 Howdy y'all, welcome on back to the channel. I'm starting it off here at the Casa doing a little just arrow flinging. Before we head out to the water, what a beautiful glorious outdoor day we have y'all. I'm talking about first cold front. First strong cold front coming into Texas here for for the early fall. It's going to be deer season here in a couple weeks. Gotta stay sharp on that. It's currently elk season. I've been getting picks from my buddies out in the woods, getting elk. But when those cold fronts start hitting, my entire outdoor tangle juices start flowing. Just get a little lucky here in one time, is it? You know, a couple little, oh, that's tight. 25-yard poppers just keeping her sharp. And I'm going to head out to the lake. It's breezy today, but our highs are in the 80s. Lows are going to get into the 50s the next couple of days, y'all, and I am excited to see what we're dealing with here. Just, you know, those are easy, easy shots, but been practicing angles, you know, quarter and away, quarter and two just shifting around. And I feel like I've made enough mistakes throughout the last like five years of bow hunting that I'm starting to be okay. Like I'm starting to get some confidence in it. So, of course, that'll probably all change. First little four point I see walking out. When I'm sitting in a tree, I'm probably going to freak out, get the shakes. That's why I love to do it in the first place. But what I want to do today is just take the boat out on the water and first of all, just get it wet because it's disgusting right now. Do a little cleanup and then just tackle organization. Just kind of get the line stretched a little bit because I do have a tournament this weekend. I'm leaving tomorrow for it to start official practice and all that. I don't know what they're going to be doing in this tournament, but I'm just hoping with this cold front, it's going to be top water city, baby. Just having a good time, catching some fish on top. As far as today goes, 20 mile an hour winds, I think it's spinners, cranks, stuff like that. Mainly we just need to get that silver bullet wet and get it ready for the derp. So, let's hop in the boat and let's get on the water. I have to do me a quick stop at the Buckeys. Put nitro fuel in here, ethanol free, $4 a gallon for the derp for good luck keeping that murk running hot and always get my def here. You guys aren't familiar Buckeys, big gas station here in Texas. They have def pumps for your def, no more filling up with jugs and I just talked to my derp partners. They just dropped their boat off at the lake and they said that it is still like really hot down there. It's like 100 degrees so the cold front hasn't hit out in East Texas yet, but it's coming. She's purring and the wind is just absolutely ripping. My impeller had so much crap in it from the last time I fished. I literally had to just let that flush out for a minute or two, so now it's good. Let's take a little joy ride in the waves and then we'll get settled in, get a few lures tied on, see what needs to be re-strung and all that good stuff and catch a bass or two. Hold on to your butts, this is going to be a little gnarly. It's completely shifted from when I left the house. Got 80 degree water temps, you know that's going to drop into the 70s over the course of the next few days with these nights being in the 50s. Oh my, and just bait, bait on top of bait, look at the side scan unit. Look at them all out there, my gosh, well that ain't good. I had no idea this thing even took batteries. What'd dad got? Okay, I'm on the Garmin website, says flash is red when I push the button. That means the foot pedal is not connected to the trolling motor. Update, I'm going to try it update again. And this friends is exactly why I wanted to come out of here and float the boat because stuff like that can happen. This could have taken me, I don't even know if it's going to work, but it could have taken me out of the first day of the practice. I'm hoping this update works. To be honest with you, that Garmin trolling motor, I love the power of it. I love how quiet it is, but it's giving me some troubles. So this next boat, I'm getting them in Kota, keeping the Garmin electronics because I do like those. Everything's going to be the same pretty much. I'm going to have a 15 inch instead of the 12 right there. I think it's a 12. And then just have the same size up front. And another thing that I'm going to do different on the next boat is I'm going to have a separate transducer for live scoping for more like staying still spot locked. Live scoping instead of just using the foot pedal or sometimes when I'm crappie fishing and even bass fishing where I just, I want that. So I'm going to have to figure out a setup. Shut everything off, updated. So we're back in the game. There's a lot of shad, a lot of shad moving. Can I get an amen? A lot of shad in this shallow water. You can see a couple of birds working the shoreline as well as the aerial divers. And there's some brush, some of these little areas that ought to hold a bass. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That was a large mouth right there. Just absolutely drilling that shad. If I could get this thing undone. I'm here, Margaret. He probably got his fill on that one. That was a good size. Gizzard shad. I'm just going to hold down here. I'm not sure if the camera picked that one up or not, but it was, just blew up on it. Didn't get the greatest, the greatest pop on it. But God, I think that was a different fish. Oh, oh, oh, oh, God, just pulled on it again. Holy cow. That's a good one too, man. And it's not a low light hour, you know? We're 130 right now. So that just tells me these fish are fish pretty fired up. This little pressure change. I've got a crosswind and I've got a bunch of trebles on this thing. That's our hound topwater walking bait. So what I can also do is pick up a frog. Frog's going to be weedless. There's like a couple little, oh gosh freaking hit it. God, he blew up on it. Y'all are just, they're shy on it. They're just shy on it. That's three blow ups. I'll take this dart, six inch, get a little tungsten putty on there and whip that through there. See if they react to it. Minnow style bait will get it done. It's a little one. That's not the same one. It's what's living. You are living in there, reaching that thing through there. I'll take that putty off. I haven't even showed you guys this putty yet. It's pretty cool. Feeding mode is middle of the day to eat. Oh my gosh, big bass just blew up right there. Holy cow. Saucy, that ought to do her. Hammered, hammered right there. Short striking it. I'm going to get a little crazy here. See if I can just bring one up. This is a