They're loading up.
They're big geese.
We've got to be out of here.
They're trying to fly.
They came
and sat down with us.
Yeah, yeah guys bring waiters
I need at least one more meter.
That is a strong...
Okay, one second.
Sleep.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's go.
This is where all the walleye are
going to end up.
And they're going to scoop walleye
right out of here and put them right
in your bins.
And then you'll have a bucket at
each bin. So you want to fill your
bucket with water.
And then when you clip it, put it
right in the bucket.
And then we just want to make sure
we count them.
Thank you.
So counted them that we don't know.
Yeah, I'll bet you did.
Okay.
Very nice.
So do they just
naturally come in here?
We're going to push them in.
Push them in?
Yep.
So we're doing one pond a day.
Right now we're going that pond.
We can take a walk up there and
look.
Last year we got 4,000 out
of this pond, and
this year it's looking pretty good,
but raising
fish you never know.
Well, yeah, especially
especially outdoors, especially
putting trout in a pond when there's
osprey around.
Yeah, yeah, you remember that,
huh?
Okay, so one end to the other.
Oh, okay.
And then you're just walking right
there?
Yep, that's an 8 inch pipe
that just goes right down to the
kettle.
That's awesome.
Yeah, all three ponds have the same
thing.
And then they're fully aligned with
this? Yep.
And then most of the summer, they're
full all the way to here.
Sure. And every week,
we put two hundred pounds of middles
in each pond.
Really? Every week?
Every week.
Holy buckets.
That's a lot of frickin' minutes!
It is.
So we get the fatheads
now, but we start out with the
pinheads and those are more
expensive.
Where do you get your minerals?
Buy them from a local or?
We buy them from Robinson's,
it's Robinson's whole sale
bait out of there
in Genoa, but they
get their minnows from all over.
Oh
The last ones have been coming from
the Dakotas, I believe South Dakota.
Really? Yeah.
Wow.
So they drive there, pick them up,
bring them here.
I wonder why they're expensive.
Yeah.
So across the street, if you've ever
been over there to NADF, they
have outdoor ponds too and they
raise wildlife for Nemacoggin
Lake every year.
And Nemacoggins been fronting the
money for their minnows.
So this is
what kind of a I mean like
what kind of a bill you said 200
pounds every week.
So it'd be 600 pounds total every
week 600 pounds.
So 200 in each one 600 pounds
up. What is a pound
of freaking minnow?
So it's.
$4,500 for
a week.
For a week?
Holy fuck it.
So whatever that comes out to
per pound.
Cheaper. It was good at math here.
Well, so were you able to feed them
what you thought you could?
Yeah, we were.
What would they end up in
for size today?
We'll find out real soon.
Soon you don't like checkers or not
Not, we used to, but
this year we haven't been able to
get in there and usually
we have a cast net that we can throw
out there and measure them,
but our cast net broke so.
Guess we'll know shortly.
Yeah, real shortly.
I'm gonna get some waders on and
then any questions
ask Rob.
He's the guy down here.
I'm just going to slowly walk down.
Who the hell?
Look at that!
God damn it!
Hold the damage interview.
Actually you guys it sounds like you
guys get off a little easier cuz
it's not a GSA car.
Oh, yeah
This is the tribal insurance.
Yeah.
Can I just report it to the Tribal
Police?
I think so, yeah.
Oops, there was
an accident.
Remember to check your mirrors!
I couldn't see out the windows, they
were all fogged up.
So my truck was parked on the left,
I didn't see Rob's
car on the right, and I seen a truck
and a boat behind me, so
I figured I'd crank to the right so
I'd just turn and not hit the boat.
You know what you have to do now if
you do Robbie a favor and break into
his car and smash his garments?
Yeah! So he can get new garments?
That's what I was thinking, if he
just wants to do it.
Well, there goes your wife's job,
though. So you're gonna have to pull that
money from the middle line.
Yep, exactly.
Good on you, Genevieve.
Getting in some waders.
You ready for this, Jimmy?
I don't think so.
I'm like, I think I might be
over-zealous.
Yeah, I'm getting all...
This is a great timing too, because
I got lightheaded on my walk
yesterday with Paige.
In case you still have more than
$60,000, you won't get beat up
as far as this, though.
You know, you and I did.
Someone else do that?
I'm gonna open this up
fully so water is
gonna start coming hard
Yeah, let's warm up and then just
try to...
All right
You feel strong, Mr. Ellis?
