 It's like the old days waiting for the bus. Yeah Except this is a lot better. Yeah, I don't have to go to school What is up guys Joe Holland here if you are a returning viewer Welcome back if you are new to the channel. We offer a hearty and heartfelt welcome to you as well We are entering the North Main Woods on a meat hunt trip for ice fishing. That's right We are going to the third biggest lake in the state of Maine at 25,000 plus acres It is 25 miles long anywhere from one to four miles wide Chazun Cook Lake is the name of this beast we're going to and When I say meat hunt, we're gonna try to fill the freezer with short salmon landlock salmon and Cusk One of my absolute favorite to eat also known as the fervent the lawyer fish the eel pout and a ton of other names too We won't get into those but when I say we I got a special guest for me and a special guest for you, too The one and only world famous Johnny Johnston I'm not so sure about the world famous He will be but we're right now. We left Jefferson this morning about seven o'clock We're now we headed to Millinock it came through Millinock in about 20 minutes ago half an hour ago And we are in a beautiful view of Mount Katat We're nearing a ball bridge a favorite spot to stop and look at the view Been by it hundreds of times Seem to stop about every time I come up through here but So we're excited because we're gonna go to Chisholm Cook Village and I have been there several times Somebody canoe going down the West Branch a couple times. We hiked in there before the state put a road in there, which Met some disagreements with Dwellers at the village, but anyway they put it in And we're excited to fish it. I've fished it one other time Maybe twice I ice fishing Probably one of the coldest places I've ever been at the time we came up ice fishing. It was horrendously cold Snowmobiles wouldn't start it was it was just horrible, but anyway, we're gonna enjoy this trip It's much milder. It's looks like a mild week out there So we're just gonna enjoy ourselves and This time we're not camping out on the ice like normal. We have been invited up to stay at a camp Which I'm sure we will enjoy and And converse with the gentleman that we're staying with I am sure has a lot of knowledge of the of the village and Give us a little bit of history and maybe I can add my two cents worth to so looking forward to it and We'll we'll keep going up the Golden Road here. It's a little bit bumpy It's about 38 degrees, which is very mild for for up here And the road is Well, it's just plain bumpy so Stay tuned and we'll see we'll soon be at the packing area where we're gonna be The gentleman that invited us up To take us into the village by snow machine. All right. Well, thanks for tuning in guys. Stay tuned Good stuff coming. We might be able to even set some Cusklines this afternoon and tonight 14 miles snowmobile ride in from where we're parking and we'll bring you along next time you see us We'll be loading up the snowmobiles gonna be hides are off. Donnie. Are you full? Is your sled full? Yeah, I'm pretty full Yeah, I'm good No, I'm good. I think I'm good We should be good then I'll throw Stuff out of truck in there. Well, like I said, we can go We can go 500 miles right what you guys want right? Yeah And these do so the halfs you see that was the way you could get in here real how to pull the loser Yeah, and the old the old the ambulance over here is from Subomac when it was a POW camp The old ambulance sits over here in the back. I was a POW. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah The Germans right they ship the Germans in the cup would yeah Could see there was no up in the middle of nowhere where the hell they're gonna go and all our log cutters were in the in the war Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so the ambulance that sits over here is from Subomac when it was a POW camp There wasn't a tree here. This was all open. It was all fields all the way up to the church not one tree They hate all this. Yeah, Jiro Island was covered in farms back in the 1900s. It wasn't wooded Connected to the mainland 1916 they built a lot of this and it became an island so was that Like houses and farms farms You could look over there and watch the deer running in the fields and the farms like at 1900 if you were sitting But what year did they move the graveyard? 1916 when they flooded when they flooded at the second time when they did rip down Yeah, and they moved all the gravestones up to the graveyard that's still up here There's stones in there from like 1850. Yeah Yeah, it says a lot of history. Oh, there's a lot of history. That's ungodly. Yeah Really Really, oh, yeah, she's she's something everybody knows it. She's all over the snowmobile pages and everywhere What is up guys we made it in we're here at the famous Chazun Cook Village Historic Chazun Cook Village Built in the 1840s. I believe holy cow. There's a church Well knock it or so into the wood There's a church right there. I guess Construction of it. They drug logs across the lake by boat. When was it? Back in the 80s that one was built Portland Press Herald and everything up here on the ice. No way. They skidded it over on the ice They used to just pull them pull them around There's houses and buildings solar panels Rocks where they used to have to come in Oh, yeah Big foot It's all jacked