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Fish'n Canada Live: COVID-19, Trout Season Opener and Proper Fish Handling
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Apr 1, 2025
In their first Fish’n Canada Livestream, Ang and Pete discuss a wide array of topics, such as: COVID-19, the history of The Fish’n Canada Show, the closure of boat launches, the Trout season opener, proper fish handling, and more!
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i can't hear you hi you you i got you buddy how are you brother
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i'm doing good yourself i'm doing great as well actually we're live so we better say hello to uh
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all the folks out there hello hello folks i see we got a bunch of uh on the list already out there
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to the right side so red fisher's there too i saw that thanks awesome
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hey it's a thousand times we're in a pandemic everybody shows up you know i love that well let's uh start by uh
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certainly welcoming anybody that's out there uh to this we did it at last minute because we wanted
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to run a bunch of tests which is basically what we're doing with this episode uh we want to see sure everything is
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working because obviously it's being run from a remote location pete is in his
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house i'm at mine the engineers at his this is all new to us we're used to
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doing live in a studio where we've got everybody together so uh bear with us if we make some mistakes
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along the way and our engineer is uh none other than steven labrady the uh
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your man behind the glass on the radio show so that's right we're going to be bringing him on here throughout the program whenever he
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screws up we're going to uh make sure he shows his pretty little face to everybody uh
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yeah so we got people looking in here that's cool dennis from toronto we got outdoorsy gal
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dave wilson todd wilson wolf roberts love that name wolf roberts that's awesome jm red of
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course big red bb's fishing show we got all kinds of people that's cool um first of all i i just wanted to say
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that we haven't done a whole lot on our website yet because uh as some of you know it's been rather
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busy here the last few days we'll get into that in a minute uh but first of all i wanted to extend our
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thoughts and prayers from the entire fishing canada outdoor journal family uh to the folks uh in nova scotia who
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um last saturday were blown away literally by an incredible story
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that uh you know it it it resonates with us even more so because we were there shooting not that many months ago our
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last episode of last season was shot uh in economy nova scotia was
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which is one of the communities that was involved in this thing and it's just a terrible terrible
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tragedy and we just wanted to make sure we we uh we let you know all of all of you down there you've got our
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thoughts uh with you it's terrible terrible and you know what and we and we know i think the whole
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country knows how good the east coast people are i mean they really are
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salt of the earth i mean it it forgot to happen anywhere is horrible but just those guys were so
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good people out there you know what i mean they live a great lifestyle they're they're very happy to go lucky it's it's a
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tragedy no matter where it is but we really feel for you guys yeah it's not that it could have happened someplace else and it
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wouldn't have been a problem but there you're right those people are just so nice um we're with you and uh and and and
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obviously during the pandemic it makes things even worse because we we spend more time dwelling on on what
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happened but uh let's put it as much as we can put it behind us
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let's try and move forward and uh
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go ahead pete sorry no i said 10-4 absolutely so here we are uh peter and i have spent
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the better part of 35 years together and
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i would say that during that 35 years we've probably been physically together more
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than we have with our wives so so so when i tell you that this is
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the one of the weirdness of what's going on here is not having pete live with me
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yeah right a very strange uh very surreal time uh in my life but uh
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yeah and this is the first time we've ever worked from home like it's always been to the office you know any any shooting to do any work any
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computer work setting up shoots anything it's always been in the office so this is very new to us as it
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is to everybody i mean i'm sure most of these people watching right now are from their home right now too that are you know off of work or whatever they're
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doing so feel free to reach out and to let us know how you're coping and what what are you doing what are you doing
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that that's getting you over the hump every day uh because quite honestly i'm i'm starting to have a hard time with it you
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know but um share with us what you're doing and uh
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and uh stephen will let us know and he'll put him up on the screen and we'll yeah that's right on the screen there
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right now we're gonna have to try and stay ahead of it maybe maybe when you're talking i'll look and i'm not i'm talking you could look about trying to you're assuming i
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could see it that's why we both have glasses on obviously you can see our agent hitting
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us we're wearing glasses now where we don't want to but we do we have sunglasses on tv but outdoors your gal is saying so cool that
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you're doing live streaming now it is very cool it's and it's a sign of the time keep in mind
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something else about pete and i is that we have been doing pretext or recorded productions now
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for 38 years and although people don't truly you know unless you've done
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what we've done you really don't really grasp what what happens there you know we we produce something in one calendar
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year and then we see a finished version of it going to broadcast in the next calendar year and
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it's kind of a weird thing you know when people ask you hey i watched it i saw you last week for example
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i i just had somebody recently uh send me a message saying hey i i watched you and your grandson last week you were
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uh the bay of finally fishing that happened last year so it's kind of a weird kind of deal
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but this this is live it's like a radio show which is live as well
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well totally different man it's very exciting i see uh one of the comments our buddy ted putnam
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from from up at hawk lake laws all he says is booze lots of booze
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i don't mind saying this publicly arguably the best walleye camp we'll call the
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camp i'd rather think of it as a resort uh posh resort he owns one of the best
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walleye uh remote operations in the world uh hawk lake and hawk lake lodge once in a lifetime
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uh yes he's expensive as hell i mean let's not even hide the fact he he's
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probably the most expensive place on the planet well let me tell you something going to hawk lake lodge for even a
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three-day long weekend will stay with you the rest of your life not just the fishing
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which is extraordinary but the food the amenities the the the ambiance happy
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hour happy hour now you're cooking happy hour and you know what i said it's uh a
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walleye lies we'll just we'll go on this real quick this is off script right here but um but the smallmouth fishing there is
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second to none giant pike and he's got huge electrode that if you want to try it you can try that and it's it's all
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real it's not easy but it's really good and it's you'll get on them you'll have a trip of
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a lifetime for sure so anyways uh without getting off
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topic too much here and you know and we're going to experience some bumps doing these things right so
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bear with us that'll be fun well first thing i wanted to deal with
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on my list and i know you've got a list as well pete but let me start with um i just want i don't
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want to spend a whole lot of time on it to be honest with you but i i do want to uh address it and
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that is what happened last wednesday april 15th 2020. uh uh we posted
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uh a blog that i authored and i take full responsibility for and by the way thank you very much for
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uh you know while i was out in the battlefield taking all those shots what were you doing you were
