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Canada's Journey to the World Carp Classic | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
We highlight the inaugural Canada Carp Cup Classic tournament, held in Long Sault, on the banks of the famous St. Lawrence River. This World Carp Classic qualifier event is the first of it's kind and had both highs and lows throughout the two rigorous days of fishing...with the ultimate high being the 2 winners catching OVER 1800 pounds of Carp. These 2 winners go on to represent Canada in the World Carp Classic in 2018! If you love Canadian Carp fishing and don't know about the Carp Cup, where have you been? For more information on the Carp Cup, World Carp Classic, or just Carp in general head to our website: http://fishncanada.com ► 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/fishncanada... ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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did it happen did we did we go through
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what we went through
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i'm going to fish the biggest tournament
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in the world pretty much
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[Applause]
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that's how it's done it's easy we don't
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have we don't have to do a thing oh my
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arms are killing me to come
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here and catch 45 fish on my own you
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fish your whole life for a day like that
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to happen
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[Music]
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when fishing or angling was first
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discovered we're pretty sure it was
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solely for the need of sustenance
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that's a perfect eating size walleye
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right there folks
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here this guy
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let's face it fish are not only a
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healthy food source but it's delicious
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as time passed mankind started to see
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pleasure in stalking and then ultimately
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catching fish it soon turned into an
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extremely popular sport
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yes
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that's incredible
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of course fishing evolved again to an
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even higher level sport fishing derbies
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and tournaments
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today there are thousands upon thousands
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of events pitting men not only against
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each other but against an array of fish
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species worldwide
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although canada has more than its fair
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share of fishing competitions believe it
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or not this nation is a relatively small
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player in terms of big money hugely
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publicized events
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the usa is the leader in the bass
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division south america and africa
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dominate the billfish in ocean bound
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events and it's europe that garners top
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publicity numbers with the single fish
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species introducing the world carp
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classic
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this immense tournament pulls
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competitors from pretty much all over
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the world
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european countries make up the majority
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of the players but entrants from
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australasia and even the united states
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of america have joined this great event
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we know right about now you're wondering
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what about canada
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well that's where our canadian carp cup
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championship comes in our nation finally
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has a qualifying event in where the
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winners will represent in the upcoming
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world classic
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[Music]
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the long sioux portion of the st
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lawrence river was the perfect and
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obvious choice for this event and
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there's a couple of key ingredients that
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put this location on top of the list
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the first is you guessed it a strong
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population of resident carp
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the second reason longsu is perfect the
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location
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i chose long soup parkway for my shimano
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canada carp cup classic due to its
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beauty and its ruggedness
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it is a challenging venue that
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not everybody can just come up and
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and fish and be successful at it you
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actually have to master it
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with carp fishing being a shore oriented
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sport the long sioux parkway has easy
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access to a multitude of great swims
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that anglers can set up and fish from
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a typical swim or a peg what it's called
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is a designated area that is large
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enough for
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two anglers to fish together as a team
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set up their tents for stuff for 53
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hours
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and no other swim or a peg for the next
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competitor at least a hundred yards near
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of course a unique event like the carp
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cop will not go unnoticed by ange and i
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let's face it it's such an awesome idea
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we picked a time when len and his team
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were checking out new fishing locations
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along the sioux and joining them run the
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panoptix through and see if you guys are
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that's an idea
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by bringing up the princecraft we could
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chart potential future tournament swims
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with our garmins and relay this detailed
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info back to the carp cup team so we're
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going to run the panoptix and and see if
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we can see some actual carp swimming
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around carper very easy to see on on any
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sonar but on a on a panoptix it's like
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this big big incredible blip that just
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swims along
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they're at uh
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about 25 feet pete
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25 feet down yeah in 37 feet of water
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basically we're in 37 here they're
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almost underneath the nose of the boat
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just tell the guys where the boat is
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sitting is the deepest part of the bay
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right here is a hole just tell them that
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we don't have radios
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it's not like you put a bait in a hook
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you throw it there and you wait for it
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doesn't work like that you have to go
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and bait the spots
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if you're not gonna bait the spot you're
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not gonna catch a fish
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nice
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[Music]
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easy girl
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look at the hump yeah
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when lynn perdick came to me
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i stepped right up to the plate and said
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i'm more than willing to come marshall
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for you
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and it was an experience that i've never
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will do again
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because it's a lot of work and time like
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it's a lot of fish we weighed that to
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that tournament and
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i picked up every fish and weighed every
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fish and put it all back in the water
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that's pretty damn close
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[Laughter]
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[Applause]
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it was really astonishing what andrew
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walker jared monaghan as a team did at
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this event we couldn't even keep two
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rods on the pot it was one after another
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if the term young guns were ever to be
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used in the canadian carp fishing
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circles then two quebec natives andrew
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walker and jared monahan would be those
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such guns
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andrew has been carp fishing on a
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serious level for quite some time now
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and he's brought an enthusiastic jared
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into the mix together they make up this
