 Yeah, I got a little carried away. That is really strong. You put some hair on your beard. I guess it will Make me grow one Good morning weather looks pretty good out there, huh? Yeah, nine degrees there in height Brighten bright with the moon out last night working. Well, good morning. Good morning to you We are cooking some breakfast Donnie's driving that first cup of coffee and no my girl carried away last night when I made that I kind of knew it. It happened sometimes. It was the end of a bag of coffee. So I just put the rest in Kind of overflowed. So I'm pretty sure your last couple sips, Donnie. You'll be chewing on that coffee Yeah, probably. I think there's some grinds in it. Yeah Good night sleep fire went out I'm guessing. I don't know. She's probably Maybe 11. I woke up around 1 and felt that it was cold put a winter hat on then around 3 3 30 I woke up made a new fire and then it's 5 30 now and The fire was still going. So you get cut more than two hours out of it It warms the place up pretty good, but it's something you have to tend You know, you'd have to be up every four hours about like having a baby. I imagine I don't have any babies So I don't quite know. I guess you probably get up more than four hours with a baby Yeah When I raised that baby squirrel, I had to get up every two hours to feed the damn thing Oh, yeah, what it when its eyes were shut still, you know, yeah, it's every two hours So that's my about all I know about raising babies is I found a Baby squirrel didn't even know if it was a gray or red. It was so small didn't have any hair eyes were shut I raised the thing turned out being a gray squirrel. It was pretty awesome fat, but I'd let it go because it was To me it was either Put it in the cage the rest of its life or let it live free and I'd rather it live free because once it got old enough It could go wherever it wanted and chew wires and I didn't want to chew on wires But that was fun Pat remember that I do I do remember that. Yeah, that was that was a great I'm surprised you could feed it a formula that it would survive on when it was real Small, yeah, you had to give it It was they can't drink cow milk or they get a metabolic bone disease. Oh, no kidding. Yeah, so it was a puppy starter Formula, huh? Yeah, so that's what that was the only thing I could get it I'd like a little eyedropper and I would it would grab that eyedropper Suck all the milk right out of it Wow, I think the first real food at eight were little pieces of apples Yeah, and then graduated up to peanuts and whatever. Yeah, but I'd get home The thing would run right up my leg and sit on my shoulder Right in my pocket everywhere. Yeah, the hell of a good bet. Yeah, yeah, I just figured it wasn't right to cage it Right. Yeah, you were his mama. Yeah That's great. Yeah, that was that's fun. Yeah, but no that squirrel so when I went to let it go They didn't want it didn't know what to do with it Kind of knew but I brought it over to my parents because they got all those oak trees Yeah, and they had a pretty good population of gray squirrels And it was full grown at that point and I stuck it to the oak tree Yeah at about head level and I said well If you go up and don't come back down I said you're free if you come back down and we're gonna have to figure out a new living arrangement And it climbed up that tree and oh My god fell right in love with the branches and jumping all around and I called for it for I had a little remorse right away like oh, man. I kind of want it back now I didn't want to let it go even though I wanted to but I called for it called for it And she sat there looking at me and she stayed so I said well you stay then and and my parents are for Jeez quite a few years. Yeah. Yeah, she would the other squirrels accepted. Yeah Yep, they did and she ended up being like alpha female after a while Yeah, my parents and my sister would feed it and she'd eat peanuts and birdseed right off the deck and yeah Yeah Couple years anyway, they could tell which one it was and she was so much bigger than the other ones Because she had gotten fed a lot easier than right then finding it in the wild so they could tell which one It was she was huge. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, she had a good start. Yeah Well, if you wouldn't have had any stout if it hasn't been for you fine Yeah, she fell out of a nest I guess and And the you said it was in the swampy area. No, that one was like right at the school. Oh, that was yeah Yeah, like the daycare found it. Oh, okay. Yeah, and with the squirrels, it's not like birds where The scent the mother won't take it back because of the scent. Yeah with squirrels. It's the opposite If they get cold if the baby's cold at all, they won't take it back Yeah, it's like a temperature thing because I guess it's dead if it gets too cold Yep So I had a little heater for it and a shirt a blanket it slept in a cardboard box with I used my The plug for my computer has like one of those square power generator things that was that was warm But never hot so I put that under a shirt and she'd sleep on top of