 So, uh, how do you feel about crappie fishing? I think it's become one of my favorite things to do. Well, okay, let me rephrase. Favorite fishing activity. I mean, whoa! Whoa! I think it's gotta be one of my favorite fishing excursions you've taken me on. Okie dokie. Today we're going crappie fishing. OSG has discovered her element. Before she gets braggadocious here. Uh, she's caught some toads. We're going to take you out in the water and do some, some crappie snagging on big old Lake Sam Rayburn with my buddy Shane. What beats this crappie snatching? It's not really even fishing. It's just catching. I love the, the striped bass. Wasn't it the striped bass that we went on? Yes, we did striped bass. That was fun, because those were big. Catching one of my biggest bass. I remember that. Alright, so the big bass still gives you a thrill. Yeah. And then I liked the other time that we used these, these rods. When we went creek fishing. Catching bluegill? We did. This is the favorite Yampa River. It's actually meant for trout. It is a super whippy rod. I don't know if you can see that, that tip action right there. But this thing is a, it's an ultralight. It's, it's like beyond an ultralight. Six foot extra ultralight, extra ultralight in the Yampa River. So I've got two of these and they are perfect for crappie fishing. Four pound test monofilament on a thousand size reel. It's actually kind of a higher end rod because it's meant for trout fishing. Like those people that are just like, you know, look at that. People get really into trout. Very snazzy. I feel like if I just went and took a regular bait casting combo and fished for trout people would probably give you those weird looks. Probably. What they're doing out here. They should be fishing a thousand dollar fly rod reel. I don't know if that's how you talk. I apologize. Have you turned them to like Arnold Schwarzenegger? These are just dinky little rods. But gosh dang it, they're freaking fun when you catch fish on it. I'm showing my delicious biscuit. Is this OSG approved? Look how she's even holding it. It's crab and goba. I'm going to say bacon, egg and cheese. That's bacon, egg and cheese. The day started right. That biscuit looks pretty good though. Baby, mama, dad, and Shane are going out crappie fishing. Let's go. Let's roll. Get the R2D2 and going. What R2D2 is? Star Wars or the trolling motor? That's the trolling motor. One minute in. I saw it. You jerked. I saw it too. You jerked under the pressure. Look at them. I got them fired up. They're all jacked up on Mount Dew. Look at those fish. Holy smokes. Look at them. They're streaking. Got him. Come on now. They're just nipping it. Get in the game. Do you need to nibble it on there? Look how they're coming. They're all the way up now. Look at this, guys. Look, look, look. Look how he's got these fish fired up now. They're all the way up to the top. Look it in there. You want to let it go down. How much? I'll just do that. I'm going to close the bail and let it fall. Close it. I see what you're going to do. Look. Let your lure move. Jiggle it. Got him. Get him. Get him. Get him. No. I came off. Do you feel it though? Release the hounds. Get him, baby. Go one. Good. Look at her. Woo. That's a toad crappie. Nice to dine on, babe. Watch that rod tip. Don't want to break your rod. OSG breaking the ice. Got the first one. That crappie is going in the cooler. Good job, babe. So what's the limit? Or what's not the limit? It has to be 10 inches? That's a 10-inch. All right. Oh, shizzle. I have not even wet a line yet. And Shane is hooked. Babe, look how I'm going. Look how I'm going down there. You're hooked again. That's tiny, though. You're going to throw that one back for sure. I got to get rigged up. Yeah, you do. Dang. Good wrist pop. Shane's hooked. Got some border liner, yeah. Toss those little ones back. I got a hair jig. Whoa. Hair jig was an elk hair. Australian rabbit hair. Australian rabbit hair. Get him, babe. Look at her. That's a good one. That's a good one. There we go. That's a slab. Yes. Got him on the hair jig. Got him on the hair jig, boys and girls. One of you guys sent this hair jig in, so thank you. That's a decent one. That's right. Got one. How's it feeling? Oh, yeah. Pull and drag. That's a dandy. More crappies. Oh, gosh. Little guy, we'll throw him back. I got a hit, too. Going with this beautiful pink jig head here. Easy. OK. Look at her. Stephanie's hooked. Whoa. What do we got here? Oh, yeah. Cape bar. Fish taco. Cape bar. Put on the same color I rigged up. Stephanie this morning with a green bodied. This is a little LFT micro. Chad. Oh, got him. First drop with the light one. Look at him go. He's fired. Oh, I can't even boat flip him. I can't even boat flip him. He's such a horse. Yeah, get in here. First drop with that color. That was quick. Babe, you're just crushing it. Mules. She's catching mules. Dang. I might need to loosen your drag. I only got a four-pound test on. Whoo. That is a big one. Whoo. Chad pole not working. Got him. You're hooked up. You're hooked up on a good one. You just got a little weight behind it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a good one, babe. She is getting the slabs. Cooler is filling up quick. Like animals? Oh. Hey. Oh, that's a toad. Did you see that monster? Get him. Babe, you were just crushing it. Yeah. Get him out. Oh, yeah, he's in. Is he stuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's stuck in there. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I'm stuck on you. I think you have a bass. Yeah, I think you might have a bass there. What do I do? Oh, what do I do? You going? Oh, yeah. Loosen the drag. See here. Wait. Oh. No. I don't know. It's big. Something large. It's big here, right? Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. It's coming out. It's coming out. Here, take it. Take it. Get it away from the pile. What do I do? You just hang on. It's something large. That's very large. Is it coming up? This is big. Is it coming up? It's coming up. It's coming up. I think it's going to be a bass. It's coming up. Where's it at? Keep pressure. Come on. It's either a big catfish or a way from the pile. Oh. I think it might be a catfish. Oh, oh, oh. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Is this going to break my rod? Loosen the drag there. Yep, yep. We're going to loosen it. Oh, yeah. