Overnight Winter Ice Fishing Camp in a Hot Tent with a Woodstove on the night of the Supermoon

Good morning guys, how you doing? Thanks for tuning in. Today's going to be a good day. I'm up at my self-reliance cabin, buddy Sean James built. And today we are going to head out on an ice fishing trip. Packing up our sleds right now. We're going to head out that way to a couple little lakes Sean knows about. Maybe get into some pike or walleye tonight. I've got my snow trekker hot tent in here with a wood stove. It'll be nice and comfortable. It's supposed to be pretty cold today, negative 20 so it'll be helpful whoa so come along with us maybe we'll catch some fish but definitely have a good time so we came to a potential camp spot there's a couple here we've been walking on this lake for a little while um here's one that's right off the lake it looks like it can be relatively flat this doesn't look so bad snowshoe hair tracks going through we'll try that other spot too yeah thanks yeah you might be able to make it work but you don't know what's under here right there's a pump here it could be yeah all right back out on the ice it's nice this ice uh like sean was saying earlier doesn't have so much snow on it so it's easy for walking there's also grip and the sled the sleds slide very easily dry land oh this looks better dude it's it's uh eight by ten yeah for sure it'll fit there lengthwise yeah it's just a bit rectangular but yeah we'll just put the door on this so they'll fit perfectly there yeah that's yeah about the straightest we're gonna get um yeah this is better there are yeah there's some well there's some right here it's uh not the greatest it's softwood but there's a lot of it it keeps going it seems i keep seeing dead wood we got uh like a balsam fir here perfectly dry there too Yeah, this is suitable. Yeah, even we could even come back in here right here All right, I guess we'll go down get the sleds About negative 20 right now. So anything we're doing with our hands kind of hurts But doing the long hike out to the lake here. We really warmed up That helps a lot. I was able to wrap everything in my 5x7 mast. Trying to keep the snow off of it. And then I can also use it as my ground sheet inside the tent. So, oh man it's cold. Shovel, sleeping bag, and my pillow in here. The stove, the tent, stove poles. You've seen me use this tent once before in my camping with the subscriber video. Scott and I camped in this for a night a couple months ago. This is my snow trucker tent comes with these poles. They make a frame. They make an A-frame. Use the A-frame, stretch the canvas over top. Nice warm, cozy home for the night. Looking for, this is the one with both ends open. So this is going to be a cross piece of cross. The other ones have one end closed like that. And that's the end that's going to go in the ground. Against the ground. One cross piece is exactly what we need. with these Y brackets. So, Sean, can you grab one of those long ones, please? Side, set it up, length, this one, side. You see how it's really easy to actually put together, seeing the way we operate, and look how easy it is for us. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. All right, did we do this right? I think that Y piece, the long, yeah, there you go. See? Now we just gotta drape the actual tent over top. Benny Hill, you need to get in the back. Hill, you're too young. I know, I'm showing my age, Sean. So this part's easy. That just kind of goes in the top corner and everything else follows. In the corners, in the bottom, there's little pockets. The rubberized part. The leather strap goes in the middle of it. On the side there, you kind of leave the metal hanging out. Sorry, the leather part hanging out in the middle. One side through, then put the leather part on. On the inside. All right, Sean's finishing up the last tie out. And she's all set up. Just gonna set up the stove now. Let's go inside and check her out. It's always hard to do this with one hand. Got her. Oh yeah. Look at this. This is actually pretty flat. Relatively, uh, relatively, relatively, relatively flat, flat. Plenty of room. We have, uh, one guy sleep on the very back wall, on the short wall. Sleep. That wall, lengthways. Sorry, that wall, lengthways. Stove goes in there. Oh, speaking of stoves, my mind. I think that's how I had it last. It was better use of space. Exactly. That's the false bottom from Canadian outdoor equipment, so you don't have to put fire bricks in. Oh, yeah. Because the fire bricks are pain, right? You know, they're banging all around. They weigh a lot. And to empty it, too, they follow it with the ashes. You pick them all back up. This thing, let me see. I want to make sure the stainless steel says Joe. That's the important part. It's called the Joe. Called the Joe, it obviously