 What is up guys, Joe Holland here. This is the most humbled I've ever been in my life. After the meet and greet that we just had, the ice fishing seminar day, it blew away all of my expectations. It had been a dream for me for a few years now to host something like this and bring something like this together and promote some of the other ice fishing YouTube channels in Maine and meet the viewers and be able to share my experiences and any expertise that I've picked up along the years through of ice fishing and share those directly one-on-one with the viewers, with my local community and with anyone who feels like coming out. And we had an absolutely amazing day. We had over 330 people show up. We fed them some free dogs and some free burgers and just had a great time. I was able to meet a pile of people and share as much information as I could in what time that I had. I literally set up the night before and in the morning I remember drilling one hole and the next thing I knew it was dark and I was pulling up here on a snowmobile with half my load. It was the craziest day I've ever had, the best day I've ever had on the water and the most humbling day I've ever had in my life. It really helped solidify in my head that the channel is the right thing to do and that all the hard work that goes into the channel is worth it when I meet people like that. It's always helped reading in the comments section and to get the private messages from viewers but to actually meet people face to face and see that the channel is a platform where I can reach people and help teach and maybe inspire some people. It was just a crazy humbling event. I hardly even have words for it and I haven't even processed what happened. That's how great it was. With my channel there's always been three things that I strive for to make a great video and it doesn't happen on all my videos but I feel like if I can do this on a video and do all three things then it's gonna be as good as I can put out and the first is to educate and help share any knowledge that I've gained over the years through this and that people have passed down to me. The second is if I can inspire anyone to make a video or to go out fishing or to try winter camping or to try something new or fish for a new fish or just any way you possibly can to inspire someone and then the third is to entertain, to put something up that's worth watching and if I can hit all three of those I think I can put together a pretty good video. I can't thank you guys enough for being part of this seminar, for being, for showing up or just clicking on the view button to watch this video and what you're about to see I'll show you the night before setting up and meeting some people the night before some people that have traveled a very long ways to come to this and then you're gonna see the day with as much that I can show in the time that we have to show it. Thanks again for checking it out guys. Can't thank you enough for being part of it. It was one of the best days I've ever had on the ice in my life. How's it going? Wonderful, how are you? Good. I'm Joe. Yeah. What's your first Jessica? Jessica, nice to meet you. Where are you guys from? Bowdoin. Bowdoin, nice. That's not too far. An hour. Yeah. These folks are from Maryland. Oh wow. This is Jed. It's James. It's James. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. We're on our maiden voyage of sleeping in the right section. Please let last night on the ice. Yeah, how'd it go? If you need any help bringing stuff in. Sure. Here, I'll give you an if. This is my car. If you want to bring that in, I'll bring you... Shore bars in? Free, Joe. This is... Oh, thanks. Thanks, Thrilled. It's my pleasure, but I'm like... This is the greatest thing ever to be able to give back. To make it in Maine, you have to get out in the winter and enjoy this stuff. You have to. Yeah. Perfect. It's going to be a fun day. Thrilled. And I love hearing him watch your videos in the background. It's one I can trust. Cool. Like, I have faith in your videos. YouTube is junk. You don't learn anything. It's not good stuff sometimes, but yours is always... I'm confident. Thank you. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. Thank you. I sometimes forget when I'm hanging with my bodies and stuff and then I go to edit and I'm like, whoa, you can't have that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not that he doesn't experience it with his family. No. He's got it in his life, but it's like there's too much of it online. It's important to me to keep things clean especially with the youth. Yeah, yeah. It's really important. Yeah. That's one thing that I do pride with my channel. Yeah, I love it. Any age can watch it. Yeah. So how old are you now? 13. So tomorrow, I don't know if you have one yet, we're doing a giveaway for one free lifetime license. He's got it one. You already got one. I don't blame you. If I was that age, I would have gotten one too. That's one thing we got both our kids when they were born. Smart. Got their licenses. Yeah. I don't know about that, but sign up on the other one. We're going to have another sheet. And I think we have 10, 11, like 12 different giveaways. We're going to do it tomorrow. Cool. Hey, how's it going? It is. Yeah. Yeah. How you doing? Good. I'm Joe. I'm Paul. Paul, nice to meet you. Paul ran my son, Matt. Hey, Matt. How are you, bud? Nice to meet you. You too. All right. James and Jen, right? Yep. They came all the way up from Maryland. They stayed last night right there. Sweet. Yeah. Yep. That's quite a haul. So you guys are going to be here tomorrow? Yeah. Great. We're setting up like right here in this area. I said, I'm going to have coffee. Munchkin. You called me a munchkin? You were an all-in-one. Oh, okay. Thank you. I haven't been called that in a long time. She calls me that all the time. Yeah. Munchkin. All right. What is up, guys? Joe Holland here. We are getting set up for a dream day of mine on the hardwater. This has been my dream for several years now of setting up a day for not only the fisherman, but also for the other local YouTubers in Maine who are out here grinding, working their hardest to put a good quality footage and good quality channels together for everybody to view, to learn from, and to enjoy. I was able to put it together this year, so we're set up. We have five different channels here. People have stayed on the ice for two or three nights now for the event. People are starting to roll in. We're a little early right now, but it's looking good. George? How are you doing? I visited George this morning. George got set up down the other end by accident, but I stopped and had an awesome visit with him this morning, so he just made it by way of a truck, I think, right? Hey, I come out of my truck. I may be coming down. This is kind of cool. I want to check it out. Thank you so much for coming. So anyway, guys, I'm so pumped for today. Today is a ice fishing seminar. It's free. Anybody here can get one-on-one with the YouTubers. We're going to fish together. We're going to teach everything that we know about whatever people want to learn. If they want to learn electronics, if they want to learn how to use a trap, if they want to learn how to use a jig rod, if they want to try our augers and the weird thing, listen to this, five different YouTubers, five different checks, actually six or seven different checks. No one has the same check, so people can check out the different checks before they buy them. They can check out the gear before they buy them. We've got some guys just rolling in right now. I saw this guy yesterday. He helped me set up. You guys want to be on YouTube? Sure. Awesome. Give me your names again. Hank. Hank. I knew that from yesterday. Hank actually helped me set up my camp yesterday. Reed. Reed. Brody. Brody. Cody. Shane. Shane. I won't remember that, so don't be afraid to tell me that one more time. Did you guys all stay the night last night? Hank, nice. How was it? It was good. It was a little cold. I woke up in the morning. My mom was cold. She put beds. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, it was like eight below last night. It was. Yeah, so it was pretty, it was pretty cold. You guys definitely earned your patch for this one. Thank you. Yeah. So you guys excited for today? Yeah. What do you guys want to get out of today? What do you want to learn? Or what do you want to do? Or you just want to meet the guys? Or what are you thinking? I think I want to learn how to jig. Learn how to jig. Okay. I'm going to go with that. And one of the best jiggers in the state is right there, Josh. He's got precision angling with the green and the orange hat. He is like one of the best jiggers I know, so definitely we'll get you together with him too. Anybody else? Anything else? I want to jig in here. Everybody wants to jig? Yeah. So we have like Garmin, Lawrence, Hummingbird, Vexilar, and Markham here. We have all the electronics you could think of, so we'll get going with those for you too. You got the Garmin? Garmin. Garmin. Nice. Have you guys ever used the live scope? No, we'll use live scope today. But this is Josh right here, and these guys all want to learn how to jig a little bit better. That works. They want to jig a little bit better, Josh. So I'm going to leave you guys in the good hands of Josh, and he's going to show you some jigging. All right? We got Kevin, came all the way from Cape Cod this morning. He left at 1.30 this morning. Oh, I got the sun right in the background on our turn, and he brought us some goodies. We got him some goodies. He's excited. What would you like to get? Oh, thank you. Yeah, I'll black that one out. So what would you like to get out of today? You just want to hang out? 100 percent. Meet the YouTubers? You want to do a little fish in, or just kind of see how everything goes? Just glad to see Joe jump out of the screen. Going over all the videos, they're great. I spent an evening last week, and I looked at the guy, I said, oh my God, I've been watching Joe for three and a half hours. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I didn't go to bed. I'm so sorry about that. But that goes to show you, and especially if you have an interest in it. And the best part about it is, you know, when I was a little kid, you didn't have that information. No, yeah. I mean, you had to find the guy down the street, you know, when? Yeah. Now, it's great. Yeah, even when I was growing up, like, I was super fortunate to have great people in my life, but fishing as a whole was the opposite. It was a secret. Everything was a secret. Everything was, you know, competitive. I can't tell this person. So that's one of the biggest things that drives my YouTube channel is to help share that information and get everybody better and get everybody, you know, give them the information that has helped me. And on top of that, hopefully it helped. You guys going through the effort of doing this. Now, you've got to tell me. Yeah, sure. You're up in Allagash here. Yeah. And your truck's driving down the road. Yeah. And you're getting a shot from up there. And you're driving away. Yeah. And you're one man. Yeah. How does that work? All right. So there's two different ways I do it. Because that drone, my old drone, I could program it to follow me. And it would go, like, to 30 miles an hour. My new drone won't do that. So I drive with my knees, I drive the truck with my knees, and I drive the drone with my hands. And I put one eye on the road and one eye in the sky. And then the other way I'll do it is, like, post-production, is I'll set the drone up stationary, and then I'll drive through, and then I'm able in post-production to scan one way or the other. It's more fun for me to drive. It's a lot of work. Yeah, it's more fun to drive hands and knees. I haven't learned how to fly the drone with my knees yet, though. Now, have you been able to keep going and bring the drone right into the window? Yeah. Have you really? Yeah, well, I could reach out and grab it. Yeah. So. That's great. Nice. Well, we can't tell you how happy we are here. You're not the furthest away, though. Surprisingly. I've seen a guy play from Minnesota, or? Oh, wow. Yeah, I didn't see that one yet. But you're not the furthest away. So far, the furthest to come to this trip is right over here. We got James and Jen. James and Jen? Came from Maryland for this. Maryland. I'm rolling. You guys don't mind if I'm rolling, are you? Good morning. How was your night? Good morning. It was nice. Little chilly. Little chilly. I never heard the ice pop like that. It was... Was it angry? Yeah, it was pretty neat. Yeah, talking pretty good. Yeah. You know, we've never slept on the ice, so that was the first time hearing that. Did it move at all on your... No. A lot of popping. A lot of popping, yeah. Yeah, the trees may have froze a little bit too last night. Did you hear any, like, sharp cracks? Yeah, a couple pops. Yeah. A lot of times, like, the sap, if it gets that cold, it'll freeze inside and blows out of the bark. Yeah. Yeah. Well, when you guys are ready, let me know, because I brought some extra bait and some extra traps, and I want to see you guys get a shot at a fish. I know it was... It's not a big deal. We got to visit yesterday for a couple hours, probably, and they're not crazy... They don't have to catch a fish to have a great time, which is awesome. That's why I am here. But I'd actually like to see you guys get a shot at another fish. You got some perch yesterday, right? Yeah. It'd be cool to get them on, like, a bass or a pickerel. But they drove all the way from Maryland, ten hours, and do you want to tell the viewers at home what you hadn't scheduled, or no? Do you want me to tell them? Well, it's... Her yesterday was her 40th birthday, so I had asked what she wanted to do, and she said she wanted to go down to the beach in the wintertime, so I got to place ocean front with jacuzzi and everything, overlooking the beach, or the ocean front, and then you announced this, and so I was like, hey, Joe Holland's having a little get-together. I said, would you rather go ice fishing with Joe Holland or go to the beach? And she was all about coming up here, so I called and had to cancel the hotel at the beach so we could come up here and hang out with you. A little bit different climate. Yeah. But a little more memorable. Yeah, you're going to remember this in ten years. The beach is always there. This is memorable. This is awesome. I'm so glad you guys made it up. It's really made yesterday for me, and it made the whole event. It's just so cool, and I love it. It made our weekend. We were talking about that