 Good morning. We got a chilly one out there. It's nine degrees above zero. So not terrible. I had a late dinner last night So I'm gonna do a late breakfast today. I'm just gonna have coffee for first breakfast and Second breakfast might be a regular one. We'll see. I'm fishing really tight to base camp today So I can cook whenever I want and enjoy my base camp today in the wind and in the cold Fishing for a big pike today I might have some visitors coming in from Reboot outdoors with Danny and the crew which would be fun to fish with those guys if they come in It's one of my out absolute favorite Outdoor veteran organizations. So you'll see why if you haven't seen them in the past You'll see why if they come in today just just a great group of characters and awesome fishermen and a lot of fun And Danny Danny and crew are just doing a great job for veterans Getting them back out on the water getting them reintegrated and just And doing some wonderful things for them. So if you guys are looking for an organization organization to support Definitely give reboot outdoors Maine a look, but I got the percolator going right there hasn't started the perk yet I'd like to drive a little bit of coffee in me before I Head out there and brave the cold and get those Traps set because once you get out there, you never know how long you're gonna be out there You think it's gonna be 20 minutes to set your traps and then all of a sudden you get a flag then another flag Then another flag and you might be out there all day Slept pretty good last night. I was extremely tired from Running around and fishing in the wind ice fishing takes a lot out of you in general Just being outside all day when you're when you're not in a big wheelhouse or a shack or something And then when you add 40 mile an hour winds to it It really just knocks you out my face still feels pretty wind-burned. I'm a little bit concerned about that I left the stove running all night at about oh probably half speed on both burners and it was about 43 degrees in here and eight or nine degrees outside, so I don't know if that tells you anything or not, but She does burn through some propane Soon as she starts to perk like that you want to take your heat down to just about nothing Just to keep it perking so that way you don't boil over and blow it over and get all the grinds and your coffee If you're not familiar with the percolator guys It's boiling the water underneath the grinds are all in a cup up top here with holes in it's perforated Boils the water it goes up a pipe And then it spills out the top and lands on top of the grinds and then slowly drips through back into the bottom So it's circulating circulating circulating so you want to You want to percolate for about oh five maybe even ten minutes if you want extra strong coffee and give that a chance to Have all the water go up through and go through the grinds and soak through the grinds It's all about gravity with a percolator and heat a little happy so she cools down quick One of the quickest ways to cool it down is blow on it or put a couple pieces of metal in there to Wick some of that heat out and it also does the dishes to it cleans up your utensils Adds a little taste to your coffee These pike don't feed every day when you're talking like the big pike so you got to kind of hit your windows I know they fed not yesterday, but the day before I don't know what they did yesterday So I'm hoping today is a feeding day and we get a couple of these big pigs topside for you show you what a giant pike looks like I'll show you how I fish them. I think I'm fishing all dead bait today. I don't know if any of my baits still alive I doubt it. I did vacuum seal some bait when it died. It'll still be semi-fresh I don't know if that matters or if you want it stinky. I don't really fish a lot of dead bait But at least it's not frozen solid So I got some in the cooler that died, you know while it was swimming so that won't be frozen either so I can pick and choose my sizes but I'm gonna get dressed and get ready for the day and poke a couple holes out there and get a couple sets in for breakfast With no wind The temperature is not bad even in the single digits It's not really bad out there at all I might not even bring my jacket, but in case the wind starts blowing it's probably not a bad idea to have my jacket handy There it is there. I'm wearing pretty lightweight stuff today Let's go make some pike sets Be out there for the sunrise. Oh, I got my thermos right there. I might as well fill that up She's perked enough that's saved Get that last swill and get out there for the sun rises. I feel breeze. I never gets old absolutely love that My bait's all dead, which is totally fine for pike fishing. So let's get it set up The only thing I got to make sure is if I have a sounder None in that pocket Yeah, we Yeah, we got a sounder. Okay. We're good to go. All right, since we're not running any live bait today We don't need our rubber bands Our big bait bands, so we're just gonna set this and onto the next one pretty easy set any flags today You know the bait didn't trip them. Good to go on to the next one. I sure have a bait right there bigger in my hand I Step on them to get the air out of them make sure the air bladders are empty so it doesn't float in it It sits the right way in the water column Getting a little extra guts out there is not a bad idea either It's amazing how warm eight degrees can be when there's no wind I'd take 25 30 below with no wind over 20 above with the wind we had yesterday that should sink like a rock I'll show you guys the air sack That's an air sack right there. It's a double It's actually filled up