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Crazy Pike and Walleye Action in Alberta | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman head west to Alberta where they fish Wabasca Lake. They fish fast dropping breaks for gorgeous western Walleye and then move deep into the heavy weeds for rod-wrenching Northern Pike. Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, 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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we spent the last couple of days
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give the pouring rain under extremely
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extremely severe conditions he had
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tackle problems we had weather problems
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we had everything you neighbors gather
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that's not a huge o hole but it's a big
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fish it's got to be a big fish oh the
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hi folks this week Pete and I have made
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our way up to one of the most
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blue-collar communities of the nation
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we're in the town of Wallace got
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northern Alberta as you can see by these
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rigs beside us we're an oil country but
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we came here to fish for world-class
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walleye and monster northern pike and
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then all hell broke loose sometimes our
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best laid plans just don't work out in
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this case the heavens opened up and
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proceeded to unleash what the Alberta
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government called the worst flooding
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Alberta has ever seen the damage is
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definitely extensive at just devastating
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it rained on Monday Tuesday every day we
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went out but were forced back to camp
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and we definitely didn't know if and
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when we could do what we set out to do
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and that is shoot a show today there's
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been a break in the weather with more
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than a little caution we head out early
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to make a show it's 5:00 be here
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goes off like a big pipe no God that big
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tube you got it Oh Oh awesome there's
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another one here's another one hey
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another one's on it take there oh yeah
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yeah just a small pulled it off again
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okay we've got to do something I got to
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work this thing out what's happening
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here you can see all the teeth holes in
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this class and it's just full of teeth
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look at they're grabbing it and just
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holding on real tight with it with their
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teeth and when you go to set a hook
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here's what's happening this hooks are
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down here so we got to figure out how to
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get these hooks up here okay so we're
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going to cut that lead completely there
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would be no more lead here I'm going to
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tie that right on to there so the hooks
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will be completely inside the tooth so
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when the fish hits a nap it will hit the
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hook and I will be happy you will be
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happy
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I will net your fat he will be happy for
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sure and Bob will be your Uncle Bob
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might even be happy and Bob would be
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happy if your uncle would be happy
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voila viola that's what I am talking
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about ladies and gentlemen and now
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brand-new Rutter wolf tube tweezer next
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tooth by the way
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and that's the deal right there why
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looks deadly
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that looks deadly it looks like it could
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hurt someone you book that little dude
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yes I told you the next fish is gonna
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get stuck gonna get hurt I told you
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tonight hey I told you this is the new
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setup it's a new world baby
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you watch me go now uh-huh clear that
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he's hung he's hung exactly the way he's
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supposed to be that's the way it's done
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right there yeah
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I feel so much better you have no idea
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how fulfilling that was well no no no I
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proved my point
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get off me that's not another they're
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getting stunk
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yeah now they got mine now you get set
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up right now get oh yeah he's really
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sure now that rain coming hearing
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something that's rain
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Oh Oh but it's a big fish
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that's behavior
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fortunately the Sun comes up early and
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stays up late in this part of the world
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it's our last day in Alberta and it's
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going to be a long one we spent the last
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couple of days in the pouring rain under
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extremely extremely severe conditions we
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had tackle problems we had weather
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problems we had everything you name it
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we had it finally last night before we
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went in we found a couple of spots out
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here on these long weed points that
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promoted to the basin of the lake and
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the fish were literally stacked right on
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the end so but we couldn't shoot because
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of the blowing winds so we're hoping
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this morning under completely different
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conditions that they'll hold but so far
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it's changed already it's changed
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already we decide to start with walleye
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and then move to Pike as the water warms
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up there you go you got it via Wally be
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a Walther no yep yep there's our first
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Wally of the day that's right in the
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weeds right in the weeds good stuff good
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stay on a bad fish no you want to hang
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them up yeah pretty light line buddy
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well let me try it
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let me try love way here we go yep there
