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Trolling and Jigging for Deep Summer Walleye
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Apr 15, 2025
This week on The Fish'n Canada Show, Pete and Steve head to Pine Portage Lodge to hit the waters of the world-famous Kaby Lake! Rocks, weeds, open water - this lake has walleye EVERYWHERE! Listen to our Podcast, Outdoor Journal Radio: The Podcast ► Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3J0klPY ► Apple Music: https://apple.co/3CtzZkp ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/?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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one of my all-time favorite walleye
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fishing destinations Pine Portage Lodge
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on paby Lake
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they're hoping it's a walleye yeah
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that's him
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there's one Peter that one feels a lot
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better oh yeah Duty ah gold bigger stay
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at home here
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you got it buddy we've done the live
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scope it's a nice walleye Bud beautiful
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oh there's a fish Pete
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on This fishing Canada episode we're
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traveling back to one of my all-time
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favorite walleye fishing destinations
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Pine Portage Lodge on paby Lake our
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facility is based on KB Lake we fly out
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of Wawa Ontario that's 70 Air Miles once
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you get here we have 13 cottages for our
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meal plans we could hold up to 66 people
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our boat fleet consists of 32 16-foot
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aluminum boats they all have floors and
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25 horse motors
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to me this lake is mostly a numbers game
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for sure it has some Giants but honestly
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if you want to catch walleye after
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walleye hand over fists like 50 plus
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fish a day per person KV lake is the
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place to be
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joining me on this trip is the one and
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only Mr Steven neswiki he's never been
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here before and I know he's pumped
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Kamey lake is nestled right in the
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middle of one of the best all-round
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walleye fishing areas in Ontario called
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the Algoma region we travel here at
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least two to three times a year to catch
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this popular fish species
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The Hub of this area is a town called
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Wawa
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when you hit Wawa you've hit walleye
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country
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the beauty of being here is there's
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loads of easy to access lakes that you
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can hit on a daily basis as well there
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are both drive-through Fishing lodges
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along with multiple air bases that
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access fly-in lodges something for
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everyone
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since playing Portage is a fly-in Lodge
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we boarded our float plane right in the
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town of Wawa at Watson's sky base
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they've been in the fly-in game for
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years and trust me when I tell you the
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flight into one of these remote lodges
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gives you the absolute best view of pure
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Canadian wilderness it's something you
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will not see anywhere else
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cabin Academy Lake covers around 30 800
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acres in the beautiful Canadian
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wilderness it offers fishing for walleye
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northern pike Whitefish and perch as
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well as hunting for bear and moose
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it's 25 miles long 13 miles wide has an
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average depth of around 10 feet and a
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maximum depth of around 50 feet it has
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an unbelievable amount of fish holding
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structure and cover like Islands
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underwater Shoals long extending points
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both above and below the surface Bays of
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beautiful green weeds sand flats and
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even deep open water with suspended fish
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trust me when I say this is what a
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perfect walleye lake looks like
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Steve and I are going to try two
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different presentations on this trip
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we'll be hitting points humps and even
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open water trolling and casting walleye
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specific minnow baits and crankbaits
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we'll also be incorporating the tried
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and true never failed tactic of casting
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jigs tipped with either Plastics or live
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bait our preference will be using the
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hard baits to cover lots of water
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quickly KV is a big lake and these fish
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are always moving around trying to find
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food we'll be using both Shad profile
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crankbaits as well as deep diving minnow
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baits that are all specifically designed
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for walleye fishing
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our first stop is a sand and weed
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transition area
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yeah it's a walleye yeah yeah you know
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what that's the First cast in this Bay
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First cast in the Sandy Bay buddy that's
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a good sign I like it you know what I
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mean he's not bad no great but he's not
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bad
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First cast Okay on a crankbait too which
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is nice because they're showing some
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activity seven feet of water
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little guy
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see you buddy let's see if we can get
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something going there's a little bit of
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weeds here there's a bunch of reeds
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going in the shallows it's that Sandy
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area that we looked at when we're coming
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in so maybe the walleye are on Sand I've
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seen sand is good for walleye Pike and
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Smallmouth it's really good cover
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structure whatever you want to call it
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for those three species of fish so you
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should never neglect at least look at
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his sand I mean we only want to get a
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few of these little wee guys like that
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but get one on your first cast it's a
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good sign right
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[Applause]
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there's one Peter that one feels a lot
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better oh yeah
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gold digger stay at home here
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[Music]
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we could only pull one decent fish from
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the sand so we quickly moved close by to
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another good looking area a point
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extending off an island
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[Music]
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I'm Peter come on buddy that one feels a
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lot better I'll tell you right now yeah
