Massive Mayfly Hatch Triggers an Absolute Feeding Frenzy!

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Hey y'all. Welcome back to Whistleruchi River Outdoors. Today me and daddy's down at Lake Talquin just south of Tallahassee, Florida. Today we're going to be targeting freshwater species like crappie and bluegill. Stay tuned for some exciting action. Y'all want to go fishing? Well, come on. Let's go.

[00:00:41]Heat. Heat.

[00:01:16]47 seconds.

[00:01:32]chick.

[00:01:35]Look how pretty. It's a beautiful rooster, y'all.

[00:01:42]It's coming right up to me.

[00:01:48]Throw one time.

[00:02:26]Cheers. Cheers.

[00:02:34]Heat. Heat.

[00:03:38]We're on the Leyon County side at Co Landing.

[00:03:45]There's the map of Lake Topin.

[00:03:48]We're down here at the first public boat ramp, which is very nice.

[00:03:54]has all the amenities.

[00:03:58]Has a nice fish cleaning station over here.

[00:04:08]Looks like a old skeleton. I think I know I'm looking at him.

[00:05:01]Get him.

[00:05:02]What is that? A little Oh, a war mouth.

[00:05:06]All right, y'all. Daddy broke the spell.

[00:05:08]He got the first fish of the day.

[00:05:11]Pretty little warmouth.

[00:05:15]Some people call them goggle eyes.

[00:05:18]There he is.

[00:05:20]>> Chunking.

[00:05:20]>> Yeah. Throw him back.

[00:05:27]That breeze still feels good, doesn't it?

[00:05:32]Got one. All right, get him. Looks like a warm mouth again. Is it >> brim?

[00:05:39]Little brim.

[00:05:41]>> Yeah. Red belly right there.

[00:05:42]>> Yeah, it looks like Yep. Sure is.

[00:05:50]>> That little rascal.

[00:05:52]>> Yeah, he's healthy.

[00:05:55]Yep, that's a good one.

[00:05:58]You want that one?

[00:06:01]>> Yeah, you can chunk him in there in case we don't catch nothing. He's behind you over there.

[00:06:09]There's a squirrel right there.

[00:06:28]Got him.

[00:06:30]Little old baby.

[00:06:38]Pretty little chub. Stump knocker.

[00:06:42]Be free.

[00:06:45]That wind is getting overpowering, ain't it?

[00:06:51]>> Just a tiny breeze.

[00:06:54]>> Yeah. And this trolling motor ain't doing diddly squat either on the low setting. Look at them. They ain't scared.

[00:07:02]They playing.

[00:07:05]Little p squirrels right here.

[00:07:10]Can y'all see that? There they go over there. There's three of them.

[00:07:16]Better watch your little jig right there.

[00:07:31]>> He just flew out of this nest.

[00:07:37]Our friend live in the tree behind us >> again right up there pretty close >> where >> see where my fish bowl point.

[00:07:48]>> Oh, >> see move.

[00:07:49]>> Oh, I think I see a nest up here.

[00:07:53]There's a osprey nest up there, y'all.

[00:07:55]It's got a osprey in it. Every once in a while you can see him poke his head up.

[00:08:01]Must have some babies or some eggs in there.

[00:08:06]I don't know if you can see her white head.

[00:08:15]>> How deep is it out here?

[00:08:17]>> Oh, nobody know.

[00:08:29]>> Oh, red belly. Or no, that's a brim.

[00:08:37]That'll work.

[00:08:41]You can see the bottom.

[00:08:44]>> That's a nice one, y'all. Good eating size.

[00:08:48]All right, let me chunk it in. You live well. We'll take either one. Look how big that lollipad is. Holy mackerel.

[00:09:00]They're eating mayflies off the top.

[00:09:04]Nailed that one. Oh, that's a good one.

[00:09:09]>> Crickets.

[00:09:12]All right, y'all. Finally got one. Feels like a good one. Yep. There we go.

[00:09:27]There we go, y'all. It's a good little brown.

[00:09:32]Look at the mayflies on the water.

[00:09:36]You see them?

[00:09:41]May >> or they're laying eggs. I don't know what they're doing.

[00:09:55]Yeah. Do not look away or you're going to miss it.

[00:10:03]I snag that little bitty.

[00:10:08]I don't know if y'all can >> maybe little small brim. Let him go.

[00:10:16]I don't know if y'all can see it or not, but there's mayflies all over the top of the water here.

[00:10:23]These fish are just sitting there tearing them up, gorging themselves.

[00:10:37]I'll be glad when my crickets are ready.

[00:10:40]They're going to be big giants.

[00:11:09]nice little eating size brown.

[00:11:15]I'll let him go.

[00:11:18]Be free.

