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Detroit River Walleye Fishing: Guy Eats Sucker Eggs | Fish'n Canada
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May 13, 2025
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the sport of fishing could will be the
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most relaxing tranquil and inspiring
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activity anybody could ever partake in
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what else can you travel from mountains
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to raising rivers to calm backwaters all
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other in your favorite pastime but not
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all fishing destinations are created
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equal at the opposite end of the
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beautiful landscape scenario lies a
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river system with a rough top and grungy
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field which offers one of the most
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amazing spring walleye fish reason this
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great country has its the Detroit River
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and it's loaded with fish as cold and
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miserable as this spring morning was we
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did him a couple of things to look
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forward to one a river full of walleye
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and to the weather improving as the day
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went on but for now we were going to be
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dodging child ships battling strong
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currents and bad weather all while
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trying to catch some wicked wall off our
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first stop was a local hot spot just off
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the LaSalle boat launch only a few
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minutes from downtown Windsor
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what an ominous looking area but you
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know it's a whole different feeling than
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during the city it's more away more
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modern god I remember is a kid he's to
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come visit my grandma here that's right
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Windsor right there on this side okay
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get even notice this stuff you know now
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I just looked at whatever I'm here you
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keep building they're older than you
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I've been teeth watch consumer Hey it's
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not a big one but it's a it's a girl
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look at that you can full Windsor I get
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a lot of time in Sarnia I wonder where
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the toxic twins cook you wanna
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even on why the least angle should have
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netted them the count that counts buddy
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he's good three of those pop me and I'm
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very big I know maybe two to three
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pounds three pounder nice but I was
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doing that exact thing I'm just keeping
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my jig jig back down and I pegged
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another 100 that was funny I'm just
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keeping my jig maybe two inches off the
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bottom but a man would pop away plant in
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here woody right now
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sure okay you do that well I catch
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another it's amazing the curd so heavy
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we're using such a big jig what you do
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is you drop it till it hits bottom and
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it clunks you lift it let it fall to the
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bottom lift it let it fall to the bottom
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and we're vertically fishing under the
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boat with the current and everyone swell
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you feel your line snap and that's a
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walleye or a bass or a sturgeon or a
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drum or a silver bass or muskie when you
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were here like what five six years ago
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uh yeah I think was 2003 fish this area
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no I didn't we didn't we fished up
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closer right in front of Windsor the
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casino and all that are you right right
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yeah but the same thing you know same
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size fish two or three founders biggest
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blending interview six seven something
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like that if we should Bob divine back
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then
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local guide around here and yeah we had
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we had fun but it's all wasn't like this
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it was like it was about medium it's a
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nice wind coming down the chute honestly
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maybe we had t-shirts or something like
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that but the plate was a little tough
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again wasn't all those days apparently
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they say that this area keep you got you
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know 100 plus 50 days per guy so we just
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I haven't hit that yet but I wouldn't
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mind the ten plus fish there yeah no
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kidding ten plus ten plus pound right
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now organized for feedings
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yeah gonna get that sucker back in the
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wind
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go get him
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search-and-rescue okay so anything to
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Breck man he is reckless the stretch of
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the Detroit River big Windsor in Detroit
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is literally gym industry massive ships
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and great walleye there's no other place
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like it a typical winter right there it
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salt refinery it cement boats
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it's great river wind nasty lots of wall
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I cannot be a sucker
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although the Detroit River loads up with
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walling in the spring you still need to
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get a feel for it from the Fisher on
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it's child's play when they're little
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shut down though you really need to
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concentrate coloration slightly yeah
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right through the snowed check out on
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this fish is hooked here into the middle
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of the nose that's how you want to hook
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a wall look at that
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it's what you actually I feel as a tick
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in your line as it drops and then you
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just lift up and that's where you get
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them right through the beak that's not a
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big walleye but fat healthy well not
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good-looking fish
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yes fatty nice fish good job Michael
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lucky we ain't crying you up one guy
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that has great wall eye-catching
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abilities in the Detroit is our guy
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local fishing and hunting expert Shawn
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Patterson I've been fishing the Detroit
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River ever since I was a little kid I
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started going this offshore a cast of
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line hoping to catch a fish coming up
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the breakwall and then once I was old
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enough I was able to buy a boat and go
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out on the river and really start to
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experience the quality of the fishery
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that's in this area I met Angelo and
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Pete last year May the cops and kids
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fishing derby at Huber downs and their
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region at their own it's a little
