Okay, my name is Steve Rosted. I work with VMware. I'm an available source of developers there. And I wanted to make sure I'm an original developer, maintainer of something called App Trace, which is a personal trace of individuality of Bill Lang's kernel. I also work on the go-to-time patch. Actually, that's where App Trace came from. This is where I'm working to try and make Linux into a real-time, which hopefully we'll go in this year. Back in 2009, I created a tool to visualize the trace data because I was debugging the real-time scheduler and the migration of it. And I knew a good way to visualize stuff. So my first introduction into open source development was back in 1996, where I sent a patch to GTK back then. So I liked GTK, but I haven't done it over a decade. So I used it as both, hey, I'll make a visualization. I'll learn how to use GTK. I worked on it and it was one of my hobby tasks. When I went to VMware, D'Arcondo, who's the vice president of our department, asked me if there's anything that I would like to work on that I'd be able to help out with. And I said, yes, curve her. I haven't really been able to work on it. I've been, like I said, with my idle task. So we hired Yordan, which is his name, but he keeps fixing my pronunciation, and I've got to get it right. Anyway, Yordan came in. He was working, he was actually a theoretical physicist at CERN, and he was doing more programming than physics and finally he liked programming more. So that's why he left CERN to become a programmer. He did a lot of development data analysis and stuff like that, and he did a lot of things with Qt. And I said, perfect, because when I wrote Colonel Shark, I cornered myself into a corner with the design decision, because I really, like I said, I was only working on it when I had some free time. I didn't really put that much thought and the development of it. And I made several core design decisions, and that's why Colonel Shark never made it to 1.0, because I wanted to rewrite it. Now I had someone that had experience and said, great, you're going to rewrite it. I helped architecture. Make sure he didn't fall into the same traps I fell into. He rewrote it from scratch in Q and C++ using the still bit with the trace management. And this is how we got Colonel Shark 1.0. And just before all those of you with little kids, I have to do it. Colonel Shark do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Colonel Shark do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Colonel Shark do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Colonel Shark. It goes on too. And finally also one last thing. I did have to do it in my last session, so I have to do it now. I always take selfies of the line. This is called a camera. I don't make phone calls with this. Smile. Oh, there's a word. Ness. So let's continue. It's a single. We'll be able to figure it out. So Colonel Shark, what is it? It's a front-end practical user interface or trace command. What is trace command? Well, it's a front-end command line in the base. Graph trace. And what is ftrace? Hang on here. Not know what ftrace is. So everyone here will actually know what ftrace is. Wow, it's actually the unpopular. It's actually, this is several times a lot of people who say not knowing what ftrace is. Well, I kind of gave you a definition. So technically, everyone that was here when I gave my introduction knows what ftrace is. Where is it? It's on getthatcolon.org. That's where it's located. It currently lives with trace command in the same git repository. But what we're working on right now is we're trying to make trace command into a library, a bunch of libraries, such that we can move Colonel Shark into its own repo and Yorda will then become the main maintainer of it once that happens. So, what does it look like? So we start up Colonel Shark for the very first time as well. No big deal. By the way, I mean it's mostly visuals.  This is actually what it's, the old one did this, but this is a little bit better. A little color scheme thing, I'll show you how to make it indelible. You click on that. So basically, you can do this from a user. You can ask it to be rude. It would execute a smaller program. So it's a little bit easier to audit because when you write things that super user and rude could use, you wanna make sure it's kind of condensed so that no one could take advantage of it and hack into your system because of a security hole or something. So we try to keep the recorder much smaller. And this is where actually what it looks like. You can actually run this by itself, but you need to be rude to doing anything because this actually reads into the Linux kernel referees that are protected that only rude could read into. And that's how it produces all the events that Ftrace shows you. So if I could go and select certain trace events here. And by the way, right around today, I am giving a tutorial on Ftrace. So if you're not knowing what Ftrace is, I am giving you a tutorial later today. Probably shouldn't have that first event, yes. But I can actually just schedule it. So I clicked on a few things here. And then down below, I hit it. You can see, you can see it actually needs time to pass it. So right here, you can actually put in where you want the output. You can put in a command that's where to run. If I hit apply first, that's good, you can do that here. No, I didn't show you. You can see it does the, it actually executes trace command record with the events that I, the system events that I didn't do any individual events. And I hit capture and then it recorded those things.  So you get all this. What you see here is per CPU, all the data in the visual, on the CPU side, each different color happens to be a different task. So you can see how things are scheduled. If there's some, if this plank, that means the system is idle. If you just see a black line with nothing in it, that means the idle task, because the idle task itself when the system is idle, could actually do events, interrupts can come in, where there's no actual task. That would be a little black line. But here you can see the different events on each line. Down below here is this, this is basically an output. If you get just trace command report, it'll show you all the output. And you can look in here and you can search within that. So we want to zoom in. Because right now we can't really do that. So you just select your mouse, slide it across, you can do this little great now. When you let go of the mouse, it zooms right in. So if I go back, this part from here to here becomes that window. So that's what you see. That was inside that little box. So you get down to a little bit deeper. If you put the mouse over events, you see the mouse over here, I put over event. You can read up on top that this was my Chromium task on CPU zero. This little magic numbers here is the same thing as the latency. Now that's something I probably should document a little better. I'm not going to describe it in my documentation. You do have, like the first one means interrupts are disabled. The dot would be the next one would be the capital N, which means that there's a need reset, sked flag set. So if you're inside the kernel, what could happen is in a vector come up and say, look, we need to schedule. So there's another task that wants to run that's higher priority than the work task that you're running right now. So we set the flag saying we need to do a schedule. So that when we enable interrupts, we know that we got a call scheduled. So that's why you'll see here where the H needs to run a hard interrupt as opposed to a soft interrupt, doing different things. And then the last one I believe it might be a cramp to count. I have to look at it because different hurdles have different information on what that shows. So when I click on that event, you'll see a little dot here. This is one of the advantages or this is one of the enhancements from kernel shark 1.0 that the old one didn't have is that it actually, this little dot will appear on the event. So if I actually move across you'll see the dot will bounce to which actual event it corresponds. Because before you just saw a line and you didn't really know which CPU that, you had to actually look here to see which CPU it was to see it was. So on marker A, I click marker A here, it gives me the time stamp, same time stamp up there, it gives me a little spot there. So if I hit this double plus plus, I zoom all the way up as far as it could go. So I can come, if I want to see all the, see everything there. And then I hit marker B, it gives me a second marker. So I want to see what's over here to over here. So I want to say this guy, which happened to be a sked waking. And it was waking this compositor, whatever that was. I think it's some, I think it's one of the breads from the Chromium task. And I just curiously, I want to see how long it took to wake up. So right there I said, okay, this is where I woke up. That's a sked waking task, where I went to sked waking events. The sked switch events here shows you that the compositor was scheduled onto the CPU. And you notice it started right there. Now, here's a little interesting. I like showing bugs. Because as I write these things, I find, usually I always find bugs when I'm writing presentations. And I kind of list them up. And this is how this way I can keep you on here. Remember, okay, you are done. I count some bugs and I'll report. Since this is kind of like a design decision that you're done shows that we were questionable whether we like this. The sked event is kind of interesting event because it represents two tasks. You have right here, it's the idle task that is scheduling the composite task. And that's where the composite thread starts. But because I'm here, it's really the idle task that's actually the task here. Now, the reason why I'm saying I think this is, so I click down here, this is where the bug was because the sked events kind of screwed things up. Because now I do a right click against the menu and I want to plot the task. But right here, it's kind of funny because it says idle, put it, at least it exists, right? You can see in there. This is where the bug is. It's saying it's the idle with process ID 13482. I can guarantee you that idle task does not have a process ID of 13482. The idle task has a process ID of zero. So why is that? It's actually showing the process ID of a composite task, which you can see over here. 14482, or what do you call it, 13482, but the idle task is actually a process ID of zero. But that's kind of, it's got mixed. And that can be confusing. So just let you know, I will probably fix this. This question is, which one should you show right there? But when we add it, you notice that I added the idle task, that process ID of zero. This is sort of the idle task of process ID of zero. Now, what's interesting about this, the idle task is a little confusing because there's really actually more than one idle task. The idle task is kind of magic in the kernel because it runs on every single CPU. So where everything else is a single entity, idle is magical, there's a magic idle for every single CPU, and they all have to share the same process ID. So that does sometimes confuse Kernelshark