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NARRATOR: On this episode of Life Below Zero.

SUE: This is gonna collapse on me.

This whole shelf is moving.

NARRATOR: Mother nature wreaks havoc on plans in the Alaska bush.

ANDY: I just want to get my fucking boat back

before it ends up down in fucking circles.

A scout into the tundra brings unexpected dangers.

SUE: Is it possible that it comes down and kills me? Absolutely.

NARRATOR: Costly mistakes must be paid for.

ANDY: This boat that I lost last night

is critical to everything I'm doing this summer.

NARRATOR: The quest for food is a life and death struggle.

GLENN: Oh, Jesus.

NARRATOR: And simple chores turn into desperate missions.

If I don't come home with five poles, she ain't going to be happy.

ANDY: The Yukon River is our highway.

In the summer months I use boats everyday on the Yukon.

I do a lot of freighting.

Large loads, unorthodox loads.

Having boats to work with

is critical to the way we live down here.

You gotta be fucking kidding, man.

(SIGHS)

Un-fucking-believable.

I just came down here and my boat

that had a tank of water in it isn't here,

it look like the stake...

The stake pulled out and it drifted off

is what it looks like to me...

And so I gotta go track down a boat.

NARRATOR: With currents ripping through at up to 10 mph,

the boat can be anywhere along the vast Yukon.

I just want to get fucking down river

so I can get my fucking boat back right here

before it ends up down in fucking circle.

It could be 100 miles down river at this point.

I don't know when it got lost or when it came out.

-Kate, where's Iceberg? -I don't know.

Iceberg!

Iceberg, come!

Up, up.

Good boy.

I don't know when I'll be back, Kate.

I know, good luck.

I hoping it got caught in an eddy

but I have no fucking idea.

Hey, I love you. Try not to get too worked up.

You'll find it.

My heart breaks for him, honest to God.

It seems like every single time

we have something to do things back fire,

like something else comes up, something breaks.

You gotta fix it, you gotta do

20 steps before you can get to the original one.

Losing that boat and the huge water tank is a lot of money.

Going to look for it is a lot of time.

Money and time are two things we just don't have enough of.

Last time this happened, my boat almost drifted almost 70 miles downriver.

That was on a windy day when I would've expected

the wind to ground it on the shoreline.

It wasn't windy at all last night,

so I have no idea how far this boat can drift

before it's gonna go aground.

NARRATOR: Not only is the boat worth thousands of dollars,

it is also carrying 300 gallons of fresh water

that Andy collected from a creek just yesterday.

ANDY: In the wintertime, the Yukon River

flows clear under the ice

and so we're able to drill holes and scoop out water

and haul it up to the house with buckets.

However, in the summertime,

a great deal of silt comes out of the glacial streams from the mountain range

and that puts a tremendous volume of silt into the Yukon.

Right now, there's about 2.2 tons of silt going by per second.

So it makes the water un-potable for human drinking.

That forces us to go up river

and get clear water out of a clear stream.

If I don't have that boat,

water doesn't get hauled, my gravel doesn't get hauled.

My house doesn't get built.

So, it's a pretty essential part of my whole plan for the summer.

I can't afford to lose a boat.

GLENN: It's really a hungry country up here.

Especially in the summer.

Not a lot to eat when the caribou aren't around.

Summer is really the hardest time of the year for me living out here.

'Cause you really can't live off the country

as easily as you can the rest of the year.

(CHOPPING WOOD)

In the winter it can be a lot easier.

You can shoot 5 caribou in one day.

And I'm all set for 5 months.

At this time of year there are no caribou around.

There's no trapping in the summer,

there's no big game hunting in the summer.

And even if it were,

I could never process that much meat fast enough

before maggots had eaten it up.

There are things that you can get out here for food

like fish is one,

but it's a lot more labour intensive.

You spend as much energy getting half a dozen fish out here

as you can spend getting one caribou.

Those half a dozen fish will be gone in 2 days

and that caribou will last a month.

I only want to catch a few fish at a time in order to just eat fresh.

I don't want to get into drying fish

or trying to preserve them.

In the summertime,

it's a lot harder to preserve food out here.

So you're out there at least every couple days looking for something to eat.

I'm running low on food

and I haven't eaten yet today.

So I'm going to go out looking for some grayling

in a creek that flows out of the lake here.

It's close to camp

so I'm looking for something to eat this time of year,

that's one of the first places I'll go.

The mosquitoes make everything more difficult,

just about every job you do.

