04-26-2003, 11:49 AM
[cool]Yeah, and it might be better to take slingshots into battle against machine guns.
Just pullin' your chain, Bro. Seriously, if you really want to get to know an area, having sonar is the biggest help there is. You can cast and bottom bounce and try to figure out what's down there...and after while, you get a pretty good feel for what it's like. But it is a lot like a blind person trying to guess what something or someone looks like by feel only. There's an awful lot you can't possibly know by feel alone.
Believe me, I fished some areas for years and thought I had a pretty good idea of what they were all about. When I first fished them with sonar, I was often amazed at how much different they were than I had imagined them. It's a lot like talking to somebody on the phone, and trying to imagine what they look like and then meeting them in person. Man, some people don't look anything like how they sound. And it's the same with fishing spots.
Fishing without sonar forces you to concentrate and to use all of your fishing skills. But, with sonar, it allows you to focus on the areas that have the most postential. And, it will teach you new things you can use that you would never have a chance to learn without knowing exactly what is below the water. In short, you will eliminate fishless water...which will put you in higher percentage water...a higher percentage of the time. If you have better odds, longer on each trip, you really should be able to catch more fish. Ain't that what it's all about?
As I've said before. Sonar will not make you a better fisherman all by itself. You still need to know how to get the fish to bite. A lot of times the sonar only tells you that there are a lot of fish down there that you can't catch. Sometimes it makes you wish that you DIDN'T know there were fish there. When you don't have sonar it makes it easier to come up with an excuse if you blank. Who wants to admit that there were a lot of fish on the screen but none on the line.? That's frustrating and embarassing.
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Just pullin' your chain, Bro. Seriously, if you really want to get to know an area, having sonar is the biggest help there is. You can cast and bottom bounce and try to figure out what's down there...and after while, you get a pretty good feel for what it's like. But it is a lot like a blind person trying to guess what something or someone looks like by feel only. There's an awful lot you can't possibly know by feel alone.
Believe me, I fished some areas for years and thought I had a pretty good idea of what they were all about. When I first fished them with sonar, I was often amazed at how much different they were than I had imagined them. It's a lot like talking to somebody on the phone, and trying to imagine what they look like and then meeting them in person. Man, some people don't look anything like how they sound. And it's the same with fishing spots.
Fishing without sonar forces you to concentrate and to use all of your fishing skills. But, with sonar, it allows you to focus on the areas that have the most postential. And, it will teach you new things you can use that you would never have a chance to learn without knowing exactly what is below the water. In short, you will eliminate fishless water...which will put you in higher percentage water...a higher percentage of the time. If you have better odds, longer on each trip, you really should be able to catch more fish. Ain't that what it's all about?
As I've said before. Sonar will not make you a better fisherman all by itself. You still need to know how to get the fish to bite. A lot of times the sonar only tells you that there are a lot of fish down there that you can't catch. Sometimes it makes you wish that you DIDN'T know there were fish there. When you don't have sonar it makes it easier to come up with an excuse if you blank. Who wants to admit that there were a lot of fish on the screen but none on the line.? That's frustrating and embarassing.
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