because it's expecting every thread with a single process ID is only the same. So what's interesting about that, when you plot a task, the task color is now, remember I told you on the CPU, each color was which CPU it was on. The task color represents which CPU, well, I'm sorry, yeah. CPU is telling you which task, each color is a different task. On a task plot, it's a task plot, it's a CPU plot. On a task plot, each color is a different CPU. So you can watch things migrate. So I can click on the right screen and scroll further out over. And as I scrolled over, let's see where it's right here. And yeah, so because now I'm more interested into seeing the events of actually the compositing task. So I click there, now I actually got the real name followed by the real PID. And there I want to add that guy. So now I got this task, now I can see something more interesting. Here's something that's really kind of interesting that's a trace of what Kernelshark actually does. And it's actually a plugin I forgot to, I don't think I should talk about that here, but I can show it on the demo. But the plugin that we added is a scheduling plugin that modifies how scheduling events work. That's probably why I got one of these too, because that's actually a plugin that did it. So you'll notice this green box here, right? Plot tasks, this green box shows me that this is where it was woken up, this is where it actually was scheduled. So actually I can see from here, I can click on marker A, click up here where the wakeup is on this guy. Okay, schedule waking. And I can go over to marker B, click marker B, click that. And between the two, you get the wakeup. So that's a 48, so between the time it woken up to the time it's scheduled was 48 microseconds. Now, there's another enhancement that you're not there, I actually thought this was kind of cool because I never thought about this, was that you actually put spaces between in there so you can see which is the milliseconds, which are the microseconds, which are the handle seconds. And that's kind of nice to see. So, let's see, let's go back to, let's do something a little bit more interesting, I guess. Um, I don't know what this was. I clicked on the capture, oh, yes, that's what it was, the mouse, I didn't put the mouse, I didn't put the mouse. Okay, I think I did it. You can get important export settings. When I did a lot of these screenshots, you have to remember to hit, you want to select the mouse or not. So usually I would say select the mouse to show you what I'm clicking on. I forgot to do that in this one because there's also an arrow on my export settings. So then you come up with this and I'd say, okay, I want to save my settings. And you can actually, so in other words, if you have something, if you've got really complex settings, you can always save all your stuff there.  When do exceptions, or when do exceptions, I can actually see what I did. Schedule events, blah, blah, blah. I called this guide migrate. This is the actual code that I wrote back in 2009 to debug the real time schedule.   The next task would have a lower priority, slightly lower priority, would run a little bit longer time but for a longer period. So it would go off and so on and so forth. And since there's more tasks than CPUs, obviously there's going to be a bouncing round and I want to make sure the highest priority tasks migrated the least. And it wasn't happening. It was like things were going crazy. So I actually did this to record and then I got to watch things. So when I record this, this is what you got. This whole huge of all these tasks, very pretty picture. So now I only want to see, is this an events? Yes. No, I actually clicked on the wrong thing. It's supposed to be show tasks. I don't care about the events, it's supposed to be on show tasks. It's one of those things that I said, you have five seconds to pick the thing down. So although I think I thought I was on show tasks, I think when the screenshot happened, I didn't verify it. So it's actually supposed to be, go back here, that's a mistake, that should be on show tasks.  This is all the migrating tasks. So it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine tasks for, I guess, eight more. Yeah, eight seconds. So now you get this. You see these big gaps here. This is where they weren't running. Interesting. So what I did was, why are these gaps here? You know, they're all real-time tasks, running, running, running. I'm like, why are these huge gaps here? And what was interesting, I did a marker A, clicked here, a marker B, clicked here, and looked at this, and it was pretty much one second. Exactly one second intervals. I checked in here, it was a little tiny thing. And it was, you know, 500s of a second. Anyone know why? I think you got it. RG Throttling is enabled. If you go into your cat proc system, there's two files, or two, yeah, two files in Proxys, Peril, that control your system. This is in microseconds, so that's a little US there. And, you know, one million microseconds is one second. So a period of one second. And this is saying that real-time tasks are allowed to run 950 milliseconds for every second.  In fact, actually, when I did the D-message graph, you get this little message. Okay, so let's try to do a little bit more real-time. So I took the RG2 cache, one more recent one, although we're at 5.2 now. But I found out when I ran this test, 5.2 crashed on me, so I had to go back to 5.0. And I enabled config note-hurts-full. Anyone knows what config note-hurts-full is? Anyone here knows what config note-hurts is? Okay, okay, I want to explain this. This is a really interesting thing. You should be running all your machines with config note-hurts. That's definite. Basically what note-hurts means is, when you have, or are familiar with the Hurts, you have a timer tick for a Jiffy. If you know anything about the next card, I'll be defining everything by a Jiffy. A Jiffy is defined at compile time, either 1,000, like it'd be 1,000 hertz, so a Jiffy's every millisecond. It's how the scheduler kind of uses to figure out how to block how much time each task should get. So it's how you get to find it. Some of them it's like 250 micro, or 215 hertz. I can't go the calculation right now in my head for whatever that is. So 250 times a second, you'll have this little tick going off that defines, this defines also your usage, ever do a run time out of process, or time command, it shows you user time, system time, all that. That's defined by the tick. So it actually isn't really calculating the actual time. It's a general name. The more the higher your Hurts is, the higher your, or the more precise those values will be. The problem with the tick is it's interrupting the kernel.  Well, what happens when you want your machine to go to sleep? If your machine is idle, and the tick still goes off, so your CPU will never get into a small sleep state. Years ago, it's actually been in the kernel for some time. We have this thing called no words. Confined no words, which means that when the system goes idle, it turns the tick off. And then when your machine, a real interrupt comes in, besides like the timer, there's no timer in our, something actually comes in, it wakes up, then it looks at the time difference and then injects how many jippies are supposed to be in there. There's a bit of work there because if you have a timer that's based off of the jippies, you have to make sure that you set the actual timer if you don't just turn off the tick. If something's actually expecting you to go off in 100 jippies, that's another thing you say, go off in 100 jippies, do something, better keep that slot in there. You can't just turn that off. That's no words. So I don't want you to be running no words. I think every distribution compiles that in. So because with no words enabled, your system could get into a nice deep sleep and your battery lasts a lot longer on your laptop.  So notice that your battery will last a lot shorter if you turn on no words. No words full is something else. This is a real-time task thing. No words full means that if the tick that is there is for scheduling, looks like for scheduling, if you have one task running and no other task is running on that CPU, why do you have a tick? That in a real, sometimes like real-time people would like to have a task that will end up a device driver information. Like say I'm looking at the network card and I want to see when packets come in. I got to respond to packets on network card immediately.   That's a huge latency. So sometimes they have a user process to spin it, not letting the CPU go to sleep. Yes, it's going for electricity, you'll have to have ARC, kill climate change, and all that. But what you have is you're spinning on some memory space. And the thing is, we say you have a microsecond latency. Well, this tick that goes off could take two, three microseconds to do that tick. So when the packet comes in and you're in the middle of a tick, you could be two, three microseconds latency where you just missed your deadline. And there's a lot of some real-time developer systems that can't spare that. They need to be able to spin and not be interrupted by the kernel at all. So what we're trying to do is we're working on, it's still not completely finished, is config no hurts full, which says, okay, when we have a single task running, we just turn off the tick and act like it's idle. It's a little more work because that guy's running. If it does system calls, system calls will trigger ticks. So it's got to be running in user space. So you got, if something's running fully in user space, you want to do that. So what I did was I booted up my test box with this in the command line. No hurts, well, I enabled this. You have to tell what CPUs, there's different ways you can do all CPUs, but then this adds a bit of overhead too. So don't want to do this on all distributions. This is basically, if you have a use case for it, if you have something where you really need to turn off ticks, the monitor, so the curve of the body when you do this to yourself, on a general operating system, this is mostly going to be turned off. So you add no hurts full. I cheated ISO CPUs, you can use CPU sets, but it's just easier just to say ISO CPUs. You're trying to duplicate this. I think it's easier to do. So I just said these two, these CPUs two and three, what this is telling me, the CPU two and three are not going to run on anything. So the current, when the current boots up, it says, okay, these two CPUs, I'm not going to schedule anything on, except for things that have to know the current threads that are first reviewed, those are still scheduled. But it won't, any user tasks in it or something, will never, like when it works, all the affinities for each task will have these two off. This RCU, no callbacks is telling the RCUs, kind of like the garbage collector of the Linux system, and it kicks off, has callbacks that kicks off threads and such. It's saying don't run the callbacks on two or three. So even if two or three calls, needs this garbage collection, it will then say, okay, if I need a thread or something, put it off on something that's not the other CPUs to handle it or two or three. Then I did, okay, let's do, after I've booted this, I said, trace command record-eall, says give me all events for one second. That's all I did. And this is what I got. So up here, CPU zero is doing a lot of something. What the heck is that? CPU zero. CPU one is, got some stuff going on. CPU two did a little bit of stuff and like that shouldn't have happened. Three did nothing, which was good. But two and three should have been completely empty. Anyway, I said, okay, let's just zoom in here and see what's going on. So I zoomed in, and that CPU zero is actually doing a lot of little things. It's not doing, it's not spinning. You see it's doing a lot of things. I measured what's going on in CPU zero and it actually, look at that, it's basically once in a little second. So it looks like CPU zero is not no pitch. It's actually running the tick constant. It's not CPU zero, it's not going to sleep. I debug into it, like, why is that happening? I'm not sure. Sometimes CPU zero, sometimes no pitch doesn't work on all your CPUs. The other CPUs obviously aren't going to take it. Yeah, no pitch is not good. Tricking it. So, let's put in a little spin. Let's add something else. Let's put in a spinner. So I have this user spin. All it does is basically spins for 30, the spin you pass on grammar for 30 seconds. So it's doing nothing between spins for 30 seconds. I ran tasks. So basically here's the recorded, look at that. Task set just says, okay, I want this guy to spin on CPU two. So set the affinity of CPU two. Although this kernel will not schedule anything you're allowed to say, run this on that CPU. So I say, okay, run on CPU, test CPU. This I'm going to record something.  