 you ever get that feeling like this is probably not good that's where i'm at right now my fishing freaks welcome back to the channel welcome to the hq where so many of these videos begin here there's so many boats in here right now y'all let's go one two three four five six seven eight if you want to count kayaks there's like another 12 crispy collector i've moved it over here for now because a lot of stuff going on at the house i'll update you on the chicken coop here in a couple days right now we're going on an adventure it's like a little taste a little snippet of colorado i'm talking about going trout fishing i've done this for the last couple years in the winter time this trout they're a cold water fish they they're a fish you can catch in the winter that is active plus let's get serious the taste good and a lot of the states they grow these trout so that they can be stocked in the winter time for you to enjoy that is right if you check your local listings a lot of times uh with the parks and wildlife's websites you can see where they're stocking fish so if you're new to this territory on the trout game in the winter do a little uh little searching and you might find a really good little trout fishery near you they do ponds they do lakes they do rivers like i'm going to go into today and we're going to be extending our stay camping out uh and today is all about really finding a good camping spot it is extremely cold y'all and i need extra gear so i've been gathering up a lot of my stuff some of the stuff is in the in the silver bullet definitely going to need what is in there going to need that dry bag puffy clothes and whatnot let's see do we have any more gloves in here nobody not i also want to try a new technique while i'm out there i'm not taking my fly rod because i don't have one i had parrots and i broke it sorry parrots but what i do have is some new crappie fishing poles and i saw somebody last year doing a fly technique i think i can get away with by using some of my jigging poles crappie trout soft mouth the rods are designed similarly so you can get the fish in the boat without ripping their lips off in this case i'm going to be on the bank taking waders all of that jazz i haven't been camping in a while and i'm pretty excited you know get the fire going tell the fishing stories a couple of my friends may come up there so it ought to be a good time y'all outdoor greatness the weather is looking dreary y'all it seems like on this channel like like it's just been dreary weather can we get a sunny day come on now tonight partly cloudy this evening then becoming cloudy after midnight low 33 Fahrenheit cool waters love the river be honest with y'all it is not looking too fresh right now water's muddy it's high i knew it was going to be pretty high i still wanted to get out here early so i could get a good camping spot and i think i did not just for me but for some other people that are coming so we can all camp here so i'll show you that in just a second let's take a look at the waters itself y'all can hear it i'm sure shoo it is moving that is some definite flow i somewhat anticipated it was going to be like this because i looked at the charts really early this morning and the flow charts and it looks like it encrested it like three or four in the morning and it's starting to go back down but it's still not to where we we want it to be for fishing especially like waiting out there you can just imagine throwing a little spinner or something how fast it's going to be moving not to say the fish aren't going to sit in certain spots and be available look at this little oyster it's pretty little oyster in me would be all over that and my very little experience up here when the water is clear lower flow you'll catch them just like that but if you're going out fishing in the the high muddy water you're kind of wasting your time might as well sit around the camp and enjoy a cold adult beverage fortunately i brought none this is where we're gonna sit our boulders and think look at that big granite boulder just think about life right here think about the dangle now my truck y'all now that it's out rigged i'm so excited that it's here with mud on it that's the way it should be right there splattering up mud getting dirty having fun and the bed is shorter than my other truck but still doing okay managed to get my crate camping supplies basically set up for truck camping here i've got my heater i've got my big sleeping bag i've got my waders i have a cooler right here up in here i actually brought my freeze lock or what do you call this the game saver brought game saver and bags i've got a backpack up here i've got all the paraphernalia you need to do a little trout angle i can power that thing now with the truck itself with our little uh little power unit so if i want to actually get get the fish going in the back of the truck i can do that there or if i want to get super advanced just go off your end i've got the jackery unit right here so i can actually use this to power my computer power the food saver do all those fun things and of course we got our sleeping pad you don't want to leave home without that sleeping bag