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Back Lake Trophy Smallmouth | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
On this episode, Ang & Pete travel to Ontario’s Marten River Lodge, an establishment that has been around for 90 years! Lodge owner Ray Sapiano has the boys fishing smallmouth bass on the extensive Marten River System, as well as cruising ATV’s to experience the supreme back-lake habitat...talk about an all-in-one trip! 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 #BassFishing #Season31 #FishingCanada #Fishing
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small mouth hitting this thing that's
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crazy
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there's fish man or you can go to
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another one underneath them there's
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three more underneath that no way yeah
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get your bait down that's why we fish
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right there the fish in Canada show
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brought to you in part by Coleman the
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outdoor company Cooper Tires Princecraft
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Beau's dominate the waters and Garmin
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today's fishing Canada adventure takes
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place on Ontario's famous Martin River
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considered to be the Gateway to Temagami
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and right there just the kilometre away
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from old highway 11 since Martin River
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Lodge celebrating its 90th anniversary
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the history of fishing at Martin river
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goes back a long long ways
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Martin remember of course is well known
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for for walleye but we have all species
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of fishery pike bass a smallmouth bass
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jumbo perch rare blue walleye of lake
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trout catfish whitefish so there's
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there's quite an extensive variety of
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fish for our guests more than that we
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have some 15 different lakes that we
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that we have access to Lodge owner race
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a piano promises us unmatched smallmouth
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bass fishing in both the 24 kilometres
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of the Martin River system as well as
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the almost never finished back Lakes
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accessed only by ATV this is gonna be
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fun our Smalley adventure will start on
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the Martin River portion so that Pete
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and I can get some kind of indication of
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just what the fish are up to by having
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our Princecraft loaded with all the
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goodies it gives us every advantage
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possible something that can really come
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in handy on water we've never fished
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here you bring him in I'll put the heat
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there for you way back here the shallow
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Back Bay unbelievable this is definitely
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been eating a lot
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yeah he's stuffed right up and if you
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look at this terrain I mean let's be
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perfectly honest with ourselves here we
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we wouldn't have come back here for
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smallmouth and that's what we've got
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yeah it would have been more of a pike
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thing and those largemouth here you
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would have come back it's a little wee
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pocket of water way off the beaten path
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in fact just getting in here was was
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pretty iffy with sure yeah the boat but
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smallmouth
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with such a vast amount of water to fish
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as in the martin river system you would
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think that smallmouth bass would be
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everywhere but it never seems to be that
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way
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no matter how great the reputation of
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the water with that said one single cast
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romance told us the underlying story
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the fish were hunkered down and eating
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tiny minnows in an isolated 10-foot by
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10-foot cabbage weed patch just off the
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main read line side - oh yeah yes baby
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nobody with are they perfect I might as
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well net him up oh yeah I just hit the
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water ain't boof nice beautiful good
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stand to put on a bit of weight though
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yeah oh yeah see that good fish blood so
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we say you can stand put on a bit of
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weight I mean I'm sure that at some
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point in the year that be a plump fish
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smaller fittings that's creepy
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I got a fish I don't know how big his
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boys have no idea could be same as
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laying into the last one but yeah whoa
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what that you gotta need me a figure
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oh yeah fishing over here yeah you know
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you keep fishing is hank tangled again -
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are you staying a lot buddy that's why
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he is taken for a while soon your face
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wow I want to ensure that I get them in
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look at this I did that once to a shark
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it took me two hours to bring him in
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come on
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Hiram oh good that's for sure okay nice
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he's not bad get some duck done no
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hopeful it's not bad at all
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still full of gumption man they fight
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when you tangle them up underneath those
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two front fins
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then it makes a small mo feel like a
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turbo small mo you ever do that tangle
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up like that no I'm a practicing you're
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fair fight here Marcus I don't wrangle
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on my rhodiola oh and he's got to be
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small the way he's got doing those
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little sharp little yeah yeah oh he's
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got like 20 in there I don't want 13
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that's those minnows I saw of your eyes
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what decision that was cool that double
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score we stuff yeah I saw one use old
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one
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they're eating a bunch of those nah he's
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gonna be hungry after this fight yeah
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exactly yeah you saw the diet now all of
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a sudden you say wait I was full yeah
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yeah that's a pig that was awesome
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seeing those all those little minnows so
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far our Northern Ontario smallmouth trip
