 Oh, yeah, big yellow all right guys look at the bend on that pole didn't even get time to set the camera But I got one topside nice yellow perch Look at the size of that one. I Thought it was crappy Big school yellows here You eating these? Man, it's hard to throw that one back I'm not set up to eat them, but He's over 12 inches Nice nice yellow. Let's get him back catch another one. We got a school there. That was fun What is up guys Joe Holland here? I am here with my good buddy CJ. We are on super super early ice We're trying to get set up and I did the one thing that I did the one thing It's really hard to do when you're trying to get set up as I dropped a line in So that kind of stopped the whole setup process. So I gotta force myself to stop And get set up get a camera set up for you guys at home CJ's hooked up. Oh, yeah, I got a few on the crappier gonna come in higher, but I could be wrong. I Might have to hit those holes behind you Are you serious look at the size of that I think there he goes, I think it's pumping seas But I could be wrong. Yeah, pumpkin seeds. That's a nice one. That's big for out there, right? For pumpkin seed. That's a good one. Yeah, they get stave in like 10 11 inch Yes Say, but that's a good size one be a good eater if we're if you were eating them Adam Feels pretty good. I think it's a big yellow again. Oh crappy nice one Yeah, there was a whole school of them All right got that one on the Mickey jig Tip with a little crawler top of the No, they were pretty low Yeah, they just scooted out on me, but there's a nice 12 inch or to start the day Yeah, 12 maybe a little bit bigger than 12 actually get him back good color in here, too Yep, I like that gold Got him. I Just had a school on me. I had a really nice fish. I think it was a giant yellow Oh, yeah, there's a nice yellow there. I need a bigger one on the camera. I mean on the beautiful These are gorgeous yellow perch Got that one on a castmaster. It's like one of the greatest lures of all time Real nice yellow there guys. Look at them. It's like one and done Yeah, I don't know letting these yellows go their tattletail and on us or what? Oh, they're flying Damn What are these we're gonna find out? Got them. Oh Pretty decent fish, whatever it is Think I got the second one. Oh, no. Oh my god Came off. That was a good fish See if I can catch the last one coming through Oh got him Got up got the second one Yellow I don't like to have seen that first one Got a nice school of yellows here guys Get back down. Oh, I still got some here about to get another one Got him Little guy. Oh, yeah, look at that one Awesome and the school's gone Man they come in in a hurry They leave in a hurry. All right, nice yellow nice yellow perch Let's race them down. Go ahead on that one. This one's pretty decent Good fighter here. Oh, yeah, big yellow. Wow. You got that pretty deep Nice yellow perch there Anytime you could lip them. That's pretty good pretty good size perch Good yellow perch there guys Get him back Yeah, I'm gonna come back that way. I lost everything here. That was weird I don't think these fishers get it. I think they're just moving Nice I got a school of yellows just moved in on me. Ah, maybe. Yeah, I swear you can't let these guys go I think I got a nice yellow Yep, nice yellow Here they come Yeah, nice yellow there. That's a big yellow Wow That's a good size yellow And they're gone got them Double got a double. I Want to hold this one up for a picture, but I got a double. Oh Look at that. Two nice ones. I got two for a picture at least There's another one down there, but I don't want to I don't want to drop Yeah All right, couple good ones there guys CJ and I are out here smashing big yellows got these both on a castmaster with no meat on them and You know, they're both in the 13 and a half 14 inch range We're gonna throw those back and see if we can get a couple more. It's hard to If we were eating these we'd probably catch more because as you let them go they just they go away They take the school with them But this school's kind of stuck around a little bit for me But yeah, there was I think it was a big bass. It might have been crappy. It was off the bottom Kind of came in and scared everybody They're moving like crazy. Yeah, they're covering a lot of water. Yeah And it's not that we're spooking them. I think they're just moving Because like even when you don't catch one you do you just go Yeah, I have nothing then I'll have four or five go through and then nothing again but releasing them is definitely hurting us because When you drop one down and he shoots the whole school goes with them. They're like in this crazy competition. I don't know if they're L-wives or probably not l-wives, but there's shiners in here. Maybe they're chasing shiners Like baby shiners or something I had a wicked school at 75 feet when I got over there and drilled they were everything's gone And I couldn't even see them when I got there It was a big school of fish. Well, maybe it was just waiting them sneak back out when the holes are in there. Yeah These yellows are fun. They're so like aggressive fight hard. Oh, and they fight each other to get to your bait That feels pretty good. I don't know what I'm into here It's either a decent yellow or a bass Oh, it's a nice yellow. Holy cow Nice yellow Drag's probably a bass. I got a wicked school of yellows now I got the best school I've seen yet. Oh, it's another