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Lake Muskoka Walleye, Northern Pike and Smallmouth Bass | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete heads to Lake Muskoka in search of three species of fish; Walleye, Northern Pike, and Smallmouth Bass. In this geographical area of the rich and famous, little is said about the fishing... in fact it's almost unheard of. Pete hopes to open up the country's eyes to this phenomenal, yet oddly unknown fishery. ► 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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woohoo
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wow now we're going to have some
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[Music]
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fun that's a solid Moka
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bike guess what there are large mou bass
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in lake
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boka there kind of weather conditions
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you don't know what to expect right it's
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getting
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better the fish in Canada show brought
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to you in part by Coleman The Outdoor
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Company Cooper
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tires Princecraft Vats dominate The
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Waters and
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[Music]
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Garmin
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if Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
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were to shoot an episode in the mccoa
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region of Ontario and in particular on
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Roso Joseph or Moka Lakes they would
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indeed have a tough time narrowing down
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who they would feature it seems like
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every second Cottage here is owned by
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someone either rich or famous you could
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say it's Ontario's version of Beverly
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Hills on the
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water since rich and famous wasn't on
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location here this week I decided to
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bring the fishing Canada crew up and
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film our own episode
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I'm not going to worry too much about
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the rich but I am going to try and bring
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a bit more Fame to the fishing in this
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great
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destination Angelo and I along with some
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good fishing buddies have shot shows
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here in the past and we always conclude
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with the same question why don't more
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people fish here oh my God look at the
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size of that wall nowhere else are you
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going to find that kind of quality
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anywhere anywhere in this part of the
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world except Moka now yeah
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[Music]
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for this trip I'm teaming up with Mike
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Smith a local fishing guide who covers a
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broad area of Ontario but loves
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concentrating on the lakes in the musoka
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region I offer guiding service right
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through most of the musoka region uh
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covering the Big Three Lakes which is
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Lake Joseph raso and lake nooka and then
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I do a lot of small back Lakes kind of
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in the region that uh will fish early in
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the season and tend to fish The Big
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Three later in the
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season we'll be fishing lake Moka today
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concentrating first on Walley and Pike
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and if all that goes well and even if it
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doesn't then we can shift over to
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Smallmouth it's great to have
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options as we headed out to Mike's first
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walleye and Pike spot I was happy to see
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that he wanted to use artificial baits
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that means we're going after aggressive
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fish not having to drag live meat while
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pleading for a taker now I'm not saying
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anything against live bait for Walley
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and in fact we do have some just in case
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because it's amazingly effective however
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it should never be your only choice
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I'm assuming like any place if if
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they're active they'll hit artificials
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if they're inactive then you got to kind
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of drop meat on them if you have
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sometimes have to yeah it was agreed
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that 3 to 5 in flukes and swim bited
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fish on a jige head would be a good
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starting point with this presentation
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we'd have a great shot at a Walle or a
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pike and if there's any Smallmouth
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around there's a chance they'd smack it
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as
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well I think it's kind of odd when these
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spots it's not like a lot of walleye
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lakes that I've fished it's normally
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seem to get in general one to three fish
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off a spot yep come in pop pop then done
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right yeah they never seem to get really
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huge schools on them just a scattering
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of fish I guess and that's weird eh so I
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kind of do a more of a running gun you
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yeah you know you get get a couple on a
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spot and hit another one and I don't
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blame me
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yeah our plan is to fish what we feel
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are the major feeding areas of classic
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structures the tips of underwater points
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spots on humps Flats around islands and
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so on they're littered throughout Lake
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Moka we have a lot of work ahead of
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us of course starting to rain
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again of
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course typically today I I would have
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pulled the pin we would not be out on
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this water it's just too windy too rough
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woohoo
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wow that's about a strong long as it
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gets boys and girls uh the only places
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that we're able to really going to be
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able to even stand up in the boat are
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are going to be le of islands and uh not
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necessarily where there's high
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percentage of getting into fish but it's
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kind of the only fishable water that we
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can get into today so we'll give it our
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best shot in in this
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area get out of that there you go nice
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he's decent it's a nice pipe
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y
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we learned something from Gordon piser
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um about cold fronts and it's not about
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Smallmouth or Walley or that it's
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about Zoo Plankton it all shuts down it
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won't it won't reproduce right now right
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it's gone the abyss yeah so the minnows
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know that so they just hide out right
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perch know that they just hide out
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Smallmouth know that so they say okay
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this happens every week here's our break
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time right and it makes sense it's not
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really about the Predators it's more
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about the prey
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right come on it's going to be one big
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Predator swimming around here
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that's ready for breakfast yeah I just
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doing he says enough I don't I don't
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believe in cold fronts and weather
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systems and all this crap these angler
