webtv days before most of us had computers and RUclips hadn't been invented yet. It was during the days that Napster was big.
It is a 5500 series reel.
Ah, still recall downloading “free” songs at U of Delaware…
You should come to west tn to reelfoot lake it one best lakes for bass and crappie in the state
Do tell!
That bait you catch that bass on is it hollow inside if it is Meijers sells them you get eight or 10 for $8.99
You can check if your scale is reading right by measuring a dumbbell (or any known weight i.e. 3lbs of ground beef) in a plastic bag
Why check when I can exaggerate? Haha
Throw in the double hook set
Subscribed!!!
That’s what I’m talking about, good buddy! We fish it old school every weekend!
Hey retro bassin I found a lure at an auction it has the storm inset yellow eyes it is shaped like a hot n tot but it has a plastic bill. It has reflective straps that are tear drop shaped in the sides and on the bill. It don't have any writing on it. I don't know what it is hoping you can help me out. Thanks.
Sounds like Willie’s Worm…
I would send a pic but don't know where to send it lol.
I have a phlueger nobby 1963 c level wind reel do u know anythng about them does anyone know anythng about them all i know is its 60 yeats old and its freakin cool real plz any info would be awsome
Awesome job man!!!! My best this year was a 10.4 it’s on my channel and the other day I got a 7.13 also on my channel. If you’re ever In the Sarasota fl area let me know I’ll put you on a lake here and I bet you’ll bet your pb
Hit me with a video link, good buddy!
nice
Not sure about guessing fish weight but dang one nice bass. I feel like a kid that tries to make it through the week so I can watch Saturday cartoons lol. Great vid congrats on your pb.😅
Thanks for tuning in, Joshua!!
@@RetroBassin every Saturday
I got a banjo minnows pack just to try out
Ill say to those saying it didnt look 7 in the video, go pros make the fish look smaller. The pics make it look like a 6 to 7 easy and im sure its on the 7 end. Ive caught so many in that range i generally can tell before i weigh them lol. Ive actually been stuck in that range for a couple years trying to break 8lbs and my pb 😂.
Caught more bass on one of them reels and a heavy ass ugly stick than anything else 😂
Well,😆, you were turning your head - like everybody else, so that was good, now you gotta look at your feet
Nice fish and thank you for your efforts. Don’t ever get that scale calibrated.
Never. Ever. Haha.
Looked like an 8 pounder to me😉
Let’s call it a 10 and be done with it!
Petri Heil!!! That is for sure a pig of a bass, Chris!
Thanks for tuning in, James!
A 7 lb'er in texas maybe.
7lb frame, post spawn scrawn.
Haha, I’ll take it!
@@RetroBassin me too.
It’s good to see you using that clean old 5500C.
I love that reel!
You will not beat those Ambassaduer reels. I use that same reel on giant catfish all the way down to crappie
That didn’t look like a 7 pounder
Tend to agree haha. What happens when you weigh it old school!
Excuse me Sir. Are you the same Rusty Shakelford on BTA?
I guessed it would be a six but I consistently underestimate the weight of fish.
@@thorpypoo And I consistently catch dinks, so I have no idea!
I’ve reeled in a lot bass on that same old Abu Garcia. For alot of years in was the best bass fishing reel offered.
Ambassadors aren't old school
Some are. They're still made because they're ace!
Lol how so?
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 because they still sell them
@@Mr4twitch lol as if the modern ones are the same as the old ones
@Twitch it is an old school design either way.