 Now we got a few bites under our belt. We can settle in. Oh my gosh, dude, just absolutely hammered good To the channel, I'm so excited for y'all to be here just rolled up to the ramp I say we I've got a special guest with me today. You might have noticed a new tow vehicle There's a lot of new things happening right now dangle merch Dropping and just go ahead and subscribe because the series is going to be fun So right now we're on a lake that's full of grass down here in South Texas and the fish are moving up We have an own good authority. Let's get across the lake start snatching something. We're going right to it We're going right to it. He's still there still there on the bed South Texas actually in South Texas South of I-10, which is South Texas Joe Canyon Reservoir one of my favorite lakes in the world And it's loaded with grass and we are going to catch big giant basses Trey I'm gonna let you do the honors on the trolling motor program while I kind of formally introduce you Oh, I can't remember if you've been on the chain. I think I think one time we fished Lake Austin and I don't know if I was filming or not. I can't remember. It's been so long I remember the only thing you got on camera was me laughing at you when you were hung up in the reeds and I was pointing at you Yeah, that's right a six pounder on a topwater. I think we might have got that on film But that has to be on the internet somewhere. Okay. All right. So Trey has been on on the channel fellow Texan He's about my age. We both came up in the fishing industry about the same time He is a Texas longhorn. I'm an Aggie, but we get along he Went and worked for Shimano About the same time that I went and worked as a sales rep at Shimano And anyway, we we ended up working together there Fishing college college tournaments against each other in roundabout circles and whatnot and have always, you know Just known each other and and now Proud to say honored Trey is our product manager at Google squad So he's gonna be working on He's basically managing the chaos of all of these things that we were trying to develop for you guys Okay, there's a little button. I know it's just it's like a one-clicky deal It's on is yours not like this. Have you not been on a been on a garment well Yeah, you got to press this little guy out just one little tapper She comes on and then you have to then engage is what I do not like about this. You got to then engage the power Scroll up You should get a little something after a minute. There we go. Now it's primed now. Yeah, and you guys can see the grass What's going on in here? He also loves to fish and he knows the stuff. He's good at it. So it helps helps where we're a building a team of Hard-core danglers one of the last times I came down here. I caught one of the biggest like one of my top five biggest fish South Texas known for a lot of big muskeet trees and the water just thick gnarly nasty cover normally In the in the early spring like January through February fish are up pretty shallow. It's been kind of weird this year Hasn't been as as tasty We've had this cold weather and everything but now fish are rushing towards the bank. We've been told on good authority So anyway, we load it up. We're down here. I'm gonna give you guys a tour of the truck later We got to get into some fish first. I love these little stickies These little stickies man. If they're coming up here and doing their thing on the spawn They love to get on that little hard root system of that stuff. So what do we got? 3.6 beautiful Jorts Killing the game Some point during this day. We're gonna have a five-plus pounder Picture hold with the Jorts on I'm looking forward to that You want to get yourself any of our awesome stuff? We're gonna be using here You can use the code LFG at gookensquad.com pretty self-explanatory Trey I'd like to say good job on On the production of this Shimano Karado K series I Think you did. I think you did pretty good It's one of the few reels I can take 25 pound tests and just give it a good hard clinging Just get blah, just you know. Oh, no, you know Such big fish Such big fish and such shallow water just gets me Gets me excited first one Getting captured look at the aggressiveness the feistiness South Texas gumption boom That is just all we're just saying we just had to tuck into the back of something all day fun the old Flashy swim with the the big booty saucy Throwing up there in the shallow. We were just talking. We're like man maybe we just need to go back here a little bit more and Just a little slow roller over the grass and why they should be a lot more of that happening I'll just say that's probably the average size. I hope That's a good average size and We're gonna be popping the old Five-ski here today. I'm gonna predict hopefully coming away with a Eight or nine Get some fight on them Is that us? Are you serious? That's a gator? Oh my Devils Dude, I will tell you guys this lake To this day I fished Florida and all these other places the biggest gators. I have seen are in this lake Look at this thing guys That's just a that's probably the average size out here. It's like 11 feet long. Yeah. Oh my gosh You just got Frog right there huge gator. Oh My gosh guys what a lake these things eat hogs and deer all day And I'm their lure their rumored to eat crappie fisherman That was that was a scary blow up So trace throwing frog just got our first bite on a frog There's one. Oh, no little boy Yeah, it gave me a little Are you serious? I Thought he was over there Yeah, they probably are swanning because if they're back in this