 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Thank you for being here. Hope you're ready for some adventure because we are going deep into the swamps on this one. We're gonna be adventuring to the only natural lake in Texas and trying to go after some bass and maybe some other species doing some camping. And this adventure is sponsored by Mystery Tackle Box. Now, if you've been on the channel for a while, you know the gist with MTB, but basically they are a service that provides you premium tackle in a box for value to your doorsteps. Subscriptions makes it easy for you. Everything's subscriptions. Hey, you don't have to go out, okay? Don't want to get corroded? Get a ship right to your door. It's easy. This is the pro bass box. This is what I get every month because I have to do so much bass fishing, but they have other species too. So whatever kind of dangle you're into, they got you covered. Let's just bust it open real quick and see what we're dealing with heading to the swamps. Wow, right away, they gave me a frog. And they did not know I was going to the swamps. Got a swim bait, got a lipless crank bait, got a spinner bait, got some plastic in here. Basically everything you need to go bass fishing and it's catered to the month. Whatever's hot, they put it in the box. All you new fishing freaks that want to get your hands on one of these, they're offering your first box for as low as five bucks. And you can use the code Mondo at checkout and discounts will be applied. So anyways, y'all, it's a great deal. Go get signed up and MTB has sponsored many videos on this channel, many adventures. And I'm very excited about this one because it is a lake that I've never been to and it is the only natural lake in Texas. I've wanted to fish this lake for so many years. I've heard it's absolutely majestic. Lots of cypress trees and just, you know, a swamp. Think about swamp. Let's get the Crispy Collector on the road. This is its first big road trip. So let's see if we can find us a place to sleep in Swampville. She's ready for the road. I hope she doesn't fall apart. But I got one more thing I need to do. I need to pill my chicken. You heard me correctly. Pill a chicken. I have some antibiotics here. I'm giving my chickens. This is so unfortunate right now, y'all, because I need these eggs, man. I don't know if you've been in the grocery store but eggs have just been out of control, milk. You know, we went to the grocery store the other day and they were like wiped out of everything. So it really helps having a little home set here that we can just come collect our chicken eggs. Unfortunately, one of our girls got sick. We had to take her to the vet and they gave us some antibiotics and you're not supposed to eat the eggs when they're on antibiotics. One of the girls is clucking in there. I already pilled two of them. I just need to pill this other one that's, well, she's sitting on an egg. Excuse me, girls. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Y'all are sitting on those eggs. Okay, well, it looks like I'm gonna have to wait or Stephanie is gonna have to pill that chicken because rain is coming and we have got to get to the swamps, y'all. You'll realize when you get here, I wouldn't tell you for no reason. This is for, this is the worst ever that's stuck in my life. Jack, Nariq, how about that? My, like my, the tongue or the nose of the boat is like the nose of the boat is two inches away from my tail light. Did you slide off into a ditch? Yeah, it's slid. Yeah, like I had to turn left. My truck slid and the boat kept going straight. Oh gosh. I'm on my way to Cato, but I'll help you, man. Just send me the pen and I'll plug it in. I'm gonna send me this pen. Okay, it might take me a little bit, so just hang in there. I have, yeah, I'll be here. I ain't going anywhere. Okay. All right, thank you so much. Goodbye. All right, y'all, well, this day is definitely taking a turn. I'm gonna tell you two things that have happened and that just feel like there's a little, little extra chemistry in the atmosphere. You know what I'm saying? I forgot my watch and my wedding ring. So I went back to the house as soon as I pulled out. When I stopped my truck, I realized my boat was not fully on the ball. So the hitch of ball were not fully connected. So that would have been an disaster going down the highway. Rob calls me and it just so happens that our paths are basically meeting today. This bookers up our plans to go fishing today, but you just gotta help a friend and me, especially when it all lines up like this. And I feel like guardian angels are upon me today. So let's go help Rob out of the mud. You just gotta stay calm, stay collected, help your brothers and sisters, your neighbors. Everybody just be cool. Chroma's gonna die out. And in the meantime, enjoy some fishing, you know? That's a good way to get away. Get away from the crowds. We're heading into the deep woods right now. Nobody traveling on these roads. That squirrel right there was just taken out by a hawk. Saw him come swoop down. Two of them there fighting over it. It's crazy. Don't see the hawks, but I see a lake over here and we're supposedly really close. I'm just gonna start looking for the white truck. This is it with this thing. This is the final go. Rob, you've gone ahead and got yourself into a little situation here, bud. I'm in more of a situation. Look at the boat, man. Looks like it was just ran the Kentucky