Canoe Camping for 2 Nights-Catch and Cook Pike over a Fire-Bug Bites-Snakes!

Just cleaning up to get on out of here. Got a gear bomb going on. Let me show you something. Okay. If this thing ended up in my tent last night, we'd be in a truck going home. Okay. So it's not a snake. Hey. So it's not a snake. I didn't say that. Uh-oh. That's Doug's grouse egg he found. Look at the size of it. The suspense is killing me. Hey folks, we're gonna get back to part two of the video real quick here, but it's been a hot minute since I talked to you about my favorite game, Raid Shadow Legends, is available for mobile and PC and it's free to download. So Raid's got a bunch of different factions, 16 to be exact. You can expect to see some orcs, some dwarves, some undead hordes, tons more. Things that don't rhyme as well. And each faction is made up of unique champions. Look how unique these champions are! 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That's what it is. He's got something in his tummy. That's why it looks so bad and bad. That's cool I don't think it is a hog nose. I think the hog nose would have flared his head up at us already I don't like them. I was hanging out this morning for a little bit. I had a fire, morning duties Now it's time to make up a batch of pancakes. A batch of pancakes you say? A batch Supposed to put three-quarters a cup of water and neither of us know how to make those conversions from that to millimeters or ounces so we're gonna go by feel some lard in there quite a bit of lard in there okay she done don't look too bad either extra lard today to keep us going this is super good I got the middle cooked so that's a bonus got big old chocolate chips in there super lardy it's crispy on the outside very good dance very good chocolate chips like a dessert pancake mm-hmm well we didn't have Saturday morning cartoons to watch okay that one didn't turn out quite as well but that's alright it should taste good this is like the messiest thing to make in the woods though you know the old pan in it the water put some water and boiled it out we'll get all the scents and all the remnants out of it now we're all but packed up here you know I got it on the wrist to cracking up my leg ladies here knee must have got a bug trapped underneath my watch look I'll show you what I mean this is tracked up to my elbow now so you can see there's a big old swollen bite there and it doesn't happen every time I think it's when they get in they can really mash around but look this tracked all the way up there I am starting to feel it like a little bit sickly from it. But again, we're gonna make it work today's the the full day and then tomorrow we'll paddle out of here so everything will be alright plus we have not much to travel today. So it'll be good I tucked my pants right up into my socks today just to keep them out of there. So that should help too Yeah, it's not a great thing for someone who makes you know, make some videos outside has to go outside in the spring it's not really a great thing for them to have but you can see how puffy it is there like look at the bag and the canoe are almost the same color green in the sunlight oh kismet all right campsite's clean on to the next one on to the next one just did a small portage and we're working our way into a pretty decent headwind over to our big one of the trip 1400 meters so we're going to double carry that considering we got two backpacks take it nice and easy not full sun so that's nice we walked about halfway dropped our bags went back for the canoes we're gonna relay it a bit stop the spot that we stopped at this little creek crossing so it seemed like a good place to to leave this stuff went back grabbed a snack threw the lighter backpack on it's nice having the two backpacks system like listen here here's the here's the thing like one carry single carry heavy arduous but you get it done and it's done double carry you're walking three times so this 1.4 kilometer portage turns it almost four and a half kilometers there back there not carrying the whole time but time-wise distance-wise it still is that so there's trade-offs for both for sure but it is really nice on a trip like this have the leisurely time to kind of go back bring most heavy gear on the first run without the canoe go back grab the day pack or later pack as it were with the canoe no paddle no fishing pole rigged up onto the canoe to carry it so it's kind of nice oh my goodness look at this that is one big pile of wolf poops big hairy and big dirty portaging is kind of nice sometimes you get to see different things you get to get off the water for a while yesterday we barely we're on the water all day a bunch of moose tracks, there's one, they're pretty fresh, another one here, there, they're the moose, all the animals for that matter, take the path of least resistance so you can be sure they're gonna be on portage trails so we're done that portage finally seeing the canoe because the bugs are pretty horrendous