 don't jump off don't jump off you're so big oh my gosh good early morning and welcome back to the channel y'all we're heading to our next destination to go bass fishing and i thought i just have to stop at my old alma mater i gotta drive by see what the school's doing see what it looks like at 5 30 in the morning and i'm hoping that the old rudies that was here is still open and i can swing in and get myself some breakfast tacos and a little coffee real quick 10 minutes out of my way but a breakfast taco in the a.m. can sometimes just set you right she's still here baby a lot of my fishing mornings started right here got to the door they not open they don't open till 7 a.m. now i feel like i used to come here so early man what's wrong with college kids these days sleeping in gosh we used to have to get up early and go catch our fish before we went to class that's a bummer man real bummer folks we are uh extremely low on diesel again i had to take a detour i've been on country roads forever i just hope i make it to the promised land of possibly a bucky's here in a few miles so far it's just been a journey driving this morning i was hoping to already be at the lake but there was a detour it took me like 20 miles out of the way i almost almost ran out of diesel life on the road giving it a dangle what are you going to do man all right enough commercials on the dagum gas machines gotta put commercials on my gas machines come on man well we finally made it here y'all just got into the park i used my texas state park pass that's that's like 50 bucks so for this particular lake got in free a little road closure i ran into i wasn't filming but it was still dark and i almost went down this dirt road like had to stomp on brakes was a car coming right at me it was it was bad news bears we were almost derailed before we even made our first cast uh i'm starving uh i was hoping to go buy a bucky's that didn't happen didn't get my breakfast tacos i haven't had coffee in four days at least i got some some freeze-dried food so i can make myself a little little breakfast while i'm out on the water hey gorgeous day today y'all sunny there's not much wind i mean it's beautiful what i'm looking at here in the lake is just beautiful green grass exactly what i wanted to see it's awesome i don't know if we're gonna catch them but i'm certainly gonna feel better about it so water is 50 degrees it's looking like this is 48 right here it's cold so if you look down here at the graph you'll see some grass on the bottom there and there's a it stops eventually if i go to my right it'll it'll go out to about eight to ten foot and then it'll stop well these fish are gonna sit kind of on that edge and they may move up there a little shallower just depending on how warm it gets and eventually they're gonna find a hard bottom in here somewhere and they're gonna want to spawn they're gonna follow some bait a little bit and just hang in this grass this is why i like fishing grass lakes so much in the winter it's because it gives you an opportunity to fish shallow relatively shallow even when it's cold whereas you know highland reservoirs and other lakes that have no grass they will just go into the deeps it's just a lot easier to fish in less than 10 feet of water in my opinion unless the fish are just stacked on one spot out deep this is the way in the truth it's bait number two this crank's probably gonna be the deal but we got to get fish number one you know i'm starving for real put up some 530 it's like nine o'clock got some filamentous algae growing in here early for that i would think come on baby leave my breakfast nugget off the stump call that's the tree hunger got the best of me right there y'all a couple mistakes first rod i picked up uh i had 12 pound test on it so i'm gonna switch that rod shouldn't have done that with 12 pound test uh ripping traps out of grass at least 15 go with the least 15 and then when you see a fish that's got a bait in its mouth like that that deep and it's shaking its head and it's chewing you feel that those teeth are just scraping on that line like sandpaper don't try to boat flip that fish i was like i don't want to stick my hand in that fish's mouth i don't sling him in and he was thick too he was fatter than i thought he was so anyway that was my first bite i did not land the fish so uh i guess we could say i don't get to eat i'm gonna switch up my color here to the cashcraw which is my favorite color throwing this on this is an early edition 7 2 reaction rod or catch go affiliates there's one oh my gosh it came off i felt him tap it oh my gosh oh they're wanting they're wanting it the retrieve is a pump but essentially it's whenever you feel the grass rip but i'm i'm in like six foot there's grass wads everywhere come here baby don't even be big i just need you i just need you to get in here oh my god it's a giant oh my gosh it's a giant it's a toad oh my gosh all right you're so big i want you though don't jump off don't jump off you're so big oh my gosh we gotta get you now another one's got it choked this is this is one of the biggest fish i've ever hooked out here i'm definitely not boat flipping this thing that's a five for sure i haven't caught many over five oh my gosh it's gone black spotted beautiful large mouth yeah baby that's a toad yeah man wow bam i've been looking for you all week dude sally head first down the hatch oh the lipless man it's time they bypass the jerk bait bite they're on the lipless okay y'all i gotta i gotta get some picks with this guy i'm gonna enjoy enjoy the presents for a minute and it is breakfast time baby go ahead and let this fish go we got a couple picks what a beautiful specimen okay on the menu feel better a little rejuvenated what a first fish of the day it's a land the other one was pretty good too we have what we're going with a peak here oh that smells like um captain crunch strawberries blueberries granola raspberries milk type things carefully add one cup of cold water zip you don't have to heat this wow tell you what these