 Oh, yeah, get you a sleeping bag. Yeah, I got a little high right here. Just got to get my sleeping bag. I think you need a light. Oh, yeah. Welcome back to the Lake Forge Channel, everybody. Oh, man. We have some beautiful conditions right now, but a cold front on the way. I have a special video for you, my fishing freaks. And for all you general outdoorsmen, we're combining some great things today. Today's Bass Venture is what we're calling it, is brought to you by the longtime partner of the channel, Mystery Tackle Box. For all you newbies to the channel that haven't heard me talk about Mystery Tackle Box, it is a subscription-based service that sends you Primo Tackle to your doorstep every month. All you have to do is sign up for the subscription and let the lures fly in. Use the code MONDO down below. That is MONDO. You know it. You hear it a lot on this channel. And you can get your first box for as low as five bucks. Mystery Tackle Box is the perfect solution if you're not quite sure what to throw that month. They've been around for so long now. They've got it dialed each month sending you lures that are going to work in that particular weather situation for the typical almanac of weather conditions that month. I mean, not the part about the almanac, but you get the idea. You can watch this channel. You can learn the specific techniques to use every month, and you can dial it in with MTB as well. So sign up if you want to get hooked up. Y'all, link is down in the description. And I will be taking this box out with me into the wilderness. Me, myself. Me and myself. That's two peeps. Myself, the man, the miss, the mullet, the mullet man, and Dr. Andrew Fleer, Doctor of the Wilderness Eating Habits. Just gave him that title. He loves to eat things out in the woods though. Two perfect companions to go out into the wilderness with. We're going to be out on a river adventure, y'all. There's some bass out there. There's some other species of fish, so it's going to be primitive camping style. Hopefully find something to eat out there and just have a good time catching fish and enjoy the great outdoors. Let's talk about some gear. On my person, I'm going to be carrying a hammock to camp out in, a sleeping bag, and then just a rucksack. I'm taking my free range bag, and then I'm stuffing that with my mystery taco box. Can't really fit my rods in there, but you know what I'm saying. Some extra clothes because the cold front is coming in. Some blades, some tools. You know guys, I'm always packing a belt knife. Belt knife is essential. Carrying a morna today. Carrying a machete to chop down anything for making other firewood. And a few fire starting cooking essentials. That's it. Minimalistic. I've been getting all geared up for truck camping and going on some big adventure fishing trips for the spring and the summer, but this is going to be kind of dialed back. Let's go meet up with the boys and get our danglers and our anglers ready. Walk around the farm and who do we find? The man. The myth. The mullet. Out on his party tune right here. It is really clear out here on your pond. When's the last party you had on this party tune? Man, like 1995. Back when Run DMC was hot. I brought you a special, special gift, man. I brought you some white bass and croppy carcasses. I kept them in my cooler for about a week. They're still on ice. So they're fairly, fairly in good condition, but I'm sure these mullet man turtles, visiviraceous turtles are going to love it. Big old bass. That's the big one there. So apparently there are some big bass in here from Eons ago. A big old bass would like to just eat that. Oh, look how clear that is. They're schooling. You can see them swimming down there on the bottom. Look at them gliding down. It's a glide bait. That's a pretty nice white bass. Dude, look at that bass coming up to it. I'm dead serious. Look at the bass right there. Where? Oh yeah. See it behind me? That's a three pounder. That's a three pounder. There's another two pounder coming in. Dude, let's get some scraps. Let's get some other scraps. We're going to eat it. There's a two pounder and a three pounder that came in. There's usually a big one under this. Dude, just toss that thing out there. Let that little glider go down. Tasty croppy meat. Kind of staying back. I don't know about that mullet. You made a baby cry with your mullet? They smelt the crappies. They saw the glitter. They came over. They said no. I ain't got nothing to do with that mullet. Look at this. Are you dead serious right now? Dude, I want a hand dangling. Are you hand dangling a micro spook in the water? You must be kidding me. Oh man. Look at that reach. That was some extension on that pole. Can't really work it like you want to. You can't really work it like you want to. Yeah, because you don't have a rod. That's fun times. You should put that on. That's postcard worthy right there. Just mic with a hand line. It just says eat good. Eat good. Eat good. Whatever it takes. Flair's taking too long. Oh yeah. Here's the, okay. So we're waiting on Flair. Flair's coming. What are we going to the river for? We got dangling opportunities right here. So while we're waiting on Flair, I'll give you