That “Evergreen Seasoning” looked good 🤤

Taku living his life and I'm all here for it! Cannot say it enough but I love your content

A wise man and once told me - fewer things break up a marriage quicker than a tandem kayak! 🤣

I am loving this Alaska series Taku!! The smoked fish looked delicious. What a cool smoker you made there. You always impress me with these catch and cooks Taku. No one does it like you! 🤙🤙🎣

"I'm not superstitious, I'm a little stitious" - Michale Scott. Love it lol

Jocelyn's anger towards those mosquitos - as someone from a tropical country ---- I FELT THAT. 😆😆

I appreciate the calmness and focus in your videos. I’m sure it’s not easy , traveling, filming, trying to enjoy life, as well as all the other hardships life has to offer.. people like you keep me inspired. Thank you

Last time I was there during a rafting trip we stopped for lunch at a small glacier fed feeder stream… You could jump over the creek in the narrow places however the king salmon were running and they were as big as my leg in that little creek! Our most AWESOME state I do believe! Thanks for the flashback :-)

I love how immersive all your content is thank you for allowing us to journey with you on all these exciting trips. Living vicariously through you Forsure. Sending love and appreciating to you and your family. Thank you for being a great part to my days this last year and a half I’ve followed you along. Shout out to fisherman’s life for reccomending me to you

This feels like a brand new chapter into this channel, I love it.

I’ve only been subbed for three weeks but super stoked to be witnessing this trip as it unfolds. Thanks for the vids!

Love watching you try new things and learning as you go. Thanks for sharing this experience with us!

Never find a fishing channel that has this kind of vibe, really glad to stop by and watch this video. You got your self a new subscriber 🤟🏻

Nothing better then a new OCL vid! Cheers Taku

I am so excited for your Alaskan videos to show up!! They are the BEST! Thank you for taking us along with you guys. Happy trails.

“Im not super-stitious.... just a little-stitious” HAH me too man 😂

Taku Tuesday for the win! 😎

I am absolutely loving this Alaskan series you got going on🤩

13:38 the pure excitement and joy, Love to see it. Enjoying your videos in Alaska !

No-see-ems are the scourge of the earth! They are no joke in Alaska. Listening to you talk about them and the mosquitos, it was like I was transported back there, years ago and I could feel them trying to eat me! Lol

Taku, I have lived in Alaska since the '70s but I have to say the way you prepared the Dollie and Pink was the coolest method ever. Nice fillet work too on fish you've done for the first time. If you use wet brine you need to let the fish dry and form a pellicle. I think you'll be more impressed by the taste of the actual sokeye and some of the other species.

We need a counter for the amount of times Taku said "Dolly Varden"

I feel for Jocelyn... I can't stand mosquitos. Great vid, I remember your first bushcraft smoked trout vid!

You guys are the best couple on KZfaq in my opinion. Love you guys keep up the amazing adventures!!

“She really likes the axe” better watch your back, Taku 😜

When you first called that humpy a sockeye I choked on my beer. Lol. Excitement gets us all. I let my first ever salmon, a spring salmon go cuz I thought all that was in the river was coho and couldn’t keep wild coho so I let it go.

Glad to see you kids enjoying yourselves. What a nice job on the smoking the fish. Have a great time and forward!

You and your wife are an awesome couple! Watching your Alaska videos really takes me back home. I sure do miss that place

The dorsal hump on pink salmon is composed predominantly of connective tissue (collagen fibers). No cartilage or significant lipid or fat content.

Unreal! Great job Taku 💯

Doing a great job showing the beauty of our beautiful state.

My man, love the videos! Your a great fisherman and even better chef. Love the new travel van content also!!!

You definitely have the best knife skills of anyone I’ve seen on outdoor KZfaq channels. Almost good enough to be a sushi chef! Oops I guess you were/are🙏

Taku my husband is a fisherman he always goes for the 100+ tuna pounders and honestly it is also so amazing seeing you love fishing as much as we do!! great content keep it coming...

Awesome catching that "humpback"! It's cool that you created an outdoor smoker to cook those fish - well done!

