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I’m from Louisiana and live in Texas and get stared at and asked weird questions, as well, when I go to certain areas/lakes. That’s why I always bring my fishing buddy with me for protection. He protects me from them and them from me! He is my lord and savior Jesus Christ! May God continue to have grace and mercy for us all! Blessings to you and yours!

@ethanqualm5718

Ай бұрын

I agree the Holy Spirit is a wonderful companion! Let Him guide you to more fish catches! Blessings and love!!

@danielwood5510

Ай бұрын

Amen fellas

@canadiangemstones7636

Ай бұрын

Shame he can’t protect kids from cancer.

@Yup2024

Ай бұрын

@@canadiangemstones7636 God can call us home at any age and anytime. Most of us will not pass away in our 90s peacefully in our beds. We should not let the Devil torment/distract us with the details surrounding our love one’s death/illnesses. When it is our time we will go. Blessings, peace, love and understanding to us all!

I’m from Alabama and when you said “I am in Kentucky” I knew where you were going. 😂😂

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

We all about the same! Sc, Al, Ky. I see all types of lifestyles on the road. I have a gas station at home where guys stand outside just like this and people watch.

@johnz5055

Ай бұрын

@BrianLatimerFishing I'm from Cincinnati most of the time people watching is more entertaining than TV now days

Weird people at gas stations and boat ramps are one of the big reasons I’m constantly carrying while I head out to the lake. People can be really strange.

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

🤣 I don’t feel like they were strange. They were just curious. Small town America needs something to talk about and I was just the subject for that morning.

@win300mag1

Ай бұрын

@@BrianLatimerFishing I suppose so. I remember when I moved south from NY when I was 18 and I realized that the movies weren’t exaggerating when they showed some gas station in the middle of nowhere with a squeaky ceiling fan and the same 3 old timers sitting under it every morning 😂 you were just the talk of the gas station that day.

@davidb2856

Ай бұрын

@@BrianLatimerFishingthat’s was exactly my impression. No harm, but extremely awkward because they feel the need to always respond and the convo never ends

@bonepicker1

Ай бұрын

​@@BrianLatimerFishingI suspect they saw that RV, and Bass boat and who was driving it and decided to question you about it. He asked you who did you work for? Not if you were the owner or not. To me, that's getting too personal. That parting shot from the dude saying if he owned your RV, he wouldn't be shopping at Dollar General tells me what his focus was all about. Plus, Isn't your name on the Bass Boat? You handled it with grace though.

@goodoleboykentucky7941

Ай бұрын

Man I'm from Kentucky.....and I feel like them small county gas stations always have some strange folks hanging around.

Love you B’Lat. You keep being you!

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you, I will

B Lat I was down there that weekend fishing a club tournament, seen you at the Oasis eating dinner. Got a pic of your van and boat in the parking lot. Awesome rig!! Keep doing you!

I’m Asian from Kansas and I get those looks every time I go fishing at table rock. Never fails. Lol

Welcome to Kentucky BLat! 😂😂😂 Took me a while to get used to that when I got here. It still gets me after sometimes, even after 15 years.

B Lat I know exactly how you feel, when I was station at Fort Campbell. My buddy and I got those same looks every time we fished a tournament out of Paris Landing, even while fishing from other anglers. But we never let it bother us, you handled that very well!! Keep fishing man!

B Lat, dude I worked in Kentucky for 35 yrs, it was outta this world, the papermill I worked was full of "them" !!!

@user-wv7zt6su6u

Ай бұрын

I'm from ILL crossed over the bridge everyday to go to work, prayed everyday...lol😮😮

Now you’re fishing 🎣 my spots 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

"So what is the big story"!! 😂 they were the story this morning. Made me smile. 😊awesome

@bradleyrussell1973

Ай бұрын

Well, his van DOES say "Storyteller" in huge letters on it. The old fogies obviously don't drive a van.

Small town southern gas station guys are usually the best. They got the best stories😂

Mr. Latimer you are welcome in my State anytime time you wish to visit! Your set up looks perfect serious fisherman. You're doing alright sir!! I hope you keep fishing in Ky!