last night, just the time hanging out and setting up, getting to talk and stuff. It was great. That was awesome for me. Yeah, I wish I could have stayed longer. I had a lot to do. Yeah, I bet. And we didn't want to hold you up at all. But I was thinking yesterday, we were talking about how or why we watched these shows. Sure. Stuff like that. And why or, you know, how we feel about it. We're not just watching it kind of for an instructional thing. We are, but not at the same time. So, you know, when you go on YouTube, look something up for instruction, maybe the first time, but usually you won't subscribe or you don't keep watching it. I want to see how to do this right now. Yeah. And then, you know, most of us, we're not watching sitcoms or anything like that anymore. So this is like our sitcom that we had back in the 90s or whatever. This is our sitcom, and it's almost like this is, we're becoming part of the show. Like how you would never get to go on friends or whatever your show was back in the day that you used to watch. So now, and then not only that, you know, they're just actors. They're an actor on the show. And here with you, you are the show. This is your life and it's your show. And now we get to be part of it with you for this. That's awesome. It's pretty cool. I'm so pumped. That's the biggest reason I did this was to give back the viewers and to meet people and just spread the community and teach and help as many people as I can. So if it helps one person, it's worth it to me. It's great. Little tips and everything that you do and just watching the videos and like say, not only did we get tips and learn stuff, we also get a little bit of entertainment. Get to have some entertainment. A little bit. A little bit. Every once in a while. These are the setups. We have five, six different shacks here. Oh, they're all different. Yeah, every one of them is different if you wanted to look at any different ones. I guess I left the heater going in mine because it looks like it's pumping out some heat or it's on fire or the other. But I'm trying to warm those marker pens up so everybody can sign this and I was going to let the sun hit the side of it for a little while because it's pretty frosty. But whenever you guys are ready to take a ride, you guys can hop on that. I threw the other seat on the snowmobile. Take it for a rip down the way. You can go as far as you want that way. This way I'd be a little careful. I just never trust the narrows that way. That's cool seeing that slate all marked up on the show then. I hope. What is this all about over here? Look at this. What are those? I don't know if those are clenched. The goodies are just getting dropped. It's like chocolate guys. Yeah, right here. Are you the one? Chocolate one? Yeah. For real? Yeah. Like you eat them or you're a part of it? No, I handle all their uniforms and paper, account and the whole world. I always have some in my pocket. You do? Yeah, look at it. Yeah, that's my favorite. Joe, I have thousands of them. Wow. This is like... That's... Lint's supposed to be hiding from the crowd. Don't hide the... Yeah, hide it right in my shaft. That's your breakfast sausage. Hide it right in my shaft. Okay. And those are like a dark... Right inside. Those are like a dark... Like a chocolate. Wow. Two guys. Blake, I'll be able to take everybody fishing with me. That signs this every time. Thank you so much. So you don't want to push down too hard, alright buddy? Just kind of like... Like you would regular... Good job! Nice work! Thank you, buddy. For these... Blake, you gonna get... You gonna pick us a couple winters? I know, yeah. I know, the net's up in the truck. Oh, okay. Pick out some winters. We need about three. Big ones. You know, you like the... You like the bigger ones. I know that. Is this guy bothering you, Liv? Liv, is this guy bothering you? What's the safe word, Joe? Yeah, yeah. The safe word is plumber. We got a clog. We got a clog. Plumber crack? Plumber crack. Alright. We might just get them... Get them like my big yellow spoon behind me. Maybe... There you go. Thanks, buddy. I just need that one. That one might be too small for him. Come on. Alright. There she is. No, I like this one, buddy. Thank you. We're good. Yeah, let's go set a couple. No, you're good. No, the coffee's good. Okay, you hold that. And this is super sharp, so we always gotta be careful of this. How do you feel like a... Maybe a bass or something? Yeah, we're gonna try to catch a big bass. Are you ready? It's a little slushy, huh? I'm gonna make it a little wet here, okay? There we go. Alright. Yeah, kick it right away. You know what, I don't think I have on me as a sounder. Let me see. Do you? Nice. That's like the thing I lose the most. That's why I can only go grab it. No, that's alright, buddy. I think I brought four different electronics units. What do you think of that? We also have a camera key. And then push down. Is that the first time you've drilled with this one? No. Nice, good job. Alright, this is the lucky trap. That's got the main flag on it. Oh, that's a flag. Let's go over and see what it is. Is it running? It's spinning? Hold on, I think if this gentleman's over here, might be, is it going really fast? It could be a bass. He just stopped. He's still on it. It could be a bass, right? Yup. There's some giant bass in this cove. Alright. Oh, you got a big crowd coming. No pressure. Do not mess it up. No pressure. Oh, he's on it. How's he feeling? Is he coming right at you? Coming right at you. He's on there. Yup, it's on there. Whoa, tiny. Chain pickerel. You can use it. Oh, it's a unit for this guy. Good job. Keep them all in your restaurant. Let's throw them back, bud. If we're not going to eat them, let's throw them right back. Hey, thanks for coming out. What do you think? What's that? What do you think? It's so far. Nice. Thanks for coming. Yeah. Yeah, come join the party. So we got everybody set up with all the different shacks so people can check them out. We got the augers. We're going to be cooking at about 10. And people are just kind of meandering around fishing where they want to fish and enjoying the day. And if anybody has any questions, just shoot them your way if you don't mind. I mean, I brought a little outline with me. I don't know. Oh, nice. I don't know if there was a group of people that wanted to hear about some winter safety checks. I would love that. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. You want us to set a trap for you? You want a trap in? Want a fish? I'm sure I'll be busy. All right, I got some extras. If you feel like fishing, we got coffee and donuts over here, too, if you want. Guys, we have a game warden, the local game warden's here. He's going to talk a little bit later on. Ice safety and some other things. But at any questions at all, this is the guy to ask. What's up, guys? Welcome. How are you? Doing well. Nice, Joe. Kevin Chapin. Kevin, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. John. John, nice to meet you. All's I got to say is 43 below you. Yeah, somewhere between knots are crazy. So they've accused me of being stupid or crazy. One or the other could be both. Yeah. But I do plumbing and heating and I deal a lot with propane and I'm like, man, that's going to start just spitting liquid propane here. I was nervous. Yeah. Yeah, I got a little nervous once. It hit 40 and my thermometer quit at like 41 and it kept dropping and I was like, I'm in trouble. Yeah. And like Don and I said, you know, it was, you know, watching your videos. It's almost like you take everybody along with you. Thank you. And you always come out learning something. That's for sure. Thank you. I don't want to camp at 43. No, yeah. And that's why I do it so you don't have to. It's much better at home on the couch. Yeah. I'll bike the bullet for everybody. I don't mind. But, you know, I know you talk about inspiring people, you know. Yeah. And that's been really big for us this year. You know, watching you and we've been doing it more than we've ever done it. And, you know, upgraded a lot of gear and just really enjoying it. Awesome. It's been fun. Thank you so much. That's, I love hearing that. I love the feedback. It drives me. You know, so next time it's 40 below. I'll push even higher there. Or on a tough day, you know, it just, I know I have everybody with me behind me. So it drives me. Thank you so much, guys. It means a lot to me. It really does. I'm trying to get him out camping. It's, you know, like I said to everybody, do it in your driveway the first time or your backyard. You know, and if you don't like it, you go right inside. You know, just like a lot of people make the mistake of trying to do what I'm doing right from the start. I didn't do that myself. I work, you know, work your way into it. Get, find your comfort levels, you know. Because the first time you do it, you're like, I should have this or I should have this, you know. And you learn. That's how I learned. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I'm trying to pass them along so people don't make the same ones I do. Yeah. Yeah. You never learn from your success. I agree. So that's why I try to make as many mistakes as I can. Thanks, guys. What's up, guys? Happy to have you. What is up, guys? You got some lures? You got some goodies. Whoa, can I have that? No. No, I'm just kidding, buddy. I got, I got a bunch at home. Hi-fives. Thank you. Are you guys here to ice-fish? I have one out, Grammy, Grammy's way. Oh, yeah? Hey, what's happening? I'm Joe. I'm JD. JD, nice to meet you, JD. Thanks for coming. Thank you so much. We drove up from Rhode Island to Chicago. No way, really? How long was your drive? Well, we stayed at Boot Bay last night. Yeah. Wow. Thank you so much for coming. Is this your family here? My wife's here, but she's probably not going to get out of the car. Yeah. Okay. All right, you're going to hang out for a while? Yeah. Nice. Is there anything in particular you'd like to either learn about or talk about or anything? I'm kind of curious about your electronics. Sure. I've never seen anybody use them through the ice before, and I've been watching your channel, so I'm curious to what you can see, and you know that kind of thing. It's pretty crazy. I'm going to drill a hole right out here. Let's go set up. We'll go set it up right now. Pretty good chunk of ice right there, guys. Now, there's got to be over 14 inches, I'd say. What's up, guys? How's it going? I'm Joe. I'm Landon Marvel. Landon? Yeah. Nice to meet you. Travis. Travis, nice to meet you guys. We're just setting up some live scope right now to teach this gentleman some electronics. We're cooking at 10. Anything that you guys want to know or learn or talk about in particular, just shout, and we'll go do it. All right, so this is the live scope by Garmin. Now, that's looking all directions, and that'll actually give you a live view of the fish even swimming in. I forgot that I'd loaned my trolling motor batteries to a friend, so I stepped on the trolling motor and just got click, and I was like, you got to be kidding me. I knew right away, so I didn't have any trolling. Oh, look, there's a fish coming. See that, guys? Look, so there's my jig above him, and then see that fish coming in, and he's right below it. I'm going to lift to try to get him to bite. Oh, he hit. He hit, but I missed him, so that's my jig right there. He's still there, but see how he's going away? But he just turned back. See how he just turned back? All right, so there's that fish right on it. He's on right now. Ready? He's not hitting really good. He hit it again. I can feel him. He keeps tapping it. It's probably like a small perch. All right, he's on it pretty good, and they usually get excited if you lift up. See how he's staying on? Now, there's another fish below him. Oh, look at the big one coming in. All right. Get that one. Yeah. There we go. Come on. Ready? All right, he's got it. Ready? Got him. I think it's a yellow perch. That's a good one. Oh, he's not as big as we thought. Yeah, I got it zoomed in pretty good. That's a nice one. Did I miss the big one? Yeah, you missed the big one. So when you guys get yellow perch and you catch them up off the bottom like that, you want to try to keep fired up as quick as you can. So see my jig dropping, guys? Look, he's going to, look, he's hot. He's coming in hot. He's coming in hot. All right, I'm going to lift, lift, lift. Another big one to the left. Oh, he missed it. These aren't the big, these aren't the droids we're looking for, but we'll take anything. Oh, this one's fired up. He's coming in. All right, he, I think he hit. Yeah, you want to try to keep these perch fired right up. Oh, the big one's coming in. There we go. So there's like four or five. And this is where like the live scope really helps because you can see everything going on on the screen. And then you could zoom out and see if there's anything nearby. These ones are a little small to catch. What's going on with this reel? There we go. There we go. All right, see how that guy's up on it right there? So this is my jig up top. That's my jig right there. He just jumped on it, but he missed it. Oh, he hit it. He hit it, but he didn't eat it. I think these are, these are so small. They're having a hard time getting to the hook. But like a death drop like that really is going to get him fired up. See how he got fired up? That one's a little too small. You could put him back. Oh man, they keep missing. He looks pretty big because I zoomed in, but see, and you could see like with the live scope as I'm dropping that, they get like fired up. So like they're used to eating stuff that's dying and falling through the water column. See, so watch. Did I miss the story about your ticket? No, it was really my ticket. Oh, don't say that. I already told him. I was 15. No, it's making a difference. It was 15, it was the Irish hut my dear. That was your very first year. And so you weren't, you was like 13 or 14. Doesn't matter anyway, tell him the story. When you got down, can I ask you a question? Yeah, go ahead, bud. I'm sorry. Me and my dad are looking for crappy. And if someone said that there was crappy in a certain lake, what would you look for to go? Where do you guys live? Up by Rangeley. What would you look for? These guys, so in the winter, I usually start in the middle of like a pond or a lake. So like if this was your entire lake right here, I would look in the middle. And I'd focus on like 30 to 15 to 30 foot, like that 20, 25 foot is awesome. The electronics really help a lot for it. And then small jigs. They eat, they don't like bugs as much as they like shiners. So anything like