Modifying My 64 Person Enclosed Lifeboat! (Building and Fishing)

I got one following oh dude yes that was

awesome you guys have seen us spend a

lot of time on this boat over the last

six months or so me and the old brinis

the brotin shakes has spent a couple

nights on this thing jugging camping

fishing gosh it smells like we're inside

of a 18 wheeler's boat right now

yeah there's so much space in here

there's room for 64 people one of my

favorite boats to spend on and this

upcoming year I want to do a couple

modifications so we can fully use this

thing the way we want

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to

baby

now the original manufacturers of this

boat did not intend on it being an

adventure boat so the only structural

walkway on top of the boat is what I'm

laying on it ranges from the very front

of this railing which also doubles as a

sprinkler system all the way back to the

entrance and exit of your steering area

your home now it's pretty cool that we

have a walkway that is structural but

the thing is we like to bass fish and

the manufacturers didn't have that in

mind so when you hook a fish and you're

running around the roof we have a total

of six weak points around the entire

boat I don't know if you guys can hear

that or see that but me and my

brother-in-law are about to face a very

fiberg glassy death if we keep doing

that we want to build six independent

Decks that extend this walkway out they

rely on railing or sprinkler system

galvanized metal where you can walk all

the way around the boat fish and not

feel like you're on this slant and

you're going to fall in the water or

feel like you're going to fall through

the roof cuz neither of those things are

very fun when the water's frigid or if

you don't have health insurance

so we have 2X sixes for the top of the

deck 2x4s for the framing of the deck

and the post 4x4s got two 10f Footers

doubt we even use them all cuz our post

are going to be like that long now the

whole purpose of us building this deck

besides hoping nobody falls through and

making it a little bit easier to

navigate top while we're doing it right

now it's currently Midway through

February the large mouth bass spawn

happens midm March my favorite way to

fish man it just makes my tinglers

tingle which means we have a 3-e window

to build this

deck which I feel pretty

confident like really really really

confident confidence is just saring

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we're about to attach the bottom of our

frame 2x six is going to sit flush so we

just got to screw these in as we screw

them in we're going to coat these bad

layers down with some PL Marine exterior

screws treated wood PL Marine who the

heck are

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we what do you think that was did you

hear that man I hit something that had

compression you smell

anything probably means it's just

propane it did just sound like

a so we just keep going and out like it

didn't happen thing is if that's there

we're about to just say screw you screw

you screw you screw you screw you screw

you screw you all the way down I

look I think we're

fine oh

hostage time baby we need a bunch of 13

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in what we have done cut these 4x4 post

which are going to sit on our railing

now we bought some bits and we're not

sure how tough this rail is I'm guessing

it's pretty tough because it's on a

Lifeboat on an oil rig in the G Coast we

got4 of an inch bolts nuts lock washers

and washers we're going to try to go

straight through the wood straight

through the railing and then that will

hold our 4x4 in place then we'll attach

our 2x4 frame to this but this will be

our weight bearing

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the Lifeboat

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whatever shampoo you use smells like

bacon

what what did you say

nothing are we good yeah all

right there

you that thing is pretty snuggy wuggy

right there

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oh baby

sturdy really sturdy that's bold we're

like 12T in the air right now and the

wind's picking up heavy I feel pretty

confident I will say we are putting a

lot of weight on that rail but we'll

take our W's where we get them this

could be my favorite modification we

made to the boat so for stand up here

right on the edge dude stare down a big

old fat fatty flip a black and blue in

there and just watch her play with the

crawls put a freaking diving board right

here

dude all right deck number two it's

going to be the most difficult one to

make we kind of have

slant slant at the same time the plan is

to use three 4x4 post again we're going

to come to here leave room to climb up

the front if you're ever trying to walk

around the boat but we don't want

anybody flipping backwards off the old

girl but we're about to connect this as

the beginning of our frame right here

going to come off a little bit and we're

using the railing right there again same

thing just throw a semicircle and some

crazy Slants in there which is nothing

for

us day one has ended with a little bit

of a drizzle if you sneeze on a r be

tool wrong they stop working forever

we're getting out of here see you ladies

and gentlemen on day

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two like to strip them down so they have

