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Fraser River Monster Sturgeon Fishing | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 1, 2025
Angelo Viola hits the Fraser River in BC for one of his favourite species, the Sturgeon. He “hooks up” with STS guiding and “hooks into” loads of these giant prehistoric creatures. ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada 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/fishncanada... ► 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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[Applause]
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since the advent of the internet there
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have been numerous images of giant
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sturgeon circulated along with a story
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of how they were landed by your
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next-door neighbor Fred poor Jimmy that
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works down at the auto plant for your
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long-lost cousin from Thunder Bay along
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with his pals who say they landed this
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giant creature in a river or lake not
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far from where they lived well in most
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cases these are hoaxes are just a photo
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from a fish that they doctored up in
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Photoshop to make it look like they were
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part of the catch hit reality though
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these sturgeon do exist and they come
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from somewhere and that's somewhere more
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often than not is the Fraser River in
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British Columbia you see it's been an
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ongoing saga for us here at the fish and
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Tanner to show over the years we've
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spent numerous days with Vick Cairo in
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the SDS team searching the deepest
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darkest corners of the freezer in
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pursuit of that elusive 12-foot
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Leviathan whoa whoa look at that in the
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rot hole or buried
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[Laughter]
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okay okay
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oh my oh no man you're the beauty all
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right
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that is one powerful animal baby down oh
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he's all yours buddy you know this is
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very comparable we've actually done some
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trips down to Costa Rica the Pacific in
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that you know he catching big Marlin
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probably my personal favorite biggest
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fish you ever meet amar would say okay
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so you don't have to travel like two
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dollars just think that was a mile to
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the so to the tropics got a spring
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Canada and it is the best sturgeon
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fishing in the world holy yeah oh boy
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definitely bad whoa definitely bad
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oxygen holy I think I will drag me in
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the creek
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I was like yeah beauty Wow
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that way - this thing is incredible on
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past episodes you've seen this track up
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with some pretty big fish on the lower
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freezer as well as a few from the
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treacherous upper stretches near Hell's
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Gate although we've had great success
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and tons of fun reeling in these
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monsters we get to experience what only
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a select few have ever done make contact
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with one of the planets only true
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remaining monsters a freshwater fish
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that weighs nearly a thousand pounds if
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I have to do nothing more than just reel
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this thing to the boat without him
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fighting I think I tied up my challenge
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right there yes community our last trip
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here in the spring of the year had Mike
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along with ezio spritzy of coleman
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canada taking their shot at the big
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prize okay brother oh yeah oh yeah it's
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the bottom of the night
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[Laughter]
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hey he's here this thing Oh like one
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hello major
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yeah this is his hands like a coconut
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bikini
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that was crazy
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nice shot oh that was fantastic thank
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you that was our everyone said you gotta
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get into this book here and check it
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market it's cool stuff it a heart attack
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after that one
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Wow oh they had free I hopes of tangling
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with a giant but timing is everything
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and with conditions that were less than
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favorable the guys came up short which
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is why I'm back here today to try and
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finally put this one in the books and do
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battle with a 12 foot plus monster white
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sturgeon
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November is primetime on the Fraser
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Mick and his staff report more big fish
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in the river this time of year than any
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other how do they know they're there
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technology but this really helps you
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home you know determine where you're
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gonna drop these look on the left here
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there's a log laying right in there you
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know a sturgeon tends to luminate and
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look more like a teardrop like if you
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look on this side yeah you'll see now
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that one could or couldn't be I wouldn't
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be too excited about that one yeah but
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someone something more like like that
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would be more at probably more accurate
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there's a big log that's lead and that's
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laying on the river bottom sometimes you
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see the to the debris you're getting
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right here there you can see how this
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side over here and I'm clear yeah and
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then you look at this side from all the
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logging over the years well the log
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storage all the stuff sitting on the
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bottom is pretty this was Sergeant like
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well they'll sit right in in amongst
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this yeah like you'll have fish was it
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all sturgeon right there and the cool
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thing about this is you can now take a
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picture in this image and that'll go on
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an SD card and I can go back on my
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computer later and I think you see with
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today's advancements in sonar you simply
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scan the riverbed for something that
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might be a fish over ten feet long
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that's the easy part when you do find
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one well first you try and make it take
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the bait and then you just hold on where
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it haven't we're in surgeon heaven buddy
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you've taken me to a prom a clam look at
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that baby oh my god oh boy I want to
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take a bite of that myself well yeah a
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little bit this year so far I've heard
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of two fish over ten feet I've not heard
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of a fish over 11 feet last year I think
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out of all the angling guides and
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recreational anglers out on the river
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you know and maybe I've missed a few but
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I hear a lot of what goes on out here I
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heard about half a dozen fish over ten
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and we've got one 11-foot one one of our
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guides recently I was over day and fifth
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I believe and but there was a few other
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ones caught like that
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two days ago I heard of one ten foot
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four and that I've heard of one other
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one in that ten foot range in the last
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in the last month Wow you know it's
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funny when you set that hook you almost
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wish you don't seven adorab good oh nice
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oh thank you for coming out beautiful
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yeah he's got a nice beer thought and
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look at how healthy is little beautiful
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fish six oh man yeah he's gorgeous that
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beautiful condition I think bail your
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honor you know I'm a little worried
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about what's gonna happen I was gonna
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say yeah but I'll say when we get the
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fish were after well there you go the
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two biggest fish I've ever landed we're
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on days where it was slow fishing oh
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there we go left rod coming up here he
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comes right here behind the most
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[Music]
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maybe surprising yes coming straight at
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her I don't know a tail walk would be
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nice because then I could decide know
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what I'm feeling very definitely stay
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around the boat it's mixing hard to know
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what to do alright I don't know if
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you're just we know that the fact I know
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that's a big fish some of these fish
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this time of year are so fat yeah from