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outstanding team as was proven during
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the carp cup
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he's he's only a first year guy and he
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was ecstatic that i decided to bring him
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for him to choose me
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as a partner i was like
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you know i couldn't believe it and he
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chose me because
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i'm willing to learn i listen
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he was just a great partner i don't
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think i could have had any other partner
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that would have been better than him it
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was really astonishing what andrew
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walker and jared monahan as a team did
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at this
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event
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well when we arrived before like we even
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started fishing or anything we had to
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draw our pegs when we drew your pegs you
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were allowed to pick a peg if you didn't
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like it you could re-pick
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and the peg you picked second you had to
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take you had no choice
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so my first pick was the one ultimate
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spot that i wanted which was the pines
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which is a very challenging peg because
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it's at the end of the current and
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the actual end of the current is about
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100 meters away and they would have to
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bait up and cast that far
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and that's not an easy task
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now we knew that we had the the peg that
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we wanted which was the pines
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and we knew how to fish it compared to a
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lot of people that maybe didn't know
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what how to fish their own swims we set
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up made our mix cast it out within the
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first 10 minutes the guys next to us
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landed one and we were thinking like
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okay it's going to be one of those again
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people are going to be right beside us
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catching i would not have picked the
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pines no
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the reason i say that is because all the
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fish come through that bridge the people
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beside them well that team had first
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shot at cutting the fish off
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so if they would have got that bait
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there they andrew and them they would
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have got cut off they wouldn't have got
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hardly any fish but they couldn't reach
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it they couldn't cast that far well it
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didn't take long 10-15 minutes after
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that we had our first and then we
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couldn't even keep two rods on the pot
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it was one after another for the first
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12 hours i think we landed 35 we knew
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that if we continued like that for the
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next three days we should have it in the
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bag
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and now time for a little carp 101
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to say that advanced carp anglers like
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the participants in the carp cup are
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technical is an understatement
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carp anglers use large capacity spinning
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reels equipped with a highly sensitive
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bait runner feature
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their rods are unusually long and are
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rated in test curves
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carpers mount their rods on rod pods
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equipped with electronic bite alarms
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working in conjunction with swing
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indicators
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tell tailing even the slightest of
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pickups from a fish
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the array of carp baits which are
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normally hung off of a hair rig is
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nothing short of overwhelming the number
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one presentation globally is the simple
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boilie this is a boiled paste shaped
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into a small ball in a variety of sizes
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and coming in all kinds of flavors some
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of the most effective in our canadian
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waters are pineapple scopex and maize
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however some of our favorite names are
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tutti frutti frankfurter tuna crunch
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evaporated milk with ice cream we're not
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kidding here by the way peppered seafood
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blend tangerine dream and of course lest
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we not forget monster tiger nut
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they managed to start off with the fish
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in the first 10 minutes and never
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stopped dave i need you to come down he
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goes i got 35 40 fish sacked i go you
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got to be kidding me dude
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the way we set up this
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the venue and the way we chose 15
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swims or pegs if the weather cooperated
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would have given everyone an equal
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chance at catching 30 to 40 carp through
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the three-day tournament
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and being a real dog fight of who's the
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better and who will win this thing the
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other guys that would call when i would
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have they would have fish and as soon as
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i was done weighing their fish the first
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thing that would come out of their mouth
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is how's this peg doing which was the
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pines and when i would tell them the
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number their faces would just drop the
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wind was perfect for us the temperatures
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of the water was
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perfect we were casting and baiting at
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the right area and the food was just
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drifting right on top of our pile so
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like
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everything was perfect for us they
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managed to start off with the fish in
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the first 10 minutes and never stopped
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midway through the first day is when i
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started realizing like oh my god like we
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got an editor
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so many hours in front of us and like we
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haven't had no break so i was like how
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long is this going to go on by five
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o'clock the first night i think there
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was maybe like 10 fish caught between
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the 15 other teams and the
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second place team had four or five fish
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but we were already at 30. and then come
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the second morning i was trying to call
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dave at like five o'clock dave i need
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you to come down he goes i got 35 40
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fish sacked i go you got to be kidding
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me dude i said i just left you so by the
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time they got to us we had 30 fish in
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the bags all our bags were full and we
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were still hauling them in and they
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never stopped they had 1800 plus pounds
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this is intense you know the shoulders
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started to hurt you know 1 800 pounds of
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lifting
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after 48 hours they were so tired and so
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beat up that they had to pull out the
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rods and sleep for three hours before
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they recontinued fishing
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my first goal was to finish top three
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that's what i was saying and to finish
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first
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is uh
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unbelievable for us if you're with
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somebody it's not a hard sport you got
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someone to help you net that fish and
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and take care of it when you bring it
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out to weigh it or whatever and release
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it again i learned how to net fish like
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and you're never going to miss a fish if
