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Crazy Canadian Smallmouth Bass with Roland Martin | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
(Episode 308) On this exciting episode, our own Angelo Viola teams up with the ultimate Bass Guru, Roland Martin, on Ontario’s beautiful Lake Temagami for some northern Smallmouth Bass Related Episode: | Episode 428 | Great Balls of Bait: https://youtu.be/gRgFAsEI0s0 Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ #Fishing
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here he comes he's got
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it the fishing Canada
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show with your hosts
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an
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Reno and
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Pete brought to you by Ontario more to
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discover pman the greatest name in The
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Great
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Outdoors and Princecraft Mercury
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yes wow huge
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alone in
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wildish can God yes we're in that of a
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gun that good
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[Music]
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[Music]
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we Today's Show is definitely what I
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call a dream fishing Adventure not only
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am I fishing one of the province of
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Ontario's Premier Lakes but I'm graced
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with the presence of the king of bass
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fishing himself Roland Martin this is a
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combination that just can't go
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[Music]
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wrong you got big oh you got a big one
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yeah you got a big one no he's not that
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big I got a little one oh he's a good
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size I'm going to try to throw back in
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then get one's a little bigger huh who
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nice one yeah baby I'm going to throw
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throw out to the middle again yeah
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there's two behind them two behind them
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R okay here let let me let me do this
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deal here right behind them right behind
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them let me do this right down
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here I don't see them
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anymore that's a big one got a big
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fish whoa
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baby small both fast does it get any
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better Rolland that's oh he's off he's
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off it's good
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Beauty okay I got a little one you had a
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big one and they were following there
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were two or three fish following
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following them up by the way we're in
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beautiful Lake tamogami
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we're targeting in on smallmouth which
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is a little unusual for this part of the
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country normally people come up to this
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area rolling for walleye and Pike and
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leak tro and all kinds of things but
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there are some fan well I kind of pushed
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you into the small mouth well you sure
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did I said he said you really wanted to
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fish some from Lake Trout too oh yeah
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but you know I said oh oh Angelo let's
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let's catch some of these beautiful
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small mou boy this is paying
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off great body of
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water and nice thing about it too you
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know it's so excess here in Ontario and
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when you're in it like we are now you're
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you're thinking in terms of a pristine
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environment that you could only access
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by flying in uh you know really remote
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outposts nothing could be farther from
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the TRU beautiful roads I I love your
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your road system it was all good highs
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speeded travel what was it five 5 hours
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north of 6 hours north of Toronto
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basically you know about 5 and a half to
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6 hours north of Toronto and you're into
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well some of the most pristine
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Wilderness that you can imagine
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there's one wrong oh yeah look at that
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hey way to go Angelo got another a good
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one yeah goodbye baby they're starting
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to turn on Rolland whoa that's a nice
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nice moment that's a nice moment I love
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it when they do that what other fish is
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going to do that for
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you fantastic that's a good one look at
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that beautiful big three and a four lb
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that's a huge fish
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it's a monster
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bass and that's such a safe way to do
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that it sure
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is and it's good for the fish too I mean
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sure not only is it safe for
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you but uh you don't touch the fish plus
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you can weigh them you can weigh them
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exactly he's over three where is he
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that's a good one but see you really are
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preserving the just at three Mark okay
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that's good just at the three Mark
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that's the lunker category of small Out
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3 lb or better is a really fine fish
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yeah you can't uh you know a lot of
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people talk about getting sixes and
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sevens and all that stuff all the time
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but you get you got little ones how come
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I get all the little ones well right now
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right now I don't mind that at
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all I need the pliers for this
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baby got one right on his head there we
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go
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is that a beauty that's a
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beauty that's a beauty they're right
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back where they should be
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yeah lake tagami is world-renowned as
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one of Ontario's best fishing lakes the
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word tamogami originates from the ajibu
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natives and means Deep Water by the
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shore there are approximately
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1,259 Islands on the lake all of which
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have the potential for great Smallmouth
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fishing with 3,000 plus miles of
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Shoreline Anglers have no problem
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finding unfished Waters this area is a
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fishing fanatic's dream come true in
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spring summer fall or even
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winter I don't know whether that's a
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boulder down there or a big
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tree oh one just hit M he hit me got I'm
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going to keep
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ring he hit no he hit me again I'm yeah
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keeping keep feeling he's got it now
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he's got it now I just had to keep
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working on he hit twice he hit it twice
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I don't know how big coming up coming up
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coming up now what I did folks he hit it
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the first time and and I just didn't set
