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Catching Big Northern Pike On The Attawapiskat River | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman travel to Pym Island on the Attawapiskat River with Hearst Air in Northern Ontario and find themselves surrounded by beautiful big Northern Pike. All lures work however giant tube baits rule in this show. Pike fishing doesn't get any better than this! 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/fishncanada... 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 #Fishing
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you
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position Canada brought to you in part
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by coleman the outdoor companies must
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call repulsive since 1951 great cast
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votes the more you know the better we
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look and richer in outdoors number one
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on the water
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for over a quarter of a century now I've
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pursued fish all over this great country
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of ours however there's one place that
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captivates me more than any other and
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that's Northern Ontario
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oh sure maybe there's more exotic places
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nestled in a mountain somewhere but for
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pure fishing there's no place like this
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I join Anton issues because I just love
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the thought of fishing in a place that
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few will ever let align it and because I
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love the species were after big
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aggressive pipe normally and I'm going
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to have to travel to the Yukon northern
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Manitoba or even Northwest Territory to
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experience Pike like we were about it
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this bottle over and only a day's drive
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from Toronto our trip starts with about
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a two-hour flight north from first
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Ontario in a turbo otter first air is a
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family owned and run company and the
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Builder reputation is one of the premier
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client services in all of Northern
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Ontario looking out the Otters window I
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figured it was safe to say we're about
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to enter into no-man's land our game
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plan look for back channels that stray
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off the main river since we're here
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after the spring spawn big pike need a
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reson area that they can easily feed in
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these back channels lack the current
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that the main river pushes every second
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of the day this is where the big
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northern pike should be hang on don't
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lose them to give you enough chances
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that's got your hand emails amended up
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in your area Norma it means what's wrong
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fish for a little guy yeah that fish you
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got some power you need help with him
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and he's hooked on the outside
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excellently up look we're done yo Trey
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be the first catch of that two back in
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there yeah okay you get about that sight
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every time mister my Allah unpin him Sir
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oh that was no trailer hooks on this
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nope
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you're going to do the job again on a
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book then we'll leave it up I know which
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you see it yep there you go really look
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at it
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okay little Wallach yeah you walleye
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Taylor here yeah you can't rub against
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him now Pete and I have done our fair
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share of fishing for big northern pike
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great across Canada
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and we both feel that thing out of a
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biscuit River is one of those great
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fisheries this could it be hard to be no
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matter where you go
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casting big based a huge massive fish
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you tell me what's better than that has
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got to be a good fish I know but that
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anchor rope is don't not tell us all the
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anchor ropes though I can't even help
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you out buddy
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he's on it oh yeah okay
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hang on I'll come up there and give you
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a hand and I think we're going to get
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this fishing lesson comes around this
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way if he comes around this way we'll be
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okay no still wrapped hey tank isn't it
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he was gonna stuff a big fish
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oh here he's off he's off Pete you got
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that's a nice fish that's a nice fish
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nice and easy
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can you imagine that he got on that oh
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she's only gonna get around again I
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might move back one yeah come on back
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away from the Rope that's higher oh he's
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big yeah that's a nice fish okay here we
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go
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it's around the anchor rope again haha
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you know what he did it one like it'd go
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right around it yet fully she did Rick
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like around us and then he came back
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around we get lucky on that or what yeah
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you know what the good thing is it tired
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about that - yeah you're probably right
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but he's getting stuck he's out he's not
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done he got a run left in him future and
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I just going to sit down right here
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wait a minute he just turned like a
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shark I got a head on and that bet thing
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would have been huge late in here
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imagine him in the fall yeah oh yeah
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throw all oh yeah croc think he got him
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on top as well no not just the trailer
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had trailers inside I should be able to
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get him off fairly easy that's a good
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looking fish
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oh yeah baby okay I'm gonna I don't
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think he's ready but all the let's try
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working towards you what I got to do
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here it's very hard to get
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current ago like sing it wrong side but
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I got to be real careful not to touch
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his gills I mean that's the problem when
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you're doing this yeah got you got a
