Hydrowave

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Whatever happened to the days of learning to outwit your opponent, with skill that you learnt all through your younger years of fishing? Of valuable lessons on behaviour and habitat of different species, and their migrational patterns,feeding habits and what triggered them to bite? I accept that progress has to be made to a degree, but with all the technology of today,skill sadly plays a VERY marginal portion of success in todays fishing skills. Im all for bow mount electrics and simple things as such. But the need to outskill your human competitor seems to overide the very reason we are all here, to simply enjoy your fishing? Im proud of the knowledge that i have learnt in my 30 odd years of my fishing life,and the information that was passed onto me by knowledgeable older fisherman. Dont get me wrong, im all for soft plastic fishing (gulp and similar excluded), and love my hardbody fishing as well. But to me all this modern technology should be put aside in competitions, and your skill and knowledge should be tested against the fish, not against your fellow competitor and how much technology he or you may have on your boat. This is just my personal opinion, and no malice intended.