Wilderness CANOE Camping & Fishing 4 DAYS IN Boundary Waters

we have made it nature called Sir Jodi is in the restroom just grab the last pack headed down to the canoe start loading up we're going out on snow Bank Lake it's an entry point uh 27 and 28. we got a little bit of a breeze today temperatures drop down to about 80. still a little warm I've got the board here so we are here due to the wind we're gonna go this short Portage so we just gotta cut across the lake onto parent Lake we might pick one of these campsites tonight stay on parent Lake and then tomorrow head over to disappointment and then either we'll continue on do the whole Loop or we'll come back through we'll see let's Pay Pack weighs way too much like usual foreign Lake you can see white caps a little Breezy today to be on the big lake we are going into the Boundary Waters we are currently in the kind of late afternoon so we're getting a little bit of a late start but I think we're gonna be okay it's kind of choppy which you wouldn't expect in late afternoon but we might actually have some rain coming in our goal is to get across snowbank lake at kind of like a little kitty corner here and get into parent Lake hopefully find a campsite there Corey really wants to fish so maybe we'll get some fishing in tonight what do you think I think fishing is the plan thank you ready ready thank you it feels so good to be back in the canoe again after such a long time it seems like so long ago since I or we went to The Boundary Waters I think our last trip was together with John last September so it's been a long time but it's I don't know I just forget I feel like how I feel like I already just feel better even though I've kind of not had an amazing day I haven't slept well the last few nights and I was kind of stressed and a little bit nervous and hesitant about going into the Boundary Waters with very little energy but I feel amazing right now I'm actually really excited to fish yeah there's something about being here and just uh you can feel the load of stress the weight just kind of release and now it's like ah it takes us an hour grade if it takes us two hours there's no rush yeah that's true like we have nowhere to be now it's nice over here where it's less windy too I mean it could be I think it's a dog I'm voting a dog wow it's so pretty that's a duck [Music] I think that's a beaver and he's gone we paddled far into the beautiful twists and turns of what we thought was an intricate Bay we did realize eventually that we were in the wrong spot entirely the Portage we intended to use was in a Bay north of us we were in fact in a creek Corey said something like well we've already come this far maybe we can just paddle up the creek you good oh my gosh is that gonna be our tagline we're professionals I mean depends on who you ask I guess okay allow me to put my camera away I don't see the fish oh the little guy in there I don't know okay you need the hand oh choked out here I'll come help you you okay you ate bugs they're not really biting me though I don't think I'm getting a bit too much just a couple bites we do have mosquito jackets that we brought but we haven't pulled them out yet so it can't be too bad [Applause] no but it looks better than it did I take back everything I said about the mosquitoes not biting they're biting okay I've upgraded get out here again there's another Rapids ready don't fall ready all right no I got it this journey took us hours plus minor ankle injuries we didn't film the three foot tall downed log we had to scale with packs and canoe the times when we carried packs and canoe over rocks or the countless beaver dams we just want to be 100 clear to you if you take this trip do not take the creek this was one of those times when we were thinking to ourselves and telling each other well we've already come this far it's probably not that much farther and it couldn't get worse and in fact it really was a lot farther and it kind of did keep getting worse that is definitely the lake the light the end of the tunnel oh my goodness oh my goodness this that's blurry this has been quite ah quite the adventure that we did not plan for watch out it gets rough here what for a swim yeah honestly we get to Camp soon I might be down for anything to make me feel less gross we made it now we just have to go back and get the canoe we left the canoe a while back because it was just too hard with the packs and the canoe so we have to go back we set the canoe on the side but we made it now where do we put our facts right up there wow it actually looks absolutely beautiful just surrounded by the hall red Pines holy cow we made it Cory's on the cooking priorities right what are you gonna make we're gonna make Jody's special Camp Deluxe pizza rolls yeah we brought frozen pizza rolls I love having frozen pizza rolls while camping the problem is a little squished in our uh hectic Adventure getting here so [Music] I'm just fine there's just like two that got squished there she is foreign Ranch oh fantastic so excited holy cow taught just a touch of bug spray just the way I like it foreign how are the mosquitoes I mean there's a lot of mosquitoes but I think the mosquitoes are worse at home than they are here scale of one to ten zero being no mosquitoes yeah 6.5 what would you say yeah I'd say that's pretty close to Accurate six or seven yeah they're home they're pretty bad they're pretty pretty darn bad close to a 10 at home 10.5 like chase you out it's so bad and they bite I mean these ones are biting too but not like I don't know it's tolerable how happy are you to be on a campsite with the tent set up 12 out of 10. 