 You missed all breakfast good morning guys. We're on like day four five three two or one I don't even know what day we're on at this point, but Dudley looks a little bit different this morning He grew a little bit got a little bit bigger We just got joined with one of the best guys in the world mr. Patrick James Jorgensen Lassard Me that's me. I don't bother best guy, but most handsome in this tent for sure that came out pretty late last night We got him set up in another tent over yonder and you have a good night sleep. I had a good night sleep. Yeah, nice little chilly But it was good Buddy heaters rolling We got some snow coming in now. We just all drove a mega breakfast into us today. What do we have? Oh, we had eggs sausage link sausage patties Home fries biscuit biscuits. Yeah. It was a good old main breakfast. Yep We've had some really really fun good conversation about hunting with dogs and Coon hunting in Virginia and Hunting with dogs over in turkeys too. So a lot of fun stuff today We're gonna get rigged up pretty soon here to go for a little ride get in the truck go for another ride Staying up north and see if we can find a crappy pond an isolated crappy pond in the woods and Hit some crappy for dinner tonight Stay tuned guys, you're not gonna believe this I just went to the Johnny house out there in the woods out back And no joke it's snowing out there and a coyote walks up to me and he says hey You look cold you mind if I give you some fur to put in your hat And he literally combed some fur out and handed it to me to keep me warm. How was your poop? Came out smooth. There was one point. I had three rest rings in it I had to rest three times because the cold kind of tense me up, but it was it come out smooth Everything cleaned up. Well, I'm good No, you look right at it. Oh It's Trevor No, this guy's a good guy What is up Trevor? What's up, buddy? Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm rolling. All right. How's it going? Nice So far great. Yeah, we're gonna stay a couple more days a couple more days right here. Yeah here Yeah, I got my buddy from Virginia first time ever ice fishing first time ever on the ice Yeah, he's having a blast the mother buddy rolled in last night. How how are the ice conditions? What do you find so T loss is safe everywhere pretty much? Okay? I haven't got down to that last section by the dam if well At the point by Murphy's Field campsite. Yeah, I'm sure it would be good there But the closer you go to the dam, of course, it would be getting less So, okay, so you're finding good ice. It's like eight to twelve. This is my buddy David David this Trevor He's he runs. He runs the whole woods. Oh, he runs the whole water way Yeah, he keeps everything working So yeah, all the T loss was good round just up the edge for my money, but Chamberlain's a mess So I've been telling people like I got a bunch of messages people coming up this week Yeah, I tell them if you can wait another week, you'll have a better trip. Well, if you can wait another week I mean, it's it's not it's just not safe. Yeah safety is safety. Yeah You can't you can't rush it. Nope. So everything will be good. Who's is that Kyle? That's Kyle. Oh boy. You guys are in trouble You're in trouble now He's coming in after you you're in trouble get out your licenses You got how many sets of cups you got you're gonna need two sets for this guy one for him Yeah, yeah, we need Jane and binder for this guy Well, I'm glad you're having a good time. Yeah You too, I'm gonna head over to the shop. Okay. I'll see you over there. You guys are your parents stuff. Oh, yeah Always sleds. We're getting new ones next year, but we're trying to make it through with what we get Yeah, I got one all to our part right now. Really? Yeah, another one just went down yesterday with a transmission Oh, man. Well, it's got 16,000 miles. That's a lot. Yeah All right, buddy. Great to see you again Yeah You want to get what's it's your snow dog shut up. No, I'm serious wasn't it right there the snow dog. Yeah He's parked it in there. Yeah Holy crap We got a stopping Oh, that's it from Massachusetts, I think that's their truck that you all know there was some another game in there was hanging out Oh my gosh, that fires me up. It's gotta be here How much they cost I know we parked it in there. I don't know where it is now Check over by Brandon's maybe Maybe did you tell those guys they could try it out? Like try it out or whatever Did you you got the keys We can go get Kyle we go get him I think he's just going over to the Travers No, I didn't notice till we're gonna get loaded. I was gonna say put your thing next to the snow dog and the Snow dog's gone. Well, this snow happened Check that trailer over there Pat see if it's in the guy's trailer Who's is it no check the trailer that sells them I would have Maybe these