If it's not the end of fishing as we know it — and it might be — it's at least the beginning of a long, wavy boat ride into the unknown. Already on some of Minnesota's best fishing lakes, boatloads of ...

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 ...

The fluctuating ice on Central Minnesota lakes is creating challenges for anglers, yet walleye fishing on Red Lake thrives, ...

The expert anglers at Milliken Fishing show how live sonar can backfire, as it inadvertently disrupts bass activity during a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A tip of the hat to the National Professional Fishing League for taking a chance. The pro tournament circuit stirred some pots and rattled some cages over the Labor Day holiday with an announcement ...

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 ...

Major League Fishing announced Friday updates to its 2025 rules that will allow tournament anglers to utilize the fish-catching power of forward-facing and 360-degree sonar technology while preserving ...

The state of Kansas recently went fishing for answers as to whether a relatively new sonar technology enables casual anglers to catch crappie more easily. The groundbreaking experiment in late 2021 ...