Underwater Drone Footage Kennebec River, Gardiner
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- @MFEGoingDeep made the trip down to Gardiner yesterday to explore that area of the Kennebec River. In recent years the waterfront here has become a popular spot to watch for jumping Sturgeon as they make their way up the River to spawn. I was able to see this happen several times not only from shore but right on the water in close proximity to my boat. It is very cool to see and I highly recommend if you have the opportunity to check this out do it! I had to work a little bit to get some footage of a sturgeon underwater in the deeper part of the river but was able to make it happen. There was plenty of Stripers as they’re also in freshwater rivers right now. Also some suckers, a really large eel and a couple of catfish which I didn’t even realize we had in Maine. All I had ever seen personally was small bullheads but these looked to be actual catfish, not sure of the type. A new spot and several new species on video, certainly a successful trip!
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Back in the 70s, I took canoe trip with my dad, brother and family friends down a portion of the Kennebec. A beautiful river, but the first day was steady cold rain, and the second day the deerflies came out. My little brother was so tired, He fell asleep in about an inch of water in the bottom of the canoe (of course we made sure his head was well out of the water). We paddled so hard. We went about 15 miles the first day which was about 2/3 of the trip at least, and ended up staying in Ranger station, the guy was wonderful and we had steaks. Tough trip, but I'll never forget . Adversity and successfully navigating through it is a great character builder and I am grateful for the opportunity I had. It must've worked because I've been called " quite a character" a few times in my life. Some have told me that's not what that means but I prefer my version. peace.
Haha I like that! Definitely a good story 👍
Lots of stripey, Some catfish, an eel and a even a sturgeon.. Great video! Thank you for this!
That was very cool. Never seen a sturgeon in person. Thanks for sharing
Thanks! I hadn’t seen one either until yesterday. Really cool seeing them jump out of the water.
Cool
AWESOME!!! thanks for sharing. it's kinda funny to see stripers and catfish swimming together.
Haha I thought the same thing! 😂 thanks
Susquehanna Flats 👍
They do it in the Chesapeake too😀
Lots of "Stuff" floating around, just a rocky bottom no plants or anything ! 🐟
These are awesome, dont stop!
Listen to this guy ^ hes wicked smart. He also sells flies so you can catch these fish youre seeing
pretty neat! I get to explore this section of the river pretty frequently from the surface with a canoe always curious about whats going on underneath!
having watched the whole video I think you really missed out with just chasing fish around, there's a lot of history under the water here
I thought for a first time looking around and having never been here it went great! I like seeing the different fish and part of what brought me here in the first place. I do enjoy the history part too, I searched around quite a bit and the fish were the highlights I didn’t see much of anything else let alone anything historical in the area I had time to search. I’m sure I’ll make more trips down exploring more of the area and will have better luck with that type of thing!
That's really cool. Thanks for sharing. I'm really surprised you didn't see any small mouth bass. Stripers everywhere!!!
I figured there would be a smallmouth around somewhere but never saw a single one. Not sure if the Stripers would prey on them or what, I’m sure there were some big enough around so that they could!
:O we have sturgeon? cool.
Sure do! They come into the rivers from the ocean to spawn. First time seeing them yesterday, some were jumping which was really cool!
@@MFEGoingDeep You were there around the same time as me! I got some good clips of em jumping, in one the Sturgeon missed a great Blue heron by about 1-2 inches, it was super close.
Awesome video. I have fished there many years ago.
this is exciting! ive been fishing the waterville part of kennebec and didnt realize the variety of fish in there
Interesting fish you have, I'll bet the Missouri River would be a trip.
Oh I’m sure it would!
We were there on Tuesday to watch the sturgeon jump. Amazing to see. Was it hard dealing with the Kennebec's current? Thanks for the underwater view.
It was a little tricky but it worked out! I was waiting for one to land in my boat, I’d be watching the screen as I’m operating the drone then there’d be a big SPLASH close by. Jumped me a few times haha 😂
I like the newer format! Find a fish and chase it!😂
Nice bit of stripers in there. Big catfish for a head?
Definitely quite a few Stripers and I was surprised at the size on some of those catfish. I’ve really only seen bullheads around and those don’t get that big, not sure what they were, channel cats maybe 🤷♂️
I was fishing under that bridge in the area where you zoom down to the water. In the early 2000s. I hooked onto something heavy It took me some time to get it up to the boat I realized it was a chain. Sometime before that a man went missing in that area as I was pulling that chain up thinking it might have been him we got about 6 ft of chain into the boat. I assume there was a concrete block cuz it came to an end I couldn't pull it anymore. I I caught a lot of stripers catfish eels and sturgeon on that River.
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.
I got knocked out of my kayak in 2014 by a massive sturgeon on the kennebec, between gardiner and richmond. I got a good concussion and a nice laceration on the back of my neck. I'm lucky it wasnt worse, they are quite a force.
Glad you were alright! Definitely is something to be aware of out there, I know when I was doing this video and I’m sitting in my canoe watching the screen for the drone all of a sudden there’d be a big splash every few minutes right nearby 😳
Do wilson pond Winthrop next
Looks like a good spot for horn pout. How far up the river will the stripers go?
I think those are white catfish, I thought the same thing being hornpout but have since been told on a few different occasions they’re invasive and lots of them in the Kennebec now. I think the Stripers make it up towards Skowhegan way but not exactly sure the limit they travel upriver.
That is amazing? What kind of drone is that?!
I use a fifish v6 expert
Eel at 1:58
Nice video and informative somewhat. Wish you would identify the species of fishes seen on here.
Thanks, I do list the species in the video description but will look to tag each one on multi species videos like this moving forward
@@MFEGoingDeep i mentioned on another video that exploding Lake Willoughby in Vermont would be interesting. Supposedly it 280’ deep and known for some really big lake trout. Thanks again
Looked to be Channel catfish.
That’s what I thought too, I’ve had a few people tell me white catfish. I don’t have much experience with either to know for sure.
Whites, The Kennebec is known (along with the Penobscot) to have large populations of them. Afaik the only other catfish present in the state is the Brown Bullhead. I believe someone stocked their private pond with Channel cats but the state found out and chemically killed them.
Which fifish are you using
I use the v6 expert
@MFEGoingDeep I need to fix my fifish v6 expert. I have one led lights out. Do you know how to fix it. Also, which underwater drone is better chasing m2 pro max or qysea fifish e-go
Have you tried contacting Qysea about it? Not sure when you got it but they cover stuff like that sometimes under warranty and if they don’t that’s gonna be your best bet on getting a replacement light and instruction on what to do to fix it. I have not used a chasing uwd for a comparison to a fifish but I’ve been happy with mine for what I do with it and just looking at the designs I feel like in some of the rivers and streams with current I explore the chasing unit would struggle based on its shape and design as opposed to the fifish being more sleek in the water.
If that was 1972 it would be nothing but turds
Thankfully not the case anymore!
Why the creepy music?
Why not? I compose my own for the videos to have something in the background other than silence so if people like it they can keep listening to it or they can just turn it down if they’d prefer. Just like any kind of music there are some that might not like it and that’s ok.