 there's bait in that bucket the phone prints there should be bait in that bucket still yeah we made it we did nice nice right in did you see the partridge overhead no there's partridge up in the trees that were that were going across the the trail as i was running through oh nice and some of them were doing it just as i was doing over the top i'm like whoa look at them all so partridge in a pair what lake do we want to fish this one or the next one this lake or the next one i mean do we strike out two times in a row in the same spot hold on here we go back run out and get a couple traps out there i'll fish here yeah yeah i'm gonna put a couple in the same spots just so i'm fishing right where you had those flags yep one on each end and eventually i'll grind the other ones out well i'm gonna go over well i don't even know if we have to drill some of those yeah i know i'm i'm not gonna have to drill we definitely want to cover the bank a little harder yeah cover the bank and some new holes so if you want to leave your auger you can what's the soup de jour that's the soup of the day that sounds good i'll have that he got sucked off the trail once he said he had to counterbalance himself and he just reversed and come right out of it nice and easy him back on the trail is any feeling there don't let it surprise you like i said i did not even move yesterday got him yes yeah nice oh yeah big one big one nice one anyway nice one i'm gonna shake that buddy nice buddy work a man get us right there he wants to snap it off so i can just hold him right off to the side too let's go let's go because he's got some power they're so strong aren't they i mean he's not he's not running but he is head shaking like crazy no no no let me go let me go he did he held his tail in the hole stop him coming off his head was halfway up oh yeah he's good he's good he's got everything back he took all the line back nice spotted too from the looks of it there he is yep he wants he's getting tired he ain't tired yet what do you think old boy oh you excited dream come true coming here aren't you getting over the top yet because he doesn't want to even put his head near the hole right now he knows this trick here he comes ready no and oh yes oh what a beauty oh my god i got a bag in me look at that i appreciate you buddy 9.81 did you get a measurement no let's get a girth in the length if you want five and a half hour drive for this bad boy and this isn't anything compared to what's been taken out of this water but this is a great first fish and a bucketless fish for me and uh i gotta i gotta say it's worth every every mile we traveled for it she's going back in the water now look at us he wants to go the colors on these look at them mosquey baby see you later gonzo see you later big gator that's pretty cool shot he got him johnny hold it over the phone there johnny don't lose it i've done it before my hands are slippery whoa first mosquey ever oh that was worth it guys we just got here we don't even have all the traps set up yet we made a tough decision to we had several lakes to fish and we decided to come back to the same spot because we had some flags and we caught some we caught a fish yesterday and it paid off that was awesome and the day is young we got in here what an hour and a half early today guys yeah i want to sorry we got we got in here an hour and a half we got in here an hour and a half early and we got that fish before we're even fully set up we but we had this we had this game plan yeah we stuck to the game plan because we actually talked about switching the game plan a little bit which i was kind of thinking the same thing because a little on the slow side yesterday but i'm glad we went with our grud our gut feeling and come back and fish the same spot two days in a row it's hard to do early morning obviously in early morning you know what i mean and you had what two bites here yesterday in this hole yes two yeah two two fish that were definitely there had to have been hey let's catch another one yes it's actually moving faster than anything i've seen yet pretty steady and then it stopped and then it started one more time so it's definitely eating there is oh big one oh yeah i'm worried about this though oh i can feel him head shaking all the way down this line are you are you burned in you want me to put that off i'm not sure it might be burnt in just the way it came down oh my yep you clean up hopefully enough on something get your pen off it so find him and jig that line back up on the other side you do it i can feel him pulling away yeah we know which which direction he's going you move the line at all like that way i can't treat the branch where you feel it could be straight like line i mean if there's enough out there i can feel head shaking yeah looks like how much line do you think is out joe there should be 200 yards on that 200 yards on each school oh he just shook oh god yeah he just shook there don't say that joe he sounds he feels big doesn't he i'd say they all feel big 25 pounds yeah he's at least 25 well um we can let him let him let him be i guess yes if he gets out of