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England Vs. Canadian Carp | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
In this unique Fish’n Canada episode Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman team up with Ontario tourism and bring over a group of professional anglers from England to sample Ontario’s amazing Carp fishing. 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, Pete 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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the fish in Canada show not to you in
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part by Ram trucks nothing worked harder
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than a ram who favor the number one
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vacuum sealing system stern the
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lifejacket Eckford mercury m4 it's
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number one on the water and outdoor
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Canada Canada's only national fishing &
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hunting magazine England home of the
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London Bridge football the Queen path
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and the paparazzi
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what's all this have to do with your
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beloved fishing Canada show well
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recently Pete and I made a trip to the
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other side of the pond to attend the big
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one a fishing and tackle show that takes
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place near London England and as the
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name would suggest it is massive boilie
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States rods stands monster trophies and
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of course fishing babes
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littered the show floor but there was
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one thing that really stood out above
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all else and that is the passion the
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British anglers have about their car
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it's not their crazed over them so we
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decided to bring a few of these fishing
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fanatics back home with us and that's
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where this fishing Canada episode took
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180 degree turn from our usual style now
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normally it's Pete and I that are
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chucking out baits in search of a trophy
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somewhere in Canada today though we're
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hosting a group of highly acclaimed
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British carp journalists that's right
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folks they actually have carp
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specialists in England to try carp
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fishing Ontario style and hopefully
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they'll find out just how fantastic carp
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fishing is in the colonies
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these four gentlemen are among the elite
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carp anglers in all of the UK I died for
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a company called go fishing worldwide
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based in London I died and host groups
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of four to eight people anywhere from
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Argentina to Africa
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Venezuela the Bahamas Cuba and a bit of
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salmon fishing in Russia that sort of
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thing
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I've always been keen on writing and
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decided to write a book back in 1981
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well here we are in 2012 I've now
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written six books on car fishing and
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published about another 30 books for
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other authors apart from working in a
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tackle shop which is a tackle shop
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called prologue tackle in the West
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Midlands I also work for a magazine
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called Car Talk I've been doing that for
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about ten years now I first got involved
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in an angling journalism role back in
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2004 I quit my my corporate job started
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up a magazine crazy decisions to do with
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my age but it had to be done and then
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I've stayed in the industry ever since
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and I wouldn't change it to the world
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our destinations for this episode are
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the Niagara River the Toronto Islands
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and little lake in the city of
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Peterborough our local carp experts are
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Paul Castellano well you should know
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from previous fishing Canada episodes
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Carol Mirada from fish city tours and
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land product one of Canada's premier
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carp anglers all three of these guys
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guaranteed us carp in the net that is
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beautiful the nagger River is locally
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known as one of the hottest all-around
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fishing destinations in all of Canada
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the species list is far too long to
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ramble on about and this location is
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perfect for everyone from lone anglers
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to an entire family playing around with
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it forever
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let me get the Matt you're excited like
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okay you making as stated earlier our
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local expert for this leg of the carp
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extravaganza is none other than fishin
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Canada's Paul Castellano now when it
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comes to fishing the Nagre Paul wrote
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the book he specializes in anything
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swimming in these waters and in today's
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case the Magra is loaded with carp
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indeed hold up the hands were full of
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blood Paul said our British friends up
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in a manner as to fully cover a brake
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line along the whirlpool which plummets
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into the Niagara River I think the boys
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were an odd the scenery of fishing and
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especially the vast amount of access to
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the public water good work Dave it's
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it's totally different to what we're
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used to in the UK the reason being is
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that all the land is privately owned so
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if you want to go fishing you either
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have to get permission from the
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landowner all you have to buy that
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permission and that applies to almost
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everywhere over southern England make
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Dave the fly fisherman using beer look
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at La is pumping down on those big rocks
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on this oh yeah for sure
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yeah good work brother thank you very
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much look at that
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after sitting and watching these carp
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experts work their magic no wonder that
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these guys are the best in the business
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their gear is mind-boggling to the
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novice onlooker and everything in their
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entire kit has a purpose landing mats
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stands rod pods buzz bars flight alarms
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throwing sticks catapult slingshots
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technique they even come with their own
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custom-made chairs
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you really have a huge natural resource
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here and well luckily I've been invited
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along to fish this week and experience
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some of the music that you've got here
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this this first session down in the
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gorge here really opened my eyes to the
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self we should have been kept in Canada
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it looks as though you've got some
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fantastic venues that I'm really looking
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forward to the rest of the week where it
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needs got the hot stick today let me oh
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nice one it's the biggest one yet
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is it a beauty well bigger I think it's
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bigger maybe not how about the same of
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the last one nice good work
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well that a boy game look at you hey
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that's a buffalo buffalo the second one
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I've ever seen cotton is ready there is
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iridescent Wow beautiful what an
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unexpected bonus not only have we never
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seen one of these rare buffalo heads but
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up until today we didn't know they even
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existed in our waters I wonder though
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how many of them have been misidentified
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as car after all if we didn't have all
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of these carp experts around we wouldn't
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have known the difference I was standing
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I said it was darker look this is my
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look at this network yeah they're cool
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we think how rarely think
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nicely done buddy nicely done it's my
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first experience of carp fishing on a
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moving River like this it's just
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fabulous and when I get back to say to
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the guys you know I've had an experience
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of a lifetime and I know I will just
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another four days to go yet not only are
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you saving them but you're getting rare
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fish as well only an adverbial baby
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[Applause]
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first and not just of today's great carp
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fishing locations we started by taking
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the QEW from Toronto to mountain road
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few next turn right on st. Paul Avenue
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then we turn left on church's Lane and
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then turn right on whirlpool rolls which
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brought us to the whirlpool on the
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Niagara River our next leg get us
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heading back on the QEW to Toronto
