 Okay, good morning. She's a cold one this morning. They got down to 15 below last night Heater shut off pretty early ran out of propane in that one time heaters It's kind of a propane guzzler. So Because I have not been keeping it very warm in here at all I've been keeping it just a little bit below the freezing mark. I think and and I've gone through two of The 20 pounders already just in I think four days, maybe five days. I got a count a day It is days Monday. So once it so you have five days through two and not running it during the day But I'll show you a little trick right here guys. I'm about ready to switch over the the propane For my stove it was running out But if you take it and rotate it and flip it over you'll get another 15 minutes or more out Of it depending on how hot you're cooking of course, but rather than throwing away or if you refill these Not getting them empty the best way to get your money's worth out of these little One-pounders is to flip it over then the liquid propane can run down and you'll burn off the rest of it before you You're done with it. It actually I'm looking right now. It actually brought my coffee to a perk. So that's pretty sweet I'm gonna have to change it out pretty soon. You can see the flames getting pretty low underneath there And it should be a little bit hotter, but We're going about 10 10 to 15 minutes to burners after I flip that over. So a little tip for you there It's warming up quite a bit. So I think we're done on this cold snap The coldest I saw at night 15 below One night was nine below another was six below So we had quite a few below zero nights. It was just great. We needed it to build some ice Then I'm leading the crappy division for the second week in a row now on Nicole Stone's fish donkey crappy Thing and that's a lot of the reason why I haven't been filming because I'm just so focused on this tournament Which probably isn't a good thing, but we got text last night saying that the closest Crappy to ten and a half inches wins five hundred bucks. So that starts today So we're gonna switch gears and maybe not go for the big ones go for the little ones and see if we can get a ten and a half Incher before someone else does the first guy to do it a first person to do it wins that five hundred dollar crappy That's crazy. So stick along. Maybe we'll do it But can drive some breakfast into us first try to warm up a little bit It was pretty pretty cold in here this morning. It was probably Five below zero in here Everything froze the water that I got last night froze As soon as that heater went off things started going the wrong way. So I got some eggs here I'm guessing they're probably frozen solid too There you go That's a good one Got him Nice good one perfect Yep, got him. This is a double. Do I have a double? No, it's a single nice perfect Right they both disappeared for a second. I was like, oh, man, you got me Nice there you go. It looks like a better one Got you double Release to the grease You got all six hooks on that one. No, you're right over Macy. Yeah, okay. We're about to have a little competition ready. Oh I missed him You get him. Yeah, this one's coming for me. Yeah, I think this is the one I missed Miss him that time did not miss him that time Yeah Doesn't he? Yeah This one hit hard like a purge It's fighting like a purge, but he's a crappy Look at that one coming 35 Yes, good runner. That was awesome Nice Yeah, we probably should measure them because we're Yeah, you've been doing a great job knowing exactly make sure you wet your hands That big one did not like you clunking that on his head Over half over the half nice We'll let that one go Anything over 12 gets the pass. Yeah One up one down Those are harder to catch than the 12 inches This one would be so He's not decent Yeah, he was yeah, he's pretty decent Release to the grease funny watch them go down. Yeah Yeah, it sure is Oh, he's got one on you just so you know Yeah solid Yeah, oh my god, did he challenge? Oh, no couldn't get a hook set cuz he oh no Do you feel it? I might be able to get him. I don't think so. He's aggressive Don't see crappy do that very often. I've never seen one do that get him. Oh No way what the heck I Got six treble hooks on this thing. I just want to see what it is He's right there Hold the iron Joe. He's coming back I don't that's crazy. I literally got six trouble Some bigger fish coming Yeah, how do we both miss that? I don't know. I can see how you missed it cuz he's never stopped my slack But I mean he did the same to me, but I did whack them. I hurt my feelings I'm finished too. It might be him Coming back out of the bottom Same thing No, I'm black Bass he's gonna hit again There you go Did you I gotta make sure my line isn't over my hooks or something because he just had a game I Want this guy This is old iron Joe Now I'm sitting hired on him, you know, I want that guy. I want this guy Over seven six you take my hooks off File he's here. I Think he knocked me silly. Look. Yeah, he knocked me silly Dang it. One of those cuz it could have been I was silly, but does that him? This is one of the smaller ones that just came in See if I can get him to turn. He's just sitting out there five foot looking big It wasn't earlier Yeah Only cuz he missed out on a bunch of meals Jaws are all scraped Scratched he just turned Yeah, that's him coming close to you. Yeah, he probably sees that other one coming Yeah, he sees that other one. I think I get him Got him nice. Good one. I want to look at his face I want to look at his jaw any hook marks Yeah, oh, yeah, look it's ripped hard right there. Oh, maybe not Yeah, we've been going hard all week catching Giants Struggle some days some days it works out, but there's nothing better than going and just bending the rod and crossing eyeballs The only better part is when we eat them. Yeah You know a pretty good cook Okay, good second catch right in the stitching Yeah, that was pretty cool. He can go back right? Yeah, eat that V rod. It looks bigger on the screen I don't know if he is any bigger. Oh God. Where's my lure? This one might be an eater Bleeding This might not have been a bad ten and a half inch pond either You want to catch one? Easy enough. Oh shoot Should not have run them now. The fish gods do not like mouth running The cool thing is I will get one more chance Oh, they saw you Nice Yeah, never gets old though. Got a lot of fish today. Yeah, got him. That's why I think they got tougher as they got smaller Okay, guys, that's gonna do it for