up, huh? How about this telephone's I think you know, yeah Every one of these houses has a old truck in front of it that probably still runs Leave it in the camp Fisheries and wildlife cabin really yep for like wardens and I've been in here for years, but last year they keep Jack the porch Pretty good today. Yeah, they weren't messed around they were One of the original camps that was here. They used to be an in here called the Grindel in And it was it operated it was Like a sporting camp and so this this is original and the last guy To operate out of Tsunka Village lived here. He don't wait. He's the last master guy to operate up here So this was an in for and the guide guided out of it. Well, this was recent that Pete was here I actually found him having a stroke and we got him life-flighted out of here And he now lives in Millenocket a nursing home. Wow two and a half years ago So he was the last guy to operate out of here. Wow That moose antlers carved this is in memory of red red mcnaught and that was he died He owned the old Catan View Lodge and it was Peter Otway's cousin And he passed away and he carved them antlers up in Really Over there I'll wait for Donny. He's missing some of the tour. Oh, yeah I'll see if he wants to just jump on with me It's only that far again, okay? You want to jump on with me so you hear some of this or I can wait up for you. I Just been tooling along. I didn't know if you were hearing this Okay, so this is the original Simmons camp that now owns Catan View Lodge Bert McBurney built it and Doc Simmons came here and Dale Simmons and Doc started coming in here in the 50s and his father started coming into the 30s That's the history of this one inside is all just vertical law. It's an all-main hunting camp too massive box hanging in there I Can take you in and show you I don't have the key on me today, but if we find time I he said I could open it up show you But what a what a neat camp? Wow, that's cool an old vertical log. Yeah, all the logs are here and built that's it Bert McBurney Bert McBurney that used to run the lake house and Maggie McBurney. I've heard that best They also built the one with the solar panels on it where Bigfoot is. Oh, yeah Yep I Don't know if she's still alive or not as of last year. She was Yeah, yeah, I came to the Lodge you know, he was renting out the large yeah and You know I shuttling people up and down and hauling good Right. Yeah, he'd haul it from the land and way down the other end of the lake all of them in here And she was she would prepare the meals and they would put them up in the in the old house beautiful gardens Oh, yeah You know And then in the offseason when he shut down the lake house He has a camp next to it on the other side of what used to be the lake. Yep, there's winter camps Right, there's winter camp and we came here and ice fished out of out of he had a The one he lived in and then he had another one next door next door. We rented that one. Yep That's what they did to the winner. They didn't run the big house. Yeah, it's too big to eat Yeah, when was that Donny? Jesus one decade If you ask me dates, I can't remember one that one decade It was it would have been probably In the 80s somewhere that's what I was gonna guess. It sounded like the way they were operating. Yeah Yeah, and he was the sheriff. He was the road commissioner. He had a bull for in here. Yeah, he shuttled goods, you know, he did it Yeah, he guided. He only went fishing if he was guiding He was quite a quite a guy, you know, quite a woodsman and And he could do what one of these guys that could do anything, you know make anything build anything Jack Murphy was was a heck of a woodsman as well. I mean if he came to trapping When people put snowmobiles to the ground stream they gave him that in, you know what I mean, you really knew what he was doing. Yeah You ought to live out here back in those days Right these 60s 70s you had to and there were there were beaver trappers that lived here along that pine stream flowage I showed you Charlie Smith, he lived in birch bark teepees. He had multiple ones all along that flowage We actually found one this fall Burnt hunting we found an old pair of the snowshoes that he used to build out of fur Just pecker poles Yeah, and he would build his own shoes and he had birch bark teepees out there and that's he stayed out there all winter You know Joe Joe and I he got me in through Joe got me in through On collecting axes old axes and we We were talking before we came up here and I said I've been If that band is still standing that used to be in back of the lake house I bet there was all kinds of great northern stuff in there. Oh, and it's it's in the firehouse That's right full of indian tanks and the pips and all No kidding. Oh, wow You could fill a truck little bit. Axes around here where the water's low just the one in the shoreline You're kidding me. Boom chains. Oh, yeah I know there's 2,000 pounds of boom chains sitting right now. You gotta let me know when we can find axons I love axons. We actually went farther than that when the water was down in 2020 as well as in 20 years We don't know the long stream where the old indian trading Because this to some companies where waters meet all these were just rivers and streams And they came together before they flooded it and there was an indian Trading camp at the