What that means is it will only trace three functions down, it will not trace one. I only care about the first few functions that are there, I don't care about anything else. It's like, if I go into the kernel, I just want to see why I go into the kernel. There's some, first I usually do max step one, but the note where it's full adds a wrapper around it. So all I got was the wrapper.  So to see what was actually happening, I had to go max step three to see, get down to actually why did it go into the kernel. And this is what I got. A lot more, a lot busier. I mean, this is basically an idle system here. But this guy's running like crazy and he got a lot going on. What I found out was this guy was pushing the RCU call, the RCU, no callbacks. This guy actually calls RCU to trigger, pushing a bunch more RCU stuff going on inside here. So I said, okay, first of all, I clicked on CPUs up there. Let's see what the CPUs are. I blighted, because I only wanted to see these three CPUs, just to clear it up. Then I said, okay, let's apply only the takeoff filters to graph. I don't quite care, I want to tell these guys. So I want to filter this guy here. And I filter the CPUs on this guy here. So now I'm only going to see CPUs one, two, and three. I zoomed into this little spot because this seems interesting. And it's like, yeah, there's a lot of stuff. I didn't really look deep into this, but then I looked at what the heck is going on here when it's only a user space spanner. So I went actually here, I did a click here, I said, look, it's doing some v-time. It's doing some virtual time. It's updating a virtual time function, but why is a virtual time happening on CPUs too? I looked, here's, then I come down here, I said, wait, IRQ 24 triggered here. Why is the interrupt 24 triggered here? Guess what? ISO CPUs does not touch the interrupts.  This is a local time interrupt, which will go off when you have it, but so I'm like, okay, I have to do something for that. So, okay, let's retry this. LS, all the IRQ, S&P authorities, while we die, you echo F3. It takes in a mask, CPU mask, so three. So basically it's usually FF, that's 8CPU 037, taking off bit two and three, we just drop off bits, yeah, the first two bits, so that F turns into a three, echoing two, whatever that there is, run it, and I did this, I did the same thing again. I got much better, but what's kind of interesting here is I see, hey, this is a tick work, tick work, tick work, tick work, tick work, and I like, it's very, very, you know, formal. So I looked at this, and interesting enough, it's four seconds apart. Everyone happens in four seconds, four seconds, four seconds, four seconds. They got the same user usage, and it's going in here, it's doing, if you read it, it's doing it better up here. Here, user spend, runtime, it's doing, oh, it's doing accounting, it's still doing accounting. Remember I said no hurts are still in progress? This is why it's still, actually, there's some things that it still needs to be done, but we're able to say, hey, we won't go off all the time, we'll go off once every four seconds. So yeah, your system happens, but the chances of collision right now is much less. There's work, there's patches out there to actually eliminate all this. So we're still working on it, it's still garrison, yes, we need to fix that. So, KernelShark can be used to visualize ftrace. There's a lot of filtering of events, and there'll be a lot more coming too. The thing is, when KernelShark 1.0 got out, this is when it allows to open up libraries, we're glad you're having a RipKshark, actually, and to start working on KernelShark 2.0. This is why we're so excited to get one point out, because 2.0 is in the process. We have a lot of prototypes working, we're playing with it, trying different ideas. We're going to make it a lot more plug-ins, so you can virtualize, we have Python plug-ins. Jordan from this CERN work is familiar with NumPy, how many people are familiar with NumPy? Wow, okay. He's making a NumPy interface to crunch numbers and crunch the data of data traces. And we're working with people like Wolfgang Maurer, who needs to talk to our jittery bugger that's doing an analysis on real-time tasks, and we're going to be working with him to try theories. We're going to be working with him to take these traces of gigabytes and crunch the numbers to try to prove statistically that we have what the worst case execution time is, that's the Linux is so complex and a lot of real-time computers are so complex you can't do it really the old way. So we're working on that. And one thing that, oh, and better recording features, tracing virtual machines with hosts, that's coming out, that's what I'll show you on the slide. And with PayShark, what he says, I'm working on something that's called the Unified Tracing Platform, where I want to get all tracers, Battle Trace, OPTNG, Perf, Ftrace to have libraries, that any tools, if you're running a tool or you're running a Python plug-in or Perl, yes, I guess that's still out there, I like Perl, or Go, Java, whatever, have a good interface, and you need some sort of tracing and this tool or this library has that feature. I want you to share everyone's tracing tool utilities and be able to use it anywhere. This is a community effort. This is something that why have competing tracing algorithms when you could just say, hey, this guy does this work part better, but I need this too and it's done better here. Let's work and merge them together. And this is what Kernel's trying to do when Kernel started to build virtual machines. And this is actually a screenshot of one of the prototypes. I didn't quite get it working because I couldn't get the synchronization right in the end. So my machine is a little different from the machine that we ran it on. Well, ideally is you will record an agent, you put an agent on each guest and then from the host you could say, hey, record this guest, record this guest, record this guest and record the host and then you could go where you merge it and you could say, okay, this thread here on the host it actually represents this virtual CPU 4 from the guest and then you get attached and it will show this to you. So this actually shows you that this is the events that happen on the guest and obviously when you're running as a guest once you view. So a host, there's a host thread that represents that virtual CPU for the guest and you should never see two events at a time with you running the guest or it's where your host works. Just a context which like running user mode or running in kernel mode. You have kernel mode, user mode, guest mode. The guest mode then has kernel mode and user mode. And this is inside the kernel of the guest and then from here you saw it actually exited the guest went to the host, host set event and back to the guest. Here is a longer so you actually measure times between like how long these things were then you can see, so say if a host is blocking something and you want to see why the guest is slow you actually do this as a visualization of, ah, the problem's in the host, not the guest. Or you can say, ah, the problem's in the guest don't leave the host provided. Well, actually I have one minute so I guess I'm not doing a demo, but.


We're alive. All right, sweet Fixed my hat. We got nobody on right now. Okay I'll give it a little time get some viewers on here But if you're doing this later on or you're late to it. I Am going live from the ice. I am winter ice camping. This is my fourth night. I think on this trip Three yeah fourth fourth night on this trip It's going pretty well. It's uh, it's super mild out. It's 23 degrees Utah Mike tuning in good to see you buddy I'll be in Utah this year. I promise you that and I gotta hit you out Feel free guys in the in the comment section. Ask any questions you want. This is going to be a ice fishing camping question and answer session I the reason I'm doing this is one for you guys But two is I'm cooking up a wicked Staven meal tonight that I'm going to drive into me the fishing brand and carry the fishing was incredible best I've ever seen But I'm cooking up this meal on Donnie's oven on top of my Coleman stove in the Coleman oven. I'll show you this Right there And It's going to take a little while to cook. I don't really know how long it's going to take. It's been in there probably 30 minutes 20 30 minutes already But how's the fishing excellent headed to Denmark tomorrow to fish for browns good luck Jared I'm going to tell you right now set a couple of those lines mid water column I don't care if you're in 40 foot 100 foot or 20 foot set a mid water column make sure you got some pretty good Um fluorocarbon like eight pound tester last Utah Mike broke his arm yesterday. Dang Did he slip on the ice man? That's brutal Oh, you caught too many fish probably broke your arm Jay Baker's out ice fishing camping right now Engle force north North Dakota winds is rough. Yeah, dude. It was blowing straight Sidway's here the last couple days trees coming down all over the place Normally, I can't close to the shoreline, but I couldn't hear because there's been some flooding So I'm camped out in the middle of the last couple nights I have not minded being far enough away from the trees where it won't be a problem But yeah, um Head into east grand tomorrow your videos talk me into it. That's awesome. Good luck Say hi to Brandon and Sean and Kyle and And uh, Micah they're all out there. I got a video chat with em earlier today the bites been Brutally tough. I mean, it's always tough on east grand if you can get two bites a day with those big lakers I consider it a pretty good day. So You know, if you're if you go in with the right attitude, you can have a great day there Joe you wouldn't believe it. I lost a good six seven pounder last weekend.  