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Angelo Viola travels to the Pitt River for one of the most scenic fishing adventures he has ever filmed.
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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, 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 worked harder than a ram
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casserole more than just oil is liquid
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engineering and us real when performance
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means everything the passion for fishing
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is usually rooted way back in the
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anglers history often dating back to
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their childhood I know for me that's
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definitely the case so you as a viewer
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would think that since I've been fishing
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most of my life and have had the
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privilege of traveling tens of thousands
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of miles to seek my big glory that I'm
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pretty well seen and cut it off well
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you're absolutely wrong today's show
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takes me on yet another fishing
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candidate adventure for creatures I've
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never encountered the bull trout I
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hooked up with longtime friend bit
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Harold STS guiding for this BC bull
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trout adventure now fix no strangers in
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the fishing Canada show as he's guided
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us on some of the most amazing sturgeon
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fishing that anyone could ever encounter
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but this guiding services I have just
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for surgeon the title SPF means salmon
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trout and sturgeon today we're focusing
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on the teeth which means we're going
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trunk Bishop goddamn wreck my first bull
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trout say your first yeah I challenge
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anyone watching today to show me a more
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picturesque setting than the one I'm
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about to venture into we start at the
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bottom end of pit Lake a gorgeous body
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of water that sits just north of the
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Fraser River it's the second largest
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lake in the Lower Mainland of British
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Columbia and is also one of the world's
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largest title lakes
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our fishing destination isn't the lake
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itself it's actually the upper kick
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River at the north end of the lake the
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scenery along Pitt Lake would inspire
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the world's greatest artists but the
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encompassing area of Pitt River is like
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a ride through heaven itself
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beautiful snow-capped mountains form a
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breathtaking wall of scenery on both
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sides of the river green lush forests
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and beautiful pebble shorelines make it
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a fisherman's paradise the upper river
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is relatively short but there's the fact
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that it's spent by a number of ice caps
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of mountain streams the river gets quite
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large considering its a mere 50
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kilometers from its source garibaldi
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Provincial Park a jet boat drive up the
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spectacular Pitt River is worth a
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million bucks add the fishing well it's
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absolutely priceless the side-to-side
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maneuverability of these boats plus
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being able to run an ultra shallow water
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makes it one of the most unique vehicles
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in the world what's really great though
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for the angler is it allows you to trek
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into no-man's land loaded with wild
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trout what we're going to do here is
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we're going to fish our way from here
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down to the mouth of the river where
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meets in the into the lake so as a
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general rule of thumb what we like to do
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when we fish this river is pitch it
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fairly quickly think of it this way
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every fish that looks at your lure the
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first time you have about a 95 percent
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chance he's going to grab it does that
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aggressively out there out the second
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time he sees it yeah you got a 50/50
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percent chance right the third time he
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sees it you got about a 10 percent we do
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in other words you're wasting your time
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dilution so the real goal here is to
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cover as much water in a day as possible
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so think of a more as a steelhead or
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salmon than a trout okay because they're
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not they're not just sitting there
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waiting for food they're actually
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migrating up the river alright so these
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fish generally sit in water from me to
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about waist deep at a walking speed flow
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much like steelhead so you're trying to
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cover so as a general rule I like to say
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the waters for the fish the bank is for
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the fishermen so
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the only time you go in that water to be
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absolutely half Jason one down yeah and
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so we try and stay you know often shore
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here to ankle deep water anywhere that
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looks fishy and easy to walk on this
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yeah this is perfect you look at it you
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see that that water there that's only a
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knee-deep yeah that's where they like to
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hide so what I'd like to do as far as
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presentation goes is cast upstream on a
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45 yeah usually caps to the edge of the
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seam so if there's fast running water
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and then it's slower running water caps
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adjust to this side of that fast water
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drop your lure in and then work it back
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toward you as it gets swept down the
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river so by the time you get down to
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about a 45 you're already coming into
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Shore as inevitably you're fishing maybe
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right here in this area
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exactly and that's where you're going to
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pick them up and and sometimes you'll
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pick them up down towards back here but
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a lot of times what will happen is
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you'll get hung up on rock right because
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it's so shallow down at the tail oh yeah
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so you're kind of working 45 on these
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fish don't hit very hard so anything
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that stops your lures that set the hook
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you know and he'll are you retrieving it
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just under the stern nice and slow okay
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smaller you better they're not spinners
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they're spoons
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yeah and there's a big difference so
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spoons you want to retrieve as slow as
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possible you're going to have the curt
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actually working your spoon for you so
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what you're trying to do is just keep
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the spoon off the bottom from snagging
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so cool let the current work the spoon
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and you're just giving it enough just to
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keep it from hanging up on you okay and
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we just start right here and we can work
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our way down his first run and see how
