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Huge Alberta Walleye On Huge Artificial Baits | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
On this episode Pete Bowman heads west to Alberta searching for big Northern Pike on Pinehurst Lake. The show theme however takes a turn when he and fishing partner Ray Kohlruss start catching big fat Walleye on giant Saltwater jigs. 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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big walleye you were like oh my god
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ranked yeah my hands tired already you
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can't get by Concetta blows that's great
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nice one whoa
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go big or go home I guess fall but if
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the fish in Canada so brought to you in
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part by Ram trucks nothing worked harder
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than a round turn trusted on the water
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since 1952 mercury and Forest number one
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on the water and outdoor Canada Canada's
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only national fishing and hunting
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magazine
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today's episode brings us back to the
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province of Alberta surprising to us as
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I'm sure it is to a lot of our audience
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it's home to some of the biggest pipe
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we've ever caught on fish in Canada
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oh yeah that's a pretty darn good point
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right there like last year for example
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with the Cooper Tire boys now that's
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what I call a kitch we've got several 45
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to 50 plus inch pike a lot of
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proportions usually associated with the
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Northwest Territories or elastic those
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memories are still fresh in my mind and
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I'm excited at the prospect of bagging
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some more on this trip we're going to
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concentrate on Pinehurst Lake which is
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about a half an hour drive from the town
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of Lac La Biche
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it's one of a number of great fishing
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lakes in the Lakeland Provincial
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Recreation Area in Alberta with all of
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our past fishing experiences in this
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great province I can't wait to hit it
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with hope so high and from unbelievable
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past fishing experiences it's almost a
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disappointment if you don't get a fish
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on the first few casts and and I have
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learned from experience this just isn't
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so but it's always fun to be cranked up
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I'm fishing today with gray coal rust
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Alberta guide extraordinaire who
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concentrates on the app Tabasco River
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northern Alberta the Edmonton area as
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well as the lakes around Lachlan fish
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talk to me ray I don't know what it is
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it's a scrapper that's about it and I'm
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hoping it gets off dislodges yeah come
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on get off I got one too I know it's a
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pike yeah
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Wow do you read that look at you wha
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what are you doing out there come out
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that's practically a double-header but I
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don't want to tell anybody I caught this
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one so just you've got the one single
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header oh I think you're already I've
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already been combusted yeah well your
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seams thicker than mine so be proud of
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that careful I tell the deer fly in the
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process caught a pike to lear fly
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from the get-go starting the weed bids
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and we need your lines and casting a
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variety of hike baits we're getting hits
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but all the fighters small this can be a
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typical experience I'm pretty much any
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lake as usually the bigger fish are
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talked into the absolute best locations
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which is normally less than 5% of a lake
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the walleye on the other hand are
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surprisingly smacking these bigger baits
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with aggression and these fish are very
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good quality thanks buddy but we're not
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here for the walleye or so we thought
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yeah my hands tired already
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well you know what if we get get spike
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when Jessica blows nice wallet oh you
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got the wallet and it's funny like yeah
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you they just have a little payback
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somehow get me to cut you a bite you are
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poop like ya know three volts of time
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really will put her back nice thanks
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base plate thank you for watching you I
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tell you what Alberta have got some
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fantastic feelings I have to say
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yeah we can find the walleye to find the
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price oh that wall I suppose for the
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maintenance and then the fight they just
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show up from your face if you think that
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didn't feel me I felt like it a Goomba
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but that feels better
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oh my I like to feel that I probably
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that fight okay you got some action we
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got your facts yeah well we stayed down
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like an ice ball I admit but it just
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feels convey for a while
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earnest big walleye huge walleye oh my
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god right here - look at those eyes now
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all I own take it to you get to the part
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oh my god when he does a ten pounder oh
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sure - yeah what a fish look
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oh do you ever torque that nice these
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are girl
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there we go here buddy let me get rid of
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net free time I'll take that any time
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place vision beautiful right my buddy
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get up here right at the edge brother
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yeah you want put it back you wanna put
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it back go ahead
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thanks my honors buddy good call on this
