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Apr 15, 2025
Steve Niedzwiecki is fishing the rapids area of the St. Mary's River in Sault Ste. Marie with local fishing guide, Tyler Dunn. They are searching for the acrobatic Atlantic Salmon. Tyler gives Steve many pointers on how to use "bass" style baits for a fish that normally is associated with fly fishing. Heavy hardware does the trick on these St. Mary's Atlantic's! ► 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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tyler dunn right there
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guide extraordinaire up here in the zoo
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man northern ontario urban fishing
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saucy marie atlantic salmon right there
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bullets silver bulk king of chrome
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yeah look at the size of that fish
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brother
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[Music]
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this week's episode finds me steve
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nidzwicki
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making my first voyage on the fnc-1
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without the expert guidance of fishing
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canada hosts
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angelo viola or pete bowman i've taken
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the princecraft to the saint mary's
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river
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next to the city of sault ste marie in
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search of atlantic salmon
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thankfully however i'm not entirely on
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my own today i'll be joined by
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expert fishing guide and long time
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friend of the show
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tyler dunn tyler steve how's it going
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buddy how you doing brother
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here let me take some of that gear man
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thanks buddy tyler has been a guest on
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the show before and has proven himself
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to be a top tier guide
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demonstrating remarkable success across
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numerous species and bodies of water
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oh yeah look at that thing
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loyal viewers may recall as well he's no
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stranger to sault ste marie
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or the saint mary's river hey listen are
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those those rapids you fished with peter
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yeah yeah a couple years two years ago
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me and pete we went up there uh
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chasing some steelhead it was october it
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was it was cold and windy
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yeah it still would have been fun though
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but we put some scales into the net
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no we're in those nice that's awesome
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that's awesome
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i can't wait to get into these here yeah
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same here it's a total different time of
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year total different species but
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uh same look at the atlantic atlantic
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sam yeah yeah
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yeah bullets silver bulks king of chrome
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[Laughter]
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well let's let's put some chrome in the
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old uh f and c
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one let's do it steve yeah baby
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ready yeah yeah i'm ready
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so whatever got you into guiding to
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start with ah
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actually i started in college i took uh
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business at fanshawe college and
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my small business teacher we had to do a
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business plan so i did a business plan
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on a fishing guide service
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and that's basically how it all started
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nice
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now when you were doing this business
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plan yep did you do it because you were
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doing it for business or did you do it
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because you thought you were going to do
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a lot of fishing
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i did it for the lifestyle exactly a lot
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of exactly a lot of pictures
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did you quickly find out that as a guide
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you don't fish a whole lot i found that
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out
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very quickly being a person that
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employed the guides to work for me
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the biggest thing that i learned about
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guides
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and how to judge whether you've got
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somebody that's good or somebody that's
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not
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is if your guests come in and they've
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had a great day
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and they don't talk about the fishing
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yep i agree i've always said a good
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guide will re-book a trip on a bad day
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fishing
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exactly yeah i totally agree it's not
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just about catching fish some days it's
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about teaching and
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teaching and just having a good time
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yeah exactly
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and they they hammer it out yeah the
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hammer you'll feel that snap like a
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senko snap you know what i mean yeah
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that's what it feels like a lot of times
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i like the snap not long into our drifts
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i feel a snap all right but not the type
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i like
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one of these kings of chrome grabs onto
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my line so hard
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it breaks
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but i did manage to get a glimpse of the
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fish and now i'm even more pumped to get
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one of these monsters
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into the boat oh yeah look at the size
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of that
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fish this thing is nice
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and drifting back again 100
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man this current is strong eh roughly
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five miles an hour steve it's insane
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they have the the gates of the canadian
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powerhouse just rocking right now
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nice well i guess that has something to
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do with the fishing too absolutely
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that's uh moving colder water will bring
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those fish right up to these buoys
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they'll sit here all
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all summer nice yeah though the crazy
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current of the saint mary's river may be
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partially to thank for these atlantics
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being here
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it also introduces some significant
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challenges
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the powerful current pushes us
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downstream so quickly
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each of our drifts is over before we
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know it which doesn't leave us a lot of
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time to experiment with our
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presentations before we have to fire up
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the merc
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and head back upstream i know this
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current can be a pain
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tries your patience oh yeah what it is
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out here with any fishing is a lot of
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his boat control
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yeah when i'm guiding like keeping that
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boat straight working that drift nice
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you'll notice the guys out there that
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don't do the drift right yeah they're
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getting the odd fish they're snagging up
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every second drift
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in current or not in current boat
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control is still key
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like i mean even up on the french when
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we were when i was guiding for walleye
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oh i think you know boat control
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especially when you got four lines with
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guests and everything
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man you get you get into a breeze and
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start twisting and turning the next
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thing you know you got a knot underneath
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the boat between three or four people
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that you have to fix that i gotta fix
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and what is it about boat control in
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this water
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that is makes you successful well it's
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the speed of the water going we're
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dealing with right
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think of the fish yeah you know that
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presentation has to be almost
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perfect cool let's get in there
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nice there we go
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steve boy i felt the first tick and
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that's that
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feels like a good one too oh stay nice
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awesome i can't wait to see
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one of these fish i'll grab the net
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and in this current tube oh it's
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multiply it by three the
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strength of these fish i'm just waiting