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hunkered down in the bunker somewhere i didn't hear a word from you drinking whiskey like ted that's what i figured you were doing
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oh you think i'm gonna do it um but i ever thought so we put phone calls that everybody was
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pounding me with after you posted that my phone was busy for three days
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uh i i want to address because i don't think i've done it so far i want to address what motivated
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me to to write that blog and i think you know it's not an excuse it's not anything other than you
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know me maybe venting on on a brand new toy that we unveiled here
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today um i was um two things happened number one i was
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under the belief one hundred and ten percent certain that the government was going to
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do the right thing and step in and postpone
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trout opening in southern ontario i won't tell you why i was 100 certain
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but believe me when i tell you that it was 100 certain and so that was factor one factor two
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i had received a message uh earlier that week from an old friend of mine who i hadn't
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talked to in quite some time who told me about uh
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father his father that had succumbed to colgan 19 and it just got me all
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thinking about the whole the whole trout opening all that stuff and so anyways regardless
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i was fully charged with all kinds of emotions and so i put pen to paper
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and probably you know although the messaging i think got out the message got out it
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definitely lit up the fishing industry which is what we had intended to do with that piece
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um but it ignited an element out there within our community
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and don't think i'm naive enough to know that the internet is a wonderful little pristine you know
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pegasus riding on a unicorn farting rainbows i know that that's not the case okay but
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i didn't really expect it to be that way within the fishing community so
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that was maybe my shock and surprise and um
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you know well you know the rest is history as to what happened but i don't uh i don't think back my my
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feelings when i wrote that piece and the way it was the timing and the way it was put out there i think it was
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bang on now the government didn't close or postpone
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or suspend the opening of trout however most of the municipalities that
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have one of these rivers running through it have so it happened anyway so i guess the bottom
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line is i didn't have to do that it would have taken care of itself but i just felt responsible and compelled to do it
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and i did it and that's it that's all i got to say on that subject
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it is what it is i'm glad we did it i'm glad we took a stand when nobody else seemed to want to take a stand
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including the government and so um and unfortunately innocent bystanders
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like mr bowman there he had to hunker down under his blankets while i was getting shot out in the field
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say what you want pal you have no idea what i was doing no idea what i was doing okay i stuck up
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for your ass like you have no idea okay wow okay it might not have been written down but there was a lot of
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words across phone lines et cetera et cetera so and you know and i want to thank all the people that did stand up for us
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uh we really appreciate all the kind of words on the on the chat board no need to apologize no you
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know everybody's saying they agree well thank you thank you very much it is i'll take my i'll give you my uh take on
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my years so far my pandemic year uh as i think i think people would know that i i can stay
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state right now that there's nobody listening to here or that will watch this that likes fishing more than me
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loves fishing more than me you know you may like it as much i might make like as much you but you don't like it more than me fishing is my life it always has been
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and always will be so uh come right you know this every time this this time of year
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always planning my outing to be at fish in canada outings and and my own so my buddy and i in about
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february we're thinking about when we can get out we go lake ontario is going to be a great place to get out because we can beat the
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crowds we'll get out troll some uh some browns some rainbows maybe lakers
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you can put it in the whippy harbor as soon as it thaws out and this is just when the pandemic was starting around here no
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bands on anything like that and uh and it was funny because i i okay we're
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ready to go we're ready to go for the weekend we were gonna go out and the weather was looking perfect the lake was calm the launch was open whitby harbor
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was hoping we're gonna troll from whitby to oshawa back and forth see if we can get some browns whatever
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i i said to him i said i wonder if it's a good idea with this pandemic stuff starting up if we should be going out
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there or not and his his wife said you know what guys you guys can catch
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all the fish you want but what happens if something goes wrong with your boat what happens if the coast guard has to
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come in what happens if the cops are called what happens if somebody else called i thought wow you know everybody's
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saying i'm fine going fishing i'm not going to spread the pandemic but we broke down and either one of us was
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infected or somebody in that boat back then had no idea and they were infected all of a sudden the spread started so so i said no we're
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not gonna go for it let's let's just leave it for now we'll see what happens now everything starts to build up more and more
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then we got into the answers got into the portal we put up a post yesterday i think it was
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about poor hope with the municipalities now i see some bc i'm going to brand on here a bit and just a little bit
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so bear with me um some people from out of town bc anybody from non-southern ontario
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non-gta and you gotta realize that what crowded fishing to you
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might be seeing one other person on a river uh you know 100 yards up or 200 yards and say oh god i don't want that
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to happen i'm telling you stephen maybe can you put up that picture that we put on the
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on the post uh i know steve will probably he has there that that little picture right there nothing that's
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nothing that's a shot i took on the upper ganny probably a week or two into the season years ago
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but that little cluster a group of guys in the middle there okay that going through the town of port
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hope for instance uh one of the major ganaraska river the major uh spawning rivers
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that happens on opening day for thousands of yards for miles okay that crowd of people now
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i lived in port hope for many years so i know for a fact i went opening morning opening day for
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years upon years i lived five minutes from the river and i eventually stopped going there because because of the crowds
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not just because the crowds because of the idiocracy that happens on there because you have so many good anglers
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that are wanting there to get out for the first fish of the year and and catch a trout and god love you that's
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that's why i went but when you're fishing this listen to this when you're fishing for trout and literally
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whiskey bottles or beer bottles come rolling by your feet or out where you're fishing because
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that's what goes on there too there's a lot of partying at midnight and so on and these guys just get wasted and they don't they're not there
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for the fishing their party or their asses off right and when you start avoiding pulling your float out of a way of a
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whiskey bottle floating down the river and happening more than once and it happens quite a bit through that first first day that ain't fishing anymore so
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i i literally quit i didn't even go there anymore i stopped going to the ganny five minutes from my house so i go and try and find some isolated
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stuff so so that's what it's it's like there so when you when you want to stop
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when you want to physical distancing let's talk about with fishing well you can't it was if it was to be
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left open it was going to be a show it was going to be normal and you know we had a few few of you who
