 Hey girl. Ladies and gentlemen, fishing freaks of all ages. Welcome on back to the channel. I am so excited to present today's video to you because we are at the Casa de Jimmy. Jimmy Houston, the one and only America's favorite fishermen. I grew up watching Jimmy Houston when I was a kid. Me and my dad on Saturday mornings watching Jimmy. He's not just a TV figure. He's an incredible angler. So many accomplishments and his love for the outdoors is I would say contagious. This ranch is heaven. It is so awesome and it's got two lakes on it. We're gonna be doing some fishing while we're up here. We're gonna explore Jimmy's place. We're gonna meet the man himself. And if you guys haven't seen Jimmy Houston's videos, he is on YouTube and Facebook and other things too, not just TV. And I'll link him down below. Actually something that he's become famous for here recently in the recent years is his deer. They do live in the woods but they come by every day. Don't believe me? Say hi to the crew over here. Okay well they haven't really warmed up to me yet, but it is not just white-tailed deer. There are elk. Some beautiful bulls. They don't have their antlers right now. Obviously need to do the white tail. There's turkeys. I mean there's turkeys just strutting around. There's two lakes. There's giant croppies. It's just beautiful healthy lakes. Y'all it is the dream. So some of you that are really young that may not know who Jimmy Houston is, he is considered a legend of the industry. And I kind of like to compare Jimmy and Bill, you know Hague Parker, Roland Martin. Those anglers they were the original TV anglers and they got a ton of people into fishing. And so I really look up to them. And they were much more accomplished anglers than we are here at the Cougar Squad. But we still love fishing just the same as them and we're trying to bring people into the sport too. So it's like there's a connection there. You know what I'm saying? Let's go take a tour of Jimmy's place and let's meet the legend himself. This is a very special deer. It is a sweetheart. She's had babies out here. Yes you have. Yes you have. You are just a sweetie. So crazy y'all. I think I'd be petting a deer. We got this boy right here. This is a yearling buck. You can see his little nubs on top. What do you think about my pants here? I like your little buttons. I like your little buttons. You're probably gonna be a 200 inch buck someday. Judging from the other things I've seen out here. But how crazy is that y'all? They have little collars on. She goes everywhere with Jimmy. Jimmy can be anywhere in the woods. Collar. She comes on the boat sometimes. Like sleeps on the back deck of the house. Unbelievable. So this, ladies and gentlemen, is what a morning at Jimmy Houston's looks like from the front deck. Oh easy. Easy on the nose blow. But there's a big party going on in the back. I need some pets. I didn't really pet you this morning. Give it a sniff. Give it a sniff. To the water real quick because there's a break in the rain right now. But this is the lake. Look at this gorgeousness. Look how clear the water is y'all. It's absolutely gorgeous. And the way Jimmy stalks his leg, his philosophy. You know, he doesn't grow giants, but he feeds the lake with nutrients, fertilizing tons of grass and tons of baitfish. So there's bluegill in here. There's shad. There's tilapia at times. So lots of bass can grow to a really healthy weight really fast. And this lake is about 125 acres. This is one of the lakes right here. And it is around 60 foot deep out in the middle. It is deep. There's the man himself, America's favorite fisherman. Oh, Jimmy Houston coming out. Take a look. I think I might give Joe Arms a call. Time to come by and set the trap over there. That is an otter to eat then. They clean them to the bone, don't they? That is sad. I've got relics you don't even need to crop you down to the bone that much. That is eating it down to the bone right there. That otter is living in the wrong area code though. I gotta tell you that. He will be trapped and relocated for you otter lovers. There's only one fisherman out there that can get him better than otter, and that's Jimmy Houston. I will tell you, that otter is pretty good. He's pretty deadly. So ladies and gentlemen, America's favorite fisherman Jimmy Houston here. You're gonna film a show today. We're gonna film with Winston today if we don't get rained out. We're gonna kind of try to go in between rain just barely sprinkling right now. We can film out here in this and not mess up all our camera equipment, but it should be good. I mean they're gonna be biting. This otter is so clear. It is. It's still a little too clear. We will fertilize this and we will drop it down to about probably 12 or 14 inches as far as you'll be able to see. Right now you can see four foot. It makes it real pretty when you catch fish, but it's better fishing when we put a little more color in it. Yeah, because they can see. Yeah. So it's pretty deep out in the middle. Yeah, we've got a lot of 30 foot water. At the end of the ox there's about 15. We've got 55 foot water down by the dam. So we got