 You need help you need help You need help brother Good outdoor morning everybody that is how you get a fire going Goodness, I need to share with you the truth of life. I've unlocked one of the main secrets. I Have a hard time sleeping in the outdoor sometimes You got to find flat ground. That's one of the key things have a good pad I got those two things and then I have figured out the other element that made me sleep like a bear in Hibernation y'all just got up about 10 minutes ago. We're about to get our coffee going and all that the river has dropped It's all good news, but the the best news ever Okay, I got one of these things for Christmas if you haven't seen them You got it You got to get yourself one of these things and you're a a roller sleeper like me I twist all around a gravity blanket to go. This thing is it's heavy Turn this up for you so you can see Let me get a little grainy this blanket weighs 14 pounds. It's filled with beads the glass beads or I don't know But it is very heavy and you lay this thing out On top of the sleeping bag. I got a zero degree and it came in handy. I mean it was perfect It's 32 33 degrees Got inside of here on top of the pad and then Layed this over prevented all the you know the draftiness and all of that I didn't move for six hours. It was amazing. I got mine as a gift for Christmas Worth every penny. I would say it isn't raining. It's not gonna rain We just have some overcast conditions. The river has dropped Significantly if you guys watch the last video where it was it was really tough tough conditions We're just kind of getting up here setting up camp Try and see what was going on. I showed you guys a rock that was growing Inside of a tree actually the rock the tree itself was like growing on top of the rock and the water is now sitting over here and Just a little trickle a little side stream and what we're hoping for is the water out there is Gonna be much cleaner This is definitely one of those mornings you want to make yourself a fat cup of Joe Using the pour over method this morning and you just take your favorite cup set it on top Pour your hot water over your grounds And I'd like to keep my grounds in this thing this copygator keep fresh and tasty Those are a little stale to be honest with you They're from my last trip Colorado probably There's really not a hurry all to get out there and start whipping around the rod. It still looks kind of brown We're gonna figure out a way to catch them today And I think the best bite is gonna be in the afternoon Once the the water flow Slows down that's still a problem We're gonna figure it out today, and I've got three different rods that I'm gonna deploy three different techniques But already in this video two keys you've learned get yourself a weighted blanket if you're gonna be sleeping in the deep woods Get yourself a good cup of coffee that'll let'll override a bad night's sleep any day. Oh It's time to dang y'all it's time to dangle. I'm gonna break out the straight up Eight-foot croppy fishing jig and hole this right here And I'm just gonna put some some power bait on it. Let it sit, you know do the catfish type method I don't want to do that. I mean, I'll do it if I have to but I like casting the targets Getting that lure in the correct spot and when you get it in the right spot in that fish go boom It's good feeling that you did your job right. Well, you have a spoon though. Probably gold's fine Buddy Lance I Gotta get this fishing report from a man that looks so dialed in his gear. Hey, you can't catch anything Dude, I mean you're from the boots To the top you got it going on like basins I go baseball saying you gotta look good You look good. You play good. You look good. You might kiss you might kiss You might I'm digging this pack dude the pack looks great You could fit a lot of stuff in there Do you even got a drying agent for your flies? Look at you. What kind of dangle pole you got going on here? I'm fishing a seven six fiberglass three-way Three-way three-way. Let me see that. Let me see the whip. Let me see the action on that thing Fiberglass is gonna bend a lot more than your oh my gosh. Yeah, that'll get him excited Well, that's gonna be fun fight you can catch a four inch or that'll be a good fight. That's the key man, man. It's It's come down, but it's still muddy It's a little sketchy Okay, we're we got a little team here father-son teams Buddy Lance has got his dad and father-in-law here. We're gonna kind of fish Some of the same areas a little different pools And then just communicate and see what's what's working and what's not starting out with the inline spinner It's got a white blade on it a little rock there Definitely getting caught on the rocks. I don't have that many inline spinners. I need this one Looks like we're not gonna be able to get it dead. Gammits didn't last long Gonna try crossing these waters It's Stroll I'm gonna tell you what this is kind of scary. I mean look Look at that. It's amazing the power of water basically pointing my feet towards the water so there's less resistance Just side shuffling. I'm using my rod it's kind of a brace and a Test depth tester depth