a shiner is dynamite on them. Alright, thank you very much. Yeah, that 15 to 25 foot is perfect. I start in the middle, then I work my way out to like grass lines or structure. Alright, thank you. Alright, zip that code up so you don't get cold. We gotta get one for you. Fine. You don't mind if I'm recording, do you? No, actually. I came because I'm trying to start my own YouTube channel. Nice. Because I never see any... There's not like there's not many females. There are not, there's not enough. I'd run a charity bass tournament. Excuse me one minute. That's alright. Hey Jen! Alright Jen, I'm with you. Blake, let Jen pull this one. Alright, is it running? Alright buddy, if you step back just a little bit. Alright, so what we're gonna do, Alright, so you can see it's off to the side. So you're gonna pick up this line and you're gonna feel, if you feel any resistance, give it a hard pull. Give it a yank, yank it. Now keep pulling, keep pulling, keep pulling. And just keep going, throw the line to the side. Keep going. Oh, he dropped it, dropped it right back. Oh, good try. See how the hook went into the shiner? It was, it kind of rolled it in its mouth. Well I saw it, it was a pickerel, it was a small pickerel. It was definitely a small pickerel. Pickerel? Yeah. The small ones are the hardest to catch. Yeah. Because they don't get the bait or the hook in their mouth very well. But the best part about this is you get another chance at it. I know. Give me your flag. He says he wants to do a high five this time. I hope so. You've been actually happy. Oh, nothing, huh? Alright, we'll give it a second. See if it moves. Don't try that at home. Sometimes I'll look and see if the reel is spinning and there's nothing going on. So then I'll look and see which direction the line is going. Because some fish will just go to the side and sit and eat it. So if you see the line way off to the side, you know there might be one on there. And then, so we have nothing of each here. So then I'll usually pick the trap up and check. And if the reel doesn't spin, well, you can see it did take a lot. So you want to come to this side over here because he went that way. It may have dropped it. So if you pull the line until you feel resistance, if you feel anything bigger than a Shiner, give it a really hard pull. It did? So if you feel a pull back really hard, then keep them coming as fast as you can. You feel them? Yank, yank. There you go, now keep them coming. Oh, yeah, nice. Woo hoo hoo. So, chain bickerel. Yeah, good job. Alright, who's got a... I left my 4-6. I don't want to reach in there, but it's easy. You got a really good hook set on it. Alright, so would anyone like to eat this first? Hold on buddy, hold on. So we're going to have to get a picture first. So there you have really, really, really sharp teeth. So we're not going to get anywhere near the teeth. Can I hold it after? After, for sure. So we're going to hold it up, two hands like this. And what you want to do is not do it over the hole. So we'll just move over here because if they jump out of your hands, then it's a quick release. Alright, so I'm going to set it in your hands like that, and then you want to kind of slide it down and then you let the belly hang like that, right there, perfect. And then you want to hold it out as far as you can to make it look bigger. Oh. And then you guys want to get lower. You guys want to get lower. Over here. And then the higher that they're shooting off, it looks even bigger. And then they call this a chain pickerel because see how it makes a chain and each one of these connects. And if it was a pike, they wouldn't connect. It would just be those dots. So that's the difference, the easiest way. And then the pickerel always have a teardrop coming down, that black teardrop coming down. They call it like a mustache. So if we're going to release it, we can put it back right now, it'll be fine. If we're going to keep it, we'll dispatch it. Is it good to eat? They're really good to eat. You want to eat it? You want to hold it? You want to hold it, bud? And then they do have a lot of bones, but you can grind up the bones and make like a patty. And there's super good eating. It's one of the best eating fish in the state of Maine. I'm trying to catch a lot there in one of these. In Maine, there's no limit on the size or the length in most bodies of water. So that's why we're allowed to keep these. And then to kill them, a lot of times you could either clump them over the head and play and then that separates the brain and the lungs. So it's part of the whole process and then the snow you can just blotch up the blood right there. Then you're good to go. Now he feels like he's been eating. So later, not in front of everybody, but we can gut him and see what he's actually been eating. It's a lot of fun and like fishing wise, like if you see he's got a lot of smelt in there, you might want to switch over to smelt for bait. Or if he's got a lot of bugs, so it's always fun to see what's inside of him. But that's a pickerel right there and that'll make a really nice meal right there. I usually wouldn't keep one smaller, but that's a good size for an eater right there. Awesome, congratulations on your first pickerel. Nice job. All right. And a round of applause. Yeah. You're nice. You can take a bow. So I've never caught a largey. Do you have any traps here? I do. Set them up. Let's set them up. I got an auger and we got bait. I got free bait over here for everybody. This area right here is actually good for bass where no one's set yet. All right. I might have to bring some mullfish. This is like my favorite spot in summer time. Whoa, nice one. Pickerel. I actually bought something for you. For me? I do. And I will not be offended if you can't go because I'm sure you won't. But number one, my business card's in there. But number two, that's a fishing derby ticket for Scoot a Glake. And I think it's in two weekends. But I put your name in and I wrote my phone number because I didn't know your phone number. So thank you. Because I was like, well, if he gets something and they call me I'm pretty sure I can thank him. But yeah. I still want to hear your story though. Let's get back. Let's get back to that. Yeah, so I just get in the derby ticket. And we've got a huge parking lot at our camp. So if you do come and need a place to park. I don't know. I think I may have fished Scoot it once in like a smallmouth tournament. But I can't remember. Do you tell him you're running a tournament? Yeah. I'm sure I'm taping. Yeah, I'm on. Where did the warden go? We need the rest over here. So we were on the four wheeler. Wait, before you start. Let's start this. Everyone makes mistakes. And everyone learns. I learn the hard way. Yeah, I learn the hard way all the time. I was 15 and we were out hunting, hunting season. And I have a pink camo 243 and we saw a warden, which is unusual because we were in gated land. But I may or may not have left a bullet in the chamber. Oh my God. She took the clip out. She forgot she had a bullet in the chamber. It's happened a lot. Young. Of course, it's under my responsibility. Of course, yeah. And we headed from camp towards the truck and we get off the warden. He come, nice guy. I can't remember his name, but he was a very nice guy. We was in Medford at the time. And he come up and he said, Absolutely. Oh my gosh. And he grabs my 30-odd 6, opens it up. He's nice. We talked to him and he set that down. No clip and Rachel's gun, he pulled the hers. Oh my gosh. And he looks at me. Oh my gosh. I bet everybody, even him, I bet everybody's heart. Oh, he looked at me and he's like, he just kind of looked down. He's like, oh. You all probably did, right? I was like, uh-oh. I'll tell you one thing though. I learned that there's one in the chamber. Oh yeah. She was underage. He was really good to us. Yeah, he wrote dad the ticket. But way better than any accident happened. 