Scientific Angle
ACTIVE ANGLER
esse Tacoronte remembers the day Garmin reached out to its bass fishing pro staff for feedback on a new skunkworks project: a trolling motor, sequestered in a test tank in a lab at the company’s Olathe, Kan., headquarters. There, past a series of doors with enigmatic symbols devoid of labels, Garmin had been developing one of the most buzzworthy products in bass fishing for years. “They asked all of us what was important,” recalls Tacoronte. “Our biggest request was getting rid of
