My Wilderness Fishing Kit

little rundown on the fishing gear as always I brought too much I think that's a pretty common thing but it's like coming out here the main the main idea is fishing and you don't want to not have nothing you don't want to have you don't not you don't want to have you don't want to not have so I brought you tackle boxes this whole tackle box I could have done without I ended up switching all my decent lures to this one and I've only used still but maybe 3% of these lures so in the things that i didn't use the main thing has to be jigs and Mr Twister like ridiculous i should show you it might oh here it is in my uh life jacket one two three four yay they're flying maybe they're coming for us already um i got four in there one more here so calm down just calm down i'm so excited mcdonald's oh my god anyway so we got five uh Mr. Twister type things total. Never used one. Kyle, I think, caught one fish on one in a weedless... Yeah, in a weedless... Yeah, in that Johnson spoon. Right. That was it. So, personally, Kyle and I don't think that jigging is necessary here. A lot of times it's very windy. Sitting in one spot could be... And I understand you can go upwind a bit and get pushed down and jig as you're going. I didn't need to catch any more fish. I didn't need to catch any more fish. The difference between catching, you know, 10 and 14 a day it's like okay whatever you know i'm both i'm having the same amount of fun honestly even 10 and 20 10 and 30 like i'm not out here to maybe we were out here to get numbers but at the beginning we thought we wanted that anyways i have a whack load of jigs in here different kinds got this little octopussy squiddy looking guy too um got like floating wraps are these whatever these things are crank baits maybe some some spinners uh yeah so none of that was used none that was necessary the big three that win the day that win the week rippling redfin this thing has seen some better days i use this on my first trip here it's all beat up i'm retired this one is retired now the middle treble hook is taken out so i don't have too much issue with the fire line and uh getting stuck in too many hooks in the fish i don't like that lure i was almost about ready to cut it off your line and just chuck it into the abyss yeah this is you get some i remember one day you got like four in a row and i got like none i'm like what are you fishing with i caught the first lake trout on this thing too yeah which was awesome it came right up to the surface and grabbed it um rippling redfin purple yellow and like a beigey white color bb's inside amazing lure for everything walleye pike and lake trout have gone on it winner of whole trip period uh maybe not winner of the first part of the trip second second was this guy this was the color okay black with yellow okay a little bit orange this uh deep diving cc shad from cotton cordells really yeah not even a wrap um again deep divers got the big spoon on the front so when it's hitting the bottom it's just kind of bouncing and then these hooks are hidden this is what we're thinking anyways because i never got this um stuck once and it was bouncing I let out tons of line A butt ton of So I counted it in seconds I was usually letting out between 20 to 25 seconds of line After a hard cast And I think you were doing Probably at least that If not more I wasn't counting I was just like I would cast And then I would Get it like a bunch more out And then let it out When I was paddling Nothing scientific ever From Joe No But hey it worked Not educational Repeatable Anything like that Repeatable It worked I'm just kidding And also, I'm just not sure if repeatable is a word that's what and also like in typical Len Thompson number two you guys have seen me rave about this Kyle's been busting my chops the whole trip of Len Thompson Oh, let it be No, the first time I was up here the first lake trout I got on and the 37-inch pike I got I was all in the Len Thompson. I think was the number one or zero all silver bigger than this This was also hot. I caught a lot of fish on this walleye and pike The only thing I caught Lake Trout on this trip were these two. Three on this guy, one on this guy. And that's new to me. The only other thing I can say that I really enjoyed using, I had this Toronto Wobbler too, which kind of worked a little bit, but it's very similar to the Len Thompson, just silver. The only other thing I could say that I used and liked was this morning's EGB lure. I know I love EGB lures. This is just a spoon. These slay Brook Trout, and Algonquin. Gold, black, red dots. it's got this little uh red fin looking thing and on the back is black and silver it's got all the bases covered i got two or three this morning casting that's the thing i didn't cast much this trip was much mostly trolling correct yeah i said 95 of mine my catches were on trolling there you go even even probably more so for me um but i cast this a few times today and i got a few fish on it really really happy with it and then in the in the um shade uh overcast i just use this i don't even know what it is little brass uh williams