 58.9. What the Dukes! I was just fishing 72 degree water in Flowrida. This is chilly man. Everything's on the bottom like they're cold. I don't want to see that. No. All right, let's take a look at the map. Let's see what we got here. Some little Flowtoids. I don't know what they are. When you're watching fish on your electronics, usually the fastest moving fish is going to be a striper or a white bass. They're always moving. Always. And you can tell that on 2D sonar as well. Then crappie really don't move. Catfish, slow, usually around the bottom. It can be suspended. And then bass are kind of somewhere in between. Sort of behave like crappie. Just way more aggressive. There it is boys. First official crappie of the day. That's a giant. I was just messing around. I gotta land this thing. Hang on. Gosh. Snacky swimmer down the hatch. That is a two pound crappie ladies and gentlemen. I could just tell you. And it came a ways to get it too, which is a good sign. I'm actually going to go back to my truck and I'm going to get another pole. It's a little more suited for this. This is the only one that I've found worth casting at so far. Just coming out towards the main lake and that's a dandy. This is actually so big I'm not even going to keep it. I want this one to be a good spawner. Create more big ones for the lake. Unless you're not going to swim away, don't make me keep you. Give her a 20 feet of water. She's got the bins. I may have to put her in the box. God this is big. Whatever it is. Catfish maybe. My hope for today was to go out and catch some crappie around the bank, but when I saw the water temperatures were really low, I knew it was going to be a toughie and I thought the live scope might save the day and I popped off a big one to start started off and I thought we might hammer some really big ones, but what ended up actually happening is I caught a couple of catfish and a giant drum that I thought was a big bass and that was it. But at least we're leaving the lake with dinner and yes that is not my normal truck right there. Long story, I'll tell you later. Oh my good old buddy, LucasTV hit me up that afternoon and he was wanting to do a little bass fishing exploration the next day at another lake that we hadn't been to in a while and I bledged and I had to bring my crappie pole along because it's just what I do. And we hit the lake for a little while and tried to do a little bass dangling. Tell us, tell us how you're doing here today on this fine day, bro. I'm doing fantastic. I'm here for it. You're being interviewed over there. This is like some old rack, at least over here. I like this. Yeah, back when I had the microphone. One of my old videos I interviewed John B. Hey guys. John, what do you think about being in Texas? It was so good, guys. I'm so glad I came down here from Chicago. I caught all the fish, it was good. I love wiener dogs. What kind of grass is this? I honestly don't know. It's not filtering clearly. It kind of looks like pond weed but it's in leaflets like my hand. What do you call that? What's the scientific term? It's like clean but muddy. It's very strange. Eloquently described. Clean but muddy. We'll check back in with more proverbs from Rob here in just a minute. It was quickly evident that all the rain in the cold front had definitely knocked these fish back. It was honestly quite terrible but started noticing a little something off in the distance of the scopes. Scanning out in the open water and there's this thing that happens after rain and the water gets kind of milky. It's like the crappie will sort of suspend and they'll get up high on the surface and sun themselves and that's exactly what we started seeing and they started to pick up that crappie pole and just fire out there and see if any of these floaters wanted to play ball. Oh just had one there on the edge. I just had one. Dropped it. Especially with the cold front you would think the flipping ought to be good. High suns suck up on those reeds. Look at that. That's a school of bass. It's got to be. It's a school of somethings. Good. Get out there. Get on them. Here they go. Here they go because I'm throwing out the deal. The crappie deal. Crappies they could be. Let me check. Oh just got slammed there buddy. Oh yeah one hit it again. Felt like a bluegill though quite honestly. Crappiesies baby. Oh my gosh double crappiesies. Let's go baby. Hey come on now. Work with me Rob. Work with me baby. Let's see what we got going on out here. Those are decent. Those are nice. That mine's a little beat up dude. Look at that. Dude just make your wife happy right here. Yeah. Dude this is actually. Hey. You want to get after a buck? We might be