@@fishlessfisherman yea the rivers here are slowing fully freezing over. I’ve been out a couple times ice fishing and that’s what I’m working on editing yet. Just finding time to get out more.

@ I fell through the ice once and I’ll never ice fish again. I’ll be back once it warms up. Be overseas again in couple months so hopefully I’ll get something done.

@ I went through twice last year checking ice. It ha fully it was only knee deep he second time and waste deep the first time. Ice was 4” but was rubbish ice. Main reason I wear a float suit cause no ice is 100% safe.

@@johnmiller5987 I’m in eastern Iowa about 35 mins away from the big Mississippi

@@stretchinlineoutdoors7690 we have 4.5” now in 3 days so I’m kinda happy!

@@DryerOutdoors brushy creek has bluegill crappie walleye musky and perch

@ yea I went past there last weekend when we took a small trip to boji. Doesn’t brushy also have trout I think? Anyways I need to try there sometime as well! I love perch!

@DryerOutdoors no. But there is some hyway ponds that do

@@JamesLee-yw8hk I’m around 200 myself an that’s what I want for a min is 3” of clear ice

@@ChesapeakeChris not to high most of these are pretty small and I was the one that hat actually purchased them but my daughter is the one who wanted for me tonhave something in my stocking lol

@@ChesapeakeChris when I started ice fishing about 15 years ago all I had was a used hand auger no tip ups just a cheap $4 rod combo and a weight to check depth also the must have a bucket lol. Fished that way for many years. I’d guess pry close to 8 maybe 9 years. My dad says the same thing when I go south to his place in a life fishing trip. He’s gonna be 77 or his June and u still get him out a couple times a year. I just wish he lived closer than 6 hours away.

@@maskface8216 it was a very tough bite tell good it figured out then it wasn’t as bad but did take a day and a half of our 2 day trip to just figure it out but I’m happy with it! Was a blast!

@@ChesapeakeChris she was only a little disappointed cause it’s not a fishing kayak 🤣 yes we had a great Christmas and I hope you and your family did as well!

@@DryerOutdoors Just add a rod holder 🤣

@ definitely plan on it after she learns how to control the kayak on little river. Starting in ponds then a little bigger lake.

@@frankenstein5721 she asked right away where her fishing poles go 🤣. Had to explain it’s for her to learn on before we get her a fishing kayak lol

@@JamesLee-yw8hk we tried shallow and wasn’t anything there unfortunately. We were hoping to fish 6 fow or less but couldn’t find anything there. I had my spud bar float suit picks and vex with a lithium battery but the vex I left in the truck. The night before when checking ice I didn’t take any electronics at all. We where on roughly 4”

@@denniscrane9753 yea being color blind kills me all the time. I feel really bad when people ask me what colors I’m doing good on and I tell them and here it’s nowhere near the colors I thought I was using 😔. This was last weekend and now all our spots are no longer safe 2hits with a sour bar straight through. 1 hit and water starts to come through. Next couple weeks not looking good either 😔

@@ChesapeakeChris it was a very fun day. This was just last weekend and went and checked ice tonight and it’s all unsafe near me. I’m debating about driving an hour north where I know there’s some safe ice there but not sure yet. Also thinking about taking the kayak out again.

@@ChesapeakeChris yes but his was totally worth the cold weather for sure!! I have another video coming out soon where I only troll and boy did I catch a lot of smallies only downside was I didn’t catch many with any size but still worth it!

@@KaisFishing reel is rubbish. I was able to clean the rod a little bit and it’s like a $25 combo. So not worth to much but was still pretty cool.

@@ChesapeakeChris I try all the time to set everyone else up in the good foots. Specially on the boat. I feel bad when they’re not catching much and I am. I feel really bad cause o took him and his wife out on the boat and it was an amazing day but I was so tired staying up tell almost 4am to get videos edited before I had to goto work I accidentally deleted all the footage 😔

@@DryerOutdoors Been there, done that with accidentally deleting videos. If you saw my video where I took my buddy snakehead fishing & I messed up netting a nice one of his...I felt sooooo bad

@ it’s always the worst feeling too!

@@ChesapeakeChris yea I watched that video where you caught that rod thst was awesome!! I was surprised how many smallies I caught. Was a fun few hours for sure. Crazy part this was a few weeks ago and maybe just maybe fingers crossed I might be ice fishing on 3” of ice 🤞

@@northernsound7899 I’d love too but I went back and checked thickness and just at 1”. Little to thin for me 🤣

@ yea dude cancel that🤣

I do sometimes mostly when bank fishing specially if there’s a farm field there. Helps feed other widelife and also fertilizer for the fields

@@fishlessfisherman thank you sir! You just noticed I messed up editing the video. I use a bea funny videos before releasing them and didn’t on this on now I know 🤦🏻

@@Sassu_FI. yes it was and I don’t stumble upon to many this size in this section of the river so I let it swim another day.

@@ChesapeakeChris I did manage to get a couple a couple days later that you’ll get to see in coming videos though!

@@KaisFishing video was alright my next few videos I promise are by far better. This video was kind of a filler but ell I got some editing done which has been hard d to find time. I ended up staying up tell 5 am so I get 4 videos edited for the coming weeks lol

@@CandyboyGT it’s all gravel now. The neighbor actually had me burn a few bunches while I was out there for him. It’s fun but it doesn’t burn long so putting out anything isn’t to much of a problem specially when you use it properly as in it just rained and also not using it during a burn ban like some I have seen before in the area. Always use cation while using.

