 I don't know, 10, 20, 2 feet long, I mean up to that wall right there. Not counting those five weeks left there. What a friggin' blessing though for a young man like me without big financial means to wake up here today. Alright guys, it is blowing straight sideways out there. Gaston had been blowing like a sieve all night long. So we're going to go out and fish, but we're not going to fish exactly where we want to because the wind is going to control that. So we're going to tuck around the corner. We're going to get out of the wind the best we can. We're going to set up that Eskimo Escape 2800 and see if we can get something topside for you. I'll give you a hand in a second, buddy. Just barely tripped. We're going to wind through. Oh no, there's one on there I think. No, definitely not a wind. Maybe. Oh, it's off the side. Nothing. Just hit it. Got him? Wind perch. Alright, yes sir. I can't believe that fish didn't run. Hey, I think he's under 16. I got one too. Yeah, let's get it out and measure it. I lay that to the bait. This bait's the best bait I've seen. This is good bait. No, I got to take measure here. Geez, we didn't even get set up. I told him. I said that won't be long. Dang, good, good. Well, let's go back in the house. Yeah, we got one. Really? Pick up everything. Stay there, we're coming back. She's pissed off. Oh, she missed a flag. Oh my God. She is a fishing dog. That's got to be under 16. I don't know. He don't care. We got two more. One of us just leave a big spot open. To get him down in the gullet. The baddest he's hooked, I don't think you're going to get him back anyway. That one's headed for the smoker. You ain't kidding me. Well there, we got the fish out of the way. Yeah, that was easy. I said I'll get him out of here, we won't have a flag all the time. Nice. What do you think of that, Sadie Mae? Donnie, what do you think? I think that's a good stat right there. Yeah, that is my canvas on that leg. Oh Sadie, she put her foot in. Put it in the water. Don't let her get hooked, Donnie. They got an oil on their skin that doesn't let the moisture get into their skin. I'll get her, she's coming with me. Come on girl. Come on, Gipper. I know, it's hard being old. Well there, one down. Set this one up and then I'm going to sound for my camera. Beautiful, Sam. Yeah, it ain't bad. It's a little skinny for what we like. We'll take it. We don't eat the guts. That's why we're thinning them out. And we don't eat the guts. No, we didn't even get set up. Guys, we're using rainbow smelt and we're hooking them in front of a dorsal fin. We don't want to get their spine. Donnie's using pretty rugged hooks. Those are number six hooks. Yep, they're pretty thick. He's fired up. First salmon for you the year, ain't it, Donnie? Alright, he's got his bait back down. He's winding her up. Want me to get that? You got it? There's his salmon. There's a nice little hook jaw on him. Right there. She's blowing straight sideways, Donnie. Guys, she called for 25 degrees. 25 miles an hour, but she's blowing. They said 25 miles an hour. Gosh, she's sustained 25. You can see the whole lake just going right there. This will be our last set right here. This is John's seventh set. So after he gets this set, we're going to go in. That was good at that. I'm just kidding. So we'll go in and get out of the wind a little bit. We're going to set up that popover eskimo escape. We're going to escape. We're going to escape from the wind, right, Donnie? She's blowing like a sieve out here. I'll tell you that right now. It's all a straight sideways. But he's got John set for salmon. Four, and he's got one for a cask. And I set one for a cask, and my other three for salmon. Donnie's all salmon. All salmon slayer. He's a salmon slayer. He owns the smoker. He knows it ain't worth just doing one. No, it's because he smells like fish. I do after four days. She's rolling? He was rolling when I... Well, it took quite a bit. I never cut his lines. Nice! Yeah! That's definitely under the limit. I never kept one this small. Ever, ever. I pan-fry them, babies. Just like a little trout, you know? Oh, that's awesome. This is all right. Maybe we're going to have a day of it. Have you used bait smaller than that? I know. Look at the size of the smelt here. I don't really want to change that one out. Yeah, if you've got plenty. I've used bait smaller than this, but guys, that's a salmon. We're keeping that. That's like eight inches. Maybe nine. And we're being legal about it. We're