Alright, thanks for being patient
with us.
Give me a sense of what the overall
mission is here tonight.
What is this event meant to do?
So it's meant to revitalize that
practice of going out on the waters
and spearing fish,
traditionally as our ancestors have
been doing for hundreds and hundreds
of years.
There was a period of time where a
lot of our families weren't
able to get out onto the boats.
Our youth, you know,
weren't getting that opportunity to
see these practices in
real time. And so.
It was about maybe 10 plus
years ago, I was
the director of youth services.
It was very new.
We might have had like four kids
signing up, but we took them
out. It was a different lake,
might have been the second annual by
the time I came onto the
stage and it's really
taken off since then.
Now we've collaborated with Bad
River. We have Bad River youth and
Red Cliff youth.
I think a couple years ago we even
had some LCO youth come
in, so I mean
this is really given not
just youth the opportunity, now
we've got families coming and
families are coming in and we got
some moms that get out there,
they're able to get up there and try
for the first time and Matt, you
just got to try it one time and
you're hooked.
And that excitement, that thrill,
the being able to do something that
you know your ancestors have been
doing.
Hundreds of years and being able to
preserve that and carry that on for
our kids is really really important
to us. Yeah
Because without an event like this,
would it only be like if your parent
or your uncle or someone like Yeah
It was a very close family to pass
it on This, you don't have to have
that, right?
No, we don't have to have that
and and we do we open it up to
families so that families will be
able to get out there and have that
experience if we have the capacity.
Sometimes we might not have the
capacity and we just are able to do
it for youth but if we can get
families out there that happened to
us right like we got out there we
went on a boat a few years back
with some friends during this
event now we have our own boat we
bring our grandkids out we're
bringing our kids out now so you
know we didn't have that experienced
growing up I didn't
By the time I
was old enough to get on the boat,
my grandparents and my uncles, they
were kind of done with it.
So I never got that opportunity.
And so it wasn't something that I
did into adulthood.
And so, it wasn't nothing that I was
doing for my own kids until this
event started to happen.
And so that's why
we keep doing it.
And it builds more and more
spirits as every year that we do
it.
What do you see in the change in the
kids as they talk about
them getting connected to that?
Yeah, so I
Yeah, so I'm just going to give you
an example, right, and this is one
that I'm so proud of because I was
able to provide some
traditional ecological knowledge
with this.
Last year I brought a student out,
a kid out.
Me and my husband did for the first
time. It was his first time
spearing.
We were out there for a good while
and he got his first fish, right?
And so he really
loved it and so I am a
teacher at the school and so I see
the student all year long.
When can we get back out there, when
can we get back up there?
Nuku nuku is a time, is a times.
I said no, when you hear those
peepers, it's time.
So the other day he comes up to me,
nuku, which means
grandma and that's what all the kids
call me.
I heard that peeper, I heard those
peopers, it's a time.
It's time, let's get ready to go,
we're going Friday.
Make sure you have your travel ID
and we'll see you down there.
So he'll be coming down with us and
so that's when it means to
them, right?
And being able to come out and make
connections with.
People that they might not be able
to make connections with from the
community,
building more connections
with community members, right?
I don't see our used
other outside of school too
often, but now they see me.
They see me in the school and they
see me down here at the boat landing
and I'm taking them out and that's
really what it's about.
It's about connecting all of us
together and doing something that
is traditional and cultural.
We have language trainees here now
that are being able to do those
things in the language.
And we have the fish dance, so
they're able to see those things.
You'll see that tonight.
We do a ceremony before.
They're gonna learn history,
what our people have had
to go through in order for us to
be able to this today.
So.
The full circle is
people at the tribe that are helping
bring the fish out to harvest the
eggs and then they're putting the
fish back in, so this is there for
the future, right?
Yeah, yeah because you know
our traditional ways is we
only take what we need and we
always give something back right and
so in order for us
to do that and we we do have to
co-learn to coexist with
all sorts of
fishermen so we do our
part to make sure that that we're
not taken away from anyone and that
we are not depleting fish
populations and that's just who
we are and what we do, I really
can't. Um say
anything more than that other than
that's just what we do.
Talk to me a little bit about like
the blend that we've got going on,
like kids playing football, like
you've got like food over here, but
then like there's like all the
cultural stretch here.
Yep.
Yep, so the kids right now are
playing football, in a little bit
you'll probably see some lacrosse
sticks getting pulled out and
they'll probably be playing lacross,
which is the creators
game and so that's
really, really taken off
in the last few years.
We've seen more of that.
Last year there was a pretty intense
game going on between Radcliffe and
Bad River which was pretty cool.
So yeah, kids are kind of
intermingling.
It's a good opportunity for our Red
Cliff kids and our Bad River kids to
make connections with one another,
which is also really important,
right? Because we're all one tribe.
And although we live on different
reservations now,
it wasn't that way back
when our ancestors preserved
this right for us to do this, right.
And so coming together and being
able to do that is really important
for them.
You also see like adults kind of
standing around, and they're also
intermingling, Recliff and
Bad River.
We have some tribal employees that
are cooking and providing
some stuff for this event.
In a little bit, you'll see the drum
getting pulled out.
So we'll do some songs.
There'll be a prayer that's said.
We say a prayer for the water.
And all those things are really
important, right, is that talking
about why we do those things, why
we're protecting the water,
Why will you protect Earth?
Why we take care of the things that
we have and the things we were
giving. And so we're able to
smash that all into one pretty
awesome event, yeah.
So talk to me a little about your
job at the
school and how that directly
connects with what's going on here.
So it, I mean,
I guess it doesn't really directly
connect. I mean I don't know.
But I mean, it is about immersion.
Yeah, yep, it's about immersion.
So I'm the immersion co-teacher
for the kindergarten, first grade
down at the Bayfield School.
That's very recent.
I started off as a language trainee
for the Red Cliff tribe.
They really set up an
awesome program there that fast
tracked my ability to learn language
and then get into the school and
teach in that capacity.
