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Northern Ontario Shore Lunch | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Ang and Pete head into Algoma's Buck Lake Wilderness Lodge for a well deserved "boys getaway". Their plan is to find, then catch, then fillet then fry and finally eat the most delicious food that mother nature can provide; WALLEYE! But in order to do so, they have to deal with brutal weather and a school of bait stealing Northern Pike getting in the way of their Northern Ontario Shore Lunch! ► 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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our main goal is just to relax have a
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great time do a little fishing and just
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chill out and enjoy
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it's nice sitting down fishing isn't it
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buddy i love it this is awesome
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yeah
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come on eat it
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i want to be a part of the action
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i need to move i need the zig zag
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that's a perfect eating size walleye
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right there folks algoma gold buddy
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algoma gold
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bye bye
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this week's fishing canada episode takes
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us to buck lake an anglers paradise
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located in beautiful algoma country
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northern ontario
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ange and i will be stationed at the
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bingwood cabins an extension of buck
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lake wilderness lodges and outposts
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situated on the mouth of the buck river
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this place is a beacon that calls
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anglers to satisfy their fishing
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appetites with its multi-species
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smorgasbord
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this remote fishing destination is
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accessible only by floatplane the
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15-minute flight from the nearby town of
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hornpayne provides us with views of
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far-reaching boreal forests and
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sparkling lakes and rivers
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as soon as the floats touch down we know
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we're sitting atop a veritable fishing
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gold mine and it's algoma gold we're
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after
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once we arrive at our cabin pete and i
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are provided with a map marked with
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spots where trophy fish are hooked
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regularly but for this trip we've got
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something different in mind
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well what we're really doing in this
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trip angie and i we're just
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we're going to take big fish we can get
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them but we're out for some eaters we're
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going to have a shore lunch every day
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we're at buck lake lodge and we just
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want to sort of relax chill out figure
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the lake out ourselves and do like
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the boys
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trip to the lake we just came off a
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pretty grueling road trip
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and we were hunting for trophies and and
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it was it's a totally different mindset
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totally different
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type of fishing and uh we we just want
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to sit back our main goal is just to
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relax have a great time do a little
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fishing some shore lunch as pete said
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and just chill out and enjoy
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it's nice sitting down fishing isn't it
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buddy i love it this is awesome we need
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to do this a little more often i'll be
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honest with you i don't know how much i
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could take
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it's okay right now
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but a day or two of this and i might be
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crawling out of my skin i need i need
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some action i need to move i need to zig
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and zag really yeah
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oh i got the spot for us
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you got it marked out oh
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boy it took a lot of technical reading
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to get that one
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what do you got
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oh just something a little special i
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found it on the map
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the clouds overhead are parting a bitter
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northerly wind is pushing against us and
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building strength if we're going to
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satisfy our appetite for a walleye feast
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we need to find a spot with a high
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concentration of perfect eating walleye
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fast yeah yeah you know you're fishing
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in the right spot when
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[Music]
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there's something going here
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come on
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well
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i can't i tell my friend
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that wind's picking up again oh yeah why
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wouldn't it you know or
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we're trying to catch a fish now so we
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might as well get some wind in here
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staying down nice i will say that yes
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he's staying down like a
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like a walleye yes too but
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don't let that line sitting on top here
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so far no i don't like your line on my
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line either right now i want to be a
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part of the auction
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come on oh son i think i saw
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a big wall what we want to see i think
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yeah
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nice we got a walleye yeah now where's
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the net i'll get it here
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i'll just hold it there hang out here he
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comes to you
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right there you got him
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yep
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you got it i got her
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that's a nice walleye right out outside
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on that we might have something figured
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out we might have it
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i hope
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let us pray now we're going to throw
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this guy back i don't want to keep one
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that big
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for sure lunch
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just fought a little different than that
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he sure he hasn't got my jig in him huh
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i helped you bring him in
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gorgeous walleye
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huge i mean he is a an edible but he's
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on the big edible side we'll get we're
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going to get smaller ones in that so i
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like keeping them smaller than that so
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we'll give this guy the nice release
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thank you buddy
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okay a little maneuvering here okay you
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know what i like that
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i like that a lot so what's that that's
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a finger that's coming off of the actual
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point right yeah it may be the point
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underneath right it might be just a just
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coming out extension yeah and i marked
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it so we got to wait for it so let's see
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if we can get let's see if we can get
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right on it
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and and
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anchor up or do something right there
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and fish it for a while and and let's
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just see if if we can
