SOLO BUSHCRAFT FISHING HUT BUILD!!! Catching Salmon & Trout!

Welcome to another episode guys. We are out in the woods sneaking down to a river where we're gonna hopefully set up a primitive camp. We're gonna make a fire try and see if we can maybe catch some fish cook them up together. This is a solo mission it's just you and me on this one and we're finally here. Oh my goodness look how beautiful it is. Look how beautiful it is down The river here should also be full of wild coho salmon that are coming up to spawn. Maybe we'll be able to catch one of those. There's tons of trout. It's been kind of on and off raining today so what we might just do is find a few materials set up a primitive shelter first so that in case it starts raining we can stay dry and keep our gear dry. So the first thing we got to do to build a shelter is just find out what kind of resources we have. Luckily there are tons of natural building materials that we can find here. I'm seeing lots and lots of driftwood that came down the river last time it flooded and now the river level has sunk so we just have nice wood laying around everywhere. See this? These are dead salmon carcasses laying around everywhere. This one's still a little juicy little meaty. Smells a little bit like rotten fish down here and what happens in our area and part of why the trees are as green as they are in the forest as luscious as they are is because we have these wild salmon runs where salmon migrate from the pacific ocean every year and come up these rivers back to the place where they were born far up the rivers and they come up here to mate lay their eggs and then they all die. They don't swim back out to the ocean instead they die and become nourishment for the animals and then the animals drag them up into the forest and eat them there and then the rest of the bodies rot and that provides the nitrogen and the nutrients necessary for all of the the trees to grow as beautiful as they are here. This is a game changer log right here. This is a good one to start out with. Perfect. Oh wow, been dead for a while. That wood's almost decently dry. Maybe we can use this as a fire starter later too. Okay we got some just some old school twine here and we're gonna just reinforce this a little bit. This is already pretty sturdy but let's just go ahead and tie this together. All we need was to put a little oh just broke the twine this is this ain't paracord. We're just going to put together a skeleton. Okay so we've got our basic frame constructed now what we're going to do is just weatherproof it. Probably the material that we have around here is all this fern growing. In the woods we've got some really large ferns too and this should be a perfect natural material for a roof. Look at all these giant ferns. Oh this is perfect. Let's see how far that gets us. The nice thing about ferns is that they are a very sustainable material building material in this area because all the ferns are going to die off here in the winter anyways and the next spring they just all grow right back and it's a very fast growing plant. From here we should just be able to take bundles of it and start tying it. For that top log we could just make these little duels and just drape them over like that. Perfect. Nice. Oh man we're gonna need a lot more fern than what we've got right now but it's starting to take shape. All right I'm gonna go get some more fern I'll be right back here. All right it is dark in here and that is what we want. There's a little bit of daylight still coming through up there over us so what you could just do now at this point is just keep layering on fern after fern to or whatever you've got just to block out any last sunlight and reduce the chance of rain getting in but this here is already going to help out a ton. And there is absolutely plenty plenty of room in here to hang out. I could sit back here by the boulder. Oh man this is relaxing dude. But it is time to try and catch a fish now that we got our shelter built. We've only got probably another hour of daylight so hopefully we can catch something to eat. We'll start up a fire and uh just kind of see see what else happens. This is awesome. So we have a couple of setups with us right here. One of them is just a spin rod with uh we got the bullet lure on there. Absolutely awesome. This guy could be a total trout slayer. And then this rod right here is just set up with the Carolina rig which is just a sliding sliding weight right here on the main line down to a four pound leader and a uh an itty bitty tiny hook right down here. What we're gonna start out with for bait is this this bug like a grub that I have here. So what we're going to do is just cast it out into this water right after the rapids. We've got our little little grub ready on the hook there and we're just going to do is cast them right there into the current. Let that sink down to the bottom and we're just waiting for it to tap across the bottom. I just want to feel tap tap tap. That's the weight moving around down there. What is this? Am I stuck on something? I got stuck on something. False alarm. Oh just felt something. Okay just had a little bite right here. Ah just got stuck. Man nothing on the grub yet. Uh just a couple days ago I was actually up here at a different spot on the river fishing for salmon. There are still wild salmon in the system here and uh I know you guys have been expecting more salmon fishing from me this year but I've just been out in the mountains fishing for trout and doing some other things. Either way I did end up catching a coho salmon. A beautiful coho salmon with bobber and eggs. Either way I'll just go ahead and roll in the footage of that salmon fishing getting the bobber down and uh and I'll see you guys right back here again. All right we got with us some delicious salmon eggs. I believe these are like Chinook salmon eggs. King salmon eggs from like maybe three years ago or something maybe four years old but they should work just fine. Take a sniff. Throw those eggs into the and there we go we got our eggs on the hook. Tell you what we're just gonna make a cast right there. Right there in that eddy behind that rock. Come on baby. Come on right there right there right there next to that rock maybe. Oh come on. Oh the salmon just jumped right there. There's a salmon that just jumped right in front of us. Right down there we're gonna try and drift the bobber right over to that where that salmon jumped. Let's try and get that right in front of that coho out there. Drift that bobber out. Come on baby. I couldn't believe that we saw one jump that's hilarious. Come on. Send them right in here. Let's see what happens over there. Oh that's a bobber down and a fish on. Yes what the what is this? Oh oh man this dude here was nibbling on our eggs and when we set the hook we accidentally snagged him in the tail. The rule here is that if you snag a fish you're not allowed to keep them. This