50 to 60 FOW. It’s dark down there!

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 28, 2009 at 2:04 am #1300539

    Most people would put their camera away. Locater only at that depth.

    This is a perfect place for the Marcum line of under water cameras!

    It’s kinda neet coming nose to nose with a shovelnose sturgeon in it’s home waters!

    I’m starting to get the Sturgeon Flu so to speak!

    I haven’t looked at these photos in a year. I’m still amazed that anything works at this depth!

    Looking in the background, I would guess this would be where the stories of divers not willing to go back in the water they came from. Can you imagine being at 50 feet in that darkness and have a 30 pound flathead, and eel or even a 10 pound walleye come swimming out of the darkness towards you?

    francisco4
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 3607
    October 28, 2009 at 2:08 am #812112

    cool picts BK! Does Dean still rent out cameras?

    FDR

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 28, 2009 at 2:13 am #812114

    Ya know…I don’t think so. We don’t talk much. When I see him his mouth is generally filled with cookies that were left for me.

    Pete Bauer
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2599
    October 28, 2009 at 2:14 am #812115

    That’s pretty amazing, BK.

    Can any other camera even compare at those depths?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 28, 2009 at 2:18 am #812116

    Well, yes!

    St Croixer sent me a link to a acoustic imaging device that did a very nice job although it’s not really a true photo.

    Price tag you ask? $175,000.00 (keep the change)

    Pete Bauer
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2599
    October 28, 2009 at 2:23 am #812119

    Quote:

    Well, yes!

    St Croixer sent me a link to a acoustic imaging device that did a very nice job although it’s not really a true photo.

    Price tag you ask? $175,000.00 (keep the change)

    Oh really, only 175k? …

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 28, 2009 at 2:34 am #812123

    Only one thing keeping me from getting a couple of those….jail time!

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    October 28, 2009 at 12:43 pm #812161

    Those are awesome pics Mr. K

    They sure would make some awesome screen savers

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    October 28, 2009 at 1:38 pm #812170

    State record material?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 28, 2009 at 2:12 pm #812179

    She could be close…for a shovelnose.

    armchairdeity
    Phoenix, AZ, formerly from the NW 'Burbs, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Posts: 1620
    October 31, 2009 at 7:11 am #813002

    I caught one of those once! Well, not a record one, but a shovelnose, anyway.

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