260 bucks. So 243 cost you 260. Yeah. But hey, it's way better than an accident happened. I have a similar story, but an accident did not happen. And that was with somebody in their 20s. You know, same thing. He handed me the bullets. We were driving and either handed it to me or he set them up and I noticed there were only four. And I said, hey, where's your fifth? And he's like, I don't know. I said, well, check the chamber. And he popped it. There was one in it. That's scary stuff. It is. It's always the unloaded gun that goes off. It is always the unloaded one. That's for sure. Well, let's get a couple traps in for you. You didn't tell me your first name. Rachel. And it was Kevin. Kevin here. Rachel. I just finished watching you. You was out there at 43 below. Oh, that was nuts. It may have been colder. I'm pretty rugged guy when it comes. I don't get cold. I'm like, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I have ancestors in the polar bear family. He makes me so mad. He'll take his glove off and the dead of winter in his hand is steaming. Oh, that might be the one that was already out. What are you looking for? We need a bait. If you're going to set up my water trap. I thought you were going to get us a bait. I am. A Shiner. A couple holes. So I got two augers. I got a 10 inch right there and I got an 8 inch. They're both set in half way down. Feel free to grab either one. You like the electric, huh? Dude, I will never, ever, ever go back. So like this, the 10 inch I'm a little dull right now. My blades are a little dull on this. But I've already, this is a 40 volt. I've drilled over 3,000 holes with this in almost three years. And then the light flights on my drill over there. That is the most ridiculous thing. It just straight through. That's an 8 inch. Christian just got the same thing but it's a 24. He's got a Shiner. Let me just reset that. Alright buddy, let's go. Let's go. This is Jen's. Alright, you're back fishing again. And then Jen and James, another thing that you do want to do often is like the difference between just set and bait and being like a bait fisherman and then fishing is always check. So like sometimes you might get stripped. Like they'll strip the bait right off the hook. Exactly. And you might not know it. You know what I mean? They go up. So like what I do is I'll come over and then I'll just double check this one. I'll lift it and make sure bait looks good. And we're going to set it. And that does a lot of different things. That brings that bait back to life in case he's like sleeping or just hiding there. And it also it also lifts him in the water column so it makes him a little bit more visible. You know, and up and down. And now he's active again. And then I wouldn't be surprised within 5 or 10 minutes that goes up. So that's what you always want to do if you're bait fishing. That's the difference between like fishing and just setting traps. Can you maybe join the yellow patrol because that patrol... There was nothing in the shack? Let's go back to the panoptics. Alright bud. It's all set up for you already. What's up guys? What is up? Man, last time I saw you you were this tall. What's up Chris? Good to meet you. Holy cow. Wow. You're taller than me. Wow. How you guys doing? Good. Found a parking spot. Sun is warm. This is awesome. Come get signed in first. How old are you now? I thought so. You're too old. But did you have one already? Yeah, so you wouldn't sign up. So sign up for the giveaways. Both of you guys. We're giving away jack traps. We're giving away heritage traps. And we have like 9 or 10 prize packs. So make sure you sign in for that. And then I'm having everybody sign my tote sled here with a paint marker. I'd love to have you guys sign that. There's a marker there. And then anything that you guys... There's a flag! Flag! Yeah. Guys, I'm sorry. I just wanted a big flag. Oh. It's my pleasure. If there's anything that we can help you with let me know. I got some photos. So I'll tag you on Facebook. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming. We're going to be cooking in about probably 20 minutes. Free hot dogs and burgers for anyone who wants them. Cool. Thanks guys. This is Corey. Corey, what's up man? Nice to meet you. Do you do antler hunt? I've been watching a lot of your stuff. He does like the cabin restoration stuff. Yes. I've seen those too. Nice. That's what I'm going to hopefully eventually be working towards is a team warden. Did you talk with him? I haven't talked with him yet. He's a good guy to talk to. How many did you get buddy? Why was it? Well, we're just setting it right now. Don't go over the hole, right? She's going to sound it first. And for Bass, we're going to go a couple feet off the bottom. Might have a little bit of water here. Do you guys mind catching another pickle? I don't mind catching another one. If I keep dropping this guy, he's going to be... Oh, flag! That's my flag! There you go. Hey, what's happening? That's a pretty looking sled. I'll tell you that. You're a great job. Pleasure to meet you. My name is Dan LeVec. Dan, nice to meet you. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming out. You actually made that? That is beautiful. That's a dream catcher. I'm going to put that right on my wall in my shop. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. That is incredible. Look at this guy. That is the coolest thing I think I've ever seen. Those traps, actually, they still work with the washes on there. As it spins, they tighten up and it sets the hook. No way, really? I've never seen that style. I've never even seen that style. He made them. Those are the oldest schools I've ever seen. That is amazing. Thank you so much. I got the drone up there now. You're that dot. Yeah. Yeah, it's over a thousand feet. I couldn't see it. Yeah. I only went straight up, but I wanted to look at the parking lot. Can you guys see it? Yeah, straight up over there. Wow. I'm up there pretty good. Let me see the camera. I want to see the camera. See the parking lot? Yeah. There's the parking lot. There's the parking lot. Come back to us. Somebody's driving in, see? Oh, yeah. And then, if you want to see where you are, that's you right there. Right at the end. Next to the snowmobile. You can, yep. But I'll just bring the drone down. Hey, Donny! Right on that table there. Close to 40. Don't do this, Rosie. I didn't believe him. No, it's not that cool. Yeah, you throw some windshield on it too. We're heading up to Chamberlain. Nice. When are we going up? The 4th to the 10th of March. Nice, perfect. You should hit it pretty good. Just watch for slosh. I heard it will slosh out. The wife and I are going up. Next weekend to the trains. She's been wanting to see them forever. We tried