Setting the hook watching livescope

**ultraslab** · 10-30-2021, 07:56 PM

I've been amazed lately as I've started to set the hook when I see a fish charge my jig and do what appears as a loop de loop when he get's there. I've been assuming too much with the sensistivity of my slow taper special with 3# twitch master I would feel something, but I've learned that if the fish is swimming hard right at your jig he's putting enough slack when he takes it you feel nothing. Amazed at how much my connect rate has gone up just by seeing and setting. Scott

**DockShootinJack** · 10-30-2021, 08:29 PM

Sounds aweaome to watch

**"G"** · 10-31-2021, 04:19 AM

Interesting

**Redge** · 10-31-2021, 07:21 AM

Post us a video, I am aware of exactly what you are talking about.

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**chaunc** · 10-31-2021, 07:50 AM

Watch your line. You’ll see the bite quicker.

**ultraslab** · 10-31-2021, 08:59 AM

I used to be a dockshooter prior to live scope and used to be a big line watcher. I know that feeling of setting the hook when something doesn't feel right " Mushy " for lack of a better word and definately know that feeling when the line jumps 2" usaly about 2 seconds after the jig hit's the water but this is different. It is visualy showing me just how many times a crappie takes your jig and spits it back out without you ever being aware it happened at all . It would make a good video especialy with someone who has some editing skills to make a good video but that's not me. I fish by myself most of the time and my internet is crappie but I'm going to accept the challenge and try to get a video. There is supposed to be a way to record video to your phone through active captain . Does any one know how to do that. I have an 8616 XSV . Scott

**yobuck** · 10-31-2021, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by chaunc

Watch your line. You’ll see the bite quicker.

But that sounds a bit old fashioned in the world we now live, dosent it Crappie man of the year?

**chaunc** · 10-31-2021, 11:19 AM

Question.
How many of you livescopers are prolific at watching your line while fixating on the scope screen? I watched a video this weekend with Dryzdale and Drill Instructor hammering slabs every drop but couldn’t tell if they were line watching.

**chaunc** · 10-31-2021, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by yobuck

But that sounds a bit old fashioned in the world we now live, dosent it Crappie man of the year?

Old fashioned? Line watching will never go out of style. There’ll always be a time and place to use it, young buck.

**QuinnTheEskimo** · 10-31-2021, 11:45 AM

I ice fish a lot and I have an underwater camera. If I set it up right I can get the camera pointed at my jigs in 35’ of water and see everything. Fish in winter tend to be less aggressive so it might not be completely applicable to fishing open water but what I see under the ice is that most of the time you are better off not moving the jig at all once a fish approaches it and frequently they’ll swim up to it, open their mouth and draw it in and spit it out without ever moving the rod or spring bobber. The one movement that does work the most if they don’t take the still jig is moving it up away from them 8 or 12 inches and then stopping.

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