 Y'all this is insane. My heart is pounding, I wish I ate because this fish is so big. And some deer sausage to start the day. Better go ahead and hit the like button. Y'all I slept so good last night. I can't even tell you one of my best night's sleep I've ever had in the outdoors period. The mattress pad or the sleeping pad that I had game changer just made it so much more enjoyable. Perfect camping weather, it's a beautiful morning. And in my little camping bowl right here I've got a couple eggs and some deer sausage cooked up on the old Coleman baby. Hey how about that for America? Oh outdoor great. Let's drop my spoon in the dirt. Outdoor greatness y'all. Getting to experience that I'm a very blessed man. I'm a very blessed individual. Oh I just got a better attitude about today too. Man I do it. Man it's just an interesting feeling you know you wake up right next to the water with the birds and everything just kind of puts you in tune you know started thinking about the bite as soon as I got up and you know the lakes are right behind me. I'm going to scarf this deer sausage, a little bit of egg, then we're going to get on the water and we're going to have some fun. Let's go. Same creek, different attitude, already had a great morning. Just kind of camping doing my own thing. My strategy here is I'm going to go all the way to the back of this creek. It's a pretty good way to back here and I'm going to see if there's any shad that might be back there spawning. This is the time where we see a shad spawn. If not I'm just going to throw a little topwater throw a little frog around see if I can get anything. Look at this. Just smash the like button. Beautiful. Sun rises through the pine trees and wood ducks flying. Gorgeous. It's just shallow water fishing right here y'all. Get the basic necessities of life. Frog, a jig and a swim bait or something moving. Oh god, I just ate right there. Right there on the bank. Revealed itself. Dirty, dirty shallows. I see something swirling back here. I don't know what it is. The sun isn't high enough for me to really see any bass yet. All right well I'll just continue with my swim bait. No luck in the back. Still I'm heading out and then as soon as I start seeing a good row of docks and some more trees around the bank and stuff. It's a good bank cover. I'm just going to put it down and go. I'm going to go to work. Check in. Clock in. Punch your ticket. Go to work on the water. You know what I'm saying? Clock in. That's what I'm doing. I'm just talking to an old man on dock and he was saying that he usually waits until he sees like little baitfish being chased and it's not bass. It's crappie. It's just little chasers and then he'll break out his jig and he'll throw around so they go on little feeding sprees. Little inside local mileage and I just saw that. I just saw one crappie come up and snag a little minnow. So I'm going to flip around some of these docks. Here we go baby. First crappie on and it's a tank. Got him on that little jig baby. No doubt that's a keeper. I'm crappie in the box y'all. I wasn't able to get any more off the dock so I'm going to keep going around. I'm going to look for more docks like this that are in clothes. Probably have a lot of brush down there but I'm going to fish for bass in between. It's crazy as they're both spawning around the same time. You know crappie come in a little bit beforehand probably about three weeks beforehand, four weeks beforehand and the bass kind of follow that and then the catfish are after that but they're right now in the same type of areas so it's fun time to fish for both. Oh oh oh. Here we go. I must have had a pincher. I must have had a pincher. I jerked him a little bit. That bed is stirred now. Well first time he exited the bed right there. Call this the crouch, crouch attack. Don't want him to check me out. This is going to really set the tone for the day. I've got a crappie in the box. Now I'm sitting on a bed fish. Same one from yesterday that I never caught. It's like this is going to be a repeat. Or am I going to go forth and start catching some fish? That's what's going through my head right now. You know took my whole dang thing. Throw on this prototype white bug. I doubt I'll even be able to see it but get a different color, a different look here. Rushed it. Rushed it. I got a scale on him. There's another one right there. There's two on this bed. There one is females just aren't staying on. They are cruising off. Just took off. Freaking fish right there. Oh god. He mouthed it. Oh finally we got a player. Here comes the jig and in your face. There you do not like this jig y'all. There it goes. He's got it. Got it. Right in the top of the mouth. These fish are bigger than what you think. I thought that fish was two pounds. That's three and a half. Nice fish right there y'all. Okay just let that fish go. Go back and do its thing. Black blue jig with the bandito bug on the back. Dramatic difference. Every fish that I've encountered and I throw in a white bait or just a Texas rig you know a bandito bug and then I throw in the jig. There's something about a skirt in there like everything is moving around. You can just shake your rod tip and it flares and everything. They just immediately get more aggressive. So catch a crappie or two then you see a bass you flip to it and then you throw a swim bait and maybe catch an eight pounder. I mean this is fun stuff. I like this kind of fish. Okay we're rolled up on another one here. Throw a little swim bait till I see something and this looks like a pair but they're not on the bed if that makes sense. Females haven't been locked on the bed. Mmm changing body posture getting more intense. Oh okay this might happen again. Good on that jig that time. Oh my luck has turned around today. Dark black lateral line bass. There's another male fish. Couldn't get the female to lock on but a pretty one. My luck's better yesterday. If I hooked one it's not a chance I was going to get it