140 yr old Blacksmith Shop buried in the Maine Wilderness during Cast and Blast

Part 2 of our upper West Branch of the Penobscot Canoeing and Camping trip during the Maine cast and Blast weekend.
Donnie and I have an amzing day with salmon catches, partridge harvests, and we stumble upon an underground blacksmith shop long overtaken by the wilderness with plenty of rusty treasures. Including axe heads!!!
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[@mainetroutwhisperer]

Awesome! Donny is a true OG Mainer it seems! You guys made a great trip to remember! Would love to see the process for refinishing and restoring the axes.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you, might be working on an axe restoration video in the near future

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@JoeHollandFishing hey if you want to link up this winter for a fishing video let me know. I’d be down

[@brianaudet6220]

I'd like to see that collab!

[@brianlamb2117]

Have to tell you Joe, your videos with Donnie in camp or tent cooking camp style are just awesome! Donnie’s stories add a lot. I have I must have lived that in a past life

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome thank you I am so lucky

[@mr.shakyhead5878]

Looks like an awesome trip. You’re a lucky man to have an man like that to teach/show you things.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Incredibly lucky to have Donnie in my life as a mentor and friend.

[@bduals207]

I was watching the video, and said the same thing to myself. I wish I had someone like this to run the Maine woods with.

[@jeepermustang8]

What a life, enjoy

[@lgmlgm9135]

Those shoes are fitted when a horse has a crack or other injury to the hoof. It pulls the hoof together during healing.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@nathanclay9694]

Great video Joe! I really need a Donny in my life! What a good guy. And that food looked tasty.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Everyone needs a Donnie!

[@veetwin75]

One of theeeee Best outdoor videos ive ever seen, nothing like a couple of buddies getting together and having a great time doing what they love

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you it was an incredible time we will never forget!

[@joesphinkpen1578]

What a great trip.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

thank you.

[@GoingNoWhereFast]

Thanks for a great video. If I were you, I would not sign up any students for Fly fishing lesson. You need another 10, maybe 20 years of practice and instruction...lol. I will be in the NMW in July for the first time in 65 years. So I loved this video giving me a taste of what to expect (constant rain and endless fun) !!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you! I teach Fly Fishing on Sundays and Tuesdays! haha

[@GoingNoWhereFast]

@@JoeHollandFishing Gosh I hope not. I worked for the NY fisheries in the 80s-90s, and did teach fly fishing. It's supposed to be a relaxing easy slow graceful movement of back one two forward one two Pausing as you let the line catch up with the momentum, then pull it back in the other direction so it just settles gently on the water. We use to make students put a book under their Elbow and hold it against their side to make a nice relaxed cast. Yes, 2-10 o'clock. You were "Throwing" the line with all the force you could gather. It hurts to watch, but I dare say you aren't alone, you may even be in the majority of today's fly fishermen. Still, you have a great channel and most people will never notice... Keep casting. I trust you have a good month or two when there isn't any ice fishing up there!! Stay safe, Rick

[@JoeHollandFishing]

@@GoingNoWhereFast haha, I was completely kidding as it was my first real time fly fishing with very little instruction. I now do it once a year on this trip so i have a ton to learn to get better and smoother. If i do it more than once a year I will put more effort in to becoming better.

[@GoingNoWhereFast]

@@JoeHollandFishing Oh I knew you were kidding! Enjoy your trips, You have a great mentor there.

[@keithmcallister4917]

That was quite the find with all the axe heads and horse shoes. Really makes you think just how many axes and stuff like that are scattered around in the great north woods of Maine!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Oh so many!

[@keithmcallister4917]

@@JoeHollandFishing have you made some handles for any of them yet?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Yes I made an octagonal maple handle and hung one for Donnie.

[@benrogers5808]

Your a lucky man Joe. What an adventure. 🦞

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Without a doubt thank you

[@Ray-Willey]

Are you going to send anything out that out found to be dated? That anchor find was cool! It should definitely be in a museum.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

We are able to get dates off of a few of the axes, the bottle, and date ranges off a few of the tools. I had to leave the anchor for now.

[@robtheflukeking6678]

all those horseshoes must be good luck !! im impressed how easy the axe cut open the fish.bet that tasted great,hold the eggs

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you, I like to keep em sharp!

[@shayn4220]

Wow you hit the jackpot for axe heads and horseshoes

[@JoeHollandFishing]

For sure thank you

[@mikerogers9711]

Awesome Joe, keep em coming. If you need company fishing any time in the year let me know. I’m in mid Maine will will go with ya. Only in Maine can you open up a Salmon with an axe. Love it

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome thank you

[@ryanherman5035]

Phenomenal video

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you!

