 Oh, he broke me off. Hidden that croppy jig at night. We're off to a good start here. 10 o'clock at night, catching them bass on the croppy jig. Look at that hog jammer right there, ladies and gentlemen. There are some five to eight pounders. Just chilling in the lights out here. Oh man, I love this lake. Fish and freaks, welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to my humble abode here in the back of LFD's truck. I gotta say, I like my adventure wagon, even though it's not working right now. The truck up and everything, the truck cap. But what my dad has got here is a carpeted bed. Have y'all seen these? Y'all know what I'm talking about? Let me show you. The whole bottom of this is carpeted. So I'm just getting ready to take it in for the night. Just caught a nice four pound bass. Doing a little night dock fishing. And there's actually somebody out there fishing right now on the dock, like throwing a big swim bait and stuff. So we're already off to a good start. I'm gonna be trying some deeper stuff here in a little while. I mean, about six or seven hours when we wake up. I'll give you guys the grand tour here. I brought my big pad. So on top of the padded carpet here, I'm gonna have my sleeping pad, which I love. This is like my go bag that I take everywhere that's got literally everything from tint, first aid, extra clothes, extra gear, a firearm or two. There's also some food, like meals ready to eat. This little thing is my dad's, but I've got some stuff in it right now. I'm about to enjoy a Bucky's pecan pie. Oh yeah. We got the pillow right here. So we're gonna be sleeping pretty good, y'all. It's getting the 50s tonight. It's gonna be perfect camping weather. The windows don't crack, unfortunately. It'd be nice to get a little cool air, but I don't have any bugs in here right now, so I'm not complaining. So if you watched the last video, we had a great time crappie fishing right here on the banks of Lake Fork, and I can't think of a better place to sleep right here next to the bank. I'm literally just, I'm looking at my boat right now. So I can't wait till the morning. I think it's gonna be calm. It might get windy in the afternoon, but I think we're gonna have a morning to explore and really dive into some of those trees. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get that jig. I'm gonna get that soft blasting in that tree. Blink! And I also had a worm bite this afternoon, too. So, dang it. Took my worm. Ooh, I feel like a good bite. Oh, no worm and all that stuff. Anyway, my brain is gonna be churning about bass tonight, but I will see you guys in the morning. Good morning from the base camp fishing freaks. Shad spawn kicking off in here right now. It's about 6.20 in the morning. First person I talked to this morning. That was fishing before I even got up around the dock. They're a fishing freak. First thing he did was ask me, how's your brain? And so, anyway, I filled him in. I love the slate. I love the people. Love the community. It's just a beautiful thing, y'all. You see those shad flicker on the surface? All that you see down there is shad. They will lay their eggs in the grass. They're kind of sticky. And so, any kind of shoreline vegetation or really just shoreline cover algae, anything, they'll get up there. They'll swarm together, lay their eggs, and that is how they spawn. And the guys that I was talking to this morning, they were saying they really haven't seen the shad spawn in this cove yet, this year, until now. Will they bite? I don't know. Shad spawn's tricky. They're fishing here like all night under the lights. That's how much pressure this place gets day and night. Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever thrown a Monde worm into the sunrise on Lake Fork? Until you do, you just haven't left. Oh, big boiling Sally out there, right on the point to come on, baby. So, I don't know if the fish are gonna be really looking on bottom right now, with there being so many shad swimming around, but just gotta give it a shot. No bites yet, y'all. No bites yet. Had to go back to the dock, grab me some little breakfast and pick up some extra GoPro batteries. I just talked to some more fishing freaks from Arkansas that they've been up here for about a week and they caught fish, but it's been really scattered. Just can't really get on a good consistent pattern. You know, their boat is loaded with rods, as is mine. As is, I'm sure a lot of people's boats right now because you got the shad spawn going on. Fish are starting to move out deep. You got some that are still garden fry. There's just a lot of things going on. Usually end of May, like June, fish all just start moving out deep. You can catch some on top waters up in the morning, but then you can go catch a dozen bass off of one spot. So we're not quite there yet. I think they're just still in that in-between phase. And when that happens, that is when I like to just break out a worm, break out a soft plastic, rig it up on a Texas rig and throw to these trees. Okay, this is what I'm doing now. Look at that guy right here. Hello. It's good, it's good. Ooh, seeing a couple of marts right there. 