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Fishing near Eddie Van Halen’s Cottage on Lake Muskoka | Fish'n Canada
Apr 15, 2025
(Episode 393) Pete Bowman heads to the Lake Muskoka for Northern Pike and then out to deep water for Smallmouth. The fishing is phenomenal and the cottages… unbelievable! 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, 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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fish in Canada
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imagine spending a million plus bucks on
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your boathouse of course that's just an
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extension of your five to ten million
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dollar cottage that you use a few times
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a year Wow not gonna happen right right
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what can happen is you can spend an
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incredible day amongst these lavish
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weekend mansions all while absorbing the
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riches under the water I'm talking to my
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spoke of Lakes an untouched and
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phenomenal fishery nice weather that
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dude on today's show I'm fishing with
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Captain John Blanchard a bait and tackle
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store owner as well as a fishing guide
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in the spoke area he's told me about the
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fantastic fishing these rich and famous
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lakes have to offer and to be honest I
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had no idea as we hit the ramp John came
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up with a plan of giving a quick effort
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to a group of pike he has dialed in and
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then moving on to some deepwater
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Smalley's sounds good to me okay then we
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got a bit of running
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the pike area was pretty cool a big
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fallen tree that extended out into about
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15 feet of water with steep dropping
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breaks plummeting into deep water all
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around it our plan is to throw
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suspending jerk baits and try and draw
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the fish out of the tree they really
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hold under there I don't know if they're
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ambushing on this corner and the deep
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drop-off
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yeah could be gotta be I mean why else
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would they be in a tree along in
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otherwise you know just a breaking
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shoreline small northern yeah good way
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to start John right there but you wanna
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know them you wanna know you want to
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lose that lure that's all about your
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husky okay I got you okay that's the
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right color it's early in the morning so
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judge isn't gonna warm up with one start
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they're small as he is he looks good
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either right color easy to color our
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money today but the choppers cranked up
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today but a bit of feelers whether it's
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gonna be look at that get down the paws
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not bad buddy using up at hey hey jumper
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that's it that's all you got but waters
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a little cold Brianne that would double
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over there Johnny I love that when they
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hit their feet like that that was on the
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pod yep totally high but yanked it is
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pausing next yech the fish is on I
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didn't even feel them flight to scold
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them on there
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today now we just have to upgrade a
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little bit we're good yeah but those are
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the trees they
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they're handsome nice look at the same
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fish
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in size basically oh yeah look at fish
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that's it for him - yeah little bigger
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than my last one
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get in the morning but there's no lo
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Saturday and that was an aggressive fish
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yeah a cooperative that bait meeting
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down like that man it's awesome oh yeah
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now look at it belly nice looking at the
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gorgeous buddy it wouldn't be a large
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rule it was great mind living in this
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tree right now no thank you all of a
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that's a nice fish is it beautiful I
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couldn't see buddy I thought I saw a
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small one but he's a rake and I can feel
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that flying or dick dick dick dick of
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the teeth I got the drag that really
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stood up it just engulfed that hope I
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felt the middle I feel it raking on his
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teeth we better get him in the net
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Johnny nice I'd like to fight him more
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but again that was grabbing yeah sure
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that was I'll come back to the back here
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hang on probably have to do a two-man to
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get that blue wrote of his mouth anyway
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pause wasn't the word for that I let
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that sit for five seconds 20 feet off
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the end of the tree I thought I was
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under the zone I said you know what
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their followers I just said he was sit
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there okay I'll start really no and he
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was there here I'll get that fish you
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get the door
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beautiful nice pike man that is an
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awesome plate right there look at that
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thick what a great fish and we probably
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won't see another boat in the lake today
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what we might see one weird is like huge
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yeah she's empty it's just us it'll be
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us it was some walleyes a bike
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smallmouth whatever we want elective
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hours I love it
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excellent we didn't get anything a
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giant's that John was hoping for but
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with one decent bike and three more warm
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up fish it was a good start now it's on
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to the smaller
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the main Lake said John guys on our