strawberries the fruit in here looks pretty fresh it's real you know i mean you know it's weird it's like i don't see any boats where i am i saw a lot of trailers in the parking lot i don't see any boats over here i'm like am i just in the completely wrong part of the lake and i catch a five pounder i'm like no i'm not i'm not in the wrong part of the lake necessarily but could be better somewhere last lake at the trip guys i'm glad we made a decision to come here i finally got a fish over five in the new year how much shaking are we talking here get the old milkies okay that's probably enough shaking going stir crazy hunger yeah that's pretty fruity but i can get down with it other lake that i was hoping to really get a big one at the fish had not moved up yet in the past years that i fished it like when the fish move up it's just a wave of them all over the lake and you can just catch big ones up in a couple of feet of water but everything i saw was deep deep um and there was wasn't any good shallow cover from to move up into so just wasn't playing out good made the executive decision to come to a grass lake and i'm glad i did i'm sure you're all trying to watch me eat now i'm gonna enjoy this moment though it's gonna be time to work gotta fuel the muscles for a lot of ripping all right see we got a mix of brown and green stuff right here the green that's producing oxygen we want that fish love it there's all sorts of little organisms that live in it bait fish to eat on the way i like to fish these no matter if i'm open water or if i'm doing this right here i'm kind of anticipating that i'm going to hit the grass and i'm going to have to rip it anyways i'm just keeping a pump action there's definitely moments during the cast where i feel the grass and i rip it because of that but this is my retrieve 90% of the time when i'm fishing a lipless crankbait it can be in open water over rocks if i'm you know on some schooling fish or whatever open water i'll keep this technique because most of the time they'll hit it when you make a little stop and our bait will actually uh it actually falls pretty good something you have to do just about every cast is clear your bait and once you kind of know the distance where you can slap the water and get it off you don't want to like dig your rod in the water and do it but just hit the bait real quick knock the grass off and cast it again it'll save you a lot of time this is what grass will look like on your graph will just look like a bunch of little stringies coming up that's what you want to look for well not a five pounder not even a pounder but god he ate it he didn't like it was a bowl of weedies ate it like i ate that granola bag see buddy uh morning bites i think i think it's subsided here y'all um so i've got three fish one being a whopper so i'm gonna run around a feeder from spots see if i can find some good-looking grass um similar to the stuff i was seeing or just some some good hard bottom i've tried two different areas multiple techniques um i think the fish are just they're done they're done by it for the day there's like a front which is coming in and these fishes said nope i'm gonna try one more spot fish for 30 minutes if i don't get a bite i don't know i came i saw a five pounder selfie that's not a bad day final tactic i've got to deploy i can't get it on this i'm done got a 16 ounce little tungsten weight putting on a locker lock three on hammer hook i'm gonna soak her in that grass line winds calm down just enough where i can throw it in a bait like this you know sinko style already has quite a bit of weight you could throw it good and it'll slide through the grass but just this little weight gives it just enough where you can keep it down on top of that grass line and not get down in it so we're gonna try it we're gonna try it we're gonna go slow here see if we poke one i've seen that on grass lakes too like they'll eat uh you know eat moving baits in the morning and then once that sun really gets out you gotta get them on them plastics oh that one hate it oh man about stepped out of the boat trying to put pressure on him oh he's got it when the conditions get tough tried and true stick bait man i like black and blue early in the year but not a bit not a big one man not a big one but you know what i'll take you right now that might be my day-ender man you are the day-ender you're the light of my life in some ways most days you just frustrate me on the road three days pretty good dangling y'all see ya we're back silver bullet you were a good horse this week did me right thank you very much and thank you guys for tuning in to the last few videos hopefully you learned something about bass and guess what next we're going up to the Ozarks to do some crappie man i'm super excited about that i'm gonna be going with a professional crappie fisherman he actually does tournaments and it's an opportunity for me to go up my crappie game so i'm gonna be asking him a ton of questions you guys can learn too but let's check out our little tickets before we sign it off for today the flock is looking healthy y'all puff how you doing i think puff is becoming my favorite chicken she is just a little sweetheart not so much but you're a reliable egg layer yep you're gonna go check on your egg in here we're gonna check them out oh i think somebody already got your eggs we only have one that looks like a wine dot egg okay girls i've got a surprise for you tomorrow we got some new additions to the coop so that'll be on lake life amma channel if you guys want to stay tuned for more chicken action see you girls and now we are going to sign it off ladies and gentlemen thank you for staying tuned for the last few videos of bass fishing and just truck camping and you know enjoying the great outdoors go ahead and just smash it smash it and thank you guys for being here all these all these great years on the channel i'm looking forward to another awesome year being with you guys and taking you in the outdoors with me so we'll see you on the next one sign it off