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Largemouth Bass In Saskatchewan | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
On this Fish’n Canada episode Pete Bowman brings Canada In The Rough host Keith Beasley along to the province of Saskatchewan to fish a flatland reservoir for the rare Saskatchewan Largemouth Bass. 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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today's fishing Canada show may be one
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of the most unique episodes that I have
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ever filmed in Saskatchewan matters this
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fiscal problems of notorious for given
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up trophy walleye lake trout and
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northern pike however but it's a fish
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species in this province that only
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inhabits one body of water and it's one
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of North America's most popular game
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fish I'm going to be fishing a man-made
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reservoir with ridiculously warm
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temperatures and water clarity anywhere
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from six inches to a couple of feet in
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the best condition and there's more
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water skiers and tubers and you can
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shake a flip as the cap flipping huh
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that's right I'm after largemouth bass
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in Saskatchewan joining me on this
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unique trip is Keith Beasley from Canada
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in the raw now Keith Nolan is a
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remarkable big-game hunter but as with a
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lot of the hunting community he has a
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passion for fishing especially
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largemouth our destination water for
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this show is boundary dam reservoir just
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outside the town of Estevan as I
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mentioned earlier it's a man-made lake
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that doesn't resemble the typical large
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mouth water dotted with lily pads reed
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rock walls etc it actually resembles the
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reservoirs of the United States and even
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Mexico which truly are big bass water we
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had a couple of hours to kill on our
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arrival day so why not go fishing things
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started out rough though to say the
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least
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lots of searching very little fish
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contact
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when I first got the boundary dam
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reservoir my hopes of fishing something
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that resembled a natural lake draw my
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little brain artery was racing around
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the water is dirty there's giant steep
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mud banks everywhere I'm going to get my
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butt handed to me on my favorite fish
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species
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but the beauty of bass fishing is
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there's always a pattern or an area that
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can pay big rewards tomorrow is another
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day
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with an early morning start on our first
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full day of fishing I decided to move
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out and look for cleaner more bassy
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looking water
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she's a beautiful day in the prairies
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buddy you got that right my friend
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can you ever stand like a fish he's kick
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him own crazy look at that - tonight's
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real nice fish check this out buddy you
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know Bryan here - podium ID Rob Pete
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look at that that's all we're all
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fatties ready to start the day oh my god
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they are fatty aren't they beautiful
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oh yeah I love it and the good thing is
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now I'm gonna want to top water you know
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some activity in there today
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I asked America's fish fat Saskatchewan
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largemouth right there
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he's out it's a beauty top water bite
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first thing in the morning look at that
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guts got to put him through your now and
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I'll guarantee you that does not spawn
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because he's vicious funneled a long
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time ago this lake is a it was one of
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the warmest lakes in probably the whole
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country yeah because it got a power down
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there it's man-made so we're running 84
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degrees today these fish spawn along
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probably the first fish between this and
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BC the first fish in a can of the spawn
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so nice
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love it a little baby as the Sun got
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higher we again had to change things up
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so we headed to the bottom end of the
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lake it was digs and weed clumps if this
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works we're gonna have some fun
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there's off the clock money right off
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that clomp nice not a giant be the good
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fish
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Oh buddy you know I don't like a look at
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that fish at all he's a nice fish come
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here mama
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nicely done nicely done man oh man she
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weren't getting off burrito then maybe
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that look at that chicken Pig - Bob wait
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a second I dig without a pig
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I lost a pig in Saskatchewan here you
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put her back let's put you up that's a
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dude nice car - those men are you catch
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those all day long on a jig so fun fish
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all summer huh no fall Peter doesn't get
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any better than this attaboy love that
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hey we just came in off this deep water
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right under this clump here right under
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there beside me right no we've been
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lookin farming around this whole
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flatness it's so shallow it's almost
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ugly can we just decide to get out of it
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and we saw 15 feet of water right by
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here so what that's it man be good fish
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to get this today's big batch water you
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can I flew from Toronto to the city of a
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dime we then headed south east on
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highway 33 next we turned south on 35 to
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the town of waiver we then turned south
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east on 39 which took us into the town
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of Esteban which is known as the
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sunshine capital is a statue on this
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area is booming with coal mining well
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boundary dam reservoir just to the south
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of town is booming with big large moe
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this is a very unique Canadian bass
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fishing destination the province of
