 Oh See it is day two and a half here at Camp at getch camp. I got the coffee rolling right now Gotta get it into my veins as soon as possible. It's the first thing I do in the morning I Don't even know if I'm making correct sense. It's right now. It's just I just need it. Is it is anyone else like that? Let me know. Let me know in the comments I hardly make it downstairs before I get my coffee, but just to recap Just to recap Just to recap the whole trip First day was absolutely phenomenal dreamland felt like we were in a dream weird weather situation Just it was one of those unique days. We caught 42 pounds of bass best five day two It was much tougher, you know bluebird like no wins. I caught a mean mouth, which if you've never heard of a mean mouth bass It's a It's a it's a hybrid. It's a mix between a small mouth And a large mouth or small mouth and a spotted bass. I can't remember the exact exact mixture of it But I've only caught like one other one in my life. It was on Lake Texoma and it was small You know, it's like a pound and a half and then I lost probably I mean, it's not crazy to say I probably lost the biggest bass that I've ever hooked because my biggest bass my PB is 11 pounds four ounces and this fish Just absolutely whooped me on you know when you get a big fish and I'll replay this clip for you There's a there's a thing that happens usually and your line goes really tight it's like you're not pulling the fish through the water at all and That's when that fish is moving that line is really tight. They just make this Sound it's it's a it's a scary and incredible sound And you just know it's it's like a siren. What you don't got a giant bass That's a big I know it is So we're gonna move something today, so we're taking the high caliber rifles You know big line 25 pound tests seven and a half eight-foot rods stiffies Don't want it too hot. Oh Let my rag on fire I've overcooked the water John got a little too hot don't want to scald your beans Let's get it going Left a little marina store These people are nice I got I got some Guggen mates in there as well actually John had to buy some But of our own brand you learn by his own tussles and Guggen's by their own baits Dude when you're when you're out of a specific color or something like does it matter like you're just gonna buy I'm just gonna buy a thing even if even if that's not the key the green so just love to know that It's been the green gizzard. Yeah, I forgot to mention three point eight To three point three and then on all white four point eight Yeah, green gizzard and then the pearl and just one bait that's kind of standing out from the others And I don't know what it is about about I don't know what it is about white, but it's something with winter white Remember that winter and white also ran into a Guggen He was actually a raccoon audio. He just he was a old-school Fish and free Yeah, he knew me from the A&M days, but he actually he's from around where you are and knows our baits and Pretty cool. We've actually run into three three or four people since we've been here that You know if we're like hey guys like your baits like what you're like what you're working with You know we appreciate it shake your tail feather. Are you like wind burned all over the nose area? This is another thing that's kind of important when you're holding a really really big bass I you know my rule of thumb is something that's over eight or nine pounds like when you get into the double D's Especially you talking like 12 13 14 and above these fishes jaws You know their weight is suspended in water, so they really don't have to support This this heavy weight this body with their their face in the water when we lift them out There's a lot of stress on the on their jaw. So holding them like this like this TPWD sign is showing you It can it can actually pop their jaws out and hurt their jaws So you just want to hold them sideways. Like I said even an eight pounder It's it's probably not gonna do much to them, but good to go But uh, you get you when you get that double D this spring You know just take care of it. Give it a good sniff smell it love it show it some attention and Get some quality picks and return it to the deeps There are bluegill Everywhere in the water by the boat ramp So I'm assuming that that is Down there in all these trees that we see there's zebra mussels on them and there's algae and we've seen a lot of little You know we call baitfish I'm assuming a lot of bluegills Absolute bass candy protein get this part out of the way. You got to eat a little food It's like a long journey Just take a little bit of time just to consume a few calories before you grind all day Me and John a fish daylight dark both days That's really good they make you a love beauty Okay Shout out to the Marina store. That's a really good salsa. All right. Yeah, I totally just forgot that this happened last night I'm an idiot Okay, well Get all excited eat your burrito Get your coffee pick up your odd. It's an absolute blowout. You're gonna blow Oh Two heads are better than one. Oh Yeah, oh, yeah, they're coming up for it, dude. They're coming up for I'm pretty sure What was that all for? Hey, they know so our nose move them. They move their nose to it Just wake up have that coffee and eat that chandelier, please Oh Dude that five not our win Makes a difference on the fingertips. