 Time to make the doughnuts Good morning Good morning. Good morning to you Donnie. I offer a hearty and heartfelt good morning to you Pretty mild morning this morning. Yeah Looks like we got about an inch and a half two inches of snow out there. Wow came down in a hurry I heard it last night on the roof Got a little worried how hard it came down, but then it just stopped Yeah, huh happened all at once. I didn't hear a thing. I take out my hearing aids. I don't hear a thing. That's good That means I don't snore I Once in a while, I could hear something over there. Yeah, not off. Today is gonna be As good a fishing day as you've ever seen for pike They are gonna be chewing today. Is it cloudy out there? It's we got a wicked front pushing across from this storm and then some nice clouds behind it And it's just gonna be a mild mild beautiful day. I don't know what the wind's gonna do That's the only thing I don't know But I know they're gonna be chewing because they haven't chewed for two days, right? They gotta be hungry They're gonna chew today today's gonna be we're gonna put something over 10 pounds topside And I want you to be the guy that does it Because I don't like catching big fish That's a lie Well, we got I got up this morning I Let her burn out last night I got up this morning and got the fire going and I guess I got her going a little too hot And I the pipe wide open the pipe I came back from doing my outside stuff and the pipe was going It was going in bad. Yeah, and I'd left up. I'd left the damper wide open and Look like it kind of melted that rubber silicone at the where it goes through so we might have to look at something different I didn't think it smoked a little bit, but I I didn't see any flame or anything Oh, no flame no flame at all. Yeah, but it definitely melted it some so when we take the pipe out We'll take a look and kind of reassess. It might need that triple wall Insulated one there. Maybe we wrap the pipe with with this blanket Where it goes through the wall there, but but we haven't had it cherry red like that. No, that was glow Yeah, I before I turned the light on it was, you know, obviously dark in here. I think was glowing. Oh Man, and I thought sure it would be glowing outside too, but you know, I thought I smelled something outside But it wasn't going outside. Yeah Your little fan and on the stove is really Yeah, that helps move the air around here sure does. Yeah Did it take long for the heat to come to your bed this morning? Not at all. Not at all It kind of brought me out of hibernation So what's the plan for this morning? Oh? After I sip on my coffee for a minute and kind of wake up I'm gonna I'm gonna stop making a half a batch of donuts today. I don't think we need a full batch And then I'll get the water going for the oatmeal. I think we'll have a nice breakfast I brought some brown sugar case you want to put that on your oatmeal. That's kind of nice I've got some milk here some half and half We'll drench a little of that on it and just enjoy yourselves to a kind of an old-fashioned breakfast I don't think too many people cook the original Oatmeal I don't know that for sure, but you know, I have used the little packets of the quick stuff and I do like those for being a you know quick, but I really like the The old-fashioned the best in a double boiler it cooks slow and it doesn't burn on you know with the Cooks by actually the steam coming from the bottom kettle Heating the top kettle where the oatmeal is in and it does a good job. I think Okay, well that's the plan. I'm gonna get some traps set for us and bring get go get some water for dishes and I'll drive this cup of coffee in to me get my thermos full And we're gonna have one heck of a morning. Stay tuned guys. I don't think you're gonna want to miss this episode I think it's gonna be a good episode Even if we don't catch a fish because we're eating Naughty's donuts today And I'm one lucky fella. If you guys knew our location, we'd probably have a couple more people knocking on the tent door Love it every time I start that thing makes me so happy probably not that's probably not right, but it does You ain't got about an inch and a half of snow last night a little bit wet All right, I've Started to work on my donuts. I'm adding all the wet ingredients together and I Got milk in here I'll put my sugar in here and mix it in with the milk. I've got my egg in here I just put a little bit of cinnamon and I'm gonna put a little bit of nutmeg in and Kind of blend that in Let that set a minute and I'm gonna get out My shortening and my Flower I got to melt my shortening and my recipe It's funny. I can't remember this recipe But I can't so I got to have two Two and a half tablespoons of this Put this in a cup And melt it down We've got a nice fire going in the wood stove, so good place to get melted on All right, we got that I'll put that on the stove Yeah, I'll measure out my Flower my workspace isn't very big here, but we're gonna make do obviously We have to make do And I'm only making a half a batch so We need four cups of Flower if we were making a full batch So