Jordan Jonas Used a Homemade Fishing Reel on “Alone”

So how were you catching fish? You brought up a homemade pole? Yeah, I caught most of them on. This is a birch pole. I'd rigged up a little thing that made me so I could cast and I could cast a long ways out. And it was the funnest fishing I've ever done. You could cast? Yeah, I made with like a spool that I'd brought for my fishing line or whatever. And what did you use for like the eyes for the wire? A snare wire was one of the things I brought. So I'd made like a rigged up a little fishing pole and it worked great. It was real similar to what they use in Soviet like old Soviet reels. So I had been gave me the idea for making that style of a reel because they're just so basic, you know, and and it takes a little practice to use. But anyway, I rigged it up. It worked great. I could cast way out there. Took me a long time to catch my first fish a few weeks. But after I did, I kind of like dialed them in and it was fun fishing. What were you using bait or lures? I made a lure like a little spinner I made and that and I caught a fish but it snapped my line. But the and then I tried moose meat and they loved it. So I would just be casting it on catching them all on moose meat or like fish belly. You know, you catch a fish and cut out a strip and they loved that. And it was mostly lake trout, but some of them were, you know, over 20 pounds. And you got this homemade rod and you're like reeling it in, shaking your hands out. That's a 20 pound lake trout. That's insane. With a homemade lure and a homemade what kind of strainer you using? That's a different thing. That's paracord. I was I was yeah, just testing out making like a fly line out of paracord there. And did you have a leader as well? Like using the paracord and like braiding it down. That's not that's not the thing I used on the show. That was just experimenting. Now when you were using the line, what kind of line did you bring fishing on? That was another item I brought. Braided? No, you can only bring monofilament and barbless hooks. So it made everything that much more intense. Why barbless hooks? I think it's Canadian regulations or something. Yeah, I can count. So silly people. There was never going to be any release in that situation. Yeah, that's why it's so confusing. Well, they have barbless hooks. But they allowed you to, what pound test did you use? 20. Oh, wow. So you like got the limit. Yeah. And you got no drag. So you're just kind of going on field. Yeah, it was very, very popular. Wow. Did you try to drag it out like a fly rod where you let it slip through your fingers a little bit? Yeah, let it pull away. Reel it in, let it pull away until it finally wears itself out. And are you stripping the line in or do you have something like that? I had my little reel so I could like put my thumb on it, on my spool and it would like drag. They drag and I could reel it. Did you reel it with a finger? Yeah. Oh, wow. It was cold. I made this rabbit fur glove that where just the tip of my finger stuck out. Oh, wow. And then, yeah, I got to say that was fun. So how many fish did you wind up catching? Just 13, but they're all big, you know, like they're all... So you can eat them for a couple of days. Yeah, like from between probably eight and 20 something pounds. Did you eat the fish guts at all? Did you cook... Yeah, like I eat the stomachs and the head was the best part. Like when you're out there, you know, starving and you need fat. It's like a lot of times I would eat the fish and kind of put the main meat part of it away for later. But you need the belly, the head, all the fatty parts. Did you make like a soup with the head? Yeah, I made all my fish into soup and then I would fry all my moose basically. Oh, okay. All your fish you made into soup. Yeah, just to get all the nutrients out of the bones. Did you find any editable vegetables or anything? Lots of berries like up north. So it's awesome as far as berries go. Although my spot didn't really have many, but I found patches, you know, like... Well, you find berries, you find berries too.