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PNWBestLife Best of 2021
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Feb 5, 2025
2021 is in the books so we wanted to share our "best of" video from all the amazing PNW harvest recreation opportunities we took part in. Special thanks to all who have supported the channel this year through watching, liking, commenting and of course subscribing. In this video we cover Columbia River Springers, Puget Sound Oysters, Sekiu / Neah Bay bottom fishing, Morels in the Cascades, Pink Salmon, King Salmon, The new boat, Trolling for coho, Fishing for tuna, Hunting for Whitetail during the muzzleloader season and Digging razor clams / Harvesting coastal mushrooms.
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hope you enjoy my best of 2021
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uh in the pacific northwest living the
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best life here hard not to appreciate
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the incredible variety when you watch
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this this compilation video uh just
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everything we get to do in the pnw
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harvest recreation
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also big uh i want to say a big thank
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you to everyone who's uh taking time to
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watch like subscribe to the channel um
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really appreciate all the support and
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hope you all have a great
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year 2022
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springer fishing on the columbia river
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can be one of the more challenging
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seasons
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but the reward and the payoff is
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absolutely epic we're talking the best
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tasting salmon in the pacific northwest
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one of the best tasting fish in the
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world the springer they're genetically
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engineered to store more fat they're
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more like a cross between salmon and
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bacon than what you'll find in the fall
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in the salt or in the river
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springers on the columbia are where it's
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at
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what's up everybody
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one of the reasons i make these videos
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is i want to make sure everyone's aware
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of all the incredible harvest
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opportunities in pacific northwest
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right now we've got some great daytime
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low tides to harvest uh incredible
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amounts of oysters all right these are
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our friends from the midwest
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they're not used to the oyster thing
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here
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and oh yeah two of us too yeah
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i'm ready to put the oyster there i'm
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not eating all of this right yeah bro
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all right
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is that feces oh no that's good
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a little bit of a little bit of lemon on
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that i better make sure it's rolling a
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lemon on that you want a little hot
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sauce
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yeah yeah you can do it
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a little hot sauce
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oh yeah oh yeah you're gonna want to
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chew it
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bro it's so good though it's going to
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taste salty
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okay guide me how do i eat do i just put
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it like this
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but yeah she kind of like you kind of
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guide it with the knife right then
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just take a little sip of the of the
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juices oh no
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no that's until salty and oh it's so
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good
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i had one about three times that size
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that i had to chew it
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come on wash it
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dad keep his head in the water keep his
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head in the water
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get him in get him and get him in oh i
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got him
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well that's bottom
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why my dad doesn't ask for a net right
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here
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dad dad keep his head in the water keep
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his head in the water
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get him in get him and get him in
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back up back up back up my dad hooked
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the sea bass look at that
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and then that lane just crapped
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held on all the way to the surface
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ridiculous
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fish ended up waiting
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it was never hooked dad it was never
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hooked it was it was only grabbing onto
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the sea bass
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sitting right there underwater
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i got two fish first time morale hunter
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here and
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just one of the patterns i've picked up
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on already is look at this
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look at these guys
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they're sitting right
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sitting right
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in these uh
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little divots right see all these like
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little
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areas where
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uh you know some of these trees
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used to be
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before they uh
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got pulled out you know burnt we're in
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like a
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like a burn area so
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uh this is classic
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classic terrain to find a lot of morels
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and we seem to only find them on one
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side of the ridge one side of the trail
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though so that might be another pattern
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too i think this is the north side
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so
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just looking for
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morels here
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let's keep fanning out
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oh i found another one
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in these little holes
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oh yeah
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look at that
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look at that
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what's up shrimpers i'm really excited
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to share this video uh the highlights of
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our 2021 shrimping season some of the
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lessons we learned
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and some underwater footage of shrimp
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entering our shrimp pots i know pretty
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cool right can't wait to show you that
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gotta keep watching but also we're gonna
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go to some advanced shrimping topics how
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to place our pots down quickly in
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competitive shrimping seasons and these
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uh 9 a.m to 1 p.m openers and how to
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know
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where to place the pot
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we're gonna cover all this and more stay
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tuned keep watching
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enjoy
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we had a flood current and the flood
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current was taking my bait uh north
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along north and in close into shore
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right that's what flood current does
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and uh and and up north
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along this ridge
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hopefully you're down the river getting
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it done and uh having a great start to
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your pink salmon humpy season
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but uh i want to bring you some tips and
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techniques how to get it done at the
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puget sound rivers whether you're down
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on the puyallup uh you know doing the uh
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doing the puyallup thing with that no
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visibility water or maybe you're on the
