Certain fish are spooked more than others. In my experience, Pike and Lake trout don't really care about it and we've even had some Pike take a swipe at the camera. I've only used a camera for brookies twice and they didn't seem to care either. I think whitefish are the most camera shy, and I don't use a camera for them, only a flasher. I only use a flasher for walleye through the ice as well.
For a flasher, I think that you will be hard pressed to find a decent but cheap unit. I run an HDS-5 with the ice fishing transducer. Very awesome rig...but expensive as well.
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