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Channel Oriented Walleye | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete Bowman takes on the daunting task of following Angelo Viola into his Pike infested hotspot on Kaby Lake. He's seeking a species that often has to take second place to aggressive Northerns... the Walleye. 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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somewhat a jerkbait that you got to
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remember it works 90% on the pot all the
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while I did job Bob's your uncle or my
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case you presidents with Simon getting
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while I close by said yes I did as a
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matter of fact oh they're smart fish are
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smart they're predators shake and wait
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for the opportunity the fish in Canada
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today's special Canada show is kind of a
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bizarre episode which sits on the heels
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of an even more bizarre episode and
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where ant abound what could be deemed as
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the ultimate Pike feeding frenzy he
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located this fishing phenomenon along a
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shallow cut that separated two sections
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of cabinet Kagami Lake in Ontario's
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Algoma region the pike he was fishing
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grew up in the shallows Smashing and
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gorging on thousands upon thousands of
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minnows more than he's ever seen in one
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location is what he told me I asked him
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his thoughts as to why so many minnows
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would be in that one particular area and
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he just looked at me totally perplexed
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perhaps they were spawning maybe they
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were corralled by the predator fish he
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didn't have an answer and I wasn't about
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to guess the bottom line is it's loaded
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with all kinds of fish like since KB is
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known primarily as a walleye hotspot
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along with great pike fishing I
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instantly got my fish alert up if
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there's that many bait fish and pike in
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the area there has to be walleyes
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somewhere close by and Angelo soon
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confirmed it it got a few while fishing
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for pike this I thought could be very
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interesting as I entered and assessed
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the channel I tried to envision myself
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swimming in that aquatic war zone if I
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were a walleye which incidentally do get
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eaten by pike on a regular basis here on
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K V where would I go and try to take
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advantage of this ridiculously gigantic
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school of minnows yet not get pounced on
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by a big predator the middle of the
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channel is pretty much the only starting
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place if there are big pike in the
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middle as well I can probably kiss my
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walleye dreams goodbye but if I'm right
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look out you little pecker rolls because
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PT is going to have a heyday I saw me I
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lost the sight of my bait they're okay
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they're small but they're all going to
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be you could be a mixture of sizes I'm
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hoping that the odd big one slides into
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here
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I'm watching my bait you don't feel
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these fish when you're with your pause
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because uh in any jerk bait fishing
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almost all jerk day fishing the hit
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comes on the pause I'm watching this
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bright white bait gun they're not we
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just went sideways we set the hook there
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you go
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Bob's your uncle or in my case your
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cousin slide three hooks in
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and big-play cancer catching oh that's
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what they're eating aside from the
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minnows maybe these guys are in for the
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minnows in the biker in for these guys
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there is so many pike here and I'm
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getting wall I love it as luck would
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have it I was right the channel was
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literally loaded with hungry walleye
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waiting for unsuspecting minerals to
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break away from their shallow retreat it
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almost seemed like they were looking
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from the Pike's sloppysecondz
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feels maybe like part of the line I was
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totally going to sideways now what are
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you
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that's a walleye okay be very very
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careful with those double trebles around
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yet because they can hurt you a fish
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like this not only is his weaponry bad
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see the way he flourishes gills with you
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know looking at all hold them over the
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water so that if he decides to flip
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you're not going to dampen himself on
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the boat you know very very typical
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Northern Ontario walleye KB Lake while
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there's tons of these in here I mean
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probably millions hundreds of thousands
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if not millions and you know what I'm
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thinking right now because the heat of
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the afternoon is really dark or a real
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high sky and then really hot right now
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I'm thinking that maybe the smaller fish
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they're going to stay here all the time
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but I got a feelin the bigger girls
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might be you know an evening come the
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lower light comes in I mean the big
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girls make them into here you know they
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know the food's here already and if
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there's giant pike in here there's got
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to be some big walleye near so I'm
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hoping I'm just warming up for the big
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ones
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I said I'm hoping for anyway
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another one and what may you be an ugly
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plank
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instead no it's a wallet the Geoghan
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that's a good one actually this is a
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nice walleye just a nice day in the
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evening they're going to come in they're
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probably out here and they are here
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yeah that's an awesome fish right there
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I'm going to put my troller more I'm
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just gonna let this thing drift see the
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one thing a little walleye they don't
