1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 You 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 You 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 You 4 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 You 5 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 You 6 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 You 7 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 You 8 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:52,640 Like normally the fish come you know around the bend or whatever and go up 9 00:03:52,640 --> 00:04:03,200 And then they're going to end up March this one and after a while spawn off and they go back down then they're on the deep deep side of the 10 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:21,000 River and they're floating backwards down river you know they don't swim but they do swim but they're always higher up in a water column 11 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,320 They might be six or eight feet down and all when they go back like now. They're on the bottom 12 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,320 toward the bottom 13 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:52,640 They don't know if you're great exact maybe kid I'll be too busy with this thing. Yeah 14 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,540 I ain't gonna guarantee you catch any fish. No worries. That's because the water got so cold 15 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:02,840 Main thing 16 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,080 Like 17 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,200 You know a shallow over there and it goes down it's probably 18 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:21,560 Six and a half or seven feet deep here and then on the end it's another foot deeper at least 19 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,960 You got a wolf every wolf every gone to the middle on 20 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,320 Like I made this railing and you can 21 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,080 Like fishing like this now like I can 22 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,480 Know yeah, move over nice when I'm using gamefuls are all straight like that. I'm moving this way to 23 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:50,000 This was a pontoon. I used to have other rafts that I made that 24 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,560 That 25 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,560 That were like pipe frame 26 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,040 And then use barrels then I went to this one was 27 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,600 It's easier used to have a hay wagon that you 28 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,560 Had to load them on and 29 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,580 This one and I made out of a pontoon and I made it wider and then I built a shack 30 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,560 use 31 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,400 Make a little shack we insulated and I put metal on the outside so I didn't have to do it nothing with it after well 32 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,080 That's what the shack's all about 33 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,560 Okay 34 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,480 Okay, I thought Gary was gonna come 35 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,560 I 36 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,440 Really just 37 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:53,200 Sit there and jig and you can feel it hit bottom you're up and down and 38 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,720 There's different weights jigs according to how much current there is 39 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,200 Anything all kinds of fish bait 40 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,440 Like we had some 41 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:15,280 Small mozz bass ready and rock bass got a few walleyes 42 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:23,680 Once in a while, you get a sturgeon on they're getting ready. I know the D&R talked about on the news today was 43 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,000 Usually the sturgeon spawn 44 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,200 On the rocks like April 21st the waters are the 55 degrees 45 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,760 But so cold the D&R said that they might spawn 46 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,120 Like a week later or something all depends on the weather 47 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,080 Get him up whole anything sir, do you 48 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,440 I 49 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,440 You 50 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,440 You 51 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,440 You 52 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,440 You 53 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,440 You 54 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,440 You 55 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,440 You 56 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,440 You 57 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:26,320 Can you just give me a mic check once sure, yeah, okay, thank you 58 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:34,460 So I guess give me a little background on so you grew up here, right? Yeah, I grew up 59 00:13:34,460 --> 00:13:36,460 No, I've been here all my life 60 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,600 like my dad took me fishing when I was a kid and 61 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,360 been fishing all the time on rafts and I 62 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,800 made different rafts that I had over the years and and 63 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:53,680 This one's a pontoon made out of pontoons. I made it a wider than I built a shack on it 64 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,920 I have a pontoon trailer 65 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,560 which is easy for to 66 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,200 Back under it and crank it up and where you go used to have to 67 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:09,040 Take my other rafts as a jacket up and get it on that like a hay wagon or something like that 68 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,400 It was a lot of work to head hauling around and 69 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,920 Yeah, and things like that was harder to put in and out 70 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 like this one too is a 71 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,160 then I just to move it I 72 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,600 Take my boat and motor and hook on the end of it and then push it around 73 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,280 oh 74 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,720 I got like pipes in the corner. That's what holds it in the 75 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:44,440 Down the corner of the raft holds it in place wherever you put it in the wrap on the river and I've run an extra rope to the shore for 76 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,680 Safety precautions to hold it case something 77 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,680 Most of the times the pipes don't 78 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:59,120 Slide do or nothing. They worked away in the dirt and you got to jack them up. Some guys got automatic cranks on them and stuff 79 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,280 but 80 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,280 usually 81 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:13,040 Unique or special about it. Well, like if it rains here and all this raft here. I got a little hangover. I can I can 82 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,600 stand under the