 Howdy y'all, welcome back to the channel. I am back in the great state of Texas. Just spent three weeks of my life up in Colorado, man. Amazing. I spent like three days just not even filming anything. I just enjoyed the great outdoors. I gotta tell y'all, I was out in the woods, no service whatsoever, away from all the news, the social media, the mask and all that stuff. It was so therapeutic. It was awesome. I suggest at least take yourself a weekend here this fall when things start cooling down. Get out there in the outdoors. Shut that phone off for a couple of days and just enjoy some time with the family and the friends. It is great for your soul. Great for your whole entire body system probably. And since I was gone for so long, y'all, there's so much to catch you up on. And yes, today we are going to be unboxing the Guggen Squad official rods that we designed with Ketchco, the Gold Series, the Green Series. I'm told that there's a set waiting for me at the HQ right now and we're going to be heading up there in just a second. I've essentially had these rods in my hands for about five or six months. The whole process has been about nine months or so, maybe a little bit longer from start to finish here. Many prototypes, I think we went through eight. So I essentially know all what the models are and everything. I just don't have the final cosmetic, the ones that you are going to receive. I have not even received yet, so we're about to. And speaking of Guggen Squad, I'm going to hit y'all with a big old fall merch plug right now because this is some of the nastiest, juiciest fall Guggen Squad merch I've ever seen. GuggenSquad.com, get you some. I wish I had this stuff while I was on my trip to Colorado. It's like Christmas when I got home. There's so much awesome stuff here. We've got the new Hunter Dye slogan coming out in that Hunter Orange. You know it. Got that classic foam look. This is typically what I wear. Just your standard camo with that raised emblem, Hunter Dye. Look at this stuff, y'all. Classic camo, Hunter Dye. We got some elk antlers. We got a whole bunch of... Oh, look at this color scheme. Let me just get in here for a second. This is the coolest sweatshirt we've ever produced, in my opinion. Look at that old-school airhead with the forest in there, with the cool little cream color with the camo and the orange access to match your fluorescent orange hat. Little too bright. Bring it back down. Be safe in the woods and look cool. GuggenSquad.com. Tons of other stuff on there as well. And just go ahead and keep that description box there handy. Something I'll always have in my toggle box, ready to go in the fall for those schoolers popping up. Get those random... They get focused on shad. They get off of the cover sometimes. They just focus on shad. They almost come pelagic at times. So you got to have yourself a topwater, you know, a good walk and bathe. Popper style sometimes. You know, the frog, if it gets a little froggy, got to have some blades tied on and things like that. But a lipless crank. In the clutch, we've only had one size until now. We have launched a smaller size clutch. It is a 3.8. Rifling through here. Rifling through, rifling through. There we go. This is what you need. Link down below shopcrawls.com. You can save 30% if you're a Cars Club member. And you got to have some of these, okay? Because they get focused on those little sheds. They just little nibbles, little bite sizes. And especially in the fall, that's where I go to. Springtime, summertime, a little bigger. Go big, fall, winter, small. Sometimes this is the way to go. We got to do a quick chicken check before we head up there and unbox these gorgeously beautiful rods. Hey, y'all. I didn't mean for you to go on out of here, okay? Girls are doing pretty good except for one. Little Penny. Little Penny's got an issue. She's got a neck ruffle, weird little neck ruffle going on. She's got a hobbly foot. She's got something going on with her foot, like an infection. And she's got a squeak, a nose squeak. And that's indicative of some sort of upper respiratory infection. This is what it sounds like when a chicken tries to blow her nose. Hear that? Little peep. Little high peep. There it is. We did have a neighbor come collect eggs for us. Why were we gone? Because the egg thing is just out of control now because we get like six to eight eggs a day. I was gone like 20 days. Let's just say seven eggs a day. Seven times 20. What's that? 140 eggs. We're just passing them around. The neighborhood, we got a huge assortment and the refrigerator. We got them out on the counter. Eggs are everywhere. It's a beautiful thing. We got on-demand protein out here and our chickens are happy and healthy, except for one. Let's see what we got in the old blocks today. One, two, three, four, five. We got an Easter egg. We got a barred rock. We got a