 It's a biggie! Oh my gosh! Well, good morning everybody. Welcome to another delicious vlog here on the LFG channel. We're starting out the morning strong. Not everything runs smoothly all the time. I have some sarcasm and I haven't had my coffee yet, so I apologize. I'm waiting on Lunkers right now to come over because we step out and towards the lights gonna fade a little bit, but my boat is right there and I'm trying to hook it up to my truck, which is over here. Gonna have a flashlight out of here. We're getting ready to leave. We're trying to leave as early as possible because it's gonna be super hot today. I get in the truck to start the sed truck. Looks good. It sounds good. Then we go to turn this key over here, go to turn that key, and we just got nothing. We got deadly squats. So I was gonna meet him on the road, but instead, now that we got the dead truck situation, I'm gonna meet him here. He's coming right here right now to bring his truck, and then we're gonna jump my truck, and then we're gonna go. So hopefully this doesn't take too much time because we're trying to get on a top water bite and then get some fishing in before it gets super hot. I think I'm gonna fire up the coffee pot, get some good juices flowing, get some free-range coffee flowing in my life, and then we're going to jump the truck. The reason why, the reason why my truck is dead, and I remember last night I was coming in and I had Stephanie with me, and her window was still rolled down. I hit the ignition just for the power to turn on. She rolled her window up and then I shut my door, and I never completely turned the truck off. So it's my fault. Or if you wanted to get a technical, it's OSG's fault. I'll blame it on Steph. No, I won't. It's my fault. Take responsibility in your life. Things will get done. Thanks, Rob. The shadow we figure in the night. Whoa, he sucked him in. Things are moving. Things are moving. Despite complications this morning, we have made it to the lake. Appreciate your kind jump start service this morning. Let's give her a dump and see what the the day holds. I don't know what it really holds. Oh my gosh, I smell it from here. Yeah, it's pretty bad. Wow. Wow, your fart is literally just... It's like on a calm day. It's not good. Doesn't go anywhere. Right now we might try some top waters. We're gonna see where this bait is moving. Water temp, as of right now, 77, and the water is clear. Let's put the hammer down and see if we can go get something. It's a stripy. Oh, he's got more underneath. Oh, does he? Does he? Okay, let me hold. Go ahead and hit that spot lock. He's here, sir. Okay, first fish of the day right there. Stripy swallowed it. Okay, I'll see you later. Dwight Best King lure right there. Just tossing it out. I bet you, look at these birds going out here, dude. This is stupid. Dude, top water, we need to have a top water on it. I got one. 100%. You want me to toss it right now? Yes. You want me to toss one? You could get a massive explosion out here. You want me to toss one right now? Dude, dude, dude, look, look, boil, boil, boil. Dude, they're boiling out here. Oh my gosh, dude. Oh my god, look at them. What size top, what size top water? Oh my gosh, dude, look at the freaking size boils. Oh my god, this is gonna be one of those warnings. Holy cow, they're going on top. Dude, dude. Oh my god, the big birds are out there. Look at them, look at them. Holy cow. Oh, guys, first cast with the spoon hooked up down. Oh my gosh, dude, these are big boils. Oh, look at them. Oh, okay, all right, all right, all right. Oh my god, I gotta get a top, I gotta get a big, I gotta get a big top water on it. These are big, big, big fish out here. Oh god, Rob, get him. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, look at the size of that boil. Look at the size of that boil. This is freaking crazy. Get him, get him, get him, Rob. Oh dude, Rob's gonna get a big one right here. Watch this, guys. Holy cow, those are scary blow-ups, man. Scary blow-ups. You got spooks? Yeah, I've got some spooks. You got some spooks. I don't want to get them out, but I want to film this because this is freaking awesome. Oh, we got one behind. Oh my gosh. Look at them over here to the right. Holy cow, these are Mondos. Look at them over here to the right. Look at them over here to the right. Yes, yes, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, go right through the bird. I know, but look. Go, go, go, Rob. What are you doing? Look. What are you doing? Look at my face. Get the hook out of your freaking hand. Degum chiggers are throwing you off. Please, just blow that out of the water right now. Look how big that one is. These are big boils. These could be like 20-pound stripers. Dude, they're boiling. Okay, I got to get a camera on. I got to... Oh, geez. Dude, I want to fish right now, but... What do I do? Yeah, there's definitely smallmouth that just live here on the point, but... You're like a guitar? It sounded like a succulent swim bait. I can see Bacon chased right there. There's a carousel. Got him on top. So I'm chasing him on top of the surface. A little better? Look at this striper boat. It's a straight-up striper