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fishing derby has put on with the region
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and police officers for the local kids
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the you know to introduce them to spit
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at fishing and have some fun and
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hopefully catch a couple trout that's
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been placed in the pond there with my
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occupation I get a lot of days off so on
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my days off I come down to Windsor
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Thompson last year alone I put a hundred
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thousand bombers onto my truck just
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coming down here because the fishery is
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so so good there's numerous types of
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fish species that you can that can be
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caught in the Detroit River ranging from
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walleye which is the the most targeted
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species to large and small mouth bass up
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to you get small is four six pounders
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all day long numerous numerous numerous
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muskie lotta muskie in this river
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there's always you'll never you always
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hear people talking yeah hooked into
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muskie today another muskie today and
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our sturgeon population is very strong
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unfortunately there's no season now in
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the Detroit River you can't fish for
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sturgeon but incident fish happen all
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the time
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beautiful that's awesome boys the
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walleye they they migrate in here into
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the Detroit River to spawn during the
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there in the spring months here they
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come from Lake Erie they also come from
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Lake st. Clair up the Thames River they
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there's estimated between 5 to 10
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million walleye per year travel through
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this this water tributary to spawn and
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then they head back to the lakes after
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they're done the spawn but you can catch
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walleye all the way up to even Christmas
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these are perfect eaters yeah they play
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huh well belly la la there's a fair
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current that goes through here you
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really can't see it until you're in the
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boat and then once you start passing
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some structure you realize how quickly
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you're traveling down the river a lot of
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guys you'll find they like to use a half
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ounce jig I find it's a little light
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you're not really being able to locate
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bottom it's very key to it here when
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you're jigging to have the line straight
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up and down and to be able to touch the
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bottom constantly that is probably the
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biggest key out of everything you can do
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everything else wrong but if you're able
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to keep your lying straight up and down
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and touch bottom each time you'll have
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very good high success rates I use
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what's called it's a 5/8 ounce jig I
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found that a 3/4 is just a little too
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much lead on the bottom of the line and
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1/2 ounce is too light 5/8 right in the
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middle is perfect and I prefer to use a
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sickle style hook just it a little bit
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better of a hook instead of just being
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round there's more area there that when
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you do end up putting it into when a
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fish bites it you don't stay there you
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know you won't lose a lot of fish where
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you'll see if they bite light and
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they're just grabbing it with these
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sickle style hooks I find once it's in
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the beak that's it they're on there
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it's not a big walleye but fat healthy
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one good-looking fish yes fatty it's a
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lot of fun I've got a lot of experience
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know this river by the back of my hand
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I've been up and down and pretty well
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from Lake Erie all the way to Lake st.
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Clair and there's numerous numerous hot
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spots throughout the the river that seem
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to produce a lot more fish than other
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areas especially they get the mouth of
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the Detroit River by peach Island and
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Lake st. Clair and then out in the
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salary area just off of LaSalle marina
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with a little bit of knowledge and a
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little bit of work easily to catch your
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limit in a matter of you know under an
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hour easily no problems it's a lot of
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fun and you'll have some fish to bring
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home to put in the the fryer we had
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heard the weather was supposed to
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improve as the day went on and for once
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the weatherman was right we packed up
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our gear and left LaSalle and headed for
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another Windsor hot spot right off the
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Lakeside Park marina in front of the
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Windsor Yacht Club this is as urban as
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it gets so is one of your walleye oh you
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got a couple of nice nice right at the
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fillet table that's what Pete and I are
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gonna catch in a minute let me bet her
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eye bolt come on in here honey get some
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fish great yeah the most unique aspect
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of fish in the Detroit River has got to
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be that close proximity to the concrete
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jungle hundreds if not thousands of
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walleye staged between these two great
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cities and they're relatively easy fish
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to catch that's something you don't find
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every day in an urban environment we
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remember thought you could walleye fish
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with that that is your scenery I'm gonna
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get my dad to retire in this place send
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him back to where he was born
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yeah it was Tiger boat right there jig
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some pickerel you and big red I could
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just see it happening now sunburns Oh
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shorter than me yeah see you've over
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there it looks like we're gonna be
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acquittee that's right foresters island
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right there yeah new signs on it
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that hurt me stop you God completely
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broad stopper stopped in there oh look
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this was long I get the net for ya
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that's okay brother man yeah I mean I
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hurt my wrist oh yeah I can your stop
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I've had that so many of those are
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thought I'm just gonna keep lifting
