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First Tournament of the Season 2013 King of the Lake

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Congratulations to Shark Pro Staff: Captain Dave Antenori (Screamer), Captain Jimmy "Ace" Samia (The East Coast Boys), Captain Greg Amiel (Fishing 4 Tails) and Jeff Dickert (Floatin Dirty) for their big wins at the King of The Lake Tournament in Port Dalhousie.  Big Facets = Big Fish = Big Wins! Sharkman  Big Fish of the Tournament Shark Pro Staff Captain Jimmy (Ace) Samia East Coast Boys  Floatin Dirty Winner Am Division Captain Jeff Dickert  Shark Pro Staff: Captain Greg Amiel  Fishing 4 Tails Big Fish 2nd Place Captain Dave Antenori (Screamer) Big Fish of the Day 5th Place overall 20% of the teams were using Sharks; they won most of the hardware Last year all the teams averaged 30 fish per day for three days; anything and everything worked.   This years the bite was way down It was another classic example of having the advantage with Sharks when the bite is down Sharks weights + Shark Spoons = Success
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|Hi Frank:  This is what I was talking about regarding the field of vision.  When the camera is embedded in the body of the Shark, it can articulate in any direction to see everything around the camera.  When the camera is pointing backwards, it can only see what is behind.  You can always see the video platform on your fish finder because the Shark is always under the boat, not trailing far behind.  I will send out the proto type for you to test.  I will also be sending one to Tommy at Jakt & Frilult our agent in Norway.
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Go Pro Goes Extreme I built the Go Pro Underwater Camera Housing for Frank Ronny Johansen of the A Team in Norway.  The A Team is one of our top international pro staff teams.  Frank did a great article on the Go Pro camera's so I figured he would be the guy to test this thing out. This is the email I sent to him.   Hi Frank: Check it out, I custom built this pro type Underwater Mobile Camera Housing for your Go Pro camera. I will ship out to Norway on Monday. I was inspired by your excellent article about Go Pro, and I figured you would by motivated to use thi s custom housing to it's full potential; so I built it. This underwater housing is basically a 20 pound Mega Shark with a hole in the middle to accommodate a Go Pro camera. The structural integrity of the Shark body was comprimised with the removal of the material, so it was necessary to add a steel re-enforced frame. By removing the lead from the cavity area, it also reduced the weight of the Shark down to abou