June 27, 2024 • 56 mins
Ever wondered what it takes to film a fishing show in the wild, unpredictable outdoors of Northwestern Ontario? Join us as we kick off our on-the-road outdoor journal radio podcast series from the stunning Sturgeon Lake, staying at the beautiful Lumberjack Lodge.
Angelo Viola and Peter Bowman, along with their dedicated crew, share the exhilarating start to our 2025 Fish'n Canada broadcast season. From recounting our scenic drive and overnight stay in Wawa, Ontario, to the incredible fishing adventures at Nordic Point Lodge—known for its exceptional hospitality and mouth-watering cuisine—we bring you along for a journey where comfort and good food play a crucial role in making these trips unforgettable.
But it’s not all smooth sailing; our adventures come with their own set of challenges. In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge technology that enhances our fishing experiences and the unique benefits of bringing your own boat, motor, and trailer to navigate the diverse lakes of Northwest Ontario.
We dive into the dual perspective view offered by our new live scope and blue water transducer setup, while also sharing our gritty reality of facing unpredictable weather and strong winds. Despite the rough conditions at Nordic Point, our determination to keep filming showcases the resilience required to tackle nature's elements head-on. Get ready for an adventure filled with innovation, perseverance, and the raw beauty of outdoor fishing.
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
oh baby where'd you get that?
Yeah, that's new for you it iswelcome to the show and as you
can tell by willie's voice there.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is the first of a series of on the road again
outdoor journal radio podcastscoming to you from uh fishing
canada locations where we'reshooting the new uh I guess it's
2025 broadcast season.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh yeah, I mean I would have said 2024 because
it's where, but you're right,the broadcast season.
We have to think ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm Angelo Viola.
He is Peter Bowman.
Hi we have Boba behind thecamera and Dean Taylor over
there on the board somewhere andour lovely friends from
Wisconsin behind us here.
Give me me.
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
(00:53):
You're gonna see people walkingin and out of the set.
We are on location atlumberjack lodge on sturgeon
lake.
Uh, that is an absolute.
We're gonna talk about it later, but it's an absolutely
stunning, stunning location.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Everything about it is good, including the fishing,
by the way, including thefishing we're in the front
office.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So if you see people wandering in and out signing up,
uh, don't worry about it.
It's very cool.
We told them they could do that.
Yeah, we encourage it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So this is, uh, the tail end of by the way we're in
northwest ontario, just to leteverybody know that, uh, this,
the location we're at right now,uh, on sturgeon lake, is
northwestern ontario.
So it's a long haul, for it'spretty funny.
We have the people fromWisconsin have a nine hour drive
to get here, we're from Ontarioand we have an 18 hour drive to
get here.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You could drive across half of Europe in 18
hours.
But that's what we do forfishing folks, and we encourage
all of you to wander out of yourcomfort zone.
I know we talk to a lot ofpeople all the time and they say
, yeah, well, you guys go up tonorthern parts of the country,
especially northern ontario, andit's just too far to drive.
But you know, the two days wespent getting up here are all
(01:57):
going to be part of theadventure and the journey of
course we are, and for instance,our stopping point is wawa ont,
ontario.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Everybody knows Wawa.
It's a great little town, agreat northern Ontario town.
Stay overnight, go for a littledinner in the town and take off
the rest of the trip.
Home of the giant goose yeah,Canadian goose.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Come on now.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But anyways, we're on the tail end of her.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now we're down the home stretch.
We've got another two days uh,another going home tomorrow, two
days.
While we're heading, we'reheading home tomorrow yeah it'll
be a couple days before we getthere and, um, I gotta tell you
it, for the first shoot of theseason.
Um, it has already been a fullseason worth of adventures and
we're going to share some ofthose things with you the good,
(02:40):
the bad and the ugly yeah, we'vehad them all.
No doubt about it uh, our tripstarted out to a wonderful place
called nordic point lodge,which you're going to see on, I
think, the very first episode ofthe fish and canada show for
the 2025 season, and uh, it's aunique uh operation, to say the
least.
It's uh owned by uh williepalowski and his wife krista, a
(03:04):
wonderful host by the way,fantastic, fantastic I gotta
tell you maybe some of the bestfood oh yeah, their chef.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What was it?
Do you remember his name?
I want to say chris dean no, itwas garrett garrett.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, maybe something like that, garrett.
