 Welcome back to the taco cave fish and freaks. We're gonna do a little crappie danglin today Well, I'm feeling a catch-and-cook coming home, baby And we're gonna try a new technique with the crispy We'll get into that here in just a minute Today's video brought to you by the new Tasty tube and the crispy the golden crispy batter. Maybe it's coming. We're here. Try the tasty tubes You must try the golden crispy batter It is amazing. I recommend the spicy but if you're original kind of person, I'm not gonna judge That's great to also. Don't forget about the saucy slimmer. All right This is a swim bait that has been tapered down from the saucy swimmer with that that has that big Sexy wide action. This is more of a tight wiggle and it seeks it hunts on a jig head or a weighted hook It's amazing. So try it out for bass great cold water winter action Just cold water temp action on that swim bait. What do you go get these things? I go to squad comm link down below Don't forget to use that promo code Lfg at checkout go ahead and get your your springtime tackle set up use promo code all once You know what to do. I'm also very pumped because something awesome happened this morning I was reading tackle here in here the other night. I Was getting those doing little crappie jigs and little things like that and then I heard scuffling I heard a scuffling and I've been seeing This we all know what this is. It's not what you want to see in your garage or in your house or anything It is the remnants of a rat a squirrel size rat came running across my feet And I quickly grabbed the BB gun I was on a hunt to try to get this baby, but it was up in the ceiling. It was it was it was crawling round It was sneaky this thing avoided two of my glue traps got caught in it got out and then Snapped one of the regular traps off, but I came back I came back with a serious trap the old box trap that has worked for me before And I don't know if you guys can see up in here Let's get it let's get a look I see a tail I see a tail back in there and that means We got one. We got a rat that is wow that thing is huge He's not as like I was imagining like a one of those rats from What's that movie with the rat king? Oh, yeah, you wanted to have like a mustache Talk like a New Yorker Like the mob squad Yeah, he actually has a nice pretty little coat, but uh, I assure you Look at how long the tail is Let the coyotes clean him up see a buddy who Major distance on that one the rat has been eliminated and the wife knows I have I've gone out and slayed in the beast That earns me brownie points quick little project before we head out to the water. I Need a rod tip Replacements probably so got a chipped guide So I'm gonna be taking out a tin and a 12 foot and then just take a standard seven out Because I want to do some I want to do some floater fishing when I went out the other day I totally missed the boat on floaters. It was so difficult to Look at the fish in the in the back of the boat with the electronics and then go up front I was basically like straddling in the boat going back to back to Electronics and up front with the trolling motor. So I am just gonna switch it up with the crispy today We're gonna experiment and we're gonna try to effectively catch suspended Croppy that are you know pre-spawn for the next month or so I'm gonna heat this up right here. Don't breathe this in guys. Don't breathe it in Not healthy for you. Yeah, this is an old prototype rod. There's nothing wrong with this rod I could fish with it, but It's kind of just sitting up here collecting dust It was it was an action that we were trying to get right on a rod and it wasn't quite right It's nearly identical. That's perfect. Now. I'm just gonna take a little bow and arrow hot milled This is just a quick way to replace it guys. You could go all out with doing the The wrappings and everything It's just a quick quick little replacement here. Eat that up real quick Hot milled Line it up. I Don't keep us in the game We made it to the lake. Here comes that breeze 20 mile an hour wind, of course We are gonna be up in a creek today and that should help us out I switched out a mounting plate up here to put a seat and I have a little extender So I'm gonna be bill dance shout out to the legend Bd Sitting up here in the seat Hopefully slinging in bigs and we're going big poles boys Most of the big poles I brought a standard size pole and a bass pole just in case things get a little Western But the biggest thing is we're gonna be moving our system from back here Up here, and I'll be able to with my left hand do some scoping with my right hand do some jigging and hopefully we find some Baggins This is the time for big groppies But I just want to catch some anyways and put some in my mouth. So let's go do that There's no boys We got these warmer milky waters back here in this creek The water was You know 51 at the ramp. We're sitting at 50.5 right now these crappie They're gonna start staging in these creeks in February. They spawned before Bastu But what is interesting about these last? Well week and a half really in Texas is it's been Warm like even our nights are warm last night was in the 50s And usually in March when I see the first night in the 50s like I am at the lake the next day Because everything is gonna be kind of pushing up But my hunch is telling me we're still gonna have fish that are more at the mouth of the creeks rather than Like midway and then obviously going all the way back. I think that's probably where the fish are gonna stage first All right now to get things situated here Here's what we're gonna do We're going to take this arm out of this bracket I'm gonna take off the back transducer All right, just take that out of there pull that right out Your buddy right here, and we'll stick this over the side slide that in this Little mount here We'll tighten it up and we're not done yet Full comfort mode Welcome to the show Hooked up boys hooked up first fish off the tree. Oh gosh. It's a large mouth. Oh God sure he goes Always jumping behind the boat There we go. There's a runner On the tasty tube. Oh Gosh, it's a good bass Little high-suspendo fight. I'm gonna chase him around here Goodness come here, buddy. Oh, yeah, look at you red lip Goodin, you know red lip good and I thought you were a giant crappie. Oh gosh. Look at that one there That was a fun ride Unhooked this guy here. God that little hook man that little hook just gets them Pretty amazing Tasty Tuber Not the species that we're looking for but always a fun one Let him go See you buddy. Just made my way back into a little creek And I noticed one fish on a tree look like a big crappie stuck it up there and that It was a little more aggressive that a crappie Just rigged up a new pole 10-footer pole The 16th ounce that little goog and green head with that electric chicken. It's a beautiful looking Little combo just lightly sank it in there Kept it around the tree and that fish circle around the tree went Never gonna complain about catching a bass. They're always fun. All right boys got ourselves our first suspendo crappie