 Good morning. That was night four in the books. We are on day four and a half had an Unbelievably awesome day yesterday if you missed it you got to check that video out. It's gonna be a pretty special one coffee is perkin I got a couple pieces of buttered bread in the fry pan that I'm hoping to turn into toast and I'll follow that up with a couple of chicken eggs and that'll be breakfast for this morning I'm pretty excited for today Dan's coming back out Ben's coming back out Jim's coming out today and Maybe a couple more guys. Maybe a couple vets. I haven't heard the final tally yet. It's gonna be really hard to top yesterday It's gonna be hard to even Compete with yesterday for the day we had but we're gonna give it a go We're gonna have fun no matter what babe comes out I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of jigging because he just loved the live scope He loved jigging and whenever I'm around somebody else that loves jigging I just can't help myself It's like an addiction watching that screen and having the fish come in and trying to trick them into bite because they're not easy to catch They're not aggressive, you know, there's the crappy or they're probably like a Even the aggressive ones are like a 10 second catch at at best takes 10 seconds to coax them into bite And the yellow first are fairly aggressive the rock bass can be aggressive when they're when you find them good night sleep last night It's mid 20s. It's actually snowing pretty good right now There's a pretty good charge of snow. I heard it on the roof at about 4 a.m. It's right now. It's about 5 45 So it's been snowing that whole time. It's not really built up too much Maybe a half inch. Maybe we might get an inch out of it. We'll see when it's all said and done, but I got another Oh Probably half hour for the sun's up and it's light out there and those guys should be coming around within the hour I'm gonna let those guys get set up first on on their desired locations and then I'll kind of pick around there I hate taking like the best spot, you know, I mean, I don't mind fishing somewhere else all day And I don't even know if I'll pull a trap today to be honest with you depends who's out there today All right, I'm itching to get out there. It's still oh Probably got 25 35 minutes before the sun's up and shining ready to go gonna have coffee cup number two Probably drive that right into me and throw a couple shiners in a bucket and head out I already loaded the sled with all my tackle I bring my traps in at night so the reels don't freeze up and the line doesn't freeze up and everything's working good So I brought those in last night. So they're loaded in the sled augers loaded in the sled I also bring that battery in at night too. So the batteries not Freezing up. I don't know if that is a thing or if it happens But it just makes sense to me to do that too my shiners doing okay. My batteries died on the Aerators for that. There's two aerator pumps on there and they'll last 24 hours on 2d batteries Going pretty hard. So I've got you know, I already did two days plus the drive out here So they died last night before bed. So I went out and changed all the water So they had good oxygenated water. They all look pretty good this morning So I'll probably change the water today try to keep them alive. I wish these guys were out here because I hate to Take any spot that anybody thinks that it's their spot or that they prefer to fish better or they think it's a better spot I really don't care. There's a lot of really good spots out here And just having a bait in the water you get a chance and I just don't want to be that guy that pops one in In their favorite hole or whatever, but I can't wait all day either. You know how that is And the funny thing is too on that note is I don't think I pulled the trap in three years fishing with Reboot Because I get way more joy watching someone catch their first pike or their biggest pike or Watching one of the vets pull up a fish then I would pulling up the biggest fish of my life It's just a weird feeling that it's a it's hard to explain, but it's way better It's a hundred times better feeling watching that happen than doing it just yourself All right, that's the end of that cup cup number two gone. I'm gonna shut off the old Milwaukee light We're gonna go to head power Let's have let's have head around Yeah, still snowing pretty good. We got a little bit of snow. It was like a mix of snow and rain I'll see how the bait's doing Yeah, they're doing perfect You got to get that cat ice off the top of the cooler That's probably from the stuff I poured in that cat ice is wicked bad for shiners They say