 So I made some menacing steak and cheese egg rolls and CJ over here. We're making Cajun crappy fish tacos that Joe and I caught two hours ago. It doesn't get much fresher than that. That's the deal. So stay tuned guys as this is cooking and we'll show you the prep work too. It's the wife. Why is she waiting? Really? Yeah. Oh, it's a bagel? Oh, yeah. One day I couldn't even get the, I couldn't even get the lower down. It would get down, the lower. It'd get down five feet above the bottom and it would just stop and I'd go. Yeah, those were the good old days. What's happening? So I'd go like this and I'm like, oh, you got that? And it happened five or six times. I took, this was not all too smart of me, but I caught a huge toad. Huge. Bigger than the fishing pole. The jig pole. And I'm self-conscious. Just don't cut your tongue. We'll have to make a fail video. Thank you much meat there. You're good. You can usually see through them when you're done. You are. Nice. Thank you. How do you do the knife stuff? Thank you. I don't really pay attention to what I'm trying to do. You weren't even subscribed to us. Wow. You're on YouTube? Oh, on YouTube. You didn't follow our Instagram page first. No. My friends followed them before I did. It's funny how that works sometimes. I'm going to speed this video up to like six times fast. You're going to think you're the fastest lawyer. Yeah. I don't feel like it's going as good as you know. Deliciousness right there. Couple nice chunks of meat there. Who shot this deer? This one's mine. Nice. Your first soul deer. Was that this year? Well, last year I was alone too. This year I did a lot of like scouting myself. And he was guiding moose hunts. So I had to go out on my own a lot. And so this time it was like start to finish my own, I guess. That's great. I must have been proud. Yeah. Oh, you were? Nice. Let's see. Last year you shot a big one too. Yeah, last year was, that was a patch buck. This year was not, not as big as I had thought it was going to be. We actually weren't, we weren't really sure exactly which one it was. We have cameras out and stuff. And I thought it was a bigger deer. And just walking up to it, I looked at him and I'm like, it's not the one. You got it on me there. Nice. Nice deer. Yeah. Right, going with some Louisiana deer over there. Yeah, that's a booty. Is that a sponsor? Picked up a new sponsor, Louisiana. Cajun. Some breadcrumbs. Put them together for the crunch. This is a lot more sophisticated catching cook than I posted the other day. Put a stick through a brook trout and started a smudge fire on the ice. Yeah. Yeah, that one was smoked. Yeah, it was more smoked than it wasn't really cooked either. It really didn't even look that delicious. You could see the look on your face. At 28 below, anything tastes decent. Everything tastes better on the ice. I buried breakfast sandwiches. That was one of my favorite parts of fishing. Yeah. I know breakfast burrito is breakfast sandwiches. Kyle always makes the best breakfast sandwiches. Even just plain old medicine on the ground. Yeah. Just tastes so much better. Because you're hungry. Your body's so cold. But it tastes better too. A couple of eggs. I'll see you later. Yep. What's your favorite state you've ever been to? Oh, outside of Maine? Yeah. Can fish? Ice fishing or open water fishing? Whatever. That's tough. Probably Alabama. Really? Yeah. I loved it. Yep. I've only ice fished in one place outside of Maine. That was Minnesota. I don't have a lot to do. But probably the best crappy fishing right here in Maine. Yeah. Both numbers and size. From the people I talk to, it sure is. Yeah. I hit that one. Oh, that's better. Nice. This looks beautiful. You ever had a sea of cheese egg rolls? No. No, I'm pretty excited about them. I heard about them yesterday. What do you like better, that or that? State cheese. Wow, you just told me how much you like steak. The fish tacos. I was shocked. This is looking tremendous. I'm really just figuring out how good this looks. It sounded good. It's so simple, but... It sounded good, but now it's like... The light bulb just went off for me. My mouth is watering right now. The light bulb definitely just went off when you rolled that one. I was like, oh my God. I'm excited. Yeah, I didn't think I was all that hungry last night until those were made and I tried one and I went, I'm gonna eat three more of these. So I ate three more. I'll do these with... I'll use a ground up venison, but then I'll do it like spring roll style with cabbage and carrots and stuff like that. With the ground up? Yeah. And then we'll take them out on the ice and reheat them for our clients. They must go crazy. So John... John's like a phenomenal cook. He loves cooking. He's bringing... He's bringing his pizza. Prime rib, sausage, English muffins and cheese. Dan's bringing eggs. I figured we could do a breakfast for lunch tomorrow. Oh yeah. Holy cow. Yeah. So we're just gonna be rolling onto the ice in the morning and rolling off the ice. So tomorrow's video is gonna be pretty incredible then. We don't even have to catch a fish. I might have to call out of work. Yeah, I would call out of work. I feel cold coming off. You got the rolling on. I remember this was a long time ago. So we were chasing traps and I think this one did... I don't think the flag really went off too well. And remember getting to the hole and lifting it up because I think we were about to leave, I think, and I lifted up. The spool was gone. The spool was? Oh no. Broken off. So I was sinking. And I still think about it sometimes. How big that fish must have been to break off a spool. Big. Had it with that. But it