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neutral yeah okay yeah yeah she's
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neutral for you no I'm not sure what it
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is though that's okay
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Pike or it feels heavy well good I'm and
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I'm happy with that I'm gonna put it I'm
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gonna shut her down for that not a boy
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oh yeah
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ah go big or stay at home here I'll
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bring them in
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[Applause]
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that is the one right there Stevie yes
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sir look at that he plowed that bait
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that is awesome
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Stevie yeah nice fish brother that's the
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fish right there oh beautiful this is
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what we come to behind Portage for buddy
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you got her hey KB Lake's got a million
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walleye in it and every Bay you go to
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and then every now and then you just pop
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these big ones like this yeah I love
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walleye like this and you know no
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kidding the way we're fishing them is so
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much fun trolling is easy you know and
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you know what it's not just trolling
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it's back trolling it's on the structure
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we're marking them on the live scope
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look at that oh Bud that is a beauty
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right there hey Mama she's ready to go
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spit out some stuff she's ready to go
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there we go you go home that's Beauties
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there you go nice boy right there nice
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yes sir Peter we are uh and you like
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Stevie said the bot the we just there's
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a lot of bait hanging out here and
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there's a lot of movement on the
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livescope you see these walleye coming
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up off the bottom down up off the ball
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you see it like it was just saw four
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fish in a row I don't think they were
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that big but um so you know when there's
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lots of fish and lots of bait it's gonna
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happen nice job Stephen and I was back
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quite a bit I was on the bottom okay
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that bill big bait yeah the beautiful
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thing about that bill is it is is when
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it digs it's pointing down with the
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hooks up and you can top the bottom but
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you don't hang out no snag yeah outside
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Crystal minnow bait folks right there
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that is the one that just caught that
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walleye let's do it again
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it seems like the best fishing spots are
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the deeper areas adjacent to underwater
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humps and long submerged points the
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walleye are pretty much stacked up
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around any good structure available
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I just had a bike smash
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great this took a hold of this walleye
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like you wouldn't believe it he grabbed
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it right by the head I just watched him
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grab by the head I think he felt The Jig
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and the hardware and the leader and he
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took off it wasn't even that big a pike
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but look at the size of that walleye
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they set the hook on it I thought that's
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nothing all of a sudden he ran up the
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boat he went back this way so
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that was crazy got one Stevie nice I
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wonder if it's that Pike no way
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I'm gonna let myself my drag loose yeah
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that's him that's him buddy that is him
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for sure
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he's gonna go again
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that's hilarious buddy he went after
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that jig again he went up to the walleye
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and then let it go
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he's not a big Pike folks but he's he's
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a nice one he's got a head on him
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he may be close to 10 pounds maybe I
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could probably hand land him
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instead of using the net on him you know
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what I mean if you want to hang out of
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this Rod put these crank baits out of
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the way
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he's being very nice right now polite
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he ate it one little fish that fish I'm
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sure that's the same one grabbed a hold
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of that little walleye
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you know what not a huge bike but I'll
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tell you what he's fun in the morning
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and especially when he attacks a walleye
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at first
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that's great
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there you go big boy
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big little boy
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there he goes come on buddy take off
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like a big Gator on the top there
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he'll go down there he goes
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good beautiful gun beautiful
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all right well you know what you're
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you're gonna expect Pike
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in a lake like kaby Lake there's tons of
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Pike here excellent job my friends
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thanks buddy
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the wind started to pick up so we
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decided to look for new areas at the top
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and the KB Lake check out this fish
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finder screen it's almost too good to be
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true with so many big fish all in the
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same depth range and groups so tightly
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together my first thought is these can't
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be walleye maybe they're white fish
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regardless of what we thought these
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hooks were on the fish finder we could
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not resist investing some time in this
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massive School
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and unfortunately all we could come up
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with was a little snot rocket
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quite honestly to this day we still have
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no idea as to what species the majority
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of those fish were
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[Music]
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you got it buddy we've done a live scope
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it's a nice walleye bike beautiful
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I am hungry two words let's go
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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something that Steve and and I all
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highly recommend when traveling to a
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walleye Lodge is hooking up with the
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crew or your guide and setting up at
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least one Shore lunch
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and if you want to make your trip
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perfect have one every day and add it to
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this when we're at Outpost camps we will
