What would Buck Perry do? Would the father of modern fishing use LiveScope?

John Buoy (left), of LaGrange, with Buck Perry and a mess of fish from the April 1967 ”Fishing News” newspaper, long before it became “Fishing Facts.” (Provided by “The Structure Cafe”)

Divining if Buck Perry would use LiveScope is like debating whether our Creator meets us in the hereafter.

“No way in hell,” said Spence Petros, Chicago’s greatest teacher of fishing and former editor of “Fishing Facts.” “He wouldn’t even use a good sonar. He used a really [crappy] digital one.”