Underwater camera's

[Don317]

Anyone experience this when ice fishing ?
OVS or Aqua vu colored lites scaring the fish. IR lites seem to be OK

[Guest]

this is true. my friend and i take the camera out once in while in our permanent house on millacs. We keep the camera down one of holes turned off. When we pick up a fish on the vexilar, we turn the camera on. at night when the infra red lights are necessary, the fish are spooked immediately when the multicolor lights are turned on.

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[cold one sd]

I have also been told that the colored IRs spook fish and the clear ones don't. Gills dissapear when the colored IRs are turned on.

[Guest]

WOW! GOOD QUESTION! Just yesterday I experienced the same thing. The Vex was loaded with crappie. The bite was real light and few and far between. I figured as long as I wasn't catching anything maybe I could learn somthing. Sure enough I did. I switched between the three choices of lights a few times just to see how much the lights helped or hindered. Next thing I know the fish are all gone, so I shut the camera off. Within a minute or two they were all back again. I tried this a couple times just to see if the test was accurate. Turn on HI VU fish go away. Turn HI VU off one minute later fish all seemed to return.

I do love my motorized camera control. Thats awesome!

[Guest]

Flapjack:
How clear is your picture with that camarea (day and night)(clear water and stained)?I'm thinking of ordering one, I like the motorized camara idea.

[Guest]

Can someone please explain the motorized arm...It sounds interesting. Thanks

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[Don317]

ELW
The OVS 500 underwater camera by Marcu technologies has this as part of the package.
It is a 10" arm that fits over the ice hole
that has a motor that turns the camera cable.On the monitor ,left and right arrow
keys allows you to turn the camera, plus on screen info as to direction. Great tool and a great underwater camera package. Look it up on their web.
Don317

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[Guest]

The rotating arm is great! Takes time away from lifting and moving. I haven't had any occurances with scaring fish but have witnessed it happen a couple times when fishing with friends. You could try rigging the camera facing stright down?
Good Fishing, Matt.

[Guest]

I've done a bit of research on this and it seems that sometimes it bothers them and others not. Just have to test each situation and see how the fish react. Hows that for an answer.

[Guest]

Hogghunter:

The picture on the camera seems to pretty good. My buddy fishes with a Vista Cam,I've used as Aqua View in the past and I couldn't really say that any one was better than the other as far as picture quality. What I like about the Marcum is the screen size,portability, and the motorized camera control.