 Nipped it! Stumps a-hoi. Let's see this dismount. There we go. Pretty good. Still got it. Welcome back to the channel everybody. Well, something we haven't done in a while here fishing with LFD. Everybody's favorite fishing dad. So we're out here on the beautiful Lake Fort. If you guys missed the last video, we've got the new adventure off-grid camping vehicle. We've got it parked here on the lake, and this is going to be the home base here for a little bit. Might do a little crappie fishing today. We're in April. We got water temps 65 is what it is right now. We've had some cold fronts. It hasn't really started warming up back up yet until today. Today's a pretty warm day. These next few days are going to be warm. We're going to look with the electronics, look with the life scope, see if we can see crappie on the trees, and see if we can just find any bedding areas up shallow. Let's get it y'all. The crappie, when you spot them, they don't move. They really don't move. They're just stationary. A white bass or a yellow bass or something like that is going to be kind of, yeah, and getting popped. Getting a little nibble popped. Yeah, oh, I had one on for a second. A tiny little mouth that fills me. Just a swarm of little ones. You see fish that are the size of your jig? Probably not going to be crappie. You know, these are probably a little yellow bass. I can feel them tapping it, but I just had one on. But they're not getting the hook. They're just kind of getting the end of the plastic. You can see that little one eating it there. And I'm sure if I dropped a spoon, I would get shellacked. But these are not crappie. Looks like these are school yellow bass. They are delicious. These are delicious fish to eat. They are not the crappies we're looking for. The crappies. Look at the stripe down his back. Isn't that crazy? Oh yeah, that's cool. I had to literally just leave it there and not move it for about a minute. He's not very big. I think I'll let him go. He is pretty. That's what you always say. Probably just trying to take a piss. Oh, we just set the hook. Look at him. Look at him. Oh, he's got it. Oh, God. Oh, God, big. Camera guy got up. Oh, God, that's a big-ass fish. This is a giant fish, dad. This thing's huge. You know, he would already have him in. Oh, God. This thing's huge. Yeah, look at him. He's getting down. It's huge. Oh, my God. We might just saw the winning deal right there. Look how big that looks. That's at least an eight. Yeah. Man, we suck. They smoked it. Oh, that's a good one. Come here, baby. Yeah, I know. Oh, this one's got some fungus growing. Fungi. Fungi face. Would you eat that one, dad? I got one, too. You got one, too? Yeah. Get him. Get him. Come on now. Oh, you got the little peter. Yeah, I think yours is bigger. But mine doesn't have, what the heck? I know. It's not good. It's bubbling. Look at it. Ooh, that's nice. I don't know. I don't know if I want to keep this one. I think I'll throw him in the back. Yeah. Here, here, here, buddy. Why don't you go over here and get eaten by a big old bass. Stay away from the, stay away from the rest of the school. Just got my second crappie bite. You know, me and dad are sitting here on a crappie hole and then a flotilla comes around. I guess the elite series is out here. He must be in the lead because he's got like the entire Lake Fork bass boat team out here. It was probably at least an eight-pound bass because he was excited. I mean, for a pro bass guy to get excited, it's got to be a donkey. So it could have been more. It could have been like a 10. But it jumped like five times. It was a fight. It was like a 45 second fight. I thought it was fun. So it was fun to watch from this angle. Apparently the big bass are not spawning in the shallows. They're out on the points. Got one. And you got it when I wasn't doing anything with it. Look at that little tiny. That's the little tiniest. That one just came off the nipple there. Just fresh off the nipple. I think we're on some small ones here, dad. That's a lot of boats. That would bug me. Would that bug you guys? Let me know in the comments. You know, trolling motors, they were pretty far away, but they still have noise. There's still a ping coming off of it. And you got a flotilla of, you got one, dad? I'm sure. If that fish is under, oh, you got, you got the dagum. You took their home away. That would just bug me if I was fishing a spot like that offshore too, like fishing a point. Lefty, dismount. That's all about the eyeball. I think it's about your knees. You just don't want to admit it. Well, LFD has got to give it home and mow the grass. So coming away with a shad catch and a nine inch crappie. But we saw an eight plus caught. It was very windy out there. We were going to go explore some other parts of the lake, but didn't want to, didn't want to put dad through the, through the washing machine. So I'm going to go back out. Dad's going to go back home. And he's going to take just his truck back. He's going to leave the trailer for me. I just, my hair looks stupid. Stephanie was right. My mom was too. I apologize for this, this stupid hair. Insect spray. I'm good. I got a, I got a bug shield, giant bug shield. So he's going to take off, leave the trailer here. I'm going to hook it up to my truck. And if I want to go fish another lake around here, I can do that. And then LFD is going to come back here in a week and we'll go fishing again. By then I should have some fish dialed. Thank you very much LFD. Father, father of the year, every year. On highway 154 in Yantis, the fishing is still going on, but it should be wrapping up momentarily. Got to love that local radio is talking about bass fishing, enthusiastic about bass fishing. I just heard a commercial for a restaurant offering 10% off to all fishermen. I mean, this is, this place, this is the reason that I got into fishing like I did because I saw that there was a culture and a community around fishing that I had never seen before. I didn't know it existed. And I came out here and I saw that and I was like, there is a world of fishing culture here