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00:00Luke here with the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and I'm spending the next six days here in the Arctic of Alaska.
00:05I'm going to be solo camping in my hot tent on the frozen Bering Sea.
00:09I'm going to be fishing for king crab through the ice, hunting for ptarmigan,
00:13and my family's going to be joining me later on as well.
00:30All right, guys, welcome to Nome, Alaska.
00:47Ah, got one room, two rooms.
00:52Nome's got a population of about 3,500 people, and it's about a one-and-a-half-hour jet flight from Anchorage.
01:02It's an old historic mining town here in Alaska.
01:05Oh, look at that beautiful sunrise.
01:10It's been a crazy winter here in Alaska.
01:12Nome only got snow a few weeks ago.
01:15Usually this time of year, the ocean's frozen solid.
01:17We can go out and fish on it.
01:19I have real concerns about that.
01:22My friend John lives down here.
01:25First thing I'm going to do is swing by his house.
01:29Hey, John.
01:30Hey, Luke.
01:31It's good to see you.
01:32Thank you for having me.
01:34So how about this weather, man?
01:35I know.
01:36It's been a weird winter, huh?
01:37Three different people have already told me about how weird the ice is.
01:40Oh, yeah.
01:41I already have two pots out there.
01:43Two of them are set and two of them are on the ice, so we can set them.
01:49I brought two shrimp pots.
01:50We're going to try for some shrimp, too.
01:52We're going to be taking this gear out onto the frozen Bering Sea to go look for some king crab and shrimp.
02:10And right now, we're on frozen salt water.
02:13This is the Nome Harbor right here.
02:15We'll see how the ice is doing because apparently a large chunk of it broke off and drifted away.
02:21So we don't want to be on one of those when that happens.
02:25There's some gold miners diving for gold under the ice over there.
02:36We're going to go check it out.
02:37This is someone's gold claim.
02:44It doesn't look like they're here, though.
02:45They'll use the auger to cut a big hole in the ice, and then they'll send a diver down to the bottom with a big vacuum dredge.
02:52And he'll suck up the sand and gold off the bottom and send it through this sluice box right here.
02:57The divers will have to have a boiler that pumps hot water into their wetsuit in order to be able to stay down and work in the cold temperatures.
03:05It's pretty hardcore stuff.
03:06There's a fox on the ice pack over there.
03:22I was wondering what that fox was doing on the ice pack.
03:26Looks like he was hunting ducks.
03:29Look at all the organs and meat are just picked clean.
03:32It's been such a warm year that there's still ducks out.
03:35That's unbelievable.
03:37There's almost never ducks this time of year.
03:43Nice flat area.
04:05Not too bad.
04:23Woo.
04:23Exercise.
04:26All the cows here alone try to do this.
04:28So this is a little bit of an experiment.
04:40Fishing for king crab through the ice is really popular here, but I haven't met anybody who fishes for shrimp through the ice.
04:46But last year there was tons of shrimp being caught in the crab pots, so I thought, hey, if we bring a proper shrimp pot with a proper mesh size, we might really catch a ton of shrimp.
04:56You got some frozen salmon heads for bait.
04:58Put a little styrofoam over the hole to keep it from icing up, and then put a piece of plywood on top of that to keep snow machines from going in.
05:14That and marking it with a stick should warn anybody.
05:17All right, let's go get another spot.
05:19Ow.
05:29Ah.
05:38Life, no.
05:40We'd love to.
05:44We'll let those sit overnight.
05:45We're gonna go check a couple crab pots have been soaking
06:06There's a couple yeah and the starfish
06:10All right, there you go. Oh, look at that. It's pretty. Yeah, those are nice sized ones
06:18Look at the size of that
06:21Whoa
06:23There we go. Look at that
06:26Big old Alaskan red king crab think weighs about what two three pounds. Look at that big old king crab
06:36More starfish
06:41Looks like another male another gorgeous crab
06:46He's gonna tuck his legs to get inside that cooler. There's a big crab especially that one knows that's a chunky crab
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