 start today's video off early 5.39 in the cave. I've been out here since 4.30 rigging up some stuff putting on fresh monofilament on the Twitch so we can do some toppy tops. I have not been out early morning on the water since top water started to get good. I want to see what's going on out there on the lake. Just first couple hours of the day and I am hoping that's some white bass erupt. Anyway, that's a long explanation. Let's do a quick check and check. Just getting my little bowl of cereal here. A little fruity bowl of cereal in in the cave. I already had my morning juice right there. Arrows are drying that I've stained over there. You know this is just what we get going on here folks. Chicks are growing by the minute. Growing by the minute. Isn't that right? Isn't that right little buddy? Little blue beller? By far the sweetest the sweetest chicks. These these little frizzle chickens man. They will actually let you usually yeah I'll let you pet them. This australorp here this black australorp he's for australop. She I should say pretty friendly as well. The the blue eggers not so much and little polish buddy he's he's just a little tidy man. He's trying to figure things out. Whoa dude where are you going? Where are you going? Don't leave the safety of the can. Okay I need to finish my cereal so we can get out there get a little sunrise action. Is the loudest thing ever and I have a parked back and it doesn't work. Oh city of Louisville. Can we just go back to the ways where there's like a human there and you just give them your actual pass where they see your sticker on your truck that you paid for. Had to pay three times. Anyway got that out of my system. Alright got some boats in the parking lot. It's always good. Please Lord let there be just a little bit of top water supple today. Just want to hear it. I smell that shad and by the ramp saw the flickerings of the shad spot. So if you guys look really closely here you can see there are shad just getting all over these little bushes and they're spawning their eggs on these bushes. I'm missing out on good casting time here to document this so make sure you go ahead and smash that like button. Unfortunately I'm just not seeing the busters. Throwing a blooper right now. 15 pound tests fit our 15 pound mono should say. I've got a loop knot tied on the front of that to give it a little extra waggle up front. I mean just blooped by that lay down there. No response not seeing any pops. Shatter all up in here not seeing any pops so it's not what we want. We only have precious minutes till this thing is over. Getting out. Every top water known man right now. Buzz bait frog popper. How to fish. Look at this fish. This must be a white bass. Just had a white bass literally like nudge. Nudged my bait. Yeah I rated me. Where you been all my morning huh? You look like a hybrid. You are a hybrid man. That's what you are. Maybe a freshly stocked one. Yeah they're going extra crazy. Letting go. They're extra feisty. Extra feisty fun. Movers and the shakers. You know the old bent rod. Pretty good eater. Actually need to keep a few of these little tasty boys for a new batter that we've got going on. But I need to try. Oh yeah bring in school with me. Bring in school. Live scope. Live scope. Live scope. Little boy. Little boy. Oh gosh. Oh man. Oh look at the globules that just came into the scene here. I like knowing exactly where these fish are using the live skin. That's pretty fun to watch them move. Oh two at a time. Two at a time. Get another one. Get another one. Now if I went down a size on this banger it would probably be every cast. I'm looking for some girth. Alright chill. I got either some tasty crops or some bass located on them. Little stick offshore. This is totally expected to do. I'm just randomly fishing what comes into the frame. We're darting around all either like active crappie or smaller bass. Alright those got to be crappie. See they didn't react. So need some crappie. Get a couple of tasty ones. Try out some batter. It's a good crappie. Oh man. That might have been the biggest one down there. There's the school that kind of pushed off. The thing came off my reel. Got it. That was a good one. Watched him come grab it. I thought you were bigger. You're not even gonna make the cut. Big one came up bouncing on the rocks down there. I have never fished this way for crappie. This is kind of interesting. Hanging on these isolated rocks. Only an eater. Something here. Put one of these swim heads on here. See what we can do with that. Hang on a second. Take a smidge off the top. Tasty morsel right there. So one of my recent crappie videos I was throwing these little micro swim baits just on a sixteenth ounce up in the dirt. Now that these crappie on this lake are moving offshore. They usually they like a swinging type