 Nice head shakes. I don't know if it might be a cask. Got a little bit of weight. My eyes are up here Sean. Big head shakes. No no uh no real pole but we got some big head shakes. Feels casky. Not fighting like a Laker yet. It's a Laker I think. Yeah Donny's gonna eat good. Get the old smoker going. Fat lake trout. Got him right in the jaw with that rubber band. The jaw smacker. Pat man he's pooping. Wow that hooker is coming out I guess. Look at that son of a... Great full of smell. I mean you can... It's unbelievable. Keep him. Do it. What do they want you to do? Yep. We're doing our civic duty out here on the moosehead lake. What do we need? 5,000 pounds? Yeah. They told me they were down I think 3,000 pounds. They were down 3,000 pounds from target because of how mild the fish the weather was to get on the ice. Well they need 29,997 pounds. Yeah if this whole produces like I think it will we should be able to get half of that today. Going down good. Top water. That didn't take long. I love catching a fish before you get your trap set. Man this guy does not want to sink down. What's he doing over there? He's been in one spot for quite a while. I know maybe he caught one on the way down. One point I couldn't even see him. Yeah. There's just a four-wheeler and a sled. Yep. Well if we pop another one here Sean we can set the tent up right here and jig. That's usually how I get my best lake trout jigging. I catch those guys on a jig rod. Yeah we'll throw that tent out here. Yep. If we need to. Like you said I think it is a gut. Comes up fairly quick head to shore. I love having that rubber band on there I'm telling you. I used to tell people it was a terrible idea. Well especially if you don't if your hands aren't in love with cold. It's good for people like that. I don't mind it. No. Your hands don't use cold. Oh so I went to set one of my traps and the line was wrapped into the line. Yeah it was like up and under itself. Huh. How'd that happen? Some guy picked up a couple of my traps yesterday. How'd that happen? It was wrapped. The hook was or the line? The line was wrapped under itself. How does that happen? Ice? Tell me. I actually don't know. I've never seen that. I think it's a sabotage. No. I just went around it backwards while I was trying to sabotage it. Well she just popped again. Let's see what's going on. No movement. Nope that's because we got the band. Yeah we got them hooked. The band worked again. Another same size. Feels like oh geez got a little bigger there. Just getting them off bottom now. He's getting bigger. Nice head shakes. Oh yeah nice. Oh salmon. Wow sweet. What is he doing on the bottom in 35 foot of water? Holy cow that's awesome. Sweet. All right nice salmon going back. There he goes. Sweet. Bowling me out here today guys. All right she's up again third time in 10 minutes. Yeah I got them. I got them on the rubber band. Oh yeah. Yeah feeling it. Feels like a salmon again. I can't believe I caught a salmon on bottom in 35 foot of water but feels like another one. Oh whoa. Big head shakes. I just got them off bottom. Oh look at these head shakes dude. You seeing those? Wow man feels decent. Not huge but decent. Fair to Midland. Come on baby keep coming. What is it silver or brown? Nice tog. Nice. Beautiful. Right in that plot size. Well Donny's going to eat that guy too. Number three for the day. Another one for the smoker Donny. All right good morning guys. A little late intro for you on this video. It's pretty bowling me out there. I don't know if you could see behind me but there's just a white cloud going across. That is if you were wondering at home what straight seedway is meant. That's pretty much the definition of it right there and sometimes it even lifts up. So that's it right there. She's blowing had. We are up here in Duck Cove and we forgot how far away it was from Rockwood. It was pretty good drive into that wind. Especially on a full wheeler. That was epic. Thomas has got no windshield, no hand brake, nothing. Nope. So he was struggling. Oh good for you guys. Well it is the Rockies. We had two pair. We each had two pair of gloves on. Yeah that's so fun. Yeah but pretty awesome. I'm here with Sean and Chubbs again. Chubbs might do some cooking today. I might take over after he gets things set up. Did I do this wrong? Looks like he's doing everything wrong. But yeah so we're switching gears. We've had a Brookie Smash Fest the last couple days if you guys missed that. Check back on the last two videos. We've had we put five Stava's topside the first day. One Stava yesterday and six others yesterday too. So we got six trout the first day. Seven the second. Put a couple cork and chub on the ice. Sean did not get his state record chub yet. So we're going to work on that later in the week. But right now we're switching gears and we're going salmon lake trout with a couple Brook trout sets just to keep them on us. We are on like the premier native Brook trout lake in the United States I'd say. And you