It directly relates to this event
because the kids that will be here
today see me in the school,
right? And they see and they hear me
speak in Ojibwe and sometimes that's
all I'm saying to them.
And they're like, I have no idea
what you're saying.
I'll tell you at the school, you
know?
But yeah, so it's
really important that they see
their educators
at events like this because they
feel like that sense of belonging,
right? And so, and they feel that
in the school.
Hey, I've seen you at spearing
and you know,
just like you and.
I can connect with you in that way
and I know you're here for me and we
come from the same background and
that's really important for our kids
because me growing
up and I went to the same school, I
had some really good educators but I
really didn't feel like I
was seen in a way because
there wasn't that understanding of
coming from the place and now our
kids are seeing that and they're
seeing that here and they feel more
comfortable and they more tapped
into who they are.
Their tribal identities.
You run me through some of the
language that's important to an
event like this that you're
hopefully going to be having the
kids understand.
Um, sure.
Yeah. Um, Bajiba'ige.
So that's um, spearing.
Anit is the spear,
I believe.
Um.
Aseman, like, we will be passing
our tobacco, jiman,
boat.
Um Waiwaini, who's um
on Guam, is in, you know, be
careful.
What's going on?
Oga, oga, gaga, go
oga.
Yeah, that's really, I'm kind of
drawing a blank right there.
I'll walk away and think of like 100
words for you.
Alright, can I get you to say
and spell your name just so I have
it correct on tape?
Yep, Shogabi Uikwe,
Misty Nordin, you want me
to spell it?
M-I-S-T-Y-N-O-R-D-I N-S
H-O G-A-A B-A
W-I I-K-W-E.
Shogabu Uikwa is my Anishinaabe
name.
Yeah, I've had to do this, and
I got that one down a whole lot.
That's perfect. I was gonna ask you
that too. That's yeah.
Okay. All right. Thank you so much.
All, right
That's not a problem.
He's one of the people who died in
other sections of the story.
So connecting him to this, even if
it's not identified or anything, is
fine.
Yeah, I mean, especially if you can
be in the boat with him, just
getting a few shots of him driving,
or whatever, it might be
that when you go out with Mary, and
they have to throw a mic on him,
just to have him know a little bit
of what's going on, he's
actually a major problem.
Do you generally use these shots
with lights off, or do you want like
a little movement to them?
Movement can be nice, but
I don't like movement if it's the
only shot we have and then you're
locked in to like oh I didn't really
need a pan there, I just needed two
seconds of that shot.
A lot of times,
depending on the pacing of the
story, I like rapid cut
like two second shots
to establish something and then move
through a scene rather than like
a long...
Do you want it to look like it's
kind of wide, or is it too wide?
Is that kind of what you're looking
for, maybe, coming
out the end?
Um, yeah, you could probably go in a
little bit further.
I can
find it.
Look.
Okay, all right.
Oh, yeah!
.
Okay, can you hear me here?
Can you hear this here?
It's going to be a whole lot of
noise. Yeah, you can probably hear
it all the way.
Two million camera watches!
The light of a good stick, you know,
and then you turn this,
you light it to the side of a
helmet.
There's no way, you know, you can't
do that.
All right, anyway, we'll ride in
the hall and we'll come around.
That's the way to the theater.
We'll ride up the hall room.
That's what we did, you now.
That's where you go.
2008.
We got a room in the house.
We got room in there.
So the other night, when the guy
told me, he had a little guy in
the back by his name.
I had blue wires on, and I stuck
that battery pack in the car.
He said, three and a half hours he
was running that battery back.
That's how I was involved, man.
What do you get paid for?
If it's here in the water, right?
You got to know.
Do you see your car?
Or is it like this?
Well, Gary sent to have it like
that. So you get the water out here,
you're a lot of rock.
You don't have to move your
spearhead around, right?
And then, you don't need to
rub.
You can grab.
This is golf.
Right here,
you can hold down.
It's not tough for standing and
moving on the ball of the ball.
You yield up.
And just, when you look, you're
looking like this.
Keep looking.
You don't have to look like this
when you want to.
How are you going to mess a couple
of times?
So the rule is,
when you walk it, you walk back, OK?
And make sure you know if you got a
wire behind you, which way you turn.
So if you turn this way,
and remember, you've got a big hole
in your head.
So if there's several people in the
book, you don't want to go
like this.
Right?
Remember that.
That can hurt.
That's what you hear on the receiving
end.
So, the thing to think about when
you're on the water.
This is a great time, it's
entertaining, it' fun.
Everybody can enjoy it.
Okay, one more thing.
All right, so,
if you're
up in the front, make sure you
holler back to your both sides.
There really is a big rock here, you
know. You can just
all of a sudden, boom, come down.
You can hear it.
You can't say rock.
You gotta go back.
Rock? Yep, exactly.
Furthermore, everybody's got their
tribal IDs, where's our field first
time?
Okay, so everybody's have their
tribal ID's and they're going
to need a van.
On top of that, you're going come
down here and they are going to get
light jackets that fit properly.
Okay, and you don't want to put an
adult woman's size on a 50 pound
kit.
That's not going to be okay.
So it is kind of challenging because
we can't see what we've got there.
So we want to make sure it's safe.
Older participants will be taken at
one time, so
at this point right here, we could
probably take seven people.
That boat over there, maybe it's two
or four.
We're going to have to kind of
just be patiently waiting.
So what we're going do is we're
gonna, everybody's going to get
the permit, their light jacket,
we're go to go out in the boat and
we're depart.
Not everybody's gonna get
turned right off the bat, but
after they're two fish
or they're
It doesn't work out.
It works.
It works a little.
You can't hold it here.
You might just want to take a ride
in the car.
That's what you want to do.
Maybe you just want to take a boat
ride, take a look at what the fish
look like out there, okay?
It's kind of useless to have you go
out there and try and spear and not
work the effort.
Another thing I'll remind you is if
you do have success,
you come in, you get the fish
registered, and there's time,
you can get another permit.
