My raw unbridled envy with the electronics available to the bass boat crowd has me attempting to reproduce that functionality for the “old school” fly fisherman.
My goal is unclear, something less than burdening myself so I sink like a stone with a misstep wading, and something more than licking my finger and holding it skyward.
How about a watch that reads and analyzes atmospheric data so it can tell you the wrong time to go fishing?
I figure them solunar tables are akin to weather forecasting, occasionally right, but never something more than a gamble.
Altimeter, barometric pressure, even graphs your vertical changes over the last 8 hours, but more importantly a built in compass, which may actually be the most useful of all the gizmos.
Brownliners will scoff only because we know “crap flows downhill” – hence our car is easy to find.
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I’ve got a thingy like that. It’s got a graph for barometric pressure, a compass, a clock, and a stop watch. It’s nice for showing off, but I only use it to see what time it is.
Oh yeah, the digital compass always says NE.
I was thinking of hooking this on my fly, that way I could get a vertical read on the bottom structure – well, after I went swimming to recover it…
It would be quite interesting to chart how the pressure effects the fishing but I think there is far more factors to take into account – saying that though it does look quite handy
🙂 !
Alistair