FINDING PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE! SOLO SUMMER CAMP part2 : Bushcraft, Fishing and Fun!

Pretty decent sleep, well past 8 o'clock now. Few times, but was able to go back to bed and sleep in, so that's nice. Woke up to a pretty beautiful morning here. Some mist on the water, caught the tail end of that. Singing, there's a breeze, there's minimal bugs. 90% blue sky, and it's not too hot. I'm just gonna get this fire prepared, get some breakfast cooking. Brand new fire still hasn't been used at all. My plane's coming around to see how I'm doing. Doing just fine, thanks, bud. Just fine, thanks. So I'm going to put my normal oatmeal in. I also have these freeze-dried blueberries. I didn't realize there would be blueberries abundant. But anyways, there's not here at this site. So regardless, it's a good thing I brought them. Got normal oatmeal in there. I've got my blueberries. I've got this keen quinoa super greens nonsense. And I also want to throw in a splash of peanut M&M's to spice things up. Might be too much for this little lid. Well, we're waiting for the porridge to thicken up. let's try these Ready Crisp bacons I know I need meat in the morning as well as oatmeal because it just doesn't stick with me so I'm trying this I've had it before I just trying to get a try at it again oh yeah there's nothing wrong with that at all I could live with that three pieces today from that big oatmeal we'll have a bunch left over right I think six pieces left over I know you're jealous four pieces here I'll have eight pieces left after nine no that's after nine My watch is still an hour behind. I only use it when I go camping. I never really fix it I can't remember how to fix it. I'm gonna take my time here get packed up I'm done eating and mosey along on our way. I'm feeling good. Good There's a good feeling of a trip come my way along. There's a method to putting this stuff in as well I don't want to put I want to put the food Near the bottom because it's the heaviest but I don't want to put it right at the bottom I want to put it like a quarter of the way up and near my back. So first I'll go tent sleeping pad actually sleeping bag sleeping pad so I don't need those at all until camp I'll situate them so that they're tucked in there flat as possible and next up I'm gonna slide my tent poles down to one side and there's a pretty big hole down there the jacket in now I'll put the bag of food down at the bottom close closest to my back, put my clothes in front of that to block it from falling forward, we got this heavy bag here down there to slide the sit pad behind everything, start filling in some nooks and crannies down here, we're almost done, well you got to remember we have to leave room for the camera and the tripod to go in here after all this is already in here the tripod is small enough where I can lay it sideways on the top but a lot of the times I do stuff it down the side, really not that heavy, it can't be more than 30 pounds, so you see what I mean when I'm talking about well if you watch the tripod, you know what I'm talking about, I'm talking, so when I mentioned the canoe hitting the top of the seat hitting this, I think it's this, it's hitting, it's nothing in my bag, bag isn't overly packed really high anyway, dude rock, I came across a huge crash in the woods, that's something running away, I think a bear and also the most aggressive grouse you will ever imagine, he had his family with him, he flew at me, dive bombed me twice on the way there and then on the way back I just was very proud of him, you know, to protect your family bro, I'm like 1500 times the size of the guy and he's dive bombing me, hissing, hissing at me too, I've never heard one hiss before but you can hear all the little babies in the in the woods and then there was a another one i imagine the mom another bigger one i didn't know that they that they nuclear family did okay I'll leave just on the 650 right now over into Esma pretty awesome trail well taken care of nice and flat very Algonquin-esque I keep coming across this rocks that have been flipped over that's a decent substantial-sized rock I imagine it's from bear bears looking for ants and worms and grubs and whatnot oh we're getting there I hope what a picturesque lake clouds are setting it off and everything beauty beauty Esma I love it love it this is really nice I got to show you something though which makes it not so nice this could have been from winter but still toilet paper fisherman's friend I like I get it in the winter time it's hard to you know what are you gonna do pack out your toilet paper but still you got to get it off the beaten trail at least there all right back for the canoe and then on to Esma for lunch had