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Catching Giant Bluefin Tuna With Roland Martin | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman invite American fishing legend Roland Martin to Nova Scotia. They search for one of Canada’s true giants of the deep, the Bluefin Tuna. 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/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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and I are coming to you from our home
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away from home Valentine's Cove Nova
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Scotia out here the biggest
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concentration of giant blue fent tuna on
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the planet not bizar so from here last
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year you saw an and I put the largest
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fish in fishing Canada history on tape a
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blue fin tuna almost 1,000 B on the team
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once again this year is first nation's
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milbrook band who actually owns the
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license and the boat that we'll be
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fishing from now the difference between
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last year and this year though is we
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were supposed to have a very special
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guest oh well wait a minute hey
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guys how are you buddy son is a long
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ways from Florida to Nova Scotia hey
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Pete how you doing you almost missed
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well I tell you you promised me that if
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I made it hey I could go I've wanted all
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my life to catch a giant blue F tuna
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you're about to do it can it happen oh
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yeah Park that tangle let's go let's do
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it Rolland Martin on the B the tunish
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yeah Valentine's Cove in the province of
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Nova Scotia is our home port for today's
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episode on the fishing Canada show
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province of Nova Scotia is a traveler's
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dream and for good reason the
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spectacular scenery and our Rich
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Maritime History Nova Scotia is the
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perfect place to enjoy some great
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Hospitality all while chasing a dream in
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a world class
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Fisher Yeah Boy almost everything at
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balentine's Cove has that quaint East
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Coast look and it's obvious that this
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small fishing port is steeped in
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Maritime history with its charismatic
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boats and nostalgic Landscapes it's the
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kind of place where you can soak up the
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scenery and settle into that relaxed
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down home
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Pace the largest blue fin tuna taken
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under International gamefish Association
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rules was caught here off Nova Scotia
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this area is renowned for massive
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Atlantic blue fin tuna directly to the
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north of balentine's Cove is a huge
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brake line at the bottom of the ocean
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that attracts Herring by the Millions
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the perfect spot for Hungry
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tuna the boat we're on today belongs to
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the milbrook First Nations and is the
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same vessel we sailed on our last trip
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to Nova kosia so we have the luxury of
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some familiar and friendly faces quite
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honestly this blue fin tuna Adventure
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just wouldn't have been the same without
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the help of our great friend Adrien gloe
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and Captain Jeff McLoud but a special
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Thanks goes out to our East Coast
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connection Mr Joe Anthony who couldn't
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resist getting his piece of some blue
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fin fight in action
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and I tell you I know
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CPR you want to feel this F down you
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want to be a part of it come
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on come on relever hey buddy minute
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break we're hoping that this this
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afternoon was his last lunch right Joe
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he had his last
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supper let's catch up to him Jo feed
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real and coming up don't let him beat
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you Joe don't let him beat you buddy
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come on come on it's only a fish come
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on for me today's tuna fishing Adventure
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got it start when I was just a pup you
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see in my early teens I was a big fan of
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Kirk gouty the longtime voice of the
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Boston Red Sox he hosted an episode of
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American Sportsman and that started a
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burning desire within to do battle with
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the biggest baddest sportfish on the
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face of the planet the mighty blue fin
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tuna a year or so later I couldn't help
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but Envy an upstart American Fishing hot
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shot by the name of Roland Martin he was
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burning up the Tournament Trail from
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coast to coast and nobody could touch
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him well my Envy quickly turned to
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admiration and then to downright
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glorifying this living
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legend of course Roland went on to
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becoming the most winning tournament
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angler in the world with 21 first place
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finishes 19 second place finishes 91 top
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10 finishes 25 appearances at the
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Bassmasters Classic and nine-time bass
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angler of the Year title he's one of the
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most popular and recognized fishing
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television personalities of all
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time as we mentioned at the top of the
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show this is not our first rodeo an and
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I have been in this position
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before it was a little over a year ago
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that we battled a 900 lb Giant in these
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very Waters that experience is worth a
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billion bucks but to be able to share it
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with the renowned Roland Martin that my
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friends is going to be truly
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Priceless here we go here we go
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go hurry up go
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go cut right through my
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glove hey you want me to crank for a bit
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yeah yeah take
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it good guy incredible going boys we had
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her last year we got her again this year
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just a a massive Beast that you can't do
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anything about when are you going like
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that you just sit there and take a
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break Pam you just him
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off no it just pulled off what happened
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no you break
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it chaed it off just busted clean busted
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clean this 180 lb floral carbon 180 lb
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floral carbon just broke it off broke it
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like
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nothing today's amazing tuna Adventure
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took place off the coast of Nova Scotia
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to get there we flew from Pearson
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International Airport in Toronto to the
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Halifax Stanfield International Airport
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we took Highway 102 North and then
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travel east on Highway
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104 next we headed Northeast on 337 to
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Valentine's cold a worldclass tuna
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onslaught of biting insects that can
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1951 the Atlantic blue fent tuna has
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been a highly prized food Fish dating
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back to ancient Greece they're capable
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of reaching enormous sizes and have been
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known to weigh well over 1,000 pounds
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today their great size speed and power
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has made them one of the most Red game
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fish in the sport fishing in the
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world hey we got on look at this a big
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old blue man is taking the line son it's
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a probably a could be a $20,000 fish
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it's a joint effort now if I if if I
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lose it he going all blame
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me no no we won't do that to he's taking
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Liv crazy right here guys under the boat
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under the
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boat that's how important it is you know
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the vat control in this fight is
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probably more important you know this is
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all a team effort all we are just grunts
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that's all we're just the grunts well
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that's why they hired
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us H that was awesome now this is
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probably here in Nova Scotia the largest
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concentration of blue pint in the world
