Underwater imaging - a different perspective

[Alby]

Good morning ladies and gents,
I'm planning to fish the Larry quite a bit this summer, and been asking alot of questions re: where to launch, what to look for, etc.

Got a different perspective from a lady yesterday; she's a scubadiver, that once did charters on the Mighty St Lawrence. Her perspective was very cool; she never gave me exact hot spots, but she did say that she'd see tons of bass in areas where there are slopes, or steep ridges, where deep current washes up onto these ridges. She said it looked like "mushrooom clouds" , where current would wash up on these ridges, holding baitfish.

I thought it was pretty cool, to compare what we see on our viewfinders, to what they see directly underwater.

Lookin' forward to soft water and fishing the Larry for the first time this summer.

Bryan

[Doug]

Down around Kingston where Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence meet, the water clarity is amazing because of zebra mussels. So for example around Wolfe Island you can see the big smallmouth from your boat. Of course, the smallies can see you too.............

[RJ]

I always talk to the divers when I can.

Amazed to be told the exact spot where they hand feed giant Walleye nightcrawlers by hand. 70 FOW just off current. I drove over the area and sure as hell they were there.

Unfishable fish but neat to hear the tales.

RJ

[PMac]

Maybe I should just hire a Scuba Diver instead of prefishing for tournaments. The money I would save on gas alone would probably pay for it.

[StarTzar]

Maybe I should just hire a Scuba Diver instead of prefishing for tournaments. The money I would save on gas alone would probably pay for it.

Last year, with Renagade Bass, we got our basses severely handed to us. (There and Here)
I'm thinking that we could use two or three Scuba Divers for this coming season.

[MichaelGA]

Back when I was on the pacific coast I would quite often wade in and scuba-dive around some of the safer places where I fished, mainly the big piers / tide walls.

It was amazing what you could learn about where fish would hide / hold at different times and tides.

Now you could probably do the same thing with fancy cameras from a boat around things / structure you've marked, no need to get wet.

[lape0019]

Definitely a great way to learn a few things. Thanks for sharing!

[Yakster]

I never thought of speaking with divers although i haven't seen many on the Ottawa.

The next thing in fishing social media....24hr webcams on your favourite structure.

[Flooded]

Very interesting to hear a diver's perspective on this. It creates a nice three-dimensional image of what is apparent if you take a look at a chart of the St. Lawrence. Those drops and ridges are all over the place, and the bass and walleye that they hold are fishable--even the deep ones. There are guys fishing the river who concentrate almost exclusively on depths in excess of 50', with the preferred poison being a heavy bottom bouncer and a spinner rig/crawler. It's not the most exciting fishing--at times, it seems more like "dredging"--but it works. It'll also bring a person face-to-face with more round gobies than one would care to meet in a lifetime.

[zippyfx]

Neat thread!

I saw some fishin' Canada episodes last season that had scuba elements:

- long Sault: http://fishncanada.com/431-fishing-the- ... -cornwall/

Here is a post about a spot near Cardinal on wreck: http://fishncanada.com/fishing-a-shipwreck/

This is one from Vancouver Island in Cambell River

http://fishncanada.com/432-swimming-with-the-salmon-2/

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