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Palmetto Cats – Guided Trip with Paul Blackwell Santee Cooper – 10 year anniversary trip Part 3

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all right we’re in the
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shortest parking garage ever it’s my
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height
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i can touch the ceiling we’re going to
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see the
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international spy museum
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look it’s magic man oh man what’s going
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on
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we got the magic man we got the hazelton
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hazel hazmat and he just made us walk
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he just made us walk that far to here
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with all that all right
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we’re here on the banks the potomac
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across from the kennedy center my wife
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is enjoying the
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sun got three lines in here
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about to go live there’s hazelton what’s
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going on everybody
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there’s more more keypad what’s going on
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everyone what’s up
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what is up you it’s you guys what is up
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you guys
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i’m filming a camera filming me right
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now you got lines out over here
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mork’s got a little duck demon out over
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there i already got bit on it once
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that’s 10 wwe springs came around
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a new one
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[Music]
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oh
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[Applause]
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uh
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i think this is bad um
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look at that bend guys look at that bend
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look at that rod
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bend ed what’s going on
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[Applause]
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it does look big but the action on the
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[Applause]
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there we go dual action dual action
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oh yeah he’s over he’s uh he’s 20.
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he’s 18 20 pounds
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boom boom boom boom that’s 25 yeah
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that was worth it right here that was
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worth it to wait right here
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that was definitely worth it guys
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yeah long yeah yeah he’s probably uh 37
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38 inches
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big man with the big mouth on him dk
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look at the eyes popping out yeah that’s
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nice that’s a nice one guys
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that’s the palmetto
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i’m trying to get that nice gentle
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release
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boom there goes the release guys
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guys come on baby come on you got to get
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over that lip there
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look at that beautiful release
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he’s giving away a whisker secret
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tonight guys oh fish fish
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fish fish all guys
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yes sir you guys see that professional
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right there
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professional cat it’s like water like
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butter
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here he goes go happy gilmore
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yeah with the running
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[Music]
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there we go right there in the water
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reeling in
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oh no do not tell me you snapped off no
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get the net
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hold on
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how does that even happen i don’t
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right know
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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hey everybody kevin from palmetto cats
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in this episode we’re going out on a
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guided trip
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with none other than the famous paul
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blackwell official
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guide service and santee cooper i also
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have a special friend with me
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mr gadget say hello to the people how do
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everyone how do
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and there’s mr blackwell hey how you
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doing
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he’s gonna take us out it’s real windy
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today but he’s gonna try to put us on
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some fish today stay tuned
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mark some bait back there and then we
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got diving birds on top of that
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so it don’t matter i cut the fin off the
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big ones for
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sure but
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a lot of times i do the smaller ones too
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how often do you catch them on the
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second hook
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rarely rarely always on the first level
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yeah but in case it’s a short strike
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i want it there to be all right it’s
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safe
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i’ve never used a double hook rig so i’m
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learning something
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hey
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if i didn’t know any better i’d swear
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paul meadows and real efficient
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now when i get one hooked up
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good first fish man good first fish
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absolutely
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it’s a start there he is
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[Music]
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a minute ago but it didn’t really just
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happen
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it is sorry right here
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i know it was almost
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he hit the backflip back that rarely
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ever happened
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[Music]
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there he is fish number two
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all right
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so when do you decide to anchor and when
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do you decide to drag on this lake
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i anchor all the time year-round
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typically early in the morning like now
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i like to anchor when there’s some chop
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on the water like we’ve got now
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i like to anchor because that makes
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current and that makes the fish more
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seem to be moving more and as far as the
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early morning times
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the fish seem to be more active as well
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as at night
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and then as the day progresses i like to
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go drifting as you know
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11 12 o’clock in the day when the
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fishing they’re feeding still but it’s
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not as prominent as it is
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in the mornings so i like to go go get
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them if it’s just flat
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glass water i’ll do a lot of drifting
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because
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the fish don’t seem to be as actively
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moving when you’ve got that
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current per se from the waves
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from the winds so that’s kind of how and
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then on top
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of that i’m a firm believer and let the
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fish show you we’re sitting here
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anchoring if i reeled that rod in
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five or six turns and i got a hit pretty
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quick that tells me them fish want
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something moving a little more than just
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sitting here so i mean that could be
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something that shows you you need to
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start drifting you know there’s a lot of
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different factors but
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that pretty well pretty well sums it up
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and you told me that you only fish
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shallow and there’s a reason for that
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yes so we can get out there in 40 foot
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water and you can catch fish i’m sure of
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it
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people do it every day but you also mark
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a lot of fish that you never catch