That's why Rob doesn't bring his
waders.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Yup, ducks
have been the worst.
See ya.
Uh, Mergansers.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, and cooking things.
They don't taste very good, either.
No.
No,
our fisheries biologist cooked one
and it was actually really good.
We were surprised.
We were thinking because it was a
younger one and they only ate...
Something in there.
Yeah
I'll just have you at this one right
here and I'll do
a big swoop and
then we kind of keep a
little like horseshoe in it.
Yes.
Yeah so you can grab this one
and then go down,
once you hit that little wet spot
you'll start sliding down.
Just kind of use the pole to get
yourself down there and then you'll
feel when it levels out.
How, um, how careful
do I need to be at ripping the
lining or not, if there's no
specifics?
You should be fine.
Just try to...
Try to stay as close as possible but
it is going to get really heavy so
oh sweet more people.
Where's Ron at?
I don't know.
Okay, so when you hit that wet spot,
it's going to get real slippery.
Yup.
Thanks for watching, and I'll see
you next time.
Paul Jake Paul!
Alright, so we want to get the
corks.
I don't know what to do with my hand
on this thing.
I don't know what the hell that was.
I don't know what's going on.
Find out if my brand new waders leak
or not.
Yep.
Why'd you twist it up?
Yep, you're good there.
It's going to start getting heavy,
so brace yourself.
Let me know if I'm falling too hard.
I am a spirit right here!
All right, Jennifer, you can start
walking.
Hey, y'all.
Give it some good tugs.
Oh yeah, we've got a lot of time
now. We can sit in
the trees.
That's what we need to do.
We just need to take the ladder out.
I think there's some fish in here.
Don't worry, they don't bite very
hard when you do it.
If I were a little smaller, they
might.
Look on the bright side, we're not
raising northerners.
Yeah, no kidding.
Mosquitoes.
Musky, yeah.
Yep. We eat that every day.
Give me just a light snack for him.
There's light.
Five gallon bucket can hold like
50,000 fry while I fry
So we say we started out with about
80,000 while I try
Oh, okay.
I can't remember how much you got.
I just remember seeing a
five-gallon. Yep, yep.
Yeah, they were the size of your
eyelash when we got them.
I'm sorry, Lance.
Morning Mike, you made it!
Yeah, I see
you wore your clean sweater.
See how long it lasts.
It won't last long.
Oh, I can feel them.
Yeah, I just had a group run into my
leg too.
Do you want to tell me how to do my
job?
If you can fit my waders, if you can
drink, that's
what I thought.
You can walk the truck right here.
Yeah, it's going to get slippery
right there.
Yep, it's very humbling.
I'm glad to have an audience for one
of your claps.
Can I get the phone out and start
recording?
Sounds good, yeah, like a diving
contest.
Alright, you want to get to the
concrete part here, you'll feel it
with your feet.
Oh, yeah.
Feel the bolts and then we're
going to go right right next to the
wall
Yep.
Oh yeah, were we going to do
something about that?
I can feel them.
Alright, so yeah, we're going to
want to spin it now.
Everywhere we jump, it runs right
there and it comes back.
If you spin.
Sorry, that was my bad.
Try spinning the other way now.
Spin towards the
wall.
You can try and wrap yours back.
It's been a pleasure.
The other way it'll get fish in
there.
I can feel a lot of them.
Oh yeah.
Rob, you're welcome to hold this,
please.
I'm already getting caught on the
bolts, but there's a lot of fish,
so it's okay.
Yep, you can see all the,
there's a lot of fish hitting my
legs right now.
Hey Paige,
you wanna come hold this so I can...
Can you try and spin?
I've been dropping around.
Hey, can you try and spin it?
Yeah, that way.
Perfect.
Oh, that one gave by me.
Yeah, let's go.
I think that's what we're doing
here. So, that's that side of
it. That's just the beginning.
Whoo
to the hole.
Paige, can you try and scoot that
way?
Oh
You know what?
Yeah, honestly, so we saw box
of three sharks,
and they were very friendly and
chill, and then we saw
a gray nerd shark, they were
also pretty chill.
And then Alex saw a four-gaffer
shark.
Oh yeah, four gaffers?
Yeah.
And, but yeah, it was really cool,
I cried, and I
was so excited.
That's me, it's me.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah it
was super good.
I don't know why I'm back.
It was so much fun.
I love being in there.
It's hard to come back.
Looks like you got one twist.
Yeah, we were there for both
projects and then we were on a city
tour in the beginning.
