 Welcome back to Clearwater and Sunshine. I'm in the middle of Texas, baby, on Lake Travis, one of the clearest bodies of water in the state. And we're gonna do a little bit of Clearwater dangling for you today. So, there is no fishing boat trailers in the parking lot that is indicating that the fishing is probably not the best out here. There is some huge bass in here. There's just not a large number of them. There are a high number of small bass in here, including our state fish, which is the Guadalupe bass. I haven't caught one of those in a long time. So, I'm pretty excited about that. I think we're gonna be doing mostly finesse tactics, always good to brush up on that finesse stuff. And there's something about going to a Clearwater lake and the hot, you know, heat of summertime, jumping in the lake. I don't know. It just feels like you're at a swimming pool. It's good times. It's a little bit better than being in the swamp around a bunch of grass and alligators and stumps. That's just me. I don't know. I like that more than spring. Fair off the murk. Let's get to cranking on them. A rattling net. Just because I think it's gonna be one of those things that'll catch fish in this Clearwater. We're talking, goodness. Keeping that five foot there. Five foot down. I can see that net there. It's probably more like six, seven foot. I didn't have the glare right there. So I've got the boat sitting in 53 feet of water. And I'm just fishing a little bluff type area that has a creek channel swing next to it. I think a good question for Clearwater is where do you even start when water is this clear? And you've got a ton of water. And I'm gonna say for this time of year is you gotta have deep water access. That's really like three things in the summertime. They're like oxygen. So if you get some flow, some water flow or maybe even just, you know, bunch of waves, mixing up water, current, obviously. Then you got shade. Shade's gonna provide cooler conditions. And then you have just deeper water. That's gonna hold higher oxygenated water and it's gonna be cooler, which kind of go hand in hand. So a little bit of bait on the electronics right here in like 30, 35 stagnant, not moving. It looks terrible. It looks terrible at this point, but I don't know if you guys can see this little color change right here from the boatwakes. I can sometimes be your friend in the summertime. You don't have a lot of wind. You get some boatwake and can help stir some things up. So I'm just gonna start with this Ned rig, work some of these little points plus and then the dock type areas. So while we're working this little bank here, which I'm not too excited about, but just while we're kind of messing around here, it's the start of the day, just got the okay to talk about these rods. I know a lot of you have asked about those, one of those black rods that you're using in the videos. And when I was in the office the other day, they said, so I can go ahead and start talking about them. So this is going to be our next series of rods. So you guys are familiar with the green series, which are, that's our baseline of rods, the green series and the gold series, which is a step up from their own blanks, but the really the same types of actions. There's a little bit of differences between the actions just due to the materials, but they're really built on the same basic, you know, five, six, seven rods that you can pretty much do 90% of bass fishing with. And I love those, I still use them. I use the golds a lot, but I've also been using these black series, obviously testing them out and making sure the actions are good and everything, but these are more advanced technique specific rods. So for example, this right here is a seven, six, medium light, extra fast. So it's a little long for drop shotting. It's really more technique specific for doing stuff like this. Now throwing a finesse jig, throwing a hair jig, throwing a net head, throwing shaky heads on light line where you've got a light lure, you know, you've got to really get that lure out there. You got an extra six inches or so on top to whip it out there. The action is correct and it's also very light. So not only are the actions different, but these blanks are really light, they're very sensitive and stepped up the real guides as well. I can't remember which foodies they are, these are, but they're top notch. You'll notice it when you're drilling your line through the guides, how smooth it is. So those are just some new series of rods that's going to be called the black series that we're going to have coming, I think in the fall. And they're legit guys. So anyway, I was hoping to catch fish while explaining the new rods that are coming, but it's not happened just yet. Let's keep going. Got to find the three things of summer bass. Shade, oxygenated water, moving water. Deep, current or shade. Just got this fish on live scope. It came up and grabbed the net. Suspended 100%. Hard, hard fish to catch. It's fighting kind of weird. What is this? You got to be kidding me, Sally. I am on a drum kick right now. Drum kick for the ages. That thing ate my rattle and net and took off like a wild banshee, dude. Oh my gosh, I thought you were calm. Look at that. Rattle and net, 100% suspended fish out there, a 30 foot of water. Just nailed it. I mean, just like a bass would. I dropped it vertically over its head, rattled it, fish came, wah-bam. All right, joke's over, fish. Come out now. It's okay. Not here to harm you. My goodness, man. This place is the opus of nothing. It's been