 Goodbye my love silver bullet number three back to the channel. We just spent the first hour of the day Unloading the silver bullet. We're gonna take it up to fun and sun today and We're gonna drop it off for good. There's a slight chance. We might get a peep at the new boat I know they're rigging it and doing all that stuff so it might be you know in the garage You know in pieces right now, but it's happening another cool development is there's some people that have bought my 2019 boat and they're Google swat fans They thought it'd be cool if I could sign the boats of fun and sun asked me I was like, yeah, of course, but I don't think they know that I'm gonna go up there today So I think they're gonna try to get us to meet up So we can meet them send that send the the old silver bullet off I will say I'm a little bit sad to get rid of this boat right here. This FX are it is I'm gonna say it is my favorite boat that I've ever owned it is the best Riding boat. I've been in some other boats, you know, I've been in old rangers I've been in bass cats like that just take rough water like like a champ This one takes rough water really well. It's the best ride. I've had out of Skeeter I think they they did some good, you know performance things on this one They just made it heavier almost kind of like went to a to an old like bass cat ranger Sort of thing, you know made it heavier deeper V and I like that so I'm It will be missed, but I'm excited to try out a new boat and give it a good hard dank So let me show you guys what is going on here. Let me just show you the tackle Preff preff preff, so let me just show you the tackle plethora that is happening right now So I just pulled everything out the garage is an absolute mess I'm getting also getting my tackle ready to head up to the Great Lakes You know just a total switch up from Texas fishing So I've got all my boxes sitting in here in the garage Just stacked up amongst tools and chicken stuff and I'm trying to like separate from like my my Great Lakes trip with stuff that's going back into the boat like when I get back There's gonna be a new boat. It's just a lot. There's a lot going on right now I've got it all scattered out and buckets and boxes and in crates and this happens every time I get a new boat, you know, there's all these little knickknacks that ended up inside of there And you just pull them out, you know, you try to organize and then you're just like, alright I'm just gonna pull it all out throw in a box and it ends up being like this There's a new animal here at the treehouse It's little squirrel He seems pretty tame thinking I might be able to get him to eat out of my hand Pretty sure a squirrel would eat these Look it's looking right at these little worms. I know you want some come on. Okay, a little scared. All right Take these we can do the chickens So before we get into dangle strategy tackle prep we're gonna go drop the old silver bullet off Just unhitched it here fun and some Goodbye, my love silver bullet number three and we're going in Okay, this will get y'all started. I figured everybody's fishing. I've seen the lakes more packed this year than I've ever had That's good for fishing Take on one second. I'm gonna get one of these reels I Got them hooked up with some baits and they're taking the old silver ball. They're about to hook it up I gotta say she looks good too But we're about to see The brand new the incoming incoming hot silver boy got money here. We're gonna take a look for the first time At the new the new vessel the vessel See how it goes So it's not fully fully rigged yet. They're gonna rig it all out while I'm up in the in the Great Lakes Get it going. I'd be honest with you. I don't know a whole lot about what is here So we're learning this together. I just know it's a new boat And we got the old silver bullet rolling out these folks about to go enjoy a good dangle oh My this is it the silver silver bullet Phoenix with a mark This is a four-stroke Mercury last time I ran a pro XS. It was they were two strokes So a lot has changed. I think it's huge Let's try doing this feeling it back first time Mercury install these at the factory and this is it Yeah, that thing is shiny. That is sparkly Look at it. That is the exact color of a Coors light can if I've ever seen one Here we go, so this is kind of a bear it's Baron we got electronics all this stuff I'm gonna be showing you guys we got new electronics. They're not hummingbirds New trolling motor. I have never ran one of these so this is gonna be all no experience I'm gonna be showing you guys when I get back We're gonna go through the layout the rigging all the bells and whistles, but it is the new silver bullet And it is quite silver Hey, and we're here at the Guggen HQ y'all where all the baits live I got to get a few things for the Great North and as you guys know Smallmouth they're very infested up there great fishing really they have seasons on them So they don't get fish for as much as fish down here and they can be just voracious Monsters beautiful bronze backs. I love fishing for them. We're gonna be doing some other species as well up there Having a good time, but I I really don't have in my personal collection any 3.3 Saucy swimmers because most time I don't throw anything that small down here. I'm gonna load up on these I'm gonna load up on Radlan neds and anything small mouthy you get some line and things like that some top waters Any all smallmouth danglers out there? Let me know your favorite colors for smallmouth. I know you can't go wrong with a green pumpkin I know translucent colors are really good up there, but I don't know I don't know if it's gonna matter. Hopefully if it's as good as they say it is I've heard reports of like 200 smallmouth a day and one of the areas we're going to I don't know I usually divide things in half But you know from what I hear is by the time to get there the bites either over, you know, it's not as good So but it's gonna be some insane action. So subscribe right here to the channel if you want to stay tuned for some of that I got a bunch of these 3.3s. I Got a bunch of rattling neds. I have a feeling this is probably going to be throwing Mostly everything else. I pretty much have in the arsenal. I also heard spinner baits are really good So I'm gonna take some of our zingers up there But I'm gonna make some Modifications some smallmouth modifications to some of the zingers. I'm gonna put some painted blades These are like what I would consider the best all-around blade combos for wherever you are you got Colorado? Willow, you know with all of myself always like to customize a little bit with jigs anything with skirts to kind of match The the situation the best my mouth are weird. They like really showy stuff. So I've got some painted blades