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Maybe I need to go this route with image detection and/or IR lock. These guys are able to pull it off from moving vehicles and boats... but they are targeting the military and a bit outside my price range.

I left out the part where the point of the drone is to help spot the actual fish swimming on the surface. I don't care about filming the fish fighting... Part of the point of the tethering is so that I can just leave it up there when fighting a fish.

Intended use is a bird's eye view on a boat. Maybe 100-150 feet up. my original plan was to use a GPS on the drone and on the boat, and do a GPS follow that way. Just match the one on the drone to the one on the boat. Thing is, I want it to be hands-off... The idea is to have a camera view...

Okay, let me make it a bit more complicated.. Let's say I want the platform to be able to move while the drone is flying. I still want the drone to stay straight above the platform as much as possible, but move with the ground vehicle. Also turn with the ground vehicle so they are both facing...

Here's one I've been looking at for inspiration. You can see what I'm talking about here. It winches itself right back onto the landing pad, without using IR or one of those big printed things.

I'm working on a tether system now for personal use, as the only ones I've seen so far are in the $30k-$100k range. I am past the point of the power supply at this point, and just trying to figure out in my head how this is going to work , if it does end up working at all lol. Here's what I'm...