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SCARBACK: The Legendary Northern Pike | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete Bowman goes solo as he chases a legend, a massive beat-up Northern Pike called Scarback. His success rate goes up substantially once he switches to a quick-strike rig... but will he be able to boat the scarred beast of Garnham Lake? Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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I'm not gonna catch that fish where did
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you go
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I'm waiting for scarback you're coming -
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lets talk a big game
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disappeared in space the ghosts fit
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start messy things go crazy I could scar
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back every now and then we'll turn the
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fish in Canada so brought to you in part
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by sales the outdoor superstore Coleman
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the Outdoor company musk all proudly
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Canadian since 1951 Cooper Tires life
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the road trip come on let's go and
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Princecraft boat dominates the water
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when you're talking giant play you
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normally take a way up in northern
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material Manitoba Quebec Northwest
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Territories or even Nunavut territory
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but I'll tell you what this little Lake
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right here is only a 10 hour drive from
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Toronto and I guarantee you it will
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rival any one of those while we're still
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within driving range of the Big Smoke
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we've definitely hit some true
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wilderness all it takes is a short
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flight with white river air and you're
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truly alone in the bush we packed up
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everything I need for the OPOs camp bait
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food fishing gear fuel a trusty Merc
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it's funny though everything at base
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camp seems so familiar every scene every
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conversation seemed like a memory almost
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like a dream and then I remember I did
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have a dream of being on garna make of a
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monster fish that no one catch one that
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wore the he'll lose of many bats dear
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devotees dreams I think I'll take this
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earlier
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it was an eerie feeling flying over the
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Northern Ontario wilderness I was being
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flown into a small lake right in the
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middle of nowhere and all I could think
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of was that dream I was here for a
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reason I could feel it in my blood I had
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a date with destiny touching down on
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garna my met up with some Michigan boys
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you a fish this lake for years if you
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ever want to know the best fishing spots
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talk to the guys who fished those waters
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if you get the chance they told me about
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a bay at the south end of the lake one
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that was loaded with quite but do you
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want to look for was a massive scarred
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northern that no one could catch and so
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I made my plan I'd start out at the
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Norfolk getting a feel for the
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conditions and then make my way sup when
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the float plane passed overhead I knew I
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was lost time to go to work there's a
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legend out there somewhere waiting for
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me I'm just going to cruise through here
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really small the one's perfect for this
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Bay look perfect to play right together
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that was funny another big plate but but
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you know what I casted that because it's
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not to fish it together and I knew they
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weren't really big but I but I wanted to
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see see how the reaction would be with
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an end you know what laying right there
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and as soon as I look at he's already
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done as soon as I put the little little
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spinner beside him turned to get real
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closely when you turn on it and and hit
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it and that's what I'm trying to do now
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is I'll try and establish if first the
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fish are going to hit artificials like
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this I got a I got some big suckers to
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set up if I need them but that's a small
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fish in this life like a lot of large
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spike that fish here aren't overly
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aggressive sometimes it's good to switch
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things up rather than a quick moving
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spinner I decided to go with the slow
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presentation of a big weightless tube I
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got a treat for you guys
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but sometimes even your best hunches
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don't work time to bring out the big
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guns here he comes here he comes
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I got you this kind of is so cool that
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fish took forever it did to decide on
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eating that minnow and then go right
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into the weeds is perfect that's the
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beauty of that what they call a quick
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strike rig is that when he grabs it you
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nail it even if it's live bait of dead
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bait or live bait clicks record look at
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this guy he left sergeant is heck is
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that because of your water temp brother
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okay sitting on the bottom scales on the
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bottom think he wants to jump there we
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go
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I knew he had something left them nice
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northern listen I came here for very
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lethargic but you know what good fish
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coming up I start my hunt from the
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scarred Mike sometimes an angler has to
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dig deep into his bag of tricks and
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today was one of those days with the
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cold water temperatures these Pike
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really have to be coaxed there's
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absolutely nothing wrong with using a
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combination of lures to get the job done