But here's the thing, you need
to have a permit to spear on
the boat.
If you lose your permit while
you're running around here playing
like a kid,
guess what, that's called S.O.L.
You're shit out of luck.
Alright?
So, it's important,
once you get that permit issued,
keep it in order to do it.
Alright?
One more, come back,
go to the trio first, get your
fifth register.
And then if you're a youth and
you want to go...
What is the date
today? May 1st?
Why don't you get a reading?
Go grab this, everyone's in my bag.
So, we're going to have an
awareness on either Rob or Genevieve
or both of them.
How old this picture is?
So that way we'll set you up with an
accident, yes.
So that you can get some of the kids
that are better, that know what
they're doing, better light,
and then get audio with that.
So we'll probably have you make a
couple runs with that and then maybe
come in and get some of the other
stuff from shore.
And then once you get out a couple
times, hopefully by then you've
got the rhythm, you've just got some
good videos, got some nice masks and
all the folks, so maybe you can be
for sure and see that transition
with kids getting on and off.
Come on, Steven.
Come on.
We're safe.
11?
11.
I don't know.
All right, Danny, keep this safe and
dry. Do you want me to pull on your
ID?
Oh, you got a sign up.
Right on that line.
Don't lose it.
Don't lose it
Okay,
next.
I need your ID there.
Yes, how are you?
Get your first name on it.
That's all we need, OK?
I'm gonna go move your bag back up a
little bit. Okay, I appreciate that.
What is it?
I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don´t
know what it is.
I'll bring that back to you.
My mark.
Where did you go?
I don't know where they were.
Ashley's an hour away.
So they could really go
there and come back within like an
hour.
That's like two hours.
It's an owl.
Are you zooming in?
When you get a fish, later on,
come and show us.
Okay. What's your name?
Parsons. Parsons?
Alright.
I'll remember you, Parsons, I expect
to see you here.
You see the red on there?
They'll tell me what's in focus and
what's not in focus.
Yeah.
How much is it?
Bye, Dianne and me.
Not just today, not
just today.
Okay, well good, I just,
I don't want to hit you in the
brain.
What do you like, get in front of
that camera?
Can I be on the movie?
Take a picture of me.
Yeah, what do you want to do
something?
Yeah! Alright, go get some food and
come back and eat it, and I'll just
stay here. Alright, come on, let's
go!
Thank you very much.
Oh, cool.
Do you want me to get that?
Awesome.
Hi!
He's like the in-between man that
makes sure he gets
done with the oil work.
So he works for
a private...
Yeah, you're leading it.
Waiting for a guy second in line.
Yeah, she said Mars.
Yeah, right.
I'm the most happy when I'm
with you.
Oh.
Thank you.
I'm going to quit.
Enjoy beneath.
I'm giving up.
$15,000.
Whoa.
What the fuck is that?
Ready?
I don't want to.
You gotta do it.
Boy, grab the big drum stick.
Big drum.
Yeah.
How are you?
Good. How are they?
Good. How are my friends?
Yeah.
Thank you.
How are you?
Okay, I'll start, I'm going to start
deep, okay?
All the waters, all the bad ideas.
I'll do that when it happens to me.
Look it!
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what I'm talking about!
I didn't mean it!
I didn't mean it.
I'm just getting in my way.
I'm getting in.
Yeah.
You're Matthew!
Come look!
Oh yeah.
We're going to have to meet with my
babies or
my parents.
Come back home to your mom.
Look for your mom, huh?
Go find your mama.
Come on, come on.
Hey, that's not good for it.
It's too sweet.
What do you want me to do, though?
You need a walk?
Yeah. Where are you going?
We're eating right
here.
Oh my god.
Ow!
My face!
I'm going to whip.
Hey!
I mean what?
What's that face?
What's the face?
Ready again, go in the water!
Are you going to die?
Are you gonna die?
No, I can't.
That's kind of a TV documentary.
Oh my God.
That's a good one.
Oh my god!
Grab it!
How's it going?
I don't know if it would be on
YouTube.
Uh, it would probably be on...
...TVS, I think.
The sun is really dark
in there,
but I've gotten a couple of kids who
really wanted to get one.
I thought they'd get confused and
they'd come back right here.
But I could probably get some more.
It was good.
Yeah, she was able to get the idea.
So I'm giving you just
a little bit of space in there, a
little movement, so you can get room
out, so if you want.
Thank you.
When the water was filled with fresh
water from the front of the valley.
So that's some shots of
those spears in the boat.
Yeah, the one guy was talking to me
before, but then he said my best
friend, I have to get over here,
he's talking to him.
I just think you like small
tip-tips.
This is a longer front.
It might be one take,
but I'll just, before I move,
I'll give you five.
You
Thank you.
What if it was?
Or maybe it was a secret.
Think about justice.
I mean, what are you saying?
You're supposed to, like, talk to
each other. Something like that.
But what if it's, like...
I don't know.
I mean...
I don't know.
I don 't know what to do.
Over here, over here.
Over here.
I normally use a hand file, but
I don't have one.
How many times do you have to do
that?
Uh, so it's...
So basically like every time you
guys are going to come in you're
going to have to be out a little bit
easier.
Yeah, so I feel
like that's a little bit too early
for you guys.
I feel that you guys are usually
serious.
Sometimes you need to have your, you
know, good job.
At least you kind of have to do it.
Somebody needs to talk to you about
it.
Or ask them what the duck funnel is.
One, two, three, four, one,
two.
Yeah.
Yeah. .
Well done.
Well done, cutting it off.
Just watching it.
Well done
We'll be right back.
Yeah, it's a racer.
Yeah.
These poles are not
the good poles.
It's a good call.
Okay, thank you.
They're around the corner.
You might as well not even leave the
landing.
God, I hate when my relatives all
show up in the same place.
We didn't put any bear grease on
here.
You'd be pushing them instead of
sparing them. You're going to lie to
that lady?
