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Giant Brook Trout In A Tiny Lake | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
(Episode 463) This episode has Angelo Viola in Ontario’s Algoma region at Blue Fox Camp on Kirkpatrick Lake. This remote fly-in location is one of the top 5 brook trout lodges in Ontario, where Ang tries a diversity of fishing tactics to reel both "Brookies" as well as a few bonus Lakers! 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, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Season31 #FishingCanada #BrookTrout #Fishing
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should never come in here with a
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predetermined notion of what's going to
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happen people from all over the world
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travel thousands of thousands of miles
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for that little guy right there and
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every once in a while you'll find one of
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those huge it's coming out you gotta be
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coming at me all right the fish in
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Canada show brought to you in part by
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finder
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this my friends is Algoma country
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immortalized in the paintings of the
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group of seven and the quintessential
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example of wilderness that is Northern
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Ontario with the Canadian Shield as a
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backdrop the 22,000 square miles of
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boreal forest is interspersed with
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thousands of lakes this district is an
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absolute must experience for any serious
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England especially trout fishery one of
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the best places to start this adventure
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is at the famous Blue Fox camp owned and
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operated by four fishing buddies who are
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totally committed to the preservation
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and sustainability of this amazing
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fishery my name is Brad thorne and one
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of the owners of Blue Fox camp we're a
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group of four friends who have been
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coming up to Blue Fox camp for a boat
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probably between us 20 years maximum
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I've been coming in for about 15 years
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we've come in to work or to fish and an
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opportunity came up two years ago to to
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purchase Lodge and we we jumped on it
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because we love the place although it is
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possible for most adventurous of
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travelers to reach this remote location
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by ATV the Blue Fox camp is primarily a
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fly-in destination it's a short flight
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that delivers astonishing views of this
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one-of-a-kind fisherman's paradise
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the who lake system home to blue fox
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camp consists of blue lake and seven
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surrounding feeder lakes it has a
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distinction of being the provinces only
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self-sustaining inland three species of
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trench system besides the blue lake
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system we have access to approximately
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50 backlinks all of which are stocked
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with brook trout that grow to seven
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eight pounds approximately working
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together with the M NRF and other
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community fishing programs the blue fox
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camp has designed a custom brook trout
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stocking program exclusive to these
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backlinks by introducing a hundred to
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two hundred yearlings from the Nipigon
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region on a rotational four to five year
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cycle you end up with lakes that may not
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be loaded with fish but with every cast
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you make you've got a chance to hook up
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with a monster brookie root house is
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exactly one of those Lakes and the
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perfect setting for me to scratch my
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itch for an elusive Nipigon stream
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rookie so in Roodhouse Angelo could
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expect brook trout anywhere from 2 all
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the way up to 8 pounds if he managed to
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hook onto one of the 2011 stream he'd be
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he'd be looking at a really big brook
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trout so we hope that's what he gets
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stay on buddy stay on that's gotta be a
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lake truck doesn't feel like a speck but
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you owe me that's an insane fish
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whatever it is I hope it's a big brookie
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there are some really big fish in this
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tiny Lake I mean it's worth the effort
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coming into some of these back legs
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they're a little bit more off the beaten
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path even though we're out in the middle
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of nowhere getting off the beaten path
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is still important now it's just not
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doing what a brookie should be doing
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more like a big big fork tail Laker I
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think
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it was rocks yeah baby whoa whoa whoa I
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fish that's a lake trout and I caught
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him in less than four feet of water this
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time of year the ice has only been off
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this lake for about a week week to ten
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days been a long winter man beautiful
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looking fish and they're cold man they
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are freezing cold nice thing about these
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clear Lake's you can see them going down
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30 40 feet before you disappear smack
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that was great fish
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ah it's coming at me it's got to be
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coming at me yeah running towards the
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boat do a lot of late croak feeling
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shaking going on down there a lot of
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weirdness oh whoa whoa running out to
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deep water now just figure it out
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I feel sick a heavy fish as well it
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makes you really there I love fishing
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with like too late leader material
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because it's just you're on the edge the
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whole time Wow did he fight you know
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what yeah he's just going out a few days
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ago you think they'd be a little more
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lethargic but they're crying yeah baby
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they're cool fish aren't they these
