 epic giants land of the giants out here a staven brookie that is what a staven giant brook trout oh look at the size of that trout that is a pretty fish you get it it's right there wow look at that look at that staven trout oh my god that's the poking it when you got here it was to the band oh really yeah do it that's a pretty fish that's the biggest trout I think I've caught like that yeah there you go that look good yeah that's pretty dude all right I'm gonna let them go all right let's let them go guys we're gonna recycle that smile look at the size of that trout all right we're gonna let them go there he goes that was awesome yeah well he was I just missed him when we all pulled away the flag went up and it chewed my worm yeah so so I reset it same worm and I watched it go off and I came right over and it was already to my band and I was like oh my god that's a big head shake I'm like I hope this is a trout and sure as heck it was a trout oh yeah let it hit the band you think oh my god trout though yeah tiny maybe not yep there's an eater nice one guys back to help David see it about the same size but a lot smaller answer the six founder but yeah I feel bad for a guy take it it's to the band take it take it Bob I can't do I can't do any better than I've done it's right to the band feel right a lot of things don't feel like oh maybe it wasn't to the band sorry I don't know Chubb so he says take it while she's running I always take him on the run I do you can't let him get wrapped around something fish all right big fan of taking them on the run oh look at that I love those markings bad job Chubbs all right little guy going back so you know I know recycling smiles wants to stay customer yeah I think we're at the band want them no right get them you this is the little this looks like most one ever well them in a little while it's not chubb oh yeah you have red fin that's like perfect size it's gonna be hard leaving this lake tomorrow I'm not little guy head shaking real small oh we're showing bucket who you are as a person yeah you're kidding I kid you not we might have a chubb hole here fellas jig jig rod time you want to be big good one it's got some weight but no head shakes doesn't know it's caught yeah now you got head shakes rookie number four give us that worm back I know all right guys there's a little brookie probably a little bit over 12 in probably but beautiful beautiful fish I don't know if you guys can see those worm markings on its back looks like my camera's fogged up bye bye got him he's tiny tiny tiny hello brookie little baby brookie number five for the day guys all right little brookie there get him back let him grow catch him when he's bigger it's finger food nice to eat some jobs I have not yet I'm gonna get into it though might be that time after eating some of us we're gonna take the egg couple of these little guys right here actually three we're gonna go for a three-banger wow yeah I can't do it I don't know what to do with my hands once the camera turns on just do this and you move them in point like while you're talking what is up guys Joe Holland here we are here on the world-famous Moose Head Lake in northern Maine central Maine what would you call it it's called northern Maine but I think if you looked at the map it's like about center maybe a little bit more fishing today with good buddies chubs and Sean we're fishing for the native Maine brook trout we're trying to catch a big brook trout or a lot of them that's what chubs and I are doing Sean on the other hand is still after the state record chubb the state record mountain trout he just missed it last year if you guys missed that video I'll put it up here in the cards but yeah he caught a staving job he's got four or five this trip on the ice so go back a couple episodes to if you haven't seen those we're having like our best brook trout trip we've ever had on native Maine brookies I think we have five over 20 inches so far so five big stavers and 13 total yesterday we braved it out and we had a we had a rough day in 30 to 50 mile an hour winds we were the only guys on the lake seems like a common theme but we hit like 15 lake trout and or 14 lake trout in a salmon so awesome day there if you want to check that out check us out deep water fishing we decided to take the day off from the brookies but today we're fishing an area that I've always wanted to fish and we're just kind of letting the wind dictate where we fish this week we have a hit list of places we want to fish you know Cowan's Cove little duck big duck the edge of lily bay donut Cove sugar island areas that are still open to ice fishing because there's a lot of certain specific areas that are closed in front of anywhere that the brook trout could be winter or fall or winter spawning I guess they've got it closed off but the brook trout fishing here on Moosehead Lake is top notch guys are catching four to seven pounders every year ever since the smallmouth got a hold in this lake you know that invasive species the brook trout fishing has really come to the front and gotten way better and better every year so there's a lot to be said for that you know I don't know the reasons why it could be that the smallmouth are eating one of the brook trout's predator it could be that the smallmouth are being eaten by the brook trout but you can't argue the facts is once they're in here the brook trout fishing has gotten better and better so we're mostly fishing worms and smelts we're fishing super shallow water I'm gonna probably go through at least one set of