Catch and Cook and Camp Ep. 3 * Solo 2 Night 3 Days in the Wild * No Tent

so with 40 pounds of gear we get to the fishing spot, well actually not nearly so we have another two mile hike to get to where I want to go so today I don't have a

tent

all I have is a sleeping bag and a hammock and a few other essentials, of course, but once I get to the location, I'll unpack everything and show you what I brought. It's going to be a two-

night

, three-day

camp

ing trip and I'm off. for some trout, my favorite and I have my butter. I am alone here. I am now about 1/4 mile into the hike.

I still have another mile and a half to go and there's no reception here. That's something I love about coming. outside and being far from everything means that they force you to be with nature, even if you wanted to go on YouTube or Facebook, you can't because there is no reception out here, so it forces you to get away from everything and forces you to enjoy life at this very moment, well I've gotten myself into a bit of trouble here and it's a little harder than I thought it would be to cross this little stream, it goes so fast and so wide it covers all these rocks and there's no way to cross the actual path is down there and I could cross it but I would get my feet wet if I did and I would risk falling into the water with my camera my drone my GoPro my bag everything these rocks are really slippery if you get your feet just a little bit wet, that little bit of moisture combined with These slippery rocks have been washed with water for years and years, so they are smooth like marble, so if you step on them and they get wet, they will slide right away, so I don't feel comfortable doing that.

The only thing I can do now is make a little bridge, so there's tons of driftwood that's been washed up here, so I have to get a couple of pieces and find the. in the narrowest area and put them on the other side and make a little bridge, well, there goes that one, you know, when I'm not carrying my bag, I know I could jump over there, it's just the fact that I have all this equipment, I'm going to place everything. to the other side and that should work fine, this might be all I need, but I might get another one just in case, if I could get two more pieces right in the middle, I'll be fine, here we go, so my back won't.

I don't get too wet I think I got it right, there's a little victory right there and I have to bring you guys too, okay, there we go, let's move on, fisherman's life, yeah, I forgot to mention there are bears around here and cougars. here I'm just saying, well, I've been walking about a mile and a half. Oh, the shoulders are tired from carrying that forty pounds of weight, but I stumbled upon this big opening. Looks like someone was

camp

ing here a while ago. There are some old rocks and some burnt wood around here, but the reason I stopped here is because behind me there is a nice fast flowing river, but there are some areas that move slowly and I think there might be some fish held there, so the plan is to try to

catch

them.

Bring me a couple of trout right now and bring me some lunch so I have more energy to continue this hike, but before I do that let me show you what's in my backpack, so my cold key brought my jacket, brought a little sweater, brought My pillow. Of course, I have my rod. I'm going to go fishing with this in a minute before I come here. I stopped at an outdoor Pro Shop in Rohnert Park on Redwood Road. I bought this really nice Pflueger president and an eight foot Kuma SST rod, it's like a salmon trout rod will probably throw some worms.

I also have some spinners and I also have some flies, but I'm hungry right now, so I want to do what will allow me to

catch

the most fish, which will probably be worms. I'm going to experiment with flies and spinners tomorrow when I have a punch all day to fish, so I don't have a

tent

, but I will sleep in this hammock that the Arbor Creek company sent me this, so every time I've been out camping has always been with the tent. I have never used a hammock in my life, so this will be quite an experience.

I have an emergency blanket that I used in episode one of my

cook

ing camp. I have that as a tarp that I can cover myself when I'm hanging in the hammock, of course, I have my propane tank and my burner, some paracord, my little stove, the stove, which you know, I set it up, that's all. I have some butter and some beef jerky and some avocados. That's just a little bit of fat to give me that energy, of course, you don't know anything else, nothing special, just the bare minimum. Take a look at this platform. I have just a simple split shot on the top and a hook on the bottom, the owner's size 8 hook, so I have this thing called a worm threader and what you do with the worm threader is you go through the end of the worm. and just as the name suggests, thread the worm into the worm threader all the way up now, when you are ready to put it on the line, the tube of this worm threader is hollow, so you pass the hook through the hollow tube , tighten it, pull the line tight and then you can thread your worm directly onto the line and onto the hook.