no option but to stay where I need

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them day number two folks got the front

left deck installed she's stable she's

already dirty how everything I own is

it's warming up dude the weather's good

it's been a week since we've been to the

project today you guys know what we're

doing you know what the plan is I'm

going to try to shut up put my head

down grind mind set

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oh yeah we are getting close folks to

bassing with the

boys boys bassing

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did you like that or

no we can cut

it

folks gentle ladies after roughly 2 and

1 half days or so we have four intact

fishing decks pretty dang stable and

they are pretty spacious if we have one

angler per deck I think it'll be

absolutely perfect now in the beginning

of the video we said we were going to

make six Decks that is not the case we

came down here to start and there is

bolts nuts and a bunch of different

important components of the boat right

inside of the old Helm station we have

gauges and gaskets and a lot of cables

that run down to the engine I do not

want screw up especially with a fishing

deck I think that gives us plenty of

room and it won't let anybody distract

me while I'm trying to drive this thing

cuz it's like a 18 wheeler on on the

water now that we've kind of addressed

walking on top of the broken fiberglass

the next big problem that we've been

facing with this boat from day one it's

dang near impossible when you're out on

the water to get from inside the cabin

of the boat to the

roof mm when you're out on the water and

you're in the life boat and you got to

get to the roof there's two ways to go

you either go outside the side windows

on either side and you go around kind of

like the catwalk so to say it's maybe

foot wide and if you take one wrong step

you're toast you're just walking down

the sprinkler system up there hoping you

don't fall off second way is just a

straight up muscle up and you just you

know what I'm

saying do one of them not only did we

want this thing to be super easy to fish

off of we also wanted it to be

accessible for all shapes and sizes of

fishermen women we're going to build a

little 2x4 ladder right here that

connects right here comes straight up

and that'll put you right by the deck so

you don't have to do any muscle ups or

crazy Maneuvers to get up there and

it'll still let us open up the old

coffin Bed full

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functionality all

right letter

test so much

easier so much easier

and she's

stable she is so

stable

wow can't she catch

fish one way to find

out oh wow nice form nice form brother

oh wow we had to bring out the main man

Davey gravy to help me try out the new

fishing decks on top top of the life

booat are you impressed with my handy

work at all I really am look like you

could go work at a shop thank you good

sir so we tied the Lifeboat up to a

little fishing slip right here a little

dock slip there's a couple fish spawning

right by the boat ramp we're going to

try to get up on the fishing decks and

we have live bait yesterday we went out

in a little creek did a little homemade

trapping homemade

trapping we are behind my parents house

at a creek that I grew up coming out

here chasing cro at and brown we went by

Walmart and we have gallon jugs of water

we're going to turn these things into

our crawdad traps when it comes to

making a crawdad trap if you use a

regular water bottle the opening is too

tiny so we need a wider one which is why

we went

for few Gatorade bottles as bait we got

some shrimp and then we have some oh

wow of the bread that was in their roll

back section at

Walmart gravy's favorite Gatorade is

Glacier

freeze

wow oh excuse me number one done

baby good Lord Almighty this is a big

deal ladies and gentlemen gravy hasn't

drank water in 4

years you be careful ch

that you're about to be a broken fire

hydrant

dude would you like some not after

that what's that gravy are you ready for

the fastest bait trap build you've ever

seen in your life I am all right I've

never seen you build one before here we

go you're a handsy man um handsy you to

go with your hands like crafts Craftsman

okay okay that's what I meant all right

S I meant

11 total fist traps the shrimp bread

combo we're going to go sink these in as

many different deep holes as we can find

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oh wow wow I'm sinking fast got you come

