Where Do Crappie Go After The Spawn

Brad Chop back with you, Crappie Connection. We're at the Cornfield Fishing Demo Days up here at Kentucky Lake. Beautiful area, beautiful resort, marina area. Great cabins, just a great time and Got two outlaws next to me, but I'm gonna let these guys do a little introduction for themselves. Hey guy, I'm Whitey Outlaw. I've been around forever in this business and uh I tell you this place up here what Mark Riddle and and Paula's doing up here with the demo days is the greatest thing. Absolutely.

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Uh, I've got these two guys here and I thought of this subject line and people kinda struggle What happened to the crappie after the spawn? So kinda tell me y both your guys' experience and you know, you've got a great teacher I know here that's taught you a lot through the years as well, but kinda what happens to the crappie after the spawn?

Like speaking like back home on Santee, which postponed all the way through the summer, especially for garden, is my favorite time of the year. It's yeah. It's consistent. You look you look for structure. That's it's simple. You look for structure anywhere from five foot of water to thirty five foot of water. They're gonna be on structure. And most of the time when you find fish, you know, structures got fish on it, most of the time you're gonna find a lot of fish. Um

That's my favorite time of the year'cause you don't have to worry about where the fish are. I mean the biggest problem you gotta worry about is it what the wind's gonna do and how well the fish bite, but Like I said, struct structure, that's that's key. I mean that's that's what it is. They're gonna they they're moving out these creeks, you know, some of'em are still

are still shallow. Even in some of them are still, you know, I still have a few eggs in them, but they'll be sitting on those brush piles on those stumps and they they'll stay there, you know, all the way through the summer to the fall. Yeah. I I wanna hear what you told me before we start recording. Before we started recording. I see what happened worse. Most of the fish went after the spawn there in coolers and freezers. But no, uh he's right. But but I found that

That when they leave the shallow water, you got about a week and a half or two weeks for me. That they're in that transition mode. That they go to the brush. You know, and that that that that transition is pretty tough fishing for me. Yeah. But once they get to the brush they they immaculate to that pretty good and they they start striking good again. But you gotta remember

You got the fish a little different after the spawn because them fish are wore down from spawning. They're not as active as they were when the water was colder and the spawn was going on. They'll eat fine. But you may have to slow down a little bit because they don't chase a bait quite quite as much, and you being a long line troller, you know that as good as anybody. They ain't hitting them trolling baits like they were. A little lazy.

Unless you pull right over that brush. But you know, they don't go far guys that they really don't. They you know, they move to their summer pattern and they stay there until the fall. And then during the fall they'll start gorging on shad and they'll follow them shads back into the creek.

But they won't go shallow like they do in the spawn. They'll go within five to ten foot. And then they get that winter pattern they go back out deep and hang on points and ledges. A lot of them on brush, a lot of'em just in s But where they go after the spawn is is simple. As soon as they leave the bushes and and I'm a bush fisherman, I mean that's how I come up fishing trees.

Once they quit biting in there now you can't catch but five or ten a day or twenty a day or something you know they're on that process of moving out. They've done all they gonna do spawning so they're moving back to the brush And there's some a pattern and once they get to that pattern, they're easy to find. I mean really if you got a decent depth finder of any kind or a live scope or side imaging, you hunt the structure, whether it be stump

Creek channels that run into a flat'cause they'll hang along that. Brush, stake beds, anything you find, docks. They'll go on deep docks and hang around the piling and stuff. So they're pretty easy to find. I mean it's not hard.

It's it's no rocket science to it, it's not. Yeah. I mean, but you know I gotta ask one question before we get too far into this. Uh oh. You were talking about the cornfield gear and you said you could feel it, touch it and all but I've never tasted it. How do we do that? Well that's pretty easy. I got to know that. I mean I mean oh this is a fun show guys but I got Hello, Howie. Taste these mountains. Well, I mean you just grab a hold of it like anything else. I'm in UK?

I d now I can't testify. This is your show, I hate to put you on the spot, but I got to know. Well I can't say I've personally done it yet, but it's an option. They don't mind down there. Yeah. And then you break them out. Right, okay. I I didn't know where you were going with this, but uh hey, it worked. I I gotta g I know I really have the feeling I know where Matt here is gonna be thinking here. He's thinking he's at the wrong show.