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wrote in saying yeah but you know i i fish those rivers and streams and and where i fish you know i don't see
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anybody well that may very well be the case first of all i i don't know what river you would
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be fishing that is in southern ontario that dumps in the north shore of lake ontario
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that unless you're fishing way up river i i don't know where you would be
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that you don't see anybody else but even so that's fine you that may very well be the case but
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unfortunately that not the majority of people who will be on the rivers starting at
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midnight tonight um that's right just not the case what
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you have to understand for those of you who are you know from other parts of the country who who when we wrote that you wrote to us
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and said i don't understand what you're talking about shoulder to shoulder well you have to appreciate the fact
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that that these rivers have got a big migration of fish moving through them
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but those fish aren't just scattered throughout the entire waterway there are any one of these big rivers
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whether it's ganaraska or or uh you know uh the beaver or
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port credit or any of those there are only select areas that hold the majority of the fish
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as there are in anybody water lake even and the anglers know where they are it's
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not a big secret those same little holding areas hold those fish year in and year out there's people
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who've been going to these rivers for 20 30 years fishing that same group of fish
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well those pockets are small there are only maybe five or six prime locations in that bend
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or at the end of that riff or at the top of that eddy there's only four or five six prime locations to fish from
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now can imagine putting 100 people 200 people 300 people in that one spot well that's
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what happens it happens every year that's what we were talking about one of the mistakes i made in that
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in that piece by the way and uh my my vision my judgment was clouded when i
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wrote it i i i was thinking that everybody understood that that was directed at southern
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ontario it was directed at our local rivers here in no way shape or form
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that that did that apply to somebody up in espanola or up in the you know kenora area
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absolutely not it's a totally different world up there and i didn't separate the two and i
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should have and and and for that i apologize before i'll do that again this was strictly southern ontario and
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this simple reason is that i would like to get back to some
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sort of normality sooner than later and so we are making our sacrifices pete
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and i are not going out on the road we'd be out shooting this time of year well we've got nothing scheduled for
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instance first time in history we have zero shoots set up right now for this year's station
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canvas show it's so you know we're trying to and that's why i can't understand why
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somebody would take objection to that philosophy and say that i was selfish for putting that out i think i think that's
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the part that hurt me personally i mean aside from some pretty ugly words some of the stuff that that most of you
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aren't even aware we we that we took as far as fallout from the thing are pretty bizarre
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i want to get into some of that a little later on in this piece because i i i want to talk about um
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some of the mental health issues that are connected and and believe me there are some folks
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on my list here now that were there prior to last wednesday april 15th who are now on my list that i need to
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talk to the minister of mental health so just i'll leave it at that how's that
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the other the other one i can quickly talk about that people can't relate to um is the bae queenie opener that's in a
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week from like 10 a week from midnight tonight so um that's the opening
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quinte is a week earlier zone 20 basically but it's quinty that everybody walleye fishes in so it's opening uh up a week before the
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rest of southern ontario opens up which is a week before the rest of northern ontario opens up well the bay
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equity by being a sort of a gift that the m r gave to us years ago hey we'll give you this one a
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week early great idea it uh it enhanced tourism immensely
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tourism dollars et cetera and it gave us a shot at some fish that place is almost let's say deserado
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to uh trenton to belleville is almost on a par with court hope scandal rascal river when it
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comes to boat launches okay though i've seen like at midnight on on normal
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conditions now it's all closed down and that's a good idea they did it too because on normal conditions it is so congested with trucks upon
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trucks and boats and cars and boats and just people winning the boat launches lined up forever people are all launching into
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one boat launch and you're talking hundreds of boats which is thousands of people all
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trying to get in at the same time they're in a lineup like that if you think there's going to be six foot distance between everybody
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everybody touching the dock touching the boats touching the ropes touching everything you're wrong and it's it's it's unlike
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anything you've ever seen it's like it's like a parade at a boat launch it's it's like you see a big bass tournament or
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something like that in the u.s that's it's like that is craziness so so for that like i've chose i go there
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every year i've been doing it for 30 years i've been going to the banquet on opening walleye i'm not going to go this this year because i i mean i know i
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can't anyways i don't think but even about a private landscape launch i don't even think i'd go i'm not sure yet i've i haven't heard of any
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private launches it's all closed down if it was open i wouldn't go on just because of that reason
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this is all under the assumption that you believe we're in a crisis here because the other thing
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i wanted to just quickly touch upon uh obviously by the way we have been conducting ourselves in the way pete and
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i talk you know we have bought into the pandemic thing right we we firmly believe that there are
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people really dying we really believe that that globally speaking we're under
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attack we bought the internet there's folks who haven't bought into that there's no changing that part and i'm
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not going to even go down that road but for those of us of us who have bought into it you know hunkering down means exactly
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that hunkering down so we've all given up tons we all have we have given up tons and
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there's there's a lot more that we're gonna have to give up here in the days and maybe weeks and i hate
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staying months to come fishing is a very small part of that it's a big part of our lives we're gonna
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really miss it and it's hurting us not being able to do it but it's such a big picture
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that when you hold fishing up against it it doesn't eclipse it whatsoever so bear with us we'll we'll uh
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we'll get through it yeah ted ted putnam says my lodge may not open this summer but at least
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i sleep well knowing that that in case others will not be in danger as a result of that so yeah teddy that's
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his business this is life right so then i got another great uh comic comment from
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beluga he said boobies i like that one too boobies that's it
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so anyways that that's that's unless you know we've got something else that we'll throw up here along the podcast about that we'll
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try and uh and move on i want to talk to you briefly this is the first time we've had an
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opportunity to speak to you publicly about uh what pete and i do and and and and
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how we work within the confines of the fish and canister and even the fish and canada show itself
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you know over the last week we've had a lot of comments about the show and opinions about the show and
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and people have taken a stand one way or the other about the show let us tell you a little bit about the
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show that you might not be familiar with first of all the program was
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conceptualized in 1986 it went to air in 19 i believe and i
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could be wrong it's all on our website but it went to air i believe in 1988
