The Annual Spring Fishing Trip - Brook Trout, Moose Bibimbap, and Camping

What's going on guys? Noah here with Northern Scavenger. Every year me and my buddies do an annual spring fishing trip. Sometimes I film it, sometimes I don't. But this year I thought I would take you guys along for three days of brook trout fishing, really good eating, white water and some laughs. Stick around, this is going to be a good one. Even over on that side looks pretty good. Yeah. Yeah buddy! That was fast. Yeah, there's a bunch more rising out there. Dude, that's a nice one. Holy smoke, what a first fish. He's nicely colored too. Heck yeah. Good job. That was awesome. They're still going. They're rising out there too. Yeah. You better get a line. Okay guys, we're on. Yo, do you see them all right here? Yeah. What are they rising on? Oh, something's going on there. This first spot that we got to, there are so many rising trout, but they're not going for our flies. It started with a woolly bugger, muddler minnow, just dragging the fly through these rising fish and nothing. There doesn't seem to be anything on the surface, so our thought is there's some sort of emerging insect that they're swiping at near the surface. We just got to figure out what that is. Man oh man, picky fish. Oh, turn your head again. Colony of stoneflies. Little stonefly hatch. So we have so much guacamole, it's crazy. Fun little afternoon fishing. Got back to camp, setting up for a big feast. Matt has big plans for us tonight. This is a pretty old campsite. A lot of fallen trees around here. And we noticed that one of the trees have fallen and one of the branches is hanging over the fire pit. So for fire safety, we're going to cut it down, reduce the risk. That would have been our chairs. Destroyed. You think I can swing off this like Tarzan? I don't know, I guess you're going to find out. How are you still alive? Maybe we won't tell the folks that we're drinking blue lobster though. It's Labatt blue. Just show the top part of the can. Cheers man. Cheers to the annual trip. Yeah, it's not bad. It's actually pretty good. All righty, ready to get going? Right to it. All right, tonight is a Newfoundland Korean fusion. We're doing a bibimbap with a moose bulgogi as the centerpiece. You guys might have noticed that on a lot of my videos, I'm eating moose. And Matt is my moose dealer. He shot a moose this past fall in Newfoundland and he was kind enough to fill my freezer. And tonight we're eating some of that moose. We are almost there. High protein dinner. All right, now time for the presentation. We have all these delicious ingredients. There's so many things, but we're going to start with rice, which was pre-cooked last night. Get a good base of that. Sauteed bok choy and some shiitake mushrooms. Add in some of our moose. We don't want to go too sparingly on the moose. Then we've got some of our pickled vegetables. So we've got zucchini and carrots, both pickled in rice vinegar, sesame oil, sugar, and sesame seeds as a little garnish. So we'll throw some of these guys on here. Red cabbage garnish. And you can't have a proper bibimbap without some kimchi. So that's going to go in here. What's going to bring the whole thing together here? It's just a fried egg right on top. A few little sesame seeds. And then gochujang sauce. Korean hot sauce essentially. Now that is a backcountry bibimbap. Newfoundland style. Can you do that one more time? You want me to like hold it in the shot? Yeah, perfect. Newfoundland style? Is that what we're saying? Yeah. And that is a Newfoundland style backcountry bibimbap. This might be the sexiest backcountry meal I've ever seen. Bibimbap's a very visually appealing meal. Oh yeah. You get like all the colors. All right, we're going some moose, egg, gochujang sauce. Gochujang. Gochujang sauce. Man, those pickled vegetables. Man, that is so good. That's really good. I've really been trying to enhance my backcountry meals and this tops all of them. This is unbelievable. You've outdone yourself. Thank you. The raddest gift man. Really? Yeah. I wonder if it's Dave. Your voices. Howdy. Yo. You won't believe who we ran into. That's so funny. Yeah, I'm sorry guys. This campsite's actually booked. You're gonna have to evacuate. Yeah. How you doing man? What do you think of our ballet mid-river? Hey man, I'm Michael's brother Andrew. Oh hey, nice to meet you. Hey man, how are you buddy? Nice to see you. On the drive up, Michael was like, there's a chance that they're