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really like being helped I decide small
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mo bass you can pick up by the belly not
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a problem
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walleye they hate it they will trash and
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bash you bad wasn't even in them and
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that was barely enough now belly yeah
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but if you jump away so be it like that
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now we're getting there that's a lot of
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fun on a jerkbait
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a bait that's designed for small or for
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bass basically who says there's for bass
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these fish are feeding on minnows it
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looks like a minnow then you see the
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results and you know something about a
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jerkbait
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people die so I'm going to jerk bait to
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that you got to remember is this thing
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works on the it works 90% on the pause
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right so you pull the bait it pauses you
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pull the bait it pauses they wait for
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that fish to stop and then they pop it
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and that's that's a key to what the jerk
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baits work so well I mean they're
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they're they're smart fish are smart
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they're predators right wait for the
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opportunity oh god he's placed me I know
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I'm gonna bleed on that one but that's
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what this is worth it
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it's not a bad walleye and not bad that
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guy
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I'm liking him oh yeah well I like a job
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then unfortunately that hook slapped
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back at him
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nice he's been very cooperative that's
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over the bed cross-handed here nice
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walleye well oh god he's placed me I'm
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gonna bleed on that one that's always a
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fish is worth it whoo oh there it goes
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see that's the Gill raker right there
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that's not the Gill the edge of the Gill
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is a little plate that covers it and it
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doesn't look like much that'll sting for
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both for days now can they got me on a
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thumb to be slicing like a razor blade
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out well worth it for that fish as I
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work this channel I have to think as
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most I had a complete last year even
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though I'm working walleye I can't help
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but get distracted by the voracious
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thrashing that the pike are doing up in
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the shallows he being a top water freak
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must have been in his glory
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Oh
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you're the scarlet guy I think they
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plate and hold pike come over to the
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channel and you're going to get them but
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if you're going to get pike hopefully
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they're gonna be this size or bigger
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than that that's nicely hooked here he
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goes here he goes that was it
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next that was yes to the chopper Tania
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okay
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I could be trouble there nice pike thick
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plates all of this okay go on with you
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they tear you out those guys you don't
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like seeing them of your walleye spot
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but you know you know they're in there I
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mean obviously when the Nan's found this
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spot that he found it on pike so
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hundreds of Pike in here I'm probably
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you know half that amount of walleye
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maybe oh maybe more I don't know so it's
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inevitable you gonna catch them so it's
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nice to get decent sized ones anyways
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when I first moved into this channel the
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wall I seemed pretty jacked up
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aggressively hitting the jerkbait as
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time went on however things started to
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slow down this area is very small and
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the fish will eventually know
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something's wrong it was time for a bait
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change something that I could
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effectively were at the bottom with yeah
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I do a great big chunk out there I hope
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that's a walleye get a big chunk of meat
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look you see we threw at them not bad
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it's not a massive bait but no far down
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that is it was just the first solid tap
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I've had here that class classic jig
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blank is tap all you're gonna hurt my
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fingers right that thing he ate that
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Susan it's about one pop on one jig yeah
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act day is getting really warm here Oh
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looking underneath this fish's jaw I'm
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gonna show you so
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what happened there hiya folks
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midsummer wildlife they drive most
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anglers crazy and yet here's the irony
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middle of summer is the easiest time to
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locate and catch walleyes they're eating
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over three percent of their body weight
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every day the key is finding 64 to 67
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degree water temperature you're going to
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find every walleye in the lake that's
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their comfort zone now here's the
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problem for most anglers walleyes once
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they find that zone they will spread out
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and they love to suspend even out over
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open water and most anglers have
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difficulty catching suspended walleyes
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that shouldn't be the case if you pick a
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minnow bait or a crankbait
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that dives down to the depth the fish
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are using if they're a little deeper
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than that and you can't find debate that
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naturally goes to that zone take a lead
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core outfit or a Dipsy diver or a jet
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diver can just dial it in and trust me
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in the summertime it is lights out for
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walleyes
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tap and why he just breathing the war
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know they are getting really warm here
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Oh looking underneath this fish's jaw
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I'll show you something what happened
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there now living amongst all these pike
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cadet of I don't know size of that thing
