 Good morning. It is 38 degrees out It actually warmed up. Oh, no, it's 39 degrees now. It is six o'clock in the morning I am cooking up some breakfast gonna tear down camp and get across the lake load up and Drive over and meet up with CJ and Anna and hopefully do a little bit of live scope fishing today for some Crappy CJ's got the live scope as well So it's gonna be cool. We're gonna set them up next to each other. See how they do next to each other with any interference turn one and in Straight out mode look around and have one down mode should be kind of cool We're gonna try it never seen it before never heard of before and never tried it before bought first things first gonna drive some coffee into me and No, it was like a run out of propane If you ever run out of propane and these little bottles flip them over upside down, let that liquid propane Come down with gravity that buys you a couple more minutes of cooking or just change the bottle I'm gonna start refilling those little green bottles So if anybody else has done it has any tips feel free to leave it in the comments there It just makes sense. They're getting hard to find they're getting super expensive You can get a 20 or 50 pounder a lot cheaper than 21 pounders Got some water on top of the ice this morning She's getting a little slick Starting to see some water on top of the ice So she'll be a little slick, but that'll lubricate the runners on the snowmobile and keep things cool And I'll have my creepers on so I don't slip because water on top of glare ice is super slippery But first things first, let's get this breakfast into me Breakdown camp go get it loaded up and have a great day, but it is what it is I'm gonna hopefully we'll be on the water before Crappy really do but it's fun to work a midday I am excited to fish with these two fishing near CJ the last couple days and and talking with them We had some really good conversations and I think It's important to talk to other fishermen, you know, whether you agree whether you disagree It's important to talk to other fishermen who actually think and think about the fisheries and the conservation plan that the state has and How the fisheries have changed during their lifetime or even the past few years and CJ had a lot of insight into Sebego Which you know might not be popular with certain anglers It might not be popular with biologists, but you know, I truly believe them There's a guy that's on the water almost every day Whether it be winter or summer or spring and he's seen the toke population change He's seen the L. Y. Population change. He's seen the salmon population changes lifetime. So really good to talk to other fishermen, you know Whether they're cold water and your warm water guy or the opposite doesn't really matter I really like his thought process and I really like talking to him and I think I'm gonna really enjoy fishing with him He's got a great attitude. He's running a guide service And I think he's really busy with it. So this was a rare opportunity That's why we're trying to capitalize on it today That I was available and he was also available and we were in the same part of the state at the same time Dude took a while to get off the lake. Yeah, I think so we'll miss the early bite But it's fun to get them in the middle of the day. They're harder to work But it makes it more challenging It's pretty good. Is it? Great. We've kept some of the bigger ones in the middle of the day. Nice awesome. Perfect. You're chasing them, you know, you're putting the work in there. Yeah, and that's what I like it though That's what I like about crafty fishing. It's like you got to work hard for them. Yeah Yeah, sometimes it's just gravy one after another but sometimes you got to work. Yeah, it wouldn't be fun if it was like that all the time I agree. Yeah Sure, love to That is awesome. What a great setup, huh? Oh, look at all those fish That's awesome. How many gallons is it? Oh, the guy's the 2400 gallon tank. I don't use about 400 gallons. Wow. Does it ever freeze? No. Nice Okay, yeah, well let me just leave you some money on the counter. Oh, this is awesome. It's famous Willy Seas. It sure is Guys don't flies Wow, he's got everything, huh? Oh, is that one of those? But is that Mount? It is really That is beautiful. Now look at that cool carved one He's got some basket here I like pictures and bait shops, you know, like hunting or fishing pictures That's like my favorite thing because you go to that same shop for 20 years and then you see a picture You know that you might have had put up 20 years ago Just a kid. Look at all these fish pictures Probably some viewers are in this Not many people don't know who you are It's getting bigger That's a steep and yellow perch That's old Nice awesome You get mounted That's so cool Nice Bill, awesome shot I would live out here I love it For the caught in the corner 1197 I do live out here