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If you like watching big predator fishing in exotic areas, then this is the episode for you! Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman head to the upper reaches of the Northwest Territories at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, which joins Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean. The species they’re after will undoubtedly surprise you… it’s the ill tempered and short-fused Northern Pike. And let’s just say… the boys have got their hands full!
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oh God yeah this is a beauty bud it's
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the second ever on the show man is that
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crazy he's on cuz they took drag oh
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that's a big fan
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just oh look at the tail on that
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thing
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oh yeah nice fish answer nice oh nice
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fish that's a monster oh my God that's
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the biggest fish yet you
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hi everybody let me start this show out
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by saying this trip has been a long time
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coming yes we get to encounter some
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pretty amazing destinations across
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Canada but every now and then we'll hit
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one that just blows us away today's
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location is one of those places the
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Northwest Territories we haven't been
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here in a long time but all that is
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about to change as we team up with the
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folks at nwt tourism and show the world
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why this place is considered fishing
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Nirvana no wonder is referred to as the
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spectacular Northwest
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Territories home for this episode is an
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oasis called brebant Lodge nestled on a
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tiny fantasy islandlike setting at the
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mouth of the mighty McKenzie river the
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largest river in Canada from here at the
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bottom end of great Slave Lake it will
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flow over 1,000 Mi Northwest before
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dumping into the Arctic Ocean as you can
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imagine the journey is definitely a big
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part of this amazing adventure a few
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flights an overnighter and Yellow knife
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and then jump on a flow plane in Hay
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River somebody please pinch me normally
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trips to this part of the fishing world
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are filled with catches of giant lat
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trout pure 30s 40s 50s and even 60
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pounders are realistic
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expectations but lurking at the bottom
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end of great slave in the Mackenzie
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Delta is another heavyweight Contender
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who's been hiding in the shadows esox
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Lucius the northern pike that's right
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kitties today it's mono Amano with
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monstrous nwt
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Northerns the plan is to search for fish
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that are migrating from their spring
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spawning grounds on the McKenzie back to
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Great slave and according to owner guide
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Peter Fox our timing couldn't be better
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as these trophy fish should be in full
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postpone mode meaning the only thing in
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their minds is eating everything in
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sight as they make their way back to
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Great slave that my friends is a good
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thing oh God yeah this is a beauty
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butt oh my God look at he's going to
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jump no no no don't jump it's the second
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ever on the show man oh that's a big
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fish
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now when we finally arrive at most
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fishing spots it usually takes us a bit
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of time to figure things out but here it
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was on immediately literally on our
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first two
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casts he's smacked me good don't know
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how big it is he's coming too easy now
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big fish will do that sometimes they
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they'll you he's spinning though he's
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rolling yeah he's rolling yeah you know
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what decent way to start it good starter
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starter fish well you know what's nice
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about it we know that the colors work
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and we know the right there first cast
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you know it's going to be the deal right
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yeah you got to feel good about
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that oh maybe he'll come off I got one
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too on my first cast on First cast okay
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oh Bud look it what I think I got an in
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canoe no I do you got an in canoe I
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swear to God oh my God you do look at
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this this is a phenomenal catch we've
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only had one of these fish on the
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fishing Canada show in the 40 years that
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we've been in business this is the
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second one right here called an in canoe
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or they also call it a she fish check
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that out folks we don't really want to
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pull her out because they're very
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delicate yeah so we'll just flip her off
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but what a cool looking fish I'll just
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bring it over I'll leave mine on on hold
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here for a minute beautiful done woohoo
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there you go brother there's kind of a
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bucket lzard that's the first that's my
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first in canoe ever it's the second ever
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on the show man tell crazy
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that's awesome add one to the list
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Angelo yes sir yeah you take us off the
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Rocks don't worry there you go this is
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the McKenzie river Canada's longest
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running river by the way a couple years
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ago a good friend of ours uh Roy arms
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told us about the walleye fishing in
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British Columbia and we said you're an
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old fool there are no walleye and BC old
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fool Roy watches this show he's going to
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beat you
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up there's no walleye BC he says yeah he
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says not only wle but they got giant
