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Rocky Mountain Northern Pike | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
This episode just may be the most unique show of the year. Pete Bowman and Steve Niedzwiecki fly into British Columbia's Northern Rocky Mountains and drop into a tiny, blue water lake to try their luck at, get this, Northern Pike! Yup, you heard it right, Pike in BC's Rockies! From the first cast and on, they have one of the best fishing days of their lives. ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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[Music]
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i think i'm going to like bc pike
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fishing
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unbelievable bc lake oh yeah
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that's what it's all about right there
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brother coming in and catching these all
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day
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what a fishery up there bc pike like
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this
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in british columbia rocky mountain
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i love it another beauty like look at
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the size of these fish
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the fish in canada show brought to you
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in part by
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princecraft boats dominate the waters
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and outdoor canada canada's only
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national fishing and hunting magazine
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if the province of pei is deemed to be
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the tuna capital of the world
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and the province of ontario is known as
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the brook trout capital of the world
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then british columbia is hands down the
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salmon and trout capital of the world
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in fact you've probably seen angelo and
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nick in a previous bc episode
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wailing on numerous giant lakers
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then it was angelo's my turn again we
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pounded them
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it's a trout and salmon mecca is this
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like
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the best lake trout fishing you have
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ever seen in your life by far
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but what if i told you bc is working his
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way up the fish ladder with another
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species that might just surprise you
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that fish is the northern pike yep you
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heard it right
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pike in bc
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for this shoot i'm heading on a return
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trip to northern rockies lodge with our
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new fishing buddy
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steve nizwiki we're making the scenic
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trek along the alaska highway taking in
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all the incredible wildlife and
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spectacular vistas
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the three-hour drive offers around every
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bend
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whether you're a returning visitor like
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me or a newcomer like steve
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the experience never fails to take your
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breath away
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and all the while we're still pondering
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what great fishing adventures the lodge
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has planned for us
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to imagine taking our personal air
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limousine and dropping us into a cold
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clear lake teeming with pike
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is definitely a bucket lester after
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loading up the plane and having a brief
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safety presentation from our trusted
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pilot
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and lodge owners
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we boarded his signature turbo water to
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scratch one more item off the list
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if the drive up the alaska highway
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wasn't stunning enough getting to see
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the wondrous terrain of the rocky
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mountains
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from the air will surely blow you away
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for this particular adventure earth
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navigates the plane through mountain
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valleys
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and over untouched northern bc
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wilderness before delivering us to a
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body of water called fishing lake
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a promising name for sure
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earth tells us this lake is swarming
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with big pike and though i have no
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reason to doubt him
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i'll believe it when i see it
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oh that's a nice fish that is a
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wow that's my first cast by the way
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folks
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first cast in this fishing lake it's
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called this is cool
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i think we're gonna have a good day
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watch this whoosh whoosh
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so right now i'm over 20 feet of water
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so we got what we've done is drifted out
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over the break
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easy to fight these fish now right now
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we've been over 20 feet of water so
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that's a good pike man that's really
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good way to start the danger first cast
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i think i'm going to like bc pike
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fishing
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first pike in bc
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that's crazy that is crazy
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look at the size of that duker first
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cast first bike
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stephen let's go back to the break yes
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baby
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nice job that was fun
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uh there's the little swim bait i was
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throwing
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jig head five inch swim five inch is a
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good number for
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small smallmouth maybe a little you can
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go 3.8 and four
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um you can still get them on this uh
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largemouth and walleye
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believe it or not that's a fantastic
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walleye bait too so
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a tendency with northern pike oh we need
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a big one that you know a giant
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swim bait that big but you don't need a
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swim bait that i brought some bigger
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ones and i will try them today but
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i think these fish are going to be
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hungry and they see something different
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they've never seen this in this lake
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before for sure
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uh obviously first cast he just wrapped
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it and he hit it good too my line just
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went sideways
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set who'd ever thought anybody bc
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pike wow
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oh no he's getting the boat like a
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tilt-a-whirl
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we're on fishing lake in beautiful
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british columbia after northern pike
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so far we've made one cast and boated
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one giant
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i wonder if it's going to be a good day
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i don't see anybody see him anymore
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[Music]
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wouldn't another one hit it a different
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fish get out there peter
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i got a typical fish on no way yes
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i i i swear to you i swear to you right
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now that other fish is still sitting
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right off that brink
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this is this is a different fish it's a
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nice one too
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it's a nice yeah i saw him here sure
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that's crazy i'm telling you
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oh yeah he's right behind him oh yeah
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there he is
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he did it he did look at that he won't
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touch it
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that's weird you got a bigger fish
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though than what that one yours is this
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one's bigger
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which is cool
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that's awesome buddy good work no
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no no no you're coming in the boat turn
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your ass turn that way
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he's spinning the boat like a
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tilt-a-whirl
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gorgeous fish man i love this that's
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great when you cast a one and another
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one hits it
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i know
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that gorgeous bike oh that's the bigger
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of the two
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yeah that he wasn't cast into we saw i
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saw a fish sitting eight feet off the
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back of the boat and i said to peter
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there's a fish right off the back of the
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boat so i reeled in
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cast it about 15-20 feet past it as soon
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as my bait hit the water
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dunk dunk i got this fella and the other
