 Alright guys, day number two has started! I'm pretty jacked up, the boys are on their way back in, hopefully I have the coffee ready for them by the time they get here. We're going to set up for some big togue today, we're after that double digit togue this trip, we're also going to try to catch some salmon, I've never caught a salmon on a jig rod, it's been a few years since I've caught a landlocked salmon anyway, so I'll probably set one trap for salmon, put three lines for togue and then jig with my fifth line, you're allowed five lines in Maine. The vibe going around everybody is we're going for a double digit togue, something huge. So we're set with big suckers, dead bait, mangled bait right on the bottom. We're in Custolite right here, ho, let's set this thing up tonight, I guess now's a good a time as any, morning, morning guys, good on firewood right now, yeah I should be good, yeah, we got, I got a 20 bushel exact to combat, we got 10 more crates for it, this is full, we got 20, can I grab the right trap, I was hoping I grab the same one so it was the same bottom line, oh yeah, how about that right there, isn't that nice, how was it right in, fantastic, good, the rod's all good now, the rod's with excellent this morning, good, geez Bob you're setting off a close to me ain't you, yeah I'm going to cut your off, that's a cool looking morning ain't it, I told you there weren't be no headlights come up late for us didn't I, no you're right I saw those headlights a long ways off, I run down that there's a big wet hole off Mayberry, it's like slosh, yeah, uh oh, nothing you get stuck in but, I can, double digit they're in here we're looking for, what are we looking for, 10, 12, 10 plus, 13, that's my goal, Brandon caught a 13 last week, 12, 9, 5 last week yeah, 12, 9, 5 I wouldn't even count it if it wasn't 13, yeah, gotta have one bigger now, it's felt they're here like crazy, there's two pods of smelt right here, oh do you wrap you wrapped around the freaking thing, he must have been flying them, did it hook them, I think so Joe, that felt heavy, you got one on, working on it, it all starts with one, good one, big holler all drop, nice one, number one Joe, all right buddy, that's awesome, did you see me stand up I was like are you kidding me, I didn't even get my third trap in the hole, no, this hole right here is gonna swallow it right, you need a thing, it might be, green crooked flag, that's the thing you get one lucky trap and man I know the feeling, four of these jacks right here I bought in 2000 and 2006 I was working down in Philadelphia as I'm way home I stopped at Curie train club about five, used to travel a lot I never got home very much, first pretty much the first ten years, nine ten years I was out of I was out of school I did nothing but travel, now they have a family and stuff I just said the hell with it, traveling's fine until it's not, oh I made so much money and blew it all, I can't say it blew it all, you know what I mean I have, I have a lot but, what were you doing, when I first get out of high school I get on the lobster boat and then get done like in December and then January 1st I've always I've always done quite a bit of welding, my father had a bad truck my whole life so I knew what I was doing you know what I mean, I was working down home at a power plant I got laid off, my father called one of the drive one outfits that he used to, he used to, big bait headed down, yeah just kind of give him something to chew on squash that back end up usually keeps him from sucking your flag off, make some wiggle a little bit, small hook but I don't mean that, you know 15 pound will be on the end of that one next time we see Joe, I love it, lucky trap and everything, so anyway so I worked for a boiler company we'd go to Philly and work for a week then we'd be, we'd be in New Jersey for a week, being Connecticut for a week, we might be in Florida for a month, up Michigan for a month, Chicago, Tulsa, Oklahoma where I work, I worked in every state east of Mississippi before I was probably 21, good for you, oh I'd make my first time a lobster and it weren't it weren't like it used to be you know what I mean you'd make pretty good money and then you'd have to do something else you know and then we had a few good years lobster and I got lazy and I stopped traveling, I had kids you know what I mean, it was fun, you guys catch them down east a lot better than my buddies do at mid-ghost, I pushed my uncle for 14 years since I got out of high school I took one season off I was working down you ever been in Newport Rhode Island, you know the Powell bridge, the giant bridge that goes from Newport, we painted it, no way really, I've been hanging all over that bridge, yeah we painted it, it was $65 an hour dude, we we lived it on the military base and over that base over there in Middletown yeah, yeah, yeah I know right where you're talking, it's just like we're still on it we rented a four bedroom apartment, there's five of us that lived in it, one neat bedroom and I had an air mattress, of course, we live there for, well I went to Westfield Mass Juicents, I don't know if you know where the Westfield River is but that's a solid full of rainbows, we used to catch them, we'd watch a stocking truck come down, we'd be working on the bridge and that stocking truck would leave, we'd run down there, get our fishing poles and peel them nice oh dude that thing, look at that, oh my god, that's a big sucker, go on look, what happened there, dude a fish just ripped