 So I was walking through the woods the other day and I found an old pot or pan that was sitting in a creek all corroded and nasty and I took the time. I cleaned it up and got it all nice and shiny and I thought this would be the perfect little skillet to cook some fish in or just take to the camp and test out and I got an itch to go fishing so we are heading to the lake to try these things out and do a little tent camping. Today's video is going to be sponsored by AG1. AG1 we are going to make some up right now. Guys I love this stuff. I drink it when I am at home but I especially love it when I am on the road because I don't always get the opportunity to get all the best nutrition that I need. This just gives it to me. I am getting all my vitamins, minerals, whole foods sourced, natural ingredients and also good bacteria for my gut. This is the perfect once a day nutritional supplement that just makes you feel great. Tastes good. 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I like to keep everything in these boxes and bags so that I can just take out if I want to sleep in the truck or use it for other things I can. But I've actually thought about doing a dedicated truck cap shell enclosed just for the dangle and hunting trips and everything like that but that's a video for another day. I've got a new tent that I discovered. I went to an international hunting show called the Sheep Show and they have tons of hunting gear for basically mountain hunting gear and everything you want to be light because you're carrying everything on your back. So I wanted to try that tent out and we're also going to put this baby to test. I didn't bring much food but what I did bring is a heart from a deer. I've already chopped it up. Just got to let that thaw out and this is going to be our dinner if we can't catch any fish. But I do want to see how this pan holds up but I found this in a creek by the house and this was literally all green and was corroded. This is made by Revere. Let us in like Paul Revere says, right 18, 1801? Obviously it wasn't made in 1801 but I think it's a vintage style pan. There's some chips in it from rocks and stuff like that. This is all corroded. This was completely rusted but I want to see how it does. You know, it's a little camp set, stainless steel pans are not cheap these days. This perfect little backpackable bag right here is my tent and it's a teepee style tent which is something that I've never camped in before. I've always had the, you know, the poles, the carbon fire poles or the aluminum poles that's set up in a little dome style tent. I've never actually used one that's a teepee. This one is made by Argali. I've been looking for a teepee style tent that I can make a hot tent out of which is where you have a stove. It's great for winter camping. I don't actually have the stove. They're sold out of them right now. So I have this section and I have, I have an internal part of the tent, you know, that has like a bug net and things like that, a little bath tub style situation. But we're not even going to use that. We're going to sleep on the ground. Scorpions, rail snakes, hopefully it's cold enough for them to not be here. And I think we've got to hit the lake guys. There's seagulls bopping out here. I see them getting shad right now. We got striper in here. There's crappie. There's big largemouth bass. One of my biggest bass ever caught has been out of this lake right here. Ideally, I would want to set my tent up like right here since the flat is ground. But with our wind, we're going to have some embers from our campfire. And I really don't want to put any holes in my tent. So I'm going to try to get it just off the path of the embers and still have a little bit of flat land right here. Those are stakes. This ground is so hard that I'm having trouble getting my stakes in. So we got our four basic stakes in. This is our pole. This pole is also adjustable so I can raise it up on them in there, make things tighter if I want to make the base wider. It's adjustable in that way. Now we'll just stake out the rest. See how this works. I'd say a snake could still crawl up in there with me if it wanted to. I'm not on perfectly flat ground. But yeah, we are in rattlesnake country. Now we're just going to add our bed roll. We'll pretty much be set. Have a look inside my crib. This is actually a four person tent. But I think it could comfortably sleep too and then still have some room for a gear. And if you check out my roof, you can see the little, there's like a cup up there. It's a reinforced liner that the pole goes in. Makes it easy, an easy fit. There's access on both sides. There is our stove jack and so a stove pipe would go up through that and I can actually just take that out if I want to. I don't even need it right now. You can