raft and 83 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,120 and 84 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,120 Not get as wet 85 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,680 The other thing is heated. I got a bunk in there. You could always take a nap if you didn't have to 86 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,040 other thing is you can 87 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,320 You can fish all night and fish fish some you know fish 88 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,760 bite all night sometimes 89 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:39,400 Especially when they're going on river. They're just floating by or whatever when they're coming up, you know, they're swimming by again 90 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,760 You never know when you're gonna catch one 91 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,000 all depends on 92 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 the weather and 93 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,000 the temperature of the water this spring and stuff of course I ice fish before and 94 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,280 You can catch fish anytime sometimes you don't catch any 95 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,880 Passion 96 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,400 Kind of like a passion, you know 97 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:21,720 It's a passion that's like I love love this north of the town here and we have property like we own my sister-in-law 98 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,680 My brother and sister-in-law own this land here. It's on the river 99 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,800 It's easy for us to either go hunting we go hunting here or 100 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,760 over fish off it 101 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,800 it 102 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,080 You know, we're up fishing. I like fishing different different kinds of fish 103 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,360 but 104 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,720 The wolf river is quite a unique like up north. I went up there and 105 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,920 fish for trout and there's all kinds of fish in the river system 106 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,240 My hunt a lot bull hunt a lot 107 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,680 Now I'm retired you can fish all you want 108 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,840 But not that the fish are gonna bite every day, but 109 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,320 people according to 110 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,320 When you feel like you want to go 111 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,160 usually the fish white bite, you know in the morning or afternoon or 112 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,240 depends on the weather if it's clear out or how clear the water is and 113 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,480 different times of the year 114 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,960 Sometimes in the fall they catch a lot of fish 115 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,200 all the friends 116 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,040 different thing with a raft you can 117 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:35,400 You had kids, you know, you can take the kids down there. They you know, you're a girlfriend or wife or something to 118 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,960 Sit in a raft and keep warm they can fish to them or 119 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,160 Whatever they want to do 120 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:53,720 Yeah, it's it's it's supposed to rain tonight and start sprinkling and I don't know how heavy it is 121 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:59,280 But now they're talking about another storm. I don't know what what'll happen now 122 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:01,560 you know a 123 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,560 couple weeks ago, you know, we had 124 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,600 20 some inches of snow that one day and 125 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,960 It bit, you know melts and the brings the water off 126 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,600 Higher water works 127 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,080 helps the fishery by 128 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,400 putting more water in the marshes 129 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,440 so that the fish can get in and 130 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,920 water level stays higher so that 131 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,720 A's can hatch and then a frightened folk back out in the river 132 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,480 That was one of the main thing back in the 133 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:41,880 I'm gonna say years ago. There was a lot of fish back in the 60s and 70s when I fish and 134 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:44,720 then the population kind of went down and then 135 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,600 The conservation groups like we started, you know, walleye tomorrow 136 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,760 And we started working on habitat 137 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,440 improvement and 138 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:03,800 What we did was we put some culverts in some places or cut the bank down so the water goes into the marsh 139 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,840 Well for increased water flow and 140 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,160 If we cut the bank down someplace where we were running in 141 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:19,840 Oh 142 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,840 the water flow 143 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:29,080 Flew, you know, it keeps on going through the marsh longer amount of time and the fish would hatch and then the current would kind of 144 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:32,680 Wash them back into the river same way like 145 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 the water table was 146 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,320 Because we cut the bank down the water was going across the marsh a longer amount of time and then 147 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:46,120 Then it would have been so we improved up water flow 148 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,160 and they got increased 149 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,720 Reproduction that helped a lot 150 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,960 Someplace we put culverts in 151 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,800 Just increase the water flow 152 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,520 There's a main thing 153 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,640 That connection from a marsh to a culvert 154 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,160 They go and make the culverts all connected 155 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:28,040 They probably understand that the fish go up river and it's it's according to water flow, you know, they the 156 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,560 Say wintertime it's frozen all and the river's lower 157 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:39,080 And then once it starts raining or melting and snow melts and 158 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,320 The river comes up to increases the flow and all the fish 159 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:48,280 Feel that flow and then they head for the river and start swimming up river 160 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:54,200 