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East Coast Bonanza | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Mike Miller takes us on a Nova Scotia adventure with a show full of east coast flair. He hooks into a bunch of Striped Bass on a river that literally floods when the tides roll in! CONNECT WITH US WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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you
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position Canada brought to you in part
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by stern some light jacket experts Ram
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trucks
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nothing works harder than a ram Castrol
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more than just oil is liquid engineering
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and us real when performance moves
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everything having the nvivo position as
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a host of efficient catalyst show I'm
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often asked where my favorite place to
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fish is Wow
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well at first the question seems easy
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and with that being my favorite species
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to pursue I would most likely answer
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Ontario what's given some time to think
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about it
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well I might come up with a different
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answer talking about just gotta be
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kidding me
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oh man like a her she's hot soft look at
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her there is a place your I have
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experience only a couple of times in my
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life and had just a small sample of what
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it has to offer
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and they are two of my favorite things
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lobster and giant fish
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holy this is awesome yep the maritime
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Act has to be considered a fisherman's
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paradise and I'm not talking about
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jigging for cause imagine a city that
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has a major airport and seaport the Bay
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of Fundy in the backyard the Atlantic
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Ocean in the front yard miles of
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freshwater lake and is home to the
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fabled Sunnyvale trailer park yes
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Nova Scotia might just be cops my new
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favorite fishing destination on today's
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show we're in a bit of a
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search-and-destroy mission with the help
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of some local experts our hopes are to
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tie into some River Run stripers along
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the banks of the Stewie a critter and
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there we go that's what we're dealing
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with here
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so after landing in Halifax and taking
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in some sights of the Canadian warships
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and Halifax Harbour we headed over to
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Dartmouth to pick up a shiny new 1500
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ram courtesy of doug wilson at dartmouth
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chrysler and then on our way
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cross-country to the Colchester and
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Cumberland region of Nova Scotia the
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small fishing towns and ports that dot
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the highway running through the province
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are a must-see you actually feel as
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though time standstill and sense the
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strong British and Celtic Highland
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traditions that encompass the marathons
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we finally met up with our East Coast
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connection Joe Anthony of and LC foods
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hooked up his Princecraft and had a
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special East Coast picnic lunch at the
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side of the highway
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lobster time boys there you go that's
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what I wanted but wait now they for that
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buddy happy
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and again
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now this is our kind of thickness Joe
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knows every square inch of the province
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and the right people for putting us on
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fish he's a major player in the
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shellfish market and shared his passion
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for fishing on a previous episode where
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he is reeling in the big emotional alive
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you actually see them the schools of to
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descend upon yes but about the time of
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that your gift to you a splash of the
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water right here's a big guy right there
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look at this oh good oh my oh my god oh
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my god Wow captain yeah boy there was
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Joe Anthony here a good buddy of ours
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from the East Coast so Joe is in the
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fishing industry and it's a whole
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different than us we an elite sport
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fishery enjoys in the crab industry
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direct commercial fishery of herself air
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what helps me was a lot of hakuna
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pitcher you knows a lot about all the
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East Coast stuff that goes on so we're
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out here on the ocean looking for
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idea hoe system gold cap in a fish I
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think we caught a fish today what
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happens after that these tuna are
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consumed basically raw okay as a
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saltiness relation yes this is not the
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toner that that you can gain all right
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now this is a bluefin so good stuff yeah
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well we think I was going yeah right on
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beautiful Joe Anthony himself put one of
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the biggest fish we have ever seen on
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the deck of a boat and whet our appetite
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for giant bluefin tuna it's obvious the
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commercial fishery is alive and well
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Nova Scotia are but healeth weighs in at
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1006 pounds 1,000 pounds filling up now
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at 12 dollars and 89 cents per pound
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that equals nine thousand five hundred
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and seventy seven dollars and twenty
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seven cents when it comes to crab
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lobster and tuna it's safe to say we're
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in good hands but I'm looking for
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stripers in a river not the high seas so
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we scoped out some locations and were
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met with slick mud Bank trickery man and
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limited access to the river with the
