 A lot of people don't know what a white perch is outside of Maine. Really? Yep. What a gorgeous... See the Indians would get baskets of them in here. Oh yeah. That was a big part of their sustainability up here. White perch and parches. There's two of the mains and the bass right there. Yeah. A lot of wood. Yeah, I gotta go out and fix the window now. You ever done one of these before? No. No. It's kind of hoping Donny'd show me. Donny's cool. Yeah. It obviously, you know, was in there a while. First of all, I don't even know if it's any good. Yeah. Because it's warmed and thawed. It's red. It does look red. Huh. Could be brute. Wow, look how full his crop was. Oh my god. Eating them. Books. Now he was eating them. I'd say the buds are on the church. I think it's red for me, probably the impact. Yeah. That's a bruise. Donny'll eat anything. Probably. Donny'll eat anything. Yeah. Oh, cool. It looks good. I think. I think. Looks pretty red to me. If we cook it, we won't eat it. We'll feed it to dogs. There's no green showing. No. No, I think we're going to be all right. Is that your basis, as long as there's no green? Right. Wow. It's like, it's not like steak. I want my steak green. Well, not me. It might still be frozen. Nope. It's going to be tender. It's beautiful. It's like hanging a deer up for all winter. I did that. That second year I was up here and shot a deer. I let it hang in the shed all winter and took it in by the quarters. That's just. Kurt wouldn't do anything silver skin. There's. Kurt. Oh, recut, Kurt. You'd have to. You'd have to. Recut, Kurt. Oh, my God. I'm fighting words. Kurt, be up next week. Yeah, he better be. He ought to be, really. I think he'd have a time. Miranda won't let him out of the house. Something's going on. Yeah. Ever since she started wearing his pants. Man. Yeah. She fills them up better than he does anyways. There we go. That's edible. Donny'll eat that. Donny'll eat anything. I don't know as I want to go in for the hot liver. I'm sorry. Donny want the hot liver? No. I do. There it is. Mm-mm. Little pate. Pate. It's good. It's all good. There. The butcher, we're caught up on the butcher. We've got an awful pile of viscola. He's right off to the side. She moving? Yeah. Alrighty. Yeah, I did it. Here, I'll get your trap for you. Got him? Throw it. He's some small, whatever it is. Oh, my God. Look at that. Little yellow. Oh, my word. Yeah. I tried to kill your smelt. Let's save that smelt. Well, guys, we're just getting set up out here. We threw a couple traps in for Donny with smelt for a salmon. And I'm going to set the bottom for a cask, even though it's the middle of the day or still morning. We don't care. I think we can catch them during the day. Now I know. Bigger? Yeah. Just throw that line. It'll go right with the wind. Better? Much better. What is it? Slam. Well, you found the chub hole. Is he on there? Something's on there. Huh? Something's on there. Oh, you son of a gun. Yeah. Your smelt's still alive. Yeah, he's into the rubber band, I think. Oh, no, he's not quite there yet. He's trying to get there. He's trying to get there. Oh, jeez. Good one? Good one. Feels like a pretty good one, Donny. Oh, wow. Big head shakes anyway. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Nice one. Oh, it is. Oh, he's a beauty. Nice cast. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah, he's a cock up. We're on the board. Wow, great. Custuckets tonight, Donny. Wow. Yes, sir. Just getting set up out here. What? That was a shinier head. Oh, my, uh... I don't even see it. There's these, if you want them. Feels like he's got it way down deep. Oh. I'll just recut. Nice. Good one there. Oh, my gosh. Take a look at how pretty those they are. That is beautiful. A lot of meat on him. Great. Yeah, he's got to be a couple pounds old. We can check. 3.51. Wow, three and a half. Yeah, look how fat he is. Yeah, he's fat. All right. We're going to set up the 2,800. We can get some pretty good use out of this. Yeah, it's got a sail going. Feels pretty good. It's about like the other one. Yeah, he ate that crawdad. Yes, sir. That might be a little bigger. This is the nice thing about that rubber band. He didn't take a mile. Whoa. This is salmon, sir. Oh, it's the salmon, I think. Or it could be, you know, one of them big old log lip chops. No way. Running. No, this is salmon. We were way up top on this. Yeah, but this thing's run twice like that. Yeah. I didn't know what you guys were doing. Oh, I get it reeled up, and he runs it all the way back up. The moment of truth. Probably about 12 inches. Oh, he's more than that. