WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 You 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 You 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 You 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 You 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 You 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 You 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 You 03:30.000 --> 03:52.640 Like normally the fish come you know around the bend or whatever and go up 03:52.640 --> 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 04:03.200 --> 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 04:21.000 --> 04:27.320 They might be six or eight feet down and all when they go back like now. They're on the bottom 04:27.320 --> 04:29.320 toward the bottom 04:45.400 --> 04:52.640 They don't know if you're great exact maybe kid I'll be too busy with this thing. Yeah 04:52.640 --> 04:58.540 I ain't gonna guarantee you catch any fish. No worries. That's because the water got so cold 05:00.840 --> 05:02.840 Main thing 05:08.080 --> 05:10.080 Like 05:10.080 --> 05:13.200 You know a shallow over there and it goes down it's probably 05:15.960 --> 05:21.560 Six and a half or seven feet deep here and then on the end it's another foot deeper at least 05:23.000 --> 05:25.960 You got a wolf every wolf every gone to the middle on 05:27.960 --> 05:31.320 Like I made this railing and you can 05:33.920 --> 05:37.080 Like fishing like this now like I can 05:38.000 --> 05:43.480 Know yeah, move over nice when I'm using gamefuls are all straight like that. I'm moving this way to 05:44.640 --> 05:50.000 This was a pontoon. I used to have other rafts that I made that 05:53.560 --> 05:55.560 That 05:55.560 --> 05:57.560 That were like pipe frame 05:58.160 --> 06:01.040 And then use barrels then I went to this one was 06:01.880 --> 06:04.600 It's easier used to have a hay wagon that you 06:07.560 --> 06:09.560 Had to load them on and 06:12.920 --> 06:18.580 This one and I made out of a pontoon and I made it wider and then I built a shack 06:19.560 --> 06:21.560 use 06:22.160 --> 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 06:31.080 --> 06:33.080 That's what the shack's all about 06:51.560 --> 06:53.560 Okay 07:03.480 --> 07:05.480 Okay, I thought Gary was gonna come 07:21.560 --> 07:23.560 I 07:45.440 --> 07:47.440 Really just 07:47.800 --> 07:53.200 Sit there and jig and you can feel it hit bottom you're up and down and 07:55.000 --> 07:59.720 There's different weights jigs according to how much current there is 08:05.200 --> 08:07.200 Anything all kinds of fish bait 08:08.440 --> 08:10.440 Like we had some 08:10.840 --> 08:15.280 Small mozz bass ready and rock bass got a few walleyes 08:17.440 --> 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 08:25.320 --> 08:28.000 Usually the sturgeon spawn 08:29.800 --> 08:34.200 On the rocks like April 21st the waters are the 55 degrees 08:34.200 --> 08:37.760 But so cold the D&R said that they might spawn 08:38.440 --> 08:41.120 Like a week later or something all depends on the weather 08:44.080 --> 08:46.080 Get him up whole anything sir, do you 08:47.440 --> 08:49.440 I 09:17.440 --> 09:19.440 You 09:47.440 --> 09:49.440 You 10:17.440 --> 10:19.440 You 10:47.440 --> 10:49.440 You 11:17.440 --> 11:19.440 You 11:47.440 --> 11:49.440 You 12:17.440 --> 12:19.440 You 12:47.440 --> 12:49.440 You 13:17.440 --> 13:26.320 Can you just give me a mic check once sure, yeah, okay, thank you 13:28.040 --> 13:34.460 So I guess give me a little background on so you grew up here, right? Yeah, I grew up 13:34.460 --> 13:36.460 No, I've been here all my life 13:36.800 --> 13:40.600 like my dad took me fishing when I was a kid and 13:40.960 --> 13:43.360 been fishing all the time on rafts and I 13:43.920 --> 13:46.800 made different rafts that I had over the years and and 13:48.840 --> 13:53.680 This one's a pontoon made out of pontoons. I made it a wider than I built a shack on it 13:53.920 --> 13:55.920 I have a pontoon trailer 13:56.080 --> 13:58.560 which is easy for to 13:59.440 --> 14:03.200 Back under it and crank it up and where you go used to have to 14:03.960 --> 14:09.040 Take my other rafts as a jacket up and get it on that like a hay wagon or something like that 14:09.440 --> 14:12.400 It was a lot of work to head hauling around and 14:12.800 --> 14:15.920 Yeah, and things like that was harder to put in and out 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 like this one too is a 14:19.640 --> 14:22.160 then I just to move it I 14:22.880 --> 14:27.600 Take my boat and motor and hook on the end of it and then push it around 14:28.280 --> 14:30.280 oh 14:30.280 --> 14:34.720 I got like pipes in the corner. That's what holds it in the 14:35.560 --> 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 14:45.760 --> 14:48.680 Safety precautions to hold it case something 14:49.680 --> 14:51.680 Most of the times the pipes don't 14:52.440 --> 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 14:59.920 --> 15:01.280 but 15:01.280 --> 15:03.280 usually 15:05.000 --> 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 15:13.600 --> 15:15.600 stand under the raft and 15:15.680 --> 15:17.120 and 15:17.120 --> 15:19.120 Not get as wet 15:19.120 --> 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 15:24.040 --> 15:26.040 other thing is you can 15:27.160 --> 15:30.320 You can fish all night and fish fish some you know fish 15:30.760 --> 15:32.760 bite all night sometimes 15:33.160 --> 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 15:40.760 --> 15:42.760 You never know when you're gonna catch one 15:43.080 --> 15:45.000 all depends on 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 the weather