intersection of all the streams And they all met up and even the french trappers came through It's we actually found some of digging in the shore some old arrowheads spearheads which They claim date back farther than the penobscot indians like way back farther than that Because they were white and bleached out. I mean we found some cool stuff There's there's a lot of stuff here Videos where we I knew where there was a couple old logging camps in the river. Yeah, we we found Many hushu. Yeah And we found six ax heads three of which we could identify still right They had identified my and then you can go ahead and clean them up I and I's them back and really he's pissed them for themselves over there every time they finally clean it up Yeah, so here on the west branch. There was a boom house right at the mouth And that was had a blacksmith shop and everything and then halfway up There was what they called the halfway house or another farm Up towards pitstone farm and then they there were farms and depots all down the river You know and there was actually a land bridge a bridge across the west branch way back in the late 1800s We could drive, you know early 1900s when cars started coming in that you could drive across that river Wow, I wish we had that now because we could jump right over Yes Yeah, and it goes down the old village road and there's still wires hanging in the trees. Really? Yeah, there's old poles Yeah, they had telephone service. You could call greenville from here and the northern had a telephone Set up The lake and I actually called my girlfriend. Yep back home from that call box You know they paid a man to maintain that line He walked that line all those lines that went in by west branch pond on the french town road and all up through here They paid men to walk those lines and cut the trees off them when they came down and maintain them And there's still hanging in the trees around here all the courses. Yeah We found several Yeah, we found a box if you go down the boom house trail where they hike up to the village when they come down the river from the boom house campsite Those insulators are still hanging in the trees. Yeah, where they had the phone lines Those cedar trees will never come down. No, no, and that's what they hung them in. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing I mean this you could You could spend a year here and not touch. Yeah Everything that is to be found Two years ago when the water was low, we went up and at pine stream Falls, they call it on the west branch So there's a set of falls on the flowage But on the west branch is a set they called pine stream falls and when it was low It was ledges on both sides in a real sluice way And there are names carved in the rocks of all the guys that died there from 1860 Yeah, I've got pictures. I've got pictures on you can still read them. Yes. Oh my god. Yeah, you can read the dates Have you read the Thoreau's book the main words? No You want to read it? It's easy reading And it's all about one of his trips that he made down the river here I'll tell you what I did read though is Fannie Hardy, Ekstrom's Penobscot, man. That's a great book It's a full history of 1850 up here at the Lawn Mower That's a great book Right. Well, you read about those guys dying on the river so those names It's from 1850 those are the dates that coincides when John Ross was the driving boss up here and the PLC Penobscot Lumber Company was the most famous river driving company in the country at that time Because they were flooding Bangor Penobscot Bay with all the timber from here and it was getting shipped right over to Britain Yeah I mean it was the you could walk across Penobscot Bay on logs Summer when all the drives came into boom. Yeah, it was all right from up in this area Last year of the pump drive unbelievable Al and I came down through The river was chock-a-block full of pump work. Yeah, I was up in the vial pushing it away from the canoe We get down before the River you know river empties into this lake. Yep. There was a call box there On a tree pine tree you call them to open the boom and let you through Yeah, we called up the village here Yep, and they came up great northern came up with their steel boat up this bay was completely full of There was a boob jumper. They called it boom junk. My dad drove one of those boob jumpers. They loaded the canoe Take you down for your job. Yeah, they used to take you they would take you up in pine stream There was a setup sporting can of stuff in there And they would they would shuttle you up through the logs and over the dam And you could continue on your canoe and go up. Yeah back then there's three and four pound brookies up there I'm going to do that trip in um May first or second week of may we're going to do that with canoes me and jason henry If we're going to find these old spring holes and stuff ledge points that the guys have told me about Well, I bet you could find some treasures. I think we're going to do well We found them old birch bark cabins of charlie smiths last year And how old are they you think from the fifties? It's still how they're still like kind of standing laps now, but 10 years ago. They were still standing But the snowshoes were hanging on the tree that he had just cut little fair poles and and uh They they run like this And he cut I've got a picture of those