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Oh, he's going again. Oh, I got it. Let him run. That's the third run. I've never seen a guy throw this line at it. Oh yeah, he just lets it go, and he runs again. Yeah, he ain't breaking it off. We lose everything we gained. Yeah, just hire him out? We will. He'll get him. We got the legend on the job. Yes. You should have seen him yesterday riding that slosh. He was our last hope to get off the lake without walking two miles. You need a hand? Well, I might. You know, once he sees that hole, I haven't seen him yet. He hits that daylight, and he's gone. You watch if he does it again. I haven't seen him. The minute he hits daylight. Oh, was he stuck on the ice? See if we can get another second. Getting batteries? I mean, at least now we know the runs and everything. You can always just show the picture of it. Yeah, but still recording. This is the fourth run. There's everyone here. Almost ready as I can be. I've thrown the trap. We haven't seen it yet, though. I haven't seen him. No, we don't know what he is. Look at him. Wow. Don't you ever had a fight like this on a seabed? No, not really. Not since pike fishing. I mean, it was just like when we were pike fishing. But they didn't have a big enough small one. He just wasn't going back. Letting it run. Your line's a little frayed right here. Well, I think it is. You got him tailhooked, I think. Is that the trouble? No, it's a huge salmon. Nice salmon. Get him up, his head's coming. Oh, Donny. Yes, sir! We ought to put him back so we don't fill your big slot. Put him back down. We've got to give a shout out to Timmy Obey for the management plan. What a beautiful fish. Donny, that's the best fish I've seen come out of here. Really? Beautiful fish. What kind of fight was that? What a nice salmon. What do we got here, Joey? I think I got another decent cast. Don't kid it. Oh, yeah. Not as big as the last two. But he's either size, maybe. No, he's getting smaller. You see? Wow, he's not too bad. Yeah, little guy. He gets a pass. He gets a pass as far as I'm concerned. It was moving. You run that in. You run it down, man. Yeah, you run it down. You probably did anyways. I had a flag all day. I'll teach him. It is right off the side. I got to get... This is like... Donny, what are you doing? Don't reel him in, you dank. Give me a little line. Back up a little bit. I think he's... Oh, do you drop it? No, it's off the side. According to you guys, there's some line out. What? I don't believe you, though. Oh, my God. I don't feel like nothing. I don't think there's anything there. Dropped it. Oh, a drop kick. He did. He dropped the bait. I'm going to put a life sider on this one. What do you got? I think he tossed it. What do you got? Not very big. No, on the line, don't you trousers. Get him in the hole. Oh, and where it up there? Hey, there's a smoker. Little smoker. Good, you're in your slot. That's pretty. Boy, is that a pretty one. Pink. Pretty. Hold that up for the camera, Donny. Your hands in the way. I know. That's one for the smoker right there. There's a trophy there. Yeah, that's going to the smoker. We're doing our civic duty here. Do you get any head shakes? Yeah, it's a fish. You sure you want Donny to be on it? He's getting it all fucked up. Backwards. He does some halfway. He does some one way. Oh, it's OK. That's a good one. Oh yeah, that's your new personal best. Yeah, it is. He's all wrapped up. Don't lose him. Relax, wouldn't you? Whatever you do, do not mess this up. Do you relax, Kurt? I'm pretty relaxed. Come on, Rika. He's coming. Oh, he's wrapped up. Good one. OK. Look at that big old black spot on him. My PB, that guy. I don't know. Look at that black spot on him. He's up against the band. You got it? Yeah. Little guy. Getting a little bigger. That's the way to fish him. Keep him. Yeah, I can get a little nugget something. Oh yeah, that'll eat. You get the right butcher? Yeah, and it's hard to find. Look at him swimming upside down. I got him. It's a pretty good one. Feels like he's got some weight. A little better. All right, got one on lifestyle. If you worked him pretty good, didn't you? Oh yeah, he came back after he hit the lure on him. Here, hold him up for the camera. Good fight? Oh yeah, he hit it rear in the yard. Nice. All right, so you're just going to grab the line and pull him in. Yeah, he's there. Yep, he's there. All right, it feels good. What do