 morning man it's beautiful in West Texas. Good morning Vietnam. Welcome back to the Channel Fishing Freaks. We just had a little camp out myself. Mr. John B. Alex Perrick. Grant Langmore, a few other guys and we are going out fishing again today. I'm in search for giant crappie. It's the morning and it's frosty, it's cooled off. We're gonna go get ourselves a nice warm burrito. Good hot cup of coffee. We're gonna journey out and try to get one of these big crappie. I don't know. I've had bad luck or just haven't been able to get it done so far but I got bass rod rigged up as well. We're gonna we're gonna go try to get her done. I'm so glad you came. I know. Well how could I not after last year? I know. Let's communicate in the water. I'm gonna get a jump start because I have a feeling these guys are parricking Grant. We're behind. We might not we might not see them out in the water today. Let's be honest. Yeah. I'm gonna sneak around these guys and then get myself a burrito and if you get on something perfect call me. If I get on something I'll haul her. I'm gonna be doing probably a lot of dabbling. Yeah a lot of dabbling. If I see some crappie. If you see groups of crappie or I'm actually gonna go up the creek so I'm gonna take a look. I'm gonna go up on that creek right next to the the launch. I'm gonna take her right. All right. Get out of the wind so I'm gonna see if they're up there. If they will. I'm gonna do my whee. Yeah. Rackley crappie call. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Teamwork. That's how they did it back in the day before cell phones. It's cold and it's windy. We're still going fishing. Where are the crappie? I don't know but we got a couple dangle sticks on our hand. The tug is the drug. Let's go have a good time today. Yeah buddy. One pole, two pole. Here we go. A new day. A new mean. Possibly. Oh yes ladies and gentlemen. A little snacky down the hatch. This is my first stop. I just put down the troll motor hadn't put it on my camera yet. I said I'm gonna come back here and check out these fish. They're tricky. They're real tricky but full down. Big ins. There are some big ins down there. Big marks on the electronics. I've been out here working my tail off. I can't get these fish to light. I've tried hair jigs. I've tried multiple different plastics, weight sizes, line sizes. The presentation has to be just right and you need a vertical presentation but you can't get close to the fish. It's like they know what life scope is. At 25 feet seems to be the distance where they will start to move off from the cover. So casting it to the cover, you know, 30, 40 feet away. You get that swing, you know, that angle you're reeling it through. You're not really getting a good vertical presentation where you can stick it over their nose. And I just happened to be on top of a couple of crappie and they were just... One was willing to bite. They're stay under the boat actually and not swim off. I'm gonna abandon this crappie operation. I know that there's giants in here and I think that I've seen some pretty good ones on the electronics. So where I'm at is where I saw a bunch of fish yesterday and I thought they were vast but I think some of them are crappie. There's just a mixture of things going on but they're just moving a lot. They don't want to stick. Stick to a tree. They don't want to bite. And the rogue ones I've seen suspended. I can't get those to bite either. I am going to head to the treehouse. We're going on another adventure. We're gonna load up with the camper and head to Trout Camp. So from one fish camp to another. I'll see you guys at Trout Camp. Heading down to the river. Gonna catch me a little tasty trout dinner. Yeah, y'all. We got the camper hooked up last night. Left out early this morning. Sunrise coming up right now. Going from Big Bass Lake to peaceful trout streams. Getting rigged. Got me a new trout net. New meat necklace this year. Just got my simple little trout box here. We're gonna start out with conventional. Try to get a couple. Come on. If that doesn't work, we're gonna switch. We get a nippy 29 degrees. That gets the old fingertips stiff. We're gonna walk out here and throw a little spinner. See what we can come up with. This water's low. Crystal clear, but quite low. Okay. This is where we slip. Shifty. There we go. Let's say I feel a slight wetness upon entry. Got a stringer on. Ready to go, baby. Ready to get some trout. This is a frosty mother trucker out here. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna walk out here. There's a little bar, a sandy bar, grow up in here. Oh, I got one. First cast. Gotta be kidding me. Wow. Let's fight that my feet. Here we go. Fish number one. Get them in here, my new net. There we go. Pretty decent one to start the day. I cannot believe I just walked out here first cast. Just walloped one. That's awesome. Heck yeah, baby. Well, we're gonna be eating good tonight. If we don't catch anything else, we got one good year. It's fantastic. That's a good one. Put him on our brand new stringer. You can only keep three out here on this river, so this was a real tiny one. I would let him go, but he's not. Here we go. Simple as that. I got this little net here. Just connect back on to my deal. Here we go. We're fishing, baby. Shout out to a young man that made me these spinners. I've got a lot of trout on. There's a little surface activity over here. So we are on a meat hunting mission right now with the conventional pole. My hope is to fill limit and then come back and try some fly techniques, but gotta get mom of those trout. That's just order of business right now. Oh no. Oh, that does not feel nice. Grab the hold of it. Oh, there it goes. I got it. That's a miracle. Fantastic. Got my hands are cold right now. Oh, look at that jumper, baby. I'm waiting for that sun to hit me on the face. Oh, there's one right there again. Right there, like bottom of feet. Another decent one. Come on, baby. There you go. Do a dance. Do a dance. Good enough. Elite. So these fish are stocked trout. So these these are stocked like weekly and they will all die in the summer. So all these fish are intended to be caught and then consumed. But you could obviously catch and release as much as you want. Just have fun. But you can't keep more than three and then you can't can't cull your fish. So when you get one you got to decide do I let it go right now or do I put it on the stringer. And I'm pretty much just going to throw whatever on the string right here unless it's just a tiny