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GIANT Laker on LIVESCOPE! | The Fish'n Canada Show
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Mar 20, 2025
This is Dean Taylor's first solo flight as he hosts an entire Fish’n Canada episode without the assistance of a co-host… and he lights it up! His quarry is mid-summer, deep-water Lake Trout. With the aid of cutting-edge technology in the form of fish-finding electronics, and a lure that caught fire on a previous Fish’n Canada episode… Dean showcases just how easy it is to catch heatwave Lakers when you align all the right elements. CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/?hl=en ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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that feels heavy that's a decent Laker
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oh my God that is crazy I missed him the
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first time and I did not think it was a
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big one and now it just absolutely
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smoked it this feels like a really nice
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one
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guys if I didn't see this on Liv scope
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I'd say I'm hooked on bottom right now
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oh
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man that feels giant I barely move this
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hi everyone and welcome to another
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episode of the fishing Canada show and
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believe me what I tell you it's going to
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be a
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Dandy although you may be hearing our
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voices an and I are not the ones on the
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front of the boat this week taking you
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on this adventure to Lake of Baba is our
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newest host Dean Taylor those familiar
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with our podcast Outdoor Journal radio
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will be no stranger to Dean but to those
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who only follow us on TV this episode is
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going to be his official introduction
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although Dean is an experienced angler
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his time on camera has been pretty
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limited up to this point today we'll see
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just what he's made of we're giving him
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the full fishing candidate treatment
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alone on the deck of the Princecraft
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armed with nothing but fishing gear
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electronics and a lake full of
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potential now it may look like we're
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throwing Dean to the wolves in terms of
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not having a co-host however we're not
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exactly hanging them out to dry for
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today's episode Dean is heading to lake
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obaba in the near North of Ontario this
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lake has become known for its great
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numbers of Smo but a recent reopening of
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his lake trout fishery is what we have
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Dean out to investigate after being
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overfished primarily by Ice Anglers the
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lake OB babaka lake trout population has
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made a spectacular recovery in its over
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20year closure so much so that in 2020
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the m&f reopened the season today Dean
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is going to hopefully see the results of
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that effort to do this Dean's going to
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be using a Technique we discovered on
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Lake tagam earlier this season that
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produced some incredible results using
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two Liv scope units at the front of the
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boat Dean's going to be cherry-picking
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lake trout as they Cruise The Depths the
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question will be was tamogami just a one
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of Let's see what you're made of
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[Applause]
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buddy hi everyone Dean Taylor here let
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me just say that getting the handoff
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from two Canadian fishing Legends on a
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show I grew up watching is surreal to
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say the least however these emotions are
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going to have to wait until later right
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now I have 2 days to put enough fish in
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the boat for an episode of the fishing
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Canada show it's time to get to
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work that feels heavy it's not a lake
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trout it's right right below the boat
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when I was coming up with this bait here
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like right underneath the boat like a
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couple feet down oh it's a small mouth
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it's a big small mouth
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grab the smaller net here I'm glad we
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left this out here nice that is a nice
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surprise when lake trout fishing that is
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not what you
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expect there we
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go so we're in like almost 70 ft of
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water here and I'm fishing for lake
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trout obviously but so we're marking
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these fish like 20 ft down and it's
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pretty obvious they're not lake trout
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but I think they're all big smallies
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like that I don't know if you can call
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it a pattern yet but there's some big
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ones out here and they're super active
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like I said I don't know if we'll make a
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pattern of that but if I'm marking them
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up here we might take some time and keep
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on that that's pretty cool I've never
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had that happen before went out for lake
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trout he chased from like 80 ft down I'm
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thinking this is a Laker I haven't been
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the best at
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guessing but I'm going to milk this one
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just in case oh yeah that's a Laker oh
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it's a pretty Laker you can see all the
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bubbles around it burping its way
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up that is so
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cool and the reason I can't always tell
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what these are is cuz there're
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Smallmouth all over the place and I'm
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fishing a bait that would traditionally
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be used for
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Smallmouth let me get this guy in a
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net that's a beautiful
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one and that's been on the smaller side
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actually of what uh we've been out here
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after and what most people are saying
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they're
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but what's cool about these is lake
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trout in this Lake we're at lake obaba
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lake TR have actually been closed for
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like 20 years now and they just opened
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about 3 years
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ago and this place is absolutely loaded
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now it's a pretty cool success
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story cuz fish like that I mean that
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being on the smaller side that's a
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pretty fish you can see on top of the
