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Giant Lures = Giant Alberta Walleye | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
This episode takes Angelo Viola to Lac la Biche in Northern Alberta, where he teams up with fishing guide Ray Kohlruss to target some Big Northern Pike. They quickly discover though that big Walleye are much more interested in their giant baits than the pike! Related Episode: | Episode 458 | Pinehurst Big Bait, Big Fish: https://youtu.be/-hIlQBBLgqs 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 #Season31 #FishingCanada #Fishing
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that is absolutely nuts I don't think
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I've ever seen anything like that
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who would ever throw two like that for
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the wall
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Patterson credit I've never seen
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anything like it Wow
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two suicides that day oh my god that's
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slowly approaching some of the best
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walleye fishing I've ever seen
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we all have a situation we do to the
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and hunting magazine this week's fishing
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adventure takes us to Lac Labiche
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located in the heart of scenic north
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central Alberta a French translation of
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a Cree phrase meaning Lake of the elk
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Lac Labiche shares its name with the
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small community situated on its southern
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shore and as the name suggests it's a
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region that is rich in both wildlife and
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cultural diversity despite a modest
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population of under 3000 the hamlet of
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Lac Labiche is a thriving community
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steeped in the history that surrounds
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the shores of its namesake just up the
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road is the Lac Labiche mission a
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national historic site that invites
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visitors to walk on floors that nearly
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predate Canada's Confederation just
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minutes away I find myself on my own
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mission joined by ray chorus no stranger
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to the fishing Canada audience and owner
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of Alberta's reel angling adventures
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we're on a mission to find a land a big
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northern pike as we speak however a few
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facts emerge that will definitely
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complicate our missions objective
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once again Mother Nature is gonna
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dictate how this game plays out judging
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by that wind we're gonna have to rely on
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on on a Ledge somewhere for sure
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because I mean there's not a breath of
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wind out there man that's gonna be we
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may have to change our tactics a little
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bit here unless the wind starts blowing
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we were gonna target giant shallow water
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northerns that normally cruise the
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shorelines this time of year
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with zero wind and pea soup for water
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that plan is now out the window when our
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far down it goes the answer all the way
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down it turns out the lack Labiche is in
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the middle of a massive unexpected algae
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bloom a public advisory will soon be
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posted warning residents and visitors to
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the presence of this potentially harmful
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blue-green algae what's worse is that
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this bloom appears to spend the entire
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lake
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it's a coast-to-coast Hmong fest now I'm
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really worried pelicans are certain
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Lesley pray well maybe they're actually
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vultures and they sense that our plan
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shoot is soon going to be dead in the
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water too much I got too much meat oh
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yeah get a hook that one right that's a
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pike oh yeah any size two more no I
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started to get up into that class that
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we're looking for a net the edible one
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it's got a scar on his back
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I'll net them for you yeah please
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there you go little salad with your
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water perhaps that's the how big is that
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probably in 28 29 inch range
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yeah and he's probably down there
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chasing down some of those wall I'll bet
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yeah all right
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he's not what we're looking for though
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buddy
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thank you
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we should probably just start back home
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slowly back throwing it crashing hmm
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we'll get all kinds of fish gosh
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our only chance is to go deep and keep
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moving our baits and hope to find the
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odd active fish with the visibility so
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poor all the way down the water column
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back trolling through this green mist is
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our only logical solution moving these
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huge colorful pike baits through as much
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water as possible will up the odds that
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they'll be spotted and struck by some
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unsuspecting northern pike oh yeah oh
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yeah biker walleye it's hard to say it's
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jerking back here I want to hear it
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biker walleye pike my bike all right you
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heard it my wrists are hurting now oh
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wow it's a big fish whatever it is big
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fish yeah
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oh nice pike hey guys okay now I believe
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your wrists are hurting
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bring him home bring him home nice good
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work easy easy
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nice buddy thank you that's a 40-inch
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fish for sure though probably 18 yeah I
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would think so okay nice there's got a
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got a bit of a belly full yeah nice nice
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big predators hey man these things just
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they're so dominant in there oh yeah in
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their territory so that worked out all
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right yeah thanks
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beautiful he's got nothing but walleye
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down there deep and into the green mist
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that's going to the darkness happy yeah
