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Just click the link in the description. Happy unboxing, fishing freaks. Now let's get to fishing. All right, so to set this up for you guys, I'm over at Lake Fork here. I've been doing some crappie fishing and I've been planning on doing some bass fishing after these cold fronts that have come in and we are entering into those warming days. Full moon is almost here. It's like right, it's happening right now. The water's 62 to 65 up in the shallow water and that means bass are going to be moving up shallow and one of the fish I just caught right there, a fresh fish. You can see the white belly, it's come from deep water and those fish are going to be moving up and they're typically more active on feeding two or three days before the full moon and when the full moon hits they really start spawning and it's important to look on the banks and look for bed fish and I already saw about a six, seven pounder on a bed this morning. I saw another fish, about three or four pounds with another four pounder that was paired up yesterday and it looks like these fish are starting to move up but they're not quite locked on the beds yet. So we're going to start off doing some shallow water bass fishing, throwing spinnerbaits, throwing crankbaits, throwing plastics, just up in shallow water where these fish are starting to move in. I'm stuck. Okay, they're all be started off right here. Ooh, ooh, ooh. That was a textbook spinnerbait shallow spring bass right there. Right on the daggers top. It's all with it. Switched up to a square bill, got him. Bass fishing. Oh, God, that was fun. Just a little mail. Third bass of the day, two on a square, one on a spinner. Heck, we're you when I was filming the last video, dude. What in the world? I got my videos mixed up, guys. Going to the pan. Just had a bass follow it to the boat. I was looking down to like hit the record button on my GoPro and I looked up and there's one sitting right behind it chasing it up. It's probably about a two and a half pound or nothing. Nothing crazy. Just going down these banks and I'm looking for anything, any sort of change. So if there's any sort of color change up on the bank indicating a piece of brush or grass clump or something in the water, I'm going to throw that. I'm looking at the life scope to see if there's any trees just kind of scanning. And then just looking for little tree tops with my eyes too. Any little piece of cover that's going to hold these fish because I'm not in a, not like for it, but I'm not in a creek that has a ton of trees up in the shallows. It's mostly just kind of sandy. There's no hydrilla or anything. It's just kind of moss. So we're getting one of our first looks at a bass. That's moving up on a bed, but I don't know if it's fully ready to go, but it is in a sandy spot. It's doing circles. I can't really show you guys through the lens because it's not polarized or anything, but it looks like a decent bass. Could be four or five pounds. So if you're throwing out a bass on a bed and it just takes off and doesn't come back at all, that means that that fish really isn't settled on that bed. It's not super defensive of it, so just keep going. But if you throw in there and that fish kind of swims off, but then comes back, that means that that fish wants to be there. And you just have to judge their attitude by how they're reacting to different baits. I like to start off with a weightless plastic bait first and just see what they do because it doesn't make a splash. And it doesn't put out a lot of vibrations or anything. And if they just let that go by and don't do anything, but they stay there, then I'll start using Texas Trace and things like that. Sometimes they use the soft plastic right away. The weightless one, that's what we're going to start off with. I'm really close, so I'm just going to stay in the crouched position here. It's coming back in, but it did a wide circle and it went under the boat, which is not good. Don't want to see that. Don't want to see them go under the boat. It's going to come back, but it's not really digging. What's going on here? It's not pissed off. I'm going to throw to this bed ahead of me. I just saw one, like a cruiser come over it. Like, oh, gosh, I'm going to squeeze that one. And again, doesn't like it. He's nose down on it right now. I don't think he's going to eat it though. Got to look. All right. This is not a big one, but we'll just see. Oh, goodness. You know, I've been looking for the last hour for sight fish, and I've seen some, but they've all been pretty skittish. I'm probably just going to take a break from this, or I don't need to sight fish right now. I need to wait until they really get locked on. What beds look like is it's a sandy spot. The fish literally take their tail and their anal fin, and they just push out sand and they push out debris and stuff. And they make a little nest and then they stay in there. And I can see these little grass holes in this, what's called gator grass. I can see bass. Look at this bass coming through the weeds right here. That was wild. Those weeds are moving. That's a bass moving through there. Or maybe it's a gar. But there is a bass in that hole right there. There's a bass in that hole. There's a bass in that hole. There's about a five or six pounder in the hole right behind my motor, but super skittish. Just can't get it to go. So another thing I'm seeing is a lot of gar. A lot of gar paired up. They're spawning as well. It is full-blown spawning season. Little bit of steak for lunch. Let their fish do the thing, get locked in, fish the evening, catch some more. Making life a lot easier, guys. Golden crispies. A lot croppy. I've got catfish waiting over there, but I'm going to use these steaks while I've got them. It's absurdly windy right now, too. I'm glad I came in taking a break. Jeez, holy cow. Unfortunately, I have no plates. I just got this thing, and I mean, I'm going to use it off the board that I usually fillet my fish on. You know, got to make do. Fantastic. It might be a miracle if I get back on the water, but I'm going to wait for this wind to die down. Perfect timing. I got to fight the urge to take a nap. All right, y'all. Time to get back in the game. Simple as that. Didn't even have to put the trolling motor down. I think I'm going to fish where I've been camping. These lights that are up under the dock, we're