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We are please to have Raptor Fishing Sponsor our contest this month again.  Like last month we are going to have two categories and give away prizes in each. 

There will be a category for Best Image with Fish and the Best Image with Structure.   and the winner in each category will recieve their choice of a RaptorCap HU700 or HU900 along with a Raptor Fishing T-Shirt and Hat.

Images MUST be the original snapshots as recorded from the SI unit and cannot be enhanced or altered in any way.

We also encourage you to post some information about the snapshot;  Location, Frequency, Water Type, Settings, Content, etc.

There is no limit to the number of images you can submit, but please be selective in choosing the best images for submission.
 
Images must be submitted no later than Midnight, July 31st 2010.

Good Luck,

Robert Gecy
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« Last Edit: July 04, 2010, 01:59:02 PM by RGecy »
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This is a ski boat pic that was taken the first time on the water with my new 898 SI.

Thought I would try.  And yes, I ordered me a Raptor Cap today ( Thursday ).

This is such a great website!!

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This is a depression created when a tree stump was dug up and relocated to make a fish attractor during the lake construction. The teeth marks of the backhoe bucket are clealy visible.

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bait balls and fish on the bottom. default settings.

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This is an underwater bridge at Lake o the Pines located in East Texas.


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An interesting shot of what I perceive as submerged utility pole(s) and bait fish. 

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Two photos of the same under-water house.

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Two photos of a point with alot of activity.  Took it this morning.

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Factory Ruins, Lake Oconee, Georgia.

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Submerged structure, fish bait ballsila_renderedila_rendered

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2010, 12:41:18 PM »
Some shots fron Bolsena Lake, Italy

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2010, 12:43:45 PM »
Other shots:

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2010, 12:47:59 PM »
And at last.

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2010, 01:13:32 PM »
Hard structure with bait ball fish left downila_rendered

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2010, 03:02:07 PM »
These images were captured on Smith Mountian lake in VA. I pulled into a cove and my screen was filled with Stripers. The two images were taken in 77 feet of water but the one images shows a depth of only 52.7 feet becuse there are so many stripers under the boat that the unit thinks the lake bottom is the school of fish. CRAZY!!! Minutes later the school broke on top of the water and continued for 20+ nimutes. It was exciting fishing!

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2010, 03:13:15 AM »
Sunken boatila_rendered

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2010, 07:13:02 AM »
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Depth 20 meters

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Depth 20 meters

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2010, 03:35:16 PM »
Old Submerged Road Bed / Bridge @ Lake Fork


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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2010, 02:46:59 AM »
Sunken boat right up ila_rendered   trees with fish bait ila_rendered

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2010, 11:35:29 AM »
DI assiting with the thermocline pattern to determine fish location.

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2010, 01:45:19 AM »
Wreck 1ila_rendered
Wreck 2ila_rendered

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2010, 09:41:32 PM »
First pic of old  bridge piling that was completed in 1887. Ft Madison Ia.
Second pic of bridge that replaced it in 1927.
This is a pic of the piling on the swing span on the north side.

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Looks like ancient...
« Reply #22 on: July 21, 2010, 06:20:04 AM »
These pics were recorded with a Humminbird 797C2 SI while exploring river Taipale, Viinijärvi, Finland, Aug. 12, 2009.

In first pics there appears to be an object resembling the prehistoric punts used by our ancestors. River Taipale is known as an old waterway passage.  The name 'Taipale' translates literally as 'Stage'

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Let us be even more optimistic and look at another pic with imagination: A curved and pointed object has a shape resembling a mammoth tusk, doesn't it..?

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We can of course right away reject a submerged tree as a too obvious and dull explanation for this object...  ;)

« Last Edit: July 21, 2010, 06:43:46 AM by JHartikka »
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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #23 on: July 21, 2010, 10:26:45 PM »
JHartikka,

Well, I expect that you are going to at least dive or snorkle down and verify what that object is!  It certainly looks like it could be a tusk, but we will never know until someone goes down and takes a look!

A complete tusk can bring many thousands here in the US!  Are you allowed to recover or remove the object?