I took a picture of those He cut some sticks and put across them and lashed them together with quarters And then he would have would have heated them to bend the tips up and tied the tips up And that was his snowshoes he he built all his own snowshoes There's actually still a bunch of blank sitting out there that he had cut ahead to build more Yeah, I mean it's it's and they supposedly those are all the way up through pine stream flowage So, um, that's another thing I'm going to offer like if I do backcountry snowmobile and that'll be a trip I'll take people that 10 miles down through the flowage The other thing I've got to do to put it together is I've got to cut the axis on at the bridge And I've got to cut a trail around the dam because there'll be open water at the base of the dam all year So we'd have to go up around that but it's an old chopping. So it's easily done. Oh, yeah, I just haven't done it yet Yeah, but that's the type of stuff. I'm going to get into this. You want to go out in the backcountry? We're going to the back country. I like back country. Yeah The rose book He had an indian guide from Old town. Yeah The indian actually shot a hoose on that The summer trip up pine stream. Yep. That's where they went to hunt moose And in september they hunted them on the full moon And they just sit in there the indians would sit in there and wait until they heard them walk into the water And then they creep up and shoot them and the water was cool enough that they'd clean the guts out And it would cool the moose right there and then they'd drag it home through the water And that's they hunted a lot there and they also hunted up Cockatoo McGomb extreme But it was so buggy up there and my dad told me that when he worked up there for the northern But they would go up and they would light the peat moss on fire In a big like mile perimeter and it would just slow smolder to keep the bugs away from their camp. That's how they did it They just go up randomly light fires in that peat moss and let it just smolder And that's how they kept the bugs down. I mean, it's just unbelievable the history up here It is Yeah, and then you go back farther than that and I mean this was a major Waterway for the Wabanaki Indians. I mean this was and they still have the The the loop trail they do it We had a woman come through she came all the way from new york by canoe last year And she actually wrote the guidebook That's cool because I got in the guidebook because I you know, we brought her up We gave her a hot shower she didn't see an hot shower in two weeks and Gave her tea and she talked to us and she mailed us the new updated guidebook autographed and she Put in there, you know, like we said It's not a destination to come to but if you're in need look around the village You can probably find what you need, you know, any people will help you out and uh She was a really really neat lady Well, all right, that's the north end. We'll go down and we'll stop the church Yeah, so a lot of them builders they just skid them around Um on lot roller logs. They pulled them On skids with horses, you know across the lake Brent moves a lot of them around with his bulldozer Oh, good luck. It was in the mud. You can see we jacked it up three feet last year. Wow What about these old fords they run? I Don't think so, but they probably wouldn't think much to get them running. Yeah No, no the fella moved down to Bangor Working with him. Yeah, Johnny Kramas. He's moved to Bangor He was in here 40 years. He wanted out It'd be I guess like being in civilization for 40 and wanting in, you know, yeah, I was the opposite Yeah, he was in here. Um He stayed in the first winter. I was in here and then he comes once in a while in the summer in mosa Lon and you drove him out. No No, he wanted he wanted I'm just kidding. I'm just he took it hard when jack murphy died And he wanted to go into civilization He buried in this cemetery up here. Yes jack is yep Now that what about that old camp in the woods that's got a tree on it All falling in halfway to the church No halfway to the church. Oh way up in that that was uh charlie Fitzgeralds And he wants the property to go back to nature And he also owns the one next to where I am the wooded lot in between Wow, the two properties he owns that one and he just wants them to revert back to nature. That's too bad Yeah, there's there's enough nature up here. Yeah, but they're in a truss. They know Everybody's tried. Yeah Take me to church Oh, man, you see that window No way it's in there on the floor. No, come on. Yeah, you hear that dawdy The party's still in there on the floor. Look at that window Oh, Patrick's flight through it? Yeah He's in there on the floor. No kidding. Is he alive? Uh, I think he's in there for a while because there's a poop on the floor, but it's solid now Ouch. He's gonna bring him down to camp and start him out so we can eat him. You can course he can't Yeah, why not right? Yeah So this is we're in the process of doing some restart and I put this new Pressure sheet of decking on last year. We've built that new deck. We've roofed all the buildings You know, basically once a generation it's got to be restored and I'm That's what's on the stage, right? Yes. Yeah, we've done that all up inside nice There she is So all your history is right here That tells about it being on the historic