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uh it at that time by the way it went air on an obscure little single station that was transmitting out
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of uh out of brandon manitoba at the time and it was called global it was just a loop channel and they were
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the only ones that would uh that would give us some air time and
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and so that's where we started the whole thing of course as you know global since then has gone on to become this
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massive network and uh in fact you know at any given time arguably it is in the
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top two networks that we have in this country and um i'm i'm proud and happy to say
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that we have been with them for i think the better part of 30 years
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except for one little stint we did a five-year spin with cbc i think that was a 90 i want to say 90
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or 91 pete we started we spent five years with them and that was a great ride that was that's a whole story unto itself
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well we've been with global ever since and we owe them a lot for helping us establish the brand
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the brand that i'm talking about now the fishing canada brand is the most what not fishing show
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it is the most watched television show at eight o'clock saturday morning in
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this country has been for the last eight years more people watch the fish and canada
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show between 8 00 and 8 30 saturday mornings in canada than any
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other program bar none and that's because of you obviously let me interject here for a
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second everybody it seems like everybody that has a tv show boasts their own ratings and they can
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almost tell the world what they will what they hey i'm the same that i'm the other i'm bobby gaster i have it all but
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we get the uh mark nessler i love it get the uh the actual ratings we pay
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a handsome price tag for the ratings to see what is real and what is not out there so what ends
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up saying right there is real folks and it's as per legit yeah these are uh numerous numbers or
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you're probably more familiar with them at uh nielsen's but nielsen's in fact changed their name uh eight years ago in
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canada it's still nielsen's owned in the u.s it's still called nielsen's uh here in canada they changed
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to numerous and so this is the the only real
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rating systems that we've had in this country uh i would arguably the only there
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there are a couple of other smaller ones that really are not recognized but it's been the only way of measuring
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television uh ever since i've been in the business and and so when they tell us these are
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the numbers these are the numbers and regardless because there's also people out there will tell you well numbers you know you
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can do anything you want with them yeah you can do anything you want with numbers but the bottom line is we're all measured by the same
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tool right it's the same numbers so the fact that we can boast this about
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the fish and canada show makes both of us and the entire efficient canada crew very proud
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but you guys are the reason for it absolutely i'm sorry oh yeah for sure i see we got
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uh we got frank from ugly playcon buddy you saw that yeah the reason i brought
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that up is that a couple of the messages uh this week uh said to to me
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in particular and by the way i take the heat for all this because i'm the one who orchestrated it nobody else here at fish in canada had anything to do
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with what happened last week that was on me and and that's it right but but
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a lot of us heat from some people saying don't forget
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how you got here and who got you here and and we don't forget believe me when i made that comment in
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my apology letter saying that we found out this past week that you know
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maybe we don't own the canada brand like we thought we did maybe the ownership has been moved into
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the hands of the viewers which clearly it has and uh that makes me even happier and
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and more proud than i already was if that was even possible uh
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the fact that you've taken ownership of our brand is just wonderful and we appreciate that and
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we'll continue doing what we can for as long as we can obviously uh there's there was also word
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about retirement spoken during this week and obviously you know retirement is something that uh
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will eventually happen to all of us one way or the other at some point we're all retired myself
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included i just don't know when and uh i don't think i'm quite ready
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to do that yet so to answer the the few of you who said maybe it's time for me to retire maybe it is who knows
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i i'm just not there yet you'll have to forgive me but when i am you'll be the first to
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know again you want to uh here's one that makes us feel uh our our real age
31:12
thomas says my dad used to watch you guys when you first started and has passed down the torch to me love
31:18
watching you guys so there's a dad watching we get it sometimes it's sportsman shows where to be
31:24
my dad my grandfather and myself we get that so many times so we're uh we're starting to show our age buddy just to
31:29
let you know you know what's really cool and it still is a big turn on for me
31:35
and pete you just alluded to when we're at the live demands i really really really really
31:41
i really get emotional when i see three generations of people oh yeah talking to us you guys grandpa
31:48
dad and son or daughter or whatever the case is but three distinct generations and all three of them say they watch the
31:56
show yes it makes us old yes for sure but man is that ever cool that is just the
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biggest line you can have absolutely we're gonna we should try and get the you can keep
32:09
going angel look at some of these questions jeff quickly and finishing up about the fishing cannon show so our average
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minute audience meaning that every minute of every episode that we broadcast and we broadcast 52
32:21
weeks per year have been doing that for almost four decades
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every single episode over the last six years on a whole has an average of 200 000
32:34
people watching every single minute if you put that in terms of digital exposure if we were
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for example counting that and and transposing those numbers to google analytics
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what it means is that there are 10 million minutes of fish in canada consumed
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every year in this country 10 million minutes just wanted to share that with
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you because i think it's very cool um so i've got a question for you and
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and now we're going to take a yes or no to give us a bit of help
33:10
here because we're at an apex i said i said you know that we don't know what's coming up next
33:15
because we really don't first of all we don't one we're going to get clear of this pandemic meaning we don't know when we're going to produce our next show
33:22
we don't know when we're going to be able to broadcast a new episode so i got a question for you so currently
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we air our episode our current annual season
33:34
premieres on global and it airs on global for that series airs on global
33:40
for an entire 12-month period and then it goes to our youtube channel
33:48
the question to you is would you prefer to consume the fish and
33:54
canada show on demand for example on the
34:00
somehow on the internet whether it's on our site whether it's on netflix whether it's whatever the case may be would you prefer to watch the show there
34:08
than a scheduled saturday morning eight o'clock on global television network
34:13
albeit global does repeat and it does have time shifting so technically i think you can watch the
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show about seven or eight times every saturday at different intervals but would you
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prefer to see it or consume it at your leisure as an on-demand product or are you cool
34:34
with the traditional broadcast of the show and if you could just give us an indication one way or the other
34:41
um over the next few weeks we've got a lot of decisions to make and over the next few weeks that's going
34:46
to be one of them so like some input from the audience because quite frankly
34:52
without you telling us what to do it doesn't make sense one of the things you told us to do 10 years ago was to tell you where we're
34:59
fishing you asked us you know no you didn't ask us you told us you said yeah it's all well
35:07
and good you guys are good and we have fun no i stopped watching you but it means nothing to us
35:13
because you've spent all your life hunting down these fish you know where when and how we don't we have very
35:20
limited time we love fishing but we have very limited time it's limited usually to weekends
35:25
and it's not every weekend and it's not for the whole weekend if you could tell us if you could eliminate
35:30
some of the the searching and tell us exactly where you were that week
35:36
not because we want to go there and rape and pillage the fishery like a lot of our peers
35:43
thought you were going to do but because we can then take that experience and transpose what we learned
35:49
to our own private our own lakes our own our own areas that we fish because seeing is believing and so ten
35:57
years ago you told us to do that and we did we gave you the hot spots with gps coordinates