getting 500 more pounds out of the lake. Donnie used to keep them this size years ago, but now it's legal. But they want these out of here. They want to harvest like 600 pounds of these. So we're going to get as many as we can and throw them right through the smokers. All right, guys. Donnie and I just got set up in the escape. And just jigged up a really nice little smelt right there. I'm going to throw that in our bait bucket for now, but we might end up eating him for dinner. Jack's smelt. There's a couple more on the screen. All right, I think you got them. What do you think it is? A little smelt. Donnie got a little baby yellow. All right, get right back down there. There's another one down there. Look at that little baby yellow. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven stripa. Good job, Donnie. My cask set. Oh, wow. Didn't take long, did it? The last hole to fill it. Probably. I hit my weight on this side. Over I went. Jesus, you're too old to be doing that. Good thing it's a tender. You lost a sticker. You don't need stickers anyway. You believe that? You okay? We thought you yelled flag. What's that? We thought you yelled flag. I got a flag. My cask runs out. So you came over and got sideways? You good to go? I'm fine. This one's salmon. Now what's the cost? I like to put that big black box right there. Give you a little bit of a win grade. Not much, but a little bit. Brick and sin ways on us. I'm glad we didn't go too far from camp. Me too. My first salmon of the day. Guys, giant landlock. We're doing our pyre. We're doing our civic duty. Aren't you blowing? That hard. I just got into a couple more jacks melt. Show them yours buddy, you got a good one. That's my first one, I've been jigging them out. That's pretty awesome. Break the bucket. I got that one in. Man, they left as quick as they came though, didn't they? That's alright, a school came through. That's unbelievable. It just takes a second. It's about mid-afternoon. We still got three salmon topside. Couple flags here and there. You almost don't even want a flag on the outside ones. It's so balmy out there. She's blowing hard fellas. We made the right decision kind of tucking in behind this bank here at the graveyard. Graveyard point. But some of our traps aren't tucked behind. Man, you get out a little ways and she is balmy. Balmy. You crazy bastard. It was over your treppa. I'll dig you out. Just slush. What you got, Donny? You big yellow. He lost it. Oh, it's spinning. Oh, yeah. She's spinning. That means he's got a flag. I told you I had a flag. That's funny. I told you earlier I had a flag. No, I don't. Probably did. Who's just waiting for you guys? I mean, there's no way of knowing. I just grabbed it and yanked. Well, that didn't set the hook. I don't know what it did. Oh, yeah. Nice. I don't know how much line this spool is out. There's a fish there. You're right. 14 and a half. Another smoker. There we go. Doing your civic duty. That one's getting full. Just barely moving when I got here. I only gave him about five foot leash. But we're just switching over to all cuss stuff. Okay. Feels like there's something there. Not much. Head shake. Little guy. There's a little cuss, guys. You ever seen a cuss before? The uglier it gets, the better it tastes. Yes. He's close to cuss nugget size. They get... The biggest in Maine was 18 pounds. So how old is that? That one was like a pound. Yeah. How many times that beat? They got a lot bigger. They caught some good ones last night. Rubber band. Yeah. There's something there. Oh, yeah. Hasn't even got to the rubber band yet. Oh, it is at the rubber band. So we've got a little cuss. He's too small to eat. All right. Tonight we're cooking in a Dutch oven on a wood stove. We cook baked potatoes right on top of the stove. They've been cooking for nearly all afternoon. And I made some chicken with stuffing in it. Which is cooking in this Dutch oven. Which is dog on clover. A lot of stuff can be cooked in that. Yeah, I can get that all the time. Throw a ham in there and go out and play around all day and come back and it's all done. It's beautiful. Donnie came in a little bit early from the lake for us to get dinner ready. John and I stayed out a little longer. I got those two small cuss. I didn't have to go to the studio because the batteries were dying. We still got a couple cuss lines out there we're going to check periodically. You have to check them once every hour by main state law and see if we can get some night