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Jig and Minnow Equals Walleye
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Mar 24, 2025
This Fish’n Canada episode has Pete Bowman way up in north-western Ontario on Lac Seul, soaking live minnows tipped on a jig for Walleye. If he could only have one northern Ontario Walleye presentation for the rest of his life, it would probably be the jig & minnow combo and this show proves just that. ► 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/fishncanada... ► 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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if you could only choose one bait or
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presentation for walleye what would it
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be
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so that you know that's probably an
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average fish around here i would say
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cabbage weed
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little guy
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[Music]
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yankee unz don't lose my middle
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try and get a walleye or two
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you get some beautiful eating size
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walleye in five minutes
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nice
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hey everybody on this fishing canada
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episode i'm going to start out with a
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question
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if you could only choose one bait or
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presentation for walleye what would it
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be
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now depending on where you live there
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might be an array of answers such as
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crankbaits and minnow baits jigs
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spinners grubs
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live bait ice fishing jigs and spoons in
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my case however having fished for
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walleye from lake erie and all the way
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through to northwest ontario plus the
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western provinces and even into bc i've
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come up with a definitive answer for
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myself day in and day out the simple jig
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head and minnow is my hands down choice
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however even though the jigging minnow
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is my ultimate choice for catching
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numbers of concentrated walleye it's not
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my first choice for finding those fish
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what i want what i want to find today
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is i want to look for
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a newly emergent cabbage wheat cabbage
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weed will hold walleye muskie and pike
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so that's what i'm going to be looking
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for today you know i might i might troll
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around to look for that stuff like right
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now i'm
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just trolling speed anyway so i might as
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well dump a bait in and pull it behind
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me
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once i find the the weed bed i think
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that's my best chance at catching
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anything really i like to cover water by
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either casting or trolling faster moving
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artificial baits
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and when i'm in the north country like
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today i always search with a leader on
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in case i tie into a big pike a troll in
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front of this island
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i saw a little ridge
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that i really liked came out from deep
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water went up the ridge and then back
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down i think it's i think it's like a
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ridge
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a lengthwise ridge maybe
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i'm hoping
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after covering lots of water by trolling
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i finally found what i believe will be
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the key to a successful day cabbage weed
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and up in the north country
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that's gold
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that is fish attracting gold there's a
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bigger chunk of it right here
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that my friends
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is the ultimate
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weed
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for musky pike
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walleye and smallmouth if you have a
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large boat in your lake
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to an extent that too it's not the best
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largemouth weed
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probably because it's got everything
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else in it but for muskie and pike
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dynamic
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walleye very good smallmouth excellent
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walleye
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not bad
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i've come into this bay and there's a
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river that goes by there i just come
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over the drop of the creek channel the
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old channel used to run through here
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dropped from three feet to about eight
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feet i'm an 8.7 so nine feet
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and uh
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fishing the faster dropping edge
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not a big walleye but he's not bad
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boy
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see walter
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and right in the channel which would be
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very cool i can do a couple dress with
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my minnows speaking of which
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put my middles in the lake for a little
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drink
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now that i've picked up some fish with
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my casting and trolling gear i've white
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planted a couple locations that could
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have a few walleyes
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when small to medium-sized fish hit big
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baits like spoons and swim baits it
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means they're hungry
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once i contact walleye what i feel is a
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decent spot doesn't matter if they're
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small by the way
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next step is to change my pace slow down
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and drag around my be-all end-all
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walleye killer a jigging minnow
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your traditional screen
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can catch you a lot of fish especially
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in northern ontario
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tiny
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but that's an eater on this lake
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here's a little tip for north country
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fishing when puttering and trolling
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around on an active school of walleye
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try keeping your outboard running often
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times anglers shut their motors down
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thinking they're scaring the fish but
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the reality is the stopping and starting
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of the motor makes more of a disruption
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than the steady purr of a four-stroke if
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those are walleye and their biters
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they're gonna bite they don't care about
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it
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electric versus this
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it's just when i get in that shallow
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water stuff i want to get into stealth
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mode maybe after repeated drifts
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lac sewell the body of water that i'm
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fishing today is mostly known as a
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phenomenal walleye producer and
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justifiably so it is that good off you
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go buddy however laksul is not just
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about the walleye there's an amazing
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northern pike muskie and smallmouth bass
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fishery just waiting to be hit a couple
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of seasons ago ang and steve nizwiki
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took advantage of laxawell's crazy
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smallie and pike population
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oh yeah yeah oh yeah that's the one the
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old dead sticking the old dead stick
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does it again
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all right there we go oh
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little smiley right where he should have
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been that's a beauty
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nice color
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the slow dead stick presentation
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sick
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oh whoa
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there was one i had a boy
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did it feel good well
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there's a big swirl i i heard the swirl
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he's coming too easy
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no oh it's bigger it's better oh it is
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it's a better fish
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i think we better grab the net yeah i
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believe this is networthy yes it is
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we're on your side here buddy he's
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coming right through there
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that's an awesome that's a great yeah oh
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he's got his fish
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i love it
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nice work nice work
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oh did you see that
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yeah buddy
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you would have countered anyway yeah but
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the folks at home want to see this one
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that was cool as soon as he got him to