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah, we didn't really fully appreciate how nice It's actually supposed to be warmer today, I know I think it's supposed to be in high 40s Which isn't really warm If I get any kind of bite this vicious jaw you just hit me in the face. I'm gonna Mike Tyson this Mike Tyson his scales off Oh God keep rolling. Oh my god. That was a head. He's coming for you. He's coming for you Yeah, oh Yeah, he's out of the brush Yeah, it's just One of them pesky Pesky says cool blind cast just get the day started. I know you're good with that hole. You got that I just keep the line I keep the lie Do that thing just felt like a minnow compared to that What a chunk of all absolute just all these fish are completely Brick houses, it's amazing Here we go first one of the day a butte It's a nice four-pounder. I would say Let this fish go just Absolutely built close the gap on you pretty quick did it was like probably I started just speeding it up And I think that kind of helped like just speeding it up. I don't know slow light hours, you know I Might fool a couple if you guys have never thrown umbrella rigs really the key is just just a steady retrieve Just thought out there and steady retrieve. We're watching this on the life scope, but Really any bait that you throw in the early spring these type conditions You just want to if you're fishing grass or whatever You just want to reel your bait then you don't have to see it on the graph If you can feel it like if you're throwing a spinner bait or something just kind of tick the tops Just keep it right above because that's where the bait is And they're hunting bait that's in this stuff. So if you keep it up here in mid midwater calm It's usually no good. You need to just keep it right there above He's coming up already man take a peek. Oh my god. Take a peek. Take a peek Oh, yeah, if he was far away. Oh gosh, that's a big one Yeah needed an extra 30 40 feet That's when that long cast matter. That was a big one. Wow. He was intro. He heard the splash and instead of like, I know Head head head get in there dude Oh, there's two heads. Oh my oh my god, dude, please. This is it I think he already sees it One of the back I think sees it Please oh Little oh come off It was a little man those are big God god, those are big. Did he eat it? He ate it I don't know. Maybe I gave him a full send too early. I don't know. Maybe Send the you need to set the hook to the right. Just do it. I'm backing out of the way when I'm good. I'm good either way but No, it's it thumped it. Look there he goes back. Oh my god. That's a nice one See normally I just keep reeling until I feel the weight, but now I'm like I'm like I think they mushroom stamp it. I'm uh A little couple of gosh, it's like I want to get their head up. Yeah as soon as they get on You said this thing five eight That rod it's an eight foot. No, it's a five eight or it is a five eight. Yeah, it's really slow Oh my god, dude, they're poking out. Yeah, they are looking I think it's the wind man. It's a little breakup. They're not hearing the splash as good It's just kind of organic. Yes Yes, that's a good point too It was a little bit rough on that. It's actually weird John would you like to make a cast today? Yeah, I am I can uh I can torque the thing. I just I like watching them. I know you do. This is this is all this is all the fun I need I'm just oh god Done Not good. That was my bad. I tied that up. Is that how that goes? That's how they go Gosh Good thing that wasn't on a 12 That one looks okay. That one's good to go. That one's good to go Just a bump. How the hell do you do a bump? Dude, I scaled him. Oh, you dead, didn't you? That's what yeah, he was like gonna eat it. Decent scale. I wonder if that's what's happening Is they go to eat a bait and uh another thing touches them and they or their or they do what a lot of the fish do They just smack it It's a big one He hit it he hit it Freakin hit it dude bumped it. No. Yes Just just a What are they doing? I don't understand they rush it and then like tail pop it So that was so He was streaming through the brush line, you know That's when they're gonna eat it when they duck down like you're like a shark Yeah, they go they go under under the radar for a bit. Oh my god my heart. I need a pacemaker Oh my god He's bigger but a sink some more right there I think he sees it I went the opposite way. That was a pretty good shot on the fish too first stop one one fish Had some big followers, but no takers Buckle up for frosty ride. Yes, sir Put on the Guggen Guggen squad performance hoodie the best fishing hoodie ever made Form fitted to my noggin. Go ahead This is something tiny. I'm I'm gonna slow reel try to get another one Oh, yeah That's what those little ones are with me I was expecting to have a couple more on there