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Mar 24, 2025
Part two of the Pan Am Black Bass championship concludes this outstanding pair of episodes by showcasing awesome fish-catching sequences, unparalleled on-camera interviews and, of course, reveals the winning country… the 2024 black bass gold medalists! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/?hl=en ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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the biggest one yet 3 lb oh my God we're
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having fun we're catching a
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lot n it's a really good
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hey everyone and welcome back to part
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two of our coverage of the 2024
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Pan-American Black Bass Championship
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which is taking place on the St John
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River in beautiful New Brunswick Canada
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for those of you who missed last week's
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show the PanAm Black Bass Championship
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is an annual bass tournament in which
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Canada the us as well as several other
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countries compete for gold Canada got
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involved in this great event through the
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Canadian International sport fishing
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Association otherwise known as
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cisa the ultimate goal here is to
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achieve the inclusion of competitive
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sport fishing into the Olympic Games
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good AUD you boys in last week's show we
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covered the event Opening Ceremonies
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team registration day one blastoff a
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whole whack of fishing and of course the
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weigh in at the end of the day to get
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the full recap of the preceding show you
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really should go to the fishing Canada
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YouTube channel and search up the
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Pan-American Black Bass Championship
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part one we ended off day one with the
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top three team pairings they were Tyler
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Williams and Trey McKenna of Team USA
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weighing 18.75 lbs leading the field in
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second place is Alec Morrison and Nick
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Hatfield also from Team USA with 17.46%
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three countries in contention are Team
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USA leading the pack with their top four
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angling pairs weighing a total of 68.4
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four lbs in second place is Team Canada
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with their top four two-man teams
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weighing 63.3 7 lb and third is team
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China total weight
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59.6 lb now here's the breakdown of all
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the teams involved looks to us like it's
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going to be a battle of the Titans
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between two two of the favorites Canada
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versus the
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us we got Team Canada here and uh we're
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playing catchup today morning of day two
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we're all having a blast at the tanam
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championship here but uh but yeah we
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knew Team USA was going to be a problem
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they are uh but our goal today is to
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take him down and uh we're going to give
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it our best shot so we're we're g in for
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it today we're taking everything we got
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and we're going to just uh catch every
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fish that we possibly can
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so similar to day one day two starts out
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with all the participants sitting idle
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waiting for their boat number to be
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called out and putting the throttle to
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the Max from my past tournament
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experience the second day jitters aren't
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near as bad as the first however if you
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dropped a big weight onto the scales on
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day one and you're wondering if your
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pattern will hold for another day yeah
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that's pretty stressful my thoughts are
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that team Canada is one chomping at the
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bit to get at her and two hoping and
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praying that team us say has a slower
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day than
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yesterday the final day of a tournament
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usually puts Anglers into a slightly
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different mind frame one that actually
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begins to take shape earlier in the
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event sometimes it even involves
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avoiding fish let me explain big fish
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are hard to come by and In this River
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those sought after fish are three
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Pounders since this is a multi-day event
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you need those fish in the boat both
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days occasionally forcing you to back
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off earlier in the event when your bag
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is good enough for the day the last
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thing you want to do is burn out fish
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that you'll need tomorrow on the final
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day of an event however it's all in
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catch as many as you can and keep
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calling to the biggest bag you could
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possibly catch in case you're wondering
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why cell phones are allowed here yet
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almost all other tournaments ban them
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here's your answer since this is a
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multi-person team event the panm
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officials actually encourage the use of
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phones to add yet another element to the
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game it truly is the only way a captain
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and or a teammate can reach out and talk
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to their entire team about
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strategy so with that said let the
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battle of the Titans
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begin name of the game is covering water
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and finding a couple of those right ones
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now right here in this little s this is
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an exact really good representation of
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what these fish are really setting up on
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right here is you have just like a
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little bit of an invent invention on the
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main Lake and these fish are are going
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in there and feeding it's just crazy
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like I don't know if it's like they're
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pushing the bait in there in the
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mornings or what it is but they
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definitely seem to be biing a little bit
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better first
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thing we got one
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though we're having fun we're catching a
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lot but they're not big that one's going
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to help you think so yeah lot of little
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guys I just see in a gust I think we're
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going to have to leave soon just cuz
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we're we're having a blast
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but that ain't going to cut
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it h no
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no they uh the fish are like they're
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they have good frames on them it just
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sort of typical riverfish where they're
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just not real heavy these guys are
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nutting
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one little St
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John River
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Smallmouth oh my God good one yeah
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should I cast well I hooked it but then
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it jumped
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after yeah it's a good one I no no it's
