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"I’ve used it for over a year, and I use it constantly. I get the urge to go fishing and I look for the best days and it highlights them." What is angler Nelson Laningham talking about? Well, it’s not a state of the art lure or a brand-new fishing book. No, he has actually plugged in to the hottest angler's aid to come down the pike in years—a computer program that tells you when the fish are biting. " I even planned a chartered trip last April 5 and came home one fish short of limiting out on trout," he adds. Laningham’s personal experiences with Dr. Dan’s Predictions tell him that it works. "I’ve hit time and again," he said," and I come home with igloos full of filets." |
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Laningham points out that you don’t have to be a computer nerd to work with this program. "It’s totally friendly to work with. I absolutely recommend it to people all the time. You don’t have to do all this calculation stuff. Dr. Dan’sdoes it for you. I end up fishing 12 miles up into the bay, and I can adjust the program to find out where the fish are."
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Another angler Harry Smith, has used it for two years. "The most dramatic changes since I’ve been using Dr.Dan’s are two things--when I go and where I go. Before, I’d just make a good ‘guesstimate’ as to when tide would be high enough to put my boat in. Normally, I left before daylight. Now I can find out when the current is going to be moving." |
The day of our interview, Smith was
heading out for a fishing trip at noon, "The current has to be moving
at .3 knots to wash the bait out of the grass beds and off the shell reefs."
An environmentalist, Smith works part-time and fishes full-time. He has fished for 60 years and rates himself "below average" on computer usage. "It hasn’t been hard to use at all. Today, we’re going to Port O’Connor, and we’ll fish for two days. If our record holds true, we’ll come back with upwards of 40 fish."