Episode 29: Sonar

Podcast: Science of the Strike · Science of the Strike, LLC

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Episode 29 is a deep dive on sonar: the technology that has, depending on who you ask, either revolutionized bass fishing or ruined it. We start at the beginning: what sonar actually is, how sound behaves underwater, and why a transducer firing pings into the water column can tell you anything useful at all. From there, we work through the generations: 2D, down imaging, side imaging, and the forward-facing systems that have rewritten tournament fishing in about five years. We get into the physics of cone angles, frequency, and resolution, why a fish looks like an arch on one screen...