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Amazing Smallmouth Bass Lake: Lake Superior Bass Fishing
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Apr 15, 2025
Pete Bowman travels to Batchawana Bay on Lake Superior with Steve Niedzwiecki, as they seek the ever-feisty Smallmouth Bass. They cover sandy points, big sand flats, and a complex of rock-piles and islands, with both fast and slow presentations. As in typical Smallie fishing fashion, it's the followers that put the boys into that excitement mode. Keep your eyes peeled fellas because there's Bass swimming everywhere! ► 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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let's go and do it let's do it
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that a boy peter now that's a smallie
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right there man
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[Applause]
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good looking fishing quite light crazy
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oh yeah he's right on your bait
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he's right there oh there's three of
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them this is so exciting
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when you get on to a school of
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smallmouth now i got a fish on and i
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can't wait to get the bag back out to
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get another one
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lake superior aka gichigami
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it's the largest of the great lakes it's
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the world's largest freshwater lake by
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surface area
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it's the third largest freshwater lake
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by volume and finally
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it's today's fishing canada playground
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i'll be looking for smallmouth bass in
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the batchwana bay area of the lake with
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my good fishing buddy
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steve nizwiki before steve and i head
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out however we set up a little dock talk
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with local fishing guide tyler dunn to
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get an idea of the fishery
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and the layout of this area i offer
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fishing 365 around sault ste marie in
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the algoma region
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uh summertime we're doing everything
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from bass and steelhead to atlantic
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salmon
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to muskie in the winter time we do lots
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of perch and whitefish
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but our smallmouth fishing in the spring
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is hands down
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what people come to algoma for it's
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numbers of big fish
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it honestly can't be beat it's cheap to
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come here you can bring your own boat
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there's fishing for everybody up here
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especially in the bass world
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i fished with tyler a while back and
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trust me this guy
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is a stick and not just for bass he
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knows his area extremely well
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and can target any species in the water
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oh he turned right away from my bait
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nope
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he turned away from it first yeah
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a little ripper this is not even a big
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fish but he's fighting like that i'll
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tell you one thing about superior fish
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through fighters
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there we go peter start first that's a
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good start there you go buddy he's a fat
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little guy
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yeah nothing wrong with that fish at all
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man
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i catch them all day no kidding
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absolutely excellent
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so we'll work our way up from there
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stevie not a boy yeah
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it's a good start buddy good start just
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barely saw him you can see that black
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tail
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tip there i saw the tail moving and then
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you look for that dark back and i saw
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him
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swimming around so you kind of track
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them and grab your soft baits like that
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it was a drop shot
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catch them sometimes catch it nice job
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buddy
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hey let's let's go and do it let's do it
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oh there he is stevie get your net out
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there bud
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you go on he's gone he's going for your
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bait i bet you
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yeah there's two of them there we go
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oh that's it there's one there's the
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other one there with them no no
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oh yeah right behind them
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yeah get that one peter drop him in
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behind
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oh he's gonna grab it oh he can pull it
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here he goes
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turn on it he's turning he's turning
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come on baby
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i don't see him now he's right on your
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bait he's right there
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he's oh there's three of them
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look at him right here look at the big
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one here oh they get this little guy
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bugging me now
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get to the big one that's superior folks
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you gotta
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weed through the little ones and try and
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get your bait to the big one
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all right we'll bring this one in nice
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and quickly
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come here look at that right there
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well uh how'd you still see the big one
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no but he's out i know where he is the
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area
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let's put this one back in we'll get to
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those other fish real quick
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nice superior smallmouth this is so
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exciting when you get
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on to a school of smallmouth i can't i
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you know i got a fish on and i can't
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wait to get the bait back out to get
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another one
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you moving them yep i'm not sure how big
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it is or what it is but
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smallmouth oh no northern well that's a
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pretty decent pike too
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he's not bad that's a hey i'm happy with
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pike that size any day of the week
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yeah look at the jump
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[Applause]
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[Laughter]
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oh that was awesome you didn't have to
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grease your hands up or anything no
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no i love it oh
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do you see the size of that bass it's
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right there i just dropped them
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man that's like a that's a solid four
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pounder you just come up and went right
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back down
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i just put the bait and it came up for
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your bait yeah i just slid the bait in
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the water and he comes right up at the
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bay
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now that's a smallie right there man it
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drew him in with a pike that's awesome
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that is awesome that's how big that
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smallie is
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look at an eight or ten pound pike and
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follow him up yeah what are you eating
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son
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[Laughter]
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i've never seen a bike that big you're
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still there catch that fish
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one of the biggest pike i've ever oh
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yeah
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our day of fishing batchwana bay on lake
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superior is going well
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we're trying for smallmouth but in doing
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so we're always on the alert for
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something else that swims
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well whatever just cruised by us is
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ginormous
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i've never seen a pike that but he's
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still there yeah catch that fish
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a fish this size makes the hair on the
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back of your neck stand up
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it's one of the biggest pike i've ever
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seen
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oh baby please holy
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i thought it was a sturgeon
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what is that honest to god i've seen 20
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pluses
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that's a 25 to 30 pound pike guys i'll
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bet it's the biggest
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one that any of us have ever seen he's
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probably gone by now though
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yeah spin on it just in case he's worth
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it he's a big
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that was like massive we chase him yeah
