 Alrighty fishing freaks. I am back here at the tree house today Literally just got back from the Bassmaster classic. We did a meet-up over there at the Kechco fish wagon and It was awesome. We met hundreds of you and I always like to ask When I'm around you guys in person like what do you like to watch? What are what are you into? What are the videos that pop the most for you? It's always a mixed bag though Some people love the straight fishing videos. Some people like the hunting videos Some people just like you know hanging out here with the fam and I always hear that with with the wives and girlfriends as well So I thought I would cover a little bit of everything today in a vlog There is one main important thing we got to do today and that is get the silver bullet all cleaned out because I'm done with it I'm done with that boat. It has been a good horse But we've ridden it long and hard and put it up wet and now it's time to take it back to fun and sun and They're going to put it on the market for somebody Bass boats are tough tough to come by right now So I'm sure someone is going to enjoy the silver bullet, but I'm done with that boat and I got a call A few days ago saying the new one is in so I'm gonna give you guys a full walkthrough tour on the new one Got a few upgrades. It's gonna be a nice little deal Standing here in this peach tree because Are happening those were not popping before I left for the classic so Things are popping off in this area. I've kind of been chasing the spawn this year. It's been great You know started out in Mexico Fish moving up on beds bloody tails. Then I went to Florida fish moving up bloody tails Then I went down to the choke Canyon as well Fish some fish were moving up on beds literally caught my first sight fish Missing a little Ivy trip with with John those fish were definitely not closest bonding but they were pre-spawn munching and You know, I come back here to North Texas every year and it's like it's it's a month behind everything else So I don't want to get my hopes up But when things start budding, that's good. And also since springtime is here. We're going to be getting some chickens soon I don't know what kind of breed We're gonna be getting some chickens back in the wrackly roost miss our eggs miss our chickens But you know, they got eaten if you guys missed that that video But anyways, we're gonna be getting some new chickens now that this bad cold weather is over and we can raise some Chicks or some pullets. Anyway, we'll get to the boat here in a minute. Clean it out Let's go inside. Let's check in with the fan and see what's going on already went inside. This is like my first encounter but Something new and exciting. I gotta show you guys to stuff told me about sitting right here. This just came in from YouTube so I wasn't even sure if they even give these things out anymore, but you know hit a million subscribers and Thank you guys and thank you guys for subscribing to the channel Helping us get to the million and I guess they give the they're still giving these million sub plaques out so this was at my desk where stuff puts all my Mail and stuff. I just want to take a take a gander at it Says congratulations. You did it. No, we did it Fishing freaks did it. We are honored to take part in recognizing your achievement blah blah blah YouTube things Is that an actual signature by Susan? I really wonder Lake four guy Million subs, thank you guys very much. I appreciate it and I never thought I would get to a million subs So this is a pretty cool accomplishment It's a nice little plaque to hear they give you But man been doing YouTube over 10 years. I guess 12 years It's not nearly as cool as the day that actually hit a billion. You know, this is like many months later But it's a nice reminder. So it's pretty cool. It's gonna go up here on the wall Look at that gorgeous crappie right there everybody. I'm ready for that crappie season. It's here. It's here right now The crappie spawned right before the bass. So it's it's It's going off right now. I've been so focused on bass, but a little update This fella right here Jeremy Zettler who drew this I'm gonna be getting this tattooed on my body and I haven't been able to go up to Canada because the crazy border situation but Anyway, that's in the works. He's gonna be coming down to Texas. So anyway, I'm gonna be getting that that tat Let's check with fam up here Let's do a little fam check You did You already got a gummy worm. Well, she just went potty so I put it on her plate. Oh, you did you gave her one of those rainbow gummies from Bucky's? Did you love it? So was it so good? Yes, welcome to my side of the family. Yeah, this is I got my hair done by little Ben's pose and he's cheese So he's happy This is lunch time with the fam Little Ben is about ready to crawl He's about ready to crawl up in that deer blind next year with me. Oh, give me some Yeah, you bought