@@fishontv6834 hell yea bro, I dont want none of the fish I catch to die because of ignorance! Gotta get me one of these. You deserve more subscribers!
You are correct - they do burp their swim bladder. However, the stress of being pulled up 100+ feet and fighting for their lives combined with the hotter water up at the surface mean that sometimes they have a problem getting the energy to get back down. This issue is compounded when the fish is ripped out of the water to get pictures taken. Lake trout are almost as sensitive as musky when the weather is hot. By using a depth descender, you are giving the fish an easy elevator down to the depths so they can regain their strength and swim away. I'd say about 1 in every 5 lake trout have a problem getting back down, but with the depth descender, that issue becomes moot. If you are experienced and have a small bass boat where you can easily unhook the lake trout at the surface without bringing them out of the water, you can typically throw them like a rocket into the water and they will swim off. But if you take even more than 30 seconds to do this, a depth descender is critical.
Very nice. Thanks.
Most welcome
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@@fishontv6834 hell yea bro, I dont want none of the fish I catch to die because of ignorance! Gotta get me one of these. You deserve more subscribers!
What type of deep water fish do you target?
Don’t lake trout burp their bladders? One of the only ones that do I thought.
You are correct - they do burp their swim bladder. However, the stress of being pulled up 100+ feet and fighting for their lives combined with the hotter water up at the surface mean that sometimes they have a problem getting the energy to get back down. This issue is compounded when the fish is ripped out of the water to get pictures taken. Lake trout are almost as sensitive as musky when the weather is hot. By using a depth descender, you are giving the fish an easy elevator down to the depths so they can regain their strength and swim away. I'd say about 1 in every 5 lake trout have a problem getting back down, but with the depth descender, that issue becomes moot.
If you are experienced and have a small bass boat where you can easily unhook the lake trout at the surface without bringing them out of the water, you can typically throw them like a rocket into the water and they will swim off. But if you take even more than 30 seconds to do this, a depth descender is critical.