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Striper Fishing in the WORLD'S LARGEST TIDES! | The Fish'n Canada Show
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Mar 20, 2025
In this Fish’n Canada episode, Pete and Nik join up to fish Striped Bass on the famed Bay of Fundy and in particular, the innermost section of the bay, called the Minas Basin. Here the 50’ tide rushes in and back out again twice a day, constantly moving mountains of ocean water and the billions of fish that are along for the ride. Pete and Nik drop 26 ounces of weight to hold a chunk of cut bait just off the bottom and are constantly getting “bit” throughout their adventure… and it’s not just Stripers down there!
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feels heavy this is one ugly fish that's
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got apparently got a bit of a stinger on
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them Steve everyone died from something
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like that I ain't dying out here like
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that so we could be having some fun here
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for the next hour buddy that'd be fun
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little stripe Mass off the
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shore there he is little striper woo oh
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this is a good one boys buddy this feels
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a lot bigger than that last one catch
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release all one good system oh yeah
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she's fighting
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good one buddy they fight don't oh they
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fight woo I'm
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[Music]
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[Music]
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hi everybody and welcome to yet another
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exciting fishing Canada episode now you
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might say that Today's show takes place
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on the most unique water body on planet
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Earth the water-based phenomenon called
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the Bay of fund's Midas Basin here in
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the province of Nova Scotia in a country
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that boasts several aquatic wonders like
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niagar Falls largest waterfall in North
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America by volume and width the Great
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Lakes the largest group of freshwater
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lakes in North America which includes
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Lake Superior considered the largest
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lake in North America the McKenzie river
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the longest river system in Canada and
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great Slave Lake the deepest lake in
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North America the Bay of fundi fits
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perfectly alongside each and every one
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of this list let me tell you why the Bay
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of fundi located between the Canadian
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provinces of New Brunswick and Nova
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Scotia is famous for having the highest
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tide range in the world
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these Tides can reach up to 16 M or over
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50 ft this is an incredible amount of
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water that is funneled into and out of
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the bay in a single day and Tide changes
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here occur twice a day that's two high
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tides and two low
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tides well if you're anything like me
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you're probably wondering just how much
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water flows in and out of the bay while
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based on a 14 M average tide the total
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volume of water moving in and out of the
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Bay during one title change is estimated
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to be around 110 billion tons it said to
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have a force equal to 8,000 locomotives
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or 25 million horses now that's a lot of
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hay moving on to the fishing portion of
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this trip Pete Nick have teamed up and
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are taking on the task of dealing with
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the baa Fundy and minus Basin title
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influence stripe bass you better strap
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hit boys if you're a longtime viewer of
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the fishing Canada show you may remember
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Nick and I fishing this area in 2019 we
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hooked up with Greg Bello from Bass Barn
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Charters and had a fantastic trip the
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striper action was
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non-stop since then I hear that Greg has
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expanded on his fishing areas so the
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boys get to try their hand at some new
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water and get this with our new
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Princecraft boat that's right our 20ft
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freshwater fishing machine in this
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gigantic ocean Bay what could possibly
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go
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wrong launching a boat on a daily basis
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in the Bay of Fundy or in today's case
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the minus Basin the headwaters of funy
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is a strategic ordeal yes there's
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strategy to backing up a boat trailer
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yes there's strategy to prepping your
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rig so that you don't hold up other
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Anglers but this strategy if done
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improperly will leave you high and dry
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literally with the tides being so high
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yet consistently changing the boat
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launches around here are only usable at
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certain times of day when they're not
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usable there is dry as a bone It's
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actually an incredible site to
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[Music]
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see so with the incoming tide allowing
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the Princecraft to finally be launched
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and Pete and Nick all rigged up and
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ready to roll the adventure begins now
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they're going to try and hit two
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different areas over the course of the
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next 2 days that's because the tides cut
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fishing hours down immensely plus the
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areas are long distance apart their
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first area is close to where Nick and I
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fished on our last time here it's a
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series of rock piles that believe it or
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not used to be targets for our Canadian
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military gunning practice luckily for
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the boys that's a thing of the
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[Music]
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past little guy little guy be careful
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really care remember your weights are
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really high by yes
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by T come here here we go all right
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Mickey B on the stripe I'm going to I'm
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going to give you some line to get that
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those weights on the floor thank you you
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can go now good all right fella we got
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to do some surgery now he's going to go
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right in the lake give him a little push
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just give him a little push byebye there
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you go see Catch release all one good
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system Release Technique new Release
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Technique slide them in let them
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[Music]
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go go Pete got one Nick how's that one
