3 Days Ice Camping On North America's Largest Frozen Lake - Catch & Cook Lake Trout

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that

the salmon you just watched me cook up I

caught yesterday uh on open water in a

boat with my mother oh

yeah wow look at my hair

woo and where we're driving to right now

we're going to be fishing on the same

Lake but through the ice

I've got a truck packed full of camping

gear and I have high hopes of getting up

there with enough daylight tonight where

I can uh set up camp on the

ice the weather's changed a lot from

yesterday and we're starting to have

some snow flurries so I'm going to pay

attention on this drive and try to knock

it out and get there in a timely manner

but my plan is to be camping out on Lake

Superior for the next two nights in a

row and be staying out there for 3

days

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okay welcome back to an episode of I

brought way too much gear uh actually I

brought just the right amount of gear

we're going to be here for 3 days so

packed heavy hopefully the Smitty sled

does some work for

me all right well it's officially fully

dark

outside the funny thing

about the biggest great lake is

that the

walk is a little bit further than I

thought it was been walking for a full

hour show a spot that I thought was

going to take me 20 minutes to get to

but I'm pretty sure we have

everything now I get the house set up

and nice and cozy cuz it's starting to

cool off and quick I'm really sweaty

right

now I just don't want to let that sweat

get Frozen and make me

cold first things first we're going to

see what depth are in here see if the

map's

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accurate transducer to cold it's cooled