pretty much Where'd you get this thing? My dad found that in auction That's awesome. CJ probably doesn't like that No, I noticed you walked around I always scared one girl half to death She was all excited to me And she got rich about that thing And I heard a big loud scream Oh, man Really? Yeah, I gotta get up there again You going again this year? Yeah, that's not bad at all They seem to be about 100 100? Do you want me to go drill over them? Look at that score Oh, we might have a little competition here Oh, yeah, that's where we want to be What's the, how far? About 100 Will you be able to see my drill On that one? Yep I'll pace it off And it's right at 100 Yeah, just about 100 Nice, that's exactly what we want Are we able to see the drill? Perfect Close enough That looks pretty good to me Dude, I don't know There's just something about this stuff Really just tickles my insides Oh, me too. There's nothing better It's a hunt, you know You can hunt for a lake drill But I'll look back It doesn't matter Hello! Good morning! How are you? Good, how are you? Good, you walk everywhere, don't you? You need uber ice I do need uber ice Sometimes I am uber ice, but That's true, yeah Well, that thing doesn't follow me Look at them all Man, man, man 30 feet right behind us Look at this rattle just going We got some fish around They've been a little scared of the auger Yeah We first set up there And CJ found them over here So I drilled and then we came here And then they moved to those holes So we just said we're going to wait them out I threw a couple holes in the middle right here In case they get 45 feet straight behind us We do have a couple holes there Yeah God, keep moving this guy This thing's too light Mine's so light after being on some bagel for two Yeah, right Do I even have anything at all? The way I look at it too Is you build equity with every time you lift one It burns some of their calories You get them to do that five times The fifth time they're like, well, I gotta eat now I like that Two below me Oh yeah, you got one Directly under your He's right under you See him? That's a pretty good fish That's the bottom He's on you He just ate, didn't he? Yeah There he is Nice Been an object, man Oh my God, what a difference There you go Nice What is he, 10? I always underestimate the size Then I measure him and I'm like, oh man He's bigger They're pretty fish though That purple Yeah, that one's got the purple Yeah, he was on it hard I got two little guys on me There you go, nice Felt like a crappy bite, feel small I need you I'll bring him right in, he's not that big Felt like a crappy though, feels like a crappy That one's coming up after me right now That's a decent one Yeah, he's bigger than I thought Nice, love catching them Like that bottom of the lip, that hook's never coming out No, that one's light colored Yeah What a beautiful fish They gotta be one of the prettiest fish If you don't think so, you just turn them a little Bit in the sun and they get prettier Those fish weren't too bad for active 10 to 5 seconds to catch He sucked that right in Like a crappy, they just flare their gills You pull all that in That's why people have a high time catching them They don't feel it Yeah, it's a light bite I can't believe I felt that Deficient's big I know, I'm surprised I was telling myself Make sure you don't rip his teeth After the hook set we had to do The last couple days You got one all over you Joe Hard Is he on me? I'm waiting for your line to take off Yeah, he's all over you I'll get us another camera angle real quick Oh yeah, look at them all Nice school there He liked that The bottom's 40 The fish have been at like 32 Look at the school Got him, that feels decent Come on 18 I don't know if he's 18, but he feels decent They're gonna double up They're fired up That's a good one Nice one, huh? He's over 12 Yeah, come on Double up Nice, double! Are you keeping any of these to eat? No, I'm not This feels like a good one This is a decent fish Need me to grab that Oh yeah, nice one That's over well, over 12 They're getting bigger Those are nice fish Slabs They're hot That camera's not rolling There's a couple decent slabs for you guys CJ definitely got me on that one He's got a couple inches on me there Let's get them right back down Those six or eight of them in that school That was a nice little school They're moving a lot But they're coming right back Yeah, I'm surprised how much they're moving around They must be chasing bait pretty hard, huh? Yeah There's the hook set She's got one How's it feeling, Anna? Oh no, you put a good hook set on it and everything Bummer It's all right We're going to try and get that one You'll get the next one That's your first set, wasn't it? She didn't even get her second set in She's already got a flag up They're back in So I get super excited if I get a single coming in Because it's like, oh, is that a bass? Or