 Holy cow, we are dealing with a Mondo here. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to outdoor greatness. Taking a break here from our New Zealand videos. I am back here in the States now. Obviously, there's an airplane. Definitely back in the city. Y'all, I'm happy to be back here, safe and sound, see the family. Right now I gotta wrangle up my chickens. They are underneath the boat, and they are chickens now. Like, after I came back, they've grown so much that no longer chicks. The next few videos coming up on the New Zealand series are awesome. They are just, it's incredible, the story and everything that happened. I'm putting a lot of time into the edits, but I thought we would take a break from that and do some fishing. Okay, where are the chickens? We got it. I gotta put you up. My bass boat. Don't go under my bass boat. Go under my bass boat. Let's go, let's go, let's go. You too. Come on. Chickens are very social creatures. They must hang out together. There you are. Eat up, brew stuff. Loading them up and getting them ready for battle. Me and Dad talking a little pregame smack here. Was it three years ago, Dad, of Father's Day? I got you into the mystery tackle box game. That's correct. So you have been getting your mystery tackle boxes ever since then. You're just gonna do a big plug right now. LFD trying to steal my thunder. So if you wanna get started in getting a mystery tackle box, and for those of you that don't know what it is, it's a little box like this. Like this is their standard box right here. Comes like this. Get your items in that. I get the Pro Box. This is the one I get every month. So a little bit more bass, hardcore bass specific. But there's all sorts of boxes. And if you wanna get into the game yourself or get it as a gift, because we have Father's Day coming up. You wanna be like me and get your Dad a subscription. Still going? I still pay for it. I straight up. I don't even pay for that with my sponsorship. I just pay for it, because I like my Dad. I actually, I love my Dad. He's a great Dad. So I think he's probably worth an upgrade. I could probably get you a Pro Box upgrade, Dad. If you're good this year. I love that. Yeah. I like the old lures. You're tackle junky. I do. I like the old stuff. Of all sorts. And when something new comes out like that, I've never fished a jig that color. But I'm tying it. Did you get that in your box? I did. No, you did not. I did. That's a whopper plopper. I don't know if anybody that doesn't like a whopper plopper. It's a big time lure. You got that in your regular box? I did. There you go. There's the kind of deal. I think that's normally $12.99. And you can get your first box as low as five bucks. If you use the promo code as always, Mondo, Mondo, everybody. If you wanna get your first box for five bucks. And if you wanna check out all the special deals they have on subscriptions right now, some sales on subscriptions that are going on for Father's Day. Gifting starts June 3rd. Links are down below. So those sales will be going on from June 3rd until Father's Day. You don't have to gift it to a dad and you don't have to be a dad to get the special deal. It's just going on for Father's Day. Whoever you wanna give, Fishmas in a box every month too. Codes are down below. Now let's load up some kayaks and let's get out to the lake and see what we're dealing with. Hopefully it's not too flooded. Oh my gosh. One of those big ones just suspended on that point. God, he just jumped. He's a giant. Really hosed it. Always be fishing. Man, this thing is fighting so hard. Oh, oh, there you're bigging. Now we have made it out to the lake. Me and dad just wrapped up a competition. It was a stiff competition. That is a nice, nice fish right there. There you go. Can I get a sniff of you? Gotta love it, baby. That's kind of a preview of one of the, one of the June maids for Mystery Taco Box. But what I'm gonna do right now is show you guys some of the things I got in my Maybox and go fish that out here since we just wrapped up our competition filming. It was a nail biter. It was close. It was good. Something really cool happened that, well, I'll just leave you guys to go check it out. It's pretty special to me. But anyways, that's gonna be over at the Mystery Taco Box channel on YouTube. So it'll be linked down below. You guys can go check it out when it airs. Right now we're just gonna take a break, get a little snack and regroup and try to go catch some fish like that because that's fun. Nobody can argue. Catching Mondos is a fun time. And I hardly ever get to fish with my dad. So this is just a special time for me too. Already off to a good start today. After a brief little intermission, it's getting so windy out here though. So I just caught a really nice fish on one of the June baits. But for the Maybox, one of the combos that I really like that's in here is a Game Changer jig. And I'm gonna show you all how to fish that. But basically what that is, a Game Changer jig, Trashmaster jig is designed with no brush guard. And it's basically a design where you can rig your plastic through there. And I've got one of the other baits in here in the Eliminator. You rig it up like that. There's a screw lock there. And then that is totally weedless. So a lot of these fish have been kind of suspended this morning, like in the tops of the trees. The trees are super nasty. So this is a good thing to throw right here. Another thing I really wanna try that's in here is this Weston Swim, which is basically like a hollow body style bait. There's a lot of grass lining this lake right now. And it looks like it'd be a really cool bait to throw. I haven't thrown that one yet. So Eliminators, we've also got some Cortland master braid right there. That's 15 pound. That'd be perfect for putting on a spinning rod. I don't have one. Spinning rod with a little fluorocarbon leader on there. Just your standard Mustad hooks. The ultra lock light. This would be great for putting that Eliminator on there, swimming it at the surface. Ooh, that's another thing we could do over the top of this grass y'all. There's also a Lunker City Osmo in here. It's like a creature style bait. It's basically designed to be Texas rig, Kerala rig, things like that. So it's what we got going on. I'm gonna put on the Trashmaster and probably gonna play around with this hollow body because I just wanna see a blow up. Oh, speaking of blow ups, that is a Green Booger. So I basically have like lighter, medium heavy action rods. I really need like a heavy with some braid to get it through this stuff. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna try. You're gonna fish this. Fish it on braid. Here we go now. Oh, gosh, I love the sound. Lock that drag down. I love the sound of a hollow body bait just hitting grass. That is, that is fun. That is a fun noise. Hey man, you're hooked up again. Man, you're smoking up. Holy cow, that's a good one. Loosen your drag a little bit. Still fighting pretty good. Yeah. Man, that looked like a Dega Marlin from over there. Big. What do you got him on? The crank bait you gave me. The crank bait? Yeah. Nice. Oh yeah. Oh, that's, yeah. Nice. Crucial moment. You're on that YouTube, don't lose him. Oh my gosh. Look at that jump. Ah, it's a nice fish. Nice fish. Well, that's, that's quite the large one there, Pops. Oh my goodness. Woo. Oh my gosh. That is what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh, let's start the competition again. Woo. LFD on fire right now. Back to back catches. Good fish, Pop. Look how thick he is. So look how thick his back is. Oh yeah. That's just, that's a large fish. Yeah. He's young too. Biggest fish of the year for you? Oh yeah. You know, this is probably my second, seven. Nice. Nice. Hey. Yes. Air fist bump right there. That's awesome. Hey, congrats. You gave me two. Yeah, I made a little lure recommendation for you. That one's from a past mystery tackle box. It's been sitting in my truck carpet for about a year. And after I caught that fish on a swim bait, my dad was like, let me see something. That's like a shad. Let me, let me get on that. Came out of my truck and just whacked a mondo. Came back and got it. Got you, son. Swimming with it. I almost didn't detect you, sir. Throw a weightless worm in there. 100%. Weightless worm in these 25 mile an hour winds. Just not good. Time for an LFD check in update. Maybe I can get some inspiration from him. OK. Tell me your, your knowledge. You caught about seven? Yeah. That's awesome. You know, I caught some two pounders. Yeah. All in the crag baits? Yeah. All in the crag baits. Suspended little suckers, aren't they? Yeah. And they are on the wood. Yeah. But what's interesting is I caught all my fish. I gave you one of my old MTB Pro Box cranks and it definitely paid off for you. Maybe you can return the favor. All I have is some Canadian crawfish cranks. OK. You got the shads. Yeah. I don't want a shad. Look at that. You have a jerk bait, which would work. However, very windy, hard to cast right now. Through it. I think I found what I need. I did find the LFD. This was last month's crank bait that was in one of the box. I know. I'm just catching them on all sorts of MTB boxes. I'm not biased. You got a fish? I do. Dead gubbet. Yes, I do. Getting competitive here. You just smoked them on that crag. Hey! Say that. Got him right there by the boat, dad. Right there by the daggum boat. See? Bait switch. Bait switch. I think we're going to come over here on this windy side and just get after them. Keeps lacking the drag. I don't think it's a thing either. But just got excited. I threw that out there. To be, though, sir, a couple cranks down. Wa-bam. How they're doing it right now. A few seconds while it's sinking downward to get them. Whereas the crankbait or something else, you get it in the strike zone and keep it there for a little bit longer. This ought to be it right in front of that tree. Pulls down slack of my line. Coltie level. If you're not going to chase the lure down, the crankbait is the key or anything that's going to hold in that position for a long time. And then it just lights out. When you start to get those bites while the bait is sinking, throw something that can stay in the strike zone a little bit longer. It's pretty tough in the wind, but crankbait, spinnerbait, all kinds of moving baits, swimbaits. LFD, still getting after it out there. Having a great time today. Man, y'all, we caught a lot of fish. We caught some good fish in the challenge this morning and then this afternoon, just having fun, father and son time. I'm just happy I got to go out fish today and it wasn't flooded conditions, man. I'm tired of the rain, tired of the floods. Why do you guys see the next New Zealand couple episodes? Gets real hairy. But anyways, I'm just happy that we had some semi, it was stained water, you know, it was stained from all the rain, but it wasn't just a muddy mess. That's what I've been dealing with lately. Last couple of times, I've been out just, just nasty. Stay tuned for the New Zealand episodes. I know I keep reiterating that, but make sure to do that. One more fist bump with my dad right there, boop. He had a good time today. And if you guys have questions, comments, there's a comment section down below. You can leave them there for me now that I'm back in the state so I can answer your questions. I love you and I'll see you right here for the next episode of the New Zealand adventure. It's gonna be awesome. Stay tuned.