to hungry largemouth bass on Virginia’s Chickahominy River in the mid-1980s. It was well before the high-end sonar units modern anglers have come to know and love really started to catch on. Although ...

Combining screens with forward-facing sonar allows navigation, GPS, depth maps and the usual forward-facing sonar elements. Photo courtesy of Forrest Fisher I first learned Forward-Facing Sonar ...

The all-new forward facing sonar system from Humminbird® is called XPLORE™ and MEGA Live™ and provides high performance with innovation to the world of fish-finding technology. Photo courtesy of ...

Tom Huynh (pronounced “win”) recently won his second consecutive National Walleye Tour (NWT) Championship, taking home over $120,000 in cash and prizes and the biggest, most coveted trophy in ...

Forward Facing Sonar continues to be the number one topic in tournament bass fishing. Is it running fisheries? Should it be banned? Will the professional anglers get a say? Will the manufacturer’s ...

Major League Fishing changed its rules about forward facing sonar in 2025, but anglers are lukewarm to the compromise. The new rules intend to keep professional fishing modern and current while ...

This past week I conducted four on-the-water sonar training sessions and a common thread I noted was the owners’ lack of awareness about just how handicapped they would be by choosing to mount their ...

Modern forward-facing sonar has transformed once-elusive, nomadic, suspended fish into highly catchable targets, with few species offering a better example of this than the white perch. By ...

It’s no secret that forward-facing sonar (FFS) is an incredibly effective tool for catching crappie. The best crappie lures and crappie rods are also not a secret. But, the FFS settings to clearly see ...