THE TENT. Opening Fishing 2018. "The Movie"

hello everyone and welcome back welcome to the 2018 Minnesota fishing opener top of the tank [Music] I'm gonna stop up here and fill up with diesel and then from here I'm going to go up two o'clock a Minnesota which is pretty much on the way of the 10th pick up Melissa originally I was gonna spend the night up there her and then we're both gonna go to the chat but we decided to go to the tent today early so [Music] it seemed strange to me after pulling that fifth wheel from south Louisiana up to northern Minnesota was a total of about 1600 miles it's weird not to have it on the back of the truck right now they still when I see somebody put on their brakes or see a light changing to red you start slowing down way early because you've got over 14,000 pounds pushing you down the road that's just nice not to have anything on the back you can see that when I left the house there were quite a few leaves on the trees or they're coming out and our I don't know 30 miles shy of Duluth right now not very many by the time we get to the tent I don't think there's gonna be much color at all through the woods except for the branches just coming into cloquet now they have a super one the grocery store up here I'm gonna stop and get everything we need for the weekend which will be beef steaks pork steaks and potatoes didn't and a vegetable i think melissa is gonna make a roast maybe time well the shopping is done the first drawing up in the spring is always the most expensive and I got stuff that'll stay the whole season so now it's about I don't know 20 minutes till I get to where Moses it's really windy out 45 degrees right now my dad who's already up at the Volks Calvin they were talking about coming up Saturday afternoon to pick up the pop-up trailer not in the spot that they're in and they must leave that camper there all year round they do don't here at Lake Superior now showing Melissa all the sights [Applause] okay everyone while we made it I'm gonna get her unlocked get the power turned on definitely gonna need that wood stove going it looks absolutely the same as I left it there hasn't been any animals in here it's chilly in here but looks really good I'm gonna clean the ashes out of the stove and we got to get that fired up it's 46.8 degrees in here [Music] well Melissa and I got pretty much everything unpacked right now it's warming up nice in there the wind is starting to die down tonight it's kind of an off night I think it's already probably six o'clock or after right now so we're not gonna get a whole lot done today but at least we made it up here today's Thursday we were gonna come up Friday so it's nice to be up here a night that's you know earlier than we were gonna be well it's nice to see the shelves are all filled up again got a little girl she's exploring everything the first cat that's ever been in the town I've bought a new bed set for the tent this way I can bring the old one home and get it washed and I have some up here because those ones that are on there I'm getting kind of grimy so I'm gonna switch that out here in a minute I originally built those shelves to have a TV on it and a speaker on each side but that I never had a TV up here I never watched when I didn't think I'd ever watch TV in bed but at one time I thought it'd be a cool idea but anyway this one here used to be in my bedroom and I bought a big lure one for my bedroom and brought this one down it was in the high low well now we're not gonna be using the high low for a while so I threw it in the truck and brought it back up here and now it's all the way to the tent that's quite a traveled TV we're off to 72 degrees in here now I think it's been maybe six years this coming October or as of seven years I think six years I'll have to ask Melissa anyway it's been that long so she has been to the tent the real fishing season doesn't start until this coming Saturday but you can still catch sunfish and perch so tomorrow I'll definitely have a bobber off the dock I picked up some worms and I'm sure you guys have watched the videos before sometimes they're biting out there like crazy and sometimes they're not so we'll find out tomorrow I brought up t-bone steaks New York strip steaks pork steaks I brought some pork country-style ribs and then some beef ribs that looked like country-style ribs melissa has a roast that she's gonna cook we got way more food than what we need I did pull my trail camera that's kind of out on the dock and this is when I left which was this bait is not correct I think this was February 10th or 11th of this year and I don't know what that is if that was another deer like we had before but look at that and deer head is this like right and then this must have been a windy or I don't know if this is a snowstorm this more looks like stuff blowing on tree but look how thick that snow is it's right to the top of the poles on the dock and there I'm completely covered in snow there again there is