And they might swim away and stop and rest and then keep on traveling 161 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:04,360 Some of these guys got different kinds of both motors here this guy's going by with all noises though go devil 162 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,200 Probably use it for duck hunting too 163 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,320 I 164 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:23,320 Like we're fishing we're waiting for a fish to point it in all the fish are swimming up river yet 165 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,040 We're kind of abandoned where the fish 166 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,560 Normally would come around the corner and go up keep only going up river. There's different depths 167 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,280 Shallow over here, and then it goes deeper 168 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,800 And all species of fish are swimming up river. I mean 169 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,080 In the fall they some of them back to the lake they stay in the lake 170 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:55,920 Bass 171 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:01,160 After a while later in the spring all the white bass run up here to spawn to a lot of us 172 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:08,520 Granted we worked on some projects while I tomorrow work on project. We put a lot of reefs in Lake Winapago 173 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,120 help the saugars, you know, and 174 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,960 We have a 175 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,960 lot of portable fish hatcheries that were used on different lakes that 176 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,080 They take them along and take them to different lakes and 177 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,720 hatch from the fry from the walleyes or 178 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,840 saugars and 179 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,840 they can 180 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,520 Die the fry and 181 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,240 They do not take the fish after well 182 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,840 what happens to die the 183 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:46,040 Makes up there's a bone in the fishes head off the list bone that 184 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,600 If the zorbs die 185 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:54,720 We when we die them when they're just hatch makes a circle in this bone 186 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,840 If we 187 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,520 We die these fish 188 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:13,680 Say they raise these fish in a pond and their fingerlings, you know, four or five inches big the DNR can plant them in 189 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:22,520 In a lake as they die the element that die goes into the bone in their apolipane and then it's only 190 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,280 like a half moon 191 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:26,720 later on 192 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,720 the DNR takes a sample of 193 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,920 The fish they'd say they take ten fish out and they 194 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,600 Kill them and they take the bone out and they look under the microscope to see if 195 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,120 the fish was 196 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,880 died, you know at fingerlings eyes or 197 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,160 When a verse, you know patched 198 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,960 They can tell if 199 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,760 Doesn't have a mark and then it's a natural reproduction 200 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,800 Anyway, that's how they get their ideas for 201 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,520 different amounts of fish 202 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,120 somewhat 203 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,120 Gives them a better idea 204 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,200 Over the years I've worked on other 205 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:22,360 Some of the marshes were mostly on the wolf river and really one up on the various river 206 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:28,880 sometimes we try to just cut paints down sometimes they put culverts in depends on where 207 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,400 What's the situation we'd call for? 208 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:39,240 Like culverts are under a road or something where guys got to drive drive across it yet 209 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:47,080 We aren't doing as many as we used to because of some regulations and 210 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:53,160 The cost a lot of money to do we raise a lot of money for our different chapters where I raise a lot of money 211 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,160 200 212 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,720 250,000 213 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,600 3 $400,000 a year to use on projects throughout the state so 214 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,720 He's sports sportsmen come to the banquet so they 215 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,600 They you know 216 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,600 We have a meal for them itself different areas 217 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:26,040 We have prizes and stop banquet, you know that the banquets thought I had a nibble but 218 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,000 Some fish bite a little bit and then they let go 219 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:48,280 Big thing that affects them is temperature of the water I 220 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:50,800 was warm 221 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,800 warm the other day and then 222 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,520 pulled off because we had an ice storm then 223 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,920 Rain is cold and ice 224 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,280 went into the 225 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:07,360 System and pulled the water off and then you can then what happens is a fish quit waiting 226 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,280 Yeah 227 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,760 Something you got to put up with 228 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:28,520 a lot of these guys you know they hear about somebody's catching fish or everybody comes and 229 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,440 like here a lot of these people might be from 230 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,160 Fox River Valley or 231 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,200 different towns that they come and I call them tourists and 232 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,600 You know granted it catch fish too 233 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,880 you know, it's 234 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:53,840 Fair to everybody else anybody wants to fish you fish by a license and pay your fees for your 235 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,040 boat and fishing license and 236 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,240 Go fishing 237 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,720 You think it makes a difference how much you paid for your boat or how expensive your 238 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,680 It had