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Fish’n Boot Camp Part 1 | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
In this 2 part series, Angelo Viola & Pete Bowman pull rank and take over a fishing lodge turning it into a one of a kind fishing BOOT CAMP. With a special appearance from Mr Bass “Roland Martin”, this 2-part episode is the most unique trip of the season. 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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LP and we use it
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religiously that's what we call
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there we
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go the fishing Canada show brought to
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you in part by sale the Canadian
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Outdoors
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Superstore Coleman The Outdoor
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Company Cooper tires Life's a road trip
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come on let's go and Princecraft boats
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dominate the
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water thr of our lives there have been
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many special defining moments that help
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shape who we are
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today unfortunately most of us don't
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realize at the time just how profound
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that effect may be in fact in some cases
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we don't even know that we're actually
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having a
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moment we've always been of the belief
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that by sharing our love and passion for
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the outdoors and in particular fishing
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it will somehow make a difference in
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people's
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lives well today's show has defined ing
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moments written all over it it's called
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fishing boot camp and it has all the
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earmarks of a life-altering experience
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for 40 grown
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men it all started one evening a couple
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of years ago on a Wilderness fishing
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trip in Northern Canada the participants
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were Roy arms and Scott Jameson of
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Cooper tires and an and I and that's a
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great northern after an incredible day
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of pike fishing we started reminiscing
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about previous fishing trips and how
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fortunate we were to have been blessed
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with so many incredible opportunities
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and experiences which all lead us to the
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same conclusion we need to find a way of
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sharing these with other folks who might
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otherwise never get a chance to sample
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Mother Nature's defining
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moments now you might be saying to
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yourself that we've probably been
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sampling a few too many Camp poops
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making a comment like that after all
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we've been sharing these experiences
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with you the television audience for
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over 30 years but we're not talking
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about that we're talking about touching
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feeling in your face mono a mono fishing
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experience Camp style and that was it
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why not put on a fishing boot camp and
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that night the seed was
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planted and here we are two years later
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our first official fishing boot
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camp for this pilot project Cooper tires
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was put in charge of selecting the
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campers and with no surprise they all
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came from the tire industry with ties to
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an Ontario based distributor called Tire
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Discounter group based in
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Orangeville we took on the task of
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assembling The Faculty writing the
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curriculum and selecting the venue that
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was a no-brainer our choice Shier Lodge
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on the legendary French River for the
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faculty aside from Pete and I we're
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bringing in a rod expert longtime
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angling specialist Scott Dong from
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carrot sticks rod company a local
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fishing expert who knows these Waters
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like the back of his hand owner of Shier
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Lodge Steve Net's Wiki and as a surprise
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bonus for the campers we also invited
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our old fishing buddy and Rockstar of
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the fishing World none other than Roland
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Martin himself so what are our chances
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of getting one 110 BR 110% we have got
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the
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deal this is all the makings of a life
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Al experience for a lot of
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folks Yours Truly
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included I'm uh getting ready here to
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receive hopefully about 40 anxious
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campers but the weather as you can see
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is stalling things I know they're at the
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marina we sent a boat out to pick them
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up but this rain might be slowing things
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down finally the campers arrive and the
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looks in their faces says it all there's
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a certain electricity in the air we all
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feel it something very special is
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brewing it's the magic that happens when
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you assemble a bunch of like-minded
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people in a Wilderness environment for
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the purpose of fishing fantastic this is
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a wonderful opport opportunity for us as
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Tire Discounter group and our dealers
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and Cooper Tire to kind of come together
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in this beautiful setting and really
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enjoy each other's company and have a
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lot of fun I don't think life gets much
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better than
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this and now we are waiting for our last
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team members to come
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here and then following that at the very
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end we're going to give Roy arms and the
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Cooper people a military
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welcome which by the way we just learned
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includes auto racing Superstar Johnny
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uner of the legendary uner racing family
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wow this thing is growing by the
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minute our team at Cooper is just doing
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a fantastic job we're growing in the US
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at the same time we're growing in Canada
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although in Canada uh we're growing much
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FAS one of the fastest growing areas
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that we've got in our company globally
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I'm ready ready are you ready to
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go boot camp is the same everywhere
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basic training and here with about 40
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Anglers of varying degrees of expertise
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we figured we'd start with the basics
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loading a Tackle Box assuming everyone
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has rods reels and lines the first thing
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to go into a tackle box is terminal
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tackle these are things used to keep
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your bait on the end of your line
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terminal tackle can be bought in bulk or
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in packages with lots of assorted pieces
