 Oh my gosh, y'all. Crows are still freaking out about this bobcat. That was a close call, y'all. I was about to eat breakfast, and I heard the chickens going crazy. Welcome back to the channel, by the way, y'all. Thank you for being here. I was startled by the chickens going crazy. They were just... They're normally like really quiet. Came out here and I thought there might be, like there's been a, like a local cat, like a neighborhood cat that's kind of come in and mess with them. When I walked outside, there was a bobcat on top of the run. As soon as it saw me, it jumped off. I kind of like peeked around the corner and it jumped off and then I ran around the other side, got my camera and I was able to film it. Girls, that's a exciting way to start your morning, don't you think? I'll go ahead and take that thank you for building an excellent run here. That bobcat circled this thing a few times. I unfortunately didn't have my little game camera running. It just kind of slunked off into the woods over here. I think this might be the same one I've seen on the cameras before, but it was pretty good size. Because we've had so much flooding lately, that normally brings, because we back up to a lake, that normally brings a lot of creatures into our yard and usually we'll get pigs and deer. And we always have foxes that are around, but that's the first time I've actually seen a bobcat, like in action trying to get at our chickens. But now that that thing knows that there's three plump chickens in here, I'm sure that he will be back. Here's the problem that I was faced with. I always have this issue. Do I face that moment without the camera and I was gonna grab my bow? Cause I've wanted to get a bobcat with my bow. That would just be, that would be something really, really cool. I could have done it cause I was sneaking around the house. It would have been, I could have got it done. I have this great deck up here that acts as cover and it's, you know, obviously opens up a lot of lanes out here in the yard. So if I was able to get up there with a bow and just with it circling, I think I could have got it done easy, like 18, 20 yard shot. But I grabbed my long lens so you guys could see it. So just go ahead and smash that like button for it, please. And the other unfortunate thing is I was gonna move a lot of the chicks out here today and the duck. I mean, they're just getting huge y'all. They're at about four weeks now. Really they're about ready to go in and integrate with the other chickens about five weeks. But a couple of them are a little bit farther ahead. Our Easter eggs are. So I wanted to get them out here and they already have most of their adult feathers. So they can handle the climate right now. It's like in the seventies. But with that little flimsy thing, I don't think so. And I have a whole nother coop and run that I could put them in, but it's just, man, it's a risk. It's definitely a risk. So I've got this one right here that is pretty safe. It's pretty enclosed, but still y'all, I mean, there's that gum sharks out there in the woods. And I'm still bummed about my Mississippi trip getting canceled. That was gonna be, it was like gonna kick off the crappie for me for the season. So now I'm just trying to figure out like, where can I go and attack both? And honestly, y'all, with this corona situation, I've thought about just go ahead and freeze locking a bunch of fish, like go out, start catching, you know, a dozen fish or so and put them in Ziploc bags so we can have fish fries. Just in case, I mean, we have a lot of deer meat here and still some elk meat. And, you know, very fortunate in that regard. It's always nice to have more. And I do like me some golden crispies getting about that time of season. They're freaking delicious in the summertime. When it's hot and you come off the water, you can put them in the ring and get a cold beverage. Delicious, but springtime, it's also, it's always a good time for going to crispies, y'all. We're done with battling cats. We find ourselves on Texas highway now, drastically changing conditions with the sun coming out finally and the mist has dissipated. So got a little word from our good buddy, John B who I hardly ever fish with on my channel or his channel, but we do a lot of Guggen Squad videos together. And so that's what we're going to go do. We're doing some more Guggen Squad videos, pardon the highway noise. Had to pull over and get some Agua. Stopped at the Buckeys and got me some pecans, some sugar pecans, y'all know what I'm talking about. It was weird. People were wondering like, are you going fishing, man? I hear them fish have corona. I'm like, well, I guess I'm gonna get it too. I just got an update saying my county that I'm living in, the shelter in place situation here in the next 24 hours. So we're just kind of playing this by ear, y'all. I'm going out west, but I'm on standby to go home in case things get crazy. These are crazy times. Anyway, I gotta wet my whistle because these pecans are drying me out. But I got a boat, it's halfway full of gas. I got a truck, it's full of diesel. Let's go give it a dangle. Okay, amigos, we made it to the ramp. Now, I have to share with you this. This is the most hoity-toity, highest priced boat ramp I've ever been to in my life. It was $30. I sat there, I tried it, I was like, no, this is, no, is that a joke? Are you serious? $30. I didn't spend that much on diesel getting here. This is, I might hang this, like, mount this because this is the record highest priced boat ramp launch I've ever seen in my life. If you're wondering, this is on Possum Kingdom Lake, a little too much for a little dangler like me. And not only that, the parking is terrible. Like, the parking is at least 100 yards away from the boat. So I am just, I'm just all flabbergasted by this. The reason I'm launching here is because John B has got us an Airbnb somewhere close to here and I saw that this was the closest ramp. If I don't catch fish today, this is definitely the biggest catch. This is my PB boat ramp fee. Let's get down here to this ramp. Oh, it's terrible too, the angle, the angle's so bad. Gosh, I'm a little sour now, I