 This is a two trap limit dead bait only blue ribbon trout fishery So everybody that fishes here. I think gets a ribbon and it's blue. I think that's what that means How's the coffee? Drinkable we are getting ready to roll It's a little later than normal But we had a good breakfast hung out a little bit this morning Pat and Donnie are gonna pull up the rear Elliot are gonna run out to the trucks and get some more rope and pull cord just in case anybody gets stuck today All the snow slid off the roof of that camp last night Pretty good pile down here Here we go. I don't know where we're going. Where do you want to go? Okay? Rock Island as you enter the little claw and Just keep going down to the other end Oh That's where I set up the camp or something. So there's pretty much slosh the entire way across Really? Yeah Yeah All the way till you get on land again on Jackson's This looks going down along the shore looks better. Yeah You better go down this way and then swing and then go. I don't know yesterday I came across pretty decent speed and then when I went back across I just held her wide open So we'll see I mean towing I got a lot of weight. We'll see what it does There we go We'll go to it Did you say you want to fish off that point To me that would be the best spot No, that's the trail. Oh, that's yeah, they put those for the whole trail We'll let this group go by them. I'll get us to that point And then we're gonna fish off that point. Yeah. Is that where you want to fish? Yeah Try it You can feel it when you hit those spots. There was one that I was just I just count down the feet It's just was wide open Oh, they might be fishing too It's like they're fishing. They're gonna go right to that point game plan Well, you guys have gonna hit that point there, but if you guys want it Little flush in here. That's free up a little bit closer to the camp site You guys are he's on he's on all my YouTube shows over a couple Yeah, if you guys don't remember he gave us the winning flies at the last episode Hey, man, we hit him Yeah, it was non-stop. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't do that for a couple days. Yeah, you're the guy that Judy Norton gave the The real wraps with yes, is that her name Judy? Yeah, I didn't I never caught her name. Yes, Judy Norton Nice lady the bait lady. Yeah, look at my she and her husband Ben They were next-door neighbors to me for years. Oh, no kid. No, I lived in Cumberland. They lived in Falmouth We were right on the line Yeah, they made their money selling bait, so that's why she's called the bait lady. Oh, that's awesome Yeah, they used to sell lobster bait for years Wow Come in from today. We came in basically the loop road. Yeah, but In between the loop road. Yeah in the middle of it. So we had to break trail. Yeah, well, this goes out to Eddie Raymond That's all I gave him yesterday is brutal. Yeah, right through the woods there. It sucks and then that that other stretch brutal Well, it's what if you go out come out of the woods Yeah with big trail. Yeah, you can't cuz if you take coming to some of those laps There's some big washouts. You wouldn't probably be able to get through with the toes absolutely brutal Yeah, that stretch sucks And he's not grooming anymore. No, he used to groom down. Yeah, it's too tight now for a groomer Yeah, but it was like it was so bad. I just ended up going fast Yeah, cuz it was so you go slow you get everyone. Oh, yeah, it was like when you get on a court Where'd you guys come in from caribou? Nice How was it? Real slow. Oh, yeah, yeah, real slow. You were up there earlier about three weeks ago Real well in August over there. So there's a there's kind of a rock reef that goes down through there Yeah, and it drops off on each side And I've had good luck. Yeah, open a lot of fish. You guys mind if we fish near you Yeah, we were we were gonna head to that point be honest with you. We just stopped here to talk it over Most of the time I don't know if I'm gonna fish or not We said we give this a couple hours and if it's slow we're gonna pick up and go over to ragged Well, we'd like to get the young fellas some fish. There you go Oh So we have we have a mutual friend Tom Tom Sawick. Yeah. Yeah, he's the one that told me about the video Yeah, you're on YouTube. Yeah, that's hilarious. Did he sent me the link? Yeah, you tell me about you guys throwing rocks at the boys out in the canoe or something Don't make it sound like this They're the wood-throwing rocks Yeah Like you got to throw this color here Sure, I couldn't remember the names of them. Yeah, I renamed them. Yeah. Oh, yeah That's so funny Dottie fix the spot, there's a group coming and they go right to it That's the way it always goes. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah Yeah, I guess they know too Well Do you want to? Where do you want to go like this side of the point? Maybe yeah, just out from the point a bit Like this the side or pass them. I don't want I don't want to crowd them I don't either. You know, I feel bad now, even though that's where we're heading You know, if you want if you drove just a little bit faster, we could add that spot. Yeah, I know He'll bounce it like you didn't fall it's about four foot short Be safe because you won't be able to block it. We know that I lost my hand. Where is it? Watch this trick He's right where that reef They took your spot, Donny. Yeah, but that guy that Aminian from Watertown used to fish here open water He'd go right down the middle of this right back and forth Right back. That's the guy that was catching those 18 pounders Yeah, I saw some 16's come out of here Is this where you want to be? Where's Donny going in that slot? Donny's birthday next week Should I shovel it or leave it? Shovel it. Just bear it Look at that. You don't even have to You've got a sounder Joe? I've lost more sounders to Pat They actually call him sounder Pat Return the sounder I'll hook it on. You don't want to lose that? No, this is how he usually hooks it He goes like this like he just goes like that around it. He's like I've lost you sounder, shall we? Give me another one How many? 70? What is wrong with that reel? Nothing. Holy cow! It's got a drag You've got to tighten or loosen that Let's just send the sounder down first You're going to throw a sucker on this one? Yeah What are you looking at? Foot off bottom? I'm counting Donny's stuck out there something I think he's waiting for a drill and bait Jesus It's set perfect They're right there What do you want about a foot off bottom? Yep You've got your trap here. Let me measure there and then foot I'm going to notch it up Come the rubber band man This is like full service Joe Right? He doesn't even have to get out of the shack He didn't even have to get out of the rubble You could have rode here the whole way It was Do you want to cut his belly? Yep Oh, this has been in the bag for a couple of weeks That's good Actually, this is what I brought up to Where do you want it hooked? There's enough meat on the bone Should we put a bigger hook on it? Man, that stinks We've got some water here I counted 62 But that was just doing this I bet you're right This would be a mess It's funny, we're not going to see this trap at all We're only going to see when the flag is above the snow I don't know A lot of guys will put a weight on there So it goes down quicker I know, but the fish see that That's a lazy man's fishing You've got to put one 16-ounce split shot It's 72 It's a two-lot mosquito hook Owner only Unless you have gamagatsu, then those are the best I got a bunch of them Three turns You want me to do the rest of this for you? I can't wait I'm going to tag him I was hoping you'd get that You happy with that? Perfect Full service ice fishing At your service Okay, great That's a nice sucker That was flush You want a sucker or a sea-smelt Or a lake-smelt Lake-smelt, sea-smelt Or a lake Jack-smelt, a little tiny smelt Salmon Right under the ice I'm going to sound it You're sounding it for salmon Three feet under the ice You want one of these guys? Yeah, one of these guys One of these Careful Thank you Take the whole thing out Look how that runs See when the fish is swimming? A lot of guys that have these don't set it down But I like to set it down In the tripper mode Yeah, I do A lot of guys don't Then you just have to look at these up all day No, I don't, I set them down You can set it in There's two grooves you can set it in there Or further in Can you get them a sucker? Oh, you got you so bad Pick your own, Bobby Do you want a sea-smelt? A sucker Are there any in here? There's none of them Check them out Are they in this thing? Nope There's no suckers in Donny got a baby I got the big sea-bump I think we actually took the weight Damn, we just got our specials That's not a big one That's a pretty one, holy cow I lay the belly guard open You don't do that? I get all the stuff out I like to have the guts There's a cusk in here too, guys What did I say, 62 feet on my counting? Yeah Be close Sea-smelt Do you want them on a whole grill too, Donny? They smell pretty right, Donald Do you want a different one? How much water here? All of that We got some snow coffee going Give you a little mid-morning update We have not had a flag yet We only got one trap in each Because we've all been doing a little bit of jigging I bounced around Hit about 10 different spots In the depths of 90 to 40 foot And I haven't marked a fish yet So they could just be inactive Or there could be not many fish here This is a two trap limit Dead bait only Blue ribbon trout fishery So everybody that fishes here I think gets a ribbon And it's blue I think that's what that means We all get a participation one For coming out here and fishing Camp coffee, some nice snow coffee Once that thaws out We'll put the coffee grinds to it How's your morning going guys? I'm glad the weather's nice here It's probably what? 35 degrees A little bit of breeze Not much wind Very comfortable for ice fishing Too bad there wasn't more activity But that's the way it goes in fishing That's why they call it fishing No I'm not drinking that That puts a little taste to the coffee I guess so You don't want the yellow snow? No We'll put it back These guys won't let me have any fun at all They never let me have any fun