About once a year I got ice fishing with my good friend Jay. Jay is an engineer, and like all good engineers, he loves gadgets. Fishing is no exception. I went fishing with Jay on Saturday and he surprised me by bringing out one of the geekiest fishing gadgets I’d ever seen — an underwater camera so you could watch the fish. I immediately loved it. It was even shaped and painted to look like a fish! I’m not sure I even want to know what this little gem cost him.

We were only fishing in about 15 feet of water so there was plenty of light for us to drop down the camera and see if there were any fish down at the bottom. The camera confirmed it. There were fish. Lots of them…..if you like small panfish. We spent the afternoon watching the fish swim by the camera and occasionally catching one or two of them. I didn’t say we were good at it, did I?

–Pete