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Pike out there too said you're you're
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crazy man anyways long story short we
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looked into it and he was absolutely
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right uh in the Northeast sector of the
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Rocky Mountains in British Columbia it's
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probably some of the best walleye
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fishing and pike fishing that you could
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possibly experience so how did these
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walleye get into the Northeast sector of
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the Rockies we started looking into it
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and we we found out you guessed that it
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all starts here at the mouth of the
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McKenzie river these fish are not here
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very long they are here about 90 days
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about 3 months of the year as the ice
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melts on great slave and uh starts to
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recede these Pike will come into the
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mouth of the McKenzie here to spawn what
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we are trying to do is intercept them
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and it's a game of finding out where are
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those fish at this particular time are
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they up at the spawning ground have they
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finished spawning are they moving back
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and that's what this uh this episode's
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going to be all about it's going to be a
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blast and we just got an in canoe a
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sheepish double header and the first two
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cast well although that Pike didn't
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break any records the in canoe was such
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a great surprise Pete got a bucket
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Lister and we finally put another she
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fish on camera man that's a long time
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between
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catches time to move on we're going to
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work our way towards great slave using
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the current and wind to ease the boat
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along but even here making minor
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Corrections with the electric trolling
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motor can pay big
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dividends oh I saw saw decent see some
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fish I saw some fish oh look at right oh
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yeah buddy yeah yeah yeah that was a
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good one we'll get the net for that one
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yeah this is a Netter oh God yeah this
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is a beauty
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Bud oh my god look he's going to jump no
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no no don't don't jump yes don't jump oh
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my god oh this is a nice fish Bud W easy
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easy what is he doing that for easy look
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oh oh easy you just got the one hook the
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back Hook and the small hooks it's a
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little it's a jerk bait right big
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Gator I almost had
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him try it again there you go nice Bud
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wo woo there we go leave him right like
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work on him God Bud buddy you can
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wrestle with them in there yeah these
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nets are perfect for this now yeah got
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it nice nice nice there you go nice
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how's that for a northern pike Beauty
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Northwest Territories McKenzie river
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northern pike good work buddy let me get
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the net out of the way I'll drop it
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right back in go ahead
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oh yeah baby you are a beast shouldn't
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take much to get that fish going again
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come on baby look there we go byebye
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byebye good work the glove the glove
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worked eh nice
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nice oh he's off he's off yes that thing
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no no he's on he's on he's on I was
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going to say took drag oh that's a big p
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just just oh
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I'm locked an I'm locked okay that's the
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want okay I think we're going to need a
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net on this one oh we're I'm netting
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this guy an yeah I think so oh look at
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the tail on that
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thing here we go coming at you beautiful
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nice nice job buddy nice I'm going to
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hold the net I'll let you do the honors
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just a barely in them eh I think out
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nice so let me get this let me see if I
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can get this bait out yeah get the lure
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out first cuz the fish is see that's why
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people musky angers es so angles use
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Nets like this when you going you got a
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chance for a big fish that fish is
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sitting in there his face is under the
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water breathing perfectly good it's just
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recuperating for that little bit of a
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fight and
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uh wasn't much of a fight no it wasn't
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it came in pretty good but then n you
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can pull the the hooks out of the net
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makes it safe for everything you know
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what I mean then you give the fish a
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little lift kiss them goodbye and seems
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like a little Overkill with the net but
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it's not not with these nets eh no
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especially when you got a potential for
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a 50-in pike I tell you as we're working
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this fish the lodge has got garment
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Force trolling motors I'm on anchor mode
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right now makes this life so much easier
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you see the wind there's current and
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this wind and we're just sitting here
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working on this fish now it's perfect so
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it's a great addition to the
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lodge nice W it's going to slime you
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watch the hooks and everything yeah
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woohoooo nice Bud that fish got me slime
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bad all right here we go pull a net back
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if you can bit Pete there you go
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got her all right baby the Net's heavier
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than the
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fish there he goes beautiful job