finder So you get behind this rock right here And the current stops that's where the fish are gonna be sitting That's the key. There's some slippery parts right here. It's not the best Gosh dang, that's slippery right there Shoo, this is taking me forever to cross. I'm trying to be uber careful It's moving right here. This is a high mover High mover right here Almost to safety. My goodness That is strong to the very end. Thank you lord another river crossing That's like a beaver dam situation I'm trying to get out to this little island Where I think the fish are gonna be Now this is a perfect spot for my little technique Wow already got it hung up Somehow Look right here somebody else's lure eggs fake eggs That's what they're using right there keep that aside. Okay Yeah, that is very deep right there My 12-foot pole is also acting as my My 12-foot pole is also acting as my stick I'm gonna sit here and untie this knot and hopefully the GoPro will capture You falling in we'll get a million views. Oh, yeah, it's deep on that side. It's a tricky wicket out here right now You know the only thing I've seen work so far Is people throwing power bait just with some split shots Just letting it hang there on the bottom basically catfish and the thing I did not want to do this technique. I Love it. The water's just not clear enough. It's looking like we're gonna have to go with the old local technique I think I'm literally gonna just tie this thing on right here Look at that Didn't want to do it, but I think we're gonna have to Lance hooked up you need help you need help You need help brother. Oh You got him. Dude. That's a big rainbow. Yeah, nice one dude. Oh My gosh first fish on the power bait. Let me get in your spot He was uh those nibbles over there that I was hearing that no, I swear where it really yeah Oh, he swallowed it. Yeah, that's what it is. It's the nibbles first fish y'all gosh We're right we're just right behind our camp right now this stuff stinks it smells like garlic it floats It would probably survive a nuclear disaster Babe Come on big trout. Oh, dude. I got a bite first fish got him. Oh came off Wow, you weren't lying Okay, my first my first bite with Yeah, yeah, no I had him I had him for a second Okay, this is something new for me. Oh this floating paste Why do they like it? I don't know But I'm telling you I've been fishing eight hours and that was my first bite So it felt like a little one But you never know Letting that scent carry in the current. Oh He's got it like oh no dude. I lost him dude. They're smoking this thing That was a hundred percent like you can tell the difference You can really tell the difference in the in the rocks versus the bites Yeah, now I'm ready. Oh dude another one jumped Lost him dude Keep dude, I just lost one give me give me another one. I just put it in the rod holder son Yeah, I know that honestly, it's kind of probably better to look at the rod tip, you know Yeah, we started tapping it. Yeah, that was a little one. No, huh? Yeah, I had I had him rigged up in the rod holder My rod holder. I mean the stick right here. I just happened to look down. He was Giving it a good tap. Oh Good to buy folks at home First trial here we go. I go pro battery died. I had it on a floating egg that I found I'm just having trouble getting them in Is the problem? I got one little tiny fish It's just so not the way I wanted to be fishing But I can't get bit on anything else Well, baby. Oh, he's tapping it. It's tapping it dude You didn't let him eat it or turkey it? Ah, I lost it Dang man. Look at this tiny little hook. Oh tiny That last one I just I let him, you know Let him eat it. I thought that guy was gonna eat it, but he just kept toying with it Well, folks, it's been a long hard-fought battle today. I've tried all the techniques At the end of the day it came down to just sitting on the bank Putting you a little Stanky bait on there and just watching rod tip not the way I wanted to turn out, but I did end up getting more I Lost a good one and I got this little tiny situation probably one of the smaller trout that I've ever caught but Hey, guess what? They all die in the summer and they all need to hit the frying pan anyway That's why they stalk them in here. I was with my buddy flurry the other day He suggested this brought this up. He said Everybody's doing this thing where they're cooking on rocks and I was like I want to see if it's an actual viable source like if I'm camping somewhere like this that has a bunch of rocks and Has some good flat rocks like this place does is this a viable way to cook your fish? I personally don't think you can beat a skillet, but we're gonna take our little rainbow friend here pop him up on a hot rock Sizzling and see what he tastes like see if it can be done really it's really can it be done with the rock? Got a little fire burning for continual heat but What we're gonna do is take our extremely hot rock That is sitting over here In the big fire right now. We're gonna take that out with some tongs set that over there and Hopefully this guy just starts Sizzling it's probably hot enough now. So I got a decent little fire going over