Everthing About Fishing Sport
When I was young, I was really fascinated by my father fishing tackle box. It appeared to me that he had the most magnificent and wide-ranging fishing supplies you could dream of. He could trick any fish there was with his fishing tackle, or so I thought. He had various flies and lures, most of them custom and hand-tied created by him. Except for the basics like fishing line, no one bought their own fishing supply equipment in those days. If you were a good fisherman, you made your own. It was a matter of pride as well as a matter of quality.
It seems like, with the rapid advance of fishing equipments, a lot of the sport has been taken out of lately. I went on a fishing trip with a friend, a fairly wealthy mal who possesses his own motor yacht. He actually has a GPS fishfinder, a weather radar gear, and various type of fancy equipment to find the schools of fish. With him, finding fish is not an art anymore. It is not due to instincts, of sport or luck. It is simply due to cold hard science – following the manual and letting the technology do the rest. For me, this is taking all the fun out of it.
I dicussed this with him, and he told me it was simply a matter of him owning more fancy fishing supplies than my father had. He admitted that had they offered GPS fishfinders in fly fishing stores in my father’s time, everyone would have purchased them. They wouldn’t have wasted time with hand tying their own fishing lures if they could at once identify where to get the fish. I see things differently, however.