 And Adam looks over to me. He says he didn't say this, but I just remember he said this. He goes Watch it not start. That was like he said something along those lines. He was like watch the boat not start Hey yo, what's poppin people welcome to another video. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this one I was supposed to upload this bad boy yesterday, but I've been super busy traveling and I'll discuss that in this video But anyways, this is a video that I really didn't want to make It kind of sucks It's not like the upload that I'm should be super excited about Well, I don't know where to start this Well, anyways as most of you guys know if you watch the last upload you guys know I had my first tournament of the year or of the season and it was the best state championship on West Point Lake We ended up finishing fifth at the state championship and we actually missed first place by one pound I actually missed big fish by point zero three. I believe it was I had a big five and a half pounder I'll pop the picture up on the screen right now, but anyways It was just a great event to start the season and with my new partner Adam We absolutely killed it out there also had three scat teams in the top five Which is kind of crazy. We had third place fourth place in fifth place We're all separated by ounces like that is killer that is killer right there Very super proud of all that and it was just all in all a great first tournament As you guys could tell you probably tell the winds whipping because my dang hair right here It is there's actually another hurricane that's blowing in right now, which is not good because I really need to film some content this past week and I've been out of town So I haven't really had too much time I am going to discuss the West Point video on how that kind of went because I didn't get as much footage as I was expecting Too biggest fish of the tournament I did not get on film and it was super good juicy footage, too And I'm very upset about that but the main purpose of this video I am going to be talking about how we call our fish at West Point later on at the end of the video But I do want to discuss my boat and what happened so The old kicking mobile is done guys. It's I've had it for some years now. It's been an amazing boats of 2014 rangers e520c with the 250 yamaha show on the back. It's been an amazing boat. I've absolutely loved it It's been very reliable previously And now it's kind of getting to the point in time where it's got a lot of hours on the motor Slowly started to have a lot of problems kind of build up over the years And it's just kind of started to go downhill from there in this tournament man in practice Everything was fine with the boat. Everything was perfect comes to about 10 o'clock during the tournament and my shifter Started to act very weird. I laid the boat down I put my boat in neutral and right when I put it in the neutral shifter was going back and forth like this on its own It was going pop pop pop pop pop like switching from drive to neutral to back to reverse going back and forth and As it was doing that the back of my motor like it kind of sounded like it was coming from the prop Was making some weird clicking noises at this point in time I kind of had to make a decision where you know I can either throw this tournament down the trash and go figure out what's wrong on my boat Or I can just last it off during the day and that's what we decided to do as the day went on It started to get a lot worse. It just was not going right. It even got to the point to where I Couldn't even go in reverse anymore. I couldn't even go in neutral anymore right when I hit my star button I don't have a key in my boat. It's just like a keypad So you hold down the star button and it starts my boat when you hold down the star button My boat would launch right in the drive right away and start go. I mean it was literally like We couldn't go over reverse nothing. It was literally right when we were ready to go I pressed star button and we're going like that is all I could do So I can only imagine that obviously something major is wrong on my boat But it's we had to last and grind the day out because obviously we want to win this thing and we were in contention to win it So that's what we did it kept then it started the alarm on the boat started beeping What happens is like if the motor overheats or something happens There's an alarm on the both of us beep beep beep beep beep beep beep so while we were driving every like I I swear like every probably two minutes it would start beeping and then we'd have to lower the boat down Stop it. Let it cool down for a second start it back up drive another minute to two minutes or start beeping again You have to put it down stop it. So it's just a big mess Well, anyways, we got to the end of the day and my fishing partner Adam we pulled up to this last spot It was actually very very close to the boat ramp. I'm so thankful for it We actually had around 40 minutes until we had to weigh in but we had to idle back in a marina I had to drop Adam off on the dock and he had to run the key fob up there There was not somebody to give the key fob. So we had to really spare our time on this So, you know, we fished this last spot. I actually ended up catching one that was a keeper But it didn't cold out one of our fish we get him in the boat, you know, I do the whole thing I'm trying to see if he's gonna cold one out and I end up throwing him back We sit down. We're ready to head in so right when I sit down I throw on my life jacket Adam throws on his life jacket and Adam looks over to me He says he didn't say this but I just remember he said this he goes Watch it not start that was like he said something along those lines. He was like watch the boat not start so I literally pressed that start button and Just I'm thinking about it right on about a precious thing and I hold that thing down and I'm not even joking people The dang boat did not start and so at that point in time is like instant because we had to go in like we Were not that we were ready like we needed to go in we had to weigh in these fish We were in contention to win so I told him I was like do get on the trolling motor He got on the trolling motor put that thing on a hundred. We're just beaming towards like the front of the Cove Of the marina and so he's just beaming over there and as I was happening I'm just trying to you know figure out what we could do I'm trying to call the tournament director doing this and this and that and then Boa and which is on our team. She actually came over pretty much picked us up She had to pick us up and this is the thing in most tournaments You're allowed to have one person stay on the boat and then one person go weigh in the fish Well this one you couldn't you had to have both people on the boat or both people go weigh in the fish So I had to pretty much ditch my boat in the middle of the lake So we just drove the trolling motor over onto this little sandbar this little clay bank and literally ditched The boat I dropped my power poles the boat just sitting out there We grabbed the fish really quick throw them in the bag hop in Loran's boat and then head in the way And we made it