register of deeds And we're gonna have to we're gonna have to look at that this is This is all the donations and everything coming in from you know for last year We uh, we we document it all so everybody gets recognized for the contributions and the The donations there's a crew of guys all in their 70s that built the decks over there Volunteered and more of a remembrance, but this one starts back in Uh, 1868 and goes up now look no trees down on the point. Yeah, I gotta I'm gonna have to say I'm really going through that. Wow. Yeah, look at that, huh? Yeah, you want to know the story on that? Yeah, okay so My dad took a photograph of that in the 71. That's the Hilton toe on a boom and my grandmother Paid Jerry Wayne with that an habit to paint this picture and then donated it to the church In remembrance of my great-grandfather John Clark senior who had the lumber camps at redbrook No, wow. Yeah, my family donated that photo. That is awesome. Wow. Really? You must be pumped to see that. Yeah So this is the bell tower And I'm currently I cleaned everything out of here last year I saved as many of the old school desks from the 30s as I could find. Yeah I've got one more to bring up here And we're going to set it up like the 30s school house. Nice as a little museum Wow, this will come out of here. We've got a blackboard we had made and look at these old desks We have a period piece flag with the proper amount of stars on it. I mean everything's gonna be It's gonna be on a blackboard. Yeah, we're gonna put a blackboard up here So we're gonna set it up as the old school room would have been set up kind of as a You know, they wanted to throw these out. Oh, no way. There's only three left in the village I know where there's a fourth. I don't know if they got a part with it He got it away from me when they were cleaning the shed out But I hope I can get it back and have four in here. Yeah, you know And of course, this is the old old bell that's been here since 23 because our 100th anniversary is in 2023 So here it's uh 2023 and we've got the 100th anniversary of the Chisung Cook Village Church Maintained by the Greenville Union Church in Greenville and we're doing a fairly substantial Restore to the Parsonage buildings and the building itself. We need foundation work and I'm putting a new deck on And they're doing insulation and tugging roof pine and we're working on the grounds And uh, we we have services through the summer usually starting around June and go through September We sometimes do one on Memorial Day weekend and anybody interested want to come up and uh See a service or come to the old home celebration. You're more than welcome. You can contact me at john more ii at hotmail.com That's our lower case Or the greenville union church at gmail.com and the whole mission and uh project is being done by donations If anybody's interested in supporting it financially or uh, we look for work parties to come up to and stay a night or two and And uh do work on it. So it's it's a very nice project. We're interested in it. It's been done three times since 1923 This is the third time it's Going to be restored once a generation it's going to happen So we're trying to get involved and get it done for this one. How long's he been on the floor? See Where was that grounds right there? So he came right through the window Now I gotta fix the window and we're gonna see if we can eat him Yeah So these are the old trophies they used to have horseshoe tournaments at the picnic. Oh my gosh. Oh, yeah That's awesome. You probably have to have that again. Well in the hundredth anniversary. Oh wait, we are And the church dare be we're getting it all going again 1994 Yeah, like he pooped over there. So he must be right. He was alive for a while He was alive for a while. He's eaten all the mess. He probably froze death on that cold night. Yeah, so I think he's fresh We're going to take him home for our mountain sea Sides are off. Wow. He is so this is uh old There used to be a pine down on graveyard point. It was famous It was how everybody came up the lake and in the storms you could see that old Hundred year old pine, you know, yeah, and it fell down a few years ago So this is one of the cookies off the limbs You could see the Ansel smith when he settled this place. It was just a little tiny tree And then the first tow boat showed up and cross cut saws in 1890. That's how big You know, how old the tree was rip dam in 1916 1920 uh 1976 the last log drive, but he's got that wrong It was 72 up here 76 was on the kind of that too. Yeah, but anyways, that's how big that limb was in 76 And then it made it to here and it fell over Look how narrow those yes, how tight they were. Yeah Yeah He made that last year Brad Edwards made it for yeah, we're gonna I'm gonna eat him Well, we got never at least Do they do weddings and stuff here Why wouldn't you get married Woman if I if I listen Why wouldn't you get married right here? Get hitched right here. I'm gonna put this out there on youtube world If you if you want if you're a good woodswoman And you don't mind type stuff like this. Let me know You gotta know how to skin or clean fish and skin fur These are all the in Memoria of dedication so the people that have passed from the village And of course, I believe Jackson Murphy's the last one No, Tommy Leroy was the last one The past that we had