 Welcome back y'all. I'm going to see a man about a bass right now. I've been in Mexico and I've been in Florida the last couple of weeks basically following the spawn. You could imagine my confusion now. Well it's coming home and it's snowing and I can't even see to get out. My windshield wipers won't even turn right now. It's so frosty. Gonna do some camping. Gonna do some fishing to try to get just one huge fish. That's all that's why you go in the winter time. So hang on this is going to be an adventure for sure. I mean the roads aren't an adventure itself. At this point the roads are starting to thaw so this is good news. This last thing I want to do is be on the road with the camper and ice. So we've waited till about midday to start our drive and hopefully it's going to clear out even more as we go. First bridge. We made it. Just rolled up to Guggen HQ. Tried to get in but we're frozen. Gonna need like a shovel. This is my this is my poop shovel. I didn't even gotta show you guys the front. I was told to get some 3.8s. Loose pack. The warmest time of the day. I'm just gonna start going down here pretty soon. It's 4.30. I'm hoping to get there. We're gonna get there a little after dark but I gotta set up camp. This is my first time taking the camper on the trip with another Guggen. I've been wanting to do this for a while. Just one guy takes a boat and the other guy brings a camper and we just go somewhere camp out for a little bit and do some fishing. So we're going to see how efficient this is. I think it's going to set up pretty nicely and go on Mr. John B on Ivy Lake. This is a lake that is exploding with giant fish right now. It's it's unbelievable. It's just going through this this time period in vagues. I mean everyone's catching vagues out of it. So I've never I've never fished it. And John was like you gotta go. You gotta go. Come on. We're doing it. So that's why I'm driving through the ice and snow to go bass fishing. I have no idea if this is going to be good after this cold front but Dean Ager is swimming around. My gun is going down. We're at 31 degrees. The stuff's going to start freezing. I know John's a couple hours behind me so he needs to be careful. This is probably going to get worse the more out in the wild we get. You know getting off the really high traffic roads especially these places that have a ton of tree cover. Got a lot of shade. The Texans we're we're not meant to drive on this stuff. I've got a trailer behind me a very heavy one so I need to pop it in auto four-wheel drive here in a minute just to be safe. It was a sketchy sketchy drive. I'm actually sliding on ice right now so you can see this. I finally made this this camping area just straight up ice out here. Spoke to John. He is good for now. So I got to get this thing parked. I'm going to get it set up and get that heater cranking. It's going to be in the team maybe even the single digits tonight so we'll park this thing on the ice. Literally get it set up and check out many guys when it's all set up and get inside. Get all cozy. Get all cozy together. Get ready for some bassin. We pretty much have it set in here. Just enjoying a little water right now because I just thawed it out and dying of thirst this whole drive because my water was frozen from the house. So I got the camper popped up set up. We're on 30 amp right now. Really only need that to run the AC but we're not going to be running that anytime soon. Upgraded to a mattress pad since the last time I camp so looking forward to that I don't have these two side by side things set up for me and John. It's just me and John. John's going to be sleeping over there and still got all the family stuff in here. I forgot to take it out. Got like bins, little crib and everything like that. Amy still got her little fun party lights you know. So when John gets here we'll turn on the party lights. Maybe pour a little brown water for the guy. About to be a dad. Celebrating good times. But I had the canvas cutter in the truck so I just went ahead and rolled it out because my sleeping bag was in there. So I got the zero degree. Got the Tempurpedic Pello. Big, big step up. We're doing up big in here. Don't have room to rig up tackle unfortunately but it's toasty. I got the Trumacombi rolling through the floor vents right now. Trumacombi is the heating system on board. So it's all good right now. Got it set on 58. Yeah there goes 58. So now I'm just going to wait for John to get in here. Maybe assess our food situation. See what is unthawed. It's pretty much just going to be a lot of meat on this trip. You know a lot of meat. A little bit of vitamins. We'll see what happens from there. Maybe a spare vegetable or two. I did pick up some interesting pickled things from Buggies. So looking forward to trying that. But I let John know the kind of the crappy spots on the road. Hopefully he gets here nice and safe within the hour and we'll be saying hello to him. So