Isn’t it fantastic to see all the fish and life in our waters. I’m a lifelong angler with a passion for being on the water. It really doesn’t matter to me if I’m catching fish, for me and many others it gives me a really good feeling to know that the waters are full of life. Thanks for showing you filming!
Amazing footage! I just put in an order to use for my channel! Thanks for the code John! This will be useful for my upcoming fall run series for striped bass!
Great John, I only surf fish in Ny/Nj and you always get "did you catch anything?" This is not only amazing but also shows that fish don't just jump in your bucket.
Great underwater vids John. Particularly the clips of your buddy jigging. I would love a vid of just that. Being able to see a side view of that along with target species hunting would be amazing
Great footage. I always enjoy seeing the fish, especially fluke/flounder. As far as pinfish go, they're definitely in the Chesapeake Bay. I see them and the same grunts/pigfish that I used for bait in Florida. Unfortunately they don't seem to be as good here for live bait. If the triggerfish like glowing green stuff you could try the little light sticks people use to attract ribbon fish at night around the Chesapeake. Or try glow Gulp.
Been fishing out at Old Lyme CT, been catching spot fish. They are more southern fish but I guess the water is warmer and they have been migrating North more. Saw a couple of guys come in with a 5 gal bucket of them. Good eating.
Spots are being caught in Western Long Island sound and in some cases more so then porgies. First time I have seen them on the extreme western Long Island sound and it certainly is a sign that our waters are undergoing change.
A great way to exploit that feature with the triggerfish, is to just attach a leader with an appropriate sized hook/jig and something they like to eat. Same concept as putting a spinner blade ahead of a nightcrawler or minnow (I don't get the chance to fish saltwater much), or a bright colored float to lift your bait off the bottom. It also works really well with a kwikfish. I don't think I've ever actually caught anything _on_ a kwikfish. But I've caught everything from bluegills to trout to catfish by attaching a short leader with a worm or a minnow to (plastics can work to). The basic idea is that a lot of fish are attracted by the action, noise, bright colors, or in this case, light, but not necessarily willing to strike the lure. But they aren't so shy about that little shiner behind floating behind it. I've seen lures w green lights advertised on Amazon and ebay. And I know glowing lures work really well in certain situations.
Trigger fish are one of my top preferred table fish. The last time we had a mixed bag of fish for comparison, Trigger fish came out on top of the list amongst our group. If I ever have an option of target species, definitely will focus on Trigger fish. I’ve seen some large sized fish and perhaps under utilized.
Hey John, maybe when you see the triggers with the camera stop and throw down a small jig clam crab. maybe suspending the camera with the light will keep them in the fish zone.
We target the triggers quite a lot in south Jersey. Small crabs, squid, clam on a 1/0 or 2/0 belmar rig. They are easy to get schooled up and will even come up to the boat when one is hooked, similar to mahi. Delicious eating. Right on the grill with their skin on.
A quick search for "range of pinfish" gave me this: Pinfish are found in coastal waters from Cape Cod, Massachusetts south through the Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Cuba to the Yucatan peninsula. The jewel tones and abundance of the pinfish make it a welcome and familiar sight in the coastal waters of Texas.
Thanks for the video. I bought one of these cameras and have a few questions. Is there any way to flip the image 180 degrees? I don’t understand why they put the attachment holes on the bottom. How do you rig so you don’t get snagged? Does it need any additional weight to work in 60-120 ft?
I have three cameras like those from different manufacturers and they all put the attachment points at the bottom, I think to try and keep the camera oriented that way. In reality they all roll to some extent, which is why I put the ruler wing on mine to stabilize it. Any of these camera needs weight to go deep. I use 3-way rigs like I fish for bass. You can always flip video 180 degrees with software.
Around the Chesapeake Bay there are people who fish for ribbon fish at night and they have little green glow sticks they attach to their rigs. Those should attract triggerfish.
John, I hope this is a good demo to our friends at DEC. Maybe they can use more tools like this to help them set regulations every year if they don’t already. All I have to say is that’s a lot of Scup
Around 8 minutes you mentioned filtering out the little fish. I get it. But I have a order friend who doesn’t fish much. He wants to toss something out and let it sit. What could he use & have some success with a decent fish?thanks
Only if the back of the camera is above water, such as with float fishing. Wireless transmission of video underwater doesn't exist, yet. I used it in between drifts.