to go up during the late fall. But we're coming from New Hampshire. And I'm from that area. Not me. Not you. He's from south of the border. And he's got a question for you. I can never catch fish when this guy's around. Yeah, that's called bad luck. Double check, make sure he hasn't cut your hooks. Make sure he's not squishing your bait or putting anti-fish use on your bait. I have buddies that have tried that with me too. I've even bought a new fish finder and everything. Is he catching all of them? Is that why? Yeah. I've never seen anything like it. He'll send me pictures. That is hilarious. He'll send me pictures of all kinds of fish and I'm like, dude, I don't know what you're doing wrong. That's funny. And he won't catch a thing. The whole winter without catching one. He just, it was so weird. It's so weird. But that means you're due and you're going to catch a giant. The kid does. Look at him, he's got a fish. Let's go Blake. Nice one buddy. Oh my God. Isn't that the greatest thing ever? It's almost worth going over and tripping that flag and having to run over to it. Hook up a dollar bill on your hookers. Right, exactly. What did you get there Bob? Are you taking them home to eat them? Okay, you want me to dispatch them for you? Yeah, sure. Oh God. Sorry, I don't like them to suffer. I don't blame you. Alright, that's the end of him. There you go buddy. Alright, now who wants hot dogs? They told me to try to show that they're slaying them down there. Are they? What are they catching? Just a bunch of yellow perch. Big ones? Yeah, they're cool. I'll let everybody know. Guys, the Tobago bait shack is the one out there. Feel free to work your way out there. They're catching a lot of big yellow perch with electronics if anyone wants to see that. Wow. They've got a really cool shack if you want to set it out. They've got a stove and an oven and a microwave in there. Check it out, it's pretty cool. That's awesome. Right over here my friend. Right out here. Can you see that big shack that says got bait? Yeah. Just knock on the door and tell them I sent you. They're good guys. They're here to show it off to. But I guess they're catching a bunch of perch. That's what Chris and Evan said. And some good ones. Got some good info on Tobago. That's the guy to talk to. I was thinking about catching some Tobago. But I guess he said there's some massive pike and crappies. There are, yeah. People don't go for them. Everybody goes for the toad. Because you can catch like 100 to 200 in a day. That's what he said. He said if I just keep up on the toad, I just go on and start railing the pike and get the crappies. He said there's some massive crappies. What do you mean bud? Do you have any extra traps? Extra traps? Sure. Let's check right in here. Yep, right here. There you go bud. I ordered this weather about a month ago. I had to get one. Sorry about the last couple of days. They said they had to move a couple of things around for us. That's beautiful. But you can't beat this. It's the nicest day of the year. The wind destroys it when you're here. Yeah, get that nice sunshine. Not for sure. We got lucky. It rained pretty good. But it froze up like immediately. And then the snow mostly blew off. They said it's the same way down Subego which I'm happy. Nice, yeah. Oh my gosh, you got Miss Dunster. She's my favorite. Because we watch you all the time. Wow, thank you so much. Kelly, nice to meet you. Nice. How old are your kids? They're almost 17. Joe, Liza, nice to meet you. 14? Do you have a lifetime fishing license? No. We're going to draw someone today. And we're going to give away a lifetime license. So there's two sign-ups. It's a lot of bass stuff for open water. So help yourself. Everybody take a couple free ones. Whatever you think you might use, help yourself. I want everybody to get something. Pretty awesome guy. Everybody out here. Hey, what's up, buddy? Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for coming. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming. Help yourself, do a couple of those. Make sure you sign up. I don't know if he's got a lifetime license yet, but we're giving away today. What did you bring? You bring me a present? Oh my gosh. So listen, lifetime fishing license we're giving away today. Do you sign her up? And then sign everybody up for the other giveaways, too. Anything in particular you guys want to do today? We're just here to check everything out. Nice. And you don't mind being on YouTube. This is the longest fisherman here. Four months. Can we take a quick peek? Oh, she's awake. Oh, it's cold. Beautiful. This is my tent over here. The sleeping setup. All these tents here are from the YouTubers. So feel free to check them out if they're closed. It's just because there's a heater on. So feel free to go in. This is the setup that I sleep in if you want to check it out and see what my general setup is. There you go. That's got the floor, the heater, the bed. Everything right in there. I like your boot rack. Thanks. Donnie built that. Donnie Johnson built that. And then I had to make a couple of adjustments. It's pretty warm. I think I run the heat when I'm not in there and I never run it when I'm in there. I set that up last night. I had a lot to do this morning. But feel free to cycle through. The funny thing is out of five different channels we actually have seven different shacks. None of us bought the same shack. So the cool thing for you guys who are interested in one, you can actually see the dimensions, the size. Get a good feel for what you like. Did we meet yet? I'm sorry. Patrick Clark. Nice to meet you. What's your name? Reagan. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming. Are you fishing today? No, I don't think so. I've set a couple for some folks but I just don't have the time today to be honest with you. I'd rather focus my energy on the people that are here than the fish. I can go fishing any other day. This is great for me to see people and see people enjoying the outdoors and anything I can do to help them. Yeah, it's been great. We've had some people come and go and cycle through which is great too. Can they run the one aerator on that? I think maybe the battery is dead or it's frozen up but you can run too. I did exactly what you said. Are you going to do a review? I'll give you an honest review. Seriously, because I'm looking at getting one. I would hold off. After one trip I'd hold off on that unit. Hold off for now. Let me put it through the test first. I wasn't impressed last trip. Hey guys, how's it going Joe? It's good. Nice to meet you. What's your name? Karen. Nice to meet you. Scott, nice to meet you. Thanks for coming guys. If there's anything that we could help you with in particular, just let us know. I just wanted to kind of ask, we live right over there on in Cedar Lane and just a second home but kind of grandkids are getting of age that maybe we want to start doing some of this stuff when they come up. Sure. And what your recommendation is to get started just not spending tons of money but how many traps would make sense for two or three grandkids just set out. Probably ten would be enough to cover three kids. Yeah. Two is usually a good number for each kid. Legally you can use five but two is probably not a bad number to start with. So even if you started with like six. And then augur