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when these fish are off man sometimes
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it's you know it's live bait I'm strong
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proponent of live bait as soon as that
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flow goes down you got a pop-up it's
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it's all about quick strike hit them
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fast so the fish does not swallow
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I was there looking for fishes you guys
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are conceding that bring me a little
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bike a little fatty
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let's just go crazy hmm weird but just
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trying it you up just like that a little
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one for up here that's one for the kids
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you bring the kids fish and you let them
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take that you test 20 plus it's right
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kids while I've had a bit of luck in the
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shallows I know if I want to catch the
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big guys I've got to go deeper
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folks down got a good one he's a pretty
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good one this is fun man I was just
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saying you know your float won't go down
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but if you're sitting there talking to a
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camera your front might go down
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he's an easy point you're not huge but
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I'll take you
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I might not even have to touch this
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place did you know that Ontario has the
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best northern pike fishing on the
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continent with exceptional fisheries
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located across the province these
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prehistoric monsters are lurking in
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countless lakes and rivers well bro and
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once they start striking if you're in
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for a ferocious battle pike after all
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have changed very little in the past 50
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million years with their sharp teeth and
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long serpentine bodies these bad girls
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look and fight like evolutionary
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throwbacks and trust me it's the females
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you'll be going for this is a much
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larger of the species with a diet that
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can include fish frogs and small rodents
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muskrat and even young waterfowl pike
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are true predators get one on your line
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and you'll know why they're at the top
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of the food chain
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going after pike definitely puts a sport
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in sport fishing and unlike most parts
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of the country we're catching monster
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pike requires an extended trip to the
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northern regions Ontario's monsters can
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be found in all areas of the province
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north to south for a true fishing treat
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look to Ontario's northern pike you
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don't have to drive fire to find
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adventure in fact it's as close as Go
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Fish in Ontario calm sea goddess it's a
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big it's a big when he flares his gills
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he looks like a monster losing your drag
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right here they see that right there
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that's when you want to loosen to drag
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up a little bit when you get close to
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the boat because they're gonna they're
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gonna take a run there's no doubt about
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it they're gonna take a run some guys
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push their push the button and
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free-spool them come on big guy I wish I
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had a big basket right now for you oh
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baby they're gonna have monster that's a
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big that's a big yeah haha northern oh
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man look at that you know what this is
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not far to the north this is Algoma in
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Ontario and look at that that Pike is
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Northwest Territory size right there
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my favorite part a big Pike right there
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when they take off on the circus move
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thank you big girl
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my realest squeaky's I think it blew up
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my gears actually whoa as they say an L
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Goma oh yeah I'm going to put them back
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down I'll try and unhook them there what
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is these folks okay look at that a head
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on that fish that is a beast of a fish
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right there
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imagine you and the boys coming into a
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little camp like this you fly in camp
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for a couple days this is my first day
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and I just came in here to try and catch
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a big Pike success for today not only
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the lake bye-bye buddy so get it right
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now in my Wade bad whoo there's still
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one bay left and one fish that in remain
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in my sight it's you and me scar back
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just you Andy I've made my way to the
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south end of the lake exactly where my
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us pike brothers plaintively it's now or
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never
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time Doug bear down Oh
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I don't know same one might be you got
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things but he's not back I'd also save
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the day is so full of pipe and it's
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freaky I'm someone dead bait in front of
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them live or dead bait and trying to
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work it as best I can
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but these guys they need a little
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convincing they don't want to eat it
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just dead so they're following it
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they're nosing it when you move it they
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can master it may come after it so look
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at how slow these guys like they're
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they're very very slow in fighting and
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everything so the water temp must be
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really affecting these you know
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that's a decent pike right there that's
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a decent fish but if you look at his lip
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it's all bent and crooked and there's
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mark there's a hole there that wasn't
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mine somebody has caught that fish
