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Oh no.

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I

overslept.

It's 6:00. I don't know what happened.

The winds aren't picking up till a

little bit on the later side, but they

are picking up every hour.

One more knot of wind. So, and we still

got to get some coffee

and get ourselves picked up those

lobster traps and get around the corner

from Tennis Harbor into uh Thomas.

Sooner we're over there, the sooner we

can get on some new adventure.

Get on some striper.

Let's do this.

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Somebody didn't clean up after their

dinner. Never should have fired the

help. Didn't wash my dishes. Oh, it's a

mess. It's a mess. Get a cup of coffee

going.

do some housekeeping. Oh no, she finally

ran out of battery. I have to charge it.

Everything is charging.

Americano.

Not too much though. I don't want to

make it too weak.

Nice and strong.

Got to pull the anchor. We're off and

away on the ocean with our pirate ship.

I'm leaving Rockport Harbor on this solo

adventure. Heading across the open ocean

each morning, traveling while the seas

are calm. Harbor hopping my way hundreds

of miles down the coast of Maine to

finish up in Harpsswwell after 7 days of

adventure.

We're fishing for two on the ocean.

It's a beautiful day. Woo! Try not to

fall over the side.

>> Oh yeah, he's done. Got it. Got it. Yes.

Got a cowboy. I should have put that

rain suit on. I knew it. That's a big

one. We got a squid.

That wasn't so bad. Must be getting

stronger.

Let's see.

Forward.

Little cat boat. But that thing is so

cute. It's like a little tug. Moxy.

I'd have to ask Josh, but I can swear

that was hope is one of the ones that

I rebuilt. Oak combings.

Those things were always breaking down

as far as like getting, you know, cuz

they're like 60 years old and like the

oak uh the combings on them would need

to be replaced and so we'd have to steam

new ones in. And I'll ask Josh if that

was one of the ones I did. So, we'll

just cruise down here

and see if we can't find our lobster

traps again amongst all the other buoys.

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Got a good feeling.

Actually, I don't have a good feeling. I

should say I have a good feeling, but

I'm not sure about this with the uh the

fact that they're

old pogies in there that were sitting on

the deck all day. Sunburned. Sunburned

pogies. Will sunburned pogies catch

lobsters in Tennis Harbor or we just

wasting our time?

Make all those lobstermen jealous with

their super maneuverability. Huh?

Hey, it came up upright and

ah yeah, see

nothing. Sunburn pogies didn't smell

enough.

They weren't fresh. All right, let's

check the next one.

Lobster. Lobster. Lobster.

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Come. Come.

Come on.

There we go.

Is there anything? Hey, Mr. Kayak.

Go away. Don't need you right now.

Later, buddy.

Oh, we got a lobster. We got a lobster.

Oh, we got a couple. They all look

really small.

Okay.

Hm.

That's a little fella. That guy is way

too small. Ah. Whoa. He's fast. They're

faster when they're younger. The crusher

claw is a little slower, but that

pincher one's fast.

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Only one worth measuring is this one,

but it's not worth measuring. I'm just

doing it so you can see. It looks like

it's a decent sizeish, but yeah, it's

about a/4 inch short. They're

exponentially quite a bit larger, so no

joy.

>> Good news, my delicious friend. You're

going to be a freerange lobster.

Well, that's to be expected sometimes.

Can't win them all.

We'll move to the next place.

That is some handy, huh?

Lobster men steaming out to do their

thing. Well, let's head out and around

the lighthouse

and uh see what we can get up to.

Well, muddy footprints on my tracked it

up cuz I wasn't able to wash the deck

on my solar panel. Going to mess up my

solar gains.

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How you doing, Jim? I love to feel the

wind in my hair and the sun on my face.

Ah, it's a beautiful day.

You don't have any hair, Jim.

I I might be getting a little crazy.

I've only been out here 4 days and I've

already seen people when we gassed up

the other day,

but

we got cabin fever. We got cabin fever.

>> I've got the

cabin fever.

>> Looks like an old chimney up there from

an old fireplace. I wonder if that was a

a home at one point and they really had

the fireplace sitting there. Somebody

just was creative and built like a

chimney fire pit type thing.

