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Family Carp Fishing | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete takes his son Hunter on a Carp adventure "extraordinaire" to Lakeside Cottages on Katchewanooka Lake. Hunter soon learns that in order to catch the biggest fish of his life, it will take a world of patience. There's no better way to spend the day than with some family carp fishing! ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada 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/fishncanada... ► 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, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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i brought my boy hunter here his biggest
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fish to this day has been like a four or
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five pound bass that can definitely beat
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can guarantee that
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holy crap
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are they strong or what they're insane
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let's go let it go
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lakefield ontario an idyllic
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family-oriented community nestled at the
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edge of cottage country on the scenic
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autonomy river it's a picture-perfect
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setting for this week's very special
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fishing canada episode to celebrate
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father's day i'm being joined by my son
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hunter for a couple of days of
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father-son time and what better way to
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enjoy some quality bonding than to set
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up a pair of carping rods on the nearby
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shores of katsuwanuka lake at the
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perfectly situated lakeside cottages
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we came on holiday at 97 and we stopped
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at lakeside cottages we loved the area
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so much we decided to emigrate to canada
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and here we are today still living the
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dream
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if ever there was a carp fisherman's
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dream lakeside cottages is it
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especially with the seasoned carper like
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mike to lend his expert guidance
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the idea is to keep him there all the
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time otherwise they just eat the feed
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and move off
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i brought my boy hunter here his biggest
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fish to this day has been like a
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four or five pound bass do you think
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that hunter bowman is gonna catch a
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bigger fish than a four or five pound
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bass that can definitely be beat can
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guarantee that
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you think you can handle this stick yes
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sir
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so what you're going to do is you're
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going to pick this up
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you're going to turn the reel handle you
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have to turn that real handle because
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right now it's the line wants to fly out
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right and then you just let it go until
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it starts going and then then you can
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give it a little bit of a sweep set you
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can give a nice if you want to give a
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little hook set but don't go
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no you don't need to do that these hooks
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are razor sharp and there and it's
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already in his lip but it's already
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hanging off his lip by the time you pick
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this up so when he's taken off and
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ripping you just hold the rod just let
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him go because you're not going to do
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anything once he slows down he stops
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pulling line out then you can then you
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can start doing that and you got to save
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your energy because if you've got a 30
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pounder or 40 pounder on
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you're going to be here for a while it's
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going to be fun you're going to love it
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i can't wait
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unfortunately when it comes to carp
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fishing waiting is definitely part of
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the game
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most of the game
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it's a whole lot of waiting rewarded
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with an intense unparalleled fight
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provided one of these monsters takes the
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bait
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if hunter is going to experience battle
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with a carp his patience is first going
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to be put to the test
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okay here we go
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ready
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three two
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one go
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oh
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and
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as the setting sun looms just over the
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tree line hunter retreats to the cottage
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defeated by a long uneventful day
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until
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hunter
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as soon as he left
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as soon as hunter left this fish hit i
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can't believe it he just took off
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he took he's like dad i'm going to go
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back to the campus it's starting to rain
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i had to take the fish but he'll come
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out i think hopefully he's coming
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come on kid you got to get this fish
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that's hilarious i swear to god i was
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taking pictures i turned the old hat on
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backwards started taking pictures of
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this rod and it started and it started
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going on maybe that's what i had to do
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he can't hear me
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oh my gosh
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mike is saying that they're they're
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spawning on the other side over there so
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the spawn the spawn is a tough time to
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catch carp but
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he figures after two or three days
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they'll spawn out they're done and then
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that the size of this you know these
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fish
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they have to eat so they're not like
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they can't go a week or whatever they
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don't want to go a week without eating
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he says they'll come in and they'll eat
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pretty good
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there he's coming he's coming in the
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golf cart
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come on i got a broken arm i need help
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okay step back in the grass he can stand
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back just he's going towards the now put
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the rod like this hurt
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put that sort of in there anyway like
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that yeah yeah and then
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and then just pull like that now pull
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the rod sort of sideways towards yeah
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that way then reel down and then reel
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pretty strong hey a little different
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than a bluegill or a rock bass isn't it
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and don't give them slack when you reel
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it in don't give them slide just nice
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and easy and reel it in holy crap
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they're heavy aren't they
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are they strong or what they're insane
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this is not even a big one
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we got him
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good job buddy
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that's tag teaming
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i think that's your biggest fish yeah i
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don't know oh that's my biggest
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we'll bring them over to the landing bat
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my first carve eh that's it
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all right i think i'm good good
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beautiful
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beauty buddy beauty
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take that take the front
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yes yep take it lift it lift it oh he's
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gonna go okay
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that's by far the biggest fish i've ever
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caught hopefully we catch a bigger one
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tomorrow exactly is it it's a perfect
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way they're starting to rain still gets
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done i'm gonna get a bigger one i'm
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gonna get a bigger one okay buddy you're
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on
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the challenge is on