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not it looked they look so big on this
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thing
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dude like this down one in the shallow
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water
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yeah like I almost was like this might
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be a Musky really
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yeah no
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jeez
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nice the biggest one yet 3
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lound
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deal that was sweet on followed him
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around it was deeper that's the Deep one
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we got yeah yeah I know dude all we need
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now we just need four more yeah it four
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more 15 lb bro you're scy come
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on I don't know how big he was he didn't
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feel heavy one all
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righty is it the right species oh I hope
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it's a bass be a bass is it the right
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species it's not uhhuh chain yeah Mr
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chain I mean that's a pretty good chain
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pick roll but well it's good if you're
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in a chain pick roll turn that's right
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so here's another unique um part of this
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whole tournament is that this is Team
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USA but it's Pitts and Freeman a female
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team what the USA does is they have a
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qualification round for the females at
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the icast show uh for a female team to
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join them on this on this track so I
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don't know if any other teams have ever
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had a female team in it but I think it's
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fantastic that that pits and Freeman are
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these two here and they're both very
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good Anglers and uh it shows they they
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qualified for here and now they want to
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take home the championship to
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no
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no please it's a really good one he's
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about to spit it
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so sorry about that that's good thanks
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good
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job if he's on the service keep him on
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the
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service oh
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oh oh P pie of
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candy me a
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Canadian four and a quarter make guess Y
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close way 428 a 2 point whatever barely
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off yeah he's going to the show he's
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going way
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in it took me that I was like 20 i' say
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30 before I was your smart you're only
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like 18 in that smart that's pretty
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good wheer
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yeah there go got us take Pi pound
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finally got us a three day pounder Frick
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all right I'll holl you boys later we
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got to catch them all right
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bye freaking hey I'm like heck with
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it I'm like heck with it boy I ate it
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you knew you're like
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oh this a bot
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oh
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don't to ref founder prob three you just
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swam right up to me underneath the boat
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on his head that's how they were doing
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yesterday
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ni I don't
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know yeah yeah
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yeah okay
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okay thanks sir
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job 352
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B
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oh yes sir heck yeah buddy boy that's
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the one we needed
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holy
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come yeah that's why I
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S yeah oh
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yeah
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1456 all
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right might be a one
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yeahum I mean I this way
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got one
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y nice there we
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[Music]
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go coming up coming up coming up
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heck yeah oh I just whenever they go to
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jump flying and everything when they go
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to jump I just pull them towards you to
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towards the
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N that's a good in there
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yeah that might be a four
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Joe I don't think
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so 38 3
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coming up on Scott Martin with his
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partner Ryan latinville of Team USA
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Scott of course is the captain of Team
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USA and probably one of the most popular
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uh television and YouTube stars in the
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business right now um they're on to a
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really interesting pattern we're way way
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up in the back of this cve but I'm
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talking way off the beat path which is
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kind of interesting cuz I think most of
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the competitors are thinking this time
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of year the fish are starting to fall
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out into the main body of the river like
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most of the Anglers here uh Scott and
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Ryan are glued to their monitor for
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their forward view um Scott uses Garmin
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like Pete and I do um they're they're
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just glued to that screen and they're
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literally picking the fish that they
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want to catch they see it on the screen
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put the bait right in front of it and
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just work the bait until the fish grabs
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it and gets on got one oh he's up there
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okay yeah get him get him get
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him I don't know I don't know what's
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going on get ready if he comes up to
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again to oh he's right there oh God it's
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a big one dude he's got enough slack
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where where if he does that again it's a
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four pounder trying to see if I see him
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on the scope like up high which I don't
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yet see him so I have a big fish on it's
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a 4 PB small mouth it's wrapped around a
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tree and I can't get him
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up I mean I think he's wrapped really
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tight now see there's the tree LM right
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there I can't grab that tree LM I I
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don't feel him that him right there
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coming up or no maybe I don't feel him
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moving it just seems like he's off maybe
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now be honest with you but I don't
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know it like trot line or
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something oh he's still on there he's
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still on there oh gosh yeah here he
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comes it's like a trot line or something
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dude he still pulling there yeah he
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comes up I'm reaching pretty far we need
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to get a jig and get this trot line or
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fishing line or whatever this is we're
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stuck on drop a treble hook down and
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snag the Trot Line and so I can break
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the line see right there that
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angle we're getting too far away
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fine got to get a little angle
