I just asked my AI the following with its answer:

 

Can u see AI getting even more precise as time goes on?

 

"Absolutely—AI is on a trajectory toward radical precision. As models get trained on richer data, and as sensors, satellites, and real-time inputs become more integrated, the accuracy of AI in everything from navigation to fish tracking to weather prediction is going to sharpen dramatically".

Microsoft Copilot

 

Good Fishing

Every time AI comes up in conversation I  can’t help but think of Sarah Connor. Once Skynet figures out we’re the problem , uh oh. 

Not really any different than getting waypoints from another angler, guide, or one of those sites where people can buy/sell waypoints.

 

Digital bent rod pattern....

The only way to judge the recommendations it made is to fish the spots it suggested. I'd imagine it's pulling info from online fishing reports, and tournament results. We do the same thing. We just ask friends, or manually search the reports for various lakes.

2 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

@Kayak Koz  I would encourage you to dig deeper in conversation with it.  Ask what spot you should fish first.  Then ask it why it likes that spot.  Just keep digging and you'll start to sense the limits of what it knows and how it made it's recommendations.  

Unfortunately, I've been out on my kayak only once in the past few months as we're getting closer to the opening date of two new Marriott hotels that I am running. Although I prompted it for this weekend, chances are I won't get the time to get out there.

 

That being said, I do plan to give it a try. For example, I want to fish Blackshear in the near future and I've never been to that lake before. When I do go I will definitely see what AI suggests and even upload the GPS coordinates into my Garmin or Humminbird. I'll see if it's possible to drill deeper. I do like that the initial prompt suggested what time of day to fish each area.

 

Again, I think this could be an interesting tool for new lakes, especially when you plot the coordinates on Google Earth and get a view of what is there before you head to the lake.

 

I do wonder if the BPT or Elite anglers have tried to use this in preparation for events. I would bet that at least a handful have tried it and if they had success they are keeping very quiet about it.

 

I get that some prefer old school fishing, but technology is not going away. And if it helps cash a check I'm definitely going to consider it.

The only electronics I use when I am fishing is my camera on my phone and my digital scale.

Who is this Al guy, he seems to me to be a know it all

4 minutes ago, herder said:

Who is this Al guy, he seems to me to be a know it all

You've never heard of Allen Iverson ?

36 minutes ago, Bird said:

You've never heard of Allen Iverson ?

Isn't he the player who just loved "practice"?

😃

A-Jay

2 hours ago, GreenTrout said:

I just asked my AI the following with its answer:

 

Can u see AI getting even more precise as time goes on?

 

"Absolutely—AI is on a trajectory toward radical precision. As models get trained on richer data, and as sensors, satellites, and real-time inputs become more integrated, the accuracy of AI in everything from navigation to fish tracking to weather prediction is going to sharpen dramatically".

Microsoft Copilot

 

Good Fishing

 

Interesting to see that Copilot confuses precision and accuracy, just like a real human!

 

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

I can see where that would be "helpful."

But the bottom line when it comes to the entire fishing experience,

Using 'that type of help' would totally ruin one of the most satisfying aspects of the sport for me

Absolutely. 

AI is useless for me , not scared of it. I can sort thru all the BS on the Internet myself 😂 

25 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

AI is useless for me , not scared of it. I can sort thru all the BS on the Internet myself 😂 

Considering how often it still gets things wrong...I'll stick to tried and true methods of research.

 

(Anyone remember the old Magazine Reference Index?)

8 hours ago, A-Jay said:

That's fairly impressive, actually.

However what it does a great job at,

is reminding me just how much knowledge & experience I have.

More importantly, I know how to apply it.

Plus I can tie my own shoes.

Try that with AI.

A-Jay

@A-Jay   

 

 

Not AI, specifically, but related to my rant above about how I think info tech is negatively impacting us...

