 Angel Mama, give me some warm pancakes, I'm dying. What is going on, fish and freaks? Welcome back to the channel. It is a rainy, nasty mess out here, but I figured we would take the adventure wagon out on its first excursion on a little dangle trip. And today's video is sponsored by FishBrain. Now here just a minute, I'm gonna tell you why you need to download FishBrain and you can follow me right here on my handle. But first I wanna show you guys what the heck is going on around here with the weather and with the construction on our home. It's delayed me from getting out, you know, like those nice weather days. I had to be here and like help with the construction crew and everything. So I wasn't able to go, but today is kind of like a break, a small window before the rain really starts coming in. So we're gonna shoot out to the lake, we're gonna race against time. Cause about two o'clock, it's gonna start really coming down again. There's a lot of concrete work that's being done, rock work, all new irrigation, things that, you know, commonly come with a house we didn't have. So we are putting all that stuff in right now and with this crazy wet weather, it's put a delay on some of it. So I don't have to direct any traffic today, I can go fishing. And actually don't have the silver bullet here today because my driveway where I keep the boat is in shambles right now. I mean, absolute shambles. Look at my boots. It is just gross out here. New wall built right there. We gotta take a pause on that. The masonry work, can't even get into the driveway right now because there's just piles of dirt and rocks and gravel. And just look at the nastiness. So the whole idea there is to drive water away from our house because we've had foundational issues because we haven't had sprinklers, irrigation, anything, water just runs under the house, causes shifting. And as you can tell, we have a lot of clay right here. Another big thing they did was take where all the gutters meet at the downspout, they made a pipe that runs all the way down here and they just dug this ditch and then the water pops up right here at this little doodad. And when it comes out of there, it runs down to the little creek. So that little mushroom cap, hopefully is gonna save us from a lot of shifting. So while they've been digging all this stuff up in this process, it's got the brain turning. Well, first of all, how am I gonna get over here to my boat after, you know, I parked right here, that used to be the walkway. So now I'm gonna have to figure out some sort of walkway situation to get out around here to get to the boat. And I thought, while we're doing that, why don't we just make a little trail over here to the old chicken coop. And then I got to thinking of another thing. We're actually not gonna electrify the fence here. We're gonna do a full blown chicken wire enclosure. And the reason is we visited one of our neighbors, it's like three or four houses down. They have chickens, they have problems with the bobcats as do we in foxes and everything else. But they told us bobcats kind of sounds like an AR, you know, maybe somebody's shooting hogs right now. Interesting side note, they also said they trapped 20 hogs at once in their backyard. So, you know, I thought we had hog problems with just a couple. I mean, it is bad just to cross a little creek right here. We're gonna do a full blown enclosure because they said the bobcats would just get right in there. And I think they would find a way around the electricity because we have so many little ladders right here. You know, bobcats just go right up there and jump in. They might get shocked on the way out but they're gonna get their meat. Main point is we got a lot going on around here, a lot of fun projects. So if you wanna stay tuned for all that, you just hit that subscribe button. 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This is looking quite gnarly y'all. I've never seen it this bad. It's like you who mix with Nestle. With doodoo in the middle of it. Oh, look at that. That is some brown water and not the good kind. Okie dokie. Little light rain. Let's get this party started. At least it's not freezing yet. Rain pants on. These pants still smell like goat. Tar from New Zealand. Oh yeah, got a stick. Got a big log stuck under there. Oh, this is where you need the rain boots, ladies and gentlemen. This is where the step sides come into play. That's what I was talking about. Oh, my boat is floating off. That is not a good deal there. Ok, we are in a bad way right now. We're in a bad way, ladies and gentlemen. Oh my gosh, what do I do here? Ok, we're going to have to get wet. We're just going to have to do it. See if that or lose the boat. Oh, that is not how I was going to start my day right there. This is a bad mother trucking deal here. Ok, here's what we can do. I'm going to pull the, oh gosh, dang it. Oh, this is bad. This is really, really bad here. Oh, man. Ok, I put those there for now. Oh, absolutely soaked. Oh, got a big, you know, got a big log jammed up in the trailer. That's always good. Oh, my gosh, the hail is happening today. Now we got a problem because our boat is just floating. Our boat is just floating out here. Just started raining. We can only pray that it comes over to this other side. If the wind was blowing out that way, I would be 100% completely screwed. This is no taco bueno. I know something I can do. I've got a rope somewhere. I've got to get this rope quick. This might be our only shot. Oh no, this is bad. Come on, baby. Oh, be some rope up in here. Yes, what a