My Fishing Gear for a 9 Day Canoe Trip in Northern Ontario

Hello, I'm pretty excited. I'm preparing for a pretty big canoe trip. My friend Kyle, if you're not familiar with Kyle, he runs a YouTube channel called Burly Outdoors. Kyle's my buddy from Ohio. We do a lot of camping together and he's a couple years younger than me but roughly the same age. So we've done a lot of camping trips together like I said and we have an awesome canoe trip planned so in a couple weeks we're going up north northern Ontario to the Temagami region it is awesome it's amazing up there I've never been I've seen pictures I've read reports I've watched videos it's an amazing place and a huge part of this trip for me and Kyle are gonna be is gonna be fishing we are go we're targeting walleye or pickerel depending same fish lake trout brook trout and northern pike all those are in season when we go and all those are really good eating fish probably pike being my least favorite of all of them and even still I really enjoy pike so any fish that we catch is going to be a good supper I think that I'm gonna do this will be my fishing video like my fishing tackle video my boat gear video then I'm gonna do a gear video I'll make i'll make this into a series i'll do my camping gear video and in in that video i want to touch on more of the why i'm bringing the things i'm bringing than just what i'm bringing in the past i've done a lot of preparation videos and i kind of just rushed through it because i've got to get a lot of information into one video well this this this time i'm going to do it different like i said i'm going to do my food as a separate video i'm going to do my fishing stuff as a separate video and my gear is a separate video so there'll be three videos before i'm even out there and then i want to make my trip video into two two parts probably two try to keep them around 40 minutes each last time when i did eight days one was an hour one was 50 minutes the videos so um i understand that i got to try to keep it a little bit shorter but still i'm going for i'm going for nine or ten days so there's gonna be a lot of footage i'm going to be excited to be filming as well so i'm sure there'll be even more footage anyways that's a little brief intro this will be my fishing gear video so i got a new pfd for this trip because i'm tired of lugging around the old blue and yellow ugly ones that don't ride they don't they don't wear well they don't pack well they don't look cool none of that stuff so i got a kayaking pfd this one's by stolequist nice green as you can see and it's got it's like i said it's a kayak cut so i guess i should tell you as well i bought a when kyle and i got back from our last camping trip our eight day canoe camping trip in the fall we stopped at this place called swift canoe and kayak on the way back and he bought himself a pack boat which is a small his is 13 six so 13 feet six inches long kevlar fusion open faced kayak basically it's a canoe it's called a pack boat it's a canoe but it has a kayak seat in and you paddle it like a kayak but the whole top is open and it weighs 26 pounds like i said it's a kevlar fusion it has a removable carbon fiber yoke and i was beyond jealous because i can't afford it i couldn't afford it and kyle bought one and i just felt really really bad about myself that i couldn't get one so in the however long eight months that it's been since we've since we've been back i've been stewing about that and i decided i'm gonna buy one so i sold a bunch of gear um i saved a bunch of money and i was able to get one so i'm picking my own swift pack boat 13.6 up on the way there so we'll stop at swift canoe and kayak in gravenhurst i believe it is we'll stop there pick it up in the morning and head the rest of the way to temagami so this will be the first time i'll be paddling my my own boat and i'll be paddling it for nine or ten days straight right off the hop so I'm really looking forward to it and that's again a little segue back into my back into my life jacket that's why I bought the kayak style you can see on here how it's a shorter back and the mesh kind of takes up the last quarter of the back that's because the kayak seat has lumbar on it has a back to it and you don't want to be pushing out if you if this was full length if this PFD was a full length padded like this it wouldn't be comfortable so they have this little mesh part and they have it's cut so that you can really move around really easily comfortable so you can see it on me it's nice and maneuverable i mean paddling like this my kayak paddle so nothing's going to rub what's really cool is i have these two front pockets that actually turn into turn into tables i got a little bit of gear in there i have to make a little survival kit still to go in in one but these tables the purpose of them is for fishing so you can set your hook do whatever you need to do and