 back to the channel everybody happy new year to you it's gonna be a fun 2020 adventures on the horizon together y'all first one going out with LFD today want to give y'all a little update on the on the truck situation the other day I wanted to do a little test and just coming home from a spot with just the truck this thing managed to get 30 miles to the gallon optimal conditions though going like 55 it was pretty impressive it was pretty impressive but this is what we really need to do here today's trip pulling the boat up here 92.5 miles reset straight from the driveway 14.7 miles to the gallon with the boat honestly really happy the way this thing toast to it stays in low gear and it just is smooth and keeps it going so I really like that obviously not getting 30 miles to the gallon with the boat but nearly 15 miles to the gallon I will take that all day pulling the crispy collector I bet I'm getting like 25 so I'm very excited about the new adventure wagon and I'm excited about today's adventure with LFD we were sitting there talking over the holidays been spending a lot of time with the family and we're like man you know what we should go up to the slate that has a much striper in it and we should try to get some for the cooler so that is what we're doing today it is a nipley one though we're looking at 43 degrees right now that's got us to bargain on it is it is time for that speaking of gold series back in stock for limited time right now if you guys want to get your hands on some I know it sold out kind of quick the last time we launched it we've got a new bundle available so I'll link that down below toboggan's hoodies we got teas as well but you probably want your hoodie in and your beanie right now because it's so cold let's launch this boat and let's go try to get some stripes on the line so last time I came up here just to I hadn't been in the lake in a while and I was I was just kind of wondering you know are the striper up and about and usually the winter time you can get some striper they like that cold water and they were so we're planning on keeping some you could only keep two over 20 inches so we're gonna try to get at least one over 20 and I thought about bringing the crispy collector up here but then I was like man I really want to see how this truck pulls the big boat and then my dad you know we were talking about fishing over the holidays I was like I need it I need to go fish with my dad there's just not that many days in life you only get so many and you gotta you gotta spend some time with pops and my dad took the time to take me fishing when I was little got me hooked got me introduced got me hooked so it's always a fun time being able to take my dad down just kind of talked about the days of old and the dangles of new expectations for today I want a 20 inch striper okay my goal it's nipley got the gloves on winter time dealio let's get it silver bullet time see the water in the 40s this year 49.7 first customers recognized and I don't actually think they're striper I think they're crappy there's one looking at my spoon right there come on and do it I'm gonna drop that little quarter ounce slab on you for the slabs yeah cuz they're they're not moving at all oh got him soon as I drop the white one down yes sir oh it's the little stripes that little stripy he wanted to he wanted a little spoon look the tiny stripy at the baby at your baby all right y'all so far I mean dad kind of been island around looking and we found the first group of fish that was they're small very small I thought they might be crappy so cold I can't talk there might be some some good smallmouth up shallow there's quite a bit of bait that is less than 15 foot of water you see a lot of baitfish that are just kind of cruising suspended in the water column at that depth so the gear we've got rigged up so far a lot of spooning stuff I've got a various array of different depth spoons or different weight spoons got one ounce half ounce quarter ounce I've also got a jerk bait tied on in case we want to go up there and throw shallow a little bit and I've got wobbly the big old a rig with a bunch of saucy swimmers on it so you know that's a good winter time tactic as well we're going to deploy all of those things probably over the course of the next few hours but right now we're going to just continue to idle around some steeper bank the tactic that I got I was really counting on before even hitting the lake is really going after these fish that are hanging on these drops see them on the mega imaging there and just tossing spoons out of them and going down those ledges usually will luck into a good size striper to doing that you don't line give me a good time in the new year well I just realized my first fish in the new year was so small really small geez can we get a flashback on that yeah my second one was smaller not on a good thing here I won't y'all just take a peek at what the mega imaging just popped up I zoomed in there that is a giant blue catfish chasing around the shad holy moly you could make out his body profile that is insane what I mean what is going on here technology I love you so baby okay repositioned we've got some stripers out here deep 62 feet of water right now I've got a three-quarter ounce spoon just hovering above you can see like once you get past 50 feet on the mega imaging it really is not as crisp you know you can still make out but on the regular 2d you can see a little bit better oh wait did I what I got spoon was jacked up hate when that happens get all excited there goes my spoon okay so I'm gonna stop it right there just above them come on baby not wanting to dance here pretty damn tough with the wind how to the depth first cast with the Radley Ned a lot by smallmouth totally not the fish I came out here to catch but I'll take brownfish any day I was actually hung on rock my GoPro for some reason wasn't I thought it was rolling the whole time wouldn't even on what happened we came up here to a point I had marked like seven or eight fish on this point behind me and I was trying to get them on a blade bait a spoon we were planning on just going down this bank right here and I was like I'll just sit here on the point for a second and make some casts and I didn't get a bite on the blade bait so I picked up the old Radley Ned as soon as it hit the bottom I got stuck and I was kind of moving it and as soon as it got unstuck boom get it so it was in a boulder I don't know maybe that's a key we'll we'll give it a few more casts and see we can come up with you first mile of the new year gotta love it baby and LFD hooks up five seconds later what is this wait what do you have sir is that a catfish or drum it's a smallmouth no it's a drum it's a