getting after a little bit of a crappie sesh. You don't want to keep this big boy. Well that's a nice one. Mine had. Do you want to take some of these home Absolutely. Absolutely. This actually could be kind of interesting. Yeah I like that they hit it reeling. That's good. Means they're aggressive. Coming after it pretty hard. There you go. I got another one. Dude I am about to beat a crappie king. There you go Rob. I'm about to beat the absolute crappie slayer right now. Get after it buddy. They are getting after that. Okay. I'm about to hook up too. I'm gonna throw that thing back. Yeah that one's just a hair small. It's a good eater but. Oh god I just had one. He sucked it. They're in like pods which is kind of strange. Quite a few pods out here. Oh my gosh. I love it. I love it buddy. Oh yeah we're rocking and rolling here now. This is kind of interesting here boys. Do you have a measuring thing in here? I have that. Oh yeah yeah you do. Man some you know 10 to 12 inch. Are you serious Rob? I've been waiting for this moment with you for a long time. Because we're about to dangle right here buddy. We're about to really have some fun because there's a lot of pods. Kind of a weird turn of events. Come out here and look for some beds and then we're like oh my god look there's crappie out here just floating. Let's see if we can throw a little dangle dart on top of these son of a gun. Oh here we go. Should be getting close now. Oh my gosh. Oh my god there we go. Spanky McGee buddy. You snatched them right out of that thing too. Oh yeah. They're all up in there. The thing I love about crappies is they stay still. See they just hang there dude. I'm about to be about to be. This one's a little small. There's some good ones in there. Oh my gosh this is so so fun. These are pre-spawn. These are pre-spawn crappies. The crappie chased me all the way to the bottom. I gotta put a lighter head on. No it's wild is so we have this rain and the water's kind of muddied up and they're like suspended pretty high up. It's like they're warming they're warming themselves so they could have been like close to the spawn too but just didn't quite feel the love either. Oh yeah. Oh they're coming after you hard. I got one. There you go. Oh my golly here we go. Let me double up. Dude this is this is it right here. Oh it's a good one too. There you go keeper. The old dangle dart dude. Hey yes sir crappie machine. I should bring these back for candy dig. All right you ready to do a little catching clean and cook action? Oh yeah. My favorite dude crappie cakes. What do you think? I got some of the batter at the house too. Perfect. These are perfect eaters. I'm about to get another one for you. Like 25. 10. Oh gosh. Oh my god. Just blind casting. Just blind casting crappie out here. Oh this is pretty fun. Yeah buddy. There we go. Oh yeah. No you can get crappie close at the boat. That way you get close which is pretty ideal. They will get finicky on you. All right we are going to switch it up look what I just I carried in my in my pocket today. The only baits I had in my pocket. I have snacky swimmers. Look at these. Hungry hippos. There you go. Is this a better one? I don't know. Yeah it's definitely going to be well. Keeper. Switch it up so it's racally special. Oh yeah dude first cast with that thing. First cast with this one. You know it. This is the most non-traditional crappie setup probably in the history of man. I've got 12 pound fluoro as a leader on a short rod and a heavy heavy look at this. Did you get another one? Yeah I got another one dude. I am jacking up some crappie today folks with the old snacky swimmer. This color is something there's something about that color. Yo Guggen bait. They yeah they just chase mine but didn't eat it so they could the toxic that's what I was getting bit on at first was toxic waste. They're about to eat me though aren't they? Oh my god. Yep they're eating this one I'll tell you that much. They're cast. They are eating that one. Three crappie. Look at this. That's crazy. This is it. That's a good one. That's a good little crappie right there. Oh yes. Crappie flopping. Crappie flopping around dude. I'm feeling it right now. This is fun. This is so much fun. Oh my god. It doesn't suck. You know what it really is like I'm bass fishing well no I'm crappie fishing how I would like to bass fish for them. Yeah but you're catching. Just as fun. I think I totally missed. I don't know trying to get used to your thing here. Turn that down. There he is. Well bam. He doesn't make a cut. He's yeah he's a little on the smaller side. Just a little male out here doing his thing. Being a crappie. Oh my gosh what an attack. That's