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before and catch and release that let me
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catch that fish as well very cool not
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big but you don't want these things make
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up a day they fill the day up you you
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catch I could probably catch 20 of these
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in a couple days staying on the camp
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here this Bay right here alone you can
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going to just load the bowl with them so
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getting back way see you dog
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today's hot spot is a shadow day on
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garnet leg that warms up quickly in the
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spring a perfect place for northern pike
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to rest after this bond the Waypoint on
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your screen will take you right there
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upon entering the bay try conventional
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face like spinnerbaits suspended minnow
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baits and top waters but if the fish
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don't react quickly then bring out the
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live suckers on a quick strike rig it's
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important to remember to set the hook as
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soon as the pike grabs it any hesitation
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and the fish could try swallowing the
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whole rig us hooking it deep in the
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throat for more hot spots like this one
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check out fishing canada.com one of the
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scarback nas and fishing this guy
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screams like stalking big game good you
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see what it that was so cool hahaha
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visible but he couldn't handle it you
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could eat couldn't deal you couldn't
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deal with that live sucka
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you know bad actually not bad at all
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besides fun stuff there folks that is
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blood stuff there
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hello he pulling me around the lake
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right now you know what that's a great
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point I almost did not catch to that
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fish that is a great great pike
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I do that you gotta watch it too because
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they'll catch a rivet the bottom of your
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boat and then you're in trouble
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yeah maybe the toughest Pike I've ever
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caught folks the toughest man he gave me
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okay I'm gonna put him back down in the
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water and then I'm gonna just down
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Hawking my head this I head off nicely
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bad Pike he was getting late in the day
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soon light would begin to fade but read
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Twilight at this northern afternoons he
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feels just right I think it's him again
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we're also I'm starting to see things
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going crazy very common the scar on his
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back that was a big boy my heart is
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pumping
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I seen this fish three or four times
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yes smart butter has the smartest play
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g''l going on right there where are you
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I've seen them epidemic into this Basia
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he does something different every time
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car back where are you it's a small one
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there oh she's gonna come right at ya
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yeah I think it's car back ice Magus guy
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right I just hope it's got a scar on his
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back it you old scar back I know you got
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a scar on you it's definitely a big fat
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who has you got scars on her back yep
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that's her look at this Gator
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what a monster oh yeah that's a good
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fish I didn't even know if tocqueville
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honestly the leader is right across it
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smelled the Middle's on the other side
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no idea if especially my favorite part
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of pike fishing right there when they do
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the big swoosh oh wow
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and catch a rivet on me now another bag
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here look at this oh cool Oh standing
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what a monster can you believe these
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Pike are available with a drive from
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Toronto oh ok yourself there it's time
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for you mama
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show the world how big and bad you are
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I'll tell you what scarbacks
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in the box I got her I've tried so many
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times for this fish look at the scars on
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that beat Wow
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back she goes
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I just soaked again I don't know what
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with scars like that that is still worth
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of sokham girls are going good if you go
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how awesome is this fishing how awesome
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is this little late and you get the pike
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fishing near your lifetime
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obviously I've had to change my tactics
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I wanted to I wanted to get these fish
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on spinners on everything else but I
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came to the back-up plan I came with
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that sucker Rick you know and and it's
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launched it's a quick strike rig and if
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this grabs it and you set the hook to
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see that it's just no it's in the most
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every time so it's not damaging and
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swallow it down like the old-school way
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so and then my glory
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can you tell so and I love it to get the
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today's fantastic fishing location I
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headed north on highway 402 highway 69
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at Sudbury I had west on highway 17 to
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the town of White River
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I then bordered a flow plane at White
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River Air which took me to the southern
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outpost camp on carnally the fish in
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Canada show brought to you in part by
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Ram truck nothing worked harder than a
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ramp turned thrusted on the water since
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1952 mercury and forest number one on
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the water
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and outdoor Canada Canada's only
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