the fish catching portion of this video Pretty awesome got to try out some new lures from Acme got to try out Some fish set hook set and techniques for for a change We had a couple rough days there where the bites were fuel far between we're going for you know Crapping north of 15 inches and they don't always bite But I'm here with CJ as you saw and this is a pond that he knows really well We're trying to kind of make this a trophy pond nobody else really fishes it So we're trying to take a handful of these out for eaters and Get some bigger ones in here and just just reduce the population so they don't get overrun and eat everything You know eat themselves out of house and home. So we probably caught 150 this afternoon the golden hours upon us and we're not even gonna fish it and we're taking 22 of them home Nothing over 12 inches we threw everything back that was over 12 inches and then you know this pond in two to three years Is going to produce some more 15 plus so here CJ to tell you a little bit about it or to We're not always catching release. We Is either ponds anything Anything in a fishery when you fish it and you see the quality of it Take some out try to grow some bigger fish keep that Different size levels, you know small medium large and keep that going and you'll always return to having a good fishery These are perfect size eaters for us Yeah, it's really all you need for an eater, right? What what were they measuring like 10 to 11? Yeah, every couple small eats some we had to kill because it choked. Oh, yeah, I had one or two. Yeah Like that, but it's still like that's big enough to eat. Oh, yeah. I mean in some places. That's a trophy 10 inches it's hard to we laugh at 10 inch because like they're dinks to us But like what I think I kept one that was like close this one's probably close to 12, right? There was one or two like close to 12 which is fine Stretching that yeah, so so for the most part, you know, and we love eating fish. We love doing catching cooks So, you know as conservative as we are, you know and trying to grow Big fish and let the big crappy go anything over 13 14 inches for sure and everything over 15 inches Please just let those go if you can and you're gonna grow some 17 16 17s and 18s that way And there's so many in this 10 to 12 inch range and you get so much meat off of these and they're just delicious So if you're gonna try to manage a pond or if you want a bucket of crappy to eat be a little selective if If you can you know here I am telling you guys what to do and what to eat But but I'm just offering a little bit of advice if you want to try to catch some trophies, too So that's that's what we do How many ponds have you and I in the last three years kind of Tried to manage quite a few and this year. Yeah, some of those ponds We've seen pretty big different. Oh, yeah, and it's still full of eaters. Yeah, but putting those big ones back It's shown that you know It's just keeps a healthier population Yeah, putting them back and taking care of them when you catch them and you know get a picture and get a measurement If you won't if you need it and throw it back, but uh But yeah, awesome guys if you like this part of it stick around because I think you'll like the next part better I don't think we're gonna do the catching cook tonight. Are we I don't know you you got something else planned for tonight Little shepherd's pie Little sheep herders pie. I heard Anna makes one of the best shepherds pie in the world Which oh my god, look at the screen still lit up There's a school but Anna makes the best shepherds pie Which I can't doubt because I've been eating their cooking for the last couple nights and it's downright amazing She's such an amazing cook We had something I didn't even put on camera the other day. It was apple pie egg rolls Which oh I'd pay a lot of money for those in a restaurant. I promise you that Oh, man, you guys book a trip with CJ and he said he she might make some for you But if she doesn't make those she also makes a venison and cheddar or venison and cheese egg roll That's the one of the greatest things I've ever eaten in my life. Holy cow. But yeah If you guys like pan fishing talk give CJ call burnt meadow guide service I'll throw the info in the description But then and be honest with him up front say hey, I want to go catch a trophy or hey I want some eater fish or hey You know I want to spend half the day on eaters and half the day trying to get trophies or both You know what I mean and he'll put you on them if you want a mess of these to eat If you want to learn how to use live scope if you want to learn the latest techniques on catching these things Or if you just want to become a better fisherman breaking down a pond or if you want a meal Give a shout because uh, he could put you on some really good eaters and he or he could put you on Or try to put you on the biggest crap of your life. He could put you on it. I promise you that I've he's put me on so many giants that That I faith in them I'm watching these fish on the screen still It's really hard to leave in the golden hour when the screens lit like that But we've had a we've had a really good week and we're gonna get these home and start cleaning them All right. All right back to the shack for the night Everything looks good in here We're ready for bed Anna cooked up a shepherd's pie that was absolutely amazing didn't even have to be a shepherd to eat it Full belly filled the void drove right into me now. It's time for bed. I'm I'm pretty tired chasing all them crappy day We caught well over a hundred each today a Lot of eater size nothing big really I mean 13 might have been the biggest today But we weren't on those bodies of water that hold the bigger ones and we knew it, you know and we're going after that 10 and a half inch or for the Fish donkey and Nicole stone tournament and got it and got it first thing We don't know who the winner is yet Who got it like first if the ones from last night count or I don't know how it works But we got a 10 and a half inch or which you know We had to work hard to get it because we're used to catching a lot bigger ones. It's warmed up It's in the 20s right now So I think we're over this major cold snap So I'm looking forward to the bite turning on and everything not freezing up So quite so bad while you're fishing and whole hopping and jumping around That's it for tonight guys really appreciate all the support on the channel and thanks for tuning in and and I'll see you on the next one