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Post Pandemic Fish Fest
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Apr 15, 2025
With the entire Fish’n Canada team chomping at the bit to hit the water after the pandemic, their anticipation is off the charts for some “hopefully” hungry Smallmouth, Largemouth & Walleye as they hit a variety of beautiful and bountiful fishing locations. Follow Ang, Nik, Pete, and Steve as they go Fish'n in various places in this episode! Listen to our Podcast, Outdoor Journal Radio: The Podcast ► Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3J0klPY ► Apple Music: https://apple.co/3CtzZkp ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada 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/?hl=en ► 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, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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fish on he is fighting like crazy
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there you go beautiful fish
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he is fighting like crazy nice that's a
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good looking fish nice fish good drag
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buddy you got one on up there boys
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oh it's a nice size yeah
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[Music]
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hi everybody welcome to another
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jam-packed fishing Cannon episode today
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we're gonna strip away all of the myths
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and distractions associated with fishing
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and dive deep into the number one reason
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that angling can be such an effective
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way of catching fish
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for most of their lives as far as we
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know all fish species are built to do
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two basic things eat and reproduce and
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since most fish will reproduce or spawn
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only once a year that means that eating
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ends up being the number one priority on
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their daily to-do list can you imagine
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not having to wake up and go to school
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or work or do laundry or mow the lawn
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every day of your life and all you have
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to do is just go to the grocery store or
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your favorite dining establishment and
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just eat eat and eat and when the time
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comes make a few babies
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well sign me up
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in all seriousness though that's pretty
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much it for a fish's life so if we as
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Anglers only had to concentrate on one
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aspect of fishing it would be when where
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and what fish eat
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in shooting this year's fish and Canada
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episodes time and time again we ended up
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looking for the food that fish eat more
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than we did the actual fish
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once we found the food or bait then of
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course we would eventually find our
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intended game fish species
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to engine I baitfish are one of the best
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alternate forms of structure or cover
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that Anglers can search for let me
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explain what I mean
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you can find the best looking rock pile
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or weed bed in the lake but if there's
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no bait there there's probably no fish
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there either simply said fish need to
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eat in order to survive
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our first introduction to chasing bait
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this season was on a couple of outings
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in the atticoken area of Ontario where
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we found Bunches of big marauding
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smallmouth bass glued to Open Water
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schools or balls of Cisco the way these
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fish attacked their prey was nothing
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short and spectacular
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we also found the complete opposite
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smallies that would hide in standing
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Timber and every now and then head out
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on a hunt for food now we know all of
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this because thanks to live scope
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forward viewing imagery we saw it all
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unfold before our eyes this recently
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introduced Cutting Edge technology is a
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real game changer and a must for
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hardcore Anglers
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but we also learned that not every time
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you encounter this Open Water
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predator-prey relationship you're going
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to come up smelling like a rose
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sometimes even though things may look
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good on the screen the fish aren't
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necessarily in a cooperating mood
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[Music]
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case in point immediately after our
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attico constant in which we found the
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bait and caught the fish Nick and I were
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confronted with almost the same fishing
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situation much further south
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for the shoot and Nick were based out of
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the beautiful Sterling Lodge situated on
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newborough lake in Eastern Ontario
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newborough lake is a well-known
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smallmouth bass Haven that's full of
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bait fish and I mean loads of bait fish
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in fact our new Lake made our Northern
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Ontario Waters pale in comparison when
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it comes to the amount of food available
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everywhere we looked we found massive
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amounts of bait I mean massive amounts
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fish on he is fighting like crazy
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I watched Grandpa and Pete Smallmouth
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shows in which they followed the bait to
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find and beat up on giant smallies so I
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thought Grandpa and I had hit the
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lottery more bait equals even better
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fishing right well I soon learned that's
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not necessarily the case
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coming up oh just a little guy
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where is it get your net up get your net
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up all right there you go
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he's just a little guy he hit that as
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soon as it went down about 10 feet
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but that's not the big ones we're seeing
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down no guarantee it oh God though
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guarantee of that he's just hanging out
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with the big ones trying to get their
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leftovers well these little guys are a
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lot feistier in a lot of cases they'll
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be scrambling
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to get to that pot of uh of el wives
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before the big guys do very nice you
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went out on that deal maybe not
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[Music]
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promising very promising yep
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fish on
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[Music]
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there you go
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is it one of those big ones see some
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white boys fight like a big one they're
