Get a powerful sonar and basic GPS on your smartphone ... To meet the need of anglers fishing from kayak, boat, shore, and on ice, manufacturers are packing the latest portable fish finders ...

Today, Lowrance fish finders use high-powered sonar and GPS with universal ... useful features for your fishing style. Be sure to choose a unit that fits your boat and that’s easy to install ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The spring fishing weather has been unpredictable as usual on Lake Erie, but that hasn’t thwarted crowds of ...

If you’re using a canoe or Jon boat, you can easily attach the gear track ... so getting back to those hot fishing spots is a breeze. Having both sonar and GPS in one device has been a total ...

Equipped with GPS, fish finders, side-scan sonar, and electric reels and anchoring devices, the average fishing boat is outfitted with high-tech gadgets that might have made the first astronauts ...

Mike Frisch hosts the popular Fishing the Midwest TV series. Follow Fishing the Midwest on Facebook for more “fishy” information.

Forward-fishing ­orientation of the transducer is often used in deeper water, and downward-­facing sonar is most effective in bottomfishing. Rich Kale is about as hardcore an angler as can be. Based ...

Someone else reflected on "rig-hopping" in the '70s, long before GPS or fish-finding sonar gear came along, with "only a $7 compass on a rough-riding 21-foot skipjack [fishing boat]." In terms of ...