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TRYING TO WIN A HUGE BASS TOURNAMENT | Episode 549: The 2023 Miramichi Striper Cup
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Dec 2, 2024
Back in 1995, Ang and Pete travelled to the Miramichi River to cover the inaugural Striper Cup event. They now figure it is time for a return visit, only this time, they are bringing some special and very generous guests along! Listen to our Podcast, Outdoor Journal Radio: The Podcast ► Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3J0klPY ► Apple Music: https://apple.co/3CtzZkp ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada 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/?hl=en ► 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
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Canada
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hi everyone and welcome to this week's
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fishing Canada episode for this show
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we're going to a place we've been to
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before but we're adding a bit of a
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Twist normally you see just an and I in
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most fishing Canada shows yes Steven
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Nick occasionally and the odd time we
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even feature a fishing guide on this
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show however we've done something
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completely
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different earlier in the year well
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before our shooting season even started
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we attended the Eric lindra celebrity
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hockey Classic this is an annual event
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that raises all kinds of money for
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Easter Seals Canada Eric is a Class Act
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how we got involved was while
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interviewing Eric on an outdoor Journal
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Radio podcast he mentioned his charity
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event and asked if maybe fishing camp
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CID would like to get involved we
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quickly responded with a yes Pete and I
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molded over ideas as to what we could do
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to best contribute to the event and came
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up with a live auction giveaway for two
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people to Be Our Guests on a fishing
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Canada
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episode and to hit it right out of the
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park our destination will be New
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Brunswick's Miri River to compete in the
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Miri Striper Cup now how's that for a
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prize and when all was said and done Ben
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Logan and Curtis Evo from Peterboro
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Ontario were the highest biders in our
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live auction package their generous
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donation not only helped the Easter
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Seals Foundation but it also got them
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return airline travel to beautiful New
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Brunswick full accommodations and meals
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at the rodm Machi a chance to go pre-
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fishing with anai and of course an entry
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into the 2023 mirami Striper Cup event
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all expenses paid the city of Miri the
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largest city in Northern New Brunswick
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is located close to the mouth of the
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Miri River where enters MMI Bay you
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couldn't pick a more perfect Waterfront
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location to build a city it has a
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population of over 17,000 people whom by
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the way in typical East Coast fashion
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are some of the nicest folks you'll ever
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meet the city of mirami was formed in
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1995 through the forced amalgamation of
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Two Towns Newcastle and chadam as well
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as several smaller communities nearby
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the mirami area's economy is partially
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focused on mining forestry tourism and
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of course fishing this used to be an
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Atlantic salmon Mecca however lately it
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has become one of the most productive
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strip bass Fisheries along the entire
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North American east
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coast and speaking of strip bass well
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that's exactly why we are here to
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compete in the annual Mir Machi Striper
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Cup this one-of-a-kind fishing
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tournament is run by New Brunswick
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fishing fanatic and good friend Jeff
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Wilson damn you're looking good today
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morning Jeff has been fishing
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tournaments for years and knows the dos
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and don'ts of these large scale events
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and man has he ever done a great job
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with this one from organization to
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finding volunteers to building a massive
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competitor base and of course to pulling
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in an array of amazing prize packages
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this tournament is like no other
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honestly you don't just come here to try
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and win it's the entire experience that
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will keep you coming back year after
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year the Mir machine Striper Cup has
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been running since 2015
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and has experienced tremendous success
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what started out as a fun idea has now
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turned into a huge success with
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contestants from New Brunswick Nova
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Scotia Pei New Finland Quebec Ontario
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Alberta and even a few from the US
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they're all chomping at the bit in
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anticipation of hitting the mirror
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machine and seeking that rewarding first
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place finish along with an array of
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prizes totaling some
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$150,000
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for those of you who have not fished in
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a competitive tournament you need to
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realize it's more than just catching
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fish it's the hype beforehand it's
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getting up early with a ton of nervous
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Jitters it's launching the rig before
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daylight hits it's sitting among fellow
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competitors 224 of them here this
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morning bobbing around jockeying for
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position while waiting for the blast off
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for some of us it just may be the most
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exciting part of this entire event
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modern-day tournaments normally use what
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referred to as a trickle start but Jeff
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has gone old school with the Striper Cup
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in having a blast off and man what a
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rush it is it combines the best of boat
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racing and fishing all in one who will
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get to the number one spot first well
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it's all in the hands of the drivers and
