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Back Lake Brook Trout
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Mar 26, 2025
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there's always a
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sense of anticipation when we're hiking
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in any of these little small lakes
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i love this kind of adventure this is so
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cool
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whoa easy mama this is nuts
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look at
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piece of gold this i highly recommend
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please wow look at her go crazy now that
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is what the algoma country is made of
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right there
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[Music]
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today's fishing cannon episode is
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somewhat of a nostalgic one for me
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nostalgic in the sense of the quarry i'm
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after the brook trout
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these gorgeous little creatures have
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always been high priority in the bowman
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family fishing adventures
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to this day my dad still tells stories
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of the times running the nipigon river
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rapids in a 20-foot freighter canoe
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always on the lookout for this elusive
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species my dad used to fish here all the
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time
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he's told me old pictures of his his
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specs and he's got like a six and three
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quarter pounder et cetera
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and uh this is very nostalgic for me
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eventually he started taking me on his
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brook road adventures and
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in the process taught me his tricks of
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the trade and more importantly
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just how amazing these treks in the
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canadian wilderness are
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so as you can probably guess today i'm
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after brook trout
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look at that painting right there but
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i'm not on the nipigan
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nor am i on a crystal clear stream
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today i'm fishing a small back lake
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north of the town of massey in ontario's
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algoma region
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angelo and i have experienced some
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amazing rookie fishing in these lakes
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that's why this is one of the most
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sought after game fish on the planet
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people from all over the world travel
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thousands and thousands of miles for
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that little guy right there
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that's gorgeous to be able to sustain
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such a stable population of these
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colorful critters
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and to grow some real brutes everything
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must be perfect
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i've accessed this lake with the
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assistance of the staff from richie
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falls resort
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they specialize in both fishing and
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hunting adventures in the vicinity
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as with most new bodies of water that i
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fish if there's any intel to be had
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i gladly go through some fish talk with
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guides lodge owners or locals
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these people know their area so i'm on
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my way into this little lake
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and they're going to load up the atv to
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put the the new mercury on for me
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got a little bit of extra equipment that
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we got and uh so i'm gonna get in there
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and hopefully get a cast or two on the
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shore before they even get in there
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and then i'm gonna try my hand at some
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brook trout i'm looking forward to this
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big time i love this kind of adventure
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this is so cool
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there's always a sense of anticipation
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when we're
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hiking in any of these little small
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lakes there's always this feeling of
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that
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it's like a pot of gold at the end of
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the rainbow so it's so cool it's just
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an amazing trek
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go look at this lake gorgeous typical
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speckle lake
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nice clean water small algoma country
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heaven i'm going to try a few casts off
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the shore
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just because i can hear the atvs coming
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behind us now so
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they're already caught up with us i'm
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ready
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hope it's not too hot it's almost fallen
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it's gonna be too warm a day that'd be
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crazy
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since the lake is small i'm gonna cover
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what i feel are the best areas by either
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casting the shoreline
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or by trolling adjacent to it if that
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doesn't work i'll move offshore
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to cover the lake i brought in one of
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the new mercury propane powered
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outboards
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i'm looking forward to putting it to the
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test it's pretty crazy you can
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hook your barbecue tank up to a motor
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now and then
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go fishing that's pretty cool
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got one as soon as i put it in gear
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oh yeah he got off
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no he didn't
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got one as soon as i put it in gear
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oh yeah he got off
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no he didn't that's crazy
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i just put it in gear to troll i'm
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saying
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i can't use the merc because it's too
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noisy so i'm going to troll to the next
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spot
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and i hit a fish everything was just
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screwy there
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my my line was off the off the uh
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my bail was still open i just did throw
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the cast out there oh i had to grab the
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line and
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set the hook might be a trolling day
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which i have no problem with there he is
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right there good looking spec nice
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beautiful
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whoa oh
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did they ever spin around and catch up
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on you look at that fish
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that is what the algoma country is made
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of right there
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a lot of other stuff too but i've taken
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100 casts
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today and not a bump put the new propane
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in gear
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and pop a fish right off the bat oh look
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at that look at that
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my friends that is that is
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it for a trout fisherman i'm not
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i'm not a trout expert but i love trout
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and this is my favorite trout by far
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that goes through history of my family
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because my dad was an avid
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crazy spec guy we'll call him i gotta
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turn him around and get him towards
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that
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baby
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this is a nice one to start the day with
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trolling
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ah that is so cool this is so awesome
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you can leave them right in the water
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like this that's bigger than i thought
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when they rip a drag run like i don't
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know if you saw that just
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you know you got some power on in there
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so i'm sitting here in the net he's he's
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fine because his gills are in the water
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it's just like like a live well right
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here
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in his environment 60 degree 59.9 degree
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water temperature so
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he's good oh look at that
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what a beautiful specimen of a
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that fish an algoma brook trout square
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tail look at that tail squared off they
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call them square tail that's their
