 Welcome back to the channel, y'all. We are here at the Guggen HQ, and I'm with my buddy, Crispy. Old buddy Crispy right here. I've done something. It might be a stupid thing, but we're gonna give the Crispy some eyeballs. First I gotta go in here in the HQ, get a couple things. Say hi to our old buddy, Mr. Elkie. Hey there, bud. He's a new resident here at the HQ. I'm in short supply of one of my favorite winter fishing lures of all time, and that is the spoons. I know I've been telling you guys about these spoons, but it is an essential winter time, and quite honestly, besides the spring, I use spoons all the time. I'm gonna try the quarter ounce for the trout, and then I'm gonna pick up some three quarters and some halves for deep fishing on winter bass. Mr. Worm's gonna check me out here. Oh, we've got four spoons. Let's see if I can see how long those last me on the rocks. By the way, if you wanna pick up the spoons, anythingounceguggensquad.com, use promo code LFGNSAVE at checkout. Not just spoons. We got it all, folks. Tons of plastics. Don't forget about your crappie. We got it all. All right, back at the treehouse, here with the Crispy Collector. What have I done? What have I done? Well, the Crispy Collector. Great little cat fishing boat, shallow water boat. It's nice to have an aluminum boat, in addition to having a really nice, you know, I got the Phoenix back there. Really nice electronics on that. Love crappie fishing bass fishing out of that. But it's nice to, you know, get some catfish goo on the old boat every once in a while. And this boat's perfect for it. But for years, I've had this boat and I haven't had any electronics. We've been flying blind, so I decided to change that. And at first, I was just gonna get like a little simple unit and tell the temperature, the depth and everything like that. And then I thought, boy, wouldn't that be nice if I just, I had life scope on this one as well. You know, after all, can't fish without life scope anymore, right? Well, the fact is, you can catch a lot of fish without life scope. But this is primarily my cat fishing rig. I'm wanting to try trying to catch some big catfish. This is what we got right here. We have got the Echo Map. This is Garmin. This is Garmin. I like Garmin. I'm used to using Garmin's. I like them. I've used other ones in the past. I like Garmin. What can I say? Not endorsed by Garmin. Not sponsored. I just like them. And the, this is the Echo Map 94SV. So nine inch unit. Still gonna pull some power, but it's not crazy. It's not like my huge unit that's on the Silver Bullet. This one came with the transducer. I'm gonna mount that on the back of the Crispy Collector. A lot of times I'm doing just slow trolling, looking around with my eyeballs, trying to look at the contours of the land and visualize the old way of trying to find fish. Now we'll be able to troll around and look at the bottom, see all the other features and not get lost. We'll have mapping. Then I just decided to go ahead and just go for it. So we got the GLS-10 module right here. And we've also got the LVS-34. Yeah, LVS-34. That's the new LiveScope transducer. And this company right here, Summit Fishing Equipment, they actually sent me one of these units a while back. And I've been wanting to put it to use. And now we're actually gonna get to use it. And this is basically a portable, live-scoping housing. So it actually comes with a backpack. It's very popular with ice fishermen. If you wanted a crappie fish, have a dock or something like that and just take your live scope with you. That's a thing now. Just taking it with you. We're actually going to hard mount this, though, to the boat. I've already ordered some track systems. We don't have that here yet. But we're gonna jerry rig this sucker and see what we can do. And they were actually nice enough to send the boat mounting system with it. So I've got this cool 360 track mount. And there's a whole pole holder as well. So this is quite ridiculous because the cost of all this stuff is comparable to the value of the Crispy Collector herself. Will it help me catch more fish? Stay tuned to find out. So the first thing we got to do is actually rig up our unit itself into its housing. This thing is actually pretty cool because I'll be able to take this on and off the boat real easily. You know, putting this much money onto my little Crispy Collector. Probably don't want to leave it on there all the time. The other thing that's nice about this system is it's all enclosed. And I went and got a battery for it. It's going to have its own separate power. So instead of running off the same power that's for my cranking battery and also runs my trolling motor and I have a weight distribution problem in the Crispy Collector. I don't need to add a bunch of weight. So this is nice that I'm not going to have to add another big battery in the back. I just went and got this one right here which isn't very strong. I'm honestly going to have to upgrade to like a lithium or something like that. This should work fine for now. It'll have its own power and it won't be draining the juice off my trolling motor and everything like that because these babies do suck some power. So I've actually already gone ahead and I've rigged up the GLS-10 on the back. This housing is made for this setup so it's all pre-drilled and some fishing equipment was nice enough to send me one that already had the wires wired up so I didn't have to go through that menagerie. Let's put the graph on, let's put the battery in and see if it turns on. Go ahead and hook up our power and we'll slide this baby in here. All right, now the trick fitting all this in here. Get in there. All right, that wasn't too bad. Let's see if we got power. I see a blue button. That's good. Put the power on. Oh yeah. Eyeballs. Eyeballs. The whole thing is just contained. Look at that. All right, we have a unit. Sodor, nothing hooked up yet. Heck yeah, it's going to be nice just having GPS and marking waypoints on this thing. Time to work on the back end. Here's little Heiney. She's going to get two new holes. I've just taken a little template here. I've gotten it roughly level. Of course, when I'm sitting in this thing it's not going to be exactly level in the water but we're going to get it as close as we can. Make sure we're not going to hit our gas tank. Good there. Not exactly sure what's behind here but we're