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one was right beside it the whole way
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there you go that's awesome
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wow
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i can't see my glasses are all fogged up
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and
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soaking wet you go sir
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[Music]
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that sounds good peter i don't know
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buddy i'm gonna erratic with my bait
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though
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i don't think he's big he's on the break
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but i don't think he's big he doesn't
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feel big right now
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but i went kind of crazy on my on my
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retrieve there to see if i could
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trigger a fish
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[Music]
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so far so no not bad
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oh yeah yep that's a better fish stevie
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look at that sucker
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oh yeah baby
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i started working it real quick totally
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different what i've been doing
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so far when pike do that on your bait
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caster with
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50 pound test braid that's a good thing
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oh that's a good thing solid
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nice fish nice fish
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the infamous pike grip the best part of
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pike fishing well the jump is probably
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the best part
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but the next part is that that run they
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do get that right in that corner of the
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mouth
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i could have caught that fish without a
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leader but
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i'm gonna let him go one more time like
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that just to
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just to ease himself out of it short
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pike with a stocky pike this
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i can hear him gurgling
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what a fun lake oh my god this is the
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one end of the lake we just started
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[Laughter]
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pike in dc i love it unreal and
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i had no idea in bc honestly
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stevie until hers told us
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he said yes i got two or three good pike
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lakes
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hurst has got uh 70 legs was it
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70. 70 lakes he doesn't he's a lot of
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these lakes he hasn't even fished
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in his life he's got access to but he's
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never fished
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you ready to go i'm just gonna let this
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guy go because i know she's gonna go
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he she oh
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look at this look at this break look at
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this brake line and the beautiful thing
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is we can see it with our eyes look at
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the fish
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yeah 20 feet away 30 feet away you can
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still see them
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it's ridiculous how clear this water is
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oh my god
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[Music]
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good fish there's one right behind it
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peter let's go for the double
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scar back look at him he's got a scar on
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it there he comes here he goes here he
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[Music]
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comes
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he missed it there you got it again he
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got it that was cool
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that was awesome buddy it was awesome in
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20 feet of water we saw him bite it i
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know
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that was fantastic and he missed it the
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first time
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and he come back and ate it good fish oh
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there's a good look there's one right
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behind it peter double
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scar back look at him he's got a scar on
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it here he comes here he goes here he
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comes
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without it come on oh he was right there
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he looked he knows that he looked at it
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he knows that there's another one
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right there that's a bigger one it is a
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bigger one still more
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they're right here right at the side of
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the boat there was two together
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right off that break side to side there
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he is i see him they're looking oh there
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they are they're both of them
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two followers it'd be up the brake line
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oh careful stephen
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gone yeah that was not i believe that
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sequence man
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so what we've got going on here for our
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panoptix the big sandy point right here
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brake line and that's what this is
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showing the boat is here i'm pointing
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the transducer
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that way because i got i can spin this
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transducer now so if you watch the
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screen you'll see it's going to get
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deeper and deeper and flatter
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and flatter it's like on a trolling
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motor i'd say so i can point this
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transducer wherever i want so now i'm
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pointing it
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up this break we're fishing that break
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so if you if there's any fish in here
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we're going to see them so far we
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haven't seen anything
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there's a little bait fish you can see
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these little dots here that's some bait
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swimming around because there's just
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millions of something though i don't
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know what it is down there
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um so that's what we do with the pan
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with the live scope basically this is
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panoptix lifescope
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it's a game changer for sure especially
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on a spot like this which is clean
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not a lot of weeds and then all you see
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if you see something down there big and
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moving you know it's a big pike
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as if this already phenomenal fishing
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day could get any better earth was busy
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on shore
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preparing the ultimate mid-day snack for
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me and steve
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a pike shore lunch complete with all the
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[Music]
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that fixin's a great bike i don't care
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how big that fishing was he just
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got him man strong as a box these things
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are
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while erst did all the dirty work steve
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and i stuck to the water for the real
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hard work
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and things were heating up
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[Music]
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a little silhouette work for you there
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you go here we go
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quick release professional trained
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professional eh
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[Music]
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unbelievable bc lake yeah this is crazy
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this is so awesome this is highly
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recommended if you're coming
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to northern rockies lodge you've got to
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do a pike trip now so far we've done
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walleye pike and lake trout and we've
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recommended all three of them
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so i can imagine versus 70 lakes
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that he's got access to there's 70 trips
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you should probably take
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oh that's awesome yeah that was awesome
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i bet you that's pretty much an average
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pike in here
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i'm going to bring a family in your kids
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maybe a husband and a wife coming in and
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catching these all day
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[Music]
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i was trying to be nice to him i'm
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soaked i love it
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another beauty like look at the size of
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these fish
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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these are solid solid fish i don't and
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i'm not sure we've seen one much
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smaller than these like this is an
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accurate size you see a couple smaller
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but a couple bigger too so you're right
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that's the average pike we're going to
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catch you that's an average size
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northern right there and
