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Fish'n Canada TV Host Auditions | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
In this 2 part episode Angelo Viola hooks up with Captain John Blanchard for Muskoka Lake Walleye and then Paul Castellano for Niagara River Brown Trout. Little do the guys know they're being tested for a possible position on the Fish’n Canada Show. 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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there I get from here Chris got a lot of
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contrast at punch I can see a little bit
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we don't ideally plus watch but we need
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so far back it had done I don't know
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what you buddy but this season is
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dragging on forever a circus never going
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to end
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either just me or what you know what I
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hadn't really noticed but another you
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mentioned it has gone a long time but I
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wouldn't do too much complain on yet
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buddy because it ain't over yet there's
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still a lot of work to be done no I
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realized that let's not lose sight of
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the fact that Mikey's gone you know and
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for the last six years the big gluts
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been out in the field with us on every
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shoot lending a helping hand yeah no
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kidding six years of Mikey and don't
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forget twenty years of brother Reno I
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thought about that for a while that
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that's weird because this is the first
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time since it started that we're home
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alone you know I know right
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wow how weird is that I'm not sure what
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do you get now with all this stuff but
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if he's thinking of trying to replace
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Mike or Reno for that matter
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it'll never happen some things just
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can't or shouldn't be messed with
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then that must mean yeah that had to be
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the funniest moment in fishing Canada
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history actually any time those two got
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together it was potential for a good
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laugh or a great disaster for you to get
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thrown out of a bar opposed to get
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thrown out of a bar you know I'm I can't
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stand this anymore you are fired are you
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talking about you can't fire me
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yeah I hear he's an idiot are you crazy
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he's an idiot you can't do that on there
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I just did okay
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I forgot how dynamic those trailers
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together looks good all day yeah that's
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great - no kidding you know all this is
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gonna be taken what do you say we bring
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another guy onto the fishing Canada fold
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for next season
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Wow I don't think it's a good idea
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no I mean those guys were great to work
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with but don't get me wrong remember how
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much work it is to keep everything in
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check and keep moving in the right line
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yeah but that's what I do around here
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don't don't you worry about that's what
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I'm here for
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not sure what's bugging PETA but we want
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to look at a few other guys for the show
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but whatever it is better get over it I
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think a little bit of fresh blood just
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what we need around here besides we're
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not going to be around forever
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what do you think of it Carol promote
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West how it will be see they could be
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awesome the problem vbc right the
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distance we have to get them back and
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forth every week and Vic you've got so
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much on the go he's always a million
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miles an hour
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yeah you're probably right same could be
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said for join me from the east coast
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right yeah it's too bad because either
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one of those two guys would be a great
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fit yep tidbit absolutely I'm not a
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hundred percent convinced to this but
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you know what if you're still been
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determined what about Paul Castellano
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from Niagara or John Blanchard from the
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miskova site I think they could probably
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pull it off
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you know what yeah you shot with a wood
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what are their strengths what do they do
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talk to me
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well you get a river fisherman that this
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is trout and bass compared to a lake
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fisherman that this is walleye in pipe
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but they can both adapt to any other
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direction they are very opposing and
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personalities which I think have been
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great i if you're going to try somebody
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I mean that's a good start we could do
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worse I mean the taiga said before they
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look good but if they got the parts
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they've got the right stuff to be able
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to do what we do we have to figure that
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out like test them out whatever if we're
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going to do it in they're a great
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starting point yeah you know might be
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worse than having a piece I don't think
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I'll tell these guys exactly what I'm
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here to do it wouldn't be fair besides
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if they don't have the right stuff to
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join the fishing Candida team why would
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I want to hurt their feelings but they
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don't know won't hurt them
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the fishing Canada shows looking for new
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young blood as I head out target from
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Captain John Blanchard the first of my
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two prospects I realize that there are a
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few very special first going on here
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today first I'm going to spend a day on
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a body of water that I've never walleye
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fish before and since my DOP voice
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pleasure is on vacation my cameraman
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today will be shooting a fish in Canada
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segment for his very first time and of
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course this will be the first time that
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I'm shooting with Captain John Blanchard
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for that matter I don't recall ever
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going out to purchase the audition
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anyone before first first and first cool
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at the ramp it was difficult for me not
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to tell John why we were here today but
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it wouldn't have been fair to anybody if
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I did so mum's the word although there
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were a few things he needed some help
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with I think you got this pushed it up
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on the side of this farm oh ok turn for
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the most part oh he seems to have the
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situation pretty much under control I'll
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give them just enough help to get them
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through the screencast I actually prefer
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this overcast if the rain stays office
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yeah even from a shooting standpoint
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it's nice because it's even like you're
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not too worried about coming in and up
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and it works out good for everybody I
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think they're suspended and they come
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off there pushing bait up on it and then
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they find a habitat a situation where
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they like and they're sitting tight on
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it that would be my my guess but I'm a
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little meticulous on how I fish these
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homes you know oil with bold placement
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yeah it's everything because by the time
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you're done landing a fish next thing
