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Incredible chum fishing, non-stop action after a slow start!
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Feb 5, 2025
After a slow start of the live stream where the chum fishing bite turned off for a few minutes, I found where they were all schooled up again and hooked many in a row with the bobber only hitting the water for a few seconds before it got pulled under! Epic chum fishing!
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uh thank you all the brave men women who served hope you have an awesome day today and uh maybe to help make that
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awesome I'm gonna show you a whole bunch of chum fishing here so we've already caught quite a few the
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bike's pretty good so hopefully I'll have lots of lots of fish on cam here
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oh man you can see him rolling rolling around here
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let's see
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yeah go through those rollers
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oh yeah you're rolling all down here
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foreign
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oh I have yeah they're uh they I mean they smoke up they'll smoke
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up good because they're pretty oily but they tend to be on the softer side and yeah uh there's a few runs that uh will
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cut better uh in terms of like the pigment more red but these will be pretty white yeah yeah
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and uh you could smoke them up but you know down by the salt is usually when they're
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there yeah and uh you know they uh I mean they're marketed in the
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store right as Akita or silver Brite yeah so
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a lot of people don't read them but
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if I didn't have three freezers yeah exactly that's uh that's my excuse
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I have no business keeping anything that's marginal
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if anything I gotta make room for the uh red meat that's hopefully hopefully going in
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there we go rolled right right in front of my bobber come on kick it
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my family will you know they start to complain in terms of uh how much uh fish I try to force feed
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them can't eat any more fish dad
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yeah the way I am I like catching them way more than eating them so I give most of them away
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I like the whole experience we have so many different ways that we uh fix
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salmon like this the whole thing is uh is awesome
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but I don't eat nearly as much as I catch so someone's got to help me eat them
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well we pretty much stopped buying uh beef products over the most part because we just use the deer or elk or whatever
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and that's good certainly we don't buy fish
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I've only got a few tubs of shrimp left though we didn't we didn't shrimp nearly as much this year as uh previous years
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so oh man come on
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yeah it did and they were shallower this year uh you know the first time I didn't
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figure that out the first trip I did and struggled more than I should have
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after I figured it out we were locked in but
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normally too well I mean we've had years where we've put like 1500 shrimp in the freezer and
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you're gonna eat shrimp every week for a whole year you know but uh usually that's when we'll do like a
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multi-day camping trip in like the San Juans or the strait or something where it's like you've got the consecutive
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openers and you just go out there and yeah right put my protesting kids on the boat
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for their limit talk to my friends anyone have a
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kid I can borrow or a baby something you know
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as I can get them a shrimp license feed them keep them fat on the boat
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entertain the real problem is I went live on my
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channel just just now and now now the pushing is stopped that's what happened yesterday too I was like I got already
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gonna show everyone all the great fishing and then it was like
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yeah and it's just such that shuts down I mean obviously they're all still here it's just
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we've had lulls they're over there in that
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rollers
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it looked like one but I never felt that or anything shell is up a little bit over there so
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there's another bobber rod
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thank you
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all right
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I'm gonna move over move our operation
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you know they are rolling like crazy down here I'm gonna go check that out
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it's like there's the main Channel and then there's the side Channel where they've been
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rolling usually throw it right in the middle of the rollers and oh yeah here we go here
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we go
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foreign
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all right all right
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foreign
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there's Chum boiling everywhere over here holy cow
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I'm bite now
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all right
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there we go
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all right all right now we hooked fish
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oh man that is nice oh
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he spit the hook right there of course my uh
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my shrimp I'm tipping this with is way back on the other side
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on the channel so we'll uh beat up and
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give it another try here Chum everywhere in this spot
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ridiculous
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you saw the sorry for anyone who was on on Watching Me cast and not catch
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he showed up just before that
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we've probably hooked 15 to 20 . uh you can use sand shrimp but I mean
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it's kind of an Overkill I mean we just use the store-bought store-bought shrimp so
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you know I mean that's you can see what's in my box here or what's what's left of it
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and finally find the hook the rollers down there anything over here going or still dead
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foreign
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part is you hook it through the shell so it stays on
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longer
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keep having to bend this jig back this is an arrow jig
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or it was an arrow jig number one 11 it's been thoroughly tortured by mini
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Chum I'm gonna take this back over there
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there's a lot of them just staging in that channel waiting to move up
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all right taking my shrimp back
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with me this time it kind of keeps moving what part part
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of the river is hotter the uh the side channel that they're sitting in or the the main river drift we hooked a ton of
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fish out of the main river in the last hour um as the water's dropping
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oh very good very good uh Grace claw yeah