action. Right when they move off. So you pitch it out about 10 feet in front of them. 15, 20 feet. Maybe you know 20, 30 if they're it's a little clearer. But you pitch it out and let it swing into them and they're more active right after the spawn. When it gets really hot in the summer they'll kind of slow down off that. You got to get right on top of them. Gosh I've swallowed it bud. It's down his hatch. This is really interesting to me because I've never I've never approached crappie on rocks like this. It's either like up shallow or brush and this is this is something new for me. So fun little discovery. And these crappie are just kind of on these isolated chunk rocks and boulders. You can see some sitting just on that backside right there. I can't believe my GoPro wasn't recording for that bite. But this is a giant. Oh golly. That was one of those ones I missed right there. Just an absolute slap. Look at that. Toad crappie guys. I just got right on top of the boulder. Did the old straight dangle on them with that little bug. And it thumped it. It was so big I thought it was a bass. Okay. It is a flotilla out here. A little pro tip for you guys. You get on a big school of fish. Don't put that rod tip up in the air and start really getting that bend going. Okay. I'm not saying I've done this today. But it has had this obviously happened out on the water today. Some of its birds. People follow the birds. You start bending that rod. People they're peeping. They're peeping out there. They're looking and they say oh okay that's where they're at. They just come right on over. It's amazing. It's amazing. You'd be fishing a spot and you turn around you know and you've got one on and that that engine's fired up coming your way. So you know I don't know what's going on. The white bass aren't exploding at the top. They're under the surface. Normally they're exploded on top. Everybody knows to there. You just run over there. But they're being a little sneaky today. You get them going. You keep that you keep that rod just straight. Just straight till you get to the boat. Just kind of just kind of just flip it in real real subtle lack. Okay. There's hardly any secrets in fishing anymore. Gotta keep something sacred. My top water that I was looking for got up so early. Went all the way out there is expecting explosions, suction, bass, white bass. I don't care. What did I end up doing? Slightly offshore fishing for cropping. Because the tug is the drug and no matter how you get it, it's got to be done. Got the old raffle here. By the way, someone asked me. They sent me an email about because I did a video on the Bubba Blade filet knife that I used it and I was just cutting through a lot of the fish like cutting through the spine. It was just so so aggressive. It was like a chainsaw. And I went and I got a new blade for my Rapala. I gave that Bubba Blade away. It's a good knife. It's just like it was wasn't working for me. I got one of these non stick blades. He's like it was like eight bucks for replacement pair on this standard Rapala plug-in and I love it. I mean it's it's it's perfect for groppy white bass. You know normally I like to put these on ice, but I didn't even do that today. I came straight to the house. OSG is inside. She is cooking up a little kind of summery vegetable mix, like with some tomatoes, some cilantro, vegetable ingredients and we're actually going to cook these for lunch and try out some of the new the new batter. So we're going to go through a few different samples of the batter for Guggen. Something we're gonna come out with. This is a new spicy one that I haven't tried. So nice. Nice fillets. Put them in that ice-cold water. It's a female right here. She's still got eggs. That's crazy. She's still got eggs. You know normally my old chickens, they would lap this up. I have no idea if the new ones are gonna eat. I'll give it to them just a second. On these bigger ones you always want to make sure you get that extra little belly meat right there. Little ones, it's not very much. On the big ones that do a bunch of them, it makes a difference. Mr. Penny, you want to give it a shot? They're curious, but they don't know. I'm just not sure. Okay, I'm gonna throw it right there for you. Try that. Tell me what you think. Fresh fish eggs? Come on. Yeah. Give it a slurp. I'll just pick at it. Yeah, after it. There you go. Still looking at the names, but I'm leaning towards Colonel Sanders on this guy. OSG has made some fresh summery mixture. Tomatoes, cilantro, red onion. Hey, you got a new job in there. I'm supposed to keep these kids quiet while I'm filming. When I say quiet on the set, dad means business. Let's go get my leather chair and rule this kingdom. This is Santa Claus. This is kidding. We are gonna be doing a fry, but I'm doing something different that I haven't done