 Good morning. It is day five pretty pretty warm last night considering It was hovering all night around 12 13 degrees. That's what it is right now It's a little bit after 5 a.m. This looks like it's gonna be the best weather day we have Yet, so we might take a little train ride go up see the trains probably gonna brook trout fish that West Shore Chamberlain Lake and set up the tent Go out maybe 25 foot Water or so and jig for lake trout. Maybe some white for white fish to got the coffee rolling Not a big appetite this morning. We've been eating so darn much at night over the brandons that My breakfast a little bit slimmer But got a couple pieces of toast in there and gonna drive them into me with some coffee Then get up and see if the boys are ready to roll. There's two two more guys today Of course that came in last night is calling and slim So we'll have a bunch more lines in the water and have a pretty good opportunity to try to catch a trout over four pounds This is awesome Nice 430 he was ready to breath missing one We're missing one Yeah, the animals are all moving this morning fellas moves right across T lost Lake Yeah pine Martin come out of the woods to rabbits running down the lake. I see rabbits on this trail. Yeah. Oh, yeah Is it what happened? Never seen one of them break look at this one Oh Holy cow, I've never seen two of those break. This is the second trip on this ring Yeah, but this one the middle of the year last year. That's the same size. Aren't they what those the Magnum magnum, huh? Cuz Brandon, I mean he beats the snot out of his I guess I'm just gonna go no What in mind good, that's just I got room in mind to wait on me Joe. I think so Gotta have that cup of coffee in the morning. Get guy got jumped out Time go time go What are we shooting for today fellas? What are you doing? What are we shooting for today? Big Laker Yeah Brandon has he seen the rip in it yet? He's trying to get me in trouble any cat. Yeah, let's go Brandon Don't get slim started on that either Big head shakes board folks Not that cold out today, so I can show you how pretty that fish is nice 1617 inch or right there probably 17 duty going right back down Let's get reset we're gonna have one line for a little while because I got a disaster here had a pretty bad ride out Well, I was cool one be pretty quick. All right, let me show you the mess. I got I think Look at this mess the four traps are Just wound right together Every which way but loose I'm not gonna mess around trying to pick them out. It's too cold It's just stupid to pick them out So I'm gonna get the scissors out cut them through and just remake all my gear right here now Well, I'm re-ricking those tackle, you know, I got thinking about it. It's I had two chances to avoid that disaster One would have been I I don't know where my rubber bands ended up for each trap But usually I have a rubber band on them if any of them had if they all had rubber bands on them That would would have never happened and then the other thing The other thing was I got sleeves in my pack basket And if I I thought about throwing them in each individual sleeve rather than just throwing them all in the middle of that pack basket And I use the one phrase you should never use when you're up here fishing is that good enough be I It wasn't I it was not I so those were you know that whole mess would not have happened if it wasn't for my own negligence So, you know, you can get mad at your gear all you want But end of the day that was entirely my fault. There's nobody Nobody to be mad about nothing to be mad about other than myself just not doing it the right way because Like I said, there were two ways to make that happen So so I wouldn't have had a problem at all and I I didn't do either one of them So I paid the price now I Now I'm re-rigging gear, you know, a half hour into fishing Instead of be out here fishing Surprising amount of water right here this close to the bank Got about seven foot here, but we'll fish that I Like to be ten foot or less for Brookies. I don't even mind being a foot for Brookies They they'll drive that bait right under where the ice meets the bank using their favorite food today Or one of their favorites which is a smelt That's the natural forage to They're pretty easy to eat Going weightless You know these Brookies are finicky if you can get away with weightless do it Sometimes you just can't you got to be able to get that bait to go down the hole But if you put a little pressure against them a lot of times they'll try to pull away from you So put a little pressure and they'll swim under that hole Once you get them through the bottom of the ice hole then usually they'll they'll roam around Yeah, we're fishing Oh lucky main flag. Let's see what can do. Oh my god. I think I just got wailed Shoot, drip me as I was