If bass and walleyes were enemy submarines, they’d now be directly in the sights of the many anglers using forward-facing sonar (FFS), the amazing, “steerable” live sonar that allows anglers to pick their targets and deliver lures to them in real time.
When the bite is dialed in, it’s basically video-game fishing: See the target, put your lure in front of it, reel in the fish.
While it’s sometimes not that simple, often it is. Many pro-level bass and walleye tournaments that occur when fish are offshore are now won by anglers who use forward-facing sonar as a major part of their strategy. And it’s becoming increasingly rare to find a guide who doesn’t have one of these units mounted on the bow of his boat. Even when the graphed fish don’t…
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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023