very, very difficult to see. I'm wondering if I, what I was seeing, if I was seeing bass that would follow my swim bait or if those were drum. Going here, we got a little school of shad getting pushed. Oh yeah, eaters. Oh my gosh. Wow, that was explosive. Literally, as I was saying that, I'm like, where are the bass? There's one of them little devils I've been looking for. A midday schooler. You can see the ball of bait. It's real dark up towards the surface. That guy just torpedoed out of the depths for it. It's a largemouth. That's what I was like, oh my, can you imagine? If that guy got me. Good bite. Four of you. Doppler in there. He ain't coming off of that thing, he's about to come here, little bud. Filled for the old wacky worm. I saw that fish on the very end of here on the last go. There was another one with it. See if we can get one more. Not very big. Not very big at all, but I will take anything right now. Looks like a lot of bait or maybe even crappie. Maybe bluegill down there and there's something. Holding a little bit deeper. I only fish this in like really clear water. This is the baby bass color. This is the four inch. Normally I'll just go ahead and throw the five inch, but these fish are just finicky and I've got a little band I'm putting on it. I like to do this when I'm fishing it around marinas. You have to skip it, docks, marinas. All right, there's a couple of fish sitting up under this little walkway. Just don't know if I'm gonna be able to get them. Really far up under there. Ooh, just had a bass. Chased it all the way out. Could have been one of those ones I was talking about. Typically on a lake like this, deep, clear water, and you got all these cables and marinas, if you find one large mouth, like a little large mouth, it'd be schools of them in the summer. I've seen where you reel in one. You see like four or five more or you see a lot on the electronics. You'll see them school every once in a while. They'll come out, get some shad, but this is pretty tough. Fished a lot of lakes in Texas, but this is probably the most impressive on houses. Wow. Okay, trying another bluff wall. I kind of just wanted to stare at this house, so crazy. But this is about as steep as I have seen, about as steep as a bluff wall as I've seen. I'm sitting at 40 foot. It's not crazy. I've seen steeper bluffs on other lakes, but just looks of it. There's the creek channel runs right by this bank. And I'm trying to get lots. The state fish. Stuck like chuck. Son of a buck. I got it out. Yes, that's the fish I seek. Been searching all over for you, Magoo. That is the state fish of Texas. The Guadalupe Bass. Did you not get very big? I've caught one that's probably two to three quarters, maybe three pounds is the biggest one I've ever caught. Or maybe that was some sort of hybrid. But that is a Guadalupe Bass, man. Pretty, pretty fish. State fish of Texas, baby. We're done. Let's go. I'll catch those all day. Those rapid fire. Do, do, do, do. On finesse gear, makes it fun. Which is cool. Cool to catch a state fish. Can't do it everywhere, you know? Don't have them around where I am. They're really in just central Texas, but I've heard there's a lot in this lake. Just found one. There we go. Oh, he came off. Oh, that one felt juicy. What happened there? He had it, 100%. I am packing it in, y'all. Steamy hot day, got to fish really the whole afternoon. Almost still dark. And just, you know, just never really got home. I did get to catch the state bass. I had another one on, I don't know what it was. It felt a little bigger than a Guadalupe, but bite is tough. Fishing deep bluffs. I fished deep marinas. Letting my weightless bait sink down there sometimes to like 20 feet or so. Pretty much just fished finets. I had the redland net and then threw top water a little bit, but, you know, oh, and a wacky rig. But that was about it, y'all. So I never really got, I never got into the full Guad swarm. That's what I really wanted. You know, I literally set up some finesse rods to get into some Guadalupe bass. You know, because they're not as big and they still fight hard, but get a good fight on the spinning tackle, light line and all that, but I just never got into it. So I'm actually gonna go out again tomorrow. That's gonna be another video. I'm fishing with one of the crazy Guggen, Guggen Squad fans that actually bought one of the, this was like a joke on our website. We had like a $10,000 bait and tackle bundle. It was like just an unlordly amount of things. And anyway, this person bought one of those and used my promo code, LFG. So they're from Austin. So I was like, hey, let's go out fishing. So that'll be on the next video. Hopefully they know where the fish are. I will end with this. I love, now that I don't tournament fish really, I just fish team tournaments, not individual tournaments of high level stuff. I love the mystery of the lake. Like you literally just don't know. You don't know what you're gonna catch. You have a pretty decent idea. You have a target species that you're going after. You can catch 40 pound flathead. You can get into a giant school of stripers, get into a giant school of crappie, just oddity things. You can catch a six century, you can catch a giant bass. I love the mystery of it. I really do. Now that I don't worry about tournament fishing and just catching like three or five pound bass all the time, it's really a lot of fun. So enjoy the dangle. Thank you guys for tuning in. Every single outdoor video of mine. God bless you guys. Speed. We'll see y'all next time.