Around 8 minutes you mentioned filtering out the little fish. I get it. But I have a order friend who doesn’t fish much. He wants to toss something out and let it sit. What could he use & have some success with a decent fish?thanks PS. Y. Pin fish or spot.
me and my girlfriend you guys met that day she hooked me in the ear target triggerfish often, especially now, this is the best time for them until halloween. as cold as 50 degree water even in the bay, the key is finding them, there are certain things that hold them, particularly mussels, don't even need hard structure like rocks or a buoy chain, just mussel beds. usually i find them in this exact scenario when im fluke fishing and i find huge chunks missing from my gulp or a few of them following up to the boat, my best technique for them is to anchor, heavy clam chum, and salted clams on a #6 "Virginia Blackfish" hook, these hooks are important as they easily bite through seabass/porgy hooks even the smaller Gamakatsu octopus hooks. and to just get them in a feed and they will be dumb as rocks. what is great about them too is they are very sustainable fish, unlike blackfish where a piece can be wiped out easily they are actually very nomadic and wander large areas. (ive encountered large schools of these things just plain swimming on flats) I've completely cleaned out a school and came back the next weekend and it was loaded up again.
@duffmeister6480 dont need to keep it for a mount. they've been able to make accurate replicas for many moons now. Pics and measurements are all you need
Has anyone does this with a camera in fast moving water? I'd love to know what is really going on down there in my go to spot but the current is moving pretty good. Wondering if it would be feasible
Hello, I live on Long Island as well. Will this work well for cast fishing off the beach at Democrat Point? Looking to get this camera for my daughter's boyfriend
i immediately turn off any fishing show/video with idiotic generic background rock music, which seems to be nearly all of them. thanks for doing it right.
Would love to hear you say flounder rather than fluke for one video. No explanation for your viewers. The comments would blow up. & algorithm would react in some way. Something different. A thought. ??.like the new camera. It’s been too long for another one of these videos.
Isn’t it fantastic to see all the fish and life in our waters. I’m a lifelong angler with a passion for being on the water.
It really doesn’t matter to me if I’m catching fish, for me and many others it gives me a really good feeling to know that the waters are full of life. Thanks for showing you filming!
two quick thoughts come to mind: damn, fish are curious critters. and you are fortunate to live in such a fishing paradise.
Great video John. You always seem to amaze me See u on the water. Tight lines
Love the way those fluke just glide threw the water like an eagle in the air AWESOME JOHN
Love these underwater videos you do. Thanks john always very educational.
Awesome job thank you for no music!!! I love watching these videos
Amazing footage! I just put in an order to use for my channel! Thanks for the code John! This will be useful for my upcoming fall run series for striped bass!
Great video. It’s amazing to see all the fish and the bottom contour.
John, I’ve seen all of your underwater footage. I would rank this as one of the best. Greetings from Gio Western Long Island Sound.
Great John, I only surf fish in Ny/Nj and you always get "did you catch anything?" This is not only amazing but also shows that fish don't just jump in your bucket.
Absolutely amazing video Mr. Skinner
Excellent video. Thanks for the discount code...just had to get one to see what my favorite fishing grounds of the LI Sound looks like.
Always enjoy your underwater videos! Like the new camera too
I can’t believe how many triggerfish , that’s amazing!!!
I'd love to know more about those fishing trophies behind you.
Great underwater vids John. Particularly the clips of your buddy jigging. I would love a vid of just that. Being able to see a side view of that along with target species hunting would be amazing
I find it really interesting how many fish follow the lure/bait vs how many fish actually hit it.
Great footage. I always enjoy seeing the fish, especially fluke/flounder.
As far as pinfish go, they're definitely in the Chesapeake Bay. I see them and the same grunts/pigfish that I used for bait in Florida. Unfortunately they don't seem to be as good here for live bait.
If the triggerfish like glowing green stuff you could try the little light sticks people use to attract ribbon fish at night around the Chesapeake. Or try glow Gulp.
Spot? (The fish in question). Plenty of those on the east coast- especially VA and the Carolinas. Range shows New England, south..
Been fishing out at Old Lyme CT, been catching spot fish. They are more southern fish but I guess the water is warmer and they have been migrating North more. Saw a couple of guys come in with a 5 gal bucket of them. Good eating.
Spots are being caught in Western Long Island sound and in some cases more so then porgies. First time I have seen them on the extreme western Long Island sound and it certainly is a sign that our waters are undergoing change.
Agreed.. Definitely a Spot
@victornonnya they are indeed good eating. Used to surf fish for them on the Md,Va,Carolina beaches when I was a youngster.
Good striper bait too
A great way to exploit that feature with the triggerfish, is to just attach a leader with an appropriate sized hook/jig and something they like to eat. Same concept as putting a spinner blade ahead of a nightcrawler or minnow (I don't get the chance to fish saltwater much), or a bright colored float to lift your bait off the bottom. It also works really well with a kwikfish. I don't think I've ever actually caught anything _on_ a kwikfish. But I've caught everything from bluegills to trout to catfish by attaching a short leader with a worm or a minnow to (plastics can work to). The basic idea is that a lot of fish are attracted by the action, noise, bright colors, or in this case, light, but not necessarily willing to strike the lure. But they aren't so shy about that little shiner behind floating behind it. I've seen lures w green lights advertised on Amazon and ebay. And I know glowing lures work really well in certain situations.
