DULUTH — They have been flying off the shelves at Marine General sporting goods store for a couple of years, and the breakneck pace at which anglers are getting into forward-facing sonar units hasn’t ...

Forward-facing sonar and high-resolution mapping are like peanut butter and jelly — sure, you can enjoy them separately, but why? Each improves the other; the whole inarguably better than the sum of ...

Greg Hackney doesn’t mind adapting. He’s seen it all during his two decades as a professional angler and has found success by fishing in multiple ways. As a young angler in Louisiana, he first learned ...

From trolling crankbaits for walleye and probing rocky structure for smallmouth bass to searching for spring crappie anglers ...

If you’re new to bass fishing, or thinking about getting into bass fishing, and have tried to search Google or YouTube for info to get you started, you’ve no doubt run into the topic of forward facing ...

Forward Facing Sonar has once again been the only topic in tournament bass fishing the past several weeks. Will it be banned? Should it be banned? Will the professional anglers get a say? Will the ...

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 ...

Forward-facing sonar — which only a few years ago seemed too futuristic to impact Minnesota fish and fishing, and anyway seemed too costly for most anglers to acquire for use in their boats and, in ...

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 ...

After what appeared to be a great conclusion to the 2025 season, B.A.S.S. announced a controversial change for the 2026 Bassmaster Elite Series. The use of forward-facing sonar (FFS) will be limited ...

You thought you needed forward-facing sonar to catch more fish, so you bought a unit and got it installed. Then you went to the lake, only to discover that operating ...