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and it's been a huge part of our program so now we're reaching out to you again by the way ted said yes for on demand
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george cassidy says he'll watch both ways yeah and then patrick says no i look forward to my
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saturday guys early mornings and that's what i thought we're gonna have to you know keep keep telling us what you want we're gonna
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have to evaluate it all but so a reason i tell you this because we listen to the audience everything that we do you know you might
36:30
think that we're these geniuses that were able to take an outdoor show or fishing show and make it number one in the country
36:35
no you told them how to do that you partnered up with us and we together made it what it was and
36:42
what it is and we and now we need to ask you your help in this next evolution as well i can interrupt you nobody's ever called
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me a genius in my life okay including myself do i call you jethro
36:54
all the time what are you talking about yeah i got done got my grade free education
37:00
so anyway so that's one of the decisions we're going to make moving forward and um we'll see or or it might be a
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hybrid you know who knows we might find that that you there's two elements out there traditionalists who want to watch it
37:13
saturday mornings and then there's you know people who who who want to uh
37:18
who want to have it when whenever they want right so we may do a hybrid we may do a little
37:24
bit of both we'll see but definitely something's going to change moving forward there's no doubt about it um there's your buddy
37:32
by the way that's jack from uh radio world he's always uh giving us two cents for sure
37:40
all right so you got a bible error what the hell got
37:45
a few questions i want to throw i knew you wouldn't be prepared i'm gonna right uh
37:51
outdoor journal radio is another product that we've had 28 years i think this is our 28th year
37:58
with with rogers yeah wow before it rogers has only owned it for 18 years
38:05
we we were with them when it was uh telemedia that owned the fan and it was once again it was one station
38:11
owned by a a media company and we started broadcasting
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when it was down on holly street downtown toronto but anyways um i'm still amazed at the number of
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people uh here's one who loves both shows but i'm amazed that the number of people who
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don't even know we have a radio show it blows my mind well one of the reasons is
38:34
because your radio show is at eight o'clock start at eight o'clock and your fishing show starts at eight o'clock yeah every day
38:40
i love it except like jack says i don't think either you're geniuses
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thanks jack appreciate it buddy that's why we have buddies like you right to remind us about that
38:52
yeah um but yeah i'm surprised at the number of people who who aren't familiar with it and uh
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we're an audience though too right you're talking about it is a different audience you know from a
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show sitting at your home to an outdoor show in your vehicle more than likely or
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on a radio but i'm assuming that the numbers are higher in vehicles than anything right are they it's a transient audience but not about
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it i think radio in general is well certainly at eight o'clock saturday mornings uh people
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are going and coming a lot of them are going to work that tune into the program um yeah it's a different audience but
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but i only throw that out there because we're we're listen i'd be lying to you
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but i didn't tell you i was i'm really excited about the internet finally i finally think it's not it's not a fad
39:42
it's not going to go bad i just got on have you oh god so i'm embracing the hell out of
39:49
and uh and so we're at the point now with with our digital footprint where it
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makes a whole lot of sense for us to take take our broadcast our distribution of our products into our own hands and
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radio with one of those uh and and once again same thing if you're one of our radio
40:09
listeners i need to hear from you what what what's your opinion about radio does it belong on broadcast
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or is it time that we change it as well and bring it to this website look at that idiot
40:24
exactly um bring it to our website and make it a podcast
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or just make it a podcast period so people can can listen to it at their leisure these
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are all things that we would really like some help with and and uh and help make it or a fishing
40:44
canada podcast as well you know what i mean like that nuts maybe just confine it to just fishing because we have we have a strong
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fishing only audience too right so you know we if you want to fish in canada podcast we can
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i mean look what we're doing here right now there's no different than this than a podcast really and i can and we get subject matter from
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the audience or we're bringing in ourselves experiences yeah whatever and we can do it we can do a lot of that stuff so
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anyways those are my that's my list now we can throw the list out and go off script
41:14
well i haven't i've all i want to do i knew it what else is good you're stumbling away
41:22
okay go ahead no no don't go no i'm not gonna oh this is your show obviously bro
41:28
go ahead you know bobby dazzler who wants to do it again what do you got come on um the openers i
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mean the uh the remaining openers of of fishing i'd like to know if there's
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anybody from the north that's watching right now if your boat launches are closed down
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like all of ours and the south seem to be like all the municipalities are closing everything down so
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i mean lake of the woods has 1 000 boat launches in the cleaning side of it
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maybe i'd like to know if they're if they're starting to close down launches up there uh or not we're trying to can i
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interrupt you we have a special message we need to put up on the screen yeah apparently uh igor a 38 year old
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male looking for uh he's a good looking fella too by the way if he does say so i'm so looking for a single
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female fisher person there you go we'll we'll turn this into one of those like a swap meet kind of thing you know what
42:25
people are buddy yeah i like this yeah we didn't say any criteria for that woman
42:30
just he has to fish that's all right good for him i love that i love it i love it uh
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yeah so i don't know if we'll have any comments as to that i'm assuming that they're gonna be uh canceling a lot of the are closing
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a lot of the boat launches everywhere in the province no matter what the m r says or does
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and now something is municipalities and they're doing that just you know again going back to the safety
42:55
of people et cetera so it's gonna be interesting to see what happens there it's it it's ultimately it's a shame it's too
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bad that all this any of this happened to begin with because anybody that's on this list here to the right and anybody
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watching right now we all love the sport of fishing there's no no doubt about it right it's uh it's
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been born and bred in us as canadians and it's our heritage and hunting too so it's it's a shame
43:21
that we are even affected by this but it's a reality well i was on cbc radio this morning
43:29
doing some interviews and one of the uh the hosts told me that the boat launch
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closure is a provincial closure it's a province-wide closure for all of the the government
43:42
uh operated uh boat launches in effect are closed everywhere so it's not just it's it's it's all over the place yeah
43:50
so for whatever that's worth uh and and and the reason that that was done by the way
43:55
has nothing to do with fishing it has everything to do with trying to stop that
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mass exodus of people from big urban centers moving into their cottages or summer
44:06
homes during the pandemic right if they're gonna hunt and think about i listen i agree with that
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if if i'm gonna hunker down somewhere i'd rather hunker down at the cottage if i'm gonna be indoors and not be able
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to socialize and mingle i'd rather be at my summer home my cottage
44:23
rather than my condo downtown but the problem with that is that those outlying communities just
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don't have the infrastructure in place to to take first of all the overflow of of people
44:36
i mean think of this this these small communities think of the grocery store of which there's usually only one or two
44:42
in that entire community they're used to maybe providing supplies on a normal basis to say
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2 000 people well if you don't control the influx of cottagers that population
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could swell to 10 000 immediately and under normal conditions that would be difficult for
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that grocer to keep enough wheaties on the shelf but under these conditions it becomes almost
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impossible and so the thinking was let's try and stop people from going to the cottage
45:12
how do we do that well we told them not to go we told them uh that there there shouldn't be
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um you know any travel of any kind unless it was to a grocery store or a
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medical facility so non-essential traveling was taken off the table the only thing else they could do is
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shut down the boat launches because most of these folks want to put their boat in water to go to cottage and and if you take that away
45:37
from them they can't i don't agree necessarily that that should have been done that way but it was and that's what it was for had
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nothing to do with fishing the side effect of that though and what we were worried about here at fish in