I'm probably like world am I getting myself into. What would be your favorite month to crop your fish? Um that's a h that's hard. I personally back home May. May May. Maybe they're They're you know, all your fish are done spawning. They're getting thick on the brush. You know, April they start you know, they start getting on the brush. They're not real thick yet, but the fish are biting real good. May

May those those brush files b especially back home, they those black crappie load up. I mean you some of those brush have a couple hundred fish on it and it's May to me is one of the most consistent months. Now saying that, I mean this all the way through the summer, May, June, July, August, even in the hot weather, they you know, it's it's consistent. They're gonna they're gonna be there every day. You know, some of those days where it's real hot.

You know, it's miserable to be out there but the fish you know, the fish are still bite. Some days you may have to adjust and use live bait, but I you know, but that's a hard question, but I would have to if I had to answer it, it's it it'd be May.

I I would agree with him because once the fish move from the shallows, like I say, we still catch them fish in shallow water on trees now and we'll do that all the way through the end of April and sometime the first week or two of May, depends on what kind of nights we have, cool nights, cool days and stuff like that. You know, when the wind blows on and it's cool.

it it cools the water back down and that that usually when it we do that round Easter we always have a cold snap round Easter. Right. And and and that sets us back another week with the crappy in the bushes. May, they're easy to catch, they there, and as it gets hot you had these dog days of summer roll around to where it's slick as glass and it's hot and hazy. There's nobody on the lake but just us fishing. That really like the fish. And

You can cast a jig or flip a jig in there with a straight pole. You might catch one or two, but that's when I like to pull out the slip card. And that slip cork that's when it pays off. You pull it in and cat catch a good many off the brush or s logs and and I fish a lot of logs, which I think the fish relate to the logs just like they do brush. They're there for shade, they're there for bait fish.

And they'd dare to set away from predators and stuff. Our lake we got predators. When I say predators, not just us fishermen, yeah. But we got comarant birds that eat'em. We got Catfish. Blue catfish, we got flathead catfish, and a blue catfish ain't nothing but a freshwater shark. That's a mean fish.

And all he does is swim and eat. I mean that's his deal. So with the predators after him, they try to get somewhere to hide and if you got a lake that's got grass, they'll get in that grass and hide and what have you. May, I would say May's the hottest month for numbers of fish in good Your technique of choice would be that slip ball? Uh when it gets really hot I like to slip cork with the minnows'cause it's it's easy fishing and I like the easy way at my age. It ain't nothing hard anymore.

What would be that ideal setup? Go through the whole scenario. What does somebody need to have to do this technique? You know I own a twenty two foot ranger. I hardly ever fish in it unless there's a tournament. Now I don't do tournaments anymore, so I don't I don't hardly use it at all. I like my War Eagle boat with a fifty horse motor.

And I run through the brush and I s knock it neutral and I flip my quartz out there and I just never cut the motor off and I idle there. And I got in my head, and I may be wrong the motor idle and runs them to the brush. If they're away from the brush they run to it. And I fish there and catch seven, eight or ten or whatever bites, then I move to the next one. And that that's my deal. Now other people it's like Matthew, he's guiding so he's using spot lock and And live. I don't use spotlight.

Yeah. You'll never use it. I figured you would on the brush. You just keep looking at it, moving it. My my foot's steady. I'm staying on the on the jig. Right. I got you. So you know these professed Yeah. But I catch a lot of fish but he'll catch more and and'cause his technique works. I mean it really does work. I mean, all year long when you ask when you asked him that question a while ago, I was really surprised he said May because all year from January to January.

I'll call him some days around eleven o'clock. He's home. He's done caught forty fish with his customers and he's Hmm. And I think I can't go out and catch forty. Not my technique, the old way. I you know, I go down there, it takes me all day to get two limits, you know, because I'm fishing different. I'm fishing old style versus the new

The new live scope. I mean it's it's uh it's people call it a game changer. It's not a game changer. It changed the whole world of fishing. Yeah, you know it well. Oh yeah, absolutely. And it depends on how you come up and your age. Your age, I still like to peck along the old slow way. That that's just my deal, you know. And uh But for the month of of fishing, I would say May is probably the best. And and believe it or not.

A lot of people say, well, they done spawned down the fish ain't no side. We still catch a pound and a half to pound and three quarter fish all summer long. So that's a good fish. That's good fish anywhere, anywhere. Yeah, absolutely. And uh you know, his customers are satisfied what they do and I'm very satisfied what I can. You know, then I leave the open water down and I move into the swamps where I ain't fishing but three and four foot deep. Cảm ơn.