wise, do you already have a cordless drill? Yes. Okay, so they're making these things that are just so nice to like I'll drill a hole right here because I don't think anybody will step in that. You can see how quick quick and easy that drill can drill a hole like that. This is between like five and six hundred dollars. That's a ten inch hole. It's a designated augur. This is two hundred dollars and then you just use your own drill. That's an eight inch hole. That's big enough for almost eight inches big enough for almost everything. For even the fish coming out of it. So I fish for like a lot of pike that are like this big. So I like the ten inch hole and when it's like twenty or thirty below zero they freeze in quicker. I like the bigger hole because it gives me a little bit less freeze. That's one of the reasons why I haven't done it so far. I don't want another internal combustion engine. Yeah, no. Once I got that it blew my mind. I'll never go back. So like a couple traps each you can use a five gallon pail for a bait bucket. You'll need a way to get to the fish which is the augur. I recommend this to people or even the hand augurs. As long as there's not too much ice there's a hand augur stuck in the ice over there. I've been fishing for ten years until I got enough money to buy an augur. I figure if I did that I'd be sweating by the time I even started to try to fish. Oh yeah, and then a skimmer like any kind of skimmer works. You can use the soup ladle from inside the kitchen or a sieve. But don't drop it down the hole and then that's pretty much all you need. I'm going to try to... I heard you said the bigger ones or the smaller ones. Yeah, those are a little cumbersome but these are made in Maine. There's two companies I like that are in Maine. The Heritage Lakers and the Jack Traps. Those are two brands that just have made super quality good stuff that work in Maine. This one's a Jack Trapp. Now these get pretty spending. They can be anywhere from like 45 to $65 each. But I have the first set that I have ever gotten in 1995 and I beat the heck out of my stuff. They're still working. They're out here today somewhere fishing today. Oh great. But you can buy some cheaper ones but my mindset is if you're going to go out there and struggle against the cold make sure your gear is working. The last thing you want to do is go out and have your gear. You brave the elements and deal with it and then all of a sudden your reel falls off or something foolish like that or freezes up or breaks. You want to get those gloves off. You got to have something that works because they're a common place that you can get a lot of that. Well, Sebegel Bay which they're actually set up out here with that shack and you can even visit that. See that great big shack out there? That's got an oven, a microwave, a television, a recliner and they're in there right now fishing with the same electronics that I use the pan optics and he stocks everything. He's got the best selection he'll set you up and he'll down and wind them so like an hour ride here but he has everything and he's a really good guy. If you say hey, I'm on a budget or this is a budget I want to keep or this is what I'm doing, he'll set you up with what you need. He won't oversell you. He doesn't really make much money on ice fishing stuff. He does it because he loves the sport. Lifetime license right there and the 15 or under can sign up for both. You can win prizes too. You do? Oh, thanks. Joe. Hi, Joe. Lisa. Lisa, nice to meet you. What's your name? Rich. Rich, nice to meet you guys. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. West Grand? West Grand probably two and a half weeks from now. I tried to sneak one in but I just had too much going on. We tried. We're going to go up last Thursday and rain there. Yeah. I was going to go for the opener and they just got too much snow. Joe. Oh, hi, I'm Abby. Abby, nice to meet you, Abby. He's our daughter. Nice, awesome. Well, thanks for watching, guys. Thanks for coming today. If there's anything in particular we could help you with ice fishing, come see me or any of the other channels. They're here somewhere. I don't know where everybody disappeared to but they're here somewhere. Just don't send any more videos of West Grand catching fish. Oh, I know. I got some hate mail over there. Somebody said I wasn't on West Grand and I said, what do you mean? They're like, you didn't catch 105 fish in five days. I said, well, we've probably caught a couple more. But yeah. It was to deal with a dying bait. Can you die bait in Maine? Yeah, you can. I looked it up and I couldn't find any way that said you couldn't. I told somebody I was doing it and they're like, no, for most of the things in Maine, if it's not in there, you can do it. There is a warden here somewhere. I know, I was going to ask him. I know. I was going to ask you. Joe, right here for you. Oh, thank you so much. How about you? Would you like a hot chocolate? No, thank you. I got some ice tea going right now. Okay. Richard, how about cocoa? I'm good right now but thank you. I'm too impressed. I knew your name. I don't know how you knew it, but Lisa and Richard McGuire. Okay. She will remember everything. Let's see how that tightens. Yeah, so it's got two washes on the side, one there, and after you set it up, that is cool. When you set it, you just set it and it's loose, loose. And then as it spins, it'll snap them. Yeah, it'll tighten up. That's cool. So it sets the hook. So you're not pulling too hard either. Nice. I like it. I like it a lot. Yeah, I got a bunch of those. I mean, they even tied them on and everything. These are old. I have antique ones, but not this model. I'm going to shoot a video just using the antiqueers. Awesome. Yeah, it's fun. I might have to pull one off your... No problem. It's all zip ties. You don't mind, dude, if I try one out. So it's set at home, you ought to put on it together. Cool. No, no, no, that's your grandfather's. No, I got 8 or 10 million. Are you sure? I will put this in a video. Awesome. Do it. I don't know how good that line is. Probably 40 years old. I don't care. I'll test it if it works. I'll use it. I'm going to shoot a whole video just of using 5 antique traps and going for a big fish. I've done it before. I haven't worked on it very good. Technology's not there. Right, and it's dangerous. You just shove that in the snow, right? Yeah. Next to the hole. These ones here. So this is actually what the snowshoe is hanging from. This part here. So you take this. I love the antique traps because there was so much you could see like the thought process. I would try it. You just go around it like that and then you hook this. Like that. And then you put that right down right down there. There you go. Perfect. And then it sets it. Yeah. See how I like that. This is just mainers that were sitting on a bucket thinking I could build a better trap. And that's why there's like 15 different models of these. I love it. Old school flag too. I'll use that. Awesome. Thank you so much. Go. Do you still want the prizes right here? Yeah, that's a prize pack and then I have all those bags under there. We got some jack traps. That's from Maine Trout Whisperer. Hey guys, how's it going? Good. Hey, we met last night. You guys have a good night? Nice. Let me see if I can get this grill going.