First Trip to the Trapper Cabin: 

The bug at Dysarts is a dobson fly. It's the adult stage of a hellgrammite.

Youre lucky to have Donnie as a friend and mentor. The knowledge these old fellas have is totally invalueable.

Gonna be a great adventure to follow along with Joe. Looking forward to it.

Hey Joe and Donnie! I grew up in this camp. We sure did create a ton of memories up there! 35 years worth of birds, deer, moose, bear, and snowmobile seasons! I’m truly elated to watch you gentlemen start this adventure and create you own! Before I was even born, my father was introduced to the NMW by his father in law, my grandpa. They started coming up in the late 60’s-early 70’s in a school bus camper, and deer hunt for weeks on end parked at the top of witch hill. We’ve been coming up ever since.

Looking forward to seeing the build Joe

Super excited to follow the build. If the walls could talk in that old cabin the stories they would tell.

Been through that Northwoods gate a few times on my way to my favorite preserve land. When you get more time to explore take some time to fish in the Debouille area.

Long format Donnie video is a must! That man is wonderful. I really would like to spend some time with him just listening to the history he knows and story’s!!!

Can't wait to see this thing come together

Sooooo!!!glad I don't have to wait till ice to see your videos.!!!

Excited to see more man!

What a beautiful place main is if i could only convince my girls to move north absolutely love watching these videos thank you for sharing joe and donnie

Wow! I'm as excited as you all are. It's not wet where I sit in my glider rocker with a glass of my home made wine. Love this journey I will say we are on as I plan to watch every episode. I don't miss many of your winter videos and have even made Donnie's Doughnuts. Enjoy you journey as I know l will. Thank you.

Tons of greetings Donnie! I'm glad you are fine... at least you are looking pretty good 👍 ❤😍

cant wait joe,

Hello Joe! Looks like a great adventure.

I have cleared my schedule and am anxiously awaiting :)

Awesome!! I love the north Maine woods and great video buddy!!

Keep it up boys!

Great to see you guys again. Glad you decided to do this. Keep it coming.

Awesome as always, great to see you and Donnie getting after it

Carr pond,trail,been on that a few times. Brother belongs to a private cabin at far end of lake. Fish River ckpt. Beautiful area you guys are in. Good luck. Turkeys all the way up therel? Tough wintering.

Really enjoy your videos. Especially if Donnie is in them. Glad your expanding the content. Be cool to see some trapping content too. Stay safe.

Joe this looks awesome, I’m looking forward to watching this story

Yes Joe, the further north you go.....the people are much nicer! Especially up here in Canada! Haha

Exciting stuff! Can’t wait to see what you boys do. I’ve got a similar series coming up in a few months!

Love what you did here. I have a camp on portage lake. Would be great to see you in the area, doing some fishing.

Love the video Joe. The fly on the light pole at the beginning is a Dobsonfly, I think. Crazy looking bugs I tell yah.

Excited for you boys, let me know how I can help

How exciting this is! Even makes me excited! Looks like a great area for bird hunting too! Can’t wait for the next video! As I’ve said before I would love to come up and give you guys some help on this project and spend some time in the North Maine woods

This is fun to watch can't wait to see more

Looks like a nice spot guys!! Excited to see the build

The one positive thing about all the rain is if your build site isn't under water now it never will be.

Donnie has great taste!! Miller high life!! The greatest beer god ever made!! My favorite 😊

You are only inspiring me more to do exactly the same thing where i have 20 or so acres off grid just south of the County. Cant wait to follow you guys right into snow season!

Awesome Joe, been following all along. I'm amazed of all you and Donnie have gotten done with all this rain.

cool.

Donnies a madman!!

Joe I didn’t think we were able to do land lease anymore! How awesome!

Great to see more from you guys

Hey Guys, great to see you are gonna build a cabin. I will follow along fully. Looks like a great location. What do you have for a water source? I am gonna also follow your JH rough cut channel.

2 thumbs up from Alaska!!!! Good old boy's wish i was there i would grab a framing hammer.

Dobson Fly is the bug! My grandfather calls them moose flys not sure why maybe cause it’s big. Not sure if anyone calls them that but I just learned about Dobson flys this year.

@joehollandfishing the large bug is a eastern dobsonflies, the one you saw is a female the males have longer pinchers by about 1 inch. they a pretty much harmless.

i'll be looking .

If you're talking about the mill abouts 6 miles off rt 11 in Portage, I used to pull hardwood out of there for flooring about 10 years ago before I moved to Wisconsin. No idea if that's what they still do though

awesome!!!!!

JOOOOEEEEEE!!!!!!!! I fu@*^•# missed you man!!!!!! Pardon my French!!!!!

Yes, Dobson fly. One bit me on my big toe drew blood.

Another great adventure. I thought long term leases were a thing of the past. I’m guessing the project you’re taking on, you have a long time plan. I but an off grid 16 x 20 camp in Lovell Me.6 years ago. Not being a professional carpenter it was a challenge and one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Good luck to the 3 of you. I have 6x10 10 k dump trailer if you need some help. I’m in southern Maine but I am familiar with where you’re at.

30:08 truer words never been spoken friends

That was a Dobson fly.

Portage gate? i have camped at car pond and fish river falls many many times. awesome country

That is a dobson fly adult form of Hellgrammit The small Pinchers are the female, the males have even larger pinchers Whatever body of water They're hatching from there's gonna be some good fishing. The big ones love to eat them.

Hello Joe, I hope you are well. Can you please put all your channels in the video description in the future? As far as I understood correctly, there are 3 channels from you. I have saved two of them and are familiar with them. I don't get a notification when a new video goes online. Please let me know the name of the third channel so I can subscribe to it. Many thanks and greetings from Germany.

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I've subscribed to your other channel, but I don't get a notification when a new video goes online! I've tried everything! How can I fix the problem? Should I message RU-vid?

What is your chanel for your milling and wood cutting

Where are you guys getting those plaid state of maine shirts?

Does the camp lot have a spring for water or close by?

I have a question on how you find a lease like this? Is it a waiting list you get on ? Or someone you know sells lease to you, Thanks

that's a dobson fly, an adult helgrammite

Was the food at the gate? He’s always hanging out there

what trapper cabin is this

Nice I can’t wait to see what you to do we all love Donnie and you keep up the hard work much love

kill that chinese bug! i hope you did!

This is awesome guys Awesome! 🐻🦌🎏 good for you 👍 🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸 The Vermonter BS

I’ve been on those roads we use to bird hunt from millinocket to Ashland lots of birds now closer to Canada less hunters . What a beautiful spot for you guys. Can’t wait for all the videos

Congratulations my dream is to do the same got land in Aroostook not a lot just two acres but I want to retire. Would love to have land in the Allagash