And May. J May, June, July and August. Three or four or five foot of water in that grass and stuff is all I fish. Oxygen level's so good. Ah. I probably said very much a little key to that right there.

What is your ideal setup? And I I know through the the years that w we're probably fishing pretty similar. Um casting. That's yeah that's that's I have a s all I have in my boat is seven and eight foot rods. Um

you know, casting j small jigs to brush piles, you know, that especially this time of year. Um a lot I do use I do use a lot of time slip court, especially guiding, you know, people that struggle With the casting, you know, you can always go to a slip cork and it's always I don't care how old you get, it's always fun to watch a cork go. Most definitely.

But um you know, but ninety nine percent of the time is is casting. That's to me, especially for black crappie, that's the most effective way. A lot of times, you know, you get too close to those fish, they might not they might not necessarily run off but They know you're there. So I I like to stay off thirty, thirty foot and just cast the brush piles and and once you get them biting you can it don't take long to put a mess in the boat. Mr. Outlaw here.

You said you don't use spotlight and I get the same question asked. I very rar if I'm using spotlight, usually I'm doing something else in the boat. I'm not fishing. I use spotlock for non fishing related more than I do fishing related. You know, either I'm pulling up my crappie brakes or my um Doing some other business on the back side of the boat is what I use spotlight the most.

if we if we catch a fish, I'll hit it on spotlock to take the fish to the back or now s sometimes if we get on a brush and we're using slip corks, you know, I'll I'll hit it on spotlock. But like I said, most time It's for non fishing related stuff like doing something. Like taking a fish to the back of the boat. That's really the only time I use it. The other time, you know I'm Then uh a long day, my left leg is tired'cause you're steady.

I I always I'm right handed, but I control m I've always controlled him my left foot. I that's the way he does it and that's the way I grew up doing it. I I just always run it with my left foot, even on all the tournaments'cause I'd always sit on the right side right side and my rods and I seem like I just worked better that way'cause

You sit on the right side of the boat? I sit in the middle. Even when guiding I sit in the middle and they come on each side but like beforehand'cause I I sit on the bicycle seat most time fishing. Okay. But if I sit in the seat, I'm always on the right side of the boat. He used to sit on my lap Let me hold it. He was great. Too big for you to get a little I can't imagine him being that. He was.

Back in the day when it was tournament fishing it was pretty aggressive. I mean you had to be. I mean you had to be'cause you He was aggressive, just puzzle fishing with him room. Really? I can't imagine. You miss a f you miss a fish he'd make you go to timeout. Uh well you got to, but when you're out there fishing you tr you wanna do the best that you possibly can with your spare time and fishing you know, everybody's out I see people fishing and and I

Can't do it. And you can't be successful if you're not focused and you can't be productive if you're not focused. And uh You know what there's times we get out there and just ass around. Yeah. I was never No, he wasn't. He wasn't there because he wasn't old enough to be there. We want to hear a funny story. I know you got some of of taking Matthew out. Well tell us he's probably gonna cringe over here.

I'll tell you I'll tell you Okay. Well it's a multiple stories. I'd yeah, there's multiple times I'd come home and I would have half a shirt and only one sock'cause he'd have to go to the bathroom. He would take it from the Take it from me instead of taking his clothes. I come home, I'd lost all kinds of shirts. I never had a full set of sides. He had a belly shirt every week. Cause I'd cut it off right there, peel it off, and either take a sock.

You know, it'd it'd have something to wipe with, you know. Your PT done run out in your boat and uh That was Matthew's clothes. He would stand up and hey, Why is it always my clothes? I was'cause you the little man in the boat, buddy. He I mean he had a lot of t shirts ripped in half. Yeah. But hey, that was part of the deal. What are kids? I mean I fed him by angels and saltines. What more could a man ask for? Sounds fair to me.

I used to take him tree stand hunting, I'd carry bottles and stuff up the stand and he'd lay in the floor and I'd shoot and he'd stand up under the chair about throw me out. I mean, you know, we've had a lot of fun together. A lot of fun. There's some stories that I can't tell on this. Nobody's listening. No, I'm sure they're not.

The phone will blow up. Why'd you tell that? But anyway, it it's been fun and I was always brought up in the outdoors, hunting and fishing and a and it seems like if you bring a kid up into that Zone of hunting and fishing, making take it serious, they turn out so much better. They turn out as sportsmen. I was never a good father or a good husband, but I was a good sportsman.

