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Monster Pike, Muskie, and Smallmouth on Georgian Bay | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
(Episode 459) For this episode, Pete Bowman travels up to the Killarney area of Georgian Bay looking for big fall Northern Pike. He gets his big Pike but in the process “lucks” into a mess of feeding Smallmouth Bass and then ends up with a big ol’ Muskie as well. 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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you kidding
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me wow take a bunch of those in the bike
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aren't
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going
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God I'm not cas oh I just fell in the
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lake the fishing Canada show brought to
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you in part by sale the Canadian
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Company 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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let me tell you something my fine
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fishing friends when I get something in
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my head in this great sport I often get
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obsessed with it for instance this
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season I have yet to catch a big
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northern pike and well that just ain't
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right on a previous trip I had my bot
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handed to me by the pike Gods at
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Pinehurst Lake in Alberta right species
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but wrong size yeah exactly despite the
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number of huge Walley I caught so I'm
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pretty much itching to get a hold of a
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big Pike some big Pike
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anything this week I'm going to attempt
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it here in Karne Ontario and all I can
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say is please somebody give me a
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break now if you enjoy the outdoors you
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really should come here this area boasts
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some of the most pristine unspoiled
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scenery in the world with its wild
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Georgia Bay Landscapes and white
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quartsite ridges along the beautiful
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Lush
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mountains I've been fishing most of my
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my life but I am still awed by the
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vastness and beauty of this country the
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fishing is just a reward for being here
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it's simply
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spectacular I arrive at beautiful Karne
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Mountain Lodge drop the Princecraft into
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the water look at the time and see it's
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just after 2: p.m. and it's a perfect
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early fall afternoon there's no way I
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can sit around till tomorrow Karne Bay
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is right around the corner to the West
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so I'm going Pike hunting right now
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I'm fishing the back of Karne Bay where
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local fishing guide red PR suggested I
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start he and a couple of buddies caught
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some nice Pike in this area the weekend
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before fishing can be very humbling as
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well as red and the boys did just a few
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days prior to my trip I couldn't get
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squat
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the next logical step according to the
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book is to work my way out to deeper
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water as I get close to the mouth of
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Karne Bay I'm getting pretty revved up
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with all the bait fish I'm seeing on my
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bow mounted garment it's the perfect
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scenario for Big Fish Classic late
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season structure covered with bait and
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deep water access directly adjacent the
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only guessing game is presenting the
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right lure got one bit of loosen the
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drag up that feels
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solid oh that's big I'll bet it's a
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Musky
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but if it's a pike I'm hoping it's a
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pike because he coming in real easy
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now what is this what are
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you what she going to go now there it is
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look at that a nice one it's a nice Pike
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beautiful Pike let's see this going be
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quite the net job for me folks cuz I'm
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buying my
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lome get my net wet come on big
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dude look at the size of this pipe
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nice fish okay big
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girl look at
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that look at that
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bike wow what an awesome
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fish wow look at that that is way up
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Northern Ontario class Pike in basically
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Southern Ontario or Central Southern
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Ontario whoa big dog
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here we go
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mama here we go mama I get it by the
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tail come on
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yes well that didn't take long and I've
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still got another full day to fish
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sweet you know what take a bunch of
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those in the pike aren't
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WR it's day two of my Karne trip and
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from what I saw yesterday afternoon even
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though I caught a giant northern pike
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things just don't seem right there was
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hardly any Pike activity in the long
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stretch of water I fished in colar Bay I
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should have caught or saw more fish so
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much Open Water not much the shallow
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Back Bay stuff lots of rock it just
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seems so big fish
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oriented I'm going to travel East out of
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Karne and head to mil Lake this is a
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very protected piece of water when
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compared to georan Bay there's lots of
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Pikes throughout the entire area and the
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boat right up Collins Inlet is
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spectacular mil Lake as well as
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beaverstone Bay to its immediate East
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are only accessible by boat however
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since the ride is a bit long this water
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is relatively Untouched by
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Anglers add to that the fact that there
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are no boat launches here make it a real
