How bad do I need an Underwater TV?

[MNUser]

We bought the Aqua-Vu with the temp gauge and I love it. I went in with a friend who I fish with a lot so it brought the price down to 200 each. We have used it on many lakes this winter and it rocks! We have seen walleyes nail some little perch, watch a northern come in and tear our lure off, have had some bass come in and look right into the camera. It was better than catching fish.

We used it last fall and located some huge walleyes hanging out in some boulders at 35 feet. We ended up catching three of them ranging from 24.5-26". The boat next to use caught two, one was 27 and the other was 29. All caught and released!

The camera has just added another way of seeing fish relate to structure. We have found it useful when we graph fish on the bottom and then lower the camera down to see what they are.

It has been a fun toy and the kids love it!

[Rick]

If you'd like to see the Vista Cam you can see it at:
http://fishingminnesota.com/vista-cam/

The Combo Cam is a great ice fishing tool. Mount your vexilar right in it and view your depth finder as well as the Underwater TV.

Now you can see what your Vexilar is trying to show you.

[Mankato-Ice-Man]

One idea might be to rent one for a weekend to see if you indeed do like one enough to lay down that kind of cash.
The bait shop here in Mankato rents them out. Not 100% sure of the price, but I think it was like 20 or 25 bucks a day. 2 or 3 guys, 50 bucks for the weekend.... looks like a lot cheaper way to see if you like one or not to me.
I need to get my FL-18 before I get a cam, but thought I would pass along the idea anyway.

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Born to Fish, Forced to Work!

[Agronomist_at_IA]

I never heard of a vista camera

[hanson]

How on earth did you find a 5 year old post??

[Shack]

Man you go back enough, you can find all kinds of neat stuff.

I like to see how forums got started way, way back!

Seeing Mod's and staff goin for the first time and some of the very old junk!

Here is a link I start from time to time. When the site slows down, I like to read old post's.

Here is one of the old area's I like to start!

Oldest Posts

[iland99]

That's a cool link!

I like this post:

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Avoid Owatonna Gas Stations. They are at $1.80/gal. Faribault which is 15 miles north is at $1.57/gal. <P>Kwik Trip is in both towns and has the same gas supplier for both areas. You guessed it, they are keeping the prices in line with the others in town.<P>Stay away from Owatonna Gas Stations.

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[Shack]

Ya. it is neat

Also more infomation is spilled over by the original guys.

A little more info than is posted now a days.

[wishing for walleyes]

I bought one of those vista cams off this site and still use it. But i am thinking of getting a new marcum color camera,but not sure if it would be worth the steep price

[JP Z]

wishing, color is nice an all but in most MN lakes you have a high Algae tint so the image is very green. That and they aren't great at low light.