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you're in 100 feet of water right and
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there's one thing I'm absolutely
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convinced them
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John Blanchard noses fishing stuff this
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guy is as knowledgeable about his
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fishing world as anyone I've ever worked
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with
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but as I've mentioned before there's a
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lot more to this game than that I've got
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a bit of pull to it you know what now
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you're right now he's starting to wake
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up a little bit these things are feisty
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they're healthy they're all we're just
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fish at is beautiful for sure I'm going
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to take us down the leach Johnny
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yeah then called Goodwin and that's from
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those rocks right beautiful she's living
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in the cabin is just cool and tight here
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all the time
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there you go you feeling a brother yeah
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they've got a good weight good it's a
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walleye polo dice you look at fish nice
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very similar to the other one again
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nicely done boy he just gave up at the
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end though didn't he ought to word this
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time I'm looking at it in the water and
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I'm saying boy that's gotta have some
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great visibility down yeah it's bright
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yeah pretty good right whoa there's
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something I've got a straight note
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johnny has to learn right from the
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get-go how to handle fish properly if he
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has any hope of making up well that's
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right John put both hands in the fish's
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gills why don't you
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whoo he's definitely gonna needs to work
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here very very Stockton to the
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midsection shoreline all right they
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gorgeous boy buddy let him let us swim
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back there tell his friends that we're
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in town it's definitely going to be
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difficult for me to focus on the
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objective today with all these darn
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walleye around my job here is to see how
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John reacts to the camera me the fish
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and the changing conditions all the
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while keeping an eye on a green camera
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operator who might end up falling into
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the lake before this day's all over well
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maybe he won't win on his own accord I
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may be helping him a bit especially
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after he just lost our pov camera to the
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Maine
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in the sea yeah that's right it's gone
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to the depths of Lake Muskoka there you
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know yeah that is yet yeah good stuff
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buddy you're saying it's hard to get
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ashore launcher fishing you're right
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yeah now I know why I'm here today but I
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got to tell you this Lake Muskoka
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walleye fishery may be one of the
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best-kept secrets in canadian angling
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until today that is
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I guarantee you next season I'm coming
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up here do a real fishing cannon episode
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man this walleye fishing is unbelievable
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that is abus khoka walleye big bulky
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bruise your big fat back oh oh my
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beautiful nice job but it's not as a
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superfood Thursday if I told you how
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impressed I am with this Muskoka walleye
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fishery that is walleye fishing added
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stem this is incredible this is
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absolutely mind-boggling all right
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Johnny must be saying to himself I doubt
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why doesn't the old man just kind of
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worm the walleye are violating it well
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little does he know that the spotlight
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is on him today not the fishing Canada
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guy not the fish not the location it's
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on John Blanchard and I got to tell you
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so far so good
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what if what a discovery right here in
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the scope huh
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well I think I've seen enough the rookie
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cameraman has survived the day John
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Blanchard is the genuine article
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tremendous fishing skills great
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knowledge of the water handles himself
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relatively well under pressure but I
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really didn't see him open up to the
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camera much as I would have liked but
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that's okay it's fixable
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thank you for see the other guy Paul
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Castellano
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the fishing Canada show looking for new
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young blood I'm Emily finagler to meet
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up with Paul Castellano and if Paul is
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anything like Johnny I'm in for another
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good day on the water
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what a great guy here there's definitely
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something there that I like you see what
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a lot of people don't understand is that
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just angling abilities alone do not
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efficient your host mate it takes a lot
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more than just that personality charm
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ability to think on your feet a
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willingness to be a team player
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don't mind working long our days and
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most importantly a passion for the
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outdoors now that's the total package is
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know a lot or a lose knives calls yeah
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and then mix and match colors and it's
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just supposed to resemble you know roll
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bag or artificial leg cue or what this
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guy sounds really good this dog sure
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looks like it cannot but I'm curious to
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see what happens what's the feathers
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start to fly so that flips up there you
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know
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hey that's what these guys not knowing
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how to put on a life jacket I need to
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send them to the stores Academy of PFDs
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beautiful look at you I forgot my
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pictures it's ok that's good this small
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and yeah you know if you want guard
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there's better areas yeah a palm Ontario
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right much better right off the bat I
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got to tell you I really like the way
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Paul handles himself not only as an
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angler but as a person for his
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relatively young age he's got that
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certain confidence about himself that
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usually reserved for well you know old
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dogs like me don't know about you but
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the guy could convince me to buy
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swampland you know I've always been like
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a multi-species guy like yourself and
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gar was something that fascinated me
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when I was a kid I saw these guys I was
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walking the shallows of Lake Erie and
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I'm like oh my goodness look at these
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things and they're really curious right
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if you put something in front of them
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that's follow there's some secrets maybe
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we should yeah that's another I will fit
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it so sure truth that's my first clean
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right one figs for sure Paul would never
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be short of words to share with his
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audience but maybe it's time to try and
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get him off his game a bit he's in a
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real comfy place right now so it might
