My Samsung smart phone is missing.

Liz and I went camping and fishing this past weekend and it’s gone.
It could have gotten into the trash inadvertently while we were packing up camp. I dunno. Maybe it fell out of my pocket into the Rock River while night fishing, and leaning over to dehook yet another inedible (non-Asian) carp.

Not knowing where it is I can only imagine…
I imagine it was for a short time at the bottom of the Rock River somewhere near Dixon IL. Within minutes it probably ended up in the belly of some hungry, indiscriminate, oversized catfish and is now much closer to the Mississippi River.
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Catfish eat practically anything you know. Some of the locals bragged of catfish over four feet long and over 100 lbs. Big enough for a smart phone (smelling like night crawlers) snack.
If I had GPS on the smart phone, and it was waterproof, I probably could have tracked the journey. There has got to be an app for that right? Lost phone, underwater, in-fish, tracking app.
Did a little research today. There’s over 360 fishing apps at the app store. I don’t have an iPhone but’s that’s where the app’s is at. So I picked one to get acquainted with. The app: “The iSolunar – Solunar Tables iPhone App”. The theory – certain times fish are more active – so fish then and you’ll catch more fish.
I got a stand-alone moon/sun thing like that for Christmas and I didn’t catch any more fish when it was going crazy with alarms or not.
And even if the app can tell you “when” the fish are eating, they can’t tell you “where” or “what” they are eating. You have to dangle something in front of their face. Maybe they want it and maybe they don’t. Keep trying until they do or accept defeat.
My dream smart phone app for fishing is a social media play with some very smart phone technology.
It would have to be body of water specific, real time like I caught this fish with that lure, line, pole, technique and so on. And it would have to read the message out loud so I wouldn’t have to take my eyes off the pole. And it would have to convert speech back to text – message back – thanks for the tip – look at my whopper big mouth bass. Embed photos and all. I hold my freshly caught four pounder up to the phone – tell the phone to take a picture and it sends back to my helpful fellow fisherman. All hands free and no eyes off the pole.
Not holding my breath for that one… But not putting it past Crowe to come up with something either. For now I’m an “app-less” fisherman.
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At least soon I’ll get a refurbished version of my Samsung smart phone back. Fortunately I have the lost and stolen insurance with Verizon. Everything backed up on the PC so no big loss, except not knowing the real journey of my smart phone.