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head it almost looks like a brook trout
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they are super pretty
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get her
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back this one's for sure haker we caught
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this in 80 ft if this is a SMY I'd be
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really surprised I'm going to milk this
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one for a little bit I don't think it's
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huge but because we caught it in such
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deep water I'm going to let this thing
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kind of ease its way up you can kind of
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tell they're a little bit smaller when
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you feel the spin they're kind of like
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Pike like I said in that way but the
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whole way up they're just doing like a
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barrel roll a lot of times too you start
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to see the when they burp down there you
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see the bubbles start to come up I think
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this thing is still probably 20 ft down
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I'm going to let it sit here for a
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minute just to get kind of a climatized
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and then we'll get them in the net
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that's a decent Laker a little brighter
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too I
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think these are the females that aren't
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quite as colored up a little paler but
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they're cool fish there we go
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you hear
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that that's the burping I'm talking
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about look at this thing it's got half a
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tail I've never seen anything like that
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I'm surprised I could even swim up and
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get this bait I'm going to get this
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thing back quick it's been through
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enough I
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think and right away when they burp like
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that they swim away super easy I'll show
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you the bait we're we're using here
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though so that's the one I was using
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again it's traditionally a bass bait but
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you can see the lead strip there the
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lead on the uh treble hooks there that's
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the color I was using for the last hour
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or so trying to figure these out and
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then I just made a tiny little switch
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same bait exact same everything just
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changing the color of the top here that
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made all the difference and I think
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that's going to be the pattern here I'm
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not I'm not switching back now that's
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the bait of the day I
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think so far the Cherry pcking for lake
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trout has been working but I'm beginning
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to run into a few of the same problems
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that Ang and Pete had a few weeks
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earlier oh i' lost and you see so swim
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away that's devastating to watch him go
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I'm I'm going to try again but he's
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swimming directly in front of the boat
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now sometimes Lake Trad are extremely
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hesitant to fully commit even on the
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best of days leading to a lot of cat and
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mouse and miss fish until you get the
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Cadence they're looking for just right
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oh
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I missed him oh maybe
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not oh my oh my God that is crazy I
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missed him the first time and I did not
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think it was a big one and now it just
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absolutely smoked it and probably peeled
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half my spool off my reel or half my
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line
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off this has
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got man I haven't even seen it on the
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Liv scull this feels like one of the
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bigger ones we've seen off this spot
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which is saying
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a lot this feels like a really nice one
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guys like I can barely move this thing
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and it hit maybe 20 ft below the boat
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just something you're not expecting when
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you're fishing for lake trout in in
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August it's like middle of the day like
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the time you normally you know head in
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and have a lunch or something cuz it's
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just a waste and this is anything but
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this has been absolutely crazy this
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afternoon I can't even move this thing
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probably still 20t down I'm going to
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take my time with it like I have been
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with all these cuz again it is pretty
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hot water they're coming from you know
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the surface temperature here is probably
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like 72 but down where there at it's
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much cooler than that so that puts a lot
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of stress on these
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fish here we
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go that's a good Laker oh I got him no I
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got him hooked by the
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tail that's why it feels so big it is a
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good one but that's not how you want to
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hook them that's not how they teach you
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that's still a nice fish we'll get this
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guy back as quick as we can cuz that was
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pretty mean way to bring them in that's
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the one that peeled half the line off my
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rod it's crazy how strong they are when
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you don't hook them
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properly it's a fun way to bring them in
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but that is not how they teach it you
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came in and missed it they're all coming
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in so hard and missed and you know we
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we're probably hooking up with maybe
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honestly we I'm losing probably 25% of
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the ones I'm hooking because they're
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coming in so aggressive I'm playing
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these things out I mean I didn't have a
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choice on that one but I'm trying play
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all these out cuz again it is hot out
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it's the middle of the day it couldn't
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be a hotter time of the day uh this is
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normally when we wouldn't be out here
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but I'm glad we are and let's get one
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back in the
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water it's hard to tell with these
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things how big they are I think this is
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a smaller Laker it came right off bottom
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for some reason it seems today like the
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bigger ones and the more active ones are
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suspended like 40 ft off bottom which is
