 It smelled like they had been sniffed. Ha ha ha! So good! Welcome back to the channel, y'all. We are here in Paradise, Jimmy Land. We don't have the rain today, so it's gonna be fun time and hopefully be able to catch some big bass with Jimmy Houston. That doesn't sound very bad at all, does it? Yeah, I think it's gonna be a fun day. Check out the water from the rain. All the rain we had, I figured it might murk it up, but no, it's not murky because it has gorgeous grass in it. And I was also looking for Lucy. She's the star deer around here and she sleeps on the back deck and I just found her. So she just, she's just waking up for the morning. So before we get to fishing, let's go say hi to Lucy. Good morning. Good morning, Lucy. How are you? Good morning. So she sleeps out here on this little bedding scenario where deer can come and sleep and feel safe. How are you doing this morning? Are you doing good? Are you doing good? Yeah, you're shedding. You're shedding, girl. She'll literally just go up to the windows. Jimmy makes her breakfast, feeds it to her in a bowl. It is incredible. And she had a little mishap. She got caught in a fence or something. And so she's got a, she's got a couple of battle scars, but y'all petting a deer is just a weird feeling. Okay, Lucy, you wanna go fishing? You wanna go fishing today? Yeah? She's all about it. Look at that tongue action. I'm gonna go get some tackle ready. Whenever you're ready, you just hoof up and come on over, okay? Is this the horse we're riding in on right here? Yeah. Yeah, we'll go ahead and take this mule here. Okay. Goin' fishing with the man himself, Jimmy Houston. We're going catching. We're not just going fishing. We're going catching. Now that's pretty brazen to say something like that. When we've got big rain come in here, now we got bluebirds skies. Everybody says it's the worst kind of day. We're gonna take the worst kind of day and make it the best kind of day. I love that. Exactly what we're gonna do. He is a positive all the time. Every day is gonna be a great one. Every day. Did you feed Lucy this morning? I fed Lucy this morning. She got her Cheerios and carrots and grapes and bread and vanilla cookies. I walk in the woods and I don't see her around. I just go start walkin' in the woods and pretty soon she shows up. She's right there with me. Oh, I'm not buckled up. That's why I'm dingin'. Yeah, you're dingin'. I just thought you was a little dingy. No, I'm not. It's kind of like going fishing. We're going fishing a little dingy. These are Ranch Road Laws, people. Ranch Road Laws. You have this lake out here that one of them, the dam busted on. Right, back in 2015, so it was five or six years past that. That one's coming back. We caught some good fish out of that yesterday. This one we're going to today is a bit older. There's some bigger fish in it. I built, it does have, I caught 11 pounder out of it this year and we might catch a really giant fish today, obviously. But I built this lake in 2003, 2005. It was actually 2007 before we finally got full of water. It's pretty low right now. We haven't had much rain yet for this year's rain. We got about an inch lower than an inch, an inch three yesterday. But the lake will come up, we get these rain rains. But it's down kind of low, but one of the things that I've always liked about fishing lakes when they're a little bit low is the fish didn't have new, new swimming places to hide. Some of their hidey places is dry land, so they got to be in the water. This is a dream come true, y'all. I know that's a cliche, but literally me and my dad growing up watching Jimmy on TV and, you know, hey, Sugar Booga, man, y'all, me, all that. And now I'm going fishing with Jimmy today. You know, we've been doing that show for 45 years and you'll remember this sometime down the road. You'll remember me telling you this, but it just seems like that we just started this television show yesterday and I can remember some of the early deals and all the early trials and tribulations and getting the television show started. Of course, that was way back before things like YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and all the stuff that is a big part of media today. And unfortunately, television is still a big part of media, but you know, if somebody would have said, do you think there's any possibility that you'll be doing