got these work these work areas in here right now I've got a whistle a fire steel a little light a little light there we are a compass and I've got a knife attached to it so this is just a little Swiss Army Farmer I also bought a new rod because all the rods I had were too heavy or too old and cracked so I bought a medium action ugly stick because they're super durable this one's got a nice clear tip on it supposed to be pretty sensitive pretty react pretty uh reactiony anyways and i also got a lose 2500 uh 10 10 ball bearing reel so we will be trolling a little bit we will be casting i'll say we'll be trolling about a third of the time um but again casting shallows this this time of year early like this that far up north the fish are gonna be higher up the water is not warm yet so we don't have to really get down too far i hope um but yeah let's let's get into my fishing gear and i'll show you what i got again like i was saying we're doing walleye lake trout brook trout pike so i've got it organized like this this top left for me at least my top left i've got my big spoons in it this is a silver minnow with a little weedless rig on the on the back try to keep it out of them from getting snagged spoons galore i got the old five of diamonds, Cleo's, it's a little funky peach looking one, the old Red Devils, bright orange Williams, and then this one that looks similar to a perch. So I've got all my bigger spoons and a little bit of a medium-sized spoon. Maybe this one should be called a medium-sized spoon in there. And those are going to be for trolling and also jigging a bit. So my second little compartment, I've got things like wire leaders. I've got five wire leaders here. That's for the pike and the lake trout so when you're trolling and they get a they snap onto it they're not gonna snap your line I've got a bunch of split shot not lead sorry they took that out I got a bunch of split shot the reusable ones swivel snaps three-way swivels and then a bunch of loose connectors and swivels and stuff on the bottom that's just like the the little messy that doesn't make sense next up I've got a piece of reflective cord that's gonna be my my stringer for on my boat we'll be each in our own boats like I said so hopefully I'll be able to Boat up to Kyle and show my stringer of trout, got a little pocket pliers multitool, this is gonna be useful for taking hooks out of fish and Just general use, I might keep that in my life jacket. I'm not 100% sure right now, next up I've got my jigs. I've got mostly one kind of jig, but I'll show you the different kinds I do have a lot of these white ones with red eye and then my next most popular one is this one little peachy silvery, it's a little bit bigger and then I've got a weird orange one, one that looks like a fish head, jigging is all new to me and I've not done it a lot at all, so and then this yellow one, but and then I've got underneath that a lot of the white ones still I have like two packs of white ones in there I got a ton of them, up next is probably my favorite type of lure because you can catch a lot of fish on it. Just these spinners, right? Not this one specifically, but all of them in this compartment, just spinners and smaller spoons. This one, I weight up the line a couple feet with a couple split shots to get it down. I'm gonna spin. I've got things like a Black Fury, a Mepps Black Fury. Awesome lure, awesome lure with a big old treble on it. Again, another one of those first ones I pulled out, the spinners. These Williams Wobblers. This little one is called a, it says Northwest on it, it's orange and silver. It's in perfect little size, a little wobbler. Another Williams wobbler, another little spoon, little Cleo. A bigger Williams Cyclops, and then this one, which I just got, it's got a back barbed hook to keep your bait on it. Another favorite type of lure is the Rapalas. This big old bird's nest Rapala. So a lot of these are floaters, got a couple divers. I'm not going to bother trying to unhook them right now because you can see what the problem is. My favorite are these orange ones, but I've not fished up in Lake Temagami, so I don't know. I don't know what's going to be good. We'll see. This perch one would probably be good, but yeah, those are all super tangled. So I'd be using these Rapalas for pike mainly. I imagine some lake trout might hit them. Now it's into my brook trout fishing part, which if I can catch a brook trout i can die a happy man i think it seems like such an elusive fish to me but i've got a bunch of little black panthers and little Mepps like Aglias and number ones and zeros and twos a lot of them have fur on them a lot of them don't i have one two three four five six seven about 11 of them my biggest one being this one which is a number two compare it to probably my smallest this is a Panther or a Panther Martin and that's a number two Panther Martin so it's a little