with air right now like a balloon as you could see And you get that out or you pop it and your baits your dead baits gonna sink fast. It's really important to get that out Then your baits not laying crooked and trying to float up off the bottom and be upside down as well Unless that's what you're looking for. All right, that's five flags five traps set I've had better spreads, but I've had worse spreads to so we'll see how they do I got confidence in them and if I don't I'll just move them That's the cool thing about fishing. It's just like taking a new cast to a new area Not sure where the boys are they're running a little late, but it's it's a challenge getting in here So you never know there could be trees down long snowmobile ride long Long ride on the side-by-side if they're taking that. Oh You're talking that might be the Vermont boys be into me and Enjoy the morning. This is unbelievable having no wind after after the last three days It's hard to believe this is the coldest it's been because I feel wonderful Feel pretty darn good in this town We'll hammer some coffee and Play the old waiting game The cool thing is if I pull one of them traps then I could Then I could jig For a rock bass and crappy and anything else. I Friggin love fishing guys this year. I haven't done much trap fishing yet I've been doing a lot of jigging a lot of pan fishing with a live scope and the best way to catch panfishes with a jig rod and chase them down with electronics and Been working really hard at that honing my skills and getting better and fishing in that nationwide or international tournament really helped drive me And I got to the point where I'm pretty confident now and my skills with that It's just a lot of fun Setting traps to and waiting for that flag to go off and when it goes up you get over and you see if that reels spooling or not And sometimes she's making power sometimes she's churning butter sometimes She's just sitting still and you got to set the hook and it's hand-to-hand combat with that fish and a lot of times They're as big as your leg It sounds like There's some activity going on in the Cove. I might go check that out. I think it's the boys from Vermont I could make their morning search a lot easier if they're looking for that big school I could put them right on it guys are kind of crowding me. Aren't you? I was gonna come over and shorten your search for this school, but you guys are pretty well on it. Do you did you look? Yeah, is there a million? Yeah, they were What's that? Oh, it's not they were Oh, they were they were right over there the other day for So there's there's two mega schools in there off that rock shower this deep school got a billion in it they're right They're a little bit this way, but unless they move Yeah, first. Yeah, there's some decent. There's a good school perch in here. They feed a little bit later like really good You'll get some whites mixed in there's a school Who's after perch? I'll show you where the perch are. This is the perch guy I'll show you where that school of perch is I got on a school the other day my buddy and I got tired to catch them Yeah We we literally got tired of keeping them they were setting off our jack traps with shiners that big Yeah, yeah, and then so Well to defend the trap we jig next to it And it was just the same Yeah, but I tried to hit them the next day like I set up the next morning on them And Dave And no activity on them Yeah, are you are you seeing anything on your life scope like a hundred hundred and twenty of it? Yeah, that's yeah Yeah, that's where I was trying to show you that that school over there. You got me something I don't need anything This is my son my oldest son Mike black You get a pair of glasses on and let somebody punch in the nose. You'd look just like them There you go. Oh, jeez what I do with it You to fall out. Oh here. I got it. Oh, here it is First one ever given to the no way really. Oh Look at that. That is sick Holy First one ever given to anybody. I think my son one. That's the only one that is breaking operation reboot outdoors Jim's gonna get jealous with Jim. We got one at the house for you. Don't worry how awesome that is So pretty bad. Thank you so much Yeah Good to see you buddy set up wherever you guys want. Don't even worry about them traps. I don't even know if they're in the right spot We're gonna take them out of the water. Yeah, don't even worry about them traps He's in the big pike hole. Yeah, don't even worry about them Yeah, where'd Mike get them the other day All right guys reboots here pretty pumped about that Danny's one of my absolute favorite guys to fish with awesome energy. Just awesome fishermen knows how to catch them So those guys are those guys are here. We're gonna fish together for big ins I'm gonna go check on the guys from vermont. See what they're catching And uh, I'm gonna cook a finish cooking a late breakfast Nice, we don't know how those big ones were because Jim lost scale So we had to do measuring and then he tried telling me the 30 He they argued with me. They are yelling. I'm like, that's 39 inches long. They're like, no, it's not 34 Jim was saying I'm like, oh, Jim that's 39 inches long. Put a skit. He goes put a tape on it Exactly the third night. I'm gonna tell me I don't know why he argues with me, man It's year after year. He's always arguing with you. You're always right All right, I'm doing a late breakfast Super late breakfast today. I got a Burning in the pan the guy showed up right when I was about to do a couple eggs, but I'm gonna Get a couple eggs cooked up Well, there we're gonna eat breakfast outside today and we're gonna watch Jeff set up some traps and