 Welcome all back everybody. Today we are dusting off our old buddy, the Crispy Connector. And today's video is sponsored by Mystery Tackle Box. If you're looking to grow your tackle arsenal, MTB is the best way to do it and you're gonna pay a lot less than you would in the stores. I've been partnered with MTB for years. They're a great partner and they also make the perfect gift for the fishermen in your circle. And after all these years, I'm still surprised by all the new tackle that I see in the boxes every month. They have tons of connections in the tackle world now. In every box, you're getting a great mix of hard baits, soft plastics, terminal tackle, and you're even getting Guggen Squad hard baits and plastics in there. So it is juicy. They have boxes for everybody, whether you're a beginning fisherman or you're looking for that next level elite box and they have different species boxes as well. So they've got you covered. 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And you can always find all sorts of sunfish up in the shallows when it's warm. So it's summertime. It's here in Texas. It's a great time to fish for them and they are tasty. Not only do I like to eat them, but I also like to use them for catfish bait. There's only a few problems with the Crispy. Actually, we broke it out during some Guggen Squad videos that you guys haven't seen yet. But me and Rob took it out. It was kind of a mess. There's some issues with it. I definitely need to put a new battery in there. But we did a little bit of work to it, but there's still some things that aren't functioning. And it has some holes in it. Water was getting in, but we digress. Quick chicken check and then I'll get you guys updated on another project that I'm working on. Oh, my chickens. So here's what's pretty interesting. Now the update with the chickens is this little buddy here. She'll actually let me touch her and pick her up. Mr. Penny and Colonel Sanders still, they're guarding the roost. They're hands off. But I've been feeding them clover every day. We've got a ton of clover growing in the yard and they love it. And they let me just, you know, like hand feed them basically and they come right up to me. So that's how I've gotten her to be really comfortable. I like for the hens to be very comfortable, you know? So I can get their eggs. We don't have any issues. And if they have any, you know, medical problems, it's always nice to be able to pick them up, handle them, check them out, you know, check their crops and everything. So you just gotta give them some little treats. And right now they are crazy about millworms and clover. Now I've also done the same thing with the chicks. So now when I come in here, they get really excited, usually they get really excited and they usually come right up to me. Right now it's not one of those times. I guarantee you though, if I put some clover in my hand, they'd come running over and they'd be tearing it up. They're kind of doing the nappy thing right now. They've been feeding all morning. The frizzles, they're just like little lap dogs. It's crazy. Starting to get some peaches on the peach tree as well. Now let me take you over to the garage before we head up to the HQ and get the crispy. So another project that I'm working on right now is another bow because I have broken or cracked every bow that I have made so far. I think I'm on my fifth or sixth one. So this one, I gotta give a shout out to a local boyer I met named Austin. A bowyer is someone who makes bows by the way. Austin hooked me up with some staves including the ultimate bow dark right here. Osage, orange, beautiful one right there. I'm hoping that I'm gonna be able to make one, like that's gonna be my ultimate hunting bow for this season. And I'll definitely do a video on that, show you guys the whole process. But this one right here is really good too. This one's made out of hickory. He gave me four staves by the way. All different species of woods. So really cool experimenting. And I wanted to build a few more before I got to the ultimate Osage so that I'm just more experienced. This one's pretty good. It's just like dressed under 40 pounds. And I was hoping to get a little more out of it. I think I took too much off. So I'm gonna put a little reflex in this bow. I've built a little reflex jig and I'm gonna raw hide back it. And then I'm gonna take some snake skin. You guys remember the snake skin that I got from a few weeks ago with the chickens? Well, I've got another one that I'm picking up today. So I'm gonna have multiple snake skins. And I'm gonna back some of these bows. So yeah, I'll do a video on that. I've never done it before. I think it's gonna be really fun. Make the bow look awesome. It's great camouflage and it adds some protection. And we also gotta get propane, no big deal. We've also gotta get this guy ready to go. So I have not set up this bow for bow fishing yet, but this thing has been sitting in my garage just begging to go out there and do some bow fishing. So we've got a new bow fishing bow. I'm going to get in the Krispy and get some. The Duggan Squad HQ, where your day old dreams come true. Krispy got a fresh battery, dual purpose. Hopefully this is going to light this baby up. Oh, gosh, I forgot. Oh, no, I've got some at home. I've got some like flex seals that I need to put on the outside, just let me show you here with this. Over time, the stress of the waves has just bucked the aluminum out of here. Got a couple holes in the mix, unfortunately. So last time we rocked with this boat out, it was taking on a little water. Not enough to keep us off, but you know what I'm saying? It wasn't good. These babies are just crusty and corroded. I think this is the one that came with the boat. 913, folks, 913, how old were you at 913? Two things. I forgot, here at the HQ, my purpose of being here, well, the Krispy, my terminal tackle box, which I left here the other day, got in my boat, realized, hey, I have no terminal. So we got that back online. That thing's heavy, hefty. The other thing, which really only at the HQ can you find such a variety of different items. Wow, after a catch and