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their boats make the wrong move or
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misjudge your course and you could be
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left behind far behind and that could
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lead to somebody else getting to our
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fish first trust me it's happened many
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times not only to us but probably to
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anybody who's ever entered a high-end
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event
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now as for our new teammates well these
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boys are in for a treat but before we
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can transform them into striper
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Annihilation mode we needed to top up
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their skill level an loves teaching
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people how to use bait casting GE an
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essential tool while fishing for big
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Burly stripe
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bass Curtis and Ben both caught on to
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bait casting like it was second nature
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it was obvious to me that they had
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previous fishing experience and being
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two Peter bro boys they' probably been
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fishing their whole
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lives now it's time to cover as much
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water as possible and try and seek out
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schools of bigger than average size
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stripers it would be so nice to find an
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area full of 10 to 15 Pounders but quite
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honestly these fish move so much that
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what we find today could well be gone
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tomorrow he's a keeper
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oh oh I had that one fided
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already
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it does it it just goes
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subsurface nice work just a little one
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nice job Benny
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thanks little
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guy all right nice good work
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buddy yeah you grab it just like a bass
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you just like a bass there there you go
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kiss him want kiss him no yes no kiss
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him I don't kiss him tell okay all right
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Budd as with all tournaments that Pete
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and I have fished there's always the
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Friday night registration to take place
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not only is it necessary to solidify
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your entry to the event but it's a great
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time to look around at sponsor products
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as well as the prize packages and of
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course to meet your fellow
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competitors
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big round of
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applause thank
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you
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so here we are in the wee hours of the
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morning coffee's in hand and launching
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the boat there's a few launches around
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which everyone split up to use and
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thankfully so with 225 boats that's a
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lot of launching
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and now we wait an anticipation of the
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blast off our game plan is set and we
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need to execute we found a few schools
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of stripers but no big ones hopefully a
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new wave of fish will push through and
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we intercept
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them
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okay so let's before we put him in let's
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see what the smallest one is in there
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and we'll get rid of
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it yeah put a minute
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he
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a
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here let me get the net yep thank you no
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he's not that big did you see him take
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off in that car he's he's going to be
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the biggest of the day oh yeah that's a
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good one yes sir nice I thought he's
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bigger than that boys okay nice we'll
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get rid ofo the last little
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one we go you got it Pete yep oh nice
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fish is a good one oh yeah didn't look
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good but he felt good good he crashed me
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that's a good one okay good you got it I
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got the end that's the biggest one yet
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oh yeah so I believe this is
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small
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yeah yeah here let's get a picture there
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you go boys we'll put them in for
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now
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this
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close just you remember the weight of
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the one the one that's in there 33
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313 this is very close to
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that I don't think
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so boys that's not a 3113 okay no we can
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all tell agree that
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yeah
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with very little time left on the clock
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it's time to make the boat ride back to
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the weigh-in area most tournament
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Anglers leave very little spare time
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here it's balls to the wall and push it
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to the
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Limit since Jeff has a two- fish limit
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in the Striper Cup you would think that
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getting the limit would be a piece of
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cake right remember though fishing is
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fishing when you deal with Mother Nature
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she can sometimes play nasty in the
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sandbox luckily we had our two fish
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limit on day one and both an and I
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really wanted the boys to experience the
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way in procedure from pulling up to the
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dock to bagging the fish to walking up
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to the way Master to reading the weight
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and then getting to have to chat with
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the tournament director and getting
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pictures taken it really is an awesome
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feeling almost like everyone's a
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winner well day one's in the can and
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guess what we get to do it all over
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again the second tournament day for me
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and I'm sure I speak for Pete as well
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has a more relaxed feel to it yeah
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there's still the crazy blast off and
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the will we catch some fish and if so
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can we find some big ones going on but
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with a day behind us there's a better
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sense of calm Among Us I just hope Kurt
