 What is up, guys? Joe Holland here. Today, we are going ice fishing. That's all there is left for ice on Saabaga Lake. On Saabaga Lake, we're fishing for deep lake trout with our ice fishing gear. We're bringing our ice fishing jig rods. I'm going to put this ice back. That's the end of the ice right there. But we're fishing it with our ice fishing gear. I'm taking the Elliott jig rods out for a walk on some deep 100 plus foot deep lake trout. We're going for as many as we can catch Donnie's birthdays tomorrow. He wants a pile of these for his birthday present so he can smoke them and candy them and have them to eat. And we are really excited to get some lake trout. Come along. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun catching these out of the deep water with the jig rod. It is early March. I'm here with my good buddy CJ and Corey. And we are ice fishing on Saabaga. Wait, ice fishing? We are not ice fishing. It's early March and we are in the boat. I didn't bring an auger. He forgot his auger so he brought the boat instead. We're on Saabaga Lake in a boat early March. CJ and I have been running live scope for a handful of years now. We've had the 62 transducer. Haven't been able to use it on deep fish through the ice. We got some awesome jig rods from Elliott and two brothers made for deep jigging. Big lake trout, regular size lake trout, small lake trout deep. Haven't had a chance to use them. So we said, you know what? We're gonna go out in the boat. We're gonna use the jig rods made for ice fishing. We're gonna use 62 on the Garmin live scope and we're gonna see if we can jig a couple of these lakers. They really shouldn't be too far off. They don't know what's going on at the surface anyway when they're in 120, 130, 140, 180 feet deep. As far as they know there's three foot of ice over their heads and we're coming out for them on a snowmobile. But that's the plan for today. We're on beautiful Saabaga Lake. This is the second biggest lake in the state of Maine. I think it's the deepest. It's the deepest lake I think on this side of the Mason-Dixon line. It's over 300 foot deep. I don't think we're gonna fish that deep today but you never know. Let's go get them. You ain't gonna hit it much better than this, are you? No. This is beautiful. Now you go up. Wow, you've got some head shakes. Dobbles. It feels pretty good but I'm using a jig rod. I grabbed the net for you. The camera when you got it. It came off. My shoulder's locked up and couldn't move it. Yeah, while you got that net there. Oh yeah, I got it rolled with it. Did you even see it on the live? No. It was sick. That's a great fish. Take him home. Donny will eat that. Oh, Donny asked for about six of these. That'll fit in the old 60 quart. That was coming real hot. Cory, I think you got one coming to you hot. Are you ready, bud? You're gonna get a bite. I'll get one on you, Jill. He gave up on it quick. Ooh, that's a good one. What's the hot color? Oh, he's on you guys. I got another one out of the chat. There you go. I was like there's no way he doesn't bite you something. Is there another one? Yeah, there's three. There's a minimum of three. You got one chasing you. The fish. Another one. Another one, guys. This is so much fun. I know. Joey's coming to you. Coming to me. There's another one. Oh, boy. Just hit mine. Oh, he's on CJ Hard. Back on you, Cory. Here we go. This is hilarious. They're both on you, huh? We've got one underneath us, too, Cory. Yeah, I know. Straight up. Do you see him? Feels pretty good. I mean, he got a tiny stick over there. Yeah, this is pretty light. This is the Nomad. It's 36 inch, medium heavy. That's on you, CJ. That's a good one. In the net? Eventually, you've got plenty of time. See if you can hook it up again. I'm not going to horse them. This one is just a Nomad 36 inch medium heavy jig and stick. You had them? I did. Picked it up off the bottom. This was the smallest mark out of the three marks. So he's probably an average size. But I liked how vertical he was. You knew he was going to bite by how vertical he was on the life scale. I'm to the leader. That counts as a catch. I'm to the leader. Actually, not a bad one, isn't it? That was the smallest mark. All right, go, bro. That is what we call a tog. All right, nice tog right there, guys. Catching them on these ice fishing rods out here in 110 foot of water. It's a lot of fun. But there's a tog. He's got some poop coming out. I got to get back to the action areas, guys. There he is. Nice fish. Going to drop him in the backpack cooler and get