here I'm gonna grab this hot rock with some tongs set it on top of these two pieces of wood With the fire burning underneath words. Go see how this goes. This is about as primitive cooking as you can get No tin foil no spices no butter I'm gonna miss the butter no olive oil no lubrications no no tasties nothing but the trout I might even eat it with the sacks. At least it's a small. I don't have like a huge one to cook through It's a good thing. Got a tiny fish today. It's about the only time you can say that Yeah, our rock is broken a little bit from the heat, but Still be good. Yeah, that's it nice blackened area. I have our fish Not much of a sizzle happening. It just says a little bit. It's it's starting to The rock just exploded again, so I got a hit over the grenade The fish is still intact. He's not exploded. Oh, you're the rocks. Yeah, look at the edge of the rock. I think it's still Fairly hot. I mean, it's not sizzling But I can see the skin is starting to shrink up a little bit. So that's an indicator. It's cooking I'll be able to see the meat when it turns white If it turns white, I might be eating sushi here y'all safety note if you're gonna do this maybe wear some goggles Sungly oh look the skin is sticking to the rock. So that means it's cooking. It's definitely sticking to the rock so move the trout to the edge of the rock so it'd get a little bit more Exposure and I want to burn the edges so far thoughts on this as a viable way To cook your fish the skin is sticking because it's hot and it's just there's no You know, there's no butter. There's no oil I've never just thrown a fish on a hot pan like that with no butter. It's gonna stick The juices are coming out. So that means that it's cooking and see it sizzling making the fish the best It can be no this is not it but man if I was stuck on an island or something and surrounded by fish and I had No ingredients or anything. I just had rocks and I had trout Definitely definitely a way to cook the fish effectively probably another way to cook it that would be better That I should try sometime is cooking it on a stick Like actually using the smoke and setting it higher above the fire You know, it would take longer But you put it up here rotisserie style That would be another way We go right here getting the moss everything from the rock the natural nutrients minerals pretty good Got a little bit of that, you know, grit to it. There's not a piece right here zoom in so y'all can see that brighten it up Bop-bop I am manual shooting like button There it is straight up on the rock fish on an ax y'all Primitive fire primitive cooking go ahead and smash it you've ever eaten like a Like a shellfish that's got a little grit to it That's kind of how how it is. There's like grit off the rock It's not terrible And I had this thing scorching in the fire. So Anything that was on there living it burned off. Oh, wow. It's actually falling out of the boat I want to show you guys this this is actually how you can tell when a fish is cooked when you grab that That spine and you can pull up on it and it's it's falling out of there quite easily That's when you know, it's cooked. So I mean this this whole side. I know is done. I was really worried about it Cooking but It's a hundred percent works y'all hundred percent. This is probably been Ten minutes of cooking Whereas like a normal trout this size I probably get done in five when I'm in control of the heat But man, there's nothing wrong with that. Oh heck yeah Oh my gosh This works a lot better than I expected it to So Don't want to try this for yourselves You just got to find a good rock that the problem is I picked this out of the river had a lot of moisture in it It can it can absolutely blow up on you with all the heat The water inside expands. So just be careful that I stuck the rock in the fire I big burning fire for ten minutes. I think that really helped now If I just started the fire and I put the coal rock on top I think it would it would take a significantly long longer time Perfectly cook ladies and gentlemen I'm just gonna show you this one last bite because I'm proud of this one Check that out That is tasty and actually I I use olive oil on this axe This is my my woodsman axe. It's a really nice axe I use olive oil for the wood and to keep the the metal Nice and lubricated and not resting so Already had olive oil on it ready to go Never thought I'd be eating a fish with it. All right, let's get you all focused in here and we'll shut her down Thank you guys for tuning in today The fishing has been tough. It has been a journey To try to catch these fish. I am hoping tomorrow morning We're gonna have some better water clarity but at least we figured out a way to catch them in the absolute worst circumstances and We figured out that you can cook these fish on a rock and I got to say that's pretty good with no Spices or anything on it. That's not bad. But as always, thank you guys for staying tuned with me, especially on these outdoor adventures I love taking you guys along. God bless you Go ahead and smash that like button for outdoor greatness and I'll see you back here at the river in the morning