 All right, day five is upon me. What's up guys? It's a little chilly this morning, we're looking at .5 degrees or zero degrees outside. That double L for the inside temperature means it's under 32 degrees in here. I'm actually really comfortable where I am right now in the sleeping bag. Got this big thick sleeping bag here. It's like a cloth sleeping bag and a couple of wool blankets on top. And I'll leave the body heater on low to conserve propane. It doesn't really need to be that hot in here for sleeping. It was pretty windy last night. It was real windy yesterday. Ended up having a great day yesterday. Let me get this situation taken care of here. Ended up having a great day yesterday with some just awesome friends. Just got to fish with those guys, having fished with them for several years. Man, we just had a lot of fun. It wasn't really about the fishing yesterday. It was about just enjoying each other's company and hearing some good stories, telling some good stories, catching some fish while we were at it too. And I was going to ask you, do you realize those have not been out of that pocket in 21 years? Are you kidding me? Wow. And she made you come up here on this trip? You are so lucky to have a wife. That makes you go fishing. Sleeping last night was pretty good. It was windy, so everything's a little noisier and the ice was it was making ice. So everything was cracking last night too. So didn't get a ton of sleep today. I am going to kind of ease into the day again, take it easy, maybe go out and catch some of those deep fish and work with the electronics a little bit after some togue and white fish really get to learn that Garmin panoptics a little bit more. Inside conditions, you can see there's a lot of ice. At least I got a lot of ice on the sides of the walls here. I don't I just keep the heater on super low at night on the low setting. This is the big buddy heaters got three settings. I do that to conserve on propane and also because I really don't need it that hot here while I'm sleeping, as long as everything kind of stays thought out or close to it thought enough, then it keeps me happy. And I could thought out if I need some water or coffee or whatever else food for the next day, if it's semi thought out, I'm good to go. Not bad. Probably used three gallons yesterday. It's frigging cold out here. Woo, almost almost cold enough for gloves on. Don't run one out and do some deep water fishing, looking for some white fish and for some togue with the electronics. It is pretty nasty out there. I don't know if you could see all the little wind tornadoes swirling up around. I've been blocked by this kind of hill and wood line last night, protecting me a lot from the wind. It was still ripping, moving the shack around a little bit, but it was way better than if I was on the other shore. Yeah, got some wind to contend with. I'm going to try to head over to that steeper bluff over there and see if there's some deep water near it and see if we could jig some deep water fish for a couple of hours. Let's go. All right, change of plans. I just took a ride out there out in the open where I wanted to do some deep water fishing. Got off the sled and the wind just about pushed me across the ice. The wind is howling out there and it's it's zero degrees Fahrenheit. So I'm not going to mess around out there. I'm going to tuck in over here on this shoreline a little bit sheltered from the wind. It's still pretty windy. I'm just going to set traps for brook trout. So I came back to the shack. I'm going to get my bait, what's left of my my shyness, grab my traps and go set up down the shoreline out of the wind at least. And maybe once I get a little bit more courage, and if the wind dies down a little bit, then I'll sneak out with electronics and do a little jigging in deeper water while I have four sets in here. That's just pure ignorance out there right now. So we are not doing that. Let's get some traps. We've got traps. I brought these in the last night to throw them out because they were pretty well frozen. Now, I know they're not thought out yet, but they are a lot better than they would have been if I didn't bring them in. And that one needs line and a hook. So I'm going to leave that baby right home. You can sit here and we'll see what we got for bait. I think I got a dozen bait in there. I'll take that with me. I got I got crawlers, too. Might as well use these shyness. The boys left me with some crawlers yesterday. I got worms. I beg your pardon. All right, new plan, new plan, a little bit better plan, I think. And taint nothing wrong with a native brook trout either. So let's get after them, try it again. There's a stream flowing in the way back in there. So I figured this would be a good spot for brookies. Apparently I'm too shallow, so let's try further out. All right, new plan. After hitting the bottom on that first one, I know I smoke these blades. So I got an extra set of blades. I thought they were Allen wrench, like the old ones. But it looks like the head on them is a hexagon head, not