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underwater viewing bucket?
Hey everyone.
This may sound a bit strange, but I was talking to my dad recently about how I would like to be able to see into the water that I fish a bit better, and get a bit of an idea what is in there ( the part of the river I fish is very murky, most of the time you can only see about 10cm into the water). He suggester that I got a bucket, chopped the bottom out of it, and replaced it with a piece of perspex, you then put the bottom of the bucket into the water and look into it. He reckons he always used to use one and apparently, it allows you to get past the glare, and see into the water really well. I thought this was an interesting idea, so I decided to share it and see what everyone thought about it. So has anyone else tried anything like this? has it worked? any other thoughts, ideas or suggestions? Thanks. Have a good one.
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if its as murky as u say then you will only ever see that far... bucket or no bucket... kick the bucket mate...
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They've actually been selling mass produced versions of what your talking about for years do a search online.
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here`s one .....http://www.biasboating.com.au/p-622-...ope-small.aspx
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It would remove glare and light distortion from chop etc it so might be useful in CLEAR water.
I could just imagine someone spotting salmon with a bucket, running from beach to beach sticking it underwater too look for fish. Elevation and polaroid sunnies are the best way to see into water. but, a clear bottomed bucket would be pretty handy in your canoe. A large flat bottomed jar would be more practical though i think. |
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I have seen them in DohDohDoh,around $10 i think,,
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Bluewater Scarborough have one. Ring first. Its kind of mind boggling seeing 200 Salmon swim past your face. All those yellow eyes.
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My dad made one that was actually quite good, but out of bucket size poly pipe, worked really well in the leschenault estuary on his old catamaran.
could see the bottom in about 2-3m quite easily, but dont know how well it would work in murky water. Last edited by breamin_george; 15-04-2010 at 11:43 AM. |
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I did the same. It was great for seeing what fish were around in clear water up to around 4 or 5 metres. Murky water would render it useless.
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Hmmm, ok so it seems that it won't help me see into the murky water very well. Is there any other way to see into murky water?
Thanks for all you're help guys.
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send conehead a message, his old man ( RALPHY) has a cracker!!
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Good but think bigger me thinks.
www.toxel.com/tech/2008/07/06/transparent-canoe/ I did see a sit on kayak at one of the camping shows with built clear viewing portal. Last edited by Charlie; 16-04-2010 at 03:46 AM. |
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they work a treat in the right situation - maily used on boats
i use one on a reef with a crab net to catch crayfish / lobster. drop the net down, grab the viewer and watch .... crayfish goes over the net then haul it up |
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