 Oh my gosh! Matt, get the net! Dude, I'm serious, this might be my PB. Paper mouth. Welcome all back to the channel, everybody! Man, full sunscreen on the feet right now. It's much needed. Yesterday was a little bit of a situation. You have gotten schizorged. That's nuclear. It's bad. So here's the situation we got going on here, folks. First of all, gogansquad.com Fourth of July threads going on, including our new Squad Tech limited edition hoodie. Get you some. Make sure to get you a nice cap on your face. Represent that red, white, blue out there on the water this year. Just don't get too red. Lake down in the description, folks. Okay, so here we are at Lake Fork. Me and Matt were just over at a lake not too far from here, Cedar Creek Lake, and found a little bit of crappie action. Seemed kind of good. And then you were just here with our buddy, LunkersTV, just a bit ago. And you guys called me and you were like, there's crappie everywhere, there's crappie. I'm like, how many have you caught? You're like, done. We're bass fishing. I'm like, what do you do? Oh my gosh, already. First little pile we come across. We're not even out of the marinias. June and early summer, when all the crappie and bass, too, when they start to move offshore, especially in a lake that has trees like this, it can be some of the most incredible fishing that you do just by sitting in one spot. That's what we're going to try to do here. I've got some old waypoints. We'll search out some new stuff. But I've got a green cooler here behind me. The goal is to fill that thing up with some delicious pork chops of the lake. So that's what we're going to do. All right, I got to remember how to run out of here first. Because the last time I was here, you guys know, I bent my crop shaft and the silver bullet was out of commission. So let's take our time. Be careful. Um, yeah, we're about to catch them. That's about all there is to that. Fish on. Are you the first one to catch one? Oh, that's a keeper. Nice, beautiful. Just look at him. Dude, look at that freaking guy. Oh dude, he's got the black stripe down his back. Is that like extra bonus points? That's bonus points, man. You know how tasty that thing is going to be? Well, it didn't take long for Matt to, uh, pump into the first one here. Barely got my GoPro on. Beautiful color on that guy, too. I think he wanted that one. That's, uh, that's probably one of the first crappie caught on the Guggen Finesse. Finesse light. Felt a good pop on him. Let's see. Actually, we'll just go ahead and throw them on ice. Get them chilled down here. So I'm just going to go ahead and let you know. Yeah. You got bit like three times, right? Yeah. So this is an eighth ounce jig head, y'all. And just got a little, you know, shad looking plastic on there. I've got a 10 pound leader on, I think this is 10 pound braid as well. And, um, just making a little pitch out in front. There's a tree down here. We're just doing the swing method. So we're going to let that crappie jig swing into the fish. And you're looking for your line to just twitch, pop. Yes. Got to bend it back. Oh, oh, got him. Oh my gosh. Literally had him on the line. Got him. Literally like two feet down. Oh my gosh. Giant. This is a giant. Look at this thing. I got going on here. That thing was five feet under the trolling motor. I literally just had a rod's length of line out. Now, buddy, if you don't like catching hog jammers like that on a Wednesday afternoon, you just ain't American. This is the huddle house going. Yes, there's a story behind why we're here today. Just above them. That one's rising up. Come get it. Yep. You're about to get got him. No, he's looking at it though. He's still on it. He came away from the ponds to get some. Here we go. Here he comes. Got him. Got him. Oh, God, he came off. Having a little hookup issue here. Got him. That was such a light bite. Little guy throwing back. Oh gosh. That was a beautiful hit to watch right there. Love to see it. You're going home. No. It's the moment I said, you're going home. He was like, nope, no, not. And now I'm going to go tell all of my friends not to buy your lure. I think we have to get on top of them because the last two that I've caught, it's like straight up dangle. Got him. Take her easy. Take her easy on the reel. There we go. Light bite. Oh gosh. I almost lost that one too. I just took it really easy on that fish and look at the hole that's in its mouth right here. So very much different than a winter fish who's going to have a, you know, a much, much stiffer lip, I guess you could say. We are 10 inches. Oh, it tastes a little filet about 12 foot dead stick. Oh gosh. That was not a gentle pull up. I mean, they just want to look at it. Sometimes they just like to look at it. I think you've got to get a little bit more in their wheelhouse. They're way from the tree. You know, I always like to try that little pitch method, the swing method first, but in the summer things can get pretty still and sometimes you just have to get right on top of them. I think that's what we're going to do here and we're just going to give them that dead stick. I don't know why I crop you just like it sitting still, but you can really figure this out watching the electronics with Lyscope. You see that they, they just tend to like to eat it when it's sitting still. So anyway, they're lazy, I guess. We're right. We're still a little out 15 feet ahead. This is the same kind of deal. It's a bit over tree. I like the dead stick. Oh, is that what we're, dude, the one that's still on