Anything you want to do with your hands, you can't wear gloves.

Mosquitoes are all over you.

I got about 15 mosquitoes in one swat.

You gotta urinate, you got mosquitoes biting you.

I don't like to use insect repellent,

I don't like putting that chemical on me every day.

But you can cover up, but it's hot...

You don't want to be wearing long sleeves today.

If it wasn't for these mosquitoes, I'd be running around naked.

It's all part of nature, you gotta live with it.

But it's no fun.

CHIP: We basically use the knowledge

that people around here have had for the last 10,000 years

and we make a good living.

Pass me the anchor.

This is what's gonna hold the whole net out there.

NARRATOR: Every year,

the Hailstones head to their camp

26 miles west of Noorvik

to stock up enough fish

to survive the brutal months ahead.

AGNES: We're here at the lower camp.

This is where we usually come and put our white fishnets at this time of the year.

Right now, while I'm doing the fishing,

Chip's out getting poles looking for firewood.

When he's back with a load of wood,

then he'll put me up a fish rack.

We're gonna leave the two little girls right here

to watch us do this.

Um, Idi is gonna be driving and

it's pretty much just going in reverse

so she's going to be practise her reversing skills.

Right, Idi?

NARRATOR: In traditional Inupiat villages

women are in charge of the fishing.

It's crucial that Agnes' daughters learn the skill

if they are going to survive this way of life.

AGNES: It's important for me to continue

the subsistence living in the traditional ways with my daughters.

Idi, look, do you see that sandbar right there?

Just try to aim towards that sandbar.

Stop, Idi.

Watch where you're going, watch where you are going.

You gotta make it real tight so the anchor will hook

when I let it go straight there.

And when you let go of your anchor,

you make sure your anchor is like this

and it's not going to get caught to nothing and

let it go!

Oh, yeah. Watch it sink.

Forward, Idi.

If we make sure our net is set perfectly,

we'll have more advantages, more fish.

Stop already, one. Stop.

Turn it off. Just turn it completely off.

-Shall I pull up my motor? -Yes.

Watch out for that lever.

That's why we need you to drive.

You're strong enough to pull it up.

-Here. -Nope, give me that.

All right. Make sure it's not tangled to the bottom...

Oh! I feel something.

-Fish! -GIRLS: Yes!

Oh, two of 'em.

Three of 'em.

Pike!

Whoa!

Definitely gonna need a real big fish rack.

(CHUCKLES)

SUE: There's only boundaries on who I am when I set them.

True to my nature.

I thrive on challenge.

I thrive on the diversity that life throws at me.

All remote people look forward

to the sun coming back in the spring.

But the minute that the show melts

and opens things up for us, we're consumed with the need

to get ready for the following winter.

This year is a little bit different for me because

I'm building a new building for myself.

No longer in the corner of the dining hall.

I'm getting my own living space.

I'm a month and a half away from being 10-20 below zero again.

The time bomb is ticking.

So now I need to take off my final chores

before it gets nasty again.

There's a lot of fear associated with the building.

I have no visual reference here,

yet I know from experience

the predators are gonna come up out of the river bank

and sneak across the tundra and hit the first thing.

Unfortunately, that's me.

NARRATOR: Sue's primary defence is her sight.

Her survival depends on being able to see all predators

before it's too late.

SUE: I really need to focus on visibility

so I need to put windows in the building.

If you can't see what's coming at you,

you're not gonna know 'til it comes through the wall.

Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt and the coffee mug.

I don't want that again.

SUE: That's where the window's going.

We need the other ladder.

I've been attacked before, I've had them come through the wall before,

and it's an uncomfortable feeling.

I'm very visual, so...

You got eyeballs?

Dark shadow, dark shape that I'm not used to seeing on my horizon.

I gotta get up, gain elevation

and look at it with my eyeballs

to see if it's a dangerous shadow

or just a new bush.

What I'm hoping for is caribou.

NARRATOR: Any opportunity for fresh meat is critical

since Sue's nearest grocery store

is almost 500 miles away.

I hunt for the meat that I eat.

My migration of caribou got busted up...

They may not come back through in the fall.

So, potentially,

my meat supply may never make it.

I may have a year where I don't get squat.

All I can tell is that I have a new dark shadow.

One's a bush, right beyond it is another one that shouldn't be there.

I mean, it's natural.

It has a right to be wherever the hell it wants,

but that doesn't mean I want it up in my grill.

It's a few miles off.