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that's funny
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look at the weight of this head it's
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like a mini cannon ball and there's
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learn to fish yeah so it fish but skinny
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in but this is a master the LIVESTRONG
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that's it's darker than yeah yeah if you
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were eating the these that'd be like it
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in the leg well we're onto them down the
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apartment building new pattern dirt drop
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an egg PD yeah yeah that one what yeah
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just started after I dropped it in the
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boat there there's a little female that
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a yep you knew it
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now you know why they're called wall
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light because they like to swim along
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this wall so most of the day we were
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fishing these walleye in nasty
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conditions now luckily the skies broke
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later in the day some of the midday
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there's no good some of the evening PD
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bikes pretty supple monkey I don't know
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buddy I'm not getting the net don't see
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it
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oh boy the chin again chin again I had
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that feeling about that hook them in the
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belly I have a feeling about that one
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just yeah you throw that back to see if
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they keep it mode you still gonna throw
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them back it's posted that little guy
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girl
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bye-bye clunk why when there's a very
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old city with a deep heritage that helps
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keep the Canadian industry muted all
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three big North American car
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manufacturers have headquarters here and
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across the river in Detroit but people
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may not know is the City of Windsor is
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the southernmost city in Canada in fact
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it's the only canada-us border crossing
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when you travel north from Canada to
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enter the States
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the population in Windsor is over
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200,000 and although its appearance is
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dropped and grew up on the outskirts the
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downtown core of Windsor is very modern
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with great people not only that this
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area of the Detroit River is filled with
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great fishing
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whether it's walleye bass muskie drum or
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perch it's legendary Detroit Rock City
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why
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Wow I'm playing them really easy cutting
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into my vision time but Oh turn them
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bring them hey listen that's picker al
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he's okay he's okay for us guys you know
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I'm making a buzzin even moving my jig
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on that fish you worked wasn't even
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moving it set it on the bottom there
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like man here so look here see look
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everywhere telling you about yeah the
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black line at the blacks are yours
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that's three in a row like that but most
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of all I do though they no no no I think
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to some extent then wait dead-stick pick
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come on whoa whoa a billion miles an
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hour that's the dead stick pick yeah
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that guy just let it I was sitting on
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the bottom just you try trying
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everything to try and get bit here it's
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tough but they'll fight right now
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Jared opposite if there is boom I like
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that kind of fishing pretty lazy a like
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me yeah I like us Mikey's a couple of
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lazy guys this style of fishing it's
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like when you're a little kid and you're
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jigging on the end of your dock you lift
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it let it bounce drop it to the bottom
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hit the bottom lift it right up out drop
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it to the bottom every once awhile you
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just go you catch one like I use
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pictures yeah it is
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Oh
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three strikes you're out that was a wall
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like the way all right well maybe like
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tap it anyway you're gonna be s Jeep
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your best it can't be a walleye I think
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that was just grabbed it absolutely
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perfect maybe this fight is getting
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doing it is Walter I'll get the net for
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that brother you just taps so nice that
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I got god I hope the walleye because
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quite good it must be a buck they will
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mail Corinne look at you go pull rod
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yeah
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big old choker oh that's a nice walleye
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man Oh gonna walk him that oh that's a
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giant
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you know when you got a grip that
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walleye there is a Detroit River wallet
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right there Windsor walleye do some
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dental work Oh God
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that's a good-looking fish big hump on
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the bat this weekend the little boy yeah
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yeah little bit on the front even I'm
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doing some spot and look at the tail
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yeah oh yeah looking ahead that's warm
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right yeah well that might be musky meat
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mmm-hmm good luck a cold still that's a
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beaut I take good fish right there
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what's that book 25 in 26 is say so yeah
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yeah he's pushing six seven pounds I
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guess at least I've got a little bump on
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his head
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yeah Gandhi Wow right there eight to
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Pop's real quick fishing Canada hotspots
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the ultimate fishing guide presents'
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getting there today's hot spot is a run
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in the Detroit River right on the edge
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in a City of Windsor then wave fight on
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your screen will take you right there
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don't be afraid to fish right up to the
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break wall at this spot and remember
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there's a strong current in the Detroit
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River so start your drift upriver up the
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hotspot and be sure to drift well past
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it to get to this great walleye fishery
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we took highway 401 west from Toronto
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and turn right on Talbot Road when we
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got to Windsor then we traveled south on
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here on church line west on Normandy
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Street so fun maiden Road and finally
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west on Laurier drive to the LaSalle
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boat launch visit fishing canada.com for
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