 Oh, got him. Oh, this is a good one. Good one. Welcome all back to the channel, everybody. It is time to do some family camping. And today's video is brought to you by the greatest Guggen month sales happening out the wazoo y'all. You can use code LFG to receive another 10% off your orders. And we got tackle Tuesdays happening every Tuesday in the month of November. So link down in the description. Make sure to go check it out. Get some swag. All right, so I try to do this trip every year where I come up to the river and I do a little camping. I started doing this a few years ago. Me and my buddy Lance, me and Lance played baseball together back in our previous life. Somehow we ended up just living like right down the road from each other's, each other's English. It's a funny thing. Anyways, this year is interesting because I've got a family of four now. And we've got the opus camper, which is just tailor made for this situation, just camping in tight spots off grid. This is, you know, no shore power. This is somewhere where I'd normally sleep in my truck or sleep in a tent. But now we got the opus camper and it's great for the kids and everything. So my buddy Lance, he's got his camper dialed up right next to mine, bonfire right in there. We got the river streams right here, stocked rainbow trout in the river. So we're going to do some trout fishing. And the greatest thing is it's finally fall in Texas. I mean, it is cold. It's in the 40s right now. Weather's going to be amazing. But right now we got to set up the opus. So what I wanted to do for everyone that hasn't seen this thing yet, I've done a full tour of it. There's a video on my channel about it. But this is a really unique camper. It's, it's made to go off grid. It's got a full independent suspension and it just folds up really compact. It's only 15 feet long. And when I undo it, it'll end up being about 20 feet long. And it's got a, you know, king size bed in there. And it's got a little, little bed for kids. It's actually got bunk beds in there. So it's just perfect for a family of four. First thing you got to do is level it out. And we're actually pretty daggone level. Steph and the kids are not here yet. So it's my job today. They're coming up tomorrow. It's my job today to get everything situated. That's, that's good enough. That's good enough. I just got to raise these jacks up. So tell me about an hour to get this baby set up. And we might even be able to do a little fishing tonight. Since this thing is Australian, everything seems to be backwards, like all the light switches, cranks for all the turns. Now the roof's up. Let's go inside. Wide open space on the inside. A little bit of rough ride. All my stuff fell out of my pantry because I didn't have my rubber mats on the bottom. So everything down there just slid out, busted, bruised my nanners. There's a lot of casualties, but I need to put those little liners in there. But this is kind of how Stephanie has organized this, this program. I knew those were going to fall out of these peaches and pickles and heavy stuff. We got, you know, chocolate to make s'mores. We got bread for sandwiches, little snackies, nothing crazy, nothing crazy. And then the all important little snack drawer. Switchy spots. Excuse me. And probably the most important feature to this thing that I added is this vacuum. Spilled my coffee all over the floor, so let's do a little sucking here. And then a new addition I'm super excited about. Shamwiles, baby. Got some shamwiles. Got these for the bathroom because there's a situation with the bathroom. I need to figure out, I need to, I need to get my buddy Lance because he's dang near an engineer. My problem is, you know, use the shower, things get a little wet inside because there's not much drainage. And then I get up to go to the bathroom at night, or somebody does, and wah-bam! And it's, you can take a bath in there. There's so much water. There needs to be about a drain, but what I want to do is, is put a little, like either teak wood or some sort of wood, a little duck board in here. So build that where it's like little slats where the water can go through, but you stand on it, get the nice warm feeling of wood, and you don't have to deal with the water being on your feet. It's just going to sit below. But yeah, I guess I'm just going to do a little home cleaning video for you guys right now. Be sure to smash that like button for Mr. Clean vibes. Just kidding, that's enough of that. Just wanted to test out my squeegee. Just to give you folks an example of