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another important lesson in carp warfare
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it ain't over till it's over
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after that shot of adrenaline hunter is
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chomping at the bit to tackle another
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day of carping
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the next day before going a slow
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afternoon carp bite hunter and i decide
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to take the princecraft under the lake
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and see if we can't beat hunter's
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personal best bass the weed beds i'll
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show you where to where to cast
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i put the hook beside the worm right
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i say okay there's where it's going to
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go so i put my thumb on my finger right
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there
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that's where it's going to go in the
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worm when i bring it back
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and go right beside my thumb
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straight in
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and straight through so you bend the
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worms and go straight through
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now you're like that and then you push
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it in
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thank you hey trust me you'll hear me
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when i see something you know that
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look at that
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that is so cool
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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh see one yeah i
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see one night yeah
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okay i thought that was a fishy
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laying right up on a rock
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was it a fish yeah so what you what you
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need to do with that senko
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hang on hang on hang on
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you go for it i knew it no i'm not going
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for it you're going for it
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yeah i'm going to throw it for you just
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for this one because i know where he's
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sitting
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is he's chilling right now he he looked
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at my jig he actually took a look at the
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jig
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okay right
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there let her drop here let it drop like
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that
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right here's coming here he comes
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i see him i see him i see him
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come on eat it eat it don't move it
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don't move
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now pull it a little bit pull it pull it
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get it over that rock
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okay so you know what it might this
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means to me what we got to go to
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something different he doesn't like the
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bright let's go to the money color
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this is my killer color
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if he doesn't go after it if he doesn't
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go after this we'll do a
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wacky rig and just to see if he takes it
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we'll go too far see what you do there
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you go past it
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and then you just reel it closer
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that looks to me like it could be a nest
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this is all cloth look at that this is
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all man-made stuff oh you know what we
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got to leave this one alone why because
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he i think he's nesting yeah he's yeah
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he's spawning let's let's leave him
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alone it's legal to do it now because
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season's open however it's not
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moralistically right we catch that fish
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there's a bluegill that's sitting right
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over here somewhere i saw him just a
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minute earlier as soon as we pull him
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off the nest
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that bluegill comes in
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eats as many eggs as it can or fry baby
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bass and then we're looking at him
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beautiful fish now he's taking pictures
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meanwhile the bluegill and about four
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more others that come out of the weeds
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and they'll just raid that nest brutal
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so we're we're trying to keep the
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population up for
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five ten years from now so by us not
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bothering that fish and looking for fish
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that are finished spawning we're doing
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our part to you know for conservation so
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it's hard to do because you're seeing
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that fishing oh i can catch them but
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that's why it didn't bite anyways
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because it's in protecting mode so
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so we'll move on it was very cool seeing
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it but you established something we know
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that some of these fish are spawning
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here right so
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that tells you something that means this
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uh it could be real tough for every
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species of fish
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this could be further evidence to
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support mike's theory if in fact the
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carp are in spawning mode they may not
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be inclined to take a chance at our bait
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that could spell disaster for this
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carping expedition
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come on hunter
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it's a big one buddy can't relate it's a
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big one yeah you want to reel it in oh
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did you see that
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reeling it
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oh my god this is giant it's a big
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smallie bud
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oh it's gone oh no it's not it's not
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gone no no it's not
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it's as big as a carp okay
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these are bacon i gotta try and get them
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you're gonna have to just hold them like
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that
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okay bring them towards me the lot the
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whole rod tip
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that's a nice fish
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that's a big bass can i hold them of
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course you can
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nice nicely done buddy it was our
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catcher that's our catch we're a team
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now kid
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teamwork team bowman
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hunter go go go
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let go let it go
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oh my god
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oh you're killing me
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as evening falls hunter and i returned
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to lakeside ready for a second boat with
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these elusive carp
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as we wait we come up with some rather
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unique ways to redefine the waiting game
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i'll name the tune you're playing
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okay ready
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okay go
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it's obviously a metal band
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oh my god i know this
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oh you're killing me
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war pigs
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okay
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okay
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okay
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there's a fish let it go there you there
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you go hit the button
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don't give slack don't give it slack
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like that real real real real quick
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quick quick quick i want you to start
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walking a little bit more this way too
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just a bit this way don't worry no panic
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no panic
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oh jeez these guys are crazy keep that
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rod bent all the time i'll grab the net
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come on i think it come off
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did it go up no did he real quick real
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fast oh it did
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oh no
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oh my god
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that was just a warm-up maybe that was a
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little 12-pounder you're gonna get a 35
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now and jump yeah good they're on then
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yeah maybe tonight's the night
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if tonight's the night these carp are
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going to have to crank it up to 11.
