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Fly In Bass Adventure | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
In this episode, Angelo Viola takes a prototype “mouse” lure into a remote little Bass lake and shows the fish something that he guarantees they’ve never seen before! ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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to me fishing isn't just about catching
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the big one or voting a limit for that
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matter
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it's about the experience tying on your
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favorite lure making sure your gears
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already yeah that's about the whole
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enchilada
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but there's one element though that sits
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high on top of that list and that is
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anticipation of a great outing and on
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today's program my anticipation is way
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off the charts
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if you watch last year's shows you
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probably saw one of my favorite episodes
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where Pete Mike and I ventured into a
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little obscure Bass Lake in the fall and
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proceeded to clean house on both large
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and small mouths okay we're talking big
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fish do threes fours fives and even the
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odd six well you guessed it folks my
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anticipation is high because we get a
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return visit to our little piece of bass
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heaven known as hasty lake only this
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time we're there the opening of the
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season it's mayhem in the shallows oh
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just experimenting with my with my rat
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it's like a will the fish hit this thing
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well guess what Oh he annihilated two
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twitches banks gone history how's that
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bad up oh man that is gorgeous
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so being small but these haven't that's
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a bit solid for
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and we'll let him go right back see you
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buddy one-for-one as you can see on this
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episode we don't always have the luxury
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of our Princecraft 198 and our 200 Merc
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but that my friends just proves that you
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don't need a big boat to catch big fish
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with a few electronics on electric motor
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a 99 or 15 horsepower outboard and a
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light aluminum boat anybody can fish
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effectively this looks good but I'm
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gonna fish here is a transition between
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a rock-hard sledge a face coming down
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into the water solid rock and it goes
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into a swampy marshy little just a
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little bit of reed not not a whole lot
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but those areas sometimes are like
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magnets
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especially knees back bays with a really
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fertile with little deepwater places
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like this official just cruise in and
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out of that that little that little
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different transition zone and of course
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you couldn't ask for better conditions
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not a breath of wind the Sun is just
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going down over the treetops this is low
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light conditions at their best it's not
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nighttime it's not completely dark but
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it's just enough there he is
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[Music]
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nice fish
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now just see you saw that fish come up
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twice first time he missed it completely
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and I let him have it I did jerk it it's
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not a big fish not a big fish but that
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was really cool what happened here I'll
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explain this it's a largemouth it's got
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that rat in his face big time bet big
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time he is full right big lean big lean
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bucket left that's not that small that's
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not that small that's not that small
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fish my fish is that looks like to be a
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male probably finished doing his deal
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about three weeks ago I'd say maybe a
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month ago and he's just called this
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territory zone this official pretty much
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control this whole little patch of Back
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Bay here that's sweet spawned out tired
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old male the tail is just starting to
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patch up from the ordeal or spawning
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Richwoods you'll see a still bit of
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blood in there that is a pretty fish
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it's cool that is cool anybody now he
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came in and hit it the first time most
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most people will when you're fishing a
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top water bait will react to the visual
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part of the strike and it and it's just
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normal tendency I mean you're watching
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this thing and all of a sudden your
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world comes to an end it just blows up
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so the first thing you want to do is is
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he back on that bait and 99% of the time
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all you gonna catch is air you're not
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gonna catch the fish you got it feel the
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weight as hard as that is to do you've
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gotta wait till the fish pulls that line
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down then you set the hook because that
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means he's got the bait he's turned and
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he's swimming the other way set the hook
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it's gonna catch something if you set it
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on the reaction the visual part of the
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strike he hasn't even got it yet he's
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just blowing out
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and generally your reaction so quick
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you'll pull away from his eat as he's
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trying to grab it that was cool right
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now I doubt very much in a small area
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like this I doubt that there be another
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fish however having said that if I
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didn't throw another cast in there I'd
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be an absolute fool except you is just
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too perfect a lot of things change
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throughout the season of bass fishing
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and depth may be the most critical
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factor during last year's hayseed Lake
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trip in the fall a lot of the fish were
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situated along a bluff Bank in 20 plus
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feet of water on this trip being early