blades today maybe two and we'll see how we do stay tuned he wasn't even hooked yeah it was a brookie but he wasn't hooked and he jumped up hit the bank and went back down like a ten inch hold that worm in his mouth no he let it go and he still came up oh really yeah yeah crazy how a friggin you got a jig down there that's still going for the worm right easy target where are these things coming from that they're swimming by all of our traps a little cookie brookie there's your male nope I mean there's your female nice little brookie jump I'm going for the jump release yeah there you go we beat him one more time what's that brookie number six six brookies today one more we tie our record give it at least those were caught which we're hearing about those are caught between us this is all you not looking good fellas now it's looking good fellas tiny tiny tiny feels like a chaba oh whoa whoa number that one's got some nice looking spots on it what number we have I think you got six now six or seven yeah what's the most we've caught as a group today seven yeah we can't have you beat that so no matter how many more you catch I can't see it I don't want to bother you oh oh hi guys another brookie going down smash fest continues they're getting smaller oh man it's a tree oh no you didn't get any water when you loan your buddy when you loan your buddy your auger no fish there oh man smoke them done for don't do nice little mountain trout there guys non-spotted mountain trout they call those where those ones you caught Chamberlain like that yeah oh yeah so there was a rookie game warden he was they do like a probationary period I think it's like two or three months they got to do like ride along with seasoned game wardens and the seasoned guy it was during like bird season up in the north main woods where they're trying to catch people riding around with loaded guns and shooting birds from the vehicle rather than just get out and shoot it it's a big thing people like shooting birds out of the track I guess so in order to catch them before they'd unload because a lot of them guys are riding around with a single shot opened up but loaded you know so all you got to do is close it so when a warden comes they see the warden or another truck coming they just reach down and pop that shell out or two shells if it's a double barrel so in order to catch them the older warden had a really good trick where he'd leave like a chain or an axe in the road you know it make it look like it fell off a truck and those guys be riding long looking for birds and they'd see that chain or axe or whatever and they would back up and open their door to reach down to get it when they did he'd run out of the bushes main game wardens hands out you know that he'd look and the guy didn't have time to unload his gun so he'd get them every time so he taught that young warden that then that young warden got in a district where there was a guy that was notorious for doing it that he could never catch so he said it he said I'm gonna try that trick so you where's my thermos he had a brand new thermos there's his family gave him one of these for getting passing the warden exam he took his thermos and he knew the guy was in the area and he said it right in the road and the guy drove by you know drove by saw the service the tail lights come on the young warden is all excited he's like oh we're gonna get him you know he's hiding in the bushes waiting for him to back out jump out and see if his guns loaded and that guy puts it in reverse and backs right over that thermos at full speed that drives off and never stopped so I guess the guy that was cage year was the guy who'd been doing it a lot longer on the wrong side of the law she fetched up I'm gonna tell you it took me down into the puck of grass see that it's some really really tidy settle on it it's very tidy alright stop you're a brookie cute little guy I didn't know they made them this small I know all about them I can get that hook see you later dude yeah I am finally on the board there's a lot of brooks out in this little cove only took till noon time but I am on the fish I am on the meat did that happen? that was cool guys we were over there fishing and we looked over and the otter poked his head out of that hole went back on there he's mowing brooks are out pretty cool back out of it hey back out of it that was close close back out of it in some bacon have you ever wrapped bacon in scallops? no I have never done that don't mind my fingers it works so well let me bring it out there's small bacon cooking on in some way too of course nervous black stone this is a I think 22 inch you got that knife? flat top it's a jack of all trades if you gotta cook it it'll do it basically everything you cook on it is very fat nothing healthy about it sure lots of butter, lots of oil lots of bacon grease I heard stories about lots of hot dogs on this trip but I didn't eat the one yet I was thinking about that this morning I was wondering if we could throw some hot dogs in we got two apparently everybody was thinking about scallops on the way up yeah we got two bags of scallops, 10 million 10 million overall we have way too much food what do you think? pretty excellent might be the best thing I've ever eaten off this black stone definitely the best thing from the trip so far you got more steak bombs why don't we do it now? we're going to go get the big first oh when we get back from there I'll tell you man back to Canada what are we waiting for? well guys I don't know if you can beat bacon, wrapped scallops