There was only a hundred That literally felt like nothing like I was like, dude, is there even a fish on? Just god do you compare it to the The gorilla absolute gorillas Sometimes you get a little pecker nut sometimes you get a giant That's nice fishing. That's the mystery He's still on he's still on he's still on he's still on the air and he's still on the air. I feel him He's right there. You see him. See his head his head is right there Oh, dude, I you see him. I think I do. He's not that big. I don't think he's still on Just said the boat shadows That's his head down there. You see him Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You think I could reach him in the net? No The fish is still on dude. Is that good one? It could be man, who knows You never know out here. It's so deep. I can't really tell You see me he's upside down now. I just see the white so big. Yeah This is oh, that's him. I see him now. That's what I'm saying. That's him the whole time I think it's like a three. You got him He's so cool. Oh, oh, you got him? Oh, he's trying to come loose He's trying his best to come loose. He just came undone. I got him. Got him. Yeah. No, a little guy That was crazy. That was nuts. He was in that big I thought it was a good one the whole time. Well, it's so deep. I was like, it could be a decent one That's crazy. I've never done that before Well, cool. That was that was nuts I was I was like just Filming John just to show you guys You know how locked in to the to the life scope is and then you just rears back. I'm like, oh my gosh. Do you really have a fish? That was crazy Wow, what dedication man Absolute like button for sticking with it Fish and freaks It's been a hell of a run Time to pack up the camper and head back in He went hard with a jig here in the last hour of the day Just trying to get something to bite in this brush, but It just seems like the way to get bites Keeping your bait in 18 foot of water some sort of shad style bait And It's about it's a numbers game, you know, I'd say one out of every 40 fish that you See and get a chance at will actually commit and you get the fish and there's something that's I would love to know I'd love to have a camera down there and know but with these umbrella rigs We've had this happen Probably 10 times maybe a dozen times where the fish is coming You're sure you're like getting ready to just grip and rip And you feel a bump you feel that bite And there's there's nothing there and then you just see the fish dart away And I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if they're coming up and like Slapping it with their head like trying to injure it first or Maybe maybe someone out there knows this maybe They are Feeling another hook they're going after a specific shad On your umbrella rig and they fill another hook and then they Shoot off because I did come up with a scale one time and made me think about that So I don't know but everything has to go right In order to get those big fish to see it commit and then We'll hook them and then get them in the boat so It's it's a really incredible thing when you catch a big fish And there's just so much cover in here so much brush that You know to get one in the boat. It's a it's a big accomplishment. So Obviously there's tons of them in here. They're being caught. This is a special place And it will remain special for a while. I think because of the amount of cover That is in this lake, but it's not going to last forever. So special lake glad uh glad John convinced me to come down here in a snow storm and It's going to be one of my most memorable memorable fishing trips. I've ever been on Oh, they're all over it. Oh my god, they're all over it. Oh my god. There's so many they all came up They all I thought I lost I lost my original fish. That was not the original fish. I lost my original fish and this guy came up and ate it As soon as I heard you get excited it turned on the camera. Wow, that is two two day ending like I was packing it up. We were getting ready to go in and John's like one more cast one more cast one more cast That was a 10 incher the other day. It was a 10 pounder. I think he did on so That that was not his last cast. I could promise you This gentleman is going to do it Opus packed All it's good John We did it We fricking did it one of the most epic we wanted the last trips I wanted to do a little west texas send before the baby came and sounds like baby's coming Baby's coming. Yeah, baby's got off the phone. Yeah, I just got the phone and baby's ready. Baby's coming and This was a good trip to not fish for a bit. This is I feel content I think but I'm excited to go into this again. I'd say that but then like I'm gonna get home I'm gonna be thinking to myself. How can we go next the itch the itch? I can it can never be scratched It never can't be scratched well said well said All right, y'all if you want to see more uh camping and fishing videos Let us know in the comments Gotta smash it for just an incredible trip out here And stay tuned for more to come. God bless you in the great outdoors. We'll see you on the next one