 Get him, get him. Yes! I'm on low battery. Fuck, fuck, fuck! No way! He's so fucked. Fuck. What is up, guys? Joe Holland here. We are back on the lake. It's still ice fishing season, technically, but we're out here and we're jigging with our ice fishing rods. I got the Elliott rods, putting them to work out here. And we're jigging V rods, blade baits, swim baits for deep lake trout on Sapego Lake. Had a smash vest the other day. Had incredible weather. Usually you don't get out here without too much wind, but hopefully we're gonna have a second day of it. This is day number two, and we brought Kyle along with us. This is my illegitimate son. Put your glasses on and we'll both, they'll see it once you put your glasses on. See? You can see the reason I'm once. And we're here with CJ from Burnt Meadow Guide Service. He still has a few openings left, guys, if you want to book something and have as much fun as we're having out here, then give him a shout. I'll put all his info or you guys can just, you know how to find it. But we're gonna weigh along some deep lakers. The shallowest we're gonna fish today will be a hundred foot deep and we might see how far down we can catch them. The cool thing is we're gonna be on the live scope, catching them, where you get to watch how they interact. So come along. Kyle stole that fish for me. He's got 1,800 game feet. Yeah. Operating game feet. He said listen to him, he knows he stole it. Kyle's got a pretty good one hooked up down there. He's trying. Yeah. Yeah, he's right here. This camera's not working. Now he's fighting on that. Love the hook set. It's tough because it hits so hard. But I'll take it. I'll take any hook set I can. He's pregnant. Got him. CJ, let's double up. I was gonna double up, baby. He's gone now. I was gonna go hook you. He'll follow and go out. You'll go later. I don't wanna see that. I can let him go. I love people. You want me to land them or video? He'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll. He'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll. He's chinny, chin, chin. There he is right there, guys. Another lake trout in the 110 foot deep range. Got that one on a gambler head, a half ounce gambler head. A forward facing sonar head with a swim bait on it. So there he is. Put him in the old meat bucket. Dude, the background's so sick. Yeah, you don't have to blur anything out here. It's so unbelievable. Finally, I'm on the freaking board. Oh, time, Jesus. Jesus. Okay, the big, but I need it back. You're gonna get the video back and it's gonna be just his fish on there. Ha ha ha ha. It's all corny. It's just a montage of me fishing. His face on Kyle's body, on that big one. Like he puts his face on it, everybody. That would be funny though. I would post it. If he did that, I would still post it. He just got nice. CJ's on the board. Set it up. Heating up. CJ's got one. Let me know if he's getting close to me. That was the first one you caught on the long rod, isn't it? Yeah. Nice one. And that's behind you, CJ. All right, buddy, you're on the board. I'm heated on this one. Gee, you and I both did. We're late, we're late boomers. Right. Not bad for a first fish. That was not a good hook set at all. This one's thin. Ha ha ha. Sorry, dude. That was a fish. He was flipping. He was flipping. Another one bites the dust. All right, we're finally starting to catch them here. We had to wait till some of this fog burned off and a little bit of sunlight coming out. CJ's on the board. Everybody's on the board now, at least. So here we go. Yeah, that thing was flipping out, Carl's. Kyle's. Sorry about that. It's tail was literally a little bit. Sometimes it only got meant to be on for the camera because I can't stop laughing. Did you get that on tape? Oh, yeah, absolutely. The tail was literally. The best part? The best part is I had it zoomed up on you. I was in the one. I got to get fishing. The old me or you? Yeah. OK, I thought so. Now he's on you. No one's seen you. I'm way up. I'm on the bottom. I'm next. Yeah, no, I had it. Did you get that on tape? I had it zoomed in on the fish and then all of a sudden, you start doing that. Kyle said he got a box in the fray. I didn't even do it. I was just walking by and the thing just slapped him. Maybe some fish. Got some head shakes, huh? Or is that you? All right, let's hit you. Shit. Hold on. I hope so. I think this is going to be a decent one. You let Dan slide over and it doesn't matter. Hold that baby up. Or hold the camera up. Seem good looking. You can't hold on to fish. Team good