to put somebody on there in 2021 But when somebody passes there bits in association, they name good thonis plaques. Yeah And I mean they go back When did they stay different yeah 85 they started doing that which is a nice gesture Yeah, you know, you can remember come up look at that remember everybody that was Around This is the old department of conservation bunkhouse. Really the forest rangers used to stay Department of conservation house The bunkhouse now before well that that's an old building And down here before they flooded it moved the graveyard the graveyard used to be down here They moved it up before they flooded it. There was A barn blacksmith shops and a boom house here The great northern operated You can see it from way down what we call the barrel the narrow part of the lake where you can choose to go into caribou Or down towards the dam you can see it from there It was it was unbelievable It came down Too bad No, no it was the department of conservation the forest rangers used to stay there And the the forest rangers they still mow all the campsites out here and everything But they come by canoe and do What's that one? That's how they used to get in here I don't know It could have been I know that Richard parks and john bermbeck, that's how they hauled all the materials in to build their camp Yeah, is in that truck right there. I bet that was bird's old truck because I can remember he had like an old army truck Yeah, that's it and then the the ambulance the old ambulance you'll see up here It came from saboon mc when they had the p o w camps. What's this bfw post number one? That's bfw post number one to sun cut. There's only two members Peter Simmons and john bermbeck Oh the doctors That's cool That is cool That I mean that's that's right up there. You can't tell with the snow, but it's got big dragonflies in it working and red big knot And hauling everybody's propane and thinks he did the propane business and wow and all that stuff back through the 80s Yeah, now we can actually step inside So you can see why they spell it cotton view lodge Oh, yeah, look at that Do you put that tree out there that one? Yeah No, no nature put that one there Oh, really is it growing? No, no that one of all that's a christmas tree the super not always put it out there So people know where to come up the lake now. Oh, that's gone Yeah, that's cool Yeah, so this was rebuilt back in the 80s It's the third building that sat here the first one sat much closer to the to the water And it was in the victorian style of the ones down the road And then it burned and then they built another one and that burned and then this one was built in the 80s And that you can see the cellar hole over there behind the old mailbox. Yeah, there was another building So what was this used for? This one here. Yeah, was ran this catan view lodge sporting camps. Wow. Yeah Oh, look at these old lace gigs. Oh, yeah Look at the scale Yeah They ain't seen nothing yet Is that for drying laundry? That's a ring up for bringing out the water after you wash the clothes. Yeah, you're running through the ring Run it through the ring and out of the bucket and it gets in the water. Oh and it clamps to the bucket right there This is a water line. Yeah, holy. We got to rewire it. We want to rewire it and use it. Yeah Oh my word Oh my word Holy cow I don't know I might have the power shut off other than me Yeah, I mean, you know, you know, where do you even start? Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh, I've never seen a tv that old. I've never seen one So this one was from I think 1901 or 1902 and it originally had a little porch on it um, but two years ago Peterson was purchased it from bill haggity and to put the metal roof on it And uh wrap around farmer's porch and metal roof did that really made a difference on the building But that building and and this building are one of maybe in the church I want to maybe, you know, six or eight original buildings left in here. Everything's burned And been rebuilt Log Those bushes in the summer. Oh, wow, you know beautiful coming through here So this is some latch is built by frank laroy and someone by larry and shannon laroy now They used to own metal whistler sporting camps down on second road. I believe or maybe it was third road and Just a beautiful property and that's where I spent my first two winners is in that uninsulated bunkhouse right there Wow And you never the sun never touches that camp from October until June before you get sunlight that hits that camp. Yeah, look at the roof. Yeah, it's just freezing cold. Holy I I was cold. I woke up some mornings and the dog's bowl the water was frozen and You know what I mean? It was like I thought to myself the first winner. What did you do? um You know, this is like survival mode. Yeah That is right on the ledge too. Oh, yeah This is scott smith's property and at one time all this was the same family property That's an old red brook building right there that he's restored Of course, the only new construction up in the back That one was built. I believe by burt mcburni the green one out of parts and pieces So like it's built like three foot on center with the stringers and stuff I mean, I just jacked it last year and put everything back together. So it'll it'll it was gonna come down the hill And this one here is richard parks. He lives in