you've already been in the deer blind Which was that's pretty crazy So give the fish and freaks the lake life is a little update here On your life, huh, this is it you're looking at these two keeping these two alive and you Yeah, arguably My life is between this level of the house between the kitchen and kids rooms 100% of the time You're looking at it Well, we appreciate it. We appreciate you channel wouldn't exist without you Your assistance you just such a happy baby I mean, how come you weren't that happy when you were a baby You gonna put that on Instagram Just funny cuz she sees me take pictures of food and so now she's like all about it I'm gonna take a picture of my girl cheese over here. She's a healthy chew One day I'm gonna cook with you. I try to get her in the kitchen to cook But it doesn't go as planned You put that DSLR on there. She's making a food vlog real quick Got it. Yeah, it's a good one. Can't really see it's still on live view Yeah, I trust it was good. Hey, I saw you in front of some gook and babes the other day Was that Academy? Yeah, I'm show me a picture of that It's what were those what were those things you were taking a picture with Fishies Yeah, so what's funny is she just knows them as little fishies and dad's garage and in his boat that she gets to Cut up. She likes to take my little scissors and cut them off like like Play-Doh She has these little Play-Doh scissors She cuts, you know a little play-doh things make shapes and whatnot. So she thinks it's fun to take You know, sometimes she just takes brand new baits out of the pack when I'm not looking and cuts them up And it just makes a pile makes, you know plays with them basically and Yeah, then you throw away So it's funny that she doesn't really know what dad does for a living, but she knows those as her fishies You have them in your clothes. They're all over there all over the house. And like I think today I saw one of my purse, you know What do you think about smell? Pretty good That's gonna go in the garage. I've got I've got some more things to show the fishing freaks. I've got a new time-consuming vice Show them, you know what that's Into the cave we go All right, so you guys know that I'm I'm into hunting obviously I'm a fishing freak. I'm into just the outdoors in general and the more the older I get The more I am just getting into being a total outdoors. And so that's you know, full camping fishing like bushcraft Firecraft I've gotten an archery more. I'm just trying to you know be a complete outdoorsman basically I read a couple of books on Indians last summer and it sent me down a rabbit hole of Just I was I'm just blown away by the advanced Woodcraft the ability to make some amazing bows and arrows from all these different Native American tribes and so I got inspired to make my own bows and arrows So I've been working on that the last few months I'm trying to get good at it during the fishing season and get everything built and get good at it get proficient So when hunting season comes around I can accomplish my goal of getting an animal with my own bow and arrow And this is something that you know I just I want to do for me and when I feel good at it what when I feel like very really confident I'm gonna show you guys how I'm doing all this stuff How I created it? I'm gonna share some of it quickly with you here right now, but I'm still learning just soak it up It's just been something really Awesome that I enjoy I it's very gratifying to make Make a bow make an arrow and then go shoot it and you're watching your arrow fly through there And you've crafted every inch of everything there. It's really cool. It's a good feeling so these are some of the arrows that I've crafted so far and You know, I've literally got I've got wood from saplings and other branches that I've cut and made like just full blown You know arrows from the woods and I've also got just blank shafts that I've purchased that are really straight So like here's a couple right here I made my own little shield shaped Jig for making the fletching shape And then that's actually 30 pound braid on there that I've wrapped these with Put a little fletching glue and that's That's he look old and everything it's it's it's pretty awesome these arrows spin pretty good I've made three bows so far The first one was an absolute piece of trash. It'll shoot an arrow, but it's twisty and it's terrible It's got knots all in it. My second one. I made out of ash Tree from the yard here. It was pretty good little bow. It's a 48 inch little little short bow It's feeling pretty good. I fire hardened it and that broke Unfortunately, I think I'm going to try to do another one with ash and my current one that's working right now Is a cedar bow. I kind of want to use the cedar if it works out. I've heard they explode really bad but uh This is this is wood that's like in the area At where I hunt mostly so that would be