 What is up guys? Joe Holland here, really special one for you today. I am here at Jack Traps in Monmouth, Maine, home of the famous Jack Trapp ice fishing trap. And the special thing for you guys today is I'm gonna meet up with Sean, the owner here at Jack Traps. We're gonna build a trap, a special custom trap for you guys, and we're gonna give it away to one subscriber to this channel. All you have to do is subscribe to my channel, leave a comment in the bottom. I don't care what the comment is. It'd be cool if you told me what type of fish you like to target and maybe what state you fish in because we got viewers from all over the country. Go over to Jack Traps on Facebook, give them a like, follow their Instagram and you're entered. It's as easy as that. You're gonna win this Jack Trapp that Sean and I are putting together. We're gonna specially sign it to you and we're gonna ship it right to your door to the lucky winner. I hope you win. Here we go. Let's go into the famous Jack Traps. Here we are, guys. We are at the world famous Jack Traps. There he is, Sean. There's Sean. All right, buddy, you ready to do this custom trap? What do you need? We're gonna make a custom trap to give to one subscriber. It's gonna follow your social media, follow mine and leave a comment of what type of fish they like to catch, what state they're fishing. We're gonna show you guys how he builds the traps. We're gonna build one trap and then we're gonna give it away to the lucky winners. So what do you think? You got it. Take your size and style first, I guess. There's 10 million options. People come in and then it's like I'm overwhelmed. Yeah. I thought that she's gonna be easy, you know. Yeah, I've had people just be like, can you just pick out five traps for me? I'm like, well, it goes a little deeper than that. There's a lot of different options. So as we're talking about options, I'll just run you down and show you guys some of the colors right here. There's different sizes, different colors, different flags, different size reels. There's so many different options here. So the cool thing is, Sean and I are gonna pick it out right now. One of my all-time favorites, and this is one of the very first jack traps that I ever owned back in the 1990s, is the clear, clear sides, dark upright. I actually like this for fishing-wise because that dark upright stands up really tall in the snow and looks good. And the clear is just beautiful on the side that ash is just gorgeous with the grain. So, yeah, let's do that. 31 inch. Yeah, what do you think? 31, 26? Let's build a 31 just in case the winner is fishing up north a lot. So we're gonna go 31. It's not for you. It's not for me, no. This is for a viewer at home. So there's a lot of different options we could... What do you think? 31? You like the 31? I like the 31. All right, so 31 inch, clear sides. Dark upright, and for a flag, we have to do my favorite flag. Gotta go with the main flag. All right, and then what would you recommend for a reel on that one? The three or the four for this one? I'd go four. All right, let's go four inch reel. And what color line? That's a real topic of the day. I like something I can see personally. I like a tan line or the bright lines. There's a lot of people that think the black and the dark green, we saw a lot of that stuff. And that you catch more fish because the fish don't see it. I'm not a big fan of the dark because I can't see it. Right, I'd prefer to be able to see it. And so when you're taking the trap, when you've got your flag, you've got an idea of how to approach them. You go with that dark line, you're basically looking at nothing. And we use long enough leaders where they're not gonna see it anyways. You run out of five, six-foot leader, you're not gonna worry about it. All right, so let's go with my favorite line color is bright orange, hunter orange. Yeah. All right, so we're gonna build this trap for you guys. So main flag, dark center, orange line. Yep, orange. 31, four inch reel. Yeah, that's the options guys. We narrowed down from 10 million to one. And that's what it is. This is a custom trap built by the man himself, Sean here at Jack Traps. We're gonna build this for you. So first we're gonna find the frame. Jack's getting his diaper changed. Oh, we won't show that. That's how they make the dark upright too. No. So all the way down here at the end, we're gonna find 31 inch, and these are all four inch reels here. Dark summers, so we just need a frame. Nice. So contrary to popular belief as well, you guys have been very busy in the summer. This one came with a tripper on it. Oh, nice. We're halfway there? Yeah, so we spend all summer just filling these racks. So these frames are all ready to go. We just, you pick a frame, we come and get it. We're gonna head back through here. And I'm gonna hand this off to one of these fellows because I'm not set up at my bench. Put these two end clips on. I got one with a tripper. This is Ethan, he's our, how are we doing? Realign, end clip. Tripper expert. He's sanded every piece this summer, so. Wow. That's a lot of sand in these. 65,000 sticks. So they actually do work around here in the summer? Yeah. I thought I saw them lying, you guys aren't working in the summer. Maybe you guys could do a little work in the summer. No, it takes all summer. Still isn't long enough. That way it doesn't get pinched too tight. Nice. Pull this under it. So, that's ready to go. Yeah. You're doing all right? We're gonna come down to the bench. We're gonna find the rest of this stuff. Usually you forget like what they wanted and you're gonna go back out now. Main flag. Main flag for four inch orange. You go to the bend, you hope it's there. Beautiful. Man, I hope I win this one guys. You're gonna see my comment in there too. So what is it, just one comment? Yeah, all I have to do is comment on the video, subscribe to the channel and then follow your stuff on Instagram and Facebook at Jack Traps. Draw it random. Yep, and it's gonna be a random draw. It's all about spacing. It tends to go a little easier on new traps, but you never know, like you said. It's all handmade stuff. All custom handmade here in Maine. Just doesn't all come out uniform. Be too easy. We switched to this new nut this last year. It's a knurled nut, so it's kind of like got a built-in washer that locks into the wood. So, it helps avoid keeping this in the wood. Save a lot of hair, the thing a lot of people don't realize are there. Little brad nail. It's a tension spot between in the upright position that keeps it from dropping down. That was pretty slick. You rolled that one in? Pretty much, I'll go like that. Sometimes they need a little tweak. And the flag should always go one way or no? Yes, so, see this is the seam? Mm-hmm. We always seam down. Hey, there's more truck. I don't know who took that for a ride. Came back. Kit, the kit truck. So seam up, pretty good. And down. Down, okay, thank you. The flag will wait for me up. Just makes assembly a lot easier and then all these holes have polyurethane in them. So, when this thing's out in the water. Oh, that's wonderful. Ew, they don't know it. Nice. I'm gonna sign this side right here. What do you think, here or right here? It's gonna be here, so yeah. Right in there is probably a good spot. Right here? Yeah. A lot of room. Not a lot of room, beautiful. All right guys, there it is. So one of you lucky winners is gonna get pretty much the best possible trap I think you could assemble right there. Custom built trap from. Custom built from Jack Trapp? The owner of Jack Trapp. Two scribbles on it. Couple scribbles. Couple small scribbles, you have to guess what they are. And we're gonna ship this out to you once we find out who the winner is. Good luck to everybody out there. Don't get gravel if you don't win. Stay tuned to the channel cause there'll be more of these giveaways in the future. Thanks, Shawn. Thanks guys.