we all we need is two cups obviously Melt that down, which is gonna take a bit To get it up to temperature. We want to be up around 365 degrees or there about Stop frying it. I got my donut cut. I'm just gonna Dip it in here. Hopefully Hopefully things won't stick too bad Donut holes not cooperating, but I'm gonna put that in the fat and just see if it's Up to 10 It's getting very close as low as I can get it. It's a little hot There's the first donut hole. Whoops Didn't drop it on the floor get saved And I mixed up some sugar and some cinnamon and nutmeg To Cover these with here comes the first donut off the press looks like it's cooked pretty well That's still a little hot I'll cut it back as Much as I can without shutting it off back. I think I will shut it off and Let it come back down Usually this is Two-man operation All right when I take them out of the fat, you know Joey's usually here to sugar Sugar them, but he's out setting up traps Trying to get a supper tonight. I don't think we'll be going hungry if we don't get catch anything, but Sometimes if the fat is too hot It'll cook quickly on the outside, but the inside might be Not cooked a little bit doughy So I shut the heat off and it's coming back down into where the range that it should be All right, we got four done. This is only half a batch. So I still got some more to do here Got a little bit more dough left in here. I'll add that to the what's already on there Really don't need a rolling pin for this smaller deal, but I brought it so All right while I'm waiting Just to want to talk a little bit about I'm gonna make oatmeal and This is the Original old-fashioned Quaker Oaks that I like to use And I have a dope double boiler here Which is about the right size for you know two servings I put water in the bottom one and I will put Two cups of water to one cup of Quaker Oaks in the top and Heat it and it actually cooks by the water boiling in the bottom And to me it makes the best oatmeal going So we'll do that after we get these donuts Done Kind of hard to determine When a donut is done, you know, I do it kind of by color Sometimes I hit it right sometimes I don't you know sometimes it's a little bit doughy in the middle but personally I like that but a Lot of people wouldn't and they got a little bit of dough left. I think I'll pop a Donut hole in my mouth. Hmm Man, oh, man, I guess I could make a crawler. All right a half a batch made Eight donuts a few donut holes and a crawler So there's just two of us so Certainly a half a batch is more than enough Have a friend coming in fish with us tomorrow So if we devour all these Today why I'll make another half a batch tomorrow Okay now for the oatmeal I've put water in the Put water in the bottom pan. That's been heating on the wood stove That's to the steam stage Now I'm going to add the ingredients in the in the top half and it's going to take Two cups of water You know at home. I just kind of You know, I don't measure stuff out. I just kind of dump it in and it works just fine. I'm so I've made it so many times. I know where the water level should be on the Inside of this Okay, now I gotta wipe this out So the oatmeal won't stick too badly And I need a cup a cup of old-fashioned Oatmeal a lot of people wait till the water in the top Pan gets hot before they add the oatmeal. I just dump it in let it soak in the water and Go from there. So what I'm going to do is put this on the wood stove and Hopefully we can cook it on the wood stove Here Joey coming back. I guess he's got all the traps set out You got them all set Joey All right Well, I just put on the oatmeal Donuts are done. I just put the oatmeal on So you're gonna have to wait about probably 20 minutes or so for that cook Well, you can have a donut the meantime Well, I have to I mean it's been hotter than holy hell in here I've been under a lot of pressure trying to get this this cocked and You know I I usually have more than one hand here, but you've been out your thing so Yeah, I know fun. Yeah. Yeah, holy cow Donnie. Yeah. Wow, isn't that gonna be great? Oh my gosh, they look great Yeah, did you really just whip those up? I just whipped them up for real. Yeah They look yeah That's that's half a batch. So, you know, that's like eight. I think eight donuts and uh The ugliest looking crawler. I'll eat you would ever want to see look how ugly that is Wow, can I have one? Yeah, sure. Thank you. Oh My gosh, I'm gonna take it right outside Yeah, I gotta eat out here because I got my my winter clothes on No, it's still warm Donnie. Oh My god. Oh my god. Oh my god And we got a flag up too. Oh my god, those are good Donnie Holy cow Donnie Wow Something good. Yeah, she did trip. She did trip. She's not rolling, but she's definitely tripped wide open Might be one on there big dead bait on this one. It's been up three times. So I don't know what's going on Pretty mangled. They'll send it back down This one's been up three times Whatever it is is just hitting it and pulling it like four or five feet Which could be just the slack. I have it off bottom. So it could be it really could be like Find