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Fishing The Muskoka For Big Pike and Bass | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman team up with Cooper Tire’s Roy Armes and Scott Jamieson in the stunning Muskoka region. It's a quest for Northern Pike as well as Large and Smallmouth Bass. They compare the business of fishing to the corporate world and catch a bunch of fish as well. 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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the fish in Canada show not to you in
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part by Ram trucks nothing worked harder
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than a ram who favor the number one
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vacuum sealing system stern the
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lifejacket Eckford mercury m4 it's
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number one on the water and outdoor
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Canada Canada's only national fishing &
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hunting magazine it's early morning and
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the last of the mist rises from a
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perfectly flat Lake Joseph one of
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Ontario's most picturesque bodies of
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water I can't think of a better setting
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for a fishing Canada episode now the
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plan is for peat night and meet the boys
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from Cooper Tire our latest corporate
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partner with our duet of Princecraft
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and get them into some great fishing
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there's something to be said about
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mornings in the Muskoka I defy you to
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find a more peaceful and tranquil
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setting it's early fall and we couldn't
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have picked a better day for fishing a
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warming trend has moved in and this
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would definitely trigger big fish into
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biting well it's a beautiful morning
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though another great day in Canada the
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plan was to try and keep the boats
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together in the same areas and do a sort
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of a milk run that we put together with
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our local fishing expert Captain John
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Blanchard or so I thought I guess some
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chains as mine went the other way for
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direction yeah it's already going the
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wrong way
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could have swore he set up that way yeah
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sharing the boat with me today is Cooper
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Tires Big Kahuna the CEO Roy arms whom
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I've been told wields a pretty beat
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Vichy Gras nice northern I always feel
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it's important to connect with our
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corporate partners and get to know them
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and their product and for my money
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there's no better place to do it than
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the bow of the boat consider me today as
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your caddy okay I'm going to be handing
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you the rods on the roller Golf Club
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exactly this is like a game of golf
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while Ange is taking royal for big
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norbit's my job for the day is put Scott
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Jamison on to some of these untouched
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Muskoka bass and we'll start on small
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lakes and then mainly move to large
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holes later on have news great big live
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baits for them I don't think you're
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going to have to do especially we're
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fishing them and trees you're going to
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have to control it you want that bait to
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swim into the tree but of course you
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don't want it to go too far into the
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tree and get a knot up so you're going
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to be constantly kind of pulling back on
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the reins and just pulling them out of
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branches Alette them to mingle right up
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front he's got it again the guy should
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be docking something like that you know
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underneath that thing take your bait
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like this yeah no way
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now I couldn't help to think come across
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that Lake I was noticing the Princecraft
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boat is the really really right smooth
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across the rough water yeah choppy wavy
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but also similar reminds me a lot of
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Cooper Tires on these various surfaces
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and we provide we provide consumers with
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a comfortable ride one that feels much
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smoother on the various Road services I
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didn't know a whole lot about tires
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before I ran into you folks I'll be
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honest with you but the one thing that I
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noticed I don't know much about the
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traction and I don't know much about you
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know the life of the tire but one thing
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I noticed switching over to Cooper's my
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vehicle became it was a different
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monster altogether it tamed it well it's
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a lot that has to do with the design the
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materials that we use but that's exactly
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what we're trying to accomplish is make
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it a much more comfortable ride a much
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smoother ride for our consumers now and
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you know that boats that's what you look
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for when you're on the water right
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absolutely and you get on these
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different that's road surfaces it's
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important you have the right tire we
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have different tires different sizes but
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we're trying to accomplish all the same
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thing that ain't absolutely
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we get to today's Muskoka pike and bash
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we first took highway 401 to highway 400
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north we then took highway 11 North
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Highway 169 but the town of Gravenhurst
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next we turned right onto Highway 118
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and travel to the town of pork car
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lengths finally we turn right on Bailey
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Street to the boat launch at Hana Park
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tell me about your your fishing history
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if you will how did you get started in
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this you know my dad used to take me
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fishing when I was younger but not a lot
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but enough that just piqued my interest
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and I don't know I'm probably 9 10 years
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old when I really started to take an
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interest in it and then as I got as I
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got older you know I used to watch a lot
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of shows on TV both the Canadian shows
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as well as the US show fishing shows
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yeah to learn more about fishing and as
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a result of that you know I got more and
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more excited about it and then when I
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could afford it I got my first boat
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which was a flat bottom John boat oh
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yeah that was built into a bass boat a
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guy's customized I think we've all had
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one of those the IRS and they one thing
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it's taught me a lot is the about
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controlling the patience yeah
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being able to relax at the same time
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provided a really good challenge which I
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think I probably like most Oh
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jump got it I'm going to do that you
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replay that market lately yeah you're
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right I'm gonna help us is there here he
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comes
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one more come on zucchini are you ready
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yeah nope he not
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just look for the rod oh yeah no priming
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bring the rod break from working but
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that's not so much cause they're
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beautiful place this is nice black their
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players they're lost the weight of
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course he's a little fish a good luck
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hook me in the color of these things
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there we go boom Kenny powers down yeah
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you get it to get that headfirst motion
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and there guess yeah pike I don't you
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yes you do yes you do we have life mates
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right up in it I kept throwing around it
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that log that's their rap that's where
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you said hopefully actors we think when
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this greven yeah I've just I'm
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contemplating just hang on let me give
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it some thought here he would be I'd
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like to get a shot of him yeah this
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premium high go make it work I here we
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go
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hopefully we can just keep right there
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hold it tight hopefully you can keep it
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right there he's good I'll tell you what
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I'm surprised you didn't look at look at
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the gut on oh yeah yeah sure we don't
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touch the gill plates there you go my
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friend okay nice will help beat up as
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tailless yeah