on

baby come on come on I don't see her

it's right there you just got to reach

down there yep straight yep oh wow oh

that's

her oh gosh oh I got it I got it I got

it I got it out a boy out a boy what is

happening you have caught May four

crawfish in there pound it brother oh

wow then give me that big old meat paw

you got oh wow come on brother yeah jeez

look at there that's what we're after

grave that is perfect bed bass candy

dude you got a giant in here bro oh my

go goly he's pinching he's pinching hard

gra Susan we need help we got a lobster

and he won't let go ex gosh dog I'm not

dealing with him we got a couple more

Chubbies chubs in there gosh some giant

that guy right there is mass oh there's

another one we have done well bro we hit

the honey hole with that one man yeah I

mean dude that's got to be my PB creep

Chum look at the stomach dude need to

take these bad boys and one of those all

you can eat Brazilian

steakhouses they put them out of

business there's one in Atlanta actually

trap number one did US good bro

I don't know why I'm tightening

up crawl ddy there might be a double up

in

there two of them God those pachers are

giants trick is to get right behind the

arms you kind of pinch their arms in

where they can't reach

backwards w

gravy I've rigged up a Carolina rig for

you got a egg Sinker little bead to

protect your knot swivel down to a

pretty light circle hook we're going to

hook up a medium siiz crawl for you oh

come on ah ahud they're firing me up

they're slapping tail a lot there you go

grave look at the clampers on her we

came out here like day and a half ago

and there's like a five or a six pounder

that's just cruising the bank it's the

old Big Mama it's got a tiny male on bed

doing its dirty work for protecting the

old babies don't know how it goes the

goal is to put these crawfish in the

beds and as soon as they get in the beds

the bass are going to slurp them up

think so oh I know instantly or over

under if we can get it in a bed it'll be

dang near immediate I like to hook him

right in the in the tail he's pinching

he's saying Mama quit hooking

me holler if you get a biging

dude y yep yep y y the tiny ones the

tiny ones paint smaller skin which hurts

kind of more

sometimes if we don't catch this fish

then this fish is the smartest large m b

in the Southeast I see them circling my

fingers at the

wind boys oh gosh I might have a good

one real that is real that is I didn't

even realize I had that

no he snapped you didn't he I didn't

know what was supposed to be happening

all right that was a three or four

pounder that was a decent size fish he

ate that one deep man like really really

deep we just got to hope that he was

locked on and not a cruiser cuz if

that's a cruiser he's

gone a shoot shoot

I all

right shoot

day two folks we're back on her pushing

Open Water pushed off the boat ramp

gravy's got work he's a real man what

can we say got a couple islands that we

want to test out the main goal for today

is to put a fish on the upper decks

hopefully more than

one she's smoking a

lot so we just pulled up wow to a little

island like 20 yards off the bank we

just saw some I believe it was hybrid or

striper running on top and now I don't

see nothing so every time you crank this

thing up it's like there's a 18-wheeler

and a train having a baby

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underwater I don't think all those

were oh yes oh my Lord it does not feel

tiny what do I

have what in the world

what the heck is that

dude a

catfish the lipless crank dude come here

buddy not what

okay everybody relax not many times have

I caught a catfish on an artificial lure

in the mouth hole but they will do it

every now and then especially if they're

in a body of water where they have to

compete for food this healthy little guy

cranked me

dude there we

go catch and release that's what we like

to go for out here you know first fish

dude first fish was a slimy old catfish

I'll take it he fought like a

cat a mean

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cat come come on

baby where's that Big

O but

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don't oh there's catfish feeding on

top oh dude there's a bunch of catfish

on top what the heck is

that dude there there's more right

there what the heck is going on

I wonder if they're cruising because

there's all these cicas on the

water

gotcha so we just cruised to the

opposite side of the lake we're seeing

catfish cruising and they're eating

cicas off the top of the water I'm going

to try to put a circle hook through this

dude's tummy maybe a little bobber to

give me some weight so I can cast it out

there and see if we can't get one of

these like 5 lb catfish cruising out

here

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oh baby oh

baby the weightless cicada

dude we're just in a field of like 50

channel catfish and they're feeding up

on

these go that's not a bad fish

man get up baby come on woo

woo boy there's probably like 50 of

these channel catfish just cruising

around looking for dead cices on top of

the water we had one out I was flying

the Drone around getting some shots of

them swimming around and this dude right

here swam up looks like he's got a

leech there we go don't need that guy

hanging around your throat now you can

go eat cicas in peace man we got no way

of keeping these fish but they are

everywhere we know what they're eating

we're going to try to get a couple more

cicas and see how many more of these bad

little mama jamas we can get up on the

life B enjoy the

drink been watching a lot of Australian

YouTubers

lately something I'm trying out god dude

they're everywhere

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I got one following oh dude yes that was