Man, that happens Drive away ice done for the year. Utah Mike. Man, we are sorry to hear that, dude That's rough. I thought you might like you broke your arm from catching too many fish Thanks for the tips. You're welcome, Jared We're all at cowgirls right now north wood tradition hook to smash her today. I lost him. No You guys gotta go out and see Brandon. I'm trying to talk him into getting into some deeper water He's got a big blue hired aluminum shack. Stop him. Tell him.  That's awesome. Thank you, Scott Yeah, I came for him and passed him pretty easily.  Troy. Good luck, buddy. That that's that's a fun lake. I've got a ton of great memories That's one of my top 10 Ice fishing lakes in the state. It could be tough though, too So today guys, I'm in this crappy tournament. If you've been following the channel You've seen me and it's all catch and release. So we're not we're not Hurt in the big ones or ruining ponds or lakes or anything like that, but I've been given a really good showing, you know averaging like 15 and a half 15 and three quarters for my top three each each week And this week I didn't really give it a good effort because I was busy, you know coming out here at a camp I'm not on a big crappy location A model location where I bet you If I really wanted to and put my mind to it, I could probably get 500 grappie in one day But the biggest one's going to be like 13 inches and you really got to have some 15 inches so I woke up at like two or three in the morning and just feeling like I haven't given it my best effort There's only two days left. So I I jumped on the snowmobile loaded up and I went and fished like four different lakes today And it was tough. It was brutally tough. I did not do well. I couldn't find them couldn't catch them Was looking all over new bodies of water couldn't get access to another body. I used to fish Um, just struggling and I was on my way back to come here camp long snowmobile ride in And I'd like there was like an hour daylight left and I was like, I don't be good to ride in on the with the light And I changed my mind and I was like, I got to go check that one lake It's just the competitive drive in me, man, and I'm I'm glad I still have it, you know, I didn't know if I still had it I'm getting old, you know, I'm getting fat. I'm getting where I'm not competing as much as I used to You know, I love competition whether it was baseball fishing hockey, whatever it was. I just love competition. I don't care if it's flipping quarters, but I decided to try this lake that everybody's telling me is no good anymore And I'm like, ah, it's can't be no good anymore.  There's one coming in. So I dropped down to a quick 14.75 Now we're cooking with gas. I'm super stoked Got a good one on the board because it doesn't it didn't take much this week. You know, it's like, uh, I think 41 inches was leading so not even a you know, 13 three-quarter average will put you in the lead So I popped that one and then I proceeded to pop in the last like half hour of light 10 15 inches on the button and 10 like 14 and a half 13 and a half So I'm in the lead with one day left I think I'm going to go crappy fishing tomorrow and just You know, try to put it away and seal the deal in case somebody comes from behind or something like that But but I like winning. I don't like losing. I like winning. So that's that's the story from today But I'm tired. I left here at like 4 30 this morning. I got back here at 7 30 tonight. So I guess that's about a 15 hour day and It was not like sitting in a hot just watching life scope and a big screen tv.  It was I earned my pillow tonight. That's how we like to say it main But I'm going to read some comments and questions here if I missed it guys just rewrite it. But um Clint said Perfect just leaving a leg got skunk. That's a bummer man. But but just like me today, you know I got skunked on three or four different lakes before I finally found them on a different lake Open water fishing in Iowa scot That's good to hear because the only guys beating me in this tournament were from Iowa.  Is that illegal? No, that's not illegal at all. That's awesome Um, so on this trip I'm on a multi species trip. So I'm fishing for giant pike I'm fishing for big slab Crappy I'm fishing for yellow perch. I'm fishing for rock bass. I'm fishing for smallmouth bass white perch And pumpkin seed So all those species. I don't know what they add up to. I'm out of fingers North towards shinpawn scraggly lake never fish there. No Headed to the Buck bus this weekend. Nice fpm main outdoor journal. That's awesome What's your pb crappy? So my pb like official crappy like in a tournament is 16 and a quarter I have caught them bigger, but you know, unless you get them on the bump board I don't count them anymore. Like I hear about so many 18 inches But show me a picture of it, you know with the mouth closed on a bump board.  I'll I'll go with that for now Sleep like a log tonight. That is for darn sure right now. I'm cooking you guys can hear in the background I'm actually cooking in the oven stuffed shells in a marinara sauce with mozzarella a couple layers of mozzarella cheese How's your new heater working out for you? Not great. I gotta figure it out. Maybe there's a couple adjustments I could do to it but If you want to like crank it it's going to go through some serious propane You you should just put a meter on it for how much money it's going to cost But if you don't crank it then it doesn't heat this place up Now I know this is like a double 10 and I'm sure the thing Would work better in a smaller one But I think I got to build like a metal frame for underneath it. Maybe taller legs And so the heat reflects off that metal frame a little better. I don't know A couple guys said put a damper on the on the vent pipe too, but a couple guys said that didn't work Loving the cabin videos How big person on a brookie pro pb brookie is like four and a half pounds 26 inches, I believe How many wonderbeds you burnt through so far? So that's actually what I caught all the fish on today. It's crazy like I'm just using this cast master Rattle master. He's got a little rattle in it. I'm just wearing these fish out on it I can't put it down I got like 10 rods lined up with all different lures and I just always go back to that one But I'm going to keep reading some comments Joey should come over and fish champagne with me here in vermont I actually fished near six Vermont boys today That uh, that knew what they were doing. They told me there's not much ice or there's no ice on champagne right now Or it's real sketchy. I gotta check dinner. Hold on one second guys Make sure it's not boiling over. It might be boiling. I'll show you guys dinner I'll show you guys around the camp too. So that's the oven right there All right, sweet. It's not boiling over, but it's getting close. I bet you it's getting real close back to the comments Yeah, champagne is one of my absolute favorite lakes 110 miles long Several it's in two different countries really in several different states and just so beautiful. It's tough lake though Uh, northern wisconsin's gotten thinner as the winter goes on but now three days. Oh good. You're getting some cold Allons getting some cold weather in wisconsin. Good. I hope you guys have a little bit longer season I know it's been a rough year for you the last couple of years Jared says you've been to the cabin lately videos camping out coming this winter. Yes Um, we haven't been lately Donnie and I are going up. I think next week And I have a ton more build videos for you I just haven't had a chance to edit yet because I'm trying to get the content in while I still can Ron smells great.  Tyler Good luck. Thank you bud Tucker and I have you tried diesel heater. So that's my next try And the only reason I haven't it's because you need a battery with them And a lot of times I'm going in the areas where you can't have a generator And I'm off grid and I'm in like it's super cold and I'm going 10 day trips And I just don't know if I can run a battery that long but Probably going to try the diesel heater next Um, yep, Derek says uses diesel heater diesel heater It's working great batteries and downside for multi-day and I'm going 10 days. So Desiree hi Joe. Hello. Welcome Um, Desiree, I think you wrote the comment on a drill Um, don't go propane for your auger. Don't go propane.  I can't remember if it's called plex or what it's called But I haven't any problems with the Milwaukee Dave Stelling how about the technology I'm chasing with johann for my cozy old for poster while he's out on the ice Love it. It's amazing dude. It's crazy. I can talk to you guys from the ice. I'm camping out here Meet and greet with cj and fans in brownfield would be awesome. Just saying for sure I really want to get that going again, you know with donny and I and a bunch of the other youtubers in Maine the ice fishing channels Um, what held me off last year was just no safe ice It it was the best day I've ever had On the ice or fishing in general was that day, you know giving back and meeting the fans and and doing the seminar and stuff, but it would kill me if somebody got hurt or um You know or fell through the ice or something like that So I got a I just got to make sure we're in a good situation for that and for parking and stuff Tucker and I got one of those ovens. Love it awesome Vermont ice super sketchy. Yeah, I heard vermont's in trouble with ice. Minnesota, Wisconsin, new hampshire You pack any chef poede rd for emergency. No, I got uh Demi Moore's beef stew for emergencies. That's my backup for emergency Jared's excited for the videos. Thank you so much G g i o t e g o t e I'm butchering that we're hammering lakers down near Addison bridge on the vermont side. Oh nice How big are those lakers getting now in Champlain that guys are catching? I'm really curious on that I know the state's pushing the lakers pretty hard Who told you that was a blank lake? Depends richard, which lake we're talking about but um The one I was on Tonight a bunch of my friends said that the crappy fishing was all done. No good. They're out of air can't catch big ones anymore They're wrong Thinking you of you caught a brown this weekend on three mile. Nice. That's not far from me got a brown in three mile Good for you. Nice. There's a pile of uh crappy and white perch in there pistol bit working good in my drill Good to hear. Okay. I'm running the eight inch pistol bit right now for just whole hopping and quick drilling And it's it's amazing how quickly it cuts Yeah, desert. I remember you saying you were afraid of smoking the drill So just to give you like a little back reference. I've put in the comment, but I ran The 10 inch ion g2 lower for the last like Two years I think and drilled probably two thousand holes a year Maybe a little bit more with the same drill and haven't smoked it yet So you should be okay with that just run it on one. There's two different speeds. There's a one and two Definitely run it on the one