Uh-oh.

Little buddy froze up.

All right, we're back on

this to go around,

which is So, we got to head that way.

Looks pretty clear except for one

obstacle, which

we should be able to go right here and

go past it. Getting the hang of this.

Feels pretty good. Fun navigating and

stuff.

That's cool. Looks like an old stone

house or something up there.

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And like 9 ft of water, so you can see

the bottom. Got to watch really closely

on here. Make sure that there isn't any

like stones sticking up.

It looks like it's getting deeper again.

The stones and stuff are all over that

way, which my navigation point, you

can't just follow your points cuz that

was actually taking me right into all of

that.

So, as I started to get closer, I had to

pay attention and swerve out here and

come this way. Multiple things you got

to pay attention to when you're out here

doing this. And it really isn't

something, you know, if you're going out

in a kayak, you know, no worries kind of

thing. If it's calm and clear like this,

but it's not something you could just,

you know, jump on a bigger boat and just

poof, you know, really quick.

You got to be aware of things.

like Johnny on the spot. I heard a

horrifying story recently just so sad

about um some people that were out and

uh one of the guys was sitting in the

back of the boat, but instead of sitting

on the seat in the back of the boat, you

know, it was hot out and nice, he was

sitting up on the back seat with his

feet where your butt go, right? and they

were steaming in after a little day's

jaunt out and about and the guy fell off

the back of the boat and by the time

they realized that he had fallen in and

turned back for him, it was too late.

You know, 20 minutes in and then another

20 minutes out to find him and another

15 minutes to spot him. You know, that's

like over an hour of time in the water

at 54° he was that was it. You know, he

was gone.

Sad sad man overboard story. So, be so

cautious and so careful.

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Let's uh let's keep on keep on trucking.

If all our tourists will look out the uh

Starboard side of the boat here, we have

the Marshalls Point Lighthouse. Kind of

a unique lighthouse. There's a walkway

built out to it so it could be out there

further on the rocks. And uh it's kind

of a small one, but uh still bright.

Still shining bright. still shining

bright. I want a lighthouse.

I want a rock so I can build my own

lighthouse. Lighthouse. Rock survival

challenge.

All right, Fowler, take it down a notch.

You know, survive the adventure you're

on first.

The sleepy little town of Port Clyde in

all her glory.

>> Already, now that we're pulling in here,

the winds have kind of calmed down.

So,

I always question what to do when I come

into these no wake zones cuz like

the pontoon boat really doesn't make a

lot of wake. Everywhere I've been, I've

seen a lot of other people steaming in

so much faster and

and plowing up all kinds of water.

been spotted. Oh, I'm hungry now that

I'm like close to civilization again.

Like see a food cart up there and then

there's the little Port Clyde store and

like I'm just thinking about that warm

juicy breakfast sandwich.

Oh,

listen to that.

Somebody's

playing pirate music for me.

That's funny. They played the Pirates of

the Caribbean theme song for a sec.

Oh, it's nice in here. Just so calm.

It's like just a little bit calmer and

it makes it so nice. All right, let's

put the pedal in the metal. Without the

littlest bit of chop, I get a full half

of a mile an hour more out of it. That's

That's decent.

Now, since I'm going to be coming back

out of here, I should look at

somewhere to go put my lobster traps.

I think we'll pop them in right out here

cuz when I come down, I'll be coming out

of over there. And if I pop them over

there, then I'll be able to hit them

along my my way.

>> I got a Snapchat at 5:00 a.m. Are you

over in uh off of Tennit Harbor

somewhere? I was like, what am I looking

at?

>> That's funny. What's your names?

>> I'm Jeff Delane.

>> Jeff.

>> Nice to meet you, Jeff.

>> Nice to meet you.

>> Colin.

>> Colin.

>> Yeah. So, I'm trying to decide whether I

should go up into Thomas and chase some

striper with the tide or if I should uh

like go on to friendship where I know

the fishing better. What do you think?

>> This year is tough because you think

about

I think you may have stripe or at least

Maple Juice Cove.

>> Maple Juice Cove.