out what it is. It could be a tiny pickle. It could be a tiny pike or a tiny pickle Don't ever want to let your guard down because that could be a 25 pound pike But more than likely it's a tiny little hammer handle doing all he can to try to get get that thing swallowed. I Think I'm gonna have to just let him swallow it because when I pull there's really nothing there It's off to the races again. I got to let him eat it just stopped slow rolling Could be a small pickerel small pike Giant yellow perch If he's not big enough, he's really got to work on turning that turning it turn it so he can swallow it So he's either swallowing it now or he's dropped it. Let's find out Yeah, he dropped it This is funny Oh, he pulled it right out of my Shoot. All right. I was worried that was gonna happen We'll put one on that's a little bit more bite size anytime you're using dead bait just make sure you get that air sack I just popped it right there. You could pull it out or pop it and squeeze the air at them So they're not upside down We'll give them a second, but we got Donnie's donuts to eat so we're not gonna mess around too long waiting for this guy Boy, is it nice in here? I hope this tent smells like this forever Donnie I know I'm really let the donut fry and really and stew it Nicest this tent's ever smelled It's new too. Oh man, I think I'm gonna have to have another donut What do you what do you guys think? I think I should. I don't know. This one looks like it might be a little doughy in the middle Let's try this one. I like them crispy. Yeah, I Like the flow there was one that I don't know if I ate it Well, I didn't have the fat quite hot enough and it really crisped up the outside. Oh Donnie that is amazing Pretty dog on good. Oh my god Got the oatmeal cooking on the stove. Look how nice that's coming. Hmm cook it slow You know, is that the same cooker you use at home? Yeah, it is It's great for just me, you know It's small and Looks super. I think the oatmeal is About ready looks pretty pretty dog on good to me. I've had it on there probably at least 20 minutes and You know, it doesn't do any hurt to leave it on even longer But I like it a texture about like that. So what is how what is that cooking apparatus? For people that aren't 80 You mean for the modern generation, yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, this is called a double boiler And there's water. Oh, nice. There's water in the bottom one. Yeah, you see it bubbling. Yeah You add your ingredients in the top one. It might not be oatmeal. It might be making Frost and or something else, you know, it's used for a lot of different things So it cooks by the steam coming, you know from the boiling water Mm-hmm onto the onto this pan And it cooks by steam never burns on Okay, so nice low cook right if you know if you cooked it directly on on the cooking surface it Oftentimes would burn on because it's harder to regulate that heat right and you have to work at it constantly You know stirring and so forth and so on but this you know, you stir it occasionally and You have no worries about You know burning on oh my gosh. Oh, I got I got really something to top it off with some half and half Wicked we eat in old school now This might be the best breakfast I'll ever eat in my life Ever any time from here on out. I don't know if I should be sad or happy How would you guys feel if you just knew you ate your best breakfast to your life? Yeah, yeah Yeah, my buddy call and sent me his recipe Oh, yeah, yeah, he ate he ate the double stoop and he had a date and Walnuts and Something else in it. I'll try to get that recipe. I have it Julia Charles would say bon appetit Some good wicked Not too bad a day. No, it's gonna be amazing. They shouldn't be chilling today If you guys are using dead bait, that's the air bladder right there and you can see it's just full of air It's like a balloon and then it deflates But if you don't get that out It'll your bait's gonna float up or it's gonna be belly up and there might be a little air in there You just squeeze that out Always make sure you get that scale off the tip of the hook because you will not be able to drive that hook home Even on 20-pounder big giant 859 you wait one more minute and this will be big right because I said nine nine o'clock great All right, we'll wait one more minute Before I do anything. I mean this is super rare how slow these things are going and how little they take out Normally when you're pike fishing you get up to this flag and the things just churning butter, huh? It's just been a couple weird days and nobody But they ought to start prowling now the next hour and a half should be should be pretty good fishing She's rolling hold on we're rolling to check it We want to let it eat I think about a letter D. Don't you? Yeah, I don't know. It's dead bait You're no better than I Let's let it eat I like punching them right in the face, but I mean some guys won't touch that for 15 minutes Yeah, but to me it could be nothing on it Let's we'll switch that bait up I'll put something a little tastier on Like you took the bait. Oh, we got two