But but really, you know, all jokes aside, keep'em in the woods, keep'em hunting, keep'em fishing. I believe you'll you'll be proud of what you you turn out with. You know, I am all my kids, all my grandkids love it and all and all of us kids with my dad and granddaddy and all. I can't imagine living this many years without having it. Outdoors is my is my world and believe me, I have turned down a lot of good parties, a lot of good

things, the functions and all, a lot of places to be, a lot of family get togethers. That I was on the lake by myself. And you know, looking back at it, did I do the right thing? Should I been there with all that? I was fine right where I was at. Mm. I'd do it again the same way. I looked out over.

Let's talk about I I know Matthew, you're out on the water a whole lot as well and you get to observe people like I do. What is a mistake that you see a lot of fishermen making that you're thinking, you know what, if this guy would do and of course I'm sure you're not like me, you're not gonna say, Hey dude, you're doing that wrong over there But w w let's help those guys out while we've got the chance to One thing I've noticed, especially people that use live scope is

A lot of times they'll spend too much time on like a brush pile. You know, they just'cause they see the fish they think they'll make'em bite. You know, if you sit there and you've you've casted that fish ten a dozen times Move on. You know, if he's not gonna bite, don't don't waste your time. Move on to another one'cause sometimes they're just not you know, they're just not gonna buy. That's the one thing that I've seen. You'll see people now sit on one spot.

For hours and hours. Just because they see the fish. Well, just because you see'em does not mean that they're gonna eat right now. They might later on, but You know, g give'em a couple of casts. If they don't if they don't follow it, if they don't bite, move on. Maybe come back to it later. But that that's to me, that's one thing that I've noticed a lot of people that they spend way too much time on one spot. What about the old school ways there? What do you

Well, believe it or not, the way I fish run in the motor, you've seen some videos, tree to tree. Um, it's a hit and run. You you fish this tree, you move to the next one, fish this tree because if he's a black male on that tree and Two to four foot of water, eighteen inches. As soon as you flip that jig in there, he's gonna stomp it. He gonna stomp the guts out.

You you know, I fish all the way around the tree'cause he might not be here and on the cypress tree, you know, it's got indentions and he'll be sitting back in them indentions and anything comes by he's gonna kill it. And so you fish all the way around the tree and then you move on. You don't have to wait on them much. You move to the next one. You fish fast.

Forty trees down this side of the creek and there's nothing. You jump to the other side and fish forty if there's nothing, and you move hunt step different places and in our swamp. Even though it's a big cypress swamp, we still got hedgerows and and you gotta look for

'Cause the trees are growing certain ways, then you have two polo trees and different trees growing. So you have to look for the hedgerows, you know, vision what it was before it grew up and fish them ditches and stuff and just keep moving. I mean move, change color. Now the live scope guys tell me it don't matter about the colors, just the accurate casting. That's fine. But I changed a lot of colours fishing.

What's your top three colours do you think? Um if I'm fishing on a tree I want black and chartreuse, gold and chartreuse, purple and chart. Some jar truth on the and I just changed the skirt so it and and we I use a lot of hand tie. Right now we got one guy I've been making jigs for forty something years on Santee and to me he makes the best. And I can go there and tell him I said I want this color, this color, and this color.

He says they don't bite that. I said, Well let me tell you how they bite it and how they don't. Then we'll change up and you know I do a lot of I use colors that a lot of people don't care nothing about. I mean, especially if I'm fishing brush, I'll use the wildest stuff and this Why you do that, colour? I don't know, I just know it works. I mean I c you know, I've people say, Well, you got to match the water to the jig.

I've tried that. I've done a absolutely a hundred degrees different than that. Go with what you got right there in that mine and you can catch them. What would be your uh top three colors? I'm one of those guys that think that color's not as important as most people do. Um I like chartreuse, but it's pretty much whatever whatever jig I had in my pockets when I when I used that day. It's I think it's more about what

the person has confidence in. Um yelling sh anything almost everything I has got chartreuse on it one way or another. Chartreuse work is a color that they can see in dirty or clear water.

