Technology and Fishing – What a Combination!

Learn about depth finder to make your fishing ventures more productive. Sometimes called fish finder, they are designed to use sound waves to determine what’s in the water below you.

These technology devices use the sound wave to give you a picture of the underwater objects projecting them on a screen. Most finders display weeds, rocks, fish images, and the depth of the lake.

Generally more experienced anglers use them for two reasons, figuring out how deep the water is and what’s down there. They display fish images in different sizes when it detects fish in the water.

Depth finders are not cheep. I would not recommend a beginner angler spend the money to purchase one of these devices. But if you do plan on investing in one, most anglers review the Hummingbird or Lowrance models, just to name a few. The units screen displays in either a black and white or in color. Do your research as there is so much technical information related to these units that should be understood before investing in one.

Very sophisticated units allow you to insert a computer chip of the exact lake you are fishing on. Those chips allow for images transmitted via satellite. There are even hand-held satellite units available.

We have used them when trying to determine what’s underneath the boat. Not only do we use a map of the lake to understand the lake structures, the finder also projects underwater images.

As mentioned before, I would recommend that you do extensive research if contemplating purchasing one of these units. They are worth the money you will spend. Technology and fishing – what a combination!