I don't think it's a bear, not that big.

It could be a caribou.

The area I need to go in is a couple miles away.

So when I go out,

I'm gonna go prepared with a gun

to shoot something if I have to defend myself

or there's a caribou for meat.

I got bullets, knives...

I don't know what I'm gonna run into,

but something's gonna die.

Something needs to get into my freezer.

You can see right here, on the other side of this brush...

Caught my eye.

Some caribou prints.

They're pretty fresh.

It's not five minutes ago, but definitely since this morning.

Could have been the shape I saw earlier.

I'm still headed to see exactly what I can find.

You just never know but you got to be prepared for anything.

GLENN: A lot of times you don't have exactly what you want out here.

But you get by with what you can get from nature.

It's always a matter of economy out here.

You're trying to get food with the least expenditure of energy.

I found a spot where there could be some grayling

so I'm just gonna cast into here

and see if I catch a fish,

I don't see any fish yet.

The mosquitoes just get to be too crazy out here.

I have to look at the world through a net,

try not to use it more than I have to.

Ooh, something hit it!

Got off though... Try again.

A lot of people think 'cause you're out in the wilderness,

there's no problem finding animals.

But way but way up here in these mountains,

it's really hungry country

The life up here's just spread really thin over the land

so you have to look a long ways to find something to eat.

Didn't find any grayling in there.

Some years there are quite a few grayling out here,

but you just can't count on it.

Summer's just a hard time to find food out here.

This looks like a promising spot.

Try again.

I definitely need to try and get some food tonight.

Right down in there, there's a fish.

It's hard to see with this head net on so I'm going to take it off,

even though the mosquitoes are all around me.

I'm getting eaten up by the mosquitoes out here.

Try again.

Lost sight of him.

Try again.

If I went down stream far enough

there'd be a much better chance

that I could find some grayling,

but it's a long walk.

And it might be more economical for me to look for some fish in the lake.

CHIP: We're miles beyond the end of the road.

And if you don't kill something

or you don't catch something,

you'll have nothing.

Agnes is back at camp right now

and she's cutting up white fish,

and I went out to go scout out some wood.

We make sure that we can cut it up and throw it in the river,

and get it down to where we want to go.

This is really good wood area here.

This is the last of our break up ice, it's all busted up.

And this was put here during the flood and left behind.

There's a lot of logs here. It's in kind of a small area.

We'll be able to chuck out all the wood we can into the river,

tie them together and take them down as a raft.

Well, wood's important, you know,

when you live a subsistence life,

and you're using the materials and stuff from the land.

We use trees for poles,

we use them for fish racks, we use them for harpoons,

we build sleds, we can build a boat.

Wood right here can heat your house.

If you ain't got heat, you ain't got life.

And since I came up here to look for wood,

I'm also not supposed to go back until

I've got my wife some fish rack poles.

It's a necessary part of drying fish.

I just want to have enough racks to make sure my

summer haul is gonna be nice and dry.

If not, that'll just make a total waste.

Oh, I'm looking for long, thin poles

that are light, hopefully dried up.

If you have big round poles then you end up with

a lot of the meat touching the pole and it doesn't dry.

So you want them as thin as possible.

Kinda stuff I'm looking for, though...

This is a little long and a little large.

I don't know, this one's busted in the middle.

Fucking pole!

So head back to the boat.

I don't see any more poles.

Wife said don't come back without poles.

That's too big of a fucking pole.

Ah, I'm just gonna run up and grab that pole,

since I got the hip waders on.

You fucker, you're too short.

She said five poles.

If I don't come back poles she ain't gonna be happy.

I just want a pole.

The ice busts them up, though.

Most of all the ones I've come across

are folded up, cracked in the middle.

Great firewood.

Lousy poles.

It's way too big. (CHUCKLES)

Fucking pole.

Wait, there might be one back here.

(SNIFFS)

This will be a drying pole for today.

Nice, light and dry.

I can't give the woman a perfect deal yet, but we'll get it there.

Ah, pole... Genuine pole!

Plenty long and crooked.

I see one more pole.

We got the five poles so I can safely return to camp.

Idi when you scale them,

you try to make sure you take as much scale off...

Especially from the stomach part, too.

'Cause that's where most of the fat is.

Idi's learning the way to cut fish.

It's good that they know how to cut fish...

In case, I can't cut the fish,

all our food won't be ruined or wasted.

Ah, the fish cutters.

How's the fish cutting going?

