GoPRO - Tips, Tricks and Riggings

I have 2 Gopro's (fixed overhead and pole mounts) and a regular mini (JVC) video hand held.
 
I love the underwater shots. Should be out of the way enough but what about one strapped to ( i know its tacky) a side bouy left down. Right at the water line. So it would sort of dip in and out and give you shots of you fighting the fish plus underwater shots of the fish coming in. Or it could just make you seasick watching it lol but clips might be able to be used if you were making a little movie or something.
 
spring time said:
it's funny a thread about taking pictures and no one can take a picture of there set up
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Was thinking the same thing!

I'm just not smart enough to envision how you guys have strapped the camera to a boat hook or other kind of pole.

The other challenge I have is that my boat is a soft top with no radar arch (next season hopefully), so I will have to come up with something to mount up high.
 
OK-a bit of a challenge -I'll find my old camera and get a few shots-in the shop of how we mount or move the GO-Pro around.
 
Ok Here is what we have set-up on Spring Fever-I'm sure there are better set-ups but somebody asked to at least see a set-up. The second shot is on the rear rail-could go there while a fish is being played off the starboard side if you don't want to hold it. third shot is on the centre rear rail for playing a fish behind the boat. last shot is the usual position -gets the rear deck-rods popping off and from here you move the camera down to the #2and3 positions on the rear rail. As the fish is getting tighter we go to position 1 which is a 6 ft piece of 3/4 PVC capped so it is water tight-with a slight rt angle-allows tight under water shots right beside the net or reaching out for that underwater shot on each quarter. Sorry the pics are in the wrong order and had noone to demo the underwater PVC boom.
 

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You could just put a spreader bar inline on your downrigger...fasten a release clip to the end of the bar...clamp the camera onto the bar. You would have to keep the gear very close to the downrigger cable for the camera to see the fish hit the bait. Maybe 10-15 feet max...especially in summer when the water can cloud up.
 
Great thread FB. Some excellent ideas here.

Couple things...the multiple angle thing can be pretty cool, can edit that into a good video. I like using an inset window showing both angles at once. Only thing is, if you are using a handheld, it can wreck the gopro shot (looks goofy and lame to have someone standing there with a camera) because the gopro films such a wide angle, you can't get out of the shot. So that takes some creative editing.

For rain drops on lens, x2, that really sucks! A buddy who does a lot of surfing filming swears by rain-x to have it bead off quicker. I haven't tried it yet. The other big complaint from surfing use is fogging on inside of lens. I haven't had this problem yet, but that would be lame....can't wipe it out without opening camera.

Here's my experiments, gopro ones within last 10 or 11 months: http://www.youtube.com/juandesooka
 
profisher said:
You could just put a spreader bar inline on your downrigger...fasten a release clip to the end of the bar...clamp the camera onto the bar. You would have to keep the gear very close to the downrigger cable for the camera to see the fish hit the bait. Maybe 10-15 feet max...especially in summer when the water can cloud up.
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Good idea, hmmm.... So you would attach the cannonball to the bottom of the spreader bar and the release clip and gopro to the long arm? Any ideas of the best way to actually attach the gopro to it and not having to worry about losing it?
 
Editing...Windows Movie Maker is basic and good enough. Comes free as a part of Windows, before Version 7. But you can still download and install free.

One problem though is it only works with AVI and WMV files, won't work with other formats. I got sick of the hassles of converting, and bought Corel Videostudio. Easy to use, happy with it. Adobe Premier is the biggie, pro quality, but apparently expensive and not intuitive to use.

If you're an Apple person, iMovie is supposed to be good.
 
Honestly to secure it properly to the spreader bar (as you don't want to loose the camera) I would have a small mounting plate welded to the bar so you could mount it securely to that. It is stainless to easy enough to weld a small stainless mount to it. I have used the spreader bar mounted to the rigger this way to fish halibut in faster currents when a 2 pound ball won't keep the gear on the bottom. I afix one of the old school green Scotty release clips to the long end of the bar and use the red pin on the rod. halibut hits, pops the pin...no weight...bring up the weight and spreader bar on the rigger.
 
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