 Look at that beautiful fish y'all, it's awesome. Morning fishing freaks, welcome all back to the channel y'all. Glad you're here for my little few day fishing journey out on the road back into some of my old stomping grounds. And we're about to leave camp right now. I really haven't set up a tent or anything. I've just been truck camping. I'm gonna show y'all later today how I'm setting this up. Leaving this lake, we're gonna fish here in the morning and then we're gonna go to another lake that's close by that I've caught some hammers at. But I think I got one more day in me. So today we're fishing two lakes. We're gonna fish here in the morning because it's hot water and it's in the 30s right now. And then we're gonna try to get on, just to catch a hog this afternoon. She's a little bit steamy to say the least. It is really cooled off. It's in the 30s and this power plant on this side of the lake, the water's just hot. It's hotter than there obviously. 68.7 degrees. I haven't fished this area the last few days that I've been on this lake. So I'm gonna start out doing some cranking along a little rip-rap area. And then I'm gonna try some timber since it's gonna be a little calmer today. We still got some winds but it's not gonna be anything like yesterday. Yesterday was tough. All right, can you guys see me? You ready? You ready to see one? Let's get one on the line. All right, hopefully y'all can see through this fog situation. But I'm gonna start off doing hard baits. We're gonna go with the grande banger. Probably gonna throw a jerk bait as well. I might throw a recon, try to get a little deeper. Although I lost my red one that was doing the damage. I always lean more towards, give me some of that wind and active bass rather than like a slower bite that I'm gonna have to really dangle on the fish hard in some calmer areas. Like if they're acting a fool and eating some baits in the wind then I'll battle the wind. There is something to say about a nice still morning especially after a good cup of coffee and then you pick up your worm and you throw it out there and it's calm and you see your line to which, you know, there's something to be said about that. I totally, I totally dig that too. Jerk bait time. It's just a fish crusher y'all. It's good any time you have moderately stained to clear water. It's not good in dirty water but if you've got a lake that has visibility this thing all through the winter, early spring, spring, post-spawn even and there's variations of these. You can fish the ones that float on top. We don't make one, but ours is just a spin. But you know, you can fish in this pop water as well. It's pretty nuts. See some fish kind of scattered here on the rip wraps. Oh yeah. I should have caught one right there on that corner for sure. I will. I will get one right here. Here he is. My gosh. Speak of the devil. Speak of the basses. There you little ju-ju-bee. First one of the day. First one of the day on the trusty, the trusty jerk. That looks like a hook in the hand situation. Go ahead and get the pliers on now. Just a healthy little young buck. See my guy. I feel like I'm in a sauna right now. A sweet bass sauna full of juicy bass. Here's one. We got him. Oh, we come off. It's kind of sneaky. He's kind of starting to load up and get heavy on me. I've lost so many fish on this lake, especially on the crankbaits and stuff. And I tried switching up hooks and all that and vainly this lake and other warm water lakes. Their mouths get nice and soft, gooey. Those little tissues get all warmed up. I mean, especially in the summer, my gosh, but you know, in the winter, their mouths are cold and hard and, well, you stick them there. I mean, they're not, the hole's not getting any bigger. It's all hardened up, but you know, a nice warm one can come off pretty easy. Now I can see the tilapia on the electronics. Don't believe those are shad. They look too big to be a shad. They look too small to be a bass and they're spaced out more than a shad would be to switch up here. All right, get the recon. Get it down there and dig it up. Dig it up, dig, dig in, yeah. All right, now we're just looking like the floor is made of tilapia on the graph, which at that point, when you have that much bait in an area, it's like, why would they eat this, you know? They can smell. They know. Oh, we got something on the crank and it's a bass. Little rando rogue fish. Little guy. Whoever got my last bass boat got a lot of waypoints, I'll tell you. I've started fresh on my waypoints on this boat and I'm trying to go off memory. There's areas all around this lake that have like rock structures and stuff. And you know, I spent a lot of time islanding around finding them. I can't