guys borrowed it. Did you tell them they could try it out? Yeah Don't say that They go by I guarantee you they thought No, because the the side door was shot Did they take the whole thing the sled and all that we can do It's probably small enough throwing the back of a truck This ain't good guys somebody we put we loaded up Pat snow dog in the trailer last night Now it ain't even there. I Don't know That ain't cool who was right in there Who's right there by the gas cam? They found it years later I had a boat stolen that's what the game one's gonna want to know Should we report it? Yeah, let's get loaded up. We'll go see Kyle Yeah What do you want to say? Don't let you get loaded first Pull it on the left or the right All right I'm surprised you didn't see it was gone Watch your head Just leave it right there. Just leave it We're having a rough morning fellas Pat got his frigging snow dog stolen David cannot find his wallet. I'm I'm six grand richer Yeah I'm about eight grand richer because David probably have four grand as well Pat had a couple grand in his You would never think that in the north main wood ever Can you load this one up I'll video how do you feel you start this push that push that red Hold it Maybe I got on hook Pat back her up back her up Maybe I got on hook. Oh push that start button in that orange button. I Don't know how he didn't see it sitting right there. He drove right by it Keep coming. Yeah, just hold her right there for a minute. Let's read shutter down. Let's think this over You want to Go see them They're just in the shop I think anyway It's up to you I hate that No, let's just got the wide ski Okay, we'll get it from this side Pat Did you hit did you hit something David? The house run with a tire What the hell Oh You were sleeping I was like, oh my god, we're gonna get Pat. Oh bad your heart was friggin You were holding it together pretty well I was gonna let you guys call the game more than over. All right, hold on. We gotta put that snow don't go first Hold on dude. Yeah That was almost going too far. We almost went too far with it. I don't know. What do you guys think was that too bad a trick on Might have been might have been a little evil to our destination. We're still up here in the north woods I got all loaded up unloaded loaded all that good stuff roads are getting a little snotty We got some pretty good snow coming down got a good half hour ride in to try to get to this pond I think has some pretty cool pan fishing it get David on a good bite and then Hopefully there's ice. Hopefully the fish are there. Hopefully I can remember how to get in there All right, so here's a little bit for you guys that of course. I'm a rookie at this ice fishing Basically, we're just riding around out on the lake on the ice and we pick random spots So we pick you're gonna have a drill naturally as you can see a very very sharp blades And we're just basically going to drill You kind of clean out the hole like that and what we're using is Forward-looking sonar come to the hole and Set it down And then once you set it down We're gonna take the stick and then we can look around and see where that so a lot of this system is drilling Looking drilling looking versus a bass boat where you ride around and you can just look anywhere It's a lot more work, but that's how we're doing this Little guy whatever he is What is that It's a little ring Oh, you got a whole school little rings down there go back and get them Look at that's about a small yellow perch as you can catch Oh, is that what that pocket's for I was wondering what that but I was wondering why FXR gave me that pocket. It's the right size A lot of times You can just slowly lift into that hook set Or just watch your tip I got one coming I thought yeah We're gonna have a school in a minute He's on you That a boy nice me to a doubled up little guys doubled up, baby Potato chips Playing video games. These are potato chips, but look Catching this that was a cool double especially when you're playing video games Nice good one nice that'll eat More common There you go good on what oh nice gilly nice blue your gilly eat my gilly Yeah, I'll eat them oh Yes, yes Yep, that was cool That was cool to watch wasn't it thanks for the tip thanks for the heads up You're gonna have to really hold that one close to make them look big Are you onto the cast master nice Gigantic fish hey it's all about learning and having fun He didn't have to come back you going on the screen got him. Oh, that's got a good bed Good one. Oh my gosh He's over here, he's over here just land them over here So you got him that hole the rods almost down that hole That is a freaking Giant gosh look at the colors of him. That is beautiful gold pure gold. Oh my gosh Dude that is like that has got to be 14 15 inches. I don't have a clue how big that is She's 14 and a half