that to stay warm Yeah, yeah, I remember pretty cool for a running and sitting on your shoulder, right? The funniest thing is when she'd be in my pocket and I'd have full face Conversation with somebody for ten minutes and then they wouldn't know it and then she'd pop right out of the front pocket Ten minutes into a conversation. They'd what the heck she was sitting there the whole time Now those were the funniest for me. Yeah, because I know eventually she'd pop her head out look for something to eat right Pretty cool. Yeah All right, there's the first plate going out. Yeah, boy. That's a lot of grub. Yeah Macro I'll be set for All day with that. I'm hoping you need to store the energy because we're gonna be chasing Flags with fish today. Really? Yesterday we chased some flags. We'll get some crappies hopefully. Oh, yeah, nice meal. Oh, man. I hope we get a sure lunch today. Yeah That would be awesome Working pretty good Get this baby fired up pretty chilly out here today. We got single digits. We're looking at eight degrees Fahrenheit Everything froze up pretty good that that melted her slushed a little bit yesterday So as you can see with the sled Give him a wicked hard hook Got him he was on there Yeah, he was Put the hook back into them, you know Yeah You can you're gonna see your bait So you you can put it like right Yeah, I got one looking already Here comes See your bait dropping right here, darling. It's right on my tip See that blob Yeah, that didn't take long did it? All right, wait, just stop stop stop You got one a big one to your left. See it Yeah, this is the eater size right there. Yeah, perfect eater size. All right, we're on the board So you see your bait now? Yeah, so you could go down till you get close to some fish And you never want to get you got one coming over to look at you so Yeah, right about there and then just kind of twitch it and Then I usually hold it still right when it gets near the fish and You'll just watch your tip. Okay. He's coming in to eat So you could either watch your tip or feel for it and lift a little bit All right, just to stop moving it stop. Oh, you got him. Yeah, yeah, the boy Good job He's right under you go ahead and drop her. Oh, we got a pile coming in now right there. Yeah, okay that one saw you He's coming in all right, you should have a hit right now and a lot of times if you just watch your tip Where you slowly lift They'll hit on a lift like this for pretty deep Not even this feels decent. It's another decent eater. Oh, yeah perfect eater size Yeah, I want you figure out the feel of that bite You'll you'll get every one of these and then I usually slow it down when they're right on it So they can eat and if I don't know if they've eaten I slowly lift like this Then usually you can feel him like that hit this one's smaller No, he's getting bigger They'll eat. Oh nice one on you All right, so I'd stop moving it just wiggle a little tiny bit. Watch your tip. Yeah Yep, hit him that avoid Nice. Oh, we had a double. Yeah, you got a good one there Donny. It looks like That looks like a good size one. Oh, it's a yellow. Nice. We'll eat him for sure Really? Oh, yeah Heck yeah, show that to the camera Nice ring perch. Yeah, we got some yellows on us now You got a good one. Yeah, you do. Yeah All right, watch your tip You should be on that avoid. Yeah No Yeah, you got them Nice, that'll eat. Yeah, he's not big but it'll eat Is that your first crappy ever? In fact, I never even really heard much about crappies until you told me about them. Yeah It's not the first one you've eaten No No, you've kept me supplied on that. Yeah Yeah Yeah, there you go. Did you see him hit your tip? Yeah. Yeah should be a crappy, I think White cat. White? No. Yeah Yeah, that one's small I got something decent here. I'll tell you that Another eater that could be why we're not getting too many pike bites. They got a lot of bait down there Nice Crappy. I don't know. Yep. Yeah. What do you think eater size or a little too small? He's pretty small isn't he? Send him back. That guy hit pretty good He hit hard. He's biting like a yellow. I don't know though. Nope He's like borderline eater. What do we got here? Borderlines, we'll keep him Guys, we're having an awesome morning. Had five or six flags go up But no no results. The pike are just not feeding They're just kind of messing with the bait a little bit getting a taste and spit in it But the cool thing about being here several days is at some point they will feed We just got to be ready for them when they do but Donny and I just did some jigging That was the first jigging Donny's done and he he got it really quickly. He caught a really nice Crappy some nice yellow perch and he caught white perch too. So we got a pile of fish We're gonna fly up and do a little shore lunch have a fire a little David Dudley style Smudge fire and I'm gonna cook them up some of that fish for lunch. Well, we're getting ready for lunch We still got a little bit of time, but took down a old old old dry dead pine that was standing Donny's got a little little spot over here where he's gonna Make a