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You can get signed up for as low as five bucks on your first box. Click that link down there. The code is Mondo. The code is Mondo. That's how you're gonna save five bucks. And then you can start getting Fishmas in a box to your doorstep every month. Oh my goodness, we have found... Little Bagley right here. Imitates those small little shad that they are chasing down right now. So, let's get to them. Oh, the ultralight is too much fun. Too much fun on the ultralight. I'm gonna be able to unhook them fast enough. Hook dip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip. I've got another one on. It's insane. You may notice I'm wearing my Lake Louisville white bass rodeo championship shirt. I'm not on Lake Louisville today, but it's a lot of the guys call me because I don't know, I enjoy catching a white bass. I love eating them. And from my experience, a lot of bass hang around their schooling activity. Where are those donkeys at? This lure right here is just, it's insane. Me and John did a video featuring this lure and catching white bass one after the other just slabs. And they were down deep, but the way I'm fishing it right now is literally just reeling it in. That guy's not, he's on the edge, but we're not gonna keep him. Now that the action's calmed down, let me tell you about what happened yesterday. It's like my fishing experience yesterday, and you guys gotta just pay attention to this. It's full moons in the summer, no joke. There's another fish. Full moons, absolutely devastating to fishing. You know, here in Texas, it is at 100 degrees here. We are looking at full moon fish feeding at night, and then the day fishing just being bad. Let's keep her right here. Yep buddy, ow, gosh, he got me. We'll put this guy in the cooler. Full moons, oh yeah, can be extremely tough in whatever you're doing in the outdoors. Like if you're hunting or fishing, salt water is especially sensitive, but fresh water too, I mean, it could be really, really tough. Shad of just spawn two, and you'll see a lot of tiny, tiny shad, and you'll see both largemouth and white bass, just depending on where you are. Chasing, tiny little shad like that. So that's why I'm using this, this Death Stalker. Plus they love spoons, they love flash. This thing's got a little blade on the back. It's perfect, perfect for this. Catch them out deep with it and catch them up shallow. But the bass fishing is just, ee, it is a doozy, it's tough. I just wanted to come out and have some fun and get some meat. I'm literally out of crappie, I'm out of white bass. I hardly have any catfish left, so. It's time, it is time to slay, and I need to find some more hammers here. See old Largie, come here bud. Got a mixy old green one in there every once in a while. I found this white bass here, but there's one little section that has some largemouth on it too. One absolutely bonkers on it. Now you're digging, now you're digging. Pushing them up on this flat. Pushing them up and annihilating them. Just got bit, just got bit. Tapping it, oh, chasing it. Got him. Sometimes with this bait, you just gotta let it drop just a second, got him now. This feels like a good one. Yes sir, there's a good one, and he's got more with him. That's a good sign. Well, I want to show you all the size shad that they are chasing. This includes a lot of bass right now too. Just look at that little guy there. That's what we have going on. So it becomes very difficult for a month or so in the summer, just spinning on the shad to really catch those fish that get so dialed into that. But there you go. If you look at the back blade on that death stalker, it's actually about the same size as that minnow which really helps too. So it's not a minnow by the way, it's a shad. But get that guy out of here. They're just loaded out here on this point. There's a point right there and then it extends out and they're all over it. And if you look out to the right side of the boat, you can see both sides here. Look if we get full screen for you. So all of these dots that have these shadows, those are all the white bass. Isn't that crazy? They cast those shadows. They're kind of high off the bottom. That's why the shadows are so big. But you'll also notice that it's moving through really quickly. So you'll see more constant action if it's bass. Like they'll kind of sit in one spot. But notice there's no cover out here. There's really no hard bottom. They're literally just using the point itself to kind of trap these shad and feed on them. And they're just moving around, chasing them. How does the shad move through? But that's one way you can just sit here and pay attention to your electronics and know which direction to cast and when exactly to cast when they're really out there. So there's white bass. They're