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Walleye & Northern Pike: Ontario's One-Two Punch
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Apr 15, 2025
When you combine two fish species, one the color of money and the other the color of gold, you know you’ve hit the jackpot of a rich fishing resource. In this episode, we cover two iconic Canadian gamefish, the Pike and the Walleye. Whether your fishing takes place on one of the enormous Great Lakes or in the furthest reaches of the north, this double-species episode is sure to get you ready for your next fishing adventure. ► 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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[Music]
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the beauty of the walleye and the
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northern pike is under normal
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circumstances they reside in the same
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bodies of water
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hang on
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look at that man these fish are on fire
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over here
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oh and fight just mixed together it's
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crazy that may be the toughest bike i've
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ever caught folks
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[Music]
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dude that's a big big big fish like wow
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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question when is a walleye actually a
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pike
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answer when it's a pickerel
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hi everybody today i want to correct one
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of the most egregious mistakes in the
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canadian fishing world
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once and for all that is calling this
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critter a picture
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look at that beautiful walleye
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right there what a sweetheart
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this is not a pickle a pickerel is
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literally a pickle
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in the east ox family of predatory fish
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which looks almost exactly
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like a pipe not to be confused with a
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pike perch
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which is actually called a european
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xander which looks almost exactly like
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a sander vitreous or more commonly known
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as a walleye
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i know i'm confused too as with all
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episodes this season we'd like to once
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again remind you that everyone's health
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safety and well-being needs to come
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first only travel
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if and when it's safe to do so let's all
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make the effort to prevent the spread of
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this nasty
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horrible disease look at the size of him
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so getting back to business
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this fishing cannon episode is obviously
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about the nation's most popular fish
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the walleye
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look at that how nice is that
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but we're going to throw in the northern
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pike as a bonus gotcha i mean let's face
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it with northern in your name
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it gets no more canadian oh my god look
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at the size of that baby
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beauty of the walleye and the northern
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pike is under normal circumstances they
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reside in the same bodies of water
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wall and pike is mixed together it's
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crazy he's living amongst he's living in
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a nasty world
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down there when one's not biting the
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other can be a bonus
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there's a bonus nice one there we go
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that's a dory evening
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there's a bonus fish for us right there
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wow isn't that great eh that's gorgeous
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let's start out with the walleye his
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canadian distribution is mind-boggling
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we've caught them from bc and right
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through quebec including the territories
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we've even heard of one or two being
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caught out east they can survive in deep
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cold lakes as well as shallow fertile
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lakes and
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everything in between how cool is that
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they flourish in slow meandering rivers
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and survive equally as well in fast
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ripping white water
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they truly are an adaptive species
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walleye
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nice walleye walleye beautiful
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oh wall that's a big fish that's a big
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fish
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to come in here first fish we hit is
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that
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it's a beauty that's a beauty man
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i love it the walleye is by far the most
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desired species when it comes to the
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iconic
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canadian shore lunch its delicious white
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flaky meat almost
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melts in your mouth whatever it is if
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man could ever
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capture the essence of a walleye shore
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lounge
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and bottle it it would be uh it would be
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the most valuable commodity on the
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planet
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it's incredible it's so good
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ange and i along with our field
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production crew love doing walleye
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shoots and ontario fishing lodges
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because we're guaranteed some of the
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best outdoor meals of the entire season
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there's lots of them here we know
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there's hundreds of walleye here so it's
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a matter of getting the size you want
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walleye get out of here
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look at you jimmy boy that would eat
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good wouldn't it oh
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there's our short launcher right there
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we're going to eat them up yep not a boy
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good job that's perfect three is all we
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would need
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three of those would be perfect man nice
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and just got his lunch yeah i know what
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i mean
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got him yeah
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nice an eater an eater there's your
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eater buddy
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oh watch me drop him in the lake don't
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fall in the lake
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suffer that's a perfect eating size
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walleye right there folks
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more perfect just the right size to go
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into the box
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yes guy now he's still on
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there are three there'd be our three
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fish for eating right there buddy for
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sure
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oh yeah nice perfect size
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i could taste that already yummy
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bye-bye yes we have lunch
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good job buddy there will be food today
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there will be food of course
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eating fresh walleye is only a small
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part of this great fish's story
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it's the adventure of catching them in
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so many different destinations that
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keeps us coming back again and again
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[Music]
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this hot spot is an extending underwater
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rock point protruding out from witch's
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nose on buck lake
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there pete and i first
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investigated this spot on a nasty rainy
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day
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and found that it was loaded with
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northern pike in and around the 12 foot
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deep mark
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the following day we returned and tried
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a bit deeper and found 16 to 17 feet
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being the magic number for walleye
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by first graphing in quick draw contours
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with our portable echo map
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and then shading in the 16 to 18 foot
