 Hey popsicle mouth. What's going on? I'm sticky mouth. You got a sticky mouth. Popsicles are so good. It must be summertime. We're getting out the popsicles. Welcome back to the channel y'all. It is heating up outside and that means you better be getting out there. You better be getting out and just enjoying the great outdoors. I like to do it all though. I am a fishing freak. I like to hunt of course but I also love camping and it is well prime truck camping season right now. We still got cool nights and we're getting those warm days so fishing is good and one of my favorite things to do as a as a Texan is to hook up my bass boat or take the kayak go out to one of our Texas state parks and just do some truck camping and that's exactly what we're going to be doing today. We're gonna get away from these airplanes so I'm gonna show you guys all my gear and how I've evolved my truck camping over the years and the system that I prefer to have right now. So first stop on the list we're gonna head to the Bucky's. Bucky's has got the supplies we need to go to do our little truck camping mission and keep us thriving along the way. So let's head over to Bucky's to slow it up on on some food some drink and let's head out to the lake. Going truck camping. Bye bye. See you soon. Got our shopping done and got the essentials of life. Had to get the old six pack for the uh it's not good myself that's a 12 pack. Justin that's a 12 pack. I usually get some sort of beer. I got a couple of my favorite little sandwiches in there. They're pricey but it's convenient. Some of the added extras that really ran the bill up. Went with some specialty honey. Gonna put that in my mushroom tea at the everything aioli. I got the bacon last time when I fished with John and Grant. It was amazing. Already went through it so I got another bottle. Cookies. Your body doesn't need them but your brain really likes them. To try the old Belinda's green sauce. Put that on the eggs. One of my favorites is the chicken burrito that they have here now. This is for lunch on the road to get to the spot but I went with the Philly cheesesteak burrito today. Standard units. I always get pork rinds. They're not terrible for you. One other sandwich is the turkey sandwich so that's on the water. Now instead of buying like a big 12 pack of water I don't want to say a 12 pack sound. Just really into 12 packs. I fill up my jug at home with my camper filter. That way I'm not carrying around like a bunch of plastic bottles in the boat. I just refilled one of these. This is aluminum can of water. I'm feeling it. Then for the main dishes we got them three cheese wieners baby. Alapeno poppers. That's the bacon. Beats. I always get these beets and buckies. They're good. These are actually as far as price goes. Not bad from the other places I stopped at. These beets are not bad. I want my camera sitting on top of is a refrigerator so we didn't have to buy any ice. Had buckies. So we're gonna be carrying the fridge, the Dometic. We're gonna stick this stuff in here along with what I already have which is some eggs, fruits, and veggies and things like that. And we're gonna be eating good. We're not even staying out that long. This is gonna be a short trip. I'm just gonna I'm gonna truck camp in not style but in comfort. We're not gonna be roughing it except for the sleepy part which we'll get to. Just made me a potty stop y'all. I'm sure look at this. First week April. First week April 96 degrees. We have arrived. What a beautiful spot. And we got some geese hanging around in my little camping area. So boats behind me right now just came in to check it out. Guess what? We got a little time since the sun is starting to set later we've probably got an hour of sunlight left. We might as well hit the water do a little dabbling. Lake looks really low. Probably as low as I've ever seen it. So that could present some challenges but our camping spot looks pretty good. I actually just got online, reserved it. I've camped here once before and I remembered it being a pretty good little area but the thing I really wanted and hoped for were two nice trees. Look at these big cedars right here and we're gonna use those as our posts for hammock camping tonight because I'm telling you guys it is hot. It's gonna be really hot camping inside of the truck which is what I'd normally do but I carry I always carry my hammock in this tub. My little sleep kit just in case the weather is like this. And so that way we get a little breeze flowing underneath this at night. It's gonna be all good. We'll wake up with the water behind us. It's gonna be awesome. And tomorrow's video I'm actually meeting a guest out here. We're gonna be doing some specialized fishing. Trying to get some bigs but today we'll just go explore the water a little bit. See what's going on. See what's biting. There's stripe here in here. There's crappie in here. There are largemouth bass obviously in here and there's a lot of white bass. White bass for fun times. So let's go hit the water and then when we get done with our dangle we'll come back here. We'll set up the tailgate and I'll give you guys a tour of the bedroom, the kitchen, and the hangout area. All in one. Show you guys the gear but just got to hit the lake right now. How can we not be kicking myself? I didn't even got firewood. I already set out here. Got a fire ring, firewood. I brought firewood. We're gonna be set for chilling and grilling tonight. Holy spittoons. This water is clear y'all. There's not many times that I've launched a boat and I can see the entire boat trailer underwater. Don't see any bedding bass by the ramp but they could be bedding out in