this is home. This is home for the next couple of days. Fishing out here. Is that a guy? How's it going? Hey this is quite the ghetto dude. Just got it all set up nice and toast. Wow. John B. We freaking made it dude. I was a little nervous. Yeah so was I. Actually I need one of these. I don't know if you're into ranch water but I need I need it like that. A congratulatory ranch water. Attention, attention, easer, ranch water. These are spicy. You had those? Yeah I like the spice. Spice is key. We need any sort of we can get right now. Cheers buddy. Cheers. Now I haven't really told the audience much other than like check out your video. It was amazing of the 14 but I think it's going up Monday. You kind of told me like you're coming out here. Yeah no it was it was mandatory. We picked we just happened to pick the coldest week of the year in all of Texas to fish, I passed. I'm sure you saw them too. Three semis and dishes and a couple of cars and those were all from probably yesterday. They were abandoned. Yesterday was really bad. Today we had a bit of a window but the thing is is everything that thought out this morning throws again as we were on our way to this very spot and the whole story goes is this is obviously like it's been receiving quite a lot of attention. I have been avoiding this place for quite some time. Finally bit the bolt said you know I don't want to miss out on this. This lake is not here to stay. The hype is not here to stay. This is going to be like a lake fork scenario. It's going to be good for a couple years and then it's going to be tough. So I went out 23rd January first 30 minutes caught a 14 pound bass legacy class fish. What's going on? Just 14 makes the makes the picture 14 freaking pounder dude. It was 26 and three quarters an inch or something like that. And I was telling all the guys at Google week but I was like this place is crazy. Gotta come check it out. It's not easy but if it's going to fish good it's going to fish good right now. It's cold. Yeah we got like it's like probably low 20s right now in the morning. It'll probably be low, low 20s. Why is that? I think it's because it's so deep whereas like these fish have 100 feet of water. I don't know if they I'm not sure if they go to 100 feet of water but at least they have the opportunity to go up in 17 feet and then go to 45 and 30 because they definitely are in 45 and 30 and 52. 100% bass right now in 50 feet of water. The other thing too is it's like so many places these fish to hide you've got not even bass just fish in general bait shad and once that cold snap happens it forces everything out of the shallows. Fish get balled up, fish get vulnerable, shad get vulnerable and here it's mostly thread-fitting gizzards and you can see the gizzards down there getting absolutely wrecked. From what I observed on the very mild cold front when the water temp is 48 last time I was here it was crazy. In the morning and afternoon you'd see these giants like football field side schools of gizzard shad come up like start to wake make their up shall and fish are busting on them in 30 feet of water like. What coming up to the top? 30 feet of water. In 48 degrees. 48 degrees 30 feet of water everything you read Bass Masters full you know like really seriously yeah as a kid it's like you could never convince me that that that being true because everything I learned absorbed but then you see it in person it's like oh but that day you caught that 14 you guys caught like only a few fish right two fish yeah but the thing is is like and what makes me kind of optimistic is like where we were is obviously a very notable tough place to fish but it's where big bass come and that day we were just out there for big fish so we wasted a lot of time on that stretch and we were fishing during like a dead zone it'd be it'd be as if we were like we were it'd be like us hunting uh upwind okay the whole time do you remember the Guggen Ranch yeah was it around here the one season we had the Guggen Ranch what I remember getting a deer out there at the Guggen Ranch and seeing this lake was it around here for real this lake dude it was near Coleman I've literally ate at one of these restaurants and I realized that I was like I looked at that lake me and Rob were out there and uh and I was like oh that's way chivy it looks down on that and we're like is that good I don't know we didn't have a boat with us the last time I fished rather than this December the last time I was here I had my little 16 foot aluminum John boat and I actually just found the video today because we were spicing some video like some content together for the actual video and the ramp was this long the water was up so high oh think about um remember Amistad I remember I wasn't there this lake's just in that cycle right it's in that Amistad cycle when the water is so high Falcon exactly yeah 2010 Falcon it's in that's where we're at right and it's in the water is being pulled