underwater cameras are not just for ice fishing

[jwmiller33]

i was wondering if anybody has seen the "underwater cameras are not just for ice fishing" video/story on the star tribunes HSOforum? here is the link to the story

http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/blogs/64182597.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU

i think this is probably one of the coolest videos i have ever seen! in this video you see TONS and TONS of fish all stacked up on eachother... it is really cool how you first see the school of shad?, then you see a bunch of walleyes, you even see a gar at one point. and then the video ends with a pile of catfish laying on eachother on the bottom...

i watched this video over and over and over and it never gets old.. it is so cool to see how all the fish are stacked up in schools... and it is REALLY cool how you can see all the white on the bottom of the walleye fins, they just glow, its awesome. and you notice that a lot of the walleyes are near rock piles .. do catfish lay like that a lot? are they sleeping? can someone fill me in as to what they are doing? i dont know much about cats..

is it true that 90% of the fish in the lake are usually in 10% of the lake?

here is the video:

[DTro]

These are "hibernating" or dormant flatheads in the dead of winter.

I think Brian took this video 1 or 2 years ago.

Sure is cool to watch huh?

These cats stack up all winter long and will disperse when the water warms. If you look hard enough, you can sill silt buildup on some of them from being so inactive. I think Brian even bounced the camera off a few of them and they could've cared less.

This is one of the reasons a lot of Catfisherman get a little disgruntled with guys intentionally ripping blade baits or heavy jigs into the middle of them.

[mrklean]

it looks like a bunch of dead catfish there at the end haha

[snoozebutton]

Yeah, it did look like they were dead but right at the end you could see the gills move on that last one.

Anyway, cool video and thanks for sharing it.

[fishinfey8]

It's kinda depressing to see all those fish and think of all the times I haven't even gotten ONE bite while fishing!!

[Double D]

It looks like someone with scuba gear could fill a tackle box on that Pitchin Pole he went by. You always wondered what happened to all that tackle you lose, now you know.

DD

[jwmiller33]

ya reminds me of that thread carpmanjake made about that thing he snagged on in the river and went down there to get it and came up with a ton of lures... i wish i knew where that spot was so i could go fish there... do you think that same spot produces fish year round? or is that more of a winter spot? or are all those fish there because thats where the school of shad is?

[DTro]

all of those fish are there because there is a big dam keeping them from going any further

[harvey lee]

It is one very nice video Brian made.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Awesome! I had no idea you could see so well in the river. Is visibility even better in a lake?

I love the tree, or what ever with all the lures stuck to it too.

[I Da Man]

Thank for posting the video Mr. Miller.

Once the Marcum 825c is down there I get lost in looking around at the bottom of Pool 4. Here's some info on the videos.

The video was taken Jan 9th of 2009. The "pitching pole" is on the MN side. If you've lost a number of lures in one spot while pitching...you know where the pole is! LOL!

The sheephead, shad, gar, walleyes and one crappie if you watch closely were shot at a super secret spot behind a wing dam. There are fish there all year....but maybe not the kind you are targeting.

I think some of the cat guys are going to love this. The "pile" of wintering flats are down stream a little further, in the same location that In Fish filmed Frosty Flatheads a number of years ago.

I'll skip my rant about the flathead season being open all year and WI's limit set at 25 fish and spare you guys.

Dtro was right on. Bouncing the camera off their head and body's did nothing. Although we did have one swim along side the camera once. It came from down stream of the pile and there it was, just swimming along side about 2 feet from the camera until it laid down next to the pile. If I recall there's one flat trying to position himself in this video.

Many of the cats were laying with their mouth open...facing up stream. I believe this is why many walleye angers insist that flats will bite in the winter. Mouth open, jig drops in, somethings felt and the hook is set in the mouth. Cat must have bite! I would think the same thing until the camera shows what is really happening.

What else? If I recall correctly it was in 14 to 18 feet of water. The old 'sippi cleans up pretty well in January doesn't it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/idacatguides#p/f

The link above shows a huge school of channel cats and another pile of flatheads shot down river much further.

It was my first video, so I was a little jerky.

The camera I was using made all the difference in the world. I had a Marcum 500 out there the year before. We saw some fish, but nothing like what your seeing here.