off to about 8° out right now and

apparently that's too cold for my fish

finder I've never had that issue before

so here we go working now so 66 ft

here without drawing a bunch of other

holes I don't think I'm going to be able

to find like a crazy Break um I did walk

all the way out to a point that I

thought looked good on a map but it did

say I was supposed to be somewhere

between 60 to 70 ft here and that part

checks out so I'm going to set up here

for the night might end up

moving the house a little bit tomorrow

but I think this is a good starting

spot I need to put my gloves on it's

cold

okay now we have two 10in holes drilled

in the floor La now I can start

unpacking the sled and get it onto the

ice

this is the only battery I brought a

little Dakota lithium just to run some

lights all

right

always

scary get it started the first time but

there be

heat for some reason those things just

don't like working on the

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cold oh

boy all this snow around here is super

hard packed and since my shovel is

almost broken I don't want to lose it

all the way so just going to

use some ice shards

instead batteries do not like

cold we're all set up is it's

officially

two hours since I left the truck so that

wasn't

terrible pretty good actually for how

far I went my app saying I walked

1.7 nautical miles since I left the land

so we'll call it two nautical miles that

was a hike but we're all set up now and

aside from Whole hopping around tomorrow

we're in a very good spot to be able to

catch some fish in the

morning all right there we go all set

up all right so I had high hopes of

having my uh my salmon for dinner but

all the work that I did think I'm just

going to have myself an MRE just because

it comes with so many extra things and I

can really use the calories because what

I just did was a lot of hard work so

we've got some Southwest beef and beans

here and all of the fixing that come

with it got myself some spiced

apples I've always had rough luck with

those heater bags so worst case scenario

I'll just boil it in some water but

we're going to try to make it the

oldfashioned way

first my food is still

cold into the DP

boil he

stink

hey

looks like

chili mhm jalapeno cheese

bread ooh chocolate banana nut muffin

that sounds

awesome oh

oh can't eat that I did bring a little

fan cuz since the Heat's rising up it's

really hot in this area and hopefully

it'll help blow some of that down and

regulate the heat a little more it's a

rechargeable one so hopefully it lasts

the 3 days you can

see got some drippy

boots dripping on stuff

so

this is a water filter um I'm actually

going to be using Lake water for all of

my drinking water because I wanted to

save on water weight so we're going to

pump ourselves some

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and it's cold imagine

that I'm going to be up and atam early

in the morning tomorrow so I'm going to

get some rest it's about 10: p.m. I'm

going to try to wake up at about

5:36

wow just got a rod down it is 7:15 in

the morning roughly 7° fah

outside and the

Sun is just starting to come up on the

lake once this light starts penetra in

the water there going to be more

visibility and hopefully it'll make fish

more

active we just have to wait and see this

being the largest lake it uh it has

every type of freshwater fish in it so

we really could catch anything from

steel head to King Salmon but the most

common fish we're going to catch is a

lake trout so that's what we're going

after

on

on what is

it what is this it's not a lake

drought it's big whatever it

is

oh my gosh it's the biggest freaking

white oh it's a lake tro it is Lake

tro

whoa what a way to

start little

Laker holy cow he's got a big gash in

him look at that crazy there's the first

one of the trip right there nice lake

trout

get him

back oh that was so cool

dude oh it always feels good getting the

goose egg out of the house early only

been jigging for 15 minutes here we've

already got our first fish and there was

two more with it that was

awesome

you know I had to go with some Timmy

Hortons since we're in

Canada

lake

trout oh boy there we go there we

go oh this is a good

fish oh God he's hooked on the floor

that's not

good

no crazy

status Laker Laker we're going to keep

this

one

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oh

number three for

me that fish little

guy all right well I just lost another

fish at the hole um

got caught three fish so far kept two

but I'm starting to get hungry so I

think I'm going to dive into my my

salmon

oniri it's like a disassembled oniri

but sounds like good

lunch

what help if I had a

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spoon

oh my gosh a coming in right

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now literally one on the

screen you

go these fish don't even want to let me

eat in

peace oh

God my T just blew

over oh

no I didn't get any of that on video but

my tent just BW over I thinking like

it's across the

lake

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holy

cow I wish I would have got that on

video that was

insane well I was just going to do an

update earlier and say that it's been

getting a lot windier out but that's

apparent this house literally just

flipped over and dumped all of my

sleeping gear out and it's blown out

onto the shore over there you have no

idea how badly I wish that I had that on

GoPro I uh I shut it off earlier because

I was worried about uh having enough

batteries out here and I wasn't seeing

fish so I shut it off

but I have uh I have the ice steaks and

last night I couldn't get that one to

bite and I gave up just cuz I thought it

wasn't going to get too windy out for me

but turns out that this lake is

unpredictable so now I get to go on an

adventure and see if I can find my

sleeping stuff because without my bag I

am going to be in a bad position

tonight for

sure all right this determines whether

or not a fin this camping trip right

here oh my gosh I see my

stuff all right I need to be very

careful here because it's stuck on a

heave but that ice that's in between can

be absolutely terrible

so

I can't believe that got stuck

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there I found both the things but now I

have a long walk back and a direct

wind so I'm going to try my best not to

lose

them oh

oh I might as well been trying to tow a

sailboat sail back that was

intense I was all the way all the way

down

there just walked back in the wind

holding that stuff it was like trying to

fight me the whole time and I just was

trying so hard not to drop it

cuz I knew i' have to chase chase it

back

again the whole side's basically blowing

in right now this wind is

insane I sweat through every piece of

clothing that I have so tarps off for

now trying to dry it

off and get my bearings back about me oh

my gosh I've never had that happen in 10

plus years of ice

fishing 12 plus years ice fishing that

is a first and I normally don't even

bring steaks for a house like this

because I've never I've never had them

FL flip over like that that's crazy

fishing slowed down a lot um I haven't

caught one since the tent blew

over uh but I want to cook up some lake

trout for dinner tonight because while

they're fresh they're absolutely tasty

so I'm going to go grab

one and clean it inside to defrost a

little

bit we had a high of 30° today and the

wind got up to 30 m

hour so definitely one of the crazier

wind storms that I've been a part of and

even crazier on this

Lake

all right at least the wind has died

down now finally still blown a little

bit you can see cuz this

wall is caved in but definitely not the

30 mph that we were seeing earlier and

we've got some fresh fish for dinner it

was definitely a a great fishing day I

had a lot of

marks and and I think I ended up

with five fish on my lonesome must have

marked at least five more but that's

pretty good for Lake tro

fishing all

right fresh Lake

throat

nice white flaky

meat little bit of

seasoning and it's

delicious I'm starting to find out that

there may have been a few more

casualties than I originally had thought

missing my paper towels I'm missing some

cilantro that I brought with to make

with my Lake troat that's all that I've

noticed so far oh my phone charger

doesn't really help that that's a white

cord so it kind of Blends in with the

snow but um I'm honestly surprised that

the house stopped when it did because it

could have easily

like gotten wind in it and acted like a

parachute and just picked up and sailed

away with how fast the wind was blowing

today so I'm happy that I was able to

get my gear back catch some fish and

stay warm because that could have

gone way more south than it

did

as delicious as it was um I'm a growing

boy I

also would like to save some weight on

the ride home so I'm going to eat a

couple of

these freezer meals freezer bagged

meals

would you trust the freeze-dried pudding

I think it looks

delicious yeah that's

good all right putting on my

face maybe a little

bit okay please no crazy events tonight

now about all crazi out my brain was

kind of in turmoil right right after

that if I'm being completely honest

walking back to go get the stuff I

thought the whole trip was going to be

ruined it was a lot but I'm very happy

with how everything came to be it was a

great day of

fishing I just got to remember that just

take a couple of deep breaths can relax

now kind of just really hoping

that those Stakes are enough to hold it

down because I have never had a house

flip over on me like that and now that I

know that that's

possibility a little scary but it's

completely dark outside

besides for the illumination from the

big moon

tonight day two is just wrapping up and

it was a memorable one for

sure good night Lake

Superior my dental

hygiene usually it's put on the Wayside

on these camping trips not

today all right it's supposed to get up

to a nice 25° out this morning I think

it's around 20 right now it's nice and

comfortable nice and warm in the shack

guessing it's probably about

70° but first

cof

all

right

all right got everything loaded back

into the truck got back safe caught fish

didn't die that's a successful Lake

Superior Mission hopefully you guys

enjoyed this episode I got a 7-hour road

trip before I get home but as always

until next time you already know the

drill just keep on

trucking