it, he still got it you better let him eat that one huh, oh yeah I gotta let him go, he's looking he's a hundred feet past the line, bottom marker right now, what the heck, that must come out of your pocket see there, oh yeah, it took bait and all, no, oh man, well he's gonna be a little bigger just ripped a 14 inch sucker right out of my hand didn't it, yeah, unreal, so what do you do, drill that as you were setting it look, padded my line off, no, oh man, that's even worse, now you got a hook out I think it's fighting, oh is that a big fish, fighting, nice fish, nice fish, 5 pounder, wrap, nice one, nice fish look how tacky it is, he's darker than usual, healthy, all of them are super fast that's what he said, crazy fish, yeah, I think there's a lot of smelts in here nice one, that one's about dark in the pocket isn't it, yeah that's pretty fish, that's over 24 it's almost a chamberlain lake here, nice, he's on the board, he felt good and I fetched him out, yeah well he's all wrapped up, well that's number two for the day guys, we got a long way to get to 25 boy some of these, some of these dubs ain't even set the trap yet, I ain't even got mine in yet I'm thinking lucky that thing goes off, my sounder's sitting on bottom I watched that one go up, oh yeah, see it, I watched it, oh I got a flash, no I watched it go up that thing's making power, oh yeah, you see that, it's making power, yeah, we're like an extension cord oh, he stopped, let's see what happens, see what happens, boiling wasn't it, yeah doing the same thing when I got up to it, anyone coming? you there? that fish was just holding it, that fish just came back after it because he just got the tug going drop him? we'll take it before we get it reset, he was up high when he took it too early, yeah telling right now that fish took it again, he was following the blood trail me and Kyle were jigging right in that hole the other day and I marked a toke and he wasn't biting so I see if he'd chase me up, he'd chase me up 10 feet and he'd figure out and he'd chase me up another 10 feet and he'd figure out and then we got to the point where he followed it up like 5 feet and Kyle was looking down the hole watching the fish swim around, I never caught the fish isn't that amazing, you figure you get them up off the bottom there as good as Kyle as soon as they chase you're like yep game over, he's gonna bite some of these lakes with so many toads, they don't do it if it's flashing like that to us, that's gotta be flashing to them pretty intensely every time I put this Clio down I've always had that there's fish right there coming out, at it right in the background yeah I see it, he's on it right? was that just a silver Clio or is it painted? it's not actually, oh here he comes jeez, there's two there oh no that was just silk there you go, got him, got him that's awesome, I love that camera feels nice but I know what it is still pretty awesome two and a half pound toad I love that that's so much freaking fun I caught one 8 pounds at the East Grand once on the jig stick it's my biggest too, 7.15, that was something wow that's awesome on a jig stick there you go there you go send them alright, who's up? what you working on in here fellas? I don't know, doesn't know what you're looking for we eating moose? oh something something where did this moose come from? zone 28 nice back yard who got this moose on? I got the moose we was on moose head, headed for northeast Cary and he got a text message said you just got drawn nice the day of the drawing that's a good feeling isn't it? rough night on the lake and then so we went up to moose head knowing I got drawn again, started putting cameras out all summer found some really nice bulls got permission on Moral Wister's land to hunt and put a couple cameras in there and it was just stove up every day it was more tracks so we hunted in there so I hauled Monday morning, hunted Monday night hauled Tuesday morning hunted Tuesday night and I had all Wednesday to hunt and I got some pictures that night on my cell camera of a bull in there all alone that was perfect, that's where we're going first thing so we didn't dare drive in the road till it was legal shoot cause you could see a moose anyway and I was sitting there waiting for the guys cause they stayed at camp and I stayed at the house that night met him at the mouth of the road my brother got in cause he was my subcommittee he was driving, I got in the passenger seat we arrived then and come around the corner and I looked up and there was just there was a whole herd of moose running up over this cot and I was like whoa stop and I got out didn't even put my clip in at first got out, popped my scope caps looked and I said cow, cow man that looks like decent bulls so I turned my scope up more I said oh yeah, put a bullet in jacked it probably, I think we pasted it was like 160 paces and he was trotting up across there boom and he hunched up it was like, it was so far away you fired, then you heard I was like oh yeah, perfect I jacked another one in, fired right before he went out of sight and I saw he kept going I was fumbling around in the truck trying to find more shells you know, I just couldn't find nothing got the clip loaded up, started walking up across the cot and I was like man he was standing right here and I got looking at the grass it was just tall, brown grass like can of spray paint just spraying it, said well he's going to be here somewhere my father looked up and said how about that one laying right there, walked