 Good morning. It is a little frigid this morning. We're looking at negative 10, negative 11 degrees It was hovering right around 0 and negative 2 till about 3 this morning then she dropped like a rock. No wind yet That's a that's a bonus. We're gonna try to catch a musky today We're gonna try a little harder. Hopefully the bait survived the night I got it inside of a snow bank and had the aerators running as long as the batteries didn't die Negative 10 is pretty cold breakfast this morning. I'm gonna throw some bacon some potatoes and probably a couple eggs If they're not too frozen in the pan and drive those into me So I have something in my belly there for for the cold and then I'm gonna run down Lake and set up like on an edge and See if we can't get a musky to bite. I switched over gear last night I tied mostly new leaders, so I got four four wire leaders with two hot hooks a little bit smaller hook And I'll run some shiners down and small suckers and I'll still run one big smelt down on the big Sun's coming up We're looking at about 18 below right now. It was 17 when I left camp not sure what I got for water over here There was a weed line here years ago My buddy was telling me about where he always thought musky when he was open water fishing minus the ice We've got about five to six foot. That should be good We'll set that right there Let's see if the bait made it through the night Geez they're all alive Great that was a surprise Almost all alive. All right, there's a shiner. We're gonna try shiners today Shiner to wire on this one Beautiful we're set All right, this one's gonna get a sucker pretty natural bait for up here All these bodies of water have suckers coming in and out had a little bit more water on this one So far I've set six Five and then this one's closer to nine If you're lying If your line never is frozen inside the real peel out a bunch of it then put it back on that way to fish Can swim freely till you get there If he feels that ice ice ice every time that reel goes around and that tension He's gonna drop it pretty quick with these heritage I can put the reel all the way to the side of the ice without touching any ice And have that big area to chip out when it's 18 to 20 below All right, we are set up Two shiners Two suckers and a sea smell gonna run five traps for now Oh, it looks like we got a flag already That uh that suckers up Let's go see if it was the bait or if it's actually a fish She's spooling She's rolling. She's rolling folks. We got a chance Oh nice nice head shakes Pretty big fish feels like Wow, oh man, I haven't seen them, but feels all right Man, they fight so hard They fight way harder than pike It's not even that big. He's fighting like he's huge He's got to get his head started. Alrighty We are on the board Whoo, that was worth a six hour drive for sure. I'm gonna get my catch bag ready Keep him in the water for a second Yeah, that wire leader is the deal. It's the way they fight to Got my easy outs. Hopefully they're not frozen. I've got my spreaders Just in case Let's get that fish Show them to you hooks right there Roof of the mouth really Wow nice I'll show you that musky Main musky right there guys Got them We're on the board Finally That was worth a six hour drive for that for sure End all day yesterday All right, it's a nice one Wicked pretty fish. Oh my god a different color. Let's get him back and See if we can get another one There we go Yeah, I think those smaller hooks helped wouldn't have landed him with fluorocarbon Definitely the wire's the answer and the water's not clear at all here. So there's no real need for fluoro That one ate a sucker that was about oh five inches Nothing huge pretty sure they eat a lot of suckers up here. Let's get that reset I'll see if I can get another sucker to show you I didn't bring many of these suckers Because I was planning on catching them all in the sea smelt But All right, this is a little bit smaller one There he is That was cool. That was good timing as soon as I got that last trap set I'm gonna peel back some wine So that doesn't happen If it freezes to the reel and they're making a run and they feel that they're gonna drop it if they're not gut hooked Now everything I wind back on should be Loose when the fish takes it Plus everything here your line has a bunch of ice on it. You could take that off with your fingernails It'll be less drag and At the end of the day If you do dry your reels out if it has all that ice around it It's just a big old loose mess in the morning. All right got them on the board All right, so we got a little bit of wind now. It's 18 below zero I just went over and checked on the thermometer And the wind's picking up a little bit and where I'm set up. It's definitely going to eat all the wind So I brought the otter over And I'm going to set that up and try out that new little heater. I got to This is the xt pro Cabin x over We'll see But it should be able to keep me out of the wind at least and Uh, once I get set up I might pull One of these traps and then fish a line right in the shack probably fish a live shiner on a Jig rod that'd be kind of fun