shadows. And also I have triggers. So technique I'm using now is I'm letting it sink to the bottom and I'm just kind of like yo-yoing it coming back in. Just trying to just go up and down through the water column because they're not hitting the surface anymore. But I'm not sure if they're really not locked on the bottom. But they're just chasing those balls of shad. So just to optimize the water column, trying to hit most of it, just kind of yo-yoing it. There's bite. Chasing it. There we go. If I feel one biting it, I'll make the yo-yos a little bit tighter so that they have a better chance of getting it. So it's not moving around as much. Ah, I lost them right there. But if you're moving it big time up and down, a largemouth has no problem eating that. But a white bass with a real small mouth, will have a harder time keying in on it. Come on, get it. Yeah. Felt you getting it. I think I'm gonna give it one more cast out here. My retinas are about to burn out of my face. It's tough. No sunglasses. Couldn't resist catching another largemouth on a, on the recon, mini recon on these points. Sure. I think there might be a couple more in there. This one hit it a few times too. See you buddy. It's very windy and sunny now, but we have accomplished our goal. I've catching our white bass. Caught a few largemouth. Just had to get me a little green fish action in there and I'm ready to go in now, y'all. It is 7.30. All the fish are starting to move deeper and they'll come back up and they'll feed the same way they were this morning in the evening time, in that low light time. And then at night, as the full moon comes up and maybe right in the middle of the day, deep, you know, but of the offshore game. It's a lot of, it's a lot of work. So this is something that I feel like everybody can do. You can go out to the lake, go out to the pond really early, get that first couple of hours of action or late evening and then just, just put it up during the whole day for your, if you're Texas, especially when it's super hot. So we gotta go clean some fish now. We're gonna go make some gold crispies, baby. If you've never cleaned a fish before, I'm about to show you a bass species that is, a lot of catfish, catfish, different story. So I always like to let them sit on ice for a little while. Pressurably like overnight, but caught them early this morning and we were just gonna go ahead and do them now. They are pretty stiff. So that is good. Just firms that meat up, makes it easier to clean. And then I think the meat just, it's just taste better when you start cooking it. Got myself a nice little wooden ottoman here. Or some sort of desk. This is throwaway furniture from the tree house. Serving a great purpose today. You're gonna go in right behind the gills, just down to the spine. I'll always wanna make sure you're trying to get up high there on that back. And I like to flip the fish around and then just push, go down in the spine and push outward. Gotta be real careful with the electric delay knife so you don't go through the spine. You kinda pulse it, just be careful. Find that spine, feel it and then just do down and when you almost get to the end, flip it over and then you just wanna go right on the skin. Whole purpose of filet knife is that it's flexible. So you got a little flexibility in the blade that way you can push down, really get under there and come out with it and it gets just about every little piece of meat in there. Then I just like to cut that rib cage out. It's done, there's one. Creative, let's take a look at this. Isn't that nice? This table I've gone through so much. It's from William Sonoma. Oh is it? It's one of the finer fish cleaning stations out there. Do you want this table? You can get it, link in the description. Come pick it up. Plakelifeusefurniture.com. Also subscribe to our other channel because we're almost to 80,000 subs I believe. So link down below, check it out. Help us get to 100,000 subs. It is a good day y'all. Feels good to get up early, get out there, get on some fish and have them ready for dinner and OSG has given us the go to put them in the grease which is my favorite way to eat them. I call them golden crispy. When you cook them right, there's nothing better than a good fried fish. But while we're waiting on the grease to get hot, here's a flashback of what happened yesterday. I woke up super early in the morning and there was a fox just chilling in the yard kind of stalking the chickens. Didn't seem to be afraid of me. Afraid of the dangle. We got to the warehouse and then Rob took entirely too long getting his tackle ready. Then we got on the road and we realized it was a full blown full moon and the fishing was going to not be good. There it is. Well bam. The sun is in full effect. It's already 85 and a half degrees. We have no water. We're