flags up Let's take that bait off Go again That's a little more promising Yes, at least moving you would think that when they go for it, they'd slash at it and yeah Pull and slash Especially if it was live bait, yeah, I don't know what this is. Oh, we did put live bait on this one Yeah, this was on at nine o'clock Probably just the bait You hit him. Yeah, go got him throw it right to the side Then if you have to take it back. Oh, yeah, good one. Oh, we take it Let me know if you need more About time we got hooked into one of these huh if you get us this one's fluorocarbon So you can't be as stout with this steel, but if you get his head started, I'll try to grab and we're just plop them on the ice Oh, it's a decent one All right, there you go. Nice Awesome Man, they just kind of sit there chewing up. Yeah Good hook on him Nice fish Donny. Wow He's uh He's heavy. Oh, yeah Almost five. Yeah, I thought he was heavy. I don't get it 4.8. Okay 4.82 bigger than well Look it out. That's why we're not catching all feel that Donny. He's got some serious stuff in there Oh, my well, I can feel him. He's got like two or three big. Yeah. Yeah Got it. Okay Nice 4.82 he said nice. Good job Donny. All right. Nice Man, it's been a tough. It's been tough to get these guys topside. They're just wow. I mean, he just he moved this much. Yeah They're so lethargic right now Interested We got some leftover meatloaf Wow, we might as well eat that up made a couple sandwiches Put some of Dave pickles on it if you want. Oh, yeah, that sounds great a little ketchup. Yeah Who makes these pickles? My brother-in-law Dave Ames and they are the best friggin bread and butter pickles you can get Oh, yeah, just delicious He makes them every year doesn't he every year and he makes a super zucchini relish Yeah, he pays his cribbage bets off with jurors of it. Okay. Yeah, so I got so many of those from him Dave if you're watching this you're not that good at cards Yeah, he always has a big guy then and And puts up well he puts up a lot of different kinds of pickles bread and butter are my favorite But he does sweet spears and dill and Just a variety You know, you usually know what you're gonna get for Christmas when you with Dave You always look forward to it, right? Yeah, right This is this warm in here. It is. It's amazing how much this Eskimo sucks in the Sun. Yeah, it does Feels really good. Oh dang thermometer quit working. It's 56 in here right now. That's pretty excellent 25 outside doors doors been open all the time. Oh, that's true, too. You know There we have it. There's your sandwich. Thank you Looks like a great lunch Awesome. Thanks I'm gonna eat outside We couldn't have picked a better camping spot. Oh, this is perfect. I think we ate the most wind yesterday Yeah, I'm going for a heaven early spring or not. Did the groundhogs said no? Is that what they're saying? I guess so Thing is the damn groundhogs in Pennsylvania So don't do a bit of good for us. Oh, no Well guys, we got a flag out there Donnie said he ain't gonna let it any fish ruin it. I'm not moving until this sandwich is gone It reminds me of an old story Donnie told me about an old bull and a young bull They're standing on top of the hill and there's a valley full of heifers And the young bull says the old bull Let's run down there and mate one of them heifers And the old bull said let's walk down and mate with all of them There's a lot of truth to that. Yeah, I agree. I learned a lot from that Well, we got a flag out. Yeah, let's go check it There is there is that other one that's always up that one doesn't excite me too much Oh Yeah, we got one on there slow rolling away from you. Oh, yeah Wow what I hit it I think we auto don't you? Yeah, you'll get on this side. He's on there. Yeah Hit him good Hit him. Oh Geez. Oh, geez. Oh Keep coming. Yeah coming. They will turn. Oh Let him have it. Is a good one. Yeah Yeah, it really is. All right, finally And you got all the line you need right here bud Let me know what he's taking some Yeah, you can kind of this had floral carbon he's coming. Oh No, you just hit you So this had floral carbon so you can't get too crazy around the hole. No one his head comes you can pull them out I'll give you a hand. Oh, it's a big one. Oh, he's just barely hooked. I'll bring him up Yeah, Donny Yes Yes, wow Look at that. What a gorgeous fish. Yeah, and you got another flag. We just sat behind you. Oh my word Pop that right out. Holy man. Look at that. If you want to hold them you could hold them like this Where do you hold from you're gonna you only get the gill plate? You don't want to You don't want to get anything other than the gill plate and it's smooth It's smooth right Just follow my thumb and and stay close to you Okay, are you hitting gills? I think so. Okay Your fingers aren't on anything sharp, right? Not that I can feel and just keep a good grip on them. Oh my god, finally Yes Look at that. What do you think he weighs? He's over 10. Look at that. He had an old wicked old scar healed up Awesome. Wow. Yeah, he's over 10. I'd say What a nice fish. Yeah, we'll get some measurements