 Good morning. It is a cool three degrees outside No wind where I'm set up this island really protected me last night and Can't even hear anyone around it right now. Cusk fishing didn't go great last night. I had a couple flags no fish on Could have been lake trout that hit. Could have been Cusk that hit just didn't eat. Usually they eat though I'm gonna drive some coffee in to make up breakfast started. I got a couple lengths of sausage in there with some potatoes letting those all kind of crisp and cook up Then I'm gonna throw a couple eggs and maybe a piece of toast a piece of bread in there to make in the toast and then meet the boys down Lake and try to get on some lake trout to do some jigging Coffee sounds like it's just about done. So we'll try that She's done. Hey, let's throw that steak in there from last night Add a little flavor to the pan. Looks pretty edible Absolutely gorgeous morning. There's a bald eagle sitting right there. He's probably surprised to see me Hi bald eagle. Morning bud How's it looking today? It's holding at three degrees. How's it looking in here pretty good? Nice Beautiful I'll go say morning to the fellas over here. See how it's looking over here. Good morning How's it looking over here? Nice got some holes drilled this jack is huge Four techs resort. Wow a lot of room in there a lot of different gear for you guys to check out this trip I drilled a couple holes with my new G2 10 inch auger on my Milwaukee and I got here I was gonna show the boys how it works and Missing the dang bolt already so I looked through the bottom of sled couldn't find it ran back couldn't find it So I think it's in the bottom of that sled. I'm gonna have to take everything out Dumpa and hopefully that bolts in the bottom of there somewhere kicking around No wind right now, but it is gonna be coming It's a bag of it always blows out here. I want it does decide to blow it All right, Brandon, what do you got bud? Oh Oh, really? Yeah, there's another one down there. Yeah, that's lifted up my line is fully slack and then Took it way over near you Said he feels pretty easy Do you see him yet? Yeah Oh, yeah Nice a good start. Yeah, good job, buddy Good one bud. Yeah, not a bad one start. Yeah, number one same thing dead stick That might be the trick. Oh nice one. Oh, no Hey pop. Yeah. Yeah, he had your rod tip melts. I'm pretty good. I lost a good one Nice. I love these rods. There's another one on you. Yep He hit that one on the chase. Yeah, he chased you up, didn't he? Yeah Got 10 foot I'm gonna try to bring them up. You got a good one. Oh, he's fighting pretty good. Do you see one? Yeah, it's a Laker 20 inch probably. Yeah, I'm going. He's got pretty good time on him. Yeah, looks like a decent one Going on Joe. Yeah, there you go Had to break the ice Oh, no There it goes Oh Dang it. No lost one That was my first bite got him halfway out and decided You didn't really want to see that fish, did you? That's pretty hit. Yeah, that didn't take any time. No Nice. Oh, yeah, it's got some weight Joe Oh, wow. Yeah, I hope he doesn't get tangled up in the line. Do you want me to pull up? Oh, oh, no I think I missed one while you were doing that too That was a good one. Did he straighten your hook? You're getting more aggressive, that's for sure You want me to shut your message off you keep fighting Fish on Owen Oh, yeah, he's gaining weight. He rolled on you. He rolled. He did the Did the total? Oh, yeah, there he is. Decent fish. Yeah, long. Long So he feels good. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. That's the biggest one. Yeah Like solid fish. Oh, yeah that hook weren't coming all that time. No Oh, he's full. Decent hook. Yeah, good one, buddy. Oh, yeah That's a baby You still got him? Yeah, that's a baby. That's a real small toad You caught an ally? That seemed like eight inches Yeah, he's still on there. That has a tiny toad CJ, look at the size of this thing He's the loudest one 10 pounder all night. Oh, he's puking Put it back down for bait. He's puking something And snout. Yeah, that was a snout. Are you going to count that one? Oh, yeah, it's a baby Oh, that's funny. All right, give you a little mid-morning update. We're making a shift We're going to try another spot. It kind of slowed down here. I've been taking it pretty easy on him myself Brandon's got I think four top side And has lost two I lost one So definitely taking it easy on him See if we could turn up the heat a little bit