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Giant Summer Smallmouth On Lake Simcoe | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Do all Smallmouth Bass go deep in the summer? Pete Bowman figures it out during a July heat wave on Ontario's Lake Simcoe. 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, 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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today the all the water base like this
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one are going to help me separate myth
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from reality
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the myth is that in order to add small
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moat faster the summer heat you have to
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go deep however the reality is that
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there are a ton of great opportunities
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to get huge summer Smalley's in water
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less than 10 feet deep so on today's
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show I figure it's time for me to break
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that deep water myth the day on fishing
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lake simcoe for the top five small
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Moffat's lakes in the world now not only
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does this massive body of water proves
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lots of fish but it holds some real
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giant and the best part is you can catch
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them all season long
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oh oh oh on this particular day the air
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temperature is in the mid seventies for
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low 80 the water temperatures in the
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high 70s to low 80s this is the people
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to some excess summer Smalley's right
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there got a follower and set that drag
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whoa giant jump pretty good fish too
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net is handy and available there that I
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just set these drag nice and loose and
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then let them do their thing on there
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pull it away because these things are so
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chunky and so strong and you just got to
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just let them go where they want I mean
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that's less of like look at this light
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rod light gear I stopped a jump maybe a
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three and a half maybe maybe a bit
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bigger I don't know we'll soon find out
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sometimes they fool you even on a jump
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keep them down too if again wow these
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things pull like mules like this is one
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incredible fish I like fishing for
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largemouth better but I like captain's
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mom out there man these guys are spunky
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this time you hear now I got six down
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line on so that's why I got my drag set
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loose
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what is this guy oh come on big girl wow
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talk about flesh oh man stay down State
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out is not that big six pound line
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that's why I'm okay though got to meet
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Wow I had fished it like what like now I
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get to see how big he is it feels heavy
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in the net oh yeah yeah that's a junker
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I was thinking a three and it's a lot
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bigger than a three folks a lot bigger
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man whoo that perfect lost my shadow war
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that's okay
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you gotta play around the lead look at
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that baby ah little retie knee head on
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them and a great day actually this fish
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is not as full of some of the other ones
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you can catch in here but Oh awesome
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what a fish as I said in the beginning
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of the show
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there's a definite myth that his
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smallmouth bass are supposed to be a
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Coldwater fish they all hit for deeper
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water as the summer eats up the fact of
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the matter is that a good chunk of
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Smalley's habitually use the shallows
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aggressively to feed from the
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temperature source this is my favorite
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way of fishing summer Smalley's there he
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is oh boy solid very solid and how you
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make sure you drag is that loose can you
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don't know what to expect
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got the perfect side he's under the what
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I would call the upwind side I'm
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drifting this way so now I can just
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fight this fish and it'll be harder to
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fight the fish but he won't get under
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the boat as easily oh I think I just saw
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a good one there
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I think come on I saw a glimpse of this
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fish but it's basically a standoff right
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now because fish is a good size and the
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boat is going this way so mmm Oh
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Smalley's they are so tough you know
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these shallow water ones in the
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summertime like this happens on a lot of
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lakes do that not just on simple like
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I'm on today it happens on most lakes
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I've seen it in the small Northern
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Ontario Lakes I got a buddy almost eight
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dude oh yeah he wanted to jump and he
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calls of the because of the bullies on
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his lake he's got the stay down little
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guy he's got a group of them that just
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keep going around with a shallow water
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all year it goes on the bullies so there
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there's out there a lot of these fish
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around you don't have to go deep stay
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down stay down
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really solid fish can't even jump them
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want to jump set I think you're tired
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doctor big fella nice ok a little bit of
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line that area another porky that fish
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has gotten you know next record a half a
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pound of whatever in his belly's godly
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food because I've seen fry balls over
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here so now they have had a good spot on
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here so that's just boo there they're
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eating up more unlikely tre fish but
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whatever they can get obviously this
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thing doesn't look like a crayfish but
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looks like a little minnow that's just a
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little sad shape warm you know just a
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little drop shot betta to get a finesse
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drop shot bait you don't have to have
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that but they work really good they work
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for and and I all the time on any lake
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fat look at that