bit different but that's probably my biggest that's probably my smallest for the brook trout like i said a lot of little Mepps and hoping these will work guys i'm really hoping these will work uh in here i've got a couple little fake fake lures or sorry fake uh bait some scented one little minnows and whatnot just just to throw on the jigs see if it'll work and then loose in there I've got just like little white worms and random stuff. This one I got some pink Mr. Twisters. Last but not least, I have my fishing license in here. That's a good thing to keep in there, guys. You know, you gotta stay legal. You don't wanna have your license back at camp while you're fishing or anything like that. So you need to keep it with you. Then I've got just, this is more of a random kind of section but let me pull it all out and go through it because I do like a lot of the lures that are in this little section. My jitterbug is one of my favorite lures of all time. It's top water action, seeing bass jump out of water for this at night on a calm lake is probably one of my favorite things in life. Honestly, I don't know if I'll get any use out of it. There may be some pike at night. It's more for fun than anything. But I have room in my tackle box, I'm bringing my frog jitterbug. Just a bigger spoon that wouldn't fit with the rest ones. This one's a little Cleo, a three quarter ounce. Okay, my favorite lure of all time is a MEPS Aglia. There's a MEPS, excuse me, there's a MEPS number three silver Aglia. There's a MEPS number three copper Aglia. There is a MEPS number two, oh I'm sorry, there. Three, three, number two gold. So I got three silver, three bronze, two gold. Favorite lure, I catch everything on these things. This is one I just bought yesterday. It's a nice big heavy one. It's called a Veltic 5. Super bronze, super flashy. So this is gonna spin, attract fishies hopefully. This is a crappy little bottom bouncer I got, a little small compact one. The idea is you tie your line to that, you have like a swivel, a three-way swivel, you have your line up here, you have this down on the bottom, and then you'll have your bait out here a little bit. And it's gonna be bouncing along, and the bait's gonna be up off the ground. This will be bouncing along the bottom, hoping to attract things. But like I said, I don't think we have to fish too deep this time of year. Another Red Devil, and then this little guy, this is a Canadian Wiggler. I have not used this to catch anything, but it looks to me like it would be a good lure. Super flashy, I hope it wiggles because of the name, so that's it guys. That's my fishing gear for this trip. We're going to be, like I said, up north, Temagami region, for nine or 10 days. We plan on nine nights, but we're giving ourselves a day extra because we've been very lucky in the past not been winded too much these are big lakes and if we get winded and we have the hold up we're doing a trip right we're doing a big loop so for the first two or three days we're still going in but day four day five even day six we're out there man we're far far far interior so it's like we do have to have a grace day it would be nice to even maybe take a rest day if we needed it if not worst case scenario if we're winded we can we have an extra day for leeway we're not bound by campsite restrictions or anything on this on this trip so it's a lot more free it's a lot more decide what we want to do while we're there as opposed to stick to the regimented plan right so i'm looking forward to it i'm really excited about it and uh it's coming up really soon so like i said a couple weeks um look forward to a couple other videos before the actual trip videos like i said i'll do a gear video i'll do a food video i'm just dehydrating some food right now so if I can get that all done I'll get that that other video shot today and maybe I'll upload it in a few days but yeah thanks for watching guys I hope I hope you enjoyed it I hope you learned something like I said in all honesty I've caught a ton of fish in my life but not angling. I worked for the University and I was a research assistant in the biology department. We would catch fish every single day. We would use gill nets we would use electrofishing. We would we would use seine nets. So I've caught trout, I've caught salmon, I've caught walleye, but never angling, never out of a canoe angling for them, right? Excuse me. Tons of bass, tons of perch, tons of bowfin, tons of gar, things like that. I know I have a lot of experience, even pike, I can catch pike, no problem. Trout is what has eluded me and walleye. I have not caught a walleye yet. So this trip, boys and girls, has to be a first for me, okay? If I don't catch a walleye or a trout this trip, I quit. I will sell my fishing gear. I will sell my canoe. I will sell my camping gear and I will sit in my home. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.