and try a couple different spots and see if the bait situation is different on the next spot Guys, you'll have to bear with us here. Brandon was having some technical difficulties with the gopro turning it on It's just a one button push And I think he was holding it in then pushing it a couple times And what that was doing was that was setting it to the time lapse So there won't be any volume for a bunch of my fish catches and It'll be choppy on a time lapse video. So bear with us on these We made a move to the other side of the basin and we're fishing anywhere from 130 to 150 foot So a little bit shallower on this side and I got a little bit of a hot hand over on that side Fishing a swim bait on a one ounce jig I never I get to have them I've been working at it to get them. Yeah, but I just got so I ate as a crowd. Yeah over the other way Use electronics or no, I once in a while. I do like when I'm out here like today. I don't Yeah, that's a pretty one one of them blonde one White color He jumped on that Look at that This one's got something in them for sure. He's hard Yeah, this thing's working out pretty good. You need it. Yeah Yeah, there you go There he is guys number three I got a camera up there. We're filming I just had a piece of smelt on for bait. Yeah, I got a swim bait I switched over to this swim bait and it's got a ton of action on it. Maybe they like that movement I don't know. Yeah, because they hit the three hits I got were moving. Yeah, and then I got I don't even know if I do you get on quite. Yeah, this is heavy. Yeah, this one's uh Ounce in a 16 I move I got Well, I was using something about that size. Yeah with a shot to a tail. Yeah, and that was going real good I saw that little white chartreuse thing you're using. Yeah, and uh, then I I put a cheater up. I saw that for the two. Yeah When I really get finicky I put that on does it work. Yeah, and I put a little swivel in the line Up there and just tie it off on that swivel I got one she's oh, yeah, he's got he's about to get one. Oh You better hurry because I'm going back down You want to fish right next to us? No, no, I mean we don't mind even a little bit. I'll pop you a hole right there Wouldn't bother us a bit well as a hole right there. Yeah fish out of it. Yeah, he just drilled that to to check feel free Wouldn't hurt our feelings Yeah, it's one 30 Yeah 135 I come out here and I did four or five there All week ago. Yeah, but I had been down that are away for three weeks. Yeah What's your favorite depth? I I like to hold you like that 85 90. Oh man I've been fishing deep and I think it's just lack of smells because no smells no smells would be everywhere All the allies are deep the allies are all in the bottom 40 feet up. Yeah, you get that flickering On your fish finders And that's bait all you get the you get these bullets that come through it and that's your fish I'd love to catch one in 80 foot. It'd be a lot easier to catch up at 140 so much work Yeah I used to hand line them out here. No way this way the right in this area And I I could put I put a couple hundred feet of just regular line Yeah, and then I'd use like a five foot leader and I drop the sweetest pimple down Yeah, right on bottom and I just sat down and yeah And I would hammer. Oh, I got one on me. How long have you been fishing this lake? Oh Most of my life in 74. Are you really almost 70 congratulations? Yeah, I So I've always fished it. Did you get to see it when it had good white fish? Oh, man, that must have been awesome white fish Tough to catch that soft moth on them, but jeez. Yeah You you get one that's got a small hook and you need a small hook so they can take it in Yeah, it gets them inside out on that lip you'll pull it out of them if they've got If they have three plus foot pounds, you know, yeah Geez you once in a while you'd catch a nice five six Yeah, I heard it was awesome back in the day. I knew a guy It's been a long time Long time he said he used to drop a can of l Can of sardines down top to top and then the white fish would be there all day Did you ever get to see this lake when it was a salmon lake? Yeah, like wicked good man. What a bummer, huh? Yeah No, both the last good salmon fishing was five six years ago. Oh, yeah Pete good luck to you Have a great day. I might come out though. I might walk out this way in that day We're gonna be out next three or four days if you see us Say hi or fish with us. The other shacks got enough room for