smallmouth literally but it ain't no smallmouth that's good though we got activity here the mighty drum eats the spoon not quite what you want on the dinner table but I hear they're good I just never tried it it's my first fish of the year a drum drum started 2020 out right LFD hooked up yeah oh look at the giant giant dad's first bass of the new year oh it's a hog jammer boy can you lift him can you lift him well stud at least I got him the power of positive attitude that's right look look at the fish here below you've you've attracted them got them going here excited you've pulled up the school no doubt he said I made the parents they made the parents angry down there you caught their child you know alright see you later squirt meanwhile we got some other customers down here mom and dad look at that one there that's that's one my dad just let go actually joining the herd again got a big crowd up there channel's gotten pretty big you know over the years I appreciate you guys coming out took a big bus out here today to watch me you know catch a couple of really tiny fish anyway I'm just kidding I have no idea who these random people are but we got an audience here dad just yeah I just caught such a magnum in front of a big audience speaking of Magnum look at that donkey toe right there because when you only get a bite every 30 minutes you're not mentally prepared you're just really hope it's gonna latch on hook sets and dreams it's a real thing these stripers are um being very complacent today oh we hooked up we hooked up on the brown fish oh yeah it's a nice one that's a diesel in there a little better you're gonna like this one dad it's a little tastier yeah that's what we're looking for right there now yes sir get up on in here there's a tasty smallie yeah baby went back to that penny color got a little copper in the back there silver belly it's actually my favorite color I throw at the most that is a tasty cake right there now I'll take me a couple deems all righty oh another tasty small mouth right there it's a good and it's funny all of our bites have been just jammed up in rocks and stuff actually three I've had three bites where I've been stuck in the rocks and you know give it a little dangle try to get it out and they come and grab it but still kind of being fickle the stripers they really don't want to play I don't know what it is they just they're super deep or they just don't want a bite but hey at least we're getting a couple small mouth see you baby love you love you long time yeah lefty hooked up with a stick three-pounder feel like a cold fish coming up about to jump there's a good fish right there they look droids fat hog just dropped down hooked a good small mouth oh yes that was one of those I saw on the graph and there's another one there's another one there you got him dad's got him nice nice job dad we got him fired up yeah there's more on the graph too nicely done cold winter smallmouth right there and there's more when he nailed that net you take a look back at the graph there's a bunch more there's a bunch more down there we got to get down dad's hooked up again oh yeah baby oh yeah whoa we got into the good brown fish now this is how we were supposed to catch striper look at this that's a large oh oh you lost the large mouth there you go oh dad come on man you were trying to show off for YouTube nice y'all I got to get back down there my camera's dying stuff's happening where'd you where'd you cook that fish right under the boat it was right under the boat yeah so I was I was right on top of them well I just let this down straight down yeah no I was right on top of them though and then so the spotlight got knocked off here's the deal y'all these fish every one of them we've caught it's been around 28 feet and we have gone to a bunch of different spots I just had a bite there and we've been trying to go for stripers and we've gone out from 40 60 foot we fished even shallower than that for some of these stripers and I said some of these spots look pretty good I'm gonna throw a little rattling net around and I did and I was able to get a few bites but then this last point that we've come to there's a there's a really good ledge that drops off into 28 feet of water it's like that great depth that they're liking and we just came across a group we did not execute this that great if I didn't have to film and and do everything I had batteries dying and all that we probably could have caught five fish really quick instead we've had three they're still kind of hanging around this area but when you see a good group on the graph like we did you just need to drop drop drop just sling them in the boat take them off and get right back to it because when they're fired up one bites and they all start biting you got to capitalize on it especially on a day like today we've you know hell you've caught like a drum and one little small mouth and then all of a sudden it's like you have the potential of really catching a bunch of nice fish all at once so this is the moment that makes it all worth it right here doing it going big the chandelier is being deployed right there in that zone oh and a snack something right away shit is not what you want well can't get in a bite y'all keep seeing these little groups on the graph had one bite my jig or my spoon but they're just not wanting to fire away it was as my dad would describe it here at the end of the day we fished all day hard and had like 10 minutes of actual fishing so it was such a fury a flurry that I still have a fish in here there's a fish in there everything was happening so fast like I just threw them in there so we're gonna let this fish go and sign off for today came out here to catch stripers but I can't complain about catching the beautiful bronzebacks happy new year I love you go eat lots of crawfish and shad and fatten up for the winter and you're gonna be spawning here in a couple months I love you all right see you happy new year and happy new year to y'all as well you always got to be ready for every species at least in my boat I am first dangle of 2020 right here on the lake four guy channel in the books guys you better smash the like button for father and son fishing because that's just good stuff right there I'm proud to say first fishing trip of the year spend it with you dad that's right we're gonna go on some more adventures this year definitely gonna do smallmouth in Canada kind of got me fired up especially throwing that little Ned rig I can't wait to throw the redland Ned up there on those small mouths many more adventures to come you guys in 2020 we are just getting fired up so stay tuned right here on the channel I'm gonna sign it off for today thanks for being here God bless you