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GIANT Lake Trout Near Toronto!? | The Fish'n Canada Show
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Mar 20, 2025
“Spoiler alert” there are very few fish caught in this episode… but their size will BLOW YOU AWAY! This Fish’n Canada episode proves once and for all that size does matter as we give up quantity for quality. Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman travel to Lake Temagami in search of arguably Canada’s oldest predator gamefish, the Lake Trout. With some suggestions from one of the lake’s top guides, our boys have the time of their lives battling these early summer, deep-water leviathans!
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we've got new technology on this boat we
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are finally in a position where we can
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use it to its Max got one buddy I got
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one oh he's hugging good oh
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yeah yes sir nice work buddy that was
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crazy look at the size of
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him wow how nice this is
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insane you just knocked the snot out of
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me
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hi everyone welcome back to another
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episode of the fishing Canada show you
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know over the last 3 years since the end
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of the pandemic we've been taking full
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advantage of seeing this wonderful
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country once again as incredible as it's
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been to reunite with the mountains of BC
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the rivers of New Brunswick and the Wild
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of the Northwest Territories we still
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enjoy hanging around close to home every
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now and
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then although we may be taking a rest
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from our usual travel schedule we're not
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talking about settling for a local
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crappie hole or stock trop Pond today
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we're going to show you that the
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monsters so often associated with
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Canada's far North are accessible right
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here in the near north of Ontario just
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hours away from our home turf the
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GTA to do this we're headed to Lon Lodge
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on Lake tamogami to meet with owners
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Adam and Caleb Pew now although this
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Lodge may be legendary on Lake tamogami
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for its Burgers that's not why we're
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here we're here for something else Adam
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specializes in Sharp Shooting world
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class lak tro the concept of sharp
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shooting is something that will be
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familiar to Bass Anglers but might be
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outside some Laker Anglers repertoire
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the reason for this is that sharp
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shooting prefers to targeting individual
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fish after spotting them on your son
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something that is notoriously difficult
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to do because of the Laker's love for
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deep water and erratic movements that
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was however until Liv scope came into
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the
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picture as many of you know now Liv
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scope lets you see fish in true real
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time allowing Anglers to react to the
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fish's every move rather than working
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seconds behind it to add to this
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accuracy and to tilt things really in
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our favor we're going to be
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experimenting with a brand new setup
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designed to take the guesswork out of
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locating these often unpredictable
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fish we've got uh relatively new
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technology on this boat we've had it out
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twice before so this is the third outing
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and we are finally in a position where
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we can use it to its Max cuz we're
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fishing a very deep lake and the areas
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that we'll be fishing are 50 60 70 80 ft
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deep we're fishing for lake trout that
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are either suspended or just just barely
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off the bottom right and this stuff is
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so cool we're going to have a blast you
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could probably see some of it here Pete
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maybe you could walk us through that
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piece so this is basically the uh this
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is a fishfindermounts.com Mount their
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heavy duty Mount this thing is Rock
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Solid you would not believe anybody's
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looking for a good Mount and this thing
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like it is Rock Solid like that is the
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most movement you'll get out of it and
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that's not even clamp down flip it in
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the water one flip with this thing it's
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in the water that's our LVS 62 on there
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we keep that in perspective mode so
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we're shooting out like this now with a
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bird's eye view straight down and we are
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covering not only a lot of water this
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way but since it's a powerful transducer
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we can get out far and it works great in
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deep water on the far one we have
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basically the Mini version of this Mount
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right now we've got a new prototype
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which should be available as this airs
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yes right of the clamp like that this is
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our LVS 34 that's our Li scope plus
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Mount that we're going to put in forward
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View and we're going to use these in
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conjunction with each other so we'll
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have this on in perspective so it's
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going to be scooting out let's just say
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we're shooting out this way you see a
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little fish uh to the left of the screen
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30 ft out you turn this guy around there
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he is we got them lined up perfect we
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know exactly where to cast these fish so
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it in theory it should work perfect we
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got to get the fish to bite but so I'm
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listening to you a and it sounds great
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but my first question comes up is why do
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you need two Liv scope units to
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accomplish that because in the past
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we've used one well you you don't but
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you're going to be more accurate these
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now you're going to be able to
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perspectively see it like that you're
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going to turn right onto it you're going
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to say oh my God you can turn the boat
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to if you want to get the boat straight