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most definitely take it upon ourselves
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to whip up our own version of a Shore
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lunch heck we've even had northern pike
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Shore launches in the middle of the
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Rocky Mountains we'll take them anywhere
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we can get them and of course with
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facilities like Pine Porters Lodge they
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make it so easy for their guests their
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guide heads to a designated shorelunch
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area with walleye and all the fictions
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and starts the preparation process all
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while you stay out fishing then when the
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dinner bell rings you head to Shore
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Beach the boat and make your way to a
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northern Canadian feast
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the walleye are already cleaned and
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cooked and all you have to do is Chow
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Down
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come on I am hungry two words let's go
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yeah
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thank you Steve oh my God
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how are you and I can eat all that
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let's go get her a good start you're
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you're a bigger eater than I am Peter to
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me this is the best
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meal in Canada if you said to me take a
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steak dinner or take a walleye dinner
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prepared by a guide at a lodge
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it'd be no choice for me honestly I
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would take this over a steak dinner we
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agree every time yeah 100 the last meal
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that I eat on this planet I hope it's
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this
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if you ever want the perfect midday
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break from fishing and you want the
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absolute best meal that mother nature
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can provide a walleye Shore lunch on a
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lake like KB is the epitome of the mall
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so good
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for a change in Pace and with our
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bellies full Steve and I decided to take
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a break from the crankbait and minnow
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bait game and try our hand at casting
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jigs here's a little tip for you during
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the low light periods of a day that's
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morning evening and on overcast days
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especially if they're windy don't be
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afraid to go shallow for walleye
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even in Dead Calm water they actively
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feed in low light and the fishing can be
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lights out
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[Music]
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my jig's coming in funny
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oh my God Stevie
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check this out oh what did you what is
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that it's a walleye get out of here baby
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walleye oh my God yeah it is I have
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never seen a walleye that small let
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alone bite a hook like that
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this is the ones that you hold way out
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in front of the camera folks that is
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pretty look at that little fella that is
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so cool he doesn't have a white tip in
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his tail yet no
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look at that that's got to be this
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year's fry I would think so right oh for
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sure I'm gonna tease on that little guy
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wow what was he doing chasing that
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minnow that's the same size as him and
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the jig head in the middle that is
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hilarious oh look at the fan come up oh
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yeah it's like let me go okay look at
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that that is so cool I mean it's the
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same size as that stuff pretty much
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that's awesome see you buddy
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gone there he goes wow smallest wall
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I've ever got my life right there folks
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if you're taking a trip to an isolated
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Northern Canadian lake you really should
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be bringing in a portable fish finder
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and better yet a fish finder GPS combo
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even in a fish-filled lake KB your
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electronics will be one of the most
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useful tools of your trip in our next
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spot we stopped at is a classic example
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Evie got another one not the one you
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just saw on the live scope exactly the
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one I just saw on the live scope get out
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of here yep
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exactly
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yeah yeah yeah he's not bad yeah
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absolutely he doesn't net him up
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okay so we just come across something
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here folks this is pretty cool
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there's a beautiful piece of structure
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that comes out off from the shoreline
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let me get this fish off
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a beautiful Rocky Point that comes way
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out here and it's almost impossible to
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fish especially with jigs we're throwing
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crankbaits up there but the fish don't
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seem to want to dangle with crankbaits
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and uh so we said okay if it's a Rocky
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Ridge or a point it comes out just like
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this there's got to be an end to it and
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it dumps off in the deep water we just
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found the end of it it's in 16 feet of
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water now with all this beautiful Rock
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Shield Lake and boulders and everything
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else you think of the perfect fish
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structure there's a flat out here dead
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flat looks like it's mud and that's
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where the fish are sitting
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so thank and thank God for electronics
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because I'm watching them on the fish
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planter I'm watching on the live scope
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and you're seeing a fish or two move in
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if you see that fish with the you know
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with a jig at least you can pretty much
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guarantee you're going to catch them or
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get you know every one of two that you
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see so let me be honest with something
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here Stevie
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[Music]
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yeah you got it buddy I've done the live
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scroll
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we're gonna live scope yeah it's a great
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tool isn't it oh my God yeah he's not
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bad yeah you know he's above the uh
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above our eating size
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again good work buddy yeah
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nice oh you're gonna lose your mental
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you do that oh my minutes gone it's gone
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ah well I guess that's a good trade-off