a sandwich I'm just trolling at the end of Esma here we're looking at those clouds some are getting pretty dark I got two portages two small ones a couple hundred meters each to get over into upper Mace and that's where I'm going to camp tonight so I think I should probably get a move on now just in case I don't want to be setting up in the rain I want to be prepared for the thunderstorm I'm checking out a couple campsites here the campsite I had in the middle of the lake that I had lunch on was no good it was okay it was great for what me and John had but for for this place it's no good this place has awesome campsites the first one was really nice off the portage and this one here seems pretty decent too but uh no fish man not a bite John I know caught Lakers or splake in upper Mace he was catching them at a pretty good at a pretty good pace and he told me exactly where to get them that's the thing he had a bathymetry meter or whatever it is to figure out where the depth the depth is in the lakes and I don't have that and I wouldn't know how to use it in the first place anyway but he told me exactly where to go in that lake so if I can't get them there it's all me uh maybe summertime but I think he went in the summer too if I'm not mistaken but anyways we all know how I am I am trying but again this is the middle of the summer I don't know where the deep spots are for the trout uh you saw the first day I caught that bass on like the second cast but we'll get into the Upper Mace and i will fish in the spot where where John told me and we will cross our fingers I know they're there so I'll spend my time in that one spot here I am searching still I'm trolling and looking on the last lake I didn't know either but there I know where they are so he located them we'll try and get some off to the port yeah that campsite looks pretty decent and open I had to I had to just come paddle past this point here just in case just troll past it and I'll troll back past it and hook around to the portage i uh it just looks promising you know there's lakers and brookies in here or so the map says this is the first lake i've been on other than Flack the put-in lake that has lakers on it in it um anyways i'll just paddle around the narrows there and i'll start fishing it's much too shallow here finally opening up a very pretty lake more of those blue butterflies on that The rock lake is just dotted with islands. We got up in the upper base. I'm paddling around, talking to the camera. Oh, look at how beautiful the rocks are. I'm singing songs, being all loud and nonsense. I haven't seen anyone. I look over and I see these big orange bags. I'm like, what? So I paddle on over and I met Ryan and Alex and they knew who I was. We talked for like, what, five minutes and then they're like, ah, funny seeing you here. I'm like, you know who I am? Yeah. Anyways, they gave me some good fishing tips and they mirrored what John said. These guys watch John, they know him as well, and just right over there where I was fishing is the spot. You said you pulled out a few? Yep, got some lakers and a couple of small plate, or actually one pretty good plate. Yeah, you showed that picture over here. It was a monster. Yeah, couple good ones. So he's giving me fishing tips. He's gonna, I'm gonna buy a lure off him. He said he's gonna give it to me, but I'm gonna buy it from him. I can't just take it. And we're gonna spend tonight and tomorrow morning trying to fish there and get a fish. You said you caught them pretty regularly, no? Yeah, we caught probably five each day. If I can get one. Yeah, there's some missing. Yeah, broke off on one. It's mostly him. I only caught like two or three. And then he, what'd you say? Yeah, probably something like that. That's how I normally am. Two yesterday and three the day before. I was in the same canoe as him. Literally. It's such a piss off. He's like, he's fishing with Matt. It's infuriating. Storm is here. Well folks, the last you saw of us was last night. We didn't film much. We tried to fish too, but. Yeah, they just got talking and started laughing and having fun talking about stories and yeah, it was a good night We uh, you guys showed me where to fish. We all went out together No luck at all and before I was here you guys were pulling in what five a day you said or something like that Yeah, they said they had a couple personal bests. Just just a couple PB Right when you came in and tainted the water Exactly right where they were they said they hadn't been skunked when they fished in that spot. We are right there I use the same lure they're using to freaking get them and everything no go nobody got them so listen It's not just me, but I am I am definitely the bad omen. I know that We're