 Welcome back to the Channel Fish and Freaks, it's been a grind today. I've been doing a tournament against AP Bassin aka Alex Perrick up in the Northland right now. We're doing a virtual tournament. What a doozy. I've only had like five fish, I've had a lot of short strikes, a little bit of a marina pattern. Some fish in the brush and whatnot but just one of those rough and tumble days where the lake is high and then you're trying to figure it out. If this was like dead summer, I'd be gone, be goneersville. But it's still a nice day and I think I'm going to try a little bit to catch a few more fish. See if I can teach y'all a little something, maybe I'll learn something. And then we can trans-pute it. Trans-pute it. Word of the day. And then we've got to go home, check on a little baby emery, see what the fam's doing. Get some leftover chili and relax for a minute. Take you guys along for the ride. As I always do, usually, most of the time, it's been a little hectic since baby came along. But I'm here, you're here. Let's have a good time and let's do some fishing. So basically what has transpired today is some swimbait action. And I also just tied on a fluke. I mean, we're going to Shadville. I caught some on a spinnerbait. Having a problem catching fish on the bottom right now? Let me know in the comments if you've been fishing what the dealio has been for Texas or anywhere else that has floodwaters right now because, God! I mean, absolute drill shop right there. First cast with you guys, maybe you're good luck. But that has happened multiple times to me today where I get bam-bosled on that swimbait. And then I can't get them on a follow-up bait. You know, I'm throwing this white fluke, just twitching it, letting it sink a little bit on a 330-second little sink job. And it's just not happening. It's like they want it pretty quick. They want it moving. It's a reaction by 100%. And I think what's happening here is because the water's come up, it's high. This is a consistent thing for these fish. These tires are always here. You know, the marinas are always here. They just kind of go up and down with the water level they're floating. And there's tons of new brush up in the shallows. It's just a lot harder to dissect. Keep covering some water. Wow, that's a loud airplane. Hello from American Airlines inside the cockpit. The only thing about being in the city fishing you got to deal with. You got to deal with airplanes flying over. It's not peaceful like Canadian wilderness. Y'all do decide to ever to fish some marinas or some tires or something like that. All this man-made stuff. Be sure to watch out for nasty structures like these chains and this eye-beam situation that I'm currently sitting around. No taco bueno on the old trolling motor or your fiberglass. Ah, I guess I'm going to just pick up the swim bed again and continue to get struck and not actually get fish on it. Or maybe I will. Here's what I have done. I put some juice on there. Where's that juice? Yeah, I got it. Never tried it before. The crevices, crevices, I cannot talk today, crevasses of these tires and marinas and everything. That's the deal. And I think it has to do with points this time of year, fall fishing, all about those points. Oh, I just had one chasing it right there. Twelve incher, nothing to get too excited about. Little ambush points. Edge of this tire. It's a point. Edge of a dock. It's a point. All right. So here's the cast right here. Bam. That's the deal. It's going to come across that edge, little ambush situation. Oh, God. I mean, what the heck is happening here? Two bites so far with you guys. Oh, that is a big turtle. That is a big slider turtle right there if I've ever seen one. I mean, you're sitting on poop. Hope you know. Other than that, that'd be a great photo moment. That's bold. That's when you know turtles old. He's like, come on, come on in here. God, one's eating it right now. Tapped it. Got to be kidding me, man. Bit my tail off. Just grabbing the tail. Who does that? It's like something social justice warrior would do. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is unbelievable how hard they're hitting it. Holy cow, that got thrashed. There's no doubt they like that swim bait. No go on the little crank. Finally, we get one. Boy, these guys are fucking strong today. Up in the slips. That's my first marina fish of the day. That was like my fifth bite though. Most of them are on the shade line. Bird, I don't remember you being here. The last time I was here. Okay, I did nothing to you. I apologize. You're obviously injured, isn't it? I've upset you. Poor little guy. Well, I hope you make it. I'm not sure I want to grab you with that pointy little pecker you got there. Stop and get something to eat, guys. I was dying. It's all that fish catching, you know. If you catch all those fish, you really start to get hungry. That's what it is. Actually, I kind of thought for old time's sake I would roll up to old sneaky peets and have me a nice, just juicy burger. There's not many lakes that you can pull up to a restaurant with your boat. You know, just ride up to the bank and drop poles and get you a nice bite to eat. That stage back there, 2007, I won a national collegiate bass fishing championship. I was my partner for Texas A&M University. It was actually flooded the year that we won too, so just kind of like, you know what, I'm going to breeze back through here and just tap into the memory bank. It's nice. It's good times. That guy's feeling it over there. King of the world. Try some main link brush for a minute. Simple fact is these fish are just suspended. Hard. Nobody likes suspended fish. They're always harder to catch. I just landed a week ago. Is that insane or what? Oh, give me that. Give me that bait back, Mr. Tree. Give me that bait back. You don't really want it. I've never met a bass that doesn't