little blaze for us The fishing has not been great. We had one flurry at about 9 30 He set into a couple which they just they're not feeding right now We only had one take a bait and run and just dropped it so I think this major bluebird sky and Crave and we got an east wind going pretty hard out there two things Really working against us, but that's not gonna stop us from fishing It just might stop us from catching a lot of fish We jigged for about a half hour on the pan fish and really did well We whacked them we caught enough for lunch and that's what the goal was And we got out of the wind and came back in we're gonna set up the fire. I just wanted to show you this Little thing. This was a gift given to Joey By some people from I think Maryland or somewhere But it's called the green hornet and on the way up here We broke it and we were gonna jig with it, but in the film grumpy old men I don't know if you've ever seen that movie Walter Matthew and and Jack lemon with the stars of it It's a great movie and there was some ice fishing scenes in that movie which are Really comical and if you haven't seen the movie you ought to see it but they had a rod just exactly like this and In the movie, you know somebody got pissed off at somebody else and and Got broken so I just wanted to show you that and I wish we're gonna fix it when we get home but we've got to drill this out and add this on but If you haven't seen the movie see it because it's really worth it. I couldn't find anything. Well, we'll figure it out Well, we'll rub two sticks together. Yeah That are two nickels if we got them. Yeah, I don't even have a nickel to my name You ain't got two nickels I'm poorer than poor He's this unbelievable It's too good for fishing. Yeah, I think that's that's a whole trouble. You got to be on a miserable coal Absolutely red Look at that blue bird sky East wind unreal unreal You had our opportunity that was it for the whole week. Yeah, yeah three flags and tomorrow They're gonna same time. We might we might get a little run today around noon. Usually once you start cooking or doing something Oh, yeah, yeah doing something important. Yeah, they'll hit So let's do something important then let's get that fire going. All right. Let's do it Well, we'll see if we can make it go This wood is bone-dry it ought to go she froze up already froze already Would you're lucky there? frozen You much meat left on that thing I'd call it none. All right, so I'll show you how David does it Equal sheets like that We'll put a decent amount of fish in there We'll probably cook this in two different Sections take the pine needles out Or leave them at the yellow perch That would be yep. That would be the yellow purse the whitest meat is actually the yellow perch at about half Is that about half? I would say yeah All right So we got the layout and David by accident left his special spice mix here Oh, so we're gonna use some then we're gonna use three gonna send it to a chemist and find out what's in it reverse Engineer it yeah, so What you want to do is cover that up With David's special blend We'll do one with David's and one without we'll just do another a different mix All right, so we got that some by See if I remember how he did this He throws the pads right to them As they say bottle makes it better right And then he turned the rest into a boat Kind of like a boat Top and bottom if I remember right Kind of went like this Okay, that's all he did for the first one. All right Holy Mackle. I don't know what it is. So I just brought it all out This is what we got oh, that's a Reginald probably looks like that anyway basil or Basil I Guess Well, whatever it is. We're putting some in yeah Parsley. I don't think parsley has any taste does it? Not even bother a little bit of oregano because I just love oregano Lemon and pepper season that ought to be good on Then this one's a super secret one Great salt-based season and smoked maple garlic. I probably should have only put that. Oh, yeah, it's pretty good You got a variety of flavors. Yeah We sure do so I'm gonna boat this up at the end so the butter can't come out Over and while I think of it I'll put a little salt and pepper on David's because I think I remember him doing that But that's it. That's great. But there's one more thing we got to do first. We got to do one more For something really special Wasn't the woods earlier while you went on your ride Donnie, and I found an okra tree. Oh, jeez I found an okra tree. Oh my word. It was in season. Oh, don't put too many on for me I can tell you that you don't know what's good for you. I Cannot handle okra. You've never had it. I have I tried it So there was an okra tree up in the woods it was That was really So I picked those this morning a late bloomer. Yeah Well since David's from the south, you know what? Let's put some southern spices on that sea salt pocket lint little basil If you like it, I like everything That's it. All right I think the fire is probably about right might be too hot. I don't know can it be too hot I don't think it can be too hot cake Middle ones the okra and David