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Absolute Mayhem For Pike In The Shallows | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
(Episode 440) Angelo Viola is faced with a unique situation in this episode. It seems like every Northern Pike in Kaby Lake has honed in to one particular area... and it’s all about bait... what the fish are eating and what Angelo is throwing! 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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[Music]
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wow look at that that's
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crazy what's going on
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here what is
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that this is going to be
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exciting that's the one
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where is the big one that is the
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question
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who the fishing Canada show brought to
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you in part by S the outdoors
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Company musall proudly Canadian since
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1951 Cooper tires Life's a road trip
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come on let's go and Princecraft boats
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dominate The Waters
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[Music]
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as Forest Gump said life is like a box
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of chocolates you never know what you're
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going to get so to is a pre-arranged
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Flyin fishing trip nothing is more
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challenging than trying to anticipate
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Nature's mood swings especially the past
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few
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years it's early June so our drive to
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White River Ontario is full of the early
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season promise of warmer summer days
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ahead one incredible Vista after another
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what a great way to start this
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trip White River air is one of the most
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respected carriers in this region this
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family-owned Airline is a staple in
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these parts not only for the fishing
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industry but also involved in the
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forestry Mining and exploration
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communities after a short and Scenic
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flight we arrive at our final
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destination agot's cabie cabins on Lake
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cabin acadamia where our host steuart
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agage met us at the dock and quickly
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informed me of the bad B
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news unheard of high water levels and a
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very erratic barometer great just what
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we needed flooding conditions and
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soaring temperatures not exactly what I
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[Music]
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expected after a very short time in the
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water I knew this was definitely going
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to be a force Gump kind of shoot because
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where we expected to see Pike we saw a
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whole lot of nothing the bays and
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shallows were totally white of
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fish I just swallowed the black
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fight they must be in full post spawn
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mode their recent instinct to reproduce
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had worn them out and now they must be
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in deep water
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recovering time to
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move cabie lake is a big lake over 25 Mi
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long with 147 islands and under normal
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conditions it covers over 30,000 Acres
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of surface area but with these high
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water conditions who knows how how big
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it really is right now so finding these
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post spawn fish is going to be tough and
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catching them even tougher to make
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matters worse it's a fluctuating
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barometer meaning that they're apt to be
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hunkered down somewhere not exerting
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themselves so their strik so could be
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the size of a hockey puck and that means
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you've got to put that bait right on
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their noses before they'll eat it all
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righty there's one oh he's moving line
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across that's a little oh he's not
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huge cut that on that
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whoa a little tiny
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spinner sometimes these things
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absolutely amaze me how a bigger fish
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can attack a little B tiny spinner like
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that actually I might be able to release
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that right next to the
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boat whoa thank you actually helped me
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on
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that after the first day things were
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looking pretty grim and my host Stewart
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knew it so while I was out fishing and
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not catching he was out running around
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the lake looking for fish at dinner that
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night he told me he saw something
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interesting near the top end of the lake
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dozens of turns and seagulls diving and
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apparently feeding on the surface
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I was immediately intrigued my
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experience told me that Bait fish on the
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surface where Birds could feed on them
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meant something was driving them there
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and since nothing happened in the part
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of the lake I fished in today I decided
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to make the long trip to the north and
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check it
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out this is that magic moment the most
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Anglers wait for the mouth of this river
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right now is just chalk full of bait and
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you can see them all swimming along the
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surface with Stewart's directions and
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map in hand I turned into to the last
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Bay at the top of the lake called boot
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Bay and sure enough after a few minutes
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I could see lots of birds diving in what
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appeared to be a swamp
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strange I slowed down and approached
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quietly what I saw looked like a little
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river that had been flooded there was
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flooded brush on both sides with a
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narrow Clear Channel running through the
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middle maybe 30 to 40 ft across but what
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really blew my mind was the sight of
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thousands of bait fist jumping and
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scurrying across the surface like a
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flock of sheep being hded into a Corral