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[Music]
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you got him i got something like that
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oh yeah that's him sir
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yeah are you kidding me on the glide
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bait
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on the glide bait just nice and easy
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your drag set loose because this is
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going to take a long time to get it in
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oh that's the fish saw oh yeah oh my god
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he's right here at the boat too
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oh that's him no no that's not him
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that's not the one it's a nice northern
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it's a nice northern but it ain't the
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one oh my god there's a big pike out
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here
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that's not that's a big fish that's a
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big fish but that's not the one we saw
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buddy this is
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twice the size of that fish yeah and
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that's a nice pike right there
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it's a beautiful pike i thought you had
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them i did too yeah you had them i
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thought
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this is good this is a boss fish
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obviously superior's got some giant pike
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in it too right
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perfect body of water for it yeah this
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is a it's a beautiful fish and
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strong oh yeah that's why i love pike
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fishing man
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oh he's just about ready one pike lure
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in the boat pretty much
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and the leader right lucky you put the
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leader on i know
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you were the one that suggested it i
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didn't know if i wanted to but
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this is cool come up smallie fishing a
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bonus out on some pike
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go down here it's easier all right
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he's gonna get he's gonna soak me first
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just be careful brother because all
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those hooks
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you got him good job yes sir show the
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size of that pike it was not the fish we
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saw
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no i don't think it was anyways look at
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this
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look at the size of this northern pike
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isn't that awesome
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oh yeah baby i look you know what
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fishing in places like this up here in
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superior and botswana bay
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it's unbelievable because you never know
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what you're gonna get a bud
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this fish is half the size of the one
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that we saw
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it it truly is look at that and the big
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scar on the back right there
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that's about about 12 pounder so 10 12
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pounder the other was over 20 by far
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yeah all right let's get this girl back
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in the water
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there we go
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that is great
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[Music]
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yeah i'm not going to take that bait off
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for a while bud
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one minute one minute how can you get
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how can you take it out of my gripping
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hands right now
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yeah that's the the baby's talking about
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it's just a it's a selma glide bait that
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angel and i picked up and when we're in
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europe
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one time in england and he just looked
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at ants looked and said i got to get
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some of those
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a couple two or three of them and uh
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we threw it up north and it it's it's
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got a very unique action
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and you know about three four minutes
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before
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this northern hit that bait there was a
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smallmouth bass that wouldn't be a pound
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that that also hit it
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so everybody wants to eat it there she
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goes
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there you go mama yeah well that's
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awesome
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wow she's still there yeah she's right
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there that's very dirty
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and now seeing her in the water in that
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four and a half feet
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and uh having saw the other one it just
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cements in my mind the size of the
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northern pike that are right up here in
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this flat right now
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it's awesome here catch one more buddy
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catch mamacita
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atta boy peter this is a nice superior
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smallmouth right there peter
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nice job
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we're back and tyler's brought us to a
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smallie paradise
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lots of rocks and boulders a bit of
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weeds and a series of big shoals
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it's picture perfect
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[Music]
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turn turn turn turn turn
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got him that up boy peter
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nice one nice one buddy that's a small
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mouth hey bye
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sight fishing again here we go buddy
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you're right there nice that's not
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better that's a superior
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yeah nice
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nice yeah i love that one you can spot
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them
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and you're not sure what they would the
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way they react the last the couple of
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fish that i've sightfished
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so far anyways they're not showing
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complete interest right off the bat but
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you'll see them just go that way and
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then all of a sudden
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it's gone cool a couple of scars oh yeah
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a pike maybe well we know there's big
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enough pike in here to do that look at
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that look at that this side's
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healed up yeah or just rake the scales
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that is crazy two bloody-ish marks there
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and this
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matching marks on this side was just the
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scales moved
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crazy awesome fish though awesome fish
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it's fun when you get sight fishing
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there's a couple of them right here
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catch them stephen i'm
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doing my best i'm looking at them
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i might have to go back there and get
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them
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talk to em stevie listen it's time to
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eat
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and even if it is only two o'clock if i
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put a steak in front of me at two
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o'clock i'll eat it
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so eat
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nope no eating come on baby
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[Music]
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i can still see this fish yeah he's
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right
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on the corner of the boat using this bow
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to structure
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fish oh peter oh
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nice you working that one back there my
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fire
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another boy get that one catch that one
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what are you good
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i couldn't i can't he's not active that
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guy i spent five minutes on
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that's good i'll give you a hand here if
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i see another one oh there's another one
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right behind it too
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just get one get it in there if you see
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one i do that's a nice fish oh there's
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one one night one beside them two the
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other way
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come on double header
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oh that is a nice looking fish too ap
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yeah it's a beauty
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so as steve was working that fish i'm
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pretty sure
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i brought one at least to the boat with
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a hook set and then he
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he took over underneath underneath the
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boat
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so i got him back to where he was and i
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got another one stevie was working that
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one