at all You see that long Which is expensive There used to be a Fire tower on top of that Which I think You climbed that But Bobby and I climbed it And about halfway up the mountain The ranger used to stay there And he'd have to go up the last The last part of it was the steepest And they'd have ladders going up These steep ledges So it was a bit of a climb To do it every day Which he had to do But the tower Has been Dismantled And I understand that Homeland security has Put a Some sort of device up there To track fishermen on lots of the way So We'd better be careful Don't Say anything bad about them Katahdin is Oh Katahdin As they say out of state If you get out Out there In a bigger pile of the lake You can seek a time Where's Mount Patrick Mount Patrick is sitting over there On his snow field Having a great time I wanted to tell you When we came here in the 50s There was a camp down at the end Of the little plaw here And we always albed I used to call that the green camp And it was Originally Built and owned by a doctor But legend has it That Babe Ruth came here To dry out He had a little drinking problem This doctor Was a well known apparently doctor Somewhere brought Babe Ruth up here And he had no place to go The only way he could Get in here would be by boat The doctor had a boat house With like a 28 foot Boat in it A power boat When we came in the In the late 50s The place was abandoned Nobody came there Had been abandoned for quite a few years It was all open We went down There was China in the kitchen Everything was just like Somebody walked away And they had believe it or not They had a regular toilet In the house In the cottage And they had a dug well They brought in a well driller Somehow and drilled a well there So that had to been done I would say in probably the 30s Maybe late 20s Wow And you brought Ella here a lot of time And you never got him dried out No, he's never dried out In 1995, I guess I'm wondering Why the Smithsonian didn't call up And ask for his liver Because It was a miraculous thing That he could survive 95 years With all the alcohol That went through his system Uncle Al My mentor That brought me up here Oh, there it goes He brought Donny up here When he was knee high grasshopper Yeah Moby Dick was a minnow Donny was 16 years young His nose was all wet He was dating Al's Meese No, I had no date with Al's Meese Tommy writes He was dating his cousin He was dating his own cousin Oh, I thought you were dating your cousin No, no, no Didn't you marry your cousin? No, no, no, no That's the Johnston family creed You can't eat that in your pants Inbreeding You about ready for some coffee? You want some dumpsters? I don't have a dumpster No dumpster That's the voice of me Drive a crescent Sugar crescent You ready for some of this caffeine? You got sugar in that? No Stick one of them donuts in it Look at the Snow fleas on the top of that coffee Look at that It adds a little taste to it Don't worry about it Minor Minor Donny Pat, cup of coffee, drive India? Yeah, come get it Where'd you go to Who gave you, you'd never go into Moody's And buy a Moody's mug Somebody must have given it to you Yeah Running Could just be the bay Open that tripper You want to open the tripper right up So there's no resistance Is the reel? Was the reel hitting the ice? I think it was hitting the ice See, there it goes Alright Elliott, so what we're going to do Is eventually, I'm going to pick this trap right up You're going to grab the line And you're going to yank it hard Like this, let me see your hand Like that hard to set the hook And then you're just going to keep fighting them like this And throwing the line to the side Okay Is there something on there slow? Probably Casca I wouldn't mind seeing it Just mouthing it And hadn't really Taken it We should let him eat it I guess I'm worried that that reel was hitting the side of the ice Yeah, it might have been Yeah, he's taking it Alright Elliott, you ready? I guess so Okay, we're recording, so don't get down yet Because we don't know which way he's going Because this is that dark line Looks pretty well straight down You can probably go from there Yank Is there? Lay it right down on the side Keep laying it down Any size? Any resistance? Definitely a fish though Keep it coming Could be a small burbot He didn't take much Still feel like a fish? Could be a small burbot Well, something mangled it Let's get it right back down Alright, here we go There's some pretty good depth in this Yeah, we fished When we fished here last year We fished the really deep 120 foot hole over there But we didn't Have anything all day But when I When we came camping out here this summer I went on ice shanny And tried to see what a bunch of people said About fishing out here and they said the little claw I guess her uncle fished out here And he said the little claw Scripped you You need one? You got some? You need some? No, we have some Thanks Naughty Thank you It's not much Oh, this must be good I just went out, it sounded like Yeah, changes as far as Joey Under the shot Back at the shovel, will she go? Without you on it? How do you like that slush buddy? Yeah We got