Where And How GoPro Remote Mounting In A Yak....??

[Crow Horse]

For those using GoPros with remotes, where and how did you mount the remote? I just "upgraded" to the current GoPro remote and made a mount using kydex and a Ram Mount 1" ball. It's not much different than my previous setup. Being that my small yak is crammed with gear my options are limited but I thought maybe there might be a better solution.

 

Old remote mounting

 

New remote

 

[CountryboyinDC]

 If it seems otherwise too cluttered, your wrist could be the answer.

https://gopro.com/en/us/shop/mounts-accessories/waterproof-shutter-remote/ARMTE-004-master.html

[Crow Horse]

On 9/13/2024 at 9:28 AM, CountryboyinDC said:

 If it seems otherwise too cluttered, your wrist could be the answer.

https://gopro.com/en/us/shop/mounts-accessories/waterproof-shutter-remote/ARMTE-004-master.html

That was my first  choice that failed. It requires  2 hands and doesn't work well when trying to fight a fish. It appears that what I'm using currently is the best that I'll be able to muster.

[J Francho]

Are you sitting or standing when fishing?

[Crow Horse]

31 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Are you sitting or standing when fishing?

Sitting. I'm in a 10' sit in yak.

[J Francho]

I'd have it between my knees or somewhere close. Maybe on a lanyard around my neck. 

[A-Jay]

@Crow Horse

I do not fish from a kayak but I have been down the path your on now as it relates to GoPros & remotes on the water.

First off, the remote does two things,

1 -  Controls a camera you can't easily reach.

2 - Also can help save battery power by only running the camera when 'you need it'.

 

 Well I did the remote thing with the hopes that I would be able to accomplish the 2 deals above.

Didn't work for me.

Tried the wrist cuff. - too cumbersome.

Tried a lanyard around my neck, (and this is funny but wasn't at the time).

I was losing fish because the remote lanyard was getting caugfht up in my reel (not to mention choking me out).

So that was a big fail.

Tried a mounted remote on my trolling motor - again didn't work.

And one of my biggest problems was connectivity between the cameras and the remote - 

They would disconnect several times a trip.

Giant PIA

 

After all was said and done in order to not worry about battery power, and not worry about reaching the camera and not even use a remote AT ALL.

I went to external power source.

Then I could leave the camera running all day And was able to capture ALL of my fishing.

Just need to use an SD card of sufficient size. 

 

I have 4 of these units by Yolotek and they have served me well.

https://yolotek.com/products/juicebank-black-gopro-battery-mount-7800mah-lithum-ion

 

Hope that helps.

A-Jay

Below is a video link to what my set up.

Not a kayak of course but I use the same deal in my Old Town Canoe

https://youtu.be/VBiOQxaANeU?feature=shared

 

 

 

[Crow Horse]

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

@Crow Horse

I do not fish from a kayak but I have been down the path your on now as it relates to GoPros & remotes on the water.

First off, the remote does two things,

1 -  Controls a camera you can't easily reach.

2 - Also can help save battery power by only running the camera when 'you need it'.

 

 Well I did the remote thing with the hopes that I would be able to accomplish the 2 deals above.

Didn't work for me.

Tried the wrist cuff. - too cumbersome.

Tried a lanyard around my neck, (and this is funny but wasn't at the time).

I was losing fish because the remote lanyard was getting caugfht up in my reel (not to mention choking me out).

So that was a big fail.

Tried a mounted remote on my trolling motor - again didn't work.

And one of my biggest problems was connectivity between the cameras and the remote - 

They would disconnect several times a trip.

Giant PIA

 

After all was said and done in order to not worry about battery power, and not worry about reaching the camera and not even use a remote AT ALL.

I went to external power source.

Then I could leave the camera running all day And was able to capture ALL of my fishing.

Just need to use an SD card of sufficient size. 

 

I have 4 of these units by Yolotek and they have served me well.

https://yolotek.com/products/juicebank-black-gopro-battery-mount-7800mah-lithum-ion

 

Hope that helps.

A-Jay

Below is a video link to what my set up.

Not a kayak of course but I use the same deal in my Old Town Canoe

https://youtu.be/VBiOQxaANeU?feature=shared

 

 

 

They look pretty nice. I'm using the 3BR Powersports All Weather Power kits for both bow & stern GoPros. My stern camera boom is a modified telescoping monopod and the bow boom is made from RAM components. This system allows me to keep the batteries ( 2 Nocqua 10ah) down low in the hull. I do on occasion bring a 3rd GoPro mounted on a selfie stick for underwater video.

 

For the record, I do videos purely for fun and they are something I can reference in the future. They also allow me to share with friends and family. I'm strictly an amateur but having fun doing it.

 

How large of an SD card do you use? My fishing days on the water average 8 hours, and on occasion I've had one or two short days at 6 hours. I'm currently using 128G SD cards.

[A-Jay]

256 and 512 GB cards now.

 The best/ fastest cards speed up downloads 

A-Jay 

[MN Fisher]

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Just need to use an SD card of sufficient size. 

 

I have 4 of these units by Yolotek and they have served me well.

Ya - I run 256gb cards in my cheap knock-off cameras. At 3gb/18 minutes at 1080p, I could fit 25hrs on one card.

 

The two mounted cameras plug into the house battery via USB sockets. The 'portable' which is either shoulder mounted or chest mounted plugs into a 10,000 mAh power-pack...enough for 14hrs of recording.