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2010, 12:08:27 AM »
Not enough curve to be a mammoth tusk from what I've seen.

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2010, 08:44:11 AM »
Robert is right.  You should dive down upon it and see.  The depth is only 8 feet.  Also look at each end and it appears to have been dragged along the bottom. that will be the two darker lines.  Let us know what you find.
Chuck
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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #26 on: July 23, 2010, 04:21:01 PM »
More Pics with large schools of big fish , July  2010

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #27 on: July 23, 2010, 04:23:16 PM »
More Pics....a boat a fish in these.

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Tusk or tree?
« Reply #28 on: July 24, 2010, 11:32:07 AM »
Robert is right.  You should dive down upon it and see.  The depth is only 8 feet.  Also look at each end and it appears to have been dragged along the bottom. that will be the two darker lines.  Let us know what you find.
Chuck

Thank you for encouraging to look closer, Robert and Chuck! And yes, the grooves you pointed out appear like drag marks. However, like Countryboy states, the object looks much less curved than a mammoth tusk should be. On the other hand, SI is rather a distance scale than a photo. This object is imaged from rather steep angle from above which tends make objects partially straighten in a SI image.

Knowing how rare mammoth relics are in our moraine grounds that are thoroughly plowed by glacial periods it would be very lucky if this would be one of them. Alternatively, one could also imagine that an ancient traveller might have lost artifacts like this when his boat turned over in the river by bad fortune.

Regularly seen here are trees growing on sandy river and lake banks that use to lean gradually downwards when water rinses loose soil from between their roots. They try to grow upwards and curve their trunks until they finally are beaten by the advancing shore and torn away by ice. Sunken trees may be centuries or even thousands of years old - but still not desired like tusks. So, I am pretty afraid that I will lose my fascinating tusk daydream if I check the object... ;)

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #29 on: July 24, 2010, 02:47:46 PM »
It may be a tree,  but what a find if you did drop down and find that elusive tusk.  wow, for years it would be mounted above your fireplace for viewing. and the rest of us would be jealous.
but we thank you for the pictures and the interest. 
that is what keeps the rest of us looking.   ;D..... :)..... ::)

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2010, 08:26:58 PM »
For the first picture, I don't know what to make of this in otherwise a featureless lake.  The second shot is an underwater pipe as part of a phosphorus cleaning project.

I've found reducing my sensitivity and decreasing my chart speed has been rendering better images.  I'll have to do the firmware upgrade to see how my shallow water images improve.
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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #31 on: July 27, 2010, 11:20:25 AM »
224 - SCADS of sheepies on a Mississippi slackwater area
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158 - Clearly shows gravel/soft bottom transition areas - smallmouth heaven! ila_rendered
154 - Gills, crappies and plankton clouds STACKED suspended
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135 - 4 lane lake Michigan boat launch
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137 - 2 big kings or lakers sitting near bottom on Lake Michigan
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125 - Fish - shown both on SI and 2D - Lake Michigan
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Rockpile - Shows some nice artificial rockpile reefs
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1 - Shows Mississippi sand dunes/current break area with saugers stacked on breaks
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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #32 on: July 27, 2010, 11:24:34 PM »
3 Schools Crappie Suspended in Trees with lots of baitfish around...



Shallow Water SI lots of fish and structure found...



Rock Piles at the Boat Ramp...




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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #33 on: July 28, 2010, 10:09:45 AM »
You are too god to compete against me guys.

Congratulations for your snapshots.
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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #34 on: July 29, 2010, 03:42:36 AM »
Fish in left sideila_rendered

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #35 on: July 30, 2010, 07:39:46 PM »
Roosevelt AZ.
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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #36 on: July 31, 2010, 03:41:42 AM »
Underwater structure with stair.

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Re: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat
« Reply #37 on: August 01, 2010, 01:40:34 AM »
Thanks to all the members who submited images for July Contest.  I will be announcing the winners this week.

I have some even better prizes lined up for the August contest and look froward to seeing some great images.

Thanks again,

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