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Schooling Smallmouth Smash-Up | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
On this episode Angelo heads up to Temagami Lake for the first time since his 2005 visit with the legendary Roland Martin. This time Angelo teams up with fishing buddy Roy Armes of Cooper Tire for some nasty weather fishing and then Pete Bowman takes Roy’s spot for the remainder of the show. The weather gets warm and the fishing gets hot! Related Episodes: Temagami with Roland Martin: https://youtu.be/DbvYvJbLFJc 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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this is the middle of nowhere
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they're here they're in here oh look
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holy lunar cycle
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that's a shocker the fish in Canada so
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brought to you in part by Ram trucks
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nothing worked harder than a round turn
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dropped it on the water since 1952
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mercury and forests number one on the
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water and outdoor Canada Canada's only
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national fishing energy magazine
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this week is an incredible wilderness
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Creek Lake commodity has become a legend
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for hikers paddlers campers but
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especially for anglers part of the
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appeal is the rugged terrain where
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massive cliffs plunge deep into the lake
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well a long and varied shoreline
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presents habitat for a number of species
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of sport fish some of you will remember
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me being here a number of years ago with
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the legendary role in mark after that
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absolute beauty of a trip we knew we had
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to bring the fishing Canada field back
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to Temagami this is quite the place now
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as it turns out one of our guests from
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last year is a huge role in Martin fin -
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northern and he's been chomping at the
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bit to fish some of the same waters he
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has and it's always a pleasure to have
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an old friend along on a fishing trip
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still buddy
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Roy's callin buddy we're sitting over
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top of five fish that are averaging
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between 3 to 5 pounds we're sitting
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right on top of them and try to get up
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the bike we're going crazy you to love
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this it sounds great I'll be right there
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Inge
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are you serious you're going to come out
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and join us turns out we have a surprise
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guest with us today and as I know what a
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good time Angelo and Roy have fishing
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I'm going to let him ride shotgun
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Roy's using Temagami as a short break
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between meetings in Ohio and the UK it's
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a one-day adventure that I'm happy to
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offer that was neat a pike cave right
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now for that Yost away look he started
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his back oh you keep trying to keep
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trying to get him again oh wow senator
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neat that's exciting
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by the way I caught one on this popper
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you know that yeah that might be the big
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one come out again coming after me that
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was great that was outstanding because
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he got bit look at this this year look
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at this gonna take my pike pike came out
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and attacked that I mean they're small
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but that's exciting okay so so
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everything's happening now they're
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hitting top water and pike are coming
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out after all right it's a good sign
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with the cold weather the big Smalley
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seemed to be hiding hardly we've seen
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good evidence of pike and also something
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we have never expected oh yeah this is
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nice that's a nice fish okay oh my
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goodness okay buddy oh it's a pike so
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leave try loses its electric to lake
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trout Wow how cool is that a leg throw
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in this shallow water up in the Miri now
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you got to get him back in here pretty
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quick that is so neat that yes that's so
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cool
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a lake trout in a smallmouth bass and a
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dream in a drop shot rig Wow say stuff
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like there he goes it could work right
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well you handle that like a true
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professional
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I'm telling you well I've been trained
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here quite a bit of you guys I was not
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even earning my keep good wow that was
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nice that was really nice now that was
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interesting that was worth it as the Sun
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began to set the already cool weather
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started to get downright cold making the
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smallmouth even less active it's poor
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conditions for Roy and he's only got a
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day with us that we are experiencing one
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of the strangest summers in terms of
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weather patterns that I've ever seen and
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in fact I mean here we are mid-august
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and I know me I'm pretty sure you're in
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the same boat I got just whatever you
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layer on that I rot ayah for later
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exactly so it's like it's like fall it's
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been very strange and of course
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affecting the fishery as well it's
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pretty exciting to be out here again I'm
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glad too that we got a chance to get
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together again test out the Canadian
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waters and you have been testing out KN
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waters for bet now with Cooper tire
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yeah what's what's the prognosis we are
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doing very well and he's very pleased
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with the progress that we're making
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obviously we're doing a lot to build our
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brands here in Canada and once the
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consumers have our products and find the
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performance the quality and the overall
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value of our products
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that's where we're convincing them that
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that we're a good option and it's a
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great excuse for you get up your new
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submission reserved you neither's but i
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love that opportunity just to be able to
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get out like this and have not only have
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a challenge that have a chance to relax
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or something enjoy doing and that's why
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fishing is so special to a lot of people
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you know yeah the goal is to go to catch
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fish no question about it and the bigger
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the better but at the end of the day
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this is what fishing is all about here
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we are in an uncharted body of water
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you've never been on hunting route we're
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obviously hoping to catch a bunch of
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fish but isn't they really this is part
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of the deal right here all the goal is
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lookaside home go Coco Coco that's a
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shocker and a new opportunity for