red. So great, jorking. And it looks like we have a wine dot. What's the difference in the eggs of all those, you might ask? Really nothing. The red chickens lay jumbos. The rest of them lay large. But overall, they taste the same. They just have different colors. Kind of cool, you know. Tastes the rainbow. Now the moment. You've all been waiting for, and I have not seen, my silver bullet in a pretty long time, y'all. I got to get back to her. Make sure she's still singing all good. Make sure that murk is still, you know, roasty-toasty and ready to go. My baby, the silver bullet. She's in one piece. In fact, she looks pretty good. Have you ever been in the woods so long? You kind of forget the last fishing trip you did. That's a good indicator. Grass fishing. And here it is! The beauty. Oh yes. I'm just, I'm excited seeing these now. I still got to set them up on reels and everything like that. I'm going to take the boat. I'm going to take the silver bullet home today. Take her home to the tree house. And I think I might just, I might just go ahead and take it out. Just get these rods wet. I feel like they need to just get a little wet today. But first let me just briefly go over the rods. And if you want a deep dive, you can get it at Shopgirls.com. Done some videos over there talking about the rods specifically. We've teamed up with Ketchco to make these rods. It's simple. You have five rods in each series. We've got green and gold. You can collect them all. You collect all 10. The same concept applies is it's just, it's the basics. It's what you need to go out and do 90% of bass fishing tasks. It's just with the gold series, you're going to see some differences in the graphite performing mostly faster, which is indicative of like thinner, better graphites. There's some things with the green rods that I really like that it's, that's just with the graphite a little bit slower. It makes it a little better for some things, but overall the fishing gold baby because lighter, I love the feel of cork. I love them both. They're like children. We're going to take these home, unpackage them, get some reels on them, get to twerking with the rods. Rigged and ready to go. Ladies and gents, it is looking like sexual chocolate up in here. First thing I did unwrapped them, shook them without any reels on it, checked the balance and everything and we're looking pretty good. Sorry the AC is on, so coming back to 90 degrees here in Texas, not 60 up in the mountains. Just to compare, these are the rods. This was like the final version, the final blank version that I have been using. It doesn't have the forward grip for the lockdown, a little extra something. Some people like that, some people don't. I can go either way, but this is what I'm talking about. I like the gold series much better with it because it's that high grade cork. It's really, I just really like cork. I love the feel. It's the lightest thing you can get, plus it lasts a long time. I suppose EVA foam can too, but I don't know, it's just a little spongier. I'm a big fan of the old school cork. I'm an old man. And this is the beauty right here. You see all these gold series lined up and you can see right there on the the base of the rod, what you're fishing. Reaction, twitch, it's all emojied. This is the new age people, emojis, muscle, go to, you know, this is a green, this is a green series muscle right here. And you know, for all you old school guys and gals out there, we still have the actual length and the powers, the actions and everything like that, but it's all broken down so that you can, you can see exactly what this rod is best for. But if I had to break down go to and a specific thing that, you know, I would say small Texas rigs, maybe weightless soft plastics, your spinner baits, medium size crankbaits, something with a little heft on it. It's your meat and potatoes rod. I think me personally, I'm a gold guy and I like just lightness. You fish a lot of days throughout the year. You come to appreciate a well balance. It's really more balances, more important than weight, quite honestly. These are just good overall rods, y'all, and they're priced awesome. A hundred and forty dollar rod that feels like this, no brainer. I think a lot of people are going to step up to the gold because of that. If you go with green, you're not going to be disappointed either. It is just a fantastic rod. It's a little more edgy. It's got that little more aggressive look to it. One thing I got to say about both of these and I can talk all day about these y'all. So if you have questions, leave a comment down below. Real seats, handles, they feel amazing. I think anybody that picks this up is going to be comfortable with it. You know, I'm a big knife lover. Some knives, some people love the way they feel. They have like finger grooves and jimpings and things like that. And some people love