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Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman head to Nova Scotia and hit the Atlantic Ocean for their most adventurous outing yet.
They battle their largest foe ever… a Bluefin Tuna weighing close to 1000 pounds!
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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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position Canada brought to you in part
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by coleman the outdoor companies must
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call repulsive since 1951 great cast
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votes the more you know the better we
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look and richer in outdoors number one
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let's say it's going to be unique ah Who
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today's show is monumental as well the
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best book you're going to see the
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all-time fishing Canada big fish record
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broken shattered entirely but a octopi
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episode beat dire fishing off the coast
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of Nova Scotia and we're targeting the
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mighty bluefin tuna oh my god they come
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up on their side there yeah twenty plus
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years of being in the fishing business
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and deny are no strangers to battling
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big fish who both voted seven foot plus
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turbine at Lilith and Diane Marlin and a
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bruiser shark meat will over 400 pounds
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we know full well however on this trip
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those things are pumped compared to what
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we're up against joining us on our tuna
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adventure are great friends
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Adrian glowed from the Millbrook First
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Nations in Joe Anthony from ALC Foods
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Limited one of the largest crab
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processing plants in all of Canada when
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you get into areas where there's large
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quantities of fish being landed you'll
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have several Japanese buyers there okay
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and they do start they see a fish and
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they know they know what that fish is
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okay they know what they can get for it
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they know where the america set and in
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japan that day they're going to have the
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fish there 24 hours later you basically
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get what they give sort of the material
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give you a beer and dollar a pound or
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fifteen dollars upon or forty dollars
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you're just taking your chance on
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whatever they it could be a $40,000
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Fisher could be a thousand dollar fish
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around and that's a rod of this yeah our
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skipper is sandy Cavanaugh one of the
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most colorful characters we've ever had
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the pleasure of sharing a boat with this
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guy is the genui deal a real live
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Captain Highliner who spent his entire
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life at seeing his deckhands our Joshua
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Stevens and Dana Silla boy it takes a
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full crew like this in order to execute
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to the highest degree our tuna adventure
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starts out near the quaint little town
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of Castle Nova Scotia this place could
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be a postcard for Canadian Maritimes and
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just oozes fish captain sandy the boys
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are raring to go
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and so
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we but first we've got to get some bait
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in the Kanto area mackerel are the
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primary forage fish for bluefin tuna a
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yo-yo
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it's a high protein high fat fish that
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accelerates the growth of these giants
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unbelievably fast
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with more than enough bait in the bin we
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headed up to the ocean now it's time
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Josh started to grab the gear while we
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all waited chomping at the bit with
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Sandia Josh started setting up
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we were like two little kids waiting for
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Christmas morning the anticipation in
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curiosity was killing us big grab hooks
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lying elastic pants and then the
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all-important part the plastic jar of
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course the improvised bobber I thought
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I'd seen it all in fishing hey whatever
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floats your mackerel
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sandy kept hoping for the wind I thought
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it was to allow our based a couple more
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water by drifting but boy was I wrong I
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mean how often do you fly a kite for
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fishing do a little kite flying yep a
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little kite flying here now you're raked
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up beer that's by the way is most
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incredible form of a giggling I've ever
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shoot of my life this is great bad hat
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but you got to make sure you get
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everything all lined up before you let
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her go right yeah but if he gets caught
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over the inch and go sideways right you
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got to keep her straight okay now we're
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going to enter oder boat what 80 feet
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sandy was fully confident in this kite
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rig as well as the area we were fishing
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he's got hundreds of tuna here on this
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exact setup for those of you follow our
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show regularly you know how much I love
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fishing topwater baits but this is a
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little over the top isn't it oh well
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this kite rig works it will definitely
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be the most elaborate and exciting top
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water hit I've ever witnessed and nice
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fish you're traveling up on the surface
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in the junk water traveling around that
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he's run it down now right so I've slack
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it oh yeah
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when I duel up it comes right you fetch
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it up there and bring the line up now
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you actually see them the schools of
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tuna coming in and I'm yep but but about
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the time of that you just hear a splash
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of the water a quarter clarifying all
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the way Carter that's exciting I love
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top water fishing for bass this is one
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is closer to him we're going to get back
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to bass yeah but it's not bigger than
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that oh yeah
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all right talk to me about the fish what
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do we have to see oh here size-wise well
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they're all different sizes right you
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you see if we can get something
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converging 250 300 pounds that getup is
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created right the smaller one we detect
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the hook out really separating some
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right now I fished under pressure
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conditions before during tournaments
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where you have to bring the fish in in
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order to make a paycheck this is taking
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that concept to the ultimate level
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because every fish here I mean you guys
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are out here to catch fish bring in the
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market so not three make a living attack
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they up and so the old fish no money the
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first recorded tuna ever taken on a
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rowdy wheel was caught by Charles
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Boulder in the late 1800s off the coast
