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So You Wanna Be A Fishing Show Host? | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
This episode is a continuation of our previous episode where Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman bring on 2 new prospects for a future position on The Fish’n Canada Show. CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ 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, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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on last week's episode some decisions
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were made that could significantly alter
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the path of the fishing Canada show if
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you recall Pete and I deliberated over
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introducing some new blood to the team
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at first Pete didn't seem very
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enthusiastic to the idea and in typical
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Bowman style he put up a roadblock well
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I don't think it's a good idea now I
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mean but as usual I dangled that bait in
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front of him just long enough for him to
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bite still bent and determined what
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about Paul castalano from Niagara or
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John blanford from the muscas I I think
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they could probably pull it off but as
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usual I let Viola think this is all his
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idea had I made the suggestion of
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increasing the payroll around here he
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just snapped this way I feed him some
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line let him think it was all his idea
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then boom set the hook the fact is I'd
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love some new blood around here to help
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with the heavy lifting plus if it keeps
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him off my back my work is done
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here nice right away good
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man so after looking at some of the past
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episodes that we've shot with both John
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and Paul I decided to go on somewhat of
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a scouting mission to find out exactly
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what these two prospects are all
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about hey hey how you doing man not bad
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hey how'd you make up with the boys oh
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great great you were right both those
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guys are very impressive I I couldn't
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have had a better was unbelievable but
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they both handle themselves really
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really well excellent now the problem is
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how do you pick one I mean it's it's
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it's a tough one man you know what why
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don't we get him down here to Pine post
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we'll get him in a little uh Friendly
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Fire among each other and some peer
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pressure on them and get them in this
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environment see how they handle the the
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other side of what we do absolutely you
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know what that's not a bad idea maybe
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one will implode and save us the trouble
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of telling them yeah for sure get him on
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the line good idea call him
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down you know I like John Blanchard for
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a few different reasons he's obviously a
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very knowledgeable angler he has a
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desire to show the world his angling
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expertise and although he seems to have
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a toned down demeanor I'll bet Captain
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John knows when to turn on the charm
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he's the strongest silent type to me
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beautiful
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now Paul Castellano there's a guy who
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knew what he wanted to do at an early
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age his father is also an Avid Angler
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and having known Vinnie for a long time
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I'm certain that's where Paul gets his
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desire to fish not to mention the guy
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could turn the spots off of brown
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Trout's back but I'm not sure if that's
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going to work around this
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place it's a good idea bringing both of
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them in at the same time and letting
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them stew for a while any idea what's
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going on here buddy or what man you no
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people don't realize just how difficult
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this job really is the other way the
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other way the other way I got it I got
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it we just broke off the two fittings
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that hold the main hydraulic lines the
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steering connection on the motor I have
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no idea what happened so what we're
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doing is uh trying to get home by uh
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good oldfashioned
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Manpower
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unbelievable everybody thinks it's all
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about going fishing but the truth of the
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matter is it's a pressure cooker here we
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go here we go
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oh
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no off
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no you break
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it chased it off just busted clean
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busted clean there's thousands of people
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out there every week watching your every
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move counting on the fact that you won't
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screw up some days the expectations are
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unbearable you going e right now yes
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I think I know where answer's going with
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this it's one thing to go out and catch
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a few fish and for that matter even
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having to cope with some severe fishing
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conditions but it's a whole other world
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when you're trying to shoot a show you
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got to deal with the film crew producers
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directors Mother Nature fish in my case
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the boss man and of course let's not
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forget you're doing it for the fishing
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Canada show the most watched fishing
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show in the nation welcome to my world
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boys you're in bull rod country
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now oh my God
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this week's getting there is all about
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Pine post Productions our home when
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we're not on the road it's conveniently
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located just off the 401 at 423 BL
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Street West at the Stevenson Road exit
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in Osa hey if you're looking for the
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best production team in the business
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give them a
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call Pete and I are looking for some new
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Young Blood to bring on to the fishing
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cada team
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so far our two prospects are holding
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their own but will either one of them
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have what it takes to make it to the
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end I just saw you on a recent fishing
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Canada show with Pete up in your home
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Waters in The Moka yeah what do I have
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on here see yeah this thing's got some
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weight to it Pete yeah yeah oh my God
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look at this fish oh my God John he's a
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nice size oh nice o look at the show the
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belly to that fish to the camera oh oh
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my God that was I had a blast with Pete
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what time of you I saw saw you in a a
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SMY show as well actually yeah Lake Erie
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with Pete I really do yeah I believe
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that this is what Y is all about right
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here double header I don't know you said
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at first it wasn't big now my
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leader nice one good fish Pete like to
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do there we go oh you got a good in
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there get yours first good job dude nice
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work pey get him in Get Him in you got a
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tank there tone that's a good one oh
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yeah well done so what's the what's the
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deal man are you as nervous as I just
