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.