gar. He got it. Oh, he done got it. He's going to take off with that one now. That's a big boy. That is a big boy. Oh, he running. He running out to the deeps. Might have ourselves a world record where I might have just lost me a contender. Chase him out here. This gar is about five feet long. He ought to be letting it go about right now, but he's just hanging on. Really wants it. Oh my gosh, we got a shark. Go. I don't really know how I'm supposed to land you. Do anything with you. Really, I just thought it'd be fun to watch you eat it. A little pressure on him. Let's see what we got here. He's so big. I'm scared to put pressure. He's probably at the line in his mouth. He's going to break it. He's going to the shallows to eat it. Oh, oh, he's got it down his. He's got it. It's actually down there. Oh my gosh. Look at him. He's like a dolphin. We done got us a guard, man. Oh my. Oh, he's so big. He's just side hooked. Come here, bud. I just want to take a look at you. Folks at home want to see you. He's going into the dirt. Oh my gosh. Hey, I prefer to get my lure back if you don't mind. Oh, there you go. I think the line is in his mouth and it is. Yeah, look at that. Oh, near goodness. Lines in his mouth and the swim bait is on the other side. Got a decent size net on board. It's just like, what an interesting little vlog this has become. Here it comes. Got you here in open water chasing you down. Gosh, this thing is way bigger than I was expecting. Just an absolute Mando. Oh, we broke it finally. I am surprised the line lasted that long. That was a fun experiment. Well, it's just a, it's a popping mix school over here. Trolled into the next pocket and the white bass are having their way with some little shad critters. Oh my chasing me. Oh, we got on all up in here. I'd ought to get the bass going as well. Shad fest. Oh no, about hooked me. Popping me again. Popping me. So fun. Look at, look at the, look at the tenacity. Love to see it. The midday tenacity. Really hate to see what these things are going to do when it starts really cooling off. Look at that. Why buy him? Why buy him? Oh, we got it. Chasing some little shad here. Right. Third species of the day. But there's brushy tops back in here. And you know what we just saw around the corner was bass blowing up in the brushy tops. So I got a feeling if we get this over the right bit of brush, it's going to be goner. I'm just going to go ahead and do it. Get that frog on him. Get up in that buck nasty. Oh golly. Just had a large mouth sucking under right there. I watched him not even a splash. It's like he just got the tail. Oh my gosh. Holy cow. That bass just caught me off guard. I was about to reel in my bait. It's about to reel in my bait. He just exploded on it. They're definitely preferring the topies. My gosh. It's just four, four I've missed on top though. So much brush in here. There has to be a bass. Spotted bass. I caught one of you out here in a while. Can't resist. Good spotted bass. Can't resist a little finesse jig. Yeah, buddy. On that tree, buddy. That jig. Like you got that false spirit. Good one. Just got that jig pinned on you. Nice bass. Let him go. Beautiful. Love to see that on that little juicy jig. It's at five, sixteenths. Just perfect little light flipping setup. Light flipping, dragging around docks. It's usually in my junk fishing arsenal. I did not intend to get in the zone here. Out of the lake I was just kind of wanting to get some gear figured out and see what the fish are doing. Just get an idea. But man, it seems like, you know, they put those little timetables and stuff online or on apps and, you know, they used to be in magazines. You can just look it up like the best times to fish. And right now we're coming off this full moon. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. But usually the fishing is more tough during the full moon. They'll feed it that night and they'll feed it on the shad early and late and kind of be lazy during the day. But we're coming off that full moon and the pressure is just changing a lot. So I can just tell I fish this lake so much and it just seems like these fish are biting. Like I need to be in a good spot where there's some big ones. Just getting midday topwater bites, you know, one, two, three o'clock in the afternoon. It's pretty exciting. Excited for the fall of topwater. Gonna pop in checking my baby boa right before dinner time. And it's gonna be time to rig up all of our tackle for the tournament. Well, how are we doing in here? Doing pretty good. You know, got the family dinner on the table and taking care of two kids. Keenwa. Felt accomplished today. It's like I did something with my life. What'd you do? I took care of two kids today. I'm just kidding. I could just survive the day. I feel like we're good. Luckily we've got some neighbors and friends that are dropping off food every night. Yeah, we got some soup, black bean soup. I made some cornbread and this is like a Keenwa salad. Heck yeah. My last healthy meal before we go to a tournament and eat beef and drink whiskey the whole time. I did get you some death waters though. You did? Yeah, I thought about it. Oh my gosh, that was on my list. I have a new appreciation for Mom's more than one because both bringing her to school and picking her up. I was like five minutes late, which I'm never late. I'm always at least like 10 minutes early. You were that mom? I was that mom. Was she waiting there? Lip quivering? Like where's my mommy? She wasn't the last one. She was second to last. So we'll try harder on Thursday. There was another mom. There was another mom. They probably had three. It's a whole new ball game folks and our little boy over here, you know, just quiet as a mouse. Maybe he'll sleep tonight. Doing good buddy? Need a little camo blanket? Climb? What did you learn at school today? I learned the letter B. You learned the letter B? And beans and bears. And baby bin. And baby bin. That's right. Do I get a treat for that? Cool. I get one for dad. I get a treat for dad too. We have both games. Save one for me? I know. You love sugar just like your daddy. What's your favorite color today? Pink. Pink. It's pink today. Got you. Nice work here. Painting the castle. Looking good. Oh, I love you too. We've got some sorting to do. Wormies, jigglies and wigglies. See what all we need to take. But judging on what I experienced today, top order man. We're gonna bring some frogs, big shad stuff. Gonna be probably a good shad explosions happening. I'm gonna sign off right here guys. Thanks as always for hanging with me on today's vlog. And the next thing we got is the dirt. So I'm off to the rodeo. Thank you guys for tuning in. May God bless you and Godspeed in the great outdoors.