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Massive Late Fall Pike on Tobin Lake | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete Bowman and Angelo Viola find outstanding Northern Pike fishing on Saskatchewan's Tobin Lake... maybe the best they've ever put on film! It’s the fall of the year and their fishing method is off the wall. 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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fishing is just getting started here
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this week we're at prudence's Point on
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cin Leake just a short 3-hour drive from
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Saskatoon this is the home of huge
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northern pike now typically trophy
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northern pike fishing takes place in the
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spring of the year but here on toin it's
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fall and these giant Gators are just
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starting to get cranked that's a Pik now
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today we're going to use one of the most
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unique presentations for pike that we
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have ever seen and all the fish are
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coralled in an area no bigger than your
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backyard hang on tight folks this
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promises to be one of the wildest
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fishing Canada episodes
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ever good job buddy f definitely get a
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bad wrap when it comes to the Limelight
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in the eso family of fish let's face it
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musk you're put so high on a pedestal
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that the lowly Pike is not only a
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distant relative but often deemed a
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nuisance I got
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one hopefully after today we can open
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your eyes as to just How Majestic the
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Misunderstood northern pike really
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is our Pike adventure takes place on
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Tobin Lake a premier Northern and Walley
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hotspot as a matter of fact the walleye
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fishing is so good that the world ice
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fishing record was taken on toin this
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massive Beast weighed in at a whopping
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18.3
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lb this lake is so good that it holds
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the last five catron records for walleye
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solid walleye fishing for sure but
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that's not why we're here toin is also
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known for its large population of Bast
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of northern pike now that's why we're
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here now typically most trophy northern
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pike fishing takes place in the spring
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of the year when the fish are shallow
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and very aggressive our adventure
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however takes place in the fall with the
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water temperature hovering around the
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50° Mark Pike in declining water
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temperatures are much more lethargic
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than in the spring but these behem know
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they have to feed big time before the
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freeze
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up oh he's coming at you what are he
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doing your drag set
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yeah
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whoa sorry I'm laughing cuz it's he came
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out as 100 miles hour oh look at the
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size of him buddy
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oh oh look at the size of this P oh my
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God he's going to wake up here in a
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moment I don't know what's going to
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happen look at the on him no I don't
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think he's going to get out of that
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harness look at the way he's got himself
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are you
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ready oh you know he's crazy
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oh dude I can't pick him up I got to get
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him up here like this or he's going to
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get away is he off no he's not off no
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he's not
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off oh look at
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that he's bleeding right from the snoke
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there where that line
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TI he'll be fine oh he'll be great look
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at this thing buy look at this right
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here oh yeah that is fine stuff how cool
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is that I drive two fishery with fish
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like this drive to fast drive to Fast
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and Furious he's got to back he's got to
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go
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back some of the best trophy Fisheries
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in saskin are extremely accessible great
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access great Boat Line launches uh easy
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to get to no flight costs but in the
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South you've got true trophy potential
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and easily accessible Lakes where
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anybody can go to I mean you could come
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to Tobin Lake without a boat and fish
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offshore and catch a trophy
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fish our pike fishing technique is sort
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of a modernized old school method we're
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throwing big dead baits below floats now
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this technique's been around for a long
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time but was scorned upon because it led
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to a high mortality rates but today the
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tables have turned and Anglers have
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refined the setup into a quick strike
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rig the fish bites you set and the hooks
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always end up in the mouth perfect for
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live
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release Tobin lake is around 40 Mi long
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by 16 mil wide and is located in the
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central portion of Saskatchewan Tobin is
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a reservoir which was formed by the EB
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Campbell Dam in 1963 on the Saskatchewan
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River it's near nippin a town that's
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rich in fishing Heritage along with its
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expansive size the other main reason
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that Tobin keeps producing trophy Pike
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and Walley year after year is the food
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base there's Cisco Sager perch goldye
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moai white fish bbut suckers and red
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horse this combination of high protein
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Bait fish guarantees Giant game
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Fish today's phenomenal fishing for
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giant Northerns took place on Tobin Lake
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in saskatchwan to get there we first
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flew to the City of Saskatoon from there
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we took Highway 11 to the town of Prince
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Albert next we went East on Highway 55
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towards the town of Nipawin then we
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turned North on Highway 35 towards
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Carol's Cove and finally turn right
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ending up at our amazing Cottage at
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Pruden Point
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Resort to survive the outdoors you first
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have to prepare yourself for the
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onslaught of biting insects that can
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cause itchy bumps rash and even deadly
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diseases the most recommended active
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ingredient in insect repellents is deep
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now although it doesn't kill insects it
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does prevent ones that bite like
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mosquitoes and ticks from zeroing in on
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your skin de is over 50 years of
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scientific research behind it was
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developed in 1946 by the United States
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Army following its experience in jungle
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warfare during World War II in 1998 the
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deep to ensure that it met modern safety
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standards it's assuring to know that
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when we head out to the Backwoods or the
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like the military does by wearing a
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repellent that contains deep like muskol