>> Yeah.

>> So, they come up into there and

>> come in, right? So, the the water goes

down, shore warms up, they come do this

thing. And so if I could find a macro

with the live line in there, I probably

do pretty decently.

>> I've had the Wobbo for probably 4 years

>> as a as a daily

>> Oh, really?

>> All right. Looks like we got some tips.

So, some hot tips on where to look for

some striper. Really want some fresh

mackerel cuz that's the way to win. We

Oh, we do have the eel tubes. Why do I

forget that? We got the eel tubes and we

have uh blood worms. So, we do have some

fresh bait, some some bloody smell that

we'll be able to get in the water. I am

hungry, I think. Oh, once we stopped

rocking,

we were side on to their waves as they

pulled away.

I had all these delusions of grandeur.

I'm going to make my own bread. I

probably still will at some point, but

it's like, you know, the travel takes up

so much of the adventure.

Oh, I forgot I packed and bought these.

Boy, I really splurged at the grocery

store. Shouldn't have gone shopping when

I was hungry. Sprouts. I'll try it with

a taziki on it.

Dishes comes back to bite me. Means I

have to do dishes.

or let me dirty it dirt dirty another

pan

dirty another pan.

So we got last night's steak,

one of these soft pas or like gyros

burning all my paper trash.

I mean, it's burning trash, but it's

it's just paper trash has actually meant

that I still haven't filled up one of

these, you know, one trash bag. So,

that's been pretty good.

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All the water I've had in this kind of

ruined my seasoning a little bit.

Hopefully, this will bring it back a

bit. Cut up our green onions.

One, two,

three extremely thin slices of red

onion. That's kind of warmed up enough.

Just got a crack in her, but we'll make

do.

Our steak,

which I'm going to cut in half. That way

I can cut it against the grain

all the way through. Little sirloin

tips. So good. That way it comes apart

when you bite into it.

I'm going to break my yellow cuz I do

not want

running yellow all over my

face. Kaziki.

Little bit of sprouts.

Yummy olive oil.

Hit that with a dash of adobo.

Some kimchi.

Couple pieces of that. Not too much cuz

we don't want to make it super wet.

It's not all going to fit. Oh my.

Top it off with our green onions

and our red onions. If I can get that to

fit in my mouth, it's going to be a

miracle. Much less folding it over.

You should never cook when you're

hungry. You should cook when

you know you want to eat, but you know

it's like

almost time to eat. Lord, thank you for

this food. Thank you for the adventure.

I pray that you just bless us with a

beautiful striper fish catch today and

and just more wonderful adventure in

your creation. Jesus name. Amen.

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Oh my goodness. That's amazing.

Oh no. Where's butter when you need her?

Just 5-second rule.

I mean, if it was just the onions or

something, but that was a piece of steak

there. Grab my fish cutting mat from

Filet away.

Hot sauce.

My pants are just a target here. One

little bit of my pant leg sticking out

and I still drizzled it right onto my

pant leg.

Wow. Oh, I love sprouts. Now that's

money. Wow. So good.

All right. All right. Well, fish aren't

going to catch themselves or just jump

up onto the deck here.

At least they haven't yet. So, we better

pack it up and head up the way. See what

we can find.

There's still bits in here.

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Hey,

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hey, hey.

This was the perfect little spot to just

chill and do my thing, float around,

make my breakfast sandwich. Didn't have

to anchor. It's big. It's open. We

drifted along, I don't know, an eighth

of a mile or something the whole time.

Let's see where Maple Cove is.

Just up around that point right there.

Not too far.

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Oh, it's a cut on my foot. Thought I was

getting a hot spot from my shoe.

You know what a hot spot is? So, if

you're hiking, you get a hot spot.

Before it gets a blister, you address it

so that you don't end up getting a

blister and then the blister pops and

then you're really uncomfortable.

you put a band-aid on it or uh

preferably like some mole skin or seal

skin or whatever they call those things.

It's like a it's like basically like a

band-aid but without

uh the the gauze on it. It's just a a

kind of a paddingish type thing. You can

stick it on and it'll keep uh reduce the

chafing.

