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This episode has Angelo Viola and Chaudiere Lodge owner Steve Niedzwiecki trekking into uncharted waters on the French River.
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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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today we're back on a legendary French
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River exploring one of Canada's iconic
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muskie and walleye havens now although
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it was originally used as a
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transportation corridor by the Algonquin
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Sivaji ways the French became a vital
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link in the Voyageurs highway which
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ultimately stretched some 3,000 miles
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connecting the Hudson Bay to the Pacific
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and Western Arctic and it is now a
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popular location for recreational
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canoeists kayakers and of course the
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reason we're here fishy
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my guests in this episode or rather
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should I say my hosts because we're
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playing at his sandbox today his
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longtime friend Steve Ned's wiki
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proprietor of showed you a lot one of my
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all-time favorite little slices of
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heaven I've known Steve for some time
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but never had the pleasure of sharing
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the bow of a fishing boat with him
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before now they say you never really get
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to know someone until you fish with them
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I'm looking forward to this experience
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you've always been there for me baby I
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must confess you'll always be number one
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no matter how high I get this packing
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fish half as good as he can be out hey
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got bread we're headed for the mother
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lode oh she's a dandy good one yeah I
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could try getting some out of the water
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too I'm gonna try and get a straggler
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where is he doesn't have any buddies
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will I can't believe it
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we've got to be down let's net him up
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brother that's the way she goes love it
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there you go let you do that while I go
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get his brothers and sisters that was a
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fantastic idea ants oh and look at that
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yeah that's that's a decent fish right
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there not just a beauty eh oh you want
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to give him a kiss or say I love those
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no I'll do that they're gonna start
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charging people for that I know hey like
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back home where you belong brother no
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way he's got me there there it is there
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it is look oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Frank babe
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let's get that crankbait back see now if
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we can just convince him to bite one
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bite yeah that's hilarious
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boy they are just stacked the rice one
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little spotty unbelievable it's funny
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though I for four years when the French
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was was really on fire it was all
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predominantly walleye fisherman when
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that all for sure even today even today
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we still have walleye is the is the
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predominant
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fish of choice for a lot of our southern
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friends you know but we're on top of
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world-class muskie water low class bass
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yeah you know oh there's one just
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followed up there he goes
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yeah he's right under the boat so he
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came out after you
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oh there he is again I'm already Malin
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though yeah that's okay I bet Scala I've
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never caught a small e on figure-eight
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no he may know a thing or two about
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running a successful fishing lodge but I
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think he's had one too many sips from
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the French River cool a figure eight for
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bass TV boy hey get a smaller figure
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endeavor I wouldn't have even tried it
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you don't I have to tell you something
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whether it's sounding like a sales pitch
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one of the things that both Pete and I
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get asked for regularly as hosts of
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Canada's most watched fishing show is
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where would you recommend that I go for
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my next fishing adventure
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well let me tell you it's not an easy
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answer for us hearing you in the right
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direction is a huge responsibility and
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one that we take very seriously the
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biggest problem is finding places that
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are consistent consistent in quality of
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fishing consistent and excellent service
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and consistent in overall experiences
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well this is one of a handful of
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operations that we're always happy to
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recommend so as a lodge owner what do
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you think is the most important criteria
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that you have to hit with your guess its
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overall experience for sure you've got
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different people with different kinds of
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experiences they're looking for and the
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most important thing for myself and for
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my staff is to stay tuned with those
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people to correctly diagnose what
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they're looking for and make sure they
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get it one of the things that most lodge
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owners forget is that the customers are
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best verification as to whether they're
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doing well or not
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to get to show Deer Lodge we first took
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highway 400 north from Toronto we then
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took highway 69 north to highway 64 we
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headed east on 64 the dope geese rode
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and then proceeded to doki's marina from
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there it's a short boat ride to the
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lodge there's another one behind it
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hey God yeah we'll get them both we'll
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get them both on the same time we're
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gonna do a double heading that double
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hitter netting job I think mine's bigger
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news not close study but close all right
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we'll do yours first if he's ready there
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you go dad you saw both those fish hey
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than that going that's a fishing is
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something else oh you know what's really
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amazing about the French River and I
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mentioned it before it's noted for wall
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I mean I think more people probably 95
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percent of people come up here for
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absolutely a walleye but look at this oh
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look at that I think you got me buddy
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yeah me too
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you know and the nice thing about is you
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can come to a spot like this and there
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is nobody in sight
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yeah we saw one mote display adding
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value and miles okay and there now you
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have to believe us when we tell you we
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have seen probably about 25 maybe 30
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fish this size so far this morning all
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easy good stuff there we go
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that it couldn't have gone better and
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you know so many times you'll hear us
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here on the show and you talk to friends
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that have seen it where you've got one