Oh my god, there he is!
I can't see what's going on over
here. I think it's a little cool.
OK.
Here we go.
Yeah, let's get her out of the
pond first.
Thank you.
Or you could just
walk over the ladder
Oh, okay.
Yeah, fish is left there.
I kind of want to get this fish.
He said he's a good boy, so...
That's probably good, actually.
Oh.
Get the fish!
Yeah, I'll probably back a little.
I'm going to add some people to the
party.
Say it in backwards right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah he can go ahead.
Sorry.
Did you shoot this?
I'm gonna find a time, I would.
Yeah, I'm gonna
shoot him back here.
I didn't realize I was putting a
dresser on him.
You get a good meal out of it.
Yeah.
Get a lot of fish down there?
That's an old DeHassan that
is just down the road fast.
It's still up and it's just running
around.
It's got a safe distance.
You too.
Thank you. Good to see you.
Good to meet you.
I'm dying.
After like 40 minutes, probably
up to 1,002.
Nice.
Is it all done?
Is it?
No, there's more in
there still.
Thank you.
Okay, we need dry hands.
That's it!
I'm pretty happy when
you drive.
Yeah, good luck.
Good luck. No, I mean, no.
Look out in the ground, y'all.
Do you repeat what I tell you?
Yep. Did you?
I know we
can
Okay.
Okay
109!
109
Thirty-nine!
Thirty-Nine!
Fifty-seven!
Fifty seven!
I mean, there's a couple of them,
or ten.
Can I get in?
I just seen you do the wrong thing.
Five, zero, fifty.
See how it was on his right side
when he has a foot pillar?
Hey, I heard you had a successful,
uh...
Thanks, me too!
I was trying to put the head the
right way.
So when it's on your right side,
when it is flipped over, it is on
your right side.
Right here, there you go.
I don't know what I did.
You put them right by your house.
You live on the lake?
Oh shit!
I know where the fish go.
That's too many!
No. Too many.
Too many Ian!
Out of the hallway!
It actually looks about the same.
Yeah? Yeah.
Not so much in the net
That's
a lot.
I know.
Hey Eric.
Good.
I've got terrible handwriting.
I can read my handwriting.
How are we doing, do we need another
spoon for my ice cream?
A little bit.
24.
Well, it's kind of up to you.
Yeah, we can do it out of here right
now.
Okay, um, you're measuring content?
I want to film that, so is that
okay?
Another one.
Uh, you guys should pay attention to
me, slightly.
We don't have a lot of audio in this
set.
That's all going right.
Right, yeah.
It's called public media, right?
Yeah, right.
Oh man,
and he got that on camera.
I did get that on film.
Andre, I got...
They're going to edit that one out.
Go ahead, do yours.
Okay, perfect.
21.
Oh, they're looking.
Those are some good looking fish.
Yeah, they are. Got us some of their
snacks with them.
Oh my gosh,
you're a big one.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yeah, I want something that goes in
a bucket.
Okay.
I'll walk around this way.
Okay, if you want to set up over
here, we can do it.
Sounds good.
I see, that's what I wanted to
do.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
So this is a random sample,
and they're going to do the measuring to
get an average from.
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 33
All right, I take it you've met
Mark.
This is Mark Duffy,
Chief Warden.
I'm the boss sometimes.
He is, yep.
We let him be.
He's the one that was better off for
40 years.
What's up?
No, we'll pop the drain.
Oh, you got oxygen going?
How are you doing?
Uh, pumps?
Let's let them do this.
How are you feeling out there?
I'm feeling it.
Oh, yeah
I saw you trying to go up the side.
Yes.
No, that's how we do it.
There's snow, that's why we got that ladder now.
One, two, three.
2.13, 2.14?
Yep.
We're at 50
And 186.
1.79, 1.7,
that's a whole lot.
I gotta watch what I'm saying, I got
a mic on. Mic on.
Alright. Yeah, yeah.
This is a good one though.
One more.
One?
Fifteen.
Oh! I think you should
have.
Oh
Hey, I'm glad you showed up.
The service can be done.
Probably.
Alright, 2.22.
I thought you
could go up real fast.
So, on our first average,
on the first average of fish,
8 inches.
I forgot what it was.
It's 28.
It's 20.
Let me try it one more time.
So our first average of fish
is going over 8 inches!
This one time we have cupped
over 1800 fish!
Oh no!
It should be great if you could give
me a new one. You said it was 250
pounds rating.
