 It's a mystical morning on Cattle Lake. Good morning. We're starting y'all right back here where we left it and I actually got some friends out here. This is the Low-Trial Pawn Management Group. That organization was started by someone that was in my classes at A&M and he was actually, I think he was the fishing club president when I first got there. Anyways, they are spraying for Giant Salvinia out here on Cattle Lake. I actually ran into them on the last video and didn't know it was them and then I saw them at the boat ramp and we got to talking. Appreciate what they're doing out here keeping the waters clean. Good old eggs. I'll show you guys how much water is in the boat from last night's rain. It's crazy. All up in the crispy. So first thing we got to do this morning before we launched the boat is take our plug out. I've got the plug in this boat from the inside. So that way if I ever forget it I can just put it back on from the inside. You can always get your boat up on pad and then that'll help drain the water out. I'm actually down hill right now so I need to move my truck so all the water drains out of here. I think we about got it now y'all. And I had to fill up gas. I actually used a lot of gas yesterday. I brought an extra tank and I filled up another one of my tanks. So I have two tanks on the crispy. If I run out I can just switch over to the next one and I made my life a lot easier. I'm going to recommend something for anyone with a small boat or even just mixing like your your gas at home for your lawnmowers and things like that. This is made by SeaChoice. I got this on amazon but it is basically a mixing calculator. I'm an Aggie. I'm not very good at math. This has 100 to 1, 50 to 1, 40 to 1, 24 to 1 and this little motor right here is a 100 to 1. So it makes it really easy. I put a little gasoline in there with it, mix it up before you pour it in so that way it's not getting gunky. Making sure you're getting a nice good mix. As soon as I get the boat in the water the rain starts. So I'm just kind of looking at the radar right now and trying to see is this going to last or what and it looks like we're just on the tail end. I don't want to take all my camera get out out there and get soaked and in the crispy there's no bilge pump. So hopefully this stuff will lay off and we can get out in the water and I've also thought about changing locations and going to the main part of the lake. I'm only fishing the river right now. It's a long ways. I'm just going to sit here for another 10 minutes and see what this weather does and then make a call. So I made a decision to go to this other boat ramp and this is supposedly the oldest marina in Texas and there was an old man working in there and he cleans a lot of the fish so he gave me some insight into where a lot of the bass fishermen and the crappie fishermen are catching their fish and I was able to purchase an actual map, a waterproof map, which I need right now. It's hard to find physical maps like this anymore so if you go into an old tackle store and they have them buy them because it's it's a cool memento now with like Google Earth and you know everything being digital it's kind of cool to have these so I'm glad I was able to get one and I'm gonna actually go to one of the places that he told me to go. Y'all look at this this is swampy. This is straight up swampy and it's raining pretty bad right now. I'm hoping that it's gonna gonna stop. He also said that bass fishermen are catching two pound crappie throwing weightless fluke-style baits, weightless plastics and crappie fishermen are catching five pound bass throwing minnows around the stumps so I love this time of year because everything mixes it's just uh just finding where that mixing area is. Okay so I'm actually on the lake today. There's a lot more boats fishing out here. I mean a lot more boats I'm just starting out flipping stumps because that's literally what it looks like would be going on but there's also a lot of hydrilla out here which hmm that could be good too. Oh my getting smashed right there by something. What the heck is that? Okay well I just had my first bite of the day on the old swim bait. I think that's going to be my confidence bait for here. Swimming through all this grass. I've got a bite mark at the head so that happened to the bass. A little quarter ounce weight on here and I'm just going to swim it over this grass. I have no idea what's good like this whole lake is just flat and I don't have a depth finder so uh first fish on and let's watch that happen. There we go get up in here look at that healthy fish right there y'all. Baby got him on that three-ot hammer hook with uh with our old friend the lunker log. I saw a boil up there shallow this is right in the same area I had that bite on the swim bait and as soon as I started my camera and I threw right out there and as soon as it hit the water he came over and smacked it so that's our first actual landed fish. Do you know what the water temp is? 64 dang okay. They should be doing it up in here. There you go. Okay y'all we got the monkey off the back and I just had one more bite too. I was talking to fishing freak I wasn't paying attention. Ran into him he he fishes here quite a bit. He hadn't had any bites up shallow and I told him I got bit on a swim bait so far and then had one on weightless bait and then he just caught one on a black and blue swim bait swimming it out there a little farther out so that might be the move. More off the main river channel might be the key but that's three bites so far only one fish landed but I should have gave it a snap. This place is awesome. It's got me wanting to come back look at the it is a maze of cypress trees a maze absolutely