find them right now because it's so steamy. I can't get any landmarkers. You know, I can't even do it the old fashioned way. So I'm just kind of throwing this crank bait, trying to feel the bottom, but there's just a lot of scattered bass throughout here because it's a huge flat that's about 10 to 12 foot where I've been catching them this week. So, now it's a good, that's that perfect depth for them. A little bit of something there. There we go. Oh gosh, absolutely smoked. Fighting hard. Come here, buddy. Here's a better one. Don't move. You've been charged with wanting a chartreuse and blue crank bait. Anything you do at this point, I will give you a good sniff anyways. Don't hook me in the hand or I will send you to the filet knife. I'm kidding y'all, I would not do that. Nice fish in the steamy bath. If you guys missed the first video, textbook cranking, having to hit the bottom to get bit, that was it. Still continuing. It's just, this is a little different. I'm literally cranking to try to cranking as using it as my GPS right now, trying to find some hard spots. If I find a really good hard rocky spot, I'm gonna throw that football jig or a Carolina rig on it. Oh, I'm in. That is it. That is the rock. We should get just gobbled right there. Just got to get in the boat position right here. I'd be offended if I didn't get hung up in this rock. It's so nasty. There it got him. Oh yeah. Had to do it, right? You had to, had to get it. Ah, decent one. There we go. Another solid bass. Flapping in the wind. I didn't think it was gonna be this windy. Oh, look, he's peeing. It's giving me a little extra excitement here. See you, buddy. Look at the chunkness of that fish. That fish is maybe 14, and he's like two and a quarter, two and a half. Probably two and a half in five seconds. Just dance, little turkeys. I think this will get down there enough till on that high spot, and it's just a big old presence. There he is. On top. Grande banger. Come here, buddy. You are dark. Beautiful bass. You wanted that little tilapia bluegill situation, didn't you? Look at that beautiful fish, y'all. It's awesome. A big one. Oh my gosh, I still got him. I still got him. Big head shakes. Good fish. Come here. Man, y'all. I was hitting those rocks. Oh, gosh, he came off right there. That got me. My rod, I thought it was hung, and then it just started moving. Hanging out in the fog in the wind has been worth it this morning. That last fish I lost was good on. It was in the four pound range. I think I'm gonna fish a few more areas on this lake before I head to the other one. We're still really early. It's like nine o'clock, so just try a couple things, and then we'll get on the road, where it might be really tough, but I feel like the chances of a big one are greater. Hell of a good warm-up this morning, you know? Getting that crank on? The last 24 hours, I've just been getting beat up by the wind. Still catching fish though. That's the important thing. We're gonna do a little offshore action. Oh, that is delicious on that three-ought. There's just a hard spot out here where I'm at, and there's some fish that are kind of moving through. Start a wee-ish little boggy here. Not big numbers, but I'm hoping there'll be a big one. That's what's down there. Little butternut squashes. Oh my, oh my, you're healthy. Woo, get it out. Little pee extra fun. Boop, boop. Might not be the ones we're looking for there. All right, this is my last stop right here. I've waited to fish this spot for a couple of days. It's always been a boat here, and wind was blowing on it pretty bad, so. Oh my gosh, the bass, or the bird has a fish. I'm so excited. That's a good one. I think I'm gonna end on that, even though it's not a timber tuna. I just needed a good ol' jig bite, you know? Goodbye, my sweet. We're heading to another lake. Another lake. The lady at the front, when I was coming into the park, she said, hey, they're catching them crappies. They're catching them crappies right now. Come on, camera, focus, I'm talking about crappies. Do some modeling around and see, I'm trying to just go after a whopper bass this afternoon, but right now, there's a man down here at the boat ramp. I just pulled up and he said, man, can you help me with my boat? It's out in the middle of the lake. It's somehow drifted off, so. Gotta go help someone out, and hopefully that's gonna bring us the good vibes, the good luck. There he goes, man, there he goes. He he he. My God. He was all the way over here. He's like, probably 800 yards from the ramp. The water's so low right now that when you back your trailer in, it'll automatically just kind of lift your boat up. So happens to the best of us. There's a drum on a crappie jig. That's