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Muskoka Rosso and Joseph all are very
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deep lakes with a variety of fish
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species because these lakes are
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primarily known as cottage lakes the
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fishing pressure is unbelievably low all
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of the electronics at all absolutely
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Erie's the same thing right you're at
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Lake Erie in the fall especially good
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there you find them and Simcoe you know
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all the big all the big smallmouth areas
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you can find your fish and you sit on
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your fish you know you hover over them
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try and catch that fish you know all
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those fish on the bottom are all really
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yeah okay cool funny but that is uh I
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going oh yeah John good can't tell you
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but I've no idea you need the net for
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sure on that one that's a big one
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yeah it's small e it's a good one too
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good start oh yeah but yes a nice fish
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look at this guy ah nice one buddy that
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was awesome that that did not take long
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start the small e day yes look at that
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nice Pete boy that's got some that's got
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some yeah I get your jig back out there
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boy ok we'll get him on a school here
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these small ease out here are eating
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large bait large herring from the sixth
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10-inch I love it range that's a you
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know what that fish is really long and
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start to get the gut that big gut folks
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out is that the herring the bait that
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the John's talking about phasing
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different then you're gonna find along
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the shore and the docks these deepwater
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fish they get in the fall they get
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feeding on bait like a smelt a jauntily
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smelt herring Cisco whatever they can
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eat is big and they just gorge on it
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exactly awesome let's roll him back
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come on buddy and a little jump for me
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first
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poof yeah we're just marking nice fish
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on the bottom yeah I just saw that I
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love the drag systems on these reels
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nice
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no no joking around here they were
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really nice yeah I've liked them a lot -
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a lot we didn't hit lines a no no no
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thanks
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that was bizarre eight this time the
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first time back for it this time in the
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fridge coming up now that I'm taking
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break down back down to the bottom of my
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mine but men in there yeah that's a bad
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fit is the first fight I have felt all
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day for a nice nap
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we miss this booty must hit me mr. hooks
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oh yeah buddy
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that is awesome
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there's an aggressive small month ago
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right I got all three hooks of them
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wicked on all the two-story one dropped
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out no one dropped out and dropped out
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that fish popped me as a token Johnny
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felt that fish on you got it
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I put the Tuck boy oh boy they're nice
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set and miss them and then that fish
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came back or another fish came back look
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at dude that Johnny would a very high
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bar in here yeah this thing's got some
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weight to it yeah yeah I'm coming back
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for your brother another beauty
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oh yeah we're on him now better than I
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thought
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or equal height this guy in oh my god
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look at this fish oh my god
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oh the belly to that fish for the camera
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oh my god
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and he went the minnow yeah look at the
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size of the middle this is a lot of what
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John is doing he's running the the
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technique that a lot of times you'll
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take a charter road on they'll run big
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light because a lot of people don't know
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how to use a jigging spoon or don't
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wanna
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yeah they don't they have a problem with
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all that stuff they don't want to really
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work as hard as you know we are for
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these for these fish when you do that
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you drag along a big old mental look at
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the size of this middle he's throwing
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yeah and they take her Oh God
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any players nope you good there's the
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minute I don't popped out that's a fatty
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there's a big plague of walleye still to
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be had here and you know we're into them
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good now is having we're just having fun
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here I just I can't believe God happy
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great our nice double beauty buddy
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that's good fishing folks right there
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the two techniques we're using today
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really shine in the late fall dragging
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big minnows is a surefire way of
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connecting with a giant slow moving
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Smalley pumping a digging spoon directly
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under the boat target some more
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aggressive fish and it can be a lot more
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exciting face hooks head Pete thanks
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buddy hope is oval we're on nice decent
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fish
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yeah mines a decent fish how's your
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feeling bud nice fish
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yeah these are nice these are quality
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smallmouth bass folks I'm gonna to get
