07-07-2014, 10:22 PM
I have a gopro hero 3 black camera and I have use it twice while fishing, fly fishing to be more exact.
I fished for bluegill the 1st time. The footage was decent but forget being able to see your indicator pad going down, its just too small of detail to pick up from 30 feet away.
I would definitely do the head mount, I use my ski helmet mount to get the videos and one thing that helps is to raise the fish up to lens, otherwise the fish look pretty small. The chest mount is a major disappointment as it faces down....like at your feet. That might be great for a skateboard but not much else!
I had a 27 to 28 inch rainbow come right up to shore and take my dry fly, fought the fish for 15 minutes, and then my hand touched the reel and snapped my line. The gopro caught my "hero to zero" moment pretty well.
One last thing.....I would watch how much memory you take up with you SD card and your computer by making the videos too long. I would throw 3 or 4 casts, then restart the camera to a new video. Repeat till you catch a fish!
When it gets cold the camera battery will lose it's life. This is where I loved my old gorpro with the AAA batteries. You could take those out and warm them with your hands. The internal battery on the new ones will not allow you to do so.
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I fished for bluegill the 1st time. The footage was decent but forget being able to see your indicator pad going down, its just too small of detail to pick up from 30 feet away.
I would definitely do the head mount, I use my ski helmet mount to get the videos and one thing that helps is to raise the fish up to lens, otherwise the fish look pretty small. The chest mount is a major disappointment as it faces down....like at your feet. That might be great for a skateboard but not much else!
I had a 27 to 28 inch rainbow come right up to shore and take my dry fly, fought the fish for 15 minutes, and then my hand touched the reel and snapped my line. The gopro caught my "hero to zero" moment pretty well.
One last thing.....I would watch how much memory you take up with you SD card and your computer by making the videos too long. I would throw 3 or 4 casts, then restart the camera to a new video. Repeat till you catch a fish!
When it gets cold the camera battery will lose it's life. This is where I loved my old gorpro with the AAA batteries. You could take those out and warm them with your hands. The internal battery on the new ones will not allow you to do so.
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