Author Topic: HBSI Image Contest - July 2010 - Win A RaptorCap with T-Shirt and Hat (Read 49248 times)

RGecy · « **on:** July 04, 2010, 01:55:54 PM »

www.raptorfishing.com

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
Forum Administrator

calli1 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2010, 06:28:38 PM »

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!!

Wayne P. · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2010, 07:53:14 PM »

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.

crappiekiller2 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:44:32 PM »

bait balls and fish on the bottom. default settings.

bowhunterman · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2010, 08:14:55 AM »

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

muskyhunter · « **Reply #5 on:** July 10, 2010, 09:32:13 PM »

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

Dirt-Town-Dawg · « **Reply #6 on:** July 11, 2010, 03:36:00 PM »

Two photos of the same under-water house.

Dirt-Town-Dawg · « **Reply #7 on:** July 11, 2010, 03:41:17 PM »

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

Dirt-Town-Dawg · « **Reply #8 on:** July 11, 2010, 03:51:57 PM »

Factory Ruins, Lake Oconee, Georgia.

Chiboo · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2010, 08:26:38 AM »

Submerged structure, fish bait balls

Daniele_Mari · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2010, 12:41:18 PM »

Some shots fron Bolsena Lake, Italy

Daniele_Mari · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2010, 12:43:45 PM »

Other shots:

Daniele_Mari · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2010, 12:47:59 PM »

And at last.

Chiboo · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2010, 01:13:32 PM »

Hard structure with bait ball fish left down

ben2kona · « **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!

Chiboo · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2010, 03:13:15 AM »

Sunken boat

dybvad417 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2010, 07:13:02 AM »

Depth 20 meters

bowhunterman · « **Reply #17 on:** July 15, 2010, 03:35:16 PM »

Old Submerged Road Bed / Bridge @ Lake Fork

Chiboo · « **Reply #18 on:** July 16, 2010, 02:46:59 AM »

Sunken boat right up

trees with fish bait

Wayne P. · « **Reply #19 on:** July 16, 2010, 11:35:29 AM »

DI assiting with the thermocline pattern to determine fish location.

Chiboo · « **Reply #20 on:** July 19, 2010, 01:45:19 AM »

Wreck 1

Wreck 2

crappiekiller2 · « **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.

JHartikka · « **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'.

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..?

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

RGecy · « **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?

Robert

countryboycansurvive · « **Reply #24 on:** July 22, 2010, 12:08:27 AM »

Not enough curve to be a mammoth tusk from what I've seen.

sonar2000 · « **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

calli1 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2010, 04:21:01 PM »

More Pics with large schools of big fish , July 2010

calli1 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2010, 04:23:16 PM »

More Pics....a boat a fish in these.

JHartikka · « **Reply #28 on:** July 24, 2010, 11:32:07 AM »

Quote from: sonar2000 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

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...

sonar2000 · « **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.

.....

chuck

muskyhunter · « **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.

whittsend · « **Reply #31 on:** July 27, 2010, 11:20:25 AM »

224 - SCADS of sheepies on a Mississippi slackwater area

158 - Clearly shows gravel/soft bottom transition areas - smallmouth heaven!

154 - Gills, crappies and plankton clouds STACKED suspended

135 - 4 lane lake Michigan boat launch

137 - 2 big kings or lakers sitting near bottom on Lake Michigan

125 - Fish - shown both on SI and 2D - Lake Michigan

Rockpile - Shows some nice artificial rockpile reefs

1 - Shows Mississippi sand dunes/current break area with saugers stacked on breaks

DougV · « **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...

Daniele_Mari · « **Reply #33 on:** July 28, 2010, 10:09:45 AM »

You are too god to compete against me guys.

Congratulations for your snapshots.

Chiboo · « **Reply #34 on:** July 29, 2010, 03:42:36 AM »

Fish in left side

greatthosu · « **Reply #35 on:** July 30, 2010, 07:39:46 PM »

Roosevelt AZ.

jules2003 · « **Reply #36 on:** July 31, 2010, 03:41:42 AM »

Underwater structure with stair.

RGecy · « **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,

Robert Gecy

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