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Catching Giant Pike In A High-Water Coldfront | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman travel to the Attawapiskat River in northern Ontario and target the mighty Pike. Unfortunately, they didn’t expect the water to be extremely frigid and 10 feet above normal levels. This episode puts the boys to the test! 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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the fish in Canada show not to you in
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part by Ram trucks nothing worked harder
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than a ram food favor the number one
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Canada Canada's only national fishing
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and hunting magazine today's fishing
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Canada episode promises to show you a
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different side of what we encounter on
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some of our shoots now it may come as a
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bit of a surprise to some of you after
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all most people think of this fishing
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television host everything comes easy
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right
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wrong in this particular episode we've
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hit Mother Nature's mother lode of bad
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weather and water conditions which are
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both away out of whack
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it can be sunny and hot in one minute
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and freezing cold the next
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we started paying 121 degree still
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indoors for our luggage I suppose
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a couple of years ago we fished the atom
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wapis Catherine Pike with great success
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the reason being if conditions were
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perfect nice warm spring days ideal
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water temps and a slow meandering
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current on this trip though we were a
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bit worried reports haven't that
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conditions are not perfect
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the flight went great and in fact the
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weather was definitely turning for the
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better
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there's something about flying over
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Northern Ontario but really comms and
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yet excites an angler at the same time
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our destination Eddy Norris adhirata
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Scott adventures is a very rustic style
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hunting and fishing camp if you're
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looking for absolute luxury with every
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amenity available then this is not for
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you however if you are looking for a
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no-frills affordable camp that is
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situated in some of Ontario's most
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pristine pike and walleye waters then
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this is definitely for you
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Oh
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it didn't take long for an tonight to
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figure out that something wasn't quite
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right
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we just didn't know what until finally
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cliff
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the water levels look high there's no
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worn shoreline to speak up and the brush
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and foliage was right at and into the
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water's edge now Lisa's life right or
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the walleye there is a snake little bit
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of a fighter a walleye strikes makes it
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way that water is frigid in the hand
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that's the way I want to hook the big
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ones right there
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ever used to be yeah well little one you
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know what there's life on this point
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yeah the last place you'd think a
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caberta compared to what we would
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normally fit how would you go in that
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Bay they get hammer on let's all up and
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down rocks weeds up and down ten feet on
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one side seven feet six feet on the
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excellent over another Boulder right
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here
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maybe it's boulders that they have
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they're told they're holding eat maybe
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yeah could be knowing that the
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conditions were less than perfect we
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rigged up a variety of bass both in
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terms of size and actions under these
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circumstances it's important that an
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angler lets the fish dictate what's
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going to work not the other way around
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that big back bay I'm not sure I want to
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go back up into this stuff once we
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investigated the water levels we found
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out that in fact they were 6 feet higher
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than normal and rising not a good thing
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the situation could have been any worse
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or so we thought
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we came into this back bay in hopes of
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finding maybe a two or even a four
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degree variance of temperature but so
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far it's the same as the main lake which
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means we just have to work that much
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harder that's a good one in five years
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even dolia know he's not even started on
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yet but he's a long skinny pike look at
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that he's got no body but look at the
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head on him Wow the good little thing
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what am I gonna do it cuz you know he's
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not ready I know I don't know what for
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the cradle he might he might just lay
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there for so you ready when we in there
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so I'm in there pull up her head there
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you go
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Wow he hasn't done to anything wild now
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we've said it a hundred times on the
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show when temperatures are this low for
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this fish so we're at 48 degree water
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this basically gets shut down during
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these times there we go see you buddy
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wow I guess he caught a flash that bait
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just decided my last meal before it's
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it's time to go to bed let's get active
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the green stuff
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today's northern pike fishing took place
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on the Adam office path River in
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Northern Ontario to get there from
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Toronto we took highway 400 north to
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highway 11 we headed Northwest to
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highway 584 at Geraldton from there we
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drove north to the town of Makena and
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finally took courting Leigh Lake Road
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within two kina air seaplane base from
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there I flew in Eddy North atahuallpa
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scat adventures camp on fat au lait
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so first we determined that the water
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levels are off the chart and in fact
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higher than they've been in decades
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which puts one foot too grave but now we
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also discovered that the water
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temperature plummeted lower than three
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spot it will will pass the actual spawn
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period that thud you just heard was foot
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number two we're six feet under and the
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preachers say in a few last words what
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this equates to my fishing friends is
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exactly what we were referring to at the
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hem of a show it's not all laid out on a
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platter for the fishing canadaboys we've
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got ourselves some serious work ahead
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just as we expected the big northerns of
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the a Tawaf escape we're playing hard to
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get very much unlike our last trip
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hammer handles in the shallows are
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commonplace in almost all pike areas no
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matter what the conditions and they end
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up driving you nuts when you're hunting
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for a 40-plus inch monster with the
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fishing conditions being so horrible I'm
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always on the mind frame to undersized
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my presentation normally a little
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five-inch suspending minnow bait folks
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in all size fish even the giant and he's
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from the school of go big or stay home
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now we're rocket we found a little sweet
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spot in a bay and I've got BT throwing a
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giant - he's a hard man to commit but an
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easy man to convert he's quite good
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there he is oh yeah he's a nice fish
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that's nice
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Big Daddy it's just short fatty like
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that fatty oh look at a white hat but
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where's my tube I don't see it look the
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back and look at the jig hooks not in a
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match get that cradle oh yeah we've not
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even hooked there he goes oh oh yeah
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bring him in boys what is your oh no no