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Hidden Gem I'm going to push my way to
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where mil Lake and beaverstone Bay
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connect to Georgian Bay and work my way
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back I fished this kind of structure
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before just to the sou of here near
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point of barrel with pretty good
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success this combination of wave warn
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islands and turquoise water almost looks
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like it's from a national Geo episode
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Eerie yet
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mesmerizing see what we got see what we
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got here doesn't feel like much but
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that's okay it's a start on a cold day
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like this I'll take him
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looks like a little Pike maybe yeah
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little
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although this kind of structure
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and cover doesn't look very finding
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weeds among the Myriad of rocks and
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channels is the
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key ah you know just start the right
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species one of the right species I mean
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I want Pike here pike fishing I'll take
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anything and I mean I'd love to get a
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Musky too throwing the smaller baits is
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probably not going to get me too many
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mus but you'll never know in a day like
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today this is a Northeast wind I'm kind
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of cross fisted here but I'll try and
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show you the fish like that backwards
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little Pike but solid see how thick that
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is through the back solid
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fish yeah so right color now I just got
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to get them a lot bigger but that's fun
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it's it's a warm-up fish for sure you
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going to take out bud I hit this area
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pretty well but could only come up with
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one half decent Northern so it's time to
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move
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on I always bring extra gear when
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fishing areas like Karne where more than
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one game fish species is available you
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never know I just so happen to be
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trolling for pike covering lots of water
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when a gorgeous smallo bass grabbed my
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big Pike offering but instantly got off
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not to give up an opportunity let's just
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check this spot a little further there's
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a fish nice nice look at
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you look at that that's awesome hey you
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know what I take a bunch of those when
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the pike aren't going an interesting
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scenario is happening right here right
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now I can catch these extremely active
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and feeding smalles on Drop shots tubes
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or even flipping jigs on almost every
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cast in less than 6 ft of water you know
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you come in here and you get a bump you
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don't know what it is a small fish throw
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a tube and and take your chances I
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always take a bit of time to experiment
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but never stop doing what's
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working I'm fishing the colar area of
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Ontario and so far it's been good nearby
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Karne Provincial Park boast some of the
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most stunning scenery in the province
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this beautiful area offers Backcountry
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canoeing kaying and Hiking as well as
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CrossCountry skiing and snowshoeing in
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the
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winter as far as fishing in colar park
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is concerned many of the lakes are fish
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sanctuaries however limited fishing
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opportunities are available in the Parks
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Eastern and Northern sections Bell and
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balam lakes are popular to fish and easy
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to access via Blue Mountain Lodge just
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be sure you contact the park to check
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for fishing
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regulations drop shot in a Shad shape
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worm so I'm sitting here taking a break
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from the pike because it felt very Bassy
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I knew oh that's a good fish of course I
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got my giant uh Pike net
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here so I think I'll be hand land on
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this dude I threw in there way up on the
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rocks and uh and had a tap nothing and I
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lost my my Shad shaped worm so I changed
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it back this guy ate it oh this is a
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good
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one look at that for a
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smallo nicely done bottom lip just
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barely
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hooked those days just going to get
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better and better I think look at that
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chunky stocky fish what'll happen to
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further north you get here here's
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something I'll show you when you're in
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musky and Pike water a lot of times they
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get that on them that I guarantee you
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what that is that's an ESO somehow
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grabbed him Pike or a Musky and he's
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just uh living the dream by not being in
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that one's gut right now maybe as a
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younger fish nice awesome okay I might
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to set up and have some fun here I may
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just have some
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fun okay all you threw my worm that's it
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you are in trouble now buddy good fish
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no that's a good one but but I'll tell
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you what if I ever got a a five on
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here got you that's a nice mama oh easy
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easy that's a good looking smallo bass
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right there folks and I'll tell you what
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that thing fought like a demon this is
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awesome yeah
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buddy that felt awesome