little pond area, they might be weary of me Well the one the one that was out here that was around 20 foot Elvis They had to put him down because he he flipped over a crappie boat He ate the no he ate the minnow bucket off the side and pulled it and the fishermen fell out He was getting used to People were like messing with him though like getting too close and yeah Right in this gut should be something Destroyed Yeah, I'm telling you like the same that's like the same size Did you see I mean we're talking about how we laterally on yeah, like that fish move 20 feet These fish are way more fired up than I'm used to right now. Oh light Texas rig Quarter ounce quarter ounce peg and you just your standard unit just real We want to make a real worm. Yeah, we do think the folks at home want to make a real worm I think they do I think we're gonna call the real room the real or work Take your They feel good to snatch a few faces early in the morning Look at that yellowness this is what you get in South Texas. I don't know what it is But there you think it yellow yellow fin, why isn't he peeing? I Not excited to see you make them pee. I'm already caught more than we probably would catch in a full bag Any of those fill within 30 minutes Like I have already had a banner To fish over two pounds Yeah little doobler it came with a Dude, I mean it's so hard You snatched him out of the water So angry, why are you so angry young man? He's got he got all that testosterone built up Just moved up like We're here at a good time my friend But a lot of it got knocked back at that big storm That's probably down there But yeah a little good little doobler God look just the fight got leeches in his mouth Crazy hungry That one was hungry Had a nice little cruising speed here. The wind hasn't got crazy yet So we're probably gonna look back here in a few hours and really enjoy these moments But there's a lot of pockets Going into this creek arm And it's looking like these fish want to be in there They want to be in those paquitos Nice warm paquitos touch of tails. It's been in the 60s at night here for like three or four nights And uh They are running to the bank. I'm I'm sure so Let me go inside right here Inside play don't hate it bob Oh Rocks Oh, come on add. Oh my gosh. That's a biggie. Oh my Yeah, yeah, that's gonna that's gonna. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah Wow, that one has got some shoulders Dude buddy the fight Come here. Yes Is that your biggest bass of the year thus far? Yeah, yes Little tasties you want to pick Love the jorts It's kind of my jorts are fantastic my calling card moustache jorts I think there's more of that to come we were talking about how rarely you actually like hit a lake When it's like the right like when you hit it right with juice. Yeah pretty excited that we're here When it's happening Okay, first uh first fish over five pounds came on a little point right there. Usually the females Are just a little bit deeper kind of waiting They don't they don't move up and stay up nearly as long as the males Most of these male bass are gonna be Just stacked in the back at the backs of these little creek pockets And usually the females you'll get them on something like a little outlier stump or something like this It's got just a little bit of deeper water close by and that was just textbook right off the end of uh lead in Point going into a pocket. So Good job, my friend that thing when it pulled you under the boat I was like, oh no, this could be this could be like eight. Hit it like really close to the boat So I mean they're a little bit a little bit off, you know, but that one was yeah theme That's where they should be Oh man, that's fun. I'm into it Oh Come on with The old slow reel Yeah, I wanted a little little creek. Yeah, I'd probably need to switch to the quarter ounce actually Yeah, maybe go back to that when the wind gets This is the old just the old tasty two and a half or So most of our fish have been this nice beautiful Size right here We've got five And uh, hopefully we're gonna just have a nice little satchel of those by the end of this program But uh, I just figured out a little something there had to had to really slow down So they're not quite as jazzed as um, yeah, that might have been Correlation with our no bites when we started as we were both playing Just reel in real fast Now we got a few bites under our belt we can settle in Oh my gosh, dude, just absolutely hammered good Good and just got to slow down with it Um Not a big just one of them juicies No Three and a half pounder Thick just big boy Oh, gosh Something's happened right here my friend There we go Working on some good stuff here guys Working on some tasty trees Oh, I know my boy treys just uh Very excited about life right now I just keep slowing on this thing Love it. Oh my gosh There All right guys, I'm gonna switch it up here To this is one of my favorite baits right here This owner flashy swimmer quarter ounce. I've been throwing a three eights And I put that saucy swimmer on there Died the tail chartreuse. I always do that when I'm in south texas. I love to do it other places as well, but it just seems like Anywhere you're you got to lop it you got to do it just got to do it Um, we've been getting our bites while it's really slow. Trey just caught another one We've had a few on this point And the key is to just slow down here. So I'm gonna take this three eighths off. I've gotten bites on it I might put it back on when it gets a little windier But when we're less than five foot we got grass This is the program and uh