 What's going on fish and freaks welcome back to the tree house special special day today Elijah is coming down you don't remember who Elijah is I mentioned him in one of my videos just talking about brain tumors brain tumors just all over my life it seems like I had a contest many months ago to come fish with me to write in and just you know say something inspirational say something about yourself but to make every cast count hashtag and obviously his story caught my heart pretty hard so I'm going to pick him up me and Ocean's been girl gonna go pick him up we're gonna go fishing today and just kind of hang out you know spend some time together got his room set up he's gonna be staying with us of course we're just moving in so it's not much to speak of but we gotta we got a couple of beds and got in their own little space down here it's gonna be Elijah and his mom coming down but what he doesn't know is that favorite fishing USA has hooked him up big time and I want that to be a surprise when he gets here and when he comes down to put his stuff in and he's gonna see all the all the favorite fishing stuff laid out so I'm gonna lay that out right now and then we go get him from the airport and we're gonna film this reaction Elijah this is your unboxing right in here it's gonna be here for you the door of a couple of hats t's for four of the six stick reels in here this is so cool big shout out to pair fishing go feel like I did a pretty decent job with that and then rods LFG fishing freak make every cast count rod he's got two six stick rods and he's got another big sexy I think that'd be a nice thing to come back to let me know in the comments if you think I did a good job with the layout I don't know could have done better maybe should have got ocean sminger on that one pretty hot day ahead of us this is gonna be a little breezy gotta say hey man how hard do you want to fish you may not want to fish too hard because he's got a brain tumor he's had some vision problems had some issues so he may not want to stay out too hard but he's not used to this Texas heat yeah that too I'll take him out fishing as hard as he wants to go that's for sure I think that's him I got see him hey hello hi nice to meet you nice to meet you too hi how was the uh flight it was good it's really good a little surprise out there worry about the way no way yeah go check it out no way yeah man all of that stuff is for him that's for him just me that's from favorite fishing USA you got signature series LFG rod you got another big sexy in there you got two six six oh my god you got four reels you're hooked up is that gonna work yeah so you got some work to do you got some combos to assemble I wasn't expecting all this congratulations buddy thank you Elijah's he's already got his little surprise so he's all hooked up we're out we're just hanging in the basket right now are you excited to be here man very very excited are you pumped I'm here it's insane you're the only fishing break that's ever stayed at our house I'll tell you that he's got to rig up some tackle as well since he's got some some new rods of reels putting 16 pound fluoro on here he's up above the boat looks like you're jigging from right here too got two rods rigged up for Elijah and the third one we're going to do a spinning rod and this took me many years to try to figure this out to get the least amount of line twist as possible on bait casting you want the line to come off the same way it goes on to the spool so it's like this when you're really in it with a spinning rod it's different because that spool is facing an opposite direction so you want to spool it like this where it comes off the top instead of rolling on its side so that's the main thing to keep in mind this the other thing with braid you want to make sure it's really tight on the spool so it doesn't slip so it's not gaining any line that's exactly what will happen if if you don't tighten it down you can put a little piece of electrical tape on there or just cinch it down really hard so we got a small piece of tape here there we go put it on there nice and tight there we go coming off coming off like a champ the other thing that happens with spinning grills is that the line if you're using braid it will dig down into the spool so the idea right here is and try to put as much pressure on without the drag slipping reel me in feel like you got a mondo yeah it's cleaner it's tight it's gonna it's gonna tight shut it up whereas before it was kind of kinking into the spool itself that was maybe three things maybe three tips right there to help uh line twist on your spinning rails okay i think we're good to go Elijah we are here we're at the lake finally yes and you've got all your combos over there ready to go i wanted to pick a lake that had some docks so that way we are able to kind of get in some shade and get you know the bass like shade they don't have eyelids if i didn't have eyelids i certainly wouldn't be out in the sun right now there we go this is actually Elijah's first time in a bass boat right so this is pretty special day oh we timed it perfect it was majestic we had a little rebound there okay don't go anywhere don't break the speed limit i can't think better young young man to come down and fish with me a lot of this is new new experiences for him so you know he'll ask some questions and i'll explain it something i've done a hundred times but it's making me think about it even more and he's he's so curious about everything i love fishermen that are curious that come and fish with me i was asking everybody questions when i was his age how do you do this what's this for what do