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Originally Posted by vash

okay, okay. cheating is too strong of language. how about "unfair advantage"?

new gear comes out and some tasks get easier. i am kayak fishing a lot, and i am contemplating getting an electric motor. its a lot of effort tho. i love the simplicity of my current ride. just slide it out of the truck, put gear in, and i am on the water in 5 minutes. same in reverse. its nice. my friend recently got a motor and it is damn nice. spot lock, he can eat and drink while moving to the new spot. but watching him load batteries, hook up wires, and then strap on the motor was a bit much. not inexpensive either. my new kayak has the threaded inserts to install a motor easy.

got me thinking, "instead of a motor, why not get the latest fishfinder tech?" same magnitude of money. its called Live Scope. you can see the bass before you ever cast to them. you see your lure, you see the fish look at lure.. i'm not a great fisherman. i could use the help. but i am not sure. it is the biggest advantage. the literally cannot hide. i can peek under lily pads.

its everywhere. hyper long range hunting rifles, drones, laser rangefinder binoculars.. pick a hobby, any thing..there is some tech gear now.

manual transmissions vs flappy paddle gearboxes with computers that rev match for you on downshifts....

Yep, you can make things faster, more efficient, and easier, but are you making them "better."

I'm not a fisherman. I've been a couple few times in my life and don't get it. It's boring to me. But, based on the folks that I've spoken to that do enjoy it, I don't know that making it that easy would make it better. When I was about 12/13, we were camping in the mountains. My dad took me to a fish farm place where they had a pond where you could fish. Even as a kid where what you usually want is the reward, that was boring. Cast a hook into the water, even without bait and you were probably going to pull up a fish in seconds. They must have been starving.

There are times that tech can make things easier and more enjoyable without going too far. There are other times that they go so far that they take the enjoyment out of it.

I guess if I was fishing to feed my family, something like that would be great.