why when I have a wood project or engineering problem I call Lance. Because this may look like a part of his camper, but he built this custom, custom job right here. That's a nice burner by the way. Who makes that? A partner stove. Partner stove, full industrial strength. It's like the big in the overlanding. Good to go there. So this, this attaches to his camper right here on a little, what kind of cleat do you class by that? French cleat kind of. Metal French cleat. There you go. And then this over here is just hold your, is this more burners or what is this? This is all my, all my stuff. This is your pantry kind of cooking stuff that you built all this. Yep. You bought this, but you built the table. You put in the inserts here to slide this out. You built this, all these metal parts, handles. So this is all. Oh, this is there it is. Oh, the cutting board, cutting board, cutting board, a little bit of prep stove that slides in the feet come in underneath it. So that's pretty slick dude. Where do you, where do you store that when you're riding? It's right here. So it's the, technically it's the first thing out and the last thing in of the camper. Gotcha. And I made it dimensionally to fit right here. Yeah. It's relatively light. I like it. Look at the craftsmanship. Even the exterior is, uh, is lined. This is a little but not closed. Oh, no. So this is a, yeah, only the user that built this can close it. You got to take these wires right here. Well, if I do right, there you go. Oh, dang. That is an engineering default on my part. Well, everything else pretty flawless, dude. I like cooking outside. We don't, we have a stove inside the pop up, but I never use it. We cook coffee in the morning from Holly and make breakfast when it's like 10 degrees outside. Everything else is out here. That's my boy Lance. He's a, you got a YouTube channel. I do do these things. I have, I have a video not, not making it from start to finish, but I went over like an overview and parts list on how I made it. And it's pretty popular. If you were to have pop-up campers, I would say so. Yeah. Camping mods. You're a good channel for camping mods. And we're going to put the heater to the test, the true McCombie to the test, which is another really cool feature of this thing. Again, I already did a video like explaining this, but now I have some experience with it. So, uh, I have to say that this puppy right here, the true McCombie is awesome for heating your water and your air. It's very efficient. With the wife and kids I've yet to like run the whole heat and you know, it's just like me at home. Use way more water. Use way more AC heat. Gotta keep the kids and the wife comfy. Us dudes, we tend to rough it a little bit, a little bit more, but uh, you know, it's in our nature, I guess. Other crap that I've brought on this trip, I shouldn't say crap. The firewood, very important. Very important. We're about to start unloading that and get our chairs out. I got a big chair for my wife. Happy wife, happy life. You know what I'm saying? More crap that's huge. It gets in the way that I don't want to carry my little chairs back there. It weighs about, uh, less than a pound. It folds up. It's tiny. I brought the big recliner chair with the table side, um, you know, food tray and all that stuff for her. I've also got my bike in here. I've got the Baku. Suitin' up. You want to go do this? Uh, yeah. I waited all summer for this. All right. So you're going full fly, dedicated? Uh, yeah. I have a fly fish only unless it's windy. And then I'll throw a spinner rod, light tackle. He's prepared to school me in the art of Euro nymphing. What? I said you're going to school me. I don't know yet. You don't know yet? You're not sure? I mean, you've been talking like this is the greatest thing ever. So I would just want to see if it's going to be my old handy dandy spinners. You know what I mean? So there's, there's really, there's, there's a lot of ways to trap fish, y'all, but if you are a purist, you go, you go dry fly or you go some sort of fly. I don't really like to fish anything, especially the things I can put in a pan, but, uh, I am fishing with a rod that I use for crappie fishing that is actually a trout rod. Um, it's a trout pan fish rod. So I've got a 10 pound braid or 15 pound braid on here, seven pound liter. Obviously, uh, take the crappie jig off. I'm going to throw some spinners, little things like that, little panther martens and just stuff, you know, that you would normally think of when you're trout fishing. Um, and I'm probably