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Insane Non-Stop Striped Bass Fishing | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
In this season opener of the Fish’n Canada show Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman take a trip to Canada’s East Coast to meet up with long time buddy Joe Anthony. The trio hit the Miramichi River for some of the craziest Striped Bass fishing ever to be put on television. 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/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Fishing
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oh it's a weight look at the Wake behind
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you that is crazy oh my God look at this
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look at the size of that oh what oh my
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God there's an estimated
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250,000 I don't care what river you're
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on that's a lot of Fish band look at
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them all wow this is nuts that I've
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never seen before in any Fishery 1 down
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300 to
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come on let's go and Princecraft boats
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water
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today we venture East to an iconic
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fishing destination the quinty central
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Atlantic Salmon River known as the miror
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machine since the beginning of
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documented times salmon have migrated up
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this waterway in search of their
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maternal spawning grounds unfortunately
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Global over harvesting has taken its
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toll on the Atlantic salmon stocks and
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sadly the Mir Mach is no exception but
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today finds us here in search of another
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once at risk species that is actually
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enjoying a Resurgence and in fact
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prompted the creation of a brand new
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fishing tournament the Striper Cup
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headquartered in the city of Mir machine
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New
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Brunswick Miri is the largest city in
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Northern no Brunswick this area of
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marami has been continuously inhabited
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for over 3,000 years by the middle of
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the 19th century Boar's Island was the
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largest ship building and Commercial
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establishment in this part of Canada and
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played a major role in crafting our
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nation's history it's now a Canadian
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heritage site as evidenced by tall masks
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that have become somewhat of a landmark
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for
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Marmi
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for Generations tidal saltwater flowed
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Inland and created an ecosystem for
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anris fish such as salmon sturgeon alfe
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and strip bass that seasonally moved up
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the estuaries in large numbers sadly we
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made some big mistakes throughout our
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history in terms of over harvesting fish
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stocks however today by using good
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fishery management protocols we can see
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a trend shifting towards sustainability
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and possibly even growth a great example
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example is the Mirchi stripe bass
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fishery which had to be shut down in
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2004 fortunately for us these fish are
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prolific a mature female can broadcast
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up to 3 million eggs a season so by 2013
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the department of fisheries and oceans
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open up the fishery in the waters
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adjacent to the Maritime Provinces in
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the southern Gulf of St
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Lawrence what better way to celebrate
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the explosive Resurgence of this fishery
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than to have a fishing tournament the
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town's folk are calling it The Striper
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Cup the winner with the highest two-day
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total of four fish gets a $5,000 cash
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prize as well there's a grand prize for
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a gorgeous Princecraft boat and matching
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fourstroke Merc not too shabby for an
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inaugural fishing
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tournament we'll be checking in on the
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event throughout the show but the main
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purpose of our travel east is to sample
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some of this incredible fishery for
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ourselves joining us today is good buddy
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Joe Anthony Outdoorsman extraordinaire
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who has his finger on the pulse of this
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East Coast fishery I manage a snow crab
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process in facility which is located
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about 2 hours from
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here by the way we did something pretty
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foolish today which we do on a probably
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more often than we like to admit we
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brought no net well actually it wasn't
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our fault uh Joe Anthony our fly fishing
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expert said nah you don't need a net for
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these things now
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bye you better hope you don't get a big
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one on brother cuz you're going in Joe
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hooked up a very popular fishing
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technique out east is to use a fly
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fishing rod look at you with that fly
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rod but bringing a big fish to the boat
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and keeping it there on a 9-t fly
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fishing rod while you bend down the
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lipet kers at problems with a net the
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problems go away conventional casting
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gear is faster and much more productive
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I never knew Joe was a fly Fisher still
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Joe gave it the old College try Joe took
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it all in stride but switched over to a
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more traditional rod and reel
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combination we're still impressed that
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he landed that striper with a fly
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fishing rod and reel and no net we're
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not going to let him forget
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that go hey there you go Joe good one
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yeah not bad it's all about the
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miraculous Revival of the stripe bass
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this is how you regain a fishery today
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Anglers are allowed to have just one
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fish in their possession and it must be
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between 55 and 65 cm everything else
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must be released a special temporary
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variance was obtained for this event to
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allow for a two fish limit prangler
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there's an estimated 250,000 fish in the
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northwest Fork of the marami doing their
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thing to keep their numbers growing get
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picture is it a good one Joe it's a good
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one everyone's everyone's a good one
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that up
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boy it's a beautiful
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fish good fish an looking good
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buddy there's something in the air or in
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our case the water there's a strange
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calm on the water There's Something
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Brewing I've never experienced before
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look at that that is
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crazy
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wow during spawning the males will
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surround a single large female and bump
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her up to the water surface once there
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she releases her eggs and the males well
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they do their
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thing as the eggs are discharged and
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Scattered the males release Milt turning
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the water milky white look at this herd
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of them coming in right here spawning
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can last several days during spawning a