there. Yo, I didn't do it any sweeter. Oh okay. That was Davey boy. Really? And still fishing like a half an hour ago. I thought that was actually crazy. At dusk, we heard some paddlers and it turned out to be Dave, Mikey, and Mikey's brother Andrew. Turns out they're doing the exact same river this weekend. It's funny how much our friends think alike. So we're going to be joining forces to head down river to fish brook trout for the next two days. There's coffee there and water there. Wow. And we're there. But there's this like overflow flow. It even crosses a contour line. But Dave, what's this camping hot tip that you've started doing? Oh yeah, if you break the screen on your phone, you can just plug a mouse into a smartphone and then it becomes a computer. Yeah, super techie out here. Still need a surface. Yeah, I know some of the folks have been asking about you in the comments. You're still alive? You're still well? You're still doing your thing? Oh yeah, super alive, super well. Yeah, still doing lots of things. Yeah, two big trips last year. Yeah, actually a couple more in this year. Yeah, still doing well. Thanks everybody. Thanks for thinking about me. Send those comments in there. Yeah, I'm still there. Still here. Yeah, life is good. Thank you, Matty D. Welcome. Beauty. That's a nice one. Yeah. There you go. Unbuttoned. Yes. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Today we have a decent amount of river to do, so we're trying to balance the amount of fishing with going down river. Someone's been here. There's a few cut branches. The annual spring fishing trip always starts the same way. A blue light on a map and the hope of good fishing. In down river. Sure, landing a fish is technically the goal, but if we're honest, we spend about 90% of the day dragging our boats through fallen trees, shallow rocky rivers, and brush so thick you feel like it's personal. Pretty rough forecast. But we wouldn't want it any other way. Most of the trip is us pushing, pulling, and portaging our way into spots that probably shouldn't even be called rivers. We bounce down rapids like we know what we're doing. Those lucky women of Halifax. And scramble to make a few casts in the next pool. Sometimes we find hidden fishing holes or a perfect run. Are we yelling at each other enough? But most times we find more rocks and regret. But it's that unknown around the next bend that keeps dragging us back every spring. It's hard to explain, but there's something weirdly addictive about earning every fish the hard way with your buddies. And somehow that's exactly what makes this one of our favorite traditions. This river in particular, I've paddled a few times, but it's a first for Maddie, Mikey, and Andrew. And that's another thing I love is getting my friends out to a new river and see it through their eyes for the first time. Direct hit. All right, see how our pickles turned out. That tastes like a pickle. Yesterday we realized that I had a cucumber and Matt had pickling liquid, so we combined forces and we just made a few on-the-go pickles for the day-to-day. Those are pickled on the river. So you just started pickling? Wow. That's really good. Surprisingly good. We're in a chainsaw and up above there's a few canoes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're following your paint marks on the rocks. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, you guys having much luck? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, really. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tomorrow's a nice day. We pulled over to see the potential of a campsite, took a cast, and my first brook trout of the year. This is going to be for dinner. Oh, a little bit of a droppage there. Oh, right on that side come down? You ready? Yeah. We got to our campsite. It's about six o'clock. Camping is tough. We have four tents and this part of Nova Scotia, finding tent pads is few and far between. So no one's going to have a perfectly flat tent pad tonight. But with five guys it's really easy to set up camp, quickly get the tents up, get the fire going, time for dinner. In Nova Scotia right now there is a fire ban in place between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. So we can't have fires between then. But luckily we get up early and we're at camp way later than two. All right, so I'm going to clean this trout. And I was looking in his mouth and trout on their tongue have a set of teeth and that's used when they attack a