ugly. So we've gone from mid-60s water to 55, which isn't terrible, quite honestly. I mean, this is not a power plant lake, but where I was fishing just a few weeks ago, or just a week ago, up in my hometown, I mean, it was in the 40s. Y'all, this is what I'm looking at all over the lake. Just, I guess they're gizzard shad, and maybe some thread fins, makes it with maybe some small white bass or something, but it is just, wow. There's so many little bait situations going on here. And it's a toughy McGee. I went to three different areas. I don't know if I'm seeing bass or not. I mean, it could be drum, it could be carp, and I was trying to find some brush piles to get on some bass and going on memory, because I don't have my GPS waypoints saved in this boat from years ago when I fished out here a lot. Even then, I just didn't find anything juicy, so I'm just gonna go to a, you know, standard winter time, early spring time, looking at areas, some rocks, rocks, I got deep water close by. Try dragging these rocks, cranking them a little bit, see if we can pull up that one big largey, but I'm definitely glad that I fished the other place this morning, even though I was kinda getting tired of it. It was just, it was fun. It was fun to bring some fish in the boat before I came out here back to, you know, stepping back two months, basically, in water temps and going back to slow fishing. We're doing it for the bigs, man. Gotta grind if you want the biggings. I'm giving her all she's got, man. It's not the juice, it's not the juice right now. So now I'm wondering, like, should I even fish here tomorrow? Cause it's gonna take me quite a long time to locate brush piles and things like that. We're going to take her to camp. Well, this one has proved to be a toughy mixucker. I'm gonna kind of split up my journey tomorrow. I might go to another lake, another lake that has grass. That's the savior, the winter early spring savior. I'm not too impressed right now. What's going on with this lake? So I'm just gonna take a breather on it. Now this is half the fun, traveling around in bass fishing, y'all. I am camping next to a lake. I've done this, well, this is gonna be my second lake now. There's parks like this all over the state of Texas that I know of. I've been to other states obviously that have great camping as well that you can get 110 hookups and stuff. It's like 30, 25 bucks to 35 bucks to get that electricity hookup. That way you can charge your boat. You don't have to run a generator. If you wanna go full off grid, you can do that too in state parks and stuff like that. But I like to do it all, y'all. And the simplest way to do it, if you got a truck cap, just sleep in your truck. I mean, I'm down with setting up a tent and everything too but it's just pretty, it's fast this way. Like if I wanna make the quick decision to leave here in the morning, not fish this lake, which I'm gonna do, it's really easy. This crate that I built, built this for all around crap, especially big loads and also firewood. This is a plastic one, it kinda gets flimsy around the sides but I've got the boat cover in here, pull that out. I've got my firewood in here. So most places like this, I have a fire pit, this one does, get a fire going, set the ambience before you go crush Mondos. Or you could grill up some weenies or maybe some prime ribs, something tasty. I cooked some sausage on some coals the other night doing that. Of course you gotta have yourself an extension cord. So now I'm gonna show you how I set up my camp at night when I'm truck camping. So I'll take the crate out. Don't wanna blow the back out. I'll blow the back out on a big bass but not on video demonstration purposes. We can go plug that into 110 or we can plug it in to the jackery. So really the only two things I have left in here are my bedroll and my food, my eat kit is what I like to call it. So I've got freeze dried meals in here. I've got breakfast style. I've got my favorite chili mac. I've got a bunch of those. Keep quick oatmeal, instant oatmeal and coat with hot water. Emergency, gotta keep your vitamins and minerals up when you're on the road. I have a tendency to just eat a lot of meat and pretty much just meat with no other vegetables and minerals and stuff like that. So I like to take these, keeps you healthy especially when it's cold. Examples of other foods that are storeable. I got pistachios right here. I wanna get my snack on. Bucky's beef jerky, Triscuits. These arguably pretty stale at the moment. Then I've got some healthy snack bars. I like to carry around these RX bars. Stephanie recommends these. These are pretty, pretty simple stuff and they're not a whole lot of junk. And then if I wanna treat