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the hook I just I just kept let just
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kept reeling and he hit it again and he
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still didn't get it and then finally on
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the third time he got it he's not real
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big that is a good size he's just a
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couple pounds but he's a but the neat
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thing was was what I did if I jerked
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hard and pulled a spinner bait away from
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the fish on the first strike i' have
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never got him or on the second strike
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finally he loaded up they actually hit
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the blade sometimes right and that's
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what you're feeling like a strike and in
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fact it's not all it's happening the
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blade has stopped turning because the
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fish has hit it but but you saw me real
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the hit it it felt like a bluegill but
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if you jerk it real hard away from them
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pulls it away from their Strike Zone and
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they just kind of give up on it but just
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keep reeling it and be patient until
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they load up and I I kind of have the
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theory that to catch small mouth let
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them load up in other words make your
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cast and just start reeling nice long
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cast and just reel along just re along
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and and and they might Nick or you might
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hit a rock but when they load up on it
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let the thing load up and then really
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get into and that you'll get almost all
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the fish that
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way there's
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one oh look at that nice one yeah oh
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look at that good one oh yes look at
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that big old fish is there a fish by it
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see I'm going to bring it in we'll have
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a look buddy there's a big fish there
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we'll have a look this lake is known for
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for its trophy fish that is a huge
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bass took that
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took that top water bit look how clear
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that water is and how how interesting it
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is watching that thing F
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along oops big old
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bass that was
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neat Bingo is that any good that's a
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good one well I'm going to go back to
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top water top water bite is on Budd
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water bite is
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on come on come on he's hit Mine He's
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got mine he came back to you oh yeah
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yeah he underneath the boat oh son nice
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fish oh yeah look at that big old small
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mouth he can't even come out oh yeah
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he's great oh good one buddy yeah all
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right old three lb small
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mouth I think you might have got me
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today you know that what's that that's a
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good fish top mind you got a couple this
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I think I was going for
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quantity you're going for quality
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that's such a cool way of that's nice
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such a cool way of catching them toab
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small mouth little over
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three beautiful thing about it see he
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can really jump and and I'm not touching
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that fish see right now I'm just I'm
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just working on the hook and there
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Untouched by human
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hands and that that in itself is a big
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deal keeping
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them keeping them free here
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okay let do it do
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it that's put this put back there we go
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okay good stuff plenty more where that
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came
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from and now the fishing Canada trivia
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question which fish species does not
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exist in Ontario's Lake tamogami
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a the
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walleye B the lake trout C the speckle
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trout D the northern pike or E the white
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fish coming up more Northern Ontario
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smallies
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yes we're in for fishing
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[Music]
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Canada and now the fishing Canada trivia
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answer which fish species does not exist
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in Ontario's Lake tamogami
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a the
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Walley B the lake trout C the speckle
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trout D the northern pike or E the white
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fish the answer is C the speckled trout
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[Music]
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and now back to more Ontario Smallmouth
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fishing that's flattening out pretty
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good Rong yeah I like to keep that
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retrieved you know really kind of a good
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solid retrieve on this thing that's
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important try and look at that man look
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big fish big big fish oh nice
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small the size of him gigantic one but
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as they say
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look at the size of that bass got that
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spinner bait right on the snout he's a
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good where he needs oh look at those
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shoulders on that fish nice job buddy
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here a good
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three gu he is a good three that's a
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good four what are you talking
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about oh I love it there you go
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buddy big is that one o that's a good
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four oh yeah that's a 4 lb smallmouth
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bass that's a good one we're catching
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them now I've seen you catch a lot of
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fish in years on TV and in person but I
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I got to tell you when you get a small M
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there's a certain spark in there get
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well I get excited because I just don't
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catch as many small mouth as I wish I
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could you know because we have a limited
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uh a limited season now that that is
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that is such a that's a that fish has
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never been caught no look at his mouth
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and his body in comparison to the size
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of his body he's got molting or
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something down here Isn't that cool yeah
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he is boy that is
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gorgeous good stuff a little bitty mouth
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and just a huge fish really
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okay there we
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go the spinner bait's doing Fair I'd say
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the top water is doing a little better
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I'd say I'd say so you know I mean
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that's that's the first big spinnerbait
