What's the coolest thing you've ever seen on your underwater camera?

[Fishing_Rookie_123_]

I will be using an underwater camera this year for the first time and I'm pretty excited about it. Just wondering what kinds of stuff you guys have seen down there.

[Grant Pearson]

I'd tell the weirdest thing I've seen, but this is a family forum.......

[Wanderer]

The camera locked on my jigging rap/minnow head on a sand flat on Mille Lacs from another hole 4 feet away. Great, right?

My hair raised as the musky moved in from behind the cam and stopped at my jig, blocking my view of it. The last 1/4 of it still behind the cam as he checked it out for about a minute it seemed.

I was getting nervous because the perch set up seemed a tad light for this one. Finally it just moves along and when my jig reappeared, there was no minnow head any more! It wasn't on the sand either!

[french_lake_kid]

A dentist view of a muskies mouth, I screamed like a little girl!

[jiggin pig]

Last year at winnie, I looked at the camera and saw a perch that was nose first in the silt. All of sudden out of now where a nothern hit him. He was there one second and in the northern's mouth the next. that was cool

[bradyd]

The flashlight that i dropped down the hole the weekend before. The thing was standing straight up with the light on the bottom. If only the loop would have been open i might have been able to get it

[Craigums]

A whole school of little perch scatter and then seconds later a big northern slowly swim through

[polarsusd81]

Very first time I used the new camera (about 5 or 6 years ago now) I put it in the hole on White Bear. My brother was sitting in the house with the moniter and I was lowering the camera, he starts screaming like a little girl and then I feel the hit and head shake and a good pull, then it let go. I went in to ask what the heck happened and he said it was a big muskie. It hit almost immediately after my brother switched from normal power to turn the lights on. I thought it would be the greatest thing ever from that point on, and it pretty much has been a really fun tool that I have learned a lot from over the years.

Tom

[PerchJerker]

Perch fishing on Winnie 2 or 3 years ago I had a school of pike come past, 5 or 6 of them that I could see on camera. Couldn't tell how big they were and they didn't want anything to do with my baits. Surprised me to see them schooled up, I always thought they were loners.

[berke99]

My gps, that fell out of my pocket in 17 feet of water! I did manage to hook the strap with a hook. The strap was floating up. I had to send the gps in to get fixed after that though.

[Gator Slayer]

Custom built deadstick with a shimano 500 symmetrye 1 trebble hook duct taped to 2 hockey sticks, a piece of 2x3 and a cut canoe paddle (thank god for cordless drills) and we got it back. Still attatched was the thief (2lb walleye pre-slot on upper red). The owner took a pic holding everything.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Well my brother just called me today. He was fishing on a small pond on one of our farms. My cousin and him were just starting to fish when a muskrat attacked his camera that looks like a crappie, then grabbed his bait. Luckly he didn't hook the dumb thing. He was awful excited when he called, would've been fun to see that.

[backlash 1]

Found an old time wagon in Wilson bay on Gull. Wood spoke wheels and the whole deal intact, right side up, just where it went down a long time ago.

Also found a sunken sailboat in Sylvan lake one day.

[captainstevo]

Hey Gator, U do believe I was just looking at those photos yesterday and wishing I still had access to that very nice sleeper we were in. I also believe that bug eyed blinded crappies that wont bite take away from the boredom of a long trip

[federline]

A bunch of crayfish standing on rocks going for our minnows. I even got one all the way up to the hole.

[An Area Lake]

This.........

From 12/05 - Camera setup distance of 8' from shiner. Photo taken with Palm Treo 650 while viewing Aqua Scout.

[dilleyo]

Out on Little Long lake in Minnetrista (I think) straight out from the launch about 40 yards there is a dock at the bottom with a toilet sitting upright on it....

[Hotspotter]

Last winter on URL, Jonny P and I couldn't figure out why one of the rentals wasn't kicking out crappies/walleyes one night. We put down the camera after seeing some mega-targets on our marcums, and saw two 20lb+ pike cruising together slowly measuring-up each of our baits. The more frantically we jigged, the more interest they'd each show, from one end of the house and back to the other. We couldn't get them to leave!

I think the coolest thing I regularly see is finicky panfish, and how valuable the camera can be. This weekend, many of the bluegill would suck/blow about 3 times, then eventually come back, take in the bait, then after 2-3 seconds, take the hook into their mouths. Then, and ONLY then, could you set the hook. Do it any sooner, and you'd spook them. Dietz was catching them without the camera, but I wasn't good enough!

Joel

[30 inch eyes]

my flourecent light that my brother kicked in the hole on url. that sucker stayed light for hours.

[Scott K]

But did it help you catch fish

[FrontenacPike]

A big beaver, at first I didn't know what it was because it was so close to the camera. It finally backed away and i was able to tell what it was. He bumped the camera several times, so after he left I bent over to adjust the tripod and the sucker came up the whole I was hunched over. I don't know who was more scared the beaver or me. Next time i see a beaver I'm staying back from the holes.

[danwilliams]

"Next time i see a beaver I'm staying back from the holes. "

Never mastered being able to do that that myself.....

[ilovehardwater]

killin me here on that one

[Minnetonka]

Quote: Out on Little Long lake in Minnetrista (I think) straight out from the launch about 40 yards there is a dock at the bottom with a toilet sitting upright on it....

That dock is a dive platform that is used to train divers. The Underwater Schools of America in Long Lake use it to train dive students. By using the platform they dont kick up silt.

[TommyJ33]

and they use the toilet down there, because you know how hard it is to go all the way back to shore and take off your wet suit