and every single day this place gets fish every single whatever amount of water that gets pulled out of here it's going to get more difficult I will say the 2010 this place still obviously pumped out some good fish when you could see the trees out of the water 2010 you said yeah if you go because that's how Falcon in the same rain cycle yep it's like feast or famine all the same lakes yeah and the tons of trees there's tons there's tons of trees out in the lake and there's so much brush when the water comes up that you cannot fish like your boat cannot get to the fish and when it comes back down that's when all the fish suck out and you're left with amazing fish for like a year or two now we are where to do it we are gonna do it we might be picking ice off of our guides for the first two hours of the day well yeah it's gonna be cold it's gonna be sunny and low winds that's why I'm like that's why we're here post cold front as long as I have coffee a little bit of burden we'll be fine so warm and toasty it's time to leave this bed oh I'm gonna hit it with the brides real quick oh my gosh folks I feel like I got in a car wreck that's what I feel like with my neck right now and yeah when I first got up I was like still in dream state and I was like did I get in a snowy car wreck last night did I slide off the road this is all just a dream do we actually make it yeah did we actually make it here it feels like it feels like a dream that would be cruel but uh I I told you on the phone but I absolutely just ate snow like ate ice hard ice hit the elbow I did everything I could to protect my head from hitting the back of the ice it was like a hard strain neck went sideways I'm feeling it this morning folks but I'm hoping that there's a bass out there that snaps my neck off just what bam there's a big old underbite fish down there yes big old just under jog down there waiting for like a swimmer to roll right through the path there's a lot of places you need to be in life there's a lot of places I need to be in life but there's nowhere I need to be before a good cup of coffee and a sunrise and that is why I take the time in the morning to do that it sets the tone the fish might be biting right now you know it's so cold I don't understand why but I don't I don't go anywhere until my body has been fueled with the beautiful dark nectar of the earth switching it up this year one of my guys that I hunt with a deer camp he introduced me to this method here the mocha pot and if you're from Italy you know exactly what this is this is what most Italians use to make their coffee in the mornings it's a it's kind of a blend of an espresso pot and you can make you know all sorts of coffee dishes with it coffee drinks specialty drinks but you just you just get a good good coffee whatever your favorite bean is you go to a between a medium and a fine grind you put it in this little spute right here I don't even know what you call it and it comes up through the top and it's just it's beautiful it's it's pure gold it's pure gold that comes out of there you don't get much but it's gonna be just enough to to charge me and john into this cold tundra that we're about to go into it just telling you makes everything in life better so my beans are secure okay this is the links we're going here my beans are secured fresh right here just ground them a few days ago is that thing working the cold yeah how do we look up there I see they're busting everywhere right now you're busting in the trailer park yeah now the day's events can take place oh man that is so good so we got our hot coffee we have uh an awesome trailer with heat we are going to be eating good on this trip the the camera is literally sitting on top of a uh a stew pot so we're going to make elk chili we've got we've got my deer sausage from this year I've got deer breakfast sausage we've got all of the accoutrema that you could possibly need as an outdoorsman to go enjoy yourself and as a dad of two now getting older john's about to be dead you start to enjoy those little things those little accoutremas a little more when I was first going out bass fishing traveling my young twenties I don't even think I had an insulated at rain suit I didn't uh I couldn't even afford one so I would just freeze everywhere and now I am staying toasty now that I could fork you know a nice insulated gear and all that stuff so I'm waiting on john to get the plug in the boat uh it's literally frozen in there so that's why we're just kind of hanging here drinking a little coffee but we're not going to be starving on this trip we're going to be enjoying ourselves so all we got to do is catch fish now that's it but even if we don't we're going to be uh comfortable and in style turbo power sauce that would be if I uh if I made a specific bean of coffee that would be what I would call it maybe I just call it lfg let's freaking go you guys can follow on john's channel for um for all his little