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Trolling Shallow Lake Trout | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete Bowman and Mike Miller get together with a professional guide and proceed to “dig up” shallow sand bars while trolling for hungry Great-Lakes Lake Trout. They purposely run Dipsy Divers into the bottom to “stir up” some aggressive Lakers. 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 #Fishing
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[Applause]
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there's a time of year when certain
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things start to happen everything seems
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to come alive they call it spring fever
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well today Mike and I get a dose of that
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fever and we're raring to get out
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fishing we're heading to Niagara Falls
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the honeymoon capital of Canada
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no not for romance and fine dining
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although Mike I know you do find me
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attractive
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but for some of the finest like go
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fishing Ontario has offered how about
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you had a lot of meetings our game plan
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was a head of state Catharines Ontario
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with our trusty drone expert Steve
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Hardcastle fish master charters I
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started my fishing charters usually the
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first week of April the last of the
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March fishing for channel cats on the
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Grand River one of the fish there's a
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beef grant cat a big white head on
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usually around the first week of May I
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move my boat over to State Catherines
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chasing salmon and lake trout rainbow
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usually from like I say the first week
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of May tell usually the second week of
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July around the second week of July I
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head back to Lake Erie chasing after
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walleyes and I'll push that museu round
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the second week of July to all be able
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the third week of September on the
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fishings hot he had a game plan for us
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to catch some shallow swimming lake
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trout on long lines and dip see divers
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these are techniques that anyone with a
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boat can take advantage of what we're
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doing today is we're dragging dipti down
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on the bottom with spoons and as he
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things are stirring up the mud the
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Lakers are coming into a best state to
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see what's going on I thought a bad
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trouble
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nice one another one bites the dust
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with the weather little too nice and the
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fish scatter the most of any of these
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fish we figured things would be a little
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tough but as we ventured from peace to
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shallow water looking for fish on the
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graph we actually spotted schools of big
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Lakers cruising on top of the sandbars
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at the mouth of the Niagara River lower
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wages were low the one that dips is
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going to go any second it peak which
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there is right there that is what the
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Roger that's the side under it is
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totally off no is pushed to have a break
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everybody that you get to get away from
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the body but you can throw the one under
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the boats catching the fish right behind
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the bar look at how calm down it dips
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you very much to see just banging in the
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bottom with that typically it's their
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relief yeah you got yourself a 40-pound
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Laker
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I think it's linked your senior not
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Vegas I pulled out at 32 so that's a
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pretty big big trout little we get again
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come on Petey you spin it in like a tap
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I saw one really big one in that school
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citizens he couldn't ask for better day
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this is fun man keep your pinky look at
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that alright I keep one even smoking I
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smoked that one it's got lots of later
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chunky later in me Wow we're going to
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beep on that thing daddy that one whoa
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look at his most been clothes look at
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the pin from that critter yeah they got
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the teeth those girls can eat a lot of
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meat in there to get cut yeah they got a
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phone I got look at the gut on that fish
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yeah yeah belly's really white still ok
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she going back in we're gonna spank me
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think he was going to catch every one of
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these beautiful keepsake it didn't take
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long to hook up and shake off the rust
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I'm a long winter the cold water and
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sheer muscle of the Latrobe make them a
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worthy adversary no fat that fish is and
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it shows you any type of fishing can be
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a blast
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Wow in all my years of fishing I love
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the fact that I can learn something new
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almost every time oh yeah yeah these
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fish today we found we had to trigger
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them having our distance biggie into the
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sand once you make contact on the bottom
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it wasn't long after that you're about
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to bounce in the holder and your mind
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screaming off the reel let me go back
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one who's feeling three going oh watch
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your legs
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what is this thing get a bike a ah you
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know happy with you son how did this
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thing wow that's just been glorious he's
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giving her good guys the bruiser I like
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that and get big big money powder like
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your bag a lot of 20 in here okay dip
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here it mind the boat is getting the
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fish these boards all the way over we
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got one pigeon and so far there's the
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dip see this guy has been Laker jockey
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he got sick one that day respectable oh
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yeah most anglers dream of traveling at
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northern Canada to hook into a giant 50
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pound Lake Pro it is a trip that most of
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us can't afford
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however 30 pounds a chode are nothing to
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stop it
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and they're readily available right here
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in southern Ontario one Apple picture
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beanie sure I can't believe that's the
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way this work that tipsy diver right
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down there we got played a board vote
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every time they're on that 100 we have
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jumped on this thing daddy that's a pig
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of a little bit this way you knew that
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coming in
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Beauty I'll do one of it yeah do one of
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those pull her up Mikey get a good face
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brother yeah they're burper here you go
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wow they're powering down kick it and
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get examiner sauce boy that water is
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like ice cubes clear that slimy mung
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trolling is a great technique especially
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on warm sunny days the hardest part is
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trying that they can eat or laugh - ha
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ha ha it's a great way to spend a day on
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the water add the anticipation of
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hooking into a big old lake trout and
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Yahtzee you've got the making of an
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awesome fishing trip where I charter out
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of here in st. Catharines are
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approximately about 45 minutes to an
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hour drive from Toronto 15-minute drive
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from Niagara Falls and 20 minutes from
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the US four legged a layer Lake Ontario
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is probably one of the most overlooked
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links for lake trout this lake is full
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of lake trout this is actually a small
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one oh yeah I know a lot of guys spend
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big big bucks to drive all the way up to
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the Northwest Territories to try and
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catch a 40 to 60 pound fish sure there's
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fish polo that big but how many in a
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season on this Lake it's common to catch
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10-pound a 30 pound lake trout all day
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long look at that they are something
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unreal and get on the boat with all the
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guiding I do on the Grand River for cats
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Lake Erie for walleye Lake Ontario for
