the downside of FFS.

[Hobious]

i am not a great fisherman.  average at best.  what i do have going with me is i am a stubborn caster.  i cast and cast.  i try different baits in areas that look bassy. 

i was in a huge cove yesterday with about 8 tournement guys.  i got 4 fish, my bud got 4 fish.  no dinks.  all 3's with 4.5 kicker for me.  i think i casted about a million times.  i just carpet bomb cover and worked one shoreline..about 30 feet offshore. 

all others in the cove skunked.  i wouldnt advertise my catches and kept it kinda stealth.  no hooping, no hollaring.  quick pics if needed and let em go.  my bud is a bragger so he would tell everyone..hahah.

anyways, i was watching those guys.  they all had FFS.  they were moving about staring at the screens looking for fish.  like actively searching.  i think they were passing on them or something. 

i was throwing a tex rigged creature and i didnt skunk.   maybe they were casting to carp?  my arm hurts from throwing bomb casts for hours on end.  i often dreamed about someone with FFS to invite me next to them and tell me where to send my baits.  big schools of bass hanging in a deep sunken tree.  hahahha..  but that has ever happened.  i think the other kayakers were moving about to much, fishing to fast, looking for them.  i just guessed a million times and ended up having a blast. 

[Princeton_Man]

No one gets too worried when I show up for a tournament.   I do love my Garmins and plan to upgrade them in the future. Yes, I've even been looking at Livescope, but I'll never be one of those who spends the entire day looking at the graph. I'll admit I have used it to my advantage a few times, but I'm a lot like you, I can't help but believe I can find them without the graph and quite often cast ten thousand times in a single day. I prefer shallow water, grass, laydowns, and cover to open water. That's one of the reasons I like Guntersville so much.

[big g]

The first thing I will say about FFS is the technology is out there, and you simply can't stop the development of this type.  Once out of the bag you can't put it back in.  Right now you can't tell definitely what type of fish the bleep is, but it won't be long before a green bleep reps a bass, a red bleep a catfish, another color a pike and so one.
Some day a fishing trip will consist of running to a spot, and trolling hands free until a bleep shows of a certain size and it tells you where to throw and what to use because of the activity being represented by the green bleep.  A-I is here and exploding and the only limiting factor will be, do you have the money to spend for it.  You won't need a fishing brain to figure it out, but a knowledge of technology to control the devices. 
I'm so glad I grew up in at a time when you had to figure it out yourself and the enjoyment of being out in nature and reading what she gave you that minute, that hour, that day.  I don't want to fish playing a video game staring at a screen all day.
The technology is there, will only get more advanced, the younger people will thrive using it, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.  I will do it my way and be very happy as long as I can.  I will not criticize anyone using it, and being successful.  Just not what I call fishing.

Just an old guys point of view!