Your welcome to come up to my place anytime. We could fish Elkhorn, Kentucky and Ohio river and more lakes than you could count. you’ve been my hero for a long time my friend. Enjoy your time here,I’ll watch your back. Gman

Love the channel Brian, Hope to see you on Chickamauga sometime

Good Luck Blat! Safe travels

Man , there aren't a lot of people I can watch for an hour straight . Enjoyed it . Second: You made me aware of something I hadn't really been aware of before . When you made the comment about the pressure from the stares of strangers and how that could make someone feel was good info . It hadn't occurred to me how that could effect someone , much less that it happens as often as the comments say it does. Tight lines ....

Ur spot on with the water levels affecting the fish I live on Lake Cumberland KY and the high water has killed us so far this yr

This is my home lake! It has changed so much in the past 5 years it’s incredible. Lake is fishing amazing the past 2 years

So much helpful info!!!

I really like your content. You are the king of fishing and keeping it real...

You didn’t know, that was our KY Lake welcoming committee! 😂 Bet you were impressed!

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

Exactly!!! It was literally a committee. They were good old boys just curious.

I am so sorry that some people are like that here. I got to meet you at the tournament and love watching you. Please excuse some of the backwards people. Things are better here than years ago. Hope you all have another tournament here soon.

Hey B you’re on my lakes.if you drove from the Oasis to nearest launch you drove right by my house.This year has been a little crazy ,Hot-Cold ,rain, high-low water.But the Asian Carp are under Control.And the Smallmouth are taking off.

Great video Brian looking forward to seeing the Tournament days💯

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

Very soon!

I live on pickwick in Florence , 70% degrees I wind check main channel swings near flats protected areas , an first of creek arms to middle , like you said some of them fish may have went early meaning large heads , now being smallmouth like you pea gravel banks around big rock an is run that all day. I do like channel swings near flats be great stuff hope it works out for ya.

I enjoy your video. I Always look forward to watching them. I fish kentucky Lake /Barkley Lake two to three times a month in a club tournament . Early spring Barkley is a lot better than kentucky. This lake has improved this year its coming back. Keep the video coming.

Welcome to Kentucky Brian. I'm from here and fish Barkley and Kentucky lakes regularly and get the same kind of gawkers. And I just drive a Ford!

Great deer hunting at Land tween the Lakes too !

I’d call that a good days fishing Blat!

😂 dude I live here where you were I feel you this is funny AF

I’m from northern Illinois and I had the same experience down there in the same area. Walked into a gas station to get a fishing license and it was like a scene out of a movie. The door squeaks and all the locals turn around and stare at you like you’re an alien. Major “YOU AIN’T FROM AROUND HERE IS YOU” vibes. Met a cool guy that was selling firewood who called me and my buddy yankees lmfao!!

When they are super shallow like that, I like to search with wake baits. Another old school favorite lure on Barkley and Kentucky is a Bagley Bang o lure minnow with a prop tail.

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

They would have 10000% hit a bang o lure or a prop

I fished a club tournament on the Roanoke River and the Chowan River ( I live in Raleigh NC now ) and I caught a 25lb snapping turtle on a Spinnerbait ( slow rolling )😮 I was glad once I got this “log” to the top of the water close to the boat my bait came free.😮

Come to East tn. I promise hospitality and some big ole smallies. Good luck to you. Like the videos.

When I was a Tanker in the Army we had a saying about those yellow flowers “Tankers don’t go where the yellow flowers grow” at Fort Polk La. That was a big thing. I saw many tanks sunk to the turret with yellow flowers all around.