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for this fish to take off on me
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oh yeah there she's going now
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sometimes it just takes changing up that
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color that's exactly what it took
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i think this is the second drift with
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the green and with the yeah the green
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yeah they're throwing
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white we've been throwing white and
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albino which is a grace and melty smell
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patterns
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is what we've been throwing yes baby
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there we go yes when you've got to chase
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a fish
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you know it's big that's that's the way
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to do her bud right there
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we've been using the anchor on our uh
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trolling motor and it doesn't even hold
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us in place it just slows us down and
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keeps the bow straight
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gives us a perfect drift it makes it a
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lot easier this is awesome oh
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looks like it's coming back this way
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nice fish wow
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nice fish look at the size of that fish
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had a boy ontario atlantic salmon
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[Laughter]
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oh yeah look at the size of that
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fish this thing is nice
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oh yes and drifting back into the net
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oh that is a beautiful fish
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come on baby
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look at the size of that fish brother
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oh baby what a
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beautiful fish that's a season
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river atlantic salmon right there baby
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that's the stuff
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that's it oh beautiful
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baby bass and a darter jig head
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all right get that baby unhooked
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right in town too northern ontario urban
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fishing
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pretty much what it is yeah i love it
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wow big fish eh big fish
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you know and they're just starting to
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come up so the numbers are just going to
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increase every day for the next two
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three months that's awesome yeah
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and that fish the one that i had hooked
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up with they're
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roughly the same size i think like i
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mean they're quality quality
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definitely it's uh at this moment in
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time it's uh quality over quantity but
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in the next two three weeks
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you're gonna get a bit of both you're
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going to get some quantity of quality
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yeah
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that's awesome but yeah well let's do it
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again again really yeah
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baby bass that color change it's crazy
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oh nice just
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[Music]
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i'm on the saint mary's river right next
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to sault ste marie
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and local fishing guide tyler dunn is
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putting on a clinic
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showing me how to catch mighty atlantic
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salmon i can't wait to see this fish
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pound for pound they are hard to beat
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everybody says smallmouth are the
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hardest fighting fish hardest hard to
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say when you get a summer run atlantic
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even a summer run rainbow it's
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very hard to compare different fights
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totally but different fights and you've
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got the current too that you're fighting
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right i'd like to fight 12 pound bass in
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this car exactly oh like no kidding
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more commonly associated with canada's
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maritimes atlantic salmon naturally
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colonized lake ontario from the atlantic
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ocean
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and adapted to life in freshwater
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conditions some 12 000 years ago
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however by 1898 due to the introduction
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of dams
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deforestation of riverbanks pollution
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and over harvesting
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the atlantics were extripated from the
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great lakes
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since then ontario spent millions of
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dollars in atlantic salmon restoration
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programs
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to date none have proven to succeed in
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bringing back these acrobatic fighters
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in significant numbers however there
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is hope as evidenced in today's show on
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the saint mary's river
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the united states through the lake
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superior state university
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seems to have found a secret formula
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that is having some degree of success
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so the americans have been stalking this
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river for 25 years
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lake state's the major factor in it they
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started the atlantic program here really
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they're responsible for our annual run
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um
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the state of michigan now buys i think
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30 000 a year off the university
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and they put them in lake huron right on
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so it's it's you know the
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lake here in itself is getting a good
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number of fish every year now yeah yep
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that's excellent so ty we're using these
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flukes on the
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on the jake i love that kind of fishing
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because i'm a bass guy right
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but i see a couple other boats around
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here doing different things
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how can you catch these fish other than
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what we're doing
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well first off this is my personal
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favorite way to catch them into
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action-packed you're
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you're casting you're moving you're
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watching you're getting follows
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sometimes you're going through some
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walls on action but when you get that
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bite it's well worth the wait
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oh yeah but they're you're right there's
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so many different ways to catch these
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fish uh most of these guys out here they
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have downriggers down
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you know spoons crankbaits stuff like
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that a lot of guys are flat lining
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crankbaits yeah then there's the fly
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guys
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so there's fly fishermen out here that
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are back back with the flies waving them
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around then you move in the rapids and
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you got the nymphers
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you guys two-handed spay fishing there's
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that's awesome there's so many different
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ways to catch these fish
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um it's all time of year a lot a lot of
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the issues with it um
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right now in my opinion this is the most
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productive way to do it
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yep um that said in another couple weeks
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the fly guys will be uh taking over
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taking over
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cool
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oh nice
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i slowed down that that cast big time
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the hop really slow
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boom okay so i slowed down that hop
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really instead of snapping it just nice
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and slow nice and slow
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nice and a boy right on this weed bed
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feels like another decent fish
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and i just saw one surface did you as i
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said
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you know we should hold the boat
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wang all right
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i haven't got a good look at it yet
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slide down here and grab the net
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oh look at it run oh that a boy oh easy
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girl easy there
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easy girl that's another good fish nice
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job
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brother
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it's always difficult fishing and
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current eh spins the boat
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oh yeah difficult but exciting man
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make some interesting oh yeah can't be