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fighting like crazy he's not a big one
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he's sure fighting like one
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that drag might be a little too loose
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there you go there we go you know what
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it's a fish any thought you pulled your
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line he pulled me good
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good stuff thank you oh he took my son
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go
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Franco's long gone
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yeah it's not a bad little Bass
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look at him go
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great color
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all right back in you go
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at times yes the fishing Cannon will be
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insane however once a predator like a
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smallmouth bass has had its way cutting
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through what looks like millions of bait
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fish well guess what they're full and
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they pretty much shut down it's all
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about timing
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he feels pretty good
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definitely something hit me though oh no
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that's one hell of a fish there boys
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we'll get back to Angel Nick a little
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later in the program but we also wanted
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to show you that smallmouth bass weren't
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the only Bait fish oriented predators
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that we filmed this year beat and I
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fished the missing Abbey area of Ontario
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and ended up trolling for walleye on a
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lake that we would have sworn was a
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jigging style Lake
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when walleye migrate to Open Water areas
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of a lake or at least to deep structure
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you better be looking for Bait fish on
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your fish finder because that's what
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they're concentrating on
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that's a good walleye buddy yeah
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nice solid fish yeah
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he hit me a lot harder than he looks
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though yeah all right buddy see you
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later pal bye bye
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of course when you find an open water or
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deep structure walleye bite happening
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there's bound to be the odd thief and
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they're also trying to take advantage of
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the vast amount of bait fish available
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remember as we said earlier it's all
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about the food well that's not a bad
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plate but no it's not bad at all
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he certainly wasn't going to get away
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you know what that's a decent bike
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that's decent it's fun you know yeah
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that's a perfect eating size Pike too
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because you get some nice fillets off of
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them and uh you know it's not a little
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snaky one there's lots of bones in them
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of course but okay Mr
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see if we can do with you
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another walleye eating Bait fish
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scenario happened to Steve and izwicki
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and I during a fishing Canada shoot at
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Pine Porters Lodge on KB Lake we knew
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that KB was a jig in minnow Lake it
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always has been and always will be that
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said once we started to see small
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schools of bait fish on the fish finder
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we knew that trolling The Minnow baits
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in deeper Open Water would ultimately
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produce some nice fish
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the way we're fishing them is
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controlling
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and you know what it's not just trolling
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it's back trolling it's on the structure
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we're marking them on the live scope
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look at that oh Bud that is a beauty
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right there hey oh Mama she's ready to
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go get out some stuff she's ready to go
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there we go you go home that's Beauties
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there you go that's the way right there
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[Music]
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one Stevie
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[Music]
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controller
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and we drooling these little 20 and 30
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foot
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middle baits
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your series
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sorry guys you gotta get a I don't know
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if I need a player though I don't
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beautiful they like that look at that in
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in the dark low light and it's still a
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clear bait and they still work he
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thumped it once and
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and then he let it go there's a lot of
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big hooks out there so this is we
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weren't expecting this guy
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[Music]
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believe it or not we even had an
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instance this year where we found some
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open water largemouths that were you
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guessed it relating to bait fish as much
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as they were the surrounding deep rocks
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and weeds
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a little tip here when fishing open
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water Largemouth always cast to a
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fighting fish just like you would a
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smallmouth the trigger effect is much
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the same
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thank you
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thank you son
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well my line just took off on me I love
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it that's the best bass bite ever remind
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us to start straight
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to hit the bottom you might have found
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the spot eh yep we might be on it I
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think we did find it or one of the spots
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this is a spot a couple years ago there
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he goes once we get them cranked up yeah
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oh no way I lost him oh man
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a great indicator that you may be into
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an open water bait fish situation is if
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your hooked fish actually spits out or
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regurgitates a fish like a Cisco this is
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something to always be on the lookout
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for especially with Mama bass there you
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go beautiful fish
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it's not a fly my body's a fly but that
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is a beautiful Smallmouth
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nice he's close to four oh yeah
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[Laughter]
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pelagic Bait fish normally live in wide
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open deep stretches in water so when you
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see a Cisco smelt alew wipe or Shad