got a really good chance of catching the biggest Brook trout of your life when you come out on this lake. So it's hard not to set a couple for Brook trout. So Brook trout sets if you don't know are really close to shore. You know they're six foot or less and we either use worms or smelts on those. You can use shiners too. And you're looking for like gravelly areas and the Brookies of Cruz shallow. Your lake trout are typically deep. They're pretty close to the bottom in this lake especially. And your salmon are actually over deep water but they're really high in the water column. So a lot of times when you're fishing for salmon you could be over 50 to 100 foot of water and only have it down five foot below the ice surface. And they'll take 100 foot sideways on you. So that's how we're fishing today. We'll see how it works out so far. Only one of us has caught a fish. I don't know what these other guys are doing but it's pretty easy out here if you ask me. Look at these snow natives going on out here. Aren't you glad we're not in that? Too bad for my poor trap out there. All right all right we got another flag. This one is the only one I didn't have banded. So this one's got free spooling and uh-oh. Doesn't look like it's moving at all. So I'm gonna have to work this one. We'll see fellas. Oh yeah just pulled it out of his mouth. Yeah that wasn't good. We're gonna get this one set up. I had it set for salmon then I dropped it. So let's do it the right way. What we're gonna do is sound the hole and by sounding that's gonna find the bottom. So I got a big chunk of lead on there. We're gonna find out what the depth is. Then I'm gonna tie a little marker on my line to show where it is so I know how far the fish pulls in. I know where to send it every time. All right so there's bottom. Then you allow for your trap and then I'm gonna be about that far off bottom. So I take a little piece of rubber band. They're super useful in your ice fishing. You should always have a pocket full of rubber bands. Then I'm gonna tie that on the line. You can slide it back and forth if you want to change where you're fishing. So that's gonna be the depth I set. I'm gonna take my sounder off and put a shiner or a smelt on in this place. All right here's our smelt. Hook it in front of a dorsal fin. Don't catch the spine, whatever you do. And then we're gonna send him down. And we're gonna send him down right to where our marker is. That way we know we're at the right depth. We're about a foot and a half to two foot off bottom. We might catch this fish before we even get this thing reset. All right we're gonna give this fish about 20, 15 to 20 feet to run. And then we're gonna fetch him up with a rubber band. I'll show you guys how to do that. It's pretty easy. Take a rubber band, put it up against next to your line like this. So it's on the backside and then you just wrap it over the line and go back through your rubber band and pull it tight just like that. And then you can move that or take it off when you're done. And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna you wind it up to your rubber band and then put your rubber band over your reel just like that. Then he pulls it and it gets to that rubber band and it sets the hook for you. It keeps them from running too far and getting hung up. Day like today you don't want to run in too far when it's this windy and cold. And then we're back to where our marker was, that rubber band. It's on the top of the reel. We're gonna reset the flag and then we wait. Chubs, what you got going on here, Bob? We got a little bit of shaved moose steak, some peppers, some onions. We are gonna make some steak bombs. Beautiful. Nice little steak bomb action this beautiful day. It might have been a yellow perch. Yellow perch? It never took any line. I didn't have a rubber band on that one so I wasn't sure and I didn't have a marker. I had it set for like eight foot for salmon and then I coming back I was like, let me just drop it. So I just dropped it till whatever. Had no idea how high up the bottom I was. I think I had ten foot off the bottom. I'm only like eight foot down on that first trap. I might send that one down all the way. WD-40 really works huh? Yeah. I've never seen anybody do that. Really? You never seen anybody do that? Fish oil. Yeah, works great. Think it'll go up? Oh yeah, smells like birch bark. Chubs got a flag, high flyer. I'll go pull that trap for you that flag. Too bad you got to cook. You stay here and cook. First one. I'll go with you Chubs, but did you shut the cooker off? That's all it took. I had to pour one cup of coffee. This is going to be a nice lake trout. Oh is it? Sweet. What did the salmon have to be, 18? Yeah, just wait for me. You don't need a skimmer. What do you need? I'll skim it for you. Give it the old five finger discount skimmer. Wow. Wow is right. Just filled up quick. Yeah. Holy cow. All the way to the reel. Yeah. I must have been into the reel. Come on baby, be there. Be