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summer I guarantee the fish will be much
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shallower I could use the same top water
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approach but I'm using it in a totally
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different situation I don't know whether
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you can pick that up or not but this
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bait aside from sounding and looking
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great it's putting on an awful lot of
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bubbles it's very similar to a pop R
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that's got the big open concave mouth
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what's putting out those bubbles are
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those massive little ears and when it's
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moving through the water it's very
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similar to having that big concave lip
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that a pop R does and that's what's
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causing that gurgling bubbly effect on
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the surface that drives fish absolutely
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crazy
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there's bass that's an asset
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[Music]
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not a little guy
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shaking rocking the roll yeah baby
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that's better yeah not gonna get rid of
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that one not gonna get rid of that one
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that easy buddy
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jeez you know might need the net on that
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guy
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that's a nice that's something
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bigger than we thought buddy
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that's nice boy they're so nice that's a
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big healthy fish that fish is done
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spawning and he's just looking to find a
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home right over here off this deep ledge
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laughs you know these low-light
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conditions are perfect just what happens
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to fish that lieutenant that fish would
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normally be hiding underneath an
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overhang or around a boulder on the
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shady side of a boulder but when the Sun
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starts going down like this everything
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gets dark down there a lot quicker than
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it does above the waterline and they
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come out and they start just roaming
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around that's when talk why debates like
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this I'm telling ya not only are they
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fun but they're the most effective
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because these fish are aggressively
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seeking prey under the loader lower
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light anything on the surface and they
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smack it they don't care what it is it
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could be a bird for all they care it
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doesn't matter I as I said before I have
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absolutely no idea what a white mouse
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would be doing out here in the middle of
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the lake that attracts them I don't
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think it matters mind you the action on
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this is spectacular and that's probably
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what it is
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and then when they get close enough to
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have a look because a lot of times
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especially a top water bait you'll
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you'll twitch it and then stop and
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usually the strikes will happen as soon
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as you move it again that's because the
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fish has been under there checking out
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the bait and it finally was convinced
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that it's it's a gull so when you move
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it it will hit and if the bait is not
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realistic enough for a lot of times they
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just won't they'll follow it right to
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the boat that's when you see them coming
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up to the boat and then just flashing
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off to the side they finally realized it
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wasn't real but that is a real Mouse I
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have absolutely no no idea why they'd be
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chasing the white mouse but who cares
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[Music]
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without a doubt my favorite form of bass
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fishing is using topwater baits now I
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normally use hard popper style lures but
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on this trip I snuck in a box of secret
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weapons that I'll guarantee you have
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never seen before it's not uncommon to
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find both species of bass cohabitating a
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little corner like this by the way bats
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are bats and generally they predict on
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pretty much the same the same critters
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and in a lake like this because the
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their habitat is very similar there in
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other words this lake is not a real
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swampy lake for the most part it's a
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hard base basin lot of rock and so you
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get both species cohabitating the same
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the same water a nice fish nice biz
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that's a smoker yeah will be net in this
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guy for sure that was so cool if I had
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been watching that I wouldn't even know
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what he was on
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you just slurp it that whoa baby nice
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moly normally that that kind of fish
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just comes up and hit something big
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there we go oh thanks passion isn't that
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gorgeous mm-hmm
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small e on a rat actually Mouse this is
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DEET beauty there's another one there's
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a large money that's why I came down to
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this corner in a small he's out here on
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this log but I think there's a large
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mouth back in the far back I saw him
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earlier right about there
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this rat I'm telling you I think the key
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here especially in the shallow water you
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can stop it when it stops it looks real
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because that fur just kind of moves
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around the tail it's it's it's
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unbelievable it is unbelievable it is
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unbelievable Wow
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the province of Ontario is known for its
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fantastic fly-in walleye pike a trout
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fishing
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but what's little-known is the great
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flying bass fishing opportunities now
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although not as prevalent as the more
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popular species there are some
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incredible honey holes out there just
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waiting to be explored the commercial