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regurgitated start looking for balls of
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bait as well as predators
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oh
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nice that's a good looking fish nice
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fish good drag buddy
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as we said earlier in the episode one of
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our best look for the bait trips was in
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Northwestern Ontario near out of Culkin
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in fact we shot so much that we still
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had some great footage yet to be seen
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these fish on this trip were a perfect
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example of predatory fish keying in on
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Bait fish as their main diet yes they
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take advantage of crayfish Etc but Open
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Water Cisco were the primary ingredient
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oh
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we like it nice that's a good one fish
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not huge oh I think it's a nice one
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not huge but right here at the boat
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that's awesome yeah on the twitch bait
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on the twitch again oh the big twitch
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bait right yeah yeah that big gaudy
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looking one oh we're gonna have some fun
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over here
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get in there nice fish okay all right
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good start those hooks that's the only
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problem when you're fishing with a
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multi-hook bait like this one obviously
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is
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especially that back hook and they're so
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sharp it's really really difficult to do
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what we're doing but be very careful a
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little fatty nice buddy
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he had to come in that 24 20 to 24 foot
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Mark which is straight out in front of
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the nose of the boat yep followed you
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but he followed me all the way in yeah
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that's very cool
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all right
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back you go well done brother this is
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that twitch fade I was talking about
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earlier on this one actually floats so
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if you stop twitching it once you throw
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it out
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um by twitching it you're actually
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caught even though it doesn't have a lip
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you're causing it to dive a little bit
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then if you stop it'll just slowly work
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its way back up the surface and then
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when you start twitching it'll drop back
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down again still with that big loud
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clanging nose that big ball that's in
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the nose of these things which is very
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cool that's what drew that fish in was
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the sound we saw a bunch of them earlier
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on on the uh on the Garmin but they were
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fairly low right yep
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[Music]
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look at them look at them all going
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crazy yeah yeah yeah look at that oh
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stay out there get out there with
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something yeah anything they got to be
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going for these Cisco so through this
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Glide bait I didn't want to correct it
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that's the perfect storm the perfect
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scenario
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whoa get in here come on baby the net is
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twisting on me we broke our net look at
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oh no yeah see they had enough yeah
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that's a big fish that's a nice fish
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buddy easy
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mama
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I don't want to damage this hurt this
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fish
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that is so cool that was funny big fat
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belly
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but that was such a cool scenario the
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way they came up that was so neat seeing
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them on the live scope
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I was gonna say it's a perfect
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combination of
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using your sonar and using the proper
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baits you know to do that they're coming
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up we saw the fish well six of them
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moving up towards the surface didn't see
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the school debate we know this bait is
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Works about a foot down from the surface
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two feet down from the surface just like
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the perfect storm and it all worked out
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most times it doesn't work out but that
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right there worked that was so nice
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[Laughter]
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for him
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there you go scope team
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fighter right that's a tough fish
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his lips he's been caught before is it
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that's the way you want to get them
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right that's exactly when they get
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pinned they get pinned and unfortunately
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a lot of times this doesn't happen many
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of them have pinless and one more bingo
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all right
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so we fella now that was in 22 feet of
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water belly yeah just feeding up in
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those big schools or whatever it is
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they're feeding on we're not quite sure
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we haven't seen it yet we've seen the
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schools on the Garmin but haven't seen
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the actual
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fish as of yet
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and you don't
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[Music]
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Ange and Nick's Hot Spot is located on
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beautiful nubero Lake the Waypoint on
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the screen gets you there this is a
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typical deep Open Water Area where
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Predators like smallmouth bass will
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school up and feed on pelagic Bait fish
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looking at a good detailed contour map
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you'll see it almost looks like a deep
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trench we've learned through time that
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these french-like structures can be Bait
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fish magnets thus drawing in big
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Predator fish although this doesn't look
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like your typical smallmouth bass area
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remember it's all about the food source
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find the bait and find the fish for more
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hot spots like this one check out
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fishingcanada.com
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[Music]
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got one on up there boys
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oh it's a nice size yeah
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I lied when I said I don't think he's a
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very big one
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for the most part you see us using