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okay oh it's pulling he's coming it's
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all it to break loose and go back down
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so be careful be careful I want that to
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hit
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you oh the fish is right there get the
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net it's going to shoot out and get you
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though be careful
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dude God you got to be kidding me
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dude what just happened
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bro dude bro oh my God
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bro
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woo wow that is a fight that's like what
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20 minutes oh my God and he was still on
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there that fish matters right there yeah
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dude dude I can't believe it oh my god
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oh
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man what we did is we snagged the tree
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we brought the tree up put that trouble
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hook on braided line dropped it down
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with some tungsten weights and snag that
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snag and it worked out
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today's hot spot is where Scott Martin
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and Ryan lville duked it out in an epic
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battle with a belligerent smallo that
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was bound and bent to get away the wayo
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on your screen will get you there this
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area is called the Long's Creek arm on
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the St John River it's a gorgeous
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stretch of water that's protected from
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strong winds and nasty weather
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conditions and hey if Scott Martin's
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fishing it during a tournament you know
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it's got to be good Scott hooked his
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fish in a small Bay among some weeds and
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what they found out later was a sunken
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tree although an and I were ultimately
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cheering for Team Canada I have to admit
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when Scott and Ryan booted that fish it
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was awesome what can I say that's what
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fishing is all about for more hotpots
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like this one check out fishing
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canada.com well it all comes down to
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this the final day weigh in and as many
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expect it it's the classic Canada versus
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the US
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in Tournament Fishing the most
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sought-after part of the weigh-in stage
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is the hot seat this is where the
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leaders are placed and forced to watch
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their competitors weigh in and sweat
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every ounce that's shown on the scale
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here the last man standing
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wins first in the hot seat is a pair of
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tournament favorites from Team Canada
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Gussy and Coupe and a big buzzer beater
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fish on day two has our boys at the top
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of the pack next up is Captain America
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and Ryan latinville as you watched
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alongside us Scott and Ryan were on him
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good today and a spectacular net job
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looks like it was good enough to knock
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coup and Gussy from the podium good
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effort
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boys next we have some friendly fire
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from the American boys as Joey cifuentes
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and Josh Weaver jump ahead of their
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Captain to reduce Canada's hope of a
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gold medal down to one
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team on day one we saw Cory Gaffney and
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Adam how carry the weight for Canada
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literally early and now with all the
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glory on the line a tough day two has
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them just short of dethroning the
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Americans however there's one power host
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yet to hit the scales Tyler Williams and
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Trey McKenna have been putting on a
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clinic with an impressive weight of 18.7
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s lb Team USA captures a well-deserved
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victory in Canadian
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Waters wow what a conclusion to such an
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epic event
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and if you're like beat and I you
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probably picked up a tip or two along
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the way these are truly great Anglers
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folks first we've got to give props to
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Team USA for coming north to foreign
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territory and taking a win and keeping
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with Team USA the Young Guns of Tyler
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Williams and Trey McKenna proved that
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you don't have to be a couple of old
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seasoned veterans like an and I in order
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to fight against the big dogs Team
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Canada made it a really tight race
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against the worldclass US team and Pro
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yet again that the great white North can
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go toe-to-toe with the best of them we
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saw how skilled Anglers from both
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Central and South America traveled up to
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3,000 mes and they all weigh in an
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incredible number of quality bass
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proving they have the skill to compete
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at this level and finally this event
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proves just how amazing how outstanding
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how phenomenal the bass fishing on the
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St John River in UB Brunswick Canada
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actually is there's a world class bass
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fishery here for all bass enthusiasts to
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enjoy for many years to come man what a
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place congratulations to
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Network to get to the PanAm Black Bass
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Championship we first took Highway 401
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East crossing over to Quebec border next
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we took Highway 20 to Highway 30 and
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eventually got back on to Highway 20
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next we turned Southeast on Highway 85
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which eventually turned to Highway 2
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which finally took us to our
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accommodations in frederickton the
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capital city of NE brunwick to get to
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the tournament takeoff and weigh-in area
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we took Highway 2 from frederickton
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turned onto Route 102 then onto od's
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drive and finally to the boat launch
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area adjacent to the world's largest axe
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in the town of Nack both frederickton
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and Nack are located along the St John
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River this portion of New Brunswick is
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an excellent area to host a bass fishing
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tournament because of the amount of
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water available to be fished and the
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Abundant bass population the town of
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Nack has gone above and beyond in all
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recent bass tournaments held in this
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quaint little area bass fishing and
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fishing in general is a huge boost to
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their economy and the locals here get it
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if you're looking for a stretch of water
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to fish for a multitude of species then
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the St John River from fron to Nack is
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the place for
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