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air service and tourist establishment
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Lausanne Aviation has spread the fame of
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Northern Ontario for over 40 years
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this family-owned Air Base operating
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from the community of Algoma Mills just
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outside of Blind River Ontario is the
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gateway to some of Canada's most
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pristine outdoor wilderness adventures
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the mikela service no less than nine
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fly-in Wilderness camps each one an
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adventure just waiting to happen
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with only a little time spent on the
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Internet
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the traveling bass angler can literally
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have a host of flying bass lakes at
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their disposal a simple search of flying
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bass fishing or hitting the Go Fish in
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Ontario site will have you well on your
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way in no time
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come on baby I don't think he's that big
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no thanks open nice little ice box
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took it almost at the boat little
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farther he's had he would a little
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farther he would've had to climb into
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the boat to hit that bait boy he got
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himself hung up good though that guy
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probably followed it for a while there's
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a rock out there in the middle and he
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probably followed it in boy they love
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this this Mouse school
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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yes he's on a little guy maybe not
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wait you're not oh boy he's pulling good
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he's plugged real good but he's not big
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though you know it is I got a look at
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him run it that's a small fish but my
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god yes really that's a real small fish
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not tiny by anything is but we did love
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this thing now I definitely have a new
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favorite lure I'll tell you that right
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now
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[Music]
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now it's nightstand
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just they just I don't know what they're
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thinking
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that's that's that's right out here in
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open water that's the best bread that's
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probably a schooling fish and generally
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we find those things and I think I might
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have you'll say really aggressive you
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should luck out in getting two or three
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an anger that uses topwater baits it's
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kind of like a designated hitter in
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baseball
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he's on pure up there for one reason and
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one reason only and that is to hit that
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baby out of the park no God which means
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you're gonna have a lot of strike up or
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in our case a lot of miss fish and they
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marry some to come back to hit the same
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fate there's the pitch
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[Applause]
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yeah
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he'll feel that one tomorrow you didn't
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like the days of that right obviously I
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was very fortunate the pasty lake the
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body of water I'm fishing today has had
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very little pressure so far in fact only
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one couple was in before me but they
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reported caches of a hundred to two
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hundred fish a day now normally I'd be
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worried about such big numbers put on
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this little Ontario fast magneri but it
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just means the lakes on fire that rat is
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killing them that rat is killing them
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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look how fat he is I think just to eat
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something to eat a rat that is gorgeous
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Wow there's a ton more that was a
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shallow water fish which means there
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should be a pile of them cruising out
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here that's beautiful Wow Oh steady when
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you dissect the typical topwater lure
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there's really not a lot alive about it
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the baits I'm using today however are
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all about the enticement features this
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beat is nothing short enough phenomenal
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little guy
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literally tiny not tiny but well she's
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not tiny at all
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[Music]
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dice mama he hardly made a sound when he
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took that hardly made a sound I didn't
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even know oh nice
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nice my son is down behind the tree so
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there's virtually no light at all on the
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surface where that fish took the bait I
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mean it it is pretty much lights out for
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them so they're just roaming around free
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men it's a free-for-all
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you could probably save and catch all of
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them oh nice nice oh that's a big fish
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he could be a little fatter but he is so
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long
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[Music]
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that's what we call a Slurpee he did
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smack it he didn't come out of the water
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and jump down on it
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he just got underneath it just just
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slipped it down that's great that
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mission canada hotspot the ultimate
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today's hot spot is a big underwater
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Boulder in hasty lake the waypoint on
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your screen will take you right there
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every time we came up on this rock we
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saw big fish around it this would be a
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phenomenal early season hot spot as big
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female bass will spawn directly beside
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the rock pass the tube jig right next to
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the boulder and hang on to get the hasty
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Lake we took highway 400 north to 69
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north then took highway 17 west
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we traveled west Algoma Mills and then
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to Lausanne aviation on Lake Lausanne
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from there it's a quick flow plane trip
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into the great cottage on beautiful
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hasty de Lausanne Aviation is a
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