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traditional Smallmouth presentations
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like jigs that's tubes Ned rigs Etc as
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well as drop shotting however when the
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fish turn off those presentations a
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killer technique that's not talked about
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a lot is a Carolina rig this bottom
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contacting presentation with a steady
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stop and go retrieve could fool these
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bait blasting smellies into thinking one
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of their buddies injured a bait fish
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from above and it slowly receded to the
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bottom
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[Music]
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nice let me extend that net for you
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whoa easy girlfriend
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what is going on this fish that's funny
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he is tough oh
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this is not a giant fish it's just it's
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it's a good size fish
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that's a bigger fish than you think it
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must be it's got to be some of them are
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just so much tougher than others yeah
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there he is see he's not that giant he's
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not huge he's nice nice yeah he's
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talking on the side I think isn't he no
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right no no no it's not really where
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he's supposed to be caught
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oh he's a pretty good one though I gotta
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say nice oh boy
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Angie he's got some weight to him nice
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he's a block I thought he was a three
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pounder
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wow
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I lost my bait I can't even show you
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what I got him on no I was I was hoping
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to get a peek you put him on while you
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were standing behind the tree this
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morning when you tied that up
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Carolina rig yeah we're doing everything
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we can to get these fish on the bottom
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now I mean you can see them sometimes
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schooling up and then all of a sudden
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they get down
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down deep and you got to try and figure
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them out yeah there's a Carolina rig
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basically there's a simple little hook
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offset hook
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heavy duty weight right there
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and it slides up and down
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and uh can be very effective at times
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getting back to Ange and Nick's open
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water bait oriented Smalley fishing you
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can see how all these pieces of the
18:32
puzzle kind of fit together even though
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their bite is not on fire like our
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Northern stint was and teaching Nick how
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to interpret the Garmin Electronics is a
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lesson that not many kids get and shows
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Nick there are sneaky ways to catch
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negative fish you just have to find what
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they're eating
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you got one on up there boys
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watch the trolling go and buy the
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trolling motor okay got a little smallie
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little smiley
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and you go
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I shouldn't have netted that for you
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that's well that's okay
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it's a fun time
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on the old drop shot look at you you got
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him yep
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all right I need to put another uh worm
19:17
and weight lost both he took both dude
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both nice little fish
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little fishy poo
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I think that's something
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time to go
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time to go
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bye-bye nice
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in size yeah
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don't lift don't lift them I'm not
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lifting yes you were
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[Music]
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whoa nice fish I lied when I said I
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don't think he's a very big one
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he's smacked you good oh he smacked me
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oh yeah he took that like he meant it oh
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yeah pick that baby up hold on to that
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baby nice
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nicely done
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oh my God
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destroyed the fanatic oh yeah I guess
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you need a new one huh
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look at that
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nice I was right that big school that we
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just saw yeah we've been hunting that
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school and cast into a castle it's still
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into it and then like we can see these
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monsters just attacking these balls of
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bait back you go
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well fishing Canada fans there you have
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it our latest dive into the Open Water
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forage that Predator fish feed on
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as we said early in the episode fish do
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two things during a season they normally
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spawn once and they eat the remainder of
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the year
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we highly recommend you get out there
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and take advantage of this effective and
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often overlooked pattern
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foreign
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bass fishing and your neck drove East on
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Highway 401 to exit 617 at Division
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Street Route 10 in Kingston they travel
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north on 10 and then turn right on
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Hutchings Road they next turn right at
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the end of Hutchings Road onto Road 42.
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from there they finally turned right
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into Sterling Lodge as they entered the
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town of Newboro located in the heart of
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the Rideau Lakes excellent bass and pike
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fishing have brought fishermen to
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Sterling Lodge for over 120 years their
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facilities are capable of handling
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groups both large and small there are a
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variety of accommodation types to suit
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all needs after a long day of Hardcore
21:32
fishing you can cool off in their
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outdoor pool
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they have a fully licensed dining room
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which serves three meals a day for those
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who decide to book their American plan
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as well as an english-style Pub which is
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a great place to relax in the evenings
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and swap tales of the day with fellow
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fishermen
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[Applause]
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[Music]
#Fishing
#Hunting & Shooting
#Outdoors