slush, we got wind We got mountains The only thing we don't have is fish Blue ribbon trout fishery He is blowing straight Sidways out here fellas Nothing moving Well, let's let it eat These 12 inches need some Time to eat those 8 inch It's blowing like a sieve I'm telling you Pat It's blowing straight, Sidways What do you think Naughty? Is this going to be the lobster lake Monster? It could be They keep an eye on it Make sure nobody is poaching it They got somebody in an office Since they had 24 hours a day Since they have watched Make sure nobody is catching too many fish Because they would have to regulate this even harder They put her down to one trap limit One trap Half of that bait That's a decent sign there A little bit But it's picking it up Pull the line, don't yank it yet Slowly Until you get tension Give it a yank More than the bait Keep lifting your long ways from where we were Set It took it about 10 foot Right there is where it was bottom Now you should feel the bait Are you feeling the bait? You feeling the fish? There you go That's a fish, right? I think so, yes Good one bud Pulling hard It's a fish I think It's not really running Come side to side Save us Elliott Yes, it's a fish Monster Alright Lobster Lake Lunker What is that thing? I think it's a tog He gagged on that I've never seen one of the tog with stripes on it But I've also never seen one this small That's a tiger stripe That's a small one That's a tog with stripes It's pretty small Yeah Alright Send him Good job buddy You got rid of our skunk He was just a little bit bigger than the bait We caught him on I have dropped the camera on something like that once before And it was just Great air bubbles Hold that for a second I think I do There's just the bait I think it's the same size Go ahead and reel I think it's just the bait Maybe not It's feeling baity Now it's feeling like a fish It's a fish He couldn't even trip the flag Look Same thing as mine He could not even trip the flag Another 12 inch there They coming on now Alright guys another little tog We're going back This thing was kind of like pulling an anchor And we put the weight as far back as we could But she just chewed half the slosh At the RPM is pretty high But Didn't really stop Slowed down one path to slow I should have set over on virgin snow But I tried to see how it was Through that path that was already broken But we buried it Now We'll see if Donny makes it Come on give it to her Give it to her Uh oh You're almost there Come on Donny 370 that could come through With 370 pounds on it Jesus Oh no We'll be jet skiing out here Right for the fishing part of this There wasn't a whole heck of a lot of fishing There wasn't a whole heck of a lot of fishing Video today I guess fishing Lobster Lake without a lot of experience Or no experience at all It's kind of like buying a scratch at your local At your local convenience store Give me one of them $10 scratchers See if you win or not Because there are giants in there And you hear about monster tog I got to feel there's a lot of people Out there too All in all beautiful day Incredible day on the water They got a little windy and chilly towards the end of the day But it was pretty warm and sunny for a while there It was cool running into Doug and Josh and that crew too That was kind of cool running into those guys So I don't know what we're going to do tomorrow If we're going to go back out and try that again Or not but we'll see I will say this snowmobile Is just impressing the heck out of me Every single day I use it I didn't know what it could do in that slush And that slush was Pretty good slush out there In long, long pockets of it No problem at all So I'm building up more and more confidence in the machine But I'm being real cautious going into it To start When he's starting dinner If he starts his night We'll be ready for breakfast in the morning What's the plan fellas? Get the spirals I'm trying to think If you've ever in my life Meet me in Krivvich Even one time Yep I taught him how to play this game He's a little cake to you right now Ooh this is a tough one Should I mess around? Yeah, try, just gamble Total mess around Top Top To four you're in trouble Ten Eighteen Twenty-five Thirty-two Ten, twelve Wow, are you not throwing those? No, I don't think I will Is this cordon blue? Well, not quite Something like that Is it baked stuffed chicken? It's got stuffing in it Wow, Donny That's a heck of a woods meal What's that garbage? That is corn casserole Corn casserole Corn And stuffed chicken And stuffed chicken And hot taters Oh man That's it Good job, Donny Thank you for making this a heck of a dinner It's like crap Pat Oh God, thank goodness I thought you had lost your tongue Because we're all talking enough For all of us Oh my God We're trying to figure out What we're going to do tomorrow, guys I'm pretty much not going back to Lobster, right? Right Well guys, that's going to do it for today Pretty slack day today Pretty slack That's path of the coolest for Lobster Yeah, we rolled the dice Went for giant fish big bait Dead bait, not many lines And pretty well struck out We got two little ones Two babies