if I get one to go Looking good. It's nothing else. She makes for a heck of a windbreak. Man these things got a lot of fight to them Crave how hard they fight for their size Heals all right shaking his head like a little guy All right, he's got some lengths to him Man, they're just all muscle Try to grab on to one of these things Holy cow Right there. Okay another nice one catch bag I got my measuring device at least one set of spreaders grippers fires another set of spreaders the bakers forceps And a scale Well, that's what's in my catch bag I can't get over how hard these fish fight for 30 inches. That thing fought like a 10 pound pike feels heavy. That's on the sea squeeze just sitting under the hole I felt pretty good. I think this is all fluorocarbon. I better be a little more careful This one ate that sea smelt And I can't get over how hard these things fight pound for pound He's just working that fluorocarbon back and forth I don't like it. All right, we got him tired out. Another good one. I'm gonna get him back Three musky I am back in the shack that wind is pretty rude right now. It's right out It's straight up balmy out there. She's blowing straight sideways blowing like a sip and it is pretty cold We got some well below zero temperatures last I checked it was 18 below I don't know if it warmed up or or if it got colder to be honest with you because once that wind started It just got pretty rude. I am in the shack here I have four traps set and a jig rod set up now with the pan optics I got a shiner down there That's that shiner sitting at about six and a half seven feet. I'll move them just so you can see him. There he goes And I got that thing He's swimming all around I got him rigged on a treble hook with wire leader So should be able to get something pegged if he comes flying in And then I'm just running my bail wide open right here and the line's kind of stuck in the snow. So what do you hit? It's gonna be a mess Hopefully we get a bite in here and I'll keep an eye on those four traps out there But I'm stoked that I got four musky already three musky already And they fight crazy hard. I can't get over how hard they fight. They're like All of them have been like 29 to 32 inches and they're fighting like they're 10 pound pike I'm gonna drink some coffee. Where is it? I'm gonna drive that coffee right into me right there That is good on a cold day having some nice hot coffee and knowing I got pretty much a full thermos sitting there Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. What's happening? Did he eat that? I don't know. Oh, we just had a musky come in Did not eat That was exciting I'm not gonna lie. That was as exciting as I've ever been watching the electronics I'm being quiet because it's only six foot down Maybe he didn't like that treble hook. I don't know He took a shot at it Well, here he comes. Here he comes. Here he comes. Here he comes. Here he comes. Here he comes GoPro's always messing up. I'm telling you Gonna take the battery out reset this one It'll froze up All right, it's about 1045 Temperature still hovering at about 18 degrees below zero Got a pretty good wind poking through but it's not bad in here You know this little heater I bought it's adequate. I wouldn't give it any more than that You're never going to be overheated with it because I don't think it can pump out enough heat But for a single thing of propane and for its size I guess it's not bad for a situation like this. It fits in here pretty nicely I probably would have bought the the smaller buddy heater over that thing. I guess Thinking back on it now, but it'll work. It's doing its job today. It's keeping things Pretty well from freezing in here. This thing's got 1200 um What do they say denier denier denier 1200 insulation So it's a little bit heavy and I've been in here on a sunny day Where with no heat source and just smoked right out of here Uh for the last trip of last year So three muskies on the ice got one on a shinier one on a sucker one on a great big smelt Two came on wire leaders one came on fluorocarbon. I had to retie that fluorocarbon. He had it chewed up pretty good I've had one musky on the screen down here on the On the pan optics. That was exciting But man am I glad I got those three muskies I thought I was going to have to change the name of the channel to joe holland campin Vision yesterday was tough. I could have just been a bad day, you know, maybe I didn't have my gear rigged, right? I don't know. I caught that one today on that same fluorocarbon with a great big hook and the sea smelt so That's fishing for you. You know, you always have those questions and always trying to figure it out Get a little bit better at it each day Hi flyer time Got a flag. It's pretty close. I'm gonna take the sled because it's got all my gear in it Might have been that fish I just saw on the pan optics unit Try to block the wind Oh, no, he's there. Ha he came right at me Whoa, whoa Boy there They just sit and eat they don't go far when they eat. This is a small one But it's pretty oh my gosh, is he pretty you wait right there Pretty easy when you get the right