never tripped the flag? It just grew there somewhere. It grew there. But I think I can only make one more. Not enough steak. I've never had homemade egg rolls. This is pretty exciting. They're way easier than you would expect. Yeah, it doesn't look terrible. No, they're not bad at all. You can get these wraps anywhere. I got these at home on them. Boy, my mouth is watering right now. Oh, why it's fired up? It's so good. I am excited. Holy cow, looking pretty good. So those are the low calorie... I can do it. That's the healthy version of dinner. This is going to be the... That doesn't look that... Oh, we're deep frying these babies. That's alright. You'll be working up the Joe's Ice Cream Shop making egg rolls. Oh my God. You'll have Donnie doing donuts. You'll be doing egg rolls. That place will be packed. He's not that sponsored. He does that a lot. He cooks incredible. That's awesome. These are looking great. Yeah. That's looking incredible. What's that about? What are they? These are venison's sake and cheese egg rolls. Nice. Donnie's catch. Oh, they're not burning. They're looking good, though. They're almost there. They'll get much fresher than that, buddy. You caught those a couple of hours ago. We caught those a couple of hours ago. That's true. Alright, guys. You're here to watch this. This is probably the best part of the catch and cook coming up is the catch cook and then eat part. We'll actually let you know that. Wyatt, what do you think, buddy? Passes the test? 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10? This is like nothing. Probably the best main surf and turf you can get. Oh, yeah. Venison and crab. Venison and crab. It doesn't get too much better than that. In my world, it doesn't. Right? You go out to eat and get a surf and turf meal for 50 to 100 bucks or you could just go get it yourself. Yeah. We're going to watch this fish talkin'. Wyatt, you're going to make a fish talkin'? Nope. I'm getting mine made. Thank you. Pretty simple. Oh. You want some of that? No, no. Do you want the salsa? Homemade salsa? It's not into avocados. I'm the only one that likes avocados. How do you... Oh, it's like glue. It's like glue. It's like Elmer's glue. I'm going to try the secret sauce. Looks pretty incredible, guys. It is. Dig in. Yeah. You know you're efficient when you have to move the electronics off the table to eat. Oh, great. I can try one of these things first off. That is good. So they're pretty good alone. But you can also do some of this ranch secret sauce. That is good. Yeah. Well, it's funny. You're going to get much better. This stuff's good, too. I told you last night without our youngest kids eating this and everybody enjoying it. It's like awesome. It's an awesome feeling. You brought home and everybody like... Yeah. Yeah, Anna's shooting the deer or you're shooting the deer or moose or catching the fish. That's just amazing. The fact that everybody loves it and it's organic and free range. People need to understand. I'm preaching. Well, yes and no. Not many times we have to do Cabela's. Exactly. Yeah, once you start adding up life scopes and snowmobiles and... Yeah. But that's why you got to eat more fish. That's one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life. That is so good. Now you see why I was so excited. Yeah, I would have never even dreamt this up. That... Holy cow. So simple. Delicious. This is something I think I would eat every single day and every yesterday night. Yeah, you can't buy something that good. Fish taco, crappy fish taco. Lucky or we guys. Seriously, this is like gourmet gourmet. I'm pretty lucky. I am really lucky to be here. Thank you guys so much for having me for dinner and this incredible meal. Thank you for coming. Well, my pleasure. We were just talking about falling through the ice and beaver trapping. I remember, I'll tell you guys a story when I beaver trapped. I beaver trapped with the guy that taught me just tremendous outdoorsman. He was competitive. So we would get on ice way before we should have. Like he was thin. He was about your size. Maybe a little skinnier. So the rule is whoever doesn't weigh the most has to go out on the ice first. The other guy stands on shore with a rope tied around his waist. That's how thin ice we were on. A lot of times he's walking on like the logs on top of the ice, you know, trying to get out further to get where you need to trap these beaver. And I remember poor Skip would be out there and you could just hear it cracking. You know he's going under and through. And I'd give that rope a little yank. You know, and he'd pull back and he'd turn around. He was so mad at me. Stop it. He'd swear he'd reach for a sidearm when I'd do that. But that's the one rule I had when I beaver trapped is never trap with anybody heavier than you. Because the lightest guy goes out first. When I trap beaver, I think the year before I was like five to ten dollars a pelt and it's just not worth it. But I did it anyway. I don't even care. Have you ever heard of Oscar Crom? So Oscar taught me how to skin beaver. He taught me most of what I know about trap. Just at his store, at his counter at his store he'd go in for hours. He'd just tell me, and I'd just soak to him like a sponge. And he would hike in like you were just saying, like crazy far into these bogs. And he would trap and remake the trap after he'd catch one. And Edie, his wife would sit down on her pack basket and she would clean skin that beaver in like 20 minutes. So he wouldn't have to drag it out. And Oscar's the one who taught me that if you fall through and like say you fall through just to your waist and you jump out, he said, you kick