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look at that shake just fall right out
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of his mouth
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yeah those are
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beautiful beautiful walleye
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yeah we'll let him go so he can grow to
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be the the monsters we're looking for
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and a trip like this you're gonna get
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100 walleye per boat like two guys oh
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for sure you know maybe even a day like
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I mean that's the type of fishery this
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is
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here we go buddy
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there we go look at how gold that one is
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that's a perfect looking walleye oh yeah
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oh yeah
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look at the underbelly of that fish
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folks and the cheek oh my God this fish
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is like a model
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of walleye model Stephen something like
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yourself but what a handsome package
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look at that you know they usually cook
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them that is so gorgeous and look at the
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the shine on that cheek
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that was crazy
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that was like the perfect walleye right
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there
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he's even got blue on the tip of his
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yeah on his tail look at that like a
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greenish blue
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you are one pretty fish I think I'm
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gonna have to throw you back
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nice that was a great looking fish buddy
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yeah nice job Peter nice job buddy I got
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the prettiest walleye in KB Lake
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absolutely there's a challenge for
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anybody to get one better looking than
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that
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[Music]
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today's hot spot is a brake line on KB
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Lake that eventually forms an underwater
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Point adjacent to an island the Waypoint
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on your screen gets you right there
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Stephen P created a detailed contour map
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of this hot spot with garmin's quick
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draw feature and then stuck to their
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preferred depth range of about 15 to 20
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feet they hit this area with yozuri's
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Crystal minnow deep diver walleye minnow
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baits and with hardcore Shad 75 SF
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crankbaits colors like bone purple tiger
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and hot tiger work great for them when
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trolling a speed of approximately one
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and a half miles per hour worked best
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for more hot spots like this one check
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out fishingcanada.com
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[Music]
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I got one buddy nice the race walleyes
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baby
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nice job oh there's the fish Pete oh
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yeah that's a nice fish Bud now you're
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getting there
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[Music]
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getting towards the end of this day we
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found a huge weed bed in a windy Bay a
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perfect spot to look into
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[Music]
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I got one buddy nice it's nice walleye
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Stevie nice job
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a big swim bait in the in the weeds
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that's cool and he ate it good too yeah
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you know what
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I thought he's bigger than that but you
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know what we'll take him weed bed
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walleye huge patch of cabbage and MILF
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oil in here I think I just missed one
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this size and I uh had a pike on and
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then he clobbered it too so just
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throwing big Plastics in the in the
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weeds
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so while driving back to the lodge with
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probably less than half an hour of
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daylight remaining we located a deep
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area with lots of fish at different
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depths unlike earlier in the show where
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I thought those fish were white fish
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these were very reminiscent of walleye
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foreign
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[Music]
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that's the one right there yeah good
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stuff
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get a hold of this fella oh yeah nice
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there you go there we go
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okay look at that
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sweetheart of the rodeo right there yeah
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you got a bunch of every now oh yeah I
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love them that is a beautiful sized fish
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absolutely
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yeah we'll get him back in the water
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there we go
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there beautiful nice place nice brother
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oh yeah where you go
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there you go yeah yeah she's gonna get
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him back right back home
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there he goes I see him swimming down oh
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yeah
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had we had more time this could have
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been the big fish deal
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Waypoint added a future trip to KB Lake
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already in the books
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to get to today's great walleye fishing
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Pete and Steve first took Highway 400
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North to Highway 69. they next turn
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Northwest on Highway 17 near Sudbury
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next they turn Northeast onto Highway
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101 at Wawa once in Wawa they finally
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turned left into Watson's skyways air
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base on Wawa Lake from there it's a
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beautiful flight to Pine Portage Lodge
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obvious trips to Pine Portage this Lodge
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is the quintessential perfect fishing
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destination great accommodations great
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meals and great fishing make this
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combination a home run the lodge offers
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both an American plan which includes all
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meals as well as a housekeeping plan in
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which you bring your own food they have
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a huge number of well-maintained boats
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all meticulously lined up on the longest
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Lodge dock you'll ever see very
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impressive if you're looking for a great
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fishing package at one of Ontario's
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Premier walleye Lakes look no further
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than Pine Portage Lodge
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Princecraft boats dominate The Waters
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Garmin plot your Paradise reel them in
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and Ontario Canada in partnership with
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gateway to your next fishing Adventure
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some good dishes
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