and I've been missing out on this. I want to be in this, make me a part of this. So anyway, that's where Lake Four Guy came from. Just, just cool sitting here about to have a little lunch. Dad just left and just turned on the radio and they're talking about the way in for the, for the elite guys and then just, you know, talking about fishing on the radio. I love to hear that. Love to hear that. Anybody on beds yet? That look like it. Yep. Round two. Let's go get them fish. Yeah, just found some fish off the bank, but I'm going to wait and fish those after I fish up in this pocket right here. I want to try shallow first, especially coming into the afternoon hours. We're getting evening, really these last like three hours. There's some brush up shallow. This is an area that I have caught them before and the lake was, it was kind of high when I caught them and it's come back up. So I want to see if they're up there. The rain might have messed them up, but if I don't catch them up shallow, I'll move back to where I saw a bunch of them on some brush in, in like the first deep spot coming out of a spawning cove. So it's perfect. Oh my gosh. Absolutely suited right there. Oh, one just boiled right there. I wonder if that was the old basky bass. Oh gosh, I had one right there. Got him. There we go. Cropy in the shallows. Yes, sir. Sir. Spawners, baby. Hold down. This could get a little fun. That's a little male right there. Perfect eater. Put him in the well. I thought I'd gotten smacked in there and the fish just let go. So it was like three bites. One could have been a bass. It really hit it quite hard, but these fish might be, there's another one. I think they're spawning in here. It's the spawning ground. Got him. Yeah, I'm on top of him. I'm on top of these croppies right now. Come here. Whoa buddy. Oh yeah. Tasty one. Throw you in the well too, buddy. You're right here. You're right on top of them. I might actually need to back out a little bit. Yep. Yep. Right here. I mean, just like 10 feet away from the boat. I got snuck in on top of them. I boobooed that. I boobooed that big time. Should have done that. Oh, I got it out. I got it out. Man, they're just not going to like this water slap on the side of the boat. That's probably going to spook these fish off. Oh, runner. They're coming in. So these are white croppies, y'all. You could tell by the bars. Real good eater. Not explosive, but they're definitely spawning in here. There's a little piece of something right there, like something tiny. It seems like when I get close to that, when I bump it, that's when I get a bite. Either that or they're just nipping this thing. Okay, also let me explain what is going on here with croppie spawn because I don't think I have done a video really talking about what happens because I just learned really what's going on under the water this year. You have bass. They go up there and they make a bed. A male bass moves up, they make a bed, and a female will come in, fertilize those eggs. She's up there a couple days, maybe just a day overnight possibly. And the male bass is up there for maybe four or five days, maybe a week. Well, a croppie, the timing is similar with the males and females, but the male croppie, they swarm together. So they group together and they are like a swarm of hornets when they get on a nest. So they're all protecting these eggs. So you get one or two females that goes in there and the croppie are all spawning. I learned this from the croppie guide that I went with up in Missouri. I was talking to him about, oh man, it's so fun to fish for cropping the spring up shallow because you can get a bunch in one spot and he said, yeah, that's how they spawn. That's how they do it. So when you're catching a bunch in one area, you're most likely catching just males. What I'm going to do right here, I'm just switching it up, went to a mini banger. Since I'm getting a few bites, just fan cast around here. I'm going to throw this and it'll also help me detect any pieces of cover. So the way that the croppie spawn is they usually pick something to spawn on that's, you know, they're like a hard bottom, like a bass, but they'll usually get on like a stick or a bush, you know, a hanging laydown tree, something like that. I mean, literally something as small as a twig. And that's what these fish are on up here. Oh my gosh, you won't talk about explosive. Ah, oh, you're going to eat. You are going to eat. Don't you do that. Don't you get nastiness. The catfish are spotting as well. That is apparent. Get a little goo on the carpet. That little goober. Get this guy in the live well. I swear I got a bite on this pointer. And that's when you know you're just, you're just in the fish. You're just where they want to be. You're catching them caddies. Mmm, you're a tasty one. Don't like cleaning you. You're kind of a pain, but golly, you're going in. Well, looks like this was not a super productive spawning spot, but they were there tempted to go back even further. But before I do, I want to go hit this big pile. If there's big females that are waiting to move up, I want to try to hit that spot and see if we can catch, you know, big 16, 17 inches. Okay, I got on the fish. I'm about to catch a drop, but there's something happening on my insides. I think with that sausage that has turned me inside out. So it's going to be pretty, just a network break or something. Quick word from our sponsors. 