going to switch to the fly later on. I've got a fly rod rigged up here. I've got two fly rods with me and I want to try this Euro nymphing. I think it's really interesting. We've got just a few hours of daylight. So it's just time to give a dangle, burn off a few calories before we make some dinner. All right. How you got your net? You're all, uh, where's my stringer at? I got a string on me. Oh, you do? Okay. Stay close to you. You got a guide right here. Okay. Dang. I mean, 10 years of fishing the water. You like that, don't you? What is that? Is that for your rods? Yeah. So when we go tomorrow to catch and release, you're hanging up there, homemade, by the way. Wow, suction cups. Yeah. Cause the ones on the Amazon are like, uh, 180 bucks. And I wouldn't pay that like this. This is where I keep it. Right. Yeah. And then when I get to where I want to go, I have this. Okay. And then I do like that. So then when I got the shot, there it is. Boom. Wow. You'll get there. You'll get there. I'm not sure I will. I'll just, I'll just come up here once a year with you and watch you do it. This river is a little low. I'm going to try to, you know, first dip in the waders. Oh my goodness. Probably going to fall on my butt. Um, I've got a net. We're going to shove this into our, well, a little leakage in the waders. It's never good. Gosh, that comes up quick. Oh, yeah. And we're getting wet in the crotch area right now. That's, that's a problem. I'm going to tell you right now, let's see. Oh gosh. I just casted it. It looks like an absolute noob berry right now. That kind of got water, we've got water crotch. Pretty strong. You got your stick? Any bites? No. I'm throwing a crappie jig though. So right here? Yeah. I mean, you can see the bottom. I definitely have leaks in my waders. Lance utilizing the stick method. Yeah, he filled me. Oh dude, I just saw, I just saw one fully clear the water. Clearly my lure selection is not programmed. They are, oh my gosh, they are absolutely going ape. That's what we're going to do right there. Definitely just drop my pliers down here. So we're going to play a little game called hook the pliers. Oh, I almost got them. Kind of knocked them off into the deep end. It's not what you want. Okay. And they're gone. Oh, I got to go back. My feet are soaked. So waders are absolutely not impervious. Dimes you do. I'm going to take these off. We're going to see how bad the damage is. But I'm going to go ahead and tell you right now. It's not, it is not pretty. I wore jeans. It's one of the pair of jeans I brought, which is unfortunate. Full blown accidents right now. This is unrecoverable folks. I literally have steam coming off my hot wet pants. My socks, socks are soaked. It's just, it's just what it is. It's not good. Look at the steam. Can you see the steam? My hot steamy feet. So when you have wet your pants this severely, there's really only one thing to do. That's sit by a fire and drink an adult beverage. And that's what I'm going to do. The river looks the best I've ever seen and honestly fishing here for a few years. So I'm excited to get back out there just hopefully in some better gear and hopefully I can like cast far enough to get to them from the bank. So see you guys in the morning. All right y'all. We got a two mile hike in today to a little river spot. I still got some wet waders, but we're going to get through. I'm going to try to get some trout online. I've got conventional and fly backpack full gear. Let's get it. Fish on. First one of the day. Can we say day? Sure it is. 12 inches, 13 inches. Oh man, we just walked through the dark for probably a mile and a half. I know you guys can't see crap right now. It's GoPro, but got got both of my rods here. It's time to catch some fish. Oh, there we go. I'm hooked up baby. Look at these jumpers. Yeah, I'm on the trout pole. He's coming over to you Lance. Oh, come here little friend. You're not really big enough to get excited about, but fun times. Well, there it goes. Got pretty much every hook on this bait all in my nips. Pretty good one there Jim. Lance hooked up. The Euro nymphing is killing the game. No question. No questions there. I'm getting bites every third or fourth cast, but Euro nymph, I may have to switch to the fly. Lance has caught like a dozen fish already. I'm using the fly technique. I'm going to strip down. These waders are leaky. I'm going to strip down. I'm going to take my boots off. I'm going to take my socks off so I only have something dry to get into when I walk back. Yeah, there's no rules about