 We're a fishing brook trout native wild brook trout in northern Maine on remote wilderness ponds Doesn't get much better than that Nice quite a few brook trout topside already haven't even had breakfast yet Got a cup of coffee driven right into me and got these eggs cooked it right now. Got the potatoes done then kind of Kind of an interesting way to cook is put something on get a flag turn the food on low Go get the flag and try to hustle back before it burns. We're doing pretty good right now to be honest with you Looking pretty good breakfast looking good Got a flag up right now. So gonna try to drive this breakfast right into me in a hurry And then go get those flags catch some heat me some more brook trout So far got one long and skinny brook trout quite a few topside not the droid. We're looking for yet We're looking for a big one. I'm using really big shiners and a little bit bigger hooks than normal And got a pretty good spread here. I've never fished here before so it's it's all new to me I kind of based it off the shoreline I was looking for ledge rocks points and gravelly bottom and that's kind of what I found if you look Along the shore, you'll see like the shale over here and ledge and then if you look upon the shoreline You'll see gravel right there with like decent sized stones and stuff like that brookie love to be in It just came around one thing feels like a pretty decent fish Oh We just got hung up. I'm gonna see if it'll swim out. So I don't pull it too hard underneath whatever it is Give it a chance to swim out of there Got it swimming out from under it. This is still on there. It feels like a pretty good fish But it's hard to tell when it's wrapped. Okay. We're free of that obstruction And we're close Yeah, nice brook trout Beauty holy cow What a beauty might be one of the prettiest ones yet. Let's take a look at that guy That might be the prettiest one yet Man If I didn't have a plate of breakfast sitting right there warm next to that hole This guy might go in the fry pan real quick What a pretty fish Get some breakfast in us. Oh, yeah, nice brookie get him back and eat some breakfast doesn't feel very big feels like a brookie little brookie Pretty This one feels all right It's not a job. It's decent Day on feels like a pretty good fish Don't be a job feeling more chubby. That's a brookie. Nice Pretty one man. These things are pretty aren't they That feels okay coming right at us A little brook trout nice one nice one Got him in the log All right, we got a brook trout stuck to a log This ought to be fun We got about a 12 inch brookie stuck to a log And I was gonna eat the next brookie I catch for lunch But I don't know if we're getting this guy in Got him Hey, he's smaller than I thought But he was wrapped up pretty good. That was fun. I had to hook the stick with the axe And break it To get it up through the hole Just barely tripped Nothing on there Got him. He's tiny Tiny little brook trout I don't know if he's even big enough to keep I don't believe he is I was gonna keep the next one for lunch But I think he might be a little too small Be good at eater size, but I think he's a little too small for that Let's get him back Oh freaking chub Not cool I know that was a trouble Chubba doo Chubba doo Okay guys quit fishing just a little bit earlier than normal today Got maybe 45 minutes left to daylight that way I can get my camp set up for the night Totally different camping for me than normal left the eskimo left the floor Left most of that stuff at home I'm gonna try something new. I'm gonna try to go super super stealth and super super easy camping I'm gonna actually try to camp and sleep in that thing Right there So one of the reasons I quit a little early is there is water in the bottom of that From the bait bucket from all the rain today from some fish I threw in there Now I need to unload all my fishing stuff flip that baby over let it dry out a little bit Get all the water out of it get it ready for bed tonight and cook up some dinner in the meantime That's my roof. I want my roof to dry out a little All right sleeping bag pillow and bed roll as though my camera gear So I'll show you the residual water just from fishing all day Most of that bait bucket water trying to see it So what I'm gonna do now is flip this baby over So it has a little bit of time to drain while I'm cooking dinner And hopefully it's pretty well dry. So my bed roll doesn't wick any of the moisture up Time for dinner All right dinner tonight is gonna be some deer steak Can never go wrong with deer steak My olive oil is still kind of frozen. So we gotta put a little heat to that See what happens Found this flagpole up in the woods from a beaver chew So I'm gonna cut a couple short lengths of that To lay down underneath the coat sled. I think Whereas I'm gonna camp on the ice tonight. I'll probably camp in the woods tomorrow Whereas I'm on the ice tonight