ridgeback so in all honesty and i know you lose lures i only lost two lures i think this whole trip um three maybe four yeah nothing much yeah so in all honesty i would be happy coming back to this doing this again this this spot i'd probably be happy with i wouldn't even probably bring that one i'd probably be happy with doubles of all these the rippling redfin the cc shad the uh egb lure just because i really like that lure and it's not necessary and Len Thompson and then doubles or triples of those mine very very similar yeah yeah and that's it like in all honesty i have a bunch of spoons in here that would work i think again kyle said this you can probably throw whatever you know what i mean but those were the hot ones for us um i think i caught one on this williams not much i didn't switch up because you didn't need to didn't need to bring steel leaders either this we had 15 pound fire braid on one on on my Saint Croix one piece 15 pound fire braid never lost a fish due to it snapping the line with his teeth uh whenever we would see it frayed a little bit we'd run the line out cut it and re-tie it, but that was only like maybe once every two days. It wasn't often at all. I never had like a big pike fighting it, fighting it, fighting it, and then snap and the lure's gone. I never had that. Nope, not once this trip. And my secondary rod was my ugly stick. I'm glad I brought two rods. The first time I've ever done this, I was anticipating losing or breaking one, which has happened in the past. A couple of times. Yeah, just a couple. But this is a cheapo ugly stick. Came with the reel, two piece. It's a six foot rod. It fits in my canoe really, really uh tightly and nicely i think this is a 40 or 50 dollar rod it's very very economical as opposed to something like this but they both worked fine on this one i have um spider wire 10 pound braid and it worked uh it's camo and the other one is black and it worked fine too no no losses on uh fish biting the line so in our minds steel leaders aren't necessary for this type of thing uh what else oh i brought this um oh these are always handy to have which i normally don't have it's just a little wrap you know those are needed yeah for cutting the line i have one of my best it's that's the best most important tool out here super handy um i brought this thwart bag as opposed to a secondary backpack silly idea we knew we weren't single carrying my idea was this thwart bag was going to stay attached to my canoe i would just throw it over my head and portage with it it throws the balance off too much i had too much stuff in here both those um uh tackle boxes in here i've got a gps i've got pliers i've got you could have used it as an anchor and then done some more jigging it could have done that yeah lots of stuff in there boat repair kit it would have made total sense to just bring a secondary small backpack because portaging once with your big backpack and then you can portage with the small backpack and the canoe anyways that is a lesson learned for old joe on that one and normally we are single carrying so it's not something i even think about when i came here with sean we did double carry and i brought a frost river pack and it worked well should have done the same no big deal uh our portages on this trip were minimal longest was 800 most were like 300 or less and like only a few a day yeah that first like two to three a day i think that second day was the biggest with the 800 it's nothing not anything we're compared to they're i mean they're not flat flat but they're not hilly i mean they're not even as bad as old no they aren't nothing like Tamagami i think the cool thing with your fishing setup is literally for about 75 bucks you could have that rod a couple of lures and be completely fine out here and catch fish slaying tons of fish you don't need to spend you know 500 on the best reel and rod and all that mean that your 40 combo plus a couple of four or five dollar lures and you'd be plenty happy yeah no doubt that's what we do i would double or triple up on these and then maybe a couple just a couple uh random else ones that would fill up fill up a small um tackle box like this as opposed to this being packed to the gills i bought like a four pack piker uh spinner combo kit like i threw one or two there's no point here there's no point uh if there was more rapids and shallows and stuff like that for sure i'd have been using that in there and i did when we were there with no luck um but yeah anyways smaller fishing kit next time by far and i know that you know i mean and i knew that but it's like i won't catch fish anyway overall very happy with everything um i think we're going to call the outfitter now and see what the deal is because we just heard a float plane so pizza or mcdonald's uh i'll do like a pizza i'll do pizza i can't i can't do it mcdonald's okay i do uh I like it. I do pizza. Pizza sounds good. Pizza and a beer. Then a shower. Some combination of those two. Oh, I'm going to knock on people's doors to let me have a shower in Red Lake. They're going to call the police. Alright, get that sat phone. Let's do it.