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Post by yellowdog on Oct 1, 2012 8:52:42 GMT -5
I won a GoPro camera in a drawing the other day. It is waterproof to 197 feet. I've seen where some guys are using them in saltwater to see if fish are holding on reefs. Has anybody tried them on SML? Wonder if there is enough light to see? Might be cool to film them during jigging season.
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Post by mwardncsu on Oct 1, 2012 9:21:04 GMT -5
Did they put your face up on a LED billboard as well?  From what I hear they are crap and really not worth owning. You might as well box it up and ship it to me and I'll save you the hassle and frustrations of dealing with it ;D  I dropped (intentionally - tethered to a rod/reel) my waterpoof camera with video recording turned on down to 15-20 feet this spring when we had a fish wrapped around a log or stump to try and see if we could get a glimpse of it and determine if it was worth going to extreme measures (this was during the Freedom Alliance event and we had a Navy guy aboard that was ready to dive after his fish  ) I did get a little nervous with the camera hit the sticky mud bottom and when I 1st started to retrieve it there was a little more tension than I wanted to feel.  All we got was blurry brown-green glows - could not really make out anything at those depths. I don't think they will work for in-the-water shots like they do off-shore. There is a company called TrollPro making a housing to put the camera in (with the waterproof housing) and troll in bluewater - even attaching it to your teaser bars, etc..... some crazy images coming from those rigs. I know a guy that has mounted one onto a monster planer board - he needs to tweak the board some more to get it to pull / float right - but that would be pretty cool to get point-on video of a striper blowing up a bait at water level. |
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Post by leeb on Oct 1, 2012 12:25:41 GMT -5
if you have an outrigger you can mount it there and get some great video of you fishing
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From what I hear they are crap and really not worth owning. You might as well box it up and ship it to me and I'll save you the hassle and frustrations of dealing with it ;D 
) I did get a little nervous with the camera hit the sticky mud bottom and when I 1st started to retrieve it there was a little more tension than I wanted to feel. 
