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I've been fishing for a few years and learned mostly on my own by scouring forums plus lots of trial and error. I've always likened the draw to be similar to th
by cloudkj 8y ago
I've been fishing for a few years and learned mostly on my own by scouring forums plus lots of trial and error. I've always likened the draw to be similar to the problem solving nature of programming and engineering in general, and have always wondered if there are other engineers that enjoy fishing. From some of the comments here it looks like there are some, but not many.
I've actually created several pieces of fishing software, for personal use, such as a journal/logging app for recording outings (locations, conditions, results, etc.), a crawler/scraper that extracts EXIF location info for good fishing spots, a notifications app for ideal fishing conditions, etc.
- wj 8y agoI owned a domain for a couple of years with the intent to crawl Flickr for fishing photos and to link them on a map. Never got around to it though. A shame as I feel like it would have got me fishing more often.
- cloudkj 8y agoFor me, I've never been able to get over the internal conflict of wanting to build a useful tool like a map of fishing spots and releasing it openly, with the downside of good fishing spots getting overrun should the tool become popular. I also started working on a similar idea as yours a couple years ago, but for Instagram instead. It turned out the GPS tagging on Instagram was fairly inaccurate, and sometimes intentionally misleading, especially amongst anglers who tag incorrect locations since the number one no-no is spot burning.