 We must be at a party like y'all. Welcome back to the channel. We're gonna do a little hardcore dangling today. I'm a glutton for punishment. You never know what you're gonna get. It's usually the time of year where you get a big bass in the mix. Today's excursion is sponsored by Mystery Taco Box. My favorite sponsor out of the bunch. They have been with me a long time and I just can't say enough good things about those guys, but it is the holidays. Christmas time is right here. It's like right now y'all. It is not too late. If you want to get somebody signed up or get yourself signed up for Mystery Taco Box, go ahead and just use the code linked down below. That's Mondo to get your box for as low as five bucks. And just check out all the box options and see what they got going on for the holiday sales right now. Most of you know the deal, but if you're new, just click the link down below. Go see everything that they've got, all the different kinds of boxes, the levels of boxes. They basically pick out baits that are great for the month and deliver those right to your doorstep fishmas in a box every month, especially this month, because it is Christmas y'all. So we're going to see what we got in the box right here and we're going to give it an angle. I've already taken a peek in there. We've got some finesse type bluers. We've got a jerk bait, which is always good this time of year. We've got wind. Our water just isn't really clear, but let's take a look at the electronics to see what we can come up with. Our first stop of the day. We haven't even started fishing yet. Colton and Hunter out here doing a little father-son dangle. Tear it up, man. All right. Thank you guys. Have a good day. All right. They just gave me a little fish report, a little intel. It's been hit or best. I was actually getting a little crappie, little crappie intel. And Colton said he actually, he's got some trees planted back there. So I'll have to have to come back and do that another day. But if any of you guys ever see me on the lake, come and say hi. You know, he shouted out, swish fishing intel, hooked them up with some baits. And I wish them all the best. I wish all you guys the best during these tough winter times. When I see y'all out on the water, when it's cold, I know y'all are dedicated fishing freaks. So I always love to see that. Let's just take a gander inside of this pro unit right here. Okay. Excuse the airplanes because they're coming over. First of all, let's get to the sticker because it's kind of tradition on this boat now. I visited Keco about a month ago. I saw this sticker on somebody's computer and I was like, whoa, I don't have that one. What's going on? This month's box is the Bastardot. And it's literally a bass dressed up in a NASA space suit. We have a 10,000 fish sawcraw. It's kind of like a little JDM style plastic. Some really nicely packaged crawl style baits. Possibly put that on a, you know, half ounce juicy jig, black and blue. What? Booyah swimming jig, half ounce. Could possibly swim this around some docks. Throwback Lure's trail blazer, bluegill swim bait. We have a special bait card in here telling us about the Guggen baits, drag and drop. I know a little something about that. Sunset bug. So we got that. It literally attached to it. We have a four-ot EWG hook that we can use on our craws. Didn't come attached. It was just something happened there. Wow. Metroplex fishing. Just big birds all the time. I wonder if the bass get used to that. Just the constant humming of a jet engine. One of my all-time favorite cold water fishing baits, the Smithwick Rogue. And actually this color. Two of my favorite colors ever are Clown and Gold and Blackback. A little orange belly on it. But this one is actually a floater. So you could fish this. It dives down and then it'll come back up. So you could fish it in really shallow. This would be really ideal for clear water. If you had to fish this over grass. Anyways, jerk baits are always great. Smithwick makes a really good one they have for a long time. Then we have another finesse bait in here. We have a Riot Baits Probe. It's got a little little dangler on its tail. You know, get that little extra movement. Slap our sucker on and let's go probe the depths. Well folks at home and it's started to rain. Which I am not equipped to deal with. So they have to take a rain check clearly on today's excursion. Depending on how bad this gets. Just checking on some fish. I'm looking at on the graph here. Just to see if they're they're active. What they're doing. What their temperature is like. And then I'm going to move close for the docks. Fish some of the baits. Starting out using this blade bait. 10,000 fish blade bait. It's the Death Stalker. It's one of my favorite favorite lure. Like it's dressed out of not for wintertime fishing um and deep water. It just gets down there and hunts. Water on the lens. Apologize. This is a rough dangle here y'all. I want to know what these arc angels are. What are these? I could just send this little probe out and get whammer jammed on a you know two pound slabber. So far that hasn't happened yet. Rain check taken. Well you're still a little drizzly but it's starting to clear up right now. I checked the weather. It's supposed to start