always David was worried about The butter burning and getting too hot so we're gonna keep an eye on it Listen for that butter to sizzle. Do you turn this or do this? No, you don't it won't be turned It just so being in that tin foil. Yeah, it's like a broiler like an oven. All right, all right I'm gonna go a little higher. I think I hear it sizzling already. So that's too hot Yep, I'll wait till it burns down. Yeah, we're gonna Think we better. I'll put those to the outside. Yeah So you want that butter to melt in soak into the meat? Yeah, and kind of boil broil And of course the moisture in the fish will cause steam and yeah and cock. It doesn't it doesn't take long to cook fish No We won't get fish much fresher than that. No I Didn't know you were such a good cook. Well, you haven't eaten any yet Yeah, you can hear the butter kind of yeah, this one's okay, I think oh we got a high flyer too. Yeah, I watched it My one way out That's a big pike Let me think for a second Let me think for a second what we should do The fish is almost done. We could probably run out and catch this fish And I'll just take this off No or burn Okay, it should be okay left rope just like that Let's go get this big fish. We got a high flyer Spice Gore So I got the fish off and I got the okra on Of course, we'd get a flag, right? You know it No, we'll take it. This is gonna be a great pike Way up high. Is it just barely tripped? Oh, he might be on there If you feel hit him Feeling still got him. Yeah, just throw it Hey, you got your first bike We'll take it. Oh, wow. Good job Super. Wow. All right, Donnie first time. All right. Yeah Gotta start somewhere, right? He did not run anywhere. Did he? So the best way is to prop that open. Oh, wow So it's a single hook. Yeah, and if they have bigger gills, you can get in there easier But I'm see I'm under through the gills and you flip it back. It's just as easy as that Best way to release anything. Oh, wow First pike You'd have to really hold that one out to make them look big. You sure would Cool, I'm glad you got one. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, so then those just close up. We're gonna throw him back Yeah, might as well If you want to close those. Yeah, and I'll let you let him go if you want. I'll go ahead You got it How do you distinguish between a pike and a peck off? So these Dogs are not connected. See those dots. Yeah, that's one thing They don't have the teardrop coming down. They call it a mustache Right there and then these are not connected whereas on a pickerel They call it a chain pickerel right because they connect like a chain Okay, and then you also have the lines on all the fins too. Okay, so those are three things to look for There you go. Good job, buddy. All right, first one. Super. Nice. That's great Absolutely the way it always goes is when you don't want to flag you get one, but we'll take it We're not complaining. We haven't that was the first fish of the day other than the jig rod stuff So came back to check on the fish see how it did I kind of took it off and left the okra on We'll see how we did while we were away that looks pretty well done That looks scrumptious So that's ready the stuff with David's Oh, and this is boiling the stuff with ours. So definitely definitely done We'll take those off and then the okra I don't know Oh, yeah, wow Wow Yeah, you've got different taste buds than I do Try David's first You kind of make sure you get some butter on it. Yeah, try that. Holy cow Mostly crappy really really good Is it edible? Yeah, those bites is a really Really tangy I might have overcooked it a little bit, but whereas it it couldn't dry out Careful you don't get a pellet Remember those days those are always fun look at that steam and okra This one's good too, but This one is a little bit. I like the spices in this one and David's better. I know it's way better, isn't it? Yeah Here Donnie try one of them. No, I gotta try it. Just try it. Do you like green beans? I like green beans. Oh my god It's even better Really? I'll try one just to shut you up Just to shut me up. Is it the worst thing you've eaten? No, I've eaten a lot worse It's something I wouldn't crave but It doesn't taste bad to me if you had to eat it to get dessert. Would you eat it? Did you guys have to do that growing up? Oh, yeah finish your plane. Oh, yeah Oh, there's a lot of bribing going on Yeah And your mother cooks the the best desserts. I had she's in a cookbook that I have Yeah, so you definitely would have eaten everything, but she was also a great cook too, right? Oh, yeah Really really good line Donnie Donnie's mother is still alive. Donnie. Are you 80 yet? I'll be 81 81 81 next month. Okay. Donnie's 81 next month his mother is still alive How old your mom 104 and her Birthday is in April, so she'll be 105 in April Amazing believable. Yeah, I remember seeing his mom mowing her lawn Five four five years ago, right when she was 99 or was she a hundred? She was a hundred Yeah, and she would walk out to the band where the lawnmower was And mow the lawn. Yeah One day she even jumped off the porch onto