You gotta love the shore fishing in Ottawa

[MichaelAngelo]

Wow you watched it strike!!! Dude that's a real treat! Something to remember, that's for sure. Also awesome that the sucker freaked out hahaha a true musky experience!

Not sure what you can do about gut hooking when using live bait, you can try using circle hooks because they tend to only catch and hook when they're at the corner of the fish's mouth (the hook point in turned in). I can vouch that they do work for Bass, but I'm not sure if they work for musky.

It's a predicament. Live bait works so well, but also you want to avoid gut hooking the fish...