45:48
canada is that and and jack points out also privately owned marinas they were already closed because they're not
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essential businesses so those marina ramps were closed what it did though and nobody thought about this
46:00
is that the folks who were going to go out trout fishing to their lake or a remote lake to to do
46:07
their truck opener they had no no option for that anymore so a good portion of those decided well
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i'm gonna have to go to a river a stream a creek i don't know i got to get my fix somewhere so that just
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adds to the whole opening which is tonight at midnight and and so the whole thing is kind of
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you know and in all fairness to all the group concerned here whether it's provincial government municipals
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entities this is brand new for everybody everybody has the same uh
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wish to make the best of a bad situation and try and help i mean
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decisions are being made on the fly every day every but there's decisions being made they're not all going to be winners
46:53
folks i hate to say it they're not all going to be winners but but everybody's heart is in the right place
46:58
and in this case i think the provincial government um should have probably bailed out the
47:03
municipal entities by just saying let's go small fishing for a couple of days
47:09
let's see how it goes or at least until may 12th when the emergency act is in place and uh take it from
47:16
there uh patrick says he uh uh i live on a road and population is up 50 right now
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50 yeah it's double on a cottage road
47:28
so vince tripp says algonquin highlands and south frontenac are keeping their launches open yeah
47:35
there's a few so that's that i'm assuming that's around the kingston area front and back i think is
47:40
is kingston if i'm not mistaken so i'm assuming that maybe they're private or whatever they are and i don't know what
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bodies of water they'd be on but um but that's so there are going to be some open so there will be some people
47:53
going out fishing for sure let's talk about that for a minute pete what's up well your opinion i know i
47:58
have certainly i'm never short of opinions so let's just say for the sake of arguing let's just throw
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a number out there let's say that 40 of the people who normally would be
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on the water this weekend for trout opening and let's use that same number i'm going
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to look into the crystal ball and i'm going to make an assumption that come mid-may are going to still be in some
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sort of a lockdown mode so let's duplicate this for the walleye opening as well
48:28
so let's say that 40 of the population in this province will
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adhere to the pandemic protocol meaning non-essential travel uh social
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distancing isolation and all that stuff so 40 of the normal fishing pressure will not
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happen this year for trout and for walleye
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what does that do for our fishery well obviously it would be a good thing
49:02
for the fishery right if there was less pressure i would well if that's what you're getting at i think the number will be
49:08
higher than 40 to be honest with you but um that said yeah if you put less
49:14
pressure on a body of water on uh on a lake that's five miles by five miles if you have nobody fishing on it
49:21
in a year versus a thousand boats on it for a year it's going to be good for the body of water for sure okay that's what i would think but i had
49:28
a very interesting discussion a couple of days ago with an individual um who is in the scientific community
49:38
and is also a crazy absolutely insane angler
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and we were talking about that very thing so two things he pointed out first of all you understand that anything that happens this year
49:49
uh during openings or anything that doesn't happen this year during the openings in other words we're not interfering with with this
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current um season any any of these effects will not be
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seen for at least depending on the species two three four years down the road so it'll affect the
50:08
year class four years down the road in the case of walleye for example okay and so
50:14
as we're discussing i said can you imagine what that's going to do to the walleye population in some of these lakes that are marginal
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and he said that's exactly what i'm afraid of what are you talking about his opinion
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is that most of the uh ecosystems in these lakes
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are are perfectly balanced right now right the right amount of predation versus the
50:38
right amount of of human intervention versus the right population numbers versus the right
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forage for that predator fish he's concerned that some of these lakes
50:51
although it sounds great to take a year off and not and not go chasing them down and catching and consuming and
50:57
all the other things that we do with fish this guy is saying and it's really interesting because he gave me some data that i want to verify
51:03
before i put it out there um but he's saying he's concerned about some of the lakes not being able to
51:09
handle the fact that there could be an increase and not just a small increase a drastic increase in predation on those
51:16
lakes and he's afraid of the forage base collapsing in some of these water you know what
51:22
that makes sense i i mean it's only one year as we can look at it right now we don't know that it's going to last into another year or not but
51:29
in one year it sounds kind of far-fetched almost to say how can that happen but i'm not a scientist and i don't know if
51:35
he is or not so i can't you know it makes sense and i fished a lake in alberta called calling lake and it was
51:41
exactly what happened there the walleye took over that lake uh to an extent where they were
51:46
they were starving themselves out they ate so much forage that they were skinny they got rid of the forest first
51:52
and these fish were you know 30 or nothing they say 27 inches long and as big around as your wrists it was
51:58
ridiculous how many people and they were they ans did a trick there where he took a jig head he says i'm gonna try and
52:04
catch him without a bait on him he took a jig head it was a colored jig head and actually caught a walleye and a colored jacket that's how hungry these fish were
52:10
but they were they were emancipated like they had the great big huge wolf heads
52:16
remember but little tiny skinny little bodies it was just starving that's what he's talking about right
52:22
there obviously right they're going to eat all their food out and then they're going well he mentioned the the self predation
52:27
as being an issue right so now we were talking about lakes like like rice lake or
52:32
or simcoe or these big huge fertile bodies he was talking about secondary lakes you
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know isolated secondary lakes where the population is perfectly balanced and and even you know a trickle of rain too
52:47
much rain will affect it one way or the other those are the lakes he's concerned about because he remained that what will
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happen and the first thing that happens in those lakes is that a predation within its own species is
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the first thing that becomes evident so if there's and taking walleye is a good example you know while i would prefer to predate
53:06
on what we call pan fish they would prefer to predate on anything smaller or certainly in a non-related
53:14
uh family as as their own that's first and foremost but when that's not available
53:20
they predate on themselves and do it very effectively and that was what the concern was with
53:26
with this particular scientist is that some of these small lakes cannot handle that so is i guess you know it's
53:33
not always golden because the reason i bring that up is there's a lot of folks who have been saying well listen if we miss this season
53:39
it's not the end of the world think how good it's going to be down the road and i would like to say yes you're absolutely right yeah
53:46
it's it's a delicate issue yeah that's that's very interesting that one yeah i'm going to guess off camera who
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that was with you after after this is all over exactly a brilliant man
54:03
and certainly has years and years of research behind him so i have no reason to doubt that his thinking is
54:11
it it may be flawed somehow but but it's on the right track and we need to ted putnam says if that is the case how
54:18
do you explain those lakes that go to slot limits or catch and release getting better over
54:24
time so like ted's like 100 percent cash and release which seems to be getting better and better and better over time so i would think those lakes
54:31
do not have a it's not a perfect balance on those legs right they have an abundance of
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forage and they also have an abundance of that particular predator like ted and i'll i'll use your lake as as a
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perfect example uh by the way uh hawk lake is one of the few lakes
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one of the few trophy lakes true true honest-to-goodness walleye trophy lakes and as peter alluded to earlier bass and
54:56
pike trophy likes one of the few in this country that has a 100 percent total
55:04
total relief policy and when i say total i mean the shorelines that you have when
55:10
you go to hock lake lodge those fish aren't from hot lake they're brought in from other lakes that's how
55:16
anal ted is about the preservation of the gene stock of walleye
55:22
and bass in that lake but but okay those fish you've got ted
55:30
are anything but starving in fact they're a little bit abnormal in that those
55:36
great big 10 and 12 pound fish everyone that you catch you look at that fish and you know that that fish
55:42
it's eating like crazy so whatever it is that continues to produce food for them
55:48
even though there's a total release policy in place even though the apex predator in that
55:53
body of water they're not they're not short of food so not sure what that means but that's the
56:00
case where i think you could you can do anything to that lake and it's just gonna be this keeps churning them out like crazy
56:07
you're you're you're very blessed with hawk lake trust me well you know what
56:13
i think a lot of these like i've seen another one here from bjj's fishing show lady evelyn lake uh has an amazing fishery uh with a slot
56:21
system so these slot systems are working really well um they were i mean they were brought up
56:27
in the when i used to hear about them in the states first in the u.s and then they seemed to graduate into
