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Giant Pike Fishing in Alberta Canada | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
On this episode Angelo Viola & Pete Bowman team up with Roy and Scott from Cooper Tire way up in northern Alberta’s Winefred Lake. The bosses take on the workers in this epic Pike fishing challenge. Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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you know if I were you I wouldn't be
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messing around if you get the hook set
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into those fish because you know the
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boys are going to be wanting to be this
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real bad yeah
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I wonder how Roy and and you're doing
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you know what they're both pretty darn
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good fishermen I'll say that I think the
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pressures on the boys of course anybody
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to have a boat full of finished by now
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you realize that all right yeah we don't
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like it one bit
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ah the fish in Canada so not to you in
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part by Ram trucks nothing worked harder
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than a rail sterling trusted on the
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water since 1952 mercury and for its
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number one on the water and outdoor
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Canada Canada's only national fishing
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and hunting magazines
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you know how I always say this is what
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it's really all about every time I catch
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a big fish
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well it's 6:20 a.m. in Alberta Canada
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and Here I am sitting on a dock of the
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bay watching mother nature locks this
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incredible fireball in the sky this
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moment in itself is enough to make me
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realize just how fortunate I really am
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but what preceded this was a spectacle
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that can't be put to words folks this
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was the masterpiece mother nature
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unveiled last night as she tucked us
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into bed now that is really what it's
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all about one of those moments in life
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where nothing else matters you're where
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you want to be with people you want to
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be with doing what you love to do
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catching big fish well that's just the
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icing on the cake the cake in this
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particular instance is Winifred Lake the
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icing some of the biggest Pike in note
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world with only a handful of trophy
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northern pike lakes in this part of the
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country narrowing it down to this one
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wasn't that difficult I've been here
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before and believe me it's the real deal
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we chose benefit lake in northeastern
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Alberta for a number of reasons which if
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you're planning a trip you'll want to
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take note of first of all this is a real
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wilderness lake in a remote area between
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coal lake and Fort McMurray in the
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southern good Buffalo region of Alberta
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meaning fishing pressure is almost
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non-existent
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winifred Lake Lodge a five-star
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wilderness fishing resort has imposed
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their own limits on walleye and pike the
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fish in this lake go very slowly since
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they have a relatively short growing
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season of three to four months which
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makes this self-imposed no-kill policy
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on walleye and only one kill per day on
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fight 21 inches or less even more
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compelling catch and release with a zero
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bag limit was fundamental to
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establishing the trophy Lake here where
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the average size of walleye is now three
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to four pounds and the average length of
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pike has 40 inches coming here is a
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no-brainer for us
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joining Pete and I on this trip is Roy
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arms chairman receive all and president
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of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company and
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Director of Product Management Scott
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Jamison Roy was the driving force behind
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getting us here literally
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a couple of years ago Roy caught the
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biggest pike of his life forty eight
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incher on Lake Muskoka but all this did
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was stoke a fire in his belly ever since
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then he's been obsessed with catching
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the holy grail of hike a 50 inch quest
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monster northern unfortunately this has
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become a real challenge for Roy because
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unlike most of us he doesn't have the
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freedom to just jump in a boat on the
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weekends and go fishing most of his time
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is spent in a plane flying around the
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globe servicing customers it's what you
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do when you run one of the biggest tire
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companies on the planet those 40 million
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Cooper Tires a year don't get sold on
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their own so when an opportunity arises
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where he can get off the grid for just a
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few precious days and spend some quality
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fishing time with like-minded people he
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grabs the opportunity with both hands
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especially if it involves the quest of
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the holy grail of fishing
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after a very special and relaxing flight
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from Peterborough Ontario we landed in
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Fort McMurray and after a four-hour
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drive
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did I mention this place was remote we
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arrived at beautiful winterberg Lake
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Lodge our good friend and Alberta
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fishing specialist ray call rust drove
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in from north of Edmonton to meet us at
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the lodge to their prince crab boats and
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we're good to go now Cooper fishing
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Canada challenge was about to begin
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since there were four of us I thought it
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might be quite fun if Roy and I teamed
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up and had a little friendly competition
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you know the men against the boys sort
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of thing needless to say we got no
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arguments it's on the first thing we did
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was have a little map section and based
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on my previous experiences here we laid
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out a game plan and because I'm the only
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one with that previous experience it was
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really quite simple
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I made sure Roy and I had the prime spot
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as the apex predator here these trophy
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northerns aren't any different than most
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other pike they use weed patches as
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ambush points to chow down and the