gonna split up ways now where you guys headed We're going down to lower mace, and then we're gonna make our way over to Clay and I'm so we're gonna completely go separate ways I'm going back the way I came to hop into a couple different lakes And I'm gonna head out tomorrow morning these guys are gonna head out tomorrow morning as well But I had a really fun time with you guys last night. I really appreciate you guys having me here crashing the party yeah it was good nice to uh we're gonna try to get together again so uh maybe you guys will see these guys on the on the channel later on so thanks guys yeah thanks joe have a good trip we'll see you yeah you too man appreciate it cool thanks guys well that was very cool super excited to meet those guys and hang out with them and tell some stories by the fire and just relax so the uh the storm as you saw this morning wasn't so much of a thunderstorm lots and lots of rain all night long some thunder uh but no lightning and there's some blue in the sky today so today was supposed to be the bad day for the thunderstorm when there was it's we didn't get up till 11 it's it's 11 25 now we got up at like 10 45 or something like that um out of our tents and stuff i have a decent travel day today so i think i'm gonna actually put the pedal to the metal and get over into my next lake and i'll call that my last lake for the trip i'll do three nights i'll come out tomorrow morning um but yeah we've got some decent distance to go and then i'll fish in Bobo Wash and that Bobo Wash is the lake i'm sleeping on fishing that lake tonight and see what's up those guys had a photometry thing on their phone they showed me a couple spots in um in Bobo Wash where i potentially could fish so who knows i don't i'm not holding my breath for any fish anymore but um it's okay it's a good recon trip and it's good to know that like in the fall and in the spring the fish will be much easier to catch and i know they're here these guys were catching them john's caught them so um regardless this is a good trip this is a very good trip i'm having a lot of fun doing a lot of different things find me boys it's well past noon and i'm still on uh upper mace campsites right there i just been fishing this area it felt fishy it smelled fishy i thought i could get it i really put some time in there and they'll go so we're gonna get going now i wish that one of these updates would be like look i got a fish believe me i wish that more than you do all right here's the portage it's the longest of the day at 450 meters i'm going to attempt to single carry it because those guys said it's pretty flat and well taken care of so we'll see how it goes well i did it it was very unpleasant uh anyways i did it now i'm on 10 mile can't fish on 10 mile it's a fish sanctuary sanctuary apparently so we're just going to skip right through this lake this water is just the clearest there's only one part pod off of 10 mile which is that big lake i only got a couple more per to get Boba Wash and then we'll see let's see how i feel i might i might continue on i gotta stop and get my snack really soon well we're finally on Boba Wash lake this is the lake that i wanted to get to throughout the whole trip because i heard it was very pretty i didn't hear anything about fishing on it but i heard it was very pretty so i don't know that i'm going to stay here we're going to go up to that campsite in front of us get something to eat i got over to the bathroom as well it's 4 42. i said i would be here by five at the latest um i've got plenty of time and it looks like i can get over into sam reed with only two one 125 and 170 meter portages and with only a little bit of paddling once i get off sam reed there's no more portages i can sleep on sam reed and then in the morning i'm that much closer to the car which is gonna be like maybe a three hour four hour paddle out to the car from there in a double carry i think that's what we'll do pretty awesome camp nice flat rock good jumping rock camera's almost dead i didn't want to pull my DSLR so eating in the boat took a poop up there heading on pretty late man certainly wanted to come back to the camp that would be really cool with putting that new teepee tent that i have the uh still nylon one with a little folding stove and late late fall here where it's even snow possibly come back in here with that just plan on double carrying the whole time so like a lot that uh for gear and time and all that man this is such a great honestly it just keeps getting nicer well this lake is nothing short of spectacular itself either you old bald mountain rock on my map there's a campsite on a peninsula so i'm gonna go see if i can get that one that's pretty awesome i got a fish on i got a fish