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there's another one around here too but
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i'm not going to worry about it
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let's get this fish in and have a look
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at it this is this is a nice superior
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smallmouth right there peter
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nice job that'll boy
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now grab your fish i want to catch one
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get in there
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he ate that why did he eat that oh
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that fish took her down a little deep so
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i'm just going to cut it off
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i can see the hook i just don't want to
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touch it yeah that's all
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but that's worth cutting off your hook
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for nice fish strong
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i mean these aren't they're not fat
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either yet or
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you know the spawn is probably over but
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uh
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good looking fish and fight like crazy
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oh yeah physically
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big giant rock right there and then
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there's a smaller rock
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over you see the other rock stevie that
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one there yeah so i cast
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right between both of them i just kind
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of dragged it through and that's where
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he was
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so he might there might be another one
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in there it's a perfect spot so i'm
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gonna go check
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lots of shade on these boulders so you
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can see the shade the sun's over there
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it's black on this side of the boulders
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those those fish will just hang up those
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boulders so
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yeah yes sir owen that's the big one
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to get to today's great fishing on lake
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superior we first drove north on highway
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400
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continued north on 69 and then headed
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northwest on highway 17 at sudbury
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we next turn left on havilan shores
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drive to the boat launch at gichigumi
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marina
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if you want to launch in batuana bay
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then turn south off of 17
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on to 563 and follow the scenic lake
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shore to the end of the road which will
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bring you to the public boat launch
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for more area information contact algoma
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country tourism
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buddy no but he's not big that's
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okay
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look at the acrobatics oh and screaming
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nothing wrong without my book bring out
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all your friends
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yeah exactly bring out all your there's
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nobody with him get go back in right
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there where he was
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don't worry there's nobody following so
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yeah we're in there
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man they fight these are dogs you fight
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probably the best fighters in fresh
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water right i would think yeah
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for their size for their size blue you
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know you get them big brook trout too
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though they fight like a freight train
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yeah that's true
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he's up he's gone good perfect perfect
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you can feel that it's getting a little
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twist single bowlers
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they're off either boulders or they're
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working this edge of these rock you can
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see the rock
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and uh the light water and like colored
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water and dark water the rod that's a
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rock shoal there
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that's what's happening fish right
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there's two fish right there
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right there right there okay there we go
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here we go
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thank you come on very good eyeball
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there he is wow
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come on peter crack hurry up get that
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other one he's with him too
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yeah he's right behind him
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[Music]
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how about i go this way peter
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oh this is awesome i love this yeah i
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got a double
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yes sir oh and that's the big one he's
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got the big one
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that a boy p this is the way you do it
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right here
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that's awesome you guys spotted those
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both of those fish wanna put them both
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in the net
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there's one i gotta break them i'll
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bring them over to you
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if i can do you want me to get yeah
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bring them over to me
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wow he's
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he's strong-arming you peter
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come on lord fish
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there we go stephen i'm ready i'm ready
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[Laughter]
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now that is some superior small mouth
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right there i don't even know when
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they're both the same size
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they're a nice fish those are nice fish
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but look how barely i barely had that
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thing hooked
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look i just dropped out i just dropped
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it oh i had mine up pretty good
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that's the way it does a following
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double a sighted
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following double is supposed to work
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yeah exactly
17:51
you see the both the fish but usually
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what happens right there
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small one bites first they usually do
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that right yep and then
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if you if the big one gets aggressive
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and peter that one is definitely bigger
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than this one
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i would say don't be modest buddy
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beautiful fish man they are beautiful
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and fight this guy just kicked my butt
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as you saw
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oh crap see you later gator
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all right nice work buddy yes sir
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way to go i love seeing them too
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he railed it too oh did he ever rail it
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you see them
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you see them and then you know where to
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cast yeah like on a body of water like
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this
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everything looks good on that one i
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shifted steve this way because i saw
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that
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other fish go that way i didn't see that
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fish afterwards so i just threw
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where i thought it was and it was just
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from the tap i said okay
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we're doubling up here buddy
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too funny on these mid-water shoals eh
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yeah
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it's nice i like it i i like it too i
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like that buddy
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okay we're having fun we're having fun
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lake superior fun
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what a fantastic outing
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our first ever bass trip to lake
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superior was most definitely a success
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now you can give me a high five on that
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one
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with a little local intel given to a
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couple of hungry bass anglers we had a
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great
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smallmouth day
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today's hot spot is a small area of
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rocks and shoals in the bachowana bay
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and havilan bay area of lake superior
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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there it's a pretty obvious smallmouth
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bass area with classic structure in the
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form of rocks and boulders
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any of your typical smalling tactics and
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baits will work however we did extremely
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well with the drop shot rig using a
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small three and a half inch natural
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colored plastic
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this area is shallow so a lightweight is
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usually sufficient
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for more hot spots like this one check
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out fishingcanada.com
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