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going to ask you the same thing yeah
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super nervous no idea keeping you in the
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dark I know like the whole time so I
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think there's something planned for me
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um got
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expectations uh I've got a few ideas you
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know part of it is uh is it an
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opportunity to uh promote what I do for
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a living which is guiding always been a
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dream
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to be a fisherman for living uh this is
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something that you know I really love
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doing like the fishing um for me it's my
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life it's it's everything I do it for a
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living you know I hack I fish on my days
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off I'd love to be a a host on a fishing
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show you know are they looking to expand
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on their uh the current fishing Canada
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team but the whole drive here you know
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playing things out in my head well it's
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just nobody's saying anything nothing
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are they uh are they working on some
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type of new uh reality show if I could
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do anything for a
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living I'd love to be a a host a fishing
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show and I cry I tell you listen I hear
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you H what's going on Peete what's going
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on yeah John John is uh you know he's
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probably feeling uh very similar to the
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way I am a little anxiety a lot of
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excitement why do you think Paul is here
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maybe Paul and I are going to work
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together and segments of the show
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when you called me you know that one
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time I'm thinking is he you know is he
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in on this what's going on from what I
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hear he's an outstanding angler and
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guide and and he seems to be uh you know
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seems to be um you know a really genuine
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genuine person I don't even know who
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ball is I'm sure it's all for good
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reasons and uh I'll know soon enough how
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are you how are you Paulie good to see
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you brother we wanted to keep the
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suspense going just a little bit longer
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neither one of the boys had ever been to
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Pine po Studios before so we decided to
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give him the 5cent
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tour first stop edit Bay number one this
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is where all the fishing Canada magic
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happens next stop home of Outdoor
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Journal radio one of Canada's longest
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running weekly radio programs and
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finally our signature piece our little
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fish
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tank well boys here's the deal we've
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been keeping an eye on you for quite
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some time now and as you probably have
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figured out by now or you should have
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anyways we're pretty interested in
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adding a new body to the fishing Canada
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schedule next year but here's the
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problem neither one of you have
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convinced us that you would do a better
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or worse job than the other guy and by
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the way an and I aren't about to retire
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anytime soon so if you think you're
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going to take one of our jobs it ain't
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going to happen so by now boys you
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probably figured it out when I came up
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and shot with you this past season you
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were actually auditioning for a part for
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next year's fishing Canada show now Pete
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and I have gone over the footage a
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million times but now we want you guys
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to watch it with us can you uh pull down
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on the screen for John and take your
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coats off and stay well boys make
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yourselves at
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home there now good show Johnny good
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work
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mate whoa oh you got one oh
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yeah don't turn your back Pete we got
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them going here he's heavy too look at
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this it's a nice fish I didn't even know
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you had one off I should have the net on
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him I'm getting I'm getting it oops oh
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my God but nice
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fish Beauty look at the gut on him
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that's 5 lb plus fish there I
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guarantee oh
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that I love that that's a big old
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Smo there's a marina right over there if
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you want a water something
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like got a bit of pull to it you know
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what now you're right now he's starting
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to wake up a little little bit these
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things are feisty they're healthy
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they're gorgeous fish that is beautiful
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for
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sure and I'm going to take a step on the
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Lee Johnny yeah good
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call good one and that's from those
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rocks right obviously he's living in
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theic just hanging tight here all the
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time here you
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go you feeling them brother yeah it's
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got some good weight to it it's a wall I
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pull oh nice beautiful fish nice again
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very similar to the other one again
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nicely done boy he just gave up at the
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end though didn't he didn't he on a worm
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this time I'm looking at it in the water
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and I'm saying boy that's that's got to
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have some great visibility down there
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yeah it's bright for sure it's bright
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for
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sure very very stocky through the
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midsection for a while I aren't they
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gorgeous put him away buddy let him uh
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let him swim back there and tell his
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friends that we're in
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town you got one on again this thing's
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going way
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deep nice work buddy this is a good f I
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think this is the biggest one so far
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today but the way it feels now how does
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it feel for you to be on the that end of
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it for a chain it is am watching your
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guests do it love it talk to me buddy
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but I don't know this is a big fish I
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don't want to lose it I can't believe
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excited yeah I am excited and this is a
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serious still taking drag that's fine
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we're going after him the boat's moving
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unbelievable we'll get them take your
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time take your what do you tell your
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guests yeah enjoy it enjoy take your
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time no Panic he's going back that way
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he's going back up now back up under the
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shore I think you got him under turn
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around oh and she's a monster Bud oh
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nice bit beautiful
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fish there you go oh
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theze
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nice that is waly fishing at its best
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this is incredible this is absolutely
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mindboggling nice work Johny thank you
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beautiful
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that wasn't right unbelievable what a
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what a discovery right here in
