 All right, what's up guys? Joe Holland here. I am in northern Western Minnesota Just outside of brain yad and it's really windy out here in cold today. It's seven degrees winds blowing probably 20 I got out on the ice a little bit yesterday with my good buddy Nick But I didn't do a lot of filming because we were so focused on Talking about YouTube and YouTube channels and growth and just having a great time You know first time fishing together and we just didn't do a lot of film and the fishing wasn't good at all I never even saw a fish yesterday on the camera and we never caught a fish But today I'm gonna venture out. It's pretty tough conditions in the wind. I got the truck blocking it right now But I'm gonna venture out in this great big shallow bay and see if I can get some pan fish going on the jig rods with the electronics It's first ice here in Minnesota Had a long drive to get here to find some ice go see if we could find something Got like a Like it's a big shallow basin what they call a lake here. It's fairly small I'd call it a pond but I got here about 500 yards offshore and I'm kind of searching for that 10-foot depth range So I'm gonna poke a couple holes first holes of the year for me and see if we're in the right depth and drop The camera down see if we got some weeds weeds. They don't look too bad Standing up off the bottom there. So I'm gonna set up and fish it I have no idea if this is a good spot or not, but there's only one way to find out Fish that spot about 20 minutes had nothing come on the screen So we're gonna make a little move and just keep jumping around till we either find some really green grass or we actually find some fish We're mobile today. We got to keep moving. It's really cold out here. So You could stay warm if you're catching fish It's hard to stay warm if you're not catching fish and staying still If that makes sense Sometimes my brain gets cold We got something decent coming in I'm a little bit of a mess right now Think it's a crappy Didn't like that We got some action. I just missed a giant bass Now I got a yellow perch down there still Got him. All right All right, look at that little crappy Sweet right in the bottom of the lip Got him down in the weeds Caught him on that little tiny tiny thing. I don't even know if you could see it Yeah, there you go There he is guys my first fish ever in Minnesota. Nice little crappy. He's probably over 10 inch I'm not gonna tell you what he is without knowing for sure, but Beauty that was fun Did not come easy Get him back There he goes We did it. Whoo. All right, let's catch some more. That was fun He's coming up. Oh, I missed him got him He's tiny. Oh Here's my first sunny Wow He is tiny That's awesome Wow Nice, I am stoked. Look at how pretty that fish is Wow Look at that thing That is beautiful Another sunny Sweet pretty one. That was a better bite. That was a better bite Little bit better size nice Boink Got him another one another nice one That one's got a little color to them All right Bullheaded. Yes, sir How about that from Minnesota? Wow got him on the Aquaville where I would never caught him pegged him in the top On a Northland spawn How about that one boys? What a statement crappy Wow, that's a big one Nice nice nice nice We got a measurement on him He went 14 inches That's a good crappy He was down down down in those weeds in that aquaville It's on bite What a beauty Get a picture and send them my hands never get cold, but this wind is brutal out here Got him Oh, man, that was fun He ate a lot bigger lure than I thought he would little ghillie Good release Wonder bread Hope we got a looker We got a looker got him a little better Oh, that's beautiful That one's got a red dot behind its black spot. I think it's pumpkin seed Cool Reddier sunfish reddier I do not know my sunnies at all As you could tell got him Sweet And these guys are fun to catch They are fun to catch. They keep you pretty active got some dark fins on the bottom of that one Guys, this was some cool footage that I didn't notice live But you see that little blue gill coming in on the bottom right And I'm freaking out with my spoon just trying to get some attention of crappy or whatever's in the water and I got some attention of a pike And the blue gill kind of lifts up and something spooks. I'm pretty good right there And you see that pike on the left side of the screen Coming. Oh, there he goes. I'm going to slow it down big time for you right here And show you that he goes over and rails that blue gill and he missed him But it's cool to watch it in slow mo These guys came flying in Pulled both worms out but not the hook All right, nice guy Put him back See if I could re-hook these whams We got a crappy on screen Really would like to get this fish Nice crappy Another crappy That's awesome This guy was flying in the zone Come here black. I like the way he acted though Okay, hitting them pretty good out here guys. It's crazy crazy windy. It's blowing straight sideways Blowing like a sieve out here even in minnesota got probably 25 to 30 mile an hour winds It's