there i mean you want to try to go over oh yeah for sure i mean i'd like to find out where he is how far away he is let me figure out the direction a little better for you i think he's almost over that wheel of track all right run back and grab the uh auger a pen off there yep oh everything's over there yeah it might not be as far as we think definitely directly 100 directly at your because i can move the line side to side and look yeah so it's definitely right at your i'd start somewhere right where the wheel attracts um yeah yeah maybe that way just a little bit but here like towards this way yeah you should be close right here i'll get the pan optics going there's a tree there 40 feet back see it yeah that's where he is there's definitely some structure there 40 feet back i think it's wicked shallow that way wow it sure does well this is that this is that friggin it comes up again and then goes back down to the channel yeah can you like on that other side can you pace off 40 feet like towards the wheeler yeah towards the wheeler right at the wheeler yeah all right you went 50 you went 50 come back 10 in right right in line yep that's good yep you're at 39 there there is one rock or tree on the bottom here that's a little unsettling it's 20 feet from me there's like a rock or something i mean you'd see him swimming all right so this gets us over some structure there i'll bring this over there and try it bring it right over hopefully this was the 40 yeah we could go to down scan too but yeah what's that that's what he's hung up in i bet yeah see any movement on it now let's look to the sides first what's this whatever it is it's something good size did it move all right so nothing left of us did that just move that's your fish let's see you ain't gone in a little bit oh there's a tree see it i think he's right in here i want to say that's a tree like see this you don't see anything that shows the line going back does it no i could put i could put it on down view but give it let's let's poke one more hole let's poke a hole 32 foot see i think that might be your fish like your line is under this tree and that's your fish see that thing on the bottom there and then that fish just moved behind it see the fish moving you see that movement behind the yellow like this right there and right you're talking about right here yeah but look for movement right there watch this i'm not gonna move this all right let's let's drill over that and i'll go over and down shoot it definitely something big there so that's 32 foot and it is i'm gonna get you your angle is pretty much right at the hole 32 foot exactly yeah if you drill it i'll be able to tell you if you hit it or not yeah i see movement behind whatever that is on the bottom rock or tree yeah yeah you you got it pretty much it's if anything could be a foot further but i'll bring this over you're within a foot we'll go to down view here let me look at it first let me just see if i can yellow spot right there so that's yeah that's what i think it might be hung on this is big that's big oh that's probably him that's the line probably move your line back and forth oh well if that's the line then it's hung up it's hung up here yeah on the very bottom yeah straight down yeah pretty much let me switch to down there's your fish it's definitely in the shape of a fish i know and it could be hung on this thing you move it around yeah just just bounce it a little bit do you think we can hook it with an airplane jig the line but i was thinking it's possible something with a trouble i that airplane jig should be in my in my thing you could put a sounder on that line and send it and that might pop it off a sounder yeah and he's hung in that yeah there's a log laying here and this is either the fish or that is that airplane jig you want me to drop her down i mean if we can get if we can get your line past it then you could fight the fish up this hole you know whatever you guys think i might snag the tree but that's all right i might snag the tree but that's all right over whatever is that's the beauty of the airplane is it shoots left and right you might be able to see the line too do you know how far down you could see he's still there but now he's hung up again there you go yeah you're gonna tie that up here do it back here it's worth a try right yeah all's we're gonna do is be another waypoint to catch but it may pop it free too you know he should be able to catch the line on this one it's worth a try i've i've used these before to get crank baits out i'll hold it tight when you send it all you're gonna have to do is drop it then you get this bouncing down there and you might shake it off whenever it's on is it ready all right let's send are you ready what do you want me to do nothing ready yeah all right there she goes it is up high you're right what you see the sounder you see him where no the sound yeah it wasn't the sounder because i was close to me so the sounder is definitely going to give you a little help popping that yeah it was pretty high because the sounder is not even on the bottom did you see him johnny where was he a bounce in the