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Apr 15, 2025
(Episode 479) Angelo and Pete meet up with good friend and fishing guide Ryan Flaro, who guarantees they will catch Musky on Lake St. Francis in 5 minutes. The boys are skeptical of catching any Musky that quickly—let alone a giant Musky—armed with only Bass gear. Little do they know that Ryan will come through as promised, and they will catch the biggest Muskiy of their lives! If you like Musky fishing this is the video for you. ► 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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yeah I can guarantee you we can get a
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Musky in 5
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minutes five
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minutes man are you kidding me Angelo
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that's your biggest musky ever oh my God
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see the size of this thing whoo whoo
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whooo wo wo this is my biggest musky
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ever oh oh my God
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have you ever seen anything like this in
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your life we'll never match that again
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connecting the Great Lakes to the
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Atlantic Ocean and spaning some 1200 km
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along the way the mighty St Lawrence is
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a river like no other it's celebrated by
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Anglers for the countless fishing
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opportunities it presents and by
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historians for its place in Canadian
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history these Waters and shorelines
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shared by Ontario Quebec and New York
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State have provided the backdrop for
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epic historic
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battles today an and I will be launching
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the fnc1 Princecraft in Lake St Francis
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part of the St Lawrence Seaway and at
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South bordering Ontario Quebec and New
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York this body of water is about to
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become the site of an epic battle for
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the fishing Canada history books and it
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all started with an impromptu visit to
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good friend and resident fishing guide
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Ryan Flo di your horn and see what's
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happening hey holy
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jump what are you guys doing here we're
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going fishing what do you think we're
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doing here just thought we dropped by
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how are you man how are you buddy how
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are you bud good you good to see you man
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what are you doing in the neighborhood
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we are actually we just up the road at
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long Su we're doing some carp stuff and
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we've been there for the last couple
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days sh carp and whatnot we had a a
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morning off this morning a rare morning
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off in instead of sleeping in we said
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let's go fishing
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okay so we thought we'd come up and see
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you and uh we're hoping maybe if you're
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not tied up just take a run out to the
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frany and beat up some bat
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Pete and come on you know what's coming
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up in the next week or
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so oh I
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forgot last year Ryan and fishing
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partner Scott lafab took home the grand
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prize at the prestigious B1 Bass
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Tournament unless just say he hasn't
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exactly let anyone forget about his
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victory there's a lot of tournaments in
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the region but this is what it's all
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about Ang and Pete come and get it you
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know I'm not going to fish bass for the
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next two weeks buddy come on we're we're
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let's quit and have some fun fun what
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about what else can't do bass but how
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about musky hey you've been telling me
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that for like 3 years now guys got to
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come out got telling you you guys need
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to come the problem with with musk
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though we've only got a couple hours
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like I told you we got to get back we've
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got a meeting at at long Su 5 minutes
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we're
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done mus musk musky I guarantee you we
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can get a Musky in 5
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minutes I tell you what take your boat
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to my ramp yeah launch your boat I'll
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meet you over at the my dock we'll go
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out and we'll get you musky but first I
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want to show you guys something just
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before we just be wait wait
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wait I'm five
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minutes is there is
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there is there any room for this on your
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boat you deserve it but this has
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sentimental value I don't like to leave
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home without it I don't blame you I
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don't blame you one little bit buddy
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I'll meet you out there and we'll go I'm
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telling we'll be done we'll be in and
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back in an hour fish of 10,000 cast
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we'll be done in an hour
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you're on boy you're on I'll meet your
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front take care guys okay
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buddy ANS and I are no strangers to
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chasing down big muscal Lune and whether
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we're casting on Eagle Lake or trolling
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a legendary French River each of our
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experiences has taught us one thing we
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go you don't catch these beasts in 5
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minutes I made
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4,287 cast and I haven't caught a Musky
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yet just seeing an elusive mus can take
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hours of perseverance voting one that
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took a long time that can be a real test
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of human
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endurance adding to this challenge an
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and I now find ourselves heading to a
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Musky fight ared with only Bass Gear
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locating and hook up with one of these
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monsters may be the easiest part getting
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it to the boat might be next to
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Impossible the last number of years this
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lake has been phenomenal for musk
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fishing I think it's an untopped Charter
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of water and people are starting to
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understand that I believe the next
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record you know currently genon aqu
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holds it I believe Lake St Francis has
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it and will continue and get beame the
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next World Record moso Factory well he
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sure sounds confident but Talk's cheap
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and Ryan is certainly no stranger to
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shall we say spinning a yarn or two it's
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going to take a lot more than a few
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words to turn us into Believers there
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there's two or three there right now
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okay thank
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you oh Angelo that's your must be
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ever oh my
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God I knew the fish were there it was
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just the idea of what corner they're
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going to be on what Edge they're going
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to be on what depth they're going to be
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on and how we're going to present going
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by