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guy
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dudes spew for an excuse not to catch
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fish
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no
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idea Pike a pike pike
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yeah y unfortunately but at Le something
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bit
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bud you know what for our opener fish
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for our first one in the boat dirty
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dirty
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dog oh jig dop thank you you're a nice
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little fishy for doing that look at his
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lip the mandible or the Magill what is
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that the mandible or the Magill you
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being a fishing guide and a smart
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man I'm going to say mandible head on
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buddy I'll agree with you that's been
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probably caught before caught released
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but obviously that guy eats
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again
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I think we got a northern again uh oh I
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got a feeling these Northerns are
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pounding these spots but you know what
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might not be is it but you saw them oh
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yeah
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yeah they do p though don't they
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yeah tried to jump over the
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net yeah we can catch a wall like that
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big
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nice
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L hey you buddy oh look at him trying to
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go
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down three
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shots okay there's got to be a walleye
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there's got to be a walleye around these
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spots remember at the first of the show
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when I referred to the rich and famous
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in this area well check out these
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numbers I pulled from a local Real
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Estate website in 2016 they sold 125 C
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ages on Lake Moka with an average price
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of over $1,200,000
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Moka is apparently where the poorest of
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the rich go on Roso they sold 57
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Cottages averaging over 2,100,000
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finally on Joseph they only sold a mere
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50 Cottages but the average price turned
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in at a whopping 2,
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299,792,458 so what what would a boat
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house like that be worth that right
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there just the boat house alone any
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ideas 250 300 Grand to build
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it 250 to
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300,000 I'm surprised they let a
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bushwhacker like me anywhere near this
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Lake there you go I don't know if he's
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good one or not that looks good no
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little Wy yeah he's decent he's not huge
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but 2 3 4 four five oh no little
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guy he's all right I bigger than I
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thought he looks smaller in the water
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right
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yeah little little fatty yeah nice
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little
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guy little didn't even show up on the
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screen that guy
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no that one
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yeah
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decent well he looks like he's pulling
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good yeah I'm going to get the knit
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while you're
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Pike got him yeah oh yeah it's a bike oh
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bike yeah
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oh nice size bike though
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yeah don't bake me off buddy yeah he's
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in the corner so you're
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good easy
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girl oh come
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on there now bring him around if you
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can oh get out of that there you go nice
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job he decent that's a nice Pike yep
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nice
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Pike yeah good fish buddy hey that's a
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solid nice winning let go a bike yep
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beautiful guy nice and healthy so you
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know what he's fat eh he's not a long
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fish but he is a stocky look at right
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his CW something right in there too yeah
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there a chunk
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yep it's a long drop down from this boat
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yep there give the one flip one flip
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down he goes be G good work man at least
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that's something I mean this kind of
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weather conditions you don't know what
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to expect right yeah your jigs your jigs
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your lines everywhere
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yeah these things are so strong he'll
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rip the we
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[Music]
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apart 7 ft of pure jig stealing Granite
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just I don't know what all was down
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there but all kinds of SN crap I got
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something little walleye little walleye
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get in here whoa see that's the way you
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do it in a big tournament in Derbies
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tournament walleye needed a walleye so
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bad up on The Jig stealing rocks see
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he's full of pep right now this
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guy you know what perfect timing look at
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that the sunlight right on nice little
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chunk yeah you
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know there are solid fish here Al say
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that although Mike and I have had a
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great day so far our average size is
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well down from a normal day on mccoa
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with 4 to 5 lb Walley and 12 to 15 lb
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Pike being very common here something's
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off I think we'll call it a day and
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maybe pick up on small mouth fishing
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tomorrow if you want to make a fishing
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trip successful you got to open up all
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the
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doors it's bass day on Lake Moka today
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and what a perfect morning it is I'm
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running solo for the first part of the
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day as my fishing partner for this trip
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Mike Smith had to run a couple of
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errands and would meet up with me later
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since I want to stay close to the boat
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launch I thought I'd take a shot at the
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elusive Lake mccoa Largo bass they're
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said to be here but I've never caught
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one I chose a Back Bay that mik
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suggested yesterday on our way back to
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the ramp Bay looks just too good it's
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perfect it's Eel Grass lily pads docks
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uh some mil foil some coontail he got
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every type of weed in here grass mats
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you name it it's got it all so if
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there's
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large Mo in the lake I think you really
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got to pick and choose your your spots
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here I'm sure there's only a handful of
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Bays that have large mouth in them but
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it's it's a perfect body of water for
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them so why
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not Dirty Old Pike oh he's buried the
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weeds look at these things are so strong
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he'll rip the weeds apart man I thought