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I watched that fish come on the life scope. I was like, oh, there's a big one. Might come eat it. He was on before I could finish the sentence. That's a beauty right there. Just an absolute beaut. Black, crappy, so beautiful. Love you so much. And you're going to eat good. I'm just catching good eaters here guys. Okay, I don't know what is going on with these fish, but they don't want to bite. So I'm going to maybe try to find another shallow spawning area because that is fun. That's maximum fun. On the hunt for crappies, roll up in the back of a pocket. See my first bass on a bed. Five inch dragon drops. I always like to start out with a weightless bait and just see what they do. I'm just going to rig that wacky. I'm sorry, switching over to bass for a minute. This is probably going to be next video focusing on bass, but I just saw one thought with the hay. Oh my gosh. Whoa, doing hard circles on it. Got it. Nibbed it. That was fun. I was just twitching it at the surface and he just did not like that at all. Yeah, y'all, all I can see is just a black tail now. I can't even see the other one. So I'm afraid this is going to have to end our day right now. I'm not finished with crappie though. I'm going to get up in the morning. I really want to find that good wad, the swarm. This gives me a good footing to start on tomorrow and go to explore some other areas that I just need to find them. Just a little pocket that's got just a piece of cover with a hard bottom. And I know, I know at some point we're just going to get on them and just start smashing crappie, but I got a few for the cooler and we'll continue tomorrow to find the swarm of spawning crappie. Hot coffee right here. Let me just get a morning sip. Sunrise coming through the trees right here on the Soho. Love you, America. Love you, Texas. Love you, Lake Ford. Okay, so we have a really good situation for fish coming up into the shallows these next few days, y'all. Full moon coming into effect. We have water temperatures 62 to 65. The winds are switching around from the south. They have been out of the north, so we have other spawning areas that were getting kind of beat up by the winds and stuff like that yesterday. These last few days, now it's going to start stabilizing. So really important for spawning fish, stable water. So when water is fluctuating, you've got big rains or the lake, they're letting water out of the dam. That dropping water will really push fish back. They'll hold. If they're on bed, sometimes they'll pull off and they want stable water conditions. Water temperatures in the 60s, low 60s, mid 60s. Perfect. That's what we got right here. And a full moon, it is all coming together. So those are the elements we want to look for for spawning fish. I think we're going to see a lot of fish coming up the next few days. So I'm going to finish my coffee. We're going to get in the silver bullet and we're going to get out there and see hopefully everything is coming up in the shallows. Lots of bait coming in here to spawn. Shad, shad are spawning in the backs of the creeks. I've been seeing a lot of crappie on the on the breaks as I'm coming in, but I'm sure as I get back here, there's going to be some that are up there shallow. And maybe even in the same spot where I caught them spawning yesterday, they might be loaded up. We're going to see y'all and we might even get into a big old bass coming up today. It's such a good time of year at fish. There is a nice crappie right there. I just plucked off of a single piece of timber out here. Here's a bass. Oh goodness. That's a hussy. That's some of them nice old hussies. Goodness, that is just gone. Whoo, baby. Come here, child. Well, exploring for crappie. I want that old green one's aided. I can't take it too hard on this because I don't want to lose this little crankbait. That is just gobbled. It's gobbled down the hatch. Yeah. That's a nice healthy one, man. Fresh fish just moved up. Man, the fish is about four pounds. Really nice. That little banger has just disappeared. Just sucked it in. Gone. I figured that might happen. I figured that might happen. The old big in there, but we'll let that fish go. All right, guys. Nice fish. We're going to let it go. Back to do your thing. This cove looks really good. And I'm hoping that there's some crappie in here. If there's not, I'm going to switch gears and I'm going to start bass fishing. That's going to be in the next video because it should start really picking up now. I wanted a crappie fish at the start of this just because the cold fronts that were coming in, I think the bass fish is just going to get better and better. So I'm going to swing through here. There's little stickups. It looks like a good bedding area. It's shallow. It's warm. And I'm going to throw this crankbait around. I'm going to throw my crappie jig and hopefully we get into a pile of them. No, these old green ones. These old green ones are coming out. That bush there just gave the old grub a thump in the very back of the creek here. All right, little boy. See you. All right, y'all. We're going to we're going to wrap it up. I never could find the mega swarm of crappies and it just looks like a lot of bass are starting to move up shallow. So I'm going to switch gears. That's going to be the next video, but I just love this time of year, though, when I can keep both crappie and bass rods on the deck and just alternate going down the bank. It's so much fun. It keeps you activated all the times. You're thinking, oh, crappie could be here. Bass could be here. And what you'll find is a lot of species will interconnect and bass and crappie go hand in hand. They often live in the same areas, but I'm sure if I've fished up shallow long enough with little, you know, rooster tails and grubs and things like that, little crankbaits, I would get white bass, yellow bass. And of course, you know, catfish. Catfish as well. They usually start spawning in May down here. And so they're already starting to come up. It's just fun. It is fun springtime bass fishing up shallow, everything is spawning. But now I'm going to focus in on bass because we got a full moon coming up. And I know some big bass are going to be moving up into the shallows. And when I was crappie fishing this morning, I did see one about six or seven kind of moving up on a bed. It wasn't quite settled in yet. So we're going to be looking up shallow to try to find some hogs. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I'm so blessed to get to do what I do. And I love running into you guys on the water and out and about. And you guys just watching commenting just, it's good. So thank you guys very much. I appreciate you and I'll see you on the next one.