 pretty chilly this morning. Gotta show you my recipe. I carry it in my wallet all the time and look how abused it looks. But I have it with me all the time. Wow. Oh, I hope these are good. I'm sure the cook will hear about it. You know that's true. We're gonna roll this out. Get ready. Have to flour the rolling pins. But I like to save it because I check my fat with this donut hole. See if it's hot enough. I don't believe it's hot enough. Well, it's coming. That'll come to the top. It's getting there. Joey, I want you to try that. It might be really hot. Would you guys at home try that? Oh yeah. Pretty hot. Wow. How is that? It might be the best thing ever. Really? The river is some foggy. That's really hot. Cut that back a little bit. These are chubby little donuts. Yeah. Good looking. They look good to me. Now over there I got some cinnamon nutmeg sugar. You can roll them in that, if you'd like. I guess we gotta try one of these. See if it's done on the inside. But usually cooking donuts in lard makes the best. But lard will clog up your arteries. Might not live long enough to eat a lot of donuts. Well why don't we take those and sugar up one, Joey, and try it. See if it's done on the inside. She's hot. Those look fantastic. They're too hot to handle. They're pretty warm. Yeah, they are pretty warm. Where did you learn how to make these? Well my mother used to make them and I don't know. Maybe I picked it up from that. I don't know. And how old is your mother now? She's 104. It's amazing. Isn't that amazing? I remember, was it four or five years ago when she was out mowing the lawn and jumped off the porch? Yeah, at 100. 100, yes. She was 100. And her neighbor was what, 90 mowing her lawn? They were in competition. Because the neighbor was, let's see, she was 10 years younger than my mother. But she was a wicked worker, physically working and her biggest thing was trying to keep up with my mother. Imagine having to keep up with a 100 year old woman. You need another plate? I do. Let me get you one. Don't move. Some things don't want to roll on you. I know they do. Those things are probably edible, huh? Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah, donor holes are great. They look pretty nice floating around in there, don't they? Break one of those open secrets done on the inside. Okay. Is it? Yep, never. Oh wow, great. Wow. Wow. Any good? Terrible. Yeah, cook some more. Cook some more, keep practicing. Home to the gobbies. That might be the best thing I've ever eaten. Really? Yeah, this is half a batch. If those sports upriver would come down, give them a donut. Oh my gosh. They'd probably leave camp if they knew what we had here. What did you say was in the sugar mix? I put cinnamon and nutmeg in it. Some sugar? Sugar. Yeah, that's good. What happens if it's too hot? Well, if it's not hot enough, it soaks grease into the donut. Gotcha. And if it's too hot, it cooks too fast on the outside, and the inside probably wouldn't get carked. Okay. Yeah, look how much better that one of yours is than that one. Huh, just gotta stretch them out. What a treat. I'll have to invest in a bigger donut cutter. Yeah. How do you think that one would be? That one will look pretty good. We'll try it. Yeah. Just for the heck of it. Want me to stretch this one? Yeah, instead of regular bacon powder, I had some Bakewell cream, which is manufactured in Maine. Oh yeah? I think it was originated in Maine. But you have to cut down on the amount and put baking soda in with it. Rather, parents got some different ingredients in it. Blow apart. Whoa, look at those donuts. Look at that one. We're not getting those in this cup. So, we might have to eat them plain. Yeah. If we've eaten worse, we could sprinkle some on top if we need to. Gonna put a pinch on top of that. We'll run the grinds again with a pinch on top. That's all ready to go. Coffee and donuts, they go together pretty good, don't they? Yeah. Yeah. Great combination. Them's some serious donuts there. Yeah. The end of the run. That coffee is sound strong. Is it? Yeah. Wow, that's good. Bacon and eggs on top of this. I don't even know if we'll need it. Don't fries. I don't think we'll need it. What a treat for us. Thank you, Donnie. I think there's a couple missing. Fries. Somebody's been into them. That raccoons in the bushes right now licking his chops. Oh man, he can't wait till we go fishing. He thinks he's going to get some of this. There we go. That's quite a stack you got there. Yeah. Yeah, I mean that made a lot of donuts. Yeah, there's two full eight, 10, 12, 14, 16. And you've beaten two. That looks like a winner right there. Boy, can't beat it. No. We're selling Donnie's donut recipe for $9.99. Who wouldn't pay $9.99 for that recipe? Mmm. Modi's got nothing on you, Donnie. This is going to be a good day on the river. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning because it was pretty chilly. Well, I pulled the old stump out of the river and we're going to clean it up some. So the the PV hook and this horseshoe on the bottom, they're not grown in. They're just kind of entangled in the roots. So we'll get rid of the mud. Well, that might be a piece of metal actually. There's a piece of metal in this clump, Donnie. Oh really? Clean it up. See what it is. Looks like a donut. A donut. Yeah, I don't have to cook it. I'm just kind of picking away at it here. The PV hook is in great shape. Oh my gosh. Look at that. Looks brand new. Yeah, these are probably brand new. Yeah, we will put that to use. We'll put that right on a PV. I can't believe I missed that other one. Well, I know where it is. We can go get it. Get rid of that piece of root. This horseshoe should be loose. Yeah, nice shoe there. And then the rest of this is just mud I think. I'll take it back down to the river and soak it. And the showpiece is right here and that's grown right into that on both sides. Is that horseshoe? That's pretty neat. We got some frost this morning. Frosted pretty good up on the seat. You can still see a little bit left before the sun hits it and there's a little bit of frost left on the rain jacket there. But we'll throw that in there. Let the river do its work. You're dropping pretty quick. We lost another couple inches last night. The river dropped two inches on us. If you guys are watching at home, Charlie, this one's for you. You can see that thing dropped two inches. Man, look at your stick. Look at what? Your stick. Wow, Donny. Yeah. That dropped two inches more in the night. I think it will be safe though. I think so. Yeah, I hope so. I mean, how much is that water falling since we got here? Yeah. About 10 inches? 10 inches, yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. Charlie, if you're watching this, we put that stick in just for you so you'd see that that water dropped 10 inches. Yeah, I know you didn't believe us last year but this is proof in the pudding right here. Yeah, that mic has been screwing us for two years in a row on this river. Yep. I don't know when he's going to stop doing it but he better stop next year. Yeah. You want a homemade donut? What do you say? I made some this morning. Yeah, they're tearing it in. I'll go get them. Good morning, gentlemen. You guys got a sun here. Yeah. Yeah, we do have that. I'm just going to stay here for a few hours. Yeah. Oh man, it was a little bit cooler last night. Yeah, we had frost. Yeah, on the canoe seats and in the canoe there was frost. Whoa, what's that? Oh, wow. It flies for you. No way, for real? Oh wow. You needed some more streamers. Oh my gosh, thank you so much. Do you know what these are? No. No, but I'm excited to learn. You don't mind if I video do you? No, not at all. So some of this may not be appropriate. Okay, that's fine. I got the edit button. We have to edit a lot out. Just the way I like it. So these are variations of a golden retriever. Okay. That's a very popular fly. We've done really well with the golden retriever. That one right there? They're weighted at the head, so they're a little harder to cast. You really have to be careful that they don't fall back and hit you in the back of the head. Yeah. These are all tangled up. That's another. Wow, that's great. This one's the, well, the nice name is called the Montreal Fluzy, but traditional name. Traditional name is the Montreal. I saw that at Indian Hill, the name. They were out of them. That's a wood special. Wood special. Oh, that's one of my favorites. Yeah. Oh, and Sam and I'll eat that one too. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, especially the orange bodies. We have here, John. Do you tie these? I tied the Montreal. I tied this one, which is a variant of, you know, black ghost. Yeah. Yeah. And those are actually tied on antique hooks and everything. No kidding. Yeah. Is that another variation of black ghost? With the red tail, I don't remember. I think that's one you tied, Bob. Yeah. I think I tied this one. This is another Montreal. Yeah, that's awesome. It's a bigger one. Oh, this is from Bob. This is a a fat. I like that one. I like the looks of that one. Yeah. That's what I like. And that's been a good size the past couple days. Yeah. Yeah. And this is another golden retriever. Just a slight variant in color. Yeah. In color. Yeah. And is that another fat? That's another fat. Whatever. That one's an experienced fat. Okay. Well, thank you, guys. We can't thank you enough. And you can see how the Marabou, you know, it's fluffy here. It's all fluffy, but it will look like that in the water. That's amazing. It just fills it right in. It pulsates back and forth. Yeah. Wow. Thank you, guys. We'll put those to use for years to come. Well, no, put them to use now, so you