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hopes of launching the Princecraft
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baiting I realized I was going to have
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to try and tackle these fish from the
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banks of the Stewie ACK
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there is plenty of access to the Stewie
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act and there are even notices posted
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along the river explaining the laws and
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catch limits for stripers we tried
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various locations where we could see
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active fish and even hooked into a
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couple but it was proving to be quite a
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challenge the sea scrapers are a member
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of the sea bass family and will
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aggressively strike both hard and soft
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artificial baits but on this day we were
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having a tough time and due to the water
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clarity and the fact there is a lot of
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fish spawning which meant they were not
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too interested in what we were offering
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I got whacked again you must be talking
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it's got teeth in there
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I'm in there with you we have pretty
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much exhausted our hopes of putting a
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show together location is the key to
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finding a catching fish in any situation
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through trial and error we ended up
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working a straight section of the river
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right off the highway see you later dad
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you're going to pick us up later we were
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not having much luck using hard baits
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so we took some advice from a local
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expert Adrien glowed of the Millbrook
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First Nation he said we had to put some
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stink on because this water is pretty
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money and the stripers are feeding by
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smell not sight so what happens here is
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the Bay of Fundy miles downriver here
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this actually this river joins another
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river and then it goes into the Bay of
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Fundy
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and then when the tides come in all the
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water pushes up all these rivers as you
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can see here it's going past us now
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that's heading upriver and it pushes all
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the strikers in and then when the tides
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received and there's slack water here
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that's when you can you can fish form
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right now the currency is too strong and
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I haven't got a bait that will stay on
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bottom so what I do when the tide goes
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I'm going to wait for the tide Pink's
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about an hour it's going to go back out
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and there'll be slack water here I got
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about a three-quarter ounce jig here and
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then just up from it I've tied on a four
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OTT just wide gap bass fishing hook and
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then what you do is you just think you
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got to use something scented like just
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berkeley golf stuff like that
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you got to have something that's got a
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really strong scent because the water is
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so murky and the fish you got to find it
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you're going to laugh the way I rigged
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this simply because my jig on the bottom
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doesn't do much you've seen PETA use
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this he calls it the bow rod rig but I'm
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going to put a bait on there just in
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case
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so see eyeball that up there so when it
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sits on bottom it kind of just stands up
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like that and then two feet up the line
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what should I do with this one it's like
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when you're a little kid using rubber
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worms because you didn't want to touch
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worms
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so this is see how sticky that isn't all
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packing out that gulp alive really
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strong stuff and that's all I'm going to
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do the other way is rig you've ever seen
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not just going to hang there that's
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going to be on the bottom and we cast it
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across the bank let it sink to the
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bottom and then slowly move it back
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across the river bed towards me and when
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those stressors bite it just a little
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flick of your line and you got to set
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the hook you can't miss her out ha ha ha
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you pull a drag on my flipping stick Hey
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I felt like a sunfish bite just pecked
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it there you there I know he's right in
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front of me look at that's two fish
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beside each other me and Adrian up the
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banks got one on to watch oh you got off
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well let him go anyway
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wow that was serious what a hit it's
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like a I can only describe it as a flick
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on my line something somebody flick in
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my line I've had two or three of them
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when I thought nothing of it that time I
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set the hook and just slammed ten or
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fifteen pounds of striper okay I'll get
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them I'll get this one I got the hold
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one after all okay you're free and then
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if we go
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so what we're dealing with here
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beautiful emerald green backs on us
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and we go a couple of stewy at rivers
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finest there you just got to see so he's
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milking
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stripers are strong swimmers and a
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challenge to hook something pumped it
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yep I got scales add to that - slippery
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slope you must reverse to land them and
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you've got one excitement fishing
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adventure here we go
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wow this guy isn't gonna get off I
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drilled him good I've compared to large
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mouth the mouth on this fish is so tough