open that vent and make some air flow. But when I have a stove in here, right here I can cook. I can be entirely inside of here. Just have a nice, hot stove, hot tent to sleep in. But I think the weather that we have right now is going to be perfect. So as long as no critters come in here, we'll have a good night's rest. Something I can tell you I'm already going to like about this tent is that I can actually not fully stand up, but I can be on my knees at least. Inside of a regular tent, you know, you're just crouched over, you have to lay down at least have some headroom in here where I can stand up and, you know, get dressed and when it's real cold, I don't have to go out in the elements to put all my gear on. I can do it all inside of here instead of doing like the shuffle moves. If you guys tent camp, backpack camp, you know what I'm talking about. Now there's just one more thing we got to do before we go fishing. And that is get our fire prepped and ready to go as soon as we get in because I'm going to be cooking on this fire tonight. From my experience coming in from fishing and not having a fire ready to go. That's like that delays you like an extra 30 minutes. You're hungry and you know, I'm going to use these coals. So it's going to take even longer. So I want to go ahead and get this fire ready to go. So when I come in, I hit a hit a lighter and boom, we don't have to worry about it. This right here is my magic friend for fires. So I got some of these burlap sacks a few years ago and I typically typically will keep one in the garage that has just wood scraps. I keep a lot of my bow shavings for making bows in here, stuff that's very good tender. And then also just things I want to dry out and use for starting fires. And then I can just hang this up and put some paracord through it. So it makes it a nice little hangable sack. And you know, if it's a little wet and I collect some things when I first get them to camp, I can hang this up and then they'll be dry, you know, in a day or two. And then I can use them for starting fires. And I went ahead and already just batonned some small pieces of oak, had those drying out ready to go, because a lot of my other wood is sort of wet from the torrential rains we've had in the last week or so. So I'm going to take some of this, I'll stack it up and I'll take some tender, put it in the middle. I have the other fuel logs around the sides. And when I come in, we can light it and be ready to go. First impressions on the water just dumping the boat in. There's something going on here. Water's more stained than usual. And I'm seeing dead bait, dead bluegill, dead shad. They must have gotten really cold here and they had a fish kill. And this is strange to see in the winter, but there's like really small bass and bluegill that are right here. I think they're just coming up to the ramp to get warm. There's even shad right there, gizzard shad and thread fins. Look at all this. That's never good. And look what we have over here. The infamous white-tailed deer, majestic and beautiful. I've been very fortunate so far this season that every time I take out the crispy collector, and of course I choose wisely, but I get calm days so I can run around a little bit on a windy day. I'd have to stay up in a creek. There's like dying shad over the lake. It's kind of weird. So this is definitely the most loaded down that I've ever had the crispy. I've got one crappie pole in here. I've got four bass poles. I've got all the electronics gear. I brought my crappie catfish bag, crappie baits. I have my big tote right here, which has all my goodies in it. These totes are pretty awesome. Actually, if you guys want to get some of these, these are one of my favorite tackle storage things that we have at Guggen Squad. They're just perfect for putting these tackle trays in. And I'm looking for jerky baits right here. Man, look at this. Lots of little dead bluegill. I have not seen a dead bass yet. Hoping something else isn't going on. Look at that dead shad. It'd be so easy to be a predator fish right now. This is fresh. I mean, this is within the last 24 hours this thing's been going on. That little gill is still alive, guys. Look at him. All right, maybe this is not good for fishing. Maybe you have something going on here in the water. That's not right. Back at camp, we got no fish to put in our skillet. It was it was a toughy, but we do have our dear heart. And that's what we're going to cook. And the wind has died down beautifully to make our fire. Everything is all set up here in a nice Lincoln log pattern. I'm just going to take a couple of these off the top so I can get to the tender and we're going to light it up and get in there. Something about a smell of a campfire gets me every time. When we get the coals nice and hot, we'll