Derby. Like it just took its final lap. It's pretty bad. Oh man. I'm not gonna tell like it's not. Yeah, it's pretty bad. I caught a fish today though. That's good. So it's my days going good. I've caught a fish, a tree, I've cut out a log. Oh my gosh. I just want you to do the jackknife on the other side. Okay. That's all I'm really, this is. So this is it, y'all. There's obviously been some effort here to get it out. Luckily, Rob, I was like along this route. You know, this is probably 30 minutes out of my way, but. Have you ever seen this? Well, let's see what we can do. Rob's got a 90 degree turn. Like a 90 degree angle on his boat and his truck. I didn't know this, but that truck's two wheel drive. And it's very, very heavy. Thank goodness, the tables have turned here. I have four wheel drive. So I'm gonna hook up to the front of his truck and hopefully he's gonna get enough traction where he can start moving forward. But we might have to disconnect the truck from the boat and then do one at a time, which would take a long time. But that's what we're here for. Rob's got some chains, thankfully. Let's hook it up. Let's give it a game. Big chains, see if the little diesel, the little dirty max can get it out. Okay, y'all, we definitely had some setbacks of issues, but we got his boat out. Man, that's funny. You know what I told y'all? I was like, I'm not going to another gear without four wheel drive. And I got this truck. It was always like, oh yeah, Reckley didn't have four wheel drive. He can't go here. Oh, he can't help this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We just proved the little dirty max is pretty darn good. So plus we got some really good tires on here. But I still got another 200 yards to get this thing through some mud. We're just gonna keep the momentum going and get it to the asphalt. Rob can hook his truck up and then we'll head on our way. Lunkers TV, back on the road, baby. Not telling you what to do, but you may want to go over this channel and give that video a watch. He said he had the camera on when he was like sliding around and everything getting stuck. So not the first time he's done it. It wasn't easy, but we got him out. And that has definitely affected our fishing time if we get to do any today. But the goal now is try to get to a camping spot and hopefully something is available because y'all, the corona thing is taking over. If people aren't in school, if they're not at work, what are they gonna be doing? Fishing? Camping? You know, extended spring break? For how many butts? I don't know. I was gonna see if you had any tent camping available for tonight. We do have a sea spot that you don't mind getting. Just, I've just got a tent. I don't need any water hookups. Yes. We got lucky and they still got some camping spots open. There's excellent news. So excited to see what this lake actually looks like. I'm excited to put the lens on it for you guys. But Caddo Lake, I believe, is the original port in Texas where people would come with their cargo from the ocean and literally take it up the river and go to Caddo Lake and stop their trade there. And basically conduct commerce there. Fert trade was big. The lake is huge. I don't have GPS on the boat. I'm bringing handheld GPS. This is all new territory for me. That we are here at the ramp now in the Spanish malls, y'all. It is intense. Check this water out. It's because I don't know how to run this place and I've heard it could be pretty contangorous. And if I hit a stump in this thing, it's not the end of the day. If I hit a big stump in my big bass boat, that's a problem. This motor right here, it'll actually just flip up. So I just don't need to break a propeller. There's already, I can see like a lot of logs, a lot of debris and stuff in the water. Y'all, this place is, this is the Dagum Swamps. So let's go do a little fishing. Let's explore and then we'll set up our camp. Get ready for tonight. Should be a nice camping night if it doesn't rain. This lake is a menagerie of trees. Like this is, I've never fished a lake like this. But it's just this swampy, this thick. My dad told me about the time he caught his personal best in a swamp like this on top water. It was like an eight and a half pound bass. This is the only thing I can imagine is like the stories he told me sitting under the Spanish moss and it's just like that tee colored water. It's really cool. It's a really cool looking place to fish, but there's so much cover. So much shallow cover. Now it's like, okay, where do I go? It's beautiful, but where do I go? How do I catch it? I think I'm just gonna go with your standards here, starting off with a spinner bait and a jig. Standard swamp, swamp lures. I don't even know how deep it is. Okay, I can't touch the bottom right here, so pretty deep. This bass has gotta be shallow. So I have no way of knowing the water temperature, but I'm just gonna assume it's probably getting around 60, 59, something like that. I mean, would y'all just look at this. Majestic beauty. Come on with the fish. Lots of shad in this area. And I'm just flipping a little three eighths ounce jig. A little juicy with Alabama craw as a trailer. Pitching away here, trying to get my first bite. Normally I'd be super excited to even flip a cypress tree, but right here I'm like, well, there's literally millions of them in here, so which ones are gonna be the legit ones? I started in the back. Now I've worked my way out front. There's