 Another snake. That one's not moving too much. Here at the MTB house right now, we've got two really special things I'm going to show you guys today. Number one is inside a rat tail with lenders. He hasn't been fed. Did you open this up? I did not. It's been open. I might have been flared. This is not the special part. We're just checking out Gary for a minute. Gary hasn't been fed. We gotta maintain his girth. Gary's in adolescent stages. He's going through puberty. Bass starts to really take off after three years old, but he's in his few vestments right now. Gotta make sure he stays thick. He's looking very good right now. A couple of Goldies. We're going to start off with a non-Goldie. Oh, a non-Goldie. Yeah, because he likes a goldfish so much. Oh, no, he does. Look at him. Come here, Gary. It's not me, Gary. It's over there. It's over there. Gary. There you go, bud. There you go. Slurp that thing up. There you go. Hey, come on now. I know it's not gold, but... Oh, does he not want anything but goldfish? I think, yeah. He has a thing for goldfish for sure. Oh, there's like... Something about that orange, man. There's two dead ones right here. Something about that cheeto color. Did you see how he went back over to the dead ones? He keeps going up. Maybe it's just a, you know, he's accustomed to the gold. Maybe he just likes gold, right, Gary? Gary. There you go. Oh, he just ate one back there. He just ate that other one, the first one you put in. Oh, yeah. Oh, he's coming up for more. There's another one, Gary. Oh, he did. There's all the scales in the back. Mm-hmm. Oh, he's going to see it. It's coming out. Bad angle. Oh, he sees it now. Oh, are you going to hit it, Gary? Come on, Gary. He's coming now. Have you ever seen so many fishing poles? Look at that beautiful side, Joe. Yeah, keep that crinkle going. Keep it going. A long time ago when I was telling you guys about favorite and being working with them, you know, one of the things was getting a, getting a hearsay, getting to be behind the scenes and working with the company directly. That's exactly what we've been doing. Me, Lunkers, all the other Gugans, we've been helping to design rods. We have our own signature series. It's been an awesome thing to be a part of and we are super pumped to bring them to you and super proud of it too. These are really good rods. So huge shipment has come in. We are offering 10% off and free shipping for a limited time. You need to get on it. Okay, so any rod that you want, if you want to get one of the LFG signature series, make every cast count rods, get that. If you want any other rod on the side, you can get that 10% off right now. Link is in the description. So a little special something for you right now. If you're looking for that stick for spring sticking, your chance to save right now. So go hit that up if you want one. They gonna go fast. Okay, me and Lunkers are going to head out and I got something else I got to show you guys. All right, finally got some more rods in to put some bends in. Now, I'm sure some of you have already asked this question, so I'm just going to address it right now. LFG, why haven't you done a review on your own rod? That's a really good question and I haven't done a full detailed video about it. And it's something I'm really proud of. I mean, it's, it's dream come true to be able to work with a company like favorite design my own signature series rod and bring it to you guys first before it hits anywhere else. So it's been really awesome. The only problem is we sold them out so quick, you guys bought them up that I didn't want to just do a whole video on it and then not be able to say, you know, hey, you can go check these rods out. You can go get one. They are available now and I will do a video. If you guys want me to, I'll leave a comment down below and I'll do a full detailed video on everything about this rod and then just the big sexy line in general. But this is my favorite rod line by favorite. I could talk about it all day, but just slide your comment down below if you want me to tell you more about it in another video. Anyways, let me show you what I really wanted to get to. Now, back behind my fishing freak hat here is one of the tastiest bass mounts I've ever laid my eyeballs upon. And it happens to be my PB bass. Now for those of you don't know, I caught this fish in March years ago, got her done right over there on Lake Fork, a place called Lake Fork taxidermies. Right there, those guys have done a lot of crazy, crazy good bass mounts and I'm actually having them work on my Peacock bass and my 42 inch pike. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a certified Mando brought from the depths of about 12 feet of water in the March time on a jig full of eggs and ready to drop them. I'm going to break the slider out. We're going to get some fabtapulous shots of this wonderful bass mount that will be going into the bass cave. Are you ready? Let's take a minute and let's check this thing out. I already feel like a dad. This brand new, beautiful bass mount. So for those of you that don't know, this bass weighed 11 and a quarter. That's my PB bass. Still looking to break that puppy. That's why I'm hitting the water so hard, especially right now, during the March and April months when the fish are at their fat tests. But if you guys ever want to get a bass mount done, make sure to get the right measurements. So I took a, you know, one of the soft measurement deals and I could wrap it all the way around, do lengthwise. Now what you can also do in a pinch is just use fishing line. You can use braided line, mark it with a sharpie or whatever, cut it, just cut the exact links for the girth and then the links and the artists can then take that and they have a bunch of different molds like Lakefort Taxidermy. They have, it's a bunch of molds. I think it's over 100 different ones that kind of get the general shape and then get it really close. And then they take your pictures, make sure to get really good pictures without shadows or anything like that where the light can shine on there and really bring out the fish scales and its colors. And then they can take it from there and do their thing with the artwork. I wanted to do a, basically a habitat mount. This is called a habitat mount. I've got the bluegill in here. Where I caught the fish was around some stumpy areas. It was that March time of year that's when they're starting to get aggressive on bluegill. So I really wanted to portray the fish with its mouth closed, really portray that giant belly that it had, those full of eggs. I love bass mounts with the mouth is closed myself. The ones that are open are sometimes really cool, especially if they're coming up in the top water. But you know, I caught this fish on a jig, just imagine it going nose down and then hitting it. That really gets me excited. So got it done like that. And you can really tell on a female bass, they just have that small head like that. And then of course at a place like Lakefort, huge girthy body. Now if you guys are in Texas and you're interested in getting a mount done, I will link these guys below. I mean, I've watched them do tons of mounts, just being a guide at Lakefort and being over there a lot of people going right over there and and giving them their measurements and everything right as they get off the water. I actually did it years later and it turns out really great. A habitat mount is really pretty awesome. You got to have a little space though. And we don't quite have that right now. Me and OSG are still on the hunt. I think we might have something right now. Don't want to speak too soon, but we're talking about like ultimate bass cave. I'm going to have this on the wall with all like antique lures, a lot of my favorite stuff, like all the talking point memorabilia from everything that I've done and fishing so far. And this, this has definitely got to be one of the centerpieces. So super proud of it. Hope you guys like it. Make sure to hit the like button if you do. And I hope you're getting a PB bass mount done this year as well. Alrighty Fish and Freaks, that is going to do it for today's video. I am now going to put Old Mondo back into her little storage place until we get her a nice cave. If you've got an awesome bass mount at home, let me see it. Tag me on the Instagram at Lakefort Guy. I want to get some more inspiration for maybe some other mounts I want to do someday. But until then, thanks for hanging out with me, Fish and Freaks. Make sure to subscribe right here to the channel and hit the little ding dong bell if you want to get the videos as soon as they come out. We're heading up to one of my favorite lakes in the entire country, one of the most prettiest places on earth. I'm taking OSG with me with a good buddy of mine. So that's where we'll be next. Hope to see you there. See you on the next one.