go over and As soon as I drive this into me if Danny and Mike and and the guys are still setting up over there, we'll go over there and Help them get set up for pike on the inside It's pretty darn good this morning Guys, I'm really pumped for you to meet Danny those Some of the newer viewers haven't met reboot or Danny yet And I'll let him tell you all about the organization But some of you other viewers who've been around for a long time. I've seen him several times and he's just awesome Awesome character and he's doing such a great thing with his life and with the organization really proud of him proud to call him a friend proud that I know him and And I'm always happy to fish with him. I didn't think you were gonna make it We've been invaded by the country of Vermont. Yeah, the whole state see you the whole state is here Did you make it? I made it. Yeah, you gave him a secret passage I used a secret passage way. I I was tempted. I'm I'm still tempted to go back Yeah, he brought us. Yeah, my grandson came down With my son and you know how it goes when there's a kid around everybody wants a kid and take traps So he got spoiled all day and then the fact came to find fully we had six on one of my traps Yeah, he did One of my traps was popping all day long Joe Joe missed the hey, Joe just missed that hole with his traps too. Yeah, he goes steal that one. Yeah I don't want little Send them back How many fish fit in the bucket a five gallon bucket when they're this size this I don't know I mean These little chips probably 40 30 40. Yeah, I like you guys live still set up. I like this one too Yeah, this is this looks like the best setup yet. Who makes that arm? Uh summit. Oh summit makes that arm summit. It's for a boat mount. Gotcha. Okay So I just built the aluminum frame underneath it And it all when I pull the lid off it all comes out everything comes out. Yeah, that's pretty great I like that just just made it a week ago. Now. What do you put in this thing on the side? I just just for a fish basket If I wasn't carrying a bucket so I could if I was whole hopping then I can get four or five fish And just throw them in there. You like the amber screen? It's just what I'm used to when I run on my boat too. So yeah when you're Oh, here we go Here we go Oh big zipped him. Hold it. He'll come maybe he will come back. That's the funny thing You get three shots at every fish here compliment the Frank Oh, nice Wayne. How you doing? Good. Good keeping Carter left foot You've got a brand new one. Nice. It's already on a thousand It's already on a thousand. We got a fish counter Oh wait, it was not on a thousand it was on one Thank you, Wayne That's great. Okay I'm just gonna put those in there. Thank you He's got a little bit better fish coming in here That that was a small one He's in full combat mode though. Oh, yeah, he's ready to spine me for sure. Oh, you ain't got a live school No, no, how do you catch fish? I think you're not aware Oh, yeah, I got a what do you think of this main fishing? I love it a little better than Pennsylvania. I love it. Yeah Heck, yeah Man, I haven't seen a vexel are in years. I didn't know they still made those things I'm behind you. Yeah Pretty decent slabs here. Yeah Guys there the these slabs are all like either size they're 12 inch or less It's hard to get one over 12 inches in here. We're gonna guys are they can't hurt it These guys can fill five buckets each and not hurt this school And maybe even get these fish a little bit bigger in the future if there's a little less competition for them There's a billion fish in here with a b over 10 inches They were catching nice golden shiners over there golden shiners Yeah, we might have to go over and whack a few six nine inches Really good ones. Wow. We might have to go get some of them. It was out in the school Just the crappies were late. What time did you get in here daylight? Yeah, we forgot the oil We're gonna have a fish fry today. So we forgot the oil so we had to run home We're half an hour from home There's a couple good ones coming I don't use any meat ever. You don't know. You just don't don't have to They reject it more than they take it really Oh white perch. Oh great meat. That's right There you go. Wow, that's a good one. That's a better one right here Better for here for sure getting slabby. He goes all the way across the bucket lid. Yeah, take it 12 and a half He's flying over here. I didn't know if he's got all the big ones or what? No I think it's one of them decent. Oh, yeah. Oh nice white perch. There's a couple trunkers in there. Yeah Not so How you like your life scope? I love it. I had to believe we fished without them, isn't it? I know I had to believe we fished without electronics. I don't know if you're old enough to Have done that. I did. Well, I was poor enough that I had Well, I'm gonna go check my flags and leave these guys to it. They're beating away pretty good on them So if you see the reel off the trip, yeah, then there's something there. It was going straight down. Oh, okay Yeah, it's a good bait. Yeah, I'll see if I I want that marine Okay, oh, yeah, there's a fish on there. He's way off the side. He's little you could take him get warmed up. You ready? Yeah, he's a little Hard to be there Feel free to go higher than him. I don't know. I don't think he's there You might have to catch up. Well, we took quite a bit of line. Was he going really? Yeah No, oh, there he is. There he is. You might have to hit him again There you are. You got him now. Yeah, any size Jeff? Just watch out for that camera. All right, buddy Some decent size there. Here's your rubber band. All right. So you're at the bottom marker You've