biters. All right, sounds good. Yeah, it was a cold day out there. The wind blew like crazy. They have holes traps pretty much filled in. You just get them cleaned out a little less because the wind was really howling. We were in a shack which was more comfortable and had a good day overall. Yeah, but we're on to a big one tomorrow. Tomorrow's the heyday I think. We cross that thing. What's the plan for tomorrow, John? We're going to go dig hopefully a bucket full of white parrots and catch some brookies. We're going to a super secret lake. We're going to hold pond. I like it. Tell us about your little girl here. Sadie Mae, 13 years old. She's the fish finder. She's ready for bed. She's ready already? She's done. She's had a long day. I got a feeling you and I are going to be ready for bed once we get this grub in our guest. It's going to be a race to who's talking about the energy I'll be the first one. Donny won last night halfway through our conversation. He saw our logs. Overall, just an awesome time so far. John, we'll let John walk you through his humble abode if he doesn't mind. Just tell us a little bit about your cabin. It was just a shed. It was a 12 by 24 homage built shed. I cut some holes in the walls and put in windows and insulated it and hung some wall boards and tying a roof pine and we put a stove that would heat a 4,000 square foot building in the middle because I was tired of being cold. I lived in here in an uninsulated cabin for the first few winters. That's the beauty of a stove. We're all solar powered. You can see we have internet, solar power, LED lights in the ceiling. We really don't lack for anything, I don't think. Donny says we need a kitchen sink. Other than that, it's all just a collection of eclectic stuff that I couldn't get rid of when I moved and I sold my house so I stuffed it in here. I put a little bunk room on so that people have accommodations. Yeah, that was great for Donny and I. Sleeping in front ports to put all the gear when we're here. Beautiful. Really an awesome place. Yeah, it's comfortable. Loving it. Yeah, real comfortable. You don't love for anything. For sure. Yeah, there's one there. I didn't think there was. Man, this is like the hunting hole. He feels all right. We should have been digging. Big head shakes. Yeah. This one feels all right. Yeah. Yeah. I want to eat. Nice. We're on the board, baby. Man, we should have been right up on this hole and jig probably. No kidding. It seemed to be a hole right here. Yeah. Nice. Sweet. All right. That's decent. Yeah, I think I got a hook ready. Got a scope here. Hold up. Yeah, somewhere here. I'm trying to find my other trap. You couldn't? I couldn't. Got one, guys. First Costco of the night, third one of the day. Pretty good. I threw one in the air. There it is. Yeah, it's a pretty good one there. He's a 20-something interest. Nice one. We'll eat him up. We're cooking. Oh, yeah. You cook anything you can cook in an oven. Really? Yep. I made a pumpkin pie last week. You put, like, a pie liner in? Like a metal liner? No, I just put a pie crust down at the bottom. I oil it up. My stuff's all pretty well seasoned. Yeah. You know, I oil it every time I use it. Never would I complain about something. We have gravy over here. Donny, you've outdone yourself again in your culinary arts. Well, not very good, but, you know, I know you guys won't complain about it. Nope. Because you know the alternative. What's the alternative? If you complain, you have to cook. I like it. So far, in all my times cooking, I've had nobody complain. I think I can rough it through this. We'll see. Everything was cooked on top of a wood stove. We got chicken with stuffing. Yeah. The only thing I forgot was cranberry sauce. I got a can. You want it? No, I don't care. Oh, I got a can over there on the shelf. I don't think we need it now. Oh, we got so much food here. Yeah. And, you know, the Dutch oven worked great for the chicken. Peas, beans, salads. All the stuff that's good for you. You guys don't eat your skins, huh? Oh, yeah. I put the butter and salt and pepper to it. We'll be looking at them. He was looking at them. Skin's pretty hard. But that was my lucky night. Yeah, I got a high flier right here. You're good, too. I'll tell you that here. I never reeled one in like this. I'm going to try it. Yeah, I know. It's different. Weird. Big head shakes. It might be. Oh, jeez. It might be pretty good. Holy. Little guy. He boarded one. You didn't catch it in the calls, though. Yeah.