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msca Pete and I are looking for some new
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Young Blood to bring on to the fishing
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candidate
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[Music]
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team can you uh pull down the stream for
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before the break we saw John blaner
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demonstrating why he should become the
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newest member of the fishing Canada team
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and from what we saw this guy's
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definitely got game but now is Paul
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starting to strut his stuff
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this is where we were getting pretty
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good on this path oh yeah oh yeah PA we
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go oh he he's going you down is
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he how D we just have so much line out
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like long lining sometimes it's hard to
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it's hard to tell it's so true eh yeah
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it might just be a little l i your horse
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in them in that's a good one nice fish
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he's a good fish we didn't you don't
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want to fight you don't want to handball
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him in
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anyway oh
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there you go that
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right yeah good good they are fat man
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that's they are fat little studs look at
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that look at that belly on that
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thing
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quality how a g pipe fishing in here
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it's okay not great they're small in
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yeah you know if you want gars there
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better areas yeah of Ontario right much
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better yeah I've heard a lot of a lot of
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them being caught River there's
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everything in this pretty much man the
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Niagara is Niagara is loaded with
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everything um we even are starting to
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get the odd Atlantic salmon show up now
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so it's pretty cool really you have a
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whole warm water fishery you know your
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bass and your Pike and your musk your
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Purge Etc and then you have this
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fantastic uh cold water fishery right
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and that's where we are right now we're
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right in the transition you know we're
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here in it's the middle of November the
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trout are really starting to move into
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the system so it's an exciting time of
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year that was a bulldog and a
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half
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nice all right work
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man so I got to change something
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here isn't that neat yeah real nice Open
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Water you can drift with
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them that's that is a brow TR that's
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awesome is
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cool what do we call that about 25
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pounder oh boy don't even going there
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hey come
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on oh just
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another
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ni that just jump yes that's
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awesome he spatter oh yeah he's a chunky
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too yeah yeah oh wow awesome how cool is
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that here we go buddy all right whoa who
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look at him coughing up eggs yeah you
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know when I see that I'm going to even
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though that's working I going try
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something different single a yeah I'm
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going to change it up and try something
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different going man pull the rod out of
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my hand you see that I set the hook in
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it I know it literally yanked the rod
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right out of my hand
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almost oh that's a nice oh that's a nice
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fish that's a nice fish wow look at the
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shoulders on that girl okay buddy bring
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them
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in you say that to her wrong way get
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over here I'm running a six lb leader on
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this thing most people Rush at this
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point oh abolutely you get so excited
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that you want to get in the boat oh what
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a there you go net job there you there
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go that is that is a pig and it's fat
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too look at that right there absolutely
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outstanding at the gorgeous fish look at
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the belly that is just one big chunky a
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brown throat you know no these Great
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Lakes Browns and Browns they uh they
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grow them big do us the a all right
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going
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big but you know really they get a lot
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bigger that probably you know releasing
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a fish like that is almost as satisfying
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as as catching I don't like fantastic
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you know I don't I like to see him all
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right I'm a Believer
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yeah so gentlemen who wants to go first
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keep in mind Pete and I have watch this
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stuff oh I'd say about a million times
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see guys we think you both have what it
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takes to do the job but there's only
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room for one boys let's cut to the chase
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there's probably thousands of people
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just like you out there right now
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watching this very episode who would
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give their right arm to land this job so
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what we decided to do was let the
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audience the people at home make that
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decision for us so who better to select
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fishing Canada's newest personality than
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you the fishing Canada viewer all you
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have to do is go to our website www.
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fishing canada.com and vote for either
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one of these two new super hot shot
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fishermen or better yet why don't you
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tell us who you think should be fishing
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Canada's next big thing don't sit back
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and let others decide for you it could
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be the opportunity of a lifetime for
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these guys for somebody you know or
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maybe even you go to fishing canada.com
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and vote for Canada's next big fishing
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Superstar vote for
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mey
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way today's hot spot is a section of the
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Niagara River on the Canadian side the
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way point on your screen will get you
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right there now this is a typical niaga
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River area where the fish will be moving
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in in and out on given days if the fish
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aren't here simply pick up and move down
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river searching is the key to finding
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fish try bouncing roll bags or minnows
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along the bottom on a three-way swivel
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rig remember to vary the length of your
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leader and dropper for my Walley portion
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of the show I fished a classic brake
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line near keden Island on mccoa Lake
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this Waypoint is extra special because
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not only is a great walleye area but
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it's also got a beauty little underwater
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camera that I now deem as expensive
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structure you guessed it we donated yet
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another piece of fishing Canada shooting
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gear to the fish Gods hey if you somehow
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help us retrieve the footage that's in
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the camera not only will we let you have
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the camera but we'll also send you and a
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fishing buddy on an all expense paid
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