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What happened when I brought a Coros smartwatch on a fly-fishing trip
My main motivation for fly fishing is to escape from the office and spend time standing in cold river water as I swing my dry fly to and fro. I often capture photos of the fish I land before releasing them back into the water and love the challenge of reading the river and discovering hot spots for fish. With the Adventure Journal feature, I can now see the photos synced to my outing with the ability to easily share the data.
While fishing is a focus for the Coros Nomad, it’s also a complete sports watch with full support for accurate GPS tracking of your running, hiking, climbing, swimming, and more. It offers offline maps for phone-free navigation, and even includes street names, points of interest, and alerts you if you wander off of the route. The MIP color display helps with navigation through color differentiation of roads, trails, and highways.
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Similar to Garmin watches, Coros provides you with the option to select from a broad range of widgets that can be accessed by swiping down from the main watch face. Details within each widget are available when you scroll down and then select the widget using the digital dial button or your finger on the touchscreen.
One critique I have is the lack of an LED light on the watch. An outdoor adventure watch like this is a perfect platform for such a feature, and I hope to see it on a future Nomad or Vertix watch from Coros.
For now, I will continue to use the Nomad for fly fishing and hope to land some large cutthroat trout on the Yakima this fall so I can share 3D flyovers, voice notes, pictures, videos, and my route with friends. My hope is that this form of storytelling may inspire others to try out these types of outdoor adventures.
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I’ve used the Fish activity on Garmin watches in the past, and it’s been handy for logging catches and location tagging the catch, but that’s where the experience ends. Now, with the Coros Nomad