tidbits I'm going to try to give you get you some different angles but I'm I'm getting the boat here and we are the first ones at the ramp sometimes that's good sometimes that's that good is the murk gonna start is the question just don't don't even say anything all right we keep that to ourselves then come on murk I'm gonna need you to just be nice and gentle just spin on up for me please just take it easy I've had my coffee gonna harness the energy I have good vibes on this motor crank will she fire oh my gosh I can see the bottom it's like it's mega clear I gotta say that's probably the best thing that you can have with bitter cold conditions don't ever fish cold muddy water that is tough you're gonna you're gonna hurt yourself you're gonna hurt your soul doing that but if you have clear water those fish have an opportunity to see your bait and at least start making their way to it and get curious about it but cold muddy water extremely tough to fish let's go crank ready for this I'm ready I'm gonna get her all the way out give her give her hell I'm talking I'm talking much in I'm gonna give her beans but that is that is that is simply me talking out of my ass I don't know if it's actually gonna work today this is uh this is gonna be one of those yeah this is either going to be really uh like epic fishing because the conditions are so harsh that you know this cold front um or it's we're like the dumbest we are the googins out here and no one is out here that that is us all right it's probably the latter and I'm happy to do it with my friend John because this is when you build that hardened freaking dangler skeleton so when stuff's tough you're on Rayburn late March cold front comes in big derp people are getting off the water like I don't know man it's tough you're like don't worry about it I'm impressed ready ready giants already on screen oh they're in that wasachi grass he's active did you see that though no I was looking at my lcd dang dude this is a ton of brush yeah that's a crappie bro oh that's a bass kid no kid this is gonna be interesting to study the blob sizes out here to really get a grip on what is an actual like double t like I've I've never been able to confirm I'm like oh yeah that's a double d yeah like you saw a 14 and yeah how it was you have your settings that to be fair is probably like three times that size this is normally you have 70 foot 65 gain I normally actually have like 65 and then 65 game but they have this new feature where you can turn the game all the way up and you can go to menu did I tell you about this yeah you did I just got the new update I told you about and I haven't even done it so I'm set up saw it on tiktok bro a crappie fisherman look at that folks and there's the fish right there you need to do this that's a that's a big one blobs identified way that is a big one way better than the high game yeah I don't know if I like it it's a little more scrambly I might go back to what we were working with earlier yeah it's definitely dirty you know what it looks like it looks like the whatever the other type is like hummingbird yeah it's it's less clear but if you're let's say you're crappie fishing and you're targeting one fish in clear in not around brush like open water I can really see it you're running the gun and I think you know you know there's there's good some bad sir bud oh yeah bud all right we want to start off holy cow can we start out with uh do we have a hot pot of chili yeah we've been living too too kush in our warm trailer in our gourmet coffees it's time to rough it a little bit okay yeah it's time to rough it gotta earn one you gotta earn one out here yep chesty's on time to dangle first cast is still quite a ways away okay we're it's a slow and steady slow steady process in the cold I I'm doing something I just thought of this I looked at my box I've been traveling around um I've been traveling around the globe you know I've really literally been following the spawn John because I was in Mexico and then when we got to Florida they were spawning they were spawning and now we're here like yeah no now we're here so now you backtrack so it's a shock but I've got a like a mix of everything anyway I've got our new this is the um the blazin worm this is going to be coming out 420 thumper in uh in literally March the 420 thumper could have been a better name you should have submitted that to the nameless John let me know in the comments let us know is white a color that you would throw quite a bit there's really mixed opinions on white I like white in a lot of different things um some things I would never throw white in a worm like this is not typically a white color for me but with this being a swim search bait type worm uh I think white is a good color so this has got a screw lock on it big one ounce spinner bait this is typically you throw this on a Texas rig or something like that um looks to be a pretty phenomenal spinner bait trailer just