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fight it is so much fun and they're
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eating just about anything really
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they're they're they're cooperating
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quite nicely yeah
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oh that didn't take long
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they're all doing that too they're all
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gone
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they're all strong healthy fish that's
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awesome
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but you know what a short lunch time
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versus got it going on for us buddy
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let's go that's all the notice i need
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let's troll in
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[Music]
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oh my god our first
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pure pike shore lunch
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[Music]
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thank you
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i can't say it enough northern pike
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is the best that's the best
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[Applause]
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that's that's power yeah it's been
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powerful as we've seen so far
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oh it's thick oh yeah that's the biggest
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one we've seen
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is that
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to get to today's amazing fishing
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adventure steve and i flew from toronto
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to vancouver
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from there we took our next flight to
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prince george and then hopped onto
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another plane to fort nelson
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the remainder of the trip was a drive
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along the scenic alaska highway to mile
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post 462
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at northern rockies lodge on the shores
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of muncho lake
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this five-star facility is nothing short
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of breathtaking
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along with fly-in fishing they offer
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aerial sightseeing tours
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wildlife tours mountain hiking and the
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list goes on
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and on they even have access to their
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own natural hot spring
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a great way to end an adventurous
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fishing day
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[Music]
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look at the friggin bait on that screen
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oh my god
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oh look you see that
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i went to marco away point
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you set the hook you were pulling it out
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of the water
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i stopped my retreat with the side of
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the boat i was gonna mark the point
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point which i'll do right now
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i went to do that and i saw the splash
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and felt this bump and there was a fist
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right there
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i said right on the hot spot where we're
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gonna put for the show that was great
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mark on the hot spot yeah i think this
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is the spot keeper
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it's the hot spot wow that wasn't good
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there we marked our hot spot with this
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little guy
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see you buddy you're on our hot spot
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we're gonna let you take off
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that's so cool mark waypoint hotspot
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fish that was the best
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if you had he almost jumped right in
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yeah yeah that was great
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oh i see a wheat patch here we go here
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we go there's a big weed bed coming up
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this is good right here
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we're going to get fish we should be
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stopping it's up to you
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you can put her in neutral we can cast
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right here a little bit
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see what i mean yeah see what i mean
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yeah so if you're ever coming to this
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lake or any other pike lake what we're
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doing we're seeing all these real light
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bottoms and then you see a dark
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transition line up there that's where
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your polarized glasses come in real
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handy
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you just cast to the light bring it into
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the dark and that's either a different
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type of bottom of weed to drop off it's
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usually a wheat bed
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and i we just predicted that i slowed
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down the cast here and we caught a fish
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they're so surrounded
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and the backdrop here i i was i just
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cast and i'm watching
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my bait go the mountains in the
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background caught my eye
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and i forgot i was even fishing
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so we just saw one steve's gonna cast to
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it he's way behind the boat
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and he was just sitting there cruising
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in the bottom it looked like a decent
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fish
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you know the direction right yep perfect
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watch this happen right before your eyes
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leads to them
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i was gonna say right about now i wish i
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could pull me out of the boat i wish i
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could have called i was just
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saying right about and as soon as i said
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that
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that's awesome it's a pretty good fish i
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think this is a nice one
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look at him tape on it again
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sight fishing northern pike in 15 feet
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of water
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oh man they're solid fish
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i mean that's a beefy fish for that fish
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there you go
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another bc northern bike hey
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absolutely to catch these consistently
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all day long
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sight fishing in this kind of water
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unbelievable oh he's gonna splash
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oh yeah they always do
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oh yeah that's awesome buddy that was
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great
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yeah okay let's do it again oh that's a
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big one i think
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oh i think that's a big one stevie she's
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running
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that that's that's power yeah that's big
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powerful as we've seen so far
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yeah when they get thicker like that
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that's all muscle in these fish and it's
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just
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thick yeah it's a nice one it's thick
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oh is he ever solid this is the one
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this is the one oh man they get strong
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these things
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whoa buddy look at how fat that is i
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know
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oh baby
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at that fish oh my god what a fishery up
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here
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bc pike like this in british columbia in
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the rocky mountains
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give you a man this is crazy
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this just got me so good oh look at this
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my radley old ratted up old swimbait
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it's all beat up the leader is all
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chewed look at the coating come off the
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leader that's how good the fishing is in
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here
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oh man what a fish buddy
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today's hot spot is where pete and steve
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found the largest concentration of
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northern pike on fishing lake british
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columbia
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the waypoint on your screen will get you
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right there this is a big long
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underwater point on the first major
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drop-off
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leading out from a large shallow bay in
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which the pike spawn
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as summer creeps on smaller pike will
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stay in the shallows
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but rule of thumb is larger pike will
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head towards deeper water
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now it's not that they vacate the
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shallows completely but they will
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eventually move deeper
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when you can catch a 15 pound plus
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northern on your very first cast
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on such a small lake you really
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appreciate just how special this place
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really is
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for more hot spots like this one check
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out fishingcanada.com
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