is that a hook? You're reeled up, right? Yeah, this is me right here This one's a decent one coming to eat me That's a good fish Look There you go That looked good, I hope he's pretty decent That feels like a good fish Did I hook the eyes? Oh, I hooked that He's still on Thank you I drill another hole, but I hate to scare the school Good one Nice, I love catching these things There's a decent one there too besides seeing him So funny how much different we're seeing Oh yeah, I wasn't watching yours We should put them next to each other We'll walk the Whatever's better for the sun glare for you Is that okay? I just get so excited, I just throw it down Yeah, see him both Oh no, he's coming to me, I'm not ready That's like, is that a brown? I don't know I'm zoomed in so far Geez, that looks like a brown Or a pickerel Almost looks like a pickerel I think we're going to know Yeah Looks like he jumped on it, didn't it? Oh yeah Oh, did it? I was going by looks, not by feel Pretty sure that was a brown He's still I think he pulled my bait down To be honest with you, something feels weird He's all yours, no I still got my bait I'm jammed up a little bit It didn't look like a crappy to me It looked longer, it looked like a brown Dang it He's at about 34 I mean, that's a nice crappy If that's a crappy Just getting down to him, we'll see if he sees me I think he saw me, yeah, he saw me Oh boy, he's hot He's hot Eat it There he is, ooh Oh, pretty good One single suspended Over those fish we found half hour ago That feels pretty good, he's got big head shakes Might be Another decent solid Yeah Look at the meat on him Look how thick he is through there Can't wait to look into one of the big ones Oh yeah, a couple big ones down the bottom Beauty That's a good fish right there, dude So that, oh, now let's see If he can't go down, we might want to eat Man, my buddy says, you know what I do to them? Pick up, slap them on the ice, put them back in the water Does it work? Sometimes they just act stunned Like that Now just put them right there in the hole See ya Wow, that's awesome What's that all about? You think they're just stunned? You got them, you hooked up? Nice Oh yeah, that's a good mark, huh? Oh That's alright, there's another one same size I think, with them Big fat red blob It's like game on You know he's caught, he's as good as caught He just doesn't know it yet Well earlier we called him, we're going to have a double here Yeah, exactly The wing bad about doing this is you definitely have to keep your eye up here For those ones up higher in the water Call them when you zoom in like I'm doing Yeah, well I caught myself doing this the other day And I disciplined myself to stop doing it Yeah But you definitely see the benefits of being zoomed in Oh yeah How did he not He's still, look at him, he's still up in the water Call him I don't think these are the droids we're looking for But they're crappy I always tell people If you can get good at catching the smaller ones Makes the bigger ones so easy to catch Okay, kid, yesterday We're hooked up, oh yeah, jeez, oh wow Nice That's a good one, he's over 12 He didn't fight like as hard as those other 12s we got He's like a 12 inter, you know what I mean? That's about what we're catching over there, yeah Like them? Nice Beautiful, good eater Yeah, well we might keep a couple later I got a bag of cast right there We're gonna have some cast nuggets for lunch See if he can get down alright This is That was pretty deep That's so fun to watch Right Guys, I'll give you a little late afternoon update CJ is picking up the three traps that Anna had set None of them have been up and they got live shiners on them mid-depth so that kind of proves how tough the bite is today It's tough bite for sure I feel bad for CJ just because I've been in his shoes so many times where you bring somebody out and you're on good fish and all of a sudden Oh look at all the bait, wow Holy cow, that's what's happening to us today right there Wow And then the bite shuts off or there's no fish around There's speaking of fish around I don't know what these are for bait What is this thing? It's a brown Oh, no change That's a brown A brown on the crappy jig Wow, did he come flying in or what? Wow Nice What do you think he is about 15 inches? I'll measure him and throw him back real quick 14 and a half That's cool I'd never had that fish if it wasn't for that live scope Sure Good angle That was cool That was cool to watch That's what that one did earlier, that one earlier was a big brown because we just saw with that one, this one looked like a crappy almost I'd never caught that fish because I was reeling in to try to move spots and I get like almost up and I see Yes sir, nice Feel good? Not bad Not bad He poked your eye over there No, nice He's stunned Good one bud, that's amazing that works I've never done that before I love that Nice, good catch