changed a lot 239 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:14,120 But I had a raft it was it's nice going on a raft like we came down here today. We just walked down here and 240 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:23,120 You got a little boat area just paddled to the dock and fish off the dock docks nice and sturdy and we get cold we can go inside and 241 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,880 Get warm or I got an oven we can store them and it always makes cook something or 242 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,880 Anyway 243 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,480 Guys in the boat to get wet like stay dry 244 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:42,280 But it's a lot of work maintaining a raft and taking care of it 245 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,520 Biggest place some have some place to put it or attach it to property 246 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,680 You can't put it on public land anymore 247 00:27:53,640 --> 00:28:00,800 Or DNR property the Sun private property you got to have the get a permit and permission from the land 248 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,800 I know 249 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,800 What is it about the heritage of it that makes this special 250 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,080 Well, I know we talked a little bit about it before was 251 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,880 the heritage thing thing was 252 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,840 from the logging industry in the 1880s they had 253 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,080 loggers that 254 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,480 this system the Wolf River system is 255 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,300 They cut logs up north and they floated them down the river 256 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:35,380 The transport them and then they brought them to a different sawmills on the river here someone were into London and 257 00:28:35,860 --> 00:28:39,900 North Port was a big big logging small town and 258 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,500 That's how they 259 00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:46,540 It was easier for them to load it down the river 260 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:52,020 These apparently the loggers had to have some place to stay so they made a 261 00:28:53,020 --> 00:29:00,020 A shack and I presume they had logs and everything that they made rafts that they were on the river and they fished off them 262 00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:03,620 from home and for different fish for food and 263 00:29:06,340 --> 00:29:09,620 One thing here is from what I always knew is 264 00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,660 the 265 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:17,020 Wolf River is the only place that I know of that I heard of that 266 00:29:18,020 --> 00:29:19,020 Oh 267 00:29:19,020 --> 00:29:21,020 Let's rafts on the river 268 00:29:21,860 --> 00:29:23,860 that permit them and 269 00:29:25,580 --> 00:29:27,580 So it's kind of a 270 00:29:27,580 --> 00:29:30,660 historic historic thing of the rafts on the river and 271 00:29:31,420 --> 00:29:34,380 Fisherman kept them going nowadays and 272 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,380 It's a historic thing to keep on going 273 00:29:39,860 --> 00:29:45,820 There's quite a few you drive up and down. Yeah, yeah, there's you know different towns 274 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:47,700 You know, it's somewhat by Horton 275 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,740 You know different place on the river Shriakton and Hortonville and 276 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:58,260 So that here is fleeces landing is a big one and of course, you know along the river why we go Fremont 277 00:29:58,260 --> 00:30:13,820 So when you were a kid was walleye for eating or while I was just done for catching 278 00:30:14,220 --> 00:30:15,980 well mainly 279 00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:19,380 It was mainly to eat, you know, I mean people get 280 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:25,540 People didn't have as much money as some of people do know and you know 281 00:30:25,540 --> 00:30:28,460 It's just like hunting and everything else too was 282 00:30:32,580 --> 00:30:35,700 As a child, you know, we ate and I still do is 283 00:30:36,340 --> 00:30:43,780 We went out and shot a rabbit we ate a rabbit and squirrels and you know, I mean ducks and pheasants and stuff like that 284 00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:52,700 That's that's what we lived on other people did too and it included all types of fish 285 00:30:55,540 --> 00:31:00,940 Whatever they caught they ate a little shot 286 00:31:10,780 --> 00:31:13,180 It's probably a staple. Oh, I 287 00:31:14,580 --> 00:31:20,220 Probably well fish once a week anyway, you can't sell me put some in a freezer 288 00:31:20,980 --> 00:31:24,580 Oh, you know, I go trout fishing once a while I have a trout or 289 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:29,020 You go perch fishing in the winter or pan fish or whatever 290 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:33,700 And you don't have to go to grocery store 291 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:37,980 Yeah save money 292 00:31:38,860 --> 00:31:43,060 You know, I got a little nibble on this poi. I don't know what it is 293 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,580 He might be trying to bite it might be a 294 00:31:48,060 --> 00:31:50,060 Small fish 295 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:52,700 Pick it up to you by feeling 296 00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:55,580 Might be a rock bass or I 297 00:31:57,540 --> 00:31:59,540 Don't know small mold bass 298 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:02,420 You never know what's biting 299 00:32:03,460 --> 00:32:06,340 It's probably not a walleye a walleye would bite harder 300 00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:10,660 Nibble done a little bit 301 00:32:11,860 --> 00:32:13,860 And a minute on there 302 00:32:20,540 --> 00:32:24,620 Like a fish at night you got the lanterns on you got gas lanterns for lights and 303 00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:28,620 You had just 304 00:32:28,620 --> 00:32:33,580 Normally you have men who's out for the fish to bite on you don't you can jig at night if you want 305 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:36,300 If you want to get warm you go inside 306 00:32:38,340 --> 00:32:43,900 Get warmed up use you got poles are sitting and you look off the window watch the polls fish bites here come out and 307 00:32:44,420 --> 00:32:46,420 Try to catch them left to the button 308 00:32:50,220 --> 00:32:57,460 What condition do you think the walleye fishery would be if you guys hadn't started doing what you were doing all that time ago 309 00:32:58,260 --> 00:33:00,620 The marshes and recall birds and all that work 310 00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:03,260 well 311 00:33:03,260 --> 00:33:05,260 people didn't I 312 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:07,860 Would say people didn't really you know, I don't know 313 00:33:08,580 --> 00:33:15,100 They knew what was going on, but they didn't you know, there was a lot of fish and then all once as 314 00:33:15,860 --> 00:33:17,860 more and more people fish 315 00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:25,180 That they caught quite of the fish out and maybe they didn't have 316 00:33:26,380 --> 00:33:33,020 good years where the fish spawned where there wasn't a lot of reproduction so then the 317 00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:39,380 quantity of fish went down and then the guys fishing the fishermen realized that 318 00:33:39,980 --> 00:33:46,620 Well, what's happening, you know, we aren't having really good hatches for some reason and then we came up with the idea of 319 00:33:47,860 --> 00:33:51,380 helping the fish spawn for natural reproduction, and that's where we 320 00:33:52,460 --> 