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THE WORST BUGS I'VE EVER SEEN | The Fish'n Canada Show Episode 548: Quantz Lake Heat Wave
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Dec 2, 2024
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but I'm fishing for pike or bigger
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Walley look at that hit it hit
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it there you got him honestly neither
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one of us was expecting anything this
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size in the shallow
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water oo I like that when they do that
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Pike do that
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fishing can Canada guys is all fun and
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Glory eh after all we've got the
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ultimate dream job getting paid to go
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fishing well my friends think again oh
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yeah the fishing part of the job simply
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can't be beat but it's all those little
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added extras that can sometimes bring
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the ultimate job status down to its
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knees case in point this particular trip
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but we'll get to that a little later
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joining us on this trip is our good
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buddy Steve Nuki our driving Destin
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nation is first air service on kery lake
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in Northern Ontario we've been here a
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few times and it's a top-notch outfit
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that flies into several Outpost camps as
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well as a worldclass trip to the Sutton
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River for the Brook Road adventure of a
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lifetime in fact they're so dialed into
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detail here that Mel who runs the
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business had a special presentation for
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us yeah yeah so I've got ous phobia as
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if a bucket's going to
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help
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after all the fun and games had come to
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an end it was time to board the plane
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and push off something we never get
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tired of is sitting in a float plane
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hearing the Roar of the engine and of
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course looking out the windows at the
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vast amount of Flora and
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Fauna it's nothing short of
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breathtaking still to this day and with
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the amount of flying we've done we're
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constantly staring out into the green
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abyss and shooting pictures and videos
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with with phones and cameras and the
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only thing better than flying over the
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North country is landing on an Outback
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Lake for a highly anticipated fishing
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Adventure as we settle in we find out
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just how easy it is to unpack and set up
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camp by some solid preparation work hey
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guys I just want to take a minute while
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we're putting all of our stuff away why
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don't I show you the latest in uh
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sleeping bags and compression socks
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because it's vital when you're going
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into the Outback uh four five six guys
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flying in in a in a small little beaver
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it's important to get your your volume
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down and the weight down so what you've
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got here in front of you believe it or
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not are all of the essentials that four
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guys would need to survive for the
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course of a week uh these bags are
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really cool because they're rated at
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zero but when you pull the compression
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straps down on the sack and get all of
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the air out they get into a nice tight
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little uh little number like that this
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compression sack is important here when
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you got a lot of little goodies odds and
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ends you put them in the sack you pull
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down in all the compression straps and
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get rid of all of the volume of air here
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is kind of cool this is enough food to
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last us for at least four days four guys
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four days worth of food we also brought
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in um tablets to purify the water and
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also a filter in case we want to
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actually do some slow filtering as well
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all this fits into what almost a
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backpack so the next time you go in the
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outback think of compressing your
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stuff Quant lake is a small body of of
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water with a maximum depth of 30 plus
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feet which is directly in front of the
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camp there's a large fertile Bay to the
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South West and a long narrow shallow arm
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to the north it's the perfect size for
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Anglers to try and figure out the fish
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in just a few days although you'll find
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both Pike and walleye here first air
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sells it as a big Pike Lake with bonus
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walleye on this shoot I'm going to be
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the team starter which means I'm up on
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the mount first my relievers and Steve
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will be my closers in fact if things go
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extremely well for me they may be
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shooting a second episode that's why we
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love fishing in Northern
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Ontario the forecast is looking pretty
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good for the next few days Sunny hot not
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much rain but this isn't our first
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picnic the truth of the matter is when
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you go on an Outback Adventure like this
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expect anything and everything we truly
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don't have a clue what the real
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conditions are going to
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be
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but I'm fishing for
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pike looku at
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that there you got
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[Music]
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him I'm going to start by trolling and
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looking for pretty much any signs that
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indicate fish activity don't care if
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they're Pike or walleye but bigger Pike
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are always on my mind trolling is a
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great way to cover a lot of water in a
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lake we've never been on and it allows
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us to create realtime depths and
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Contours with the quick drive feature on
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our garment that's
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huge tiny little Pike as I'm really in I
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sped up my I sped up my retrieve give be
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a jump there
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buddy not what I'm looking for but I
