 Welcome back to the great and awesome outdoors, everybody. We're on the water today. And we're going to be talking about some springtime fishing. Sort of. This happens to me every year, and I'm sure it happens to many of you too. We get excited. Springtime is here. You got things blooming. You see a few bugs. You're like, oh, man, bugs are hatching. Where's that full moon at? There's blooms on the trees. There's got to be bass on the beds. Well, what ends up happening? Yes, sometimes the stars align. Perfect water conditions, atmospheric conditions. You get out there. There's bass all over beds. It's majestic. But the other 90% of the time, what actually happens? We go out there. We get excited. Ooh, water's 61. Oh, where are they? Where are the bass? Where are the beds? I don't know. I can't figure it out. What is happening is every lake is different. And every day and every hour is different in the springtime when you're bass fishing. And in today's video, we are encountering that. And I'm going to two different bodies of water to show you guys a couple of different things that are going on in different lakes, different conditions that are leading into the spawn. But none quite there. Before we get out of the water, don't forget to check out brand new dropping brand new Spakies. We got the new spring collection launching at Goosebawd.com. Very shortly, we got all new shorts. I know the shorts are very popular. We've sold out of the shorts a couple times now. But we got all new patterns. They're cool. What can I say? They're cool. They're going to be awesome when it warms up a little bit. But you can wear them right now and show how much of a man you are. Also, the only plastic that we will be launching in the early spring is this one. This is the only one left. This is a tube, y'all. This is the dube tube. And you're going to seem to use it here in just a second. But yes, we now have a tube. So almost every plastic you can imagine, almost every hard bait you can imagine, and fly apparel. All of Goosebawd.com. You can use my code, LFG, save a check out. Now let's get out of the water and let's try to catch some fish in these odd changing conditions we call spring. The first scenario here is a creek. And this is one of the first places you look to go when you see the Mainlake water temperatures are like high 50s. And you've got a sunny day or it's been sunny a couple of days. Like, ooh, I'm going to go try to find a creek because there's going to be some fish, some early spawners try to sneak in there. I fished around in there for a little bit, actually searching for crappie. But I ended up finding some bass on bets. There's one of them. White bass running up the creek, scooting everywhere. Level eight trolling motor, casting a swim jig, POV, Dustin Connell, right there, buddy. Let's hit that pause button. Crainy that I liked. Can't see it anymore at this angle, but it looked like a juicy one. All right, y'all, I got to do something because I've been waiting to do this for months. I'm sorry. I have to take a pause to grab fishing right now because one of my favorite bed fishing mates of all time, 3 1⁄2, 4 inches, we are coming out with them. We have a white one. You can use the white one for fishing around bass, even shad, or you can bed fish with it like I'm about to do. Do it right there, three otter, new little Mando EWG hook. Somebody needs some weights. Get some weights, a little 3 1⁄6 serabud. Take the dart off. We're going no bobber stop. I want it free and open. Free and open movements here, OK? You need not. Why, bam? Snip it. Tube rigging, how do you do it? Go in there, just like you would a normal Texas rig. All right, this is why I need a wide gap hook, though. They're kind of thick. I actually prefer one size up from here. I'm going to give you guys a little pro tip. Fish and tubes. Take that wide gap hook, bend it out a little bit. All right, make it even. Make it flush with your tube. Actually, that three otter is perfect, OK? All right, there's a real specific little spot I need to be. I think that's it. Behind the limb, so there it is. Yeah, I'm just going to get it. I'm in the right spot. I'm just behind the limb. Also, I'm not going to be able to tell when the fish picks it up. Oh, there it goes, pretty decent little fish. Not exactly sure why I didn't get that fish. I'm going to give her a whirl again. I did not hook the fish, so it should come back. Coming back right now, just not in the juice spot. Behind the limb, again, not great for the hook sets, but that fish is going to eat it. I'm going to bring the limb with me. That fish should come off with the limb. I'm literally, like, working the hook out of the mouth right now. Grab you by the back. See that limb is just wrapped around. It would have come off. I would have really yanked on you. That, my friends, is my first bed fish of the year. Quick to the tongue, unfortunately. So I'm going to let it go right away. See you. The tube is just unresistible. It's one of my favorite bed fishing baits of all time. And that actually worked out kind of good. But I put it over the limb because I was able to pop it up and down. And when you pop a tube up, I didn't have much water in there to work with. But when you pop a tube up, I mean, it's just going to go all sorts of directions. And fish hate that. They hate that when they're guarding their beds. And then they got this thing that's so unpredictable and just darts out. So anyway, put these ridges in it so you can also text-pose it on the outside, not get hooked in the brush, so you can flip with it. And it's a nice soft tube. Got it in a bunch of different sizes coming out, including crappie size, which we were getting back to. Boom, first bed fish of the year. So on this lake, I was pretty much committed to fishing up in a creek all day trying