inches 14 and a half nice one dang in Maine. That's you know, I don't think northern Northern Maine almost in Canada and I don't think a crappie getting that big But you know what he's gonna be You go long. Oh, yeah sure lunch, baby, and this is just to give you an idea This is a really nice crappy Just to try to give you an idea why I'm getting excited. Yeah. Oh my gosh Sure lunch has been served brother There's a lot of different ways you could do this, but when you you get in trouble when your axe passes Horizontal because then if you miss or it gets through It's coming right back into your shin You're drawing or your foot. So whatever you're really taking a whack with an axe you want to get down So when it gets through it's gonna stay horizontal So that's like that's like one that's like one safety measure and Then like keeping that leg out of the out of the way or swinging Swing it away from your body is always the key. So I'm gonna try to take this with one swing right there So my feet are gonna be out of the way ready Yeah, yeah, this one's gonna need more than one So three that way and I'm keeping my left hand low All right, I don't want to hit that brown. So those are the two pieces you need it, right? Yep, and then I cut you some more for a fire again a lesson from the legend himself Abraham Lincoln said if you're gonna give me two hours to cut down a tree or four hours to cut down a tree Three hours, I'm gonna be sharpening my axe Always have a sharp axe. I like that. You ever heard it to build a fire Jack London book about a guy get one match left Managed to get one fire left did it under a tree with a bunch of snow cover The heat melted it the whole clump come down on his fire put it out and he died Now why you want to tell me a story like so when you make a fire make sure you're not Right under like a limb like this because this is all the snow is gonna fall on it. So we're good here We're golden here, but like if you were trying to survive you wouldn't want to do it under that tree after spending I Don't know how many days have been three four three four days camping together I mean, I know David years ago a new Davey kind took me under his wing when we were proficient but After last three or four days spent together. I realized he's probably a brother from another mother It's crazy like stuff that might bother other people don't bother him a bit, you know, it's it's pretty awesome He's like sure lunch. I'm like sure thing and everything the guy does is just awesome. Look at this Here he is. He's a he's a he was the best Angler in the entire world ranked number one for years took it from KVD and Here he is in the northern Maine forest Making a little smudge fire and we're gonna do a catch-and-cook on some northern Maine Crappy you can do it up on this rock. So we don't have to bend over guys wicked smat I don't care what you guys say about anybody from down south of Virginia. There's a lot smarter than they sound You gotta carry an apparatus Some nice crappie there above some golden We got some goldies look at them goldies Sir Show the folks at home how we carry our dinner Little redneck ingenuity Use what we got Especially ain't got a flat board. I know that's the flattest rock we had You ever done this before I mean for you to fish Frozen yeah, you think a Kyle might come into that pile you're making while we're cooking I Think we need to be worried. I think baby Muskrat, I mean He's tiny but he looks delicious Oh, I caught you a delicious bass Are these fish beautiful though the color the color is yeah, it's and like the all the camo they got The color is different like that yellow. Hmm. We call it go. Yeah, go. I Guarantee you there's gonna be a fox or kind of licking that rock in a in a week or us The pat don't come in before we finish cooking. He might be licking that It's a it's a dent right there. Oh Is it going in and it's messing my Pressure my down pressure up. These guys are small Almost built a cotton board on that like a fold-out cotton board on that sled. Who are you got there? We got us. We kept us a little perchy little baby blue. Yep. Get a little Fish nugget out of it Good guys pine needles and all That's what we tell me tell them a secret. That's what they call main flavor and Don't be tell them the secret. Oh mossy rock This is Nice good move on that knife That's I like that move. Well these this one. That's why I chose this one. This is a flex knife. Yeah You got stiff ones. They're all made for different kinds These I wanted a flex one because of the cutting. I like that. No, I like that movie just good Yeah cheating. Oh, well, if that's what you call it. I wasn't expecting the knife to come that way Cheat it I might just do eat the eggs. No, I've eaten them before my older buddies That one looks a lot bigger all of a sudden, isn't it? That's because he is