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Urban Carp Fishing In Peterborough, Ontario | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
This Fish’n Canada episode has Pete Bowman visiting the Otonabee River in downtown Peterborough, where he and local carp guide Will Muschett strategically feed a specific, "easy to access" area and then proceed to catch fish after fish after fish. This is urban fishing at its finest! 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, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Season31 #FishingCanada #Carp #Fishing
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this this whole must have like 50 to 100
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fish in right now probably more yes guys
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it's infested we've got a carpet
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infestation there's no way that you
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could not like this this is a blast
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come on come on
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Wow well the toughest fish can do battle
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it's right here
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carp resist an incredible sport
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[Music]
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today's fishing Canada Adventure is all
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about easy access to some of the biggest
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baddest hard fighting fish in the nation
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for this episode I'll have my feet
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firmly planted on the bank of the
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Otonabee River right inside the
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beautiful quaint city of Peterborough
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Ontario it's the largest city on the
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Trent Severn waterway and the regional
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center for the for the lakes cottage
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country it also boasts the world's
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highest hydraulic lift lock believe it
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or not we're setting up pretty much in
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downtown Peterborough just a few feet
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away from a boat ramp sloping into the
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Otonabee River and although this river
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is known for bass walleye and muskie
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we're gonna bypass those more
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traditional species and try our hand at
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carp yep you heard it right I got the
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bucket of feed with us I'm gonna get to
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certain couple of spots that will wants
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to sort of concentrate the fish on we
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got two rods will work one rod one place
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one rod the other place I can feed from
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here they can go back put it on the
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trailer and the rest of the day we can
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be fishing off the shore so it's pretty
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cool so others I think my electric
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loader and I'm gonna wait for his
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command and demand and I'm gonna start
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chunking up some food this is probably
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pretty good right here I'll start from
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here and see what he says okay William
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what are you thinking buddy
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digging deep with my scooper probably
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the single most important step you can
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take to be successful in carp fishing is
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baiting which is another word for
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chumming ideally you toss bait around
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the area you plan to fish days before
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you actually grab your rod and then top
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it up the morning up if you do it right
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you'll have carp waiting for you when
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you show up not only does this draw fish
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and hold them in the area it can also
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get them accustomed to the baits you
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plan to fish which in our case is corn
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okay well I got this spot done up pretty
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good oh you want me to go downriver a
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little bit ten-four
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that looks good right there feet big
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bombs going in there
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bombs our food Wow okay buddy on my way
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back so today for my team vacation we'll
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be using the Nash siren s5r bite alarm
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system imagine this being our fishing
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line when a fish takes it we're gonna
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know all about it
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because those things are gonna scream
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off
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[Music]
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is it easy that's crazy
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he fight a beat I'll fight a bunny you
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set up that's so cool he's still there
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no he swam to me holy cow he swam at me
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haha that's alright
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you come 100 mile an hour toward me just
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a nice little fish there Pete good
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looking Kirk little guy that's the start
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of the day right there and we'll once he
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got me one huh big buddy I want to get
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you one over 25 man up boy watch this
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thing take off that's not fat this one
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look at the size of that thing
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that's a good fish yes guy right on
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that's the way to start that's a good
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start okay buddy
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we already got one rod setup so far it's
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monsters absolute and launch this
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Otonabee River Monsters
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we just got a note there you know what
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this rod feels pretty good well yeah
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yeah it's light for carp but you know
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what it makes it more fun too easy here
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oh yeah these things are so strong
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carp is just an incredible an incredible
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sport fish they really are oh that's a
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beautiful fish that's got a nice really
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nice profile to it wait till you see it
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something like myself yeah she got a
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really nice profile they're really nice
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broke his back nice hump on the head
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this is a good muscular fish nice River
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carp that's fish my arm my arm is just
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burning right now and that's about it
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see 15 14 15 yeah yeah I said you know
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there's not even a 20-pounder to play
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like that that's that's quality fishing
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right there beauty here we go see ya
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dude what the heck
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that was a big hit let him work the drag
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run run run as fast as you can
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oh yeah he's a good fish oh it's a good
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one it Matt oh come on come on oh and
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they're strong beasts okay buddy he's
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ready there she is
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that's the end of that fight right there
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very nice this is about a 16 17 pound
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carp this is about the average here in
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Peterborough the core with us and they
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do get significantly bigger twice the
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size even sometimes three times the size
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of this fish here look at this tails all
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beat up there's a red spot on the bottom
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a little blood like that is but that's
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that's a long time ago right so it
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likely could have been a crane at a
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younger age or it could have been a
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muskie yep yeah anything we like to call
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these guys the old Warriors put them
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back well let's see old scar tail take
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off nice he does okay with that tail
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beat up like that oh he fought pretty
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good with that broken tail I'll tell you