24 out of 10. can I go higher I'm like the pizza rolls are perfect this campsite but look at all those pine trees it's quintessential it's open because the pine trees are so tall and the stems stems trunks don't have a lot of branches so the breeze will hopefully come in and still have Breeze even though it's got the tree coverage it's best of both worlds and the tent pad is perfect no widowmakers above it honestly it's I'm so happy okay oh that's so good so good when you're hungry [Music] oh good morning we're about to go fishing and hopefully catch some fish it's kind of breezy again today which is nice because it's keeping the bugs away it's actually kind of chilly it's been so so incredibly hot for weeks here in Minnesota today honestly I'm cold are you cold nope perfect oh real men donated instructions good luck put my bug net on because I went to the bathroom and was attacked by mosquitoes and now I just I'm scarred but we decided to get a gravity filter for water filtering at Camp if you remember our videos from last year Corey spent a lot of time pumping water not that I didn't help but it seemed like I was just recording Quarry pump all the time when I pumped I just wouldn't record it and I think he didn't pump the majority of the water anyway basically Corey decided we were getting a gravity pump for this year or gravity filter so you don't have to pump you just fill it with water and gravity filters the water through the filter it's cold again step number one get your water from a clean Source we have a lot of stuff floating in here might as well just go for a swim to fill it doesn't like going for a swim right away in the morning it is chilly and then you may sweater foreign thank you guys I got a fish Corey Corey oh I can do it myself just hold stuff we're gonna eat them are you already cutting off a fish I'm done with one but cool the old tube jig works I thought I had a rock because I kept catching rocks and I was like and then it pulled back [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] I was swimming like 30 minutes ago less than that there's something like 20 minutes ago oops I just bent the handle huh you see all the mosquitoes we're packing up camp this morning I've been putting away the sleeping bags and the sleeping pads deflating them rolling everything up I'm gonna take down the tent here shortly so that we can head off to the next Lake he said we're gonna try and do a loop we'll see how it goes but that's kind of the plan so today we're here we're gonna go just probably one more Lake into the loop for tonight because we want to fish the next Lake we'll be on and then the day after that Tuesday we're gonna do a whole bunch of lakes little lakes and little portages to try and get us back to that first Lake we were on yesterday good got everything yep that's not a pack there very well it's a sharp thing jabbing me in the back oh no ready ready now if I can do it I can do it we got this where are you gonna sit where do you want to be you want to be in the back I don't mind I can be in the front feet were finally dry not anymore he's a little bit chilly oh the bugs look careful take your time I guess I could have got in okay how's day two looking yes fish for breakfast fish for breakfast better than our planned oatmeal new now so we're a little behind schedule but that's okay so I'm one and done there should be room up there for you guys to get in all right thanks you did it yeah Corey carried both packs most of the way I tried carrying I tried carrying the food pack in the canoe but I just I tried I probably made it halfway yes you made it over half probably and then I just reached my limit it's fine this is a campsite on an island and we've got the Tall Pines again it's nice and open so it can hopefully blow the bugs out of here I'm excited about this one this is the exact campsite I wanted and it's open and we saw quite a few people on the way here it's a busy day busy day in the wilderness I was just rock climbing like hands and knees to get up this it's deeper than it looks and then my face isn't a snake butt and I'm like not really afraid of snakes but I don't like them surprising me in my face I was like Jody getting her done some house chores okay do some water filter surgery the hose got a kink in it oh and it cracked so we gotta cut the hose cut the Barb right on the pine cones yes there it is called probably good come on come on one for the team yeah eventually yep just go for it I don't want my hair to get wet well you can maybe step your way down but it looks like it drops off really quickly yeah I think if I try to walk I'll slip okay I'm just gonna do it I'm just gonna do it hello okay move all the dead bugs out of the way why is it so hard this is like middle and high school swimming when I was on a swim team the hardest part of practice was just getting in the pool [Music] how is it oh it's nice actually you're uh canoe earrings yeah probably should take them out really warm really warm she says oh gosh all right it's another day of sun practice I never want to swim practice [Music] are you good yeah it is cold oh I can feel a rock there we go I'm good oh it's a slippery rock I'm on the point of The Rock that's good Curry's a pretty strong swimmer but I think beer yeah you get nervous yeah yeah if I uh acclimate to the water and then relax I'm a decent swimmer will you hold this I have to tighten my straps on my shoes the shoes are like coming off my feet okay bye you guys swim to that Island I could but probably not that smart not that smart yeah I wouldn't be able to save you it's actually really nice this is a great idea seems like a bad idea oh we're professionals yeah also this uh boat has a 10 out of 10 stability rating so we've got that going for us we're good did you get a bite you have a snake what'd you catch the biggest thing so far that's a nice uh Branch get the hook off though I yanked it so hard I think I like really really burned onshore yeah okay pull Bender foreign what a fighter Crossing from the island to the library didn't really see him this way so this is where the Moose crossed over there's a canoe of people over there that's what scared the most they walked right across and up into here Here Comes oh come here just can't stop fishing okay well I'm gonna go put dry shoes on Corey just saw a big old snapping girl oh yeah I don't know if you can see it because I put the camera in the water do we want to add chicken it's so loud you've got to be able to see the swarm of bugs right there it doesn't look like oh my goodness foreign you did a great job opening that both ends it had like little Rippy things so I ripped it and I was like you know that's not ideal so I was like all from the other end thinking it would like meet in the middle oh gosh we went with original barbecue chicken to whatever you want we're putting an air off mac and cheese that is so good good a little tiny Northerns Bender rods right over would