Hi Mike,
The fishcam is just a PR thing for Sugar Creek Ranch, a private fishery in northern California west of Weed and south of Yreka. It's fun to be able to show the big fish instead of just talking about them and showing still photos of anglers holding fish. Sugar Creek Ranch is our marketing client (we do the web site, brochure, trade show display, etc.) -- we've grown to be good friends, and I basically have the run of the place and fish there often.
If you are like me, you have had aquariums of different sorts in the house, and have spent hours watching fish -- looking very much like a housecat peering in the goldfish bowl. These big trout are really beautiful creatures, and it's fascinating to watch them cruise weightlessly through the water in their natural habitat.
Mike Kalpin, the ranch co-owner (it's a family operation) and operations manager is a real tinkerer. He's a licensed pilot, expert mechanic, electronics whiz, etc. etc. He just loves doing this sort of stuff.
We started out with a regular web cam that is used to take an elevated view of the South Pond which is one of the seven ponds or lakes in the 150-acre ranch. That pond and the place where the camera is located is pictured at the bottom of this page:
http://www.sugarcreekranch.com/webdoc1b.htm
I spotted a listing for the underwater web cam, and Mike jumped at the opportunity to try it out. It's been lots of fun and quite a bit of frustration getting the thing to work dependably.
Sure beats an aquarium screensaver! *grin*
Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon
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