on there's no way i have a fish on oh my god i can't believe it i thought i gave up i gave up i don't want to move the camera around but trust me when i tell you i got a fish on oh my god i can't believe it oh boy we're gonna end it off on a good note we're gonna eat that for supper oh baby i gave up i had given up i was just trolling because oh my goodness the last night right before i get to camp okay i gotta dispatch this guy oh man i'm so happy now i would have absolutely loved to get that catch on camera for you guys but not as much as i wanted to get this fish in the boat i almost lost my fishing rod as it was because i was so hyped up reminiscent of Tomogami You guys ready? I don't know what it is. If it's a laker or a splake. I think a splake has spots. I don't know. It's a lake trout or a splake. I think a splake. Either way, it's dinner. Perfect eating size. Look at it. So excited. I can't believe it. It hit hard. It hit hard. Okay, this is supper. Let's go to camp. I'll go try and find that camp on the peninsula. Can you believe it? Can you believe it? I sure can't, I honestly had given up. Old Lenny T came through in the clutch once again, freaking Lenny T number two, Len Thompson. Okay, this is going um, no no, it's not going away. I'm gonna troll again, and if I can get another one I'll throw it back but it'll be fun enough, it'll be worth it. I had another one on, I think I lost and turned the camera on Lenny T in the lake here I'm gonna cast again over there where I just had to hit. Oh man, that's exciting! It hit like a ton of bricks again. I, I reached over, I for one second to turn the camera on, that's why I didn't try to turn the camera around. The last time hit like a ton of bricks, man. I might even want to even take another pass here. Well, they'll go on the second and third pass, but that's okay. I'm super stoked to have this one, one fish Joe Legend of one fish Joe continues, I guess two if you count the bass on the way in three days ago or whatever but uh imagine if I didn't come to this lake, imagine if I stopped at Bull Wash, which I was going to do, I wouldn't have got that lake trout. I think it's a lake trout, I wouldn't got that trout and maybe I would have caught one on Bull Wash, but I didn't pass it through so all is well in my book and i see a campsite right ahead i want to go see if it's suitable if it is i'm gonna post up there i'm gonna jump in the lake and go swimming because it's super hot even though it's 6 30 the sun is hotter than it's been so i'm looking forward to that and then we'll get this bad boy fish crisped up and cooked up that'll be the icing on the cake on this just awesome trip just amazing weather a super cool spot met some cool dudes had some alone time caught this lake just loving life there she is home for the night all right before i did anything here i got my fish cleaned up there's my booty fat sack of fish for dinner so i do want to get a swim in before it gets too chilly let's do that now we'll tuck this in the water somewhere yeah there we go shaded water i don't know we're gonna jump in skinny dipping Oh, mmm shoes would be helpful dangerously close. Alright, so there's a rock there. I jump out there I should be okay. Nobody comes. Yes. I got a jump out there Well that's refreshing. Holy smokes. Wolfman don't have knives. I'm going to be careful when I'm swimming. I don't want to bang into these rocks Yeah, there's a rock there. Running out of breath. check, check, check, check, check. Tent set up there drying out. There is some firewood here. Pretty hard last night and this is laying here. It is cedar so it might be okay. be fine we can start yeah that's dry that's dry as a bone you start the fire with it get all this split down a little bit and then yeah this wet stuff will burn after too so my bushcraft outfit I could use these legs as a signal people across the lake to shine the Sun off them so it's been there for all of 15 minutes completely dry go back into the shade here and set her up for good thing of beauty thing of beauty throw that stuff in there and I guess I'll do some more fire prep I'm not too I can wait it's 730 I can wait to eat it's beauty man look at this 7:30 at night gorgeous day the day that was supposed to be the thunderstorm turned out to be the best day swam for the first time caught the first fish traveled the most today felt like the most of a canoe most real day of a canoe trip told you I tell you guys a little bit more about this knife it's a Sami Puukko this is just an elastic band wrapped around it made by Jonathan Deering it's 3 30 seconds with a tapered tang it's tapered down to really not much at all so very thin but very nimble very nice knife i'm sure it's plenty stout to baton some of