I'm sorry if I called you chrisgarrett he was so good man, his
Outstanding, you know it'sfunny because I think food is
one of those components whenyou're spending time at places
like this.
I think it's one of thosecomponents, that is, I'm going
(03:36):
to say a must you know if you'redoing the American plan.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Thing right, yeah, but a place like this, where I
stay at now they don't do theAmerican plan, it's housekeeping
, but still food becomes a mustbecause you've got to plan all
your trips Will does both hedoes housekeeping and American
plan.
They've got a great main lodgethat you can eat in and dine in,
but you can also he has cabinswhere you can cook bring your
own food in too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So that's the big thing uh, this, this is uh a
rubber tire trip which I thinkeverybody should experience.
I mean, the fly-ins are great,don't get me wrong, they're
spectacular.
In fact, the nordic point lodgeoffers a fly-in opportunity as
well as a drive to.
But come on now, uh yeah,exactly because our very own
dean taylor experienced it alongwith steve nitzwicki, also
(04:39):
co-host, along with dean, ofthat episode of the fish and
Canada show which you'll seelater on in the season, and they
they got selected to be the flyin participants, while Peter
and I took the Prince craft andput it in the lake there and
spent three days Parole Lake,parole Lake, parole.
Lake Spent three days, whichwe'll detail here in a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's a big thing for Northwest Ontario.
You're going to see so manypeople.
Most people are going to bringtheir boat, motor and trailer
package up with them.
They're going to tow up behindthem and you see, like in this
parking lot here, this wholeplace we have right now, every
camp, every cottage has a boat,motor and trailer.
I don't even know if they rentboats here or not, they probably
do.
But at Will's Place youdefinitely can rent boats.
(05:24):
But you see so many people justbring them up.
I remember going to likeespecially the musky lodges in
Northwest Ontario.
They are just loaded with thebest of the best packages.
You know what I mean All the 20, 21 footers, 22 footers and the
hardcore guys and girls goingout there nowadays and it's just
a great way, as Ann says, therubber tire drive to these
(05:46):
lodges on the best lakes in theworld.
So you see it a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would highly encourage if you should decide
to make the trek to nordic pointlodge, and if you own your own
fishing boat, I would highlyencourage you to consider
bringing it up with you, becausethen you get the opportunity to
fish one of the literallyhundreds of lakes, all within an
(06:10):
hour to an hour and a halfdrive from Nordic Point.
Lodge, yeah, that's a greatpoint, right, and you can
literally fish a different lakeevery day of your stay, and
they're all spectacular lakes,they all have different species.
You can target species or youcan spend half a day here and a
half a day there.
Go speckled trout fishing inthe morning and walleye fishing,
uh, or bass fishing or pikefishing or lake trout fishing in
(06:34):
the afternoon.
That's a good point.
If you don't have your boat,it's still a great experience.
A wonderful experience becausewill has some boats in some of
those lakes, I believe yeah,he's got his main boats.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He's got his main boats on the land.
They're all like nice big 18foot boats, they're beautiful,
yeah.
And he's got little boats, uh,14 footers, on his outlakes, but
you don't have that ability todrive to other lakes and put
your trailer, your boat, there.
So that's a big thing.
You know it's not huge.
Some people don't care, theyjust want to come up and not
bring a boat up, and that'sperfectly fine, you know,
convenient.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So it's up to you, but you're missing out.
I gotta tell you, you'remissing out on the opportunity
to skip and hop around.
Um, so we came up here with ourprince craft, our big 21 foot.
Uh, prince craft, theexpedition 200, and it this was
its maiden voyage for this year.
We were excited to come up herebecause we were trying out some
(07:26):
new toys.
First of all, let me just givea shout out to a new sponsor of
this very show.
In fact, dean, am I correct?
A sponsor of the network orjust the show?
No, just the show, just theshow, thank you.
(07:47):
So we want a big shout out tothe folks at fish finder
mountscom and we uh, we hookedup with these guys because we
found their, their stuff onlineand we said, oh my god, we have
got to hook up with them andstart using some of their their
goodies they make the highestquality most I the slickest
looking mounts for electronicsnot just fish finders, but just
(08:11):
electronics in general that youwill ever, ever correct.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
see correct, and they're.
They're one of our main thingswe do in these fly ins is we
still like to bring our, ourelectronics in.
They make a portable kit likeno other.