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right now is the largest concentration
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of blue anywhere come up here every year
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Roland about the same time and uh it's
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Mayhem I mean Pete and I have been
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fortunate enough to be here twice now to
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experience but it's just absolute Mayhem
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and of course they're up here feeding on
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hearing uh-huh that's the hey Roland is
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the drag set okay on that you know I
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think so I don't know how many pounds of
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drag they want 30
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30 I'd say it's about
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30 there you go look at that
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e one Powerful Beast they roll e oh
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yeah I don't see color yet not yet but
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the water 70 ft deep so he could be at
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least close to the bottom right really
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he's not that much of an angle
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so well that's one tough fish though I
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mean you can't uh you can't budge them
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for the most part
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eh look at that thing just back and
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forth he does not want to give up at
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all straight down below still down deep
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on the top blue fin tuna boys let's get
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a look at you
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puppy they got it now they got a roll
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put a dart in
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them trying to get his tail trying to
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get his tail I think throw they got a
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big Gaff they're going to throw a big
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Gaff put the big Gaff
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on Angelo how heavy is he I'm going to
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think that fish is somewhere between
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four
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430 and 460 how's that is that close
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enough pretty good really well I got to
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give them
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over I got to give him closer to 600
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than anything how's that are you really
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I got a that head's big hard to say yet
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but it's it's a big
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one hey the captain thinks it's 650 to
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700 lb that's what the captain says well
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this go with the highest weight I go
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with the highest guy you're
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low thank you
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rolling what are you saying he's doing
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650 thank you 650 yay captain I'm going
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with the captain I said closer to six
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than
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anything I tell you what though was 700
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lb 700 time 20 that's you got a lot of
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money coming that $144,000 on the line
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right here
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$14,000 that's a
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big for one sh is
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right there's you come boy
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boy now Captain Jeff you'd have a hard
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how would we do
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that wouldn't be able to get
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only that's a pretty good size right
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work hooked up hooked up hooked up you
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yet buddy don't touch the line do not
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touch that line
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Let Her Go Let Her
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Go we just blew one up there
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before look at that thing it's straight
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down he coming ahead he's going
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ahead wow look at this oh my God who W
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CAU holy wind in it into the backing
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into the
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backing
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wow holy God
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stop oh my God put that drag up a bit
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boys not too
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much what a deal what a deal wow that
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was so cool wow oh my God
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oh my
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God you got him buddy
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just it's the same yeah very
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close he's up there on the top
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boys that's
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him there he comes right side
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the let him go
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now this is actually putting the
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pressure on we're slowly idling towards
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them even though we're not gaining any
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line we're tiring the fish got 30 lb of
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Dr right here exactly so that's that's
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work Roland how does this differ from
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from the yellow fins that you're more
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used to cutch well I've caught a number
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of yellow fins say on the east on the
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west coast off the coast of Mexico a lot
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in the 100 almost 200 lb range and some
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off the Louisiana coast and and 100 lb
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or even a 200 lb uh yellin is fast but
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not during they're fast as short runs
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yeah but they all go deep now see it's
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funny because this fish here is in
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shallow water the problem that we have
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with some of the Big Tuna that we catch
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on the on the west west coast is they
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dive down maybe a th000 ft deep and
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they're right straight under the boat
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wow kind of a dist fight how you Mak it
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up buddy hey we had a bit there we lost
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a bit there you know usual for the first
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half three4 of an hour first year
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they're 9 lb by the way 9 to 10 lb in
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the first year no kidding eh yeah that's
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a big fish man oh look at the oh baby
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look at that oh
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baby down to the backing almost down to
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the backing again and this is after an
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hour and and it
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still we just can't have we can't break
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his
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Spirit welcome to tuna fishing
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boy how often do that happen to
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us this is a absolutely huge pick up
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pick up pick up
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pick up pick up pick up pick up come on
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buddy you can do
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it no no no no
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no okay pick up pick up pick
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up we got him we got him we got him oh
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yeah it's a nice one
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boys that's big isn't
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it God he missed that okay
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oh my God how many guys we got on this
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fish 1
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Hour 1 hour
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55 it'll work for the
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boys get that thing tell me when that
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Gaff is in cuz I got to be so I know
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he's not that fish should not have F
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like that man that's a good deal oh you
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know three big blue pin for today's
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effort we've lost one and caught two now
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yeah we'll see it in a minute we've done
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pretty good buddy how big do you think
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it is I think it's bigger than the first
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one oh I think so it's a question of how
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much did we break our record though
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that's the question I broke my record
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yeah good man Rolland oh yeah that's a
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tail now there's a tuna tail yeah that's
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a tail of a
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tuna look at that tail boy look at yeah
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boy that's a beefy fish oh yeah oh yeah
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oh
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yeah yeah she's
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900 Che gentlemen a wonderful day in
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Nova SC
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baby now although the blue fin numbers
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have been declining globally due to
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commercial over harvesting Canada's
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quotas have traditionally been less than
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1% of the Atlantic and Mediterranean
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quotas making us the smallest player in
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the game other countries either don't
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have the will or the ability to manage
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their Fisheries the same way that we do
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here the department of fisheries and
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oceans has done a fantastic job of
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regulating this fishery hopefully
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ensuring that This Magnificent creature
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will be a part of our lives
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ability today's tuna hot spot is located
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off the east coast of Canada out from
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Valentine's Cove and Nova Scotia the way
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point on your screen will get you there
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once we found the fish on the dep planer
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