Hi guys, Morgan here from Paul's Fishing Systems. This morning we're trying out the
SwellPro Spry drone. These drones, and their remotes are waterproof, and they're really
easy to use. Now these drones are a lot smaller than the SplashDrone 4 and SwellPro FD1 drones,
so their payload is quite a bit less than the AEE Condor, SwellPro FD1 and SD4 drones.
These are recommended for two or three hooks.
So to turn it on, you press and hold the power button on the remote, same on the drone.
Once you've done that the remote will say 'initializing', that means that it's communicating
between the drone and the remote. Once you've done that then you're going to be calibrating it. To
calibrate it you just toggle the right hand switch up and down until the screen says to calibrate.
Now at this point all you have to do is read the display on the remote,
it's actually telling you what to do. So it's rotating clockwise on the horizontal plane,
once you've done that enough it'll say to do it vertically with the nose down,
so that's what Jamie's doing here.
Vertical calibration clockwise nose down.
Now the remote's just saying initializing again, so it's just
inputting that data and then you'll be ready to fly.
So the Spry+ drones have a tension release, they come with the SwellPro Troll Safe clip.
Now one thing we did find with these drones is that they do sit very low to the ground
so you have to be careful that the release clip doesn't actually get any sand or grit in it,
which happened to us this day, so we had to clean it out a few times before we
actually managed to get it to fly and keep a line in in.
Being so low to the ground helps their stability when they're landing, so it's worth just keeping
in mind that you will have to clean that release mechanism out place to have a bottle of water or
something on you just to rinse it out if you need to, or make sure you use a landing pad.
Now Jamie's going to show us how to start the drum
Okay so what I'm going to do is start it up by pushing the levers inwards like that, and stop it like that.
So left lever is your up and down and side to side
right lever is forwards and backwards as well as turning the drone.
Now this day we're actually using the performance props on the Spry, they come with two blade props
we've got our three blade props on they give you a bit of extra lift but they do
drain the battery a bit faster so you have to be mindful of that if you're using these props.
So you would have seen there to return at home you just flick the return to home switch top
left of the remote there to set the hooks all you have to do is flick your bail arm over
tension comes on hooks drop out of the release clip easy as that
when it's returning home it does everything automatically
we're not doing anything special here just letting it land itself
so these drones come standard with a 4k camera that can record 30 frames per second
so pretty good little camera on these. They don't have any gimbal on them so you do have
to be mindful of that when you're flying it if you want to get a stable shot you do have to
be very smooth on your controls.
There we go landed turns itself off you don't have to do anything else there
as you've probably seen in our other videos we like to test the waterproofness of these drones
so here we're going to take it up take it for a swim
and just make sure that it does what it says on the box
so that doesn't seem to be causing it any strife so we'll have a look from the drone's perspective
unfortunately we don't have any SD card in the drone so we'll just have to see it on the remote
so that all went well so now we're just going to throw it in and
see if it takes off from water from not being going to start with so here we go
so no issues there now let's see that again from the drawings perspective
nice
Joshua joined us for the morning playing school holidays
his first time drone fishing and he gets to wind in a couple of little snappers
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This snapper is about 35 centimetres caught on the Target Snapper Hooks. All of our drone rigs come
with Target Snapper Hooks, you'll see the little wire appendage on the back there. These hooks are
scientifically proven to catch more legal size, less undersized snapper. And our Inline Swivel Clips
with the swivel built on to the clip, reduce tangles. These come standard on all of our rigs.
That snapper was nice and happy when we brought him in, so we thought we'd let him go home again
there he goes
Now Joshua's bringing in our second line and we only set two lines today just wanted to do a
quick trip before work it was sort of our first real time playing around with the Spry drone
so there is something fighting on the end of
this line feels like another little snapper but we'll see
so we've just stopped winding we're going to let this paddle boarder pass, we don't want him to
get tangled up in our line. You'll see Jamie over there still playing around
in the water with the Spry drone
pretty awesome little drone.
So hopefully we'll be doing demos with these ones soon, so subscribe to our newsletter and you'll get
to come along and see these for yourself and have a play with one for yourself if you're game enough.
As an all-around filming and fishing drone they're a pretty good idea just bear in
mind that they don't have a huge payload, so really only designed for running two or three hooks
to a maximum of 800 meters
Joshua, "I can see it!"
Joshua, "It feels like it is lively, feel it swimming back out"
Yep so another little snapper, this one was about 31, 32 centimetres, so still legal but not really
big enough for a meal so we'll put this one back too. Again, lip hooked on the Target Snapper Hooks.
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We get out all over the place, with all different types of drones. So stay tuned