 Good morning. It's a chill he went out there. We're looking at 6.9 degrees Inside it was 33 this morning. So kept it pretty pretty good comfortable Got a decent night's sleep Super quiet out here on the ice, which was nice drove a pretty good breakfast into me and Gonna start the snowmobile get that warmed up a little bit and Head over and meet my buddy and do some pan fishing today I think we're gonna take a little ride to a new body of water And see what we can catch Coffee is really good this morning Made a nice dark batch on the percolator so Gonna enjoy that once it once it cools down a little bit more for me, but Filled up a thermos and I'll have that on the on the ice Little like a fish under me unless that's mud What was that all about? You don't Although that big one That's about what I thought he was Small Ended up not filming a lot from here on out the cameras just kept freezing up I gotta start putting some heat to them But these are the fish I entered in the fish donkey nationwide tournament Ended up catching quite a few different species We are looking at a pretty cool 15 degrees out there and inside is 39. I put the heater on I Went to dinner with CJ and Anna and Dan so Not cooking tonight But I put the heat on before I Before I left so it would be a little bit warmer here when I got back I knew I'd get back a little bit late Gonna get the coffee ready for the morning Gonna get the coffee ready for the morning and a few other things and I'm probably calling a night Super tired the fishing was really tough Really difficult fishing today We did not Before I left this morning I Put the water jugs up in my sleep bag Nice they didn't freeze. That's awesome because it was super cold So I didn't know if I was gonna work or not. They did not freeze Give those a chance to dry out tonight Everything's looking good Pretty well all set up ready for the morning Well, that's gonna do it for today didn't really film a lot of the fishing today I'll try to film a little bit more of that for you in the future. I was a really really tough day tough bite Didn't catch a lot But caught several species which was pretty cool So I'll try to do some filming tomorrow for you and and on the on the lake Otherwise, we're we're camping Good morning. Good morning alright, that was Second night's sleep. It's a little bit before 5 a.m. It's one below zero out there in here. We're toasty 39 degrees Had the heater running on A little bit over medium most of the night right there as you can see with the fan on I mean I still got snow, you know like A couple feet from it on the floor But it kept the olive oil mostly melted And kept my water from freezing and it kept me from freezing. So there you have it Whoo, oh boy got a big day today guys Gonna cook up some breakfast Think I'm fishing alone today. I'm in a fish donkey Tournament, I'm actually a couple of them, but there's one that ends today I didn't realize it ended today, but it's three crappy. I've already weighed in two pretty good-sized crappy I got one 16 and a quarter and one 15 inch So that puts me at 31 and a quarter year old you got away in three the leader right now is at 43 and a quarter So all I need to 12 inch or to tie anything over 12 inches takes the lead and today's the last day So the pressure's on I've thrown back a couple in that 12 inch range without even weighing them in just because They're not that big But I got to catch one and I got to get a pretty decent one to win this tournament on the very last day So wish me luck on that I'll bring you along stay tuned on that but first things first is gonna cook some breakfast over here Gonna get the coffee started first that takes a little while to perk because it's probably frozen water in the coffee Let coffee pot ready the night before Just makes it so much easier than you don't have to deal with frozen water And that's all you can do is click it off the stove But it's still kind of congealed Half and half, but that'll be enough to cook with that'll be good coffee on the ice We're we're hovering right at two below zero right now, and it usually drops when the Sun comes up Now it's time to eat dishes are done. All right, we're starting to drop. It's negative two and a half right now It's this weird phenomenon that happens every day in the winter in Maine is Right before the Sun comes up in the first, I don't know 20 minutes half hour of the Sun coming up the temperature Just plummets even harder so 525 right now Got another easy half hour or so before the Sun comes up maybe an hour So it'll probably drop to I'm thinking five six below Good time to be sitting here drinking a hot cup of coffee Good little trick if you guys are at a diner or even at home and your coffee is a little too hot to drink And you don't have ice cubes around or anything like that is just put a utensil a metal utensil in it And that'll pull a lot of the heat out of it and if you start of course that'll pull some heat out of it too But just dropping a metal utensil or two or three in there is enough to waft a lot of that heat out of it and make It drinkable All right, we are looking at three below zero now three and a half below zero It's