15 feet of water, baby. A lot of fish right there, quite honestly. I need to throw a drop shot on there. Just get that little drop shot down there. Show them what's up. These might be some crappie right here. And I'm gonna drop on them because I'm sitting right on top of them and I can't resist. It's the crappie. Another one. Oh, and that's a keeper. Gotta do it, y'all. Gotta do it. I've seen these marts right here. I'm actually learning something right now. Oh, and that is the yellow bass. Tasty and delicious, a big bass treat. And they will cut you, they will get you. Ooh, crappie, come here, baby. Another keeper. So I'm actually learning something right now, looking at these on my electronics. They look really similar to bass. You know, they have the same profile. So I'm really learning the difference between the two marts, what they actually look like. So all these years I've been fishing and notice, you know, every time I see these little groups like that, I'm like, oh yeah, those are like those little two pound bass, you know, grouped up together and I'll fish those areas and I'll get bit sometimes on my plastics, but not hooking up. And I think this entire time they've been dropping and I just didn't know it. But now I'm learning. Another one, good. Good. Oh, God, he got off there, God, that was a big one. Good one. It's like drop shotting for bass. Now I'm learning to identify what these look like. There's my jig going down, if you can see it. There we go, there's a good crappie off the bottom. Oh yeah, baby. Oh, yeah, I can't help it. I gotta do it, oh little buddy. This is a big one. Don't come off, I'm about to have to lip him. He's hooked on the top of the schnoz, I can sling him. There we go, yeah, lean right in the tree. I gotta have some companions here to fish with me today. There's so many in this dagum tree. Oh, my spaghetti noodles. Okay, fun times over. Oh, I'm not gonna apologize for that crappie interruption because I just can't deny God's golden gift of crispy so that was just presented right in front of me y'all. I don't know, I probably got like 10 or 12 in there in one big old unit, kind of like yesterday except these are white crappie. Yesterday I was flipping shallow stumps and getting those black crappie so I just, I found the tree and it was ridiculous. I did throw a worm around there a little bit between the crappies kind of coming in and out but didn't receive any bites and that's actually an area I fast fish many times and I've caught a lot of bass there, never even crappie fish and I've just, I've learned a lot, you know, from looking at the electronics and realizing what fish look like now you can always like, when you drop down there and you catch the fish, that's how you learn what that mark looks like and how you can translate it. Of course, electronics have become so much more advanced now but, you know, that's how I learned what bass look like. Now I know what crappie look like. I definitely know what white bass look like. I can identify yellow bass usually, catfish, kind of like, but time on the water, man. Time on the water will always bring you knowledge. Okay, I'm hitting one of my old spots right now. Got some fish moving through on this point. I've actually got a drop shot on. Throw a worm out here on this big point, it's got wood on it. See if I can get one to go. It's starting to get really windy though. This lake just received our first bite on the worm. Didn't take it though, up here in 10 foot. On the top side of this deal. Hit but no take. I'm in a middle discombobulation right now. Bass fishing out here. But somehow I am just coming across trees, like old trees I used to catch bass on and they are plum filled with crappie. And I just never knew what to look for before. I was always looking at bass. The crappie are just suspended, I mean, just by the dozens in these trees. I can't get bit by the bass. I don't know whether it's the high pressure or whatever, but it's a struggle for me. And coming back to the heartland, discovering a love for a new species and then just reminiscing. Now I'm reminiscing all the days I've struggled out here for bass. Oh boy. Ooh, you stuck in that tree, come on out. Oh, that's a hammer. That is a dagum hammer. Oh my gosh. This was like a big open field out