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Lake Full of STARVING Walleye | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Can a lake have too many Walleye? Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman head to one of Alberta’s premiere Walleye destinations and catch more fish than they bargained for. 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, Peter 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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today we take the fishing canada show to
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Canada's western frontier of alberta a
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land that's widely known for his huge
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oil fields and vast natural gas reserves
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but now it's in the middle of a gold
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rush another bill that you're thinking
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of the well that we always think of
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regarding walleye our niggly Canada's
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favorite sport fish and now it's the
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latest natural resource that Alberta has
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to offer and a typical Alberta passion
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it's booming we're coming to you from
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the town of Athabasca a few short miles
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from the mother lode of all walleye
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fishing calling Lake now the interesting
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fact is they're still in the
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experimental stages of the fishery
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management and we've been hearing the
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catching 50-plus fish and a cough let's
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check it out okay let's go
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walleye in Alberta are you kidding me
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after all the bull river is definitely
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the problems is most prominent fishery
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which is amazing throw population after
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that the cold water reservoirs and lakes
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scattered through the province and that
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definitely makes Alberta one of the best
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areas in Canada for crow that's it the
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rest of the country needs to wake up
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because Alberta's walleye population is
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booming and the fishing is phenomenal
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it's crazy as a matter of fact on some
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adult Berta's Lakes there are so many
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walleye that it's actually creating the
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problem
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case in point today's locations calling
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Lake now this while I factory is so
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stacked full of fish this is creating a
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major competition for food and only the
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strong seem to be surviving or at least
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look healthy for now
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okay that buddy it was a little channel
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IM we were just going over 20 feet okay
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another number I'm going to keep my line
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in because you never know what I feel oh
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ho that's my baby and I'm but that's
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looking good just want to be a good
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fighter for a change nice nice fish that
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Wow but again this thing would wait
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probably twice what it's what it would
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wait today right probably I mean they're
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just skinny yeah you're right that is a
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4 plus evil 4 to 5 pounds and it's make
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make 3 it might make 3 pounds yeah in
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that well I mean it still funny fought
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great great anything it doing problem is
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not enough food for my life Tony right
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now
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I have never seen this bigger
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concentration of fish and in one small
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area how he never and how they need to
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get them and how easy this catchment
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screen that is absolutely outstanding of
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it no no all right
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Alberta walleye buddy who - fuckin'-a
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going to the bull river for trout all
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the time even people don't realize how
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great walleye fishery they got no
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kidding
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well you wouldn't I didn't realize it
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okay I'm so this province with why let's
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be honest about it
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lake trout Pike yeah exact bar over for
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trout for sure it's not a lot of lakes
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but I'll tell you what if the legs are
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like this man oh man this is awesome
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our home base for this trip is Athabasca
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a small community situated along the
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Athabasca River which during the right
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time period has a fantastic walleye
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fishery on its own
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tourism coordinator Cathy right can't
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say enough about the excellent fishing
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in this area even though laugh about
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this located in northern Alberta were
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really lucky we've got the best of both
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worlds we have a huge amount to offer
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here for the anglers and walleye is a
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great fish of choice in our area calling
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Lake is one of our best lakes for the
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walleye the river is awesome for fishing
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too we want to take advantage of the
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great walleye fishing we have and invite
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everybody to come out and see what we
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have to offer here in Alpha Baska as for
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today's fishing we hooked up with local
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guide rake holders of real angling
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adventures was a ton of experience in
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the area he raves about Alberta walleye
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fishing and when we first contacted him
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he told us a catching fish all day long
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and that why we're here
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godwyn our buddies telling yep well I
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didn't take you long
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now he just picked it right up off the
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boat I was just dragging it wasn't even
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jigging him on mine I don't know I'll
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let you know whether he's not worthy or
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not I got them that right beside me just
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in case I got pretty light line on so we
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probably love your dress you okay for
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drifting yeah yeah I'm fine drifting in
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towards Shore
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drifting away actually you're even
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better okay we're going to pour water
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hill well it's a nice y-yes oh yeah
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buddy on the bottom one yeah on that
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bottom one is on that zipper looking
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jigging cool good shot oh I'm skinny God
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like a ham Wow that's what we've been
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hearing a boat right there that is
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skinnies look at this fish
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oh he's got one too I'll get like and
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out of here players under the net I
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might get I'll just animus Yelp
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here I got it we feels all right quite
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nice yours good to be a pike nothing I
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got right into that wall I can Wow
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got it wow that's awesome sex goodies
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gosh we just got to this point but you
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don't look at them both you know what
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he's miss that is skinny that fish
