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Super-Active Shallow November Smallmouth On Jerkbaits | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman explore the frigid fast waters of the upper Niagara River. They find a school of active Smallmouth Bass and fish them right into the evening. Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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fish in Canada brought to you in part by
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Coleman the outdoor companies must call
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the more you know the better we look
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mercury afford number one on the water
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and fail the outdoor superstore
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well as you can probably tell it's late
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in the season meaning those hot days of
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summer are long gone
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it's the equinox period shorter days
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dropping temperatures i hungry small
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though today we're on the Niagara River
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and this is the time of year when small
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things are normal feeding habits
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crustaceans are tucked away shedding
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their skin
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leeches are buried in the mud for the
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swallows are feeding what's left and
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that is a ton of minnows so we put away
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the tubes jigs of drops offerings and
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God owes the jerk bait and the eater
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finally a chance to sleep in that means
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we're working the late shift
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that's right place let's go punch that
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clock let's go bro
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this afternoon a typing that my fishing
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partner obviously prefers we're fishing
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on the upper Niagara River near Fort
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Erie on the Canadian side and not too
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far from Buffalo on the US side the
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upper nagger is one of those fisheries
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that many locals may want to keep as a
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secret most of Niagara's hike takes
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place during the tribes and salmon runs
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on the lower river night which in turn
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leaves lots of opportunities for the
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dedicated upper River Rats got one
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chance I'm so behind you fat boy in our
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trailer more more left now Oh movie suck
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right off with the current gonna drag
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that loose a lot of fish down there
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brother that's a big blob of fish we
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hook these up they're burning jim-dandy
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thank you god this is like so gorgeous
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fish nice super light color that is
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beautiful gorgeous looking fish is the
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problem using the net even in a tangle
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free net you get a get problems but I
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got a feeling we're going to catch a
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load of these today I loaded awful look
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at them curve break up nice
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the most amazing part about this is the
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water temp I mean here we are almost the
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end of November and we're at 51 degrees
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50 between 50 and 51 ok incredible water
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temperatures this year I think that has
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a lot to do with why these fish are up
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here the shadows on you well the reason
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they're here is food right you'll see
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the minnow basin this river it's
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remember I've never seen bait like this
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in any other body of water right no
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matter we fished this river quite a few
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times now and no matter when where you
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are who there's food galore and if you
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go on the shoreline we were just on the
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shoreline there who just saw 20,000
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minnows
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from that big to that big so our
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technique for the day is casting hard
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jerk baits up on shallow rocky flats and
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working them back in typical paws and
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jerk actions we're trying to stay in
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less than 10 feet of water
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cadance can play an important role in
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jerk bait fishing especially in cold
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water came to Sibley the rhythm and
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which an angler retrieves the jerk bait
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it may be one jerk and a pause maybe two
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jerks quick pause one jerk blonde cause
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you need to play around until you find
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the perfect retreat
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I think smack me Benny oh man he almost
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took the rod out of my hand I was just
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letting the jerk you know terrified he
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hit me right good Street that is cool
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I was just seeing the bottom two there
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and I just we were 5 now but we were up
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in the like totally whether this thing
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is big or it's me and it's lag there's a
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musky no it's not a musky it's
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definitely a bass although you should
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have come up by now shouldn't ya he's
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treating your kind of funny and yes he
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is acting very strange yeah that's not I
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don't know mama they wanted that again
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the Matt this is Paulie come on baby
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fighting the gurney let that thing oh
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that dude nice though he's just you in a
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bait guys are out there sideways
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especially like a sick powder I know
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what we halfway there and then some you
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know yeah good fish then one we were
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just getting shallow there to answer
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yeah that was up about three feet yeah
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yeah we're just getting shallow there
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too so I can see the bottom
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if I got what do you think women I like
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them yeah you go it I'll be put the sack
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and craziness craziness buddy look at
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you guys I got to get this thing out of
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the debt before you there's something
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black in the watery I don't have a bait
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up there is there yeah you know you can
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see those black spots better yeah yeah I
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saw that I didn't know whether it was
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rocks you don't mind like gosh look at
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see what's out there
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yeah that's all black let's see that
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back hook got him like that yeah thank
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you
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shot it ring that beat I think of all of
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you get them go see if we could get a
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hole for your head if we could get onto
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that all heavy fun see there's exactly
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that fish probably will hit that bait
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and in the backup came in and it was an
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insurance hook if we could get on we're
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in the shallows now this is bizarre
