I put my Canoe on a Side x Side, explored a Creek, caught Brook Trout and cooked them over a Fire!

Hey folks, how you doing? Joe here. Today we've got a fun day. We're gonna go explore a creek that I've never been to. We're gonna try and pick some leeks and catch some fish and do a little catch and cook lunch. 2001 Ranger, to promote on my channel, to send it back to them but I'm happy for the opportunity to use it. Been doing things like yard cleanup, lots of lots of wood removal and running the kids around and stuff like that. It's been a really, really handy tool actually. Today we're gonna strap the canoe on top of it and go drive down a bunch of logging roads and try and find this stream that I've looked up on Google Maps and I've been told that there might be some brook trout in there okay we're not here but I know that this is a good spot to find some wild leeks, so we're gonna pull over go off into the forest for a minute see if we can pull some out of the ground the leeks are gonna be fully ripe right now nice and big and easy to pull out of the ground so I don't need a shovel or anything I should be able to do it with my hands or if I need a stick I can use that but we got to get into this forest proper and find some first it is buggy in here there's a better patch right there you can see they're flattened out quite a bit and yellowy and then here's another patch we'll take a few from each and you gotta love the bird noises in the spring here just singing away beautiful beauty so usually when they're this far gone yeah they're right at the surface you don't even really need to dig at all i can see the bulbs all right here just underneath this leaf litter which is perfect nice and easy easy access for old joe oh beautiful beauty i'm only gonna need a few i'll take that many from this little patch you're not supposed to deplete the patches so i got three good ones and a small one from this one and we'll just head over to the next patch there you can see my bounty they just wipe clean they just wipe clean so we'll take these with us and fry them up in the cast iron with trout if we get any she is the creek i've been here before but i haven't been past i got all these log jams here and this side is pretty open so we'll try this side we'll go in and see what's up over here pretty shallow she's shallow jumping right here i hear frogs croaking so those are both very good signs i got my swift pack boat my adirondack 13.6 with me because it's beat up and this seems like it's going to be a slog pulling over logs and stuff like that all right just gotta park this thing coming on our way place fine there but i will bring my key with me just in case it's a trusty hidden woodsman a day rock with me today back i got my saw axe some cooking stuff it's the essentials you know just the essentials right in the water so no concerns about getting wet it's already done pretty warm up today though hopefully a trout will be biting Hopefully there will be trout. There will be trout! Alright, well, time for some sunglasses I think. Hear that frog? There's all these lily pads too, that's a good sign. This is a little channel over here, I think we'll go down this one. This is where the flow seems to be coming from. That part over to the right seems stagnant. There are deer flies all over my microphone. Hear the frog? I'm gonna keep this guy. I might have a hard time catching some, enough trout to make a meal, so even if I catch a few small ones, I'm fine with that. So we'll keep this guy and throw him on a stringer and keep going on our way See what we can do in this little creek so far. There's been nothing. I've had to cut going over a log right now We'll come to places. I do need to clear my way through Through how far we'll be able to get through here or what very shallow very shallow, okay? I've got a little guy Get him in the boat. No this guy's a little better size We're gonna keep him too obviously throw him on the stringer nice day bugs aren't even bad It's pretty warm. It's full sun. I'm in this creek this like where you think the bugs would be horrible I sprayed myself with bug spray right when I first got here, but I haven't had a problem They were worse at the where I left the side-by-side down the creek. We go from this thing around See if we can pull one more out of this spot after I made all that turn rackets more noise Constant noise. It's good job attracted to the still shallow still getting things off the bottom this is a shallow diver shallow runner shallow so i've missed you guys i've missed putting out videos i put up a little bit of a live stream a little bit i did a little live stream uh i don't four days ago or something and i talked about why i haven't been putting out videos still a camping ban in ontario i don't agree with it that's my personal opinion but oh snake just cruised through the width of the river there anyways um yeah it's my personal opinion you can take it or leave it but i definitely am not going to go camping and incriminate myself on video regardless so the thing should be done in a couple weeks that the band should be done in a couple weeks um and i had trips planned already a lot and then you say to yourself well joe why don't you do day trip videos or day videos go to the fort or something well the last time i did that I got really, really bad views on it, and it's just not what you guys want to see, at least the majority of you. And while I want to please everyone and keep people happy, I would prefer and rather do always quality over quantity, right? So my last video got like 50,000 views in like three weeks or something. That's really not good for someone with over a million subscribers. It doesn't feel good. It doesn't look good. It's not good for sponsors. It's not good for morale, anything like that. So I've decided to I decided to wait until I can because I really don't even want to go to the fort right now It's full of bugs the time for me to go to the fort is the fall in the winter time That's when it that's when you guys expect me to be there. That's when I have been there That's when the views are good this time you're at canoe trips, but this is something I wanted to do here today Like I'm excited about being here. It's nice. It's a spot. I'm glad I got some fish. I'm gonna have a lunch I got some leeks. Everything's good in the world. It's a relaxing day. No bugs peaceful Um, and I wanted to do this and that'll come