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Topwater Smallmouth Bass | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
This episode picks up from last season's search for a new co-host. Ang and Pete mull over the prospects, catch some fish and reveal the audience vote. 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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your boat last year tail end of the
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season we ran a little promotion on the
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fishing kin of the show we were looking
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for a new hired gun and we had a couple
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of real good prospects and rather than
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beat and I make a decision on one of
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them we thought we would throw it up to
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you the viewing audience to go on the
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internet and basically vote for them see
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guys we think you both have what it
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takes to do the job but there's only
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room for one so what we decided to do is
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let the audience people at home make
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that decision for us Oh bad I thought it
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was a little big guy but there are two
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layers of that when you can call it that
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and they're in queue come here young man
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nicely done top water smallmouth will
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have a lot of the fish species love that
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pretty predictable hey you get among
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your spirit a prediction did you have a
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chance to look at that report for the
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internet I can't believe it we wear to
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the show nice and you know you get up
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starts out I want Paul I want Paul Paul
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takes a lead
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I want John I want John John dig still
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it was like this we had about 150 people
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that said they would make the perfect
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fishing pan of the host and went on to
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give us all the qualifications and the
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reasons why we should be picking them
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but they forgot one small thing they
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didn't tell us their name
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make this goal that was in the bank lots
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of nice fish
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I'm going to cast our whole thing in a
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cast no forget it let that thing nobody
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wear them brothers no though I look like
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a bad boy
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tonight die nice job buddy
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a good fish that's a nice job he's an
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RBI that which is great to catch under
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any conditions but under a top water
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bait yeah Dellavedova told you right now
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he never experienced that a drop
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whatever you're doing to get out it
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tries to with this stuff the surprising
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part about the voltages that it was a
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dead heat it was everything it freaked
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us out how how even is stayed throughout
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every time we here everything's awesome
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it did help we appreciate you doing it
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but it didn't help us at all with all
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the same positions we were we started
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this thing getting really good young
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up-and-coming anglers and both could
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really handle the job well this is done
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on the bigger side of typical beauty
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okay buddy burgeoning look at that right
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there
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I'm suppose if aunt and I were to vote
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it was the same thing we talked about I
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wasn't who you want well I don't I can't
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tell who I wanted oh that's why we could
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ask for the votes we couldn't take it
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out and now the voters do the same thing
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they can't pick it o D there's always
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bizarre so I think the answers ago that
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would have never happened I mean I when
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you came on board for temple we didn't
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have the internet allowed they did
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renting that what we just did there
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buddy I'm explain this to you is that
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four-pounder we just got on the
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spinnerbait your second is not on the
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Janata Yuva quiet I'm talking to
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everybody
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this camera what would you have done if
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we have said well we can't decide we
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need to put it to a vote
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oh I would have I would have hoped that
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the audience you know would have if they
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they said no you know a guy socks it's
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okay you know what I'm going to stay in
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a construction and I set a coveralls and
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and giver every day were good but but if
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the audience you know if they had a vote
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and they said yeah this guy's awesome I
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love it and we'd probably have given
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such encouragement right like I would
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have given me it's like anything if you
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get a boost especially from somebody's
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opinion like that it's like whoa hey
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maybe this is a real the real deal Serna
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vessel
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quite honestly when I started this I was
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not a TV guy
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I warned I have to admit you all your
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hair virus was all fishing ability I was
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nervous I was it took me years to get
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over Kay I couldn't talk to this camera
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like this right now I couldn't do it I'd
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rather just fish away and purr kind of
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ignore that with the camera but but it
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took me so long to do that so I mean it
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takes a lot different of a person to be
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able to you miss him again
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to get to today's unique location head
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north on highway 400 cake eggs at 98 and
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turn left on highway 26 next turn right
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on grave hour Road 112 your destination
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is six kilometers to the north the base
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including Mountain Lake is a private
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facility with very limited access to the
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public
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cool virtually every fast fisherman has
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technique is all in the retrieve for the
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will he hit a spinnerbait really hit a
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Buzzbee you know what I'm not even for
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them yeah
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but yet it's a day that we started out
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thinking oh I'll back sound of that one
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Oh baby oh you've got to be touchy Oh
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how does that happen there you go yeah
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you got that's a different fit the first
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was a darkness so like blah it's on the
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rot away I suck
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not too I'm going back in this is
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ridiculous this is a good point to
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people thinking on his fishing shows
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everything is perfect let's say the
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fishing was really slow last day and I
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slowly come on up little buddy we do
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miss a lot of fish well we do as you
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just saw they're running live on the
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camera we we have lots of sure why not
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arms a little heavy you know and you
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look at a little nondescript little area
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like this and you and you and you come
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up on it you get five or six real active
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fish jumping around and then the first
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thing you think is that this is a great
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spot and there's no fish there's no fish
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here they're all there but you know
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sometimes in Fisher like people they
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have different personalities are in
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different moods and it could be right
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here that these fish are just naturally
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active fish yeah just like fishermen and
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we talk about different personalities
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we've had probably some of the best
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personalities in my opinion any
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television program or program they work
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very inactive those guys don't know what
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I was talking about big brother Reno