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fish today though huh yeah well I mean
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the rest of been fairly small so top
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water still kicking butt yeah that's a
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good top water pattern you have let's
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get back in that hum find it again it's
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not too it's not too bad it's a little
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windy but it's mainly it's cloudy and
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that that's what gives us both a spinner
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bait and a top water B otherwise if we
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weren for the cloudy weather were bright
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and sunny would probably be throwing
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tubes or or worms something like you
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know that's funny I got you just
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mentioned something that just dawned on
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me we haven't thrown a tube yet today
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well what would happen if we throw a
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tube out there I'll never throw a tube
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when they're hitting top water that's
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true that's a good I mean that's a top
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water is a choice deal that is really
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the fun L A lot of people make that
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mistake I mean tubes are are usually a
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bait that you use for for Fairly neutral
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or or non-aggressive fish but yeah a lot
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of people start with that right away
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first thing in the morning throw a tubon
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out there as opposed to trying that that
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more that you know whatever works the
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best but in this case when three and
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four Pounders are hit in top water you
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it's going to be any better than that
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you got to go with it good stuff man
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you're catching
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up Ontario Smallmouth are a very
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aggressive fish willing to hit some of
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the fastest and wildest presentations
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today Roland and I are using two of our
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favorites spinner baits and top water
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when using spin spinner baits for
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smalles try big tandem Willow Leaf
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blades and use a fast retrieve for top
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water baits use poppers or baits that
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walk along the
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surface Ontario smallies are one of the
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toughest and most acrobatic fish in the
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province you know I think it's very
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important to make a long long long C now
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I just love making long and the reason
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being just I don't know I just catch
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more fish on a long C you're making long
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cast we're both making long cast oh
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speaking of long cast
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buddy oh he's off he's off oh I had a
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good hit there did you hear that no he's
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still on he's just swimming to the boat
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here he is he went around some
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weed wait a minute you got a big one
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oh son that thing came at me 100 mph
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right in the weeds he was in the weeds
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yeah that was a long cast man that took
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my breath away got any more p uh I
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thought I might have but hang on I just
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can't the glare is just killing me here
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can't
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that's odd he was down those weeds what
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happened he was down those weeds when
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the weeds broke loose you know it felt
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like he had got gotten off there's the
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boat is good good St now that was just
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in the open water here how did he hit PR
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well he hit me like a freight train
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that's why I was surprised when I went
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to reel up but when he hit me he must
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have been coming at me he hit me like a
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freight train though well you know the
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spinner baits are paying off a little
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bit I really think you had a super bite
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going earlier this morning on the on the
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uh on the top that's another three lb
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fish big giant fish jeez that's huge
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that's a huge fish
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woo what can I say that is outstanding I
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just want
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to wow you know a spinner baay is not
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such a big deal cuz you can lip them but
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Bo when he got a Top bait the best part
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about it is that you can just uh put
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them over the side and and off they
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go okay are we keeping score I don't
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know you I think you're ahead you think
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I'm ahead you you got me pretty good on
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the top water you hammered on the top
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water that action was great I was
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showing a lot of spinner baits and you
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were really getting one I wouldn't mind
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going back remember that that one point
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that we saw on the way in here I
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wouldn't mind checking that out okay
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let's EAS over there it's right over
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there yep
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put tune up the bait a little bit kind
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of really zoom over there one that the
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color selector has now given you the
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clue and told you what color going to be
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the proper color the day's light
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conditions something's happening with
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this rig and they don't know what it
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is maybe perhaps you could show me how
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to do
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this now sometimes the sun you know
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there's Atomic explosions on the sun
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just constantly constantly oh yeah and
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and that creates electromagnetic fields
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that sometimes alter the aberration of
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the magnets that's in your real so it's
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not always your fault because it could
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be a sunspot and how do you tell how do
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you know how do you magnetation how do
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you determine that because you you have
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a backlash I mean you would normally
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never have a backlash no but okay so
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okay I got you okay I'm I'm with you now
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I'm with
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you I'm with you now and everybody knows
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that all right
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well not everybody you're assuming
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everybody does ran but you know you
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can't make those
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assumptions look at that look at that oh
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look at right there he's going to hit
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that he's going to hit yours he's bigger
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look at the size of that fish he's