dropping. I'm gonna go out and get that machine started. So it has time to warm up Let's see how she does First thing is pull the kill switch and if you just tap that on I Guess it preheats it from what I was told. I don't know Let it run a cycle And then hold it in love it when that thing fires up when it's cold. I love it when it fires up every day It's coming in at a brisk 10 degrees outside Which means it is 10 degrees inside right now because I had this stove off But I got it cranking right now the fans just kicked on as you could see I'm gonna see how quick it It warms up in here last night was supposed to be six above it ended up being four to six below this morning It was four below when I laughed and then it usually drops a couple more They're calling for negative one tonight. So it could get as low as like 12 13 below zero tonight so I might keep the heater on like Medium or something like that just to keep it keep stuff from freezing too much in here as you can see like Olive oil freezes pretty quick, but that's not the best judge But the water jugs and everything I'm gonna check my water jugs. That's one of the most important things I put them to bed when I left this morning underneath all this clothing So under the clothing and in the bed So let's check on that See oh nice it did not freeze And they did not wet that bed either, which is really nice because if anybody's wet in that bed, it's gonna be me Cool so I found a way to keep that from freezing and then tonight. I just keep them semi-close to this stove and hopefully the stove keeps them from getting too too cold but so Give you a recap on the day because I didn't do a lot of filming out there fishing But it was an absolute grind this cold front Has got the fish shut off. So I'm not doing a ton of filming just because there's so much Searching and chasing after them and running after them and not catching them to be honest with you I caught Too crappy today one was like five inches the other luckily for me. I needed a 12-inch air to Tie or take the lead from Scott over at 330 maniac. He's got a great channel if you guys haven't seen it he was in the lead and My good buddy Sean was in second So those guys are both just sticks wicked weapons on the water and I needed a 12-inch or just a just to Tie or take the lead. I think I ended up getting one 12.75. Yeah So 12 would have tied because I'm in the lead right now by 0.75 inches So that's three fish Did we're I think I'm coming in at like 44 inches, which is kind of lame for Maine, but the bite has just been horrible The action's been really tough. So I'm very thankful for that fish I'll show you guys some pictures of it that I sent into fish donkey and I talked to Scott tonight And he's actually heading fishing for wall. I end crappy tonight all night and the tournament ends at midnight So fingers crossed mine holds up good luck. Scott. He said he's not on a big crappy lake But you never know it's fishing man. You could pop one at any time. He just needs three-quarters more of an inch to tie and An inch gives him the lead and I think he's got a 14 So if he catches a 15-inch or he should take the win and I don't know if Sean's fishing tonight either so Wish me luck on that guys Wish me luck on getting through tonight. It's gonna be a pretty brutal cold one and then tomorrow We're gonna we got another day of the cold front We're gonna go crappy fishing tomorrow and then after that I think the bite should heat up, but I'm gonna try to get some filming for you guys On the water, you know I haven't been doing a lot of that just really tough conditions to to film when it's that cold and one especially when they're not biting and You know, I just I Just worked my absolute tail off today to try to just get that bite. I ended up catching Really good bass. I entered that in in on fish donkey as well And I caught two Perch that were like 12 and a half inches. I entered those and I entered a Pumpkin seed as well like an eight and a half so It wasn't the worst day ever. It was just a really tough day and expectations were high and and I was You know when you're focused for the entire day every single second of the day, you know, you forget to eat you forget to drink and And he just tried to make it happen. So it didn't happen to me till like almost 2 p.m. So it was long long spell But you got to always stay positive you never give up You guys know the deal We'll see how it goes and then tomorrow starts a new weekly tournament on Nicole Stone's Channel through fish donkey for your top three crappy by length Verified mouth closed all that good stuff. So we're gonna start a new one tomorrow. See how we do see how we do tonight Let's see how we do tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in guys. I had dinner at CJ and Anna's we had her famous Venison egg rolls again and corn chowder. It was absolutely amazing belly full Worn-out super tired mentally and physically Gonna get my coffee ready for tomorrow Maybe a couple of the things ready for tomorrow morning and then I'm gonna be added at about 4 30 again Give it a go. Thanks for tuning in guys really appreciate all the support for the channel