 Good morning second night in the books. It's looking like about 17 degrees out. It's 5 30 a.m. I got breakfast started the coffee is actually parking already and it's gonna be a great day We got a got some serious wind to content with it's already blowing straight Sidways out there about Oh, probably two hours ago. I started to hear the trees You know making some noise and sounds like a jet airplane So we got over we probably got about 20 miles an hour right now They're talking some gusts like in the 40s, so we're gonna try to set up out of the wind Good buddy CJ coming in he's bringing in a friend of his that I'm really excited to meet I've heard a lot about him an older fellow that's just really into fishing and a great guy and You know mine like CJ asked me to fish with friend of his that's all I need to hear so We're gonna fish together today Have a great time. We're gonna do some jigging for pan fish. We're gonna set some traps for big pike and We'll probably bounce around a little bit try to do a serious multi species day See if we can put anywhere from five to seven species top side But first things first I'm gonna drive this breakfast into me because that's That's one of the most important parts of the day This looking pretty damn good this morning nice hot breakfast pretty cold out there. It's dropping now 16 degrees when this howling I'm in a pretty good spot to block that north northwest wind which is gonna be the prevalent win this week So chopped onions in with my taters this morning adds a little bit nice flavor to it and With those taters if you can get them crispy on the outside and a little bit soft on the inside That's just about perfect. You know, I really like eating potatoes anyway, but especially when you cook them just right like that golden crispy on the outside and little bit soft on the inside and the Onions are Crisped right up, you know, they can even be burnt, but they're not but they could be and it's still be pretty darn good And then with the eggs I like to do over easy or over light or whatever you heck you call it Where the yolk is still a little bit runny but the whites all Done and then you can dip your bread in it and toast in it and eat the yolk that way So here we go. We'll try a little bit more of that sriracha on the eggs Little spice to it. All right dishes are done If you guys ever need me to do your dishes Let me know I'm pretty pretty darn good at it. Hi sons just about up out there Gonna be a great day guys come along. We're gonna I got a probably I got about an hour Maybe two hours fishing alone before I go out and pick up my friends. So come along Maybe we'll get one top side You might catch up to him if you do give him a hard pull and you got steel cables. You don't have to worry about breaking off Definitely was a pike but a lot of times they'll circle back so So don't be surprised if he hitches you out. Wow. He took a mile didn't he? Oh Hope you didn't drop it. I hope he circled back is what I'm hoping but it doesn't look good So that's my bottom marker there Huh, did he steal the bait? He got the bait bastard. So we had a pike We had one run. That's good sign. I'll throw another bait down there. We'll feed him again Cool thing about these big fishes Maybe eat more than once Look at this one That's grown ain't it? Yeah That's pretty well grown ain't it? Look at him down there and put it in there getting huge you know the goldens. Oh my god, we'll take everyone you got really yeah He's like half dead, but I I think he's gonna come to Man, he took some serious yardage, didn't he? Yep, yep, I tuck it in this other rubber band so the bait Can't trip it if he comes back to life. I know I had that one tucked too I don't know how he stripped that without getting the hook Well, we gave him a free meal. That's it Man that wind is getting fierce ain't it? Way more than 10 to 20 I'd say Okay, that sounds a lot more like it He bowled about straight sideways on us right now when we were coming across there. I was like, oh man Oh, just lucky I guess she's still going down Hey, did you get to the rubber? Yep, yep, I got it to the reel here so We're pretty good Yeah, so if that bait comes back alive Which he might he's he's trapped on my other rubber band so He shouldn't be able to set the flag off and then the pike rails it Pops them out and then it's free spooling because they they'll feel it and drop it. Yeah So that's we're set up pretty good there And bait that size it's gonna be a decent fish. I'd say wouldn't you Yeah, I couldn't catch a fish on the school Nice You know I have to flat note the bob So this is what I meant when I said you could possibly get tired to catch them and then just move to a different species They just sit there There's so many they'll keep coming and going we did find yesterday That the snowmobile did affect them a little bit Yeah, it pushed that's good. I was going to park