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Anglers Snorkel With Thousands Of Salmon: Then Catch Em’ | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Campbell River BC is this show’s destination where Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman don the wetsuits and swim with the Salmon. This is one of the most unique activities they have ever done on a fishing trip. They literally snorkel with thousands of migrating Salmon... and then try to catch them on fly-fishing gear. 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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okay that's a home good at this river is
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chock-full v that's it fun
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we got apparati bear on her hand
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imagine a position to backyard oh my god
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unbelievable the fish in Canada so
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brought to you in part by Ram trucks
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nothing worked harder than a ram turn
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trusted on the water since 1952 mercury
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and forest number one on the water and
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outdoor Canada Canada's only national
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fishing innovation magazine
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welcome to beautiful Campbell River
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British Columbia
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this week on fishing Canada we're truly
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in God's Country an outdoor adventure
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and ecotourism hub and most importantly
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for us the salmon capital of the world
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with a backdrop of rugged mountains wild
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animals and surging waters I can't think
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of a more perfect place to get up close
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and personal with some of Canada's most
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iconic and unique fish species and when
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I say up close and personal
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well you'll see yeah yeah look at the G
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is a fish whisperer I came in here ah
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good neat placement has very any care of
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this all right you know your fish I love
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this actual corner if you're excellent
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what it was going to be doing we're
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gonna start with Africa we have clouds
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and putting Simon in the system right
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now we have a couple hundred up there in
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the city from fiscal or some how old
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this is well the river temperature is 12
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so it also has 580 Fahrenheit before
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that it was a big war it means it's epic
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you survived yeah with a driver it is
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the depth sounder know what kind of
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salmon would you see the pretty pink
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salmon the education of Clement and we
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also have a big feel that they're gonna
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see now will our fishing actually take
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place in that same run over the world it
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will yeah so we'll be able to spot the
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fish she really hanging out kind of pick
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out the best areas and then come back to
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pushing you're going to be amazed you're
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going to feel Wallet Facebook and
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everything that's gonna be so cool
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any times where you want to get was you
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River though I'm excited don't know what
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I'm in the street tonight but we'll
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definitely to hear it first any morning
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that's perfect yep thank you might look
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forward to okay we're going to logically
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okay that's a hump good for the world
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project Pacific salmon spend the first
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few months of their lives in the streams
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and rivers where they were hatched they
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then make their way to the salt water of
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the ocean they spend the next two to
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several years depending on the species
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going to adulthood in the food rich
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waters of the Pacific when their time
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comes they swim back upstream to the
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place where they were born ready to
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create future generations of fish and
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it's these mature salmon that we're
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going to swim with today we've been told
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that there were over a million pink
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salmon currently in this system all
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fighting their way upstream and that
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ladies and gentlemen is a record-setting
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number four fish in this area anglers
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prepare to have your mind blown
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five species of Pacific salmon return to
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the Campbell River each year pinks
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Chinook coho sockeye and Chum and then
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as we surfaced we found out we weren't
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the only ones admiring this Campbell
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River smorgasbord black bears use these
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spawning grounds as a major source of
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food hopefully we're not on the menu
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he makes it look so easy
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as an angler this is an experience
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unlike anything else floating on top of
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the river with an absolute wall of fish
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below you it's peaceful and serene its
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nature that's my answer
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so now after getting into the water and
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actually seen not just where the fish
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are but the contours of the riverbed
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current brakes rubble the boulders we're
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ready to try our hands and supply
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fishing man this should be like taking
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candy from a baby
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right oh yeah you're not like a say hey
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you know I got one buddy got it
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I had one time the kebab rubber oh you
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son of a gun
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you're up you got my hip all the way
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down
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oh boy you're gonna get buried this type
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hi nice managed jump nothing
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these things are Ripper oh yeah
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broke up get a buddy
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oh hang goodbye it's unbelievable
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unreal what do you gotta do to land
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these good buddy I have no idea Oh mr.
