Remember when Popular Mechanics said we’d all have our own fusion-powered personal hovercraft by the year 2000?
Instead, we got airlines that can’t get us from Peoria to Chicago without losing our luggage. But maybe - just maybe - we can get to that secret fly fishing water right away - flying our own personal jetpacks:
Sure, it weighs a bunch, costs $100K, and apparently sucks trees into the rotors if you get too close, but there it is - personal flight.
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James Mann 07.30.08 at 4:12 am
Now that’s the way to go fishing. Now I just need it to be remote controlled so I can get my son to keep me in the air while I fish from on high.
Tom Chandler 07.30.08 at 5:43 am
Apparently it’s pretty noisy, and really, the last thing you want is to strap yourself to a 200 hp gas motor and rotor blades and then hand the controls over to someone else.
Just saying is all.
Then again, flying through a cloud of bugs would presumably litter the surface with chopped up specimens, mingling the effectiveness of chumming with the snobbish charm of dry fly fishing…
James Mann 07.30.08 at 6:16 am
Yeah, I’m rethinking that idea as I am sure my son would have me doing things that would make it tough to fish.
CT FISHING REPORTS 08.02.08 at 9:46 am
Those are some great photos, what kind of camera did you take those with?…
BTW I also run a blog about fishing, there are some neat pictures there as well, it would be cool if you stopped by and let me know what you think… http://www.ifishct.com.
If you are interested in exchanging links let me know - Erick