further away, but I wanted to block the wind for you So I swung around that side I think the wind helps us Cool thing is you get to test out rod you get to test out gear on them and they're fun to catch and If you burrow some throw them out here. I'll cut them up and vacuum seal them Somebody'll eat them or we could cook them today if you want Actually, that's pretty good. See from a little bit north of rottland all the way up to derby line. They had farms That's a pretty one. Oh, I forgot to tell you there's goldens in here Did you see one and the meat's actually gold too? Really? Yeah, it's weird Like eating it, but there's no difference in taste or anything It's just weird when you play it and it comes out like perfectly gold Gold crappy? Yeah. Yeah, you can tell when you catch one. I saw one earlier. This whole face is gold Everything's gold on them and the skin is too. I mean the the meat And they came back a hundred percent toxin free really Yeah, it's just because they're young like even the biggest crappy in here Isn't old enough and they don't eat the things that That carry mercury and pass mercury on and the toxins So they're they're good to go and clean and the biologists eat them out of here. So Where is it? Is it that one? Yeah. That's a pretty good one Hold that baby up for the camera. Give him close. Yeah This is awesome, huh? This is more fun for me to watch you guys spanking them than me catching This is the stuff you dream about though like a school like this And then In the afternoon, I'll find us a school of yellows I'll get us a school of yellows and you got wait till you guys get on these yellows. Oh my god I like the ones where we caught they're not as as big They're fat. They're fatter because of how what they're eating They're just not quite as big because you and I were catching 14s all day here You'll catch like 12s all day. Where were you down at that pond where we went? Yeah, we went after you guys found them That was crazy, I've never had so much fun catching for same Yesterday was pretty fun. I got to admit with Sean he he was having a blast Because he doesn't get a chance to jig much and he doesn't get a chance to fish much poor guy What happens when you're in the fishing? All right Get him As quick as you could drop it's so easy That's a golden right there. Yeah You can see the inside his mouth is different Yeah, and the underneath the jaw and the if you get him in the light you can really see it's it's almost like an orange belly I fill ate up one last night Then you got that guy pretty good I got a tackle box full of baits and lures too guys if you want to try anything else or do anything Yeah, you can really see the gold in them. Oh, it's crazy and the color of the the flesh is the same Yeah, we don't know what causes it It's wicked rock walls Oh, what'd you get there? So you're up to three species so far. All right. That's the first perch We we never got any bigger perch in the school crappy. We we got a couple of those Well, I'm gonna set this other trap. I'm just gonna walk it I'm gonna keep it near us. Just keep the pike honest All right, that's my marker where I want the bait on the trap So about a foot and a half two foot off bottom But I'm gonna show you guys jack traps Big bait bands because we're running big bait We want one of these things this made by jack traps You could use a rubber regular rubber band, but they could be a pain in the neck these things have like a little pull tab on them You can take that but that goes right on the bottom of your trap Like so it's got your pull tab on it so you can pull it to get your line under it All right, so once you get to where you want you're just gonna tuck a pull and you can tuck as much under there as you want Or as little as you want And that keeps your bait from ever setting that trap off And then when the pike hits it it rips it out of there and then you then you're back to free spooling Just like that. We are set off I'll start scouting some yellows. I got a bunch of spots where they hang And Nice Right it's like fishing a bucket or a barrel Right these ones they swam away for about 32 seconds john's like where'd they go New one's moving in right there's probably a pike Easy 14 inches of ice right now You mean from from down there he comes out? Uh, normally yeah rather than run that woods trail. Yeah, he gets on near where you guys parked This thing's working out pretty good this shack That arm might go up Past john the furthest one to the right might be able to that one That might be able to go up a little more. I don't know if it's locked in or not Look at these, huh? Nice crappy These are nice They're like perfect eaters eyes too. Like when you put the filet knife to them You get a good you get a good piece. Yeah, like like you get belly meat off that one right there That's kind of the way I look at them if you don't get belly meat off them. They're