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beautiful job brother I've been
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officially slimed by McKenzie
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river I love it I love I made never was
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this
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off yeah nice fish an nice oh nice fish
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that's a monster oh oh that is spectac
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was it right there
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buddy so we quickly figured these Pike
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out they're relating to a quick drop off
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that breaks from a shallow flat and
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drops into 6 to 8 ft of water although
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it's not a drastic depth change it's
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enough to hold these Giants and pretty
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much textbook for posts spawn
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Pike yeah nice fish an nice oh nice fish
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that's a monster big one that's that is
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a
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monster
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oh that is spectacular that was it right
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there buddy big old Gator head that's
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the price of admission right there yeah
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that's awesome when they do that oh my
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God and stay on he got her in there
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doesn't he I think he's got it good
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oh I think he's got it real good I got
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to try and pull him in Bud yeah
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anytime right into the net you are a
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beautiful fish there you are they're
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like Gators in these nets see like it's
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a craziness got it so we're just letting
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them sit in the net now it's like a live
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well we just going to let him recoup a
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little bit if he looks good I'll pull
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him up for a quick show you guys and if
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he looks good we'll release him if not
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we can put him back in the net and he's
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just sitting here perfect really and
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breathing away upright okay here we go
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nice nice Pike gge real long not fat but
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long huge head on them yeah
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there they go there you go go on buddy
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good you did yeah
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nice so awesome woo that's what he just
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did is probably even more important than
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catching that fish and that is making
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sure that it's ready to go I mean that
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fish probably would have survived it
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anyways even if we had have just thrown
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them in but boy why would you want to do
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that when you give him a chance to
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recoup just him big he fought good you
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know it's a little time little time it's
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time consuming but better for the fish
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fantastic good job
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buddy I'm feeling a lot of weight down
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there man coming
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up no oh yeah that's a big fish that's a
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big fish yeah that's better yeah that's
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a big that's better grab the net oh he
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T-boned it too nice you tell me when you
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want to bring them yeah I'll slide them
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towards you yeah we can try here he goes
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there he goes wo ni on him man come on
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baby here you go here you go nice one
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nice scoop nice scoop let's see what we
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got I wonder if they had any idea when
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they designed this switch bait at yzui
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that it was going to become such a
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popular and fish catching monster for
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pike yeah not this one because it's
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saltwater yeah yeah exactly that's what
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I mean
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yeah me he's told he big he's heavier
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than I thought
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nice fish Bo they're beautiful huh nice
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fish beautiful the LOD says you get tons
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of these by the way they say you get
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tons of these that is
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incredible all right let's see what we
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can do with
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you
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yes it swam away did you see a kick all
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of a sudden they just like boom
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yeah nice good stuff
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today's hotspot is one of the many
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Monster Pike holding areas that are
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accessed through brav an Lodge on the
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MacKenzie River in the Northwest
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Territories the way point on your screen
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will get you there we primarily use two
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bait styles that both work with the same
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presentation Yuri twitch baits and jerk
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baits were the deal for us and the
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bigger the better we constantly Chang
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colar throughout the day and it seemed
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to make a difference by shooting our Liv
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scope beam forward we could hold the
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boat out about 40 ft from the brake line
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we would then cast up towards the
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shallower portion and work our baits out
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to deeper water every now and then we do
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the exact opposite casting deep and
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retrieving towards the shallows and that
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to produced the odd giant bait casting
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rods and reels wire leaders and at least
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50 lb test braided lines are a must in
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this situation don't come here unarmed
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for more hotpots like this one check out
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canada.com that's cuge I know oh my God
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that's the biggest fish yet you
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goon yeah nicely done
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nice this is exactly what we dreamed
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about before this trip materialized
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catching big post spawn Pike on Yi hard
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baits we couldn't have scripted this any
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better oh yeah look at this that's a
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nice fish that's more than a 12 are you
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kidding me I know that's
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huge oh my God that's the biggest fish
