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Fishing Northern Ontario For Speckled Trout, Walleye and Pike | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete Bowman flies into a half frozen Esnagami Lake in Northern Ontario where fishing conditions are questionable. He decides to first river fish for Speckled Trout, then hit open-water shorelines for Walleye and finally hit “warmer” water bays for Northern Pike. Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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this patch behind me right now is where
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we came through earlier and now we can
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get back to I've never had this cool
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never done a high feeder script I've
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never done what I had to get home hosted
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every Coco is like we fish right here
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that's a good fish close like oh my god
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that's the bonus of the year for me
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right there
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on today's fishing Canada show I face it
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the unique situation hello it looks more
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mommy oh it's not in fact it's so cold
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at the lake and still losing its sight
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now this walleye pike and stuck up out
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there but due to these conditions I have
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no idea where to start
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essentially I'm going to get on a plane
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fly in assess the situation and go from
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there it's going to be interesting
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at a certain point in the far north of
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Ontario you just run out of rows and
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that's my situation this week I'll
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remember where there's a will there's a
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way and when the pavement stops in the
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north a flow plane becomes the vehicle
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of choice today I'll be playing as the
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game Eli's remote spots and very few
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people ever get the opportunity to see
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let alone fish from the reports I've
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heard the ice is breaking up and has
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started to recede this could be perfect
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timing upon arrival I had a half a day
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to kill so I thought I'd go out and
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scout the lake and the conditions this
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time of year and this far north things
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can be pretty unpredictable both with
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the fishing and the weather my hosted
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Esna Gami Lodge told me to expect the
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unexpected trust me I won't leave them
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there my first esna gummy fish and it is
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a little oh my god it's a white fish as
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a bonus fish it wasn't coming up for him
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but a great little fish ok a white fish
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it's only a white fish in the boat and
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44 degree water temps the unexpected has
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definitely started to kick in
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right now
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whoa
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break infectious technologies the spring
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ice breakup is a funny thing from the
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shores you usually just see a break
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apart pull back and eventually disappear
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but out on the water it's a whole
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different ballgame huge patches of ice
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can travel around pushed by wind and
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currents and show up where you least
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expect them
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ok while early season fishing can
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attract lively and hungry fish it can
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also attract problem now you can tell
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obviously today there's lots of ice
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spill on the lake and then you know
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what's breaking up it's good it's good
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for fishing a pike get in the mold the
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cheddar cheddar the problem is this
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patch behind me right now anywhere we
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came through earlier and now we can't
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get back to now you think you can plow
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it maybe with your boats but the problem
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is these cedar strip boats cannot take
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that ice it's believe it or not looks
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like skim ice is floating but we've seen
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chunks today is that thing and just blow
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these boats apart there's a guy over on
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an island right here that the boys from
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the lodge came and just had to rescue so
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he punched his boat probably puts the
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hole through it or rip it apart or
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something like that they've come to get
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him what's probably going to happen is
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we're going to have to wait for those
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guys to get tacky back and they're going
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to come back and get us and taxi us back
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so I've never had this before pretty
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well
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let's bomb excited
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Wow hello Terry
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good work boys I've done this before
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other boats I've never done it that
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leadership I've never been when I had to
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get home it blocked in like this so
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never knew you'd be ice breaker today I
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guess my Byford at this point there's
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nothing to do but head back to the lodge
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I'll wait and see what tomorrow brings
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with the ice on the lake still causing
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problems and decided to go out for
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speckled trout it gives the walleye and
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pike water another day to warm up I'll
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be joined by Eric lund who runs the
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lodge he knows this stretch of the FMO
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Gami river better than anyone in late
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spring it's wrote the summer anglers
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we've got more croak walleye and pike
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here than they can count it's also an
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incredible early season Pro fishery
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with plenty of cold water brookey's to
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go after when the walleye and northern
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need a bit more time to get in the bite
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mode we just got here
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I dropped that watching my jig to see
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how it was bringing in headfirst like
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this er yeah sure just things like that
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look at that ladies and gentlemen I show
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that to the camera here like that first
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a beautiful brother another one close to
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the boat I was sitting there watching
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get my jig all worked up seeing okay
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before we cast let's get ready here
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first of all first stop s in egami River
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right yeah I didn't gommi River and I'm
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just dropping down there boom I hit a
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trope and he got off and then that's
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just tired good riff finishes drift cast
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way out there finish it up here and
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might be the same fish there I was look
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at that what a gorgeous
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Logan fish that is awesome here you go
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Eric and I were talking earlier both
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these trout like a brown trout and
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speckled trout in a creek they're a very
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aggressive fish they're not they're not
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always the finesse can pound test line
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or the fly-fishing on these fish are