tools guys Give him a dip Take a look at him We'll get him right back Look at the colors on that guy It's just a different kind of green. You don't ever see in nature That catch bag is a dry bag made by gambler lures On their website, but it's a dry bag. It goes over your shoulder if it's pretty nice I think he ate it Guys, I think he ate it. I think we got a musky on He got it now. Oh my god. Eat it. This is exciting. Did he eat it? I think he ate it. I think he ate it I'm gonna hit him Got him Got him Got him guys. Got a musky on the jig rod I don't know how good that hook set was because I had my drag loose Oh boy, we're gonna find out He's set now Oh boy I don't think he's very big No, he's a hammer handle Oh, he's got something that's messed up jaw Wow, he's got a weird weird jaw Huh, that's ugly Got him Look at that jaw It's like poking through. We'll have to fix that for him It's like broken or something Huh Well my catch bag's outside so Do I trust to set him down in the hole? Sweet. Can't believe I got one on the jig rod Got it. Pretty easy All right There he is He's a Probably 26 inches or so Let's get him back down there With his chin and all The swim machine Yes All right, I'd say that calls for a cup of coffee First muskie I ever got on jig rod right there. That was number one, two, three, four, five That was number five for the day Smallest one so that was a good test Little tester to have on the jig rod But nice little celebratory cup of coffee It's pretty balmy out there. I will say that This little heater's doing a little bit more than I thought it was doing I don't think you'll ever get too hot with one of these But it is working so I got to give it credit for that That bait was up in the water column pretty decent and he shot in and I Putting gopros on here left and right so I can get it on the Panoptix still when he messed it or I don't know what happened You know the bait comes right to life whenever there's fish around But that was pretty awesome. I've since tightened my drag a little bit so I can Snap a pretty good hook set on him. She'd be hot No, sure what just happened there. I was messing around with the other gopro I think I got a hit Yeah, I think that musky right there is eating my Shiner right now We're gonna find out There he goes Let's find out Got him. Yeah, it was a musky Oh, that's a decent one Easy fight too All right, that was quick easy fight because he didn't know what hit him All right, all right Pandemonium in here you wait there. I'm gonna go back out and get my kill bag Look her off. That was a bit of a cluster I think he might have got my braid in his mouth Because it just snipped me off Wow, yeah Definitely what happened shoot that sucks for that fish Bummer never liked seeing that All right, we're running out of shiners pretty quick, but We'll get that one down there. I just made a new rig Got it all rigged up. They're coming in pretty hot and heavy on the jig rod all of a sudden. All right, we're all set up. I don't know Maybe it's because I'm higher up in the water column. I'm keeping that bait about six seven foot down. I'm over 10 foot here. So whereas my on my traps, I kind of set a little closer to bottom Could be I can't believe only a foot is going to make that much difference, but I never know We got a high flyer Trap number four Well, I know one thing I forgot was my skimmer Back in the shack That's all right She's gonna have to boot the trap I think he knows we're here now Let's see if he's still there doesn't feel like anything yet There he is Man, he's sitting right back at the hole Nice one Nice one All right Out of the line Oh, I just snowed his gills. That's not good. Oh just barely hooked a lot of pretty fish. He's ready nice All right That is number seven for the day What a difference the day makes We are back folks. We're back and we're catching fish We're catching muskie. I can't get over how hard these things fight. It's pretty amazing All right, I got to get a bait and get that gear rigged free rigged. I'm going to put the Reel back in the water just so it doesn't freeze up and I think I'm going to throw on a big old sea smelt on this one. We're pretty well. Oh Another high flyer Pretty sure I got another high flyer, so I'm not going to mess around too long here So these are tank smelt Just tanks If I go up by the dorsal between the dorsal fin and the eye Go down down so I'll show you guys how that bait band works There's the bait band right there on the bottom of my trap Grab a fold of line tuck it up in and then kind of if you work it into a corner It's got a little bit more pressure on it Then you could just set your reel like normal now. The only thing that bait is pulling against now is that rubber band. He's not pulling against the Flag where you're tripping mechanism We're set. Let's go see if we got another one Jump right out the hole take a look the guy's going back. Oh my hands never get cold. They're chilly right now Two fish Two fish both wet We got some pretty pretty nasty temperatures right now Well all I'm at it Throw that baby back down the shiner was still alive a second ago It's just