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just came up to a real shallow water now
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I'm in actually in 3 ft when I come up
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to from 15 to 12 to 6 real quick and
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this guy bit so but not what I'm after
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but it's what I did notice is that I
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sped the bait up and he hit it that was
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right behind the boat like really really
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close so I don't know if that's an
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indication there we go I was kind of
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hoping for that to be honest with you if
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that's an indication of maybe I'm going
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too slow uh just trolling along trolling
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along I started cranking it in because I
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wanted to change my bait and uh that guy
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hit so maybe I got to go faster maybe I
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got to troll like right now this boat's
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going 2 m hour basically 198 to 202
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maybe I got to go faster I going just
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change cuz
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because I'm changing depths all the time
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this is a good maybe 10 12 foot bait I'm
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going to change to this guy which
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probably good for six you know 6 to8
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foot I'm up on the flat now I got three
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different baits I can sizes of baits I
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can use deep medium and shallo is on the
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crystal minnows and I'll just that I
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might move another another type of
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crankbait maybe a more walleye crankbait
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but we'll see it's going to play
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around but I'm fishing for for pike or
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bigger walleye this is an interesting
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fish in that it is
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probably a perfect eater
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here easy little guy perfect eating size
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walleye so on these Outpost trips
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obviously one of your goals is to catch
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big fish I'm fishing Pike but I'm in a
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transitional area where it's kind of
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shallow so I I have to run smaller baits
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inadvertently you're going to catch
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walleye but that walleye right
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there is it looks tiny but that's the
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best tasting walleye and I'll show you
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something with these with a lot of these
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lodges so the slot limit the size limit
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here is one fish over 18 and the rest
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under 18 this guy's probably a
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16ish he look at that right on the money
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of 16 inches right there you're get to
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get bonus of those guys even when you're
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fishing Pike
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that is perfect so you're allowed your
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limit of those or one over the 18in mark
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and then the rest
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under my trolling pattern is catching
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fish but I can't get on anything solid
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I'm going to stick with it a bit longer
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but I'm not going to get hung up on it
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an and Steve are at the other end of the
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lake and knowing these two guys they'll
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be casting hard baits and looking for
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pike Steve and I will be in Exploration
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mode for the first portion of this shoot
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we're simply looking to get some Intel
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on how the pike are setting up and relay
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that info to Pete if we get into
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anything decent in size we'll just grab
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our phones or an action cam and shoot
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away it's fun relaxing and often
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rewarding we've been doing this a lot
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lately in case we get some great Youtube
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footage or even inserts for television
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episodes much like right
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now look at
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that nice little Jim Dandy oh I just
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barely got a
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[Applause]
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hooked there nothing
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huge that right there folks is a perfect
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northern pike for eating right out of
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one tiny wheat patch nice little
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northern pike he's going to taste good
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tonight
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there's one feels
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okay you never know
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here go ready he doesn't even know he's
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on hook yet there he
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goes That's it
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beautiful there he is got
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one as soon as I come up there now I
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wented the real shallow water and I got
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[Music]
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one like I be
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shallow come here
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buddy there there he
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goes I fish I ran along a 12ft brake
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line there 12 to 14t brake line nothing
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nothing nothing I saw hooks I saw hooks
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I come in 3 to 5 ft as soon as I got in
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there this fish hit and I think I think
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I might have had a couple more bites in
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there actually
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too again little we sweet 16 best eating
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meat in the world better than steak you
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ask
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me see you
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buddy head it head
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it there you got
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it I want big
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Pike or feed a walleye if I need him or
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a good walleye this one's not big again
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another same thing another perfect 16
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inch on the crank get in buddy oh there
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you go perfect that one got off for me
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I mean these Lakes up here are so loaded
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with these fish after catching a perfect
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bunch of eaters by trolling I knew it's
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not the deal for me by the way if you
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like catching fish after fish and don't
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care about Giants then this is the deal
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for you I'm hoping for something more
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solid got one right here in a weed bed
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honestly either one of us was expecting
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anything this size in the shallow
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water
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my next logical choice is casting with
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jigs it's one of my favorite ways to
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catch pretty much any species of fish
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that
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swims oh there's
