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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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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
1:22
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
1:30
although Dean is an experienced angler
1:33
his time on camera has been pretty
1:34
limited up to this point today we'll see
1:37
just what he's made of we're giving him
1:39
the full fishing candidate treatment
1:41
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
1:50
throwing Dean to the wolves in terms of
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not having a co-host however we're not
1:54
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
2:24
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
2:33
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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buddy hi everyone Dean Taylor here let
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me just say that getting the handoff
2:57
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
3:04
going to have to wait until later right
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now I have 2 days to put enough fish in
3:08
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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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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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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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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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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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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ago and this place is absolutely loaded
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now it's a pretty cool success
5:18
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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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
5:49
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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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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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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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
7:29
that Ang and Pete had a few weeks
7:31
earlier oh i' lost and you see so swim
7:35
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
7:50
mouse and miss fish until you get the
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Cadence they're looking for just right
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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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got man I haven't even seen it on the
8:24
Liv scull this feels like one of the
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bigger ones we've seen off this spot
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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
8:48
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
9:04
the surface temperature here is probably
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like 72 but down where there at it's
9:07
much cooler than that so that puts a lot
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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
9:31
pretty mean way to bring them in that's
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the one that peeled half the line off my
9:35
rod it's crazy how strong they are when
9:38
properly it's a fun way to bring them in
9:40
but that is not how they teach it you
9:42
came in and missed it they're all coming
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in so hard and missed and you know we
9:46
we're probably hooking up with maybe
9:48
honestly we I'm losing probably 25% of
9:52
the ones I'm hooking because they're
9:53
coming in so aggressive I'm playing
9:56
these things out I mean I didn't have a
9:57
choice on that one but I'm trying play
9:59
all these out cuz again it is hot out
10:01
it's the middle of the day it couldn't
10:02
be a hotter time of the day uh this is
10:05
normally when we wouldn't be out here
10:06
but I'm glad we are and let's get one
10:16
water it's hard to tell with these
10:18
things how big they are I think this is
10:20
a smaller Laker it came right off bottom
10:23
for some reason it seems today like the
10:25
bigger ones and the more active ones are
10:27
suspended like 40 ft off bottom which is
10:29
kind of the opposite of what you
10:30
normally get with Lake
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troat this is just a little guy you can
10:34
hear the burping even on these small
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nice you can kind of tell find it kind