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not really I would hate that fish but I
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love them can you so fast nobody say
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yeah you're too small get out of here on
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Simcoe but yeah look at that really
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light coloured fish this one all the
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different colors that are all the same
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species are all just different hues
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probably their environment or maybe
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their aggression the stripes really
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comodo them when they get aggressive so
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nice lovely yes
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keep them coming and again it's not
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don't get stuck on this deep water stuff
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for smallmouth bass in the heat of the
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summer yeah that you've got to think
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that there get there there's some deep
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fish but there's also shallow fish too
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and the shellfish are a lot more fun I
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love that sight fishing them well you
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know what actually draw normally I throw
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the hook right back to the jerk bait but
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I'll throw the drops out one more little
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turn
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to get to today's great fishing location
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I headed north from highway 401 on
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highway 12 next I turned west on road 15
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which is simple Street towards the town
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of Beaverton
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I kept straight on Simcoe and finally
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turned right to the great double boat
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launch on Harbor Park Crescent lure
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selection is very important on shallow
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water Smalley's today I'm using a
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spinnerbait dirt bait and a drop shot
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rig the spinner bait interface will pick
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up reaction bike but it'll also show me
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following fish that are less aggressive
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those fish I can sometimes catch with my
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drop shot a bunch of rocks and shallow
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4.70 breakers this perfect ideal holy
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smashed Oh moose oh my god another James
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giant smallmouth bass oh okay just take
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it easy Peter really like 6-pound test
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fluorocarbon life on a drop shot rig
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with the yellow water sham shad shaped
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worm and it's but yeah I just have to
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make sure that drag is setting I can't
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try and horse them in you get you know
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you you have a potential fish of a
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lifetime out here
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your biggest smallmouth ever and you
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don't want to blow up by stupidity so so
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if this fish gets off now it's going to
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be probably just bad luck more than
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anything I've done whatever I can to get
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him on and started into the boat I threw
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a blade of the spinner bait out there
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and he rolled on the spinner bait oh I
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got black line with him oh my god black
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like pure black heard of this fish scary
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and I threw a blade out there spinner
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bait he slapped at it I could see the
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swirl I don't think I could see that can
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you see that black finish with him that
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is so awesome look at that that's
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another smallmouth with it he's waiting
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for that fish to puke out whatever to go
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to crayfish parts minnow and like that
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and that that black fish there will
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literally eat the stuff that this guy
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regurgitates any puke so so that's why
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these small mode work they fight so hard
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that they they literally throw up
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their stomach a lot of times wow man oh
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yeah you're gorgeous big old fatty again
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look at those fatties Bashar this is so
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incredible folks what I got them okay
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beat me up but show you're whiter beat
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me up you're catching tank like that
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there's no wonder the beating up fish
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maybe that lip that is not for me I got
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that fishery there where that is look at
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that somebody else's talkback first not
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too long ago just a little bit bloody
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through back or or you got away typical
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small boat they might have got away look
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at porker Oh
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oh my god you've got a love small boat
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bass fishing like that and then the
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excitement of shallow water smallish is
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what just happened there this one this
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big tank is coming in another one as big
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totally different looking fish same
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species is with it wait for the floor
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some others gut so yeah I love it I love
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big fat smelly that's way over four
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pounds out fish closer to five and four
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probably oh and you go back big man big
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girl whatever your name is
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first up Sally hazel look at up darkness
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we don't judge
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half the battle here is locating these
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fish having a good GPS unit combined
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with Navionics chart is really the only
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way to find your starting point from
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there fish finder and a good pair of
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polarized sunglasses will keep you on
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the spot all day do me another what oh
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oh boy I'll shake it again
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Oh Mandy's mom or they'd pull look at
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this guy coming in and eating out no not
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so easy now I got my dragon loose enough
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even on the spinnerbait rod looking a
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bit oh I got a rail that day I stopped
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the spinnerbait let it drop
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normally they don't hit me just stop a
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spinnerbait they take off but look at
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him pull sideways I think I got em on
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the trailer hub which is a good thing I
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do is that this is help these fish are
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incredible incredible oh come on big
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girl oh my gosh look at me yeah you can
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hardly lift them up they're so heavy so
