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How To Catch Walleye During A Cold Front | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola heads north for part 2 of last week’s Nagagami Lake Walleye trip. The sport of fishing can be unpredictable. A giant school of fish can up and disappear due to weather conditions. Ang goes on the hunt and finds them right under his nose! 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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a lot of people think when a front moves
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through but these fish move miles away
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from where they normally feed nothing
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could be further from the truth and
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that's crazy
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almost like hunting the range for these
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fish is gone from here to here oh yeah
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because it's either him there is how
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pressure we feel it officially but what
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is it well let's start from the
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beginning on last week's show we talked
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about NACA cami Lake being the perfect
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spot to showcase the advanced
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electronics available in today's sonar
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problems NACA cami is a glacial lake
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that formed about 10,000 years ago by
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the retreat of a massive ice sheet
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called the Laurentian tied glacier in
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fact many of the hundreds of thousands
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of lakes across this vast area were
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formed during this glacial retreat they
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were so impacted by the sheer weight of
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this ice sheet that the surrounding
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earth is still rebounding this explains
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the rough multi-layered bottom of NACA
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Gami lake the extensive inflows and
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outflows provide nutrients in great
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water circulation this is walleye heaven
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on last week's show Otto's a Pistol Pete
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ran a clinic on how to catch these
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walleye got it dialed in to a 50 foot
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circle clad Beast well we didn't know it
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at the time but he was actually fishing
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on the cusp of a prefrontal lobe and
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despite the sophisticated electronics he
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was using Mother Nature was giving him a
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leg up let's talk about what she was
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actually doing we've all heard the
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stories not one bite all day cold front
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came through or most famously yes should
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have been here yesterday so what's
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really happening
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it's about changes in barometric
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pressure in the air and water and the
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effect these changes have on an
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ecosystem when we refer to cold fronts
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people automatically assume that you've
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got a major temperature change and
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that's what triggers the front or the
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change well it's not the case it's a
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barometer change and generally when a
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system moves in if you've had you know
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nice stable weather and all of a sudden
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the big clouds form in the sky and they
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start pushing your way well they're
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being pushed by pressure and that's
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called a pressure system and
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that's what activates vomiter up or down
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and that's what the fish are reacting to
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it has nothing to do with the actual
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temperature it's the the pressure the
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barometer tells them that just time to
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shut down that means it is time to turn
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everything off hunker down somewhere and
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wait it out wait for a more stable
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system to move through the explanation
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lies in the very bottom of the food
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chain with microscopic sized animals
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called zooplankton and phytoplankton
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when a pressure system moves through the
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shallow water is affected by the actual
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pressure which means all of the tiny the
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tiniest of life-forms start shutting
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down and it just triggers a domino
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effect all the way down the food chain
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and of course a predator who depends on
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all that food he's got it he's got to
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call it quits for the day and that's
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what these walleye are doing during this
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period which can last anywhere between
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24 and 72 hours the feeding zone of a
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mid-range creditor can go from several
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hundred feet to as little as six inches
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in just a matter of hours there's a
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common misconception that when the front
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moves in the fish disperse and going to
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the deepest part of the lake and become
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impossible to catch well nothing could
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be further from the truth all they do is
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go to their comfort zone and stay put
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they tend to look for places that offer
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shelter from the other predators but
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still have the potential of ambushing a
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quick meal you kind of think that maybe
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the walleye have moved to a traditional
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area of the lake where they prefer to be
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during cold front conditions which could
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be on the other side of the lake mile or
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two off the road but really they're not
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much different bass feeding shelf there
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so where are they going to be when
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things get tough in the trenches this
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one the one out there the one out at the
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front
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the official just slid over and down
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when this happens they're not going to
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be actively feeding I'm going to have to
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drop my feet right on their noses and
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with the garment that shouldn't be that
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difficult oh oh my bet you get the
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bucket day long buddy with the walleye
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being lazy and lethargic and their
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strike zone so small nothing short of
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real minerals will do the takeaway from
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this experience
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don't overreact when the weather changes
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on you sometimes less is more
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they have discovered something there
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there yes
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Oh Pike that's why it looks so long and
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Seana a lot of people think that when a
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front moves through or wind conditions
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change or the time of day that these
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fish move miles away from where they
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normally feed and nothing could be
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further from the truth
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in fact the easiest way to find them
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during those conditions is look at a map
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or charts like on this Garmin and look
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for the easiest way for those fish to go
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from shallow to deep easiest way meaning
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the quickest way that they can get to
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the deep water that's available to them
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in that area and generally if you just
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follow that path they'll be sitting
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there now I wasn't counting on this
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little Pike this little snake but
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obviously he's doing the same thing as a
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walleye he's moving in and out just like
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they are that's a better fish nice money
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now you hit that as soon as it hit
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bottom the very second that hit bottom
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I felt the second half and that was him
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but really light you know you'd think a
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predator like this when would they
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attack a bait you'd think there'd be
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mayhem every time but not not so for mr.