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nisqually or the green or the skagit or
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the skycombing or something like that
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because they are such aggressive biters
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i mean pinks uh you know they're uh in
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their their early years are just in
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these massive schools right so they get
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really like um they get really uh ornery
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you know it's kind of like the people
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launching that chill show you know
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they're just like hey stay out of my way
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you know
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but so they get really they get really
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pissy right and so
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uh if you put a lure kind of in their
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space or real territorial they're just
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gonna she's gonna bite it they're like
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oh get out of my get on my space maybe
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you have a if you have a few friends
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that you know like that you know and
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they're gonna kind of act like humpty's
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at some time
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what's up everybody kyle from pnw best
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life
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back
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on the water my new boat
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the 23 foot north river so excited to
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share the maiden voyage here with you
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all
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all right let's start with the back we
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got the yamaha 200 super high output
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motor here for the main and the the 9.9
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kicker of course we got the scotties on
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here standard downriggers
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oh
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foreign
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[Music]
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lineup
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that's what happens when you set the
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hook no hug says right here back this
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way
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you set the hook that's the color of the
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afternoon
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okay engaging
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if you're guiding that line back and
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forth you got me back and forth
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with another video here and as we get
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ready for
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coastal
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uh king and coho fishing season here in
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the state of washington and uh i want to
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talk about
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what you're doing with your your bobber
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and egg game your bobber game and
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specifically what are we doing uh with
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leaders how to uh how to set up leaders
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for uh for bobber fishing for king water
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that people will tell you oh kings won't
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bite in this water there's no visibility
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this is a flossing a flossing show only
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i'm here to tell you
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uh kings will absolutely bite
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in almost zero visibility water there's
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a few things you have to do differently
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you you get to pick where on the river
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you're going to fish when there's lots
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of public access you get to pick
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you want to pick a part of the river
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that fish are traveling through or
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holding in
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that is smaller than the full river size
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unless you're fishing a really small
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river
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you want to put the odds in your favor
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if i can find a place where perhaps the
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river has an island in the middle of
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there's a fork and and the kings prefer
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one side or the other that's what i'm
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looking for if big
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big
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big hand yeah
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nice job thanks
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i'm gonna release it
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it's a it's a female it's going to be
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pretty pretty white
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yeah look at the eggs are like coming
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out
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yeah that's a nice fish
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for me as a fairly new hunter um i just
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considered it kind of
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kind of a big achievement to sneak up on
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bachelor develop
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and basically be within a shooting range
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of of archery or or muzzleloader uh
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about 20 yards from from this elk it was
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oh it's just so cool and even though i
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got my deer later which i'll show you
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here in a minute the the deer was you
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could see him just to the left of the
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center of the camera shot he he was it
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was a two point it was a little forky
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you'll see here when the shot goes off i
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mean he doesn't he doesn't move at all
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um because they took out
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uh i basically took out the bottom of
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his spine and
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uh arteries and
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didn't
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blow out or ruin any of the backstrap or
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the tenderloin or any other meat for
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that matter like
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that
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no he's dead
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looks like a great day to be out here
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razor climbing we're on mo crocs beach
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and we're just getting ready about uh
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two and a half hours before super low
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tide uh we're gonna get down there and
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try to get our limit be on our way up
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here just to make the trip even more
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worthwhile we thought we'd pick up some
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uh some mushrooms so
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it's so easy to just find some public
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land get in there and start
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trying to identify and learn these
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different mushrooms are you can get an
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app for that we use picture mushroom
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today though was like super special
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because we found let's see
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look at that
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that is an admirable
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lettuce and it's like six inches across
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super sweet and then look at this look
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at this
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look at that
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this giant
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giant cauliflower mushroom we are so
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excited about that
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wow look at the size of this cauliflower
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mushroom
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they've already harvested half of it
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oh my goodness
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it's fantastic
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look at that thing whoa
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that's it folks thanks again what
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incredible year we had
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and uh here's to a great year coming up
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2022.
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thanks again for all the support
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uh liking commenting subscribing and
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drop me a comment what was your favorite
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uh harvest recreation activity in 2021
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and what are you most looking forward to
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2022
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look forward to hearing from you
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until next time
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