you need this thing what is this thing all about you know what color should i throw right here have you ever caught fish at this time of year that's what elijah reminds me of is me and my younger self asking tons of questions that's how you know someone is super interested so regardless of the fishing y'all this is a really good thing for me to be able to connect with elijah knowing he has a tumor he's going to be going through the same thing that i had to go through hope pray to god he doesn't but if he does you know i'm here for him i'm going to kind of walk him through it and it's a scary time you know especially being able to relate to someone that's uh that's a fisherman someone you watch on youtube like i'm totally totally happy to uh to be that connection for him so that's a good thing it's a good thing it's a positive let's go see if we can catch some fish good to go all right take me to the fish elijah like i drive let's go to that dock docks you feeling docks go to that dock and throw a jig and then a frog okay you're speaking my language i like i like the way you think okay okay i'm going to start you out with the jig that's what you said right yep there's a deal elijah we gotta figure out what these fish want wherever where they're at what they want i'm gonna make a little switch out here a little swim bait is that the boss one it is yeah the exoswim four inch it's good lure a little screw lock you just screw that in there and it's real important on swim bait to come right up the middle so it's perfectly wobbling put it like just like that and then you wanted to learn a new knot twisty tie knot okay so i go through i twist it eight times go through one home and go through let it down okay through the eye okay make yourself a loop like that gonna come back down and then you want to go through there four times three four and you just kind of pull it like that until it kind of gets tight and this is your favorite knot this is my favorite knot for fluorocarbon because it has no tension on the base of the knot you know how other knots would kind of get wiry as you're cinching them down this one does not so i'll just wet it a little bit i'll pull it and then it's so perfect it's perfect yeah because when you look at it there's no kink at all at the base of the knot and it's very very simple so you can tie that real quick there you go there's your uni knot got one oh really i had one get slammed yeah might be onto something there Elijah oh man he sucked it digs a fish there we go Elijah texas bass you want to give us this yeah yeah he did come out of the grass this one gripping sniff oh gosh don't get a whole face full is it good yeah kind of i kind of it's sweet it's sweet ah there we go that's a it did it get you a little scrape on there no oh man you can really see the lateral line on that fish too it's crazy all right fish we're gonna let you go enjoyed giving you a dangle thank you that's my third bite on a jig and that's the only one i've connected with so not doing very good on my jig bites today Elijah's had a couple bites on a little swim bait right around the grass i think it came out of the grass probably chasing bluegill or something like that i don't know what that grass is called but that's what it was sitting on so we might fish some texas rigging some jigs around the edges of that stuff it's a thumbnail right there this is how you do thumbnails Elijah you just you just get on the weeds there it is that's good Elijah's tying his first uh uni knot successfully do you got it dude it looks good cool you've never been for a ride in a bass boat but not like a bass boat not a bass boat i think we should probably go for a ride in the bass boat all right i think that probably needs to happen we need to get the same man a ride in a in a bass boat i may or may not let him drive this boat by the end of the day let me know in the comments if you think i should but i think i know the answer step one started up this is your get your gas right here that's forward neutral and then back it's safer like that because if i'm going down the lake and i just fall out god forbid my foot goes off the gas and the boat just stops and then we launch you're ready for launch i think i'm ready for launch okay how's that it's crazy it looks too good doesn't it we're currently sitting in the back of a pocket Elijah's throwing the frog tons of little dollar lily pads back here good looking stuff this is the same area that um the guys from the uk caught him good i don't know if the fish are still chasing bluegill like that back here but it looks amazing if you come back here and you don't throw a frog then you're just you're sick a 10 pound bass eating a bullfrog that'd probably be one of the coolest things ever captured i'd like to wake up to that like is it alarm clock osg was nice enough to make us little lunch packs today it's very rare by the way elijah lunch pack i i never get lunch packs i mean maybe like once or twice it's happened to me yeah from from osg i know right i mean i eat great at home but when i walk out that door in the morning it's usually just some chick-fil-a let's do an unboxing a cooler unboxing don't think i've ever done that on this channel best water in the game best water in the game right there aquafina oh oats and honey fruit and nut bar what's your excitement level on that sounds like i just ate a lemon zest osg approved lunch what do you think what do you think about being in the command console right now do you fill this up with the gas station just with bigger gas yep just fill it up with unleaded i gotta put treatment stuff in there every time though they put water