that'll kill them worse than anything. I don't need much water All right, let's pick out some winners for today. Some of these guys have been down two days in a row already There's one I like leaving that big bait station right there station area and I got a little bucket I can bring my bait as I need it Man, I wish that son would just hurry up come out Let's go. I think I got everything Let's see if the old girl starts that She's been super reliable to me for the last couple years And I'm setting that about a foot and a half to two foot off the bottom. It's a live shiner What's up, buddy, how's the ride? I'm all set up. I'm set up in weird spots I left I left all the I left all the honey holes open. Shouldn't know It's not mad. I'm Joe. Nice to meet you. Ben. What's happening, but good. Yeah, you guys ready? No worries Yeah, we're ready Any size to him? Yeah Any size? Oh, this one feels a little better than the other one did. Do you need something? What? Oh, he ain't moving around in the air Get it out of that slot in the ice Oh, he came to life there. There might be eight. Oh, you sucker. You just took the bait He's straight down. He's either feel for him You're in 35 And you got you got a braid or you got a wire so you can whore some if you need to He's starting to go a little no. Was that just the bait? Yeah, I know I don't muff it. I feel small. I ain't really I make a deal with you. You can take all my traps. Is he there? Can't be true Is there a fish there? Yeah, there's a fish there. Is there a perch? Or a rockfish? Is it heavy? No Pickerel? Dude, I'd love to see the state record yellow I think it is It is No, that's got a lot of bubbles Pickerel! You've never seen that I've never caught a pickerel You just said that Look at the teeth box on the back You just said you've never seen one here That was almost the end of him That's wild You don't need a big hookster Cross his eyeballs Better take him before he stops Take a pull out thing That is a monster That's a monster That's a big fish That's a little one That is a big perch Bigger than that pickerel He sees that hole and he's going to make a monster run You better be ready for it Whoa Decent little guy Whoa Nothing You can pull it off He's running towards me No, he's on there, he just ran towards me Careful, you've got double flow Don't muff it, Johnny That's five-pen nylon rope you've got here That's what Ben uses It's the only thing you can find with anything to heft to it Wow, he ran right towards me Watch your mouth, please Sorry Sorry, you two You look like a meathead right now Whoa Yeah, that's floral, bud Nice one Oh, yeah, he's a funky one Po five Three, maybe I'll give it three What? Three pounds Okay, it's five and a half That's pretty Nice one, Johnny Yeah, he's got some poodies on it Some testicles That's the first fish I've ever seen John catch in 20 years Really? Congratulations, that's a nice fish, dude There ain't nothing wrong with that Yeah, that's the future A little over seven No way Give it an extra half a pound That's spring there I can't six and a half, that's only half a pound off Let's go back to the same spot Where did you learn to hold? It's all right All you gotta do is twist And reach down through the circle and pull it back through The simple slip knot Check it out so at the end of the day All you have to do is when you pick up your trash You have your marker, just pull it out Simple Another way to look at it, you do that method Another way to do it, this is how I learned it I learned things slowly Just take it and make a loop With your finger, you're gonna have two pieces here Just pull up one of them And go through it And you have the same If I can get my fat Sausage finger out of it You get the same thing, it's just a simple slip knot That's pretty cool I didn't know that way What's going on in here in the old smoke shack, man? We got some venison burgers going We got six deer burgers And six bear burgers going Nice, what are you putting on there? Just some St. Louis style barbecue rub Just give it a little bit of flavor And then Jim brought his Famous homemade relish to go with it And Should be a good lunch, cheese burgers I'll get some air going here for you I like it Yeah, so everybody should have two burgers Nice Alright fellas, we're hammering the burgers now What do we got here, Dan? We got Jim's homemade relish And pickles And mustard and ketchup And now we're going to chow down Nice, looking good Very good, you drive that burger And you'll be catching fire What do you think, old boy? I ain't seen him yet He's moving the water pretty good No, I'd say probably Over ten? Yeah, possibly Big head That's a good one Nice one