speed crank it all the way down into the locked mode Bring a solar panel to recharge utah mic. You're probably right. Um We do go like weeks without much for sun to a lot of these ice fishing trips And I think I'd just shatter that solar panel trying to get it out You know seven eight ten miles and trails and snowmobiling stuff. So I haven't done any solar panels yet Ice as scary as hacking northern dakota too Oh, kid. That's man. I would think north dakota is good to go like devil's lake and And some of the other places out there Batteries don't charge as cold solar. That's true. Yeah Would chuck man welcome brandon you need to get david back on the channel. You're right I mean, this would be the perfect trip for him I'm gonna shoot him a message See if he wants to come up because I'm on the fish and we could get him on a lot of fish I picked up a couple 30 plus and a bunch of 25 plus for a lake trout on on champlain good to hear nice Um here like a 30 inches right around 10 pounds like if you get those east grand lake trout John is in wisconsin Wish we had good ice sturgeon spearing was limited. So that's like So foreign to me one that you could spear a fish From the ice but two that you could even target sturgeon because like we have sturgeon In a couple of our rivers and they're like highly protected you can't You're not even allowed to talk about them. So I might get in trouble even mention them Their name and especially next to spearing but I heard like Correct me if i'm wrong john, but I heard They have a quota on that and they close the season as soon as the quota is met on how many sturgeon get speared But I did get invited to go fish for some sturgeon out there. I think in the st. Croix river Um, correct me if i'm wrong on that too, but I'd love to catch a sturgeon through the ice. It sounds awesome Um Let's get through some of these Wednesday David Dudley coming back. He tried to get up here early, but we didn't have any ice early. So I'm gonna try uh, I'll see if I'll shoot him a message tonight and see what his schedule looks like he's David's um A phenomenal bass fisherman. He's the number one or two money winner of all time probably number two behind kvd and just Probably the best bass fisherman ever behind maybe kvd. I don't know. We got to compare some records Um But He's on tour right now. So it's tough that that tour season and the travel with that and preparing for every tournament Alan said they make folding solar panels all looking to Jay lives right off devil's lake Best I've seen is 24 and we still got spots under 10. Oh dude, if we had 10 inches ice We'd be so happy here Uh, the the body watermelon right now has got like 12 to 14 and There's not a lot more of it in the state of Maine right now. I've been fishing a lot of four inch four and six inches here Jared we'll see you later bud If you ever think of doing the winnie derby in new hampshire on winnie clifton, I don't do derbies I really don't support derbies. You know only The only tournaments I like are like the catch and release ones I just think our fisheries are way too valuable to throw away for like a pack basket or a 25 gift card to Jim's quick stop or whatever, you know, like And it's just it's disheartening seeing like A seven pound bass, you know five six or seven pound bass get killed during these derbies knowing that Uh tournament bass fishermen have caught that fish 50 times in its lifetime and released it so other people can catch it and be happy and that fish has just given so much joy And then you go out with a jackdrapper And a shiner and And throw it on the ice to try to win a pack basket and don't even win or something like that It just doesn't make sense to me to to sell our fisheries for a paycheck or something like that So so that's why I don't do derbies, but No ice and in Point Pleasant Beach rich Dick Sprague. Good to see on here. Yeah I my dad told me like Lake Louise had ice when he was a kid and they could like perch fishing I think But I can't imagine they've seen ice in years Desiree I'm learning as I go new to ice fishing I've been taking myself out for five seasons, but haven't drilled a thousand holes yet. I'm just a baby I drill a lot of holes. I probably drilled Boy if I had to count I probably drilled 200 holes today Conservatively speaking, you know from a full day and just looking for fish and having the life scope and two holes sometimes at a time But north Ontario ice is sketchy. It's a really weird winter man. It's such a bummer This is that El Nino year where we just got so much rain this summer. It was I thought we were gonna have an awesome winter from it, but not true Scott second full year mother nature didn't cooperate. Yeah Yeah, unanimous trip. Yo, are you ice fishing? Yes, I am ice fishing. I'm not ice fishing right now Because I'm cooking dinner and I'm smoke tired I'm gonna drive that dinner into me and then I'm just gonna crash and I'm planning on like a 4 30 start tomorrow morning So Sturgeon or easy to catch baby Whoa, that'd be cool John says I'm not sure about St. Croix. I'm only where Lake Winnebago and the surrounding bays Yes, when the quarters are met quotas are met. They close it down. Yeah, I heard they can like close it down like Boom while you're out there spearing or fishing I'd kind of like to try spear on a pike You know, I've I've been eating pike and they're really good It's might be one of the best fish ever to eat. It's right up there with cask I'm not as good as cus nuggets, but they're pretty phenomenal.  You don't have decoys There's no law against it in Maine, but there's no law saying you can do it. So I'm gonna guess you can so How are you charging your live scope on the camping trips? Good question So I'm running the 48 amp that'll go like a solid two days or more But I don't know if you could hear in the background I get a little Honda generator going and that's charging all my Milwaukee batteries and charging my live scope right now Right now. Are you ice fishing right now? No, I'm not ice fishing now. I'm smoke tired. I don't it's just been non-stop Just wearing myself down. So big day today on the water Fight in the wind the wind just takes it out of you. It's blowing straight sideways for like two straight days had So I'm cooking dinner And when dinner's done, then uh I'm gonna drive that into me and just hit the hay because I got an early start tomorrow Did you ever get David Douglas?  Ice castle country granted. I run the The black hole and sled flip over and rich among one of those big houses. Yeah, those are crazy at the St. Paul Ice show I got to see a lot of those ice houses and ice castles and they're they're unbelievable That's a different type of fishing than we do out here Josie loves release and I do too sometimes release to the grease, but most of the time just catch and release Dave 100% wish you on the derby. Thank you, but I mean and listen like I don't hold anything against anybody that fishes derbies I know they're they're great for the economy. They're great fundraisers But be personally I choose not to not to do them or participate in them for those reasons Anthony any recommendations on first timers ice fishing for sure dude, I could help you out And and my whole network like every everybody view on this can probably help you on that too Um, it really depends like where you are or what you're fishing for But I would say watch a lot of youtube watch a lot of youtubers in your area In Maine you're allowed five lines per person So, you know, I would recommend getting a set of jack traps and and some bait and going setting up and trying different depths trying different size bait and pick a target species and go after them and and you know, like you could get into this sport for thousands thousands of dollars if you want to get into live scope and custom jig rods and reels and blah blah blah or you could you could You could get into this sport really cheap if you just go pick a pick a switch off a tree and tie a line to it and And uh, just get your crowbar or axe and and drill a hole or cut a chop a hole. So, uh, Let's well, I'll get more specific if you want to shoot me a message on on helping you out as a first timer for sure and and there's like Getting into that a little bit more. There's uh, it's a weird sport and it depends where you are like in Maine There's people that are super close lipped Um, don't share information But there's a lot of really cool people who Share information and help other people out So don't be afraid to go to boat launches and and just put yourself out there and say, hey, look, I'm I'm a first timer You know, can I fish with you and even if you don't fish against them or take any fish? You know from them if you fish with someone who knows what they're doing and and you pay attention You can learn Way more than than going out and just you know trying to trying to learn it on your own the first time or two So so my advice is always talk to sportsmen whether it be at a sporting good shop You could do it online now Or um or at a boat launch or an access point, you know And 99 of the sportsmen are going to help you out and are great people in in my opinion So that's where I would start with that Um Some people don't heard about care. Yeah, the fisheries for sure crappy question for you Are you're fishing on a big central main lake such as androcombe meso Etc in midwinter. What's your starting depth range? So Midwinter, which is like right now I I'm looking in that 20 foot range on on like the deeper lakes Um, I've seen crappy as deep as 50. I've never seen them deeper if you're gonna target them over like 30 plan on killing almost all of them because the barrow trauma um plan on harvesting a lot of them so But like that 24 range 21 range is a pretty good pretty good place to to start Look at the basins, you know, follow the contour lines for basins Andro angler. Hey joe, where are you at hoping you're getting on them? I'm in like, uh, you can call me like central main right now I'm on them. I'm on them. I could catch um yesterday I had two friends come out and they fished from like 8 30 to 2 30 with like an hour lunch break and they each caught 250 fish each so I'm on them Yep What's up bad crispy good to see you rich dick maguire rich maguire. Hey joe good to see you Didn't anyone claim the pink trap yet? No, they haven't so I set it Um, I the owner jack traps out here with me shawing the other day You guys you'll see this video when I get a chance to add it upload it And I think we caught a pike on pinky. So I'm gonna fish pinky until the owner lets me know it's theirs So it would seem you could recharge a battery for the diesel heater with your generator Correct, you could but then you're bringing the generator to this is the first trip I've ever really brought the generator and used it. I think Um, yeah, I think it is. So so yes, you could definitely charge the diesel heater battery with the generator So I might be running that next time. We'll see A good call green keeper Peeler outdoors. Can you say my name? Please man peeler outdoors. Welcome to the channel Proud to have you on here really excited chime in with any uh Questions or comments you have please Desiree I hope there'll be ice first weekend in march up on