It's a low rider it's supposed to do that

It really was an awesome intro 😂

Not really if you cover yourself with mud. Jump in water in morning

Seriously…F the Canadian mosquitoes. They’re the absolute worst!

You are sorounded with alive and deed trees Any dummies can survive there

@@loriebennett6476 *surrounded. *dead. *Dummy.

You really think its real. He made it sink himself for the video.

Glad you enjoyed it Nate! That sweater was actually from Peru, I got it back in 2014 lol, still serves me well. Best $15 ever spent!

@@TheBearEssentials Nice!

Hahah!! Can’t wait to see your vid brother, and hey, I always throw one or two in there just to keep it from getting tooooo serious 😅

Great addition!!!

​@@TheBearEssentialsman can you build a permanent bushcraft camp❤.. appreciate it😊

Do you mean parallel?

@@steamer2k319 Ive seen fish cruising the shoreline at night, right up against the shore ambushing. I think Doug means the fence comes straight out from the entrance, pointing toward the deeper water. So any fish cruising deeper gets led into that entrance! 100% going to try this in a future video!

Hey sure!! The feedback seems to be pretty good on this video, so maybe I will make another where I go to a spot which actually has some good fish haha. Can do some catch and cook’s and a different friction fire technique too!

You Are 🎉❤ Amazing . I'm spiritual the earth is a massive healer ❤

I’ve got to try the fishing for frogs trick!! Any good ways to cook em?

@@TheBearEssentials zatarans Louisiana Cajun fish fry, that is the best breading to fry them in that I've found in stores. Some people online have some really good recipes to mix up for breading them in but if you want minimal effort and good taste the Louisiana Cajun fish fry breading is the best to me

Eyyyyyyyy!! If I could like this comment twice I would !!

@@TheBearEssentials Thanks again DJ!!! Oh...I received a $10 e-gift card...will have to do some more shopping @ Bear Essentials !!!

Thank you!!! Will do some more for a few more days and can make them even longer for ya!

Glad you enjoyed it! I'm glad - and lucky - it worked out!

Ya! You can use it to make Charcoth too. I sell them with a few items on my site too

my way is to just always have suplies

I appreciate that! Thanks so much. On here I can affect many more people I think, one day maybe I’ll do a trip with peeps tho!

The best!!

Hahahaha!! Frog legs!! Great idea!!! I think I’ll be doing a longer trip soon and will dive into eating those! I’ve only ever done it once - do you have any good recipe for me?? 😁

@@TheBearEssentials As a matter of fact, YES, yes I do! As a historian, I LOVE old cookbooks. I have a 1909 edition of the Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Cookbook, acquired thru my hubby's grandmother. On page 29, I have THREE recipes for Frog Legs! Here's the most simple one: "Frog Legs: The green marsh frogs furnish the best hams, as they are more tender and have less of the strong muddy flavor. They are generally liked fried. Pare off the feet and truss them by inserting the stump along the shin of the other leg. Put them with salt, pepper and lemon juice to steep for an hour, then drain and roll in flour, then in beaten egg and in fine bread crumbs. Fry to a light brown in hot fat. Serve with fried parsley." Now, here's some other fun stuff: I want you to do a Google search for this: "Henriette Davidis' practical cook book internet archive" (the quotation marks aren't necessary, and yes, that's the way it is spelled, and the last two words are the site the book is located on-the Internet Archive). It should be the first thing that pops up. When you get to this free online historical cookbook (The subtitle should be: "German national cookery for American kitchens : a practical book of the art of cooking as performed in Germany"), go to page 228. And BOOM, you'll have a whole chapter with recipes for Turtle Soup, Snail Soup, Snails in Sauce, Snail Salad, Ragout of Frog Legs, Frog Leg Pie, Roast Badger, Bear's Paws, and even Roast Beaver Tails!! And may I add, I think your subscribers would love a collab with perhaps a KZfaq channel that does wilderness survival and/or wilderness foraging. I remember seeing a PBS series one time of a chef who teamed up with a foraging specialist, and they foraged wild stuff, then the chef made a gourmet meal from it all. It was REALLY unique and interesting. I see there's a channel called The Wooded Beardsman, and it looks like he has killed and cooked some pretty interesting things! I'm sure there are other channels that you might already know of that would be a great fit for that kind of collab, if you were so inclined. In any case, I can't wait to see if you end up cooking something 'interesting' on your next trip, lol!