hasn't been used yet. I got this again from Canadian outdoor equipment They hook it up, check those guys out, and this fits in the trucker model Niko stove from Niko which Snow Trucker sells, so this again is a Snow Trucker tent. There's an 8 by 10 Expedition crew, it tore up there. There was one part where it's not good Yeah, and then we just get the tripod rested on there, call it good and it's hard for me to see, looks like it's recording so I'm just out on the uh the lake right now the sun's out here, it's a little bit warmer than in the woods in the shade uh Sean's having lunch, I already ate some snacks and stuff, I'm having a little midday beer out on the lake, so yeah, pretty soon uh gonna drill some holes for some fishies and cut some firewood for tonight, that's a that's a must for sure, it's time for us to auger up some holes, try to get some fishies yeah just whenever you want me to take over I'll need to spin for a bit okay that was a lot of work and a whole lot of work I'll go to a few, Sean's down there setting up the fishing rods and minnows and all that stuff so I'm gonna go up in the woods behind me here, start collecting some wood for tonight and then go down there and join Sean and start fishing What video was that from? I've got my axe with me but I'm gonna use Sean's new axe. This is from Toronto blacksmith. Looks pretty badass to be honest with you. Let's see how she works. From the ground, it's full of fat wood. Check this out, all fat wood right there. We got one, nice, not very lively. Catch a couple of those. Yep, it's a good meal for one. Nice, decent, heck yeah. I got one on too, how cool is that? We're gonna let this guy go, nice. Bass for the win. Split shot really help on here. Those little minnows don't wanna fall. So I'm not gonna pretend like I know anything about ice fishing, but from what I've been told here, We're trying to keep it up about a foot off the bottom and this is not very deep at all right here So doesn't take much line out Gather some of this dry exposed grass here. So when we go to start the fire tonight some good tinder There's our fatwood we gathered too, which you can use in conjunction. It's just nice to have You know everything all in the bank ready to go before night time actually look right above where I'm at here's this birch and I can really grab some nice pieces of birch bark off that guy's hip dead super dead one in here it's got a nice feel in here okay cut up some firewood yep for the wood stove little bit that length not much longer it's about ideal maybe 15 inches tops softwood a lot of this is conifer you have one piece of maple there but really the wood stove is so efficient so much of it it's fine nice and dry like perfectly dry never tell you firewood excites me good dry firewood yeah i bet you uh make some really nice curls out of it oh my knife is cold knife handle is cold yeah look at that it's got its natural check in it like i always say to look for right there do a bow drill with this one so even though we cleared out a lot of the snow or all of the snow from underneath the tent when we start the fire in the wood stove it tends to sink down into the ground even even though like I said the snow is gone it'll still melt the ground underneath and kind of get a little wampus so I'm going to cut three lengths of a log that's buried in the snow over here and put it underneath the wood stove so that it has a little bit more stable base so this this log of that I'm gonna grab have to kind of unbury it from the snow I want to use it because it's not good not good for firewood okay well maybe I'll kick it into lengths this yeah I can just cut this in half and use these these three pieces come on each side or I could do that anyways that's pretty secure pretty solid pretty sturdy level just make some uh little shavings and stuff with my knife a little bit and this is balsam fir pretty soft wood nice and thin airy fluffy curls Gotta love it. We do actually have quite a bit of wood. That's good. It's dark early it's starting to like just starting to get stay late a little bit longer not getting dark right at five these days maybe about six almost six so it's getting better and there's company which is always nice so able to sit in here tonight going walleye fish too There's some walleye in there you saw I got that pike and bass Sean got a pike too, but walleye'd be great Even if we don't eat them, I'm just cool to catch them. We're gonna eat those pike up for sure I let the bass go like you saw those pikes are gonna get eaten up. It's cool. I haven't eaten pike probably Since woodland caribou last time I hung with Sean. Maybe I did in Algonquin with Doug, but I don't think so This is a little bit different than my normal videos ice fishing part of it. Just pretty cool. It's it's new to me I've