in the gasoline nowadays why they're trying to cheapen it up make it less effective you gotta put a little uh nitro fuel in there there's literally a guy that came outside he's like if you won't catch the big boys you need to go all the way back here he didn't talk like rt gibbons but he did say that there's a little opening back here and that's where some big fish live and uh i trust the guy that's living here all the time he's full time i can imagine it's like an eight pounders i'd freak out blows up on it this is a toughy this is turgrade casting right here okay i'm gonna try to throw that weightless in there yeah you want to fling it yeah no you can do it you think they got lied to us i think so you think so i think he's just like we need to get these guys out of my dock area get them stuck back there in the lily pads okay it's gone we gotta eat oh no way oh he's stuck it's gonna break he didn't lie to us what am i caught on you couldn't let him lie am i caught on the line i think yeah if you were in the bass master classic right now uh and you had i think i told him that they're not ready for you okay let's let's try to get in there but preparing for this your whole life uh is that your hook is even in him what is going on with that is it different hook or is it i'm so confused oh he came out he came out oh gosh there he is yeah grab him real quick here we go barely look oh my gosh it fell out well that was a lot of that took a lunch break that took old man's advice and uh i don't know what his definition of big boys is but i mean that's no mondo it's nice fish though okay smells great too a little back here in the pads okay see ya oh it caught on my thumb yes the remnants of today it's kind of all we caught for our struggle bus we were on the struggle bus we got to take it in early all because uh it's freaking a thousand degrees out here so uh we both have brain tumors i've got a headache from not drinking enough water and i'm in the tumor in my face so does elijah he's he's got like constant headaches and he's lost vision in his eye a couple times which is not good even though he wants to be out here all day i had to make the decision to go back because it's time for this boy to get some get some food they've been moving back in Missouri they're doing the same thing me an ocean spoon girl doing had to come down here and they had to wake up super early so he's gassed so we're going to get a fresh start in the morning we've learned a bunch of stuff today i think elijah learned a bunch i learned a snow knot i'd had to launch a boat i'd had to drive a boat yeah we may not show that on camera uh day two morning of elijah being here i gotta go wake him up right now it's kind of early i wanted to get a little extra rest because he's had a long long week but i also want to get him out on the water said he's never caught a white bass uh we're gonna hit a lake that's on the way to the airport give him maximum fishing time i'm gonna get this kid some fish and just treat him to a good time you know him and his mom while they're being here ocean spoon girl has been with uh his mom all day they just been relaxing so hopefully they they got a good night's sleep it's time to get up smell the fishes pretty excellent it's the last one it's the last one in the batch you're lucky man it's pretty good we only have about three hours to fish it seemed to do a lot of those on my on my channel you know limited time restraint videos it's probably really realistic though i don't have time to mess around we gotta go catch some fish elijah first white bass experience we gotta wait for there's still a few down there we're gonna wait for the school to oh my gosh it's got hammered it's got hammered there real it real it there you go should get bit right now there you go a little better a little more beef yeah there's another school under the boat right now a little bit more beef on it oh my god yeah you see you brought him up brought that one up right there elijah's got like three hours to fish he's already caught three or four we've got some more fish under the boat so we're gonna we're gonna continue to slay you just you got a fish this guy doesn't need any help he's taking many fish off the hook in his days a few feet you got one maybe there are some oh geez that's literally the fish that's the fish he caught look at this oh he choked it he choked it wanted it that's down there easy elijah pro at it there he goes easy peasy okay i think you're on like seven or eight now you want to get on him keep her going no i'm just i'm enjoying filming you buddy got another one oh yeah that's a good one that's a real good one good old tasties always gonna go get away i feel it there it goes okay get a pick there you go hooked up again oh this is a good one got a drag puller he was just he was a fighter oh yeah that's weird it's actually really interesting hybrid bass we'll usually have that but that's not a hybrid that's just a regular weapon oh yeah i know i feel that sandpaper yeah the little shad tongue the shad sticker tongue the sniff how's that one smell shad yeah it's got shad breath the airport is literally like right over there i could see airplanes an airplane right there you see why i like these guys they're kind of fun yeah they're also tasty okay there he goes free free willy noice noice one bite don't know why i just had an australian accent but oh there it is yeah they don't smell as good as bass i know all right well i just caught a mess of white bass now got to experience that action had a couple of good ones we're gonna try to uh catch a few large mouths okay allow us to give us an update we're in