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Fishing with no gadgets

GrumpyOldCrappie

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GrumpyOldCrappie Enthusiast

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Just wondering if anybody fishes blind anymore?

Seems like everyone on the ice now-a-days has flashers, GPS, lake maps etc.

My guess is, if we took a poll of 100 people there would be

70% or more that are using some type of electronics.

Maybe most the old guys are still fishing blind but I bet the

rest of us are out to "catch our limit" and not watch

time pass...

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Farley Veteran

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I havent busted out the GPS yet this season mostly because I'm fishing a lake I know pretty well. I have a flasher that needs some TLC but havent used it ever. But I do cheat a little by looking over my buddies shoulder at their flashers and last time we set the fish house we used a flasher but I could have got on the same spot with a 25' tape measure. One of these years I'll step up and get all the nice stuff but I take pride in being able to do it without all the gadgets.

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Just wondering if anybody fishes blind anymore?

Seems like everyone on the ice now-a-days has flashers, GPS, lake maps etc.

My guess is, if we took a poll of 100 people there would be

70% or more that are using some type of electronics.

Maybe most the old guys are still fishing blind but I bet the

rest of us are out to "catch our limit" and not watch

time pass...

I think only after they leave the Bar! crazy I'm sure there are a few "Ball and Patch" fisher peoples out there. I don't know any! wink

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My dad fishes completely blind and he catches some nice fish, I how ever use gps, finders, and anything else I can get my hands on, because I want to, I don't like sitting and waiting so I hop around and it works for me. Ohh and I also don't keep many, actually haven't kept any all year yet, including open water

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I have a fishing buddy that doesnt use a flasher. He still catches fish, but the guys that have flashers are outfishing him 5-1. But he still has the same level of fun. If I didn't have one i'd still fish, but if I had the option, electronics is the way to go.

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I use a flasher at the moment. I don't fish ice fishing tournaments but wonder if anybody would enter a contest with no electronics allowed at all on a lake? Not sure how you'd control it at all without strip searching everyone as they get on the lake since someone would probably have to try and cheat but could be a good time.

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In my perm on Mille Lacs I use ZERO electronics. I guess I do use a GPS to place it, but once there nada. I get too frustrated with a camera or flasher and see nothing down there. I prefer to be an opimistic and just keep telling myself fish are there. It keeps me jigging anyway.

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Brad B Veteran

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simple answer is yes you can fish without all the electronics but the problem is society has become so dependent on electronics be it computers, gps, flashers, depth finders. i think todays generation would be lost without all the electronics. times have definately changed and yes even I can see the changes and I am only 33.

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Brad, ever fish your local lakes I have a question for ya? Sorry to step on the subject, but to answer... I fish with a Vex, and thats it, do you use one in the summer? Why not in the winter, and like today, they tell you if there is some fish around but you still gotta make um bite. I may have a bunch of nice ice fishin stuff for sale soon......... LOL

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I fish without electronics on lakes that i know really well, like Koronis fished there for decades. On new water use old flasher and GPS to find my way back after dark. I keep thinking about a camera but i am too cheap

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supercrew,

I personally use a marcum flasher in the winter and I use a lowrance X510c on my boat. I won't fish with out them. my whole point of my original post was that times and methods have changed but you can still fish the old ways if you choose to and sometime getting back to the basic is not a bad thing to do. when my dad taught me how to ice fish when i was a little kid we never had all the electornics and we still would catch some fish but to me the most important thing was not so much catching fish but to just enjoy the time I spent fishing with him. the fish were just a bonus. I lost my dad to cancer when I was 17. if he was alive today I think he would be amazed at all the advances in the technology.

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I used to fish with a pole and a bucket, didn't catch much fish. Now I fish with a vex, heater, power auger, and multiple poles set up differently. I catch more fish now and have much more fun.

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i might open a can or worms but....i think fishing has become too techie. with GPS flashers and lake maps ect. yes I do have a GPS and a flasher and I love it. i keep fish for a few meals. I think this is why we don't have any nice size pan fish because of the flashers in the winter and spaw fishing in my spring. but thats my opion

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i might open a can or worms but....i think fishing has become too techie. with GPS flashers and lake maps ect. yes I do have a GPS and a flasher and I love it. i keep fish for a few meals. I think this is why we don't have any nice size pan fish because of the flashers in the winter and spaw fishing in my spring. but thats my opion

You are not opening a can of worms. you are right it has gotten to high tech. is that totaly bad? i would say no if we all have the self control to put some of the bigger fish back. you are right about the size of fish going down. one example from our area is the crappies on buffalo lake. last year was a major year for them and this year for the life of me I can't seem to catch one. the hot spot out from the court house only has maybe 3 to 5 houses this year and last year it was like a small town out there.

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