@@RAZR53-4 12” min for regulations. I honestly hate keeping smalli s cause they are a fish I can see colors on for the most part due to being color blind.

@@KaisFishing it wasn’t to bad at all. It’s still a little slow for this time of year though. If you get the right week there you can pull in almost hundreds. I hate keeping smallies but he needed food for him and his 6 kids otherwise I’d put them all back.

@@edrobbins1146 yes we did. It was actually a pretty good day but that was the o my pike for the day. It was mighty cold 40 degrees colder than the previous day. I’m he full video will be coming out soon. Just got done editing it all late last night!

a.co/d/cu3ZsBW. Here’s a direct link to the ones I purchased off Amazon.

@@joshuabusch6399 yes I would big time I love mine. It’s super nice cause to me it’s using dead space. I think I have 400# on mine right now with zero problems. Yes this is the one from Menards. Any questions don’t be afraid to ask and will to try to answer to what I remember.

@@ChesapeakeChris yes I want to get back there again before it gets to cold. It was 31 this morning but took the boat to a different section of river. I enjoy eating drum but a lot of people don’t. I guess it might be cause the way I was raised as a kid possible. Not much money and it was a good supply. Carp I’m usually out targeting very soon but right now it’s been a mixed bag of smallies walleye and a surprise catch of a pike! The hats just a little heads up of what’s to be coming. Thank you for watching Chris! I’ve been trying to find time between helping my daughter with her school work getting footage then editing and helping out I get friends to watch more videos! Not gonna lie I haven’t been able to sit down and watch anyone’s videos these past few months and I feel horrible for it 😔

@@DryerOutdoors it's all good man, life happens. I didn't have much time til I retired

@@ChesapeakeChris yepnin watched your videos when you got back hat bait caster. I’ve had some problems and thought the exact same thing you thought 🤣 one thing that I can say as of right now is that I can cast a lot further with the bait caster but I’m not at more accurate with my spinning setups. I actually am editing a video right now talking a little more about that rod the bait caster is on. It’s sad news but hopefully it’s not over with but lol

@@RatrB-gg5ob she’s been running strong since the build!

@@ChesapeakeChris hopefully it does. I fished more then her but she wanted to mostly stand next to papa and watch him fish tell she got a bite most of the time which doesn’t bother me since she doesn’t get to see him much. Days like this makes me super happy and sad at the same time knowing how far away he lives.

@@VictorYT623 that’s how it was for me as well! This day made me so happy to finally get my daughter to see her papa. She had no idea an was surprised!

@@fishlessfisherman the s allies Re just starting to pick up here. Walleye not so much. The bite isn’t crazy yet but I believe in the next week or less it’s gonna be on fire for the smallies.

@@DryerOutdoors All I been getting is shovelnose.

@@fishlessfisherman that’s crazy but I’m also not fishing bottom right now either. I’ve been through a lot of crankbaits and Ned rigs. Caught a few small smallies on the ned rigs but nothing with any good size. I tried to throw some jig heads and drag crawlers across it he bottom but that didn’t pan out to well for me lol.

@@JaseLevey thank you so much! I really enjoy being out on the water myself. My daughter does also but she’s 7 and kinda at the stage where she’s doesn’t know if she wants to come with me or play with her friends so I let her choose what she wants to do. Most of the time she plays with her friends and that’s what got me into doing the video thing. I had an older camera laying around and she loved watching what I caught or what I was doing and that’s kind of how this entire thing started for my journey! Thank you again for the very kind words! Also I post a short today and if you seen that I clipped that out of what I’m editing as I’m writing this lol. That video I’m hoping I can get time to finish it completely so I can get it posted for next week.

@@ChesapeakeChris it’s been super super slow there. I got lucky this day. I’ve been there 5 times since to maybe catch 2 fish. Main reason I fish there cause it’s only about 10 mins from my house. I’ve been putting on a pile of mikes to try and find new places to not doing so well. I’m working on editing a video as I’m typing this that’s pretty interesting day also! Same river but a new location and a long wait to get the kayak back out!!

@@ChesapeakeChris just got another 3 crabkbait ths other day out of another snag. I feel dumb when I delete stuff that I didn’t want to delete. 🤷‍♂️🤣

@@ChesapeakeChris my friend was a little nervous but I’ve been up that section a lot so it doesn’t bother me much. After we got back he’s just like I’ve got 100% trust in your boating skills now. I told him I’d never put 100% trust cause anything can happen at a split second. Then I went on and told him how I’ve messed up a couple times. No one got hurt or anything but the outcome could have been a lot worse.

@@nicholaskoos346 🤣🤣🤣

@@nicholaskoos346 how was your trip to the BWCA?

@@fishlessfisherman we just kept trying to find some nice hikes and the nice hikes where 3-5’ of water. Had a great time!

@@itspapa3853 got them off Amazon. Here’s a link to the ones I purchased. a.co/d/7LfBNqX

@@frankenstein5721 I use to actually be o some friends that can’t get out much due to health issues but as of right now it’s hey are all gone already 😱