-We've done all the pike... -Yeah.

We're done with the white fish.

You got a tub of white fish for sure.

Well, I didn't exactly have the best choice of poles

but I brought you back five do-ables.

All right.

(SIGHS)

CHIP: This is totally ad hoc.

This is just making do, okay?

This isn't like the permanent rack.

AGNES: Whatever it takes.

I'm happy, this will last us for, like, a week.

Two, three more days of this,

then I should be done with my white fishing.

ANDY: The best part of living out in the bush...

You have to adapt to whatever mother nature throws.

And you try and stay a step ahead of her,

but most of the time you're playing catch up.

Well, this boat that I lost last night

is critical to everything I'm doing this summer.

NARRATOR: Andy's on the search for a $10,000 boat

that's gone adrift with his fresh water supply

somewhere in the vast Yukon.

He's got to find it before his fuel runs out.

I got a million projects I'm trying to get done right now,

and I got my schedules lined out

on what I want to do on what days and...

And something like this unexpected comes up that I hadn't planned on.

It brings a lot of stress and a lot of frustration for me.

Hey, that's the life along the river, shit happens.

You gotta deal with it.

I'm switching gas tanks.

Each tank of gas is 5 gallons

at about $5.50 to $6.00 a gallon.

By the time they get down to me they're about $7.00 a gallon.

Depending on how far down river this boat goes,

this is gonna be a fairly expensive trip

for someone who doesn't have a lot of money

to spend on this kind of stuff.

(BEEPS)

I'm a little irritated that I gotta spend this time today

basically killing this day...

And a whole bunch of fuel to go get a boat.

I'm feeling a little bummed out at myself

for not checking it before I went to bed last night.

Without it, I don't know what I'll do.

Hey, it looks like I might see it up ahead here,

two miles off...

Beached against the bank.

Beat kinda looks like it from here.

It looks like the current pushed it into this slough.

NARRATOR: Navigating the shallows of the Yukon is a difficult challenge.

One miscalculation and Andy could lose both boats.

It's pretty shallow in there where it's grounded.

My biggest problem now is gonna be

if I can get my big boat here into where that boat is.

You know, I don't want to hit bottom with my prop too much 'cause A,

I don't have the second prop with me right now,

and B, it's expensive.

Not sure if I'm gonna be able to get into it with this boat or not.

Look at that, I just... My weight coming in just moved the boat again.

Shit, it's going down into the shallows.

Every day you're out here, you gotta adapt to something new.

Good.

It's an endless progression of

problem solving, comprising,

MacGyvering things together all the time.

That's life in the Alaska bush, adapt.

The first thing I'm gonna have to do is

pump this tank dry to lighten that boat up

and make it a shallower draft

so I can line it back up the slough here.

NARRATOR: The boat is carrying 300 gallons of fresh water,

an essential resource...

But in order to pull the boat from the shallows,

Andy will have to dump it all.

This kinda sucks.

The challenge here is how do I get both of these boats

back out of this shallow area over to the Yukon.

I've got about a 100 yards of really shallow water

between me and where the Yukon's flowing.

It's a hard rock bottom that will really mess up my prop if I touch bottom.

And if you don't get your prop in very far you don't have much pulling power.

So it's gonna be bit of a challenge to figure out how to get this out.

I might have to just tie a rope to my big boat...

Once I get going out away from the shallow area here...

I should be able to get enough line to hook onto this one

and tow it out. (EXHALES)

GLENN: In the summer, I have to concentrate more on smaller animals

that I can eat up in a shorter time.

So preservation's not such a big issue.

I don't have much food left.

So I've been getting all set up to go out

and try to catch pike

over on the other side of the lake.

I'm gonna go a little over a mile

to where I'm gonna fish today.

Pike travel in different areas

at different times of the year, and right now,

I'm hoping that they're gonna be in an area

where they've spawned in past

and see if I spot any fish.

I don't know for sure.

I'm way up here in the mountains...

There are not large numbers of fish up here

the way there are when you're living closer to the coast or on bigger rivers.

This lake is really isolated.

There's certain kinds of places where you can find things to eat.

You gotta really keep track of what's going on in nature.

If you just going around randomly looking for something to eat

you're going to starve to death.

This looks like a good pikey place to me.

Oh! A little too far.

Got it right in the weeds.

Need my weed-less hook today.

Pike likes the weeds, and unfortunately,

my favourite lure for this kind of fishing...

Is broken.

So, I collect more weeds than I want to, but...