jumbo. Dude. I got the I got the school I have 40 fish on me. Maybe 50. Oh nice one I might have 60 fish on me now. This is this is that school. I've been looking at I put one back Let's see what happens. Oh lost them. There's one left And then there was one Just like that they're gone All right guys still wailing on these great big yellows This is just a smash vest on the yellow perch Putting that uh that copper castmaster down there probably looks like a baby yellow perch and These guys are just mowing Good size ones right there This school of yellow perch. I've never seen a school Never like stop Like they do not stop for an instant. They just come through at 100 miles an hour And they either eat or they just keep going They don't stop and look or anything It's either game on or game over They're not easy to catch. I mean this is We're gonna have our game on We're gonna be on our we're gonna be in good shape here if we can Topside a couple more of these But I mean we put some big yellows on the ice today. Yeah back on the yellows We'll try to two at a time All right, that feels a little better Yeah, that's a jumbo Oh, he choked it. Yeah, I got one more lure Might as well drop that one down He's there. There he is. Oh lost him. All right. I'm tripled up All three of my lures got one on it. Nice All right That one ate the mickey jig that one ate the castmaster Oh, this feels pretty decent. This this must be a bass If it's not a bass, it's a really good yellow Maybe it's a yellow. Oh, it's a really good yellow Really good yellow. They're liking that castmaster the best Big yellow there guys I think they'd call that one a jumbo Another nice yellow there another jumbo good one here Solo so oh it's a bass It's a bass Little largemouth All right, time to move Feel some of those Use of that's nice yellow He's got a tug to him Now he's not as big as I thought He thought he was though Got one He was like a yellow. Oh, yeah Nice yellow perch Good little yellow there That was a struggle When one of them in line goes bad it goes bad Yep, nice perch That is a bright light I am truck camping Here in the wilderness of western Maine And also doing some serious pan fishing I got out for a couple hours today with my good buddy CJ CJ runs and owns burnt meadow guide service Awesome guy Really good fisherman loves ice fishing as much as I do So we got out for a couple hours today Couldn't quite get to where we wanted to get due to Really rough road conditions And the weather But we were able to get on some mega yellow perch Hammered a bunch of jumbos, had a great time Caught a couple crappy Now I am getting set up for the night But I'll show you my setup All right, here's the truck It is a Yukon There she is right there I built a little platform right here Down here for my bed To lay flat on And then what I have here is a Full size memory foam mattress Got my pillow sleeping bag And I have a lot of gear in here Now this isn't ideal for Normal camping situations But Whereas I'm ice fishing And I don't often truck camp Normally I'm camping right on the ice But we don't really have good ice And I didn't have a lot of room to bring a bunch of gear So I said well I'll just do it out of the truck So as you can see I have a lot of ice fishing gear A lot of videoing gear And pretty well jammed in there Like a siding cam It's going to be just enough room for me to sleep in there So that's what the setup looks like Yeah And I'm going to eat some dinner right now I stopped at the Hannaford brothers And picked up some ham and turkey and cheese And some bread I'm going to make a nice sandwich And eat that Probably do some reading My buddy of mine wrote a book And I got a chance to do like a first edit on it So I'm pretty excited about that And get into that book to do some reading tonight And I'm meeting up with CJ in the morning We're going to try to hammer some crappy tomorrow All right got my GoPro batteries charging That's always like first thing to do So we got a bunch of batteries charging So they're ready to go for tomorrow Running some heat in the truck here So stuff kind of thaws out My boots are pretty well frozen And got my knees a little bit wet today Out on the ice somehow Truck camping super easy and comfortable to me When I fished the FLW Pro Tour I probably spent 200 nights In my truck Sleeping in my truck Over 200 nights a year On the road and homeless one year So that was that was interesting And just slept in my truck So I'm super comfortable in my truck The bad the key is having like a nice comfortable bed And that's why I ripped all the seats out Built that little platform Under the foot well in front of one of the seats Throw the old memory foam in there And she sleeps pretty good Staying warm too So the nice thing is if it gets too cold You could always start your truck and heat it up I just have that nice thick sleeping bag And I never run into that problem At night I slept 10 below zero The worst nights are when it's too hot Like I remember one night I slept and I think it was on the Chesapeake Bay I had a FLW Tournament once And it was like 98 degrees out It was just so hot And you couldn't even leave the windows open Because the mosquitoes would just chew you alive So that was probably the worst And I'd rather have like cold super cold nights And have the hot ones Because the hot ones are really hard to Get comfortable and get some sleep Whereas the cold ones you just kind of snug