a lot of deep water, got a lot of shallow water. All this up in there Justin's a big flat. It's got a lot of grass. You can see all the grass here growing around the bank. And two or three different types of grass. Coontail and I drilling and goes on out and fish live in that grass constantly just like they do in all other lakes. It's got grass and and today a lot of them are going to be around the edges of the grass because of this cloud covering the terrain and they're going to be laying on top of the grass. Should be able to catch one spinner bait. I will throw a spinner bait. I promise you should be able to catch them on a sinking worm. Should be able to catch them on a crank bait. Should be able to catch them on something else. You know, the water is getting up so warm right now you probably throw top water. Not going to be the greatest, but you probably could throw a jerk bait catching my blade. Okay. And probably just about any kind of plastic jigs, you know, they're going to be biting. We got to get back after with the rain. Let's get down on it. I can't come out here and not throw a spinner bait. Jimmy here's his place. That would be a crime. He says I want to go in the boat who sometimes likes to get in the boat soaking wet. I love cameras. I know about cameras. I love cameras. That's my baby. That's my girl. Yeah, my girl. That is awesome. Well, it's time to go do what you do and make some fishing shows. Have some fun. I'm now going to take you into the Tackle Cave at Jimmy Houston's. This is where a fisherman can come in here, think about where the next day lives, how to do it, what to throw, rigging, all of the things. You know, it's almost just as fun. Just getting ready. Thinking about the big bass you're going to catch and look at the space that Jimmy's got to do that in. This is a one, two, three boat garage in here full of Tackle, full of dangling fishing rods. And it is just a fisherman's paradise. I don't think I'll ever be cool enough to have a cardboard cutout of myself. But when you have a cardboard cutout of yourself in your giant truck and boat garage, I think you have made it. Map selection, do a little map shopping. What do we got hidden secrets? Lake Darnell? Poster. Poster, look at the hair. I actually thought about wearing a wig to come down here like a like a lookalike Jimmy wig, but I didn't want to think I was like super weird. So didn't do that. Would have been funny, possibly. You may have seen some of these rods in in Walmart. Those are some of his signature series, crappie rods, all these random Tackle trays full of the goodies. This looks like sort of the crappie section over here. The Road Runners. Anybody that's watched Jimmy Houston for any number of years knows that he's caught a million fish on Road Runners. Oh man, got your big a rig section right here. I see tons of jig heads, umbrella rigs, just tons of different kinds of jerk baits, soft plastic, anything. Y'all look at look at this shelf space. This is basically like having a entire tackle store right here in your home. Look at that well organized. Oh, what do we have here? And we got some sneaky old classic stuff y'all that I mean, look at this right here and the old cotton cordel. We got some classic Smithwick rogues. You know, when they start getting that little yellow tint on the package, they're classics. Bomber long a's just some classic big fish style lures. Look at all these little pens, torpedoes. Oh man, I've got I've actually got some of these back at my house not in the package though. Look at this beautiful some of these are discontinued. Then we got the line section over here. It just continues on and on y'all and look at all this space to park your vehicles. Oh, hey, how about a little deer handle or sheds? We're going to show you guys the boat garage. This is just boats and he's he's actually going to rig the rest of the the walls out tackle wise. We're working on it right now. But 1234 boat slots. And he actually has five boats in here. So he's got his aluminum boats, you know, doing that crappie snatching game, brand new trackers and mercs. And I feel honored that the silver bullet is actually in here right now you guys. Isn't that beautiful? Oh my gosh, this is this is my dream one day to have something like this some little metal building and a little piece of land that I can can park it on. That is just man, having big dreams in here right now can't come out here and not have a spinner bait rigged up. So that's probably my first thing I'm gonna do is try to catch one on a spinner bait because I'm at Jimmy's and if you guys have never watched him use it before, the man made a chartreuse white spinner baits just a way of life. And if you remember Terminator spinner baits, I don't know how many of those things I bought just from watching Jimmy Houston fish in all those years. But anyways, dreamland right now and the garage flooring is something else. It is I don't know what kind of material this is what's going on. But this is like a slotted material. Things can drain through here. And it just makes a garage pop. It's gorgeous. Right now, I think what I'm going to do