him home to Donnie. Trying to connect this thing so we can record that footage. That's pretty sweet. A couple more coming. Unreal. Kissing it. Biting it. That was a good one. That was a good one. I saw that. Kissing it. I saw that. Biting it. Biting it. This one's got some... I was paying attention to the very tip. This one's got some head shakes. We've got some more, Corey. Yeah, I see him. I've got some pretty good head shakes on him. That's a good one right through the lip. I think this might be a decent fish. I'm going to loosen my dragon case. He wants to make a run. Are you getting him on the fall or that? That was on the lift. The hits are not huge hits, but... No, it's just pressure. Yeah. Chasing these, CJ. If you set that net right over here, but I can probably net them myself. Let me talk about it. Well, it'll be a minute. Oh, no, I'm the leader. I got most of it cleaned up. Hold on, GoPro. Yeah, it's an eater. Pack of buddy you wouldn't want on a map. Listen, I'm filming. I'm fishing. And I'm netting. Yeah, but you didn't say you're doing any of them well. The conversation? Yeah. This one's the longest hack, but he's not a fatty. Is it? Oh, yeah. I got to get back down. I'll get down as quick as I can. Nice one there, guys. Got a long one there. I've been told there's fish down there, so I wanted to get back down. The fish is definitely being abused. Switch up to white. You guys both have white, right? I got another one of these tied on right now, if you want. Well, on a stiffer rod. Close by, Joe. Yeah, right here, bud. This one might actually even be heavier, so you'll beat me to the fish. Right in that bag up front. Somewhere here. It's all kind of... I think this is the Ciscoette, and it's got the three-quarter ounce. So I think this is the answer. This is probably even better weapon. Oh, you got them all by yourself. Is that me coming down? Here comes Joe to ruin everything. Friggin' guy ruin everything. Where'd they go? As I was saying, I'm trying to connect. I go to home. That's going a lot faster down. Go to home. Do you have that braid? Oh, it does have that. Sweet. Are they really? Action on that's way different. If you want, we can undo this one. Put Joe as a fish. Joe's is already set for it, right? Yeah, I don't care, though. I mean, it doesn't matter to me. How do you get the upper? I'm not going to get... Guys, I'm trying to get you footage. I'm trying to get you footage for the Garmin. But these fish keep disrupting my... I'm trying to hook up the phone so I can get you guys some footage. That guy just stopped coming up. That's another penalty. This is a 15 point penalty. Easy. You can go back if you want. Just keep him in the back room. And then zoom her in if you want. Yeah, we might have to get my unit out. Hope you got that wrong. This thing is definitely a weapon. We got a fire over in Standish. Wow, why does this guy just hit a wall? He's like, I'm done coming up. He's like, you only got 36 inches of leverage. I'll do what I want. He saw the net. Yeah. You close, Joe? Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, nice one. Oh, look at him puking. Puked face. He swallowed that pretty good. Thanks, bud. It's another good one, guys. No comment on how good my net job was now that it was good. That was a phenomenal net job, by the way. I just have come to expect a good net job, so we're only going to comment on the net job when it's bad. Golly, twist it. That's a good one. Yeah, they're all pretty good and meaty. Donny's going to be pumped. Donny's going to be so happy, dude. He said, bring about four, six, eight. Yeah. Do you have pliers, handy? We got a little heat pan for him. No, he's going to smoke them. He candies them. He candies them, then smokes them. Another good one, guys. It'll be a perfect eat or something. Is that your job? I'm coming from the top. You literally have what to eat. You have to eat. That's me. You have to eat. All over Joe. Yeah, missed it. Got it. Got him. Another one, too. You're going to hook up? Double hook? Ready? On me? No, on this. Got him. This is awesome, guys. We're in 110 foot of water out here with our jig rods. I got the Nomad by Elliott. It's a 36 medium heavy. It's the lightest rod I have. I got braid going down to a fluorocarbon leader. I got three knots in this line just to get down there. I got two braids and then a fluorocarbon. I'm going to have to give this guy some drag. This is phenomenal. Oh, God. This is the hardest fighter yet. Oh, geez. Maybe I got a foul hook. I don't know. This one's peeling on me. This one might