through in the video and i'll be happy about it and excited to share It with you guys what I don't want to do is just go make a video for the sake of making a video. I've done that before you guys know you guys call me on it I feel bad about it. I don't want to do it. So i'm not doing I don't need to do it and you guys have so very many other Good YouTubers that you can watch in the meantime There are so many videos from my that I put up in the past that you can watch and really i've only been gone for two weeks you know what i'm saying i put up a video a week i've only missed two weeks so after this i'll put this up today hopefully and uh this will make up for for this week um and yeah i want to go out i have i have if you just check on my Instagram you'll see like i'm planning for trips like i got food storage ready i'm like dehydrating stuff all the time i stay busy on my Instagram you know i'm going out with the family all the time doing stuff it's just um again i would rather give you quality over quantity on my YouTube channel when you don't want to see day videos for the most part you don't want to see me talk about an axe or a knife or go and do skills that's that stuff has been played out right there's other people who do that just fine my thing is tripping my thing is building forts in the in the in the fall in the winter big old fish just jumped winter camping building shelters in the spring the summer i'm canoe tripping and backpacking that's what i've been doing for the beginning of my professional YouTube career and that's what i'll continue to do so anyways today is a good day today is a day that I can be out and relax and enjoy nature around my place and yeah we'll take a look around see what's up that's a spring that would make sense that would make sense why there's brook trout in such a shallow Creek because this stream or sorry the spring would keep it cool oh yeah there's little minnows was all in there in the creek like bluey it's pretty lots of deadfall tons of dead standing i think i'll keep going up here a little bit see what else i see but if nothing else like i'm not going all the way through it today i know that i think it's a big long trip this is just a day thing that would have to be a couple nights but uh yeah if nothing else comes up that's better than this we'll double back here and have lunch here sounds like a plan oh there's a frog now is the real test we'll actually see if i can step on the bottom of the stream or not i'm sinking in a whole lot oh my god it just keeps sinking and sinking and sinking nope nope not gonna happen not going to happen okay um what about over here in the mud no nope okay i was trying to brace myself okay i found some solid no solid-ish ground some tracks here okay i'll get rid of this log and then hopefully there's not too much down that way Because the bottom of this, like, the substrate, there's no walking on it at all. Like, I don't care about getting wet. It's just I'm getting sucked right down into it. Like, and then that's the alternative. Hmm. Hmm. I wonder if I can get around just to see what the deal is down there. I'm going to kind of want to bend. Oh, jewelweed. This is really good for, like, poison ivy and mosquito bites and stuff. You just break it up, and the juice is on it. You rub it wherever, on what ails you. Rub it wherever you're hurting. this one's been broken a few times and grown up it's all in here jewelry jewelry jewelry so that usually means poison ivy's growing around here too have to be careful oh man look at trail that looks trail-ish anyways another log there looking pretty shallow i don't know if it's worth it frogs jumping everywhere sorry guys okay wow all right holy smokes yeah it's a waterlogged and everything anyway okay all right we're gonna turn back and go back to that spot we found cook up lunch i'm hot and sweaty fall for me with those leeks for sure i'm just not ready to cook them yet i gotta do a couple things first i thought i could put them in this uh i thought i could put them in this spring in the shade though keep them cool and fresh here's a good spot tie them up so they don't go missing on me this is a cool spot man good to be out here Never see a soul out here. I'm sure okay. Those guys are good three little brookies plus some leeks ballin A skillet cast-iron skillet from field company saw axe whole nine yards, so we'll get set up here There's no real spot to put a tarp up even if I did bring one to get out of the sun I don't want to go back into the forest to have the fire I want to have it out here on the on the mud. It's wet wetter out here so old it's like lost its grain show you deer flies from smoke smoke ever read the name Penelope the name Penelope reads like Penelope the scorcher bud so people always ask me how do you never have ticks so i just found that little guy a little treasure wandering around on my neck so i do i'm just trying to be vigilant about taking them off of me good fire believe me when she's a warm one chair real quick for us to sit down while we eat on this little hill, the castle, king of the castle. See if we can't get this to work out for us. I've done it with a regular canoe paddle before, but you'll see. I'm really hungry. Okay, this will work. Oopsie, better this way. Friction sometimes. Not this time, I'll have to tie it on. Nothing fancy, just tie it on. This is fine for me for now. I've got to get my leeks cut up. I'm really warm today, did I mention that. Really, really warm. That fire is about to be ready to be cooked onto. lots of stuff going on check this out check out how hot it is i already obviously tested this but not been on the heat at all just in the sun handkerchief from bandana here so i got these leeks cut up pretty good decent amount already starting to sizzle that's delicious okay clean up the fishies now this is what i ended up with not too shabby three really clean little brookies this is the biggest one i got uh biggest to smallest there but that's plenty of meat for me I decided not to fillet them just to do this because you know there's not that much meat on them They're pretty small, but this is uh this way. I'm plenty happy with it So let's get these guys on hopefully slow fry them up with the butter and the leeks I had to take the pan off there because it was very warm. I did have some butter left for my fishies. Oh Good sound well this guy's already starting to do a little barrel roll. Oh