Unreal, this comment is fantastic. No worries will improve in many aspects as always. You’re awesome, and thanks for watching!

You are awesome and absolutely right! Thx for the comment!

Eyy thanks a bunch Matt!!!! Hope to get out there with you one time brother!

@@TheBearEssentials Hope too buddy, if bushcraft is still allowed in our countries ? lol

Wow thank you so so much. Going to try to do a longer one soon!

Excellent point! I was (fairly) confident in the bowdrill fire starting! But waaaay more excited for the fishing 😅

Thanks for watching!

This is a really great way of making the glue! Apparently animal fat is another good addition. I suppose it all depends on what you have and how brittle vs flexible you need it. Thx for the comment

Thx for watching Victoria!!!

Mm not really worth it to eat that tiny guy. If you had a whole bunch, maybe. And yes it’s edible but truly not really worth it. If you had a bunch, maybe, but I would have opted to use it as bait and try to get crayfish or brook trout!

@@TheBearEssentials awesome, thanks for the info!

Great call!! I think inside and outside would have been the ticket. I only did inside bc I truly had a hard time finding enough of the pitch, and didn’t know if the underwater patch would come off sooner than the above… If there were paper birch on the island I would have made some birch tar, and used a bit of bark as a patch too. Good idea with the shirt, never thought of that!

Honestly that’s a great call. I bet it would have done well to patch that canoe too tbh

You have to watch til the end to see if I get off the island :)

@@TheBearEssentials Did you live?!

@@Literature-ft8ru sadly...dead

@@TheBearEssentials 😱

You have to purify it, there are parasites and bacteria - especially giardia, which will make you very very sick.

I was an alternate on season 9, and hired as a survival consultant on season 10 :)

Absolutely, in Labrador I went 9 straight days, covering 80km with a 60lbs pack before getting any food at all! You can last a long time without. About a month, even more if your idle. Thx for the watch!

Pretty much, the sap is sort of the viscous part - it’s the pitch that is more solidified that makes better “glue” when combined with charcoal or best case scenario- animal fat

@@TheBearEssentials WOW

Sounds crazy, I’ve never heard of a desert island before.

yeah he should

I will!! More coming up in a few weeks :)

For sure, but I never want to take the chance - especially with beavers there and giardia

Letsgoooooooooo!!!!

It would be tough, you would have to hunt big game pretty much. Plants, like cattail, and starchy roots etc yield such low calories. About 7 per ounce, so you’d have to be eating like 20lbs of this a day to sustain, inner bark, berries etc, it’s just not a huge inflow bc of the effort to gather as well. Fishing can usually be a difference maker- or ofcourse, big game hunting. Lactose wouldn’t be an issue out there, but all of this would entirely depend on your environment. The best survival strategy in my opinion is to focus on water and actually not eat any carbs. Or minimal - so your body goods into ketosis and burns your fat stores. You can last a long time on that- you’ll lose 0.5-1lbs a day, but generally you can expect to survive 3 weeks like this and you’ll hopefully get reacted in that time. Shelter + water most important!

In my next vid I take your advice and hunt em!

I did!! You didn’t watch it all, did you? 🤣

@@TheBearEssentials I m8ssed the mint!? Crap, I'm sorry.

It is! It’s the Garberg! Full tang, not a bad knife and fairly inexpensive

@@TheBearEssentials thought it was !

I should have, or banked it better.

It was a planned challenge :) and I wanted to get my canoe back instead of ditching it ofcourse. 😁

@@TheBearEssentials I still would have eaten the bull frogs. LOL

@@user-mx5dr5gj1egood call!! Any favourite recipe’s for em?? Next time I will.

@@TheBearEssentials My wife does most of the cooking but I think she just fries them.

Wouldn’t be a good video if I couldn’t provide the laugh at the beginning :)

Buried!! I’ve got to go back and find em!

Me, it’s all self filmed !