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be time to see how we react so a little
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bit of pressure and no better way
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Randall a guy than to beat him at his
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old game here we go absolutely
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and we know my thanks to mom very nice
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yeah perfect nice work in inside yep
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Lori Taylor called is it yep look whoa
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all right good job kind of a cool fish
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weird I think one thing that people
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don't realize and we are all guilty of
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it right so that's a one year two year
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old pressure like humans and what I mean
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by that is you and I could be the same
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age but you're six foot two and I'm five
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foot two whoa whoa whoa did I just say
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I'm five foot two let me set the record
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straight before any of you go thinking
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that comment was true this is five foot
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two and I'm considerably taller than
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that how does a whole dog on a half oh
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yeah the other nice dog
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cool
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take a stab at some data it's really
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cool now I know what some of you are
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thinking why did I give John Blanchard a
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lot more opportunity to fish me and
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boost his confidence and yet I'm not
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cutting poor little Polly any slack
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whatsoever well let me just tell you
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poor little Polly doesn't need any more
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confidence they already have in fact he
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could use a little bit of old-fashioned
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humility now think of it this way every
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shrub needs to be trimmed today I'm just
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a gardener doing a little gardening
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thing stopping me
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here the bank open waters can get people
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to come back is about chronic auto give
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me the push ha what do we call that
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about 25 pounder oh boy
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yeah
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Saturday all right yeah yeah oh wow a
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cool back here we go buddy
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whoa whoa we're gonna cost nothing yeah
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yeah you know what when I see that I
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miss even though that's working try
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something swing away yeah I'm going to
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change it up Patel you know that hey I
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really like the fact that Paul is always
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thinking of doing things to out fish the
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next guy it'll come in handy when he has
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an overly aggressive co-host to deal
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with like I always do
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pull the line under my head my zone I
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set the hook in it I don't literally
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yank the rod right over my handle moans
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oh oh fish that's right Wow look at the
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shoulders on that okay buddy bring him
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in see that's a hurt wrong way you know
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running a 6-pole leader on the ID Oh
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most people rush at this point oh
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absolutely not
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are you getting so excited that you want
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to get a little Oh Oh what up all right
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- there you go net job there yeah we go
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is not his rag little that dude look at
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that right there
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absolutely outstanding look at the
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garden fish look at the belly
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I just want me chunky Shawn he's like a
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brown trout yeah no he's Great Lakes
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Browns Negril Brown see yeah the goal
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big do a sea otter okay big but really
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to get a lot meter that probably you
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know releasing a fish like that is
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almost as satisfying as captain one yeah
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I don't expect that but you know I don't
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like this all right
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I'm a believer and thank you so much you
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know I got to tell you these guys blew
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me away I mean it goes without saying
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that they both have tremendous angling
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skills I was expecting that but the fact
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that they also have all the other
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qualities completely took me by surprise
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John's got this incredible personality
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that really connects with the audience
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and has you're rooting for right from
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the get-go and Paul well what could I
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say about Paul II he reminds me of a
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young Peter Bowman actually well sort of
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you know maybe a little taller a little
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better looking a little nicer
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personality yeah maybe not on camera
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he's great and I got a feeling this guy
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would double our female audience
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overnight I don't know who crept in
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prima donnas cornflakes this morning but
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you may want to ease off or he's going
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to see fight with three inches of
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Tasmanian Devil ripping up the storm and
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knocking his old petrified buttocks out
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of here make a room for yet another
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fishing show homes now as far as Paul
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and John are concerned I think they're
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both more than qualified to do the job
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and I'd love to work with them the
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problem is which one the gift of the
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lower nag or a river from Toronto I took
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highway 401 West to 427 next I took the
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QEW all the way to Road 81 and headed
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east then I turn left on Niagara Parkway
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and right on dumb free street from there
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it's a short drive for the feasting boat
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ramp for my Muskoka walleye trip I took
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highway 401 to highway 400 north then I
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took highway 11 north to highway 169 at
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the town of Gravenhurst next I turned
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right onto highway 118 and traveled into
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the town of Port Carling finally I
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turned right on Bailey Street to the
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boat launch at Hana Park
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today's hot spot is a section of the
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Niagara River on the Canadian side the
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waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there now this is a typical
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Niagara River area where the fisheries
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will be in and out on given days if the
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fish aren't here simply pick up and move
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down river searching is the key to
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finding fish try bouncing roe bags or
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minnows along the bottom on a three way
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swivel rig remember to bury the length
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of your leader and dropper for my
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wildlife portion of the show I fish the
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classic break line near Keewatin Island
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on the scope Elaine this waypoint is
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extra special because not only is it a
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great walleye area but it's also got a
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beauty little underwater camera that I
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now deem as expensive structure you
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guess that we donated get another piece
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of fishing Canada shooting gear to the
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fish gods hey if you somehow helped us
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retrieve the footage that's in the
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camera not only will we let you have the
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camera but we'll also send you and a
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fishing buddy on an all-expense-paid
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trip to one of our favorite lodges for
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more hotspots like this one check out
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experts at radio world PA
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