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female can release between 1/2 to 3
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million eggs
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look at them all there holy smokes
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unlike salmonoids strip bass will
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continue to eat during the spawning
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cycle fertilized strip bass eggs need to
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be carried by water currents for about
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48 to 72 hours until they hatch to avoid
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Suffocation the water current must be
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strong enough and the river distance
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long enough to keep the eggs and the
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Young from settling to the river bottom
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if the eggs sink to the bottom they die
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because sediment reduces oxygen exchange
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between the egg in the surrounding water
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this is the most critical period for
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young stripers oh my God look at this
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look at the size of that
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oh oh mama just came with a school of
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young look at that no it's the look at
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them all around they all what oh my God
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that is never seen anything like look at
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that that is awesome how many there 50
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100 oh 100 fish see the belly still not
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not that big female that we're looking
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for Wow boy that cool there had to be 50
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to 100 fish crazy follow at one time
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they bowled in one little group didn't
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they they were somersault all over it
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ridiculous got to be a female and then
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they the males were just going or at
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least they think it
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is Hang on we're doubling and tripling
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here back at the warf at downtown Miri
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the day starts early for the Striper Cup
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organizers this is the first time that
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the city of Marmi has ever hosted uh a
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fishing tournament of any type let alone
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a bass tournament we have a a striped
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bass population that is unheard of in
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the rest of the
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world people are are are really uh
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excited to to take part in this great
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tournament we have literally hundreds
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and hundreds of fishermen and boats out
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on the River today this is a winning
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team so you want to get the before shot
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here while organizers prepare for the
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big event Pete Joe and I have set off
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back down to Mirchi in search of more of
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these amazing creatures we barely
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recovered from yesterday's incredible
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display of Mother Nature at her best
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what a fishing Adventure already and
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we're just getting started Hang on we're
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doubling and tripling
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here look at them all underneath mine
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Pete have you got something on I am not
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oh my God I'm not rigged up oh can you
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see
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that oh that's nice that's fat hey
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starting to get fat after what we just
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witnessed it's clear that it's the males
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aggressively going after every single
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female on the river so now we'll try
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everything we can to distract the males
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and hopefully then lure the females out
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of the
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Mayhem oh yeah that's a good one
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Joe come on Joey you can do
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it real chunky chunker
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fish there you go nice one good job Joe
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nice you got her Bud put her back nice B
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oh nice release buddy good
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work we're here on the Miri River in New
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Brunswick throwing just about anything
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and everything into the water and most
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of it's working this fishery is
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incredible look at them dirty air again
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wow get yours in we'll have a a team a
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tag team of them look at them oh look at
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look at this oh crazy 42 fish beside
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them oh my God that is nuts man they're
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tough as Nails these things swimbaits
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probably anything at work we're throwing
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swimbaits now that's a nice little I
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think when you get a school like that
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that's hot I think you can throw
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anything yeah yeah oh my God Joe's been
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having some fun with us challenging our
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claim off camera that he's been catching
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the smallest fish and and I think his
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record is safe for now that might have
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you beat Joe oh Joe you're pretty much
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Joe no no it's close Joe's got at least
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a half a pound less than
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that knock you off your feet look at
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them all with
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them let me see if I can get in there
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after you see the little males trying to
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Peck at this thing look at that that is
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crazy you have to have a female on there
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it has to be yeah oh man look at them
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all holy
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mackerel that's crazy you know which
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ones are females anyways that we're
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guessing is a female right there well
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yeah only because everybody was on it
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wow but it's skinny like it doesn't look
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like a might be early maybe there
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they're still not I don't know it's
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weird don't know enough about I just saw
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one he's waiting for you to release her
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I just saw one come up in the surface
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and bring her back here come on what are
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you doing what are you doing with our
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girls oh that's nuts during a rare Lull
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in the incredible fishing action both
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Pete and I grabbed another rod with our
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secret weapon Mighty Mo sure enough our
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our little Road Bel made a few new
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friends just under the waves on the mirr
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machine look at them following Mo man
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crazy yeah baby on the botom whoops on
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the bottom lip yeah Little Mo Fish
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little striper bass on Mo a pink Mo of
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all
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things
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beautiful look at he looks like a
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drowned rat when he comes out of the
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water and doesn't help these scrapers
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are beating this not at
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kidding I was I was ordered to throw out
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a top water bait so I nice decided to
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throw
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a a mouse
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bait that's a that's a duer for a for a
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mouse fish
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yeah you want me to get them or you good
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I might be able to get them here here
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let me get them for you
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whoa nicely
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done oh buddy
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Mighty Bo comes to the rescue there you
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go brother he's yours that's a mouse B
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fish that up yep awesome I'll let him go
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you got it I got it
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stick nice Beauty a mouse paint that