some weights and let them go. I'll get my scale out All right, so 32 would be hard to get to 10 pounds But this joker is built so If you hold that just hold that for one second, please We got 10.16. Yeah 10.1 10 pounds 10.1 pounds 32 and over 10 pounds. That's a hog All right, we're gonna let him go let him grow Come on. He's good. See you later big gators what we say on the big ones. All right. What do you think Donny? Hey, that's wonderful. Biggest fish ever. Congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. Wow Wow, I'm glad we did it. Yeah, I am too Awesome. Good job It was rolling pretty good. So I don't know now, but You're gonna have to feel where he is and whale him Oh slack. He might have come back When you feel him whale him He took some line up there Got him Did you hit him? Well Think you got him? Yeah Any size? No. He might grow as he gets bigger I mean, I mean as he gets closer He might grow as he gets closer Took some serious line, didn't he? You haven't even hit your bottom knot yet Really? Yeah, you haven't hit your bottom. Oh, there it is. Holy mackerel. Yeah What I'm saying he might grow Let me know if he needs some. I'm gonna All right, let's move on What is it? Do you get a look at him? No Need some? No I thought I saw a flash. It didn't look big, but Oh, he's not bad Walk him right out Oh, yeah, nice. He's bad at all Nice, not too bad. Nice. All right. Another nice one for Donny He's uh Yeah, he's got to be in like a six pound range, right? I'd say so. He might be the skinniest one yet I got one. My fly is right in my other All right, you got three again We'll see if we can get four today. Got it Good hook sets today. Nothing's got it deep I bet you he's pretty close to the same length as your uh, your bigger one. Really? Oh, he looks shorter. I mean, I bet he's close. He's nowhere near the same weight Well, he is close 31. 31. The other one was 32. Yeah I mean that just tells you what a hog that other one was Because this is going to be close here. You hold that. This will be close to like six pounds. I think What do you think? Yeah, I'd say in the six pound range It's so thick. It's thick in the back. Yeah, wicked thick in the back Oh, wow a little heavier 770 so seven seven and three-quarter pounds. Oh, wow. Nice one, Donny. Beauty. All right. You want a picture? You know you can hold this I'll hold this. I usually just grab by the tail real tight get them This one's lively. Then you go say see you later big gator Yeah, while Joey was out checking traps Uh, I whipped up a blueberry cake And I got it in the oven right now I gotta admit it isn't homemade. It's made from a mix but I think it's going to be pretty good It's quite a contraption, huh? But another probably another 15 minutes on it Wow, does that smell good? So I don't believe I will ever eat as good on a winter ice camping trip in my life Unless you come along And I'll do yourself somehow crazy Well, I'll give you guys a little midday update where Things are starting to slow down a little bit. I put a little shift on the traps Lifted some up set some down move some around see if we can get an afternoon bite I don't really do real well on pike in the afternoon I don't know if it's just how I fish them or if it's just how they are here in the state of Maine But I'm going to make a run out And grab some fuel grab my extra seat because we're going to have a guest with us tomorrow That's going to need a ride in the morning and I'll go grab the seat and pick them up at a different location And I think I'm going to take a load of some stuff out right now to to lighten that load up for tomorrow That's the plan That comes out clean so she's cooked beautiful That smells delicious All right mission accomplished We'll have some for supper and tomorrow Still nice and warm There you go Wow, thank you I'm gonna sit it out here and enjoy it on my eskimo chair watching my jack traps Driving some blueberry cake right into the old gullet She is blowing straight seedways out there folks We got a hard west wind Pretty much blowing like a sieve Coming over them trees, but we're in a good spot here. We We we looked at the forecast Trusted what we could trust and we used Donnie's compass and set up the best we possibly could for the week Yesterday was the worst wind that we were gonna eat And it was a south wind so that's not a big deal. So how's the cake? Oh my god You've got a bite into that while it's warm. Oh man. Yeah, that's fantastic We don't get that every day You pretty much spoiled me rotten this trip Donnie Might have ruined me. Well, hopefully you'll have a good cook on the next trip. I got high expectations at next All right, but I gotta finish my cake first. Okay, let's go. You finished Let's walk out made them all All right, this could be the droid that we have been waiting for Johnny's on the board with his double digit bike Just barely tripped Really? Yeah Well, I thought that was gonna be the one maybe Did you just sit there eating it? Yep. Oh nice big one Oh, she's a monster Yeah No, a little good. Well, I mean It's pulling pretty good Pulling pretty good Getting bigger