They'd be like, for hanging a door
so you're not standing on it.
Alright, I'm gonna turn the pumps
on.
We're gonna turn this truck on so
it's gonna get loud right here.
We can get the birdie,
the second batch will give us a...
187.
Now we gotta listen to that the rest
of the time.
Is that the both water or the air?
We got each one,
so there's three compartments, each
one has its own pump in it and a
screen that you can pull off and the
fish go out the back.
Are you netting these out of here in
the lake?
Yeah so we'll net them and bring
them to their boats so we have the
totes we have tote where
a tote fits inside of a tote that
has holes in it put the fish in
there and then you can lift the tote
out and bring it to them
It's like a deep fryer.
Yeah, eventually that's what these
guys will be going in.
That was good.
Oh you look amazing i
said 79 inches so
How you doing buddy?
It's fine.
Yeah.
I'm just fine. I see how you are.
It is.
All the 1800s, probably
2000 now.
Yeah.
Looking good.
They're a nice size too.
Yeah, they look really good.
Thank you.
I've got a few million handles.
That's all right better than
not enough
No
I know.
That's good.
I tried getting it down there as
much as I could but it's still
going.
Is it still on the same depth, or is
it...
No, we pulled the seine out so
it's going to be all gravity fed
now, hopefully.
Yeah, I told you I had two of
them.
UGH
It works just fine.
I saw a reindeer in the road, but it
didn't move.
That was a tough one, man, that was
a really tough one.
That was killer work, this arsehole.
That was pretty good.
They've been fed
Hey, Zach, do you see the
air?
He's probably not.
He's our new boss.
He's the new DNR.
Okay, he's afraid, afraid he's
going to get hit.
Yep, what happens?
Ha ha ha!
Any turtles?
Dead one there.
Last year we had a big snapping
turtle in our drain.
This one was stuck in there as dead.
Our fisheries biologist
Ian.
It's a very weird guy, let's take a
look at that one.
I hope you liked it.
Yep.
This week I took a nap.
Of what we need to do.
We can do that.
It's fine.
Thank you.
Right, right, right.
Do you want to tell me if you want
me to take money from you?
I'll be right back.
That is really good.
What the fuck are you doing?
You're a racer, man.
I think my bucket's full!
Yeah, I'll meet you right up here.
There's some dead ones in there for
sure, so...
I don't think you are out.
I think I'm out now.
So are you actually in my
car?
Nope, not yet.
I'm about to start right now.
You can double anywhere you feel.
We clean it out.
We've tried everything.
We found that the easiest is to
just let it dry.
Yep, you
always have that.
All right,
that's it.
Yeah, I know, I'm not sure if
we all are coming through.
Yeah, sure it is.
We have clean water now, hopefully.
You
With a leash!
Yeah.
And to die!
I'm outreaching him right now.
Especially when you're wet with a
leash.
If he's in there, he'll fly back
out.
This is sick.
Kingfisher. Oh yeah, yep.
See what might be in there.
Oh Bye!
Bye!
I don't even know actually.
This one's ready to go.
We were the last people.
If we go ahead and drain this thing,
we're going to be able to fix what
I'm shooting around in.
Probably lost.
I wouldn't even say a hundred fish.
So far I don't think I lost.
9,054.
I'm hoping for more.
Well, maybe one of these other farms
would be better than this one.
All right, we'll see.
Ron's an elder.
Okay, let's go about a mile
and an hour and a half.
Is that already fine?
Hopefully.
That's a lot.
There you go,
start us off.
That's all I know.
Hmm
I'm making pictures of them
all the time.
Yeah, see you.
Bye.
I'm going to take the
snowmobiles out.
Bye tomorrow, actually...
One or two of that.
Yeah
You want two?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah
Hey, just stick your hand in the
water and find out what's going on.
It's a little breezy here.
Yeah, a little bit.
I'm gonna do what I was doing.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good. I wouldn't, I
wouldn't ha ha ha
Go ahead.
Okay
Alright, so these will go on your
pontoon.
Gather them in here and
watch this.
Yeah so we're gonna want to put you
want to fill it like probably
about half full should i put them in
here first yep let's put them in
there first because they're heavy
once you water them
You got the hard side.
Yeah, I know what I said there.
Well, it should be a little
different for me.
Yeah, I got the front!
There we go.
10 minutes.
I'm gonna get a run in.
Are you going to take all of them?
Oh, you got all kinds of them over
there!
Those ones have holes in them!
