3 Day Hunting, Fishing, Bushcraft Camp

Hey guys, thanks for tuning in. Joe here. I'm with Sean from My Self Reliance, Martin from Scramble Doe, and Doug from Doug Outside. We're here at the French River doing a canoeing fishing trip. We're about to run some rapids. Looks fun. Yep, bald eagle. I think the plan for today is paddle for another hour or so, find a camp, and we might stationary camp there for three nights. We plan on camping three nights. We might stay there for three nights, we might move a little bit, but not going too far. This isn't a distance trip, this is more of a heavy gear kind of relax we get to know each other film and uh yeah just have fun i just caught the first fish nobody else has caught a fish yet it was a small mouth bass a small one too nobody else has got one so i'm happy for now what do you think i think so too i'm about ready i'm ready to go to camp i'm ready to eat give it a high five oh this is beauty look this is real nice this is our camp I'll swim for sure. I'll swim you gotta wait half an hour. I gotta eat before I swim Look at that so nice. There's like a little pool pool of safety beauty Pretty open I I'm gonna stay here too right in my grass spot run my spot Oh grass well because I was here first look at that is a manicured lawn Everybody's filming food filming food Good food. We got Mr. Douglas with his chili. Sean's got some frog eggs in there. I've got a nice Angus steak. Come on Got a nice Angus steak there No juices and we are not letting Martin eat tonight. So well, that was a good steak. Everybody else is eating right now This is my shelter for tonight. It's my Big Agnes tent without the bug without the actual tent body this is just a fly you can see I use the footprint with it then I just clip it on and that way I don't need bug protection it's not buggy I'm getting more ventilation more airflow and I get a little bit more room in it so I just got my NeoAir X-Therm by Therm-a-Rest pillow and my positive three Celsius sleeping bag which is gonna be plenty supposed to get not even anywhere near that maybe I think seven or eight degrees the one night so pretty good with that. So we're going to go try our hand at some fishing again. It's getting late. It's six o'clock at night and the sun's gone by seven. So it's the golden hour. There should be walleye, there should be pike, and there should be bass. Doug hooked onto a walleye earlier and I had a bass earlier, but that was at the beginning of the trip and we didn't want to carry them the whole way here and all that stuff. So anyways, good set of rapids out there. Let's go try. A little beaver action I took off and those guys went their own way and I came into this Cove so I'm gonna try to sorry I'm gonna try to show you what I'm doing here oh we spit it nice it's a decent fish man pound or two I'm gonna try to take a picture here I already had supper and to be honest with you I don't really need to eat any bass tonight if it was smaller if it was earlier in the day if I hadn't had supper yet I kept them brought him back on a stringer and show those guys but a picture and video is good enough for me i can see doug and martin those guys are in a in uh sean's cedar strip canvas canoe together sean's in his solo canoe and i'm in my solo boat this place is awesome guys like so i'm paddling by right now just cool rock formations the french river here where we are is an old like uh trade route lots of history behind it well what's the It's a scoop. Walleye on the board. Really? You got a walleye? Good job. You got one on film? Oh, look at that bad boy. That fish be nice. Go and do laps around it. Oh yeah? Yeah. That piece of ear that he's got on his dresser at home. Sean caught a big old pike, as you can see, and Martin caught that walleye like you already saw. We're gonna eat them up. It's a lot of fish. You got a nice few fillets of pike. fillets of pike and walleye there and uh some nice wow that's a lot of fillets of pike and walleye guys yes martin can i have a piece of your walleyes oh yeah thank you how good that looks we all just tried the pike and the walleye and we've all i think everybody thinks the pike is better than the walleye by far and that's the end of that what's coming back Oh my gosh, is it Sam Squanch? Well, it's 10.06 right now. Those guys are still hanging out by the fire eating more pike. Oh wouldn't be a trip without that Yeah, anyways, I'm going to bed. Good night guys. I'll see you in the morning Go outside everyone It's making me have to pee. We're all, Ralph. We're going to, what are we gonna do? So today we're gonna attempt a loop. We're gonna get off the river onto some back lakes. We're gonna have to portage Yeah away from the river. So that should be cool. Maybe those lakes back in there have some fish We're gonna do a loop and probably spend all day out. So bring the camera. I'm gonna bring one bag Fishing rod everybody's just getting ready now to go. Look at that teamwork Well boys just go that way. Here we go. Well, mr. Martin just got a nice little pike. I'm not jealous this scrumptious oh so I got one on I think it's a pike try and show you guys I've had two already I haven't got them into the boat cuz I'm trying to film oh she's a bass she's a big one there we go what size that guy well bam nice big bass big bass that's a bucket mouth let them go fishing and another one back to back let them run I got a big bass last time yeah big I think it was a large mouth to be honest but this feels like a bass as well yeah not as big too bad gonna let this guy go too I don't think so I'm not sure I didn't really look on that one so we've just pulled up at the end of the lake so we started way way down there and we're on this just one lake off the off the river but it's so nice here there's just so much boulders and Canadian Shield scrambling on the rock and it just goes forever man this place is awesome like there's Sean way up there he's got his shotgun and we're looking for some geese I guess or some ducks told him