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nice big long vision all the full
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looking creatures gosh yeah perfect
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can you yeah I can pop that on pliers
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are right down here between my legs here
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excuse me you wish courtesy go he's not
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perfect
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yeah he's goes moksha that's the problem
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now oh boy what oh look at this
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how long is that fish sign on we did
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nothing measuring it now we got nothing
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a man I would say that fish has got to
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go 30 37 or 38 at least yeah that's
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right yeah yeah you go to the on the
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back hook a little stinger hook on the
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back of spinnerbait cloth leather he did
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this dinner Bank straightener oh nice oh
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I found a great ahh whoo little guy
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that's out an awesome don't want a nice
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fish nice fish nice fish buddy hey
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little guy that know happy bit of sound
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he's on that trailer to it yeah baby
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come on Cuba wake everybody up
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yeah yeah wake up the dad okay
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oh yeah get our stuff moved around you
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got to love that sound right there it's
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good through the hump on his back
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whoa dromedary is that - why do you have
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to take it on that side - dad is going
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to be ugly so he's only got the one
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prong enemy
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besides my head on this thing buddy
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you know what just hanging on it and hey
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yeah he's just hanging on by that one
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little hook and I could pull out of many
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minutes I don't think we got it in the
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bone I can't really get a look at it
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help I'd be very careful buddy oh you
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got it looks good yeah I gotta go and
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get our side of him
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yes well yeah hook real good thank you
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he got away yo gave it oh yeah whoo oh
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yeah she got me he got yeah the Big
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Woods always do it yeah and I grabbed it
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with this hand how you figure that one
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out
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so her stare operation has been evolving
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over the years started from one aircraft
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operation with my father flying and
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doing all the the ground work that as we
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grew older we were able to get involved
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with the business I take care of the air
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operations side and my sister Melanie
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takes care of the bookings and all the
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ground operations and my father was
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heavily involved in flying and and all
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the day-to-day running so via air
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service we have nine outpost camp we
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have five of our own and we have pork
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and partnership with Perry Baxter who
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are up to about five or six hundred
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people a year and I've been doing it for
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34 years so that's quite a view to
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people is it good one well I'll tell you
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what he's down a good long oh that's a
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good one
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that's battle look at the tail on him I
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don't know where he's taking us well I
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got a turn oh nice fish
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oh man that's nice
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this guy's skinnier and longer longer
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yeah Wow all I want to know is which
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side you hook I'm on this thing Bowl
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he's not computer your buddy see if I
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can get a brown for you there yes yeah
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now we're gonna work on them nice fit
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how are you going to pick that guy up
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you know the best part of this is is
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that the walleye bite right now for a
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great walleye fishery is off the mayfly
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hats on
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so the walleye fishing is tough right
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you get your shorelines fish yeah we
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want to go all I figure you're going to
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get exactly I don't understand that a
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lot of you see that oh no how's the
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walleye fishing and if it's not there
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they don't go but I got a toy man how
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could you turn this dude back up to a
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walleye fish or you'll ever have a good
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life look at that fish oh boy you got a
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good you got a hook perfect for me to
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grab my yeah hurry up fool you're not
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done yet
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that's a 18 to 20 pound plate yeah for
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sure oh boy had this talk
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oh man on the tip of his nose Austral
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Zin that fish you can't put your head
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around is bad Obama's surface surface
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Gator oh you know and even imagine a
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bigger fish in there exactly come on
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mama
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okay careful buddy put your line up a
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bit answer oh yeah she's shaking she's
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ugly with me oh my god dude you are the
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old clunker okay real quick guys I'm
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looking to get the dollars on her I'll
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get her back
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yep I'll be a little tired look at that
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guy beautifully was up on the shallows
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here nice nice nice buddy you pull this
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out look out we're in the middle of the
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bed I'm not pulling anybody but this
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dude is we're in the middle of the bay
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take a nap ah love with a rip drag like
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that look at him back and forth like a
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mad dog
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oh he's gonna get low
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he's gonna get me wet look at this
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that's a nice fish yeah he's that's
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another good 40 inch fish oh yeah yeah
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he's a 4000 man all night head
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yeah baby how did you come up this place