like 10 foot easily. Crazy. Let's check out our full booth status. Big waxing gibbous right now. Just a couple days away from a full moon. It's probably gonna happen maybe tomorrow. Things should be moving to the bank. The water is 65 right now. Could change overnight but you have 65 degree water in the spring. Get those longer days with the full moon. It should be no doubt. Bass will be heading to the bank as long as the water is stable. Which they just had a little rain but the water is so low. We'll do a little tinker in here. I'm gonna look at a couple docks. See if I see any shad. See if I see any crappie and then probably gonna make a couple casts at the bank. I've got to just totally look at my gear though because I've got stuff rigged on for dirty water right now. A lot of things. I'm gonna get out. Glide bait. Swimmies. Jerkies. Something's coming. What's this? Oh my gosh. A pod of massive gills. Look at that. Man look at that. Might actually do something right here. Holy moly. First sign of life. A giant lot of gills. Looks like a school of little stripers out there. Interesting bit of evidence so far guys. Massive bluegills up in here. They probably hate bluegill right now because of the spawn that's happening but there was like sludge everywhere in there. I did not like it so I'm gonna move a little bit and see if I can just go into the mouths of some pockets. Toss around a horizontal hot dog. I've already seen fish on the scope that have come up to my bait and looked at it and swam away. So probably gonna have to downsize the line tonight. Do some different measures which I don't like to do. I like to put on the big line and yank on them but it is what it is. And unfortunately I am low on my spinning poles right now. Got me a dag on pistol grip on one of them. Check this out. Oh there's my old pistol grip now. End of the day fishing probably caught 20 bass on this rod and we're getting at the ramp. Putting away the net. Somebody stepped on the net which was connected to my rod. Downward pressure at the right angle and snap. I've got 15 on as a leader. I probably need to go down like 12. There's a bass right there. About a three pounder long cast. Got one right away. I was willing to eat my cruisers I saw in between there though. I'll let this guy go in this beautiful clear water. I can count on my hand how many bed fish I caught this year. That being one of them there were two sitting on a bed. If that's any indicator for tomorrow just coming through this little pocket I think we're gonna have an interesting day. There's a four pounder and there's a crappie. Oh my god I see a crappie. I'm looking at a nice crappie. Oh my gosh that crappie is about to eat my lackey I don't think I've ever sight fished a crappie on a bed. Got him on the doob. Little guy. Paired up with a female though. The doob. Got your little boyfriend out there. Hop on out buddy. I mean I've just scratched the surface. I have scratched the surface. There's a five pounder on that log right there. Oh my gosh. We got to go in because it's getting dark. Oh my gosh I am pumped. Another one up here is happening. It's just happening. Males everywhere females are gonna move up overnight guys. With the moon. Oh my goodness. A little fresh fish. There's another one right here too. Oh my gosh I want a night fish right now. This is crazy. Kid in a candy shop right now y'all. Oh my gosh. There's only select few days that you get on the water and you just watch the magic happen. Watching it happen. There's males flooding the bank right now. Females are just off the bank. They're gonna pair up tonight. They're gonna pair up tonight, tomorrow, next day. Cancel the schedule. The spawn is on. We might get some real big ones tomorrow. At least get a chance at them. Let's go to our campsite. Let's hook up some three cheese wieners. Set up our sleeping situation. What a beautiful end to the day guys. This is home for the evening guys and we're not plugging in power so this is the big reason that I wanted to go with lithium and I've got two powerful AGM batteries running my electronics so I don't have to charge up. I can go minimum two days. I could probably stretch it out to three days without any charge on the boat batteries so we are set to go for another couple days out here man and that makes it even cheaper to get one of these spots. Tent camping spot. I think it was six bucks a night with my Texas State Park Pass. So one of our awesome state parks here. It's beautiful and I don't have to have power so you get to sleep on the cheap. Speaking of that, sleeping arrangements. Let's check it out. So we do have the truck. We can always sleep in the back of the truck if we need to but because tonight is gonna be so warm we are going to opt for the hammock camping. We'll cook on the tailgate right here. We might as well get this stuff out right now and I'll show you guys my little sleep system that I carry everywhere. Everywhere that I'm possibly gonna spend the night. I got these Husky boxes. These are kind of expensive. I got them in Depot but they're really cool. They have clear tops and they open kind of like a bass fishing like one of our Bass Mafia boxes open up. So I've got all my cook stuff in here. So we'll go ahead and get that out and then in this one I keep my sleep system. So normally I keep a little pillow in here but we're probably not gonna use that tonight because we're going to be hammock camping and when I'm hammock camping I don't even use a pillow. I've got a couple of blankets in the truck. I have bug netting in case I need to sleep inside of the truck. So I've got all of those. This comes with a bug net on it so we don't