Camp, Fish, Forage & Rock Hunt- Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Amazing. Amazing. Whoa. I believe we just found part of a shipwreck. This is a good fish. This is a really good fish. Oh my gosh. This right here folks is pure Michigan baby. Well welcome back to the channel everyone. I'm Kyle with Adventure Chasing and this week we're going to take you on the best summer adventure we could think of in northern Michigan. How about princess? Oh you need a little boost do you? There you go. You ready girl? We have the drive-through window for wild raspberries. Oh look at that guy. Come on guys. Well in one of our previous videos we found a whole pile of morel mushrooms in this area so we're going to revisit it and see if other mushrooms are growing like chanterelles or chicken of the woods. Like a scavenger hunt. Oh my goodness. We believe we've just found a jackpot for chanterelles. We're going to get the dogs on leashes so they don't trample over our mushrooms and then we're going to start picking. And on the other side of the trail we have some beautiful ripe raspberries. Oh boy look at that. Oh there's more back there too. The number one distinction that I think is important to pay attention to is the smell. So if you know what an apricot smells like, these smell a lot like apricot. Another factor you can look for to see if it's a true chanterelle is that when you pull it down like that it should look like string cheese and it's white. So the meat of this mushroom is white. There's no orange streaks or orange tendons in it and that means that we are safe to eat this golden chanterelle. Smells clean. Smells fresh. Smells like an apricot and this is in fact an edible mushroom. Yeah that's good stuff. I'll get this off of the ground. Is that a beauty? Nice. Doubled up baby. Wow there's four of them grouped here. There's a bunch of them back here. Oh my gosh that stem is huge. There's another one down there. Oh yeah. Getting some weight in that thing. Yeah 10 reps of golden chanterelles you'll look like Popeye in no time. And you'll be full of sweat and mosquito bites. Feel that. Look at that. Oh my gosh. This moss is so fine and smooth it feels exactly like carpet. It's almost like something you'd find in a boreal forest where we just were. We are going to have one epic blackberry crop this year. Look at those ones. Oh look at look at back there under that. Oh my gosh. They're everywhere. Up under leaves. Okay wow. Oh my gosh these are beautiful. Absolutely beautiful clump. Oh oh you know what I think they are. I think they're the false ones. They even look toxic. Yeah those ones look pretty uh pretty severe. Smell that thing. Oh my god. Yeah it's really sour. Super sour. Oh yeah. If you're out foraging that's something to really watch for because this is five foot away from this one um and that could be really bad. So do your due diligence and research for yourself. It's about 95 degrees out here. The dogs are thirsty and we're gonna head back to the truck and off to our next adventure. And it's Gamer. Well we just arrived here at a beautiful backcountry campsite. We had a good drive down this two track but right out in front of us here we have a really nice trout stream. We have great blueberry picking in the area and we're gonna have some fun the next few days. Oh we're gonna get our hammock set up here. I have to say I was never a fan of a hammock or I never really knew the joy of one until Nicole showed me and now it's a camp staple. One of the most relaxing things you can imagine at camp. We are in for a treat. Right next to camp here we have some serious jumbo blueberries. Oh my gosh so delicious. We're looking for a honey hole. Look at all these. Look at this clump. Not bad for a little evening harvest. Not bad at all. So good. The meatiest tastiest mushroom. We have a little venison backstrap to go with it. Actually this is just a nice cut of steak off the hind quarter off a deer that I harvested this past fall and you may have watched that in a previous episode. So here we go. Nicole is absolutely right. These chanterelles are such a meaty flavorful mushroom. Honestly I think they're far better than morels. I'm gonna go ahead and say it. Absolutely delicious. Well we just made it a ways up the river here this morning. It was a beautiful paddle. Now I fished this stretch one time last year and I can already tell that the water is very high right now. So that can make stream trout fishing pretty difficult at times because the fish go on a gorge after the rain. They fill up on bugs, insects and it shuts them down for a few days. But we're gonna see what we can do this morning. Hopefully we can grind out a few. Have enough to cook up. I just had a gigantic brook trout. 