looking. This is the bearded boat. All right, Kyle's got another one on the top side. Another big solid lake trout. It's under the slot limit. So that one can go home with us. Decent fish right there, a lot of good meat. And just jigging these off the bottom. And if you can get them to commit at all vertically, you just keep reeling on them. And they'll usually hit before they make it to the surface. So good job, Kyle. Another good one. We accept that angle good for you guys or you want me to turn it down more? I can't see myself in here. I'm going to go and move. To play? Yeah, yeah. All I do is sit down for a second. Got this one on the Apex by two brothers, 105 foot deep. This one was the most aggressive bite I've had today. Big head shakes. Feeling like a pretty decent fish. Definitely give them better head shakes. Whoa. It's time to get brighter, dude. That sun coming up really has helped turn this bite on. Burn off a little bit of this fog and definitely get the fish a lot more active. Kind of curious to see what this fish looks like. Gessin' a tail and a head. It's a good one. He's pretty chunky. Ah, he's good in that tub. Now the cool thing about Lake Trout, if you do want to release them, today we're on a meat mission. So we're not releasing as many as we normally would. But the cool thing about them is they do have the ability to burp on the way up, whereas other fish would struggle with some barometric or barotrauma. So we're going to, I'm grabbing this guy. Got a hand great in his gill plate. He's got some blood coming out. He ate that pretty good. There we go. Another decent one there. That one's a little bit chunkier. He's short, but fat. We happen to know a couple moves. Oh, big cat-no-contact over here. But yeah, another Lake Trout right there. Here with the obligatory. Jeez, don't do that. Tis again, Kyle. Sorry, buddy. But yeah, good one there. That's going to go in the old meat wagon, too. I don't know why they keep doing that to your bud. I don't know. You don't want to. Jeez. Must be your hat for the camo. They see that, and they flip out. What happens if they pull out on that last one? That was the best bite I had. Did you guys see that one come in? Yeah, no, yeah. It was just full speed. Like he had it before you could even see it. It was a good choice. I couldn't not catch him. You could see it on the rock, so you worked out. No, yeah. Was there a little bit more action while I was catching? You had a hit? Aggressive one? Yeah, a drag for one. Oh, I did loosen my drag on that fight. Have you been loosening your drag at all? I'm not going to, I don't know if it was sticky or something, from something. It's got the same thing. Got one moderate now. Yeah, yeah. Got one coming. That's a good color. I'm going to see it. I don't know why. Two, two, two, two, two. It still looks. I mean, two times. Another good. Another decent one, guys. A real nice one. Oh, yeah. That was awesome. Good one, bud. Moving. You got it. Oh, it wasn't even in the mouth. You got to let that one go. Outside the mouth. Kyle with another good one right there, bud. Size-wise, we're ranging from about in that three to, oh, you're not taping. Okay, cool. It's all in the mouth. The best part is like, oh, I'm going to **** myself, I guess. No, you're not taping, cool. Size-wise today, we're getting them anywhere in that three and a half to about seven, six to six or seven pound range. So you never know what you're going to hit when you set that hook. And there are some giants in this lake, so you always got to be prepared. And Kyle's had a couple of decent ones come off the bottom where we're all having a blast out here today, guys. It blew in. It did. It blew right by the two white ones, I think. Oh, yeah, I was going to switch up wasn't I? Yeah. Yeah. Low battery, Warden. Get it, get it, get it. I'm on low battery, Warden. I'm in a hurry. Uh-oh, I got a drone that needs to land. When you tell us the whole scenario, what's going on right now? What's going on? What's happening? It's tripping up. I tried to lean on Joe. This guy's taking off. There he is. Nice one. I guess some power is here. This one's a big one. Yeah. Nice job, bud. Got him. All right, you get the fish. I'll get the drone. Yeah. Like a glove. All right. In the nick of time, we had that baby up there for like 25 minutes and got down to my last couple of seconds. And there he is. Got a nice, nice laker. Finally got a bite with the drone up in the air, as you guys can see. Beautiful fish. Nice fish right there. That's going to be some good vitals right