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feel I about the same as all the other
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little fell nice nice I like that these
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reels are set to for their drag to rip
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at probably anything less than 10 lbs
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would have a chance to pull the drags
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out of these things so 15 and up
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probably is when they start pulling the
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drag Nick just pull your pull your line
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that way he's going sideways for some
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reason I don't know it's a skate or oh
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he just pulled a little bit of drag that
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guy he's right here now he's not
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probably not big I can't see him being
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well he's pulling good though like he's
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not huge but he's right here at the boat
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so I haven't seen him yet he's swimming
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sideways to us that's a nice one Nick
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we'll get the net on him all right he's
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not bad I'm ain't going to bring it you
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go behind him and I'll bring him back to
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you see that like see that watch yes sir
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no no yep you got brother good job bring
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him right who I got you all the way up
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all the way is something and set your
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bum down bum is being sat this is what
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these guys hate right
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here see but we got them I would highly
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advise if you're right-handed lip them
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with your right hand if you're
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left-handed lip them with your strongest
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hand because this guy is not big but
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I'll tell you what he's bad he's mean
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look the purple Sheen in those things
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absolutely gorgeous fish built to fight
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delicious eating this is a keeper I
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would say this is pretty close to a
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keeper 27 in be very close and uh I wish
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they were a little smaller to keep this
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is the max that'd be perfect but it's uh
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it is what it is nice eating mouth right
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there and eating machine Beauty eating
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machine going back see yeah
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buddy and and these release so good
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these fish release so well it's unreal
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cuz they're just tough they're just
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ocean fish are tougher by far than
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freshwater fish I don't care you talk
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about muskies you know what 90% of the
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ocean fish are tougher than muskies
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honestly they have live a tougher life
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so let's keep
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going since the boys are fishing a
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portion of the Atlantic Ocean stripers
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aren't the only thing that'll be biting
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chunks of real bait in fact you never
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know what'll hit throughout the course
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of a fishing day on this
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water feels heavy doggy doggy could be a
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doggy o oh I definitely got something on
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the end of
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this wa a steak or a skate e oh I got
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him in the side that's why he feels
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weird well I can confidently say that's
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my first sting we got to be careful yeah
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we got to be careful with his Ray right
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yeah so this is one ugly fish that's got
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apparently got a bit of a stinger on him
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so I am going to do my best to keep him
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just like the dog fish around here oh
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he's got a snag I snagged him right on
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the side that is one weird looking dude
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he's got all kinds of spikes on the side
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of them and all that but that apparently
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that uh that little tail pin of his has
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got some potential
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like let's just say it's potential like
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voltage it'll get you good oh watch he's
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trying to get you with that tail Pete
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that's what they do right look at them
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trying to get me oh yeah ain't being shy
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about
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it you got to get
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close look at that look at that Stinger
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coming right up there right for you what
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do you do when you live on a shoe you
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act like a
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heel like I'm doing right
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now I need about a 6ot long pair of
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needle no I just dropped my needle
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okay I'm going to cut the line just
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going to cut that off folks oh there's
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Rusty let's talk to Angelo about
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it
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bye-bye I I how man Steve everyone died
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from something like that I ain't dying
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out here like that I'll retie that hook
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and no and no problem you know what's
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funny about that one was that it felt
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like your first gate ever first gate
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ever good job buddy that felt like
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something hit me and then there was
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nothing for a long long time there was
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nothing so I just I was just reeling
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back in to retie and put some new uh
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some new Herring on and you said of felt
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heavy something like extras on
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them nice my my live release of the
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pliers too that's pretty you know what
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you're just making an offering to the
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fish the wimpiest fisherman of all
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[Music]
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time so as you can probably tell by now
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fishing in the strong incoming and
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outgoing Tides can be quite a chore it
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takes an almost ridiculous amount of
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weight to get to the bottom where the
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fish are with the slack tide the Garin
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screen lights up with fish it's the
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perfect storm of Tide fishing we're
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sitting still pretty much is the tide is
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turning to
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slack and uh and it's hard to run the
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bait cuz we're running 16 o 10 o what 16
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o weights as the light as we're running
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today so I said I just looked at the
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Garment it's showing it's lit up with
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fish
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I said give me that Yuri Rod I had a
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Yuri Rod set up here like it's a heavy
