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Catching Giant BC Lake Trout | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo returns to Northern Rockies Lodge and British Columbia's Long Mountain Lake with revenge in his mind (from the previous year's butt kicking), and a good luck charm in his corner... that's Pete! They take on a school of Lake Trout that will blow your mind... every fish is a giant that pulls like a tractor! It's an entire episode of massive fish!!! ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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[Music]
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there we go there we go
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oh
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that is huge
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that is
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unbelievable oh nice
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come on beat him up
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oh my god they're monsters is this like
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the best lake trout fishing you've ever
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seen in your by far
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the fish in canada show brought to you
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in part by
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coleman the outdoor company
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cooper tires
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princecraft boats dominate the waters
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and garmin
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the sport of fishing just may be the
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most relaxing calming and tranquil
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activity ever discovered by mankind
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on the other hand
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and she's off no it just may be the most
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frustrating humbling and nerve-wracking
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experience a person should ever have to
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endure
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today's location has the potential of
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being both
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who could argue that the rocky mountains
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and the many lakes nestled in their
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valleys offer some of the most
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spectacular vistas on earth
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if you can't find inner peace here
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well chances are you won't find it
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anywhere
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last time i visited these parts i
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experienced the highest of highs as i
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witnessed my grandson nick catch the
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biggest fish of his young life
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oh
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my god
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[Music]
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oh
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and then came the lowest of lows as
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mother nature decided to serve me up a
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helping of humble pie
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big one
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oh it's a big old lake trout yeah watch
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oh he's off
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he might have broke my line no he just
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came off wow that was a nice fish
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between fish pulling free breaking off
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and any other mishap that could happen
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it was one of the most frustrating
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fishing days i've had in a long time you
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got off of the boat
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yeah well
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these big lakers had my number so today
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i'm looking for some redemption
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that's why this time i brought my lucky
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charm
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uh that's you buddy
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you've called me a lot of things but
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lucky charm that's a first regardless if
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i can help settle a score i'm in
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shortly after touchdown at the fort
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nelson airport we boarded a shuttle bus
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and started our venture along the alaska
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highway which incidentally is
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celebrating its 75th anniversary
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this is one of the most spectacular
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drives we have ever been
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on the winding pavement cutting through
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hulking mountains rising from the ground
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is worth the price of admission alone
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add to that the vast array of wildlife
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encounters that seem to be around every
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corner and the two-hour drive turns into
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three
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but ultimately feels like about 30
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minutes
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[Music]
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we are
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on the alaska highway hotel we have a
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total of 45 guest rooms 21 of them are
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open year round we are basically the
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biggest operation outside of any town so
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it's a natural stop for people traveling
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the alaska highway but we also have an
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rv park we have a full service
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restaurant in addition to the
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accommodation and what we offer to the
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alaska highway traveler we have the two
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floor plans here we can fly you out to
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any one of our three outpost cabins or
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we do the daily fly-outs with the
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fishing trips whether you come out for
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the whole week and enjoy six flyouts in
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a row or we just go out for the day and
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you'll join us up while you're traveling
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through the area here
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long mountain lake is unique in that
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it's nestled in the rocky mountains has
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no road access and it harbors lake trout
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as well as grailing
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now although at first this doesn't sound
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unique remember it's located in bc
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home of sturgeon kokanee kamloops
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halibut until that first trip with nick
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we had no idea lakers even existed in
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british columbia
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i probably have taken off from this
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beautiful lake here about 12 000 times
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over the past 36 years and it gives me
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every time a great pleasure and that
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really rushed to
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to to get into the wild wonder in
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northern british columbia
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[Music]
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the flight in from northern rockies
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lodge is nothing short of breathtaking
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from start to finish it's the most
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spectacular trippers to a fishing
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location an angler will ever have
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wow
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oh my god i told you man it's just
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breathtaking
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and if fishing's not your game the lodge
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offers flight adventure tours that i
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guarantee will blow your mind
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best part of the job no question is the
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flying around in the northern rocky
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mountains over those beautiful untouched
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mountain peaks wow
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that is awesome
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this trip on long mountain is a whole
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lot different from ange and nick's
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previous fishing adventure in that we
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are now faced with mid-summer conditions
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meaning different water temperatures
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different bait fish movements different
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light penetration and so on
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my biggest concern is will the lakers
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still be using the same hot spot as the
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last time we were here
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we're starting to see some
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those are out 35 feet you see a real
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good cluster a market way pointed then
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we'll know we can get close with that
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waypoint
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that is huge oh
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oh i'm afraid of i don't want him on my
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boat
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[Music]
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[Music]
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the beauty of using modern day fishing
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electronics is having the ability to
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return exactly to the same areas that
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have produced fish in the past the
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problem is the fish don't care about all
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your fancy gear