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walleye yeah you think something like
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that would just smack that bait would
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you or the the I guess I'd love to be
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able to study that underwater sea or how
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a walleye hits your bait because nine
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times out of 10 it's in and out you
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don't even feel it and then when they do
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decide to take it it's such a subtle
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little tip love to be able to see it
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beautiful fish starting up they go see
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yeah okay so
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I think I've discovered something I've
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thrown everything at these things by the
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way except the kitchen sink in it who's
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going to go to that next place ed you
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know rather than do that let's try good
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old faith well that's just the regular
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jighead
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mind you this one's got a bit of a
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sparkle to it which sometimes really
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triggers those fish now under these
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light conditions I don't know I'm not so
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convinced by title Don anyways in light
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date
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go ahead shake them going on decent a
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wallet I saw that Fisher man
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just on that thirty foot brake we're off
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the sign
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there are typical post pond fish
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probably finished Vani well three weeks
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ago or we should stop these big breaks
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but if I had such a severe temperature
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drop for the last 24 hours about 10
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degrees Fahrenheit that it's pretty much
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shut these things down and yesterday
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we're out on the shoals fishing really
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aggressive fish with jerk baits and swim
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baits and jigs and plastics everything
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you name it they were hitting it but
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then they just shut down with this cold
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front moving through so we have to slow
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it down a little bit and really finesse
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really really tighten the our target
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area the range for these fish is gone
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from here to here see right on the
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screen it was great
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love it when you can do that this is
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right on the bottom laying right down
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big mark right on the ball this is a
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bizarre situation I got to tell you I
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don't know when I'm at if I've had this
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kind of action on a flat day like this I
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mean it's totally opposite of what you
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want for walleye fishing if you want a
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bit of wind you want some chop you want
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some action going this is flat we're
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barely drifting but what's nice about it
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though because we're barely drifting you
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can literally see them on the
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undergarments and just put that
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presentation right on their noses
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because they're not moving these fish
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are not moving as you can tell this is a
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very lethargic fish I mean a fish that
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size when he's on and he's active he'd
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be jumping all over this but I can I
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think I'm going to be a lift this fish
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right up without a net
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that's how lethargic he is and they're
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showing up when you've got really
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detailed so on are like this they really
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show up well it's not just a contour on
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the bottom it's an you can see it's a
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fish and dropping a jig right in front
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of them on his nose nine times out of
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ten if you get it within that strike
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zone which is very very small when
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they're this slow you'll bite
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right that is a very lethargic wall I in
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the roof of his mouth there we go now
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when is this sluggish you can put your
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hand under the belly like that and they
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don't go nowhere and it's so cool look
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at that
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okay back to sleep buddy sorry to
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interrupt your little nap I gotta tell
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you that's different real different
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really this in a couple of days ago all
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the activity was up on top of the shoal
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which is about 8 feet and the fishery
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really active a lot of wave action
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low-light conditions they were right on
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top and at the top of their game in
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terms of feeding but they've since
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dropped off and that's crazy it's almost
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like hunting
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today's naca cami Lake hotspot is on a
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brake line off of a shallow hump about a
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hundred yards from last week's episode
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there when a changing weather
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system moves in and the shallow water
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fish seem to disappear the first thing
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that should be checked is the adjacent
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deep water look for breaks along with
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anything different like boulders or even
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deep weeds that may hold fish live bait
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is a number-one choice simply because
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that pressure change has put the entire
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food chain on pause quite honestly read
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on the hook is the ultimate way to go
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working slow is the key for more
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hotspots like this one check out fish in
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canada calm
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yep this is pasta that's the baby
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while deep rich when I saw why
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cool
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that's a little better oh yeah
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oh yeah
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nice walleye it's the food will be
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netting that what brother nice nice
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nice yeah that felt different right away
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because the size of him
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that's a beauty
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now this is really this is really weird
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because oh this is bizarre if you look
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around the boat right now
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it looks like a Mill Pond absolutely
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flat water not a ripple in it and look
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oh my god this bizarre and no fight no
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nothing that how nice is that I'm not
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kidding - this place is looking like a
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mill Potter it down
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very cool lethargic as heck though the
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little ones have been fighting and this
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guy looks like it wasn't he didn't even
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know he was hooked that was totally
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unexpected I got to tell you with this
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water flattening out the way it has I
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was kind of thinking I was done I was
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homeward bound all right a little tinsel
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jig that I cut down in hopes that maybe
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there were a little bit lethargic not
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bat'leth hard to go I trimmed it up just
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to give a little smaller profile wow
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that's great
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I'm so lucky I found these fish here you
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know because in a lot of cases this
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would be a total disaster for for me or
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any other walleye anger for that matter
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you go you plan you've only got a couple
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of days to fish the weather changes on
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you and the whole thing just is a big
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mess well you know what I live a lesson
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on this the news not move far they do
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not move far they're right here to get
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for today's awesome walleye fishing we
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first took highway 400 north to highway
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69 we then took highway 17 Northwest to
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White River we then turn right onto 631
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which took us to the ford Air Base near
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horn Payne Ontario from there it was a
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short flight - timber wolf lodge
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today's klp really drives home the K
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factors we call it foreknowledge you
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know it's really important to know not
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just the basics about the species that
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you're after but some of the real
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intricacies for example on today's
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program we're fishing for walleyes and
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we had a bit of adverse condition a cold
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front moved in during our shoot so day 1
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they're happening a frolicking in the
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shallows on the what we call the buffet
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the dinner table on the shallow in the
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shallows but cold front moves through
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and as anglers we all dread the cold
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front because in our opinions in most
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cases we'll fish should lose a million
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miles away while with a little bit of
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knowledge of a walleye you soon learn
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that they will not go far from the
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dinner table their need to feed far
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exceeds that their need to move so in
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today's episode what we simply did is
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moved on to the first break the first
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deepwater adjacent tubing plaque or
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therapy gods and there they are and the
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best part about that is that when
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they're in that mode that shutdown mode
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they don't move so if you can use a real
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high-resolution sonar like this little
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darlin you can get right on top of those
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things and pluck them I mean like
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