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them let a little bit more line out just
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so the line's on like a 45
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yeah yeah like you got and jar that's
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perfect okay first thing I did was look
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at my garment and I just and I and I and
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I said over to get ready we weren't we
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weren't even 3 4 minutes into the into
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the
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drift bottom or fish it's got to be
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bottom y I think it's moving towards us
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isn't it or is that your drag going out
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oh it's fish it's a fish y yep that's a
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big boy
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yeah that felt like a log
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oh man are you kidding me this is a
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beast and you know what it's exactly the
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way he said it was going to happen he
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just just a wasn't really even a pull
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really yeah it was just stop and and
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then you thought you were on bottom you
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looked like you were on botom yeah for
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sure for the first few seconds I thought
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I was dragging a log across the bottom
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of the lake this thing is huge oh my God
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this is a this is a horse like a
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gorgeous was real I may have to go to
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the back of the boat on this one well
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try not to if you can help it yeah I
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know but yeah
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unfortunately unfortunately I'm not in
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power here listen even when you're fully
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equipped for a Musky duel these
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creatures usually get the upper hand but
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when the only thing standing between you
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and a Musky of a lifetime is a medium
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bass rod and 30 or 40 lb braid well it's
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like taking a knife to a gunfight right
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now my confidence of Landing this fish
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is zero
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Mayhem Mayhem and
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Fry I knew we were going to get some
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type of bite I just didn't realize the
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size we were going to catch oh there he
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is oh my God look at this
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fish I'm going to try and come around
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the side of the boat
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here I don't I've never used a cradle
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net before so Ryan I don't know want
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your n here
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buddy oh look at this thing buddy oh my
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God are you kidding me oh Angelo that's
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your biggest musky ever oh for sure
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without question oh Bud look at that
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fish God what a gorgeous
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musky look at
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you I'll get ready for
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you oh here he comes here he comes here
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he comes here he comes here he comes
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there you go there you go beautiful
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oh my
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God here's where I'm worried about is
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this right here okay he G
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oh holy smokes yes this thing is
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massive see I I'm worried about that end
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of that thing so I don't know how to
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handle his cradle but the size of that
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thing holy cow
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woo oh you're a
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beast Angelo oh my God woohoo that's a
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45 lb
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musky oh my God show that the world what
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that thing is made of oh my God
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buddy what a monster that's as good as I
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could do Bo oh little more can you get a
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oh right there oh my God dance that is a
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beast okay we got to get her
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back well that's probably our biggest
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musky on tape yeah I think so it's
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taking 30 years to get this finish
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I guess my work's done here yep we'll
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get one more to go home we each get one
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of these suckers and go I don't need one
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that big I'm afraid of that I don't want
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one oh my God here we go we're
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ready
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bye-bye see you bud bye-bye look at him
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wow wow it's done I am
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absolutely Blown Away by that most Avid
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musky Anglers will pursue a fish like
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that for a lifetime in hopes of getting
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a glimpse and we had a plan that was
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going to be 5 to 10 minutes long to
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catch and it worked perfectly we're
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saying to Ryan oh yeah yeah yeah okay
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whatever Ryan yeah boom nice okay
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well I'm going to have to have a shower
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of some kind yeah you're slimed up good
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look at
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that did you see the size of this thing
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it's the same size as the other one
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buddy
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well as promised in less than 5 minutes
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on the first spot Ang's already managed
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to connect with the musky of a lifetime
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now acting like it was no big deal Ryan
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insists that if we want another one we
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put the prince craft in gear and cruise
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to our second spot of the day so we go
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to the next spot we're not there 3
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minutes and I say to him you're going to
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catch that fish and any minute you
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you're going to catch him
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soon lo and behold there he is Pete
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hooks up bang you're going to catch him
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soon he said are you kidding
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me oh boy that doesn't S shaken but it's
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feeling really weird the way like every
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now and then it's clicking like almost
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like it's on his teeth yeah it's ugly oh
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boy yeah I'm not going to force him too
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much take your time take your time
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look at this drag going out
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now I love it this is the way you musky
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fish look at the size of his net holy
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it's crazy this net I can get in
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there I'll be honest with you I I love
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this guy to death but right now I'm kind
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of hoping this fish isn't bigger Mite on
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the other hand sure would be great if he
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could experience his his personal best
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musky too if so we could be witnessing
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the greatest fish in Canada episode
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we've ever
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shot I'm Just Smiles ear to ear and you
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know I I'm just I didn't know what to
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say the best I was more concerned about
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how big is this fish going to be might
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be just a small mouth Ryan what do you
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think how much bigger or how much
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smaller is going to be holy moly is that
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great this is crazy part of me is hoping
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I've got an even bigger fish than Ang