Welcome to Ky . Brian🤣, you are in the Country !!!!! Lol Northern Ky is not as Country even though my name is Moon Shine, Love my Sick Stick ❤

I live in Russell County home of lake Cumberland Kentucky… another big ass lake and deep.. houseboat capital of the world.. and great fishing , now the water level is high in the timber and the Wolf Creek dam has the gates open on the spillway… anyway hope to see you back at Cumberland soon

Thanks for all the great content! You shown that with great parents you have morals, integrity an drive to be successful no matter if it fishing or any other thing you tackle!! Keep it up! I like the strong family ties an your about your family !! An to live the dream your dream you have to have a great wife an it shows! You are one very lucky man!!An by the way your on the wrong size of state for hospitality!! Hillbillies show you hospitality! We may have odd questions but just trying to get to know what you all about! But once we figure you out we love you for life, and will give you our last dollar if you needed it!❤ God is Great!!✝️

We run WAY South to catch those giant Smallmouth, btw. Dover, Paris. River bluff ends on the long points are popular bedding areas for Smallmouth. Big Magdrafts prespawn and drop shot post.

Texas born and raised. Unfazed.

Born, raised and live in Kentucky and the fishing is awesome! Kentucky actually holds the world record for a smallmouth bass at 11 pounds 15 ounces at Dale Hollow Lake.

I skunk this weekend too😮😅

I’ve fished Ky Lake several times. I love it. I’m concerned about the Asian Carp. I’ve caught bass in flooded lawns with a swimbait. Went with a guide and we flipped trees. Also Carolina rigged feeding ledges on the main lake.

@jimwarden9617

Ай бұрын

Nice top 50 finish with an $8000 check!

B Lat. It takes all kinds to make the world go around, some are on a faster trip than others. And well..... Some are on ah slower one. Lol.

We from Mississippi and Love your videos

Wow! What a story.

Around that time I was ignoring the bass on beds and throwing smaller husky jerks catching feeding fish or triggering ones to come up from deeper beds that you can’t see. My main approach was to find cleaner water. Shade was a plus. That bite lasted awhile everywhere I went in Central Kentucky until I transitioned to poppers and larger balsa jerkbaits.

Smith sunglasses are the best i have ever worn! Guide series are the ones!

Awesome video by my friend Brian

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@gofishingwhenyoucan

Ай бұрын

@@BrianLatimerFishing your welcome

Love your channel brother

I have been using a California crawl Ned rig for shallow water

From. My buddies that live there say Kentucky lake is coming back strong, the smallmouth have been dominant there too

@bradleyrussell1973

Ай бұрын

Word!!!

I have fished Kentucky Lake a few times...Let's just say that I understand the interaction you described...

I can hear the banjo music in the background!😂😂

Man I hate that you had that experience in my state. I’m going to assume he was an old dude and you know how old folks are. You’re always welcome in Kentucky and all our lakes! Now that I said that I’m going to finish the video

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

It wasn’t a bad experience bro. It’s just a experience. That’s all. Those guys were good as gold….. just a unique way of communicating. I live in a small town so I know exactly what I’m dealing with. Retired older guys with nothing to do but talk at the gas station.

@garydrichard5559

Ай бұрын

Old or young a redneck is a redneck. Yeah I’m a old guy, but I don’t and never have put the stink eye on anyone 😂😂

Which ramp did you drop at on Barkley? Would love to fish those bushes and trees!

I can just about bet it was the marathon off 293 lol. Im from MS. I have lived in SC (Columbia), central Fl lakeland, Homosassa, and NY on long Island, and i can say without a dout that when you pull up with that nice rig and they see whos driving it. They envy/hate it. 😂 they feel like you shouldn't have that. And who are you! lol i just smile and wave and tell them the Lord is looking for um. Safe travels bro. And. When youre in Brooksville i was always outta town.

@bonepicker1

Ай бұрын

Yep, I grew up on the deep south, so I can relate to those types of encounters. I'm just glad these dudes didn't decide to call the local sheriff about a suspicious looking character driving a Mercedes RV, pulling a tricked out bass boat. Most men who are friendly respectfully introduce themselves, or compliment the rig you're driving In a pleasant manner. These dudes talked amongst themselves, then sent the boldest one over to ask personal questions. I know B Lat was a bit wary...and on guard.

Thanks.