Maple Cove seems like a nice place.

There's a seal here, so maybe there's

some mackerel. I'm just going to cruise

around.

Maybe I should just uh throw my sabiki

jig out and see if we catch one. Look at

that. Towels already dry by the time we

got over here. Love it.

>> Maple juice.

>> What is a maple juice?

How did that become a thing? Maple Juice

Cove.

Somebody else already had Maple Cove.

So, it's like when you have a a name in

a video game or, you know, you sign up

for YouTube, but you're not like making

a channel. You're just doing it so that

you can be there and watch somebody

else's stuff and comment and like your

name is uh like

Buzzard 891 cuz somebody already has

Buzzard, you know.

Well, let's cruise around by the point

of the siki and uh

keep an eye out. See if we can get a

mackerel first and then we'll troll

around with the the eel tubes.

Oh, something's popping off right there.

That's dark.

Is that a school of fish or is that the

seaweed and stuff?

Oh, that's fish. We didn't have to go

far. We'll go up forward with the

trolling motor. Rip some lips.

That wind is a lot. All right. Where are

they? Where'd they go?

Ah, there they are.

Take me to the fishies.

Take me to the fishes.

It's all right.

Going to take me to the fishy. I don't

know why.

So, pogies for the most part won't bite

a uh a beaki. So, you got to foul hook

them.

I can see a dark swath all the way

through over there.

Oh, they're everywhere. I don't even

have to cast that far.

There we go. Come on. Be some small one.

Be some

nice small ones so I can

never any small ones. They're always

big.

They're always a big ho. I don't know

what it is why they're always so big.

There we go.

Put them in the cannon.

There.

That one's probably too bloody.

in the chest.

I got my fish trees. Don't forget

they're in there. He's going to stink

something off.

There we go.

There we go.

without a live well that uh pumps water

in bloody bloody tank with bubbles is

doesn't help them last that long.

There we go.

Got to keep on it more consistently.

There we go. A nice tail hook. Go.

Such a beautiful fish, too.

My new friend said they got some stuff

when they were doing some hauling or

whatever there. And they got some baits

for me. Now we got some more bait.

Make friends. Making friends. getting

beat.

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>> Oh, that's perfect.

>> There. I'll fill it and get it back,

too.

>> Yeah. Don't worry about bumping into me.

It doesn't hurt her.

>> So, what we got? Oh, muscles. Yes. I

love muscles.

Yes.

>> So, they give me bait. They give me

food. That

>> Yeah. Do I shuck a shuck a muscle and

put it on a hook and

>> just drop her in?

>> Like bait.

>> They like it.

>> I think so.

>> The striper?

>> Yeah. Bait rather than lure.

>> Yeah. Yeah, I'll try that. Well, I just

caught like uh 10 pogies

>> and I got three in the live well or the

bubbler.

>> Good.

>> So, I was going to try like up here on

the point and stuff. Some kids came over

and said it was fire. So,

>> we got some new muscles. Look at that.

Yeah, that's nice.

I think I like muscles better than clams

because muscles for the most part, you

know, when you're going to harvest them.

Lincolnville, they're just on the rocks.

So, you go over the rocks and you pull

up the seaweed like I was trying to do

the other day and there's muscles. So,

now we got some bait. Try them as bait

and we'll try them as uh yummy

deliciousness for dinner. What are we

going with? Probably this guy here.

We got a big hook on there. I don't know

if that's big enough.

That one right there.

And there at least beat up one.

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See what he can do.

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We'll get our other big rod set up as

well. Chuck a plug or something for a

minute and then rerigg it. I don't got a

lot of hopes for the pogy. It's so big.

Try this guy.

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Oh yeah, perfect. All the way over to

the shore almost.

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No fish. It's a little windier out here,

so it's hard to hard to fish. We'll just

motor over to friendship. Oh my

goodness. This is our worst one so far.

That's yikes.

That lobster boat was just throws off

some huge wake.

Soda can.

Oh, it's getting further away and I

can't get into my belt.

Can I hit a can from a moving ship?

O, that was close.

Need my hornet.

Oh, I got it. See if we can get it again

a second time.