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you'll need snaps and swivels hooks
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split Rings sinkers and weights next in
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the Box are a pair of longnose pliers
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with a wire cutter at the base a hook
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extractor a fishing multi-tool
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a filet knife and of course being The
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Optimist that we are a scale this will
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get any novice angler more than started
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we'll fill that tackle box with more
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goodies in session two of next week's
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installment of boot camp in the meantime
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visit the experts at sale the Canadian
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Outdoor Superstore to see all the Tackle
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Box Basics you'll ever
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need I can't believe this is finally
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happening everyone's here and accounted
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for everyone that is except Roland
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Martin I'm starting to get a little
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worried and then just as I was about to
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give up on him there he stood the
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fishing legend himself let the party
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begin allrise The Honorable Roland
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Martin is now in Camp Rand
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Martin welcome to the fishing boot camp
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welcome
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everybody you're in the room with more
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fishing knowledge than than anywhere
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else in Canada right now so let fishing
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boot camp begin and have a great time
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and enjoy the
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meal not just anyone can get into show
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your Lodge but they keep trying inside
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we're taking fishing workshops to the
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next level and
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Beyond I know it's early in the morning
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at 6:00 but that's why it's called a
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boot camp not a vacation let's get some
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business out of the way first you all
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received a life jacket every moment that
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you are on the water you must have those
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jackets on not all campers are at the
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same level in terms of fishing expertise
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so specific workshops are required in
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order for them to get the full benefit
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of this experience formula you know for
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example if you're going out there
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fishing for walleye and you've
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established that 10%
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of the body of water that's going to
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have Walley you found the location now
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once again based on the knowledge Factor
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you have got to figure out how to get
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them in the boat when we say we follow a
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formula we follow a formula and the
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formula is klp and we use it
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religiously and we want you to start
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understanding this formula and hopefully
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it will change the way you see fishing
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today it sounds crazy it sounds like you
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know Mortal Kombat in the boat but but
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it is is so effective and when they hit
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it like he said it's just absolutely
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nuts if the participants could come out
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of this Camp learning just one new thing
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about fishing then our job will be done
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here boom boom then the attitude is
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right at right back at you saying
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something to me no no no no
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no uh we're making it happen slowly but
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surely you know it's a process we're
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having some fun with it we've asked the
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guys what they wanted to do so we have a
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local
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guide here that's really good on Walley
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with Billy they are probably going to
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catch 10 minimum fish per guy in that
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boat so I'm predicting if there's eight
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guys they're going to get 80 to 100
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Walley well we're trying to put people
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together in boats that have some common
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interest in terms of species or the type
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of fishing now this particular boat
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these three guys have been talking to me
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about going Musky fishing since they hit
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Camp so I sent them out to my primary
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spot it is a little bit far away for the
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small boat to get to but it will change
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their lives I'll guarantee
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yeah so I'm going to use something
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called a bob forign knot there's my
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leader yep double it up about 10 12 in
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and what pound is that on the end this
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is eight uh so if you get a big fish hun
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it's a bit of a bit of a
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challenge rol's taking it kind of easy
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this morning but he's already handed to
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something special for him and I later
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today and suggested that I bring along a
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few bucks do I set some bet Brewing
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I'll give you a little bit of
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information about the French River what
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these guys are in store for where I'm
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sitting right now I mean this is all
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over the place there's all these islands
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are all dotted throughout the River from
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Steve's Shier Lodge all the way out to
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Lake nipping and each and every one of
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them could have fish on them once you
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get to know the places like this like
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for instance out this side you can catch
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small Mo bass in close to the point or
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in close to the shore you catch Walle
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out over the drop and you can catch
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musky in between in one spot back in
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behind this island there's back bays in
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there that are full of large M bass and
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these Bays go on for on and on and on so
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there's so much water here to fish it
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could be confusing to you but the good
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thing about a fishery like the French is
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there's a lot of fish of all species in
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here so you're you're going to get
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something no matter what when you come
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up here you're going to catch fish
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although I get a real thrill out of
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teaching people how to fish watching
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them catch fish is still one of the most
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enjoyable things that I do as an
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experienced angler so after a quick not
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tying Clinic I took Scott Jameson and
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Johnny yenser out on the water to see
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what they' learned so basically we're
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going to fish where these two points
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come in there's a little bit of a bowl