on time everything was perfect and that way in in our fish We're leading for a little bit and then we ended up getting pushed down the fifth place But it was just from fifth place the first place. I'm telling you is like ounces I was like literally a pound. So it was a very very close tournament. It was a grind for sure It was a really freaking fun tournament. I can tell you that and it was a very interesting Tournament for sure since you know the old boat broke down, obviously I'm gonna be getting a new boat. Don't think that I'm not obviously, you know, I've tournament fish all the time So obviously I'm gonna be getting a new boat. I film I do this for a living So obviously I'm gonna be getting a new one, but it's just gonna be taking some time So what had happened was my dad actually took the boat from the tournament back home So my mechanic is actually looking at it today. I did get a call from him and the lower unit is done absolutely done Which sucks because that is obviously a big piece onto the boat Yeah, the lower unit's done where the oil was and pour all the oil out and it's supposed to be black And it was actually great and it had a bunch of pieces of metal in it And what it happened was all the gears totally just shredded so it shredded all the gears And it was all in the oil and there's metal pieces everywhere and it is just not looking good I'm hopefully we can get it fixed and not having to you know kill ourselves on money Hopefully, you know warranty and that whole deal turns out and works out fine But other than that I am gonna be getting a new boat soon The hours are just very high on it anyways, and it's time for a new boat. That's about it for the boat guys. I Hate to break it to you, but that is what happened. It's not the best This isn't the best video I was wanting to make but on a happier note Let's talk about how we caught those fish. So I was actually supposed to have Adam in this recap video But he is actually in class. I really want to post this for you guys tonight So I didn't have a choice, but to go ahead and make this I have two poles I actually caught some fish on and actually what the big one came on which was this old drop shot As you guys know, I caught a six pounder last week on the old drop shot People say it catches small fish listen a drop shot does not catch small fish It catches big and that fish does not know if that bait is a drop shot or whatever it is I promise you a drop shot catches big ones I couldn't tell you how many fish I've caught on a drop shot I've actually won a few tournaments on a drop shot and it's all around an amazing bait because especially on the conditions of the day Because it was literally dead calm slick water zero wind bluebirds guys those fish were super lethargic They weren't really chasing too hard and going into the tournament and even the practice days I already know I already pretty much predicted what was gonna happen and also this little Texas rig speed crawl as you guys know Best bass fishing bait I made a video on this not too long ago caught a few on this bad boy And they were munching on this as well But the drop shot was pretty much the main key Adam caught his on a shaky head Which is obviously a slow-moving bait as well and Man they were just munching it. We caught a lot more in practice or had a lot more bites in general I believe Friday we probably could have caught around 40 fish. We shook off so many They're just buying a lot better and then the tournament I think we caught we cold three times and then I caught like Like three or four fish that weren't even keepers so I mean we caught a decent amount of fish We caught over 10 we just happened to get the quality which was good because we did catch a lot of shorts in practice The second biggest fish came on a drop shot the six pounder or the five and a half pounder came or no the second biggest fish came on a shaky head and The five and a half pounder actually came on the old drop shot and I can tell you one thing when you hook a monster Fish on a drop shot it is just insane because when you lift up on that thing You just feel like you have a log or especially a big large mouth the spots a whole different story But it's just like you got all this weight and that fish came up to the top. I'm telling you and just Shook his big head. We thought I had about a pounder and I didn't say a word Adam was like sitting there freaking out He was like trying to walk me through it. I just did not say a word. I was like all right. This is a This is not expected. I was not expecting to hook one this big on this drop shot And I when we got him in the net we thought he's about seven We threw him down in the bow, but when I held him up I was like, yeah, it's about a five and a half six pounder, but gosh that was a fish That was a fish right there, especially in a tournament. That is a super high quality fish But overall guys about the tournament footage I didn't get to record as much as I was wanting to sadly when I'm in a tournament I'm just so focused on you know catching fish grinding in out to the last minute not really messing around You know covering a lot of water doing my thing Whatever it takes to win that tournament and sometimes you know if my GoPro battery dies I tend to not change it out right then and there and that's kind of what happened on those two fish Big fish that we didn't get on camera, especially the big one and it was such a good catch Like it was such a good catch Because just the excitement when we got that fish in the boat when the fish was jumping up Like it would have all been on GoPro and I just sucked and I get that but Rather than that, you know, I got a little bit of footage. I'm gonna throw something together I don't know how I'm gonna do it yet because I didn't get you know I didn't really film too much in practice as well It was just kind of all hectic, you know, everything was going on We had this going on that going on. I had a lot going on at homework and then everything just kind of piled on it once But I did get some footage which I will be showing you guys but overall. Thank you guys so much for the support Amazing first tournament of the year. I'm happy with the fifth place finish for the first event of the season especially knowing that it was the state championship and I Guess I'll catch you guys tomorrow. I'm possibly going to be uploading a video tomorrow, which is Tuesday I do not know yet because of the hurricane and I have a very very very I had three projects that are due tomorrow So I've been working on them all day yesterday. I was working on them when I got back from the drive And it's just been wild, but thank you guys so much for the support if you guys haven't already be sure to pepper that like button up Also, there's a little subscribe button. Yeah, a little red one, you know that thing Be sure to press that bad boy and also press the little bell right next to it. Thank you guys so much for the support I love you guys so much and I catch you all in the next I got sky like the weather man. I cried cause the hell of this. I got a ball from the motherland I got shooters wins. I get it. Get it up. Anyway, uh, bro looks good I'll crack cause cook every day. I get money every day