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I had a bass there he's streak
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out I think he's tired I don't know if I
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can grab him like this
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yeah you know what he's fun as long as
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you don't break off he's fun and a in a
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lake that's not known for too much large
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Mo and I'm just trying to get one in
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here um right beside that Dock of the
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SLE one pull in one pull he did it did
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nothing on the drop one pull and then
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all of a sudden I
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just
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sideways go me large mouth large
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mouth
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okay guess what there
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are large mouth bass in lake
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boka look at that would you somebody
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told me that I got to talked to a guy
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yesterday he said he's been fishing here
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17 years and hasn't caught one yet I've
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been here 17 minutes got
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one I love it
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I just wanted to see if they were here
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cuz I heard they were so
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cool what a great way to start the day
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skipping SOS and pitching jigs around
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docks wood and pads in search of a
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possible large mouth mission
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accomplished that's getting better now
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we're going to have some fun end this
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trip off
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perfectly to get to this episode's
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gorgeous destination I first drove North
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on Highway 400 and then took the Highway
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11 exit just north of Barry I next took
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road 18 into the town of Gravenhurst and
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then turn left on James Street West
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finally I turn left on North meldrew
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Lake Road and one last left on msca Bay
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Boulevard taking me to my fantastic
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accommodations at Moka Bay
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Resort if you're looking for the
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ultimate in a golfing and fishing
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destination this place is definitely it
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it's a short drive from the
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accommodations to either the the
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clubhouse or the public well-maintained
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boat launch on Lake
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mccoa now it's time to meet back up with
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Mike and see if we can get any small
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mouth going contrary to large mouth lake
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musoka has a strong population of smes
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fairly quick break along
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there get
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out
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fun oh my God that was crazy the spinner
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ba it's going to work it's a windy
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enough to work I don't know even know
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how big he is tell you they didn't get a
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good look at him might as well net him I
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guess if it have the net handy just in
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case oh yeah he's not bad he's a nice
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fish
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yeah here he comes nice
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nice C this SP bait when we come back to
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the flant wow that was quick
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just pull in First cast that's getting
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better now we're going to have some fun
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end this trip off
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perfectly I love you because we've had a
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hard time here
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friend hard time with Walley and Pikes
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and we got to resort back to the old
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bass I hate when that happens if I were
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to give you two suggestions to get you
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started small M fishing on Lake musoka
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the first would be during the early part
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of the bass season and up until mid
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October look for weed growth it takes
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some search but when you find the right
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weed bed the fish will be there come the
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end of the season that's when a lot of
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the big fish move to deeper classic Open
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Water structures like points shes and
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even single Boulders in 20 plus feet of
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water lake musoka has lots of deep water
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smallo structure the funniest part about
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using deep water vertically jigging them
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is the small tendency is to jump anyway
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so they come up 100 100 miles hour right
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that's
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right
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[Music]
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nice jumper that
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dude into the cabbage in the
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Cabbage these are comicazi fish look at
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these
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jumps easy buddy you good you're
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good
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ouch so as soon as we stopped at this
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cabbage Pat
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and we threw
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a you threw your heart tail over top of
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that I threw a spinner bait over top of
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that nothing nothing then we drop a Seno
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in there right beside the weeds and get
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one see
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pal you know what on these cold days
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they act different right on these
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frontal conditions they act you got to
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fish
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accordingly to say that Mike and I
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caught and released a bunch of fish in
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the last 2 days is an understatement and
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you just saw small portion of Mike
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considers this a mediocre success rate
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at best he says when you hit it right
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it'll knock your
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socks hey
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almost little scar
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back Fike was after him maybe yeah a
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bunch of little lines on
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them
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[Music]
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yeah little there old snake they good
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eating
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size jump so nice these
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fish the musoka Lakes there's rich
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people here there's famous people here
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and there's a ton of fish
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here this hot spot is one of Mike's
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points for walleye Pike and small mou
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the Waypoint on your screen will get you
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there
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if the fish are cranked up then throwing
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3 to 5 in Plastics are your best betat
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if the fish are slow and lethargic then
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you may have to go to live Bay work this
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entire Hotpot area from Shoreline to
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deep as the fish could be anywhere on it
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when using the traditional down View and
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side view screens of our garments
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fishing spots like this one are really
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fun to dissect because of the strong
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signal sent back from the solid rock
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bottom due to the absence of weeds fish
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are easy to see as well for more hotpots
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like this one visit fishing
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