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predators in these river systems so and
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they will smash a lot right there yep
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they got the piece and they'll grab
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whatever they can all the speckled trout
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numbers swim thick in this river you
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still need to coax them especially in
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frigid water
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now there talk about no finesse Oh
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beautiful fast
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it's the braided braided line with a
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spoon it's no wonder that's my dad's
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favorite fish used to fish the Nipigon
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River for those things gorgeous fish man
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this river is stacked of the thing today
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we're using small jigs spinners and
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spoons in both subtle colors as well as
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very bright catsup scream are usually
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best followed by slowly pulling your
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bait into and through current brakes and
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seeing us is that not incredible it is
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Wow
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no those spots only little blue look at
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the Blues on them they're just we're
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gonna prettiest fish going this one
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wants to get going hi it's the most fun
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I've got vision of the log I like
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hanging on the tinsel now look at that
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look at yeah look at a different say
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sometimes they're all looking a
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different different look to a lot of
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them so nice I wish you would have kept
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count now and how many fish we got today
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we got to be well over two dozen now
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wait one ah they definitely have a big
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meal in mind you look at the size of
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that brookie and that's that bait yep
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yeah that's right he's not a big brookie
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at all
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mr. t is a healthy population of 16
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construct cookies today unreal and this
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is I mean we're talking a cold front for
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sure clip in here right yeah the
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temperature is gone now it was nice and
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we could go and drop right down again I
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still up in the lake beam in this water
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look at that amazing color folks how is
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that for God's creation it's like we
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fish right here oh there you go that's a
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good fish whoa nice oh my gosh that's
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the bonus of the year for me right there
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we're back on is the gamy lake the
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temperatures are starting to rise and it
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looks like the walleye are starting to
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bite fan fire right there no this is a
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decent fish as well you have a slot
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limit for eats or not up here no we just
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you can have one in your limit of Thea
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rater limit of four you can have one
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over 18 and then three under and your
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take home and then the conservation is 1
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and 1 but since I've owned the lodge
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it's you know it's over 20 years now
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we've released all wall-like 24 inches
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or longer that as well as northerns that
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are 30 inches are longer and you know
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those are the big females and spawners
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and that way we've been able to keep our
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fishery very healthy yep and these are
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the kinds guests like to take a few fish
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home that's not a problem
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yeah that's great keeps the lake forever
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kills the fishery oh nice one then why
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lie there you're putting that on the net
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sure that's because it's your first big
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one okay good they go exactly real nice
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yes Emily do you want to get us off you
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want me again look this how do you think
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about sure whatever
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oh let you save my gun oh come on you
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got to be kidding me so far so good you
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are yeah keep in the middle one thing
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about fishing in the north like that
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right there
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pop the motor out sweetie we're getting
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closer to shore bump the motor out I
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made a cast out but I my jig was
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basically right on the boat I just left
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it there under a you know a motor
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working here and it doesn't seem to
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scare the husband oh well this is a
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really nice very nice surface as walleye
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right there but yeah the motor doesn't
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seem to spoken too much even you
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confront the trout stuff now motors
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there and they're right beside the boat
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did you know that early spring can offer
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up some of the best pike fishing in
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Ontario renowned writer hunter angler
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and outdoorsman Ernest Hemingway once
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told his son you make your own luck on
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fishing Canada we use this philosophy a
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lot and it's definitely true in the
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early spring when Isis just melted on
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Ontario Lakes looking for some luck
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catching monster northern pike you can
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easily make your own by heading to the
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shallows of these frigid waters
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particularly where streams and rivers
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enter the lake creating nutrient-rich
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habitats
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it's the perfect spot for both eating
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and spawning as an added bonus the
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moving water from these inflows also
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attract walleye perch and a host of
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other sport fish a good fisherman knows
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that the fish won't come to you but with
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a better understanding of Ontario spring
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fishing conditions you'll know exactly
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where to go to them it's all a matter of
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getting luck on your side just another
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reason to go fishing Ontario today
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fella doubleheader all right couples are
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good call the teeth of a walleye they're
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raking across it up starter model there
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goes better decent I'm going to put that
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bad this web address is it pulling yeah
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that's nice one nice strong fish yeah
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it's all just a stay down deep strong
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fish not giant but definitely likes to
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pull some line awesome gorgeous fish -
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yeah and beautiful and they always look
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ol nicer when to sunshine oh man
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that golden color on them look at that
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middle she's still hanging tire you were
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wondering how good I was
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yeah there you go that if you're going
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to get one more fish out and I get that
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right there
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perfect nice and chunky yeah