need to do that. I have my hygiene kit right here so this is soap, you know, some shampoos, deodorant, stuff like that. Stuff you need. Water filtration system in case things get real Western. I've got a makeshift bushcraft kit. So this has got stuff to start fires. It's got a camp knife, some cordage, things like that in there. Full blown tarp if I need to get that crazy. Let's turn this up a little bit. And then I've got an awesome Nemo camp chair. This is their Stargazer I think and it's like a it's like a hammock chair. So comfortable drinking a cup of cold brews by the fire. Good times. Worth it to have a good chair. Relax those knees after a day of live scoping which we are probably not going to be doing much of on this trip. All right so that is the basic essentials of my kit. So we'll go ahead and get the hammock out. Shouldn't be that much of a problem with the dew. The trees that I'm going to be sleeping under will provide a little canopy for the dew. And I'm just going to have like a blanket maybe two blankets. I don't know. Don't need a full sleeping bag right now because it's so warm. So let's let's set up our hammock. All right sun is going down. Beautiful sight. My goodness hammocks set up super easy. Those trees were the perfect gap. And now we're going to set up the kitchen. So in addition to the headlamp which I always carry one of those. I keep one of these. It's a magnet and a hook system rechargeable led light. It lasts a long time. So I can hook that on right here. Now I've got myself a little lamp that I can cook under. Very useful. So something like that is got to have it for truck camping in my opinion. Ah it's so warm. I don't even know if I need a campfire. It's just for ambience. So I'm going to go ahead and get out the grill. And I keep a 20 pound propane tank in the back of here with a hose. So I can probably go entire season truck camping just using this. I have this really cool system with the cap. You know I'll never have another truck that does not have a cap. Just because I love it so much. But if you want to just keep things in the bins. If you don't have a truck cap. Keep it in the bed of the truck. Like those those husky containers like I showed you. Those things are money. Keep all the the weather out of it. They're really nice. But I've got mine set up. So I can keep all this stuff up top here. Obviously with the propane I'm going to get a consistent heat. So I like that. But you can always use the fire. Go full primitive. It's very easy to do. I keep a little grill grate in the truck as well. If I wanted to do that method. Propane. It's really getting hot. We're going to be cooking soon. I love the great outdoors. Case Hobo. Goes with me everywhere. Get our wieners out and get them going. Truck camping pro tip y'all. On your way out if you go to a gas station, grocery store. Just take one from home. Get you a little sack. Because you're going to have some trash. You may not have a trash can close. Just save it. Throw it in the truck if you got bears. Obviously don't leave stuff out. But some cold pop cans. Some wiener packages. Try to keep things to the minimum. Trash wise. But you're going to have something. So always keep that around. So I can discard it later. Wieners are sizzling. Cold pops are nice. We're going to do some tackle rigging tonight. And I'm going to be dreaming about tomorrow. I cannot believe how many bass I saw in the small little pocket I went up into. I saw dozens of bass. And crappie. Crappie that were just sticking their noses out from the docks. They're like under there spawning. They're all colored up. They're beautiful. Had one spawning on a stump. Couldn't get them to bite. That's a new thing. But everything's up there. I mean the full moon's happening. Everything's moving up. Our first really warm night. It's all night. Now we can go. All right. Sugar beets. Gotta have it y'all. It's like a little nature dessert. Not really sure how good sugar beets are for you. I know beets are good for you but in my mind it feels like I'm eating a delicious treat that's good for me. Unfortunately I forgot my plate. Alpino cheese is good but the three cheese. Cheese is just dripping out of it. Oh my gosh. It's good. Crispy skin. Cheese. Melty in the middle. Oh my gosh. That is some tasty stuff right there y'all. That is going to fill my belly and my veins and just make me sleep like a baby out here. We got the crickets chirping. We got the little water slap over here on the edge. I mean there's not many opportunities you get to sleep by the water's edge so if you're looking for a little bit of adventure check out some of our Texas state parks that are near you or if you're in another state check out some of the state parks. Just grab the truck, the SUV, load up some of this basic gear and go do it. It's not very expensive and you know every time I sleep outside it's roughing in a little bit but man once you do it a lot you just learn to love it and it gives you a sense of adventure and accomplishment when you're out here and you got to kind of fend for yourself. Of course I'm smoothing it over here in the adventure wagon. I kind of got it dialed but I've been doing this stuff for years and man I just love truck camping. It's so fun. So thank you guys for tuning in to today's adventure. I think you want to stay tuned for tomorrow because fishing is going to be good so subscribe here to the channel, smash that like button for adventure and I will see you on the next one. Cheers. Cheers to the stars in the Texas sky. Lordy. It's beautiful. Got Orion's belt right behind me. Got a little water slap coming in. It's going to make good things to sleep too.