 Well, friends, I say we give it a little juice. Whoops, she is officially almost empty. Couple of rods, some bluers left in here. We're going to hook her up. This is going to be a quick exchange, everybody. Welcome on back to the channel. It's time to swap it out. Getting the new Silver Bullet. It's something I look forward to every year. As you guys know, I work with Fun and Sun. They are a marine dealer here in the DFW area. I actually got one of my first boats from them. I think this is going to be my fifth or sixth boat from Fun and Sun. So I've had a lot of boats. I've had way more boats than I have trucks in my lifetime. We're here at Fun and Sun. Now it's time to say the magic words. New boat, I hope you float. Boom! The Phoenix has risen. There it is. We all do. What do you want to do? It be this morning, y'all. The Silver Bullet has finally made it to the driveway here at the treehouse. So I cannot wait to get this thing out of the water. But when I took it, when I got brought it home, it just turned into a complete crummy weather situation. We had snow or sleet. We had freezing rain. It's like 33 degrees right now. It's chilly. So I'm waiting for the frost to literally get off the boat cover. And I'm going to take it off and we're going to explore this thing. And we got to take it out to the water and break that motor in. Just play with these new toys, y'all. We got new transducers, new graphs. There's new things on the inside. It's got about halfway full at the pump. Well, that was painful. I remember the days when I was guiding back in like 2008, 2009, and gas. It was ridiculous. It was over $4 a gallon. And all the guides had to raise their rates, their prices, by like 50 bucks, because it just costs so much to fill up the boats and you're running all that every day. It just looks like we're buckling in for another spout of that juiciness. So, yay! On the bright side, however, it is almost 60 degrees and we have low winds. What a beautiful day to take the boat out on the lake. Move up, move up, move up, move up, move up, move up, move up, move up. Here at the ramp, now let's get a clean look at this bad girl right here. Now, as far as the hull goes, you guys probably can't even tell the difference between my last boat and this one. There's a slight change. I had a flat gray. This one's just white and it's got that real sparkly silver in there. It's the Phoenix 921 Elite. That's the top of the line Phoenix boat and same Mercury motor. Got the exact same thing, even decal, the same guys at Fun and Sun. They've got a guy that will custom decal your motor to match your boat. And I think Merck has a little bit more customization than it could be wrong. But anyway, this is kind of that, that stealthy look. It doesn't have the classic red and bright white colors of the typical Mercury. It's kind of gray, subtle blends in with the silver bullet perfectly. I've run Yamaha's most of my life, but I have come to like the Mercury's. In particular the Pro XS. Haven't had a single issue with running two of these on the four strokes. They are very loud. They get attention when you crank them up. They sound really dirty, but I haven't had a single problem with them, you know. They have a really heavy prop shaft on them, which is great too. I did ding one, trying to get up on pad on fork on the last boat, but that was my fault and those things happen. Moving on, let's go to the Raptors. So we've got, we're switching up from Powerpull to the Minn Kota Raptors. Now one thing that's pretty cool about me working with Fun and Sun is they usually rig these boats out the way. Everyone wants them for resale, because I turn these boats in every year. So I do have a little bit of say in what I want on the boat, but for the most part, I like to just run whatever the most popular thing is and it makes it easy for them to sell the boats. And I end up trying new brands and seeing which things I like and don't like about all of them. So it works out really good. So switching up to the Minn Kota Raptors this year, I already got these synced. It was very easy to do. I said that. Yeah, there they go. We're popping down, down and up. So I got two remote systems. They are easy to operate. I like that so far. And sticking with that Humminbird Johnson Outdoors brand here, no affiliation. Again, this is just what they rigged up on the boat, but this is a Helix 15. So it's bigger than my Garmin. I had a 12 inch, but I really like the Garmin. I'll be honest, it was my first time running it. First season running a Garmin as the main graph really came to like it. I like the quickness of it very, very fast when we're trying to get to things. There's no loading. The Humminbirds have loading. It does have the mega imaging though. So we've got the transducer to do all the mega imaging. Mega imaging is good. I've been on a few boats that have it. I am impressed with the clarity of it. So that's good. And then up front, we also have a Helix. But what's different on this year's boat, probably the biggest difference, is we are running that Garmin live scope, baby. Now we got to do that. So I have the Echo Map and I also have the other Helix up here. So I'll do the mapping and the 