this 45 years from now and you're going, not a chance, not a chance. But it happens, it happens in a hurry, but you know, when you spend 45 years running around the country fishing and meeting all the great people you get to meet and fish with, it's just like a blessing. You talk about attitude, it's like a blessing every single day, every single day. Well, you've had one pack of a life in the fishing industry. Oh, here they are. One on the outside, he's visiting over here saying, why don't y'all open that gate, let me in there. And the one on the outside might be the opposite. All those on the inside might be, look how big they are, isn't it? They're just such huge animals. They're horses. Look at this big cow right here, this second one, she is so big. And yet they can run through the woods with the big racks, these are all cows. I saw a young bull the other day, a five by five. I still had his horns left over from last year. You see the baby over there on the other side, you can just barely see the baby. Oh, listen, listen, okay. He's bare, he's bare. Get out of dodge. Floating away. I mean, starting the morning off with some elk. There's some white tail over there. I saw a turkey this morning. Yeah. Oh, I thought you just talked about me. You're talking about a wild one. Okay. You are a wild turkey. Yeah, sometimes. This is the Jimmy Rig right here. We are ready to rock and roll. Got a very good rain. Everything's wet and everything will dry out in this wind, I promise you. We can get across on that wall over on that other side and get out of a lot of this wind. One of the reasons we get out of a lot of the wind is pretty chilly. That wind's cold this morning. It doesn't sound good when it starts. Does that spinning and cranks up? She's telling the fish, I'm here. I'm here to play. You can swim, but you can't hide, especially with life's scope. All right, go see if we can find a bunch of crappie right off the bat. I wanna go look in one little place. I love it. I know you love crappies. Excellent eating. Yeah, that too. Nobody gets bad at you if you play a bunch of them. I know. Golden crispies. Friends. Look at that beautiful sugar bogey, Jimmy. Back in the boat, big YouTube guy. I'm a big YouTube guy, gotta be. Oh man. That fish on the jig looks like. Gotta love it. Ah, yes sir. Oh, can I give it a sniff, Jimmy? You can sniff that when I look. Okay. I don't know, I've been kissing a few that smelled like they had been sniffed. So good. That is a good fish right there, man. Beautiful. Beautiful bass. That one picked it up kinda funny. It started swimming towards the boat and I had to catch up to it. Black and blue jig. I might have to. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty baby doll. Pretty baby doll. Yeah. I think they smell like honeysuckle. Oh. That one was getting up on the bank. This is a tasty one. You thought he was, didn't you? No. When I first hooked it, it loaded up real nice and I was like, oh. Yeah. I ate it. He ate it, had it down deep in it. Well, that's not the 11-pounder I told you was right here in this spot. There is a 11-pounder in this spot. Not quite. That's her little boyfriend. Yeah, that was on the same one. Oh, God. Monkey, huh? They pulled it and baited him. They did, they're doing that every time on the crawls. You know, Jimmy said there's 11-pounder in there and I gotta buy it. I put the full hook set on it. All right, Sugar-Bugger, I'm coming for you. Got him. That's a big one. That's a big one, I'm serious. Well, no, it ain't no 11-pounder. Oh, I thought that was the one, Jimmy. Yeah, I'm a-going. It's a nice fish, but you've got me dreaming. Jimmy's got a tendency to do that. Get you hyped up, love it. Not quite an 11. He could have been well, he might be something. But, Jimmy's on her. A lot of people have caught 11-pounders in his kitchen before they got there. Yeah, if it would have got off, you know, 10 feet from the boat, I would have told you. Definitely that 11-pounder. Oh, my gosh, they're doing it again. I mean, just, there's another one. He's got it. Man, they're doing, he's got it again. Got him that time. Got him that time. