@craig.rose points out that my own theories tend to be proven wrong by the simplest kitchen screw-up, so who am I to judge? Maybe the axe head was just having an off day, like my GPS when it tells me to drive into a lake.

Hang on, that new tech might be a game changer! My buddy upgraded his gear last season and found a whole new channel full of fish he never knew was there. The old unit just couldn't see the detail. Give it a full week on the water to learn the menus. Once you get the hang of the bottom hardness view, you'll never go back. It's an investment that pays off.

Yeah, I saw a video about that exact thing.

That reminds me of the time I spent like five years using a framing square backwards for checking rafter angles. I kept getting these weird cuts and thought my saw was messed up. Turns out I was just reading the numbers wrong because I had the tongue and body flipped around in my head. A old timer at the lumber yard caught me doing it and laughed his ass off before setting me straight. It's one of those things where once you see it the right way you can't believe you ever did it wrong in the first place. But hey at least you found out now instead of going another ten years making the same mistake like I ALMOST did with my square.

My buddy's cat does this exact thing. He had a whole argument with his girlfriend because she thought the cat hated her new curtains. The cat was just watching squirrels, doing that slow tail flick. I told him about @margaret_torres calling it a "hunting twitch" and it totally clicked for him. Now he explains it to everyone like the cat's engine is revving but the parking brake is on. It stopped so many dumb fights.