Loving the content! It's so relaxing! Happy for you both!

3/8 oz “Rock Dancer” jig made by Mack’s Lure is what my family uses for coho. Chartreuse and black, purple and black or red and black were always my favs. They always said pink catches pinks (humpies) and we always threw those back cuz they don’t keep and freeze well. I can’t wait to see you catch a coho! They are so fun to fight and are freakin delicious 😍 -much love outta Yakutat

Whenever I see people fishing from shore I'm reminded of the video where a grizzly slowly walks out of the bushes, sits next to the fishermen for a few seconds and then walks right past him.

The smoked fish looked yummy. Great to see you both having a great time. I hope you find somewhere less buggy soon Jocelyn.

Taku San from one Japanese brother to another.... It don't matter if it's breakfast or lunch. Drink up you're on Vacay and earned it Yeeee 💯 bonsai

living the dream! keep killing it taku!

Just a little FYI…beer for breakfast is actually allowed when you’re camping😜🍺

New to your channel and hooked! Great outdoor and culinary adventures. Keep it coming

this might be your best video edit ever.......great soundtrack mix

Jocelyn is hating this trip! She looks miserable with those bugs who just loves her!! Lol. Good luck on fishing Taku!

Lmaoo “have wildfires in places like alaska cause there’s less of a fire hazard.” This guy smoking pinks and snagging dinks

Hey Taku! Great video! Born and raised Alaskan here. Impressed with the way you handled those mosquitoes, they are gnarly! My buddy bumped into you in Juneau which is crazy! Glad you got you and Jocelyn some dinner. Keep up the great content!

My favorite part is always when Taku cracks a beer 🍻

The Alaskans weren't lying about their mosquitoes. I can't think of many times I could actually see them on camera. Must be the size of houseflies. Jocelyn is smart for wearing netting.

hey Taku, welcome to AK! that humpback you caught is a spawn pink salmon actually! i never kept them before always thought they are bad tasted, but good to watch you cooking them sooo good!

Such great vibes. Love to see you guys enjoying yourselves. Cheers from New York ❤️

Smoking that pink was pretty much the only choice to make it taste good, well done.

If you loved Pinks then you’ll love exponentially even more when you catch a Red or King! In my opinion, Reds are way better than all!

Woah! I’ve never seen anyone keep a humpy that’s that far along in their river change. Good to know you enjoyed the taste of it! I’ll consider keeping those more this season. Keep up the amazing work y’all!

Great video! Simple living Alaska makes great videos about fishing and smoking every type of salmon you should watch with downtime

Slick job on the smoker! Thanks for another great episode!

If you're ever planning on another AK trip let me know and I can take you to a place where you can fish shoulder to shoulder with the grizzlies and haul in more sockeyes than you could ever imagine. Plus you'd love the name of the place.

Jocelyn looks like she’s frigging loving the Alaska state bird.

Blessed when i find channels like this.

Love each and every episode you bless us with! Yummy food and expert chef!

Taku seems to really like saying “dolly varden” 😂

When you were smoking the fish, what type of branches with leaves did you use to cover your smoker? Was it a yew branches?

Love the forest and fishing. Just subscribed, came from episode with you on NW fishing secrets which I watch because of same. Keep em coming!

@ 07:00 just like the movie "City Slickers", the food, "its brown, its hot and there's lots of it" I am sure enjoying your wonderful adventure, thanks for sharing!

Wish I could go somewhere that has more variety than bream crappie bass and catfish

“I don’t think eating this banana will bring bad luck”, 20 minutes later the sky turns black.

This is so awesome I could watch this all day!

I'm an Alaskan virgin and thank you for taking us on your journey and showing us the ropes n safety guidelines just in case we are able to explore the Alaskan wilderness one day. From all the Alaska videos by experts that I have seen, they act like there are salmon swimming stack like anchovies in the water. This may be only true for migration location where they are spawning. Bear country I can not imagine. I thought it was like lake Tahoe where you only see bears at late night at camp or something. Freaking crazy I don't think I'll last long there if I were to wonder off the trail like you guys have. If not the bears, It'll be them skeeters. See ya on the next one n show us the city life too.

a collab with with him and ACE would be the coolest thing ever

"there you guys go that's a sockeye salmon fillet"

You guys are GOALS fr. I’m sure there’s alot to it ofc but man you guys are livin’ the life. 👏🏻🙌🏻

You two are so in love and im Jelly… lol… keep up the good Work!