See how that flex down there. Mm-hmm. Yeah with easy one flex you can get that why me to this one Nice see your small ones you skip out on them this the bigger ones you get that why Though a lot of guys will call it belly meat. You know, it's but yeah, but see this. Yeah So you cut the ribs out gosh, okay cut the ribs out and you get that that bonus That little bonus piece right there a little while Nice, you know, you got good crappy when you're getting that piece in there Yeah, I was wondering Making this be general because I don't know. Oh, I don't even worry about I can sharpen I brought a sharpener We need it tomorrow Not bad That was nice fish. There's there's a pile of them in here. We just got to go find them Tell me about Martin's this is This is what you look for here green forest their primary forage are mice and squirrels But they will eat everything a partridge anything alive their predator They're in everything's in like the weasel family like the fishers in the weasel family a Martin Pound for pound is the most ferocious out of all of them They have no fear in their body Like they've come after me a thing this big. It's it's about like a ferret. Yeah Yeah, but they climb trees and live in trees and it's the most beautiful fur in the world And they're like I've seen maybe three in the wild Not like you And they they don't like being seen I had one I was deer hunting. He was so pissed at me and I Hey, I chased him up a tree kind of I videoed him for a while. He's like Like growling and he growled himself to sleep in that tree and then he'd do this like a wind would blow and he goes And they'd see me go And he'd do that for like 20 minutes. I was deer outside just a laugh in my mouth. They didn't growling at me. Oh my god, it's funny But yeah, they're like they're a fierce predator with no fear. They're awesome No wonder I'll go get someone if you can't get it to come out Can that knife up in there? I Think once you get this Yeah One piece did slide under the shovel I'm telling you the guys this guy could be an honorary manor. I'm gonna go ahead and make him an honorary manor right now He fits in Need a bowl Need a bucket He was a shovel Clean station. It works You got a cutting board cutting board Whatever works You got So this is the short lunch thing I like to do. I actually mostly time prep this before I even leave the house so When I know I'm gonna be making sure lunch of that Let me show you Look at this trick right here. It's gonna blow your mind Watch this you see this Push that in look at these tabs push that in and then the roll never come out Well, what would that blow your mind? What's your look? It blew my mind when I first learned that We are going to Create a oven Then gotta get David Dudley secret sauce that I brought with me Well, we are is creating a roast so most of the time I Get before I even go to the lake I get aluminum foil put butter in all the seasoning and one plastic spoon in there and I roll it up Then when I catch the fish I unroll it roll it back up and we're done, but we prepped it We're prepping it out here. So Where would you look about it? Would you just look about it? Oven baked ready. It's gonna be Joe's too big for ladies Joe Oh Putting a little salt pepper butter keeping it simple But that right there is the magic and I'm not telling you what I got mixed in there I'd have to swear your secrecy, but that right there is the David Dudley special mix for sure so salt pepper But yeah And we're just gonna We're gonna create an oven With this aluminum foil Creating an oven Oven number two then I Joe picked us a good spot. He said I know where a good rock is Table fire table The cool thing is if you look right over there, you'll see the link tracks coming in right there now for real See how he floats on top isn't that cool Next time he comes here. He's gonna have some fish to eat we can we can make We can keep the fish in here and create like a little bowl. Yeah Oh to eat out of eat out. We'll put the beans in We are we are ready This is gonna be my favorite We had one spark out of that that was close call So we came a hair's Throw away from having to go back 45 minutes to the truck I'm not I've never started a fire by friction And I won't plan it on it But if we had a lighter and Joe got one tiny spark But I will tell you this it is super important That if you ever in the woods and have one match or nothing to light or you're down to the last little spark Prepping your first Initial start up your Kenlan is the most important thing and he got one spark And it could have saved our life. So one spark with the right preparation. We've got a good fire Yeah, we'll be eating here shortly. Do you have more to come in? Yeah, like 60% of the population's allergic to see I'm not even kidding You didn't know that Dudley likes you don't have to lie