 Got a little jump cape right there. Yeah. Just gonna fish it on it for a couple years. It's my best friend, Craig. Yeah. Pumping gas and catching bass ready to hit it hard today. It's my new last motto. There's nothing more. My best friend, Craig, loves them. Some top water bites. I mean, we've got most of our top water dreams tied on right now. We're going to see if it takes place. We are in the prime time of it. I'm excited. Craig's never been to this lake before. We've got reeds, grass, clear water. It is postponed. It is time to get those bloop bloop bloop. I'm so excited about today, y'all. Conditions are looking over. Cast top water. Oh, OK. There are some pads that are starting to surface. Popper? Well, you know what? I got a plot bait tied on. Oh, my gosh. It looks so good. Got grass growing out here to 10 foot. I don't know if we're going to get them on top water, but, man, at this moment in time, it just feels right. Oh, yeah. This is going to be golden. I'm miked up. I'm miked up, so. You got a hot mic. Woo! Look at that, guys. We got some dagum. Top cruisers. Looking for somebody to just come up and clap cheeks. Full cheek clap on this thing. I'm thinking there's probably going to be some fish cruising these outer grass lines post-spawn. But if we can't get this going, then we'll go up into the reeds and get dirty. There's always shallow fish. There's like two classes of fish after the spawn. Some just stay up there. They eat bluegills and some chase shad out on the deeper stuff. I've noticed you always prefer the shad chasers. Are they bigger out here? It's just a larger amount of fish. I feel like most of them will follow that shad program if there are a lot of shad. You can always go up in dirty shallow water in the heat of summer. And if there's bluegills around, if there's shade, you know, you got docks, whatever, there's going to be fish. I got some WD-40 in here if you want to give that thing a squirt. It's probably been a couple of years since you squirted that thing. There you go, bud. There he is. Get him. Oh, he spit it. I didn't get a great hook set this morning. That was a decent one. Yeah, you know what? It might be more of like a popper situation. Yeah, I think so, man. Not a great hook set. The wind was... Dude, yeah. It was like you were struggling a little bit. I really can't say anything because I haven't had a bite. Get him, buddy. Slow. That's the deal. Yeah, let it sit. Okay, putting on a popper. Can't stand it. So at this point, Craig has had two good bites on a frog, just letting it sit. So I switched over to the blooper, throwing it on a braid, and I'm just going to let it sit over these little grass spots. Just got to work it slow. The walking-style bait, you can still catch them on it, but that will start to get much better when the water gets a little warmer. And I pretty much put down the popper-style baits after June. There you go. Get that one in, Craig. I'm not sure what you're doing. I don't know what's going on with Craig back here. He's gotten like five bites, and these fish are just somehow getting off. I haven't missed a frog fish in 2007. I'm about to pick up a worm, dude, because I haven't had a single sniffy. Small poppin' frog? Do you see a small black one? Yes, I do. Oh, just had one on it. That's how you do it. Nope, no, we got it. That is a nice one. We got him on that glass rod. Hopefully he's not going to get too crazy on it. It's a big boy. He's got troubles in him, too. Look at this beautiful fish. That bite was awesome. Yeah, he was on it, and then he came up and popped it, dude. Oh, he's got it. He's got a mouthful of trouble. He's got it. Come here, buddy. Oh, look how beat up that fish is. That is beat. Is that a post spawn? He looks awful. Holy cow. That is the only bite that I've had today. But it is a quality bite. Five pounder topwater. I saw a boil behind the bait, and I was like, oh, there's one on it. And I just let it sit. Let it sit there. That's the thing with the blooper. You've got to let it sit. And then, wah-bam, literally you can see the bones in its tail. It's been spawning so hard. I'm going to get back in the water really quick. These fish are still up here, either guarding fry or they're chasing bluegill around. And this bloop, bloop, I don't know if you guys have ever heard. If it's real still, you'll sometimes hear bluegill popping little bugs and little things off the surface. And it's this little sound. And I think that's what makes this so attractive. Of course, you've got dying shad and all that. But this right here for me, post-spawn, like late April, early May, all through May really, it's the top water to go to, like I mentioned. So that was awesome. That's how you do it, Craig. You just get them in. I don't know. I don't know what to say. Look at the bluegill up there. You see him? I mean, they're like up there, dude. And I feel like most of your bites, you've only been three feet or less from the reeds. So these big bass will hang around and get their revenge on the bluegill that have been eating their eggs all spring. There you go, bud. See, like... I don't know. It's like little tweener grabs, you know? Give him that one Mississippi, two Mississippi. So I tried that on the other one. Looks like he's guarding his fry. See that? See the fry that he's guarding? Hopefully you guys can see this. But there's a bass, you know? There's about a two-pound bass. He's following this ball that looks like a little shrimp. But those are all tiny little bass. A couple of hundred of them. And that's the male bass, and he is guarding the fry. So he's coming under the boat right here to say hello. Hello? How you doing? He's going right back to his fry. So in this situation, you throw like a weightless plastic or