myself to like a honey stinger or something like that, I got almond butter. Almond butter, put it on a honey stinger. Waffle cake, ee! Special treat, y'all. And I do keep some of these wipes right here. One of these called probably a bunch of brands, make them but they're biodegradable wipes. So if you wanna feel fresh before you go to bed, you can do just a body wipe down, biodegradable so you can also use it on the rear if you need it to. Nice, comfortable alternative. And while we're in here, let's pick out our meal for tonight. I'm feeling lasagna with meat sauce. I'll also carry meat and stuff in the cooler. I'll go through that. Maybe keep some sandwiches, just whatever you want. But I always keep this just in case there's like nowhere to get food or that stuff can expire, that's in the fridge. Maybe you ran out of ice, forgot to plug the medican or something. These will save your butt. So it keeps you going, keeps you fed and you can literally keep it in your truck, not have to worry about it. You know it's gonna be okay. Boy, I miss the sound of that train down here. Man, whoo! Love being back down here. And then in this other bin, I keep my food kit or my food cooking kit basically. So in here, I keep a spork and a little napkin, a little layout, kind of like a dinner table cloth sort of thing. I got a couple of cups. I got a 550 mil and a 400. If you don't have sriracha sauce or some sort of hot sauce, it could save you. On day four or five when you're out there and you're like, you know, I just need some flavor, something like that, gotta have it. I learned that backpack hunting. Man, some Taco Bell hot sauce. Woo! Tastes like a fine wine after many days. And then I've got my burner and I keep multiple propanes in here. Got a big hose if I wanna hook up. I've actually got a Coleman up top here. So if you wanna break out the big guns, we've got all that stuff. We've got extra jumper cables, ratchet straps, anything, you know, tools, stuff to fix stuff when stuff happens. Cause stuff does happen when you're on the road. And now let me take y'all into the bedroom where the magic definitely doesn't happen. I usually take some of the stuff out of the truck and I throw it up there at night just to keep, you know, raccoons or whatever and just get it out of the way. If I don't want it on the ground, you know, creatures getting into it, especially my food, just don't forget about it. Once you put it up there, done that once. I just unbuckle this, that's the tail end, push that out. My Chevy here, she's about a foot short. So I do have to leave the tailgate down and I close this when I'm sleeping. And I need to figure out a situation, a little deal that I can put like a mesh screen or some sort of cover that can just fall down here. Maybe it has like a keel or a weight on the bottom to just keep things out. You know, I'm always worried like, hey, maybe a raccoon come up in here and wanna get him a lick on my face or something. But the big thing is mosquitoes. Don't have to worry about it right now, but having a mesh screen right there and then you can open up the side screens of the truck hat, boop. So the bed roll, this is made by Campus Cutter. I've shown this in some of my hunting videos before, but all you fishing freaks out there that are looking to do some extended travel fishing, here you go. This thing is actually waterproof. So if you wanted to sleep outside with it, you could, but makes the perfect truck bed bed. There's a foam pad under here. That foam pad is pretty thick. I can sleep on my side. My hip bone doesn't dig into the bottom of the truck. I've got a zero degree bag. When it's in the forties, it's perfect. If it gets in the thirties, like low thirties, brown freezing, it's a little chilly. I'll have to put on a base layer. Got a pillow from home and I carry a camp pillow as well, like a small one. Best thing about sleeping next to the water is the travel time to the lake is none. We are gonna sign it off for today, y'all. And the next video is just gonna be me going to another lake, just trying to figure things out from scratch, just kind of in a half day. So I'm heading home. Tomorrow I'm gonna head to the lake on the way back. Just gonna try a variety of different things, see if I can get on a general bite and hopefully get a big one. I'm yet to catch a fish over five in the new year. I love me some fishing, y'all. I get excited at the beginning of the year, just thinking of the whole year and all the fishing opportunities that are to come. So anyways, I'm amped. I love it, y'all. I'm gonna sleep next to the fish here, next to the water and get up and do it all over again. So stay tuned for the next one. God bless you, we'll see you soon.