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offering anything I've ever seen
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Wow and they're not that big I mean I
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don't know I'm going to say he's
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probably I know six or seven pounds
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maybe beautiful it's kind of like a
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cross between a walleye - bass right
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there awesome fish big sharp dorsal fins
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look at these deadly amazing Wow fast
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boy she reflexes got to be so quick well
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she just missed them and there's
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thousands in this river here we go
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already I'll let you go this way
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I've never I can't imagine a fish that
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big 15 pounds 16 pounds even up to 40
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pounds being able to hit your line like
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that and if you don't set the hook
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you're hanging in the wind like laundry
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best one was when my buddy from Chevy we
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went fishing early in the morning we
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fished all day we're catching them all
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day long with rubber streakers
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he kept getting hits but he couldn't
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land the fish finally just before dark
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we went to go home I don't know what the
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hell's wrong anyway broad he's lowering
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so that's it we had all kinds of fish he
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couldn't get one and he looked at his
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rubber worm the hook was broke off Oh
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the tides in debate really dictate fish
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activity in this river at low tide
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there's not much water and trudging out
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into the muck is the only way to get
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close enough to make a cat towards the
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schools of spawning striper
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however when the tide does come in you'd
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better be on high ground and it comes in
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fast and furious and with it thousands
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of big stripers here comes that tide
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have a look at this get your surfboards
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out whoa taking line
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I called it just that tides coming and I
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whacked one you guys got to get up here
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that's going to come up fast come on
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come on come on you got these kids
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swimming in the creek know it comes up
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to here
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almost straight into my hook out any
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almost straight oh yeah see that always
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some friendly people on the rivers here
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at Nova Scotia to give you a hand get
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rid of your fish as the tides coming in
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thank what here appreciate it
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I need to get some of that fish slime on
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me in the mean one
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there you go halfway across the creek
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because he was on camera
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he performed he knew what a great way to
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spend a spring day sitting on the
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riverbank
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meeting some new friends catching some
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fish even Doug Wilson his boys got in on
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the action
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well that's a thick one
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whoo
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way to go but nearly fifty officers will
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show on the bank already yes and they
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say now watching these kids tangled with
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one of the biggest fish of the trip in
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one of the biggest fish they've ever
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caught with the highlight of the day for
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everyone that's a good one yeah and then
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preparing looking to get your kids into
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fishing thus to react is a great place
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to start
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Kiana good oh yeah
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after only a couple days exploring the
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area we were able to get on to what
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might be one of the most exciting and
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accessible Fisheries Nova Scotia has to
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offer God God for young and old
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experienced and inexperienced the light
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striper fishing can't be beat
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prepare fit that's classic this is what
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fishing Canada is all about
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today's radio world hotspot is a portion
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of the celiac River deep in the heart of
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Nova Scotia the weight point on your
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screen will get you there
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stripers moved through this area during
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your spring spawning ritual there are
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literally thousands of fish stacked up
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and the day that's catching 20-plus
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stripers are quite common try using your
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live or artificial blood worms
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forecasting Frank Bates and topwater
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lures a fun thing to keep in mind when
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the Bay of Fundy tides come rolling in
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extreme caution should be taken the fast
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current and slippery mud banks can be
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treacherous for more hot spots like this
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one check out fishing canada's calm to
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get to Nova Scotia we flew from Pearson
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International Airport Toronto to the
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halifax stanfield International Airport
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in Nova Scotia we then drove north east
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on highway 102 for about 45 minutes we
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exited on the Main Street East at the
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town of stewy at and then took a left on
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trunk road to traveling northeast where
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the bridge crosses the stewey a critter
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and parked at the access road on the
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right mission canada brought to you in
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part by during some life jackets experts
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Ram trucks nothing worked harder than a
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rail Castrol more than just oil into
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liquid engineering and you ask reel when
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performance means everything
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you
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