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if they ain't there they ain't there
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they still under the boat there's uh one
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two three four five
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six massive hooks all schooled up at 40
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feet mark it oh my god
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we'll it over top their heads
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it's the mecca the mecca
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fortunately for us though our
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electronics didn't let us down
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engine nick's hot spot from last year
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was chocked full of big lakers well you
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know what let's go up a ways and we'll
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just oh
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you hit you don't know it was bottom of
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the fish i dropped down to the bottom
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there's a school of them right about
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there about 10 feet
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right that away there he is you got him
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enough to move anywhere buddy
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that's a good one too i could tell but
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he's pulling pretty he's pretty solid
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good good good good good
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let's have a peek at him buddy
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they feel cool don't they oh it's just
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just a log that shakes his head
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right that's what it is it feels like a
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big locking shape on spinning gear i
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love it it's exactly where it happened
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last year man isn't that crazy exactly
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we can get this going today we'll have
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the most fun of our lives
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i'm just so happy that we made that
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first contact i just needed to know that
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there he is oh my god peter
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[Laughter]
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that's so awesome
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that's so awesome bonuses they made the
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wind the wind doesn't even take it over
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the boat because the fish is taking it
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over
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now he knows he's hooked he come up so
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easy eh you just knew he's a big fish by
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the head checks i got a spinner
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there was about six or seven of them in
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this school they were all bunched
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together like that
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let's catch them all buddy
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three a piece each it's gonna take a
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while now
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i'll tell you one thing about fish this
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size
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they tire you out i'm just gonna let him
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do what he wants
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your point came through mr viola you
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were thank you put on the money
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it was nice we saw that fish too that
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was the best part we actually saw it i
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just backed the boat into it and let it
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drift down onto him boom
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there he is i see him
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oh my god bud
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this thing is a pig
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i'm afraid of i don't want him on my
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boat oh
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look at that oh what a gorgeous oh
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oh it looks like a big salmon almost eh
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so big
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bye
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bye now
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they are so packed with muscle it's
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scary you can see the muscle through the
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skin on a lot of lake trout it's so cool
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there he comes up again
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oh yeah look at that
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monstrosity
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oh what a beauty oh
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thick hey look at a solid gorgeous fish
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oh my god you want to take an attempt at
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him bud yeah drop the head in there i'll
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see what i can do
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drop him drop him there you go there we
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go good job
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good job oh boy
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let's see where that spoon is he just
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slapped me with his tail
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[Laughter]
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dude
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that thing is a packed muscular fish you
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know what i never noticed the emerald
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green i'd never that's why i said it
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looked like a salmon it's so
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cool-looking maybe it's this lake right
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well that's a baby buddy let's get into
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some big ones
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[Laughter]
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here we go
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it just went straight down to the bottom
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oh
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okay i'm out for a while you're up
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i'm not even
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fishing
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whoa whoa
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another mama oh my god that's a big fish
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oh my god it doesn't stop running yet
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you should be able to see those big
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mutants swimming around
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here we go there we go stop or didn't
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stop reverse
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drop drop
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you're on him right now yep
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whoa whoa whoa
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another mama oh my god
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oh look at the cluster of fish
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really
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that's a big fish oh my god it hasn't
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stopped running yet
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this is what happened last time he went
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right and last night he literally
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dragged us out to the lake that's okay
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we got time
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i mean i've never seen a laker take a
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run that fast ever after the first run
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now this is a point last year where i
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broke three of them off right about now
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why are you saying that yeah i'm just
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saying because it's going through my
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head that's why
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we need optimism here my friend optimism
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we're gonna get it i guarantee it it's
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in the boat it's already done
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i'm very confident
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oh there's there's another school of
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fish we're going over at 25 oh my god
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there's fish all over this point
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like there's a million big lake trout
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down there underneath the boat right now
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oh
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i want to get another line down there oh
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oh oh oh oh
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oh oh oh oh oh oh
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whoa whoa whoa whoa oh there he is i see
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him you see him giant oh my god oh giant
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my god absolute stud
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look at how dark this one's a darker
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green black yeah oh look at these things
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they're schooled up that big
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get the hell out of here
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i got to bring try and bring him in head
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first yeah oh you have to for sure okay
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i'll try and make a pass into you
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coming at you you want me to scoop him
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if i can yeah okay hang on
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oh no
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yep yep there you go i got him i scooped
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that son of a gun like there's no one
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tomorrow
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okay now who's gonna lift them yeah
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exactly there you go buddy nicely done
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pal spread that tail out that is massive
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it's not 12 inches but i'll tell you
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what is that eight massive
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he looks like a mermaid
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that's a mermaid's tail
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whoa these
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two fish are you kidding me
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two full passes like ridiculous holy