boat. The striper, oh, he knows. He's like, oh, they're hooked up. We got to stop. It's like saltwater fishing. Oh, gosh, I did not want that in my hand. That's why I backed up. That's why I'm trying to get down. I know, I know, I see them. I'm trying to get down there with them on this swim bait. It was so funny at the ramp, we were like, man, that'd be cool if we get some strippers on top of her. And look... Let's see, they're hanging about half far down. They're half way down there, 10 foot right now. Just got a bite. Oh, for sure. Look at them. Look at them. The other 10 foot down right now. You could probably come through this with a crankbait and just frickin' get in there. Oh, gosh. Swim bait fish, good. That's a good one. That's a good one, isn't it? I don't know. He's knocked the fire out of it, though. He's coming at me. I don't think he's that big. Oh, wait a second. Here we go. Here we go. Things are happening now. Oh, hello, Sally. Oh, my gosh, dude. That took the rod out of my hand. This might be a little bit bigger. He's running over here. Oh, my gosh. Dude, swim bait? Oh, my gosh, slam fest. Oh, it's a bigger one, yeah. Is it a bigger one? It's a little bigger, yeah. It's not a giant, but look at that. That's what we're talking about. Like eight pounders. Yep. Times. Fun times. Holy cow, guys. Look at this. What are you going to next? Oh, gosh. Look at that in the sunrise. Look at that fat striper. Nice swim bait fish. Look at that right there. Beautiful. You can see these fish right here. They're suspended about 10 feet down. And they're fatties. So I'm just letting this sink. Counting down a few seconds. About six or seven seconds. And then I'm just starting to retrieve. And I'm stopping it. One, two, three, four, five. Stop it. Just kind of gives it a little yo-yo effect through the school. 10 foot down. There's another one right there. It just boils. Look at them all down there. I'm going to get crushed almost every single cast I would have seen if I can get it right in their face. Look at that. Look at all of it. Dandies. Breakfast bell. Have you ever caught a striper? Oh, yeah. A good one? Oh, God, dude, when they hit it. It's fantastic. Oh, it's fantastic. It's glorious. Look at that drag stripper. Oh, God, destroying this sick stick right now. Oh, yeah. That's some beef. Toad biscuits. Look at the toads. Look at this. If you don't like this, something's wrong with you. We got them strappers, mate. We own them strappers. Oh, crushed at the boat. Double hook up, man. Look at this. Double hook up. Oh, man. You got to love it. Look, that's a half decent one right there. That's the biggest one for me. There's probably a school of 4,000 of these down there. Oh, there's a few. Look at that, guys. There's a bunch down there. I'm still working on this guy right here. Oh, yeah. There's some down at the bottom. I'm going to throw a drop. Oh, dude, look at this one. Look at this, Dandy. It's a big one. Oh, that's a big one. It's a big one. There you go. Oh, my gosh. Look at mine, and then look at this. Oh, jeez. I can boat flip mine. Yeah, this one's not getting boat flipped. This is like, this is a picture fish. Dude, this is a Mondo right here. That's a big one. Like, I don't know how big that is, but it's fairly big. I mean, it's kind of big. That's kind of large. Wow. Holy tankers, Mackins. Little right at the top of the mouth. No wonder, yeah. That was just stripping some line. Oh, God. Look at this freaking thing. Look how long that is. That's literally, that's as long as my leg. Dude, that fish just made my day. I mean, that's, that's awesome. It's like, you just want to keep catching them, just keep going in and out. That's fantastic. Put this on the scales, just under 13. So that's a good fish. That's, I think that's my biggest striper ever. It's nice. And there's some mega ones down there. There's some like 15 pounders. Oh, make sure this guy swims off. There he goes. Back down into the deeps. I mean, that looks like, it looks like a dagum giant redfish from the ocean. I really can't remember a time I've caught one bigger. The last time we were here, we caught some toads. Oh gosh. Please be like a small mouth of shallow. You catch a tank? Oh yeah. Um, yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. Well, look at that. Look at that giant shad getting plummeted. Oh, got it. Got him? Yeah. What's that? I don't know. It's not big. That's a skinny striper. Looks like he's emaciated. I don't think it's happening, boys. All right. Striper's have moved on. This is insane. It looks like it's raining. Well, you got it that time. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? Yeah, they're sitting on the edges and stuff. It went from catching like fish after fish after fish to like... Yeah. It's like summertime. I see more gills up there. You want to go in? There's quite a few. You want to go get them? Like they're coming up to the surface or so many. Oh, got him on top. Came up. Oh, wanted it. Wow. He wanted it. Wow. Blasted it. Blastiger. All right. Let's get this. We got to get her in. That's going inside. Here we go. Let's get this guy some water. That's really crazy. We got to keep the water cool. Got an oxygenator as well. Oh, it's a bass. It's a bass. This is a smallmouth. What? It's a smallmouth on a micro popper, dude. What? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. On the tiniest top water ever. Oh my gosh. I was popping this for bluegill. Trying to get them for the tank. Gary's tank. And this guy came up and cracked it. What a little champion. See, smallmouth, 100 degrees top water. That's why they're crazy. That's why we love them. Okay. That is the tiniest lure I've ever used to catch a bass. But that's so awesome. I got a smallmouth. Oh, is that a 12? Nope. That is not a 12. That is also a 12 right there. Yeah, it was on the cables. Ladies and gentlemen, it is hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of July. The action was hot early. Early burgers to warm. We are here at the MTB house. Look at them. They're doing fine. Fine and dandy. Quite honestly, it's actually cooler in my live well, I would bet, than the actual lake. Because the lake was 85 when we left. We put ice in there. They've had the oxygenator running as well. I'm not sure if you guys have ever seen something like that. But there's a little device right there. See, it's putting out those bubbles. It's actually oxygen. And then they've got the aerator running. I don't know if you knew this. Actually, water making contact with air. The longer it makes contact with air, the more oxygen goes into the water. So that's why people put fountains in ponds. See it shoot up the water really high. That helps reoxygenate the water. So anyway, summertime fish do not do well in the heat, in hot water, in live wells. So you got to do everything you can to keep those gas kicking strong. Gary looks hungry. Wow, this bluegill is out and about. Oh wow. Yeah, he's a going. That guy pretty much takes up the whole jar. He's huge. Okay, it's capped. It's good to go. It's like little sicklets. It's probably one of the weirdest ways I've ever transported fish. It's probably one of the dumbest ways as well. I just didn't want to get the... What is Gary's reaction? Lake water in there, huh? Yeah, Lake water is probably clean. Oh, Gary's like, hey, guys, what you doing in my tag there? I can't quite eat you. And there's that crazy shovel nose tiger catfish. Well, there they are. There's our new friends. They were going to charge so much of the pet store for sicklets about that size. They were like 40, 50 bucks a piece. Now look what we got. We've got some beautiful native fishes. They didn't cost us anything. Just an early morning and some sweat is all. Just got a little adjust here. All right, y'all. Today was freaking crazy. A lot of new stuff happened. I caught my biggest striper of my life. I also caught a smallmouth on a tiny, tiny topwater, a topwater which I got for some panfish last year. And that reminded me of something. So it's starting to get so, so hot here in Texas. I thought that I might do some creek fishing again like last year. I took Ocean Spoon Girl out there. A lot of y'all love that type of video. It might be time to do some creek fishing and doing micro stuff like that, like the pop art catching panfish, little bass, even Guadalupe bass would be pretty cool. So let me know in the comments. That's something I want to do. It's something that pretty much everybody can do. Fishing small waters with shaded trees overhead in the summertime. It's good because you're not getting scorched by the sun. And shout out to LunkersTV for making the morning happen. If we hadn't have gotten there the time that we did, if we would have taken a long time to get my truck started and everything, we would have missed out on that amazing topwater action that was going on. I wish we would have got there a little bit before, like maybe 30 minutes before, and those striper were just going. We were hitting them as they were coming out off the ledges and starting to get out a little bit deeper. And they eventually ended up in like 50 feet of water. And they don't really bite then. You got to really use live bait or really jig on top of them. But seeing striper come up and hit topwater and flat calm, it's like a cannonball. It's awesome. And the bass fishing wasn't much to speak of today, but got to do it. It's in my soul. It's in my heart and soul to go catch them green and brown bass. Man, y'all, I hope you're enjoying the new digs here. I am just in love with this place. I really love being out here in the woods and just being one with nature, man. It really gets me more excited to go fishing and go do more camping, hunting stuff. This fall is going to be amazing. It's going to be awesome. So you guys know what to do. Subscribe right here to the channel. Hit the ding-dongs. And if you want to go check out the family channel, you can do that. I'll leave it in the description as well. That's the Lake Life family channel. And that's basically stuff for me and Ocean Spoon Girl around the house, around the tree house over here. Thanks again for tuning in. If you liked today's video, make sure to go ahead and hit that like button. Mondo Striper Sniff PB. What happened today? Hope y'all are out there smashing them too. And we'll see you guys on the next one.