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fish on and two or three followers and
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he gets so excited sometimes that you
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don't think of throwing something else
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in behind we talked about it yeah and
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and you know that's not about one for
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the net
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it's about going for your other rock
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exactly we saw that's the Ariston yeah
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unfortunately he's not quite as big as
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we would like to have the bed but he's
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he's fat he's a chubby little chubby be
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feller that's the way buddy
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yeah not quite what we would have liked
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but well he's fat in his bad yeah the
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least sought after sport fish on the
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French is our mean target today the
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largemouth bass this cousin of the
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smallmouth is traditionally associated
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with more southerly clients and is often
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overlooked in the more northerly reaches
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but make no mistake about it old bucket
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mouth is alive and doing well on the
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fridge for the next several hours we
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scoured the French River and future
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areas it should hold our table at all to
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no avail then Steve remembers a spot
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that an old pike hunter at once told him
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about years ago a long swampy back thing
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that used to be full of big Gators it
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sounded like it could be just a ticket
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no sooner do we get there and bingo we
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hit pay dirt
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oh yeah there it is right there yes
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talking about buddy that's is he net
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worthy I think he probably is all right
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just give them back there there you go
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anybody that's a beauty is it I'm gonna
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choke with that he's at chunghae yeah
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and just sucked it out here many more
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yes them anymore
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oh that's all we needed was a fine yeah
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well our fortune seemed to have suddenly
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turns for the better but finding fish is
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just half the battle now comes the hard
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part getting him in the boat
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is he there no he broke off he broke off
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please be on oh I don't think so buddy
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you took the legs right that's the way
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money no yeah you rotten did you see
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that oh I thought we gotta figure this
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out
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something amuck here oh no oh my god
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that was a big fish yeah you think it's
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funny that's not it's not funny at all
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fishing is a great leveler of man but
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right now I could use a shimmer - this
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is get very frustrated how's a big fish
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I've never seen this many fish short
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strike in my life this hadn't happened
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earlier in my career I'd probably quit
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fishing there he is there yes there is
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there you just drop it down drop it down
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I can openly say this is one of the most
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frustrating moments of my entire fishing
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career neither one of us can seem to
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figure out what its gonna take to get
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these fish properly pin not like they're
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not willing to bite yes finally that's
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yeah okay yes just keep tension on him
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don't don't pull it through that he's
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well hunting brother he's well
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nice beautiful color but dress if that I
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mean that's not the guy who's been Oh
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busted around in here but she got that
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one break a bit buddy a good stuff bet
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there we go it's a nice thing about
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braids now you saw that fish turn on you
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oh yeah yeah that's I wasn't saying
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watch my line because I was worried
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about a tank I was saying watch it
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because I knew it was gonna call that
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East well at least we're seeing about
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you oh yeah all right we're up sizing
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yes sir holy mackerel that's funny
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he's still on he's still on yeah there
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is power oh he's not that he's you know
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what it is a he swung soft side we have
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[Laughter]
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hey that's the way to do it
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rate the vid that's the general nice
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fish lutely buddy nothing wrong with a
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little French River in the sunlight so
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huh
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yeah with that Sun on it isn't that
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beautiful I look I'd like to see that's
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what I love about fishing at any given
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time in the blink of an eye
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things can change a storm gives way to
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sunshine or in our case we finally start
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connecting with some of these incredibly
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elusive French River bucketmouth a
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keeper up by sea for outside that's the
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way oh come on baby
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there we go oh yeah yeah it's not the
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one butthole take it look bigger good
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stuff
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I thought for sure it was the one well
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it looked it look didn't it look yeah
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set yo nice fish yes always pull a fish
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yeah he doesn't even know he's hung nice
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fish that's what I like to see we're
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stepping up man yep
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that's what it's all about stepping up
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to the plate oh look at that beauty look
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at the belly on them - they're all fat
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fish the healthy looking fest really
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nice Wow beautiful what are you what
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honey and literally it's been a hundred
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yards if that we have not moved 100
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yards and we made contact with well over
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20 of these I know well over 20 of these
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incredible all right large month is off
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the bucket list yeah well at least we
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brought some sort of sanity to another
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wise crazy situation but this just
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reinforces my belief that there are
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areas on the French River that housed
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live mouths by a truckload another
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reason to come back
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hallelujah brother we're not a big
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surprise that some or a martini
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today's hot spot is tucked away at the
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back of a long shallow finger at the top
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of the french river called wigwam bay
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the waypoint on your screen will take
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you right there
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however I'd highly recommend using the
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services of a show gear Lodge guide this
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Bay is really off the beaten path
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be very careful going in as it's
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extremely shallow we choked entrance is
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like a minefield of wood and rock but
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once you get past that it turns into a
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largemouth bass anglers paradise farm
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yourself with a boatload of top water
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weedless baits and a trunk full of
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patience you'll need it
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