something that walked by the deer like to walk right there along the edge of the lake so and then we have a bird that's kind of cool look at that when ice is starting to break up there and that looks almost scary and that's me taking the camera out today Melissa just jumped in the shower [Music] it's not too bad it'll have to do for now 45 degrees and she's out there in shorts I want my long johns last 15 minutes oh you do it's gonna smell good in here [Music] I can tell you right now you guys watch me do a lot of cooking up here it never smells this good in here hey yeah I slaved over the stove to make this great the first secret ingredient that's looking good does that's boilie hired I'm supposed to mix what what am I waiting what am I looking for just stir it you can't tell me that doesn't look good it's dinner time we've just been sitting there watching War of the Worlds tonight on DVD yes I think it's 11 o'clock a little bit after so and we're gonna head to bed I will see you guys bright and early in the morning good morning everybody it's about a quarter after 5:00 29 degrees nice fog rolling across the lake the Sun is just about to rise [Music] we'll see what happens I usually have better luck catching the perch and the sunfish in the afternoon I think once the water over on this side warms up when it's this early in the spring but you never know I've caught him in the morning also I need to pull my bolt motor on I noticed I just hauled this all the way up from Louisiana and the choke pulls all the way out and it's but it's hard plastic so it's got to be hopefully it's something easy that just come unhooked because it would be a shame if I don't have a good bolt more to work in this weekend it's got this little plastic piece and this has to go between there and this has to go up inside and I don't want to break the plastic I'm so close to having this just fine but my dad just stopped over for a while and we chatted and get this back together and get it on the boat now the wind is picking up this is actually kind of a poor design I mean it's simple and you pull that out and it chokes it but they should have had maybe when they're new this is an old motor it would stick in but there should have been something from here to here so it can't go sideways like that that it's working good with my 9 8 Merck here last year it was giving me a little bit of trouble harder to start and the shifting when I put it in reverse the motor will jump up you know so I'm sure that's an easy thing but anyway I'm gonna bring it in it's been a few years since I brought it in haven't over the carburetor because I really like this motor I think it just needs to be serviced [Music] that was a nice little ball tried it's chilly out there though I'll probably go out again tonight when everything calms down if it's a little bit warmer and get some nice pictures when the reflections are off the water right now Melissa and I are gonna run over to the folks cabin melissa has never seen the new cabin when up she was up here last time the folks still had the old cabin and we went over there and showered so we're gonna go over there I'm not gonna bring my camera for that and when I get back to come gonna start up the barbecue and cook up a couple of steaks so we're gonna barbecue up these New York strip steaks and we have a roll slept over from last night we're gonna have a salad I'm just putting my good old Johnny's Hunter's blend on here Melissa decided to ruin hers by marinating it in some what is it Italian garlic I don't know nope that's too southern for me I think while I'm giving those potatoes 20 minutes or so ahead start here on the steaks I'm gonna run down and grab another one of the trail cameras and see if we got any pictures over the winter well looks like on the trail camera I saw myself when I walked out to check the end of the driveway in the winter and then it looked just like a lot of deer then a couple of that one deer that was going through the snow was up to its belly it's like that's how deep it got here for a while a few more minutes I can throw on those steaks [Music] slaving over the salad ICU and onto the garden I picked up this wine might not even eat that roast look everyone it's time for lunch Oh my dad needs a little help over the folks is cabin over there adjusting his dock so I'm gonna run over there for a little bit right now and give him a hand [Music] now we got his all leveled out like you wanted and now I'm back at the 10 [Music] [Music] I don't drink coffee but I really enjoy making it in Mellisa drinks it I like the smell of coffee why you would want to drink this nasty stuff I don't know Melissa is that what having a cup of coffee by the fire pit I forgot my excellent journal at home I put them in I have a fire safe and all the journals I thought I'm working on my third one now I'm almost finished with it they all go into the into the fire safe so they won't get ruined and I bring them up here with me and especially