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yet you
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goon I wasn't even excited about it
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we'll try and get them on the other side
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here an just because of all our Liv
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scope stuff yeah I'm going to try my
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best bring them around
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buddy there we
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go gorgeous fish yeah nicely done nice
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that's close to 20 if not a little bit
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more I'm telling you right
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now wow that was so fast he's not bad
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either huh no he's not he's not bad man
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they ever do they ever hit this stuff
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it's on the inside
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there right there it's not even in there
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is it we're not we're not in there at
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all it's around the mandible
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there there now he's free now we can
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give him a drink of water you got it out
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yeah yeah I can't believe I
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miscalculated that fish so like 10 lbs I
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miscalculated that by 8 to 10 lb oh my
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God that's the fish of the trip right
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there brother so I'm just going to let
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him do his thing there like that he's
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good there's no blood he's he was hooked
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really easy I'll get this out of here so
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that it makes life easier for us don't
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go too deep you'll get yourself cut bad
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I've done her before lots of cuts on
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these guys eh they do they do damage
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here we go going to try and be this as
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quick as I
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can look at
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this there's a blooper for you
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what a gorgeous Northern fight Northwest
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Territory at that that's almost spawning
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colors you know that man what a beauty
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fantastic just watch that net I'm going
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to put him in right
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here yeah his tail looks spawning too
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doesn't it yeah this fish will release
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really well guaranteed he's not going to
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have any worry in the world oh man I'll
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tell you what that's quality fishing
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right here I'll tell
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you there loaded I mean loaded with fish
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like that and
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bigger oh yeah that's better let's have
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a peek at you that's a big fish how
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about you I I hope so oh yeah he's he's
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he is fighting like a big fish oh yeah
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look at the tail on him wo oh my God
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that's a monster dude that's tank of the
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day what are we going to do with thatp
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you're kidding me you're pulling them
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out of that net what are we going to do
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with that oh my God God buddy musky siiz
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Pike big Pike nice big Pike it's got
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some scars on him right oh
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yeah right to you right there nicey look
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at the size of that fish that's the ones
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they they talk about the 40 High to Mid
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40 in fish
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macroo oh he's out he's out perfect
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perfect this is a world class pike
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fishing trip if you want a if you want a
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good get yourself Pike like this and
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it's pretty much guaranteed you know I'm
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not going to guarantee anything but
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Brave an Lodge is the place to go and
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Northwest Territories and I'll tell you
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what you're if you want to catch 200 300
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Pike a day you're going to get it easy
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easy it's just a question of finding the
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bigger ones right yeah yeah if you want
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to just go for fun you are going to rail
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them you want to get a biggie you got to
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take some time here we go 3 2 1 wow
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there we go folks how fantastic is that
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how cool is that is amazing look at this
20:30
fishery this fishery is unreal you know
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we were told that you could come into
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this body of water and if it's bang on
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if it's really really cranked up you can
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get yourself seven or eight of these a
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day a
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day that white across the back look at
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that thing dude all right put that Beast
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back he's going to release well her she
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I don't know what that one be probably a
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big
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female that makes the trip worthwhile
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didn't it oh yeah here we go here we go
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byebye
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ah I love
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that I love that and you know you can
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tell right off the Hop hey you just when
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you set the hook I knew you had a big
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you tell little the little guys do this
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this this tell those big fish right away
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he just stays there and you go oh my God
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here we
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go all right
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pike fishing we first flew from Toronto
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Territories after spending the night
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there we took a short flight to the town
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of Hay River where we boarded a flow
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plane which took us to brabant Lodge
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situated on the headwaters of the
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McKenzie
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hot and cold running water and full
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premium boats are equipped with all the
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bells and whistles you'd expect
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including Garin Force trolling
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motors although we concentrated on
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Northern Pike there's also walleye
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Arctic grailing lake trout and in canoe
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swimming in the waters of the McKenzie
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as you could tell it's all there you
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