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Back in 2017 we had several YouTube creators who would just go down to the creek or lake, cast out a few lines and start streaming on their phone. It was relaxing... and an experience that ended up garnering a lot of attention at the time (not many people were doing this, so it was a unique experience). Several of use got pretty close hanging out while at work and watching these streams, I ended up making several friends whom I consider to be some of my closest friends to date. It was weird, but the connections we made were strong and founded not only on our passion for fishing but for our skills and desire to create fishing content on YouTube.
Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to meet up with these guys. My family and I had planned a trip to Wisconsin to see family at a time when one of our YouTube friends would be traveling up to Michigan... which just happened to be an hour and a half away from one of our other YouTube associates. The fourth lived ten-hours from Michigan, which made for a rough trip but one that had to be made.
The experience was strange... I had never been to Michigan. I had never seen the Great Lakes and I had these really close friends whom I knew all about. I know their kids and families, I knew the current events in their lives and I knew their cars and boats. But I had never seen them in three dimensions. The first five minutes of meeting each other was an awkward, clumsy collection of hugs and hand-shakes between some of my closest friends, their wives and kids. But it was all smiles.
After an awkward breakfast we headed out fishing for what would become the single most epic fishing collaboration of all time. Four families, four YouTube channels all getting together for the first time to fish a place I had never been to for a species of fish I had never caught.
And the trip did not disappoint!
The one thing I would suggest if given an opportunity like this; don't stop recording. After our trip we held the most amazing neighborhood fish fry and drank more beer than was necessary. The cameras turned off and the fun turned on... and I wish that I had captured more of that on camera!
Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to meet up with these guys. My family and I had planned a trip to Wisconsin to see family at a time when one of our YouTube friends would be traveling up to Michigan... which just happened to be an hour and a half away from one of our other YouTube associates. The fourth lived ten-hours from Michigan, which made for a rough trip but one that had to be made.
The experience was strange... I had never been to Michigan. I had never seen the Great Lakes and I had these really close friends whom I knew all about. I know their kids and families, I knew the current events in their lives and I knew their cars and boats. But I had never seen them in three dimensions. The first five minutes of meeting each other was an awkward, clumsy collection of hugs and hand-shakes between some of my closest friends, their wives and kids. But it was all smiles.
After an awkward breakfast we headed out fishing for what would become the single most epic fishing collaboration of all time. Four families, four YouTube channels all getting together for the first time to fish a place I had never been to for a species of fish I had never caught.
And the trip did not disappoint!
The one thing I would suggest if given an opportunity like this; don't stop recording. After our trip we held the most amazing neighborhood fish fry and drank more beer than was necessary. The cameras turned off and the fun turned on... and I wish that I had captured more of that on camera!