This takes me back to a time I was in butler county, Kentucky…yea…”interesting” part of the country for folks like myself…

Watching the blog to see how the tourney goes

Honestly I always thought it was just me. I'm kind of glad you hit on the subject Brian, now I know its not just me. I go through something similar every time I stop with my boat. I have a Pheonix 920 Elite and it is a nice boat, but its not like people don't see bass boats all the time. No exaggeration, whenever Im yanking my boat and stop at a gas station or something, a conversation with a local always ensues. Its never anything malicious, but it always feels weird to me. Like yes I get it you don't see many black people with bass boats, and in the rural areas where you are typically accessing these bodies of water they don't see many black people in general. Its like I pull into a gas station in these areas, and they arent expecting someone that looks like me to jump out and when they see me all of a sudden that boat becomes a unique phenomenon that inspires conversation. Its never been any mean or aggressive encounters but it is weird, because bass boats are fairly common and it just leaves a begging question inside. If I didnt look like me would we be having this conversation, because the lake is right up the road its not like you dont see bass boats all the time.

@sto1vall

Ай бұрын

It's the passive aggressive and we seem to be the only people having to over explain and be over polite. To allow them to feel safer. Stuff gets tiring

Bro, I drive a truck and our main terminal is in Murray, right by there......and those folks are everywhere around there!!!

Sir when was this video recorded and tournament date?

Kinda hard not to shop at Dollar General in KY when there's one every 2-10 miles in any direction.

You either must've been in any town outside of W.Virgina, or in the town of Cadiz which outside of Barkley lake.

I was stationed at Fort Campbell and would fish Kentucky Lake often. When we launched or people saw us on the water, some folks would gives us weird looks 😂

I fished two tournaments on Kentucky Lake, first tournament big goose egg and the second tournament barely paid for a tank full of gas for my boat. I may go back again, but spend a whole lot more time on the lake. Now, for those white frame sunglasses remember me of motocross googles. What was the line setup you were using on your spinning reel?

Maybe try some jig swimbaits or wake cranks in those shallow areas? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Headed to SC in two weeks to see my grandbabies in Belton .gone fish lake Hartwell for the first time any pointers on how to catch um and where .I'ma river fisherman don't know lake bass

Growing up here I could tell you some stories lol 😂

Brain, you think maybe they were just staring at your rig and not you. I fish Kentucky lake all the time and when the pros come I like looking at their rigs. Guess I better stop, I wouldn’t want someone to get the wrong idea.

Brian, I just got and not yet installed live scope on my boat. Curious if you feel it is an efficient search tool and if so why are you not using it to more in the search ??

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

What’s a way that you would use it in this scenario?

I don’t do Facebook marketplace deals across state lines to KY anymore for similar reasons 😂

Turtles are fast; watch out for those snappers. Smith sunglasses have great visual clarity.

Lots of people ask what my power poles are for. I was asked in Detroit if there was any water nearby. We were 5 minutes from the Detroit River. All those bass boats, are you in a fishing tournament. Naw,, we're having a spelling bee.

We call it mustard grass here in Kentucky. And you want to throw a spinner bite through it? That time of year and you're where I'm at.

The gas station in Aurora you are referring to has some strange characters.

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

I think that’s the one 🤣

Amazing the bubble I live in here in the DMV (DC, MD, VA metro area for those that don't know). But those encounters are far few in between here. But mannnnn if i drive 60 miles south towards and past Richmond, VA, ill be back in the area where those encounters are more than common! LMAOOO(it sucks but what can i do)OOO!

How tall are you? I like the idea of the van. I have never seen a van I could stand inside of though. I had to watch my head when I rode the bus in school. I’m assuming it’s not just a normal sprinter van, but even still, I’ve never seen a van that was even remotely close to being safe for 6’3” to walk through half awake. They just let me stop wearing a helmet full time not long ago. Rather keep it that way from now on if I could help it. 😂😂

I'm right up the road from LBL.. those lakes are hit or miss day to day.

Those glasses look like the ski goggles I had in the ‘80’s

I feel bad. My son and I crossed paths with you there in Duncan Bay. We were coming out of the very back of the creek as you were going back. I tried to give you room, but had to cut back to our right to get back into the creek channel because I was hitting bottom with my trolling motor. You spun around and went back out onto the flat. I felt like you had thought that we were trying to push you out. That was absolutely NOT the case. I apologize if you thought that's what we were doing. I kinda wish you would've went on back because the little backwater back there was full of beds. We didn't catch any monsters but man was there a bunch of males there. I bet we caught 15-18 keeper bucks before we left. They were still biting, but we had. To get back to camp.