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did you know and this may sound a little
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weird that you can actually experience a
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very successful day on the water
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great in the middle of town today's show
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features the beautiful little city of
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Peterborough nestled on the shores of
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the Otonabee River all over southern
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Ontario there are cities and towns and
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communities both Riverside and lakeside
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that have kilometers of shoreline creeks
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rivers numerous ports piers parks and
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trails all potential hotspots for
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current to a little exploring talk to
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the locals find out where they are and
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then go for it
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even the major cities have their hunting
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laws Toronto's got the islands
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Hamilton's got its West Harbor Niagara
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has its famous Gorge and whirlpool and
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the list goes on the point is you don't
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have to plan an expensive flyaway trip
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to have exciting fishing it's at your
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doorstep just another reason to go
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fishing Ontario today
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[Music]
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every good carp angler has their own
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recipe for baiting their swims as
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they're referred to it's usually a
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simple concoction of cracked corn sweet
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corn millet and so forth got my boy
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doing all the work I like this and I
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know how it feels but my goal today is
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to show you guys that carping from shore
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can be just as effective as carpet from
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a boat oh it's more effective probably
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right you got it it's a stationary type
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of fishing right that's right
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you have to be stationary you have to
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have these rods sitting like this where
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the carp come to the food versus musky
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bass walleye where you're basically
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going to the fish you're trying to cast
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cast casts and find the fish you want
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the fish to find us here that's the
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difference so come on you got him
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this place is loaded always a good fight
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lovely little cart man later buddy
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one of the most exciting thing about
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this carp stuff is the beepers going off
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when you hear that it's just like whoa
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everybody just tunes right up you're all
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talking and doing whatever you run to
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that Rotter you're just ready to go it
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just gives you a great feeling it's like
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here we go it's on got Eve nice fat
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chunky fish rubber fish are so strong we
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fish them in the st. Lawrence we've
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pissed him here we've fished a lot of
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rivers and it's like a smallmouth bass
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they have that current to work with and
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when they when they live in the current
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their whole lives they just build the
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strength that you wouldn't believe this
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this whole must have like 50 to 100 fish
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in right now probably more Wow bested
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we've got a carpet infestation it's
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virtually laden with carp what is that
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right there folks that it's white carp
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can fight so well that I mean there's
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all kinds of muscle in here but that big
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pad like that loose one pose for that
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tail see you later
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you get there's no way that you could
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not like this I don't care if you're the
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most anti carp person in the world when
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you come out and do this put it in your
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head that it's a sport fish there's no
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way you can't enjoy this this is a blast
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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as the monsters absolutely stirs
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Otonabee River Monsters look at that pig
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of a fish 99 no a hundred percent of
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Canadian bass fishing will never catch a
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mess as big as this fish let's see if
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this thing waddles out of here and
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wallows like a pig
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they can look em up rubbing her belly on
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the bondable oh she took off they just
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went quick there nice one thanks buddy
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that's awesome
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student fisherman's awesome
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[Music]
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he's didn't rip it Wow well the toughest
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fish can do battle right here studies
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have shown that carp can discriminate
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between salty bitter and sweet in the
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know anglers fool their quarry by
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creating bait concoctions that focus on
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carps well developed senses of smell and
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taste so what I'm doing here guys is I'm
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actually using what is known as a
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catapult looks like a big slingshot got
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a giant Cup on it and what I'm doing is
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I'm taking some of this deer feeder
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stuff you can pick up your basic TSC
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store and it's got a high salt content
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which is good because they'll change the
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pH in the water carp are really
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attracted by those slight changes in pH
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and balance but these deer licks are
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great because it takes quite a while for
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them to break down in a water column
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which means that it's going to keep
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those fish in the area for a lot longer
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and they're going to want to stick
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around to see what all the excitement's
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about and there's a good chance you'll
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have a deers wemoba for it yeah you
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might get a deer - holy cow he's just
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ripping Wow whoo working the forearm oh
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yeah you can work your floor I'm the
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death of this up back right there folks
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that's the carpet floor you got one arm
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like Popeye and the other leg olive oil
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Oh is that yours no that's you that's
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that's a fish dad is a big carp yeah get
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a peek yeah yeah yeah double letter
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peanut broker forgoing mine
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[Music]
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gotta bring them in a little bit closer
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come on girl come on oh yeah as they
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jump back there buddy oh yeah good fish
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good fish very good fish that's a that's
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a great card look at that thing let's
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get the second you're gonna add your no
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way you're gonna get the whole that man
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up oh I'll try it's awesome just one
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powerful beast of a fish we've got a lot
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we've got a lot of weight in that net
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right now holy moly
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there's definitely over 40 pounds worth