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onto it or you basically can cast
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exactly to that
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fish with the boat fully decked out and
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live Scopes ready for the water we're
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heading out to the first spot of the day
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a deep sh coming up from 100 ft into
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56 it didn't take long before we saw
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fish Cruis at the bottom I had the drop
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on
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them got one buddy I got one off the
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back here I'll reel
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in woo how's he feel he's got some
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weight to him I mean he's definitely a
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definitely a Laker a Laker oh he's
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hugging good I got the net kid
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yeah oh he's got nice nice weight to
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them you I love I love the feel of a
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lake trout when they're down that deep
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like a big monster pulling on you oh
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yeah got a stinger hook on that too
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that's a good thing yeah that's the key
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you know I think I think that might be
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the key it's a nice nice Laker this is a
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tamogami Laker right here good size fish
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oh there's that burp we're looking for
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yeah yes sir nice work buddy got him oh
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my God that's a big that's a biggie
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that's good good now you know while Pete
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I'm going to pull the Marlon Perkins on
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him now while Pete works with this fish
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to get him out and resuscitate I just
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want to point something out we're
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approximately 5 hours north of the GTA
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where you've got over 6 million people
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and this is not even a big fish for here
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okay there's Andre's little
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ler there we go let's see what happens
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see you buddy yep
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byebye our first tamogami Lake trip nice
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job buddy and I love of the fact that
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we're working on other fish and you get
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them right below the boat that is just
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typical
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perfect after an's boat with this big
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Laker was finished we realized it was
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nearly 10:00 a.m. a time that Adam
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warned us about it's typically the end
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of the morning lak tro bite especially
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In the Heat of the summer we tucked it
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out in this spot for a few more hours to
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test the theory but Adam's midm morning
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rule of thumbs seemed to be correct the
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fish in the screen became wary of
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everything we dropped to them time to
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regroup record an outdoor Journal Radio
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podcast and prepare for the next morning
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bite on day two we wake up before the
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sun wipe the dew off the seats of our
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Princecraft and glide along the glass
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calm lake behind our guide Adam slows
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down in front of us at as the sonar
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begins to climb from 120 to 68 ft and
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his voice crackles through the
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radio this is where dreams come true
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boys it took us about 5 minutes to
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figure out
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why nice I don't know but I was just
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reeling in I was reeling into casting
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another one there he is right there in
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the scope that's a big fish buddy he's
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going back to the Bottom now that is a
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big fish this is a cool Lake that
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doesn't get beat up like Lake Superior
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like it doesn't beat you up this lake is
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so protected he an like it's a huge Lake
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you know what but there's all kinds of
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islands it fishes like a small Lake yeah
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it's it's a large body of water but it
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fish is very much like a small Lake
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you're not feeling that you're in an
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ocean come on give me a prediction come
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on I I hope it gets in the
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net that's all I hope
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for there you go
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perfect right here watch this folks
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watch this that's the fish releasing
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look at them look at them all oh perfect
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man that's what we talk about burping
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lake trout right there how cool is that
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there you go yeah perfect oh perfect
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positioning nice fish too oh he's got a
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te oh my God these things are massive
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buddy These are nice fish oh my
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God nice good Scoop good Scoop brother
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okay I'll hold them here if you want to
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get down and do us the honors nice nice
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I love it you know why you got I'll bet
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you no I'll bet you you had your line
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when he first hit your line was caught
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around it now it's pushed it back down
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look oh wow yeah drop
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oh oh burping that bur still burping wow
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how nice is that this is insane this is
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insane typical leading edges on the uh
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on the fins here's the lip we were
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talking about check that that caught
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before
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no it's a growth buddy you think so yeah
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look a growth he's got on there
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okay that's
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him there he goes look at that straight
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down look I'm looking at him I'm looking
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at him he's a bit left now going under
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theat he's straight under the boat look
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at this we're getting them all the way
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down he's at 30 ft already he scared
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every piece of bet oh you all looking at
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good work
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brother oh that's amazing I love
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technology oh yeah I love technology
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makes our job fun it's just a
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blast talk can't tell yet buddy but I
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sculpt that fish I I cherry-picked that
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fish right out of the tree I don't care
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how big he is it was so classic on the
