You’ve seen the news about the public starting to use drones,
the unmanned aircraft?

If a drone
could be used for fishing – man, couldn't that be good news?

seaHEX V1 is a drone built to use on the water, including for offshore fishing.

Imagine being able to search the water for fish and bait away from the boat with the drone while fishing the blue water for big game.

That could be an advantage, indeed.

The helicopter, with six rotors, works with the GoPro Hero3 HD Camera.

The drone can be used with goggles, providing the pilot an “eye in the sky” view, like soaring above the ocean.

Or it can be used to provide a live feed to an iPad or a smartphone.

seaHEX, floating and water-resistant, with a carbon-fiber body, lands and takes off on water.

An offshore package can be purchased that enables seaHEX to be launched from the boat to search for fish, and with a flip of a switch, the drone returns to the boat, not to where the boat was.

In the event of an emergency, or if the drone loses its signal, it flies back home automatically.

The 6-pound, 30-inch, from tip to tip, seaHEX is built to be easy to fly.

Once you order the drone from the company, the unit is built.

With the offshore package that enables the drone to return to the boat, seaHEX is $8,400, and without the package, is $7,700.

Sometimes I’ve seen technology that almost seems too much an advantage for fishing.

Underwater cameras for ice fishing might be an example.

Only an extraordinary person risks being outsmarted by a creature less than 12 inches, author Janna Bialek said.

Technology like the camera under the ice might take away from that.

But a drone on an offshore trip doesn't even level the playing field, when miles and miles might be boated away from land, to catch a monster that might weigh much heavier than you, on a body of water the size of the ocean.

Seems a drone makes the experience more extraordinary. 

For more information, visit the seaHEX website.