More online Christmas shopping has led me to consider the lowly fish. Fish have a hard life. Used to be a fish could swim around a lake and hardly ever see a worm on a line as long as he stayed away from the banks. Fishermen were on their own when it came to finding them. Really good fishermen, who fished the same lake a lot, got pretty good at guessing where the fish were. But there still wasn’t all that much pressure for a fish to worry.
Then came technology and technology hath no mercy. The result is a fisherman’s dream and a fish’s nightmare. I wouldn’t be surprised if fish don’t now suffer from a good deal of depression. I mean I have not seen a really happy fish in a loooooong time. I still catch them from the bank and throw them back when I go fishin’. I’ve noticed the one’s I catch look really nervous and edgy, like my boss used to look when sales were down. Didn’t used to be that way. Fish used to be more carefree.
But I digress…
While Christmas shopping online for electronics for the car, the boat, and for hiking, I found a great online store that carries just about all of it. Northeast Marine Electronics is the company. Fishfinders and GPS units, and radar, and binoculars and compasses…just about any kind of electronic gadget for finding stuff is what they’re all about. It’s mostly a marine oriented store but all these electronics come in landlubber versions too. So if you’re having a hard time finding stuff, like fish, or your way back to the marina, or your way back to the truck from your deer stand…check ‘em out. These gadgets make useful Christmas gifts for the person in need of them.
Just don’t think about the fish.
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Poor little fish! Everybody’s picking on them and now. Perhapy Jaws needs a gps too! Watch out fishermen
Ha! I saw these in a catalog also and thought huh? Those fishies are already at such a technological disadvantage, we should be buying them ipods for Xmas! Nice sketch too - I like the fishies on the screen.
Hi Martha, Lindsay,
Thanks for the comments!
Yes, technology makes me all the more happy I’m not a fish.
I’ve been searching for some kind of a sun shield that would keep the sun off my chart-plotter display. I fashioned one myself (looked like crap, kept falling off) but it worked. I saw an article in my dad’s RV magazine for a gps accessories site that makes GPS sun shades and after checking it out (turns out they make em for just about all gps units), I ordered one for myself. Pretty nice! Works well, priced right, and looks one hell of a lot better than my own handywork! If you have glare and screen visibility problems, you might want to check them out.
Well I’ll be. That’s a great solution! Odd that the manufacturer’s don’t address these kinds of issues in the design isn’t it?
Thanks for the comment!
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