Camera mounts booms

[skrilla]

Looking at the latest and greatest ways to mount a GoPro on the rear factory rail of my 2017+ Trident over looking my shoulder. Sturdy, easy to reach, quality made. What have you got? Pros, cons, experience, advise? Accessories you would recommend. Post em up!

Thanks in advance.

[FISH11]

I use a Yakattack Pan Fish (long pole) with a extension to make it a little higher overlooking the shoulder. It has a gear track foot and a ram style clam shell at to to adjust angle, it can also rotate. I use another one called portrait model on the front (short). Lately though I'm wanting one that can boom out to the side. So I might try to remove it from the rear gear track sometimes and slide the (floating, rotating) mast into one of my Scotty rocket launcher rod holder, for a view from outside the Solo Skiff looking in. They do sell mount that do that but just more $, I don't want to spend. Looks like the new models have a lower mount attachment that allows being able to swing the mast 360 degrees. The Panfish is 33" tall and the Broomstick is 51" tall.

[skrilla]

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I was checking out that swing feature on certain models. Sounds like an option I may want.

[ProfessorLongArms]

I'll tell you one thing I hate about most products for this purpose is the price.

I grabbed rail blaza mounts for my kayak starting out, and am always a bit flummoxed by how pricy they are.

Looking at kayaks and kayak accessories in general, there's a part of me that wishes I'd figured out a brilliant idea for rotomolding plastic into something I could charge an arm and a leg for like a Yeti Cooler

Rail Blaza is decent, but I don't like the extension pole connectors. they feel like they could very easily get knocked out of lock position, and I actually zip tied mine just to be extra safe. The deck mounts can also get a bit sticky, though way less sticky than a scotty mount can sometimes be.

In retrospect, I should have hit Youtube becuase there are some really solid ideas on how to mount ranging from pretty basic to really fancy, but all far and above cheaper than most brands.

The best premise I've seen is a super cheap telescoping monopod that's been hacked to mount to RAM gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPX...annel=KayakUSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wq...utdoorsFishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5M...lotCityFishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djt5...=ShootFishLife

I think the biggest thing I took away early from watching a Robert Field video on how he rigs his kayak https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...el=RobertField is the premise of mounting to the deck with two pivot points, one at the deck and one at the camera, so you can swing the boom around like he illustrates and easily turn it on and off when he's ready to record.

I see a lot of guys who put a high mount where it's tough to reach behind them, and I know that would just amount to me never turning it on.

As alternative mounts go, I just bought one of these for my fishing vest. https://www.amazon.com/PolarPro-Stra.../dp/B00UJI8OVK

I like having that vantage without having it on my head, and I've found that little clip very versatile if not a *bit* flimsy and mostly plastic.

I also know robert field swears by https://actionhat.com/ for a gopro mount that's perfectly buoyant for mounting on your head if you do want to go that route.

Since you're interested in shooting your trips, in case it's of interest as well, I put up a vid a couple of weeks back about all of the ways I like to get footage while fishing. https://youtu.be/0zmKKWWH8Wk