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screen yeah that's him right there is he
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running oh yeah he's going down oh
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that's
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AIG it really is video game fishing in
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that sense like makes it fun that Rod
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has not L up one second since you sit
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that hook yeah now he's on this side
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okay Oh's com to jump oh what a fish
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what a fish he jumped almost that was
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crazy look at the size of
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him no it's a
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shark nice
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nice oh and the baits outside of his
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mouth little chubby that perfect
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okay oh my God this guy's fat he's fat
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oh look at the size of this fish
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folks nicely hooked too oh beautiful
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it's so nice when they come out like
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that this fish has got girth not so much
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good Lu lifting that thing up I know big
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as you are no
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kidding I'll lift up underneath here
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okay yes there you go there you go there
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you go holy how about that for a belly
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of a
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Laker that now that's my biggest Liv
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scope fish ever obviously my God that my
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God so beautiful oh my God and that's
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what Pete was talking about the tail
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it's so powerful this wrist they call
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this the wrist it's got so much strength
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one little flop of it and it just moves
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she's going to go back folks look at
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that a life scoper I love it that fish
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come over and attack my
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bait that is scary that's a monster
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buddy nice
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job when you're releasing these fish
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like this if they're going on their side
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like that they're not quite ready once
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they get theirself
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uprighted then they're usually ready
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think of it as you running a a bit of a
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marathon and needing a rest to get your
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breath back you know get yourself
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collected that's basically what the fish
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is doing I honestly don't think it did
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get all this air out cuz it burped up
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here yeah on I can I can feel that it's
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got air in it right now one thing that
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may be crossing your mind as you watch
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this episode is the issue of bar trauma
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after all we've been talking repeatedly
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about it on the Outdoor Journal Radio
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podcast The increased mortality rates
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caused by fishing in deep water and the
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ethics around doing it during the heat
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of the summer are a bit of a concern
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however lake trout are an exception to
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the rule unlike most fish who rely
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solely on outside pressure to regulate
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the air in their swim bladder lake trout
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have the ability to manually inflate and
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deflate theirs when transitioning from
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drastic changes in water depth they do
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this by literally burping out the air
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from their swimbladder something that's
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even visible on Liv scope as we watch
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the fish swim to the
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surface that being said this does not
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take the mortality rate all the way to
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zero especially given the lake tr's
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tendency to give hard prolonged fights
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as they make their way up from Deep
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Water this was evident on my second fish
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that required quite a bit of TLC and a
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unique piece of equipment to get her
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back down to depth and ultimately
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swimming away okay as an is holding this
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fish we know she's got a bit of she
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hasn't burped enough you know if it's
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Barr whatever it is she just needs to
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get air out of her one way of doing it
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if you don't want to stick a needle into
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the fish is you use a descending device
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and what I got here is I picked all this
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stuff up in different places and put it
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together this is what you buy online I
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bought this on Amazon just this piece
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right here it's just a hook it's a
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really sharp sharp pointed reverse hook
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that goes the bottom jaw of the fish
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like that and I grab a bungee cord cuz
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you want a little bit of stretch and I
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got my buddy sea to make me up a big
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heavy duty weight like this like that
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and it pulls it down so basically I hook
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this onto here we'll do this quick we're
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going to hook that into the fish like I
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said before it's going to pull down with
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the weight all the way down we'll get
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her to the bottom because lake trout are
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great for that they can go to any depth
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like that once you get down the fish is
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hooked like this you literally with the
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bungee you go like that you
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and you pull it out of the bottom jaw
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and then the fish swims away and then
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you got to reel it all back in put your
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net down yeah hopefully the weight will
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be enough yeah I don't know if it will
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be or not no we're going to we're about
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to find
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out it's going
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down look at that we can see it on the
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Liv scope that is great how far down
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you're at halfway 35
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ft and yeah she's kind of leveling off
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and then just slowly moving
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around 40 ft
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45 that is incredible to see this
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happening on Liv scope is absolutely
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nuts now it's supposed to pop
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out there we go nice she should be down
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there yeah she just wandering back and