at least have something to eat. He's got fish on the menu. We're eating job if we have to. And then we might end up down at the the perch hole. Yeah. Yeah, there's plenty more. You probably need something to wash it down. Yeah, we got hot coffee going too. If you want some hot coffee at 30 degrees, it was time for a hot coffee. Yeah. There's plenty more fellas. Dig in. Oh, I'm good. Sure. One one for the ride. I'll take a donut ball for the ride. Oh yeah, the donut balls go down pretty quick. You don't have to handle all these if we didn't stop by. Or don't take, take whatever. If I have any more. It's too far back when I run my big engine. Yeah. Right on the transom. I can lean back, put my head back. I'll be out cold. Oh man. All right, guys. Well, I think we're gonna go see what we can find. We might end up seeing you down or how far are we going today? Yeah, we'll just go down big aisle. Okay. You have a sinking line? I don't know. We're not hardcore fly fishing. No, I don't, I don't know. This is what I got. It floats, I think. Those golden retrievers will sink because they're weighted on their own. I'll throw one of those golden retrievers. Just watch the back of your head. Yeah. Yeah, I got a fly stuck in one of my shirts. Donny, you watch your head. All right, I'll make sure he catches out in front of it. Yeah. See you guys. Good luck. Well, what do you think, Donny? Should we go catch a fish? I suppose we ought to try. Yeah. Yeah, I think it'd be a good idea. So we call this a fishing trip. Well, we might just call it a camping trip after all. Well, that was pretty awesome seeing those guys and sharing some stories and listening to some stories. And they gave us a whole bunch of hand-tied salmon flies to add to the arsenal and some ones that have been working for them. Fishing and hunting and trapping is like the coolest thing. I'm from the coastal down east area of Maine where there's a lot of lobstermen, a lot of clam diggers, worm diggers. And it's a competitive kind of nature down there where everybody's in the same boat but they're competing. So it kind of transfers over into hunting and fishing and other outdoor sports where guys aren't quite as friendly to each other as they should be. At the end of the day, when it comes down to voting or keeping things open to fishermen and outdoorsmen or conservation, those are the only friends you have right there. No one else is going to help for you or battle for you when you're not there other than guys like that. So when you run into other people on the water, on the ice, hunting in the woods or even trapping, it's a lot better to have friends than enemies. So you can see it's my nature and Donny's nature to make as many friends as you can and learn from everybody as you can. So that's a prime example. There are some great guys and they're having a blast and we wouldn't care if they caught every single salmon in this river. We'd be happy for them and hopefully they do. Hopefully they catch a big one whereas when you're younger, if you're around a different group of people that can't differentiate between the competitive nature of the shore, we want to see people do well and it's a good thing for all sportsmen to see people do well, especially in this sport because we're losing a lot of people every year and we're not getting any younger. So we've got to get more people into it and be a lot friendlier. Just my two cents on it. Wouldn't you agree Donny? I would agree with anything you say. I said old people shouldn't be cow here camping. That's for damn sure. You may have to lug them out of here. No, I was telling the folks at home about how it's way better to make friends and enemies, especially in the outdoors. Oh definitely, yeah. In the outdoors, especially nowadays where there's less and less people getting into it. Yeah, it's good to communicate and get different ideas and flies. I mean those guys have been fly fishing for a long time. I've been here a long time, but not fly fishing so much. Once a year I'd pick up a fly rod. You kind of have to constantly work at it to get good at it. Oh yeah. I'm satisfied with the way I fish. I enjoy being in the outdoors and the camping experience. Some years we slay them, some years we don't. But we're going to have fun no matter what. That's why they call it fishing. Yeah, we're not going to let the fish decide if we have fun or not. Right, that's right. Well, I don't know. What do you think? We ought to head down river? We ought to do something, even if it's wrong. Yeah, let's try it. All right. Okay. You got him? No, no. He come off? I'm surprised the fly is, the fly is as big as the fish. Really? Oh, it's pretty fly. Let's take a peek. What did you catch? Dinner? I caught a, look at that. Big one? Salmon? Did you see it? No, I can't see nothing. The fly is as big as the fish. Oh, beautiful. You