 Welcome back to the great outdoors, everyone. I'm at the deer lease today. I know, you haven't seen it in a while. I haven't either. And that is why we are here today. We are going to discover if my ATV is here, possibly in working order. Hopefully doesn't have anything living in it. And then we're going to do a little bit of exploring. Now it is turkey season. And I could be turkey hunting right now. I gotta tell you, I didn't even carry a shotgun. Don't have a bow. I am literally here to find my ATV. I've left it here since December. So it's been out here a long time. We're going to look a little bit at some water. There might be some water out here in some of these spring-fed ponds still. I'm not sure. It's been kind of dry. And then hopefully we'll find a couple of sheds along the way. But I did bring a bass rod. And I brought a bunch of tackle. And that's just in my brain. I'm just in full fishing mode. I gotta tell you, I know some folks love turkey hunting. They get super excited. But for me, try to turkey hunt the last five years. I've gotten one turkey. And I've tried doing it a lot. And it always intercepts this amazing bass fishing, crappie fishing month. Just fishing in general is just quite amazing in the month of April. So I always have a hard time with it. I decided to just totally skip it this year unless a turkey wants to walk out when I shut my car door here. And I just pop them with the nine piece. Well, it is here. It is here. I do see it, ladies and gentlemen. Is that the shed where I left it last? The meat wagon, as it is known. This is my Can-Am. It's basically a buck truck. I love this thing. It's such a fun little machine. Great workhorse. Look what we got here. Flat tire. No idea if this thing is going to run or not. That tire looks good. Yeah, that's a flat one. It's a big old flatty right there. Let's open up this. There could be something in that. No telling what is in here. If this thing starts, I'm going to be shocked. Goodness. I mean, there was no hesitation. It just started up better than it's started ever. Wow. Okay, well. Hey, I'm surprisingly shocked. I've never changed the battery in this thing. It's been sitting forever hooked up. And it just cracked right up. So that is awesome. That means we're going to be able to explore a little bit today. Ready? Explore in comfort. Throw in a fishing pole or two. Ride around. Find some sheds. And enjoy the great outdoors. Man, I'm excited. I'm excited about that. How are we going to fix a flat tire? Well, you know, this is Texas. We have a lot of cactus. And I'm pretty used to getting poked by things out here. And the tires are no exception. So I have pretty much slimed all the tires. You know, put some tire repair stuff in there. I have a repair kit in the truck. And something I always keep in my truck is a mobile air compressor. A little mini air compressor for this type thing. I have a little compartment in my Chevy right here. This thing right here though will save you in a pinch. We got ATVs, boats, any kind of trailer. You're going to have flats, especially if you're riding around on a Texas deer lease. So nice thing about it is I can plug it right into the ATV on the DC plug. A cigarette lighter plug and we can get her pumped up. Good to go, partners. So we got the ATV loaded with, this is how, this is how into turkey hunting I am right now, okay? I brought probably 40 pounds of bass tackle. I only brought one bass pole. I brought my new two piece. This is the two piece go to. I've been wanting a two piece for a couple of years now when we came out with these rods because they're so perfect. I do a lot of traveling with them. You know, traveling with my long seven, seven and a half foot rod tube. So anyway, going to different places, flying. It's great, but also just thrown in the truck or just to keep the ATV. It's nice to have a two piece. So got the go to, which is a medium heavy. So I'm trying to decide do I want to go straight to the pond or do we do a little shed hunting first? I'm thinking we maybe should ride around, make sure everything's working in the meat wagon, give it a, give it a little juice and maybe just see if we can find a couple sheds. It's always cool. Steph loves when I bring home sheds. We've got two hours till sunset. So let's ride around a little bit, see if we can find some antlers. As good as the day I left her. One of the coolest things about turkey hunting in the spring is just the flowers that you see in central Texas. Everything is just fully alive. Blue bonnets, Indian paint brushes. It's a pretty scene. That's about my extent of turkey hunting. He's just looking at flowers. Oh, hey, there's a deer blind that I completely forgot about. There's probably rattlesnake underneath. Looks a little out of commission. I'm just going to let the spiders and snakes handle that one. The bedding area down here. But I don't know, guys. Let me know in the comments if you are good at finding sheds. I basically have to stumble upon them with this grass being thick like it is. And I'm just not good at finding them anyway. But if I'm having to like stumble upon them, that means I can also stumble upon the old no-legged demon sausage, which I really don't want to happen. So let me know in the comments down below if you have any tips or tricks on finding sheds in spring. I'm thinking of weightless soft plastics, probably the move. All right, feed it through, last one. And let's see what we got in our bag of goodies. This is one of our large totes right here. You can fit so much tackle. This is kind of my little money bag, everything money bag just for traveling. And I've also got a box set up for travel dangling. We've got some