 There we go. Oh, baby. What do we got? Fish and freaks welcome on back to the channel We are here where many adventures begin at the Bucky's gas station. I just found me Something pretty cool. You know what they got here? I mean, this should just be standard issue. Man Bucky's hooking it up with that ethanol free pump We're gonna trickle some good stuff in here. Fill her on up and head over to Lake Fork trying to catch the infamous big black crock Ethanol free gas 163 is the cost. Let's make sure this is not death No, we're ethanol free. Okay Speaking of death fluid update on the truck I want to thank you guys for commenting and some of you even sent me emails from problems with some of these Chevy diesel engines and Turns out it was a manifold issue. They got to order this part from GM It should be available this weekend. Hopefully I get the truck back Here in the next, you know, three to five days But for now taking dad's adventure wagon and we will be using it to sleep in tonight. Oh My goodness y'all take it in. I'm smelling fresh cut grass right now. Y'all can't smell it obviously, but Enjoying this awesome view right here at Lake Fork little backstory this place that I'm gonna be literally Just camping here. I'm gonna be sleeping in the truck tonight in this guy's backyard Cuz I don't want to infect my germs in this place, but a fishing buddy of my dad's lives here He's letting me use his boat ramp. He has a private boat ramp. It's pretty awesome And he catches fish off his dock. He's got a dock right here He barely even has to put his boat in the water. He's got brush piles out there This is a really good spot. And if y'all don't know, I mean literally the name of the channel Lake Fork guy This place is where I fell in love with bass fishing and really just fishing overall It was the first place I'd ever been where I saw a culture that was Really circulating around fishing and this entire community of these towns around here. It's it's just all about the lake There's this Mystique about big bass legendary big bass one of the best big bass lakes in the country right here behind me The first time I came here. I obviously saw how great the fishing was There was just all types of grass and fish swimming around everywhere And it was during the spawn and all the restaurants everyone was talking about fishing everyone's fishing fishing fishing fishing And I was like these are my people. This is what I want to do with my life I want to be a part of this and make my way into this world somehow And I'm just extremely blessed to be standing here in front of you today Sitting by Lake Fork and be a part of the fishing industry and been able to contribute to that and live out my dream of Really just being in the industry all So man I'm just blessed and I just wanted to say that before I dumped the boat in the water And we're gonna be tackling some crappie today. Oh man that water clarity looks good Look at that stump right there Think there's hasn't been a big bass spawn on that stump. I mean come on now I came around this time last year and I was catching them in just a couple of feet of water So we might have to Strategize a little bit deeper fishing method. I love to catch them in the shallow so like just casting You know, it's literally like fishing a spinnerbait for bass You throw it out there reel by some brush bam. I've already got some little jigs Tied on some little these are eighth ounce. So we're pretty much all ready to go We just need to get in the water and find them crappies Before I even could throw my GoPro on first cast First cast on a jig. Wow. I hope that's not like a bad luck sign Beautiful black crappie right there though. Definitely a keeper going in the well my friend Okay, so I actually have not even Left the dock area I was just like, you know what these little little stump line looks pretty good And I just threw it one of these stumps or some current that's coming by here That is a good sign though Because that fish was shallow and that's that's how I really want to fish. I want to be able to throw up this Shallow there's bite got him another crappie There we go, baby Nice Nice paper mouth almost lost you Almost lost you because you're so papery this one is not it's not a very big one for this lake, but Still very nice. They got to be tend to keep got an 11-incher That's gonna be a very very tasty fish To take back home There we go. Join your friend a little jighead. I'm using here. It's just a custom one that somebody some one of you sent me and It's got a little sickle hook on there. I like it. I Like it looks like it'd be weird for hookups, but looks up really well as long as you're not Jerking on them too much. That stump was in like six feet of water It might just be one of these deals where I'm just plucking them off stumps, you know, just a couple at a time I don't know if they're gonna be in the full-blown Grouped-up mode. Hopefully we find that Oh, there we go Right on that wood. Oh, that's a bass Man they live together y'all Imagine that was like a 10 It's crazy It's really funny when you start crappie fishing you actually figure out a lot about bass to like where they're setting up and And they they really share a lot of the same areas. I thought for sure that was gonna be a crappie locked on the wood Unfortunately bass will just tear your stuff up. So I got to get re-rigged here show you guys any of y'all that are new to crappie fishing It's really basic stuff. You know, it's a lot of a lot of jig heads at least a lot of the tactics that I use It's kind of like bass wishing I'm literally flipping stumps. It's just you know I'm going for crappie a set of bass little grubs are good little straight tail Little situations are good a little tiny stuff, but I'm gonna be using one of these these LFT Baby shads with a sickle tail on it a sickle tail just adds It's like a grub tail