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one feels
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very the very I don't know
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he just put on a big swimbait decided to
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the live scope try and cherry pick some
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fish it's a nice
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walleye
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hello I went to a bigger a big bright
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swimbait and I got a small walleye on a
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smaller version of that look at look at
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how that fish engulfed
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it look at that that's you know fish are
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hungry when they do that right
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there nice nice little walleye I'm
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getting a short I saw that I saw two of
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these on Liv scope and I cast to them
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I've been C to trying to cast to a bunch
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of fish uh just getting off the trolling
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thing and I thought you know what let's
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try jigging them I threw a smaller Jake
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got a smaller fish I got to move out of
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here CU sure and uh so I thought you
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know I saw two fish move I they were 15
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ft away on the Liv scope I got it kind
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of pointed straight out and I'm just
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trolling really slow you kind of watch
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the distance on your screen you're
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drifting this way so you're going to
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cast you know you already pass the fish
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that that's how it worked about I've
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taken about 25 cast fish and never
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worked but that one did so maybe I'm on
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to
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something got one right here in the weed
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bed don't know it's got to be a pike I'm
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got to back troll here see what I can do
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oh boy what am I going to do here come
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on oh I like that and a little jig and a
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and a Cabbage Patch I'm going to try fit
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him in my net but I don't know if he's
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going to go or not that's a good one
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that's a good one
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folks oh my God slow down buddy it's the
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guy I've been waiting for not bad little
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that's in a little Cabbage Patch
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that I've been
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fishing uh I fish it about three times
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and I've caught keeper W like 16in
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Walleye out of it this guy's probably
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eating 16in walleye in there so nice
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fish nice fun threw a jig in there and
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he didn't fight at all I thought it was
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another 16 iner
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beautiful not bad
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here we go
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buddy I'm spinning gear okay remember at
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the top of the show when I alluded to
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the fact that all is not roses in this
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job as this trip went on the conditions
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that the big guy do out to us were
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nothing short of now how do I say this
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in a Godly manner
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brutal and if you haven't noticed yet do
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you see the odd flying object that I
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have circling my boat well as the Air
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temps kep kept Rising a squadron of
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hungry horse flies decided that Pete
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here along with an Steve and V cameraman
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were Prime eating material these weren't
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those mini ankle biting host flies you
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see on Lake Ontario while salmon fishing
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nor were they the Relentless Canadian
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deer flies that hit you hard when
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backroading into a secluded Lake these
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were full-fledged heavyweight champion
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caliber horse
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flies as for the weather conditions on
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top of the bug conditions here's some
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stats that we learned after our trip we
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had 3 days in Camp June 20th to 22nd it
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was during the summer solstice June 21st
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so essentially the three longest days of
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the year with daylight from 5:20 a.m. to
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10:30 p.m. not great for sleeping every
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day of our trip had a feels-like
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temperature averaging 35° C which is
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over 95 fah and every night was almost
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the same we had a relative humidity
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reading of 88% it ended up being one of
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the hottest weeks of the year in that
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part of Ontario there were forest fires
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looming all around us not only do these
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conditions affect us as Anglers it
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affects the fish as well that all said
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as the true Lake soldiers that we are we
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kept pounding the water to a
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froth as Pete plugged away trying to get
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a jig pattern going Steve and I found a
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nice shallow pencil weed patch with
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scattered lily pads the perfect hunting
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area for a big Predator man that is
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something else right in this shallow
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water where he should have been but
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honestly neither one of us was expecting
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anything this size in the shallow water
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even though it's where he should be
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but nice
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nice goodbye baby that was cool he he
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came right at the boat got that bait I
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thought he swallowed it but look he just
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got that that back
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hook now don't get too excited here
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folks cuz unfortunately it turns out my
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good fish buddy Steve well he's not much
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of a
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cameraman and somehow he completely
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missed the landing and release of this
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magnificent fish all right well he kind
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of got
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it man I feel for the boys on that one
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such a great fish and on a jerk bait to
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boot okay did somebody bring bananas on
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the
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boat
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today's hot spot is a shallow cabbage
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weed point where Pete encountered his
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big northern pike at the end of the
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episode the way point on the screen will
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get you right there Pete and I
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discovered this spot on our first day of