sounder i'm shaking it pretty hard now so we need to go to the right even more how far away was that showing okay see what i'm doing oh i just got tight the sounder the fish is it moving now i stopped i stopped here now the sounder's bouncing hard the sounder's down there now here see oh i'm just kind of yeah i'm gonna come over oh yeah yeah and i actually felt the fish again i moved the fish like a foot so what were you seeing bud so here's here's your line coming in that's the line this is your line coming in and this this big mark right above it are you bouncing see this mark right here is that the fish i think so i don't know what that would be is this the sounder that's the sounder so this is what we're hooked to that's all right all right so we need to get two and a this fish yeah it's a big fish no it's right into the log now he's he's stuck in the log the log's moving the log's moving it's a giant all right he just went around the log he's going around the log the logs the log's actually moving yeah the sounder's just on the edge of the log don't break them johnny whatever you do we can get this fish so we need a hole drilled oh he just came free he just came free you're fighting them you're fighting them you're fighting them it's a little guy but it's a musky mission impossible that was awesome he actually just drills like maybe what only eight or nine holes yeah pan optics garmin thank you for an unreal freaking product because we would have not got this fish he would have died stuck to that log by finding it oh my god that is unreal wow wow 35 minutes what a pretty fish look at that thing teamwork you guys make a heck of a team that's awesome though that sounder must have been just enough weight to get it bouncing that sounder's a trick man i'm telling you i've done that right you guys ready all right i'll pull us still from that later nice good work good work guys that was fun that was exciting that's awesome how exciting was that i was so excited to watch him swim around that log this is the kind of that we talk about doing that never works out right like oh you know how many times have you been hooked up and you're like i'm going to drill a hole all the way out to where the fish is but to actually do that and when you think about it it's like that's so much working it's such a shot in the dark with pan optics live scope airplane jig you can see the line through the water 40 feet across and you can grab it with the airplane jig for this method the sound Joe comes up with a sounder method aid aid basically got the fish free yeah it's like 50% his fish but it's kind of his fault because you let it run so long you should have taken it to begin with so oh johnny that was awesome it was an awesome fish fish on there fish on fish on my flag didn't you know what the thing i checked oh the flag the flag wasn't up what yeah i've been pulling on him for about 10 minutes you're all right there he is oh wow look at that one that is gorgeous looking fish i don't know why the flag was not maybe i rigged it like a heritage look at that one we got it on camera look at that one wow look at the sound wow yeah i went to i put the pan optics over there and i was like how come i can't see my bait i was like that's weird so i spun it and i still couldn't see the bait i was like let me go check that thing i picked it up and it's fun and the flag didn't come up and i'm like what the heck he's got to be close to ten right what a fight i thought he was coming out but he wasn't there you oh my god look at those teeth those are way worse than a pike you see it yeah i think you can see it yep i'll hold out he did a number on this 30 pound on this wire i would have never landed him on fluoro got it that's my biggest musky i've ever caught wow joe what a fish beautiful huh guys got him yep she got ready oh jeez all right he's trying there we go he's got so much power look at the colors on this guy there he goes see you later see you later big gator wowzers whoo what do you guys think getting stuff ready to go huh yeah well we're getting slushed out pretty hide out there it's been pretty warm so and it's a river so we dragged all the equipment and all the gear over here to the exit point so it's here and not gonna get too slushed up or we won't have to pull a lot of weight across and we're getting ready to go but we're gonna keep the traps in to the last minute hoping for one more flag hoping for one more fish one more fish just one more fish we're gonna push it as lazy as we can we got about an hour 45 minute ride out of here maybe a little quicker if we hammer on it but whereas we got all the gear we'll go a little easier so we'll push it a little late tonight um you may have noticed we're down one man today mikey couldn't make it out back problems yeah he's sore this isn't this is an easy country out here though no the ride ends a mogul field and and it's just a long day you know a long day six five six hour drive to get up here first off yeah so just to start yep so we lost one man he's staying at camp and the three of us hammered on it pretty hard today had a great day so far so far two