 My little protein makers, see if he'll got any eggs for the day. Just one. Luckily, I've collected about 35 eggs in the last week, so we're good to go. Just cranked up the truck, and we're going bass dangling, y'all. I've got to go fish this lake that is shutting down at the end of the month. This is really the last chance to go fish it. It's a lake called Lake Fairfield. I've done about half a dozen videos out there, and it's got a state park on it. It's a great little lake to go fish, but sadly, the land has been bought around it. The state leased it, and now it's going to be owned by somebody. Anyway, this is the last chance to go fish it. I've got to go do it. We're going to try to find a place to sleep tonight with the truck. Just re-rig the camper to be fully ready to party in the woods, and now we're going to be sleeping in the truck bed. Can't take both at the same time, unfortunately. But let's go roll out. Let's see if this lake has still got some bass in it, and bid it a farewell. On the road, y'all, it is about noon, and it's 82 degrees outside in February. Cannot believe how warm it is. It's a grass lake we're going to. Hopefully it's got grass in it. Warm weather and grass equals bass. I just pulled over to get some gas, and while I was there, I was coming outside, and I was the police officer next to my boat. He was getting gas. I was like, oh gosh, am I doing anything wrong? Goodness. Then I walked outside. He said, hello, G. I was like, oh, whew. Anyway, he had his bike parked next to the silver bullet, and then I realized the silver bullet, there's something different about it this year. It looks so good, juicy, and he had that bike parked next to it, and that's exactly what the silver bullet looks like. It looks like a polished up Harley police bike. You can put some cherries and berries on that sucker and put to protect and serve, and that is an officer boat. Probably chased down a lot of wave runners in that day, but we're here to bust bass today, put them in hook cuffs, send them into the box. Now we're not going to put them in the box. We're going to take some pictures and videos with them and release them back into this lake that, well, will no longer be open to the public. Alrighty, we are legal. Just renewed my annual park pass, and we got a spot for two days. I don't know if the fishing is going to be worthy of that, but we're going to try it. Found a campsite, and this is probably going to be the last time I ever come here. Yeah, buddy, found my camping spot. We're at the boat ramp, which I've never launched at this boat ramp before. Usually use another one. Boat ramps full. How could it not be? 85 degrees. It's hot. I'm going to grab a long-sleeve shirt. I'm going to jump in here. We're going to fish all day and head to our campsite tonight. I already went and checked it out. Looks pretty good. This sucks, because I just discovered there's a whole bunch of camping. I never knew out here. There's lots of trails. It's a pretty unique little deal. Very windy, but we don't have a huge lake to contend with a bunch of waves, and I'm kind of looking forward to it, quite honestly. Little wind. Get those moving baits going in that grass. Hopefully they got grass. We're about to find out in just a second. Oh, yeah. We got grass. Raptors. Up we go. Oh, yeah. There's a cooch running around everywhere. There's grass. I'm going to eat. I'm going to eat that again. It's getting about water temperatures for plastics. It's starting to drag. Slow. Whoa. All right. Hey, I'm committed. I got a couple of days out here. I want to enjoy this park before it closes down, so maybe I'll discover something to catch a big fish on this trip. Either way, we're going to enjoy the great outdoors. Thanks for being with me. So I've come up to the farthest middle of a pocket. If that makes sense. It's actually a big creek arm, and I went just until I started seeing the grass line. There's some grass and water there, and you can see. And this is your friend this time of year. This guy. I apologize. I'm using braid in a reaction rod, which is pretty much perfect for this type of grass, ripping it out. Crazy thick grass. And braid. You just have so much connectivity. You can really bust through those little bits of grass if you need to. Water temp has dropped down. 57. I just laid it into a tree there. Loan fish right there. Very jerk baitable. Over his head right now. Fish is looking at my jerk bait. It's right under it. Oh, God. Just at the last second. She ducked down. Oh, wait, wait. She's coming back up. Oh, she ducked down again. That's a big fish too, which I knew was going to happen when I threw up there on the bank. Kind of took a break from the scope for a second. Just a cast of the bank. And a little male, as expected, was up there. Got him on that scout. Collaborated. But what's happening here is we've got little males starting to move up on the bank. I want her. I want these floaters that are hanging out here. I've had three big ones follow it. I have one on on the jerk bait. And I mean, you can just literally see what's going on. This water is almost 58. Little males are starting to come up to the bank. And big fiends are just hanging out waiting. They're waiting for that water temperature to warm up to about 61, 62. And they're going to come join them up there. But I don't know, guys. Normally, how I like to fish is I will fish the bank a lot this time of year. Rip different kinds of moving baits. And I love the jerk baits. You can get a big fish, you know, shallow. And then you can just also turn around, throw in on some timber. But I am captivated right now of the amount of good-sized fish that I'm seeing that are sort of predictable on this timber, these timber areas. There's like inside timber and outside timber, this stuff