Under water cameras on LOTW

  • drakesdemise
    Residing in St. Paul, MN doing weekly travel throughout the five state Upper Midwest
    Posts: 976
    January 4, 2010 at 3:30 am #1285591

    With the stained water, do the cameras work on LOTW?
    Good luck
    cheers

    mark-bruzek
    Two Harbors, MN
    Posts: 3867
    January 4, 2010 at 3:44 am #829201

    Nope, sorry to burst a bubble if there was one. Roll a vexilar or marcum. -.ark

    drakesdemise
    Residing in St. Paul, MN doing weekly travel throughout the five state Upper Midwest
    Posts: 976
    January 4, 2010 at 3:51 am #829202

    Oh my LX-5 will be there regardless
    I was thinking about sending the camera with another one of the houses if nobody in their group had a flasher.
    Sound like a waste of time from what I’m hearing…
    Good luck
    cheers

    love2fish
    Shoreview, Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 1024
    January 4, 2010 at 2:04 pm #829271

    A camera on LOTW’s is a complete waste of time. Tried one last year. Can’t see a thing.

    Stick with the flasher and you’ll be fine.

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    January 4, 2010 at 3:44 pm #829312

    I heard the water clarity was very good this year compared to normal on LOW… Has anyone tried a camera THIS YEAR yet??? Any reports would be much appreciated!!

    Mike

    nailbender
    Posts: 82
    January 4, 2010 at 5:47 pm #829355

    I just got back and the water was plenty dirty. You could see down around three feet and in 28′ of water, it was too dark to see near the bottom.

    buckshot
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 1654
    January 4, 2010 at 8:45 pm #829421

    Just got back yesterday…one of the guys brought one all excited to use it….he’d never been to LOTW before….he was bummed out because he couldn’t see anything.

    j_d
    Warroad, MN
    Posts: 131
    January 4, 2010 at 10:24 pm #829465

    You won’t need a camera, bring up the ol flasher and you will be all set.

    drakesdemise
    Residing in St. Paul, MN doing weekly travel throughout the five state Upper Midwest
    Posts: 976
    January 8, 2010 at 12:38 pm #830977

    The camera was intended for the guys that don’t have a flasher. I kept the LX-5 with me.
    The camera actually worked. I have the lower end Marcum camera and the viewing ranges was about 4-5 feet.
    We had 4 seperate houses and I knew that it would be good entertainment for the house that otherwise didn’t have any electronics.
    Fishing was fair-good.
    2-1/2 days of fishing with 15 people, amounted to a big fish fry on night #2 and 30 fish goinig home with people.
    I would say that for every bucket fish, 2 were released.
    Obviously most of the fish caught were too small, but a few nice slot fish were C&R, including 1-19″, 1-20″, 3-23″ and 1-24″.
    Nothing over 24″…
    Good luck
    cheers

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