you reckon we got? I'm thinking a cast. Oh yeah, pull him right on the ice if you want. Yeah, and then I'll grab that bait and I can go up three on that thing. Oh, brilliant. And it's sucking in. Yeah, pretty good. He's a good one? Yeah, you got it. That's a hook. I know. What do you think of that, huh? That's incredible. All right, there you go. There's dinner. He's got a nice yellow spot on the side. He's got a bunch of yellow spots. That's all yours. Thank you. We got the facilities. I'll put it in his pile over there. We got plenty. That's the third fish caught on this bait. Wow. We jigged this guy yesterday. Incredible. What's the bait? It's a chub. I just stomped on them. That's a crayfish there. I caught a couple on that already, too. Yeah, so I put it on bottom, of course. And then I run about four to five foot. Yeah. And then I band it so it sets the hook and then they can't strip you out for it. We need to do that. Yeah. If they're over eight or ten pounds, they can break the band, but who cares? He's got a little bigger. He's getting a little bigger. He's getting a little bigger. A little dirty. No, that can't be true. I had to go around him. Is that honestly true? Yeah. And you had to write it? He went good for his borrowed money. Jesus. That's awful. What do you think of it today, Donny? It was one heck of a day. I think that was the biggest salmon I ever caught. Gave a heck of a fight. Took five different runs before we finally landed it. Caught some cask. I don't know how many we caught. Six or seven or eight. You're kind of skipping over the highlight of the day, though. Oh, the getting stuck, the unstuck. The salvage. The unstuck part of the day was quite impressive. That happened today. It's been a long day. I don't think that could have gone any smoother. No, it's been a good day. Well, what are we going to do tonight? We're going to sleep tight. We're going to fill our bellies for something good? Of course, you're going out and check traps. You've got some cuss traps out. But this guy right here is going to hit the hay. What are you reading? This is a heck of a book on the logging industry in Maine from way back when. We're just talking about trying to find a place to buy it. I guess we know of a couple different places. This is something that Joey and I were both into the rest of it. Oh, yeah, we snatched it. Right, John too. So we're going to pick it up somewhere. What are you going over here? Well, we've got a little deer meat. You can see how it's supposed to look like when it's cut. We've got a little con. We've got some oil getting hot. We have cuspele and we have brook trout that flew through the church window. We're going to choke that down while we're at it. So it's just kind of a vittles night. And your butter? That's Amish churned up right in the Rustic County. Right in the kitchen. Old fanny. There's an appetizer. Dig into those. Talk to you to come right behind it. Well, we've got a couple of nice little brookies we're frying up now. And then there's the partridge frying up. Isn't that a little dirty? Yeah, it's going to be good. They eat often, you get fresh partridge and much. Oh, it is. Well, I don't know how fresh it is. Well, it's true. Really don't. You got pella? Oh, a pellet. Piece of balm. That's a smorgasbord. There's two yellow perch fillets in there somewhere. Then there's some white perch fillets and then there's cusp fillets. I'll bat it up in my secret recipe and fry it in homemade tartar. All right. We're going to work this out. It stopped running. What do you think, bud? Oh, it's a big one. Did you get dinner? A lot of line going. I guess it was good. Imagine. Still on there? Any size? You never know until you get him to the hole. That's true. No. Got some weight? Oh, yeah, he's wiggling. Oh, good release. All right, this one I think just popped up. It is... Oh, you're almost dead alive. I can't tell if you're out alive. See if the same fish are different ones. You there? Oh, yeah. Massive, but giant. Oh, yeah. Thought I saw them. What do you got in there, Bob? There's one of my favorite little traps. A little black one with the key hook in. Oh, gosh. It's flying and everything plastic real. And I caught a cusk and it got me all tangled up. So I didn't want to mess with the tangle down here. So I just reset it down and hung it over. When I came behind the snowmobile, I caught the mess of line that was hanging beside it. It reeled it right into my track and that's what it's got. Oh, no, look at it. And that was