If you're going to smoke lake trout fillets or large kokanee fillets, leave the pin bones in the fillets until after you smoke them. The pin bones will stick up out of the dried meat, it'll be easy to grab them with tweezers, and it'll be easy to slide them out of the smoked fillets.
With small kokanee fillets, I don't bother removing the pin bones. However, after I smoke the little fillets, I run the back of a spoon over the tips of the pin bones to smash them down, so the sharp tips won't poke a hole in my vacuum packing bags.