 What's up guys? Joe Holland here. I am heading north, all the way north, to the main Canadian border for an absolute dream ice fishing trip. Last second thrown together, my good buddies from Reboot Outdoors that I've been fortunate enough to fish with in years past somehow had an opening last second for this trip and they shot me a message yesterday and said, hey we got one more spot that just opened up. We're heading to Glacier Lake to try for some musky. Do you want to go? And right away I could think of like 15 reasons why I couldn't go but about 20 years ago or so I just decided to say yes to almost everything if I could and I said yes. I'm going to make it happen and I'm going to join you guys so I'm heading up right now. The boys are a little bit behind me. I'm super super pumped about this because I've never caught a musky through the ice. I've never been to this part of the state. It's just super exciting and I get to fish with the guys again which is also really exciting some really good guys that are part of an amazing organization with Reboot Outdoors. If you don't know about Reboot Outdoors it's an organization that gets veterans out on the water on the hired water and out in the field and in the woods hunting and it just kind of you know reboot some back into civilian life and it's just a great group of guys that help each other get through some maybe hard time after getting home from overseas. We got a little bit of a snowstorm last night. It was really cold so the snow that we got didn't really get too nasty but there's a couple inches on the ground. Weather for this trip it's a really short trip. That was the only real bummer about the thing is we're heading up on a Tuesday travel day and then going to fish Wednesday Thursday and I think travel Friday. I'm coming up super super early. I left the house crazy early this morning. Musky were introduced into Canada into Lac Frontier. The Canadians were smart enough to introduce muskies into an area that there were none and they stalked them in the Lac Frontier in 1970 and as predators do they travel. You know they they find new feeding areas new hunting grounds and they travel down the St John's River and eventually got into Maine where they have taken residency down the St. John's into Bow Lake and Glacier Lake and all the way over to Baker Lake. Opened ice fishing is Glacier and Bow Lake where I'm heading right now. It's basically just a wider patch of the St John's River and I don't know a lot about it. I know there's some weed beds on the edges and we're going to be sent live bait on traps and possibly doing some jigging too. 15 years ago there was a 31 pound musky caught out of this lake here. I think it was like 43 inches and that was the state record that a couple years back it was broken from the St John's River at 33 pounds. I don't know where it stands right now but it might be the 33 pounder. Thanks for tuning in guys. This is super exciting for me. The goal of this trip is to catch a musky. There's not many places in Maine where there are muskies so now that we're on one we're shooting just for musky. Don't really care what size to start you know and the other goal to this trip for me is to kind of get up here learn the area find out how to get on to the body of water where it's safe where it's not and where I could possibly come up and shoot a winter camping trip up here on the river for a week long fish of musky. Weather for this trip looks unseasonably warm. It looks like we're going to have mid 40s tomorrow and possibly 50 degrees the next day. Guys thanks for tuning into the channel. I really appreciate it. The channel's really moving forward nicely and it's all in part to you guys and you guys clicking that like button or commenting on the video or sharing it with your friends and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that and it motivates me to shoot more videos and and to shoot better videos and try to get better footage for you guys thanks for tuning in guys let's see what we can do but I'm here and I'm pretty excited I just spoke with the proprietors really really nice people Sue and Wade super nice people they direct me to this cabin and I'm gonna take a look that is a thing of beauty look at this cabin huh nice oh yeah nice bathroom we got indoor plumbing shower living like a king again this I might start getting soft if I keep fishing out of places like this this is nice look at this a couple bunk beds another bed big moose on the wall a couple dea heads jeez this looks cozy a couple more bunk beds look at that wow wow wow this is awesome that's right oh wow you guys caught some good slosh huh oh well he took he had look at this yeah whoa he had a tarp on there and took it off come here bud come here there is another dog but it's an old come here lab yeah yeah wicked nice dog as soon as you fire up the sled he runs over all excited fish on most people would probably get that mounted what about that they wouldn't melt that one that might do something the old deal no we're gonna play around with this so it's a big gig yeah we just we brought so many different things I mean I I bought this when I was like seven months old thinking that I would use it someday for musky fishing and finally at 36 years old I'm here I go we'll see I mean look at it still in good shape he's got like more tackle in there than I have period like I got these right here I'm gonna wrap these around my crawlers crawlers yeah you stick your worm through these little holes right here and then you tie a fisherman's knot around them who's Clarence Clarence is the guy who sold them to me well guys the boys have finally made it they're here represent reboot outdoors and the general feeling around here is pretty much excited right fellas yeah we're pretty excited to try to get a musky tomorrow uh bucket list so we uh we're on the canadian main border and I actually expected it to be like tundra cold and we're probably going to be in our t-shirts tomorrow we're hoping t-shirts tomorrow johnny and I how many years ago was that two years or last year when you and I talked about doing this trip uh two plus yeah probably two winters ago two ice fishing so we were talking about doing this trip and then he shoots me a message like yesterday or the day before it wasn't longer yeah three days ago yeah and he's like spot opened up you want to end and I'm like okay I have 500 things to do I have three trips already planned this week I said yeah I'll be there easy decision easy decision fishing with reboot and any of the reboot guys is always a blast whether you kept something or not I'm gonna learn something I'm gonna laugh and we're gonna have fun you know it and you're gonna eat good and you're always gonna eat good tonight oh are we supposed to be waiting for the no you know that is part of are we supposed to be uh waiting for the bread no bread's ready here drive a drive a piece of that in here I just burnt my tongue perfect tonight we are eating slow cook deer stew and there's a bunch of stuff in there a bunch of good stuff in there I mean I don't even like mushrooms yeah there's some mushrooms in there I don't know if you guys eat those or not oh this girl figure yeah I probably eat that pine board you smell some gravy look at this guy represent reboot he's so cold he's a goat so tomorrow guys we are in luck the proprietor here is Wade Kelly Kelly right yes proprietor here is Wade Kelly and he is gracious enough to bring us in and show us how to get into the lake we're fishing it's no secret where we are we're gonna tell you right now we're fishing glacier glacier lake hard to get into I guess it's a 40 minute ride or so yeah might be a little bit longer we might be a little bit slower to my little sled and we got the wheeler with tracks but we're pretty pumped just to get in there now Wade has a his second grandchild being born tomorrow and he's still gonna bring us in and show us how to get in there and how to get out so we're excited about that can't thank him enough either blood on god yeah total yeah you can tell just by talking to him he's he's all about the smile oh yeah so yeah he's putting us on him hopefully can't wait so it's gonna be up to us after that i've been in shape all my life rounds of shape right actually no i was a stripper i got paid by the pound discounted you know we're out there for an exercise they called me roast beef we're out there for an exercise slab we went see that right there joe yep what's that mean that is you know one star general one star general for what for pike for pike actually it's not just pipe that right there any fish pulled out of the water that is over 20 pounds gets a star that's awesome not bad you're gonna be a longer trap i fished with you enough to know that i don't know i'm i'm hoping to have stars on all the trap let me see that real yeah check this out she's so this right here that's crazy so that's that sealed that is a completely sealed as as scott liby calls it buttery smooth he was like there ain't no can't there is a camera in there and we're gonna half hour drive for this bad boy see you later big good eater wonders musky baby see you later