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up to meet the net understand maybe it's
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the tank actually this is a fat fish
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let's come get that
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that guy beauty
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that's totally made sure that is a job
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first go ahead mine I just got that
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light line on with water jump in the net
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thank you was that Bruno which one
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mine's a bigger one that's right the big
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guy yes he got sores on him how's that
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Britta Muskoka cos folks I think you'll
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like that oh yeah look at this guy yeah
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you've got bad dude there a lot of scars
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fresh gorgeous yes
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how'd he get you know I just done the
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pull-up yep just on the lift he was
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there awesome getting back head first
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and go work thank you and to think we
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almost drove right by here it was a
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great call we're gonna stay here now
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here's something right here folks check
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this out if you ever see that on your
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fish finder I know exactly what that is
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that's a three-and-a-half to four pound
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smallmouth bass cuz the one I just
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released he scared look at he's geared
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off the bait throughout there another
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one oh yeah he's not bad losing my drag
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off then oh yeah that's a nice fish
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Johnny need a net P take a look at am
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you want him in the border Diddy on dude
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that's a good bass that is a good bass
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thank you sir Oh chunky fish man chunky
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the funniest part about using deep water
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vertically jigging them is a small mo
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tendency is to jump anyways so they come
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up 100 miles an hour all right that's
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right harden tell the size yeah there we
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go come on you got one good boy nice
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we're on them now kid here I gonna dump
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this guy back and I'll get the net ready
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just in case get my jig under here are
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you another big middle mmm that was a
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cute one cat Jana you get the chance at
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hooking up with a giant here so I saw
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you that is quality fish and right there
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folks and it's on now I love it what
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it's on Johnny I'd like to help you
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buddy but I gonna get down there just
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let him go I'm gonna say we're the only
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boat on Lake Joseph today small more
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fishing am i right in saying that you
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are problem I will
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these things I wouldn't argue with it
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I'll tell you that it's one of the most
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underrated water bodies in our province
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Pete man that fish huh whoa this might
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be better I'm liking the feel of this
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loosen up my drag a bit oh yeah whoa
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whoa I like that feel I don't know if I
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got them foul hooked or just got a nice
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hold on here Lake Joe Northern that's
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what I'm thinking look at way he's going
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around circles now it's a lake trout -
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lake her you big scumbag there you go
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there's quality of the fishery around
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here folks if you come up early you
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don't have to look for these guys but
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when you come here in January
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look at that I don't want to break up is
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that spoons working good yeah absolutely
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whoa good job bud good job an awesome
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looking fish you'll go down no problem
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that's one fish that has no problem with
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the bends look at that
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nice job yeah there's a bonus accident
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it's an action in its way I got no
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problem that's a bonus you know yeah
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that's for sure
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go ahead you drop back all I'll untangle
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my mess good Joe John a good work mate
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that's that's the way it's supposed to
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be face to face coming up for a little
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look whoa well you go oh yeah you don't
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be a district back feet we got them
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going here he's heavy
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dude it's a nice trip no yeah I should
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have been dead on I'm getting the why
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I'm getting hit you get me tying up a
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loose bone here please don't big fatty
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oh my god Mike nice that's fight foul
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Buster's there I guarantee look gorgeous
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there's a big old stand beat bags on
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hook right in the side of it
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I love that that's a big old small fish
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one of John's go-to Smalley areas the
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this spot holds fish all season long in
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drifting or casting come fall use live
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bait or a variety of jigging lures to
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really cash in on this great fishery
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this Lake has very little fishing
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pressure and loads of fish to get the
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Lake Joseph from Toronto - highway 400
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north and then turn right on highway 69
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I then turned right on highway 169 next
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Ickes of Delta Sherwood Road to the
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Delta Sherwood in the Sherwood is an
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excellent place for the angler who wants
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great accommodations with easy access to
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the lake by simply tying your boat at
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their docking facility you can be up and
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fishing in no time you can stay in the
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cottages or the main lodge
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