Oh, what the hell, that is a
fucking, that's a whole one!
Yeah, you're gonna love it.
Give this guy some of this.
Okay, well I don't know.
Oh, I see what you're doing.
I know what you are doing.
Nobody told me you said that.
Ha ha ha ha.
I think four is good on there.
What do you think?
We need water,
we need them half full.
Here, hand me a bucket now.
Thank you. Thank you!
Yeah, looks good.
You'll see once we bring you some
fish.
Thanks.
Alright, I'm going to start bringing
you some fish.
I got it.
Are you following me?
No, it's good.
See the fish!
You're a walleye.
You're the walleye, buddy.
Are we doing more?
No
There we go.
Ha ha ha
like a knock on the head
Might have a floater or two huh,
there you go.
One more!
I can't kick it out.
There you go.
We got it.
Yeah, it's cold!
I am.
One more, one more.
Alright!
It's all yours.
Oh, it's like a prom dance!
Ha ha ha.
Hey Ro, I'm
going to go over by the
correct control center.
Me? No, I.
Okay.
Oh
Are we looking?
Too many
You're gonna lose some.
That's great, man.
Yeah.
I'm just glad it's not Miami over
there.
Oh yeah.
All right
worse than a fish out of water
Hehehe
So where are you on the lake?
Just right there? Right there.
My sister owns this one here, and
I'm the next one.
Okay. And the guy's constantly using
there as my third as far as I can
get my next one over.
So, we don't have to go far.
You really have reached out to a
bunch of volunteers, didn't you?
That's right.
Yep.
There's a lot of
He he he he.
Th th th
Finally got out of here!
Last year we got him in
at my house and
he's done with it.
You can see it.
They're out there, not right here.
Yep.
Alright! Better off that time.
Yeah,
how'd it go?
Yeah.
Okay, so you're back up.
Bigger holes.
Yeah.
There's no holes in it!
How's that even happen?
Must have been the one
that was sitting under.
Yeah, that would have been real heavy
More!
There we go.
Now we're talking.
Hey, we have one more with no
holes.
I don't have these long arms,
I can't reach the back of this
thing.
There you go.
Even it out.
There you go, aww, come on bruh
Stop!
Grab a side cage.
OOF
He's going to wear, he's okay.
It's all yours.
You got your waterproof shoes on?
No.
Oh. It's okay.
Alright. I'm just gonna get my boots
out of my office, and then I left
out for guys.
Yeah, we were rushing you.
They're actually the fish for
rushing in.
Holes!
Good start.
Good start of the week here.
Oh yeah, like we were saying
when we were coming back, what a
beautiful day to do this.
Like you say, two more,
or that one and one more.
Yeah, what an amazing day to this.
Yeah, not too bad.
Do you know who that is?
What the?
Nope, don't have any idea.
We could probably pull out of their
way here.
We'll get you your bucket.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll be nice.
We're nice sometimes.
Yeah.
Hold him.
Hold him up. A good man.
Ha ha ha.
Yeah.
Robby.
You want to put that cap back on and
we'll pull out of his way here.
Okay. I'll just get a tumble view.
Alright
I'm gonna work off today.
Yeah, I don't have to go to the gym
later.
Nah, I wouldn't anyway.
If you want to hold on to this,
I can...
I got it.
Ready?
One, two.
Thank you.
If you look down, you'll see the
kind of apes that are using it.
This year was pretty good on collars
instead of minnows.
He's got one more so you can
come to this side if you want
And your boppers.
Hold on, you don't know what's wrong
with me?
Don't fall on me.
I'll give you a great ride.
Where are you going to go?
I'll be quick.
I could swim!
The camera can!
He's more worried about you than
about me.
I took it all the way.
No?
Ha ha ha.
PBR donated all day to this
cause
Reverse!
Reverse there!
Yes!
Documentary hour long about
wildlife.
Oh really?
Yeah, big aspect of it.
This is me.
Fuck!
Probably the northern Wisconsin
area.
I need us to pull you the
documentary. I wouldn't have done as
far as to see it.
Sounds good man, I've spent a lot of
time on this. This song is good,
right? Yeah.
Sounds and looks.
You last year, what did you
say, Dan McCoggan?
And then the dog and then a lot of
that.
I might have got a cold shot of it.
So I was like, I may have had some
of it, but I don't think I was.
It reminded me of something I was
finding.
I'll just stop and I'll be right
back.
Okay, everybody ready?
Plop, plop.
Yep.