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where buddy right there my boat loose
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swoosh smooth don't oh yeah that's the
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one I'm looking for
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I mean I got you know what we've got
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heavy flippin rods here hands and I are
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using got a 80 pound fluorocarbon leader
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yeah I was good I gotta go 60 to 85
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pound braid look at that he could cut
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that leader at any given time but it's
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written as mouth than that it is whoa it
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is - yeah he gonna we'll see how good
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that leader material is here exactly oh
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I love it when they do that the bat but
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they were straight up pull the line
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right in behind him man oh boy he could
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cut me big-time
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okay baby come work with that gorgeous
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plate mmm mmm is what's all the way onto
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the other side
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Tim be nice right
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oh sorry but oh well did you see that
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almost Adam oh you're not there again ya
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know we later say the boat yeah no way
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oh yeah baby
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splashes down like a log oh yeah baby
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serious that's where they are oh he
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didn't come up to a surface so he just
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slurp it down me I see a white spot
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there he goes he just really just
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realized just realized he's hooked buddy
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oh look at this thing oh my wait let on
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Oh nice big what he ate you look at it
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he's completely gone was that it good
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boy I'll tell you braided line was
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designed for a particular fish it was
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designed for these really helps you out
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on this call man does it ever really
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helps your muscle a min thank you
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look at you you and me pal before you
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couldn't talk you with him are you
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oh man
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okay now you done and now you're gonna
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be workable okay careful buddy you gonna
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give me one good shot yeah you be
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careful but I don't know if I gonna get
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them in yet in the shower I got nice one
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big green monster there you go
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beautifully colored too hot Oh
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oh yeah good work buddy
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one thing that you can always count on
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when fishing northern pike if some
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vicious hits and attacks anywhere from a
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full cast away to light beside the boat
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you see him coming here I'm bringing
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here look anyway you keep him there
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right at it and Rita oh my god Wow he's
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Fisher Kamikaze they're insane oh god
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that was bizarre
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he hit the boat I felt them him yeah he
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it's both the last night Oh long long
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and skinny guy long said hang on buddy
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I'm with you nut nice what yes skinny
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boy we got along again and gold yeah
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it's a gold look at son of a gun
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little skinny me I know he's all your
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bad home bunnies the log fish oh my god
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you ain't gonna get him yes dodo agree
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I'm just getting the rested up for him
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Oh big ol Gator mouth let us know then
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yeah that's nice is he well pin I hope
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so dude because I have no idea
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oh my god yes you know what yeah
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getting there pretty good yeah I was
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gonna say you know he doesn't have it at
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all yeah well he's got chalk on the side
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not only but he's opened his mouth
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before so if it wasn't it yeah he's fine
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he's fine he's good
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especially my the one that just missed
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me yeah I might have been yeah there
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he's gonna be a while yet no way he's
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gonna be a while back out again oh
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they're here right there
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get some weed in the face it'll slow
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down dude nice like a big fish all right
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it's got a big head boy I'll tell you
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that body ever filled it oh yeah man
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that's a nice-looking plate look at the
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back on him oh yeah then if he is you've
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got a good Gator bag okay but he's gonna
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love these you want to try them yeah no
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bring them around he's hooked pretty
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good let's have a look
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you're not gonna grab him come on we are
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I grab moat there
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yeah oh boy all right whoo there
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yeah yep so that I got that baby we got
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you didn't it Hey look at that thing
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nice bike access strong fish right well
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I fish puts on another few pounds I
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played around the summer ooh baby
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today's hot spot is a small cut off the
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a Tawaf escape River the weight point on
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your screen will take you there after
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the spawn big northern seek areas like
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these both breasts and feet quite giant
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tubes like the one answers going swim
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baits like I was using more traditional
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baits like student spinners be sure to
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use a liter these big predators will
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slide through your line like butter for
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more hot spots like this one check out
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our website to get the Tim island we
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took highway 400 north to highway 11 all
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the way to Hearst
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from there we traveled west on highway
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11 for 16 miles to her stairs Carrie
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Lake base we finally boarded a flow
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plane and enjoyed a scenic 200-mile
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flight to Pitt Milan camp fish in Canada
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