But like I say, I mean it's more about profile the bait. I mean size the size to me is more important than the color. I I always use ninety percent of the time I'm using an inch and a quarter jig, especially for black crap. You know, they like small baits, but um yeah me and them buttheads all the time about the colors out

Uh I I got I got one color that I've that I've had. I got a big pack of'em. It's a yellow and chartreuse and I've been using it since January. It's the only color I've had on my rods and If color made a difference somewhere somewhere since January it would have you know, they wouldn't have bit it very well, but that's confidence. I think the the colors attract the fishermen more so than the fish, in my opinion.

Yeah, I I think with live live scope in particular, for me, I think it's I think color's still a factor into it. I think it's Presentation profile and probably color w if I had to kinda put'em in a pecking order to say. size I've noticed that the live scope and the size, you know, where The stuff that he started using when he started this, I'd look at it, I'd say, I wouldn't even buy that. All right.

I mean I wouldn't use nothing like that, that's small. I said you know, when you're f fishing in Florida I'd use a little tube jig or a home tube jig or hand tied jig, a grenade, I want a big jig, you know, a heavy head. Now they've proved that that's just a myth. You take a little 30-second or sixteenth one inch grub and do just as much damage. You know. We've all learned from live scoping. We've all learned it's been a learning tool. You know, I used to think

The flashers when they come out was teaching us the liquid crystals, the side imaging and all this, the three hundred sixty was a learning tool. Nothing's taught us like live. What uh what is something that you've learned that That you thought you knew, but you really didn't. Uh main thing is fish feeding up all the time. They will never feed down. That is not so. I watch'em on the live scope turn and follow that jig all the way down to the middle of the brush and bite it and come back.

So that that was the thing that shocked me. You know, we always had to fish above the fish. Well, now you just fish, throw at the fish. Put it in his mouth, on his face. And you know, they'll run sometime ten foot out the brush and follow it all the way to the trolling motor before they bite. I bet you've never had a you've never said any words to one of those fishes or no. I'll talk to him. 你 talked to him a lot

You feel like the y you sitting there in a big bass boat with all the electronics that you can make a little fish bite. You feel like you got that much mentality in your head to make that fish do right. A brother when he don't want it, he don't.

And you can't make him on it. I mean but forty five minutes later you come by, you jump on it like it ain't nothing to it. So they got a brain of their own. And we'll never match it. Never match it. You code you will never ever Figure it out to a hundred percent. You'll get ninety percent, but that last ten percent. Well I think if we did it it would it would be make it boring. Yeah. Who make it more?

Mother Nature will take care of itself. You ain't gonna outfish'em because mother nature won't allow it. Between wind, rain, water clarity, fish not biting, high water, low water, muddy water.

Firm believer in that. Um Saint T's got both but it's m the majority's black crappy and that's I mean I to me To me personally, black crappie I think is a more stubborn species. You know, they when they don't wanna bite, there's nothing that you can do to make bite. A white crappy

y a lot of times you can aggravate him enough and make him bite. But what I like about black crappy back home, especially this time of year postpone, is they get on them brush piles and there's you know, th there might be Three, four hundred fish on one brush pile.

But like I said, they're stubborn. So it's if if one it's seeing it's crazy'cause if one fish is stubborn, all four hundred of those fish are gonna be stubborn. But um I that's say we pr we're predominantly black and our our la our bigger fish are black crappy. So that's ninety percent what I target on.

I wish we had more white crappy'cause I think like I said, I think they're at times a more of a more aggressive fish, especially on Santae. They know you see a white fish down there and you c you can tell on Santa by how they're sitting, whether it's a white or black one most of the time. How do you do that? Well, Black Crapper Back Home, they like to sit almost always the top half of the water column.

Black crappy, I mean white crappy most time will sit a little bit further deep in the brush or towards the bottom. And they won't to me there a lot of times there won't be as many as many A brush that's got they'll be on both you know, black and white on both, but not very often. But a a brush that's got a white crappy on it, there won't be as many fish on it and they'll be sitting towards the bottom. But you get that jig down into them, they're coming out, they're gonna bite it.

of black crappy you might drag it across his head. He won't either follow it thirty foot and turn around or just not pay attention to it at all.

Do you put out a lot of brush piles? I do. I s I spend all winter putting brush piles out. I mean that's to me, especially being a a guy, that's the only way you can be successful. The more the more brush you have out this time of year, the better and more successful you'll be. scenario for uh a good brush brow, how do you make it?