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i'm netting it you know that's for sure
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105 fish and i needed most of them
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it's just
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being at the right spot at the right
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time and knowing what to do with that
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swim and baiting it up prior to and and
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putting the time and effort into it
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a matter of time before one of these
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rods go off it's gonna pick up for sure
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the bite slowly progressed into the
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afternoon so yeah
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andrew
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got one
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i don't think uh in any of the other
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fishing categories bass or any of the
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tournaments in there i could have
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progressed as quickly as i progressed
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here with the people i surrounded myself
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with teaching me the right way
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as i said try to keep your rod tip low
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yeah keep it even lower yep even with
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the weeds without people like that i
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don't think i could have did it
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it changed my life in a lot of ways for
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the better like i could have went
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downhill instead of uphill and i
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progressed to a point now that i'm going
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to fish the biggest tournament in the
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world pretty much
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[Music]
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you got him
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another one in the bag
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yeah beautiful
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18 19 pound common
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beautiful colors that's what you come to
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st lawrence for
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all right you guys put him back to fight
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another day
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oh she's a torpedo
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good show
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to get to today's mission canada
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destination we first drove east on
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highway 401
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and then exited south on upper canada
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road
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we next turned east on highway 2 and
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then south on altsville road
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we stayed left on morrison's road and
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finally reached our destination robin's
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roost treehouse in the upper canada
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migratory bird sanctuary campgrounds
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so we've been kind of promoting and
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trying to work with the government and m
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r
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regarding that we're the only country
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left in the world that does that only
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has a one rod license rule
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on the bank on the shore
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and every other country has two or more
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one economically it would benefit the
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government and mnr
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because people would have to buy the
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second license the people that chose to
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buy a second license for the car rod
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two we don't keep carp
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uh so it's not like that we're depleting
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our resources
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and three would allow us to host the
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world car classic
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the world cup classic wcc
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has awarded us
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a chance to host
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but not until we have a two rod brew
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and that is what's stopping us but that
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would really put us on the map
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you know if we would have sat over there
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your rods would have probably been going
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off all day it's the furthest ones
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always
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[Music]
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almost lost the rod
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feels like a better fish it went
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straight down
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[Music]
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there we go
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[Music]
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you can see him on the surface there
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he's not ready yet
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[Music]
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this is like the crucial part
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i'm gonna fight the most right here
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[Music]
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right now
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good little belly on it here's the one
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this way and i'll just take a shot
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beauty thanks mike no problem
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that's what a landing mat looks like
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after 105 carpet tournament
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that one's probably seen 500 plus that
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way
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i still wake up some mornings and i
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think about it like did it happen yeah
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it happened i call i called jared on a
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couple instances did it happen did we
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did we go through what we went through
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oh we went through we went through look
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through the pictures with each other and
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it's pretty mind-blowing
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[Music]
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what a little champagne in the morning
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champagne at nine yeah
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that's when we knew it was official when
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we popped the champagne
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i don't think we drank any but we popped
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it no i think i had one sip and then the
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rods went off and it was done
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[Music]
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a well-deserved congratulations goes out
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to andrew and jared for their
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outstanding finish in the first ever
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national carp cup a catch like that will
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be hard to beat in all future events
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you fish your whole life for a day like
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that to happen and it just unfolded at
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the right time during the right
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tournament for the right guys
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gotta happen one more time exactly over
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there over there is where the difference
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is gonna be congratulations thanks guys
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no matter how experienced or not
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experienced you are
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you could always make it you just gotta
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listen persevere and don't give up and
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like dreams are possible
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now my dream is possible i'm going to
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europe next year so
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it's gonna be awesome
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best of luck to the duo as they venture
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forth into the next stage of their carp
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fishing tournament dream the world carp
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classic we'll be cheering for you boys
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[Music]
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today's fishing canada hot spot is
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directly in front of andrew and jared's
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peg where they turned in that phenomenal
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tournament weight the waypoint on your
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screen will get you right there
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although carp anglers shouldn't expect
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to catch a thousand plus pounds of fish
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in this hot spot every weekend the boys
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prove that the potential is definitely
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there
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try casting your presentation in or near
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the channel using the bridge as a
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reference
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even though carp fishing is a shore
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based sport anglers with access to a
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boat can really take advantage of this
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small tight area by running a sonar with
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quick draw mapping capabilities thus
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giving an exactly of the land
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once finished the boat goes back in the
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trailer and the bank sticks are set
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for more hot spots like this one check
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out fishingcanada.com
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