freaking mess. Oh, gosh, I need you to come back. Shouldn't be too hard to make myself a loop here and get this baby back. First attempt, not successful. This is fishing right here. This is fishing for your boat. God, this wasn't so steep. I would just go over there and grab the front. God bless America. Please, Lord, let this rope go around this power pole. Wind's picking up. Oh yeah, we got something. We got something hard. Hell yeah. Here we go. The propeller might make contact with the rock, but we'll take it at this point. OK. Well, if you're not entertained by that, I don't know what to tell you. Unfortunately for me, I'm wet now. I'm pretty wet. My boots are soaked, went in past my top of my boots. Real nice. Had to put those on the old peat dry when I get home. I am definitely not going to get on pad here, because there's probably some floaters. In fact, I could see some around me. But thank you, Lord, there was no wind. The ramp was just so much higher. I backed it in at my normal level, and it just took off. So that was my fault. But we're going to use extra precaution out here, just take it slow, and kind of scan out the deeps and see if we can find something. I'm starting to mark some fish on these brakes here, but they look suspended, which I'm not surprised by since the water looks like mud. These fish are not grouped up, which is not what I'm looking for. But I'm going to idle all around this creek arm. I'm going to go out to the main lake, see if I can find the cleanest water, and see where I can find the most fish stacked up. All those favorite memories of last year. I think I'm pretty safe to say this is not going to be on my memory bank for 2020, this day. It is going in a southward direction, and it ain't warm. And just to clarify, I am the only one out on the lake. Not a single person is willing or they basically have the wits not to come out here. I am the only person dumb enough or brave enough, whatever you want to say, to come out in such conditions. If it was just raining, it would not be bad. It was just the water clarity's pretty terrible. First spot unsuccessful. Can't say I'm too surprised by that. I think a lot of these fish, since they're suspended over this deep water, they're going to be nearly impossible to catch because they can't see and they're suspended, so what I may have to do is look at where they are in the water column and try to find a drop that is holding them that's close to that depth. It's gonna be very hard to do, but I'm not giving up yet. We still got an hour and a half probably until the rain gets super thick, but it is getting a little windier and a little colder. Little fingertips getting numb, and it's like hard to tie knots. That's where we're at right now. Just in case there's some big dumb bass out there, I'm gonna switch up a tactic. Put on the old recon, grande recon. So I'm actually marking quite a few fish in like 12 to 15 on this little break. And what I'm gonna do is just chunk this thing out there and see if I can dredge the bottom. Maybe I'm gonna get hung up. I don't know, might hang into a 10 pounder, but there's these fish that are just hanging right there close to the bottom and they, I don't know what they are. They're pretty good size, so they're on a break. They very well could be larges. It's gonna take a lot to get their attention and I think this is just the thing to do it. Just throw a big crankbait or a big spinnerbait and water like this with big blades. Okay, now going that little high spot, I'm going to try the dam because the dam goes out deep water and I'm trying to hit where those fish are suspending and hit these rocks. Maybe they're gonna be intersected right there. This is like the only thing I can think of that is an obvious piece of structure that meets where they're gonna suspend. Otherwise it's gonna be docked, but this way I can keep this in the strike zone for a extended period of time and increase my chances of hooking one of these frigid blind bass. I'm going with the most flamboyant color I can find. And it's, you know, chartreuse blueback. Well, y'all, it's just about two and I can hear the drops starting to get gursy. Got a little beef behind him now, making some noise. Just an absolute beat down out here. Give me some Campbell's Chunky. This is a Campbell's Chunky moment right here. Hashtag Campbell's Chunky soups. Yeah, old poo, yummy, frosty. Well, what can I say? Sometimes you smash them, sometimes you fall flat on your face. Today was one of those face plants and all I did was really get wet, get the boat wet, get all my gear wet, almost lost the boat. I'm soaked, I'm cold, and probably making myself more sick. But hey, the truck looks good and the factory rake that's been maintained with the lift worked out really well. Did a three and a half inch drop hitch on there. Think I picked out the right one. It's perfect, nice and level with the new truck lift. So I'm happy about that. That's the only good news. Y'all, I've got it. I've got the sickness, there's no doubt. Got the body aches. Probably gonna spend the next couple of days on the turlet. Y'all stay tuned for the next one. I'll give you the update on my health. Thank you for being here on every single one of these videos and thank you Fishbrain for sponsoring today's video. God bless you. I'll see you soon. Hopefully, healthy and happy. The boat's not moving, right? Like we're just, yeah, I got a spot on, okay. Where are you going? I got color. It's a big small one. Who dead is a big small one? That's a big small mountain. It's a grove. It's a fully grown one.