I like to use hardwoods, um oak and hickory just'cause they last longer. They're they sink very well. You don't have to you don't have to s you know, tie too much block on them to make'em sink. Um and Personally. It depends on the depth of water that I'm putting them in. I like for my brush.

to stick up half of the water column. Okay. So if I'm in thirty foot of water, I ideally I'd want that brush to stick up off the bottom fifteen foot deep'cause like I said earlier, th I think the black crappy like to sit in the top half of the water column so and they like to sit on top of the brush

So I won't I wanna make that brush for them to sit on it that way they'll be comfortable on top of it. In the top after water column. That to me that I mean a lot of people may disagree with it, but that's that's I like it though.

Top half of the water column to me, especially for now a white crappy, like I said, you could put a dinky limb and it sit on the bottom and the white crappy sit on it. But if you want them on especially on Sand T and it makes it's different on every lake, if you want a a brush to hold a lot of fish. It needs to stick up half of the water column. And you know and th there's a downside of that'cause

to make it stick up after water column you either gotta make it stand up or either you gotta put a big brush out. You know, the bigger the brush, you know, the easier is for people to find. Yeah. With electronics today is you can't hide nothing. That's that's why I d I stay busy putting brush out. I mean everyone that I put out, people find it. I just just stay ahead of'em, stay ahead of the curve. That's all you can do.

Yeah. Now what are you using as far as to help hold'em down and Some of the some of the stuff that people might not know. I use um concrete blocks. Um Any any any kind of concrete box you and it like I said depends on depends on the tree. You know, a a oak tree, hardwoods, they'll they'll sink a lot of times they'll sink on their own. Now if you get like a gum tree or something, they don't

They don't like to s you know, they're a little bit more buoyant. It takes a little bit more time for them to get waterlogged to sink. So you may some of the bigger ones you may have to add two blocks to them. But just concrete blocks and stainless steel wire is what I use. Just something to when it goes down there I know it'll be there. Only thing that can might might move it would be current.

What is some of the spots that you say, all right, this would be an ideal spot and I know the the depth range you're talking about, but on Santee and you're wanting to make a summertime brush pile to say and what would be a a key area that you say, All right, I would love to have a piece of brush here h here and why? Um I summer if I was gonna put'em for summertime, I'd focus the depth from anywhere from you know

I'd say twelve to twenty foot of water for summertime fishing. Um, but to me on Santee it's it's kind of random. On average if you put ten brush piles out. Two or three of'em'll be good and the other seven or eight you may never catch fish off of'em. That's just that's how it is on Santa. And it's you can take and find one, you put one in a in a drop off off off of a point that'd be the most perfect

in your mind idea area, then you put one in a random area that you think would never be good. Well the one in the random area may be the best one. So it's to me it's random. I just I just put'em out. I put'em on I put'em very vr very variety of places flat. points, but to me I like I tend to think the flats do a little bit better. You know, flat areas with a little bit less contours like in the back of creeks or off the main lake. I just like flats. That's to me those are more consistent.

I know that like some of the areas that I think far as planting a spot is are I I kinda think of even the wind. I can fish this area of the lake uh and Oh, yeah. Yeah. I I you know, I put I try to put'em out I try to have brush from every corner of the lake. That way you know you have a scenario and I you have to have enough in one area,'cause putting one one good brush pile in one area ain't gonna do you no good. You gotta have

Yeah.'Cause I don't wanna have to go run five miles to fish one brush then run back to the other side of the lake. So I try to put you know, I I'll focus on one area, load it up with brush and try to have Guiding I try not to fish the same area of the lake twice in one week'cause you know, especially summertime, if you beat up on brush too much, they get pressured, they don't wanna bite as well. So you gotta you gotta let'em rest. Yeah. It it's I try not to fish the same spot

You know, at least I I like a three day break. Yeah. So I I try to plan my days out and say, All right, this day I'm gonna fish this area, this area. So I kinda bounce around a lot. Uh over uh uh Ross Martin it's about thirty five thousand acres, so I bounce around a lot around it just not concentrating on one spot too much uh and try to bounce around and kinda g leave some pressure off some spots. That's right. Fresh fish, some areas. But uh how can somebody get a re reach of it?

Um they can they can message me on Facebook on Business's Outlaw Outdoors Guide Service or they can um call me or text me at 803-413-8236. Well definitely. It's always a pleasure to have you boys on here. Uh can't think enough and and it's always a fun time. Always. Yeah. Amen. Thank you for coming on as usual. Like if I have. Make sure you hit that like button, subscribe. Till next time. You got Brad Chappell here. I got मेरा हुआ How rest.