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And some of the lures I'm going to be fishing with today are coming out of one of the pan fish species boxes. So there's a lot of different variety there. And what I find helpful is sometimes I get a lure that it's a new technique and maybe I'm not familiar with that technique and then I go and learn it and I actually provide videos and helpful tips to help you learn how to fish those exact new techniques. Anyway, great product, great service, great company, great people. But let me just say, if you want to get a discount on your first box, link down in the description, use the code Mondo, they'll have you covered. Okay, so I have never used one of their pan fish boxes. I've always used the Pro Box. You guys have seen me fish a ton of the bass stuff. So I thought I'd switch it up today because first of all, look at me. I'm ready for adventure. I might as well be a forest ranger. In fact, I could be mistaken for one today. I have green pants on. I've got serious boots on. I just so happen to be ready for the forest. These are uncertain times, my friends. And there are a lot of boat ramps that have been closed and there's just a lot of general access areas due to flooding corona. It's hard to know where I can go and put my boat in right now. That's not really far away. And I will be faced with a blocked boat ramp or a closed ramp. And I know for sure the lake that is closest to me, everything is closed. There is no one running around on the lake. And in fact, I can hear boat motors from my house normally. It has been silent here. And I have made some videos lately trying to just walk down to the lake and I'm being faced with snakes. And there are tons of animals running around right now. It's great. It's fun. It's good times with the outdoors. I do hate snakes, but I love to fish. I am going stir crazy here and I will not be put off the water today. I'm going and venturing farther into the woods to try to find a creek that is going to have some pan fish in it. So let me show you what I got rigged up in the plan for today's fishing. Just taking one rod, one reel today. Shout out to that guy. 1,000 size reel just pulled it up with six pound test fluoro. And I've got my little ultra light trout rod, my little Gampa. So I'm also going to be carrying a bag. So I've got one of the money bags stuffed with all sorts of pan fish, tackle, including this stuff that was in the box that I got, the kit box. A lot of these lures that I've got in here are tiny, tiny, tiny. I've never used lures this small, y'all. And I'm going to be starting out with one of those tiny jigs. I guess it would be like a 130 second ounce with a little indicator. So a little indicator about a foot above, but I'm also going to carry some little nibblets inside of my pack. I've got a stringer because you just never know when you're going to get that big sack of roux. I do also have some snacks and some green tea, just in case I feel like meditating out there. This is my hunting pack. So there's some various random items in there, obviously. I'm also going to be carrying a machete, knife, and pliers, as you guys know. I always carry those things. And anything that can help us get through the woods to try to access these creeks. If we can actually get to the area that I want to go, I think we'll end up catching some decent-sized bluegill and maybe some other species that are moving up right now to try to spawn. We're in the forest. We've escaped the wind. I'm right by the creek right now, and the water is really high. And I'm already seeing bluegill, like just at the start of the trail. I just want to see how they respond. I haven't seen any big ones yet. I think the bigger ones are going to be way farther down, but I just want to see if they'll respond to my little jig here. So stick that out there. Can you see that? Little tiny little thing right there, that indicator. Got one on it. Thinking about it. Oh, ah, took it. These tiny little pink shrively dillies. First one landed. Oh, okay, putting that little pink dill on the end. Definitely made the difference. Just your standard bluegill right there. Put it back. That'd be pretty hard to fillet. Let's just keep walking here. Ooh, bullfrogs. Mighty bullfrog. Oh, gosh, got him, got him. There we go. That was right away. That was green sunfish right there, a very small one. Very small green. Hot action right here. There's another one. Oh yeah, we found the hole. I think that was another greenie. This is the tiniest thing ever. Got it? Okay, I'm gonna try one more cast up in there. My left side. Got him, got him. Splashing, caught on some bark. Little better. Still quite small, but a little better bluegill. Okay, this system is working though. That is like, that is dang near close to flaying. But I can hit this bottom of my way back. So I'm gonna let this one go. See you buddy. That is three so far y'all. Just quick, like five minutes. So they like this little technique that I'm using. I'm gonna keep going downstream towards the main lake and see if I can get some bigger ones. Well y'all, I must say, I have never seen it like this. It is so high. But now what we're left with is, well maybe there's some fish up here. This looks very fishy. That's normally just a trickle. There's a little bend right here in the creek, so it's gotta be a deep spot. Okay, nothing doing right there. It is so high right here. I'm gonna have to backtrack and try to find a way across the creek and then continue into the woods so we can get out closer to the main lake. Huge trees sitting there. I fished right around the bases of them. Nothing. There ought to be gills just loaded under that tree but there's not. It's currently looking at some shad that are swimming around in this little hole. This is crazy. I guess they're feeding on this floating deal right here. There's like a bunch of duckweed and different stuff and these shad are all the way up into this creek. Way up. So I just found a pathway across where I can keep going on the trails. I'm going with one of these tungsten woodow makers. This is called catus cane. It glows, I guess. I'm off trail right now and I'm pretty much just walking where the animals walk. This game trail is definitely gonna be some ticks, chiggers. Well, I've reached a point here where I can't cross y'all. What is normally a tiny little trickle creek is so full and I can't get across. So I'm gonna trek back to where I saw a bunch of those fish at the head of the trail where there actually was a trail. I've been off trail for like an hour. You can see a bedding area right here. That is where a hog slept last night. And there are some bones right here. I'm gonna guess this is a hog. Man, good riddance. Been tearing up my yard lately. Little baby snake. Hey buddy. I can't tell if you're poisonous or not. You live