snap. They all are to the side to the side to the side to the side fish Beach that looks delicious so tender I don't want to like bust it up too much just yet I'm excited for this it looks really good the one of them did have parasites in it that's why I ended up skinning them they pulled the skin off it looked like it was all clean so I cooked it a little bit longer but only two of like the five or so that I ended up getting in the boat had parasites I let the one go and kept this one let's see how she goes I'm sure It'll be fine. That looks super good. I'll get some leeks with that some leeks in there and that bite. Okie smokie Oh my that's delicious. And I actually have some lemon. I forgot Wow Delicious the leeks compliment it so well. I'd like the brook trout like soaked up the flavor of the leeks I have just this fake lemon. We're gonna go to test run and see I like it, man That's really good. Super happy on that. You know what? I was always sitting here cooking this stuff I was like thinking like this is all I ever wanted I drove my side by side from my house to this spot down some Long roads whatever the case may be Put in just for the day through my line and found this spot because I looked it up on the map They're on Google Maps found this spot put in caught a few trout Found a spot to chill set up a little camp a little like day camp freaking cook these things up nobody nobody's like nobody's business and Just enjoying the day like I never could do this stuff where I used to live and I also didn't have the knowledge to do it oh yeah the lemon works on it and I have the knowledge where to fish for what fish or where how to find things or how do you even clean these fish like I did I'm saying I use my hands other than my belt knife slitting off the belly type things pull it all apart I just know how to do it now maybe I practice I've caught them I've been with people who taught me things I'm able to live up here now where I'm able to raise my kids in this environment and they don't have to like wonder anymore and like just wish about things like even with my YouTube channel when I lived in Windsor I would drive up here or wherever I would drive hours and hours and hours away from my house to do these trips I never knew what the what it was like like I was leaving Southern Ontario and coming up north it could have been completely different like snowy rainy ice storm lakes whatever the case may be now this is my backyard now I get to get the feel for it and understand like the seasons and know where to go and what type of what time of the year for what things I really am happy we moved up here like it's uh we did hum and hawk don't get me wrong we were back and forth about it for a while probably a couple years after we moved up here we almost moved back down we were uh just missing family everything was very difficult very expensive like we lived it's a two-hour round trip to go do anything right and now that our our um internet is fixed it's a little bit better but i was paying so much money because where we are in rural i couldn't get normal internet and we were going over like crazy driving in for two years two or three almost three years to upload into a two-hour round trip now, that's all fixed just just sitting here understanding realizing thinking about that stuff appreciating it you guys are a big help with that very big help I would never had the motivation to do any of this stuff even from the get-go if I never got good words of encouragement from you guys and stuff like that so and then continued support it's just amazing I'm sure everything will resume for a little while at least soon to get back to normal I'll do camping videos for a while and see where that leads us I'm gonna do this as far as long as I can until youtube doesn't let me anymore until you guys stop watching until i'm not allowed to fish or camp or make a fire anymore that's the way it seems like it's going we'll stick it out on the long haul this is my home i really appreciate being able to to do this and to continue to do this lunchtime gratification with joe lunchtime appreciation with joe and this guy clean three of these is plenty for me look at that and then you take a couple full leaks shot of lemon juice Some Felix the cat going on here though. Showing my age there. Super good. No seasoning at all Just got a little bit of lemon squirts. Lemon squirts? And leeks. Leeks will be done soon for the year They get too woody soon. I used to watch Woody Woodpecker and they had Chilly Willy the penguin was a now I understand why he laughed like that. There's all sorts of pileated woodpeckers around my house and they scream all the time. It's crazy Alright, anyways enough of that. I'm going to stuff my face. I'm really really enjoying it I wish you guys could taste this come on Elon taste division and I'll get back with you guys here's a big old juicy nugget nugget for those you don't know they're like a garlicky oniony type thing but once you roast them or cook them up they lose all like they taste really good though wish I would have saw that guy before we could have had a little lobster side little bush lobster side creek lobster creekside lobster as it were well I'm absolutely stuffed that was way too much meat for me I don't know what I was thinking we got it down it was very good super tasty taste of leaks burnt leaks in my mouth which is always good personally I like the crispy bits Uncle Ray oh all right breakfast is for days we're gonna get out of here I'm gonna start paddling back we're gonna fish along the way take our time but I'm pretty pretty warm I'm pretty content with the day and I would also like to get this video up and unless you guys see it share it with you we're gonna pack down for sure certainly come back maybe a cool spot to bring the kiddo rookies that's the other side it looks much more congested but I think it opens up better according to the Google Maps anyway so maybe next time maybe next time I'll head down that way we are done for today thank you very much for coming along with me hope you enjoyed the video I really hope you enjoyed the video and hope it was a pleasant surprise seeing a video from me so I will see you guys soon I promise big trips planned I promise promise alright guys thanks again oh look a tick on my camera perfect I bet you there's this one in my head too feels like one in my Oh, it's still on me, son of a- I almost forgot you again!