00:33:53,700 help 321 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,060 Help the fish by working on the marshes 322 00:33:56,980 --> 00:33:58,780 through 323 00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:00,780 Get them to spawn to increase 324 00:34:02,460 --> 00:34:09,780 The numbers and it takes a few years for them to grow up of course, but as 325 00:34:11,140 --> 00:34:13,140 The DNR tracked them and then 326 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:16,100 Some years you might 327 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:20,300 You know one in three years you might have a good hatch or they might have a couple good years 328 00:34:20,980 --> 00:34:25,420 And they used to count them they used to have a graph went to one to ten after a while they 329 00:34:26,260 --> 00:34:27,740 do trolings 330 00:34:27,740 --> 00:34:30,900 Net trolings in Lake Winnebago and stuff places 331 00:34:31,260 --> 00:34:34,740 in the fall to see how many young in the year they are and 332 00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:38,260 To see how many there were actually 333 00:34:39,060 --> 00:34:41,060 hatched and grew and 334 00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:44,780 And then they can tell what year was good or bad or whatever 335 00:34:45,340 --> 00:34:49,100 But they had this graph one to ten and back in the early 90s 336 00:34:49,820 --> 00:34:55,340 Always they had to change the graph because there were so many fish because there was had to have them been a 337 00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:58,300 really good 338 00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:03,900 reproduction rate and they changed the graph up to 40 and 339 00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:10,420 It's like when they go out and do trolings they put their nets in and then 340 00:35:11,380 --> 00:35:12,980 and 341 00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:19,740 Trol they pull them and then they pull them out and they count all the fish in there all the minos and different kinds 342 00:35:20,820 --> 00:35:22,820 That's where they get these numbers from 343 00:35:24,940 --> 00:35:31,260 Anyway in the last few years they had to raise their graphs again because they raised it to 50 because we had a 344 00:35:31,860 --> 00:35:33,340 really good 345 00:35:33,340 --> 00:35:34,980 reproduction year 346 00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:36,980 so that's what 347 00:35:37,020 --> 00:35:39,020 As we can get the numbers from 348 00:35:41,060 --> 00:35:43,060 I suppose I should 349 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:46,100 But it helped a lot of people. I mean 350 00:35:46,860 --> 00:35:48,300 know that I 351 00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:50,300 worked on the river here and 352 00:35:50,580 --> 00:35:53,100 Worked on the straighten surgeon trail here 353 00:35:54,420 --> 00:35:58,420 Normally we all did walleye projects, but then because I'm working on projects. I 354 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:01,460 proposed this surgeon trail here knowing and 355 00:36:02,220 --> 00:36:07,180 improved it and they call it it was put more rocks in there and made a trail where 356 00:36:08,180 --> 00:36:12,860 Oh people can go and watch and see the sturgeon 357 00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:14,780 spawn 358 00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:16,780 The wolf river is one river 359 00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:24,100 One of the five places in the world you can actually see sturgeon spawn so 360 00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:27,060 You know if I'm working on 361 00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:31,460 Walleye project as well. That's right next to him somewhere a property that I 362 00:36:32,060 --> 00:36:38,100 Said why don't we make it good better for surgeon and there's other groups sturgeon for tomorrow work done 363 00:36:38,620 --> 00:36:42,140 Some of the other projects too that help the sturgeon 364 00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:47,860 It's nice to see 365 00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:51,060 Families come out there they bring their kids out there and then they can 366 00:36:52,060 --> 00:36:59,300 See the fish swimming along the shawarma and the kids there yelling and screaming look at that big one look at that big one 367 00:36:59,940 --> 00:37:01,940 Well, that's 368 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:07,100 I'm glad to see that in the kids faces 369 00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:11,340 That get to see something that's unreal 370 00:37:15,660 --> 00:37:17,660 Well, how much of this is 371 00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:21,900 About kids because a lot of times you go out and see it's a bunch of old men fishing 372 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:27,940 But you do see kids out there and there's a different level of excitement with that, right? All right. There's a 373 00:37:28,460 --> 00:37:31,700 Like for on the sturgeon trail. I mean everybody goes out there to watch them 374 00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:34,140 but like our walleye fishing or 375 00:37:35,540 --> 00:37:37,540 same way we could 376 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:42,460 When we improve a marsh all all kinds of fish could actually go into it and 377 00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:47,660 Like Northern's usually go into there and earlier and they spawn earlier 378 00:37:47,860 --> 00:37:53,100 So Northern's could be using a marsh and then all of the walleyes go in there 379 00:37:54,820 --> 00:37:56,820 so 380 00:37:57,060 --> 00:37:58,900 And the thing about 381 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:03,260 When you improve water flow across the marsh the natural weeds 382 00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:06,220 The natural vegetation 383 00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:15,220 Filters out some of the dirt. So actually you're improving water quality and I mean people don't think about that 384 00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:21,500 But I know that it takes some of the silt and dirt and it's maybe settles down in there 385 00:38:22,020 --> 00:38:25,060 So we're helping the water quality also 386 00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:29,820 The 387 00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:34,020 How important is walleye to the identity in this area? 388 00:38:35,060 --> 00:38:37,060 Well 389 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:41,420 Walleye's about been here forever I presume but 390 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:46,500 One of the 391 00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:51,100 Groups here is well, it's a fishing game called thing 392 00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:54,860 They have a new one in fishing game club 393 00:38:55,860 --> 00:38:57,860 they 394 00:38:58,860 --> 00:39:05,580 They have a big big whopper contest. It's about they call it big whopper, but it's like for walleye's and 395 00:39:06,260 --> 00:39:09,820 I presume it's almost been happening for 50 years 396 00:39:10,460 --> 00:39:11,820 they 397 00:39:11,820 --> 00:39:13,460 back in 398 00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:15,460 60 1960s and 70s 399 00:39:16,140 --> 00:39:17,820 They put this 400 00:39:17,820 --> 00:39:21,180 boat out there with two dummies in it. It's called Pete and Joe 401 00:39:22,020 --> 00:39:24,180 It's out on ice and they had 402 00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:28,860 a contest where you would guess when the ice would go out and 403 00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:35,620 They gave prize away for that. So that's I think the thing of every year the guess when the ice would go out and 404 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:42,700 This big whopper thing was up here at the by the boat landing. They had it for years was 405 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:47,660 Bring your fish in they registered big ones little ones, whatever get prize away 406 00:39:48,060 --> 00:39:50,700 they have they used to have food there and 