 Welcome back to the channel, y'all. It's time to go run our jugs that we've made. Now, I just got home this morning from the Northeast, and I'm whooped, but I got home. My oil filter came in. I changed it on the Merc. We filled it up, and now I just want to go see how the motor's performing. I'm sure a lot of you guys do too. See how it is working on the new improvements that we made with the jack plate and everything else with the boat. We're going to head to the lake, get our bait, make sure the motor is running correctly, and then we will go back and do our little milk run of jug lines, and hopefully come up with a bunch of catfish. All right. We're lifted up about six inches. Take our straps off. Okay. Big moment right here. Will she crank? Yes, she will. Get that oil pumping. All right. My new tachometer is reading the RPMs. My big problem has been oil or gas generating into the oil, so fresh oil in here. We're going to really find out if we got a problem with the fuel pump or not. All right. All good so far. Got her keel switch hooked up. Let's see if she's going to run all right. Trim her down. Getting up. She's getting up good. We're definitely not getting that spray that we were before. Well, tachometer is working .3 hours on the motor. The thing that is not working is the position of the motor. It's actually too high, guys. I'm porpoising, which means the bow of the boat just wants to keep going up. The more throttle that I give it, so I didn't want to have to do this, but I'm going to have to take this piece of wood out, this spacer. I'm going to have to drop the motor down. Definitely have a hole inside of the boat over here as well. I've got to fix that. All this porpoising isn't going to help with the welding. Nice cool now. You're going to get squad boat shorts. Good for getting in and for the dangle. Use my promo code LFGSafetynPercentage.com. Got us some gills. All nice. Those are going to be our bait for tomorrow. I'm really concerned about the gasoline getting into the oil. Major concern, right? So we're going to pop this off, check the old dipstick, and just see if we have any gas in there. You can usually smell it, or it's just going to be spewing out. Okay, we did not spew out. Still looking very thick. Viscosity, that's good. All right, so I don't think we're getting any gas in our oil right now, but we'll see over time. On the base of the jack plate, it looks pretty good right now. So hopefully in the morning, it's going to run nice. We've got bluegill for bait. We've made up plenty of jugs, so we're going to get out in the morning and go set a milk run of jugs, run it, and hopefully come back with a bunch of catfish. So I will see you guys murk running in the morning and we will get on pad and go catch some cats. Chop the tails off and then just put them in like little half inch cuts. So we're going to put these on the jugs. Everything's operating pretty well with the jug so far. One thing that I did exchange from the tutorial video where I've shown you guys how to build these is I put six ounce weights on the ones that I'm throwing out deep. Six ounces will just hold a little better as well, keep them from drifting. Something I also did is I increased the hook size to five-ont instead of four-ont. These bigger chunks like this just want a bigger gap in the hook to be able to hook the fish. Ball's away. Put these out. They're going right to the bottom and just have a few inches or they're just floating and will probably drift and hit the bottom. So we've got about ten lines set right now. I've got three shallows and the rest are deep. I just set the rest of the shallows out and I'm going to hang on to two more shallows and probably put them over where we're about to go which is the first spot that we laid the jugs. So it's been probably 30 minutes. Let's run back over to our first hole and see if we've got anything on our jugs. By the way, I'm going to have to lower this jack plate again. It's too high. I'm just barely porpoising when I get over mid-speed, it sucks, but I've got to unbolt this and lower the entire jack plate which means I'm going to have to take the motor off. We have fun little projects. I definitely see a jug that has either drifted a long way or a fish has tugged it about 40 yards from where it was. Sit here for a minute and see if we see any bobbing action. Ooh, I see that other one going out there too. All right, I see it kind of tipping a little bit. I think we've got a fish, ladies and gentlemen. Definitely moving. All right, let's see what we get on here. Eat your channel cat, we'll throw him in the box. This one looks like it's getting bit. I just saw it bob up and down. Just like a strike. I don't think a fish is on there yet, but we're definitely getting bit right now. Come on kitty cat. It seems quite a ways away from where I put it. Got number two going in the box. Still got bait. Jug is getting tugged. Good. Yeah, she bobbin' good. Oh, I might have a good one on here. Oh, boys, look at this thing. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, look at it go. This is a big one. This is a big one. It's getting away from me. That's a good one there. Oh, it's it. Oh my God, I have a giant turtle. I have a giant turtle and a catfish. Oh my gosh, this giant turtle. It's a giant snapping or it's a giant soft-shelled turtle and there's a catfish on. Holy, holy, holy. Oh my gosh guys, look at the size of this turtle. And there's a blue cat on. Look at the size of that turtle. Holy cow, I've never seen anything like that. Filled up turtle cat mode. Woo, baby. I'm not sure about throwing that turtle in the boat. I'm going to try to unplug him right now. I'll do something to fill up. Gone blue cat in the boat. Holy cow. That's some fun jugging right there. Woo. I was like, I've either got a giant flathead or something is going on. That's wild. And that was definitely wild. This poor guy, this poor guy was just getting tossed around by that turtle. I don't know how big that turtle was. 30 pounds. It's huge. It's the biggest soft-shelled I've ever seen in my life. Fantastic eating blue catfish right here. So this seems to be a good spot. I will rebait that line and throw it back out. And I haven't even looked at the other jugs yet. That one was the most obvious, but we'll keep our eyes on these other ones. See if we've got anything on too. It's going to be great eating right there. There we go. That was fun. That one is definitely getting nibbled right now. It's either that or a turtle. Another turtle is just trying to steal the bait. It's getting tapped. This one over here looks pretty stagnant. I don't think there's anything on it. The bluegill has really tough skin and I think it'll stay on the hook well. I've actually used it to throw back out. So we might get some more fish on the same bait. And you know what, y'all? If that jug with that little toggle in there, with the Marlin spy catch, if that holds on a blue cat and a giant soft-shelled turtle tugging