[00:11:20]>> Get in the dang net.

[00:11:22]broke my >> hold on.

[00:11:39]Hold on a second, Jack.

[00:11:42]Whoa.

[00:11:47]Live action.

[00:11:49]Which side is it coming to? on the left.

[00:11:55]>> Good lord, we got some stuff in this boat. Holy mackerel. What is that?

[00:11:59]>> That might be a catfish.

[00:12:03]>> Pull him on in some.

[00:12:06]Yeah, that's a big old giant catfish.

[00:12:09]Uh-oh. He's on the motor under the boat.

[00:12:22]Look at the mayflies on these trees.

[00:12:39]Oh, almost got you. Oh, I got you that time.

[00:12:41]>> You got him.

[00:12:42]>> Yeah.

[00:12:44]>> Wow.

[00:12:45]>> Yeah, that's a big giant.

[00:12:49]Yep. He's eating me flies, too, wasn't he?

[00:12:52]>> Well, I think that's it for your rod, I believe.

[00:12:54]>> He snapped that joker in half.

[00:12:56]>> You want me to set him down or what?

[00:13:01]>> Man, that's a good We're in Mayfly heaven over here, ain't we?

[00:13:07]>> Yeah. I need >> I'm going to need the needle nose.

[00:13:14]>> All right, hold on. I'm trying not to fall in the water.

[00:13:22]Here you go.

[00:13:25]>> Yeah, that's a big giant there.

[00:13:35]That's boss hog there, ain't it? It >> is.

[00:13:44]That would have had me.

[00:13:46]four pound bass to start with.

[00:13:48]>> Yeah, that would have been nice. That's a big giant catfish though.

[00:13:56]He's swarming again. Look at them.

[00:14:03]>> See, we went by out there in the middle of the lake.

[00:14:06]>> Yeah.

[00:14:07]>> And I saw one Oh, got him that time.

[00:14:17]All right, come on in here, little brim.

[00:14:19]These are little compared to Well, he said he threw a pile of them back.

[00:14:25]He's pretty though. Real clean looking.

[00:14:28]Be free.

[00:14:30]>> River Lake may flies all over the place.

[00:14:53]Got you that time. That's a better one.

[00:14:57]That one's going in the fish box.

[00:15:06]Good eating size.

[00:15:28]Gotcha.

[00:15:30]Come on in here.

[00:15:33]These are just right to eat.

[00:15:37]Need to be a little bit bigger though.

[00:15:41]Might have to callull some out later hopefully.

[00:15:54]They're striking away up here, ain't they?

[00:16:01]It's a helicopter. Boy, look at them swarming right there.

[00:16:23]It's a little teeny weeny.

[00:16:28]Be free.

[00:16:48]Bunch of nice little brim.

[00:16:51]Not those big ones yet.

[00:16:58]Be free.

[00:17:03]Yeah. Million of them.

[00:17:14]That's what them are. See them little splashes like that? That's them little babies.

[00:17:20]Little teeny rainy dudes.

[00:17:24]>> Yeah.

[00:17:32]Dad, come in, man.

[00:17:35]Boy, they take it down whenever they get it. They must be racing each other or something.

[00:17:44]I already blowed it to pieces. I done blowed two of them to pieces. What the heck is that swimming right there?

[00:17:51]That's a alligator. See it? Oh, let me get my phone.

[00:17:57]Yeah.

[00:18:00]>> All right, dude. Where did you go?

[00:18:08]He didn't want to be on YouTube.

[00:18:18]He can probably see millions of fish down there.

[00:18:23]There's a little gator right there, y'all. I don't know if you can see him or not.

[00:18:28]I didn't catch him when he was right beside me. He went under.

[00:18:41]>> Got something really man.

[00:18:47]>> A little brim.

[00:18:48]>> Yep. A little brim.

[00:18:51]There's a million of them apparently.

[00:18:57]>> That gator is trying to get one.

[00:19:00]>> Him down there.

[00:19:01]>> Yeah.

[00:19:03]Sound like he got something.

[00:19:07]We need to go up there and see what he's doing.

[00:19:10]I hear him crunching.

[00:19:13]>> One of them little fish.

[00:19:14]>> Yep. I got one finally. Oh, that feels like a good one. Come on. Be a big one.

[00:19:20]There he is.

[00:19:24]>> He's barely bigger.

[00:19:27]>> It was pulling though.

[00:19:28]>> Yeah.

[00:19:30]>> Yeah. Mine was pulling.

[00:19:36]>> That's a little bit better. Not great, but big enough to eat.

[00:19:43]Look at all of them.

[00:19:46]That black bird's working them.

[00:19:52]Got it.

[00:19:59]All right, we're going to try to move to another spot. There's just a million teeny ones right here and no shade.

