 That's all of it, right there, yes, sir. OK, Crispy, bombs away. Welcome back to the channel, Fish and Freaks. Got a good one here today. Right behind me, these are the brush piles that we have built. I was able to load four of them successfully in the Crispy Collector and drive them up here to the Battle Springs Lakes, where we have a bass lake right behind us and we have a crappie lake, which is just down the road. This one's got some great bass in it and the crappie lake has some good crappie in it, but there's nowhere for those daggum things to go except on the bank around the edge where some reeds are growing in shallow water. In the middle, it's like five or six feet deep, so we're going to take our structures that we've made, give these crappies a place where they can go and hide in some structure. Today's Fishing Experience is proudly sponsored by Mystery Tacklebox, long-time partner of the LFG channel and the Guggen Squad. 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We're also going to take a look inside this month's pro box and do a little dangling in the Bass Lake while we're waiting on the crappie piles to get populated. We're actually going to see if crappie are going to get on these things by the end of the day. We'll see. But thank you again for MTB for sponsoring today's video. Let's go dump these piles in the lake. OK, so fantastic Gabe is here. He manages this place. He's going to help me out trebidously. He's got a side by side. And instead of me going out there with like four of these things and it being, well, probably more entertaining for you. But we're going to be safe. And he's going to actually help me out and help me load these on one at a time from the dock area. We're going to load these in there right now into the old canam. Drive them down about 100 yards. That sounds better than walking them, I think. Oh, man, I'm just hoping she starts. All right, let's get the old crispy in the water. Oh, this is when you need the boots. Woo, it's been raining out here for sure. Almost past the boot level. All right, first of all, we got to make sure this thing starts. But I'm fairly confident it will. See if we can get her going here. Come on, crispy. She's a little smoky. Oh, yes, you got string and bottles. Perfect. So the reason that we need the string and the bottles is because we're going to attach the string to one of the tops of the trees so that we can come back and identify them later. Now, some of these, like this one right here, pretty tall. It's almost six feet tall. It might actually stick out of the water. We're planning these four brush piles in different areas. We're then going to study them and see which ones need to be added to if fish are really going to those or not at all. We can pick them up, move them, whatever, and just kind of add and subtract according to what the fish tell us. That should do it. Yeah, we got it. OK, sinking. Not sinking, though. Just audio kind of sinking. Oh, yeah, ripping it up and down this ditch. The thing about this area is that the reed line, you know, in the spring I'm sure the crop you're going to be lining the reeds. But when it gets cooler, when I want to get a little bit deeper, this is a good spot for them to come. Take our bottle here. Just tying a little uni knot to that so that can slide down and stay tight around the neck of the bottle. Just like I do on my knots. The flarrows right up here do the same thing. Bump our engine back that way. OK, don't want to fall out. Now, when we dump this, we want to make sure we're not getting caught on anything. Is everybody ready? We're going to move it to the back deck first. And we're going to dump this sucker in. There we go. That is the perfect depth. That water bottle is just right at the surface. I did not plan that, but that's exactly how it went. That's awesome, because that one, that was one of the tall piles. It was probably like 5 and 1 half, 6 feet tall. And now we know that that thing is in the correct depth where it needed to be. I wanted that one in a deep spot. Yeah, I just set it right there in the front. I think I'm going to stick this one down by the light post. So on this one here, old Gabe was telling me the whole men that used to poach on this place said that the crappie, the hot spot for the crappie would be right here by this light post. And I guess it's because there's some sort of concrete structure that might be close to here. So what we're going to do is just put this right out in front of that. I'm not going to mark this one with a string because we have a little bit of a landmark right up front. That's all of it right there, yes sir. Okay, crispy. Bombs