your leg up so obviously some of the water can pour out before it gets down to your toes. But then you roll in the snow. It's like a sponge where you roll in that snow and the snow will grab all that liquid water. And it saved me quite a few days of not having to go home or back to the camp. Even if you put a boot through and just fall over and put your leg up and then roll in the snow and it would pack snow around and it would take the water off. And catch a beaver rolling around the snow a couple of times and it tastes dry. Exactly, same thing. Like that's what we knew. You'd pull it out 20 below zero rather than having ice cold or pulling fur off or anything. I remember like I was good at skinning and it's a challenge to skin beaver with the fat and everything and I hated fleshing so I tried to clean skin. And I remember like Skip and I sat and we set a pile of traps and he knew what he was doing. I didn't know what I was doing. I think we got like one and it took me like two hours to put it up, like to clean skin it and put it up on the board and everything. Like two days later I went to check the traps all alone. It was like the first through check at all our sets and we caught 19 beavers that day. And I was driving back to the warden camp because that's where we were staying up near Clayton Lake. I remember doing the math and I'm like, alright so two hours two hours times 19 beavers if I start now and don't stop to eat or anything back in a week. And I was like something's gonna change so I remember an Oscar telling me how Edie did it and she'd sit down and put that right over her lap and right in front of her and how she'd clean skin it. And I got down to 26 minutes where I could clean skin a full size beaver but still like eight hours of skinning right there and $5. But you know it was always like $5 or $10 for a hide for a beaver felt. No one would trap so then we'd trap hard and then you get paid like we get paid like we probably averaged I bet you we averaged $35 on beaver like we got some for like as high as like $80 you know and some every once in a while would be like $10 if you catch a kid so we never left the previous years prices in the forecast for us from the trap. Just because we loved doing like if the state knew it I would have paid every cent to them to do what I did. But it gets to a point where you find I naturally know like this isn't an hobby I need to keep anymore. I will never recover from this. Oh boy, now I'm starting to say again. Because it won't, you won't. Like I told you I sold a Fisher, two Fox about nine big prime coon with my coon items that year we selected what we shot we didn't shoot a lot of coon because they weren't worth anything so we leveled all of them out that was just after the rabies went through and their numbers were way down and we shot nine prime coon I think I trapped two or three or four I just kind of did a dub it off I sold my bird of Kimbells, it was pin and I think I made like sixty dollars on all my fare I came home that afternoon and I had a great big buck mink in my trap and I looked at him you're not worth killing buddy I let it go and I haven't trapped sense no it wasn't so much the fare price it was just it got to be a sport that I loved but I couldn't afford to do anymore you know I used to be making I used to make enough money that I would buy my family Christmas presents it wasn't a lot but to Mayor Kimbells you'd trade some of your fare for de-skin gloves or you'd go and you'd have a little chest and you'd buy some little trinket or something for your family I remember one year my grandmother told me I said I'm saving all my money for a snowman so I could be the trap and she said don't be stingy remember when you do good things for people and people do good things for you well unbeknownst to me I had a snowman on the Christmas side the family got together and held me that was awesome that was the last year I had a trap alright that is going to do it for tonight full belly incredible food, incredible time with friends really looking forward to getting after some more big slab crappy tomorrow might even go after some rainbows so should be a great day I'm going to try to do a little more reading last night I just really got into this book and stayed up a lot later than I was expecting to but not sure if I can tell you what this book is I'll have to ask the author but this is the beta copy that I've been working on helping on like an edit or a read through so I found a lot of stuff that could be helpful for him last night but the story is just awesome so it's been a great read and a lot of fun to read too so I'm kind of excited to get back into it and be able to help out a little bit with some editing and also to follow along with the story but follow along with my story thanks for tuning in guys that was just an awesome day with CJ I really really enjoy fishing with him he likes to hunt him down the way I do and just go after him hard the first lake we got out there and we caught a pile of fish tons and tons and tons of smaller crappy that most places would be happy with those 10 to 12 inches and then we moved and he made a really good decision not to fish on that unsafe ice and we moved to another pond and we really got into him there out over some deep water the quality was a lot better we were catching probably an average of about 14 inches and 1 over 15 which is always a plus great big slab so tomorrow we're going after him gonna try to get you something big big on film like over 16 thanks for tuning in guys thanks for following along with this truck camping adventure maybe get 2 more days out of it we'll see you on the next one