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things are just vicious and they chow
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down big time
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I thought we were on to something good
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obviously I was wrong a lot of active
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fish right now what does that mean this
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is where all the action supposed to be I
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thought we were on to something good
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obviously I was wrong
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gone up seven degrees since this morning
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any good by the way in case you're
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wondering and good at all
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okay time to make a change
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oh there's better one there's Salo
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they're real shower
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it's another lake trout you get me like
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about a 20-pound pike but under the ice
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for about six months and they are just
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ready to go see ya
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wow they are so tough man you death
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imagine a 20-pounder those and
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apparently they're out here would tear
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you apart
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shallow really shallow which tells me we
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may have been fishing a little too deep
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that's an important less than that I
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should have just learned from myself
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should never come in here with a
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predetermined notion of what's going to
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happen and what's gonna make fish bite I
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had the idea that these fish were going
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to be you know on that primary drop the
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first Ridge office Shore I'm just
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feeding off of the the basin of the lake
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and
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they weren't they're uptight these
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things are right on shore feeding on
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anything that's moving within 2 feet
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from the actual shoreline all right
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let's try it again
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did you know that brooked Row is not
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classified as a truck at all it actually
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belongs to the char family along with
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its cousins the lake trout Dolly Varden
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bull truck and arctic char a unique
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biological fact in the world of brook
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trout is that the only spawn in natural
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spring water they don't need it to live
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but they can't reproduce without it
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through studies Ontario's MNR F will
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find non spring fed lakes that have cool
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clean water where they can stalk brook
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trout for what's known as a put and take
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fishery simply state it but biologists
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put them in and the anglers take them
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out the brook trout's average lifespan
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is around five years this is when they
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reach their maximum size so there was a
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stocking that took place say four or
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five years previous to your fishing trip
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well the potential for a giant brookie
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is fantastic for a comprehensive list of
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trophy brook trout fishing spots in
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ontario be sure to visit go fish in
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Ontario calm
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there's one
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yeah we go well that's a pretty little
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brookie yeah he's gonna splash here so I
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got him on by the way black fury maps
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let's be honest about everybody that's
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watching this program right now at some
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point or other has used a maps lure
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because it's a staple it's something we
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grew up using I would say it's not all
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cases but certainly the majority of
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cases when we were fishing as youngsters
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maps was the number one bait and then
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for some reason you kind of gravitated
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away from it like like so many of us are
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done but when you get into the more
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remote Lakes it almost seems like it's a
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throwback lure and when you get into
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this environment where you're way out in
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the backwoods fishing small little Lakes
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for brook trout maps are just it's so
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right and it works
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it still works through this day all
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right where do we got all this that is
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absolutely beautiful
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that a pretty fish that's why this is
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one of the most sought-after game fish
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on the planet people from all over the
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world travel thousands and thousands of
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miles for that little guy right there
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that is gorgeous looks like to be to me
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it looks like a male it's got a bit of a
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Kuip happening up here in the North
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they'll kind of average that size and
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every once in a while you'll find one of
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those huge rookies that just take your
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breath away when you catch one
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I think is insane that is my favorite
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fish without question that's a shocking
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surprise that was cool
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whoops rookie you know once they get up
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over that 3 to 4 pound range they there
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they live in a pretty exclusive
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neighborhood for the most part I'm
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sweetness that they're gorgeous
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tough fish too I think it's one of the
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toughest fish you can you can catch
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freshwater fish just beautiful
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Wow I like those holy mackerel
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I think is insane Wow well that's a nice
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brookie now he doesn't have as much blue
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in those spots it's some of the smaller
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fish but Wow
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I think just the most beautiful things
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absolutely gorgeous
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that is my favorite fish without
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question they are something and they are
