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What is the best way to setup the aqua-vu for ice fishing?
I have an aqua-vu scout and I seem to leave it at home more than not. I end up messing around with it more than fishing when I take it, its hard to keep camera on your bait and at right depth.
anyone have any suggestions? Is the tripod worth buying?
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yeah reg your camrea so it is faceing down at your bait not sideways to the bait.. this will do two things for ya. one make it so you can see the bait much easyer. two not spook the fish that are at the deepth your fishing at..
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I don't have an aquaview but I do have one of those cheaper fish tv's. Is there a special way to adapt the camera to point down Fuzzy or did you have to make your own rigging?
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my aqua-vu has a mount that bolts on with a place for the cord catch it and hole it poited down.. i'm sure you could rig someting to your's to get it to work the same way..
oh and take the weights off you dont need them and they will only kick you camrea off to the side!
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I'm cheap but I just use my video/digital camera tripod. Its a good idea since you don't have a good idea which way its pointing to get some waterproof white paint, hang the fish camera end over a house or something, see which way the camera is pointing and paint one side of the cord white. That way when your fishing, you see the white painted line and you know which direction the camera is pointed. Overall, the camera is kindof a pain. The only place I found that was worth it was ice fishing at strawberry where you have a lot of visibility.
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Fuzzy has it right. Rig the camera so it is pointed straight down. In good water clarity you can see more and the camera is suspended above your jig. If you do not have a tripod you can simply twist the cord of the camera until you see your jig. You have to cut two holes right next to each other. However, at the Berry I have seen the cuts come up and put their whole mouth over the camera. Pretty incredible considering the the size of the camera (aqua-vu).
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I bought the motorized tripod and LOVE IT!!!!!! No joke it as worth every red cent!!! I like to have my camera sitting level instead of down with if I have a tripod with me. The reason is I can see fish that are farther away as they swim buy so I can try to attract them in closer by working the bait. But thats just my two cents.
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I took a couple 1 foot pieces of about 1/4" X 1 1/2" wood, drilled a 1/4" hole 1" in from each end & put a 1 1/2" carriage bolt through both ends of one of them. Put them together with the camera cable between them and clamp them lightly together with wing nuts. You can then put the thing across the hole, fine tune your depth and simply turn it to orient your camera to point where you want it. Just don't clamp the contraption too tight on the cable. Dunno how much abuse the cable will take like that. It takes very little squeeze to hold it. Don't think I've got more than a buck invested in it & it works for me.
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With the wood made clamp you could clamp the wood so it is pointed the same direction as the camera, and ideally know which way the camera is pointed.
I like the Idea, I'll have to try it.
Thanks for all the great feedback, It's amazing the ideas that come out in these forums.
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Good one. Thats my project this weekend. Thanks for the ingenuity.
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]. When I find what I want, I drill one hole about 1- 2 feet away, set up my shelter and alignt my second fishing hole in a straight line with the other two. Depending on water clarity I can usually see both setups with ease. I dont believe the camera bothers the fish at all. Most times I will have several fish come right up to the lens and 
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