 What is up guys? Joe Holland here. I'm gonna let you guys guess where I am by this big rock in the background over here. That's right. I am here at the famous Moose Head Lake. Largest lake, state of Maine. Absolutely gigantic. Got just about every fish in it that you could ask for. And I'm here with a pretty good group of guys. I'm here with Wayne and Andrew from Tobago Bait, and Sean and Chugs from Death Traps. So we got a pretty good group today. We're not really sure what we're fishing for. Wayne brought a shack out last night, so we're gonna fish somewhere near where his shack is. And we might be going for Brookies, we might be going for Toves. I'd probably want to go for Brookies if I can. Look at these guys. They're coming out in the wheelers. They are. They're ready to roll. You gonna lead the way? You gonna lead the way? Alright, let's put the scratchers down. There's the scratcher. This is gonna be a little bit different video than most of my videos, because we are gonna be fishing out of a luxury ice shack today. This thing is equipped with a microwave, a television, a stove, just about everything you can think of. I can't wait to try this thing out. It's probably one of the best ice shacks in all of Maine. This is your shack, Wayne? Oh man, that's gonna be tough fishing out of that today. Where's the oven? It's pretty ignorant. Ah, it's got a room for it. Okay guys, we're gonna try to set up a rock pile. Maybe 70 foot for Brookies, Salmon, maybe even Tove at the outer edges of it. And to find this thing, because I've never fished here in my life right where we are, and we're not really set up too well for today's fishing. We're just kind of the shotgun in it. But I'm gonna follow my Garmin out there, my map, to try to find this hump. That's the hump we want to get to right here. And we're right there now. So this will follow me as we're going. So I'm gonna try to put us right on that. Alright, that should put us right on top of it right there. That should put us on the top of that hump. And you could see like the sharp drop off right ahead of us and to the right and down here to the left. So those might be good areas for Toge or Salmon driving stuff up on top of this rock pile. And I don't even mind setting it for Brookie. You know, those big Brookies don't have to be ultra shallow. Where do you want to be? Right on that top. So we'll keep kind of angle a little bit. Right out between those two holes. Yeah. Probably fish at home. Alright guys, Sean and I never have been here before. Our group decided to fish this general area. So we're going to use the mapping to try to locate some prime spots for fishing. So we're looking at the map and we're looking, what are you looking for? Like the first top of that edge? Yeah, I swear it comes up in. Okay, perfect. So we'll, where do you want to be like right here? Down this nice little rock top. Yeah. And so we're going to try to get out right on the edge of it in that like 11, 12 feet. 11, 12. So you want to be like right there? Yeah, right in there. Right there? I'll bring you right to that. Those are fish pictures, right? Yeah, those are fish. There's two there. We could go catch those two. Let's get you right to that spot. We were just looking with the two fish on it. You can adjust it. Perfect. You want to put it right here? So look, we're fishing brook trout. Look how far it's going. So I got no sinkers on. Trick to that. I'm going to check these traps pretty regularly. Usually I stick my hand in the water and do like a little, you know what I mean? And then I'll send them right now. Does it? Most of the time. Spooks them? Yeah. I usually pull, I usually pull them down with that. This guy's a little big. Yeah, I try. He's a little big to be on no sinker. I try doing like that number right there and that just attracted him to it. That brought him right to the surface. Yeah, that worked awesome. How much water do you have out there on the last one? 24, 26 or something. And I don't get on the ice much, but I feel like those are some of the biggest pressure ridges I've seen in quite a while. Yeah, there was one monster. Runs all the way across. Yeah, if you get over like where we were yesterday. If you look through the binoculars at that one over there, it's got to be eight feet tall. Is it really? It's huge. We should go ramp it. Yeah, oh yeah. Send it. Yeah. All right, Sean, you're up for your next one. This thing's awesome. See these two spots here? There's like little 25 foot holes. Yeah. Is that right in the bottom of them? Oh, is that a tog set? Take a spot. We'll go to it. Let's go right in the middle of that one. Okay. Oh, there you go. That's no joke. Certainly. Do you set for salmon or tog on this one? Tog. It's only like 15 feet of water, though. And you just set it? Just set it. Put a shiner down. Nice. Got a good view of the mountain in the background, too. Pop it right on its head. I think so. It's got a shiner right to it. Yeah. Wow, it's only like 15 feet. Ain't doing much, though. You take a tog and be screaming it. We're up. What are we on for? Anything? No, not water. 