kind of too small But that one you get some belly meat and All right, it's almost lunchtime I'm back in the shack Out of the wind over here and this shack is she's I'll tell you the temperature It's 65 degrees in here with no heat on just from the Ambient or I guess the heat that it attracts With the black roof and the sun beating on it and out of the wind chill So I'm definitely taking the jacket off I didn't realize how nice it was going to be over here But I'm going to cook up some louis lobsters for the boys And we're going to drive some of them into us and get back out there Hopefully get a pike topside for them If we can't do that we'll have more fun jigging like we're doing I think they're both well over 100 fish right now and it's not even not even noon There's a three for everybody Does he I call them red snappers. Yeah, I think that's what most people call them We call them louis lobsters Yeah, that's a cool setup Yeah, this one I got last year. I got two smaller ones um The 450 Basically is just one side of you So you just pick one side and it's long enough to get you caught And it's all you need for one person. They're freaking bad. Oh, yeah Yeah caught with a mat and I don't freak around If I'm if I'm camping more than one day, I'm bringing the floor Because there's nothing better. Maybe my socks at night It's dry Get you up off the ice. It's warm I think it'd be hard to go back to your 450 you have to have this one Just because you've got that this is just awesome How much room this is So I got this because dawning camps with me a lot when we put his bed there And then we put the wood stove. We had a wood stove last year So I put the kitchen here and the wood stove went out here But I don't know I don't know on this heater. I just It ain't much out of here too That one's an oven that goes on top of oh, okay the burner, but you're pretty awesome And then I can bake in it dawning's made bread and all sorts of good stuff like but but yeah, so this is about As good a setup as as there is out there. I think I mean I mean there's guys doing all sorts of different ways, but For me, this is like oh, I ever need do you have anybody checks on you during When you're camping no no because most of the time no one knows where I am or when I'm going or there's enough Unless it blow his phone up Yeah, what I'm within Um within service I like to go up in the north main woods and there's no service up there but I just haven't taken the trip yet this year because I don't know. I've just been behind and ice was behind and Last year we fished out of east ram and we got like An inch of rain one night And we fished it No, it rained all day and that all night We fished it and I ended up catching a big friggin toge in the rain at night. It was weird She wasn't in this though. Was you no no we were we were staying at um Congress cowgirls not a camp tog is that a stop water? No lake trout. That's what they call in the name It's like the indian word for it, but it's in our law book Like they don't have lake trout. They do anywhere tome and then lake trout Yeah I'll tell her known Who's he my butter there sponsored by oscar mire? Hunter. Yeah, my buddy. It's a half a friggin louis the lobster When I stick through it My buddy works for uh oscar mire for pfg then they buy oscar mire and he had that I'm like dude You gotta get me one. He just gave it to me. Oh, that was good I'll hit the spot on it. Yeah, I filled the void That's a good thing. You ready for another one? Sure Maybe it'll settle you can eat that you eat it. No, I've had enough He's only had two I had a monster breakfast In a minute But yeah, so last night was probably the second loudest I've ever had sleeping with the ice Nice one Golly, there's a pile on the screen. Yeah loaded What do you think John? Doesn't get any better than this name's got some pretty decent fishing up. Oh my god I've never seen it like this in gone CJ that took too long. Yeah, I know struggling trying to get the little ones for a challenge I did it those are the hardest ones to catch. Right Well, these guys are well and away on that school. We got them set up in the 2800 escape by eskimo It's the perfect day for it because it's been growing Like 10 to 25 straight sideways and then it throws in a gust of like 45 every once in a while So for the first time ever we screwed it down Never thought we'd have to screw it down before we left it hooked up to the snowmobile And it was still going to go here about so we screwed it down and she's been staying pretty good And it's just such a nice comfortable way to fish Normally, you know, just sit out to buck it out in the open But on a day like today when it's windy and cold You throw that wind chill in there and these guys are having like looking at me hooked up yet They're having like the time of their lives. It's actually warm in there And they're out of the wind and they're railing