16 plus inches chased this all the way in. That's one that probably doesn't bite again. That thing was humungo. There we go. I think that might be our first keeper of the day. We're catching a lot of little ones so far this morning but we finally have our first keeper. I did miss a really big one though but it's the way it goes. Oh that's a nice one Nicole. First brookie ever. Nice one. Oh yeah. Nice one there. Nice. We got one. There we go. Another nice keeper. Fish, fish, fish, fish, fish. There we go baby. Big bite, big bite. There we go. All right. Well Nicole just landed our 10th keeper and we have a nice stringer of some tasty brookies. We're gonna head back to camp now and get them cooking. All I'm doing with these brookies here is just gutting them and then when we get back to camp I'll take the heads off. But I know many of you ask which knives I use and this is a folding filet knife made by Rapid River Knife Works. It's a really good one to throw in your pack for the day they make pretty much all the knives that I use so you can look them up and I definitely recommend them. Well we just packed up camp and now we are headed to our next campsite. Off to the next. Oh my gosh and we even have a pristine sand beach just out in front of camp here. We're gonna be hitting this hard over the next few days. Look at this. This right here folks is pure Michigan baby. If you're thinking what I'm thinking before the sun goes down we're going for a swim. There's a bunch of bluegill. A whole school of nice bluegill just took off right here right off our campsite. three. Look at that. We're gonna flake this meat right off the skeleton here. It's a little hot but I'm gonna get it done. But that is a plate of boneless brookies that we harvested today. We have our chanterelles and nicole. Ladies first. First time she's ever had brookies. Ever. It smells so good. Brookie first. It's so good. The flavor is insane. You have to go for the tail. Just grab the tail with your finger. The whole thing? Yep grab the whole tail. It's finger food here. With the tail? Yep eat the tail. You have to eat the tail. Listen to that crunch. It's not bad. I was skeptical. You could see on my face that I was skeptical. It's really good. I hate to admit it but it's so good. It's like opening a christmas present in the summer. Look at that steam. First butter. Next a little seasoning and now we got it on a fresh stand on the side of the road. You can't beat fresh sweet corn. We're gonna enjoy the rest of it and get some sleep because we're gonna be up first thing in the morning for a big adventure on Lake Superior. Beautiful morning. Well good morning and welcome back folks to this beautiful day along the shoreline of Lake Superior. Off to my right we have pictured rocks. You can see the mist and the fog rolling off the water. Let's rock and roll. The fog is rolling off the water. The sun's coming up and we're in several hours this morning when we had this entire shoreline all to ourself. Well just off to my right here we have a bald eagle that's perched on top of a tree that's growing out from the side of this cliff. We also have some beautiful painted rocks right out in front of us here and we're gonna keep traveling. We're about i'd say six or seven miles into our paddle. We're gonna go about 10 miles down the shoreline before we turn around so that'll put us right around 20 miles for the day but it's been an amazing experience. We're in the water baby. I don't know if I'll ever be back here so I'm going to swim in this waterfall. Well we just left the waterfall and I believe we just found part of a shipwreck. I believe this goes to the smokestack on a freighter. I could be wrong but it's definitely part of a shipwreck. On our way back we're going to explore some of the caves on the shoreline. just eroded and collapsed into Lake Superior. It was so loud I can't explain how eerie it was. Going for a walk. We're so tired. We are both absolutely exhausted. As the crow flies we went 20 miles but I'd say with all the zigzagging we did around the shoreline and around the cliffs it was more like 25 to 30 easily so our arms are jello. They feel like they're about to fall off and we're ready to head back to camp and get cooking. It's a good watermelon. We're just gonna rinse the mushrooms off, rehydrate them and bring them back to life and then eat them and then eat them and we also have big slices of juicy watermelon. Grilled cheese time. Grilled cheese. Those things are so fat they almost didn't want to close. And there we go and grilled cheese in the Hobo Pie Iron with Nicole's homemade sourdough bread. It's time to eat. Well it's Saturday night. This campground is rocking. It's absolutely packed. A lot of families here. We love to see everybody getting out camping and we're starting with the Chanterelles. Now that's a bite. The Chanterelle backstrap combo is where it's at. That was awesome. And the grilled cheese just sets it off. Well good morning and welcome back. Did we sleep hard last night? To be honest I'm not exactly sure what today's adventure is going to hold but we're going to start the day with some coffee and a great breakfast. Whatever falls out will burn off. No biggie. This is unreal. It's amazing. It's so fun eating something this color. It's like a cosmic french toast. I just, I want more blueberries. We have hit the jackpot on blueberries. Look at this. I mean just monster plump wild blueberries. It's been amazing. We were thinking about going fishing, trout fishing again today, but it is peak blueberry season. I think we're going to capitalize on this a little bit longer while it's lasting. Well we're going to head out for a few hours this afternoon and check out a stretch of river that I've never fished or seen before. So we're going to do some exploring before we head back to the shoreline of Lake Superior for another adventure tonight. We're going to make it a little bit farther up river and then we'll just float down throughout the rest of the afternoon before we head to Lake Superior. Okay we're going with one spinner and one crawler. It's gonna hit. Oh oh my gosh