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too easy hell no
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[Music]
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acting the same kind of dogging me and
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that cold water just making them
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wow i'm a believer now you were saying
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they're all good bites
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yeah good bites man and you don't get a
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lot of them and make a count when you
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get one yeah
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wow powerful wow
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yeah straight to bottom like a lake
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trout yeah buddy that's
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lake trout and steelhead put into one
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fish now that's a fish
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i might have to go the other side of the
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boat here all right
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oh no he's coming back
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wow just
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it's getting bigger oh yeah stay down
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buddy
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oh look at that now
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for this episode steve fished the
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well-known rapids directly adjacent to
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the city of sault ste marie ontario
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to get there he first drove north on
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highway 400 and then continued north on
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69
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and then headed northwest on highway 17
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at sudbury
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steve followed 17 to the sioux then
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turned right on south market street
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continued onto mcnabb street turned
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right under great northern road
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and finally arrived at the quattro hotel
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on the left
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the quattro is an angler-friendly
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facility understanding our needs
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as an extra parking space for trucks
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with boats bringing in lots of fishing
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gear to the rooms
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access to outside electricity for
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charging batteries etc etc
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the city of sault ste marie has some of
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the best urban fishing opportunities in
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all of ontario
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it's getting bigger oh yeah on that
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fluke eh
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that fluke with the jk yep nice and
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simple
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jig head and plastic and you slowed down
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your presentation attack
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yeah instead of that snap jigging we
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were doing earlier i just just normal
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kind of swimming it through the water
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column
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and that you know when we were using the
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uh anchor hold with the
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trolling motor it was tough to do that
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right
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because the current was going so much
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quicker but once you start moving with
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the current a little faster it's easier
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to slow that down because you're in the
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you're moving with the water you're
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exactly right
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oh there it is there it is i see it yeah
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that's another really cool match
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nice job you just bring them in i'll try
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and get it down buddy
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i love fish thrashing beside the boat
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man
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especially ones like that oh
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what a beautiful
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[Music]
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that is oh
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oh that is so exciting and i haven't
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even caught one yet
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had a lot i had one on yeah wow
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they're nice sized fish beautiful colors
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oh man
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that is amazing let me grab something
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the fin clip right there that'll tell
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you the year class right there
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that tells you the year yeah you can go
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online and look at the left factorial
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fin it'll tell you what gear was stocked
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really yep yeah she drilled it yeah
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now bad
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saucy marie atlantic salmon right there
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yeah
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absolutely guide extraordinaire right
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here
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that's the stuff
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[Music]
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oh nice job brother oh buddy another
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beautiful
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give me a hug and you slowed that
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retrieval yeah big time
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right yeah that's i'm gonna i'm using
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just a simple jig head and fluke
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and earlier on that fast curve we were
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ripping it popping it like a bucktail
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jig yeah
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and then now we're drifting down slow
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with the current yeah to cast out and
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just let that
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about the same speeders are drifting
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down just kind of popping it out it'll
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be better to
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when when the boat is moving with the
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current we'll have more control
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unfortunately my time with tyler is up
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he has an afternoon charter that he's
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got to get to
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so thanks brother no problem i really
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appreciate it it was awesome it was my
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pleasure steve having me up
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yeah i'm so looking forward to getting
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together again with you and and fishing
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for
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whatever but i appreciate you showing me
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how to catch these
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and i might just head back out and uh
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give it another few hours on my own
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anytime and good luck brother thank you
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thank you with the training wheels off i
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steer the fnc one back to our spot
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armed with a little more tactical
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know-how i'm gonna fight the odds on my
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own
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keep your fingers crossed for us
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[Music]
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hey i'll take luck from anywhere i can
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get it
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tyler warned that the evening bite may
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be even more challenging
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and once again he's proven to be right
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the fish seem to have shut down
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the window of opportunity possibly
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closed the other anglers
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disappearing from the water and yet i
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carry on
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i really wish i had a guide
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my time fishing for atlantics on the
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saint mary's river
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a species and body of water both
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completely new to me
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has reinforced the importance of having
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an expert like tyler dunn
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who can deliver you to the right spot
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and demonstrate the techniques that will
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put you on the path to fishing success
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though i didn't hook up with one i had
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an unforgettable day on the water and
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feel much more confident that i'll net
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one of these silver bullets on my next
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visit
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today's hot spot is where steve and
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tyler spent their time drifting the
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saint mary's river
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directly adjacent to the city of sault
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ste marie ontario
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there
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the local anglers wait all year for the
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salmon and trout run in order to cash in
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on this extraordinary city-side fishing
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experience
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the beauty of fishing here is that you
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don't always know what you'll catch
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could be an atlantic a chinook a pink a
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steelhead
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and believe it or not the list goes on
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best of all
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if you're staying at one of the local
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angler friendly accommodations then you
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can walk the river's edge
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start casting and have the possibility
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of the fish of a lifetime
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for more hot spots like this one check
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