 Hey, the turkeys are coming down off the roost, y'all. Y'all know what time it is? It's time to go bass fishing. Yeah, I know some of you are thinking I'm crazy. It's like, man, you'll need to get out in the woods. Go turkey hunting. Well, not doing that. If y'all remember last year I went turkey hunting. I had ticks all over my body. I swore I'd never go turkey hunting again unless I knew there was a low populations ticks in the area. But I got something real exciting for you here. We're about to go on a little tour vlog here. Going up to the mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, to the Ozarks. There's probably going to be a lot of turkeys running around up there, but what we're going to do is go fishing and go on a baby moon. If y'all ever heard of a baby moon, I hadn't heard of one until this year. Let's get OSG on a baby moon. What's going on a baby moon? What the heck is a baby moon? It's like your honeymoon, but when you're pregnant, you get a baby moon before the kid comes and you don't have any time together. So it's like your last chance. Last chance at freedom? To spend some time together. It's your last freedom. Before you're just in a dungeon of kids. Yeah. So we're going with his best friend, Craig. The best friend, Craig, and his wife, Heather. We'll tell you more about that whole situation when we meet up with them. But right now, we're going to hit the road, head up into the mountains, take it a road trip, baby. Let's do it. We just had a fishing freak roll up at about freak out outside the road so much so that I missed my exit to get over. We were just enamored for the other two legs. Hey, baby, I'll see you. I'll see you too. Baby, I'll see you over there. All of a sudden, exit missed. She's how it happened. You're just so excited I'm over here. It is. There I am. I'm trying to drive. Eric is back from Bali. Now, how are we doing there, girl? Feels like my motor's going to detach. There ain't a whole lot to it, but I'll be quite honest with you. It's kind of a planned state. When you hit that Arkansas border, that's when it gets real pretty, real nice. By the time we get up too close to the last little portion of this drive, it's going to be just beautiful, beautiful hills. It's going to be lovely, and it makes the wife happy. I don't want to do a lot of nature walks. That's my goal. I have to have a goal. All these fishermen out here. The heater on. I was trying to heal your nose, babe. Our baby better be one genius. You've been eating. You've been crushing eggs every single day. Not just one, like three or four. No eggs when I was a baby. I actually was allergic to eggs for quite a long time. Apparently eggs are good for baby development during pregnancy. We're also learning that babies right now inside of the womb can hear music. They can start to hear and recognize That baby probably knows my voice. I bet you guys are really wondering about the gender right now. I've slipped up and I've said it a couple of times because I already know. I think that's why baby's been jumping out today. We've edited it out. So yeah, we're still going to do that reveal. Still taking what do you call it? Suggestions, undoing that, but it should be fun. It should be fun for you guys because I already know. So it's not going to be as big a surprise for me, I was going to play some outlaws music, but since the baby can hear, I'm probably going to shut that down. Yeah, we don't want baby coming out. I was going for that little one. Shout Caller from Holler. Just kidding. It may not be good for baby development. Not sure. Get me a muffin, muffin. We'll be right out. So, yeah, here we go. Just dead. The recipe is on my blog. And actually it's like one of the most highly rated. Yeah, I would say so, for sure. Can't wait to dig in. I wish I had some milk. Oh, honestly, the camera keeps moving. Honestly, God dang these Oklahoma roads suck so bad. I can't even, I can't even post you guys up on my dash here. I, I think, freaking A, do this. I have a good question. I'll tell you in a minute. Now that we're stopped here in Fort Smith, Arkansas, I finally tell you what I was going to tell you a second ago, except I can't remember what it freaking was. It's that moment when you're just really waiting for your wife to come out of that restaurant. My best friend is on the road right now. He's 30 minutes ahead of me. They're stopping to eat right now. So I was hoping to take this opportunity to catch up to him a little bit. However, wife is still in the restroom. Here she comes though. Are you filming me? Do you have any interesting stories about in there? It smelled like a smoke shop in there. I think that's because it was. What were we talking about a second ago? The muffins. On the bumpy roads. You were talking about a muffin. The muffin, see? Wanting it. Second round. No, I think it's a great idea if you would pack me a lunch for once. That was like just nutrition packed all day. Healthy shoe lunch. So like, because me and Rob go fishing every time we're just pound Chick-fil-A and beef jerky. That's about it. That's about as healthy as you can get. And I want like a full nutrition packed deal. Well babe, I'll make you lunches every time you go out once we get out of home. Okay, good call. It's like, hey, I'll do your laundry and stuff if you actually get me a house. Hey, I do your laundry even though we don't have a house. I thank you for that. I love you very much. That's why you love