 I need to take down the OP and get it hooked up y'all. This is gonna be a rig right here. I see this happening in the future right here. Kayak with that baby. Felt good to refresh the kayak skills, but it's just gonna be raining the rest of the day. So not good. But OSG and Emmy have not seen as Emmy calls it the house on wheels yet. She's seen that in this little book that we have and it's so cute you guys. So she knows it's coming. Gotta pull these posts up and then we're gonna attach it to the articulating hitch, which I don't think I really showed you guys in the other video, but this is a three axis articulating hitch. It allows you to go extreme off-roading and not screw up your truck and trailer. Go ahead and shut the gas down and I'm gonna try not to leave too big of a divot. Then the yard getting out of here because it is very wet. It's like luxury nesting in there. Wabam. Well y'all, the girls love, as Emmy calls it, the house on wheels. She's been on that thing every day and I have got great news. After a little time, guess who's back? Silver bullet, back in action y'all. So took about a week to get it back, not too bad, but she is in line spinning good and I built this little parking area over here for some sort of trailer and the OP is looking mighty nice right here. So we got our two big toys in the driveway. This place, honestly, when you get inside of the OP, it looks like you're in a park. I built this to look kind of like a park area with that wood and the gravel and stuff. So I was just coming back here to, you know, I was gonna grab my tool right here, my little snippers and then I just happened to look over here. You guys just tell me if there's anything right there that looks a little out of place, maybe a little odd, maybe a little dangerous. Is that a stick? It's an odd colored stick, I don't know. No, it's that absolutely disgusting creature, the copper-headed snake. I almost got tagged by one the other day. So scary, all because Emmy was playing. She had her little toys down here. She dropped something and she was playing and it was right here in the corner. There was just a few leaves and I had this fencing right here laid over it. And so of course I come down here to dispatch it and I lose it in the leaves and I'm trying to get after it and I've got my crocs on and the things like right here by my foot. So, you know, it's sandal season, but you always gotta keep your eyes up when you're out here at the treehouse. So I need to find me a good dispatch tool right now, y'all. Now luckily, when you roll up into the LFG Woodcraft and Fish Cave, you have quite a bit of options to choose from. My personal favorite, a fishin' freak gave me this, y'all. I don't know who it's made by. I don't know what classification this is in. It's like a small katana, very nice. Perfectly balanced, weighted for those little sneaky critters. A Swedish Forest Axe. When you got those extra heavy-necked sons of guns, nice beautiful sheen on that bad boy. Ooh, you do not wanna be messin' with that edge right there. Maybe we hit him with a Bravo one. Maybe we hit him with a little LT right with a Scandi edge. We got a lot of options, folks. The thing that I found works the best is a good old sturdy stick. That's right. You get him with that good old sturdy stick. I just so happen to have a nice fruit hardwood. I'm not even sure what this is. Could even be hickory, but it is a dag. My best friend gave this to me and I've killed a number of snakes with this bad boy right here. It's hard, you discombobulate them and then you come in with the edge. Problem with this guy, if I miss, it's going back into the wood pile. Gonna switch up the cedar, it's a little lighter. Think I can get a little better results just in this situation with it. Now for those of you that say, oh man, it's just a copperhead. You don't need to get those. You know, they're not doing any harm. They're not coming out at you. I beg to differ. I got a two and a half year old daughter. She runs around like a dag, I'm German shepherd. And if she steps on one of those things, it's definitely gonna tag her. I just can't have that. So every time I see one of them, I give them the business end of the stick and I do want to thank the fishing freak that gave me that little edge weapon because I think I've got four or five under its belt now, it's getting a tally on it. And at first I just thought it was cool. I didn't really know what to do with it. Turns out it's the perfect little decapitator. Now I think the only proper thing to do is to take the silver bullet out, reunite and make sure she's running straight and true. And I know she is, because Fun and Son took care of her, but I kind of want to give it a dangling. We're gonna go local. This year has been absolutely terrible. Bunny sent me a report the other night from one of our local lakes that, one of the tournaments, they didn't even weigh any fish. There was a tournament where they weighed no fish in. I just think that this year with the amount of people that live in the Metroplex where I live, that got out and fished was so incredible. Because I mean, everybody's not going to work or modified work hours. I think in the future, we're probably going to have to manage our fisheries a little better because the sport needs to grow. The amount of anglers always love to see that grow. Obviously, it's great for me being in the fishing industry, love to see that. But we also have to catch up with that activity and make sure that we're maintaining our fisheries properly. So that comes with stocking, that comes with habitat, that comes with catch