10:46
of cool with the young ones their heads
10:48
are like completely different shape and
10:50
the eyeballs are huge compared to the
10:52
rest of the head it'll eventually be a
10:53
nice one but that's not what we're after
10:55
today but it's cool to get them
11:10
another shallow one there's been a weird
11:12
kind of thing here where it seems like
11:14
two have to become active before one
11:17
hits like when you're just working the
11:19
one they will not hit until his buddy
11:21
comes in and hits it first this is this
11:27
one oh yeah oh he smoked it I watched
11:32
this thing come in we have the range on
11:34
this Liv scope set out to about 110 F
11:37
feet straight that way and this thing
11:39
came all the way across so this thing I
11:42
caught I mean I hooked this thing in
11:43
about 80 ft of water so I'm going to
11:45
take my time like I have been all day
11:48
this one doesn't feel huge we may
11:51
actually have to move off this spot a
11:52
little bit and try to come up with a big
11:53
fish pattern cuz these are cookie cutter
11:56
kind of eater fish and you can see the
11:58
water coming up I don't know if you can
12:00
see all the bubbles coming up here this
12:02
is what we're talking about with the
12:03
burping essentially it's adjusting to
12:05
the pressure because the pressure from
12:07
the 80 ft where I hooked this thing and
12:10
you know where it is now at the top here
12:12
is massive and there's a temperature
12:14
change so I'm trying to give these
12:16
things the best shot we can to release
12:19
them there we go this is just a little
12:23
guy but they're all falling off in the
12:25
net they're being nice today incredibly
12:27
hard to hold on to but they're such
12:31
fish super cool looking fish some people
12:33
call these ugly and I have no idea how I
12:36
don't know how people don't love lake
12:42
cool this is a lot of fun but it's not
12:44
going to cut it I need to find one or
12:46
two big fish or the boys are going to
12:47
have second thoughts about sending me on
12:49
another hosting gig one thing I've
12:51
learned from Ang and Pete you have to be
12:53
willing to leave fish to find fish it's
12:55
time to take the Gamble
13:09
I think that's a good one he's peeling
13:12
drag I've been watching this one for
13:16
probably 5 minutes now trying to get
13:18
them to go and this was the most
13:19
lethargic one we've seen all day most of
13:21
them are like sprinting up this thing
13:24
just slowly cruised over and honestly I
13:27
felt them hit way before I even saw him
13:29
close it was kind of weird I think this
13:34
one we've changed locations here a
13:36
little bit but the pattern's still the
13:38
same we're cherry picking these bigger
13:39
marks out in like 65 ft of
13:43
water cuz these big ones are supposed to
13:46
apparently what we've noticed is they
13:48
they seem to like their own space a
13:50
little bit the smaller ones are
13:51
absolutely everywhere in here like obaba
13:53
has a crazy population of lake trout but
13:56
these big ones seem to like their space
13:59
and I'm hoping this is one of them
14:01
really pretty looking
14:07
nice you should be able to hear this one
14:09
burp too that's in a little bit of
14:15
go look at that that's a nice one that's
14:18
a little bit that's probably like a
14:20
little bit above average but there's a
14:21
ton of these here and that's another
14:23
half a tail this is the same thing
14:27
there's no way that's part of some
14:28
stocking program this one back here at
14:30
the top is called an adapost that's
14:32
normally what they cut if they're if
14:34
they're stocked you hear it burping
14:36
there that's just bizarre that we've
14:38
caught two fish on this trip with the
14:40
same broken tail really weird it's been
14:43
through a lot so we'll get her
14:49
back there we go and this is an area
14:52
again that most people would never stop
14:55
I mean traditional star guys know but
14:58
the lives scope is just opening up so
15:00
much water I mean this this would be
15:02
dead water for most people and it could
15:05
not be more alive this is truly
15:06
incredible we're going to get back down
15:08
there but I'm telling you we're 5 hours
15:11
from Toronto it's like the middle of the
15:13
day if there was a leaf game in town we
15:15
could make it like we are not far from
15:17
Toronto this is the near North I mean
15:20
anybody who is interested in big fish
15:22
like that you don't have to go to the
15:23
Yukon you don't have to go to BC they're
15:26
right here just north of Toronto
15:37
today's hot spot is one of the areas
15:39
where Dean tore up the lake trout in his
15:41
debut solo episode the way point on your
15:44
screen will get you right there this
15:46
outing was all about keeping an eye on
15:48
his electronics and once spotting a fish
15:50
on lives scope dropping down and hoping
15:53
that the fish would react sometimes they
15:55
do and sometimes they don't on this day