about noon right now Eight muskies on the ice crazy two of them jigging Had another one come into the jig every flag has been a fish. We got no misses. So they're eating today As opposed to yesterday What did we miss in here pretty toasty in here? I won't give it that Looks like nothing Well, we just passed 50 hours since I'd seen another person Last people I saw were down in town when I stopped to get some supplies This is pretty remote up here. There's not many people up here and Certainly not this time of year. You've got to really you got to have a purpose to be here and mines to try to Catch some musky and put together a pretty cool video It reminds me when I used to trap I used to trap north and and east of here and I'd go Long spells alone Without I in another person and I remember the longest that I ever went without Seeing another person now when I say see another person. I mean lay eyeballs on another person You know, there's been times when you're home and you might be sick or Stay home from school or after your adult age You might get sick and and spend a day alone or something like that if that if even that But you might still see cars go by or see somebody out your window or Or somebody might come to the door It was pretty rare to go more than 24 hours without seeing another person for the average person And I remember the longest stretch. I think I went was a little bit over two weeks Without seeing another person and I remember I started talking to myself out loud and returning the Return of the conversation and I said, well, it's time to go to town So I remember I drove downtown and got resupplied and refueled and I think that poor lady that was working the gas station I probably talked her a year right off Because I hadn't talked to anybody for a couple weeks, but that's pretty good long stretch other other times I've gone You know, I used to I used to trap for three straight months up in the woods and and head in alone And sometimes I'd have some visitors and sometimes you just see a logger and wave sometimes you'd see another hunter Rarely you'd even see another trapper and wave So you at least laying eyes on people and then then there were the long stretches when you didn't see anybody All right, I just ran back to base camp to get a couple supplies because it slowed down In those few minutes that I was gone we got a high fly Let's go see what it is. This one was that smelt I just put on the jack trap It's slow going like it could either be the smelter it could be a big old stave and musky Every once in a while those big bait can pull it out of the big bait bands, but For the most part they don't None of these musky have made big runs. They've all gone to the side then circled back really There's like slack line right there Did he come back? Or is he? Did he drop it? Ah, he dropped it Lost him lost him. I had him for a minute Gorgeous bait Gorgeous bait right there I've caught brookie smaller than that bait Well, I just muffed that fish It's hard with uh with big bait On fish that aren't really running they're stopping coming back around the hole So you don't know if they have it or not So I don't know. I know I did the right thing there. I just didn't have it I had to hook in them for a second, but it popped out that happens, you know one out of eight It's not too bad, but I'm getting I'm back set up here. I ran back and grabbed some crackers Then some cheese And some pepperoni And then I also grabbed that buck too that I've been reading because it slowed down a little bit and The conversation wasn't getting wasn't getting anywhere. So I figured I'd get a buck and read it This one's been pretty good. I'm almost Halfway. Well, no I'm over halfway through it already. It's called the Penobscot man by Fanny Hardy Ekstrom Well, it's not the worst lunch Pretty good tasting really Well, she's off to the side a little bit Let's see. I think there's one there. Yep, there's one there Feels all right But they all do really Oh got hung up Must be the swivel Yep. Oh boy that was a swivel We got a fighter here folks The swivel burnt right into the ice This one might have a little size to him. There's another one Not overly big pretty good All right, probably close to 30 inches Give him a dip. That's pretty nice number nine That's quite a bit of ice building for one day and staying active on these traps That's uh, that's over an inch right there for sure It is a chore to get that frable top to lock down, but it's really important If you don't water spills out and cold gets in and freezes Inside all right, it's pickup time It's getting really cold out here The wind's still moving, but it's Dropped a lot on the temperature scale So i'm gonna go around pick up and move the bait inside the otter with the heater on To see if that'll stay alive. I might just leave it right set up overnight He's gonna set a good low tonight. I could promise you guys that one I don't know what the temp is right now negative 14 negative 14 right now, so There's no way we're not hitting 20 below for sure and maybe we'll see even more Once that sky turned clear like that You could see that