there. Going to nature's grocery store. Going to get that baby in the old meat locker and maybe put the drone back up with another battery. What do you think, bud? Yeah, we can try. Yeah. With that, they're eating swim baits today, guys. The other day, we were smashing them on, on blade baits, doing really well and picking off a few. But today, they're kind of leaving the blade baits alone. They really want to follow it for a long time. They're not coming in super aggressive. So that's where those paddle tails and, and swim baits come in real handy. It gives them something to look at for a longer period of time. There he is. Badonk. Sweet. We got it. I was hoping to get some more footage, but I'm afraid to leave it up there because it's, it might just like try to land on the water. All right. I don't think it's too foggy right there. Sweet. Like five minutes. I can't tell what's happening. There's something. On the drone too. And the GoPro. Whoo. All right. We're hooked up again guys. Oh, that was a big hook shake. I didn't, I didn't like that. I almost felt like it was going to pop out. Big head shake. Oh yeah. Sweet. Thanks bud. Knock me down again. I didn't even touch it out there. We got a double? Yeah. Slimy. Wet. Another solid Laker right there. Another beefy one. This one's not as bad as the other ones, but we're still going to keep them. I got a ton of people back home who were really, really excited to get some of these fish to eat. They're good eating. You know, a lot of people turn their nose up at lake trout, but I like to eat them. We smoke them. We bake them. Wrap them. And you could even poach them and dip them in butter. And they're really good. So there you go. It's a big old lake at its finest. Oh yeah, that's true. He's still there. He didn't hit it. He frigged it just like touched it. I watched you rock it. Just feel it then. I didn't even want to set. Like I knew he didn't have it, but these fish are not aggressive today. Not aggressive today, guys. I actually just had one chase me out and just touched it like up against it. It could have been like a mouth closed push, believe it or not. I mean, you say that stuff and at home you probably laugh, but I've actually seen fish do that when you're visually watching them in the shallows. And I didn't even want to set, but just out of nature when you feel like any little tug on this end, you give it a tug on the other. But they're completely not aggressive today. We're having a little bit of a hard time lifting them off the bottom. That being said, we've still put 12, 13, 14, 15 fish top side. We're having a great day. A great morning, really. We're still out here in the fog. And these fish bite a lot better on sunny days. You could even smack them on bluebird days when you're fishing that deep. It doesn't really matter. And today we obviously have foggy overcast day and it's making the bite a lot tougher. That's why we've downsized. We're using like two and a half to three inch swim baits on half ounce to three quarter ounce heads. But if you watch, I'll set the hook on this one. Or I won't. Or maybe Kyle will. But there's two fish underneath us right now. I don't think they're very big. Whoa, Kyle, Kyle. He's all over you, bud. No? No. Golly, he flew in at you. I think we're into school with the little guys. Maybe he's caught a little one today. Got him. Oh yeah, baby. Got him. All right. We're hooked up, baby. He feels like another solid, solid lake trout. No, these aren't megas. We're not in Manitoba. We're here in Maine on Subego Lake, Southern Maine. Fish with my good buddy, CJ and Kyle and Corey. CJ owns and operates Burnt Metal Guide Service. He's got a couple openings left if you guys are interested in coming out and doing this. Honestly, we've, you guys ask why we're using jig rods. I think we've lost two fish. One was because I was resetting my camera, but the other one, the only other fish we lost was on a full-size rod on these jig rods. Oh, he lost three on full-size rods. The jig rods are just keeping them pegged. I don't know why, and it's a lot of fun to fight them out of 110, 120-foot of water. This one's another one of those solids. Yeah, there he is. As you can see, he's burping pretty good. Nice. Thank you, my friend. Yeah, this one's got little, tiny dots. Super, super sandy one. You guys working a fish? But yeah, there he is, guys. Another nice one right there. As you can see. Watch out, Kyle. Watch out, Kyle! I don't know why they keep doing that to him. Oh, hey. Sorry, bud. Just a little sign. Yeah, look at how fat that