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nickname
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brook trout or speckled trout he's got a
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snub nose this guy's got a
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snubbed off nose i'm gonna put him back
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right here folks
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look at that are you kidding me
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see you buddy by all means i should have
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lost that fish i'm going to have my bail
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open when i set the hook
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oh my god everything was wrong but i got
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her
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him or her so that's cool a little spoon
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luckily i just sharpened my hooks too so
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let's try trolling again to that point
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if i can get a trolling bite going today
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casting is bye-bye propane that's
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probably the first
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brook trout with a propane mercury
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ever caught i'm going to say it is
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anyways
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just because i can ah that is so cool
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i got off oh no he's still there i think
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he's still there
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man these things rip out here real quick
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i don't think this is a big fish
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i think this is quite a small one but if
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this
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okay this is weird only because
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it's exactly the same way as the other
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fish yet
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threw the cast out put the boat in gear
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with the merc
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and the fish bites is coming in real
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easy but
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a little specky little gorgeous specky
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look at him
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tiny but you know what he's the right
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species look at that guy
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and i just put this little glow spoon on
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too so i'm hoping that might be uh
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that might be the tick and they say this
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lake has got
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this this size up to eight pounds
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i could not imagine i've never seen an
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eight pound spec before i don't think
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brookie i call them specs all the time
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but
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look at that little guy how awesome is
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that little fish
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that's exactly what you catch in the
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creeks right there
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i'm gonna fire him off because he's got
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a couple of hooks in them
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there's one out and this guy comes out
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and we're done
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see you little bud that's awesome
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got my glasses what that's cool that's
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weird it's got to tell me something i
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mean
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obviously there's time that goes on
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between fish when we're out here fishing
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and shooting television shows we can't
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show you every
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minute of the of the day because it's
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been slow today but
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both fish have come as soon as i started
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the merc up
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took a bomb cast out there put it in
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gear the spoon starts turning
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and they hit it so i gotta just keep
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doing that i guess that was two
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different spoons too so
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two different uh totally different looks
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sizes
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everything else maybe i'm honest
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my goodness this is a great trout
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oh scooped her
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easy wow look at her go crazy now
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i often hear anglers being intimidated
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when going on their first brook trout
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fishing adventure on a lake
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i tell them the way they execute is a
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combination of bass and walleye
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techniques
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when i cast for brookies it's almost to
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the t in the way i work a shoreline for
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largemouth or smallmouth
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of course the bait choices are different
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but the execution is pretty much the
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same
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if you know how to fan cast for bass and
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troll for walleye you'll be fine on any
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brook trout lake
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when i'm trolling it's just like i'm
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walleye fishing i'll vary my length line
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behind the boat
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speed up slow down and even stall my
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speed in order to find that perfect
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presentation for that particular day
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now as you can see i'm trolling somewhat
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close to the shoreline not bad but i'm
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still in
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25 to 35 feet of water to be honest
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i mean i'm a bass fisherman i love bass
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fishing so i like casting more than
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anything
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so i would rather be casting for these
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specs and it's very effective at times
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but i've tried casting
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and i've tried trolling both and the
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only way i've caught any fish at all is
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trolling
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i thought i'd have to troll with the
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electric motor but instead i'm trolling
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with the brand new mark here
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and it's the noise does not seem to
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bother the fish so far so
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if i had my choice i would
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cast over trolling but the name's cupid
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not stupid
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i want to catch some fish here so i'm
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going to troll that's what's working
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and i still i stop every now and then to
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cast and i still can't get one doing it
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so
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and what i'm going to keep doing is is i
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tried spinners a little bit
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but spoons seem to be doing it so i've
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got
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one on that guy and one on that guy so
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far so
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i like this pattern here it's a little
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it's a little cleo
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it's a beat up brassy gold with red on
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it that seems to work good on these fish
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so
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i'm going to stick with that for the
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most part it's a heavier spoon too nice
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heavy small spoon with heavy
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weight to it and i'm just going to keep
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using that i'll go back and forth
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try minnow baits too you know little
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jerk baits i'll try everything but
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probably the spoon is going to be doing
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it for me so
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i got him
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stay on there that fish came back a
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couple times losing my drag right off
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here again
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i got my drag set real loose that fish
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popped me a couple i think he's very big
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he's not pulling hard
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popped me a couple times i'll let it
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back to him
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and do it again on the old red and
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copper colored
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spoon
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you see easy typical trout head
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head head shake shake shake shake shake
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oh this is a nice one he just blew a
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bunch of bubbles out
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this is a nice fish he's better than i
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thought because i would have swore i had
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a little
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quarter pound of cheese on oh look at
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that fish folks if he gets off now
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these fish are just beautiful they're
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just beautiful and
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pull easy don't get your head out of the
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water
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my goodness this is a great trout
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oh scooped her
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easy wow look at her go crazy now the