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bigger he's bigger huge he's right
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there's another one right right right by
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right by you okay he's got it right
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there he's got it he's got it oh broke
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off we're working we had big old giant
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Smallmouth here did you see
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that he just had you had one bigger than
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this one he dropped it right on top of
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them oh man that was something big old
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school of fish and we're right on top of
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them
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unfortunately oh I'm shaking Rolland
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okay folks this was the small one and
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and and Angelo dropped down and had a
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great big fish break his line that's
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like 20 lb line set the hook too hard
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great big fish and that's over 3 lb look
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at that did you see the that's the
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biggest one I have seen in this Lake I'm
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telling you right now two giant huge
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fish just giant huge fish man man
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rolling okay let's drift off it maybe we
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can somehow get them interested
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again but you know that's typical for
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these Northern Ontario Lakes so R and
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when you get into areas like this that
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have got you know just that first hit
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and you look in the water and usually
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the the the water's teaming with them
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they just schol up they scol there were
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two fish with that three pounder that
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were maybe four or 4 and A2 pound one of
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them got your spinner bait and broke it
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off
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yep with these Polaroids I can see a lot
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of rocks right there I just hitting some
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oh baby he's on he's on buddy he's on
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he's on what you got oh oh man Li oh oh
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that's a big small M oh it's a big small
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M look at the size of him yes that's the
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kind of fish are in this Lake Ontario
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son here we come I love it this is quite
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the place abely absolutely a typical I
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don't want to say typical fish I don't
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want to mislead you but it's a four
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pounder I would say I'm not even going
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to put the the scales on that baby
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that's Beauty that's beut uh that's not
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un usual Not Unusual at all well you
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know Lake Tagan is famous for its good
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fish I mean we've heard for years that
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it has a lot of 3 to 5 lb small mouth
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and now we're finding out for sure that
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it really does consistent to I mean
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they're just I mean not a lot of small
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fish now I've heard a lot of people
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saying they catch you know two two and a
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half Pounders but where we've been
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fishing they've all been fairly uh
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fairly chunky
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fish coming up more Smallmouth fishing
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in Northern
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[Music]
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Ontario yes we're in for fishing Canada
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[Music]
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and now getting
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there today's superb fishing took place
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at Ontario's Lake tamogami to get there
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from Southern Ontario take Highway 400
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North to Highway 11 travel North on
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Highway 11 straight to the town of
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tamogami from here just follow the signs
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to catch any
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Lodge and now back to more smalles of
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the
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[Music]
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north got one
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buddy what you got I don't know but it's
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good it is in the
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bottom come on but come on up come on
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up huh what you got big one it feels
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good he's
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P I got one I got one I got one I got
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one you got one too I got oh look at
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mine oh son oh look at mine I got
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another big one son hey folks two great
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big giant three or four lbs come here
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come here this is what it's all about
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folks this is this is Bass Fishing
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Ontario style this is what you expect up
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here now I'm telling you this this
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Ontario is the deal whoa oh yes tagami
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hang on let me get mine first good big
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fish that's a giant fish hey he's
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splitting up bait look there's a couple
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more down there look look look look look
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another there's bigger than this one
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there's one way bigger than this one wow
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look at that I don't know you can't you
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can't get to it huge fish
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look at that giant fish let me B you let
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me hold this cuz I want to put these two
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babies together look at the size of that
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thing think you got think look like a
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big old large
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boat huh what you think is that any
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good oh I'll tell you what Angelo who's
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got who's got the big fish I think yours
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is bigger no I think you got me budy nah
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that's a that's a nice one now you got
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it yeah
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that what all about that same that one
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rock we both cast to it and I thought
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you were buy it already is that any good
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let's do it big old three Pounders what
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a
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deal rollan have you seriously have you
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had better smallmouth bass Miss not not
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than here in
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Ontario I mean there are so many bass
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here in Ontario with the
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250,000 legs that you have and all the
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other resources this has got to be the
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small I cap world I might be wrong but
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it's almost like the last I'm going to
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say the last decade the small Mo bass in
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this part of Canada have just been
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exploding and we're what 6 hours from
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Toronto from downtown Toronto close
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close and
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easy thank you again sir my pleasure and
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I got a feeling you're going to be
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visiting us quite a bit in the near
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future with fish like that good stuff
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