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a lot of times while I get these growths
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I don't get it I don't there's a lot of
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skin diseases you don't know what they
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are but that right now I'm bleeding I
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don't know if that's a natural disease
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or just something happened on my good
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nailed by a pike or something but that
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is wildly no no yellow the bellies are
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here in the north I think that beautiful
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golden hue to them let him go and watch
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my be bed here oh you're good they're
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hittin big Jim's now without told any
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leader anything on him which I really
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like I said now we're talking I was
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doing hard jerkbaits earlier this is a
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soft jerk big this is a gem allotted d
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schat again normally associated with
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putting a putting a hook through it with
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no weight and jerking along and real
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slow drop to it but because you can't
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make it together that it like so because
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it makes a big and bulky serves up you
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know what we're looking for a big
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walleyes big fish that might work this
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wind is swirling every direction today
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unbelievable
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here's an interesting observation the
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bulk of the biting walleye were at
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either end of this channel
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I tried numerous times to work the
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center area which still had lots of bait
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in it but it was pretty much crewless
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the only thing I can think of is easy
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access to the larger sections of the
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lake
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today's hot spot is a small channel
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separating two bays on kb lake the
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waypoint on your screen will get you
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there if you saw Angela's past show on
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KB you would have noticed quite a
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similarity in his Pike hot spot to mine
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the truth is since the big population
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was so ridiculously high at this time
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the wall I were hanging here just like
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the northerns my hot spot is literally a
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cast away from Anja's the difference is
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however all the walleye were set up in
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the deepest part of the channel by
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popping a jerkbait or hopping a jig
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right in the channel gut I caught fish
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all day long with so many walleye
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available you would think it'd be like
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catching fish in a barrel
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but by having to compete with this
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massive group of bait fish it takes some
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work this area typically dries up in the
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summer so get here early for more
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waypoints like this one check oh Vision
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Canada calm
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yeah I hope them another little why
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don't you think go figure
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it's so nice at the pike aren't here
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though we're going to get a bacon I can
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feel it I know there's one in here we
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need a giant ugly if you're up in
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Northern Ontario jigging for walleye try
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using bigger than usual plastics
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oftentimes a big five-inch body like the
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Yamamoto D shed I'm trying today will
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work wonders over a small range finesse
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bait what do we got it's not a bad boy
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no bad the neat part about this this
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spot is it's six feet of water - I think
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it's so shallow it's the deepest water
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in this little area immediate area but
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still we catching waling it's six feet
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or less and you know that the wall I
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can't even figure it out the walleye are
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in the trench right in the middle and
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the pike are all up in the edges from
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the wheat line and of the edges so
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that's neat because now you can you can
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drag baits like this in the perfect zone
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or you run the jerk bait you know I
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always try and cast either straight down
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or straight up let it jumping all around
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the boat still then frenzy going on this
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trip to Katy Lake certainly was unique
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and up first for the fishing Canada crew
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with Ann's finding that crazy phenomenon
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a pike following among thousands of
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minnows and then I moved not more than
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20 feet from his mayhem and find a
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tunnel wall I stacked like $20 bills at
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a casino this my friends is what every
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angler dreams
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to get the debates fantastic fishing
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location I headed north on highway 402
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highway 69 at Sudbury I headed west on
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highway 17 to the town of White River
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I then bordered a floatplane at White
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River Air which took me to a Geeta's kv
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cabins on kb lake
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now in today's scale do you think
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location to be the key for me and yeah
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this place is loaded with fish Pike
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walleye bait fish galore but they get a
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step beyond I have the presentation
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repeat what I want to do is I want to
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avoid Pike as much as I can and try and
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catch walleyes and the one thing I'm
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doing is I'm standing dead center of
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this channel the deepest water in this
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little area is only about five or six
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feet deep but the walleye seemed to be
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laying on the bottom in the channel the
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pike they're either in the weeds are
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geared beat up the bait or they're sort
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of suspended running along the leaves
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are sitting up high so I use a
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suspending jerk bait with fluorocarbon
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line it gets it down below the pipe and
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hopefully just above the wall I dare to
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bait catch the fish the fish in Canada
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