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Technically caught at this point, but. I like to sniff them. I like to get a little closer. That fish, and Jimmy might be right. There might be a few. There might be a few more in there. But it was a, bam, hit my bait. Nothing. And then it swimming it back to make another cast that hit it. Hit it again, so. Beautiful. See ya. All right, little update here. Well, Pat, he's getting in the other boat. He's gonna get some other wide shots. We got the Tucker boys over there and the old tracker. All right, dude. Yeah, but just in case he fell in, but yeah. Yeah, exactly. So tell it, tell me what we got going on here. What's the bite so far? We got a good situation going on right here. He just got in that tree back here and got three bites on one cast. Finally caught the fish on the third bite. And then I told him, I said, that could be a big, big bunch of fish right there since you got three bites. Could've been the same fish. And now we've caught about, what, seven or eight out of that one tree? Or right here in this area. I've got a big football head jig on and I'm dropping it, but it's three quarters. So it gets, you know, we're only at 12 or 14 foot of water. So it gets to the bottom pretty quickly. So I'm mostly swimming that thing. And, you know, just kind of jigging it and swimming it. And most of them are biting that bait swimming as opposed to fishing it on the bottom or dropping like we do a normal jig. We're kind of switching fishing a bait, a jig that you fish on the bottom. We're kind of fishing it like a swim jig. Looks like a bluegill or crawfish. Yeah, it just looks like a bluegill or crawfish or shad. Had that one. They had gum. And they keep doing that little pincher bite thing. Yeah. And that's crazy right there. So there's like a wad of fish out here, y'all. There's, and of course, what's happened and what happens when you have, when you have multiple fish at a big school like that is when you catch them, they're like chickens. They follow the other ones and they end up a lot of times, they end up a lot of times being out here around your boat, close to your boat. Look at that. Woo hoo. That's a catch. Got it. I like it. I like the Jimmy rule. I love the Jimmy rule. So we're just going to smash your barb down. That's a barbless hook rule. So true. Can't do it if you've got live hooks. I'm just getting kind of miserably low. Oh. You're right back there, son of a man. My trigger went off. Wait, you go. I was going to try to snipe that one from you. Oh, he's still following it. He's still following it. That's the bees, that's the bees. Figurate it. He ought to eat your swim bones. He ought to eat it. There you go. No. There you go. Oh man, I wonder, I wonder if that one's on a bed or something. Yeah. That one in that tree. Yeah, there was another one about that size that chased my jig just a second ago. I missed that one. I was earlier. Nope. Nope. There was a single. That's just beautiful hook right in the schnoz right there. That's a good fish. Perfect. Perfect right in the top of the hand. Just perfect fat belly. Got to love it. Man, Jimmy, you got some healthy ones. Very healthy. Beautiful. It's been a long time since I've watched fish hit it in clear water. Little flat runners. 42. Close enough. Close enough. I think we're going to cross. Maybe not. Got him. That's a good one. Man, they're all up on this flat. That one's got a little black spot on it's lip. Little dot. OK, I see the edge of the pond here. Oh, there. Runner. Oh, that's a fighter. He aimed for that. Oh, yeah. He aimed for that. There he was. He was trying to get there. We caught 41, 42. I think it was 43. That's another one, a black spot on it's lip. Well, I like the idea that it's a healthy fish, so that's a healthy fish. That is super healthy. That one that was caught that you had up there on that tree with your baby was on that tree, that fish just came up and caught it from behind. Oh, there he is. Up there in the dirt. That was in the dirt, man. That's a decent one. Pretty fish. Look at that. He's like he's sitting with his mouth open. Yes, boom. I mean, up there in like a foot of water. I don't know if I can lift you, you've got a big belly. Yeah. There we go. Yeah, that's nice. Mm, thick. Love to see it. Woo, gotta love it. Man, this is so much fun, Jimmy. Oh my gosh, y'all. We've got on a little bite here. And then it's just fun, fun, fun. Can't stop Jimmy, though. Can't stop Jimmy. He's energized or bunny. He won't quit fishing. Everybody's trying to go in for lunch. He's like, no, I'm going to catch a big one here on this point. I