more people. Yeah. Yeah All right, Brandon didn't like me out fishing them in this spot. So we're gonna make a quick Now he's got another spot right over there thinks there's some fish over there So we're gonna make a little move and see how we do Whoa, how's it going over here fellas? You look comfortable Yeah Nine we're getting trimmed hard bud. These guys are killing us Well, we've had them. Yeah, we've lost we've marked all I've lost too You lost too. Yeah, we lost a couple of these ones Oh nice, you got the Garmin going. Yeah, you showing any fish right now Uh, no, I don't think so. I was gonna see if you could take a look at it and see if You want me to put any tuning up? Yeah, we could seem like you probably know what you're doing with it. I have no idea Mike what you got going on here? I'm touching on it. Wow Now you're speaking my language Look at the size of that dude That was a big duck, huh? It smelled good Your line's going Just sticking to the pan. Yeah Joel's elephant right here. Yeah, okay. It's good You get any fish today bud? Uh, yeah, four of them four more Lost two Are they coming and going in groups? Uh No, they've been pretty steady on the finders So which Garmin unit is this one? Uh, the Stryker Vivid five Stryker Vivid five and then what unit is this one? That's the left one That's the lower this FL 30 does a new one broadband. Yeah, I knew this one Do you like it? Oh, yeah, I love it because you can zoom in I got it zoomed in at the bottom six feet One's ripping He just caught two big ones like that. Oh, the other one was bigger. Yeah back to back Hooked up. Oh, he's looking pretty good on the screen Number five hooked up. Yep Count your eggs before the hatch Oh, really? Yeah, build that airplane jig. I don't think you can do that with that though Think of the keep it moving That's why I just keep this thing on Yeah, we can move it That's my first bite like two hours Yeah, since we left right we should have stayed in the chat. I know Never leave fish to find fish, right? It's the Florida law Oh, that's my biggest I think I'm running out of batteries. Dude, he's flipping out playing them quick Nice one. That's a good one. That's a pretty one I'll take him Good job, buddy. There he goes Yeah, good one. Yeah, it's gonna be one biggest first. There's another one down there I'm dropping them Oh, yeah, there's another one suspended same spot. Oh, he's taking drag Got a good one on Try to get down to the other one. This one's heavy I think this will be my biggest. Oh, yeah, wicked dark fish Long, he choked that, man Oh, yeah, look at this one. Good one. Yeah Wow, look how dark they're nice. Yeah, well, these are the fish. These are the fish that are chasing the smell Dark ones up top because they get that shiny color color being down bottom Oh, yeah, that one's wicked pretty Nice laker Nice, good one. Yep You get to the six. Yep, you're doing pretty good since we got you. Yeah, good job Add to the number board Yeah, this is tiny. There's another fish. Real up to him. Was that another fish? Yeah, 140. What was that? Your B? Oh, you got fish all over you I'm not sure what that one was. Got a little, little take on Huh? Got a little take on. Little tiny guy? Little take, yeah Well, junior, the one I just caught I think it's gonna be about 12 inches It's going up like a rocket Oh gosh All right, I'm hooked up. I've got some wicked head shakes on Should it be decent? I don't think he's decent unless you hooked him. Sometimes you hook him bad I don't think he's decent, but what number is that, Joe? If I land him, it'll be six. Five or six? I think it's six because I'm at five I'm at seven I think it's only five Yeah, because I'm at seven. I mean, he might end up being a decent fish. Yeah, he's decent Is that you going down or another? Yeah, he's at 90. Yeah, he's making some big, big marks down there Yeah, you can get a good shot of him right down the hole See him yet? Yeah, he's a decent fish That's some nice head shakes. Oh, yeah I think it's turned off. I don't know. Oh, it's still recording. It just sucks though. Yeah, that's a nice fish Feels all right Burpin? Yep Oh, look at how fatty he is Wow Nice fatty Oh, look at him puking. He's puking off those lake suckers That's a nice fish It's not bad, huh? Stop. Oh, there you go. Oh, sorry about your drag There goes the Celsius Friggin Joe's fish is so good Oh, that was awesome. What are you gonna call us? Hello? Hello? Hi, baby Hey What's