And it is a tasty one Come here, buddy Tasty tube There we go now That is a good in there That's just the kind of that's the lone female right there. I can almost guarantee you. That's a theme She's getting ready. She's back here in this little creek just warming up Add it to the chain of crispies Get a few of those we'll be set bigging on a treetop Gosh she came out and just Tattooed it man. There's another one in there too I think she was the biggest one though. Golly. Look at this one Got a limper. She's so big dad. Oh God Just got it in the faceted in she smacked it dude. Well, I'm 14 and a half inches Come and get some Sally God, it's only my second bite, but both the strikes have been awesome a couple of these man couple more of these and we are golden Good good fish right there Bites are few and far between y'all, but what I get when I come up on one She's hungry They're big They're big man. That just keeps me keeps me in the game excited because What are my big freshwater goals is to catch a crappie over three pounds and I've come fairly close, you know a little over two and a half or so, but not that three I started in the back of this creek And that's where I caught my first fish and I'm just working my way out You know, they're not primed yet. They're not really coming in good But these ones that that are just kind of suspended on these trees the first one was suspended over nothing Just kind of warming up. They are good ones They are good Haven't so I'm not looking for any big wads. I haven't seen any big wads But this system is working out good right here with the the bill dance chair Got the pole right here to my side working with my left hand Looking at the scope here and then fishing with my right hand And having that long rod Actually, it helps with this like on that fish I started out on the left side of the boat the boat started drifting its boat drifts really quick So I was able to like just move my rod over to the right keep it on the fish Where it was interested and it came out and smacked it It wasn't like the normal crappie where you just got to put it on on its nose I just had to put it on this branch and she came out Smoked it man. Love catching big crappie. It's so much fun. Just out here building it You know looking for old big We got a suspender right here perfect Perfect. Oh, yeah fish sees it wants it got him It's a good one Just suspended in the middle of nowhere Oh You're all big. I love you Gotta love you so much That one was like textbook just middle of nowhere Floated it over there perfectly and she just Choked it Tasty-tube man They are now available. Oh, yeah, two more of these babies. We've been eating good All right, we want to put you on here. I'm gonna put you on got one kind of close to the bottom here Still suspended just got to get it get it in front of it. Here we go open water suspended crappie tasty-tube Let's do this Sees it got him. Oh, yeah Come here, baby Not a giant, but we'll add it add it to the stringer Okay, got one Perfectly located right in front of this tree Send it see what happens here. Oh, this fish already sees it. I cannot believe that didn't happen For sure suspended crappie. It's just not Won't play ball God Have given that shake little body That's why you didn't want to eat because you're too small. I don't want you That shake is definitely a thing guys Like I'm not bumping the bait up and down I'm literally just shaking it like this and their fins just go crazy It's like they just can't handle it Got a big one located Let's make our approach Big it's a big There's two of them. Oh this one wants it. Oh My gosh. Oh my gosh How did it not eat? How did it not eat? Came up to it like it was going to scream on it I'm gonna follow this one. This is a big one I'll go into the 12-footer Fish are spooky These two big ones are being ghosts So I'm going to I'm going to change my bait We're gonna go with toxic waste Little charters in black color Sneaky got a crappier kind of interesting You know to watch them on a life's good because Sometimes you'll see him like they'll they'll move They'll move cuz your bait or something like that you spook them They'll move off like 10 feet 20 feet, and then they'll just sit there again So it's just different. It's just different than other fish. I love them so much Love to smell them Love to eat them. Just love everything about him 16,000 I should probably go a little bit lighter to be honest with you. They're so spooky, but we're gonna give it a whirl Sitting in the top of tree right over here. There's one of them Don't see the other one. Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Eat it. Oh gosh Oh gosh They're like actively moving off now two times. They just charged at my bait. I Actually thought it was gonna eat it. I set the hook just thinking. Oh, it's gotta have it. It charged at it so hard 49 degree water. It's definitely cooler than it was back there You're still out here though. There might be something about them when they're in pairs when they're together It's not it not as good They might talk to each other, you know tell each other it's a bad idea. Oh, baby Got him Little body just had to get one. It's another one up here. That's a little juice here God There we go a little better Little males. What's going on here? Oh, actually don't I don't want you. I Need one more big theme Come on, baby Be a good one. Oh my gosh came and Tattooed it sat there for a second and then said I need it. You're not big. I Need big This could be a good one right here at the base of this tree Got him. That's a good one better one. Come here Get all my stringer buddy. Yeah It seems like all the better ones have been Well, not all of them Some of them been right on wood and some of them are just plain in open water Yes, sir, you know how we do Catch them eat them and repeat Get down there and attract some some of your friends for me Okay, it looks like we got a juicy one here. It's right on the end of a log These bigger ones are just tricky. It's going up to the base of this tree now I'm just gonna get my bait right at the base of this tree. There's just nosing on it. Got him Oh god, I missed him. I missed him. I missed him. Oh No It's that shake shake of the rod It's like there's more in here now than when I started Not a giant But I'll take him Take a bite. Oh, those little ones are not hard to convince Let them go let them grow Well, the day is winding down It's about time to head in But we got a great stringer and crappies right here timber crappies man timber and suspenders Look at these babies. One of those is an absolute whopper Why bam? Those are gonna eat good. So if you guys want to pick up the tasty tubes, they are available now go check them out Google squad comm use my promo code LFG do some crappie dangling and don't forget about golden crispy batter. It's available now Go check it out. Link in the description guys. Thank you for tuning in today For catching golden crispies in the crispy collector can't get better than that guys smash that like button Subscribe to the channel and I'll see you on the next one