there in the daylight. Oh, I'm hot on the rigging. Hi, hi. This is fast fishing. Come on, get reset. You got more coming. Little guy. No brown belly. I'm jigging. All right, buddy. You want this one or you got plenty? No, we got enough. I'm sick of dealing with fish today. That should just be one big hook on the back of that jig. All I've been doing is... Nice. Good one, bud. Hold them up for the camera. Yeah, nice. What do you think of that? Watch them on the life scale go down. Tangled up. Oh, there's one coming. Where's your trap? Four on the right here and one way to the left. Right reference. Like a square right over here. He's right under you. He's a little guy. Does he want it? Yeah, he just turned. There you go. You got him? Nice, another one. Oh, this one looks better. Looks better on the screen. He's getting dialed in. All right. That's all it takes. Oh, that's a better one. It's a lot better one. You could use drag if you need to. You could loosen it if you need to. He looked better on screen. Oh, yeah, he's a lot better. Look in the hole. Got him in the hole? Oh, yeah. Nice one. Big over. That's a good size one. He come darting. You watch him come right in. Radley, hold it up for the camera. Stave it. Radley with a nice one on the jig. Second one of the last five minutes. Yeah. Send her out to the butcher. Send to the butcher. You want to try one? He thinks it's a good one, guys. He's fighting it. Backwards. Oh, it's a giant. Look what we got. Yeah, that's going to feel like a good one. That's a big fish. He's got your wrap. Did you see the fish? No. You got some cordwood. You got cordwood around it. Are you kidding me? Can you get the wood up? I don't know. This one's all you. Look at this. We got cordwood wrapped around it. Uh-oh, this isn't good. Oh, no, no. It's just not good, but you can't spin it. There's a fish there. I don't know. I can try it. There's a fish there. We can go get the auger and drill them on the hole. Yeah, I got it right here. Just let them down a little bit and hold it to one side. All right. It's going to get the auger. Nice piece of wood out of it. Yeah, but that was cool. That was cool. That's why I banned them right there. So they can't wrap you up. I give them five feet tops. The fifth or sixth on this bait. He's rolling. He hasn't even hit the rubber band yet. He hasn't even hit the rubber band yet. That's the fifth one on that bait. Unbelievable. Good fighting. Good fight here, fellas. Old log lips. Yeah, we'll get them rubber bands for Christmas. Yeah. Yeah, rubber bands this year. What's happening? You guys want to sub to that? Just go fund me, babe. I'd stop. Oh, he's fighting good now. He's got a little tug. Bradley's got a good one. Oh, he's in the sloth. Oh, it looks decent. He's making... Oh, yeah! Nice one! Oh, that's a fatty. What a beauty. That's a nice one. Send them down. It's up to you. I'm not keeping anything. Yeah, you'll get him when he's 10. Good fish, dude. That doesn't feel good. Nothing. Oh, he fought. He's there. He's small. He's real small. This might not have been a big bait then. He's not the smallest, but he's pretty small. Oh, he's got some size. Yeah. I like the sound of that. Dragon used to trees and stuff. How's he feeling? Still pretty good? I can't tell if he's, like, on it. Oh, that was a good head shake. Ah, nice. I like the sound of it, Bradley. What I'm pulling on. I hope that's all fish and not, like, a log. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's all fish. You see the leader? Oh, no, it's tree. Pretty good fish, though, I think, on it. Another tree. Oh, the fish actually isn't bad. He's actually not bad. He's got some bite. Oh, yeah, not bad. Yeah, that's a good one. Oh, yeah, nice one. That's a good one. Oh, look at him. He's got you hungin'. Oh, my gosh, that's awesome. Big old cusk. Yeah, that's a five pounder. Oh, yeah. Yeah, probably five. Beauty. He's 25 inches. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that hook. Nice. Oh, yeah, even better. Hold that baby up. Oh, yeah. Nice five pound, I'd say. Yep, he's in the five range, probably. Nice. Good fish. Good tricks. Good fish. Nice burr. Pretty awesome. Burr up, guys. Got him. All right, guys, that's going to do it for today. It's pushing midnight. I've got three more traps to pick up. I got the shack picked up. The area all cleaned up. And by the time I get in, it'll be a little bit after midnight. So we lost John a couple hours ago. Johnny, regular time. Awesome, awesome day. Time to fish, time to cast.