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Sometimes it's not just the fish that get hooked.

Brian Tattuinee, 41, of Rankin Inlet caught the fishing bug early in life and he's been trying to land the big ones ever since.

Tattuinee said there's always a lot of comments on social media on the fishing derby in Iqaluit.

He said a lot of people don't understand how many different species of codfish there really are.

鈥�I'm always like, 'guys, there are bigger cod out there,'鈥� he said. 鈥淭he ones close to town are a different species.

鈥�It's derby season, so everybody comments on how big or small the winners are. I shared a photo of one of the bigger ones I caught just to show this is what we can get further down the Bay.

鈥�People often make fun of the cod derby and the results around Iqaluit, so, again, that picture was just to show there are different species and that one I caught was about a medium-large one out there. There were bigger ones that were caught that day.

鈥�I caught that one jigging from an inflatable boat in the middle of the lake.鈥�

Tattuinee landed his 'medium-large' codfish in a salt water lake about a third of the way down Frobisher Bay from Iqaluit.

He said when you grow up in Rankin Inlet and your family loves to fish, you can catch the bug for fishing quite easily.

鈥�That's, definitely, where it rubbed off on me. I've been fishing most of my life. Really, I grew up fishing with my grandparents on the Diane River.

鈥�There was also springtime fishing up on Peter Lake with my other grandparents, so I was at it pretty steadily.

鈥�These days, how much I get out depends, really, on the season. That salt water lake where that cod came from, the last time I was there was about three years ago.

鈥�I try to make plans to go back out there, but it's a little bit out of the way. There's some really good fishing there, though. I'll fish for the rest of my life. I don't remember the first fish I caught, but I caught the fishing bug pretty good. 鈥