like chartreuse and white spinnerbait. Bush, do you really want this spinnerbait? You're going to tell me right now you want this spinnerbait. You want to hang on to it? Please, come on. There you go. Is this a carp? Carp, what's happened to you? Not having a good day. Wow, it's two animals I've seen that are just not having good days. I've got another spot in mind. Yeah. Hey buddy, you must be lost. I've never seen one of these guys in a marina before. They are gorgeous. Your mallard friends are over here. Look how pretty that wood duck is. Awesome little creatures. See ya. Stay away from player. Turns out this other set of tires is a no-go. Totally sucks. Nothing going on here, not what I was hoping for. I'm going to head back across the lake. My troll motor is dying. I am on E again, sadly to say. I had a quarter take, but I showed up to the lake. I must have got lost in competition mode with AP Bassin. This happened more times in this boat than ever in my other boats all combined. Let me just make sure that this marina behind me has some gas. That would be a godsend. This is bad because I've got this sucker almost on full blown. And it's still not giving me what I want. It doesn't make any sense. I charged it last night. Bluebirder of a day now. You think that's good for bass fishing right there? Bluebirder? I don't think so. No boy knows all around. There are worse things that I could be doing right now. Besides, the longer I'm out here, the less dirty diapers I have to change at home today. Sorry, OSG. You know, I've run into three fans out here today. I'm sure it would be nice to run into one right now. Well, good times. That little dock thing over there is where we're going. We still got a minute. Time to fill her up. Yeah, does this machine work? Yeah. Thank God. I ran out of gas way out there. It's about to be a real bad deal. Can we get any bites? None over here. Thank you, Jesus. I would just like to take a moment. I would just like to take a moment to thank the kind gentlemen at Sam's Dock for helping me out right there. I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Sometimes I have a little bit too much faith. And then everything is going to work out. Maybe. Maybe I don't. Really it does though, I gotta say. We made it in. We tried hard. Y'all just wouldn't happen. At least I caught some this morning in the competition. Just wasn't good. At least you know I'm not lying out here. I'm not fishing barrels and making movies. And we did get something on our windshield. So let's check it out. Looks like it's from a fishing freak. Here we are. Little receipt. Looks like from O'Reilly's. Use that. Very useful. Hey Justin. We're big fans. And love all the vids. Keep it up. Keep catching Mondos. Puts FF with an exclamation park. PJ and Liam. It looks like. Put in vid please. Well you guys made it. Thank you for all the support. This lake in Grapevine I get the most. Most FFs. This is my home stopping grounds. Today was no different. I think there was a total of four. Four or five of y'all. So thank you. I love it. I love talking to y'all. I even met a guy this morning. Kevin was his name. He had some Googan Bates. And I signed some Googan Bates. Fan encouraged me. Y'all love it. That right there y'all. That's like dreams come true. It was just a great day. To be in the fishing community. I'll say that. Fishing today was not. Amazing. Now it's time to head home to the girls. Something wrong with battery four. Boats stand for breakout another thousand. No matter how new or old. Not saying that's a mega problem. But you know. It's just how things work. Well hello. What are you up to? It's one of my girls. One of them. The other one is sound asleep. Is she really? She's being good. Well she had a rough day. She had to get her uh, heel pricked. Oh no. And it was the saddest thing. Oh no. I'm kind of glad you weren't there for that. Did you cry? I was about to. Little honey buns. Are you okay in here? Yep. You're zoned out. We're doing a salad situation. Salad shooter. Some green stuff. You are what you eat when you're a baby. Drinking milk. Mom milk, not the green. The leftover milk. Oh. There it is. There it is. The milk. I wasn't actually going to show it. But it popped into the screen. It's very strange. Don't want to put that one in your weedies in the morning. I'm now going to sit on the back porch. I'm going to contemplate the next bite. Or the next thing. The next outdoor activity. Opening day of archery season. Been preparing for that. Just got to figure out where I'm going to hunt. Been getting quite a few requests from you fishing freaks out there. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I would love to get OSG on a deer. Actually. Like a recovery deer. Like post pregnancy deer. I don't know. It's just something I think about. And I would love to get my first big buck. I've never gotten a big buck. This year. I think I'm going to try to make it happen. And I'm going to go ahead and spill the beans on this. But I've been working on the second edition. Make every cast count shirt. And it is finally available now. And I don't have one with me yet. I was going to wait until I got one. To really start promoting it and showing you guys. But I'll leave a link down in the description. You can go click it. See what it looks like. It's hand drawn. I've got a lot of new hats coming too. As well. Some real tree type camo. For those of you that are into hunting. Still want to be an FF. Out there in the woods. I got you covered. So I'll leave links down there in the description. And next couple videos. Hopefully I've got it. And I can sport it and show you guys some more. But until that time. Thank you all very much for being here. Subscribing to the channel. And I hope wherever you are. You're having a blessed day. Go make it a good one in the outdoors. And I'll see you guys out there.