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no no no no no we're gonna bring my keep
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keep incoming keep them coming there you
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go there you go oh man good without
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those oh this fish we caught with I
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would hook at them it's gonna do a
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spinaroonie completely on giving to you
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like to see like these yeah we could
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probably blow them on the under stick
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somehow
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yes he's not very long
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Oh God can get rid of the cradle oh
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those oh that was that man and now here
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dot have the beat they didn't have the
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hooks in them know anything about the
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beta of the leader the leader was sewers
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back that was it and never open a vault
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much good fun
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whoa serious got a voice Oh big one
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that's a big one right office okay
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Oh what foolish cyclist a right off this
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grass patch I think it's an incredible
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thing never seemed like it that is
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insane if you're free you're gonna go
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crazy
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Oh ran smoke today yes we're in their
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town Papa okay you this is the big fish
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this is like a big ol melon head in a
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sample of what you can get and matter
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husband and she is you're going to go
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soon it's all a bonus right now you know
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I got re her belly here you got it
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I got just a little bit you're gonna go
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soon so look at the gorgeous fish put
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her down but you gotta watch this I'm
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just gonna go cruising out of here
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have to go baby see y'all yeah big ol
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log ah I love seeing this you'd actually
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closed up in and leave this pond yeah
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very good gently that is a blast good
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that is a blast I don't care if you have
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to travel at the heir tutti just that
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all you know what yeah exactly
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you gotta fly up to get it you're
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flapping you know you
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sometimes in fishing things just can't
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be explained one minute you'll beg
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boilers feel to get a bite and then all
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of a sudden the tight turn and the fish
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bite everything in sight
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Oh like a big one with the fishing now
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revving up we decided to expand our
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little fishing area to the surrounding
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shorelines we expected more fish to move
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in and start beating but our
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expectations were let down believe it or
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not our little weedy point that produce
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about 90% of our good bites is our
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ultimate saving grace oh I gotta pull in
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right now that was my fish he was short
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that was my fish and that was our sake I
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mean you know hilarious areas there's a
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weight always way up a line look at the
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boys shot to beat up the line there
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okay there's I gotta get this light the
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tube down us got some marks on his back
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yep that point caught a few times I
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would imagine yeah come on baby let me
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see that cradle down do ya know for how
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bizarre was that you know what I don't I
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don't know how that even happened scroll
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down Angie's bait and my babe was over
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to the right of my bait was underneath
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Angie's Bay and this guy took mine nice
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job mr. viola we've actually discovered
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a grassy underwater point that's
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slightly different than the rest of the
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bait and that my friends makes all the
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difference and not just for pike subtle
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differences are what it takes in order
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to overcome extremely negative fishing
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conditions yeah so you go away look up
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damager yeah
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he holds a fight with another with
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another fish it was belly I don't know
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nice stuff that's teeth oh my god can
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you imagine teeth who eat those things
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your bike and a lot of people don't use
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tubes for for pike and here's a good
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example as to why you should think about
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using big tubes like desperate fight
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because you can slow the presentation
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down to a crawl at me nothing just it's
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like it's like a jerkbait yes and I am
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yeah you use it to beat a great bulk
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great when they're when they're a little
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lethargic I also look good with their
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aggressive obviously that guy yeah bang
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mind banged into that yeah I mean basted
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they barely sink you can it almost
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floats there like that when you give it
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a pop a lot of times then I get a little
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slow drop see the water comes out of
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like that
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you give it a jerk it comes back up and
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then as slowly goes back down and from
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the fish that are not going crazy it's a
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pretty bizarre technique but worst and
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the aunt has been using it for a couple
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years now and works bird and one he's
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talking today's is what three inches
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longer than that that massive but you
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know what these fish up here they good
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for the workout they'll get in your
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shoulder where sleep at night you go
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back to the camp Wow finally the weather
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looks like it's starting to turn you'd
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be surprised at what a warm sunny day
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can do for spring pike yep you got a
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monic yeah he's not but I saw steel
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coming up on that the only indication
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he's a long session long it skinny again
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Wow boy he's being very cooperative it's
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almost too much so coming at you
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I might just start to hold the cradle as
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you don't still as I can there you go
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shark you know I bet that stocky big boy
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right there okay your bank or you know
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I'm gonna focus Bank behind you okay go
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ahead yeah there ya go
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yeah I'd like a good look at that fish
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okay you can good person the biggest
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Pike we got this year so far you got it
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and get your hands on it yeah
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now you blind a one-eyed boy explained
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your base you guys on the wrong side of
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her I was on the wrong side of her there
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we go look at that fish
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that's a pointer it's you know he's
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skinny but he's a gorgeous beautiful big
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head look at the size that headpiece
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yeah that's the thing
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intensive expansion incredible rope rope
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to have a wall okay yeah I think so
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buddy look look at that blind eye
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you big piece whoa oh yeah see buddy
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that's just a printer right there you
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can see what you want about the
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much-maligned Pike but they have got to
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be the sportiest fish in our waters I
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don't care what anybody says
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I mean bass is fine and walleyes great
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muskie and salmon but a big snake like
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that a big Gator you you've got to be
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kidding me you don't think that's a
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great sport to expend Wow
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awesome whoo
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today's hot spot is a payoff the Etowah
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post at River north of fatso lake the
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waypoint on your screen will get you
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there we fished this Bay an extreme high
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and cold water condition and did very
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well
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so in perfect conditions this place
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would rock if the fishing is tough try
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giant tubes or other slow-moving
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plastics like we were using in optimum
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conditions throw any big Pike and musk
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