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go right to the waypoint i'll pull you
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20 feet ahead of it drop the anchor
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perfect sit right on it done that
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doesn't work
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then we know we have to drift yep
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we know there's hundreds of walleye here
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so it's a matter of getting the size you
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want oh there's our short launcher right
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there
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though pete and i may have pinpointed
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our personal walleye buffet
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this spot has us exposed to some wild
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winds making it nearly impossible to
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hold a position over our would-be
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banquet okay let's try that right there
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and just drop her out
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so what i'm doing here i'm gonna deploy
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the drift sock we tried
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free drifting
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with this wind though it's just a little
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too fast we can't get down to those fish
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but uh we tried anchoring up that was a
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little too slow
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so we're gonna try something in between
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and that's the drift sock that i just
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put out in the water it should slow us
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down
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we'll still get some movement so it
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won't be like we're anchored but we're
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not gonna be blowing off this point
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like we have been with uh
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with just a free drift the wind's just
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way too strong
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yes there he is
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oh yeah talk to me brother it doesn't
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feel very big brother
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feels very shaky again oh boy and he's
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moving very much sideways like
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what northern pike would do but that's
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all right that's all right and he's
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pulling very much like a northern right
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i just heard the teeth breaking like
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usually if it quacks like a duck and
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locks like a duck brother it is a it is
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a duck okay so we're in shell we're in
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tighter on that what we're gonna do now
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is we're
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we're gonna drift this point again and
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we went in tight we're going to start
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working doing different drifts out
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farther from the point getting a little
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deeper so we know right there to pike we
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do not want to be anywhere near there
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so it looks like the
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running the debate along the bank and
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these walleyes staying out off the point
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so out deeper
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so what i'll do is the wind's blowing us
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this way
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drift
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drift just zigzag out work it when we
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find fish
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way point it marker buoy it whatever
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especially if we get a big wall i think
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you know we get a group of three
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pounders three four pounders and there's
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there's lots of them here we know
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there's hundreds of walleye here so it's
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a matter of getting the size you want
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walleye get out of here
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look at you jimmy
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boy that'd eat good wouldn't it oh
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there's our short launcher right there
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we're gonna put him in the box we're
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gonna eat him up yep that a boy
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i brought a knife with his name on it
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good job that's perfect
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one more of those
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and we got it
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and maybe one more after that three is
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all we would need three of those would
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be perfect man
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nice
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there is lunch one
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ann just got his lunch yeah i know what
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i'm eating
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i hate eating alone
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sure wouldn't want to have a short lunch
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for one
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got him
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yeah
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not much there i was going to say that
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rod's coming back straight pretty quick
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it's not i'm thinking oh it's a walleye
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nice
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an eater an eater there's your eater
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buddy oh watch me drop him in the lake
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don't fall in the lake
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suffer
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yeah good looking fish that's a perfect
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eating size walleye right there folks
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more perfect but
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here's yours yeah yours might be watch
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me drop him in the lake here i'm just
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going to see what he looks like to just
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give an idea to the people what we
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normally keep
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just over 17-inch walleyes 17 is perfect
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just the right size to go into the box
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yes guy
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i don't have to eat alone now well he's
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going to have steak or something silly
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you know
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boy there's a pile of right here
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oh my god you imagine how many you can
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catch in a day this lake is loaded
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fish
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oh
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no he's still on
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going to be around my bag here in a
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minute
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there'll be our three there'd be our
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three fish for eating right there buddy
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for sure
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boy he would be tasty right there he's
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going right in the pan that boy
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right in the pan oh yeah nice perfect
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size
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i could taste that already
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yummy
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bye-bye
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yes we have lunch
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good job buddy
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there will be food today
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there will be food
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with enough gold in the live well for a
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perfect walleye dinner for two our
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original mission is complete
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but not even this wicked gale could pull
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us away from a spot like this boy
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there's a pile of remote hearing yeah
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it's nice there's a lot this lake is
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loaded
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no here's the question to you what we do
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have a camera crew here
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you wanna you wanna feed them as well
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we feed the camera guys as well
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all right
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now we should measure that guy
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because he might be over 18 right
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right there
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he's over 18.