apologize. It's been a weird day. Started out with Kat, had a drastic weather change, got excited to go for the dangle, then corona all over the news. One thing I really enjoy though, getting in my bass boat, just getting out there on the water, just me and the fish. That's it, there's no news, there's no tweets. I give little Instagram updates every once in a while, but I love to focus on the fish and make videos about it, that's what I love to do. So, new lake, new ramp, let's get her down. What an interesting ride that was. I say interesting because I've watched the water color change a couple of times. Like, as I'm looking out here, I'm seeing mud on the other side, I just went through mud water for miles and then it started to shift right here where some, I guess some rockier outcrops are bringing in clear water from runoff. I'm just gonna bank fish, you know? I noticed that little change in bass, anywhere you go, there are always creatures of change or they're creatures of habit, but they hang around changes. So, anytime you see like a point or a drop or, you know, a brush that they're contrasting banks, tend to like it. Do I have a spinnerbait on board? I believe I do. March, April, spinnerbait. It's got juice. So, I'm just gonna run down this bank fairly quickly and just see if we can get bing bonged here. Wow, all the, ooh, wow. That is a shad, alicious shad topia there, wow. Just noticed that, so a lot of shad in this creek, I guess. New water excitement, that's what's happening for me. Trying to figure out how much higher is the water levels right now. The back of this pocket could be juice. If it stays clear, it's gonna be warm. So, fish are naturally like all fish are gonna be wanting to go back there just to warm up today, because it's been so cold. Oh, God, I'm kicking myself. I thought my camera was rolling. So sorry, guys. I'm so sorry, I saw this fish. Oh, yes, heck yes. Oh, this day's been crazy, but God, that feels good right there. I was sitting there talking to the camera and I thought it was rolling the whole time. Sorry. I'm back here in the very back of the creek. There's all sorts of species up shallow. There's bass that are cruising, fresh ones. I just saw one, like seven. It just kind of looked at my bait and didn't take it. I'm seeing gar cruising around really shallow. And I've been meaning to do like a gar video. I know that sounds weird with all these bass, but there's carp everywhere. Every once in a while I'll see just a little black shadow like this guy, so really nice fish. Caught that on the Lunker log. This is Lunker log territory right here, big time. Let this guy go. Got the poles down. To go ahead and send a photo of this guy to John. Let the guys know, fish are here, baby. Look at that, they're still jumping. All right, that was really cool. Only sucks is, sucks I didn't get it, didn't get the strike on camera. The sun was in my eyes, so I couldn't really see that good. But I saw the fish and I just started twitching it and then I'll bam. I need another bait. These fish are just gonna be moving up in here this afternoon with being so warm. So I've got the poles down. Just gonna take this Lunker log and twitch it very lightly. Around in the shallows. That's my first sight fishing bass of the year, I believe. So many shadows swimming around right now, guys. Three hot hammer hook right here. Now I've got 20 pound Guggen Squad flouro because you just never know. One old big is gonna take it. Here's another little bass right there. Man, I've got this just big needle nose gar sitting right here in front of me. He's gonna bite this thing. He took it. He's got it in his mouth right now, trying to figure out how to eat it. Oh, he's actually trying to eat it. Oh, he let it go. Oh, I had that fish on. Geez. Didn't even know it. Just pitched it around the brush and he boom, took it. Look how fat that thing is, y'all. Look how fat that fish is. Probably just moved up here, fattening up on the shad that are loaded back here. So I'm more actively working this bait and getting bites than I am just letting it just like slow, sit there, kind of the drag method, which is kind of fun. You end up watching a lot more of your bites, but so muddy I didn't see that when I saw the first one. With this Lunker Log, it's pretty heavy without any weight because of the salt content. So you're actually able to throw it really well. And then in this situation where it's really shallow water, I'm fishing it on a three-odd hook, but if I was trying to get it to sink a little bit deeper, fish slower, I'd probably go with a four just cause that little extra weight in the hook is good. If you're trying to get it to sink like, you know, at five to 10 foot zone, but we were literally in one foot. So, oh, jeez, got him working it shallow, shallow. There's just not much more to go. Baby, decent male bass moving up here to spawn. Got some black dots on him. Heck yeah, baby. Oh man, let's see rock bottom spawners. My troll motor is hitting the ground here, so I think we've reached the end of our road. We just went ahead and did it, went as far back as we could go, and we're just in the dirt. There's a couple of tactics that you can do in really shallow water like this, but mainly it's gonna be plastics, and it's gonna be, you know, almost at the surface sort of thing. This time you're fishing in creeks or if you're bank fishing, I would get you a spinning rod too. Get some braid on it and you can bomb your bait. So I'm throwing, you know, like your typical bass set up with 20 pound line and everything, but if these fish were more spooky, or if there was bigger fish, if I saw one, I would probably get out a spinning rod and really reduce the size of my line and my presence. A lot of times I turn off my electronics so there's no plinking sounds or anything because these fish just get spooked. Another thing you have to have, y'all, is polarized sunglasses. And yes, I'm gonna plug Mondo Optics. If you have never used polarized sunglasses, you have to do it this time of year. Even if you're not looking at fish, if you're not bed fishing, if you're seeing that log, if you're seeing that light spot in the water, that's