Back there?
They're kicking it.
You know what I'm saying?
I'll tell you what, I did a lot of
research in my whole life.
In making, I made a lot out of
spares.
But, um, these guys
coming down to the floor a lot,
they think they're overdoing it?
What's that rule?
He went from here to
here with a stainless steel
rod that he used to keep
for it.
The protection corner is the normal
one that lays in there.
It'll come off quicker from
next year.
I'm going to modify the...
That's why I made that thing there.
We tried flashing these bugs a
little bit.
Matthew.
Yeah,
if you cut them, you just want to
thoroughly cut them off.
That's what we'll do next year.
We're going to bring this up to...
Well, that's entirely right.
I bought two, because I broke one
this year.
You have the typical program,
or your booklet program,
by them from your spirit.
That's amazing.
I didn't buy them.
Program
the government can hear, all right?
Yeah, so if you didn't
want, if you don't want your mom or
the government, yeah, I'm hot-wired,
so yeah, yes.
Perfect, as long as you guys are
cool with that, then hop on.
Cool. Thanks. Three.
Do you want to come back?
No you don't.
No way.
You don't miss it.
You miss us, you don't miss the
chaos.
Are they good to hop on?
I don't know how to do that anymore.
So, yeah.
A little. So we're going to have the
spearing rods.
Just don't bonk them on the head.
Don't bonking the camera on the
hand. I don't feel like that, man.
Yeah. Yeah, I know you guys wouldn't
do it intentionally, but you know,
and then there's a fancy light here
that will turn on for
more lighting, but I don't step
on it, I guess.
I'll try not to. Yeah.
You guys know what you're doing
otherwise.
I guess.
What are we doing here?
Who are you?
What's the meaning of life?
47.
Oh, yeah. That was 47.
That's 42.
Probably.
I'm bad with numbers.
What are you talking about?
I have no idea, fellas.
I do want
to lose it.
I very much so want to live out
there. He's just being forced to
die. You have an iPhone 13.
So? I'm involved.
Putting us together is enough.
I don't have to work.
No. Thanks. Make sure little green
lights turned on.
I'll see you on the next one.
Uh where would I where would i
see it
hold me if i oh there's
yep working on it
What the heck am I waiting for?
I'm working on it.
And all my free Miigwech
guys thank you
Yup.
All right, fellas.
There's a stick behind you, Rob.
I know, I'm not worried about that.
We gotta be like a...
They used to give it to us,
where they had killed them.
I used to love that show,
yeah.
They don't do that anymore, they do
like- I- I think Japan stopped
doing it as much, so I guess
that's good.
Japan?
What are you saying?
I'm not cool enough to understand.
He's showing off in front of the
camera. Oh, I see.
Oh, I see.
Oh, well, just so you guys know, the
genre of this is not comedy,
unfortunately.
So your talents are wasted.
We can go back and get some other
folks.
Oh, yeah. Oh my god, you got a
gimmick in all of it. Mm-hmm.
Kevin Hawking!
Yep, all right, I'm gonna start
the train back, unless you wanna hop
like this, but they're in the
goofball mode.
Do we just stay right here?
Can they stay there?
You guys can sit on the fishbowl.
You can't see it on the map.
You're only 15 or so.
Also, just because we're on camera,
I think we're going to...
Yeah, Ronnie, are you good buttoning
up the whole thing?
I'll try it, the top one's really
tight. I can help loosen it if you
want. I know it kind of sucks with
cold fingers.
Maybe Nicholas can.
Okay guys, who's going first?
I promise, when you're
here in the internship, I promise
I'm not this much of a nerd.
Nicholas knows, right?
I'm super cool.
I don't believe you.
Here, let me loosen these guys up,
but I want you to breathe, can you
put your arm up?
Here we go. Robbie and Lance are.
Oh, hell.
What the heck?
All right, why don't you unbuckle
real quick.
I think I've just got this.
Dad, just what?
See you.
Did I say?
Did I?
That's what I'm talking about.
Have you ever seen that?
I don't believe that, but you've got to feel my
answer. Sorry.
Oh, I'm gonna keep interrupting you.
Get used to it.
You got to get used to it.
She's like that one take cover.
She's, like, I'm mic'd up, guys.
I'm mics up.
You
It's cold out here, the wind just
sucks the heat out of you, huh?
Yeah, I do too.
I think the bugs are out.
I always felt a little bad for
dusting going in the mud.
Oh, okay, my yeah Were you out
with us last year?
I think I remember you.
I think you had the biggest walleye
of the night, right?
That was KJ.
Is it KJ?
Mmm, mm-hmm.
I can't tell you guys apart anymore.
Both of you. Like, you both do.
Or a little late actually, I think
we should talk to you later.
I can't remember because I heard my
parents talking. Was it over the
next day?
It seemed like it was a busty
year.
And with a $500 bonus,
because I'm such a good bop.
And you're such a bad driver.
Did your dad tell you that
he got a new truck for work
and he had to specifically get a
backup alarm and camera because of
me?
Listen. Good example here.
That's... And I got a click in
here.
I'm scared.
Thank you.
Fogger all up. I was like trying to
escape.
You know how to take waders off,
right? Like, yeah.
Yep, exactly.
You know what you're doing.
We trust ya.
See, he's seen us at our best in our
way. I don't think you've seen us
our best. I think you have seen a
lot of our fumbles.
I'm out of the woods.
What a good time.
It's all good, scenic tour.
I think they got all the kids in
that first round.
Yeah, so, ain't no thing.
We can take, yeah,
we can take our time.
Hold up.
Looks like, I don't even believe it.
Definitely not.
So many gadgets.
So many.
Yeah, yeah, you can.
Are we getting a sequel of this?
Alright. You guys can pull that
rope under the frozen
nest so it's not over the light.
Want to go first?
Make a list where you want to go.
So you want to reach.
Difference between any of them.
They're all Lance, Prisette, and
Sharp. They're all Lance Brizette
approved.
Have a little extra fun.