again. I'm going to switch my trailer to this natural color because it is just a perfect bluegill imitator. Godly what a better day. Getting a fish to bite. Like picking and choosing which one I want. Oh side hook, side hook, side hook. That's not the way I wanted to do it. Oh that's a big bass. Oh that's a fat female. Oh I got the female but I just saw my line moving and she must have had it and dropped it. Fatay. Getting ready to drop those eggs y'all. Eggs, see those eggs coming out? Check that out. The eggs of a bass right there y'all. See them popping out of that fish. Let's you go spawn. What happened right there that male picked it up. I set the hook on him a couple of times. As soon as he gets out of the bed he drops it and when he dropped it he was next to the female and I stuck her. What happens? It's a part of life. Spawn fishing. Y'all I just watched that bass go up and eat a turtle's face. That's to say a kit out of here. Getting him all turned around now. These fish are bigger than they look. Can't see what's caught sir and the female is still looking. You know it's full spawn when you see the females there so for all of you that are unfamiliar with the bass spawn that the males come in first. They make the beds, they fan out their tails. That's why the tails get bloody. You hear me talk about bloody tails? That's why it's because they're rubbing them on the dirt and then they try to kind of remove the top debris, silt, you know, stuff like that and get to a harder bottom and then the females come in, they'll lay their eggs, the males fertilize them and then the females are not there for very long. They're there for a couple of days and then the males will end up guarding for usually around a week or so and then they guard those little fry till they're big enough and then they turn around and they'll eat them. They just like change modes and the spawn is a really tough process for the bass but the females to watch them come up there and pair up with the males and the whole process happening and we're getting to see that right now. It's really cool. Two beds right here right in front of me where they're both paired up. They're not huge fish. It's really exciting when you see like you know a tiddin plus or something fanning its tail. That is how it goes down y'all and you got to look for the sandy spots. You know they make it pretty obvious on most lakes. They'll fan out on a dark bottom and they'll expose a sandy spot and that's where the beds are going to be and you'll see old beds. There's a lot of abandoned beds but just look for those areas. You've got to get yourself some polarized sunglasses if you're going to sight fish and then experiment with baits. Every fish you come across is different just like every person. It's got a different personality. All right y'all I'm just yet to find something that is effective at getting a reaction bite from these bedding fish than the jig. This color. I mean this combo it is just blue kill set. Hey that natural. Got a little silver belly in it and then watermelon blue. What? What in the world? Oh my gosh. Got him right there. Only glide bait. Holy crap. What in the world? Oh gosh there's another one feeding back there. Oh holy crap guys. I saw this bass eating at the surface literally just exploding on like a blue gill or something and I threw this glide bait out out there and it just freaking creamed it. It was one of those western glide baits I got in my MTB box. All these suckers are huge. They're all quality fish that's like the size of the one that I'm throwing to right now. Okay I'm ready to catch this fish now. I know you guys are too. There it goes. Rushed it and popped it. See it's just it's a different reaction with this jig. It really does not like it. Let's see how fat this fish is man. One of these times you're gonna pop it in your mouth and I got you right there. Good fish. Fat fish. Oh yeah. Oh yeah I got you on the jig. You ain't going nowhere. That one's a little bit bigger than the one I caught on the glide bait. They're just fatty chunks y'all. Fatty chunks man. Okay y'all we're gonna let this beautiful fat healthy fish go. Give it a sniff. It's not kind of weird. Maybe angry. And I'm returning them to the same areas. I'm not taking these fish anywhere. Go back to your bed. You did a great job. You did a great job defending. So that's all I'm doing guys. I'm catching these fish off beds. I'm letting them go right there so they can go back. You know that's the thing I always think about in tournaments this time of year. You catch all those bass on beds and then you take them out of the area like I know that probably can't be good for it. You know can't be good for the fishery. This way you just catch them. Let them go back. They'll spawn and in that case female wasn't even there. He was just defending and they'll go back and they'll get bigger. God there's some nice male fish out here. That one fell victim to the white bug. I couldn't get the female. She was like six pounds. I tried. See I giant. There's an eight pounder or so. Oh my god she's a gorilla. That could be ten. That's a gorilla. Oh boy. I don't think she's gonna stay up there. Put that bed as a male and then it has a gorilla. Absolute gorilla. See back we're gonna make a frill. God she's up there on it. Any fishers on it? Is that her? It's a giant. Oh my god. I was looking at the male and he's big. The female is possibly a double digit. Oh my god this is a giant. Oh god she just spooked. This is one of those you get one shot at. He hit it. I think he's got it. He's got it. He does. I want him to drop it. Hey you drop it. I'll just let a five six pounder go because there is a absolute hammer dong and she is moving up now. Y'all this is insane. My heart is pounding. I'm shaking because this fish is so big. I'm locking down the rest of the day clearing the schedule for this fish. He's got it. He's got it again. Let go. Let go. She's on the bed. She's right on it. I gotta get her to