today. Oh, got one on it. Come on now. Another one. Greeny, greeny. That's four. Now stay low, that's the key. There's a big one in here somewhere. It's all big shadow just flash under it. You gotta come out of this brush right here. Hey, got him. What's up on that brush? Another greeny. That's five fish. Why long quarantine on foot? Oh, I just love fishing, y'all. Trophy of the day right there. Go ahead and... Bluegill, do you have the smell? They have it. Cropy, Bluegill, and Bass all have a similar smell. They're all in the same family of fishes. The son fish family. Centrarchids, I believe. Centrarchidae. Centranilla day. Got him. Got him. On the long pause. A little better. A little better. Oh, did I get him? One more hole, one more sniff. Let's do it. The tiniest. The tiniest of tiniest. Going to get him. Got him. Wah-bam. Literally like fishing a barrel. I think the key is to stay low and to sneak up on a spot. I've noticed if I'm like high up on a ridge, looking down. It doesn't work. Oh, gosh. They are just pounding this little jig. If I'm ever in a survival situation, I hope to have some of these jigs with me. They are the perfect size for Bluegill. An actual Bluegill, you can barely get your little finger in their mouth. Beautiful little colors. If you look really hard at a Bluegill, sometimes you'll see some gold and green, like fine dust, fleck. I really like fishing that in a lure. Like little green fleck or gold, purple. It represents Bluegill really well. Okay, show and tell. Over. Put you back. It may be small, but it's still fun. Super aggressive. Actually, one more cast. Oh, gosh, there's a bunch more. Phew. Getting bigger. I got hit three times right there before I caught that fish. I don't know how many this is now. This is like eight or nine. Oh, Google, Google, Google, got it, got it, got it. Oh, no, shoot, that's a good one. Oh, man, there's more. There we go. There's a big greenie. Gotcha, yatsy. There we go. I think this is gonna be my last one. We have caught over 10 fish. I would keep these, some of these bigger ones. If you've never had Bluegill or sunfish species, especially little ones like this, wow, they are delicious. And I just got a new fryer, and I haven't showed you guys and I'm super excited. Be doing that soon on my next Catch and Cook, but I feel good about myself. Discovered some fish on foot, figured out what they wanted, and I had to walk five miles. I ended up coming back to an area that I started in to catch most of the fish, but, you know, I've never been so happy to catch such a small fish. Any of y'all just wanna have some fun and catch some Bluegill. It doesn't take that much gear, but I'm gonna recommend these little jig heads, and you can put whatever on them. You can put your little kneel worms, you know, like a live bait, or you can put your little, you know, I was using a, like a little crappie niblet. You know, after a long days of hiking in the woods, I like to come out here and I like to hang out with my chickens at my chicken run. During this quarantine, I will tell you, I've spent a lot of time in this chair right here watching the run. I am happy to report that no predators have been around the run in the last three, four days checking the cameras, so that's good. Bobcat has not shown its little furry nub tail. Stephanie even started calling me the chicken guy. I don't know how to read that, but if any of y'all do have backyard chickens, you know how fun they are, so let me take you inside, show you the flock. Rackly roosts, where you can lay up and have a good time. I crack myself up. Oh girls, they really wanna come out here in free range. I usually let them free range for like an hour, so a day, but I'm happy to report they're starting to get along a little better now because the chicks are getting bigger and the hens, they still protest, you know, you'll hear them do all that, but it's really because these little guys are so flighty and so excited most of the time, they're sleepy right now, but I think they kinda stress them out too. They're like, what are these little toddlers doing in here? But here is one of our bard rocks. Right here, we had the one we didn't know if it was gonna make it, that's a little wane dot. That's a little gold laced. We got our khaki Campbell, little duck back here, still not sure if it's a boy or a girl. This little guy right here that looks like a bald eagle, that is a dorking, and if you didn't know about dorkings. Dorkings have five little toes instead of four. Every other chicken has three front toes and then they got a back one, and the dorkings have five. But the two little chickens that look like hawks they are Easter Eggers. You gonna drop a big dis? Please do not. God, your talons, your talons are so big. This is my coolest chicken, y'all. This is Henny Penny. Henny Penny is basically like a dog. She'll follow me around, she comes when called, and if I'm giving other chickens in here attention and not her, she will literally fly up on my shoulder. She gets a little pissed off, so that's why I picked her up because I thought she would call more tone. But apparently, you're still a little frosty. You're frosty about it. So I was supposed to be in California right now doing some bass fishing on the Delta, but obviously that got canceled. So I've spent a lot of my time out here and in here doing things to help my flock and hang out, and I'm going crazy. If they don't find a vaccination soon, I'm just gonna have like, these are gonna become bald eagles. I'm gonna train hawks and eagles just obsessed with birds right now. I don't know. Anyways, I'm gonna put you down, Henny Penny. Those are my birds. I'm gonna leave y'all right here today, but I hope in your quarantine time, you are getting to go in the outdoors. Hopefully you live in a state where they let you do that. I think fishing and hunting has been deemed an essential thing here in Texas. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure fishing and hunting is considered some sort of hunting gatherer type situation that you could be getting food for your family, which I do quite often. Don't you dare hit that golf course! You know what is a great idea? Go fishing right now on the golf courses while they're shut down, because that's where some of the megatodes are living. Thank y'all for literally coming up the creek with me today and if you wanna stay tuned for more, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. Go ahead and hit the like button for going through vast efforts to catch a fish. I'll see you back here soon on Lake Forgot Channel. God bless you and tight lines. I think that's enough squawking, y'all. Let's put on our special, this is the M94 Turkey Approved Mask right here. This'll block all corona germs when you're out in the turkey fields. Okay, now that we're safe, let's get out there. Get him.