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so we're allowed one like that each okay
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so that's one
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mr cameraman you're very lucky man yes
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sir
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not sure
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not your oh no i'm sure but what what he
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went
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[Laughter]
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with cast after cast producing bite
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after bite
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we need to see just how many of these
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clones we can get
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well a guy can get a mess of those out
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here
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we spent a couple of days at a lodge
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like this say oh my god you imagine how
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many you could catch in a day but you
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know you know it was amazing though it
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took us a while to find these fish yeah
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i would yeah you're right it took us a
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while but
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you know we don't know the lake we got a
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few tips off you know
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the guides here and uh you gotta hit two
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or three spots but for us to dial this
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in it took us a while to dial this in
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didn't it and a lot of persistence so
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there you go buddy
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nice we'll catch a bunch of them today
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for sure
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all right
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it is
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nice wall right
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he's lucky though he's the lucky one
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today yeah you are the lucky one my
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friend
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gorgeous nice look at that
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lucky lucky boy
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i don't know if it's because of this sun
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coming out or whatever but they're
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tapping now they're hitting it right
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typically walleye fishing you've got
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two bites uh for the most part two bites
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especially the jigs is either just mush
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he's just there you don't even feel the
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bite or
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like that and they're starting to do
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that thing that means they're getting
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active and they're starting to feed
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pretty good pretty heavy so
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[Music]
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you tell me if you need a net i can
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scoop it up oh it's a nice walleye yeah
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that's a nice fish
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great average in here oh my god
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beautiful average algoma gold buddy
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algoma gold
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right there
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they'll catch a hundred of them in a in
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a day or two here at the boat oh yeah
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yeah at least
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we tucked it out buddy
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persevered
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i got a real bizarre feeling on this
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fish
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weird
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that's very cool isn't that neat wow
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to get to today's awesome walleye lake
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take highway 400 north to highway 69.
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next take highway 17 northwest to white
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river
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finally turn right onto highway 631
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which will take you to the fort air base
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just outside of hornpayne ontario from
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there it's a short flight to buck lake
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lodge
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i'd like to see the wind pick up a
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little bit yeah nice you know
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[Music]
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under the boat but he doesn't feel like
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much
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hey look at this can you dig that sucker
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can you dig it sucker
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that's what we should feed the cameraman
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oh look he's pooping don't poop in the
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boat
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oh he did poop in the boat oh i think i
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dropped it in there no it's hanging off
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him still oh he just dropped another one
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get that thing out of here
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let me shake that one out of you
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that thing right there
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would be a perfect meal for about a
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50-inch northern pike and there are 50
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is northern pike in this lake what a
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looking fish
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in that mouth
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okay little guy
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thanks for the entertainment
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[Music]
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that was funny
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so there's pike walleye and suckers up
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here along with whatever baits up here
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algoma they got it all you got it all
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happening it's all happening buddy
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this is a real shaky fish but it feels
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like a good one
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a shaky good one it's it's a i got a
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real bizarre feeling on this fish okay i
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don't know why i think the teeth are
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hitting it
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constantly and it's not breaking my line
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he's keeping the rod bent
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he's fighting very much like a pike but
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like
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it's a weird
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it's tingling and pinging
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[Music]
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weird
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that is weird
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maybe it's a white fizz is there a white
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fish in here yeah maybe it has a white
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fish no way it is i guessed it
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look at that a whitey wow lovely wipers
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they catch suckers they catch yeah
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everything but walleye i knew it was a
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sizable fish yeah just different the way
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he thought yeah
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wow is he a scrapper
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there he might be done now i'll try and
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pull him up by the jig
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that's very cool isn't that neat wow oh
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there he goes
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bye bye bye bye come on
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take off buddy there he goes
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he's gone white fish that's very wow
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yeah
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oh well i don't mind that
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different
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let's call it a day buddy let's go
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brother we've got some walleye to eat
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yeah
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what's the expression when the going
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gets tough the tough get going well
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we're done being tough and we're
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definitely going back to our cabin that
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is time to enjoy the fruits of our labor
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in as much as ants and i don't mind
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spending long days in the water when the
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weather's this ugly the thoughts of a
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nice warm cabin are awfully good besides
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the old guts are starting to growl and i
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can't get my mind off a nice feed of
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buck lake walleye
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while ants gets the fire sparked up i'll
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do what i do best slice and
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dice the best meat in the world
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though it may not have been the
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laid-back fishing trip that we were
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hoping for there's nothing quite as
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rewarding as relaxing by the fire after
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a long hard day on the water especially
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if it's over a delicious meal a freshly
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caught walleye
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with a dinner like this and a view this
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spectacular who could complain
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besides mother nature has to take it
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easy on us one of these days
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right
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today's hot spot is an extending
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underwater rock point protruding out
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from witch's nose on buck lake the
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waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there
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pete and i first investigated this spot
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on a nasty rainy day and found that it
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was loaded with northern pike in and
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around the 12 foot deep mark we knew
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because of the amount of northerns
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around that there had to be an abundance
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of bait there too
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the following day we returned and tried
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a bit deeper and found 16 to 17 feet
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being the magic number for walleye
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by first graphing in quick draw contours
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with our portable echo map and then
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shading in the 16 to 18 foot contours
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with a specific color we could stay
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exactly in our walleye zone and not
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venture into pike infested waters
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