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. Loosen the drag. You didn't even know what was going on right there. You didn't even know how big of a bass you had online. Me and Shane were freaking out. You're like, what? Well, the broad was like bent over. I was afraid it was gonna snap any minute. Oh my gosh, you know what just happened there, babe. I don't get it. Don't get it. Yeah, but you got like four pound test on here. Four pound test, I had your drag set, but probably had like a 12 pounder that was on there. You had a huge bass that had that on. That eight-year-old. Until after we got the croffy out of the water and you both looked at me like, do you know, do you realize what just happened? The croffy looked like a taco that had been falling on the floor, a Taco Bell, someone just picked it up like, oh, fuck, nobody's really gonna eat this. We're just gonna throw it in the trash. The bass never came back and got it. Freakin' bird came and got it. And you could have had maybe a double-digit bass today. I wish I would have seen it. Like, I think I'm gonna dream about it tonight. I'll be dreaming about it. Disappointing. Mmm. You probably had like a 10 pound or something on. Seriously. What? It let it go just right there under the boat. Look how mangled it is. It was in its crushers. Oh, poor croffy. Yeah, it's dead, pretty much. Huge bass-y croffy. Yeah. There's like giants that live in these piles and that's all they do is eat croffy. So what did I do wrong? Nothing. You did nothing wrong. So you had the croffy. The croffy was struggling and then the bass saw that and realized that it could eat that croffy because it was having a hard time and it went up there and ate it. And the bass never even knew it was hooked. It didn't even know what was going on. The bass had no idea the bass was just swimming away to eat the croffy. Yeah, he was just so... So the bass was never hooked, it was just the croffy. Exactly. The slab. That's a pig. Let me just get this old slab out here because I knew that was coming. I'm sorry, I can't do that already. Oh, jeez. No. I was about to get cocky. Oh, I almost had it too. I know. He was like frozen. No. Boom. Shane's on his game now. I brought the A game. Krabby's on the unit. See if we can watch that rod tip. Do a little dangle. I saw it. Get him. Got him. Got him. Hey, am I gonna have to get back to fishing y'all? I think so. Jeez. What do we got here? It's a big end. Oh my gosh. Big end. Oh my gosh. Get in here. That's the old googly eye. Thanks. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. Double hooked. Hammer haul. Color change coming on the camera here. I'm getting my butt. There's something going on with that. Whipped. Nicely done, hun. Nice. Add him to the collection. Got the camera. Well, we captured him. He's like, hey, boy. He's ready to be a fish taco. He's like, make me a docko. Actually, he's getting that Frank's red hot, would he? I don't know if you can really see it. Can. Can? You can definitely see it. Oh, I'm super impressed. I'm proud. It's time to go put him in grease at home. Yee-haw. We're about to fillet these crappies. We're gonna do something a little bit different. On this cooking portion, I've already showed you the frying of the fish with that buffalo sauce. So delicious. But somebody mentioned to me while I was over there doing the bigger crappies on the half shell on the grill. Now we're here at LFD's house. We're having deer burgers tonight. And I thought it'd be pretty cool to throw a couple of fillets on there with the shell on there, which is the skin and the scales and everything. Cook it in a little butter and see how it turns out. And we're gonna do a big family fish fry tomorrow night. But I just wanna see how this is something different. But let's take a look in this cooler, y'all. Check out how many crappies we got in the boat today. Full of crappies. I'm only gonna take some of the biggest ones out of here. You wanna know my favorite? What's your favorite? That one right there, this one. The big one. The big one. Well, what do you think? Are you pretty proud? I mean, we got like 40 crappie right here and we threw back the little ones. I am. Choo! That was so cute. That was the cutest knees ever. Okay, you know what time it is. It's time to clean these bad boys. It's time for this right here. All right, big boy. We're gonna do a filet on these big, thick filets of crappie. All right, here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna have OSG help me out. We're gonna throw a little bit of, this is Greek town seasoning. It's orange or lemon peel, onion, garlic, black pepper. It's like an olive oil. It's a little olive oil on these bad boys. On the half shell. Those burgers look almost ready. So these will be done in about 15 minutes. Let's try it. All right. Let's do it. Like this guy? Yeah, the meat should be kind of soft. You should just be able to take your fork and kind of peel that rib cage. Oh, look how, oh my gosh. This is so flaky. Mm, the olive oil makes it taste a little buttery. Mm-hmm. Ooh, it's so flaky. These are, look at this. That's crappie. That would be great. Nobody talks about frying them. Mixed with some like cilantro, kind of like a ceviche. Obviously cooked. Oh my God. They're so soft. Crappie, y'all. Excellent fry. Little bit of a bottle in there. Excellent fried. But if you got some slabs, try grilling them. That's excellent. Just kind of peel this off with a fork. Come on here for a tad shot. See how white and flaky that is? Crappie. Mm, y'all got to try that right there. So we ended up with like 40 crappie today, guys. It was an awesome time. OSG killed it. She almost had a giant bass and we had a delicious dinner and we're gonna be doing more fish fries with that fish because we got so much extra and we had an awesome time out there with the machine on Lake Sam Rayburn. One for the books. This will definitely go down in history. One of my favorite fishing days with you. You and the baby all slayed. It was a family fishing, catching, cooking adventure and it only took us like two hours to catch them. That's her kind of style of fishing. This might as well just do one of those kitchen timers. You got four hours. Ready, go. Time to go. Well, thank y'all very much for tuning in for today's video. I hope y'all enjoyed it. We certainly did. And if you wanna catch more, just go ahead and subscribe right here to the channel. Hit the ding dongs for all the notifications when videos come out. And we'll see you all in two minutes.