"No Fish Detected"

[rizzo]

I've seen guys use small boat fish finders from shore when broodstock salmon fishing in rivers...

As with everything else, 50 years from now this sport will be drastically different. We'll have invisible lines with 100 pound breaking strength with superior abrasion resistence, feather lite space age composite rods, new age plastic lures that are pretty much the real thing controlled by little motors, pocket structure scanners that will pin point fish locations on heads up display goggles. We'll probably need it all as we'll continue to pound the stocks down to nothing and catching a striper will be as rare an event as an atlantic salmon!

[Stewie]

About that time, we will have synthetic stripers, all 50 pounders swimming around in large pools at national parks. The pools will be provided because once fisherman are not allowed within 800 yards of the salt water, the feds will have to build the pools to avoid another civil war.

Please practice catch and release with the synthostripers as each one costs as much as 64 miles of eight lane highway.

[Ed B]

Surfcasting 50 years from now will look pretty much the same as surfcasting today, and as it was 50 years ago. Lines, lures, rods and reels will be newer but the act of presenting a lure to a fish in the surf zone will essentially remain the same. Look at flyfishing for example they have updated all technology but the art and secrets of presenting the fly and getting a fish to hit have remained unchanged for centuries. Surfcasting is and will be similar to that.

What DZ is offering is a humorous view of what will take place in the next "Something other than surf fishing" fad. Here's what we've gone through in the last couple decades with the latest fads for guys who don't catch from the surf. Off the top of my head.
1. Distance casting. (Always been around but comes and goes)
2. Swimming to outer rockpiles (DZ's term "wanna be a boat")
3. Technophobes for the latest and greatest outerwear, tackle and lures (funny how they always end up using eels)
4. Skishing (For your family's sake, keep your will updated)
5. Cell phone gangs.

What these above things have in common are not the techniques or technology but the people who use them. They're for guys who had a passing interest and limited success in surf fishing and now are looking for more production. They'll end up doing some other type of fishing. They may even enter the water from the surf, but that won't make it surf fishing or surf casting.

PS. Love that little submarine though

Ed

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by rizzo

As with everything else, 50 years from now this sport will be drastically different.

You will be able to sit in front of the Boob tube (yes they will still dominate your life) and robo-fish using a mouse pad and a waterproof 3' tall robot which walks along the ocean's bottom and via radar targets specific 50+ lb fish, no smallies need apply!

[BluesHarp]

Gone are the days of Bamboo rods, free spool reels with a leather thumb drag, linen line and a chummer to bait the lobster tail on the hook. God I miss those days...

Now all I do is program my robotic UUV with side scanning sonar to patrol the coast and send me the GPS coordinates to my smart phone once it finds a bass beyond the current top leaderboard fish.

What has happened to the sport?