Ice Fish Ohio Forum
Ice Fishing => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fisnfool on December 29, 2014, 12:54:03 AM
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For those that say my Lowrance Bluewater LFP 160 is old technology, here is the old way to fish the hard water. Interesting article.
http://www.outdoornews.com/December-2014/Deep-thinking-Modern-hard-water-fishing-vs-old-school-ice-angling/ (http://www.outdoornews.com/December-2014/Deep-thinking-Modern-hard-water-fishing-vs-old-school-ice-angling/)
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Technically flashers aren't modern either the technology has been around since the late 90s even before then with some experimental models and it hasn't technically changed too much since the late 90s
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The Flasher has been around way before the 90s . Lowrance " little green box " .
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1957 I stand corrected
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Sounds like a grumpy old man article. Fact is if you go back even 80 or 100 years, my grandparents were working in the coal mines at age 11, 6 days a week and spent Sundays digging through the tailings to get enough coal to keep the stove going through the next week. Hardly enough time to ice fish as recreation.
We do enjoy modern convenience, no one makes their own mocassins before going out to hike through a forest so dense you can't see 50 yards or hunts deer with a spear.
If the technology makes for a better experience than so be it. If you choose not to use it, more power to you. The most important part to me is that by participating and growing the interest in the outdoors, we are more likely to preserve what we have for future generations.
If ice fishing with a flasher reminds a kid of playing a video game and that leads to them having a relationship with the outdoors, then I say give them all flashers!
Maybe the guy should have printed his article on parchment or better yet written it with a quill pen and handed it to the town crier instead of posting it on his web blog.
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steelneyes,
I tried shouting out the info, but blew out a lung before I could get loud enough to reach you. So I cheated and posted the topic. ;D
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I've always said my Vex was my outdoor video game. I use it all year and love it. It is the only video game I play.