fish on baby. Look at that jumper. First cast. Little rainbow. This thing came airborne. Fish on. Rainbow trout. Fish on. Oh beautiful fish. Rainbow trout. Oh we got a scrapper. We got a scrapper. We got a scrapper baby. Rainbow. Fish on. Fish on. Fish on. Little better one. Oh oh it's a nice brook trout. Really nice brookie. Nice. Nice one. Oh my gosh look at the fish that's inside of this brook trout's mouth. Oh my gosh look at the fish. It's a goby. You can see right here there's a big fresh bear track right on the bank. Fish on baby. Fish on. Decent fish. Decent fish. Decent fish. Ollie stay in the boat. Ollie stay in the boat. We're floating down on the boondog baby. On the boondog baby. He's a fighter. Oh beautiful brook trout. Oh my gosh. It's a beauty. Oh he's off in the boat. Really nice brookie. I'm getting a bite. Good bite. Fish on baby. Fish on. Oh my gosh this is a nice fish. This is a good fish. Oh my gosh. Oh really nice one. That is an absolute beauty. Oh it's a beauty right there guys. Nice one. Probably a 15-16 incher at least. Oh my god. Oh I'm robbed. I just had a huge bite. Fish on. Fish on baby. Nice one. Oh my. Oh that was a pig. That was a pig. It bit it right over the side of the boat. Oh my gosh. Was that a big one. I'd love to keep fishing because we're really starting to get into them. And that last fish that I lost is gonna haunt me. But we gotta head back now because we still have to set up camp and we have another adventure in store tonight. To the adventure. Well after leaving the trout stream we drove a two-track to a lake, launched the canoe in the lake, paddled across the lake, and then took its outflow to Lake Superior where we then paddled several miles along the shoreline to get to where we're at right now. We just set up camp and our goal this evening is to use a black light and hunt for euperlites and agates along the shoreline here. Now this is a very popular activity in the area and there are a lot of people out doing this right now. So that's why we decided to take the approach that we did to get away from the pressure as best as we could and hopefully have a good chance at finding some very unique rocks tonight. Snacks. Snacks. I got some trail mix. I got some salted pistachios and my personal favorite chili roasted pistachios. If I'm around there will never be a shortage of snacks and if there is, watch out. I've had this black light forever because I've always wanted to go hunting for euperlites and agates and tonight it's happening. All right, lights off. I'm pretty sure we just found an agate. You can see here how it's glowing. Wow, you can see how it's glowing. That's so cool. I think it just hit me that we found one. That's amazing. So you can see how it's glowing compared to the other rocks around it and it just really stood out. That's awesome. Really cool. Oh my gosh. Whoa. Whoa. A euperlite. First one of the night baby. Oh my gosh. I've read about these for years. I've watched so many videos. This is very exciting. We're off to a good start. Look, another one. Look at that. Oh wow. Look at that. It's a whole rock. Just a little guy but is it bright? Wow. Oh spider. Oh look at that spider. Spider-man. And the boy's got a stick. Look at that. That is definitely an agate. That one glows. Wow. Pretty cool. There it is. Nice one. Oh this one's cool. It has some darker spots on it but they are also glowing. I found another agate right here. Look at how bright that shines. There's an agate. Uh-oh. There we go. Nice one. Euperlite baby. There's one. Hey right here. That's a good one. Oh yeah. A little agate. That's a big agate there. Show you the difference between the rocks here. You can see how bright that's glowing. Well that is a beautiful Lake Superior agate and from what we know, one way to distinctly tell them is the white bands and the striping all throughout this rock. You can see it's even translucent in some areas and that is a beauty. We're picking away at them. We're actually starting to get into an area that's been pretty picked over. There's some other people that are down here and the farther we get down the beach towards them, the less we're finding. So with that being said, we might turn around and start working our way back towards camp. Another beautiful agate. Well he's no monster, but there's another euperlite. There we go. Nice one. This side is super cool. Oh yeah. Well to end a great night, we have some big juicy brats. Okay, time for some sleep. We will see you in the morning. Good boy. Well the road just got a little extra bumpy. Well this tire is absolutely blown out. We were really hoping to do a little more trout fishing this afternoon on the same stretch of river that we found last night where we found some better fish, but this is not the country you want to be riding around in without a spare tire and we have absolutely no cell phone service as well. So with that being said, I think it's time to head back home. I wanted to say thank you to everybody for watching this video and a special thank you to everybody who's left a super thanks on these videos, which is a donation to the channel. If you'd like to support the channel, you can leave a super thanks in the comments below or you could also visit our website and purchase some of our merchandise as well. But without further ado, we're going to get out of here and I think it's time for a cold beer and a burger baby. We have a blown out tire.