and 15:47.000 --> 15:52.000 the temperature of the water this spring and stuff of course I ice fish before and 15:52.800 --> 15:56.280 You can catch fish anytime sometimes you don't catch any 16:02.880 --> 16:04.880 Passion 16:05.400 --> 16:07.400 Kind of like a passion, you know 16:14.400 --> 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 16:21.720 --> 16:25.680 My brother and sister-in-law own this land here. It's on the river 16:26.200 --> 16:29.800 It's easy for us to either go hunting we go hunting here or 16:30.760 --> 16:32.760 over fish off it 16:32.760 --> 16:33.800 it 16:33.800 --> 16:38.080 You know, we're up fishing. I like fishing different different kinds of fish 16:38.680 --> 16:40.360 but 16:40.360 --> 16:44.720 The wolf river is quite a unique like up north. I went up there and 16:45.520 --> 16:49.920 fish for trout and there's all kinds of fish in the river system 16:52.240 --> 16:54.240 My hunt a lot bull hunt a lot 16:56.440 --> 16:58.680 Now I'm retired you can fish all you want 16:59.880 --> 17:02.840 But not that the fish are gonna bite every day, but 17:03.520 --> 17:05.320 people according to 17:05.320 --> 17:07.320 When you feel like you want to go 17:07.560 --> 17:12.160 usually the fish white bite, you know in the morning or afternoon or 17:12.800 --> 17:16.240 depends on the weather if it's clear out or how clear the water is and 17:17.480 --> 17:19.480 different times of the year 17:20.960 --> 17:22.960 Sometimes in the fall they catch a lot of fish 17:24.200 --> 17:26.200 all the friends 17:27.040 --> 17:29.040 different thing with a raft you can 17:29.840 --> 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 17:36.360 --> 17:39.960 Sit in a raft and keep warm they can fish to them or 17:41.160 --> 17:43.160 Whatever they want to do 17:46.640 --> 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 17:53.720 --> 17:59.280 But now they're talking about another storm. I don't know what what'll happen now 18:00.040 --> 18:01.560 you know a 18:01.560 --> 18:03.560 couple weeks ago, you know, we had 18:04.240 --> 18:07.600 20 some inches of snow that one day and 18:08.560 --> 18:10.960 It bit, you know melts and the brings the water off 18:12.600 --> 18:14.600 Higher water works 18:15.080 --> 18:17.080 helps the fishery by 18:17.400 --> 18:19.400 putting more water in the marshes 18:20.440 --> 18:22.440 so that the fish can get in and 18:22.800 --> 18:25.920 water level stays higher so that 18:26.640 --> 18:29.720 A's can hatch and then a frightened folk back out in the river 18:30.960 --> 18:33.480 That was one of the main thing back in the 18:35.000 --> 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 18:42.360 --> 18:44.720 then the population kind of went down and then 18:46.080 --> 18:50.600 The conservation groups like we started, you know, walleye tomorrow 18:51.600 --> 18:53.760 And we started working on habitat 18:54.760 --> 18:56.440 improvement and 18:56.440 --> 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 19:07.160 --> 19:10.840 Well for increased water flow and 19:14.360 --> 19:17.160 If we cut the bank down someplace where we were running in 19:18.160 --> 19:19.840 Oh 19:19.840 --> 19:21.840 the water flow 19:22.200 --> 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 19:29.360 --> 19:32.680 Wash them back into the river same way like 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 the water table was 19:36.840 --> 19:41.320 Because we cut the bank down the water was going across the marsh a longer amount of time and then 19:42.040 --> 19:46.120 Then it would have been so we improved up water flow 19:47.160 --> 19:49.160 and they got increased 19:51.720 --> 19:53.720 Reproduction that helped a lot 19:54.960 --> 19:56.960 Someplace we put culverts in 19:59.160 --> 20:01.800 Just increase the water flow 20:04.520 --> 20:06.520 There's a main thing 20:11.800 --> 20:14.640 That connection from a marsh to a culvert 20:17.160 --> 20:19.160 They go and make the culverts all connected 20:20.600 --> 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 20:29.560 --> 20:33.560 Say wintertime it's frozen all and the river's lower 20:34.360 --> 20:39.080 And then once it starts raining or melting and snow melts and 20:39.840 --> 20:43.320 The river comes up to increases the flow and all the fish 20:44.320 --> 20:48.280 Feel that flow and then they head for the river and start swimming up river 20:49.360 --> 20:54.200 And they might swim away and stop and rest and then keep on traveling 20:57.840 --> 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 21:05.200 --> 21:07.200 Probably use it for duck hunting too 21:13.320 --> 21:15.320 I 21:18.120 --> 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 21:24.040 --> 21:26.040 We're kind of abandoned where the fish 21:26.920 --> 21:31.560 Normally would come around the corner and go up keep only going up river. There's different depths 21:32.280 --> 21:34.280 Shallow over here, and then it goes deeper 21:44.280 --> 21:48.800 And all species of fish are swimming up river. I mean 21:49.720 --> 21:53.080 In the fall they some of them back to the lake they stay in the lake 21:53.920 --> 21:55.920 Bass 21:56.200 --> 22:01.160 After a while later in the spring all the white bass run up here to spawn to a lot of us 22:02.760 --> 22:08.520 Granted we worked on some projects while I tomorrow work on project. We put a lot of reefs in Lake Winapago 22:09.120 --> 22:11.120 help the saugars, you know, and 22:11.960 --> 22:13.960 We have a 22:13.960 --> 22:18.960 lot of portable fish hatcheries that were used on different lakes that 22:20.040 --> 22:23.080 They take them along and take them to different lakes and 22:24.040 --> 22:26.720 hatch from the fry from the walleyes or 