Throwing this on 20 pound line 20 pound flouro And this is our mussel rod. So six or seven six heavy Giving them the business Question for the viewers if we were hypothetically gonna make an evaluated Hook with a blade on it with a tungsten belly weight. What would you call it? That's that is question for the viewers. That is a good question. Uh, Let us know in the comments version of a Or just belly weighted Swim bait hook with a blade on that Hmm. I love naming things. It's part of the it's like one of the most fun things in the job. Yes, it is The belly buster the belly buster. I'll take you to one Little mid-morning update It's going good y'all the wind is kicking up now But we're prepared for it mentally And I think we're gonna try to fish in this creek arm as long as we can until the wind gets too bad if you're unaware with south texas wildlife Giant alligators shocking, but we have just giant alligators. There's hogs galore There's uh, you know, good good little herd right there on the bank. That's what actually with those alligators Munch on and get so big and just the deer is insane It's crazy. It's crazy down here. We have a bad bad pick problem though in texas Yeah, tray. You actually asked the game board before we came down. You're like, you know, what's the program on? Can we shoot them from the boat? And that's a no Apologize for the wind noise So, uh, we just rolled back to Just kind of more main lake area here. We're gonna fight this wind But um, this is where that five pounder came. I've got a little half ounce barrel weight cylinder weight and um Got a little trench hog literally a little trench hog Just gonna see if we can pick out a few more fish here. We got we got popped like eight times in this area And there's definitely some fish just looks like they're moving in here feeding in here Probably more To come so Just gonna slow down here see if we can get a few bites I might be getting one right here. I don't think I am. Yeah, got him got him boss. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah Got here buddy Oh, yeah. Oh good there. Yeah, just a little camera adjustment plus the fish happens No, it's not a timing thing That's a better one too. We're back on the fish Ah, just gordita Gordos Brandon if you're watching this, I'm sorry. We're not saving these for next weekend Carolina second one It's a healthy one Get that little trench and the trenches in there. Let's check out the body. It looks a hair bead up, maybe Still a chunky butt three pounds all right See you later my friend So we were just kind of wondering what is going on here with these fish We got to get a bite in like an hour and one it was location. It's it's weird that they weren't Stacked farther back in the that creek arm This is a little spot that is reloading. I think And just uh, there's a wave coming in here to spawn right now This little jut just comes off of it It's like a little Key section. Oh god. Just got it. Oh, yeah Yeah, there you go, Bob Just just one of them hard fighters Oh, yeah, I'd love to see you. I'd love to see you bud man How often would you be here if it wasn't five and a half hours away? I've always loved this, but every time I've come here. It's been a pretty good experience, you know Love love how yellow these guys get, you know, it's crazy. Even though it's like shock full of grass They don't like how that grass fish look big enough. Are you broke off? Are you serious? God, what was that? I don't know I don't like just three times like just what's going on there carolina riggins Something large Okay, all right. Oh my gosh, that's the one you lost That was on the bank. Yeah, I saw something Yeah, that was a big one there He lost the bag We've drifted on down the bank You know a couple hundred yards and we've had a few bites on our on our spinners and our swimmers, but Not latching on it seemed like the first couple little pockets we pulled up and We're going down and and we were thinking it was going to get better and better as we come into the back of the Pockets, that's normally like a little smaller fish, but just more action hotter action Fish will always go to the back of the pocket first to start spawning. That's what warms up first But it's slowing down and we're trying to battle There that's freeze killed off a lot of the grass right on the bank So there's a little sweet spot that we just need to find but i'm going to take a good proper break here And just kind of reevaluate. I'm going to tie a couple other things on um I'm also going to eat a pepperoni kawachi You know always stop when I travel down 35 You go to the check stop not a sponsor Just just just do yourself a favor though stop in there Get yourself something from The check stop man. Definitely not osg approved But I'm going to tell you That's going to give me the calories I need To get through this little windy grinder that we got. We've already had a really good morning That little flurry's worn off though now it's time to dig in. Okay, here we go back in the game Switching things up a hair going with a kraken craw and my all-time favorite color natural little natural And you know trey's getting quite a few bites on a little little swimmy worm And uh kind of thinking This little craw Doing the same thing. Yep, just got Bing bonged Bing bonged Oh gosh big one I mean just uh blistering Melissa missile here Not big but when it when it first hit dude Made a ruckus put that 25 on her and just said Give it to him daddy Kraken craw y'all swimming it Just kind of popping it And it just got annihilated down there by that fish Pretty fish