The Distant Future of Bass Fishing

HarveysMinnow · 11-30-10, 06:47 PM

“In the year 2525,
If Bass are still alive,
If fishermen can survive,
They may find…”

(Apologies to Zager & Evans… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiD2CGkoNts )

If humanity doesn’t blow itself away, and the lakes and rivers haven’t dried up, here’s my imagining of what Bass fishing could be like in the distant future:

Suppose we have slept for about 500 years, and we wake up in our floating ATV / Boat which allows us to travel rapidly over land or water, by skimming along atop an anti-gravity force field. Technology has continue to progress, making many ‘new toys’ available to sportsmen of all types. Fishermen don’t need rods, reels, or lines anymore. Aside from a few ‘old diehard purists’ who insist on taking their ancient relics of rod/reel combos to the water’s edge, everyone else uses some brand variation of the ‘great attractor’ and its control unit. This control unit looks a little like a smart phone, with a sturdy handle and a joystick or similar interface. With this hand-held device the fisherman controls the movement of his ‘attractor’, which is the size and shape of a minnow or other popular crank bait. Inside this attractor is an array of electronics more powerful than any computer now available. It gathers and sends to the control unit all the information that one could formerly get from the most sophisticated fish finder radar units of centuries past.

But finding the Bass and viewing his habitat in three dimensions is only the beginning. After you pick out the Bass you want to ‘catch’, you navigate your attractor to within about six feet of him, and then you turn on your ‘focused tractor beam’. (I know…I’ve seen too many Star Trek reruns.) The tractor beam has several settings, ranging from “novice” to “expert”. So you can decide beforehand how much power output to give your attractor, i.e. how much of a sporting chance you want the fish to have. Then the real fun begins, as you envelope him in your force field, and you watch your control screen as you pull him in the general direction of your location. He fights heroically and you can feel his pull in your handheld controller, so get a good grip! Does this Bass have enough energy to break your force field? Oops, he just headed deep…can you turn him before he gets behind that huge rock outcrop? Oh lovely…now he’s mad and has turned on your attractor… if he catches and swallows it, all bets are off. You gotta try to keep some distance between the Bass and your attractor! This see-saw battle continues until the fish tires and you bring him within netting distance. As soon as he is robotically deposited on the floor of your float, a microchip imbedded in the Bass transmits his weight, age, how many times he’s been caught, what his last meal was, and other pertinent data used by “Bassing Forever”, the governing body of world fisheries, whose purpose is to keep lakes and streams optimized for growing huge Bass and other gamefish.

Of course, most fishermen still carry a ‘tackle box’ with a variety of ‘attractors’. After all, fishermen the world over understand that a part of the enjoyment of fishing is shopping for new and improved ‘enticements’ and ‘tools of the trade’. In other words, the Bait Monkey lives on.

If you’re wondering why I waste my time dreaming up such as this, knowing full well that I won’t be there to see if these predictions even come close, I’ll can only say, ‘Hey, I gotta do something to help me endure the Winter’. If any of you guys are having similar spells of cabin fever, I encourage you to write your own versions of the future of Bass fishing.

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Ebbetsguy · 11-30-10, 07:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

SAME AS IT EVER WAS!!!!!!!!!

Wake up
Eat
Trailer boat to lake or river
Fish till I drop
go to sleep

repeat above

couldn't be easier and more pleasing

I like living for the day, ill be dead in 20 years so what happens in 500 years is really not of concern to me

bamabassman · 11-30-10, 08:59 PM

Hahahaaha, nice to think that might actually happen. But i don't think it'll be in my lifetime either. But............when i retire i hope to be able to afford a nice RV and jsut travel from lake to lake during the springs and summers. Invade some the folks here at their houses unannounced, hehehehe. So watch out!

CMorg · 11-30-10, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ebbetsguy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

SAME AS IT EVER WAS!!!!!!!!!

Wake up
Eat
Trailer boat to lake or river
Fish till I drop
go to sleep

repeat above

couldn't be easier and more pleasing

I like living for the day, ill be dead in 20 years so what happens in 500 years is really not of concern to me

True but that wasnt the point of this. I am pretty sure he wanted to know what you thought the future could be like. It seems as though someone is done sorting and organizing tackle , cleaning rods and reels , and now just wants to kill the rest of the winter...

Ebbetsguy · 11-30-10, 09:56 PM

I am well aware of his intentions, I would like for and hope to see a portion of the folks who participate in this sport, keep it both traditional and simple, as in days when I was young. This is my hope for the future, and what the original poster asked responders to post. If you don't agree that’s fine, I don't need a lesson on what my response needs to be. . I am also a person who cares about the day I am in without much care for the future.

CMorg · 11-30-10, 10:56 PM

Lol , ey ey captain !

walkeraviator · 12-01-10, 07:29 AM

Unless something changes in 500 years, the world socialist government will be monitoring your mind and if you so much as think about hooking a fish it will be straight to jail for thinking about eating anything but the soylent green they have provided you...

