By Jason Hawkins
The first time I fished a boat with a dredge; I thought the sailfish would flock.
The first time I fished a boat with the famed “flippy-floppy” teasers, I thought the white marlin would battle for dibs.
The first time I fished a boat with a Seakeeper, I thought the boat would never tilt.
And the first time I fished a boat with sonar, I thought we would be chasing a marlin in a matter of seconds.
Such is the case for thinking. You see, we humans conjure up many preconceived notions and emotions and we force them into our lives and our expectations. It’s actually what makes us human. And to a degree it’s what sets us up for constant failure: We expect things.
In the last decade, perhaps nothing in the world of offshore blue-water pursuit with has been more controversial and more helpful than the use of sonar. Or has it?
Sonar has been around for many years. There are military roots and scientific roots and exploration roots. Commercial fishermen have used this technology to sustain a commercial industry and put tuna in a can for a grocery store in Iowa. When the first seeds of sonar began to appear in public on famed sportfisher boats, immediately began the controversy of an invasive species and