22:28.160 --> 22:29.840 saugars and 22:29.840 --> 22:31.840 they can 22:32.520 --> 22:34.520 Die the fry and 22:35.680 --> 22:38.240 They do not take the fish after well 22:38.840 --> 22:40.840 what happens to die the 22:41.600 --> 22:46.040 Makes up there's a bone in the fishes head off the list bone that 22:46.600 --> 22:48.600 If the zorbs die 22:49.080 --> 22:54.720 We when we die them when they're just hatch makes a circle in this bone 22:56.840 --> 22:58.840 If we 23:02.520 --> 23:04.520 We die these fish 23:04.720 --> 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 23:15.120 --> 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 23:23.440 --> 23:25.280 like a half moon 23:25.280 --> 23:26.720 later on 23:26.720 --> 23:28.720 the DNR takes a sample of 23:29.440 --> 23:32.920 The fish they'd say they take ten fish out and they 23:34.160 --> 23:38.600 Kill them and they take the bone out and they look under the microscope to see if 23:39.760 --> 23:41.120 the fish was 23:41.120 --> 23:43.880 died, you know at fingerlings eyes or 23:44.760 --> 23:47.160 When a verse, you know patched 23:47.960 --> 23:49.960 They can tell if 23:51.040 --> 23:53.760 Doesn't have a mark and then it's a natural reproduction 23:54.760 --> 23:58.800 Anyway, that's how they get their ideas for 24:00.520 --> 24:02.520 different amounts of fish 24:03.280 --> 24:05.120 somewhat 24:05.120 --> 24:07.120 Gives them a better idea 24:11.200 --> 24:13.200 Over the years I've worked on other 24:15.760 --> 24:22.360 Some of the marshes were mostly on the wolf river and really one up on the various river 24:23.760 --> 24:28.880 sometimes we try to just cut paints down sometimes they put culverts in depends on where 24:29.800 --> 24:32.400 What's the situation we'd call for? 24:33.720 --> 24:39.240 Like culverts are under a road or something where guys got to drive drive across it yet 24:41.800 --> 24:47.080 We aren't doing as many as we used to because of some regulations and 24:48.080 --> 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 24:55.280 --> 24:57.160 200 24:57.160 --> 24:58.720 250,000 24:58.720 --> 25:03.600 3 $400,000 a year to use on projects throughout the state so 25:05.240 --> 25:09.720 He's sports sportsmen come to the banquet so they 25:11.600 --> 25:13.600 They you know 25:13.720 --> 25:16.600 We have a meal for them itself different areas 25:17.080 --> 25:26.040 We have prizes and stop banquet, you know that the banquets thought I had a nibble but 25:31.840 --> 25:34.000 Some fish bite a little bit and then they let go 25:34.000 --> 25:48.280 Big thing that affects them is temperature of the water I 25:49.360 --> 25:50.800 was warm 25:50.800 --> 25:52.800 warm the other day and then 25:52.960 --> 25:55.520 pulled off because we had an ice storm then 25:57.760 --> 25:59.920 Rain is cold and ice 26:00.600 --> 26:02.280 went into the 26:02.280 --> 26:07.360 System and pulled the water off and then you can then what happens is a fish quit waiting 26:16.280 --> 26:18.280 Yeah 26:19.760 --> 26:21.760 Something you got to put up with 26:21.760 --> 26:28.520 a lot of these guys you know they hear about somebody's catching fish or everybody comes and 26:29.200 --> 26:32.440 like here a lot of these people might be from 26:33.160 --> 26:35.160 Fox River Valley or 26:35.280 --> 26:39.200 different towns that they come and I call them tourists and 26:40.600 --> 26:42.600 You know granted it catch fish too 26:43.880 --> 26:45.880 you know, it's 26:45.880 --> 26:53.840 Fair to everybody else anybody wants to fish you fish by a license and pay your fees for your 26:55.040 --> 26:57.040 boat and fishing license and 26:57.240 --> 26:59.240 Go fishing 26:59.680 --> 27:03.720 You think it makes a difference how much you paid for your boat or how expensive your 27:04.680 --> 27:06.680 It had changed a lot 27:07.480 --> 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 27:15.080 --> 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 27:24.200 --> 27:28.880 Get warm or I got an oven we can store them and it always makes cook something or 27:30.880 --> 27:32.880 Anyway 27:33.400 --> 27:35.480 Guys in the boat to get wet like stay dry 27:35.480 --> 27:42.280 But it's a lot of work maintaining a raft and taking care of it 27:43.280 --> 27:48.520 Biggest place some have some place to put it or attach it to property 27:49.680 --> 27:51.680 You can't put it on public land anymore 27:53.640 --> 28:00.800 Or DNR property the Sun private property you got to have the get a permit and permission from the land 28:00.800 --> 28:02.800 I know 28:03.680 --> 28:07.800 What is it about the heritage of it that makes this special 28:08.880 --> 28:12.080 Well, I know we talked a little bit about it before was 28:12.880 --> 28:14.880 the heritage thing thing was 28:15.720 --> 28:18.840 from the logging industry in the 1880s they had 28:19.640 --> 28:21.080 loggers that 28:21.080 --> 28:23.480 this system the Wolf River system is 28:24.600 --> 28:28.300 They cut logs up north and they floated them down the river 28:28.300 --> 28:35.380 The transport them and then they brought them to a different sawmills on the river here someone were into London and 28:35.860 --> 28:39.900 North Port was a big big logging small town and 28:41.500 --> 28:43.500 That's how they 28:43.780 --> 28:46.540 It was easier for them to load it down the river 28:47.500 --> 28:52.020 These apparently the loggers had to have some place to stay so they made a 28:53.020 --> 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 29:00.980 --> 29:03.620 from home and for different fish for food and 29:06.340 --> 29:09.620 One thing here is from what I always knew is 29:10.740 --> 29:12.660 the 29:12.660 --> 29:17.020 Wolf River is the only place