an aggressive one there. Gaw that thing came up 10 feet. He did five fish. That thing is incredible. That thing is amazing. I'm gonna put this one back on. Yeah well I don't know. He's a keeper. Dude I'm getting I'm getting hit just like randomly. I didn't even hit the school. There's just a lot out here. That was great. That was fun. We could put out full spider rigs right now. Just have like eight poles off the sides slow trolling these babies. Really like when you just float it over their heads like that. Oh you're about to get eaten. Oh you're about to get eaten. It's so exciting isn't it. It's crazy isn't it. The crappie. They just sit here right under the trolling motor. That's what they really want. They want it floated over him. It's just hard to do. Oh he took my tail. I need another one. That's why you that's why you have a 14 15 foot rod. So you just stick it out there. Look at this. I'm going straight. Oh god I'm excited. Come on now. Come on now. Come on now. Doink. Oh you doinked me. You doinked me. I need another tail. They will they will nip it quite a bit. They just kind of nip it. I think they're like they're staging to go up there and spawn. This is all I'm going to do when I get old. I'm going to have a chair. A big pole and I'm just going to hunt for big crappies like this. A couple of big bee boppers. Oh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Oh no dude. No that was a full attack. Wow. I'm coming in. Am I coming in? I'm coming in. I'm coming in baby. Let's go. We're attacking. They're moving. Attack mode. I got them. You got them dude. There we go. Now we get to see what I get. Come on baby. It's a good one. Oh crappie. Get down. Older crappie man. Get down. There's a good one there boy. That was fun. That was fun. Those were just two together and so aggressive man. I'm talking it came like five feet away and stroked it. Really fun. Just a good eater but really fun. Woo man. Rob you're starting to get a little. You ever had this many crappie in your live well? You've never had a crappie at your live well. What do you do now? We are without the long pole today so we're just casting. You got them dude? You got the blown one. Come on baby. Be a big one. He's boxed. Better one. Nice. Hose it. Look at this. Look how far down he's go. It's gone. Show the folks at home on my channel that. Oh my god. Came all the way up from the bottom. This is the greatest. This is the greatest in my opinion. Oh gosh. Get him. Get him son. It looked like the big one on the scope. I don't know. It's a keeper. That gum. Oh god he got me with his big old fins. Son. Good one. I mean pretty much everyone that we're catching out here is a nice eater keeper and I do believe Rob is going to take these home to his lovely family and feed them. I'm probably going to take some home too. I like this combo right here with the 16th ounce and the bigger snackie because it falls really slow. That's what I want right now for these fish because I don't have the longer pole. I want a slower presentation. Let's rig one of these up. Oh my god. Oh gosh. Oh no. Oh gosh. Oh I'm sorry. Stepped all up on my unit. You got him? Oh yeah he came up and just hammered down. I might not have a pole now. For that thing right there. For that thing. I'm sorry but I don't know you had a rod laying down behind me. Oh remember that one time you just like stepped on one of my Shimano whatever it was. Yeah you sat on it and bent the reel handle. I thought I was going to watch my rod break. We're still in business. We're still in business. All right back in action. These are really high. These are less before feed. They're up there like sunning themselves. Yes. Come on. Here I am coming. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. It's all you. It's all you. It's all you. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. He got it. Oh my god. He got it dude. He smacked it. I'm telling you dude. I don't know what is happening. I don't know what is happening. They are spanking it but it's not a full inhale. We almost we need like a different color. I left my big crappie assortment at home. I didn't think we were going to be doing this. Oh my gosh dude. That was on me. No he hit mine. He's coming back to you. He's coming back to you. He got him that time. Yes. He got him that time. All that work for that crappie. I don't understand what they're doing though. These people on this lake are the only ones catching fish dude. I don't care. I love it. That one's a Harris Mommy. He's a keeper but we'll throw him back. Absolutely a good time. A good time guys. We are here for a good time in the crappie zone. I often relish when I'm out here catching crappie