this down then take a quarter it off i'm not going to try to go down the middle cedar so it's got lots of knots i'll try to go as possible where our little axe comes in handy and carry it yeah see there's a big i'm not going to try to do it do that it's not not that important i have other pieces to go down the middle with this one there's a split already how careful i have to be with this thing There we go, ba-bam. Smells beauty, smells beautiful. See I got a split going but it's caught at the bottom. I stuck a piece of wood in there, a wedge. That's what I mean. So that's a knot which would have been a branch coming through and it pulled out instead of breaking. That's how strong they are. I just don't wanna chip up my blade, it's brand new. This is the first outing it's been on. I know it's not gonna break or whatever but look at it. Can't be one stick in it, what are you doing Joe? Ah, there you go, there you go. Up this fryer pan. buddy we're gonna be doing all right tonight we'll call you buell the frog you shall call me sir for joseph sir joseph of windsor i say straight bugging still getting better time view prime campsite for a sunset here on sam reed all right we'll see you later boy now the crescent moon is out icing on the cake i'm literally sitting with my chair in the campfire smoke and the mosquitoes are just hammering me like i was saying like i don't know an hour ago they weren't so bad they're not normally throughout the day they're not so bad but at night they're really out in full force nothing keeps them off bug spray sitting in the smoke I'm just going up over by the the edge of the land here where the breeze is a little bit better the edge of the land the shore shoreline there you go I think I'm gonna go lay down in bed it's after 10 so I will get with you guys in the tent it's crazy how many mosquitoes can get in when you get in and out of it stinking tent. Can you hear them? Anyways, all those mosquitoes you see are on the outside. They're stuck underneath the fly, but outside of my tent. I killed all the ones that came in here. I'm gonna hit the hay. See you guys in the morning. Good morning. Considering I slept in until 11 o'clock yesterday morning, I only slept until about 5 o'clock this morning. So it's just after 5, and yeah, it's a beautiful morning. I'm going to paddle out here in the sunrise, hopefully getting the sunrise on video for you guys. There's a mist on the water. This is a cool feeling. Kind of sketchy walking through these portage trails in the dark I can't see much more than you can see there in the camera There's light above but in the woods here still dark, fog's come off the portage trail and this is the portage still looks like I'm paddling through the trail I'm on a little nothing no name lake gonna hop over into my last portage and that's the big one that's 1140 1140 meters and after that home free we're on Flack Lake gonna make sure I eat some food drink some water before I go to this canoe to do that portage out onto Flack Lake now still have to go get back for my canoe that was a rough portage over a kilometer but the lake the big lake here is dead calm so that'll be good for paddling out let's get out of here journey home i'm a happy boy last few steps are right in front of me did it did it well folks this trip was awesome everything that needed to happen happened i went through some hardships at the beginning not anything big but just coming to the realization that i can't single carry and overcoming that and that was fine i had great weather good fish not good fishing but good fish when i did get it i met some new friends again spent some salt spent some alone time had some good solitude got a good feel for this park this place it's not a park got a good feel for this place and i'll be able to bring some friends here down the road to show them do a couple trips here we're going to wrap this video up i am gonna i'm almost to the lodge there where I parked, I'll keep you with me to let you know if my car starts or not, it'll be the last piece of adventure for the trip, I'm really just hoping it starts, I'm really just hoping it starts if not, I'm sure there's someone at the lodge there, they're not open this year, but I'm sure there's someone lives there, I'm sure they can help me out, I got jumper cables and I do have like a little charger thing if the charger thing doesn't work we'll be going to ask them for a boost but uh yeah, I'm sure everything will be okay, I'll see you guys in a couple minutes now for the real test, can I drive home or not, thank you very much for coming along this trip with me, I had an awesome time be sure to tune in soon, I'll have another video up very soon, thank you very much for everything, have a good one