They have a 30 amp hour batterypack you can run usb out of,
you can do all kinds of stuffand then it powers our nine inch
garmin for days.
So it's a total, and then withtheir mounts on it, with their
mounting and it's perfect.
(08:35):
It's just, it's a.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I can't wait to use it but the main, uh, one of the
main reasons we wanted to usethis episode as an opportunity
to play with some new toysbecause with their mounts, their
fish finder mounts andtransducer mounts, we were
blessed with the opportunity totry something totally out of the
(08:58):
box.
We used um, the conventionallive scope transducer, the lvs
34, in its normal position, inother words, looking straight
ahead forward forward view andon the other side of the boat,
on one of the most robust uhmounts I have ever seen in my
(09:19):
life.
We've got this big um xr62,which is a blue water or salt
water version of the smaller 34,but the big difference is that
it will shoot beyond 300 feet.
Beyond 300 feet, which to me,when I first heard about it, I
(09:40):
couldn't even believe that therewas that kind of technology.
So we said, well, what if wemount them?
We'd heard a few guys on theinternet that had tried it,
played around, especiallyfishing pros on the bass
circuits that had tried mountingtwo 34s, one in perspective
mode and one lookingstraightforward.
But there was some interference, correct, and it just wasn't
(10:02):
working.
Shooting the same signal.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
There was frequency interference correct and it just
wasn't the same signal.
There was frequency problems,frequency problems yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So we said, well, why don't we try mounting this big
62 with this 300 plus foot range, put it on perspective mode on
the end of this big pole and, uh, the 34 on the other side, and
shoot them at the same time,shooting the same direction on
two screens?
And basically we're thinking interms of, in our minds, an
(10:30):
overlaid view.
Right, because you can see onehappening here, one happening
here.
This one is giving you the thenorth and south positioning of
that fish or whatever, and thisone's giving you the east and
west.
So now you kind of draw themtogether and it should be the
answer to all of our fishcatching problems.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It did work, the system did work.
Now we're just getting used toit.
Obviously, we've had two shootsto do it with and you know,
like six days on the water,whatever, playing with it and
all that.
It does work, but it takes alot of getting used to.
It's a lot of, you know, a lotof signal going out there and
you a lot of interpretation,especially in that perspective
mount.
You're seeing a hundred andsome odd degrees of a picture.
We keep it pointing straightforward, for the most part on
(11:14):
our boat and use a trollingmotor just to go along, because
usually that's our casting rangeanyways, like that.
And then if you see somethingyou can always turn the
LifeScope Plus towards what yousee and you'll pick them up like
that.
So it's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's really neat, by the way.
We were using also brand newtechnology for us the new Kraken
Garmin Kraken engine at thefront, the electric motor, and
normally it was designed forboats like ours with big, deep
hulls.
It's got long shaft, it's goteverything that's required for a
(11:48):
big aluminum hull, but one ofthe real cool features about it
is that Garmin made it so thatyou could actually hook a
LiveScope cable through theshaft and down into the head of
the engine, so you don't haveall of that wire cable hanging
out on the outside.
Now, for us, that's not how wehooked it up, because of these
(12:08):
new poles and we wanted themobility factor that the poles
give us.
So when the engine is on lock,the electric motor is on lock
and it's trying to keep you inposition.
We're not losing the picturethat we're focused on.
So it's once again.
This was all stuff we wanted tocome up here and try out for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You know what else we tried out.
Something new is the echo mapultra two units.
They now are you're able torecord on them.
So today we wrote we wererecording on our phones the
screens and hopefully we'll beable to show that on the on the
show if it turns out well.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It was cool, just that is the perfect scenario,
and having this is, by the way,our 39th year of heading out for
the first shoot of the season.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So we're a bit experienced.
Thank you, George.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We are experienced at things, and all those things
happened on this trip.
So we're going to share some ofthose things with you, because
a lot of you folks think that wego out and it's just beautiful.
The sun is always shining,there's never any wind, and the
fish, well, we know them all byfirst name.
So when we come up to, so, whenwe jump in the boat for us we
(13:20):
don't have to do anything?
Uh, not.
And these past 10 days are anyoh yeah indication we started
rough.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
For sure, first two days we started really rough.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Give us a run down at nordic point.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So we get there and right off the hop in the morning
we're having breakfast at thelodge and we look out and it's
about a 20k constant wind in themorning.
Well, that's just not.