that. And then some people love just a straight, standard, very round, maybe a Coke bottle design. Just depends on the person. Took a big sampling, a bunch of different hands, a bunch of different people. Of course, everybody in Guget Squad said, you know, how do you feel about this? And I choke up a lot. So I can choke up on these, be just fine. Some people sit back, you're fine either way. Like just, if you're two fingers on, split, one finger, no finger, you're going to find that comfortable either way. One thing I did not have on the samples, and there was a lot of, there was a lot of back and forth about, was the hook keeper. I don't even like hook keepers unless I'm fishing a Texas rig or weightless soft plastics and I don't want to take it out of the bait. But we decided to put this under. That way you're flipping pitch in, even just casting sometimes, you're not going to get that tucked in there or not. It's not going to slip in there. It's actually a closed design, so the line can't go in. But if you do have a Texas rig soft plastic, this is an example of what I'm going to use it for. You got your junior trenchhog here perfectly placed inside the plastic. You don't want to mess it up. I actually didn't, I just rigged this with one hand in two seconds. If you did rig this perfectly and you didn't want to take the hook out and have to re-rig it, I would advise two hands. Pull that in there, and then it's sitting inside and then you can push it back out. I like that design. But 90% of the time, I'm just going to take that bait and I'm going to put it right there, especially my jigs, all my hard baits, stick it right on that little loop on the reel. That's what it's there for. Might get scratched up, beat up, but it's part of the beauty. Maybe just one other thing. I'm missing out on a lot of things here, y'all. Again, I refer you to Shopcalls. They have videos that we've done that are about this, and we're making more all the time. But the green that you see on the green series, this is one thing unique about green is you're seeing the action of the rod come into play where the paint fades. So that's where the action really takes place on the rod. So it is a little different for each one at a different distance. And that's just one of those little detail things, you know. I like the concept that we have done on pretty much every Guggen Squad product where we make it simple, easy, literally learn through not just our videos, but the product itself. When I first got into bass fishing, it was just you find something on the shelf, you look at it and it's just like so many things. You don't even know what this is for, what situation you would use it in, and it is so different these days. We want to make everything streamlined, so easy to just pick it up. The fisherman that is literally just thinking about going to bass fishing and you go, oh, I can do that. Well, this is how it's done. This is a video on how it's done. It literally says on the package, or it says on the bait. I think we're bringing new anglers into fishing, and I would have to say that is something really awesome that everyone at Guggen Squad and Ketchco should be proud of that we're doing, because I see people all the time. See y'all all the time at boat ramps or wherever, and you tell your stories, you know who you are. But anyways, I want to thank you guys for all the support. We have the best audience in the world. That is you, the danglers, the dangle army out there, my goodness. Emergency dangle, emergency dangle alert. We don't have long, and we got a lot of waters. Just ran into a dagum fishing freak right here. Oh, God, look at this. Why did I choose to go this way? Just ran into a fishing freak, kind of like I was explaining to go earlier. I said about three years ago, I started watching my videos and learned how to bass fish from those. So pretty awesome. Is he still over here? Anyways, let's just listen to that real quick. I've missed that noise. I've missed that noise. Anyways, I thought that was really cool, and just a testament to what I was talking about gives me inspiration. Keep going out here doing this, learn new things, and bring all that to you guys. We're about to rip it. Do we have gas? We do. We can rip it. Oh, son. Got these balls of shad just hippity hopping through here, and there's a few fish around them, whatnot. It's a good scenario for the old chunk and wind. Craig Bates, I'm going to get that little lipless out there. There's a couple here that might want to play some ball with us on the old windy point. Dang, oh, we got some good. This is good. Shallow raw I get, the more I'm seeing here. Gold series. Haven't even taken off my wrappers. That's kind of a signature thing of mine. I just leave my wrappers on, but when you get ready, take it off. Fill the bear cork on your fingertips. Yep. The rod that I've chosen to throw this