 What's going on y'all? What's up? Good to see you man. I'm pumped. Look at this guy. Is that all you're wearing out there? That's all I need. What's up man? How you doing? Good to see you. How you doing Davey? Good to see you man. How you doing? Good. How you doing? Awesome. Just sold the boat to your buddy. That's the way I know. What's up man? Good to see you. Good to see you. You ready? I think we're heading up a little further boys. Do Joe's from where we talked about earlier. I think we're going up a little further now. We already changed plans. With ice. We're going to go try to find a little bit of snow for Lou. Good luck anyway fellas. What's up guys? Joe Holland here. I am all fired up for this trip. I am in my favorite town. It's not my hometown. I am in Millinocket, Maine. The one and only. Absolute great place. The reason I love this town primarily is because of the people in it. To even be more specific than that is because of the Osborn family. I went to school with Steve Osborn and he introduced me to this area and this is like the gateway to the North Maine Woods for me. End of the Baxter Park region and Mount Katahdin. There's about 10,000 Osborns in this town and every single one of them is just an absolutely amazing great person. Not only that, they're great hunters. They're great fishermen. His dad George taught me how to trap and that meant a lot to me and I had some of the best years of my life so far were on the trap line because of George and the time I got to spend with George up here in the North Maine Woods. So Steve's got four uncles. He's got an uncle George and Uncle Jack and Uncle Kevin and Uncle Chuck. We just started calling them Chunkle for Uncle Chuck, Junkle for Uncle George, Munkle for Uncle Mac and Kunkle for Uncle Kevin. Today I get to fish with one of the uncles that I've got to spend more time with in the last few years hunting and just another, like I said it's one of my favorite people in the world is Munkle and his son Jeff. He has a YouTube channel called Calm Before the Storm and it's one of the best YouTube channels out there. He hasn't put up a ton of ice fishing content this year he hasn't been able to get out as much he's got a lot going on but his hunting in Maine is as real as it gets it shows you he's got some North Maine Woods hunting, he's got some tracking on there and then he's got some setting up trail cameras and bow hunting and early season and expanded archery he just, man I'm telling you if you want to talk about Maine deer hunting real hunting, you know he might shoot a spike morn some of these videos are known you know it's not about shooting for giants that are coming to a feed or anything like that this is a real deal so check out Jeff's channel obviously I'm sure you already have already because Jeff's channel is gonna be big if it's not He is what he is now We're losing ice pretty hard down south and these boys said the magic word to me they said cask they call him Burbot in other states Mariah, eel-pow bunch of different words for the same fish but I love eating cask it's my favorite fish to eat and if by looks on the outside you wouldn't even go near the thing they're the ugliest fish alive but for eating nothing is better than cask and I've had a lot of different fish so they said there's a chance to catch some cask up here we also have an opportunity during the day to hook into some togue and salmon as well so we're gonna try for togue and salmon I think in the day as it gets dark or low light conditions we're gonna move out and fish some dead bait on bottom for cask Thanks for tuning in guys, come along I think this is gonna be a fun little series backer sleds off good idea cross, yeah I don't see anybody over there but I can't see because of that land mass but it works pretty open open as far as no people just open as the water open or people open but yeah there's people that fish right on the edge oh really? there's too much current there anyway yeah if you call it through you're over here in 5 minutes oh really? save gas got it? just go to that shoreline and over over down over here and this is what breaks off first in the spring around around this point is having an out cut yeah we go around that corner and actually that point went over there we go around that point and there's about 45 feet of water over there pretty good fishing there we took the boat in here two years ago and went to a spot they call Salmon Alley it was probably almost 80 foot of water there was so many fish that it would breed in that 25 when we were dragging a smelt through it it didn't catch one oh yeah there's too many bait right? yeah alright follow it alright we'll follow you it's a surprise mine isn't even hot surprise you're nice and trust me every time I hit this stuff I just do some nice skis and try to have a good move alright gang alright we're almost there wow it's pretty wow so don't go out there that's what you're saying okay so what's the plan fellas what are we setting for? nice they're not told here okay so setting pretty high for the salmon nice we can check underneath see what's underneath us too and if we find some casts on the bottom we can bring them that was strictly out of curiosity I'm going to set right below the salmon but they're going to see it for sure I'm going to make it pretty inviting for them might be a little big usually you want a little bit smaller and smelt but I couldn't get any smelt so a bunch of different sizes nice I'm going to change over flags I have a new flag out today guys this one I'll show you that one that is the state of Maine current state of Maine flag right there, Deerego two set, three to go I like the sound of that is she making butter