That's not too bad, but 20, 20kwith, you know, 30k gusts or
something like that.
By the time we hit the waterthere was at least 30k constant,
uh like throughout the theentire day and ended up being
three days away.
But the best part was the lodgeowner will said it's never
(13:54):
windy up here.
It's never windy up here.
We put our boat in the waterthree days and we got the snot
beat out of us.
I mean, no matter how big aboat you got in that stuff, it
is rough.
And in being rough and you'redriving, we said the show must
go on.
So we hammered through allthese waves it's not, you know,
it's not the best thing for yourboat.
I mean, if you can avoid it,you should avoid it.
But sometimes you got.
oh baby where'd you get that?
Yeah, that's new for you it iswelcome to the show and as you
can tell by willie's voice there.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is the first of a series of on the road again
outdoor journal radio podcastscoming to you from uh fishing
canada locations where we'reshooting the new uh I guess it's
2025 broadcast season.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh yeah, I mean I would have said 2024 because
it's where, but you're right,the broadcast season.
We have to think ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm Angelo Viola.
He is Peter Bowman.
Hi we have Boba behind thecamera and Dean Taylor over
there on the board somewhere andour lovely friends from
Wisconsin behind us here.
Give me me.
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
(00:53):
You're gonna see people walkingin and out of the set.
We are on location atlumberjack lodge on sturgeon
lake.
Uh, that is an absolute.
We're gonna talk about it later, but it's an absolutely
stunning, stunning location.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Everything about it is good, including the fishing,
by the way, including thefishing we're in the front
office.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So if you see people wandering in and out signing up,
uh, don't worry about it.
It's very cool.
We told them they could do that.
Yeah, we encourage it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So this is, uh, the tail end of by the way we're in
northwest ontario, just to leteverybody know that, uh, this,
the location we're at right now,uh, on sturgeon lake, is
northwestern ontario.
So it's a long haul, for it'spretty funny.
We have the people fromWisconsin have a nine hour drive
to get here, we're from Ontarioand we have an 18 hour drive to
get here.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You could drive across half of Europe in 18
hours.
But that's what we do forfishing folks, and we encourage
all of you to wander out of yourcomfort zone.
I know we talk to a lot ofpeople all the time and they say
, yeah, well, you guys go up tonorthern parts of the country,
especially northern ontario, andit's just too far to drive.
But you know, the two days wespent getting up here are all
(01:57):
going to be part of theadventure and the journey of
course we are, and for instance,our stopping point is wawa ont,
ontario.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Everybody knows Wawa.
It's a great little town, agreat northern Ontario town.
Stay overnight, go for a littledinner in the town and take off
the rest of the trip.
Home of the giant goose yeah,Canadian goose.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Come on now.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But anyways, we're on the tail end of her.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now we're down the home stretch.
We've got another two days uh,another going home tomorrow, two
days.
While we're heading, we'reheading home tomorrow yeah it'll
be a couple days before we getthere and, um, I gotta tell you
it, for the first shoot of theseason.
Um, it has already been a fullseason worth of adventures and
we're going to share some ofthose things with you the good,
(02:40):
the bad and the ugly yeah, we'vehad them all.
No doubt about it uh, our tripstarted out to a wonderful place
called nordic point lodge,which you're going to see on, I
think, the very first episode ofthe fish and canada show for
the 2025 season, and uh, it's aunique uh operation, to say the
least.
It's uh owned by uh williepalowski and his wife krista, a
(03:04):
wonderful host by the way,fantastic, fantastic I gotta
tell you maybe some of the bestfood oh yeah, their chef.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What was it?
Do you remember his name?
I want to say chris dean no, itwas garrett garrett.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, maybe something like that, garrett.
I'm sorry if I called you chrisgarrett he was so good man, his
Outstanding, you know it'sfunny because I think food is
one of those components whenyou're spending time at places
like this.
I think it's one of thosecomponents, that is, I'm going
(03:36):
to say a must you know if you'redoing the American plan.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Thing right, yeah, but a place like this, where I
stay at now they don't do theAmerican plan, it's housekeeping
, but still food becomes a mustbecause you've got to plan all
your trips Will does both hedoes housekeeping and American
plan.
They've got a great main lodgethat you can eat in and dine in,
but you can also he has cabinswhere you can cook bring your
own food in too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So that's the big thing uh, this, this is uh a
rubber tire trip which I thinkeverybody should experience.