my jig right now is giant. No, I'm not going to do it today. What do we want? What do we want? We might go with orange since Matt's throwing pink. I like this sickle cell, sickle, sickle cell, my goodness. I like the sickle style hook, especially this time of year because that, that little notch in there keeps those fish on where a regular style hook you'll lose a little bit more. Never throw in this color combo. We're going to try it. Orange, black and pink. That is, that's a specimen there. Here we go. Like when I hit spot lock, I want spot lock. You know what I mean? This nonsense. How does this help anybody? It just causes disturbances too. Yeah, it's like, there's probably a tornado of currents down there. Oh, dude, well, bass just came up eight right there from the disturbance off the garment. There you go. Did you get a bit? Yeah. Saw it. Got him. Oh, that's a good, here we go. Oh, dude. Yeah, dude, they're paper mouth right now. So we just got a, both flips are difficult. Both flips are dangerous. Having a lot of escapees. What in the world is this dude? What's going on? We're just on this tree. There's no spot lock. Look at the, look at the crappie that I've all risen up. Did we just shake them up? I think we did. There we go. Oh my gosh. They're busting on it right now, but I'm not connecting. God, there we go. Soft mouth. Little buddies. Now there's a couple of tankers in there though. First little stint ended up with three. Not the, not the performance I was hoping for. We probably saw, I don't know, 60, 70 crappie. And then we're just kind of nipping at it. Spot lock. Nope. Nope, not easy. Just got tugged. Oh gosh. Oh, we're both hooked up. That's a big one. Oh my gosh. Matt, get the net. Dude, I'm serious. This might be my PB. Paper mouth. Oh my God. It's a giant. You know where the net is? Yes. Dude, dude, dude. I'm serious. This is a freaking giant. Where was the net? Oh my gosh. Dude, just, oh, if you lose this fish, I'm just going to have to tire him out, dude. Where's that net at? Right here, right here. Oh my God. It's a giant. Biggest cropping in my life. Coming around. One more pass. Ready? Yep. Hold on. Come on. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is it. This is it. Oh my gosh, dude. Look at that freaking fish. Holy cow. That looks like a bass. Oh my God. This is freaking massive. Oh my gosh. Let's get this thing on the, I don't know about weight-wise, but length-wise, this is next level. My PBA is like, I don't even know. I know I've caught some, I think 16 inches is my longest one. I tried to anchor us. No way. It's not working. Oh my gosh, no. Don't shoot you with that. No. We're going to measure you down here. Look at this thing. This is an absolute hammer. 16.25. 16.25. It's pretty dead gum close. What is happening with our trolling motor? We have no spot lock. Yeah, just turn it off. There's no, there's zero point in having this thing on. That has got to be one of my biggest crappie ever. If this was like a March crappie, the weight on that thing, but it's skinny because it's summer. But my goodness, there are some slab stools out there on this thing. We're going to go old fashioned right now. I know we talk about all this bass fishing technology, but technology is failing us right now. I guess it needs to be recalibrated or something. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Ease up on it. Yeah, just, oh my gosh, dude, the amount of fish. Scan on that so that folks can see this. The one we're about to do these fish should be a crime. When I turn on the spot lock, which we're all used to now, it's like driving an automatic. It just goes in circles. Oh, you're on one. He's about to get it. I saw him lift up. There we go. Oh, wow, man. Oh, dude, that was a big one. You still got him. I think I was getting caught up in the tree with him. Yeah, I heard him. I think that's what was going on. Grinding on it. Not a good sound. I wish I could get on spot lock and just free time. I don't know how that would go. This one's definitely pretty snaggy. Oh, it popped on the boat. Got him. Popped on the side of the boat. Oh my God, dude, we're going to have to start netting him. Oh, I got him. God, what's happening on my reel? I don't think he would make it. Wow, that was like the deadest sticks. If that thing's 10 inches, he's going on the cooler. I don't think he's 10 inches. I don't think he's 10 inches, but this one caught in a while. Got one. This one feels good. He's going to get off. Don't do it. There we go. An absolute dead stick. That's what they want. Oh, that's a whopper in there. I didn't feel that last one either. There we go. Barely biting it. Come here, Chungus. Making moves. Making crappie moves. Oh my gosh. Look at the bass, dude. Look at the bass swimming in here. Dude, it's a freaking giant. Look at it. Oh my God. All right, folks, we had to switch gears. After catching a few more crappie because this next little crappie spot we're looking at just had some very large looking bass marks. You know, it's not going to hurt my feelings to catching eight plus pound bass out here. Come on now. Oh yeah, it's beautiful. She picked up the jig, just catch a juicy bass right in the middle of the day. That is good. That's fun to see right there, folks. Nice little slot fish. I can promise you though, we saw some juicy marks down there that are telling of some five plus pounders. I didn't even feel that bass bite. I just, it felt squishy right behind us. So they're off. They're off the point a little bit, a little deeper. I got him. I got him. He