Easy killer He's got to be ten Thirteen Nice Nice fish Jim, we'll give you a picture of that You know how to hold a fish Now like this, put your fingers in there That's a monster Thirteen pound It really is That's got to be 38, 39 inches I'll put money on that I'll take it from my bag I bet you that's 30 inches long I'll put money on it Want to bet me? No He's 37 Want to bet me? Bet he's over 37 What do you want me to? Burger 36 Well, he's a little... Didn't I just say that? Dammit 36 and a half You owe me a ton I owe you a hamburger I almost got the release Yeah Guys, this is the lure I caught that big pike on It's just a tiny little jig head With a tail on it Looks like a baby yellow perch The primary forage in here Is small yellow perch and small Crappy That great big pike Didn't go for those big shiners that were On traps near there They went for that thing I caught it on a three pound test With four pound backing Oh man Go, go, go Panic, panic, panic Don't do it like that Huh? You don't know how to do it If it's running, let us know It stopped them, that's a big one This is a monster, guys It stopped them dead Do you see that? Yeah I'm catching on them This is a good one John, get out of the way Watch out, make sure you don't step on that line What's this got, fluoro? So be careful around the hole He's staying down deep Let them run Oh yeah, that's a good one Easy Let him run It's not that big Don't let him Got a good hook set Don't try pulling him out of the ice Matt, what's your biggest ever? This is his biggest Don't pull him right up out Who's going to grab the fish? Get his head up Good, good There we go That's the biggest There we go, buddy Nice You got a weird hook set on them I know, that was crazy You can see the hook on the top of the pen On the other side See it? See it? Look at how fat that guy is He's got a bite mark back here too They all do All right I don't know how big he was when he got that Oh no He's got 14 10, 11 A little over 12 We'll call it 15 Almost 12 and a half Ready? Oh my god Pose now A little more left All right, you're not allowed to go? That's a beauty So you grab right in front of the tail There And you can hold it Get his head started You can hold him there for a second Just slowly let him go down Wait, wait I'll make some little ones Hold him right there For about a second All right, now slowly let him go Yes, he does a tail flap He'll do a wicked tail flap You can pull him up out and show him the whole thing I want to get there really slow But I want you before you release it To pull it up out so they can see the Yeah, grip that bad boy and pull it up Keep coming, keep coming Oh, there you go Hey, slide me high five Right, man Nice job, good job man Even with all that pressure off yelling at you Giving you a hard time Awesome fish catch We got to see Dan yell on it We're going to watch Danny buff one Here we go Who wants it? Who wants it? I like muffin fish guys Muffin fish It's going to be the state record muffin fish I'm all nervous now Matt, what do you think? Is he landing this fish or muffing it? I think he muffed it already Because he didn't take it while it was going I got a slack line down there Oh it is, it did go slack boys I hope he's not around that wrong Look at that tail whip Look at that Yeah, he did go straight down Did he go around that rock? No, there he goes That turtle That's a bird That's a pig Under 10 or over 10? Over 10, I bet this would be the fish of the day Excuse me It's the right time for the fish of the day It is, two o'clock I don't know if I should give it more time That's the master What do you think Jim? You should yell at me when I took it too early Go go go, oh my god He's screwed now Look at that Still on there? He's still there, he's tiny Not big at all Fish of the day I know, wasn't he giving somebody else about that? What's your bait going way up here? I don't know He's just got a lot bigger at the hole Look at that hook set Did you see that? 17.6 pounds Looks like YouTube Wait a minute, I'll go get the tape measure You're going to have to give me a little money to edit this Woo! Get ready, come over here Get the trap, get the line Oh yeah, fish of the day I guarantee you it Oh yeah Whoa This is what happens boys It's a hard lesson I wouldn't say a word until he's on the ice I would not say anything until he's on the ice Hey Joe, reach down there with your hand and knock that off Yep It's a hard lesson on how to muck it The mucking man Danny, talk us through it I'm going to tell you right now this is the fish of the day I'll put my money on it I'm going to call over 16 I think he's over 18 A big fish He took a nice run when you set him