up? Nothing, what are you doing? Oh, you got him? Tiny? No, I'm going to school. Oh, you are? Yeah, I was at lunch. I'll see you soon on our project And then I was just at Chelsea and she had to bring, um, we up for the last Yeah, she's like that Chasing Little gunner Ask her if she wants to be on YouTube. You want to be on YouTube? Famous country girl You have to she has to yell look at that fish in about 10 seconds. Yeah, you gotta go look at that fish in about 10 Oh, double we finally got a double We got a double Hailey. You're such good luck. Yeah, this will have another day if two fish I got two flags and I caught two browns. No way. That's a big fish. This is a fat one. All right. I'm gonna call you later, babe Thanks, babe All right, bye little dude. Nice. I miss this guy twice. I think Oh my god, he all over me Look at this. He pooped all over me That's brutal. How's yours coming? It's a big fish. Is it? Yep I gotta see this first. I guess she wants a good bite. Yeah He's a keeper. You said a good one. Yeah, he feels pretty heavy. This is number eight for you. I think That's our first double finally Get a look at them. You need to hand land on them deep color. No, I get them. You got them Definitely my biggest of the day. I think really Oh I don't know it's moving some water 22 23 Oh Yeah Good release. He's about to poop Stop moving. Oh dude, you hit the back hole with that He's putting the poop all over you Oh man Outta boy Bring him over. We're doubled up It doesn't look good. It's a bite. He's not that far. We can hear him yelling. Oh, he's right there. Yeah There's some, there's baby. When I went out took a piss. I think I hit the side of his tank He was small a lot. Yeah It's nice when we get to about 20 feet that they'll come and bring you up He's not that small but he's fat Yeah, he's not that small. He's still on you. Yeah, he's coming Oh, he stopped Oh, he's still coming. Yeah, he might hit you. I'm dropping on him. Is he coming for me or is that you? No, he's coming for me. Oh, he's got it. Outta boy You had about four seconds before I was in the mix Nice good one. Yeah decent Need a hand landing? No, I love when they chase like that. That was the first real good chase we've had from the bottom Got that on video I think, didn't it? Yeah Hey, Kimbo, 40 foot up Had to work for him though. Drop it under him, bring it back up. Yeah, you did a great job on him Great job, buddy. Oh Get on top side. Oh Yeah Yeah, you need a hand? Oh, he's taking drag. You're out, taking her out Tighten up Brandon, tighten up Big head chicks. Oh, no, he's just freaking out Not a big one He's freaked out in the hole Oh, yeah That was pretty good for coming out. I was gonna choke that, Jay Look, that thing's gone. Yeah Well, that screw's starting to come out. We gotta get the fish report. Did we win or lose? We had, what'd we have 15? Yeah, 15. Oh, we won. I got 11. So we got 18. You got 18. Yeah So we'll do, we gotta do a Two-day total Yeah Yeah, that sounds like a plan. Two-day total. Yeah, and I was like, was it all right in the shack last night? Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, it was I slept in just t-shirt. I might just should have put a sweatshirt on because it got down to like three or two We just that's a heat. That's a heat wave That's what I went to bed with just a t-shirt on I woke up out of a water or something I was like, I might have to button this sleeping bag up a little bit We are done for the day on lake trout and What do we have a three fish lead on the on the elders? I think we're looking at a three fish lead on the elders here. All right, we're gonna head do some cusk fishing tonight We got a little ride ahead of us Uh, that's about it. We want to try to get down there before it gets too dark Let's go bad pressure ridge. Yeah, that's open water right there. Hey Let's go either way. We still got to come back across and if it opens up we're screwed If it opens up more We're screwed later. Dude. I just caught one of my sounder No bull I dropped the sounder down and just caught this cusk I guys I I can't tell you That I don't believe it because I do believe it because I saw it but I literally caught that guy On this sounder right here. He's still connected And the hook's through the line And got him right there We're hooking him. He must take a shot at it We'll throw him in there and eat him for dinner All right, let's try to sound this hole again. Let's try it again anybody hit that