Shearon Harris 9/30 with under water footage

Well, water temps are still up, 75.4 on the Garmin all day. I've only been to Harris a few times so most of the brush or structure I know of had boats on it and other sites that didn't just didn't have any fish on them. So I muttered around playing Jacques Cousteau along the salad for bream.

With the algae content up so high still I only have about 3-3.5ft visibility in one direction, then everything looks like a German U Boat, so video isn't the best means of finding anything but I did find some fish to view. Later in the year when the algae dies off it should produce some great video and of course be better on some crappie. I am learning alot on jig colors and visibility though. Its pretty weird to get to a certian depth and see the loss of color. One of my goals this year is to see how all that relates to jig colors that produce and if there is anything that can be gained from it. So I didn't catch much in the traditional sence but what a beautiful day on the water.

The jerkyness you see is from me trolling to fast and the drag on the cabling causing vibration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP2tWL5_Bwg

Very cool Woody. I have thought many times about rigging up some kind of underwater camera myself.
That looked like a pretty nice bass that almost collided with the camera one time about 3/4 through the video.
It really lets you know just how much vegetation there is at Harris Lake and how healthy the fishery is there.
I look forward to seeing more of your underwater footage in the future.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks K,

Its suprising to find out some things about a lake. Where vegitation lines are and such. Most of Harris is a light sandy bottom with little to no salad at all. I've worked in R&D since I got out of the service, mostly weapons and the last tweleve years in the hunting industry, so I'm a lot like you in the the way I gotta find out how stuff works and see it for myself. Also my three year old daughter loves the video when I get home from fishing. She helps with the download, editing and the whole process. I'll be getting her in the boat next spring and she'll likely take over till her little brother steps up and fights her for it. Gonna be fun!

Woody,
Great video, I want it as my screen saver. Sure are a lot of Crappie in your video, you should have been longlining behind the boat about the same depth as the camera was.
Thanks for taking the time to video and post this for us to view.

Kim

That is WAY cool!!! Thanks for sharing that!!!

Glad you guys liked it. Its pretty hard to control the camera, I'd probly loose it if I was trying to fish at the same time. You gotta react fast or loose it when it gets hung up.

Awesome Woody.How deep was the water?

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Awesome Woody.How deep was the water?

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Most of that is in 6-12 ft.

That's some great footage. Ater seeing some of that video I'da put the camera up and got my long lines out in the water though.Thumbs Up

excellent THANKS

very good video woody Thumbs Up :cool:

always knew rock piles were loaded! thanks and great video

Woody:

I always wanted to be able to do underwater videos; what did you use Aqua Vu or some other system?

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Woody:

I always wanted to be able to do underwater videos; what did you use Aqua Vu or some other system?

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I like and use the Marcum units. I'm also experimenting with some small HD cam's in water proof housings.

What type of camera were you using? Brand, etc. I have been thinking of looking into one. It looks like you got one that works good.

Bo Bryant

That's pretty cool video!

For what it's worth, I looked at a geological map for the Shearon Harris area, and the underlying rocks for about 1/3 of the lake is "redbrown mudstone/siltstone" and the other 2/3 of the lake (the southern 2/3 part) is underlaid by "poorly sorted fanglomerate with metamorphic and igneous clasts". In conversational English, that means a mudstone/sandstone with hard, non-limestone rocks randomly embedded in the sandstone/mudstone rock. Just another random fact about Shearon Harris lake environment; I haven't been able (yet) to see if the basement rocks make any difference in the fishing. I kinda doubt it will, since the basement rocks are not limestone - nor are the rocks in the lake's drainage area.

WT

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That's pretty cool video!

For what it's worth, I looked at a geological map for the Shearon Harris area, and the underlying rocks for about 1/3 of the lake is "redbrown mudstone/siltstone" and the other 2/3 of the lake (the southern 2/3 part) is underlaid by "poorly sorted fanglomerate with metamorphic and igneous clasts". In conversational English, that means a mudstone/sandstone with hard, non-limestone rocks randomly embedded in the sandstone/mudstone rock. Just another random fact about Shearon Harris lake environment; I haven't been able (yet) to see if the basement rocks make any difference in the fishing. I kinda doubt it will, since the basement rocks are not limestone - nor are the rocks in the lake's drainage area.

WT

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No, not "poorly sorted fanglomerate with metamorphic and igneous clasts". I was afraid of that.
Just messin' with you WT. Good to hear from you.

That is VERY cool. Thanks for posting!

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Originally Posted by WhiskeyTango

That's pretty cool video!

For what it's worth, I looked at a geological map for the Shearon Harris area, and the underlying rocks for about 1/3 of the lake is "redbrown mudstone/siltstone" and the other 2/3 of the lake (the southern 2/3 part) is underlaid by "poorly sorted fanglomerate with metamorphic and igneous clasts". In conversational English, that means a mudstone/sandstone with hard, non-limestone rocks randomly embedded in the sandstone/mudstone rock. Just another random fact about Shearon Harris lake environment; I haven't been able (yet) to see if the basement rocks make any difference in the fishing. I kinda doubt it will, since the basement rocks are not limestone - nor are the rocks in the lake's drainage area.

WT

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I was filming in the southern 2/3 of the lake. Most of the bottom there was a light colored "sandy" bottom with not much silt to plume when disturbed except around vegitation, then it was dark. This morning I was trying to film at Buckhorn out of Wilson. The water there is just as clear but the bottom is dark everywhere and if even lightly touched it looks like a muzzle loader went off on the camera. The dark bottom reduces the light so much that visibility is cut down to about 1.5ft in Buckhorn.

It will be interesting to see how things progress through the winter as the algae dies. I will probly be at Searon Harris or Jordon a lot over the winter. I'm gonna go where the best view is and start documenting anything I can on fish behavior, jig color or what ever.

An interesting find...While at Harris last week I noticed a significant loss of warm colours at 15ft, at Buckhorn today it was at 11ft. At first I thought it might have been just a camer issue. I went around and tested in shady spots and in direct sunlight and sure enough there was a difference and it wasn't just the camera. Returning to previous locations showed the same results. I've read a lot on colour loss at depth and the variables that contribute to it but to see it is something. Its like a light switch and very noticable. I think those colour indicators might have more merit than I had thought, that is if they consider those other variables that decrease or increase the depth in which colour is lost.

Very cool video. Harris is a great lake for fishing.

Glad you fella's liked it, I hope to bring a bunch more over the winter.

This is an old post, but wanted to see the video. Has anyone heard from Woody Sanford? Can anyone find a copy of this video and post it?

any idea why it is saying the video is unavailable?

dohhh I now see the date.

Glad for the follow-up.
It's been so long I do not remember the video and would like to see it again. Also purchased the Aqua-Vu but have the same problem with the camera squirming about due to the flimsy connection cord. Hopefully I'll come up with a solution this year a share underwater views of my bream and crappie outings.