away. Oh, we almost lost a GoPro. That sucker's going to stand up. Well, that's perfect. That's the perfect depth. That'll do. I had Canadian flashbacks right there when I'm fishing a cannon out of aluminum bow. Okay, this one's just kind of like in a flat area, mid-depth. I'm going to see if this one will lay down on its side. It's not going to. It's going straight down. Well, there's another one that's perfect like in the perfect depth. Okay, the last one left. Oh, big boy right here. This one's going to go right off to the side because we don't want to do it out front in case people are going to jump in the water. They're going, you know, cannonball style, having too many white claws out here. So right off here should be about five or six feet deep. That is the perfect where Gabe is. It's like the perfect you sit there. You put your little dangle pole off the side. Bloop, bring up the grappies. Too beautiful. Oh my goodness. That's prime. That looks good. That's going to be good. I thought I could do this by myself, but then I could, but it was definitely much easier with two people. A buddy sport I highly recommend it. Also goes good with cooers, possibly. Ever a time for a yee-ee, this would be one. Okay-dokey guys, all the piles are planted now. I'm just really happy where we put them and with Gabe's experience history out here, I think it's going to be lights out. So while we're waiting, I'm going to launch the Crispy Collector into the Bass Lake and we're going to go over what's in the new Mystery Taco Box for this month. I actually got two this month. And then in our January box, we have some wintertime fishing lures, as you would expect. Take a look at our box card. What do we have? Reaction Strike XRM. That's going to be a jerk bait. That's an 80 millimeter jerk bait. We've got a Carl's Amazing Baits Shipper Crank, which is a tight wobble crank bait. Where did it go? Here it is, right here. Shipper Crank. We have a Guggen Squad Zinger. You ever seen that before? Who? I have. And it's a dandy. That looks to be a three-eighths ounce white. For some reason white in the winter. Just remember that. Winter white. White and chartreuse, more spring, winter white. I don't know what it is. Seems to be a thing though. We have a Molex Nano Jig. Tiny little jig. This is going to go good on what I'm going to have to throw this on. I'm going to show you guys here in a second. It's going to be an interesting challenge. Pairing up with that, we have Z-Man TRD Hoxie, which is like a little creature bait for your little microjigs. And then we have a Penetration Hooks E-Hooks with Keeper, which is just like a, like a Cinco style hook and Excite Baits Ubershad. So it's like a shad-like plastic. I think we catch fish on every single thing out here. My dangle unit for today, ladies and gentlemen, is a 10 foot crappie jigging pole. Yes. At the meetup me and Robert at at Fun and Sun. This company Bonehead Tackle, they were there. They were selling a lot of their jig heads and crappie plastics and gear. They do all kinds of stuff, but anyway, they had these poles there. And I was like, man, I've been in need of a jigging pole. I was literally going to go over to one, one of the retail stores this week and shop for them and get one. And this happens to be a decent one. So I'm going to give it a shot and see. And I've brought that out here for crappie fishing. It happened to me. It happens to be my only rod in real situation. A thousand size reel in a 10 foot daggum crappie jigging pole. I'm just going to shut her down, tie on and just start catching them. Why not? Why not? This place y'all is one of the most magical bass fisheries I've ever seen. They didn't even know if there was really that many bass in it. They were like, yeah, put a boat and see if there's bass in there. There used to be huge bass in here in the lake. The dam exploded and all the fish left. They were all dead. So now they're definitely alive. Let me just show you. Now, if y'all thought that I wasn't going to start with my own brand spinnerbait, you must be crazy. I just got to say, open up one of these pro boxes and finding a spinnerbait that I helped create. And my buddies I've been business with and have a brand with is in the box. It's really cool, but catching a fish on the first cast with it might be even cooler. Look at this rod, y'all. What a whipper snapper it is. Yeesh. Well, he fell, fell victim. Fell victim to the slow roll. That's how you want to do it. Three-eighths ounce. Not even throwing a trailer on here. Look at that. I can cast this puppy. Feel everything. This is how you want to do it in the winter. Slow goings. Almost