setting that Let's mess around my trap Let's try that again Think I just missed a brookie as I was setting that he stripped my bait He'll be back. They're pretty greedy one's never enough Pretty chill I'm gonna lose my sounder Must be rocks Man fired it. Yeah lost my hook lost the sounder and a hook right there Must have went right in between two rocks. Let's re-rig again about four and a half foot deep here All right, we got a flag up on that one. I just set behind us Just about ready to get this one fully set. Make sure there's not a fish there Alright, let's go get that flag Let's go see what it is See how big this brookie is He's very small. Whoa Smallest brook trout yet Tiny two smelts. He just puked up two smelts That was definitely the guy that stole my other one because he just spit it up And I could tell because it has a through the back, but that's a pretty one there That's a native little guy There's the smelt I caught him on That little guy's hungry man That's the smelt I just caught him on and then this is the other one. He just puked up and you can see on that other one There's a rip in its back right there where my hook was So it's definitely the same smelt Find a cold kind of cold to catch him. All right. We're set again. Oh, what'd you get there Bob? Slim, I'm gonna burb it. How'd you say you did? Beauty, ain't he? Yeah. The loin's on that. Yeah We'll be eating goods soon as one of these nights. I don't know when we keep saying we're gonna eat That's not getting where they keep freezing on us. Yeah, that's gotta be wrapped around something. Yeah, it was wrapped Oh, no Tung up. It was wrapped around something. I got it free and then it wrapped again It popped free Snapped it. I don't think there's anything there that maybe Yep, little brookie Boy, I got lucky catching him. He was hung up twice Nice little brookie there Probably 13 incher So there's a couple different options you could do when you get hung up like that The first thing I always try to do is slingshot it like that This ice fishing line your nylon or your Dacron has got some pretty good stretch to it. So If you pull it to the point where it's not Just about gonna break but not gonna break and then you just snap it let it free It'll shoot and a lot of times that'll shoot Just enough to come free if it's on a log or a rock or Or down to the fish And if you try that I mean that one, I don't know how many times we'd have to watch the film, but I think it was about Three or four snaps I got on that one Before it popped free, but I try it at least 10 times If it doesn't the next thing I do is I start sending the hardware down You know, especially if you can get a feel of what you're hung up on But if you could send a sounder down and you can get a sounder bouncing And flinging that line you could get that line flinging three to Three to even 10 feet sideways That's usually the second option the third option is to get the drill out and chase your line Shallow water like this I could drill and probably look down and see my line See what I'm gonna hung up on maybe get a stick and free it up or hook the line from a different direction But the brookies are pretty active this morning This is a smelt right here that we're using for bait If you turn it just right in real life, you could see that blue hue. It's got to a blue color If you're looking to buy some salts You want to get you want to get the dark ones. You don't want to The clear they'll get see-through if they're sitting in like a white Bucket too long. So if you're buying smelt Try to get the ones that still have some color or some darkness to them the fish The fish target in on that color and Darkness a lot better than the see-through crystal clear ones All right, three brookies already. That's pretty quick Not quite the droids we're looking for so I'm going to take my fifth hole and do a little jig and pop around a little bit See if I can get something bigger Oh, you got one of them parasite ones Yeah, that crooked tail they get that parasite in there and it eats their spine Really when they're younger She's she was fooling there's only to be water here. He was running Geez might be all right Geez that's heavy right now, Joe Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, nice Pretty Joe. Yes, sir You Yeah, oh, look how pretty that one is Wow, that might be one of the prettiest ones you have No water here, Joe. I know it pretty close to where we were the other day see it now Oh, actually, I'm gonna come this side. I thought it was on this No, that's pretty true Yeah Nice job, buddy. So now we're on the greasiest Jimmy Dean saw. Oh my god, very laugh. You see it spinning? No It's heading in Does anybody else just see that? Well, if you can't get the shiner down, he pulled it up I watched him go just like Red Oh man, look at that