Could This BeThe End of Fly Fishing as We know It?

[Bear742]

Is this it?

The advertising for this could read:

Add 100 yards to your casts without changing rods or lines and without taking lessons. Yes 100 YARDS! The only limit is the amount of backing on your reel. Forget about practicing the double haul forever.

Open this link. Scroll down and Click to View Video. The whole outfit cost less than an Orvis. The implications for fly fishing are ominous.

http://precisioncaster.com/

I do not know whether to join them or fight them. How would we fight them anyway?

Oh well! In 50 years there will be a big debate over whether mass produced plastic hulls are better than hand crafted cedar strip hulls.

[ol' blue]

Or you could just make the unit a little bigger and ride in it yourself....

Never mind. I think that has been tried before.

[Wild One]

Are they serious?

[DShock]

This is what happens when people try to invent a better mouse trap. Like I said, it's too bad fish don't have a sense of humor.

[Micropteris]

It's all fun and games until the battery dies 500 feet away!!!!

[Fishin Bill]

I'm stunned... I looked and looked... it takes all the fun out of fishing, even for my baitcasting friends.

[Betty Hiner]

.... Like I said, it's too bad fish don't have a sense of humor.

Oh, but Dougie! They certainly do!! Or have you not been fishing in a while?!? It's apparent to me each time I cast a line!!

[billknepp]

Maybe they should find a way to incorperate that with Roland Martin's little toy He just came out with....think of the financial wind fall!!!.....Wonder how many suckers they've netted with that lil gizmo so far?!?!

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

I make radio controlled sailboats and speedboats. There are 30 of us in our boat club and each time we sail someone loses a boat , which is why you need a real boat standing by for retreival. If your using that toy it would be be because you don't have a real boat to fish from.
Ergo; sooner or later either the battery will die or you will push the limits and it will float out of radio range then your $250.00 will float away with it.

We have sailed lures out over 500 feet successfully then yanked them off the deck for reeling in. During one retrieval we had some dufus in a speed boat cross our lines. Oops lost 100 feet of line and a lure, luckily we didn't lose the boat.
One idiot even deliberately ran down one of our guys sailboat. $750.00 down the tubes.

Lastly one of our crowd decided to actually troll a small lure attached 100 feet behing his model speedboat. a large carp grabbed the lure and yanked the boat into Davy Jones locker. lol

I don't think we have anything to worry about from the precision caster.

[bob--o]

Maybe they should find a way to incorperate that with Roland Martin's little toy He just came out with....think of the financial wind fall!!!.....Wonder how many suckers they've netted with that lil gizmo so far?!?!

My 4 year old loves that "rod thing" the Rocket pole. I spend $300 for a nice rod, for the fun he has, the $30 was worth it.

MAJOR + is no hooks flying around little kids OR dads. I'll teach him to cast without the hook.