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we do test me coach or put me up the
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field here there he is buddy where you
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got a match he might chase me though he
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did chase me when I started retrieving
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back up yeah I was right about here okay
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upstream baby upstream baby that's a
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pretty little fish
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alright let's smoke yeah
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I think it hard for the latisha if you
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done I think a nun is that kind of the
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advertisement all the small side yeah
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yeah yeah a little small the nice my
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fish wait to details yeah I know
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yourself so that's a charm right I so
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they call them a bull trout right and
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you also have Dolly Varden which I guess
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is like the other yeah yeah beautiful
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fish let us breathe yeah
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now what's you up here doing heading
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upriver to spawn okay even at that age I
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are you the truth yeah yeah probably
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sure that is cool
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yeah they sell but all right yeah all
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right well let's they can only get
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bigger from there right my first-ever
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bull truck
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man what a feeling to be able to wait in
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these frigid and remote mountain waters
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casting spoons at such an exotic species
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now speaks volumes to just how fortunate
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I truly am
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so let's move on okay well that's a good
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warm-up run though for sure the both
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road is a char of the family cell Bonita
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native to Northwestern North America in
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Canada it lives in the cold clear waters
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of the high mountains and coastal rivers
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of the Yukon Alberta and British
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Columbia bull trout have been recorded
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up to 41 inches of length and weighing
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32 pounds they may be either migratory
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moving throughout large rivers lakes in
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the ocean like the fish that we're after
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today come on fish ruler or they may be
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resident remaining in the same stream
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their entire lives good run buddy hey
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that was supposed to be mine torval that
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you see them yet no good same size yeah
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he's taking you down river boys going
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now I notice you don't carry a net out
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here at all and just you know I probably
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should I try not to handle them too much
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we do always try and get a couple
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pictures yeah and you know once we get a
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nice picture of one fish I usually just
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release the rest pop the rest go and a
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net gives you your eighth night
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sometimes gives you the opportunity to
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handle will handle them a little too
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much you know and here you have no
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choice
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yeah I I like Bhangra I hate the run
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into a seven or eight pounder with other
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net well you know what when you if you
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play the fish out you know and it's
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really odd it's kind of one of these
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because sometimes what happens is you
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you when you're using net you land them
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a lot quicker than they don't be tired
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and then they flash in the internet and
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although your intentions are good yeah
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sometimes you end up doing more damage
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because you got a thrashing fish in the
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net yep you know I'd rather just maybe
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get them a little bit more played out
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yep and and then just handle them and
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you know like we did now this is a total
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release fish review right yes yeah yeah
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conclude we catch her in me so no fish
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kept under any circumstance at any time
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of year it's I catch release with a bait
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man horrible bigger yep you got me
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yep ruin up you got need remove it up
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all right dude mitt
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again random sometimes what I find is I
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get my handle oh yeah there we go nice
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get my hand wet and he was a good deal
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looked prettier yeah Wow
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you know okay thanks good start to the
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data it's beautiful too
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although that one was supposed to be
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lying technically I let I left them did
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you notice oh I left them behind for you
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I see that okay so we want to do that
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too many times so if you appreciate it
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bull trout and Dolly Varden trout look
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very similar and we're once considered
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the same species studies published in
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1978 identified bull trout as distinct
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from the Dolly Varden
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both rather larger on average with a
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relatively longer and broader head they
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are mainly in inland species wild Dolly
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Varden are more common in coastal areas
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without far these special chase down a
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spoon in other words how close you have
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to get it to them in this Clearwater
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together this pile they they pull that
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far they won't move it don't move but I
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don't think a lot of great distance I've
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never really seen one move a long long
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way and I've now steelhead on the other
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hand although absolutely watching moved
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from that log I like the leer to get one
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absolutely imagine if you're up a guy
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haven't seen them where we're retrieving
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and you'll see me come out from behind
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something that rabbits leaves me at
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three feet yeah but I don't know if they
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would come up like like this sort of
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thing to grab it there ain't 90 air boys
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just get out of here I go understand why
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Vic says he never gets sick toufool
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jumping up and down the pit how could
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anybody ever get tired of this it gives
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an angler opportunity to recharge and
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get ready for a brand new high that's
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experienced for each fresh hunt fish
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through the water there's a fish
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there you go further that's how I
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respect this good look at him go oh that
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is good
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there's one tough little critter event
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you know the funny thing is and yeah
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yeah I said you know what and it's good
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to get what is in the prime spot and
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he's going to hook a fish bass fishing
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is that like slightly hooked it's a
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beauty
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oh that's actually that's a very nice
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fish very nice oh it's good after you
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buddy buddy
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my hat is next now that's a typical fish