seeing five, six, seven pounders swimming around in that light, so they can't go far, right? Here's a bass. Midday spinnerbait bass. All right, under the dock. You've got a full belly just like me, buddy, but you're not big. Y'all, this is the only time of year when I throw a spinnerbait just midday, even if it's not windy. There's something about, they just get on the shad, and the way this thing imitates shad is so good, that thump. What's fun about fishing a spinnerbait this time of year, too, is you almost see the bites a lot of times. You get that blade flashing, and you'll bring it by some sort of shallow cover, and it's like they are just barely out of your sight when they hit it. All right. Three quarter ounce spinnerbait. Magnum Soccola. Slowly building. A big sack of those. It's not what's supposed to happen. It's boring to not do that on a stump, but maybe a bass. Absolute snot ball out of it, too. Hopefully we see some just doing the nasty up there, but if they're not, we're going to have to go and explore. I've only fished two creeks since I've been here, so kind of anxious to go check out some other areas, but the Elite Series guys are out here, and it is pretty much anywhere they're fishing. You can expect fish tonight. They've been vacuumed up. All right, y'all, I've made me run across the lake. This is a place where I used to catch a lot of bass in April, back when the lake had grass. Really sad. It doesn't happen anymore. I got a fish that's on a bed. I don't know if he's going to stay, but we're going to try. We're going to give it a whirl here. I'm going to go ahead and just get out some Texas rig stuff. All right, buddy. Let's get fired up and do it. Fired up and do that thing. Come here. I just needed to catch you. Two and a half pound or not. I just had to get him. I was pot committed. You work on these fish, and it becomes personal. Sometimes they fool you. You think that they're going to eat, and I thought for sure when I pulled up just the way that fish was positioned, it was going to eat pretty soon, a good 20 minutes to catch that one. So way too much time to spend on a two and a half pounder on Lake Fork, but I just had to do it. Just had to do it for my soul. I'm just not on the juicy ones that were bite. I mean, could be tomorrow. They might come up tomorrow. I might have to worm it. It's one thing I have not done. I've just gotten out of Texas rig, and it's the last thing I'm going to do. In a place where I know, in April, some of the biggest bass in the world live. Right here in this part of the creek arm. That's pretty crazy to say, but it's pretty truthful. There's really more 10 pounders that come out of here than anywhere else. Let's give it one final go, fishing freaks. Mid-depth wormin'. This is like what you should do when it's slow. I just kind of had a stubborn head today thinking I was going to sight fish when they weren't quite pulled up where I was at. So I got a Lunkerlog Texas rig. Oh, man. Anywhere out here, I'm kind of on a flat. It's about six foot. Anywhere out here, there's trees. This is just a really good place to pitch this Texas rig around, drag it around these trees. And these females will often set up on the base of these trees and we're getting ready to move up and spawn. Especially with there not being any grass in this lake, this is like their only cover. Picked it up off the bottom. Oh my gosh, and he's small. Yeah, that's the one you want. Let me just drag real slow out here. Dude, you're smaller than those bed fish. What are you doing? Could not resist the tastiness of a slow worm drag. I need you to tell your big sister, Marlene, to get with the program. All right, guys. Sun going down, about to actually take the boat out of the water because I think I might have bent my prop shaft. I hope I just bent one of the prop blades. But I was getting up on pad right at the end there, right after I saw the eagles. It's a beautiful end of the day. And then I go to get up on pad and boom, get a stomp. Lake Fork, it happens. But if I bent my prop shaft, that could do some damage. There's a lot of, not a lot of, but I can feel the vibration in it. So I'm going to pull the boat out of the water. I hope this doesn't mean I have to get the boat repaired before I can come back. Hopefully I can just limp, but I don't know. We're going to see how bad it is. Guys, moment of truth right here. Okay, this is what you do. Boat's out of the water. This is what you do. You're going to line your eyesight up with the middle of this pin right here. And you're going to spin that and look for irregularities. And I do see a wobble. I don't know if you guys can see that on the screen, but that means that the prop shaft is bent and not repaired. And that is not good. Dead gum! That means, y'all, the silver bullet is out of commission now. You do not want to run your boat with that prop shaft bit like that because it can break the seal. The vibrations can break the seal. And when you break your seal water can get in and get bad stuff. Bad stuff going on. You don't want to ruin the murk, man. What a mega bummer, y'all. Full moon. Lake Fork. April. Baster coming up on beds. Ah, man. And I also had some buddies I was wanting to come out here with me and fish this week. I'm probably going to have to take the boat back to Fun and Sun in all honesty and get them to work on it. Maybe they can just replace the prop shaft. Hopefully there's no lower unit damage. But, man, it's Lake Fork. This definitely happens out here. Would not be my first. I've been on another prop shaft before I actually ruined my lower unit because I was in a tournament and I was running and it was a bad wobble. So you just shouldn't do that. That's how it goes sometimes. But still a fantastic day in the outdoors getting to spend the day next to Lake Fork. And luckily I can say that I'm really out here. I'm glad I can say I've spent probably five springs fishing almost every day in March and April out here and getting to see some really, really nice fish. Obviously stay tuned. I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm probably going to have to go back and regroup. Worst case scenario I could bring the kayak back out here but that's not really good for sight fishing and all that. Then be safe on the water out there. I don't want to lose any fishing freaks. So I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in. I'll see you on the next one.