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fish did not go crazy
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until in the net
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wow easy mama fish is nuts
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wow look at that baby
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look at that brook trout an algoma piece
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of
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gold okay she might flip she might flop
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but that's okay in this
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situation i mean you can't hang on to
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these fish folks i'm telling you right
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now
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they are so slimy and slippery and quick
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look at that you gotta somebody took an
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airbrush to that fish
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because that's what it looks like to me
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there she goes
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that's what i came here for drive to
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i mean drive to fishing location like
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this the most
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stunning setting that you can get into
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and in my opinion
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one of the most stunning fish you can
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catch this i highly recommend
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yep let me get out of here and i'm going
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to catch one more on the troll
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because that was awesome she ate it
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finally
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look at this brookie good looking fish
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they're strong man they are strong and
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they are gorgeous
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to get to today's amazing brook drug
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fishing pete first drove north on
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highway 400 to highway 69
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then turned west on highway 17 to the
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town of massey
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from there he drove north on gravel
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roads 553
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and 810 before ending up at the gorgeous
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richie falls resort
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after enduring the long drive through
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northern bush country on a gravel road
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the luxury and opulence here is a real
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surprise
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it truly is an ontario fishing oasis
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the area i'm fishing today is directly
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north of massey ontario
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looking at a map you'll see it's in the
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heart of fishing country
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it's situated north of and in between
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sudbury and sault ste marie
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it's south of timmins it's flanked by an
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array of true north country heavily
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forested provincial parks and best of
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all
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it's only about a six hour drive from
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those traveling from toronto
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great fishing with easy access i got
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this real
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wimpy limber rod that i rarely use
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at all it's a medium light seven foot
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medium light so the tip is so light that
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it's really hard to smallmouth fish with
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but when you're doing this kind of stuff
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respects especially when i'm running
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braid to a fluorocarbon leader
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that flex in that rod is actually
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advantageous it's like a fly rod
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and it really flexes because these fish
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really shake hard
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but that rod is so flexi that
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that it just seems to help keep fish on
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the downside to it and this kind of
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fishing
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is feel i'm trying to feel that spoon i
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can't really feel it but
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if you look at your rod tip
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you watch it you're going to see this
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and it indicates if your spoon is
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working
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one right there i swear to god i'm just
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about
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back to the launch we're gonna call it a
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day i think
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and i put the trolling motor on i'm just
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heading to the launch
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just about to call it a day
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and this nice nice nice brookie there he
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is right there look at that what a good
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looking fish
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little screamer oh yeah it's a good fish
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these are tremendous fish i will say
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that
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you gotta be real careful when you're
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running braid too i got braid on here so
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you gotta be real careful of your arm
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braid
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because it's so stiff look at this
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brookie woo
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good looking fish wow streamers
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they're strong man they are strong and
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they are gorgeous
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i'm gonna get try to scoop him up i
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think let's see what happens here
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get into that good looking trout oh my
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god look at these fish
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look at this thing look at that folks if
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you can see that thing
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that is just unbelievable
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maybe a little smaller than that other
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one maybe
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maybe not pretty close what a tank
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fall over the net but look at that
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if that is not one of ontario's finest
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sport fish then i don't know what is
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because that is just
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absolutely stunning and there we go i
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got a gorgeous little fish
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that is a beautiful brook trout right
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there folks
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a beautiful brook trout
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they are quick everything they do is
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fast wow
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amazing they are they are such a cool
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fish like
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like they really are they should be a
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bucket list fish of every
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canadian for sure i mean a lot of
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ontario anglers have already caught
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brook trout
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but then you know you can do it in the
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streams it's one thing you pull out
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these little lakes you get a bigger ones
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like that
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you know those are getting to be a
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once-in-a-lifetime size fish
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fight great smaller ones taste great you
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don't want to kill a fish like that
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um they're to me they're a bucket lister
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that everybody should go in after
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i mean this is this is world class
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fishing
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right here
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this is sometimes the best part all
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these whole trips is a nice walk out
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after a great day of fishing but just
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this is your uh typical ontario natural
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world right here
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doing the stuff we love to do in keeping
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up with the bowman family brook trout
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fishing tradition
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this adventure lived up to all the
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anticipation once i found the fish
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i caught some stunning trout it's a fish
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and canada episode that i know my mentor
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teacher and brook trout crazy dad gordy
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bowman will be proud to watch
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today's hot spot is one of the many
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fantastic brook trout lakes that richie
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falls resort has access to
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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there a small one-third
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ounce copper and red spoon was the
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ticket for this trip i love casting
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but soon found out that trolling was the
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better presentation
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it always pays to experiment angelo and
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i always try to bring an electric motor
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for better boat positioning and if need
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be quieter trolling
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but on this day the new propane
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technology worked just fine
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more hot spots like this one check out
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