over the winter time I always make sure that whatever one I'm on is at home I forgot to bring it up this time so now I have to do the journal still write it out word for word in a tablet and I'll transfer it into the journal when I get back home ticks me off I have to write it two times well I'm gonna drive the loop Melissa is gonna come with she's in the truck right now and then we got to go up and get her fishing license that opens in the morning we're just coming back from getting her license and my dad was in here earlier with his four-wheeling he said you got to go check this spot out this is a spot where we've had deer stands in here before but in fact my brother John shot his first deer back here but look at all these trees this has to be from that ice storm they just all cleared out just fell down melissa has never got to use a kayak yet so we're gonna put it in the water and she's gonna give it a try I just grabbed my metal detector and I'm gonna go across if you go straight across the lake just to the left there of the island and keep going straight till you hit land there's a there's a campsite there I've been up there before and showed it in videos but anyway people still use it once in a while but they're no longer maintained so anyway I'm gonna run my metal detector over there and just give it 15 minutes and walk around and see if I can find anything except for shotgun shells and stuff like that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well that was fun I found a few of the old poplar beer can type pull-tab tops piece of tin foil which was right by the fire which you'd expect and I did find one penny but I can't see what year it is so I'm gonna head back to the tent now it's almost a quarter to eight and I'm gonna come back here another time because back there is a years ago outhouse just a platform it's all dilapidated and rotted now but if you're gonna find coins that would be a good place to find it head back to the tent wash off that penny I don't even know if you can read what year it is but I want to check it out I just checked my line it's been out there all day but the first little perch it's too little to keep but maybe they're going to start biting when I throw him back and get another warm on Melissa is in there watching chitty-chitty-bang-bang on DVD I think I'm gonna go in and grab myself a beer and probably do some of the journal okay everyone well just a lot of time for bed it's five minutes to 11:00 didn't have any big supper tonight just some leftover roast and like I said it's just about time to go to bed [Music] [Music] good morning everybody it's about five minutes after 5:00 it's 31 degrees phishing is now open and while the wait till the Sun comes up I'm gonna go out there and see if we can catch some fish [Music] well they're not biting you up this morning but it's naughty it's just about seven o'clock right now so I think last year when Zach and I come up I went out early like this didn't get anything and then I think we came on about 9 o'clock in the morning and that's when they started biting it's cold though there was frost on my lifejacket my fingers are chilly [Music] [Music] just picking a few things up in here because a curry and Samantha if they stay on schedule or whatever they should be here about 1 or 2 today so wanted to clean it up a little bit [Music] I just put water on throw showers Zachary and Samantha they already left so they should be up here in three and a half or four hours and they're gonna actually come up here they asked if they could use the grill when they come up and I said how about you guys don't bring anything I've got pork steaks and pork country-style ribs in there melissa is gonna make some little strawberry shortcakes I'm gonna attempt to make if I have all the ingredients a local bread and the bread maker and cut up potatoes and zucchini and yellow squash and foil on the fire and we'll just all have a nice family type meal so that means some of the fishing time today is not gonna happen but it doesn't matter what a great day it's just nice to be up at the tent again well that's all the ingredients if my two or three-year-old yeast isn't dead and the bread machine works we should be in good shape my dad has a suspicion pull off the dock and it got caught on a weed or something he wants me to go over there and [Music] Oh my dad had a beach on the line and he's heading home so he said either throw it back or you can keep it so I'm gonna keep it TV seems to work get on the bedroom you got a monster fish on there may as well have two lines in off the dock there's two of us here Melissa just jumped in the shower Melissa Vaughn a new fishing ball but I need to string it up so when we go off it won't later she likes these open-faced ones I never have got the hang of those I always like my baitcaster they just switched off Melissa's water for her with her long hair it takes two pails of these [Music] I'm gonna cut up the vegetables and the potatoes and