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and wow that is one skinny fish look at
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the head both tiny in a god-like they're
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good they're good this way yeah yeah you
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know never mind all that it's Alberta
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gold ruddy at first
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we drop her down our first double header
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Alberta double header oh okay that's it
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on back quick cool one time because the
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river well they're gonna they got a riff
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down fast yes beautiful the problem is
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we're get them in deep water and we
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started in 20 came back out so we're
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over 20 feet of water we got to get them
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back and let them put power down I don't
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know about yours but mine did not have
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that distinctive walleye hit I mean I
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was I was met your side what am I
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talking about awesome cool to get the
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calling Lake we first flew to Edmonton
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Alberta we then drove north on highway 2
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to our home base of Athabasca we finally
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took highway 8 13 out of Athabasca north
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the calling Lake there's a great boat
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launch right on calling Lake
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in all our years of walleye fishing
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across Canada we've pretty much seen
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everything there so we thought today's
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location is something totally new to us
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here without an incredible fishery that
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has the most bizarre situation we've
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ever encountered on one side of the coin
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we've got this fast and furious walleye
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friends are going on with double header
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after double header but a large
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percentage of these fish look like
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they're starving
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we spoke to a senior fisheries biologist
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and luckily Alberta is on its way to a
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solution when we look at the data over
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time here at calling Lake we see that
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yeah we have our forage base declining
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as the walleye numbers increase we
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haven't noticed really any change in the
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pike population so I believe the main
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factor for that decrease in forage is
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the number the density of walleye in the
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lake by increasing the bag limit we are
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trying to sort of reduce the number of
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walleye to a level as such that will
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allow those forage species to start to
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come back down it goes yeah in that
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nineteen we raised it is Magic zone here
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right we got to check this out
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remarkably oh yeah it may not be a bad
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idea you know there is something going
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on with that depth or the spot or
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something it wasn't Wally
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Wow let's throw it up a little bit
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Fisher quality man good one another nice
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one these things what the net I got it
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come on baby
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Wow what do we got oh I got it wrapped
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up company bears wrapped you mark
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yourself look at this guy this isn't
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even longer things in a big family the
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size of that thing any those still
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skinny but look at the little I just
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offered position I love it look at that
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he torched that thing existed engulfed
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that whole jig right down his yapper
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that's an aggressive bite at two o'clock
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in the afternoon yeah and mile high
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skies with hardly any way
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hardly any wind and there is one good
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boy I got a girl and that is a six pound
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filled Oh always a six plus one is rated
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it's going to be three and a half here
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Wow
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no offense I mean this is fun I don't
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care how big they are because you're
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looking at inches wide right now these
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guys but how you looking
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uh yes look at that over the wall no guy
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maybe this one is carrying a drop mister
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all back wow this one is skinny you want
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to see your skinny wall I know you
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haven't had many big head like their
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normal fish just tiny look at that the
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belly of this fish is actually concave
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and lost your top paint and you got them
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in the bottom on yeah this is got to be
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one of the best walleye Fisheries that
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we have experienced I'd the show it I
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don't know how but it is fantastic
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that's like my wrist now there's a
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little hard to get a fillet off of that
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thing would be well I don't know because
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I don't really meet your belly right
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which is the worst mutant fish anyways
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the FATA just sort of curiosity what
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that thing would would he might be
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injured not this guy slot is right here
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which is from 18 to 24 roughly so this
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fish would be what they call an eater
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unlike the rest of the lakes and in the
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province of Alberta in this lake you're
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allowed to keep two of those now they
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they think that's a really big deal that
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that's only good in effect for a couple
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of years now before that you were only
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allowed to keep one correct lays out
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they're gonna because we've got so many
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fish let's just double the keep the
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possession limit no possessions three
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possession is three that's right like
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lemon is to maintain understatement so
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they think they're doing a really is
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know a great justice to the angler
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whereas most of the other provinces as
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you know are five or six fish limit
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mostly five but here it's two and I
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really think it's my opinion that
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they're going to have to rethink this
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rethink on this week because there are
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so many fish and it's obvious that these
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fish are lacking something in terms of
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food that they need to call slow and you
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actually have a situation here where
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there's too many too many pain fish yeah
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and not in the fruit so when you add
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food in or you take fish out well yeah a
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food in and
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going to guys today it's a temporary fix
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right and one-year fix or something that
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you get them taking out a little bit
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more official don't decimate the Lakers