Nope, so it's only about five foot deep here We don't need that weight on there. We've got another flag She is blowing straight sideways out here guys. It is not nice It was supposed to be nice, but it's not We don't care. We're out here Let's take a look No movement It's not running mind-own either Put your flags going down He's on there. Do you need four steps or you got some? Little dinner time There you go cheese knife Got steak last night. So there might be steak Okay, give you guys a little update We could not get to the cusk spot that we wanted to get to It's another couple miles, but uh, we started hitting pressure ridges that were really bad I know a lot of you guys don't want to hear something like this But it's just not worth it to try to jump one of those pressure ridges with the snow wheel and the with the boy here All our gear in our lives So we just called the notable we looked on Navionics and found a spot that we thought would be comparable So we're on a big rock hump over here and first drop I nailed that one on the sounder And then Brandon just caught that little guy. So we're hoping there's some big ones here too I got a feeling there are usually it's mixed sizes. They're not a one size fits all on a hump So I've had a couple flags could be a small one tripping me Not sure what it is. Oh something just swung by the jig. See it Oh, we'll see what this is Oh, that's got some size to it. Let's see if I can give us attention Might have to put that rattle trap on get get really get their attention Well, that that didn't really amount to much but Something swam by on the life scope So we're in here. We're about to eat some snacks for dinner We didn't really plan it out too well or we had something cooked out ahead of time, but I grabbed some crackers and cheese and pepperoni We'll work on that while we're pulling flags. We'll check every 15 minutes or so out there. It's it's about 645 right now And it's pretty cold. The wind is ripping. She's blowing straight sideways out there. It's It's something else. So we're we're not expecting that were we? It was supposed to be kind, but she's not very kind right now But I got Brandon's tog jig down there right now and We'll give that a little while before I switch over to a rattle trap if nothing If nothing comes in interested on it. I'll put something louder and try to call something in Nice got him. All right, you're in charge of the gopher. That's a good one. Yeah, he's oh, no No, I lost him. I lost him. I got hooked on the ice right there. Oh, this is that damn Hook that's opened up It's not moving. Oh, there she rolls. Yep. She's starting to roll Literally just went up As I was next to it just barely moving like a little tiny guy All right, little eel will see you later Yeah, but it hasn't hooked up. I took him to my rubber band now. I'll give you this It's a big one. Yeah, another small one. It's not my muck. You can eat that one. Nah, it's close Yeah, he's edible. Can't beat them cussing on you at some point. No, that's the trouble That's number four for us. Not counting the one I lost That'd be cool. You got a flag, buddy? It's off to the side pretty good. Not another midget Oh, that's an eater. That's an eater. Yeah They're getting bigger. Wow. That's a pretty one, isn't it? Beautiful This one another high flyer same hole Hope this is a bigger one. Hope we're right to the rubber band already. That's a good sign. Oh, man. I can't even pull up Oh, that's a big fish. I think it's 12 All right, we're gonna reset him. Thanks for grabbing me a hook Brandon We are, that flag's been up every single time we've checked, but I made it a little bit shorter at least for him Another one up. We just walked by that one. It's like our eighth, seventh or eighth flag, isn't it? I lost down. I just know we've got five on the top side This one is the one we started on the founder. Look at it making ice, huh? Yeah Holy cow. Pretty raw, I hope. Yeah, he is. Oh, yeah. Decent. Oh, decent fish. Ah, maybe. He's close. I don't think he's that big Oh, it's a lake trout. No, it's not. Do you see him? It looks all like a lake trout. I didn't get a good look Well, I really call it for a cusk. Decent size, whatever it is Oh, small cusk. Yeah. Looking brown. Yeah, close to eater size. He's a borderline. He's a big females I know what, we're into the males. The little guys had nothing Really, he stripped me. Didn't strip it. Eight some of it though. Oh, it's the lucky trap Yeah, this