Well, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't lie, but See this morning Need some more fuel for that some more sticks and stuff. No, I mean we I'm just trying to get break the coals down now just get this flame Wasn't a hundred first day though, was it? It's tough to me, but we done well. Oh, we really didn't fish more than an hour. I Got 11 Dudley counting the blue go probably had a hand for But I caught it. You see that little blue go like hot in the little perch they fit my hand like a right in the palm It's a real That's exactly what he would say All right, we're putting them in the oven. We've got to turn the oven down to Might have turned the oven down to 350 right now Ovens up a little bit and see how I turned down the heat It's about 450 we gotta get her down to 450. Yeah, I like to I like to get them About 350 so We just got a Break the coals down a little bit Turn the oven down a little bit What do you think buddy? There we go. We got us some gourmet beans some gourmet fish cooked in a gourmet oven On a gourmet wildlife area in the middle of nowhere They don't get any better than this Joe North Main Woods. It don't get any better than this Joe. I agree Good friends. Good food good fishing Was about the butter Well with this though you can't you cannot get this thing going too hot because in it it burns the butter Separate and then butter bork burns and it gets a burnt burnt taste to it What's it look like cook yeah, very good There's probably the coldest outside temperature you've got a shore lunch in isn't it you got a drill to find the shore Do you still eat those without The best thing I've ever That's the best thing I've ever Best one of the top three for eating fish in the state of Maine right there Maybe behind Cusk, maybe behind white perch, but when it tastes that good It's hard to even say it's not the best That subba this one George right there. Yeah, this is with the big Yeah, quite a bit not cook Cool One lucky man right there that looks incredible Incredible edibles It's the best it's better than that fish we had the other day Best fish I've ever had I Want some beans back Isn't that the best thing you've ever eaten ridiculous. We think why don't we ever buy stuff from the grocery store? I know right? Our catch these Took longer to drive in than to catch them and cook them David, I will never see look at this rock again without getting hungry, right? That just said is the best he's ever had in his life, too. Oh, really? Yep. How much you saw in that season? I really do I take a blend of the seasonings. I like and I Take a blend of the seasonings. I like and mix it myself Some of it is like an old bay sauce black and seasoning white pepper If you but if you had a restaurant they give you a taste of this and they were like It's a hundred dollars a plate. You wouldn't even flinch Guys, this is the best fish I've ever had in my life prepared Amiens area so location Just how the the week's been going It's by far the best ever cook it on this rock right here with a couple rocks a couple a couple of rock hammers What'd you do a play leopard? We're gonna smoke it a little yellow purse smoke yellow perch Gonna smoke in a little bit. Actually, it's too much in the flame. Hold on. I Gotta get downwind of it. We'll put it in the smoke right here slower smoke Let that smoke That's gonna go out there got a hundred more Beans and crappy butter mix David tell up tell the folks at home and Pat and I Where you've had some shore lunches in the in the world shore lunches started with me back in the mountain streams of Virginia Lynchburg, Virginia and This is back in You know stock trout days and We would just go out there and We didn't have a dollar bill to piss on and we'd go up there trout fishing Wouldn't get breakfast in the morning and it was like a necessity We better come away with our limit if we wanted to eat it was kind of a motivational factor but probably in the mountains of Virginia and then You know, you kind of tweak things as you go learn as you go You got to understand fire and how to regulate fire and I don't know You're a pro at this one. Holy cow Virginia is where it started at I've had shore lunches on a lot of lakes actually In a lot of the lakes that I've been to when we had practice for a long period of time I Would do the same thing if I caught crappy or white bass or you know extra fish I always kept Illuminum full butter and seasoning in aluminum Luminum full and it would keep good For days in the cooler and then when I caught crappy It's better than Peter butter and jam sandwiches because it take 30 minutes to prep filet I keep a filet knife in my boat and I would have shore lunches like that. I don't do it now Because we're only allowed a day and a half of practice. Whoa So I know I feel guilty taking 30 minutes to fish, but sure enough What we're doing here I'm