[Koz]

A couple of things here. First, am I correct in thinking that you have an older GoPro without voice command?

 

Second, you can get by with a smaller video card by setting your GoPro to loop every 15 minutes. This way you overwrite those inactive periods. While it’s looping, when you then tell it to record or hit the record button it won’t loop over that section when you stop and start again. It creates a new starting point for the loop.

[Crow Horse]

I have 3 Hero 8 Blacks. I tried the voice command but I didn't like that I had to yell out the commands. I'm going to look into the looping. That sounds interesting if I can get it to work.

 

As a side note, I was out yesterday and the remote would lose the link to my bow camera. To make a long story short, I determined that where I had the remote mounted was the issue. Apparently the aluminum dash board and my FF were blocking the signal. Moving it a foot away allowed for linking. I'll see the next time out if the bow camera stays paired.

[A-Jay]

45 minutes ago, Crow Horse said:

I have 3 Hero 8 Blacks. I tried the voice command but I didn't like that I had to yell out the commands. I'm going to look into the looping. That sounds interesting if I can get it to work.

 

As a side note, I was out yesterday and the remote would lose the link to my bow camera. To make a long story short, I determined that where I had the remote mounted was the issue. Apparently the aluminum dash board and my FF were blocking the signal. Moving it a foot away allowed for linking. I'll see the next time out if the bow camera stays paired.

Looping is cool until it's not done correctly or one 'forgets' to save an important clip.  Then the camera records right over it and it's gone forever. 

For the record I NEVER USE THE LOOP, EVER.  IMO, it's an accident waiting to happen.

A-Jay

[MN Fisher]

45 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

For the record I NEVER USE THE LOOP, EVER.  IMO, it's an accident waiting to happen.

A-Jay

This is why they make hi-capacity cards...and don't take what the box says as max card size as gospel...my 3 say '32gb max card size'...my 256gb cards work just fine, and I even tested the 512gb card that's normally in my tablet....the camera's worked with that as well.

[Crow Horse]

7 hours ago, A-Jay said:

For the record I NEVER USE THE LOOP, EVER.  IMO, it's an accident waiting to happen.

After doing some reading on the loop mode, I can see forgetting to reset it after a good catch and losing the video. I missed the video of a 5#er I caught the other day and it really bothered me. I had been having problems with one camera keeping paired to the remote and I only made it worse trying to resolve it while on the water. Ironically, I headed back to the launch site so I could reset the connections and repair the cameras. On the way back I dragged a crankbait behind me and that's when that bass hit. It was a great fight and I first thought I had a large snapping turtle because she wouldn't budge from the bottom. Once she gave up the bottom I got a nice tow around before she tired. No video, just the memory. She was released to fight another day.

Shooting at 1080, how many hours could I get from a 256gb card?

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, Crow Horse said:

 

Shooting at 1080, how many hours could I get from a 256gb card?

The recording time of a 256GB SD card varies based on video resolution and bitrate. Roughly, it can record around 22 hours of 1080p HD video, 5-6 hours of 4K Ultra HD video, or 1-2 hours of 8K Ultra HD video.

A-Jay

[Crow Horse]

20 hours ago, A-Jay said:

The recording time of a 256GB SD card varies based on video resolution and bitrate. Roughly, it can record around 22 hours of 1080p HD video, 5-6 hours of 4K Ultra HD video, or 1-2 hours of 8K Ultra HD video.

A-Jay

Thanks. If you are constantly recording with multiple cameras, how do you get around not being able to highlight tag (Highlight Tagging when recording with multiple cameras isn't available.)? It appears that editing and sorting through the video file would be time consuming while editing. How do you guys deal with that?

[A-Jay]

31 minutes ago, Crow Horse said:

Thanks. If you are constantly recording with multiple cameras, how do you get around not being able to highlight tag (Highlight Tagging when recording with multiple cameras isn't available.)? It appears that editing and sorting through the video file would be time consuming while editing. How do you guys deal with that?

Both my cameras are manually operated. 

I run the camera at the back of my rig (which faces forward) to capture me 'fishing'. 

It runs pretty much the entire time I'm on the water. 

I do not high light portions of the video,

I simply take what I want from each clip during the editing process. 

The more I did it, the better I got at it. 

It's actually fairly easy and not at all time consuming once you get used to it. 

My 'forward' camera, is used and turned on & off for specific opportunities,

(clip intro, fish weigh & display)

and is very easy to edit as there is far less content on that deal each trip.

I am not a Short Cut kind of guy - don't always look for the easiest way. 

I'm more about the most effective way and then I fine tune it the best I can.  

There is no question that running video, (especially fishing solo),

absolutely cuts into my fishing time. 

However, I almost always get out of any endeavor, whatever I am willing to put into it. 

And that's what enables me to get shots like this.

Good Luck

A-Jay

 

[Crow Horse]

Next time out I'm going to try constantly videoing and see how that plays out in editing. I'm also going to bring my #3 camera to have as a backup or to use to capture photos that would be difficult for the bow & stern cameras to frame.

 

What I have been doing is once I connect with a fish, I'll press the record button and will video until the fight is concluded, hooks removed, and lifted out of the water for the money shot. I do miss the actual strike and hookset but doing it this way breaks up the video into small clips of individual fish and makes clip selection pretty easy.

[J Francho]

Just wave your hand in front of the lens after the clip you want to find later in editing of a long capture. Skaters have been doing this for decades to mark film where there was a trick made.