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duty swimbait Rod I might want to loosen
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that drag a bit as soon as I threw it
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out no bait on it at all I got two or
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three hits and then I let it drop down
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more before it even hit the bottom and
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this guy cracked it so we could be
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having some fun here for the next hour
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buddy that'd be fun I'm going to bring
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him into your NEP there he comes got him
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good Scoop buddy
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woo that is fun that was fun dude I'm
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going to get you on this bite you're
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going to love it push it yeah there you
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got you got him all right he is free not
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a big one but I'll tell you that's a
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satisfactory fish right there that's fun
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it's not even a keeper that's a 25 in
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probably like that but and and on that
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light now I mean this is light tackle
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where you it's heavy duty Bass Gear
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light light light musky gear and really
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light for these guys but boy that was a
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fun fight right there and he cracked it
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butd you're going to have some fun we
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get going here we
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[Music]
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go so after a fun-filled high tide
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striper adventure and a few mini sharks
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and skates thrown into the boot the boys
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call it a day and head back to home base
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now this is normally the time to kick
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back relax and regroup however since
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it's not every day you get a chance at
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this incredible NOA Scotia fishery why
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not take advantage of the Night Bite and
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do some surf casting directly in front
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of their Cottage accommodations on the
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shore of the minus basin
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little strip bass off the
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shore I don't need the net brother we're
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good you got a little guy pity
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yeah a little striper off the shore we
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just set up Nick and I just set up it's
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perfect it's high tide right now at the
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peak of high tide that's why we're
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standing on these rocks here once this
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starts going out you'll see a difference
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here you're going to see all the Beats
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start to show up all these little rocks
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start to show up and uh and yeah it's uh
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and we'll be back business again back on
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the shore make it a little easier not
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having to stand on these rocks but this
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Bay is loaded with fish here you go
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Bud and there he is striper woo smallest
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one I think we've got don't let them
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smash the Rocks no sir no sir kind to
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your fish you okay or do you want me
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over there I should be get it okay but
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perfect oh there we go that made that
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easy okay just watch that weight that's
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the biggest problem you'll have with the
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weight
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and I think that's the smallest one
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we've got this whole trip and I'll tell
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you it's still fun they're still good
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and uh I'm going to go get a bigger one
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right now at a
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boy
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[Music]
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bye-bye this episode's hot spot is where
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Pete Nick had a great day strike bass
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fishing on the minus Basin the way point
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on your screen will get you right there
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as you can probably tell from this
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episode The Tide and the weather dictate
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when you can get out there the boys
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caught their stripers on chunks of
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Frozen and then thaw hering Amanda from
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Bass Barn Chargers prepares and sells
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the best bait on the bait and trust us
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good bait is the key to success the
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presentation is to Anchor the boat on a
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potential Hot Spot drop your bait until
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you hit the bottom Engage The spool and
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wait for a bite staying on the bottom is
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an absolute must you can also try Pete's
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method when the slack tide occurs and
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that's casting a jigging a lure like his
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yzui Hydro monster shot it's a totally
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different and fun way to catch these
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stripers for more hotpots like this one
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check out fishing
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canada.com after a good sleep and a
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hearty East Coast breakfast Pete and
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Nick are back at had it for their final
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day the weather has turned for the
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better with the wind dying down
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dramatically something we rarely get to
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say this time the boys can take the
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Princecraft even further into the Basin
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and test some new
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[Music]
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water okay Nikki hooked up boys and
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girls here we go how's he feeling not
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bad not big not giant I don't think but
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we'll
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see we will see well we got our biggest
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issue was going to be it's hot by the
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way you can see I just took all my gear
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off one of the issues might be our power
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poles I'm going to keep them as far this
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way yeah you're doing a great job doing
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a great job buddy all our power P if
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these get a big fish he might want to go
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around here and we got to go up easy
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buddy how you looking how you looking
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looking good feeling
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good there he is nice one bring him over
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bring him up forward a bit like walking
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up a bit yeah got got him buddy good job
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that's a good way to start the day right
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there I think so careful there go all
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right put that aside now is your fish
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yeah you got to go here under the belly
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here got you here okay that's good yeah
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hold the camera nice little fish start
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the day it's a good one to start the day