on them John's about to get one too. CJ's got one coming up. Yep. He does Double it up Choking they're on the mega school Choking the chump the chump Choking. Yeah You guys aren't having any fun. Are you? No, no My arms are tired. Yeah, I imagine You guys are well over a hundred each by now. I'd say that's a pretty good one Well, I'm gonna go see what's in that out of school See if it's a mix or if it's anything decent. I might move a couple of these pike sets around so I'll be in and out Yeah, if you need a thing just holler away. We'll be right here. Perfect Yeah, I don't know if it made a big run yet or not, but it's circled for sure It's up. It's up pretty high in that way I'm hoping I'm about a quarter inch high Yes Yeah So you could check it out if you feel it just whack them. It's that way. So you probably want to get on this side I think there's one over there, but I'm not sure If you feel him hit him hard I hope he didn't wrap it Just went up too when I called you Took a pretty good run Feeling yet Got him hit him again There you go They come right at you a lot Yeah, he's off Something on there Little pike All right, well better than nothing, right? I got a little clutch bag for you Really? They get bigger They do get bigger But not bad You got them Pretty good Does he even have the hook or is he just holding on to that bait? I don't know man I think that's a big bait Yep, barely hooked Yep That's all you Can you pull that hook out? There you go Hey, what do you think of that John? It was fun First bite through the eyes Was it? Nice Yep, first one They do get a little bigger But not much They give you heavy, but it's No bigger All right, good job John That was cool Little guy eating this bait, so it just shows you If you want to catch a 20 pounder what you could use You could use him How many you think you guys caught? Each I'm going to just be conservative I'd say 200 John was that one of the better days you ever had fishing? One of the best days I've ever had fishing, period Awesome It's always fun with CJ He's the best of the best And that uh, I'll tell you one thing that Eskimo did save the day Oh god, I know what I couldn't have done it today I've been out here for an hour trying to jig and it's brutal Like you can't eat your lined blow-in Yeah, that's the word Your line freezes, the hole freezes Everything around the hole freezes You're trying to hold it still for that crappy and the wind blowing it like that Yeah, it's pretty brutal But you guys are going to get in the woods And you'll probably be sweating by the time you get to the track Once you get out of this wind Because it's all wind chill Yeah, yeah Yeah, like when we went back for lunch It was 65 in the inside Yeah Yeah, with no heat on Yeah, if you stand outside It feels cold If you're inside, it feels cold If you stand outside, it feels cold And you get back in that and you can tell it's It's a good 10, 15 degrees different And no wind hitting you Yeah, I think that's awesome I'm pumped about it But it almost blew away a couple of times on you guys With you in it earlier I saw it came up off the ground So we spiked it down It's the first time I've ever spiked that one down And jeez, it seemed to work So, well, I was hoping we'd get you another pike topside, John But let's look at the bright side of it That you can only go up from there That's right You can't go down from there That's right They don't get much smaller Oh, gee, thanks I'm not gonna lie to you, man That was awesome Thank you I really appreciate you That was a great day Let me come out here Oh, it's my pleasure Yeah, absolutely great day I'm so glad you got out and hammered them And CJ had a great day too I'm glad you let him catch up you too I usually don't let him catch, buddy All right, buddy Awesome day All right, shoot me a message later I'll let you guys know how I do tomorrow All right Fishing's done for the day It's cooling right off We got 15 degrees I've got some batteries charging And trying to dry some clothes out And other stuff But I'm vacuum sealing my dead bait to save And to keep I'll be able to keep it thought out in here, I think And they won't freeze up And I'll be able to use that for Pike in the future So I'm doing that As you can see, I'm cooking some dinner In the Coleman stove On top of my Coleman propane There's my bag of bait Looking good So I'm all done vacuum sealing I think for tonight We'll never do that Job well done And for dinner tonight Dinner's an odd one tonight It's mostly horsedervers I don't know if you guys have ever eaten horsederver meat But it's not bad Otherwise known as four derbs So let's take a peek In that oven It is looking pretty good We got some mozzarella sticks We got jalapeno poppers Other than what is known as jalepeno poopers We got macaroni and cheese bites And we got loaded Bake potato skins Sounds like the best horsedervers ever And we're going