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Catching Prehistoric White Sturgeon | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Mike Miller hooks up with STS Guiding Service as he scours the bottom of the Fraser River for the prehistoric White Sturgeon. 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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fish in Canada
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brought to you in part by Coleman the
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outdoor company mongaul repulsive since
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1951 Breakers boat the more you know the
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better we look and mercury outdoors
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number one on the water
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we here at fishing Canada are always
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open to new ideas that will help improve
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our program new link technique fish
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species you name it we'll listen that
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being said when the province of British
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Columbia gives us the show we're
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definitely all ears for this trip BC one
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left the target white sturgeon one of
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the most popular and exotic fish this
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great province has to offer
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yes I know we've done plenty of sturgeon
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fishing in the past but I jumped at the
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opportunity after all both an yukine
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have put seven quarters into the boat
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and I get the land one even both to that
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my goal to join the boy in the 7-footer
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Club
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I booked up with who we consider to be
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the number one sturgeon fishing
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operation in all be seen Mick Carroll of
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SBS guiding our whole crew has caught
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fish with Vic so if anyone can get me on
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a giant this is the guy my goal is to
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not only beat my personal best surgeon
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but as I said earlier Pete and engines
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as well now last year SEL from Coleman
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and I fished here in the springs but we
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just couldn't connect with any giant
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three years ago Pete put the first seven
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clubs footer on the board for the
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fishing Canada team while fishing with
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Tom Pearce one of the head guide finally
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last year
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Angelo caught our biggest sturgeon to
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date so as you can see I've got my work
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cut out for me
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the positive side for this trip is I'm
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fishing with Vic and he's one persistent
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surgeon anglers oh yeah one thing I
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really like about Vic's operations is
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that their location is situated so that
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there's never a long run to any of us
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favourite sturgeon home in fact fish up
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to 11 feet is being caught right here in
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front of Mission anticipation builds
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with each draw that's what sick likes to
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call a fishing spots
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he finds an area he likes scans the
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bottom both below and to the sides of
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the boat and then once satisfied drops
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the anchor sets out the lines and puts
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them in the holders then it becomes a
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waiting game now got him I got him it
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feels small either that or it's a
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20-footer swimming towards me oh so look
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at this guy's a cutie and there it is
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yeah that's a little guy he's a cutie
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look at that we booked a pretty good at
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setting the hook on them a pretty good
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at that they do the skate of chance
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little fella
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cute little guy with a pointed nose okay
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it's a bit small but at least it's the
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right species
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gotten oh yeah yeah that's a board Oh si
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si si si si si PE pretty quick game egg
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nice nice ah this one's got a little
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more weight in that first one I told you
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drop three with the one you mean
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oh sorry bad ass power they're getting
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bigger
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we were doing you can be a little more
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hey grab that oh no I'm the guide ha ha
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ha tell me what I gotta look at y'all
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can have I can't my back is turned
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hey Nick you got a sink over there let
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me make you a sandwich
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hey you got a fish over there see that's
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what I did so what's the proper command
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there's a fish Vick rod one okay Vic rod
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one all right two three four yeah that
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was a great jump you did
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so what was going on there
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yeah hey you ain't kiddin look at this
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thing that's round in the shape so I'm
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in shape oh man still mugs lemon butter
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come on l1 just testing you it was doing
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something though one beat that's better
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I understand that one better then it
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starboard one there's a fish that's like
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this ha just kidding you looked good
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though I'd be good shoveling snow
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oh I wore me out
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yeah I mean - boy just watching you
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coolers almost empty bic yep the life of
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a fishing guide I think for the record I
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did tell Vic that I need to be teeny and
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handed 7-footers so he does know what to
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dig here and I have no quitter and the
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great thing about fishing with Nick he
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loves the challenge as well I'm kind of
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noticed as the deed gone on you who has
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come a little more tense you weren't too
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worried about anything in the morning
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then fun now we're on drop number seven
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lower I'm the only one getting fish Hey
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huh just checking be good stay response
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time fair hit up there it is that's the
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fish come on baby 5 foot yeah watch that
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leaf I'm doggin oh yeah oh come on baby
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boy it stinks I can feel it that's good
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oh yeah I've it so better dump we dumped
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the tape by the cruel father comes you
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jump enjoy how it's going to be do here
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we go I'm going to be huge
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very good I think this is it
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you bring home three mold oh I'm going
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to get up here in the fightin deck all
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the gang guys hear you count a joke
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we gotta come oh god I'm getting
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schooled here all bye
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yeah we can deserve that buddy been
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working hard all day for the plot the
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boat Yeti who curse me I'm turning red
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yet hung up
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don't even go there that's a nice fish
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yeah we just needed the wind to die
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beside you know why I mean I don't think