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they're gonna look at them put it up
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what a way you look at a corner well
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folks I got me a birdie on there
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I really do have to cook perfectly
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probably put each other
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I got I got him
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fishing camera would have been fishing
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can't reload him right you guys I mean
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you guys were a great deal yeah I know
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it all mighty Mike I mean there's
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another great example of wonderful
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personalities and good mix with the team
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absolutely yeah yeah that was a great
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joke you did so what was going on there
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yeah hey you ain't kiddin look at this
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thing that's round in the Sheep so I'm
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in sheep that's one of the things about
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Paul and John that I really don't know
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and I'm not 100% sold on is exactly that
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very good accomplished anglers exactly
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but how are the dynamics how does that
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work with the dynamics of doing what we
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do this is incredible this is absolutely
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mind-boggling
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and you gal isn't what a discovery right
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here in the spoken so that's what you
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know take it and then we'll tighten that
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up see beautiful look at you here we go
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all right talk that I got to ask
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yourself that I mean we don't talk about
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this as far as I have concern here often
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enough but your experience as the
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fishing Canada host for these some
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twenty some odd years right what was
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when you first started I remember first
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talking to you about coming on to the
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show what was going through your mind
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the viola brothers somehow convinced me
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to get out there with pink polka luck
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and do a show river and and I don't know
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how you convinced me to do it and we
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went out and it was you had fish with
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and always walleye walleye and then the
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week before was dynamite as usual the
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night we went out was terrible in
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general typical when you get the camera
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but we got a show done and then after
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that it was just sort of once a year
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once or twice a year but get together
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and do a show I think both are our
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respective guys we've got great
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technique by the way a quick Lee
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speaking
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we've always a great all-around angler
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but we see some more poly in the small
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move and they in the steelhead and River
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and the trout a lot then you get John
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who is you can sit there and put you
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onto a school of lake trout won't be
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there all day long they can execute
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technically speaking
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yeah but they can also read water which
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is really important yeah like I said
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before my if there's a reservation at
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all my reservation is it takes a lot
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more than that
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oh you what to do what we do and and
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that's a part that we have a really
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calorie density you're talking away we
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got this giant Wow huh you're right
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great night corner yeah that was a slew
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three hey that's a nice fish yeah that's
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worthy of the net it really is a mess
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yeah good job buddy Pete hi you're
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looking for some new young blood to
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bring onto the fishing Canada team
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but you know what I mean also we got to
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look at it this ways is if it's so even
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do we need to fast-track this right now
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I mean you know it's if it's not written
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on the wall if it's not smashing us in
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the face you know should we make a hasty
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decision I don't know baby or maybe
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maybe not work with either one and see
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what else I mean there was a lot of
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other gods names that were put forth not
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that it's a lot of stuff handed to us
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that we laughs that some of the man it
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was crazy
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well anyways it said we got to figure it
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out oh whoa you get it
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we're really here I gotta get the net
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for you yeah there you go
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you're killing me dude I love it
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here I got an atom nobody behind them
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little guy Gooden where I started yeah
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you are powering them all of a sudden Oh
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got it got one going good craziness
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didn't flatten it and he showed himself
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whoa bringin me that much smaller
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ah good Wow whoo that's fun ya got there
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he's back that's two of them sorry there
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so there was two of them come up one
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doesn't grab it should be one right
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there just a half a cast how do you one
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not not all of a sudden I get in there a
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pile of fish you go yeah yeah and then
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like adorably what horizontal is thrown
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in a plastic bag yes anko are saenko or
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self drop charm to get that but that's
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not what we're doing today this is a top
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water bite now that I could have milk it
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for everything everyone
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but once the the notion of opening it up
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and letting people
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you know weigh in on it like that that's
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really cool yeah that's my Lola I
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actually love that and at this point
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what I'd like to do is to maybe use both
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of them sort the course of this new
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season Marian Masseria got a so I gotta
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get there he's understand just a little
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guy three sides so what I was thinking
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what I'd like to do is to use them both
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yep put them in in various positions and
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situations you know some some real tough
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shoots and some social shoots yeah and
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and I'd like to throw it open to the
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audience again at the end okay and let's
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see what happens I mean yeah I mean that
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vote was pretty quick you just walleye a
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wall better than that goal bond a
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Blanchard and Katherine can you knew
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that kids would you can do that more
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degrees of Oh No you're kidding Frank
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time who was it at the same time was
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that you are my buddy
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oh I got 200 more to fish yeah he does I
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got two others oh let me get the net too
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quick oh this is you got a team stay on
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you're gonna be harder to stay on that
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who are the top water here where's your
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air your pair no look second we go oh my
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god there was some fish on that base
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there's gonna be three others net right
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now oh my god oh my god this is so much
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the best meeting I've ever had okay this
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is what I call work right here I could
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see those off what uh water there god I
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think you had it earlier today - I think
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you have to have well that's the second
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time Wow but our boat hopefully fish hit
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the same kind of hit a ball prelims miss
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him same thing
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and hope the camera pick that up three
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fish fighting on to date oh wow
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that's fun it's fun you keep and fire me
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today and I can pick up the boys I'm
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having so much fun
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