the mower at a hundred and her neighbor was 90, right? Yeah, the neighbor was ten years younger. Yeah, so she was 90 And they would meet while they were mowing their lawns And I said it had to have been the oldest pair of lawnmowers ever, right? Oh the crows heading out to the ribs Yeah, I hope he finds them he saw them Yeah, in fact, they would compete, you know Then the 90-year-old said I can't let your mother out out do me and they were both really workers physically and And I think that Is why they live so long, you know good physical work all their life Active. Yeah, I guess that would be pretty shameful if a hundred year old without working here Right, right. Getting out work by a hundred year old and and your neighbor too Well, you've got to dig in here. Oh keep going. I'm gonna fill up on okra I want you to get the taste I want you to hammer on I was fortunate enough to have that a couple different meals So I want you to hammer on that Dudley. I almost think he added a little bit of spice after it cooked too Yeah, do you want me to get this the spice jar or is it good? Just right for me stands on its own Guys if you like these kind of catching cooks, just let us know in the comments if we get enough People that like it. We'll do it again tomorrow. Yeah, I'm gonna Yeah, we will and tonight supper. I'm gonna make homemade macaroni and cheese. Wow and so Stay tuned for that I don't know did we talk about that wood stove this morning when we did the intro or or not I can't remember if we talked about it. I don't think we talked much about not much Okay, so last night was the first night ever for me to have a wood stove in the tent In the ice fishing tent same with Donnie in the ice fishing tent and it did it ripped it did really well the What do you call it the baffle? Or the damper damper they're they're super sensitive. So you got to Get it exactly where you want it to keep the heat in rather than losing the heat and the pipe gets super hot and then We learned that you can't open the door without opening that or the smoke will back up in your face open the damper for You know a couple seconds before you open the door. Yeah, let it get flowing outside, right? But it it drafts really well And it and it works really super. That's a super little stove and the heat it maintains the heat really well in the tent It may not last it quite a while. Yeah, we I Want to say it went out at like 10 30 or 11. We had a pretty early bedtime last night I think we're in bed by 7 30. It was yeah so after it I Kind of heard it go out. I thought I heard it go out like the fans stop going and I was like well I could get up or I could just stay in bed So I stayed in bed and then about one o'clock. It got pretty cold. It was eight degrees So I I said well, you know, we're gonna be getting up in a couple hours anyway So I got up and restarted the fire at 3 30 and Geez it was at 5 30 when we got up and started cooking the fire was still going comfortable Yeah, and it was super comfortable dry in there. No drips pretty awesome. I'm happy with it so far I mean actually it works better than having the propane heated because oh way better propane causes moisture. Yeah, and It's certainly a dry heat, you know wood heat like that They knew what I'm buying the other one wasn't either. I'll clear the ice out Get it ready for you. Oh, I want you to pull this one. No, I don't want to I don't like that You don't like fishing like that hurts my feelings I think he's just straight down you want to check them. Yeah, the other one was straight down I mean, no, he's off to the side a little bit Hit him hard like you did last time if if he's there Got him. Oh Is he still there? Yeah, you're gonna if he's big one you're gonna have to give him some some line Man, they're not running when they're hitting. I got your line all ready for you if he needs to take some back And then just let it go through your hands You got you got wire. I think on this one How's he feel? About the same size So not giant He's fighting better though Definitely fight Yep, let him run absolutely they make long runs Yeah, then when they stop you can make up ground now because he stopped Yeah, and you want to make up as much ground as you can when they stop Because they're turning yeah, and then he might go past the hole again. Oh, yeah nice one a little bigger Oh, he's stuck on the ice. Oh, yeah, look at that. Nice Yeah, he's fat too. Yeah, awesome. I got my catch box Wow That's awesome, that is awesome All right new PB. Yeah, nice five and a half pounder. Nice. Probably 30 inches. Yeah, all right. We'll get him back That's that's what we want to see folks. That's what we want to see. Oh my god, Donny. She's making power She's just oh my god, she's making butter It's going that way so come on this side And you're gonna hit it. I'm gonna lift this up and just stop so so go till you feel tension to hit them hard Go fast till you feel tension hit them hard Got them. Yeah Might want to hit them one more time And then let it let it out of your hands if you have to right dragon got some weight Or you just caught up here You