and yeah there's a breeze over here getting rid of them, just having a snack, so we're gonna head to Our next portage is 400 meters, then we're on our lake for the night. The wind is kicking up, the weather's kicking up a bit too. It started to rain for a little bit, but it doesn't seem too bad. Just killing a beef steak strip. Yeah, got into the rain a bit. Campsite up here ahead, I wanna pull up and put my rain gear on so I don't get too soaked, but I'm pretty wet as it is. Maybe we'll take a minute here and it'll pass. Coming in hot, sandy beach, easy landing. We decided to hit a campsite and a snack under the trees and see if this blows over before we get all suited up. Where does it go? I can't even see. Well, it's shining. Everything's good again. It was a good idea to pull over here. Got my jacket on, warming up a little bit. My pants are soaked, but getting warm again. I was chilly. I was chilly with the breeze hitting it. But, yeah, man, it was pretty cool weather today. It's nice to have a break from the sun and then nice to have a break from the rain. We were all sweaty on that portage and the rain kicked up, the breeze kicked up, and I got a coat on. Doug and I were saying it's so nice to come up to a sandy beach like this in the middle of the wilderness. No, the camp is not, but you can go back up into there. This is a fine for, yeah, perfect for fire. Hammock style though, like you're saying. Well, Doug, what do you think? Beauty day. We gotta get into our home lake and the day is ours. Wanna get going? Home lake. Real big lake. We'll be staying in this little bay. campsites right around the corner I believe. So in this lake there's walleye and lake trout and I see a little down log wriggle from past. I'm going to make it to camp real soon because I'm hungry, but if I can put a little walleye over here and have a shore lunch, I will be a happy boy I'm surprised Doug isn't up there. Let's see. We're hoping the bass will be down in this lake and the other fish will be up. We don't want to catch bass. what a gorgeous sky it's just a great day man another great day i'm feeling much better as well getting up and moving helps a lot just gonna tuck back into this corner over here i'm trolling right now hoping to snag a lake trout that would be amazing no luck in the casting department let's see i got a deep diver on down pretty deep so it sure is no no no no this is plenty all right imagine how big the lake is oh yeah this is a little puddle home sweet home check check check hey guys it's uh 4 30 i passed out in this tent um we got to camp a couple hours ago i think that um sickness from the black fly started hitting me real hard and i set up my tent to get away from them and i kind of laid inside with just no sleeping pad just on top of my sleeping bag and stripped right down i passed out i feel a little bit better um now that i've done that and woke up so this is a reminder like it's kicking my butt everything's all swollen up and stuff it's again it's not because i don't like getting bitten by bugs it's not because i don't like them in my hair or around me it's that i have a very severe reaction it's either allergic or um something close to that my body does not accept these bug bites so when you hear me complaining about the bugs it's not because i don't like them as you can see like the bugs weren't even bad yesterday i was fine with it i'm fine with it all i would go through it again if i just didn't get sick from it anyways um doug left a long time ago i think when i went into bed i haven't seen him i got out to go grab my camera for my backpack i still didn't see him so i imagine he's out there hopefully he's gonna catch us some fish for supper I'm not gonna get out to fish until well after supper I'm sure I'm just starting to come around right now I was out I was zonked and I kept covered up you know I mean my pants on long-sleeve shirt on not a long-sleeve but maybe I have one bite up here that's all my legs my legs are blew up the bug jacket wouldn't have helped with you guys in a bit this is how I'm doing it today cover it up even though I have tight closures I showed my other leg this is this leg got some tracking up on this one too but watch that's how tight they were with my soft thick socks on too and they're crawling up it anyways not today black flies not today listen it sounds like rain this black flies bouncing off the tent well how was your fishing expedition doug it was not what i was going for but still good yeah yeah no walleye found. It's too shallow over there. Okay. I picked up five and I was holding out for uh. Five what? Five, oh sorry, five pike. Oh nice. And I was holding out for a walleye so I kept putting them back and then I just decided now I said I'm not gonna be the guy that throws the last fish in and has no supper so I kept the pike and the He's in the canoe? In the canoe, yeah. Nice. We got something to eat at least. Yeah let's go check it out. Well let's go look at it. Snapping turtle. Snapping turtle eggs. The hole I'm sure was probably an animal that got them, but maybe they escaped and became turtles of themselves. Oh yeah, a little chunky butt, nice. Look at that chunky butt. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. That's the only part I know and I like that part. It sounds, oh shoot. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. I found some real good hardwood back in there. This is oak, the other one's maple. I'm going to cut up as much as I can here. Bugs are relentless out there or in here regardless. carving up a bear out there it's gonna be a while before I get that fish so I'm gonna cook up a little bit of chili just to hold me over got a rock in here so I'm not gonna do it right on the earth so I imagine if I do it in here it's gonna be enough smoke in here to keep the mosquitoes away that's where the black flies away because that's what's really bad, let's see, I collected some birch on the ground along portage today would come in handy because a lot of the times the campsites don't have access to birch and things like that, all the easy pickings have been long picked chili another red meal once again all red tinge to my foods but he's still going strong, Doug's got a pretty cool thing so with us today or on this trip, I mean again you should go check out his video of this trip on his channel at Doug Oates or sorry, Doug Linker, so already this the bugs have calmed right down in here they really really do not like to smoke at all as far as this tent I'm pretty excited about it, I'm pretty pleased you know what I mean like I had zero condensation in it last night, I took a nap in the middle of the day in it today with the sun beating down and it wasn't overly hot mind you, I would strip right down but the ventilation a little bit of ventilation doesn't seem to be that big of a deal um oh man the black flies there they hide from the smoke um it's made of a different material it's very porous so maybe that helps like it's not it's not a silnylon at all I don't know what it is but anyways I'm really when I first set it up I was kind of like oh man there's a pain in the butt like where's my big agonist type thing but even here it wasn't a good campsite for flat spots and I found I was able to get this footprint as long as I can understand where I need this spot where I need the sleeping spot at to find it where it's flat the rest doesn't matter and I can peg it down I actually had to use rocks in this spot to peg it down in this corner and it worked out fine so yeah i wouldn't bring it on a high mileage big big trip just because of the bulk and the time it takes to set up but definitely for something like this it's not bad i'm pretty pleased with it pretty pleased with it and i'm happy about that i didn't know what to think after some comments i got on instagram if you don't follow me on instagram my instagram handle is joe robin at bushcraft and i post lots of family stuff and what i'm doing from day to day in between videos and things like that you wouldn't believe the amount of black I have to show you they're just all tucked in the corner avoiding this there's none right here with me the food's all done I'm just keeping a slow low flame on here keep the heat going a little bit of smoke, Doug's behind the camera making weird things anyways we're about to eat I gotta show you these black flies though all right well this chili is very good Like it always is, no surprises there for me. Wife's chilly. I think Doug's gonna get that fish filleted up pretty soon here We'll split it up. Maybe I'll only have a couple bites because I already have a chili. Then we're gonna go out and fish I'm gonna go see what we can get tonight. I'm feeling much better after that nap getting something in my belly So it helps a lot. I cut a bunch of that wood and it was just draining me But I do feel better. Check it out. Doug gave me the carving he was making yesterday and today to give to one of my daughters Just one though Pretty cool, huh? Look how cute that is. There's all sorts of stuff like this. I can't do that. Try a piece and see if it'll sizzle. Almost. Oh, yeah, that'll be good. That's what I want to hear. Eh? Last time I did this, don't come in. Get your filthy fingers out of the food! Listen, I'll eat it. I don't even care about the fingers. Oil sanitizes everything. Doug did a glorious job of cooking that fish. Glorious. Nice and golden. If you can't tell, I'm a little cold. I got a puffy jacket underneath this too, but it's not even that cold out ready oh very good i haven't eaten pike since my 10 day alone series where all i caught was pike that was a couple years ago now so i swore i'd never eat a pike again but honestly you couldn't i couldn't tell the difference between pike walleye or bass when it's deep fried like this what are you doing there it's good got a decent amount of meat off that one pike too so it's perfect all right thanks for the fish i'll see you later all right i'm