and release and being just very cautious and tournaments with your fish, everything like that. So anyway, it's been weighing on my mind lately with some of these lakes just being unbelievably bad. We're going to go and get a shot today, see if there's a couple left in there. Oh man, the bug, the bug just gets tugs, y'all. We're here at the airport lake, right in the midst of them. Just got my first bite, I didn't even strap a chesty on yet, but she's a beaut. Nice little posty, nice little post spawner. See that bloody tail down there? I'm gonna let that fish go. It's a great fish, great fish for this lake anyway. About too windy for the summertime hat. I just came in here with a little crankbait around the bank and I got a couple bites, nothing big. I had like a white bass and a little spotted bass. Then I just scanned over with the live scope and I saw a fish just coming off a rock and I threw out there around where I thought the rocks were, came over it and it starts swimming with it. So that bug is just, it's good all times of year. It just gets tugs, but it's mid-depth fishing is what I'm at here. So see if I can get any more juicy bites in that, you know, five to 10 foot of water. I just got porky pounded right there. You gotta be kidding me. What is so nasty? Little guy, what are you doing? Much smaller. Took off with it. Just swimming with it, buddy. Could hardly feel the bite in the wind. In fact, I didn't feel the bite at all. Little bigger. Here on mommy. Did you happen to see the snake that was in the wood pile? I happened to see your story. Yes. And then I happened to see that head that's just chilling there. Yep, still there. Every time I walk by the wood pile, I feel like I think I see another copperhead. I know, it makes sense. Daddy has lots of fishies. You see, I gave Amy a lure that looks just like this on the end of her fishing pole. And she thinks that is hers. She's been practicing with it. And I think you're ready. I think you're ready to catch your first fish. But I just had to get the old, pull in the tug on the end of the line because you and I are heading to the dessert. There's no water. There's no water. I'm interested to see how you do a trip vacation with no water, just desert, nothing but hiking trails. It's totally up my alley. Yeah, well, this is your idea. Yeah, exactly. So OSG, she was like, you know, we should go to Big Bend. I've always wanted to go there. And that was one of the first things on the list after we got the camp, you were like, let's do the trip. So I was like, man, again, I'll mix in some fishing. Where is this place? Come find out, it's in the desert. There's no fishing to be had. I've never, we've never gone on a trip that I can remember that doesn't involve me taking fishing poles. I probably still will, just rare case. I come across the stream, you know, I have to dangle. So we're truly, we are going into the desert. We're taking the Opus and we're going on some like, what appears to be some pretty hardcore trails that you can't take regular campers down. Can't even take a regular vehicle down. You gotta have, you know, basically a lifted truck four wheel drive, that sort of thing. Pretty much on the border of Mexico. Yeah, you know, deserts. Pregnant, come back alive. Pregnants should be fun. You know what I'm saying, this is her idea. We are going to leave Emmy behind. It's just us, this is like our baby moon before, you know, summer. And it's also a celebrating anniversary early, six years. Oh yeah, that's true. That's true, because I'm going to be fishing on an anniversary. Yeah, I've all mixed in one. So six years. Don't forget it. Yeah, how can I forget it? You want to show them how you've nested this thing? Sure. Before we get on the road? I feel like I'm always kind of like Grinch style in here. Yeah, that is the belly. You do look like the Grinch belly. You don't look like the Grinch though. And what do you think? You're all about them foods. What do you think? Oh wow. We're not going anywhere where I'm hungry. So I'm bringing all. Geez, babe. You brought the whole entire home kitchen pantry. Oh yeah, and it keeps going. It's double stacked back there. That's cool. So when I first got in this thing, I wasn't even thinking about that as a pantry. I really wasn't either, but I was like, you know what? It works perfectly. It works perfectly, yeah. What are we going to do? You're having on our trip. Well, I'm pre-prepping some pulled pork, a barbecue pulled pork, pre-prepping some stew. Then you're going to be cooking some steaks and some burgers, keeping it pretty simple. So I'm not doing like cinnamon rolls and all that kind of jazz. And for anybody that's curious, Steph is, she's on a severe diet right now. Very restrictive diet. Trying to get her thyroid in order. Which is, it's like, that's like a video in itself. You've talked about that a little bit on the Lake life family channel, but anyway. She's also doing a cookbook right now on cookies. Over 60 recipes and she makes one recipe every week. Three. Three, I'm sorry. Which I am required to eat. I'm usually home to eat one of them. The other, she gives out to our neighbors. All right, y'all, thanks for tuning in for today's vlog. Always make sure to carry your snake dispatcher with you. You never know when you need it. And if you want to stay tuned for the next couple of videos heading into the great Wild West in OP with OSG, subscribe right here to the channel. And I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in to all the videos. Go ahead and smash that like button for great family outdoors. And I'll see you in the next one.