sleeping on a giant huge ice cube Might make things a little colder unless I can get up off the ground Or get a little airflow underneath the temps tonight. It's only supposed to be about 18 or 19 Fahrenheit above zero. So we're not looking at anything crazy cold. So I think it would be better to Get up off the ice. So I'm gonna cut a couple Length for this thing Let's take a peek That one's done That one's perfect. That one's bleeding But it's good enough Bleeding but good enough That one's still got a layer. I need some cooking Let's see how everything's shaping up. We got dinner done Looking good got this up on the blocks This is Kind of dry a little bit of surface water, but not too bad I didn't make it air tight When I made it I was kind of in a rush to be honest with you So it's not super tight. So there'll be some airflow coming in and out of there tonight, which I don't know if it's going to be too cold or not. We'll see. I don't think it's going to be too cold I've slept in a lot colder than that In my tent So it should be pretty good I'm looking forward to it. I love packing light and easy and Tomorrow I'll be able to fish right till dark If I want to and Just I'll have this set up. I think I might set up in the woods though tomorrow I might go looking for some shed antlers in the afternoon That's my bed roll right there. It's two inches of foam This one's a Teton sport This is the same one I use over my cot when I'm sleeping In my Eskimo tent. It looks good It fits perfectly Now for my sleeping bag and pillow Kind of looks cozy doesn't it and then for the roof Let's see how that roof is going to look see if that roof dried out I think that's going to work out quite nicely Just in case we get any more like rain or sleep or snow tonight like like the last couple nights I'll have this cover On my roof over my head And I'll be able to crawl in a corner. I think then reach over and hopefully I'll be able to tuck it around pretty tight Around the outside tonight fishing these remote wilderness ponds like this It's quite a haul getting in here. And that's why I wanted to try packing a lot lighter than normal for wear and tear on all the equipment and just getting in here and Just wanted to try it too. So that's why we're a lot lighter this trip We're fishing brook trout native wild brook trout in northern Maine on remote wilderness ponds Doesn't get much better than that Hopefully that'll be comfortable tonight. I think it's going to be pretty good. It should be good enough for me My tolerance level is pretty high. So I don't really have too many worries about that But if that works out That's going to be a game changer for quick trips or satellite trips or jumping to another pond another pond another pond like get in get out Stay the night Should be able to hit a whole chain of ponds by doing that It'll be so easy just to pick up in the morning. All I'm going to have to do is just throw I'll make a pot of coffee right here. I'm actually going to probably fish right here tomorrow But if I was to move I would make a pot of coffee Maybe cook breakfast here throw then throw everything back in My bed after cleaning up the bed roll and and putting the bed roll away And then it's just hook up with a snowmobile and go to the next lake. I could even hook up tonight So I still have a little bit of daylight left. So what I think I'm going to do I decided I'm going to fish here tomorrow for brook trout So I think I'm going to drill my holes right now And I don't think they're going to freeze over too stiff in the morning So that way I can be pretty stealthy and maybe just pop them out in the morning if I need to commence right to fishing It'll save some time in the morning. It'll also make me a lot stealthier and a little bit more quiet in the morning We'll see if that works But I see that holes a little bit bigger than I like And there was some wind coming in it. So I'm going to put my pack basket Right there in front of that hole That'll block any wind coming down the lake Hoping it doesn't rain tonight, but you never know These mountains up here definitely make their own weather That should work like a rafter To hold up my roof that once I get in there Get a little closer to my head if I want so there's nothing sagging This tote sled is the otter large It's the biggest one they make now. They used to make one bigger But I don't think it sold very well because it was really too big to haul around With the Brandon box that I built for the top of this thing the extra 16 inches of height all the way around The old cover that fits the otter large still fit it and it was tight But my buddy had ordered the otter resort Cover by accident and we put it on and it actually wrapped around the entire box So it was a really nice fit. So he needed the otter large cover. So we just made it a trade So if you build a Brandon box and you want to cover that If you build a Brandon box