 First bite Welcome back to the treehouse and soon to be the lake everybody We're doing some crappie fishing today First good cold front. It was in the 30s last night. Oh, I bet them big bucks were moving too Usually mid to late October we start getting these cold fronts in Texas and our fishing starts getting a little better You know, it's been 90s a lot the water's been, you know, mid to high 70s 80s now It's gonna start dipping low 70s. That's where I really like to start bass fishing again and then crappie fishing White bass gets phenomenal and I'm going with mr. Turcula today, mr. Rob haven't fished with him in a while I've always wanted to to try to get him on some crappie. So we're gonna try to do that today I don't know if he's patient enough for it, but we're gonna test it. So this is my first time actually holding Bates in a package That feels good y'all. So, you know, sometimes crappie baits like half of them You got to throw out because their tails are all nasty and gnarled and they're not gonna work, right? They're gonna work. So right, of course, you know, they smell good Two-inch bump-and-bug right there. One of the greatest times being outdoors when y'all I love the fall Haven't been on the water in a while. It's very calm out here. It's nice Saw a guy at the boat dock caught a crappie Awesome, so I'm just gonna do a little island right here Should be here any minute probably gonna hit some bridges and then just look for some brush One looks a little different it is feel good Looking great man. It's chilly out here man. Is that hoodie available? When's that thing dropping? Uh, I Think it's in Mid-November. I think it's mid-November. I love it man Look at these look at those. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we never got reels in packaging. They just like sent us in plastic bags They look good don't they? Gold looks. Gold looks like you got a Rolex or something No, so look at the way it comes packaged though. Let's see it. Let's do it live doing it live Little laser-cut fold packaging suction cup in there That's your crappie dangling reel right there, baby I'll have a little fun with them love to see it So these are these are now available. These are available and I think right now. They're saving with a save I don't even know what code you use nowadays Do get find a code fine It doesn't matter what code you use you can save temporary. I think the thing is like 50% off Apparel and 10% off everything. It's huge. It's like huge right now. Yeah, it's huge and Provide everybody about the truck the truck. Oh, yeah, the truck so every $5 that you guys spend on the Guggen store You get to enter a giveaway to win a 2021 Chevy LTZ which is actually over there with Lojo and the boys right now But that would be giving away at the end of the year every $5 you spend on the website gets you an entry So if you buy one of these you get like 20 entries or something like that So I'm gonna get one of them sweatshirts soon as they're available Rob always gets good the good stuff first. So I get a little sneak peek So I have something you don't have though Rob. I've got the crappie baits. You got to show Yeah, I got I got one for you It's been my dream to get Rob on a crappie some day and I think we might actually do it We got one in the box right now and my goal is to try to get five today make a little dinner for tonight and We're gonna get to work. So got the reels. I'm gonna show you guys some of the baits that we're gonna be using and we'll get to work All right, so we got we got bridges. They're great I've also got riprap You know my first couple of crappie I've caught off just an isolated little rock pile You know some lakes Like this one that's got a ton of rocks. They seem to relate to it really well other lakes It's you know heavy brush deep little riprap 17 foot right here So I'm gonna take this little snacky and I could get anything. I just hooked a bass right from Rob is coming up too. I've got a Eighth ounce Because I like a little more weight when I'm throwing the snacky because it slows it down. Oh my gosh, dude That was a huge bass That was like a five pound bass right there It's usually how it goes on a crappie fish catch bass or a bass fish to catch nothing Good day for a cruise Lewisville cruise oh Yeah, that's an absolute hammer crappie bite. He was way up there Feel good. He's definitely gonna make a good steak. It's gonna get that. Oh, yeah, look at this, baby My gosh, this is a giant. I mean, this is a whopper, dude Probably one of my biggest Lewisville crappies ever. I'm scared to boat with him Yeah Look at that whopper that thing was up there on the rocks and probably like seven foot just like a Just like a fall bass Jason Chad Look at that It's gonna be good in the skillet get a little bump. All right That's all you got to do right threaten to leave. I just wanted to start with that one. Oh, okay, look That one right there Big boy Big rogue. Oh Oh Shoot that bastard croppy That's a crappie. They're moving up on that point Really I think it is. Oh Yeah, it's a large mouth. It wasn't a full jump Spot a bass It's gone. Yeah. Yeah, let's play up nice, too I can't tell you how many bass I've had on these little snackies though Like I've caught some big ones Like my biggest is a five All right guys, so just got third crappie got two absolute slabs and We just rolled up to a bridge never fished before and Just noticed that these fish They're sitting on These pilings and they don't really want to come out. It's a chase. I just got lucky getting one on a little snacky swimmer But they're sort of sitting Up under this deal here Sort of sitting right there. They don't want to move so I've had one chase it and then Another one I just swam real real slow and grabbed it But what I think they really want right now is just a bait to sit there So I'm gonna take a little bump and bug Or get robbed to get a bump and bug on here. We're gonna try to get on top of them and then just Try to watch them eat it so Just get a little bump and bug on do some work those fish are right on the the corner right there and You basically you don't you don't want to even do that like Yeah Basically want to try to float it over their head Like a horse and carrot The horse and carrot method You got bumped lift lift. Yeah, there you go easy easy easy easy Oh my I was like easy take him easy That is a mega. That's a mega dude. Oh, I'm probably using some slabs He probably just floated your bait, right? Like he just it's a future toad I literally catch a 14 and then That was like a seven Oh Oh nice There we go. I think he's a keeper 10 10 he's in I knew there was one right there absolute sandwich Thank you, dude. Thank you, dude. Hey, I I've accomplished my goal today Can contribute contributed to the Creel something Oh, no, no tripod today. I apologize That is the fifth one a fat hay We haven't even hit our little brush by over here yet It's dropping that one in for a little Dropping a deuce in you go bud All