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repulsive since
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1951 he just pulled it out of my hands
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oh yeah
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yeah that marker boy oh nice
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nice That's a crazy Pike right there
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that was worth the price of admission
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he's already wrapped up look at look at
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him look at him he's going to jump right
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now come on buddy give us a jump
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look at him now he's just coming in like
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nothing a he's got the last Hood deal
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all over him look oh boy yes you got
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it do you want to oh he still got a last
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one around his head hands my Bobbers
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down buddy are you serious I haven't got
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this guy off yet oh oh are you you get a
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good one yeah I think so I got
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him I hope you don't need the net right
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away no your net man is
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busy okay mine's gone
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buddy mine's gone there Pike is a
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monster nice oh look at how thick he is
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let me get a net on that oh oh okay
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buddy I'll let you uh yeah we'll just
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let him do I'm going to let him turn
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around back into the net yeah oh look at
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look at look at that how nice is
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that that I'm going to try and scoop him
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bringing him in yeah okay lift him lift
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up oh God F he's done we have got a
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giant here
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buddy he is so thick such a solid fish
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got him okay hang on I got to put the
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rod back here yeah he's safe he's
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cradling nice can can we bring her back
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up a bit just y y okay holy cow wow how
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heavy is this fish that's nice I
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wouldn't mind getting a measurement on
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that too if we can here you go watch
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yourself yeah I got a giant bike here oh
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yeah look at all this
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CZ oh man don't drool on me oh he's got
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my coat a he's breaking my coat is he oh
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I got him whoa
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oh my God that beautiful that fish is
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just gorgeous but thick as a wall this
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thing is too heavy I can't even hang on
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to this fish hands it's so
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big I'll got a hold of you you want to
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lean over thanks buddy I got you they
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been taking off pretty good so oh it'll
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it'll
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go oh my God you are a
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monster oh come
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on
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get away
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from look at
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this wow nice job buddy nice job thanks
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for the help of that n man cuz that was
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almost
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impossible man that's a workout those
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big dogs so let me ask you a question
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what makes a lake like toen Lake a
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trophy pipe Lake it it's had a a good
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slot period for years for a long time
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exactly the town and nip w a long time
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ago decided they wanted to make Tobin
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Lake a destination fishery and they
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wanted to make it a a spot like that the
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lake itself has special regulations to
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protect large fish and especially the
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breeding stock of fish so what we've got
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now is we've got an abundance of fish in
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the protected slot size that are
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producing hundreds and hundreds of
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thousands of new fish every
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year pop them
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buddy nope
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oh must be a little guy playing with it
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think where's your Flo real real real
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real fast he's still on there fast as
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you can there you go he's swimming with
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you he's swimming with
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me
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wow I think that fish came back I do I
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really think he came back the came up
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though no it didn't but I think he got
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it before he came up you know what I
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mean I don't think he's very big though
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no either that or he's swimming towards
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me real
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fast oh that's a nice fish oh are you
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going to make your mind up for me oh
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it's a nice fish buddy I'm going to get
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this stick right out of the way oh
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that's a nice
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fish you got to love Whoa man what a
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place I can't believe this I still can't
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believe this it's almost surreal and you
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know what they say that the in
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comparison the walleye fishery is every
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bit as good as this well that's that's
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amazing and well they say there's 14lb
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walleye sitting right here probably
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right beside us this thing let's put him
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in the basket here there's enough
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talking I think there's enough chat
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oh
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man hold on to him
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cowboy Oh man oh buddy what a pig of a
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fish okay we're
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clear oh boy that is
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amazing is that outstanding is that
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outstanding wow this is incredible I got
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to get a shot of this that blows my mind
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it's moments like this that really make
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you feel lucky and privileged to be able
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to be in a country in a place that
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offers you that kind of excitement and
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uh opportunity out of this world man wow
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out of this world this thing looks like
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it's 80 lb it feels like it's 80
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lb oh my god oh
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incredible okay oh man look at that
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thing body look at this thing oh good
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work got him a hold of me yeah I got you
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got your lass Su here okay buddy I'm
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going in I got
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you I want to see this my God look at
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the size of this thing
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yes you know mid 20s that fish right
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there oh that is amazing that's
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huge that's look at this look at
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this man how do you how do you top that
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brother how do you top that you
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it and basically that day taking his so
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to a sunken island working a Cisco
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Corral as they called it revolutionized
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their pike fishing especially here at
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Tobin smack him buddy yeah
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baby no way oh is he off too no he's on
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he's on he's on he's coming at you he's
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coming at you up the
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drag let's get a look at you oh
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yeah oh man that is huge good looking
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fish right there that's huge oh but
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that's huge oh my God look at to P drag
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I'm tighten my drag down and he's still
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ripping
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me we got one shot at this pal I'm just