not to Dick Cheney us don't Dick Cheney me bro you've done well grasshopper further down river it's only a short channel up till we do that at lunch you do that today if you want It's actually a good creek coming up from here, right up to it, if you had a little bit more water. So we got this mushroom here hanging up in the branch. And Martin was asking, why is it there? How did that get there? And I believe... Go ahead. Anti-climactic. Drying rack. Squirrel. Fluffy squirrel. We're done now. Did you get him? Oh, sweet. What's on the menu tonight, eh? Where is he? Oh, yeah, yeah. He's up to my neck or a massive one. At least you got your fire steel on you. look at that what you want hey no meat room should be mature enough to pluck nicely too so we can actually pluck it and roast it on a stick or something go show the boys what's for dinner there's our dinner tonight courtesy of Sean and Martin a wood duck hen and a largemouth bass the oven ready and bake a cake a cake you say a cake what kind of oven is that this is a I'm not sure exactly something like that something like that from Sweden that's where all the good things come from oh I got Bannock too but that's another so there's Doug's fancy reflector oven he's making us a cake with M&M peanuts so that's the bird all plucked can you tell where you got him yeah so a couple pellets hit there there all the way through and then there because I on this side of her very cool i'm looking forward to that so we got some more food for the table that's the bass that this guy caught that's the bass who caught the bass i caught the bass sneaking off doing your scrambled stuff we got flies we got flies guys all right check out this spread look at that spread check out that spread we got uh duck fish bannock and cake living large we're just waiting on the wood duck which is on the spit super bushcraft style you know that's how i like to keep it keeping it real keeping it real guys this is the wood duck wood duck this is the wood duck what did you just say come on just get getting a piece of the wood duck we've eaten the merganser and the bass look at that look at that meat look at it that was nice and tender yeah that That is a good duck. Some bannock. Oh, butter, look at that. I think you're all right. I'm all right, guys. I'm all right, guys. I shouldn't have held it back, bud. Are we having communion? What do you think, boys? This is a pretty good trip, or what? Best trip ever. Good times. Yeah, I can't tell you much better than that. Yeah. Can't say enough about the weather. Can't say enough about the weather. You're right. Company could be a little better, but you know. Oh, piss. Look what you did. Got the lid on. Look what you did. You little jerk. You little Kevin. Is it morning, huh? We're gonna break down camp now and move closer to the car for the last night We've got a couple rapids we can go fish and run should be good. You got a pike? There he goes. Hey, dude I'm tired guys. We ended up moving camps. I paddled for a couple hours Ran some rapids, portaged around some rapids, Sean shot a goose. So we're gonna eat some goose for supper tonight, which is cool He's just go over there paddling over to the guys who are on an island We decided to split up to see which island was which campsite was best The site I'm on now turned out to be the best one so Sean's just paddling over there to those guys to get them to come Over we're gonna set up, hang out, cook a goose Should be a good time. It's our last night here, so yeah, good times, man This is one of the better trips of this year for me lots of new stuff, lots of fun stuff This place is wild this place is really cool. Let's start grabbing some firewood looking around for some anyway I think we'll be able to find something here. Hopefully some hardwood. There is an abundance of dead Hardwood. Nope. Just talking to the camera And I've already collected a bunch but here we have What is it sugar maple live and then dead next to it timber seeing as how it's the last night tonight I don't think I want to set up my tent I think I want to just sleep under stars I got this little five by seven tarp I put it down put my sleeping pad on top of that, but it's also on some moss So it's nice and comfortable anyway, and then I think I'll just lay on half the tarp and if it rains I'm just going to fold the tarp over top of myself like a blanket and call it good. Like I said, it's the last night I'm not worried about getting my gear wet. I'm not worried about getting wet. It's warm So that'd be kind of cool good way to end the trip We've got quite a bit of meat for tonight off of that goose. That is That's gonna be a meal. Me too. No, that's good. You're always ruining my stuff bro. Thin slicing the Canada goose that we shot earlier today. We had to fight off a bald eagle for this guy. True story. It's a true story. No fabrication. And we are going to stir-fry this and then put it on wraps for a fantastic Mexican meal of Canada goose. Yes. We're making goose fajitas, courtesy of Sean. The first one didn't go over well with the audience here, so I figured, how's it gonna work? You know. Taco seasoning? Yes. Taco seasoning? Love you. I'll have to have another with taco seasoning. Well, this is camping with Doug. This is the second night in a row we're eating off the land, as it were. Pretty cool. Just have me take the Olympic torch out here, Doug. Well, we're all up pretty early this morning. It started raining decent last night at around 9, 9.30. We're all up pretty early this morning. Started reading. We're all up pretty early this morning. Doug's here, as you can hear. got up we're all up pretty early this morning it started raining oh thanks it rained last night we're up early just paddling out now trying to keep my distance from doug it's been a great trip made a lot of cool things happen uh down to one bar on my last battery so this is where i gotta end it really cool times hope you guys enjoyed the video i'll be back with another one soon see you later