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getting some of those small boats out of
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the shallows and into our boat it was a
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tough day yesterday for ang and Roy when
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two guys with that much experience are
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struggling you know the conditions
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aren't in your favor but if there's one
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truth and fishing every day is different
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and today is my lucky day
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the Sun has come out we're going to miss
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Roy who flew off to continue on business
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travels but we're ready to go to work
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they're here they're in here do this do
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that inch with their written
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perché look at that on your perch
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looking a person jerkbait but I threw it
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into the just endo of the weed bed and
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all of the baitfish sort of dispersed
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and major key wasn't working right and I
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just snagged or whatever this little you
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know and that's what it is they're baby
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perch in there so they're feeding on
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this massive school so he perch and I'm
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throwing a purchase jerk bait and I
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haven't got a small mouth on it yet so
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did I mention changes today we found
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ourselves floating over schools of tiny
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baitfish should work yesterday's tough
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day might soon be a memory just what the
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heck is this women laugh a mile an hour
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that's nice you good you got it Wow you
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watch your motor ice nice hmm chunky was
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right here on this laughing uh Tamiya it
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was on the way
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thirty feet down from shore how dark
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that fish go better on his Jack yeah Wow
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or just one of those Bank rumors right
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yeah yeah gorgeous fish though oh yes
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guy let me get the net I'll drop this
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guy in little guy yeah yeah okay you're
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cool well it's fun though not some other
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world not the big one
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no yeah no no that's the smallest one of
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the bunch yeah might not even been in a
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bunch was it maybe not
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I got him over there somewhere why is it
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ease along dude yeah yeah I'm throwing a
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drop shot without the drop shot the
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weight well you got one least you can't
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say they beat us up no we got one out of
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there but
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that's how much he put him back in there
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yes all the rest of them yeah he wasn't
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even in that pack no I think he was
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roaming on his own held a good allow him
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in there's one back there - funny alien
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fine you can go along the shoreline and
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find nothing nothing nothing then boom
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Wow they're all over the place you know
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a smart man - probably dropped those
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power poles what do you think you're a
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smart man with boat well that's a good
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point in case you're wondering what
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power poles are they're a shallow water
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anchoring system that takes the place of
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old school anchors and in the case of
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shallow water does a much better job of
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it with almost 500 kilometres of
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shoreline 1,200 islands in some of the
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most diverse and rugged terrain in
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Ontario Temagami is a mecca for anglers
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paddlers and hikers alike but the main
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attraction of this area is definitely
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the old grouse force these stands of
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towering red and white pine contain
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trees that are almost 400 years old
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making them some of the oldest trees of
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the kind on the planet with less than 1%
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of the world's old growth red and white
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pine ecosystems remaining these stands
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represent a rare opportunity to see what
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much of Ontario would have looked like
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hundreds of years ago viewed either by
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trail or by canoe the old-growth is
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truly a force like no other just another
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reason to go fish in Ontario
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after a day of cold temperatures and
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even colder fishing luck I'm hoping a
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few changes will make all the difference
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a new partner different bait new
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location
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much better weather and you know what it
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looks like the Smalley's have started to
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bite again when you're in a hot spot
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like Temagami fish will eventually turn
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on an active one going to see we mix up
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Oh me there Bubba engine Roy racino
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tough the conditions weren't all that so
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I throw a trailer if I'm going to throw
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bait like guys I'm gonna put a trailer
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hook on it we can do everything we can
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to put the advantage in our total are
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good sign right there that he came out
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after an aggressive big exactly exact
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thats exciting you a little feller when
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this is good conditions for this bin
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cold right you said it has been really
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cold for the last couple days yeah yeah
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first day is getting some heat a little
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overcast like this maybe a water warm up
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a bit
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sometimes consistency is the name of the
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game but sometimes it's good to switch
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things up the past two days have proven
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that a bit of difference can mean well
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well it can mean all the difference
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that's particularly true when it comes
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to go Oh buddy can I get a double up on
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of this Fido we're gonna stop that note
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oh that's so awesome I'm ganna be get
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your net jump alike realizing he's
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coming your way
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look sitting on the side if he can okay
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like I'll do the best I can
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oh well that's a nice fish yeah right
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over you green
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there you go Wow stuff that it's like
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why this is fun
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hmm this is fun my friend they change
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that up completely oh it's my mate
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swimbait nice yep
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now you got me all tangled up good you
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can get in anywhere you got themself
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last food - gbagbe baby
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nicely done buddy and you know this
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these these series of lakes me
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especially Temagami here but all the
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other ones as well they get hammered for
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for lake trout walleye to some extent