got about 35 feet to go and like I said, you got steel so you can horse them But if it's if it's real big give them a Now let me pull it this way Joe. Yep fish. Nice fish. All right. Don't just keep out of that line. Yeah, there you go Beautiful good job. Hold that baby up for the camera. Tell the folks at home Thanks, Joe Holland. Ha ha any time See this? Yeah, is that what you're using for a spreader? I'll come by myself. Yeah, I'll put the spreaders in there and I'll get it open and I'll work this down in there Then I can hold up on the line while I come up through the gills. Oh, that's awesome I can't wait because the bigger ones won't bite. You know, can't come on Oh, I can't wait to see that work That sounds awesome Well, that man is a us marine that caught that fish And my brothers my older brothers are us marine. So I'm gonna see if he'll pull every one of my traps today I'd love to see him catch a giant fish on one of my jack traps Nobody's gonna catch a good one today. You're kind of crowding me ain't you, fella? Huh? You're kind of crowding me We gotta go catch some of them We're gonna go look here shortly, too. We really get into a lot of the volume guys That's the shiners are catching. Long Jim I'd catch a pike up. You guys using that shiner? I'll give 100 bucks. Joe, look at this tail. Yeah Those those came from the stocking. Yep tanks Thanks cover Thanks cover So you guys don't come to Maine for our stock brook trout and salmon. That's tomorrow That's tomorrow See guys, this is where the future is in Maine whether you like it or not It's it's for oh, there's another is that a shine earlier? Oh my gosh, don't waste that Geez, are you gonna do it? You know, but this is these guys are coming here spending their hard-earned dollars Spending it in the state of Maine and this is what they're coming for. They're coming for our pan fish our absolute junk fish What are you talking about our absolute junk fish according to the state of Maine And and this is what the guys are spending their money on they're not coming to try to catch tanks Look at these gold. Look at that gold. Yeah, that's pure gold But we're gonna have one heck of a fish fry today I bet you're saving them all That's what you guys come for right? I mean once the state of Maine starts realizing it that's that's what it's after That's what it's all about right there guys is we got guys out here pike fishing. We got guys out here crappy fishing and that's it Damn that is a lot of lines that's going down. Wow. I think just went up. Wow. Yeah, that's gonna be a good one. Yeah, it's gonna be a good one You gaining on the strain? Yeah, it was a good hook set Nice been fighting that quite a while. Yeah, that didn't go up that long user fish. Don't pull out that much line that quick Dan you ever caught a pike through the ice? Never. I'm really excited to see my first one come up through them That's a lot of lines. Yeah, probably a little racer Joe's what we got a little six and you can fight back Oh, that's got some weight Cut yeah, you ground it in the ice. Oh, that's a good size one Joe. I just saw some Good one the O10 Another flag right here. Really? Oh my gosh, this could be the same fish. It's the same fish We got three flags up right now guys. Oh here we go. Here we go. We're gonna get a look at them Is that a pickerel? It might be a pickerel. All right, you're good. Just leave it there. He's got plenty Just leave it so that I'm just bringing it away. Is it on the ice? Oh, it's gone. No, it's still there. He's relaxed Oh, yeah, he's a good one. Get him up. Get him up That counts as a combo. You don't see that too often right there. We caught him. Hey, double double sketch So hey Joe, how good am I on just I just touched the line. I told you it was over 10 Yeah, he didn't he was done. I got a catch bag right here. I'll get you So we got to find out which one He's got bulls in there. Bulls? Bulls, Joe. As unbelievable. I've never seen a deep ball. I've never seen a deep ball. It gets hooked by a bull. Mike, you get half that fish. So you each caught a five pounder Look at this, Joe. I just want to show you look down there Hook hook up here hook sat. That's how remote does it double hook This guy had no chance This guy I mean, he was past that He was moving to the back where all the frenzy of the 1115 1115 so almost 12. Nice. Let's get a picture God, you you look ugly You know, see what happens is Is you can't make the fish look good when someone's holding that. I know. I know, Dan. What are you gonna do? It's a mustache Free mustache rides. All right. See you later big gator. Later Don't give him. I don't give breathe a little bit Pull him up so we can see him. Oh wait, I gotta You blew our release, Joe. What are you gonna do? This is what happens, man. Well, we got another chance. We gotta flag up out here Let's go get that one What? Yeah, that's the probably the biggest one he's ever caught. The biggest one he ever caught in his life. I hate both of you Put him over your knee, dad I go, yeah, no fish there straight down. He goes over there. He's checking it. There. There's a fish there Then he gives it to me and says, oh, let me tell you about the story of the legend Jim Bowie the river monster Late late in the year. It was nice out beautiful days starting to get longer suns up Flag goes off way down there in the corner. He's closer to shore than he usually ever is so I'm like, what's he up to? Well The flag goes up me and him start cruising over there and I see Jim I get out the sled and I look over and his line's just going like this There's water boiling up over the hall of my gym. Jim's like, yeah, whatever. I'm like, no, get over here. Get