[@budtate401]

now time to show more of these trips

[@JoeHollandFishing]

for sure.

[@Westernmassoutdoorboys]

That is amazing 👏 great find

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@jaytwadelle8053]

28:21 those are correction shoes for a draft horse. To fix a problem with the hoofs.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you.

[@NYNCMIKE]

Great Video, cool place and a crazy find.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you,

[@partridgepimp3363]

What a trip. You guys should have played horseshoe’s back at camp

[@JoeHollandFishing]

So true

[@hhinkley4258]

I enjoyed watching your video and am getting ready to do up some flies and didn’t know if you could tell me the ones you were using.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

They were given to me I don't know what they are. Im not a fly guy, sorry.

[@bduals207]

Dang the drone going down hurt. The paddle from aa life long friend tho... That makes me want to get on I95 and go look for it! Hope its recovered. Who knows amybe it will be found in another 140 years and someoone will rediscover these videos! Coming from a born and raised Mainer, you sure do make us look good! Keep it up! Hopefully see you on the ice someday (on my homemade snowdog!)

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome yeah that paddle hurt, I’m hoping fate and fortune brings it back to him someday. Thank you

[@johannesdevries6617]

this was great!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@shaneclark207]

Wow!! You guys walked right in the front door of logging history in NMW’s. I am wondering if the odd shoes may be for oxen. The early camps used oxen and I am sure one or two teams would have stuck around when the switch to horses and steam was made. Have you read the book “Forest Life and Forest Trees” by John Springer? The best retelling of logging history in Maine ever written.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

I’m looking forward to reading that, thank you.

[@shayn4220]

She have same name I’m Shayn Clark lol

[@andrewpetty6295]

Another great video!

[@andrewpetty6295]

I think an axe restoration video is in store!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

For sure, I’m the works.

[@jameyroy7344]

Two thumbs up!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@benrogers5808]

Great video Joe. Went by the ice cream stand today on our way back from New Harbor after closing up the RV for the winter. 😟. I said I wonder what Joes doing. Now I know. Can’t wait for some ice fishin videos.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

I’m so pumped for ice fishing season thanks.

[@woodlandsnorth]

awesome catch! Really cool artifacts too. What kind of salmon are they? They look just like the brown trout we have in our rivers up here.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

They are landlocked salmon. Thanks.

[@brinkee7674]

I think Donnie's Mom buried that stuff in 1902 lol She told Donnie to go it as she's ready to shoe some horses

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Donnie’s a gem

[@timduggan9958]

Mush

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Yup

[@Fishin4Adventure]

Such an awesome video filled with such variety! We really really enjoyed it! Stinks about the drone! Good skills to locate it after the crash! Beautiful fish too! Very well done 👏🏻!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@homesteadedman4784]

Joe, Donnie, what an epic trip, what an epic friendship, what a epic channel!! Thank you!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Glad you enjoyed it appreciate it

[@blackdogbite]

First time I've seen fish cleaned with a hatchet.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

True

[@leec4656]

What a wonderful friendship and fantastic adventure for you two. Thank you for sharing it. I really enjoyed watching your story unfold over the two videos.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you. I am really looking forward to our trips next year.,

[@brodyloiko5737]

There a lot of history up there I have a camp in northeast carry. I think you need to do some ice fishing up there. Love the videos

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you. I was thinking of a northeast carry ice fishing trip this season along with a lobster lake February trip. I checked out the old Penobscot Farms across the road to the river by NE carry too.

[@newdisc]

Cool history! Hello from Scarborough, Maine .. nice Salmon! Your friend seems like a great guy..

[@JoeHollandFishing]

He’s the best of the best thank you!

[@HAZMATt207]

That’s so cool. I found a bottle the exact same as that the year I moved into my house. Stuck in the rock wall out back. Also found a huge blacksmith vice stuck in the ground. Maybe I should get a metal detector like that!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you! for sure

[@tremdawg]

Great video!!! Have you ever tried those, “Joes Fly” spinner/fly type lure? I would love to see one of those would perform up there

[@JoeHollandFishing]

No not yet

[@zwiggles6908]

I was up in the NMW for the first time a few weeks back for the end of the fishing season. It really is an amazing place!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

It truly is, best of luck.

[@pdqscott1]

Wow, that was a huge find. My father who is 89 said those shoes with the piece on the back was put on when they would spit a hoof.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

For sure was amazing for us! Thanks.

[@jamesspear4536]

What an awesome video! Donny is such a great guy so is joe ,I miss playing golf with you both! Joe your videos are some of the most enjoyable I've ever watched, would love to make a Turkey hunting one with ya! Keep up the great work god bless ya both👍

[@JoeHollandFishing]

He's the best of the best, Thanks Jim.