me. Not just for that, but it sure is a nice bonus. I'll make you muffins every day. Thank you, muffin. Let me just briefly explain why I like to stop at Cracker Barrels and I'm not sponsored by Cracker Barrel. I'm just telling you guys this right now. See this right here? Boat and RV Parkings. It's so easy when you're traveling. Their food's decent, pretty decent too. I'm gonna tell you guys, Sunday is fried chicken day. So buttermilk fried chicken on Sunday. We will be hitting this up again. Just a little helpful tip we're gonna go eat now. We're in Missouri! Baby's ready to stretch. Whoa, yeah! I know there's a lot of fishing freaks up here in Missouri so glad to be in your state. I gotta say I like it myself. This is one of my favorite places to go with fish. It's up here on Table Rock Lake. I haven't explored the other places. I will someday. Not on this baby moon. It's tough when you've got wife and things. You know what I'm talking about. We gotta park this bad boy. We gotta park Silver Bullet over at the Big Cedar Lodge. They're gonna lodge it tonight and then we're gonna go in the morning and you guys are gonna come along with me. So me and Craig out on an adventure on a lake. I have never fished this time of year. So it should be a good educational experience and beautiful. One of the most beautiful places. I bet you we're gonna see a bald eagle out here. It's gonna be talons soaring through your veins. Like that. You said no. You don't like bald eagles soaring through your veins. To be quite honest, I don't think I've ever had bald eagles soaring through my veins. You just haven't drank enough free-range coffee yet. You get to about four and a half cups. You got soaring eagle wings on your back. Woo hoo. All right. It's time for a little lesson of life right here. So when you're filling up with your gas in your boat, you got your high performance boat engine. You wanna make sure you're going to a gas station that is highly frequented. So that, you know, in a high traffic area, there's a lot of people moving in and out because some of these small gas stations, what they do, they're kinda like drug dealers. They like to kinda dilute their stuff down. I've never done drugs. I'm just, I see it on TV. It's what they do. They put the like baby powder in the white powder stuff and dilute it down. So it's not pure. So you wanna try to get the most pure gasoline that you can going in your motor and you also gotta do one other thing. This right here, this is called Yamalube Ring Free. It's an additive. It basically helps take out the ethanol. You know, a lot of these gas moms, they have ethanol, ethanol in the gasoline. That comes up your engine. It's not good. You wanna have pure gasoline. So this helps to take that out of there. If you let it sit too long and actually separates gums up your engine badly and you don't want that. Of course, you don't have to use this. It's just a Yamaha product, but there's tons of other stuff out there. There's Viobor, there's Staybill and stuff like that. I wanna make sure your engine's good in the long term. I wanna make sure the silver bullets last to me in a long time. Tip of the day for you bass, boat, and fishing freaks. It only takes a shot. I really should have a shot glass right here. Boom. Looks like Yeagermeister. Babe, how's my pole doing over there? Not supposed to be too loose. I wanna make sure it tightens up when I get back. Sure, she's not down anywhere. She's just got loose, you know? It's so weird. And we'll put a little bit more. I'm thinking like the amount of gas I'm putting in right now is probably the, it's like a symbolism of how much fishing I'm gonna be able to do, so I'm trying to pump it full. It's like antique shopping or fishing. Baby's not even here yet. So basically it's a mommy moon. It's what it should be called. It's about our last time together. Before. Before. Here we be on top of the rock. Welcome to the big scenery lodge, baby. Yee-haw! No hunting. Look at them fires going on the cabins, babe. Oh, fire, cabins? Oh, look how cool. Check it out. Oh, man, I can't believe it. You know what? There we go. I'm driving through water right now. Crazy. Oh, this is cool. Oh, this is a pedestrian bridge. You think they're good? Oh, babe. I have no idea if I can cross this. Can I drive across this thing? Surely. Surely, I think it just means that pedestrians go on this too. Oh God, if we fall. Oh, if we fall, we're going out into devil's canyon. Oh God. Well. Oh, we made it. We made it. Yes. All right, y'all, we finally made it. Silver bullet is here. It is tucked in the cedars. God, I love it. Look at that. Oh, I actually did go into the cedars a little bit. My propellers, my engine's hitting the trees a little bit. They've got a ton of trailer parking back here, which is awesome. Look at it. Yeah. Look at the other bass with hooks in them. Dang. You see why I love this place? The first time I ever came here, I had no idea that this whole entire lodge situation was going on. I had a tournament on Table Rock Lake. My dad was doing some research and he was like, hey, there's this, there's this hotel. It's got a, it's all about bass and everything. Johnny Morris has got a part in it. And I was like, dang, that sounds pretty cool. So one night I stayed in Branson and then the next night I came over here. And the next morning when I pulled through all that stuff we just went through, like a little river and saw all these cabins and