19. He's just on a big open flat. No edge, no nothing. See this hump over here? I might go hit the edge of that. Pretty interesting terrain through here. I wonder if they're like big rocks, rock piles. What? These spots where it comes up like that. Probably. It's probably all rock. Is that little 20 up? Yeah. I thought it was up. Over there? Yeah, that's a brookie set. All right, you better hurry up and catch this guy. You ready for him or you want me to go get that and then come back? How long are you going to be? Let's see if he's around. Because I got a salmon and I am spooled. I mean, come to think of it, you should have just set the hook. You knew he was there. Anything? Yeah, little one. Little one? Yeah, yellow perch. Oh my god, that's an eater right there. Save that baby. Woo, big old yellow perch. What's the state record? Two pounds, one out. All right, I got to go catch a brookie. A salmon brookie. A salmon hook. You want it? Yeah, that's good to eat. Thanks buddy. Sure. That's the best he ever fished this light. But she ain't rolling. Just pulled it off. Dang it. It was right there. I pulled it out of his mouth. If it didn't get my bait, I'll try to catch it right here. Nope, there he is. Came back. Feeling pretty solid. Pretty good size. Good fighter. Big head shakes. Could be a decent fish, folks. Togue. Togue up on the top of this flat. Decent fish. Pretty sure it was a toge. It didn't have any bright colors like a brookie. We're running some pretty light line on my brookie sets. So we got to play this guy out. Fighting pretty good. I didn't get a look on size. It's no small fry, but it's not, it's not giant. Right on the top of this 8-foot hump, 5-foot hump. If I can get his head started, I got him. This one's a little tiny hook, so he hopefully he's got it pretty deep for the land and sea. That's decent fish. Good fish. You're going to see him in a second. Decent Laker. Nice. Not bad, huh? Yeah. Nice one. Oh, he's just barely hooked with that little tiny hook. Yeah, he did. What is that guy doing? That's what I was thinking. There's only like 5-foot of water right here. I'm on that 8-foot hump. I might need some yatties. Not bad, huh? Nice. Gave me an awesome fight. Look at that pin smell he just spit out. That's not the one I use. Back to the day. Cool. Anybody got a picture device? I might have one. All right, guys. There he is. First one on the ice for me. Not quite set up yet, but Togue, look at the, what do they call that? There's a word for that overbite. Got some nice teeth on them. Wicked shorts now, doesn't he? All right. Get him back. I just started throwing out rapid fires. Yeah. Yeah, you'll get one. Cool. Anybody got a bait? They just pulled their shack. They're probably coming back for it. Right. What you got going on over here, fellas? We're going to make some breakfast burritos with a little moose breakfast sausage. You're talking my language, moose. What do we got going on here? Pepper's onions. Holy cow. Angel's salad. We got some eggs going on with salsa here in a minute. We'll wrap them up. Maple moose. Even if we don't fish good, fellas, we're going to eat good, right? Don't starve. Did you grab any moose steak? Yeah. Head shake. Head shake? Weed. That's the second best eating fish in this lake right there. Jumbo. Yeah. We're going to get a perch feed of this. I hope so. That's a good one. That's probably one of the bigger ones I've ever caught. Ate Striper. Ate Striper. A couple little bees it looks like toward the top. Oh yeah. This side got all sorts of bees. Nice one, dude. Thanks. This is a Taster's Choice. Nestle. Is that Nestle? Yeah. Nescafe. Oh yeah. It's the Taster's Choice. Yeah. Which is better than the person who has no taste. Thank you, Wayne. Yep. There's a spoon right here. Beautiful. Sugar. What'd you call me? Sugar? Andrew! There's better ways to do that. Your other flag's up, too. Yeah, I just wanted to grab a jack trap. You might have tweaked that. Just a tad. Yeah. Your reel was up against the ice. I think that's why you got stripped. That sucked. Yeah. Off to the next one. Stop early. I might try to get into this thing if I can get this out or not. We got a big storm coming tomorrow, so if this shack doesn't come out today, it's probably not coming out. What do you think, Wayne? Should I get it? I just don't know if I want to put the time in to get it out. It's probably going to take about three hours. Maybe more. All right, guys. That's about as far as I got on this thing. I'm not going to spend four or five hours to maybe get this thing out, and it's just not worth it. Don't leave your pop-ups on the ice. Yeah. This is what you don't do. Ice fishing. Yeah. That makes everybody look bad, too. Hopefully, the people that left it are all right, and they didn't have like an accident or an emergency, but a lot of times when that happens, friends can get stuff off the ice. So we have no idea why this is here, but it'd be nice to get it out, but we ain't getting it out today. It'll have to warm up quite a bit. Let's go get some fish instead. All right. Kind of slow