THE APRIL 1985 issue of Bassmaster was my first as editor. Bob Cobb handed me a stack of manuscripts and photo transparencies, wished me luck and turned his focus from print to television.
Looking back on that first Bassmaster with my name on the masthead, I’m struck by two highlights. One was an article debuting the first digital depthfinder marketed to bass anglers, Humminbird’s Liquid Crystal Recorder, and the other was an ad for Daiwa’s computerized Procaster Tournament electronic reel — “The first reel with a mind of its own.”
In a way, those two developments typified the fishing industry during my tenure as editor, which lasted through the summer of 2003. It was an era of tremendous, rapid advancements in the technologies of fishfinding, navigation and boating. It was also a time
