Well, In my opioion technolgy has came along way in everything. When I was a kid we used a skull paddle, 10' telescoping pole, never heard of rod holder, fished out of a 14 or 16 v bottom jon boat with a 15 horse or less motor. We would drag our hooks on the bottom to find brush piles if we couldn't find a stick up or lay down. All we had in the tackle box was hooks, sinkers, floaters, knife, pliers, fishing line and the rolled up piece of wire we used to run the fishing line inside the pole...Now a days any of us would just go home if we had to fish like that...….lol...…..livescope is just another step in fishing.. I don't have one YET but I will have one in the very near future....