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.
Spud one, spud two, if it went through, so will you!