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death poof oh he went we both said he's
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well hooked because we couldn't see the
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bait
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right the lure was embedded right in him
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i got the net all right you got the net
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yep i'm good
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hey
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talk about an awesome multi-species
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fishery
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something enz and i always like to
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remind people about is knowing the
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angling regulations pertaining to the
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area you're fishing specific laws like
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catch and possession limits as well as
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size limits are always changing but you
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need to know the general laws as well
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there
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i knew you were there
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i know it's a walleye i just don't know
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how big
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that little walleye perfect eater they
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have a slot limit here
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on sewell
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and when you look at that underneath
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you see that you think
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about that fish being caught underneath
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like that
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right under the chin
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and the significance to that that a lot
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of people don't know
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is that you can't keep that fish because
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you did not catch them in the mouth
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so i know a lot of people keep them and
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that's a beautiful eating fish and all
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that but legally you got to throw that
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fish back because you didn't catch milk
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you snagged them underneath the chin
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think about that one you gotta remember
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it if you're an ethical angler
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then you will put that one back no
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matter what
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there he is
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eat it
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yeah little eater walleye i'm gonna lose
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my minnow on them
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unless i fling them into the boat really
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quick
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like that that's an eater on this lake
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that's a neater on lag stool
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fishing a jig and minnow isn't brain
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surgery and in fact on days when the
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fish are active you'll often be fishing
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like a machine one after the other
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those ones
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[Music]
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decent wallet here this is a nice one
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[Music]
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that's that is using your electronics
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to the max right there but your
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traditional screen
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can catch you a lot of fish especially
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in northern ontario you get them in a
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spot like this
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you catch your short lunch in five
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minutes
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you know what i mean
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you get some beautiful eating size
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walleye in five minutes
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[Music]
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when fishing northern canadian shield
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legs for walleye with the jig and minnow
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i really love combining trolling with a
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bit of drifting this tiny little spot
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believe it or not the jigging minnow
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you're just gonna troll around in
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circles you can use your big motor you
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can use your electric motor you can use
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whatever but when the fish are there
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there's one sitting on the bottom right
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there
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i can see that
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he might bite
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just because he's locked on the bottom
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doesn't mean he's not going to bite if
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i'm fishing a specific piece of
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structure i'll let the wind move me
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around nice and slow and if i need to
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make adjustments i simply kick the motor
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either in reverse or forward to
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compensate
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but on a spot like this
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i can give you a great tip put a jig and
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a minnow on
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put her in reverse
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and just do circles
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just
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do circles around
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and eventually you're gonna pick up fish
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if you see them on your screen
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uh up on northwestern ontario or
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anywhere where those walleyes especially
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on a flat bottom you're going to catch
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them
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eat it now that's tiny
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that is well
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he's going to keep coming in real easy
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as usual
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but this shows you how quickly you could
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pick up a shore lunch in a place like
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this right tiny little wee narrow down
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area
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and you're catching all these shoreline
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fish like wow you know i mean this is
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awesome
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you know they're all small they're all
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the same size don't lose my metal oh
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there it was my middle i knew it
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tried to jump like a small mouth no
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you're saying that's
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my god why would you keep us a walleye
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that small to eat
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well maybe a little bigger than that
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just in the
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on the higher end of the slot limit of
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the undersla
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they're so delicious they're so
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delicious and you're not hurting the
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population by keeping little guys like
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this and bigger um as a matter of fact
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you usually do the system pretty good by
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doing that so
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but so you get your shorelines here your
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shoreline fish
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two two to two and a half of those fish
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per person there's lots believe it or
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not
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sometimes if you're not that hungry with
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all that fixings just one fish per
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person is good but
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maybe one and a half fish get your stuff
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here get your fish here go back to the
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camp and uh and cook them up
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but i'm gonna move on because i'm
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looking for bigger ones the screen right
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now i'm still recording it this screen
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right now
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wow and 15 feet of water i'm not leaving
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yet as you can see on today's show i'm
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constantly looking at my fish finder gps
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combo the obvious things i'm looking for
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are fish however bait structure and
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cover are all key i'm also checking out
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my charter map always on the lookout for
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my next hot spot there's one biting
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right there and you missed it
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there's one right on the bottom that's a
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big fish right on the bottom there
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and there's another little one with it
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i'd love to catch him but
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he'd be right here
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so he's gonna be right back there i
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don't know if i'll get a shot at him
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unless i cast them because that looks
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like a good-sized fish
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reason i say that is my transducer is
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mounted right there of the back of the
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boat shooting down to probably a spot
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only about that big around i'm just
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shooting straight down so if i'm seeing
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those
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fished like that
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there imagine how many there are here
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i mean i'm picking them up
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straight straight below the boat
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every time i do a pass so there's
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probably
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20 walleye in this area
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if there is a downfall to the jigging
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minnow it's the fact that any and all
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walleye can and will take a shot at it
