 We can't wait to get these babies in some of our new test battery. Got the tango tips. We got a problem here. Tango tips happening. Welcome back to the channel everybody. We're going out with the Shaman himself, Mr. Shane Campbell, again here with Mr. Matt Kendrick. What's kind of weird, you know, we were talking with a guy last night at the stomp and he said, this is the latest spawn he's ever seen. He's been guiding out here for like 30 years. We've just had all these cold fronts and even though the water is like 60, we saw 68. These fish are just, they just haven't fully made that big way. They had, we had a big rain last week, brought the water up and fish need stable water conditions for spawning. No matter if it's going up or down, they just like, they like stable. For Lent, I have decided to abstain from coffee. This is very tough for me. I started having the shakes. I, you know, within days I had withdrawals, I had headaches. It was tough. I've gone to something else. I need some dark sort of liquid in my body. I've come up with a little mixture here that I like and it's a mushroom chai mixture. Never thought I'd be doing this, but, you know, when you're off coffee you're doing extremes. I even got a frother. We're going to froth it up. Hopefully we don't puke this up. Dude, no chumming. Hopefully no chumming on the boat today. I'm so sorry. I puked on Matt's truck yesterday. I puked on his boat yesterday. That's not, that's not what you strive for as a buddy. You know, but I washed it off. I tried to do the best I could. The health update is we're feeling good. We're going to have some good herbals this morning and then we're going to get our dangle on it, folks. One of your buddy calls and says they're moving up on the bank on Rayburn. Yeah. You get in the boat and go. Predictions from the Shabbins today. Uh-oh. Already prediction time? Uh, we're going to catch it. Because it's what we do out here. We got some new colors, some new crappie baits I haven't even tried yet. And we're going to flick them out there and get popped, throw them in the cooler and catch them, boy. Go ahead and try to thread that gap over there. I don't know. Might split the top gap. We need about six more inches of the water. Speaking of puckering moments, going for my first meal of the day here. It's a tradition. Go to the, uh, what was it? Piney Point Plaza. Piney Point Plaza, gas station. Get yourself a little, a little bisquer. A little toaster. You guys lippin' a bass back there in the background. Let's go have a good time today. It's grass action. Make sure you have a little grass action. Grass action? Hi. There comes that one. I don't think you'll learn anymore. Rogue darkfish. Who's darky? Get that haldrila. Pull up and look in there a little further. Yeah. My gosh. Did you see that? Holy cow. That was cool. I think he was on a bed. Just came up there and tacked. Not a big one, but, wow, that was a fun strike. Thank you, sir, for the fun. All right, the crappies have been found. Oh, as soon as I say that, Shane is on. We're gonna get this live well open. Ah. Nah. I mean, he's legal, but we let these ones get. Yeah. Need a little bit more beef. We're gonna get a little tough in the shallows, but we're gonna switch to the old crappie game real quick and get a snatch. And, uh, it's crawfish season in Texas. We might do a little crawfishing, a little crappie boil. You know what I'm saying? Look at them. Right. You want them? Yep. What do you got? Little boys. Little little boys. Oh, look at all those. Surely there's something in there. Oh, maybe. No. No. You felt heavy. I don't know. That's a keeper, though. I feel like that's box worthy. Maybe. Maybe. Yes. Yes. Be the one. Yes. Beg it. There we go. I knew it. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. I was like, what's going on? Little guy. Little guy is attacking from the top. That one looks good. Oh, that's a head shaker. That's a trout. Look at the red belly. It's a brook trout. It looks like a... Let's fungus go. Yeah. Fungus doesn't look good. Don't want fungus in the pot. Oh, man. He's coming out forward. Yeah. Oh. Oh, you're going to light nibble on it, aren't you? Little sucky lot. Oh. Oh. Got them little boys. Got them little fellas. There's a couple of doggies in there, though. That one's long enough. Can't do it. We're going to eat good, aren't we? You got it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Dude, that's a giant. Holy cow. Did you get that? I don't have one. Oh, my God, dude. That's a baby. Dude, that's probably a 17 incher. That's your baby. Yeah, no, you did. There's another one there, too. Got a kid. Oh, they're already coming out. Coming out. That was a big one, too. Oh, God. There's some juicies. There are two little piles in there. Yeah. You're kind of the only one there, Matt. Yep. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, God. That was a good one. He's got drone power. Somebody's about to get... Oh. Keeper. Good thumb on it, too. You have a big one on your jig right now. Lift it up. Lift it up a little bit. That one's on your jig. Lift it up. I'm lifting. Is that one on your jig? Yeah. Got him. Had him on. Bigging. Missed that. Oh, she's coming. She's coming. She's coming. See that? Yeah. Oh, she got it. That's big. That's a big, crappy thing. Big, crappy. Yes. Oh, it's a bass. Dad gum it, dude. I was like, that's a three pound crappy. I just saw that big thing move off that log. There we go. Here we go. It's going to be my PB crappie. What do you think about a little crawfish crappie and one bass for the fry? Big and small, they eat them all. Just picking them off. What is a dick thing? Like seeing a big tuna on the scanner and you're like, that's my fish. We got a mark. I'm going after that fish. That's probably a good enough keeper. What's happening right there? It's a stump with a mating session going on. Oh. Oh. Oh. So. And I'm going to be next. These are keepers for the pan. Got a big one on mine. A keeper, it's not. It's not what you call a keeper. All the roots. Catch them all. All righty, guys. We are having ourselves a little, little time here. Jigs. Jigs and darts. We are on a pile of spawning crappie right here. This is really fun. We're not going all the way to the bank and like sight casting at stumps. We're looking at the stumps that are up on top of these creek channels in the back of this, this cove. And we're looking for the stumps that have the crappie that are spawning. And the way crappie spawn, it's kind of weird. Shane's got one on. It's more of a swarm technique. So largemouth, oh gosh, good one too. Largemouth will do just a pair. Matthew? Crappie, there'll be like dozens of male crappie and then there'll be a female that gets up on there. And so all the males are kind of swarming around this one female. Let's look at swarming. I'll take that for you, sir. Thank you, buddy. Put you right in here. In you go. Oh goodness. Marge. Come here. Oh yeah. That's a boxer. Oh, it's happy right here. Oh yeah, this is spawn city back here. Look at that. Absolute wide. Oh, dude, I couldn't go up. Oh, I got another one. They're snatching panties down there. They're panties snatchers. They're floating. Oh goodness, that was a dump. Oh, this is big. Dude, I got a large one here now. Head shaking. Big thump too. Oh, flopper. That's as big as what I thought it was going to be. That's a hello charlotte there. Get me to the frying pan, show me the butter. Mmm. Gotta get them out of there. Oh, that's a good one. That's a big one. Juicy one. Swarm attack. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. Finally. Oh, another hog. Come here, Dabra. Little dangle dart and the electric chicken. They're right on the edge of that creek channel. There's like, there's some sort of stump or something there. Or hard spot. That's a cool spot. It's cool to like, I've caught them like this, not on LifeScope, but where you're looking at a stump and to see them on just underwater stump is kind of cool. That was tiny. Oh, that's... That's not what we want. Oh, gosh. Oh, that's a stump. That's a huge one. All right, well, we got our mess of crappie. That's what you call it. And you just got a wad in there. I don't know how many it is, but we're definitely not over the limit. That'd be 75 crappie. So I think we're doing okay there. We're going to break out, you know, a couple frosties, frosty brews, get some, hopefully some crawfish, but definitely going to cook these crappie up just right, y'all. All right, we were here at Tackle Attacks about to do some fish cleaning. We've actually done this before on this channel, right here. Shane and I, back in the day, we're going to do the old infamous lay out of the crappie here. Get a little photo. I would have to say that these two right here are full grown beasts. Look at this. So this was pretty interesting because we found they were spawning on stumps in the back of the creek, but we didn't actually see the stump out of the water. We're just casting to stumps we saw in LifeScope. And these babies were swarming. These are the big females right here. See some of their male companions towards the back. A mix of these bigger ones are white crappie. See the bars? These black crappies just have like the specs in there, which by the way, black crappie tattoo happened in the summer right there. Boom! Are you really doing that? Got the arches coming down from the Great Norse. Can you put a large mouth on the other side? Large mouth is going to be here so we can sniff. Sniff both. You know what I'm saying? Are you going to tell the kids what we got for us? It's not available yet, but I think everyone knows it's coming, right? I think. Did you tell them? It's coming when. Ah, you know, fall. It's coming in the fall. Dude, why would you have to wait so long? This is what it is. Supply chain? These are what we're working with right here. That's the old dangle dart. That's your typical bait you're going to use when they're 24-7. You just got to sit it right on top of one. Put that on the jig head. This one's more of a mover. It'll be good for this time of year. Put on a little underspin blade. Or you could do straight jig head and just kind of swim it through them. Sometimes I like that. This is more of a finesse approach with the saucy. Just a mini little boot tail. Extended that out. This one's nice. And then, if