 Good morning! It is day number three. We are hovering right around eight below zero, and it's going to be a great day. I am super excited to try some brook trout fishing. We're supposed to get some wind today. The weatherman's calling for 17 miles an hour northwest, where I want to go fish. Might eat a little west, but it shouldn't eat too much north. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, I can get in there. Wind chill. I'm not sure. You guys can probably figure that out for me. Leave it in the comments. But wind chill at eight below zero with, like, let's call it a 17 mile an hour wind. I'm guessing that's pretty cold. Cooking breakfast. Got some taters in there now, and got the coffee going. Got another question for you guys. This is a question that a lot of people in the frozen north have asked before, and I'm going to find out for myself, I guess. Can you eat frozen eggs? I don't know. I don't even know if I can crack these babies yet. But these suckers are definitely frozen. I'm a little bit jealous. They got to spend the first night on the ice because they were in the gear that I brought out there, and it was 20 below at least. I, of course, had my first snowmobile slush mishap of this trip, hopefully the last, and I was not able to spend the night on the ice, but my eggs did. So I'm pretty sure they're frozen solid at 20 below zero. So we're going to see if they're edible, see if we can even crack them, see if I can cook them, and see how they taste. Frozen eggs. It's important to jam a bunch of good, hot breakfast in you that's going to fuel you for your day. My grandmother, who had a huge, huge impact on my life, she was adamant and very serious about driving a good breakfast in you. It was so important to her that you started your day off with a good meal and you had plenty of energy for the day. You know, lunch was like, if it happened, it happened. Dinner was more like a social thing, you know, something fancy, something good to eat, but more socializing and just kind of routine. But breakfast, if you skip breakfast or you were one of those guys who never ate breakfast, man, she would get pretty wound up. It was funny. So, you know, on these really, really cold, nasty days especially, I like to drive a pretty good breakfast into me that's hopefully going to fuel me for the rest of the day. That is just beautiful. Let's get her warmed up. A friend of mine, Henry, fixed my throttle. I guess the throttle cable was twisted. That's why I was getting such a high idle last trip. A few miles up the lake, this shoreline looks pretty good. It's pretty craggy, nice and rocky, big boulders, a lot of little points. So I'm going to set up, I guess I'm going to set up the points and a couple in the coves. We're allowed five lines here in Maine. I'll be throwing in probably four traps, what we call them here, tip-ups, what you guys call them at home, and then probably jig with a fifth line either for brook trout or out deep for togue. First, we got to check for depth too. There's a rock like 25 feet from me there, so I didn't want to drill too close to it. I do want to get close to it, but not too close. Especially now that I only have one spare auger blade after breaking that other one. I'll leave the auger in the sled at night, but I bring the battery in. Seems to last longer. That didn't cut good, it might be iced up. That's nice. About six foot, not counting the ice. So five foot of water, that's pretty sweet. We're going to set that for brookie. Well, lucky sitting right on top. I only send lucky down. It's never a bad idea. State laws this year for brook trout or lake laws, I should say, are one fish only to keep per day, and it has to be 14 inches. If you catch one between 18 and 22, it's got to go back right away. Anything over 22, you can keep. But you're only allowed one, of course, and that's included in your aggregate. We're just putting a regular, decent size shiner on. I'd probably call this like a small to medium. Ah, maybe a small. Nah, probably medium. We'll put him on. I had a small hook on this one. Forgot one important part. Guys, I like to strip back some line in case it's frozen to other line. So that way it's nice and smooth if the trout's running and he doesn't feel it. I thawed it out a little bit last night, so it's not too bad. Alright, we're set. It wasn't my best set, but it is now. Speed and agility ranking on that one was very low. Alright, so more like four feet on this one. That should be good. I like it. We'll set these a little bit higher than halfway down, so they're sitting up in the strike zone. Guys, that's pretty big for brook trout fishing. That's a pretty big shiner there. Let me get a hook through them first. I like to go right in front of the dorsal fin. Sometimes they eat them head first. Trout aren't as finicky as we all head first, but that's a pretty good size shiner for brook trout. But we're going for a pretty big brook trout today. You guys didn't subscribe to this channel just to see little brook trout, right? Nice. Maybe one more that way. And then fill in the gaps. Gourby, what are you doing? You hungry, Bob? I got something for you. Hi, Gourby. Hi. You want some food? You guys want some food? Come here, Gourby. Good, Gourby. Yes. You're hungry. It's cold. I know. There's enough for both of you guys. Gretchen, get over here. You want them little smaller pieces? Huh? I could break them up for you. Oh, here you go, Gretchen. Come on. Gretchen, come