in search. We're in search of the water out here. I had a day's 100 glosses. Why do you keep passing every single gas issue? You look so red right now. I am very, oh my body. You're just lit up with a red glow. What are you talking about? It just came out of an easy bag of it. I'm gonna pregnant. You're pregnant? Yeah. How did you get pregnant? What the hell? Then we arrived to the lake to find that there was tall grass and I was wearing sandals, which probably meant I was getting chiggers. Another hour unloading the kayaks and then we got into the baits. So in my NTB box, I had a chase baits wiggle bomb, a Lucky John X gear crank bait, an abrogast who's a popper. When's the last time you saw a daggop who's a popper? A biospawn exo swim and then I also had a 10,000 fish Koshybug brand new, paired with a hard baits jig, dead bolt. After not having my GoPro rolling and then missing a five pounder on my hula popper, I landed this guy. Give me a little buddy. A five pound blast it. That pretty much wrapped up the fishing day because then it was 102 degrees. So we went back to the warehouse where some new merch came in. Lake Lewisville white bass bash champion. I then proceeded back to the tree house to make sure the chickens had not been eaten. They had not been eaten. And then I discovered I did get those chiggers. It was a tough day. Pretty much past eight a.m. Pawn fishing in the kayaks in the wind. Just wasn't working out. I had way more fun this morning besides getting to hang out with my buddies. Talking about the grease here, a mixture tonight of half canola oil and half very high in 500 degree smoke point avocado oil. And OSG is graciously, let me use this. I don't know how much of stuff is, but I know it's pricey. When it's got a special cap on it on the end like that, you better ask first. Back in the kitchen with OSG. I'm gonna steal your thunder here. Back in the kitchen with OSG. I just gotta do it. Sorry. Hit us one time with a bag. What are you doing in here? All right, so this is egg white. You wanted to do milk, but I used the last bit of it, all the grits. So we're gonna have to improvise here. So we're doing egg white, even that doesn't look like egg whites. And what do we got in here? The flour spice mixture. Pretty much all flour. There is a little bit of cornmeal in there. And I use the SPG from- Cosmo Q. Cosmo Q. And I put some smoked paprika in there. Ah, look at you. Ready to hear that sizzle pop. Sizzle. Yes. And OSG, just offset. She has made us a delicious healthy juice salad. Gotta have your greens. Cause I'm gonna pretty much be eating that right there in the ice cream. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready for the grease. Before I pop them in, I'm gonna put a little extra Cosmo Q SPG on top of here. Hot. Just pulled the first batch out. Not that excited to tell you the truth. Don't think, I think there's a couple factors going on here. But we'll just give it a taste first. Got the grease too hot on the initial insertion. Kinda flash fried it. That's just a lot of burnt taste. I am not excited about that. Usually the first batch though is the worst. Then the second one is the best. And then the third one is, yeah, that's how it goes. Woo. Second batch looking tremendously better. Yeah, it's not bad right there. You know, flakiness is on point. Just a little burnt on the outside. Getting better though. That's the golden nugget right there. Yes, sir. Just look at the difference here in these two specimens. Those came out much better. You can see some of the SPG in there. Say OSG did a good job on that breading. That's a good, you know, medium size thickness. I like a little crunch to it, but I don't like gnawing on batter and I don't like it to be loose, like uncovered in places. This is a pastime for me in the summer. Going out, catching these white bass, crappie, whatever it is, and just putting them in the grease, having a couple cold ones with some friends, family, and just enjoying the fish that you got. You got to love it. Okay, what about some grits with it? Grits and a little salad. Come on, man. Come on. Gales and grits. Okay, here we go, here we go. Mm, there it is right there. Much better, y'all. Oh, the extra SPG, that stuff is awesome. There's a little bit of sugar in it too, I think. That's almost like fried chicken. I know it is. Ma'am, that is good. Serve with your favorite adult beverage and you have a good summer evening. Oh, I hate when that happens. Get that on out of there, there we go. It is time to go enjoy the fruits of my labor today. Actually, the fish of my labor. Hit the like button, y'all, for classic golden crispies. Go ahead and just smash it. And I got to say thanks again to MTV for sponsoring today's dangle and many of the dangles on this channel. 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