run, fellas. Oh, she almost backreels You got a little work to do here, Bob There's two little going off the back under the wolverine special Anyway Absolute gorgeous trout. That's a big trout Bright red. What a beauty too cold right now. So I'll bring them up Show them to you. Look at how pretty that trout is What a brookie What an absolute awesome brook trout Look at the colors on them Beauty all right a little bit of blood from where that line actually cut the top of his Plate nice nice brookie down. That's number Four or five one two It's either four or five I think that was five that was probably That was probably a 20 inch brookie there But just absolute gorgeous colors on them. Can't beat that What do you think of this outfit Cameron? We're a bunch of fools, but we try hard You've seen any other signs of life go by? I don't think that eight pounder got big till he got to the hole on Brandon. It didn't I swear they swim right back to it Took out some wine swim There he is That's a chunky one. He didn't need to eat Need pliers smelt on this one call it or sucker Put a smelt back down Feels it's not a ding feels Imagine if it was a five pound brookie. Oh, no, it's a lake. It's a good one. Did you get a look at them? I saw I saw fish It's two feet long. I got wicked light line on you on these Those Yeah, I bet your money is not too far from that 22 Probably This is where that 21 to jump from There we go What did I get? No, go ahead. You really got no brookie set. So take it. I'm good. That's peel. No, I got five brookies already I'm a good digger Joe Oh my gosh, he ain't very big but he was on He's feeling 13 ish. Oh, did he just come off or nope? He's coming Oh my gosh, look at that little guy Little throaty Oh right there Is it worth getting there or not? Good job, buddy Look at the colors every one of these has different colors. I'll set Joe. Yeah Look at spots on this one bud. That's pretty isn't it? That is some nice Oh camera's up camera 17 and a half. Yep. Nice beauty She brought some cabbage up with him. Oh, yeah Yeah, you got wicked crazy Oh, yeah, the colors on this This is a laker color. Right. Oh, there he goes Good job, buddy. Let's go watch camera and catch this five pounder This one up too. I drove right by it. Lost him right there in the hole. See if he comes back I don't think he felt the hook He was sitting about a foot and a half to the side Pretty decent trout. Oh, he might be on Yeah, he's on He's on No, he's still there Got him Nice Stick with them Stick with them guys when you miss one They're usually not too far away. All right, there's number seven for the day You always want to check your Either mono or fluorocarbon, whatever your leader material is That fish right there just tied it in a knot believe it believe it or not In a knot really makes for a weak spot if it's just an overhand knot in your fluorocarbon So that way I just cut it out and shorten this leader So that way when I'm fighting a big one later It doesn't break right where that overhand knot is There's seven on the ice Yeah Took it right out of my hand. I pulled it right out of his mouth I dropped right back down before I could even do anything. Brookies are fun. Oh, man I love kitchen brookies. I thought about taking another trap in We probably should Every flag I get feels like it's gonna be more fun. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? I got my gear tight How you liking that sled? I love it Yeah, I love it. Wish they made it in 900 turbo, but that's the sport. This is the 900a sport Had 600 and I wasn't quite enough for me Is why upgraded What would the 600 do while it opened? Uh on perfect conditions like 82 or 3 and this one will go like 94 or 5 Perfect conditions smooth going Brandon Brandon's over here Matt. They matched this color pretty close You're gonna get you're gonna get a little dirt on it to match your jacket. That's the jacket. The jacket's just showing age That's all Joe. Yeah He'll be all right. What are you running for a hat? Uh, it's a custom under armor She's a little too tight so I had to open her up sides Uh Not number one the beauty contest, but it does help the ears Joe. We do what we can up here, don't we? You got that 20 inch wide track and said the 24 you could have bought a new hat. Yeah, I know How you liking it bud? Love it Joe. We can't like that smile off your face with a two by four now Can we I know a pretty happy guy that sled is awesome Oh, it's my coffee cup and a jig rod. I tried to drink a cup of coffee and jig Flag go up Oh right there That's what jigging will do for you guys. I'm sure that fish came in Did it again? He's around on this side. Oh Dang it just pulled out Shoot Oh, he just ate it It's a nice one too. Nice one. He ate it right in the hole like an 18 incher Oh man, that was cool. That was cool looking down