Crazy fish finder……

I saw a commercial for hummingbird fish finders I think. You guys have probably heard this before but it surprised me. You can put a transducer thing on your line like a bobber, you can cast it out and it will float right above your line. So you could be fishing 50 yards from your boat if you wanted to. It will send the picture to your fish finder on your boat and tell you the depth and if there is fish and what ever else that is right below your bait. I am amazed. What will they think of next

I had a similar idea last year and talked it over with the guys from work – I work at a radio company.

Mine didn’t clip to the line, though. It was modeled on the sonar bouys that the navy uses to hunt down submarines (ever seen Hunt for Red October?). I decided it would still be way too much work if you had to hand-deploy all of the bouys, so we came up with the idea of a pivot-mount “bouy cannon” that would mount in the back of a full-sized truck. While you were launching your boat, it would scan side-to-side and shoot sonar bouys covering the lake that would then radio back the info to your ff on the boat.

We eventually decided that the first angler to get hit in the head with a 300mph sonar bouy probably wouldn’t appreciate the concept.

Man, my fantasy life is waaaay cooler than reality.

Humminbird has the unit featured on their main page @ humminbird.com.

Great to see someone out fishing before even old enough to learn to talk [your photo]. Couldn’t resist that one! Thanks, Bill

Man, you have to get more sleep, more sex, more fishin’, something! You just are not quite right.

What will they think of next? Might be a great thing for bank fishing.

More sleep, no doubt. He may be cute, but 4:00 AM is still 4:00 AM no matter what’s getting you up. On the plus side, he makes a pretty good alarm clock when I’m planning on going fishing.

I remember those days. Would not have missed them for the world, but don’t want them back either. Have you got any other kids? I have a girl 12 and a boy 10 going on 21 he thinks. Took them and their mother Ice fishin’ yesterday. Got a few gills and my wife caught a catfish.[1.5 lb.] My kids aren’t old enough yet that they think I’m the dumbest peson they know. In their eyes I’m still cool superdad. I like that.

I have an eight-year-old girl and a soon-to-be one year old boy. You’ll have to let me know when the superdad starts wearing off so that I can deprive them of friends, social life, and brainwash them before they get there. I know it’s coming.

The older one thinks she’s addicted to ice fishing now. We’ll see how long she holds up.

Superdad status wears thin when they get to be about 16. Then you become stupid until they reach 21, Then you start getting smarter again. It’s both an amazing and a disturbing process.

Well, for now I’ll just be happy to remain superdad for a while.

Nothin’ like the smile you get when you take a kid fishing!