gonna try my hand at some fishing it's uh do you know what time it is 7 35 about an hour out there maybe i switched out i had to put long johns on i got my puffy jacket and this rain jacket on i got this silly thing on my head i'm just i'm so cold it's part of the black fly fever dank but i feel okay now with all that stuff on i'll get out into the sun and it'll be a different story i need my bug spray dog why'd you throw it to me we got it we got it thanks Doug fishing it is pretty bright very nice paddle in here i'm moving this little windy part channel pretty shallow so no fishing but beaver lodges old stumps lots of birds flying around it's very nice we're gonna put a water in here i don't know what it is holding like pretty good here for me they look fast oh it is oh that's a bass and a half oh my goodness look at this thing a big old bass pretty happy with that from back it goes biggest bass of the trip for me by far that was a football cool still no walleye no lakers it's actually pretty shallow in here we must still be in this bay here you know it came out through the the narrows and everything thinking that this would be bigger water but so it's well nothing but that bass i'm gonna go try and find doug got a little warm i'll take off some layers although the sun is directly on me we're kind of tucked around and then we'll go off this big lake and the sun's not in there so when the wind was whipping through it was getting through my bones and that's the problem it's like uh knowing you have like a fever or whatever like you get aches and pains in your skin like your body just wind or cold water or anything like that exactly how it feels i'm just out here in wind and cold water but anyways enough of looking blind dog let's do it for a little bit longer and head back and get a fire going we got a ton of oak i was wrong it wasn't maple and oak oak and oak we're ripping all both ready to head back to camp and get the fire going so that's going down we gotta get up pretty early in the morning we gotta paddle all the whole way from here all the way back to the car tomorrow which took us two two days to get here, but we're very, very at a leisurely pace So, I imagine it'll still take all day tomorrow regardless but I'm glad to get an early start. Oh, the wind has really kicked up. Got this fire going, but I'm probably gonna go to bed here pretty soon. It's after 10 already. Like I said, I wanna get a good sleep and get up in the morning. This is a good trip though, eh? Very good. We had a lot of fun. Yesterday was very eventful, lots of things going on. Today was really good too with the weather we had on and off heat uh on and off rain it was exactly what we needed i had a nice nap when i got here i needed that too so everything except for the illness from the bugs a-okay but again this is just a reminder to me i'm glad i went on it on this trip um i think i avoided getting mostly any blackfly bites today by tucking my pants into my socks i think that was a game changer and later on in the day i started doing this tucking my shirt in and things like that so the black flies like to crawl on you and get in as opposed to mosquitoes just putting their little proboscis in through whatever so proboscis. We'll try to plan that way for the future but this was a good good eye-opener. Good night Doug. I knew that was coming. See you in the morning. Good morning. Up and at them. I haven't heard Doug yet but time to make some noise. I don't have any birch bark or anything so grab some small small twigs, broke them put some pine needles in there. Flame to drip on my chair but see how good that lights upside down to really gain more flame gain the flame yeah it's gonna go regain the flame regain was a good we're good pretty decent flame on there my hands right above it I can feel where the warmth is coming but it's not anything bad it's pretty awesome get some water in the pot and get the pot on top of that so the flames not exposed anymore tippy sounds like a rap name little tippy yeah no it's crazy the heat actually gets retained in here like i can feel warmth from this bush buddy twig stove in here i really like this tent i have a feeling it's going to open up a lot of possibilities for me how does this look is this a good look for me i feel much better this morning i'm super glad because uh today's going to be a big travel day i want to have to be one dug down get this oatmeal into us tear down camp i heard doug unzip his tent over there so i'm sure he's up now and uh get on out of here well i apologize that the last little bit of this is gonna have to be on the uh the action cam i certainly didn't want to leave that bag at the at the hotel i have to go there today when we get out of here before i go before i start driving home to get it all my batteries everything like i said and i need to take some antihistamines and another one prednisone and i think it's a steroid not a antibiotic i was calling anyway yesterday off bike up and at them