that I know of that I heard of that 29:18.020 --> 29:19.020 Oh 29:19.020 --> 29:21.020 Let's rafts on the river 29:21.860 --> 29:23.860 that permit them and 29:25.580 --> 29:27.580 So it's kind of a 29:27.580 --> 29:30.660 historic historic thing of the rafts on the river and 29:31.420 --> 29:34.380 Fisherman kept them going nowadays and 29:36.300 --> 29:39.380 It's a historic thing to keep on going 29:39.860 --> 29:45.820 There's quite a few you drive up and down. Yeah, yeah, there's you know different towns 29:45.820 --> 29:47.700 You know, it's somewhat by Horton 29:47.700 --> 29:50.740 You know different place on the river Shriakton and Hortonville and 29:51.220 --> 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 29:58.260 --> 30:13.820 So when you were a kid was walleye for eating or while I was just done for catching 30:14.220 --> 30:15.980 well mainly 30:15.980 --> 30:19.380 It was mainly to eat, you know, I mean people get 30:20.500 --> 30:25.540 People didn't have as much money as some of people do know and you know 30:25.540 --> 30:28.460 It's just like hunting and everything else too was 30:32.580 --> 30:35.700 As a child, you know, we ate and I still do is 30:36.340 --> 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 30:46.060 --> 30:52.700 That's that's what we lived on other people did too and it included all types of fish 30:55.540 --> 31:00.940 Whatever they caught they ate a little shot 31:10.780 --> 31:13.180 It's probably a staple. Oh, I 31:14.580 --> 31:20.220 Probably well fish once a week anyway, you can't sell me put some in a freezer 31:20.980 --> 31:24.580 Oh, you know, I go trout fishing once a while I have a trout or 31:25.540 --> 31:29.020 You go perch fishing in the winter or pan fish or whatever 31:31.700 --> 31:33.700 And you don't have to go to grocery store 31:35.980 --> 31:37.980 Yeah save money 31:38.860 --> 31:43.060 You know, I got a little nibble on this poi. I don't know what it is 31:44.500 --> 31:46.580 He might be trying to bite it might be a 31:48.060 --> 31:50.060 Small fish 31:50.700 --> 31:52.700 Pick it up to you by feeling 31:53.580 --> 31:55.580 Might be a rock bass or I 31:57.540 --> 31:59.540 Don't know small mold bass 32:00.420 --> 32:02.420 You never know what's biting 32:03.460 --> 32:06.340 It's probably not a walleye a walleye would bite harder 32:08.660 --> 32:10.660 Nibble done a little bit 32:11.860 --> 32:13.860 And a minute on there 32:20.540 --> 32:24.620 Like a fish at night you got the lanterns on you got gas lanterns for lights and 32:26.620 --> 32:28.620 You had just 32:28.620 --> 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 32:34.300 --> 32:36.300 If you want to get warm you go inside 32:38.340 --> 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 32:44.420 --> 32:46.420 Try to catch them left to the button 32:50.220 --> 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 32:58.260 --> 33:00.620 The marshes and recall birds and all that work 33:01.780 --> 33:03.260 well 33:03.260 --> 33:05.260 people didn't I 33:05.500 --> 33:07.860 Would say people didn't really you know, I don't know 33:08.580 --> 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 33:15.860 --> 33:17.860 more and more people fish 33:18.860 --> 33:25.180 That they caught quite of the fish out and maybe they didn't have 33:26.380 --> 33:33.020 good years where the fish spawned where there wasn't a lot of reproduction so then the 33:34.460 --> 33:39.380 quantity of fish went down and then the guys fishing the fishermen realized that 33:39.980 --> 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 33:47.860 --> 33:51.380 helping the fish spawn for natural reproduction, and that's where we 33:52.460 --> 33:53.700 help 33:53.700 --> 33:56.060 Help the fish by working on the marshes 33:56.980 --> 33:58.780 through 33:58.780 --> 34:00.780 Get them to spawn to increase 34:02.460 --> 34:09.780 The numbers and it takes a few years for them to grow up of course, but as 34:11.140 --> 34:13.140 The DNR tracked them and then 34:14.100 --> 34:16.100 Some years you might 34:16.100 --> 34:20.300 You know one in three years you might have a good hatch or they might have a couple good years 34:20.980 --> 34:25.420 And they used to count them they used to have a graph went to one to ten after a while they 34:26.260 --> 34:27.740 do trolings 34:27.740 --> 34:30.900 Net trolings in Lake Winnebago and stuff places 34:31.260 --> 34:34.740 in the fall to see how many young in the year they are and 34:36.260 --> 34:38.260 To see how many there were actually 34:39.060 --> 34:41.060 hatched and grew and 34:41.140 --> 34:44.780 And then they can tell what year was good or bad or whatever 34:45.340 --> 34:49.100 But they had this graph one to ten and back in the early 90s 34:49.820 --> 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 34:56.700 --> 34:58.300 really good 34:58.300 --> 35:03.900 reproduction rate and they changed the graph up to 40 and 35:06.180 --> 35:10.420 It's like when they go out and do trolings they put their nets in and then 35:11.380 --> 35:12.980 and 35:12.980 --> 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 35:20.820 --> 35:22.820 That's where they get these numbers from 35:24.940 --> 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 35:31.860 --> 35:33.340 really good 35:33.340 --> 35:34.980 reproduction year 35:34.980 --> 35:36.980 so that's what 35:37.020 --> 35:39.020 As we can get the numbers from 35:41.060 --> 35:43.060 I suppose I should 35:43.900 --> 35:46.100 But it helped a lot of people. I mean 35:46.860 --> 35:48.300 know that I 35:48.300 --> 35:50.300 worked on the river here and 35:50.580 --> 35:53.100 Worked on the straighten surgeon trail here 35:54.420 --> 35:58.420 Normally we all did