and seeing him eat All right, no more messing around we're throwing on the old Swedish pimple number five pretty well certain that I called that fish in with that Rattle bait and bang the bottom and then I got that Smelt sitting right over there nice tasty meal didn't really He didn't really want to eat it. He just kind of whacked at it kind of like a cat playing with a mouse I guess because I missed him twice and then I had him in the hole. He came in and hit it right in the hole I saw he ate it and I set the hook. Maybe I should have said a little harder But I just switched over to a Swedish pimple that looks a lot more like a smelt We'll see how that does jigging if you guys want to have fun with ruckies and If the bite ever slows down and you got an extra line drill one pretty close to one of your trap And start jigging and see what happens. Well, pretty much one of the others gonna get some action pretty quick Maybe both He took off some serious line. Oh my word. I think it might be Mountain Broughton Heavy it's just mushy No head shakes about time they show up Look at the colors on that row So that's what they look like that's number nine Yeah That look at the red and yellow the purple around it. That's a pretty trout If you can see it, if not, I'll just cut it Return to send them There she is guys that might be the one I lost earlier That's beauty Colors on that thing Doesn't look like much. All right, we got a flag up that feels pretty good There's a head shake hoping this is a trout Coming right at me. Yeah, it's a nice trout Look at that trout guys Look at how pretty that one is Okay, hope I can get that one orange on the fins That is just a beautiful trout right there We'll let that one go that one's probably 16 inches Nice When they get a hook real deep like that I'm using like really small thin wire hooks I think it's better for the fish just to cut them off when they're deep You know, you limit the amount of time that he's out of water If you could see the hook and it's right there and you can get it quickly without Without touching the gills or anything then get it. But if you can't it's just as Easy and it's better for the fish. I think just to snip it and go they'll they will rust those out and Obviously they'll keep feeding even if they haven't they have water even two hooks in there because I caught a nice one yesterday They had a a red hook and a line that Was coming out of a throat probably from opening weekend up here We're almost out of bait over here That was number 10 That's quite a day on native brook trout. That's 10 10 natives iced a couple of misses near the hole And a couple of uh, just flags with strips on it So so far a great day Hate to cut it short But I might cut it short and take a train ride today and show you guys some really cool logging history in the state of Maine Guys if you get a pile of line like this and it freezes off or Or even if the wind blew over it Start on the end closest to the hook and pull it out straight if you pull just that way and try to wind it up You're gonna have a mess just just from how it's laid out If you go this way you won't have a A mess as much of a mess anyway That's ridiculous today's gonna be insane Nice one Think it did so my word Like a two and a half pound lake in a minute Not good Got to see his end up I've been Spooled twice One was 36 inches and one was 32 and a half inches. Wow So this one should be 40 That spooled me. Was that a whitefish? Two and a half pound lake Two and a half, we're lucky off to the races. Oh, she's hung up Fish there, but she's hung up She slammed off I think they're bringing a stick in with it He was like a pretty good size. Oh Brookie Beautiful beautiful Brookie He's over 16 inches Maybe more All right, we are getting picked up just a hair early tonight. We're gonna take a ride Up to the other end. We're gonna show you guys They've never seen it before and even some of you guys who haven't seen it before We're gonna show you the famous trains of the Allagash in the north main woods These trains are quite the feat. They brought these in I think 28 miles With no tracks and got them to where they are now and they've been sitting there for almost 100 probably 100 years Yeah, but it's it's pretty impressive. So hopefully we got enough daylight. We're gonna show it to you Joe, you've never seen these I have 20 but 20 years ago. You ain't seen them since they moved them up here like this I don't remember. They used to be down in the woods falling in Oh, no, I saw them up here then 20 years about 20 years ago. Yeah, yeah, maybe 18 during the winter of 1926 to 1927 Edward King LeCroy used lombard tractors to haul all of the materials from lack frontier Quebec to the shores of Eagle Lake to build the Eagle Lake and west branch railroad King LeCroy sold his operation to