underwater Camera’s

[Whiskeywalleyes]

So has anyone been seeing a good group of walleyes or slabbers on there camera's?
Lets here some fish tails.

[Fish-n-Freak]

A couple of years ago, I went out Crappie fishing over Thanksgiving. My BottomLine showed a bunch of suspended fish off structure and we fished them hard. I finally put the camera down because we did not get any bites for an hour. All I could see in all directions was Slab upon Slab, they were real fish and they were REAL big. We sat on this school of fish for 3 1/2 hours before we finally got a bite. Then just at dusk, they went on the feed for exactly 20 minutes. We caught Crappies between 14 and 16 inches as fast as we could bait our hooks, then they stopped completely. They were still there, just stopped feeding as fast as they had started. This was the first time I really thought about "feeding windows" affecting panfish. Boy did we get our butts chewed for being late for dinner!

Just because you see fish on the Vex or graph, doesn't mean you are going to catch them. Just don't give up, they have to eat sometime.

[MedicineMan]

I was out last saturday and I was watching the perch attack my lure. Then out of the blue I see a something streak across my screen. It turned out to be a northern. But it gave me a heart attack. The worst part is the little S.O.B. took my lure.

[Matt Johnson]

We watched quite a few walleyes come through on our OVS500 out in the Chisago lake area on several differnet lakes. Mostly during the day when they were less aggressive and hard to catch while fishing for crappies and gills. Some of these spots are good at dusk and some are just underwater highways for daytime walleyes to nearby structure for the dusk feed. If you are seeing walleyes on your underwater camers during the day, look for nearby humps, bars, points, etc and remember those spots for the dusk bite. And sometimes you will already be over prime walleye spots during the day while you are catching panfish, but generally my best walleye spots are not where the panfish are, but can be relatively close.

Good Fishin,
Matt Johnson

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[This message has been edited by Matt Johnson (edited 01-14-2004).]

[RuKiddingMe]

In early December I was fishing up on Mille Lacs in Isle Bay only about 7-8 inches of ice. I had the camera down all day and I was watching the perch bite my jig. It was a lot of fun no less then 15 perch around my jig at any given moment, when all of a sudden they just disappeared. As I watched on the camera a little longer I noticed a shadow coming in as it turned out this was a northern. I thought cool this will be fun, and then he took off like a bat out of hell also, and with in a few seconds I learned why. There was another northern that had come in to check out my jig and this was no hammer handle, I had my camera hole drilled about 2 feet from my fishing hole and when this northern came in he was about ½ inch from my jig and all I could see of him was from his nose to the gills, this fish was big. It’s was tough to tell how big but lets just say he made the first one look about the size of the perch I was catching. Needless to say no matter what I did I could get him to bite (that’s ok I don’t know if he would have fit through my six inch hole), but it sure was neat and got the heart going pretty good too. I did see a couple walleyes come through that day also, but they had no interest in my offerings.

RU

[Whiskeywalleyes]

I am borrowing a buddies vx 500 camera, last weekend I sware I needed the JAWS theme song playing, its so weird watching the wild activity that goes on bellow you..
I watched a small musky chase down some perch.. Somedays i am scared what the heck i am going to see...

[Whiskeywalleyes]

a trick to catching that northern is to pull the bait away, up from him, INSTINCTIVELY THEY WILL HIT. if something is to easy i found that they sit and stair at the bait. or another trick that worked for me is to use a jig spoon that looks like a perch, or use bigger bait..

[Dynasty]

The coolest thing I saw on my camera was on Bald Eagle this year me and a friend had our cameras down and saw two different muskies swim through the first was probably mid 40" and the second mid 30". It would have been even more exciting if we would have had the balls to brave the cold and put tippups out. I think from now on I will always put a tipup out.

[Matt Johnson]

Dynasty,

Bring along a medium/heavy action jigging rod with a thin-wire 20 pound test 8-inch leader and put on a 1/2oz spoon tipped with a minnow head next time you head out. If you see a muskie drop it down there and start twitching it. Or else drop down a Lindy Flyer tipped with a whole minnow and work it with 1-foot hops. You might hook into one of those pigs Remember the spot where you saw those fish and hit the structure they were on and search the sorrounding structure as well. Bald Eagle has quite a few muskies in there and they are harder to catch in the winter but when they are hungry they will bite.

Good Fishin,
Matt Johnson

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[Whiskeywalleyes]

looks like there is only about 5 of us in the metro with camera's.. we should all hook up and have a camera ice fest?
cheers.

[RuKiddingMe]

Now the question is are they all OVS???

RU

[Whiskeywalleyes]

mine is the 500 series, but i was up in a rent house by walleyedan on gull in brainerd and we had the new ice pro series,
which is as equal to the 500.

[RuKiddingMe]

I have the OVS 400, bought it last winter, i had a hard time trying to justify the extra cash for the 500. I'm very pleased with how well the 400 works for me. I would really like to see the new 560 in action, with the new light setup it suppose to have better low light viewing.

RU

[MedicineMan]

I've got an Aqua-Vu Z series. I couldn't be happier with it.

[Dynasty]

The other day I was out fishing sunnies and had a norther swim up, stare into the camera, then flair up his gills and take a few chomps on the camera. He didnt damage the camera but was fun to watch.

Ive got the OVS300, I got it a few years ago. It works but would like a new modle.

[This message has been edited by Dynasty (edited 01-17-2004).]

[Doc Madison]

I was thinking about picking up a camera sometime soon but was wondering what visibility range you see in murkier waters. I fish LOW and Big Pine Lake which are both stained waters. How much have these cameras affected the way you fish?

[Dynasty]

You can see pretty well in stained water during the day. I dont know exactly how stained LOW is but I have fished a small lake that had a visibility of a few feet. As long as the camera is about three feet away you can see the jig and any fish around or a few feet behind it well.

I use mine for panfish mostly. Its really helps for the days they are picky and will just barely take your bait without showing any signs of a bite. Also if you are on a school of sunnies you can watch the camera and try to catch the bigger ones instead of hooking the little fish and spooking the bigger ones.

[Matt Johnson]

I use the underwater camera mainly for scouting out potential fishing spots. Only about 1 out of 10 times will I use to catch fish, the other 9 times I won't even have a line in the water. You can learn a lot from an underwater camera by just watching. A nice tool to have but not a necessity. My LX-3 is what I use when I catch fish.

Good Fishin,
Matt Johnson

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