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we go
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that's a good start red lay down there
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should be hundreds of these in here yeah
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this spot in the classic
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yes Sultan you shaking a lot though it
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is no nice walleye nice walleye yeah I
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think we got them up the up current
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buddy hold it they'll move way up huh
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yeah they ever knew that guys regular I
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do
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nice I got my rod still okay go for it
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let's get on in game money and
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overseeing these wall I also spent it
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down there or whatever fish are out
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there they come up but we playing a
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little bit from where we found it
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yesterday and now there's some research
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on the bottom how do you get fish nice
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fish that side on the bottom you know he
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shows up quite well it's just a hump or
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a lump on the bottom and that will
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obviously sit on this area and work it
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hard he's just moved that's all he did
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just move a little bit aggressive when
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they take it down like that when they
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take it way down and mouth you just feel
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it I mean it's either a pike or a while
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I mean a lot of things out here you're
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gonna you don't know what you're going
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to get but when you get that bump on the
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walleye are hitting it that hard the
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means are aggressive sour yeah it's a
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walleye nice not okay
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huge but I think their walleye on that
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bottom I think they're I think they're
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all down their sleeve with the body
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there's a beautiful marks down there I'm
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just gonna take some convincing to get
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them well get them to bite little bigger
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we land yacht yeah nice thing though
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perfect you're getting better and yet
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matter okay
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we're with that little off it's all for
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this three nothing that is cool so neat
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when they just be down and you can
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pretty much tell the difference in the
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wall in the pipeline right now fights
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like as soon as you feel that heavy as
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you feel it yeah yeah hey that feels
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alright good look
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oh yeah nice long beautiful walleye nice
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hang on you little bee and he punked it
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nice man who he ate it good
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he ate a good just a roof of the mouth
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anybody
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without
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I'll be seedless I can paint him now Oh
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Nathan now that's better
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that's what we're not gonna hire right
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away we saw a lot like them right there
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yeah I forget what it was a big six fish
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to put in my four inches explode every
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fellow get one get one fish I love big
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boy Rudy look how pretty is a long big
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walleye money Wow that's what we came
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here for
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this is gonna be Alberta for right there
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I can't get around do you yeah big hit
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look at the broad broad neck on the fish
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wow that is what we need right there big
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Viking big one that's it so glad good
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stuff whoo
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off he goes Oh hold funny just to fix
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this world baby oh yeah
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that's behavior for after an incredible
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rain-free morning of walleye we pushed
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further into the weed bed in search of
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pike
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we know there's some absolute monsters
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hiding in the weeds
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Oh
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oh my oh my I think you're just your
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little average run-of-the-mill snake
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they're my friends I don't think so no
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that's a good fish yeah he's all right
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is he he's not even all right not worthy
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oh you'll be nap for sure
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oh yeah he's all right I'll let you mess
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with him
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oh geez what a mess - honey I'm this
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little skinny skinny stuff let me know
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when you're ready I'm ready I'll bring
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him up to you
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yep nicely done
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yo - finally gun that's a nice little
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jig fish very nice
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no lost a jig now that that is what's
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amazing about pike okay you can fishing
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with great big huge beets yeah
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or you can catch up on that little tiny
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little jig and we've got a lot bigger
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than son tiny yeah there you go
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yeah that's great for not bad but a big
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scar on ya a lot of them do these guys
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fight for their life every single day
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nice boy when they pop in and first you
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song do some swirls and different from
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that look like a small pike and then all
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of a sudden you feel that one full day
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well then you know any finger Wow maybe
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I can get one now yeah that's an egg
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okay I'm gonna drop a soak this way I
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don't think it's big no it's not just we
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all know ones we all yes he is yes he is
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coming in real nice okay yeah there he
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is just Oh
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yeah baby look fight that water oh man
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let me see how big he is in the back
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yeah he is sure to sake for sure oh all