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contours with a specific
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color we could stay exactly in our
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walleye zone and not venture into pike
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infested waters
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for more hot spots like this one visit
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fishingcanada.com
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look at that man these fish are on fire
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over here
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either that or this fishing is just
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insanely good all the time here
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we'll get you back to more walleye in a
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bit however i really want to talk to you
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about our second feature in this
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episode the northern pike oh man that is
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gorgeous
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this voracious freshwater predator only
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takes a backseat to one fish
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it's cousin the musky to me that's only
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because muskies can grow bigger
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if it wasn't for that i'd put pike and
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musky at the exact same level on my
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tough guy fish list
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that is bunched up there
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hello he's just pulling me around the
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lake right now
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you know what that's a great bike yeah
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that may be the toughest pike i've ever
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caught folks the toughest
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man he gave me a tussle the northern
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pike's canadian distribution is even
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greater than his little buddy the
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walleye
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again they live from bc to quebec the
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yukon and through the territories
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and they even reach into parts of
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labrador you want to talk about an
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adaptable creature that can be found
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across the nation
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well the northern pike is that creature
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yeah yeah
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what do they call them the wolf the
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water wolf look at that thing
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one thing i've learned as an angler
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growing up in ontario is that if you
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want to cash in on a true giant of a
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pike
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your best chances will be to the north
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yeah i've got some big ones to the south
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wow like that's southern ontario folks
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southern ontario wicked
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but by traveling north for northern pike
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you definitely put the odds in your
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favor at hooking into
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a behemoth whoa that's that's a big
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gator
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that's got to be oh nice
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hey buddy how you making out yeah that's
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what i thought
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that's what i thought you'd say now this
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fish
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i'm thinking is hanging out here either
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feeding on the
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multitude of small pike that are feeding
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on
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the bait that's in those bushes or he's
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feeding on the walleye that are down
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here
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probably the walleye
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how sweet is that and this bad boy is
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out here
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feeding on those things that are jumping
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around behind me and the walleye they're
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in the channel as well
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let's see if we can revive him
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whoa whoa is all i got to say
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this whole channel is no more than maybe
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300 feet long
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that's it eight feet deep in the middle
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and mayhem going on over here
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incredible walleye schools in the deep
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hole
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and a marauding big northern chasing
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them all down and me
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and you that's it
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you got to love this game moving back to
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walleye you've got to love the fact that
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they're a schooling fish
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yeah the odd time you seem to catch a
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single fish here and there
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but if you carefully scan around with
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your electronics after catching what you
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think
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is a loner you may discover the mother
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lode
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oh yeah
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look at that beast oh yeah
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fish of the day i find the spot with the
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gps
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okay i use the split screen gps fish
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finder
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now that i know where i am i'm going to
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go back and forth i've really got to
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dial down i've got to dial
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into a 50 foot circle you know basically
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like that
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so i can take the gps off now i can just
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use the fish finder run my drifts
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and say here i come up from 15 to 12.
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looking for fish on the screen if you
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see them
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or bait and that's the results right
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there
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it is so predictable when you get onto
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it when you get under
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using your electronics look at that
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man these fish are on fire out here
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either that or this fishing is just
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insanely good all the time here
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man see you buddy
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oh
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this feels like a walleye and it feels
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like a good one
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yeah yeah this is better this is a nice
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walleye
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good fish real good fish
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that is pure algoma walleye right there
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and i'm talking about this fish sitting
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amongst
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50 to 200 walleye probably in the spot
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look at that wow i love you honey
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i'm gonna put you back
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[Music]
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oh look at that evening light the best
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time of the night for walleye or
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time of the day for walleye fishing
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that's the smartest pike in algoma right
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there
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[Music]
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often big pike don't want to play the
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way they're supposed to
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sometimes they get downright finicky you
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would think that these giants with rows
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upon rows of sharp teeth
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would slash and kill anything that moves
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that's not always the case
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even way up north
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that was a big boy oh my heart is
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pumping
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i've seen this fish three or four times
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he's a smart pucker that's the smartest
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pike in algoma
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right there where are you
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there's a small one there oh there it is
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i think yeah there it is
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[Music]
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she's gonna come right at it
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oh
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jeez
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[Music]
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it's definitely a big fish
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what a monster oh yeah that's a good
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fish
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my favorite part of pike fishing right
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there maybe the big swoosh
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outstanding what a
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monster i'll tell you what back