is what you're saying. Yeah, getting bigger as he gets closer. Let me know if you need some I'm to your bottom knot. Oh Yeah, let him go let him go All right, I like that Getting close Don't whore some if it's If it's big he's gonna need a couple runs He's pretty good size. You gotta get the head started Oh, we're back into the reel Oh Whoa, whoa So you're saying he's decent I think he is I'll help you land them Once you get the head started you kind of pull the rest out if you can you dare to pull it Yeah, it's this one steel with a line. Yeah, here you go. I haven't seen him yet. Oh, yeah, he's giant Or he's big you got the head going. He's another double digit. I think I think you got a new PB What do you think of that, buddy? He's he is thick. Yep. Oh my god Thick across the back. Yep. Awesome. All right, I'll get my catch bag Beautiful beautiful Donnie. Yeah, it's nice fish If you twist them a little we can see them the side of them We'll see you later big gator Yeah Nice Donnie. All right, another personal pass That's over 30 pounds today. Wow 31 pounds. That's awesome. Maybe 32 actually It's certainly a different type of fishing than I'm used to Yeah, you know Two tent bounders in one day is pretty special. Right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it sure Beats tog fishing, you know But I you know, I like tog fishing too, but this is certainly different Yeah They're just fat and lazy aren't they? Oh, yeah same thing Got him Good one. Yeah, you might have to let them run Oh Oh, look at that spool going guys He got into your spool If you've got to let them run which way do you want to throw the line? I don't know I'd rather throw it your way. Okay. That's good Oh, this one's fluorocarbon, so we're gonna be a little more careful than last time You got 40 pound fluorocarbon Guys, look at that. He is zinging the spool off Just keep fighting him. You'll get at least three to four good runs Did you get a look at them? Medium, you look medium-sized, but I didn't really get a I mean he's running better than last time I knew these jokers. We're gonna feed we worked hard yesterday Still coming. Oh, yeah, that's another big fat one. He's probably seven eight pounds eight pounds How much fun is this fighting these giants? Oh, yeah, come on He might be 10. He might be 10. He looked pretty big. I got a good look at him that time The hook's like just barely in him. Oh really? Yeah, but you're fine Keep fighting him the way you're fighting him. You get a he's a good size one. Yeah, you get his head started I can help you if you just back him up. There you go. Okay. You've got his head start. He's just barely hooked Yep Yeah, he's not a big he's that's an awesome fish Hooks out Oh, yeah, what a beauty, huh? Look at that guys. Look at that beauty. Yeah. Yeah, we'll weigh him he's uh Geez He's not as big as the other one. No, he's gotta be in the six seven range Wow, but this is the key right here. This is why we weren't catching them is they're just so full and so fat This is a repala scale. I'm really liking it because it fits in my pocket. Yeah, it seems to be pretty accurate We haven't had any major discrepancies yet Yeah Seven almost eight pounds Seven point eighty nine. Yeah Eight pounds. All right, buddy There you go. Hold them up. We'll get another picture That puts you over 40 pounds today Got the sun pretty hard Sun's over here All right, donny Yeah, nice fish Close to home close to the camp. I mean Beauty All right Yeah Maybe 32 and a half Isn't that crazy? Same length might be the same glass of fish this summer fatter The other one was two pounds over two pounds fatter. All right guy See you look grow bigger. See you later big gator Very nice another one donny That's really great. You're recycling smiles Wow, somebody's gonna catch him when he's 20 pounds Donny got his first set of jack traps Just just before this trip actually and I want to show you guys something super cool on him You've seen this on his paddle If you watched our camping episodes This is what his mentor put on his paddle And the cool thing is we got to transfer it over onto his traps So just like db db Johnston My old mentor used to call me db db all the time. Hey db Come over here. Do this go get the firewood db And he's the one who made that paddle right? He's the one who made the paddle and he put db on it Yeah, yeah, I still I lost one but I still have the other one So these are great traps my good my good buddy Joey gave them to me They're wonderful. You should have them for the rest of your life. Oh my god And whoever gets them after me The cool thing about jack traps guys is if you even moderately take care of them, okay, they then they will last What do you think three lifetimes? Maybe yeah, yeah, maybe I mean if you store them in a bag where they don't get all banged up and you know You I mean they're Beautiful they mean they're a work of art. That's what they are Yeah, so they should last over over three lifetimes if you take care of my first Mind's already been through two lifetimes because I got them when I was Just a youngster and didn't know how to take