HarveysMinnow · 12-01-10, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by walkeraviator

Unless something changes in 500 years, the world socialist government will be monitoring your mind and if you so much as think about hooking a fish it will be straight to jail for thinking about eating anything but the soylent green they have provided you...

LOL There's the beauty of the great attractor - it's the perfect catch and release system. But perhaps the condemned can still ask for baked Bass as their last meal.

[I vaguely remember another movie where the 'authorities' were always doing 'mind locks' on various people. Seems like one of the Carradine brothers was in it.]

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bassinbob · 12-01-10, 04:56 PM

Wouldn't that make a great movie. A man in the future risks his life to get to fish before he dies. The trails and tribulations of sneaking out to one of the remaining freshwater lakes. In the end we see him reeling in a ten pound beauty.

bamabassman · 12-01-10, 06:04 PM

oh i love the idea........i can picture him using a LAZER rod with light saber line. hahahaha!

keithdog · 12-01-10, 07:47 PM

Here is what I envision. Bassboats, which are made by a company called Jedi Tracker and Marine will be flown from your driveway to the launch, which is actually a semi solid water pad on the lake. Bass fishing tournies will be 5 hour events instead of 3 days. Some of the guys fishing in those tournies will be Luke Clunn, Hans Iaconelli, Skeet Vader, Obi-Won Vandam and Bill Dance. Yes, Bill will still be around. The bait monkey, better know then as the Baitbacca, will keep Bill preserved somehow just to make sure he keeps his sales pitches comming. The "Federation", will over see all tournies. And Bamas loonngggg distant relative, Dink Castmaster will be winning most of the tournies and catching the largest bass.

bamabassman · 12-01-10, 09:19 PM

now dats true keithdog. my relative WILL be the greatest fisherman/woman ever! i love the way you dialed in on the names man. star wars is another of my favorite movies.

carolina-rig-01 · 12-02-10, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keithdog

Here is what I envision. Bassboats, which are made by a company called Jedi Tracker and Marine will be flown from your driveway to the launch, which is actually a semi solid water pad on the lake. Bass fishing tournies will be 5 hour events instead of 3 days. Some of the guys fishing in those tournies will be Luke Clunn, Hans Iaconelli, Skeet Vader, Obi-Won Vandam and Bill Dance. Yes, Bill will still be around. The bait monkey, better know then as the Baitbacca, will keep Bill preserved somehow just to make sure he keeps his sales pitches comming. The "Federation", will over see all tournies. And Bamas loonngggg distant relative, Dink Castmaster will be winning most of the tournies and catching the largest bass.

I was with you up to this point, then you lost me. Some things are just too hard to fatham, even when you are talking about 500 years in the future lol.

Tavery5 · 12-02-10, 06:24 PM

Bama, you know they do it because they love ya.

bamabassman · 12-02-10, 07:08 PM

yeah,yeah,yeah.......................so i have been TOLD so MANY times before. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

at least i KNOW i won't have a boat without fish in it. lisa can alwas catch em fer me. lmao!

11-30-10, 06:47 PM	#1
HarveysMinnow BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central NC Posts: 224	The Distant Future of Bass Fishing “In the year 2525, If Bass are still alive, If fishermen can survive, They may find…” (Apologies to Zager & Evans… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiD2CGkoNts ) If humanity doesn’t blow itself away, and the lakes and rivers haven’t dried up, here’s my imagining of what Bass fishing could be like in the distant future: Suppose we have slept for about 500 years, and we wake up in our floating ATV / Boat which allows us to travel rapidly over land or water, by skimming along atop an anti-gravity force field. Technology has continue to progress, making many ‘new toys’ available to sportsmen of all types. Fishermen don’t need rods, reels, or lines anymore. Aside from a few ‘old diehard purists’ who insist on taking their ancient relics of rod/reel combos to the water’s edge, everyone else uses some brand variation of the ‘great attractor’ and its control unit. This control unit looks a little like a smart phone, with a sturdy handle and a joystick or similar interface. With this hand-held device the fisherman controls the movement of his ‘attractor’, which is the size and shape of a minnow or other popular crank bait. Inside this attractor is an array of electronics more powerful than any computer now available. It gathers and sends to the control unit all the information that one could formerly get from the most sophisticated fish finder radar units of centuries past. But finding the Bass and viewing his habitat in three dimensions is only the beginning. After you pick out the Bass you want to ‘catch’, you navigate your attractor to within about six feet of him, and then you turn on your ‘focused tractor beam’. (I know…I’ve seen too many Star Trek reruns.) The tractor beam has several settings, ranging from “novice” to “expert”. So you can decide beforehand how much power output to give your attractor, i.e. how much of a sporting chance you want the fish to have. Then the real fun begins, as you envelope him in your force field, and you watch your control screen as you pull him in the general direction of your location. He fights heroically and you can feel his pull in your handheld controller, so get a good grip! Does this Bass have enough energy to break your force field? Oops, he just headed deep…can you turn him before he gets behind that huge rock outcrop? Oh lovely…now he’s mad and has turned on your attractor… if he catches and swallows it, all bets are off. You gotta try to keep some distance between the Bass and your attractor! This see-saw battle continues until the fish tires and you bring him within netting distance. As soon as he is robotically deposited on the floor of your float, a microchip imbedded in the Bass transmits his weight, age, how many times he’s been caught, what his last meal was, and other pertinent data used by “Bassing Forever”, the governing body of world fisheries, whose purpose is to keep lakes and streams optimized for growing huge Bass and other gamefish. Of course, most fishermen still carry a ‘tackle box’ with a variety of ‘attractors’. After all, fishermen the world over understand that a part of the enjoyment of fishing is shopping for new and improved ‘enticements’ and ‘tools of the trade’. In other words, the Bait Monkey lives on. If you’re wondering why I waste my time dreaming up such as this, knowing full well that I won’t be there to see if these predictions even come close, I’ll can only say, ‘Hey, I gotta do something to help me endure the Winter’. If any of you guys are having similar spells of cabin fever, I encourage you to write your own versions of the future of Bass fishing. / __________________ It's time for less talk and more fishing!