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just's giant B another part of me feels
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completely blown away at the thought of
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how would I ever land it it's the most
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bizarre fight I've ever felt with a fish
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because
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it's yeah yeah just real sharp it's
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almost like the teeth are are popping on
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the leader or something don't say that
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oh he's getting close to the surface
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there he is right there up he's up on
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the top already oh nice
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fish why are you staying out there what
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are you doing out there look at that
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what are you doing over there oh he's
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got that thing in Gulf buddy oh look at
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the size of that thing look at this
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thing it's the same size as the other
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one buddy God it's huge he is being so
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Cooperative it's scary oh oh my what a
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monster look at huge look at how thick
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he is okay he coming at you like he
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wants to see you I know I'm going to put
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it down you just do whatever watch this
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look good job no
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yes have you ever seen anything like
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this in your life that that is nuts
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did you see the size of this
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thing oh my
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god he has got that right in his mouth
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we got Ryan TI these rigs up with 50 lb
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floor carbage so we got to be real
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careful on this no steel
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there look at this now the drags going
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out
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crazy you the man buddy you're the man
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you are the man see the way swimmer the
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surface that was crazy that was crazy it
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was like he didn't really know he was
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hung on anything you know what I mean
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just sort of Meandering
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around he just on the on the hook set
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you know he's big oh yeah he's solid
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watch your your I don't know where he is
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ran he's right close to your boat he
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right under you oh he pass your boat
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yeah watch yourself he's right there
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buddy and as that fish went by the front
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of my boat and I just looked at it with
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awe I was like wow what a
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monster look at the guy just said oh my
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God you got him he's all
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yours whoa whoa whoa whoo wo ho holy M
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this is my biggest musky
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ever to get to today's giant musky
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Adventure we drove East on Highway 401
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and exited on Highway 2 South at the
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town of Lancaster we next traveled south
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and then West on number number two and
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quickly reached our destination at what
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we refer to as cassad def flaro on Lake
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St Francis on the St Lawrence
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River they don't look that it's like
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typical it's like walleye it's like
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everything they look that big in the
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water and then you get them in it's like
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oh my God they're so freaking you whoa
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whoa
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whoa holy Ma
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okay I don't know if yours was your
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biggest musky this is my biggest musky
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ever oh my
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god oh easy girl oh my god oh that's a
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gorgeous fish oh my God these things are
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these are Ryan I love you brother I love
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you
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man oh my God I am
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shaking oh my God I'm not going to be
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able to lift this fish up guys no like
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this
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is a
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on my leg can you do can you do anything
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with him okay get a nice
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shot how about that
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folks Ryan's controlling his boat look
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at this P look like a
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gator I mean buddy we will never match
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this day in our lives again ever ever
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there's no
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way oh my God okay let's drop her back
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kids
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yeah baby she go yeah oh yeah
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that buddy how about that for a day on
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the water an hour on the water that guy
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right there you are the man brother
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nothing more can be said about that
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anybody that catches a Musky over 40 in
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that's a big musky it's a phenomenal
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fish people should be proud of it as a
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matter of fact 35 or 30 in is they
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should be very proud of catching a Musky
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that size but when you catch 250 in plus
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musky in within an hour apart in the
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same day it's like you're you're on
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cloud n you're happy wow oh wow that is
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like a lifetime of fishing in 1 hour
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yeah yeah that's what that was a
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lifetime of Musky fishing in 1 hour
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we'll never match that again no ever no
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well normally we'd say let's go get
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another one but I think we'll both agree
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that that's about it for us
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thanks buddy we'll see you back at uh
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the
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ramp oh man oh man well after only an
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hour of deliberation the jury has
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returned to verdict Lake St Francis on
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St Lawrence River is a prime Contender
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for one of the greatest trophy musky
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waters on the planet consider us
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Believers with the right body of water
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and the right conditions and the right
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guide yes Ryan you are the man the fish
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of 10,000 casts can actually get the
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fish up one single cast although I don't
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know if what we just experienced could
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ever happen again to
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anybody after today I think we need to
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go out and buy some lottery tickets
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buddy today's hot spot is a drop off on
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Lake St Francis the way point on your
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screen will get you there trophy musky
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lived throughout this body of water
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giving Anglers a good chance at a true
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giant we drifted a custom rig with a 1
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oz weight designed by our guide and good
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buddy Ryan Flo right through the spots
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he put us on WE highly recommend hiring
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a Musky guide for this water because of
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its expansive size as well as the very
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specific areas these underwater
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leviathans use to feed for more hotspots
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