was in the top of the tree. He was right, I mean, just under the surface. Oh, it's bass. Got a bunch of bass up in here. There may be a few tree snags in the mix here, folks. Bug gets tugs. Oh, that's a big bass. What are we in right now? What is going on? I'm telling you, this tree dude has huge fish on it. There's no, there's no denying it. A giant bass just came up right on the boat. Oh, it ate that little bass I just threw back. Oh, I was wondering what happened there. Oh, we've been a little distracted with the large mouth. All right, folks. Last ditch effort here. Matt just got the biggest bass bite of his last three days of his life, he said. I just caught a crappie, but let me fill you in on what else happened. So I had my rod and I was up here and I was trying to get my GoPro to turn on and I had the line hanging over the trolling motor. Well, the trolling motor sucked in my line. I thought I had a giant, broke my line, I got it untangled and that was pretty much the end of that story right there. But we do have one last little pod of crappie. They're just not, they're just not activated. They're just not eating like they should. The bass and the crappie are usually it's like whatever's biting. I'm all, I'm all four. I go for whatever's biting the best. But today they both have the lockjaw having to really settle down on these crappie to get them. The bass, they just do the same thing. They'll bite it, but they're not really hanging on to it well. For some reason the spinning reel is on the right side. Does anybody else do that? Comment down below. I'd like to know a ratio. This has just been one of those days on, oh my gosh, big and smoked me. That is a big in there. Yes. Wow. Get up in this boat. Have they been activated? I might have just activated them. You know, we don't, we don't have a lot in the cooler, but what we do have is sort of a show to show you what we got happening in here. Just some big boys. Oh my, I'm just getting on these hammers right now with your gear. A little afternoon rally. This is back to the old ways. You gotta, you gotta throw them in the cooler super quick. You gotta get back on your spot. Coming up to it. Did not eat it. Gave her a daggum juicy dangle. Can't ask for any. I tried hard. Caught a giant croff. My face is sunburned. I'm shiny and oily. Worked up a good sweat out here today. My buddy. That's all you can really ask for. Oh, buddies. Folks, we have quite the bounty gathered up over, well, two days yesterday on a crankbait, on a recall. When I caught it, it was already attached to this crankbait. So it had two crankbaits in its mouth. Anytime you have something like that happen, you gotta keep that lure. Put it on the wall for a little keepsake and we have quite the bounty all. So we have actually white bass. We have giant crappie and we have catfish. It's time to make some crisps. Got an absolute smorgasbord here. I'm actually probably not even going to use the standard filet knife. That was just for show. I think it is important for everybody to know how to clean a fish. You're going to go out there and keep fish. You at least need to do them justice by getting the most meat you can off of them. By the way, these are the most uncomfortable sandals I've ever put on my life, but I think they're hilarious. Close, right? Resimulants. Really close in size. So you want to just go right behind the gill plates right here. The gill plates on a fish are located right here. There's these hard plates. Some of them can actually be sharp, so be careful. And you've also got this pectoral fin right here. And you just want to kind of lift that up with your knife. So what is nice about the electric is you can actually cut through the rib cage. It'll saw through the rib cage so you don't have to worry about going around that. You just want to make your cut at an angle right there behind that gill plate and that pectoral fin right there. You don't want to press too hard. You just want to go until you're to that backbone. That backbone is going to be your guide for flying across the side of the fish. The best little tip I can give you about using both kinds of knives is to constantly move it to try to get that knife to move over the little vertebrae and things like that. Because sometimes if you just use hard pressure and push and don't really use those small little shifts, you can cut through the backbone or you'll just get stuck on a backbone and then you'll dull your blade. Feather it up and down until you feel that knife push through and glide and keep doing that. So turn it sideways. Keep it close to the backbone. Feather it and then really bring it close down there to the spine at the end. You'll feel it kind of start to get easier as you go through that rib cage and then you want to just flip it over. Leave a little bit of scan on the end so you can have some grip to push the blade through right down in there all the way through and then you're left with a beautiful crappie filet but you've got a rib cage on it. So all you got to do is just cut right down the side of that rib cage there and crappie will usually have a little bit of extra meat down there towards the base so that is the wondrous filet, one of the highest grade freshwater fish that you can put in your mouth. All right y'all, we have done our cleaning and it's time to do some cooking. So we got all of our crappies, white bass, and even a catfish filet but what we're going to focus on here today is doing the half shell style. Now I know all you Cajun fishing freaks out there already know