They're turning on a little There you go Jesus, I feel a little drag Oh yeah, nice one Beauty Turn on now Joe Yeah, that little late afternoon bite Now we just need one of the big boys to come They'll come They're so pretty Beautiful, good release Little bass Whitey, yeah That's why he's going so fast These must be small whiteys then Because that was the biggest out of the group of them Have ya? Huh That's a good eating fish if you can get a decent one of those Yeah, you guys tell me which one you like better than the quick challenge They couldn't? Huh Got him Not very big but I got him It's a yellow fourth species This is a multi-species day right there bud Man, that was a tough yellow to get Normally they're a lot easier to catch One, two, three, four Yeah, we can catch a thousand on that side You know, we want bigger ones Are they? Yeah We're after the Anything over 12, 13 Yeah, today we couldn't have done a whole heck of a lot different today No, I mean we drilled 50 holes with panoptics Yeah, you know We chased around a lot of fish today Yeah But that's fishing honestly I mean you get bait moving in on us It hasn't been here all year So that was obviously the game changer I wonder if the water didn't warm up too I mean that's the first two days stretch of really warm weather Nice warm days They're enjoyable for us I know But no, I mean that's and like with YouTube or fishing I'm sure it's the same with guidance The reason I will put up videos with like today where Look, we wanted to come out, we wanted to catch a smash Big one Like a 16, 17, 18 inch one And you've caught it before here Like we wanted to do that But I think we both have fished enough Or done enough stuff where we know it's just Like it's a feat And that's a great day to do that But like today Today flew by for me, I had a great time fishing with you because of the conversation And because it was like a wicked challenge Today's the hardest day of fishing that you've probably had out here all year It is the worst day of that When I started But when we started the wind hit us was hitting us this way Now the wind and the wind started coming this way Now the wind hit coming this way And that does affect the fish What do they say? Fish out of the east, fish bites the least Fish out of the west, fish bites the best Or wind out of the west, yeah And we actually didn't have that bad a day We caught four species and probably caught a good half dozen crappy over 12 inches That brown was awesome Got a brown, I missed a nice brown Yeah, that one hole right there Just before we were about to move We smashed, we doubled up We caught two more I don't know, we've done We caught one or two over there We've done almost 10 fish We've done 10 fish today Oh yeah, yeah I just don't consider that a good day Yeah, it was a good day I think as fishermen and people in general you have to manage your hopes with reality too So like I guarantee you if you and I came out here for five days in a row we would have four smasher days or three smasher days one iffy day and one bad day because they don't eat full every day They're not on the same three meals a day plan we are February is tough too February is a changeover Especially late February and then you also have weather Fish it That's a fun part about it I don't mind the discouraging day it fuels me a little bit fuels me wicked I had a feeling nothing on you but I had a feeling today was going to be tough because I've been in your shoes so many times where I've had buddies come down and I'm like I'm on the pike or I'm on the smallmouth or I'm on this and they come down and I'm just pulling my hair out like what is going on and then all of a sudden when there's clouds things out of your control oh it happens all the time it doesn't matter fishing, hunting you think you've got the best spot and you're going to show it to somebody and it's the worst day you've ever had I know what I'm talking about but you know what I do I really like about fishing with you already and talking with you the last couple of days is what I love about the outdoors, fishing, hunting, whatever it is I love figuring it out I love the challenge of me versus the fish, me versus the elements me versus like trying to figure them out always grinding those gears and I can already see it I see it in you big time like the same as me just coming back across the pond I'm looking at my Navi Odyssey all the time like I'm driving over something I should be looking at because if they're not here they're somewhere so wait, what's changed, what's different you might try something stupid like if you fish 4 feet of water and you don't fish 50 fish, dang I mean it takes a lot of work to try to figure that out but when you can and next year you go they went shallow or did they go deep nothing failure is nothing but learning exactly, it's not even a failure if you learn something from it not when it