 Hi guys, Joe Holland here. I'm here with my good buddy CJ from Burnt Meadow Guide Service. We're actually trolling. Yes. You guys asked for it. You asked for a spring trolling video. You asked for open water fishing videos. We're here to bring it to you. So we're out here, we're fishing in Maine. Spring, we're fishing for brown trout. So we're hoping to get into a couple of days. CJ's really good at brown trout. He's good at a lot of stuff, but he's especially good at brown trout. We're looking to get on my first fish trolling and this will be like my first time ever really trolling for trout. My history on open water is casting and bass fishing and tournament fishing. So it's gonna be a lot of fun for me to learn about it and it's gonna be a lot of fun to do it. So I'm pretty excited about it. All of my buddies at Troll say it's just like ice fishing. If you like ice fishing you'll like trolling and hey I like ice fishing. So what do you think buddy? Glad to have you out here. Oh I'm so glad to be here. We're gonna get you on a good brown this weekend. Hopefully. So CJ's got this set up. He's got all the gear. If you guys are interested at all in going and doing some trolling and you don't have the gear where you want to learn how he's doing it, give him a shout. I'll throw all his info down in the comment section or in the description section, maybe both, and hit him up. He's still got a couple open ends. He doesn't have many openings left but he does have a few and I know we're gonna have fun as we always do. You guys have seen him on a lot of my ice fishing videos so I don't expect anything different in this video. We're gonna have fun no matter what but come along. He's gonna he'll walk us through the gear that he's using and he'll walk us through the boat and everything else over the course of this video. So stay tuned. Hopefully we catch a fish or two. Just that front hook slides so no matter what you use for a length of a bait, you can adjust it. Hook him in the nose. I like hook him in the side. Some people hook him in the hole. I hook him in the day on the side. A little bit of a bend. Let's put it over. See what the roll looks like. See that nice slow roll. Yeah. I just go to my back and when this one goes off it's just gonna it'll bend hard. You'll see it just thumping. It's got a small dodger on it. Okay. I might switch out later and just go to a nothing. We'll see. Get these out. Then we'll play around with it. Like that. Yeah. Snap it in. Oh that tells you the depth? Oh yeah. That's pretty cool. So with this one what you're going to see is if the fish hits it and if he doesn't knock it off the ball out of the clip it's just going to go. Yeah. You're going to see that tip. Okay. How heavy a ball you had on that downrigger? 10 pounds. So that is that pretty well straight down? Pretty well. At a mile an hour it is. Yeah. You get anything over a mile an hour. Now when you get one on do you have to reel up all the other lines? Not unless it's a giant. Okay. If you've seen a fan, you can start reeling in lines. I can see why people do go to different places like like Kabu said because you can just look at all new stuff while you're trolling. It's no overwhelming the new body of water man. Oh yeah it's got to be crazy. Because if you were just to come in and look at this you'd be like where do I go? Yeah. Right. Right there Joe. Right there. That wall. Right there. You got it. Sweet. Oh yeah there you go. Doesn't feel very big. Just get your rod up and reel right over the top of the boat. Doesn't feel very big. Yeah. Woohoo my first one drooling. That was awesome. That's a pretty fish. Hey you got to start somewhere. Pretty awesome. Alright guys we're on the board about a 14 inch or there would probably be a keeper but we're not keeping them. Nice pretty brown trout. There you go. Sweet. Oh he's coming right in. Oh look at him. Oh he's on it. He's on it. Oh he's going back around. That was awesome. Yeah you see him come like this and turn and he can't and he shot in. That was awesome. They're fast. Yeah I'd like to literally see them come from here because you see it this way. Yeah. Right up in you'll watch down in the bottom. But there was two of them. Yeah. That was cool. How much does that happen in the game? I think a lot. I think probably 10 to 1. Yeah. For everyone. Yeah. That was cool. He just kind of watched. Yeah. Third. We only missed that Shiner bite. Yeah. Pretty freaking cool. There you go. That's him. Oh that's another fish. Yeah that looks better. Oh yeah. That was a pretty one. Was he? Yeah. That was awesome. Nice work bud. Yeah. That was cool. I saw that one go off. He's on something. Dude he's still over. Yeah. There he goes. Nice get him. That one. Yeah. No no no. You get it. You get it. You get it. Oh shoot. There he goes. Oh different. Different one. Another big one coming in. Wow this is a big one. He's coming in on. Is it this? Probably. Get ready. He's all over it. We've got a rock coming up. Should I lift this or no? I was getting all fired up over it. Alright guys we just saw our first really nice brown trout on the life school. It was so cool. So I just set up a camera so you guys are able to see it too. Cause that fish came in from like way up high and just shot right down into it. And was on it in and out and then he grabbed it. We didn't get him landed but it was still super cool. CJ and I are all fired up now. It's the first time seeing that trolling. You know we do a lot of. CJ and I work really hard ice fishing on working with a garment and really pushing the limits with it. Testing it out and stuff so it was really cool to use it for trolling. So definitely a game changer for that too. I mean you're going to catch that fish or not but it's cool to watch them come in and how they interact with your bait and your lure. Alright CJ is going to walk me through some different trolling lures cause I'm kind of curious and a buddy of mine was telling me about using streamers and DB Smelts for salmon. DB Smelts right there. You can see the curve on it. Those you control at a mile an hour. You control these slow. The other ones I like. Northeast Troller. That's pretty cool. But that's a two and a half mile an hour. So it's hard to control that one with bait. Now is that to get it that action or to keep it the right action? You got your speedy shiners. The old Mooslick wobbler. Yeah. Wonder bread. Like a Mooslick