that thing down, I think it'll hold on a really big fish. And just 30-pound mono and not a huge bank line. So these aren't overkill jugs. And I think they'll hold up on some big ones. That gives me some confidence going to some bigger bodies of water and trying to get some Mondo blue cats. Look at that hook, though, guys. That thing is bent. I can't tell if it's an optical illusion, but I swear I just saw this other one move, too. The far one got bopped and was definitely moving and might be moving right now. The boat's kind of moving, too, so it's hard to tell. Boys, we got another one. This far one's definitely bobbing. I'm not convinced that this one's empty, either. It just has me on edge, man. It's jug fishing. When it's fast and furious like this, it's so much fun. This movie is, like, moving away from me. It's not bobbing, but it was definitely moving away from me. That's what we got here. Some fighting blue cat, baby. This eater. Kind of a skinny one. That one's going in the box. This cooler's getting full now. This has got to be a turtle. Feels huge. Big blue cat area right here. Fishing freaks. Mama's going to be happy. We are raking them in. We already have enough. My cooler is full, but we still have jug lines out at a fresh spot that I haven't checked. I don't have great confidence in because I kind of threw those shallow, and I felt like it was more of a deep spot. All these that I've caught fish on so far are deep lines, so they're going about 15 to 18 foot. That's kind of what I measured out. Out of bait. I'm just going to go ahead. I'm not even going to put the chicken livers on this. I'm going to reel this in and store it. If you missed the video of me making these, I'll link it here. You can watch it. You can see how to build these. One of the nice things about it is they just store very easily. I've purposely put cuts in the side of this. When I wrap these up, they deploy very nicely and they store very nicely. I've got them in a milk crate. So we've got a six ounce weight right here. I'm just going to stuff it in the hole. Let it slide into one of the cracks that I've cut. Make sure our toggle is in our little crack there. It's good to go. Might have moved it. Might have moved it. A sniff on the shallow ones. See happened. And my mono broke. It broke below the second hook. I think we had something really big on. Could have been a turtle. But the bottom section just broke off. And the weight was gone. Everything was gone except for the top hook. It looks like a pretty cool snap too. So there's the top hook. It looks just like cut, but it could have been right above the knot and just had a ton of pressure. That little channel cat ate one piece of bluegill, went to the other one, had both hooks in its mouth. That's crazy. That's why I do the double hooks. In case they miss one or one comes off, they might go after the other. This guy's just small. We're going to throw him back. The last few of it's small. Missing a jug. Missing a jug, it's somewhere around here. Doubled up on blues on the two lines guys. That's awesome. Last one's topping it off. Can't even shut the cooler. That's actually a channel. So we got a channel and a blue on the same line. We're topped off. That's all I can fit in there y'all. I hope we have more on the other lines, but man, the cooler's full. We'll have to use the bucket if we get any more. Not seeing any movement on the old shallow jugs. Oh, I feel one. I feel one on there. Definitely have a fish on here. Oh, it came off. What the heck? It felt small. It felt like a white bass or something. So we actually had two jugs go missing. I reverted back to the first spot. I knew I had a white jug. It's like one of the ones I did make. And it is so far away from where I put it. Going into the wind. So there's got to be a fish on here. Yeah, I put it like way out there. Big soft shell. I would cook these, but I have no idea how to. He's going to get a little snappy with those claws. I can feel it. All today with the jugs, guys, I'm pleased with them. We had some mystery escapees. I don't know. They could have been true lunkers. Could have been turtles. I don't know. They just, they dragged my stuff down. And I didn't, I didn't see one of them until probably 30 minutes later when I went back and checked again. And then the other one I, I have no idea. Could have gotten dragged under and then got stuck. Kind of like the other one, just underwater. Those huge turtles are very powerful. So it's possible. But they held up pretty well. I got some re-rigging to do on a few of the leaders. The drop rigs, but everything's good. I'm happy with it. And they're cheap. So even if I did lose a couple, it's not too hard to replace. Let's take a closer look at our haul from today. So I'm going to let these fish ice down for about 12 hours before I clean them. Channel cat, number one, blue cat. For number two, amazing. It's got a weird circle on its side. Could have been from that turtle. Another tasty blue cat right there. Little channel. That's four. I believe that is a blue. And that is five. Another blue for six. Great size eating fish. Little channel. I believe this is one of the first ones. First one's at seven. And then number eight with another channel cat. Great haul right there. So don't put these in a bigger cooler. There was ice. Now, unfortunately, there's still work to be done with the mini mark. We got to lower this jack plate. I can't believe that we weren't getting enough traction to... I mean, it looked good. It looked good where it was sitting, but I guess it's got to go an inch lower. So luckily I've already got the holes drilled. That'll be my rest of the afternoon project. Crispy collector. I'm proud of you. You did your job today. We'll get you running right. And we'll get back out there and catch some more. And thank you all for hanging with me on the water today. Again, if you want to go check out how I made those jugs, there'll be a video link down below, or you can click on it up here and go see how they're made and maybe try them on your home waters. What I will say is the floaters, I would not do those unless you're in like a shallow cove or going into a river. A river system would be great for the floaters. I like the lake today. I just thought I would try it. And some of them got away from me. It's nice to have that weight on the bottom. The fish is dragging against that. And also just a little bit of wind will keep it from drifting. If you're staying close to them, that's one thing, but I was running a milk run essentially at different locations, waiting about 20 minutes or so and coming back. And a couple of them drifted off and I had trouble finding them. Just take that for what it's worth. Thank you guys for being here. Smash that like button if you want to check out any of the summer apparel at googlesquad.com. The link's down below. And you can also save 10% and check out using my promo code LFG. And I will see you guys on the next outdoor adventure.