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biggest accumulation of those is off of
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ego point up towards the northeast
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corner of the lake this point didn't get
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its name by accident Eagles and eagle
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nests are visible along its entire
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length it's more like a peninsula that
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runs Northwest with wheat patches
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running virtually its full length on the
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southeast side the weeds start at about
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10 to 15 feet offshore and run out from
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there another 100 feet or so it's a huge
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area a great place to begin the hunt and
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win this competition
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good one oh yeah Thursday oh nice fish
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nice fish boy
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and both of our eggs this real better
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hold up not a boy nice nice nice work
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now that's what I call a catch man
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that's a great northern this is what you
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come here for all right okay everybody
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can see we can stay black though not
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sure but I think we might have win the
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competition boys all right
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clam I don't know I don't make the boys
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with a little thing you want okay what
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your message there Scotty
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well I got a little fish in tell Pete we
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sent a picture of a big fish back to the
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office oh no hoping it was almost as big
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as him okay Scotty for I think a lot of
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our our viewing audience like my buddies
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like myself like Dan's we have either a
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light truck or a heavy truck what's good
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Cooper tire for that application
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well you and angels have had great
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experience on the 83s ableto yeah that's
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been a great tire for us last few years
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it continues the win awards two new
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products that we're really excited about
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in the light truck department is an 80
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tire with a severe snow rating nice so
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we call that mountain snow flake right
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Yankee W your tornado that's 80 W as
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well as the XT for wood that's a tire
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that will have similar all terrain
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features and benefits to the 83 yep all
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train characteristics like cut and chip
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and mud traction right and then it will
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have similar snow traction to what you
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would see in our are dedicated still
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product
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give me all right we got every fat Wow
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you know man I don't know I will beat
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the boys with it but I'll tell you what
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exact think we needed it though for us
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exactly oh yeah you know if I were you I
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wouldn't be messing around be getting
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Hooksett into those fish because you
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know the boys are going to be wanting to
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be this real bad yeah you got if he's on
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he's on another good day efficient
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glutton first Lake don't smell it oh you
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might make that like a family's day but
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that is delicious right there yeah you
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get it there you go
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I think the pressures on the boys wonder
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how to do it of course they might have a
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boat full of fish point out you realize
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that for about any time buddy
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okay beautiful you guys want to wear it
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at the beach
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alright come on we I could hear
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grounding in their tears a little bit of
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salad with your bike Wow yes yeah oh
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good good another big marker out on this
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one clump we'll know where it is we'll
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come back later you know yeah I think it
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was maybe three years ago and you and I
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fished together first time yeah talked
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about our plans and stuff in Canada yeah
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and since that time we've we've doubled
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what we thought we were going to be oh
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and right now we're we're in line to
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move ahead and probably doubling that
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again over the next few years so it's
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been really great now and I think the
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lot of things have helped us one is the
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our partnerships here particularly with
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the fishing Canada you guys have
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represented us very well thank you but
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secondly it's the products we've had
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some great products it's been well
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accepted here in Canada so you know
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we've been very very pleased with where
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we're at please how the
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Canadian consumers have really latched
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onto our products where our dealers are
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continuing to demand and request more
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and that's always a good sign
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yeah he's not done he's not done he's
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not done we put her partner
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[Laughter]
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come on hello baby
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yeah you said it right there hey big boy
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you got a good fish on here
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hang on even lift that motor up
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go back again this way keep going this
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way as much as you can trot down and and
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out yep like that yeah good I think a
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big foot like this and they're gonna
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bring it all
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yeah like that thank you going don't go
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slack man holy man
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oh there's no idea how big this play
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here
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ergo you get a hold us thing up by all
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sort of folks pretty people have to get
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up a hand okay ready put your hand under
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the belly like that's good like that
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and really nice and tight if you can get
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it slighted got brother forward all
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right that's a big dog right now wow
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that's awesome little fish man so it was
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a great way what a great fish if they
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beat this fish if they beat this fish
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they deserve totally everything that's
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true mass when the blocking Colossus win
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and that's what you're supposed to do
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right that's right let the bottoms will
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sit up in the water okay I will release
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your fish any day my brother thanks
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coming up running off thanks for having
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ice nice
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today's hot spot is a big we d-flat