15:58
they did in a big way the fish were
16:01
Ultra aggressive customizing the ooui
16:04
one KN lipless crankbait by adding some
16:06
weight to the hook shafts and belly Dean
16:09
was able to drop the lure significantly
16:11
faster towards the fish a crucial point
16:13
to keep in mind with finicki Lakers
16:16
spinning gear makes the process a whole
16:18
lot easier for more hotpots like this
16:20
one check out fishing canada.com
16:34
that feels like a better one straight
16:35
under the boat but right on bottom and
16:38
this thing looked big on live scope
16:39
we've been watching them all day this
16:49
man if I didn't see this on live scope
16:52
I'd say I'm hooked on bottom right now
16:55
that I cannot oh man I was actually
16:58
convinced there for a second I might
16:59
have got wrapped around a log that feels
17:02
giant if you can see on Liv scope there
17:04
he's pretty much stuck there at 40
17:07
ft I'm still going to be nice to the
17:10
even though I want to get a look at them
17:12
I'm going to slowly ease them up cuz
17:14
we're still in relatively deep water
17:16
here we were fishing in about 80 now
17:20
64 but I don't know if you can see
17:22
behind me here but it is just pinned at
17:27
moving oh this is the most exciting lake
17:30
trout fishing I've ever done I've never
17:32
had fish this active this many fish I
17:35
mean they closed this thing for 20 years
17:38
it's only been open for three now and we
17:41
are oh man that this is the Heyday of
17:45
Lake o baba lake trout like this is the
17:52
man I'm like shaking I've barely moved
17:55
this fish trying to get a look at just
17:58
how far up up he is but he just he's in
18:01
no hurry to come to the
18:06
boat I can't wait to look to see this
18:10
thing I think it's giving me a little
18:15
now and these are all on baits that are
18:18
traditionally for bass like it is so
18:20
cool to see these things hit Yer bass
18:23
baits I don't even know if we can call
18:25
them bass baits anymore to be honest
18:27
we've put so many lake trout in the boat
18:31
now there we go that's a heavy
18:37
fish I might be able to give you guys a
18:41
soon oh maybe not maybe not easy
18:49
girl yeah that's a good one I can see a
18:51
flash of white that's a nice lake trout
18:55
I got it there we go oh
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that's as big that's every bit as big as
19:02
it looked on Liv scope I mean we've been
19:06
calling this technique cherry picking
19:08
and we are now cherry picking for big
19:09
ones and that is what this
19:13
is easy girl she's still got a lot of
19:18
energy man that's a beautiful
19:24
fish look how fat this thing is I'm
19:29
we've been look catching really nice
19:32
Lake tro all day but nothing massive
19:38
expectations this is a lakeo baba lake
19:41
trout I mean that's that's conservation
19:44
at work these things have been closed
19:46
for so long and to see them open now and
19:48
to see so many of these things in here
19:53
incredible I'm shaking that was a
19:55
workout that's amazing going get her
20:11
cool on today's episode Dean encountered
20:14
some of the common problems when trying
20:16
to hook into deep water Lakers it's all
20:18
about bait speed size and
20:21
Cadence the big takeaway though is when
20:24
lake trout numbers are high like they
20:26
are on Lake Ababa finding big fish
20:28
requires a lot of zigging and zagging
20:31
trust me it takes some strong willpower
20:34
to move off of okay fish to go find big
20:37
TV fish you did real good kid 20 or 30
20:41
more years and you just might get the
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20:56
fishing he first drove North on how a
20:58
for 400 until he reached the city of
21:00
Barry he went North on Highway 11 and
21:02
then West on Highway 17 to the town of
21:05
Sturgeon Falls he next headed north onto
21:07
64 then onto 539 North and finally took
21:11
805 north to his ultimate destination
21:13
Lake obaba Lodge set on the south end of
21:16
Lake obaba this fishing and hunting
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lodge is a perfect getaway for those who
21:20
don't have the time to invest in a
21:22
20-hour drive to the far reaches of the
21:24
north at only a 5 to 6h hour drive from
21:26
the GTA Lake obaba Lodge is a fishing
21:29
destination that you can drive to in the
21:31
morning and be fishing that same
21:33
afternoon lake obaba is located in
21:35
region 13A which is considered
21:37
Northeastern Ontario this excellent
21:39
fishing lake sits in close proximity to
21:41
such greates as Lake tamogami lady EVN
21:44
Lake and Lake tesing all of which help
21:46
rank the province of Ontario as one of
21:48
the top fishing destinations in the
21:50
world Lake obaba Lodge has a gorgeous
21:52
main Lodge dining area an enclosed
21:54
veranda and a spacious outdoor deck with
21:56
fire pit overlooking the beautiful Lake
21:59
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