got to your bottom market. He came off The only oh there he is Any size couldn't didn't see him. Oh, he's taking that of your hand pretty good He just took it all back. Yeah Same class you think how's it feel? I'd say about like the last one. Yeah, he looks like he's fighting like that same class of fish Yeah, he doesn't like. Oh, maybe a little bigger Beautiful. Yeah, I'd say you just got another PB Good hook set Yeah, he's six pounds right So I'd say it's about the same so I'd say same class. I think he's a little bigger nice Yeah, you hit him good Get to the scale. I think he's pushing seven Definitely over six. Yeah You're going in the right direction Donnie. We're on pounds Six pounds one out. Oh, he's smaller than no six. No, he's bigger six pounds four ounces. Yeah, there was five and a half Well the last one I thought it was six no five and a half. Okay. Yeah, we're doing better Yeah, you're going in the right direction. Oh wonder how long he is. I could tell you You wait one second. I Got the technology. What's your guess on length on him 30? 30? 32? Play him right now. Take a cell. Yep, right at the 30. Yeah, nice Beautiful. You can hold them in here, but you've got to be careful because their gills get sharp and you don't want to get a Alright, buddy, I'm gonna let him go for you. Okay Good fight nice Now that one was up high was that we did we set this one higher? I don't remember if we lifted this one or not. We should start writing in the snow We're on a nice flurry we don't need I we're just gonna move his last trap because we didn't have any action on it And we pop two flags and he popped two fish. He's got 11 and a half pounds and two fish so pretty sweet and he's going in the right direction Guys that release right there. That's all you got to do with a fish I It frustrates me a little bit when you see guys holding the fish and dipping them and pulling them back and forth and holding Them for a long time the best thing you could do if you want to release and best thing you could do for the fish Is just send them back down. There's absolutely nothing you're helping them with when you're shaking them and holding them and and Dunking them back and forth if you want them to live and you want to release them The best thing is just send them and they'll they'll get on their own and they'll figure it out on their own So don't be afraid to let them go If you're gonna let them go Hit it got a little guy tiny Gotta start somewhere Donnie Wow is right Pretty though one two three four five six seven eight nine striper for a little guy They down there That's an eater size. There's a school of them down there. I got to get down to them Yeah, we'll keep that we'll eat him There's a couple more down there a little they're not quite as big though We got some ring perch guys we got some yellows About to get me on Here we go three two one Got him Pretty good one here not quite. No, this is the male Males have more meat on them for the for their pound for pound but the Emails are a lot bigger We'll let that one go one two three four five six seven striper. Oh, there's another one Looking for him. Does he see it? Oh, pretty good one here, Donnie Ready got him Oh jumbo Look at that one. That's an eater. Oh There's another one So they have different number of stripes on them. Yeah, almost almost every single little guy coming Almost every yellow perch has seven stripes. Yeah, and then one youtuber like Woods made a big deal of it really. Yeah, so now everybody wants to know how many stripes are on it on your perch. Oh Good one coming in coming in hot. Here he comes. He sees it three two One this is a good one. Oh, no right at the hole. Oh my god. That was a big one. Come on. I Wish I didn't even see that one Golly, that was a good one Donnie That was one of the droids we were looking for Well pike, I'm about to get bit off that might be a big perch Her bass Whatever it is. I got it. Wow It's big. This is cannot be a perch Holy it's gonna break me off. It's gonna be a maybe a bass It's it's a pickerel Nope Chain pickerel Yeah, I'm that little jig rod got me a chain pickerel folks not a really good eating fish, but they're bony Lucky with that two-pound test To land them Definitely gonna have to retie. Oh, look at that broken off just like that How do you like that real compared to the open face? It's got its pros and cons When it messes up, it's a pain in the and it can mess up easy, but it's wicked good for For pinpoint dropping because you just push a button and drops So like if you've got a fish just under you, you just push a button you could do everything with one hand And it's super smooth and they say it gets less line twist, but I don't know if I believe that All right, I'm cooking macaroni and cheese for supper homemade and what I do is I put whole milk in a pan and I got a block of of Extra-chop cheddar cheese cut it up into strips break it up add it to the milk and then I heat this until cheese melts into the milk and it makes a Obviously a cheese sauce Then I put my elbow macaroni. I boil that separately Get that cooked drain it Get another