eight. It was eight degrees when I stepped on the ice It was seven degrees sleeping in the truck last night and maybe it's warmed up I couldn't I can't really tell with the wind But it's freezing over pretty quick I'll show you the one two combo. I'm using for electronics on this on this day to catch these fishes I'm using the live scope here and as you can see I'm also using the aqua view I don't know if you can see that or not. I'll try to get the footage up for you, but We're right in the weeds the weeds are tall. They're way off bottom I'm fishing in about 10 foot of water and they come up to about five foot So half the water column can be weeds I found the right weeds is why I'm catching the fish But I'm using this Live scope here. So this is like my kill range where my lure is if anything comes in that area Then I'll I'll watch on the screen there You could do one or the other and still catch these fish But using two is like a left right knockout combo Because one I can see him coming in first with the live scope And then two I could focus on the camera and actually watch them pick that that bait And actually get to the hook Otherwise the camera the window to see what's going on is so tiny with all those weeds in the way And with a small screen anyway, I'm only about a foot away from my bait underwater Got him All right multi species day, baby yellow Highfalutin yellow perch Of course, he got all three hooks. It's amazing how they can do that All right Got a bad one right there Little yellow perch That was cool That'll look her Liced he's all liced up. Oh, there we go. That looked better. That looked better. Nice crappy All right, no meat or anything on him. I guess I cleared those weeds out and He came over to investigate like a predator will Absolutely awesome day efficient First day solo here in minnesota Ended up putting four different species topside lost a bass halfway. So I can't count that one Hooked into a pretty nice bass by accident But it was really fun the first probably Half hour 45 minutes maybe hour actually I didn't do anything didn't even see a fish and then I finally got into some green cabbage and saw that bass and some perch and some bait but didn't really get anything going and then I did a A vertical shift I'll think is that ice. Oh plenty thick about eight inches. Is it really? Yeah. How come gull doesn't have any I just I don't even know where gull is A huge lake. It's just four miles that way. There's no ice on it. Maybe it's good. It's 13 000 acres. Maybe the wind Yeah, this one probably shields the wind right with all those houses and stuff I mean, yeah, it's just four miles that way. Oh, and you know what else makes them freeze quicker is if they're shallow Is gull deeper? Well, it's a 13 000 acre lake and I heard the average is 18 feet. Oh, yeah, this one was like uh eight eight foot like past where that guy is now on the It was only like eight foot deep So when it's shallow like that it's going to cool down quicker And then it allows the top to freeze. So like if if gull is uh, if it gulls that deep, I imagine It stays warmer. I just got over on gull just looking out. I took my boat off a month ago Not one bit ice all the way across for miles. Wow Yeah, this one that guy was crazy. No, no, there's eight. There was eight inches. Yeah, that's pretty cool Interesting. Yeah. Well, good luck to you. Thank you so Yeah, great day of fishing guys. Um The key was for me moving around looking And since I brought the camera I was able just to drop that down to look at the weeds and the reasons I didn't see any fish or catch anything for the first hours. I wasn't in good weeds. I was in dead kind of mucky decaying Using oxygen putting off gases weeds rather than weeds that are giving off oxygen and have life The small stuff's feeding on that and then the smaller stuff's feeding on that and then up and up and up Till you get into the bigger stuff. So once I found the weeds and the thick stuff and A good mix of weeds too. I I was in some coon tails some yields eelgrass some cabbage And I don't know what the other one was. I didn't recognize it from what I've seen in Maine But once I got into that it was game on and I caught those Three different species there that really nice crappy and another couple real nice crappy And my first bluegill ever And I think that one with the red ear. I don't think it was a red ear I think it was a pumpkin seed, but I don't know. I don't know my my sunfish So I'll have a friend tell me or you guys tell me in the comments what they were but I think I think I caught bluegill and Pumpkin seed for the little guys and I couldn't tell if those were just really light colored crappy Or if I caught some white crappy and some black crappy, I don't know guys I know you're gonna laugh at me for saying that but we don't have anything like that in Maine. So I'm heading to st. Paul now to head to the ice show Stay tuned for the next episode or maybe even some guys that watch my channel If anybody in minnesota or wisconsin watches my channel. Thanks for tuning in guys. See you tomorrow