Spend a Morning Fishing With Us!

Hello everybody, welcome to a fishing vlog. I don't know if it's going to be the whole vlog, just a little bit of it. It's going to depend on how the fishing goes. Eliza has been obsessed with climbing a hay bale since we got down here and she finally succeeded, so that's her accomplishment for today. We haven't been working a lot today because it was supposed to rain, but it didn't end up raining, so we are taking advantage of the beautiful day that it is right now and it's nice and cool and overcast and we are doing some fishing. So we've got the three youngest, so Liza, Lemuel, and Caroline, and then we've got Emma and Belle and then Mom and me down here. Mom just caught a fish and she barely even started. That is, wow, she is on the board already. So we will go over here and see that. We have not done a lot of fishing this year. We've been pretty busy most days and the days we aren't busy working have been not very good weather, so we haven't done a lot of fishing, but today we are changing that. We are trying to catch enough fish to enjoy a nice fish fry. So Mom's got, yeah, that is a nice crappie. I think we're going to be keeping most of what we catch, so any bass, there are a lot of bass in this pond, and crappie and all that. So first fish being kept, Emma has one too. Yeah, I tied that on. She had like, you know, I like a treble hook, Mom doesn't like treble hooks, so she wanted a little jig head, so I got a jig head, and she had confidence in that. Fish like it. Hopefully. See, I use a spinner bait, like if we're fishing in the summertime, I like always use a spinner bait because spinner baits are like my favorite thing. If the fish are biting, usually a spinner bait will do good. That's what I'm hoping for today, but we'll see. Y'all, I brought my like camera harness with me today. I don't usually use my camera harness, but I figured for fishing it might get like a better, some better footage, so I'm gonna try this out. Okay y'all, first cast of the day. This is a big moment. Also, the pond is so full right now, like literally I just stepped in the water, and the past several years, you know, we've been in a drought, but we've gotten so much rain this year. Usually the pond is like so low this time of year with the drought, but it's so full right now. There we go. Hi, Bill. Hi, dear. Hi. You been off catching fish? There's the catch. Yeah, there's Emma's catch. Emma and Bill. Actually, you know, I was talking about how much rain we've been getting and how we're not in a drought anymore. I'll show you guys, kind of put into perspective, just how much rain we've gotten. This is some footage that we took on Sunday when we were on our way to church. We went by our river bottom ground, which is the ground that we rent. It's right up there against the river while the river flooded, and yeah, we took some footage as we were driving by just on a phone of what that field is looking like. It is pretty crazy, honestly. Yeah, that ear's, it's right underneath the ear, but at least it's going down. It was all the way, the water was all the way up, like almost up to the ear of corn on the corn stalks. In a lot of places, even over the ear in some places. So it is very, very flooded, and I honestly don't know what will happen with that corn. Like even if the water goes down right now, I don't know how that will affect the corn. If it will be a loss, I genuinely don't know. If we're going to be able to harvest it, who knows. So that's the state of the river bottom. I'll keep you guys updated on that, but it, it changes very quickly up there. It floods so easily, and if we don't, if we aren't able to harvest it this year, that will be the second year in a row that it has been flooded out up there, and we've been unable to harvest it. Because even though last year was a drought still, we had that like flash flood in May. It was super dry, got a flash flood, wiped that field completely out. It was a total loss, and then it went back to being super dry. So that's the update on that. It was pretty crazy to see up there on Sunday, and also we've had no luck with fishing yet. So in case you were wondering. Okay, let's move locations just a little bit. My thing's tangled up here. There we go. Hi, Bill. Did you come to visit? Hi. How's it going? You looking for a fish? Yeah, you bite the fish way too much actually. Yeah, good girl. Oh, we got something, y'all. We got something. Yes, this is big. Okay, we gotta, we can't. Okay, okay, okay. Come on now. Oh my goodness. This is the hard part. Should we get him up onto shore? There we go. That went so well. Look at it. My goodness, y'all. This is why I love spinnerbaits. Look at it. Okay, if it'll cooperate a little