what I'm talking about. It's a popular way to do redfish and some other saltwater species but you can do this with crappie as well and it's excellent. What I've done here is you guys just watch me clean the fish outside and you clean these exact same way but this last one that I cleaned instead of going between the skin and the meat I just want to head and cut it right off at the end so you end up with a big old fat slab. Scales and all, rib cage still in there. Look at that pee, that's hand size. And I caught a random catfish so I'm throwing that in there as well especially with these heavier spices I'm going to be using a lot of black pepper, a lot of cayenne. This is actually sunflower seed oil. I don't think I've ever used that on fish. Try that out and we'll rub that in. Just going to give fish meat a little lubrication for the spice. For our base Cosmo SPG it's just an excellent base. I use this on fish, chicken, steaks. Love those dried chunks of garlic in there. Rock a little cayenne. Don't use too much. This stuff can be interesting on the taste buds. So we're going to set our grill at about 350-400 just kind of a medium temp and then we are going to let the flames come up underneath. Hit that half shell and just watch until the juices start coming out the top. That's going to be your indicator that fish is done. Ignore the catfish, I'm cooking that a different way. OSG cooking up the sides as usual. We got some cherries with some cheese. Cherries and cheese, that sounds terrible with fish. We could try to give her some fish but she really is not a fish. She's not into that fish game yet. She hasn't experienced her first good dangle. That's why. That's part of the problem. You got to get pride and catch the fish and then the fish tastes better. So what do we actually have? Go with the fish. Just some potatoes and onions. Your request. Potatoes and onions. Good starch with your fish is always good. She's eating for two. I am due in two months. Two months. Coming at you fast. Are you ready? Are you ready, Dad? Yeah, I was born ready. Sure. For dessert, we have the specials. OSG special cookies. Those are the Snickerdoodle classics. You're on your last leg of recipes on the cookbook. Got two more cookie recipes and then like 10 just all-time favorites like the cinnamon rolls, scones, brownies. For those that don't know, she's been working on a cookbook since the beginning of the year. It's launching in October, correct? Correct. And she's pretty much knocking it out before baby. She's just an overall, you know, super human life. I just love the whole operation we got going here and y'all. We parked the silver bullet in there. We do our fish cleaning down there. We bring them up here and then we cook them all up for the fan. It's just a circle of life. You got a bite for me? Okay. Thank you. The lap-tizers for me. You know, some water mixed with a little chalk. So the eggs at about 450. We're going to go ahead and throw these on. Got the kitty cats wrapped in tinfoil with some lemon in there. The slabs are just how you guys saw them. There we go. We're going to set a timer for 10 minutes. Really just want to look for those juices starting to come out and the meat starting to separate. Another lap-tires for me, Amy? Oh, delicious. Oh, yeah. I think the fishing freaks want some. Say hi, fishing freaks. Hi, fishing freaks. Let's go drink it up. It's weird. Oh, steamy. They're not sweating yet, but it's looking good. We'll set ourselves another timer for five minutes. Juices coming out of the cracks. It's like volcanic deliciousness. And that's how you know. It looks like it needs just a minute or two more. Who's ready for delicious fishes? I go to them lakes and I get them big old crappie for you. There's actually more than I can eat, but we'll work with it. I've never just had like one crappie, like a crappie filet for dinner, but I figured if there's going to be one, this is it. It almost looks like it's just like, I don't know. This would be well-served with some rumoulade sauce, spicy mayo, something like that, but it's whatever you want to do. Oh, you got a little kick in there. I like the flavor. You put some cayenne in there, didn't you? I did. Oh, I taste it. Daddy made it spicy. Daddy put a little cayenne on there for the Cajun fish and freaks. Extremely flaky, but I think I put a little overboard on the cayenne. A little bit. Just a little bit. A little rumoulade would be nice. You can put some ranch on there and be fine. Ranch would be okay. We'll make our own rumoulade here real quick. Catfish came out pretty good as well. There we go. Catfish is good. All righty, fish and freaks. That is going to wrap it up for our dango, our cleaning, our cooking, all of it. And what an awesome day on the water getting to catch a giant crappie like that. The fishing was a little off because of the full moon. The bass and the crappie weren't willing to bite like I thought they would, but just catching that big crappie was worth going out there. And cooking it up like we did on the half shell, just an awesome way. If you get one over 14 inches, cook it up on the grill or bake it. But doing it on the half shell like that is just a great way to get the most meat out of your big crappie that you catch. Thank you guys once again for tuning in today. Don't forget to check out all the fresh 4th of July flavored merch over at GooseWide.com. Link down below. Better be wearing your red, white, blue out there on the water this July. And I salute all you fishing freaks. God bless you. I'll see you soon.