bite. That's just you only get so many opportunities at one of these puppies. She's not too skittish. God he's got it again. He's got it. He's got it. Let go. He's eating it like every time. She is just not reacting. She's staying there which is awesome. Let's see if something big will get her. Get her a little fired up here. I think that's her. That is her. It's a giant. It's a giant. Oh god. She's got it. It's her. It's a giant. This fish is huge. This is an absolute heathen. Oh my gosh you're beautiful. She picked up that. Oh god she picked up my jig with a bandito bug. Oh god you are huge. Absolute mammoth mammoth freaking toad baby. Oh my gosh that jig and bandito bug. Natural color. Absolute freaking condo to put you in here for second honey. I'm shaking. I'm shaking. Oh my gosh that's one of my biggest sight fish ever. Oh my gosh. The male had it five or six times. I let him go. Finally she grabbed. I couldn't tell which one. I was trying to stay so far away and then as soon as I saw like the gorilla shadow with my line moving I went and you guys saw the hook set. It was like I didn't even move her. Just an absolute heathen baby. God I don't look freaking signature series rod too. Oh my god. I cannot believe it. Outdoor greatness. Captured. Okay I'm pretty sure I still have here and I do. Hopefully it works. Okay let's get this puppy weighed. All right y'all I'm gonna weigh this fish. Get a quick weight. Drop it back in the live well. Get a couple of picks because you know what I got to and then we're going to return it to the bed. Not as big as I thought but I think it's still over eight. It's so fat. I can usually tell when they take up the entire live well what's going on. It's a fat, fat beast. When I saw her silhouette in the water I was like oh my gosh I cannot believe. Oh yeah it's over 10 easily. 10, 4, 10, 4. Do you all see that? Let's get close up on that. What was it mounted to? This is 10-5. Locked at 10-5. Oh I was right. That is a double digit bass baby. Boom. Yes. Now a quick learning lesson here. I know when you catch a huge fish you want to get real excited. Take a ton of photos but extremely careful with big fish like that. They're more susceptible to die really so I'm going to let this fish go right now. Got probably 10 pictures you know. If I got one good one great and I'm going to let this fish go right here close to the bed. Big Bertha. Take off into the depths for us. Oh yeah there we go. I'm almost speechless guys. I'm almost speechless. Yesterday I was really frustrated. I almost did not post that video. I'm glad I did. Last night I was really thinking I had a lot of time to think sleeping in my boat and I was like I just did not have the correct attitude. I was getting frustrated at the fish. I was getting frustrated at myself. I was like my gosh this video is not going to be good because I'm not I'm so closely catching fish like so close to having a great video and it's not all coming together and I just I got frustrated and anytime you get frustrated and mad and things build up inside of you and well up you know it just doesn't go well. You just got to release that. So you know I woke up this morning. I didn't even get out on the water first thing. I made myself a good breakfast and I just I just prayed. I was like you know what I just need a good day but no matter what I'm going to have a better attitude. What a difference today. I'm just having fun. Things just started clicking you know and I just really had a good attitude and I was just even before that fish I was like thank you thank you Lord. This just feels good. It feels good to be in a good mood. Good things happen when you're in a good mood guys and that is one of my biggest bass ever and my biggest pass of the year for sure. So I'm just feeling very blessed right now. Feeling good. Thought I'd share my inner feelings with you. I almost shouted tear. Decided to hold back. Hit the like button. If you don't you're just a bad individual. That was just that was too good. That was almost too good to be true. I'm not even going to say let's go get another one. I might even go crop fishing. God day. I love you guys. I'm glad you got to witness that. I'm glad I got to catch that fish. I forgot to give it a sniff. Well I've given it another 30 minutes and you know there was some small bass on beds you know I made some flips there up there in that creek. There was a lot of fish moving around. Nothing biting on moving baits on the outside. It's really just sight fishing and you know they weren't huge. I think they were like three four pounders. One maybe been a little bit bigger than that. I just thought you know what I'd rather end my day on a tin powder. That sounds pretty good and get an early start on my journey over to Lake Fork. So that is exactly what I'm going to do y'all. I'll leave links down below if you guys want to check out the Signature Series 7.2 medium heavy rod. This is what I use to flip. This is what not like heavy stuff. This is what I use to do roll casts and I'm throwing spinner baits, chatter baits. I'm throwing jigs up to half ounce like this. Texas rigs. I do a ton of stuff with it. It is a really really good action. So we've got that down there. Guggen baits if you guys want to check out the Bandito Bug. Excellent jig trailer. I'll leave a tip on my Instagram on how I rig that on my jig but just a couple of modifications and that thing is dirty. I'm going to take the crappie. I'm going to put it in my cooler and hopefully add to the collection tomorrow and then take a bunch of meat back to OSG. Uh man you guys better go ahead and smash the like button for just good vibes starting the day with good vibes continuing on and then voila the double digit happens man. Good attitude. If I've learned nothing else more than today I'm gonna remember this day forever but it's keep a good positive attitude. Good things will happen. Subscribe right here so you don't miss the next dangle and I love you guys. I will see you.