 Good morning. We got a little bit of a heat spell going on. We're looking at Six degrees out there Inside is still below 32 Right around the stove here. It's warming up to 35 because I'm perking the coffee and cooking some breakfast I ran the propane heater on mid to low last night and And it dried my pants somewhat, but I still got ice on on the pants there Yeah, I guess I get a lot of ice still in the pants so I don't know doesn't throw off a ton of heat unless I'm doing something wrong plus you need a damper I don't know but it's dry heat at least everything's dry in here There's no propane build up on the ceiling or Or moisture on the ceiling or the walls, which is nice That's plenty warm enough for me or I'd turn it up at night to a hotter temperature But I'm going to do some crappy fishing today Now I'm going to do a little travel and looking around some different bodies of water With my good buddy CJ from Bermeddon guide service and see what we can get into First things first though, I'm going to drive this breakfast into me and this coffee once it eats up I'm drinking yesterday's coffee right here. It's still warm out of that standalone therapist believe it or not Not hot, but it's warm I don't know what you're doing What's up guys? We are out here Crappy fishing we're fishing for big flats today Not under 15 inches I'm in this fish donkey tournament and this week I have you bringing your three biggest Mouth closed pushed up against the board legit legit weighed in I have a 15 A 15 and a quarter and a 15 and three quarter. I think Yeah, that sounds about right for 46 inches And I'm in the lead over my good buddy Sean and uh And I think 330 maniacs in there somewhere too so It's fun to compete online against these guys that live In minnesota and wisconsin, you know and In places that are typically known for having big crappy and big flats But I'm having a blast here. I'm fishing with my good buddy CJ from burnt meadow guide service We're running around a little bit, you know, we yesterday We just wanted to cross some eyeballs and straighten some lines and bend some poles So we went to a place that doesn't have any big ones and just had it blast We caught 100 each probably in the 10 to 12 inch range You know what we call eaters here Normal we'd we'd move if we were on those it was fun You know, it's a lot of fun and you build your confidence up and you build your technique up and you You start to trust your gear even more So we did that yesterday and he cut up a bunch last night and we're going to bring some home for donny and Save a little bit for later in the year And today we're just going for bigs, you know nothing under 15 inches and We're going to sharp shoot them White work together might work separately. We got a couple different units couple different drills and And see if we can catch some giant fish Stay tuned guys weather conditions for today. This is the first day. It's been You know above zero in the morning. So it was like 31 degrees this morning It's probably chilled down just a little bit Maybe we're in the upper 20s, but the wind's blowing today, you know So we got like a it's calling for five to 10 we saw as much as 15 out of the north northwest So that'll cool things back down. But in the meantime, we got really good cloud cover A little bit of a low pressure and the bite should be on a lot better than it has been all week So stay tuned. Maybe we'll cross somebody's eyeballs and hold a big one up on the camera for you All right guys, we just got here Sharp shot didn't even have time to get the GoPro set up and I popped I popped these two sharp shooting with cj Um super quick flopped one on the ice and dropped down and got them bowed Just want to show you these two right in the 15 15 inch range And then we're going to put those back so we can catch them more and catch them when they're bigger. So here we go Let that one go and then this one we got to get a measurement for fish donkey because he might go the full 15 Oh, yeah beauty Nice There he goes Sweet Got him finally Wow, he was way bigger than I was expecting Yeah 15 and a half going back Oh, dude, finally that I walked Oh, did you? That was a struggle things are getting real over here The bait's coming into my bait Yeah, I do good ones I just watched the crappy eat like three of those That was crazy He just ate like three of those things. Yeah That was awesome Not good for me, but Man this footage is unreal That bigger one is just destroying that school Got a pretty good slab right there Nice slab right there that one's got a mark on the side on this side Got hit there pretty good by something But nice slab we'll get him measured in back. That's a nice 14 and a quarter Going back There he goes The bite had slowed down a little bit. We're fishing pretty Open basin crappy That are keying in on pods of bait most likely our lives are small baby crappy or perch And cj spotted this decent one at 80 feet away on the live scope. So We drilled we moved over to it and now you can see us He's dropping his bait down on the top left of the screen A lot of air bubbles on it, you know your first drop usually your line and your your bait has a lot of air on it So you'll see some air bubbles coming off of it, but that's the fish dead center of the screen Really nice crappies Hovered over about 11 foot out over around 20 22 foot of water I think And cj's just starting to get his attention now He's about eight to 10 foot away from his bait as you can see turned And the cool thing about live scope is once I turn it a little bit for you guys To lock in see the reason he's going away On the screen is because he's circling the bait But I just moved the live scope to point it towards him again Then now you can see his tail You can see the hump back on it and you can see its fins and everything