 Well, welcome all back fishing freaks early morning right now heading to the lake. I Had to take a pause for a minute to go up to the Great Lakes and do my annual Great northern dangle had to go get the smallmouth vibes on hit it perfectly during the 100-degree weather streak of Texas and I was sitting in like 60s, but now I'm back in the Great Lone Star State It is hotter than 80s, but I'm heading to the lake to run a trot line This is the one I built a few weeks ago So I'm excited to see how it holds up and I have a few different bait options besides live shad We're gonna attempt to get live shad in the cast net, but I'm terrible at throwing a cast net by the way Yeah Just so so bad at it. So I have some shrimp and I have some bagged Shad from Walmart. So those are the two things that we were gonna try out on this trot line today Crispy is off and running now. We got a big problem though The gas station was closed this morning. So no ice No water Rolling just straight hot and dry. So I don't know how long it would last out here Let's go try to catch kitty cats. I'm gonna keep trying this until it works Yeah, buddy We have arrived at our spot. So this is what I'm thinking here this is a the mouth of a a creek arm and summertime pretty much all fish will Want access to deep water. So this is right where I am. I'm right where they have deep water access and It's it's early morning right now. So they could be up shallow feeding. I don't really know I don't do this enough to know I'm gonna run this sort of across This this co over this creek arm. We've got all of our hooks Kind of scattered around the side of this bucket I've got I've got my tape that I've got my You know name and everything written down for the gear tag regulations We've got our bagged Shad This is incredible. This has been in my boat while I've been in Wisconsin and Michigan for the last two weeks Hasn't changed a bit. It's the same as I bought it in Walmart. It's just nuts to me I do have some old stinkeroo catfish baits Those don't really stick on the hook couple over the side for good luck got a knife obviously for cutting up bait my two weights that I'm gonna be using I just made out of a No, some wire and some concrete a couple of solo cups and there goes a Cougar green Bass cat right into the Cove. It's always interesting when I sit in my crispy collector because That the other bass fishermen don't really pay attention to you, you know when I'm in the silver bullet You got you got the double poles sitting there, you know brand-new sparkly glitter sled. Everybody's looking at you What's he doing? What's it? I wonder if they're over here. You think shadow over here. You think they're up? Oh, oh, oh, oh, man. He's out deep. Maybe they're out deep. I don't know I feel like bass fishermen always look at each other. There's the glitter sled effect when you're in that crispy, baby Your low profile you're sliding in there slide So I have all the the hooks on the bank line that I've made for some reason. I feel like I'm missing a lot There's one of my arm currently and of course I'm gonna try to not tangle all this up then of course we have The trot line and the final component are the floats The buoy so I have this float right here simple, you know, I got this at Walmart as well Just a simple float that I put some bank line on I have another one of those this one I like the way I rig it up. I've got this little strap on here and just to keep everything together Nice and neat if you run these trot lines and jugs you'll learn that You know neatness and organization becomes key this one I've got sort of a camping gear attachment that I've added, you know, this is basically for tightening ropes attaching, you know toggle type things to Camp style gear so this this actually allows me to tighten up Adjust the didn't the distance of that weight to the bottom So I don't have a bunch of extra line hanging out. All right, so we'll slap our gear tag on here And we are good to go drop this buoy down see if it even makes it Definitely hits the bottom And I'm gonna go about an arms link for me about a double arms length right there a little loop here in the line Then we'll attach one of these snap swivels All right, so we'll attach that One thing I feel compelled to tell you guys about doing this if you're doing something like this Have a knife close by you can save save your life You know one of these hooks gets in your hand line gets caught in the prop Prop spinning, you know, it's taking me in to the motor or taking the overboard Have a knife. I have a pocket knife on me almost always. I have a belt knife I haven't put on yet, but I'm going to once I start putting the hooks on Got a filet knife right here But have when you're doing this have some a knife on your body on your person Usually don't take my nice camp knives out here They get kind of nasty Start this process over again Yes, we're gonna toss this in Wipe ass come up next to the boat. I think I don't have a spoon handy. They want to play ball Get distracted distracted with the white bass Okay, so we're gonna actually gonna start the the baiting process My drift is just a little fast Modification next time. I'm definitely doing quick snap swivels on this Pick up we're gonna start adding my shrimps shrimps are stinky They look very nice Who doesn't want a good shrimpy, huh? Nice soft shrimp cocktail A hot summer morning For the trot line at the bottom so it's not like the trot line is right under the surface And it's not like there's a lot of loose line around the buoys that a boat could run across I mean obviously if they hit the buoy itself, then yeah, it's screwed But there's there's not any like excess line or just line under the surface that They're gonna be able