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of fish in this net right now folks
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yeah easy mama peterborough Karpin on
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the ton a big river this is amazing by
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the way Will's got my fish he stole my
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fish and that big ones mine really look
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at him
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give me a kiss I ain't kissing that dude
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you okay pal
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go ahead bottom how about a double
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release double release your mama one
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down go on big girl
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he's good take your sweet time there
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lovey there you go wow that's awesome
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buddy yeah double double true
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today's hot spot is an easy-to-access
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deep hole in the Otonabee River in
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Peterborough Ontario the wave on your
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screen will get you there carp will be
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feeding in the shallows on both sides of
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the river during the morning and
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evenings and then move into this hole
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during the midday period for the best
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success
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we recommend pre feeding this area with
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carp groundbait in order to get lots of
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fish grouped up for your hook bait try
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extra large corn or maize kernels like
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will and I were using or you can try the
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trusty peaches-and-cream canned corn on
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a hair rig there is a slight current on
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the river so a flat weight of 1 ounce or
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more is recommended to keep your bait
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stationary there are some snags here so
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bring extra rigs more hot spots like
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this one check out fishing Canada calm
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[Music]
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we got now this is how urban we are this
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is how in the city we are I should say
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is that we got a water truck filling up
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right behind us he's dropped his uh his
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pumping rate at the boat launch right
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behind us and he just stops here but
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five six times a day whatever you water
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we have no idea okay everything is going
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on around here I mean there's that's the
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115 bridge the highway 115 which is a
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major highway around here what else well
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what do we got oh where are we in the
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city right now what do we got around us
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well we're currently in the south end of
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Peterborough and I mean it's just
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literally a five minute ride up that way
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in the boat and you'd be lock 19 yep and
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that would bring you right literally to
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the heart of Peterborough Lansdowne
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Street yep where's downtown Peterborough
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from here how far oh five minute drive
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Wow
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so this is so so City fishing is totally
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and Peterborough is a great little city
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too it's it's a it's a really outdoorsy
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city that people really love their
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fishing hunting is real close to here so
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whoa you see the tail in that fish but
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whoa that's a good looking fish beat on
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the ugly rig on the big ugly it's a good
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size fish in that I took good-looking
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fish people
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whoa man these things one of the
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toughest fish I've ever caught it's a
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carp
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aye aye sir I mean ang and I have caught
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a lot of species it's one of the
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toughest fish to do battle with right
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here is a common carp he's got a big
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tail on them I love the look at that big
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big back on him too
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nice fish oh yeah this is better I'm
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gonna walk him back well there we go
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he's in Oh
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perfect timing shutter down awesome
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buddy okay we got some quietness no
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let's uh I'll get this wet this is a
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good fish that's that's doing justice by
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getting load on the map look at that
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this Kirk was the easiest access I think
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about any big giant fish never cut my
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life awesome but an awesome city fish
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what a beast back you go mama there's no
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more City than this and there's a little
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bigger fish I'll probably catch this
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whole year than that one right there
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really had a great fishery buddy thanks
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so much thank you so much that was fun
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what a great day that's whoo city
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fishing i define we go three minutes
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down the road and get some food down the
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stigma of carp fishing being a
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lackluster affair is being quickly
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replaced by refined gadgetry and a keen
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awareness to the sporting qualities of
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these big fish which not too long ago
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many considered invasive pests in North
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America but a revolution is taking place
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here as more and more anglers discover
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how challenging big carp compete this
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you buddy you've got a fantastic fishery
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here doesn't mean you catch a fish after
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fish after fish and it's not a fly-in
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it's not even a drive - it's an either a
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taxi - or a watch or a bus you got a
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budgetary here perfect
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to get the today's non-stop carp fishing
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I first took highway 401 to County Road
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28 at the town of Port Hope I traveled
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north the County Road to a Bailey
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borough and turned east I next turned
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south on serpent mound road and then
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east on shanty Shore Road I finally
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turned south on bowling boat to my
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accommodations at anglers retreat on
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Rice Lake from there was easy access to
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either the mouth of the Otonabee River
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via the boat or a quick drive to the
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upper river in Peterborough via the ramp
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[Applause]
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today's klv is L for location now
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although I'm fishing Peterborough
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Ontario
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there are numerous cities across Canada
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that have access to some great fishing
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Toronto for large hook and pike Winnipeg
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for walleye and catfish Montreal for
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smallmouth and muskie Fredericton for
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stripers and smallies Vancouver for coho
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and Chinook and the list goes on so the
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next time you're thinking you have to
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travel thousands of kilometers to get to
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that ultimate fishing destination think
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again it may be waiting for you smack
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dab in the middle of a nearby city the
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