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Using my trusty [easyazon_link identifier=”B01MAWGG0S” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Water Wolf HD[/easyazon_link] underwater camera, I threw some [easyazon_link identifier=”B00LDYMGNG” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Pline Pro Steel spoons[/easyazon_link] which were designed for steelhead at some salmon to see how they’d react.
Here’s your answer…
RIP [easyazon_link identifier=”B00R8I6W5O” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf Camera[/easyazon_link]….On a recent ocean trip, I had some amazing footage going of lings, rockfish and cabezon eating live herring on camera.
I kept telling myself to quit while I was ahead but getting killer shots with those cameras is so damned addicting. So, I dropped it down with one more herring.
That’s when big mama ling came out and grabbed my bait. I had her up off the bottom three times before she made one final run and dragged my gear…camera and all…into the rocks. The braid snapped like cobweb and there went the Water Wolf…and all that awesomely cool underwater video. :(
Here are some videos/pix that I shot before the camera got eaten:
Denied! Here’s an underwater pic shot on my [easyazon_link identifier=”B00PJ27DRC” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf Camera[/easyazon_link] today of a striped bass giving my lure the equivalent of the middle finger.
He followed for about 10 feet and then decided something just didn’t look right. The interesting part of this shot is the fact that my lure has flipped upside-down…right at the same time the fish rejected it. In previous frames, he was right on the plug’s tail…and the lure was running true.
I had no idea the plug had any roll to it, even after tuning it next to the boat…and yet here it is “flying inverted.”
To see the two pics of what occurred just before the rejection, read on…Click here to read more…
This afternoon, I had yet another chance to play around with my [easyazon_link identifier=”B00PJ27DRC” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf[/easyazon_link] underwater camera and caught a striper bite on film!
In the shot above, you can see the lure working its way downstream and then it is intercepted head on by a 5-pound striper…
In the video, it appears that the fish bites the lure head first but when you slow it down and watch it frame by frame, you can see that he actually spins on a dime in a nano-second and comes up behind the lure…
The speed at which the fish spins on the bait and inhales it is amazing…
At this point he’s hooked…
And then turns downstream. Notice how the back hook is still hanging free…
The fish seemed to instinctively know to get in the fast water and actually burned some drag. Part of the camera is now in view too…
During the fight, another striper came over to see what was happening…
Is this stuff as fascinating to you as it is me? Man, I just find the underwater view so dang cool! There’s a lot to learn by looking at videos and stills…and you can rest assured you’ll see a lot more of this stuff here soon!
In the clear water with a bright sun, the bass were more into chasing than biting
So, what do striped bass look like underwater as they are chasing a plug? Well, today I busted out the Okuma Water Wolf HD underwater camera again and tried to find out.
I had a short window…and it was in the middle of the day, buT i found a few pods of stripers and got some to react to my lure. They would’t eat it, so next time out, I’m going to try dropping the lure back on a longer leader. Still, so cool stuff…
This guy got right up close and personal but didn’t commit Again, I think the fact that I had about a 6-inch leader between the lure and camera may have been part of the issue.
This one’s kinda cool in that the fish appears to be zeroing in on the Water Wolf instead of the bait!