walleye projects, but then because I'm working on projects. I 35:59.300 --> 36:01.460 proposed this surgeon trail here knowing and 36:02.220 --> 36:07.180 improved it and they call it it was put more rocks in there and made a trail where 36:08.180 --> 36:12.860 Oh people can go and watch and see the sturgeon 36:13.420 --> 36:14.780 spawn 36:14.780 --> 36:16.780 The wolf river is one river 36:18.220 --> 36:24.100 One of the five places in the world you can actually see sturgeon spawn so 36:25.060 --> 36:27.060 You know if I'm working on 36:27.060 --> 36:31.460 Walleye project as well. That's right next to him somewhere a property that I 36:32.060 --> 36:38.100 Said why don't we make it good better for surgeon and there's other groups sturgeon for tomorrow work done 36:38.620 --> 36:42.140 Some of the other projects too that help the sturgeon 36:45.860 --> 36:47.860 It's nice to see 36:48.260 --> 36:51.060 Families come out there they bring their kids out there and then they can 36:52.060 --> 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 36:59.940 --> 37:01.940 Well, that's 37:03.300 --> 37:07.100 I'm glad to see that in the kids faces 37:07.940 --> 37:11.340 That get to see something that's unreal 37:15.660 --> 37:17.660 Well, how much of this is 37:17.660 --> 37:21.900 About kids because a lot of times you go out and see it's a bunch of old men fishing 37:21.900 --> 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 37:28.460 --> 37:31.700 Like for on the sturgeon trail. I mean everybody goes out there to watch them 37:32.140 --> 37:34.140 but like our walleye fishing or 37:35.540 --> 37:37.540 same way we could 37:37.900 --> 37:42.460 When we improve a marsh all all kinds of fish could actually go into it and 37:43.220 --> 37:47.660 Like Northern's usually go into there and earlier and they spawn earlier 37:47.860 --> 37:53.100 So Northern's could be using a marsh and then all of the walleyes go in there 37:54.820 --> 37:56.820 so 37:57.060 --> 37:58.900 And the thing about 37:58.900 --> 38:03.260 When you improve water flow across the marsh the natural weeds 38:04.220 --> 38:06.220 The natural vegetation 38:06.540 --> 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 38:15.220 --> 38:21.500 But I know that it takes some of the silt and dirt and it's maybe settles down in there 38:22.020 --> 38:25.060 So we're helping the water quality also 38:27.820 --> 38:29.820 The 38:29.820 --> 38:34.020 How important is walleye to the identity in this area? 38:35.060 --> 38:37.060 Well 38:37.500 --> 38:41.420 Walleye's about been here forever I presume but 38:44.500 --> 38:46.500 One of the 38:47.460 --> 38:51.100 Groups here is well, it's a fishing game called thing 38:52.140 --> 38:54.860 They have a new one in fishing game club 38:55.860 --> 38:57.860 they 38:58.860 --> 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 39:06.260 --> 39:09.820 I presume it's almost been happening for 50 years 39:10.460 --> 39:11.820 they 39:11.820 --> 39:13.460 back in 39:13.460 --> 39:15.460 60 1960s and 70s 39:16.140 --> 39:17.820 They put this 39:17.820 --> 39:21.180 boat out there with two dummies in it. It's called Pete and Joe 39:22.020 --> 39:24.180 It's out on ice and they had 39:24.860 --> 39:28.860 a contest where you would guess when the ice would go out and 39:29.340 --> 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 39:37.100 --> 39:42.700 This big whopper thing was up here at the by the boat landing. They had it for years was 39:43.660 --> 39:47.660 Bring your fish in they registered big ones little ones, whatever get prize away 39:48.060 --> 39:50.700 they have they used to have food there and 39:50.700 --> 39:51.940 and 39:51.940 --> 39:57.380 it was a fundraiser for them but a lot of you know a lot of people came there and and 39:58.460 --> 40:00.460 Donated or you know 40:01.060 --> 40:03.060 they had hamburger 40:03.180 --> 40:05.700 Buffalo burgers hamburger is whatever 40:06.420 --> 40:08.420 you know other food and 40:09.540 --> 40:11.540 It was a fundraiser for them 40:12.100 --> 40:18.340 They had a DJ or music there sometimes or a dance or people a lot of people went there 40:19.100 --> 40:21.100 Oh, it's all it's all 40:21.980 --> 40:24.860 functioned around walleye fish in here on the woofer 40:26.540 --> 40:31.020 The unique the new it's a unique area to 40:31.940 --> 40:33.940 fish 40:33.940 --> 40:36.940 Granted you can catch fish anywhere almost 40:38.140 --> 40:44.140 As they move this way or that way you ain't getting to catch them all but lucky to catch some 40:44.700 --> 40:46.700 but like right now we're doing this is 40:47.340 --> 40:50.500 the rain ain't bothering us, but it's the 40:51.300 --> 40:52.740 different 40:52.740 --> 40:54.740 temperatures of the water and 40:54.860 --> 40:56.380 and 40:56.380 --> 41:02.020 the weather effects fish or see I know you aren't gonna they're gonna bite every day or 41:02.340 --> 41:07.260 All the time either if they did you everybody catch them all and there won't be any laugh 41:08.540 --> 41:10.540 And that's why they have restrictions on 41:12.500 --> 41:15.980 Limits like years ago used to catch five now they have three but 41:16.700 --> 41:18.700 because of 41:18.700 --> 41:21.580 Increase fish and pressure so many people fishing 41:23.820 --> 41:26.920 And there's all ages of people it's good that 41:27.620 --> 41:31.360 Parents take their kids and get them involved with something 41:32.340 --> 41:34.340 Besides sitting on their telephone 41:40.940 --> 41:44.020 What this my shag no 41:44.860 --> 41:46.860 mine, it's mine 41:47.620 --> 41:51.780 Like you say I'm going up to the raft or I'm going up to the shack or the raft 41:55.020 --> 41:59.380 And over the years I you know I probably had 