on. Come here, Gretchen. Come on. Come on, Gourby. Come on. Come on, Gourby. Oh, here he comes. Gourby. Come here, Gourby. Oh, don't be like that. There's enough for both of you. Gourby. Give me a Gretchen. Give me a Gretchen. Here you go, Gretchen. Here you go. Good Gretchen. That's what we call Gourbies here in Maine. Other places I think they call them Canadian Jays. They're the sweetest, nicest bird there is. It's been said that it's a long folklore or the story behind it is that they're reincarnated old loggers and woodsmen. After they die, they come back as Gourbies. So you always have a friend in the woods and suppose if you get hungry enough and you're lost, you always got something to eat because as you could see, it wouldn't be too hard to catch one and eat one. But they're always nice. They're always around camp and always around people. Gourby. Gourby. Here it comes. Gourby. Oh, you're not going to leave any for Gretchen. Come on, Gretchen. Come on, Gretchen. Hi, Gourby. Hi. Tell me that isn't fun, guys. That's funny. There were moose tracks right there. The moose just walked through camp. I don't see them anywhere. It's gone two weeks ago. How'd you go? That ain't far. I didn't get a flag of the full moon. I hear you because I ain't got one either. Yeah. You know how to get to Moosehead Lake? No. Everybody said go to Moosehead. You'll catch a big brook. Yeah, I think I'll. I must all be on the right lane. I think I'm up in the donut coal. I caught one back in 86. They have five and a half pounds. Jesus, ought to be bigger now. Well, no, I kept it. I found it there. I put it on the wall. Nice. Yeah. They weren't. That's my lifetime achievement. So you think this spot sucks, huh? Well, no. This fishing is just like, I've been four or five times and I ain't got a flag yet. So I don't feel bad about it. You know, but someday I'm going to catch and get a flag and I'm probably, might be a good one or it might be a perch. You know? Yeah. But I'm just killing time. That's all I got. That's all I want to do. Kill time. Yeah. Because it's killing me. Got a flag. It's not moving. Something whacked it pretty well. First flag of the day finally. Just like that, the wind has started. Blowing pretty hard here, but I'm looking up the lake and there's snow tornadoes. Looks pretty nasty. I was thinking about just moving a couple of traps, but now I'm not so sure. I moved three traps. I'm kind of jumping up the shoreline as I go, hitting each point, rock pile, the stream, brooks, moving them in a little closer. I only had the one flag so far all day and that was right here. It looked like it ran at about five feet and dropped it. I was actually sitting on the snowmobile right next to the trap when it went up and had my eyes shut. I was almost asleep because that sun was pounding on me and there's nothing better than that sun shining on you on a cold day ice fishing. Make sure you want to take a nap. That's what I was about to do. This is what we've been waiting for, folks. We got a flag. Let's go see what it is. Excuse me, Ron, and please do something. It's not moving, but it's open. It's nasty out here. I'm guiding the block, too, from the wind, believe it or not. But it is getting nasty and raw. It's blowing probably over 15 right now. Look at the size of that snow nato over there. Damn. I hope that's not coming this way. That is an absolute monster snow nato. We don't get tornadoes up here in Maine very often. We get a couple microbursts a year, but that looks pretty bad. Almost as bad as the fishes. Almost. That's going to do it for day three, guys. Moose head is kicking my butt in more ways than one. Two flags all day. Oh, man, I fish pretty hard, too. I move the traps a bunch of times. I move the bait up and down a couple of times. I had traps from about a foot and a half deep down to eight foot deep. I went out and jigged for an hour or so for Lakers and zero fish. Can you believe it? Man, it's just turned out to be a lot tougher trip than I thought. Not a lot of good video footage for you, but I appreciate you guys staying tuned and watching because something good is going to happen. I promise you that. I've got the traps all in there drying right now by the heater. I shut the heater off today. Might have been a mistake. I don't know. I always figure there's no sense running that propane, especially when I'm not there. But all my water refroze, my food refroze, so everything froze up again. It got pretty cold. I guess it was nine below zero according to that thermometer when I checked the history. It dropped to nine below while I was out fishing. My beard got all iced up. And the only good thing was the sun was out. Anytime the sun's shining on you, that's a great day. So we had the sun shining. And then the wind started. And the wind is absolutely brutal out here on this lake and especially when it's that cold. So I had to tuck in and get out of the wind a little bit and it seemed to go pretty well. So here's to tomorrow. I don't know. Tomorrow's supposed to actually be windier than today according to the weatherman. So we'll see. We'll have to make a plan tonight, look at the map and see if I can find a spot to fish outside the wind. I'd like to get on a good jigging day for Lakers, but man, it's hard to resist going for these giant native brookies that are up to seven, eight pounds and maybe even the state record swimming around out there. Slow fishing, but hey, it's worth it if you can pop one.