something over that fry ball, you know? And that fish is not aware of you. Oh, there's another ball right here. It is going to eat that. And that's a lot of times what happens with topwater, too. You get it in that area and they'll come up and they'll smack it. You may not see that there's fry there, but it's a male bass that's guarding fry. I think some of the ones that you've missed today, Craig, is those fry garters. You know, they're just kind of swiping it. It's fun to be able to see these fish, but I think it's going to make things a little more difficult. Oh yeah, buddy. Get him. Is that a gar? I see a gar, but it looks like a bass. That's weird. It's right in that shade line. Oh, I got him. Good one. Nice. That is a nice one. Heck yeah, bud. That was out there, Louise. Long pause, too. Yeah, see, man? That's long, long pause. The bite is really interesting. Oh, he's barely hooked. I'm going to try both of them. That's a nice fish. Healthy. Heck yeah, that one is healthy. That's like the opposite of the other one. The other one was double mouthful, beat to hell. This one's beautiful. Just got a little bit of a stress mark on its tail. Otherwise, gorgeous fish. I'd say two and three quarters. Three pounder a month ago. Nice fish right there, guys. Topwater fish. We're kind of, you know, we're off that morning by just 9.30. But we still got these fish out of the cruise and these blue go beds. So we've got a big flat out in front of us. We'll try the topwater, but we've been talking like we're missing, we're really missing the majority of the bites by not throwing like a weightless bait, like a dart or a lunker log out here. But it's just so much more fun getting the topwater strikes, let's be honest. Oh, that's a bass. That look pretty good size, my friend. I'm going to let you recast there. Oh, yeah. There we go. Going slow, slow, slow. Right there. I'm going to do this grass. The lengthy pause, too. Leave, buddy. Barely hooked. Yeah, see, they're swiping it. They are. Were they hit the worm harder, you think? Yeah. I think they'll just, you know, be more apt to bite it. That's a super healthy fish, though, right there. Really healthy. Third fish on the blooper. It's like you're throwing a walking bait. You're just constantly looking at it. You know, you're checking out the action, making sure I'm going over the right thing right here. And with the blooper style and the frog style when it is slow like this, you almost just like pop it and you're like, hey, what's going on? What'd you do last night? What's going on? You almost have to disconnect yourself with the bait just to not work it. Also, your line is really important. You do not want to use fluorocarbon, especially with long pauses, because it's just going to send the nose of your bait down. Monofilament, even though, I like to use at least 14 pound. Usually I go with 15 pound mono. And that diameter is like the perfect size that floats. It still gives you great action. You can cast it really well. But even the line size will determine the buoyancy. But I've got braid on right here. I've got 40 pound braid. So braid floats. I like the no stretch. I went to a glass rod. It's really soft. So it still keeps the fish hooked up. Where I can give that real hard even on a long cast. What was your X-Box name? Brush Hog 05? Topwater Pop-R was one. Topwater Popper, Brush Hog 05. Brush Hog 05 was another. You had to pick an animal. Let's call it a land animal to transform into right now. And that's what you'd live out the rest of your life as. What would you do? A land based animal? Yeah. It's a good boat talk right here. Man, probably a cougar. A cougar? You got one on mine? Yes sir. Here we go, sign of life. Sign of life? It's about to say if there isn't one on this point. There isn't one in here. Oh yeah. Nice one. Yes sir. I got him. I got that big spinning setup. Nice fish. Quality unit. Spawned out of course, but got him on the dart. Alright, my buddy he's heading home. He's going to do dad things. Had a few bites on the top top. Skunked. Could not land them, but Zero's on me. That's the way she goes sometimes. The way she blows. Love ya. Be safe going home. I'll send you a picture of an ape pounder. Woof. Getting toasty y'all. Shirt is pretty sick. Available soon. GooganSquad.com Got the crappie. Crappie infused. Apparel. How about it? Top water's done. Completely done. You're watching this right now. Pretty impeccable timing on your part. I mean please give the folks at home some market tips because wow, you pulled out right before the crash my guy. What we got in here? Nuggies. Beaver Nuggies. Man, you remember Cheetos as a kid? I don't know what that is. I'm not sure I've ever had these before, but they're amazing. I'm going to dig one more bag out of my tricks. Got a worm that we're working on. True finestile worm. It is a tasty little nugget. Wabam. I've caught a few fish on it. Just shakey heading, drop shotting, but I've never wacky rigged it. This thing is going to sink about as slow as a cigarette butt. Wacky rig ready to go. A little different view for you guys. I mean, no weight in there. I could probably put a yeah, you know what? I'm going to put a tiny little weight in the head. Check these out. Little tubes. Put your little spike weights in there. See if I got a they're all the same size. This is it for me guys. This is as finessy as I am willing to go today. This is it. So I'm going to insert this, not nose, but about mid body. These little tongues and nail weights can do. Oh yeah. That's a tasty little biscuit right there. Okay. Light line. Take this nail weight out. Just go really lightweight worm. And if you have a bright colored worm, like a white or a pink or a methylate, you can fish it on the surface. And they