Underwater View of blackfishing on a rock pile in 10 feet of water. Superior water clarity with the fish feeding aggressively. Shot in Long Island Sound during the second week of November.
Very nice and educational video. I was fishing taug today and wanted to see how'd they react under water. I fish at Barnegat light in Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
can't believe how aggressively they where feeding. they deffinantly aren't line shy like some say, that last one was pushing your leader out of the way to get to the crab.
Yes, Tautog don't seem to be line shy or even care in the slightest what kind of weirdness you have on the end of your line. Certainly, color means nothing to them. As long as there is a crab there, they will bite, and as long as there are little ones looking at your bait, the big ones will be motivated to bite. Definite pecking order with togs. It's been documented by researchers and I've seen it in all my videos. Lots of little fish nibbling, they suddenly scatter, then the big one appears and aggressively glomps the whole friggin crab down. So cool to watch
Would you mind sharing how you set up the camera? I started over 15 years ago with a $400+ FishEye cam and a home made PVC sled. And promptly snagged a lobster pot trawl line. Luckily the 60lb test line saved the camera, but it cost a lot of money to repair the camera and drain the water. I have a GoPro wide angle cam now. You seem able to keep the lens aimed at the bait. I fish LI sound in the murky Branford-Guilford area, but Mar-April and Oct-Nov we get clear water for filming.
I used a Waterwolf camera. My main line was 30lb. Momoi Diamond Verifier. I attached that with a barrel swivel to 2' of 50lb. fluorocarbon. Next came the camera. South of the camera I used about 18" of 30lb. fluorocarbon. The rocks in this location are very sharp. As you can see in the video the 30lb. flouro is woefully inadequate in this spot. It's use in this video is purely sacrificial. When just fishing, not shooting video, even using 50lb. mono results in break offs. 50lb. flouro is the only line that allows me to land the big ones here.
Really cool video pretty amazing how many fish are down there. But how are 6 pound blackfish breaking 30 lb line? I catch them on 20 lb flouro all the time.
Two things. First, the camera doesn't allow me to feel the bite from a larger fish until it has already dived under a rock. Second, the rocks here are very sharp and vertical, sticking up about 4 feet off the bottom. Very challenging landing big togs here.