Oh, it's sinking. It's sinking. Maybe I

can hit it while it's going down.

Oh, I think I hit right on top of it

again. It's It's gone. Is that Is that

littering? I mean, it's a can. I didn't

throw it in there. I just It's going to

be a fish habitat. Maybe some crab will

have it as his home.

>> Hey, Jim, check this out. Now, who's got

more trunk space than a Buick? I'm going

to be getting all the ladies.

>> Got like the the nice can on his can. I

It is a tempting thing. All these

lobster pots uh buoys as targets, but I

am not shooting those. I don't You know

what I should be shooting though? That

could be like clang the uh channel

markers. Oh, I just spotted a napping

seal. Let's see how close we can get to

him.

He's uh Oh, he's a sound sleeper. He's

not moving at all.

I don't think he's napping.

That doesn't look good.

The Yep. The smell tells me that he is

definitely

not napping.

channel marker.

Oh, got to lead it.

Ah, that got fun when I remembered I had

a slingshot.

I mean, it's been fun the whole time,

but I It became extra fun. The

slingshots 10x like 10 x everything

funness-wise.

Oh,

I think the Garmin finally died.

I better get the new battery for it.

Going up into here. I need to be able to

see where the rocks and things are

without going super slow and having to

plot every inch of the way manually

watching for stuff.

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Not the easiest thing to get at.

All right, let's see. We got power back.

Woohoo.

I was just looking at going across over

here, but I don't see any lobster buoys.

And I see them all the way up into there

and everywhere else.

I was just seeing like there's some

stuff over here. Like it might be okay

to cross at high tide like it is, but

not so okay other times, but there was

also some rocks.

So we got 12 ft.

Put this on to charge.

How are we doing today on power? 58%.

We're charging stuff. We got extra

juice. I'm going to watch a movie

tonight. Just kidding.

Jim,

>> how you doing? You all right, buddy? A

little slouched.

>> This thing never stops moving.

>> Oh.

All right. Navigation back up. We are

good to go. This another can.

It is

so far. It's like 50 now.

Oh, right next to it.

Oh, I hit it. That's like 60 ft away

now. I didn't puncture it that one. I

think I literally skipped it into it.

Underwater something.

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All right, stop messing around. Stop

messing around. That was a close one.

Well, I think a high tide we wouldn't

have hit it, but I can see the seaweed

underneath.

All right, so up in there is where we

want to go. I see a couple lobster buoys

out here. I think I will load up the

rest of the pogies out of the cannon and

the bin here so they're all cleaned up.

put them in the traps and put my traps

here cuz I'll be coming out of here

tomorrow. It is getting so sunny and so

hot today.

I need a break.

There we go.

Yeah, I should have done that as soon as

I start traveling and I wasn't going to

be fishing it. Messes my efficiency up

with the solar panels, but we got more

than enough juice.

Friendship is just a sea of lobster

buoys everywhere.

That's a cool plane.

See, that kind of thing looks like a

macro ball. Looks like it's pushing it.

Yeah. See that? There's such a dense

pile of them.

Let's place these and catch some some

Mackeis. I'll clean out the uh cooler,

the water bubbler, and we'll try to get

some live mackerel in there.

Holy mackerel.

Seems like a good spot as any.

Beautiful

two trap set.

Once I go around Pemmquid Point, that'll

be my last time I can use the lobster

traps.

But we've had some good meals. That's

okay. Just have to start catching the

fish. Let's go up there and catch a

fish.

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I am trolled all the way up to the end

here where it goes into a little bridge.

See right there? I don't want to go any

closer. It's a little shallow. But uh

just over there. I saw some guys sitting

out there with pogies. it looked like

on with uh some balloon bobbers,

but I didn't see them catch anything.

I'm feeling more and more confident with

this guy that with the pirate ship that

she can handle stuff. So, I'll wait and

uh and fish the best time of day and

then if I feel like moving on, move

around to Pemwood. Pemquid just seem

something just about that spot, that

place. It's got squid. It's got, you

know, like lobsters spawn in there by

the billions and there's like like all

the little baby lobsters will be all

over the surface of the water and the

squid will be shooting all around and

like at this time of year I've always

seen a million things there. This is the

first time it's take me so long to catch

something. But day is not over. It's

only 5:00 something.