fish is. Right, full of L-wives. If we end up cleaning these fish on camera, we'll show you what they're eating. They're eating little, tiny L-wives. That's another reason why we're down-sized. As you can see, nice sharp teeth on them. Just super pretty fish if you look at all the little marks on them. Got that hook set, by the way. Holy crap. Things are happening now. They're just flying out of the bottom right now. Right. I'm metal. I'm in the middle. I don't even know how many there is, bud. It's not too bad. See if we could probably call them back. Oh, that's up to you. Hold on. Let's toss them back, but I'll get the video to release. Hit this thing. That was a tough release. He went flying. He didn't knocked him out a little bit first. He was like, 11. 11? Oh, shoot. We need 12. You do, too. You said 12 to 14. Me can't count. No, we don't need this. It doesn't matter. And it doesn't really matter, either. That's funny. That was perfect timing. I'm turning around with a GoPro an inch from my feet. That was hilarious. I hope you put that in the video. Pressure ridge. I got to look at my hook and see what in the hell is going on. I don't know how I lost that fish. You dug into it? I dug into it, and it ate. That one, the second one, did not pussy-fart. That's why. Jesus. Awful. I have to switch back to a Sunday. I got one tied on right here or stood that same one. Look here. How did that guy not see me? What the f***? If you want to do that again. We got to shut this off or I'm never going to be able to leave. Oh my God, look at that one. Are you back down? Yeah, we can do a screen grab with all of us holding up. Yeah, because I can get a high-rise screen grab. No problem. There's two fish right there. There's three. There's a bunch of fish here right now. Yeah. I'm right back here. I would if I were you. I'm going to pull it. Let's get the fish out. There's still be a cool background with the fog. Yeah. There you go, Cory. You're going to get that one. Yeah, Cory's hooked up. Nobody's going to video it for him. I was like, Joe, are you still down? What do you got there, bud? This is dark. Isn't that where we're at? Yeah. I was on the bottom, everyone else reeled up. And I looked over the graph and there's still fish down there. Waiting around at the last minute to see if I can get a last-minute bite. Ooh. That was the last cast. He got one on the last cast. We needed this fish so bad. This is a good one. It might protect my drag screen. He's going under the boat. He's going under the boat. We're going to need a bigger boat. This is a much bigger fish. We'll be good to go. Oh, my God. Look at the size of that thing. That's my reflection. Oh, it's got a beard. I see bubbles. I don't see them. I see a leader. You see him? Where is he? Oh, yeah, there he is. He's in this way. Yeah, you're a good one. I'll hold this one for the picture. No, I want that one. Here, actually, I'm going to try a shot. You ready, Corey? Hold them up a little bit. I was hoping it would spiral out. Now, in front of the water. That's it. Nice one. All right, Corey got his first fish ever. Ew. No, I just couldn't. Nice fish. Good bite. Yeah, it was. That was the rare last cast one. We have to go. We're swapping out. I pulled up. Everybody was pulled up. Corey was like, hey, is that your lure down there? No, it was a fish. He got the last cast fish right there. There's the call, too. Where are you guys? We're holding their fish. I'll grab that stick and we can probably let that fish go. Like this, Joe? Yeah, hold that up for Corey. Two, four, six, seven. Huh? That's what they're eating. That's good, right? Yeah, tiny stuff. Only one had like three big ones in them, but he also had a hundred babies in them. Here, CJ, hold up this bag. I'll wait till you guys are set. That's the one I caught. You're held by the... That's what she said. Two people standing up, two people down. We'll drape these over their shoulders. How's this look? Pretty epic. And then I'll stand right in front of you. Okay, are we in there? Yeah. Hold them up, three, two, one. Try a different pose. Try a couple different poses. Awesome, I got a bunch of these going to friends and family back home. Donnie will get a couple and a bunch of people are going to eat some really good meals. These Lake Trout don't look past them, man. They're good eating, but really appreciate all the support, guys. Thanks for tuning in. Awesome day on the water with CJ and friends. And if you like this content, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. If you don't, hit it anyway.