A section for bait boats

[elmoputney]

50 minutes ago, jules007 said:

I really dont need GPS on a boat to send it out 30 yards or so and drop rig and bait under a tree or the likes, as for battery i will end up using a 2S lipo from the many i have or making a Li-ion 2S battery from a set of 26650 cells i have a lot of choice from my stock of rc gear, TBH if i wanted to be silly i could put a pair of brushless 5200kv motors and have it go like the clappers, but no point, i will be mounting a Runcam Thumb micro camera to the deck for some footage

That first comment is how it starts 😂

Then you start to notice other things that would be useful 👍would be good to see some cheap boat mods that work though so good luck with it. 

[jules007]

I did maiden voyage of the bargain bucket bait boat, all i can say it does what it claims to do and for the price its stunning, here is some footage from my on board mini action camera  

 

[elmoputney]

On 17/05/2025 at 20:41, jules007 said:

I did maiden voyage of the bargain bucket bait boat, all i can say it does what it claims to do and for the price its stunning, here is some footage from my on board mini action camera  

 

Very good, i didn't see the point of a boat camera until I watched this but I can now see I was wrong, could be useful for identifying far bank snags. would be interested to see how the hopper works 👍

[jules007]

3 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Very good, i didn't see the point of a boat camera until I watched this but I can now see I was wrong, could be useful for identifying far bank snags. would be interested to see how the hopper works 👍

The camera i use can be linked to a VTX for FPV, at present its just for recording.

The hopper is a flipper and dont like ejecting wet particles like corn, a fair bit sticks in the hopper but dry bait like boillies fling out just fine

[Carpbell3]

Was going to ask if you could do live video wireless, don't know if you have ever seen a boats hull hatch but the underwater view you get is clear as day they work like a bucket viewer, always thought a camera fitted to the bottom of a boat set into the hull to give that same surround shading you get looking through a bucket would work, getting a live feed back to the bank seems to be the tricky bit.

[elmoputney]

2 hours ago, Carpbell3 said:

Was going to ask if you could do live video wireless, don't know if you have ever seen a boats hull hatch but the underwater view you get is clear as day they work like a bucket viewer, always thought a camera fitted to the bottom of a boat set into the hull to give that same surround shading you get looking through a bucket would work, getting a live feed back to the bank seems to be the tricky bit.

I've seen one of the winch cameras in action, very good bit of kit, too expensive for me though. 

[jules007]

10 hours ago, Carpbell3 said:

Was going to ask if you could do live video wireless, don't know if you have ever seen a boats hull hatch but the underwater view you get is clear as day they work like a bucket viewer, always thought a camera fitted to the bottom of a boat set into the hull to give that same surround shading you get looking through a bucket would work, getting a live feed back to the bank seems to be the tricky bit.

Live view is easy just use rc FPV video transmitter, i have all the gear may give it a try