The innovation of Forward Facing Sonar has no doubt changed the game of fishing. Live sonar has taken the guesswork out of it. It has given anglers the ability to clearly see what is going on under the water. The clarity that it gives you is honestly pretty astonishing. Before Live Sonar there were many things that you had to use your imagination about, but gives you the ability to be sure about what’s going on.
Whether you choose Garmin LiveScope, or Lowrance Active Target, they both have some incredible capabilities. Live Sonar truly gives the angler a live look into the fishes world and helps them understand what is happening on a completely new level. Some of the biggest bags on the lake can come when an angler unlocks the power that Front Facing Sonar provides.
Finding Fish Becomes Much Easier
One of the first things that will jump out to you when you spend some time with this technology is how easily you can pick the fish out. They can be laying in a tree or suspended over 60 feet of water, it really doesn’t matter. Forward Facing Sonar takes away their ability to hide from you. It takes the slow days where you are desperate to find something to target, and helps you find as many options as you could ever want.
We’ve all been there on the days where something was just missing. There has been many days where I’ve known the fish were close, but something small was missing. Either they had slightly moved, or we not in the mood for what I was trying to give them. Forward Facing Sonar makes those days a lot less frustrating because it gives you a new level of understanding of what’s going on under the water.
Forward Facing Sonar Helps You Understand Structure
Many times, some of the bigger fish spend a lot of their time relating to structure in deeper water. Forward Facing Sonar makes structure fishing much more straight-forward because it truly gives you eyes under the water. Structure will jump out at you in a completely new way. Recent technology has made it much easier to find and fish structure, but Front-Facing Sonar has taken it to another level.
Forward Facing Sonar is truly live, so you can literally watch fish moving around structure and interacting with your bait. It gives you an intimate knowledge of what is truly going on under the water. When you approach a piece of structure you see more details about what is going on than ever before. It’s extremely easy to see how a tree is laying, or exactly where the base of the tree is. It could even allow you to see where the fish is laying, and tell you to attack a specific limb of a brush pile for example.
You Can Find the Spot on the Spot
It’s easy to spend time on a lake and find a bunch of different areas that seem to produce fish. But to take your fishing to the next level you need to be able to find the specific spot where the fish want to be. This makes this job much easier because it makes the details pop. Finding the specific place in an area that fish are relating to will put you way ahead of the game and give you the ability to be surgical in your approach.
If you listen, you will hear many top level pros talk about finding the spot on the spot. They are talking about drilling down in to the spot they are fishing and finding the specific reason the fish is there. Front-Facing Sonar gives the average fisherman the ability to find that specific little thing that can make all the difference in the world.
Forward Facing Sonar Helps You Determine the Mood of the Fish
If you have spent much time on the water you have experienced times when fish were super active on top of the water or everything just seemed exceptionally dead. Sometimes weather conditions, time of year, and many other factors can have the fish extremely active or lethargic. Front-Facing Sonar can help an angler determine the activity level of fish on a much deeper level than what is visible.
Live Sonar gives an extremely unique look into the mood of the fish because it shows their activity level under the water. Sometimes seeing how fish are relating to structure can tip off whether or not they are in an aggressive mood or not. For example, if a school of bass is suspended in the top of a standing tree, chances are they are actively trying to ambush baitfish. But if they are extremely spread out and positioned deep into cover, they are most likely going to be much less aggressive.
How to take Forward Facing Sonar to the Next Level
Forward Facing Sonar has some pretty astonishing capabilities, but it also has some drawbacks that the WtrForce Sniper has solved. It can get pretty complicated when you run your Live Sonar transducer on your trolling motor shaft. It causes you to have to juggle what your are seeing on your graph and boat control all the time. The WtrForce Sniper is a Forward Facing Sonar mount that gives you the ability to have optimal control over your boat with your trolling motor, and your forward facing sonar with a completely independent control. This truly gives you the best of both worlds and helps you maximize your potential as an angler!
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