just for me personally, this is going to be really difficult for you guys is I want to launch the boat and go fish. The filming is going to be terrible. The audio is going to be terrible. I need to get out there for myself in the rain. It's going to be raining all day. There's nothing I can do. I'm only up here a couple days. I need to go out there. So I'm going to grab a couple of go pros. We're going to load up the silver bullet and we're going to go fishing in Jimmy Houston's Lake. Now leaving the Jimmy garage. I actually don't know where I'm going. But I think Jimmy said the ramp is down here somewhere. See the boat ramp. The entire cove over here. Okay, we're going to attempt to make this work. Key word attempt. Batteries, cameras, water never works out well. But I just have to get out here. I have to experience this. I'll tell you guys a back story. So I've actually been here once before. But I was working at the time. I was working filming some TV shows in the outdoor industry and we ended up here and I never got to hold a fishing pole. So I've been on this lake once before and I told the store to Jimmy too and he remembers surprisingly that I came but we came here. I filmed. I never got to touch a rod. It was awesome to be here and a lot of this stuff is new. This stuff I haven't seen. Especially the deer and stuff like that. But never got to experience the fishing for myself. So special day, special moments. I'm going to put some of this stuff in the drybox. So hopefully you can witness me catch a fish out here for the first time. But uh yeah, it's rainy. It's nasty. Boats, mucky, dirty. But I literally spent another hour last time I talked to you just rigging up stuff. So I've got I'm so ready to go and we're going to try to get some bass. So let's go get it. Barely got any gas in here but don't think we're going to need it. Just going to back it out and drop the trolling motor. Yep. Just going to drop the trolling motor. The craziest thing about this place y'all is it's just stacked with trees. Absolutely stacked. In honor of you Jimmy, I definitely need to be throwing a spinner bait. It's not chartreuse and white. I apologize. It does have some chartreuse and white blades on it. But uh yeah, you know what? It'd be bad luck not to throw that spinner bait. Let's go searching for a full-blown Oklahoma fatty. Come on man. Wow. This water is so clear. Ooh mossy. There's many different species of grass in here. Okay, that's what I came back with. Come on big in. All right Jimmy, I'm sorry I had to pick up a little swim bait just because I'm not enjoying this little little mix of algae we got going here. But the lake is very very healthy. Lots of little things living in that. Obviously guys, this is not an automatic thing here. It's not like every cast, you know, you're just gonna get one. You gotta work for it. Which is just fine with me. I like to figure these little things out. There's a bass right now. Water 57. Not quite the full-blown spawn going on here. This crappie ought to be really close. Oh. Got hammered. First bite. Nipped it. Got him. He's coming back for it. Got him right there. Oh my god that's a crappie. It's a giant. Oh my gosh. This could be my biggest crappie ever. Oh my goodness. Oh what a hammer. Oh what a hammer. I hate a swim bait. Oh look at this black crappie y'all. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Holy cow. Look at that freaking hammer y'all. Oh you crushed that swim bait. He came back for it a couple times. That is a logger headed nanny muggins. Look at that. Holy moly. That's a dinner plate and a half giant black crappie. Not going to be my biggest ever but definitely a code magnum crappie y'all. Jimmy told me he said a lot of people catch their biggest crappie ever out here. He said there are three pounders. Scurry. Got that one on the old saucy with the flashy swim on it. So if that's what's in here. Oh my goodness we're looking at a time crappie fishing y'all. Healthy one. Gone. Yeah first bath of Jimmy Houston baby. Beautiful. Beautiful hook just comes right out because we're using varbulous. Beautiful fish. Love to see it y'all. Healthy healthy healthy chunks. So I smashed my barbs down on all my bait so all these fish will have nice nice healthy mouths to go about their business. That's how Jimmy does it out here. And uh you know I haven't had a problem with it so far. That's two bites two fish in the boat. So the average size out here isn't going to be humongous. You know we're not talking about five to eight eight pounders but probably average size is going to be around three pounds which is pretty phenomenal. And just healthy so much to eat in here. Very guys I just had to get on the lake. I've already caught one of my biggest crappie. That biggest black crappie ever. Just caught a nice healthy bass. Learning the lake a little bit. And uh honestly I know it's not great for video but I could fish out here all day. So normally a lake that's this steep you're not going to have grass that thick up there like that but there's just nice thick wall of algae and then other grasses there. Oh my gosh that one tattooed it. Let him have