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that soccer castes him doesn't it I'm
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telling you that thing is crazy that
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thing is crazy pink pink
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pink
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oh that was a nice one that sounded good
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eh you get a look at him Pete no I just
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I saw his tail only buddy couldn't tell
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look at the males around there oh my God
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you're going to make me hurt my thumb
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again aren't you that could be a keeper
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that's too
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big good fish
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Joey just keep wearing her out so it
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doesn't bust my thumb
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buddy can you hold them they hurt man
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when they they just grab they're so hard
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to to get a hold of them cuz they're
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just a bit mouth is a bit bigger than a
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large
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mouth that's a beauty Joe that's an
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awesome fish buddy think an holy
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mackerel did you catch that oh by
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myself but I had the I had my rigging
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buddy he put her together yeah boy okay
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awesome get it back in the water go
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forth and
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multiply that's what she's
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doing this is it after a short delay the
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Striper Cup is ready to launch it seems
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the whole town has come out to cheer the
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participants
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on no matter the level of skill
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equipment on hand or the size of the
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boat everybody's welcome on the maram
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machine if we could achieve anything at
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this event it would be to bring
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attention to the fishery and get people
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to come to the mar Machi in May and
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enjoy this
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fishery talk about a great fishery this
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is fantastic I wish we had something
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like this a little closer to home I'd be
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on it every
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day striper King today my friend it's
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probably one of the most humbling
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experiences to dream up something like
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this with our buddy Jeff Wilson and put
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it into effect and then see the results
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of how many people really really wanted
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this uh to happen another benefit of
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having this event is the great
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opportunity it provides for the Miri
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River environmental assessment committee
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and the DFO to collect d
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this 10 km stretcher river is the only
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spawning ground for stripe bass in the
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Gulf of St Lawrence is this careful and
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intelligent management of striper
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fishery that has allowed the spectacular
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event to even
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happen you know these guys from fish in
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Canada I'm thinking are pretty uh pretty
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happy with what they've done um and I
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think they caught some nice fish and
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certainly have seen a lot of
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fish well that my friend would be an
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understatement what the event organizers
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didn't know is that earlier we were
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experiencing absolute Mayhem on the Bei
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in fact had we weighed in our top two
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fish each day we' have won this
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tournament hands down well then maybe
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next year we should be players and not
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Spectators what you think there Pete W
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buddy and nice one buddy and you got it
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all by yourself you lifted it in and
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everything
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today's Hotpot is a stretch of the merhi
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river named Red Bank the way point on
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your screen will get you there during
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the strip bass spawning migration each
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spring this area gets completely jammed
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up with rambunctious fish getting ready
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to reproduce a fast erratic moving bait
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like a Yamamoto dhad soft jerk bait in a
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bright color will pretty much clean up
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here for more hotpots like this one
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check out fishing
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canada.com what the holy ma that's a
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nice fish boys that's two big females
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together or another big male right
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beside her whatever the case is that is
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both big
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fish maybe I could grab the other one by
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hand oh boy good luck on that one buddy
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oh that's nice wow that's perfect
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e there he
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is ohow that feels
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heavy oh yeah that might be that might
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be the ticket it's hard to tell though
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oh you got current you got win that's a
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nice tail look at the cluster with
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her woo nicely done that's the one that
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is the one here you go wow nice
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fish that's Mama right there young mama
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had about I don't know 30 or 40 small
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males that were just glued to her
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they're still hanging around Wai still h
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wait put her
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back that's awesome that's great man
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crazy it's great man talk about a great
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Fisher this is fantastic I wish we had
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something like this a little closer to
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home I be H every
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day to get to today's fast-paced strip
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bass fishing we flew from Toronto to to
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monton New Brunswick we then took
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Highway 15 Northeast and then turned
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North on Highway 11 we exited on Church
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Street in the town of mirami and then
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took Henderson Street to the outstanding
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accommodations at the rod Mirchi
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Resort this was one of the most amazing
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shoots we've ever done so choosing just
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one klp was tough because of where we
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were and what we saw it's got to be k
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for knowledge and L for location aside
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from Fantastic memories of what we
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witness on the surface of that River we
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learned that these fish in the midst of
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their reproductive frenzy actually took
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time out to eat most fish species
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certainly the salmonoids from which this
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river is internationally known don't eat
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when they're about to spawn stripers on
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the other hand are multitaskers doing
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both with equal abandon and the numbers
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are staggering over A4 million spawning
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fish in a 10 km stretch of this river
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right in front of the city of Mir
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machine this very convenient location
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along with the knowledge that these fish
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actually eat while they spawn makes for
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a very successful day under water and
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that's what KP is all about to make it
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even better we Anglers should do our
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part and release them all and let them
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get right back at it it just means an
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