Will you be able to hear him if I'm
this far back or you want me to hop
up more?
I don't
know how well they
need to hear it.
Should I go too fast or should I go
to big?
Oh, um, it's easier
to brag, you know, because like you
can say any fish is fast.
You could say the big fish was the
fastest.
You gotta perch, yeah.
He he he.
So what you'll be able to see when
you get closer is
their eyes reflect the
light. So that's where walleye
term comes in.
So the kids are looking for only
the fish with the
eyes that reflect back.
Because some of them.
There's one coming out from your
left.
Yeah.
Oh, there was one.
If you want, you can have the
headlamp and you can help scout only
if you want.
Oh, shoot.
Ha ha ha ha!
You're getting a little rocky and
shallow here.
It's too early in the day still.
Good thing we have time.
Oh!
Prize winner!
It's such a little
light.
Okay, so.
Don't laugh at me giving you
instructions, because you know more
than me.
But the narrator needs it.
So you're looking for the eyes
reflecting back at you, yeah?
And the way you want to hold the
spear, how do
you want to do, perpendicular or
parallel with the fish?
I do it like this.
You do it.
Ride with the bulb.
It's got more. It's got more glide.
So when you're moving, you're
parallel with the
boat. And then when you ready to
spear, you rotate it.
You get more surface area.
Yeah?
You know what you're doing.
Expert tree dodging.
What else did George say earlier?
He had to like hold with one hand
and then kind of pivot with the
other?
Yeah, yeah, like a
pool cue almost,
yeah. Kind of resting like that.
Do you have any tips from when your
parents taught you?
Who taught ya?
No one, you just learned yourself?
AJ is a good teacher.
Is this the only time a year you get
to go out?
Is this youth spearing night?
Because normally, you're used to the
shocking boat, yeah?
Because this is not normal for how
most people get to spear.
They have the helmet and then a
spotlight, yeah.
So this is like
fancy special treatment boat from
the department. Thank you.
For sure.
Yeah.
We really know each other, you
already know. He learns
fast.
Yeah, I got it, I've got it.
Oh, there was one.
There you go, there
you go.
Eight.
Oh.
It's my fault, I psyched them out.
I'm sure they appreciated it.
I think I have to move
up a little bit more.
Yeah, I think this is a good call.
We're kind of catching him on the
tail end, I thing.
I've seen three.
That's not as many.
Well, you've got good eyes.
I'm up to like 16.
But a lot of them aren't coming out
of the rack. So we're way past that,
so it looks small.
Ronnie, did you learn spearing
from...
Yeah, I landed with,
uh, when I did, I
didn't have any prior, like,
experience before. Yeah, that's kind
of the point of tonight, which is
pretty cool. How old were you?
I'm pretty sure the whole reason I
got my mic is
because you're just in position.
Yeah.
So I, uh, I
think one day...
They're really bad looking at me.
Oh man, you're getting old.
I know.
14 now?
Yeah.
That's all for now.
Oh
Yeah.
In spirit, in spirit.
In spirit.
14.
All right. Well, I got you missing
it. It's fine.
I was pointed in the right
direction.
Ogama, what about you?
When did you start spearing?
Now it's two years old.
Two years old, first time holding a
spear.
Who taught you?
My dad. Yeah.
If you don't remember from last
year... I do remember from
last year, he was crushing it, all
these guys were.
Was that your dad taking pictures of
us as we?
Yeah.
No, no.
Embarrassing dad photos.
Oh, that almost just hit his elbow.
Yeah, that would have been...
We weren't close.
By Robbie's standards.
Hey Lane, Lance uses a mist turning
for us side.
I'll catch you if you fall, I've got
support back here.
So if it weren't for youth night,
would you guys... Well, I know you,
Ronnie, would probably go out and...
Yeah, Ogama, your parents would take
you out, huh? Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
So, but for Nicholas,
youth night's your time to get out,
huh?
Would you go out spearing without
youth night?
Probably?
Keep it going, keep it going.
All right, bump it off.
Oop, oop, op, op.
I didn't do it.
Oh my god.
Bernie.
It goes almost as simple as that.
Do you want to switch out?
$1,000,000.
You're up, Ogama.
I'll wait for the train to get out
of the train. You're good.
I do have the box, right?
Thank you.
I might go.
I'm sorry.
You're like a volleyball.
Oh, perfect.
When you were nine?
Is that your ID?
Oh my gosh.
Maybe Nicholas.
I don't know, he kind of did it.
Yeah, he quit looking at me.
What? He quit looking.
Your headlamp's hurting our eyes.
Holy mackerel, you both grew up so
much. Shoot.
That's when I had short hair, in my
parents' room. Can I get the
headlamp? Dude.
I quit looking. Oh, there's some
eyes.
What's a night vision crew?
Hello, I can't hear you.
You guys are going to have to
keep...
I'll try to be better about calling
left and right, but I am notoriously
bad at that.
Sometimes I'll pull my left, my
right. Same, yeah.
It's probably because I'm like
left-handed. Oh.
A lot of people are right-handed.
Ronnie's left-handed.
Awesome.
Ronnie, so you would want to be
in my position?
I could probably be in your
position. OK.
Because I wouldn't mind
tearing up the document.
I don't know. We'll see.
Look at those eyebrows,
like Amelia Clarke. Thank you very much.
But it's also, like, really scary to
take. It's nice.
Same back to the left and right
thing though I want to get L
and R tattooed on my hands so I
don't goof it up anymore.
Yeah but I still don't I have to
think about which one's the L.
I just think that was one of the
things that I did.
Yeah, that's fair.
That's a good point.
You're smarter than me.
Ha ha ha!
Let's get this.
It's okay.
It's ok.
Cameras add pressure.
I wouldn't be able to do it.
I feel like we're distracting with
all the questions, eh?
Like.
Yeah, I get you
You have free will.
You're going over a stick, but it
should be fine, yeah.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
I always forget.
You've got to talk to the Lance
Brizette. You want sharper spears.