actually smoking this fish We're putting a smoke flavor in on this I'm not putting it in direct heat. You have to get down try to get downwind of it and just smoke it a little bit That's all this good too Well, this is my first shore lunch in Maine. How's it rank? How do we rank now? The shore lunch in Maine is the best I've ever had in the state of Maine I've ever had a main. I don't know if there's a better fish to eat like this though. I mean that was melting in my mouth All right boys, would you like your cookie? Would you like your cookie warmed up? You want it cold? You want a cold? Here you go. Oh, you want it warmed up? Smoke cookies. You want it warm or you want it cold? Okay, are these homemade from Virginia? Homemade from Mrs. Hanna first kitchen We got we got cookies and fish Combo is one of the best combos you can ever have As you can see we were smoking some fish. We cooked some and there's a big difference between smoking and cooking so we decided to smoke he he caught a really nice ring perch and smoked it but put my special seasoning on it and Mmm, that'd be good. Liking it? Oh, I love it. Get you a present piece for me. Yep That piece is for you Smoke got into the muscle. What do you think guys? Would you eat smoked yellow perch with Dudley's special seasoning on it? Smoke got in it good. Oh, that smoke did get in there. That's good Main spruce wood smoke. Yeah All right guys That's it for the shore launch, but there's gonna be more to this episode This is how you leave it to you just walk away Wow drive one of them cookies in you. I just drove one of them. Drive another one of you All right guys, we pulled it over. We got bait and no knock we're heading back up in the woods Decided to be a lot better quicker dinner if we stop doing this going in town our good buddy Dave here He said that this is the place to eat in town, right? That's right. All the food is good. All the food is good. Nice. Come on in try it. Come out to the sawmill and try it in Milamalkan All right guys We made it back. It is very late. We did some serious road traveling today We're in the North Main Woods to a little crappy pond in the North Main Woods Pat and I got served the best Fish either one of us have ever tasted our lives cooked by mr. David Dudley Not only professional fisherman. He's also a professional fish cook. I like me some cooking Especially in the outdoors. I like fire cooking. I like to cook no doubt and if it was if it was a Different time of year. We probably would have forged us up some vegetables, too. I learned a ton today guys I would have built a Monstrous fire. I would have spent hours collecting wood and dry wood and Built some crazy fire and it turned out you just need a little fire on top of rock and get those coals going and roll them around And the way he cooked that fish. Oh my god, I can still taste it right now. It was best fish I've ever had We're gonna have to talk him in to get in that season and he can keep a secret, but he's got to sell it He's got to sell it to the masses I don't know man. That did just like you enjoyed that flavor of that fish. You know a secret to a good chef He never tells the secrets. I don't know. All right. He doesn't have to share secrets He doesn't even have to sell it to the masses, but he's got to put a couple jars of that in a box and send it to me Drop a comment if I get enough comments in Joe's video or my video Requesting some of the ingredients now that bottle is me taking other Ingrediences mix them together so Comment below if I get enough comments. I might let you in on the secret. You got it You got a comment though make sure you guys comment on that. We had we stopped We were in my little market for a little while They pick it up some bait some smelt for tomorrow and we stopped into the restaurant called the called the sawmill Had an excellent dinner met some really nice people That's about it. We were really nervous. We thought David had lost his wallet We hadn't seen it in two days And we thought he lost it when we saw the links We thought he lost it when he saw the river or we thought he lost it when we saw the chaga Which we haven't even got into in these video series yet more chaga coming up Tomorrow we'll do chaga, but luckily he found it in a weird really weird pocket on a suitcase So we are so excited because we thought it was gonna be a bad Spell at the airport now. We just gained two hours of fishing So we're gonna have a great day tomorrow. We might take a look at the ghost trains We might just take a ride in the wilderness with a snowmobile But we're definitely gonna do some fishing and we got another guy coming in tomorrow You guys are gonna meet one of the best of the very best Like I said, this is an all-star MVP Series and one of the all-stars is coming in tomorrow. See you then guys. Thanks for tuning in my David