comes to fishing the only time I'd call it a failure probably well that's going to do it for this trip guys pretty awesome day today mixed it up, got off of Subego lake this morning as you saw I wanted to stop badly over a couple of those deep holes and tried to cross a couple of eyeballs down deep but I kind of knew better it's a long term game there instead I had an awesome day fishing a different part of the state than I've ever been in with CJ from burnt meadows guide service just great guy him and both Anna really really enjoyed fishing with them and grinding the day on the ice part of me wishes it was a smash fest and I just showed up and there was 16 to 18 inch crappy on every other drop but I know that's not a reality and I'm actually really happy to have fished my first day with CJ on a really tough day because I got to see what he was made of today I know it was something that he looked forward to fishing together for a little while now and it didn't go well fish wise this is bear with me as I explain this so it wasn't a smash fest it wasn't even as good as it normally has been for him and it wasn't even as good as the worst day so far it was probably the worst day on that spot and on that body of water for him so putting yourself in his shoes what I was really impressed with and what I really liked about it being a tough day was I got to see his character he didn't he didn't whine of course he didn't get mad he didn't show frustration and he didn't get upset or get mad at the fish or the equipment or other fishermen or anything like that he just bore down and worked hard and he worked harder and he drilled more holes and we went here we went there we tried in we tried out we tried down we tried up we tried different lures we tried to find the fish with moderate success we have and to me I've been in his shoes so many times where you invite somebody to come fish with you or hunt with you or ice fish with you or open water fish and it's just not as good as it has been or as you were expecting and it's hard man it's hard to deal with because it can be very frustrating there's a little bit more pressure on you bringing someone else and normally I'm in that position but it was cool to see someone else in that position and see someone handle it in an incredibly well way so super impressed with how CJ was today and how he fished today and really look forward to fishing again with him and Anna whether it be in the same place or somewhere different just totally my type of guy and his best with an open mind and learning every single day and each time you have a setback or you can call it a failure like that it makes you try even harder if you go out and smash them you go home and you're smiling you're happy and you fall asleep pretty easy you look at the pictures the videos and the posts and everything like that but when you go home and you haven't caught them if you're like I am and like CJ is you go home and you think what could I have done different what didn't I try where could those fish be where could they be that's kind of the mentality I think of for a winner right there I think someone who has that mentality is always going to do better than someone with a mentality of being on the fish and if I don't catch them it's somebody else's fault or I'm going to go home so I really like that I really like seeing that and I know he and I are going to get together again and have a smash fest one of these days and that's going to be awesome and it's always better a victory is always better after a defeat or after two defeats and a smash fest you wouldn't know how great it is because you have nothing to compare it to I mean I honestly look at today as an awesome day I could have been a hundred different places but there's no where I'd rather be especially after how it wound up we drilled that first hole the next thing I knew we were packing up and leaving it happened so quick on a day like that it's just a great day when it just flies by like that it just flies when you're having fun and time flew by today I really wish I had another day down there but he's busy, I'm busy I'm smoke tired it's almost nine o'clock at night I've been driving for a couple of hours feels like I've been driving for like I don't know a week straight or two weeks straight it's just been so darn busy but I'm excited to try to get these videos out to you guys I'm excited to do more of this stuff I'm going to introduce myself today on the water and tell me what the videos mean to them and that's the type of stuff that really drives me when I am tired to get as much content in as I can and continue pushing as hard as I push so I really want to thank everybody that watches, everybody that sends a message everybody that comments on this video or hits that like button you guys really don't know how helpful that is to me and how much it drives me and pushes me on to the next one