How high are your boots?
You're in Crocs.
Yeah, you'd be invincible.
If you come back for the internship
this year, I have a dry
suit, which is like the
full everything.
You have a day. I got a dry suit.
I'm going to get dry suits for all
of us. Ouch!
They're so expensive!
Oh, that's a pipe!
Exactly.
I just saw a pike!
What are you doing?
Don't get a pike,
there's wardens on
land.
There's a little...
There's also a camera man, you
nerds.
I'm going to tell Misty if you guys
do it. This is going to be a whole
lot of work on a bike out there.
Oh my god, it's bad though.
And for this summer we're going to
do, I
wish, but we're going to some beaver
dam work because they're covering up
all of the roads.
Just jump in the water.
I think we should, actually.
Thank you very much.
That's the plan.
I
I'm not even kidding, guys.
There's three of them.
I mean. I mean, if you guys had
a headlight, you'd probably go off
the edge.
Yeah, he showed you that.
Mm-hmm, yeah, that was good.
Thank you.
Get one?
Oh trapping?
Well, state. Oh,
it's just here?
That would be, it'd
be possible, I think, yeah.
How do you see people with, like, a
head radius?
Oh, man.
It's like putting your arm on and
have a radius. Thank you.
I want to mess it up.
That would be pretty cool. For.
Have you guys heard?
Yeah, real quick.
You guys talked to Mary Moose, that
elder from, I think she's all the
way up in Canada.
Oh, there's some ducks.
She said she swam up into
a beaver dam.
She lived in one and they fed her.
In a...
In a... Bear...
Slow down for the ducks, Robbie.
They're in the headlights.
Hi, Robbie.
Hello. You guys see me, Vic?
No, I didn't.
Okay.
That's so bad.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Oh, they're close by over there.
All righty.
Oof. I'm going to have to run over
a few dogs. Okay.
I did! I said duck!
You didn't see my two feet in
front of the boat, Doug?
I thought they swam away.
Don't worry, I politely pointed the
camera away from you.
Oh, Robbie, we're going to need a
workplace training on communication.
It makes me always fear if we need
those Bluetooth headsets
when we're doing it. Ooh, yeah.
Here we go.
We got some we got him
What did you say?
We always just hit that last speaker
so soon as we can.
You're up.
I'm not going to go for the camera,
so I'm going to not go for it.
Yeah, true, true.
Yeah, I'm shimmying.
Oh my god, I'm still a little bit
lost in here.
Not your crocs.
That will be all.
It would have been comedy bold.
I don't know, man.
This is...
It's not a comedy genre, it's
a documentary and it'll be like, and
the young Nicholas falls into the
water.
Your best David Attenborough
voice.
That's that British guy who does the
mochi back in the news.
Like a platter.
Yeah. Yeah.
Thank you.
Oops.
Are we going to walk?
Yeah, this is wild grad.
Martin, Chris Pratt,
Chris pratt.
Oh, my God.
You're up, Ronnie, you're good, you
are good.
Thank you.
Where works for Ronnie, Matt?
Can you go on the right
side? Is that good?
Yeah. It's a hot chocolate mochi.
He's good.
It's on me.
You can swear now.
I'm gonna go, I'm
going to go.
Thank you.
It was close.
He wants you to hold onto his
gloves.
I got him, Brawny.
I'm here to help.
That's my job.
Yup.
Alright Ronnie, what wisdom would
Misty be telling you right now?
What did Misty be telling you, like,
how to hold the spear?
Well, they're good.
Thank you.
Time to get a watch.
Mine's under all of my layers.
It's probably like...
Gotta get a watch.
Well,
I think we were alongside the road
last year.
Yeah,
yeah. Yeah, and they, like, rev
their engine at us and
said some unkind.
Cool, thanks.
I think you've got a hand railing to
hold on to.
Thank you.
It was a tricky window
this year, I guess.
Last year we were out mid-April,
I think, like April 14th or
something like that.
So actually we got them when we
were supposed to throw it in
the spawn and if it was close
to the spawn, during
the spawn war, we were going
over it.
We're going over a log.
It should be okay.
Yeah, I think we're good.
So if there's
a, if you're out here like during
the spawn, how often are
you spotting a fish?
It's pretty much like
every,
it depends.
They're in little, they're in
different pockets sometimes
but you find a nice hot spot and
yeah like every one
to two minutes or so you see one.
Look at that baby suit right there.
Don't get it on.
Thank you.
This is my brother's baby.
OK.
We've got some. What's up with the
shovel? None of my favorite spot in
January is this one.
Oh, I. Oh, I see it's
swimming away from you.
There you go, there you go.
Oh, close.
Will Nicholas fall into the
lake from exhaustion?
No, we're not.
From this reckless
driving.
Bye, girls.
Trying to lure them in.
I see someone,
it was a little guy,
was it a bug?
I'm going to stop coaching now.
Robbie, I'll drive, you coach.
I mean, if we need any bugs, then
we've got it. I am, yeah.
Bye.
I am, yeah, this is when you bring a
wildlife biologist on the fishing
boat.
He's laughing.
Loon.
Oh, if you want some cool footage
you got, look at that.
A bear?
What do we
got, extra battery or
something?
Yeah, right when Nicholas mentions a
bear and we hear just a loud crash.
Thank you.
Burgess look at that wow
you guys see the moon.
It's behind us both
All right, all right.
Go Moon! Have you seen it?
Because I don't know how to turn it
off.
Uh, he's got a
light on his PFD that's
turning on.
Oh.
There's a black button.
There you go, nice.
Ha ha ha, no SOS.
Ha ha.
This is how you do it.
I only know deer jokes.
I know this joke.
It's very bad.
He's not like a good 50-year-old.
It's alright Roger, you're not my
friend so...
Ha ha ha ha, I'm going to
burp.
We're going over a little dock line
here Rob.
I think I think we should be good
Big rock to the left.
Thank you.
OK.
Mm.