It's pretty pretty cool when you get that thing dialed in like this the gains a little high obviously as you could see all the The interference on the screen, but it's slowly coming in and it's still circling And now it's kind of like straight on a mission and you can see the outline of that crappy. It's a good fish CJ Got him All right, you guys might have just seen that fish on the live scope CJ's saw it from over 80 feet away and we came over and he popped it pretty good Good release So after that fish catch, we get back on the live scope and look around to see if there's any more solos swimming around And we spot this really nice one at 82 feet away So we're gonna Key in on it a little bit make sure it's one we want to go after you could definitely see it's a good tall one and we're going to make the move and head over And try to get on this fish This is how we use forward facing sonar to find either schools or solo fish in basins or open water You could also use it for a structure As well. All right, we just spied one at 80 Gonna give them a look. Oh, you had one That's pretty good fish Hold on he shot before you even got there Uh go 23 He just went for mud I don't know what it is Oh, hold on He's 23 over here now Yep He's staying Co come five feet closer Six feet closer Hold on you might be just driving him in This guy's spooked I'm just gonna try him right here He's 16 away but You're on another one too That nailed him He hasn't moved yet Maybe I'll come over It's coming the way around Still 15 right there Yeah I'll just drop this I think it is It might be one we already caught I'll tell you one thing There's trouble causing a problem when we got to get to him in a hurry Coming in I'll give his attention I've been telling this in the last couple of days But it looks like they're diving in the mud They're just going around This thing just picks it up So they're not actually diving down If you stay on them Best chance to work He's coming Nice fish Pretty bad when I was catching 14 I felt like I was robbing And now I'm catching 15 and a half And we're like wouldn't done us any good Yeah No that's like I don't know what my smallest is right now Is it 15 or 15 and a quarter Or is it What is my smallest It's going to be 15 Oh it's over 15 Yeah it's either 15 or 15 You're going to get this fish I like how yours came in So we're going to drop something smaller We're going to spook something and make some bite You know it's facing the way right Yeah Can you turn around a little I just want to move my knees It's been spooking Swinging You got them on the backside of the transducer Gold post There we go Stop right there If you zoom that in one click There you go Yeah I went 16 because I thought he was getting to the 15 I need him to rush me Oh Oh no I moved it I thought he freaking lurched Was he flying No he's moving So he's not near me Yeah this fish just wasn't having it That's why they call it fishing You could use the life scope to find them And find where they live But it doesn't mean you can catch them But as you'll see I messed with this fish A little bit more He kind of showed some interest We threw a couple different baits at him And he didn't have it So we ended up just Messing with him for a little while And left him alone after that And we're planning on coming back Because it was definitely worth it size wise That's a really big fish He's over 15 easy And as you could see He kind of just kept circling And moving around This is in high speed And eventually he's just going to go down into the mud And think it over And get him next time Cool bass That's funny Right there Good one Nice Made it back Absolutely great day Pan fishing We had Several fish over 15 inches today Over 14 and a half It's just big big crappy And they grow pretty stout Pretty mean here in Maine Had a blast doing it Sticking to some game plans And just following through with CJ He's always a lot of fun Always fun fishing with CJ He goes hard at it Weather right now We're looking at 21 degrees Outside And inside's too cold to register So probably 21 inside Just turned the heater on as you could see I'm not sold on the thing yet I'm missing something to get more heat out of it Or I don't know Because it seems like it's Eating a lot of propane And it hasn't really been keeping this Place that warm So I could be doing something wrong I got it on high right now I don't know how long you could run the thing On high with just a 20 pound tank Maybe one a night I don't know So I figure that out Looks like I'm going to have to cut Trips short a couple more days I've been out here 5, 6, 7 I don't even know how many days now Let's see I got here Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday Friday, Saturday Sunday, Monday Tuesday I think I've been here 7 or 8 days But it's supposed to rain We're supposed to get a little mix Participation tonight Which I'm not too worried about Tomorrow afternoon and night it's supposed to rain Thursday it's supposed to rain Warm up so I don't want to be out here when it's raining These things aren't really built for rain Ice fishing isn't really made for rain either None of your stuff is It's tough to dry out once you get wet I'm probably going to call it a trip Tomorrow I'm going to fish in the morning Do like a midday and then Come back and pack up And head home and start to do some editing for you guys So that's the story Check out breakfast tomorrow morning Good morning This Looks like it's going to be the last morning Here we got some rain Coming this afternoon Wicked bummer So that's going to do it for this trip This will be the last morning Last breakfast on the ice Right now So I got some cleaning up to do Going to fish probably half a day With my buddy CJ And then after that I got to come break up camp And get it off the ice before