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darkness
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that is absolutely nuts I don't think
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I've ever seen anything like that he
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will not let go got one oh yeah yes you
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yes it smacked it pulling and then shut
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her down yeah
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oh yeah feels good yeah it might be the
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ticket you're not throw around it's it's
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petering out oh oh you big walleye
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walleye walleye well it's not a big
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northern but right now we'll take just
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about anything to say go give us and
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I'll get you an event while the walleye
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population of Lac Labiche is enjoying a
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comeback since its near disappearance in
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the 1960s the species has been
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designated a strict catch and release
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fish to help the numbers continue to
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recover and by all reports things are
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going really well that's got potential
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that's on hold
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oh that's at least twenty eight oh nice
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buddy Thanks who the hell I am
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Wow gorgeous fish no wonder he hit like
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a rock yes either they just keep Odie
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yeah just gave up and cool would say you
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know at least 28 inches and we were oh
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yeah this was a suspended walleye - yeah
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yeah well maybe we're under a pattern
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yeah you know on a day like this way who
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knows mm-hmm that would be fun wouldn't
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it get a bunch of those yeah you know we
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may have to hunker down and fish for
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them on a serious note a with a day half
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over and Ray and I feeling about as beat
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as a pair of rented mules we noticed
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something strange on the surface a few
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hundred feet off the starboard side
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not exactly overwhelmed with fishing
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action we decided to go check it out
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it looked like it could be a dying fish
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but in fact it was a message from the
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fish gods all we need to do is interpret
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it that is absolutely nuts I don't think
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I've ever seen anything like that okay
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I've seen I've seen predators eat fish
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but what we're looking at here is a
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small to medium sized pike obviously
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caught his food which is about half his
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size
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he managed to kill it probably
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suffocating it swimming around but he
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can't eat it and he's wore himself out
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completely just trying to kill it you
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could see his gills are still moving and
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he won't let go I mean talk about the
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competitive nature of fish I mean that
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thing will not let go it's gonna die
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it's gonna be obviously Wow you got
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another see we could release we could
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Patterson credit I didn't like it Wow
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I should get you close enough look at
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this Wow new lacerations around the back
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of that fish he will not let go Wow and
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he's still he was he was how crazy was
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that oh there's some Pelican food Wow
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that's what fishings all about right
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there you see stuff like this every time
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my god I've never seen anything that
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quite that spectacular before but
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especially northern pike a they just
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seem to be they just don't know better
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once they're dialed in on food it
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doesn't matter well I hope we didn't
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interfere with something there I think
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you've we saved his life life yeah yeah
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it's too hot for you sir all right now
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but there's pelicans flying around here
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pelicans had seen that yeah it's been
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light so it would have been two for one
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for one that's good stuff
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my contraption I gotta be a pike he came
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back a second time has got to be a bike
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although he's coming in like a big old
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open mouth wall I know big why yeah
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another big walleye oh yeah he's got
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that half that bait coming over the bow
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that is excellent look at this that's
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crazy
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oh my goodness and another 28 suicides
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that bait oh my god that is beautiful
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that gold look at that fish that's a
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long fish huh
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he's not fat he's got the big head butt
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and you said it stroke stroke your hook
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twice didn't ya
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he came back which is pretty unusual you
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know he loved it look at the size of
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that thing
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oh yeah we good 27 28 oh yeah oh for
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sure for sure
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see ya who'd a thunk that though a
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seriously catching walleye on that
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absolutely but it's a pike bait
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it's the perfect pike bait especially
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here obviously the the bright colors are
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attracting those young pike but for why
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did that crazy
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he run into yeah yeah
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which is where you supposed to have it
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yeah good stuff all right
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look at that that's slowly approaching
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some of the best walleye fishing I've
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ever seen
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after witnessing nature in its purest
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and raw form with the little pike in
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this death grip on a meal half its size
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and catching yet another walleye on an
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enormous pike bait I had an epiphany
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actually two of them that's it