right guys successful mission with lunkers Uh got him on a few croff me. We got our five We got some tasties just out here for a couple hours and Buffet bugs and the snackies All right guys quick rundown on crappie baits We got our crappie on ice right now. We're fixing to filet him Take him up to the kitchen. Oh, she's going to do a blacking recipe. It's gonna be delicious There's really four main crappie baits that we're launching. This is gonna be somewhere around black friday I've heard a couple different dates So somewhere around there if you've watched my videos for a while you've probably seen me use a lot of these But the first one is the dangle dart And the dangle dart is is designed to basically Not do much in the water and that is a lot of times what crappie Gravitate to they like little movements You know little movements of your rod tip up and down maybe dead sticking And when they are on that mode, which is basically like all summer and anytime there's a cold front This is the bait I throw on and I've probably caught the most amount of crappie on this And when you got to get a vertical presentation going This is the jam when I want a little bit different variation of that. Maybe the water's more stained I'm trying to catch a bigger one something with a little bit more profile I go with the bump and bug so it's a modified bandito bug It's got more of like a grub style body, but those tails kick out and they do like that That's you know, it's a really compact bandito bug basically so around brush bumping it you can sort of swim it It's awesome Then this is what we were using today to fish on the little bits of brush and the posts on the bridges Of course The snacky swimmer. This is basically a very small saucy style swimmer but more elongated And it fits a crappie jig in it very nicely holds on to it The tail action is incredible for such a small bait and you know, these are in clamshells. So the tail is actually work Work phenomenally. I've caught the most amount of bass on this out of all the crappie baits Everything eats these I like just fan casting searching with these put it on a 16th ounce jig head throw it down the shoreline When the crappie are like moving away from cover and they're just kind of cruising This is an awesome bait to throw Sometimes I'll throw it on a little bladed Jig head, but a lot of times I just throw it straight on a straight jig head and it works great And then that's in a two and a two and a half And then another one that I swim sometimes a little different profile is your classic grub. This is the chubby grubby There's times where they want a grub. I like to throw this one on a underspin ahead Swim it by cover, you know, swim it by the brush piles Whatever you can just work it on a jig head as well But I mainly just swim these when they're wanting that kind of swing And it puts out a much bigger presence in the water. This has our Mondo style tail So the the V ridge on the back it kicks a lot. I mean you can move this very very slow Um and still get movement out of it. And I think that's where our baits really stand out Is that slow movement and still getting action on the bait? Which is pretty important when you're crappie fishing and that's the rundown on them. We got some great colors Uh colors for stain dark water, you know, your pinks Uh your chartreuse blends and then colors for clear water as well Some of some of them you've seen in our bass lineup, of course the monkey milk, you know Pearl pepper and all that that good stuff my favorite color for clear water is natural I mean this for bass, it's amazing But I've just found a crappie fishing with that bait right there that color Natural is awesome. If any of you are looking to get into crappie fishing Uh, I think it's awesome. I love doing it. I I really like Blending bass fishing and crappie fishing because they end up in the same places a lot of times and it's really fun To fish for both but the cold months are really great. So if you want to stock up on some crappie stuff For the cold months, uh, it gets you a bunch of chances to win the truck Google swad.com All right, walk us through the process of making one of these tasties Well, you love black and seasoning Um, and so to make black and seasoning really just need paprika I throw in some oregano white pepper black pepper salt A little bit of sugar pro tip And then you really just need butter I just like a little bit of that burnt like Hot on there just the outside a little a little bit of crisp You break into that nice Sucking the juicy white meat there. I mean that looks pretty good It's gonna be great. And then you've got this awesome Sign little side deal there. Yes. I did a little uh Mexican street corn. It's cream. There's some cheese in there. There's some uh, worsen cheese in there Yes, I know you always ask for grits. I love bringing home a crappie and there's like there's any recipe all the time Oh, yeah Look at them little crispy flavor marks on there. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I like Okay, well, this is how I like it the light the light on and this is how you like the crispies It's more concentrated seasoning. We get that little little bump Sometimes a little too much little seasoning bump. How many days a week would you say that we eat wild? game Probably like the five out of seven days of the week. Yeah, that's pretty close and by the sixth day I'm craving some chicken Every time we don't have wild game. I'm like chicken. Please the chicken We just we uh, this is also that time here. We're trying to clear out the freezer a little bit and make some room And we don't have actually a whole lot of elk left Cheers to wild game Got it show the folks at home How we do it here the rack the household. All right, you like the crispies You know, I do Of course I you gotta give me one of them 14 inches in there, too Okay, I'll give you one of these big ones. We're tired. We're tired for them. All right Let's check that out Little avocado Look at that y'all, isn't that awesome You already know that is going to taste good. You don't have to fry crappie every time. I love me some golden crispies But I like cooking them like this, too There's a bunch of different ways another one. I haven't tried yet. I really want to try say me But really osg. She works for magic is trying some uh crappie cakes Taking some maybe next time I'll go out catch a bunch of smaller ones That are nice tender. It was a little like, you know, 10 and a half 11 inches And then kind of mash those up and make some cakes with them Basically like a crab cake. I think those would be awesome. So We'll try that on our next crappie run, but I'm gonna go enjoy this now Thank you guys for tuning in to today's video on the water Don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe to the channel It's gonna get cold here soon. We're gonna be back in the deer woods And the pig woods trying to get some other wild game to put on the table Thank you guys for being here