it too. I don't know what happened there. Gonna need a new swimmer. Could have been another magnum crappie. Just trying to eat it good. Look at the healthiness. Come here sugar. Oh my gosh you're fat I can't even flip you. Holy moly man. Look at the healthiness on that one y'all. Holy cow. That is awesome. Absolutely awesome. Look at the fatness. That fish is a little red in the belly. Getting ready to drop some eggs. That is something else right there. Another model of fisheries management excellence y'all. Look at that. Whoo baby let you go. See you sugar booger. Whoo that was fun. Right on that tree there. That fish eat it on this graph. I actually saw that fish over there on my live scope and I saw it swimming as I made a cast over there. Little one but this fat man. Oh my gosh one just right there following him. Got him. Oh my gosh you're kidding me. Is that what we're dealing with? Holy cow. Got him. Oh my gosh this bass is like oh my goodness what is going on. Took my pinchers eight I think bit my bait about 14 times. Oh I think that's a croppy. No that's a little bass. Fun fight buddy. There you go. Nice thing about that barbless hook you can shake those little ones off the boat if you want to. So just picked up something different. Hopefully you guys can see and hear this. Not really sure. One with the grass hero and put that junior krakencrawl in there and this is a swim jig. I've got it on 40 pound braid on the 7-2 reaction rod so this is this is a setup that I've just dedicated to grass fishing for this grass hero. I like fishing the thin diameter braid. It really cuts through the grass but I picked it up because this moss is so bad and I can kind of feel when this one gets a little dragged up and twitch it and then it'll get out of that moss stuff a lot easier than spinnerbait or that swimbait even will. Wow there's one right under my trolling motor because he wants to hang out. He's going to see that jig. There's already a fish on it and I got him. Geez okay saw that one on live scope. He wanted it. Oh my gosh big one. Oh my gosh. Big one ate it two times. Oh there we go. That was sweet. That was sweet as sugar. Come here you bugger. Definitely this is what's happening y'all. I can tell you they're eating the pincers off. So that fish I felt it hit it. I stepped the hook. There was nothing there. I came back. I felt another hit and dropped it and then I just let it drop again and this water is so clear these fish will chase it out and he grabbed the swim jig without the pincers that last time and that's a beautiful fish. Three in high threes about a four. Really nice fun dives. So now fishing this swim jig and any other jig that I have that has those crawfish pincers on the back I'm gonna wait until that fish is grabbed at a second time because they'll grab it, they'll shake the pincers off, they'll let go and then they want the body. They want the body of that thing but if this water were not clear they wouldn't be able to to catch that body of the crawfish that I'm swimming because the water would be dirty and I jerk it away from them they'd lose it but it was so clear they can come back on it but I'm gonna try to do a better job of letting them take it that second time. Just love fishing jigs like this. There's one. Let them have it. But fun. Now we got it on the swim but I didn't set the hook right away. Just let them eat it. It's nice having this this rod when I'm swimming it too and having the reaction rod. This is like a crankbait rod but I've got that braid on it so I can get a good hook set. Just keep some pegged. See ya. Fun, fun, fun. This looks like a nice little spawner pocket. Wow. Let's see one on a bed y'all. Oh my gosh that fish. Oh my gosh that fish is defensive. Holy moly. That was a decent one. I watched him. He just, I thought he had the whole thing. Hold on to it for a sec. Really grabbing these pincers. Oh he's got it. He's going under the boat. She's a little screamer but he dropped it too. Pretty sure he came off that log there. That one had some sores. There we go. Came back and got it. This is a cool bite. We got it. They're barely getting it. Yeah same exact thing ladies and gentlemen. Look at that. Takes the pincers, rips them off, comes back and gets the body. Four pounder. Got to love it baby. All right beautiful. Whoa you're angry. I'm not going to kiss you. I'm going to sniff you. Okay that's Jimmy. I'm the sniffer. You smell so sweet. Getting a tiny break from the rain right now. I'm embracing it. What a beautiful fishery. I cannot wait to come out here with Jimmy tomorrow and really learn from the master himself but this is just, it's just insane. Just insane. I've already gotten my fill for today. You know catching a few four pounders. A giant crappie and just getting to actually see some fish swimming around. So awesome. I'm going to do something real quick. A little change. I'm going to pick up a dart since it is calm here for just a second. This looks very much darty back in here. That swim jig, they're really thinking it's a crawfish. Just the way they're acting on it. Breaking off those pincers. So I'm going to try this. A little