Lights, Camera, Fish on!

So, I thought I'd try something different and actually tape myself pulling in lake trout this weekend. I put my camera on the tripod and recorded the action when I had a fish on. Not too much action the last couple of days, it was partly sunny throughout the weekend and the fish were not hitting spoons at all, flat-lining or with the downrigger so I tried some controlled drift-jigging.

Here are the results - If a picture says a thousand words, a video says ten thousand words? Thus, less typing for me.......




I've noticed over the years I've been catching lake trout that if the laker ends up under the boat, 80% of the time, barbed, or barbless, high line tension, or low line tension, stiff rod, or lighter action rod, single, or treble hook, that this happens:



Which is why I try to keep ahead of the the trout using my motor, so that an angle forms between my line and the fish - I'd say try to keep a 45 degree angle - seems to work out better and you'll land more togue.