get those in foil so we can throw those on the fire I think Zach and Sam should be here within an hour so it's starting to smell like homemade bread in here it doesn't look like that loaf is getting very big though it's only got 11 minutes left I think it's going to be a tiny bowl I imagine that that yeast is probably not as active as it was two three years ago so I have some potatoes in there and some onion throwing some bacon yeah I don't think that I have any bigger bowls like I said this place could use a woman's touch I need a campfire and for that's about it oh I better wash these here straining stuck between my fingers got old I think our loaf is gonna be like three inches tall because it's if that's supposed to be a two pound loaf and it's about three and four inches tall I think and it's only got two minutes left I'm sure the east because I have had to make it rise or I picked the wrong cycle because I didn't I don't know how that bread maker really works but I knew we didn't have five hours you know so you're getting stuff ready for strawberry shortcake yeah some garlic powder I forgot to put butter in there and a half a stick I think she's a keeper she's doing dishes and after the unveiling of my beautiful two-and-a-half pound loaf of bread it's a nice-looking loaf actually the thing probably weighs two and a half pounds it isn't that bad I mean it feels heavy maybe that's what I clicked maybe I did the French bread one all those little pork sticks are pretty tiny and I'm you know eating when I'm up here I like to cook for I'll bring some of this whole insult because we're here today but tomorrow was when we have to head back I got work on Monday and the week will start did you have to paint those - oh yeah that's to be plenty heavy dude you don't think I mean I tried hanging stuff on there like here and here so yeah pothole I'm pretty sure it's oh yeah they just had the guy in there to fill that in and he did it did you guys all ready for the wedding now we're like excited and nervous oh yeah you know I like when he goes in the rivers you find self oh yeah I also find like the old bullets from yeah yeah somebody from the start to be wanted I see my first jumping spider well you want to make that rain barrel system oh I was thinking that would be cool to have that this one has the same thing as that one right there come at it you guys know the drill one of the tires is a little bit low on the pop-ups he's gonna drive over to the folks's cabin use a pump it up over there that's gonna be a bumpy ride for that thing well George just stopped by for about an hour and we chat it on on the front porch oh that's not a bad one oh look how cute I got a little windy and the temperature has really dropped so Melissa does really want to go out on our date now passed a few times to see if I can't get any northern clay [Music] [Music] I got one good northern hit and that was it and like when George was over like he was saying on the ice just went out on the lake on May 5th and now it's been really cold up here so the fish are still pretty slow and right now it's probably getting close to a quarter to eight I got to start picking the stuff up at the tent because we're going home tomorrow so I think I'll head back and hopefully I can come up here on Memorial weekend and that fishing should be better things will warm up [Music] oh yeah maybe it's here and I just can't see it I can't see Melissa's bobber and I don't want to take it with me it's probably sitting there and I just can't see it okay everyone while I'm just getting a few things cleaned up tomorrow Melissa and I head out of here I liked a lot of the openers it wasn't a ton of fish but it really didn't matter it was a great weekend having Melissa up here with me was a curious samantha coming up and visiting george came over I just you know I really couldn't have asked for anything more [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay everyone well it's 11:30 at night Melissa and I are going to bed I'll see you guys in the morning tomorrow we head home nice little northern off the dock I'm gonna throw them back though needs a couple more pounds on them [Music] well I got the fish all cleaned up and put in the freezer I was actually gonna video that but I don't know if video will get flagged now I mean I've done that before but I'm not going to take any chances not on the opening fishing 2018 video during the winter trip this is as far as I made it with the address because the snow was so deep I gotta clean it up throw it over in the ash well I have everything just a ball picked up I'm just bringing stuff out to the truck now I got a vacuum in here wash this table and we should be pretty much ready to go [Applause] okay everyone well thanks a lot for watching had a really great weekend now it's time to head south I'll see you guys on the next video you

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Length: 63min 21sec (3801 seconds)

Published: Mon May 21 2018