over here Jim comes flying over and he goes. Oh my gosh. He rips the trap up hands it to me and he just starts going And I'm like, he's like, oh my word He's I've never seen Jim like freeze before like Jim just locked up and I'm like Jim. What's wrong? He's like He's frozen. He's like, I'm on bottom. I'm like, there's no way you're on bomb. That reel is just smoking He's like, Dan, I'm on bottom and he's just frozen and I'm like literally had to go Jim Wake up. Get your head in the game Okay So he's like, Dan, I don't know he came out and kind of snapped out of me He's playing with it. It does look like it's hung up on bottom And then he just starts getting to come it starts to come It's starting to come, you know, and I'm like, well, is he there? No, he's like, no, no, no Oh, and then you can feel the lines just stretching on something. I'm like, that's a monster Jim Jim's like, Jim's like, I got a tree. I'm like, no, just you can't act that way He's bringing it in other flag that it's running now is what you're saying No, another flag up here. Oh really? He's bringing it in Joe And all of a sudden snap it just like comes over He ties the worst knots I've ever seen in my life granny or double. No, he It wasn't a knot that came on hot. It was a wivel. Oh, who told you not to use those kind of swivel a thousand times Jeff is he running We're just slow rolling. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah He's a mile. There he goes. There he goes. Oh, yeah. He's in a different county, Dan Oh, it's a good fish too. It feels decent Well now he feels like a little scrubby coming at you I'd help you but I got a video You burning in burned in already. Oh, wow He didn't fight right off the get go usually with these pike the big ones They fight right off the start when you hook. Yeah, they first feel the hook. This feels like a six seven pounder You keep weighing them as you're reeling them in Ah, you got a little heavier on them. You got a little heavier there I like how you're laying the line out. He's doing a good job guys He said he got a little heavier. We'll see. He got a little heavier Ah, he might he might push eight He's getting bigger guys. He went from six to eight Oh He's acting like a fat log right now That's your bottom marker, right? Yeah, that's 18 feet away He's looking like he's hooked weird. He's four pounds now No, he's got another flag up right there right next to us. No further down to the right. Yeah, he's acting a little bit bigger now guys Oh, yeah uh Oh, there's my bait. I don't I don't see him. Uh-oh Whoa, yeah, nice. Not bad. Nice one He's no shrimp He knows because don't little guy. Yeah, that ain't no hammer handle when he pulsates the water in the hole Yeah, he's a pretty good one I'll mess with him for a little bit so get Joe gets some footage of him coming across It's full of onion hammer handle Yeah, look there he is. Oh, he didn't he didn't flash a second. Don't get right back here and show Joe You got oh, there he is Oh, yeah, that was a good one. That's over eight, isn't it? It's been around eight nine ten. I'm gonna say nine. He's gonna be pushing double digits Yeah, I'm gonna go. He's short Good fish though. I'm not 32 inches exactly. I'm not gonna mess with him anymore We can warm him out There you go. Yeah, he's Seven eight. Yeah, you got that stuff. Yeah, I got it over here. Okay beginner Beginner you got a sight look at that Joe. Yeah, that's a soars. Oh, I put that same fish Did you really last like two three days ago? No way. Look at it. You ripped his jar off. No, no I'm not even lying. That's the exact fish I caught. Look at that thing. He's like he's a zombie Mike I caught that same fish. That's pretty cool. I'll show you on video Well, hey Danny caught the same fish I caught three days ago. What'd you how'd you do Dave? Dave, right? Yeah What you got buddy? I'd say he's about 14 15 maybe you seen him. Oh, yeah, I could have brought him in Here he comes, here he comes, here he comes. Oh nice Nice 12 nice fish low. He might have been right. Look good 12 What do you think? 10 Joe says 10, what do you say Jim? 9.9. Yeah, I give him 9 You guys are ridiculous He felt I said 12 I'm saying 12. I'm gonna go over 10 Oh, he's got his, hey, he's got his new scale. Throw that thing in the trash. Yeah, that's nine Yeah, let me see keep him up. Okay, got it 8.6 8.9. Gosh, that's he's nine pounds nine pounds. That's the worst I've ever been off in a while I gotta get nine pounds You ever notice that Joe? What's that? Guys like him, brand new noobs, they get up, they come down to your fish with us And they it's almost like they wake up and they go right to karate class and tell Bruce Lee how to kick That's what happens. He comes down here You just wake up and you're like, I'm gonna go find every expert I know and tell him how to do stuff Dad, listen, that's what you do. Listen, you got a lot to learn son. You gotta get better at parenting So Then Danny finally took on his responsibility last year No, actually I picked up on my own and then after the wintertime rolled around I met Dan went and smelting with him Um, I realized that he was my son. Yeah We we thought about getting a DNA test, but we decided that it didn't matter. We just knew I just know Well, it's uncanny I'm not kidding Joe barbecue reboot barbecue someone comes out to me and goes hey Is that guy over there your brother? And I'm like, which guy you're flying back up. I know I see it. I've already seen it See you're trying to tell Bruce Lee how to kick again. Listen. I'm cooking. Anyway So I see so I go what guy what guy you're talking about this guy goes you gotta come here They brought him over to me and you're