Electronic Fishing Guide

[Trav]

If you could have a tool, similar to your Depthfinder, but it could answer any question you gave it, about any body of water, or species of fish, What kind of questions would you want it to be able to answer and how would you want the results of that question be expressed to you?

Humor me guys, I even want the bad ideas because you never know if it is bad until you express it.

Please, haha, limit the responses to fishing. Unless the nearest strip club sells more than jail"bait"...haha

[zander]

I don't see any reason why there can't be a chip that would interpret the signals bounced off of fish and based on the characteristics, tell you what kind of fish they were. It might only work if a fish is swimming straight and level, but it is still possible. Underwater biometry, some engineer could probably get a Dept of Homeland security grant to develop it, and then make a killing selling it to recreational and commercial fishermen.

[Trav]

Haha

or The Manchurian Chip, implanted in the fishes brain to bite only for certain fisherman.

I like your way of thinking Zander, but I guess I was shooting a little bit towards tool interfacing. What would Joe Fisherman find as the most useful info while finding difficult fishing conditions on unfamiliar water. If there was a database to provide a past pattern that could be searched, How would that information be displayed best for user friendly formats.

[lonkm]

why not something that uses moon phase, baromiter, water temp, fish species, time of year and the lake you are on?