on the ice off the black stone we got one high flyer over there good thing I got the band on it it'll be on the leash by the time I get there it's hot too hot but we're suffering through it you know look grassy bottom what's up guys Chris Dolan here we are on the world famous Moose Head Lake I'm sitting here not catching any fish because Joe Holland is the premier fisherman out here showing us how it's done I mean it's crazy he could put a trap and a mud puddle and catch a monster brookie out of it at this point I think that would be true I mean but we are eating scallops wrapped in bacon it has been fun we've caught a lot of fish this trip way more than last year's trip way more the guy that makes the traps has not done very well you probably won't see him much in this video other than eating you might be surprised he made a nice smudge yesterday had a nice fire going yesterday I'm just making content we're here to build content we should just hire you as the video guy we need a videographer somebody to edit the videos make things happen I told you I'd make good cameraman you're right he knows how to build a phenomenal trap he just doesn't know how to use it it's that stupid red line you got on them traps I hate that I would go right out to every one of your traps right now kick them right down the hole and I'd go buy new ones and put some nice white line on some nice orange line lime green anything other than that red or blue or black the fish are scared of it this snow is deep in here looks like you need a pole you're overheating just right in the middle you're moving we stuck a wall you should get a snow wheel I know hook up that strap daddy's here the battery's almost dead next to the hitch see the hooks you don't think it'll bend though one of these days I'm going to learn this thing toes pretty good I don't belong in four feet of snow you'll get a snow wheel someday yeah crystal this one that's a mountain trail let them know what a moose sounds like give them a moose pretty good works pretty good do the cow do a cow got me a flag doing my flag's up way over there this isn't about you right now this is about Shawn show him a team might have snapped him catch it oh boy dude look at the size of this look at the size of this guy he never set the hook I was like is he using a smelt cause I could see the thing just doing this you gotta hold that off of the camera like I said the guy who catches the least that's the biggest one the biggest hook too hold the fetch I'm trying they must have hold on epic giants land of the giants out here show the folks at home he almost lost it alright buddy I'll hold it really close on the boat good for you just barely hooked it's right straight down awesome goshy look at that got him what is it little perch Chris Dolan here we have had an epic moose ed week we have caught multiple slammin' brookies had a huge toad day Joe Holland has showed me how to fish for sure every time I got a big one he got one even bigger had to it's been yesterday's weather sucked today was beautiful we got wind picking up now it's getting pretty dark so we're gonna call it a trip I think these guys are gonna fish one more day I gotta leave tomorrow gotta work you know fun stuff but we've had an epic trip I mean you couldn't ask for a better time you couldn't catch bigger fish we've had a great fishing trip except for Sean Sean's caught some really really nice pan fish you know what I mean pan fryers just wait till tomorrow I still got time alright guys so that's your recap for the day we're gonna film a little bit more we'll show you dinner we might head over to the Rockwood bar and grill and see what's happening over there we might not but we're gonna eat some good grub tonight we still got about I think it was a nine mile ride to get off the lake and yeah that's it we're watching the premiere from right there on the snow as you can see I broke through a lot yeah that was getting off the lake so I get to watch that on the ride home and I think the boys are gonna try to watch theirs too if we don't have enough rope Johnny's gonna run back where? where am I going? you're on what's up guys we're doing a recap we had a beef stew last night we did not eat all of it we got some choosy bread so Joe Holland here caught way more fish than the rest of us actually all the fish today we caught a couple of brekkies there was two of us I caught one little tiny one and I caught one little tiny one Joe showed up first thing drilled a hole you could drill a hole in a mud puddle he's got you would catch a fish so we're here back at camp we're chilling out these guys they got a fish one more day maybe we'll see one more day we'll see what the day brings I'm gonna go home tomorrow for us we can do whatever we want we can fish another 12 days we can fish one more day I'm gonna go home tomorrow Joe's has to leave he's got a real life real life has got to hit me but we haven't had any epic week brook trout fishing there's nothing off-road with the fort we got some good off-road footage that was the best brook trout fishing I've ever seen every single flag felt like it could have been the 6 pounds you know what I mean we had some epic brook trout fishing moosehead lake is one of the premier lakes in the state of Maine to catch brook trout ever since the small fish got in here I don't understand it man, it's crazy what's up guys I'm chubs I had a moosehead what's up guys I'm Joe Holland dude who's this this is smoke show Sean can't catch clap we're up here moosehead lake smash the brookies smash the brookies