Underwater drone?

[fishinwrench]

Got to see one in action today.  Has sonar capability so you can find stuff (or schools of fish) then dive it down to take a look.  The lights make vision plenty good enough in the shade under docks, and oddly enough fish aren't spooked by it at all.   It even has a magnetic attachment to drop a bait right in front of a fish.   

Sells for around 2k so I'm guessing there's already several guys out there that have them.  Ran the thing around for probably 40 minutes and the battery showed no signs of getting weak.    I learned right away that alot of those big clouds of "shad" are actually giant schools of bluegill.    Saw some bass, crappie, carp, and also found a fairly new looking 6XD stuck in a brushpile. 

I'd much rather have one of these than one that flys in the air! 😀

[Quillback]

Sounds pretty neat, except for the price.  It does concern me that this technology might make things just a little tougher on the fish, going to enable some serious "sight" fishing.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Considering what some people pay for fish finders, this is a bargain.  Still extremely out of my range, but I'm sure they will explode on the market soon. 

[Flysmallie]

Ones that fly in the air don’t cost two grand. 

[Johnsfolly]

And how can you spy on your neighbors? Through the plumbing?

[Quillback]

On sale!

https://chasing-innovation.com/buy/gladius/gladius-advanced-pro?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiaWxt7iK3AIVi8pkCh3ORwCmEAQYAiABEgIcmvD_BwE

[Dutch]

I hope it show up things better than the Aqua View camera that I bought.  It was a total waste of money.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Price will drop when the Chinese copy it.

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, Dutch said:

I hope it show up things better than the Aqua View camera that I bought.  It was a total waste of money.

This is the one we were checking out, it has good vision.  Everything showed up really good even though the water was pretty green.  

It does take 2 people to operate it.  You gotta have someone feeding it cable.   

[moguy1973]

They need to figure out how to transmit radio waves through water so the thing can be wireless.  But then again with it tethered it's not going to run out of battery and become a rock on the bottom.

For it to work in LOZ is saying something.  I've tried to use a mask there to dive to the bottom and it was like looking in a tank of green Kool Aid.