getting a little warmer at the end of the day. So instead of going out in the morning. I've looked at the forecast this time. I'm going out in the afternoon. That's usually the warmest part of the day when the best bite is. The last couple hours of daylight when it's warmest. We're going to go try to capitalize on that and I'm going to a completely different way. Because of the rain it's going to make the water a little bit more muddy. So I'm driving a little bit farther to go to some clear water which I think is always helpful when it is cold. Got clear water so I feel a lot better right now. It is not warm enough like I thought it was. I thought the weather man said it was going to be like 60. I think he lied. Nevertheless I came all this way. I will not be stopped. Let's go catch some fish of any kind. I don't care. Give me the white ones. The striped ones. The brown ones. The big green ones. Doesn't matter to me as long as they pull good. Well yeah we just ran into an old friend. Old Roger. Me and LunkersTV took fishing last year and he is fully into fishing now. He's all decked out with a kayak and he's got a bunch of gear. So always good to see a fishing freak just get after it. I'm putting on a little gold spoon right now simply because I've caught my biggest smallmouth in Texas. Doing this technique that I'm about to do. I just made a few casts while I was talking to Roger and I had a bite using the Ten Thousand Fish Death Stalker which is a an MTV bait. I usually throw that in there in the winter but it's just an unparalleled technique. These two things that I'm getting ready to do here. This is what the fish want to do. I don't have the sun not vertically jigging but casting the jigging spoon and a blade bait along these banks. It's kind of bouncing it down the depth change. So it's like a series of stair steps working its way out to well like a hundred feet and right now I've got some bait some fish out here in 40 and I may back out a little farther and fish this thing you know in that 30 to 40 foot zone uh but I just had a bite up there and probably like 20 so I'm going to make a few casts with the jigging spoon a few casts with the the deaths. Oh gosh I just got hammered right there. Absolutely smoked. We're just kind of reacting to it um bouncing right in front of their face. Oh yeah suckers coming for you. These could be stripers for all I know. I just know they're big and they look hungry. Check the drag just in case we put gold hog jammer. Okay there's my jig. I have some fish right around it right now. Oh go. Oh we got smacked. Oh I got smoked again. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh they're everywhere. I got them. I got them. There he is. Oh my gosh look look at all of it. Look at all of them. Oh geez. Oh baby we found the stripes. Oh yeah. Oh what a nice fish. Oh my gosh look what we just found. Holy moly. Oh y'all I'm excited right now. Oh there is and it's not every day. You get to have fun with these guys. Okay I'm going to let this one go. The mother load has been located. Look at them on the mega imaging. There's so many. Holy cow. Come on baby. Smack that spoon. Bright red signatures. Right in the mix. Let's do it. Let's do it to it. Second one on. They're playing tricks on me. I can see these fish right here. Literally. Oh geez. This fish right here y'all was that fish right there. There's my spoon. It came up. I jigged it and he smoked it right there. These fish that are on the bottom I think they're catfish. I think they're catfish that are chasing these things around and eating the scraps. That was just an insane catch because I haven't been able to catch these things on the bottom. So I'm thinking that they're catfish and when I see these kind of like these hovering lines that I can jig it in front of them they'll come up and look at it. They're not really too excited though. I seem to be scattered out now. Like I found a group. Oh here's another uh dang my jig's tangled. That's probably the one I let go honestly right there. Okay here's one. Here's one by himself. Here's one by himself right here. Close to the bottom and I'm just waiting to see where one of these fish might come through above these. Oh that's a big fish. That's probably that's probably like a big catfish just hovering on the bottom. I don't want to do it. I don't want to play the games. All right these are just these are hard to catch. I'm really having to work for these. I don't want to. It's fun playing video games with them but I'm in the middle very middle of a creek like at the mouth. I'm just kind of roaming out here similar to the lake I saw the other day. You can find some of the little tastier. I keep getting teased by these striper. I'm sitting out here in like 40 feet of water and I'm thrown to the bank using this blade bait. Like these striper just keep creeping in. They'll be like groups of three to five of them on the graph and then I reel in and I drop down and they're already gone. It's like they just creep up there they feed and then they they move out. I kind of want to just stick to what I'm doing right here throwing to the bank hitting these little stair step areas for largemouth and smallmouth and spotted bass and just see what happens. I'm taking that blade bait. I'm throwing