WALKER DOWNRIGGERS: STRIKE VISION™

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Why Choose Strike Vision?
For a short rundown on the differences between Strike Vision™ and all other underwater video camera systems, it’s important to look at how the systems are designed and function in the hands of a consumer. To date, the caption underwater video cameras brings to mind a fuzzy notion, not much more than a concept really, regarding the potential to see things under water. Most of the angling public has read about or seen various companies offering such products for sale.
All of the other companies that we’ve seen have taken an off-the-shelf, charged couples device (ccd) camera and installed it into a waterproof housing, in one shape or another. Permanently attached to the camera is a regular co-axial cable (thin ones are about .25 in diameter). Some offer an infrared sensor or auxiliary lighting and some even offer a cheap TV set to view the picture. That’s basically it.
It sounds like an underwater video camera system until you try to use it. They may work fine if you are stationary as in ice fishing, but in a boat? What happens if you want to troll and watch your lure as well as the fish that attack it? If your fish finder shows fish at 120 feet, how could you go about viewing them as you troll?

Our Strike Vision™ camera systems are designed to accomplish this task with ease, because we have incorporated the following very important standard features into our design that NO OTHER COMPANY OFFERS.
Strike View™ Cable provides the world's only single cable downrigger video trolling system. We have developed this marvellous breakthrough just for the purpose of providing Strike Vision™ camera signals. This stranded stainless steel cable provides power to the camera, video signal back to the surface, has 380 lb tensile strength, has a small 0.055 diameter and functions perfectly on our Walker 12V electric downrigger (which is supplied). It also detaches nicely from our camera, so storage is a snap. Strike View™ cable drags only a few degrees farther back than regular downrigger cable. With a rubber coated co-ax cable camera, you would have to attach a heavy weight to the camera and lower the cable hand over hand to the guessed depth, then somehow tie it off at the surface before attaching it to the monitor. Of course the camera would probably spin or wobble unless a fin of some kind is attached to it. With co-ax cable, you would also have to let out about 250’ to 300’ of cable (which no current company provides) to achieve 120’ depths because of the huge drag factor associated with the cable. Or, the camera company may suggest you use a regular downrigger to lower their camera and cable into the water. This would require that the camera be attached in some way at or near the downrigger ball. Co-ax cable would still have to be lowered by hand and tied off when the depth is achieved. Of course, with the co-ax and a downrigger cable in the water, the drag would be even worse.

A Strike Vision™ system including the 12v downrigger, actually costs less than many other simple cameras alone. Strike Vision™ is quite simply the only system to buy if you wish to use it from a boat.

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2 Station Road, Verwood, Dorset, BH31 7PU
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