11-30-10, 07:08 PM	#2
Ebbetsguy BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 483	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU SAME AS IT EVER WAS!!!!!!!!! Wake up Eat Trailer boat to lake or river Fish till I drop go to sleep repeat above couldn't be easier and more pleasing I like living for the day, ill be dead in 20 years so what happens in 500 years is really not of concern to me Last edited by Ebbetsguy; 11-30-10 at 07:26 PM.

11-30-10, 08:59 PM	#3
bamabassman BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cedar bluff, alabama Posts: 15,292	Hahahaaha, nice to think that might actually happen. But i don't think it'll be in my lifetime either. But............when i retire i hope to be able to afford a nice RV and jsut travel from lake to lake during the springs and summers. Invade some the folks here at their houses unannounced, hehehehe. So watch out! __________________ so many lures, so little time.

12-01-10, 04:56 PM	#9
bassinbob BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pitts. Pa. Posts: 3,801	Wouldn't that make a great movie. A man in the future risks his life to get to fish before he dies. The trails and tribulations of sneaking out to one of the remaining freshwater lakes. In the end we see him reeling in a ten pound beauty. __________________ you can have my fishin rod when ya take it from my cold dead hands

12-01-10, 06:04 PM	#10
bamabassman BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cedar bluff, alabama Posts: 15,292	oh i love the idea........i can picture him using a LAZER rod with light saber line. hahahaha! __________________ so many lures, so little time.

11-30-10, 09:56 PM	#5
Ebbetsguy BassFishin.Com Active Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 483	I am well aware of his intentions, I would like for and hope to see a portion of the folks who participate in this sport, keep it both traditional and simple, as in days when I was young. This is my hope for the future, and what the original poster asked responders to post. If you don't agree that’s fine, I don't need a lesson on what my response needs to be. . I am also a person who cares about the day I am in without much care for the future.

11-30-10, 10:56 PM	#6
CMorg BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern , IN Posts: 1,832	Lol , ey ey captain !

12-01-10, 07:29 AM	#7
walkeraviator BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 1,119	Unless something changes in 500 years, the world socialist government will be monitoring your mind and if you so much as think about hooking a fish it will be straight to jail for thinking about eating anything but the soylent green they have provided you...

12-01-10, 07:47 PM	#11
keithdog BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: IN Posts: 8,308	Here is what I envision. Bassboats, which are made by a company called Jedi Tracker and Marine will be flown from your driveway to the launch, which is actually a semi solid water pad on the lake. Bass fishing tournies will be 5 hour events instead of 3 days. Some of the guys fishing in those tournies will be Luke Clunn, Hans Iaconelli, Skeet Vader, Obi-Won Vandam and Bill Dance. Yes, Bill will still be around. The bait monkey, better know then as the Baitbacca, will keep Bill preserved somehow just to make sure he keeps his sales pitches comming. The "Federation", will over see all tournies. And Bamas loonngggg distant relative, Dink Castmaster will be winning most of the tournies and catching the largest bass.

12-01-10, 09:19 PM	#12
bamabassman BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cedar bluff, alabama Posts: 15,292	now dats true keithdog. my relative WILL be the greatest fisherman/woman ever! i love the way you dialed in on the names man. star wars is another of my favorite movies. __________________ so many lures, so little time.

12-02-10, 06:24 PM	#14
Tavery5 BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 2,427	Bama, you know they do it because they love ya.

12-02-10, 07:08 PM	#15
bamabassman BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cedar bluff, alabama Posts: 15,292	yeah,yeah,yeah.......................so i have been TOLD so MANY times before. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! at least i KNOW i won't have a boat without fish in it. lisa can alwas catch em fer me. lmao! __________________ so many lures, so little time.

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