to catch crappie. And I ended up catching that bass on a bed. Got my first bass, bedding bass. And then I ended up hooking about a 4-pound bass on a crappie jig, trying to crappie fish. And I spent the whole time back in there just scanning brush, scanning every lay down, trying to find those crappie. Crappie were not up in there. It's something they didn't like. And I think what it comes down to, what prevented a full-blown bass spawning explosion back there, was the water stability. The water literally was not in there two weeks ago. So this water had just come up, and it's kind of still fresh. So I think the number one thing that fish look for on the spawn is water stability. And then it goes to length of day. So the day is getting a little longer. They start getting that feeling. And they just need that stable water. So if they start spawning, maybe the water drops and they don't have any water left. Or maybe it comes up 10 feet over the head and they don't have enough sunlight for the eggs. There's always that in the springtime. But when it all lines up right, you got stable water. You got good, long day. Fish are feeling it. Water temperature hits our tripe. It's happening. But let's go to another scenario, at another lake. So this time, you got stable water. But you got those colder nights that are coming in. Warmer days, you're getting that 70s in the afternoon. Water temps get up to about 60. Like, oh, phew, phew, gotta go up shallow. Gotta get a dirt. Flip on the bank. But then you get those cold nights. Water temperatures dropping, you know, 50, mid-50s. What do you do? So in this instance, backing out to more main lake stuff. And I'll show you guys a couple ways that you can catch those fish. All right, y'all, next chapter in this weird menagerie video on a completely different lake. And the water temperature is a little colder, even though this is after, water temperatures are very strange on different lakes. And this one is chilly. And I've got a fish in the well right now. I just lost a fish on a jerk bait. So I think we're gonna pick up some jerk baits and do a little pre-spawn fishing here. I think a pre-spawn bite is forming. On the other lake, there was literally fish cruising up in the shallows, basically getting ready to spawn, we're spawning, again, I was trying to crappie fish. So I just, I saw some bass and I got excited to start doing that. But here it's a pre-spawn thing. And I feel like there is a bite to be had. Sunny day, good water visibility for some jerk baits. Okay, we're gonna pick up this jerk bait and do a little jerking here on a lead-in bank. So that's the second fish that I've had. Came out here to do some crappie fishing. All I found is a little crappie, so I'm picking up a bass stick along the way, which is really how I like to fish. There she is, nice little rocks, forming up down there, 45 degree bank. Right on that point, it's predictable. Fighting weird, it is a bass though. Not as big as the last one, barely hooked. Something weird, or they're not quite eating it well. Maybe a color change is needed. Pretty decent bass for here though. I was saying about a jerk bait, even if they think about eating it, they swipe at it, you're gonna snag them, somewhere in the head, nice fish. Tell you what, I haven't let this other fish go yet. So we get a double release. A little bigger where I can't get my hand around it. Little chunky, little monkey. Double sniff, love to see it. Let y'all go. Vice-tease, big vice-tease. Hell, I just can't get away. I can't get away from the green ones, y'all. I am trying to go crappie fishing and end up just seeing little things along the way. I'm like, hey, there's a crappie bass there. Hey, there's a bass on the bed. They're just entering my life. I love it if you use a crappie, honestly. If you rando cast, but really those points are probably what's, there's one right there. As I say that, it's a little peanut on the random bank. Probably staying away from the big fish on the points. Don't want to get eaten. Tell you what though, there's a little, there's a pre-spawn thing happening here. There's a little pre-spawn thing happening. I like the water clarity. This lake is normally trash. All right, we're going to the other side of the spawning creek, warmed up to 56.5. Keep casting on these secondaries here. The fish have kind of made it obvious that they're not really wanting to push up right now. They're wanting to stick on these points, which is fine. Catch them on the jerk bait, it's a micro. I'm telling you what, that fish got off, I would have told you. That must be a spotted bass. It is, had a little extra power on it. A little extra power on it, didn't it? Look at that, a little pee-pee. A little pee-pee buddy, creaming this jerk bait. This is definitely what they're attracted to right now. Kind of close to the bank, it's going to be another spot. The mysterious spotted bass. Look how many of these fish are getting in on the outside of the mouth. We'll just swipe it up. I actually felt him kind of double tap it. Spotted bass are kind of a mystery on their spawn. I've really never talked to anyone that's, something like, yeah, we've got a, we've got a spawning bass, or a spawning bass on beds. They do, I think they probably spawn, she just bit it, a mystery, but she bit it, just slapped at it. See if she bundled up a thing there. Unsuspecting nuggets. Here, a little spotted bass again. Boy, there, back in town. Skinny, I don't need to eat. I've only seen a ton of shad back here, so little buddy, skinny. Swipey, Mr. Swipey, was just about to reel it in and make another cast, because it's a large mouth. That didn't quite hit the good part of that point. Shrinking, I don't want to shrinkage. Jerkin arms getting tired. Something, tainy. Oh wait a second, just started fighting. Started really