Oh boy, good morning. This is going to open up the vlog for the second trip to Southern Illinois and every single time. It's only been twice, but both times that I've been down here, there have been driving down here. It's snow, it's an absolute blizzard, so I don't know. I checked the radar, it's supposed to lighten up at like six in the morning, 6.30. It's 4.45 right now, so I've been on the road for almost three hours, three and a half hours, and I've driven maybe a hundred miles, maybe. It was bad, white knuckle driving, so I'm going to take a nap and then I'll finish the rest of the drive. I'll probably open up on Ren Lake with Andy, the owner ACC crop sticks, because I don't know if I want to film this, I don't know if I want to vlog the entire trip down there. I got to focus on driving. Mother of nature, you suck. Yeah, I don't tell that camera off. Oh geez. Yeah, this was like summer or fall, or any other time it would not be up. We're on the first ramp and I'm with Andy, the owner ACC crop sticks, and we're trying to find a spot right now, but as you can tell the wind is not great. We got like 40 mile an hour straight line wind, it's trying to find a ramp, it's going to be tough. This is what we're looking for, this brush. Alright, there we go. Yeah, we got five foot rollers over here and then dead calm right here. So we're going to go to another ramp right now. It's 83 degrees out, this is crazy. I left Wisconsin, it was 25. Now it's 83 degrees, I'm actually sweating pretty bad right now. I'm probably going to sweat through all my clothes. Black was not the best color, but ACC. You got to wear the logo if you're fishing with the owner, right? Oh, I don't know. Those are some big waves. We can get rolled over. Ready Hank, here we go. You ready? Yeah. Hank. Get them? Yeah. Yeah. Easy peasy, right? Yeah. Nice, stop frustrating at all. You see that? I was watching mine. I wish you put watching on. I know, I'm sorry. I always thought it was a point. There you go. Not big, but that's, I don't know. That's fine, I like it. At least we know the bottom. I'm going to do some meter. We can clean them tonight. I got no wavy. Not too. Yeah, we can throw them in there. Hold on, that's the greatest live well-filled we've ever seen. This doesn't sound cheap. Now we're riding to take some cell. Oh, he went right into the scale too. Look at that. Got another one. Mine start right. Yep. Andy's caught what? Three now? Four now? That's kind of funny really. And the three has got them. And it's a decent one too. You got him, Hank? He didn't have crazy to just turn it on. That's a female though. Yep. Sorry, Hank. Sorry, buddy. She's a male. I heard no high foil. High foil. Picture fish? Yeah. First, a run-lake bushfish. It was. It went down immediately. We made a video. I caught a fish. You caught like 17, so. There we go. Use the boat. You can stand in different places. Oh, you can move in this boat? I have people that like choke up and use house water. I just have that. I took a lot of time. What if they paid you? Yeah. Nobody's home. I'm going to take a look at that. Have a better. Try this one. Oh, the up there he is. And it's a good one too. Yes. You're right. Somebody was home. A little female. Okay, the beauty of that is. You can only be right. You know what I mean? It's not a hundred-garde stretch of 10-foot pole, jungle. You can fish that five minutes. You just assume one's in there. So, you know. I just like those eyes like this. I have to get you to now. I do. This is a fun way to catch me. I'm not so kind. I like it. I'm getting warmed up to it. I do want to hop in the waiters. I feel like the waiters when you don't have to deal with the boat movement. Probably a little bit easier. Oh, I missed him. Damn it. Oh, yeah, he is still on there. I can feel him. Oh, creeps. That's a big one too. You dive in. Okay. Is there a specific way to do this? Hank. I don't know. I don't know. Hopefully still on there. I don't feel him anymore. I should just keep pressure right. I don't know if you could let him see if this one now. There he is. Get him. He's not a patient. He's a little bit of a patient. See, Harry's all dark. Yep. People are looking at his white coffee. Oh, it's not. Nope. It's got the stripes on it. And there's miles. There you go. Miles and miles of it. And the creeks are miles. Well, that's actually going to wrap up the video. But in my rush to try to get these videos out to you, I got about six of them from my Illinois trip. Why is this rare brush and why is it rare vegetation? A lot of times these reservoirs get drained down during the spring time to kind of prevent flooding. So there are brush piles like there. There are emerge of vegetation. There's bushes like this. And other reservoirs like red lake. But they get drained down and you can't fish them in the spring time. These croppies don't actually go up there and spawn. So that's why red lake is one of the special places to fish spawning croppies. Because you actually get the chance to do what Andy and I did. We're going to do a separate video coming up of the entire setup, how he ties the hook on, how we hook the minnow, what he uses for weights, and the bobber setup in the next video. I just wanted to get this out to you guys because I know you some of you have been asking for it. I'm actually going to Texas in a week here. So I'm trying to get a bunch of videos out for you. If you want live updates on what I'm doing, you can follow me on Instagram, follow me on Facebook. And as always, if you're not a subscriber to the channel, click that red subscribe button, click that bell. Appreciate you watching. We'll see you. Bye.