407 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:51,940 and 408 00:39:51,940 --> 00:39:57,380 it was a fundraiser for them but a lot of you know a lot of people came there and and 409 00:39:58,460 --> 00:40:00,460 Donated or you know 410 00:40:01,060 --> 00:40:03,060 they had hamburger 411 00:40:03,180 --> 00:40:05,700 Buffalo burgers hamburger is whatever 412 00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:08,420 you know other food and 413 00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:11,540 It was a fundraiser for them 414 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:18,340 They had a DJ or music there sometimes or a dance or people a lot of people went there 415 00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:21,100 Oh, it's all it's all 416 00:40:21,980 --> 00:40:24,860 functioned around walleye fish in here on the woofer 417 00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:31,020 The unique the new it's a unique area to 418 00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:33,940 fish 419 00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:36,940 Granted you can catch fish anywhere almost 420 00:40:38,140 --> 00:40:44,140 As they move this way or that way you ain't getting to catch them all but lucky to catch some 421 00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:46,700 but like right now we're doing this is 422 00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:50,500 the rain ain't bothering us, but it's the 423 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:52,740 different 424 00:40:52,740 --> 00:40:54,740 temperatures of the water and 425 00:40:54,860 --> 00:40:56,380 and 426 00:40:56,380 --> 00:41:02,020 the weather effects fish or see I know you aren't gonna they're gonna bite every day or 427 00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:07,260 All the time either if they did you everybody catch them all and there won't be any laugh 428 00:41:08,540 --> 00:41:10,540 And that's why they have restrictions on 429 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:15,980 Limits like years ago used to catch five now they have three but 430 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:18,700 because of 431 00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:21,580 Increase fish and pressure so many people fishing 432 00:41:23,820 --> 00:41:26,920 And there's all ages of people it's good that 433 00:41:27,620 --> 00:41:31,360 Parents take their kids and get them involved with something 434 00:41:32,340 --> 00:41:34,340 Besides sitting on their telephone 435 00:41:40,940 --> 00:41:44,020 What this my shag no 436 00:41:44,860 --> 00:41:46,860 mine, it's mine 437 00:41:47,620 --> 00:41:51,780 Like you say I'm going up to the raft or I'm going up to the shack or the raft 438 00:41:55,020 --> 00:41:59,380 And over the years I you know I probably had 439 00:42:01,340 --> 00:42:05,380 Probably four of them and I adjusted 440 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:10,500 The sizes and 441 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:18,340 Made it easier to take and put them in with this pontoon compared to a regular pipe frame one or whatever and 442 00:42:19,180 --> 00:42:21,180 but you know 443 00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:27,260 Someone would use plastic barrels or foam insulate foam they had floaters and 444 00:42:27,940 --> 00:42:29,940 different things like that 445 00:42:31,100 --> 00:42:37,300 You move them by I use my other boat and a motor and tie up to it and I 446 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:41,140 Push it wherever I want to go 447 00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:44,460 By having a pontoon trailer. I just 448 00:42:45,060 --> 00:42:50,700 Back under it and crank it up when I take it to put it in or oh, so it's a lot easier 449 00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:09,300 It's like all the fishermen got off the river 450 00:43:10,460 --> 00:43:15,020 There's a rating other day and when I was snowing and blowing there wasn't anybody fishing 451 00:43:15,980 --> 00:43:22,820 Like they were catching fish. That's like some you know, it's raining. It was gonna sit. Who's gonna sit in a boat and fish 452 00:43:23,660 --> 00:43:28,740 When it's cold out all these other couple other guys went fishing. They're just went down to their rafts 453 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:34,700 We can take a break and go inside it wrong 454 00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:39,300 Yeah 455 00:43:39,980 --> 00:43:45,060 So I would wind up and check to make sure you don't have a leaf on there 456 00:43:49,420 --> 00:43:55,780 Like before it was kind of cold it didn't refresh the world I came down and had 457 00:43:57,460 --> 00:44:02,300 We had two inches of rain and then the boat they come down pull the boat out and empty that 458 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:04,300 And 459 00:44:05,580 --> 00:44:07,580 Whether I looked at the weather, you know 460 00:44:08,140 --> 00:44:12,820 This afternoon it was nothing in it like now. It's supposed to keep on raining 461 00:44:14,180 --> 00:44:16,180 Right, you know was all night. Oh 462 00:44:21,380 --> 00:44:23,380 The other thing was 463 00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:27,900 Here was you know the weather for the week was 464 00:44:28,740 --> 00:44:33,460 So so so and then you know a couple nice days 465 00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:36,140 But I 466 00:44:36,140 --> 00:44:40,540 Mean Sunday at 52. Well that warm with that warm up fast. Yeah, yeah, right 467 00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:45,260 You know biggest thing is when the Sun comes out then harder or warm up and 468 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:49,660 It'll warm up to probably two degrees where it's a Sun though 469 00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:53,660 And it might walk more if it's windy out same time 470 00:44:54,660 --> 00:44:57,680 Yeah, and the Sun shining thing is 471 00:44:58,220 --> 00:45:00,460 say water is going across the marsh somewhere 472 00:45:00,980 --> 00:45:03,340 it's a marshes shallower and 473 00:45:05,420 --> 00:45:11,340 The Sun reflects off the dark bottom warms up the water more same way dirty water warms up 474 00:45:12,780 --> 00:45:14,380 faster 475 00:45:14,380 --> 00:45:16,380 and clear water because 476 00:45:17,780 --> 00:45:19,780 Light has effect on it 477 00:45:20,780 --> 00:45:22,780 Oh 478 00:45:22,780 --> 00:45:26,700 Like their Sunday 50 what's the thing? 479 00:45:27,980 --> 00:45:29,980 The thing that affects 480 00:45:31,060 --> 00:45:33,060 Fishin is 481 00:45:33,620 --> 00:45:35,300 the weather 482 00:45:35,300 --> 00:45:37,300 But we're 483 00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:40,020 I'm saying some fish are the marshes are ready 484 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:45,300 The eggs in the fish aren't ready to spawn 485 00:45:47,260 --> 00:45:49,100 because 486 00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:51,100 They aren't ripe enough 487 00:45:51,820 --> 00:45:53,820 The fish going on eggs right 488 00:45:55,180 --> 00:45:57,180 Okay 489 00:45:57,180 --> 00:45:59,180 You know 490 00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:04,340 About fish eggs like we have these hadries and 491 00:46:05,140 --> 00:46:07,140 We know this they 492 00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:09,300 catch some fish with nets and 493 00:46:09,540 --> 00:46:15,300 Take them some places want them all and take this one and they take the milk from the males 494 00:46:16,340 --> 00:46:18,340 anyway when they 495 00:46:19,180 --> 00:46:21,180 Put the eggs in a spawning 496 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:26,180 We got them in this morning there, but after all before when they take them out of the fish 497 00:46:26,980 --> 00:46:28,980 They put them in a like a 498 00:46:30,460 --> 00:46:34,260 Small you put the eggs in there put the milk in there 499 00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:38,860 There's a hole in the egg and 500 00:46:42,740 --> 00:46:45,100 They call it water water hardening 501 00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:47,740 the 502 00:46:47,740 --> 00:46:51,140 Male sperm has to go through this hole in the egg 