I still can't catch a eye with the camera down?

[leech~~]

I am on my 4th camera in about the last 7-8 years. I have caught just about everything else with the camera down but a Walleye! Last Friday I was out on Mil Lacs on a rock pile and was doing pretty well on eye's and nice Perch. I thought I would drop the camera down and take a look. After I dropped it down I seen eye's and Perch cruising all around but none would bite, again!! Anyone else having the same issue? I may just give up and list the darn thing for sale!

[Esox_Magnum]

Eyes are camera shy most times, I have yet to catch on on the camera myself but have caught them with it down, perch on the other hand I catch more of with the camera than with the flasher.

[Stringerless!]

Do you use it in downview or drop it all the way down ? I keep mine as high as the water clarity will allow and use it looking down on top of my lure. My newer one has a notch in the fin for that purpose but the old one I had to notch myself. I have never used it any other way. I do drop it all the way down and scan around when I first drill a hole but that is it. Have had enough walleyes come in and try for the bait that I would not stop using it.

[Esox_Magnum]

I run in a seperate hole so drop it down to see my jigs, I see them chase baits alot but never commit on camera.

[Will]

Last saturday and again today, fished with the aqua vu and watched and caught several eyes.

P.s. I was on a rock pile on mille lacs.

Also, i do have the cord and camera wrapped in reel weeds.

[leech~~]

I guess I have never tried Down viewing with it? But I really like to see them come in from the side and watch them take it in everything but Walleye's of course. Instead of just seeing the back of a fish when down viewing and not really see them gulp it?

[Stringerless!]

Will, Do you use yours to downview or is it at the same level as your bait ?

[Will]

Same level as the bait

[Stringerless!]

Leech, I do see them gulp it. You will see their gills flare out as they inhale the bait. Set the hook !

[Stringerless!]

I use a little squeeze clamp to clamp the cable to a seat that is on top of a bucket. Changing depths is no problem. Like I said, I keep it as high in the water column as the clarity of water will allow. Towards dark it is useless. Wednesday when we were at Mille Lacs I wrapped it up at 4 :10 cause it was too dark.

[srfishin15]

i fish mille lacs all the time and i've only hooked one decent eye with the camera down.. i lost it halfway up. that lake is so clear and those fish get so much pressure that sometimes i think the camera is too much fro them.. we see them down there all the time though.. thats why the camera comes up at 330 and doesn't go down until after 9.

[CrappieNight]

I caught this monster with the camera down on Leech.

[Irish]

I caught my first eye with the camera down yesterday on a Mille Lacs rockpile. I have been using a camera for about for years and that was the first one so keep trying! I have an Aqua View camera and the Camera is shaped and colored like a perch. Do you think the eyes buy that at all? I have had a pike attack it so I think it looks pretty realistic.

[Stringerless!]

I know that after having the cam I use it more than the vex. I use the vex to read depth thru the ice and leave it lay when I start fishing. I catch way more fish by watching them bite on the camera. If you don't have one you would not believe how many times fish of all species slash at the bait and miss it by a mile ! They look like blind snakes trying to eat. It is amazing they can catch anything. I had a walleye come in and hit a Lindy darter 4 times and never connect with the hooks ! Not liking that lure very much after that.If I had to choose camera or vex I would pick the cam hands down !

[leech~~]

I am on my 4th camera so I have used it a lot. I have seen lots of fish with it and caught Pike, Perch, Sunnis, Pout, Crappies, Tulleby (sp) but never a Walleye. I have also tried putting real weeds on the cord and fishing with real weeds all around it and never caught one. It is fun fishing with a cam and I have learned so much about how the different fish bite with it.

One of my theories about why eye's don't bite is when watching a lot of fish they seem to give each other leeway when one of them is closer to the bait, so the others just seem to swim around it maybe waiting their turn? If this it true the Walleye may not be coming in because they see the other fish "camera" close to the bait so they don't go for it waiting for the other fish "camera" to back off? Not all fish do this like pike but a lot of them seem to wait their turn to go after the bait. This is just what I have observed and it may be wrong?

[dmichaelm]

Does anyone else think the camera hanging at bait level could be adding some kind of noise or vibration into the water column that affects the fish?

[Esox_Magnum]

No, perch were knocking it around all day today, didnt seem concerned at all that it was there. If we hadn't been using it our catch would have been half or less than half of what we did catch.

[Jim Almquist]

I remember as a kid fishing Mille Lacs for walleyes out of a friend of the family's fish house. It was slow ans I was looking down the hole and I see a walleye down there so I started looking down the hole and I bet I had 50 walleyes come up before the fist one bit. now a lot of those could have been the same walleye but they all used the same pattern of sorts. They would charge the bait and then back up and move over and do it again. Never once did the swim by the bait but instead they would back up till they were out of sight.

Not sure what to say about the camera except I would hide it or keep it way over the top of your bait or just leave it at home for walleyes. I do know that a camera would be great for light biting walleyes but if they won't bite at all with a camera I guess I would settle for the light bite.

[Ed Carlson]

I tinkered with the eyes and the camera deal lots of years back. What I found to be an influence then was 2 things.

1 - Walleye appeared to me to NOT like the UV light, and especially UV lighting cast upon them from the side.

2 - They didn't care nearly as much about any lighting cast upon them from above, UV, Spectral Enhanced, or plain White Light...just as long as it came from above.

So what I gleaned from that at the time was use the camera in the "Down View Mode" when specifically targeting eyes on the bottom. Suspended eyes, I tinker with both to fit the need of my presentation.

Suspended eyes, didn't appear, at least to me anyhow, to care as much either way. Very often were attracted to the camera itself, light on or not, just to see what it was about.

Purely my observations, can't say either way if it science or superstition, yet that is what I seen.

[TKOGWEE]

nice one crappie!