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has been a real success we fished the
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Martin river system in luxury with all
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our fancy gear but now the real
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adventure begins
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we have some dr2 lakes that are really
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easy to get to so we can accommodate
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families and young people and seniors as
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well and then we have some more
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challenging bikes for those who are
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seeking a bit more adventure so we have
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lakes that we access by UTV that might
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take an hour to an hour and a half to to
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get to the lake
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and did I absolutely love these back leg
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excursions not only is the right in a
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total blast but usually the fishing is
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second to none turkey I love it I was on
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that big big giant 7-inch buddy 70
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saenko figure Florida bass bait oh yeah
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oh yeah I don't know how big it is but
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he's tough no matter how big yes that's
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the best part that big baby
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yeah giant close my mind I wanted to
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catch one so badly on that Brown oh look
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at the color eyes in Northern Ontario
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mathy smaller there's lots of those and
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bigger in this Lake - I wish I could
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show you my bait but he ate it nice
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that's gorgeous
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as soon as I hit the water yeah and it's
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raining those little cabbage tips that
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you were saying right yeah yeah Wow not
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even on the edge which is great what if
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we just had a blow-up for the spinner
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bait and then that thing there that's a
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great fish right now we got something
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going here now buddy he'll go baby
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you're the size of these things
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I never even saw them this big before
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until the other day oh well smallmouth
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hitting this thing that's crazy that is
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crazy awesome that's what it is it's
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either they're very hungry they're
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competitive or they're huge
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another one underneath them there's
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three more underneath that no way yeah
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get your bait down get your bait down
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drop down drop down tell you you cannot
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believe this cookie has a lot to do with
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this fish is dragging in the waters
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moving to this point underneath them
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there's three more underneath that no
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way yeah get your bait down get your
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bait down frenzy going on down there I'm
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gonna get this guy and see if I can't
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get the one underneath that is crazy man
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great little fish there's probably some
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big ones in this there's some big fish
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down we do i mean there's a nice weed
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edge and asthma's just working that he's
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actually working the garment we're not
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12
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there's nothing who killed me so he came
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all the way in here he is there and look
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at this there's all kinds of little
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clumps and bumps in that dolphin Oh
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suddenly get an edge just there and
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raising it and I can see the fish down
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Nathan best cookie ever fish fighting
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chocolate cookie this fish right
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underneath the boat by the way yes sir
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yeah
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oh I got a walleye
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that's me thought it was yeah I got a
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walleye in there wow that's a spot even
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cooler
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that's not say walleye you the school of
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small boat
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obviously it's competitive down there
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and that's why every time we're dropping
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stuff in there it's a thing that yet and
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that's Molly but I just had on followed
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your wallet yeah exactly a mile they are
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insane fish my scent go back from there
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getting you know the average size is a
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little better up yes we bed is
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definitely better we bed so that fish
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slashed at the spinnerbait and caught
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him underneath on a trailer hook after
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eat every hit my senko it took it off I
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guessed a different direction or did you
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yeah oh I think you can straight yeah oh
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you know this is the type of stuff
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that's often overlooked too because
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because they're not really thick clumps
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of weeds they're pretty sparse and
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they're in their single clumps just here
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and there and all over the place a lot
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of times you come up to him say yeah you
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know what just not thick enough but on
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some days obviously like today yeah lots
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of room for these fish to swim around in
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oh yeah these crews around in it and
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look for food
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small fish swimming for protection in a
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big place they love it
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today's fishing Canada hotspot is a
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shallow flat area on the Martin River
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system that voles roaming feeding
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smallmouth during the summer and early
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fall months Waypoint on your screen will
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get you their hands and I love throwing
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fast baits like spinner baits in spots
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like these if the weeds are too thick
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try a top water bait or jerk bait as
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well move around in anywhere from three
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to six feet of water and keep casting
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eventually a small e should smash your
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bank the more hotspots like this one
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check out fishing Canada calm
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got one edge there's yep
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