--- description: A Kansas farmer might have made fishing history by catching a fish with nothing but the help of his trusty drone. title: This Guy Caught a Fish With His Drone image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb94e2bd86cf583e6/698862028e0601c83c4622d8/derek.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Guy Caught a Fish With His Drone by [Jonathan Chew / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Jonathan Chew / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 2, 2015 4:27 PM CUT  Screenshot from YouTube by [Jonathan Chew / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Jonathan Chew / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 2, 2015 4:27 PM CUT A Kansas farmer appeared to make fishing history recently by catching a fish with nothing but the help of his trusty drone. Derek Klingenberg piloted his DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter—armed with a fishing line and a camera—toward a lake, and promptly caught a fish with no rod. His elation is undeniable, and Klingenberg then demonstrated he might be the most tech-savvy farmer in the Midwest by posting his catch on Snapchat. However, as [Wired](http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/02/drone-fishing-kansas-farmer "undefined") points out, Klingenberg isn’t necessarily the first to do this, since there was a similar [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqppfBJmng "undefined") of a drone-powered fishing trip in 2013. Klingenberg is also [known](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs%5F-emj1qR4 "undefined") for serenading cows with a trombone playing Lorde’s “Royals.” Those who want to use a drone to fish, [take a video selfie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNsrIn%5FGBcM "undefined"), [propose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FBRkgrSUFlA "undefined") marriage, or [deliver sushi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0yQYXLU34 "undefined") might want to [check out](http://fortune.com/2015/04/08/dji-drones/ "undefined") Hong Kong-based DJI’s newest quadcopter, which was released in April. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4020257/fishing-fish-drone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4020257/fishing-fish-drone/"},"headline":"This Guy Caught a Fish With His Drone","datePublished":"2015-09-02T16:27:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:06:31.440Z","description":"It could be a fishing first","url":"https://time.com/4020257/fishing-fish-drone/","keywords":["Tech","Drones","Connected Life","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb94e2bd86cf583e6/698862028e0601c83c4622d8/derek.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jonathan Chew / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb94e2bd86cf583e6/698862028e0601c83c4622d8/derek.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"derek","caption":"","creditText":"Screenshot from YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4020257/fishing-fish-drone/","name":"This Guy Caught a Fish With His Drone"}}]}] ```