eat it like a top flutter. Floating worm. Floating worm style. Oh, there's a bite. Got him. I mean, that's what it takes. Holy cow. I didn't land him. But there he was. I mean, I have fished this up and down with the sea rig. Swim baits. Weightless dart. Little one wants it. And he took my worm. Let's try another flavor. My favorite colors all the time for ET. Chartreuse pepper. Got him. I'm not sure that was a fry garter. I just did the old visual cast on him. With the pinner. With the pinner worm. Ah. Had him pinned with the pinner. Nice little healthy guy. This thing is dirty. I mean, this is a dirty sock right here in the water. I don't know if you guys can see that. And the way that I've always rigged these style worms when I'm fishing them weightless like this, weightless wacky, is I'll go like in the front third of the bait. Instead of right in the middle. So basically trying to get the halfway point, the balance point of the worm. So if you were going to balance it weight wise try to find that spot and it'll fold over better, be a better presentation in the water instead of just like sinking head first. That can be good sometimes too. But I'm trying to keep it up on top and just twitch it. Massive bluegill beds. Massive bluegill beds. How you can skip this thing really good too. Should have another one eat it. Oh, he dropped it like a little scoundrel. Oh god, he broke me off. I should have retied it for getting stuck. God, that thing ate it in the dirt. Little guy. Sucker, spit my worm. Little buddy. Pugger, he spit my worm too. You able to get it? A little bit of cleanliness around this reed edge. There's one. I'm going to say there should be one right here. Okay, here we go. Buddy is on the run. Don't spit my worm. Got him. These little fish. There's something here. Made a little something out of it. Goal. Oh, buddy, buddy, buddy. And that's what we got. That's what we ended up with. Wow. Saw him slowly coming. That was a three pounder. Just got the absolute knot from Hades here. Oh my gosh. That's a done ski right there. Now the alternative that probably won't get near as many bites. Maybe none. Just throw a little sneaky frog up in there. There's a big bass looking at it right now. That bass might be just straight up on the bed. She broke it off. Folks at home. We're having a difficult time here. Regroup, regroup. Let's just calm down. Big old fray right there is exactly where it broke. That was from driving down the highway. Scratching on something. Alright, our two key bed baits are broken off right now. Frog. Let's see if these fish want to play any games. Any frog games. I don't want to play those frog games. 100% my friend Craig getting those frog bites this morning. That's what he was getting. He was getting those fry garters that don't really want to get it in their mouth. They just want to smack it. Okay. We've got a double pair up that situation. There's three. Three on a bed. This is it. This is the dayender. Three fish on a bed. Oh yeah, two good ones in the bed right now. It's not smart. Behind a limb. Not smart at all. Gotta play it right. I just need this fish to cooperate and not break off. That would be wonderful. Big one sees it. Get in here. I'm going to well it for a second because there's a bigger one in there. I don't see it anymore. Disturb the piece. I just don't see that other one. There's one more up here. I think this might have been the one that I broke off. Definitely catchable. Flipping. So good with the fish. Oh my god. That fish was a rocket. I don't know if it's going to bite again. Oh my gosh. Guys, I had the wood on that fish and it still just rocked me. That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable. I mean, I put the juice on. The fish is still there. This is an angry fish. Turbo Charge 5. I'm flipping so good with this. I don't know what I did to this Gold Series but it is super, super lubed. It has been a grind today. An absolute grind. I hate to end on a soggy note not catching this fish but I'm telling you I'm just grinding out here. We went from awesome topwater action in the morning to getting no bites. Having to switch to full finesse mode figured out something up shallow. Fish are really finicky and usually you're fish up shallow in the summer months after they've been tankered with a little bit. They get really finicky. Found some random bed fish which also happens in May and I hooked a really good one. I kind of had a fumble. I fumbled the ball in the fourth quarter. What can I say? Can't be good every time and a lot of times for me it's not. That's why I cherish the days that are awesome. I would still love if you guys smash the like button as we get into this post spawn. The month of May probably my favorite month is the fish just because you can kind of do a little bit of everything. You can get those topwater eats. Feel some bed fish. The swim bait bite starts to get pretty good. Off shore starts to appear. It's really a great month to get out there and fish. But I'm going to let this bed fish go and I actually saw I think what was the big one I was trying to catch. It came back and it got on a different bed for a second. Probably looking for a boyfriend right here. Oh my gosh. Angry. I wish all fish were as angry and aggressive as you. Wow. There's a nice fish right there guys. Really nice fish. I still think the biggest one of the day was the one that I lost right here. But the one that I hooked this morning on the topwater that I actually got in. It was about 5 pounds. Bloody tail right here. This fish should have been spawning. But I'm going to let it go back to its bed with a girlfriend and do the things. Thank you guys for tuning in to today's adventure. And I will see you. Back to the girls and more babies.