front over there kind of got pushed out with all that wind today And now we have like this clear bluebird sky And being up here a bunch i've learned to read the sky and the weather change and the patterns It's gonna be cold. I can promise you that we're gonna We'll be we'll be below 20 so After I picked up the traps I ran out to the truck grabbed a couple blankets and a auger battery for tomorrow Yeah, the first auger battery did good. I got two days on it a lot of holes You know a lot of holes when you're jumping hole hopping and doing the pan optics were in 20 to 25 inches of ice at least a lot of ice here good hard black ice So pretty happy with what that battery gave me actually really happy with what it gave me And now I've I have two other spares So I brought one in left the other in the truck and I am pretty well done for the day Although it's so beautiful out here right now and the wind stopped I almost don't want to go in. I think I might just stay out here and Even though the sun has set The colors are just amazing. They probably don't show up on this little camera But over here I have purple with pink on top of it Out there. It's like a nice Pink and yellow mix and then over here we got a beautiful yellow and and gold over here It makes all the spruce trees look jet black all the fir trees black This uh all the banks of this lake are lined with bird trees and alders it looks like because Not too many years ago It was 10 foot higher and almost double the size it is now with surface surface acreage There was a dam There was a dam down on this end of the lake right here They used to they built a dam and dug a canal that could get all the logs in this area Down to mill and awk it down to the mill and they dug a pretty considerable canal to get to the Penobscot river, I guess and then eventually they just kind of let the dam After they stopped logging they let the dam go fall in and when it fell in The lake lowered 10 feet, but the banks are all like the same around the whole lake. It's pretty neat You don't see that very often normally. It's the opposite you have giant big old growth trees because That's a buffer zone that loggers are not allowed to cut Near a body of water within like a hundred or 200 feet of the water dependent on Well what the rules are for that area, but we have the opposite here. It's all young Small growth probably from flooding it and raising it lowering it raising it lowering it and sending the logs down They probably stripped a ton of the topsoil that used to be on the shore And there hasn't been a lot of growth coming back. I mean, there's a lot of little growth but nothing big yet It's pretty neat And then you see like which trees and which stuff comes in first I'm sure this the edges of this place was just a raspberry haven for the first 10 years raspberry bushes Wild raspberries grow like crazy. They just show up out of nowhere and it's the first thing to grow into a spot and then you get your elders and then A bunch of the softwoods and then the hardwoods move in like the birch trees and the and the beach And it looks like it's predominantly birch on the shore and then a lot of the fir mixed in the fir trees beautiful fir trees Beautiful mountains. They're not very high, but I was over there with my snowmobile the other day That's actually where I saw that moose and it was heading up Over that ridge by that mountain there. There's a logging road That you can get to probably not much stern for animals. I haven't heard anything yet red squirrels or birds or anything I thought I heard a couple ravens the other morning But I haven't heard anything when it's going to be like a crazy crazy cold night all these animals the wild animals go into survival mode So the partridge have burrowed under the snow Squirrels all your small stuff burrow right under the snow and make a little cave and It's considerably warmer under there with their body temperature and just a small little cave I don't know what the coyotes do. They must do about the same thing or Or a tuck in real tight like a like a husky wood Bears are all they're all pretty lazy. They've been under since the middle october They're underground right now in their dens Moose are just eating as much as they can They're probably the same And then your predators are either on the prowl or they're hunkered down one or the other. Okay, we made it back Pretty awesome day. It's getting really cold. We're at negative 15 right now It is 5 30 i'm about to try to get these boots and bibs off I got quite a mess going on down here with froze up And then gonna hit the shower which means normally it means some warmed up baby wipes, but I got the wet ones Wet wipes today And they're frozen so they need to get warmed up You could either heat up some water and do it that way or just put it in front of the heater but I highly advise if you're gonna take a Winter camp and shower like that to warm up the wipes first because You're going into some pretty sensitive areas with a cold wipe Whoo, that's pretty refreshing that'll keep you up for a couple hours All in all fantastic day on the ice nine musky caught Nine