and I see the bass danglers. No. They're like not catching. I'm like you don't even know right now. You don't even know the fun you could be having right now. Megapods. Where's the pod at? Where's the pod? That's something and I'm going right after that. That's a high pod. High pod. High pod. High pod. So Rob's coming through. He's going to come through. He's going to keep that lure above the fish. Look at that. What's happening? Are you on? Nope. They bumped it though, didn't they? They're right here. They're right here by the trolling motor. Just give them a straight angle. Just a hover. Here baby. Look at this. Look at them. Oh yeah. There's the pod and there's just groups of them like this out here. You know five to ten at a time. So that's what we're looking at. Just wads of crappie. This would normally be like where you would want a spider rig which is an insane deal to have on your boat with a bunch of rods and you just kind of troll, shallow troll the lake and get run across these groups but we're just encountering them with the forward fencing and it's a lot of fun. The whole herd said let's go to that thing whatever that is. This should be easier. Just hit me a second ago. Come on. Got him. Nope. On? No. Just nipping my tail bud. All right. I think we might need to downsize. We might need it for what you're doing. I think the dangle dart might be better because you're like actively shaking it. Good one. Come on baby. Good. There we go. Hope that stump. Let's go Sally. Yes. There's a toad on the stump where it should be. That was fun. Get one that pulls drag a little bit. Smoked it. It's down the hatch. There you go. There's actually a couple more on the top of it. There you go buddy. Wow. That's a good one. Yeah. Feels better, huh? That's a good one. Oh good lord. Watch it be a large. Good one on a piece of cover. Oh yeah. No, it's a big crappie dude. It's a big old crappie. Nice job Rob. There we go baby. There we go baby. Wow. Big old crappie. That is a big crappie. That's an old one. It was just plucked up there on the log. Just pulling it out doing its thing. And you're like oh it's going to be tough and it will. Sidewind. Sidewind action. Yep. I'm disoriented now. I got lost. I blacked out. What do you call that when you're a pilot? Oh my god. I G'd out dude. Rob's on. Dude that was like 80 foot out there man. Look at this. Old crappie. Oh crappie. Oh crappie. He's having a good time today. This is great. Got him on the old dangle dart that time baby. Look at that. This is fun. That's fun. Look at that thing. So yeah folks we did it. We got Lakers TV out there on the crappie game and got him to actually enjoy it and I think he's going to be going back again. I gave him my crappie cake recipe that me and Stephanie love and I'm going to leave it down in the description as well. If you guys haven't tried this, if you're new to crappie and you haven't and maybe you don't like fish, crappie aren't a delicious fish. And this is an excellent recipe. If you don't like a fishy taste at all, my whole family loves it. And there's also a video here so you guys can see how we cook the crappie cakes at our house. So I learned something big in this last 24 hours of fishing where when we have those heavy rains and the water gets sort of milky and maybe those fish were moving up to spawn but things, the water conditions changed, it backed them up. They like to suspend high up in the water column. I'm talking only a couple of feet down if you got a nice sunny day and warm themselves up. And we were able to catch them on life scope but if we were not using forward facing sonar, how we could have caught these fish was to just troll around. Use spider rigs, things like that. Blind casting would have been tough but they are suspended and I learned that. That's something I would have not known and noticed if I didn't use forward facing sonar. I know it's a controversial technology but man, when the days are tough, it is something to fall back on and put some fish in the box. So thank you guys for checking out today's crappie fishing episode. If you want to get any of the baits that we were using, make sure to go to googiesquad.com, use my promo code LFG and save 10% on everything at checkout. Hope your rods are staying bent, fishing freaks and I will see you on the next one. Yeah, there's a big one right here. You got big hairy floaters down there? I'm just checking out your hawkas. So when did you decide I'm a hawka kind of guy? These are like the on power rods or whatever. Power rods? When you start getting old you just wear big funky tennis shoes. It's part of life. You know, main rod will eventually just be wearing like velcro straps.