up to it it was a nice 42 inch bull not lucky, nice 750, 800, I was 7, 730 nice, perfect, good eater he's been good so far, ain't bad this morning no, pretty good right now, yeah fantastic yeah I seen it twirl it, it just went out look look I've seen it go a half dozen times you know, before he was just badmouthing this camera I was, you were? I was, I said I don't know about these two it's nothing, they haven't done nothing what are you going to do with this crap he's either guy or he don't I'd say huh I think there's a lot of line missing on this sure looks like it wasn't this one I'm just going to record, make sure he's set definitely fish on that oh yeah, he's way over he come back on it holy cow he's getting bigger bottom one oh nice one oh you broke I ripped it right out of his lip that's probably the biggest of the day another dark one out here nice one pretty fish is that the biggest one you've ever caught? cool so the tog bite has kind of slowed down for today, it's a lot slower than it was yesterday, we got an east wind blowing and I don't know if you guys hear this much but where I grew up, if the wind blows from the east, the fish bite the least wind blows from the west fish bite the best so it's usually a tough day of fishing when you got a good hired east wind we got 15, 17 mile an hour east wind blowing on us so you notice the tog are negative we're not getting hooks into them they're not really eating, they're kind of tripping some flags but not really taking it what we're gonna do is move some of these traps in, probably take two or three Brandon and I will take two or three in maybe even four and set them up for salmon so we're gonna move some in for landlock salmon see if we can catch a couple good ones set some salmon sets in on the beach looking for some shoal water 10, 12 feet or less pretty deep shoal line here hoping for a catch a couple afternoon salmon small hook, well it's a great salmon fishery all the fish look great in this lake right now a lot of salmon here they're nice fish they really are how come we've been fishing for tog? we always look for the bigger fish but you can put a lot more numbers on the board fishing in shoal but don't count a lake or out either in this shoal water, I've caught them 5, 6, 7 feet of water before just underneath the ice no, fish fish are chasing the smelts up underneath the ice like this one right here my split shot is just clear in the ice probably 24 inches underneath the ice with these salmon here, watch out they really spool on line, real rocky bottom here they wrap you up a lot but uh see what happens too much for our shallow, oh that don't feel good no I noticed that rock? oh yeah heavy there's a chance oh come out with salmon on there I freaked your bottom marker out no there was no bottom marker oh sorry nice salmon yes there are wow that's a pretty fish cool look at that salmon 4 or 5 year old that double cleft right there, he's got a little little sky right there pretty any interest? yeah probably, you guys don't mind keeping a couple no we don't it's a great eater I got a guy, an old guy who loves to smoke them I'll give him the old Chuck Norris job he dead he gone if I catch this fish thanks Brandon look at that salmon what a beauty nice salmon look at the size of that nice landlock salmon there, how fat he is that clip fan I guess Colin was saying that fish has been in this lake 4 years now but that's another nice one nice landlocker right there bud sorry Brandon for doing you dirty like that but I couldn't get you guys out of the shack and the line had wrapped around your post like 10 times and was not going anywhere so that fish needed to get reeled in look at that salmon that was in the jig hole unreal oh my god I was just about to switch lures so I reeled my jig up into the hole like this far down under the hole and this little salmon came and whacked it let's get him back in that was awesome I don't think that counts as my first jig salmon when you're not holding the rod we go to Abbey's for lunch out there in Ohio me and Jesse and dad and Bobby so we pull into Abbey's and we eat at lunch and we leave we dump our trays out and we leave we're almost back to the camp and dad goes away or something and dad says left my glasses there I said dad you probably didn't even have them when you come here nope telling you right now I've seen a deer on the back end of the field I have my glasses on the right over here you better check back at camp so we were back at camp I'm telling you right now I'm pretty sure they were right on my tray and I dumped them right in the trash Jesse's like get in the truck just backing in oh no that's like there goes my glasses right in that trash so he runs through the door and there's about 10 people in line and he cuts them all excuse me deer can I look through that trash and she was just tying a trash bag out to take out the trash truck the lady's like what can you what I need to look through that trash bag sir I can't let you dig through the trash he's like no I'm telling you I'm pretty sure I dumped my glasses right in that trash bag so I'll get them for you so she opens up the trash bag yup right there mayonnaise, mustard dad slides them right on yup you might as well have killed me if I had lost them very fast so he's like I'll wipe them off sir no I don't even care I'm just a half cat he's just tying his feet on look at all the line going off oh yeah you know how his pools are he's going on here for beef this was half a sucker I didn't feel he's right off