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Funny about your experience with the broken jigging rap, my wife had a jigging rap imitation from one of those cheap packages of jigs you see at wally world and that thing caught more whitefish that were stuck in the looking mode than anything else we had till a big laker cleaned it off. It was also broken. Guess I will be taking some old jigging raps along to be modified, I forgot all about that lure. She will get a kick out of this when she reads it later.
Eddie: I have smoked whitefish and I scale them but leave the skin on. Not sure why one would want to leave the scales on when whitefish scale so easily. The skin helps hold the fish together so it doesn't flake apart. Lots of recipes online--you ought to give it a try yourself.
Someone knows how to catch em . How do you keep them from getting tangled in your camera cable? I always end up in a big mess if I leave other lines down when one is hooked up. I have switched over to the newer light braids that are out, 3 lb stuff is great.