Nice deep hole here man there's a lot of water moving in this river oh there's a bite here today I missed it I had a little brown trout there it is again in a net my hands first look at that fish beautiful beautiful fish the sad thing is I hooked it in the gills it swallowed the hook, which is common if you fish with worms it's bleeding out so I'm going to win, harvest it, it's a little bit small, but I mean it's legal size, but look how beautiful, how beautiful It's that pattern. I'll keep it in the water for now and try to catch one more to get all this water through.

I like this and there are big rocks in the river so right behind the rocks there is a quiet area and that's where the fish hang out so if you cast right behind the rock or if you cast in the stream and your weight and bait they crawl and you follow. Behind the rocks, that's where the fish are, that's where they're going to bite you, there's one, a small guy, so I've already learned that's a properly handled trout. You want to get your hands wet first, that helps keep the cape attached. him right on the lip so don't worry about him a nice rainbow trout yl2 has this adipose fin okay, okay, come on, I want one more for lunch, come on, take it, he's nibbling on it, there's, oh, it's bitter , good size, a good one. size one, I'll go up here oh yeah, hi, oh yeah, this is perfect.

I don't know if you could tell how excited I am, but I'm really excited, so the reason I'm so excited about these fish is if you saw the last episode of the Trout Cash Cooking Camp, I caught a rainbow trout.

wild

and that's exactly what this and that thing was the best fish I've ever had in my life and I've never had a

wild

brown trout and that's what it is so I had the best fish I've ever had in my life in my right hand and probably one of the best fish I've ever eaten right here.

Look at the beautiful and beautiful pattern of this fish. What has this guy been eating? Holy Moly. Look. to all these bugs in it, look, those are all bugs, little bugs, shit, I have some flies that will be perfect for catching these trout, so yesterday when I was at an outdoor pro shop I bought a bunch of black zebra. zebra mosquitoes and that's exactly what's in these guys' stomachs, black flies, so now it's basically clean. All I'm going to do now is get rid of this blood line in the middle. I can just scrape it with my finger and all that blood will come out.

Another thing I learned when I was in Arkansas, if you want to peel them, you don't have to fillet them to peel them, you can just bend the head back, check this out. Bend your head back and simply push up and watch the skin come out. with practically perfect skin before seasoning the fish. I'm going to put some butter in my pan. It doesn't run assembly lines. We're okay, it's a little salt and pepper, so when you

cook

, always put the biggest. pieces in the first smaller ones will cook faster fish and avocado don't think and you will get a better combination that food is ready if I do say so myself and it looks good the cow comes off the bone like this it just comes out well off the bone, my goodness it's Well, I can honestly say that I didn't waste any of that all-meat fish.

I love trout. I love fishing. I love the outdoors and nature. It's beautiful out here. Someone will say, "Oh, you ruined it with avocado." Hey, you know, didn't I tell myself that doesn't look like an amazing lunch, the first bite of my first meal here. Wow, there are almost no seasonings, just salt, pepper, butter, and avocado, and this meal is to die for. the best simple meals I've ever had and they were gone quickly okay let's clean up and go out I don't want to stay here too long that's the hammock over there it's by Arbor Creek so they sent me this to put a video and another . of the captures or not, the capture is one of the benefits for you is that I convinced you to give some away, so you are going to give away.

I think three of these hammocks is not a complete gift it's basically like 95 percent off is what they said this is what it comes with it comes with these two straps and then the hammock attaches to the bag like this that this is the hammock and on each side of the hammock there are these heavy duty carabiners every five inches or so there's another loop. I guess when you put weight on it it compresses down which gives it extra strength, but I think it's also another place to attach the carabiner so you get two here or you can just attach it here depending on how.

The trees are very far apart and one thing I was reading is that when you have a hammock you don't want to squeeze it in or else that will create this banana shape, you actually want it to hang so this is what I'm going to sleep in to

night

and that's basically it. Okay, please don't break, please don't break on the trees, please don't fall on them. Alright. I'll write it goodbye. Wow, slipping. I'm slipping here. I did it a little. of research before coming here and how to sleep properly in a hammock if you want to buy this hammock or if you want to participate in the contest you win it is not straight if you sit up straight then your body will be in the shape of that arch It will be shaped like a banana so The way to sleep in a hammock is that you stand in the middle, put your feet on the side of the hammock and then I'm much more level and then with your head, you know, do the same thing and I just hope you don't fall. , so it's okay, I think I'm pretty flat now and if my head is too high I can lift my feet to the side.