one was actually pretty deep. Number eight for the day Look at all the marks on the hooks right there. He tried to take it and run, didn't he? That's pretty sweet. Lager Number eight for the day. Could be points. All right guys, we are picking up That's it for us tonight. It's about 9 30. What do we have? Eight degrees? Yeah, eight degrees. Wind finally stopped. Got pretty nice. Gonna flag up here Let's let him grow Let him go. Let him grow Well, Brandon, I had to teach you some cusk fishing tonight. Yeah, it's okay. I thought you had a toad there There weren't much for size, but You got me by three tog. I got you by seven cusk About even, I guess Not on a Sunday. What we'll say about tomorrow. Tomorrow is a we're gonna have to go hard tomorrow to beat those guys We gotta be told guys. Yeah, they're coming after us. They're home. They're home in bed right now Sleep and getting rest while we still got another hour or two to pick up Get off the lake and get home You all set? Yeah, everybody. I'll see you in a couple hours. See you in the morning. Yeah Made it back. It's 10 o'clock. We're looking at Eight degrees above zero Fahrenheit Pretty chilly in here I'm tired. I don't know if I'm even gonna eat dinner tonight on that tired Just trip after trip and day long day ice fishing believe it or not can take a lot out of you Early to late I am gonna Think I'm gonna cook something off. I'm definitely gonna get my coffee ready right now I probably should have done that before I left today. It's frozen. Let's hope this has got It's not completely frozen Pretty awesome day guys Ended up with eight lake trout counting that last one And jeez. I don't even know how many cost I caught a handful of cost got Three keepers out of the deal Um, there's no size limit in Maine so I could have kept them all but I like a certain size to Start with so I'm looking forward to eating those up again tomorrow for lunch tomorrow We're gonna go at it. We got a little competition going Brandon and I versus the two older guys We'll see how we do. I think we got a two or a three fish lead on them right now So not a whole heck of a lot but a little bit That should be fun. I think I'm gonna Put my coffee together and drink a little bit of hot tea with some honey in it And maybe think about like a quick bowl of soup or something for dinner That might not be a bad idea. The coffee's frozen right in there All at once. That's pretty good coffee. We'll try some more of that for tomorrow. Yeah, so all in all Pretty pretty great day. I'd say Those the tog right now and sabego are really finicky I think a lot of people will tell you that they're seeing if they're running electronics They're seeing a really really high amount But they're not hooking a lot of them And you can see why when you catch one and if you go to burp them They puke out a ton of L live or smelt whatever they're eating So they're they're loaded with bait and gorged on Ly so they don't really have to eat. I think It's just a tog being a tog when they do bite They're not really hungry They're just really glutton right now But it's fun. It's different. It's different way to catch them for me You know catching fish at 168 170 foot deep Is not something that you practice very often if you don't live on this lake And it's not something that you know, you see many other places. I guess In the u.s. So it's pretty neat. It's pretty cool to catch them that deep tomorrow I will go into more in depth on the gear we're using And the lures we're using and the techniques we're using because there's quite a few different things and I'm learning as I go Brandon's teaching me some I'm developing some for myself. So tomorrow we'll go into a lot more in depth on on gear and technique And we're also in a little bit of a competition We got either two or a fish three fish lead on the older guys and those guys are good. They know what they're doing. So We it'll be a lot of fun. It's fun to have a little bit of competition with fishing They kind of go hand in hand sometimes Thanks for tuning in guys so far so good on sabego Ran into a little bit of trouble with some pressure pressure ridges showing up today and opening up We weren't able to get to the cusk spot. So we had to Find a new one and then I was a little bit worried coming back to camp that I wasn't going to be able to make it back to camp because of the Pressure ridge opened up, but I hugged it really close to the island and I was good to go