This dude is epic. Suprised he's not bigger than mav yet.

That's a 'humpie' or humpback Pink Salmon during it's spawning phase.

Yooo taku I can't live without your videos....best regards from Italy :D

Sounds like a dream! Enjoy it you 2 and you got over 500k subs guys congrats!!!

That is a pink salmon also known as a humpy. Sockeye is a totally different species of salmon. But right on bro good catch! 👍🤙🎣

When I was in Alaska you were only allowed to keep salmon that were Hooked “inside the mouth” If you were caught keeping a fish hooked anywhere outside of the mouth you would be cited and your fish would be confiscated. Fish and Game officers on Kodiak would fish the busy areas wearing plain clothes like everyone else. I watched these “regular fisherman” cite illegally caught fish many times. Often times people would think I was fishing game because I carried a large Motorola two way radio. I was in the US Coast Guard and on call so I had to carry a radio. I can’t tell you how many times I was given stink eye when I was fishing….

great video! absolutely loving the van life videos. been a sub since wayyyyyy back when, and it's no rad to see your channel grow like it has.

Nice video guys ! So glad Taku caught some fish and enjoyed some bush cooking. hang in there Jocelyn, don't take that net off, those mosquitoes are crazy. Can't wait to see what's next. 💕 🚐 🎣 🌟 👍

Just a redundant tip, keep your bear spray accessible. Clipped in a carabiner might seem easy to get to until a bear charges you and you are fumbling to unclip it. Keep it in your sweater or jacket pocket or better yet in a holster.

All these mentions of Haines, AK ... anyone else secretly hoping for a Outdoor Chef Life x Gold Rush collab between Taku and Parker Schnabel? Taku learns to mine gold, Parker eats some raw spot prawns?

Pinks are great smoked. They are good bbq'ed too, IF you bleed, clean and ice them really fast then cook them right away without freezing them. Otherwise they get really slimy and the meat gets mushy (I used to call them stinky pinkies). They seem to have a high oil content and a very mild flavor, so they have a great texture when smoked even though they are not as flavorful as other salmon. Nice episode!

I love these videos! Makes me feel like I’m on a trip with you. 😃

she seems very stressed about the mosquito at the end, hope your having a great vacation anyway! :)

Once the pink salmon get that hump, it’s not good to eat. They’re basically decomposing and dying. Might want to get a type of holster for the bear spray it’s not recommended to have a carabiner clipped on it because it needs to be a quick draw. I had one time where a bear popped out of nowhere and the carabiner was stuck. Thankfully the bear didn’t charge or anything. But I do recommend getting something more useful because those bears can cover ground fast.

Makes me so happy watching your videos

Wow Dude. Just wow the quality of this video In particular is amazing.

"we come in respect bear" Bear: "I will come in your boat and in respect, eat both of you." lol

I am pretty sure that is a pink salmon not a sockeye, because sockeye don't have spots on their tail.

Awesome video. You are a natural on camera, such a calming voice. Good stuff!

U guys are living the dream! 🔥💛

I call the pink salmon beavis fish, because they look like beavis.

That pink salmon meat was basically dog food. Once they start their spawning transformation, they are pretty bad table fare

always love the vibes the video has so i finally subscribed 😂

So jealous of that fresh smoked salmon!! Another killer video!!

Bro I wish you all the hapiness in the world fr the way you look at your wifey cutting wood enjoying life in the middle of wilderness.. Back to the basics but still eating like a king ahah. this is the kind of life i aspire to live one day i wish i find peace like you did bro take care

You guys are livin' the life. Keep the content comin'. Aloha

Super cool! Thanks for the share!!

It’s so Beautiful out there the back scenery is amazingggg!!