 Oh, and I see a bigger bass waiting in the, he's coming up right there. Oh yeah, this is a spot right here. Now. I'm back to the great outdoors, everybody. We are at deer camp this week. Feels so good to be out here. Coming off an elk hunt. Soon as I got done, I started thinking about white tails and just coming out here and just looking at them and checking them out. And we're gonna be doing a couple of things out here, but in today's video, we're gonna be setting up a fish feeder. Last year when I fished on the lease, I actually caught some pretty good bass. There was a lot of bluegill and some of these ponds. And I think the big freeze we had this past season, it really, it hurt our bluegill population, really took them down. And I wanna see if we can get this bluegill population up and obviously get the bass population going as well. So we're gonna be setting that up today at one of the ponds I think has the most potential for good, good bass. We've already had good four or five pounders come out of there and we just had a lack of bait. So we're gonna set that up. And I've got some other plans for some other cool videos I'm gonna do out here. But go ahead and subscribe right here to the channel so you don't miss a bit of it. And one of my big plans for the next few weeks is actually getting Stephanie on a deer, getting the family out here. This is gonna be an entirely different experience. I'm usually out here by myself or with some of the guys on the lease or some of my buddies. So getting the family, getting them into a deer blind. We'll see how that goes. This feeder I've never used it before. I've never put together a fish feeder. The goal is to see some bluegill, some fish come up and eat this stuff. But I don't know how easy that is going to be. I've heard some fish food online. And this is what I came up with. It's kind of like the middle of the road, price-wise, Purina, game fish chow. Doesn't that sound good? They're floating, 32% high protein, strong fish attractant, economical, always good, complete and balanced nutrition. It's got a picture of a bass, catfish and a bluegill. The trifecta. So the feeder itself is pretty small. This is a Moultrie feeder. It's directional. You could use this for deer or hogs or whatever you want. But just a real simple one, I'm going to put it by the water's edge. I don't know how complicated this is to put together. So battery not included, but I got one. Yep, so it's full. This definitely looks like some fall waters right here. This time of year is usually when you get your heaviest grass before the cold fronts come in and it starts killing it. And normally the water starts to draw down because of the heat and we're there. We are at drawn down tons of grass. I think the best place to set up a feeder on any pond is probably going to be at the deepest spot. In most cases, that's the dam. And the reason is you have the least amount of water fluctuation. So on this one, I'm going to have to set it up to where this thing's going to fluctuate throughout the year. And obviously I don't want it to get flooded, get the water coming up over the feeder. I think if I set it up on the edge here, hopefully we get enough distance to get it out to where it is right now. Because what I don't want to happen is I put it lower to the side and then the rain's come and then we have a major issue. If there are any bluegill here, we can get them big. I want to get them big. I want to get them out of the size class of the bass. I just see a baby bass right there. But when you get those bluegill that are so big, the bass can't eat them. Then they just are always reproducing more smaller bluegill that the bass can eat and eventually work their way up the size class. These fish out here are eating dragonflies, baby bass. Hopefully we still got some bluegill left. Of course, frogs. But let's set up the feeder. Let's see if this thing will throw. Did a little bit more recon walking around. I got good news. I found some bluegill. And even though this is the dam, I think the deepest spot is gonna be right over here. It's like the steepest edge and I can get to it with ATV when I need to refill it and everything. So this is good. There's a lot of little bass, but I saw a little bluegill and a little bluegill and a little bass. So the idea is we wanna get those little bluegill grow. I think this is gonna work guys. If I get them on a little program, feed them, might get some hammers. This is tricky. We'll get those some off. Oh, we've got that pond weed. That's like green leafy stuff there. That stuff is extremely healthy for small aquatic life. And nope, we got bluegill just splashed right there. Oh, and I see a bigger bass waiting in the, this is a spot right here now. It's like he knows the feast is coming. The trick is really going to be getting this, the stand level. That's gonna take some redneck engineering, I think, but the steepness, I don't think it's gonna give us enough height to where we can throw the feed. I've never used it before. I did turn it on. I know it works. I just haven't thrown any feed out of it yet. So let's get it set up. Let's get it level. And then let's bring in the fishes. So there's a little nook right here where it sticks out. I think this is gonna be our spot. Missus, as I thought. I think what I need to find out before I set this thing up, super janky right now is like, how far it will throw the food. Cause I might need to angle it a little back or if it's shooting really far, I can, it gives me some more options. It may not go anywhere. It may just like trickle out and then I'm gonna have to really get creative. But I'm gonna throw in a little bit of the chow. Just let her fire. Guess while we're at it here, we're gonna give them a little sampler. Look at the school of bass coming through. Ooh, they like that sound. Just that sound. Turn their heads. Every single