 good morning she chili one we got a one below zero right now it was about four below zero when the propane ran out last night I was trying to see what this little heater could do and she went through all the propane and that one can saw it middle of the night I went out and switched them over and then got her going again and it's 44 degrees in here with that thing on high gonna drive some coffee in me get some traps set up for big northern pike and then come back and cook up some breakfast while those traps are soaking got two live bait and three dead bait to soak today we'll see which ones work better that was the sixth night in a row on the ice out here trips going pretty well a lot of fun a lot of a lot of people on this trip doing solo camping but getting to see a lot of people each day coming in the fish going out to try to catch some other fish we got two big live shiners that the boys from Vermont caught on rodent real force yesterday I'm gonna deploy them see how they do I like live bait better I've been trying dead bait this trip but I think live baits always better let's go beautiful morning out here get this in fired up never gets old a little bit of a bite that's what we're into for live bait right there this one was caught on a rodent reel yeah so about halfway between the eye and the dorsal fin on him that's about a nine nine and a half shinier get him down he's gonna go where he wants to go I'm gonna show you guys the rubber band trick when you're using big bait that could trip your your set up your tip-ups or your jack trap so got a rubber band on the bottom there I'm gonna lift it up I get a fold I'm gonna tuck the fold underneath that rubber band so it's pinched so the bait is working against that right there when a pike hits he rips it out of that and then he's got free spooling so he doesn't feel anything any resistance and can can run and he won't drop the bait so that's how you set it up had to reach in the bucket and get that shinier out because my net's frozen solid as you can see I like to clear all the slush away from the hole when it's wet because as soon as that freezes it it's real grabby on your line so I got it away from the hole so that way when I'm fighting a big pike and I get him up to the hole and he takes all the line back the line won't shouldn't get hooked up on on any of that slush that's frozen around the hole well we got one in one more time tucking that in that big bait it's a little different angle on this put a fold then if you put it in the corners it's even tighter and that's it just like that well the rest of my dead bait that I had in my jet sled her the rest of my dead bait that I had in my sled last night froze a little too solid to use so luckily I vacuum sealed some the other day and they're in my shack and shouldn't be too frozen so we'll get those open them up and use them that's just a beautiful jack trap right there that's their burnt ash charred beautiful I like that one oh that's hot sit there for a minute between catching a 20 pounder and losing a 20 pounder on a cold day that slush is gonna harden like today and not only is it tough to kneel on it when you're trying to catch the fish when you're laying your line out it gets caught in it like crazy it's sticky it's like Velcro but when that fish has got to make a run and he's got to take some line you could have a snap off if you're hung up on the ice you could have a mess so that's one little piece of advice when you're big fish fishing always double check your knots your leaders everything because you're one flag away from catching the biggest fish of your life you've got to be the way you look at it so it's fishing guys and I know it's not a perfect science but I found that the big pike the really big ones feed between about 930 and 230 I don't know if it's a light thing or what it is but on several different bodies of water where I fish pike that's when I've caught my biggest pike in general now there's always those anomalies there's always it's always fishing you could catch one right at dark you could catch one first thing in the morning but I like to get my traps set up first thing in the morning so they're set ready ready for them could catch that anomaly and at least are good to go for when 930 comes around and I got no trouble and then you know anything before then as a bonus fishes is what I figure and then then once you hit that magical time slot then it's game on and then I fully expect to be getting some good bites out here had to run back and get a battery back to the GoPro now she's going okay we got something on whoa look at that she just took a run run like that you could usually set just pulled it right out of its face didn't feel very big but what a bummer what a bummer dang maybe I should let him eat easy to second guess wicked bummer you hate missing fish but felt like it might have been a hammer handle trying to eat that giant trainer let's see if he comes back all right it's about 8 8 30 we're gonna go in and cook up some breakfast get a full belly before we gotta go start pulling some big pike top so nice in here oh sweet oh nice well Benjamin you want to check this one it might just be laying there but doesn't look good well it took you did take some wine you know how to do it you got steel leader too so you can you can horse on them if you need to you guys are on camera is that all right he took a little bit so it wasn't just a perch sometimes they turn around you don't any bait at all Benjamin now always yeah yeah I had my bait charm put me up with yeah but she came out the first day out here yeah when did you first come out I think I've been here about six nights have you really making power I don't know what direction I'm going but when I when I kick the ice it started going so you could take it whenever you want yeah you got them feel big heavy you let me know if you need any line back a lot of times those big ones will come right at you and then they start fighting at the hole all right there's your bottom marker yeah within a foot or two there you go little hammer handle yes sir well guys I think I'm gonna take a load out of here back to the truck and start slowly slowly packing up for this trip I'm gonna fish the rest of the day and still have the tent and the floor and table and stove and all that stuff to take apart later well I'm still fishing but run a load back got a full load right here all right camps all picked up and clean gonna pick up my traps and that's gonna be it for this trip