that's what this guy he don't know a thing he even had to borrow my sounder for great sake some fisherman will you ever get it back? probably not how many sounders do you guys start the year with well I usually start with 3 I lost my first one yesterday down the hole and I end up giving them to Brandon so I end up with none I never lose them but I buy about 12 sounders by the end of the year I don't have a lot I find them in the track just change direction there's something going on yet there's more than bait down there you get as much tension as you almost want to set the hook and it's just like not there you know what I mean are you still fighting that same fish? good one Brandon I don't like to talk up to her I don't think it's no donkey but it could be an obu don't worry you've had a good enough lull after that come check these guys out I've been the same over here I've been out and done with it right about 1-6 pounder on salmon set not the one I can really add it's one decent salmon this one stuck out it's a big one that's not a big one I can tell you that right now 30 Laker that's it nice one nice good one that's all right I'll donate him to West Grand thank you buddy just like that huh where's your granddad got some Lewiston Lobsters cooking that's right Lewiston Lobsters Lewiston Lobsters they're way more expensive than Lobsters he was rolling it was, it was just off peeling good and it hit it hard because it's wide open oh yeah peeling it started again it stopped for a long time it stopped for the whole time you've been coming in it just took off again he's gone somewhere well there you guys want to eat one that's a nice weighty isn't it he ain't gonna make it double shine on that thing Tuck I'm not sure whatever it's just right there it smells double two shiners that size right there nice that's a fat whitey calling yeah it is, he ain't gonna make it nah we gotta keep that cruising the ice heavy isn't it nice who caught it? me well I was just gonna move the trap to a better spot feels big for being a long ways away calling big head nod this fish is 150 out right now heavy dead weight looks heavy coming at me pretty good felt some sweat oh oh yeah coming off fast right now but I think I got a bottom block can't remember I don't think it's no 10 pounder unless I'm just a lakeer another one on the ice you know as I get my bait I don't I got a pair of pliers nice one well we're about to lose one guy so Colin's heading out we're gonna see you again this trip oh yeah I'll be back tomorrow stay the night tomorrow awesome so we'll see him tomorrow he nubs some pretty good fish today right yeah I got four ended up with four not a bad day nice so he's got some stuff he's got tendon too right had a lot worse down to town and he'll be back good day fishing right early oh yeah always a good day on the grand yep I'd say it might have been a tough bite today but jeez we still ice 15 plus oh yeah I think mine was 16 wasn't it seems slow but 16 or 17 really not that bad we can't really complain in other groups we talk who said three oh yeah see ya we're shifting over for a giant right that's right try some new bottom tomorrow maybe some burbot tonight see what happens nice so we're moving six more for 25 tonight and we're moving all the shacks and all the gear moving all the shacks moving all the gear about probably three quarters of a mile to a mile not bad you guys are animals in search of cusk nuggets cusk nuggets I love it you get hurt you alright what happened you got a Peter Griffin knee yeah would it help if I hey would it help if I sat on it with you it would hold on I'll sit over again give me five 15 high five or low there's more snow just take it down to that fair right made the move we are in a different part of the lake now got set up for cusk I got five lines out Cameron's got one line that's all he needs he's been hot out here back again welcome back Bob we got the reinforcements here didn't take me too long did it I thought I was coming back tomorrow but I just couldn't resist nice that's a big thing that's alright I was gonna say Brandon just used to cut potatoes and onions and everything out so what are we working on for dinner here fellas we're gonna have four cheeseburgers with some pepper jack cheese some fried up potatoes and onions gals all man I think it's definitely gonna fill the void don't you alright guys that is the end of day two absolutely great day we ended up with 19 fish still got maybe an hour left of the day it's pretty late I got some cusk lines still out if you don't hear back from me we didn't catch any cusk we haven't had a flag yet since we moved over here and switched over to cusk fishing at night he's in the rocks too you can feel this guy moving feels pretty good unless he's still wrapped on a old cusk alright look at this nice big ol fat bourbet boys are finally gonna get some cusk nuggets I'm gonna show them what the best fish in Maine tastes like cusk all in all absolute great day that was what we call the west grand slam now it's a salmon lake trout white fish and cusk all keeper size all good fish and just had an awesome day really looking forward to tomorrow might push a little harder on the salmon try to shoot a slamming salmon episode and we'll also have a couple sets out for a giant toad too cus how could you resist a fish of a lifetime and they are in this lake thanks for tuning in guys tune in tomorrow for even more action than today I hope we'll see look at that one that's got some length what you chewing on there