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good luck man the uh it's it's I'm amazed how bright some of these Chum are like they're
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I haven't kept any of them but uh they're just I mean they're they're Chrome fish for this time of
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year for Where We Are on the river probably I don't know 20 miles from the mouth
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um there's some bright fish so it's pretty cool
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hoping it'll uh hoping it'll keep fishing well
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what's that got one on nice
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all right
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oh yeah oh yeah you can see him there's rolling everywhere over there
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oh yeah yeah they are everywhere through here
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cast it right in the drift there
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foreign
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still got the shrimp on here too holy cow no it looks
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pretty good
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let's make that same cast again from the other side of the
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of the uh oh my goodness it's rolling everywhere this is
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so amazing
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I don't know if you've seen by Bob or it goes again there it goes again
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that's pretty awesome oh no oh no we got off again what the heck
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oh my goodness
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keep making the same cows they keep biting look at that yep
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foreign that's weird
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that hasn't happened yet this this hook has got to be bent out or something
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that's like three in a row
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holy cow what is going on here
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somehow this shrimp is still on
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that's the problem we you know we kind of kind of horse these fish in you know versus tiring them all the way out
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and then uh some of these jig hooks will bend
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on the Aero jig they're not the Super sturdy hooks
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I don't really mind losing Chum to uh bent out hooks though I mean
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it's kind of a plus or minus you can have a really sturdy hook that never bends out and uh you never lose a fish that way
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but if you you hung up on the bottom you know every single time that thing's
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gonna uh you know you're gonna lose that because it'll the
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hook there we go come on all right
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let's back the drag off a little bit that time so hopefully hoping uh
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it's gonna stare already right there oh my goodness
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and the hook looks fine it's not been it's not bent out so
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I'm gonna rebate again and uh
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this is what I was hoping to show on uh on live Chum cam is a
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you know non non-stop action that this uh fishery is uh you know for
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the uh I was looking back at the camera and my float was under like within a couple
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seconds of hitting the water it was already pulled under ridiculous
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there it goes again fish on again
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all right I'll let this one fight a little bit a little bit more
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I feel the view I think I gotta move the camera slightly so that
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stand here
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oh yeah
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come on smile for Chum cam Chum Chum Chum
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oh we gave it up right there I keep losing the chum
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oh
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all right how long before the bomber hits the water
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oh my gosh I hit one with my calf it was ridiculous
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oh fish on again dude there's a pile of them over here
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I'm hooking up every cast within seconds
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it's ridiculous
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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there we go
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oh my goodness
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yeah I'm using the 111 Arrow jig tip with a little bit of shrimp uh store-bought raw shrimp with the shell
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on you want the shell on otherwise it won't stay on your hook very well
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it's funny uh the chum are kind of like a a combination of a
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of a chinook and a in a Coho the way they fight uh you know
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they'll they'll have like the hard tug or pull of Chinook um but when you get them in close then
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they go nuts and they do the death roll so and they got these big you know big
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fangs big big teeth that uh uh the spawning Nails get especially
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um you know the closer the spawning they get and so it's kind of annoying to
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um I like it when they long line release you know fight for a little bit and then get off because you take them into Shore
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and you net them and they twist around in the net and their teeth get all caught in the net even with a rubber net
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um all right I'll bring the next one I'll bring the next one closer to the camera uh raw shrimp raw shrimp 100 uh
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uh yeah absolutely hold on let me hook another one I'll try to bring the next one close to the camera
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all right
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look at that guys you see that it's not in the water more than like
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five seconds before it's like Bob or down fish on
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fish oh this thing this place on fire
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double nice nice
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this one's running a little bit
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dude I this once this hits the water it's on in like five seconds it's the hottest it's been
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it's insane dude I think a lot of those fish that were
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over there came over here they're staging to move up Upstream oh he got off right there oh
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dang I was gonna try to share that one with
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the camera but he got off right there
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[Applause] that's okay we'll just we'll just hook another one
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oh my goodness and it's fish on again
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if I was sharing this the video you guys probably wouldn't believe me but since it's live you
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you can't uh oh my goodness it's crazy
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all right here we go we'll get this one in this one wants to smile for come cam
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[Applause] you're so fresh and feisty too you know it's not like they're dark rotting Chum
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that you know aren't fighting and they're just dogging you these fish are pretty uh
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very feisty
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foreign
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foreign
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cam wow
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[Applause] did you guys like that
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that was pretty cool oh my goodness yeah they are really gnarly fish
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I love I love them though they're so uh they're so easy to easy to get to go you