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but smallmouth bass like nobody's
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aficionado that land I mean you're the
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farthest all these arms up into my agony
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no doubt is the furthest south he can go
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then take off a little bit eat you
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wouldn't cross linking other than race
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Lake and I know Scott but there it looks
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a whole different to gain in the big
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north end of the deep waters and then I
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said well this area to is that you truly
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are in the wilderness when you come up
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here 20 a six-hour drive from Toronto
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but but really honestly I mean look at
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this you are in the middle of nowhere a
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true wilderness at a spent actually
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that's great good job fun stuff
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fun stuff right this is but whoa holy
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looking at Coco Coco
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the weather is turn absolutely gorgeous
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and so of the fishing conditions which
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means it's time to explore some of the
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many ARMs that Lake de Mogami has to
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offer
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we're hoping our improved luck pays off
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as we head into the mandalas old
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stomping grounds okay we're going to go
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connect a lot across the lake all right
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whoa there's no way it's a big brown bat
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that's oh nice Molly no what is it what
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is that my negatives Molly it's long
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whatever if that's a small mo it's you
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know ollie
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it's a why oh you had a bite walleye
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look at this wall nice walleye Wow look
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at that that's a bit of a shocker oh wow
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take that oh my goodness big nice
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walleye whoa he's going he's going CLA
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Wow
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have a look around here this is in the
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middle of nowhere eight feet of water
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right here we're up on the end of a
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point coming off this island I think
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it's a point that comes out of a silent
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when we were here was just deepwater all
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the way and destroyed clamming up and up
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and up and I had to slow the boat down
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ahead of me I thought we're going to hit
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and then I was going to move Nance's I
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think no way you should fish that splash
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there's one go something coming up come
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on you know it's just my little earth
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for sure I'm sorry little guy it's cool
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love these spots man yeah I thought it
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got bit light and I love stuff like that
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see exactly you just love finding stuff
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like this we've been fishing pretty much
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traditional smallmouth areas all day and
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we're just moved from one spot to
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another it's just working on that we're
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going back to a spot we were on yeah
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earlier so fatty okay nice we're here
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for a while but let's hang out for a bit
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I think in a spotlight because it's so
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big
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there's so much here I think you could
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sit here for hours
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yeah just hours change up colors change
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up sizes the key is that ball of eight
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yeah you know I mean DUP you see a
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couple thousand demos swimming around
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these fish are hanging under them and
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just randomly eat them this big hot spot
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is a protected Bay on cross lake which
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can be accessed via lake Temagami the
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wake one on your screen will get you
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there all those small mo prevail here an
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incidental lake trout or Pike is a
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welcome bonus try a top water or jerk
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bait on calm days and follow that up
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with a drop shot rig shad or mineral
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imitation take care of navigating cross
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lake as it is yet to be charted on
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Navionics maps for more hot spots like
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this one check out fishing canada.com
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whoa hey Smallville come on that was
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good
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nice they should go live with us I told
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you that site go go go go go
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throw something I don't care what you
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throw all those were nice fish I got one
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I got a fish rod yeah I got a bone
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underneath it
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no wait wait wait I gotta go underneath
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okay take yours away oh look at these
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two musicians but this is but oh my god
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that is why you can backup your body
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every every now and then I would back it
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up is all of us okay bring him in buddy
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usually brings basically here's man all
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right Oh one whoa and it - what - buckle
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your shoes whoa and then we saw those
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fish that's the best part we saw fish
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I'll go boss
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I don't know you guys saw that we saw
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get all excited one swirl and about a
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hundred baitfish jumped right I can
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barely that guy hooks barely I didn't
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have mine hook look he's oh ah look at
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the belly done the reason they're eating
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that ball up the middle is like crazy
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you high-five on that little yeah baby
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level found something we've been
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struggling oh you have to the front
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Monroy and Andrew out there and working
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their butts off that Roy wasn't here
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thinking on that this would have been
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great his alley nice ah last time we
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were here with Roland Martin the fish
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were literally jumping into the boat
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this time around things started pretty
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slowly
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poor Roy pulled in as many fish as
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anyone could in these conditions
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persistence however is your best friend
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and if you've got the time switching
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things up to make all the difference in
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the world and that's just what we proved
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today here on Lake Temagami where we
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enjoyed some of the best fish in Canada
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to get the today's great fishing on Lake
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tobogganing we first drove north from
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Toronto on highway 400 next we headed
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north on highway 11 just past Barry from
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there returned West on the Lake Temagami
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access road to a great public landing
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and boat launch from there was a short
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boat ride to Blue Haven Lodge the fish
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the road trips come on let's go and
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