like, I'm like, who the hell are you? He's like, I'm Mike black. I'm like, dude, you kind of look like me What we got here is Try to see a speed more Some whitetail burgers we pulled it out for the veterans. We tried to use a A lot of the venison in that we harvest to give to the best and stuff like that and This is a nice venison very boy that plane is I'm gonna Get a lunch from over here Are your hands clean Mike? Oh, yeah Look at that fellas bacon cheeseburger made out of deer meat Dear Dear meat So daddy since since the last time we shot a year ago I got a bunch of new viewers. So a lot of guys know you But a lot of guys don't know you or the organization right before you jam that burger in there You've got a quick minute to tell us about reboot. Yeah, so operation reboot outdoors I I found it to get my brother and sisters who've been through traumatic experiences through war Through serving our community Just being good people and doing Some things that a lot of people don't do and they go through and the plate We bring them out hunting and fishing across the state of Maine We also got a new mobile team that goes across the country and does some hunts And reboot just keeps growing and growing, you know our our support keeps growing our veterans followers and our It just creates this big come rock group of camaraderie and and brothers and sisters and Creates these networks and all these guys just start fishing together But the idea is to pull them out of their house and get them in the right state of mind to Find true north again and uh Yeah, see I'm getting called to duty while I'm talking. Thanks. Thanks, son So what are you gonna do to to get on the ice or in the woods with reboot? How do what's the best way to get a hold? Best way best way is our our website is www.OperationRebootOutdoors.org and Up in the upper right hand corner. There's a tab click on it and then go to missions There's a whole list of what we do and we do everything that Maine has to offer And if it's up that's going on you can sign up for it. It is an application process You had to sign up due to people backing out so much We need to have them have a little bit of skin in the game So we know they're showing up like today for four vets bailed on us last night at eight o'clock So now I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel and get Mike and The Dave over there all the way from Massachusetts and come down And so we're getting these guys out there They're fairly new to fishing but they know everything it's weird A little weird, but um, yeah, we just have a good time and at the end of the day we go home tired And he always interests me So I've been fortunate enough over the years to get the fish with reboot every single year And I've been around a lot of organizations and this one is grassroots. It's home It's a home-born Organization that I fully fully stand behind so good time Yeah, Jim's been with him a long time too And if if you guys are looking for an organization to support they do take donations. They they're uh They're a non-profit Or if you have some expertise, you know like like like Mike over here, you know if you're an expert in something He's fished four times. He knows everything about fishing. What if you are an expert in something? Well, that's how the kids are these days. They offer everything from My biological dad abandoned me. Yeah, he decided to come be a parent at the age of 31 So so they do everything from rabbit hunting to gold digging to moose hunts deer hunts bear hunts turkey hunts They'll hunt anything that's got a heartbeat. I think and fishing they do everything from spring trolling to deep deep water fishing to pike fishing in the winter and Rainbow trout fishing in the winter and they have a couple derbies. So check them out for sure guys I I put my stamp of approval as big as you can get on these guys. They're The best of the best and I've seen a lot of the good work that they do, you know in the community and for veterans and law enforcement officers So if you're a veteran law enforcement officer and you want to get rebooted and back into the wild There's no better group of guys to Do it with them these guys. So it's easy to sign up Yep, and reboot out. We're gonna catch the pike Yes Any size Mike? Be all right pulling good Day get the scale Same size is the one you caught earlier 18 13 That's the smallest pike I've ever seen come out of here. I didn't know they knew him that small. No, I know That's what he was nursery Thanks, dad. What do I do without you? Go a picture Here get with dad. We see how big the fish are That real drag you have on there, you know to keep those loose I know because a big fish is gonna hammer that and it's gonna tighten up on itself and it's gonna you're not gonna catch But you I but let me let me guess you teach Bruce Lee his combos in his roundhouse. Well, I know I asked you this morning to double check. We're like, hey Bruce Lee. Guess what you're doing that combo wrong I said dad you want to go around check these with me make sure all my drags are good Wait a second. I've been doing this for how long do you tell me what I should be doing right now? How many feet do I gotta go up out the bottom? That's what I thought two Two according to Jim son. Why did you disappoint me enjoying the marines without the army because I was better than you You guys have a hell of a loose season didn't you 16 out of 17 16 out of 17 will happen on the 17 The guy They trade beer burgers for Oh, we'll be back. Here's uh, have you tried these? I'll trade you on No, take them both. You sure? Yeah. Yeah Now we're chasing that White fish and macaroni and cheese White fish me now