be serious. Yeah, things just got a little real. He's either got the hook behind his eyes or he's a good one. This is for real. We might have a toge. We might have something decent here, folks. I'm running an eight pound braid, the 10 pound fluoroi, I think, or 10 to 10 on this rig. Don't worry about me, guys. Keep away from my fish, CJ. I got a decent one. Don't get him hung up. This guy's not having it. That's a good one. Oh, God. Dude, this is for real. You guys are lucky that this is my job right now and I'm not fishing. I can't believe this is happening. Is yours big too, CJ? This is peeling a little bit. The key is just to keep him, keep constant tension, pressure on him. All right. We're almost a leader, no? I see mine. You're going to see mine in a minute because he's going under the boat. Oh, is that trolling motor off, bud? Yeah. All right. He was heading for it. We got bubbles. All right. We're going to get a look at this guy in a minute here because I'm to the leader now. He's back left of the boat. Yeah. Nice one. Just had him hooked. Looked perfect. Nice. Had him hooked just perfect. Just barely hooked as well. Look at that. By the skin of his teeth. Nice one there. Oh, yeah. That's a pig. Yeah. Nice. That's a yellow one. This one's eyes. It's pretty. Same. Same on this one. Nice one there, guys. Oh, yeah. Good fish. Double up. Double up. This is no fun. Double up? Triple up, guys. Yeah. If you guys listen. Give CJ a call. Burn metal guide service. If you guys want to have some good action like this and get over your ice fishing blues. This is our group. Our support group for early ice fishing season. For the ice fishing depression. He doesn't even hardly fit the cooler. That was fun. That was the best fight I've had all year. Oh, yeah. There's a fish all over us. Oh, man. He's still on you. No sense of double. There you go. Nice. That one ate pretty high up. Not very big. Oh, missed my double. Dang it. It's still on. You need that one? No. I'm just going to let him. I'm going to try to get my own video here. You can do it. You can swim them over here. Got him. Got him. Yeah, doubled up. Doesn't feel big yet. Yeah. I was racing that one off the bottom. This is awesome. Should be cool where he goes. Oh, this is awesome. He's just fighting so hard at 40. I don't want to put much leverage on him because I like catching them. Much more leverage with a braid. There's no stretch. Let me know when you're close. Pretty close, yeah. My line is still on the water. It's just the hill. I just think you're good. You see him? He should be a good fish. Oh, that's a good fish. Oh, he choked it too. Nice. Another one, guys. All right. Another Laker, guys. Long and skinny. I struggled with him, so he's going in the go home box. Oh, jeez. That one looked decent too. That one looked decent too. That one looked decent too. He hit you pretty good. Like on the scope anyway, he came in fast. Good one. CJ's hooked up, guys. He's just stalking where he's fished from him. I mean, technically, they're all been my fish at one point. Right. Long and ratchet, buddy. He's at the 40. Let me know if he needs a net. Yeah, if we're going to let him go, I'll probably just hook him. That's good. That's good. He's fast. Met him? You got one on there. You guys should just keep going. I'm surprised they caught him last fish from my tail. Oh, did that? That missed you? Yeah. That one eats you? They almost got a triple, dude. He bumped it again. Yeah, he bumped it, didn't he? Hard. There's two there. Hold that for me. All right, guys. Nice to bag a lake trout. What is it? March 13th. March 13th. Instead of sitting home crying, we're out here jigging up lake trout. This is our support group for guys that have depression that the ice is out early. That was a terrible ice fishing season. Support group is working. We should go live. Post-melt. If we start catching them, I'll go live. If we start catching them, we'll do it as a fall cooler over there. We've got to start catching better than that. It's like the whole political sphere is like that. We don't want to bring that into fishing. We're hunting too. As sportsmen, more and more now than ever, we need to stick together and support each other. If someone likes to catch trout, or brook trout, or little stream brook trout, or crappie, or chubs, or suckers, or whatever they like to fish for, that's awesome, and I wish them luck. I'd like to try to learn how to do what they've mastered or are doing too. I like to fish for about everything. I'd say open water. My favorite fish is probably