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an apex predator make no mistake about
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it as pretty as that fish is that is the
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most vicious predator in these waters
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without question nothing even close to
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them
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fantastic get back up there and get
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yourself some of them critters over
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those rocks you got to love this stuff
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you know if you ever get a chance to get
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hope to some of these lodges that offer
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more than just a a main camp experience
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whether it's you know a flyout to a
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small remote little cabin on a lake or
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just being able to take day trips and
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and into some of these tiny little ponds
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and lakes man I'll tell you they are
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well worth it just the experience of
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catching a fish in this environment in
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this setting it'll alter you for sure
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it's fantastic and what I think is
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running
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I don't know don't know if it's rookie
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or not wow that's that's a heavy fish
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and he's heading out to deep water too
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which is a really good site but it feels
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it's kind of got that short little shake
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like a like a lake or so I'm not gonna
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get overly excited yet hopefully it'll
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go nicely there you know that's better
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whoo that's a heavy fish back oh that's
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a lot of I just saw a lot of body there
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I'm gonna I'm gonna take a chance call
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this thing he brookie
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I saw a fat fat fish can you see that oh
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it's a big old lake trout wow that is a
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big lake trout for this Lake man look at
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that
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whoa whoa look at you mr. lake trout all
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right gonna fit
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just barely that's a shocking surprise
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I'll cool the stock with a shot man hey
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half a tail gun that's kind of cool too
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that's probably a fairly old fish for
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this body of water I'm gonna guess
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today's hot spot is on route house Lake
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a subtle point jutting from shore
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dropping into deep water the waypoint on
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your screen will get you right there the
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best way of fishing a structure like
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this is slow trolling drifting anchoring
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or what I did throughout the day
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easing your way using a trolling motor
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and wind combination to fan cast a
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shoreline for trolling try spoons
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spinners or hard body base like crank
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baits and middle bass when casting try
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spinners egb spoons jigs and don't
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forget drop shot in a small bait like a
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Yamamoto shad shade worm for more hot
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spots like this one check out fishin
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canada.com
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there's one where you be well whoa whoa
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that's a crazy fish whatever it is oh
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that's gorgeous brook trout oh oh all
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right miss your brookie come on home now
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you're gonna see a really colorful brook
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trout here why it's pale in comparison
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to what it's going to be in about four
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and a half five months this fall Oh
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gotcha I want to pick this fish up to
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show you but I don't know how
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cooperative that how's that baby oh that
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is gorgeous that is worth the trip into
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these little backwards trust me
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[Laughter]
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Wow probably my I'm gonna save my second
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biggest brook trout that I've ever
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caught credible good stuff with access
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to an astounding variety of lakes and
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rivers some with a unique natural
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population of rookies and others stocked
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with potential for that huge
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once-in-a-lifetime catch the blue fox
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camp is a build-your-own outdoor
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adventure kind of place if you're
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looking for an unforgettable fishing
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experience well this is it exactly what
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the blue fox boys we're hoping to
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achieve so part of the reason we the
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four of us bought this this place is
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because we come out for so long and we
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love the camp and the surrounding area
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and what we'd like to do is introduce
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people to the area I hope they have a
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great fishing trip and return year after
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year
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[Applause]
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today's outstanding trophy brook trout
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fishing took place at blue fox camp in
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Algoma region of Ontario to get there I
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first took highway 400 north to highway
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69 I next turn Northwest on highway 17
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at Sudbury I finally turned north on air
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service road in Algoma Mills and ended
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up at Lausanne aviation airbase from
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there it was a short 15 20 minute flight
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to blue fox camp
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today scale P is K for knowledge by
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learning the history of the lakes here
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at Blue Fox along with the M&R F
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stocking programs of the past I can
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choose the absolute perfect brook trout
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lake for either numbers or is in my case
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size a fish history dictates that rude
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house lakes 2011 stocking program gives
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me the best chance possible at
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contacting the brookie of a lifetime
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with this new knowledge I can head into
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my chosen body of water and be thinking
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