I like it, although it is very light and compact, you see how small it is. The bag fit perfectly in my bag. The biggest thing I have now is my sleeping bag. Here we go. I'm protected from the rain, so this is what it looks like inside. If it rains it should be good, it should keep me dry anyway. While it's still light I'm going to collect some firewood and I hope I can do all that before it gets too dark so I can fish a little more, so yesterday it rained a lot, a lot of the wood that is on the ground is wet, but these sticks They dried out and that's what I'm going to need for the tinder.

I feel like there are so many videos on this already that I don't even need to show them. All I'm doing is collecting firewood. Well, I have enough wood here. There should be enough wood to light a fire for about thirty minutes to an hour. I arrived here before sunset and I have a very good feeling about this peaceful place. You can see the water going super fast behind this calm spot, but there is a seam right where the calm water and the fast moving water meet, so I would cast right there and you should be able to fish here.

Oh, I've got a decent sized fish here, a nice brown trout. Yes, that's a rainbow trout. You know it's night. Now is really the time when your mind starts playing tricks with your little pine needles down there and I'm feeding more of them on top and I have these thicker sticks to light once. these light up, they'll hold the flame a little better, then I can add my bigger sticks and continue that pattern, so tomorrow's plan is to focus on fishing. I'm going to walk and walk and walk until I find one fishing spot after another.

I'm not saying this is a bushcraft video or anything, yes I used the lighter. I'm just here having fun enjoying my life and I hope you can too, the wonderful thing about living in California and probably many more. In other states in the United States, actually, in any National Forest you can camp for free, if you can't, that's what I'm doing now. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that you need a fire permit. but all it is is you watch a two minute video online, you take an 8 question test and that's it, but now with fishing that's pretty complicated there are so many counties there are so many districts there are so many rivers and lakes and each The River and lake have their own regulations, sometimes you can keep two, sometimes you can keep five, sometimes you can have limits on your possession, so it's really up to you to figure out the regulations of the lake and river you're going to. to go Mmmm, as good as the last one, same asavocado and fish, another great meal before bed.

I am exhausted but I feel satisfied. I ate a lot of fish, a lot of avocados today. I feel good. It's one thing to be here alone. You have to do it. Be careful, he has to like to stay mentally strong. It's like sometimes I hear these footsteps in the background. I don't know if it's like a rat or I'll know if it's like a squirrel or I don't know if it's like a bear ISM but if your mind starts thinking about all these possibilities you can get scared look how it is. Dark, out here, you know, it's just me, in the dark, alone, no cell phone reception, can't talk to anyone, just me, anyway, that's what it is, so the plan is tomorrow catch a lot of fish.

I'm going to have a good night. sleep tonight see you in the morning I'll tell you about the hammock Howard how I slept in it what's it like oh man the morning that night didn't go very well I must admit I must be doing something wrong because my legs kept cramping all night Is there anyone familiar with a camping hammock, could you tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to sleep, I don't have an angle so I'm flatter, but when I lie on my side my left leg starts moving. Shit, then when I switch sides my right leg starts cramping and it's like I'm stuck.

I mean, the hammock is well built. I have no complaints, but it's probably not for me. I guess I don't know. Don't know. If I can try again tonight, I'll probably sleep three stretches well other than that, no, actually, I could turn this hammock into a tent tonight and sleep on the pine needles anyway, well, start the day, It's a beautiful day, there are no clouds. in the sky oh man I'm going to light a fire just to warm up a little bit and then I'm going to start fishing so today the goal is to try to catch a fly fish and it's amazing to me that these fish do it. bite something like that look how tiny that hook is and that's it there is no bait it's nothing this is made to imitate a fly they are natural bait and yesterday when I opened one of the trout its stomach was full of these little black flies and this thing called zebra mosquito.

I caught a lot of fish with this fly in Arkansas and the setup is a bobber which is like an indicator. If you have a fly rod, I have a bobber plug on top, so the line length is about how deep the water is, there's a big rock right behind me, right there, someone cast right behind me her, look at the little indicator and if it goes down, I know there's a fish and the really cool thing about fishing with flies like This is that when they bite right, from my experience and what TJ told me one hundred percent of the time, they get hooked. right on the nose, right on the lip, so you don't have to worry about catching them on the gills or anything.

