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Dalton Smith

Full-time bass fishing guide on Lake O.H. Ivie, Texas, and owner of Dsmithfishing Guide Service, known for trophy largemouth catches and Bassmaster Opens competition.

Oct 27, 2026

2:54
What should they do? What action should they take to go out and see all this when you guys are in town?
3:00
Yeah.
3:00
So at Saunders Ferry Park there on Old Hickory Lake, man, it's, We just left it, and it is absolutely amazing.
3:08
It's free to the public.
3:09
We've got stuff for the family, for the kids to do.
3:11
We've got petting zoos, BB gun ranges.
3:14
There's going to be giveaways going on, bands playing throughout the day on the champion stage, and just a bunch of sponsors out there activating, you know, Bass Pro Shops, Phoenix Bass Boats, Monster Energy.
5:32
I mean, come on with that, right?
RichHOST
6:01
Can you allude to some of those tendencies that you see fish do that you can take one of those tendencies that you see them doing on the screen and say, okay, that's more likely that it's going to be a bass?
6:12
Yeah, I mean, I guess to really just, I mean, slightly break it down is I like to either watch or flip at every big fish we see on scope.
6:24
And if it's a bass, you know, she's going to kick off a certain way or she's like super locked on her bed.
6:29
I mean, she's going to just nose down to it.
6:32
And, you know, and you just whether whatever they're spawning on, you just try to find that sweet spot, just like you would with your eyes.
6:38
I mean, if it's flat calm, we love to sight fish.
6:41
But unfortunately, we deal with a lot of wind out here.

19 MINS LATER

26:05
So
23:24
Like what are the actual tools that you're using to catch these giants?
23:31
Right.
23:31
So obviously forward facing sonar is a big player in how we catch these fish.
23:36
There is a time period though, I hear when these fish get up and we have all those salt seers I was talking about that you can just go chunk of a big swim bait, like a whale, a six inch whale or something, that kind of style of a bait.
23:48
But forward facing sonar and really these deep dinner plates.
23:53
I mean, these big fish like to live deep most of the time of the year.
23:55
Right.

31 MINS LATER

54:36
Is that what a typical day is like?

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