beautiful just imagine coming here in the 1800s on a riverboat and just looking at all this and trying to navigate it it blows my mind and so part of the reason I wanted to fish here is because because of the history as the oldest port in Texas all kinds of cargo came through here makes me want to build a Texas time machine. Let's go try to figure out a few more bites out here before we got ahead to Mississippi. Had him up in the shallows okay I just lost my second fish right under the trolling motor soon as I cut my damn camera off the fish was ultra shallow. Did you lose a big one? I heard you yelling how big you think? Oh dude oh god I'm sorry I'm so sorry. Gosh dang I had a couple over there like jerking my worm kind of up top and uh they kind of not like a top water swirled on it I'm sorry man I literally watched his like third bite of the day that fish blew up on it he was looking at me I distracted him and I was talking to him when I got by earlier and anyway he said he broke off a big on a weightless bait just kind of like out in the middle they were pretty small bites like you know one and a half pounders or so but a bite is a bite so I have about 30 minutes before I need to leave because I'm on a I'm on the clock I got to get to Mississippi tonight it seems like though with all this rain that's come in everybody I've talked to they've only had a few bites or haven't had any bites at all they're either fishing too fast or like the stuff that they're normally used to it's just not working because the water has has risen up and it's a lot of fresh water too I'm not sure what the salinity is but anyway that's getting a little too biological let's just fish one more spot let's get on the road Mississippi you got to stay in the boat lands out here whoa there we go god you ate it right there i'm in the trees oh my gosh it's a pickerel holy cow holy cow I got a pickerel oh my gosh this is my first in Texas holy cow this is awesome guys look at that that freaking thing smoked it and look he's got teeth that is insane and his tail's bloody I wonder if he's spoke whoa easy bud easy first chain pickerel in the books it's pretty cool new species new species man that thing's slimy wow he freaking blew up on it too I still got a little bit of time so I'm gonna keep working around here but that was sweet they also have bofin in here which is an ancient fish in its own family of fishes I've caught those before but they live in shallow water uh old you know grass lakes and stuff like this one so that's a possibility as well but I'm going to keep throwing that little lunk lunker log just twitching it in between the trees and see if we can get any more bites there is so much water in here y'all I mean it just goes back forever it seems that's literally how I've gotten some of my bites is like I've seen a fish back there swirling on something eating something chasing a bluegill or whatever and I throw back and I'll get a bite so I just saw that happen way back in here so give it the old long flippy toss I guess that's where they spawn I mean I'm sure the roots are like a good spawning bottom roots of these cypress trees but oh I'm not sure what that was all right there's a couple of big cypress trees off the channel that are just calling my name for a big one odds are won't get bit but I gotta try it oh my god what in the world was that that had to be an alligator if it wasn't it was a 27 pound bass what in that dealio my heart rate just came up a little bit something just hit under my boat what the hell what is going on well y'all if you're gonna come here I would say get your weightless gear out go ahead rig you a couple rods up for that because the grass is so thick that you're just going to be dealing with it if you're throwing anything else and when I was up in the river I was able to get a jig out and it was just cleaner and um you could still throw a jig on some of the stumps here but this is it this is it for Caddo for right now for me I have to come back for the crappies I have to come back and give it a full day it's it's worth a whole week out here but since it was on my way to Mississippi I I had to test it let us in Mississippi here I come so I just got back to the truck and I'm on my way to Mississippi and I'm just wanted to plug in my address and I got an email saying urgent cancel so open it up and guys I was supposed to meet with they are one of them is in the transportation industry and he said that they're closing the border of us and Canada he might get stuck this is crazy I don't even know what to think of it I'm driving back home right now in that direction this is just so weird isn't it's like fishing I love I love fishing and this is a huge adventure time for me traveling on the road and just going to lake to lake trying to figure them out I love what I do but I also need to get home to my family I feel like that's just probably need to stay there and stay close just in case something happens and I'm able to to be with them so these are just uncertain times we are living but I appreciate you guys support and I apologize for not being able to go on this trip I've been this trip already got canceled one time because of rain and it's something I've been wanting to do since last fall so it sucks it sucks I really want to expand my knowledge of crappie and anyway y'all I think we're going to shut it down right here and I'll pick it up somewhere I got to find some other adventures to go on but I can't leave the family behind in wake of this corona thing so I hope wherever you are you're safe your sound you're with your family and this thing is under control where you are but thank you guys for tuning in god bless you and godspeed I'll see you on the next one