that's this many musky today, and I still have all of my fingers Half of them That trick kills at the ice cream shop. Yeah, just amazing day. Yesterday. I got skunk Happens, you know, I had a couple chances Today smashed them cut to jigging, which is absolutely Awesome for me jigging with a with a piece of live bait. Let's just change that around I caught two on a jig rod, which is pretty much awesome I got to see him come in on the pan pan optics first You know a couple of things I wasn't sure of yesterday were You know if I could use leaders if the smelts were too big if my hooks were too big And then right away. I approved all those wrong. I caught I caught uh Two on smelts today and lost one on a smelt on the great big sea smelt I caught One on fluorocarbon with a great big hook And then the rest of the fish all came on wire leader including the ones on the jig rod So that was a ton of fun. So was it location? Was it the day? Was it barometric pressure? Was it the way the wind was blowing? Whether it was how I picked my nose in the morning. Who knows that's fishing It's going to take a lot more data to come to a real answer in the end. But you know I think it was a A little bit of everything Location's always a a thing I might go a little bit further down that shoreline tomorrow dependent on the weather I have no idea which way the wind's going to blow but I have a feeling it's going to be pretty cold So I'm not going to want to get too far away from either this shack or that shack I left that shack right out there should be good. I haven't seen a person and oh Almost 60 hours now that shack today was like Made things crazy comfortable Crazy comfortable even that little tiny heater that whatever it's called sunflower buddy heater It doesn't kick out a ton of heat, but it was pretty warm in there You know and it was colder outside than I thought and then having that otter xt pro over cabin Just to get out of the wind was pretty amazing too So a couple things there were really handy and you know, I made over an inch of ice today in the holes An inch a full inch in not even a half day In those holes that I drilled this morning and in the shack I hardly ever had to move any ice at all. There was pretty much no ice Inside the shack in those holes So that goes to show the heat that it kept and the heat that that little propane Buddy heater kicked out. I left that running. I don't know how much is left I don't know how a long way run on a bottle of propane But I left my bait in there with the aerator going And I left that running inside there. So it'll stay heated till it runs out and then the bait's on its own It's kind of a pain in the neck to keep that That bait bucket From freezing up and I don't know if there's a better option or not They say put Vaseline around the edges, but at this temperature, I don't believe anything's going to matter But you got to chip it away to get it to close and then the latches close I guess if you try to crimp those latches down, there's any ice in by that seal I guess they're going to break from what my buddies tell me and And I trust those guys so I try to clean up all the ice around it So it can seal tight and then you're not spilling as much water as you're riding from trap to trap But aren't those musky absolutely gorgeous. They're so beautiful that green that emerald green And tiger maple mixed together is just out of this world and I just can't get over how strong they are there. They make a pike look like a A pickerel because they're they fight Easily three times their weight compared to a pike and a pike fights pretty hard in my opinion But the musky just fights so hard with shakes and yanks and not as much runs as like a pike does but Just sheer power pulling and shaking is crazy Almost think they're going to knock themselves out when you get them in the hole They're still rattling their head back and forth off that inside of that hole with 20 inches ice. It's kind of funny My awesome day. Thanks for tuning in. I am at camp. I am gonna D robe Get the boots starting to throw out my feet are dry inside, which is nice and warm And take that shower and then we'll talk about dinner and Hopefully you guys stick around for the camping part of it too Guys that is probably the best cheese. I've ever had in my life Let me see if I can find out local milk and maple cream collaboration with hill farms maple products akers.com Conan Akers.com Yeah, that's the best cheese. I've ever had in my life if you like a Sharp cheddar, but it's got a maple taste to it. Oh, man. That's about as good as I've had. I got it at that Meat place at herring brothers where my buddy cat works I shouldn't be bragging up the cheese that they bring in and sell them aside because they do have pretty good meats there But man, I wouldn't lie about cheese. I like cheese and that is as good as it gets Could be because it's 20 below and I'm up here in the wilderness Or it could be really good cheese I'll have to try it downstate sometime. Let you know That'll keep the vampires away All right, we're on snow now for water We've run out of water and what we have left is