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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | While discussing the legalities of the keel sinker rig on this board. And me suggesting that nothing has actually changed (fish-catching wise) in the last 40 years started me thinking. It does seem the old techniques have been refined or modified using known strategies taken from the vast knowledge of fishermen everywhere, while simply using more modern components and or equipment available in todays world.
Initially after stating it though, I thought I might have overstated this assumption a bit. But, I truly believe it's true. The weighted dropper we used to tie directly to the snap swivel holding our home made crawler harness on back in 1962 has now become a Bottom bouncer, accomplishing the same thing with a twist. Planer boards, even though finding their nitch in the early 70's on all the Great Lakes, were used long before that on the oceans to get trawl nets or other fish catching gear out to the side and away from the boat. And the comparisons go on.
I'd say if anything we've simply become more educated about our prey, how to catch them, and their habits and their life cycles. Usefully using this knowledge and aquiring all the modern gadgets needed to zero in on their favorite places, while using all the newer lifelike attractors modern science has supplied, hasn't hurt either. Technology and their benefits are about the only thing that has changed the way we look for and catch our chosen prey. So I feel my immediate first assumption was right. |