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don't lose my minnow
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yankee unc don't lose my middle
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that includes small fish
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great for action but not so great for
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trophy hunters and putting a hurt on
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your middle supply
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i get bit three times coming in and i
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got nothing but wood
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that's a hit
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typical walleye i've been getting eater
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shallow shell 6.3 feet of water
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there's lots of them here but they're
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hard to fish because
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so the bottom is full of wood too
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they're biting funny though they're not
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tagging it
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there's a bit of a cold front going
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through right now so
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that could be affecting these fish
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here we go
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yep
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you get onto them like a lake like black
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sewell
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you get on a spot like this
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you catch your shore lunch in five
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minutes
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you know what i mean
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you get some beautiful eating size
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walleye in five minutes
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[Music]
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pete's hot spot for this episode was a
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bottom contour on ontario's walleye rich
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lac zul the waypoint on your screen will
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get you right there
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now it doesn't look like much from above
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the water however if you run a chart
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plotter with good mapping or you quick
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draw your own map you'll see a distinct
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bend in the drop-off this is one of a
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few similar areas where pete started out
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by trolling and then casting faster
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moving baits in search of active groups
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of walleye once spout he then put his
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trusty jig and middle to work for more
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hot spots like this one check out
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fishingcanada.com or is it just a feisty
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wallet fought like a pike but
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it's a better fish
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so i made this fire
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because my man jordan's shooting there
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doesn't have rain gear and a rainstorm
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came in nasty so
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we pulled into this what we thought was
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a
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sandy beach
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right jordan
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so we got the fire going just to warm up
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a little bit now of course the rain has
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left and it's a clay beach and our boots
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are
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completely annihilated so now the next
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thing is getting
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back into the boat without getting too
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much of a mess
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once my man warms up
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you might be asking why the jig and
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minnow why not a worm or a leech in my
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personal walleye history during the cold
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water period the minnow is hands down
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the best although the worm elites work
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very well in warmer water so does a
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minnow even if it's dead
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i will say
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you know northern ontario on the north
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this is a daily occurrence when you find
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a group of these wall i got oops there
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you go she took off you go to southern
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ontario you fish in a lot of
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you know fertile bodies of water
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that it just doesn't happen like this
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you can't just sit there and find a pot
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of fish there's probably 20 or 30 fish
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in this spot
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this entire bay probably has three of
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those spots and then there's somewhere
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else in the lake that's got 100 fish and
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you know all these different spots and
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that so when you find them here that's
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the beauty of it nobody else with me
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that's that's tough to beat when you
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especially for walleye when you come up
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to the north man you get onto them jig
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in a minnow you can get them on cranks
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you can get them on anything else worms
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leeches do
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but
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you find a pot of fish you can just have
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fun all day long
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how
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how does a fish let a minnow go
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what is he thinking
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what are you thinking
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[Music]
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oh this is a better walleye i think
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i think he's fighting better
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he's got to be better look he hasn't
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come in two seconds
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oh yeah he's not big but he's nice he's
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a lot nicer than what i've been getting
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nice walter
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we fished it in fall ange and i one time
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fished it in the fall
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and it was absolutely insane
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that's better
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and so that you know that's probably an
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average fish around here i would say
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which is fine you don't need to keep
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fish this size but you get all those
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little guys
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jigging minnow you see he's crooked
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there now cause this fish knocked it
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over but that's just a staple up here
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you want to catch walleye all day long
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you throw a jig and get their own minnow
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that's a nice fish
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i'll try for one more i was gonna leave
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but
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that gives me a little incentive to
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try and catch a couple more bigger ones
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[Music]
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have we got any size to you buddy
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whoa
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pike
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or is it just a feisty wallet fought
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like a pike but
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it's a better fish
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how does that sound
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what do we got i think it's a walleye
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and i think it's a good one yeah it is a
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walleye for sure
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there he is nice there's my 23 inch
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walleye
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i knew there was some bigger fish in the
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school
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crazy buddy
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don't steal my minnow we'll be a real
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happy couple you and i
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there
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a little better just you know
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you could catch these all day you'd be
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one happy customer collage would you
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nice
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good looking fish
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i think there's lots of them down there
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like that too
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well there you go you found my absolute
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stripped down tackle kit walleye
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presentation
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i know many of you have used the jigging
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minnow and i'm sure most have been
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successful
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if you haven't then i encourage you to
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give it a shot when all else fails just
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remember
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it's all about the feel
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to get to today's outstanding fishing
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pete first drove north on highway 400 to
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highway 69. he then took highway 17
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northwest until just east of dryden
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he then turned north on highway 72 until
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he reached his first destination at
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anderson's lodge but that was only part
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of his trip
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from there he finally ended up at tom's
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landing outpost
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you can arrange with anderson's to
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either fly there or you can take your
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own boat throughout the gorgeous stretch
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of black sewell waters before warn
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though it's about a 40-mile boat ride
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we rate anderson's as one of the top
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