you want that straight dangle, but you don't want to give them just a plain old dart, put the little bug on there. Everybody knows. That bug is the drug. And those little tails kick. They just munch it. They just love it so much. Phase two of this operation. Getting crispy. Got a little nut right here. Give to Rackley. Guggen mix. Folks, come home. Looks like we've got a little spicy. A little regular. We've been trying to work on a little recipe for making a little crispies. Feel like we're pretty close here. You want to make sure you capture the moment that I fry my knuckles? Yes. Watch those eyebrows. This is not good. Throw it in there. Oh, I'm scared of it. Back up, Stioch. Like I can't like... Oh, yeah. You have to come in low. Low speed with it. What's the problem? It's the risk of getting the big flame on this guy. Try this at home, kids. Alrighty, folks. So, we got ourselves a bowl. We got our Guggen mix. It's going to be our golden crispy recipe mix that we're coming out with probably in the fall. This one's got a little bit of garlic in it. It's just kind of a crowd-pleaser. I'm not going to offend anyone. And I'm going to straight go in the mix raw with these fish. Just literally using the moisture off of the fish being freshly cleaned. Throw it into a little cool water bath. Kind of mix them up. You can actually put it in a bag as well. Shake it up in a bag. Pull the fish out. Light coating on there. If you want to go thicker, you can use a sauce. Some people like to soak them in milk like my mom. You can put them in a hot sauce so it creates a sticky or some sort of your favorite wing sauce or whatever. You can do that as well. For these, we're going straight for the flavor. Don't want to add anything else. We're trying to get the best taste of the natural crappie in there. It's a slow burn. You want to take them out when they're golden brown. We don't have these in a big pot of oil, but normally if they're fully floating, they're done. I'm just looking at the color and I'm looking for a little separation in the meat. See that flaky meat starting to come out? We're going to pull them out. These are about done. We've got one giant in there. Got to make some crusty internet videos. Tasting this. That was really good. I'm going to try it here. There's some flavor in there. Is there a little hint of lemon in there? I think there's a little lemon and garlic. It tastes good. It's got nice little crispness. That's not going to offend anybody. I like that. That one's the party pleaser right there. The cold water is a different man. Yep. There's a big guy right here. Oh, that's hot. That's going to be real spicy. It's a hot one. I can't put this in my mouth. You broke it open. You broke the seal. That looks painful. Surely you can't taste anything. You're just tasting heat. Liquid oil. Does that kick? It's good. I like this one a little better. A little spicier. It's got a little more flavor. A little saltier. A little lemon, fresh flavor. I like this one. A little Cajun. Spicy Cajun boys. I like it. I'm a Cajun boy. I'm a Cajun boy. I'm a Cajun boy. I'm enjoying my crepe. It's a suckling. Too hot. Too hot to handle. What do you got on it? I want to bring this guy service. Do you like it? I do like that one better. It's got a little extra kick. Good. I like that one. Dip it in a little Rayburn pollen dust. A little finisher. A little sweet pine pollen. I don't know, man. I don't know. I honestly really like the original. Now we're just ready for some crawfish. It's a full-blown ET. It's a full-blown ET. Mardi Gras. Hold down. Hold down. What a crappy town. What is it? It can get real interesting out of here. That's about it. You know what happens though, when you put washboards outside of East Texas and you're right next to that Duke. And washers in each other. They just like come out of the woods. Hey man, you got crawfish? Hey man! I love you too. God bless you too. Let me grab my daddy lights. Oh y'all, that is so delicious. I never get tired of eating golden crispies. And you know, there's a lot of different ways you can cook crappie. And I've come to love blackening them and grilling them and everything like that. But just get together with the boys and having some golden crispies just to get all the time. So go ahead and smash that like button today. Hopefully you learned something on the fishing front. Cleaning. Maybe even cooking. This is a great time to get out there. Crappie are going to the banks. Yeet! And we're out here at ET just getting it. And it's crappie season. So you see a lot of people on the banks. But you can catch crappie just about anywhere in the country. Super plentiful. Super delicious. And I enjoy the heck out of fishing for them. So give them a shot. It's similar to bass. And I think you'll like it if you've never done it. Want to give a shout out to my buddy Shane here on Rayburn as well. I've known him for many years. Used to be his rep in another life. And now we're still buddies. So just still hanging in the fishing industry. It's a beautiful thing y'all. Blessed to be working in it. Thank you for all your support. God bless you to the great outdoors. I will see you guys on the next.