Trigger fish are one of my top preferred table fish. The last time we had a mixed bag of fish for comparison, Trigger fish came out on top of the list amongst our group. If I ever have an option of target species, definitely will focus on Trigger fish. I’ve seen some large sized fish and perhaps under utilized.
Hey John, maybe when you see the triggers with the camera stop and throw down a small jig clam crab. maybe suspending the camera with the light will keep them in the fish zone.
I would love to see an underwater comparison for fluorocarbon and monofilament
Lots of blackfish it’s really cool
No wonder why you are a great fisherman.
Scientific.
At 5:46 looks like a monster fluke just laying at the bottom 😳
100% those are pinfish. We catch them in the NY Bight when porgy fishing. We have gotten giant ones on December offshore sea bass trips.
Camera did you say something about a camera?
I was to busy checking out all the trophies on the mantle!!!!!
What camera 😮
We target the triggers quite a lot in south Jersey. Small crabs, squid, clam on a 1/0 or 2/0 belmar rig. They are easy to get schooled up and will even come up to the boat when one is hooked, similar to mahi. Delicious eating. Right on the grill with their skin on.
Great comment. Thanks!
no music - Thank you so much
A quick search for "range of pinfish" gave me this: Pinfish are found in coastal waters from Cape Cod, Massachusetts south through the Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Cuba to the Yucatan peninsula. The jewel tones and abundance of the pinfish make it a welcome and familiar sight in the coastal waters of Texas.
I've caught only one in my life on Long Island, surprisingly in early May in Peconic Bay. I think it's a pinfish.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing That definately looked like a pinfish to me as well.
Pinfish have been caught near Cape Cod in the last few days. On the MyfishingCapeCod forum.
Thanks for the video. I bought one of these cameras and have a few questions.
Is there any way to flip the image 180 degrees? I don’t understand why they put the attachment holes on the bottom.
How do you rig so you don’t get snagged?
Does it need any additional weight to work in 60-120 ft?
I have three cameras like those from different manufacturers and they all put the attachment points at the bottom, I think to try and keep the camera oriented that way. In reality they all roll to some extent, which is why I put the ruler wing on mine to stabilize it. Any of these camera needs weight to go deep. I use 3-way rigs like I fish for bass. You can always flip video 180 degrees with software.
There are LED spoons on Amazon. Those might get the Trigger fish in the boat.
A green glowbead superglued on a hook ??
Around the Chesapeake Bay there are people who fish for ribbon fish at night and they have little green glow sticks they attach to their rigs. Those should attract triggerfish.
There's been pinfish around caught a few small ones AB reef last week
John, I hope this is a good demo to our friends at DEC. Maybe they can use more tools like this to help them set regulations every year if they don’t already. All I have to say is that’s a lot of Scup
I believe that fish was a Spot. Great bass bait
Guess your going to have to rig green light to bait for triggers they are nutty for it
Bucktail on a flying carpet
can this camera's memory card be upgraded? seems only 16gb is not very much storage?
Hey John, maybe when you see the triggers with the camera stop and throw down a small jig clam crab
nice video 🎉🎉
Cool!
Around 8 minutes you mentioned filtering out the little fish. I get it. But I have a order friend who doesn’t fish much. He wants to toss something out and let it sit. What could he use & have some success with a decent fish?thanks
Dangit, winter flounder, striper, or bergall would've given me bingo.
Right? No bergalls? That surprised me more than anything.
wonder if the larger jig strip was attracting the triggers
JUST A QUESTION , COULDN'T YOU CONTACT THE MAKER AND ASK THEM TO SOME WITH WINGS ON THE CAMERA CASE AND WHY SO FEW OYSTERS ON THE BOTTOM ?
Caught a few of those fish this year. Rocky point area. I was told they are “Spots”? ✌🏻
Great vid. Is that just the regular drift speed? At some points it looks like the boat is moving pretty fast.
It was around 1mph constant. It looks fast when the camera is close to the bottom.
Time marker 5:54 a paler, thicker bodied fish than a scup comes in from the right. What is that?
Amazing the difference.
Do you ever eat Triggerfish? We eat them all the time when we winter in Portugal and they are one of our favourites.
I'm out fishing for them now lol. No luck so far
Would absolutely eat them. Delicious!
what kind of drift speed are you doing? 1mph? or more?
1mph the whole time.
Dose this stream to the app so you can watch it in real time?