another gas it's not good we're going on a trolling motor boat right now positive side is we're really close to the airport we're gonna have ocean spoon girl bring his mom over here pick him up and we could take him to the airport just fine getting myself all the way back over there that's gonna be a doozy i got to think this one out sorry we ran out of gas buddy you're just along for the adventure today it's it's a serious adventure at least we crushed some white bass this morning you know okay time to unload on the precious cargo thank you sir i said thank you thank you so much let me give you a hug you guys saved the day this actually worked out because we're closer to the airport over here but fine okay i will get all this stuff to you don't worry okay we've said our goodbyes osg is taking them to the airport right now that was a really close call right there i've got to put some gasoline in this deal i'll tell you guys a little bit more about this trip as soon as i get this vessel back to the treehouse right now that's our main goal drink up silver bullet i know you're thirsty okay still on e we've got a little bit just made it back safely i had that two gallon gas tank and uh anyway that was enough to get us back osg delivered elijah and his mom natasha to the airport they were back on their way to missouri now the fishing was good this morning caught a bunch of white bass elijah had a good time he said he wanted to go catch those he never caught one before and he enjoyed it a lot and you know the bass fishing was tough down here this week not a whole lot to speak of that fishing for bass during the middle of the day it's just tough but this trip was really less about fishing and more about just spending time with somebody else that has a brain tumor and getting that relief elijah was diagnosed with his brain tumor not too long ago and i talked to him a lot about it off camera you know that's not something he really just want to go blast it out and quite honestly it's something that uh he's he's kind of kept to himself and he's been very very strong about his situation i was really touched by him watching the videos on willis and he named his tumor willis jr and he's his confidence level and his attitude is way up here and that's why i enjoyed hanging out with him so much when you see that kind of attitude out of somebody that has any kind of bad illness going on it just inspires you to be a better stronger person and not complain about the little things that are going on in life his tumor that he has it's a pituitary tumor there's a lot of different kinds of tumors and he's going to have more analysis done in the summer the same time i'm going to get willis reanalyze to see where we need to treat it what's direction it's growing and everything like that so he'll find out more in the summer but pituitary tumors are they can be really difficult because your pituitary gland is a very sensitive system i mean that's something that regulates your hormones and all your other glands and having a tumor right there is a really bad spot it's also a difficult spot to have surgery in kind of like mine was sitting on the the bundle of nerves called the circle of willis that's where the name came from it's hard to get in there i understand the figures and concerns and everything and he's taking it super well i just want you guys to give him a lot of support this is kind of ironic how i made this other video about tumors and you know samon the other youtuber that does the robots she was having her surgery actually well today while i'm making this video while i'm taking elijah fishing the other guy talked about in the video so it's really just ironic how that worked out so i'm wishing her the best and elijah i think is going to be just fine because he has a super positive attitude and that a lot of times is what you need to get through those tough situations so there was a lot of conversations off-camera that were really important to me and i think to to him as well just to kind of you know hash out some of the things that go on with with brain tumors and some of the things you feel and anxieties and things like that and that to me was the most important thing about this trip just making sure that he felt comfortable as mom was comfortable and they just kind of got a break away from dealing with doctors and dealing with the frustrations of just everything and dealing with a tumor and just kind of getting to hang out with somebody that's already had had a tumor had surgery and through that situation ask a lot of questions and get those answers just from a real person you know that's not a doctor somebody that's been through it so that was really important to me the last thing i'll say is fishing to me you know when i had my first back surgeries and things like that it was a release to go and just get away from everything fishing is a mechanism that will help you just relieve what you got going on in your life no matter what it is and uh if anything else if you've never been fishing before and you're watching this video give it a shot go go try something cat fishing on the bank bluegill fishing just do something to get your mind off what's going on and whatever you've got going on guys my prayers are with you this trip has been very humbling for me just to throw back those those memories and and those feelings that i went through and i'll just want to thank you guys again for all the support i love you guys thank you for tuning in to today's video if you want to check out more action you know what to do subscribe right here to the channel hit the ding dongs for notifications and we'll see you next time