here at one time that had one oak tree in it. So there's not a tree around for 100 yards, which is pretty rare on fork. And it just happens to be the perfect depth where these fish want to be. They've been setting up in like 20 feet and they'll either be like 16 or down there in that 20, but these are just down there, just plum field. And these are juicies. These are bigger than the ones I was catching yesterday. Got him. Deep and a good. Hang it up on here, big crappie. Another tasty tree, oh yeah. Crappies, man, they put me in a good mood. Maybe I'll get on the bass here in a minute, but see this a lot, but it is so much fun, especially knowing that I've been fishing in these places for years. Years, and it's like, I just was missing this the whole time. Okay, got the net out. Case big large mouth gets on. Come on in here, hey. Y'all let me know in the comments what would you rather do? Crap out of some crappie or go flip stumps for two hours with maybe a bite. A bass. Y'all let me know. I'm having an extremely hard time doing that. Oh, that's a bass. Gotta be poor giant crappie. Oh, I think that was a magnum, y'all. Ah, that could have been my three pound crappie. I mean, it just felt like a bass, just heavy. Then it started coming up, it wasn't taking off like a big bass. Dang it, I had a freaking fray in my line right there. It's the last time I don't retie for crappie right there. Got slapped a couple of times, but I don't know if they were the bass or not. That was a deep spot, I was like 30 foot. Uh-oh, uh-oh, we got a bass on. Uh-oh, yeah, go out to that deep water, baby. See, they're a giant bass. See, they're a giant crappie or it's a bass. It just sumoaked it. Don't go that way, come this way. Come this way. Don't get in the motor, don't get in the tree. Don't get in the motor, don't get in the tree. Ah! Throwing a grub down there on the crappie jig. Yo! About 20 foot down. Oh, it's a daggum kitty cat. Absolutely smoothing. Yeah, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep. Tempted to keep you, but since I have such a beautiful stringer of crappie going, I just wanna keep it pure and keep your juices out of there. See you, slimy. Fish. Yeah, make and run just lost my hat and my Mondo optics. That was my last pair. This is about to be rough on the old retinas here. Maybe my one night bass was, that was all I was gonna catch, you know? It was just destined for me to catch crappie today. Crappie time, crappie time. This is it, ladies and gentlemen. Wind has kicked in, I'm back in the creek where I started four to eight pound bass. I could see them in the lights. And then the shad spawn was happening here this morning. I just think the fish are highly pressured, but I saw some megas on the stumps while I was crappie fishing yesterday. I am hooked up on a largemouth bass, ladies and gentlemen. Some say it couldn't be done today, but I got it done. And that is of no size. I just said, you know what, it's windy. I'm gonna pick up a crankbait. I had this already rigged up in my rod locker, a Mondo shad color. I was like, I'm just gonna throw at this windy bank where I saw a lot of these fish yesterday sitting on these stones, latched on. That's not the one I'm looking for. Just in this area, these dock lights that are out here, I mean, some bruisers. Gosh, that was a four or five pounder for sure. That hurts right there. That was the one. A lot of these fish, all species are just, they're suspended, like those crappie were on those stumps. You just gotta reel it by the right stump, the right depth, and my soft plastics just, they're going to the bottom. Oh my gosh, I needed that fish. Why'd you have to come off? Sometimes that's just how it goes. That's all I can muster up today. Lost a big bass there right at the end. Ironically, I caught more crappie today than I did yesterday, fishing my bass spots. I think the bass is gonna be moving out there in the next few weeks to a month, and then you can catch the bass like you do the crappie. They're all ganged up in one spot, and that's the most fun. Crappie spawned first though, so they've already moved out and started their summer feeding. Ooh, yeah. It's a party in here. Okay, y'all are upset, I understand. Looks like we had just a hair over 20 crappies today. Y'all check out this cool thing. I'm gonna end it right here, fishing freaks. It has been a good time coming back to Fork and really rediscovering the crappie, and I will be back for some bass here soon. We are going home with a bunch of delicious fish, and I've got a long date night with a fillet knife. So thanks for hanging with me today, y'all. If you wanna see more fishing, you know what to do. 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