 not good fellas not good freaking buried or can't get her out quick a deep slash i'm gonna walk back it not good not good at all i did not make it back in all right guys uh probably an hour before light it is cold leaving the hotel establishment and i'm gonna head in and unload my sled back into the truck my tow sled and take the snowmobile and the empty out to get the gear and then restart the truck sweet i got one of these gopros to work everything's frozen solid oh man all right so it's like an hour in the daylight i recovered my gear got the snowmobile going it was a little frozen i couldn't get all the slush out of the undercarriage last night ah man my nose is run i'm in the truck heating up my snowmobile helmet so i could see i can't see a damn thing but i got all the gear that was in the tow sled unloaded into my truck from last night everything's frozen solid there's a little bit of bait still alive in the smelt bucket i haven't even looked in the other bucket yet went out empty with the tow sled filled up all my stuff i found it i was on a different island than i thought anyway oh man this trip now i got that tow sled full with the first load again what i'm thinking about doing is pulling the pin going out dry with the snowmobile finding a good spot out of the wind for the week or for a couple days or whatever i could pull off now all my batteries are frozen solid none of the cameras would work so i couldn't show you where i got stuck or what the lake looked like this morning was absolutely gorgeous uh negative 21 degrees so pretty chilly there's no one out there i got the whole end of the lake to myself i'm at a definite critical point where i could just load up this load and go home or i could keep battling and see if i could get back out there on the lake and salvage this trip and make a great trip out of it just consider the trip starting today and a good lesson learned and a really really fortunate night that could have gone poorly in many ways my body is definitely smoked tired from trying to lift that damn thing out for an hour and pulling and lifting and pushing and the walk out you know walking through a lot of like slush and sinking in past my boots and carrying probably 30 pounds of ice on each leg so definitely tired i woke up kind of cramped this morning both arms are cramped up but i'll come out of that once i start drinking some water and get some coffee in me that'd be really nice to get the tent set up today get the coffee going all right i found a spot i could get to and it should be out of the wind over here i'm tucked in real nice in this corner snow is really deep i hit one small slush pocket coming across that should freeze up pretty quick but i went further up lake to a spot that really looked good on the map and there's two three maybe two or three guys already up in that area there's plenty of room for other people but i just couldn't i don't want to encroach on those guys anyway i know there's all sorts of room to fish but part of coming up to moosehead and fishing this great beautiful lake is being alone or having areas to yourself there's plenty of lake for everybody it's a big lake so i left that bay and came down to this area here not too far from the truck i'm within a couple miles from the truck so trips will be short getting the gear out uh dug this out for for the tent it's really deep snow as you could see but this should give me a nice flat base when i bring the the boards over for the setup i'll flatten this out a little bit more i'm gonna unload this load and go get the next load and start to set up and get the old coffee pot going and the heater going all right i got it pretty flat i got the second load in with my floor and i kind of flatten this out a little bit i could scratch it down to bear ice even though i'm not really on the lake i'm on the shore but it's kind of up and down like a shore would be so i want to keep this tent as flat as possible and you get really one shot at this when you're putting down a hard floor like this so i'm gonna use the kind the snow to kind of equal it all out and and hopefully it'll be pretty flat so i'm gonna look at it one more time and scratch it down and then bring the boards in and stump them let's get that heater going start to throw some things out i like to keep my propane tank outside for a couple reasons in case for some reason the valve or the connection ever leaks it's not in the tent dumping a bunch of propane in there catching fire and then the other reason makes more room to keep it outside so i run the hose underneath my tent that's a neat little trick let's see if she'll start all right so these things you you do the pilot usually this one's about oh that was second time this time usually it's third time then you hold the pilot until that blue flame kind of catches and then you cross your fingers let off and flip around see if it lights it did not all right start over there's the third i'm always a little nervous with this thing because it's kind of the lifeblood of the trip not having a wood stove in here this is my source of heat i don't trust the propane stove burner because that's going to put out a lot more co2 with that open flame if this thing doesn't work that's a bad trip sometimes you just get to let her heat up a little bit she's set outside all night go ahead and put that on high for a wow finish unpacking let's see how the bait fared not looking good one swim don't the smell do any better nope all right guys camp is pretty much set up it's a scattered mess right now if you if you want me to be honest they got stuff everywhere i got stuff thrown out i got stuff laid out and still kind of organizing and unpacking the nice thing is the coffee is percolating so i'll have some coffee this morning or i don't even know what time of this 1052 