one of them. Oh, we're coming, we're coming. Get you some of that. I think that the bass will eat these pellets too because they are, they just don't have a whole lot of food in here. So I think that they will eat it. It's just gonna take a little bit of convincing. Bluegill coming up to it. Give it a dangle. Ooh, he does not like that bass behind him though. Come on guys. I need you to get stimulated by the chow. Looking at a solid two. Ooh, God, there's a three or four pounder right there. He must have heard the commotion. This is the spot. That's the biggest bass I've seen visually. Come and get it. Say that throw is pretty good. Bass are just coming up all around it. Just need these bluegills to just get excited. Live for the moment, okay? There we go. There we go. We are for sure gonna have to cap this off with some bungees because the raccoons are just gonna tear this thing, a new one. But it's just a simple cap that goes on top of it. It's a really simple feeder. It wasn't that hard to set up. I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to do that. I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that. I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that. Hard to set up. Throw is pretty good. But the raccoons will be the test. I'm gonna monitor this for the next day and see if these fish start really feeding on it. I'm hearing another bloop. Like one just grabbed a pellet, but it's not, it's not voracious yet. I just don't know. I don't know how much time that's gonna take. But I do see the bluegills starting to come up. They're looking at it. They pack at it. We just, you know, we need piranhas. We need piranha type behavior. That's the fun part. But it is five o'clock. And part of the reason I am out here is to do some deer scouting. That's gonna be on the next video, but I'm about to jump in a blind, go up, get changed, jump in a blind, and see what's moving around out here. I'm excited y'all. It's been a year since I've deer hunted out here. And you know, we got a lot of bucks on this property, a lot of deer in general. It's just fun to look at them. So I'm gonna grab the camera and jump in the blind, but we will check on this tomorrow. All right, fishing freaks. Welcome to day two of the saga. Setting up the feeder at the pond. It's time to go check it. We've given these fish 24 hours. So they got an evening feeding, and then they got a morning feeding. I went out, I filled deer feeders all day. I've been scouting and all that stuff. We're getting kind of close to that afternoon sit time. It's like 2.40 right now. And I've got the timer set off to go on the feeder around, I think it's like six or something like that. But we're gonna roll down here. I've got my fly rod, I always keep in my truck, you know, for, if I'm going mountain hunting or something or just come across a pond, I always like to keep a little fly rod. I used to fly fish as a kid at ponds with little like top water popping stuff. Sorry, I got a hair or a bug going on there. Get that. Good to go. So I've got that. I wanna see if they'll respond to that. I'm gonna throw the feeder another time and I've also got a solar charger I'm gonna put on it so it doesn't run out of battery. And then we're gonna see if we can catch a few gills or maybe even a few bass on the fly. Well, it looks like our feeder survived the coons last night. I don't see any fish upon first glance. When I was young, my dad, he's always collected like old fly stuff and he would let me borrow some stuff. He didn't mind me jacking up. And I always had luck in ponds with little floating flies. Just a little like poppers. Oh, might need a reel. There's my reel. We're good. Keep my reel in a little separate bag. Put this on here. And anytime you've got these ponds that have trees around them and bugs fall out of the trees, usually the bluegill just fire away on it. More so than you will on conventional stuff. Got them in my little Bass Mafia ice box. This thing's perfect for flies. That little guy right there. I don't know, I don't even know what you call it. It looks like a popcorn kernel. Absolutely deadly on them. There's nothing really fast about fly fishing. Got them in art. Got a customer. Bluegill coming up to it, tiny. He's that big boy. Oh, got a nipper. It's too small. Let's see if I can get it fired up here with a little feed action. I'm gonna get it. Fly literally looks like one of these pellets. Once I get them trained on this, it should be a no brainer. I'm gonna try the other side where I can get a little distance. Gosh, that's what I was afraid of. And that is a nasty goblin. Not your friend when you got a noodle rod. Well, that was a fun experiment. Well shucks. Yesterday I came down here at a later hour. In other words, I could see bass like everywhere. Now I don't see any bass. It's very windy though. But what I'm gonna do is just set up the solar panel and set up the solar charger. I'm gonna let it ride. I'm gonna let these fish get used to this feed. Got this from Moultrie. I've got my deer cameras set up with these as well so they don't run down. But it's got solar panel on two sides and the battery box is inside. It's gonna take a hefty wreck in to get that thing off. But I'm sure when I come back here, it's gonna be in the pond. You know how it goes. All right guys, it is 326. It is time to go sit in a blind. I've been working all day since the time yesterday when I finished setting this up to now getting a bunch of deer feeder set up, getting some stands and cameras and all that stuff. And I'm wondering if anything's gonna come out tonight. So it's time to go sit with the bow. Thank you guys for hanging out with me while I'm doing a little work here at the deer lease. If you wanna stay tuned, maybe somebody just shot one right there. Maybe they just shot two. I don't know. 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