Underwater Salmon Bites: King chasing down a spinner

You can learn some very interesting stuff by seeing whats going on below the surface. Check out this cool sequence I shot of a king salmon chasing down my Spinner Dave’s Custom Designs spinner. Again I used the trusty [easyazon_link identifier=”B00R8I6W5O” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Waterwolf[/easyazon_link] Camera and rigged it in-line on my leader about 3 feet up from the lure. I trolled it downstream at about 3 mph and got some sweet footage…

 

He’s in hot pursuit…
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Open wide…

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Right in the corner of the jaw…

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Notice how the line in this next shot has gone slack as the fish swims towards the boat…

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Now he knows he’s hooked and the big head-shakes start…

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The violent head-shakes are why the bite look so cool on the rod!salmn-chase-8

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If this doesn’t get you all pumped up to fish, you’d better check your pulse! Shot on my [easyazon_link identifier=”B00R8I6W5O” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Water Wolf[/easyazon_link] camera….