We'll fire the cannon for good luck and

uh I know somebody that lives up here

and uh and then we'll move down

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someday.

I know I'm moving in the right way.

Oh,

one day I keep praying. I keep praying.

I keep

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I keep praying.

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That'll do for the night. Here we are.

Time to cook the muscles and uh fire off

a hook of like a dead pokey chunk on the

bottom while we cook and stuff. I'm done

with actively fishing. I'm

stick a fork in me.

It's super grimy. I think I'm going to

go for a swim. Get that grime off. All

that sweaty from the day.

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Oh, that feels good.

Now that feels good. That is nice.

swim. Freshwater rinse.

I feel like a million dollars. Like I

I'm ready for round two. Oh, we got to

do dishes. Now I'm tired again. All

right, I'll do dishes

and make some dinner.

Dear diary, I haven't been able to catch

any good fish this whole time. I don't

know where they've all gone. Maybe

they're not hungry. Figures every time I

put out food, they suddenly remember

they're on a diet.

Or maybe the whole school really did go

back to school. Probably learning new

tricks. How to steal bait without

getting hooked or advanced bobber

avoidance.

By the time they graduate, I'll need a

PhD of my own just to reel one in. Until

then, my arm is getting sore from all

the casting practice, and I got a lot of

unanswered questions, mostly from my

stomach.

Heat. Heat.

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our impromptu lid.

And I have to put my muscles. The last

lobster is barely twitching. It didn't

like being in the ice chest overnight.

And then some broccoli

and a little ters. Precious ters.

All right, we are There we go. Boiling.

We're ready to go. We got our nice

muscles.

Try to cook as many as I can fit in here

because I can shuck the ones I don't eat

and make like uh them into a dish with

something else.

O

little eel. I'll throw that on the hook.

Darn. I should have put if I had He said

that, but that there was an eel and

blood worm, but I didn't understand what

he meant.

I don't know if this is going to work,

but it might.

[Applause]

Nope. Too much broccoli.

>> Chopping broccoli.

Chopping broccoli.

Hey, I got it. Look at that. I didn't

think it was actually going to work.

Beautiful. Oh, I need to get a line in

the water.

I'm going to chuck one of those eels

on.

a piece of pogy.

Oh, gross.

I should have done that before.

[Music]

Got to wash this thing. I'm bummed. I

don't know what happened,

but my little pressure washer.

Oh, I can't seem to get it to charge.

It's just not taking a charge. I popped

it back in there.

I mean, I would think it'd be waterproof

being a pressure washer, but maybe water

that splashed up on the deck at some

point. Got on it cuz it does show like

don't get the pressure washer wet. Fried

it. Not cool. That sucks. That thing was

pretty handy. Now I got mud on the deck

that I'm got to be careful not to track

down. I'm going have to do it all by

hand swabbing the decks.

>> Maybe you could swab the deck while I

fish.

Got a little weight and a small hook.

Going to try to put one of these little

eels on.

Maybe cut a couple things on here. Got

an eel. Little eel

and uh a blood worm with like a lot of

stuff.

I'll just put it right on the bottom.

[Applause]

And I think my food is done, but I don't

know if I can get at it.

Oh, yeah.

There we go.

Chunk of pogy

there.

There we go. Big old piece of hook.

on the one with the bobber.

Medium.

We got some butter in the pan. Now we

got some garlic. Make some garlic butter

on there.

I think we're just going to eat it right

out of the pan. Like, woo,

there's a little paper. Man, I really

should have brought like a little teeny

butter melting pan. We used to have this

little pan. I feel like if my mom had it

and I or I had it at some point, I folks

had it, like a little yellow pan that

was just the right size for cooking and

warming butter. And maybe we put the

butter warm the butter and put it on

popcorn. I don't know. I have this

memory of this special pan.

I wonder what happened to that like

ceramic, you know.

Well, we finished just at dark. I'm

going to go with some aces first cast on

some of this. It's like

uhoh. Oh, I left it open and it got a

little

it got a little clunky.