pbs already maybe one more coming up hopefully good luck bud is that low gear yeah he sunk in oh he wiggled going oh shoot going shoot dammit rope we'll have to do the rope and pull him up you think oh what do you think good job dude that little bit of pushing help all right bud we'll see you out there yep thank you all right thank you yeah good push good good push it okay abe headed out a little earlier than us because he's got that big wheeler with the tracks and he can't go very fast and johnny are going to push it a little bit tonight and go till dark and we got half a mind each to maybe try to come out in the morning tomorrow fish just a quick morning out here see if it's worth it if we get up at like three in the morning and kind of push it in here and get in here before dark and see if we can hit that morning bite these muskies seem to be eating in the morning only we fished pretty late last night but not quite till dark primarily you know the only fish we caught yesterday was pretty early and we lost i broke one off early and he lost two early two so everything's been early it's been a morning bite for the most part and then a couple flags around two each day without catching the fish so if we can work that morning in tomorrow we might be able to add a half day to this trip and really push it before we got a six hour plus drive home you would have struggled i would have yeah i think i'll be all right i was giving it everything oh no you'll be good to go tell me that's rolling oh that is something that's a fish that's got to be a fish there's no way the bait's doing that now the thing is i would imagine that this smell oh there it is that's fish look just rip i'm not even joking oh my god i'm up telling i copy brother you not we have a fish on fish on yeah yeah where are you uh past the bridge already what that just did was not a smell it just did a yeah you probably triggered a bite look at the heat coming off that ice we gotta think it over i like i'm in so bad we also gotta be smart look look how low light might be a low light thing yeah that way it's great that way like under the ice that way nice a little bit of excitement late today think so look at this freaking setting oh my god it's beautiful how lucky are we to live in mage oh my word all right end of the day end of the second day johnny end of day two johnny caught his first and biggest muskie got ended up getting two today i did phenomenal phenomenal we are incredibly blessed to live in this amazing state where we can pull double digit fish on our second outing yeah you know i mean it doesn't get any better than that wow we thought you'd have been back an hour or two ago that's insane you should have called us well i use a half i use a half a tank of gas coming out oh my word we gotta we if we're gonna go tomorrow we gotta go get gas right now yeah probably gonna have to go to four k struggle with that four wheeler yeah half a tank of gas coming out you must have been why don't we heard you for like a half hour running it was literally top speed well of course it's half on the speedometer 33 or four miles an hour top speed i had all i could do to get up a lot of those hills there was a tortoise on one of them hills he's like really walking yeah he passed me yeah walking a tortoise oh a tortoise oh i think he said a tortoise i thought he did do that a tortoise a tortoise oh i i'm gonna be a tortoise out here i guess i guess i speak a because i knew exactly what he was talking about well that's gonna do it for this trip always the worst time of any trip is when you have to pack up and go home so we're all packed up we're we got a good six hour drive ahead of us all in all phenomenal trip got to see my first musky got to catch my first musky and i even got to catch a bigger musky so i got a i got a pb set just under 10 pounds johnny got his first musky he's set right the same range caught a few muskies yep caught a caught a bunch of smelt that was a whole lot of fun smelts and little yellers yeah a bunch of yellers but the trip you know we got up here and what we did basically with this trip it was a feeler trip it was a early scouting mission for future trips so you know now we have an idea what to do when you get up here and and we could go from there and try to put the right group together to come up in camera want to thank you guys for tuning in as always and look forward to the next episodes we're losing ice quick mikey what do you think bud oh it's an awesome trip i'm glad i came and uh just because i didn't catch anything well caught a part perch yeah but i'll be back yeah that's the thing you don't have to catch fish to have a great time if you're with friends and absolutely not there's a great time yeah i'm glad you got to come oh my god thank you guys for inviting me holy crap made my week just because you know our uh found in father or our found in father uh ditched this old dany oh dany yeah on his behalf yeah i know he's he's working he had a meeting with a potential big sponsor to build us uh 88 complying camp up to uh proxbury this spring so that's a decent excuse yeah we'll let him off the hook