Newest thing coming-Is this too much??

[muskybuck]

I saw that they are working on putting a little video camera in the rear end of a lure, the line is a fibre optic cord to transmitt the picture up to a little screen mounted in the face of the bait caster reel. you will be able to watch a fish chasing your lure from behind and then biting the lure. Is this maybe going too far? Will anything be going to far?

[Deitz Dittrich]

I cant even imagine how much it would cost to run that much fiber optic cable to double it as fishing line.. yikes!

[LiLBro]

that was in a magazine. the article was titled "2010: a fishing odessy" or something like that. i think the only hard part about that whole thing would be the fiber optik cable that doubles as line.

[JP Z]

I don't foresee that happening anytime soon. Especially when in reading the article they mention the fiber itself is about $600. The camera would be very easy though.

[gunflint]

I would like to offer my services in a field test.

[MNUser]

Who knows, there maybe something better than and cheaper than fiber by then. With as fast as technology advances, what we think of small and fast might be huge and slow in 4 years.

I have run many fiber runs and can remember when it was just not possible due to the cost involved. Now look, we run miles of it and that was not long ago.

[Surface Tension]

We already have the technology to go wireless so fiber optic cable isn't needed. Might get costly though when Mr. Toothis-Interuptis bites you off.

[Ice9]

Did anybody see the little remote control boat that tows your lure around? I saw it at the show then saw the guys, I guess they're the inventors/marketers, playing (working?) on them in the lagoons at Wayzata. The lurecam might be the newest thing but this is a thing that is happening now.

I had no interest...would you?

ice

[DrKen]

How fast can you swim and what rapala do you bite on best.

sorry, couldn't resist

[Ralph Wiggum]

I saw the remote control boat at the show, too. I thought it was stupid. If you can't cast and need a remote to place your bait/lure where you want it, you shouldn't be fishing.

[upnorth]

What happen to just hook, line and a sinker? Cripes, I fish to escape some of the trappings of phones, pagers, PDAs, cell phones. Kinda keep things sorta simple.

[kpj5br]

This sounds crazy, but I've been working on the cam-in-the-lure for quite some time.

The fiber strand embedded in either mono or braid is not a problem, that exists already (in fact, it doesn't even have to be fiber, but that works best in the line for fishing purposes, less kinking, etc), and such a small diameter cable is required for this low bandwidth application that it is not even a cost factor.

My biggest problem has been with "tying" the line to a lure. It works if you use just a single lure integrated into the line of course, but that's not very feasible (and it impedes the lure action), you'd have to have a different rod/reel setup for every lure.

The real "invention" aspect of this lies in securing the line to the lure, some type of clip/plug interface that has enough tensile strength to not give when a fish hits, but is also easily and quickly changable, and doesn't affect the action of the lure.

It's a bit of a challenge...

Rick, I agree wireless would totally solve the problem (we'd have it today, in fact), BUT at the frequencies and wattage the FCC allows, it will not make the leap from water to air and maintain the signal. If there were no FCC, we'd be in business. I should also mention that with the wireless approach, you'd also have to have a battery in the lure, with fiber, no batteries are necessary.

I think the article you refer to was in Field and Stream's 110th anniversary fishing addition. Most of the big-name lure companies have working prototypes of this, minus the lure attachment/changability, whoever comes up with that little 1/100th ounce patent will be in good shape.

[fishingmike0770]

I believe i also read this article and the whole idea was to put a camara on the back of the lure and then wirelesslly transmit the signal to a small screen on the reel. $$$$$$

[Muddog]

I'm looking forward to seeing some of these shot on the TV shows. I have seen the cannon ball cam on Salmon fishing shows But seeing a muskie come out of the weeds and inhale the cam. That would be cool.