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by Predators the apex predator these
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parts Pike masses of Pike it was Mayhem
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this is that magic moment that most
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Anglers wait for I just came up to this
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little creek that's ding into this Bay
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and all I can see back here is is an
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activity of bait fish turns and seagulls
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are diving down there's there big Pike
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pushing them up it is absolutely frenzy
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time
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the mouth of this river right now is
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just chalk full of bait and you can see
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them all swimming along the surface and
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that means that they're there they are
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there means that they're being hered up
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I'm going to throw a top water bait well
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not just a top water bait throw Mighty M
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out
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there this is going to be exciting
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[Laughter]
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oh he ate that
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b absolutely
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insane that's just too much
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fun as I started up The Little River
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casting and catching as I went I
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realized that this was not a river at
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all the bottom was the tops of brush a
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foot or so below the surface and when I
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looked up I could see Open Water maybe a
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100 meters away obviously the high water
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had flooded a depression in what
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appeared to be a little Peninsula
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creating a little island out of it and
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this cut well it was black with Bait
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fish with Pike lunging and jumping among
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them gorging themselves it begged the
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question if it's not a river or stream
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what in the heck are these Bait fish
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doing here that's nuts in the middle of
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the chaos and the cut it was really
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interesting to see the pike jammed up
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against the brush just sitting there
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digesting
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presumably yes that's the
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[Laughter]
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one that's the one
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whoa oh look at these
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fish but I'll guarantee you there's some
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big Pike around here I just saw a huge
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fin in there
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[Applause]
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hang out on my
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leader this is
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insane did you know that Ontario has the
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best Northern Pipe fishing on the
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continent with exceptional Fisheries
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located across the province these
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prehistoric monsters are lurking in
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countless lakes and rivers and once they
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start striking you're in for a ferocious
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battle Pike after all have changed very
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little in the past 50 million years with
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their sharp teeth and long Serpentine
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bodies these bad girls look and fight
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like evolutionary Throwbacks and trust
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me it's the females you'll be going for
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they're the much larger of the species
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with a diet that can include fish frogs
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small rodents muskrat and even young
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waterfoul Pike are true Predators get
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one on your line and you'll know why
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they're at the top of the food chain
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going after Pike definitely puts a sport
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in sport fishing and unlike most parts
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of the country where catching monster
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Pike requires an extended trip to the
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northern regions Ontario monsters can be
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found in all areas of the province north
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to south for a true fishing treat look
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to Ontario's northern pike you don't
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have to drive fire to find Adventure in
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fact it's as close as goish in
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[Music]
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that is crazy he absolutely annihilated
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Mo small Pike but holy macro well we
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used Mighty Mo again on the sluggish
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Pike and caught one on every cast they
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just couldn't resist that Mouse
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bait moving back and forth through the
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channel I located deeper troughs at
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either end and threw some plastic jigs
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in and sure enough I caught one all line
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now they weren't anywhere else so that
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means that they weren't competing with
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the pike that were shallower but I'm
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sure they're getting plenty of eat
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judging by the amount of bait fish in
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this
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cut Pete scheduled to shoot a walleye
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show on this Lake tomorrow well you
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won't have to waste time searching I've
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got the motherload for him I just can't
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wait to get back to camp and tell them
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about this crazy
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situation I just hope it lasts until
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tomorrow because in all my years in the
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water I've never seen anything like this
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I'm still trying to figure it
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out frenzy over here with Pike walleye
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down the Deep
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Channel Paradise
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baby where is the big
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one that is the question
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oh yeah big Gator swim away from the
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boat he gave up pretty quick though you
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know for for a fish of that size you can
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see the size of the head on him you
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would think he'd run more but this is a
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weird year this year the water's been of
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course A Long Winter the water's been
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really cold and all of a sudden it
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warmed up and it's hard to tell whether
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these fish are spawn immediate post
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spawn or completely spawned out
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or all right
