The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks voted to reduce the daily limit at five popular crappie lakes and at the heart of the matter is technology. Washington, Enid, Grenada and Sardis lakes, ...

OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), today announced Panoptix LiveScope™ – a live scanning sonar that gives anglers higher resolution and ...

Live sonar helps crappie anglers catch fish, but the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says it does not increase crappie harvest. Andy Yung, district fisheries biologist for the Game and Fish ...

Be it Garmin LiveScope, Lowrance Active Target 2 or Humminbird Mega Live 2, live sonar seems to have popped up on bass boats overnight, but saltwater anglers have not adopted it in similar numbers—at ...

B.A.S.S. tournament bass anglers will have new restrictions on the use of live sonar in the 2026 Elite series events Jim Hendricks B.A.S.S., the iconic and long-standing Bass Anglers Sportsman Society ...

Just one week after the 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series wrapped up on the Mississippi River, B.A.S.S. dropped a bombshell. The 2026 Elite Series will have new restrictions around forward-facing sonar ...

B.A.S.S. has announced further restrictions on forward-facing live sonar (FFS) in its tournament events. The policy that will take effect during the 2026 Progressive Bassmaster Elite Series season.

Two fishing organizations this week announced new policies regarding forward facing sonar in their bass tournaments. The National Professional Fishing League announced Monday that it banned ...

Forward-facing sonar—or live-scope technology—is a relatively new type of fish finding gear that lets anglers target specific fish on a display screen with remarkable precision. The tech is so ...

As forward-facing sonar, aka live sonar, from brands such as Garmin and Lowrance takes over freshwater bass fishing, some anglers forget that the company that introduced this technology was Humminbird ...