moose head lake Oh, there should be gonna be up there for my first ever main fishing trip That you'll have drilled the hardwater main New Hampshire and Vermont this year. Good for you. Nice. Those are three of the best states in the northeast in my opinion Uh, you're gonna love it moose head is absolutely gorgeous Um, be careful on that lake. There's There's a couple areas like in front of the moose river that never freeze and people get hurt on And and just watch for the big pressure ridges But for the most part I heard there's pretty good ice on moose head right now Peeler outdoors there you are again bud. James Albright welcome 60d3 welcome Jay baker I got into ice camping the way you do it a couple years ago because of your content and decided to get a black Whole like alex tim because it's flat country here. I don't have to go through the bush awesome. Good for you But alex is a great guy. He's uh, he's he's up on all the ice for stuff. I'm gonna check dinner real quick Oh smelling good. Maybe I'm overcooking that but I'm having so much fun in this chat with you guys I just got it too. This is my first camp out 30 mile an hour winds is brutal man. It's brutal Straight sideways going up to clear lake this weekend going fishing for tow. Good luck, buddy Nice. I hope you I hope you smash a donkey. What's your favorite way to cook cusk? Cusk nuggets Roll it in some batter some catching cook or Louisiana and uh make them into like nuggets Throw them into some hot oil and just cook them real quick till they're white on the inside and Man, you can't beat them that way or a little garlic and butter Nebraska's open water bummer Are you ice fishing right now? So I'm I'm sleeping on the ice. I'm in my honor. I mean, uh, wow I'm in my eskimo 850 Um, and I'm sleeping on the ice, but I'm not fishing right now. I fished 15 hour day today And uh, it's dinner time.  Yeah, uh, 250 each and one of the guys was 74 years old And he said it was the best day he's ever had in his life fishing And it was I think a crappy every six seconds close to every six seconds they caught Today, why do you prefer jack traps over a beaver dam? um They're totally different animals. They're not um, they're not comparable But I like the setup for jack trap. I like it in deep snow I like the bigger reel. I like the the way the reel goes Um, those are a handful of the reasons why to start three of the best states period. You're right But I was throwing that as a joke because uh, that pretty much is the northeast Ice fishing is not good this year, Wisconsin Mid-March not February. Yeah, I follow a couple guys that um, the fish in Wisconsin And I see them struggling Yeah Allen uses jack traps beaver dams. They have a much general flag release for it resulting in fewer drops What's your prediction on the length of the ice this year? I'm hoping till like april 20th but but I usually get that moose head one year. I fish moose head like till april 15, but I don't think it's going to be this year um, probably Probably mid-March.  Yes Go ahead and eat. We won't mind you got it. Yeah, I'm gonna let that cook a little longer. It's uh, stuffed shells In a marinara sauce with a couple different layers of mozzarella The stuffed shells were frozen ahead of time. So I'm gonna let them cook for quite a while Kevin, are you in Maine? Yes, I am in Maine. I'm in like central Maine. Utah Mike super late dinner, man super late long day Hammered on it hard the last couple days Nathan both my son bill and I've been following you for a while How does uncle looking headed up in about a week did horn pond last week in camp? Thanks for the content. Awesome. Thank you. I appreciate that So johnny more lives in chazun cook village. He shot me a text yesterday And said it's good to go. So he wants to do some serious cusk mission. So sounds like it's good to go I can never I don't feel comfortable ever given like ice Amounts unless I've been personally on the ice recently. So I can't I can't fully tell you but johnny said it was good to go Some mickey wonderbread jigs cheap. Nice. That's awesome Fred car. How you doing doing? Well, thanks for tuning in hailey hunter. Welcome Word from vermont. Nice kirk. I fish next to six vermont guys today and won yesterday So the vermoners are coming over and deseret. I think Is like new hampshire or vermont. So there's quite a few vermont people tuning in tonight Hailey welcome I am okay. Thank you You ever use dead bait for pike? If so, what do you use? So I do You know, it's really hard for me to use dead bait because I always think I have a better chance with live and flash and movement But I've seen dead bait out fish live several times on the big one. So I like to use issues big shiners Big big suckers big chubs anything big and dead seems to work pretty good Are you in the mountains? No, it's not two mountainous here My name is max Welcome max New hampshire native trapped in vermont. I've got a real good job over here and I don't hate the lake. Gotcha. I understand Hope Hope all is well the ice is good ice is good here.   But now it's like almost therapeutic I just After like a day or two of it I get used to it. I love the sound of the ice like making ice and cracking and it's really cool Snow pond saturday got to be careful of the pressure. It's it opened up. So james. I heard about that today Wayne lad told me a big pressure is somewhere opened up. Be careful Mega man trapper watching your crappy series. You got some great crappy. Thank you. Yeah, we're lucky here in Maine Amazing crappy fishery and and it's one of my favorite fish to target You for slaying the fishes we absolutely slaying crushing them. Stay tuned for this series coming up back at it again Going out tomorrow. Cole and Amanda. Good luck I think the wind's gonna subside a little bit in Maine. Desiree level and the ice is growing and singing. Yeah Yeah, hard water addiction as you could see I got it as hard as you can get it I've heard of people using hit dogs or sausages hot dogs or sausage like yeah The hot dogs work from what I understand I've never tried it just because I just can't bring myself to doing it I respect the bike a little too much to throw a hot dog down there and I like eating the hot dog too Maybe I'll try it. Who knows We have anywhere from 13 to 18 inches just depends on the lake depth in montana. Nice. That's good How's the propane stove? Would you recommend it? I can't recommend it right now, man For heat I gotta try a couple tweaks to it. I'm gonna put a damper on the vent pipe. I'm gonna put some metal underneath it Maybe raise it up a little bit, but I can't recommend it right now.   Oh, thank you so much, Clint master Chef pay welcome welcome supper. Yeah, some sane both Okay supper Everybody calls it supper. I guess meow. I guess okay. We got your meow master chieff pay Supper time.  Is that is that a lunch thing? We want to see donny stay tuned next week You're gonna see donny for sure Donny is on an east grand trip with a buddy of his to help out on a cabin and maybe get a day or two efficient I haven't used the diesel heater yet because of the batteries, but I'm gonna look into it real soon That's how a woman can catch a man in Maine tie a lewiston lobster. So true so true Hello, wrenching mafia. Nice name. I like that dinner for me dinner is more of a west coast. Okay, cool. It's good to hear I'm like I possibly was a southerner In a previous life because I love okra. I drink chicory um And I like a lot of like the hot sauces and stuff like that So I'm told I'm I got southern in my blood, but I don't know Don't throw any loose lobster down the hole now if I did I'd end up eating it at the end of the day if I didn't catch any fish on it When's the best cabin video? Pretty soon. Well, when I can when I can add it. I just don't have the time right now Good evening from New Hampshire. Very nice. That's one state. I don't know if I've ever fished New Hampshire But I see they catch some big crappy there. It's dinner on the west coast. What time is dinner for you? So I don't know. What time is it now? It's 9 18 right now in Maine And I'm gonna probably eat dinner here pretty soon Chamberlain this year question mark not yet. Um, my buddies have been up there and Said there's good ice and just a little bit of slosh. The bite's been awesome. Um, I might if you're a southerner, have you heard of Cheer wine. No, I haven't. What is cheer wine now? I'm very interested pluto vr Have a great Sapa Joe. Thanks for sharing with us. Love these live beans. Thank you. Thanks for tuning in really appreciate it I tried to okra for the first time because of your videos was good But slimy see I don't get it too slimy like I eat them raw.  Yeah, you guys are catching monster salmon One of the best land lake salmon fisheries there are But I'm gonna probably stop the question section for a little bit um Maybe just leave with a story from last year one of my Favorite stories. I wish Sean was here to tell tell you guys this one, but Yeah, I'll I'll tell you guys this story now and I'll I'll throw it in the video for later too But it was it was one of my favorites from last year Um, a lot of a lot of great stories from last year, but so It's like late in the ice fishing season and Sean from jack traps great friend of mine loves ice fishing loves uh boiled peanuts. Yes. All right Sorry, I'm reading the I'm reading the uh Of Her husband that's funny. All right. No more reading the comments for me. I'm gonna tell you guys this story. I promise All right, so I'll read the comments after so Sean Is fishing with me. It's like really late season And I've been like living out of my truck fishing out of my truck You know the truck's got a bunch of gear coming in and out of it Frable coolers kind of junk doesn't stay sealed the latches break So like even when the latches were good I'm spilling bait water Like every time I go on these big trips into the north main woods Like bringing up a bunch of suckers and the water just stinks And you open the back and it's like all wet in the back and it's a Yukon So it's like a suburban. It's not a pickup truck Carpets like wet and it's just bait water and you know, it's gonna stink But like plugged up, you know coming into winter after winter And it's like after the season's over Ice fishing is like just getting done And and Sean and I I pick him up and I think we took a ride like to beans or to SOMEGO bait to see Wayne. That's what it was We wanted to see our good buddy Wayne and have fun with him And Sean's like man, he's like I don't want to say anything But your truck's like really rank it smells like fish in here pretty bad And I'm like, well, I guess I'm just used to it. I don't smell it But I can roll your window down and he's like it's it's pretty bad This is like mid-march early March last year And I'm like, yes that freaking bait bucket spilled so many times like in the back and that bait water I'll just open the door on like a nice day and let it air out and let the sun hit it and stuff like that Maybe maybe some air freshener It's like Two or three months go by Two or three months go by It's like mid-summer and I'm doing like a crazy deep clean on the car On the truck and I'm like looking for something too and I'm like under the seat And I'm like, what