awesome dude that's not a bad one he was

just cruising through I was kind of

crisscrossing over his

face oh that was so sick he bit it like

three or four times on the fourth one he

just okay here we go and I don't want to

break my rod flipping a catfish it's

like a five or a six pounder

dude

yeah yeah come on baby get some slime on

those new decks for me not at all what

we intended on doing when we were

building these decks but when you come

out in the middle of a cicada Bloom you

take what you can get I've never seen

this before in my life I don't know if

this is just happening because it's the

biggest cicada boom since like

1808 but that was the coolest catfish

catch of my life oh my goodness dude

oh probably a three up wo that was sorry

get up under those little poisonous fins

there we go probably a three or a four

pounder I bet if you cut this dude's

stomach open it would just be filled

with cices that was such a cool bite

coolest catfish bite in my

life I've never catfish like this it's

insane I can just see them they're all

in the water out here thank you

buddy dude I am punching myself for not

having a

cooler fry them things up boy put them

on the Bobby so kind of a Bittersweet

thing we've been having cicas land on us

all day long I don't know if this is a

Country Wide thing or just in the South

right now but we have these little bugs

that spawn or whatever they reproduce

every 7 years and apparently the catfish

are absolutely loving it the goal is to

try try to find as many of these little

things as we can because I think if they

sit in the water for less than 5 minutes

we're going to have fish on every

time dude literally 60

seconds oh

my oh

baby that's a darker colored

one look at that gu

dude it's a two-footer all day to the

upper deck baby come here yes sir what

have we stumbled upon we need to go get

a 100 cicas and call everyone we know

God I don't know if it's my glasses bro

that is a dark colored fish when I tell

you it's it's literally maybe 2 3

minutes cicada sitting in the water that

one was completely dead

it was just oozing out in the water turn

around the rod tips just bouncing this

morning I thought it was kind of random

that we caught one on a lipless I was

like why are they feeding like this but

this is making total sense dude you can

just watch the top of the water out 30

40 yards you see cicas

everywhere and these guys are just

feeding up on

them going to get this guy back go enjoy

some more cicas my friend

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on

golly dude he is doing that might be the

biggest

one he was just doing barrel rolls under

there it's like when you first hook them

they're justop another one that I sight

fish just saw them cruising through

there God they're so mean dude look at

that Rod Bend

five pounder that they eat so aggressive

man there we go oh my gosh saw this one

cruising he was at the top of the

surface and then he was about 20 yards

from us Dove down maybe 2 3 ft threw out

there met him perfect again dude he ate

it and just Barrel rolled

just I've never caught catfish like this

it's so freaking cool though just a

chunky tumed up kada eating boy or woman

going to give you the old bow toss

brother thank you

dude G on it's going to freak me out

when a 10lb large mouth just comes

cruising through here eating cicas it's

really weird because they're not hugging

the bank they're just 30 40 yards off

eating all the cicas that are getting

blown across the lake and then when the

cicas get up in those rocks on the bank

the brim are just destroying them

oh

dude that one

my that one my line was all right he

came off I caught that one with my line

fouled up like that it just fell right

in its face as it was swimming that

thing has had the paint scraped off of

her dude all right there's another

one wow that was freaking awesome had no

idea that sight fish and catfish that

are feeding on top water cuz

cicas didn't know that was a thing super

glad we figured that out one of the

coolest catfishing experiences I've ever

had got the upper decks mounted got the

ladder in if you guys have any more

ideas on what we can do to the Lifeboat

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