bit here. Come here, buddy. Come here. Hold still. See? Spinnerbait. Just pop it right out. One big hook hooks them so well. And, Bill, you can't bite the hook or the fish, okay? No biting allowed over here. Do not jump for it. I know you're thinking about it. Y'all, one time I was just holding a fish, holding it up nice and high, and she jumped so high to bite that fish, and she left a little tooth mark in its tail. Why don't you just scooch right along? Uh-uh. No. Uh-uh. There. She now thinks that Emma has something for her. Okay, actually though, y'all, this is like a nice size bass. Like not bad at all. It's no giant, but you don't want to be keeping the giants out of the pond, you know? You want those to get big and become monsters. There it is. It's a pretty nice one. I'm very happy about that, actually. Bill is too. Yeah. Okay, y'all, we are heading back around the pond. I'm gonna take the fish to the fish cage, but then also, mom just lost her lure. So, she said something really big a bit, and then just took her lure right off. So, why on earth? Oh my god. Whoever put this cage in has it all messed up. It's like tangled. Okay, fish is chilling in the cage. I need to go over here and put a lure on. Oh my goodness, there's three. Are you all changing lures? Yeah, I could help too. It's actually not changing. Technically, um, did you just say you hate spinnerbaits? Yes. This is sad. Spinnerbaits are awesome. Okay, this is the lure of choice for mom. First one done. Here you go, Eliza's lure here. Okay, your line does not seem healthy. Second one done. Here, Eliza. I think I'm just the official lure changer outer down here. Yeah. Okay, Caroline. This is what she's trading out. Don't put your teeth on the line. This is what she's switching to. Yeah, I remember when I was younger and fishing was just like, I just like grabbed whatever pull I wanted and like pointed out whichever lure I wanted, and if I wanted to change out, just give it to dad and dad would change it out. And if I got snagged, I just yell across the pond for dad and dad would come and get me unsnagged and all that stuff. And like, now that I have like graduated to helping my younger siblings, I have a lot of a lot more appreciation for what dad did to take us all fishing when I was younger. Okay, third one done. I think everybody's happy with their lures now. There you go. Now we can get back to fishing. Oh, oh, oh, we have another one. It feels like a pretty good size one too. Okay, we just got to get it in. It's okay. Ah, it came off. I was pulling. Okay, but that does give me some hope. Ah, it messed up my lure. That's what happened. No wonder it didn't feel right. Hmm. That is sad. Y'all, I really want to get another fish. I think mom caught another fish. Mom is like secretly a pro fisherman. You wouldn't expect it, but she kind of catches a bunch of fish. Y'all, I'm not catching any more right now. I really wanted to catch another one. Just doesn't seem to be happening. Okay, Eliza wants me to see if I can get up on the hay bale. Okay, now you record me. Now you get out of the way. God, you're not recording. Abby! Abby, don't. Pathetic. Okay, gotta help. Now you have to help me up. Okay, mom has caught a catfish over with her little jig head lure. She caught a catfish. My goodness, mom has like the best fisherman here today. Look at it. And then look at the lure that she caught it with. That little tiny thing. Simple with just a little flu. And you got it in. That's actually impressive. Don't bite it. It was pretty close to the shore that helped. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, y'all. She's done it again. Oh, it's not coming down. You just like crank it in too and your pole has zero problem. I'm not a professional by any means. I pretty well just try my best. You just reel it in and somehow your pole like just cranks in the whole catfish. Okay. Wow, you really got it in there. There we go. My goodness, you're like making everyone feel bad. Okay, adding another one to the collection. I think mine is bigger though, so I still got that going for me. Well, I returned from a little bit more fishing and this lemuel had this waiting for me. It was all knotted up. I've already worked on it a little bit here. We got the lure off, which makes it a lot easier. But yeah, it was a big tangled up mess, but we're getting it now. Poor lemuel has not caught anything. I actually don't think I tried like fish food. Neither has Eliza or Caroline. Okay, we got it y'all. It is untangled. Now I just got to get the lure back on. Okay y'all, we are just about calling it a day on the fishing. It is quarter till noon now. We'll see what our final haul is here. Got three crappie, three bass, and a catfish. Not bad.