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one thing that may be crossing your mind
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as you watch this episode is the issue
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of bar trauma after all we've been
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talking repeatedly about it on the
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Outdoor Journal Radio podcast The
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increased mortality rates caused by
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fishing in deep water and the ethics
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around doing it during the heat of the
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summer are a bit of a concern however
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lake trout are an exception to the rule
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unlike most fish who rely solely on
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outside pressure to regulate the air in
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their swimbladder lake trout have the
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ability to manually inflate and deflate
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theirs when transitioning from drastic
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changes in water depth they do this by
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literally burping out the air from their
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swim bladder something that's even
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visible on Liv scope as we watch the
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surface that being said this does not
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take the mortality rate all the way to
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zero especially given the lake tr's
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tendency to give hard prolonged fights
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as they make their way up from Deep
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Water this was evident on my second fish
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that required quite a bit of TLC and a
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unique piece of equipment to get her
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back down to depth and ultimately
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swimming away okay s is holding this
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fish we know she's got a bit of she
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hasn't burped enough you know if it's
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Barr or whatever it is she just needs to
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get air out of her one way of doing it
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if you don't want to stick a needle into
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the fish is you use a descending device
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and what I got here is I picked all this
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stuff up in different places and put it
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together this is what you buy online I
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bought this on Amazon just this piece
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right here it's just a hook it's a
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really sharp sharp pointed reverse hook
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that goes into the bottom jaw of the
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fish like that and I grab a bungee cord
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cuz you want a little bit of stretch and
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I got my buddy sea to make me up a big
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heavy duty weight like this like that
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and it pulls it down so basically I
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hooked this onto here we'll do this
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quick we're going to hook that into the
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fish like I said before it's going to
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pull down with the weight all the way
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down we'll get her to the bottom because
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L trout are great for that they can go
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to any depth like that once you get down
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the fish is hooked like this you
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literally with the bungee you go like
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that you and you pull it out of the
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bottom jaw and then the fish swims away
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and then you got to reel it all back in
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put your net down yeah hopefully the
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weight will be enough yeah I don't know
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if it will be or not well we're going to
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we're about to find out look at that we
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can see it on the life scope that is
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great how far down you're at halfway 35
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ft and yeah she's kind of leveling off
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and then just slowly moving
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that is incredible to see this happening
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on Liv scope is absolutely
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nuts now it's supposed to pop
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out there we go nice she should be down
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there yeah she's just wandering back and
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forth now up about to 90 ft oh really
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yeah cool and just swimming there is no
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way that we could have ever experience
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that without this technology oh yeah
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sure right nice work brother worked I'm
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glad it's the first time I've used it
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that's awesome it works