got one, Donny. All right. I don't know what it is. Coming with it. It's coming pretty hard with it. He's heading downstream as fast as I can reel. Oh, you still got him on? I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Is he chubb or salmon or what are we looking at? Salmon, I think. Oh, yeah. Is it? Yeah. Nice. Why do you need a keeper? All right, we're on the board, Donny. All right. Big old salmon. I watched that guy eat it, Donny. He followed it right up and ate it. This one's a round nose, Salmon. Yeah. He might not be landlocked. It's kind of, kind of scaly. That's why they got the round nose if they're not landlocked, Salmon. Pretty spot here. That's a winner. Let's see if there's a fish at the end of the line. Well, I just shot a grouse and Donny got a ding back here. Was it your boot? Was it your boot? Oh, I put it back. Yeah, you got some. Oh, yeah. That's what it was. Okay. There might be another parter here. I heard one flicker up ahead and got him just as he was going to fly. I hit him pretty good. I tried to go high on him. Hold on one sec. Got him right here. All right. We're eating the night, Donny. We got grouse and we got salmon. Not a very big one, but it'll eat good. Nope. What were you saying? Yeah, we're on the board. This one's good to me. Give it a try or do you want me to carry it? No, no. You could tie it right up on my back. If it gets to be too cumbersome or falls out, we'll just breast it and put it in our pocket. Hope we don't lose it. I'll feel it come off if you do. That's one way to carry out a cartridge. We wouldn't be doing this with a moose. Yes, not. All right, let me. We'll tie it up. See how she locks. Looks like it's gonna stay. It looks good. All right. Don't shoot me. I'll keep an eye out. Yeah, don't shoot me. Yeah. Hold this. I think I see an insulator way over there. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so if we follow this, we can find that old camp. See it? You want that insulator? That's something. Yeah, that'd be power or... Yeah, pretty cool ceramic insulator. That's a two-piece insulator. Yeah, I like the glass ones better than the ceramic ones, but those were for a different type of... So that means we're on the road because they ran these on their roads. So we're pretty handy to the road. If we see any old cedar trees, it's probably still going to be up in them. There was an old halfway house woods camp out here somewhere. Donnie saw as a kid when it was broken down and I just found an insulator from the power or telegraph line, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, they ran a line all the way down the river from Chisunkuk. Yeah, and this is how they ran the line. It went through that insulator. It's a two-piece so they could splice it anywhere and tighten it up whenever they needed to. That's pretty neat. So we're kind of... That tells us we're on the right direction. We're on the right part of the road. That's a big boy right there, Donnie. Wow, can you imagine? You couldn't even get that on a sawmill. No, that's a beast and it stays big the whole way up. If it was straighter, that'd be a king's pine. Yeah. Yeah, look how big. Let me get to the sun, isn't it? Yeah, it's over four foot across. Yeah. Anyways, jeez, that's a big boy. Got a little lean to it. That was here when they were here. Not much else here was though. It looks like this whole area was cleared. Yeah, looks like it was cut. Yeah. Let's keep having fun. Another insulator. Well, it looks... Yeah, I think I found it. I got a metal dump over here. So I see a wash basin over there and then a bunch of cans and stuff right here. Pull these cans and some glass mix in. That metal detector is going to be zinging. Donnie, I think I found it. That's a... No return. No deposit. No return. Colt. Colt 45. There's a colt bottle. A bunch of bottles. A bunch of beer cans. I'm guessing that's a Budweiser. I don't know. Not a bad find, huh? I know. I mean, pretty neat. Just that we found this is quite a feat. I mean, that was way to heck and gone up in the middle of the woods. Oh, great. Super. Well, let's eat some cheese. Yeah, let's get bound up. Let me clean my knife off. Yeah, that's it. Clean it off. Yeah, that's good. Couldn't clean? Couldn't clean it. We brought some cheddar all the way from Vermont. We're going to sit right here and relax for a minute. Eat some cheddar. Eat some cheese. We did find the old dump. That was quite something. Yeah. Yeah, start with that. The first piece has got the most guts on it. Yeah. All the most fit in it. Yeah. Pretty good cheese. Mm-hmm. Well, yeah. Yeah. Good. I know it's kind of neat that they had more communication a hundred years ago than they do now. Same, so, yeah. I mean, you and I can't get a cell phone out of here, right? We'd have to use a satellite because the only communication we could get out