coat, this kitchen actually looks really clean right now. Yeah, here it is. Go to squad HQ, where things are a little weird. It's now a shirt in there. Only at the HQ can you find Michelobaltras and a four and a half foot snake in the fridge. Don't you just love the great outdoors? There is always something. If you really wanna truly be just an all-around outdoorsman, not just a bass fisherman or like a trout fisherman or not just a deer hunter, if you really wanna immerse yourself in everything, you will be busy year-round, I promise you. There is something to do probably just in your state year-round, some sort of species activity that's just going off in fun times. So that's what I strive to do and my life is very busy because of it. I'm hoping I wanna hook this up. I'm gonna have the trim working. Trim was literally not working last time, which it's pretty difficult when you're trying to rip. You're trying to rip down a lake, no trim, and just getting it off the trailer and all that. So hopefully this is going to fix that problem. Connect it up, come on baby. Is that neutral? Here it goes, why is the trim not working? I just can't get the old girl to work with the trim in the electric start. I feel like it's something very simple and missing. It's like a button, I'm not pushing or some sort of mode. I don't know, I could choke or something, I have no idea. So I'm just gonna take it back to the tree house, see if I can work on it. Gotta get the snake, stand out before it gets hot. No one wants a hot snake. Think we might have a hub issue. I felt some rattling and got a little bit of back and forth going on, so I don't know if this is gonna make it home. We'll see, good boy. I guess we might actually make it here. I'm kinda shocked, it is pretty wobbly. Something has definitely changed. One of our Guggen Squad videos, me and Rob took this down a road that you really don't wanna take about trailer. Could have something to do with it, but I need to grease her up before we can take her out on the water for sure. And there's something first, but I don't know, might just cake it on here. See what we got. Still got a hole in there. I put a charger on the battery, it looks to be low. My thought was that the charge was so low on this battery, the other batteries that we were using that it wasn't able to get the electric start going or the trip. If you know, if you've got one of these Merck-Tiller motors, let me know. I would love to know what it is. It's something simple that I'm missing, but so far I can't figure it out. Let's take the old hub off, see what she's looking like. So for those of you that don't know, you have hubs on your trailer. They need to be greased. Now, some of the brand new boats and other types of trailers they have, like they say the maintenance free hubs, but I've even had those go out before. You put enough miles on a hub, it'll go out. So it's something that you need to check pretty often. And, oh, there is some grease in there. I don't know if you guys can see that or not. That's what the inside of that looks like, but it's all nasty, grimy. Probably be a good opportunity to clean that out a little bit. Clean some of that nastiness off, but it's the crispy, I'm gonna let it ride. Pump some new grease in there and hope she's all right. Okay, so it looks like the insert for the hub. It's a grease to hub. Just popped out when I was trying to remove the hose, so I'm thinking about it. I think I remember doing it the last time I did this, which was probably over a year ago. I'm just going to pretend like I didn't see that. Put this cap back in here. Order some replacements. Okay, crispy is ready to do some gilling tomorrow. So I've got a box set up ready for gilling. And now it is time for everybody's favorite part of the day, and that's cleaning snakes. Ah, you know, I don't clean snakes too often. All right, I'm gonna put my little snake through there, and then I'm gonna skin him straight now. Okay, buddy, don't need your head. So we'll put that in there. There's not a whole lot of color on the snake, but it just happens to be one that someone incapacitated and I said, I'll take it. I can make use of that. So I'm just gonna take my sharp knife here. I'm gonna try to get straight down the belly as I can. This is one of those jobs you don't really want to do around the wife. She probably questioned what you're doing. That will take her little buddy here. We'll go feed him to the racquets. So I've only done this one time and it was with a rattlesnake down in South Texas. It was absolutely gigantic. It almost went across the entire road, and it's in Darrow. I chased it into a bush with a 2,500 HD Silverado and I sent it out in the South Texas Sun for a couple weeks and I had salted it and borax it and everything like that and then I came back and it was gone. Like animals are just taking it on this ranch. So I don't know where it went to, but it would have been a really cool mount. I was just gonna mount it up on the wall, but it would have been the ultimate bow backing because you could have done the entire thing. It was almost as long as me. And most of my bows I've built are about right here, like just under my chin. So it definitely would have stretched the whole entire way. Okay, we got all the fleshy pieces scraped off. Now we're just gonna salt this. Just make sure we're getting all that middle section real good to dry it out. The edges are just gonna come off with a knife so it's not crucial that they're super clean. All right guys, yucky part is over. Now it is time to switch gears and we're gonna do some gill fishing next. So I've got the pan fish poles. I've got a gill box rigged up ready to go. And then I'm gonna take those bluegill. I'm going to bait some lines for some catfish. Hopefully get some big catfish, man. I've been on a catfish kick here lately. They are so good. Thank you guys for following me on all my outdoor adventures. Got a lot coming up since it's summertime. And that means there's water everywhere. Going up north soon too. So anyway, subscribe to the channel and smash the like button. I will see you on the next one. Godspeed, God bless you.