Sharp teeth kind of bit my nose right there I'll let you go Bun dimes one more jumpski Come on. No, I'm gonna do it. The fish have actually got bigger since we've come back here in an hour And trey lost one that was uh Four and a half I found Now the one up there. Oh that one I broke off. Yeah, the one you broke off was Gonna keep grinding on the spot. Why not? That fish bit my nose didn't it? It did. You're bleeding It did you're bleeding You haven't been bleeding. I have been bitten Late April or early May it's like a no spawn top water bite. Yeah, and it was very oh my god Trying to catch up Sally where you at begging? That's one of them Dude same area around that little grass pod Just Kraken craw Madness Look at the forehead on this little dude That's scary dude I got put the hammer down a little bit more, but Kind of enjoying this Oh goodness him here I know I think it's a six at least Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah That's a that's a big boy That's a big boy Yeah, oh that fish was not coming off either That's a that hook job seven and a half I'll give her a second. Yeah Grab the scale real quick. I'm pretty excited I I would say this is the biggest bass of the year for me, but it's actually not There's a video coming where we filmed On the google squad channel and uh, it was one of the best days like overall as a group I think we've ever had this It's probably the second biggest So I think it's a seven pounder Yeah, there's no way the thing is saying it's 11 The hell is that all? I love this scale No, I didn't I did zero it right hang on. This is not an 11 pounder It was literally just ounces and it was like 111 or something like that stay input. I'm saying same seven two Seven seven pounds two ounces So Not a bad fish I thought it was going to be a little higher sevens, but it's still a really awesome fish great Fantastic profile. Look at that big Oh, I love you So much. Goodbye darling We'll see you another day Be a 10 You got one on I hadn't left my cast out there You had you had one just soaking. Uh-huh leechy mouth They all have those leeches in their mouths. It's crazy Leechers I think that's 22 bass Off of this little point. Yeah Yeah, plus It's a couple that we lost couple we broke off. I broke off. I want to drag you into my mess I want to say like that one that you that we saw that spit after was like a seven. Yes Um, the other one know who knows landed a five We've had some fours Had a couple pull-off that were fours, you know, you know, we're you know, we're getting up there You know looking at that 25 pound sack of roux I'll make it up. I haven't Broke any off since I took off my eight month old line and replaced it with google squad 20 pound fluorocarbon. So Um, yeah, that works. We're in the land of break offs just happens part of life, but We're doing we're doing some gear testing out here. That's part of The program Tray's got a lot of stuff. He's working on and we're trying a few things and I just think it's really cool that me and trey after Old gosh On our young 20s. I was I mean, we're looking at over a decade ago Couple dudes thinking like how could we how could we work in this industry? You know, how can we how can we make it now? Half one and now we're doing it lucky. George is doing it today I historically shine as an angle That's like once it's warm enough to wear shorts I can get I looked up my my uh, line was just getting heavy. It's like something just swimming off with it Really started looking at a lot of trees when I come up On them with life scope and just see that's that's that's been a big game changer for uh fishing for me but the life scope is Identifying is that tree even worth flipping into before you uh, just start Spending all your time. Maybe you just see a couple in the trees and you know, okay You know, I'll I'll spend an hour in here flipping because I've seen some fish Suspended all these trees are at the base of the trees or something so Life scope change in the game rigging this up Very much easy four-ot hammer hook You can use a ewg or something too That first segment of the bait That's where you come back through your hook And then you take it and you go all the way up through the plastic Then your hook is exposed like that and then you just tuck Snakes gators leeches fire ants Ranchelos had me fooled pulling the drag there. Hey, bud Just an absolute health specimen out here y'all kind of switching up a little bit was swimming the craw now we're We went to like stroking it and now we're doing a little uh more tactical Really pitching We're figuring out these fisher Settling in on beds Females could come up any time and they may not be today Maybe this afternoon We don't know it could be tomorrow thing. We don't know it's definitely worth checking out every little shallow stump because At some moment they're gonna come in here pretty soon These gators are just in full spawn mode Those are some big lizards Yikes, oh my oh my god That one jolted my whole body Wow Little stump action Think one's bedding there There there it is I think so where's that old female? Here goodness yeah, so The reason I asked I wonder if that one spawned because The way it hit it it attacked it hard. Then it just swam off like it was trying to move the bait And a lot of times that's that's them you can kind of tell in the spring shallow cover What's going on? Can you hear me those flyers down here my bud? See that fish is torn up too but uh, they like to spawn on these trees sometimes these root systems And um, you know that fish hit it as soon as I threw it right back