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that I love that the big scheme
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come on buddy skating guys at I'm coming
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at you there you go okay goal
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what especially heavier you think you
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know what he's heavy but look how short
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he is Oh buddy that's got a lot of meat
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to him that's fish really sick
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all right so down hey give me my bait
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back them hold this up for a minute
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hey that short and stocky short a thigh
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and tough and whole I mean on spinning
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gear the drag you get ripped out of you
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what we said to hook us up like oh that
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is all your riders know did you do me
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one little courtesy yeah can you see we
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get my beta oh you still have it
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yeah the hook came out all about we
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speculated there you see you later yeah
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but he's not gonna like that I'm gonna
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do I know you got it I did it early when
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I had a funny what's your rod yeah ready
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to go
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today's hot spot there's a large we fed
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along a steep break on Alberta's robust
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alaik the waypoint on your screen will
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get you right there this is a classic
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example of what it takes to attract
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walleye and big northern pike
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green healthy weeds fast access to deep
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water and a ton of bait fish for walleye
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fish the open water drop-off at the
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outside edge of the weed beds with
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quarter-ounce jigs to put 3-inch
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white or yellow Yamamoto grubs or moved
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into the weed beds in short casts of the
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open pockets for northerns change the
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braided line and rip jig a stock 3/8 or
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1/2 ounce buck kill jig a word of
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caution when a big northern hits that
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bucktail you have better hang on for
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more hot spots like this one check out
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fishing Canada calm smaller walleye
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walleye on that big jig buddy I mean
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little the size of that Jim big jig you
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just smacked I thought another Pike on
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it's a classic week walleye bait right
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yeah a bok Dale jig well you know
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bucktail jig has been around for peeps I
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mean it's probably one of the first God
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really one of the first man-made lure
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yeah perhaps we've gotten away from it
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the last couple of years well I say last
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twenty years got more to plastics and
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rubbers and whatnot but I got to tell
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you every time I put a jig on like this
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I feel good about it
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no oh after Big Mike
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oh yeah right oh yeah for sure yeah for
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sure bike swimming with us he might be a
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real he's holding down nicely nice
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take your time too but it's a nice one
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oh boy
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Oh buddy in you okay you're okay
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Mary I don't think around went okay
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there's a big plate spinning around here
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it definitely slide wider I did Wow
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there you go nicely done
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well I'm spinning here you too sister
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whoa that's overlooking fire boy that's
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a pretty darn good Pike right there when
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you're fishing walleye off a weed bed
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you know they're here that's one I'm
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spinning gear I got 30 pound I think
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it's about 20 or 30 pound braid tight
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direct to the jig head so but you take
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that dig in his mouth it's gone they
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sliced bread like nothing to so what a
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great fish big dogging a slight yoke off
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you go four feet oh there you go there
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he goes
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come on oof yeah hidden came towards me
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right yep oh good one Oh a little twirl
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baby oh yeah
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as the big boy like I'm going in the
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weeds oh my god you if we keep going
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here I'll train catch up a bit cool
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we're gonna rip it up look at this sweet
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little bit leave out my life look at
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this I love that oh then oh oh but is a
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big fishing it's got to be a big fish
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he has just cut through the weeds oh
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yeah oh yeah nice like a look like
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thanks white hey whoa whoa look at those
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things that's so cool all the way we're
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going to scoop up salad fish we're gonna
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slip up everything always got it wrapped
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around all boy yes sir hey ah whoa at
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that that is a solid fish hook on a buck
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down a buck they'll soon as we come in
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soon as we come in on top of it yeah
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whoa don't slay me whenever nicely does
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what that is awesome that right there
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that doesn't think you've got something
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they've got right there and he's eating
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more it's been an incredibly long day 18
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hours of sunshine tons of Alberta giant
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walleye some monster pike all under the
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biggest guys you've ever seen we nailed
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it the best fish in Canada
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basket bag on this roof I won't fly me
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out thank you to get the today's great
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alberta walleye and pike fishing we
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first flew from Toronto to Edmonton we
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then drove north on highway 2 to the
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town of Athabasca next we took 813 north
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