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and Ben are still as pumped as
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yesterday this episode's hotspot is a
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somewhat steep Shoreline that drops into
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the depths of the Marmi River the weight
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point on your screen getss you there we
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continuously cast weightless soft
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plastic jerk baits in the area and it
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paid off remember stripe bass will move
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way up in the water column to strike a
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bait meaning even though you're fishing
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in let's say 25 ft of water your bait
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that's just under the surface is still
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extremely effective stripers move up and
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down in seconds and the strikes can be
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incredible we like to use braided line
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for powerful hook sets but you can use
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fluorocarbon or even monofilament that's
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totally up to you and one last point
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this area is 100% barbless make sure
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you're fishing legally for more hotpots
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like this one check out fishing
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canada.com
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we're finding day two to be much tougher
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than day one which is quite typical in
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Tournament Fishing we normally go to all
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of our best stuff right off the bat and
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then work down from there since our day
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one was only mediocre in our total
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weight it means we really put the
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pressure on all of our potential
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hilarious and remember we're not the
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only ones at this event another full day
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on the same spots we need all the luck
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we can
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get well he ate that look at that he
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just ate
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it don't pull too hard you have to back
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it out if you have to pull that hard you
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have to back it out there you
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go oh you're you're like you're horse
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real
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good you got set the
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H yeah there you go nice pull then is he
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is he coming in at all little
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guy yeah small she's bigger than
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you that's a nice fish it's not going to
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to make it but it's a nice
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fish it's not bad it's not going to help
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us but good job bud very
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nice hey you want me to get them you
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want to get
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them you worked for that
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one there it grab that
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hard there you go she he's got her good
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in there that's perfect so you got to go
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around yep there you go
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he good job
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bud oh you didn't did you show the
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camera he showed it yep I of
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boy Bo that's an upgrade boy got
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that woo see that's an
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upgrade
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that no that's an upgrade B oh he fell
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out too
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eh strong as
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ever see that's a good size that's
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better for sure that's the upgrade eh
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yeah this one's got something in its
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mouth eh yeah that's the tag I got a
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tag grab him right by that tag don't
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leave that open because that big one
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will jump out get him out yeah oh yeah
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those way bigger oh yeah pretty sure ow
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easy easy don't hurt yourself open the
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box open the box
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please thank you I got that's the Big
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with the final weigh-in and all
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competition done now comes the big Gala
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of the event the piece the resistance if
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you will the prize presentations and
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closing
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ceremony just as opening ceremony was a
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couple of days ago this certainly is a
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breathtaking event it is so rare to get
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a crowd this large at any Canadian
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fishing tournament but here at the cup
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this place is
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packed and it's packed for a good reason
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not only the prizes for the best catches
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to be given out but there's an array of
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door prizes as well and of course the
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main reason everyone is hanging tough
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with great anticipation the biggest drop
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rise of them all a fully rigged boat
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motor and trailer package
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as long as you enter the tney you have
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as good a shot as anyone else to win
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that's insane and that's
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awesome
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582
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congratulations to each and every Prize
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winner and a big kudos to all who
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participated and I don't just mean the
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participants I mean the entire staff the
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city of Mir masi all who volunteered and
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of course the man himself Mr Jeff Wilson
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well done brother
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getting there brought to you by The
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Network to get to today's wild stripe
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bass action we first travel east through
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Ontario on Highway 401 we next hit
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Quebec and took Highway 20 to Highway 30
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and eventually got back to Highway 20
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next we turned Southeast on Highway 85
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once in New Brunswick we took Highway 2
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East and then drove North on Highway 8
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at frederickton we finally took 117 into
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the town of mirror machine a left on
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Henderson Street and onto our final
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destination at the rod Mir mchi Hotel
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this modern day facility is the absolute
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perfect home away from home for the
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traveling angler the accommodations are
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excellent the food outstanding there's a
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boat launch a block away and you can
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literally fish for stripers directly
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adjacent to the
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property
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