the rain comes And hopefully get on the road Before the freezing rain happens Because that's no fun to drive in that So speaking about driving I got some breakfast started Going to drive that into me Pretty soon here What do we got going on This piece of toast sausage And the hash brown in there And coffee is Started It's not working yet I get a little bit of yesterday's coffee Always stays warm If I leave a cup in there It stays warm enough In the morning to have While I'm waiting for this to cook And be ready We got 21 degrees out there this morning We're in the heater on low all night And it was like 41 in here It was like mid to low temperature And then this morning for fun I decided since I'm leaving anyway I'm going to crank it and see what it does So when you crank that heater It can heat this place up pretty quick I got 56 degrees over here Now Cooking obviously brings some more heat in here But I think The heater can do the job It's just going to use a lot of propane Is what I think So we'll see A little bit more tests before I give you guys A good honest review Just one trip And I had some serious cold temperatures But I ran it awful low So there's no telling But I did go through Two cans of propane already So running it Not aggressively I think it'll go About two days or two nights Two days And two nights on a 20 pounder I think But I got to give it a little bit better test Pretty good breakfast Right there folks Pretty good breakfast I think this is the seventh day I've been out on the ice In a row on this trip But I'm not 100% sure I got to count back the days And try to figure out what day I got here So I think I got here Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday Sunday Monday, Tuesday Today's Wednesday So that makes eight days And And it'll make seven nights And eight days So pretty good trip As far as trips go Awesome fishing Incredible fishing I didn't film as much fishing as I normally do Just because the fishing Was a grind If you were getting We're picking up one fish here and there And we're seeing a lot on the live scope And we're chasing them down The way that CJ and I like to chase them down As a team or even individually So it's really hard to film In those conditions And it's super hard to film when it's below zero So we had a lot of conditions where it was You know, 10 to 13 below zero And a little bit of wind in that And you go to turn on the cameras And the cameras freeze up And the go-pros just die So I didn't Get as much footage But I did Fish my first ever fish Donkey Tournament It was It's an app Where you can fish against people from all across the country So it's really cool because I get to fish against my friends In Minnesota and Wisconsin 330 maniacs Been fishing it He's got a great YouTube channel He does a lot of pan fishing A lot of trapping Minnesota, Wisconsin That region of the country And then Sean Riesgrief Ries Grief By saying that right Just an amazing Amazing fisherman He's an absolute hammer in Minnesota I got to fish with him one day And could tell just from that day That he's a stick So fishing against him isn't easy He's breathing down my neck On this one I'm in the lead for this week That goes till Sunday With the rain coming I probably won't be able to fish anymore So I think I have like 45 inches For my best to be crappy Maybe a little bit more It might be 46 inches For this week Last week I had a 16 and a quarter 15 and change And then like a 12 And a quarter But right when I took the picture On the 12 and 3 quarter Popped its tail up a little bit So I got a Penalty for that And it just so happened to be A 3 quarter inch penalty Which moved me To a tie for first So I tied 330 maniac on that one That was a bummer But I only had like two days to fish So I feel like I could have caught that one For the tie And then there's also an overall For your best three Combined from all the weeks So I'm going to be a Probably I'm over 46 inches for that I think I'm at 47 inches Top 3 Because I got a 16 and a quarter 15 and a half And I think like a 15 and a quarter So that would make 47 inches I'll come back at the floor Your cover for this is up to What's that one? Your cover for this is up to the ice So was that my cover we saw all week? Oh I thought it was your cover I didn't know if I brought a cover Well that's cool there's 3 packages I'd be a little selfish Would you check them out? I want to see them I wouldn't care if you looked through it No I would never open your nail I wouldn't go in there and just pop it I would never I don't know why but that was something we were taught young Is never going to open first Not just me then That's true a freaking thing of wood And tin foil So what do I need to build Like a metal box or something? Can you make a window or something Like that? Yeah so like Get it up a little bit Like an air space underneath Guys when you're out ice fishing Whether it's a day or a week And you set up your tent And you eat and you fish And you have a great time Just pick up after yourself It's the easiest freaking thing in the world I don't need to be telling that to grown men and women But I just like to say it Because it drives me nuts Because the other day we were on a lake And we could see where two tents had a good time And we picked up beer cans And tops to propane canisters And a bunch of stuff On the ice that just doesn't belong there Let's keep it clean for everybody else I don't mind saying that But That's it, that's a load So two loads for this trip I could have done it all in one But I decided to do it in two Because it's a short run and it's easier And now I'm just going to drive this puppy right on the trailer Not even on hook, not even on load And it'll be ready for the next trip One heck of a trip Heading over to CJ's After the editing room for you guys