and you want to cover that completely encompasses everything and it'll hold going 80 miles an hour Get the otter resort cover for the otter large Pro sled. Okay to deal with that crack I had in the front the big gap I put the basket in front to block the wind and then I decided to wrap the Cover all the way over the front where my head's going to be and then I'm going to crawl in the back over here And I'll reach down as much as I can with this Down maybe catch this cleat right here And then I got this stick to keep everything up and high Should be good to go. I got A really cool book i'm into right now called the adventures of lou and charlie if you guys ever Grew up reading fur efficient game like I did. I think I look forward to either Maurice decker's adventures of lou and charlie or possibly the end of the trapline pictures I look forward to those the most every month when I got my fur efficient game I read every single magazine cover to cover but I really really look forward to those adventures of lou and charlie It was um, it was a series and it was usually like a 12 part series So it'd be the whole year and Each time each episode kind of left you with a cliffhanger and they were really cool And then fur efficient game finally put everything all of those entire series into Some hardcover books and sold them as books. So of course I bought all those and I'm just starting to get into those right now. So Pretty awesome pretty awesome books, but I'm going to do some reading tonight I got a headlamp and I also have this big light What should light that up? Hopefully it doesn't rain too much or too hard tonight. I guess I could have brought a tarp I have a tarp in the truck, but the truck's really far away right now I think this tarp is This I know this tarp is pretty well waterproof. I mean, it's not perfect It's not like a tarp this cover that otter makes, but it should be all right for tonight Hopefully I'll be as snug as a dub in a tub You could definitely fit two people pretty comfortably in here, I think Without even having to stack them side by side Or as we say in Maine side by each And I'm just gonna wear a sweatshirt and sweatpants tonight Should be warm enough with that All right, I'm going that corner And the trick is like Not having to wear my boots in there, so I haven't figured out that trick yet. I've started to take one off I'm gonna fully take another off I'm not as agile as I once was All right, so that shoe That doesn't have one on Nice it worked cool All right boots are off Pretty dry They're gonna go in that far corner And I have a dry pair of socks in here That I'm gonna change into Got a stick right here to for the roof And that's it. I'm gonna bring you guys with me so I don't have to come back out All right Let's get some light in here Yeah, I wish that stick was drier But that's all I got Okay Pretty good boots out of the way I think I think I'm gonna be all right Got my book Gonna do some reading All right, good morning Sun is just about up It is pretty Pretty snug here in my sleeping bag. It's gonna be tough getting out of this this morning It's windy out there the wind blew pretty good all night Sleeping wise it was not bad I would definitely recommend a thicker Bed roll than just a two inch piece of soft foam done me Yeah, about the only thing I'd change really Being able to be mobile To maybe I would have just I definitely would have been better off sleeping in the woods out of the wind Out of the wind a little bit more It's gonna be a little bit of a challenge crawling out of this warm sleeping bag and throwing Those bibs on hopefully they dried out in the wind last night And my boots and getting the day started That froze up no big deal First things first gotta put my bibs on Then my boots on Then my jacket on And I got holes drilled. I don't know if they froze up or not And then we're gonna set some ice fishing traps for brook trout. All right Looking good. It's pretty chilly out here Get those clothes on start conserving my body heat Lost a little bit of body heat when I climbed out of that sleeping bag So let's get the coffee started I left my bait bucket on the other side of the lake because it's got an aerator in it I didn't want to listen to that aerator all night. All right, it's getting set up. Let's see what we got Put her on Shut up The yep, it's coffee time looks pretty muddy Oh, it ended up coming off pretty cold this morning Wind is blowing pretty hard I'm glad I put those Rails down underneath the sled otherwise that sled would have frozen last night while I was sleeping pretty good The whole surface we had about an inch and a half two inches of Slosh kind of mealy ice on top and that's all frozen solid today breakfast is cooking I had a couple flags so far, but Nothing top side other than a chub had a brookie messing with one took two shiners from me So hopefully comes back for a third Guttie he's very small