360. That's the other thing that's different right here. And then I'll do the live scope. I was hoping this one would have the live scope plus transducer. It doesn't. Probably going to switch that out. Or I'm going to add an additional transducer and run a side pole mount. I really want to do that. 360 I have never used before, guys. This is going to be completely new. You have to have a special extra mounting bracket to run that 360. This thing's kind of a pain, though. You're going to take this off to put the cover on the boat, which I always cover my boat when it's at home. So you have to basically unscrew these things, lay it on the front deck to be able to put the cover on, which is a pain in the butt. But there is a company that makes a quick release mount for this. I'll probably end up getting one of those. Oh, and let's not forget this big change. The Minn Kota Ultrex. I've run a few Ultrex. I love them. I like the Spotlock better than on the Garmin. Maybe I didn't have my Garmin tuned right. But I just had much better luck with the pedal. I did not like that Garmin pedal. I've liked the Minn Kota pedals quite a bit. So went back to that. That was one thing that I requested. I said, I don't care what else you do with the boat. Just give me a Minn Kota Troll-A-Motor with Spotlock. We have a little bit more offset on the jack plate than the last boat. So we'll see how the performance goes on that. But oh, here's another thing on the internal side of things. That's kind of a big deal. So we've put these out. Way more room on the inside now with battery space. And that's because I'm only running four batteries. The last boat had five batteries. And that was basically to run electronics and the motor off of those two batteries. So you've got your three Troll-A-Motor batteries. Now I just have this one. And I've got the power pole, the Sea Monster charging system with this big eight gauge wire. And what that allows you to do is basically power up everything with the motor. They run bigger gauge wires. And it's just a lot more efficient. It doesn't pull as much power. And you're charging your Troll-A-Motor batteries at the same time. So that works out awesome for me. I love to do truck camping. And sometimes places I can't don't have charging stations. So I'll be able to camp kind of remotely, get at least two days, probably three days, out of the battery life with the Troll-A-Motor and keep on dangling. Just per for a second. Blake, one of the guys who works at Funison, he kind of already dialed some things in here for me to save me a lot of time and transferred all of my waypoints, which going from Garmin to Humminbird is a big mess. So thank you, Blake, for doing that. Well, Humminbird, just not as crisp on the 2D, is the Garmin. Three 4,000 RPMs for about eight minutes. Shut it down in a cove. Just wanted to see what the water temp was. And I've never used the 360. So it's time to turn on these graphs. Figure this thing out. Look at the pod, it says. So this is my first look at 360. Maybe it's some of yours first look. And we've got the Live Scope running right now, which, you know, it's me. I haven't learned the 360 yet, but Live Scope, I know. And it's pretty apparent. I mean, you're literally looking at Live when you see a fish. It's instant. This is actually not instant. It's got a little bit of a delay. It's like a radar. So it goes around, and it'll get those images, and it'll refresh when that line ticks back. I mean, I'm not completely sure what I'm looking at yet. How far is this thing going out? I need some numbers here, like the o'clock. Where's high noon? Where do I know I need to cast? Pinging, contrast range, color, isolate sweep area, display, display speed. OK, here we go. We're just going to crank that up. Oh, wait, she's getting a little blurry here. Front. OK, so we can just go with the front view here. I like that a little better. I mean, you're basically looking 180. I can just hear all sorts of pinging going on in the water. I can only imagine what this feels like for the fish and shallow water. It's just like a rapid fire of ticks and clicks going through the water. All right, let's take the raptors up. A little raptor up action. Should have both of these connected. Yes. Yes, that is working. Trolling motor, engage, maybe not. All right, now we're engaging. I actually have another switch in the back that controls the power for that trolling motor. Just got a very hard dump. So the hook and the line broke. Not a good way to start off with a new boat. Break off. I was thinking to myself, I was like, this is it. I'm going to catch like a 10 right here. First fish in the new boat. So just had my second bite on the junior mondo, on the shaky. I think that time I just didn't set the hook hard enough. I got all chomped up with it, but I'm going to fish here for a minute. I'm sitting in between two spawning creeks. So I just want to show you guys the 360, because I've been playing around for about an hour now. I like it. I do like it. And I have been able to see quite a few fish on it, but there's a little boy right there, a little life scope, to see when that's moving around. We lose picture, lose sight of the fish or the structure