[@hofmannsluresinc]

Hats Off! Very fun to watch... Thanks!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

thank you.

[@joesphinkpen1578]

I really enjoy your trips to northern Maine with this guy. old timers have a lot of back woods wisdom to share and i love to listen. there is no better place than the big woods in Maine. What a trip.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

agreed thank you. Stay tuned next week for this years trip north

[@buckfever2014]

Awesome videos man, was wondering. Did you ever end up cleaning up those axe heads ??

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Yes, hung one on an octagon maple handle I made for Donnie , also hung one on a plaque with one of everything for Donnie’s workshop.

[@buckfever2014]

@@JoeHollandFishing awesome brother! Just finished watching your new trip yesterday! Can’t wait for the next!

[@The-Digger]

hi love the vids i’m a metal detector Enthusiast that’s how i got hooked is doing the same thing and bottle digging to keep up the vids

[@JoeHollandFishing]

very cool thank you

[@The-Digger]

Are you going to do a video where you restore those X heads I found a couple Doublebit axes that I cleaned up and now reusing I really enjoy watching your videos for some reason I look forward to see what you cook for dinner and breakfast each time😁

[@thomasesko1841]

great video!!!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@emorgner]

Donny!!!!!!!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

The best!

[@MeetMeOutside]

Awesome ! Been on that stretch a few times ! Love that area of Maine. Very cool!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@dfdigger3820]

Great videos Joe, I shared them on my sites :) Mainers will enjoy them :)

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@precisionanglingYT]

Amazing trip Joe!! Almost time to crank some ice fish!!!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

I am so jacked up for this ice season!

[@Ryan-rx8ie]

Absolutely incredible!!!!! WHAT A FIND!!!!!!! would love to see a follow up video on if you were able to identify any of the axe heads…. Honestly probably my favorite video yet!! Unreal!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome I’m so glad you enjoyed it. 4/6 of the heads were identifiable . I was shocked how well the stamps/etches were. Two were made in the county by Perry, on was a B Kelley from Belfast Maine, and the other was made for a Bangor supply company by the Mann company.

[@melissarhoten5973]

Hi Joe, would LOVE to see more of these type of videos! Don't get me wrong certainly love the ice fishing as well. I think we were actually up there and fly fishing/bird hunting at the same time last year. Love, Love it up there! Thanks again and best to you!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you for the feedback, we are planning another one of these already and Donnie will be in the next series too.

[@sallyfrenette9643]

I think the horseshoe with the connector in the back may have possibly been for a horse that had a low angled heel. A corrective shoe. This was such a cool find. I've been reading books about the history of our northern woods. It's sooooo interesting! Great video, the blacksmith shop find and the fishing! I always enjoy your videos.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you, we’ve heard a few different things about the shoes. One horse family said it’s for horses with laminitis and to heal new growth. Another said it was for ice and snow traction.

[@solanaimages]

I loved watching these 2 videos! My dad is the cousin Donnie mentions and "Uncle Al" is my grandfather. These were very special to watch. I was sad to see the loss of the paddle!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you! I am hoping we get it back!

[@228lilbubba]

I could sit and listen to that man for days tell stories. Such a sweet guy! You are lucky to know him!! A lot of knowledge right there. Just awesome.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Without a doubt, super lucky and grateful.

[@eidechristopher]

Simply Beautiful. Brought back so many memories of being a kid with the elders in Minnesota.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Great stuff

[@johnemond2190]

Joe that was so much fun. Glad that I found your channel, it almost felt like I was right at the campsite with you guys. Man them salmon sure are fun on the end of a fly line.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@Parn3lly]

Excellent trip. Be great to see more videos like this if you can afford the time. Nicely done.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you. Planning a similar trip next fall already

[@richshackelford5793]

Great video Joe, what a adventure and a awesome find with a good friend. Thanks for sharing

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you so much

[@pure_shenanigan]

I don't know how I missed this video It kicks all kinds of ass 🤣👍🤙

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome thank you

[@cselfie7234]

Horse graveyard? Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

no, the blacksmith shop.

[@budtate401]

great movie

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@staveman11]

Wow Joe, what a trip of a lifetime and you fellers do this every year? I have been to the south end of Maine on vacation and plan on returning to visit the northern end to see more of the logging. I am the 4th generation in logging and sawmill and stave mill business and I just love your part of our beautiful country. If I thought I could stand the cold I would want to retire there. The people there are wonderful too. When I come I will for sure stop at the Jefferson scoop to see you. Great Job on the video!!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you! We will make this trip every year I hope.

[@bumfighter00]

Very cool find Joe!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you