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close to eagle point on one inferred
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lake in alberta the waypoint on your
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screen will get you right there the
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weeds in this area growing clumps and
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that's what you need to concentrate on
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in order to catch the big northern pike
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that reside here
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although single hook baits like swim
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baits spinner baits and weedless spoons
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are easier to work our Cooper Tire
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guests did very well with treble hooked
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spoons dragged above and through the
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weeds every now and then don't be afraid
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to cast into the open water adjacent the
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weak clumps cruising pike are always
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pressing for more hot spots like this
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one check out efficient and calm
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now were you one of those dads that when
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they were little kids did you did you
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always make the effort to get them out
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fishing or sell those kids I had I don't
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know if you recall these but the these
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little roll round seats that you put the
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kids in when they're 1 2 years old what
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a head was a flat bottom boat had a lot
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of space in the middle of it ok so I put
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I put the chair in there and they would
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bounce and bounce back and forth across
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the boat and along like three little
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gate and then when you get a fish they'd
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stop and they just start gazing at what
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you were doing and ceiling fish get up
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get up get up got oh yeah good fish I
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can't tell you he's not coming up real
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easy that is a fish my friend well you
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can oh that's oh that's huge all this
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that is huge that's a nice fish man this
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is a log look at this look at me yeah
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holy smokes ok let me see that clear
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your means how many of you at home get a
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guide that does this point Oh a TV host
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of all this is the ultimate monster oh
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that's beautiful
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what's not done he's not done he's not
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done you're not done
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what are their partners this is what
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people travel all over the world to get
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in terms of northern I'm going to keep
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the line tight on them yeah just keep it
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tight let them wear else oh I love it I
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love it I love it what they do that I
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love it would they do that okay baby I
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might have one more run in them okay
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I've done tight unbelievable Roy Roy Roy
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okay you got him yeah I think we're
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going for lunch
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maybe we can going for dinner like wow
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this is what it's about it's a
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magnificent beautiful color yeah he's
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just if this fish was as fat as some of
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the other ones we've been catching today
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this thing would be probably 3300 pounds
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I tell you what a song feels very heavy
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put her away ready do us the honors
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see ya Oh oh wow
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holding that thing up there I couldn't
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get I'm tellin ya and it would get the
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whole thing without off it was quick
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oh wow what what a great guy so the
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premise of this episode as you don't put
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the beginning Roy and I got together and
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decided that we would challenge our
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we'll call them our better halves for
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lack of better term our lieutenants if
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you will Peter Bowman and Scott Jamison
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from Cooper tired so they're on another
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boat somewhere on this Lake Winifred
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Lake and the challenge was to get the
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biggest fish for a bragging rights for
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the rest of the year and and you just
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witness that we and measure that fish
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but you just witnessed it I would I
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would be absolutely shocked if we didn't
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win the synaptic and a go ahead my
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partners in and all and you're gonna
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you're gonna have to live with it it's
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alright thank you very much for joining
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us this this has been an absolute
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pleasure I know it's always a pleasure
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it's one thing having great partners
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like yourselves Cooper Tire the support
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us and have done so for a number of
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years but to be able to mine out of that
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a great fishing partner is truly a bonus
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in its I thank you very much
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to get to today's great pike fishing we
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first flew from Peterborough Ontario to
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Fort McMurray Alberta next we drove
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south on highway 63 and then onto
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highway 881 to Conklin we then turn east
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on Northland Drive and followed science
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to Winfred Lake Lodge without standing
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meals accommodations and of course great
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fishing this destination is classes one
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of the top lodges in the province of
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Alberta
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on today's klp we're going to focus on
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the key factors of knowledge package
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something that usually comes from
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experience as well I hate to say it but
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something Roy and I both have a little
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bit of a John the other guys it was no
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great with this stuff
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the big advantage here is that I have
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been on this lake before and neither the
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other two have and that's a huge
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advantage certainly in our little
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competition we've got going here today
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but also on anybody about it getting the
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information from the locals or somebody
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who's been on that lake fishing is key
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it's vital in it absolutely in that
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experience in that knowledge here on
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this lake was very handy for us to have
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a great couple days of fishing
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yeah because Lake has a ton of fish but
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only one area has big fish we knew it
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they didn't that was the team that's the
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case I feel asleep the fish in Canada
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show brought to you in part by sales the
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come on let's go and rinse Kraft both
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