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going to hold it when you're ready yeah
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you just bring him to
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me oh man look at you that's another big
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fish thick solid
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monster and and I mean it's no wonder I
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mean these fish are chowing down on huge
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Walleye out here on everything yeah they
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got the the popery of all baits is that
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stopper my bobber it should go down
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further what do you think um let me turn
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them and then turn him back I don't know
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if he's ready yet you he's giving a
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couple of nice long runs here he goes
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he'll give him one more there he goes
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nice nice That's it right that was the
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muddy shot that's it again you know
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strong big muscular we turn them back to
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you and I'll bring them in all bring
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them home hang on oh boy those hooks are
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going to get caught up bad yeah that's
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that's kind of ugly again yep yep it is
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what it is here we go it is what it is
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Buddy whoa it is what it is okay here we
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go go nuts he's got a hook in that
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already oh yeah they always look he's
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not
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thrashing that's another
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monster oh yeah look at that thing
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that's another monster ridiculous holy
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cow I mean how when do you get tired of
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catching these things oh never get tired
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of catch a big Pike man holy mac oh
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there we go butt oh just a little we
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snaker that fills the whole lad you got
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to love that look at that thing oh how
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cool is that you know what I'm not real
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fond of small Pike but I love big Pike
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these are so beefy these fish it's
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incredible oh
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man gun what people don't realize is
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that a fish like that is a once in a
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lifetime opportunity to make contact
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with and here we are one spot one day
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one half day yeah and we've we've seen
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probably a half a dozen fish that size
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and bigger and caught maybe four or five
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of them incredible once in a lifetime
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over and over and over
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again once every 5
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minutes although today we're
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concentrating our efforts on one small
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area of Tobin there's miles of great
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Pike hotspots throughout the lake the
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best way to locate concentrations in
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northern pike is by trolling shallow to
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medium diving minle baits or crankbaits
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once you hit a couple of big fish in a
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row that's when you should make the
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change to a quick strike rate in the
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fall and this is key look for areas with
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close access to Deep
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Water
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Bingo oh we got a go hook set keep that
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a good oh I'm reeling in for that one H
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yeah oh yeah well no he's doing too much
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running around you know what I mean
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crazy stuff the big girls I don't know
19:31
man that rod looks pretty bent he's
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doing too much running around for me for
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my
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liking now oh nice nice look at the size
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of this thing it's get tangled up that's
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what it is look it's wrapped up
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okay oh there you now you got now you
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can see the true size of that fish God
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look at that creature buddy this is
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massive how do we get to this this fish
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is massive okay we got to get them in
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the net I'm going to back up for you
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okay and we're going to go for it bring
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her towards
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me
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yes okay hold on everybody hold on it's
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like riding Broncos isn't it she's
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twisting already yeah okay whoa you got
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a dooker
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here you have got a big mama oh look at
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this the leader busted oh really the the
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snap wow we got lucky on that one
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brother we got real lucky on that one
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okay
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okay buddy I got him I'm going to hold
20:31
the n c you got hooks all over that net
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yeah hold them over the net until you
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get two hands on them I can't lift them
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up oh
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yeah got he Tangled here's what's this
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how we Tangled there you all your hand
20:44
is okay good you're good good he takes
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off for in trouble I'm going put this
20:50
right here for now buddy ARA wow what a
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fishery is that incredible this is
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incredible look at this that thing is
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that is massive how long does that take
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oh God I don't know it's over 40 oh yeah
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that's over 40 42 43 oh God and girthy
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like now look at all the holes in their
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heads little por right yeah they got
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them underneath under underne buddy way
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to go that is I mean this if there's a
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better Pike fishery than this in Canada
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be sured sampled it you know I haven't
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sampled May the world like Alaska's got
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some big pipe but I mean they're longer
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than this how many fish have we caught
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out of this one hole oh God I don't even
21:33
know yet now it's been it's nut 15 20
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fish it's nuts and there's tons of these
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what a Bruiser man what you put back
21:41
here yeah you know like Pete mentioned
21:43
at the beginning of the show Pikes
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sometimes do get a bad rra but as you
21:47
can plainly see today the northern pike
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is a heavyweight contender in the
21:51
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21:57
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22:00
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services and off-site Industry to
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manufacture items such as trailers wind
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screens furniture and plywood flooring
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from concept to delivery every component
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of a Princecraft boat is manufactured
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and assembled in Princeville Quebec
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Princecraft knows what Canadians need
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from a boat after all they're the only
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true Canadian boat building Legend the
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folks at Princecraft can help you make
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the best of your day on the water with
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those sacrificing Comfort safety and of
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course fish
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ability today's late season giant Pike
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hot spot is located on Tobin Lake in
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Saskatchewan the way point on your
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screen will get you there remember the
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water is cold in the fall so a dead bait
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quick strike rig works great if the hot
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spot cools down try trolling suspending
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midle baits or crankbaits along the Old
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River channel in 8 to 12 ft of water for
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more great hot spots like this one check
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out fishing
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