So how reel (Pun) are fishing shows?

[joedog]

Stolen from another site.
I’ve co-hosted several TV Fishing shows in the past and let me tell you that “Most,”of the time, (Not All!) but “Most” of the fish that you see being caught on the show are caught prior to the actual filming of a show. Yep! now you might ask yourself; “well I saw the guy set his hook and then reel in the bass.” All I can say to you is this; “Don’t believe everything that you see!” with today’s editing equipment, professional camera personnel, and the right camera shots anything is possible.
So let me explain how it works; #1, you cast out the sponsored bait product (whatever bait or baits the show is sponsored by, keeping in mind that the fish were actually caught prior to the show, and in most cases on totally different bait). #2, while you start your retrieve, you rare back with your rod like you just got a strike and pretend to set the hook! (on actually nothing at all). Then the camera will stop filming. #3, then, you simply reel your sponsored bait back in to the boat, grab a fish (in the case of a bass show, a bass) out of the livewell and place the hook of the “sponsored product” in the fish’s mouth. #4, Next you place the fish back into the water (with ease, and always keeping the slack out of your line), then you let the fish swim away from the boat. #5, then at this time, the camera starts rolling again and starts filming you fighting the fish back to the boat!...(Really quite simple!)That’s how Most! of the filming is done. It’s not so much the bait, or color, or technique used to catch the bass during the filming, they just want to show you how much bass all of these “certain baits” can actually catch! (but do they really?), that’s called Marketing,

So what do you think?