smallmouth, the target. Then through the ice, it's either crappie or pike. I think you guys got a fish on you. I know. Because I'm not down there yet. Oh yeah, there's a fish on you. Here we go. Somebody's about to get good chalk. Yeah, CJ just hooked up. He stole your fish. Hey guys. CJ just came in and stole their fish. No, you're good. Cory's filming. When he gets close, you know, you spin him. There you go, nice little lake trout. Hold that baby up to the camera. There he is, nice. You've got that one on a swim bait. 23, 24. Yeah, nice little lake trout. Got some good meat on him. There's a big one on the screen, guys. A decent one on the screen. Two of them. There you go. I'm hooked up. Somebody get that camera. And I'm hooked up. All right guys, I'm hooked up on live. My eyes are over here. I got a jig rod, an ice fishing jig rod. This is a 36 inch medium heavy by Elliot. And I'm hooked up on a deep lake trout. We're in 100 foot of water. CJ, I thought we might have had a double. There's another one. There's another one down there, they're same. So a decent fish here. It's over three pounds. It's in that three plus pound range. I'm running 10 pound braid. Whoa, a 10 pound flurro. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. Hold on. That's a good one. I got a little closer. But oh man, I don't have a ton of leverage on them with this ice fishing rod. But it makes the fight a lot more fun. I don't want to whore some guys because I've already straightened these hooks once. I'm on a rope in the back of the boat. But I'm hooked up pretty good. It's like full ahead of you, bud. I'm into the color. I'm into the orange. I'm hooked up in 100 foot of water. Trying to pry this guy up. I think I got him to about 40 foot right now. He's pulling hard. Wow, he's pulling hard. I might need the belt. I might need the fighting belt for this guy. He does not want to come out. I'm going to start putting a little more pressure on him. Oh, we're hooked up good on this one guys. Don't whore some they're saying. That's my line. He's going over to your boat. He's going under the boat. He must be foul hooked or I got a giant. Oh, there's bubbles. Okay. He's burping. You got a while. Oh, I see him. It's a fish. It's definitely a fish. All right, we're two hour leader. If I was tarping fishing, that would be a catch. Pretty good one. Oh, yeah. Stave it. Stave it for you guys. Yes. Got him. Nice. There's a pretty good lake trout right there. I'm going to put him in the 5 plus range. See if I can pull him out of the net and show you guys him and make a decision. A lot of the decision on whether these are going home or not comes down to how easy. Oh, look, he just spit. He just spit up a bunch of l-wives in the net. Okay, he pumped out. I might be able to show you guys what an l-wive looks like too. A lot of times I spin in circles. This guy's going to go home. So I'm not too worried about how I handle him. All right, so he's... Yeah, here's a l-wive. Is that a Shiner or an l-wive? They try to match the baby l-wives. There's a baby l-wive right there, guys. So that's what they're eating. And if that doesn't match the bait I'm using, I don't know what does. I'm a trout guy now. But there he is. What do you guys think of that two-hander? He's thick right through the back. Big old belly on him. Oh, he's right full of bait. Oh, my gosh. A nice lake trout there. In Maine, we call those Togue. And super, super pretty fish right there for what they are. He came out of 100 feet deep. So if you guys can give a thumbs up and subscribe for a fish like that, I don't know what else I can do. So I'm super pumped. So hit those buttons for me and we'll see if we can get another one of these topside. But that baby right there is going to go home and I'm probably going to stuff that with onions and stuff and wrap it with bacon and tinfoil, throw a stick of butter in there and throw it in the oven for about an hour and have one heck of a meal. And you could poach these too in boiling water with the chunks of meat and they taste just like lobster. So there's a lot of ways you can eat lake trout and they're a delicious fish and they provide a lot of meat. But inches-wise, is that... Oh, CJ just missed one. What's the limit on inches? Can I talk about it? Is that 126? No, I mean, because you can only keep one over 26, I think. That's going to be pretty close. Yeah, that's... Oh, CJ's hooked up. Let me get this in the bucket and let's get on CJ to show you what he's catching and get my hooks out of the net while we're watching CJ. He's not as big as you go. He's not as big, oh my God. So I got a lure in the net. Let me know when he gets close. I'll try to get this net ready. I got two hands full. Try to dig my hook out of the net. You might have to hold them for a minute. Ten days ago they were fishing the bait on the ice. It just went out so quick and we get early on set. Seasonal depression, ice fishing, ice is out, seasonal depression. And this year it came on really early and so we're out here in our support group. We're trying to bring our rods with us just to have them. Fish Roman on the boat. Oh, CJ's hooked up on a good one. That happened in a hurry. That was a good one. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I'm not really loving my hook set. He does not love his hook set, guys. I'll show you this fish. He's liking it. I'm liking it. So this is what they say, one jerk on one end waiting for a jerk on the other. I'm just kidding. He said it's a good fish. It's a good fish. We'll give the folks at home that can. You got a look at them? There you are. Ooh. He was using ice fishing gig rods so you don't get a ton of leverage on these fish but you get enough. You get to feel every bit of the fight which is awesome. Oh yeah, he's got some drag going. Oh yeah, nice one. Beauty. Oh, he popped off right in the net. I didn't like the hook set. He popped off right in the net. That's not guys up my fish now. CJ lost them after that and now I caught them. So, is that how that works? Is that how that works? I don't know. What do you guys think it for? Let us know in the comments. He's going to hold that fish up for you. That's a really nice lake trout. Still burping. Ah, he got you back. Okay, it's your fish. He got you back. It's definitely your fish. Nice fish. But beautiful, beautiful lake trout right there. He came flying in on the bottom and CJ lifted up just in time to set the hook on him. What do you think? Donny want him? No, that one he could probably throw back. I mean, he's not hurt at all already. No, he's good. Good healthy fish. Corey's got a monster on the bottom. Oh no. Corey's about to get a bite. Lift up, lift up. You see, he's still on it. He got it. That is so cool. That's the coolest thing about the live scope. Oh, I just put the camera down too. Yeah, he never would have caught that fish. CJ, can you man the camera for a second? I'm about to triple up. Corey's hooked up. I want you to know if I hook up. I barely put the camera down enough time. Corey's hooked up. Joey's got one chasing him. See Joe's lure on the fish just disappeared. He gave up. He was right there. But Corey's got a good one. He's fighting. I think, right? Yeah. That was pretty cool. Yeah, nice. There you go. We own him. Nice. Pretty hot and heavy, guys. If you want to do this, you can do it. It's easy. Give CJ a call at a burnt metal guide service. He's got a couple of openings, I think, over the next week and a half. And then he's hooked up pretty hard. But there's Corey with his first fish. Probably of his life, I think. Is that your first fish ever? I'm a made guide. I never caught anything in my life. I'm going to put this one back, though. That's his first fish ever. Congratulations in the comments to Corey. I didn't think they would be wet. That kind of threw me off. I wasn't sure how it would be. I thought it had slime and it was wet. I wasn't ready for that. Corey, a big congratulations for his first fish ever. Where's your jacket? My jacket's right here. You just used my sweatshirt. It's easy to find. I'm wearing it. I didn't even get to turn my camera off. That was pretty cool. The cool thing about the live scope is I was watching it as... And Corey was filming ZJ. And I saw a fish was coming and he got to his rod just in time and he gave it an awesome upset. Alright, so there's like... If you guys have never done this lake trout fishing, they're seen like deep lake trout fishing. There's a pretty good pattern to how to catch these fish if you find them. So we found the fish first. They're deep. They're in 100 foot of water. And we're watching our electronics and you can do it on a regular sonar, too. We happen to have live scope here, which is just amazing because you can see exactly what the fish are doing on a regular sonar. But even if you have traditional sonar, what you do is you're jigging near or on the bottom. And then when a fish comes in on the bottom, you start to reel up and play like a game of cat and mouse where you're trying to keep that mouse away from the cat. And then that usually triggers a bite or more aggression