bucker return florida, but spends a big part of his summer here And he's a world-class fisherman So there's an old camp up in there it was alec gond's old camp and he used to run a boat out here back in the 50s A big steamboat and and haul people up And then that's my water supply right there Like a spring you see it hanging right there. Oh, yeah water coming right out of it. Yeah, that's where all my water comes from Even if it's cold. Yeah I come down and I drop the five-pound drug off to visit my neighbor and I come back to pick it up on my own That's awesome. Yeah, that's how I I have running water. You just gotta run to get it It's good. Good. Good. Everything. Awesome. Yeah You're trying to get some ice off the roof Well, he's got solar panels up there and sampling dish. So this is the only other year-round resident He's home, huh? Yeah, there's only two of us that live here year-round and that's the other resident john bermbeck How old is he? 74 or five one or the other he's right there. He's probably napping Because that's what they do So this one's been rebuilt there was an original old camp here and then this one was built back in 46 And it was gonna fall over and you see all them cribs under there. Yeah, there's 11 of them I built them. Did you really fall? Yeah jacked it up and Put it on those and I said I'll do it, but I'm not taking them out. That's your foundation. Yeah. Yeah, of course There it is. Yeah Yeah, who cares that's your Barrett and Maggie's winter camp up back. That's where you would have stayed Yeah, Dominic supernot owns it now the brother to the people that own the lake house We brought the Aussies with us, so Never thought I'd see him in person. What's up, man? I'm Joe. I'm Joe. Yeah, nice to meet you. Hi, I'm Eddie. Eddie. Nice to meet you. Yeah, I'm Steve. Nice to meet you I'm Kyle. Please submit your Kyle. Mark, hey don't This is my friend Donnie. You might have seen him on a few videos I don't know if you've watched any videos with the donuts cooking donuts, but there you go. Yeah, good. That's me, huh? We've got the shack over here lobster, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hi, I'm Eddie. Yeah I'm Steve. Nice to meet you, Kyle. Hi, Mark. How you doing? First time ice fishing for Australians? I've been here before, but this is the first time. Yeah, it's the first time Pretty awesome. There's an old camp That's pretty That Kenison camp's a pretty one. Yeah, that's a cute little camp Bruce, he worked on the river drive up here Really? Yeah, this is the other new construction that's going on. This is Brian Lebrex He works up on the oil fields in Alaska some and then comes in here quite a bit in the summer And he's in Florida right now This next one down The A-frames was a Jewish boys summer camp What's it? Yeah, they came in for summers and that that was like a bad mitten and tennis area up there And they had these A-frames and they did canoe trips and things because they wanted to get the boys out And experience the wilderness You know through the 50s 60s. Whoa Yeah, Kevin McCarthy owns it now. He's an old trawler fisherman from Gloucester and he is a character Haha, we got four days of this. He could be Kurt's brother Bring the dog in now or later. Oh, yeah. Yeah, come on. See anybody Come on Ready John and I are gonna head out on the lake There's a couple young fellas out there that I guess are big fans of the channel So we're gonna go out and meet him and and uh, he's gonna introduce me to him And I think it'll be cool for all of us if I go out and do that. What do you think? Yeah, they've been pastored me ever since they found out you were going to show up Game board come on with your hands up Licenses present What's up, bud Joe Robert Robert nice to meet you. How you guys doing good catching them not not. Yeah, just got set up Yeah, Joe nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. What is it? Bradley? Nice to meet your brother We got some some mushrooms. I met him. Yeah. Yeah, they were heading out to get a firewood. They saw your your truck Yeah Nice Flag Who's taking it? I'll leave mine off just because he's old two strokes. She's down to that. Yeah I wanted to give you guys some light. Yeah All right guys, this is your chance to be a hero. Oh, it is There's no longer Whoa, salmon. I don't know. No, those cops do that. I had one I had one doing it. You just get him landed. Yeah You got you got the ice broke out enough so you can get him up out. She's good any size Um, it's too far away right now. Oh, I feel it. All right. You got somebody reeling there He feels them All right, you got to talk to the camera. Have you ever been on youtube before? Nope. Sweet first time Oh, he's pulling back. Oh, yeah Good one. Yeah He's caught under something right now. Yeah, that's what they did to me. They wrapped it right. Yeah A big one and I lost it. Yeah Oh, no, he's wrapped. Yeah He did did me Work it first. That's what they do Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh you got him free. Are you kidding me? You got him free I don't feel nothing now. Oh, no Oh We'll see you got off. Yep. No, that's what they do. It didn't snap though. I don't think I don't think it's snap No, but that's what they do. They get he might have he might have broke You know if he if he had it wrapped up, yeah, and he's only got like six feet Yeah To pull If it