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which we're going to go over that and
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then it's all sand in that area and it
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faces that
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way that's the way perfect got your
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working that thing perfectly you got
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him it's interesting to note how people
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process information and then execute
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what they've learned it's obvious at
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least at this point Scott is a better
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bass fishing student than Johnny but
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that's okay at these camps everybody
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learns at a different pace it's what you
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take home with you that really counts
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and right now my friends what really
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counts is not being late for a legendary
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Shier Shor lunch
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my favorite part of the day Walley
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shorl I think you need a couple of
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chocolate B
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to get to our fishing Canada Cooper Tire
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boot camp at Shier Lodge we first took
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Highway 400 North from Toronto we then
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took Highway 69 North to Highway 64 we
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headed east on 64 to dois reserve Road
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and then proceeded towards doi's Marine
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for about a half hour if you don't have
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your own boat call The Lodge from the
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pay phone on the dock to be picked up by
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the lodge staff from there it's a short
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boat ride to the outstanding destination
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when sharing a boat with the one and
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only Roland Martin magic is D to be it
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doesn't matter if he's fishing sitting
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talking heck even
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sleeping that said the moment Roland
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grabs a rod It's Like A Champion
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Gladiator wielding a mighty sword a
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spectacle is about to
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happen as we Cruise one of the many
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Bassy looking back Bays Roland finally
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jumps to action and hops to the bow of
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the boat
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uh he says he can get 10 out of 10 this
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guy sees fish like no other time to have
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a bit of fun Mr Martin is about to put
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on a
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clinic okay 0 for one I'm counting now
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roll that's
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mud what okay what do you figure he's
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going to go out of 10 let's bet it
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come on buddy pressure's on you now H it
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to three for five now we're talking boy
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the oh that's the one Rowan wanted uh-oh
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anyways he's what is he now four for six
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four for six and I'm saying he could go
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6 for 10 Roy's got uh seven for
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10 oh I saw that
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marker down brother Mark her
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down 4 for8 he's got two to go oh I know
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what he's doing I know exactly what he's
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doing he's not setting the hook anymore
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he's just dragging into him five for
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nine I got great confidence I could have
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said
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50/50 o o
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o so that's 6 for 10 it was a valiant
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effort I must say you did a great job I
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just won myself five of some either
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tesos or Canadian dollars I'm not sure
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yet I'm getting a cut out of this right
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yeah you're getting half you Kidd me I
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told you I whispered that in your ear I
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know you wouldn't have missed those
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first three
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fish good job today
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Roland well you know you have to figure
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it out go I'm depressed now
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man the only thing that can cap off an
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on thewater Roland Martin spectacle is
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to wrap up the day with great music and
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beverage
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hey we didn't say the boot camp wouldn't
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be
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fun here
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no my just took all the Reas i'
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been don't youy
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and I'm
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walk the door you can take this job and
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shove it I ain't going work
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here no
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more next week on the fishing Canada
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show we're going to dive deeper into the
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boot camp curriculum through workshops
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and onboat instruction we'll see if our
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40 recruits have what it takes to raise
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their fishing skills to the next
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level awesome buddy
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fish yeah nice Beauty right off short
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awesome pass man it doesn't get any
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better than this boys no it just doesn't
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get any better than
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this today's Hotpot is where Mr Bass
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Roland Martin put on his mini clinic for
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all to see the Waypoint on your screen
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will take you right there now although
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this spot is not a complete secret we'll
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bet these large mouth have never been
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sifted through like they were today
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especially not by the dolly llama of
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fishing his Holiness Mr Martin the area
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is a weed bed between two islands top
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Waters spinner baits Square Bill
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crankbaits as well as worm and crayfish
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imitating Plastics will all work here
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this is what we call a quick hit spot
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meaning fish fast and if you don't have
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any action within 15 minutes move on for
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more hot spots like this one check out
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fishing canada.com
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on today's klp we'll highlight k for
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knowledge this boot camp is designed to
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instill valuable knowledge and knowhow
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in the eager to learn Anglers that are
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attending the klp formula was created to
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break down the world of angling into
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segments in order to better understand
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things like barometric pressure and its
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effects on fish lure choices in a
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variety of conditions and how to use a
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bait casting reel with confidence and so
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on Pete and I are amazed not only at the
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enthusiasm of the angers in general but
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as well as their ability to absorb and
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then execute this new found knowledge on
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the water that's why fishing is such a
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great
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sport the fishing Canada show brought to
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harder than a ram Sterns trusted on the
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