weedless wackies in here. We've got frogs, we've got top waters, we've got all that fun stuff. You're only going to travel with one hook. Four-ot worm hook or our hammer hook is pretty amazing. You can do so much with it. So I think what I'm going to put on there, a blazing worm, you know what a weightless, I've never thrown a weightless bandito bug, but I bet you it would stomp their jaws. Just going to take the old one I've already rigged up and used, see if we can get one on that. It's an undefeated bait right there, but I don't recall ever fishing it weightless. All right, let's head on in here. Definitely disturb some. Cast in here, throwing this little spot. I see one. Oh, he's all over it. Oh, gosh, that was like too easy. Try not to dirty him up too much in this mud. It's probably the size we're dealing with. That's what I see on the bank, but we'll see. Dang, that was cool. Crushed it. By the way, in our t-shirt of the month club, the t-shirt that I'm wearing right now is part of it. It's one of the few times I've been complimented leaving the house on my shirt by my wife. She's like, hey, I really like that shirt. I was like, thank you, honey. Shirt of the month club. But the shirt of the month club also came with some kraken craws with the right hook for it. That one I was just throwing, just one size smaller. That's the kraken hook. Man, that boat was pretty sweet. Might throw on a grub. This looks like a little crawfish invader. You could also, I'm willing to bet you could fish this like a buzztoad, like a miniature slender buzztoad. You could also just kind of reel and stop this thing. Like a crawfish just kind of scooting, and then it stops and it's sinking. Brow up on this flat. See if there's anything occurring in this flat. Ooh, yeah, I see something. Fish. Ooh, there's one. Oh, dang it. That one got it. That was cool. Gave it like a top order. Get out of that grass. 12 pound. I don't need some extra protein in here, so let them go, let them grow. Okay, that's a thing. This love grub is pretty cool. I mean, it's awesome on a jig trailer, but there's so many things you can do with a grub. Fish it Texas rig and swim it over grass. Fish it like a top order. See if I can get one to come all the way up and tag it on top. It might be a little chilly still. Oh, nope, nope it's not. Oh my gosh. Okay, that answers that. I was going to say, what's nice about this over a buzz toad, is that you got a real thin plastic set up a toad that's pretty thick, so you get a good hook set, but I just lost that one. There's some fishing on medium heavy, lighter in line. Pretty sick though. Looks like there's a bunch of fish just cruising the top, cruising the shallows right here, gill action maybe. That's awesome. Wow. This is not even the pond I really wanted to fish. I just stopped at this one because I saw some fish swimming around. Grabbed a bait. I might as well just put some in my buckets. Found me a whole pack of grubs. Cannot deny a green pup. Greatest color of all time for a variety of different water clarity. There's a cruiser, little cruiser buddy. Lots of cruisers. Okay, okay. Wish I had some braid. I lost a tail on that fish and this thing is still kicking. Still kicking good. See if I can get a one-legged love grub bite. Right on that grass edge, they get feisty. Oh my gosh. That one. Little guy. Came out of no man's land like a torpedo. Smashed it. Just gotta let him eat it. They're so small. Oh buddy. Sorry I had to do that to you. You ate it with such oppression. Alright, I'm going to give you guys a tip for fishing in this grassy, snaggy stuff. So I'm going to tie a uni knot most of the time because I love the strength, especially fishing fluorocarbon. And many of you may already tie this knot. I first learned it, I believe it was called a tri-line knot. But with a uni knot, you have a tag in that sticks out toward your main line. So with this knot, you go up, you make some twists on top of a loop. So I got a loop right there where my middle finger is. Make about seven twists around the line. I'll take my tag and come back through the loop where my middle finger is and I'll slide that down, wet it, sort of work it, and pull it tight. Now my tag in is facing towards the bait. So I've started doing this on my swim jigs and any weightless plastic that I'm fishing in grass like that because that tag in will catch on the grass. It'll snag it, but with this knot, you won't snag the grass as much. If you're fishing braid, it really doesn't matter because the braid's soft. Oh, there's one. Oh gosh, that was a good hit, too. A decent boil. That could have been over 12 inches. Another one grabbed it. Oh, series. A little bit bigger. With that knot, I'll keep some of that snotty grass and hairy grass from grabbing onto your line and renting your good cast that you just worked on. That's a Bob Marley. Just full of grass. Grass was more than the fish. Oh yeah, buddy. They're in here. Fishing is good. I mean, it's untapped. No one's fished this in over a year. That barely gets fished anyway. I'm pretty sure if you threw a corn cob out there, they'd eat it, but I'm going to drive the ATV over here to this other edge where I've seen a lot of boils. We can get a couple more over there and then we'll travel to the other pond. Incoming surface activity over here on the side, on the sunny side. Surprisingly. Well, that just shows you a little one swallow it and you can give them the massive hooks that they can still break it off. That's another reason I don't prefer that knot that I showed you. But it does keep you out of the grass pretty good. But I have no business fishing this light of line in here. So one more time with this