Somebody just Is he burnt it again? He's heavy He's here, oh no, that's the first He's going to see this hole and he's gone Are we getting close? Yeah Keep following No, that's another knot Keep following me Leader? Why are you fighting so good? Look at this Look at this Look at this Let me mess around with this little guy I thought he was bigger than that Awkward He didn't have a seal on it He wouldn't be laying in there He's going to muck it Nothing there Pulled it right out He did too Not very big If this was big I'll do a triple axle You'll run a mile Run a mile I'm sure he's there I don't look like there's nothing there That's gone Is he burnt in? He might be burnt in You're to the start You're running a mile tomorrow That's small He's still 30 foot away That's small Don't lose a finger You got steel there So you don't have to be too cautious Don't tell me like that He's like an ape Maybe 10 We made it sound way better than it was He's the biggest one He's quite some guys Look at this Dan He does not want to be near the hole That's not a bad fish One tooth That's a real good fish Nice That's a good fish Nice one He's over 6 We can give him 9 Almost double digits You're good See if you do this one right What do you say when you release it? What do you say when you release it? What do I say? See you later big gator See you later big gator There you go Home sweet home The boys just left That is going to do it for the fishing part of the day Pretty slack day Especially after yesterday I mean it's a hard day to follow Hard act to follow for sure We ended up having a pretty good day Caught Two or three double digit fish Nothing huge 12-13 pounds I guess was the biggest Those are always fun Those are really nice fish Good fish to catch And every one of those is a blessing So we were happy to have them Lot of flags tripped So they weren't feeding They were hitting stuff Low pressure day Overcast aren't usually the best For some reason for pike fishing Usually an overcast day is a good day For any kind of fishing But I think the low pressure affected them And I don't know Sometimes they just don't bite Big ones don't feed every single day With that being said tomorrow Might be a big fish day I got a couple kids coming out To join me tomorrow I gotta run all the way out in the morning And get them and bring them in But we'll figure out a way to make that happen One of them is Jack Who you might remember from My tiny trout pond video Who decided to go down the hill And thought he could make it to the pond In the jet sled and broke Oh he broke an iPad Almost broke his back Which we're glad he didn't Cause But that'll be fun to get him out here tomorrow I know he wants to whale some pan fish And I know he wants to try to catch a big pike So that'll be a lot of fun Tonight I'm gonna tidy up camp I'm gonna have to leave Before the end of the day tomorrow I'm gonna have to pack up camp and get out of here Cause there's some rain coming And rain's no good with this And the trail getting out of here It'll be gone, it'll be obliterated So tomorrow's my only chance of getting out of here Tomorrow night And after that it's just gonna be a mess And we might not be able to even fish for a couple more weeks So super happy I was able to get in here and fish When I could And put this video together and put it together for you guys And hopefully enjoy it so far Hopefully tomorrow is a smasher day And we get to show you guys some really good fish And some good fishing Alright guys dinner tonight Gonna be a couple of red hot Snappers Lewiston Lobster hot dogs Known by several different names I got my breakfast already For the morning It's gonna be a really early morning cause I'm gonna go out And pick up the boys in the morning And show them the way in So I'll have to get a good early start in the morning Weather wise we're pretty mild tonight It's not making any ice but we shouldn't be losing any ice It's 26 degrees No wind Coyotes howling again They've been howling every night right Within the first hour of dark They howl for about an hour And then periodically I'll hear them through the night Actually I shouldn't say howling They're more like yipping and communicating With a couple different groups Thanks for tuning in to this day guys Something dumb might happen tomorrow Or something great might happen tomorrow He's gonna be bringing A couple of giant baits That he caught He jigged up this week And saved You're gonna have to tune in to tomorrow's episode To see how big they are and what they are But they are huge I think they're bigger than anything I've ever put down The ice and he's going from monster pike To it's gonna be a fun day