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Saskatchewan is not known as a large
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mode designation that's because it was
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thought that the species couldn't
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survive the local environment here since
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17 attempts of stopping failed in the
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1950s boundary dam reservoir defied the
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odds with the Sham power station
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constantly pumping up warm water this
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reservoir has become a phenomenal bass
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battery with fish up to 8 pounds being
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recorded there's what means Richard
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Salter that one piece of we don't always
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a good ol dick yeah madam yeah come
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right off
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oh wait look at that you know lucky know
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what's amazing with that we didn't lift
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it off caught those two right there and
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then come back tada
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yeah circle around is there again but
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yet that's four plus three stories high
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three to four you gotta touch it oh
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thank you
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close oh boy look at that here we go
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read it top again holy jumpin speech
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exactly yes yeah
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tremenda nice one whoo that unknown
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right now I'm happening cause a minute
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before letting them go to make sure I
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get a picture with a scheduled bus here
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are the cameras you guys like grammar
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you don't want no I'm doing hi all
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kidding me that's awesome good fish I
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was here whitetail hunting last year and
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I'm dr. summer catch a big bass I love
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that's awesome
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look at that what an active bite right
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now the amazing part of this is it's 95
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degrees there today at 11:00 in the
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morning no win it is sticky hot and
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these big large most are on to that bite
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right now okay Lana
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I love it I love it
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standard a baby you gotta love it fish
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in Canada I'm Hawk as her day progressed
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something funny was happening to me that
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is I was catching the odd large mole but
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I kept hitting hike after pipe let me
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tell you that's a monkey on a bass
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anglers back that you really want to
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dump off quick
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geek just bat you are onto those plagues
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like nobody did
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holy your honor those plague buddy biker
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yeah you're a great guy I got a cast
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over here I just broke off another one
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and you broke out another place we get
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another bat in the water the greatest
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guide I've ever had in my life because
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piece of throwing and getting the play
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call it in my way one time you can
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snapped off I'm pitching right up and he
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cleared it right out of the way
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Pete is giving me the gift the gift will
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be a fish okay enough is enough here
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fish sticks
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Keith Beasley mr. hunter extraordinaire
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isn't going to keep his little Pike
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voodoo on the bowl rod not at the
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largemouth game that's for sure
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and I think I figured it out I'm working
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my jig quite aggressively after the
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initial drop shaking it and swimming it
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well turkey boy over there is trying to
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fake me out talking up a storm but not
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moving his jig very much I'm on Mia
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Beasley
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he is oh I can the junkies and he is
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look at the flop and LG you pull the one
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about dirty I think it is a ripper
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ah are you finished yet sir
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that's awesome okay he's almost good job
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buddy look at the weight of these little
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fat they are white and love it just
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thick Wow just like everything is scotch
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on there just they do her hovering
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brought us a truck
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yes everything but rocks I gotta love my
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god it's never seen somebody dodge
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pickups in my life big 2500
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look at that she's a little Dodger right
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there Wow
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we went through just before this we hit
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an area looked fantastic and we thought
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it'd be a great bass pop we hit pike
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after pike it for my small play just it
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just kind of sometimes
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predict it come into here we had a pike
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back in the shallow part we have this
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deep sight now
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Keith had a bite and then boom boom two
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more fish in the boat bass so you know
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sometimes there's just be areas that for
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some reason and I don't know why but for
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some reason whole fish and when you find
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it the right one for the right species
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then you know you start pounding that
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way we were looking around looking
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around surgeon now we work this up a
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couple times absolutely now we just got
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a really skip through it right it's a
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good time yeah no cannon good no pink
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get it yep oh he's a big one
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he's a big one I get a real and re off
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that we line I let them for you there is
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look at me where's my buddy okay I hope
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you jump you big take it quick there
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Gregor oh nice nice there's a fatty a oh
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look at that look at that the most
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prominent lure and bass fishing the jig
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and piggy like a blue cow you hold that
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fish man I love the whole mouthful
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there's a different looking fish how's
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the van Saskatchewan we're catching
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giant buckets yeah look at that dead
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calm and these big boys are laying and
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off those we did just unbelievable he's
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fantastic
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fair job what he said see the flip of
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the day right there 7-pound 6-ounce boy