I might spruce a couple of those up and just leave a couple Natural the way they are see what works best, you know, I'm a tinkerer. I like to tinker in the garage Speaking of tinkering. I was just walking back to my tackle cave to put some stuff up And I saw the old no-shoulder the old danger noodle. So he's around here somewhere. I hate when you Lose a snake. Oh, there he is. Okay. This is a rat snake a big long rat snake Stephanie is not here. Otherwise, she would be freaking out But that is a big just like so that's not a big one, but as I just a long Snake right there. It's not poisonous They eat, you know mice rodents, whatever. So that's good around here I would say the only threat is to the chickens and that definitely will eat chicken eggs But I you know those big hens they would probably get after one that size. I'd probably Bite its face off to be honest with you. Now's the difficult time where I have to condense I'm gonna try to get everything in one bag if that's possible besides the rods obviously rod too But try to get everything into one bag I'm hoping we just get on a hard bait bite, you know And that way you don't have to go through plastics like crazy like you throw top water You throw those spinner baits, but man when you start getting into plastics with small mouth and there's as many as I think there are You better be loaded up. I haven't done a chicken check yet today Quick chicken check for you guys What we're chicks They're now full grown bullets. They're starting to get their adult Clucks like their adult sounds instead of those little, you know peeps Especially this barred rock right here. You can really tell she's got a full-blown Squawk going on the duck is starting to lose his feathers He's bolting right now, and he's getting his adult feathers. So he's starting to get a green head And obviously, you know, he has that Drake sound to him like Still getting two eggs a day from the little red chickens and Hearing about I'm gonna say August We should have most everybody laying eggs So it's up for this little wind out right here. She's probably gonna take a little bit longer Of course, he's not gonna be laying eggs. You're just gonna be Hopefully protecting the flock. Okay, that's your job Ebenezer. That's his name Ebenezer. Just protect the flock loose Yep, that's my guard duck Ebenezer if I ever get a fence up out here I will I will get like an actual guard dog So it'll just I'll train it to eat bobcats That's not the case right there. I Find this interesting some of y'all may not but I'm gonna share it with you anyway I think it's interesting to see like the preparations for the trips You know a lot of times what happens is you have way more stuff than you end up using or There's like one particular pattern that ends up being awesome And then you've got just so many other things that really doesn't matter and then you end up with a tackle cave like mine I mean Anyways my bag here which has my clothes and my tackle. I've carried this bag on many many trips It's made by a company called Keen to kind of I don't know how you say it, but they make really tough bags It is filled to the absolute brim. I'm talking like even up here. Well, that's a mask Won't even talk about that. So annoying up here. I've got socks and shirts on top of Line just all mixed in I've got various different types of line. I've got Flora carbon mono and braid. I'm carrying some light braid like some 20 some 15 I've got 12 15 pound fluro. I've got 6 pound in there 8 pound There's a bunch of different varieties and then if we open up the sack It's basically like very few clothes and mostly tack. I have a feeling and I hope Top waters are going to be key What's really exciting about this trip is I haven't been able to go up there slam smallmouth like I do in Canada on our own bait So I'm really looking forward to throwing these top waters out there jerk baits, you know the scouts all that fun stuff I've got if it comes down to it just straight up dangling we can do that too I've built myself a little finesse Ned box and little swim bait box So I've got 3.3 saucies with some quarter ounce jig heads. I've got all different size jig heads in here I've got like all the different Ned Sizes I've got the rattling Neds in here ready to go Just all sorts of it, you know drop shot hooks. I've got very few drop shot weights counting on my boy Team nursing home Matt Cringer to follow up on that. We're tackling this together, but I've got that box ready to go the time to get tough This box is Zingers and saucy swimmers. So that's basically all swim baits. I've got a few buzz baits in there some trailers and whatnot I've got Other drop shot stuff in here. I have some other Shimmer shads and stuff some catch-co 10,000 fish additions some of the really good stuff for clear water Sikoshi bugs. These are really good on on a little Ned heads and stuff And I've got just just a butt load of Radling Neds, you know finesse baits in the bag here. I've got three bait castings I've got three spinnings. I've even I'm even bringing a crappie I've got three casting three spinning Hopefully we dial it down to one, but we might do some multi species So I wanted to get a little variety besides my crappie rod are basically all of our Prototype rods you guys Cats out of the bag pretty much, but we've been developing rods for a long time like our own Guggen squad rods in collaboration with catch-co and I've had these prototype rods forever and a lot of you picked up on that right away when I first started fishing them I think because I had the GS on the butts, but anyway, I'm just taking a bunch of these These are rods that you know if I beat them up. It's whatever their prototype rods They don't they don't have the final finishes or anything on them There's they're just meant for the actions just to test the actions. Those are perfect travel rods I remember the first time I went up to Canada to fish smallmouth Airline broke all of my rods. I had some really good ones. So that was this point I've kind of learned after traveling a lot with rods like don't take your most juicy ones That's it y'all a tube a big bag And a passion for catching smallmouth. I would say it was a good day In the fishing world locally and beyond. Thank you guys for tuning in to each and every single episode Go ahead and smash that like button for good vibes and new bass boats Also, don't forget to stay tuned for the series that we're doing I think we're gonna call it unthawed where you know, hey, the ice is melted We're going up to give it a good hard dangle on the smallmouth If you guys have never seen the smallmouth fishing it is incredible and for all y'all smallmouth fans You're gonna want to stay tuned. All right y'all. I'm wishing you the best and all of your dangles I'll see you soon