no good oh nice jeez look how pretty that thing is what do you think there you go skinny one racer yeah don't come over here don't come over here it's very dangerous there's only 15 inches of ice you're not over here you've got to go way over there come over there I'm sorry filling one balloon they'll bring that over and there's another one that stretches out that they already got set up they start filling that one so it's like a constant thing was it ropes or chains boom logs and chains okay and you'll see the boom chains up here right on the deck so they would back up the logs how far up would they back them up oh no it was all flowing down through here and those logs would just float right into these booms they call them balloons and like I said they'd tie them off and a ship would come in and haul them across the lake send them down different waterways and stuff like that that is so neat in the winter time on all the streams and rivers they would just pile up logs and as soon as the spring runoff started the water was high and everything they'd just let them all go down but it was probably some beautiful logs laying at the bottom of this lake we started coming up here this close in 71 was the last log drive oh okay 71 okay so where did they use the boom house for like housing the crew that worked on the river yep and these are all bedrooms up above there's nothing but an open room with just beds the kitchen's right here that door on the left of the kitchen got a chef's chair they got a dining area over here and a relaxing area over here I'd read one of these I don't know if it's this particular one they brought it over in three pieces like 13 miles great northern did I wonder if it is this one oh 1835 oh 7 I wonder if this is the one it is three pieces this must be the one I'd read about they do have a thing with Chuck Harris on YouTube oh really? couple different things what are these those are plugs oh oh wow what are these anchors that must be an anchor pick it up these are the boom chains they would on one set of booms to hook another one they would send this is like a regular point but they'd send this down through one hole and go to that loop right there and then bring it up through and hook it through the loop and then turn this and that would hold it on there so that would go around a boom log or one of those anchors? they have these augers they used to drill through each end of the the boom I don't think they have a boom out here anyway these hooked the booms together so they could build that big balloon wicked how far out do you think it could go I don't know if you can see a picture was it like tug boats that would take them or just big ships, you know the Katahdin on moose head that used to be one of the the ships they used to haul on here? no kid that's awesome but it was ships like that I can't see any boom there's an otter Jeff did you do that though? you did a good job on that not bad you definitely get better yeah it was my 100th otter too I was getting it I was supposed to get fox but oh yeah look at that camp dogs and old hunting buck on the wall we're into the second color bud is it going still? no but there was a bunch of bubbles probably drowned oh jeez must be must be hung up on something it's moving it feels huge because I think it's under it's definitely under rock or something yeah just popped out of that rock so it got a little smaller now it's not one more rock oh yeah now we're on a good rock it's pretty shallow here oh I think 10 right here he feels pretty good he's fighting like a gask this was a salmon set he's probably tired alright we're into the second color still feels alright it's not fighting but either I'm pulling in the log that it was hung up on you've done that before yeah yeah like Ricky Ricky did it just pop off nope it's still there now he's on oh my god he's head shaking alright now we're free of the rocks at least that's on the ice I got a scoop right there he burned it in nice bud there's enough ice I don't know if I can reach it otherwise alright fourth color we're doing our fourth color alright we got leader boy sounds pretty good Joe definitely not a little adventure must be a toga could be bass we don't even know man that sounds like it's got some weight look at the mountain behind you I got low town test oh there he is it's long wow it's a salmon it's not that man is it long yeah look like a salmon wow that's big wow that is big do you see him I did not be careful that we'll pop test you only 10 he's had it on the ice a bunch of time 11 pounder no exactly look at the size oh that's a nice salmon you see him he does not want to get started don't lose him he's right here oh nice salmon Joe holy Joe that's the biggest salmon I think I've ever caught no it's probably this probably this why is his back all scratched up I see that maybe I don't know it's a male I see him Joey look at that one fellas that's the biggest landlock I've ever caught for sure yeah we're gonna have to take that one home with us or eat him out here send him home from a shell what a fight that did fight didn't you yeah it was peeling right out of my hand I couldn't stop him and I pulled him through a couple rocks look at the hook on that Joe look at that look at this hook when he opens it look at that hook though see that Joe he's right into a slower he's a bait or two that's a sweet, that's a good salmon Joe wow that's definitely the biggest I've ever caught that's awesome nice had a boy that's awesome nice job thank you thanks for bringing me that's my PB 22 yeah that's my PB 22 for sure you present the thing behind that yeah it got me too Jesus I just looked again at it and I'm like oh that one's uh what'd you