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in the boat i got her
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i've tried so many times for this fish
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look at the scars on that beast wow
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oddly enough we have two favorite
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destinations in ontario when searching
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for that
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giant walleye of a lifetime how sweet
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is that wow
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i say oddly because one spot is in the
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southern part of the province
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while the other is over two thousand
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kilometers away to the far reaches of
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the north
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my net is here and waiting does he feel
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inedible
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oh yeah oh
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i'm liking this i think so oh yeah
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oh ho ho we got
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got a fighter here kid he just kicked
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watch your motor
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come right around for if i go you're
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going around the boat edge
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that's a big boy that's what we're
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coming up the hawk like right there
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that's a hawk lake fish
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that's a hawk lake fish right there oh
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buddy that's a mule
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that's a big fish yeah yes dude that's a
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big
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big big fish like wow that's a great
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fish inch
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look at that fish
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wow that is cold on the hands this is
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not a
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fair weather sport folks i'll tell you
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that right now
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wow i'm pretty sure it's another nice
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fish dude
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pretty sure i like nice whoa whoa whoa
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pulling he's pulling now
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oh i just got a look at it yeah it's a
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good back on that one oh yeah
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oh yeah very nice yeah
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baby you got it i can't even see it's a
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good one yeah it's a nice one brother
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they're all nice here
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that's uh that's a big walleye i don't
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really want to predict the size of it
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but that's a big walleye
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and there's a lot bigger than that oh my
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god absolutely a bunch
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what a fantastic fishery you gotta come
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you do
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wow
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to get to today's awesome giant late
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fall walleye fishing steve and i first
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drove east on highway 401
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and then took road 49 south at
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marysville we next turn left
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onto bridge street at the three-way
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intersection in downtown picton
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from there it's a quick left to the
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parking lot at the picton harbor inn
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this inn is a gorgeous facility that
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very much caters to the walleye fishing
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fraternity
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with clean modern rooms a breakfast and
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lunch restaurant
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a large well-lit docking area for boats
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and charging stations at each slip
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you honestly can't ask for much more if
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you don't have a boat why not hire one
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of the local guides
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with daily trips from opening day to
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freeze up and boat to boat networking
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they're always on to fish
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hang on
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[Music]
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oh buddy oh geez that's a good fish man
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get the cradle for that one yeah he's
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bad since ange and i live in ontario a
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question we get all the time is
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just how far north in the province do
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you have to travel to tie into a big
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northern part holy moly in our
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experience
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you need to start in the algoma region
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of ontario and work north from there
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the further north you travel the more
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abundant trophy pike will be
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[Music]
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oh he's coming up whoa it's a nice big
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fish that's
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it i'm gonna turn the boat buddy there
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he is right there i can see him
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he's on the top like a long let's come
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up like a log
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wow that is weird
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okay now the fun begins you're going to
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bring that guy into me
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head first he swallowed the bait i can't
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believe it
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don't turn there you go no he's not in
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yet there he is
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he's gonna bait that big wow look at
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that belly
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that's so cool
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all right let's get him
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oh that sounded great ah
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little guy that sounded awesome don't
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what's a nice fish
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nice fish nice fish buddy
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hey but you said little guy thought no
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he's too good a sound too
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he's on that trailer too
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does he hump on his back whoa he's a
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dromedary
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that too why'd you have to take it on
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that side fish that is going to be ugly
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so he's only got the one prong in them
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yes well he had her hook
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real good whoa
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don't lose me give you enough chances
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hey that's got your hands melted bend it
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up and you're already into him
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what do you got bud big guy same as the
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last one
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you need help with him and he's hooked
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on the outside okay you get about that
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side every time mr biola
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that was awesome i got him
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you're going to do the job again on them
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but i can't do it
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[Music]
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there you go beauty look at look at this
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little tail of a wall
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yeah huge walleye tail in here
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you can't probably can't see him
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[Music]
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well there you have it folks two of
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ontario's most popular fish species
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and as a reminder if and when it's safe
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to travel to any region in this country
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please respect all local health and
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safety regulations
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we can and will get through this
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[Music]
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together
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this hot spot is directly in front of
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brace lake lodge the waypoint on your
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screen will get you right there
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trolling big wobbling plugs is your best
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bet here
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as you can cover a vast amount of water
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in a limited amount of time
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casting or drifting are secondary
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options but are overall less effective
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than trolling
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for more hot spots like this one check
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20:27
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20:31
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20:34
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20:37
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20:40
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20:42
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20:46
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