Oh, wow.

I got a bite!

Here comes a fish.

There, now he's hooked.

(THUDS)

That was crazy!

I never had a pike get off the hook

and then grab him with my bare hand

and throw him back in a boat.

It's heart's still beating.

That's why before I do anything, I'm gonna secure this fish.

There'd be nothing worse than having him get away now.

I got a little tool here made out of a piece of bone.

It helps you to stick this string through their mouth without getting bit.

They have some really sharp teeth for grabbing on to stuff.

I have him tied here,

and you keep it in the water, so you keep him cool.

That's a couple of meals for me right there.

And I'm gonna get more than just the meat out of him, too.

I'm gonna eat other parts.

Usually, once you have a big scene like that,

it kind of messes up the fishing.

And that's probably all the action you'll get out of that spot.

But, we did well today.

I'm gonna head back to my camp now.

We've got plenty of fish for dinner, that's for sure.

CHIP: We take it as it comes.

We're opportunists.

And we'll see what opportunity brings to us.

Plan today is to get more of this fuel.

This right here is heat and it's light,

and it's cooking power.

This is another part of essence of subsistence.

If you can harvest wood, you can get by.

CHIP: The motor's warmed up, you ready to go?

-ALL: Yeah! -All right, let's go.

CHIP: I need to have my kids learn.

I need my kids to know how to do this themselves.

And we do this as a family so we have a lot of fun doing things together.

And we tell them all the time that it's the small details that count,

that add up to the really nice stuff.

How about we go start out in this little slough over here?

It's packed with wood.

Look out, babe.

You can go get some rope, go put a loop-a-rope.

Tie it nice and tight and then have it ready for the next one that we put on.

When you go around it twice it gets under pressure, get a little tight.

It will grip it better.

Then all we have to do after we get this front one done

is just keep tying logs into a long trail.

Oh, we're doing real good, girls.

You're working as hard as we are,

that's what matters.

We all work together, we get done quicker.

I don't want my kids dependent on anything

other than themselves.

If they can become heat independent and they know how to get wood

at different times of the year and the different ways of getting it,

they're all the better off.

-What do you think, Agnes, looking good? -Yep.

Couple of months' worth of firewood, easily.

Yep.

This is gonna be a good enough raft here,

so shall we head, home?

What I've got here is a whole bunch of firewood

that's going to get us through the summer.

We have enough dry wood at the house to get us through till this all dries out,

so it's all good.

And my daughters have learnt something,

learnt where to pick the woods,

the places where the wood gets trapped.

They've learnt the area around this area

so that they can get stuff themselves someday.

Firewood for the summer cost us 20 bucks in gas

and seven hours of our time,

This is probably 2,000 bucks worth of heat...

Easily.

And that is excellent.

We've got money in the bank with this stuff.

SUE: Being out here, I may die at any moment.

There's a million natural disasters

waiting to swallow you up and spit out your balls.

We're getting close to the area where

I saw the caribou shadows.

But I'm not seeing anything right now.

It's very disconcerting. The caribou are not here.

And my fuel is being wasted.

NARRATOR: Gas cost Sue nearly $20 a gallon.

It's a resource she can't afford to waste.

There's a little coal seam

that as long as it's still exposed,

I can maybe go and get a little coal.

It's alternative energy.

It's another natural resource I can use for my own survival.

I'm betting my bottom dollar,

it is worth it for me to get over there.

The only way I can do that... Cross some ice cold water.

I want to see if there's some coal.

Oh, yeah!

Black gold baby!

(CHUCKLES)

I'm really happy I found it, I'm happy to be here.

But you can look right up there...

That's a big ice ledge you got.

Fuck, oh, I don't know, a hundred pounds or more

of ice hanging over my head

that's wanting to let gravity send it into the river.

The sun's out, it's melting fast.

And, is it possible that it comes down and kills me?

Yeah, absolutely.

But when I chose to be out here,

I chose to accept

that I'm gonna meet some really strange, frickin' end,

but right up until the point that it does smack me,

I'm going to be here trying to eek out a living.

There's any number of things

that might cause my demise out here.

I break myself, I make a poor decision.

It will happen, it won't be scripted,

I won't see it coming, and it'll suck.

So I'm kind of out of time here...

I mean, it's a beautiful rich area,

but for right now, I want to get the hell out of this section.

Because it will go...

And I'd rather it didn't take me with it.

It was a good day.

I didn't get to shoot at a caribou...