and I've got a bunch of little grubs here, too I can throw on I may But I've only got a few of these left and thread that through just like I would with any other swim bait on a jig head Just like that, and then I'm gonna add a little bit of chartreuse on the tail literally just using the cap Off the the dip and glow. I'm not even dunking it in there. You don't need very much at all Okay Now we're ready to get back in the game. Got him. Oh my that's a big bass. What in the world? Oh my gosh Lake for work. Oh Lake for work, I love you You're just awesome That's a post spawner there geez Y'all a fish my butt off yesterday for Six seven hours to try to catch a fish like this and then I come out here crappie fishing catch one in ten minutes That's just crazy. Look at that skinny fish Four and a half pound or probably big old mouth Crappie fishing y'all Unreal look at that little bitty jig. Isn't that something? Isn't that crazy? What happens though is there's a lot of fry garters. You know, I've been seeing some fry and fry garters will attack anything and Even bedding fish they'll they'll inhale little jigs like that like it's nothing like it's a little peanut just Slurp it in it's really non-threatening and They just take it as yeah, it's a little fleet. Let me just flip that out of here I'll suck it in my mouth nice fish right there, but You're not going in the fryer, buddy. Don't worry See you dude Hope hopefully you're an eight pounder someday Okay, let's see what other kinds of fish are lurking around in here It's crazy. I learned so much about bass fishing when I'm one of crappie fishing and You'll hear stories from people Talking about crappie fishing out here and they hook some magna bass absolute giant. There's a big one That's a big bass, too. I mean, I'm gonna do I just found the bass That's a big bass. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. It's like five-pounder On a crappie pole Unbelievable unbelievable Well, oh, he's gonna he's in a tree He found that tree. He's gonna break me off. Nope No, he's not Think the braid might have saved me there now. He's in another tree Come here. Oh, this one's fighting so much more than that last one If I get you in it's gonna be a daggone miracle and you're at the surface come here Honestly, he's not that much bigger. He's just he's just a daggone bulldog. Oh Yeah Yeah, about the same size No flipping you in the boat Look at that y'all if y'all are wondering why Lake four guys the name of this channel is because the first time I came out here Fell in love with fishing. I mean just the mystique of the bass. There's so many bass out here this size, you know Four or five pounders and you can just have a field day with them. I'm not even trying to catch them right now Amazing absolutely amazing good fish Again on the jig. I think they're fry girders bloody tail so Hey, let's the keep throwing the cropping jig might catch an eight pounder today, right just right into another creek and Fished up shallow for a minute. I mean it was really shallow. This is actually an area. I caught him last year And I think they're just done Spawning and being up in that like super, you know two to four foot But I just found myself a little stump out here Roll by it with a side imaging and I can see His gap so that's the stump right there. I'm gonna drop down See if I can catch Okay, I want to say they were like 10 feet down So I've got myself a little just a straight little plastic on there No moving a appendage because I'm gonna vertical fish them Apologize for the chainsaw noise There's nothing I can do about that though Man's working on his beautiful yard out here lake fork Can't fault them for that. This tree has got fry all over it, too They're definitely on this side of the tree. I had them on for a second Come on my little babies Get on there now. Got him. There we go. Oh Man a little crappie Little crappie. That's probably why they weren't getting it You're just a little too small, but you've shown yourself now. I got to remember that depth My rod is eight feet long. So you can kind of get a gauge with that There he is. There's keeper Here we go, baby You can see him on the electronics right there. There's a bunch of them Got him Feels like another good one Yes, sir Keeper crappie right in the top of the schnozzle there. So what I did is I basically went to the first most logical spot The first drop-off good drop-off with cover That was close to a spawning area where I caught them last year, you know, they weren't there. They're done spawning So I came up to this this little break and I just started idling around it and The first tree I thought I found them But I think they were white bass moving through Because they were they weren't really on the cover. So when you're looking for crappie You could pretty much bet that they are going to be on the cover on the wood most of the time and I drove by this one and I saw on the side image It was just littered with them, you know, it had like a dozen or more So that was a good indicator those are cropped Just got to get the right size ones here Got him little guy These are sitting significantly deeper in this creek got him Soft bite or they're just small That's another reason. Yeah, I'm gonna switch up colors See if I can get get a little bit bigger one I'm gonna go with a little electric chicken right here electric chicken Finger licking just got floated got a bomb got him Little Little black crappie. This is so cool catch crappie like this. I have like a racing stripe down Down their back It's really pretty. That's just a tiny one Where's your mama and I could see a couple of juicy ones down here right next to the tree Got him there's a keeper. I think Yeah, you're close Found them Look at them all bumps got him. Come on now, sir Get up in here keeper. There we go Little bit better not exactly what we are looking for