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we then turned onto the Gardiner
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Expressway next we've got on Lake Shore
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Boulevard II and then headed south on
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Bay Street to the Toronto Islands ferry
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terminal our last leg of the trip took
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us on the Don Valley Parkway north
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highway 401 each from there we took
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Highway 115 north to the Parkway then
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right on Landsdowne Street and finally
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return north on tour street to the lake
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compete over our next stop on our
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Ontario carpet or takes us to the
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fishing goldmine otherwise known as the
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Toronto Islands this great destination
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is located at the foot of Toronto
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Ontario making it a complete surprise
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that's the availability of fishing it
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has to offer
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of course the real upside of having a
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fishing pole so close to downtown
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Toronto one of the largest cities in
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North America is all the infrastructure
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such as transportation like the
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ever-popular Toronto Island Ferry going
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to and from the carps with it's just a
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matter of loading your stuff onto one of
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the user-friendly scheduled ferry just
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like a walk in the park actually it is a
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walk in the park wherever the outer
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harbor on Lake Ontario in downtown
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Toronto in the background year all these
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birds it's actually adverse sanctuary
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and behind us here and I don't know if
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there's a relationship between these
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birds in the carp but it seems to be
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working them everywhere that I found
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birds nearby seems to be some big fish
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one of the island strengths is the
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amount of big carp roaming in this
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unique fishing destination offered about
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the fishing in Canada for the cars as
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well as other spaces can be prolific in
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in some areas and in the amount of
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waters you've got it's just it's just
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surprising because like back in England
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and you have to get permission permit I
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ticket
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I just love to just be outside this
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other permit and just go out to fish
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just like Alvar air I'd explore so much
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I doubt it my wife had ever seen me
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again to be fair okay brother
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little buddy nice beautiful today get up
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come on you have a new shot be like
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hey did you know that besides well-known
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game fish Ontario has a variety of other
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species that offer great sport including
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carp catfish freshwater drum sturgeon
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and even white fish this big powerful
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and weary fish are what you seek
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you'll love carp they're found of many
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shallow weedy muddy areas of the Great
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Lakes in southern and land waters savvy
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anglers fish for them with worms corn or
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dough balls that are set on or just
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above bottom on sinkers or floaters many
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fly writers are also finding great sport
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fishing for these skittish fish
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Ontario's carp fishing is underutilized
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new provincial records are out there so
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call fish in Ontario today
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no Roy's not shooting seagulls he's
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actually coming or feeding the area with
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scented groundbait my knowledge of
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fishing in in Ontario and probably a New
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York State you only really hear about
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this in Lawrence River and obviously
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Ontario is much much more than this in
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Lawrence and I'm kind of glad on this
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trip in particular the sir Lawrence has
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not even been mentioned because it's you
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know there's so many other great places
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to fish I'm looking forward to seeing
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you know the diversity of waters that
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you guys have got it doesn't surprise me
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that perhaps carp aren't the top of your
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species list because you've got you've
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got so many other wonderful creatures to
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you know to try and catch and obviously
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car for just one of them you know I'm
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hearing people telling me that there's
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upwards 116 species within Ontario which
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is just incredible compare that with the
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UK you can't compare it so I can kind of
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understand why perhaps car for lower
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down the pecking order I hope that
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changes over time in something right I
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think Roy last one of us in saying that
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size although prepared baton corn is the
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traditional way of catching these super
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intelligent fish more and more reports
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are coming in from the fly-fishing
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fraternity from carp being caught on the
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fly when a lot of this is uh stuff that
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we've just experimented with over the
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years yeah there's all kinds of patterns
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like knit is different streamers were
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used but there's something about this
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marabou is amazing yeah the movement of
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the mayor because it's dripping down
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it's got the most of a suicidologist
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and then varying the week to come down
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life yeah other than that decibel yeah
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that's in create and doesn't water this
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there's a lot of patterns okay yes
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misconception with a lot of you know
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anglers is that you can't catch carp
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unless you using some type of bait
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that's right you know this law here has
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produced there are probably a dozen
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system in
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three days
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[Music]
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your job haven't got to do it
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[Music]
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the official record Thank You Dennis
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so when you do it you walk around
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talking see hot dish
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yeah how many of you had tastic I'll
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talk to about 20 and you hook tool and
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you cut one that's fish you got make
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your first Toronto pass on the fly yes I
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suppose I can't use this license number
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of that skill tonight potato would
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outstanding yes okay this awesome
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fly-fishing almost like to keep a boat
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officials like accepting cocktail
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instead of the bun fish I'm to be open
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like all good anglers staying with the
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game plan
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usually pays off in space poor Rob
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couldn't get bit in Agra but he never
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lost faith for confidence and look at
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him now
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Oh
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Oh hammer you to office office is quiet
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but I want to turn they are left on
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fishing line and oil and our final stop
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on our carpet Stravaganza was little
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lake in Peterborough Ontario
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this again is known as an above average
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fishing destination for those hard
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fighters in fact all the courses are a
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cartload - oh come see them now anyway
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the ball bullet
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who's the net man third Glen husband and
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I needed this without anything that's
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not a bad fish
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now I'm not so sure if Ontario's
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carpfishing will ever become as famous
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as those legendary swims of the UK but I
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think today's episode has got a long way
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toward showing the rest of the carp
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world the Ontario is definitely a new
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contender rock god today's hot spot is
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on Little Lake located in the city of
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Peterborough the waypoint on your screen
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will put your right on it Little Lake
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has been known to local carp anglers as
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a great fishing destination with quick
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access to a beautiful city use boilies
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for your main base and remember to feed
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the area with either feeder boy leaves
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or grounding we highly recommend proper
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heavy carp gear design to tame these
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powerful beasts for more hotspots like
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