white perch and you know this one's good To fight up white perch and mac and cheese. Yeah, that's the best guy. Maybe we'll do a bite coat venison and this stuff and like just You know shallow bath fry it. Yeah. Oh, yeah chicken fried venison. Yeah, that's good We got all three kids that one we thought was a little too lemony so we're mixing it with what the original or something Eat them up. I need to eat them up. I thought those guys I left them That's freaking good. That is really good. Wow is that good? Yeah It's like I was a I was gonna stay over there. Yeah But you were tasting it. So I was like, I gotta go get some more of that You just ate three burgers, too That's how good this fish is We run out of nowhere we can get more One thing about these guys from romana is they know how to eat. That's right They know how to fish and they know how to eat Wait, can you tell by the size of us there? You guys are honorary mainers Cut up between rocks what's going on. Yeah, it was run in. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I real I realed. I mean It was pretty close. It was out pretty close. Well, did you guys see a leader? Yeah, he's no, he's a barber The leader's right below. So yeah, you're on that's a fish man. Hold on. It's not. Oh, I can see it. There's a fish there The branch I can see the branch Yes, the fish is right there, isn't it? Hold on me. I'll get the branch. Yeah, hold on. Hold on. That's a big fish, too I'll take my sweatshirt off. I'll get the branch get the branch. There's a fresh texture. Hurry up. I'm going Look up your sleeves Oh my gosh, Joe, you just missed the monster. Yeah, buddy reboot Joe we got probably that's going 18. That's easily over 40. Joe I'll go get him. Yeah, buddy. How rat this is Good one, buddy. Good one Let's go I was helping him getting it, you know, getting it going and we couldn't get it up. What the hell's this that came with the fish Why? Because it was on the bottom He must have thought he had a freaking state record Because we're like Dan's like you're stuck between rocks and we're like, no, there's a stick. It's just not moving Monster we'll give it size of that thing monster Oh boy Okay, bring it up some bring it up one more time. You can't oh You guys have had enough of that. What a fish. So tell me what happened Congratulations. You caught a stick with it. Yeah, that giant stick came up. It was uh We were fighting it and uh pulled it up and then it just stopped to the hole and then we figured out that there was a stick across the Hole and then that entire branch came out with it too. Mike, uh, Mike goes dad We're stuck on the bottom and I'm like, no, you're not Hold on. I go over there son. Don't interrupt your father when he's speaking So I get over there and I grab it. I'm like You're caught on a stick not bottom. I can see the branch right there and he goes Oh, I can and I'm like I can see the fish is stuck to the bridge Mike goes, let me you stretch down grabs this breaks it The fish comes up with the stick and I'm like, oh my word. There's a pig. That is a pig. That's a good fish That's a pig All right, I'm gonna prank Mike. We're gonna put something on the end of his line I don't do it. How about a crappy end of perch? feel him Yeah, it's fish there. No, there's not No, there's not Fish, fish. How's it feel? How's it feel big? Dink? Dink? Oh, it's a dink. Oh, it's just a dink Take him! Wow, you got two at once. Whoa, that's illegal That's illegal, you just did You found a reboot I hate all of you Water is yeah We just lifted that up this high To the end of the house Son, you are my son with that strength How's this thing do on the trail pretty good? No Oh, his thing or this? This ranger Oh, it does awesome I mean, my other rangers probably Done, I don't know, over a hundred trips down here Yeah By 2014 This one's obviously run only three years So it's probably at maybe I don't know Quite a bit of trips This is the one from Mike Rowe, yeah Oh, really? Yeah, this is the one from Mike Rowe He donated. No way He turned in the favor. That's awesome Yeah, he saw what we're doing that we're You know, we had taken out a pile of vets Waited from our basement Of our house And They maybe Tend they were doing a documentary on reboot me And they surprised me at my house And Nicole rolled up in this No way That's awesome. I'll see if I can find the footage That put it on this video Yeah, it's pretty badass Did he show up too? No, it was Covid On Zoom Well, I remember that now, yeah I wish I would have got to meet him He's a pretty cool guy Well, the stuff he does is awesome He does a lot of good things for a lot of people Yeah Of course, yeah Normally If I'm just alone, I bring a smaller one But I brought as much gear and stuff this trip Well, that's going to do a good job That's going to do it for these guys These guys are taking off Thanks a million for letting me fish with you guys And you guys at home, check out Reboot Outdoors If you want to make a donation to them Or help them anyway, check them out on the website I think he's accepting some jack traps too If anybody wants to send a set of jack traps Or jack traps his way They could put them to use for the veteran So that'd help out quite a few people But otherwise, great organization Check them out and great group of guys As always I heard for every set he gets donated Joe's donating a set Yeah That could be right Hey Joe, great fishing with you buddy Till next time Danny's the best guys Danny and his sons Thanks dad Take your boy to the wood shed, will you I'm going to feed him all the way home Well, that was a blast, I'm going to miss those guys As always Phenomenal, phenomenal guys to fish with A