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look at the muscles on that fish
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how old is that dude
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two passes two giant trout
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oh my god that is unbelievable there's a
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jaw full of predator right there folks
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that boy eats pretty much anything he
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wants
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that's great
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oh look at how old that guy looks oh i
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know
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look at the head on that thing it's like
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a big old rock
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there he goes bye-bye beautiful both
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times both those fish we saw
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dropped to him and bang and and they
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both came out of a school i'm estimating
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it's got 20 of those in it if not even
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more and we're vertical jiggings you
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have to have electronics to know where
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those fish are some people that say it's
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a disadvantage but you come in here to
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catch fish right so you
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drop on them boom twice like that two
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fish
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you know how our average is going to be
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ridiculous who knows how many of those
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we're going to get yeah
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i mean as long as they don't move off of
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that point we can just keep at them all
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day long
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no no
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that's awesome it's crazy
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to get to today's amazing fishing
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adventure and i flew from toronto to
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vancouver
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from there we took our next flight to
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prince george
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and then hopped onto another plane to
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fort nelson
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the remainder of the trip was a drive
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along the scenic and now 75 year old
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alaska highway to mile post 462 at
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northern rockies lodge on the shores of
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muncho lake
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this five-star facility is nothing short
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of breathtaking along with fly fishing
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they offer aerial sightseeing tours
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wildlife tours mountain hiking and the
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list goes on and on they even have
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access to their own natural hot spring a
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great way to end an adventurous fishing
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day
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pete and i have found that trolling and
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downrigging seems to be the best
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presentation for big lake trout
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[Laughter]
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look at the length of this thing i can't
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even lift them up high enough for you to
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see the tail while vertical jigging
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spoons bucktail and tube jigs can clean
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up on numbers of fish
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all right then you go baby
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oh nice
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that's that's like that would be a nice
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lake trout in a small lake like this
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not in this lake not here no it
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lately though we've been doing really
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well jigging or simply steady reeling
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big weighted swim baits for numbers as
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well as size
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drop one of those suckers into a lakers
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wheelhouse and hang on
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there
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bring them home brother get in there get
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in there
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that's the way you land these beasts
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oh
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that's beautiful
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buddy you brought me into the the mecca
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of lake trout let's go baby
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bye bye
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bye bye
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a man could tire out doing this is this
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like the best lake trout fishing you
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have ever seen in your by far
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look at this
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oh my god they're monsters
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bring them up bring them up let's have a
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look you can horse them with that come
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on beat em up
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i got you honey yeah baby
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oh my god oh
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man
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beast
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what a beast man that is a gorgeous fish
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bye bye
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[Laughter]
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how we ever fished all those years
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before electronics is just totally
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beyond me i can't even it's almost
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surreal now when i try and think back
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i can't even
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remember
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big hook at 30.
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that's a big laker for sure
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it's about six feet long
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that's awesome
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it's crazy look at how long that fish is
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oh look at that fish
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uh this is ridic this i can't believe
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the consistency in these fish i'm beat i
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might be ready to go
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let's see if i can pull them over too i
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think that's a
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a good oh here we go
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bring him there try it
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it's gonna be impossible
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[Laughter]
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i want a picture of this fish with you
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oh my god
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yeah just one hook in them beautiful
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holy mackerel
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what the i got to move back i gotta get
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in another country to get all that fish
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in the land
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[Music]
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throw them back
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oh
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what a pig that's a huge fish man
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here we go
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okay
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oh my god
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all right you're off oh
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nice
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good job buddy
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good job
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oh
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all right
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bum tuckered yet i'm a plum tucker buddy
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[Music]
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wow look at that oh that's fantastic
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well as i pretty much figured long
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mountain lake didn't disappoint
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i'm pretty sure pete had a blast on this
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crazy adventure
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as for me well let's just say that
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redemption feels mighty sweet
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all that's left now is another
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spectacular plane ride through the
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rockies back to northern rockies lodge
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[Music]
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today's fishing canada hot spot is
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directly off the point on long mountain
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lake which leads towards a saddle and an
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underwater hump
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there
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this hot spot produced so well last year
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that we had to try it again
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this time really dissecting the area we
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didn't have to dig deep into garments
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fish finding technology as the
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traditional screen was perfect in
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showing both schools of bait and of
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course huge marks indicating big lakers
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below we also benefited greatly from
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using the quick draw feature which
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ultimately gave us a detailed reference
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for precise boat positioning
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for more hot spots like this one check
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out fishingcanada.com
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