prey. That prey gets stuck on their tongue and it can't escape. And I didn't realize they were that pronounced. It's almost like a mini mouth inside of their the real mouth. Another thing we always do when we're fly fishing is with at least one fish we do an autopsy. We open up the stomach and see what they've been eating because you want to match the hatch. So it looks like this guy's been eating a lot of caddis larvae. The green worm there and a lot of the heads. All right, what are we having for dinner tonight Matt? We're having some cock soup. Cock soup and what else? Dough balls with a little bit of fish. Flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. And I'm just gonna get a dollop I think and drop it into some boiling soup. So we're scoring the trout so that it doesn't curl up in the pan. Oh that cabbage really turned it purple. I didn't expect that. And they kind of look like jellyfish. They do but they're gonna be delicious. Yeah that slight purple hue to them. I wasn't thinking about the visuals of that when I added the cabbage. That's a weird color. It is a weird color. First trout of the year. Can't go wrong with that. There's some flavor there Matt. It's not too bad. It's like you know it's hot and sour soup but then you look at it and you're like this can't be hot and sour soup. Yeah we got a theme tonight. Matt, I have one final food request from you. Can you make us your world famous The people want it? Matt's gonna deliver. Do we have gummies? Okay so I don't have gummies but I have freeze-dried Skittles. That'll work. And lab tea? No. We're gonna have to find a sprig of something here. The local fauna for sure. A little pine sprig maybe? You're the visionary. I feel like you need to pick the sprig. Oh man I just got all comfy. All right. Let's do it. All right. Flash of whiskey. Mio next. So the backstory of this is two weeks into a month-long canoe trip we were feeling rugged we needed some sort of kick and Matt discovered the world famous whiskey brulee. Sprig of white pine. Look at those beauties. All right. Bottoms up everybody. Oh look at this presentation. Wow. Cheers. Cheers boys. Not bad baby. Wow. Structural failure. What a difference from yesterday morning. Noah supplied the breakfast. We got bushwhackers and bushwhackers mini for me and then we're going to top it off with some of this which is some maple syrup that I made from maple trees in my backyard with my daughters. I think all in all I got about 75 liters of sap and then I boiled that down to about a liter and a half of syrup. Oh that's solid. Yeah. That's so good. So how many trees was that from? Five. I did five. It still turned out pretty good. Tastes really good. Yeah it's like 16 hours of boiling to make this and 30 pounds of propane so I hope it was worth it. So I'm going to do a double fly setup. You can see on this bead headed nymph I've just tied my uni knot to the hook shank and then I'm going to tie in and hopefully get first fish of the day because these guys haven't put a fly in the water yet. I don't know if you would go in the dip net. Oh yeah there he's got he's got the surface right right at the top. Whoa. Yes. Nice man. What on earth is that? Is it like a gigantic caddis or something? Yeah big giant nymph. Helgramite. I'll do 20 bucks if someone ate it. 20 bucks? It's a bargain to do that. Oh he's escaping. Oh right there. Heck yeah. Nice. You want to eddy out before this this turn? Yeah. Okay at 12 o'clock that's what eddy I'll aim us for on the right. The second half of today has a lot of white water as the river builds up. This is the first of many and it's a triple drop down ledge. It's always good to scout because you never know what's in the river. And in this one you can see a tree has fallen which is called a sweeper and you don't want to mess around with wood when you're running white water. Nice cut. Yeah buddy. Pocket size. Gotta love them. You're gonna want as much forward momentum as you can get and then you want to slow down as fast as you can so you can make that right hand turn to the bottom. Are we gonna give it a go? We're gonna We checked our heart rates. Mine was at 132. Matt's was at 102. Chill this guy around. As cool as a cucumber. All right Mikey's up. Yeah. Time to hit some white water. Guys that's a wrap. Thank you so much for joining us. Awesome annual spring fishing trip out here in Nova Scotia. If you guys like this type of content make sure to like and subscribe and I'll see you on the next one.