care of stuff So they got beat pretty hard, but they still work perfect and they got a they got at least one or two more lifetimes left After i'm done with them You know that great And if you guys stay tuned to this series I think we're going to have one more day. We might have one more episode We might have two more for you, but we might have a special guest from jack traps Fishing with us tomorrow But anyway guys, we're not done yet, but I just do want to take a second to thank you guys for tuning in I want to take a second to to thank you guys for the comments for hitting that thumbs up Donnie and I read every single comment and if I don't reply to them from myself Donnie tells me what to say for the ones you guys say tell donnie this or tell donnie that I always tell him and he always gives me something to say. So we really appreciate it No, this has been a great trip and I appreciate it joey Yeah, we had a great time so far so good. We got one more day to go. So We'll see how that pans out No spool Give me a hand in one second Not moving About the same as the last one though Huh Took quite a bit got him Yep Decent no feel smaller Is he hung up? No, he came came towards me. He looks pretty big What do you think Donnie? Isn't that odd that they just oh, he's still got him Oh, he's smaller. Yeah, he's smaller I think they're just lazy right now There you go. And you could just flop them right on the ice It's not bad. Oh nice That's the smallest one yet You get that hook out. Oh my gosh. Do you see that? Yeah, nothing. Wow. Good job fight. Good job Yeah, that's I bet you're still over four pounds He doesn't look it but oh, he doesn't they are so fat No, maybe uh Yeah five 70 yeah, he's it's decent fish really. Yeah, I think it's just because you caught so many good ones recently Oh, wow. Yeah, he's fine. I mean look how thick he is And wide so he had something in his belly. I would agree Ah surprise He weighs so much feels it though, doesn't he? Yeah We're gonna recycle this smile There he goes See you alligator head. See you later little gator Good job All right, if you made it this long in the show you've made it to the dinner portion of the show Tonight's dinner is going to be We're gonna have a maple smoked ham We're gonna have some maple big beans We're gonna have some brown bread. I'll let donnie tell you about brown bread in a minute And one of us gonna have some okra And I think that's about it. Is that it anything else? Oh my god, I can't Am I forgetting anything? Oh, I think that's it. We got a cup of tea to warm us up when we came in At the wood stove for cranking Cranking hotter than blue glazes in here. Let me shut that light off so they can see you And uh, I think they could still see you so the brown bread Was made in portland, Maine by b&m baked beans And there's the can joey's showing you And what we do we cut out both ends of the can Push it out cut off slices probably what half Three quarters of an inch look at that can opener. What the hell's the matter with that? It's missing the other part Oh my word, we'll be using the Swiss army knife. Good. I know I got I got one in the box there I'll just use the Swiss I got it. No, don't even worry right there. I got it. Don't even worry. How you do? Yeah, I'll use the Swiss So anyway, we slice off the brown bread maybe half inch three quarter inch slabs butter it Put it on put it in a fry pan put it on the stove Warm it up melt the butter right into the brown bread. You can't beat it We had a great day of fishing. Yeah six big pike six pike, which is A new new venture for me. Never been pipe fiction in 80 years And then you pry it up with your knife There you have it guys. I don't know if that was too dark or not, but That's how you use your Swiss army knife to open a can And if you didn't know it That's this that's the can opener on your Swiss army knife It's not just a small screwdriver And you take that little hook and you hook it in underneath the lip and then you pry down and that cuts through the tin We're going to free it up with a butter knife around the edges Trying to help slide out easier if it's freed up on the edges We're going to try to Push her through One way or another Hopefully all in one loop Sometimes they come out easy Sometimes they don't This one's coming out real easy. Oh, wow Yeah, should be yeah nice I bet you they don't take long to cook on that wood stove now Have you seen the brown bread lately that has the They used to make a raised one with raisins one without oh, I haven't seen the raisin one in years Yeah, I haven't seen that in a long time either. Must not have sold I actually forgot all about it till you just mentioned it. Yeah Wow, there it is Donny. All right super. Got it. Yo, that's great. Look at that Nice Nice meal. I don't feel the wood. Oh, that'll fill it Yeah Well, you had a great find with that mouset was this year. Holy cow. I'd say I had to find a match pair. That's quite I think quite unusual it is. Yeah At all the mousse antlers I found I've only had one other match set Like for sure match that right and I Think I found the second one six