Seeing spots
There’s a compromise reached in every relationship. My wife loves to cruise on the open water and I love to fish, so much so that the idea of being on a boat without a rod
in hand is what I imagine hell must be like. So while I manned the helm of the party boat as we moved up and down the river under the warmth of the newly-minted
summer sun over the holiday weekend, my eyes shifted from the bouncing rod tip that telegraphed the motion of the firetiger crankbait clicking along the bottom to the sidescanning readout on the depthfinder and then up to the water ahead of me. While trolling is perhaps my least favorite method of fishing, it did serve its purpose as I
staked out a variety of spots to try in the coming days while I tracked the kids’ whereabouts behind the chairs on the boat and watched for the swirling jetskis which were darting in
between the increasing water traffic. When it comes to angling technology, I wouldn’t say I’m on the cutting edge. Sure, I have my share of depthfinders for both ice and open water, but they’re nothing that would break anyone’s bank or wow them in terms of features.