there. No. Oh. I wonder if the snow set though. Slush flag? He's lively. How far do you want to drop him? Not much. I know it. I've been so active on mine catching fish that it doesn't get any slush. Oh, yeah. You should try that. Oh, I got a flag here. Oh, I might have two flags. Really? Yeah. All right. Looks like he made it to the rubber band. That feels pretty good. Rubber band set the hook for me. Vegetable. Feels all right. Got a customer? Yeah. Feels like a cask. Oh, really? Not much for head shakes yet. Oh, there we go. He came alive? Yeah. That's under the slot. Unlimited, right? Or five? Five. Yeah, five under the slot. So we'll keep him. Look at it. I mean, they're pooping there. They're just so full of smells. Feel that. This cove is so full. This cove has got so many smells in it. Thank you. There he is. Nice little lake trout right there, guys. They want, they want a bunch of these killed in here and cold taken out of here. So I'm going to take that home and we're going to, we're going to smoke it. Donny likes eating lake trout. I don't mind eating them either, especially with a guy. Put them right on the smoker. Yeah. I'm going to go check on them steaks. Okay. Would you call dinner? Holy cow chubs. Yeah. That's a two-hander, huh? Yeah, double fista. That's, that's what we like to call a little steak bomb. That's a bomb. Loose. That'll get in the beard. Oh yeah, you're going to wear that. You guys got a permit for this problem? Oh, we got two flags, two at a time right now, guys. All right, let's see if we can get one of these. One of these will be a fish. These hold another lake trout like where I started. He's under this a lot. We're good. Hooked them right in the lip, right in the corner there. He's just got a little bigger. Wow, he's getting a lot bigger. He's fighting like a salmon. Pretty good fight on this one. Conditions are getting pretty squarely out here. She's ripping high. Chubs and I just set up a couple jig holes here near where we've been catching them and we got a high flier. Let's take a peek. Oh yeah, she's rolling. I think it just hit the rubber band. Yep, it did. Oh, tiny. Oh, not tiny anymore. Whoa, whoa. That just got a lot bigger. I don't think he's that big. Yeah, little guy. He went from tiny to feeling good to tiny again. Got him. Got him. Oh, he's feeling pretty decent. Feels pretty decent, fellas. Pretty decent. Pretty not bad. One of the best fighters yet. We just wrapped up. That's why. Take his fish. Hey, small toky. Yeah. Love nothing more than to catch fish on your traps. Right. It's a great feeling. Oh, this trap's been on fire. You just got them off the bottom. One for the smoker. Something bit me. Stop. I don't want it in my pocket. Lovely style. Oh, yeah. Why did you do that? Yeah, I put one in his pocket. You did? Yeah. How do you like that? Loved it. I'm doing my hands. You know what I mean, Ricky? Once that camera sets rolling, I just get all frozen. How's the fire going? Your pants are smoking. I don't know. I was trying to dry them out. We're out of wood. Chips are all freaking. That's where you put your hot dogs on. Leave that over the fire. Set it together. Chubs, we got a wood. We got to go make a wood run. I'll go get some wood. Take your axe. I'll go video you. Let's go get some wood. We got some serious elevation, serious snow, and he's buried right to the frame. I don't know if we're going to be able to pop him loose, but I'm going to give it a heck. I should probably beat the trail down, but whatever is what it is. You like that? I'm going to hit it, so you better like it. Where are you going when you get out of here? I don't know, but right, I'm just going to pop you out. There you go. This sled, I can't get over what I could do. What do you think, Sean? This thing is so packed with snow. Look at all the stuff I just knocked off. All right, let's get back to fishing. That was fun. That was pretty incredible. Afternoon boredom. Couldn't have a flag for a half hour, so we decided to go get ourselves in trouble. Didn't look good for a minute. No, did not look good, but we don't have to spend. That was fun. That was awesome. That thing is good. Is that ignorant or what? To go up where you were? I couldn't believe it snapped me out with like this much snap. I know. I was trying to get this much snap. I know. If I had like this much, I knew it could snap. It could pop you if I had that much snap, but not with what we had. That surprised me. Yeah, no, it came quick. Yeah, that was awesome. Maybe the smallest one of the day right here. Guys, this is like the 14th or 15th fish out of this hole. We haven't got a fish on another trap. Just that one back there. Eater size. Right back. Loaded with smell. Little fence smell sitting here. Yep. Back. We are back to the camp. We started dinner early this morning. Through with the crock pot. I'm going to show you that. It is a meat stew. Various meats. We got hamburger, stew meat, steak, sausage. Got about everything in there. Peas, carrots, tomatoes. No, no