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kind of the opposite of what you
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normally get with Lake
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troat this is just a little guy you can
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hear the burping even on these small
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ones oh right off
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nice you can kind of tell find it kind
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of cool with the young ones their heads
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are like completely different shape and
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the eyeballs are huge compared to the
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rest of the head it'll eventually be a
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nice one but that's not what we're after
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today but it's cool to get them
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another shallow one there's been a weird
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kind of thing here where it seems like
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two have to become active before one
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hits like when you're just working the
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one they will not hit until his buddy
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comes in and hits it first this is this
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another smaller
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one oh yeah oh he smoked it I watched
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this thing come in we have the range on
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this Liv scope set out to about 110 F
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feet straight that way and this thing
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came all the way across so this thing I
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caught I mean I hooked this thing in
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about 80 ft of water so I'm going to
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take my time like I have been all day
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this one doesn't feel huge we may
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actually have to move off this spot a
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little bit and try to come up with a big
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fish pattern cuz these are cookie cutter
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kind of eater fish and you can see the
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water coming up I don't know if you can
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see all the bubbles coming up here this
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is what we're talking about with the
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burping essentially it's adjusting to
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the pressure because the pressure from
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the 80 ft where I hooked this thing and
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you know where it is now at the top here
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is massive and there's a temperature
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change so I'm trying to give these
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things the best shot we can to release
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them there we go this is just a little
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guy but they're all falling off in the
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net they're being nice today incredibly
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hard to hold on to but they're such
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pretty
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fish super cool looking fish some people
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call these ugly and I have no idea how I
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don't know how people don't love lake
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trout super
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cool this is a lot of fun but it's not
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going to cut it I need to find one or
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two big fish or the boys are going to
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have second thoughts about sending me on
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another hosting gig one thing I've
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learned from Ang and Pete you have to be
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willing to leave fish to find fish it's
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time to take the Gamble
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I think that's a good one he's peeling
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drag I've been watching this one for
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probably 5 minutes now trying to get
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them to go and this was the most
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lethargic one we've seen all day most of
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them are like sprinting up this thing
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just slowly cruised over and honestly I
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felt them hit way before I even saw him
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close it was kind of weird I think this
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is a good
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one we've changed locations here a
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little bit but the pattern's still the
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same we're cherry picking these bigger
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marks out in like 65 ft of
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water cuz these big ones are supposed to
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apparently what we've noticed is they
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they seem to like their own space a
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little bit the smaller ones are
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absolutely everywhere in here like obaba
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has a crazy population of lake trout but
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these big ones seem to like their space
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and I'm hoping this is one of them
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really pretty looking
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fish
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nice you should be able to hear this one
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burp too that's in a little bit of
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deeper
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water there we
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go look at that that's a nice one that's
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a little bit that's probably like a
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little bit above average but there's a
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ton of these here and that's another
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half a tail this is the same thing
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there's no way that's part of some
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stocking program this one back here at
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the top is called an adapost that's
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normally what they cut if they're if
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they're stocked you hear it burping
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there that's just bizarre that we've
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caught two fish on this trip with the
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same broken tail really weird it's been
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through a lot so we'll get her
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back there we go and this is an area
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again that most people would never stop
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I mean traditional star guys know but
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the lives scope is just opening up so
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much water I mean this this would be
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dead water for most people and it could
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not be more alive this is truly
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incredible we're going to get back down
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there but I'm telling you we're 5 hours
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from Toronto it's like the middle of the
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day if there was a leaf game in town we
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could make it like we are not far from
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Toronto this is the near North I mean
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anybody who is interested in big fish
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like that you don't have to go to the
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Yukon you don't have to go to BC they're
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right here just north of Toronto
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today's hot spot is one of the areas
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where Dean tore up the lake trout in his
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debut solo episode the way point on your
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screen will get you right there this
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outing was all about keeping an eye on
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his electronics and once spotting a fish
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on lives scope dropping down and hoping
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that the fish would react sometimes they
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do and sometimes they don't on this day
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they did in a big way the fish were