42:01.340 --> 42:05.380 Probably four of them and I adjusted 42:08.500 --> 42:10.500 The sizes and 42:11.100 --> 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 42:19.180 --> 42:21.180 but you know 42:21.180 --> 42:27.260 Someone would use plastic barrels or foam insulate foam they had floaters and 42:27.940 --> 42:29.940 different things like that 42:31.100 --> 42:37.300 You move them by I use my other boat and a motor and tie up to it and I 42:37.300 --> 42:41.140 Push it wherever I want to go 42:42.060 --> 42:44.460 By having a pontoon trailer. I just 42:45.060 --> 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 43:07.300 --> 43:09.300 It's like all the fishermen got off the river 43:10.460 --> 43:15.020 There's a rating other day and when I was snowing and blowing there wasn't anybody fishing 43:15.980 --> 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 43:23.660 --> 43:28.740 When it's cold out all these other couple other guys went fishing. They're just went down to their rafts 43:32.700 --> 43:34.700 We can take a break and go inside it wrong 43:37.300 --> 43:39.300 Yeah 43:39.980 --> 43:45.060 So I would wind up and check to make sure you don't have a leaf on there 43:49.420 --> 43:55.780 Like before it was kind of cold it didn't refresh the world I came down and had 43:57.460 --> 44:02.300 We had two inches of rain and then the boat they come down pull the boat out and empty that 44:02.300 --> 44:04.300 And 44:05.580 --> 44:07.580 Whether I looked at the weather, you know 44:08.140 --> 44:12.820 This afternoon it was nothing in it like now. It's supposed to keep on raining 44:14.180 --> 44:16.180 Right, you know was all night. Oh 44:21.380 --> 44:23.380 The other thing was 44:25.300 --> 44:27.900 Here was you know the weather for the week was 44:28.740 --> 44:33.460 So so so and then you know a couple nice days 44:34.140 --> 44:36.140 But I 44:36.140 --> 44:40.540 Mean Sunday at 52. Well that warm with that warm up fast. Yeah, yeah, right 44:40.540 --> 44:45.260 You know biggest thing is when the Sun comes out then harder or warm up and 44:46.100 --> 44:49.660 It'll warm up to probably two degrees where it's a Sun though 44:50.100 --> 44:53.660 And it might walk more if it's windy out same time 44:54.660 --> 44:57.680 Yeah, and the Sun shining thing is 44:58.220 --> 45:00.460 say water is going across the marsh somewhere 45:00.980 --> 45:03.340 it's a marshes shallower and 45:05.420 --> 45:11.340 The Sun reflects off the dark bottom warms up the water more same way dirty water warms up 45:12.780 --> 45:14.380 faster 45:14.380 --> 45:16.380 and clear water because 45:17.780 --> 45:19.780 Light has effect on it 45:20.780 --> 45:22.780 Oh 45:22.780 --> 45:26.700 Like their Sunday 50 what's the thing? 45:27.980 --> 45:29.980 The thing that affects 45:31.060 --> 45:33.060 Fishin is 45:33.620 --> 45:35.300 the weather 45:35.300 --> 45:37.300 But we're 45:37.500 --> 45:40.020 I'm saying some fish are the marshes are ready 45:41.300 --> 45:45.300 The eggs in the fish aren't ready to spawn 45:47.260 --> 45:49.100 because 45:49.100 --> 45:51.100 They aren't ripe enough 45:51.820 --> 45:53.820 The fish going on eggs right 45:55.180 --> 45:57.180 Okay 45:57.180 --> 45:59.180 You know 46:00.540 --> 46:04.340 About fish eggs like we have these hadries and 46:05.140 --> 46:07.140 We know this they 46:07.300 --> 46:09.300 catch some fish with nets and 46:09.540 --> 46:15.300 Take them some places want them all and take this one and they take the milk from the males 46:16.340 --> 46:18.340 anyway when they 46:19.180 --> 46:21.180 Put the eggs in a spawning 46:22.100 --> 46:26.180 We got them in this morning there, but after all before when they take them out of the fish 46:26.980 --> 46:28.980 They put them in a like a 46:30.460 --> 46:34.260 Small you put the eggs in there put the milk in there 46:36.380 --> 46:38.860 There's a hole in the egg and 46:42.740 --> 46:45.100 They call it water water hardening 46:45.980 --> 46:47.740 the 46:47.740 --> 46:51.140 Male sperm has to go through this hole in the egg 46:52.220 --> 46:54.900 within a minute because the water makes 46:55.980 --> 46:57.420 the egg 46:57.420 --> 47:01.260 Close the hole so it happens fast 47:02.460 --> 47:09.700 So that it gets fertilized and then they put them in spawning first you run current water through it and 47:10.220 --> 47:12.220 It's oxygenated 47:13.220 --> 47:16.420 And then you know weak the two weeks 47:17.300 --> 47:20.900 they've hatched and the fire come on and it has a 47:21.620 --> 47:22.600 little 47:22.600 --> 47:24.260 belly sack on it 47:24.260 --> 47:29.580 makes it float and probably bounces up and down and in a marsh it would float 47:30.940 --> 47:34.100 The current would flush them into the river system 47:34.740 --> 47:38.540 defeat off the sack for a while and then they started eating Zulu clankton 47:39.380 --> 47:40.820 Oh 47:40.820 --> 47:44.900 Organic phone, you know through the system and they float back to the lake 47:48.940 --> 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 47:54.940 --> 48:01.340 Yeah, they you know, they put them in that garden. I don't know what Mike there. Yep, Mike Tom 48:01.340 --> 48:03.340 and 48:07.620 --> 48:09.620 How they 48:09.860 --> 48:12.500 Put fish in half these different lakes, you know 48:13.820 --> 48:17.940 Well, that helps wherever they want them. They don't have have them 48:19.020 --> 48:22.940 They have different, you know different chapters who will see 48:22.940 --> 48:24.940 Oh 48:31.780 --> 48:33.780 When some of them nights 48:35.340 --> 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 48:42.940 --> 48:45.100 somewhat on the top of his head 48:45.820 --> 48:47.820 he's looking up and 48:48.700 --> 48:52.060 