503 00:46:52,220 --> 00:46:54,900 within a minute because the water makes 504 00:46:55,980 --> 00:46:57,420 the egg 505 00:46:57,420 --> 00:47:01,260 Close the hole so it happens fast 506 00:47:02,460 --> 00:47:09,700 So that it gets fertilized and then they put them in spawning first you run current water through it and 507 00:47:10,220 --> 00:47:12,220 It's oxygenated 508 00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:16,420 And then you know weak the two weeks 509 00:47:17,300 --> 00:47:20,900 they've hatched and the fire come on and it has a 510 00:47:21,620 --> 00:47:22,600 little 511 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,260 belly sack on it 512 00:47:24,260 --> 00:47:29,580 makes it float and probably bounces up and down and in a marsh it would float 513 00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:34,100 The current would flush them into the river system 514 00:47:34,740 --> 00:47:38,540 defeat off the sack for a while and then they started eating Zulu clankton 515 00:47:39,380 --> 00:47:40,820 Oh 516 00:47:40,820 --> 00:47:44,900 Organic phone, you know through the system and they float back to the lake 517 00:47:48,940 --> 00:47:54,940 Yeah, we got to see the process last year down by West Bend a big sinner on one of the other officials 518 00:47:54,940 --> 00:48:01,340 Yeah, they you know, they put them in that garden. I don't know what Mike there. Yep, Mike Tom 519 00:48:01,340 --> 00:48:03,340 and 520 00:48:07,620 --> 00:48:09,620 How they 521 00:48:09,860 --> 00:48:12,500 Put fish in half these different lakes, you know 522 00:48:13,820 --> 00:48:17,940 Well, that helps wherever they want them. They don't have have them 523 00:48:19,020 --> 00:48:22,940 They have different, you know different chapters who will see 524 00:48:22,940 --> 00:48:24,940 Oh 525 00:48:31,780 --> 00:48:33,780 When some of them nights 526 00:48:35,340 --> 00:48:42,260 We want the water to their heads pointing up river and the thing about it while I is as his eyes are on 527 00:48:42,940 --> 00:48:45,100 somewhat on the top of his head 528 00:48:45,820 --> 00:48:47,820 he's looking up and 529 00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:52,060 It's better to fish higher than the lower 530 00:48:52,940 --> 00:48:58,220 Because they the fish might go by as I got some kinkles other about a couple down there is 531 00:48:58,540 --> 00:49:03,580 We got different amounts of line use short cold long cold short cold long cold. So either 532 00:49:04,860 --> 00:49:12,260 Fish in different areas and fish in different depths and I got my sinker guy. They make my own sinkers is 533 00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:15,020 you can 534 00:49:15,020 --> 00:49:19,300 There's been a lot of these different types of clubs and some of them 535 00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:24,620 Well, they got different those on the wiggle water or rattle stuff like that 536 00:49:25,940 --> 00:49:27,940 according to the height of water and 537 00:49:30,420 --> 00:49:32,780 Current makes lures wiggle more 538 00:49:33,700 --> 00:49:36,060 less soon stuff like that for you 539 00:49:36,820 --> 00:49:38,820 by different reasons 540 00:49:39,620 --> 00:49:41,620 He's like that 541 00:49:46,540 --> 00:49:53,620 So is it the males that bite more on the way natural things that tell you what's happening is 542 00:49:54,460 --> 00:50:00,500 In the spring almost you get a whole bunch of flock. There's granted in a box value because it's so much water is 543 00:50:01,380 --> 00:50:03,380 There's 544 00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:05,380 Gee, there's geese around but 545 00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:13,100 almost you see a bunch of geese fly in north in the spring and that's when I mean flock after flock after flock after flock 546 00:50:13,460 --> 00:50:18,660 And that's when the wall is up up river and all of a sudden you might wait 547 00:50:21,860 --> 00:50:26,980 Go after the wall ice pond is almost you get another bunch of more geese to be flying up north and 548 00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:32,180 You know flock up the flock when it's warmer as well as they're going back down there 549 00:50:32,900 --> 00:50:34,900 the other natural thing is 550 00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:37,900 You haven't seen a frog yet 551 00:50:38,580 --> 00:50:40,580 when the water gets warm 552 00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:42,900 The frogs come out of hibernation 553 00:50:43,780 --> 00:50:48,740 The frogs are croaking and that's you can you know like a marshy. There's some 554 00:50:49,540 --> 00:50:50,820 female 555 00:50:50,820 --> 00:50:56,620 Wall ice didn't spawn yet. So they hang around in the marsh. All those little females are all gone 556 00:50:57,460 --> 00:51:02,660 Then the males hang in there. They might be in fox frogs or minerals and they'll come out 557 00:51:03,700 --> 00:51:04,660 but 558 00:51:04,660 --> 00:51:09,060 The main run is it seemed like after the sturgeon spawn 559 00:51:09,940 --> 00:51:15,700 And the sturgeon spawn of 52 to 55 degrees. There's that first one down. I'll eat it 560 00:51:26,980 --> 00:51:28,980 You 561 00:51:44,340 --> 00:51:49,860 It's really crappy out there. Yeah, it just came down. It's too bad. So I want to we know where it is 562 00:51:49,860 --> 00:51:51,860 But I don't like it a drone shot of this thing, too 563 00:51:51,860 --> 00:51:53,860 Yeah 564 00:51:56,100 --> 00:52:01,140 You guys want to pop I got a Pepsi or something do it. I'm good. I'm good for it. Thanks. Thank you. Yeah 565 00:52:02,580 --> 00:52:04,580 Appreciate 566 00:52:06,020 --> 00:52:08,020 And 567 00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,500 While ago 568 00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:13,460 When I talk a lot I get worse. I don't know why 569 00:52:14,820 --> 00:52:16,420 and 570 00:52:16,420 --> 00:52:20,340 Never did but it's not from talking too much. I don't know if I had 571 00:52:22,420 --> 00:52:27,460 I haven't had COVID or nothing but I asked my brother to doctor what 572 00:52:28,740 --> 00:52:30,740 walked up 573 00:52:31,060 --> 00:52:35,860 In my house, you know, the air so dry that it could be affecting 574 00:52:36,980 --> 00:52:38,660 you know that 575 00:52:38,660 --> 00:52:40,660 and I I don't know 576 00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:44,820 When I'm sleeping too, I might I might be breathing through my mouth more 577 00:52:45,540 --> 00:52:47,540 Very knows 578 00:52:47,540 --> 00:52:51,780 They wake up and they get kind of like a drive. Oh, I don't know if I snore 579 00:53:03,140 --> 00:53:05,140 You know over the years, you know, I learned 580 00:53:06,500 --> 00:53:08,900 Oh to make you know how to make the breathing work 581 00:53:14,820 --> 00:53:17,060 Fish fishing down about course 582 00:53:18,180 --> 00:53:20,020 and then I get you know 583 00:53:20,020 --> 00:53:23,860 Use a short pole. That's like my poles. I got them all 584 00:53:25,860 --> 00:53:27,860 I'm showing you one here in the final window 585 00:53:44,820 --> 00:53:46,820 I 586 00:53:54,020 --> 00:53:57,220 There's like the odds are slim. We're gonna get a fish today. Yeah snap 587 00:53:58,660 --> 00:54:00,660 It's got 12 feet of line on 588 00:54:01,220 --> 00:54:03,220 Like this other one 589 00:54:03,620 --> 00:54:05,620 It's got 10 feet of line on 590 00:54:06,020 --> 00:54:08,020 and 591 00:54:08,020 --> 00:54:09,540 that 592 00:54:09,540 --> 00:54:11,540 sets all deep when fishing 593 00:54:11,540 --> 00:54:12,980 but 594 00:54:13,060 --> 00:54:14,260 It's like 595 00:54:14,260 --> 00:54:17,300 See that I have some other pole. They're 20 feet long 596 00:54:17,860 --> 00:54:20,500 I have a long pole and then a short pole. I fish like this 597 00:54:21,060 --> 00:54:23,060 you know, or shorter 598 00:54:23,700 --> 00:54:26,900 Let's say they're four feet down or six feet. It's like if I got 599 00:54:27,540 --> 00:54:30,020 eight feet of line on it and from here 600 00:54:30,740 --> 00:54:34,900 They hang down. There's about two feet a line out of the 601 00:54:35,940 --> 00:54:36,900 water 602 00:54:36,900 --> 00:54:39,460 Roughly and it goes down on the angle 603 00:54:40,340 --> 00:54:41,620 so 604 00:54:41,620 --> 00:54:43,620 That means I got six feet out 605 00:54:43,940 --> 00:54:46,900 You know an eight and an eight quarter. That means I got six feet off 606 00:54:48,420 --> 00:54:50,100 Line in the water 607 00:54:50,100 --> 00:54:52,820 And goes down an angle. I might only be fishing four feet deep 608 00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:56,660 It doesn't mean I'm a fishing eight feet. I'm fishing. I'm on a 609 00:54:57,380 --> 00:54:59,380 45 degree angle 610 00:54:59,780 --> 00:55:03,300 There especially the current taking up. Yeah, yeah, right and 611 00:55:05,380 --> 00:55:06,740 Some of these guys 612 00:55:06,740 --> 00:55:11,060 To find out where the fish are going by we give you a rough idea. They take a cane pole 613 00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:13,700 And I got something too 614 00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:15,700 they put a 615 00:55:16,340 --> 00:55:18,340 Swivel on it 616 00:55:18,740 --> 00:55:20,740 And say they got 617 00:55:21,060 --> 00:55:23,060 The swivel down at eight feet 618 00:55:23,540 --> 00:55:25,540 another one at 619 00:55:25,540 --> 00:55:28,820 10 and another 12 different projects that work done. So 620 00:55:28,820 --> 00:55:30,820 I 621 00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:43,780 So a Easter is this going to be crowded out here still? 