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Ultra aggressive customizing the ooui
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one KN lipless crankbait by adding some
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weight to the hook shafts and belly Dean
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was able to drop the lure significantly
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faster towards the fish a crucial point
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to keep in mind with finicki Lakers
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spinning gear makes the process a whole
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lot easier for more hotpots like this
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one check out fishing canada.com
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that feels like a better one straight
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under the boat but right on bottom and
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this thing looked big on live scope
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we've been watching them all day this
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thing feels really
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nice really
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nice oh
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man if I didn't see this on live scope
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I'd say I'm hooked on bottom right now
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like
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that I cannot oh man I was actually
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convinced there for a second I might
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have got wrapped around a log that feels
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giant if you can see on Liv scope there
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he's pretty much stuck there at 40
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ft I'm still going to be nice to the
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even though I want to get a look at them
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I'm going to slowly ease them up cuz
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we're still in relatively deep water
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here we were fishing in about 80 now
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we're in like
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64 but I don't know if you can see
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behind me here but it is just pinned at
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40 ft not
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moving oh this is the most exciting lake
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trout fishing I've ever done I've never
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had fish this active this many fish I
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mean they closed this thing for 20 years
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it's only been open for three now and we
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are oh man that this is the Heyday of
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Lake o baba lake trout like this is the
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good old days right
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now
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man I'm like shaking I've barely moved
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this fish trying to get a look at just
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how far up up he is but he just he's in
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no hurry to come to the
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boat I can't wait to look to see this
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thing I think it's giving me a little
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bit of room
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now and these are all on baits that are
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traditionally for bass like it is so
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cool to see these things hit Yer bass
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baits I don't even know if we can call
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them bass baits anymore to be honest
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we've put so many lake trout in the boat
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on these
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now there we go that's a heavy
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fish I might be able to give you guys a
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look at this thing
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soon oh maybe not maybe not easy
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girl yeah that's a good one I can see a
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flash of white that's a nice lake trout
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I got it there we go oh
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that's as big that's every bit as big as
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it looked on Liv scope I mean we've been
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calling this technique cherry picking
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and we are now cherry picking for big
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ones and that is what this
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is easy girl she's still got a lot of
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energy man that's a beautiful
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fish look how fat this thing is I'm
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shaking
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we've been look catching really nice
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Lake tro all day but nothing massive
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this is beyond
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expectations this is a lakeo baba lake
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trout I mean that's that's conservation
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at work these things have been closed
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for so long and to see them open now and
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to see so many of these things in here
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now it's truly
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incredible I'm shaking that was a
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workout that's amazing going get her
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back oh thank
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you there she
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goes that is so
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cool on today's episode Dean encountered
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some of the common problems when trying
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to hook into deep water Lakers it's all
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about bait speed size and
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Cadence the big takeaway though is when
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lake trout numbers are high like they
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are on Lake Ababa finding big fish
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requires a lot of zigging and zagging
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trust me it takes some strong willpower
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to move off of okay fish to go find big
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TV fish you did real good kid 20 or 30
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more years and you just might get the
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hang of
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this getting there brought to you by The
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Outdoor Journal Radio podcast
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Network to get to Dean's outstanding lro
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fishing he first drove North on how a
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for 400 until he reached the city of
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Barry he went North on Highway 11 and
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then West on Highway 17 to the town of
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Sturgeon Falls he next headed north onto
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64 then onto 539 North and finally took
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805 north to his ultimate destination
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Lake obaba Lodge set on the south end of
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Lake obaba this fishing and hunting
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lodge is a perfect getaway for those who
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don't have the time to invest in a
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20-hour drive to the far reaches of the
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north at only a 5 to 6h hour drive from
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the GTA Lake obaba Lodge is a fishing
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destination that you can drive to in the
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morning and be fishing that same
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afternoon lake obaba is located in
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region 13A which is considered
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Northeastern Ontario this excellent
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fishing lake sits in close proximity to
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such greates as Lake tamogami lady EVN
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Lake and Lake tesing all of which help
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rank the province of Ontario as one of
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the top fishing destinations in the
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world Lake obaba Lodge has a gorgeous
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main Lodge dining area an enclosed
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veranda and a spacious outdoor deck with
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fire pit overlooking the beautiful Lake
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