It's better to fish higher than the lower 48:52.940 --> 48:58.220 Because they the fish might go by as I got some kinkles other about a couple down there is 48:58.540 --> 49:03.580 We got different amounts of line use short cold long cold short cold long cold. So either 49:04.860 --> 49:12.260 Fish in different areas and fish in different depths and I got my sinker guy. They make my own sinkers is 49:13.500 --> 49:15.020 you can 49:15.020 --> 49:19.300 There's been a lot of these different types of clubs and some of them 49:19.300 --> 49:24.620 Well, they got different those on the wiggle water or rattle stuff like that 49:25.940 --> 49:27.940 according to the height of water and 49:30.420 --> 49:32.780 Current makes lures wiggle more 49:33.700 --> 49:36.060 less soon stuff like that for you 49:36.820 --> 49:38.820 by different reasons 49:39.620 --> 49:41.620 He's like that 49:46.540 --> 49:53.620 So is it the males that bite more on the way natural things that tell you what's happening is 49:54.460 --> 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 50:01.380 --> 50:03.380 There's 50:03.380 --> 50:05.380 Gee, there's geese around but 50:05.780 --> 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 50:13.460 --> 50:18.660 And that's when the wall is up up river and all of a sudden you might wait 50:21.860 --> 50:26.980 Go after the wall ice pond is almost you get another bunch of more geese to be flying up north and 50:27.300 --> 50:32.180 You know flock up the flock when it's warmer as well as they're going back down there 50:32.900 --> 50:34.900 the other natural thing is 50:35.900 --> 50:37.900 You haven't seen a frog yet 50:38.580 --> 50:40.580 when the water gets warm 50:40.900 --> 50:42.900 The frogs come out of hibernation 50:43.780 --> 50:48.740 The frogs are croaking and that's you can you know like a marshy. There's some 50:49.540 --> 50:50.820 female 50:50.820 --> 50:56.620 Wall ice didn't spawn yet. So they hang around in the marsh. All those little females are all gone 50:57.460 --> 51:02.660 Then the males hang in there. They might be in fox frogs or minerals and they'll come out 51:03.700 --> 51:04.660 but 51:04.660 --> 51:09.060 The main run is it seemed like after the sturgeon spawn 51:09.940 --> 51:15.700 And the sturgeon spawn of 52 to 55 degrees. There's that first one down. I'll eat it 51:26.980 --> 51:28.980 You 51:44.340 --> 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 51:49.860 --> 51:51.860 But I don't like it a drone shot of this thing, too 51:51.860 --> 51:53.860 Yeah 51:56.100 --> 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 52:02.580 --> 52:04.580 Appreciate 52:06.020 --> 52:08.020 And 52:08.500 --> 52:10.500 While ago 52:10.500 --> 52:13.460 When I talk a lot I get worse. I don't know why 52:14.820 --> 52:16.420 and 52:16.420 --> 52:20.340 Never did but it's not from talking too much. I don't know if I had 52:22.420 --> 52:27.460 I haven't had COVID or nothing but I asked my brother to doctor what 52:28.740 --> 52:30.740 walked up 52:31.060 --> 52:35.860 In my house, you know, the air so dry that it could be affecting 52:36.980 --> 52:38.660 you know that 52:38.660 --> 52:40.660 and I I don't know 52:40.740 --> 52:44.820 When I'm sleeping too, I might I might be breathing through my mouth more 52:45.540 --> 52:47.540 Very knows 52:47.540 --> 52:51.780 They wake up and they get kind of like a drive. Oh, I don't know if I snore 53:03.140 --> 53:05.140 You know over the years, you know, I learned 53:06.500 --> 53:08.900 Oh to make you know how to make the breathing work 53:14.820 --> 53:17.060 Fish fishing down about course 53:18.180 --> 53:20.020 and then I get you know 53:20.020 --> 53:23.860 Use a short pole. That's like my poles. I got them all 53:25.860 --> 53:27.860 I'm showing you one here in the final window 53:44.820 --> 53:46.820 I 53:54.020 --> 53:57.220 There's like the odds are slim. We're gonna get a fish today. Yeah snap 53:58.660 --> 54:00.660 It's got 12 feet of line on 54:01.220 --> 54:03.220 Like this other one 54:03.620 --> 54:05.620 It's got 10 feet of line on 54:06.020 --> 54:08.020 and 54:08.020 --> 54:09.540 that 54:09.540 --> 54:11.540 sets all deep when fishing 54:11.540 --> 54:12.980 but 54:13.060 --> 54:14.260 It's like 54:14.260 --> 54:17.300 See that I have some other pole. They're 20 feet long 54:17.860 --> 54:20.500 I have a long pole and then a short pole. I fish like this 54:21.060 --> 54:23.060 you know, or shorter 54:23.700 --> 54:26.900 Let's say they're four feet down or six feet. It's like if I got 54:27.540 --> 54:30.020 eight feet of line on it and from here 54:30.740 --> 54:34.900 They hang down. There's about two feet a line out of the 54:35.940 --> 54:36.900 water 54:36.900 --> 54:39.460 Roughly and it goes down on the angle 54:40.340 --> 54:41.620 so 54:41.620 --> 54:43.620 That means I got six feet out 54:43.940 --> 54:46.900 You know an eight and an eight quarter. That means I got six feet off 54:48.420 --> 54:50.100 Line in the water 54:50.100 --> 54:52.820 And goes down an angle. I might only be fishing four feet deep 54:53.540 --> 54:56.660 It doesn't mean I'm a fishing eight feet. I'm fishing. I'm on a 54:57.380 --> 54:59.380 45 degree angle 54:59.780 --> 55:03.300 There especially the current taking up. Yeah, yeah, right and 55:05.380 --> 55:06.740 Some of these guys 55:06.740 --> 55:11.060 To find out where the fish are going by we give you a rough idea. They take a cane pole 55:11.700 --> 55:13.700 And I got something too 55:13.700 --> 55:15.700 they put a 55:16.340 --> 55:18.340 Swivel on it 55:18.740 --> 55:20.740 And say they got 55:21.060 --> 55:23.060 The swivel down at eight feet 55:23.540 --> 55:25.540 another one at 55:25.540 --> 55:28.820 10 and another 12 different projects that work done. So 55:28.820 --> 55:30.820 I 55:41.300 --> 55:43.780 So a Easter is this going to be crowded out here still? 