to put them all together And make a meal out of it So it's like a dream come true For a little kid to have that for a meal We're not eating super healthy tonight But I don't know after a super cold hard day on the ice I don't mind eating some horsedervers Pound them in the main Pike didn't bite at all today With John got that one little tiny one And we missed one earlier And then I missed one I think I missed one at the end of the day That was about it for the pike But the boys had a wonderful day John's in his 70s And I think he said he had his best day of fishing ever Today Basically fish from like 8 to 230 With a lunch break And he caught over 250 fish And CJ, his good buddy Sitting right next to him did the same exact thing 250 for him He might have caught 249 actually I think John told me he beat him by one So that's pretty darn good fishing right there But let's uh I've been cooking this in that oven For about a half hour now I don't know if it's done or not The cheese is melting out So I'm thinking those are done at least Oh yeah, look at that Oh man, steamy hop I think the best thing's gonna do Is just pull that whole dang sheet right out under the plate That's what it's gonna look like right there You guys stay tuned I'm gonna cook some way better meals In that oven this week This is just kind of a warm up deal right there Stuff's already pre-made And it's not really good food But I'll cook some good food later in the week in that oven So stay tuned Much relastics aren't half bad But I think a lot of the mozzarella blew out of them So maybe I got the heat a little too high on that thing I thought I had it right around 300 It's pretty chilly in here as you can see my breath It's a lot nicer than it is outside It's 15 and dropping outside right now But there's a jalapeno popper Let's try one of them things Wow, that's super hot That'll burn the roof of your mouth We'll wait on that Let's try this macaroni and cheese bite Never had one of these before It's kind of a new thing Pretty good Tastes like the top when people bread macaroni and cheese Like Donny does Kind of tastes like that top first bite So it's pretty good It's like a deep-fried macaroni and cheese ball I don't really know what inspired this dinner tonight But I just was thinking of different stuff I could cook in the oven And for some reason these hors d'oeuvres came to mind Let's see if that jalapeno bite is a little bit bad Now she's still smoking How about one of these potato skins? Wow, those are going to be hot too Yeah, we're going to have to wait on that Nice That little bit of cream cheese offsets the jalapeno So it's not too hot Going in anyway Oh, that's damn good Cheddar and bacon on top of a potato skin Yes, sir I guess they call that like the sampler in the restaurant When you get more than one type of hors d'oeuvres finger food Well, I know one thing It's going to be a little bit earlier bedtime tonight than last night And I'm going to get at it pretty early tomorrow And go after the crappy pretty hard There's a saying where I come from Let's go something like early to bed Early to rise Fish like heck and makeup lies So but with that camera you can't really do much lying There was a sign at the pool growing up They said Welcome to our wool Notice there's no pee in it Please keep it that way Oh, he's got a kick out of that There was a sign above my grandmother's In my grandmother's bathroom That said We aim to please You aim to please That's pretty funny Easy cleanup tonight for dishes Just like that Dishes are done That's the end of that So I don't know if it was a filling meal To be honest with you I might have enough driving a bowl of soup in To me to finish this off Wet everything down Make it a little slippery But tasted good Everything was kind of like comfort food I guess you'd call it So I'm pretty comfortable right now But I'm thinking about a nice hot glass of tea Cup of tea Maybe maybe some soup to wash it down We'll see It's just I don't know why soup tastes so much better In cold weather like this I got that heater on three quarters on both valves And it's about six foot away from me And I'm over here blowing smoke And not quite shivering But maybe I'll crank it up Burn blow out of propping Always get my coffee ready the night Before just in case it freezes in here And I can't get any water I like just turning that on And being good to go Oh that's a cup of chicory right there Product I think it comes out of India They put it in a lot of coffees as like an additive So you've probably been drinking chicory for years And didn't know it But I like the taste of it on its own It's a pretty earthy taste And nutty I guess earthy I don't know how to describe it But I like the taste of it So I've been drinking it on its own for a while now You could add it to coffee too if you want Some people do that Some people add a little milk or sugar Or maple syrup to