wobbler. What kind of speed on average? Same. About two. A mile and a half to two. So it's really hard to mix any of this stuff in except for DB Smelts with bait. It's really hard to get that right speed. You know you bait, you like it slow. Nice roll, spin. And if you go too fast and you bait in your live bait just down there doing stupid stuff. Everybody's got a different opinion. You ask five guys out of five different boats and they'll all tell you something different. They'll all swear by it. That's the only way that works. Tell you what works for me. That's fishing. I like how you put it. I'll tell you what works for me. Some of those are bass lures. That's a flat fish right there. Yeah that's an old proven. Oh yeah, you catch a lot of lake trout on that. Yeah? You can figure out how to run them. Dodgers, different size Dodgers. So these are Dodgers. These are Dodgers. Yeah I'm learning the difference between a Dodger and a Flasher. That's how much trolling I've done. It's a smaller Dodger. You know I like to use those on a fly rod sometimes. Or a Fass for the salmon. It's called the Slimline Dodger. It's got a little bit different action to it. Are these spinning at all or are they just... Nope, they just kind of like wobble. When we reel up we'll show the camera how they got like an action in the water. They give you bait a lot of action because it kind of slaps the bait around as it's moving. That's half of them. Imagine fish sometimes hit a Dodger instead of a bait. I believe that they do. Sometimes you'll see like this morning I think we had a hit on that. I think it hit the Dodger or not. The bait itself. Throw the tackle box at them. See what they like. It's funny we've been seeing the fish we've been seeing them in twos. You know we've seen the ones that we've seen on the screen have come in twos. But we got the GoPro set up on it now. We're hoping to get you guys some footage of one coming in. We're pretty close to that area where those last two big ones were I think. Right on that corner. Right on a corner I've heard from other Trollers that it always happens just after you make a turn. Right in the turn because it comes out and the bait's like drop or the action changes. It brings it up and it starts to go off again. You get one that follows you for a while and it's that different reaction. That's why I was laughing to myself because it happened just after we turned. Right after turn. It's like oh pandemonium. Yeah. It's so cool. Rolling rod that I absolutely love. What do you look for in a rod? I like. Is that one under us? Seeing the ball. Under the... Oh yeah that is. Oh yeah you just turned. He's turned. Got his attention with something. I might drop to him. He's still there. We lost him on the screen but it doesn't mean he's not still there. He comes to that hump. Here he comes. Here he comes. He's coming. He's coming. Oh he just... He stopped. No he's coming. Yeah you gotta go up fast. He's still coming. He's behind the rock. He's coming off that rock. Oh he's coming in hot now. He's coming in real hot now. He's about to hit. Oh he just stopped. That made him pretty excited. He's still there. Decent fish. He's under you. He's coming into your flashers. He's into your flashers. Oh man. Did he hit? Oh he's on you. Oh he went the other way. No he's coming back. Are you watching this? Yeah. This is so cool. Alright he's on the bait now. Oh he went past it. Now he's up in the spinners. He's in the spinners? He's up the spinners. Maybe he lifted up? Or will that mess him up? I don't know. About to fall out of some kind of tunnel. That spooked him but he's still in the picture. Oh he's coming in hot. He's coming in. Oh he turned. He looked at it. Yeah he's coming back. This is crazy. Yeah you're going to get him right now. Watch. Hit it. Oh he's like an inch away. He's on it. Oh he hit it. He hit it. He's coming back. Ready? He keeps touching it. He's all over it. He's swimming all around it. Did he just hit? He hit the left. It's pretty decent fish it's showing. I mean he's all over that thing. Alright he's coming back in right now. He could hit now. Come on. He's in and out. He's doing it again. He's on you again. Right now he's all over the bait. Oh he's on it. He's all over it. Eat it. Is he above it? He's above it. He's coming back into the Dodgers. What the heck? Do you want it higher? I don't know. I think he's just curious what the... Oh this is crazy. Like you've always known that they do that. So when I was a kid we had a camera. And I'm talking back in the day when you had to take it home and put it in your BCR. Yeah. And you always knew that they followed it for long ways. But now you're seeing it. He's right above us. Maybe he'll come for this one. Look at him. He's shooting into it hard. Hit it. Put the brakes on him. Oh here he comes. Yep. Yep. Oh my God. I bet you he's whacking that. Oh he's gone. Oh he's back. I think he's following us for 100 yards. Yeah. He's on it again. I bet you he's hit it. Or like sniffed it. At least a dozen times. He's kind of on it now isn't he? Yeah. It keeps like dark matter. Oh there he is. Oh yeah. Get him. Get him. Get him. Is he there? Is he there? Nope. Nope. I see him swimming away. Oh there he goes. Hit it. Yeah he did. He took a bait. Oh. I think he's still swimming. Oh he's a good one too. Maybe he'll get the other one too. Yeah. Get one of these other ones. That was cool. I spent probably more days until 9, 10 at night. Little bigger or no? Hell yeah. He's the biggest one of the day. We'll have to get another picture. Oh yeah look how pretty that fish is. What a beauty. Alright. There he is. Alright. Is that a good thing? He's decent. Oh it's a good one. Should I stab at him or get under him? Huh? Alright. So which line did we catch the fly on? We could probably fix that real quick. Right there if you want. You could just lift the fish up through it. There you go. Now go over Joe. Yep. Pull up out of there. Yeah. Huh? Let's get him back. Bigs a second. That was awesome. Bigs a second. Yeah. What do you think? Tell the folks at home about it. That was a grind. Yeah nice bro. I'm going to stay at it. Cool. Good one. Alright guys. The temperature dropped. The wind picked up. Our batteries are getting low. We're going to pull out. Go recharge some batteries and we might get back out later in the afternoon. It's already a couple hours after the past noon. So that might be it for today.