about to find out. Not much apparently. All right, two clean easy holes there. Dab a little silicone on here. Or put a giant glob, just whatever my my gun here is wanting to do. Okay, that looks fairly level. Nice thing about the Crispy Collector, if it ain't perfect, the boat ain't perfect either. I would use the word fairly, fairly level but here's the thing, in this John boat you go to one side or the other end. So the way that I've set it is just slightly offset so when I'm sitting in the other side of the boat it's going to lean, it's going to leave it over and technically be level, maybe, I don't know. Unit is set up ready to go. This is the pole. I'm going to mount this on a track but the way this works is this is going to sit right here. So I'm actually going to have one track for both of these things. That's going to be turned around facing my seat and this is going to sit in the track and the pole will go down in the water. I can move it with this lever and we're scoping baby. We're scoping. There's lots of adjustments on this so I can get it farther out, get it farther down, whatever we need to do to be scoping on whatever kind of fish we're trying to catch. So as a final test before hitting the water that's powering on without me even pressing the power button I definitely wired something wrong but it is turning on. Let's see if we got ducer projections. Okay, this is side scanning. Scope. Pano. There it is. It is working. So we'll get this adjusted when we get in the water and we will see how this is going to work. I'm going to have to just figure something out put this on, mount it to for the time being until we get our track in and this whole boat has this track on it but it's just not strong enough. It's just not strong enough to mount something like this so I'm going to do a plate down on the base and that way we don't have to worry about the the crispy's eyeballs flying off into the water. So we got our eyeballs installed. Everything is working. We're going to clean up. We're going to let the silicone dry and then we are going to take this out on the water in the A.M. So stay tuned. Good morning fishing freaks. Looks like we got ourselves a foggy winter's morning but everything's hooked up. Added a few doodads dingledongs ready to hit the water and see what this puppy can do. This is obviously what I'm most excited for right here. Finally having a set of eyeballs on the Crispy Collector. So let's turn it on. Let's see if the transducer we installed last night is working. It actually ended up putting in this little backpack so just kind of keep the moisture and everything off of it for now. I've got some tracks coming in next time I go cat fishing which is going to be the next couple of days. I'll have the track system set up for the pole myself so it looks like I need to adjust this up a little bit so I can read it better. Alright let's power it on also rewired rewired it correctly last night so I have to turn on the power button. Just saw the screen kind of flash for a second so we got power we're turning on we're reading hey we're reading here we go. We have to do some adjusting get everything the way we like it. We are reading 49 degree water 8 feet. Alright let's go with that let's go with the yellow y'all probably going to go with the amber there. I'll tell you guys my favorite color palette on here on the Garmin is the green for doing the side scan. Oh yes we're sitting pretty now. This little battery is going to last we're going to have to upgrade our battery situation it's in the 11.6 volts right now. We've got my speed I like just having it right here it's close it's not a huge unit so it's right in front of me so having it on the track would be really nice I can swivel it too so when I'm wanting to fish up front or something this is fantastic fantastic crispy has eyeballs finally looking good where I'm out with the transducer there's not much interference at all so we've run around a little bit everything seems to be working good now it's time to get that pan optics in the water so we'll step it in see if we can see any movement see if we can get a read on our on our bait yes we can yes we can and we will this is so good it's perfect I just sit right here in my chair just watch yeah I think those are just a lot of shad well everything looks wonderful with the scope I just came over here to a dock just to kind of drop down see if I can get any crappier white bass to look at anything but they here there's some here but they invited we just had a bunch of cold rain yesterday lake looks like crap right now but I just had to get out here and investigate see what this thing looks like and it looks awesome so I'm so pumped to go on more adventures with the crispy and have a set of eyeballs that I can do some advanced fishing with when I set this thing up I really had in mind going after some catfish and that's what I'm going to do next try to identify bait catfish out there deep water do some drifting this boat set the rods and the rod holders and wait for that big bend that's going to be fun but this thing for getting up here and you know docks lips stumps tying off the stumps and doing this the scope and it's going to be fantastic now so couldn't be happier with with the unit that I got looks good the some fishing equipment that's awesome the life scope mount off the side of the boat I mean it already works right now just dangling it off the side but when I get it on a track it's going to be very efficient clean my only problem is the battery life I've already noticed it's down to 10.9 volts right now so it's been drained already for fishing for couple hours just idling around so I'm going to take it back to the tree house I got my new track system coming in today that I'm going to install on here so you guys stay tuned for future endeavors was it ridiculous putting thousands of dollars of electronics on this boat uh yeah but was it worth it I'm thinking so right now when I'm sitting in the boat looking at the fish on the life scope yeah yeah I think it's worth it and the nice thing is if I do want to fish without this I just take it out of the boat and store it in the garage so thank you guys for tuning in today don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you can stay tuned for all the winter and spring fishing when things get crazy smash that like button I will see you guys on the next adventure