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good-looking fish we can we're just
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basically not far from the lodge and
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we're just going out for a little foray
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to see what we can do okay so yeah is
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this simply a spawning population in
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here right now yeah
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oh all you bugger up lunch against
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Garrett yes big drift right on that now
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you can pick it up half decent one I
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guess sir yeah nice
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oh you're you got some ma you got some
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reaction-time beat yeah like that
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that's good fish yes and I want to hear
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that word all got him I got her yeah
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okay see a nice isn't the gambia Wally
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that by the way is fish number three in
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that same in on my friend hmm
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do that Lake is obviously loaded with
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them I went out for a little afternoon
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fish and popping these guys directly
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below the boat that fish was we're in
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about seven feet of water right here yep
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shallow warmer water this body is just
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cold
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beautiful nice fish B thank you oh that
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minnows done three fish that size on
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that middle there you go good the last
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half of it will look horrible oh there
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you go that's a good fish whoa nice oh
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my gosh that's the bonus of the year for
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you okay I'm feeling a lot better now
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with the walleye biting and the ice
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nowhere in sight it's time to push it on
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for some Pike
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I just know they'll be on the move this
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time of year and hungry
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did he ever rail that fast Allan oh yeah
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chunky little fish I got him
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I thought for sure I lost that fish he
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hit it hard and then swam to the boat
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100 mile an hour here we go it's very
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neat come into this Bay looking around
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Arizona very early season base we
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started earlier over the walleye it was
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47 degrees the other day was 44 degrees
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47 degrees right across the lakes 50 50
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point seven here a little bit this
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beijos a fish
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not as you go there you go come right up
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and grab oh nice going hey that was
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awesome buddy that is a nice fish
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they're a little long skinny maybe not
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skinny maybe fat to Morris actually a
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big fish she's a nice fish I guess I
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kind of exploded the bottom yeah too
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literally
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oh yeah it was great good job as a guide
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for you honest I saw the side of her out
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there and if you want that cradle oh
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yeah I'll get the cradle in the sack
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here just and you know the thing that's
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important is you cast it far enough in
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front of her where you weren't yeah
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gonna spook her yeah I'm going to try
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and bring her on the other side if
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she'll come around
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okay sure whoa there we go oh yeah I got
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her nice there yeah Josh Peters in her
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rig there yeah and I think that perfect
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now used to be done okay here we are
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elevate it put a little grip on her oh
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that's a beautiful fish not bad okay
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that's we're back
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yes one offspring plague vision right
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there oh oh that's fish you great cast
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to it yeah see what happened there would
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it go by he saw the fish I asked them
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where the head goes with a head was
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facing he told me so you capture that
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side of the fish we lost it in the in
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the waves or the shadow would stop them
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has been all over 70 levels saw that big
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hit they've not bloated good eyeballs
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running really nice
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today's hot spot is a pre-spawn stage
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area for northern pike in front of jack
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fish bay the waypoint on your screen
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will get you right there big fish will
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lay dormant in this area waiting for the
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exact moment the mother nature deems
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perfect for the trek into the shallows
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by slowly running a number 3 inline
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spinner over these lethargic yet hungry
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beasts an angler has a good chance of
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connecting with the fish of a lifetime
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40 plus inch pike are quite common in
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this area of the lake for more hotspots
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like this one check out fish and canada
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calm
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after catching a decent pike in the bay
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and spotting a bunch of smaller fish we
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decided to check out the slightly deeper
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water at the mouth this time of year
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pike travel back and forth between
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different temperatures of water eric
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said that traditionally the mode of this
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Bay is a pretty good pre spawn staging
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area oh oh but oh gee that's a good fish
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get the cradle for that yeah hide not
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real long like he's not a no but it's a
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lot better a fat fish want to get him
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out
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Oh big letter to me need fish oh really
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nice daughter hang on here oh wow
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like that folks Wow holy moly what a
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beat already hold her up it's a nice
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pikes come on her Wow Wow that's bonus
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fish that's a bonus big buddy come up
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here a special present look at this oh I
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gotta put her back what a massive beast
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bye-bye oh oh look a be easy man nice
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job he's the man radar goes there's a
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transition on the way and we're gonna be
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way back in there on the drop or this
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fishing transition coming in boom buddy
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that's a big fish I don't have to
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mention that little 40 Oh heavy
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Oh girth perfect yeah so that's the
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bonus of the year for me right there go
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to speckle trout fishing and I catch a
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giant Gator like that lava
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to get the today's fantastic fishing
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location on esna gammy lake
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I took highway 400 north to highway 11 I
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then had a Northwest to Highway 584 at
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Geraldton from there I drove north to
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the town of Makena and finally took
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courting Lee Lake Road to the Nagina Air
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seaplane base from there I flew as
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