Fishing Network Site Idea

[Captain Obvious]

Note-to-self Lund Explorer and slonezp are not big fans of smart phones or social media.

I hear what you guys are saying but I still think it is a good idea.

Capt.O

[slonezp]

Note-to-self Lund Explorer and slonezp are not big fans of smart phones or social media.

I hear what you guys are saying but I still think it is a good idea.

Capt.O

Funny you say that. I keep hearing from my son, "It's time to get in the 21st century" Today, my boss, who is 20 years my senior, said the same thing. I posted a thread about pros and cons of smartphones last week and ended up getting a flip phone. I still have 2 weeks to change my mind

[SirSnookalot]

Whether it's a good idea or not it is a tool I have no use for. Much of the time my smartphone isn't even with me, unless I'm expecting a very important call. Lund is an old dog and so am I, I grew up fishing in Michigan in a rowboat with 1 or 2 rods with no electronics what so ever, caught plenty of fish then and still do without those aids. Fishing serves 2 purposes for me, one is to get away and not be bothered by distractions, and two is to challenge myself. Having 15 rods, 6 tackle bags, fish finders, side imaging, 70 mph boats, lake maps and the internet to get information before leaving your home..............how much easier do some want it to be?

I know many will say all that is needed because of fishing pressure, I say that's an excuse, not a reason.

[OHIO]

I've been around here for a couple of years, posted over 1,700 times, and still don't have a single warning point. Now after following the direction of this topic, I'm faced with the chance to limit out all in one post!

What in the heck (I had a different word that starts with an H and ends with two hockey sticks) has happened to the world when we have raised a generation that can't put down their smart phones long enough to go fishing armed with nothing but a rod and reel and the grey matter between their ears? Besides the fact that any possible members fishing in a tournament would most likely be breaking the rules for using this "service" while they're on the water, I can only imagine the answers a person would recieve. "Fish a Senko!"

On a brighter note, I think your idea is not only going to be a smashing success on the water with the younger generation, but has a lot of potential off the water too. How about another application called the Bar App?

Let's say your buddy puts the moves on some hot looking chick. The user could zoom into the bimbo for everybody to check out, and then ZOOOOM out to show all of Two-Ton Tessy who just happens to be this gal's BFF. Post the question, take a poll. Should you man up and do your part as your buddy's wingman, or retreat to the bathroom so you can escape out the window, running away down the street like you're on fire! God only knows it will only be a matter of time before the next logical app is created!

Sorry - Rant Over.

Your "generation" raised ours.

[Lund Explorer]

Note-to-self Lund Explorer and slonezp are not big fans of smart phones or social media.

I hear what you guys are saying but I still think it is a good idea.

Capt.O

Your "generation" raised ours.

With all due respect to Mr. Don Barone, and perhaps because of him, part of this reply requires me to quote lyrics from a long ago song in the way he does so well. You see it was many years ago that I first heard a song by Zager and Evans called "In the Year 2525". Reading some of the posts here somehow got me to thinking about this song. Fanciful? Factual? You can be the judge, but I remember thinking that he may have been a little slow and somewhat out of sequence on parts of it.

"In the year 6565

Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife

You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too

From the bottom of a long glass tube"

So how close are we to this today with In Vitro Fertilization?

But let's get back to the subject at hand.

It was a year or so ago when I saw the news that a younger gal got into a traffic accident down in Grand Rapids. It seems that her gas pedal got stuck and she couldn't get it freed up. Now I'm sure if you've driven or lived long enough, you have either had this happen to you or heard about it. There are some definite do's and don'ts in getting out of this type of problem, the easiest of which is to put the car in neutral and applying the brakes. The biggest don't is jamming the gas pedal to the floor hoping it will free itself up. Thanks to this gal, who somehow survived despite herself, we now have another don't.

Don't call your girlfriends on your cellphone!

"In the year 5555

Your arms are hanging limp at your sides

Your legs got not nothing to do

Some machine is doing that for you"

Close, really close. Had Zager only switched the word "minds" for "legs", we may have had the perfect moral to this and many stories just like it!

So Capt O, I fully agree that this project is going to make it's creator a famous and wealthy man. We are getting closer to the year 5555 everytime we can come up with an invention that gives people the chance to throw away the ability to think on their own.

OHIO, I can't help but think that if given the ability to speak, how many extinct species would have heard their offspring say the exact same thing!

"In the year 8510

God is gonna shake his mighty head

He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been

Or tear it down and start again"

In The Year 2525

Zager and Evans

[JigMe]

Whether it's a good idea or not it is a tool I have no use for. Much of the time my smartphone isn't even with me, unless I'm expecting a very important call. Lund is an old dog and so am I, I grew up fishing in Michigan in a rowboat with 1 or 2 rods with no electronics what so ever, caught plenty of fish then and still do without those aids. Fishing serves 2 purposes for me, one is to get away and not be bothered by distractions, and two is to challenge myself. Having 15 rods, 6 tackle bags, fish finders, side imaging, 70 mph boats, lake maps and the internet to get information before leaving your home..............how much easier do some want it to be?

I know many will say all that is needed because of fishing pressure, I say that's an excuse, not a reason.

Straight to the point! X2

[808bass]

Well, you guys have convinced me it isn't the best idea in the box.

So I got some other ideas right now, but I'm going to sit back and think about it.

An online bass fishing tournament website with prizes is near the top of the list right now..

[slonezp]

Well, you guys have convinced me it isn't the best idea in the box.

So I got some other ideas right now, but I'm going to sit back and think about it.

An online bass fishing tournament website with prizes is near the top of the list right now..

Already been done

http://www.bountyfishing.com/

[Hyrule Bass]

Simpsons did it

[BASSclary]

Simpsons did it

LO-FREAKIN-L man !,

That just had me rolling !