Although arguably the best thing on

potatoes like they those guys were

saying earlier when they pulled up and

they were visiting with me like ah we I

love my wedo on potatoes

garlic butter for my

m

Oh yum

Must not have gotten a lot of salty

water. I mean, I boiled them in salt

water, but must not have like saltiness

must not have come up and got onto them

cuz they don't taste all that salty.

I love broccoli.

Oh, I forgot to say grace and cheapers.

Lord, thank you for this food. Bless

this food to our body in Jesus name.

Amen.

How about our ters?

Oh,

they're really good like this.

A little bit of a

al dente, but like not really really al

dente. Like just a touch.

There we go. We got our muscles.

Nothing too crazy. Just like a clam,

just kind of a little bit yellowy and

just a different shape.

M.

Well, they're not very tough and chewy.

They're just like melt in your mouth.

I can't see. This is what I'm thinking.

That that throws people off. Is that

little hard to show you that little bit

right there? There's like like a little

beard. I think maybe you pull that out.

That's what's sticking outside the

shell. I think that's what's sticking

them to the rock or something. But

I mean, they sell muscles in

just about every place they sell

clams, I think.

Dip it in our garlic butter here.

I mean, if I don't

um

manage to eat

like

all of this. I don't know.

Oh, yeah. All right. So, I'm going to

show you something.

It's never made me sick before.

But this lobster, I thought it was

moving still a little bit, but it was

dead. It died. And when it died, they

they

Shameful. I wish I had just eaten it

yesterday. I was hungry enough. This is

the tail. Usually, they're pretty tough.

But look, it's just

within hours,

you know, really quickly, they just the

it just becomes very like falls right

apart. A tail is usually tough like a

piece of stringy muscle.

And for some reason they get like that.

So I don't No, that doesn't seem to

happen in the claws nearly as much. Oh

yeah, it did too.

It's all goo. It's all turned to like

BL.

I mean, I've eaten them like that

before, but knowing that is

an expired lobster and he cooked it. I I

don't know. I just He couldn't have been

dead for that long.

I know it's my fault. Like, if I had

kept it cooler in there, the cooler

would have kept him

alive.

I don't want to be down for an entire

day with a belly ache. So, I'm not

risking it.

I'm super bummed though. I hate

something like that happening

and like throwing away something I

caught instead of eating it. But

not not getting sick is more important

right now.

And I threw it overboard.

That tail wasn't all that messed up. I

should have kept that one for stripping

down and mounting it in the clay so I

could do a

guillot of it. It shell was a little on

the soft side though.

You don't always get it right.

Last one. Oh, so much for leftovers.

Yeah. and fold the last one.

Have that on fire. Clean the pan out.

Um,

I'd say stick a fork in me.

Well, like I was saying the other day,

there's a balance between traveling and

and being able to fish.

No wonder people that sail like sailing

and they don't really fish that much.

Traveling takes up all of your time.

Tonight we're going to get some sleep

though. Get up early.

See if we can't catch some stripers. The

time will tidal

just be coming out.

So there should be all kinds of activity

in here.

Well, that was annoying. Just as I went

to go to walk in to go to bed after

brushing my teeth, I saw a squid. I just

saw a squid. So, I put the green light

on and nothing. And I turned it off and

they reappeared. And so, I found out

that they seem to want to come

when the green light's been on for like

20 minutes or 10 minutes or 5 minutes or

something like enough that all the

little fishes are swimming around again.

You turn it off and then they come

scooting in and you get one chance at

them. And I didn't realize that little

pissy fun rod, the ice fishing rod, I

had I must have had uh like 2 lb I

thought it was like six lb test on it.

It broke right off. I had one on and

broke right off.

Way more powerful than my line.

I stayed up an extra hour and a half and

it just wasn't worth it.

They're super finicky today.

So, going to bed. Still getting up

early. Maybe not quite as early. Maybe

just at sunrise instead of a half an

hour or instead of an hour before

sunrise to

get on that bite. But

I'll see you guys in the next one.

Sticking a fork in me. I am the dunzo.

Fowler out.