having to pay a ton. You got a pretty good one there Jim? Okay, I feel the the wetness. Oh yeah? You hooked up. So you scooted down a little bit, you went away from the spot. Tyra got lazy. See, I think it's all about the spot. Don't get me wrong because Jim Jimbo is back there slamming Mondos on a spinner. Is this a big one? I'll give you the rod. You tell me. You've had a couple of bites on that? Yeah, I think you just got a big nymph boner. That's a pretty good one. What do they look like? What do you say? 13 inch or? Stalker size? Got him. There you go. Look at me, dude. There you go. Look at me. I'm a Euro nymph. This is my first tightline nymph fish. It was the spot. He's going to follow me all day or what? This is a pretty good one. You've got nice color. Oh, he's trying to go up a lot. Put her in the net, boys. Oh, he done come off. Yeah, that's barbless, so you gotta. Oh, it's barbless? Oh yeah. Oh, you gave me, you gave me the easy release ones. That's what I'm rocking. See, when you catch so many, you got to go barbless. Right. Well, when you don't, like me, you need everyone you cook. So do we need to, like, get some espressos out and maybe listen to some classical music right now? I see both. I like he hauling them all the conventional, but this is way bigger challenge. You can get this in spots where you can't throw a rooster tail. Correct. Yeah. Oh, there he is. Oh, new thing now. Now I'm getting. What I do is when it's windy, I go traditional. When it's cold like this, I get this out. That's like fishing soft plastics versus spinner bait. You know, yeah, stuff when it's real windy. Do I need to take your pole? Hang on now. I just got a bite. Put your finger on the line. Oh, got him. Oh, this is a good one, dude. Good one. Dude, I'm so good. I don't need to put my finger on the line. I just know when they're on. This is a big one. Stuck him. Stuck him on Lance's hand tie. Big boy. Indicator's working. That may, yeah, my little, my fluoro tag. Blood knot. You want to net this bad boy for me? I'm just, he's not coming to service. That's a good sign. I think he's a 14 all day. He's running. He's running, dude. Hang on. Oh, shoot. I'm too much. Oh, it's a, it's a red horse sucker cart, man. Dag gum. I had to get one of those. You got one last. I did. Yeah. Dude, what the heck. Sucker. Sticker things everywhere on you. You got one on top of your glove. Yeah. Right here. Okay. All right. So I've experienced the bites on my little eight foot four weight trout rod here. Now let me experience what the gods use. I can catch a Mondo on an ugly stick, but when you got a nice sensitive rod, it does make a lot of difference. Yeah. Let's do a switcheroo here. See if I can get me another sucker. Oh my gosh. Ride away. The program. Oh, that was like, it was like a shark. It was like a shark hitting a cut bait. What did it feel like? It felt amazing. I see, I see the difference. Yeah. You feel everything. All right, Lance. Tell me how much this rod was. $900. $900. Here we go. Is that the first cast, Justin? The first cast. Yes, sir. First cast. See you. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're from your top of your rod to the bottom of your fly line. Yeah. No, there's a sensitivity issue, but your, your, your line set up as well. So the fly line takes away a ton of your sensitivity. And then the rod helps too. And then it's all about having a tight, tight line from that tip of your rod straight to that bead head. I see what's going on here. Fish on. Get in my net. There you are. That's a pretty good one to keep, but we'll just keep fishing. Hooked up on the indicator. I'm hooked up on traditional. This one hasn't come up yet. This could be something serious. I got a big runner here. Big runner. Well, he's just pulling me around. I don't know. He doesn't feel heavy, but you only got three pounds yesterday on that tip there, sir. Gotcha. Don't worry. I'm a crappie fisherman. Wow. This guy's just going in the moon. Look at me. Full circle nipping. How's that rod? The rod's good. Handles him quite well. Man, this guy's just going. That's two circles. It's a good sign. They don't come up. He's not very big. Like, I saw him. He's just strong, dude. Look at this guy. I thought he was ready. I can't imagine like a 20-incher. Come here. Let me scoop you. Let me scoop you. That's a good one. That's a good one on the fly now. Quick look at this trout. They're like a slippery snake. It's a good one though. It's a big boy. See ya, bud. You gonna make it? Long, hard fight. Do I need to scoop you up