   I was talking with a reasonably intelligent 8 year old the other day.  They mentioned some toy.   I'd never heard of it and asked about it.  This child had played with it, and was quite familiar with it.  However, they wouldn't (or couldn't?) articulate a description or function.  The only reply I could get, was "Just look it up on your phone".  I was dumbfounded...couldn't even effectively bend it to a good teaching moment.   I think back games my father often initiated, like '20 Questions', or Describe 'X' for me as if I had never seen one.... I am only now appreciating his wisdom and enjoyment in those

   

   

Yep

It’s coming

I don’t much care for this AI 

I just tried AI for one of my ponds, asking where I should fish tomorrow morning for largemouth bass. It gave me only general information, having no pond-specific data base to cull. It's ironic that it led with "Specific Hotspots," whereas it has no specific hotspots and this pond doesn't even have a dam. So, at this point, AI will only work with bigger bodies of water where thousands of anglers have entered information about those bodies of water. Here are the "specific" hotspots for my pond:

 

Specific Hotspots

• Weed Lines: Bass seek shelter and ambush prey within weed beds. 
   
• Drop-offs: Look for steep drops where the water depth changes, as bass often position themselves here to hunt. 
   
• Submerged Trees and Logs: Fallen trees and other woody cover provide hiding places for bass. 
   
• Points: These are areas where the shoreline juts out into the water, and they can funnel fish movement. 
   
• Near the Dam: The area near the dam is usually the deepest part of a pond and can attract bass. 

11 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Not AI, specifically, but related to my rant above about how I think info tech is negatively impacting us...

   I was talking with a reasonably intelligent 8 year old the other day.  They mentioned some toy.   I'd never heard of it and asked about it.  This child had played with it, and was quite familiar with it.  However, they wouldn't (or couldn't?) articulate a description or function.  The only reply I could get, was "Just look it up on your phone".  I was dumbfounded...couldn't even effectively bend it to a good teaching moment.   I think back games my father often initiated, like '20 Questions', or Describe 'X' for me as if I had never seen one.... I am only now appreciating his wisdom and enjoyment in those

   

   

 

As a former teacher, that is concerning and especially so because the brain reconfigures itself to meet tasks at hand. The younger the brain, the quicker it can change. So, this child's brain has never developed the ability to describe and the longer the child waits to work his/her brain this way, the less fully the brain will change to meet this challenge. In short, this brain's time to change is running short.

16 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

Interesting to see that Copilot confuses precision and accuracy, just like a real human!

 

"This isn’t just innovation—it’s a full-scale recalibration of the angler’s edge. The old-school intuition of seasoned fishermen is now being fused with algorithmic foresight. The question isn’t whether AI will change bass fishing—it’s whether you’ll ride the wave or get left in its wake.

Want me to dive into how this affects tournament strategy, conservation, or even tackle design next"?

8/21/2025 7:18 AM CDT

Microsoft Copilot

57 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

I just tried AI for one of my ponds, asking where I should fish tomorrow morning for largemouth bass. It gave me only general information, having no pond-specific data base to cull. It's ironic that it led with "Specific Hotspots," whereas it has no specific hotspots and this pond doesn't even have a dam. So, at this point, AI will only work with bigger bodies of water where thousands of anglers have entered information about those bodies of water. Here are the "specific" hotspots for my pond:

 

Specific Hotspots

• Weed Lines: Bass seek shelter and ambush prey within weed beds. 
   
• Drop-offs: Look for steep drops where the water depth changes, as bass often position themselves here to hunt. 
   
• Submerged Trees and Logs: Fallen trees and other woody cover provide hiding places for bass. 
   
• Points: These are areas where the shoreline juts out into the water, and they can funnel fish movement. 
   
• Near the Dam: The area near the dam is usually the deepest part of a pond and can attract bass. 

 

As a former teacher, that is concerning and especially so because the brain reconfigures itself to meet tasks at hand. The younger the brain, the quicker it can change. So, this child's brain has never developed the ability to describe and the longer the child waits to work his/her brain this way, the less fully the brain will change to meet this challenge. In short, this brain's time to change is running short.