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there's I mean water 51 degree
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temperature in the fall and it's only
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jerk Beijing and these fish were in
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three feet of water
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Wow and a spawn looks like that gonna do
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the old drop shot and the jig and spoon
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stuff you know 30-foot deep eerie stop
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or any other another place basically
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we're getting here a real shallow that
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is I just had a follower broke a jet
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yeah we're on them
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to get to our great Smalley's we took
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highway 401 West to the QEW heading
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towards Fort Erie we then took the
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nether be Road south exit and then turn
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left on town Line Road next we turn
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right on Nagre Park rate and finally on
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to the logic Miller's Creek Marina that
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ladder buddy nice got him on that one
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hit me hard man smash you can get a
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level in this master fader stand down
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the initial hit on that is so it's like
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you almost think you have bottom
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sometimes you're exactly a light colored
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solid fish you hit like a 6 pounder yeah
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nice one Oh daddy got off good save you
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stop we'll do it
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yeah no kidding that's a good fish leg
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long well they could put on a bit of a
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bit more weight though so you look at
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them in the gut look at ollie
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that's thick there yeah this is just
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that belly full of minerals I guess
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right that guy hit me so hard you
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actually pulled Raglan ah
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well not actually just but I love it
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jump again you just called that fish did
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I call it or not God you call that fish
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they are Corral in one one spot spot one
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area that's a good one
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the winds picked up and it's a lot
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harder to love fish but they're still
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here they don't still hear me in the
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back of my engine no they love it that's
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how we met I see a that's where you got
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your goods oh yeah nicely done boys took
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off you broke market lungi oh no oh
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that's not a good thing oh no it's just
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Molly did he jump he must have zebra
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mussel me oh no it wasn't very big thank
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God in that week club close to it yeah
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magnificent aren't they
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Wow good looking fish yeah yeah healthy
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healthy okay nobody let it go we just
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did an experimental long grift long on
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this big flat we thought you know what
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we'll try it elsewhere boom right back
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to where this weeds current break-up
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welling it all sit right here
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yeah everything's and that's the little
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bird for the first movie atrophy Niagara
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to follow a bird to catch a fish
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pretty much the Niagara River is truly
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an amazing place the visuals here are
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spectacular is a fishery going back
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12,000 years the Wisconsin glacier
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retreated and left 173 meter wide Gorge
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which today has 110,000 cubic meters of
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water passing through it every minute we
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go yeah yeah baby yeah oh this animal
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will be getting dead are definitely yeah
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it's good bad hey God Hey Oh boom in it
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no I'm full of it
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there you go
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oh cool that's awesome man yeah III
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sometimes you got to strike while the
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iron's hot
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yeah little Reese Molly here to rent the
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boat didn't make wireless where we are
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not yet we're back in the restaurant
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you're not bunched up so no they're not
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then I punch they're kind of solitary
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yeah keep it'll be a tiny little heads
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on obtain a little mouse its that belly
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we're really going on
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having a boat is obviously a huge bonus
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when you're fishing Smalley's like aunt
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and I are today both positioning the
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river current is much harder to control
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and still water a recent being is wind
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and current direction could be working
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against the drift electric motor that's
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the ultimate way of controlling or
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correcting the ground got one answering
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to save the boat oh yeah yeah he was
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leaking right literally boom here you
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want to come out look where we are no
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way in the middle of it this is a
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challenge 3.2 feet of water
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you see the bottom I love it
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again double if I take a double hook
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them free thank you awesome good one I
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love small fishing throwing base like
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this is so much fun yeah hook well but
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it's fun good so this is a user a jerk
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paper book on user user injury and that
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not real popular we went into sail one
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day in the spring
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Hey for our Champlain shoot and we
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picked up a bunch of them and we're
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really happy with them they're just they
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had a really unique action to them to
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get fish like that I guess they work
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obviously yeah don t know yeah you're
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getting me got its twin over here and
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really see you later my life is that bad
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a lot of things mayhem laughs yes these
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things are right she pick you up mister
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that that's good a doubleheader in that
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mind like you know we're so close I
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think you are the caliber call letters
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they're kind of call it a double hair no
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matter what people say come on you got
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this Bishop one hundred feet under fifty
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feet up there yeah I know they're real I
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was a little bit doctors now they're
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yeah yeah yeah better color nice well
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done oxy go young man now the way we
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attack an area like this is really quite
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simple once we find a potential fishing
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spot we then travel upriver a distance
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that will give us enough time to shut