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waved the flag he surrendered if you
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present a neutral or negative fish with
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a choice between a big or small meal
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it's gonna go after the big one every
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time and when you think about it why
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wouldn't it it's all about the ROI
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return on investment in this case the
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investment is the energy the fish
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consumes to catch the meal versus the
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energy it gets from eating a window shut
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down like today that ROI has to be at a
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premium a plastic on there yeah it's
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gone Wow look at that that is
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unbelievable that fish swallowed that he
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just swallowed that bait that is crazy
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my second epiphany stopped chasing
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northerns when clearly the walleye are
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telling you they want to dance the other
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another nice walleye boy oh boy oh boy
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that's slowly approaching some of the
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best walleye fishing I've ever seen
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they've got these big massive heads yeah
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oh yeah thanks buddy
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yeah she goes
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while I am big tubes isn't that sick he
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isn't that sick who would ever throw a
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tube like that for a wallet and a small
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walleye to boot isn't that wild
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I'd like to help you I know you way we
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have a situation we do - I love it
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better not be bigger than mine look at
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this a pair of beauties a pair of
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beauties a pair of beauties mine not as
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big as yours but it's are you kidding me
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chunkier look at those things had a
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spectacular fishing right there man
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spectacular wow that is cool we wanted a
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double yeah yeah oh you got me you know
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first up Thanks
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today's hot spot is a series of humps on
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lack Labiche in alberta
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the waypoint on your screen will put
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your right on them Ray and I had high
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hopes of catching giant pike in this
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area but we're ultimately surprised in a
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good way that is at the amazing walleye
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fish reel a clue Beach has to offer
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the walleye on this hot spot proved once
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again it pays big dividends to
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experiment and think outside the box for
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more hotspots like this one check out
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fish in canada calm
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enjoy it
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off off it went those big single hooks
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or yeah sometimes hard to get in it
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that went a little bit more oh I know
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the ones that get away or always I know
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always I know I know the drill
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good luck it's nice when they do that
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hey that's nothing like a forgiving fish
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yes oh yes you're making a comeback
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little pull yet a little pull there
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Oh what I like it would you say that
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I just don't know gonna see it alright
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oh nice big walleye alright I was gonna
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say I might have to bring in Mike my
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bait hang on leave them in the water
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another nice one Wow
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how's that yeah some shoulders always
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best you olders do they're huge these
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are wonderful yeah
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what a great great secret
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if it opens up there we go great fishery
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fantastic well thank you buddy this is
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this has been a treat I'll be honest
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with you by the look of this lake when
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we first got here this morning I don't
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know what's free up to this day I gotta
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tell you you made it believer out of me
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again these are fantastic walleye three
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four of these and a whole bunch of the
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same meaning just just below Wow
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fantastic now I wish I was living closer
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to you well you're always looking to fly
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it down yeah see nice stuff but yeah we
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may not have succeeded in our original
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mission to knock down and land some
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record northern pike but we did happen
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to stumble into a walleye goldmine and
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more importantly discover a great new
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tactic to deploy when fish are shut down
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black Labiche is a perfect destination
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not just for those seeking northern pike
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but also for catch and release anglers
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and looking to experience some of the
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most action-packed walleye fishing
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anywhere
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to get to today's outstanding big date
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sequel big walleye fishing I first flew
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from Toronto to Edmonton from there I
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drove north east on Route 28 I next turn
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north on row 36 to the town of Lac
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Labiche and then on to my fantastic
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accommodations at the best Canadian
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motor Inns
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on today's Kalki we're gonna feature P
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for presentation today we've gone big
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and I'm talking a gigantic big for
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walleye you see what happened ray and I
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were out looking for northern pike and
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throwing all of our traditional northern
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pike gear pike we're bike but the
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walleye sure were when we downsized they
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weren't hitting anymore so we went back
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to the big pike baits and guess what
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walleye were biting all day long
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remember thinking out of the box is
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often that key to changing the net
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