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forth now up about to 990 ft oh really y
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cool and just swimming there is no way
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that we could have ever experienced that
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without this technology oh yeah sure
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right nice work brother worked I'm going
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it's a first time I've used it that's
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awesome it
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works this hot spot is an underwater
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hump on lake tagami that holds a
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multitude of fish species including of
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course lake trout the way point on your
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screen will get you there the key to
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catching the residing Lakers here during
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the warm summer months is to scour the
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Deep drops on the outside edges of the
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sh we'd recommend at least 50 ft deep
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with 60 to 80 ft being best for us of
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course if you have Liv scope on your
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boat it will make things much easier in
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locating fish trust us big Lakers show
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up perfectly while scoping these deps
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catching them though that's another
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story we'll leave that up to you please
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remember the big lake troat are a
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minimum of 25 to 30 years old and some
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fish on this Lake will exceed 75 years
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of age a True Canadian giant that
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deserves to be released back into the
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wild for more hotpots like this one
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check out fishing canada.com
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that's better he he fooled me at first
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youve got a giant here buddy this Le
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least 20b I'm not kidding you I cannot
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move that fish he's doing pretty much
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everything he wants he just going where
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he wants yeah I got no control over this
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at all none fish is back and forth what
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the heck I'm snag do you like what the
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this is weird isn't it it is weird very
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weird especially at first I didn't think
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he was all that big there he is right
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there look at
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him that is unreal this fish is
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unreal I've never seen a leg troat this
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strong no not not part of the world
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anyways that's for sure this is more
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like great slave kind of fish to be
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honest with you I cannot lift this fish
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I'm not putting this on folks this is
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real I've never look at the bubbles the
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best oh my God that's so cool that is
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crazy yeah he's going around I got to
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get around around the
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front sorry buddy I don't know what to
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tell you about oh there he goes again
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there he is there he is there he is
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oh oh my
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god oh look at oh look at the head on
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here
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buddy I'll drive him into you if I you
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can just get his moment look at the head
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on this fish folks Little Closer
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look at the oh my God he's a lot bigger
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than I thought holy crap dude oh my God
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can you the size of this fish hey
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beautiful wow folks I'm just shaking
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that's I was not expecting anything like
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that I mean there was a lot of weight
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there but I thought I might have had him
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foul hooked or something the way he was
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P at the very end yeah that was
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crazy oh my God you got him oh easy
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oh how's
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that he got head knocked us s out of
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me that is the near North baby As Good
19:43
As It Gets Lake tagy are you kidding me
19:46
that is unreal are you kidding me right
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now wow dude in you go how big is that
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fish how big is that I don't know but
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it's big 25 lound isn't it oh it's got
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to be it's got to be let's put
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he the toughest fish put in the net just
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drop okay no I'm going to put him in a
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net we'll just see if we can slowly that
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fish put up the fight of a lifetime
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man let's see if we can get him fully
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revived there we
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go there he goes good go you watch look
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at that see you big fell like a big
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shark oh my God on down he's just going
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to get he's just orientation is out a
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bit he'll be good oh my God swimming
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like that look at his mouth's going look
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at how clean this water is this is
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amazing look at him he's still he's
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doing a circle this is great this is
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like watching your dog run away in
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Saskatchewan and you can see him for two
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miles that's what we just witnessed
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there my God that is about as strong a
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fight as I've had yeah he from a fish
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outside of nwt or the Yukon yeah yeah
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woo nice job buddy you tired a little
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bit I'm going to sit out
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around getting there brought to you by
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Laker fishing on Lake tagami we first
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drove North on Highway 400 until we
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reached the city a berry once there we
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continued North on Highway 11 we stayed
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on Highway 11 through North Bay until we
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reached the lake we finally turned West
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on Lake tagami access road this is the
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main access point to Lake tamogami once
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you get to the end you'll see the car
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park and boat launch once you launch
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your boat Lun Lodge is right around the
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bend you can stay at the main Lodge or
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rent a cozy private cabin Lon Lodge has
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a full meal plan available
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but if you prefer to cook your own meals
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each location comes with a full kitchen
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Lon Lodge is famous for its Lon burgers
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and no it's not an actual Lon Burger
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it's just a real catchy name and finally
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if you're a hardwater angler Lon Lodge
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