Leaderboard

They need to do a version that just lifts the middle finger.

Hi all, the ice cleared the bay this afternoon, the main lake is still covered but should be done by the weekend, had to go down to the dock and cast a HJ.

Personally I like my tech but still love walking a shoreline with a nothing more than a jig and minnow, room for both in my world.

Ya!

I like to give the fish a fighting chance too. It’s the reason I use small, unstable craft with unreliable motors. On the rare occasions that I use a fish finder it’s one that I purchased at a garage sale and I have no understanding of what it might be trying to tell me. I throw the same ludicrously oversized lure all day despite clear evidence those around me are catching fish on smaller more effective baits. Or………maybe I’m just kind of a crappy fisherman. I think that’s a distinct possibility, but I never really felt I’m missing out on anything for lack of tech.

I think the reason I still love ice fishing so much after 50 years is that I can study a hydro-graphic chart at home, use that knowledge to walk out on the ice with a compass and a destination toting a hand auger, a stick wound with mono, a handful of lures and usually come home with dinner. 😊 Don't get me wrong, I have most all of today's modern toys and gadgets to aid me when I'm out, but somehow the above scenario seems greatly more rewarding at the end of the day. Just saying.

I've said it here before but I was always old school when it came to fishing and never got into all the fancy doodads that do everything but stick the fish on the hook for you. To me the fun of fishing was figuring out where the fish were rather than having a machine to tell me where to throw my bait. I had a pair of simple sonars to give me depth and where the weeds were and a basic GPS so I could mark points of interest and track my drifts. I've got nothing against someone spending a fortune on electronics to show them exactly where the fish are sitting but to me that takes the fun out of figuring it out yourself. Just my opinion of course but to me all the fancy toys make catching too easy and gets rid of the skill involved in figuring out where the fish are by a persons own knowledge.