Allen wrench. So I didn't bring an adjustable, but I do have a bunch of wrenches that I keep on the snow, be on my little toolbox. Hopefully one of them small enough to get on these so I could change these babies out. First thing I got to do is throw out this one so I could even get to the screws. I'm going to pop that battery out because I don't want this thing spinning when I mess around with those blades. And I know it's got a safety on the trigger and everything, but it's just as easy to pop that out. And I'm not in a rush because when you start rushing around stuff like this, you could get hurt. So I don't want to mess around at all, sharp blades. First thing I'm going to do is see if any of my wrenches fit these hexagon these bolts that are holding those blades in there. Looks like that little small one right there, Mike. Let's check the metric first. OK, that'll do it. It's not. Might not be the right one. We'll go with the metric one because I think it'll grab still. So for a metric, I have a eight. It's an eight. Let's see if it'll. Let's see if it'll grab them enough to turn them out. Yeah, she'll turn them out. Let's see if I can do it away from the blade. Now it started. I'm away from the blade in case it slipped now that it's loosened. I can work anywhere I want. Even though I doled these up, they are still absolute razor blades. So be careful when you're changing yours at home. You know, all it's going to take is one little dull spot to make it not cut good. First one out. Oh, yeah, shit. Wow, look at that. That's not good. That, that you can feel it rolled right over, too. Yep, she toast. All right, one down. There's two blades on this thing. I'm pushing away from the blade, guys. That way, for some reason, the wrench slips off or the bolt breaks or anything like that, and I slipped and my hand's not going into the blade. If I was here, I could easily slip into that blade. And I'm a long way from a hospital if you didn't know. But even if you're doing this at home, no one wants to trip into the hospital. Oh, man. Wow. That's the worst I've ever seen for me. I guess spending it after a hit bottom. It was really bad. I don't even know if I could sharpen these. Luckily, I pack at least one extra set. So those those cut for me almost all the last year. So over 2000 holes and then, you know, they were OK. They were still good after a couple thousand holes. But then when you hit when you hit bottom like that and it's hard bottom, then you're kind of screwed like anything. You get them both lined up, snug them a little bit by hand and then finish them off with a wrench. All right, after a couple of holes, I'll check that. But we should be good to go. Not in love with that center and spike being a little bit dull. But here's what it is. That's why you don't hit bottom. All right, we're back in business. Let's roll. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cold out there. We're looking at negative 12 degrees. That's how it's supposed to cut another chub. We've got enough chubs. Well, that's just about the end of day five. We're pretty slack day to day. I caught a couple chubs, had a couple other flags that were probably chubs, too. I kept trying to get out deep and fish some toge and white fish and use the electronics, but that wind was just ripping. And we hit a high of like six degrees today above zero. When you throw a 30 mile an hour wind on top of that, the wind chills pretty, pretty raw. So I didn't last too long out there and the fish really weren't biting. I did run into two people today. I got checked by a game warden. No problems there. Really nice game warden. I think he's from the southern part of the state and he's stationed up here now. So he's got a pretty good area for fishing and ice fishing and not so much for hunting anymore. Used to be a really good hunting area, but not anymore. Then I also got checked by a super nice ranger, I guess, Waterway Ranger for the Allagash Waterway and just a really, really decent fellow and had a great conversation with him. So it was cool running into these guys up here in their backyard, I guess, is where I'm fishing. So yeah, it was good to see them. And yeah, that was about it. Tonight, I'm gonna do some more reading. I've been really getting into this login book about New England login, Tall Trees and Tough Men. And it's really cool because it's actually talking about the flowage that I'm on having log drives down these lakes and rivers and this whole area and a lot of the history of the area I'm in from almost 200 years ago. So that's pretty cool reading the book on that and got a lot of really other cool information too. So I'm gonna finish that book up tonight. Gonna eat some beef stew with probably some mashed haters and have a nice, warm, full belly and hit the sack. And hopefully the wind sounds like the winds died down like a half hour ago when it got dark. So hopefully the wind dies enough tomorrow where I can get out on the big part of the lake and try to search out some of those lake trout and maybe even a couple of white fish.