Thread: What do you see...

And still no one has thought to use a micro vue camera to be sure of what they see down there. I use one for ice fishing and it works great to tell me what those red lines on my flasher are. I’ll bring mine down in the spring when I come but will somebody, anybody get one and use it and stop all this guessing.

Originally Posted by chaunc

And still no one has thought to use a micro vue camera to be sure of what they see down there. I use one for ice fishing and it works great to tell me what those red lines on my flasher are. I’ll bring mine down in the spring when I come but will somebody, anybody get one and use it and stop all this guessing.

Yep, pretty much all speculation based on sonar/software. Now when you idle back onto a flat or hump on Barkley and see images like some of Rickie's thick with the long streaks you won't need a camera, just a helmet because it won't take a long for the silvers to show themselves.

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Originally Posted by chaunc

And still no one has thought to use a micro vue camera to be sure of what they see down there. I use one for ice fishing and it works great to tell me what those red lines on my flasher are. I’ll bring mine down in the spring when I come but will somebody, anybody get one and use it and stop all this guessing.

When I icefished (Which I miss) I used a camera. After about 3 feet you can't see squat on Ky Lake.

IMHO I think that is mostly asian fry. But it has shad and game fish too. On the bottom and on your bottom pic all the way to the right are feeding fish which I believe are crops. There are so many of these scenarios that I just fish thru them. Sept and early Oct. I caught crappie, LM, yellows, sauger etc fishing in these areas. After that it turned to mostly just whites and yellows because water temp drop. On a side note....I caught more carp than ever this year. Mirror, common and of course asians....in the mouth.....Long nosed gar were ferocious for a couple weeks also.

Originally Posted by bandchaser

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Asians or bait fish?

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Originally Posted by chaunc

And still no one has thought to use a micro vue camera to be sure of what they see down there. I use one for ice fishing and it works great to tell me what those red lines on my flasher are. I’ll bring mine down in the spring when I come but will somebody, anybody get one and use it and stop all this guessing.

How good are those things? How far down can you really determine what you are looking at?

Originally Posted by Nutbush

How good are those things? How far down can you really determine what you are looking at?

You can see it on your locator as you lower it down to the level that the fish are holding. On clear lakes I can see over twenty feet away. Not all lakes are that clear tho. With as many fish that are shown in these pics, if you lower the camera down in the school, you'll definitely be able to see what they are. Even in dingy water as they swim right up to the camera lens as they swim by. Kentucky lake was the clearest I've ever seen it this fall.

I fished Sledd today and it looked full of carp out on the flat.

Originally Posted by chaunc

And still no one has thought to use a micro vue camera to be sure of what they see down there. I use one for ice fishing and it works great to tell me what those red lines on my flasher are. I’ll bring mine down in the spring when I come but will somebody, anybody get one and use it and stop all this guessing.

Was messing around on another forum and saw Kdfwr have just used gill nets to check similar sonar images recently. Results were pretty surprising, the video is on there Facebook page. I know not everyone on here trusts them but I do and believe they are out trying to do their best. I am not getting all wound up on this again and don't like Facebook but urge everyone to check out what Paul and the guys have going on. Thanks again Chaunc for your level headed approach.

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