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up here yeah and when it come back down
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in the spring to eat the fried they'll
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actually be will be more of a one-pound
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fish rather than a two and a half
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patient so very nice next work
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let him go see you buddy there you go my
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friend nice job so straight
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yeah you get the hired that boy there
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was no mistake in that yeah I knew
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what he wanted
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well I think God is more in there so all
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right well let's do we can make I'd walk
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right back up to the where you left off
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there and cover that water again the
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same way there's probably another one
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sitting right there with them okay oh
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there's a nice one that's a beauty I
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turn there's two in there because i turn
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them both on that one cast like one
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flash and then I saw a second one don't
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spook my next fish okay I'll get them on
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I get them out
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good size you look good look nice just a
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little bit bigger than yours I think I
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don't think so
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oh you just watch some nice -
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leopard got a bigger fish than a they
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lucky to get her bottom you know yep
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that is nice and nicely he's not as big
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as mine you remember little bit so no
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that's nice about it typical girl just
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slap him in the water there for a second
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I'm going to get a picture with you with
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this fish that's what we do
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what a gorgeous dish so you see this um
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yeah it gets nice and choppy right below
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us
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yeah so you do you're doing perfect as
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you walk keep walking towards the bank
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what I generally do like I haven't
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fished up here yet this year but
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generally when I when I fish runs like
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this for the first time I kind of do
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like what you and I are doing and not
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only your fishing it but you're also
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mentally memorizing it fish going got a
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bit he's coming up he's named at you
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buddy
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pleasure strong I could tell you right
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now that's a strawberry I feel like a
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rocket well here so right now like Ross
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went ahead I was expecting that you know
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that real violent hit just wasn't dinner
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yeah I was a good night I have a look at
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this thing but I'll tell you what it
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could be well before this this thinkable
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this thing is going down river look at
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this but now we met two blind out here
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thank here that's the basement I think
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once you get them into here you're going
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to be good remember you got Barbara
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sucks oh yeah yeah keeps writing them
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nice oh nice despite the sounds on my
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tongue
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Oh peaceful and I have to bet that they
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figure that's by Nathalie says he's got
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a bit of a tight bottom already that's a
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male yeah that's only like eight pound
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fluorocarbon so I'll try not care how
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bad he is that is beautiful in
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oh you know I gonna stop and Robin app
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here buddy Oh what I've been back down
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here calm there we go buddy
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Fishman no look you know yet okay let's
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uh let's guess you're not here yet wow
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this is a necessity good definition of
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the day yeah play your exam clear that
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thanks much he's gonna be gorgeous
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how big is that I'm going to say seven
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pounds I'd say so
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ever say seven pounds he's a beautiful
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fit now what is a typical fish size wise
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this the early run in the first two
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weeks has four to six pounds gorgeously
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yeah and then as they get into mid July
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or mid-june through to about second
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weekend July is two to four pounds so
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you get some of these bigger fish
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there's a lot two to three pounders and
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the river this is a big nail right
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beautiful fish yeah in the other day now
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he's coming up here come to spawn yeah
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he's getting things ready obviously how
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much harder than you think a fish like
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that would go he'll go another 15
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kilometers 20 kilometers up the valley
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here now they don't die like salmon
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mostly they reproduce and then they work
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through about dilute Lee I mean you were
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saying or your honor they actually
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follow the food source yep all the way
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out right that's right in there how long
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are they in the ocean well this fish
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here could be 15 years old run hold it
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no Charlie I don't want to do a whole
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lot of damage to fish beautiful nicely
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done nicely who know what the old
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barbless hook yeah right oh and he's got
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lots of energy and I mean I just let him
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go over here in this little back channel
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perfect give a little better chance -
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there you go buddy
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oh yeah he's ready goodbye thank you
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today's renewal hotspot has Angela
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micked fishing the Pitt River in
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beautiful British Columbia the waypoint
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on your screen will give you a good
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place to start since this picturesque
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River has many shallow rocky runs and
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dark deep holes it's a good idea to hire
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a professional guide like MIT you can
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start by motoring upstream then work the
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pools and runs all the way down or vice
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versa
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spoons of the number one choice for
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lures but don't hesitate to try in Lane
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spinners or minnow baits - for more hot
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spots like this check out fishing
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Canada's calm to get to my fantastic
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bull trout adventure I flew from Toronto
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to Vancouver British Columbia
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I then rented a car and took the low
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heat highway east to Mission City I
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finally ended up at above and beyond
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fishing Canada's home away from home
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when travelling to BC from there it was
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on to the Pitt River fish in Canada
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brought to you in part by Woolman the
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outdoor company
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Mozgov repulsive since 1951 Racecraft
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both the more you know the better we
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look and richer and out pours number one
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