close to the bank. And then we've got an outside timber line that you can't see really. You can see it on the live scope, but it's where those big ones are hanging. They're hanging in like 10 foot. This is 6 foot up here. Oh, she's on it. She's on it. She's on it. She's on it. Got her. Got her. That's a good one. Oh my God, it's a gar. I am an idiot. Hell, okay. That is the roundest looking gar I've ever seen. Oh, I feel stupid right now. There's no way that all these big ones are sitting on these trees are gar. Good at catching gar floaters. I'll tell you what, look at that. Throw a big rod out there and get it. Well, finally discovered what those things are. They're gar. Oh gosh. And I know two other bites that I had to. They had to be gar because it was weird. It was like a bump. And a bass would be like a thud. And quite honestly, I thought I knew what gar looked like on the live scope because they're normally long. Look at a hot dog there. But I'm not Josh Jones. I don't know what things are obviously. I just think it looks big and I'm going to cast at it. This is actually two days in a row. This has happened to me. I wanted to come to this lake because it's my last chance to be able to fish it. But also I was out just yesterday and I was seeing all these floating fish off of these points and I was like, this has got to be too many to be bass. But I'm just going to see these are either like all five pound bass or something else is going on through a crappie jig out there. And this is what I caught. Plank to my right. Here we go. Come on. Oh my God. What is this? This is a bass. I'm going to flip my grill. Holy spatoons. I break out a tiny swim bait. Oh my God. This feels nothing like a bass. It feels so weird. Oh, I got the leader. Here's the leader. It is. It's a floating buffalo that I hooked in the stomach. That's what these are. They're schools of buffalo carp. Big gooey carp. So these carp and these gar that a lot of times float around and the carp, you know, they usually like to live on the bottom buffalo and common carp and whatnot. But when that water warms up, all fish like to suspend and get warmed up a little bit. I've been freezing their little tails off all winter. It's nice to come up in the water column and warm up. And for predator species that allows them to get their muscles warmed up and feed a little better, sort of like a snake would. But obviously you don't want to get bogged down and chasing fish that aren't, you know, the fish that you want to go after. And I think that's what I'm doing. So I should have just stuck to my grass plan, but I thought maybe this is the year that I'm going to get dialed in on my scope and just target big fish. I don't think that's me, y'all. I like to get a sense for things with the scope and like, okay, there's some fish moving around right here in this depth. But unless it's crappie, I don't like to just sit there and target them. I'm pretty sure I just saw a guy catch like an eight to ten pounder throwing a lipless crank bait. I heard a tsk tsk tsk in the air. It was like a hundred yards from me already. And I saw like a whale being netted and they always look smaller from far away. So I'm sure it was huge. Anyway, congrats to that guy. I yelled for him because he did not. I gave him a big whoop and said, hey, nice fish man. All right, it is going to be a windy son of a gun for the rest of this trip. It's looking like, but I have literally been out here the entire time on this flat chasing fish. I think I'm going to move around a little bit or at least switch up the targeting things with the life scope and just get out the winding grind. I did have a couple of bites doing that already. So let's get back to the meat potatoes. All right. Oh, we got a windy bank. This water is really dingy right here. Not a good color or the jerk bait. A lot of stumps, but it is a good color. We're throwing a vibe jig or a spinner bait or the lip less. I went against my instincts, having some fun with the scope and figured out that I pretty much suck at it. I've been impressed with the castability on the reel so far, y'all. The green series doesn't have the dual breaking, but it still casts very well. We're just being magnetic. Definitely prefer the gold casting, but this thing is ripping with the wind at my back. Fish just right up in it. Oh goodness, you want to get away. You're about to. You barely looked. Good fish. We're hooked three ways to Sunday. I'm just going to gill you. It will gill grab. That one clocked it a little farther up there than I was anticipating. All right, we'll let that fish go. Look at that. Look at that. That's pretty. That's pretty. See ya. Good chunky fish. That is our new Flamin' Hot Red. It's new for this year. It's good. Good in this dingier water, for sure. I think cash bra is probably my favorite. It's like a clear red. This right here will do it. Little dingier stuff. Oh, that one feels good. Back off on that one a little bit. Oh yeah. I've either got it hooked weird or it's got some shoulders. Strong fish. We got some good fish moving up here in the shallows. Look at that chunkwad. That's just a perfect fish. That fish is three and a half pounds. Maybe 18 inches. I should have stuck with it. I should have done my deal. Wine and grind. Had to get cute. Sure, go ahead. No, it's only going to get worse. See what? They do exist. My last three bites have been pretty close. Pretty close up there. Yeah. Like probably five to ten foot off. I hadn't either. I just pulled up here. I've been fishing mostly off the bank. That one absolutely choked it. I mean, it is amazing. Amazing to me. You're just ripping that thing so fast. And a fish like that will just thrash it. Suck it down the pipe. And he piped it. There she goes. Nice fish. Those are real nice fish. I will