Well this year I was spoiled for my birthday and recieved a GoPro Hero4 Silver edition. With one more shot at Simcoe lakers for this years hardwater season I was determined to get some good footage. I learned quite a few filming lessons while on the ice and I am already excited with new idea's for next years hard water season.
This video is really the crown jewel of my whole ice fishing season, I am so happy with the way it turned out. My bait had been dead sticking for 5-10 minutes before the video starts while I was setting up the snow pod to get a good shot of the screen. A laker must have been checking out my swammer from a distance as it didn't take long for some jigging to attract a curious fish. I need to start filming my sonar more often as it seems the fish come on the screen as soon as the camera starts rolling.
Here is a clip of the first fish of the day. A much nicer fish but with the video camera facing the wrong way at the beginning of the video its clear I needed a bit of practice. At least there's some good comedy in there lol.
Finally here is some sonar footage of one of those fish that keeps me awake at night. I ask myself, what did I do wrong? Should I have started reeling later? Reeled faster? Kept reeling rather than drop the bait back down to the fish? Simcoe lakers can be frustrating and I am still a long long way from mastering the art of angling these top predators. Lets hear it, what would you have done differently with this fish?
As my season comes to a close I am reminded of the fact that I didn't catch a single fish this year that was small enough by my standards to take home and put in the smoker. I'm still not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