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that's probably a keeper 27 in you
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squeeze the tail that's probably just on
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that keeper range so very nice I'm sorry
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for all the idiots yelling over there
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round but that's all good okay bud throw
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them back yours the goal we'll get you
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later Knuckles Knuckles good job thanks
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nice job buddy
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[Music]
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come on
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fishy Bo they can Slackline you too they
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swim fast these oh they're quick man
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yeah that's a nice fish Mr Bowman that's
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not
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bad got
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him oh my weight I lost a weight look at
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that wa oh boy let me close that off
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right
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now safe there little striper they're
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such a perfect looking fish like they're
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such a cool walleye sort of shape to
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them but all the stripes and all that
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this guy he's got straight Stripes oh no
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they're they're crooked on that side
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this side they're all straight so they
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say there's sometimes they're different
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areas they come from or maybe a strain
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whatever they call it but Co purple on
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them too oh yeah there's purplish in
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them yeah such a neat looking fish going
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back see you
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bud and they released real well
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too very quick little thing about what
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we're doing here today we're running
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heavy duty braid so yui super braid you
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know it's 100 lb is or whatever but
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here's the key is you run these Flor
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carbon leaders this is 60 lb that's the
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lightest you would use and more than
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likely this is HD carbon this is 100 lb
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test this is what these guys use out
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here all the time 100 lb test to catch
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sometimes only a 2 3 lb striper well
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that's the deal right there you need
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that for that Clarity you know just in a
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little bit of stretch and the whole N9
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yards because you're dying up a swivel
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to a slider etc etc so yeah pretty cool
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but you need
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[Music]
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it oh it's a good one boys buddy this
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feels a lot bigger than that last one
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perfect don't give me any slack okay
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slack just nice what are you doing I
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don't know why are you reeling like that
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I couldn't tell you right don't do that
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just pull pull and then and then not
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fast slowly yeah slowly pull slowly reel
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oh maybe he's still there how's he
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feeling feels good there he is another
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little guy fought better than the last
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one yeah bring him right around now
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towards me up up high
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oh good job good job okay all righty you
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hang on to the net I'll do the honors on
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hooking them and then you can do the for
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sure grab and hold net has been got see
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the first grab your first grab on a
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striper you're pretty much going to say
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okay tap out and you let him have he
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wins that round then after that get rid
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of that there there's the fish in the
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net you do your thing all
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right hold them a bit out from you you
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can just like that there we go good job
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buddy thank you thank you that was a
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good fight that fought better than the
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last one yeah you're get nice and slimed
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oh Dr back abely there ain't striper
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fishing if you ain't getting slimed
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exactly another knuckle props bro props
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bro Pete told me he had a couple of
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goals on this shoot one was to catch a
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minus Basin striper while vertically
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jigging a yzui heart bait which he did
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and the other was something that Pete
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and I always try and do to get Nikki
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into the biggest fish of the trip
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okay here we go okay so far it should be
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a bigger I think it's a little bigger
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does it feel bigger or no I can't really
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tell right now oh yeah she's fighting
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good good that's a better one so you got
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to remember yeah it's nice one yeah oh
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yeah buddy that's a good fish forward
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forward nice and slow We There we go oh
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good woo good job buddy good job okay
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here we go you got you want me to hold
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them to give them to you I'll hand them
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to you which hand are you going to put
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your thumb I'm going to grab them with
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this hand same as I got right here right
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same as you got yes sir there you go
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buddy it's a nice fish that is a nice
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fish throw them in whichever side you
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want to put them in right over here okay
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bro in she goes she'll take off really
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well too they take off so well oh they
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do nice job buddy nice they fight don't
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they oh they fight woo I'm
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[Applause]
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bass fishing Pete Nick took Highway 401
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East crossing over the Quebec border
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next they took Highway 20 to Highway 30
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and eventually got back on Highway 20
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they then turned Southeast on Highway 85
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which turned into Highway 2 and then
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Highway 1 104 they got off the highway
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Overlook the shores of the minus Basin
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which is part of the world famous bay of
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funy imagine waking up grabbing a coffee
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walking to the water's edge and watching
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the world's largest tide transform the
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landscape before your very eyes and hey
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better yet why not grab a rod and reel
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and make a cast or two during ey tide
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there's a great chance you'll tie into a
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feisty striper welcome to Nova
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