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of California little did Charles know
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back then that it would turn into a
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multi-million dollar addiction to many
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as time kept on from this original catch
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fish sizes kept constantly growing four
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and 500-pounders started showing up they
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in grade 758 founder and then the first
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thousand plus pound tuna and finally the
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current world-record bluefin caught off
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the coast of Nova Scotia which hit the
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scales at one thousand four hundred and
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ninety six pounds
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this truly is a fishing phenomenon as
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time went on I could see sandy and the
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crew were getting restless
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the weight is driving them too near
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fishing insanity we all know what that
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feels like
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are the fish out here and just not
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biting or they just not out here at all
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now it's time to head in and regroup
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tomorrow's a new day well it's our final
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day the last kick of the can as we again
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hit the mighty Atlantic Ocean in hopes
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that all the stories were true as we
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steamed along in a dark morning light we
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see what looks like a tiny city on the
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water it's an incredible sight we find
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out from the fruit that it's the last of
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a commercial herring fishing fleet it's
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the end of their season and they need to
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have their nets up and out of the water
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by 6 a.m. so we don't were in the right
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area for faithful but are the bluefin
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tuna here that my friends there's a
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million dollar question so we're just we
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just threw a herring right up to this
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big pot of tuna here it's going to
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happen any second we're up there we go
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here's oh here we go
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this side boys off
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whoa he just bended that rod like a
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pretzel
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that rod I there you go there you go now
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for and he's offending if you are you
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gonna help in man here's smokin look at
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that real is recommendable a molten cake
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for husband Elton John the Newfoundland
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that boy
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come on buddy come on boy this is the
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strongest thing I have ever did see on
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the fire and they involved with looking
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for you right now
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Wow Wow man Wow
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bizarre having them use the rod holder a
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holy hell darling all I need a glove
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buddy
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the captain's already got it in the box
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form up for money that's the big thing
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here Euler's totally totally different
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is that this fish is worth a lot of
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money to this crew so I mean Pete and I
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are just used to sport fishing where
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it's no big deal you still hate losing
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them but it's no big deal
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to these guys it's a big deal so there's
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a bit of added pressure uh I have money
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interact money money in the bank money
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in the bank where am I looking
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oh look at this you know speckle 106 in
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the packing
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all that schools are not good buddy are
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you ready to take over Pete anytime okay
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there's no sense in just one of us
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fighting a fish this size so ang and I
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will both take on the battle feels like
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it feels like we got another boat and
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there's exercise and more stressed out a
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tuna gets from a long fight greatly D
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values of fish and believe me standing
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on top dollar for this one there's
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nothing you can do hey nothing you can
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do control man
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how is wild as they get real of this
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thing they told us at the beginning that
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we have to pull the line in by hand and
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gather with the real we both beat nice
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little kind of ridiculous notion is that
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I know what they were talking about for
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real I'm ready to pull in a better one
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oh you're doing it no I don't know a
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damn thing now you're laughing at me
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earth with you right over to say there
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my ballpark oh yeah oh wow that isn't on
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but what did I say what have 300 pound
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test line is pulling up the drag is
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almost down the line
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yeah ratos no there you
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if I'm predicting a stud in classical
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Paulo I think just based on the kind of
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sheer power spent just it's just it was
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filming right now they're hanging on
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we're going with a ball there's no line
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coming in the line going out I hope this
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is a big fish but daddy's here how long
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will the fight now
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40 minutes I gotta tell you this is much
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harder than it looks
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you'd think that by having a rod stuck
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in a holder and I was jumping around
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like a couple of monkeys that things
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would be a breeze
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not so by not being able to use our
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backs and legs for stuck trying to pull
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in something as heavy as a car with our
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hands arms and shoulders it's exhausting
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whoa for the whoa hey dougie now and
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y'all may all for sure this is the most
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regulated sport fishing or commercial
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fishery on the planet yeah it is
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and it's so honey Raylan every single
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move that the captain makes when he's
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out here fishing
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it has to be or if they have to radio it
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in I mean he already read you it in the
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contact time that we made first contact
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with this fish and I believe every
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periodically Hass 11o word is officials
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already got a serial number it's got a
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tag that's going to go on it the logs
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already filled in then oh there it is
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there yet there is a serious all we need
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to do is play 475 captaining you've got
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a new fishing Canada record okay game on
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the boat Wow
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finally the piece is getting close to
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folks and not a moment too soon they add
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feet now you're pretty well folks
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there's a big guy right there
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I guess look at this Oh
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does that send listen if you look at it
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you can put that out oh that's a
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brightness no you're feeling ready okay
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let's look in here you park that melon