really cool. Keep it fully Endemic, but the one that you really want and that the Comanche's We're super fond of and honestly a lot of tribes was bow dark or Um Osage orange. So I've got a rough cut bow. It's pretty much still a stave right here Um, we've got a sealed with with wood glue on the back I'm going to let that dry for about six months and then I'm going to fully Tiller it and make it into a shooting bow And so maybe I'll use that one for hunting season if the if the cedar one blows up, but Let's let's grab a couple arrows, you know, let's go fling a couple now I've told you about it. Let's see what this bow can do. All right, let's see if we can hit this target at uh I'm going to say that's 10 or 12 yards. Ooh, that's a heart shot You've got to repeat Same thing you do every time in order to be accurate just like a compound bow A little different here. So I'm trying to get the get the hang of it with this bow set up That one's in the woods There's a long shot. It's just one little mess up and you're you're out of the realm Looking good That's what we need to happen this fall Let's see if we can uh put a couple on old Bucky over here Split my arrow Oh Yeah, the deer would have ran away, but dag um That group's pretty good. So I just needed to make an adjustment That's where I just naturally wanted to hit. All right So that's my new vice right there Natural archery native primitive archery whatever you want to call it But uh, it's pretty challenging I'll be a swim guy You can kind of take it or leave it Chimes, the chime's a nice addition though You're welcome I come home in places there's always Something to do It's because I have a lot of time to think about our house. There's ideas constantly rolling in my head how to Improve the tree house Amy, what are you doing up there? You're scaring your dad Okay Little daredevil child It's not supposed to rain anymore tonight. I was gonna postpone this I was gonna get in my boat start cleaning it out, but it's gonna start raining. We gotta wait One last look at what is inside Of the silver bullet Main compartment main box You know everyone wants to look at Oh, this is one thing I really like about the phoenix It's their tackle organization. It's pretty good But my general organization thing is if if there's something that I really like I want to store a lot of colors in it. I just go with a money bag And you know like my worms my flippin baits all that kind of stuff And I'll just put them in those money bags like that And then the hard baits obviously will go And in the trays There's just a much better way to store them But I really don't put any plastics in those trays unless it is Something that just a couple colors that I use a bunch and I'm gonna use a ton of them frequently Like trailers, you know either spinnerbait trailers chick trailers Um, I'll throw those in there and just make a nice juicy big box like that. That's a hefty one That is a hefty one. I'm gonna leave some stuff in here For the next dangler and I've got just a ton of extra tackle from extra catch-coast stuff and googin stuff That I'm gonna take up to the for the high school Fishing they have like a big barrel up at fun and some where you can bring your extra Plastics and baits and help out the high school kids Um, so that's what I'm gonna do Let's get started. That's a lot of stuff Well, y'all this is it saying goodbye to her It's kind of sad. I mean just need to do one thing last trip together pretty good one Have a good time out there health of big fish Just gonna give you one last one last little send off here To the silver bullet. I'm just gonna give you a little Coors attention here clean up that back end with a little Coors I know you like those bubbles just gets all the All the dirt and grime and water spots off and you clean your shiny feathers And you can fly You can fly for someone else now. It's okay. Good luck to the next dangler Well, if you've never cleaned off a leg grime off your boat with a cold adult beverage You're probably doing what you're supposed to do in life But uh, I'm just saying warps in a pinch Everything's pretty much out um Left a couple rods in there left some extra uh swim baits it's blind some things like that some extra plastics and She's ready to go. Oh gotta get my scale Pretty much it want to make sure we have the scale for the next mandos this season and This is it y'all so, uh, thank you for tuning in To this home vlog a little bit of everything can't please everybody But just talking to you guys the classics seem like everybody's into a little something on this channel So next video i'm gonna be picking up the brand new one And giving a tour and hopefully getting it wet big Thanks again to all of y'all that have tuned in for all the years if you're new Subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any outdoor action And god bless you and the great outdoors. I will see you on the next one