bluegill limiter. See if we can get a big one to really suck it in. Okay I'm going to pick my swim jig back up now. Just man I can really get down there kind of quick and stay right above this little grass line. That's what's tricky about fishing right here is I mean it is deep. It's 30 foot right here where I'm sitting. So this the fish seem to be right on the edge of these little grass lines and if you can swim that thing kind of lower your rod tip, lift it up as you're making contact with the grass. This makes it pretty efficient. God I haven't had it. Golly they're just not getting it. I'll let them take it. There we go. Little guy. Now that one I just let them have it swimming. What I'm waiting to feel for is that second thumb. They'll eat it that first time and then they shake their head. They let go of the bait and then they'll pick it up again. You can always tell the fish are actually feeding on crawfish in the lake when they do that and Jimmy told me this morning that he stalks crawfish in here every year. So that's how they naturally forage for crawfish. They rip those pincers right off. Look at this fish on the life scout right here. That's a dandy of one and I don't think Jimmy's got carp in here. Oh my gosh one got it. One got it out there. I just saw him and it's another one's coming back. Another one's coming back. It's got it. Another one's coming back. Another one on the scope right now. But I want this up. Gosh dang it. Oh you should have seen that other one on the life scout. And the thing is out here in the middle of nowhere. Come here. All right y'all we got on the far bank there are Lucy and her friends. The deer are coming to see us. Let's see if we can get some more of these bass. Okay a little thunder. Little little Oklahoma thunder and a big old bass. Oh yeah that's a nice one. Big old chunky bass. Big old jumps. Sort of embarrassing to say. Yeah I threw it out there and I never even moved it when that fish got on there but that happens sometimes. Heavy. That one's upper four is getting on that five range right there. Beautiful. See you later. Beautiful. Look at that clear water. Y'all you got to smash the like button on that. Look at that. Amazing. Five pounder swimming off into the deeps. You're supposed to be a big one hanging in there between them trees. God even the little ones are just healthy. Healthy butts. Oh yeah. Juicy booty. Come here. Switched up a trailer on this one. To the rattle and chunk. And that one. That one did not break claws off thank goodness. Oh my gosh. The fish grabbed it right off a bed. I just I never saw the fish. I just saw the spot. Crazy. Little muck bass coming in there. Get him a bed. I've had so many hits on this jig today that my skirt is starting to wither away. I love to see that. Just listening to this. Listening to this little little baby on the swim jig. That's nice. That's a good little cop though. Fun times. Yeah we got a couple. Got one right now. Maybe I exaggerated. Just a good old healthy Jimmy Houston grown bass right there. Come here sugar booger. What are we dealing with? If it's a crappie it's a magnum. I think it might be a good one. It feels like it has weight. Yeah oh yeah. It's a bass. It's on full grown. Upper three, four pounders that just doesn't want to get in the boat. And I appreciate the fight and these fish are chunk wads. Absolute chunk wads. Pretty amazing how many fish I've landed without the bar being on there quite honestly. And Jimmy told me that last night. He said you'll be surprised how many fish you don't lose. That fish all is half day. That's a four pounder. That would normally be like a three and a half pounder. It's just so dense. Really nice. See ya. Well y'all we had to bring it in. The rain got really really bad. It was just coming down cats and dogs and had to shut the fishing operation down but had an incredible fishing experience for the first time out on Jimmy's place. My biggest one was probably just under five. Maybe touching five. Extremely healthy bass and that giant crappie. And it was just fun. That swim jig. The grass hero. That really seemed to be the deal for me. I mean I talked to some of the other guys and Jimmy and you know they were catching they caught a few on crankbaits and things like that but in a spinner bait of course. But I actually got a lot. I got a lot of bites. It sounded like just comparing notes. So that swim jig did really good. Which I haven't really picked up a swim jig much this year and that's why I really wanted to pick it up today and all that moss that's grown in the lake just made it really easy to fish. So that was probably the key lure for today but more importantly the day was more about just being here at Jimmy's place. Spending some time with him. He's an amazing guy and just one of the greats of our fishing industry. So I feel honored to be here and to be able to film with him tomorrow. I'm actually going to be on his show. We're going to fish together for my channel as well. So you guys want to stay tuned? Go ahead and hit that subscribe button right now. Just go ahead and do it. 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