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I've ever worked so hard for a five-foot
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fish bleep I see we can measure min
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years well I'm a cocky maybe yeah
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singing six I know I know I'm guessing I
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mean I just you know I seen a few even
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jump before and not only a week and
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think I don't know if I can land this
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thing you might get off another fight
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that's probably 10 feet can you keep the
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line tight
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what tight tailing up high tight you
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lose this fish it's only by being long
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smelly I need it I came here to get a
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seven footer it just goes like that some
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days you know I'm out why do we run up
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that River so 10 miles and we're
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literally 50 feet from where we started
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this morning shooting just being here
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all day well I wanted to you know what I
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thought of that and then we started the
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day off here and I thought I'm gonna
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give it a couple hours but we weren't
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doing anything and then we we heard a
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big fish got caught up river when you
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had that one you lost it's probably big
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what mr. hooks it on that was big
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fun this hey can you tell how much fun
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it is watch all that log every bite Hey
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Hey look at me stick handling yeah I
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used to play that wing egg whoo
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I'm sweating working away Vic just walks
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around the book doing things cleaning up
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oh look at those drag getting pulled
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over here
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what pound line is this Vic 130 oh jeez
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that's quite the Ben you've got you're
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on Michael okay put that rod but I know
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I just said that's myself I might let's
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go for surgery ever had children they're
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in an area oh yeah the beauty he's
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coming here he's coming here nice fish
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beautiful oh yeah he's he's over five
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okay so real down a little bit more
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pick 62 and a half inches right there
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good job buddy
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although this was a great fish it wasn't
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even close to the boy they got me beat
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by two feet
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I think Vick could feel my pain so he
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suggested that if I have time before my
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flight out tomorrow that we give it one
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more shot
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I'm in and promise Vick coming up before
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my flight the next morning I had two
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hours at 40 minutes to land a giant
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surgeon
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packed my bag and then get to the
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airport here we go they're you know good
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on them yep
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that's a good fish [ __ ] with that rod
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Wow done yet no he's just pulling drag
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oh he's pulling me here you don't work
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it by that too much line out you'll get
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hung up are you going Wow
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how often you got to change them with
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the boat ah
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quite often I shave over 6 feet you
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usually got to go after oh I thought it
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was special he's going onto the bow wow
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look at this
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whoa
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I got my 10 pointer I know it mixed :
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people telling them certain the whole
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town will be lining the highway there to
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come and see me I don't think this is
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going to be no 10 or 15-minute fight
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this fish shouldn't jump yet hasn't even
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been towards the surface yet it's just
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gone straight to shuffle whoa do you see
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that Wow
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what power oh just reminding me who's
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there
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Wow just oh it's a lot like Tintin shark
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hey Mike a little more bend in that rod
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buddy yeah oh yeah
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crank it ah that's better I like that
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better yeah it's good on the lower back
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thanks a lot buddy
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how's my posture that keep that rod bad
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buddy he's pulling drag okay oh whoa
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it's nuts how about for bending across
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wow look at this thing it's raising the
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boat look at this one
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I don't got to worry about this line
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breaking no okay
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I hope well could this just pull and
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drag and it's blocked out oh I'm gonna
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feel like a real winner for seeing a
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giant fish
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just give him a week bored seeing that
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Wow
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look at this Rob gonna bust me the uh
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girly Beltre all right would you call me
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Lyndsey is nuts
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Oh
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God doesn't like coming near the surface
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look at this the line singing in the
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water we need to get him off to the
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surface I don't know he cooked every
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time he gets near he goes down okay I'm
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gonna need a spleen transplanted figure
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he's in the top ten feet I'm gonna go to
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shore here okay I just need them up if
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you can get them up I'm pulling here
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comes get a job
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whoa this thing's huge oh my god Wow I
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can get him right up to the surface so I
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don't get him hung up while you [ __ ]
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the boat okay so got a lot to do they
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don't know
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yeah whoa oh my this is a beef here
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comes look at this thing
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look at this whoo hey buddy watch watch
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because you're now stuck on the shore so
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nice
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okay oh he's a beauty
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he's going under the boat big that okay
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Wow how much I can do now it's up to you
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baby I got him
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haha Wow here comes full
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yes come on something'll and the fig
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baby
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Hegel people look at this thing in the
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water and I got to grab this tail
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Creegan audience building out there
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bring them up here tighten that up a
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little like that we got in one maybe one
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eighty four seven feet so six foot nine
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oh wow
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close but no cigar mark my word missions
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haven't seen the end of mike village
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i'll be back
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