break out the skillet and we'll cook up our dear heart. While that fire is getting hot, I'm actually just hooked up the boat to recharge it. I'm hooking it up to the Blue Eddy charger. I brought my little 12 volt battery charger. Just a little gator clamps and I'm testing the limits of this. You know, I want it to be something that I can take off grid. So having that extra power source is pretty cool. Well, look at that. Looks like I've already got a pretty much full charge. We'll just leave it on the trickle charge. Yeah, we're still putting out 64 watts, so we're just topping her off. OK, we got the skillet over the campfire. It's been burning down a little bit. We're just going to add some olive oil. And we're going to start putting our potatoes in here. Looks like that oil is smoking. That's good. It's just at the perfect little spot right now where it's nice and calm down to cook. So it's out her taters, getting nice and soft. Then we're put our dear heart in there in the taters go. Oh, yeah, that's a good sound. Mix those around a little bit. We'll put some salt, pepper, garlic on it, making it nice and tasty. Just going to add a little bit of SPG here for the wind. And I just want to get these sort of soft. And then when they start getting soft, then I'll add the dear heart. That way everything's cooking evenly at the same time. And I don't know what kind of metal elements might be coming off this pan from sitting in a creek for like decades. Who knows? But. Yeah, looks to be cooking all right. So we'll give you a health update a couple of years. Now that we got some browning on the potatoes, we're going to take our dear heart right here. Lovely, full of delicious minerals, proteins, pretty good. And we'll mix that around. Kind of let that marinate zero stickage in our pan. I'm pretty happy with that. So I've got our browning on the potatoes. Let's go ahead at our heart. There's going to be some blood in it. That's OK. Do a little bit more SPG on the top. Not right there, folks, is a protein, mineral filled, delicious dinner. Just kick the fire up to level 10. Skillets already cooled off. We don't even need a plate. Just to step it up an extra notch, we're going to add a little chalula on here to our potatoes. And I actually like the the mineral-y taste in the heart. It's kind of nice to let you know that you're you're getting something good in your body. Break out the case hobo spoon here. Spoon fork knife combo. Let's get a taste test. Nice warm skillet on the lap to warm you up. Let's have a tater first. Perfectly cooked. Nothing wrong with that. Excellent flavor. How about this heart, though? That is cooked perfectly. It's not too chewy. Very little gaminess. Dare I say that that might be better than a striper or a crappie that I would have caught today. Something up with the fishing. All these baitfish dying. I don't know what it is, but we're going to keep exploring tomorrow. So we'll see how we do in the tent tonight. We'll crawl in here in a second, give you guys a look. Can't really ask for more than calm lake campfire and some good self-harvested protein. Campfire's burning down and this is home for tonight. So it's about 10 p.m. We're going to crawl in the sack here. Stainless steel pan, by the way, did amazing. Like there was zero sticking to it. Didn't get any grittiness or anything like that, so pan worked out great. Beautiful calm night. No rain chances. We're in the 40s. It's beautiful camping weather. So I'm going to crawl in here and I will see you guys in the a.m. Let you know how it is. Rising in the tent. There I am. What a way to wake up, man. Just listening to the birds and the world come alive. It's awesome. It's about 7 a.m. So just getting some light outside. I slept great. I slept great in here. We had one thing come around last night. Not really sure what it was. Sniffing hard. But nothing came up in here. There's actually something really cool about this tent that I didn't tell you guys. But it's made out of, a different material than normal tents. And when it's dewy outside or you get rain, it doesn't sag. And I've already tested that in the backyard. So normally I'd have like the tent sagging on me and it'd be all cold and wet. But not with this one. It's pretty sweet. So let's get outside. Let's see what the water is looking like. Well, we've got birds just going around behind us. And it's going to be a little cloudy overcast on these similar conditions yesterday. Not as windy yet. So I'm anxious to get out on the water and try it again. See what's going on with these fish. There's something going on in here. I should have got a bite on a jerk bit yesterday. But we're going to try to figure it out. It's the mystery in the adventure that keeps me coming back. 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