here is a mountain whitefish. You can tell they have an adipose fin back here and these guys are actually let me just release them. Wait till he's ready. Release him just like a trout. There we go and he's off. Mountain whitefish. As funny as they look they're actually related to trout and salmon. There's like trout, salmon, whitefish. That thing doesn't at all look like him but they are actually in that greater family. It's totally cool. Wow that's awesome. Let's go. We got one. Oh it's cool. Oh my goodness. Oh that's a fish. That's a fish. That's a fish. Bobber was down. Bobber down. Bobber down. Come on. Oh there we go. Fish on baby. Oh oh it's a salmon. Oh it's a salmon on the mini pole. Oh my goodness. Oh oh we gotta come along baby. Oh oh come here. In the net. Come on. Oh no. What a horrible net job. It's a really small net. It's a small net. There we go. Salmon on the trout pole. All right let's keep this guy in the water. We're not gonna not gonna retain this salmon. Oh look at how beautiful this guy is though. So we can see we hooked him right there in the right there in the corner of the jaw. Absolutely beautiful. But look at that beautiful wild coho. You can tell this guy's been through it all. He's got battle scars on him. He's got fungus growing but he's ready to go. Ready to go. There he is. Let's go. Bobber down on a beautiful coho. Man that fish has seen better days but it's just so cool to think that that fish came all the way out of the pacific ocean to return back to the river where he was born probably three about three years ago. Yes yes. All right maybe we'll have better luck over here. There seems to be a bigger pool a kind of slower pool of water. Let's see what happens. Oh there we go. Fish on. Fish on baby. We got one. All right what do we got? Oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Easy buddy. Easy. Get over here. Get over here. What do we got? Is that a whitefish? It looks like a whitefish. Oh it's a trout. Hey buddy. What's going on? Don't worry we'll let you go. He's hooked beautifully right in the lip. Look at that beautiful beautiful wild rainbow trout. These are true wild fish in this system. We're gonna let this guy go and he's off. There's a minimum size in the system right here where we got to make sure that the trout are at least 14 inches. So we let that little guy go there to swim and bite another day. But that's good. First fish. All right all right. So there's trout as well. Again we want to get a whitefish but that's a good sign. The skunk is off. Okay that cast was quite a bit further out into the current. So let's just go ahead and repeat that again. Get way out there. Maybe we could catch a big trout too. Oh that might have been a bite. Oh bite bite. Something was playing with it there. Was that a fish? Oh yeah fish on. We got one. He was just playing with it for a little while. Not a bad fish. Not a bad fish at all. Oh oh man he's pulling some line. Oh that's a good one. Oh man. What is it? I mean it's fighting like a. Oh that's a big trout. My goodness. Look at that. Oh my. Look at that. Oh that's so close to a keeper. Beautiful beautiful fish. Look at that giant trout. All right let's go ahead and just get this guy measured really quick. We're gonna go ahead let this beautiful fish go. He's probably a keeper. I'm 90% sure he's a keeper but I forgot my measuring tape so let's get him in the water right away. So let's just let him breathe here for a second. Oh there he goes. Oh and he's off. That was awesome. What a beautiful fight. I'd say while we still have a little bit of daylight left let's just go ahead and start a little fire. I think a shelter wouldn't be a proper shelter without a fire. It's getting pretty cold and I just want to get a little bit a little bit of warmth going. Man awesome. It's semi-dry wood. For a fire starter we're just gonna use some of this rope right here. This should catch a flame really good. Now it's been raining the last few days so we're gonna do what we can. I just grabbed the driest little bits of sticks I could find between the trees. Oh wow okay we're gonna need a little more rope probably. All right we just got to keep that flame going. Put little branches whatever you got right on top of there where the small stuff will burn easiest. All right start laying the other ones up on top here to start that they can just start drying as the little stuff is burning. Feels amazing. Just some warmth. It is kind of starting to rain a bit so I'm you can see I'm starting to hug back into the shelter. Seems to be let's see here yeah I'm not feeling any raindrops inside here. I was gonna cook up some fish in here but we didn't retain anything. It is definitely dark by now and I'm really thirsty. I didn't bring any water with me and look at this I had some oil and some Danish sea salt all ready to roll. So let me know in the and we'll spend the night here and hopefully catch some fish that time and cook them up. It'd be kind of cool this could be like our our winter river camp right there unless the river floods and washes it all away. But I'm just gonna get some water down at the river real quick. I didn't bring any water with me. We're gonna boil it to disinfect it. I'm just absolutely thirsty. There we go. I'm just gonna set that baby right on top of the fire there. I don't regret letting that trout go but I'm sure you would have been really tasty. It is coming down good out there in the shelter completely dry besides like little childhood projects. I would say this is my first bushcraft shelter I've ever built. So what we could do is this water has been boiling long enough to disinfect. We're just gonna set that right here. Now you're inside here with me that way you're also staying dry. I wouldn't want you to be wet and cold. This is cool. This is really cool man. I bought something really awesome for the property that you're all going to enjoy a lot. In the last video I saw a lot of great comments on what kind of improvements you guys want to see out at the property and what the camps and what we want to do at these peripheral camps that we're building out there. But yeah let the comment section go absolutely wild guys. Just bring out your weirdest ideas of what you want to see happen. I can hear it's just pouring rain out there right now. Oh man that feels so good man. I wish I would have had some tea or something like that with me but man it is pouring out there. Well at least we don't have to worry about the fire getting out of hand. That wasn't very effective. All right guys I got to get out of here get home and prepare for a trip out to the property. Remember if you're a subscriber drop a like on the video. Let me know in the comments if you want to see a video out here where I live in this shelter here for a couple days. Like a full survival episode. Anyways I love you all and we'll see all of you for the next adventure and until then you all know it fish on baby.