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whatever not then the fish have a more
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based profession they get a little bit
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more healthy guy and it would not do
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anything permanent I know that for a
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couple years by years and absolutely
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going to raise it to say a three day a
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three fish limit daddy I mean that's a
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do that next absolutely
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anyways they'll work out hopefully for
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the trillion being good for us we're
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here anyway this or the log back it
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would keep a couple for shorelines yeah
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absolutely that's it our fishing tactic
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for the day was at ridin through number
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one walleye technique in the north the
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jig and minnow
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however Alberta's fishing regulations
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state that any male is used in the
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province must be dead and all hooks are
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barbers we drop a steady combination of
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a steep breaking point at the top end of
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the lake the key was to stay in contact
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with the bottom you know we won that one
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on the top okay I don't think it matters
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no you got the not much going on one of
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the smaller picture riding high in the
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bigger picture writing oh oh there this
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is not just crazy when do you stop this
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is crazy
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what do you stop when it gets dark but
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we got a long way to go
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you know big head you know a big headed
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walleye come on big fella come on big
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fella we're gonna see oops without you
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there you look needy mama man especially
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I've got so much potential for both look
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at that
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fell right out your barbell special you
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know when I need to triple lengths on
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these things they know a fish is
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probably a slot fish she's got a keeper
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fish probably I don't know where our
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board is when I keep them anyways no so
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but that's probably pretty close I'd say
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to a slot fish lean Wow not Carol Wow
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place is just stacked
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I mean stack the fish we worked a break
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from about 10 feet to 30 plus feet of
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water
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our most productive being 21 to 24 feet
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the freaky part was that the walleye
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were so keyed in on our presentation
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that the more fish we caught the more
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efficient we attracted he was like
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sounding the dinner bell
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I mean how awesome is that it feels good
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off the bat feel good buddy like he's
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got a long lean walleye nice oh there's
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one do it stuff I'll scoop that guy
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quick you want a double mininet I can
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scoop too sure
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while you're there if you don't bite
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whoa coming I charge my dog wait a
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second your fish gonna be crazy
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you sure women kick him in there
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come on buddy I gotta piss isn't that
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help me you know what I think we just
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hit a pentacle the pinnacle I really do
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that is incredible walleye dish doesn't
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matter what part of the country what
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part of the world you're in
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oh that
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whoa uh now I think they're both down
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yeah I think so there you go
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man how often do you get session like
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not very optimized one after another
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Alberta girl baby now will be
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disappointed if we don't get double
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headers from our here on 8 August ago
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you say Oh will happen something happen
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unbeliev what a fishery I love it
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sighs this one's not even fighting I
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like that they don't even fight yeah
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that's to be a big fan to help me know
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and I'll drop the rod and get the nut I
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could be a big thing you I like the feel
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of it yeah or it could be a pipe yeah
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hello
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it scares me these barbless hooks no
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yeah I know why you got pressure on me
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ain't going anywhere your good buddy
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that was just after that guy swiped
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yours it was a small one go whatever
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grab your bento was small I like to feel
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this fish yeah but we're drifting to it
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yeah yeah Larry whoa Watson I just did
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giant no he's literally right no he's
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not he's long look at long it was ahead
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on it I got ahead on this fish Wow
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Harley that would be a seven pound fish
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let me fill this out here and fill this
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out here and fill it out here that could
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be an eight sounded yet yeah and
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humbling 26 27 inch fish my god that is
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second I gotta come back and get that
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with it oh love it
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Alberto right there well look good
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fishing boys 10:00 a.m. go here we go
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this is not oh yes this has not made up
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folks okay do you think the stiffness
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for real I'm customizing the barbers way
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of thing you know I really believe that
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this fishery has the potential to
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produce a true giant walleye today's
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show is very significant to us because
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we could be standing at the forefront of
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a world-renowned walleye fishery mark my
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words
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eight 10 maybe even 12-pounders or
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shouldn't it be a reality here hey one
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day we could be comparing at the likes
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of actual Lake of the Woods and there I
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say it even be a quintic hopefully time
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and good fish management along with a
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strong forage base so help fatten up
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this abundance of fish I guess for us
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that means another visit to the future
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hey that's why baby today's hot spot is
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a fast breaking drop-off referred to as
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Volkswagen point so weight point on the
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screen will click it right on it it's
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easy to recognize because there's
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literally an old broken-down Volkswagen
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on the shore almost directly opposite
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the weight point this area is so good we
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believe it's the most doubleheaders
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we've ever caught in one spot remember
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no light mentals and only Barbara's
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