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there's less than one hour of daylight
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remaining
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grab it grab it grab it grab it lift it
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and start reeling
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like that right there you got it come
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over this way
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real
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like that stop up and then and then up
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and down another one
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dude
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can you reel up pull up and then reel
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well that's a good fish
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come over this way a bit nice and slow
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always keep that rod bent okay
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how strong is that
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crazy
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oh not slack no slack remember that oh
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oh my god off again reel it real real
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fast it broke reel it
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came off again
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what is going on here oh
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that wasn't your fault hunter son of a
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gun i think the line broke
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yeah the line broke did it really zebra
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muscles maybe
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yeah
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would you count that one
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no
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man that was going to be a big one
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geez
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next try we're getting a nice one okay
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for you guys
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if there is a next time it may just be
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our last chance
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oh go go go go get it that's awesome
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that is the best fishing in the world
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to get to today's fantastic car fishing
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on catch manuka lake hunter and i first
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drove east on highway 401 to highway 115
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north we next turn east on highway 7. we
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then turn north on highway 28
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south on road 29 and finally north on
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stenner road follow stenner to the water
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and you'll end up at lakeside cottages
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on your left
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oh go go go go go get it
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pick that rod up
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he's a monster okay
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nice and easy it's nice and easy buddy
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okay he's way out there still
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you got lots of time lots of time you're
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doing good
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i am so tired already
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well that's out there a mile buddy
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you've got a good one going on here okay
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come on
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up here
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keeping the same thing now you're doing
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great stay right there stop right there
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yep perfect
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good looking fish look at that is he
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huge oh yeah he's bigger i think
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walking backwards
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got him
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yeah we got him that's awesome that is
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the best fishing in the world
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oh that's a that's a lot bigger than the
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other the other one on her yeah oh yeah
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oh my god i'm so excited
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okay so mike's gonna weigh him
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we guessing
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all right i'm gonna say 21 20
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25
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maybe
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25 pounds yes
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that one's milking see they're spawning
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mike look he's milking
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here we go three two
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okay set them back in the mat and we'll
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throw them back just a little bit that's
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it hey look at it
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gone like a shark
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this isn't milk or anything no that's uh
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boogers but don't touch me with that
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hey dad you want a high five
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this is crazy
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that and that's typically what carp
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fishing is especially in the spring if
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you hit
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if you hit just the wrong time boom
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they're up in the shallows but as mike
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said
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give these guys two or three days and
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after they're done the spawn thing
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they've got to eat that fish look at
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like 25 pounds of fish nothing has to
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eat every day so maybe two days of
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recovery and then they're back there
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hoovering stuff up so that's bang bang
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bang that's three fish in a row so
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see that that was crazy
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now the hunters experienced a full
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successful duel with one of these
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powerful brews it's time to celebrate
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the team bowman way while it's true that
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there may be no better way to spend
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quality father-son time than with a pair
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of fishing rods especially in a setting
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like this adding a little aussie to the
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mix certainly doesn't hurt
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we get up early and let hunter have a
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little sleep then because he's uh
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he's a kid that he's a typical kid you
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know teenager that wants to have a bit
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of sleep so
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yeah let's go out and and give this a
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crack ourselves
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a nice early morning like that and all
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of a sudden we're hooked up already boy
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that's out there a mile mikey good stuff
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oh this is a giant yep this is a big
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fish i thought it felt big
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in the
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satchel nice job look at the size of
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that cow
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i get there oh
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that's huge
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hunter's sleeping he's going to be so
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angry with me
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i gotta say 30 pounds but it weighs
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37.
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[Laughter]
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my kid's going to go nuts he's going to
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be so angry
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hey it's news you lose there's literal
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right there
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sorry hunter but your old man is still
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the team bowman mvp
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today's hot spot is a deep drop off in
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front of lakeside cottages on
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cachawanuka lake the waypoint on your
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screen will get you there
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this is a perfect hot spot for guests at
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lakeside as they can simply walk out of
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their cottage cast out a line relax and
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wait mike williams has this hot spot
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dialed in with respect to pre-baiting
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the area to draw in fish
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once carp arrive they suck up every last
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bit of feed and hopefully in the process
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find your sweet corn on a hair rig this
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is what we refer to as a perfect family
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shore fishing hot spot as it's extremely
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hard to fish from a boat leaving all the
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fish to the cottagers for more hot spots
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like this one check oh fishingcanada.com
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