so yeah so i'm set up now and it's uh still morning so i think what i'm going to do is drive some coffee into me i'm going to assess my bait situation it looks like there is still a bunch alive in there but a bunch is dead it's starting to throw out right now and i got a bunch of that cat ice out of there i'm throwing out my battery packs my apple might never throw and yeah that's about it guys i might get something to eat too and then jeez maybe even set some traps put put together a plan once everything kind of gets unpacked and throw it out here and i feel a little bit more comfortable i'm pretty comfortable now that that i should be able to have a good night tonight all right got a little cup of coffee going there and i'm feeling really good about staying you know there was a little voice in my head probably five or six times and was saying just pick up and go home and tail between your legs type thing but man that's just not in me and i really really like the challenge and think about taking on a challenge is when a challenge gets tough you can't just quit and go home so as long as i'm still semi-safe and think i can have a good time i'm staying all right we might as well do what we came up here to do and do a little fishing should be rocky shallow i'm guessing right around here i'm not sure how shallow hopefully we don't hit bottom but i'm gonna set some brookie traps and i got a treat for you for the very first trap we're going super old school like older than your grandpappy's grandpappy old school we're gonna throw down an antique fishing trap that a buddy of mine gave me that's really really cool let me show you there she is right there look at that contraption the only thing new about it is the line in the hook but you just jam that in the snow and balance this and put a loop on it and i don't know we're gonna see don't forget there's like state record brookies in here so we're freaking around with the opportunity to catch state record brookies and i love it see what we got for depth first like nothing for depth let's set it anyway we could always move out later it might be like six inches here for depth that's the idea right there when he pulls on it the flag goes up and then it's just free spooling off to the races after that old wooden hand carved reel pretty neat all right we're set up old antique here's the shack here's the mountains and let's go the cold has not been friendly shattered my ipad this morning at 20 below zero just uh i don't know just kind of maybe tweaked it a little bit and i got a really weird one too this one's maybe not because of the cold but i've got a it's the second time i've seen one of my replacement blades on my augers get a crack coming out of the screw and i don't think i tighten them down too hard actually don't even hardly tighten them down at all this one actually broke i drilled a couple holes and it wasn't drilling good with those new blades i'm like what the heck's going on but that should be out here so good thing i brought another set of blades oh man i'm going through some blades this year wait a second is this a rerun didn't we just do this last episode well we're going to change that out anyway because even though it will drill it doesn't drill very well i can't do anything right yet because it's still frozen i'm going to leave it in front of the heater for a while yeah that thing wasn't even that tight i don't understand maybe i got a weird bend or something here that when it sucks down it cracks right through there it's the same exact spot that last one had a crack the last one didn't break it just had that crack there weird i remember what i said about not going towards the blades right out of that hole you guys have ever had one break day like that let me know this thing's like not even a week old just barely tight the other one looks sharp so we'll run with that a lot of stuff breaking this trip but sometimes that's just the way it goes but i just had a nice visit from an old timer that lives down the way he's 82 years old he came over and told me i am in a phenomenal spot to be out of the wind all week but a really bad spot for fishing he says he's never seen anybody catch one over here and he's out all the time hey there's always the first time and maybe they weren't using big bait i don't know try it out some bigger bait than typical for brook trout i bought a bunch of nice smelt but of course they they all froze last night uh being left outside in that 20 below but the shiners lived a lot of them looked dead but i changed out the water and got the oxygen going again got rid of all the ice and the cat ice and that bucket and they seem to come back to life pretty good there might be a couple dead is all and that bucket is full i've probably got seven dozen shiners in there different sizes it'll be fun this week to try some different sizes for brook trout and see which ones they eat day two is winding down nothing really going on for brookies in there maybe it is a terrible spot like the old timer told me got everything set up made it so i can be comfortable enough no problems nothing's broken a little sore a little beat up pride's pretty much trampled but you know the cool thing is there's always tomorrow and tomorrow i'm gonna go at it pretty hard i think i'm gonna run up the lake a couple miles and and try to whale on some brook trout in a spot i think it's gonna be good looking at the maps and as long as there's not too much wind i'll i'll be able to do that if not then we'll put together another plan that's the cool thing about being it being here and right on the lake is it's really easy just to jump around change plans so thanks for tuning in so far it's not the fish smashing video that i would really like it to be but we'll get you some of those too and hopefully tomorrow's the day