The irony here is that the data it provided very well could be in part from posts you made here on Bass Resource.

 

As far as your closing comments, I think this will only exacerbate the decline of problem solving and critical thinking skills. Perhaps AI is the backstory to the movie "Idiocracy."

41 minutes ago, Kayak Koz said:

The irony here is that the data it provided very well could be in part from posts you made here on Bass Resource.

 

Ha!

 

42 minutes ago, Kayak Koz said:

As far as your closing comments, I think this will only exacerbate the decline of problem solving and critical thinking skills. Perhaps AI is the backstory to the movie "Idiocracy."

 

I think we're headed at full speed for a future that fuses WALL-E and Idiocracy, with dash of "Brave New World" and a heaping pinch of "1984."

AI can’t invent new strategies. It takes what other people have already written and said, and spits out some arrangement of that information. I prefer the flexibility of being able to think for myself, even if my way isn’t always the most efficient option.
 

If you copy someone else’s pattern, the best you can do is as good or slightly worse than them. 

1 hour ago, Swamp Girl said:

 

Ha!

 

 

I think we're headed at full speed for a future that fuses WALL-E and Idiocracy, with dash of "Brave New World" and a heaping pinch of "1984."

Don't forget Animal Farm!

1 hour ago, Buzzbaiter said:

AI can’t invent new strategies. It takes what other people have already written and said, and spits out some arrangement of that information.

That's not quite true. What we see in the public scope is different from what is going on behind the scenes with neural networks. I'm related to a bigwig at Nvidia and although he can't divulge to me what is actually going on, he did say that although it's still in development, it's light years ahead of what we see in public.

 

And look out if we ever get to the quantum computing stage.

I’d like to think AI wouldn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know by looking at a map and weather forecast.  For me, part of the satisfaction of fishing is to be able to put the puzzle pieces together.  That’s the challenge.  When I went to Big Green lake in Wisconsin having never been there, sitting at the dock in my boat looking at my gps map and putting a game plan together, then executing it and having it pay off, was much more satisfying than if I had just punched in AI for an answer.  I wonder if AI would have helped on St Clair this year when we were having a heck of a time finding the smallmouth due to the fact there was a warming trend before we got there, then a severe cold front while we were there which caused the fish to pull back to some pre spawn spots and we ultimately found then looking at a google earth map of the area we were fishing and found an oddity in the bottom that was very isolated.  We went there the next day and tore them up.  In order for AI to predict those factors it would have to take into account past weather, current weather, bottom composition and be able to locate a specific spot germain to the species of fish  we were after.  Historical data would need to be looked at for years past to determine how current conditions varied from the norm.  Could AI do that?  I can.  😆😉

I already use it in fishing but more to organize information and a data retrieval/compilation tool. AI is incredible right now and getting better but it will not really do actual "thinking" for you, ie if tell it to make a gameplan without yourself making queries from your own previous knowledge and expertise you will likely not be succesful. Of course analyzing changing variables on the water is more than half of fishing too. 

 

In all applications its best to use AI how a military general or executive would use a human assistant. They wouldnt entrust this hypothetical assistant to guide in making decisions, come up with proposals, integral planning, or for important advice, AI is not good at these things and the only people that think that it is are usually frankly dumb. But you would ask it to(and its excellent at) compiling massive amounts of information and variables in an organized manner, taking dication or shorthand that is later organized into a report, scaffold the boilerplate of a project for you to later fine tune, create models to test ideas with etc etc and it can do all these things that take humans hours or days in seconds. Similarly good software engineers arent really using AI to literally do their job, they are basically using them as a replacement for a team of junior developers, the developers using AI to literally do their job will soon simply be replaced with it. The reason its incredible is this kind of service was previously only available to executives, high ranking officials, nobility etc.