to hit also I know you guys are staring at the beautiful threads here if you haven't you haven't made it out yet What that actually is he may actually pointed this out to me last night and not many people have have looked at it and really seen This just kind of in passing, but it is a largemouth bass eating a filthy frock So if you look closely Pretty awesome part of the new summer collection. All right while I'm sitting here. I'm gonna rig up a couple more lines So I've got these just you know standard Cheapo catfish jugs and I'm gonna make some lines about 10 feet long and I'm just gonna place them on the inside of the Cove But we'll go ahead and load that up with a shrimp or two big fat shrimpy And we'll just toss this guy overboard It's pretty much perfect Then we'll go to another spot in something Bombs away good morning Hey Well, yes, that's right. It is Father's Day Hey, I was wondering if you're up and about I've got my trot lines set I was wondering if I could get a pickup And then maybe get get some breakfast and then I'll come back out here and I'll I'll check them after that Sure 15 okay, all right got me a family pickup all's good. All right, then take us home Here we go He's gonna drive it. You got it Ben. Can you steer it? morning pickup of the fan little baby Ben Getting his car time in She saw me mowing the grass last night Sing some hash browns eggs eggs and hash browns. Yeah, it sounds good doesn't it Amy? She says she wanted some Jelly toast I want some jelly toast too. She said when I get back. I'm gonna tell you what else I want. Okay While they're getting breakfast ready up there Let's do a chicken check How we doing this morning? How we doing colonel? Where's your girlfriend? It's really his girlfriend. Mr. Penny. Where's your girlfriend? She in the nesting box She gonna lay us a tasty egg Maybe for this morning's breakfast There you are So I still haven't gotten her to lay in the nesting box unfortunately keep it in that golf ball in there It's not working on the chicks I've started to raise their Their little canopy up here It's really hot during the middle of the day. I don't want them to get direct sun but I raise it up In the mornings kind of half the day basically so they can start seeing the other chickens and the chickens can see them and You know, they're definitely gonna get picked on they're definitely gonna get pecked As soon as they let them come out of here Just not quite big enough yet a couple of them are getting there. Okay. It is father's day and Emmy got me this super cool fish mug That looks like a bass Didn't you Amy? You found that, huh? Yeah, I did. That's perfect for daddy's morning Espresso Just stuffed myself hash browns Fresh eggs from the wrackly roost You know a fresh Espresso out of my bass mug. I feel like the luckiest guy on earth Just got a fantastic family. It's been a great morning. So I'm going to feed the chickens head back out to the water Check the lines Hopefully we got some Loading up again You got your camera too. I didn't know I was being a chauffeur today You never know. Yeah, I never know Never know with me never know when you're gonna get those A&M phone calls You got a picture of it I did too lizard hugs Back to the Christmas, which is nice and calm now beautiful Load traffic isn't too bad yet. So that's good. I see a few better tubers It's a good time to check these lines and then head in I'm gonna start with the two jugs that we set up very in and Bait was taken Nothing on there. I Got a feeling that's gonna be a big problem with trips Another bait taken with no fish Circle hook to man Did not get them Now for the main event the big try line still seems bait on here Have one that's pretty twisted up and lost This one definitely had a fish on it There's catfish do on there and it's twisted just lost the fish On that J hook that one was Well, we're almost all the way through the lines What to do different? I'm hoping for some good comments here. How I screwed up, man I thought 25 lines out of the base of a Cove would be the program Maybe I should have let them sit like overnight Not long enough maybe But my experience running jugs it happens pretty quick Scent gets out there white bass schooling behind me Unbelievable here eat this This is what I need to have any out here doing right now way too hot One of these evenings we're gonna get after it Well, guess what no catfish No No no catfish and then when I was pulled in the catfish lines a bunch of white bass popped up and I thought Amy I was like, I should call Stephanie right now getting me down here with her Moana pole Yeah, and get those schooling fish, but I was like, man I'm trying to get here that might be done Fish finder, but one day soon. I mean We're taking you out for the white bass rodeo Will you be my taste tester? Who's gonna be my taste tester? You or you? me First lick fresh very creamy Sweetness is okay. Sweetness is okay Hey What do we say about durmies? Well, you all know look with the kitty cats I wish I had some in the fridge right now. They are delicious. I guess I'm just gonna have to Keep trying next few days. I'm gonna be out on the water only slick calm days. I'm gonna get out on the brushpals with my new Doppler unit and I'm going to be Finding them and grinding up, baby, and I'm talking about them crappie and any bass that get in my way So stay tuned for that. We're going to fill the box with those babies Can't wait to show you guys The new troll motor and Doppler system So I'm gonna head over to LFD's right now tell him happy father's day and eat some delicious wall live with the fam I hope you guys had a great father's day as well smash that like button for outdoor family And I will see you guys on the next one. God bless you guys