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scouting quatz Lake for both Pike and
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wall and Pete returned to it on numerous
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occasions throughout the trip since it's
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very shallow Pete concentrated on
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casting a soft perch color jerk bait
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with a weighted screw lock wide Gap hook
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if you ever encounter Pike in a shallow
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cabbage bed in Northern Ontario make
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sure you cover the entire weed bed
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thoroughly as the fish could be anywhere
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for more hot spots like this one check
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out fishing
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canada.com
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whoa oh boy oh boy folks ooh I like that
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when they do that pipe do
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[Music]
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that
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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so here we are the final morning before
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the plane comes in to pick us up we've
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only got a couple of hours to try and
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boat something big as you can see the
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weather has turned for the better with a
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nice overcast Sky such a welcome
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reprieve from that Relentless blazing
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sun but wait those overcast Skies might
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not mean we're in for some rain we can
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smell smoke the reality is this is right
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in the the middle of an Ontario Force
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fire that is devastating the North
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Country the sky is literally hidden by a
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band of Thick
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Smoke we know the plane can't fly and
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land in these conditions and we also
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know that the safest place for us to be
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right now is on the water so back to
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fishing while Scouting Around in the
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southwest end of the lake I stumble on a
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gorgeous big shallow cabbage weed bed
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that just oozes Pike and walleye it's
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too thick to throw a jig or a trouble
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hook jerk bait so I'm opting for a soft
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jerk bait rigged weedless on a single
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wide Gap
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hook I'm in 3 ft of water and in this
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little b Cabbage Patch that an and I
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found the other
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day look I guy
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buddy you know what that's a good eating
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size Pike right there and trust me these
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things are delicious they are absolutely
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delicious that's the perfect eater right
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there nice back on them you get some
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good meat off of it very aggressive fish
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that's in 2 ft of water and as you can
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see now it's gotten overcast and I got a
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jacket on all of a sudden it was a a
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heat wave I mean the worst heat wave of
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the year so far this is mid June and uh
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and now this weather changes like this
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is a 180 for sure this is like a total
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change of weather don't know what to
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[Music]
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expect and that's a little Pike another
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three pounder that fish swam with my
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bait I missed
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them and then he swam with it again and
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I got
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him we want another eater lots of good
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eating fish in this Lake man I'll tell
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you if you come up here for an intend on
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a Shore lunch you're going to eat good
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between the wal and the pike you're
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going to eat real
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good
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who oh
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boy oh boy folks you never know he's
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fighting he's fighting like he mean
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something going to loosen off my drag
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here a little
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bit ooh I like that when they do that
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Pike do that it's got to be a pike there
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not a walleye oh he got off oh man I got
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a good hook set on
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him perfect set of cabbage
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here just caught that smaller Pike I
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weather change in the shallow cabbage
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like that I got a a good drill on that
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fish
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too man i' been waiting there a good one
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as you
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saw look at the way my bage hang I just
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hit that that was another fish that
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wasn't my
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fish oh my god oh I'm so I so
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disappointed you have no idea uh
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well when it's not meant to be it's not
21:31
meant to be all three of us worked our
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butts off through the Heat and Bug wave
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to try and tie into one of those Quant
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Lake Giants that we keep hearing about
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between an and Steve having a camera
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mishap on their biggest pike Encounter
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of the trip and then this last fish of
21:45
mine that for whatever reason with a
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nasty hookset heavy rod and 50 lb
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braided line just pulled off somebody
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definitely brought
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bananas
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getting there brought to you by The
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Outdoor Journal Radio podcast
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Network to get to this week's Midsummer
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fishing destination we first drove North
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on Highway 400 to Highway 11 we next
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turned right to continue on 11 at North
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Bay we followed 11 all the way to the
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town of Hurst where we overnighted at
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the companion Motel directly in the
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heart of town the next morning we headed
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west on Highway 11 to the HST a float
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plane base on Kerry Lake and finally
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flew into the Quan Lake Outpost Camp
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which is about a 50-minute flight from
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the air base the three-bedroom Camp has
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a propane fridge a propane stove and
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propane lights and there's a barbecue
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and picnic table just outside the front
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of the building HST air offers an array
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of excellent fishing destinations
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catering from Pike and Walley to an
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incredible brook trout Adventure on the
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fabled Sutton River
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