622 00:55:46,340 --> 00:55:48,340 They're big probably busy 623 00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:54,500 Because everybody's got off from work and the kids they're off. Yeah, I think 624 00:55:55,140 --> 00:55:58,020 I don't know they're too happy maybe there's something 625 00:55:58,900 --> 00:56:00,900 Yeah 626 00:56:01,380 --> 00:56:03,380 I don't know how many fish they'll catch but 627 00:56:04,820 --> 00:56:06,820 They know they could catch quite a few 628 00:56:08,980 --> 00:56:12,420 Are you gonna be out on Easter? Yeah, well, I'll be out here every day 629 00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:15,700 probably 630 00:56:16,660 --> 00:56:18,660 And I might be 631 00:56:19,700 --> 00:56:21,940 Probably within a week I'll move by the hose 632 00:56:23,140 --> 00:56:25,140 along 633 00:56:25,700 --> 00:56:29,540 Here are some guys might be catching a spawn of fish 634 00:56:30,420 --> 00:56:32,420 Everybody will be able to 635 00:56:55,140 --> 00:56:57,140 I 636 00:57:06,660 --> 00:57:11,620 Think that one was some temple them bio and kind of a political thing 637 00:57:14,100 --> 00:57:15,620 No 638 00:57:15,620 --> 00:57:20,100 One time to all the other fish go to the reefs like we're doing it one 639 00:57:21,540 --> 00:57:23,540 and 640 00:57:23,860 --> 00:57:29,540 It was to take a dump truck out there and then dump we got a hole and they back up and dumped them up rock him 641 00:57:30,980 --> 00:57:32,980 And then one day 642 00:57:33,860 --> 00:57:35,860 What's going out there years ago and 643 00:57:36,580 --> 00:57:40,340 A space crack when Trump went through and the guy was in a 644 00:57:41,540 --> 00:57:43,540 truck and drove 645 00:57:43,540 --> 00:57:44,820 Very quick 646 00:57:44,820 --> 00:57:51,700 These are the halts and rocks out on some sleds. We dumped them in half of that but then we kind of could do it 647 00:57:53,540 --> 00:57:58,260 And some of the reefs a couple of reefs are a mile long that they put all the rocks in 648 00:57:58,900 --> 00:58:03,540 And that's where already died. They did saugard. They helped saugard was they died them, you know 649 00:58:04,740 --> 00:58:08,020 Almost they caught a bunch of you know, D and her take 10 saugars and 650 00:58:09,300 --> 00:58:12,740 kill them and you know look at her microscope like 651 00:58:13,700 --> 00:58:18,500 We took some hatcheries and we died them, you know, but the finding guard is almost like hats 652 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:23,220 They go and put them runs in a little dump like dump incident get bought the running in and out 653 00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:25,460 and 654 00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:29,300 Many in their head was almost about 80% of them were 655 00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:32,340 the ones we hatched 656 00:58:32,500 --> 00:58:35,220 so they knew the reefs were working so I mean 657 00:58:36,660 --> 00:58:38,500 Then they died some other ones, but yeah 658 00:58:39,300 --> 00:58:42,820 And then after a while they watched because they took some more and then almost there's 659 00:58:43,620 --> 00:58:48,260 More and more of the fish were gonna have a what we've been dying of more and more fish 660 00:58:49,380 --> 00:58:54,980 Didn't have any die in them so it's more natural reproduction so all we can hope is in the long run 661 00:58:59,540 --> 00:59:04,180 We were we told them what for and knew what's reading and that's some money 662 00:59:09,940 --> 00:59:11,940 So that is I have 663 00:59:13,860 --> 00:59:15,860 Yeah, it's for growing long isn't it? 664 00:59:16,580 --> 00:59:22,180 It's a quite cool they go on a quite cool and I thought 665 00:59:24,020 --> 00:59:26,020 Actually this one 666 00:59:27,300 --> 00:59:29,300 It was 667 00:59:35,060 --> 00:59:37,060 Okay 668 00:59:41,060 --> 00:59:43,060 Logging and 669 00:59:43,540 --> 00:59:45,060 This thing 670 00:59:45,060 --> 00:59:47,060 Sure is over 100 years old 671 00:59:47,940 --> 00:59:52,820 You know, I don't know what I think I got it from my dad 672 00:59:54,020 --> 00:59:56,260 And uh, I don't know where he's gonna have a problem 673 00:59:56,820 --> 01:00:00,820 So I'm logging here. I just have it here when logs go by 674 01:00:02,020 --> 01:00:06,660 Logs go by uh, you know, I've done a on the raft or a chunk size 675 01:00:07,220 --> 01:00:11,780 Push it open somewhere. I'm sure the thing is 100 years old or probably more 676 01:00:12,100 --> 01:00:14,100 Yeah, they're eating pretty good 677 01:00:15,060 --> 01:00:17,060 I 678 01:00:32,660 --> 01:00:34,660 This is 679 01:00:36,820 --> 01:00:41,300 We got what we can get. Yeah, it's pretty cool stuff. I think the next step is better. Yeah 680 01:00:41,300 --> 01:00:43,300 I 681 01:00:43,300 --> 01:00:45,300 Know obviously we'll get like some 682 01:00:46,500 --> 01:00:51,300 I could get some different shots in this thing, but I don't know how we get this really sunny when we do that 683 01:00:53,300 --> 01:00:59,940 Yeah, you know fine getting a shot of colleagues going by us. Well, I think we can always reference it. He's out there. Yeah, sure. Yep. Yep. Cool. Yeah 684 01:01:11,860 --> 01:01:13,860 Yeah 685 01:01:15,220 --> 01:01:19,700 No, it's there's something kind of meditative almost about this little thing. Yeah 686 01:01:20,980 --> 01:01:24,020 It's in there. Yeah, then put your eyes back out there 687 01:01:24,980 --> 01:01:28,980 That's it's a lot like ice fish. Yep. It's that is that 100% 688 01:01:29,380 --> 01:01:35,460 But this is I think even more compelling for someone isn't a fish moist that versus ice fish. I don't know. Okay 689 01:01:36,180 --> 01:01:38,180 Just ice fish is too cold or 690 01:01:39,060 --> 01:01:41,620 There's something about the water being open. Oh, I think that 691 01:01:42,420 --> 01:01:44,420 More of a mystery. Yeah, it's like 692 01:01:44,420 --> 01:01:49,780 Fish are out there so much. We're obviously there's some more on it under the ice too, but it's just like well, I think the river is different 693 01:01:49,780 --> 01:01:54,180 Because it's always different fish. Right. It's like the fish that are right here. Yep 694 01:01:55,060 --> 01:01:57,060 Yeah 695 01:02:04,020 --> 01:02:09,700 No, it's pretty interesting. Yeah, seeing all of Wisconsin's fishing culture. Pretty cool 696 01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:11,700 Yeah 697 01:02:23,700 --> 01:02:26,100 Ron Gropos took care of all this sturgeon 698 01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:29,060 because like Mike Blakely and Bego has the most 699 01:02:30,100 --> 01:02:32,100 sturgeon in 700 01:02:32,900 --> 01:02:34,900 Most populated 701 01:02:35,780 --> 01:02:37,780 Go on a sturgeon and make my video 702 01:02:38,660 --> 01:02:40,660 And 703 01:02:42,260 --> 01:02:46,020 It's being our guys trying to get their name. They probably know who I am 704 01:02:47,460 --> 01:02:49,460 Oh 705 01:02:50,100 --> 01:02:52,100 Oh 706 01:03:07,460 --> 01:03:10,020 You get out and start walking because we got it 707 01:03:19,460 --> 01:03:21,460 You 708 01:03:49,460 --> 01:03:51,460 You 709 01:04:19,460 --> 01:04:21,460 You 710 01:04:49,460 --> 01:04:51,460 You