fighting hard. Okay, we have hooked a carp, or it's a 12 pound bass, but I believe it's a carp. It's massive, it's massive. Okay, we're gonna have to go chase this thing down. It's going in to the pocket here on the tuna. Blah, bam, those little round bin hooks. Just got them, seems to twist it on me. Wait, is this catfish? We got it here. Getting bent, getting bent, son. No, it's a huge carp, huge carp in the tail. Maximum power. Trying to unhook it, trying to shake it out. Don't do it, there it goes, wow. See how bent these hooks are now. Actually, looking pretty good. Pretty good on our scout. All right, let's try that again. Leaving a marina area. We've seen this two days in a row. Cropies are lodged up under the docks, lodged. I mean, the nastiest places you can't get to. That's where they're sitting right now. I don't know what they're waiting on to move to the bank. The water is 61 right now. It's probably low fifties in the morning, but the crappie usually spawn before the bass, so I would think it'd be right now, but I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I need to check my logs where I started seeing crappie up on beds last year, but I saw them this morning, out deep, and I just saw them all up under the docks here, saw them yesterday, all up under the docks on another lane. So, crappie spawn should be here shortly, but they're definitely staging up under there where I can't get my lure, that gummet. One last stop. Where are we started? I don't see if there's any more that have moved up since it's got a wee bit toaster. That's not the one. That gummets. Spotty-scow, spotty-scow. Pretty fish. Spot of bass. You guys want to know if you got a spot of bass or not. We got these striations here, different kind of pattern, but they always have a sticky tongue. You can feel their tongue and it feels like sandpaper. That's a confirmed spot of bass. Another good bait for here would just be like a weightless stick bait. Kind of let that float around. Also important thing to do when you're jerking, when you first throw that bait out there, reel it like a crankbait, just a second. Just to get it to dive down a little bit sometimes. If you start jerking right as it hits the water, it'll kind of spin and do something weird. Reeling it also gets it down there a little quicker. Just a couple cranks, couple cranks, then start jerking. Gotta give the wrist a break for a second. Plasticating a cocky. The wacky. Oh, what's that? Ooh, that's a good spot of bass. It's a chonker. Dang. Look at that. Right in the shnout. Bink. That is a nice spot of bass. Very healthy. Don't get big. He had some girth, though. What's that big mama, though? I'll settle for that. It's a good fish. I know there's a chunky bud in here somewhere. Chonky bud wants the log or that dirt bait. There's just no wind right here on this lead-in bank. Got pretty deep water behind me. Actually, I'm 20 foot right now. These fish are just coming off the bottom, looking up, seeing that stuff. Going in, they've got a guy. They've got to get it. They've got to get it in their face. There's one. Oh my gosh. Serious right now. What happened on that one? What the deuce? Hook looks great. Just having some clubs here. Clubs, these are just little spotties. They've got small mouths. Large mouths are just going to be a boonk, or I'm not even going to feel it. There's like a better one, too. That's the one. That's a good, that's a big, large if you want it. Okay, had to do a battery change while fighting the fish. Go ahead and smash that like button for that. And that is juicy, large mouth we wanted right there. He sucked it in. I felt that thump, and boom, baby. That's our wacky finesse hook right there. I was telling you guys about a few videos ago. It's perfect for that lunker luck. Look at that fish. That's awesome. That is awesome. I'm going to sniff you so much. Yeah, beautiful, large mouth bass. Right where it should have been. On the log, got to love it, baby. Quick sniff and we'll let it go. See ya. I love you, I love you so much. Tickle, that's how we're going in the day, y'all. Fishing freaks, it goes without saying. You gotta have a log ready at all times. So, the wind had just calmed down, the jerk big bite kind of faded off, still catch them a little bit. But if you are finding yourself on a lake and you are not getting into fish where you think you should, like, oh man, they should be up in your spawn and it's like 60 degrees, 61 degrees, just go back out a little bit and fish the closest good piece of cover structure that's going into that area. And oftentimes that's where you're going to find some fish and usually a big bass too, that's where the big females like to hang out. They only go up there for a little bit, you know, just a day or two and then they are out to their comfort zone. What an aquatic adventure we went on today, y'all. Couple different bodies of water, getting some different looks, catching some fish. Weird fish too, oddities, catch them all. Don't care. I've been hitting the water a lot here lately, y'all. I don't feel like I'm super in tune with the water but I've got the bug so bad right now to go bass fishing than any kind of fishing. If it's just, if I see, there's like no wind in the morning, I just get excited, I gotta go somewhere, I gotta go, I start just geeking out. I hope you guys are the same way. But thank you for tuning in today. Again, if you want to go to googleswall.com shop for any of the new stuff or any of the great old stuff, you can use my code LFG, save it. Save it to check out, section over there when you shop and call. All right, thank you guys. Smash that like button for outdoor greatness and I'll see you on the next adventure. Yeah, buddy. Smooth as glass, put the silver bullet in the high gear. Got our full break in, see how fast you'll go.