going so far, but I heard there was an extra couple moose breakfast burritos over here, and these guys actually bring salsa, too. That's pretty impressive. They really know what they're doing. So I'm going to throw a little salsa in that thing. Maybe I'll start on it first, and probably drive that whole burrito right into me. Yeah, I'll definitely do that. He came flying in. Flying in on me. Nice. Look at that toga. Nice. Dude, look how fat he is. Oh, yeah. So I was just jigging that trap, and he literally just fully on the side. I go, whoa, like that. He's already on. Nice. I think there was another one, too, after I caught him on the stream. Yeah. Nice. All right, we're on the board. Yeah, I know. Oh, look at the smoke. Oh, look at them all. Holy smokes. He's still got more in. I'll let him keep those. There he goes. See you later, fish. See you later, little guy. Nice. Look at the smell they're eating. All those pin smells. They're tiny. Wow. That's why they're so, those togas are so fast in here. Like he came flying. I know, and you said something that was like he was already on. Yeah, I saw him come in from the side, and he was already on it. Cool. Thanks for taping that. Yep. No, that was fast. Holy crap. That only took like, oh, another one, another one. Dude, another one. Here he comes, here he comes. Oh, stay on it, stay on it, stay on it. There's either one or two there. He looks decent, doesn't he? He's not huge, but I'm going to drop it to bottom again, see if it incites him. There was two in there. Oh, here he is, here he is. See him? Yeah. If I can get him to rise, let him get close. Oh, he did not like that. Come on, stay, keep coming. See him going down to the bottom left. Oh, he's coming back. I'll get close, and then I'm going to play keep away, slowly reel. This is awesome. Eating the smell. Eating the smell right out of the grater when they came out. He's a little better than the last one. I bet you guys see a ton of fish in those nests. Oh, it's stupid. Yeah. Five pound brookies. You know Wilson Pond at Momma's? 10 to 15 pound pike all the time. Yeah. The bird was talking about all the rounds, and he's not terrible. It's about like that one. That one went out of derby. What derby? All right, there's, well, how big is this guy? About 18? All right, guys, 18 inches. That one was pretty aggressive. Let's try that again. All right, guys, nice little 18 plus incher. This one's pretty fat. He was aggressive. Eight pretty good. Afternoon. The biggest. Got him. Little guy. The first year was the biggest one. Oh, dude, they're all like that. First year. That was, that was, that was stupid. Oh, it hooked me with a rope though. That's pretty. How long have you guys been here? Not today. Oh, just that. Yeah, we came up yesterday. Look at that guy coming in. Got him. I almost feel like jigging myself. Oh, good one. Come on, dude. Oh, dude, there's been a couple bigger ones here. He had like a six, seven pounder on today on the jig rod. Oh, no way. Who did? The guy with us. His, his stinger on, on his lure hit the hole. I think he's coming up. Oh, another one. What were you saying? Wayne, what's going on in here? What's on TV? Anything good? No, I'm not watching TV. This TV, nothing good. Any more over there? No, they kind of died off once everybody drilled a bunch of holes. Did they die off over here? He came over to me and I had one right after another. We got some hot dog and beans over here. Looks good. I don't even need them heated up. Really? Yeah, this is perfect. Here, I'll get you a plate. That's quite a meal right there. There you go. Sit down. Where should I sit? I don't have to tray in there for it to spin. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, you got a fan on everything for cooking? Yeah. That's awesome. Wow. That's cool. I like that. That's one in the fart closet. Does it? Fart closet. What's this? That's this. That's the heater down here. Oh, okay. Is that a propane heater? Yeah. How was it sleeping out in this? It was a little warm. Yeah. That was like, it was 10 below zero out there. We were at like 68 degrees all night. Oh my gosh. He put on night mode and then just... Should I pop it away? Yeah. That's pretty awesome. It's like the same kind of oven and stove. Look at this. I can't... Then you can do stuff like this. Say you have a beer and then calibrate it. Look, ready? That's cool. Can you show it with that? Yeah. You have a beer? Pop it up. Catch the stick now. Wow. Catch cap. This is the real deal. Catch cover? Catch cap. Yeah, exactly. How's it looking? I think it looks good. I think it looks like a little burp maybe. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's good enough. I'll take it right outside if it's burnt. Yep. They probably didn't like me pulling it off. Yeah, it might have burnt, but that's all right. Yeah, it's not a little burnt. I think it's good actually. Like it? Yeah, let's put it in a bowl. Did you hit the popcorn button first time? Yeah. Nice. We're eating popcorn. Popcorn on the leg. In front of Kenny-O. Wayne, that's pretty amazing. We got to do a shack tour at some point. Go over the whole shack. Oh, speaking of eating something, we got... Oh, he's on you. He's on you. Lift up. You had him. Oh, he hit you. Goddamn it. He hit you twice. You got to be kidding me. No, he hit you twice. He didn't even look at Joe. He just fucking hit right over to you. He hit him. He turned around. I just... They hit you, turned around, hit you again. That was funny. Oh, yeah, real funny. No, yeah, I think I might start on pickled smells next week. You got to be kidding me. No. Did you actually see my rod? We just flashed it on Facebook now. No way. Yeah, these guys all saw it. You saw him get hit, right? That post was... Oh, he turned up. Oh, is he looking at you? Hit it. Did he hit you? Oh, you got one below you. Below you. Just a second. They're coming in high and low on us. Brady, you got one. I don't like this rod. I feel like if I open the bail, it's just going to make up for that. Oh, you got one coming. You got one coming hot. Lift. Yeah, he's going to bite. He bit. Yes, sir. Nice. The heartbreak. I have to get on my YouTube. Dude. Now you're going to make the blooper reel. Dude, I had him smoke. That thing was so big. No, did you see him? It did feel that big. Oh, my God. He was like this. I am a hero. Oh, two. Two coming in hot. He's always going after you hard. Oh, come to mine. Bite it. He's going to bite. He's going to bite. He's going to the one that's going to keep you. Yes, baby. He's got it. Get him in. This is like a better one. It is a good one. He came flying it. Nice job. He's on the board. Chubbs is on the board. Got him. Do I got to do a hole? Get in there. Yeah, hold it right up to the camera. Yeah. Wipe the blood off first. You got a nice one here, folks. Yeah. End of the day. Nice. Good job. Yeah. All right. Are you there? Any size? You're on the board. Nice. No, it's too small. That wouldn't even make one. Oh, he took them all there and choked that thing down. Did that wrangle it up? Nice. You're on the board, buddy. Oh, there's something there. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's something there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, that's been here with the tape staff. Oh, hey, Sonny. That does feel pretty good. Any size? We like six inches. Got him, boy. He's mouth watering. That's me. Yeah. He's salivating. Yeah. That's an egg husk, buddy. Yeah. The hole. Well, I don't know. It could be in the same hole. I was going to say. What's the separate hole? Oh, no. It's a Laker. It is a Laker. Yeah. Oh, no. It's a nice stuff. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It looked like a Laker, didn't it? Yeah, it did. How he does this, I don't know. That could be 10 inches deep. No, it's, dude, he crawls inside them. And seriously, dude. Yeah, if I can get a hole. His hands will be all bloody. He don't care. You want some snacks? Dude, why is that? That was impressive. Just costumeral. It wasn't a very big thing. He just hooked on the ice. Yeah. There you go. Bigger than the last. Yeah. It's like you're about to have a mess with it. So you caught over 100. Easy. Easy. They're all about the same size. These guys are right where I left them last night. Like, I don't know, eight hours ago, he was checking this trap. He was resetting this trap. I was like, man, that's a long reset. That's awesome. Good for you guys. You had a great night. Absolutely. I'm surprised there's not more people out here. I know. I heard. Is it just you two? No, Aaron's in the shack. Oh, OK. Yeah. I was expecting Aaron to be out here for sure. Yeah. Yeah. They, I heard some guys with sleds heading out this morning. But that's it. Let me show you a trick. You guys ever use the rubber band trick? No. Oh, I got to show you. Do you want to try it on that one? This will save you like a lot of time and energy. Right. Yeah, because they only go so far, right? Yeah. Give them like, like a couple of times. Yeah. Like the first two seconds. You know what I mean? They don't mess around. Yeah. So once you get set, I peel off five yards, tops, rubber band them. And then they run five yards, and they hit the rubber band, and it goes like this. And it sets on them. And if they're over eight pounds, they'll break the rubber band. OK. Right. You know, then you're going to get them. It doesn't matter. But anything smaller, you're only pulling in five yards each time. And then when it's cold, it'll save my butt. Is that where you're going to be? Yeah. OK. So give them like, pull out, about like there. So that's all. And then you just take your rubber band like this, and you pass it through itself like that. Yep. And then you coil this back up to the rubber band, and you wrap this rubber band once you get pretty tight, just over your reel like that. And that fish is going to hit that rubber band. And that hook's going to set for you. So you've got this much room to eat. Eat. Right. Reel it up, buddy. Yeah, then go to your point. Yeah, just roll until it's tight. You were like, you were up till it. Yeah, reel until it's tight. And then when you're done, just break the rubber band.