Only if the back of the camera is above water, such as with float fishing. Wireless transmission of video underwater doesn't exist, yet. I used it in between drifts.
11:42 big chub mackerel? really interesting fish.
Looks right to me.
We get pinfish here in Delaware.. they come in after the spot
They do look like pinfish..if you find a frame clear enough to see they should have diamond patterned scales..somewhat unique
Around 8 minutes you mentioned filtering out the little fish. I get it. But I have a order friend who doesn’t fish much. He wants to toss something out and let it sit. What could he use & have some success with a decent fish?thanks
PS. Y. Pin fish or spot.
Why did you stop using that trilene big game mono leader? Did the fluoro leader get you more fish?
The big game is fine for this region inshore, except albies. I use fluoro because it has a little better abrasion resistance.
@@JohnSkinnerFishingeven for fluke and striper?
No problem on those.
@@JohnSkinnerFishingthanks
me and my girlfriend you guys met that day she hooked me in the ear target triggerfish often, especially now, this is the best time for them until halloween. as cold as 50 degree water even in the bay, the key is finding them, there are certain things that hold them, particularly mussels, don't even need hard structure like rocks or a buoy chain, just mussel beds. usually i find them in this exact scenario when im fluke fishing and i find huge chunks missing from my gulp or a few of them following up to the boat, my best technique for them is to anchor, heavy clam chum, and salted clams on a #6 "Virginia Blackfish" hook, these hooks are important as they easily bite through seabass/porgy hooks even the smaller Gamakatsu octopus hooks. and to just get them in a feed and they will be dumb as rocks. what is great about them too is they are very sustainable fish, unlike blackfish where a piece can be wiped out easily they are actually very nomadic and wander large areas. (ive encountered large schools of these things just plain swimming on flats) I've completely cleaned out a school and came back the next weekend and it was loaded up again.
Great post. Thanks!
I have cought pin fish and trigger fish off eastern fishers island
I had no idea that we had Trigger fish up here!
Thats Pinfish!
I caught a few in the western sound near Stamford Ct
The link to buy this camera doesn’t show an option to buy it.
There's a "buy now" button in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
explain why the fish dont hit the lure? is it because of the camera a few inches in front of it or because your not bouncing it? or something else?
Exactly on the not bouncing it. That's why we jig.
you think it would work ok in 100ft water?
Yes. I've done it, but the water has to be clear for the light to penetrate. I've done it at Cartwright.
We catch pinfish on the offshore seabass trips out of Captree.
Then that's what these are. Thanks!
What size is that Striper on the wall ?
50 - Hortons in a boat many years ago.
@@JohnSkinnerFishing I thought so, sad that you can’t keep trophies like that anymore. Thanks.
@duffmeister6480 dont need to keep it for a mount. they've been able to make accurate replicas for many moons now. Pics and measurements are all you need
Has anyone does this with a camera in fast moving water? I'd love to know what is really going on down there in my go to spot but the current is moving pretty good. Wondering if it would be feasible
You would definitely want to stabilize any camera like this the way I did, or similar, to keep it from rolling.
Pinfish 100%! Those who said it’s spot please help yourself and google what pinfish and spot looks like.
Hello, I live on Long Island as well. Will this work well for cast fishing off the beach at Democrat Point? Looking to get this camera for my daughter's boyfriend
I would not cast and retrieve this. The video would be too shaky.
Pin fish, in Texas too.
can it work with 110 feet of water?
They advertise that it can work down to 656 feet.
FYI on the Discount Code, Copy and Paste didn't work. Had to type it out. Thanks John for the link
Thanks for that info. Enjoy the camera.
Could that be spot?
I don't think the mouth is right.
Fresh water blue gill lol
I recently came across a really tiny waterproof camera that weighs only 12g. However that means battery life is really poor too at only 15mins :(
That's way too short. This one really did last as long as they advertised at > 2 hrs.
Why aren't the fluke hitting ur rig?
Because there's no jigging motion on it and mostly I used just pork rind. I did not want to hook them on the camera.
I tresting I thought about using otter tails for when the gulp tails get ripped off but now I changed my mind
Albie at 37 seconds in.
Its a mackeral
i immediately turn off any fishing show/video with idiotic generic background rock music, which seems to be nearly all of them. thanks for doing it right.
Isn’t that a croaker?
The mouth isn't right. I did look that up.
I think those fish are Spot fish
I looked them up, and spot fish are croakers with the mouth down. This had a mouth like a porgy.
Would love to hear you say flounder rather than fluke for one video. No explanation for your viewers. The comments would blow up. & algorithm would react in some way. Something different. A thought. ??.like the new camera. It’s been too long for another one of these videos.
Look like pinfishsh to me
or at least mute it.
5:39 and 5:55 albino seabass?