knot. And there's actually another way to tie it. I'm going to show you the other way. Make it a little stronger. You go through this eye once more. Okay. So you've got a loop there already and you'll make your seven twists. And then you guessed it. We'll go through both of those loops now. It's real important to hydrate this knot as you're tightening it. This is why it loses strength. It's because of the heat friction that you put on this. Whereas a uni knot, there's almost, you get really like 90% of the line strength. This one's probably 80 or less. Just heard a turkey gobble. But we are not going to worry about that today. All right. So we got no knot coming out the front there. We've covered it up with the plastic, but we've also got no tag in sticking up. So now I should be able to just reel this thing on top. No grass interference. Ka-boink! I had one follow up right there. If you wanted a taste. One just boiled on it and bumped it. Bunch of these little buddies around here. I haven't come off. Are you doing big out again? Come on! Oh God! There's no turkey. All right. Turkey alarm. It's time to go to the next spot. Look at that guys. Mesquite thorn injury. Doesn't look like much, but... Mesquites are painful. Smash that like button because I'm hurting out here. I'm hurting! And number two. Stick with my same little program here, I think. But it looks like very clear, similar situation, just hopefully bigger bass. It's a dinosaur bone. Big find of the day. Probably from a cattle source rex. Let's go straight for the kill. Oh, come on! Couldn't catch up to him. I'm just going to start straight reeling it on top. It's subsurface though. Really liking that grub. I don't think I have many. Grab a couple of blazons. Water is definitely down. It's usually right up here where I'm walking. Just going to start casting this little bottleneck. I know if I throw the blazen worm, it's going to have the same effect. Reel it on top like this. I can just work it under the surface, but it's just longer. I know I'm going to get some butt chewers. I think it was two years ago I came out here and pretty much everything was dead. So I don't even know if there's decent fish in here anymore. I'm going to find out though. I'll make a few more casts. Evening casts. Took my whole nugget. It's time to get blazing. Well, regardless y'all, this is fun. It's fun getting this many bites. This blazen worm is really nasty. For these shallow, oh, right away. That's a better one. Don't get off that. That was a better one. I'm not just saying it. I promise you. It's that first cast in an area. Reeling it on top, they just come and smack it. It's like it's a dragonfly. I need a lot of dragonflies out here it looks like. Whatever is hitting the surface in that area. That's a little one. Getting to set the hook on him and I got him. Watch that one come get it. Oh, he's a little bell. Definitely bigger fill. Shoot, this is a good one. There we go. Hey, they do exist. Got something on the one I had. I lost him. That's a better fish. That was cool. I watched him wake behind it and I stopped it. He ate it. You were tailing it. Tracking it. Had to have it. You were not coming off. I had him in like the jaw bone. Post spawn fish. Skinny. But really awesome. Awesome, awesome strike. See you buddy. Got my wet. Love it. Blazing room for a bigger bite. I've got a bunch more in that bag. Sun's going down. We got to load up ATV at home tonight. One more decent one. There's a good hit. Yeah. Terrible. How'd you go? He had that worm down his throat. This is such a fun worm to fish. It's like you're fishing a spinnerbait. You could fish it like a spinnerbait. Or you can stop it. Work it just like you would a regular worm. We need to rally fish sometimes. This has to be done, y'all. I've got a perfectly good worm right there. I'm going to take it off. I'm going to put a fresh greasy one on. It's got all the juices on it. It's ready to go. It's real important when you rig these worms too to make sure they're straight. I didn't get that one. Absolute. Try to get that as straight as possible so it's not twisting when you're swimming it. Definitely don't want to twist. You just want that tail kicking. I saw somebody over here. Putting out the scent. Cool. Right there. Oh, he ate the tail. Reaction. Got him. Yes. Care how small you are. That was cool. I'm going to end on that one. Fresh worm rally. Wabam. You can save that bait right there. Throw it on a wacky rig. Catch some more. You want to get real Armageddon technical. Whatever that means. Sun going down over the beautiful Central Texas landscape. We're loaded up ready to go. Fun times fishing out here. We got the ATV back and running. Did not find any sheds. But we did catch a lot of bass. Probably as many basses I've ever caught out here. Most of them are small. The first time I swam a plastic many years ago and I was just by accident really getting in to make another cast. And it's like now through the summer where that thing is good. I'm telling you, it's great. It's great in those grassy lakes and ponds, rivers. So if you've never tried it swimming a plastic it can be a creature bait like a crawl or like the worm that I showed you guys. Really good technique. Of course, buzz toads. Everybody thinks about summer grass, buzz toads. But you can start doing it right now. Right now as soon as they're done spawning it is a great technique. So give it a shot. I've heard those turkeys calling this evening. I've heard them gobbling over the ridge here. But I'm going to get right back on the bass game. I'm going to let the turkeys just be turkeys. So smash the like button, subscribe, get outdoors. See you guys on the next one.