frozen not a big deal If you guys haven't watched my channel before seen the other episodes here is a pro tip for you when you're melting snow down to get water is Do not melt the yellow snow It is pee get good clean white pure snow I could get lake water, but this lake is pretty dirty tannic I'm not even gonna tell you what the fish doing there. All right. How about some strip lion steak? Nice, that'll be some good deer steak Looks pretty pretty good. That's got some white still on it Oh, we got Ronnie My buddy Kurt didn't cut this up or else it wouldn't have any of that silver on it Let's take a peek Just piece right here. Oh, yeah about perfect She's still bleeding Still pink and bloody That is gonna hit the spot Have a look at that masterpiece Not bad That looks pretty edible to me Imagine a fella would probably give pretty good money for something like that at a store For at a restaurant. I know I would Might be good night Irene after I drive this into me That was one heck of a dinner Got most of it put away Couldn't drive those last couple pieces of deer steak into me. So We'll have some steak and eggs in the morning So there was a topic I talked about a little bit earlier today that I kind of Wanted to revisit and go a little bit more in depth on is is like a long time You know, and this is the ultimate in a long time here. I'm pushing Uh, what let me think for sex seven 40 55 55 to 60 hours without Even laying eyes on another human let alone being around anyone Or having anyone to talk to and I like that, you know, I don't Always like it when I'm downstate. I love people. I love being around people. I have a great family I have great friends And and I have a great community where I live But I do like solitude too and I think it's important for everybody To have a little bit of time to be alone with their thoughts and it's harder and harder to do nowadays with social media and cell phones and tv and Every media you could think of and everything's fast and everything's intertwined now, you know, it's It's just very few opportunities to have Your own thoughts Go through your brain without anything Touching upon them, you know, whether it be the radio playing in the background or media or Just, you know, someone coming over talking to someone else or and I think a lot of people get it You know, whether it be jumping on your Harley and taking it for a ride Or, you know, going for a ride in a car or a bike ride or hike and you know, a lot of people hike I don't think they hike just for for the exercise or to see really cool places I know of a lot of people who hike to get that alone time and really get to be alone with their thoughts and To actually own your thoughts is something that's Really precious in this world It's it's one of the last things anyone can ever take away from you no matter what situation you're in So coming up here to me and being in the wilderness, whether I was trapping or Or ice fishing or hunting It really means a lot to me and and I think it's a good thing to do periodically if not often Is to be alone with your thoughts and really Really get to know yourself, you know, that's a good way to do it other than just going through the motions day to day I don't know if that makes any sense or not to you guys and It's something that I've kind of lived by for a long time now and Really enjoyed it all fishing aside So far it's been an awesome trip. We're We're negative 19 now she's still dropping pretty good. It was 14 below zero when I came off the Lake right at dark and now it's 19 below I don't know how cold it's going to get tonight. It slowed down quite a bit. I thought it usually just goes When it's when it's dropping she drops in a hurry, but 19 below is nothing to sneeze at and We'll probably see a lot colder tonight. I brought in a blanket in the half I'll throw the half underneath me in the full blanket over me anytime it gets in that 20 to 30 below zero I think it's a good idea to have another blanket and I might even run the heater on low tonight. We'll see right now it's a comfortable 38 degrees in here. You can still see my breath. Well, it's 38 right above the heater. So over here. It's not quite 38 But I want to thank you for tuning in guys as always it's just It's so much fun for me and the community that's building around the channel. It's a lot of fun to you know, all this stuff is Mostly just me going out there and work as hard as I can to not only put together a good video But also get the video filmed and and all that stuff too and then edited And I I enjoy it, you know and anytime I can pass on What little knowledge I have about fishing to someone else and if it makes their day a little bit better than Then that's a win for me and if anybody ever gets some enthusiasm or Or inspired to either go winter camp in or or go ice fishing or go ice fishing for different species or a lake They've never been before or way up in the wilderness any of that stuff like that I think that's a win if you can inspire someone in life in general So thanks for tuning in Make sure you check back in for tomorrow's episode should be another good one. I hope