that's gonna save my but literally i'm not colorado conditioned right now i'm still in like warm texas you know winter mode one other thing to note on the adventure wagon the way it's rigged out now 22 miles to the gallon now without boat so that is quite a bit lower it was like 29 28 and by average miles per gallon this is going highway speed 70 75 you drop down to 60 it goes up to like 24 25 but you know who does that normal driving y'all so i'm all i'm saying is i wanted to keep you guys updated on the truck and how it is on the diesel i i can honestly see it just being a wash like you're getting the low end power but once you rig it out the way you really want your truck not with the stock tires that come with it that weigh like four ounces your gas mileage goes down with that diesel so just wanted to throw that out there in case y'all are thinking about getting one weighing the gasoline versus diesel i might go with the 6.2 gas thinking back but i don't know love the diesel i don't know i'm on the edge i'm on the edge i love the truck though now i got the camp set up now i'm just prepping all the gear and we're about to head out on the mission y'all it is nippy want to make sure to layer up and zip up wool gloves on i have two base layers i have a sweatshirt on underneath i'm going to keep my puffies in a dry bag safe in the vehicle just in case something happens like i get soaking wet and i'm able to get back to shore i'm just going to run back here to the truck get into the puffies your puffies or your downs they can't get wet like they lose 90 of their capability once they get wet so you want to make sure they stay dry that can keep you alive i'm going to start off on my first little walk mission here my roundabout i'm going to be walking down the banks i'm going to go kind of light i don't want to carry my big 12 foot pole with me just yet i just want to do some recon may not catch anything the water's still really turbid but i'm going to go with just this little six and a half foot ultra light it's a crappie pole essentially i've got a thousand size reel on there and i've got eight pound test eight pound test mono uh or fluoro sorry i might actually go down to six just depending on the bite in the lure i've got a little spinner on there that's a little furry and in my backpack i have some other lure set i've got some uh some inline spinners i have some little spoons got some little shinies and i've also got a variety of flies and some different floats and different things like that even have some you know power bait type stuff you know trout food and bluegill food whatever you know little nuggets let's go trek and whip here we go crossing our first little creek right here look how beautiful that is now the water out there is definitely not this clear it is murkied up so the idea here is i want to try to figure out the speed and direction well the fish are going to be facing into the current but i need to figure out where are these little eddies find these little rocks oh i might have just had a bite there see either a bite or i hit a boulder already got problems dangle in the spool oh well you know starting out the day with real zinger here maintenance cast over there try to get our line untwisted so you actually want to cast slightly upstream and then retrieve that way and your bait will drift into the fish hopefully hopefully that's what's happening or you could get snagged there's a lot of things that could happen here folks it's fishing not catching we are going to go through some baits i can already tell you we're going to lose baits we're going to be switching up baits i'm just going to kind of walk this path here look at these beautiful cedar trees monsters moss growing on them gorgeous i really want to try to cross right here somehow but it is super sketchy with just my boots on i'm not sure if i can do it yikes that is a doozy magoo right there i don't know it's probably not smart move this is just not looking very promising yeah that's pretty deep that's pretty deep that's going to be a uh a leg soaker that's going to be possibly a torso splasher which is what we don't want i knew it was going to be difficult so it's just doing the proper recon here this is our skinniest water but it is turbid oh my yeah yeah buddy oh it's just so close to coming over the boots already i don't feel like it's gonna be good you ever get that feeling like this is probably not good that's where i'm at right now because it's not like waders where if i slip it's like if i go in this sucks i'm gonna get sucked out to here and be soaked and my day is kind of done i don't want to be done so i'm gonna make an adult move here adult decision you know 20 years ago 10 years ago maybe maybe would have done it but right now i'm gonna try to find some greener prasters okay take a break from the raging rapids here and give it the old cast it's a good rock there's gotta be a fish behind these rocks i just don't know if it's their time right now they're probably just chilling waiting for the water to clear up i just saw a guy like he was driving down here on this road he's camping on the other side of the river and he he is stuck he just turned