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he's been working the shallows for sure
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vests wait a second here yeah try and
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get him okay
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youth oh how is that for nice in
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northern he's not long but he's chubby
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huh yeah a lot of beef she's got a great
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girth oh yeah nice look at the scale
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look how worn this tail is it's just
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been working the shallows this guy yeah
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yeah okay great
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off he goes my friend yeah all right so
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what what plans have you got here for
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Canada what what can we expect in the
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future from Cooper tire up here the more
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we learn about the Canadian consumer
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there are opportunities are greater than
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we originally thought and I think we
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have a lot more confidence that we can
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accomplish that now you say that the
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Canadians align well to Cooper brand
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I'll explain that what do you mean they
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align well with with the brand you know
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and one of the things that we found with
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the Canadian consumers a lot of outdoors
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people here and when you think about our
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light truck and SUV rough terrain we
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build a lot of good quality tires good
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performing tires for those kind of
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vehicles what we're going to do is to
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give them an opportunity to have access
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to those type of tires that we're that's
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very popular force in other parts of the
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world I get this sense that the
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corporation is very much about the
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outdoors and it's very much about what I
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do and what our audience does and and
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that's really fantastic news man
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everything I do in my corporate world I
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got from fishing first of all we have to
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study and map the situation that we have
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to understand the creature that we're
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out against right then we have to come
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up with a system we have to come up with
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with a goal and plans or the system in
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place so that we can make it through and
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succeed well fishing is exactly the same
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as far as I'm concerned you mentioned
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patience well we're better converted
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patient stood out here
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I'm not sure if Scott has much
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experience in the bonus Roy but I'll
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tell you what he's doing a number on
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these Muskoka smiley and enjoying every
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minute of it the power of fishing is
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pretty amazing
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oh come on get out there man come on
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you're getting up we go bye-bye all
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right that's a good fish good fish good
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one awesome man
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that's a good fish Hey okay you got a
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mama yeah he's on he's on I saw him come
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after that all right just hang hang out
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let him do all the work that's a nice
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big old pike Oh No attaboy Roy that's a
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big old fight that I got to go after the
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showcase I'll go after him don't don't
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tighten up okay come on up good he went
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out to deep water perfect man nicely
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done oh that little hey don't you wish
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you had that big big baitcaster eyes yes
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okay something's down he's down deep Wow
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all that is gorgeous oh my god that's
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beautiful man
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look how fat he is yeah and I want to
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get on them too soon he's pretty green
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it looks like he different
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he's gotten wrapped up - whoo that's
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going to be it Jeffrey's afraid all the
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way down there so you're he smoked a
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while all right
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holy backward that's after I tightened
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it up bring him in - Cole Wow
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unbelievable
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whoa whoa whoa baby Wow look how fat he
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is man
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that is beautiful Wow look at the size
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incredible look at the size of it get it
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get out of everybody's yours get out
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I'll take a picture you Wow
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this is what it's all about wow what a
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what a great fish stick look at the
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girth on that fish a light spinning gear
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that's the best part every not spinning
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gear number three MEPs can't get much
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better than X ah
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yoga Larry folks the way you fought that
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fish leads me we've got a lot of
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experience on getting things done in
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tight high-pressure situations after
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board board meetings you learn a lot of
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business absolutely but like I said
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before there are a lot in fishing is
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WebGL on how to how to maneuver things
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how to get things in in this case
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getting them out to clear water so that
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you have a chance of being successful
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landing in that late in the afternoon I
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noticed a tree lying in the water and as
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obsessed as I am I just had to take a
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look
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two large mountain swimming one nice one
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and I'll take a look at Scott he said I
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want to get the bigger one now I do I
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get the smaller one I was going to get
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one that's the small one there's another
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one in there bigger than that you get
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them for the next hour plus I sat in
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that one area throwing everything in the
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book trying to fool that pig wacky
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saenko every time some like this happens
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they just shake I just I want to get
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that there so bad but Nath's worm I've
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never
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meesa whatever it is jig and pig I must
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be a small shaky head come on it's a big
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one I'm sick oh yes
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oh my mind I think ah ha ha ha ha idiot
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I was gonna check that hook uh yeah I
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don't I honestly don't think it was the
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big one I don't think was giant I think
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that was like a three and a half it
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wasn't huge like I said yeah huh I hate
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defeat especially from a huge large bowl
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and just then I remembered that Anton
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Roy brought along some minnows for their
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pike fishing so I gave as a call totally
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got a hog pinpointed under a tree that
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won't bite my stuff but might bite a big
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shiner get Roy's butt over here ASAP
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I'll plug it right on her yes oh we
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killed him that's exactly where she is
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swim baby swim you've gotta get a big
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old man swimming around tightening up a
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little if you're just swimming out
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always got him he's got this big fish
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try to give around luck singer yeah
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hey guys I got hang on just hang on I'll
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go to it I'll go to him you got it
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oh no he's gonna break a slob look at
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the size of that that he's off is that
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you see that ring ah but we won't call
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that reason that is what fishing is all
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about right there right there a plan a
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game plan you did it you want to try it
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again
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[Music]
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today's hot spot is an area where big
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pike roam and often times are quite
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catchable the waypoint on your screen
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will get you right there now the two
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most productive artificial baits are
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either a medium sized inline spinner or
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suspended jerk bait if things really get
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tops and try swimming a live minnow into
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the cover the most amazing aspect of
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this hot spot is that it's only about a
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two-hour drive from Toronto for more hot
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spots like this one check out fishing
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come on let's go and Princecraft both
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dominate the water
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