bowl add the cheese Stir it up put it in a little oven over here for about a half an hour And on the top of this before I put it in the oven I break up I break up where it's crack is to put on top Which really adds a lot to the macaroni and cheese when it comes out so pretty basically pretty simple meal and pretty quick I saw you eating that cheese earlier, and I came back and the block was almost gone And I said holy cow. Yeah, I'd be bound up I was thinking yeah, yeah, but no it's in the sauce that makes more sense now. Yeah. Yeah So that's that's the name of the game for supper tonight sounds good. Yeah, hopefully you'll like it even if you don't you're gonna eat it Even if I don't I'll say it's good, right? Yeah Awesome. Well, we got a little bit of daylight left. We still have eight sets out. We only set. Oh, there's bald eagle Check out this eagle guys That's cool Well, we got a little bit of time left like I said We only set eight lines today because we jumped around did some jigging here and there had that incredible shore launch David Dudley style pretty much had a really fun day Awesome weather we got all those bites and all those fish hit exactly when the wind changed 180 degrees It's not every day you get 180 degree wind change where it was blowing out of the north all morning pretty hard to and Then it might have been like a half hour of just like a tide change And it started blowing directly out of the south where it's blowing right now So this is the only day we're supposed to have a little bit of a south wind We might get some snow tonight. They said I haven't looked to see how much but anytime you get a Serious weather Direction change like that with the wind you really should expect some seriously good fishing or hunting It just does something to the animals really get some moving feed and throws them off throws them off their game Like they did and then we got all those bites and that pretty much half hour when it changed directions So always focus on something like that if it does happen make sure you got your line wet. You're not sitting on the bank all right, I Got the Brandon box blocking some of the wind. I had a tie down for the south side Let's see what's going on in here I'll get the macaroni and cheese in the oven It's hotter than blue blazes in here. It is this thing's all frogged up. Oh, yeah Prepare the two parts on the gas stove and I got that on the Loven on the wood stove. Oh About a half an hour about six o'clock. That's right. We'll see how it does Wow, there it is Macaroni and cheese looking good All right, we're gonna dig into the sucker and really hopefully enjoy it Be good. It's a it's a nice comfort food on a cold windy day. Yeah. Yeah It's quick any easy to make and this little pan is really Chock-a-block full I think I'm gonna make a mess Maid comes tomorrow afternoon. Okay, great Wow, does that look good? Do you even make macaroni and cheese incredible Donnie? Well, I try to try to You ain't a craft box man. Are you? No, no. No. Oh my gosh. I can't handle that That box stuff There's yours. Wow. She's good night Irene Thank you. Yeah What makes this is is the Ritz crackers on top. Yeah. Oh my gosh That they just add so much to it to the flavor and yeah using that nice cheddar cheese Oh nice cheddar that extra sharp Well, I'd say we eat wise we eat a lot better Camping that we do at home. Don't we? Yeah, I mean how does Stephen breakfast this morning? Incredible Shore lunch Now we're gonna have this Hopefully incredible breakfast tomorrow. Yeah, I didn't told the folks at home what we're doing for breakfast tomorrow. Should I tell them? Might just as well tell them. Yeah What are we thinking for tomorrow? Yeah, yeah tomorrow Planning on for breakfast. I'm planning on making some homemade donuts and I'm gonna cook up some oatmeal and a double boiler just like the old-timers used to do the original Quaker oats oatmeal and It tastes so much better For some unknown reason cooking in a double boiler it cooks slower There's something about it that really really makes it So that's what I'm doing for breakfast. Well Joey gets a trap set out. Sounds good to me. Well, that's something pretty excellent to look forward to Yeah, yep, we'll have to try this see if it's edible Is this beard proof? Is it what proof beard? You might get some stuck on there. I don't know Wow those rich crackers do really make it don't they? Crumbled up on top and baked. Yep Donny got his first pike today his first crappy today, too. Yeah, I Got my first second and third pike today. That's right. Yeah, they keep getting bigger Yeah, wait to see what you pull up tomorrow. Yeah from what four and a half pounds to six six and a quarter pounds. Yep another secret to making this is When you add the cheese sauce to the cooked macaroni before you put it in the oven It it will kind of look like you've got an overabundance of cheese sauce, but you really Want an overabundance of it so so Float them you want to float them. Yeah and Stir them as you pour the sauce in it gets the bubbles out of the macaroni and fills the macaroni's with cheese Do you