again? If you don't want to live, I will put you on the stringer. There we go. Trout on the line. Here's a combo. First cast in the new pool. Wham-bam Sally just comes to town. Man, that's a jumbo. That's a jumbo. Solid. Solid fight. Solid eater. All around good stuff. Come to my net. Beautiful fish. Gorgeous fish. Come here. Whoo, baby. Got it stuck. Look at that fish right there now. That might be the biggest one I've ever caught out here. So I've got two really nice trout. Probably a 15, 16 incher and another one about 14. Really nice fish. That one's beautiful right there. All these are stocked. So these aren't naturally occurring trout and they will die in the summer. So I don't feel bad about keeping them. The fight on the fly rod is definitely more fun. I think it's just a lot more challenge but conventional. I don't know, just something about it. I love it. I love having just a regular fishing pole in my hand and catching, caught that last one on a little, just a little spinner. You can catch them all on a variety of techniques. It's just getting their retrieve right and a lot of these trout, if you've never done it before, they'll sit like right above the rocks. So whether you're fishing a fly or a conventional lure, you want to cast upstream, get a slow reel until you start feeling bottom and just keep it like an inch or two above that. So it's all about just speed control and don't set the hook like on a bass or you'll lose every single trout. That's a pretty good one there. Good color on it. Like it a lot bud. It's pretty stuff. All right let's get back out there. Got hit. Oh yeah. They in there boy. They up in their pool and then pools. Oh my! Just hammered on right there. Love to see it. Love to see the adventurous fighting spirit of the American rainbow. Straight from the farm. Yeah that's what I was telling everybody watching is that these fish are not going to live past summer anyways. So trout love very cold, high oxygenated water. Not very plentiful in Texas. You know what? I'm not going to even net that guy. Triple there we go. See you later. Give him that business. Little trout business. Oh man this is so funny on a light tackle. They bite the crap out of it. It's such a hard strike. Man I'm really excited for my dad to come up tomorrow and experience this. Catch a few. Love doing this stuff. That's just good times but I think we'll catch just one more and head back to camp. Fish on. Probably going to be my last last keeper of the day here. Scooped it. Let's get him unhooked here before he gets too crazy. Tangles up my net. Don't do it. Don't do it. You did it. Dang you. We done stroked him. I mean Uncle Jim over here. Seriously caught our 40. Just absolutely crushed him. Oh no. We'll suck. Dang it man. Can't catch a break. I took the boots off, got into the wet waders and then I just dropped my dry socks and boots into the water for a mile and a half hike back. Oh my goodness gracious. What are you going to wear one sock? I'm not going to wear that wet sock. That's just unfortunate. I got three trout those the other day. I got my limit by 8.30 in the morning. Now it's time to go get some coffee. Breakfast. Breakfast. And then the family's coming in. Very successful morning y'all. I think we had like 60 trout between all of us. So just killed the game. I'm going to work on my tackle. The last thing I got to do today all camp is set up. Everything's good. We're going to dial in the tackle. Family's coming in here in just a few hours. I'm so excited to get my dad out there on the river. Hopefully we can catch just as many. Everything better than life with coffee. All right y'all. We got a new addition to the camper. I think it's really smart. Got a little game-saver right here. Then the sealer. Sucking in. I came sealed. Fish ready to go. So we could freeze these or just save them for a later day of the trip. Eat them. But just keeps everything nice and neat since I don't have a cooler with ice. Take these over here. No drop down there. No ice. No musk, no pus. Put it up. I had a couple of incidences with my waiters. But I did learn if I got a leak in my waiters, just take my pants off, my socks off. And it's actually not that bad. The neoprene kept me pretty warm. The family should be rolling up any minute now. So that is the next thing on the list out here. We're going to be traveling to some other fishing holes and fishing with LFD. I would appreciate if you just go ahead and smash that like button for greatness in the outdoors. And I will see you guys on the next one. God bless you.