I think soft shells are meaner than snappers. They move pretty quick on land to.

Our launch sites on Lake St. Clair are always LOADED with anglers from Kentucky. They say they come up here because the lakes down there aren’t nearly as good.

I’m from Mississippi if u get “those looks” in a nice vehicle in a back road gas station u know people will ask a lot of questions 😂😂

Pretty cool * Your at the Ramp making your lunch ! Cool set up ! Mr story Teller 😅 ! Hope the lunch meat ain't from the $ General?? 😅😅😊 ! Peace Brian

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

It was literally groceries from dollar general 🤣

How's that sinking z man finesse worm development coming?

couple of my biggest females have had the red gold eyes i thought it was a winter thing but i caught one last summer too with em always wondered if it was a gene thing at my reservoir

Are those glasses for snow skiing 😂

Where's the footage of the tournament?

I’ve lived in Louisville, KY most of my 48.5 years on earth, excluding the 7 years I lived in Hawaii and Louisville is not like any other city in KY. I’ve travelled throughout the United States and have traveled quite a bit out of the country as well and I’ve seen more interracial relationships in Louisville than anywhere I’ve ever traveled. Louisville is just so much different from the rest of the Kentucky. For about a 10 year span me and some buddies fished Kentucky Lake twice a year. It never fails though, when at Kentucky Lake we always got “Deliverance” vibes. We’ve been told a many of times by passers by in cars while fishing under overpasses to “get off of our lake!” The exact comments were “niggers get off of our lake”! Not everyone down there is like that at all, I’m not saying that, but we got that way more often than one would expect. Living in Louisville, I’ve never experienced anything close. Love your videos and keep it up!

@AsianAmerican113

Ай бұрын

Hate to hear that from KY myself. Weird enough most racist person I ever meet was a buddy’s grandma, she is black and hates white people, I was like wtf lmao

@jeffsmith4945

Ай бұрын

It’s a whole different country down in Marshall County where he’s at. In Louisville 1 in 4 people are black, in Marshall County it’s closer to 1 in 400. You’re around 6 times more likely to run into a Hispanic person than black.

Love to know how you closed out your interaction with that gas station crowd.

MY dad was killed in a construction accident in 1965 while working on Barkley Dam.

Yes, it flows north, it is still not like it use to be, they catch 50,000lbs a day of Asian Carp for the last 5 years , it’s going to take years to be like it use to be, but it may never be the same buddy

😂🤣😂🤣😂 Yeah buddy!!! Tell me bruh,you started hearing them banjos 🪕 and the GOB’s (good ol’boys) hi beams spotted you before you pulled in the DG parking lot.🤣😂🤣😂

Grew up fishing Ky lake. It’s where I learned to ledge fish. The fishing there just ain’t the same anymore. Carp have pretty much ruined the fishing there.

Brian got a question, Are ya’ll able to go to the lakes your getting ready to fish for the tourney like a week early and find spots and things before the tournament starts a week later?

@BrianLatimerFishing

Ай бұрын

This is that practice. We have 3 days

@DustinFox.

Ай бұрын

@@BrianLatimerFishing I mean say you have a tournament at a lake that you know you gotta head to can you go to that lake for like a few days weeks before any of the tournament stuff starts. Just to get a lay of the land so to speak.

Kentucky lake WAS a great fishing lake, but that all ended when the Asian carp showed up. I fished an April tournament there in the mid 90’s and I couldn’t fish the whole day, I talked it over with the tournament director and he said I could weigh in early and leave. Long story short I fished 4 hours and weighed in 24pound 7 ounces. I thought I might win it without being there at the weigh in. Surprise surprise, I didn’t cash a check, I didn’t even make the top 10, that’s how great the lake was back then. Of course the lake had weeds back then, now there’s no vegetation and carp are everywhere. What a shame.