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I teach tactics to something different
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cuz I ran through this area with a
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jerkbait already look at that it will
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blade the old spinnerbait trick on his
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mom all day and there I'm going to show
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you something very important here that
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back hook now the front hook come back
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and slapped into for insurance but
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whether that back hook for insurance
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that fish is probably still swimming
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there's a lot of times they'll slap at
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the at a spinnerbait or a jerkbait or
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something like that and that's no matter
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what time of year they'll they'll slap
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it stuff like that they're kind of a
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funny fish especially especially the
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shallow guys there take one shot at it
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and they're not it's one shot on it
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they're done so and heart and it's
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really hard to catch them otherwise - so
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like if they miss that bait something to
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get them but a lot of times you just say
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where did he disappear to I need any gun
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drop shot or anything else we catch them
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- like bait would probably catch them
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but okay Oh
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these fish are chunked out let's see you
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go back big girl cool this you have no
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idea how much fun this is this is why
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you wait all winter and spring to get it
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to get into even in the fall you know a
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fall winter spring to finally get into
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someplace major small mole faction this
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is a riot
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no don't about it
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latish asking them better about today's
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episode looks like an extremely
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fast-paced show the fact is there's lots
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of downtime throughout the day this type
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of fishing can be described as long
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periods of searching broken up by short
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periods of small mo of mayhem got one on
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the jerkbait 40 clobber time at all or
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how many with them one at least one with
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them and I think I got a good one this
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time
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it makes the card you got a little buzz
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down oh I think this is good oh man you
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know when a small boat does that to a
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heavy rod abrade come on baby
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be what I think you are as a giant oh
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you had a good fish it is definitely
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good fish oh my god you've got to love
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this again he hasn't come out he came up
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the first as soon as they set the hook
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on him he came up came up with another
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fish by the way another one was
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following it into so they're definitely
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up on this big food shelf and they're
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feeding not necess I got my drags that
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kind of loose - because I don't pull the
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hooks out is that when you run a jerk
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bait so one thing you can do it very
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easily is but the hooks out of their
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mouth so oh my gosh make it tighten up
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just a wee bit one click ah man you talk
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about tired forearms right now my
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forearm is done already oh oh my god
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this mess is huge bad hey come on buddy
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come on
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well I do this another way this thing is
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noon god I'm pretty good I think
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oh look at that thing
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Oh on a jerkbait shake I just reek of
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this business and hope nice look at that
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under got it took a shot underneath
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right there oh gosh check this puppy out
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oh oh oh my god that is that's
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absolutely humongous smallmouth bass
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right there oh look at the girth is
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belly rightful look at look at the
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diameter of this valley humongous a fish
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is feeding I don't know what they're
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feeding on but they're feeding up here
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in the shallows and that is the result
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folks scary big momma
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and that's a simple beauty right there
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this lake has got tons of them believe
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it
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tons of them and you don't need to go 35
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40 feet deep in the summer to get fall
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actually to get that 45 feet right now
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I got an 8 see ya honey
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oh look at her go very slowly wallowing
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down the bottom what a giant fish that
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is by far my my biggest jerk bakes
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Marvel and I love the fact that I Cotter
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in the summertime I'm out here running
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the shallows just looking for a dress of
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fish if they're not super aggressive I
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try to get him on a slower-moving date
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but how much fun can this be six pounds
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for my big day that was a six for sure
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and on a jerkbait in shallow water in
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the heat of the South love it
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now although today I'm fishing on a
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world-renowned Smalley Lake the shallow
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water tactic is worked on almost every
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small boat lake I've ever fished
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remember use your electronics charts and
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most importantly use your eyes today's
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hot spot is a shallow area on lakes
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tentacles for the official roam well
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after the spawn the waveone and discreet
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will get you there
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fire fast lures like spinner baits jerk
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baits crank baits and rattle baits but
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don't forget to bring some tubes and
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drop shot baits try solid colors like
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greens and smokes for the slow-moving
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lures work from about 6 to 12 feet of
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water and cover lots of area for more
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hot spots like this one check out
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