by taking some guesses here uh I just cut about a third off the top that looks amazing so could be uh could be the lure of choice right there for some of you danglers a lot of different things you can do with it I'm gonna kind of just drag this thing out in the depths hopefully not lose it on the first cast it'll the brush is pretty forgiving forgiving okay as long as you keep the one in my if I see one though get ready get ready what kind of depths are we dealing with here wow you you feel that uh that cold on the handle oh yeah I am iced up yeah look at my the reel is already getting out it don't feel that bad goodness now I don't have much experience with this how do you uh you just swish it around yeah put it in the water water angle look you're looking you're looking I feel like uh life scope is essentially like EVs in the car market it's just gonna happen like this is it this is what's happening I'm hanging on to my d so I don't like I really don't like yet but that's just where it's going like you know that's where it's at that's that's how fishing is with life scope uh if you're if you're a bitter clinger to good luck to the old ways of 2d inside scan um 2d that's insane yeah 2d sounds insane right uh bitter clinger is it like I would consider myself a bitter clinger um it's not a derogatory word but like you know what I mean it's like dude this is this is changing fishing literally and we don't know where it's gonna go you know it could even get for a lack of butter terms even worse exactly like we don't know the detriment of which this can uh can really go I mean I would not have put my 14 pound without this right right but um was that a bird is it I don't know where was I going with that oh yeah I just this is just the technology that you're gonna have to to learn on some lakes if you want to catch them you know because everybody's doing it it's the hot thing actually yeah and that would be nice good fish official freezing cold bass like a four pounder five five four she reacted so nicely to it though right on the edge do what she's supposed to do a little four pounder something like that yeah what a freaking view she is hooked on the outside bow hooked ate the or went for the white one the white saucy I'm not gonna lie what's the problem stay close to this no I don't blame you dude it's freaking freezing that gives me some hope though you know I'm just letting you get a few in and then I'll hold them hold them like the old guys there you go no you gotta do the trout hold there's some freaking box that's a healthy fish man sure you're her best five today yeah you want to get a photo no no photo we'll get the scale out though see what she goes oh yeah 445 yeah is that what you guessed did you guess that yeah I just guessed that are you serious no I mean yes I am serious four are you serious yes on the dot wow it really dialed it literally hit 445 I'm like is it reflecting off my glasses no let's jump hey well we're not getting skunked put it there nice bass going back pearl white belly absolutely gorgeous bass and gotta eat during that freaking frost that gives us some hope oh yeah man and we did yeah we got we did get in heat they're not it's not we're not completely doomed in other words you know on a chandelier on a chandelier she like you knew immediately when I got close that yeah she was on the edge turning and burning on the edge I was right behind her and then I like probably two feet above her head she went you all right y'all we uh we're just getting this journey started so there's a lot of work to do a lot of a lot of homework a lot of figuring some things out today and we're gonna continue continue this thing for a few days so go go ahead we need to do some different stuff today you need to get me out of this weird rhythm because I'm gonna fish a lot of the same stuff I have that's understandable so I need you to like if it's not working be like hey idiot I'm gonna I'll interject and I I've seen you get on the video games in other places where it didn't make as much sense no here it does but I will I will I will I will be your shepherd John on this bass fishing journey but we've we've got it we've covered a lot in this video and it's been a big journey so I'm gonna split this up into a couple vids and the next time you see us we'll be out here freezing our butts off hopefully grabbing some piglets so you guys stay tuned subscribe to the channel if you haven't already if you want to check out John's epic journey of catching a 14 pounder the man has his worked his butt off he deserves every bit of bass over over 10 pounds in my opinion like so happy to see that we got one on the boat out here yeah that guy's going that's like a pirata you see that's a weird no that guy's going mach 90 right now his face probably feels like his yeah his nose is probably turned into a crystal but anyways godspeed god bless you and the great outdoors we will see you back here on the channel soon