But he's definitely a keeper so I actually saw I mean, I don't know if I could tell on electronics, but it was It was quite a wad You look down there. There's brush and there's fish all mixed in in the brush It looks like a tasty treat. I just moved up to that top of that brush by and see fish Right there in it. But yeah, we're we're not getting that back sometimes your Your jigs will bend out like that one just did Okay, so even though I found a butt load of crappie right there I'm gonna bounce from this spot because I Think they're a lot of small crappie again That's only like a hundred yards from that last spot when I got on top of them You know, that seems like they don't fight nearly as good I have to cast and they're in like a a tree that is it comes up to seven It's kind of laid down. I mean, I'm looking at it right now It was like 50 of them in that tree, but They just look small. I mean, I just confirmed it. I had one keeper. My first bite was not a keeper So I'm gonna keep moving. I may just go back to the creek man Where it all started and keep working all the way back there and just pitching shallow stunts I like that better, you know, I just that's where the keepers were that I caught and unless I just Absolutely see a mega wad like bigger than that one. I don't think I'm gonna fish these deep trees Come on big crappie is Got some spindly looking trees right here Coming up on a point Hooked up Big crappie big mega crappie Yes, there we go y'all that is what we're coming out here for sorry my GoPro ran out of juice Right there, but that is a big healthy black crappie. I'm in looking for you all day Are you gonna give us any friends? And y'all that one actually thumped it good. I mean when they hit it a big crappie It's like a bass jig bite Suck that thing in a little bass No little bass that last crappie could have eaten you And there's just a lot of stumps right here in this five foot of water, so I'm hoping to just pick a few more Mondos off like the last one I caught just fishing a small little grub right now And I'm throwing past these stumps like 10 feet Slowly swimming it from what I've seen on the electronics If they're not grouped up I think the little ones are the ones that are stacked together and these bigger ones There's only like one or two of them together and they're like in the tops of the trees When I'm island and deep deeper water, but they're only you know like seven feet down or so Got it crappie Big and son All them keepers man, that's not really a big one, but definitely keeper all those keeper bites coming on these Stumps just isolated Like five to seven feet of water See if I can get another one there. I didn't even see the stump. I was throwing in between the stumps We could have come on another one It's like a freaking huge bass sitting on it, too They'll like see the outline of that football right there. Oh, I think I just had Just had a bite. Oh got him. Oh, geez Definitely a crappie bite good one Ah, I had him be swimming with it. What is going on here? What is that? Got him Got spot like that. I Don't think that was just one Absolutely freaking Hale Well dad again, I'm hung up now There we go. Oh Baby, what do we got? Oh Is this mega crappie? Oh, I think it is Nope, it's a largey dad gum it I Was about to say that That's her That's old big Chicken rod pretty exciting stuff though. Yeah, baby. Can I fling this fish in? Man, you're a healthy fish Here we go If you think a two-inch grub can't catch a bass in the nose you're wrong Two-pounder healthy as an ox very nice You know what that fish feels like on this rod feels like a eight-pound bass on a normal Bass fishing rod can't tell me that's not fun No, they're just mega fatty toad bass sitting in the perfect depth Man they're sitting off of these stumps like the crappie are I'm getting pretty excited about my bass fishing adventure tomorrow All right, we are back at the dock. We're gonna close it out right here a beautiful day on the world famous Infamous sometimes Lake Fork and there it is big and beautiful You're definitely gonna go on the dinner plate my friend My dream is to catch one three pounds. So that was the biggest one of the day I ended up with I think nine other ones as well, you know, the key was basically swimming a jig or a little grub Or a little, you know swim bait By those stumps for the bigger ones. I did find Lots of fish out in deeper water, but it was it was really just Mostly small fish. I couldn't pull any big ones out of there. So honestly More fun for me to like getting to target those areas and learning about the bass fishing at the same time I mean, it's it's really cool how the two species integrate together I'm not full croppy crazy, but I'm getting there I'm pretty darn close because there's so many things that are similar to bass that you have to unlock and figure out And it really is like dial really dialing it into a specific thing sometimes and definitely today It was you know for the bigger ones anyway finding those stumps five to seven feet of water Swimming that thing by there just so and then pop them So I am gonna close it out right here at the dog get the croppy in the cooler and tonight We might even do a little bass fishing tonight But I'm gonna save that for a whole nother episode and I'm gonna be camping in the truck I've never called roughen it when I'm sitting right next to the water's edge Listening to the water lap over and beautiful camping weather probably 55 degrees tonight Wow, and I know I've been hearing it in the comments, but let me know if you want to see more croppy videos I honestly enjoy doing it and I think I think some of you are turning on the croppy as well Go ahead and double smash. No double smash that might like to make it a negative It just hit it hard one time big old like button and thank you guys for being here. God bless you I will see you soon