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point my friend good gone that's it you
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know what folks it's not the longest
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walleye in the world but that's not bad
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either over eight with that yeah that's
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over eight pound for sure Wow well I
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guess if you're gonna have a substitute
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for a pike that's the one you want right
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there
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since fishing for pike close to shore
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wasn't working out my next thought is
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the book for offshore structure to give
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you an idea of these upsize baits we're
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using we're starting with 3/4 to 1 ounce
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jig heads which alone is very happy and
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then we're adding a giant curly tail six
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inches long and as thick as a 3/4 inch
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piece of pipe this bait is pretty
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standard for pike but her while it seems
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ridiculous but then we'll might a judge
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set that up great yeah see what nice
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though cut the head shake you know it's
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a walleye yes
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oh yeah sick next wall yep there's no
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light betta loudness like right your
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love to use do worms and boy off like
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that
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no live minnows no live metal so I'll
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take minnows you can use yeah yeah I
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need a fischels of course yes can you
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handle it buddy you need me and your guy
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gutter
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the underwater structure we've found is
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pretty big in size when I fish an area
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like this I realize they can sometimes
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take hours of map out properly I make
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multiple passes and drifts always
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watching my depth finder as well as my
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chart reads boulders break lines and of
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course yes
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oh boy has to wait there's both your
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budget and that's like that
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killing look and piecing jump whoa I
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didn't all I yep
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I had to Walter doesn't take much you
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just drop with a eight year old that
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might be big then maybe it isn't
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quite like a wall I know that name yes
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28 feet makes me a makes me excited it's
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a decent while I get decent run etem i
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say go in on them yeah I'll handle okay
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place a little sister Piper
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not bad eh yeah drop break down on the
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hand
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yes drop the Freak down
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get cut in the process right we got em
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doll I just guess so you have to cool me
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down here
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[Music]
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yep yep shut up
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Oh mom oh yes oh yeah
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oh yes I thought so it's an oldie
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oh yeah it's holding down Pete liking
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that money unless I filed hookers but
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otherwise it's a giant it's a good one
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yeah unless it's filed hook with I don't
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know I eat that too nice you look at us
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- perfect scenario I know this is a
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matter no matter what color it is he is
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hung on good hey I'm gonna talk but
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that's a great wall right there
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you're putting my collection fake popped
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out to pop those you've been here before
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haven't you and I'm seeing a little
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chunk on the side under an old chunk of
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them good ASHRAE vintage Alberta walleye
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right there yeah
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today's hot spot is a tapering
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underwater point on Pinehurst Lake and
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Alberta the waypoint on your screen will
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get you there
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this spot is known for both Pike and
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some really big walleye
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it's a classic piece of structure that
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holds fish all year long try either
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casting and slowly working at jig Lake
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Bray and I did or rolling a walleye
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style crank bait and varying the depth
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of each pass until fish contact is made
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don't be afraid to run a crankbait
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designed to dive ten to twelve feet down
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in 20-plus feet of water I think special
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sometimes suspend in the water column
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more hot spots like this one check out
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fishing Canada calm
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just like that a seat networ thee don't
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know yet buddy baitcasting here is
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different doesn't feel like a pike like
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big storm clouds in the background like
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that storm is in bypassing us the air
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temperature has definitely dropped
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minimum five degrees a Rea yeah it's
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like it's feeling cool right now
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I got a good hook set on but I thought
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he's doing good
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it's a nice one knitter oh yeah this is
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a matter
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look at the size of that walleye
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oh oh wait there's your buddy
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thank you that side of that
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silly-looking piece of junk we're
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thinking we're gonna show them four big
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pike and drop them down and here's the
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results what we get that's like that Wow
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open my eyes buddy and my eyes are open
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to use their bigger stuff for you know
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you're in a combination area are your
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walleye fishing why not drive yeah I
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have a feeling we went smaller we get
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big pike because this is crazy