only ever been ice fishing once before that was down near Peterborough and we were fishing for perch and it was inside like a a really nice ice fishing hut and the guy who owned it can bring us out like picnic lunch and everything so pretty nice not like this up here this is way more rugged very cool this is my this is my thing up here for sure plus the perch fishing wasn't that great oh having a good time it's nice to be out for a couple days doing doing different things you know what i mean the last last uh video yesterday was uh hanging out at sean's place and that was fun too it was nice to relax and kind of explore that that area and talk about future trips reminisce on trips we've done in the past so maybe tonight we'll sit down and have a little chat on camera about trips that are gonna come up that we might do together alright so we're sitting pretty here three pikes so far each one bigger than the last eating good tonight as you can see Sean lugged out the old ice hut getting a little chilly we're gonna sit in there tonight and fish for walleye rather than just sitting out in the open so that's kind of cool really gotta push down on these things it's already warm in here the holes steam come off my hands bring me one look at this guy bringing chairs what a nice guy it's no peasant life out on the ice over here life no luck in a little while inside the tent I think I'm gonna go up into the woods into the shelter and I'm about to shelter the hot tent get the stove going we got lots of wood I still gotta cut some wood up so Sean's cleaning up the fish right now it's almost suppertime anyway so good use of time will be I'm gonna warm that bad boy up It's getting pretty cold. The thing is we're moving around all day and warmed ourselves up and kept that warmth because we kept moving around but now I sat in that little hut for about an hour or so and just got really chilled Oh, the sun's going down too. It's crazy there's not much snow up here. Not much snow anywhere right now. A lot farther north than I've been this year or this winter it's less snow than than I've been dealing with I'm just gonna make some super fine curls I got my glove on we're fine curls to strike with the fire steel I guess I got yeah I will the grass is hard to maneuver after it's didn't see down there so I'll leave these right on the stick that way I can move them after they're lit stick them in the wood stove and light the other stuff. Dude, it's cold. A little shock cord around my fire steel. Good idea. Once again, I got this false bottom in here. It's going to create airflow and make the bottom of the stove not warp out when it gets super... Here's Sean yelling. I don't know if he's going to fish. Catching anything with my hands hurts. Okay, I'm going to go grab some wood from outside. I got some split up. I split this bad boy up a little bit real quick. from adventure sworn it's like being a reunited with an old friend sean's yelling for me we're gonna go see what the commotion is it's probably got a lunker on there maybe a walleye a walleye be sweet Really good fight like taking line out it certainly is warming up in here quite quickly i had two down jackets on you probably lose one of those guys i assume it's getting dark it's 20 after five The hat head. You ever get that one? You wear a toque or a hat for a long time, it crushes your ears and your hair. Okay, I'm feeling to go head back down there a little bit. Sean's up too. I know he was yelling at me and he caught another monster pike down there. Oh, I have to go down and grab water too, and we don't have to melt snow. We're gonna just use the the ice holes to collect water from. We just gotta boil it. So that's nice and handy. It's easier and faster. All right, before I head out there, I'm going to stack up the wood in there. I've got two pieces of balsam fir and one piece of maple. I'm trying to stagger it that way. So I've got a couple pieces of burning wood, soft wood, and a piece of hard wood in there. I hear Sean outside So it's supposed to be the supermoon tonight. I'm hoping it is. If we're lucky, it will be. Canteen cup. Head down to the lake in Mount Waulda. I was calling for the supermoon. Super. there's a nice uh nice purple sky either way oh super moon damn sun bright tonight there's not a cloud in the sky i've got myself my cup of water that is quickly becoming ice sean's a little dead set on getting some good pictures of that moon i don't blame him he can take a good photograph so i'm headed up back to the uh wood stove i'm gonna get this water on the boil maybe make up a hot drink, coffee or something. So much darker in here in the woods. I can hear it pumping out. Oh, she's warm. I can feel it. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Pop, pop, pop. Decapped and then it says I was pulling the lines up, ended up catching I think the biggest pike of the day. So I have those frozen outside, most of the pike. I only have two pike fillets in here and the perch. So I'll cook those up and I'll bring the rest of the pike back to the cabin. I think what I'll do is put some water and some butter in this. We were really banking on some fish. Getting fish. Confidence was high. Big shout out to everybody who emailed me and commented about the splits on the finger on the last video. Excuse me. It helped. I was really worrying about that on this trip because my hands are gonna be, excuse me again, getting all beat up on this trip and cold and in all the gloves and stuff, but the super glue worked like a charm. That was good. Thanks guys. Thanks guys. She's cooking. There's the finished product. The plate's cold, so it's not staying warm very well. First test. It's very mild. Extremely mild. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it don't taste much at all. Not bad. Not bad, son. Healthy? Mm-hmm. Better than, healthier than fries. Healthier than french fries? We're gonna head down to the lake. It's been booming like crazy. You just see it's like big, big, loud bass booms. So I'd like to capture some of that on film, or I guess audio. And I'd like to check out the super moon. See how, see how that guy's doing. We'll go check out the ice hut. super moon pretty big man pretty bright too i can see over here with no lights at all like i can walk completely perfectly fine there's no cities around here by far you can't see me you can't see me but i can see it no cities around here no like light pollution it's just legit from that super moon which is pretty cool camping in a super moon might be a first for me oh man i literally just missed it have my my camera off big booms lights a bit bright just a bit bright oh my goodness ah pretty cool glad to be able to catch some fish through the ice a little bit different uh different content break it up a bit i think uh having this hot tent out it's really making me want to do a camp with scout so i think i'm going to go up for two or three nights with him pretty soon i'm not too sure where maybe that other property maybe back in another place it is nice walking across lakes I do like that so maybe we'll go somewhere where there's a lake I can cross bring the hot tent stay there for a few nights with them hear it that's a nice glow coming from the tent there alright we just got back from down at the lake we decided we should go down and try some night fishing for walleye was not successful we didn't stay down there for too long anyway that's alright we've had our fill on pike and yeah it's nice to be back in the warmth here so it's late it's like oh it's nine o'clock i'm almost ready for bed i've been tired since about seven so time might be an early night we tore down the um the shelter the the ice hut while we're down there so that tomorrow morning we can get up and get out of here i'm like eight hours from home or something like that so it'd be nice to get up and get out pretty early in the morning so tore that down and uh i'm about ready for bed you tired shauno tired he's outside He's giving me some alone time. All right, folks. Oh, it's only 10 after 9. We're about ready to turn in. I'm exhausted. Sean's already all cuddled up, cozy in bed. So I think this will be it for tonight. I'll get you guys up in the morning. I probably won't do much. What do you got going on in the morning? Are you getting to do breakfast? Are you quick? Yeah, I'll have some bread. I'll make it anything. I'll just grab a piece of bread and eat it. Yeah, see, I think that's the same. I have bars I can do bars there you go bars in the morning and on out of here and then eight hour drive so this is a pretty diverse trip for me two different separate things the day at Sean's the night at Sean's and then day out here and then night out here so pretty cool I'm happy I came happy I was able to do this meet up with Sean again I haven't seen him since like I said one time really quick maybe a few months ago and then Woodland Caribou which is almost a year ago now so it's a long time coming so i'm going to lay here maybe talk about some future trips and uh yeah maybe i'll let you guys in on that in the future but uh for now it's a good night i'll see you in the morning good morning guys it's about 6 30 i'm just packing up to get on out of here my uh my old sleeping bag i brought for this trip the uh zipper ended up breaking in the middle of the night so it was wide open I had to kind of tuck it under me and it was lots of fun needless to say I'm frozen my hands are pretty cold so packing up camp gonna get hiking out of here so we can warm get warmed up from hiking out of here getting lighter sweating I had to take off my toque and everything crazy hot