I mean, the fly-ins are great,don't get me wrong, they're
spectacular.
In fact, the nordic point lodgeoffers a fly-in opportunity as
well as a drive to.
But come on now, uh yeah,exactly because our very own
dean taylor experienced it alongwith steve nitzwicki, also
(04:39):
co-host, along with dean, ofthat episode of the fish and
Canada show which you'll seelater on in the season, and they
they got selected to be the flyin participants, while Peter
and I took the Prince craft andput it in the lake there and
spent three days Parole Lake,parole Lake, parole.
Lake Spent three days, whichwe'll detail here in a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's a big thing for Northwest Ontario.
You're going to see so manypeople.
Most people are going to bringtheir boat, motor and trailer
package up with them.
They're going to tow up behindthem and you see, like in this
parking lot here, this wholeplace we have right now, every
camp, every cottage has a boat,motor and trailer.
I don't even know if they rentboats here or not, they probably
do.
But at Will's Place youdefinitely can rent boats.
(05:24):
But you see so many people justbring them up.
I remember going to likeespecially the musky lodges in
Northwest Ontario.
They are just loaded with thebest of the best packages.
You know what I mean All the 20, 21 footers, 22 footers and the
hardcore guys and girls goingout there nowadays and it's just
a great way, as Ann says, therubber tire drive to these
(05:46):
lodges on the best lakes in theworld.
So you see it a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would highly encourage if you should decide
to make the trek to nordic pointlodge, and if you own your own
fishing boat, I would highlyencourage you to consider
bringing it up with you, becausethen you get the opportunity to
fish one of the literallyhundreds of lakes, all within an
(06:10):
hour to an hour and a halfdrive from Nordic Point.
Lodge, yeah, that's a greatpoint, right, and you can
literally fish a different lakeevery day of your stay, and
they're all spectacular lakes,they all have different species.
You can target species or youcan spend half a day here and a
half a day there.
Go speckled trout fishing inthe morning and walleye fishing,
uh, or bass fishing or pikefishing or lake trout fishing in
(06:34):
the afternoon.
That's a good point.
If you don't have your boat,it's still a great experience.
A wonderful experience becausewill has some boats in some of
those lakes, I believe yeah,he's got his main boats.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He's got his main boats on the land.
They're all like nice big 18foot boats, they're beautiful,
yeah.
And he's got little boats, uh,14 footers, on his outlakes, but
you don't have that ability todrive to other lakes and put
your trailer, your boat, there.
So that's a big thing.
You know it's not huge.
Some people don't care, theyjust want to come up and not
bring a boat up, and that'sperfectly fine, you know,
convenient.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So it's up to you, but you're missing out.
I gotta tell you, you'remissing out on the opportunity
to skip and hop around.
Um, so we came up here with ourprince craft, our big 21 foot.
Uh, prince craft, theexpedition 200, and it this was
its maiden voyage for this year.
We were excited to come up herebecause we were trying out some
(07:26):
new toys.
First of all, let me just givea shout out to a new sponsor of
this very show.
In fact, dean, am I correct?
A sponsor of the network orjust the show?
No, just the show, just theshow, thank you.
(07:47):
So we want a big shout out tothe folks at fish finder
mountscom and we uh, we hookedup with these guys because we
found their, their stuff onlineand we said, oh my god, we have
got to hook up with them andstart using some of their their
goodies they make the highestquality most I the slickest
looking mounts for electronicsnot just fish finders, but just
(08:11):
electronics in general that youwill ever, ever correct.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
see correct, and they're.
They're one of our main thingswe do in these fly ins is we
still like to bring our, ourelectronics in.
They make a portable kit likeno other.
They have a 30 amp hour batterypack you can run usb out of,
you can do all kinds of stuffand then it powers our nine inch
garmin for days.
So it's a total, and then withtheir mounts on it, with their
mounting and it's perfect.
(08:35):
It's just, it's a.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I can't wait to use it but the main, uh, one of the
main reasons we wanted to usethis episode as an opportunity
to play with some new toysbecause with their mounts, their
fish finder mounts andtransducer mounts, we were
blessed with the opportunity totry something totally out of the
(08:58):
box.
We used um, the conventionallive scope transducer, the lvs
34, in its normal position, inother words, looking straight
ahead forward forward view andon the other side of the boat,
on one of the most robust uhmounts I have ever seen in my
(09:19):
life.