great northern paper company before its first trip on june 1st 1927 The Eagle Lake and west branch railroad was used to haul pulpwood from Eagle Lake to Umbazuchus Lake where it was then driven south on the Panopscot river drainage to the paper mills in millinocket and east millinocket Pulpwood was loaded into the 12 chord log cars by two conveyors The floor of each log car was tilted six inches as were the tracks at the terminal end Which extended 600 feet into Umbazuchus Lake? The pulpwood was dumped into the lake by pulling a pin that released the hinged sides of the log cars In an average week the Eagle Lake and west branch railroad hauled more than 6500 cords of wood smaller Plymouth locomotives unloaded the cars at Umbazuchus Lake Then loaded the cars at the Eagle Lake end this allowed locomotives to refuel and take on water when the railroad operation ended in 1933 The locomotives were obsolete and not worth transporting for reuse anywhere else remnants of the 1500 foot trestle Which crossed the northwest arm of chamberlain lake is still an impressive site Churchill. Oh, it's down there to the right right there. Yeah, let's swing around That's Russell Paul What are we working on fellas? Although most do and I'm sure what brand is going on but Massy says that's looking tasty. Where'd that come from? Jonesboro, Maine Wild beef. That's right. Wild beef Well, we just got back from a pretty nice trail ride. What would you say? Yeah, 3035 had to go through some slosh to get there, but it's pretty fun Well, that's gonna do it for day number five Pretty awesome day. It was a long day. It's actually Quarter past nine p.m. Which I haven't seen All week be honest with you. I usually am asleep by Well before nine But after we did some fish catching we took a ride up to the trains Saw that that was awesome And then after seeing the trains we drove around Eagle Lake and Back on the chamber and picked up our gear came back and then we went for a nice sled ride did some trail riding did some Some riding around the old country which was really nice It was cool. I've never gone trail riding before or making your own trail either So that was a lot of fun got back and we dug into that moose stew and garlic toast and boy I'm pretty well ready for bed. I'm pretty wiped out. That was a long day Today was the first day. I actually could really fish at will Without the weather really dictating where and how I fished It was pretty mild. It was like 12 degrees most of the day a little bit of wind a little bit of snow warmed up to like 15 or 16 degrees and And I was able to move traps. I was able to check traps a lot more I was able to do some jigging where I wanted to jig. I was able to Jump around and actually fish, you know And that hasn't happened yet because the weather when the weather gets Pretty rude like that. It dictates what you can do, you know And you can only go out in 10 one flag and got to get back in warm up when you're talking real feel negative 40 negative 50 Tomorrow might be the last day of this trip. So it might be a sixth day or tomorrow is going to be fairly mild Uh could get up to like 18 19 degrees and then The next day is going to be downright rude again. It's going to be in the negative 20s with 40 30 to 40 mile an hour winds 20 sustained So you're talking real feel again in the negative 40 to 50s and if I remember right propane freezes like around 45 below zero So That's your heat source. That's the heat source here for the most part So it's got a you got to be real careful. It looks like there's going to be a couple two three days of that And it might be time to to call this trip To a close and get home do some editing get these videos up It's going to be a lot of editing because there's been a lot of fish catches a lot of fun stuff happened today I used 11 brookies, which is just a tremendous day anywhere from Like a nine inch or up to 20 close to 20 inch or and you know, I had One decent one in the hole that I don't count obviously because I didn't catch it and another one I broke off and lost one jig and so Geez, I could have probably had 15 to 20 brookies ice today just just by myself The boys targeted like a mix between lakers and brookies and they had a great day too. So Then we had a nice cask on the ice All in all just phenomenal day I hope you guys are enjoying this series if you're liking this series make sure you leave a comment Below telling me what you like about it or where you'd like to see the next one Or how you'd like the series to go really appreciate all the feedback and Really looking forward to tomorrow guys might have to capitalize on it. If it's the last day up here Thank you Got to get that one to the mill Yes, you do About seven foot right there beautiful Nice brookie right there guys Big fat one beautiful colors Is the green back