Best Liam Whetter Podcasts (2024)

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#17 || Danny Swainson: Are steelhead doomed? 1:06:55

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Send us a text Biologist Danny Swainson says steelhead on the west coast have so many nutrients available to them once they hit the ocean that they can grow to 15 pounds in three or four years. But something is happening to them once they enter salt water and it is frightening. Are steelhead different from the rainbow trout in the rivers? What are …

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#16 || Brian Chan: Triploid Trout - Are they the future of stocking? 52:20

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Send us a text Renown biologist, Brian Chan has spent years managing the trout fisheries in British Columbia. You'll be amazed listening to Brian explain how the province produces triploid female rainbow and brook trout that grow twice as large and live twice as long as diploids. There is a reason the trout fishing spotlight is shining so brightly …

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#15 || Steve Quinn: The Lateral Line, A Fish's Sixth Sense 55:24

1M ago55:24

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Send us a text Biologist Steve Quinn has a foot in the world of fisheries science and fishing itself. The longtime bass editor of In-Fisherman Magazine has authored numerous research reports and served in various capacities for the American Fisheries Society. Steve joins Liam and Gord on this week's podcast to reveal how fish use their lateral line…

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#14 || Christian Therrien: How Ciscoes Change the Life History of Predators 1:12:20

2M ago1:12:20

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Send us a text Ciscoes —also known as lake herring and tulibees— are so favoured by walleye, lake trout, northern pike, bass and muskies that they seem to have a target painted on their backs. Absolutely every predator fish devours them every opportunity they get. Dr. Chris Therrien —who is known as The Cisco Kid— sits down with Gord and Liam on th…

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#13 || Dr. Sean Landsman: Magnificent, Mysterious, Magical Muskies 1:25:45

2M ago1:25:45

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Send us a text Renowned muskie scientist, Dr. Sean Landsman tells Liam and Gord on this week's podcast that he has observed muskies doing some mighty strange things. Using bio-loggers equipped with pressure sensors, Landsman says he is surprised at the number of muskies that frequent deeper water, lay on the bottom of the lake and suspend in the wa…

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#12 || Becca Perry: Set Your Sights on Whitefish 59:26

3M ago59:26

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Send us a text Few fish baffle anglers more than lake whitefish. They're found in countless numbers of lakes, often offering up staggering populations of big hard fighting delicious fish. But in other than a few well-known lakes in the winter, whitefish remain an enigma. Rebecca Perry is an instructor at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, who has studied la…

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#11 || Barry Corbett: Tracking Bass Throughout the Seasons 1:10:31

3M ago1:10:31

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Send us a text Imagine surgically implanting radio tags inside 38 smallmouth bass and then tracking them on a daily basis for up to five years. The details you would learn about their habits and habitats would astound you. Well, that is what OMNR biologist Barry Corbett did on one million acre Lake of the Woods, in one of the most monumental bass t…

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#10 || Dr. Paul Cooley: The Incredible Walleye / Shiner Connection 1:07:35

4M ago1:07:35

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Send us a text Any day now, an amazing pre-summer peak walleye pattern is going to explode. And it is based on something few anglers understand — the shiner spawn. Dr. Paul Cooley is the fisheries scientist who discovered the phenomenon on massive Lake Winnipeg — but it happens in every lake where walleyes eat shiners — and he tells the boys where …

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#9 || Baccante, Whetter and Pyzer: Walleye Tactics, Tricks and Presentations 1:09:30

4M ago1:09:30

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Send us a text Nick Baccante, the Senior Research Biologist in Ontario's renown Walleye Research Unit, recently shared some amazing early season science secrets. This week, Gord and Liam take Nick's walleye words of wisdom and show you how to prepare a foolproof game plan to put more and bigger fish in the boat. Jump in with the boys and learn how …

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#8 || Tom Brooke Jr.: The Allure of Crayfish 1:11:35

5M ago1:11:35

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Send us a text There are 669 different species of crayfish, including 400 varieties in North America. And every fish finds them finger licking good. Especially, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, walleyes, yellow perch and trout. Liam and Gord spend an hour brainstorming with crayfish biologist, Tom Brooke Jr., discovering what is happening on the b…

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#7 || Bev Ritchie: The Walleye / Mayfly Miracle 58:33