We've got this big um xr62,which is a blue water or salt
water version of the smaller 34,but the big difference is that
it will shoot beyond 300 feet.
Beyond 300 feet, which to me,when I first heard about it, I
(09:40):
couldn't even believe that therewas that kind of technology.
So we said, well, what if wemount them?
We'd heard a few guys on theinternet that had tried it,
played around, especiallyfishing pros on the bass
circuits that had tried mountingtwo 34s, one in perspective
mode and one lookingstraightforward.
But there was some interference, correct, and it just wasn't
(10:02):
working.
Shooting the same signal.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
There was frequency interference correct and it just
wasn't the same signal.
There was frequency problems,frequency problems yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So we said, well, why don't we try mounting this big
62 with this 300 plus foot range, put it on perspective mode on
the end of this big pole and, uh, the 34 on the other side, and
shoot them at the same time,shooting the same direction on
two screens?
And basically we're thinking interms of, in our minds, an
(10:30):
overlaid view.
Right, because you can see onehappening here, one happening
here.
This one is giving you the thenorth and south positioning of
that fish or whatever, and thisone's giving you the east and
west.
So now you kind of draw themtogether and it should be the
answer to all of our fishcatching problems.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It did work, the system did work.
Now we're just getting used toit.
Obviously, we've had two shootsto do it with and you know,
like six days on the water,whatever, playing with it and
all that.
It does work, but it takes alot of getting used to.
It's a lot of, you know, a lotof signal going out there and
you a lot of interpretation,especially in that perspective
mount.
You're seeing a hundred andsome odd degrees of a picture.
We keep it pointing straightforward, for the most part on
(11:14):
our boat and use a trollingmotor just to go along, because
usually that's our casting rangeanyways, like that.
And then if you see somethingyou can always turn the
LifeScope Plus towards what yousee and you'll pick them up like
that.
So it's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's really neat, by the way.
We were using also brand newtechnology for us the new Kraken
Garmin Kraken engine at thefront, the electric motor, and
normally it was designed forboats like ours with big, deep
hulls.
It's got long shaft, it's goteverything that's required for a
(11:48):
big aluminum hull, but one ofthe real cool features about it
is that Garmin made it so thatyou could actually hook a
LiveScope cable through theshaft and down into the head of
the engine, so you don't haveall of that wire cable hanging
out on the outside.
Now, for us, that's not how wehooked it up, because of these
(12:08):
new poles and we wanted themobility factor that the poles
give us.
So when the engine is on lock,the electric motor is on lock
and it's trying to keep you inposition.
We're not losing the picturethat we're focused on.
So it's once again.
This was all stuff we wanted tocome up here and try out for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You know what else we tried out.
Something new is the echo mapultra two units.
They now are you're able torecord on them.
So today we wrote we wererecording on our phones the
screens and hopefully we'll beable to show that on the on the
show if it turns out well.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It was cool, just that is the perfect scenario,
and having this is, by the way,our 39th year of heading out for
the first shoot of the season.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So we're a bit experienced.
Thank you, George.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We are experienced at things, and all those things
happened on this trip.
So we're going to share some ofthose things with you, because
a lot of you folks think that wego out and it's just beautiful.
The sun is always shining,there's never any wind, and the
fish, well, we know them all byfirst name.
So when we come up to, so, whenwe jump in the boat for us we
(13:20):
don't have to do anything?
Uh, not.
And these past 10 days are anyoh yeah indication we started
rough.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
For sure, first two days we started really rough.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Give us a run down at nordic point.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So we get there and right off the hop in the morning
we're having breakfast at thelodge and we look out and it's
about a 20k constant wind in themorning.
Well, that's just not.
That's not too bad, but 20, 20kwith, you know, 30k gusts or
something like that.
By the time we hit the waterthere was at least 30k constant,
uh like throughout the theentire day and ended up being
three days away.
But the best part was the lodgeowner will said it's never
(13:54):
windy up here.
It's never windy up here.
We put our boat in the waterthree days and we got the snot
beat out of us.
I mean, no matter how big aboat you got in that stuff, it
is rough.
And in being rough and you'redriving, we said the show must
go on.
So we hammered through allthese waves it's not, you know,
it's not the best thing for yourboat.
I mean, if you can avoid it,you should avoid it.
But sometimes you got.
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