of here, but... Yeah. A hundred years ago, there was a cable strung from where Greenville, maybe? I only remember it came down through by Lobster. Yeah. Down around Lobster and down the West Branch. Down... Followed the West Branch down through, and it went to northeast Harry where there was a switchboard. And they could direct the car where he wanted it to go. And I imagine the old car boxes were the crank handle. So, if you wanted to call to Suncook Village, you'd probably one, long, two-shot or whatever. There'd be some code. Yeah. Because we used to hunt that telephone line way to hell and gone. Oh, really? Yeah, down the... I didn't know that. Went down the package camp was on Lobster. That way down past that. So, would this be power or would this be telephone or telegraph? I would say it would be telephone. Telephone? Yeah. I don't believe they ran a power line. No. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't run a power line. And to think back, 120 years ago, with these guys running this line and keeping it free and free of the moose and other trees. Yeah, falling down on it. For them to think for one second that you could just pick up a phone in your pocket and make a call. I know. They think you're from a different planet. Look what we found. An old axle of some sort. Solid axle. All solid metal. Probably a whole wagon of some sort. So, the camp was here somewhere in this area. This is the base of this old cast iron wood stove. They had a cook stove too. Quite something. We found a really cool piece of driftwood. So, we picked it up and bring it home. We'll do something with it. Maybe we'll use it in a cabin build or something. Pretty cool. Nine inches. I think it was eight yesterday. Yeah. So, it's still going down. Nicely. Big salmon. Whoa, we got off. That was awesome. Do you see that first cast with that old lure? That was like 18, 19 inches. Wow. Awesome. I was worth it. What you got going here? I'm cooking up some patrige and fish and I chopped up a little garlic with butter and vegetable oil. I'll just let that heat up. I've had it warm and take a second to heat up and then I'm going to put these in. I'm going to cook the patrige in the same fry pan because we're limited on the turn. I'm going to let that cook through. Nobody here is too proud to eat patrige out of a salmon pan. Oh, not at all. We got some potato all cooked in here. Beans coming. I'll let these cook just for a little longer. Still the bone pulls though. Big day tomorrow. What's the plan tomorrow? Well, I guess we're going to go searching for an anchor. Yeah, I think we could find it. Yeah, we only catch fish that'll fit in the fry pan. Anything any bigger can't cook it. Right. Don't sass the cook or you'll be in big trouble. Then you've got to cook. That's right. You want some of this garlic? Yeah. Perfect. Now, there's the grouse. Just don't let them touch the potatoes. Oh, gee. We are some finicky up here. I can remember. Yeah, kids. Yeah, if they don't touch, I won't eat them. Oh, man. You're going to bed without dinner. Donny, it looks like you've outdone yourself again in your culinary arts. Well, hey, thanks to you. We got supper. Good for something. Fish and man, this is wonderful. That's good stuff. That was a backup. That's good stuff. Yeah, I know. That's what my whole ice fishing tubs backed up with that and demmy more. Beeps too. Yeah. You can't ever go wrong. If you ever see me eating ramen during ramen noodles during ice fishing season, then we got troubles. Well, I'm getting full. Yeah, that was a pretty good bead. Small potato. I've had worse meals last night. Last night was awesome. That was a good meal. Yeah, that's not something you get all the time. Right. We got the dishwasher going over here. I wanted you to try this. This is given to me by Gary up on Campobello Island, and he loves it. And it's called Daltz. And I believe from the kelp family, and it comes from Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, and they harvest it and they dry it. You want me to eat some weeds from the ocean? Yeah, I just want you to try it. You may not like it. You gonna eat some? You like it? I don't particularly like it. But you know, you try different stuff. It chews up, you know, you get it moist, and you got that salty taste, but there isn't a whole lot of taste to it other than... It's got some taste. Yeah, it's got a lot of iodine in it, he said. And I, you know, iron. But it's a big, big thing up on the island. Well, I've eaten worse. Yeah. Pretty freaking salty. Yeah, I do. Wouldn't be bad in a hiking pack. Yeah. For a hunting pack. Right. Take a bite of that, taste it all day. Yeah. Look at that moon down the river, darling. Half a moon down the river. Oh, really? It's beautiful. First night we've seen it. Oh, wow, that is gorgeous. It's got a haze around it, like a purple haze.