OK what is everyone using to hold the underwater camera at the right depth and direction ??
Tripods? Disks? Homemade ?
Thanks 
February 3, 2011 at 6:30 pm
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camera holder
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February 3, 2011 at 6:48 pm #933383
When I don’t need to rotate the camera often or at all I use the Camera Compass. They’re cheap… and basically indestructible. This type of camera cable “disk” could be made at home fairly easily.
When I want to be able to rotate the camera head remotely… the new Camera Panner linked below works slick.
February 3, 2011 at 6:53 pm #933386Camera Panner
X2 on the ice.
Fingers in the boat!
February 3, 2011 at 7:04 pm #933391panner forsure! especially when you have the cord to your camera running outside and your sitting in your nice warm ice house rotating the camera head looking for fish!
February 3, 2011 at 7:38 pm #933408Picked up the panner this year. No more bending over to adjust the camera
Have heard a few guys say they were placing it outside the portable to save room inside February 3, 2011 at 8:17 pm #933424Quote:
Picked up the panner this year. No more bending over to adjust the camera
Have heard a few guys say they were placing it outside the portable to save room inside
That’s why they put such a long cord on it. As the cameras continue to use better and better optics anglers will be able to move the cameras further from the hole they’re fishing. In clear water when using the new SD series cams it is common for me to have the camera 6+ feet away from the hole being fished which means on a cold day when I’m fishing in a portable that puts the camera head outside of the shack with the monitor and the camera panner toggle inside. Talk about convenient! If I had to go outside of the shack to turn the head every time I wanted to re-adjust I guess I wouldn’t be very likely to use the camera this way.
February 3, 2011 at 11:31 pm #933518OK what is everyone using to hold the underwater camera at the right depth and direction ??
Clay Matthews works for me.
February 7, 2011 at 8:17 pm #934723Here is something I put together this weekend because I couldn’t afford the $50 for the panner.
The board is 12″ long and the V is at 6″, made out of a old road sign. total cost $7.00 (for the gripper).
February 7, 2011 at 8:53 pm #934743Very nice!!! I love DIY projects.
February 8, 2011 at 2:13 pm #935006The Marcum panner is worth it’s weight in gold….especially for those who fish solo, no more going out to turn the camera an inch and then back into the house to see if my lure is in the shot. The fact that it runs just off C batteries is another plus. I have my camera hole 4 feet outside my flipover so the long cord is another plus.
February 8, 2011 at 4:50 pm #935088Where we fish in LaCrosse you will be lucky to see 3 ft so the camera is really the third hole in a line and you can barely see the farthest spoon or flash bait in the third hole.
Panner could be in the future but I am just getting back into ice fishing after 20yrs and have all ready dropped a couple hundred bucks on all the other “needed, best of items”.
February 8, 2011 at 10:10 pm #935239I made something very similar to the cleat on a board above. I cut the notch from the far end, though, so that it runs about half the length of the board, and also just glued down L-shaped holders for the cord so that I could space them a little farther apart – didn’t want to “overbend” the cord, especially when it was cold, just to keep from overstressing the wiring and causing an intermittent break.
The other thing I did was to take a file and round all the edges so that they wouldn’t wear on the camera cord so badly. Then I doused the whole thing in a heavy oil-based paint (think it was some leftover rustoleum from another project).
Seems to work as well as anything I ever expected. Total cost: free if you have a scrap 1×4 piece sitting around.
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