Just like me with the
trailer.
It's a night of near misses.
Mrs.
Everyone warm enough?
I have hand and foot warmers if you
need. Hopefully somewhere else on
the way if you're having fun.
And it's a well-known fact that
the research has been successful.
Ah, yes, it's true.
Okay.
I thought that was a phone, but it
was a button.
I like it. That's supposed to be a
white house. I think it's a
birdhouse that is a lighthouse.
It's some sort of structure.
Two years ago, Antony rescued...
Must be rescued.
Two years ago, Anthony rescued
a cockatoo that had been around for
a couple of days.
Oh, what?
Wow!
Oh, there is one more!
Oh, wow.
Guys, I was going to leave the
footage.
Don't encourage that
one.
I would have stuffed it inside of my
coconut. I didn't have to have a
meeting with the water.
We've got.
Yeah, it's too big.
Boy impulses are too
big!
We were confused.
We didn't have any biologists on the
phone. Oh, yeah.
Ah, yes, that's there.
They let the terrestrial biologist
up front.
She didn't have her glasses on.
She thought it was a bug.
Right.
Yeah, you guys can push off.
There you go.
So normally when we do this, I think
we know it's going to be F-mode, so
hold on.
Is 6-7 still a thing?
Oh, man.
Toilet.
So even if you're not trying to do
it, you can just count the steps.
You just can't help it.
1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14.
That's true, man.
That's all we got.
I hope.
I don't know.
You can go that way, you can go
this way.
I'm scared, yeah,
don't put that in there.
Check with an elder before any of
this.
Oh,
man.
You're gonna rep me.
Look at it, he's being sassier.
He only wants to record Ron.
Ron is the star of the show.
What? I'm the what now?
I'm a what now.
What's that?
Well, I already asked you,
Ogama, do you want a hand warmer or
anything, are you okay?
I put a mustard in it like the whole
one. It's okay.
You good? Your hands are warm
enough?
Okay. Toes. I don't know if I've
been to any of these races.
Goodbye.
I see so far, I see four most...
I think two.
Wait, actually one of them was a
part...
Poor, poor Muskie, no
wale.
That's really confirmed for a
new lady. I see more.
So it must be fun after the
wall eyes with the crap.
It tells me that, you know, instead
of going fishing for wallets, my
boat is going fishing now.
It is Seagull's Cough.
Oh, okay.
Ooh.
What did Marvin say about
when the frogs start
singing, that's when you can start
spearing?
We'll just move the paper to start.
That's when they start.
Yeah.
And what's the peepers in
Anishinaabemowin?
Get to something,
get to the deepie.
I thought you were in the wild.
Oh, I agree.
Well, it's a frog.
Oh, so are frogs not live right now?
It's amphibians.
I'm a mammologist, thank you.
You mean creatures?
Yes, because my
master's degree makes me.
I forgot everything I learned about
frogs in undergrad.
They're back on shore, and Niall's
driving a boat.
Wait, like, the rest of it?
Oh, Lance is in North Dakota.
Basketball.
Kids are in basketball.
Oh yeah,
Jackson and Bobby are here. Both of
them, Jackson, and Bobby, are here
for one, two, in the same town that
we've been.
That's a good one.
Cool, thank you.
The same time.
Last week and you know she took
probably one direction.
Yeah. Last three weeks.
What is like opposite?
Like all.
Yeah.
Yeah, like, heads and tails.
Alright, last week we need to
go, Jesse drove four hours,
we need go six and a half.
He was south of the city, he was
over by some fish.
That's part of the point, but...
I honestly don't know, I haven't
counted plants today, I have no idea
where they're at, so...
They're just like, white
strings, and I'm like, I don't
notice.
If you want to buy it, they're only
like a million dollars.
What are we doing now?
Wait, what are we? Houses,
these houses.
What kind of house?
What? What? How much are you?
At least a million dollars.
.
. .
House could be on the radio.
Oh, boy.
No, I'm not crying.
If you had to make a well, what
would you put on the well?
I'd give myself some oil.
Mmm.
I remember you telling me about
Tank.
Don't you have like a corgi?
We don't have any time to talk.
Bonjour. We can talk.
I don't need that.
Jack, because that's the corgi,
right?
No, that's false.
I was like, you have, I...
I know, because they're just so
cool, I don't believe they exist.
Thank you very much.
Dogs will do that.
Ha ha ha ha.
What even don't go?
I can't go back to zero fish
boys. It can't be this much of a
failure.
Why are these headlights on?
Ah, because we took the generator
out of the boat.
Oh my god.
Or why, seriously?
Well, it takes up most of the boats.
They shouldn't want to drop it in
the bucket.
We don't want to give you guys too
much to listen to as well.
That's fair.
I mean, if I had all the blood, I'd
kind of try it with you.
I don't need no one to tell me
what's in the bedroom.
I'm really going in so I don't fall
off on the fact that I'm going up
the stairs.
It's amazing, I'm just going in.
Not for Roger, not for
me.
Not for your crop.
Great.
Just musky.
Mosquitoes!
It's okay. Remember.
All right, we got them in.
I don't know the name of the...
I'm taller than this guy.
That doesn't mean you're stronger
than him.
I'm stronger, I'm much stronger than
you.
All right.
Alright Robbie, you got it.
I think there's a little dog
somewhere.
No, I don't think so.
I think I'm off.
It's right behind you.
Ronnie, maybe something coming on
your right.
How about the internet?
Yeah It's
probably not
He's got to see them fish late.
He can't see the fish in your van.
Nicholas, he has to see
the fish late so that he can get
it.
Right.
Let's do it.
Well, not when they're over there.
This light is literally like this.
That's how much you can see on it.
This is not very great.
The other way.
Uh, hey, bro.
Nicholas, I need a quick drink.
I need to get in my car now.
Oh my god.
Just like, oh yeah, you know.
And I'm buying her a good car.
She's always buying cheap ones.
A beater?
Always get a beer.
I got a nice new 2020 car.