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Send us a text If you fish for walleyes (bass, trout, pike, perch, even muskies) you won't believe what you're going to learn from biologist, Bev Ritchie, who discovered that the magnificent hexigenia limbata hatch so heavily in even numbered years - like this year — that the walleyes go berserk devouring them. There are as many as 120 mayfly nymph…

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#6 || Nick Baccante: Spring Walleyes 1:13:02

6M ago1:13:02

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Send us a text Nick Baccante helped write the book on walleyes, studying the popular sport fish as the lead Research Biologist in Ontario’s esteemed, Walleye Research Unit and as the Fish and Wildlife Section Head, for the Peace Region in British Columbia. Nick joins Liam and Gord on this week’s podcast as they talk about early season walleye behav…

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#5 || Dr. Bruce Tufts: Why Big Fish Matter 1:00:35

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Send us a text Liam and Gord sit down this week with Dr. Bruce Tufts, who heads up the prestigious Freshwater Fisheries Conservation Lab at Queen’s University. Tufts explains why big walleye, bass, trout, northern pike and muskies are the rock stars of the fishing world. A 12-pound female walleye, for example, lays exponentially more eggs than thre…

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#4 || Rob Swainson: Saving Brook Trout 1:15:46

7M ago1:15:46

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Send us a text If we’re lucky we get the chance, once or twice in our life, to cross paths with someone who changes the course of history. In Rob Swainson’s case, it is the celebrated brook trout fishery associated with Lake Nipigon, the Nipigon River and the north shore of Lake Superior. Gord and Liam interview the man this week, who wouldn’t acce…

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#3 || Chris Therrien: The Incredible World of Lake Trout 1:09:53

7M ago1:09:53

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Send us a text Gord and Liam sit down this week with renown lake trout scientist, (Dr.) Chris Therrien, who has spent years studying the habits and habitat of lake trout. Chris shocks the boys explaining how cold water loving lake trout will venture to feed into the last place you'd ever expect to catch them — hot shoreline water in the middle of s…

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#2 || Kamden Glade: What do Muskies Eat? 1:07:24

7M ago1:07:24

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Send us a text Unbelievable ... amazing .... mind-boggling. Choose whatever superlative you want to use and it is appropriate for this week's guest, Kamden Glade, who works for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Kamden studied the diets of muskies (northern pike, walleye and largemouth bass) using gastric lavage - the same technique emp…

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#1 || Jeff Matity: The Fascinations of Burbot 1:08:15

8M ago1:08:15

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Send us a text This week Gord and Liam sit down with biologist, Jeff Matity to discuss the amazing underwater world of burbot. Did you know that burbot communicate with each other when they spawn? And that the non-breeders guard and protect the spawning grounds against intruders. We also examine the ways you can use this cutting-edge science to inc…

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#17 || Danny Swainson: Are steelhead doomed? 1:06:55

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#16 || Brian Chan: Triploid Trout - Are they the future of stocking? 52:20

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#15 || Steve Quinn: The Lateral Line, A Fish's Sixth Sense 55:24

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#14 || Christian Therrien: How Ciscoes Change the Life History of Predators 1:12:20

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#13 || Dr. Sean Landsman: Magnificent, Mysterious, Magical Muskies 1:25:45

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#12 || Becca Perry: Set Your Sights on Whitefish 59:26

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#11 || Barry Corbett: Tracking Bass Throughout the Seasons 1:10:31

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#10 || Dr. Paul Cooley: The Incredible Walleye / Shiner Connection 1:07:35

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#9 || Baccante, Whetter and Pyzer: Walleye Tactics, Tricks and Presentations 1:09:30

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#8 || Tom Brooke Jr.: The Allure of Crayfish 1:11:35

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#7 || Bev Ritchie: The Walleye / Mayfly Miracle 58:33

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#6 || Nick Baccante: Spring Walleyes 1:13:02

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#5 || Dr. Bruce Tufts: Why Big Fish Matter 1:00:35

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#4 || Rob Swainson: Saving Brook Trout 1:15:46

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#3 || Chris Therrien: The Incredible World of Lake Trout 1:09:53

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#2 || Kamden Glade: What do Muskies Eat? 1:07:24

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#1 || Jeff Matity: The Fascinations of Burbot 1:08:15

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