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okay fashion what a gorgeous fish man
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not real stalking I mean thick across
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the background like that but just a
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perfect looking walleye
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Wow put them back anybody see a big
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moment
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nice this is great to get to the awesome
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walleye and pike fishing I first flew
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from Toronto to Edmonton Alberta from
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there I picked up a ramp and drove north
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east on road 28 I next turn north on
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Road 36 to the town of Lac La Biche and
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then on to my fantastic accommodations
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at the BCM in my and fishing destination
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was about a 20-minute drive to Pinehurst
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Lake in the Lakeland provincial
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Recreation Area with just a few hours
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left to go all the big walleye I figured
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we could handle and being the knuckle
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dragger that I am I still need to catch
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that big Pike the only thing we haven't
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done is trawl so ray and I decide to
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make a run over some of the deeper
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structures that we've been digging for
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the last few hours and now have a pretty
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good idea of the contours and features
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if the walleye are hugging the bottom
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then maybe the pike are suspended and
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this time we're going to pull baits so
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big that the Canadian record while I
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won't tangle with them actually I take
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that back out here we decided we want to
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catch a big Pike and we want to we
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couldn't get them with the big jig so we
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didn't rolling bad and you know what the
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first pass if I don't all big it is it
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feels half decent all right I'm gonna
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come up with a servo a good one right
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yeah you're the good one yeah there's
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the net
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he slammed that big ugly red bait you
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had your box pulling goodbye snow you
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move weak again you know when you smack
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something in 32 feet of water with a
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bait that goes down about 10 or 12
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that's well yeah that's a very fight
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this let's plate so far buddy let's go
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come in the top area come in the surface
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you're not used but you'll do for us
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we're looking for a pike for now and
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then okay baby we got the tactic down yo
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Joe there but it it's looking bigger all
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the time in coming in yeah UDP in there
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you hear don't spit er can barely hook I
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know
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oh we got more of them now yeah I'm
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gonna bring over your net now ray
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jingles finally it's the first and only
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big bike of the trip a very respectable
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fish as well I love it clear it's gonna
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roll a bathroom again two grand a night
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buddy I love it
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that's so cool yeah a good 15 oh nice
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yeah solid hey no soon as I set that
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hook I could feel a good-size fish it's
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all if you lift it oh yeah that's a good
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fish luckily the hooks came out nice
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first pass but you know what funny eh
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just we've been pounded somebody walleye
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on big pike bass in that but not the way
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we on the bottom and we're getting small
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pike looks like right here yet something
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in a develop yeah its stomach - there
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Ellie okay I'm gonna drop back here big
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red big her head buddy
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oh thanks on the water I barely got it
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exists we put a little inside ability
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see the water they ready eight there's
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video at once I deserved that my holding
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him you know what I mean so he got me
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back a little blood
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Wow nice but hey we finally got at least
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a decent fight another day I think we
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got a decent plate we don't we know we
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know pie nurses got them and we know the
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walleye stocking here is crazy and the
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walleye takes gonna need the reading
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good food right again but why not I
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suppose want to say better luck next
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year in terms of pike but seriously are
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you kidding me
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this is one of the most successful
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walleye fishing trips ever best of all I
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learned an important lesson using big
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bait to catch big fish isn't just for
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bass in Florida lake trout and Great
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Bear or late fall Georgian Bay muskies
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it works so well on these Western
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walleye that I will definitely be
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bringing that tactic back home
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[Applause]
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today's kolp is p4 presentation we're on
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pioneers lake here in Alberta who's
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going for walleye and pike and we want
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to catch big pikes so we're going to
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upsize our bait to keep away walleye and
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small pipe but craziness happens out in
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the water this bait right here a
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six-inch smaller usually used for big
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fish in the ocean in the ocean imagine
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that we're dropping that here on finders
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legs the big pike aren't eating it
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surprisingly but the big walleye are
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killing it always think out of the box
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when you're on the water the fish in
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