it But it's caffeine free And it's a coffee substitute So late at night it's pretty good to fill the void A lot of your Louisiana coffee makers like Community coffee I think is one of them Cafe Dumond They add chicory right in So it adds a really nice taste to coffee anyway I like to put a little bit in Boy that wind was rippin' today It blew about as hard as I've seen it We were kind of hidden a little bit But it got a I don't know Maybe about 650 feet to run Maybe a little bit more No that's about it And we had CJ in that Eskimo 2800 escape And it was also hooked up to the snowmobile And then that thing went airborne And he had to hold it down It was crazy when the wind gets underneath that That thing is pretty heavy on its own And then CJ's pretty heavy It was blowing hard And that was the first time I've ever had to Screw one of those down Because if there weren't two guys sitting in it It could get airborne in a hurry There had to have been gusts in the 50 plus 50-60s today I think it was pretty well sustained 10 to 25 So it was a little bit more than they called for this morning But tough, tough day to be outside fishing You know, I feel it on my hands I feel it on my face You know, just a layer of windburn I was jumping around looking for different schools And trying to get us on some pike too So I spent most of the day outside And it was a tough day to be outside That, you know, this isn't a plug for Eskimo or anything But that 2800 saved the day Because where we found the school It was kind of out in the open And those guys had to eat some wind And we were able to put both of them in a chair Sitting on top of a school Blocked in from the wind You know, on the sunlight Was throwing enough heat on the little tiny hut To keep it pretty enjoyable for those guys And keep their line from freezing up And keep the wind from blowing their line I was trying to jig some crappie out in the open With a life-scope and try to find a spot to fish And it was just blowing my line right out of the hole Lifting my bait up I tried to hold my rod tip still for the crappie to bite And it would just, the wind would blow it And it'd blow your line up on top of the ice That's already been cut So it'd get hung up in that And the hole was freezing out pretty good With a wind chill out there So being outside was pretty miserable today So that was really cool that we had that 2800 escape From Eskimo to jump in And it was comfortable for those guys We could have honestly fished three You know, it would have been just shoulder to shoulder Pretty close to it A little bit extra room I bet But I wanted to kind of jump around Try to find something I thought they were going to wear that school out So that's why I went looking for another school But those guys, man, they did their best to wear it out They each caught over 250 fish or right around there And, man, they left them biting You know, they were still biting when they left So they ended up getting four species out of that one school They got pumpkin seed, crappie, white perch and yellow perch So that was a lot of fun for those guys And you never know what's going to bite Like I always said, jerk on one end, waiting for jerk on another That's all fishing is I went a little strong in that cup of chicory right there She's dacking a boot Dacking a pocket I'll add a little water to it, but Some of you guys might not have ever heard of it It's kind of a Southern thing, I guess And I'm not a Southern boy But I just always had taste for a lot of the Southern things I know it came out like 1800s in France, I think As a substitute for coffee And then in the Civil War, when the North blocked off A lot of the trade routes for the south They needed coffee bad And they needed to make it go longer So it's been called like the hamburger helper A coffee or something along those lines You can mix it in But I really like the taste of it and the smell of it So I drank it straight up You know I'll add it to coffee too But if you got coffee that's real bitter or acidic It can make a coffee taste and smell a lot better But let me know in the comments if you guys ever drink chicory Or drink it straight up or use it on anything I can sprinkle it over like a dessert or something like that I bet it tastes pretty good there Well, that's going to do it for tonight, guys I'm pretty well worn out I'm not going to lie, really appreciate you guys tuning in I'm going to go after some bigger crappy tomorrow So tune in for that I got a day and a half left of that Nicole Stone Stone Cold Crappy Challenge My buddy CJ is actually in first So if I don't end up catching some good ones Happy to see him win Otherwise I'm going to give him heck and try to take it from him So I know that's what he'd want me to do But I really appreciate you guys tuning in I read all the comments So got any questions or got any comments? Throw them in there and I'll get to them