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out all right after over fine for sure
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oh oh I got all of you on market goodbye
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all everyone antigriddle I can read over
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the line now really my ass trying to
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trip when I say oh my god oh my god oh
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my god alright the biggest fish oh yes
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oh wow
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Captain Yoos right
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good stuff good work doctor there spring
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on buddy
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Howard unedited that's great buddy
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vibe I can see why they chase them all
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over the planet spending thousands of
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thousands of dollars trying to catch
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these fish I'm talking about the sport
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fishermen now and releasing them because
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there is nothing more powerful in the
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ocean and a lake in anybody water
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nothing is more powerful than area now
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because the word is that the tuna price
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right now is that it's almost at its
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peak this fish you know if it lays
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between five and six hundred pounds even
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if it's I'm going to say $15 a pound
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I've heard I mean last night we were on
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the phone a couple of distributors were
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talking and the price could be as high
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as thirty four bucks a pound
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yeah Gary but but at even at 15
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I mean that's oh my god well they were
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talking about remember the gays that
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they had five lined up a buyer looking
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for what he wanted didn't take the
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biggest when he took the one that was
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between five and eight hundred pounds
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Reverend said 36 grand or something
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about one thirty six thousand dollars
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this fish is going to be worth of what
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that's why these days money I mean for
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assets yeah it was great don't get me
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wrong
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the fight was incredibly could have
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quite honestly we could have just
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released the fish and little absolutely
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that's not what this fishery is all
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about I mean this is this is not a foot
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take fishery and and in as much as it's
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highly regulated you know there's this
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particular boat I think has a five
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thousand-pound quota so in that short
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little window about the 60-day window
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that they're going to be fishing them
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they can if all the fish were this size
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they could take what 1000 fish yeah and
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that's it in this whole ocean so it's
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highly regulated yeah this is their
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livelihood right this time of year if
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you think you can get away with poaching
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one of these valuable beasts think again
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before we can even start the boat and
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head back the DFO had heard we landed a
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fish and we're honest instantly that is
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good fisheries management now so what do
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you guys do come onboard obviously you
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checked our fish you make sure that
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everybody is is within their the rules
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and wrecks because it's all about
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permits here I mean pencils got licenses
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permits are all different honey how do
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you keep it all in check we were here
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Mull Seifer for example this fish here
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to make sure it's tagged properly yeah
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to make sure it tailed and to make sure
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you know all the conditions on the
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licenses so you fellas know exactly when
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all these fish are being caught the time
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the length of time probably to bring
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them in the weights once they're weighed
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in I would imagine get a report of the
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size of the fish that tag that's on this
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fish somehow works its way back to you
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as we think and then you record it and
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you have a complete record of what's
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going on that's the reason with the tags
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so that when it returned a shift and we
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know was legally - yep but you can
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either you know there's not people
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catching face without a license and
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never getting us out of the market yeah
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so well not you know some people say
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I've got the best job in the world but
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I'm starting to wonder I kind of like
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yours my friend thank you very much we
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appreciate you coming on board now
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checking us out making sure we're in
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life there's a classic and you have a
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magnificent fishery over here and
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congratulations on maintaining it the
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way it is thank thank you thanks guys
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appreciate it
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take a the fish processors are waiting
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they've heard that we've got a big fish
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cup again we voiced it up snap a couple
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of pictures right
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oh yeah why and holidays of the planet
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are but he with weighs in at one
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thousand and six pounds 1,000 pounds at
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$12 a t nine cents per pound that equals
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nine thousand five hundred and seventy
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seven dollars and twenty seven cents Wow
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fish in Canada hotpot brought to you by
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spot is located off the east coast of
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Canada out from Valentine's Cove in Nova
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Scotia so weight point on your screen
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will get you to subject bluefin tuna
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these big beasts are feeding and hearing
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the school near of underwater Ridge that
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is clearly indicated on a V honor to
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charge by hiring a registered tuna guide
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you can be assured that all necessary
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gear illegalities are taken care of
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remember there are strict regulations on
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the mighty bluefin tuna be sure you know
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all the laws before you proceed for more
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hot spots like this one visit fishing
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Canada calm today is amazing tuna
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Adventure 2 plays off the coast in Nova
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Scotia to get there we flew from Pearson
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International Airport in Toronto to the
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halifax stanfield International Airport
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in Nova Scotia he then drove north east
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on highway 102 and then travel east on
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highway 104 we next turn south on
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highway 16 to our first stop cancel to
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get to the second half of our trip we
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took highway 16 north west then traveled
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west on 104 and finally headed north on
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337 and Valentine's cold both canceled
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and Valentine's goals are known for
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their world-class bluefin tuna fishing
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