guys a little update on what's going on here. This is right here. That's one of the options for the box. Just gave Mulletman one. He's already giving it a good dangle. We have other options. Look at these. I've got some crank bases. It's going to be good for the river. Good river situation. Wow. Bam. The jig rig. I'm liking this. I'm liking it a lot. Hooked up. What do you got? There you go. There's a fish on it. Man. It's not healthy at all. You need to feed these suckers some bigger crappies. I'm going to try to catch one here on this, on this runt is what it's called. Oh, I just had a bluegill or that's a small bass. Dang you. It's not going well right now. Well, no luck on the dock for me. I had a couple bites. I had one fish on and it got off where I could reach the red record button on the camera. Got me. That YouTube life. Trying to do it. Trying to save some battery. That's what happened. And we got some bad news while we were out there on the dock. There is a massive amount of water that is now gushing out of the above lake of the river that we were going to fish. Too dangerous to take out the airboat. So we've got another river that we're going to go out on. Hopefully there's bass out there. I know this is the time of year where the white bass went up there. So if we got into that, that would be awesome. The man we've been waiting on is here, Flare. I can't show you what's going on over there with him right now because he's got a biker helmet on and oh, he just took it off. Okay, now he's here. There he is. I couldn't show them that over there. I know. It's been so hard to film. I know. Rob showed a little bit of it. Just a peek. Let me just get like just like a muffler. Oh my gosh. It's a muffler. It's bad. You guys will see it eventually at the Google twine channel. All right. At some point Wes will edit that video and it'll be up there. It's going to be a doozy as always. It's a good one. Are you ready? I'm ready. I don't know what I'm ready for. Exactly. And we got John here. He's good. He's along for the adventure as well. I just came from the fields, killing pigs. I'm going dangling now. This video has turned into just, it's crazy. Hopefully we don't die tonight. Just stay tuned and hit the like button so that way we survive. I'm just backing us up. We are loaded down in the cat. Yeah. Have you ever seen a more loaded down kitty cat in your life? I don't even know what the, we're probably over the weight. 100%. Oh, 100%. Look, this is like a cargo plane right now. I've never navigated these waters up here and there's trees everywhere. So I'm going to definitely let Mike take over his own vessel here and I'm just along for the ride. I'm just, I'm here. I can hug Flair if I get scared. Oh, it's a six passenger. We're good. Y'all, you have tuned in to an absolute doozy today. Yes, you have. We're going to make it, folks. We're going to make it. Hopefully we're going to get on some fish. But for sure, we've got grease. We have a means of making a fire. It's going to be okay. We're going to be all right. 100% sure we put the plug in? Yeah. Okay. I hope there's a beaver around. Flair can just skin it out real quick. Make me a better hat. This is a cheap hat right here. It's only 20% beaver. I'd like to get 100% beaver. I don't know, folks. We're sitting amongst right now the most oak trees, every kind of species of trees that have just tipped over and come down the river. That means there's a lot of log jams up in here and there could be some bass up in those log jams. Getting them out. I'm not really prepared for it, but it sure is going to be fun to try. Let's get a little breastplate on and give it a dang. Okay, folks. I have this runt on right here. Look at that. It looks like a peanut. Did you just get thumped? Dude, what? Wow. There's bass in here. There's white bass. There's crappie. There's multiple species to go after. This runt is a sort of a square bill suspending slow sinking. Actually, it's a super, super slow sink. A good little spot right here in the river where a couple of tributaries meet each other. And there's a bunch of log jams and boys up there are doing a little flipping. You're good. Oh, got him. Fish, fish, fish, fish. What's your big large mouth? Big large mouth. Biggie. Dude, crush that runt, dude. Almost got the trolling motor, bro. Dude, that's a big bass. I know. Totally caught me off guard. Oh my gosh. All right. Flare, you got it? No, no. I got like 10 pound test. If that is coming, always going back in the logs. Come here, buddy. Come on now. Come on. Always coming up. Oh yeah. That's a good fish. He has one hook. He has one hook. Go slow play this guy on the light tackle. Light line with a soft. I'm so confused that you were like, yeah, I'm going to go for a crappie real quick. I was going for a one hook. Oh my God. Look at that. Look at that. Look at this. Look at this. I have face. Oh, here we go. Come on, Akinel. You got it. Come on. Yeah. There you go, son. Yeah. Let's see. Oh, son. Look at that fat pre-spawner. Oh my God. Dude, that's a tag. Look at that chunk, dude. God, we're going to keep fishing. That's awesome. I think we need to throw him back. That's not bad. Yeah, this is not for the pan. Not for the grease. Holy cow. What? Dude, she's got eggs. Look. That just happened. That baby is ready to pop. Let me get a picture. Wow. I'm going to strip my reel out four times. Wow, guys. The runt in no lie. Wow. One hook. We're not going to put him in the pan. That are her in the pan because she's going to make some beautiful babies. It smells delicious. I was not expecting to catch fish that big, but that is awesome. Honey, you go have a nice day. You just made mine straw. You might need to run this bank with a square reel. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I'd say so. So I hadn't really fished this runt a whole lot, but that's what it looks like right there. It looks like a peanut, literally. It's like a bluegill color. This water is real clear that we're fishing, so I thought this might be a halfway decent color. And this doesn't quite suspend. It's like a slow sink. So when you pause it, it's almost like a jerk bait where they can have time to come over there and grab it. It doesn't float up to the top. So I like the way that thing works. Cold water. Yeah. And it's got a feathered treble on the end. Cool little feathered treble like a topwater. So unique lure only available at Carl's. So you guys can get that. But came in the box this month. Good choice. Good job, NTB. All right. The rest is gravy. We've been fishing for five to 10 minutes. I've caught one close to five pounds. What I really want to catch is some white bass. I know this sounds crazy. Like you just caught a five-pounder or almost a five-pounder. What are you doing? But you don't have any food and we're going camping. So we literally need to go catch some fish before the sun goes down. It's late in the day. It's already four o'clock. So that is the mission right now. Neatall. Neatall mission. I love fishing. Every species. Love it. Gotta do it. Gotta have it in my life. Hope you guys love it too. Yeah. I'm ready for flight. Trying to balance us out up here. Oh we're about to we're about to roll into them. You guys missed the excitement. Everyone's super excited because this is dinner. Okay y'all one fish to put into a taco. Texas style here on the run again. We also have in here a square bill by Max Lewer. That looks like a shad. We have a bluegill colored crankbait which you guys might have seen me catch some fish on this the other day when I was with Jonathan from the Make-A-Wish Foundation trip and that right there is good for this color condition. Here's actually another colored run but I've got the I think the better color on right now it's for clear water. We've got the Rear Loader. It's more of a bass lure you know. I don't know. Really? Yeah it's like boom, boom, boom. Okay so I don't know. Probably a couple. I'm just trying to cast out there and get some. Nicely done Flare. Okay we are we have two now. I think that's gonna be camped up there. That looks really juicy. Little rocky island. There's some good sandy bank where we can set up some hammocks and some trees. I want to dangle over the water. We're not gonna be able to sleep a whole lot. Why? I don't know. Oh god I'm right here. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah with clutch fish, clutch fish. There we go. Right when we get to camp. Ah yes dinner is on the line. Oh I think I think we ran over my crankbait. Here's the trick ladies and gentlemen. We're gonna have to find some trees for hammocks. Flare is hooked. Oh baby. We are good. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay we're good. We're golden. Coming in clutch here at the end of the day. Step one to start getting your wood ready. Okay I have my Chate. So we're gonna have a series of sticks and then we're gonna make uh we're gonna make some small tin here. Oh yeah we're making the TP of life here. Oh just trying to chop it like halfway through and then crack it with the machete. Just make a bunch of these guys. Got my steel knife in the log and then I'm just taking this and I really should probably round it off. These feather sticks suck but this wood is really dry. It's perfect for starting a fire so I can just flake these off. Put them in a pile. Put the old zippo to it and we'll be good to go. Got another fish. I haven't done this hardly ever. I've only done it for just for fun practice a little bit in the backyard but I think this way of doing it like putting your knife into the another log is a little bit easier. You have a little bit more control I think but the key is just to have dry wood. I think more importantly this is definitely dry so what this does when you make the feather sticks it just creates a you know a very thin surface for when you throw a spark on it. If you wanted to throw a spark on it it can catch. You can take all your your shavings all your tender put it in a pile then I'm just going to take a lighter to it. That way it'll it'll hold the flame and then you have your other sticks ready to go above that and you are in badness. Juice on our turkey here. Burn out a little too quick. Is that ever happened to you? This might be our best bat boys. Oh boys that wind is coming. Yeah get it get it get it get it get it get it. Oh gosh this is not good. This is not good. Is this wind in