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It’s a fifish v6 expert

@@MFEGoingDeep Thank you! Love what you've got going on!

I’m sure the lake is perfectly fine, just a matter of figuring out where they are and their habits this time of year. They seemed to be spread out all over the water column and when that happens it’s harder for me to locate them just roaming around in the dark. It gets disorienting. I was hoping to find a place with my fishfinder that showed them stacked up on bottom somewhere but didn’t locate one on this trip.

@@MFEGoingDeep Thanks!

Definitely have caught some beauties out of there! 👍

That is definitely something I’m wanting to get some video of! Hoping someone out there would be willing to share the location with me if they had it, or once I can get outfitted with some better sonar for searching larger areas I could put some time in and locate myself. Big area out there!

@@MFEGoingDeep I'm not sure if it's a protected area or not, I recall when I used to live there that it's considered a protected war grave as the pilots were British and they prefer to leave the remains where they are instead of bringing them home like we tend to do in the US. I'm sure there are lots of boats and things down there to look at, I was surprised to see how sandy the bottom is, I assumed it would have rocks like everywhere else in Maine.

Really appreciate this comment 👍👍

Same, that's the reason I'm doing it myself 😛👌

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Thanks! I’m sure a human silhouette in the water will spook them sometimes, makes it more difficult.

Nice! Welcome 👍

Thanks! I do have a few videos from some of the Rivers around as well

I really wasn’t sure what to expect and I had never been here before. I pretty much worked my way around the island. Not sure if it was a bit early for more smallmouths to be in that area or not as this was in mid April.

The shortest answer I can come up with sounds like mostly glacial movements and natural rock erosions over time carving out the deepest areas as the lake was forming which were then filled with melt and runoff however many years ago. There’s actually a few lengthy explanations I found for it with a quick search online, it’s pretty interesting!

@@MFEGoingDeep Why no plant life? Just sculpin and mud? I'd of figured there'd be more fish.

Light doesn't reach that deep. So no photosynthesis

@@craigverrilli1 I wondered if that may be it. Still strange to me that it is so barren. I imagined old trees and boulders. Bones form all the dead bodies. Apparently there are quite a few.

That would be awesome if that was the case! I really don’t know for sure that’s what it is, just what it looked like to me.

from what I can tell you may be right ive never seen one with that patter before. looks diff from the current known species

I think what happens is when it’s straight up and down in deep water and the drone is parallel with the bottom the tether has some stretch and spring to it and doesn’t spool as freely with a more abrupt angle over the side of the boat and down. Any movement in the boat up and down or movements when piloting the drone that aren’t strong enough to pull more tether off the reel it causes some up and down movement sometimes as it’s attached to the tail end. Usually once I have more of an angle in the line after moving around some I don’t notice it as much.

I've caught some in the Bear river over in Newry that were pushing 4 inches, but they're definitely tiny guys.

I think they’re neat, just a small baitfish but cool to find them in these deepest places in some of these lakes

You think it was? I thought it was a top to an old can or something like that.

@MFEGoingDeep im not 100 sure but to me it looks like 🤔 EDIT: never mind , I think you are right, if you look closer it really looks like a bottle cap sunken into the sand But at 4:14 I saw a snorkel now 😂😅

I didnt even notice that snorkel till I was rewatching the footage later on 😂 thought I saw a ring too but ended up being a soda can pop top 🤦‍♂️

I’ve been working on that this summer, practicing with the claw and you’ll definitely see that in the more recent videos. Starting to get a decent sized collection of bottles for sure!

Seem to be getting better at it! 😊

Haha I like that! Definitely a good story 👍

Thanks! The tip up was actually fairly light. Some of the glass bottles full of mud and stuff can be more challenging for it to move and is about the max for weight.

Thanks! It is a gorgeous area and it is sad to see some of the stuff left in there but we can certainly learn from those mistakes moving forward and clean up as we can!

@@MFEGoingDeep cant even imagine the junk in sebago way more people !!

⁠Working on a plan to video there coming up really soon.

Definitely! The thought occurred to me after the fact too 🤦‍♂️ I’ll do something like that moving forward. Thanks!

You could do a follow-up vid. Just found your channel. Scuba without getting wet! Lol

Glad you enjoy my videos 👍

This is in Moosehead

@@MFEGoingDeep oh noice

How much does a machine like that cost?

⁠They start at a couple grand and up from there

Exactly 👍

Good idea 👍

Wonder what it was?! Definitely seemed like plenty of fish all around the area and for sure some big ones!

@@MFEGoingDeep I'm assuming they had a barge attached to it years ago when they were working building the bridge.

Feel free to email me mfegoingdeep@gmail for what you might have in mind. I don’t rent the unit out or anything like that but would consider some for hire projects or potential collaborations depending on the circumstances.

The slender silvery ones are smelts and the brownish golden ones are sculpins.

@@MFEGoingDeep ah nice I knew what the smelts were but I wasn't sure about the ones on the way bottom

Yeah those aren’t something I’ve seen very often other than when I’m videoing some of these deep lakes. Seem to always find a few laying on bottom in the deeper water.

@@MFEGoingDeep Yeah I have seen a few in your video's when your drone was at the bottom of some deeper lakes

Thanks! I did see a bunch of Stripers on the Kennebec in the prior video. Was just at Craig Pond in Orland and while driving home I was right along the river in Bucksport and thinking the same thing.

I don’t have a name for it, something I made for the video using GarageBand app.