definitely some current here, so I'm wondering if that would pull them out of the backwater areas and more towards this type stuff right here. Got one. Yep. Oh my gosh, he came off. Drag wasn't set. Yikes. Man, he sat there and just had it. As soon as I started getting in that current, it was like, I could never catch up to that fish. I had a six, three to one gear ratio reels. I'm gonna tell you guys right now, don't flip with one of these. Because my drag was kind of loose, which I want it to be about like that on 20 pound test, but if I would have had a high speed gear ratio reel, what I'd have caught that fish, because I've been able to reel down and set the hook again. So first bite confirmed on a jig. One bite so far, and that came at the, kind of like the mouth of one of these creeks. Wow, you can get lost out here. Let me just say that, wow. There's just miles and miles and miles of little, little creek arms like this, little bayous. I got time for a little bit more recon. I will be fishing tomorrow, so stay tuned, subscribe. But today I wanted to get here, get camp set up. As usual, I just need to figure out exactly where these bass are. I'm gonna shut it down right here and fish this little spot though. I see like four boats back here. I'm gonna take it as if, we just, we found. We found a good bass fishing spot. So I'm seeing lots of flat, I mean, this whole thing is just a flat back here, and it looks like weightless bait extravaganza. Just tied on a five inch lunker log. This is just straight up spawning. I can't see the fish, but I know that they've got to be on this flat. Oh my God, it broke me off. Well guys, I'm 0 for 2. Tighten my drag up and there she goes. God, that pisses me off, y'all. Two fish, two good fish probably. Okay, mosquitoes are real. Mosquitoes are real out here, y'all. March mosquitoes, I've never seen that in my life. I let one go and then I broke one off. I wanted to at least get one bass today. Under my belt, but I think I'm gonna have to take it in because I hear the frogs, mosquitoes are really coming out and it is going to rain. So let's just start our way back. If we see anything juicy and we have a little bit of time, we'll stop and hit it, but we still gotta make food and fire. It started raining really bad. I tried to get a fire going. Couldn't even do that. I already had wet wood and it was just, it was just catastrophe. I only slept like an hour. There was branches that fell. Let me show you this. This thing fell on the picnic table and scared the daylight side of me. Middle of the night. Not to mention something else, I gotta tell you in just a minute. But anyway, it was not the best camping experience and I couldn't really show it because it was just pouring down rain. I know I've been to this before, but I love this tent and it's the one I carry on a lot of quick trips like this. Like if I'm only staying a night or a couple of nights, or if I'm just, maybe I'm staying a bunch of nights, but I'm just moving places, this is the one I take because it's literally designed to be a two-person backpack tent, mountain hunting tent, rained all last night. Kept me dry. I had a little bit of moisture on my sleeping pad and there was just a little bit of moisture around the edges. I actually, I keep my boots on the outside like this and I had some water splash up on it, but it was okay and these boots were waterproof. So I just really liked the way it lays out, but the best thing about it is it breaks down really fast. And I've already showed that in other videos, but this is the last thing we gotta do. And when I get home, I need to make sure I let this thing dry out, always dry out your equipment when you get home because if you don't, it will come out stinking like a mildew old soggy, you know what. So let's pack her on up and then let's head to the water. All right, I'm gonna tell y'all this now. So when I got to my camp last night and it started raining and I was like struggling to set up the tent and everything and try to get that fire going, there was a guy came over and he kinda helped me with the light to get my torch going and seemed like a nice guy, but then he went back to his camp and was just sitting there and like rocking and talking to himself and seeing some weird stuff and constantly spinning. Like he had the biggest, like a whole can of dip in his mouth for over an hour. It was weird. And it just, just burping as loud as he could. It was the strangest. So when I got in that tent, it was like, oh, please Lord, don't let this guy come over here and say something weird to me, do something weird to me. Anyway, I think I got all washed out by the rain, but it was strange, y'all. I'm gonna leave it there. That was my cabin experience. Cost me $10. I do recommend if you're a Texas resident getting that state pass because there's a lot of great Texas parks here. I mean, this place is gorgeous. There's a lot of people here right now because it's spring break, extended spring break because of coronavirus, but get that pass and then you can go to all the different parks and I've actually launched quite a few of those. So more adventure ahead, y'all, as we head into Mississippi for a whole nother adventure going after the crappie and one more adventure out here on the mystical Caddo Lake. So thank you guys for being here. Go ahead and smash that like button for swamps, mosquitoes, and everything biological. And I'll see y'all on the next one.