mite. Come on, there you go. Yeah, we get her done. We're getting her done. I'm on her after right now. One more. We got a limit filled. Look at them shiny little babies in the water. It's pretty. Simple little spinner. It is fun. It is fun on the line tackle. Oh my gosh, got another one. Whoa, little buddy. This one might this one might be a releaser. It's a little squirter. Yep, he's on the he's on the let go list. How did you get? Oh yeah, he was barely hooked. Barely hooked there my friend. Unhooked. Releasing back into the beautiful clear water. See my friend? Alright, one more to you too. This is a slow retrieve guys. Slow. That is the key to it. The first time I came out here it took me a long time to figure that out. Mini, mini, mini cast. This water is cold. I tried a way more active than bass and cold water but still need to have a slow presentation. Of course it helps when your hands are really cold you want to go slower. So there we go. There's a decent one there. That's gonna be our final one. That pretty trout bass. I don't know, we might could do a little bit better than that. Phew, that's pretty. I don't know, I'm catching them so good that I might get a little selective here. I might get a little selective. That is a beautiful rainbow trout though. Look at that. I don't care if you did come from the farm. You're pretty. Alright, I probably should have kept that one. They're gonna stop biting. This is how the rules of fishing go but I'm gonna give her one more shot and try to get a bigger one. Woo, got ice on my guys. That's when you know. Look at that guys. Ice. Ice on the line. Testing the limits with the gear here. Don't have to worry about that with fly rod I don't think. I love this pole guys. I just can't even tell you. I mean I literally, this is the same pole I was just crappie fishing with. Take it out here trout fish. I love that about it. It's a micro series. It's coming out, coming out in February. So, you guys can finally get your hands on them. Oh gosh, I'll just jump right in front of you. I'll be like, oh I think I just had a bump. Bump me. Get a little bump here. Come on, slow wind. Grind for the dive. Basically just trying to reel it just slow it off where it doesn't touch the bottom. That's it. It's a morning, morning bite. Come on, it'll be a stud. Oh yeah, it's got a little dig on it. It's twirling. It's twirling but it feels kind of, it's about the same. It's an eater. I'll go ahead and net it. There we go. Skinny guy. Loving this new net. Got one without the standard rope netting and it is just way more efficient and probably better on the fish. You're gonna go on the dinner table so I'm just gonna kind of manhandle you here. Oh, you almost got out. You ever had your hands so cold you don't even know when you're hooking yourself. That's a rat right now. We'll get our third fish, fill the limit and we'll probably make a few more fun casts. We'll do a little bit of that. We are limited out on trout. I'm gonna say within 10 minutes my friends. That is pretty darn good. Now my mission is going to be with the fly. So I'm gonna cut more casts here. I'm probably gonna go get my fly rod and we're gonna try to dial this in here. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we get it done on the old conventional. But now, so I keep a fly rod up in the truck. We're gonna break that out and we're gonna, we're gonna give it a whirl. It's functional right here, colder than a witch's. You know what? On winter's eve, my gosh. Now I can't keep any more today, but we're just gonna go fishing for fun with the fly. So have a good time. Get that long rod stretched. This feels good. Just feels good. Had for the last couple days, having a hard time getting some meat on the necklace. Now we're getting it done. Okay, we'll put the old switcheroo on them here. We are going, I got a tippet on here, but I'm gonna put a four pound leader. Why not? Win in Rome. Just going with the standard uni, uni splice here. Then we're gonna throw an indicator on. I am a pro. I'm a pro setup here. Okay, now we're in business. Over how to set the hook on a fly. There's no flow. Oh, got him. Oh, gosh. Oh my gosh, I got my first bite. That was quick. Goodness, I'm getting bit here. There we go. Right, guys. Look at me on fly fishing. I am a fly fishing right now. There's the transition. Ooh, little runner. Come on. Oh, man. Look at me. Look at me playing him. That's so much fun on the fly. That's pretty fun. Oh, that's awesome. Net this guy. Gosh, that's a good one too. That's awesome, guys. Oh my God. Look at that. My buddy Lance tied this fly. It's a mega worm. It's a little orange, orange worm thing. Looks like it would get a big one too. Barely hooked them on the snows. Popped out. Look at that. Awesome. Be a good one to keep, but we can't do it. I already kept our three, so really fun. I want to try that again. Look at that. Fish care too. Oh yeah, let's get her going, baby. They're jumping. Baby, fly time. Four pound test and break it. Dropping on this thing would be awesome. I have to get that a try. There we go. Not as big, but just as fun. Look at that. The fly just popped right out. Thank you, sir. Beautifully done. I'm going to give myself a little thumbs up right there. Why don't you join me in the comments? Why don't you join me in that endeavor? Look at that. Look at that little thing. There you go. Give me a surfacer over here. Oh, God, look at that. Oh, God, it's like a big one. That feels like a real big one. That's just weight. Oh, maybe. What have we got here? Oh, a tail hook to me. That's no wonder. I don't know how that happened. A tiny one on a tail hook. He slapped it. Slapped it and we slapped it back. See, buddy. All right, fishing freaks. I've got my limit of fish in the cooler. I got me some fly dangle on, got that big rod bent. It's pretty fun. So I'm going to stay out here a little longer and I'm going to try to dial that fly in and see if I can really get on them. Thank you guys for staying with me on today's video of traveling all the way, basically about seven hours apart going from a stream to a lake or lake to a stream. Got the camper. Good to go. Got the solar panels cleaned off. We're soaking in energy right now. We'll crank that heater up tonight and then in the morning we're going to get that fly dialed in. If you guys want to stay tuned for that, subscribe right here to the channel and thank you for tuning into all my outdoor adventures. Go have you one and God bless you while you're out in it and I'll see you on the next one.