is that looking at me? And I reach under the passenger seat where Sean was sitting And I pull out a dehydrated like mummified Like 12 inch salmon I remember when I fished his uncooked You can keep like all the short salmon and I had like a trash bag full so I could bring him to the Donny to get Smoked and and I remember the waitress at Dysart's an old lady Really wanted some fish so I opened the bag And got her a couple fish and one of them 12 inch salmon must have slid out And it got under the seat and I never noticed it and it literally dehydrated I think it was like fourth of july weekend when I found the thing And I sent a picture to Sean Sean's like, yeah, that'll do it. That's what I smelled But I thought that was the funniest thing. But yeah, that's what happened So if you guys ever get like a bag of salmon Count how many are in there and count how many you take out So you don't end up with one in mid-summer underneath your seat But yeah, that was a that was crazy. Yeah But really appreciate you guys tuning in for this for this live I'll go back and then read a bunch of the the comments and stuff Andrew Lassen good to see you buddy. That's awesome. Good to see you on here But yeah, well, uh I'll get back and read these comments and stuff. Um I'm gonna check on dinner. You guys want to check on dinner with me? I don't have like A hot pad because I forgot I'd be baking But let's check on it. We're gonna open up the oven. I can hear it boiling. So I know it's It's doing pretty good. Let's see if I Whoa Oh, look at the steam coming off that. Can you guys see that old? This is gonna be this. I wish you guys could smell how good that smells Yes Yep, you guys are gonna get the sneak peek into dinner. Oh, I forgot to cook the garlic bread. I was talking so much Let's eat a big garlic bread real quick. That'll go. Oh It might have cooked. All right. Yeah, I guess it's good enough It was cooking on top of that oven too All right, we're gonna shut the oven off We're gonna dish out a pretty healthy serving because I think I earned my dinner plate and my fellow tonight from how today went Shovel a couple of them. Oh, don't spill We like two or three stuffed shells Let's put three on there That's eating pretty good in the ice fishing world right there Piece of garlic bread stuffed shells You guys see me turn into red beard after this meal. I bet Ever since I grew my beard out My shirts have been so much cleaner from like here down So I got that going for me But that looks piping hot. I'll show you guys dinner tonight Stuff shells. Oh, yes, it's piping hot And some garlic toast garlic toast I can I can maybe shovel a little bit of that I'll take a bite of this and let you guys know if it's edible or not I'll put some on On the garlic bread looks hot Take four nice all of them. You got it Don't forget the shaman yet Donnie's cookbook. Yeah, I got to get that together guys for you guys for sure That was worth the wait Drive it right in that's 100 driven right into me. You know This is awesome. I'm so stoked to have this meal In my youtube video that I shot earlier when I was making this meal I said I said if I had a really good woman This meal would have been made before I got done fishing But I was just kidding. So don't take that the wrong way Totally couldn't But I like to get a rise out of you guys How's it feel living my dream Joe Holland? I get that every once in a while. It feels great. It feels great. It's definitely edible That's funny proper cousins I get what you're saying speaking about like Down south It's funny to me because like Growing up in the north We never think about Like the civil war or north versus south Or anything like that But my buddies in virginia And they're like the south still talk about like yankees and In the war it's weird to me And my friends in alabama kind of similar But I learned a lot from those guys and I learned a lot about the war and stuff and There was one The people in alabama they talk about like southern hospitality That is the truest thing It's it's very similar to main when main people open up. It takes a little little something for main people to open up once they do It's similar And back when I used to fish the tour of the professional bass tour of the flw tour I slept in my truck like 250 days a year because That's the only way I could afford it It was it was tough times, but I didn't mind it at all and Alabama is the one state that they just would not let me sleep in my truck like people Knew I was sleeping my truck They could figure it out, you know, see me in the corner of a boat launch, you know sleeping or whatever and I made friends with two families there and Anytime I fished the tournament the state of alabama, which was pretty often on the pro tour, you know one or two a year I always had a place to stay and a warm meal and we had a I remember eating dinner with uh with them and their families And they just be smiling and I just love to hear the dialect and uh And the and the accents and the colloquial isms And they're laughing, you know at the same thing from me and they love to hear like how I talked I used to have a little bit stronger main accent before I traveled a bunch and spent a bunch of winters down south but I remember they had a Gravy and biscuits and I always called it biscuits and gravy and they got such a kick out of that I was like, I'm really excited to have some biscuits and gravy And they're like no the meal is gravy with biscuits And it was so good, but it's a different different world different life down there and I remember he was showing me Where he found his roof one time after a tornado and it just blew my mind because In main we're like We don't get tornadoes like that those category fives. We don't really get tornadoes much at all But yeah But yeah, we um Sweet tea, yeah We thought north wanted our whiskey and women. What do we call this? We gave up Yeah, I just I don't know how we got how I got talking about north and south and stuff like that, but All of my experiences in the south have been wonderful and like I was down in like south florida, but that's not the south you had to drive like three to four hours north to get into the south And man, I just that southern hospitality is awesome. I still haven't made up my mind yet For tomorrow I haven't decided so leave in the comments I could either chase Tomorrow's the last day of the scrappy tournament. I have like a four inch lead On the three fish tournament. I'm at 15 for an average It's probably enough to win this week Um, it's pretty stout like a 15 average is pretty respectable But I could go and try to win the overall for the year If I catch like a 17 and a half And I could go for like even bigger one And I could add to my lead If I'm not comfortable with it Or I could stay right where I am And fish for giant pike tomorrow So Leave it in the comments. What should I do? Should I fish for giant pike? Or should I fish for giant crappy tomorrow? It's one or the other so I can't do them both at the same place Where I am right now Wow That Is a wonderful dinner Giant pike Giant crappy pike pike Collin Yeah, you win I think it's a pair of like $300 pair of boots and maybe some rapala stuff and There's a bunch of pretty cool prizes in the crappy tournament Pacquins mountain maple. That's awesome. Good luck on the cabin build crappy pike That I don't think the pike eat as many trout as people say They eat a lot of perch and a lot of crappy Go for crappy crappy catching a big slab Yeah, that's kind of what I'm leaning towards There's like a I think the next two days There's a bite window on these giant pike Today was a was part of it And then I'm pretty sure tomorrow on the next day There'll be a window where the big pike are going to feed again too So I can do crappy tomorrow and then pike the next day Fondue lack Wisconsin Fishing tournament walleye weekend the big price $1,300 for the biggest walleye brought in nice Good luck dinner plates. These are bigger than dinner plates, man. They're They're huge The crappy in this this body of water where I fish today Have serious shoulders on them I lost three megas in the hole because I was like horsing them And I'm catching them a lot shallower Then I've been catching them lately. So I'm only in like 12 foot of water at the most And you figure that crappy is elevated like Four foot so you're you're at eight foot. You set the hook you rip them up like a foot and a half now You're only like six foot of fight and you get them near the hole real quick and then the fight starts And I think I just I don't know. I lost my mind and just tried to ice flip them Or just horse them out. You can't horsies. You've got to let them fight. So once I learned that I Iced all the 15 pluses or 15s Get the win fish for crappy And then fish for tog brookies and salmon. I like it. Ah CR every time I start the expedition thumbs up man I put the expedition through some ridiculous stuff this week and it's No problem at all No problem at all crazy crazy what I put it through the other day to get here Uh, there's so many trees down.  What's up, buddy? Really miss you? It's been a few years, but I know you're still awesome Any tips for east grand this weekend? It's a slow bite You know focus on getting two bites a day any more than that's a great day there But keep expectations low and you'll have a great day on east grand I call my biggest Laker mid-depth. I was only like 50 foot down over 100 foot So a lot of those big ones cruise that mid-water column Most of the Lakers live on the bottom spend time on the bottom but If you're setting five lines, I'm probably putting three or four of them mid-depth and one down low Dylan says let's see some gators. You got it, buddy. I'll uh There'll be some gators top side.  He's one of the best at it Hit that thumbs up. Well, I didn't even know there's any thumbs up going on this on this live I'll show you guys camp after I eat too If you guys want to see the camp and my setup It's kind of a mess right now, but That's what happens when you fish hard Let me shovel these right in drive them into me deep You know, uh, maybe get another piece of that garlic bread I'll have some of my beard for later Michael's going for rainbows this weekend. That's one fish. I've never targeted through the ice Maine's really uh stalking them Getting aggressive with their stalking program with them, but I've heard like Here's a little secret Just a piece of power bait like yellow or orange power bait on a hook works really well with them worms Patrick says Talk more about reading water. Yeah, it's a great idea I'm like what I look for on the videos. I'll try to incorporate a little bit more of that on the future visit videos Keith would love to catch a bite. Keith you're in one of the best states. I think I know where you live So there's not much near you You would probably sabbatis is the closest one for like a sure thing Oh got a little bit from the beard drive that dinner into your head Reds fishing love it Love the channel if that's who I think it is if you're on simcoe Awesome channel awesome lake. Wish I could fish simcoe One of these years. I'm going to make the trip Just under the ice Michael. Oh for the rainbows. They're catching them near shore Um, yeah elevated near shore. So not much water Headed to chameleon tomorrow. Good luck man Set a trap for me. I love that place Making you hungry and I just ate I I hear you. This is good. This is one of the best meals. I've ever had in this place That's one of my favorite lines with donny I'll give you guys the inside joke on it Donny's hilarious.  