it as far as I can. I let it sink to the bottom. This is super important to watch your line. Got a seven foot medium power rod and as soon as I see my line go slack I start reeling and I lift up on the rod tip. As soon as I see that line go limp it gives me just enough time to lift that bait up and get it out of the rocks. I just don't want it getting caught in there and I want it the bait to pass by these fish that are suspended on the ledge or hanging on the bottom whatever they're doing and just want to get a reaction out of them. It goes by and they're like oh free shot. Oh gosh oh got hammered on the drops on the ledge. That's three bites I've missed on these ledges. Wintertime fishing man. It sucks when you miss a bite. Got him. Got him that time. It's got to be a green one. Come on baby. Head shakes. What are you doing to me? What do we got? This is feeling like it might be a little heavy here. This could be a nice bass. Dig in. Dig in. Come on baby. Oh gosh it's a big it's a nice striper. Inhaled it. Working it down that ledge. That was up in like 20 feet. Oh I've got light line. I've got light line. No no no no no no. I need my lure back please. Goodness that's a fun fight right there. Look at the belly on that sucker and it's gone. That uh the destocker's just gone. Absolutely inhaled it. Gosh y'all what a cool way to fish this time of year and literally catch anything. I don't even care. Just to get the tug is nice. I know there's other things living down there but these are awesome to experience as well. If you've never caught a good striper they're a great fight. They're also good eats. One good thing to note if the striper are up there that means the bait's up there too. So I always use white bass too as a good indicator of where I think the shad are going to be. I know there's good populations of of shad if the if the white bass are there and they'll don't intermingle. I couldn't tell you how many times I've caught a striped looking one next to a green one because they just they live on the same protein. Got another one. Don't know what it is. Oh it's a white bass. Couldn't. No it's a small striper. It's about to say I can't go a day without catching one of those guys. Be a good one. What you doing? Are you a small stripy? You're a small stripy. We found the little stripes. Go get big. Be a 40 pounder. Don't think we have to worry about the striper population in here. However where are the brown fish? I want to smell a brown fish. I just got bombed. I know there's a four pound smallmouth cruising with these stripes stealing their big old shad from them. The school. School is definitely going on down there and just like that they're they're gone. Got him. Got one of them bottom dwellers. Oh wow look at it. Oh look at the size. Maybe the ones on the bottom are so small. They literally look like. I just get one on the paws there. Oh yes. Yeah we got one. It's another tiny on the blade. We switched up from the blade to the. Wow the nursery. I got the loons frolicking around me so I know there's some shad. Sometimes it's just a matter of believing. This is the way I want to fish. This is the way that I like to fish. I use using my electronics in the winter time. I just got to get in there. I got to stay in there. Just work that circuit. Bumped again. Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm getting bites. I am entertained. Got him. Come on baby. Oh you smoked it. You don't feel like the bass. You are these small straffies. Absolutely prolific. We don't have much time. I'm gonna go to one more spot. Get a lucky piece of jerky. I want to give a shout out to Wasatch Wagyu. Sent this to me. The best beef jerky I've ever put in my mouth. I don't think that's a surprise. It's Wagyu. I've never had it before and it is outstanding. Oh yeah babe. Show me the money. 70 foot. 75 daggum feet. This is a much deeper bank. The bait is still sinking. Got him. Got him. Could this be for the last cast? What do we have? Right on the point. Oh my. It's another baby. Dead cut. All right I gotta make one more cast up there on this little point. Those things are, they have spawned. Okay last cast. Gonna pick up a jerk bait and just see. Because we do have some shad. Suspendos right there. I don't think these fish are coming off the bottom whatsoever. I mean they're glued to the bottom. They're not coming up. Well y'all that is all she wrote for today's video. I have gone hard. Went out there and attacked two lakes. I was able to get on some stripers. Found those. Honestly makes me want to get the crispy collector. Come back up here. Throw some jugs out. I need to install some electronics on there but jig for the striped ones while going after the big blue cats as well. In the very spot I am sitting right now I caught my biggest Texas smallmouth on one of the coldest days, wettest days I've ever experienced. This is back before I had like rain gear. I had a little aluminum boat and I didn't really know what I was doing at all and I caught a huge smallmouth right behind me. I'm gonna head back in y'all and I want to just take a second to wish y'all a very Merry Christmas. Spend some quality time with your friends and family and loved ones and I will see y'all on the next day. Hopefully it's a little bit warmer.