lot of fun at all times I'm going to fish for another hour or so I got no good Half hour daylight I might fish in the dark, we got some snow Natoes happening down there Snow tornadoes Kicking out, she's going to be probably a rough night Probably be pretty windy out here And supposed to be really cold tonight I think the coldest night of the week Is happening tonight All right, fishing's done for the day Had a great day on the hard water I didn't put much topside I jigged up a couple fish here and there Just to show the boys where they were And that I could still catch them For the most part, pretty easy day for me I really got to enjoy the company Sometimes that's what it's all about It's not about what you put topside And how big the fish you catch It's just enjoying your friend's company And meeting new people And learning about people and places I got to learn a bunch from them Vermont boys, they were good boys I really, really appreciated learning from them And I haven't met anybody from Vermont That I don't like, so pretty good In that department And of course with Reboot, awesome guys There's always a lot of fun to fish with And just really enjoy Dan And Mike and all the guys So, and Jim But it's supper time, dinner time And this is Going to be an easy one tonight Going grilled cheese on rosemary Bread And what goes best with that Tomato soup So we're going to have some tomato soup And grilled cheese And super easy to make Easy if you're camping Easy at home And sure hits the spot And pretty darn good too I'm going to drive that into me Going to dunk the sandwich Into the soup probably For part of it I like doing that sometimes It softens up the bread a little bit Make a plan for tomorrow And plan for the rest of this trip I think I'm going to fish tomorrow here And either take off tomorrow afternoon Into the night or take off The next following morning I got to try to get ahold of Donny And see what he wants to do Because I think we're heading up north to camp for a few days And I want to make sure He's good to go for that So that's the plan And right now we're going to eat some dinner Supper Supper and dinner I've asked that question once before About that grilled cheese is Definitely grilled Looking good I'm going to give that a slice With a pellet knife She is smoking hot Look at that she's not burnt She's golden Looking beautiful Little crispy on the outside Soft cheesy on the inside Just like I like my french fries Or potatoes I ain't got much of a spoon For this trip There's just a little tiny one You can't really shovel that Anything into you with a spoon that small We'll make do Next trip I'll have a bigger spoon I promise you that Then we can shovel some soup right into us Wow that's hot Good good hot meal After a Pretty chilly day of fishing Out of the wind for the most part And uh She's hot We're down into the teens We got 11 degrees right now She's been dropping pretty steady I think we're going to have a good cold Night tonight Pretty strong northwest North wind tomorrow Then eventually it does switch over to A west wind And then a southwest wind So usually a south wind blows warm And you don't have to worry too much about that But that northeast wind Usually is pretty cold And could blow some storms in We'll keep an eye on the weather Keep an eye on wind direction I'm pretty well Sheltered from the northwest wind Any south or east wind I'd be eating quite a bit of that But most of the time in the winter It's going to blow out of the northwest It's a good idea when you guys are Going on a camping trip Set up Do your best to learn the weather Ahead of time and go with that Make preparations and plans To avoid the worst of the weather And that'll make a better trip for you in the long run It's pretty chilly in here It's 41 degrees even after cooking So that cooled down The soup might take a minute To cool down but The sandwich Cooled down pretty quick That Heck of a lunch today Normally I either skip lunch or just make something quick Reboot was here and cooked up some Venison bacon burgers That were fantastic Then I Snuck over to the other group Had some fried fish Crappy and perch Just absolutely amazing Fish they cooked it in In the catching cook And we were trying the new lime one And it was good but it was A little too limey For a lot of us And I just so happened to have A couple bags of fire and a couple bags Of crispy from catching cook I brought those over to the boys And we cooked it up They cooked it right up in the oil there And boy was it delicious It was cooked to perfection Danny tried crappie for the first time And he really enjoyed it too So these crappie might be in trouble in the future This is just American cheese In this grilled cheese sandwich It's pretty bland Ain't much I do like my cheeses I like Swiss, I like cheddar Gouda, smoked gouda is really good too I haven't had any good cheese in a long time I just realized I'm going to see if I can find that stuff I got last year That was the maple cheese That was some good, that was made in Maine What do you guys like For cheese in your grilled cheese sandwich To put in a grilled cheese sandwich Leave that in the comments too Usually I like a rye bread But that rosemary bread is awful good too From Morialis bread in Waldeboro Well that's going to do it for tonight guys Had an awesome evening And Yeah, really appreciate all the support Stay tuned for tomorrow Probably going to wake up pretty cold I think I'm going to turn the heat up a little bit more tonight Than normal And see if it actually works out In here and can heat up this 850 I don't know we'll see But thanks again for tuning in guys Really appreciate all the support