find out on the brookies oh I did is it really? nice good call 4 pounder yeah so these that was the first thing I noticed was all these scratches old yeah they do I mean it's kind of textured stretch marks he used to be really fat growing pains look at the teeth they got pretty good teeth they've smelt murderers to find out the difference between the brown and the it's right here they said the vomering teeth and it's like two rows or one row or something and how they're opposite that's what the book says I don't really know but that's no ground look at this fin bag, that's huge this one? yeah 2 of your 4 pounds right there usually smaller though it probably is 4 pounds who wants it? who wants it? Jeff you want it? I can't catch it, I'm just calling you got two those guys just caught a little guy take it Brandon you're into the second color somebody's got to take that I just call one guys I don't like touching fish they're gross sorry I got one more color this was that big shiner I sent that same one back down it was like that it stopped doesn't feel as big as the last one feels pretty small if it's even there feels like there's one there you got a mile and a half there's some wiggles alright he's 12 inches I don't think he's 13 he isn't growing usually they grow when they get near the hole oh there he is let's see, what is it? that's a little salmon you got my shiner we're going to save that for cusquey a little racer do you guys want this one? it's another golden I could play it I guess I'll give him the old Chuck Norris job and we'll call it good oh ok do you want to smell? let's try that again nope, didn't work we used to play wiffleball or football to send it on the wind in March nice bro guys that is not going to do it for day we're going to stay here and do some cusque fishing I don't know how long the guys can stay we can stay all night if we want or until their wives call until the wives call we'll stay until 8ish probably anyway I would imagine fish a couple hours in the dark if it's slow and terrible we probably won't stick around so we're going to cusque fish this is what we came here for to try to catch some of these cusques this is the best eating fish in the country for a long time I've eaten all of them but it's hard to beat cusque this is super good white meat you've got to clean them a little bit different than you do a regular fish but it's not that difficult get in there with a knife and get the meat out it's almost like flaying a backstrap off a deer it's long you can get almost to the tail but we'll see it's been slow typically you'd probably have one by now if they were up in here but you never know sometimes you guys catch them in the day too yeah we'll catch them in the daytime too so it's not just a night fish but the bite at night gets a lot better a lot of lakes you can only catch them at night they only get active and feed at nights so we're pretty excited we're set on bottom I still have one trap up a little high maybe I'll go pull that Jeff's out here jigging he's going to try to jig up a cusque which would be just a dream come true I haven't either but I know you guys have heard me talk about Jeff in the past and his channel I showed you pictures of the moose and showed you guys shots of the moose I was eating this is actually the guy that got that moose and not only did he get one he's gotten two giant bulls with a bow and arrow pretty impressive super great hunts both of them are on YouTube so if you're interested in any deer hunting or moose hunting and ice fishing too and just general outdoor stuff check out Jeff's channel I'll throw a link to it in the description call before the storm it's on this hat somewhere I'm guessing over here somewhere over here but definitely an awesome channel Jeff's a great guy check out his stuff please thank you that'd be great thanks I don't do as much fishing as Joe I'm definitely a hunting base more of a hunting base channel but I do a fair share of fishing but we're going to be doing land management all kinds of different stuff what should the viewers expect to see on your channel coming up just we're going to be doing a lot of cutting to put in food plots and not just food plots but try to take a piece of property that or at least I've always been told that you can't manage a deer herd in the state of Maine and one of my goals is to prove people wrong not in a way of like shooting 180 inch deer but if I can shoot a 3 year old every year out of the state of Maine I'd be happy food plots is going to be huge but also just land management in general making sure they have food a place to sleep just overall habitat development on a pretty good sized chunk of land but yeah, me and my wife will be out there with dad and Joe and these guys and who knows who else and just trying to get her done and then come both seasons we'll be just slapping them so there he is got one got one got one folks we got a cask little guy little bourbon first one of the night we're on the board baby I don't know, I'll be just pumping that now I'll take anything look, two bites I think so, what do you think? I mean it's not a whole lot of meat on it but fuck you it's your best you can do whatever you want I'll probably eat them you have a little... it's a little guy it's a little guy but it'll eat I got one no seaface on the board just got one I don't think it's very big but I got one little fella he didn't even trip the flag he is not big at all didn't trip the flag, I just saw my line off in a weird direction just like that people think they're ugly but man besides being slimy I think they're super, super pretty what do you got Jeffrey? perfect it's after 9.30 that's a pretty one huh want them? yeah