tomatoes. Peas, carrots, potatoes, and onions, and a lot of garlic in there too. So we got that. We're going to drive that into us. Pretty hard tonight. We just got back from the Rockwood Bar and Grill for a couple of quick toddies. I guess you'd go them. Some nachos. Yeah. We're going to have some, oh yeah. Some cheddar bay biscuits. Go ahead and drive a couple of them. I'll stave into one of those. Don't be shy. You'll eat more than one. Sean, you want one of them? Sean's on a diet. Sean's on a skinny diet. Look at him. We don't want to get him too fat. He won't be able to walk. Look at that bowl of stew right there. We're going to drive that into us and I guarantee you it's a good night, Irene, after that. But Chubb's over here watching the latest premiere from the channel. Joe Holland video. What do you think of that so far? Hanging out with Joe Holland. Watching Joe Holland. What do you think of those moose antlers I found last trip? No, I don't think they're as big as you thought they were. Well, I knew how big the antlers were. I just thought the moose was big. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty cool. I told Chubb's it was. Another set of sheds. It was probably a thousand pound moose. But he just had a little antlers. So you just got to speculate at that. I don't know. I don't know. It's all speculation at that point, how big he is. But we're going to melt that thing. And probably give it like a 61 inch spread. So it's going to have a wide forehead. Yeah, super wide forehead. You're going to be able to stick your hand between it. But what's the plan for tomorrow, fellas? Chubb's going to burn his mouth of eats. My last day, I'm hoping to get back into the brook trout. Okay. You want to go brooky fishing? I do. How do you feel today? Well, I didn't have any flags and they all came from Joe Holland's traps. So, tog was fun. It was fun catching tog. We put a lot of fish tops on it. Yeah, we caught a lot of tog today. Sean, how about you? I got a good fire going. And he kept it going. Sean had a good fire. That was a challenge. Yeah, it was fun. But as far as the fishing went, as far as the fishing went, we had one, you had one hole that you had two holes. You caught two fish out of one hole. And then the rest came from, so it was like 14 fish out. So 12 fish out of one hole. Pretty much, yeah. Which is pretty awesome. I caught four of them. Yeah. While you were taking a little snoozy poo. Yeah. I wanted to see you catch some fish. Little Joe Holland's snoozy poo. Sleepy Joe. And we got off that mountain. We were climbing too. Oh yeah, yeah. That was epic. That was pretty epic. I'd have the old, what is it, tundra? Expedition. Expedition pulled me out, sucked me right out of there. It was pretty raw out there, though, guys. It was balmy. It was one of those days where you could just look out 100 yards, 500 yards, whatever it was. And there was just always a wall, probably 30 foot high of snow blowing straight sideways. And if you look far enough, there were snow, snow natals spinning up out everywhere. We never saw another person other than this morning. We saw three riders. Yeah, three sides. And the first guy looked like he had a, what's that called? Like a, not a gurney, but a, to carry somebody. Yeah, I don't know what they were doing. Yeah, it was weird. It was like a rescue mission or maybe they were practicing. So that's it. We saw those three guys. They weren't fishing. No, that was it all day. Pretty much haven't seen anybody fishing in three days. Yeah, we have been soloing. We found a nice little spot today. We tucked in. Yeah. Got up in there. You wouldn't even know it was bad out. Nope. When you stayed tucked in, if you had to go out for flags every 10 minutes. Got that little fire going. It was pretty nice in there. It was really nice. Yeah. It's hard to leave. So we're planning, we're planning on getting on some more brook trout tomorrow. We don't know where yet, probably heading a little bit on the south end of the lake tomorrow. We're going to look at the wind first. The big part of fishing, Moussaad, you never really can say, Hey, we're going to go fish this spot without looking at the wind first. You go, oh no. He just burnt his, the roof of his, he just burnt the lower end of his brain. Wow. That tug will never work again. Look at. That's good, but it's hot. Crystal is going to be some mad. You can't put that on YouTube. Dude, that is so hot. Wow. You can refire them. You can't put that on YouTube. Wow. That is so good, but so hot. Oh, it's delicious. But dunk one of them biscuits in there to cool it down. I gotta give it a minute. All right, we're going to dig in guys. We'll see you after dinner or first thing in the morning. Thanks for tuning in. As always, really appreciate all the support on the channel and give these guys a little support too. We'll see you tomorrow. See you tomorrow for some more baked brookies. The real Joe Holland, please stand up. Don't leave me here.