just want to hug the bottom, hug the bottom cover. In this case, it's grass, but rocks. Oh, goodness. There's one. Hello. Oh, we got light line. This is fun. This is next level here. Jigging crappie poles with spinner baits, baby. This is fun now. This is a decent fish. A real big one could get nasty on this thing. Dad, gum, y'all. And they're not even fighting that hard because it's cold out here. Look at that. Won't even give me a jump. Oh, crispy. Oh, crispy, they're going to get them bass today. Yes, sir. Look at that. A decent one there. I'm scared of what a four or five pounder might do. On our spinner baits, they all come with these bands right here. That's to prevent your knot from slipping down. I'm using braid, so braids are particularly guilty of sliding on spinner bait arms like that. You can take it off if you want to. If you're fishing in a lot of grass and things, you may want to do that, but I'm fishing grass here and don't seem to have a problem with it. And all these skirts are hand-tied, y'all. They're hand-tied so that you get, first of all, it doesn't come off, you know? That's the worst thing about fishing a cheap little spinner bait, the bands, they'll break or they'll slide down, and that's really unfortunate. We do a double plastic keeper on there as well, just like we do with the jigs, so that whatever trailer you put on here, it's going to stay on there. You don't have to fool with it. And high-quality blades on this white one right here, they are just, it's a nickel, but it's Colorado Willow Tandem. I really thought that would be the best overall for everyone, like if I had to throw a one spinner bait for the rest of my life, it's going to be probably a half ounce, a half ounce Colorado Willow Tandem, gold and nickel tandem as well. But anyway, that would be the combo, but Colorado Willow Tandem just seems to have like the best overall thump presentation of getting another bite. I got him, I got him, I got him. I'm surrounded by him, y'all. Oh my gosh, I am just whacking him on the spinner bait. It's no question. And they're looking at this little point that's right here too. Oh my gosh, that thing is a dink. I think it's a dink and it was putting up a fight. Geez, man, that one needs to be cold, honestly. All right, trolling motor, we're going to need you to work. Try some of the other things we got in here, but this is one tactic you can take to the bank in the winter, slow roll, white spinner bait. Oh, nickin' the grass there, just getting in the grass. I'm actually finding that fishing this low gear ratio, this is probably like a four, eight or a five, one on the spinning, spinning. Ooh, I just had one there on the spinning reel. Ooh, there's another bite, got him. Whacking the crud out of this thing. Geez, ooh boy. Yeah, and how are they going to get off? I've got him pinned with a 10 footer softie. He's coming to maybe jump. No, can't do it, he's too cold, thought about it. Little tiny, little tiny. That'd be another color right there. We want to try to grow some bigger bass out here, so the whole key is, you know, with these lakes like this, they don't get fishing from the public, so you have to manage them by taking fish out to try to grow big bass. I mean, it's really depending on what you want, but most people, you know, they like catching five to, you know, five pound bass or bigger, that's the goal. Take some of the little ones out every once in a while, let the big ones grow, and enjoy the Mondos. Oh my gosh, that has to be a good one. Smoked it, big time. With this braid, I don't have to set the hook really. Just keep reeling on them, look at that. Oh boy, hi, you are a dandy. Yes sir, oh yes sir, you're a biggin', you're a goodin', you're a goodin', you're maybe not a biggin', but I'll take you, I'll take you on the spinnerbait. Goodness, y'all, the spinnerbait catches them all times a year. You could probably fish the spinnerbait all year round, but, ah, come here now, you're hooked in a weird spot. Don't like it, lower jaw, you got the old lower jaw hook. Must have really twerked on it when he hit it, nice fish right there, cool. All right, let's see what else we got going on in there. Apologize, I thought this was a 10 footer, the 10 footer's in my truck, this is an 8 footer. I got an 8 foot jigging rod, I kinda like it too, I'm not gonna lie, got him. Fish on, oh and it's a goodin', it is a goodin', on the crank, a little deeper, gettin' down there like six foot. Haven't got as many bites, but that's a goodin' there. Oh, it's just cold and lethargic. Ah, decent fish, don't have pliers in the Crispy Collector, I need to get some, there we go. Little purge, he