hours after I found the first one. Oh good Yeah, I was running a fisher line fisher trap line and I spied the first one It had snowed over it But I could see the bow of the Antler. Yeah And it had like a hollow and I was like something right there, you know a hollow in amongst the snow Right and I went over it was a big one. It's like 22 pounder like a 58 60 inch. Wow. Yep. And there were tracks all around so I Definitely chewed on it. No, nope. So I I circled and circled and circled and looked and looked and looked and And put the snowshoes on and there was a lot of snow and Never found it So I continued on my fisher line I whacked a big male in a 220 Montgomery and then Set another trap and then hit the end of my line And turned around and I was coming back and I got in the area again. I was like, let me look again And there were mousse tracks leaving You know pretty steady leaving the area and I'd followed those for a long way But I noticed there was a coyote track on top of the snow The shot to the side where there were no mousse tracks And I could see where it had pissed on something And I and chewed a little actually and I got over and it was a point sticking out It was only like a hundred yards from where I found the first one. Oh, wow. And it was a match. Wow Yeah, if that coyote hadn't gone over and he'd been into it like four or five times you could see like The nice sharp tooth mark on one of the points. Yeah, he pissed on it to mark his territory But if he hadn't done that I would have never found it. Wow Yeah, it was pretty cool. And that I still have that set. That's the one I have upstairs. Yeah You know been on many many trips sleeping in the tent for a week and I gotta say This is probably the most comfortable tent I've ever slept in You know some tent camps we had we had a little wood stove Some we didn't have any wood stove. Did you ever have a wood floor? Never. No, we always Either put a top down or something. You know, so you're not on the ground Yeah But no never I mean this wood floor is the cat's meow Imagine beans were probably a staple on the log drives Oh my god, yeah I mean beans every day every day. Yeah I can remember John C is an old guy that lived over near Bobby's parents in north wallabal Joe Bobby's father was friends of him. He was an old bachelor And uh He would make a pot of beans Saturday And it would last him Until the following Saturday. He'd make another pot of beans. He'd eat them every day for a week Yeah Breakfast, you know anytime. Yeah, they're good for breakfast. Yeah beans and eggs Ham beans and eggs Yeah, he always had a horse Just a single horse had a wagon Once in a while. Well when my kids were a little he'd Hook up the wagon take him for a wagon. Really? Yeah, that's cool What did he do to you remember? Honestly, don't know What what he did, you know, I think he kind of was Like a handyman type person Yeah, he talked about the thawndyke hotel in rockland quite a bit. What was that? That was kind of a wild and crazy place Really? I never even heard of it. Oh my god. It was right downtown rockland And It was it was uh I think there might have been a little prostitution going on there. Yeah I mean there were fights there all the time in the bar and and uh The thawndyke at the thawndyke hotel. Is it still around? It's now the building is there, but you know, there's different businesses in the building now, I guess But yeah, there's a lot of stories that you I don't know if you know dick curlis Oh, yeah, the country was He used to sing there. He did the hainesville woods, right? Yeah, and that's where he became famous. Really? Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah Yep, that's pretty cool. Yeah Did you get to see him when you were always at the thawndyke? You know, I think I I don't All right guys that is gonna do it for tonight Really awesome day on the hardwater My goal this trip was to get donny onto a double-digit pike And not only did he get one he got two so he got two ten pounders today He caught six six fish six today. Yeah six that we can remember and three yesterday three yesterday So pretty awesome. I mean six six good pike in a day when you're trying for trophies is excellent Yeah, you know, they do grow them bigger, but hey, he caught 10 pounders Oh, no not at all and they gave him a heck of a tug and I want to say that eight pounder gave him the best fight at all Yeah, he did for one of those tens so yeah, he he ran two or three or four times But so much happened that I forgot that today we started with donny's doughnuts So and then he baked a cake and had an awesome dinner had an incredible lunch with that meal of sandwich So all in all just tons of stuff in this episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it I hope uh, I hope you guys are liking this content because that's what we're putting out And yeah about to go to bed. I got this wood stove ripping So be warm for a little while in here and then it'll probably be chilly and we're picking up a special guest tomorrow And we're gonna probably do some donny's doughnuts again in the morning tomorrow, huh? Yeah