what makes all the difference right there. You can throw to that and then get a bite and it's basically like sight fishing, but you're not seeing the fish. So you're visually looking for those little cues and this is the time of year where it's super important. Like in this situation right here, this water is normally really clear, but right now it's stained to muddy. So having the polarized sunglasses on, I'm able to look down in the water a little deeper just to see that log or that little stick that those bass are probably gonna be on. So anyway, enough flabbing. Link in the description, get you some optics. I'm gonna keep casting around here. We don't have that much time left. I can hear water trickling in somewhere from the bank. So there's some sort of runoff happening. Just working my way out of the back of this creek. And this bank, this side looks a little flatter. Water is 70, 70 degrees right now. And those bass, oh my gosh, that one, that was a defensive strike. Those bass, these bass, this one included, I'm sure they're fat and fresh, which is what you want. Like they're not spawned out or, sorry, I got to focus right here. We got to get this fish. Okay, anyway, I guess that fish doesn't want to bite. What I was saying is that all these fish are just so fresh. It's really important you keep your, whatever stick bait you're throwing, that bait is straight. Has like a side to side shimmy. And if you get a kink in your worm, then it starts to get twisted up on you and just kind of swirl. It doesn't look right. Oh gosh, he took my worm. He was right there though. Just grabbed the tail. He hit my bait midway as I was working it. And I've got that three-odd hook on there. Not as much meat on the bone, so I didn't give him a chance to eat it very good. Ah, sun's going down. You know, so far, backs of the creeks, that's the winner. That's winning the game right now. Those fish are fresh, just moving up and they're willing to bite, which is great. You know, if you go to those fish midway through the spawn or post spawn, they get super finicky, but they're just willing to bite your lure right now, which is obviously what you want. Here we go. There's a jig fish. Oh, he hit it close to the bank. Oh, get up in here. Oh, I like to see an angie in the nose of your face. Oh man, that might be the dayender right there, y'all. That is the Lil Juicy finesse jig with actually a junior size Krakenkraw, nice little finesse combo. That fish is a little bit more beat up, but still really nice. And that is approaching a little secondary point and that fish was not far from the bank. So I'm just gonna fish my way around this, these next couple of little secondary points to see if I can pick up another one. And then it's gonna be time to go, go in, see the guys, talk about the day's events. First pass on a jerk baits, come around the main leg point. Yes, oh my gosh, it's down there. Wow, sir, did you get that thing or what? Did you get that thing? Oh, oh, come on. Hey, hey there, hey there, hey there now. Oh, I come out, oh, don't you do that now. That was close, healthy one there. Boy, I came out here to the main leg point, y'all. Just working my way out, the bait explosion. There's so much bait in here, it's unreal. So that's good, that is very good. That gives me something to go on for like main leg fishing. And then I know there's been the backs of the creeks that are making a push. In between is kind of weird, honestly. It's like they're either, I don't know, it was weird to find the staging ones, but sun's going down, I'm gonna make a few more casts with the jerk bait around this main leg point here. I keep saying one more cast, but it's so hard. And then I'm gonna head in. Okay, that is it. That is the ball game for today. I enjoyed my fishing experience out here today, y'all. Hope you enjoyed it with me. We got to experience really shallow water bass moving up, and I'm gonna be staying out here the next couple of days. And actually, if everything's cool, back at home, there's no like red alerts. I may stay out here an extra day and film another video for this channel, but we're gonna film some gooey SWAT videos, always keeping you guys locked and loaded with quality content over there. So me and John and maybe a few other guys are gonna be filming out here the next couple of days. No gobbles back. I did hear a gobble, y'all. There's turkey. Speaking of turkeys, need to do a bird check. We gotta make sure the chickens are safe. I am going to get on one of my cameras right now. Hopefully I have some sort of service. Okay, they're just starting to come in. They're just starting to go in there, guys. Got a girl, get up in there. We're watching this live. I timed this perfectly. I actually know what time they usually roost. It's 8.07, yes, I wanted to get in. So I actually installed a light up in there that will help them know to go roost because I've been having issues with one of them not going up to roost. And when I go in there and I turn a flashlight on or I turn this light on that's on the camera, they always go up there, so. Okay, there's two up top. Are they all up there? I think I say three butts. I also had to do some other work today with the chicks and the duck to get those secure. I'm actually moving them outside, but with the cats lurking around, it's a bit of a thing. So guys, stay tuned, Lake Life Family Channel. Link down below. And y'all make sure to keep it locked right here for more fishing action this week. I'm so excited because what we found today is I think we're gonna be some of the first anglers to really go out there and see that shallow water bite occurring. It's been flooding. The conditions have been terrible, but now it's heating up, fish are moving up in the shallows, I'm talking about all species. And so whoever is out on the lake right now is seeing those first waves move up. You can tell because there's bellies, bellies ready to pop, fresh. All right, Fish and Freaks, thank you for tuning in, hanging with me for all of these videos. Be safe, be careful out there with the corona crisis and be with your loved ones. Godspeed, God be with you and I will see you on the next one.