everything and it was all about fishing. Like everything was just all about fishing and hunting. I was like, oh, these are my people. This is my place. So I've loved it ever since. And I come up here, I try to get up here every year. Fishing is not like the most phenomenal. Like I haven't never caught any giants, but great smallmouth, great spotted bass, you know, good largemouth. You have the opportunity to catch all three species in one day and that's why I love it so much. It's so great. I'm excited already, just being here, if you guys can't tell. But anyway, we gotta cover the silver bullet up and then we gotta go meet our friends, Craig and Heather and then we're gonna get started in the morning. So we're gonna go get some supplies. I'm excited. I'm excited to go eat again. Oh man, are you gonna let me go fishing though? Just a little bit. Come on now. Just a little bit. I brought the silver bullet. Give me more than that. Okay, maybe not much more. Oh man, come on, give me like that much. I can meet you halfway. Oh, okay, like right there. Yeah, coming out a little bit more. That's good. Like right there. Thank you, sir. You got it. We're here. We're finally here together. We get to go fishing together tomorrow. So we gotta get a little bit of supplies. The girls are gonna go do their thing. Guys getting to go do their thing. Girls doing their thing. We're meeting together in the middle, having a good time with having babies. Now, we've been competing since we were how old. Gosh, this is a long time ago. Since we were kids, literally kids, back when he was like two feet shorter than me. And then he grew up one day and became a beast and could throw 98 miles an hour. Anyway, he's calm now. You and Heather won the wife fish-off battle and you've also won the baby race. So we started a baby race shortly after that and you guys won that too. You're two months, is it two months ahead? Okay, two months ahead. Cause I've been losing a lot lately. So that's where we're at right now. But I'm so excited. Get some stuff over here in the BP and then we gotta let you guys go. We gotta get ready for fishing in the morning. Just came out of the intercom. 10 minutes left to shop. I gotta do this in a hurry, guys. I'm taking you through the whole thing, but I'm gonna have to show you later. We'll be back, okay? What are we catching them on tomorrow? Well, I got tons of grubs. I got some swim baits. I didn't have kytex. I got some basketball versions. I got a bunch of jig heads, swimming jig heads, bottom jig heads. And we're gonna get a few sooner just because we gotta go check out. We only have a few minutes left. Do you need a basket? No. I got it. Oh, we get a basket cause we don't get too much. What are we spending? It's smart. It sounds like you've been here before. I've done it. You're gonna make me successful tomorrow? I'm a fledgling baby, first time fishing. You gotta put me on them. Greg, let me tell you something. Have you ever been somewhere with me in a random place and not caught fish? I can't say that I have. Just a week ago when we caught nothing. Oh, good point. I caught one. I caught a hybrid. I caught a catch one. It was tiny. It was a size of my foot, but. That was your home waters. Not a good home water situation. Back to the hotel where we're getting our slumber tonight, right on the Tani Como River. We're gonna take it pretty slow in the morning just cause it's gonna be freezing tonight. And I think the better bite's gonna be in the afternoon. So this is what I ended up with. Ol' BP didn't have the kytex in there. I was like, what the crap? You guys don't have kytex, man? That's one of the most popular swim baits. But anyway, they got their little versions going on right there. These are pretty small. These are 3.8s. I feel like that's a really good size. I'm gonna throw that on probably a 3.8 ounce or a half ounce head to start out with. May go lighter if I see fish higher up in the water column. Couple of mouse spinner baits. This is one of my favorite colors. I noticed they have, this is more of a clear water color. Gonna throw that possibly, if there's some shallow brush, flooded water. Grubs, that was the main thing that I was out of was grubs. You can catch a lot of fish on grubs at the rock. And these Highland Reservoirs that have a lot of rocks. I was a low on jig heads. So I got a lot of jig heads for swimming stuff. I even got some stuff for Nedrigging, guys. I'm going extreme, trying to learn new things. And also, MTB has got an elite box out that I already took a peek in and it looks like it has some really good stuff in there that I might try. As well, we will unlock all the secrets on the next video together fishing with Craig on the water while the wives are out doing their things. And then we'll meet them back. May possibly during the middle of the day. I don't know. You guys are gonna go do your thing. Probably possibly do some shopping. We're gonna go antiquing. Antiquing and all the good stuff. So everyone, it's the baby moon. It's fishing plus baby moon. So it's fun for the whole family. Guys, thanks for tuning in for today's vlog. Stay tuned for the next one. Go ahead and subscribe. Hit the ding dong. The ding dong button is important nowadays on the YouTube. So it's how you get the notifications on when the videos come out. Because they're always switching up the algorithms from dag gum robots. Anyways, I'll see you on the next one, guys. Love ya, see ya later.