they actually break though it's a little guy Corey's been catching fish but he's had the camera most of the time so I haven't filmed him catching a lot of fish but they've been really big and then this one time that I film it it's tiny thank you [Music] good morning morning don't forget your PPE last night it was so incredibly incredibly windy in the middle of the night I woke up and it was maybe one o'clock and it sounded like so loud you couldn't sleep through it it was too loud and I was panicking because usually we tie down the canoe before we go to bed just in case and this time we didn't the one time we don't it's so windy at night so we got up in the middle of the night to go and tie the canoe in place so it wouldn't fly away and get ruined so we were up in the middle of the night and we got up this morning now after sleeping for a long time and it seemed like it was gonna be so warm when we were in the tent to open the door and it's pretty chilly look at all the down timber all these trees blew down last night it was insane one almost hit our tent that's not true that's not true no trees went down it's kind of eerie though but foreign I wonder if you guys can hear the bugs I hope you can I bet you can but this is definitely the campsite of bugs they are mayflies not mosquitoes but there are definitely enough mosquitoes here to chase you out too that's true we are doing nine portages today they're little ones but I said I should say we're gonna attempt to do nine portages today I think we'll be fine they're really short they range from 20 rods to 80 or 90 rods at the longest yeah the longest one isn't 115 but it looks like there's an alternate 45 Rod parted you can do so it might just depend on what the water looks like well let's see if we make it that far pick number one you take the paddles foreign number two that's Portage number three what Portage is this for December four of nine I think I can see the other Lake not far [Applause] dish number five this one has a waterfall wow this is way better we've got a couple more small little lakes and then we'll be on to a couple bigger ones today Portage number six laughs got a little pep in your step oh my gosh so there's Portage number seven right I think so right here we are number eight we got one more I have to get that canoe up look at Corey with both packs come along for the Great Adventures of The Great Outdoors all the perks and benefits [Music] oh she's stuck on there good Fellas oh there we got it see you later little fella the ninth and final Portage is right behind us and this is the longest one yet we are tired but not uh not scared we can do this it's so dramatic we're tired pretty extreme I'm not scared we didn't did this in record time quarter to three quarter to three 10 30. not bad I think there's a hook here somebody's gonna get their foot in a hook let's find a hook somebody can step on that so tired but I had to stop and show you I think cool we finished all of our reportages for the day and now we are back on the first Lake that we started on three days ago two days ago a few days ago and we're gonna spend the night here on a campsite if we find a good one hopefully we do end here campfire over there I think we're set somebody left these here foreign this site um it's a nice site it's on a lake that has boats you can probably hear a boat in the background there's a boat going by but we found fishing hooks three so far three fishing hooks just like loose out that you could step on there's like this handmade utensil stuff we found two pieces of glass some garbage the fire pit has some like a tin can and some tin foil in there so it's kind of sad to see that in such a beautiful place just kind of like littered all over this campsite but we're gonna pick it up the best we can and hope that that stays like that for a while pasta and chicken we don't have the barbecue chicken or butt I guess it'll be a little bit of zesty we have Teriyaki or lemon zest Teriyaki that would be good that'd be good you gonna make it we had a bet sure we didn't tell you but we had a bet I said that we would make it to Camp by four and yeah I said 334 and then I went with four when we bet um and Corey said probably six and we got here at 404. and we bet that whoever lost had to make dinner so Cory's making beef well it says beef pasta but there's no beef in it we have to add the beef and we didn't bring beef we brought chicken so it's chicken pasta [Music] hmm you should start a pile on your side so don't get confused okay all right so I get an extra point for a goal your drink thank you sorry we got one they just can't resist the Whopper plopper such a funny name [Music] it looks a little small to keep flaky our plan was to have breakfast at our campsite and then pack everything up and leave but the bugs are so bad the little mayflies that it's unpleasant to be here so we're just gonna pack up and head to the car today and go get food probably in Ely but Corey's setting up his fishing stuff so he can maybe fish while we paddle out try to catch a trout but but trout or lake trout or deep deep water fish so we're gonna put a three-way split on there no I see it I got it so lake trout being deep water fish what I have done is I've attached a three-way Splitter on there I've hooked my shoe that's my shoe your shoe again what about a three foot leader on our lipless crankbait which is you know gonna go relatively deep to begin with had to lipless crankbait yep there's no tongue on it okay and attached a bunch of sinkers on the bottom of this three-way so those sinkers are going to go down which will pull that lure down with it so we should be able to fish pretty deep with this rig don't know if it's going to catch anything today but we'll give it a try foreign very buggy look at these bugs on the inside of the canoe yeah you can tell

Channel: Jodi Middendorf

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Keywords: BWCA, BOUNDARY WATERS, BWCAW, WILDERNESS, CANOE, CANOE CAMPING, BWCA FISHING, CANOE CAMPING AND FISHING, BASS FISHING, CAMPING MINNESOTA, FISH, CATCH AND RELEASE, BASS FISHING AND TROUT, LAKE TROUT FISHING, WILDERNESS CANOEING, SNOWBANK LAKE, SNOWBANK LAKE FISHING

Id: T2oWLNJy-2o

Length: 57min 0sec (3420 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 22 2023