But, when one door closes, another opens.

I got coal!

And it's time for me to start heading back to the barn.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's that?

A squirrel.

(GUNSHOT)

Got him!

Hadn't gone out intentionally seeking a squirrel,

but, opportunity knocks,

you gotta be ready to answer the door.

There he is.

One fat little mamma-jamma.

He goes in the freezer.

The caribou haven't come in.

I haven't got any big game,

so I'm concerned about filling up my freezer.

Winter for me is 280 days... Totally alone.

There is no grocery store that I can say,

"Oh, I'm running low on milk."

What I need to do now is concentrate on small game.

Right now, squirrel is on the menu.

The fur is not real good this time of year for making things,

but, I'll skin him out and put him in the freezie

for some of my winter meat supply.

So meat in the freezer, coal in the stove.

Good day!

Booyah!

C'mon. (SQUEAKING)

You want your little snacks?

Come on.

You know what you get.

You didn't help me flush this one, little buddy.

But you can have the leftovers.

I have little foxes that are completely wild

but like to come up and be my buddies.

They are my social world,

but I never lose sight that they're still a predator...

And I respect that.

I am conscientious about the animals, um...

This little thing, you know,

it's just trying to eek out a living on the tundra like I am...

And it gave up its life.

I don't take that very lightly.

(EXCLAIMING) Wait your turn.

You can have the whole middle and the guts, how's that?

Squirrel is one of their main stays, same with a bear,

they love these things.

And they are tasty little suckers.

You want this?

You want that?

There you go!

I am taking out his intestines...

And he's done.

You get one or two of these guys

and you put them in a pot with some taters and some carrots,

and you got a nice little squirrel stew.

Well, I got a good bag of coal.

I got a nice little squirrel for my small game stash.

(GIGGLES) This is an awesome frickin' day!

ANDY: Every day, you have to adapt your plans,

and you have to have a plan A and a plan B.

'Cause often times, plan A doesn't work.

I think we're doing pretty good.

Everything's looking really good.

I got my boat back.

This boat's absolutely critical to me in the summertime.

Pretty important piece of equipment not to be losing.

I almost always tie my boats up with two lines.

Just didn't do it last night and I'm paying the price.

I'm a long ways from home right now.

Really need to get back home

so I can get back on to my projects, get back to work.

It's been frustrating, but, all in a day, I guess.

Victory!

ANDY: Well, I only had to go 40 miles.

I don't know if it was the wind or something

that pushed it down into one of the sloughs there.

Well, I think we should buy a lottery ticket.

(CHUCKLES)

It's one of the things that happens out here.

You live along the river and stuff's gonna happen.

I've got a number of boats down here

and sooner or later something's going to happen to one or two of them.

Well, that was a bit of drama we didn't need today.

I just was too tired last night to put a second rope on it.

Just didn't think about it.

Well, you will next time.

Oh, I will from now on, I guarantee it! Every boat.

Well, darling, just think on the sunny side, you know, you got your boat back.

It could've been a really bad day.

It was just one of those screw ups that happens.

I lost some money in fuel and a day of my time.

But, um, worse things could've happened,

so, all in all, I'm feeling pretty good now.

Um, and I can assure you I have two lines on it right now.

GLENN: Most people don't butcher animals.

And that's kinda weird to me now.

The idea that you wouldn't know what intestines look like.

I was running low on food, so I'm actually,

really excited to eat this fish.

Now I've got food for a couple of days.

This pike is a lean fish.

If you're eating just meat and fat,

about 70% of your calories have to come from fat

or you won't feel well.

But, we'll get what fat is in it,

by utilising the parts of the fish that a lot people might throw away.

There's some fat, see?

On the stomach.

The heart. It's still beating.

That's common.

Pike hearts beat for hours after you take them out of the pike.

This fish has already spawned

so it doesn't have a lot of eggs.

Take out the few eggs that are in there.

This is the oesophagus right here.

I'm gonna eat the spleen today.

Nice pike liver.

People who have a job earn money...

To buy food, to buy their house.

My house cost next to nothing.

Uh, my food, I get here just without paying cash for it.

I live a subsistence lifestyle,

that's how I get the things I need to live from the local resources.

A lot of my energy goes into getting food out here.

I'm not out working for a paycheque every day

and I like this a lot better than sitting in an office.

Pike liver.

That's really tasty and it's a lot different from

caribou liver or porcupine liver.

It's even different from a white fish liver.

Every animal's got its own flavours.