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down the mirth drop in the trolling
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motor and grab our rods and then be
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ready for a cache the flow of the water
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will eventually drift our boat into the
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fishing area that's better fish yep we
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stopping good playing this current Asian
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committees holding the current very cool
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he's not even fighting stealing a wallet
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right now but have you seen it yes
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decent fish guy oh he's pulling because
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I've got them in the mouth and
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underneath with the second hook oh yeah
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Wow hold on it is bigger than I thought
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I think it's a good fish oh yeah oh nice
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nice yes
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oh you just look at that age go drop
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onto yeah that's why you fought so like
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a good one too but I thought as usual
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see if I can pull more than that before
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he tangles up I can show you what how he
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how these fish will double hook okay you
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can see that front hook was in his mouth
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this one came back and somehow slipped
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back into a spin so he got in there and
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there you can usually don't get off but
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that's why you find so hard you know
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what they're doing they're pushing the
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bait up up along this weed edge here and
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that's what's what's causing all the
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turmoil my goodness and that's the
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result of it right there a beauty vent
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Beauty Wow
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50:51 degree 51.4 in the fall on your
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face
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coolest bucket it's four feet of water
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people not too far from here on Lake
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Erie which is really close you're going
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to go down 30 35 feet well probably 20
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to 25 right now
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and start getting them there's another
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another two weeks right at the end of
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the season they'll be down to 30 feet of
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water nice yeah we go gorgeous you
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learned this last part that as far as
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the day progressed sailing was quickly
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going to the dusk and a typical fall
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fashion the clouds started it first as a
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cold north wind move in I turned the
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fall the days get a lot shorter than in
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the summer and dr. seems to fall much
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faster that was in July in a situation
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when do we quit I guess from the fish
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stop biting
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Darwin peak got him bud yeah hasn't come
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up yet
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yeah he is now no you come back now
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change his mind buddy that's a nice way
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I think big chubby little here more than
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that yeah please okay there you go thank
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you
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nice one oh yeah you need the net on
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that one you got a good fish there I
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know he's target oh let's look at that
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buddy great fish pretty light color too
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huh yeah
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Megan oldfags walla walla overs internet
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buddy nice nice one
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great oh my gosh Wow how long is all
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good look at fish yeah that's gorgeous
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you could stand to be another powder too
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huh yeah what you know like that beggars
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can't be choosers at all you're right
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we'll take it cool good work on the on
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the I just changed over to that fire
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tiger color right so the nice bright
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color single yeah look at that big leave
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anybody fatty
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coward bTW no way Wow that's tuna roll
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bangbang us night buddy nice I like that
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obviously we're in the zone you know
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what we've dropped the nest the script
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is about a foot and a half deeper yeah
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and hopefully this will be bigger that's
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not a bad one I'm gonna be the net hey
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you know he came in so slow there and I
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was ready to Wild on me it's crazy
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that's another good one yeah it's a
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clone man get in there look nice well
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done same thing
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look how long is Oh smackle is wrong
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wrong that that's a length okay little
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we had you the Grinch tiny head body
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along and there's very little color on
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no real dark markings to him that must
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be a real light color bottom we can't
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see it because of the color of the water
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but very cool and hot you go
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he's not big but why not let him be easy
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on them there we go yes well that was
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I'm not even gonna I got them that man
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here so I might drop it
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yeah baby that this guy came under the
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water hit the baby up and all the one
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one move that's Gary stay by the Modine
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yell yes yeah Rico you the boat that's
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what's funny how much fun is si Oh
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fantastic
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okay these things I get that nuts for me
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brother I think you're gonna need it the
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fat fish
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thank you oh boy yeah look at there's
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the bottom up there yeah real cell fatty
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you missed the jump so did you pee yeah
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top just as soon as I can release my
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fish in I got dumped right there in the
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boat while that was almost a
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double-header yeah I suppose gonna get
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almost a double-header
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this trip truly is a fantastic way to
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end our bass fishing for the year
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employing early season warm water
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tactics on a brisk late fall day
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annihilating super-aggressive Smalley's
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and fishing till the Sun Goes Down what
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a fitting way to end another great
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passage today's hot spot is a shallow
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Rock level area on the upper Niagara
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River wait one in the screen will get
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you there
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suspending jerk baits on the ticket
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today even in the frigid water
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remember cadence and rhythm are the key
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and don't forget to experiment with
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colors the more hot spots like this one
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