[00:20:13]Look at all the mayflies out.

[00:20:17]Heat.

[00:20:32]Heat.

[00:20:47]here.

[00:21:00]Heat.

[00:21:21]lay in that tree. Look at him in my mouth.

[00:21:26]He went under.

[00:21:34]Holy macaroni.

[00:21:36]The Blitz Creek bullets are over here.

[00:21:43]Get him.

[00:21:52]>> Why did your granddaddy's brother's name live down 20?

[00:21:58]>> Uh, El, not Elboy. Uh, uh, Harris. It's Uncle Haros.

[00:22:18]Good lord. Look at that. Just as soon as that hit the water, he was waiting.

[00:22:26]He's got a little bit of color on him.

[00:22:32]Yeah.

[00:22:34]Little old brim.

[00:22:39]Be free little breeze. A little side.

[00:22:42]They're all the same size.

[00:22:52]Get him.

[00:23:03]I >> hung that one finally.

[00:23:06]Yeah, it is.

[00:23:09]Oh, that's a little bit better.

[00:23:11]Had to start keeping some. We ain't have nothing to eat.

[00:23:17]>> Of course we are. Hey, look. My legs are red.

[00:23:26]That's a good one. Not great. Eatable.

[00:23:32]Edible.

[00:23:37]Thank you, Lord.

[00:23:43]Just as soon as I threw it in.

[00:23:47]Come on. Be a giant red belly.

[00:23:51]Hey, that's better.

[00:23:57]Thank you, Lord. Youch. Eh.

[00:24:07]That's more like it.

[00:24:12]Uh, he's got some purple on him. Might be a copper nose.

[00:24:20]>> No alligator.

[00:24:22]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:24:25]That's a bigger one, isn't it?

[00:24:27]>> Yeah.

[00:24:28]>> We probably talking talked him off the log, didn't we?

[00:24:32]There's a big gator cruising out.

[00:24:39]He was over here in this nice >> Look at there >> area right here.

[00:24:56]>> Good. Not alive. And I missed him after all that.

[00:25:01]It's like it pulls right out of their mouth. That was weird.

[00:25:10]It's getting warm 30 now, isn't it?

[00:25:42]Well, he was still there and my cork stand up. Did you see that?

[00:25:46]>> Uhuh.

[00:25:48]>> Right there where them bubbles are.

[00:25:53]I think you too close getting in that goop up in there.

[00:26:12]Sounds like them birds have been eating good, too. Get him. You're He's going under.

[00:26:24]I see another one.

[00:26:25]>> Yeah. Peanut knucklehead.

[00:26:28]I snagged that one. That feels like a good one. Come on in here. Oh, I did snag him.

[00:26:37]That's crazy. I snagged him in his eyeball. That's how fast they running up here hitting these. Uh, what you doing back there, old fella?

[00:26:46]>> Got a little light thing up and decided to jump out of the Yeah, it don't stand there very good.

[00:26:55]You caught one red belly and that was it, wasn't it?

[00:27:02]Pull him in.

[00:27:04]That's a better one, ain't it?

[00:27:09]>> He's bigger than them other ones. Those brown, they don't get thick till they get like 2 years old or something.

[00:27:19]That's a keeper.

[00:27:21]Way bigger than what we've been catching.

[00:27:28]>> Still stri.

[00:27:30]>> Yep.

[00:27:31]It's probably got some uh mayflies in that tree. I found a little alligator.

[00:27:38]He's on that log right there.

[00:27:48]There's a gator on this log, y'all.

[00:27:50]Little small one.

[00:27:57]There he goes.

[00:29:01]Yeah, you might know there's an alligator out here. We in Florida, ain't we?

[00:29:06]>> Yeah. He ain't too scared, is he? We were real close, like 5t from him. He's just looking.

[00:29:16]He's like, I want to get on my log.

[00:29:18]Would you get out of here?

[00:29:22]>> Yep. Figured.

[00:29:26]Now that I took off, the haha is drying his wings.

[00:29:35]Sure does.

[00:29:50]There's a little gator over there in them lily pads. See him?

[00:29:59]>> There he goes.

[00:30:01]This looks like a good gator treat on it.

[00:30:04]>> Yeah. Let's see. 5 ft.

[00:30:08]>> He's bigger now. He's probably 6 foot at least.

[00:30:16]A little bit bigger.

[00:30:32]Heat. Heat.

[00:30:54]Heat. Heat.

[00:31:17]Heat. Heat.

[00:31:39]Heat.

[00:31:53]Heat.

[00:32:02]Heat.

[00:32:14]Heat.

[00:32:45]All right, y'all. It's about 3:00. We're going to call it quits. Thank y'all for watching. God bless y'all. See y'all next time. Byebye.