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so in the shallows i rarely mark fish
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i mean i see them but you know you don’t
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mark
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quite as many there’s only one reason
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the fish is up in these shallows and
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that’s
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he’s actively feeding out there in that
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25 30
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he might just be hanging out you don’t
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know but a fish here is that
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if he’s here he’s active you got a
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better chance of catching him
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because you know he’s feeding that’s the
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only reason to be here than you do out
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there in that 30 40 foot water
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all right so we couldn’t find the fish
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on the anchor bite so we’re gonna try to
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drag some baits
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all right mr gadget what do you think
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about santee cooper so far
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big water a lot of waves
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but really nice place it looks really
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fishy it looks really fishy
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now i do remember an interview you did
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with caleb of
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about a year ago and you said when you
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got clients out on the boat you like to
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run a lot of line when you’re drifting
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so that when they reel in a big one
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they’re ready to go after
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it let’s see how far that’s down
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see about spoon
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that’s the short
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that’s the short one you think he’s
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going to get us on that one
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yeah it’s like a boat win she’s got to
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keep cranking it in
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but really it’s because we’re fishing
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shallow water and so
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we want to give some space in between
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when the boat passes by the fish
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and when the bait gets to them because
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the boat might spook them am i right on
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that
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generation one big cat fever rod right
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there
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one of the very first white ones i ever
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got and we was fishing
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and the reason i still got this one on
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the boat we had a heck of a day fishing
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we had caught a fish under like 30
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pounds all day he hooked under one and
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we
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gave him a hard time thought like tim
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powder told him cut the line
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ended up being an 83 when it got to the
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boat
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and it was on that rod and i was like
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you know that’s pretty good so
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i’ve kept that rod on the boat just for
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that because
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you know we was all happy about
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the quality fish we had caught and we
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thought we caught something
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dinky and so yeah
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it’s the only white rod i got literally
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oh when i get new rods from
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big cat fever um i give my old ones to
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kids
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i don’t sell them i don’t do anything
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like that i just
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i give them kids that’s awesome there
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happens to be a
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place where kids and parents like fish
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on the bank on my way home every day
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from fishing
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that i had to cross by so
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i just stopped and played the kid out
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there
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here you go and i mean you know and
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some of them kids will never be you know
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no time soon be able to afford one of
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those nice frogs
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you know i mean that’s just the reality
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and i’ve been
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that’s right i’ve been so blessed in
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this industry
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and i’m a firm believer to receive a
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blessing you got to be a blessing and
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that’s just
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one little way i can give back
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the most fish are going to come off the
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flaming boards this shallow anyway
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that’s why i only throw one behind the
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boat
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shallow i mean we’re in three four and
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five foot water back here
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everybody’s going to show us how it’s
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done
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got a long line out on the planer board
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this is dead weight right now
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all right
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a little eater
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what you think about fishing with the
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guide i’m learning a lot
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about time for you to start up your own
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palmetto cats
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outdoors service i’ll leave that
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fall
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there he is great
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those are sure are some nice planer
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boards
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and there’s fish on guys service right
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there number there to call for paul
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spread them all right gadgets in the hot
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seat
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now we’re about to catch a monster don’t
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we hold on
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it goes that’s how it goes
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it ain’t over to it so it ain’t over
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till it’s over we’re back
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to anchoring again same place we started
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off now we’re noticing some things paul
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said there’s a mud line that wasn’t here
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before
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so we’re gonna try it out again on the
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anchor paul what’s different about lake
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moultrie than
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other lakes that people need to know
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before they come here
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well as you can see right now
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the wind is a big factor i mean
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we got two foot swells sometimes threes
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coming through this is a shallow lake
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so it gets rough and then it’s just a
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big bowl
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you have no wind breaks to hide from i
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mean
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like today the you know where we can
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fish that’s limited by what the wind’s
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doing
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there’s stunts out here there’s a lot of
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shallots you need to know where you’re
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going if you start hitting in that six
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foot or less water you might want to
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trim up and slow down that’s pretty well
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probably the two biggest factors
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of this lake versus other bodies in
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south carolina like
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watery greenwood heart will wiley
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[Music]
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murray
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[Music]
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wow
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all right that’s the trip as you can see
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the wind kicked up on us we fished super
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hard
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super hard today but we put some fish in
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the boat and mr gadget is going to take
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some home with him
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to fry it for his honey for his smoking
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hot wife
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this is captain paul blackwell fish on
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guide service here on the santee cooper
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lakes
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