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I'm gonna like a bass boy here tonight
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wouldn't kid you I kill you or 3670 oh
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boy straight off that point is that all
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I'm tying line how could you do that to
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Mickey nice fatty well so hot yes those
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are Beauty not other Beauty buddy caring
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for their hands on that nice man this
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lake is wicked great job buddy
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anything I love you we have the jig bike
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dialed in now we've done that we pattern
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pretty much figured out and the fish are
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big it's on come these come on up no oh
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don't drop it under lip now you can lap
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of whole body and organized what grade
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off the edge of that painting they sit
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out nice there you go what look at that
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Oh
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stay down yeah rascal rock it him nice
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good yeah let's y'all peace oh they are
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fun they are just this weed line is
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Gotham just solid baby enjoy yes
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Wow look at these Saskatchewan large
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well you know what's freaking video here
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low-key this fish and a couple we've got
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this is a real kind of a muted colored
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fish more like a Florida looking color I
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got that light neutral some other ones
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in here that it had beautiful almost
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Northern Ontario lives you know to
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Manny's so they got a little bit of
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everything I don't not a subspecies I
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think it's just where they're living but
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wow he hit that herd oh he that question
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I just seen you stretch in the valley it
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took you back it was gone
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I thought was a point cuz he was taken
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off the other one after you know today
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yeah has been not my best you know I'm
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dialed in but he good job up here yeah I
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guess here this fish a little angry
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there that's his lateral line so people
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think a large ones lateral line is this
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big black mark but instead the reality
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is this little line there and them
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around he's getting in on that site
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that's a lateral line that's what he
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keeps sensitive stuff down there's we're
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throwing jigs in the water right now
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we're going jigs with rattles oh I'm so
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holy I broke my rattle over here I got
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one for if they got Ralph take that out
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today doctor they can feel that not only
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can they hear that they can feel that in
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the lateral line and that's and with the
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water being this dirty this much algae
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and you know just the visibility of
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maybe a foot foot and a half they use
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that to their advantage so that
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creditors beg predators down there I
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love it man nice job okay
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Rael there's a big fish big fish
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he comes along a jump ring on buddy oh
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look it's a look at the girl belly look
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at the fin Keith look at that oh yeah
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don't get old looks like a bonding chunk
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or something like that
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we're gonna gather on hey how's that
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hook set that's beautiful I like seeing
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that these are the meat what are you
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gonna do with ours that's a dandy look
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at the belly oh my god this is strong
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fish are scaring me they're freaking me
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out
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how fat now Delta look at where I look
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I've got this full thick yeah look at
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that y'all trying to get bug eyes on
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them and they start motor I start to bug
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another head like that beside you know
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they're starting to get bigger oh my god
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that is gorgeous okay let's blood marker
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that's it yeah almost like you just had
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a fresh war with a pike yeah maybe it
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could spike late again good day
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that's rug I mean looks like it to come
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off of an ass look at the way the tail
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is kind of building I don't think that
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is I love you fish just absolutely love
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you let's bring back in the old scum
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just a fun lecture right here look at
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that look at that
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no yep Oh
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school my goodness you can set up more
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fish father so I can fish now you do
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holy jumping voiceover fight holy jumpin
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boys take that other than that mark is
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that how's that for a trip this guy's
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watch boots
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funny huh are you kidding me 20 by the 5
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pound you want to come in Scout site
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then I thought of the land of deer and
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moose and elk but you said all those
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giant large he's at home I'm a believer
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Pete believer yet him document another
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day what a fish I think that's a five
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pounder people ha ha ha
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this may be the best example of a
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rags-to-riches experience I've ever had
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on a fish man oh shoot I go to sketch
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run with high hopes which get
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annihilated upon my arrival but in
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typical trying to figure bass old
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fashioned it turned into probably the
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best largemouth grip of the year yeah
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this is definitely a bucket list fast
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destination
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today's hot spot is a nice run aloof in
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boundary dam reservoir the wavelet on
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your screen will get you there
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this lake has loads of weed beds that
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follow the shoreline so there's lots of
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miserable areas Keith and I use the
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classic jig and Chum presentations but a
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big plastic worm would work as well
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don't be afraid of the dirty water
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these fish are used to it and have no
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problem finding your bass for more hot
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