from these lake trout. So it's a lot of fun for us to watch the screen jig and jig, nothing on it. And then a fish enters the chat from one side or the other. And then we start lifting up or jigging or reeling up to try to get them to bite. And, you know, it happens maybe one in 10 times you get a bite. So it's really exciting when you get that opportunity to do that. When several come in, you usually get more bites because they're aggressive against each other. They don't want the other cat getting that mouse before they get it. So that's what we're doing out here today. We're fishing with three quarter to one ounce baits, blade baits or swim baits on jig heads. And we're fishing super, super deep. We're vertically jigging. So we're actually just using light braid. I have 10 pound braid to a fluorocarbon leader. At this depth, you can go straight to your lure too. So I think Corey's going straight to his lure and you're straight to your lure too with anywhere from like six to 20 pound braid. The braid doesn't have a stretch which you kind of need at this depth and using like these short rods like we're using. We are using V rods. They're like a blade bait, a metal. And so not live bait. We're vertically jigging for lake trout. So this is basically a big blade bait, exactly. I'll show you another picture of it right here. So there it is right there. So it's a big blade bait. Actually, I could probably show you. Yeah, I'll show you guys various sizes of them and different colors of the same exact bait. And I'll show you the one I'm using. This is the one I'm using right here. That's the color. And it's, so it's a blade bait with extra weight on it. Well guys, we had an awesome day out there. I ended up shooting a live video. If you guys checked out that live video, throw something in the comments, let me know. But I shot a live video out there. We caught another, you know, between five and 10 fish. We're bringing home a nice stack for Donny. We'll show you those at the boat launch. But awesome, awesome day on the water. If you guys want to do something like this, give CJ a call. He still has a few openings. I know he's getting booked up for brown trout and for salmon season too. But yeah, awesome day on the water. Big thanks to Corey for getting a lot of this great content you guys have seen in this video. Huge thanks to CJ for bringing the boat, putting us on the fish as always, doing the hard work ahead of time. He was out here when it was blowing straight sideways the other day just to try to find these fish for us. And it gave us an awesome, awesome day on the water. Big thanks to Elliott Rods, to Acme Tackle for the equipment that we used today. We caught those fish in over a hundred foot of water on our ice fishing jig rods. How cool is that? And of course, with the Garmin Live Scope as always, just makes it a hundred times more fun. Makes a great day of fishing, ten times greater honestly to watch those fish, how they react, how they fly through and all that stuff. But you might see some fish cleaning after this. Maybe I'll throw that fish cleaning on before it, but otherwise over and out really appreciate all the support for the channel and all the subscribers. Thanks again guys. Thanks guys. Well, you want to go out fishing? I caught my first fish, so that's pretty cool. First third fish. He caught his first fish three times today. But no, everything worked flawless. It's just a great day on the water when you're idling back in. You don't always think of that. When everything works perfect, it's just a great day. The electronics work great, the boat ran great, all the Tackle, the gear ran great. The cooler obviously worked awesome. It was great having that table out of the Garmin on top of it. And we got 30 quarts of lake trout in there right now. You actually still have the rod out to your fishing force. Yeah, we even left a rod out. Corey kicked one off when I was offline. He went to grab the net and the rod, I think the handle was in the net and it like flipped it over and we couldn't get to it quick enough. So that's down in 110. CGA will promise you he'll catch that before the season's over. But it's out there fishing for us at least. So there you can get that going for us. Hopefully you get that before the season's over so you don't get a ticket for fishing outside the season. I will too. There after me. Corey's had a rough day. He hit two deer. He got tore up in the live and he lost a rod. And I don't know what else. The day's not over. We're not home yet so we're not going to pick some.