the forecast? Oh that's cold front definitely is. This is not good. Come on baby. Oh wow that thing rips. Get up in there. Oh dude it's a sparkler like from 4th of July. Why didn't I think about bringing something like that? Let's be serious. Just let it just let it go. You boys ready for some fireworks? Yeah yep good idea. I like it. Pyro technician, Rackley to the rescue here. Here we go. Watch your face. Yeah sparkler bombing. Now we're talking. Why didn't Bear Girls bring one of these? A little barrier over it. Okay we're on fire now. Now we're cooking. It only took about you know a whole box of emergency matches. I've got to get the old blade out and get to clean it and some fish geese. You got any fillet knives? I don't know. I didn't bring the fillet knives so I'm just going to be using the uh the old steely knife. Not the perfect knife for doing this but it's not terrible. Well we told you guys at the beginning it was going to be one of them doozy adventure videos and it has been a lot of hard work. Cold front has rolled in. It's gotten windy. Luckily we got the fire going. Flare has blazed it up. You got enough wood buddy? I think we're okay for now. Uh step two is going to be hanging the hammock. I've got a hammock in my bag and we're going to need to find two trees to get that baby on so we can have a good place to sleep. Primitive camping on the river catching almost a five pound bass. Y'all you better hit the like button. This morning when I woke up buddy called me from Oklahoma. He said it was 21 degrees where he was. All that is working down. It was 71 this afternoon here so gonna get cold. Yeah it's just getting getting in there is going to be the trick. Um so we have we have a hammock here. Someone sent me this a long time ago. A legit camping. Just looking at that sloth makes me smile. It's just funny. But anyways this right here is a hammock. It's a little portable hammock. I think I've got my two trees right here. There and there. We'll give it a shot. I've never slept in a hammock outside overnight so uh could get interesting. Here let's see if I could get in it. Oh yeah get you in a sleeping bag. I think you need to lay that. Like did you roll out? I've got a great bedding of vines with thorns all over here. Yeah you're protected from the cougars. Yeah that's why you need to lay. Oh yeah cocooned. Ladies and gentlemen this is going to be our residence for the night. Isn't this awesome? I'm gonna throw my sleeping bag in here and somehow wiggle my way in. It's probably gonna be dark when I do that but that should be interesting to watch. I already feel that once. I have a tarp bag put over but if you don't have any rain and it's kind of dry conditions this could be really comfortable if it's not like super freezing. Yes this is a I love days like this where I don't exactly know what's gonna happen but it just ends up being a fun outdoor day with your buddy so we're gonna get some delicious fishes in our mouth and get ready for the bed. The hammock. My man Mullet man rolling in frosty. He doesn't eat seasoning. He doesn't eat seasoning. Potatoes, onions and portobello mushrooms. This man knows how to eat good and he does eat good. You can check out Mullet man over at his channel linked down below. He's always eating the tasty stuff. We actually ate some fresh flounder that he gigged literally last night today so we're having fresh fish all the way around baby. It's good. Sounded like Michael Jackson right there. I get elevated in my voice when I get really excited about fishing and outdoors and just camping. I just love it. Everybody has got their hammocks set up here. It's working great guys. If you've never checked out these hammocks they're pretty cool. Okay well I caught the first white bass and then Flair just turned on the magnum mode and cleaned it up. I think we all actually caught some but we have the elements of success right here. The sizzle is going on and we actually have a little bit of tortilla, some craft cheese. You know how we do it in Texas. We got to have ourselves some fish tacos. It ain't Baja style but we love ourselves fish tacos. I'm so proud of our outdoor team here today because we rolled out at like 3.30 got started late. We went from a pond to going all the way out here and then we got into these guys set up camp, got our fire started, got our our hammocks all set up and we're ready for camping for real. We did good. We did we had good teamwork here today so put me one right on there sir thank you. I think I'm going to shut it down right here guys. You bet her hit the like button because today just covered all the outdoor bases and that is it my fishing freaks. If you want to go check out Flair's channel as well. Flair and Mullet Man they're going to be linked down below and Flair's always got some crazy adventures. I'm just glad he didn't kill a beaver and bringing us track that sucker up on George start jobbing it up but I love you guys thanks for coming along on every single adventure and if you want to stay tuned for the next one where we camp out overnight wake up I don't I don't know how this night's gonna go uh just stay tuned so grab it out here for that and I'll see you guys in the next one.