remember my cousin Mikey? Yeah, I ever tell you the flotum story? So my uncle Tony Graff old tough son of a gun. That's his dad Vietnam vet several purple hearts. Yes, great guy strong Italian. Yeah marine tough Yeah Graff right just Italian strong Italian. Oh, yeah, great guy. Yeah Well, Mikey Would come to Maine every year and Either he would get it or my parents for as a gift like a Christmas gift Yeah, once a year would send them down like a court of real Maine maple syrup Okay, yeah, cuz he had a taste for it. Yeah, and he knew what was good and what wasn't It wasn't that junk you get in the store, right? Corn syrup, right and Mikey could make that court last a full year He could eat pancakes every day and make that court last a year. It was like gold Drizzled just just enough on right as dad came over And he was in the kitchen and he left the syrup out on the table He delivered him his pancakes and he went back in to cook his own and bring those out his dad yells Hey, you got any more syrup? Mike's what the heck and he comes out and the syrup's gone his dad goes. I like to float them He had that whole court right over those pancakes were floating in a deep dish Plate with real maple syrup about $20 worth of syrup in that. Oh, wow Yeah, so now anytime I hear I like to float over. I think I told me Mike It's a good one. Yeah, I think Mike just about had a heart attack when he saw that syrup bottle empty I'm about ready to hit the hay maybe do a little bit of reading and that usually puts me to sleep But I decided tonight. I'm gonna take the little blue pill So I told Joey he better watch out tonight But To be honest with you this little blue pill is a tile and all PM. There you go. Not what you think it is Well guys another Absolutely amazing day. I'm eating one of the best apples desserts. I've ever had it's apple caramel glaze cake Donnie's Daughter makes it so good. She sent it up with us awesome But all in all the day was pretty incredible the pike fishing was really not great But Donnie got his PB. He got his PB again. Yeah, and then he got his PB again So it was really cool to see the second the third one pulling line out of his hand And maybe one of the bigger fish you've ever seen ice fishing six pounds. Yeah, I think the biggest one I've ever Caught is the like trout a tog that weighed five pounds through the ice through the ice. Yeah So, yeah, that is definitely the biggest fish and never fish for pike before my life Yeah, it's it's kind of a different Different feeling yeah, so we know they're here. We know they're big It's just a matter of them biting and today was really not a good biting day. So we're thinking tomorrow between like nine and 12 we're gonna we're gonna put a big one topside or at least have a chance at a big one The shore launch was awesome Dudley style Donnie loved that he loved Dudley season and the best Which is so it tells me I'm not crazy And we're saving what's left of it to get reverse engineered. We're gonna have the chemist get a hold of it reverse engineer Yeah, Dudley doesn't get us the recipe we're going to market with it and we'll go to you We'll let you guys know first all in all the wood stove has been incredible. This place is bone dry Even after cooking all that stuff on the stove. It's bone dry in here. It's hot in here I'm gonna try to remember to get up in the middle of the night and throw some more wood in there But like Donnie said if I don't it's no big deal We can handle it we ain't gonna die and it just means you got to start a fire in the morning Oh, if you guys have made it this long in the show You're in luck because I'm gonna give you guys a little forecast of what we're getting tomorrow other than the snow tonight In the morning Donnie's gonna make his famous Donnie's doughnuts That's right and it's just he and I here to eat them So I really feel bad for you guys on that, but we're gonna have Donnie's doughnuts on the ice You know how good that's gonna taste I do so I don't even know if I'll sleep tonight. I'm so excited I'm tired, but all I'm gonna be thinking about is Donnie's doughnuts and then what else you were cooking something else, too Oh, I'm gonna cook cake right? I'm cooking oatmeal. Oh, that's right. I'm excited about that Later in the afternoon for a dessert for supper I'm cooking a blueberry cake. Oh my gosh if you guys Want me just to start a new channel called Donnie's cooking or Donnie's camp cooking. Let me know I've already had a request for the Donnie to put together a cookbook of what he cooks in camp and how he makes it He's laughing but people would want to see that I try to keep telling them people would want to see it He doesn't believe me so put in the comments guys I'll show them your comments if you want to see Donnie's camp cookbook on what to cook at hunting camp fishing camp Other than that, thanks for tuning in. I'm gonna fill that new winter well nomad large stove I'll get this thing piping hot so we're on top of the sleeping bags and then in two hours We'll be in the sleeping bags. Have a great night guys. Thanks for tuning in. Hey. Good night. Thank you