At a trade show a couple of years ago, someone asked me what I thought was the biggest advancement in our age of fishing. I contemplated the great improvements that I have seen in my short time on the water: rods, reels, hardbaits, soft plastics, fishing line/lines, boats, motors, anchors, apparel – the list could certainly go on.

My eventual answer was “electronics.” We anglers use this term or “graphs” to refer to the instruments mounted on our boats that resemble small televisions. They are essentially computers that give us real data about what’s going on in the water column and on the bottom beneath and around our boats at any moment.