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all the feeding they've been yelling and
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this has been a great year I mean they
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had no 20 million Pink's in the rear and
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and now all these chump you know these
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fish are healthy and they've got a lot
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of food in so you don't catch a 6-foot
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fish that's a hundred and thirty hundred
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and fifty pounds so there's no slow know
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exactly you know two things you don't
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know you never know the size of the fish
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when you go to set the hook right you
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know the bite just doesn't tell you much
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in fact a lot of times the smallest
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bites are the biggest fish and and you
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know that issah patient of the tail walk
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again you you here he comes here he
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comes and it's a two-footer yeah and the
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next time you hear he comes here he
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comes
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yeah and it's an 8-footer yeah and well
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this has a light bite yeah I just like
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this you just it's the whole guessing
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game what is it you know well I know
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it's big how big you know this is the
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one we're looking for
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I don't think so buddy I don't think so
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if it is boy I will I will be shocked
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yeah I don't think because he's just not
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doing what he's supposed to do no on the
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other hand maybe it's a big fish and
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really doesn't need to get doesn't know
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what he's supposed to do almost almost
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Nick yeah don't take the help a good
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friend I think so you sure yep positive
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if it's a 3-footer you're gonna be
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embarrassed yeah you got it I got it
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this is how you tire fish out whoa easy
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now you want the belt I'm good right now
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I'm truly big fish this is a great idea
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for two reasons number one it doesn't
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burn you out but more importantly I mean
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this fish is really Jaffa a bit of a
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struggle and obviously it's to his best
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interest to get him in the boat as
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quickly as father to the boat quickly as
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possible or release them so there's no
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shame and pass them on there buddy
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I'm gonna come up there yes serious yeah
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nice swinging what's a big fatty yeah
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that's a beautiful he's not the fish
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we're looking for though no good boy is
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he top
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it's just so strong this time of year
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because they're so healthy yeah well
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hold that yeah
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or that stronger
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was that big you know the fire ha yeah
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along at 60
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thank you I was pretty tall but it's
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great that that's a good way to start
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the morning you're darn right yes they
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are good scrap right there I'm talking
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it these fish are fighting there this
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you know I've ever ever thought them to
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happen more here I think they are six
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footer yes
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although the mere thought of landing one
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of these beasts is enough to make us
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come back of a year there is something
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else it captures your heart and calls
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for your return
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it's the sheer beauty and magnificence
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of this part of the country wildlife and
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scenery that is so unique to this area
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along with the only opportunities for
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salmon bass trout and of course sturgeon
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make the Fraser Valley truly a
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world-class angling destination
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that thing is still fresh but it has a
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borderline you think you think we're at
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a girlie belt with the embarrassing what
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if your buddies saw you chasing us up
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five or six foot this is uh it's gonna
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be six and a half okay all right what
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would your buddies think of you're
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chasing just stick to that he can do
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that and you could do that all right
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he's coming back now here we have this
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very tough you know here we are
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seriously where he was trying to get
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something twice this size I'm sure
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you're about that I can't imagine a save
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your life in the BOJ you ready this is
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called a handoff the reason it's doing
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that is because it's good practice to
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get sweaty got the fish apparently right
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there yeah it's got that's to do with
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you right so now I just skinned in order
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to land the fish in less time that's
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right good off the hook do what he say
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this is a top dish sorry
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psychic them all here we don't happy
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that pal work that's how it's done right
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there I know one thing I am definitely
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not gonna be so hard on clients and we
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can't cuz it it's topless yeah we're
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definitely be a little kinder a little
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gentler Vic yeah man change guide well
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you know what happens if you don't
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I mean hey this is the first time I have
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thought of sturgeon in probably since
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little like not this last spring that
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was the thing before so don't forget
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yeah you know why set hook and I
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encourage people to reel them in what we
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do a lot of times our guests even set
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the hooks know that look like jaws are
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you crazy
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the 5-footer that is no 5-footer you're
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out of your mind that's not a five-foot
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fish did you see the head on that no
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you're not you're being smart
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no they're usually like I'll never
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understand they're not a nice big jump
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they're always bigger than what you
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think that's not a fighter fish I will
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gear I will stake my reputation on that
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that's a six-foot fish and maybe a
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little better satisfied
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I'm telling you what do I know and how
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we good I just know seven days a week
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200 days a year although I do wish that
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you were right because we really want
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and really want to do that badly right
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what we want that fish sense you know I
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think we have to change the model of
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this show what's that
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you know and I think we need to go to
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you know through the fishing regardless
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of the size of that is great it's pretty
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amazing
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yeah it is you know we are gonna get the
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big one
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thank you fish now we're gonna move
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we're gonna focus them in yes we are
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bringing a myth yes that's a nice fish
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that's a nice - oh shut up do it you
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shut up will you shut up
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look at the tail autumn five foot
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for now buddy if you can just have been
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like a foot wider yeah we would have
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called it ours we called it a day yeah
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might be hard to imagine but even after
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a great trip like that and doing battle
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with some pretty incredible fish I still
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have this empty feeling in my gut and I
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don't think it'll truly be satisfied
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until the day comes at that picture
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that's being circulated on the world
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wide web is of me and my 12-foot
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Leviathan
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from the river that runs through Mission
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BC but I know you'd stay here all night
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and I would do but yeah we're at we are
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shooting this thing so I'm gonna have to
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be the bearer of bad news let's pull the
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plug
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yeah it was a great time yeah a
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wonderful time but you don't want it at
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very worse it gives me an excuse to come
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back yeah okay sure answer and I know
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that he's still out there somewhere
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yeah and hey we'll try them again next
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year you betcha all right bring them in
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all right
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