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Frank that much oh oh there you go
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Oh bingo oh you're not I guess stay with
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the program buddy come on
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come on I want to land one of these
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things yeah jump off ha ha ha
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where are you little devil eh I'm going
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to tell but yet you beat you up good
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come on down that is a neat look a nicer
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look at the green going down the side
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yeah I put it back in the water here and
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hold him out here like this
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that is such an awesome looking fix
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going yeah yeah and this is nice color
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River is chock-full of these when I tell
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you that there are thousands upon
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thousands of these you see them you see
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baby shoulders really were cool yeah
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now that I did I'm grabbing we need to
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get them faster than fast I got a beat
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him up like in oh now we know you
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thought you are a beast man they're
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crazy lunatic fish oh you got him he's
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done him all little fella yes yes guy
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that's it look at the big pop on him huh
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that's nice got it here we go it is but
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a little hot back you know what I I
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think that's my first pink salmon ever
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is it I think so I don't think I got one
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cool look at that that's my first ever
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fish on a fly is it yeah oh cool hey we
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just gotta give a little bone stir yeah
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your first in your first man good spikes
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buddy thanks for the help good stuff but
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you know something that that but I got
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to tell you there is a totally different
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feeling catching and releasing these
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fish after you spent some time
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underwater watching the neck like it's
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it's it's kind of surreal
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very cool made it add the element of
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diving in the water with the snorkel
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gear and your mask
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swimming through these massive schools
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of fish and then coming back and trying
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to catch up either it's my father we
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thought we're going to come over here
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and just slam this that alone is a
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lesson we should be there we did
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millions and hundreds of thousands of
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fish in here but you still got to work
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the hooking but when you do it's fun
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that's the block
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we got a live one buddy I'm coming down
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kid
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they're so strong at this one I know how
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to play nothing they know how to fight
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your other I wanted to do no no these
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things are ridiculously I can't believe
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for the size of the fish were catching
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how powerful they are who's they get the
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street he's fighting the current that's
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the part that blows my mind can you
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fight we fight the current then I try
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and walk them into that shallow little
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indent yeah
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I can't write better than all those
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rocks were climbing this is so much
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nicer to you guys over there you don't
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watch my stick you got him
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your stuff I got him oh you got him
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that's a hump look at that thing I don't
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weird-looking fish ha ha look at that
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how border is this that is gorgeous
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let's get him back to do his thing area
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there we go here is nicely done that's a
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cool fish that was a neat looking dude
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nature freaks me out you know like that
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fish is back now and the face now it's a
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month ago things just took torpedo
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cuz I desert hey man there's a lot of us
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here quick joke
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some things you're crazy
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look at the type on camera wow that is
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beautiful gorgeous fish as a pink salmon
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for your okay can you
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good job my friend
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Bella oh yeah easy easy spun around whoa
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the Goldman on the rocks nice way to go
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buddy I got where there's a great me so
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I will think about it
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Hey breakin my foot back to my feet this
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place is full so full of it
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it's ridiculous you know this is fun
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this is hot
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see if I can bring him in the shell at
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water here wow I was a beautiful fish
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that is holy smokes that is gorgeous
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going up on shore you scored up on shore
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that is a beautiful big big nail when
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you get fish like that on a fly real
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light gear it is an absolute blast
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absolute blast Wow
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off you go see you buddy how sweet is
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that rain at all I want you that bear he
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could be cruisin by anytime he knows
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we're here
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that is a bear yeah that's great beauty
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propped up on the rock he's not stopping
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hey bear there's a lot of us here
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attaboy
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that's the way and just like that our
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new friend was off but not before
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grabbing a quick snack it's amazing how
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little fear these animals actually have
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at this time of year
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these hot spotters along the picturesque
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Campbell River in British Columbia the
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wait one engine screen we'll get you
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there
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we easily access this hotspot via
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whitewater raft with destiny River
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Adventures this is a fly-fishing only
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area of the Campbell we use small bright
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colored sinking flies with weighted
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lines and Tippit's to get our
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presentation close to the bottom a key
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in this area more hotspots like this one
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check out fishing Canada calm
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with the wilderness adventure behind us
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we now focus on the Campbell rivers
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greatest fishing tradition the
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historical taiyi Club we've heard
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joining this exclusive fraternity is no
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easy task
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all right so what do they look at this
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baby Cherokee the history of The Tyee
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Club goes back to 1924 it was founded by
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six gentlemen and they come up with a
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30-pound Chinook or larger to be a
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registered fish at the taya club and
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it's not just a 30 pound plus salmon
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there's very specific ways of
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Technology's fish right maybe you can
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explain that first you number one you
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have to register what you've done right
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so we're going to only use 20 pound test
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line you have to have a six to nine foot
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rod and you have to be rode right in you
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know any any type of boat as long as
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it's Road and the motor has to be lifted
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out of the water and I understand we've
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got a bit of a wringer the guy who's
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going to be wrong us tonight apparently
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he's a member of this club a few times
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now it'd been very fortunate we're
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rolling
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new members surfing you're with a good
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guide tonight's gonna get a there today
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all right so can we do this ceremonial
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for that thing and it even matches your
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coat by the way I'm sorry okay I feel I
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feel good about that every go well if
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they land a fish they have to bring it
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to myself where I'm the only one that
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can put it on the scales and where we
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put the numbers up on the board the high
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numbers on the board is the highest fish
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of the year the lower numbers on the
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board indicate the last fish caught we
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will take the anglers picture the angler
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gets to ring the bell that's alongside
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of me here
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three times for 34 times for a 40-pound
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fish and so on all the way up the
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largest fish on record here at the club
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is 71 and a half
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which was I believe caught in 1947 with
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an incredible tradition of fishing here
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we've got just one thing in our minds
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and that's to have the fishing Candida
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show be a part of Campbell River history
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in the 50s and 60s people like John
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Wayne and Ben Ford
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Bob Hope who - best of my knowledge none
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of them have made it into the club but
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they certainly tried and not much
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daylight left come on fish take that
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bait
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I want to wring that bill so bad speak
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for yourself brother I need to ring that
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Bell it's just one fish just one fish
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to get some today's amazing salmon
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adventure we first flew from Toronto to
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the Comox Valley Airport in the province
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of British Columbia from there we drove
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west on Ryan Road and then north on
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South Island highway to Campbell River
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aptly named the salmon capital of the
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world then we drove an island highway to
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test me river adventures the fish in
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Canadian since 1951 Cooper Tires life
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the road trips come on let's go and
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Princecraft both dominate the water
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Oh
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you
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