She passed away Well, she had a great sense of humor too and they had this like This go-between that was always funny like with each other They were truly in love and and you could see it And they always kitted each other ribbed each other too Donny's granddaughter made lunch with barbie Barbie was an amazing cook amazing cook And it was like a kind of a weird lunch sandwich or something And they invited me over and I ate it. It was good. It was great. Actually. It was like a breakfast lunch sandwich And donny says He goes, that's the best meal I've had in this place It was just the funniest thing the way he said that and barbie's head snapped like that And she looked at him and by the time her head turned he was already balling laughing and I was crying I was laughing so hard just the way he said it. He goes He goes, that's the best meal I've had in this place. And it was at his own house So funny I don't know why I just love humor like that sled ride recon mission Twin lake sexes nice Donny's as good as they get they don't get much better than donny Love to get them on a little bit more We're thinking about shooting a video. We were talking it over the other day on kitchen cook stoves Like wood cook stoves like he has There were so many questions about his that we think it'd be a good idea to shoot a video on it On um with a little bit of history on him and the knowledge that donny and I have on him So if you guys would if you tune into that, let me know because It's not in the works, but we're thinking about it He uses his every day He um, he heats the kitchen with it and he cooks with it sometimes too All right dinner's done supper supper's done. Sorry guys Now it's time to do the dishes Best way to do the dishes around here is you get a piece of bread Wipe it all around Yep Dishes are done Cleaned up Never ice fishing in massachusetts Jealous of that food the food's unbelievable It's one of the best meals I've ever had in this place Tom Jones, why not rattle reel in the shack? Honestly I'm tired man. I'm tired like I'm gonna I'm on like four nights straight four days just going like 16 15 16 straight hours hard during the day getting up at like four I'm going to bed at like 10 or later And just going as hard as I possibly can during the day. So I do like my sleep. I like to sleep And I'm on pike where I'm sleeping So I don't know to the pike feed Much at night. Maybe they do Eat the dish rag. That's right. But yeah, I just I've done a rattle reel only once it was fun like for cossack or something like that But I just really want to sleep tonight And wake up in the morning like recharged and ready to go smash some big pan fish Spice sugar. I got a nice pike two weekends ago Oh a ten at night Steven awesome. Good to hear Check out Knife's Edge Trade possible. They have some nice stoves there. Very cool. Yeah, I've shopped there before Um Gonna drink a little bit of any Palmer got about a half gallon left of that Wash it down I'll show you guys around camp I'll show you the setup. It's an absolute disaster right now. There's my coffee percolator. That's a new one I like it a lot. I could throw a link to that for you guys But I like to get the coffee ready the night before in case it freezes overnight then It just keeps one part of the process Out from having to thaw your water before you cook it So I like to do that ahead of time Every time every night before I go to bed is get the coffee ready and then it's just awesome because then it's the I'm gonna take dinner off the stove Put my coffee pot Then in the morning, it's just the first thing I do is light that coffee and get it percolating. So So I got that going Um, yeah, let's do a little camp walk through This thing unplugged Um, I can probably just switch this around All right, so here This is where I keep the cold food over here if it's not outside And then as you can see there's some dead bait vacuum sealed for For pike fishing and I keep it over here because everything stays cold over here like frozen cold I bring totes like that's all my cooking stuff food fishing stuff It's pretty simple I got a lot of stuff this trip, but this is my cooking station my kitchen over here I got an Eskimo chair that folds up. It's pretty pretty awesome.  It's 23 degrees out. It's 57 in here after all that cooking So that's about as hot as it gets in here um I don't think I'm going to run any heat tonight. So it'll be there's 23 out So it'll probably be like 23 here the boys fish near the shack and left a bag of Doritos, but there's my live scope charging That Milwaukee battery is charged Gunnaugther laying here a bunch of just junk fishing stuff got some guns right there I'll be doing a little plink in this trip, but I got my Eskimo bibs hanging up to dry Wood floor boots there That's the heat apparatus right there Going out my window jack that works awesome. Let me see No, it's not hot at all. So you could just touch it like that, but that's really hot So I wouldn't want to touch that. So I I don't know if I'm losing too much heat there or not Got some jack traps and a luring pack basket right there clothes right there A bunch of electrical stuff behind it chargers stuff like that Got a power box right there to charge That runs the light strip in here and it charges gopro batteries charges the phone stuff like that My sleeping bag. There's the old reliable that thing There's over 20 years old. It's just a cabela is like cloth one and it's awesome It's just so many nights in that thing a couple pillars And then I usually wear like a hat like a wool hat or a A nice cloth hat at night got a reading light right here For reading after hours There's the oven that was on top, but that's pretty much it for uh For inside the camp I brought more stuff this trip than I've ever brought my life. It's it's crazy It's crazy the amount of stuff I brought but I want to have a little bit of fun Do some cool things this video and and get a bunch of content for you guys so There'll be some some gun shooting some target shooting There'll be some Some crazy stuff you've never seen ice fishing before I brought a come along and and and a couple things for safety I want to go over those and and one just you know Get used to using that stuff again But to to help share it with you guys too, you know, just how a come along works, you know and stuff We'll go outside to see what's looking like out there The first night I slept here the coyotes were going nuts It was one of the coolest sounds ever now it's mostly been owls But I got that generator going to charge the live scope Generators over there And then here's the old sled right there Nothing kicks But it's like the coolest thing ever Can't even believe how cool that sled is And then I I usually throw these out of here camp and as you can see there's solar lights And I just do that for myself, you know, if I'm going to go out and take a pee or something like that As you can see for safety, I'll turn this but the Eskimo tent has crazy reflectors on it and those things light up from like a mile away So If there's snow millers out here late at night or anything like that They're going to see those reflectors with any light on it at all.  I got a wood floor We hope you guys have seen my camping videos before Um, I love the wood floor. It just keeps you high and dry and You know doesn't stick down and it's just awesome in here I got sneakers on now, but I could I could take those off and put socks on and Be good to go. Wow Right, but yeah, I'll uh, I'll check a couple a couple last questions and then I got that belly full so I'm getting tired. Good looking camp. What you plinking? So this trip I brought a 10 22 breakdown Ruger 22 That is a fun little gun for partures and stuff. I got a browning 22 Pistol buck mark with a bull barrel and then I got a Glock like 43 nine millimeter Um, so I'll just be doing some target shooting with that just honing my skills and having fun. I might might One of my dreams for a video. I'll let you guys in on it. I usually keep this stuff under my hat So no one else steals it, but I don't think anybody's gonna steal this one I kind of like to go red squirrel hunting With the 22 and then use the red squirrel For bait to catch a pike and then eat both of them do like a catch and cook do a Do a shoot bait catch Cook and cook on those so would you guys watch that video? I just think it would be the coolest thing and like the craziest video on youtube Like I get these weird ideas like that and just You know, it'd be just kind of cool to try it It'd be cool to try to catch a pike on a red squirrel. Anyway Your feet stink. There's no doubt about that Hot foot for us Should do a blind taste test to catch and cook see what's better perched crappy pike burb. Yeah Yeah, you're right on that Desiree. Yes do it. I I think it'd be so cool. So so that might happen this week, too And there's a lot of other cool stuff happening this week. That's why there's so much stuff on this trip You know, I brought more stuff in than I've ever brought in there's there's the come along right there Brandon come along and there's um There's a lot of stuff here, but whatever night night mega mad trapper would watch that cool Stock for easy Cool. Well, thanks for tuning in guys um, this series gonna air Who knows, you know, I don't know how long I'm gonna stay out here. I might stay 10 days. I might stay seven days I might stay 20 days, I don't know I know what the next trip is with donny up to the camp so I guess I'll have to find out when when we're going up to camp And then I'll go home a day or two before this and I don't know when I can edit We'll see but this series is gonna be a cool one. I'll tell you that We've already put five or six Nice pike topside and today I smashed some 15 inch crappy on film And just the whole setup and everything and then I did something else pretty cool That I'll I'll keep under my hat for right now. So it's a surprise But there was something else I've been thinking I've been wanting to do for like two or three years on a nice fishing video And I pulled it off the very first day. I was here. So that's going to be on the first episode that you see From this series. So stay tuned for that too. But otherwise Thanks for tuning in guys. I'm setting the alarm. I think I usually don't need one But I'm gonna set it for like four 30 tomorrow morning just so I can get after these crappy for you guys So thanks for tuning in. Let me see if I could shut this off Bowl peanut that's go cheer wine a bull. So the first time I ever had boiled peanuts They I walked into a bait shop and the guy said get yourself some bo peen And I said what you said get yourself some bo peens And I thought he was talking like a ball peen hammer or something He kept saying bo peen and apparently that means boiled peanuts So I got some they were good All right night. Good night everyone. 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