or whatever it is. There's fish crawling around on this point. Movement. Love to see it. But this keeps a solid picture. So the 360 puck just doesn't move. So you get to keep the picture on your screen and know if the fish are moving. So every time it rotates, you'll see if the fish are moving or the rock that you're looking at, if it's a little bit over here or whatever. But I love the shadows that it casts on the rocks. So you can see the good types of cover. I've seen some submerged cables, other types of cover on here. It shows up pretty well. I took it down to about 40 feet. So it's a real nice little picture. See if I can bump that up just a hair, just a hair. See what's going on all the way out here. Oh, 50 feet. Love having that Mancota spotlight back smooth like butter. And having this 360 is going to be cool. I'm excited about it. I can't imagine offshore this summer. Ooh, it's going to get real nasty, real nasty. All right, fishing freaks. When in doubt, you got to break that bandito bug out. It is the drug that gets the tugs. Mm-hmm, cream pumpkin. That's never caught anything. It would be a crime not to stalk a new boat without bandito bugs. And when I went to the classic, I actually asked a lot of you what your favorite bait to throw was. And I think half of you said bandito bug. It's understandable. But studies have shown that it definitely works. I really don't like the way that is. I don't like that shaky head way I've got it there. But hook up ratio doesn't feel good. If I lose another one, I'm just going to quit fishing. God, got the first drip on the side. First little drip of dip and glow wiped it, though. I love the layout on the Phoenix. See, they got these two extra little boxes here for those little trinkets. That bait just says, eat me. Eat me now. Bait, what a bait. There's a bite. Got it? Yes. When in doubt, get that bug out. There we go. That is a smallmouth. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Holy cow, I got a smallmouth. The first, these aren't incredibly plentiful in here, so that is awesome. My first fish in the new Silver Bullet is a smallmouth. That was probably why I missed that other one. Just couldn't quite get that whole worm in there. That is cool, ladies and gentlemen. Let's get the first official sniff in the Silver Bullet. Oh, your little smallmouth lips are so smooth. Love you so much. See ya. That was fun. Good fight. Oh yeah. We have broken in on the motor, but we have, we've caught our first fish. Got a smallmouth to start out the Silver Bullet. Was not expecting that. And I've got to try out all the new gizmos and gadgets. Love the 360. I think I'm gonna have so much fun with that. Come really, really post spawn, but you know, now that I'm thinking about it, just sitting there and exploring type areas, watching fish move in around you, that's pretty cool. So one thing I need to make sure to do is turn off this power system. I've got two switches. So every time that you get off the water, make sure you turn these off. And that way, we don't have any incidents with power. If you do have the ability to turn those off, I recommend it because watch the guy one time. His remote control went off on his power poles, going down the road. And that did not end well. Lot of fiberglass around the streets. She's pretty mirror finished right now. I can see myself in there. Let me know in the comments, what would you add to this boat or change? You know, electronics, trolling motor, accessories, whatever. Let me know in the comments what you'd prefer on your ultimate bass boat. But I would say this is getting pretty much as ultimate as I can think of. The only thing that I'm going to add is I'm gonna add some sort of mount right here where I can have another telescoping rotating pole with maybe another transducer on here, or maybe just swap them out for when I'm crappie fishing or if I want to just directly target a brush pile, use the spot lock, and then keep that transducer on the target. So that's the only thing that I know that I'm gonna add anything else. Let me know in the comments. And one more thing I'd like to add before we go, I just got to notice that the Blazenworms are back in stock on the website, GuggenSquad.com. And you can use code LFG to save 10% on that and the entire site. And our spring line, all of our spring line of our performance gear, performance wear, that is coming out very, very soon as well. So we have a bunch of new patterns. The wives and girlfriends are gonna love this one and they may even wanna wear it themselves. I mean, we've got some really cool spring colors, different designs, stuff you guys have never seen before on fishing gear, so it's really premium stuff and I know you're gonna love it. So again, you can save on the website using my code or just use whatever Guggen code. I don't care, just save yourself some money using one of the codes on GuggenSquad.com and thank you guys for, I think this is my fifth new boat reveal tour. There's been quite a few of them, been very blessed over the years to have some awesome vessels. So thank you guys for tuning in. God bless you and the great outdoors. Go snatch some big old helmets and I'll see you on the next one.