Marcum VS825SD Underwater Camera with 8 inch screen
 

Just got a Marcum 825 SD and can't wait to try it out.

8" screen, black and white and color, directional arrow onscreen to show you, in relation to the screen, which way the camera is looking, temperature, and depth readouts, all onscreen. A detachable tail fin stabilizer for slow trolling to keep the camera facing forward, or for any current conditions.

Should be a fun toy to use and see what structure is under the boat and to keep my 4 year old daughter occupied.

Once I get out and use it, I'll post some stuff about it.
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That will be neat to see. I have thought about getting one but since I fish OH and its version of clear water figured I'd have to pretty much run into it to see it.

How deep can it go? Is there a light?

My first stops with one of those would be the old locks at 218 and 237. They hold fish year round all species.

Congrats.....I've thought about getting a small version.



Regards

Used to have one for Icefishing! So fun to use!!

Here is a video shot with the 825SD. If it can "see" this good in the Mississippi, it should be able see in OH. We'll find out this week!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEsvu...jdddI6Gdi-4Js3

Awesome video! Goes to show you how sauger stay close to the bottom! I could be wrong, but almost looked like there were some Ciscos in there with them? Don't know if they're in the upper Mississippi. I'll bet MNfisher will know...

That was an awesome video and shows exactly how you can miss fish on your sonar in the sonar's blind spot by laying on the bottom.

Since it says it is in pool 4, i can guarantee that is in the hole right below the dam in RedWing, MN. Not many areas of the Mississippi in the upper pools reach over 60 feet of water. In feb--late march you can jig in that hole and it isn't uncommon to catch over a hundred sauger in a day, but you will struggle your butt off to get one over 14". As far as ciscos, i have no idea, all i know is we would catch several species of suckers/quillback/whotheheckknows every year from the Mississippi.

And Agelesssone, as far as comparing the clarity to Old Hickory. In the winter when there is no runoff, which is when the video was filmed since the water temp was at 38 degrees, the clarity of the Mississippi in Pool 4 is very clear. I have seen it around 12-15 ft of clarity. Probably around 8-12 ft clarity all winter.

That could be one heckuva tool on Center Hill and Dale Hollow.... It should work well on the upper end of Old Hickory too..

Would work great at Nickajack.



Regards

That's really neat, but would probably fustrate me. I would be watching all these fish and would be like "I know there's fish here and can't catch them". I think I feel better just thinking to myself "there are no fish here" if I'm not catching.

I was thinking Dale Hollow or Center Hill would be great. Find a big Musky, or where the smallmouth are and hopefully spot some pigs.

Jeremy

Jeremy, Icefishing with those things, while are a blast, can be soooooo frustrating, watching huge walleyes, gills, and crappies just staring at ur jig and never getting one to commit!

Used the camera very little in the river yesterday just to see what it was like.
Had fun playing with it, but it got in the way of fishing!
We could see very well in the murky depths (13-17 ft) of the Cumberland river. The bottom where we were looking was very up and down and had to constantly lift and drop the camera. I can see it is going to be fun in a more stable bottom and clearer water. Gonna be good for checking out deeper structure to see what is there.

Also, got schooled on river fishing by aquaholic. The man is a fishing machine and he knows the Cumberland river better than I know my backyard.

We caught a lot of fish yesterday in cold front conditions. White bass, crappie, largemouth, Kentuckys, GAR! I hadn't caught a gar in years and yesterday I caught two in successive casts, missed on the third cast and caught another on the next cast. Time to reposition the boat.

Conservative estimate....70-90 fish, with Harry catching the majority. He probably outfished me 5-1 but the education I got on current affecting the fish, locations, presentations, baits....outstanding! Would have paid him a guide fee if he wanted. As it was, I had to hide gas money in one of his little tackle packs cause he didn't want any.

Looking forward to getting out and doing it again! Thanks H!

Yeah fishing was a little tougher than usual with the bluebird sky, cold front conditions and the water level dropping and rising most of the day.. 3 generators , then 2 then down to 1 then back to 2.it was about an average day for this time of year....most of the time the fish in the River dont care what the water level is, they just like it to be consistent ....

Any day on the River is a good day.......:cool:

[QUOTE=agelesssone;30154]Would have paid him a guide fee if he wanted. As it was, I had to hide gas money in one of his little tackle packs cause he didn't want any.


Pot meet Kettle. LOL Sounds like somebody I fished with once also. Sounds like you guys had a great time.