You don't have to worry about them dying, it's a great way to catch and release, there's a little barb here, that's all, it's called a zebra mosquito. I have a couple of these, a black one on red and me. I have another one that two more imitate a fly, so I'm going to cast it and let's see that bobber go boom boom boom. I'm really trying to place it right against that rock over there, that's a good spot if you can. Set up there if there's a fish there, you're invited, yeah, move around, find a little spot that's a little quieter.

Too much water flows through here. The good thing about a river, you can just go walk all over the river when you see a little spot that you want to fish just stop grabbing your rod and fishing it and you really should always be aware of your indicator, you should always be aware of your cork because a Once it goes down you basically get a fish and if you miss it, the hook is so-so. small even though it has spikes that can come straight out of its mouth I missed that fish. I was also focused on filming.

I felt the bite and was worried about getting the cork into the chamber, seeing if I hit it again. Oh, look at that. I got it in the red zebra. Mitch, a nice rainbow, so I was very close to giving up on these flies, but thank goodness I didn't. I hooked this guy on a red zebra midge. I changed it for a red one and, like me. He said look how I hooked it right on the nose, very typical with all these types of flies, so I'll try to catch another one on camera, but this is my biggest fish, but it's probably 14 inches or so, I'm just going to release it. him for now I wet my hands first so I don't get him, so I won't hurt him, but I don't want to keep him out of the water for too long.

There is another one in the Austen red zebra mosquito, so I had four. fly bites, caught two fish well, got a very good rainbow trout. I left him not hungry yet, so I'll just stick with what I want to eat and I want to keep it cool enough for the flies for now. I'm going fishing with a Nightcrawler again. I pulled one out of there now he's struggling to go against the current right now oh yeah it looks like another wild rainbow oh baby oh yeah there it is they put it in the cooler I can see it. out of his mouth how pink and orange the meat is, oh man, yeah, I'm going to eat well tonight, oh, that's a nice healthy fish, so, in case it wasn't clear last time, the step that I missed, you have to go. through the butt first, always a male ready to spawn, goes through the but first to the gills in the front and then here, not here, but in the front, right in the mouth, just cut up there, then stick the finger in the throat and then you can remove remove everything at once all the guts come out and I knew just by looking at his mouth how orange and nice this fist meat is and that it is a perfectly beautiful clean fish ready to eat beautiful fish beautiful beautiful orange color I am going to enjoy this to the fullest.

I am broadcasting it through this channel, so once they bite me, they have to cross this channel and it is very difficult for them. There's another, oh, there's another, oh, I lost it. Damn, that was it. a good suit, oh good fish, whatever I catch now, if it's a keeper, I'll save it and eat it for lunch. Now I'm hungry, oh I had one, I ripped it out of his mouth, well I know where he is. he is right under this rock, here he is, I am in Oh, decent size, oh, it is good to land him well, now let's not fall into the water here, well, actually he is not the biggest, the one I caught on the fly was more big, good size, probably about 13 inches, look at that gathering, it's got a lot more color, beautiful fish, right there, that's lunch, they're both males, they both have that nice orange flesh, mmm, okay, here we go , it's just a little bit.

I really don't. I don't want to season them too much. I just want to try the natural flavor. The fins that are there, you can take them out, but other than that, it's all meat, baby, and also a nice fatty skin. I like it with the skin that I am going to keep. the skin from now on the avocado can't beat this sky, well, I'm going to walk because the mosquitoes are eating me alive here if I stay in one place for too long the mosquitoes find me, but if I walk they don't. Too bad mmm YUM, so I'm trying to get some firewood.

There are some dead branches on the tree and they burn very, very well, but some are too high for me to reach, so I tied a rock around this rope. I can not jump. there, so my plan is to just swing this walking rock, so it wraps around the branch like this and then I can pull it down. It may have looked a little clumsy, but it works great, wood, look how dry it is, I brought two. sticks of butter, so it's probably enough for three meals or so. I think I'll be here today and tomorrow, yeah, that should be enough.