smoked that thing. Like for a cold bass, it was a solid doop. One thing I really wanna throw in here, just I wanna feel it on this rod and I think it'd be a fun, just a fun thing to fish, even if I don't get that many bites, is to throw that little jig, that little micro jig. I love jigs, all kinds, a nest, punching, whatever. Give me a jig at all times, I wanna throw it. And I actually have a tremendous rod combo here for throwing it. Normally I would not be able to throw that, but there's another one, got him. Got him on this little point, flat spot. Not really sure what's going on here, why these fish are really holding to this, but they are. I wanna try throwing that jig up there. Oh, we got our first cold jumper. You win, you win the award today. You're the only one that has jumped and released. Always sniff a worthy fish, y'all, it's good luck. Next thing we gotta do, we gotta put the old Nano on. Molex Nano. Look at these fine gentlemen on the front here, Mr. Brandon Pollaner. I talked to him at the meetup two days ago. Justin Lucas, James Elam. I know all of those folks right there. Look at it, they all have beards, must be the thing. Wish I could grow one like those fine gentlemen, but anyway, we're gonna fish this jig that they seem to think is pretty juicy. Now, we're gonna take this micro jig and oh, man, it's really sticking in that grass pretty hard. This thing is not designed to be a grass jig, obviously. This is really designed to be probably fished in kind of a rockier situation. Maybe look like a small crawfish or I don't know, maybe throw around something else, but anyway, a lot of other situations other than grass. That comes down to like head design and the line tie placement and obviously weed guards and things like that. Look at that, look at that little thing, man. This is dang, I can catch crappie on this, I promise you. 10 pound braid on here. I got, oh, I had one, I didn't even know it. I had one. Oh, another one's got it. Got him, got him on the jig, baby. Oh, that was sweet. Oh, I felt him that time. What do we got here? What do we got going? What do we got going here? Oh, I love it. I love your fight on the, God, I love jig fishing. It's so awesome and that's a decent one, too. Oh, man. Sorry, y'all, you gotta love it. You got to love it, baby. Oh yeah. Look at that tasty nugget right there, y'all. Yummy. Got that little jelly bean in his mouth. Ladies and gentlemen, if I can learn you one thing today, let me learn you this. There's never a bad time to fish a skirted lure. Spinner bait jig, bladed jig, all times of year, any condition, they're go-tos for me. Back at the crappie lake for one last dangle. Beautiful drop of our brush pile right here, right next to the dock. Look at that, perfect, perfect for the depth. So we can jig on all sides of this. I actually want to go all around this dock and see if there's just any kind of fish that'll lead a jig that we can just go straight, dangle on. I'm actually going to use this little micro jig because it's about the same size as a vertical line tie like a crappie jig would. So let's just drop it on down, see what we can get. We're all up in that brushiness. Well, unfortunately, no fish on the pile thus far. However, it's only been a couple of hours, so I'm not too worried. I'm actually been seeing some activity. Okay, oh, there's another fish that just came out right out there. And that is right along the line. So out there about a hundred yards, there's a bottle that's up there. And that is our deepest pile. And I'm really excited about that one because I know there's a ditch where they pushed up to make this dam. There's a ditch right out there. And that one is set up to be a good wintertime one and summertime one. No, the fish right there, that was a gar though. That was a gar, don't get too excited. No one wants to really eat gar. I hear alligator gar actually good though. Never tried it. I'm out of GoPro battery as well. We are out of time here, folks. So thank you for tuning in today. If you want to see more action like this, I want to go plant more piles. I want to work on this place, but also do some public water lakes. I also just want to go find piles that people have already planted. The state plants them as well. I'm thinking about doing that pretty soon. Let me know in the comments if you want me to go do some more crappie stuff. I love doing it. I think the world loves crappie fish. So, Doug, I'm tasty. So, I'm going to sign it off for today, everybody. Thank you again, MTB, for sponsoring today's video. Thank y'all for being here on each and every single one. God bless you, and I'll see you on the next video.