was a big enough if it was big right, it was a pretty good fish. Oh, yeah, it looks like it I haven't had the small ones take on I've seen the big ones And that's but the problem is they go down the bottom find the first log stump rock. Let me teach you a trick Yeah, no, so so you don't ever want to do that if you can help it. I learned this recently So the best way to ever do these Because every time you do that it puts a twist on the line Just take one hand put it right up above it like that so you got tension And then reel and then reel just like that And then you could move the line it comes in way quicker. See how much quicker that's coming And then there's no twist in your line too. All right You got to get the only the only bad part is it's hard to do with gloves, but you can do it And then you just you just get the line back if you can go back and forth on the spool But that won't put a twist in this line You won't break that ice. Yeah, you break that ice. What's the trick? Oh No, rather than wrap it by hand because you you put um Up above to keep tension on it right and then you could move like I'm moving my fingers left and right So it's going on your spool semi semi Especially I do it. Did you get your line back? Uh, I got yeah, I got the I got my hook Oh, no, you need one I might I might have one he's gonna put the hook right through the ice line I'm just gonna hook what you should do. You could do that with class. You should I've done it. Yeah. No, you should what do you need a hook? Yeah, I might have one I'm gonna grab bait. Oh bait. You don't have one. Well, I don't have bait You know, they're here ever this this will prevent that from happening. So are you good there? Is that where you want to be? Yep. All right, so we're going to give them like two feet. Yeah, two to five foot right there And you're just going to take a rubber band and you just pass it through itself like that and then You put that over your spool so So what's good? Let me Yep, so he's gonna See how it's wrapped on the spool like that and then you're going to go back to where your bottom was wherever your bottom was So that's all you can run right there is it's just whatever that amount is So he's going to run run run run run and then it's going to set on them And they if it over eight pounds it'll break that and then you got to go to your whole spool Right, but if he's under eight pounds that sets the hook for him and you don't have to pull back as much and you keep your Hand warm and right there. He'll be right there. He'll fight that rubber band for hours It doesn't that give right so I think What's that? There's one hand above one below nice jack trap you guys got some awesome traps out here. I got a few We're late. How long's that been ready? How's the fishing? They just lost a decent one. Did they? It was hung up though Yeah, it was a good one. Oh, I do set any traps. No. No, we're just talking. I don't know. It's windy and It's really windy. Yeah We were talking about going back out, but it's pretty it's pretty rugged out there. It's pretty nice in here In here, it's not bad at all This is almost bedtime, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna sleep like a log tonight, man Yeah, early to bed early to rise fish fish like hell and make up lies. You make oh, I'm stabbing and I get cold And to be honest with you, I've had two gatorades a bunch of water and a protein shake today I gotta have another water. I had one take all you want. There's another case in your bunker Donny chop suey, I am starving. I put a little it's got a little bit. You tell me where how much you want another one It's got a little bit of a kick, but not much now. Give me started All right, guys, we're gonna settle in eat some dinner. Um, probably not gonna make it out with the boys again It's pretty windy out there and I got a feeling once we fill that belly and cozy up next to that wood stove Good night, Irene. It's a long day for us. Yeah After dinner, we're gonna talk a little bit about the history and I'm gonna look through that history book tonight, too So it'll be cool to go over that but awesome awesome a lot of history here The big band is gone. That used to be Easy. Yep. There's a nice picture of it fell in. Oh, yeah that book. You love that book. Ha you walk right down memory lane that well Well, and I I don't know what decade it was in But we went down river to get firewood. Yeah, we camped out at ragmuff. Yep and uh So we're going along That alpha pull in here. We got some dead wood. So we went in And believe it or not we're scratching around And we found a pair of clogged Boots. Yep that must have been hanging on a tree where somebody died somebody died. Yeah, that's what they did Yeah Well, that's gonna do it tonight fellas. That was a great evening John is ready for bed. We we filled him right up with that good grub. I'm I'm two bowls in so I'm well past bedtime and Donnie's out yelling the bank and he's pretty well tired, too So travel days take a lot out of you. It feels like I've been on travel day for about a month So I'm pretty smoked tired and hopefully I'm snoring before John is Thanks for tuning in. Yeah, check it. Check us tomorrow We're gonna be fishing somewhere on Chezon Cook or nearby Either a salmon day a white perch day or a cusk day, but it'll be something fun. Thanks for tuning in guys. See you then