56:32
canada finally they started bringing them in and usually they're on bigger bodies of
56:37
water they're on popular bodies i'm not saying that these sloth systems don't work because i think
56:43
they really do work i mean some people hate them because they want to catch and keep everything but those people they just don't get it
56:49
um slot limits or 100 percent captain release like ted has on his lake which
56:54
is rare do work depending on the lake like answers okay on the forest base most of our bigger lakes you know uh
57:03
slave lake and alberta um ontario all of our big lakes in ontario
57:09
can go back i don't know a whole lot about the other lakes that quebec has a bunch of big eggs all those big lakes you know what it's
57:16
good to have a slot because it gets things back in order or back to what the ministry thinks is right um so it
57:23
does work but the smaller lakes you know that's where it might be a real devastating like amsterdam that uh if
57:28
they uh if nobody fishes then we might be in trouble for those smaller lakes too so that's that yeah it's something that we
57:35
all need to keep aware awareness of and keep an eye on i want to address one quick one that's kind of interesting
57:41
and i'm glad she brought it up uh outdoorsy gal wants to know uh she's saying you know that we sometimes
57:49
handle fish in ways that might not be exactly
57:54
proper um and and not necessarily us but but everybody as well by you know
58:00
putting fingers in underneath the gill plate in order to hold the fish up to get a pitcher and then release the fish and and
58:08
here's my take on all that pete knows how i feel about it i'm i'm really really picky when it comes to
58:14
i'd rather cut and hurt myself than that fish so
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here's my thinking on that and and and i don't want you to think okay there he goes again with do
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as i say not as i do first of all well no because it's
58:31
possible right well i wonder what's going to come out of your mouth no no no no first of all um what we do for
58:37
a living is totally totally unlike what you do as anglers let me explain after a minute
58:44
if we went about our business as anglers would you would never even see a fish we would
58:52
we would get rid of those fish we would shake them off without even bringing them in the boat however as we said earlier on
59:00
you helped us design the fish and canada show over the many years that we've been broadcasting
59:05
one of the things you want to do is you want to see a fish so
59:13
what we have to do is and each individual case is different
59:18
this is the important thing no two fish catches
59:24
videotaped and releases are the same they're all different different circumstances stuff happens very quickly
59:31
it's spur of the moment stuff so no two are the same is what i'm trying to say in every
59:37
single case we do the very best that we can to do as little damage to the fish
59:46
get it exposed to the camera properly and get it back in the water and
59:51
swimming away as we can there is just the only way i
59:57
can say it to you we take and there have been a i won't see a lot but there have been cases
1:00:04
where we've had to work with that fish for minutes if not half hour 20 30 40
1:00:12
minutes to make sure that it is totally revived before we let loose because just letting it loose is not going to cut it
1:00:18
for us but i i say all of that because in most cases most anglers don't necessarily
1:00:24
have to do what we have to do and when we're off camera we don't do anything like that
1:00:30
okay not even close but we know that in order to have a fishing show that you enjoy and that we can produce
1:00:37
we have to show you once in a while what these fish look like in that moment and that's why we handle
1:00:43
having said that putting your hands into a fish's guilds or a gill area no matter how careful you
1:00:50
are no matter how many times you have done it there is still
1:00:56
danger that you're going to make contact with the gills when you see us lifting a fish by the gill plate it's because we've
1:01:03
spent 40 years i won't say perfecting it but certainly we have a lot of
1:01:08
experience on where to place that hand as i said before there is no good place to do it
1:01:14
anytime you put you introduce it's like me putting my fist into your lungs it's not good so i don't don't take this
1:01:21
the wrong way it's not but there is you know there are ways to do it that will mitigate
1:01:27
the potential damage and that is by just holding the gill plate making sure that you make no contact
1:01:32
with the gills themselves because that's where where the fish will get in trouble but having said that you
1:01:37
know catch and release is just that catch the fish bring it to the boat reach over the boat pair of pliers shake
1:01:45
it off and off you go that should be the way it's done but that once in a lifetime trophy
1:01:51
yeah it's it's uh it's it's difficult at best and believe me if we
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didn't have to i'm gonna throw a figure out here and see if pete agrees with me um there have been certainly in the last
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10 years i'm going to say four or five cases where we have killed a fish
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in the last 10 years that absolutely we could not get that fish back in condition to swim
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away from our boat it it has happened but very rarely we'll we'll we'll at at the chagrin of
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our crew by the way the the shooting crew will stop production if it takes us the rest of the day we'll
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do it that fish has got to be healthy before we take it back and then many times we've done that the guys are
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probably wondering what's the and the fish are sitting upright the fish are looking like they're ready to go but we know you i mean
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everybody watching here knows that fish is going to give you kind of a telltale sign of it and they're just saying what are you doing hang on to that thing if we get we turn
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it the right way because the current we want that current going into the face and not back into the gills and all that but
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going back to that going back to the hand in the the gill plates i mean it's it's pretty it's it's kind of
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easy for us because we've done all of like the musky guys out there we're all very good at it it's basically
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i can't even see my hand you kind of if you your fingertips here this is the gill plate if you're going in against you if you put
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your fingers in like this into a gill of a fish you're going to touch something if that's just a gill area you keep your hand turned in like that right there
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and just run it up the inside it's very hard it's very smooth on all fish walleye bass you don't have to do it but
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it's the same thing walleye and muskie and pike are classical you just keep those fingers curved and slide it in ever so slowly
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it's like a perfect handle under there that you can get a hold of them and you don't put your whole jam your whole hand on your wrist you go
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into your fingertips until it hits into the pocket of your hand then you know you get the good grip you get underneath its belly and you give it
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a good hold and that grip on there even if the fish thrashes is is better for the fish because that good
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that strong grip that you have on there is usually that fish will thrash it still won't touch his gills
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but he won't hit the bottom of the boat and then what's the problem people are dropping fish and getting the bottom of the boat so
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and that's a matter of opinion because you know how i feel about that i would prefer not to do that and i
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would prefer uh jason white is asking that question pete
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you know which is better trying to control the fish by the plate or trying to handle the fish by
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holding it under the belly and and you know you're going to get two different opinions here
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and both of them are right both of them are wrong by the way i i try first and foremost
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my goal every time that i have to hold a fish for an opportunity to photograph it
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i first try and use the old you know subdue by the the belly hold and only when i've
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exhausted that will i ever go to holding the guild type
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pete believes and and like i said there is no right or wrong here by the way holding it by the gill plate is you know
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you're minimizing the chance of that fish flopping out of your hands and hitting the boat or shore or
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wherever you happen to be you got a 10 pound walleye in your hand yeah you've got the belly under them and
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he's not like a small mouse they definitely succumb to the belly hole you know you put your hand
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under a smallmouth belly and they're it's like they go to a trance so that is the one fish that doesn't the rest of them
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sometimes do sometimes don't you do that with a eight or ten pound walleye and then you get the grip on the tail
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like that and i'll guarantee you a 28 to 30 inch walleye starts thrashing chances are he's going to hit the bottom
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of the ball so just to let that's my opinion on that's why i don't do it now i have small hands i'm a small guy i have very
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small hands and this gripper here on the tail area i can't get a good grip around that whole tail so when he goes
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you can stop it but a lot of times when that fish goes crazy thrashing he's gonna hit the bottom of your boat
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too so that's my opinion on that one so so like i said it's uh there is no
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wrong just be careful either method that you have holding it by the belly and
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and the wrist or or the tail is a pretty good option if you you can do it yeah
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if you can hold on to it and and to keep it from flopping uh if not the other works well one thing
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i want to bring up and uh and and some of you are are writing into us as we speak about it the important thing