Now it needs to dance and I can't.
I had a 2002 Escape.
It was a beater.
But you know what?
The gas tank only fell off one.
It's a cool one.
2020 was kind of like...
Yeah, it's not a new car.
Thank you.
Would you guys vote for me?
All right.
President, President Beebe.
Ha ha!
Thank you.
2021 or what?
2020. 2020.
COVID-19.
2020.
Robby, you're getting old.
You guys are making me feel old.
I can't even keep my ears straight.
Why was COVID-19 the happiest point
for you?
All these late nights shocking fish.
I've always wanted to take this
picture.
I would want them to not live in the
town. Nah?
Ha ha ha.
Yeah, we're gonna let it grow,
buddy.
All those brown
fishermen this year.
Oh, man, yeah.
Gotta, gotta hate him.
So scary.
That's one people.
There could be a necklace on the
lake and then I couldn't have my
house. There's not, yeah,
it's not like we stock thousands of
walleye every year, there's not
enough walleye to go around.
The previous is the one time we were
tracking a lake and we
uh, we were passing by a house and
Larry was sleeping in their
bedroom.
Ha ha ha ha!
That was a little creepy, and then
right, okay, that's...
Ha ha ha ha!
We're alive!
We can't spear a fish!
Water slide!
Come on!
I was looking for, like, one in a
tree, not on the...
That's the house I could afford.
No, the hot pack.
I'll take it if you don't want it.
Because my other hand's cold.
No, leave no trace, bud.
No, that's not what I wanted to ask
you about.
I didn't mean to scare you.
It's my first time on a boat.
This is my first rodeo.
We're kind of at like 90 degrees.
Yeah, we're kind like upside down
right now.
You guys want to, oh never mind,
he wanted
it kind of low and under your faces
I think.
All right.
There, that's good.
That's fine.
Yeah, bye!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
I don't know.
I don't believe in that.
Yeah, me too.
If you have a model and they have
all their lights on, they're not
up yet this time of year.
If they're this rich, they are up
here maybe once a year.
They're not now. They're up here
when it's like prima summer, 4th of
July.
Yeah.
I think he wanted us to go past him,
Robbie.
Fishy.
Anyway...
Like the office, look directly
in the camera.
You're fired.
Your acting career is over
fellas.
He's 47.
Yeah.
Oh, straight up. He's 47.
So that's just the house for their
boats. That's where the boats live.
You have a house in both of them.
I know.
That's funny.
I can afford to live in the closet
here, and that's all.
Here's a demonstration of
the movement.
I want to let you know that you
can do that.
Same.
I know that.
That's a lot of work.
That's good.
I want the water slide
in the divorce.
Bye, boss.
Yeah, Ronnie, we're trying to clear
the bottle.
Oh, if it's glass, don't do it.
I might be able to do it.
I might be able to grab it.
All right.
You guys want to go for it or you
want?
Or do you want a basketball court?
What?
Alright, even out the weight over
there, fellas.
Someone hold me.
Bring it in to me, Ronnie.
Oh, I'm not going to get it.
Burt.
I can't.
And I'm scared.
Oh yeah, there he is!
Yeah, that's the catch of the night.
Yeah, it's plastic.
I'm going to give that to you, boss.
Wait, I want to go over there now.
I'm gonna go over there.
Watch out, watch out.
You're a real pirate.
You don't have to. I can sit back
here if you want up.
Where did his other glove go?
Oh, here we are.
All right, clear the path,
fellas. I love the way it's ending.
Totally safe.
It's meant to do that.
It is an EV mode.
You know how those electric cars do
that?
You guys remember your mics, don't
you?
You can hear us giggling about
leaving you and giving you a spook.
You mean the prenup?
What's wrong with wanting a
waterslide?
It's not even a water snake!
Right when, so this is what Marvin
told me.
Usually when the peepers start
calling, that's when the walleyes
start spawning, and that's you want
to go out spearing.
So they've been calling for, like
you said, about a month now.
But the tricky part is, what was
happening, was it just yesterday?
Was it snowing?
Yeah.
So these weather and these really
big, cold and hot fluctuations
really mess with the timing of this,
and we don't know.
It's hard to make predictions.
Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.
Thank you.
He does.
So Ronnie, here we go.
Ogama, you're good?
All right.
You want another one, Nicholas?
I only have two left.
Oh, perfect.
Oh yeah, sorry Matt, I have your
gloves here. You got my gloves?
Yep.
It's holding on to them.
I can't realize. Bye.
You're miked up.
I'm miked-up, bud.
Famous.
And I'm a spirit.
There's a camera on.
What? It kills more pressure than I
thought.
You want one too, Ronnie?
Wait, the house looks scary
from this angle.
Hey, there it is.
Looks a little spooky.
Yeah, I think that's Warden.
We're working with you guys at
MedLake.
We're doing some of the things you
need to know to have something on
camera and stuff.
Alright, I got you.
Wait, I've got a kitchen.
You guys know how to put it in the
bucket yourself?
Oh
Well done!
There we go.
Kiss it first.
Oh yeah, is it yours?
No, it's Chad's.
We gotta kiss it.
Oh, we gotta kiss for good luck.
No! No!
Did you sharpen this knife down
like that? What's up?
I've been fine with that.
This is where it was speared,
so you follow the bones all
the way up like this, it's going to
come up on
the fish. So you're going to just
follow, use your tip of your knife,
and you're gonna feel. And you're going to feel.
And you can just keep coming up and
going up, up like that.
And then also. And then all of a sudden, you're going
to come to the skin.
And then the bones are going to go
downwards.
So then now.
Yeah, so it comes up and then it
goes down, so now we're going to
follow the bones right back
down.
We'll have to go to get in the
baths. And then there's some bones
right here, so you've got to come up
a little bit.
I'll come back though.
Yep, see him right there?
And there's a large chunk right
there. Uh huh.
See an elephant right there
All the bones are right there and
there's one there.
It was probably dead right when it
got scared.