RichZ wrote:


Trick was either invented or adopted by some TV fishermen to mimic
actual catches on camera.


We yelled fish on, Camera man fired up the camera then we started
fighting the fish, he filmed all the way through the release, then we
reposition the boat to the same place, and took several setting the hook
shots, When the film was edited it looked like the hook set was on that
fish. On occasion we did get the real hook set if we were filming dialog
while fishing Of course when filming top water baits it got expensive,
and very tiring for the camera man. Bata tape cost 1 dollar a min. or 60
dollars for an hours taping, normal show would be at least two tapes,
but when using top water baits where you saw the bass bust the lures, it
took 4 to 6 tapes a day, That's like 360 dollars just for the tape (used
only once by the way), or course the added tape also greatly increased
the editing time (major bucks per hour)

Today many shows are shot with much cheaper tapes, and much cheaper,
lighter, and better cameras.

Our camera was 32,000 dollars, today you can buy a camera that does it
better for around 3,000 dollars, and tapes under 10 dollars, so I'm sure
less staged hook sets are used.