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What if every time you caught a fish on a lure, an app on your phone would tell you exactly what depth that lure was running at when it got struck, the amount of sunlight at that depth, and the water temperature where that fish was holding? It will also tell you exactly how far you casted and the speed at which that lure was moving when it tripped the trigger of that bass or walleye or striper. Would you find this information useful? Before you answer, think about that seriously for a second. How much of that data will help you be more successful with the very next cast? Let\u2019s say you log this data for three weeks. How much will it really help you during week four on the same body of water?\u00a0<\/p>\n
My answer is very little. In fact, I\u2019d go as far as to say that information is largely useless, or at minimum, not useful enough to deal with rigging an expensive tech device onto my line or using my phone to tell me what simple angler intuition already covers. But that\u2019s not stopping a Swedish angler from trying to secure funds for the mass production of just such a device. In the current state of angling where technology is creating divisions as well as bringing in gobs of cash, however, I\u2019m not surprised that he\u2019s trying to strike while the iron is hot.\u00a0<\/p>\n