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there you
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go there you
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go as you can see the fish is kind
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of
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cooperating
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whoa
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gotcha oh my
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God oh my God look at the size of that
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[Laughter]
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Baby K Lake now he's pretty small
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bodywise but you can see the head is
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massive on this
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[Laughter]
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thing that's we got perfect drift for
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this
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fish just slowly moving through the
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water getting that uh lactic acid
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out see you buddy
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[Music]
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today's hot spot is a shallow flooded
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wedy flat adjacent to a channel the
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weight point on your screen will get you
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right there now this spot is normally
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dry in the summer but during my
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mid-spring trip It produced a Feeding
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Frenzy that I've never experienced
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before hundreds of thousands of bait
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fish scoured the area and the pike
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weren't too far behind since some of the
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extremely active fish were slashing bait
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on the surface I decided to throw out
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Mighty Mo a mouse imitating top water
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bait with unbelievable action for more
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hotspots like this one check out fishing
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[Music]
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canada.com whoa that's that's a big
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Gator that's got to be oh nice
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oh under the
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boat this is
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insanity hey buddy how you making
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out yeah that's what I thought that's
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what I thought you'd say now this fish
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I'm thinking is hanging out here either
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feeding on this the multitude of small
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Pike that are feeding on the bait that's
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in those bushes or he's feeding on the
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walleye that are down here prob be the
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walleye it's a
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beauty how sweet is that and this bad
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boy is out here feeding the NOS that are
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jumping around behind me and the Walley
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they're in the channel as
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well let's see if we can revive
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him okay buddy
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look at the scars on his back he's got
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two or three old scarves he or
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she whoa whoo is all I got to say I
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don't know whether you really focused in
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on what I'm doing look at the stretch of
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water that I fish for all
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that this whole channel is no more than
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maybe 300 ft long that's it 8 ft deep in
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the middle and Mayhem going on over here
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in incredible walleye schools in the
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deep hole and a marauding big Northern
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chasing them all down and me and you
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that's
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it you got to love this
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game what in the world could be causing
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this we've got water that heated up 25
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to 30° over 3 days a full moon that was
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bright even during the day extremely
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high water conditions that caus this cut
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a shallow brush bottom so were these
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Bait fish migrating spawning or both the
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predominant Bait fish in cabie lake is
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the black chub and they do migrate but
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usually up creeks and rivers to spawn
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and they are broadcasters in other words
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they scatter their eggs all over the
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place but usually over rocks maybe
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they're confused somehow by this bizarre
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currents the Pike and Walley well
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they're true to form they just came
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along for the feast Mr you were right
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you never know what you're going to get
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I'm just glad I was here to witness
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[Music]
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it to get to today's fantastic fishing
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location I headed north on Highway 400
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to Highway 69 at Sudbury then headed
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west on Highway 17 to the town of White
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River I then boarded a float plane at
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White River air which I took to agot's
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cabie cabins on cabie Lake
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[Music]
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this is what every angler dreams about
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that special moment that little that
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little frame in your fishing life that
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everything comes together we've got a
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marauding school of Pike behind me that
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are chasing these tiny Bait fish there's
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literally millions of them and out here
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in the deeper channel are these guys
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filling their guts and that's the part
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of the KP formula I want to talk about
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today the L part of the KP formula
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location is really important that you
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kind of formulate before you go out in
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the water the areas that uh there are
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going to be high percentage areas for
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the fish that you're after that day but
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then every once in a while even after
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you've got it all figured out you got to
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put your hands your yourself in the
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hands of God cuz that's what happened
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here heard bunch of splashing back in
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this channel put the boat nose in had a
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peak the there was some turns and some
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other birds dropping down in the water
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feeding on this school of bait fish
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everything is here this just happened
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you got to keep your eyes open your ears
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open and let some of nature Little Tales
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tell you where to fish like I did
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