catch those all day. And I hope I do them warm. So that is pretty much three, well, yeah. The last three little points that I came across. I threw up there pretty shallow. And those fish bit it, you know. I just told that guy five to ten foot off. Which is a complete opposite of what I was fishing earlier. But this spot's just got a little more depth to it. Look at that guy right there. So cool. Big rat. That's amazing. You know, I just got three bites on that steep side. Shallow side. Big flat. Just nothing doing. I'm sure there's a couple of fish running around up in here. Nice thing about staying at the state park is I can pretty much fish till dark. And I just go right to my little spot. And we just bust on over. There's a little micro point over here. Fish it. And then we'll head on in. All right, y'all. I'm glad we could catch a few chunks to end the day. This lake has just got some nice fish in it. And I'm excited about tomorrow. Figuring out that little grass thing there at the end. That was nice. It's kind of what I started on. But then I got away from it. Got lost in the scope, man. Got scope neck. My neck's all creaking. I've been looking at the scope too much. Where I'm at right now is the state park camping area. Which I've never camped at. I've always just been to the boat ramp. And it is a nice park. This is just a shame that this is going away. These slabs that they put in here, you know, you can fit truck and boat. Perfect for truck camping. I mean, these are new. These are within the last couple of years. Just met the park attendant, the camp attendant. Super nice guy. Nice facilities and everything. We were talking about the lake, you know, shutting down. And he's actually going to be out here till May or June. And just kind of watch over it, I guess. He told me that there is a chance. A little loophole on this deal with the bald eagles. I've seen some bald eagles around here. And they're federally protected, obviously. So I don't think you can just go cutting trees down with bald eagles' nests. I don't know. I could be wrong. And I'm not blaming the developer for this place. I mean, they got an opportunity. Be a sweet lake community. But it's just sad. It's sad. And if I catch a big bass tomorrow, I'm going to be like really, really sad. But anyway, I got the grill here. We're doing truck camping. I got power. I got shore power. So I'm charging the batteries right now for the boat. I've been using my lithium charger. I got a separate lithium charger. It charges that battery up pretty quick. And tomorrow we're really going to test the limits of how long that 36 volt is going to last, that one single battery. But I went to Bucky's. I got me some sausage. And I think I'm going to cook me up a little meal right here. And hopefully not attract too many bugs because I don't want them sleeping with me tonight. But I was going to get a lighter at Bucky's. I was like, I can't remember if I got my lighter or not. And I doubt. So I always carry this in my truck. And I'm hoping it's going to light the burners here. I don't know. We're about to cut the gas on and see if this is going to work. We're eating a cold oatmeal for dinner. First shot. Always got to carry the old trusty. Can do a lot with a camp knife. Now we got fire. We're going to cook some sausage. There's something magical about it. Three cheese wieners sizzling in the moonlight, isn't there? So I'm going to try tomorrow to get some fish that are in that four or five pound class. I had one that's, you know, three and a half today. And I think those are still males. Even though they're real fat, I am going to go back to some of those areas. Or just that depth in general where I was marking bigger fish and try to get some on that jerk bait. It's a really good technique for this time of year. Jerk bait or the swim bait. Or you just see them hanging around that timber or just loners, floaters throw out there and try to target those fish. You know, being in the boat with guys like Zaldane and Dustin Connell and watching them operate. That's a lot of the wintertime early spring fishing is just going down the bank. Not even looking like at the contours really, which is how I always, I've learned, you know, growing up, reading Bassmaster Magazine and watching guys on TV. It's like reading those little contour lines and kind of looking at the Navi onyx. There's some fish that just hang out on banks, like slick banks that are big, that are just hovering and just cruising around. Sleeping arrangement for tonight. I can't decide if I want to sleep in the truck or if I want to break the hammock out. We've got enough trees out here I can hammock, sleep, but it's really not going to be cold. So the hammock might actually be better. I don't know. There's a little more protection in the truck. You know what I mean? You like feel more comfortable, but like I said, this is a nice park. I don't feel like anybody would shank me in my hammock. So feel pretty good about it. Getting the cheesy smoky wainers. We're going to plate it up and go enjoy it inside the truck and that's going to be the end of it. So hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I'm going to be out here a couple more days. Hopefully tomorrow we get some beans, but there's some chunks out here. Really, really nice place to fish and camp. Dad got it. $110 million. Wouldn't you all buy it? Somebody out there buy it. Let's just, let's have a fishing camp out here. Can we make it just a big fishing camp? Somebody? Anyway, if you're out there, drop a comment down below. Let's make it happen. Thank you all for hanging with me on the water and at camp. And we're going to get back after it in the morning, bright and early. So I will see you then. That fish ate it. Oh my God, it's a big bass. Oh, it's a big one too.