55:46.340 --> 55:48.340 They're big probably busy 55:49.700 --> 55:54.500 Because everybody's got off from work and the kids they're off. Yeah, I think 55:55.140 --> 55:58.020 I don't know they're too happy maybe there's something 55:58.900 --> 56:00.900 Yeah 56:01.380 --> 56:03.380 I don't know how many fish they'll catch but 56:04.820 --> 56:06.820 They know they could catch quite a few 56:08.980 --> 56:12.420 Are you gonna be out on Easter? Yeah, well, I'll be out here every day 56:13.700 --> 56:15.700 probably 56:16.660 --> 56:18.660 And I might be 56:19.700 --> 56:21.940 Probably within a week I'll move by the hose 56:23.140 --> 56:25.140 along 56:25.700 --> 56:29.540 Here are some guys might be catching a spawn of fish 56:30.420 --> 56:32.420 Everybody will be able to 56:55.140 --> 56:57.140 I 57:06.660 --> 57:11.620 Think that one was some temple them bio and kind of a political thing 57:14.100 --> 57:15.620 No 57:15.620 --> 57:20.100 One time to all the other fish go to the reefs like we're doing it one 57:21.540 --> 57:23.540 and 57:23.860 --> 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 57:30.980 --> 57:32.980 And then one day 57:33.860 --> 57:35.860 What's going out there years ago and 57:36.580 --> 57:40.340 A space crack when Trump went through and the guy was in a 57:41.540 --> 57:43.540 truck and drove 57:43.540 --> 57:44.820 Very quick 57:44.820 --> 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 57:53.540 --> 57:58.260 And some of the reefs a couple of reefs are a mile long that they put all the rocks in 57:58.900 --> 58:03.540 And that's where already died. They did saugard. They helped saugard was they died them, you know 58:04.740 --> 58:08.020 Almost they caught a bunch of you know, D and her take 10 saugars and 58:09.300 --> 58:12.740 kill them and you know look at her microscope like 58:13.700 --> 58:18.500 We took some hatcheries and we died them, you know, but the finding guard is almost like hats 58:18.500 --> 58:23.220 They go and put them runs in a little dump like dump incident get bought the running in and out 58:24.100 --> 58:25.460 and 58:25.460 --> 58:29.300 Many in their head was almost about 80% of them were 58:30.340 --> 58:32.340 the ones we hatched 58:32.500 --> 58:35.220 so they knew the reefs were working so I mean 58:36.660 --> 58:38.500 Then they died some other ones, but yeah 58:39.300 --> 58:42.820 And then after a while they watched because they took some more and then almost there's 58:43.620 --> 58:48.260 More and more of the fish were gonna have a what we've been dying of more and more fish 58:49.380 --> 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 58:59.540 --> 59:04.180 We were we told them what for and knew what's reading and that's some money 59:09.940 --> 59:11.940 So that is I have 59:13.860 --> 59:15.860 Yeah, it's for growing long isn't it? 59:16.580 --> 59:22.180 It's a quite cool they go on a quite cool and I thought 59:24.020 --> 59:26.020 Actually this one 59:27.300 --> 59:29.300 It was 59:35.060 --> 59:37.060 Okay 59:41.060 --> 59:43.060 Logging and 59:43.540 --> 59:45.060 This thing 59:45.060 --> 59:47.060 Sure is over 100 years old 59:47.940 --> 59:52.820 You know, I don't know what I think I got it from my dad 59:54.020 --> 59:56.260 And uh, I don't know where he's gonna have a problem 59:56.820 --> 01:00:00.820 So I'm logging here. I just have it here when logs go by 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 01:00:07.220 --> 01:00:11.780 Push it open somewhere. I'm sure the thing is 100 years old or probably more 01:00:12.100 --> 01:00:14.100 Yeah, they're eating pretty good 01:00:15.060 --> 01:00:17.060 I 01:00:32.660 --> 01:00:34.660 This is 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 01:00:41.300 --> 01:00:43.300 I 01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:45.300 Know obviously we'll get like some 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 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 01:01:11.860 --> 01:01:13.860 Yeah 01:01:15.220 --> 01:01:19.700 No, it's there's something kind of meditative almost about this little thing. Yeah 01:01:20.980 --> 01:01:24.020 It's in there. Yeah, then put your eyes back out there 01:01:24.980 --> 01:01:28.980 That's it's a lot like ice fish. Yep. It's that is that 100% 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 01:01:36.180 --> 01:01:38.180 Just ice fish is too cold or 01:01:39.060 --> 01:01:41.620 There's something about the water being open. Oh, I think that 01:01:42.420 --> 01:01:44.420 More of a mystery. Yeah, it's like 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 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 01:01:55.060 --> 01:01:57.060 Yeah 01:02:04.020 --> 01:02:09.700 No, it's pretty interesting. Yeah, seeing all of Wisconsin's fishing culture. Pretty cool 01:02:09.700 --> 01:02:11.700 Yeah 01:02:23.700 --> 01:02:26.100 Ron Gropos took care of all this sturgeon 01:02:26.660 --> 01:02:29.060 because like Mike Blakely and Bego has the most 01:02:30.100 --> 01:02:32.100 sturgeon in 01:02:32.900 --> 01:02:34.900 Most populated 01:02:35.780 --> 01:02:37.780 Go on a sturgeon and make my video 01:02:38.660 --> 01:02:40.660 And 01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:46.020 It's being our guys trying to get their name. They probably know who I am 01:02:47.460 --> 01:02:49.460 Oh 01:02:50.100 --> 01:02:52.100 Oh 01:03:07.460 --> 01:03:10.020 You get out and start walking because we got it 01:03:19.460 --> 01:03:21.460 You 01:03:49.460 --> 01:03:51.460 You 01:04:19.460 --> 01:04:21.460 You 01:04:49.460 --> 01:04:51.460 You