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is that we all have um excuse me for a moment can you take over
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apparently i have an emergency here the countess needs me for something she probably i
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want to sneer let's hear the business of the fish in canada i'll read a couple uh so we got a couple people here um first
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off i i got to go back to handlebars i think where it wasn't he said pass me
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it hold my beer and then the ugly bike uh like that one
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too and then pass me a pierce's vince so i'm hoping your boys are actually drinking and girls we're having a beer
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while we're doing this that would be most awesome i'd like to know that we're entertaining and sitting
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together in all fun and somebody's enjoying a friday afternoon beverage i think that's awesome
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uh one of the nice things about doing live is that you get all kinds of unexpected little breaks like that but
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but anyways what i was saying um is uh
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whatever the method that you use for catch and release uh people still to this day
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say to me well how do you know those fish survive how can you guarantee
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those fish are going to swim away and and like you say live to be caught another day
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and my answer is very simple i know you're going with this one it's really i say i can guarantee you
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with total certainty that 100 of the fish that i release and the
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chance to survive versus the ones that you put in the cooler and put on the barbecue not that
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there's anything wrong with putting them on the barbecue don't get me wrong i don't want to have anybody saying ah there you go
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no i'm just answering a simple question does live release work catch a release work
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100 guilty that it works versus killing the fish that's all i can
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tell you for sure anything else i'd have to make up because i don't know there's been all kinds of studies
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there's been all kinds of reports there's all kinds of opinions on it but i know that if i
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killed every fish i came in contact with that would be 100 percent more mortality
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rate than i have by releasing law that's all we've caught we've caught fish everybody
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watching here has caught a fish that's got some kind of a mark on its mouth or whatever from before and it's been healed over from looks
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like a couple of days to a couple of years you know what that fish was more than likely caught by
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somebody else and released by somebody else and it's lived again to uh to be caught by you and you put them back it could go
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through the whole thing again you know what i mean so that it's just battle scar yeah maybe that fish
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shouldn't have that mark because it was caught to begin with but it was it was an accident but the fish got put back it's been alive for two years obviously
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you have an effect that it's feeding and now you've got it again and you put it back and it's gonna go for another two or three years before it dies on
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natural depth there you go just uh yeah no problem with that right uncle jack says he has to go so can we
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wrap up he's still there he's like those there's like those crawls on the internet the other day with through this okay that's
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it i'm out of here then comment comment comment he just kept coming in i love those guys anyways
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we we certainly hope we've uh uh touched uh uh stirred some emotions in you today
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with some of the topics that we've talked about we we're going to try and do this on a on a regular basis a more regular basis
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uh certainly while we're trying to get through this pandemic and and and maybe when we do
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get through we'll we'll make it a part of our regular scheduling i it's kind of cool uh i think maybe what we should do going
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down the road is is have the folks uh maybe send in questions that they would like us to
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address each week yeah that's easier than reading out the side of the screen to be honest with you
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because i mean yeah we can get some comments and stuff like that and you get the questions but it's it's much easier but answers if you send in stuff
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we will gladly do this this is fun i love it right let's do that let's just say as of
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this day forward when you have got a question that you would like us to address or a
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concern or statement or topic whatever the case may be send us
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that to fishing canada info fishing canada dot com tell us if you'd
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like to addre don't even tell us you wanted us to address it on a live podcast just say
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what's on your mind and then we'll take those every week and we'll we'll we'll do a weekly thing here for now and
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uh and put them out there and see if we can get you answers by giving us a few days notice if we don't have an answer for
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you we will endeavor to get it carol says hi by the way harold caputo says hi she's on the she's
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oh hello carol she must mr lovely northern
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ontario so yeah we would we will honestly we would enjoy doing this on a weekly basis
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or whatever as long as people don't get sick of it and the more i get
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i mean we opened up with this about the pandemic and all that but i really do get the fish talk the info talk and all
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that i love it myself i mean i live for it so if we can give you any insights as to uh
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questions being answered on techniques on tips on generic fishing stuff by all
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means we would love to do this this is great i've got a question for i'd like to address right now how
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come the producers are making you look taller than me in this particular case what the producers dum oh you
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it's you yeah you're that movie the the museum movie what's that museum uh a
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night of the museum you know dum-dum dum-dum there you go exactly let's see anyways um
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thank you very much for joining us it's an absolute pleasure hopefully we we have put last week
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behind us and we're ready to move forward i also hope that everybody that goes out
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tonight at midnight or tomorrow morning for the trout opener has a great time
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uh but does it on with safety in mind with with the
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protocols in mind keep your distance try to wash your hands as often as possible meaning that
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you should bring a hand sanitizer with you in the field and avoid any any social
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interaction i know it's a very social time i know the opening of trout for me it's a very special time of year
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it's that one time here where it is only about socializing and we just have to remember that that what
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should be important to us what the priority should be is getting healthy again getting back to
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where we all need to be and that is free and easy to come and go and do our thing
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again and the only way we're going to do that is to work together and if that means hunkering down
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and staying away from each other for the time being hey let's let's adhere to it that's
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it i'm i'm good to go i got by the way stephen i i cannot
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strum you a fishing song he sees the guitar behind me says he can just draw us a fishing song i'm gonna be able to
1:13:46
wrap up a couple of black sabbath tunes buddy but i don't know any vision songs you know what maybe we'll work on that
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how's that there you go that'd be even good too inside lives of us
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so there you go thank you very much we truly truly appreciate each and every one of you
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and uh your support this past week has been nothing short of overwhelming and thank
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you very much we both appreciate it everybody here at fishing canada appreciates it and like i said at the top of the
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program uh we'll keep doing it as long as you keep watching and uh we'll let retirement just sit on the
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shelf for a little bit longer see you folks that's cool
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you know carp are so awesome they're so strong and so big and burly come on baby light my fire
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look at that little girl absolutely incredible welcome to the
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fishing canada carp cup this could be exciting there's more people talking carp
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in this country now than there were a year ago and it's growing by the day and we have mayhem going on here carp
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fish man you gotta love it
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