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you just have no idea if you've never
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fished a jiging pig with heavy braid and
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a heavy Rod how much fun set in the hook
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on something like that as you saw I
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almost broke my arm doing it it's a
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pretty good fish I mean it's not a giant
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but it's pretty darn good fish and I
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mean who ever thought you'd be whoa
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catching them on and
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pig in 49 degree water temperature off
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of one rock
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oh God get in there I got her someh I
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got that fish than that I have no idea
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how all righty then now maybe I can get
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back to the pike that I came here for
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oh oh
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God he slapped at a
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damn the musky freaking musky and he bit
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my lure but he he missed it I will not
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get a better chance than that for a
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bonus musky while I'm pike fishing I
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literally felt that fish hit the bait
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and it still didn't get hooked up I now
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know there's some monsters
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here today's Hotpot is a great area for
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musky and Northern Pike the Waypoint on
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your screen will get you there this is a
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classic example of a brake line on the
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deep edge of a big shallow wedy bay game
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fish will Traverse from Edward to
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chicken Island all while searching for
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food I cast to this area however
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trolling would be just as effective if
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you're looking for a giant fish then use
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the biggest bait you have if however
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you're looking to just get bit downsize
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to something considered small for Pike
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rain cold
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rain oh these are
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fish I got one there's a surprise right
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there it's heavy but I think it's full
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of weeds crushed me and then went
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straight
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down unless it's all weed I lot of fish
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which make me look like a fool but it's
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happened to me
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before oh
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yeah it feels like a big old log is what
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it feels
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like now it's going back again look at
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that what have I got a biker musk there
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he is what is it a biker or musky musky
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it looks like a Musky to me I got a good
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glimpse of it nice there's a bonus fish
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for me oh that's
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awesome look at that fish gorgeous mus
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oh yeah wa easy
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Mama God luck and musy there he is again
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look a not oh my God okay I got to get
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you in the net somehow big mama oh God
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get in there I got her
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somehow I got that fish in the net and I
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have no idea how good Muskie this is a
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good one like I'm talking about a nice
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solid ESO
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maskani there's a beefy GE of B muski
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bonus fish holy smokes what a bonus fish
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oh that's
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awesome just started to rain had a
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follow don't know if it's the same fish
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or not
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not oh my God folks what a
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beaut let's see if I can get that fish
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revived big mama okay that's a nice musy
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man that is one heck of a
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Musky one heck of a Musky
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thing I like about this fish right now
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is it's sitting upright it's not turning
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on the side I love that oh man this is a
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big musky
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folks There She Goes not right there is
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the fishable
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lifetime Kar I love
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youo there you have it fishing Canada
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fans I set out on this adventure seeking
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northern pike and I eded in Catching my
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biggest one of the season and as a bonus
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stumbled under the craziest small Mo
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fishing of the year plus put a gorgeous
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musky in the boat to cap it all
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off I'd say the great fishing that colar
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Ontario has been hiding so well just got
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let out of the
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bag to get to today's awesome
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multispecies fishing I first took
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Highway 400 North to Highway 69 I next
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turned turn left on 637 then finally
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turn left on commissioner Street ending
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up at Karne Mountain Lodge this great
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facility caters not only to Anglers but
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to boers of all types hikers
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CrossCountry skiers snowmobilers and
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pretty much anything else involving the
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outdoors today's GP is L for location
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I'm fishing out of Karne on Georgia Bay
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Georgia Bay is a huge body of water
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could be intimidating to people but I'll
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tell you what it's got a lot of good
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fishing in the tucked away areas as well
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you got Karne Bay you've got the channel
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of kar then you go down you start going
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South you go to the French River you go
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to the pcro river you go to the Moon
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River you go as far down as point a
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barrel all that is protected water you
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have Pike musky large mouth small mouth
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lots of panish and in the big water you
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got lake trout salmon rainbow trout this
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is a really really good
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