around the way back can't even get back right now early this morning i looked at the stocking report around here and somewhere on this river they actually put in yesterday 2000 trout oh yeah first lure going down yeah that's got on like a stick log something branch oh there she goes see you later see a spoon you just gotta you know keep the tackle industry going that's what i say bright and crazy y'all chartreuse orange dots by the way all if you want a good little tackle box for doing stuff like this just your tiny terminals and doing you know basically stuff that i'm doing small lures want to keep them really dry this is it look how much stuff i got in there and it is bone dry and it fits perfectly inside of your fanny goes right inside your fanny look at that well my initial reconnaissance of the waters has proven my my features they ain't gonna bite so what we're gonna do is lean on back here in the Chevy take a little snoozer and then get our camp ready and then when these fish are ready to chomp i'm gonna give them that straight dang awaken me from my snooze buddy lance has arrived he's set up his amazing pop-up trailer tent thingy mabob he is so dialed in for truck camping he's got everything you could imagine i've got a more simplistic situation over here but it's gonna be just fine the water still after taking a snoozer is rushing hard brown it's like texas tea i don't i don't think the fishing is gonna be worth a dollar i'm just gonna set up my pop-up tent and i love my pop-up tent situation it's essentially a backpack tent this is like my go-to grab bag i keep this thing packed i started doing that like after new zealand just have everything like ready to go and that way if a buddy calls me or if i find out about something i want to go do or you know hear about hot bite whatever i just grabbed this bag and i'm ready to go for like for days i've got meals ready to eat in there i have the tent i have essential clothing items in here this is my dry bag things i don't want to get wet i have stuff to make coffee so i have my food kit i have a hammock it wasn't super cold i i could actually sleep in the hammock first aid kit the essential hello what else have i got in here water filtration system stuff to take care of my health all of that it's all in the one duffel bag and i've got gps on the outside so pretty much everything that you'd need the basic essentials to get away with truck camping on the go i'm looking for a flat rock a platter if you will look how this tree has grown over the rocks that looks like one of those things you should put on like a postcard or a poster it's i got like an inspirational saying it's like you know overcome everything even when you're in a hard spot come on now on the spot thought of it smash the like button for it that one's close i think this one's it though i think that's it right there a little dirty need to wash our plate but that's gonna work way down yeah and dude it looks like a big open river with a spot and it's shallow you walk out the middle it falls off it's a honey hole man most of the time they go that way and they go on the main one yeah but walk on this main aisle here this little channel here is where they're going to be yet because they didn't make it that way walk this right here i see if they stocked in here if they did but if they like today they probably threw in but if they're coming from higher up they're going to go in that apartment where they're going to be at limpo from buddy lance here going that super duper baby it is very dude look at look at the uh look how muddy it is it looks like muddier now the water looked better down there honestly dude that's that's that's muddy this is like the last time we were here and it was like this that we didn't get a bite like forever it was bad trip like this uh you have to catch you a bunch of trout come back with your buddies and start cracking those yellow bellies open but today it was just a learning experience and really getting prepped for tomorrow so i've got three different rods rigged up i'm gonna focus here give me some green tea reduce inflammation hashtag getting old i'm gonna crawl up there in my little backpack tent and i'm gonna sleep with the soothing sounds of the river y'all if you've never camped next to a river or a stream you just gotta do it sometime in your life there's just something about that flow that just allows you to sleep easy just set your mind right i don't know one of those outdoor things gotta do it unfortunately we did not get to break out our flat rock today and cook fish that was my plan for today's video but it didn't happen it's gonna happen on the next one i will catch me some fish before i leave here i'm hoping by tomorrow tomorrow afternoon it's going to be really good but in the morning i'm gonna adapt try some other techniques and try to figure out how to catch these fish when they're sitting in these key areas i know they're in and how to get them to bite during these tough conditions so thank y'all for coming along for the camping experience vlog hope wherever you are you are cozy coming off a fresh successful dangle and god bless you i'll see you soon on the next video