on is the reaction. I know that because it says it right there very plainly. But honestly, I would know it just by picking it up because I've felt these things with no labels for the longest time trying to keep up with them. My favorite technique with lipless is start and stop. You could definitely catch them straight reeling, but the start and stop just seems to do some things. It's like they follow it and you stop it and they run into it. They have no choice. They have to open their grill and get in there. Okay. Here we go. Found them. Wabam. We're just going to drop her down. Straight drop technique. Learn this from the old Dave Mercer. Straight drop with the lipless. Just packed in. Oh, got him. Oh, gosh. Got him on the reel up. He's reeling it up. He just needed that reaction. He needed that high pump. We got you, boy. We got you. First catch. Welcome back to Texas. Oh, yeah. Little sundown action. Come on now. Smash it. Oh, yeah. There we go. We're at it. Oh, got him. Oh, puller. Hello. We might have a bass here. This might be the other kind where it's just really pulling hard. It's a magnum. It is a magnum. Oh, my. Holy cow. That is a white bass, ladies and gentlemen. Look at that guy. Oh, yeah. See you, big boy. Normally I'd keep you. OSG is making dinner tonight. Get ready for the next catch and cook. I just got me a new cooking device. I really want to try some fish on it. A little fall white bass harvest. Catch and cook might be in order. Oh, my goodness. They're getting up there in the shallow now. That one racked it. That one racked it. They're slamming this thing. Goodness. I like it when you slam at lipless, baby. Yeah. Oh, man. Got the double tap on the hooks. Oh, it just came off. These are great. These are great eating fish right here. Perfect size. Not to mention fun. You want to talk about fun? These fish right here, they put up a fight. One of these days soon, because Emmy has just gotten into fishing. She'll be out here catching fish with me. Catching white bass on me. Just got to watch those treble hooks in the back of dad's head. No, you're not. No, you're not going to do this. You're not going to do this. What are you doing? What in the hell is going on? Am I getting attacked by pirates? Just a nice little roll cast right into the front of that little Supra. That would be no problem. Watch this. We're just going to see how close we can get. Pretty close. Pretty close. About five feet away. Appreciate that weight because that was so awesome. Thank you so much. Appreciate all the goodness you've done here today. Oh, oh, they're coming. Oh, the Supra done did it. The double, the double boat. Hashtag double boated. Got him coming up to the surface. I hear it behind me and I just saw it in front of me. That's what we want. This little evening attack here. Right here. Sometimes that does it. A little boat weight. So I was at first mad. No, I'm not mad. You can see in the graph, stand up top now. Perpuscular feeder. Got him. What a, oh, what the, what in the world, dude? You're bait. You're bait. You better watch out. Yeah. Give me another boat. Give me another boat. Come on in here. There you go. Give me all your weight. Give me everything you got. It's like I'm invisible. Oh, there we go. Begging on by the boat. Look at that. Oh yeah. Y'all check this one out. I got a good one here. There you go. You could be catching these, but you choose to get on that board thing. Don't know why. I do know why. It's pretty fun. But this is funner. Man, you better watch those little triple grips on there. These triple grips on the mini clutch, they're small and dangerous. They're kind of scattered, which makes this technique really good. You know, normally if they're just wadded up, I get a spoon. I get right on top of them. But this is where like a crankbait, just pancasting the crankbait is the deal. Oh, there's one. Little guy. I gotta tell you, these are fighting extremely hard. And the waters back in the 70s now, they get going. Everything fights harder. Sun going down. I like a little welcome back to Texas. White bass session at my home lake. This is fun. With the new rods that me and my buddies made. Man, I'm going to take it in, y'all. I'm going to end on that happy note. First Texas fish in a while. I've been in trout land, and I'm excited for the fall. You know, the waters in the 70s when I come back is like just telewarped. Telewarped is some better fishing conditions than when I left, when it was 105. Water was dang near 90 degrees. So hocus docus smoking. Let's get her fired on up and head on home, man. It feels good to be back. And I'm excited. Fall fishing videos. White tail hunting. Fall is here, man. Harvest time. Y'all better get out there. Hope you're having a very blessed day wherever you are. And I wish you the best in all of your outdoor adventures. I'll see you soon on the next one. Fishing 3.