in there. So Here we go another cracking crawl bass One of the many He's posting up. He's just like aggressive. Yeah, like this is my alligator right there Excuse me there, bud You got any more weights? Oh, just a tasty Just a chunk. Look at that What is that? What's in there? It's a shad. Let's see. Shad tail maybe Is that a shad or a tilapia? What do you think? Let's find out Actually, you know what? Let's let him digest that thing. Yeah, I don't want to take that out. I mean, that would be terrible See you. See you guys You know, join a nice juicy cheeseburger or someone just snaps his that out of your mouth I would be furious. By the way tray. You've been around the globe. You're Texan In and out or water burger it's I mean, it's not even a really conversation Water burger wipes the floor within and out in every form or fashion. One time I walked into a in and out in Southern California and I asked for bacon on my burger and they don't have it. They don't have bacon I don't think at the time that they had bacon like it wasn't even a menu item to add to a burger um To me is concerning. Yeah at the very least Button down just go across the cove Okay, y'all we've uh, we've picked off even more fish On this this little side We're gonna try to tuck in And some other areas and uh, see if we can get some more bites It seems like these male bass are coming in making their beds as we speak on this shallow timber and the females aren't far behind they're just on those little Little grass lines that we're seeing um on little points little lead-in areas Going up into the flats It's time to fish We're we're basically just fishing all day in these videos these next few videos uh here It's just like an all-day documentation that's what we're doing um trying to show you the little thing the little transitions the changes That are going on while we're making decisions wind is a huge factor today. That's part of the reason we're over here on this This shoreline now Is uh, it is the end of the lake. We're also southern in the lake We have southern wind and we're going to be able to to fish that just a lot more effectively I haven't caught me off-guard a little bit more beef on the boat there Right of a flop hard bottom I like catching these all day. It's nice little two and a half males That's not happening. No, I did I did get them. Wow. Wow. That was impressive Muscle muscle hashtag muscle fish getting better Yeah a little boat knocker Man, you know, I didn't think I was going to get that fish in The fish came out towards us And I thrown around the other side and Gave him the old 25 pound test googan squad fluoro on that muscle And uh look at that leech mouth. Whoa Can't say we're going to break out the flay knife on these babies Not tempting Nice three and a halfy Tasty fish just decided like it's time to go in Them legs Roasted rough lobster to mine Absolutely terrible. I'm gonna be feeling that in the morning. Good day 20. What did we say 20? 30 pounds. Oh, no, no, no. I mean oh pound 25 ish That's a you know a little fisherman add a little add a little take a little We had the bites for like 27 28 definitely did definitely did but Anyway, really good day out here guys and texas rigging was key Started out. They wanted it swimming. So if you got a lake near you They're moving up in these pockets. They wanted it swimming. You don't always have to work it real slow But later in the afternoon Midday, they wanted it slow. So we gave it to them and we popped shout out to mark fellow fishing freak Right there south texas fishing freak Let's just have ourselves a gander at the old tow vehicle over here Uh that we brought down. No This is this is not my new truck. Kind of wish it was maybe i'm testing things out here But this is the 2021 uh Chevy Silverado 2500 car heart a dish And it is a bad boy. It's a bad boy. It's got that uh that lp in there and got the allison transmission And it's got a it's got a car heart addition badging and all that and this is the only one that you can get this nice like little two-tone package and this color Is with that with that car heart a dish. So so why do I have this thing and i'm not in my adventure wagon Well, someone reached out to me To just borrow the truck. They're like, hey, do you want to borrow the truck? And I was like, yes, I do I want to see what a 2500 pulls like I've never towed with one and um, I've got a I've got another vehicle Adventure vehicle coming that is much heavier than the boat and I'm wondering if my truck that I have right now will pull it So it's a perfect opportunity Uh, I'm getting this thing in like a month and I want to make sure that I can pull it with my truck hopefully, but if I can't I'm gonna have to trade in an upgrade to Like a 2500 or something something that can really pull. This is where I'm gonna leave you today. Fisher freaks got a battle scar bloody nose from sniffing a Good old south texas bass. Love to see it And we're gonna get back at it tomorrow and grind again So subscribe so you don't miss the next few videos Hey, did you have fun today? Yeah, we ran into like the best guide on this like charles white in this morning and he was like He's like, yeah, he's like if there was a tournament here this weekend, somebody would catch a share Yeah, like I mean it's it's he said there would be a 13 Caught ready to do it again ready to do it again tomorrow So thank you all for tuning in there. Smash that like button for just crushing bass And I'm gonna try to bring some more tips your way as we uh as we go about The mondo quest down here in south texas stay tuned