before. I saw a friend's dad do this and it was awesome. I liked the way he did it. He'd split half butter, half oil when doing his fry, and it really turned out nice. Also, we've got a new flavor here that we're working on. This is spicy fish batter. This concoction right here, one of you guys sent me and this is cool. This is like a fish batter. Cook us a fish in a pan. Why are you pushing me? Why are you pushing daddy, huh? Why are you beating up on me? You like beating up on me? Is that fun? I think that's part of the job description. I think this is probably three quarters butter, quarter oil. This stuff's probably terrible for you. Canola. We're all gonna go someday. I'm gonna put the fish right on top of the spice in this traction. You will see. Put the other filet just like that. Put our lid on top and the other side. Watch this. Excess. Then they turn out so beautiful like that. Alright, good job. I think you did a good one. Let's see what it looks like. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Put some ice on it. Add a little piece break on me, but otherwise, taste your piece. Spicy. What kind of spice? More spicy, less salt. I'm all about it. We'll see what OSG thinks. You're putting a sticker on me? You just said butts? I thought you were supposed to say bum. That's what you always tell me when I say butt. You said dad, you're supposed to say bum. I'm experiencing this first on camera. Daughter saying butt for the first time. Alright, I mean you got your golden crispy. I got ours. We'll pair it with OSG's beautiful summer veg mix over here with some avocado. I'm pretty sensitive to spice too, so we'll just sit here. You can smell the kitchen. It's like heavy cayenne. Yeah, that's a more paprika. It's light. It's not like a... Oh, it is a little spicy. Yeah, it is spicy on the tail in there. But it's soft. Put it... You know, that's a fresh crappie, so there's nothing better. Oh my gosh, that is good. Yeah. Put that with like a nice cold beer. Yeah. I wouldn't say it's too spicy. Okay, that's good. I'm pretty sensitive to spice. Well, I only had an end piece which was like concentrated and that thing that I use... I forget who gave us this. They sent it in. I think it encodes them really well, so it was a little extra than normal. That's good. So you like the flavor. Oh, okay. Frosty beverage recommendation that I've recently had and I was like, I got it in a variety pack and I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna like this. Shinerbok. Big fan of the Shiner brewery. Being a Texan and living in Central Texas for many years, but besides that, they make great beer. The Wison Easy. Was it a raspberry beer? You're a big fan of that raspberry one, but y'all say it was good. Whoa! Yeah, yeah, no I am. I am. What I thought was it'd be the perfect summer boat beer, you know? I think you originally got it from me and then you're like, wait a minute, I'm gonna take it back. Better than a white claw. Yeah. I was like, yeah, I'll give those a step. I ended up drinking them all. I think I have a one. So, sorry about it. Deserves a hard focus. Just perfectly crusted. Yummy, Dad. You like it? Try mac and cheese. We'll try your crappie. It's delicious. You don't get that very often. It's one of my favorite things in the world right here. Like this is not the best for you, but you just take one of these and then one of these. And it's pure America. I love it. Oh, God bless the crappies. That is gonna do it for today's log fishing freaks. That crappie was insane. I would rate that one of the best fried crappies I've ever had. It wasn't like a full fry. It was a pan fry, but pretty amazing. I mean, there's nothing better than fresh caught crappie. I'm still waiting for the white bass to get fully exited from the pockets and the creeks right now. They're still falling, the shad spawn, and the water's heating up. They're starting to go main lake. And when they go full blow, grouped up, I want to get Stephanie, well, Stephanie, but I want to get Emmy out there and let her experience that action. That's how I caught my first fish. I was three years old, white bass fishing with my dad. I mean, I was just on the boat. I had a little stoopy pole and the school erupted and they came up all around the boat. I was able to catch one on a little shiny thing I had tied on. Amy's three years old. She'll be four at the end of summer and so I think it's time. It's time for her to experience that. She's gotten pretty good with her little Moana pole. So I'm really, I'm excited about making that video. It's coming up soon. Incredibly hot. These fish are going to be moving offshore like crazy this month. So matter of weeks. Thank you guys as always for joining me in the great outdoors and here at home at the treehouse. Godspeed. God bless you. I will see you on the next video.