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know using the right stuff ah you know if only if only koho and
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Chinook were this easy to catch right that would be that would be something
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we're baited up again and uh I was horsing that one in a little bit
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so my hook got bent out a little bit I've been using this I have caught like 40 or
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50 Chum on this same jig what was that again what'd you say about
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the color yeah someone's someone's watching while
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working that's perfect uh would you say someone said a comment about the color I don't
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I don't know how to get that back what what was that
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if you can repost that comment
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oh if they're good eating man you know uh they Market it in the stores as uh as
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keita or silver bright salmon and there's definitely commercial Chum
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Fisheries I mean they sell uh and so people eat them and you know especially in the salt
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uh they're better um uh we uh you know I think uh I think if
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you smoke them I've had decent smoking product but it really depends on like you know like what your experiences with
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with salmon and Chinook and Coho and um yeah exactly the canned salmon
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exactly um so I don't know I I'm not certainly not gonna judge anyone for eating them I
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mean it's it's it's salmon it's fish um yeah exactly yeah thank you Jonathan
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yeah exactly they uh sell them down at Pike Place smoked uh because they
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they're actually a decent product smoke because of how oily they are so it's it's actually not you know they're
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pretty they're not as firm as you know your you know you're schnook and Coho so it's not quite the barbecue experience
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but um but you know they'll smoke up they'll smoke up fine so and these fish these fish that we're
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hooking here I mean uh these would smoke up uh if I had room in my freezer for them I'd definitely probably keep a
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bright one and some of them have like really white bellies really firm so yeah
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yeah so you know what you know you know what you're talking about yeah they're they're really um I I like I like smoked
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pinks too they're another fish that's you know not as firm but it's they're really oily you get a fresh one and uh
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you know uh I think they taste great smoked
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all right we're back to back to fishing
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how many seconds before this one bites one two three four
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five come on
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I can't believe it my float hasn't gone down yet that's a they must have the school must have moved somewhere
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slightly
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um what did I hook like 10 in a row right there I mean that was pretty crazy
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it's absolutely ridiculous and the crazy thing is the bobber I mean
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I wasn't in the water for more than five seconds for most of those bites I mean there must have been just a mess of chum
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over there absolute mess all right
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my bobber knot might have slid down on me too it's been sliding
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all right
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all right let me get the bike back going again they kind of stopped rolling so
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I wonder if the school moved on because I could see him uh on the channel across
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the way they're trying to move up the creek now that's pretty cool
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it seems like the school though is not in the same spot as they were
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I could see him boiling though on the other near the uh the channel it looks like they're trying to move up
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I think that's where they they may have moved closer over there
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I wish the resolution was better you could see see the whole picture here
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but I only have like two bars of Lte out here so
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let me see all right
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I mean that's a little bit more towards that way
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foreign
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all right you know you guys want to see the uh the
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I can get the cam closer to the uh where these fish are coming up the creek mouth that might be kind of interesting
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let me uh let me move and uh and and see if I can get that
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see if I can get that on camera because that's pretty uh that's pretty cool they're just
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consistently moving up uh I'm not sure if I can fish because the
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bank is kind of steep but uh maybe you can see the chum moving up the
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channel it's pretty cool
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here we go here we go look at this look at this
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oh wow you guys see the
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you guys see the chum moving up right there is it right yeah right there
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I thought this was deeper over here look at that
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[Applause]
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they're moving up right in that little Channel I don't know why they don't choose the main Channel but
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let's do that holy God I wonder if I can
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I wonder if I could fish this where you could see like the they're moving up while I'm fishing
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let's see
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[Applause]
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oh man look at that can you see that okay go into the camera right there I'm
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hoping they'll bite so I don't have to like I'm worried that I'll snag a Chum if I
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try to get my oh there you go oh no no no
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I thought I had a bite right there
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I wonder where all the chill went that were just over here
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uh shoot
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well hopefully that was cool I lost my uh I
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lost my bait though so I uh I gotta go back up and
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it doesn't seem like there's a as much going on over here as I thought there might be
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so I don't know I might I might walk back over to the main Channel and um
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and uh and keep fishing there but uh I'll probably close the stream here I just
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wanted to this first time doing it on uh YouTube and and uh going Live this past couple days I was on on Instagram
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yesterday but uh thanks thanks for joining guys uh I'll be hopefully releasing the Harvest wreck uh stuff
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with highlights from the trip and just talking about other stuff going on like there was a big steelhead town hall
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yesterday and some details emerging about the steelhead season for the for the Washington coast and all that some
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some things to to chat about for sure and uh Lots going on so thanks for
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joining again guys take care
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