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your multi-species salmon trout Cohoes
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rainbows lake trout when you come with
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me you don't have to bring anything
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except for your warm clothing your food
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and whatever you'd like to drink the
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rest is on me
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you guys are really interested in
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getting note on a day on the lake and
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you don't have the equipment or you just
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want to learn how to catch salmon
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electrode on this Lake feel free to give
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me a call I will teach you everything
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you need to know something wasn't down
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there for some of you to play a look in
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a minute you don't get any fish your
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next trips on me but I guarantee you're
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going to catch fish out on these lakes
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where this chunk shaker this guy
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I thought a bad drug it's not a bad
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tooth they're good-looking fish next one
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another one bites the dust
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OOP what schipper back
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I love how they sit there for about
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three seconds and they just swim away in
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general lakes are quite rare
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they're native only to the northern
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portion of North America but mostly in
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Canada and Alaska but to some extent
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through the northeastern US
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approximately 25% of the world's lake
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trailer lakes are found in the province
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of Ontario even at that only 1% of
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Ontario lakes contain Lake Joe they're
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dependent on coal oxygen rich waters
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there you go yeah Porter bag that guy is
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oh my god
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Lake odor pelagic during the summer
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often live in a depth of sitting at 200
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feet it's with a deep cold water and
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sort of smelt pale life or even plankton
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there you go board popping a wheelie
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gutter but
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one of these got to be a fan now that's
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what I'm looking for something to break
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water how get yourself a bottle I crazy
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you got it in that side if this rod tips
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your honor does it matter right you out
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in the middle
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perfect
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first up with the board on you know what
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it feels pretty good
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how much line you put behind the board
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with the dips and we got a Dipsy an
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award here yeah we put a contraption
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here or something new for Harry there
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but not for you but for us true that we
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do right let's the little further there
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at sailor really nice
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what we got on sinking here big pink
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legs on bottom the lost rubber boots
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pulling back the big kings getting ready
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to jump
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yeah this is the contra somebody caught
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him five minutes ago to the king he wore
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red hokum thirty pounds
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and you have their string older than you
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- perfect
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oh that's a lowly a big do you know what
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I mean the sin of the salmon OIG's
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invite people to the drove noise from
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joy fun things go this way Kings aren't
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on the Lakers are always exactly and
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then comes summer you can only go to be
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born inside steelhead Redd's yeah yeah
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yeah misusing June the transition in
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with a big pot of cake the sort of us
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I'd run out of what they call the Blue
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Zone that wrangled over and get
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reception area defend pounds of
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he's gone sinner we get dinner later a
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front one to Peter yes sir we like the
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fat ones around here kid
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[Laughter]
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get enough for resistance' there you go
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yeah other Porter man that guy is I'm
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sure my only benefit you know what I got
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it
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no smoking the project the bag let's get
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look at me pal I believe that we're
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going to starting with that slug Petey
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Wow how fat is that they never stop
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rattling off on the night
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both you top hi apt Gilmore
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the world this is a little we guys
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Dixey divers 20 feet off the back that's
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a Laker oh yeah a little weaker
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head-shaking maker
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grab the spoon
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you
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yeah
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make her a Laker yeah
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I ain't heard the ride buh buh buh buh I
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thought maybe the Dipsy driver who's
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hitting bottom
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good
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certainly don't feel like a hook no
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little different these things what a
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difference between isn't a and a salmon
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is ffs as much you're going to get it of
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this guy big head cheek yeah yeah hit Z
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tan blue well there's the system coming
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in to look at that something's going in
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there the clouds like that let's just
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start to get one more than like two
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o'clock starting up warmer e now in this
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solid fish you ever hit let go whatever
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people they said it is typically staying
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downbeat
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couple of head see anything
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we had a lot of light over there 20:18
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to go
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yeah later I drove a few leaders make it
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a Laker this year Lake Ontario lake
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trout right there this is actually a
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small one oh yeah yeah I passed the bar
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years ago we got a lie out we got a
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tough fish bigger than that 20 yeah yeah
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exactly
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oh look at that they are something
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unreal and get them the boat fight
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better than the Bolton to doing stinkers
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my players like that bad eh
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oh wait crew get to the lake chosen
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colors oh yeah send them home
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hey that one time you fought they get
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you the surface we go bananas eh
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maker a leaker what was going on you're
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getting way around the internal rock oh
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happy birthday
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we got another one yes whoa look at the
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size of this pig I'm not you a little of
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you
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ha ha ha ha look at that thing Oh fun
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man ha ha ha ha ha ha
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you got you will get knocked out by the
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gypsy diver wow you're really just
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talking about quality lay stroke daddy
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that one young man look at his moping
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clothes let's get look at why don't that
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be Wow how bad is that thing off that's
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a gorgeous fish let me get a picture of
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that thing
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I love the orange fin that's up you
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that's got to be 420 pounds
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[Laughter]
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yeah I got bad fishing Canada hotspot
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getting there today's hot spot is the
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edge of a sandbars on most of the
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Niagara River the water here tapers from
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14 to 40 feet very quickly so when you
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plug on your screen will take you right
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to the edge where these big Lakers stage
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and be careful not to slip into American
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waters here unless of course you have
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your appropriate license to get the st.
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Catharines we took highway 401 west
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through Toronto to highway 403 and then
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onto the QEW to Niagara Street South and
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st. Catharines next we turned right on
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Lakeshore and then left on Broadway all
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the way to st. Catherine's marina visit
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