have a feeling he does that every day, Pat. Probably knows. Incredible day. We're going to go in, get a little bite to eat, then we're going to come back out here. I think these big fish are going to move up in this shallower water. And we'll catch a real nice one. But can't complain. We'll catch three, four pounders, just giving them sniffs and kisses out here on Jimmy's big old lake. Parker right here, come back after we have a little bite to eat, little locale bluebell. Like a style. So far, all the action has been really good. And it seems like these fish are wanting it on the swim. And I can't remember the last time I've caught so many fish, both this lake and the lake we're fishing today. Swimming the jig, it's not like they're hitting it as it's on the bottom. We're having to crawl it. They're wanting it kind of moving. But there's one more thing we need in this video today. And this is just a personal, awesome thing for me to remember forever. I want to sniff a bass with Jimmy while he's kissing a bass. That is just a dream come true type stuff. Get a photo on the wall. Get him to sign it sort of thing. So got to go do that. And that is the ultimate like button smash. It has already been awesome just being here. But oh, man, if we can do that, let's go see what old Lucy thinks about it so far. See what she thinks the weather conditions are going to bring. Judging by the deer's actions right now, the ones I've seen, they're all bedded up. So I hope the bass aren't doing the same. We're going to go catch some more bass, OK, Lucy? You good with that? OK, round two with Jimmy. After lunch. The after lunch special. There's something we got to do. I need this photo for my house. We have to keep a couple of five pounders. Five pounders sounds good. A couple of five pounders and take a nice photo. A sniff and a kiss. Sniff and a kiss. Oh, my. I'll put that over the nightstand, you know? Put it in your bedroom. Yeah. Can't get any better than that. When you get 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, which is very soon. It's not too far away. We're a little bit over 90,000 right now. And when we have 100,000 on YouTube, we're going to draw a coupon out. And we've got a name and number for everybody's coupon in a big golden hopper. I always wanted a golden hopper. I have a golden hopper. And we're going to draw that out. We're going to draw of our people, one for YouTube and one for our Facebook followers. And they will win a trip here to fish with me on this lake. 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You can go check out Jimmy's channel and subscribe and sign up. And you can come out here, too. You can come and fish, right, Ace? With Jimmy. Get on. You got one. Oh, what have you got? The healthy one. Yeah, nice one. Nice one, Dave. Oh, that's not being big of a day. First one of the afternoon. Yeah. Healthy, healthy, healthy. That's right. Start the afternoon off out here. First bite of the afternoon. Yeah. Dandy. Oh, that was a crappy. That was a crappy. That was a crappy. I was like, what do you want? I want a good one. I want a good one. I want a good one. I want a good one. Oh, that was a crappy. A crappy. Yeah, black crappy. See, this is what I like about Jimmy Houston. I fish with other people. I get a crappy bite. They're like, ah. Me? Jimmy? We're turning the boat around. You can get the crappie jig for a second. Oh, oh, yep. Crappie bite. Little crappie nibble right there. Yep. Oh, come off. Getting a little snippy. Got that one. There we go. There we go. Beautiful. Now that is one of the best ways in the world to find and catch a messy crappie. Get one to hit a bass bait. Get one to hit a bass bait. And looky there. Look at that pair. Get that pair with you. Look at that. Yeehaw. There you go. All right, little crappies. There you go. See you later. Beautiful crappies. Pretty good job. Oh, yeah. Nice one. Oh, my gosh. Eat it on top. Oh, come off. Oh, Jimmy, no. Eat it on top. Burning that swim jig. That was a good one. I bet it could have been the same one. Oh, yeah. Man, it ran. Halfway across the pond. Lose the big one. Fun nonetheless. On top, too, in the dirt. Pretty good fish, too. I think so. Oh, yeah. Nice fish. Oh, yeah. In the dirt, baby. Oh, it's down. Down the hatch. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. That's one of them sugarbuggers. Dang, you got him. Maybe not. Swim jig bass. Man. That is cool. That is cool. That's it. That eat was just like the ones on your spinnerbait. It was up on the top and it was just so exciting. And you just wanted it fast. Oh, he pulled off right there. I saw him. I saw him. I saw him. Cops. Cops. That was a little one. All right, so I just switched up my jig trailer to a little chartreuse color. Chartreuse pepper. And I'm just swimming this like a spinnerbait. I saw Jimmy catch him waking his spinnerbait on the surface and they were eating it like a topwater. So I just put on a little bit bigger trailer on this quarter ounce. I started reeling it on top and I've had two topwater strikes on it. One being a really good one. So that's just five dimes. Reeling it in and getting bopped. Oh, gosh. Big one ate it right there. Oh, man. Oh, goodness. Ah, it's a good one. Oh, man. Oh, goodness. See if I can... I'll take some more of that. What was that order number? So I'm rigging this swim jig. Extremely simple. But there's two plastic keepers on this hook shank right here. And for the cracking craw, which puts out a ton of vibe, it's going to lift your jig a lot. So just be mindful of that. If you want to get it down a little deeper, you could put a more subtle plastic on there. But taking that top section off, feeding it through, coming straight out the top, get it on both plastic keepers. Make sure to separate those tails. And this is just black and blue, which I really just throw black and blue or some sort of like green pumpkin color, usually white in the fall. But usually a darker color in the springtime. And then I just had a wild here and threw a little chartreuse on there. It actually looks really, really good in the water. It pops. Those tails kicking. So these fish are just coming up on top of the water, eating it like they would on a, you know, topwater buzzbait or something like that. Wait, Jimmy, he's waking that spinnerbait. Oh, gosh. Oh, geez, look at that streamer. Little one. He had me all over. Loose spot. We're going to stop at a little hump here real quick. Break out a jig. Give it a dangle. Yup. Nope, not a begging. Dragging the jig back there. I thought that was how that big one was going to latch on. Got him. It's a good one. He's coming out of here in the open. Oh, yeah. That's a begging. I'm waiting on that one. Oh, it's a fat one. Ooh. Marcy. Sugar bugger. Look at that belly, man. That's a gorgeous one. That's a fiber. Nice. On that jig, finally. As long as that's okay. Oh, no. Don't line. Don't break. That's a good one. Put away in the day. Woo-hoo, Jimmy. Keep it. Oh, look at that big mouth. Ooh. That big body. Won't that be sweet? Those are about the same size. That one is just all belly. Belly on that crater. Woo-hoo. Getting late in the day, folks. We've got a couple of juices in the well. You know, we're going to get that legendary picture. I caught a big one on the jig. I don't know what to say, y'all. A dream come true out here. Fishing with Jimmy. Being on the boat with Pat, the man behind the whole entire masterpiece. 27 years. Just honored. Truly honored. All right, look at these pigs, y'all. Those are some beauties. Look at the bellies on those boogers. Another fat one. Sugar boogers. And we're going to let them go here. I thought it would be an amazing shot just to get a sniff and a kiss. Jimmy, I got to take my hand off. I got to get a little Jimmy going on here. There we go. There we go. All right. I love it. All right, here we go. Little tongue. All right, let's put these baby dolls back. You got it, dude. Good play. Jimmy, I owe you a huge thank you not just for today, but for leading the way in the industry and paving a path for guys like me that just want to try to be like you. You're doing an awful good job at it. Been a lot of fun out here today and we will do this some more. We fish pretty well together. You didn't get hung up too much today and I didn't get hung up today because he appreciated that. I know I appreciate him. I know how it is. We caught 44 this morning. I think we're at 38. So what would it be, 82? You got to catch more in your old. I did that before. If we were fishing with Roland we'd have to catch a few more in Bill. Lord, I apologize. Got to love it. Thank you so much for tuning in today. Make sure to go subscribe to Jimmy and you got to smash that like button for greatness. God bless. We'll see you.