up And in the sleeping bag and get some sleep that way So let's make some dinner for tonight Sounds like a plan I didn't bring any cook stove This like I said this this trip Let's talk about like roughing it This one's kind of roughing it But not really because I'm not sleeping in my tote sled Or anything like that I'm actually just here sleeping in my truck Like I've done a thousand times But when you're passionate about something You don't really care about the little things That might be a problem to some people Like oh you gotta sleep in your truck Or it's cold out Or maybe your clothes aren't dry Because it's snowy or wintry conditions Or you just don't have the comforts And when you're passionate about something And you really want to do something The first thing you forget about are those comforts Like they don't matter You know you just do it And you don't even think about that stuff And there's nothing to complain about Because you're doing exactly what you want to do So that's what I'm doing here I've only had one day on the ice in Maine So far this year Because the ice has just been so sketchy So now that I have an opportunity to get on some ice That's a little bit safer And just to get out on the ice I don't even care what I'm fishing for And I just love ice fishing I love it so much That normal at home comforts Don't matter to me at all All that matters is that I'm out here doing this And if I gotta sleep in my truck And I drive three hours And eat cold sandwiches And maybe drink cold coffee in the morning Who cares? It doesn't even matter to me It's the stuff that It's a really small price to pay To do something that I'm passionate about I love to do And I love to share with you guys And bring you guys some fresh content Some new videos Alright Dinner tonight It's gonna be turkey and cheese Looks like turkey in Swiss That was what was on special at the Hannahford brothers And we're gonna put it on some rye bread And we'll probably eat the same thing for lunch tomorrow So while I have it out And I'm making them I might as well make two Make myself some lunch for tomorrow We might even have it for breakfast too So maybe I'll make three I think it is what I have for breakfast I should have bought some dumpsters But more than likely There's a half a pack of dumpsters somewhere in the truck Alright, so we're gonna make three sandwiches One for tonight One for breakfast And one for lunch tomorrow And then tomorrow's dinner We're gonna do something a little bit different Yeah, it's interesting when Talking about stuff that you're passionate about Where you love doing I don't know if you guys ever noticed But like It's amazing how little you eat When you're doing something That you just love to do Unless you love to eat But like if you're working on a project Or you immerse yourself into Some task or project And some days I just work so hard on stuff like that You actually forget to eat And it goes along the same lines of What I was saying earlier about Giving up and not even worrying about those Creature comforts that you're used to When you're doing something that you love to do So that's kind of the goal Is to get into those situations where Where you're doing stuff that you love to do so much That it doesn't even matter Like the small things won't bother you And it doesn't even matter Lunch tomorrow Breakfast tomorrow And this isn't This isn't how I like to do all my ice fishing trips As you guys If you've watched the channel as you could tell You know, I usually like some Some other ways to do it But I'm just so fired up to get out there fishing After going to Minnesota And being able to fish for a little while And then coming back to Maine And just having crazy, unseasonably warm temperatures And then thaw and have ice for like a half a day Where I went out and it was pretty dangerous But now that I can get on some pretty good ice And fish with a buddy of mine Like I'm so jacked up that None of the comforts matter I'm just so excited to do this And yeah And I'm just really happy Super happy to be here And grateful that I'm able to do this So it's a dinner tonight right there So this is a beta copy of a book called I Am Penobscot It's the life of a Maine pioneer David Stone Libby Who I've heard of He's, I think I read I've read a handful of different things about him But Tommy Carbon wrote this book And this is a beta copy So I'm supposed to mark it up If I see anything Or find any misspellings Or do like a kind of rough edit on it And then get it back to him with a list Of things that I think about the book Or find interesting Or basically to help him before he goes To flat out publish on this thing So I'm really excited to read this book I love the Penobscot Riverman and Maine logging history And so does Tommy This is really exciting for me All right Bunch of reading done Did a decent amount of editing I was proud that I was able to help out some with this book so far And I'm about to crawl in bed And call her tonight Got a little bit of room back here Not a lot Usually I have more room If I was going to ice camp out of If I was going to ice fishing Truck camp out of this vehicle More I'd definitely build something for the roof And if I need a little bit more room I could always take some of this ice fishing stuff And just leave it outside Or tuck it underneath the truck If I'm worried about it raining or snowing tonight But there's definitely enough room here